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codex/codex-rs/tools
Hung 5158e9780e Add opt-in file-backed tool audio (#61394)
## What changed

- Add the disabled-by-default `file_backed_tool_audio` feature to prepare fresh function and custom tool audio through the attachment store before persistence. Store returned file IDs in history and preserve them on replay without uploading again.
- Validate and budget mixed text and audio output before uploading retained clips, preserving audio token charges and producer limits. Resolve tool audio durations before continuation compaction checks.
- Keep inline audio on backend upload failures and use text placeholders for invalid or rejected clips. Replace unavailable tool audio files with placeholders in prompts while retaining the original history, so restored files can be used again.
- Treat file-backed tool audio as a competing source when attributing audio or unknown-file errors to user uploads.

## Testing

Add coverage for direct tool and Code Mode audio across follow-up turns, file expiration, restoration, and resume in both legacy and paginated history. Extend tests for truncation before upload, upload failure handling, bounded error placeholders, and error attribution.

GitOrigin-RevId: 66c1e7699c7d92f98c3a2d0f5cecbbd63147eb6c
2026-11-13 23:02:16 +00:00
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codex-tools

codex-tools is the shared support crate for building, adapting, and executing model-visible tools outside codex-core.

Today this crate owns the host-facing tool models and helpers that no longer need to live in core/src/tools/spec.rs or core/src/client_common.rs:

  • aggregate host models such as ToolSpec, ConfiguredToolSpec, LoadableToolSpec, ResponsesApiNamespace, and ResponsesApiNamespaceTool
  • host discovery models used while assembling tool sets, including discoverable-tool models and request-plugin-install helpers
  • host adapters such as schema sanitization, MCP/dynamic conversion, code-mode augmentation, and image-detail normalization
  • shared executable-tool contracts such as ToolExecutor, ToolCall, and ToolOutput

That extraction is the first step in a longer migration. The goal is not to move all of core/src/tools into this crate in one shot. Instead, the plan is to peel off reusable pieces in reviewable increments while keeping compatibility-sensitive orchestration in codex-core until the surrounding boundaries are ready.

Vision

Over time, this crate should hold host-side tool machinery that is shared by multiple consumers, for example:

  • host-visible aggregate tool models
  • tool-set planning and discovery helpers
  • MCP and dynamic-tool adaptation into Responses API shapes
  • code-mode compatibility shims that do not depend on codex-core
  • other narrowly scoped host utilities that multiple crates need

The corresponding non-goals are just as important:

  • do not move codex-core orchestration here prematurely
  • do not pull Session / TurnContext / approval flow / runtime execution logic into this crate unless those dependencies have first been split into stable shared interfaces
  • do not turn this crate into a grab-bag for unrelated helper code

Migration approach

The expected migration shape is:

  1. Keep extension-owned executable-tool authoring in codex-extension-api.
  2. Move host-side planning/adaptation helpers here when they no longer need to stay coupled to codex-core.
  3. Leave compatibility-sensitive adapters in codex-core while downstream call sites are updated.
  4. Only extract higher-level host infrastructure after the crate boundaries are clear and independently testable.

Crate conventions

This crate should start with stricter structure than core/src/tools so it stays easy to grow:

  • src/lib.rs should remain exports-only.
  • Business logic should live in named module files such as foo.rs.
  • Unit tests for foo.rs should live in a sibling foo_tests.rs.
  • The implementation file should wire tests with:
#[cfg(test)]
#[path = "foo_tests.rs"]
mod tests;

If this crate starts accumulating code that needs runtime state from codex-core, that is a sign to revisit the extraction boundary before adding more here.