From 82acd815e4f960092b6843ef8f7e3debc3022327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wendy Jiao <wendyjiao@openai.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:43:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] exclude developer messages from phase-1 memory input (#11608)

Co-authored-by: jif-oai <jif@openai.com>
---
 codex-rs/core/src/rollout/policy.rs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codex-rs/core/src/rollout/policy.rs b/codex-rs/core/src/rollout/policy.rs
index 7f9f4acec..87db64fb5 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/src/rollout/policy.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/src/rollout/policy.rs
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ pub(crate) fn should_persist_response_item(item: &ResponseItem) -> bool {
 #[inline]
 pub(crate) fn should_persist_response_item_for_memories(item: &ResponseItem) -> bool {
     match item {
-        ResponseItem::Message { .. }
-        | ResponseItem::LocalShellCall { .. }
+        ResponseItem::Message { role, .. } => role != "developer",
+        ResponseItem::LocalShellCall { .. }
         | ResponseItem::FunctionCall { .. }
         | ResponseItem::FunctionCallOutput { .. }
         | ResponseItem::CustomToolCall { .. }