codex

[codex] Use model metadata for skills usage instructions (#29740 )

## Summary

- add a false-by-default `include_skills_usage_instructions` model
metadata field
- enable the field for the bundled `gpt-5.5` model metadata
- consume the metadata in both core and extension skill rendering
- remove hardcoded legacy-model matching and its marker plumbing

ani-oai · 2026-06-29 09:44:36 +09:00

6b5f5743b3

[codex] Use input items for Responses Lite tools (#27946 )

When using Responses Lite, we should all use `additional_tools` and a
developer item instead of the top level tools array & instructions
field. This keeps things 1-to-1.

Forced namespacing for _all_ tools will land in a following PR after
some coordination & fixes in Responses API (around collisions & return
items).

The goal is to eventually expand the scope of this to _all_ requests
from codex, but that will require larger coordination across providers &
slower rollout.

rka-oai · 2026-06-22 23:56:16 -07:00

33cc928d33

core: rename metadata -> internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough (#28968 )

## Description
This PR cuts Codex over from generic `ResponseItem.metadata` (introduced
here: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355) to
`ResponseItem.internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough`, which is the
blessed path and has strongly-typed keys.

For now we have to drop this MAv2 usage of `metadata`:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28561 until we figure out where
that should live.

Owen Lin · 2026-06-22 11:11:25 -07:00

5b95745eae

[codex] Assign response item IDs when recording history (#28814 )

## Why

Client-created response items enter history without IDs, so their
identity is lost across rollout persistence and resume. IDs should be
assigned once at the history-recording boundary, while IDs returned by
the server must remain unchanged.

The Responses API validates item IDs using type-specific prefixes.
Locally generated IDs therefore use the matching prefix plus a
hyphenated UUIDv7, keeping them valid while distinguishable from
server-generated IDs. Because this changes persisted history and
provider request shapes, the behavior is opt-in behind the
under-development `item_ids` feature. Compaction triggers remain request
controls whose API shape does not accept an ID.

## What changed

- Register the disabled-by-default `item_ids` feature and expose it in
`config.schema.json`.
- Make supported optional `ResponseItem` IDs serializable and expose
them in the generated app-server schemas.
- When `item_ids` is enabled, assign an ID during conversation-history
preparation if an item has no ID.
- Generate type-prefixed, hyphenated UUIDv7 IDs using the Responses API
item conventions.
- Preserve existing server IDs without rewriting them.
- Persist assigned IDs in rollouts and include them in subsequent
Responses requests.
- Remove the unsupported ID field from `CompactionTrigger` and document
why it has no ID.
- Add integration coverage for enabled ID persistence, preservation of
server IDs, and omission of generated IDs while the feature is disabled.

`prepare_conversation_items_for_history` is the single response-item ID
allocation boundary.

## Test plan

- `just test -p codex-features`
- `just test -p codex-core
response_item_ids_persist_across_resume_and_preserve_server_ids`
- `just test -p codex-core
non_openai_responses_requests_omit_item_turn_metadata`
- `just test -p codex-core
resize_all_images_prepares_failures_before_history_insertion`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-api azure_default_store_attaches_ids_and_headers`

pakrym-oai · 2026-06-18 17:30:55 -07:00

f00f93d8c0

[codex] Use expect in integration tests (#28441 )

The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
`clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.

This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
`expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
place.

The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.

pakrym-oai · 2026-06-15 21:53:47 -07:00

e752f7b4ae

[codex] Fix missing response item metadata in tests (#28415 )

Summary
- Add the two missing `metadata: None` initializers after #28355 made
response-item metadata required.
- Restore test compilation for `codex-core` and `codex-api` on main.

Validation
- `git diff --check`
- `just fmt` (Rust formatting passed; unrelated Python formatter steps
could not use the sandboxed shared `uv` cache)
- Focused crate tests are running after PR creation.

Alex Daley · 2026-06-16 00:08:39 +00:00

515f705426

feat(core): add metadata field to ResponseItem (#28355 )

## Description

This PR adds an optional `metadata` field to `ResponseItem` for
Responses API calls. Only mechanical plumbing, no actual values
populated and sent yet. Turns out just adding a new field to
`ResponseItem` has quite a large blast radius already.

This change is backwards compatible because `metadata` is optional and
omitted when absent, so existing response items and rollout history
without it still deserialize and requests that do not set it keep the
same wire shape. For provider compatibility, we strip out `metadata`
before non-OpenAI Responses requests so Azure and AWS Bedrock never see
this field.

My followup PR here will actually make use of it to start storing and
passing along `turn_id`: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28360

## What changed

- Added `ResponseItemMetadata` with optional `turn_id`, plus optional
`metadata` on Responses API item variants and inter-agent communication.
- Preserved item metadata through response-item rewrites such as
truncation, missing tool-output synthesis, compaction history
rebuilding, visible-history conversion, rollout/resume, and generated
app-server schemas/types.
- Strip item metadata from non-OpenAI Responses requests while
preserving it for OpenAI-shaped requests.
- Updated the mechanical fixture/test construction churn required by the
new optional field.

Owen Lin · 2026-06-15 15:05:28 -07:00

040dafa32d

reuse encoded Responses request bodies (#28327 )

## Why

Responses HTTP requests were converted from `ResponsesApiRequest` into a
full `serde_json::Value`. `EndpointSession` then deep-cloned that value
for each retry, and the transport serialized and compressed it again
before every send.

Large histories make those copies expensive. Retry attempts should reuse
the same immutable request bytes.

## What

- Serialize standard Responses requests directly into a ref-counted
`EncodedJsonBody`.
- Preserve the Azure path that attaches item IDs before encoding.
- Prepare JSON, compression, and derived content headers once before the
retry loop.
- Clone the prepared request per attempt so body clones only bump the
`Bytes` reference count.
- Keep auth inside the retry loop. Signing auth sees the exact final
headers and body bytes that the transport sends.
- Preserve request-body TRACE output. With TRACE plus compression,
retain the original JSON bytes for logging; normal requests keep only
the final wire bytes.
- Leave non-Responses endpoint bodies on the existing `Value` path.

## Performance

A temporary release-mode measurement used a 10 MiB JSON body and 10
retry preparations:

- old `Value` clone + serialize path: 30 ms total
- prepared shared-byte path: less than 1 ms total

That is about 3 ms avoided per retry for this payload on the test
machine. Each retry also stops allocating another request-sized JSON
tree and serialized buffer. Without TRACE, compressed requests retain
only the final compressed wire bytes.

## Validation

- `just test -p codex-client` — 28 passed
- `just test -p codex-api` — 125 passed
- `just fix -p codex-client`
- `just fix -p codex-api`

jif · 2026-06-15 19:11:26 +02:00

495da45643

[codex] Remove async_trait from first-party code (#27475 )

## Why

First-party async traits should expose their `Send` contracts explicitly
without requiring `async_trait`. This completes the migration pattern
established in #27303 and #27304.

## What changed

- Replaced the remaining first-party `async_trait` traits with native
return-position `impl Future + Send` where statically dispatched and
explicit boxed `Send` futures where object safety is required.
- Kept implementations behavior-preserving, outlining existing async
bodies into inherent methods where that keeps the diff reviewable.
- Removed all direct first-party `async-trait` dependencies and the
workspace dependency declaration.
- Added a cargo-deny policy that permits `async-trait` only through the
remaining transitive wrapper crates.
- Updated `rand` from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 to resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0097 and
keep the full cargo-deny check passing.

## Validation

- `just test -p codex-exec-server`: 216 passed, 2 skipped.
- `just test -p codex-model-provider`: 39 passed.
- `just test -p codex-core` and `just test`: changed tests passed;
remaining failures are environment-sensitive suites unrelated to this
migration.
- `cargo deny check`
- `just fix`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`

Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-11 18:16:39 -07:00

5a56caf18c

[codex] Add comp_hash to model metadata (#27532 )

## Summary
- add optional `comp_hash` metadata to `ModelInfo`
- update `ModelInfo` fixtures for the shared schema change
- keep older model responses compatible by defaulting the field to
`None`

## Why
The models endpoint needs an opaque identifier for compaction-compatible
model configurations. This PR only exposes that value in model metadata;
it does not add it to turn context or change runtime behavior.

Follow-up #27520 carries the value through turn context and rollouts,
then uses it to trigger compaction.

## Stack
- based directly on `main`
- replaces #27519, which was accidentally merged into the wrong base
branch
- functionality follow-up: #27520

## Testing
- `just test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-analytics -p
codex-models-manager`

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-06-10 20:42:55 -07:00

e614fad02e

[codex] Add use_responses_lite 'override' logic (#26487 )

## Summary

- add a defaulted `ModelInfo.use_responses_lite` catalog field
- support serializing `reasoning.context` while preserving the existing
effort and summary path
- has not been turned on for any models yet

I've added an override to parallel tools if responses_lite is on. I've
also forced persistent reasoning when using responses_lite. It would be
ideal if we could centralize all the responses_lite plumbing, but I
think this is best for now to keep the plumbing & diffs small.

## Testing

- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-core
responses_lite_sets_all_turns_context_and_disables_parallel_tool_calls`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-core
configured_reasoning_summary_is_sent`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo clippy -p codex-core --tests` (passes
with pre-existing warnings in `codex-code-mode` and
`codex-core-plugins`)

rka-oai · 2026-06-04 18:49:51 -07:00

e0096db6dc

Add multi-agent runtime metadata types (#25720 )

Stack split from #25708. Original PR intentionally left open. This first
PR adds the multi-agent runtime metadata types and catalog plumbing used
by the rest of the stack.

jif-oai · 2026-06-02 12:10:14 +02:00

3f1fb7ed8b

[codex-rs] auto-review model override (#23767 )

## Why

Guardian auto-review normally uses the provider-preferred review model
when one is available. Some parent models need model-catalog metadata to
select a different review model while keeping older `/models` payloads
compatible when that metadata is absent.

## What changed

- Added optional `ModelInfo::auto_review_model_override` metadata to the
public model payload as a review-model slug.
- Updated Guardian review model selection to prefer the catalog override
when present, while preserving the existing provider preferred-model
path and parent-model fallback when it is omitted.
- Added focused Guardian coverage for override and no-override model
selection.
- Added an `auto_review` core integration suite test that loads override
metadata from a remote model catalog path and asserts the strict
auto-review `/responses` request uses the catalog-selected review model.
- Updated existing `ModelInfo` fixtures and local catalog constructors
for the new optional field.

## Validation

- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_review_uses_`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
remote_model_override_uses_catalog_model_for_strict_auto_review --test
all`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`

Won Park · 2026-06-01 11:51:15 -07:00

f1609d9fb6

[codex] Add model tool mode selector (#25031 )

## Why
Some models need to select their code-execution behavior through model
catalog metadata. Models without that metadata must continue to follow
the existing `CodeMode` and `CodeModeOnly` feature flags, including when
a newer server sends an enum value this client does not recognize.

## What changed
- add optional `ModelInfo.tool_mode` metadata with `direct`,
`code_mode`, and `code_mode_only`
- treat omitted and unknown wire values as `None`
- resolve `None` from the existing feature flags
- carry the resolved `ToolMode` directly on `TurnContext`, outside
`Config`
- use the resolved value for turn creation, model switches, review
turns, tool planning, and code execution

## Coverage
- add protocol coverage for omitted, known, and unknown enum values
- add focused coverage for flag fallback and explicit metadata
overriding feature flags
- add core integration coverage that fetches remote model metadata
through `/v1/models` and verifies the outbound `/responses` tools for
explicit `direct` and `code_mode_only` selectors

## Stack
- followed by #25032

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-05-29 09:05:05 -07:00

5577a9e148

Honor client-resolved service tier defaults (#23537 )

## Why

Model catalog responses can now advertise a nullable
`default_service_tier` for each model. Codex needs to preserve three
distinct states all the way from config/app-server inputs to inference:

- no explicit service tier, so the client may apply the current model
catalog default when FastMode is enabled
- explicit `default`, meaning the user intentionally wants standard
routing
- explicit catalog tier ids such as `priority`, `flex`, or future tiers

Keeping those states distinct prevents the UI from showing one tier
while core sends another, especially after model switches or app-server
`thread/start` / `turn/start` updates.

## What Changed

- Plumbed `default_service_tier` through model catalog protocol types,
app-server model responses, generated schemas, model cache fixtures, and
provider/model-manager conversions.
- Added the request-only `default` service tier sentinel and normalized
legacy config spelling so `fast` in `config.toml` still materializes as
the runtime/request id `priority`.
- Moved catalog default resolution to the TUI/client side, including
recomputing the effective service tier when model/FastMode-dependent
surfaces change.
- Updated app-server thread lifecycle config construction so
`serviceTier: null` preserves explicit standard-routing intent by
mapping to `default` instead of internal `None`.
- Kept core responsible for validating explicit tiers against the
current model and stripping `default` before `/v1/responses`, without
applying catalog defaults itself.

## Validation

- `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo build -p codex-cli`
- `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p codex-app-server model_list`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui service_tier`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol service_tier_for_request`
- `cargo test -p codex-core get_service_tier`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p codex-core
service_tier`

Shijie Rao · 2026-05-20 15:57:50 -07:00

370b13afc9

fix: drop underscored id headers (#22193 )

## Why
Stop sending duplicate `session_id`/`thread_id` headers. We only want
the hyphenated forms as `_` is rejected by some proxies

Related discussion here:
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C095U48JNL9/p1778508316923179

## What
- Keep `session-id` and `thread-id`
- Remove the underscore aliases

jif-oai · 2026-05-13 18:21:02 +02:00

7c7b4861d8

api: send hyphenated session and thread headers (#21757 )

## Why
Some consumers expect conventional hyphenated HTTP headers. Codex
already sends the session and thread IDs on outbound Responses requests,
but it only uses the underscore spellings today, which makes those IDs
harder to consume in systems that normalize or reject underscore header
names.

Full context here:
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C08KCGLSPSQ/p1778248578422369

## What changed
- `build_session_headers` now emits both `session_id` and `session-id`
when a session ID is present.
- It does the same for `thread_id` and `thread-id`.
- Added regression coverage in `codex-api/tests/clients.rs` and
`core/tests/suite/client.rs` so both the lower-level client tests and
the end-to-end request tests assert the two header spellings are
present.

## Test plan
- Added header assertions in `codex-api/tests/clients.rs`.
- Added request-header assertions in `core/tests/suite/client.rs` for
both the `/v1/responses` and `/api/codex/responses` request paths.

jif-oai · 2026-05-08 17:11:19 +02:00

bd8fc9adb9

feat: add session_id (#20437 )

## Summary

Related to
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C095U48JNL9/p1777537279707449
TLDR:
We update the meaning of session ids and thread ids:
* thread_id stays as now
* session_id become a shared id between every thread under a /root
thread (i.e. every sub-agent share the same session id)

This PR introduces an explicit `SessionId` and threads it through the
protocol/client boundary so `session_id` and `thread_id` can diverge
when they need to, while preserving compatibility for older serialized
`session_configured` events.

---------

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

jif-oai · 2026-05-06 10:48:37 +02:00

a98623511b

1- Add model service tiers metadata (#20969 )

## Why

The model list needs to carry display-ready service tier metadata so
clients can render tier choices with stable IDs, names, and
descriptions. A raw speed-tier string list is not enough for richer UI
copy or future tier labels.

## What changed

- Added `ModelServiceTier` to shared model metadata with string `id`,
`name`, and `description` fields.
- Added `service_tiers` to `ModelInfo` and `ModelPreset`, preserving
empty defaults for older cached model payloads.
- Exposed `serviceTiers` on app-server v2 `Model` responses and threaded
it through TUI app-server model conversion.
- Marked legacy `additional_speed_tiers` / `additionalSpeedTiers`
metadata as deprecated in source and generated schema output.
- Regenerated app-server protocol JSON schema and TypeScript fixtures,
including `ModelServiceTier.ts`.

## Verification

- Ran `just write-app-server-schema`.
- Did not run local tests per repo instruction; relying on PR CI.

---------

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-05-05 09:51:18 +03:00

9d579813bb

realtime: rename provider session ids (#20361 )

## Summary

Codex is repurposing `session` to mean a thread group, so the realtime
provider session id should no longer use `session_id` / `sessionId` in
Codex-facing protocol payloads. This PR renames that provider-specific
field to `realtime_session_id` / `realtimeSessionId` and intentionally
breaks clients that still send the old field names.

## What Changed

- Renamed realtime provider session fields in `ConversationStartParams`,
`RealtimeConversationStartedEvent`, and `RealtimeEvent::SessionUpdated`.
- Renamed app-server v2 realtime request and notification fields to
`realtimeSessionId`.
- Removed legacy serde aliases for `session_id` / `sessionId`; clients
must send the new names.
- Propagated the rename through core realtime startup, app-server
adapters, codex-api websocket handling, and TUI realtime state.
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema/TypeScript outputs and updated
app-server README examples.
- Kept upstream Realtime API concepts unchanged: provider `session.id`
parsing and `x-session-id` headers still use the upstream wire names.

## Testing

- CI is running on the latest pushed commit.
- Earlier local verification on this PR:
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-core
realtime_conversation`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-app-server
realtime_conversation`
- attempted `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-tui` (local
linker bus error while linking the test binary)

---------

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-30 13:39:48 +03:00

8a97f3cf03

Delete unused ResponseItem::Message.end_turn (#19605 )

This field is unused. Delete it.

Andrey Mishchenko · 2026-04-26 17:18:09 -07:00

35bc6e3d01

Support end_turn in response.completed (#19610 )

Some providers of Responses API forward a model-defined `end_turn`
boolean indicating explicitly the model's indication of whether it would
like to end the turn or to be inferenced again. In this PR, we update
the sampling loop to use this field correctly if it's set. If the field
is not set by the provider, we fall back to the existing sampling logic.

Andrey Mishchenko · 2026-04-25 21:57:42 -07:00

355c40ad7e

feat: add AWS SigV4 auth for OpenAI-compatible model providers (#17820 )

## Summary

Add first-class Amazon Bedrock Mantle provider support so Codex can keep
using its existing Responses API transport with OpenAI-compatible
AWS-hosted endpoints such as AOA/Mantle.

This is needed for the AWS launch path, where provider traffic should
authenticate with AWS credentials instead of OpenAI bearer credentials.
Requests are authenticated immediately before transport send, so SigV4
signs the final method, URL, headers, and body bytes that `reqwest` will
send.

## What Changed

- Added a new `codex-aws-auth` crate for loading AWS SDK config,
resolving credentials, and signing finalized HTTP requests with AWS
SigV4.
- Added a built-in `amazon-bedrock` provider that targets Bedrock Mantle
Responses endpoints, defaults to `us-east-1`, supports region/profile
overrides, disables WebSockets, and does not require OpenAI auth.
- Added Amazon Bedrock auth resolution in `codex-model-provider`: prefer
`AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK` when set, otherwise use AWS SDK credentials
and SigV4 signing.
- Added `AuthProvider::apply_auth` and `Request::prepare_body_for_send`
so request-signing providers can sign the exact outbound request after
JSON serialization/compression.
- Determine the region by taking the `aws.region` config first (required
for bearer token codepath), and fallback to SDK default region.

## Testing
Amazon Bedrock Mantle Responses paths:

- Built the local Codex binary with `cargo build`.
- Verified the custom proxy-backed `aws` provider using `env_key =
"AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK"` streamed raw `responses` output with
`response.output_text.delta`, `response.completed`, and `mantle-env-ok`.
- Verified a full `codex exec --profile aws` turn returned
`mantle-env-ok`.
- Confirmed the custom provider used the bearer env var, not AWS profile
auth: bogus `AWS_PROFILE` still passed, empty env var failed locally,
and malformed env var reached Mantle and failed with `401
invalid_api_key`.
- Verified built-in `amazon-bedrock` with `AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK` set
passed despite bogus AWS profiles, returning `amazon-bedrock-env-ok`.
- Verified built-in `amazon-bedrock` SDK/SigV4 auth passed with
`AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK` unset and temporary AWS session env
credentials, returning `amazon-bedrock-sdk-env-ok`.

Celia Chen · 2026-04-22 01:11:17 +00:00

1cd3ad1f49

Update realtime handoff transcript handling (#18597 )

## Summary

This PR aims to improve integration between the realtime model and the
codex agent by sharing more context with each other. In particular, we
now share full realtime conversation transcript deltas in addition to
the delegation message.

realtime_conversation.rs now turns a handoff into:
```
<realtime_delegation>
  <input>...</input>
  <transcript_delta>...</transcript_delta>
</realtime_delegation>
```

## Implementation notes

The transcript is accumulated in the realtime websocket layer as parsed
realtime events arrive. When a background-agent handoff is requested,
the current transcript snapshot is copied onto the handoff event and
then serialized by `realtime_conversation.rs` into the hidden realtime
delegation envelope that Codex receives as user-turn context.

For Realtime V2, the session now explicitly enables input audio
transcription, and the parser handles the relevant input/output
transcript completion events so the snapshot includes both user speech
and realtime model responses. The delegation `<input>` remains the
actual handoff request, while `<transcript_delta>` carries the
surrounding conversation history for context.

Reviewers should note that the transcript payload is intended for Codex
context sharing, not UI rendering. The realtime delegation envelope
should stay hidden from the user-facing transcript surface, while still
being included in the background-agent turn so Codex can answer with the
same conversational context the realtime model had.

guinness-oai · 2026-04-20 14:04:09 -07:00

126bd6e7a8

Add max context window model metadata (#18382 )

Adds max_context_window to model metadata and routes core context-window
reads through resolved model info. Config model_context_window overrides
are clamped to max_context_window when present; without an override, the
model context_window is used.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-17 21:48:14 -07:00

5bb193aa88

feat: add opt-in provider runtime abstraction (#17713 )

## Summary

- Add `codex-model-provider` as the runtime home for model-provider
behavior that does not belong in `codex-core`, `codex-login`, or
`codex-api`.
- The new crate wraps configured `ModelProviderInfo` in a
`ModelProvider` trait object that can resolve the API provider config,
provider-scoped auth manager, and request auth provider for each call.
- This centralizes provider auth behavior in one place today, and gives
us an extension point for future provider-specific auth, model listing,
request setup, and related runtime behavior.

## Tests
Ran tests manually to make sure that provider auth under different
configs still work as expected.

---------

Co-authored-by: pakrym-oai <pakrym@openai.com>

Celia Chen · 2026-04-17 02:27:45 +00:00

a803790a10

Refactor auth providers to mutate request headers (#17866 )

## Summary
- Move auth header construction into the
`AuthProvider::add_auth_headers` contract.
- Inline `CoreAuthProvider` header mutation in its provider impl and
remove the shared header-map helper.
- Update HTTP, websocket, file upload, sideband websocket, and test auth
callsites to use the provider method.
- Add direct coverage for `CoreAuthProvider` auth header mutation.

## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-api`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
client::tests::auth_request_telemetry_context_tracks_attached_auth_and_retry_phase`
- `cargo test -p codex-core` failed on unrelated/reproducible
`tools::handlers::multi_agents::tests::multi_agent_v2_followup_task_interrupts_busy_child_without_losing_message`

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Co-authored-by: Celia Chen <celia@openai.com>

pakrym-oai · 2026-04-15 11:52:51 -07:00

f5e8eac2ae

Add realtime output modality and transcript events (#17701 )

- Add outputModality to thread/realtime/start and wire text/audio output
selection through app-server, core, API, and TUI.\n- Rename the realtime
transcript delta notification and add a separate transcript done
notification that forwards final text from item done without correlating
it with deltas.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-14 00:13:13 -07:00

2f6fc7c137

Rename Realtime V2 tool to background_agent (#17278 )

Rename the Realtime V2 delegation tool and parser constant to
background_agent, and update the tool description and fixtures to match.

Validation: just fmt; cargo check -p codex-api; git diff --check

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-09 22:17:55 -07:00

60236e8c92

Add realtime voice selection (#17176 )

- Add realtime voice selection for realtime/start.
- Expose the supported v1/v2 voice lists and cover explicit, configured,
default, and invalid voice paths.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-08 20:19:15 -07:00

2f9090be62

Attach WebRTC realtime starts to sideband websocket (#17057 )

Summary:
- parse the realtime call Location header and join that call over the
direct realtime WebSocket
- keep WebRTC starts alive on the existing realtime conversation path

Validation:
- just fmt
- git diff --check
- cargo check -p codex-api
- cargo check -p codex-core --tests
- local cargo tests not run; relying on PR CI

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-08 15:25:42 -07:00

794a0240f9

Use model metadata for Fast Mode status (#16949 )

Fast Mode status was still tied to one model name in the TUI and
model-list plumbing. This changes the model metadata shape so a model
can advertise additional speed tiers, carries that field through the
app-server model list, and uses it to decide when to show Fast Mode
status.

For people using Codex, the behavior is intended to stay the same for
existing models. Fast Mode still requires the existing signed-in /
feature-gated path; the difference is that the UI can now recognize any
model the model list marks as Fast-capable, instead of requiring a new
client-side slug check.

pash-openai · 2026-04-07 17:55:40 -07:00

80ebc80be5

Add WebRTC transport to realtime start (#16960 )

Adds WebRTC startup to the experimental app-server
`thread/realtime/start` method with an optional transport enum. The
websocket path remains the default; WebRTC offers create the realtime
session through the shared start flow and emit the answer SDP via
`thread/realtime/sdp`.

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-07 15:43:38 -07:00

fb3dcfde1d

fix(app-server) revert null instructions changes (#17047 )

Dylan Hurd · 2026-04-07 15:18:34 -07:00

6c36e7d688

feat(analytics): generate an installation_id and pass it in responsesapi client_metadata (#16912 )

## Summary

This adds a stable Codex installation ID and includes it on Responses
API requests via `x-codex-installation-id` passed in via the
`client_metadata` field for analytics/debugging.

The main pieces are:
- persist a UUID in `$CODEX_HOME/installation_id`
- thread the installation ID into `ModelClient`
- send it in `client_metadata` on Responses requests so it works
consistently across HTTP and WebSocket transports

Owen Lin · 2026-04-07 09:52:17 -07:00

5d1671ca70

[codex] reduce module visibility (#16978 )

## Summary
- reduce public module visibility across Rust crates, preferring private
or crate-private modules with explicit crate-root public exports
- update external call sites and tests to use the intended public crate
APIs instead of reaching through module trees
- add the module visibility guideline to AGENTS.md

## Validation
- `cargo check --workspace --all-targets --message-format=short` passed
before the final fix/format pass
- `just fix` completed successfully
- `just fmt` completed successfully
- `git diff --check` passed

pakrym-oai · 2026-04-07 08:03:35 -07:00

413c1e1fdf

Honor null thread instructions (#16964 )

- Treat explicit null thread instructions as a blank-slate override
while preserving omitted-field fallback behavior.
- Preserve null through rollout resume/fork and keep explicit empty
strings distinct.
- Add app-server v2 start/fork coverage for the tri-state instruction
params.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-07 04:10:19 +00:00

24c598e8a9

chore: clean up argument-comment lint and roll out all-target CI on macOS (#16054 )

## Why

`argument-comment-lint` was green in CI even though the repo still had
many uncommented literal arguments. The main gap was target coverage:
the repo wrapper did not force Cargo to inspect test-only call sites, so
examples like the `latest_session_lookup_params(true, ...)` tests in
`codex-rs/tui_app_server/src/lib.rs` never entered the blocking CI path.

This change cleans up the existing backlog, makes the default repo lint
path cover all Cargo targets, and starts rolling that stricter CI
enforcement out on the platform where it is currently validated.

## What changed

- mechanically fixed existing `argument-comment-lint` violations across
the `codex-rs` workspace, including tests, examples, and benches
- updated `tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh` and
`tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh` so non-`--fix` runs default to
`--all-targets` unless the caller explicitly narrows the target set
- fixed both wrappers so forwarded cargo arguments after `--` are
preserved with a single separator
- documented the new default behavior in
`tools/argument-comment-lint/README.md`
- updated `rust-ci` so the macOS lint lane keeps the plain wrapper
invocation and therefore enforces `--all-targets`, while Linux and
Windows temporarily pass `-- --lib --bins`

That temporary CI split keeps the stricter all-targets check where it is
already cleaned up, while leaving room to finish the remaining Linux-
and Windows-specific target-gated cleanup before enabling
`--all-targets` on those runners. The Linux and Windows failures on the
intermediate revision were caused by the wrapper forwarding bug, not by
additional lint findings in those lanes.

## Validation

- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh`
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --lib --bins`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test` in `tools/argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`

## Follow-up

- Clean up remaining Linux-only target-gated callsites, then switch the
Linux lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
- Clean up remaining Windows-only target-gated callsites, then switch
the Windows lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.

Michael Bolin · 2026-03-27 19:00:44 -07:00

61dfe0b86c

Prefer websockets when providers support them (#13592 )

Remove all flags and model settings.

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

pakrym-oai · 2026-03-17 19:46:44 -07:00

770616414a

[stack 2/4] Align main realtime v2 wire and runtime flow (#14830 )

## Stack Position
2/4. Built on top of #14828.

## Base
- #14828

## Unblocks
- #14829
- #14827

## Scope
- Port the realtime v2 wire parsing, session, app-server, and
conversation runtime behavior onto the split websocket-method base.
- Branch runtime behavior directly on the current realtime session kind
instead of parser-derived flow flags.
- Keep regression coverage in the existing e2e suites.

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-16 21:38:07 -07:00

fbd7f9b986

Add realtime transcription mode for websocket sessions (#14556 )

- add experimental_realtime_ws_mode (conversational/transcription) and
plumb it into realtime conversation session config
- switch realtime websocket intent and session.update payload shape
based on mode
- update config schema and realtime/config tests

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-12 23:50:30 -07:00

2253a9d1d7

Add realtime v2 event parser behind feature flag (#14537 )

- Add a feature-flagged realtime v2 parser on the existing
websocket/session pipeline.
- Wire parser selection from core feature flags and map the codex
handoff tool-call path into existing handoff events.

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-12 21:12:40 -07:00

3e8f47169e

feat(search_tool): gate search_tool on model supports_search_tool field (#14502 )

Anton Panasenko · 2026-03-12 16:03:50 -07:00

651717323c

chore: add web_search_tool_type for image support (#13538 )

add `web_search_tool_type` on model_info that can be populated from
backend. will be used to filter which models can use `web_search` with
images and which cant.

added small unit test.

sayan-oai · 2026-03-05 07:02:27 +00:00

03d55f0e6f

Add under-development original-resolution view_image support (#13050 )

## Summary

Add original-resolution support for `view_image` behind the
under-development `view_image_original_resolution` feature flag.

When the flag is enabled and the target model is `gpt-5.3-codex` or
newer, `view_image` now preserves original PNG/JPEG/WebP bytes and sends
`detail: "original"` to the Responses API instead of using the legacy
resize/compress path.

## What changed

- Added `view_image_original_resolution` as an under-development feature
flag.
- Added `ImageDetail` to the protocol models and support for serializing
`detail: "original"` on tool-returned images.
- Added `PromptImageMode::Original` to `codex-utils-image`.
  - Preserves original PNG/JPEG/WebP bytes.
  - Keeps legacy behavior for the resize path.
- Updated `view_image` to:
- use the shared `local_image_content_items_with_label_number(...)`
helper in both code paths
  - select original-resolution mode only when:
    - the feature flag is enabled, and
    - the model slug parses as `gpt-5.3-codex` or newer
- Kept local user image attachments on the existing resize path; this
change is specific to `view_image`.
- Updated history/image accounting so only `detail: "original"` images
use the docs-based GPT-5 image cost calculation; legacy images still use
the old fixed estimate.
- Added JS REPL guidance, gated on the same feature flag, to prefer JPEG
at 85% quality unless lossless is required, while still allowing other
formats when explicitly requested.
- Updated tests and helper code that construct
`FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage` to carry the new `detail`
field.

## Behavior

### Feature off
- `view_image` keeps the existing resize/re-encode behavior.
- History estimation keeps the existing fixed-cost heuristic.

### Feature on + `gpt-5.3-codex+`
- `view_image` sends original-resolution images with `detail:
"original"`.
- PNG/JPEG/WebP source bytes are preserved when possible.
- History estimation uses the GPT-5 docs-based image-cost calculation
for those `detail: "original"` images.


#### [git stack](https://github.com/magus/git-stack-cli)
- 👉 `1` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/13050
- ⏳ `2` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/13331
- ⏳ `3` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/13049

Curtis 'Fjord' Hawthorne · 2026-03-03 15:56:54 -08:00

b92146d48b

Remove Responses V1 websocket implementation (#13364 )

V2 is the way to go!

pakrym-oai · 2026-03-03 11:32:53 -07:00

69df12efb3

add fast mode toggle (#13212 )

- add a local Fast mode setting in codex-core (similar to how model id
is currently stored on disk locally)
- send `service_tier=priority` on requests when Fast is enabled
- add `/fast` in the TUI and persist it locally
- feature flag

pash-openai · 2026-03-02 20:29:33 -08:00

2f5b01abd6

Update realtime websocket API (#13265 )

- migrate the realtime websocket transport to the new session and
handoff flow
- make the realtime model configurable in config.toml and use API-key
auth for the websocket

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-02 16:05:40 -08:00

b20b6aa46f

Add model availability NUX metadata (#12972 )

- replace show_nux with structured availability_nux model metadata
- expose availability NUX data through the app-server model API
- update shared fixtures and tests for the new field

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-02-26 22:02:57 -08:00

4d180ae428

Use model catalog default for reasoning summary fallback (#12873 )

## Summary
- make `Config.model_reasoning_summary` optional so unset means use
model default
- resolve the optional config value to a concrete summary when building
`TurnContext`
- add protocol support for `default_reasoning_summary` in model metadata

## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib client::tests -- --nocapture`

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

pakrym-oai · 2026-02-26 09:31:13 -08:00

ba41e84a50

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