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.
## Description
This PR is a followup to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355 and
starts assigning `internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough.turn_id` to
durable Responses API items created during a turn.
The goal is that those items keep the `turn_id` that introduced them
when Codex resends stateless HTTP context, reconstructs history for
resume/fork paths, or reuses websocket response state.
## What changed
- Set `internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough.turn_id` when missing
as response items enter durable history, initial/replacement history,
inter-agent communication history, and local compaction summaries.
- Preserve existing item turn IDs instead of overwriting them during
persistence, resume reconstruction, compaction, forked history, and
websocket incremental reuse.
- Keep `compaction_trigger` fieldless because it is a request control,
not a durable response item.
- Update focused history/request assertions and fixtures for stateless
requests, websocket incrementals, compaction, thread injection, prompt
debug, and related CI coverage.
## Summary
- Add `request_kind` values for foreground turn, startup prewarm,
compaction, and detached memory model requests.
- Attach compaction dispatch metadata to local Responses, legacy
`/v1/responses/compact`, and remote v2 compact requests.
- Add the existing logical context-window identifier as `window_id` on
turn-owned model request metadata.
- Keep identity fields optional for detached memory requests, while
still emitting `request_kind="memory"` in non-git/no-sandbox workspaces.
## Root Cause
`x-codex-turn-metadata` has more than one producer. Foreground turns and
compaction requests own a real turn and should carry that turn identity.
Detached memory stage-one requests do not own a foreground turn, so
absent identity fields are valid rather than missing data. Startup
websocket prewarm is also a model request, but it has `generate=false`
and must not be counted as a foreground turn.
`thread_source` or session source identifies where a thread came from
(for example review, guardian, or another subagent). `request_kind`
identifies what the current outbound model request is doing (`turn`,
`prewarm`, `compaction`, or `memory`). A review or guardian thread can
issue either a normal turn request or a compaction request, so source
cannot replace request kind.
## Behavior / Impact
- Ordinary foreground requests send `request_kind="turn"`, their real
identity fields, and `window_id="<thread_id>:<window_generation>"`.
- Startup websocket warmup requests send `request_kind="prewarm"` so
they are not counted as foreground turns.
- Compaction requests send `request_kind="compaction"`, their real
owning turn identity, the existing `window_id`, and
`compaction.{trigger,reason,implementation,phase,strategy}`.
- Detached memory stage-one requests send `request_kind="memory"`
without `session_id`, `thread_id`, `turn_id`, or `window_id`; when no
workspace metadata exists, the kind-only header is still emitted.
- `session_id`, `thread_id`, `turn_id`, and `window_id` remain optional
in the header schema because detached memory requests do not own a
foreground turn or context window.
- `window_id` is not a new ID system: it is copied from the already-sent
`x-codex-window-id` / WS client metadata value at model-request dispatch
time.
- Existing `x-codex-window-id` HTTP/WS emission, value format,
generation advancement, resume behavior, and fork reset behavior are
unchanged.
- `request_kind`, `window_id`, and upstream turn-owned identity fields
remain schema-owned; input `responsesapi_client_metadata` cannot replace
their canonical values.
- No table, DAG, export, app-server API, or MCP `_meta` schema changes
are included.
A compaction attempt stopped by a pre-compact hook issues no model
request and therefore has no request header; its outcome remains in
analytics events. Status, error, duration, and token deltas also remain
analytics fields rather than request-header fields.
Future detached-memory attribution using a real initiating turn ID as
`trigger_turn_id` is intentionally not part of this PR.
## Sync With Main
- Final pushed head `716342e79` is rebased onto `origin/main@0d37db4b2`.
- The metadata conflict came from upstream `#24160`, which added
`forked_from_thread_id` on the same `turn_metadata` surface. Resolution
preserves that field and its protection from client metadata override
alongside this PR's request-kind, compaction, and window-id fields.
- While resolving the overlapping commits, I removed an accidental
recursive model-request overlay and a duplicate detached-memory header
builder before completing the rebase.
## Latency / User Experience Boundary
- Foreground turns perform no new filesystem, git, or network work. New
fields are inserted into metadata already serialized for outgoing
requests.
- Compaction issues the same model/HTTP requests with the same prompt,
model, service tier, and sampling settings; only metadata bytes change.
- Startup prewarm already sent metadata; it is now correctly classified
as `prewarm`.
- Non-git detached memory now sends a small kind-only metadata header
rather than no header.
- This client diff adds no user-visible latency mechanism beyond
negligible serialization and header bytes on already-existing requests.
## Validation
On conflict-resolved head `1d35c2cfb` based on `origin/main@487521733`:
- `just fmt` (passed)
- `just fix -p codex-core` (passed)
- `git diff --check origin/main...HEAD` (passed)
- `just test -p codex-core -E 'test(turn_metadata) |
test(websocket_first_turn_uses_startup_prewarm_and_create) |
test(responses_stream_includes_turn_metadata_header_for_git_workspace_e2e)
|
test(responses_websocket_forwards_turn_metadata_on_initial_and_incremental_create)
| test(remote_compact_v2_retries_failures_with_stream_retry_budget) |
test(window_id_advances_after_compact_persists_on_resume_and_resets_on_fork)'`
(`23 passed`; `bench-smoke` passed)
- `just test -p codex-app-server -E
'test(turn_start_forwards_client_metadata_to_responses_request_v2) |
test(turn_start_forwards_client_metadata_to_responses_websocket_request_body_v2)
| test(auto_compaction_remote_emits_started_and_completed_items)'` (`3
passed`; `bench-smoke` passed)
- `just test -p codex-memories-write` (`29 passed`; `bench-smoke`
passed)
## 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`
## 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.
- Split the feature system into a new `codex-features` crate.
- Cut `codex-core` and workspace consumers over to the new config and
warning APIs.
Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## What is flaky
The Windows shell-driven integration tests in `codex-rs/core` were
intermittently unstable, especially:
- `apply_patch_cli_can_use_shell_command_output_as_patch_input`
- `websocket_test_codex_shell_chain`
- `websocket_v2_test_codex_shell_chain`
## Why it was flaky
These tests were exercising real shell-tool flows through whichever
shell Codex selected on Windows, and the `apply_patch` test also nested
a PowerShell read inside `cmd /c`.
There were multiple independent sources of nondeterminism in that setup:
- The test harness depended on the model-selected Windows shell instead
of pinning the shell it actually meant to exercise.
- `cmd.exe /c powershell.exe -Command "..."` is quoting-sensitive; on CI
that could leave the read command wrapped as a literal string instead of
executing it.
- Even after getting the quoting right, PowerShell could emit CLIXML
progress records like module-initialization output onto stdout.
- The `apply_patch` test was building a patch directly from shell
stdout, so any quoting artifact or progress noise corrupted the patch
input.
So the failures were driven by shell startup and output-shape variance,
not by the `apply_patch` or websocket logic themselves.
## How this PR fixes it
- Add a test-only `user_shell_override` path so Windows integration
tests can pin `cmd.exe` explicitly.
- Use that override in the websocket shell-chain tests and in the
`apply_patch` harness.
- Change the nested Windows file read in
`apply_patch_cli_can_use_shell_command_output_as_patch_input` to a UTF-8
PowerShell `-EncodedCommand` script.
- Run that nested PowerShell process with `-NonInteractive`, set
`$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'`, and read the file with
`[System.IO.File]::ReadAllText(...)`.
## Why this fix fixes the flakiness
The outer harness now runs under a deterministic shell, and the inner
PowerShell read no longer depends on fragile `cmd` quoting or on
progress output staying quiet by accident. The shell tool returns only
the file contents, so patch construction and websocket assertions depend
on stable test inputs instead of on runner-specific shell behavior.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## What changed
- Drop failed websocket connections immediately after a terminal stream
error instead of awaiting a graceful close handshake before forwarding
the error to the caller.
- Keep the success path and the closed-connection guard behavior
unchanged.
## Why this fixes the flake
- The failing integration test waits for the second websocket stream to
surface the model error before issuing a follow-up request.
- On slower runners, the old error path awaited
`ws_stream.close().await` before sending the error downstream. If that
close handshake stalled, the test kept waiting for an error that had
already happened server-side and nextest timed it out.
- Dropping the failed websocket immediately makes the terminal error
observable right away and marks the session closed so the next request
reconnects cleanly instead of depending on a best-effort close
handshake.
## Code or test?
- This is a production logic fix in `codex-api`. The existing websocket
integration test already exercises the regression path.
## Why
Enterprises can already constrain approvals, sandboxing, and web search
through `requirements.toml` and MDM, but feature flags were still only
configurable as managed defaults. That meant an enterprise could suggest
feature values, but it could not actually pin them.
This change closes that gap and makes enterprise feature requirements
behave like the other constrained settings. The effective feature set
now stays consistent with enterprise requirements during config load,
when config writes are validated, and when runtime code mutates feature
flags later in the session.
It also tightens the runtime API for managed features. `ManagedFeatures`
now follows the same constraint-oriented shape as `Constrained<T>`
instead of exposing panic-prone mutation helpers, and production code
can no longer construct it through an unconstrained `From<Features>`
path.
The PR also hardens the `compact_resume_fork` integration coverage on
Windows. After the feature-management changes,
`compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` was
overflowing the libtest/Tokio thread stacks on Windows, so the test now
uses an explicit larger-stack harness as a pragmatic mitigation. That
may not be the ideal root-cause fix, and it merits a parallel
investigation into whether part of the async future chain should be
boxed to reduce stack pressure instead.
## What Changed
Enterprises can now pin feature values in `requirements.toml` with the
requirements-side `features` table:
```toml
[features]
personality = true
unified_exec = false
```
Only canonical feature keys are allowed in the requirements `features`
table; omitted keys remain unconstrained.
- Added a requirements-side pinned feature map to
`ConfigRequirementsToml`, threaded it through source-preserving
requirements merge and normalization in `codex-config`, and made the
TOML surface use `[features]` (while still accepting legacy
`[feature_requirements]` for compatibility).
- Exposed `featureRequirements` from `configRequirements/read`,
regenerated the JSON/TypeScript schema artifacts, and updated the
app-server README.
- Wrapped the effective feature set in `ManagedFeatures`, backed by
`ConstrainedWithSource<Features>`, and changed its API to mirror
`Constrained<T>`: `can_set(...)`, `set(...) -> ConstraintResult<()>`,
and result-returning `enable` / `disable` / `set_enabled` helpers.
- Removed the legacy-usage and bulk-map passthroughs from
`ManagedFeatures`; callers that need those behaviors now mutate a plain
`Features` value and reapply it through `set(...)`, so the constrained
wrapper remains the enforcement boundary.
- Removed the production loophole for constructing unconstrained
`ManagedFeatures`. Non-test code now creates it through the configured
feature-loading path, and `impl From<Features> for ManagedFeatures` is
restricted to `#[cfg(test)]`.
- Rejected legacy feature aliases in enterprise feature requirements,
and return a load error when a pinned combination cannot survive
dependency normalization.
- Validated config writes against enterprise feature requirements before
persisting changes, including explicit conflicting writes and
profile-specific feature states that normalize into invalid
combinations.
- Updated runtime and TUI feature-toggle paths to use the constrained
setter API and to persist or apply the effective post-constraint value
rather than the requested value.
- Updated the `core_test_support` Bazel target to include the bundled
core model-catalog fixtures in its runtime data, so helper code that
resolves `core/models.json` through runfiles works in remote Bazel test
environments.
- Renamed the core config test coverage to emphasize that effective
feature values are normalized at runtime, while conflicting persisted
config writes are rejected.
- Ran `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` inside
an explicit 8 MiB test thread and Tokio runtime worker stack, following
the existing larger-stack integration-test pattern, to keep the Windows
`compact_resume_fork` test slice from aborting while a parallel
investigation continues into whether some of the underlying async
futures should be boxed.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core feature_requirements_ -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
load_requirements_toml_produces_expected_constraints -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core compact_resume_fork -- --nocapture`
- Re-ran the built `codex-core` `tests/all` binary with
`RUST_MIN_STACK=262144` for
`compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` to confirm
the explicit-stack harness fixes the deterministic low-stack repro.
- `cargo test -p codex-core`
- This still fails locally in unrelated integration areas that expect
the `codex` / `test_stdio_server` binaries or hit existing `search_tool`
wiremock mismatches.
## Docs
`developers.openai.com/codex` should document the requirements-side
`[features]` table for enterprise and MDM-managed configuration,
including that it only accepts canonical feature keys and that
conflicting config writes are rejected.
- 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
Send a request with `generate: falls` but a full set of tools and
instructions to pre-warm inference.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Problem
The first user turn can pay websocket handshake latency even when a
session has already started. We want to reduce that initial delay while
preserving turn semantics and avoiding any prompt send during startup.
Reviewer feedback also called out duplicated connect/setup paths and
unnecessary preconnect state complexity.
## Mental model
`ModelClient` owns session-scoped transport state. During session
startup, it can opportunistically warm one websocket handshake slot. A
turn-scoped `ModelClientSession` adopts that slot once if available,
restores captured sticky turn-state, and otherwise opens a websocket
through the same shared connect path.
If startup preconnect is still in flight, first turn setup awaits that
task and treats it as the first connection attempt for the turn.
Preconnect is handshake-only. The first `response.create` is still sent
only when a turn starts.
## Non-goals
This change does not make preconnect required for correctness and does
not change prompt/turn payload semantics. It also does not expand
fallback behavior beyond clearing preconnect state when fallback
activates.
## Tradeoffs
The implementation prioritizes simpler ownership and shared connection
code over header-match gating for reuse. The single-slot cache keeps
lifecycle straightforward but only benefits the immediate next turn.
Awaiting in-flight preconnect has the same app-level connect-timeout
semantics as existing websocket connect behavior (no new timeout class
introduced by this PR).
## Architecture
`core/src/client.rs`:
- Added session-level preconnect lifecycle state (`Idle` / `InFlight` /
`Ready`) carrying one warmed websocket plus optional captured
turn-state.
- Added `pre_establish_connection()` startup warmup and `preconnect()`
handshake-only setup.
- Deduped auth/provider resolution into `current_client_setup()` and
websocket handshake wiring into `connect_websocket()` /
`build_websocket_headers()`.
- Updated turn websocket path to adopt preconnect first, await in-flight
preconnect when present, then create a new websocket only when needed.
- Ensured fallback activation clears warmed preconnect state.
- Added documentation for lifecycle, ownership, sticky-routing
invariants, and timeout semantics.
`core/src/codex.rs`:
- Session startup invokes `model_client.pre_establish_connection(...)`.
- Turn metadata resolution uses the shared timeout helper.
`core/src/turn_metadata.rs`:
- Centralized shared timeout helper used by both turn-time metadata
resolution and startup preconnect metadata building.
`core/tests/common/responses.rs` + websocket test suites:
- Added deterministic handshake waiting helper (`wait_for_handshakes`)
with bounded polling.
- Added startup preconnect and in-flight preconnect reuse coverage.
- Fallback expectations now assert exactly two websocket attempts in
covered scenarios (startup preconnect + turn attempt before fallback
sticks).
## Observability
Preconnect remains best-effort and non-fatal. Existing
websocket/fallback telemetry remains in place, and debug logs now make
preconnect-await behavior and preconnect failures easier to reason
about.
## Tests
Validated with:
1. `just fmt`
2. `cargo test -p codex-core websocket_preconnect -- --nocapture`
3. `cargo test -p codex-core websocket_fallback -- --nocapture`
4. `cargo test -p codex-core
websocket_first_turn_waits_for_inflight_preconnect -- --nocapture`
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