- Introduce `RealtimeConversationManager` for realtime API management
- Add `op::conversation` to start conversation, insert audio, insert
text, and close conversation.
- emit conversation lifecycle and realtime events.
- Move shared realtime payload types into codex-protocol and add core
e2e websocket tests for start/replace/transport-close paths.
Things to consider:
- Should we use the same `op::` and `Events` channel to carry audio? I
think we should try this simple approach and later we can create
separate one if the channels got congested.
- Sending text updates to the client: we can start simple and later
restrict that.
- Provider auth isn't wired for now intentionally
## Summary
- add realtime websocket client transport in codex-api
- send session.create on connect with backend prompt and optional
conversation_id
- keep session.update for prompt changes after connect
- switch inbound event parsing to a tagged enum (typed variants instead
of optional field bag)
- add a websocket e2e integration test in
codex-rs/codex-api/tests/realtime_websocket_e2e.rs
## Why
This moves the realtime transport to an explicit session-create
handshake and improves protocol safety with typed inbound events.
## Testing
- Added e2e integration test coverage for session create + event flow in
the API crate.
Add per-turn notice when a request is downgraded to a fallback model due
to cyber safety checks.
**Changes**
- codex-api: Emit a ServerModel event based on the openai-model response
header and/or response payload (SSE + WebSocket), including when the
model changes mid-stream.
- core: When the server-reported model differs from the requested model,
emit a single per-turn warning explaining the reroute to gpt-5.2 and
directing users to Trusted
Access verification and the cyber safety explainer.
- app-server (v2): Surface these cyber model-routing warnings as
synthetic userMessage items with text prefixed by Warning: (and document
this behavior).
When communicating over websockets, we can't rely on headers to deliver
rate limit information. This PR adds a `codex.rate_limits` event that
the server can pass to the client to inform them about rate limit usage.
The client parses this data the same way we parse rate limit headers in
HTTP mode.
This PR also wires up the etag and reasoning headers for websockets
### What
add wiring for `phase` field on `ResponseItem::Message` to lay
groundwork for differentiating model preambles and final messages.
currently optional.
follows pattern in #9698.
updated schemas with `just write-app-server-schema` so we can see type
changes.
### Tests
Updated existing tests for SSE parsing and hydrating from history
Summary
- expose websocket telemetry hooks through the responses client so
request durations and event processing can be reported
- record websocket request/event metrics and emit runtime telemetry
events that the history UI now surfaces
- improve tests to cover websocket telemetry reporting and guard runtime
summary updates
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ea9a7965-d8b4-4e3c-a984-ef4fdc44c81d"
/>
- capture the header from SSE/WS handshakes, store it per
ModelClientSession using `Oncelock`, echo it on turn-scoped requests,
and add SSE+WS integration tests for within-turn persistence +
cross-turn reset.
- keep `x-codex-turn-state` sticky within a user turn to maintain
routing continuity for retries/tool follow-ups.
Adds a new feature
`enable_request_compression` that will compress using zstd requests to
the codex-backend. Currently only enabled for codex-backend so only enabled for openai providers when using chatgpt::auth even when the feature is enabled
Added a new info log line too for evaluating the compression ratio and
overhead off compressing before requesting. You can enable with
`RUST_LOG=$RUST_LOG,codex_client::transport=info`
```
2026-01-06T00:09:48.272113Z INFO codex_client::transport: Compressed request body with zstd pre_compression_bytes=28914 post_compression_bytes=11485 compression_duration_ms=0
```
- Merge ModelFamily into ModelInfo
- Remove logic for adding instructions to apply patch
- Add compaction limit and visible context window to `ModelInfo`
This isn't very useful parameter.
logic:
```
if model puts `**` in their reasoning, trim it and visualize the header.
if couldn't trim: don't render
if model doesn't support: don't render
```
We can simplify to:
```
if could trim, visualize header.
if not, don't render
```
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