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Owen LinandGitHub 14df0e8833 core: Consolidate Responses API Codex metadata (#27122)
## What
Introduce a `CodexResponsesMetadata` struct that defines all the core
metadata we send to Responses API. Example fields are `thread_id`,
`turn_id`, `window_id`, etc.

Going forward, `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]` will be the
canonical way Codex sends metadata to Responses API across both HTTP and
websocket transports.

For now, we continue to emit the existing top-level HTTP headers and
top-level `client_metadata` fields from the same
`CodexResponsesMetadata` struct for compatibility reasons.

Also, app-server clients who specify additional
`responsesapi_client_metadata` via `turn/start` and `turn/steer` will
have those fields merged into
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, but cannot override the
reserved fields that core uses (i.e. the fields in
`CodexResponsesMetadata`).

## Why

Responses API request instrumentation is the source of truth for
downstream Codex analytics that join requests by Codex IDs such as
session, thread, turn, and context window. Before this change, those
values were assembled through several request-specific paths: HTTP
request bodies, websocket handshake headers, websocket `response.create`
payloads, compaction requests, and the rich `x-codex-turn-metadata`
envelope all had their own wiring.

That made metadata propagation easy to drift across API-key/direct
Responses API requests, ChatGPT-auth/proxied requests, websocket
requests, and compaction requests. It also made additions like
`window_id` error-prone because a field could be added to one transport
projection but missed in another.

## What changed

- Added `CodexResponsesMetadata` as the core-owned snapshot for Codex
metadata sent to ResponsesAPI.
- Render `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, flat
`client_metadata` projections, and direct compatibility headers from
that same snapshot.
- Include the known Codex-owned fields in the turn metadata blob,
including installation/session/thread/turn/window IDs, request kind,
lineage, sandbox/workspace metadata, timing, and compaction details.
- Treat app-server `responsesapi_client_metadata` as enrichment for the
Codex turn metadata blob while preventing those extras from overriding
Codex-owned fields.
- Use the same metadata path for normal turns, websocket prewarm, local
compaction, remote v1 compaction, and remote v2 compaction.
- Keep websocket connection-only preconnect metadata separate so
handshakes carry compatibility identity headers without inventing a fake
turn metadata blob.

## Verification

- `cargo check -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
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use std::sync::Arc;
use std::time::Instant;
use crate::Prompt;
use crate::client::ModelClientSession;
use crate::client_common::ResponseEvent;
use crate::hook_runtime::PostCompactHookOutcome;
use crate::hook_runtime::PreCompactHookOutcome;
use crate::hook_runtime::run_post_compact_hooks;
use crate::hook_runtime::run_pre_compact_hooks;
use crate::responses_metadata::CodexResponsesMetadata;
use crate::responses_metadata::CodexResponsesRequestKind;
use crate::responses_metadata::CompactionTurnMetadata;
#[cfg(test)]
use crate::session::PreviousTurnSettings;
use crate::session::session::Session;
use crate::session::turn::get_last_assistant_message_from_turn;
use crate::session::turn_context::TurnContext;
use crate::util::backoff;
use codex_analytics::CodexCompactionEvent;
use codex_analytics::CompactionImplementation;
use codex_analytics::CompactionPhase;
use codex_analytics::CompactionReason;
use codex_analytics::CompactionStatus;
use codex_analytics::CompactionStrategy;
use codex_analytics::CompactionTrigger;
use codex_analytics::now_unix_seconds;
use codex_protocol::error::CodexErr;
use codex_protocol::error::Result as CodexResult;
use codex_protocol::items::ContextCompactionItem;
use codex_protocol::items::TurnItem;
use codex_protocol::models::ContentItem;
use codex_protocol::models::ResponseInputItem;
use codex_protocol::models::ResponseItem;
use codex_protocol::protocol::CompactedItem;
use codex_protocol::protocol::EventMsg;
use codex_protocol::protocol::TurnStartedEvent;
use codex_protocol::protocol::WarningEvent;
use codex_protocol::user_input::UserInput;
use codex_rollout_trace::InferenceTraceContext;
use codex_utils_output_truncation::TruncationPolicy;
use codex_utils_output_truncation::approx_token_count;
use codex_utils_output_truncation::truncate_text;
use futures::prelude::*;
use tracing::error;
use codex_model_provider_info::ModelProviderInfo;
pub use codex_prompts::SUMMARIZATION_PROMPT;
pub use codex_prompts::SUMMARY_PREFIX;
const COMPACT_USER_MESSAGE_MAX_TOKENS: usize = 20_000;
/// Controls whether compaction replacement history must include initial context.
///
/// Pre-turn/manual compaction variants use `DoNotInject`: they replace history with a summary and
/// clear `reference_context_item`, so the next regular turn will fully reinject initial context
/// after compaction.
///
/// Mid-turn compaction must use `BeforeLastUserMessage` because the model is trained to see the
/// compaction summary as the last item in history after mid-turn compaction; we therefore inject
/// initial context into the replacement history just above the last real user message.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub(crate) enum InitialContextInjection {
BeforeLastUserMessage,
DoNotInject,
}
pub(crate) fn should_use_remote_compact_task(provider: &ModelProviderInfo) -> bool {
provider.supports_remote_compaction()
}
pub(crate) async fn run_inline_auto_compact_task(
sess: Arc<Session>,
turn_context: Arc<TurnContext>,
initial_context_injection: InitialContextInjection,
reason: CompactionReason,
phase: CompactionPhase,
) -> CodexResult<()> {
let prompt = turn_context.compact_prompt().to_string();
let input = vec![UserInput::Text {
text: prompt,
// Compaction prompt is synthesized; no UI element ranges to preserve.
text_elements: Vec::new(),
}];
run_compact_task_inner(
sess,
turn_context,
input,
initial_context_injection,
CompactionTrigger::Auto,
reason,
phase,
)
.await?;
Ok(())
}
pub(crate) async fn run_compact_task(
sess: Arc<Session>,
turn_context: Arc<TurnContext>,
input: Vec<UserInput>,
) -> CodexResult<()> {
let start_event = EventMsg::TurnStarted(TurnStartedEvent {
turn_id: turn_context.sub_id.clone(),
trace_id: turn_context.trace_id.clone(),
started_at: turn_context.turn_timing_state.started_at_unix_secs().await,
model_context_window: turn_context.model_context_window(),
collaboration_mode_kind: turn_context.collaboration_mode.mode,
});
sess.send_event(&turn_context, start_event).await;
run_compact_task_inner(
sess.clone(),
turn_context,
input,
InitialContextInjection::DoNotInject,
CompactionTrigger::Manual,
CompactionReason::UserRequested,
CompactionPhase::StandaloneTurn,
)
.await?;
Ok(())
}
async fn run_compact_task_inner(
sess: Arc<Session>,
turn_context: Arc<TurnContext>,
input: Vec<UserInput>,
initial_context_injection: InitialContextInjection,
trigger: CompactionTrigger,
reason: CompactionReason,
phase: CompactionPhase,
) -> CodexResult<()> {
let compaction_metadata =
CompactionTurnMetadata::new(trigger, reason, CompactionImplementation::Responses, phase);
let attempt = CompactionAnalyticsAttempt::begin(
sess.as_ref(),
turn_context.as_ref(),
trigger,
reason,
CompactionImplementation::Responses,
phase,
)
.await;
let pre_compact_outcome = run_pre_compact_hooks(&sess, &turn_context, trigger).await;
match pre_compact_outcome {
PreCompactHookOutcome::Continue => {}
PreCompactHookOutcome::Stopped => {
let error = CodexErr::TurnAborted;
attempt
.track(
sess.as_ref(),
CompactionStatus::Interrupted,
Some(&error),
CompactionAnalyticsDetails::default(),
)
.await;
return Err(error);
}
}
let result = run_compact_task_inner_impl(
Arc::clone(&sess),
Arc::clone(&turn_context),
input,
initial_context_injection,
compaction_metadata,
)
.await;
let status = compaction_status_from_result(&result);
let codex_error = result.as_ref().err();
if result.is_ok() {
let post_compact_outcome = run_post_compact_hooks(&sess, &turn_context, trigger).await;
if let PostCompactHookOutcome::Stopped = post_compact_outcome {
attempt
.track(
sess.as_ref(),
status,
codex_error,
CompactionAnalyticsDetails::default(),
)
.await;
return Err(CodexErr::TurnAborted);
}
}
attempt
.track(
sess.as_ref(),
status,
codex_error,
CompactionAnalyticsDetails::default(),
)
.await;
result.map(|_| ())
}
async fn run_compact_task_inner_impl(
sess: Arc<Session>,
turn_context: Arc<TurnContext>,
input: Vec<UserInput>,
initial_context_injection: InitialContextInjection,
compaction_metadata: CompactionTurnMetadata,
) -> CodexResult<String> {
let compaction_item = TurnItem::ContextCompaction(ContextCompactionItem::new());
sess.emit_turn_item_started(&turn_context, &compaction_item)
.await;
let initial_input_for_turn: ResponseInputItem = ResponseInputItem::from(input);
let mut history = sess.clone_history().await;
history.record_items(
&[initial_input_for_turn.into()],
turn_context.truncation_policy,
);
let max_retries = turn_context.provider.info().stream_max_retries();
let mut retries = 0;
let mut client_session = sess.services.model_client.new_session();
// Reuse one client session so turn-scoped state (sticky routing, websocket incremental
// request tracking)
// survives retries within this compact turn.
let window_id = sess.current_window_id().await;
let responses_metadata = turn_context.turn_metadata_state.to_responses_metadata(
sess.installation_id.clone(),
window_id,
CodexResponsesRequestKind::Compaction(compaction_metadata),
);
loop {
// Clone is required because of the loop
let turn_input = history
.clone()
.for_prompt(&turn_context.model_info.input_modalities);
let turn_input_len = turn_input.len();
let prompt = Prompt {
input: turn_input,
base_instructions: sess.get_base_instructions().await,
personality: turn_context.personality,
..Default::default()
};
let attempt_result = drain_to_completed(
&sess,
turn_context.as_ref(),
&mut client_session,
&responses_metadata,
&prompt,
)
.await;
match attempt_result {
Ok(()) => {
break;
}
Err(CodexErr::Interrupted) => {
return Err(CodexErr::Interrupted);
}
Err(e @ CodexErr::ContextWindowExceeded) => {
if turn_input_len > 1 {
// Trim from the beginning to preserve cache (prefix-based) and keep recent messages intact.
error!(
"Context window exceeded while compacting; removing oldest history item. Error: {e}"
);
history.remove_first_item();
retries = 0;
continue;
}
sess.set_total_tokens_full(turn_context.as_ref()).await;
sess.track_turn_codex_error(turn_context.as_ref(), &e);
let event = EventMsg::Error(e.to_error_event(/*message_prefix*/ None));
sess.send_event(&turn_context, event).await;
return Err(e);
}
Err(e) => {
if retries < max_retries {
retries += 1;
let delay = backoff(retries);
sess.notify_stream_error(
turn_context.as_ref(),
format!("Reconnecting... {retries}/{max_retries}"),
e,
)
.await;
tokio::time::sleep(delay).await;
continue;
} else {
sess.track_turn_codex_error(turn_context.as_ref(), &e);
let event = EventMsg::Error(e.to_error_event(/*message_prefix*/ None));
sess.send_event(&turn_context, event).await;
return Err(e);
}
}
}
}
let history_snapshot = sess.clone_history().await;
let history_items = history_snapshot.raw_items();
let summary_suffix = get_last_assistant_message_from_turn(history_items).unwrap_or_default();
let summary_text = format!("{SUMMARY_PREFIX}\n{summary_suffix}");
let user_messages = collect_user_messages(history_items);
let mut new_history = build_compacted_history(Vec::new(), &user_messages, &summary_text);
let window_id = sess.advance_auto_compact_window_id().await;
if matches!(
initial_context_injection,
InitialContextInjection::BeforeLastUserMessage
) {
let initial_context = sess.build_initial_context(turn_context.as_ref()).await;
new_history =
insert_initial_context_before_last_real_user_or_summary(new_history, initial_context);
}
let reference_context_item = match initial_context_injection {
InitialContextInjection::DoNotInject => None,
InitialContextInjection::BeforeLastUserMessage => Some(turn_context.to_turn_context_item()),
};
let compacted_item = CompactedItem {
message: summary_text.clone(),
replacement_history: Some(new_history.clone()),
window_id: Some(window_id),
};
sess.replace_compacted_history(new_history, reference_context_item, compacted_item)
.await;
sess.recompute_token_usage(&turn_context).await;
sess.emit_turn_item_completed(&turn_context, compaction_item)
.await;
let warning = EventMsg::Warning(WarningEvent {
message: "Heads up: Long threads and multiple compactions can cause the model to be less accurate. Start a new thread when possible to keep threads small and targeted.".to_string(),
});
sess.send_event(&turn_context, warning).await;
Ok(summary_suffix)
}
pub(crate) struct CompactionAnalyticsAttempt {
thread_id: String,
turn_id: String,
trigger: CompactionTrigger,
reason: CompactionReason,
implementation: CompactionImplementation,
phase: CompactionPhase,
active_context_tokens_before: i64,
started_at: u64,
start_instant: Instant,
}
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Default)]
pub(crate) struct CompactionAnalyticsDetails {
pub(crate) active_context_tokens_before: Option<i64>,
pub(crate) retained_image_count: Option<usize>,
pub(crate) compaction_summary_tokens: Option<i64>,
pub(crate) cached_input_tokens: Option<i64>,
}
impl CompactionAnalyticsAttempt {
pub(crate) async fn begin(
sess: &Session,
turn_context: &TurnContext,
trigger: CompactionTrigger,
reason: CompactionReason,
implementation: CompactionImplementation,
phase: CompactionPhase,
) -> Self {
let active_context_tokens_before = sess.get_total_token_usage().await;
Self {
thread_id: sess.thread_id.to_string(),
turn_id: turn_context.sub_id.clone(),
trigger,
reason,
implementation,
phase,
active_context_tokens_before,
started_at: now_unix_seconds(),
start_instant: Instant::now(),
}
}
pub(crate) async fn track(
self,
sess: &Session,
status: CompactionStatus,
codex_error: Option<&CodexErr>,
details: CompactionAnalyticsDetails,
) {
let CompactionAnalyticsDetails {
active_context_tokens_before,
retained_image_count,
compaction_summary_tokens,
cached_input_tokens,
} = details;
let active_context_tokens_before =
active_context_tokens_before.unwrap_or(self.active_context_tokens_before);
let active_context_tokens_after = sess.get_total_token_usage().await;
sess.services
.analytics_events_client
.track_compaction(CodexCompactionEvent {
thread_id: self.thread_id,
turn_id: self.turn_id,
trigger: self.trigger,
reason: self.reason,
implementation: self.implementation,
phase: self.phase,
strategy: CompactionStrategy::Memento,
status,
codex_error_kind: codex_error.map(Into::into),
codex_error_http_status_code: codex_error
.and_then(CodexErr::http_status_code_value),
active_context_tokens_before,
active_context_tokens_after,
retained_image_count,
compaction_summary_tokens,
cached_input_tokens,
started_at: self.started_at,
completed_at: now_unix_seconds(),
duration_ms: Some(
u64::try_from(self.start_instant.elapsed().as_millis()).unwrap_or(u64::MAX),
),
});
}
}
pub(crate) fn compaction_status_from_result<T>(result: &CodexResult<T>) -> CompactionStatus {
match result {
Ok(_) => CompactionStatus::Completed,
Err(CodexErr::Interrupted | CodexErr::TurnAborted) => CompactionStatus::Interrupted,
Err(_) => CompactionStatus::Failed,
}
}
pub fn content_items_to_text(content: &[ContentItem]) -> Option<String> {
let mut pieces = Vec::new();
for item in content {
match item {
ContentItem::InputText { text } | ContentItem::OutputText { text } => {
if !text.is_empty() {
pieces.push(text.as_str());
}
}
ContentItem::InputImage { .. } => {}
}
}
if pieces.is_empty() {
None
} else {
Some(pieces.join("\n"))
}
}
pub(crate) fn collect_user_messages(items: &[ResponseItem]) -> Vec<String> {
items
.iter()
.filter_map(|item| match crate::event_mapping::parse_turn_item(item) {
Some(TurnItem::UserMessage(user)) => {
if is_summary_message(&user.message()) {
None
} else {
Some(user.message())
}
}
_ => None,
})
.collect()
}
pub(crate) fn is_summary_message(message: &str) -> bool {
message.starts_with(format!("{SUMMARY_PREFIX}\n").as_str())
}
/// Inserts canonical initial context into compacted replacement history at the
/// model-expected boundary.
///
/// Placement rules:
/// - Prefer immediately before the last real user message.
/// - If no real user messages remain, insert before the compaction summary so
/// the summary stays last.
/// - If there are no user messages, insert before the last compaction item so
/// that item remains last (remote compaction may return only compaction items).
/// - If there are no user messages or compaction items, append the context.
pub(crate) fn insert_initial_context_before_last_real_user_or_summary(
mut compacted_history: Vec<ResponseItem>,
initial_context: Vec<ResponseItem>,
) -> Vec<ResponseItem> {
let mut last_user_or_summary_index = None;
let mut last_real_user_index = None;
for (i, item) in compacted_history.iter().enumerate().rev() {
let Some(TurnItem::UserMessage(user)) = crate::event_mapping::parse_turn_item(item) else {
continue;
};
// Compaction summaries are encoded as user messages, so track both:
// the last real user message (preferred insertion point) and the last
// user-message-like item (fallback summary insertion point).
last_user_or_summary_index.get_or_insert(i);
if !is_summary_message(&user.message()) {
last_real_user_index = Some(i);
break;
}
}
let last_compaction_index = compacted_history
.iter()
.enumerate()
.rev()
.find_map(|(i, item)| {
matches!(
item,
ResponseItem::Compaction { .. } | ResponseItem::ContextCompaction { .. }
)
.then_some(i)
});
let insertion_index = last_real_user_index
.or(last_user_or_summary_index)
.or(last_compaction_index);
// Re-inject canonical context from the current session since we stripped it
// from the pre-compaction history. Prefer placing it before the last real
// user message; if there is no real user message left, place it before the
// summary or compaction item so the compaction item remains last.
if let Some(insertion_index) = insertion_index {
compacted_history.splice(insertion_index..insertion_index, initial_context);
} else {
compacted_history.extend(initial_context);
}
compacted_history
}
pub(crate) fn build_compacted_history(
initial_context: Vec<ResponseItem>,
user_messages: &[String],
summary_text: &str,
) -> Vec<ResponseItem> {
build_compacted_history_with_limit(
initial_context,
user_messages,
summary_text,
COMPACT_USER_MESSAGE_MAX_TOKENS,
)
}
fn build_compacted_history_with_limit(
mut history: Vec<ResponseItem>,
user_messages: &[String],
summary_text: &str,
max_tokens: usize,
) -> Vec<ResponseItem> {
let mut selected_messages: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
if max_tokens > 0 {
let mut remaining = max_tokens;
for message in user_messages.iter().rev() {
if remaining == 0 {
break;
}
let tokens = approx_token_count(message);
if tokens <= remaining {
selected_messages.push(message.clone());
remaining = remaining.saturating_sub(tokens);
} else {
let truncated = truncate_text(message, TruncationPolicy::Tokens(remaining));
selected_messages.push(truncated);
break;
}
}
selected_messages.reverse();
}
for message in &selected_messages {
history.push(ResponseItem::Message {
id: None,
role: "user".to_string(),
content: vec![ContentItem::InputText {
text: message.clone(),
}],
phase: None,
});
}
let summary_text = if summary_text.is_empty() {
"(no summary available)".to_string()
} else {
summary_text.to_string()
};
history.push(ResponseItem::Message {
id: None,
role: "user".to_string(),
content: vec![ContentItem::InputText { text: summary_text }],
phase: None,
});
history
}
async fn drain_to_completed(
sess: &Session,
turn_context: &TurnContext,
client_session: &mut ModelClientSession,
responses_metadata: &CodexResponsesMetadata,
prompt: &Prompt,
) -> CodexResult<()> {
let mut stream = client_session
.stream(
prompt,
&turn_context.model_info,
&turn_context.session_telemetry,
turn_context.reasoning_effort.clone(),
turn_context.reasoning_summary,
turn_context.config.service_tier.clone(),
responses_metadata,
// Rollout tracing currently models remote compaction only; local compaction streams
// are left untraced until the reducer has a first-class local compaction lifecycle.
&InferenceTraceContext::disabled(),
)
.await?;
loop {
let maybe_event = stream.next().await;
let Some(event) = maybe_event else {
return Err(CodexErr::Stream(
"stream closed before response.completed".into(),
None,
));
};
match event {
Ok(ResponseEvent::OutputItemDone(item)) => {
sess.record_conversation_items(turn_context, std::slice::from_ref(&item))
.await;
}
Ok(ResponseEvent::ServerReasoningIncluded(included)) => {
sess.set_server_reasoning_included(included).await;
}
Ok(ResponseEvent::RateLimits(snapshot)) => {
sess.update_rate_limits(turn_context, snapshot).await;
}
Ok(ResponseEvent::Completed { token_usage, .. }) => {
sess.update_token_usage_info(turn_context, token_usage.as_ref())
.await;
return Ok(());
}
Ok(_) => continue,
Err(e) => return Err(e),
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
#[path = "compact_tests.rs"]
mod tests;