fix(grok): switch to Responses backend and backfill required annotations - #1941
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds Responses field backfilling for SSE and JSON payloads, changes bridge keep-alives to SSE comments, routes generated Grok models through the Responses backend, records Grok request-log context, and updates related tests and documentation. ChangesResponses compatibility
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR switches Grok to the Responses backend, but the English and French guides still describe Chat Completions, which could mislead users about setup and supported fields. This is a bounded documentation issue requiring owner follow-up; the PR remains otherwise mergeable. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ResponsesPassthrough
participant FieldBackfillRewrite
participant ResponsesClient
ResponsesPassthrough->>FieldBackfillRewrite: pass SSE blocks or JSON payloads
FieldBackfillRewrite->>FieldBackfillRewrite: backfill missing output_text annotations
FieldBackfillRewrite-->>ResponsesPassthrough: return rewritten payload
ResponsesPassthrough->>ResponsesClient: forward Responses data
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In `@src/server/responses/core.ts`:
- Around line 2995-3000: Add focused regression coverage in
tests/responses-field-backfill.test.ts for backfillResponsesFieldsJson,
verifying it adds missing annotations and preserves pre-existing annotations;
keep the test scoped to bounded non-streaming Responses JSON behavior and the
existing subsystem test style.
In `@src/server/responses/responses-field-backfill.ts`:
- Around line 36-39: Update backfillOutputTextPart so it adds an empty
annotations array only when the annotations property is absent, while preserving
any existing value such as null, a string, or an object; keep the output_text
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In `@tests/chat-completions-endpoint.test.ts`:
- Around line 352-354: Update the chat-completions SSE test around collectSse to
capture raw stream output, assert the exact heartbeat bytes are “: opencodex
heartbeat\n\n”, and verify that no response.heartbeat event is forwarded.
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In `@tests/bridge.test.ts`:
- Around line 867-873: Update the SSE frame parsing loop around dataLine and
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Grok CLI was pinned to api_backend = "chat_completions" because opencodex emitted response.heartbeat as a typed SSE event. That is not a valid Responses variant, so Grok-build's strict enum deserializer crashed with "unknown variant response.heartbeat". The keep-alive now emits an SSE comment line instead, which re-arms the idle timer without triggering deserialization on any client. With heartbeats fixed, Grok can finally use the Responses passthrough path. This gives Grok clients the same protocol fidelity Codex already enjoys and removes the chat to responses translation layer from the hot path. Some upstream relays (e.g. sub2api) omit annotations on output_text content parts even though the Responses spec marks it as a required Vec field. Strict clients, including Grok-build's async-openai fork, fail with "missing field annotations". A new stateless SSE/JSON backfill adds annotations: [] on any output_text part that lacks it, on both the streaming and bounded-JSON passthrough paths. The rewrite is unconditional and safe for all clients because the field is always valid on the wire. The /v1/responses handler now surfaces grok-tagged requests as surface=grok in the log context, matching the chat-completions handler. Stale comments referencing grok-build's decoder and the old chat_completions pin have been corrected in the tests.
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Keep-alives are now SSE comment lines (': opencodex heartbeat') instead of
response.heartbeat events, so the bridge-lifecycle RC3 test and the transport
architecture docs no longer describe a parser-ignored response.heartbeat event.
The grok-build guides' api_backend examples were still chat_completions; they
now match the Responses backend the proxy emits.
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107-118: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep the reasoning documentation consistent with the Responses backend.
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api_backend = "responses", but both guides still describe Chat Completions transport and the Chat Completions inbound translator in Lines 64-69.
docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/grok-build.md#L107-L118: rewrite the reasoning section for the Responses passthrough path.docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/guides/grok-build.md#L107-L118: apply the same correction in the French guide.As per path instructions, user-facing documentation must stay synchronized with actual CLI/API behavior.
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/grok-build.md`:
- Around line 107-118: Update the reasoning sections in
docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/grok-build.md lines 107-118 and
docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/guides/grok-build.md lines 107-118 to describe the
Responses passthrough path consistently with api_backend = "responses", removing
references to Chat Completions transport and its inbound translator; preserve
equivalent English and French guidance.
Apply the same fix in `@docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/guides/grok-build.md` at
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Apply the same fix in `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/grok-build.md` at line
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Maintainer-side validation: merged this head onto current dev in a scratch worktree — the six named suites (bridge-lifecycle, bridge, chat-completions-endpoint, grok-config-inject, grok-orphan-adoption, responses-field-backfill) pass 217/0 and typecheck is clean. The heartbeat fix is the right shape: a comment-only SSE keep-alive is spec-legal for strict-enum Responses clients, and gating the annotation backfill on the Responses wire unblocks the Grok CLI api_backend switch. Docs are updated across locales consistently. Promoting out of draft.
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During any bridged turn that is silent longer than Codex's configured stream idle timeout, this comment does not re-arm the timer: Codex waits on timeout(idle_timeout, stream.next()), while eventsource_stream discards comment-only blocks without yielding from next(). Consequently quiet reasoning/tool-call periods now fail with idle timeout waiting for SSE—especially provider overrides as low as 5–9 seconds—instead of remaining alive until the bridge's stall deadline. Keep an event-level heartbeat for Codex (for example, select the comment form only for the strict Grok surface) and add a regression test using event-level parsing rather than merely asserting that bytes were emitted.
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Update the canonical auto-registration example
After generated Grok entries switch to responses, the English auto-registration example in docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/grok-build.md:16-24 still shows api_backend = "chat_completions", while the manual examples and translated auto-registration snippets now show responses. Users inspecting the canonical example will therefore be told that opencodex writes a different backend than it actually does; update that example to match the generated block.
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1. Keep-alive re-arm (post-lidge-jun#1941): codex-rs parses at the EVENT level, so the comment-line keep-alive never re-armed its idle timer (110 RCA). The default is the typed response.heartbeat frame again; the grok surface — whose strict decoder dies on unknown variants but tolerates comments — opts into comment style via a new heartbeatStyle bridge option threaded from logCtx.surface. 2. WHAM-wins plan provenance (post-lidge-jun#1998): a JWT-derived plan could overwrite a live WHAM plan on the next token refresh or startup reconcile. plan writes now carry persisted provenance (planSource + planCredentialGeneration); a JWT write is refused while a WHAM observation exists for the same credential generation, and a token refresh (newer generation) legitimately reopens it. Steady-state refreshes stay write-free. 3. Unclassified chat-wire tier projection (post-lidge-jun#1965): removing the legacy chat serialize-collapse flipped no-config openai-chat providers from false to undefined, breaking require.serviceTier "unsupported" routing matches. An unclassified chat route whose final adapter will not forward any tier projects false again; chatServiceTier: true and Responses-wire unclassified keep the historical unknown.
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This PR lets Grok CLI use the Responses passthrough path instead of being pinned to Chat Completions, and fixes two serialization errors that blocked that switch.
Background. Grok CLI was injected with
api_backend = "chat_completions". The reason was that opencodex's SSE keep-alive emittedresponse.heartbeatas a typed SSE event — butresponse.heartbeatis not a valid Responses API event variant. Grok-build (Grok's Rust client) uses strict enum deserialization via an async-openai fork, so any unknown variant causes a hardserialization error: unknown variant response.heartbeat. Pinning Grok to Chat Completions avoided the passthrough path where these frames surfaced, at the cost of a full chat↔responses translation layer on every Grok turn.What changed.
Heartbeat is now an SSE comment line (
src/bridge.ts). A line starting with:is discarded by every eventsource parser — it re-arms the idle timer without triggering deserialization. This is the correct keep-alive mechanism and matches what the passthrough relay already does.Grok config injects
api_backend = "responses"(src/grok/inject.ts). With heartbeats fixed, Grok can finally use the Responses passthrough path, giving it the same protocol fidelity Codex already has and removing the translation layer from the hot path.Backfill
annotations: []onoutput_textcontent parts (newsrc/server/responses/responses-field-backfill.ts). The Responses spec definesannotationsas a requiredVec<Annotation>onOutputTextContent(notOption<Vec>). Some upstream relays (e.g. sub2api) omit it when empty, which is spec-non-compliant. Strict clients like Grok-build's async-openai fork fail withmissing field annotations. A new stateless SSE/JSON rewrite addsannotations: []wherever it is missing, on both the streaming and bounded-JSON passthrough paths. Existing values are always authoritative; only absent fields are added. The rewrite is unconditional and safe for all clients because the field is always valid on the wire.Surface detection for Grok on
/v1/responses(src/server/index.ts). Thex-opencodex-grokheader now setslogCtx.surface = "grok"on the Responses endpoint too, matching what the chat-completions handler already did. This restores Grok client identification in the Logs & Debug dashboard after the protocol switch.Test cleanup. Stale comments referencing grok-build's decoder and the old chat_completions pin have been corrected.
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tsc --noEmitpasses (strict).bun test tests/responses-field-backfill.test.ts tests/chat-completions-endpoint.test.ts tests/grok-config-inject.test.ts tests/grok-orphan-adoption.test.ts— 145 pass, 0 fail.origin/dev(the only conflict was incore.tswhere dev refactored theoutboundRequestBodyvariable; resolved by keeping dev's version and layering the backfill on top).Checklist
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