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fix(responses): route raw reasoning through the expandable summary channel (bridge + passthrough) - #2007

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Codex renders the expandable reasoning trace from the Responses reasoning item's summary[] channel only. Chat-completions providers (DeepSeek-style) deliver thinking as raw reasoning_content, which the proxy previously shaped as summary: [] + content: [{reasoning_text}] - so routed-model turns showed the "Worked for Xs" timer with nothing to expand (issue #45).

This PR routes raw reasoning through the expandable summary channel on both wires that carry it:

  1. Streaming/buffered bridge (src/bridge.ts): reasoning_raw_delta now emits response.reasoning_summary_text.delta (+ summary_part.added / summary_text.done / summary_part.done parity with the thinking path), and reasoning items are emitted with summary: [{summary_text}] instead of content. Internal state (replay-cache handoff rawReasoningForNextToolCall, hidden-envelope suppression) is untouched, so DeepSeek tool-call replay keeps working.
  2. Native-Responses passthrough relay (src/server/responses/core.ts + new responses-reasoning-summary-rewrite.ts): DeepSeek's /responses endpoint emits content-channel reasoning itself, bypassing the bridge entirely (registry modelWireDefaults routes Responses inbound straight out). A payload rewrite now converts response.reasoning_text.delta/.done to the summary channel and moves reasoning items' content into summary for output_item.* and response.completed payloads. Gated on statelessResponses / preserveReasoningContentModels providers (currently DeepSeek); a no-op for native OpenAI upstreams that already emit summaries.

Why this needed both paths

The original fix for #45 (commit 3183154509, June 29) only touched the bridge. Since then the bridge was rewritten and, separately, DeepSeek moved to the native Responses passthrough wire (verified 2026-08-13), so the bridge fix alone no longer covers DeepSeek today. Verified live against deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash: without this change codex exec --json receives no reasoning content at all; with it, the full thinking text arrives through the summary channel.

Replay compatibility

  • Inbound parsing already accepts summary || content (responses/parser.ts), and DeepSeek's Responses API accepts summary-shaped reasoning input items (verified live, including a tool-call continuation round that completes without the historical 400).
  • The bridge replay cache (reasoning-replay-cache.ts) is fed from the same internal state as before; only the wire shape changed.
  • hideThinkingSummary still suppresses raw reasoning identically to the thinking path (envelope-only round-trip).

Tests

  • tests/bridge.test.ts: streaming raw reasoning now asserts the summary channel; added hideThinkingSummary parity tests for raw reasoning (streaming + non-streaming).
  • tests/responses-reasoning-summary-rewrite.test.ts: delta/done/item/completed rewrites, no-op cases, malformed payloads, route gating.
  • bun test tests/bridge.test.ts tests/bridge-reasoning-replay-batch.test.ts tests/deepseek-reasoning-replay-gaps.test.ts tests/reasoning-replay-identity.test.ts tests/openai-chat-eof.test.ts tests/empty-completion-guard.test.ts tests/empty-completion-hardening.test.ts tests/responses-reasoning-summary-rewrite.test.ts - all pass.
  • bun x tsc --noEmit - clean.

Closes #45 (display side).

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  • New Features

    • Improved reasoning summary handling across streaming and non-streaming Responses.
    • Added compatibility for providers using alternate reasoning channels.
    • Preserved encrypted raw reasoning when thinking summaries are hidden.
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    • Reasoning content is now correctly represented as summary text instead of visible response content.
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Raw reasoning now uses Responses summary events and summary_text. Selected providers and models receive content-channel reasoning rewrites for streaming and buffered Responses responses. Tests cover visible, hidden, preserved, malformed, and provider-specific reasoning payloads.

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Reasoning summary compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bridge reasoning summary events
src/bridge.ts, tests/bridge.test.ts
Raw reasoning uses Responses summary entries, response.reasoning_summary_text.delta, and summary_text. Tests cover streaming, buffered, and hidden reasoning.
Content-channel reasoning rewrite and routing
src/server/responses-reasoning-summary-rewrite.ts
The rewrite converts reasoning events and items from content to summary, preserves sequence metadata, handles nested and bare responses, and matches stateless providers or configured models case-insensitively.
Responses integration and validation
src/server/responses/core.ts, tests/responses-reasoning-summary-rewrite.test.ts, tests/responses-reasoning-summary-passthrough.test.ts
Responses core applies normalization to SSE and bounded JSON responses. Tests cover conversion, preservation, malformed payload passthrough, string rewriting, routing, and DeepSeek behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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The change routes raw reasoning into the expandable summary channel while preserving suppression behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Provider as Provider SSE or JSON response
  participant Rewrite as Reasoning summary rewrite
  participant Core as Responses core
  participant Client as Codex client
  Provider->>Rewrite: Send content-channel reasoning payload
  Rewrite->>Core: Return summary-channel payload
  Core->>Client: Forward Responses reasoning summary events
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In `@src/server/responses-reasoning-summary-rewrite.ts`:
- Around line 35-41: Update reasoningItemToSummaryShape so it returns the
original reasoning item when content is absent or contains no reasoning_text
part, preserving any existing summary; only rewrite items with reasoning_text
content. Add a regression test covering a reasoning item with summary and no
content.

In `@src/server/responses/core.ts`:
- Around line 2788-2790: Update the Responses passthrough flow around
createReasoningSummaryChannelPayloadRewrite to expose an object-level rewrite
helper and apply it to clientJson before both plain JSON serialization and
forced JSON-to-SSE reframing. Preserve existing event-stream behavior, and add
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2789-2791: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep hideThinkingSummary effective for passthrough responses.

Lines 2789-2791 and Lines 3009-3011 enable summary rewriting only from route capability. If parsed.options.hideThinkingSummary is true, both paths still convert upstream reasoning into visible summary-channel output.

Gate both rewrites with parsed.options.hideThinkingSummary !== true. Add one SSE test and one bounded-JSON test for a selected provider with hidden thinking enabled.

Proposed fix
-        routeUsesContentChannelReasoning(route.provider, route.modelId)
+        parsed.options.hideThinkingSummary !== true
+          && routeUsesContentChannelReasoning(route.provider, route.modelId)
           ? createReasoningSummaryChannelPayloadRewrite()
           : undefined,

-        return routeUsesContentChannelReasoning(route.provider, route.modelId)
+        return parsed.options.hideThinkingSummary !== true
+          && routeUsesContentChannelReasoning(route.provider, route.modelId)
           ? rewriteReasoningSummaryInJsonString(modelRewritten)
           : modelRewritten;

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parsed.options.hideThinkingSummary !== true, alongside the existing route
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- Around line 2789-2791: Gate the reasoning summary rewrites in both affected
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…annel

Codex renders the expandable reasoning trace from the Responses reasoning
item summary[] channel only. Chat-completions providers (DeepSeek-style)
deliver thinking as raw reasoning_content, which the bridge and the native
Responses passthrough both shaped as summary:[] + content:[reasoning_text],
so routed turns showed the timer with nothing to expand (issue lidge-jun#45).

Route reasoning_raw_delta through the same summary path as thinking_delta
in the streaming and buffered bridges, and add a payload rewrite for the
native-Responses passthrough (DeepSeek /responses) that converts
reasoning_text.delta/done and reasoning item content into the summary
channel. Internal replay-cache handoff and hideThinkingSummary suppression
are preserved.

Tests: bridge summary-channel shape + hide parity, rewrite unit tests,
replay-cache regressions all pass; tsc clean.
…model gate

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- Apply the summary-channel rewrite to the bounded-JSON passthrough path too
  (plain JSON answers and forced JSON-to-SSE reframing both build from
  clientJson), handling both the SSE completed-event shape and the bare
  response document shape DeepSeek returns for stream:false.
- Return the original reasoning item untouched when it carries no
  reasoning_text content, so summary-channel items are never cleared.
- Normalize both sides of the preserveReasoningContentModels match so
  mixed-case configured ids still gate the rewrite.
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…writes

CodeRabbit follow-up: when the client asked for hidden thinking
(no reasoning.summary in the request), the passthrough summary-channel
rewrite must not surface upstream reasoning as visible summary output.
Gate both the SSE payload rewrite and the bounded-JSON rewrite on
parsed.options.hideThinkingSummary !== true, and cover the four
hidden/visible x SSE/JSON combinations with handleResponses integration
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fix(responses): route raw reasoning through the expandable summary channel (lands #2007)
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