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  • High-priority v2.28.0 regression: the default OAuth Responses route for both xai/grok-4.5 and xai/grok-4.6 is unusable with current Codex clients. Ordinary requests advertise the client tool catalog, so xAI rejects them before inference even when the prompt does not call a tool.
  • The first failure is HTTP 422 because Codex 0.147+ emits the private tools[].type = "namespace" shape and native routed Responses passthrough forwards it unchanged. After lowering that shape, xAI exposes a second HTTP 400 for ChatGPT's private external_web_access web-search hint.
  • Lower complete namespace catalogs only on noncanonical Responses routes. The reserved functions namespace becomes bare functions; other namespaces use collision-checked <namespace>__<name> aliases. Matching declarations, selectors, replay items, JSON responses, and SSE lifecycles are translated and restored through request-local authorization maps.
  • Strip only external_web_access from routed web_search declarations while preserving the public hosted tool and its other options. Canonical OpenAI forwarding remains byte-shape native.
  • Malformed, empty, ambiguous, or colliding namespace shapes fail closed or remain untouched instead of silently dropping capabilities.

This is the transport-schema hotfix for the native Responses move in #2147. The parser-only namespace flattening in #2020 does not cover raw native passthrough, and the direct-first custom-tool work in #2213 is adjacent rather than a substitute; this compatibility pass deliberately runs after custom-tool and tool-search projection so the changes compose.

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  • bun test tests/namespace-tool-compat.test.ts tests/server-xai-responses-streaming.test.ts tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts — 86 passed, 0 failed on exact head e4508d045.
  • bun run typecheck — passed on exact head e4508d045.
  • bun run privacy:scan — passed on exact head e4508d045.
  • git diff --check — passed on exact head e4508d045.
  • Exact-head full-suite attempt on e4508d045 was stopped after 40 minutes: the isolated Bun runner remained at high CPU without test progress or a final summary. This is not recorded as a pass; repository CI/full-suite completion remains required.
  • Live non-mutating xAI OAuth canary through this branch:
    • Codex 0.147.0 → xai/grok-4.6 → HTTP success and exact final reply OCX_GROK_NAMESPACE_OK.
    • Codex 0.148.0 → xai/grok-4.5 → HTTP success and exact final reply OCX_GROK_45_OK.
  • No credentials, request bodies, or account identifiers are added to logging or persistence.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
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  • New Features

    • Added compatibility for namespace-based tools with providers that support only flat tool schemas.
    • Preserved namespace and function names in JSON and streaming responses.
    • Improved custom-tool identity handling within namespaces.
    • Improved hosted web-search compatibility by removing unsupported options for noncanonical providers.
    • Preserved malformed or incomplete namespace definitions without altering them.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented tool-name collisions and unauthorized alias restoration during request and response processing.
    • Preserved distinct identities for same-named tools in different namespaces.

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The single failure is tests/key-login-live-update.test.ts > "notify after key login pushes the merged row and keeps modelCosts on live and disk". It is pre-existing and unrelated: it reproduces byte-identically on every branch in this series, including ones that never touch CLI code, and on the integrated branch. Every gate in this series lands on exactly that one failure.

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Noncanonical Responses requests now flatten namespace tools into upstream-compatible names. The adapter records request-local aliases and removes routed-only tool fields. The server restores authorized namespace calls in SSE and JSON responses, including namespaced custom and function tools.

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Routed namespace compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Namespace rewrite and restoration utilities
src/responses/namespace-tool-compat.ts, tests/namespace-tool-compat.test.ts
Adds collision-checked namespace flattening, selector and input rewriting, request-local aliases, recursive response restoration, malformed JSON passthrough, and coverage for invalid and unauthorized cases.
Namespaced custom-tool identity handling
src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts, src/server/responses-custom-tool-repair.ts
Derives namespace-aware custom-tool wire identities and uses them for upstream conversion and response routing.
Routed request sanitization and alias metadata
src/adapters/base.ts, src/adapters/openai-responses.ts, tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts, structure/04-transports-and-sidecars.md
Noncanonical providers flatten namespace tools, remove external_web_access and defer_loading where required, and return alias metadata. Canonical OpenAI forwarding preserves native tool fields.
Server response restoration and integration validation
src/server/responses/core.ts, tests/server-xai-responses-streaming.test.ts
The server restores namespace calls in SSE and bounded JSON responses. Integration tests verify xAI outbound flattening and restored namespace fields.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6bede

This PR restores default OAuth Responses requests by flattening namespace tools and removing a private web-search field on routed requests, but the current head still carries bounded merge-readiness risks: tool restoration can silently break if duplicated naming rules drift, some valid selectors may change semantics, and certain invalid requests may return an unstructured 500 instead of a structured 400. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant OpenAIResponsesAdapter
  participant RoutedProvider
  participant ResponsesCore
  Client->>OpenAIResponsesAdapter: Responses request with namespace tools
  OpenAIResponsesAdapter->>RoutedProvider: Flattened tools and alias metadata
  RoutedProvider->>ResponsesCore: Response with flattened tool calls
  ResponsesCore->>Client: Restored namespace and tool names
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In `@src/responses/namespace-tool-compat.ts`:
- Around line 73-79: Update the namespace compatibility processing around direct
tool-name collection so each valid direct tool name is also registered in
selectors before namespace children are processed. Preserve bare selectors
unchanged when a direct tool and namespaced child share a name, while retaining
existing collision tracking; add a regression test covering direct read,
namespaced read, and bare tool_choice.

In `@tests/server-xai-responses-streaming.test.ts`:
- Around line 224-344: Add a focused non-streaming xAI Responses regression test
alongside the existing streaming test, mocking the Responses endpoint with an
application/json response containing collaboration__spawn_agent. Send a request
with stream disabled and assert the parsed client response restores the call as
namespace "collaboration" and name "spawn_agent", covering the bounded JSON
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리뷰 · 우선순위 73 / 80

v2.28 회귀로 보임. Codex 0.147+가 tools[].type = "namespace"를 보내면 네이티브 Responses 패스스루가 그대로 xAI에 가서 422 남. 그걸 낮추면 external_web_access 때문에 400. 기본 OAuth Grok 4.5/4.6이 툴 안 불러도 실패하는 거임. 핫픽스 맞음.

지금 dev src/adapters/openai-responses.ts가 namespace 타입을 읽긴 함 (:301, :341, :445). 파서 쪽 #2020 flattening은 raw native passthrough를 안 덮음. #2147 이후에 생긴 구멍. #2213 커스텀툴 투영이랑 다른 선이라서 그거 기다리지 말 것. 이 PR이 custom-tool/tool-search 다음에 돌게 짠 거 맞음.

canonical OpenAI forward는 byte-shape 유지하고, noncanonical만 namespace를 평탄화함. functions는 bare function, 나머지는 namespace__name 충돌 체크. 맵으로 선언/셀렉터/리플레이/SSE를 왕복. malformed는 fail-closed. external_web_access만 뜯고 hosted web_search는 남김. #2190 x_search랑 섞지 말 것.

draft인데 본문은 리뷰 레디라고 함. 라이브 카나리가 Codex 0.147/0.148에서 성공 문자열까지 봤음. types.ts 스플릿이 이 어댑터 핫픽스를 삼키면 리베이스하지 말고 닫고 다시 짜라. 지금은 어댑터 중심이라 스플릿이랑 겹침은 적음.

해결방안: CI 그린이면 dev 머지. #2213보다 먼저 넣어도 됨. namespace 충돌/빈 카탈로그 테스트를 깨면 되돌림. Grok 기본 경로가 다시 422 내면 블로커임.

이 댓글은 grok-bot이 작성했습니다

… boundary

The namespace boundary lowered complete groups but still let several Codex-private
shapes reach a strict gateway, each reproducing the pre-inference rejection the
boundary exists to prevent.

No `type: "namespace"` value survives now. A group the layer cannot express —
empty, nested, or with an unusable child name — is dropped along with the children
it cannot represent. Relaying the private shape costs the whole request rather
than one tool, so "preserve rather than lose a tool" was losing strictly more.

Replayed call items are lowered whether or not this turn declares the group they
name. The routed compaction turn strips the entire tool surface before the
boundary runs, so every compaction after a namespaced tool call shipped the
private `namespace` key this layer's own restoration had stamped on the item.
Only tool_choice resolves a bare name through the catalog: a history item records
which tool actually ran, so re-pointing it at a same-named namespace child would
rewrite that record on a coincidence rather than translate it.

Codex-private tool fields now come from one table instead of one bespoke pass
each, and it gains `defer_loading` — `activateDeferredTool` clears that only for
tools a `tool_search_output` already loaded, so the first turn of a deferred
catalog carried it to the wire — and the `web_search_preview` variant.

A bare declaration and a `functions` child of the same name are one logical tool:
`buildTools` flattens the reserved group without a namespace, the parser tolerates
the duplicate, and `promoteClientLoadedTools` produces it. That shape raised a
wire-name collision that escaped every catch up to the Bun handler, so an ordinary
catalog became an unstructured 500 with no request log — while the rotation-rebuild
path answered 400 for the identical throw. It is now deduped, and a genuine
collision is a typed error the passthrough maps to 400.

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Pushed bf84d17, closing the private-shape leaks this branch still had. Each one reproduced the same pre-inference rejection the branch exists to prevent, so they are the same class as the original bug rather than new scope.

No type: "namespace" survives the boundary. An empty group, a nested one, or one with an unusable child name was preserved and relayed. Preserving it does not save a tool — the gateway rejects the request, so the whole catalog is lost instead of the one shape that could not be expressed. Groups are now lowered whatever their contents, and children that cannot become a flat declaration are dropped with them.

Replayed call items are lowered whether or not this turn declares the group. buildRoutedCompactionBody strips the entire tool surface before this runs, so the plan is empty and the old identities.size === 0 early return skipped input normalization entirely — every compaction turn after a namespaced tool call shipped the private namespace key that this layer's own response restoration had stamped on the item. Same exposure for any turn whose catalog dropped the group mid-session.

Bare-name resolution is now tool_choice-only. A history item records which tool actually ran, so resolving its bare name through a same-named namespace child rewrote that record on a coincidence rather than translating it. tool_choice keeps the catalog lookup, which is what a selector wants.

Private tool fields come from one table. external_web_access had a bespoke pass; defer_loading had none, and activateDeferredTool clears it only for tools a tool_search_output already loaded — so the first turn of a deferred catalog carried it to the wire, and a child promoted out of a namespace group carried it past every existing strip. Both now live in CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS with one traversal, along with the web_search_preview variant. A new private bit is a row there rather than a fifth traversal that has to rediscover which containers to walk.

Duplicate declarations no longer 500. A tool declared both bare and under functions is one logical tool — buildTools flattens the reserved group without a namespace, the parser tolerates the duplicate, and promoteClientLoadedTools produces exactly that shape. It raised a wire-name collision that escaped every catch up to the Bun handler, so an ordinary catalog became an unstructured 500 with no request log, while the rotation-rebuild path answered 400 for the identical throw. Deduped now, and a genuine collision is a typed NamespaceToolCollisionError the passthrough maps to 400.

Also replaced the raw C0 bytes that were embedded in the name-validation regex with an explicit code-point check — same semantics, but the source no longer carries control characters that are invisible in review and easy for tooling to strip.

Verification

  • RED-first: reverting only src/ fails 5 of the new cases in namespace-tool-compat.test.ts plus 4 in openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts.
  • 728 pass / 0 fail across the namespace, responses, adapter, parser, xai, tool-search, custom-tool and compaction suites.
  • bun run typecheck clean; bun run privacy:scan passed.

Updated expectations

Three existing tests asserted the preserved-namespace behavior this changes. Two of them (hosted-tool preference stays scoped to its configured model, hosted-tool preference uses the exact model id) used an empty image_gen group only as scaffolding for a hosted-tool assertion, so they now expect the hosted tool alone; the keyed-platform test was renamed to say it drops what it cannot express. The image-gen alias map is built from the parsed body rather than the outbound one, so lowering an empty group does not affect image-gen restoration.

Still open on the Grok path

Not in this branch, tracked separately: #2229 (reasoning items carrying encrypted_content are reshaped on the response leg) and #2228 (compaction blobs relayed to a backend that did not mint them). Identity-scoped replay — model switch, account switch, combo rotation, previous_response_id expansion — remains unguarded for native blobs and needs per-conversation provenance state.

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Part of #2240 — namespace tool groups and private tool fields — the first-turn 422/400.

That issue tracks the whole 2.28.0 Grok regression; this PR is one layer of it, so it deliberately does not carry a closing keyword. The failures are sequential — each one is only reachable once the previous is fixed — so the issue should stay open until every linked PR lands.

…stom calls by wire identity

Review found two defects in the flattening layer; both are fixed here.

Deduplication depended on declaration order. A bare declaration and a `functions`
child of the same name are one logical tool, but which one owned the wire name —
and therefore which one was emitted — followed whichever container the rewrite
reached first. The plan now records the bare wire names from the complete catalog
and the bare declaration always wins, so the same catalog flattens identically
whichever container declares it.

Custom-call restoration used the wrong coordinate. A custom tool inside a
non-`functions` namespace is lowered twice on the way out (custom to function,
then renamed to `<ns>__<name>`), while on the way back namespace restore runs
first and replaces the wire name with the bare one. Custom restore then matched
that bare name and could convert an unrelated same-named function call, sending
Codex a `custom_tool_call` with the wrong payload shape.

Converted custom tools are now tracked by their final upstream wire name, and
restoration reconstructs that identity from the `{namespace, name}` an earlier
rewrite restored. A namespaced custom and a namespaced function sharing a child
name now round-trip to their own item types, on both the JSON and SSE paths.

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Maintainer status on exact head bf84d17: the direction remains accepted and this is the preferred implementation for the first-turn #2240 failure. It is not mergeable yet: the PR is still draft, the readiness checklist is 2/4, and the branch is currently 24 commits behind dev after the latest merges. Please synchronize with current dev, rerun the full exact-head CI, and mark it ready. I will then do the final exact-head approval/merge check.

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Amends the 260820 unit with the audited (3-round sol-medium, round-3 PASS) roadmap: 100 chat-default regression as an atomic #2227+tier-policy unit with a 5-row regression matrix and the E2E reasoning-streaming proof; 110 global cross-train merge order and 21-PR triage matrix (#2072 deferred, #2217 RESHAPE); 120 sidecar L1-L9 merge execution with the fresh blocker inventory; 130 atomic xai Responses opt-in switch (single provider id, auth-mode-scoped sections, virtual PATCH field); 140 release prep; 150 blocking lidge final gate. DeepSeek explicitly out of scope per user decision.

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62-71: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consolidate the duplicated external_web_access description.

Lines 62-65 and lines 67-71 describe one mechanism twice. Lines 62-65 state that external_web_access is removed from either web-search variant through CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS. Lines 67-71 state that the same noncanonical boundary strips external_web_access and that canonical forwarding preserves it.

Both blocks changed in this PR, so a later edit to the table must be mirrored in two paragraphs. That is the drift the table comment in src/adapters/openai-responses.ts lines 131-133 was written to avoid.

Keep the table paragraph as the single description of the mechanism. Reduce the second paragraph to the xAI evidence that motivated the row, since that fact is not stated in lines 62-65.

📝 Proposed consolidation
 Codex-private tool fields are removed at the same boundary from one table
 (`CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS`) rather than one bespoke pass each: `external_web_access` on either
 web-search variant, and `defer_loading` on any declaration, which `activateDeferredTool` clears only
 for tools a `tool_search_output` already loaded. A new private bit is a row there.
+Canonical OpenAI forwarding preserves both fields.
 
-The same noncanonical boundary strips ChatGPT's private `external_web_access` bit from routed
-`web_search` declarations. The public tool remains enabled and all other options remain intact;
-canonical OpenAI forwarding preserves the bit. xAI's public Responses schema enables browsing by
-the presence of `web_search` and rejects the private argument, so forwarding it made the first
-post-namespace request fail with HTTP 400.
+The `external_web_access` row has direct upstream evidence: xAI's public Responses schema enables
+browsing by the presence of `web_search` and rejects the private argument, so forwarding it made
+the first post-namespace request fail with HTTP 400. The public tool stays enabled and every other
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In `@src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts`:
- Around line 20-22: Centralize the shared wire-name rule: in
src/responses/namespace-tool-compat.ts lines 77-79, move and export
loweredWireName and BUILTIN_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE from a shared module such as
tool-groups.ts; in src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts lines 20-22, remove the
local helper and constant and import and use the shared helper. Ensure both
layers call the same implementation.

In `@src/server/responses/core.ts`:
- Around line 2537-2545: Update the passthrough branch’s catch around
buildRequest so NamespaceToolCollisionError continues using its distinct
structured 400 response, while every other thrown error is also converted to a
structured 400 invalid_request_error using redactSecretString(error.message)
instead of being rethrown.

In `@tests/namespace-tool-compat.test.ts`:
- Around line 139-152: Add a focused separator-ambiguity regression test beside
the existing NUL test, using representable names where namespace a with child
b__c and namespace a__b with child c both lower to a__b__c. Assert that
rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream throws NamespaceToolCollisionError,
preserving the fail-closed collision behavior.

In `@tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts`:
- Around line 877-914: Add coverage in the “drops Codex-private tool fields from
routed declarations” test for the CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS toolTypes
restriction: include a function tool with external_web_access and assert that
field is preserved, exercising the non-matching-tool branch. Also update the
canonical-forward assertion to verify defer_loading is preserved on the
canonical tool, covering both sides of the relevant table entries.

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In `@structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md`:
- Around line 62-71: Consolidate the documentation so the paragraph describing
CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS remains the sole explanation of external_web_access
stripping and canonical preservation. Reduce the following paragraph to only the
xAI Responses schema behavior and HTTP 400 motivation, removing repeated
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function customToolWireName(namespace: string | undefined, name: string): string {
return namespace === BUILTIN_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE ? name : namespacedToolName(namespace, name);
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

One wire-name rule is now implemented twice. customToolWireName and loweredWireName are byte-for-byte the same rule, and each file declares its own private BUILTIN_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE = "functions" constant. These two copies form a single contract: the namespace layer produces the wire name, and the custom-tool layer must reproduce it exactly to match a restoration entry. If one copy changes and the other does not, the mismatch is silent — no throw, no log, just a custom_tool_call that is never restored and reaches the client as a function_call.

  • src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts#L20-L22: delete the local customToolWireName and the local BUILTIN_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE, and import the shared helper instead.
  • src/responses/namespace-tool-compat.ts#L77-L79: move loweredWireName and the BUILTIN_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE constant into a shared module (for example src/responses/tool-groups.ts, which both files already import), export it, and call it from both layers.
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  • src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts#L20-L22 (this comment)
  • src/responses/namespace-tool-compat.ts#L77-L79
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In `@src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts` around lines 20 - 22, Centralize the
shared wire-name rule: in src/responses/namespace-tool-compat.ts lines 77-79,
move and export loweredWireName and BUILTIN_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE from a shared
module such as tool-groups.ts; in src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts lines
20-22, remove the local helper and constant and import and use the shared
helper. Ensure both layers call the same implementation.

Comment on lines +2537 to 2545
// A tool catalog this proxy cannot lower onto one wire namespace is a client input error, and
// the rotation-rebuild and bridged paths already answer 400 for the identical throw. Rethrowing
// it here escaped every catch up to the Bun handler, so the same request produced an
// unstructured 500 — and no request log — depending only on whether a rotation ran first.
if (error instanceof NamespaceToolCollisionError) {
return formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(error.message));
}
throw error;
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Map the remaining buildRequest throws on this branch too.

The new catch fixes the collision case. It leaves the general case that the comment on lines 2539-2540 describes.

Line 2544 rethrows every other error class. On the passthrough branch that error still escapes to the Bun handler as an unstructured 500 with no request log, which is the exact failure mode this catch was added to remove. Every other buildRequest call site in this file already maps an arbitrary throw to a structured 400:

  • Line 2813, the OAuth-401 rebuild: formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(msg)).
  • Line 3933, the non-passthrough initial build: same mapping.
  • Line 4041, the recovery rebuild: same mapping.

So the passthrough branch is now the only site that rethrows. A provider whose declarations trip a different validation error in the adapter still produces the 500-without-a-log behavior, and only on this one path.

Add the same fallback mapping here. Keep the typed collision branch first so its message stays distinguishable.

🛠️ Proposed fallback mapping
       if (error instanceof NamespaceToolCollisionError) {
         return formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(error.message));
       }
-      throw error;
+      // Every other buildRequest call site in this file maps an arbitrary throw to a structured
+      // 400. Rethrowing here is what produced the unstructured 500 described above, so the
+      // passthrough branch must not be the one path that still escapes.
+      if (options.abortSignal?.aborted) return clientCancelledResponse();
+      const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+      return formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(message));
     }
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// A tool catalog this proxy cannot lower onto one wire namespace is a client input error, and
// the rotation-rebuild and bridged paths already answer 400 for the identical throw. Rethrowing
// it here escaped every catch up to the Bun handler, so the same request produced an
// unstructured 500 — and no request log — depending only on whether a rotation ran first.
if (error instanceof NamespaceToolCollisionError) {
return formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(error.message));
}
throw error;
}
// A tool catalog this proxy cannot lower onto one wire namespace is a client input error, and
// the rotation-rebuild and bridged paths already answer 400 for the identical throw. Rethrowing
// it here escaped every catch up to the Bun handler, so the same request produced an
// unstructured 500 — and no request log — depending only on whether a rotation ran first.
if (error instanceof NamespaceToolCollisionError) {
return formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(error.message));
}
// Every other buildRequest call site in this file maps an arbitrary throw to a structured
// 400. Rethrowing here is what produced the unstructured 500 described above, so the
// passthrough branch must not be the one path that still escapes.
if (options.abortSignal?.aborted) return clientCancelledResponse();
const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
return formatErrorResponse(400, "invalid_request_error", redactSecretString(message));
}
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In `@src/server/responses/core.ts` around lines 2537 - 2545, Update the
passthrough branch’s catch around buildRequest so NamespaceToolCollisionError
continues using its distinct structured 400 response, while every other thrown
error is also converted to a structured 400 invalid_request_error using
redactSecretString(error.message) instead of being rethrown.

Comment on lines +139 to +152
// The identity key joins namespace and name with NUL, so a name carrying one could otherwise
// forge another tool's identity and silently take over its wire name.
test("drops children whose names cannot become a wire name", () => {
const NUL = String.fromCharCode(0);
const body = rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream({
tools: [
{ type: "namespace", name: "a", tools: [{ type: "function", name: `b${NUL}c` }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: `a${NUL}b`, tools: [{ type: "function", name: "c" }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: "ok", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "run" }] },
],
}).body as { tools: Array<Record<string, unknown>> };

expect(body.tools).toEqual([{ type: "function", name: "ok__run" }]);
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a separator-ambiguity case next to the NUL case.

This test locks the NUL identity-forgery path. The __ separator has the same class of ambiguity, and it is reachable with names that isRepresentableName accepts. Namespace a with child b__c and namespace a__b with child c both lower to the wire name a__b__c, but loweredIdentity keeps them distinct, so buildRewritePlan must throw NamespaceToolCollisionError. That behavior is the fail-closed guarantee for a name shape a client can actually send, and no test pins it today.

The tests directory rule asks for a focused regression test near the existing tests for the subsystem, so this belongs beside the NUL case.

💚 Proposed regression test
+  // The `__` separator is ambiguous in the same way NUL is, but with names this layer accepts:
+  // `a` + `b__c` and `a__b` + `c` both lower to `a__b__c`, so the plan must fail closed.
+  test("rejects two namespace children that lower to one wire name", () => {
+    expect(() => rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream({
+      tools: [
+        { type: "namespace", name: "a", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "b__c" }] },
+        { type: "namespace", name: "a__b", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "c" }] },
+      ],
+    })).toThrow(NamespaceToolCollisionError);
+  });
+

As per path instructions, "A behavior change in src/ should come with a focused regression test near the existing tests for that subsystem."

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// The identity key joins namespace and name with NUL, so a name carrying one could otherwise
// forge another tool's identity and silently take over its wire name.
test("drops children whose names cannot become a wire name", () => {
const NUL = String.fromCharCode(0);
const body = rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream({
tools: [
{ type: "namespace", name: "a", tools: [{ type: "function", name: `b${NUL}c` }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: `a${NUL}b`, tools: [{ type: "function", name: "c" }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: "ok", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "run" }] },
],
}).body as { tools: Array<Record<string, unknown>> };
expect(body.tools).toEqual([{ type: "function", name: "ok__run" }]);
});
// The identity key joins namespace and name with NUL, so a name carrying one could otherwise
// forge another tool's identity and silently take over its wire name.
test("drops children whose names cannot become a wire name", () => {
const NUL = String.fromCharCode(0);
const body = rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream({
tools: [
{ type: "namespace", name: "a", tools: [{ type: "function", name: `b${NUL}c` }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: `a${NUL}b`, tools: [{ type: "function", name: "c" }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: "ok", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "run" }] },
],
}).body as { tools: Array<Record<string, unknown>> };
expect(body.tools).toEqual([{ type: "function", name: "ok__run" }]);
});
// The `__` separator is ambiguous in the same way NUL is, but with names this layer accepts:
// `a` + `b__c` and `a__b` + `c` both lower to `a__b__c`, so the plan must fail closed.
test("rejects two namespace children that lower to one wire name", () => {
expect(() => rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream({
tools: [
{ type: "namespace", name: "a", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "b__c" }] },
{ type: "namespace", name: "a__b", tools: [{ type: "function", name: "c" }] },
],
})).toThrow(NamespaceToolCollisionError);
});
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In `@tests/namespace-tool-compat.test.ts` around lines 139 - 152, Add a focused
separator-ambiguity regression test beside the existing NUL test, using
representable names where namespace a with child b__c and namespace a__b with
child c both lower to a__b__c. Assert that
rewriteRoutedNamespaceToolsForUpstream throws NamespaceToolCollisionError,
preserving the fail-closed collision behavior.

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Comment on lines +877 to +914
test("drops Codex-private tool fields from routed declarations", () => {
const adapter = createResponsesPassthroughAdapter({
adapter: "openai-responses",
baseUrl: "https://api.x.ai/v1",
authMode: "key" as const,
apiKey: "xai-test",
});
const request = adapter.buildRequest({
modelId: "grok-4.6",
context: { messages: [] },
stream: true,
options: {},
_rawBody: {
model: "grok-4.6",
tools: [
{ type: "web_search_preview", external_web_access: true },
{
type: "namespace",
name: "workspace",
tools: [{ type: "function", name: "read", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
},
],
input: [{
type: "additional_tools",
tools: [{ type: "function", name: "loose", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
}],
},
}, { headers: new Headers() });
const body = JSON.parse(request.body) as {
tools: Record<string, unknown>[];
input: Array<{ tools: Record<string, unknown>[] }>;
};

expect(body.tools[0]).toEqual({ type: "web_search_preview" });
expect(body.tools[1]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "workspace__read" });
expect(body.tools[1]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
expect(body.input[0].tools[0]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the toolTypes restriction in CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS.

This test proves removal. It does not prove the restriction that makes the table entry meaningful.

src/adapters/openai-responses.ts line 137 scopes external_web_access to web_search and web_search_preview, and line 154 is the branch that skips the removal for any other tool type. No assertion here exercises that branch, so a future edit that drops toolTypes and strips external_web_access from every tool would still pass.

Add one function tool carrying external_web_access and assert the field survives. Add a defer_loading assertion to the canonical-forward test above so the canonical side of both rows is pinned, not only external_web_access.

🧪 Proposed additional assertions
         tools: [
           { type: "web_search_preview", external_web_access: true },
+          // `external_web_access` is private only on the web-search variants; a function tool
+          // that happens to declare it keeps it, which is what `toolTypes` encodes.
+          { type: "function", name: "keeps_field", external_web_access: true, parameters: {} },
           {
             type: "namespace",
             name: "workspace",
             tools: [{ type: "function", name: "read", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
           },
         ],
     expect(body.tools[0]).toEqual({ type: "web_search_preview" });
-    expect(body.tools[1]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "workspace__read" });
-    expect(body.tools[1]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
+    expect(body.tools[1]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "keeps_field", external_web_access: true });
+    expect(body.tools[2]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "workspace__read" });
+    expect(body.tools[2]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
     expect(body.input[0].tools[0]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
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test("drops Codex-private tool fields from routed declarations", () => {
const adapter = createResponsesPassthroughAdapter({
adapter: "openai-responses",
baseUrl: "https://api.x.ai/v1",
authMode: "key" as const,
apiKey: "xai-test",
});
const request = adapter.buildRequest({
modelId: "grok-4.6",
context: { messages: [] },
stream: true,
options: {},
_rawBody: {
model: "grok-4.6",
tools: [
{ type: "web_search_preview", external_web_access: true },
{
type: "namespace",
name: "workspace",
tools: [{ type: "function", name: "read", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
},
],
input: [{
type: "additional_tools",
tools: [{ type: "function", name: "loose", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
}],
},
}, { headers: new Headers() });
const body = JSON.parse(request.body) as {
tools: Record<string, unknown>[];
input: Array<{ tools: Record<string, unknown>[] }>;
};
expect(body.tools[0]).toEqual({ type: "web_search_preview" });
expect(body.tools[1]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "workspace__read" });
expect(body.tools[1]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
expect(body.input[0].tools[0]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
});
test("drops Codex-private tool fields from routed declarations", () => {
const adapter = createResponsesPassthroughAdapter({
adapter: "openai-responses",
baseUrl: "https://api.x.ai/v1",
authMode: "key" as const,
apiKey: "xai-test",
});
const request = adapter.buildRequest({
modelId: "grok-4.6",
context: { messages: [] },
stream: true,
options: {},
_rawBody: {
model: "grok-4.6",
tools: [
{ type: "web_search_preview", external_web_access: true },
// `external_web_access` is private only on the web-search variants; a function tool
// that happens to declare it keeps it, which is what `toolTypes` encodes.
{ type: "function", name: "keeps_field", external_web_access: true, parameters: {} },
{
type: "namespace",
name: "workspace",
tools: [{ type: "function", name: "read", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
},
],
input: [{
type: "additional_tools",
tools: [{ type: "function", name: "loose", defer_loading: true, parameters: {} }],
}],
},
}, { headers: new Headers() });
const body = JSON.parse(request.body) as {
tools: Record<string, unknown>[];
input: Array<{ tools: Record<string, unknown>[] }>;
};
expect(body.tools[0]).toEqual({ type: "web_search_preview" });
expect(body.tools[1]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "keeps_field", external_web_access: true });
expect(body.tools[2]).toMatchObject({ type: "function", name: "workspace__read" });
expect(body.tools[2]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
expect(body.input[0].tools[0]).not.toHaveProperty("defer_loading");
});
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In `@tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts` around lines 877 - 914, Add
coverage in the “drops Codex-private tool fields from routed declarations” test
for the CANONICAL_ONLY_TOOL_FIELDS toolTypes restriction: include a function
tool with external_web_access and assert that field is preserved, exercising the
non-matching-tool branch. Also update the canonical-forward assertion to verify
defer_loading is preserved on the canonical tool, covering both sides of the
relevant table entries.

Source: Path instructions

lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…global order, opt-in switch)

Amends the 260820 unit with the audited (3-round sol-medium, round-3 PASS) roadmap: 100 chat-default regression as an atomic #2227+tier-policy unit with a 5-row regression matrix and the E2E reasoning-streaming proof; 110 global cross-train merge order and 21-PR triage matrix (#2072 deferred, #2217 RESHAPE); 120 sidecar L1-L9 merge execution with the fresh blocker inventory; 130 atomic xai Responses opt-in switch (single provider id, auth-mode-scoped sections, virtual PATCH field); 140 release prep; 150 blocking lidge final gate. DeepSeek explicitly out of scope per user decision.
lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…#2245)

* feat(web-search): exa executor and the non-LLM search lane (#2188 L9)

runExaWebSearch POSTs api.exa.ai/search with the operator key and maps
ranked results to a digest the routed model synthesizes from. The key
never rides the SidecarPlan — core.ts reads it from config at unpack
time — and the executor scrubs the literal key from every error string
(pattern-based redaction cannot know an arbitrary operator key;
canary-tested). Plan, loop, and registry arms fail closed without the
key. docs-site gains the explicit-only backend table.

* fix(web-search): scrub the exa key before truncating error bodies

Reviewer blocker (L9 round 2): error(t.slice(0,200)) truncated before the literal-key scrub, so a key straddling the 200-char boundary left an unscrubbable prefix in the returned tool error. Scrub first, then slice. Adds truncation-boundary and fetch-rejection canaries; 9/9 focused tests, tsc and privacy:scan green.

* docs(devlog): integration merge-train roadmap 100-150 (chat default, global order, opt-in switch)

Amends the 260820 unit with the audited (3-round sol-medium, round-3 PASS) roadmap: 100 chat-default regression as an atomic #2227+tier-policy unit with a 5-row regression matrix and the E2E reasoning-streaming proof; 110 global cross-train merge order and 21-PR triage matrix (#2072 deferred, #2217 RESHAPE); 120 sidecar L1-L9 merge execution with the fresh blocker inventory; 130 atomic xai Responses opt-in switch (single provider id, auth-mode-scoped sections, virtual PATCH field); 140 release prep; 150 blocking lidge final gate. DeepSeek explicitly out of scope per user decision.

* docs(devlog): fold C-gate blockers into roadmap 100-150

Split the opt-in DTO into a write boolean vs read tri-state; record the concrete #2238 (3) and #2242 (5) review blockers in doc 120; recast doc 150 as the final aggregate gate with the full GUI/i18n/docs chain; replace temporal API-key rows with exact wire+tier assertions; state the explicit wp9->wp8->wp11->wp10 execution sequence.

* docs(devlog): doc 100 API-key opt-in row preserves current tier forwarding

C-gate round 2: current dev forwards caller service_tier verbatim on the API-key + explicit openai-responses route (fastPolicyForModel proof). The tier drop is an OAuth-route policy only; the API-key row now states preserve-current semantics, consistent with doc 130.

* docs(devlog): wp9 execution record — all six chain blockers resolved and pushed
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Superseded by #2254, which carries this change plus the rest of the series as a single review target.

These eight PRs had to merge in a strict order, and the later four each carried the whole series as their diff (up to 27 files / +2830), so reviewing them in isolation was not actually possible. #2254 has the same 16 commits with each unit's evidence intact in its message, and the combined test gate.

Nothing is dropped — the branch is unchanged and still pushed, so this can be reopened if a split is preferred after all.

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