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Codex 0.153's experimental context management requires the built-in OpenAI provider base URL to end in /backend-api/codex. OpenCodex injects /v1, so enabling the feature does not expose the native history/notes tools; changing the path alone then reaches missing endpoints.

  • When the feature is explicitly enabled, inject the backend path only for the marker-managed built-in loopback route. Preserve user-owned URLs, remote custom-provider injection, original /v1 routes and realtime sideband overrides. Malformed TOML leaves the feature disabled.
  • Route the backend alias through existing admission, origin and WebSocket handling. Relay the ten native history/notes POST endpoints only through the canonical ChatGPT forward provider, preserving approved protocol headers, encrypted payloads and upstream errors without retrying notes writes.
  • Materialize upstream credentials using trusted listener admission. A proxy bearer is replaced with the selected stored credential; validate the final assembled headers so a proxy admission credential cannot go upstream.
  • Record bounded, process-local ownership from the account and outbound headers of the accepted model attempt, after refresh/failover. History follows that physical owner, including explicit account selection, rather than choosing the current active account. Same-account token refresh remains valid. Unknown, expired, evicted, restart-lost, replaced or conflicting ownership fails closed; caller-owned sessions cannot be taken over with a proxy bearer.
  • Document the forward contract, ownership limits and checkpoint transition in English and Korean. Existing sessions are not backfilled, and this does not migrate server-side history between accounts.

The authenticated relay still requires maintainer security review before merge. The documentation, malformed-TOML and initial admission fixes incorporate nbbb26's contribution, credited in the commit.

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Final revision 8e0b53b:

  • Import-connected regression (bun scripts/test.ts --changed=dev, resolved comparison merge base bf58ef1824e7b827b2a6bc1a5effb5d36ce80180): 11,463 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed across 600 files.
  • Real core-to-relay regression: 4 passed; covers explicit A while active B, failed A followed by successful B, Direct caller ownership, and Direct proxy-bearer substitution. Relay tests cover same-identity refresh, identity replacement and restart-lost ownership.
  • Management listener regression: 42 passed, including both authenticated backend prefixes rejecting unknown ownership without upstream I/O.
  • Owner registry: 17 passed, covering root/child identity, conflicts, destination isolation, caller credentials and bounds.
  • Typecheck, staged privacy scan and diff check passed. Documentation build generated 425 pages.

The earlier implementation's full run passed 19,239 tests with 14 skips, but that result predates this revision and is not its full-suite verification. Earlier real CLI smoke tests likewise predate the ownership registry; final runtime activation and real-account smoke verification remain separate from these simulated regressions.

Hosted CI on the previous head was awaiting maintainer action. This remains a draft; local checks are not a claim that hosted CI is green.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Documentation updated.
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Adds opt-in Codex context management support. The proxy rewrites managed loopback configuration, aliases Codex backend routes, forwards native history and notes requests, preserves authentication and upstream responses, and adds integration tests and documentation.

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Codex context management

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Codex URL compatibility and configuration injection
src/codex/context-compat.ts, src/codex/inject.ts, tests/codex-integration/context-compat.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-inject.test.ts
Adds backend-prefix URL conversion and recognized context endpoints. Rewrites only marker-managed loopback configuration when experimental mode is enabled.
Native context-history forwarding and route admission
src/server/context-history.ts, src/server/index.ts, src/server/live.ts
Adds authenticated POST forwarding for history and notes endpoints. It validates requests, selects Codex account context, applies protocol headers, limits upstream handling, and maps failures.
Integration and forwarding validation
tests/server/context-history.test.ts, tests/server/server-live.test.ts, tests/server/server-management-auth.test.ts
Tests request validation, account selection, header handling, error mapping, retry behavior, backend aliases, and live-route compatibility.
Documentation and test ownership mapping
docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
Documents experimental setup, route behavior, account affinity, disabling steps, and test-domain mappings.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 31944

Standard bearer-authenticated context requests can fail, and an incomplete fix could expose the proxy credential upstream. Malformed Codex configuration can also prevent managed injection. Resolve these issues before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Codex
  participant LoopbackServer
  participant ContextHistory
  participant ChatGPTSidecar
  Codex->>LoopbackServer: POST /backend-api/codex/alpha/history/v2/*
  LoopbackServer->>ContextHistory: Validate admission and request
  ContextHistory->>ChatGPTSidecar: Forward context request
  ChatGPTSidecar-->>ContextHistory: Return status, headers, and body
  ContextHistory-->>Codex: Relay result or mapped error
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md`:
- Around line 79-82: Update the Codex context-history documentation around the
ChatGPT forward-provider section to explicitly reference the built-in openai
provider and openai-responses adapter. Document that direct uses the current
login, pool selects a Codex account, only authorization, ChatGPT account ID, and
approved OpenAI beta/originator/session headers are forwarded, while
openai-apikey and custom or noncanonical Responses providers do not use Codex
accounts; state that affinity, cooldown, and retry behavior is unchanged and
forward requests do not use same-key 429 replay.

In `@src/codex/context-compat.ts`:
- Line 28: Update contextCompatibleBaseLine to catch malformed TOML parsing
errors from Bun.TOML.parse and return the original line unchanged. Preserve
user-owned openai_base_url values and disabled context-management behavior, and
add a regression test in the Codex injection integration tests.

In `@src/server/context-history.ts`:
- Line 44: Update the context-history admission flow around
validateForwardAdmissionCredential so bearer admissions are passed into context
selection with substituteMainCredentialForDirect enabled and materialized with
substituteMainCredential enabled. Preserve a final no-forwarding check, ensuring
context validation executes and the upstream never receives the data-plane key.

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이 드래프트 PR은 Codex 0.153의 실험용 context management를 OpenCodex 루프백에서도 쓰이게 하려는 작업입니다. 공식 Codex는 내장 OpenAI provider base URL이 /backend-api/codex로 끝나야 history/notes 도구가 살아납니다. 지금 dev HEAD bf58ef182의 주입은 /v1을 붙이기 때문에, 사용자가 features.context_management.experimental_mode만 켜도 네이티브 history/notes가 안 보이거나, 경로만 바꾸면 없는 엔드포인트로 갑니다.

변경은 세 층입니다. src/codex/context-compat.ts가 실험 모드일 때 마커 관리 내장 루프백에 backend 경로를 넣고, 사용자 소유 URL·원격 커스텀·realtime sideband는 건드리지 않습니다. codexCompatibleUrl로 backend alias를 다시 /v1/... admission 쪽으로 맞춥니다. src/server/context-history.ts는 notes/history POST 허용 목록만 받아, 기존 ChatGPT forward 계정 선택·자격 증명 materialize로 그대로 중계합니다. context.session_id로 로컬 root 친화도를 잡고, 암호화 인자·프로토콜 헤더를 보존하며, notes 쓰기 실패로 모델 계정 헬스를 깎지 않고, 쿼터 복구 프로브도 history 트래픽으로 끝내지 않는다고 적혀 있습니다. delete_file.. 경로는 허용 목록 밖(테스트도 404/undefined)입니다. 문서·inject/live/admission 테스트가 같이 들어 있습니다.

방향은 Codex 신기능 호환에 필요하고, 계정 풀 정책을 새로 쓰지 않은 점도 좋습니다. 다만 인증된 중계면이라 보안 리뷰가 필수입니다. 세션 친화도가 process-local이고 계정 마이그레이션이 없다는 한계도 본문에 명시되어 있습니다. 드래프트이고, 실험 플래그를 켠 사용자에게만 경로가 바뀌는지·remote custom provider에 새 경로가 새지 않는지·관리 API admission과 키가 있는 live-call 라우팅이 같은지 exact-head에서 한 번 더 잠가야 합니다. types/config 대형 분할 캠페인과는 겹치지 않아 닫을 이유는 없습니다.

경로 CONTEXT_BACKEND_PREFIX / contextCompatibleBaseLine - 실험 모드 TOML에서만 backend base를 넣는다. 사용자 고정 URL은 보존해야 한다. 회귀 테스트가 그 경계를 잠근 것은 좋다.
경로 contextEndpoint 허용 목록 - write_file/append_to_file 등은 통과, delete_file·경로 탈출은 거부. 목록 밖 메서드가 나중에 공식에 추가되면 조용히 404가 난다. 문서에 “허용 목록”을 밝혀 두는 편이 좋다.
경로 handleContextHistory + contextSelectionHeaders - session_id 기반 친화도·encrypted headers 보존. 모델 id를 context_history로 찍는 선택이 쿼터/로그 집계에 노이즈가 될 수 있다.
경로 프로브 리스 - history 실패가 모델 헬스/쿼터 복구 프로브를 끝내지 않게 한 점은 맞다. 반대로 history 전용 남용으로 계정 레이트를 때리는 경우의 가드는 별도다.
경로 보안 - Bearer/incoming auth가 forward materialize로 바뀐다. 최종 credential-policy 거절 테스트가 있다고 하니 Ready 전에 그 스위트를 exact-head에서 다시 돌려야 한다.
드래프트 - 작성자도 보안 리뷰·머지 전 확인을 요청했다. auto-merge 금지.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 실험 플래그 사용자에게만 노출할지, 기본 Codex 주입 문서를 더 강하게 바꿀지
  • notes/history 중계를 정식 지원면으로 올릴지, experimental 배너를 유지할지
  • context_history 모델 라벨이 사용량·쿼터 UI에 보일 때 어떻게 숨길지
  • process-local 친화도 한계를 제품 문서로 어디까지 약속할지

너의 추천
드래프트로 두고 Ready + 보안 리뷰 + exact-head CI 전에는 머지하지 않는다. 허용 목록·사용자 URL 비주입·프로브 비종료는 유지한 채 받고, 계정 간 history 마이그레이션이나 delete 계열 확대는 거부한다. #2495 plaintext V2·#3661 recovery와 범위가 다르니 묶지 말 것.

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Supporting follow-up for the three public CodeRabbit findings: commit 9fe11948 (patch). It is one commit directly on this PR's current 31944d02 head, available for the author to review/cherry-pick; the original author's Co-authored-by credit is preserved.

The follow-up handles malformed TOML without disrupting user-owned routing, passes trusted bearer admission into existing Codex credential selection/materialization, checks the assembled outgoing headers for proxy credentials, and clarifies provider eligibility, forwarded headers, and retry behavior. Regressions cover the real listener and stored-main credential path as well as the focused relay contract.

Verification in an isolated Bun 1.4.0 Linux container:

  • Original source plus new tests: 174 passed, 7 failed. With the follow-up: 181 passed, 0 failed.
  • Strict typecheck and privacy scan passed. Docs built 425 pages using bun --bun run build; the image's default Node 20 is below Astro's supported version.
  • Full bun run test: 19,236 passed, 16 skipped, 8 failed. The failures were two missing-jq checks, one npm Bun binary-layout check (install scripts were disabled), three documented container/service-manager mismatches, and two shim process-cleanup cases. Both shim failures also reproduce on the original pinned source in the same container. The full suite is not green.

All tests used synthetic data with no network, host mounts, credentials, or published ports. Live ChatGPT history/notes and native macOS/Windows behavior were not tested. This is a supporting contribution, not a merge-readiness claim; maintainer security review and required upstream CI remain necessary.

Prepared with AI assistance and a separate manager review of the executor's changes. Thanks for implementing the original context-history and notes relay.

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Two targeted follow-up suggestions from subsequent testing, complementing my earlier review-fix contribution.

1. Add an explicit-account continuity regression.

The PR already documents Pool switching and process-local affinity limits. A specific case worth checking is an explicitly pinned model account differing from the active Pool account, even without a restart. At 31944d02, fixed-account selection does not create an affinity key, while the context relay resolves the candidate's account mode without an explicit account ID.

Suggested regression: configure accounts A/B with B active in Pool; send a successful model request explicitly pinned to A; then send a history/notes request for that root context.session_id. Assert that it uses A's physical account identity, or rejects unavailable ownership, rather than silently selecting B. Repeat after process restart. Our 2.42.0-based synthetic test confirmed that explicit selection lacked affinity and the unbound relay proceeded instead of rejecting it. We have not rerun this regression on this PR's exact head; the source references explain why the case is relevant.

2. Document a checkpointed transition for existing sessions.

On macOS, official Codex CLI 0.153.1 with a local OpenCodex 2.42.0 backport plus additional account-ownership checks, we tested: create a synthetic session with the experiment off → cold-resume the same ID/account with it on → write and read back a checkpoint containing both old facts → native thread/compact/start → read notes and recover both facts exactly. One context-window transition occurred.

In a separate small test, a pre-activation history marker was not recovered after a reset, including after correcting the history-call arguments. That observation does not establish backend retention/backfill guarantees. A useful documentation note would be: reload existing sessions, preserve needed pre-activation state in a verified checkpoint before the first reset, and do not assume automatic history backfill. Codex's resume/compaction protocol also distinguishes rejoining loaded threads from loading with new configuration.

These are synthetic compatibility observations, not exact-head CI or desktop-UI validation. The successful migration used native manual compaction; it does not establish reliable autonomous reset-tool selection. Prepared with AI assistance; no private session logs or account identifiers are attached.

Apply the context review fixes for forward documentation, malformed feature configuration, and admission-aware credential materialization. Record the account from the accepted model attempt and reject unknown or conflicting history ownership.

Co-authored-by: nbbb26 <259064678+nbbb26@users.noreply.github.com>
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