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Summary

A Responses Lite marker from configured or selected headers reached the classic OpenAI hosted-search helper and could cause an upstream rejection. Strip the marker after merging headers while preserving unrelated forwarded headers. The public provider reference now documents the exception; the contributor regression moved out of the capped test file and is supplemented by source-specific header cases.

Closes #8160

Supersedes #8169

Co-authored-by: Ege Arhan egearhany@gmail.com

The shared structure/providers-and-adapters.md contract and docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md were updated because they describe the affected sidecar and configured headers. Prior art: the Fetch Standard header-list deletion algorithm matches header names case-insensitively.

Verification

• PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun test --isolate tests/web-search/web-search-sidecar-429.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts — exit 0, 20 pass, 0 fail.
• PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun run typecheck — exit 0.
• PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun run structure:check — exit 0.
• PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun run privacy:scan — exit 0.
• bun install --frozen-lockfile and bun run build from docs-site/, with the root-installed Bun 1.4.4 on PATH — both exit 0; the build produced 641 pages.
• PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun run test:changed — exit 0, 19,742 pass, 39 skip, 0 fail across 794 files, using merge base 13d218475918d8663bdcdd6fa8da436df00c76ff.
• An earlier changed-test invocation automatically installed missing GUI dependencies although this PR does not change GUI files; no tracked GUI or lockfile changes resulted.
• Full bun run test not run locally because six lanes run concurrently. Hosted CI covers wider Ubuntu shards and the docs build; macOS and Windows remain under maintainer batch policy.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • OpenAI web search requests no longer send the Responses Lite marker, regardless of capitalization, while retaining other forwarded headers.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for markers supplied through configured and selected headers, confirming that account ID and custom headers are preserved.
• Documentation
  • Updated hosted-search and provider configuration guidance to describe marker removal and the preservation of other forwarded headers.

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Walkthrough

The web-search executor removes the Codex Responses Lite header from merged outgoing headers before sending the sidecar request. Tests cover configured and selected headers, and verify that the account ID and custom forwarded header remain. Documentation describes the filtering behavior. The 429 retry behavior is unchanged.

Changes: Web-search header filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Filter and verify outgoing headers src/web-search/executor.ts, tests/web-search/web-search-sidecar-429.test.ts, structure/providers-and-adapters.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md	The executor removes the Responses Lite marker from merged headers. Tests cover configured and selected header sources and confirm that other headers remain. Both documentation pages describe the filtering behavior. The existing 429 retry behavior is unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• lidge-jun/opencodex#8169: Also removes the Responses Lite marker from merged web-search headers and adds regression coverage.
• lidge-jun/opencodex#8069: Adds selected-header merging in the same executor flow.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 19adf

The change removes the Lite marker from classic search requests while preserving other forwarded headers. No merge-blocking risk is established.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title accurately describes removing the Lite marker from classic web search headers.
Linked Issues check		[#8160] src/web-search/executor.ts:87-92 deletes the Responses Lite marker after merging headers. Headers.delete matches names case-insensitively. `tests/web-search/web-search-sidecar-429.test.ts:…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#8160] The executor change and regression tests implement and verify the requested behavior. structure/providers-and-adapters.md and `docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

[#8160] src/web-search/executor.ts:87-92 deletes the Responses Lite marker after merging headers. Headers.delete matches names case-insensitively. tests/web-search/web-search-sidecar-429.test.ts:177-244 covers configured and selected markers, mixed-case names, and preservation of account and custom headers. The author reports that the focused tests passed.

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Explanation

[#8160] The executor change and regression tests implement and verify the requested behavior. structure/providers-and-adapters.md and docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md:373 document the same header exception. The supplied change summary shows no unrelated changes.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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• Checked head: 19adfa6; all 30 PR checks on this head passed; the remaining CodeRabbit docs thread is addressed in this head (the public headers? reference now documents the Lite-marker exception) and was resolved.
• Review: carry of fix(web-search): strip responses-lite header from OpenAI sidecar requests #8169 (credit Ege Arhan) — the classic OpenAI search helper drops x-openai-internal-codex-responses-lite after merging configured and selected headers; other headers are preserved; regression test and structure/public docs updated.