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Codex's chatgpt.com-hosted gateway speaks OpenAI's Responses API, a third wire shape inference-parser didn't recognize — traffic flowed through unparsed, with no model, tokens, or cost ever recorded (cortex#1239, split out of cortex#942's Codex-support checklist). Built against real captured Codex traffic, not just the published schema, which surfaced two things the docs alone wouldn't have: - The request arrives zstd-compressed (Content-Encoding: zstd) — decoded before parsing via the klauspost/compress dependency already in go.mod. - The response is real SSE text mislabeled Content-Type: application/json. Fixed at two layers: inference-parser's own dialect dispatch falls back to content-sniffing (carriesSSEFraming) when the header lies, and the forward-proxy's streaming-vs-buffered gate (isKnownMislabeledSSE) now recognizes this one known endpoint so Codex's reply keeps streaming live to the client rather than being buffered and delayed. dialectResponses slots into the existing suffix-matching dialectFor, which already covers both the public /v1/responses and Codex's own /backend-api/codex/responses with one rule, verified by both ending in "/responses". Usage math (input_tokens includes cached_tokens and cache_write_tokens as subsets, not independent counts) was verified against a live sample's usage.attribution.items breakdown before shipping — summed exactly to the top-level totals. The attribution breakdown itself and the non-streaming (stream:false) response shape are intentionally not modeled; the latter is modeled from the published schema only, unexercised by live traffic since Codex always sends stream:true. Verified end-to-end: swapped the built binary into a running Cortex instance, ran a real `codex exec` call through it, and confirmed the session API recorded a fully populated inference extension (model, completion text, and token counts matching the live response) before reverting. Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant InferenceParser
participant ResponsesParser
participant InferenceExtension
InferenceParser->>ResponsesParser: Dispatch Responses API response
ResponsesParser->>InferenceExtension: Apply output, status, and usage
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- Line 580: Update the response-routing condition so `isKnownMislabeledSSE`
enables streaming only for 2xx responses; preserve explicit `isEventStream`
handling for all status codes and keep non-streaming JSON error bodies on the
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Review comments at @core/plugins/inferenceparser/responses.go:
- Around line 167-172: Update maybeDecompressRequest to reuse a shared zstd
decoder configured with a 64 MiB decoded-size limit, and use it for DecodeAll
instead of creating and closing a decoder per request. Preserve the existing
behavior of returning the original body when decoding fails; the limit must
apply to each decode call.
- Around line 385-395: Update the event case in the response-processing switch
to handle response.incomplete and response.failed alongside response.completed,
so their response status and any supplied usage reach finalization and
usage-based pricing through the existing logic.
- Around line 179-216: Update parseResponsesRequest and responsesRequest.Input
to accept both array and string input values. Preserve existing array parsing;
when input is a string, normalize it into a user message and populate the
corresponding pipeline.InferenceMessage fields, returning nil only for
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Four fixes from automated review on PR #1315, all confirmed valid before applying: - Gate isKnownMislabeledSSE's streaming allowlist on 2xx responses only. Confirmed as a real, already-manifested regression by comparing our own test transcripts: a 405 error body that used to arrive intact (`{"detail":"Method Not Allowed"}`) arrived as the literal string "Unknown error" once the allowlist started matching every status code, not just success — sseframe.Reader finds no "data:" line in a plain JSON error body and emits nothing. New regression test confirmed to fail without the fix before confirming it passes with it. - Bound zstd-decompressed request bodies to 64 MiB via a shared decoder configured with WithDecoderMaxMemory, replacing a bare zstd.NewReader(nil) (library default: 64 GiB). The wire-size cap doesn't protect against a highly compressible payload decompressing far past it. - Accept `input` as a bare string, not just the documented array — a valid shorthand for one user message that Codex itself never sends (always an array) but the public endpoint's simple usage pattern does. - Fold usage/status from response.incomplete and response.failed, not just response.completed — the other two documented terminal events, which share the same response snapshot shape and can carry partial usage our one clean live sample never exercised. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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🟡 Minor · Fold multiline data: fields once per SSE event. · responses.go:441-459
core/plugins/inferenceparser/responses.go:441-459
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFold multiline
data:fields once per SSE event.When the forward proxy buffers a Responses SSE body, its terminal
OnResponseFramecall passes the whole body to this parser. This loop folds eachdata:line as a separate JSON event. If a terminal event splits its JSON across multiple data fields, each fragment fails decoding, so the parser drops that event’s finish reason and usage. Join the fields up to the blank-line delimiter with\n, then fold once per event. The live frame-reader path already joins them.Suggested fix
- for _, line := range bytes.Split(normalizeSSE(body), []byte("\n")) { - line = bytes.TrimSpace(line) - if !bytes.HasPrefix(line, []byte("data:")) { - continue - } - data := bytes.TrimSpace(bytes.TrimPrefix(line, []byte("data:"))) - if len(data) == 0 { - continue - } - foldResponsesFrame(data, state, ext) + for _, frame := range bytes.Split(normalizeSSE(body), []byte("\n\n")) { + var data []byte + hasData, hasPayload := false, false + for _, line := range bytes.Split(frame, []byte("\n")) { + line = bytes.TrimSpace(line) + if !bytes.HasPrefix(line, []byte("data:")) { + continue + } + lineData := bytes.TrimSpace(bytes.TrimPrefix(line, []byte("data:"))) + if hasData { + data = append(data, '\n') + } + data = append(data, lineData...) + hasData = true + hasPayload = hasPayload || len(lineData) > 0 + } + if hasPayload { + foldResponsesFrame(data, state, ext) + } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 441-459: Update parseResponsesSSE to group each SSE event’s data:
fields, join their payloads with newlines, and call foldResponsesFrame once per
event; keep blank-line event boundaries and skip events without a non-empty data
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core already depended on github.com/klauspost/compress transitively, so core/go.sum already had it and `go mod tidy -diff` in core alone stayed clean. But core/plugins/inferenceparser now actually imports klauspost/compress/zstd as real code (for the Responses API request decompression), and cmd/cortex-praxis locally replaces core — its own go.sum needs the checksum recorded too, which only "go mod tidy -diff in every module" (ci.yaml's actual check, not a single-module spot check) catches. Verified across all 12 modules in the repo: cortex-praxis was the only one affected. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
TestReverseProxy_StreamedUnparsedEndpoint_CoverageBoundary used
/v1/responses with a string input ({"model":"gpt-4o","input":"hi",...})
as its canonical example of "an endpoint the parser cannot read" — true
before this PR, and exactly backwards after it: dialectFor now recognizes
/v1/responses, and the string-input fallback added in response to review
(2ca2f80) means that exact body now parses successfully. Caught by
`go test -race ./...` in core, which this branch hadn't been run with
until now — only `go test ./plugins/inferenceparser/...` and the
forwardproxy package directly, not the full module.
The test's own purpose (verifying cost-settlement behavior for a
genuinely unparsed streamed endpoint) is still correct and still needed;
it just needs an example that's still actually off the dialect list.
Moved to /v1/embeddings, confirmed dialectNone in dialect_test.go.
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Well-verified dialect addition — dispatch is consistent across all five call sites, the cached/cache-write usage math is pinned against live traffic, and the zstd cap and mislabeled-SSE handling have thorough test coverage. One suggestion:
core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go:1252— exact==match onr.Hostsilently misses a Host header that carries a port or non-lowercase spelling (both legal on the wire); the response then falls back to buffered and loses live streaming with nothing in the logs. See inline comment.
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| // of provider, to work around one provider's one wrong header. Add a line here if another | ||
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| func isKnownMislabeledSSE(host, path string) bool { | ||
| return host == "chatgpt.com" && path == "/backend-api/codex/responses" |
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suggestion: r.Host is compared with exact ==, but the Host header is case-insensitive on the wire and may legally carry an explicit port (chatgpt.com:443). Either variant silently misses this allowlist, so the response falls back to the buffered path — telemetry still parses via carriesSSEFraming, but the live-streaming benefit this gate exists for is lost, with no log to say why. Consider normalizing before comparing — strip any :port suffix and use strings.EqualFold, the same tolerance isEventStream already shows its header value.
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This adds a third dialect, built and checked against real Codex traffic: zstd request bodies, the mislabeled-SSE reply handled at both layers, and the usage math checked against usage.attribution. No must-fix. The Go CI (core) regression (a reverseproxy test used /v1/responses as its example of an endpoint the parser can't read) was fixed by e25d4841 while I was reviewing. The suggestions are about what the PR claims beyond Codex:
- The public
/v1/responsesrequest shape parses to no messages and no tools. ToolCallsis never filled in, though theextensions.gocontract implies it is.- The forward-proxy allowlist decides "this is SSE" from the status code, and the streaming path itself has no test.
- Two docs pages now say the opposite of this change.
Author: Alan-Cha (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (inference-parser, forward proxy, settle/pricing and the consumers of Extensions.Inference), Go module files, Docs
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 4 commits, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing at e25d4841 (26 pass, 2 skipped)
Checked locally at 2d08a43a; e25d4841 changes only costsettle_test.go:
- Mutations on the forward-proxy gate and on the
carriesSSEFramingfallback. - Throwaway tests for the 2xx-JSON claim and the public-schema claim.
- The zstd cap, against klauspost v1.20.1's source: the window size is clamped to
maxDecodedSize, and cumulative output is checked. - The bundled price table has no
gpt-*row, so Codex traffic records tokens without a made-up dollar figure.
| // split applies as it does for the other two dialects: a path that happens to end this | ||
| // way but whose body carries no `input` array is rejected by parseResponsesRequest, not | ||
| // here. | ||
| const responsesSuffix = "/responses" |
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suggestion: two user-facing docs now say the opposite of this change.
docs/plugin-catalog.md:115-124, theinference-parsersection, still says it "reads two dialects" and that "Other dialects — the Responses API, … — are not parsed." It should list the/responsesending and its body check (inputas an array or a string) beside the other two.docs/agents/opencode.md:232-233says Zen's/zen/v1/responses(its GPT and Grok models) is "recorded with their method and path but not parsed". Under this suffix rule that path now parses. Update it along with whatever the public-shape comment onresponses.go:241changes about what an OpenCode request actually yields.
| IsAction: true, | ||
| } | ||
| for _, item := range input { | ||
| if item.Type == "message" { |
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suggestion: the documented public request shape parses to an empty record. The PR body says this covers "the public /v1/responses", but three parts of the published schema aren't read:
- Message items without
type. The schema's EasyInputMessage makestype: "message"optional, and the docs' own examples omit it (input: [{"role":"user","content":"…"}]). This check drops those items, and so does the one inUnmarshalJSON(raw.Type == "message"). TreatingType == "" && Role != ""as a message too would cover them. - Top-level
tools. The public API sends flat function definitions at the top level ({"type":"function","name":…,"parameters":…}).responsesRequesthas noToolsfield, so only Codex'sadditional_toolsinput item is read. instructions, the system/developer prompt, isn't surfaced as a message.
I checked this with a throwaway test. This body on /v1/responses gives messages=0 tools=0, still with IsAction: true:
{"model":"gpt-5","instructions":"be terse",
"tools":[{"type":"function","name":"get_weather","parameters":{"type":"object","properties":{}}}],
"input":[{"role":"user","content":"what is the weather"},
{"role":"user","content":[{"type":"input_text","text":"in Paris"}]}]}So guardrails judge a record with nothing in it, and OPA policies on input.inference.tools/messages see nothing. OpenCode → Zen /zen/v1/responses now takes this path too. I believe the AI SDK sends typeless message items there, which is worth checking against a capture. If (1) and (2) stay out of scope, say so in the PR body's out-of-scope list and in this file's comments, the way the non-streaming shape is flagged.
| if ev.Delta != nil { | ||
| state.completion.WriteString(*ev.Delta) | ||
| } | ||
| case "response.completed", "response.incomplete", "response.failed": |
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suggestion: ToolCalls is never filled in for this dialect, and the contract other plugins read says otherwise. The InferenceExtension.ToolCalls comment (core/pipeline/extensions.go:240-250) lists which response paths fill it in. It says an empty slice means "the model requested no tools" on any non-streaming response and on an Anthropic stream. parseResponsesJSON is a new non-streaming path that never fills it in, so that statement is now false.
On the streaming side, nearly every Codex turn is a function_call/custom_tool_call output item, and nothing here reads them. Concretely, on Codex traffic:
- OPA's
inference.tool_calls(plugins/opa/plugin.go:742) is always empty. - sparc's inference gate returns early on
len(inf.ToolCalls) == 0(plugins/sparc/plugin.go:332). - lineage's tool-call attribute (
plugins/lineage/plugin.go:1246) is never set.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Fill it in: fold
response.output_item.doneitems whoseitem.typeisfunction_call/custom_tool_call(name,call_id,arguments/input) here, and the same items fromoutput[]inparseResponsesJSON. - Or update the
extensions.gocomment to list both Responses paths as leaving it empty, so a policy author knows an empty slice tells them nothing here.
| // user. Confirmed on live traffic: before this gate, a 405 that used to arrive as | ||
| // `{"detail":"Method Not Allowed"}` arrived as the literal string "Unknown error" | ||
| // once isKnownMislabeledSSE started matching every status, not just success. | ||
| mislabeled := resp.StatusCode/100 == 2 && isKnownMislabeledSSE(r.Host, r.URL.Path) |
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suggestion: the 2xx gate infers "this is SSE" from the status code, and the main path has no test.
- A 2xx body that isn't SSE is still emptied. I ran a throwaway copy of
TestForwardProxy_MislabeledSSE_ErrorResponseStaysBufferedwith a200and{"id":"resp_1","status":"completed"}. The client got"", which is the same failure this gate fixes for errors. Before this PR that body was buffered and delivered intact. Codex always streams, so the exposure is narrow: astream:falsecaller, or a 200 JSON error page. But the body itself can answer the question. For this one endpoint, peek at the first non-whitespace bytes ofresp.Body(wrap it in abufio.Readerand assign that back). Stream ondata:,event:,id:or:, and buffer otherwise. One rule then covers the error case and any 2xx JSON, and it only reads ahead on the named endpoint, so the "don't sniff every response" reasoning onisKnownMislabeledSSEstill holds. - No test pins the positive half. Mutation: change this condition back to
isEventStream(…) && resp.Body != nil, dropping|| mislabeledentirely.go test ./listener/forwardproxy/still passes, even though that reverts the live-streaming fix the PR exists for. Add a sibling test: a 200application/jsonSSE body from the named endpoint, asserting that the probe received its frames one at a time (last=falsecalls) and that the client received thedata:frames.
| // of provider, to work around one provider's one wrong header. Add a line here if another | ||
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| func isKnownMislabeledSSE(host, path string) bool { | ||
| return host == "chatgpt.com" && path == "/backend-api/codex/responses" |
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nit: two things about this match.
- It compares
r.Hostexactly, while the rest of this file normalises the authority first (hostOnly(r.Host)at:1733). AHost: chatgpt.com:443header, or the same host in different case (Host is case-insensitive), misses the allowlist and quietly falls back to buffering.strings.EqualFold(hostOnly(host), "chatgpt.com")costs nothing. - The comment above is worth one more sentence.
handleStreamingResponsere-frames throughsseframeand writes onlydata:lines, so Codex'sevent:lines never reach the client. That is the reason the 🐛 Forward Proxy blocks response with SSE base MCP server #642streamPassthroughpath exists. Codex is fine because every payload carries its owntype, as your e2e run shows. The next endpoint someone adds "with the same defect" might not be.
| usage.CacheRead = cached | ||
| usage.Present |= parsercommon.KindCacheRead | ||
| usage.CacheWrite = cacheWrite | ||
| usage.Present |= parsercommon.KindCacheWrite |
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nit: KindCacheWrite is set whenever input_tokens_details is present, but the public API's details object carries only cached_tokens. The cache-write count then reads as a reported 0 instead of "not exposed" (parsercommon.Kind: "a zero on an unset bit is 'not exposed'"). That contradicts this struct's own comment about not asserting a zero that was never reported. Make CachedTokens/CacheWriteTokens *int and set each bit only when its key is on the wire, the way inferenceUsage.toNeutral leaves KindCacheWrite unset for Chat Completions.
| // hasAny() guard below is what keeps a failure from asserting a zero usage | ||
| // that was never reported. Every other event type in the sequence carries | ||
| // nothing this parser extracts and is silently ignored — not unrecognized, | ||
| // just uninteresting. Unlike foldAnthropicFrame, an unknown type is not |
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nit: this sentence contradicts itself. It says an unknown type is not logged because anything outside the vocabulary "is more likely a wire change worth its own look". That is the argument for the Debug line foldAnthropicFrame emits (anthropic.go:350). Also, "the full event vocabulary was confirmed" only covers a text-only turn. The fixture has no response.function_call_arguments.*, no response.reasoning_* and no function_call output items, all of which tool and reasoning turns emit. Either log unknown types at Debug like the Anthropic fold, or reword.
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Fix: Capture tool calls for the Responses API dialect (recovers a commit dropped from #1315)
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inference-parser(dialectResponses) for OpenAI's Responses API — the shape Codex speaks via itschatgpt.com-hosted gateway (/backend-api/codex/responses), as well as the public/v1/responses. Previously this traffic flowed through completely unparsed: no model, tokens, or cost ever recorded.Content-Encoding: zstd— decoded before parsing (klauspost/compresswas already a direct dependency ingo.mod, no new one added).Content-Type: application/json. Fixed at two layers:inference-parser's own dispatch falls back to content-sniffing (carriesSSEFraming) when the header lies, and the forward-proxy's streaming-vs-buffered gate (isKnownMislabeledSSE) now recognizes this one known endpoint so Codex's reply keeps streaming live to the client instead of being buffered and delayed.dialectResponsesslots into the existing suffix-matchingdialectFor(/responses), which already covers both the public endpoint and Codex's own with one rule.input_tokensincludescached_tokens/cache_write_tokensas subsets, not independent counts) was verified against a live sample'susage.attribution.itemsbreakdown before shipping — summed exactly to the top-level totals.Deliberately out of scope (noted in code comments)
usage.attributionbreakdown — nothing downstream reads at that granularity today.stream:false) response shape — modeled from the published schema only; Codex always sendsstream:true, so this path is untested against live traffic.Test plan
go build ./...,go vet ./...,gofmt -lclean on both touched packagesgo mod tidy -diffclean — confirms nogo.mod/go.sumchanges neededcore/plugins/inferenceparserandcore/listener/forwardproxystill passresponses_test.go: request parsing, the zstd round-trip, streaming event folding (against real captured token figures), the mislabeled-Content-Type fallback, and the non-streaming shapecodex execcall through it, and confirmed the session API recorded a fully populated inference extension (modelgpt-6-luna, completion text, and token counts matching the live response —streamedResponse: true) before reverting to the original binary (checksum-verified identical)Closes #1239. Related: #942.
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