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Fix: Capture tool calls for the Responses API dialect (recovers a commit dropped from #1315) - #1326
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The parser extracted text and tokens correctly but silently dropped tool calls entirely — confirmed on a live, tool-using Codex turn (ran its `exec` tool to list a directory) run specifically to find gaps the earlier "reply with just the word hello" sample couldn't exercise. Cost/token accounting was unaffected (that comes from the usage block, independent of tool-call parsing), but the "typed events" half of #1239's promise was incomplete: an operator would see what Codex said, not what it did. Captured the real event sequence via a temporary debug tap (same technique as the original capture, reverted before this commit): a completed tool call arrives whole on a single response.output_item.done event — call_id, name, and the full input text together — unlike Anthropic's tool_use blocks, which split id/name and arguments across separate frames and need incremental assembly. Codex's `exec` tool is a "custom_tool_call" item (freeform text argument, in Input); the "function_call" item type (JSON-schema arguments, in Arguments) is NOT confirmed on live traffic — Codex's own tool manifest declares both custom and function-type tools, but the one real call this was built from happened to use a custom one — so it's modeled from the published schema and tested only synthetically, documented as such in responsesOutputItem's comment. Extended both paths that read a completed item: the streaming fold (response.output_item.done) and the non-streaming parser, which reads the same item shape from the response's top-level output array. inferenceStreamState gets a new responsesToolCalls field alongside the existing Anthropic-specific toolCalls accumulator, deliberately not reusing the latter's named type for a different provider's simpler "arrives complete" shape — finalize() merges both into one list. Verified end-to-end the same way as the original capture: built this commit, swapped it into a running Cortex instance, ran the same tool-using Codex turn, and confirmed ToolCalls now populates (name=exec, arguments contain the exec_command call) before reverting. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe inference parser now extracts custom and function tool calls from Responses API output. It handles both non-streaming output items and completed streaming output-item events, then includes collected streaming calls in the inference extension. ChangesResponses API tool-call parsing
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ResponsesAPI as Responses API
participant foldResponsesFrame
participant StreamState
participant Finalization
participant InferenceExtension
ResponsesAPI->>foldResponsesFrame: response.output_item.done with item
foldResponsesFrame->>StreamState: append custom_tool_call or function_call
StreamState->>Finalization: provide collected Responses API calls
Finalization->>InferenceExtension: assign combined ToolCalls when nonempty
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- Line 435: Retain the item status in responsesOutputItem, then update
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| // (parseResponsesJSON), which has no deltas to accumulate from and reads the | ||
| // item whole. | ||
| type responsesOutputItem struct { | ||
| Type string `json:"type"` |
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Exclude incomplete tool-call items.
A Responses tool-call item can have status: "incomplete". responsesOutputItem discards that status, so both parsing paths append an unfinished call to ext.ToolCalls. Retain item status and skip explicitly incomplete or in-progress calls in parseResponsesJSON and foldResponsesFrame. Accept an absent status if that is required for the supported dialect. (developers.openai.com)
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Review comment at @core/plugins/inferenceparser/responses.go at line 435:
Retain the item status in responsesOutputItem, then update parseResponsesJSON
and foldResponsesFrame to skip tool calls explicitly marked incomplete or in
progress. Continue accepting tool-call items with no status for supported
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Correct, small fix that recovers the commit dropped from #1315. I confirmed #1315's merge commit has e25d4841 as its second parent, and main has no responsesToolCalls. Inline items, in order of weight: a turn cancelled mid tool-input still loses its call and can be recorded as a skip, the cross-dialect ToolCalls contract is now stale, and the new tests miss several mutations. None of them blocks the merge.
On CodeRabbit's thread about dropping status: "incomplete" calls, I'd recommend against it. The Anthropic path keeps truncated calls on purpose ("Arguments stay as the model left them — truncated, not discarded", anthropic_test.go:417), so dropping them here would make the two dialects disagree.
What I checked: the affected package tests, gofmt and go vet pass at head. Tool calls survive Codex's real delivery shape (the whole SSE body arriving on the terminal call, labelled application/json). And no completion text is doubled when a streamed message item's output_item.done carries content.
| if ev.Delta != nil { | ||
| state.completion.WriteString(*ev.Delta) | ||
| } | ||
| case "response.output_item.done": |
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suggestion: A tool call is recorded only from response.output_item.done. If the turn is cancelled while the model is still streaming the tool's input, that event never arrives, so no call is recorded. With no preamble text, the response row then becomes skip/no_response_body.
That is the outcome the finalize guard at plugin.go:413-418 exists to prevent; TestInferenceParser_AnthropicMessages_StreamToolUseOnlyIsNotASkip pins it for Anthropic. There the case is latent, because message_start carries usage. Here it can happen on real traffic, because the Responses API sends usage only on the terminal event.
Repro (fails at this head):
frames := []string{
`{"type":"response.created","response":{"id":"resp_1","status":"in_progress","usage":null}}`,
`{"type":"response.output_item.added","output_index":0,"item":{"type":"reasoning","id":"rs_1"}}`,
`{"type":"response.output_item.done","output_index":0,"item":{"type":"reasoning","id":"rs_1"}}`,
`{"type":"response.output_item.added","output_index":1,"item":{"type":"custom_tool_call","call_id":"c1","name":"exec","input":"","status":"in_progress"}}`,
`{"type":"response.custom_tool_call_input.delta","output_index":1,"delta":"const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:"}`,
}
// fold each with OnResponseFrame(..., false), then OnResponseFrame(..., nil, true)
// => ToolCalls=[] last invocation = skip/no_response_bodyPossible fix: output_item.added already carries call_id and name, so append the call there and fill in the arguments on done (matched by call_id). The "no in-progress fallback" note at plugin.go:251 would change with it.
| Type string `json:"type"` | ||
| CallID string `json:"call_id"` | ||
| Name string `json:"name"` | ||
| Input string `json:"input"` // custom_tool_call's freeform argument text |
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suggestion: The ToolCalls contract at core/pipeline/extensions.go:240-250 (outside this diff, so anchored here) still says it is "Populated on three of the four response paths". With this PR, five of six response paths populate it, and only the OpenAI Chat stream is left empty. Its "empty means the model requested no tools only for…" sentence needs the Responses paths added, with the cancelled-turn caveat from the output_item.done comment.
Also, Arguments is no longer always JSON: for custom_tool_call it is this freeform text (JavaScript, in the captured exec call). One consumer now acts on that: sparc's inference mode (sparc/plugin.go:351, openAIToolCall) wraps it as a "type":"function" call whose arguments should be a JSON string. Before this PR, sparc did nothing on Responses traffic, because ToolCalls was empty. A line on InferenceToolCall.Arguments would warn opa and sparc policy authors.
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| frames := [][]byte{ | ||
| []byte(`{"type":"response.output_text.delta","delta":"I'll inspect the directory."}`), | ||
| []byte(`{"type":"response.output_item.done","item":{"type":"custom_tool_call",` + |
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suggestion: The new tests miss several mutations. Each of these leaves the PR's own tests green:
- dropping the non-streaming
case "function_call"inparseResponsesJSON - reading
item.Inputinstead ofitem.Argumentsin that case - dropping
ID: ev.Item.CallIDfrom the streamedfunction_call - changing
case "response.output_item.done":tocase "response.output_item.added", "response.output_item.done":, which double-counts every call on a real stream
The comment above calls this test the real captured shape, but it leaves out the output_item.added and custom_tool_call_input.delta/.done frames that responses.go's own comment lists as live. Adding them catches (4). Asserting ID in StreamFoldsFunctionCall catches (3), and a non-streaming function_call case catches (1) and (2).
| // JSON-schema tool, arguments carried in Arguments. | ||
| // | ||
| // A "message" item carries Content instead — its text parts. On the | ||
| // streaming path this struct's Content is never populated: output_text.delta |
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nit: "On the streaming path this struct's Content is never populated" is not quite accurate. A message item's output_item.done carries its content on the real API, and json.Unmarshal fills it in. The code just never reads it on this path. Suggest "never read".
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main— Feat: Add OpenAI Responses API support to inference-parser #1315's merge commit hase25d4841as its merged parent, not the branch's actual final tip284d8a9e. Confirmed:maincurrently has none of this change (responsesToolCallsdoesn't exist anywhere incore/plugins/inferenceparser).git ls-remoteand the raw API both confirmed the branch itself was correctly at284d8a9ewell before the merge timestamp.284d8a9e, cherry-picked here as353f1759— same diff, no conflicts), rebased onto currentmain.What the fix does
Codex's tool calls were being silently dropped by the Responses API parser — confirmed on a live, tool-using Codex turn (ran its
exectool) specifically run to find gaps a trivial "reply with hello" sample couldn't exercise. Token/cost accounting was correct regardless (comes from the usage block, not tool-call parsing), but typed-event capture was incomplete: an operator would see what Codex said, not what it did.A completed tool call arrives whole on a single
response.output_item.doneevent (call_id, name, and the full input/arguments together) — unlike Anthropic'stool_useblocks, which split id/name and arguments across separate frames and need incremental assembly. Extended both the streaming fold and the non-streaming parser, which read the same item shape.Test plan
go build,go vet,gofmt -lcleango test -race ./...clean across all ofcore, re-verified against currentmain(not just the original PR's base)go mod tidy -diffclean across all 12 modulescustom_tool_call(real captured shape), syntheticfunction_call(documented but unconfirmed on live traffic), non-streaming pathcodex execcall, confirmedToolCallspopulates with the correct name/arguments, reverted — then repeated the same live verification after rebasing onto currentmainfor this PRAssisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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