feat(translation): support Codex freeform tools and the Responses-lite request shape - #648
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WalkthroughAdds Responses reasoning extraction and encrypted-content preservation. Adds Codex custom tool and Responses-lite ChangesResponses translation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Responses-lite requests containing one user message can lose all declared tools during translation, preventing Codex from invoking them. This should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs`:
- Around line 190-203: Update the additional_tools handling in the response
encoding flow to normalize body.input into an array when it is encoded as a
scalar string, then insert the additional_tools item at the beginning. Preserve
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…encodes input as a string A request that reduces to one user text encodes its Responses input as a plain string. The re-emitted additional_tools item was inserted only into an array input, so a Responses-lite request with a single user message lost its tool definitions on the way upstream. The encoder now widens the string to the equivalent one-message array before inserting the item. Found by review on #648; covered by a request round-trip test. Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
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…encodes input as a string A request that reduces to one user text encodes its Responses input as a plain string. The re-emitted additional_tools item was inserted only into an array input, so a Responses-lite request with a single user message lost its tool definitions on the way upstream. The encoder now widens the string to the equivalent one-message array before inserting the item. Found by review on #648; covered by a request round-trip test. Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
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Codex drives GPT-5 models with freeform tools: the definition is
{"type": "custom", ...} and the model answers with custom_tool_call items
whose input is a raw string. The Responses codec only modelled function
tools, so a Codex session against a GPT-5 model through Switchyard lost its
tool definitions and its tool calls and ended after one turn.
Custom tools now pass through the IR as a function with a single input
argument, with the verbatim definitions kept on the request extensions.
History items custom_tool_call and custom_tool_call_output decode and
re-encode with their types intact, upstream custom_tool_call output items
decode on both the buffered and stream paths, and when a response is
encoded with the request's extensions, calls to a custom tool are rewritten
back into custom_tool_call items. Argument delta events for such calls are
dropped on the stream because a partial JSON delta has no freeform
equivalent; clients read the completed item.
Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tems Codex sends GPT-5 requests in a lite shape: no top-level tools, empty instructions, the tool definitions inside input[0] as an additional_tools developer item, and the base instructions as a developer message. The Responses codec did not know the item, so a routed GPT-5 session had no tools in the IR and the item was turned into a user message carrying the tool JSON. The request decoder now reads the item's tools as the request's tool definitions (including freeform tools) and keeps the array verbatim on the request extensions; the input decoder skips the item; the request encoder re-emits it in place and leaves top-level tools absent, so a Responses upstream receives the request in the shape the client used, while a chat upstream receives ordinary function tools. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
OpenAI validates replayed item ids by prefix and rejects a custom_tool_call
whose id starts with fc_ ("Expected an ID that begins with 'ctc'"). When a
function_call item is rewritten into a custom_tool_call for the client, its
synthesized id now takes the ctc_ prefix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
…es request codec Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
…encodes input as a string A request that reduces to one user text encodes its Responses input as a plain string. The re-emitted additional_tools item was inserted only into an array input, so a Responses-lite request with a single user message lost its tool definitions on the way upstream. The encoder now widens the string to the equivalent one-message array before inserting the item. Found by review on #648; covered by a request round-trip test. Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
#664 reorders replayed history so each function_call_output follows its call. Freeform (custom) calls and their custom_tool_call_output items are the same shape for an upstream that pairs by adjacency, so the pass now treats them alike. A tool result answering a freeform call keeps the custom_tool_call_output type from this branch and the paired call name from Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com> #664. Covered by a parallel custom-call round-trip test.
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Summary
Codex drives GPT-5 models with a request shape and a tool surface that the Responses codec did not understand, so any GPT-5.x Codex session routed through Switchyard ran with a degraded, non-native tool set, and a session that tried to use the native tools could not survive its first turn. This PR teaches the codec both halves: the "Responses lite" request shape and freeform (
custom) tools. It relies on the reasoning and item-id fixes from #646, which is now on main; this branch is rebased onto main and the diff is the three commits here.What Codex does that Switchyard did not handle
When Codex recognises the model name as a GPT-5 model it switches behaviour in two ways. First, it sends the request in a lite shape:
instructionsis empty, there is no top-leveltools, and the tool definitions travel insideinput[0]as{"type": "additional_tools", "role": "developer", "tools": [...]}, followed by the base instructions as a developer message. Second, its core tools are freeform: the definition is{"type": "custom", "name", "description", "format"}and the model answers withcustom_tool_callitems whoseinputis a raw string rather than JSON arguments. When Codex does not recognise the model name, as happens today with a route namedswitchyard, it falls back to generic function tools and anexec_commandshell tool, which is how every Switchyard-routed GPT-5.x Codex run has been driven so far.custom_tool_callitems were unknown to the codec, so the definitions were re-encoded as schema-less functions and the model's custom calls were dropped on decode.inputargument, with the verbatim definitions kept on the request extensions.custom_tool_callandcustom_tool_call_outputround-trip in history, upstream custom calls decode on the buffered and stream paths, and when a response is encoded with the request's extensions, calls to a custom tool are rewritten back intocustom_tool_callitems. Chat upstreams see an ordinary function tool.additional_toolsinput item was unknown and fell into the generic "unknown item becomes a user message" path.input[0]and leaves top-leveltoolsabsent, so a Responses upstream receives the request in the shape the client used.Invalid 'input[7].id': Expected an ID that begins with 'ctc'.ctc_prefix.Argument delta events for a custom tool are dropped on the stream, because a partial JSON delta has no freeform equivalent and clients read the completed item.
Validation
Unit tests cover the rewriter and the id prefix; integration tests cover the request round trip (verbatim custom tool, history item types, chat fallback), the buffered response round trip with request extensions, the lite-shape
additional_toolsitem for both Responses and chat targets, and the buffered-decode then re-stream path that a judge-based route takes. The translation crate's suite passes (175 tests) and clippy is clean with-D warnings.Live, with Codex 0.149.1 against the NVIDIA hub on five DeepSWE-v1.1 tasks, GPT-5.6 Luna as the efficient tier and GPT-5.6 Sol as the strong tier, route named
gpt-5.6-luna-switchyardso Codex resolves native metadata: all five tasks completed, four solved, zero request failures. Every tool call in the Codex rollouts was acustom_tool_callwith actcid and a matching output, the only function calls wereupdate_plan, and latched sessions ran 59 to 93 Sol calls to completion. Before this change the same configuration ended every session after one turn.Operational note
To get the native tool surface, the Switchyard route id must start with a slug Codex knows (Codex matches by longest prefix, so
gpt-5.6-luna-switchyardworks) and the client's configured model name must match it. A route namedswitchyardkeeps the fallback tool set. That naming choice, and the fact that all routed GPT-5.x Codex baselines so far ran with the fallback tools, is worth a mention in the benchmarking docs; this PR does not change any defaults.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
additional_tools.Bug Fixes
Relation to #664
Eric's #664 (merged) hardens the same buffered request path for strict upstreams: tool-result names, call and result ordering, Codex compaction markers. This branch is rebased on it. The tool-result item now takes its type from this PR (
custom_tool_call_outputfor a freeform call) and itsnamefrom #664, and #664's reorder pass treatscustom_tool_callandcustom_tool_call_outputas a call and output pair as well, covered by a parallel custom-call test.