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Summary

Historical response.create slimming could replace the result of a namespaced collaboration call with an omission notice. A later model turn would then lose the state returned by wait_agent or another hosted agent-control action.

This change preserves only function_call_output items whose call_id matches a historical function_call in the collaboration or multi_agent_v1 namespace. The same rule now applies to the bridge/service and direct WebSocket paths.

This is the focused slimming follow-up requested during review of Soju06/codex-lb#1730. It does not carry the quarantine, namespace-serialization, replay, or test-stabilization work from that PR.

Type of change

  • fix: — bug fix (no behavior change beyond the bug)
  • feat: — new user-facing feature or capability
  • refactor: — internal refactor (no behavior change, no API change)
  • docs: — documentation only
  • chore: / ci: / build: — tooling, CI, packaging
  • test: — test-only change
  • Breaking change

Linked issue: none

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  • This PR includes / updates an OpenSpec change
  • Not applicable — bug fix that matches the existing spec
  • Not applicable — docs / CI / chore only
  • This PR touches a codex-faithful path and preserves upstream-equivalent behavior

Change directory: openspec/changes/preserve-agent-control-output-slimming/

Changes

  • Derive protected call IDs only from namespaced historical function_call items.
  • Preserve matching agent-control results in both live slimming implementations.
  • Keep large shell outputs and unnamespaced user tools named wait_agent or send_input eligible for normal slimming.
  • Add one parameterized regression covering both paths and the two negative controls.

Test plan

The new regression failed on the unmodified base in both paths because all three large outputs were slimmed:

2 failed

With this change:

$ uv run pytest tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py -q -k 'slim_response_create'
11 passed, 1108 deselected

$ uv run ruff check app/core/clients/proxy.py app/modules/proxy/_service/response_create.py app/modules/proxy/_service/streaming/helpers.py tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py
All checks passed!

$ uv run ruff format --check app/core/clients/proxy.py app/modules/proxy/_service/response_create.py app/modules/proxy/_service/streaming/helpers.py tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py
4 files already formatted

$ openspec validate preserve-agent-control-output-slimming --strict
Change 'preserve-agent-control-output-slimming' is valid

Output

The regression asserts that a 33 KiB namespaced wait_agent result remains byte-identical while equally large shell output and an unnamespaced same-name user-tool result become the existing omission notice.

Checklist

  • Title is in Conventional Commits format.
  • Related pull request and maintainer review are linked above.
  • Added tests covering the change and both negative controls.
  • Ran the relevant focused test and lint subset locally.
  • The OpenSpec change passes strict validation.
  • Simplicity gates reviewed; this adds no setting, setup step, README section, environment example, dashboard item, or default change.
  • CHANGELOG is not edited.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved matching historical agent-control function and custom-tool results during response payload size reduction.
    • Prevented reused call IDs from incorrectly preserving unrelated earlier results.
    • Applied consistently across service, bridge, and WebSocket response paths.
    • Continued reducing unrelated or unmatched oversized outputs as before.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for preserving relevant results while slimming unrelated outputs.
  • Documentation

    • Added specifications describing the updated response compatibility behavior.

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The change preserves historical function_call_output and custom_tool_call_output items linked to namespaced agent-control calls during response-create payload slimming. It uses (output_type, call_id) keys across service, bridge, and WebSocket paths, with specifications and regression tests.

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Agent-control output preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Typed historical output protection
app/core/clients/proxy.py
The proxy maps agent-control call types to output types and collects protected keys from historical input. Slimming preserves outputs only when both output type and call ID match.
Response-create path integration
app/modules/proxy/_service/response_create.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/streaming/helpers.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/request_submit.py, app/core/clients/proxy.py
Response-create, bridge, streaming, and WebSocket paths pass typed protection keys through payload preparation and historical-item slimming.
Compatibility specification and regression coverage
openspec/changes/preserve-agent-control-output-slimming/*, tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py
OpenSpec requirements and tests cover historical-prefix matching, function and custom-tool outputs, reused call IDs, omission notices, bridge and WebSocket paths, and namespace removal.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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The change preserves historical agent-control results while continuing to slim unrelated large outputs; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ResponseCreate
  participant Proxy
  participant HistoricalSlimmer
  Client->>ResponseCreate: submit response-create request
  ResponseCreate->>Proxy: collect typed keys from historical input
  Proxy->>HistoricalSlimmer: pass protected output keys
  HistoricalSlimmer-->>ResponseCreate: preserve matching historical outputs
  ResponseCreate-->>Client: continue response creation
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In `@app/core/clients/proxy.py`:
- Around line 3248-3252: Restrict protected call IDs to the original historical
input prefix rather than the complete payload, preventing recent namespaced
calls from protecting unrelated reused IDs. Apply this consistently in
app/core/clients/proxy.py lines 3248-3252,
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/request_submit.py lines 636-640 after
deduplication, and app/modules/proxy/_service/response_create.py lines 216-220.
Add a reused-ID test covering a historical unrelated output and a recent
namespaced call in tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py lines 24359-24404.
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P2 Badge Keep protected IDs separate by tool-call protocol

When a namespaced custom_tool_call and an unrelated function_call reuse the same call_id, this raw-ID set causes both custom_tool_call_output and function_call_output items to bypass slimming. Cross-protocol ID reuse is explicitly supported in app/core/openai/requests.py:45-50; therefore, a large unrelated function result can remain in both upstream payloads and trigger payload_too_large. Track the expected output protocol together with each protected ID rather than collapsing both protocols into one string set.

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P2 Badge Pair same-protocol duplicate IDs by occurrence

When a historical namespaced function_call and an ordinary function_call reuse the same call_id, this set contains only one (output_type, call_id) key, so the check in _slim_historical_response_input_item exempts both outputs. Same-protocol ID reuse is a supported occurrence pattern (test_compact_state_anchor_matches_duplicate_call_id_by_occurrence), and an oversized ordinary shell result can therefore remain unslimmed and keep the request above the payload limit. The protocol-qualified tuple fixes cross-protocol reuse but should also correlate calls and outputs by occurrence rather than globally protecting every matching key.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L127-L130

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Thanks for the disciplined iteration here — the pre-to_payload() key derivation (fixing the namespace-strip gap), the historical-prefix scoping, the protocol-qualified (output_type, call_id) tuples, and the end-to-end tests through stream_responses and _prepare_response_bridge_request_state all check out, and the scope matches exactly what was requested in the #1730 review.

One remaining blocker before this can merge: the latest Codex P2 on app/core/clients/proxy.py (same-protocol duplicate call IDs) is a real gap, and its premise holds in this codebase. app/core/openai/requests.py:45-50 documents call_id reuse, and test_compact_state_anchor_matches_duplicate_call_id_by_occurrence shows same-protocol reuse (two function_call items sharing call-reused) is a supported input shape that the compact path deliberately pairs by occurrence. With the current set-based lookup in _agent_control_tool_output_keys / _slim_historical_response_input_item, a historical namespaced function_call sharing a call_id with an ordinary function_call protects both function_call_output items, so a 33 KiB+ shell-style output escapes slimming and the request can stay above _UPSTREAM_RESPONSE_CREATE_MAX_BYTES — converting a previously-working (lossy) request into a hard upstream rejection.

Suggested fix: pair outputs to calls by per-protocol occurrence, mirroring the existing _COMPACT_TOOL_CALL_TYPE_BY_OUTPUT_TYPE occurrence-pairing approach — the nth output with a given (protocol, call_id) is protected only if the nth matching call is namespaced. Please also add the regression: historical namespaced function_call + ordinary function_call sharing one call_id, asserting the namespaced pair's output is preserved while the ordinary output still gets the omission notice, parameterized over both slimmer paths like your existing tests.

Everything else looks merge-ready; happy to re-review once occurrence pairing lands.

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