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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md
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Expand Up @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Providers can expose a built-in shorthand, such as `agy` for `google-antigravity
| `terminalContinuationGuard?` | `boolean` | Opt in an `openai-chat` provider to one bounded internal re-ask when an actionable turn announces work, then cleanly stops without a tool call. Defaults to `false`; explicit `false` behaves like omission. Combo attempts and routed compaction turns are excluded, and non-`openai-chat` adapters ignore this option. |
| `responsesItemIdRepair?` | `{ message?: string[]; reasoning?: string[]; repairMissingTerminalIds?: boolean; repairInvalidIds?: boolean }` | Disabled-by-default downstream SSE repair for exact placeholder ids, missing terminal ids, and (with `repairInvalidIds`) message/reasoning ids missing the canonical `msg_`/`rs_` prefix. Function-call ids are never rewritten. Built-in DeepSeek enables the last two by default. |
| `responsesSnapshotRepair?` | `boolean` | Disabled-by-default client-facing repair for sparse Responses lifecycle snapshots in SSE and JSON. Fills missing canonical status, output, and tool metadata while raw inspection and persistence remain unchanged. |
| `webSearchBridge?` | `{ enabled?: boolean; backend?: "ollama" \| "openai" \| "anthropic" \| "xai" \| "gemini" \| "exa"; maxSearches?: number; timeoutMs?: number; endpoint?: string }` | Key-auth `openai-responses` passthrough providers only. Off by default. Codex always declares the hosted `web_search` tool, and the passthrough relays it on the assumption the destination executes it. A gateway that does not run hosted search answers with a `function_call` named `web_search` that nothing runs, and the undeclared-tool guard ends the turn. With `enabled: true` and an explicit `backend` OpenCodex intercepts that call, runs the search itself, feeds the result back to the same upstream, and shows Codex a hosted `web_search_call` cell. Never armed for `authMode: "forward"` (ChatGPT already searches) or for a provider that executes hosted search upstream. `backend` is required; there is no implicit default and a missing credential for the named backend leaves the bridge disarmed rather than falling through to another paid search. `ollama` reuses this provider's own API key on `POST <origin>/api/web_search`, so the origin must be `https://ollama.com` unless the operator names `endpoint` explicitly. `openai` / `anthropic` / `xai` / `gemini` / `exa` reuse the matching sidecar executor and that executor's own credential (`webSearchSidecar.exaApiKey` for Exa). Streaming turns only. A turn that mixes `web_search` with another client tool call still fails closed rather than dropping the client's call. Assistant text such as XML-like `<web_search>` prose is not executed. Defaults: `maxSearches: 3` (1..10), `timeoutMs: 60000` (1000..600000). |
| `webSearchBridge?` | `{ enabled?: boolean; backend?: "ollama" \| "openai" \| "anthropic" \| "xai" \| "gemini" \| "exa"; maxSearches?: number; timeoutMs?: number; endpoint?: string }` | Key-auth `openai-responses` passthrough providers only. Off by default. Codex always declares the hosted `web_search` tool, and the passthrough relays it on the assumption the destination executes it. A gateway that does not run hosted search answers with a `function_call` named `web_search` that nothing runs, and the undeclared-tool guard ends the turn. With `enabled: true` and an explicit `backend` OpenCodex intercepts that call, runs the search itself, feeds the result back to the same upstream, and shows Codex a hosted `web_search_call` cell. Never armed for `authMode: "forward"` (ChatGPT already searches) or for a provider that executes hosted search upstream. `backend` is required; there is no implicit default and a missing credential for the named backend leaves the bridge disarmed rather than falling through to another paid search. `ollama` reuses this provider's own API key on `POST <origin>/api/web_search`, so the origin must be `https://ollama.com` unless the operator names `endpoint` explicitly. `openai` / `anthropic` / `xai` / `gemini` / `exa` reuse the matching sidecar executor and that executor's own credential (`webSearchSidecar.exaApiKey` for Exa). The search model comes from `webSearchSidecar.model` only when `webSearchSidecar.backend` resolves to the same backend this bridge names; otherwise the bridge runs that backend's own default, because a model chosen for one vendor is rejected by another. An unset `webSearchSidecar.backend` resolves to `openai`, so an unset-backend model reaches an `openai` bridge and no other. There is no per-provider bridge model override. Streaming turns only. A turn that mixes `web_search` with another client tool call still fails closed rather than dropping the client's call. Assistant text such as XML-like `<web_search>` prose is not executed. Defaults: `maxSearches: 3` (1..10), `timeoutMs: 60000` (1000..600000). |

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

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| `retryOn429?` | `{ enabled?: boolean; attempts?: number; intervalMs?: number; maxIntervalMs?: number; respectRetryAfter?: boolean }` | API-key providers only (`authMode: "key"`). Opt-in same-target 429 retry: when `retryOn429` is absent the feature is off; object presence enables it unless `enabled: false`. On 429 the proxy waits (upstream `Retry-After` or the fixed interval) and replays the identical request on the same key before any key failover — across the main text-turn recovery loop, the Responses passthrough wire, the image/video bridge, the web-search sidecar, and terminal continuations. Only pre-stream HTTP 429 responses are eligible for replay; custom `runTurn` transports are outside the HTTP retry loop. `attempts` counts same-key replays after the first 429 (total sends = `attempts` + 1) and is one request-wide budget shared by the main recovery loop, the terminal-guard continuation, and bridge retries. Exhausting `attempts` only stops further same-key replays: normal key failover or final-error handling then applies per the available targets — on the key-auth passthrough wire there is no failover, so the exhausted 429 surfaces as-is. Codex itself never retries 429, so this is the only defense for single-key providers. Defaults: `enabled: true`, `attempts: 3`, `intervalMs: 5000`, `maxIntervalMs: 60000` (any single wait is capped at `maxIntervalMs`, itself capped at 600000), `respectRetryAfter: true`. |
| `transientRetryOn5xx?` | `{ enabled?: boolean; attempts?: number }` | Key-auth `openai-chat` providers only. Opt-in retry for pre-stream transient upstream statuses (500, 502, 503, 504, 520, 521, 522): absent means off, object presence enables it unless `enabled: false`. Covers the initial Responses request, the terminal-guard continuation, and native `/v1/chat/completions`. `attempts` is the TOTAL number of upstream sends allowed for one request including the first (1..10, default 3) — it is one budget shared with connection-reset recovery, so `3` means at most three real requests reach the provider. Waits use a fixed 400 ms exponential backoff capped at 5 s and honor `Retry-After`. Separate from `retryOn429`, which handles rate limiting; mid-stream failures are never replayed. |
| `autoToolChoiceOnlyModels?` | `string[]` | Models whose `tool_choice` accepts only `auto` or `none`; forced choices are downgraded. |
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22 changes: 4 additions & 18 deletions src/web-search/index.ts
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Expand Up @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ import {
findAnthropicSidecarProvider,
findGeminiSidecarProvider,
findXaiSidecarProvider,
resolveSidecarBackend,
xaiSearchOptionsFromConfig,
type AnthropicSidecarProvider,
type WebSearchBackendId,
} from "./sidecar-providers";

export { runWithWebSearch } from "./loop";
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findAnthropicSidecarProvider,
findGeminiSidecarProvider,
findXaiSidecarProvider,
resolveSidecarBackend,
xaiSearchOptionsFromConfig,
type AnthropicSidecarProvider,
type WebSearchBackendId,
};

const DEFAULT_SIDECAR_MODEL = "gpt-5.6-luna";
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return Math.min(Number.MAX_VALUE, Math.ceil(largestUnitSec) + STALL_MARGIN_SEC);
}

/** Every backend id the config union admits. New ids are explicit-only and inert until their executor ships. */
export type WebSearchBackendId = "openai" | "anthropic" | "xai" | "gemini" | "exa";

/**
* Precedence: explicit config wins; unset defaults to "openai" (ChatGPT forward path). The
* anthropic backend (web_search_20250305) is only used when explicitly configured — auto-selecting
* it from credential availability caused the sidecar to send incompatible models (e.g. gpt-5.6-luna)
* to the Anthropic API.
* The 2188 follow-up ids (xai/gemini/exa) resolve to themselves the same explicit-only way; their
* planWebSearch arms stay fail-closed until each executor layer lands.
*/
export function resolveSidecarBackend(
explicit: WebSearchBackendId | undefined,
): WebSearchBackendId {
if (explicit === "anthropic" || explicit === "xai" || explicit === "gemini" || explicit === "exa") return explicit;
return "openai";
}

export interface SidecarPlan {
/** Which executor runs the search. Anthropic does not require a forward provider. */
backend: WebSearchBackendId;
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49 changes: 42 additions & 7 deletions src/web-search/passthrough-bridge.ts
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Expand Up @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ import {
findAnthropicSidecarProvider,
findGeminiSidecarProvider,
findXaiSidecarProvider,
resolveSidecarBackend,
xaiSearchOptionsFromConfig,
} from "./sidecar-providers";

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auth?: PassthroughWebSearchBridgeAuth;
hostedTool?: Record<string, unknown>;
describeImages?: boolean;
sidecar?: Pick<OcxWebSearchSidecarConfig, "model" | "reasoning" | "xSearch">;
sidecar?: Pick<OcxWebSearchSidecarConfig, "backend" | "model" | "reasoning" | "xSearch">;
}

const DEFAULT_OPENAI_BRIDGE_MODEL = "gpt-5.6-luna";
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const DEFAULT_GEMINI_BRIDGE_MODEL = "gemini-3.8-flash";
const DEFAULT_BRIDGE_REASONING = "low";

function sidecarSettingsForBridge(
/**
* Search model each bridge backend runs when the global sidecar block was configured for a
* DIFFERENT backend (see modelForBridgeBackend). Exhaustive over the backend union on purpose:
* a seventh backend must decide its own default here rather than fall through to a ChatGPT model.
* The `ollama` and `exa` rows are inert — runOllamaWebSearch takes no model argument and
* runExaWebSearch reads only settings.timeoutMs — and must stay that way.
*/
const DEFAULT_BRIDGE_MODELS: Record<ProviderWebSearchBridgeBackend, string> = {
ollama: DEFAULT_OPENAI_BRIDGE_MODEL,
openai: DEFAULT_OPENAI_BRIDGE_MODEL,
anthropic: DEFAULT_ANTHROPIC_BRIDGE_MODEL,
xai: DEFAULT_XAI_BRIDGE_MODEL,
gemini: DEFAULT_GEMINI_BRIDGE_MODEL,
exa: DEFAULT_OPENAI_BRIDGE_MODEL,
};

/**
* `sidecar` is the GLOBAL `config.webSearchSidecar` block, which carries the model chosen for
* ITS backend. The bridge backend is the per-provider `webSearchBridge.backend` and the two are
* configured independently, so the operator's model only means anything here when they agree:
* a global {backend:"openai", model:"gpt-5.6-luna"} otherwise reaches runAnthropicWebSearch and
* Anthropic rejects the model. On a mismatch the bridge falls back to the backend's own default.
* The same reasoning already pins the backend first in planWebSearch.
*
* Only the model is gated. `reasoning` is a generic effort level, and `xSearch` is xai-only with
* no per-backend default and no `webSearchBridge.xSearch` equivalent, so gating it would make an
* openai sidecar plus an xai bridge plus x_search impossible to express at all.
*/
function modelForBridgeBackend(
backend: ProviderWebSearchBridgeBackend,
sidecar: Pick<OcxWebSearchSidecarConfig, "backend" | "model">,
): string {
const backendDefault = DEFAULT_BRIDGE_MODELS[backend];
if (resolveSidecarBackend(sidecar.backend) !== backend) return backendDefault;
return sidecar.model ?? backendDefault;
}

/** The settings a bridge executor will run with. Exported for tests; the executor closes over it. */
export function sidecarSettingsForBridge(
backend: ProviderWebSearchBridgeBackend,
plan: PassthroughWebSearchBridgePlan,
context: PassthroughWebSearchBridgeExecutorContext,
): SidecarSettings {
const sidecar = context.sidecar ?? {};
const model = backend === "anthropic" ? sidecar.model ?? DEFAULT_ANTHROPIC_BRIDGE_MODEL
: backend === "xai" ? sidecar.model ?? DEFAULT_XAI_BRIDGE_MODEL
: backend === "gemini" ? sidecar.model ?? DEFAULT_GEMINI_BRIDGE_MODEL
: sidecar.model ?? DEFAULT_OPENAI_BRIDGE_MODEL;
return {
model,
model: modelForBridgeBackend(backend, sidecar),
reasoning: sidecar.reasoning ?? DEFAULT_BRIDGE_REASONING,
timeoutMs: plan.timeoutMs,
describeImages: context.describeImages === true,
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Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,28 @@ import { resolveSidecarAuth } from "../sidecar/auth";
import { getAccountSet } from "../oauth/store";
import type { XaiSearchOptions } from "./xai-executor";

/** Every backend id the config union admits. New ids are explicit-only and inert until their executor ships. */
export type WebSearchBackendId = "openai" | "anthropic" | "xai" | "gemini" | "exa";

/**
* Precedence: explicit config wins; unset defaults to "openai" (ChatGPT forward path). The
* anthropic backend (web_search_20250305) is only used when explicitly configured — auto-selecting
* it from credential availability caused the sidecar to send incompatible models (e.g. gpt-5.6-luna)
* to the Anthropic API.
* The 2188 follow-up ids (xai/gemini/exa) resolve to themselves the same explicit-only way; their
* planWebSearch arms stay fail-closed until each executor layer lands.
*
* Lives here rather than in `index.ts` for the reason at the top of this file: the passthrough
* bridge has to answer "which backend was this global sidecar block configured for?" without
* value-importing the barrel.
*/
export function resolveSidecarBackend(
explicit: WebSearchBackendId | undefined,
): WebSearchBackendId {
if (explicit === "anthropic" || explicit === "xai" || explicit === "gemini" || explicit === "exa") return explicit;
return "openai";
}

/** A configured anthropic-adapter OAuth provider whose ACTIVE stored account is usable (not needs-reauth). */
export interface AnthropicSidecarProvider {
providerName: string;
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Expand Up @@ -246,6 +246,21 @@ disarmed rather than falling through to another paid search. A leg that mixes an
`web_search` call with another client-executed tool still fails closed. Assistant text is not
treated as a search instruction.

The bridge backend and the global `webSearchSidecar` block are configured independently, so the
sidecar's `model` applies to a bridge search only when `resolveSidecarBackend(webSearchSidecar.backend)`
equals that bridge backend; otherwise the bridge runs the backend's own default. An unset global
backend resolves to `openai`, so an unset-backend model reaches an `openai` bridge and no other.
There is no per-provider `webSearchBridge.model`, so a mismatched backend gets the default rather
than a vendor-specific override. This is a model and settings rule, not a credential one:
`resolvePassthroughWebSearchBridgeAuth` switches on the bridge backend and consults only that
backend's credential locator, so no key crosses backends. `reasoning` and `xSearch` are not gated —
`reasoning` is a generic effort level and `xSearch` is xai-only with no per-backend default and no
`webSearchBridge` equivalent. `resolveSidecarBackend` lives in `src/web-search/sidecar-providers.ts`
rather than the `src/web-search/index.ts` barrel so the bridge can answer this question without a
value import of the barrel; the barrel re-exports it.
`tests/web-search/web-search-passthrough-bridge.test.ts` covers the mismatch and matching cases for
anthropic, xai, and gemini, plus the unset-backend default.

## Remote Hub hardening ownership

`src/remote/protocol.ts` owns pure interval/feature negotiation. `src/remote/hub-state.ts` owns the `GET|HEAD /v1/hub-state` contract, its caps, and the parser both sides share. `src/client/hub-client.ts` owns bounded, schema-validated remote catalog consumption, hub-state reads, and key-id probes; `src/client/hub-state.ts` owns the resolution and the owner-stamped 0600 cache, and a failed read reports "unavailable" rather than degrading to the client's own local provider and login state. `src/client/hub-relay.ts` is a fixed-authority management relay with URL, header, body, redirect, and stream bounds. The public data listener remains the direct client→hub path; the loopback management ingress never serves data-plane routes.
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