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Summary

Codex requests routed to a Zed-hosted OpenAI model (for example zed/gpt-6.1-sol) fail with Provider error 400: Zed: Zed upstream request failed (HTTP 400), even for a plain "hi".

Zed's OpenAI Responses decoder rejects two things Codex always sends:

  • input messages with the developer role (Zed accepts user/assistant/system/tool)
  • built-in tools such as web_search (Zed accepts only function and custom tools)

Changes in src/adapters/zed.ts (OpenAI delegate only):

  • Map developer messages to system before wrapping the request.
  • Drop tools whose type is not function or custom.
  • Point the delegate's baseUrl at the Zed provider instead of api.openai.com, so destination compatibility strips OpenAI-private Responses fields instead of passing them through to Zed.

Anthropic, Google and xAI delegates are unchanged. structure/providers-and-adapters.md is updated to describe the new behavior.

Verification

  • Live: patched a local 2.84.0 install, restarted the service, and sent a Responses request to zed/gpt-6.1-sol with a developer message plus web_search and a function tool. Before: HTTP 400. After: HTTP 200 with a normal answer.
  • bun test --isolate tests/providers/zed-hosted-provider.test.ts: 22 pass (new cases cover the role mapping, tool filtering, and stripped OpenAI-private fields).
  • bun run typecheck, structure:check, privacy:scan, skill:surface:check: pass.
  • bun scripts/test.ts --changed=upstream/dev on Windows with Bun 1.4.3 (654 files) did not finish within 9 minutes. The failures it hit were 5 s timeouts in unrelated suites (doctor end-to-end, droid reasoning defaults, loopback listener). The droid failure also reproduces on unmodified dev on this machine, and most of the other files pass when re-run alone. Relying on CI for the full suite.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved compatibility when sending OpenAI Responses requests through Zed by using Zed’s configured endpoint, adapting developer messages, and excluding unsupported fields and tools.
    • Preserved supported function tools and user messages in translated requests.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified how the Zed adapter handles request compatibility.

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…tools for OpenAI delegate

Zed's OpenAI Responses decoder rejects the developer role and Codex's
built-in web_search tool, so Codex requests through zed/gpt-* failed
with HTTP 400. Keep the delegate's destination set to Zed so
OpenAI-private Responses fields are stripped as well.
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📝 Walkthrough

The Zed OpenAI Responses delegate now uses the configured provider URL. It maps developer messages to system messages and filters tools to function and custom types. The provider test and adapter documentation cover these request changes.

Changes: Zed Responses compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize Zed Responses requests
src/adapters/zed.ts, tests/providers/zed-hosted-provider.test.ts, structure/providers-and-adapters.md
The delegate uses provider.baseUrl, converts developer messages to system messages, and retains function and custom tools. The test checks role conversion, preservation of user input, omission of access_programs, and retention of the function tool. The documentation describes the compatibility behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lidge-jun

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b0de8

Zed requests that require a built-in tool may fail after that tool is removed. Reconcile the tool choice before merging, or accept this bounded compatibility gap.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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src/adapters/zed.ts: 2

56-58: LGTM!


314-319: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The available evidence does not establish that providerRequest.tool_choice can contain a selector for a filtered built-in tool on the Zed path. The Zed snippet filters providerRequest.tools, but the bound translation and send path that could preserve or normalize tool_choice were not inspected. The proposed fix is therefore undecidable from the gathered evidence.

structure/providers-and-adapters.md: 1

212-212: LGTM!

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305-313: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

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Normalize the developer role for items without an explicit type.

Line 309 requires item.type === "message". Lines 278-301 already default a missing type to "message" and a missing role to "user". Those defaults are local to the earlier .map() and apply only when input is a string or an array. A developer item that reaches this point has type: "message" after that normalization, so the guard holds in the current flow. The guard still depends on the earlier block staying in place. Move the role mapping into the earlier .map() to keep one normalization pass. This prevents drift if the earlier block changes.

Lines 305-313 and 278-301 both rewrite providerRequest.input. Two passes over the same array increase the risk of inconsistent edits.


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Review comments at @src/adapters/zed.ts:
- Around line 314-319: In the Zed `open_ai` tools-filtering branch, update
`tool_choice` to `"none"` when filtering leaves `providerRequest.tools` empty
and its current value is `"required"`. Preserve other tool-choice values and the
existing filtering behavior.

Review comments at @tests/providers/zed-hosted-provider.test.ts:
- Around line 272-326: Add focused cases alongside the “normalizes OpenAI input
and removes Codex-only fields for Zed backend” test to verify that `custom`
tools are filtered out, an input containing only filtered tools produces the
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Comment thread src/adapters/zed.ts
Comment on lines +314 to +319
if (zedProvider === "open_ai" && Array.isArray(providerRequest.tools)) {
// Zed's Responses decoder supports function/custom tools, not Codex's built-in web_search.
providerRequest.tools = providerRequest.tools.filter(tool =>
isRecord(tool) && (tool.type === "function" || tool.type === "custom"),
);
}

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n 'tool_choice|stripUnsupportedHostedTools|buildRequest|providerRequest' src/adapters/zed.ts src/adapters/openai-responses/passthrough.ts src/adapters/openai-responses/tool-schema.ts src/chat/inbound.ts
sed -n '280,320p' src/chat/inbound.ts
sed -n '270,305p' src/adapters/openai-responses/tool-schema.ts

Repository: lidge-jun/opencodex

Length of output: 7962


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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- zed adapter ---'
nl -ba src/adapters/zed.ts | sed -n '210,345p'
printf '%s\n' '--- passthrough build and normalization ---'
nl -ba src/adapters/openai-responses/passthrough.ts | sed -n '200,245p'
nl -ba src/adapters/openai-responses/passthrough.ts | sed -n '470,565p'
printf '%s\n' '--- tool schema policy and selector contract ---'
nl -ba src/adapters/openai-responses/tool-schema.ts | sed -n '1,90p'
nl -ba src/adapters/openai-responses/tool-schema.ts | sed -n '220,315p'
printf '%s\n' '--- inbound Responses/tool parsing ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'web_search' -e 'tool_choice' -e 'parseResponses' -e 'responses' src/chat src/adapters/openai-responses src/providers | head -200
nl -ba src/chat/inbound.ts | sed -n '560,650p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Zed provider registration/configuration ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'zedProvider' -e 'cloud.zed.dev' -e 'unsupportedHostedTools' -e 'selected.buildRequest' src | head -200

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- Zed delegate configuration ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- hosted-tool filtering implementation ---'
nl -ba src/adapters/openai-responses/tool-schema.ts | sed -n '225,310p'
printf '%s\n' '--- hosted-tool policy ---'
nl -ba src/responses/hosted-tool-policy.ts | sed -n '1,105p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Zed registry entry ---'
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Normalize tool_choice when the Zed filter removes every tool.

A Responses request with only web_search and tool_choice: "required" can reach this branch unchanged. The filter removes web_search, but it leaves "required". Zed then receives a required choice with no available tools, which violates the selector contract and can cause the request to fail.

Set tool_choice to "none" when filtering removes all tools.

Suggested fix
       providerRequest.tools = providerRequest.tools.filter(tool =>
         isRecord(tool) && (tool.type === "function" || tool.type === "custom"),
       );
+      if (providerRequest.tools.length === 0 && providerRequest.tool_choice === "required") {
+        providerRequest.tool_choice = "none";
+      }
     }
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if (zedProvider === "open_ai" && Array.isArray(providerRequest.tools)) {
// Zed's Responses decoder supports function/custom tools, not Codex's built-in web_search.
providerRequest.tools = providerRequest.tools.filter(tool =>
isRecord(tool) && (tool.type === "function" || tool.type === "custom"),
);
}
if (zedProvider === "open_ai" && Array.isArray(providerRequest.tools)) {
// Zed's Responses decoder supports function/custom tools, not Codex's built-in web_search.
providerRequest.tools = providerRequest.tools.filter(tool =>
isRecord(tool) && (tool.type === "function" || tool.type === "custom"),
);
if (providerRequest.tools.length === 0 && providerRequest.tool_choice === "required") {
providerRequest.tool_choice = "none";
}
}
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Review comment at @src/adapters/zed.ts around lines 314 - 319:
In the Zed `open_ai` tools-filtering branch, update `tool_choice` to `"none"`
when filtering leaves `providerRequest.tools` empty and its current value is
`"required"`. Preserve other tool-choice values and the existing filtering
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Comment on lines 272 to +326
@@ -287,18 +287,43 @@ describe("Zed Hosted AI provider", () => {
authMode: "oauth",
apiKey: "access-token",
};
const parsed = parseRequest({ model: "gpt-6.1-sol", input: "hello zed openai", stream: true });
const parsed = parseRequest({
model: "gpt-6.1-sol",
input: [
{ type: "message", role: "developer", content: [{ type: "input_text", text: "Follow the user request." }] },
{ type: "message", role: "user", content: [{ type: "input_text", text: "hello zed openai" }] },
],
stream: true,
access_programs: { cyber: ["standard"] },
tools: [
{ type: "web_search", search_context_size: "medium" },
{ type: "function", name: "synthetic_tool", parameters: { type: "object", properties: {} } },
],
});
parsed._zedAuthContext = { userId: "user-1" };
const adapter = withTestTranslatorBudget(createZedAdapter(provider));
const request = await adapter.buildRequest(parsed);
const body = JSON.parse(request.body) as { provider: string; provider_request: { input: Array<{ type: string; role: string; content: unknown }> } };
const body = JSON.parse(request.body) as {
provider: string;
provider_request: {
input: Array<{ type: string; role: string; content: unknown }>;
tools: Array<{ type: string }>;
};
};

expect(body.provider).toBe("open_ai");
expect(body.provider_request.input[0]).toEqual({
type: "message",
role: "system",
content: [{ type: "input_text", text: "Follow the user request." }],
});
expect(body.provider_request.input[1]).toEqual({
type: "message",
role: "user",
content: [{ type: "input_text", text: "hello zed openai" }],
});
expect(body.provider_request).not.toHaveProperty("access_programs");
expect(body.provider_request.tools).toEqual([{ type: "function", name: "synthetic_tool", parameters: { type: "object", properties: {} } }]);

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add test cases for the filter edge cases.

The test covers one web_search tool and one function tool. It does not cover a custom tool, an input where every tool is dropped, or a tool_choice that references a dropped tool. Add focused cases for these paths. Tests for these cases would protect the filter at src/adapters/zed.ts lines 314-319.

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- 326:
Add focused cases alongside the “normalizes OpenAI input and removes Codex-only
fields for Zed backend” test to verify that `custom` tools are filtered out, an
input containing only filtered tools produces the expected empty-tools result,
and `tool_choice` referencing a filtered tool is handled correctly. Keep the
cases targeted to the Zed tool-filter behavior.

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Follow-up to carry #7210.

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Follow-up to the source review on #7210; preserve custom tools and shared hosted-tool policy.

Co-authored-by: Andrew Wang <andrewwangmail@gmail.com>
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Being carried into #7216 with your authorship preserved; this PR will be closed when the bundle lands.

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Reviewed the complete three-file diff at b0de8d5. The developer-role and private-field fixes address the reported compatibility path, but the new tool filtering needs to preserve a coherent tool-choice contract. The owner is carrying this work with a selection-policy follow-up in #7216; that carry is still open. No local runtime test, live Zed request or security scan was run in this pass.

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if (zedProvider === "open_ai" && Array.isArray(providerRequest.tools)) {
// Zed's Responses decoder supports function/custom tools, not Codex's built-in web_search.
providerRequest.tools = providerRequest.tools.filter(tool =>

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[P2] Reconcile tool_choice when dropping built-in tools

For a request with tools: [{type: "web_search"}] and tool_choice: {type: "web_search"}, this filter emits tools: [] while leaving the delegate's forced tool choice unchanged. With tool_choice: "required", removing the only tool similarly makes the request impossible to satisfy. The new regression covers only an automatic choice with a surviving function, so it misses these cases. Validate/reconcile forced and allowed-tools choices against the retained declarations, and return an explicit unsupported-selection refusal where the original choice cannot be honored; do not silently broaden a forced request. Add built-in-only, mixed allowed-tools and retained-function/custom cases.

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…7210, #7066, #7099, #7155) (#7216)

Carried from #7210, #7066, #7099, #7155 (one commit per source PR, original authors preserved). Closes #7097.

Remote exact-head validation (hosted GitHub Actions stalled; local tests not run by maintainer rule): union candidate codex/prr-integ-6 (368006f, tree 27fdc37) on mini (Windows) and lidge (Linux), typecheck + full suite, compared with base-dev 4ae4936 on each host.

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Landed on dev in f997eb8 via #7216 (your change is its own commit in that bundle, and the squash keeps your authorship as Co-authored-by). Thank you!

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