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Summary

  • add an opt-in [ocx:codex:affinity] provider-debug record after canonical ChatGPT forward responses
  • compare only a fixed affinity-header allowlist using random per-process HMAC equality tags and coarse size buckets
  • summarize only known top-level turn metadata fields; unknown fields are counted and oversized values are never hashed
  • keep the diagnostic strictly observational: no stripping, retry, fallback, account switching, or thread reset
  • document the privacy boundary and operator workflow

Why

Issue #2046 now reproduces a Plus-success turn followed by an exact-K12 workspace denial in the same task. Independent tests eliminated session_id, prompt_cache_key, x-codex-parent-thread-id, and replay history as sufficient causes. The remaining boundary is the combined affinity envelope copied before account credential substitution.

Deleting all turn metadata would be destructive and unsupported by the evidence. This diagnostic gives the reporter a way to compare value equality across the two requests in one process without collecting raw credentials, account IDs, thread/session IDs, metadata, or bodies.

Privacy and security contract

  • disabled unless provider debug is enabled
  • fresh random 256-bit HMAC key per process
  • no credential, account-id, or attestation header is in the allowlist
  • no raw values are emitted
  • values over 16 KiB receive only an oversized category
  • tags cannot be correlated across restarts
  • diagnostic failure cannot affect request handling

This touches credential/header boundaries and therefore requires explicit security review. The author will not approve or merge this PR.

Verification

  • taskset -c 0,1 bun test tests/codex-affinity-debug.test.ts — 4 passed
  • taskset -c 0,1 bun run typecheck — passed
  • taskset -c 0,1 bun run privacy:scan — passed
  • cd docs-site && taskset -c 0,1 bun install --frozen-lockfile && taskset -c 0,1 bun run build — 393 pages built
  • git diff --check — passed

Integration note

This is TypeScript-only and has no current Go counterpart.

Refs #2046

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  • New Features

    • Added opt-in, privacy-conscious diagnostics for Codex provider affinity.
    • Diagnostics summarize safe headers, size categories, session-scoped equality tags, authentication context, account selection, credential substitution, model normalization, and response status without exposing sensitive values.
    • Diagnostics cover initial requests and account-retry responses.
    • Diagnostic capture is observation-only and does not affect routing, retries, account selection, or request handling.
  • Documentation

    • Documented how to enable and interpret provider affinity diagnostics.

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Adds opt-in, privacy-bounded Codex affinity diagnostics. Canonical OpenAI forwarding records sanitized request and response summaries for initial and retry responses. Tests verify redaction, debug gating, HMAC tags, oversized values, credential substitution, and retry capture. Documentation describes the diagnostic record and its observation-only behavior.

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Codex affinity diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Diagnostic contracts and capture
src/codex/affinity-debug.ts
Defines diagnostic interfaces, safe-header allowlists, bounded size summaries, process-local HMAC tags, metadata parsing, and failure-swallowing capture.
Canonical response and retry integration
src/server/responses/core.ts
Propagates credential-substitution state and captures diagnostics for initial and alternate-account retry responses, including request headers, authentication context, account selection, model data, and status.
Diagnostic validation and documentation
tests/codex-affinity-debug.test.ts, tests/codex-envkey-admission-substitution.test.ts, tests/server-auth.test.ts, structure/08_openai-provider-tiers.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/providers.md
Tests validate sanitized output, debug gating, allowlisting, tag behavior, oversized values, substitution metadata, and retry responses. Documentation describes the diagnostic format and observation-only behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cac39

This opt-in diagnostic is observational and privacy-bounded, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CanonicalOpenAIForward
  participant UpstreamOpenAI
  participant captureCodexAffinityDiagnostic
  participant DebugLogBuffer
  CanonicalOpenAIForward->>UpstreamOpenAI: forward canonical request
  UpstreamOpenAI-->>CanonicalOpenAIForward: return response and headers
  CanonicalOpenAIForward->>captureCodexAffinityDiagnostic: provide affinity metadata
  captureCodexAffinityDiagnostic->>DebugLogBuffer: emit sanitized diagnostic record
  CanonicalOpenAIForward->>UpstreamOpenAI: retry with alternate account
  UpstreamOpenAI-->>CanonicalOpenAIForward: return retry response
  CanonicalOpenAIForward->>captureCodexAffinityDiagnostic: provide retry request and authentication context
  captureCodexAffinityDiagnostic->>DebugLogBuffer: emit retry diagnostic record
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Inline comments:
In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/providers.md`:
- Around line 192-198: Update the provider debug documentation around the
[ocx:codex:affinity] record to state that each canonical forward response
includes safe summaries of known top-level turn fields and a count of unknown
fields, while excluding raw turn metadata; retain the existing descriptions of
header presence, coarse size buckets, and process-local HMAC equality tags.

In `@src/server/responses/core.ts`:
- Around line 2888-2900: Add canonical OpenAI forwarding diagnostics for every
response returned by retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount, emitting one immediately
after each retry response replaces upstreamResponse while preserving the
existing initial-response capture. Extend the integration coverage to assert
records for both the initial response and the retry response.
- Around line 2892-2895: Update the response capture input around
resolveResponsesCodexAuth to carry its substituteMainCredential result into
credentialSubstituted, while preserving true for pool and main-pool auth
contexts. Ensure Direct requests using a substituted stored main credential are
reported as credentialSubstituted: true.
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/providers.md`:
- Around line 198-199: Update the final observation-only sentence in the
provider diagnostics documentation to explicitly guarantee that diagnostics
cannot otherwise affect routing, while preserving the existing guarantees about
metadata, retries, account switching, and thread resets.
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Exact-head CI is fully green on 026d308f52755cb4d9c9fb38e3a40841a6c3aed9, and CodeRabbit reports no remaining actionable finding.

The latest commit addresses all three valid review points: it emits diagnostics for each alternate/same-account retry response, marks Direct-mode stored-main credential substitution accurately, and documents the bounded known turn-field summary plus unknown-field count. Focused affinity, server-auth, and environment-key substitution tests, typecheck, privacy scan, docs build, and the repository CI matrix pass.

This remains observation-only: no metadata stripping, retry policy change, fallback, account switch, or thread reset is introduced. Because it touches the forwarded header and credential-diagnostic boundary, explicit independent security review from @lidge-jun or @Wibias is still required. I will not self-approve or self-merge it.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 58 / 80

#2046 고치는 코드 아님. 관측만 함. 프로바이더 디버그 켜야 [ocx:codex:affinity]가 나옴. Plus 성공 다음에 같은 태스크 K12 403 나는 그 봉투를 비교하려고 만든 거임.

src/codex/affinity-debug.ts가 프로세스마다 랜덤 32바이트 HMAC 키를 만들고, 허용 헤더만 12자 태그로 찍음. raw 값, 계정 id, 크레덴셜은 안 나감. 16KiB 넘으면 oversized만. 실패해도 요청을 안 건드림. 그 계약은 맞음.

허용 목록에 session_id, thread-id, x-codex-parent-thread-id, x-codex-turn-metadata가 있음. 이슈 본문이 그 필드들을 원인에서 뺐다고 해도, 조합 봉투를 보려면 목록에 있어야 함. 재시작하면 태그 리셋이라 프로세스 안에서만 비교됨.

credentialSubstituted / accountGatedModel / wireModelNormalized 플래그는 나감. 계정 식별자는 아님. 그래도 헤더 경계라서 보안 리뷰는 필요함. 작성자가 머지 안 한다고 한 이유임.

이 PR만으로 403은 안 사라짐. 로그 보고 다음 패치를 짜는 도구임. types.ts 스플릿이랑 상관 없음.

해결방안: 디버그 켠 상태로 #2046 재현 한 번 돌려서 inbound/outbound 태그가 어디서 갈라지는지 확인한 다음, 그 결과로 본체 패치를 따로 올림. 이 진단 PR은 관측만 유지. 스트립/리트라이/계정 전환 넣지 말 것.

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