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A replayed compaction item carries an encrypted_content blob only its minting backend can decode, and Codex replays it in input on every later turn. Two paths modified or misrouted it. Both wedge the session rather than failing one turn: the item outlives the failure in the client transcript, and the routed compaction turn opencodex itself drives replays the same item, so the user cannot compact their way out — only clearing history recovers.

Relay provenance. scrubOcxCompactionItems treated every non-ocx1: blob as OpenAI's and forwarded it verbatim, with no check that the destination was the issuer. A session that compacted on a canonical route and then switched to a routed provider sent that blob to an upstream that could only answer Could not decode the compaction blob. Ensure it is unmodified from the compact response. Native blobs now travel only to destinations that mint them, and degrade elsewhere to the same opaque note the bridged parser already uses for this case.

The destination test is destinationDecodesNativeCompactionBlob: forward-auth routes (which relay the caller's own OpenAI credentials to the ChatGPT backend or a self-hosted relay in front of one) plus the official OpenAI API under key auth. Everything else is a routed provider carrying its own credentials to a non-OpenAI backend, which can only reject a blob it never issued. Degrading is deliberately the conservative direction — a self-hosted relay keeps its users' compacted history, and only a destination we are sure cannot decode loses it.

Backfill exemption. The response-side exemption list named compaction alone, so compaction_summary and context_compaction received synthesized ids (item_ocx_1, …) that the client stored and replayed — literally "modified from the compact response", with no route change needed. That divergence was possible because the compact wire family was enumerated in three places; it is now one predicate in src/responses/compaction.ts, and the parser's copy was folded into it.

Scope

stripItemIdsWhenUnstored deliberately still strips ids from compaction items. An earlier draft exempted them, but codex-rs strips ids from every item under store: false (core/src/client.rs:918-925) and OpenAI accepts that, so stripping is the contract rather than a corruption; after the backfill fix there is also no known source of an id on those items. Diverging from the reference client without evidence would have added risk for no gain.

The sibling Could not decrypt the provided encrypted_content failure is not addressed here. It has a different root cause (the reasoning item is reshaped on the response leg) and needs a live canary to confirm, so it is a separate PR.

Verification

  • RED-first: reverting only src/ fails 2 of the new tests (every compact wire item type is returned byte-for-byte, degrades a foreign blob to a note on a destination that cannot decode it). The other new cases are regression guards that pass before and after — ocx1: lowering, bare context_compaction markers, and native relay to minting destinations.
  • bun test on the 39 compaction/responses/adapter/parser suites — 631 pass, 0 fail.
  • bun run typecheck — clean.
  • bun run privacy:scan — passed.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed. (structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md records the provenance boundary and a Decision Log.)
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. No new persistence, logging, credential handling, or destination; the change only narrows where an opaque payload may be relayed. Privacy scan green.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved compaction replay across supported destinations.
    • Converted incompatible or proxy-generated compaction blobs into readable user messages.
    • Preserved native compaction blobs when the destination supports them.
    • Kept all recognized compaction markers unchanged and prevented unwanted ID modifications.
    • Added support for explicitly configured destinations that can decode native compaction data.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified compaction replay, destination compatibility, and data sanitization behavior.

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bun run test — 13738 pass, 10 skip, 1 fail across 866 files, on abc2b9f4f.

The single failure is tests/key-login-live-update.test.ts > "notify after key login pushes the merged row and keeps modelCosts on live and disk". It is pre-existing and unrelated: it reproduces byte-identically on every branch in this series, including ones that never touch CLI code, and on the integrated branch. Every gate in this series lands on exactly that one failure.

(Plain bun test with no arguments hangs on this tree with high CPU and no progress — use bun run test.)

A replayed compaction item carries an `encrypted_content` blob only its minting
backend can decode, and Codex replays it on every later turn. Two paths modified
or misrouted it, and because the item outlives the failure in the client
transcript, both wedged the session until its history was cleared — the routed
compaction turn the proxy itself drives replays the same item.

Relay: `scrubOcxCompactionItems` treated every non-`ocx1:` blob as OpenAI's and
forwarded it verbatim, with no check that the destination was the issuer. A
session that compacted on a canonical route and then switched to a routed
provider sent that blob to an upstream that could only answer "Could not decode
the compaction blob". Native blobs now travel only to destinations that mint
them — forward-auth routes, which relay the caller's own OpenAI credentials to
the ChatGPT backend or a relay in front of it, and the official OpenAI API under
key auth — and degrade elsewhere to the same opaque note the bridged parser uses.

Backfill: the response-side exemption list named `compaction` alone, so
`compaction_summary` and `context_compaction` received synthesized ids that the
client stored and replayed as "modified from the compact response". That
divergence was possible because the compact wire family was enumerated in three
places; it is now one predicate in `src/responses/compaction.ts`.

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Compaction handling now recognizes three wire item types through a shared guard. Replay preserves native blobs only for compatible destinations, converts unsupported blobs to user messages, and prevents ID backfilling for all compact-wire items.

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Compaction replay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared compaction item contracts
src/responses/compaction.ts, src/responses/parser.ts, src/server/responses/responses-field-backfill.ts, tests/responses-field-backfill.test.ts
The shared isCompactionItemType guard recognizes compaction, compaction_summary, and context_compaction. Parsing and JSON/SSE backfill preserve these items without adding IDs.
Destination capability configuration
src/types/provider.ts, src/config.ts, src/providers/openai-tiers.ts
Provider configuration adds decodesNativeCompactionBlobs. The capability check enables native blobs for canonical ChatGPT forwarding, the official OpenAI Responses endpoint, and explicitly opted-in providers.
Destination-aware blob normalization
src/adapters/openai-responses.ts, tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts, tests/responses-compaction.test.ts, structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md
The adapter preserves native blobs for compatible destinations. Other destinations receive opaque user messages. Proxy ocx1: envelopes become readable summaries, and marker-only items remain unchanged. The tests cover each routing outcome.

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The PR narrows compaction-blob forwarding to destinations that can decode the payload and preserves compacted history elsewhere; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Request as Incoming response request
  participant Adapter as openai-responses adapter
  participant Capability as destinationDecodesNativeCompactionBlob
  participant Backend as Routed destination
  Request->>Adapter: Submit compaction item
  Adapter->>Capability: Check native blob capability
  Capability-->>Adapter: Return destination capability
  alt Destination supports native blobs
    Adapter->>Backend: Forward native compaction blob
  else Destination does not support native blobs
    Adapter->>Backend: Send opaque user message
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- Around line 80-82: Update the compact-wire documentation to state that
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지금 dev src/adapters/openai-responses.ts scrubOcxCompactionItems (:151-169)가 ocx1:만 평탄화함. decodeCompactionSummary가 null이면 native blob을 목적지 안 보고 그대로 포워드함. 캐논 경로에서 컴팩션하고 라우티드 프로바이더로 바꾸면 xAI 같은 곳이 Could not decode the compaction blob 냄. 아이템이 클라이언트 트랜스크립트에 남아서 다음 턴마다, 프록시가 돌리는 컴팩션 턴까지 같은 blob을 다시 보냄. 히스토리 클리어 전까지 세션이 못 빠져나옴.

응답 레그는 더 좁음. src/server/responses/responses-field-backfill.ts NON_RESPONSES_ITEM_TYPES"compaction"만 넣음 (:130). compaction_summary / context_compactionitem_ocx_1 합성 id를 받음. 클라이언트가 그 수정된 아이템을 리플레이하면 민팅 백엔드가 unmodified 검사에서 거절함. 루트 바꿀 필요도 없음. compact 와이어 패밀리가 세 군데로 쪼개져 있어서 생긴 구멍임.

이 PR이 두 구멍을 같이 막음. src/responses/compaction.ts isCompactionItemType이 유일한 열거임. 스크럽이 destinationDecodesNativeCompactionBlob (src/providers/openai-tiers.ts)로 목적지를 봄. forward-auth랑 api.openai.com/v1 키만 native blob 통과. 나머지는 compactionItemToTextOPAQUE_COMPACTION_NOTE. ocx1:은 전 목적지에서 평탄화. 백필 면제가 세 타입 전부. stripItemIdsWhenUnstored는 compaction id를 그대로 뗌. 그게 레퍼런스 클라이언트 계약임.

테스트가 라우티드 xAI 베이스에서 blob이 안 새는지, OpenAI 키/포워드 릴레이는 통과하는지, ocx1 로워링, bare marker 유지, 백필 byte-for-byte를 잠금. 방향 맞음. src/만 되돌리면 새 2케이스가 깨진대. ㅇㅇ 그게 RED임.

주의. destinationDecodesNativeCompactionBlobauthMode === "forward"면 어댑터/URL 안 보고 true임. 셀프호스트 릴레이 히스토리 지키려고 한 거임. 포워드가 OpenAI가 아닌 게이트웨이를 가리키면 native blob이 또 거절됨. 지금은 그런 시드 없음. 아이템에 민팅 아이덴티티를 찍는 건 이 PR 범위 밖임. structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md Decision Log가 그 트레이드오프 적음.

#2229랑 원인 다름. 저건 reasoning encrypted_content 리셰이프임. 파일은 structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md만 겹침. #2217/#2227 modelWireDefaults.wire 싸움이랑 무관. 이 PR은 레지스트리 기본 와이어 안 건드림. Chat 기본이 돼도 컴팩션 리플레이 구멍은 남음. 닫지 말 것. types.ts/config.ts 스플릿 안 씹힘. openai-tiers/compaction/adapter/parser/backfill임. #2188 사이드카, #2190 x_search랑 섞지 말 것.

draft고 체크리스트 0/4. hygiene 통과. 세션 웻지라 점수는 높음. 2.28 블로커는 아님. 지금 HEAD 03735eca6가 Grok 4.5/4.6 OAuth+responses를 openai-responses로 박아서 라우티드 컴팩션 경로에서 더 잘 터짐.

해결방안: CI 그린이면 draft 해제하고 dev 머지. #2229랑 같이 넣어도 됨. 기본 와이어는 #2217/#2227에서 따로 고름. 스플릿이 compaction 헬퍼를 옮기면 리베이스하지 말고 닫고 다시 짜라. 지금은 그 정도 아님.

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Part of #2240 — compaction blob provenance — a blob relayed to a backend that could not have minted it.

That issue tracks the whole 2.28.0 Grok regression; this PR is one layer of it, so it deliberately does not carry a closing keyword. The failures are sequential — each one is only reachable once the previous is fixed — so the issue should stay open until every linked PR lands.

…rd auth

Review found the discriminator unsound, and it was. `authMode === "forward"`
describes local credential handling, not which backend answers: the adapter
forwards caller credentials only to the canonical ChatGPT Codex surface, so a
noncanonical forward provider receives none and may point anywhere.

That produced both errors at once. A self-hosted or xAI-backed forward gateway
was classified as able to decode a foreign blob, was sent it unchanged, and
stayed wedged — the exact failure this branch exists to fix. Meanwhile a
key-auth relay genuinely fronting OpenAI was classified as unable to decode and
needlessly lost its compacted context.

Relay is now positive only for the canonical surface, the exact official OpenAI
API, or a destination whose operator opts in with the new
`decodesNativeCompactionBlobs` provider flag. Verified that the flag survives
config derivation and reaches the predicate, since the unit tests construct
provider literals and would not have caught it being dropped there.

Also corrects a stale line in the transport notes: compact-wire items are not
exempt from the `store: false` item-id strip. That exemption was deliberately
reverted to match codex-rs (`core/src/client.rs:918-925`).

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Maintainer status on exact head add8a55: the backend-provenance fix remains valuable, but this draft is not ready to merge. The readiness checklist is 0/4, the branch is 24 commits behind dev, and the documentation accuracy thread about response-side ID backfill versus store:false stripping is still unresolved. Please address that thread, synchronize with current dev, and complete exact-head CI before requesting final review. Keep #2240 open; this is one sequential layer, not the closing PR.

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Superseded by #2254, which carries this change plus the rest of the series as a single review target.

These eight PRs had to merge in a strict order, and the later four each carried the whole series as their diff (up to 27 files / +2830), so reviewing them in isolation was not actually possible. #2254 has the same 16 commits with each unit's evidence intact in its message, and the combined test gate.

Nothing is dropped — the branch is unchanged and still pushed, so this can be reopened if a split is preferred after all.

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