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Codex prefers a WebSocket to its Responses endpoint: one socket per session, with later turns sending only new input instead of the whole conversation. #1462 (merged) made Cortex decline it with a 426, so Codex falls back to HTTPS straight away. This PR carries the socket and parses every turn on it. Codex keeps its preferred transport, and Cortex still sees the model, tokens, cost and tool calls.

This is a large PR (20 files), so the sections below say where to look.

How it works

core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket.go:

  • Handshake: the bridged GET runs the pipeline like any request. The proxy then completes the upgrade with the origin over the bridge's upstream client (Go forces HTTP/1.1 for an upgrade) and takes over the client connection. permessage-deflate is stripped from the offer, so frames stay readable.
  • Relay: frames go both ways exactly as they arrived. The new codec (core/listener/internal/wsframe) keeps each frame's raw bytes for forwarding and a separate unmasked copy for reading.
  • Turns: each response.create gets its own pipeline.Context, cloned from the handshake's identity, with POST and the message minus type as the body, and a session view built fresh, as each HTTPS request gets. The server's event messages go to RunResponseFrame one at a time, exactly as SSE data: blocks do. The JSON is the same, so inference-parser needed no change.
  • A turn ends on response.completed / incomplete / failed, an error event, or the socket closing. Then the terminal frame settles cost, the response row is recorded, and Finishers run. Turns are kept in a queue in the order they were sent, and only the side reading the server's answers ends one, so each answer is matched to the turn it answers.
  • Prewarms (generate: false) go through the request plugins, since they carry the prompt the next turn builds on, but are not recorded as turns.
  • Each turn, and the handshake, keep the pipeline they started on, so a config hot-reload can't hand a response, or the handshake's Finishers, to a different pipeline than the request ran on. HTTPS gets the same from its request lifetime; a socket outlives many reloads.
  • Rows: the socket records a GET open and a close with tunnelReason: "websocket" (the close carries duration and bytes). Each turn is an ordinary POST request/response pair between them, so cost, usage, the archive and agentop read it the way they read HTTPS inference.

A turn's status is what the same turn would get over HTTPS:

  • 200 for a completed turn.
  • An error event's own status, or else one mapped from its code: quota and rate limits → 429, bad requests → 400, overload → 503, anything else → 500.
  • 200 with error.kind: "turn_interrupted" when Codex ended it first (Esc closes the socket), the way HTTPS records a stream the client leaves part way, so it does not count as an error in /v1/usage.
  • 502 upstream_error when the origin dropped it.
  • When both sides close, the first close frame decides who ended it, not relay timing.

Plugins still apply:

  • A turn a plugin rejects is never sent. Codex gets {"type":"error","status":…}, which it reads as a server refusal.
  • A request-body writer's rewrite (tool-prune) is sent in place of the original message.
  • A pipeline with a WritesResponseBody plugin can't rewrite a live stream, and one with a WritesDestination plugin (inference-router) can't send a turn elsewhere on a socket already connected to OpenAI, so either declines the socket with the 426, and Codex uses HTTPS where both work. A non-bridged connection is declined the same way. A reload that adds such a plugin ends an open socket at its next turn with close code 1013, so Codex reconnects and is declined.
  • Limits match HTTPS: a client message up to 32 MiB, as a request body, and a server message up to 10 MiB, as a response. A larger one ends the socket with close code 1009, as HTTPS answers 413. From Codex that happens before any of it reaches OpenAI; from OpenAI, frames before the limit have already reached Codex, since each frame is forwarded before it is read.

Scope: OpenAI's hosts only

The socket is carried only on chatgpt.com (Codex on a ChatGPT login) and api.openai.com (Codex on an API key), the same rule #1462's 426 uses. Every other host serving the Responses API keeps the stripped GET and its origin's own answer, since what the socket carries is only known for Codex against OpenAI. TestResponsesWebSocket_OtherHostsAreForwardedAsBefore pins it.

The setting

listener.responses_websockets: parse | decline | forward, default parse.

This replaces #1462's decline_responses_websockets boolean, which merged but hasn't been released (v0.9.3 predates it), so this PR should merge before the next release; then the boolean never ships.

Known limitation

Turns after the first send only new input, with previous_response_id. A plugin that judges the whole conversation therefore sees less of a Codex session over the socket than over HTTPS. Tokens, cost, model and tool calls are unaffected. Tracked in #1515.

Review fixes

A three-way review (frame codec; relay and turns; config, tests and docs) found these, each reproduced with a throwaway test and now fixed, with a test that fails on the code before the fix:

  • Turns matched to the wrong answer, and a data race: a response.create arriving while the previous turn's response.completed was still being parsed ended that turn with no usage; a late terminal event could end the next turn. Both relays also wrote the same turn's context concurrently. Fixed by the queue above.
  • An over-32 MiB turn skipped every plugin and was never recorded, and the relay could be made to hold a message's fragments without bound. Now closed with 1009, with a cap of 1,024 fragments per message.
  • A reload while Codex was connected could panic the handshake's handler, which ran its Finishers on the pipeline current at socket close. The handshake now keeps its pipeline, as does the same pre-existing pattern in handleConnect.
  • Routing Codex to another server stopped working: see the WritesDestination decline above.
  • Also: prewarms through the plugins; a fresh session view per turn; an origin refusal's body no longer cut off by the handshake deadline; Finishers see an origin's error event as HTTPS shows it; mid-turn frames are marked delivered and plugins are released when the socket ends; the codec reads a frame's payload as it arrives rather than reserving its claimed size, and cuts a close reason at a UTF-8 boundary.

CodeQL flagged a session id read from a request header reaching the session store's log lines. That flow is on main too, outside this PR's changes; the alerts were dismissed as false positives, and #1533 tracks fixing it at the source.

Live results

On macOS with Codex 0.163.0, against the real backend:

  • Speed: three codex exec turns ran with no handshake error, no Reconnecting… and no fallback, at ~3s per turn, against a median 11.0s with the old 405 retries.
  • Several turns on one socket: a prompt that ran two shell commands carried two turns on one socket, each recorded with model, tokens and a cost.
  • TUI: a prompt typed into the real TUI over a pty used the socket under codex-tui, and its turn was parsed.
  • Esc mid-answer: the socket closed within milliseconds, the turn was recorded with the text that had arrived (as 499 then; now 200 turn_interrupted, see below), and the next prompt worked normally.
  • API-key login: Codex used api.openai.com instead; one-turn and three-turn runs were both parsed.

On Linux (Ubuntu 26.10 arm64 VM, Codex 0.164.0, API key): one turn, three turns on one socket, and a TUI turn, each carried and parsed, with Codex's traffic attributed to its process.

Test plan

  • wsframe: RFC 6455 §5.7 example frames byte for byte; all three length forms, masked and not; over-limit frames relayed but not read; refusal of RSV bits, unknown opcodes, and fragmented or oversized control frames; clean vs torn EOF; reassembly around an interleaved ping; out-of-order fragments; close-code descriptions
  • End to end through a real CONNECT bridge to a TLS WebSocket origin addressed as chatgpt.com (websocket_test.go): prewarm plus two turns on one socket, with per-turn usage and rows ordered and paired; deflate stripped; rejected turn answered and not forwarded; rewritten turn is what the origin gets; uncarriable socket declined; other hosts forwarded as before; decline mode; origin refusal relayed; client hang-up → 200 turn_interrupted; origin drop → 502; first close frame decides; error-code → status mapping; quota refusal → 429; interrupt relayed and the turn recorded once; reload mid-turn finishes on the turn's pipeline; a large first turn parsed
  • TestEveryResponseDispatchSiteIsClassified: the two new dispatch sites registered
  • Run 5–10× under -race, no races
  • Review fixes: one test per reproduced defect (turn ordering, handshake pipeline across a reload, router decline, reload adding an uncarriable plugin, over-limit turn, prewarm, per-turn session view, refusal body) and codec tests (fragment flood, truncated fragment, RFC 6455 long-length examples, limit boundary, stalled length claim, UTF-8 cut), each confirmed to fail before its fix
  • All of core under -race; the WebSocket tests 5× under -race with no races; the changed packages on Linux under -race (Go 1.26.10, as CI)
  • go vet and go mod tidy -diff on every touched module; cmd/cortex, cmd/agentop/tui
  • Live on macOS and Linux (above), before the review fixes
  • Live with a real Codex (0.163.0, API key, macOS) after the review fixes, on a separate test Cortex built from this branch:
    • one turn: answered in 4.8s with no handshake error or retries; one socket, one turn recorded with model and 13,176 tokens
    • two tool calls in one prompt: two turns on one socket, each with its own usage (13,265 and 13,370 tokens)
    • with inference-router routing Codex to a stand-in server: the socket was declined with 426, Codex fell back to HTTPS at once, and the turn was routed to the stand-in (requestedHost: api.openai.com)
    • Esc mid-answer in the real TUI: the turn was recorded as 200 turn_interrupted with the 415 characters that had arrived, not counted as an error, and the next prompt on a new socket was answered normally

Closes #1411. Refs #1365, #1515.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

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  • New Features
    • Responses API WebSockets are parsed and processed turn by turn by default, with each turn recorded in session activity.
    • Configure parse, decline, or forward behavior. The default carries supported sockets and declines unsupported ones with HTTP 426; decline returns 426 immediately, while forward preserves the previous forwarding behavior.
    • Interrupted turns are recorded distinctly, and oversized messages close with WebSocket code 1009.
  • Documentation
    • Updated configuration and session-event guidance to describe WebSocket modes, recorded turns, and interruptions.

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The PR adds configurable handling for selected OpenAI Responses API WebSockets. The proxy can parse and relay eligible sockets, decline them with HTTP 426, or forward the prior bare-GET request. Carried sockets receive per-turn pipeline processing and session records.

Changes: Responses WebSocket support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure WebSocket modes
core/config/*, core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go, cmd/cortex/main.go, cmd/agentop/tui/detail_pane.go, docs/README.md, docs/framework-architecture.md, docs/agents/codex.md, CLAUDE.md, core/listener/forwardproxy/upgradedeclined_test.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/upgradestripped_test.go
The responses_websockets setting supports parse, decline, and forward. Validation rejects unsupported modes and reports mappings for the legacy key. Proxy wiring, tests, and documentation use the new setting.
Implement frame codec
core/listener/internal/wsframe/*
The frame reader, encoder, close-payload helpers, and message reassembler preserve raw frame bytes and enforce protocol and size limits. Tests cover encoding, fragmentation, close payloads, and bounded reads.
Carry and record WebSocket turns
core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket.go, core/pipeline/*, core/cost/usage/usage.go, core/listener/parity/dispatch_audit_test.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket_test.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket_review_test.go, docs/session-api.md, CLAUDE.md
The proxy processes eligible socket turns through the outbound pipeline and records handshake, turn, close, and interruption events. Tests cover carryability, refusals, limits, error mapping, and pipeline reloads.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Codex
  participant ForwardProxy
  participant OutboundPipeline
  participant OpenAIResponses
  participant SessionEvents
  Codex->>ForwardProxy: Send WebSocket handshake
  ForwardProxy->>OutboundPipeline: Check eligibility
  ForwardProxy->>OpenAIResponses: Send upgrade request
  OpenAIResponses-->>ForwardProxy: Return handshake response
  Codex->>ForwardProxy: Send response.create turn
  ForwardProxy->>OutboundPipeline: Process turn
  ForwardProxy->>OpenAIResponses: Relay turn frames
  OpenAIResponses-->>ForwardProxy: Return response events
  ForwardProxy->>SessionEvents: Record socket and turn events
  ForwardProxy-->>Codex: Relay response frames
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Possibly related issues

  • rossoctl/cortex#1488 — The PR adds carried WebSocket support for selected OpenAI Responses endpoints.
  • rossoctl/cortex#1515 — The PR processes each received WebSocket turn separately, while the issue concerns the incremental input available to plugins on later turns.

Possibly related PRs

  • rossoctl/cortex#1549 — Both PRs define forward-proxy behavior for WebSocket upgrades, including parsed and opaque forwarding.
  • rossoctl/cortex#1462 — This PR replaces the earlier decline-only setting with parse, decline, and forward modes.
  • rossoctl/cortex#1472 — The response-body-writing capability determines whether this PR can carry a WebSocket.

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Responses WebSocket support is now the default path for Codex on chatgpt.com and api.openai.com. After a configuration reload, a long-lived socket may keep using the old pipeline after it has been shut down. Turn records or plugin finalization could then be lost for that socket. Normal operation is unaffected, so this can be accepted or followed up rather than blocking the merge.

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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: carrying Codex Responses WebSockets and parsing each turn.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#1411] identifies lost WebSocket observability and warns that opaque forwarding would remove model, token, cost, tool-call, and plugin visibility. The PR carries eligible Responses WebSockets o…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The frame codec, relay, Responses turn processing, pipeline checks, configuration modes, telemetry markers, tests, and documentation directly support the WebSocket observability problem in [#1411]. Th…
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Issue [#1411] identifies lost WebSocket observability and warns that opaque forwarding would remove model, token, cost, tool-call, and plugin visibility. The PR carries eligible Responses WebSockets on chatgpt.com and api.openai.com, parses each response.create through the pipeline, and records per-turn telemetry. It keeps decline and forward modes and documents the behavior. Issue [#1411] recommends deferral and lists optional low-cost follow-ups, but it does not define those recommendations as mandatory coding acceptance criteria.

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Codex prefers a WebSocket to /backend-api/codex/responses: one socket per
session, with later turns sending only new input. Cortex could not carry
it, so it declined it (426) and Codex used HTTPS. Now the forward proxy
carries it.

It completes the handshake with the origin, takes over the client
connection and relays frames unchanged in both directions. Each
response.create and the event messages answering it run the outbound
pipeline as the equivalent HTTPS request and SSE stream: inference-parser
reads the turn, its cost is settled, it records an ordinary POST
request/response pair, and Finishers run. The socket itself records a
GET open and close with tunnelReason "websocket".

A plugin rejecting a turn keeps it from the origin and answers Codex
with the Responses error event it reads as a server refusal. A
request-body writer's rewrite is what the origin receives.
permessage-deflate is stripped from the handshake so frames stay
readable. A socket that cannot be carried (not bridged, HTTP/2, or a
WritesResponseBody plugin in the chain) is declined with the 426.

listener.responses_websockets: parse | decline | forward replaces the
decline_responses_websockets boolean; parse is the default.

Measured on Codex 0.163.0: three codex exec turns each opened one socket
with no handshake error, and every turn was recorded with its model,
tokens and cost, in about 3s per turn.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
Three fixes to the Responses WebSocket relay.

- Each turn runs every step on the pipeline it began on. A hot reload
  keeps the old pipeline running for its drain window so in-flight
  requests finish where they started; an HTTPS turn always does, but a
  socket outlives the window, and a turn looking the pipeline up per
  step ended on one whose plugins never saw it begin. RunFinish
  dispatches by index into the pipeline it is called on, so the turn's
  own Finishers were skipped or the wrong ones ran.
- What the client sends is parsed up to maxRequestBodySize (32 MiB),
  as an HTTPS request body is. It was capped at maxBodySize (10 MB),
  the per-event response cap, so a socket's first turn, which carries
  the whole conversation, went unparsed between 10 MB and 32 MiB where
  HTTPS parsed it.
- A turn no longer inherits the handshake's Content-Encoding or
  Content-Length, which describe no body a turn carries.

session-api.md and CLAUDE.md now say a websocket tunnel row is not
opaque.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
…lti-turn runs

Esc in Codex's TUI sends response.interrupt over the socket and waits
for response.interrupt.accepted carrying the same response id, which
Codex rejects if it does not arrive intact. The new test drives that
exchange in both orders the server may send the acknowledgement and the
turn's terminal event, and checks the relay forwards both unchanged and
records the interrupted turn once, with its partial text and usage.

docs/agents/codex.md moves two items from Not tested to the verified
list, both measured on Codex 0.163.0: several turns on one socket, and
a TUI turn over a carried socket. It adds the API-key login and a live
interrupt to Not tested.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
…am_error

A turn still open when its WebSocket ended was always recorded as an
upstream_error. Codex closes the socket when the user presses Esc, so
every interrupted turn read as OpenAI failing.

Each relay now reports which side stopped it, and the first to stop
decides: the client closing records the turn as the HTTPS path records
a client that hangs up, 499 client_canceled, which /v1/usage keeps out
of the 5xx series; the origin closing records 502 upstream_error.

Measured live on Codex 0.163.0: Esc mid-answer closed the socket within
milliseconds, the turn was recorded with the text that had arrived, and
the next prompt opened a new socket and was parsed normally. The Codex
doc said Esc sends response.interrupt; it does not. That in-band
interrupt is for Codex's own steering and mailbox input, and the doc
and test now say so.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
Two refinements to how a turn's row is recorded.

- Who ended a socket mid-turn is read from the first close frame either
  side sent, falling back to which relay stopped first only when neither
  sent one. When one side closes cleanly the other answers with a close
  of its own, and that answer could make its relay stop first: a client
  closing cleanly was recorded as the origin's fault. The close code and
  reason go into the row's message.
- A refusal the origin sends as an error event takes the event's own
  status when it has one, and otherwise the status its error code is
  answered with over HTTPS (insufficient_quota and rate_limit_exceeded
  429, context_length_exceeded 400, server_is_overloaded 503), before
  falling back to 500. A live quota refusal arrived with no status and
  was recorded as a 500.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
Verified depth gains two entries: an API-key login on macOS, whose
socket goes to api.openai.com, and Linux (Ubuntu 26.10 arm64, Codex
0.164.0), where a single turn, three turns on one socket and a TUI turn
were each carried and parsed with tokens and a cost, and Codex's traffic
was attributed to its process.

Not tested is narrowed to match: Linux now means what was not run there
(configure, dotenv routing, the HTTPS fallback), the version range runs
to 0.164.0, and the public /v1/responses API entry covers HTTPS only.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
Base automatically changed from fix/codex-ws-426 to main October 27, 2026 18:17
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Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
The test sent a 15 MB turn and gave the client 15s to see the reply.
Under -race that turn takes ~3.4s on a Mac and ~6.2s on Linux, and on
a shared CI runner it went past 15s twice. The size is what it tests,
so send just over the 10 MB per-event cap instead (11 MiB, ~5s on
Linux under -race at 2 CPUs) and allow 60s. Measured on Linux with Go
1.26.10 and -race, the old version never hung: it was only slow.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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From the three-way review of #1467:

Must-fix
- Turns end where their answer is parsed. relayDown alone ends a turn,
  from a queue in send order, so a response.create arriving while the
  previous turn's response.completed is still being parsed no longer
  ends that turn with no usage, and a late terminal event can no longer
  land on the next turn. This also removes the data race between the
  two relays on the turn's context.
- A message over its limit ends the socket with close code 1009, as
  HTTPS answers 413, instead of being relayed unread past every plugin
  and recorded nowhere. Fragments are capped at 1024, so a flood of
  empty continuations cannot be held without bound either.
- The handshake's Finishers run on the pipeline the handshake ran on.
  The deferred RunFinish loaded the pipeline current when the socket
  closed, so a reload while Codex was connected finished plugins that
  never saw the request, or indexed past a shorter pipeline and
  panicked. handleConnect had the same shape; both now pin the pipeline.
- A pipeline with a WritesDestination plugin (inference-router) is
  declined with a 426, so Codex routed to another server keeps being
  routed over HTTPS instead of going to OpenAI on the socket.

Suggestions
- A reload that adds a response-body writer or a destination writer
  ends an open socket at its next turn with close code 1013, so Codex
  reconnects and is declined, rather than ignoring the plugin.
- A prewarm (generate:false) runs the request phase: it carries the
  prompt the next turn builds on. It still records no turn.
- Each turn gets a fresh session view, as each HTTPS request does.
- An Esc'd turn is recorded as HTTPS records a stream the client
  leaves part way: its 200, with error.kind turn_interrupted, which
  /v1/usage does not count as an error.
- An origin's error event gives Finishers an allow with its status, as
  the same refusal over HTTPS does, not an error with none.
- Mid-turn frames are marked delivered before dispatch, and turns run
  under a context cancelled when the socket ends.
- An origin's refusal body is no longer cut off by the handshake
  deadline.
- The codec grows a frame's buffer as bytes arrive instead of sizing it
  from the claimed length, copies a one-frame message once, and cuts a
  close reason at a UTF-8 boundary.
- The removed listener.decline_responses_websockets is refused at
  startup with the matching responses_websockets mode named.

CodeQL: log values a client chose are passed through logValue, which
replaces line breaks; the socket's session id is cleaned where the
socket takes it; Encode bounds its capacity arithmetic.

Tests: one per reproduced defect, each confirmed to fail on the code
before the fix. The weak assertions the review found are fixed: the
rejected-turn check waits for the socket to end, the reload check reads
under its lock, and events() fails on timeout. Docs and comments that
were wrong (Esc as 499, the unreachable HTTP/2 decline, tool-prune as
the example rewriter, the upgrade marker on the handshake row) are
corrected.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>

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Comment thread core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket.go Resolved
Comment thread core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket.go Resolved
CodeQL's clear-text-logging query treats every request header as
sensitive, and an id cleaned of line breaks still counts. Two changes
in the last commit gave it a path from the handshake's headers into
plugins' and the store's log lines that main has no counterpart for:
wrapping the socket's session id in logValue, and building each turn's
session view from that id.

Each turn's view now comes from the handshake's resolved session, as
hydrateSession builds an HTTPS request's: the same per-turn freshness,
from the same source an HTTPS request uses. The logValue wrapper is
dropped; it changed nothing a header id can hold, since IDHeaderFrom
already refuses control characters.

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logValue replaced line breaks in seven WebSocket log values, and Encode
bounded 14+len(payload) against int overflow, only to clear CodeQL
alerts. Neither guarded anything real: slog's text handler, which every
binary installs, already quotes a value containing a line break; and
14+len cannot overflow for a slice that fits in memory, since every
caller passes a payload already bounded by the 32 MiB message limit.
The log lines now pass values as the rest of the proxy does.

The alerts these targeted are dismissed as false positives; #1533
tracks fixing the session id's flow at its source.

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This adds a carefully built relay. Raw frames are forwarded untouched, each turn keeps the pipeline it started on, turns are answered in queue order, and the decline rules for uncarriable sockets (WritesResponseBody / WritesDestination) are right. One blocker: a prewarm still open when the socket closes is finished a second time and leaves an orphan response row (reproduced: one Finisher fired 3×, against RunFinish's at-most-once contract). The rest are small: the UpgradeStripped marker on origin refusals, and some comments that drifted when 499 became turn_interrupted and when truncated frames became 1009.

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ws.turns = nil
ws.turnMu.Unlock()
status, fail := ws.unfinishedTurn()
for _, t := range open {

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must-fix — +1 to CodeRabbit's prewarm finding; I reproduced it. A prewarm (generate:false) runs RunFinish in clientMessage (L680) and is then queued. If the socket closes before the prewarm's answer arrives, run() passes it to endTurn. That records a POST response row with no request row: status 200 turn_interrupted, filed through the responseSessionID fallback because OutboundSessionID was never set. It also calls RunFinish again, which breaks the documented contract at pipeline.go:588 ("safe to call at most once per request").

In the repro (an origin that reads the prewarm and never answers, then the client closes), a single counting Finisher fired 3 times: once for the handshake and twice for the prewarm.

Fix: skip t.prewarm in this loop, or drop prewarms from the queue at close. Please also add a test like PrewarmRunsTheRequestPhase where the origin never answers.

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Thanks, reproduced and fixed in cb3f4fb. The close loop in run() now skips a queued prewarm: it was finished when it was sent and has no request row, so it neither records a response row nor reaches RunFinish a second time.

One correction to the count, for the record. RunFinish already drops a second call on the same pctx with a WARN ("RunFinish called twice"), so the prewarm's Finishers did not actually run twice. The 3 in your repro were the CONNECT tunnel, the handshake and the prewarm, one each. The real effects were the orphan response row and the dropped second call, and both are gone.

TestResponsesWebSocket_UnansweredPrewarmIsNotFinishedTwice covers it: an origin that reads the prewarm and never answers, then the client closes. It asserts no turn row, one Finisher call for the prewarm, and no RunFinish-twice WARN, and fails on both counts without the fix.

n, _ := io.Copy(w, io.LimitReader(resp.Body, maxBodySize))
pctx.ResponseBytes = n
pctx.StatusCode = resp.StatusCode
s.recordWebSocketRefusal(pctx, tl, sid, chain, resp.StatusCode, nil)

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suggestion — +1 to CodeRabbit's UpgradeStripped finding. RecordStrippedUpgrade runs before the parse branch, so when the origin answers the forwarded upgrade (a 401/403 here, or the bad-extension and no-writable-conn paths after it), the request row still says the upgrade was stripped. agentop's detail pane then shows the label for an upgrade that actually went through. Clear it once client.Do returns a response. Keep it on dial failure and on the local 426.

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Done in cb3f4fb. The marker is cleared as soon as client.Do returns a response, refusal or not, since the origin received the upgrade. It stays on a dial failure and on the local 426. UpgradeStripped's doc comment says so. TestResponsesWebSocket_OriginRefusalIsNotMarkedStripped checks a 403 refusal's request row; it fails without the change.

// plugins have seen it only so a Reject can keep it off the wire. A
// WebSocket turn cannot be retracted once it started, so the frame goes
// now and the parse follows.
if !ws.writeClient(f.Raw) {

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nit — The PR body and the wsClientMessageLimit comment say an over-limit message "is never relayed unread". That holds for the client-to-origin direction only. relayDown forwards each frame before msg.Add checks the limit, so an origin message over 10 MiB (one frame of up to 32 MiB, or its fragments) reaches Codex before the 1009. That order is deliberate (frames are forwarded before they are read), but please scope the claim to one direction.

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Right, fixed in cb3f4fb: the wsClientMessageLimit comment, the Codex doc and the PR body now say the client's oversized message is refused before any of it reaches OpenAI, while an origin message's frames before the limit have already reached Codex, since relayDown forwards each frame before reading it.

// Raw is the frame exactly as it arrived, header and (still masked) payload.
// Forward this, not a re-encoding.
Raw []byte
// Payload is the unmasked payload, or nil when the frame is over the reader's

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nit — This comment, Truncated's, and Reader.limit's still say an over-limit frame "is still relayed whole, but not read". Message.Add now turns Truncated into ErrMessageTooBig, which ends the socket.

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Fixed in cb3f4fb: Payload's and Reader.limit's comments now say an over-limit frame is not kept and Message.Add turns it into ErrMessageTooBig, which ends the socket.

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ctxv context.Context
stop context.CancelFunc
// hsp is the pipeline the handshake ran on.
hsp *pipeline.Pipeline

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nit — hsp is set at L272 but nothing reads it. The handshake's pipeline is already pinned by p in serveOutbound's deferred RunFinish. Drop the field.

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Dropped in cb3f4fb, along with serveResponsesWebSocket's pipeline parameter, which only fed it.


// A client that hangs up mid-turn — Codex does this on Esc, closing the socket rather
// than interrupting over it — still gets that turn recorded with what had arrived, as a
// 499 client_canceled the way an HTTPS client hanging up is, not as an upstream

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nit — This comment and the one at L714 still say a client hang-up is recorded as "499 client_canceled". Since 05b21b4 it is 200 turn_interrupted.

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Fixed in cb3f4fb: both comments now say 200 turn_interrupted.

From huang195's review of #1467:

- A prewarm still waiting for its answer when the socket closed was
  ended like an unanswered turn: a response row with no request row,
  and a second RunFinish, which RunFinish drops with a WARN. A prewarm
  is finished when it is sent, so the close now leaves it alone.
- The request row no longer says the upgrade was stripped once the
  origin answers the forwarded upgrade, refusal or not. A dial that
  failed, and the local 426, keep the marker.
- The over-limit comment and docs say which direction is refused
  before forwarding: the client's. An origin message is forwarded frame
  by frame before it is read, so frames before the limit reach Codex.
- Comments that still said truncated frames are relayed unread, or
  that a client hang-up is a 499, now match the code.
- wsSocket.hsp, and serveResponsesWebSocket's pipeline parameter, are
  dropped: nothing read them.

Tests: the unanswered prewarm records no turn row and is finished once
(no RunFinish-twice WARN); an origin refusal's request row has no
upgrade marker. Both fail without their fix.

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Major · Response-frame Reject does not stop content on carried Responses… · websocket.go:593-603

core/listener/forwardproxy/websocket.go:593-603
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Response-frame Reject does not stop content on carried Responses WebSocket sessions.

On a carried socket, relayDown writes each origin frame to the client before the message is complete and before the response-frame policy runs. serverMessage then calls RunResponseFrame after delivery and does not check the returned action. A StreamingResponder that returns pipeline.Reject cannot stop content that has already reached the client. pipelineCannotCarry checks only WritesResponseBody and WritesDestination, so a read-only response-frame policy keeps the socket carried in the default parse mode on chatgpt.com and api.openai.com.

Impact is conditional. No in-tree plugin returns Reject from this hook. The exposure applies to a deployment that registers its own response-frame policy through the exported plugins.RegisterPlugin path.

A correction needs a design choice. Declining carry for every StreamingResponder would also disable the in-tree inference parser, which is a StreamingResponder. Any fix must either hold each origin message until RunResponseFrame accepts it, or identify which carried policies require declining. The second option needs a contract that the current interface does not expose.

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Two doc conflicts, each two independent edits to one paragraph: in
CLAUDE.md, main's bytesUp/bytesDown rewrite for #1251 beside this
branch's websocket tunnel sentence; in docs/session-api.md, this
branch's expanded 426 text beside main's new ttfbMs entry. Both kept.

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@huang195 ready for another look. All six comments are addressed in cb3f4fb, with a test each for the prewarm and marker fixes. Since then I merged main (two doc conflicts, both kept) in 2bc2b0d. CodeQL flagged 7 log-injection and allocation-size alerts on the full scan; they are dismissed as false positives with the reasons recorded: slog's text handler escapes line breaks in a value, and Encode's payloads are capped at 32 MiB. All checks pass.

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main gained the egress guard (#1539) and the plaintext-credential
refusal (#1537), which touch the same files as this branch. Resolved by
keeping both sides:

- forwardproxy/server.go: main's guard-checked dialTarget, dialed through
  this branch's dialUpstream seam instead of net.DialTimeout, so the
  WebSocket tests' dial hook still applies; both new imports.
- pipeline/session.go: TunnelWebSocket and ErrorKindTurnInterrupted
  beside TunnelDestPrivate and ErrorKindDestinationPrivate.
- cost/usage: turn_interrupted and destination_private both exempt from
  the error count.
- config: this branch's responses_websockets in place of the
  decline_responses_websockets field main still had, plus main's
  EgressGuard field and its test. EgressGuard's comment no longer
  points at the removed field.
- CLAUDE.md, docs/session-api.md: the WebSocket text beside main's
  egress-guard text, minus main's line describing the removed boolean.

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s.declineResponsesWebSocket(w, r, pctx, tl, sid, chain)
return
}
s.serveResponsesWebSocket(w, r, pctx, tl, sid, chain)

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Supported by static analysis

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Keep a carried socket’s pipeline active until its work finishes.

A queued WebSocket turn retains its pipeline. If it remains open past the 30-second reload drain window, response processing and RunFinish use that pipeline after Pipeline.Stop invokes plugin shutdown. This can lose turn telemetry or finalization when shutdown closes resources used by those callbacks. Keep the pipeline active until its turns finish, or define how in-flight turns drain before stopping it.

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Update the lifecycle around serveResponsesWebSocket so a carried pipeline
remains active while its queued turns run response processing and RunFinish;
defer Pipeline.Stop until those turns drain, or otherwise retain the pipeline
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Brings in #1535 (the attribution package) and #1550. #1535 moved the
process chain from session.Proc to attribution.Proc and replaced
Sessions.TouchProcess with Server.touch, so the WebSocket relay's
refusal and close rows now use both, as every other row does.
server.go's handleConnect keeps main's chain type alongside this
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Round 2. All six round-1 threads are fixed. I reverted each of the two code fixes and its new test failed (the prewarm test on both of its assertions), so they are pinned. Both main merges resolved cleanly. The bridge's upstream client dials through #1539's egress guard, so the socket does not get around it.

One new blocker, from today's merge of #1535: a WebSocket turn's rows lose the attribution #1535 added (Proc, ClientProc, SessionHeader). On a session Codex uses only the socket for, no row names the session, so #1535's fold records no procs or owner for it. Codex's pending calls then never link. Details inline. The fix is two lines, and I checked it locally.

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SessionHeader: hs.SessionHeader,
ChainSession: hs.ChainSession,
}
pctx.ResolveClient()

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must-fix: since the #1535 merge, a turn's rows have no attribution. The handshake's pctx was pinned by hydrateSession → SetAttribution, but a turn's fresh pctx never is. So AttributedProc() and NamingHeader() are "" on its request, response and deny rows. turnRequestEvent (L851) does not set Proc / ClientProc / SessionHeader either, which recordOutboundRequestEvent does for an HTTPS POST.

The effect: applyProcs and applyOwner only count a request row that has SessionHeader. The socket's open row is a tunnel row without one. So a session Codex uses only the socket for gets no procs and no owner, and session.Link never ties Codex's pending calls to it. This is now the default path for Codex.

I reproduced it with the harness: every row of a one-turn socket has sessionHeader="", while the handshake's pctx.NamingHeader() is Session-Id. This fix gives the turn's request row sessionHeader="Session-Id", and the WebSocket tests still pass under -race:

	pctx.ResolveClient()
	pctx.SetAttribution(hs.AttributedProc(), hs.AttributedClientProc(), hs.NamingHeader())

and in turnRequestEvent:

		Proc:          pctx.AttributedProc(),
		ClientProc:    pctx.AttributedClientProc(),
		SessionHeader: pctx.NamingHeader(),

Please also assert SessionHeader on the turn's request row in TurnsAreParsedLikeHTTPS, so the next change to the event fields can't drop it again.

#1535 pins a request's process and the session-id header that named its
session on its pipeline.Context (SetAttribution, from hydrateSession),
and the session store counts a session's procs and owner only from
request rows that carry SessionHeader. A WebSocket turn builds a fresh
Context, so it had neither. On a session Codex uses only the socket
for, no request row named the session, and session.Link had nothing to
tie Codex's earlier calls to.

Each turn's Context now takes the handshake's attribution, and its
request row records Proc, ClientProc and SessionHeader as an HTTPS
POST's does. The turn's response and deny rows read Proc from the same
Context. TurnsAreParsedLikeHTTPS asserts SessionHeader on each turn's
request row.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>

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WebSocket inference is unobservable, and the cheap fix would make it worse

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