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Codex: retries, compaction and compact-on-demand from app-server are unused #163
Description
Summary
Codex app-server 0.163.0 reports upstream retries, shows compaction as a thread item, and accepts a compaction request. The Codex adapter uses none of these, so a Codex chat can't show "retrying", can't show compaction, and can't recover from contextWindowExceeded by compacting. This is the Codex side of #161 (Claude) and of #160's recovery. The error classification itself is #162.
Environment
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| BiBCode | 0.10.2 (line numbers at 0b98d0a4) |
| Codex | codex-cli 0.163.0 (latest), generated app-server v2 schema |
Gaps
| App-server feature (0.163) | What it carries | BiBCode today |
|---|---|---|
error notification { error, threadId, turnId, willRetry } |
An upstream failure, and whether Codex will retry it | Not handled: handle_notification has no "error" arm (apps/server/src/provider/codex/runtime.rs:2566), so retries are silent until the turn completes |
contextCompaction thread item (item/started → item/completed); the legacy thread/compacted notification is deprecated |
Codex compacting the conversation | item/started and item/completed only surface commandExecution and agentMessage (apps/server/src/provider/codex/runtime.rs:2691) |
thread/compact/start request { threadId }; returns {} and streams progress as turn/* and item/* |
Compact on demand | Never sent; there is no Compact action for Codex |
Suggested fix direction
- Handle
errorwithwillRetry: trueas a runtime warning ("Codex is retrying: …"), as the Claude adapter does forapi_retry. - Surface
contextCompactionitems as a "Compacting conversation…" status. - Offer Compact for Codex threads through
thread/compact/start, and use it for the automaticcontextWindowExceededrecovery proposed in Claude: full context fails turns as "blocking_limit" instead of compacting #160. - Capture 0.163 fixtures for each and add tests; document them in
docs/providers/codex.md("Context-window usage").
Activity
test(desktop): align packaged specs with the Activity pill and Codex …
merge: v0.12.0 packaged validation fixes (#183)