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feat(voice): add Codex voice conversations across clients - #29394
Merged current main with a merge commit, preserving mobile deep links and voice permissions. Fixed spoken steering history and capacity-retry speech tracking without resending the native steer. Voice now holds the existing mobile recording owner, preventing file playback from disabling the call. Read-only web connections disable voice consistently in the composer, F8/slash command path, and palette. Updated three voice replay test cases for main's crypto dependency. The second and final fix round restores audio mixing after release, releases and reports failed voice activation without stopping a successor, and leaves composing F8 events untouched in both web entry points.
Blacksmith vp run check:changed github/main passed without exclusions: format, lint, both Knip passes, unused patches, GraphQL, 40 affected package typechecks, 673 tests across 34 files (including browser suites), and 22 selected React Compiler checks. The playback and steering regressions failed before their fixes and passed afterward. No new test files. The extended audio test reproduced all three release/activation assertions before the second fix and passed afterward. Chrome verified composing F8 was consumed before and left untouched after the fix in the composer and palette.
Real Chrome verified the disabled read-only control, F8 refusal, palette explanation, typed Codex Luna turns and typed recovery. The actual voice stream starts but the configured provider backend returns 404 Not Found: realtime websocket handshake failed. A spoken round trip, native device audio/permissions, and remote/relay/tunnel operation remain unverified. No speech integration claim is made.
Matching read-only composer crops, before and after:
Uploaded media was inspected; video playback and seeking passed in Chrome. Earlier validation sections below retain their historical scope. Takeover work: gpt-6.1-sol through Codex.
Remaining code review gate: if an idle native voice turn completes before its interrupt lands, it avoids duplicate execution but its request, answer, and tool items are not imported into T3 thread history. This remains unresolved; preserving the completed run needs a safe history-adoption path rather than resubmitting the work. This head is not ready to merge. No safe existing history-adoption shortcut was found; correcting this requires buffering/replaying completed provider frames into a run without executing the request again. Both independent final reviewers block this head on that history loss and found no additional regression in the last six-file patch. Both allowed fix push rounds are used. Full spoken verification is also blocked by the provider handshake error above.
T3 Code can transcribe speech into a prompt, but it has no bidirectional Codex voice conversation: speak to the agent, hand coding work into the existing thread, and hear its answer. Mobile dictation and https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/19273 cover input transcription; they do not provide this conversation loop. Users still have to leave T3 Code for that workflow.
This PR adds that loop on web, desktop and mobile using Codex's experimental realtime WebRTC transport. The server owns provider-session signaling and coding handoffs; clients own microphone capture, playback, mute/stop and ephemeral captions. Other providers retain their existing behavior.
Final-speech review follow-up
b99414c bounds speech and stop acknowledgments to 10 seconds. A speech timeout fails the stream and initiates cleanup; the timeout alone does not establish remote completion. Stop succeeds on either its response or a per-session thread/realtime/closed signal. If neither arrives, cleanup releases the transition permit but retains the old session record, so replacement cannot proceed until termination is confirmed.
Both regressions failed before the fix. One advances the TestClock through unanswered speech and stop, verifies retained ownership blocks replacement, then recovers after a close signal. The unsubscribe case verifies a close notification alone cancels the pending stop waiter before the deadline. All 18 voice tests passed; check:changed passed 19 adjacent tests, three package typechecks, GraphQL checks, formatting, lint, and both Knip passes; git diff --check passed. Cleanup validation receipt.
The preceding 92d9898 excludes partial_answer from final speech while preserving the unknown-phase fallback, and dispatches speech under the same transition permit as stop/replacement after checking its owner. Its unbounded-wait limitation is superseded by the cleanup fix above. Its 17 voice tests and scoped checks remain prior validation. CI and both code-review checks passed on 92d9898; b99414c awaits fresh CI and review. Human UI/default-shortcut acceptance remains pending. Mocked protocol tests do not establish a real spoken round trip; prior approval and UI/runtime evidence retain their stated limits.
Replacement and feature-direction approval
Replacement for #14865, which replaced https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13168. Reopening the original was attempted through both GitHub APIs and again after restoring its recorded head. GitHub refused: “state cannot be changed” because the branch was force-pushed or recreated. This replacement uses the original fork branch and preserves the latest code, review corrections and evidence; the original remains the review-history record. The October 30 closure and its explanation assessed the September 22 “cool / will think on the UI” acknowledgment. There is stronger, later evidence: on October 6 Julius linked this exact PR and said “we'll add this”, with a caveat about waiting for ChatGPT-login entitlements or initially shipping to Codex-login users.
That is approval of the feature direction, conditional on availability/timing. It does not establish blanket acceptance of the implemented UI, the proposed F8 default, or static-analysis suppressions. Those remain concrete review decisions; no merge approval or additional maintainer sign-off is claimed. The missing conversation loop above is the problem being proposed for implementation, and the October statement is the basis for asking to reconsider the closure.
The entitlement observation is historical. A separate October 29 experiment reports a ChatGPT-login WebRTC/iPhone spoken-and-tool round trip on Codex 0.163 without an API key. That makes the old limitation unsuitable as a confirmed current blocker. It is evidence from another implementation, not runtime proof for this PR.
Scope and behavior
Audio travels directly between the client and OpenAI. The authenticated provider.voice.session stream carries SDP, captions and lifecycle, preserving the same server path for local, remote, relay and tunnel connections. Remote browser microphone access requires HTTPS.
ProviderSessionManagerV2 validates and resumes the bound provider thread and holds its session busy. CodexVoice starts V3 WebRTC with client-managed handoffs and sends only eligible final answers through thread/realtime/appendSpeech; commentary and reasoning are not spoken.
Codex can initiate a coding handoff while idle. The adapter interrupts that native turn and queues the spoken request through the existing orchestration continuation service. The tradeoff remains an interrupted-turn stub in Codex history. An interrupted native handoff awaiting completion is discarded when its owning voice session ends; work already queued in the orchestrator follows the normal thread queue semantics.
One active voice conversation is supported per provider runtime across its native threads. Replacement waits for confirmed predecessor cleanup, and failed stops retain ownership for retry. The serialized lifecycle fixes from the final original branch remain present.
Web/desktop entry points are the composer, /voice, command palette, proposed F8 voice.toggle, and an unbound voice.toggleMute. Codex provider settings choose the voice. The shortcut is a product choice, not a technical requirement of WebRTC.
Desktop requests macOS microphone consent and restricts media permission to the app origin while preserving existing video capture. Mobile adds native WebRTC and Android recording permission; conversations stop on background, leaving the owning thread, fullscreen child navigation, or changing environments. Native client rebuild/update is required.
Contracts, session management, client controls, native permissions and teardown all serve this single conversation feature. This rebase preserves upstream's newer dictation/session ownership, provider-turn handling, side-chat commands, context attachments and desktop packaging behavior. It does not claim the exact UI or shortcut choices are technically inseparable from the feature.
Current source validation
Rebased the original final head 64f57966c3a042cd0dd7bf254508a5ba34953a55 onto upstream main ac8dce0cc3abd8a337f2d806b5082a6834b9b81a.
Fixedthe handoff identity finding, which remained in the final source despite its resolved status. An ordinary typed turn containing the spoken request previously consumed the pending handoff. The regression failed first; handoffs now carry an app message ID into native-turn registration rather than matching message substrings.
Fixedthe mobile audio release race, also still present despite its resolved status. A held-open native release reproduced the successor ending with recording disabled. Audio-mode transitions now serialize and recover after a rejected transition.
Source-only check:changed passed formatting, lint, both knip passes, unused-patch validation, GraphQL generation, all 39 affected/dependent package typechecks, 646 tests across 32 files, and React Compiler checks for 17 changed files. The two command-palette browser suites were explicitly excluded with a temporary external vp wrapper; this is not a full unrestricted check:changed pass. Focused regressions: all 16 CodexVoice tests and the mobile audio race case passed after failing-before proof. git diff --check passed. Validation receipt.
Current fake-provider transcript: the overlapping typed turn is not spoken, the identified continuation is spoken exactly once, and unsubscribe receives a fake stop acknowledgement.
Generated the experimental TypeScript protocol from the installed Codex CLI 0.166.0 and inspected its start transport, V3/client-managed-handoff fields, SDP/transcript notifications and appendSpeech shape. These still match the branch's raw requests and typed notification bindings. This was schema/source verification, not a connected voice call or proof of account entitlement.
Remaining runtime gate: no interactive browser/device, dev-server or paid real-provider verification was run for this revival. The unrestricted check:changed run was stopped when it selected browser tests; its source-only rerun excludes those tests to honor the verification constraint. The original implementation never demonstrated a full spoken round trip. Current UI captures, native audio behavior on hardware, account availability and end-to-end spoken coding/response playback remain unverified for this head.
Prior evidence, retained without claiming a fresh run
The original personal-build recordings below cover desktop/iPhone UI installation and launch. They are historical captures, not current-head or full spoken-round-trip proof.
The later lifecycle correction and runtime regression report supersedes the retained architecture assessment against 7a996: cleanup is registered before acquisition; transitions serialize; stop failures retain ownership; queued cancellation cannot clear the active owner. Five Deferred-gated cases cover replacement, unsubscribe, failure/recovery and interruption with successor SDP routing. The report records the original failures, 127 adjacent server tests plus 46 focused voice/client tests, a passing check:changed, and a fake-provider transcript showing stop acknowledgement before successor start. It established lost provider ownership, not continuing microphone capture. No real-provider or browser/native interaction was claimed there.
Other useful historical checks remain in the thread: the original https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13168 reported 188 server, 7 client-runtime, 88 web, 74 desktop, 69 shared-keybinding and 5 mobile tests, clean affected typechecks and Codex 0.156 accepting the start parameters; the prior rebase recorded 631/632 focused tests with the desktop cross-architecture artifact case also failing unchanged upstream on the ARM host. Later fixes and checks supersede those older code assessments: 168 focused tests and check:changed, fullscreen cleanup and environment identity, plus the lifecycle report above. Prior CI is historical and does not establish current-head CI.
Earlier September acknowledgment, preserved for the approval chronology
This was the evidence considered at closure. The October 6 statement above is the later feature-direction evidence; UI and shortcut review remain open.
Follow-up dacdc77c79a4dcadc39d81efb8cb2ef6d8250561 fixes the capacity-retry handoff and partial audio-mode release findings. Handoff identities remain associated through failed native attempts and clear after success; release explicitly restores all configured audio-mode fields according to Expo’s partial-update contract. Both regressions failed before the fixes and pass afterward. vp run check:changed HEAD --concurrency 2 passed before committing: format, lint, both Knip passes, GraphQL checks, 4 affected-package typechecks, 18 adjacent tests and 6 compiler cases. CI and bot reviews are rerunning for this follow-up. No new spoken round-trip or device proof is claimed.
Original implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code. Revival, rebase and corrections: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex.
Replayed onto d53873b as one commit because upstream split ChatView and
ChatComposer into hooks; the voice send path now lives in useComposerSend,
the /voice menu item in useComposerMenuItems, and the footer toggle in
ComposerVoiceButton. Squashes:
- 084aa6e feat: Codex voice conversations on web, desktop, and mobile
- 6ee113a fix: harden voice handoff resubmits and mobile voice controls
- 1fce1a3 refactor: use Toggle for the voice button and a schema voice error
- 3ad2f92 fix(web): dim the disabled voice glyph instead of restyling Toggle
- 823d3eb fix: keep failed voice handoffs and let /voice always stop a live conversation
- 02a72c6 fix(server): don't let a conditional default shadow a user's unconditional shortcut
- ae50f45 fix: follow the base's namespace imports in voice code
- 4da0e63 fix(server): preserve late defaults with voice shortcut migration
- 4dc0a55 fix(mobile): combine unused Android permission exclusions
- 6225c3b fix(voice): adapt reactivity imports and lockfile to current upstream
- 0515f1e fix(voice): reconcile current upstream dependency lockfile
- 6bcc540 fix(voice): use renamed upstream test layers
- 19978df fix(server): use shared RPC instrumentation for voice streams
- ee9edee test(voice): preserve custom shortcuts and provide MCP session service
- e8e06bc fix(voice): use the provider protocol error from provider-core
- e6fb333 test(desktop): isolate the primary Windows native probe assertion
- a5dcca5 fix: address open PR review feedback after rebase
- 16361d9 fix: preserve source behavior against current upstream contracts
- 310c408 fix(voice): retain sessions and respect navigation boundaries
- a4bd27a fix(voice): preserve typed session validation errors
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex voice handoffs are interrupted so they can be resubmitted as ordinary
runs. Without a continuation sink the request would be lost, so leave such
turns alone. Also pin the replacement-session ordering: the predecessor is
stopped once, before the successor starts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds Codex realtime voice conversations across web and mobile. The change adds shared WebRTC control, provider streaming and handoffs, voice controls, platform permissions, settings, shortcut handling, and documentation.
Changes: Codex voice conversations
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Voice contracts and RPC wiring packages/contracts/src/*, packages/provider-core/src/server/*, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/client.ts, apps/server/src/{auth,observability,ws}.ts, packages/shared/src/*
Adds voice-session schemas and streaming RPC registration. Adds provider voice capability metadata, Codex voice settings, and voice continuation metadata.
Provider ownership and voice handoffs apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*, docs/internals/voice-conversations.md
Streams voice sessions through provider runtime ownership. Interrupted or failed Codex handoffs can become voice-originated user continuations.
Web voice availability and controls apps/web/src/voice/*, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx, apps/web/src/composer-logic.ts, packages/shared/src/keybindings.ts
Adds voice availability, composer and palette controls, /voice, live status displays, and the F8 shortcut.
Mobile voice runtime and controls apps/mobile/src/features/voice-mode/*, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/*, apps/mobile/app.config.ts, apps/mobile/package.json
Default backfill now checks whether an existing shortcut shadows a candidate based on its parsed conditions. Tests cover conditional F8 shortcuts and voice-toggle resolution.
Voice may toggle during text composition, a failed mobile audio setup may leave a call active without working audio, and stopping mobile voice may leave exclusive audio mode enabled. These should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.
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Subscribe the palette to narrow voice state, not the full VoiceModeState.
useVoiceModeState() re-renders OpenCommandPaletteDialog on every controller state change. These changes include each caption update. The palette only reads voiceState.phase (Line 1458) and voiceState.muted (Lines 1504-1505). While voice is active and the palette is open, the whole palette therefore re-renders for every caption. The palette is a large component, so this adds avoidable work.
Add two primitive-returning hooks in apps/web/src/voice/voiceMode.ts. useSyncExternalStore then re-renders the palette only when the value changes.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx at line 486:
Update OpenCommandPaletteDialog to subscribe only to the voice values it reads:
add primitive-returning useVoiceModePhase and useVoiceModeMuted hooks in
voiceMode.ts, using the existing voiceMode external-store subscription, and
replace useVoiceModeState in CommandPalette.tsx with those hooks. Update the
phase and muted references to use the respective values so caption-only state
changes do not re-render the palette.
Unblock stop when the close notification is the only completion signal.
thread/realtime/closed is routed as a notification. Only a response with the matching request ID resolves raw.request. If the notification arrives after client.raw.request("thread/realtime/stop", ...) and no response follows, stop remains blocked before it clears activeRef.
Finalization and replacement hold transition while awaiting stop, so unsubscribe cleanup and later voice-session replacement can remain blocked indefinitely. This warrants major severity for the active provider runtime.
Add a bounded or close-aware fallback around the stop request. The cleanup path must still clear activeRef and release transition when the close notification is the only completion signal. This correction is localized to CodexVoice.stop; the protocol response router does not need to treat notifications as responses.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/CodexVoice.ts around lines 230 -
238:
Update CodexVoice.stop so the stop request cannot block cleanup indefinitely
when the close notification is the only completion signal. Add a bounded or
close-aware fallback using the existing lifecycle mechanisms, and ensure
activeRef is cleared and transition can be released even if no matching response
arrives; leave notification routing unchanged.
Fixed the close-only stop hang from the follow-up review in b99414c. Stop now races its response against a per-session close signal and bounds an unanswered wait to 10 seconds. An unconfirmed timeout retains ownership for retry; a close notification completes cleanup without a response and releases the transition permit.
The unsubscribe regression failed before the fix and now verifies cleanup finishes before the timeout when only the close notification arrives. All 18 voice tests and check:changed passed. Validation receipt. Fresh CI/review is pending.
merged main fa2f4ff2a2 with a merge commit and pushed 5578dc014e. no rebase. the only conflicts were composer props: main added activeThreadRuns, and this PR keeps activeThreadShell for voice availability. kept both. no other changes.
vp run check:changed passed on a Blacksmith box (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 41 packages, 38 test files, react compiler). no new UI behavior in this pass, so no new runtime check.
Main merged, 2026-11-10
merged current main into the head with a merge commit (95e690bc76), then pushed 470f5a528f. no rebase.
main dropped the composer's activeThreadShell prop. restored only that prop, because voice availability reads it while thread detail loads.
main split AppSymbol into iOS and Android files. moved this PR's mic.slash and waveform Android icons into AppSymbol.android.tsx.
rpc.ts: kept main's VCS branch RPCs and this PR's voice session RPC. apps/mobile/package.json: main's versions plus react-native-webrtc. lockfile is main's plus only the webrtc entries.
removed a duplicate Stream import the merge left in EffectWorker.test.ts.
vp run check:changed passed on a Blacksmith box (typecheck, lint, knip, 38 test files). all GitHub checks pass on 470f5a528f; Macroscope approvability still needs a human. runtime check in a fresh dev server on Codex: /voi lists "/voice Start a voice conversation", and the composer voice control says "Send a message before starting voice" on an empty thread. no spoken conversation was tested in this pass.
Main merged, 2026-11-06
merged current main into the head with a merge commit (088564f813) and pushed d999753767. no rebase.
conflicts in the composer slash commands: kept main's /clear and this PR's /voice side by side in the menu, the ComposerSlashCommand type and send handling. /clear still runs first; /voice still bypasses plan-mode handling.
ThreadDetailScreen.tsx: kept both import sets.
regenerated pnpm-lock.yaml from main's lockfile; the auto-merged one referenced a missing expo snapshot.
main's new preferSchemaTaggedError diagnostic flagged VoiceSessionUnavailable; it is now a Schema.TaggedError. no behavior change.
vp run check:changed passed on a Blacksmith box (typecheck, lint, knip, 34 test files). no runtime retest of voice in this pass; the verification below is from 2ee5719ac7.
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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria
Verified in a real dev environment
fresh Linux Boat verification on 2026-11-04 at head 2ee5719ac7848684e12c2bef95f7327835a2aa17. no code changes or pushes in this pass.
ran vp i and the real background dev server in separate main and PR worktrees, one server at a time. Playwright from the repo drove /usr/bin/google-chrome. created the project and threads through the app against a real git repository. used real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns, without provider mocks or seeded data.
main a185dd924889cd7f925760431a9f29b973a35e2f: the typed baseline returned VOICE_BASELINE_OK; F8 had no effect and /voice showed "No matching command."
PR: the identical typed baseline passed and the composer showed "Start voice conversation." composer, F8 and /voice reached voice startup. a thread without a provider session refused F8 with "Send a message before starting voice"; the palette showed the same restriction.
real signaling reached the backend and returned started plus an SDP answer, then failed with unexpected status 404 Not Found: realtime websocket handshake failed. repeated startup reproduced it. this is a failed voice conversation, not a successful spoken round trip.
stopping during connection returned the composer to idle. after failures, a typed turn on the same thread returned VOICE_RECOVERY_OK and settled normally.
Blacksmith: vp test run apps/server/src/provider/CodexVoice.test.ts packages/client-runtime/src/voice-mode/controller.test.ts apps/web/src/voice/voiceAvailability.test.ts passed all 31 tests in 3 files. GitCafe reported all 33 existing head checks successful. passing tests do not establish voice integration.
short runtime transcript, with SDP credentials omitted:
main: server 16733, web 8693; stopped before PR startup
PR: server 15203, web 7163
client -> provider.voice.session { threadId, offerSdp }
server -> started
server -> answer { sdp }
server -> ProviderVoiceSessionError:
unexpected status 404 Not Found: realtime websocket handshake failed
client -> typed Codex gpt-6.1-sol turn
provider -> VOICE_RECOVERY_OK
the VM has no physical microphone. Chrome first correctly reported "No microphone was found." exposing the existing OS audio monitor as a PulseAudio input allowed real microphone capture and signaling; it does not prove physical microphone or speech behavior. no browser fake-device flag was used.
matching baseline before and after:
media was inspected at full size. the recording has idle time shortened and a final settled-state hold; it is not a latency measurement. uploaded video playback and seeking were checked in Chrome.
Not verified
full spoken conversation, transcription, answer playback, idle spoken coding handoffs, and spoken steering during a running turn are blocked by the configured Codex backend's realtime WebSocket handshake failure. no safe repository change was identified that can repair that external response. this head is not verified for the requested core behavior.
source review also confirms the previously documented history-loss risk remains: a native idle voice handoff that completes before interruption returns without importing its request, answer, and tool items into T3 history. this was not reproduced through speech because realtime cannot stay connected. blindly resubmitting completed work would repeat its effects, so no speculative change was made.
native iOS/Android audio and permissions, Electron/macOS/Windows permissions, remote/relay/tunnel connections, and active-call mute/playback remain unverified on this Linux web pass.
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/voice-mode/voiceAudio.test.ts:
- Line 53: Update releaseAudioSession to restore interruptionMode to
mixWithOthers alongside allowsRecording, and update the voiceAudio test
assertion to expect mixWithOthers after voice stops.
Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/voice-mode/voiceMode.ts:
- Line 74: Update the rejection handler for setVoiceAudioActive in the voiceMode
startup flow to stop the originating session and report the audio error. Guard
the handler against late rejection by verifying the originating voiceMode is
still the current conversation before stopping it, so a replacement conversation
remains active.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx:
- Around line 1143-1145: Update the keyboard shortcut handler around
resolveShortcutCommand to return when event.isComposing is true or event.keyCode
is 229, before resolving any shortcut. Apply the same IME-composition guard to
the voice shortcut handling in CommandPalette, preserving normal shortcut
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Takeover verification at 2ee5719
Merged current main with a merge commit, preserving mobile deep links and voice permissions. Fixed spoken steering history and capacity-retry speech tracking without resending the native steer. Voice now holds the existing mobile recording owner, preventing file playback from disabling the call. Read-only web connections disable voice consistently in the composer, F8/slash command path, and palette. Updated three voice replay test cases for main's crypto dependency. The second and final fix round restores audio mixing after release, releases and reports failed voice activation without stopping a successor, and leaves composing F8 events untouched in both web entry points.
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vp run check:changed github/mainpassed without exclusions: format, lint, both Knip passes, unused patches, GraphQL, 40 affected package typechecks, 673 tests across 34 files (including browser suites), and 22 selected React Compiler checks. The playback and steering regressions failed before their fixes and passed afterward. No new test files. The extended audio test reproduced all three release/activation assertions before the second fix and passed afterward. Chrome verified composing F8 was consumed before and left untouched after the fix in the composer and palette.Real Chrome verified the disabled read-only control, F8 refusal, palette explanation, typed Codex Luna turns and typed recovery. The actual voice stream starts but the configured provider backend returns
404 Not Found: realtime websocket handshake failed. A spoken round trip, native device audio/permissions, and remote/relay/tunnel operation remain unverified. No speech integration claim is made.Matching read-only composer crops, before and after:
Uploaded media was inspected; video playback and seeking passed in Chrome. Earlier validation sections below retain their historical scope. Takeover work:
gpt-6.1-solthrough Codex.Remaining code review gate: if an idle native voice turn completes before its interrupt lands, it avoids duplicate execution but its request, answer, and tool items are not imported into T3 thread history. This remains unresolved; preserving the completed run needs a safe history-adoption path rather than resubmitting the work. This head is not ready to merge. No safe existing history-adoption shortcut was found; correcting this requires buffering/replaying completed provider frames into a run without executing the request again. Both independent final reviewers block this head on that history loss and found no additional regression in the last six-file patch. Both allowed fix push rounds are used. Full spoken verification is also blocked by the provider handshake error above.
T3 Code can transcribe speech into a prompt, but it has no bidirectional Codex voice conversation: speak to the agent, hand coding work into the existing thread, and hear its answer. Mobile dictation and https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/19273 cover input transcription; they do not provide this conversation loop. Users still have to leave T3 Code for that workflow.
This PR adds that loop on web, desktop and mobile using Codex's experimental realtime WebRTC transport. The server owns provider-session signaling and coding handoffs; clients own microphone capture, playback, mute/stop and ephemeral captions. Other providers retain their existing behavior.
Final-speech review follow-up
b99414c bounds speech and stop acknowledgments to 10 seconds. A speech timeout fails the stream and initiates cleanup; the timeout alone does not establish remote completion. Stop succeeds on either its response or a per-session
thread/realtime/closedsignal. If neither arrives, cleanup releases the transition permit but retains the old session record, so replacement cannot proceed until termination is confirmed.Both regressions failed before the fix. One advances the TestClock through unanswered speech and stop, verifies retained ownership blocks replacement, then recovers after a close signal. The unsubscribe case verifies a close notification alone cancels the pending stop waiter before the deadline. All 18 voice tests passed;
check:changedpassed 19 adjacent tests, three package typechecks, GraphQL checks, formatting, lint, and both Knip passes;git diff --checkpassed. Cleanup validation receipt.The preceding 92d9898 excludes
partial_answerfrom final speech while preserving the unknown-phase fallback, and dispatches speech under the same transition permit as stop/replacement after checking its owner. Its unbounded-wait limitation is superseded by the cleanup fix above. Its 17 voice tests and scoped checks remain prior validation. CI and both code-review checks passed on 92d9898; b99414c awaits fresh CI and review. Human UI/default-shortcut acceptance remains pending. Mocked protocol tests do not establish a real spoken round trip; prior approval and UI/runtime evidence retain their stated limits.Replacement and feature-direction approval
Replacement for #14865, which replaced https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13168. Reopening the original was attempted through both GitHub APIs and again after restoring its recorded head. GitHub refused: “state cannot be changed” because the branch was force-pushed or recreated. This replacement uses the original fork branch and preserves the latest code, review corrections and evidence; the original remains the review-history record. The October 30 closure and its explanation assessed the September 22 “cool / will think on the UI” acknowledgment. There is stronger, later evidence: on October 6 Julius linked this exact PR and said “we'll add this”, with a caveat about waiting for ChatGPT-login entitlements or initially shipping to Codex-login users.
That is approval of the feature direction, conditional on availability/timing. It does not establish blanket acceptance of the implemented UI, the proposed F8 default, or static-analysis suppressions. Those remain concrete review decisions; no merge approval or additional maintainer sign-off is claimed. The missing conversation loop above is the problem being proposed for implementation, and the October statement is the basis for asking to reconsider the closure.
The entitlement observation is historical. A separate October 29 experiment reports a ChatGPT-login WebRTC/iPhone spoken-and-tool round trip on Codex 0.163 without an API key. That makes the old limitation unsuitable as a confirmed current blocker. It is evidence from another implementation, not runtime proof for this PR.
Scope and behavior
provider.voice.sessionstream carries SDP, captions and lifecycle, preserving the same server path for local, remote, relay and tunnel connections. Remote browser microphone access requires HTTPS.ProviderSessionManagerV2validates and resumes the bound provider thread and holds its session busy.CodexVoicestarts V3 WebRTC with client-managed handoffs and sends only eligible final answers throughthread/realtime/appendSpeech; commentary and reasoning are not spoken./voice, command palette, proposed F8voice.toggle, and an unboundvoice.toggleMute. Codex provider settings choose the voice. The shortcut is a product choice, not a technical requirement of WebRTC.Contracts, session management, client controls, native permissions and teardown all serve this single conversation feature. This rebase preserves upstream's newer dictation/session ownership, provider-turn handling, side-chat commands, context attachments and desktop packaging behavior. It does not claim the exact UI or shortcut choices are technically inseparable from the feature.
Current source validation
Rebased the original final head
64f57966c3a042cd0dd7bf254508a5ba34953a55onto upstream mainac8dce0cc3abd8a337f2d806b5082a6834b9b81a.git diff --checkpassed. Validation receipt.appendSpeechshape. These still match the branch's raw requests and typed notification bindings. This was schema/source verification, not a connected voice call or proof of account entitlement.Remaining runtime gate: no interactive browser/device, dev-server or paid real-provider verification was run for this revival. The unrestricted
check:changedrun was stopped when it selected browser tests; its source-only rerun excludes those tests to honor the verification constraint. The original implementation never demonstrated a full spoken round trip. Current UI captures, native audio behavior on hardware, account availability and end-to-end spoken coding/response playback remain unverified for this head.Prior evidence, retained without claiming a fresh run
The original personal-build recordings below cover desktop/iPhone UI installation and launch. They are historical captures, not current-head or full spoken-round-trip proof.
Screen.Recording.2026-09-22.at.8.13.50.PM.mov
ScreenRecording_09-22-2026.20-15-53_1.MP4
The later lifecycle correction and runtime regression report supersedes the retained architecture assessment against
7a996: cleanup is registered before acquisition; transitions serialize; stop failures retain ownership; queued cancellation cannot clear the active owner. Five Deferred-gated cases cover replacement, unsubscribe, failure/recovery and interruption with successor SDP routing. The report records the original failures, 127 adjacent server tests plus 46 focused voice/client tests, a passingcheck:changed, and a fake-provider transcript showing stop acknowledgement before successor start. It established lost provider ownership, not continuing microphone capture. No real-provider or browser/native interaction was claimed there.Other useful historical checks remain in the thread: the original https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13168 reported 188 server, 7 client-runtime, 88 web, 74 desktop, 69 shared-keybinding and 5 mobile tests, clean affected typechecks and Codex 0.156 accepting the start parameters; the prior rebase recorded 631/632 focused tests with the desktop cross-architecture artifact case also failing unchanged upstream on the ARM host. Later fixes and checks supersede those older code assessments: 168 focused tests and check:changed, fullscreen cleanup and environment identity, plus the lifecycle report above. Prior CI is historical and does not establish current-head CI.
Earlier September acknowledgment, preserved for the approval chronology
This was the evidence considered at closure. The October 6 statement above is the later feature-direction evidence; UI and shortcut review remain open.
Follow-up
dacdc77c79a4dcadc39d81efb8cb2ef6d8250561fixes the capacity-retry handoff and partial audio-mode release findings. Handoff identities remain associated through failed native attempts and clear after success; release explicitly restores all configured audio-mode fields according to Expo’s partial-update contract. Both regressions failed before the fixes and pass afterward.vp run check:changed HEAD --concurrency 2passed before committing: format, lint, both Knip passes, GraphQL checks, 4 affected-package typechecks, 18 adjacent tests and 6 compiler cases. CI and bot reviews are rerunning for this follow-up. No new spoken round-trip or device proof is claimed.Original implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code. Revival, rebase and corrections: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex.