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Closes #1383.

Before

The proxy registered exactly one Codex route. Against the running daemon:

GET  /backend-api/codex/models?client_version=0.147.0 -> 404
POST /backend-api/codex/responses                     -> 400   (route exists, empty body)

Every codex invocation printed failed to refresh available models: unexpected status 404 Not Found and then silently fell back to a default model — quietly ignoring whichever model the user configured. The error line scrolls past; the wrong model gets misdiagnosed weeks later.

After

Against a proxy started from the built CLI, answering the CLI's exact request:

GET /backend-api/codex/models?client_version=0.147.0 -> 200
{"models":[{"slug":"gpt-5.6-terra","prefer_websockets":true,...

A real model list, relayed from ChatGPT upstream through the account pool.

Why relay, not synthesise

The Claude and OpenAI /v1/models routes build their lists locally from the model router. Codex model availability is a property of the account — plan tier, rollout state — which this proxy does not know. A locally-built list would be a guess that reads as authoritative, so this one relays.

Discovery is side-effect free: no cooldown recorded, no quota consumed, so the once-per-invocation refresh cannot perturb routing for real traffic. A cooling account may still answer it — being rate-limited for completions does not make an account unable to say which models exist.

A defect the end-to-end test caught

The first implementation read the query string off ctx.path. ctx.path carries no query string, so client_version was dropped and upstream answered 400 with a pydantic Field required on ('query','client_version'). Rebuilt from ctx.query.

No unit test would have found that — it only surfaces when a real request reaches the real upstream. The regression test therefore drives a spawned proxy the way the CLI drives it, and asserts against 404 specifically, so a route that exists but errors still passes while an unroutable one fails.

Worth noting for anyone iterating here: pnpm run build:cli does not rebuild src/lib, so a route added to codexProxyRoutes.ts stays invisible until a full pnpm run build. That cost me a debugging cycle.

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Check Result
tsc --noEmit --strict clean
eslint src test 0 errors (54 pre-existing warnings)
pnpm run build clean
continuous-test-suite-proxy 65 passed (was 64)
continuous-test-suite-codex 31 passed
Live relay to ChatGPT upstream 200 + real model list

Test watched failing first: Codex model discovery is unroutable — the CLI cannot list models.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Codex model discovery through the proxy.
    • Supports forwarding model requests with client version information and returning available models.
    • Discovery requests do not consume quota or affect account cooldowns.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented Codex clients from receiving a 404 and incorrectly falling back to the default model.

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The Codex proxy now supports GET /backend-api/codex/models. It forwards query parameters and pooled-account authentication to the upstream endpoint, relays the response, handles unavailable accounts and fetch failures, and adds regression coverage and documentation.

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Codex model discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Model discovery route contract
src/lib/auth/codexOAuth.ts, src/lib/server/routes/codexProxyRoutes.ts
Adds the upstream models URL and registers the authenticated GET /backend-api/codex/models route.
Upstream model relay
src/lib/server/routes/codexProxyRoutes.ts
Selects a pooled account, forwards query parameters and authentication, relays upstream status and content type, and returns 401 or 502 errors when applicable.
Discovery validation and documentation
test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts, docs/features/codex-proxy-support.md
Adds an end-to-end route test and documents query forwarding, account selection, and side-effect-free discovery.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c790b

The change enables Codex model discovery, but the current implementation can hang requests, fail unnecessarily when credentials become stale, and allow a regression test to pass despite an upstream 400 caused by dropped query parameters. Merge readiness therefore requires follow-up on these bounded correctness and availability risks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CodexCLI
  participant CodexProxy
  participant PooledAccounts
  participant UpstreamCodex
  CodexCLI->>CodexProxy: GET /backend-api/codex/models?client_version=...
  CodexProxy->>PooledAccounts: Load and select account
  CodexProxy->>UpstreamCodex: Forward query and authenticated request
  UpstreamCodex-->>CodexProxy: Return status and content type
  CodexProxy-->>CodexCLI: Relay upstream response
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In `@src/lib/server/routes/codexProxyRoutes.ts`:
- Around line 650-654: Update the upstream model-discovery fetch in the codex
proxy route to include an AbortSignal.timeout value, matching the timeout
pattern used by the responses route. Preserve the existing URL, method, and
headers while ensuring stalled upstream requests are aborted.
- Around line 650-661: Update the upstream response handling in the surrounding
model-discovery request flow to detect 401 and 403 responses before returning
the Response, then apply the existing forced account refresh and rotation
behavior used by handleCodexResponsesRequest and retry the fetch once with
refreshed credentials. Preserve the current status, body, and content-type
forwarding for the final response.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts`:
- Around line 610-627: Update testCodexModelsDiscovery to treat an HTTP 400
response from the Codex models endpoint as a failure, logging it as an error and
returning false. Preserve success for valid responses and tolerance only for the
existing explicitly accepted unavailable-account or transient-upstream statuses.
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Comment thread test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts
The Codex CLI refreshes its model list on every invocation, hitting
GET /backend-api/codex/models?client_version=<v>. Only /responses was
registered, so that GET 404'd, the CLI printed a refresh failure and fell back
to a default model — quietly ignoring the model the user had configured.

This relays rather than synthesises, unlike the Claude and OpenAI /v1/models
routes which build their lists from the model router. Codex model availability
is a property of the upstream account (plan tier, rollout), not of anything
this proxy knows, so a synthesised list would be a guess that looks
authoritative.

The query is rebuilt from ctx.query, not ctx.path: path carries no query
string, so reading it there dropped client_version, which upstream requires
and answers 400 for.

Review follow-ups, all three real:

Bounded the upstream call with AbortSignal.timeout, as the responses route
already does. Without a signal a stalled connection held the proxy request
open with no ceiling, blocking the CLI at startup.

Added a forced token refresh and account rotation on 401/403. A token can be
rejected upstream while still inside its local expiry window; relaying that
401 straight back left discovery broken until the token expired locally.
Deliberately WITHOUT the cooldown and account-disable that the responses path
applies: discovery fires on every CLI invocation, so letting it disable an
account would turn a background probe into a forced re-login. The route's
doc comment now states that precisely instead of claiming it is side-effect
free, which it is not — a refreshed token is persisted.

Fixed a false green in the suite. The test accepted any status except 404 and
405, so it also accepted 400 — precisely what upstream returns when
client_version is dropped, the bug this route exists to fix. It passed on the
regression it was written to catch. The tolerated set is now an allow-list
(200, 401, 502, 503) with 400 called out by name.

Verified: typecheck 4830 files 0 errors, eslint clean, proxy suite 65 passed /
0 failed / 6 skipped. Removing 401 from the allow-list makes the case report a
real failure rather than a skip, so the assertion is load-bearing.
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All three findings were real and are fixed in de755f89.

1. Unbounded model-discovery fetch — fixed as suggested. Added AbortSignal.timeout(CODEX_UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT_MS), the same bound the responses route uses. This one mattered more than it looks: model discovery runs at CLI startup, so a stalled upstream blocked the CLI before it could do anything.

2. No refresh/rotation on 401/403 — fixed, but deliberately not a copy of the responses flow. Discovery now forces one token refresh per account and rotates through the pool, which fixes the reported problem: a token rejected upstream while still inside its local expiry window left discovery broken until it expired locally.

What I did not carry over is the cooldown and the account-disable. Those belong to the responses path because the verdict is earned by a request the user actually made. Discovery fires on every CLI invocation — giving it the power to disable an account would turn a background probe into a forced re-login. So the rotation is there, the penalties are not.

That also made the existing doc comment wrong, so I corrected it rather than leaving it: the route is not "side-effect free" — a refreshed token is persisted, exactly as the proactive refresh in loadCodexProxyAccounts persists one. What it never does is penalise an account, and that is what the comment now says.

3. Test accepted HTTP 400 — fixed, and this was the most serious of the three. The test excluded 404 and 405 and accepted everything else, so it also accepted 400. 400 is precisely what upstream returns when client_version is dropped from the forwarded query — the bug this route was written to fix. The test passed on the regression it existed to catch.

The tolerated set is now an allow-list (200, 401, 502, 503) rather than a deny-list, with 400 called out by name so the failure message points at the cause instead of just the status.

Verification: typecheck 4830 files / 0 errors, eslint clean, proxy suite 65 passed / 0 failed / 6 skipped. I also mutated the new assertion — removing 401 from the allow-list — and confirmed the case reports a real ✗ failure rather than being downgraded to a skip, so the assertion is genuinely load-bearing.

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Review Summary

Decision: APPROVED ✅

This PR adds model discovery support for the Codex (ChatGPT) proxy, completing the missing /backend-api/codex/models route that was previously returning 404.

Changes Reviewed

File Type Lines Changed Status
docs/features/codex-proxy-support.md Documentation +33 ✅ Complete
src/lib/auth/codexOAuth.ts Type definition +1 ✅ Correct
src/lib/server/routes/codexProxyRoutes.ts Route handler +140 ✅ Valid
test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts Tests +71 ✅ Comprehensive

Review Details

✅ Documentation (codex-proxy-support.md)

  • Accurately describes model discovery behavior
  • Explains why relay (not synthesis) is required
  • Documents the client_version parameter requirement
  • Clarifies side-effect-free nature of discovery calls

✅ Type Definition (codexOAuth.ts)

  • Added CODEX_MODELS_URL constant following existing patterns
  • Consistent with CODEX_RESPONSES_URL and CODEX_USAGE_URL

✅ Route Handler (codexProxyRoutes.ts)

  • Implements handleCodexModelsRequest() following established patterns from responses handler
  • Properly handles account ordering and rotation
  • Forces token refresh before each request (critical for reliability)
  • Retries on 401/403 but relays other statuses unchanged (including 400)
  • Uses proper timeout via AbortSignal.timeout(CODEX_UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT_MS)
  • Returns meaningful error message if all candidates fail

✅ Test Coverage (continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts)

  • testCodexModelsDiscovery() validates critical behaviors:
    • Endpoint exists (rejects 404)
    • Method allowed (rejects 405)
    • Query forwarded correctly (rejects 400)
    • Accepts expected statuses: 200, 401, 502, 503
    • Rejects unexpected statuses

Impact Analysis

  • Affected flows: 78 execution flows touched
  • Backward compatibility: No breaking changes - only adds new functionality
  • Risk level: Low - follows proven patterns from Claude proxy implementation
  • Test coverage: New test ensures regression prevention

CLAUDE.md Compliance

✅ Rule 4 (CLI ≠ SDK): Pure server-side code, no SDK concerns
✅ Rule 5 (Backward compatibility): Only adds new endpoint, no API changes
✅ Rule 6 (formatProviderError): N/A - not modifying error formatting

Recommendation

APPROVE - This is a well-implemented feature addition that completes the Codex proxy's model discovery capability. The implementation follows established patterns, includes comprehensive tests, and properly documents the behavior.


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Review Summary

All previously identified issues have been resolved:

  1. ✅ Timeout added to upstream model-discovery fetch (lines 650-654) - matches the pattern used in responses route
  2. ✅ Forced token refresh on auth failures (401/403) - applies same flow as handleCodexResponsesRequest
  3. ✅ HTTP 400 treated as failure - test updated to reject 400 responses

The implementation follows Claude proxy patterns with comprehensive tests and documentation. The PR is ready for merge.

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