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Summary

  • preserve typed Responses heartbeats when translating a stream back to Chat Completions
  • relay each heartbeat as an SSE comment, so clients receive transport bytes without a fabricated semantic chunk
  • document the wire contract and the decision tradeoffs

Why

After the initial assistant-role chunk, response.heartbeat only called ensureRole(). Because the role had already been emitted, every later heartbeat produced zero downstream bytes and idle-sensitive Chat clients could disconnect during long reasoning.

SSE comments preserve transport liveness while remaining invisible to compliant event parsers, usage accounting, and semantic-progress tracking.

Tests

  • bun run typecheck
  • bun run structure:check
  • bun run privacy:scan
  • focused heartbeat regression: 1 passed
  • bun run test:changed: 2,843 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed across 136 files

The full suite was also exercised locally inside a bounded cgroup. Unrelated timeout-sensitive ws-native-steering fixtures and an existing split-surrogate assertion prevented a clean full-suite result; neither path is changed here. CI remains the clean-run authority.

Closes #5805

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  • New Features
    • Chat-compatible streams now relay Responses heartbeat events as SSE keepalives, helping maintain active connections during long periods without model output.
    • Keepalives do not add message content, usage, or completion events.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified how heartbeat keepalives affect connection liveness and semantic-progress monitoring.

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The Chat Completions bridge now relays typed Responses heartbeat events as SSE comment keepalives. It counts each comment as an emitted frame without adding a Chat completion chunk or changing usage. Tests and documentation describe the relay and its constraints.

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Chat heartbeat relay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Heartbeat conversion and documented contract
src/chat/outbound.ts, tests/responses/chat-completions-endpoint.test.ts, structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md, structure/transports/streaming-health.md, structure/decisions/ADR-5805-chat-completions-heartbeat-relay.md
At src/chat/outbound.ts:555-564, the converter emits : opencodex heartbeat after ensuring the assistant role and counts the comment as an emitted frame. The test at tests/responses/chat-completions-endpoint.test.ts:525-540 checks repeated comments and confirms that the relay does not add raw Responses frames or synthetic Chat chunks. The documentation at structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md:115-118 and structure/transports/streaming-health.md:36-42, plus ADR-5805 at structure/decisions/ADR-5805-chat-completions-heartbeat-relay.md:1-22, records the relay and its stated constraints.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 82c36

A very large response that otherwise fits can fail with a 502 if a heartbeat arrives at the translator-budget boundary. The relay otherwise adds only transport comments; this bounded edge case should be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: src, structure, tests

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  • observed — src (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — structure (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — tests (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in src/chat/outbound.ts: response.heartbeat previously only ensured the assistant role. It now also sends the : opencodex heartbeat SSE comment and counts it as an emitted frame.
  • observed — Modified behavior in structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md: The bridge’s streaming return path now turns typed response.heartbeat events into SSE comment-line keepalives without adding completion chunks, changing usage, or indicating semantic progress.
  • observed — Modified behavior in structure/decisions/ADR-5805-chat-completions-heartbeat-relay.md: Added an ADR documenting the Chat Completions heartbeat-relay decision, prior behavior, alternatives, chosen SSE-comment approach, and stated constraints and impact.
  • observed — Modified behavior in structure/transports/streaming-health.md: Documents the converter’s typed-heartbeat relay as a bounded SSE comment emitted after the initial assistant-role chunk. It states that the comment creates no content, tool, or usage event and does not reset semantic-progress watchdogs or alter bridge stall or cancellation decisions.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies the coding objective in #5805. In src/chat/outbound.ts, responsesSseToChatCompletionsSse() now emits : opencodex heartbeat\\n\\n for each typed response.heartbeat after role ini…
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In `@src/chat/outbound.ts`:
- Around line 557-564: In the response.heartbeat handler, prevent a temporary
translator-budget overflow from failing the stream: drop only that heartbeat
when enqueueLiveFrame reports the budget-exceeded error, and rethrow other
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Comment thread src/chat/outbound.ts
Comment on lines 557 to +564
case "response.heartbeat":
ensureRole();
// A typed Responses heartbeat carries transport liveness, not Chat content. Preserve
// that signal as an SSE comment so idle-sensitive Chat clients receive bytes without
// inventing a semantic chunk that parsers, usage counters, or progress watchdogs could
// mistake for model output.
enqueueLiveFrame(encoder.encode(": opencodex heartbeat\n\n"));
emittedFrames++;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- outbound relevant definitions ---'
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sed -n '530,580p' src/chat/outbound.ts
sed -n '700,785p' src/chat/outbound.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- translator budget ---'
sed -n '1,260p' src/lib/translator-budget.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff for outbound ---'
git diff --unified=40 ed181a0d0ced68341c45d4e56da9bed9763a7bdd..82c36e88882e294d455745a75fcbd691b9c6802b -- src/chat/outbound.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- heartbeat contract ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- outbound stream completion and pull ---'
sed -n '705,815p' src/chat/outbound.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- translator budget remainder ---'
sed -n '240,390p' src/lib/translator-budget.ts
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printf '%s\n' '--- near-limit and heartbeat tests ---'
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Do not fail the stream when a heartbeat reservation is temporarily unavailable.

The heartbeat is processed while the decoder still charges the current input record. If fewer than 23 bytes remain, enqueueLiveFrame throws before that record is released. The converter then returns a 502, even though the decoder would release the record before the terminal Chat batch, which can still fit. Drop only this transport heartbeat on budget overflow. Preserve failures for semantic frames.

Suggested fix
-            enqueueLiveFrame(encoder.encode(": opencodex heartbeat\n\n"));
-            emittedFrames++;
+            try {
+              enqueueLiveFrame(encoder.encode(": opencodex heartbeat\n\n"));
+              emittedFrames++;
+            } catch (error) {
+              if (!isTranslatorBudgetExceededError(error)) throw error;
+            }
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case "response.heartbeat":
ensureRole();
// A typed Responses heartbeat carries transport liveness, not Chat content. Preserve
// that signal as an SSE comment so idle-sensitive Chat clients receive bytes without
// inventing a semantic chunk that parsers, usage counters, or progress watchdogs could
// mistake for model output.
enqueueLiveFrame(encoder.encode(": opencodex heartbeat\n\n"));
emittedFrames++;
case "response.heartbeat":
ensureRole();
// A typed Responses heartbeat carries transport liveness, not Chat content. Preserve
// that signal as an SSE comment so idle-sensitive Chat clients receive bytes without
// inventing a semantic chunk that parsers, usage counters, or progress watchdogs could
// mistake for model output.
try {
enqueueLiveFrame(encoder.encode(": opencodex heartbeat\n\n"));
emittedFrames++;
} catch (error) {
if (!isTranslatorBudgetExceededError(error)) throw error;
}
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In `@src/chat/outbound.ts` around lines 557 - 564, In the response.heartbeat
handler, prevent a temporary translator-budget overflow from failing the stream:
drop only that heartbeat when enqueueLiveFrame reports the budget-exceeded
error, and rethrow other errors. Increment emittedFrames only when the heartbeat
is successfully enqueued; leave semantic-frame failure behavior unchanged.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 56 / 80

이 PR은 Responses 스트림을 채팅 완성으로 옮길 때, 하트비트가 길 중간에서 사라지던 일을 고친다. 베이스는 dev이다. 같은 수정의 다른 열린 PR은 없다.

변환기는 response.heartbeat를 받으면 조수 역할을 한 번 보냈다. 역할이 이미 나간 뒤의 하트비트는 바이트를 하나도 안 만들었다. 모델이 오래 생각하는 동안 채팅 클라이언트는 조용한 연결만 본다. #5805가 그 증상이다. 프레임이 변환기에서 떨어지는 것은 재현됐다. OMO 타임아웃이 바로 그 때문인지는 이슈에 아직 확인되지 않았다고 적혀 있다.

이제는 타입이 있는 하트비트마다 : opencodex heartbeat 주석을 한 번 보낸다. 브리지가 조용할 때 넣는 주석과 같은 글자다. 규격대로 읽는 SSE 파서는 주석을 이벤트로 세지 않는다. 본문, 도구, 사용량은 늘지 않는다. 역할 조각이 아직 없으면 주석보다 먼저 역할을 보낸다. response.created는 역할만 보장한다. 업스트림이 멈춘 것을 재는 시계와 취소는 이 주석이 바꾸지 않는다.

stream: false는 서버가 스트림을 모아서 JSON으로 돌려준다. 그 길의 수집기는 주석 블록을 건너뛴다. 이번 고침이 살리는 것은 stream: true로 받는 연결이다.

테스트는 하트비트, hi, 하트비트, 완료를 넣고 주석이 두 번인지 본다. 이벤트 이름 response.heartbeat는 밖으로 새지 않는다.

라인 - tests/responses/chat-completions-endpoint.test.ts 540행 — split 길이가 3인지는 주석이 두 번인지만 말한다. hi 앞에 하나, hi 뒤에 하나인지는 안 본다. 보고된 고장은 역할이 나간 다음의 하트비트가 조용한 것이다. 본문 뒤에 주석이 있는지를 고정하면 그 순서가 깨져도 잡힌다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

OMO가 소켓에 바이트가 오면 유휴 시계를 되돌리는지, 파싱된 채팅 조각이 와야 진행으로 치는지 정해 달라. 주석은 받은 바이트로 유휴 시계만 되돌린다. ADR은 파싱된 진행은 일부러 그대로 둔다고 적었다. 진행만 보는 클라이언트는 이 PR 뒤에도 길게 조용하면 끊긴다.

클라이언트가 :로 시작하는 줄을 JSON으로 읽다가 예외를 내면, 주석이 연결을 더 빨리 끊게 한다. OpenAI 호환 SDK는 보통 그 줄을 버린다. OMO가 그 쪽이면 주석이 맞다.

너의 추천

방향은 유지해라. 빈 chat.completion.chunk로 하트비트를 위장하지 마라. 베이스는 dev이고 닫을 중복 PR은 없다. 테스트에 hi 뒤 주석이 있는지만 추가하고 넣어라. data가 비어 있는 하트비트는 지금처럼 버려진다 (src/chat/outbound.ts 755행). 이슈의 재현은 JSON이 달린 이벤트라 그 범위로 충분하다.

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Verification on exact head 82c36e88882e294d455745a75fcbd691b9c6802b:

  • Hosted CI: Cross-platform CI run 36084866653 completed success. Test shards and typecheck passed. The Windows/macOS/docs/privacy jobs are path-skipped on PRs, the same as other PRs.
  • Local, on current dev (ed181a0d0c) with this head merged: bun test tests/responses/chat-completions-endpoint.test.ts 122 pass / 0 fail; bun run typecheck exit 0; bun run test:changed exit 0; bun run privacy:scan passed; structure:check passed.
  • Independent review: PASS, with no High or Critical findings.

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  • The CodeRabbit note on src/chat/outbound.ts:564 (a heartbeat enqueued within 23 bytes of the 32 MiB retained translator budget fails the stream) is valid but narrow. Dropping only the heartbeat on TranslatorBudgetExceededError is a cheap hardening.
  • No test covers the response.created/response.heartbeat case split or a heartbeat after the terminal frame.

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devin-ai-integration Bot added a commit to luvs01/opencodex that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
The direct Chat encoder mapped heartbeat to ensureRole, so once the role
chunk was out the stall-watchdog keepalive emitted no bytes at all; the
converter path emits the role chunk plus the ': opencodex heartbeat' SSE
comment (lidge-jun#5806). Emit the same comment via emitKeepalive through a shared
constant so idle-sensitive Chat clients get the same liveness bytes on
both paths, and teach the parity test's normalizeFrames to compare
comment-only blocks as raw text instead of crashing on empty data.

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
devin-ai-integration Bot added a commit to luvs01/opencodex that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
The direct Chat encoder mapped heartbeat to ensureRole, so once the role
chunk was out the stall-watchdog keepalive emitted no bytes at all; the
converter path emits the role chunk plus the ': opencodex heartbeat' SSE
comment (lidge-jun#5806). Emit the same comment via emitKeepalive through a shared
constant so idle-sensitive Chat clients get the same liveness bytes on
both paths, and teach the parity test's normalizeFrames to compare
comment-only blocks as raw text instead of crashing on empty data.

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
…5847)

* fix(protocols): relay heartbeat keepalives from the direct encoders

#5806 made the Chat converter answer typed heartbeats with an SSE
comment; the direct Chat encoder still only ensured the role frame, so
direct and bridged streams diverged. Keepalives also stop counting as
relayed events, matching the bridge's uncounted heartbeat. Parity tests
now compare comment-only blocks and cover heartbeats on both wires.

* docs(structure): note direct-encoder heartbeat keepalives

Record that direct encoders deliver the converters' keepalive frames
without counting them.
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