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fix(catalog): keep Codex's auto-review model so reviews stop falling back to the task model - #6727

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With Auto-review enabled, Codex chooses its approval reviewer by looking up codex-auto-review in the loaded catalog. When that row is missing and no reviewer override is set, Codex falls back to the parent task model at Low effort (select_review_model in codex-rs ext/guardian-reviewer/src/model.rs, unchanged on upstream main at ec8251c54). OpenCodex writes model_catalog_json, which replaces Codex's entire catalog, and every canonical catalog writer dropped codex-auto-review as an unsupported bare codex- slug. So reviews through OpenCodex ran on the task model (the report shows GPT-6.1 Sol / low) instead of codex-auto-review / low.

The drop dates from 13c03e6 (v2.6.2), which removed legacy rows that were persisted with visibility: "list" and showed up in the picker. This change keeps that goal and restores the reviewer:

  • One exact control-plane id set (codex-auto-review) now lives in src/codex/control-plane-models.ts. The router imports it instead of keeping its own copy (fix(router): pin Codex auto review to OpenAI #833 already routes this id to canonical OpenAI).
  • When the final catalog contains at least one ordinary bare native OpenAI row (Reserve rows do not count), every catalog writer (build, observed merge, retained sync, convergence) keeps exactly one codex-auto-review row with visibility: "hide". A persisted or live row is reused when present; otherwise the row is backfilled from the pinned upstream snapshot. It keeps upstream's own reasoning ladder, so Low is advertised, and it goes through the same multi-agent version projection as the other native rows. A later effort clamp that removes every ordinary native row also removes it.
  • The row stays out of native synthesis, account clones, picker ordering, subagent choices, Desktop lists, public /v1/models, and reviewer-override stamping. Provider, per-model, and root autoReviewModel overrides keep their precedence.
  • Reserve-only and native-less catalogs omit the row, so Codex still falls back to the task model there. If a future pin lacks the row, the writer skips it instead of failing the catalog.

Closes #6712

Not changed here: Codex only generates the x-codex-guardian marker, parent_response_id, and guardian_credits_requested when its base URL ends in /backend-api/codex. OpenCodex injects a /v1 base URL, so those markers are never produced on this path, and forwarding them would need a separate design. This PR does not forward or synthesize any reviewer marker. Whether a marker-less codex-auto-review request is billed like a native review is not established.

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  • Root cause: the live A/B in Auto-review appears to fall back to Sol low through OpenCodex; direct ChatGPT login uses codex-auto-review #6712 by @sungyongcho (current OpenCodex catalog gives gpt-6.1-sol / low; the same catalog plus the upstream codex-auto-review row gives codex-auto-review / low), plus a source read of codex-rs at ec8251c54 (select_review_model, list_models keeps hidden rows, supports_codex_backend_routes).
  • At 29626d4, focused files including catalog-auto-review-row, codex-v2-gate, reserve-catalog, the catalog and convergence suites, router, test layout, file-size ratchet and the Lab boundary: 750 pass / 0 fail. A local bun run test:changed hit its 15-minute limit after 19 failures in service, audio and native-toggle files that each pass when run alone; that run is not counted as passing, and hosted CI is the evidence.
  • First head: bun test tests/codex-integration/catalog-auto-review-row.test.ts 13 pass / 0 fail. Covers the build, merge, retained-sync, and convergence writers; duplicate and visibility: list repair; native exclusion; Low; override precedence; router sharing; and HTTP /v1/models exclusion with the row still present in the hidden Codex catalog.
  • Catalog, router, and picker suites (codex-catalog-sync-hardening, codex-catalog, codex-catalog-ladders, codex-catalog-golden, codex-catalog-model-picker-order, codex-catalog-exclusions, configured-native-models, catalog-full-picker-order, routing/router): 474 pass / 0 fail.
  • Convergence, test-layout, file-size ratchet, and the Lab core boundary: 196 pass / 0 fail.
  • bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, and the docs-site build pass.
  • scripts/test-layout/layout.json: two pairs of existing registrations share a line. After feat(lifecycle): allow an explicit restart drain grace (carry #6703) #6724 and fix(anthropic): preserve reported thinking token usage #6721 landed, dev itself sits at 2000 lines and fails the file-size ratchet (NEW_OVERSIZED); merged with this branch it is 1998. test-layout, test-layout-tooling and file-size-ratchet: 27 pass / 0 fail.
  • The full suite was not run locally; it is left to CI. No authenticated reviewer completion was sent from this change.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Codex can use a hidden codex-auto-review model for approval reviews when the catalog includes an eligible native OpenAI model and no higher-priority reviewer override is configured. The hidden model is excluded from public model lists, pickers, and subagent choices.
    • The root auto_review_model setting applies one reviewer to each task catalog row. Provider and root overrides take precedence without changing the hidden reviewer row.
    • If no eligible native model is available, including in a Reserve-only catalog, Codex falls back to the task model.

…back to the task model

The canonical native catalog dropped codex-auto-review as an unsupported
bare Codex slug. Because model_catalog_json replaces Codex's entire catalog,
the approval reviewer could no longer find its preferred model and fell back
to the parent task model at Low effort.

Share the exact control-plane id set with routing and preserve or separately
backfill one hidden reviewer row whenever native OpenAI rows are included.
Keep its upstream reasoning metadata and exclude it from native synthesis,
account clones, picker ordering, public lists and override stamping. Preserve
provider/per-model/root reviewer precedence and non-OpenAI fallback behavior.

Cover all catalog writers, persisted duplicates, visibility, Low effort,
HTTP model lists, shared routing and override selection. Register the new
regression file in both layout inventories and document the contract.
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Walkthrough

The catalog adds or preserves a hidden codex-auto-review row when native OpenAI is included and a qualifying ordinary native row remains. Catalog processing excludes the row from ordinary picker and override handling. The router sends its model ID to canonical OpenAI.

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Codex auto-review catalog row

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and construct the hidden catalog row
src/codex/control-plane-models.ts, src/codex/catalog/control-plane.ts, src/codex/catalog/build-entries.ts, src/codex/catalog/effort.ts, src/codex/catalog/parsing.ts, tests/codex-integration/catalog-auto-review-row.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/catalog-full-picker-order.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-catalog-golden.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-catalog-sync-hardening.test.ts, structure/catalog.md, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
The catalog recognizes codex-auto-review as a control-plane model. When native OpenAI is enabled and a qualifying ordinary native row remains, catalog construction appends a hidden row using source or pinned metadata. Tests cover metadata, visibility, retention, omission, and exclusion from public listings.
Preserve override behavior and route the row
src/codex/catalog/auto-review.ts, src/router.ts, tests/codex-integration/catalog-auto-review-row.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md, structure/runtime.md
Auto-review override handling skips the control-plane row. The router imports the shared control-plane model set. Tests cover override precedence and routing through canonical OpenAI, including the error when no OpenAI provider is enabled. The documentation describes the row, root selector scope, and routing behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Codex as Codex request
  participant Router as src/router.ts
  participant OpenAI as canonical OpenAI
  Codex->>Router: Request codex-auto-review
  Router->>OpenAI: Route with the control-plane model ID
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Possibly related PRs

  • lidge-jun/opencodex#2527: Adds provider-wide and per-model autoReviewModel overrides. This PR changes how those overrides apply to the internal reviewer row.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0bf5e

Auto-review keeps its dedicated catalog row, but its multi-agent setting can differ from the upstream-pinned default when v2 is enabled. The impact is bounded to Auto-review; merge with owner awareness and track a correction.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #6712 has two relevant coding objectives. The catalog objective is implemented: src/codex/catalog/control-plane.ts preserves one hidden codex-auto-review row for eligible native catalogs, re… Implement and test a supported authenticated request path that preserves genuine Codex reviewer markers and parent_response_id correlation when Codex provides them. Do not synthesize Guardian metadata. If the /v1 path cannot support thi…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 77.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 11 files. (2 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: retaining Codex's auto-review model to prevent reviews from falling back to the task model.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain connected to issue #6712. src/codex/control-plane-models.ts and src/router.ts share and route the exact control-plane ID. The catalog changes preserve the reviewer row, exclude …
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Explanation

Issue #6712 has two relevant coding objectives. The catalog objective is implemented: src/codex/catalog/control-plane.ts preserves one hidden codex-auto-review row for eligible native catalogs, reuses or backfills upstream metadata, and omits it for native-less or Reserve-only catalogs. tests/codex-integration/catalog-auto-review-row.test.ts covers the catalog writers, Low reasoning support, deduplication, routing, visibility, and override precedence. The request-semantics objective remains unmet. The current PR states that OpenCodex uses a /v1 base URL on this path, so Codex does not generate x-codex-guardian, parent_response_id, or guardian_credits_requested. The changed files do not add forwarding for genuine reviewer markers or parent-request correlation. Issue #6712 requires preservation of those values and prohibits fabricated metadata. Billing and statistics impact remain unestablished and are not treated as proven failures.

Resolution

Implement and test a supported authenticated request path that preserves genuine Codex reviewer markers and parent_response_id correlation when Codex provides them. Do not synthesize Guardian metadata. If the /v1 path cannot support this behavior, define the supported boundary and revise or split issue #6712 before marking its request-semantics objective complete.

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When native OpenAI rows are included, OpenCodex keeps the hidden `codex-auto-review` row so
Codex can select its preferred approval reviewer when no override is configured. It stays out
of model pickers, subagent choices, Desktop lists and public `/v1/models` lists. Provider and
root reviewer overrides retain their precedence and do not stamp this internal row. Catalogs
without a native OpenAI path omit it, preserving Codex's fallback to the task model.

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P1 Badge Update the linked reviewer guide for the hidden-row exception

The new exception makes the linked provider guide inaccurate: docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/providers.md:1354 still says the root auto_review_model applies to “every row,” while this change deliberately leaves codex-auto-review unstamped. Update that directly affected workflow page to say task rows and describe the hidden-row fallback, so operators do not receive contradictory configuration semantics from two canonical English pages.

AGENTS.md reference: docs-site/AGENTS.md:L13-L17

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✅ Deterministic PR hygiene checks passed.

Project the internal reviewer before multi-agent mode normalization so
explicit v2 and native v1 exceptions apply in both catalog builders.
Keep it outside account clones, featured/picker ordering and effort synthesis.

Require an ordinary bare native OpenAI row in the final catalog before
preserving or backfilling a reviewer. Hidden natives count; Reserve,
account-only and native-less catalogs do not. Prune persisted orphan
reviewers after effort clamps and preserve the missing-pin skip fallback.

Add regression coverage for mode projection, suppressed/Reserve-only
native sets, account-only catalogs and orphan cleanup. Keep the three
CI-failing tests and their expectations unchanged.

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Review comments at @src/codex/catalog/build-entries.ts:
- Line 311: Update the preservation callback passed to applyMultiAgentMode in
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codex-auto-review row in default multi-agent mode; keep
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return applyMultiAgentMode(out, multiAgentMode, multiAgentV2Enabled, {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
# Inspect the map's source sets and the reviewer's pinned row.
rg -n -C 4 'NATIVE_OPENAI_MODELS|NATIVE_OPENAI_CAPABILITY_ALIAS_MODELS|UPSTREAM_NATIVE_ENTRIES' \
  src/codex/catalog/native-models.ts src/codex/catalog/metadata.ts
python - <<'PY'
import json
from pathlib import Path
models = json.loads(Path("src/codex/data/upstream-models.json").read_text())["models"]
for row in models:
    if row.get("slug") == "codex-auto-review":
        print({key: row.get(key) for key in ("slug", "multi_agent_version")})
PY

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🏁 Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- parsing.ts relevant block ---'
nl -ba src/codex/catalog/parsing.ts | sed -n '750,825p'
printf '%s\n' '--- build-entries.ts relevant block ---'
nl -ba src/codex/catalog/build-entries.ts | sed -n '250,330p'
printf '%s\n' '--- native-models.ts declarations ---'
nl -ba src/codex/catalog/native-models.ts | sed -n '120,165p;228,245p'
printf '%s\n' '--- metadata.ts upstream map ---'
nl -ba src/codex/catalog/metadata.ts | sed -n '570,650p'
printf '%s\n' '--- nearby tests ---'
rg -n -C 8 --glob '*.{test,spec}.ts' -- 'codex-auto-review|multiAgentV2Enabled|applyMultiAgentMode' src/codex

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- build function and reserve projection ---'
rg -n -F -- 'isReserveCatalogProjection' src/codex/catalog
rg -n -F -- 'withCodexControlPlaneRows' src/codex/catalog
printf '%s\n' '--- surrounding declarations ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
for p in [Path('src/codex/catalog/build-entries.ts'), Path('src/codex/catalog/parsing.ts')]:
    lines=p.read_text().splitlines()
    hits=[i for i,s in enumerate(lines) if 'isReserveCatalogProjection' in s or 'withCodexControlPlaneRows' in s]
    if not hits:
        continue
    lo=max(0,min(hits)-35); hi=min(len(lines),max(hits)+45)
    print(f'--- {p}:{lo+1}-{hi} ---')
    for n in range(lo,hi):
        print(f'{n+1:5} {lines[n]}')
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant call sites of the builder ---'
rg -n -F -- 'buildCatalogEntries(' src | head -80

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- callback definition ---'
rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'isReserveCatalogProjection' src/codex/catalog
printf '%s\n' '--- control-plane construction ---'
rg -n -C 20 -F -- 'withCodexControlPlaneRows' src/codex/catalog
printf '%s\n' '--- builder callers and signature ---'
rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'buildCatalogEntries(' src

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Preserve codex-auto-review’s v1 pin in default multi-agent mode.

codex-auto-review is not a reserve projection, so isReserveCatalogProjection does not preserve it. The row reaches the default fallback in applyMultiAgentMode, where multiAgentV2Enabled changes its existing v1 pin to v2.

Extend the preservation callback for this control-plane row. Do not add it to UPSTREAM_NATIVE_ENTRIES; that map authorizes persisted native-row replacement.

🐛 Suggested fix
-    preserveDefaultMultiAgentVersion: isReserveCatalogProjection,
+    preserveDefaultMultiAgentVersion: entry =>
+      isReserveCatalogProjection(entry) || entry.slug === "codex-auto-review",

Add a default-mode assertion beside the explicit-mode tests.

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Review comment at @src/codex/catalog/build-entries.ts at line 311:
Update the preservation callback passed to applyMultiAgentMode in the
build-entries flow so it also preserves the existing v1 version for the
codex-auto-review row in default multi-agent mode; keep
isReserveCatalogProjection behavior unchanged and do not add this row to
UPSTREAM_NATIVE_ENTRIES. Add a default-mode assertion beside the explicit-mode
tests to verify the v1 pin remains.

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