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[flanksource]  ~/flanksource/captain  fix/openai-responses-api !1   11:02 14s ❯ captain prompt run --prompt 'hey there' \
                                                                                        -M 'api:gpt-5.5' \
                                                                                        -M 'cli:gpt-5.5'
11:02:08.796 INF reusing existing embedded postgres on port 45601
11:02:08.830 INF (ai) ✨ api:gpt-5.5 (stream) [<inline>]
11:02:08.835 INF (ai) ✨ cli:gpt-5.5 (stream) [<inline>]
⟳ gpt-5.5 openai:gpt-5.5 "hey there" 2.245s
⟳ gpt-5.5 codex-cli:gpt-5.5 "hey there" 3.998s
✓ gpt-5.5 openai:gpt-5.5 "hey there" 2.336s
✓ gpt-5.5 codex-cli:gpt-5.5 "hey there" 4.374s
Status: completed  Total: 2  Succeeded: 2  Failed: 0  Duration: 4.412s

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│Backend │openai                          │codex-cli                                                               │
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│Session │64b429b7-d67                    │133b9297-946                                                            │
│History │                                │...ollout-2026-08-26T11-02-09-01a03c80-3014-75b2-984e-a9f429a7640b.jsonl│
│Dir     │/home/aditya/flanksource/captain│/home/aditya/flanksource/captain                                        │
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Hey! How can I help?

Response — codex-cli:gpt-5.5
Hey. What do you need help with in `captain`?

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Walkthrough

The OpenAI backend now uses a direct Responses API provider. It supports streaming, structured output, tool calls, attachments, usage tracking, and resumable tool approvals. Related mocks and tests validate the Responses API path.

Changes

OpenAI Responses API runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime selection and request input
pkg/ai/provider/init.go, pkg/ai/provider/genkit/genkit.go, pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go
The OpenAI backend now uses openai.New(cfg). Request preparation converts prompts, messages, tools, schemas, and attachments into Responses API input.
Provider construction and streaming execution
pkg/ai/provider/openai/provider.go, pkg/aimock/openaimock/server.go
The provider validates configuration, creates the OpenAI client, streams events, handles response turns and cancellation, validates results, and reports usage and costs.
Tool-call processing
pkg/ai/provider/openai/tools.go
Function calls now support argument validation, handler execution, approval events, result serialization, refusal detection, and response-history preservation.
Approval checkpoint and resume flow
pkg/ai/provider/openai/approval.go
Approval state stores tagged Responses input and output items in versioned checkpoints. Resume logic validates checkpoints and applies approved, denied, or externally supplied tool results.
Mock request observation
pkg/aimock/e2e_*.go, pkg/aimock/genkit_test.go
Mock request assertions now use the Requests field. Prompt helpers poll for matching requests for up to one second.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant OpenAIProvider
  participant OpenAIResponsesAPI
  participant ToolHandler
  Caller->>OpenAIProvider: ExecuteStream(request)
  OpenAIProvider->>OpenAIResponsesAPI: send prepared Responses input
  OpenAIResponsesAPI-->>OpenAIProvider: stream text or function call
  OpenAIProvider->>ToolHandler: execute approved function
  ToolHandler-->>OpenAIProvider: return serialized result
  OpenAIProvider->>OpenAIResponsesAPI: submit function-call output
  OpenAIResponsesAPI-->>OpenAIProvider: stream final response
  OpenAIProvider-->>Caller: emit events and completion
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In `@pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go`:
- Around line 58-70: In the request setup flow around EffortConfig and the
resolved p.model, emit the resolved agent identity once per request using the
repository logging path, formatted as agent:model with :effort appended when an
effort is resolved. Use the existing request/provider logger and avoid adding
duplicate identity logs.
- Around line 72-84: Add local structured-output validation to the streaming
completion path after JSON parsing and before reporting success, validating
against Prompt.Schema or Prompt.SchemaJSON with the configured SchemaStrictness.
Keep SchemaJSONForBackend for provider-specific request formatting, but reuse
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Genkit routes OpenAI through the legacy Chat Completions endpoint, preventing Captain from using newer Responses API capabilities.

Register a direct official SDK adapter that preserves Captain's streaming, structured output, caller-tool, usage, and durable approval contracts while leaving the other API backends on Genkit.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
Preserve configured GPT-5.6 reasoning effort when caller tools are present and avoid overflow-prone slice capacity arithmetic flagged by CodeQL.

Poll the mock journal for completed streaming requests so the E2E surface assertion cannot race the server's final journal write.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
The OpenAI SDK decodes persisted response messages as input messages because both share type message. This drops the output content and makes the resumed Responses request invalid.

Tag checkpoint items by request or response union and restore response items from their raw wire form. Read restored function calls from the wire payload because SDK ToParam values keep their fields in override metadata.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
Canonical conversation replay encoded assistant text as input_text, which the Responses API rejects for the assistant role.

Use the SDK's supported string content form for assistant history while retaining typed input_text parts for user and system messages.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
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pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go (2)

153-188: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve assistant part order.

This code collects every assistant PartText and emits it before all tool calls. A valid canonical message can contain text and tool requests in the same Parts slice. The message validator does not require text to precede tool requests. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

If text follows a tool request, this conversion moves that text before the call and changes replayed conversation semantics. Flush assistant text before each tool call and after the loop, or reject that ordering during canonical validation.

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In `@pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go` around lines 153 - 188, The message
conversion must preserve the original order of assistant text and tool calls
from message.Parts. Update the loop in the input conversion flow to flush
accumulated assistant text before each PartToolRequest, emit the tool call, then
flush any remaining text after the loop; keep non-assistant content handling
unchanged.

260-268: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve explicit JSON null tool results.

rawOutput converts json.RawMessage("null") to "" before resultOutput passes it to ResponseInputItemParamOfFunctionCallOutput. Decode into *string and unwrap only when non-nil so the function returns "null".

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In `@pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go` around lines 260 - 268, Update rawOutput to
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unwrapped value only when non-nil; preserve the raw JSON representation for
explicit null and other non-string values so resultOutput receives "null" for a
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In `@pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go`:
- Around line 153-188: The message conversion must preserve the original order
of assistant text and tool calls from message.Parts. Update the loop in the
input conversion flow to flush accumulated assistant text before each
PartToolRequest, emit the tool call, then flush any remaining text after the
loop; keep non-assistant content handling unchanged.
- Around line 260-268: Update rawOutput to decode JSON string values into a
nullable string pointer, returning the unwrapped value only when non-nil;
preserve the raw JSON representation for explicit null and other non-string
values so resultOutput receives "null" for a null tool result.

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