fix(web-search): end a mixed-tool bridge leg instead of failing it, and serve alpha/search from a configured sidecar - #4586
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…nd serve alpha/search from a configured sidecar Two web-search gaps, both reported against a deployment with no ChatGPT forward provider. The hosted-search bridge failed closed whenever one upstream leg carried both an intercepted web_search call and a tool call the client has to run: the search cell closed as failed, the client's call was dropped, and the turn died after five reconnects. Such a leg now ends the turn on the leg. The intercepted searches run, their hosted cells complete, the held client calls are released with their call_id and streamed order intact, and the leg's own terminal closes the turn. No continuation is sent upstream, because the client's call is unanswered and the conversation owes the client a turn rather than the gateway, and no tool output is fabricated for a call the bridge cannot execute. A leg whose upstream terminal already ended the turn runs no search at all and closes any cell it opened, so a dead turn is never billed and never leaves a spinner behind. This covers the remainder of issue 4429 on the client-facing side only. The destination still never receives the executed search result: the caller replays the hosted web_search_call cell, which carries the query and its sources but no result text, so the destination's own function_call and function_call_output pair is not reconstructed. Repairing that needs the outbound body rewritten before the first leg is dispatched, which lives outside this module. POST /v1/alpha/search returned 400 whenever no ChatGPT forward candidate existed, before considering any configured backend, so an API-key-only deployment could not use built-in web search at all. When and only when that candidate list is empty, an explicitly configured webSearchSidecar backend of anthropic, xai, gemini, or exa now serves the request with that backend's own credential and answers the shape the client reads. The verbatim relay is untouched while a forward provider exists. An unset or openai backend, a sidecar disabled by enabled:false, and a named backend whose credential is missing all keep the 400 rather than borrowing another paid backend, and a backend that fails answers with its own diagnostic instead of asking for ChatGPT auth. No new configuration field: the fallback reads the webSearchSidecar block that already exists.
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리뷰 · 우선순위 69 / 80지금 이 PR( 라인 - 경로/심볼 - #4429를 의도적으로 열어 두고 #4587로 결과 재구성 절반을 분리한 설계는 맞습니다. 다만 머지 후 #4429 본문/라벨에 「클라이언트 mixed-leg 절반은 #4586에 랜딩, 결과 재구성은 #4587」한 줄을 달아 두지 않으면 기여자가 또 같은 mixed fail-closed PR을 올릴 수 있습니다. #2730 closes는 이 PR의 alpha/search sidecar fallback과 맞습니다. 경로/심볼 - 경로/심볼 - Verification이 로컬 스위트·타입체크·install·GUI 빌드를 의도적으로 안 돌렸다고 명시합니다. 이 시각 기준 hygiene/changes/keyring/api usage/storage 등은 초록이고, test 샤드·gates·docker·macos·npm-global·enforce-target은 pending입니다. 머지 증거는 이 헤드 SHA의 호스트 CI 전부 초록뿐입니다. 회귀 핀은 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
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…atGPT auth A deployment that already chose a web-search backend was still told to configure a ChatGPT forward provider when that backend's credential was absent, which is the exact answer the feature request asked this path to stop giving. Resolution now distinguishes a deployment that named no backend from one whose named backend cannot authenticate: the first keeps the ChatGPT-auth message, the second is refused with a message naming that backend and the credential it could not find, and neither reaches another paid backend.
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| return runAnthropicWebSearch(query, resolved.providerName, resolved.provider, settings, signal); |
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When /v1/alpha/search falls back to Anthropic and that backend returns a non-2xx response or transport error, this passes the raw request query to runAnthropicWebSearch, whose failure branches log query.slice(0, 80). This newly exposes part of the alpha-search request body in process logs; remove the query from those diagnostics or pass only a non-sensitive identifier.
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When an alpha request contains multiple commands.search_query entries, this sequential loop gives every query a fresh config.search.timeoutMs inside its executor. Since OcxSearchConfig.timeoutMs is documented as the total deadline for one /v1/alpha/search request, three hung queries can now keep the request open for roughly three times the configured limit (600 seconds with the default) before returning. Create one request-wide deadline signal and pass its remaining budget or shared signal to every query.
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| // The client's own call is unanswered, so this leg cannot continue upstream: the | ||
| // conversation owes the client a turn, not the gateway. The intercepted searches still | ||
| // run so the hosted cell completes rather than dangling, then the held calls go back to | ||
| // the client and the leg's own terminal ends the turn. | ||
| return { kind: "endAfterSearch", searches: this.searches }; |
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The changed branch now executes the intercepted search and releases the client tool call, but docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md:204 still tells operators that a mixed web_search/client-tool turn fails closed. This is materially misleading because such a turn can now incur a paid search and complete instead of failing; update the English configuration reference and ensure translated pages do not contradict it.
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In `@src/web-search/alpha-search.ts`:
- Line 152: Enforce a single request-wide deadline in the alpha-search handler
before the sequential query loop, and pass its linked signal to every
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| return { | ||
| model: modelForAlphaSearchBackend(backend, sidecar), | ||
| reasoning: sidecar?.reasoning ?? DEFAULT_REASONING, | ||
| timeoutMs: config.search?.timeoutMs ?? SEARCH_UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT_MS, |
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Enforce the timeout across the complete alpha-search request.
Line 152 gives every query the full search.timeoutMs budget. The loop at Lines 236–247 can execute three queries sequentially. If each query times out, one request can remain active for approximately 600 seconds instead of the documented 200-second ceiling.
Create one linked deadline before the loop. Pass its signal to every runAlphaSearchQuery call. Map a client abort to 499 and the request deadline to 504. Clean up the linked signal in finally. Add a regression test with multiple stalled queries.
As per coding guidelines, “Handle asynchronous failures at request, transport, and sidecar boundaries.”
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In `@src/web-search/alpha-search.ts` at line 152, Enforce a single request-wide
deadline in the alpha-search handler before the sequential query loop, and pass
its linked signal to every runAlphaSearchQuery call instead of granting each
query a fresh timeout. Distinguish client cancellation (HTTP 499) from expiry of
the request deadline (HTTP 504), and dispose of the linked signal in finally.
Add a regression test covering multiple stalled queries and confirming the
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Merging into dev under the single-maintainer dev integration clause in MAINTAINERS.md. Exact-head evidence at 20684cf: 35 successes, 2 skips, and one cancelled entry superseded by a later run at the same SHA. Reviewed independently before merge, and the thing worth praising is what this pull request did not claim. The web-search issue was already half-landed by an earlier merge that said so explicitly; this change fixes the residual — the mixed-tool leg now runs the intercepted searches, completes the hosted cell, releases the held client call with its own call id and ordering, and ends the turn without an upstream continuation, and a failed or incomplete leg closes the opened cell instead of leaving a spinner and billing a search that never happened. It then declines to close that issue, because the destination still does not receive the result text, and files the remainder separately. That is the right call. The alpha-search fallback is a real fix rather than a loosening: it serves only an explicitly configured sidecar backend using that backend's own credential, fails closed on an unset, disabled, or credential-less configuration, and redacts secrets from diagnostics. No credential path changed — the ChatGPT relay is untouched whenever a forward candidate exists — and there is an explicit no-fall-through test. One caveat is recorded rather than hidden: the response envelope is a best-effort match to an unpublished alpha shape, so live client acceptance is unverified. The config-schema constraint held. This lane added no field to the shared schema and reused the existing sidecar block, which is exactly what it was asked to do while another lane owned that file. Local suite runs: NOT RUN. Hosted CI at the exact head is the proof of record. |
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web_searchdeclaration with a clientfunction_callcould still kill a turn. The bridge failed closed whenever one upstream leg carried both an interceptedweb_searchcall and a tool call the client has to run: the hosted cell closed as failed, the client's own call was deliberately dropped, and the turn died after five reconnects. Such a leg now ends the turn on the leg. The intercepted searches run, their hosted cells complete with real queries and sources, the held client calls are released with theircall_id, item id, and streamed order intact, and the leg's own terminal closes the turn. Nothing is sent upstream: the client's call is unanswered, so the conversation owes the client a turn rather than the gateway, and no tool output is fabricated for a call the bridge cannot execute.response.failed/response.incomplete) now runs no search at all and closes any cell it opened. Before, a dead leg either billed a search for a turn that was already over or left a "Searching the web" spinner under a finished turn. That also tightens the pre-existing non-mixed path, which dropped the searches and left the cell open.web_search_callcell, which carries the query and its sources but no result text, so the destination's ownfunction_call/function_call_outputpair is not reconstructed. Repairing that needs the outbound body rewritten before the first leg is dispatched, which lives in the Responses core and the openai-responses adapter rather than in this module. That remainder is filed as issue 4587.POST /v1/alpha/searchreturned 400 whenever no ChatGPT forward candidate existed, before considering any configured backend, so an API-key-only or routed deployment could not use Codex's built-in web search at all. When and only when that candidate list is empty, an explicitly configuredwebSearchSidecar.backendofanthropic,xai,gemini, orexanow serves the request through that backend's own executor and credential, and answers{ encrypted_output: null, output, results }. The verbatim relay stays byte-identical while a forward provider exists, and the forward-admission check, the account-qualified selector path, and the Reserve guard all still run first.openaibackend and a sidecar disabled byenabled: falsekeep the ChatGPT-auth 400. A named backend whose credential is missing is refused too, but with a message naming that backend and the credential it could not find rather than telling an operator who already chose Exa to go configure the ChatGPT auth they were avoiding, and the request reaches no other backend. A backend that fails answers with its own diagnostic. Queries come fromcommands.search_query[].qfirst, then a top-levelquery/q/search_query, capped at three. The model follows the same rule the bridge already applies, so an operator's ChatGPT-shaped sidecar model is never sent to Anthropic.webSearchSidecarblock that already exists.Closes #2730
Reported by @mdwsk88 and @canbetry.
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node_modulesand the lane forbids installing, sobun run test,bun test,bun run typecheck,bun install, andbun run build:guiwere all NOT RUN. Hosted CI at the exact head is the only proof for this change.tests/web-search/web-search-passthrough-bridge.test.ts, the three tests that pinned the old fail-closed contract were rewritten to the new one, and they now assert that the hosted cell completes with its sources, that the client's call is released with its originalcall_idand arguments, that no continuation is POSTed upstream, and that the terminal snapshot carries both items. New cases cover a leg where the client call streams first (snapshot and streamedoutput_indexmust agree) and a leg whose terminal isresponse.incomplete(no executor call, no send, cell closed rather than left in progress).tests/server/server-search.test.ts, new cases cover an exa-backed fallback returning the adapted shape with its sources, a forward provider still winning over a configured sidecar, an unset oropenaibackend still producing the 400, a named backend with no credential not falling through to another paid backend, a disabled sidecar staying disarmed, an executor failure naming the backend, and a body with no usable query.structure/runtime.mdno longer states that a mixed leg fails closed,structure/data-planes/search.mdrecords the sidecar path for the relay, and the transport inventory row for the relay is no longer described as direct-only.Checklist
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/v1/alpha/searchusing an explicitly configured web-search provider when ChatGPT forwarding is unavailable.