fix(xai): merge root tool unions into one object schema - #1726
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe xAI adapter now applies schema normalization only to the Grok CLI proxy. It resolves local references, validates union compatibility, merges safe object variants, and omits unsafe schemas. API-key transports retain native unions. Tests cover these boundaries and tool-search history reconstruction. ChangesxAI schema normalization
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes xAI tool schemas from root unions to a merged object, but the current implementation can silently omit valid CLI tools with annotation or validation root keys, drop tools without parameters, and mishandle equivalent schemas or root fields during merging. That can make tools unavailable or change accepted inputs, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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In `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts`:
- Around line 745-758: The variant expansion around mergeXaiPropertySchemas must
preserve root-level properties and required constraints instead of deleting or
overwriting them. Compose inherited root constraints into every variant, union
root and branch required fields, and combine overlapping root/branch property
schemas with allOf while reserving anyOf for variant alternatives; add a
regression test covering root property token and root required alongside
mode/path branches.
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v2.18.2 still returns a root oneOf after expanding xAI tool unions. Grok rejects that shape. Keep the object-root merge as the only jl-custom delta on this upstream pin.
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Sibling properties/required on a root oneOf were overwritten during branch expansion. Compose them into every variant so token-style root constraints survive the object merge.
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Reviewed again against current head 3eb05336adf317a9e8ad0b503022994bbc4b95dc after the root-sibling fix. The previous properties / required inheritance issue is addressed. I still see two correctness blockers plus one medium-severity schema regression:
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$ref-based union variants can collapse to an effectively empty object schema.expandXaiRootObjectSchemas()accepts branches such as{ "$ref": "#/$defs/A" }as object variants, but the final merge only reconstructsproperties, commonrequired, andadditionalProperties. Variant-level$refconstraints are not represented in the merged result. A common$defs+$refunion can therefore becometype: "object", properties: {}while the$defsremain unused. Please either resolve/compose referenced object schemas before flattening, or refuse to flatten variants that cannot be represented without losing constraints. Add a regression test for a$defs+$refroot union. -
Blocker: branch-specific required fields and correlations are still lost. The new regression test demonstrates this: source branches require
pathorurl, but the expected merged schema requires only["token", "mode"]. That means{ token, mode: "path" }is valid under the transformed schema even though the sourcepathbranch requirespath. The same issue applies to discriminated unions generally: per-branch requirements and correlations cannot be represented by intersectingrequiredacross all variants. This can let Grok generate tool arguments that satisfy the rewritten schema but are invalid for the real tool contract. Please preserve these correlations, or narrow the workaround to only schemas that can be flattened safely. -
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additionalProperties: truecan be silently tightened. The current merge emitsadditionalProperties: falseonly when every variant is false and otherwise omits the keyword. If the target treats omission as false, a branch that explicitly allows additional properties becomes more restrictive after normalization. Preserve an explicit permissive value when required by any source variant, or reject schemas where the variants cannot be merged without changing this semantic.
I would keep this as request-changes until the two blockers are handled. The root-level sibling issue from the prior review is fixed and should not be counted anymore.
Resolve local $ref variants before flattening. If required sets differ, additionalProperties would tighten, or a variant still is not a concrete object, omit the tool instead of emitting a weaker schema.
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Addressed in e152afb.
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Re-reviewed against current head e152afbb53be9a369b693a8a37db3acf8bb05533. The previously reported $ref, differing-required, and additionalProperties issues are addressed in this revision and are not repeated here. I still see two correctness blockers plus one medium-severity schema-loss issue:
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Blocker: equal
requiredsets do not make the property-wise merge lossless.xaiRequiredSetsMatch()only proves that every branch requires the same property names. The final merge still combines each differing property independently withanyOf, which destroys correlations between properties. Example: one branch requires{ kind: "email", value: string }, another requires{ kind: "sms", value: number }; both have the same required set["kind", "value"], so this passes the new guard, but the merged schema also accepts{ kind: "email", value: 123 }, which neither source branch accepts. This is a normal discriminated-union shape. Please either reject unions whenever differing property schemas can be correlated across branches, or use a transformation that actually preserves those correlations. The current comment that flattening is "lossless" is not true for this case. Add a regression test for equal-required discriminated variants with correlated property types/consts. -
Blocker: the workaround still applies to
api.x.ai, where native root object unions are documented as supported.isXaiSchemaTarget()still includes bothapi.x.aiandcli-chat-proxy.grok.com. The new conservative behavior can now omit a valid tool entirely when the schema is not safely flattenable. Unless there is a reproduced current failure from the public API endpoint that contradicts xAI's documented support, scope this workaround to the CLI/OAuth proxy that actually needs it. Otherwise API-key users can lose valid tools thatapi.x.aican consume natively. -
Medium: other branch-level object constraints can still be discarded silently. The unsafe-key check blocks several composition keywords, but the final merge only reconstructs
properties,required, andadditionalProperties. Branch-level constraints such asminProperties/maxPropertiesare not rejected and are not merged, so they can disappear. Prefer a strict allowlist of variant keys that the merger knows how to preserve, rather than an incomplete denylist that must keep discovering JSON Schema keywords after regressions.
I would keep this as request-changes until the two blockers are resolved. The earlier findings fixed by e152afbb5 should be considered closed.
Refuse per-property anyOf when two or more property schemas diverge, so discriminated pairs like kind+value are not widened. Use an allowlist of variant keys instead of dropping minProperties and friends. Scope the workaround to cli-chat-proxy.grok.com; api.x.ai keeps native root unions.
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Addressed in d80c0e1.
The original nested object-union case still flattens on the CLI proxy. |
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Re-reviewed current head d80c0e14842bcdf986ad566b2e8b9dc32424f06d. The previous $ref, required-set/correlation, additionalProperties, api.x.ai scoping, and branch-key allowlist findings are addressed. I still see one correctness blocker in the new "lossless" guard:
Blocker: a property that exists in only some variants is not losslessly flattenable, regardless of whether additionalProperties is explicit false, omitted, or permissive.
xaiPropertyMergeIsLossless() currently rejects values.length !== variants.length only when additionalProperties.value === false. That misses two cases:
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When all variants omit
additionalProperties, the helper treats the merge as open ({ ok: true }with no value), even though xAI's schema semantics defaultadditionalPropertiesto false. The motivating nested union therefore still flattensmode/pathproperties across branches that did not originally declare them, widening the accepted object shapes. -
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additionalProperties: trueon every variant, promoting a branch-local property into the mergedpropertiesmap can make the result stricter. Example:{properties:{a:{type:"string"}}, additionalProperties:true} | {properties:{b:{type:"number"}}, additionalProperties:true}accepts{a:123}through the second source branch, but the flattened schema declaresaas a string property and rejects it.
Property absence is semantically meaningful; filtering out missing values before counting conflicts loses that distinction. The conservative fix is to require every merged property name to exist in every variant before treating the union as losslessly flattenable, then apply the existing at-most-one-schema-conflict rule. Please add regressions for a branch-local property with omitted additionalProperties and with explicit additionalProperties: true.
If the original automation_update case must still flatten despite branch-local properties, then the transform should be documented/tested as an intentional lossy compatibility rewrite rather than called lossless, ideally with a separate validation boundary for generated tool arguments.
Branch-local properties are not lossless to merge: xAI defaults additionalProperties to false, and promoting a local key also tightens explicit-true variants. Omit those CLI unions instead.
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Addressed in cf20248. A property must now exist on every variant before flatten. Missing names fail the lossless check whether Added regressions for branch-local properties with omitted AP and with explicit |
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Please do a live verification on the current PR head using the actual xAI OAuth / Specifically, trigger the real
Please include the model used and the observed HTTP/result behaviour. The unit tests cover the transform logic, but this bug originally depended on Grok's live tool-schema handling, so I'd like the PR to demonstrate the actual end-to-end behaviour before we consider this resolved. If this live verification passes, this PR is good to merge once the remaining CI is fully green. |
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Live-verified on current head Path. Isolated worktree of this PR → xAI OAuth ( The request was the
Exclusive CI on this SHA is fully green. Ready for re-review; not merging from here. |
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Re-reviewed current head cf202486c0b272174f58e2d84b62d2e223f4c096. The previously requested correctness fixes are addressed, the real xAI OAuth / cli-chat-proxy.grok.com automation_update flow was live-verified successfully across the continuation and a same-thread follow-up, and CI is green on this SHA. Approved.
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Merged — thank you for sticking with the review feedback and for doing the live Grok verification on the real This is useful because the failure was especially nasty: once a deferred tool with an incompatible root-union schema entered The live OAuth / |
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In `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts`:
- Around line 805-819: Extract a key-order-stable serializer near
xaiPropertyMergeIsLossless, then replace the JSON.stringify equality checks in
xaiPropertyMergeIsLossless and the three other schema/anyOf comparison sites
with it. Ensure structurally identical objects compare equally regardless of
property insertion order while preserving existing comparison behavior.
- Around line 915-924: The single-variant path in normalizeXaiToolParameters
should accept valid object schemas without applying the merge-key allowlist used
for merges. Replace the xaiVariantIsConcreteObject check for variants.length ===
1 with an object-type validation that preserves schemas containing keys such as
$schema, minProperties, or patternProperties, while retaining
xaiVariantIsConcreteObject and xaiRequiredSetsMatch validation for multi-variant
schemas.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/xai-transport.test.ts` around lines 322 - 334: Add
regression coverage for both preserved tool categories.
Apply the same fix in `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts` around lines 915 - 918:
Covers the missing-parameters fallback that currently drops the tool.
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| function xaiPropertyMergeIsLossless(variants: Record<string, unknown>[]): boolean { | ||
| const names = new Set<string>(); | ||
| const props = variants.map(variant => { | ||
| const properties = variantProperties(variant); | ||
| for (const name of Object.keys(properties)) names.add(name); | ||
| return properties; | ||
| }); | ||
| let schemaConflicts = 0; | ||
| for (const name of names) { | ||
| const values = props.map(property => property[name]); | ||
| if (values.some(value => value === undefined)) return false; | ||
| if (values.some(value => JSON.stringify(value) !== JSON.stringify(values[0]))) schemaConflicts += 1; | ||
| } | ||
| return schemaConflicts <= 1; | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Use a key-order stable serializer for schema equality.
Lines 814-817 compare property schemas with JSON.stringify, and lines 840, 861, and 900 repeat the same pattern. JSON.stringify preserves insertion order, so two structurally identical variant property schemas that differ only in key order are counted as a conflict. Two such properties push schemaConflicts to 2, line 818 returns false, and the tool is omitted even though the merge is lossless. The same pattern also emits anyOf branches at line 905 that are duplicates in meaning.
Extract one stable serializer and use it at all four sites.
♻️ Proposed shared helper
+/** Order-independent structural key for schema comparison and deduplication. */
+function xaiSchemaKey(value: unknown): string {
+ if (Array.isArray(value)) return `[${value.map(xaiSchemaKey).join(",")}]`;
+ if (isXaiObjectSchema(value)) {
+ return `{${Object.keys(value).sort().map(key => `${JSON.stringify(key)}:${xaiSchemaKey(value[key])}`).join(",")}}`;
+ }
+ return JSON.stringify(value) ?? "null";
+} let schemaConflicts = 0;
for (const name of names) {
const values = props.map(property => property[name]);
if (values.some(value => value === undefined)) return false;
- if (values.some(value => JSON.stringify(value) !== JSON.stringify(values[0]))) schemaConflicts += 1;
+ const first = xaiSchemaKey(values[0]);
+ if (values.some(value => xaiSchemaKey(value) !== first)) schemaConflicts += 1;
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In `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts` around lines 805 - 819, Extract a
key-order-stable serializer near xaiPropertyMergeIsLossless, then replace the
JSON.stringify equality checks in xaiPropertyMergeIsLossless and the three other
schema/anyOf comparison sites with it. Ensure structurally identical objects
compare equally regardless of property insertion order while preserving existing
comparison behavior.
| function normalizeXaiToolParameters(parameters: unknown): Record<string, unknown> | undefined { | ||
| const variants = expandXaiRootObjectSchemas(parameters); | ||
| if (!isXaiObjectSchema(parameters)) return undefined; | ||
| const resolved = resolveXaiSchemaRefs(parameters, parameters); | ||
| if (!isXaiObjectSchema(resolved)) return undefined; | ||
| const variants = expandXaiRootObjectSchemas(resolved); | ||
| if (!variants) return undefined; | ||
| if (variants.length === 1) return variants[0]; | ||
| const root = parameters && typeof parameters === "object" && !Array.isArray(parameters) | ||
| ? parameters as Record<string, unknown> | ||
| : {}; | ||
| const metadata = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(root).filter(([key]) => key !== "oneOf" && key !== "anyOf" && key !== "type")); | ||
| return { ...metadata, oneOf: variants }; | ||
| if (variants.length === 1) { | ||
| return xaiVariantIsConcreteObject(variants[0]) ? variants[0] : undefined; | ||
| } | ||
| if (!variants.every(xaiVariantIsConcreteObject) || !xaiRequiredSetsMatch(variants)) return undefined; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve valid non-union CLI tool schemas during xAI normalization.
The CLI path now normalizes every tool schema, but schemas with root keys outside XAI_VARIANT_MERGE_KEYS—such as $schema, minProperties, or patternProperties—return undefined on the single-variant path and are silently removed. Tools without parameters are also removed because normalization does not preserve the existing object-schema fallback.
Use a plain object-type check for single-variant schemas, preserve the missing-parameters fallback, and add focused regression tests covering annotation-only root keys and parameterless tools.
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In `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts` around lines 915 - 924, The single-variant path
in normalizeXaiToolParameters should accept valid object schemas without
applying the merge-key allowlist used for merges. Replace the
xaiVariantIsConcreteObject check for variants.length === 1 with an object-type
validation that preserves schemas containing keys such as $schema,
minProperties, or patternProperties, while retaining xaiVariantIsConcreteObject
and xaiRequiredSetsMatch validation for multi-variant schemas.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/xai-transport.test.ts` around lines 322 - 334: Add
regression coverage for both preserved tool categories.
Apply the same fix in `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts` around lines 915 - 918:
Covers the missing-parameters fallback that currently drops the tool.
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Summary
xAI rejects function tool parameter schemas whose root is still
oneOf/anyOf, even when every branch is an object (tool parameter root must be an object).expandXaiRootObjectSchemasalready flattens nested unions into object variants.normalizeXaiToolParametersthen put those variants back under a rootoneOf, which Grok still 400s.This merges the expanded object branches into a single
type: "object"root:anyOfrequiredonly when every branch requires itadditionalProperties: falseis kept only when every branch has itTools that cannot be expanded to object branches are still omitted.
Test plan
bun test tests/xai-transport.test.ts(25 pass), including:type: "object"with no rootoneOftool_searchhistory tools get the same object rootcodex_app__automation_update) no longer 400sRebased onto current
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