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Summary

Codex 0.164 runtime agent instances (openai/codex#55402, openai/codex#55636; features.runtime_agent_instances, off by default) authenticate in two modes. dual_header sends Authorization: Bearer <cred> plus x-openai-agent-assertion: <jwt>. assertion_only sends Authorization: AgentAssertion <jwt> with no bearer.

opencodex read bearers with headers.get("authorization")?.replace(/^Bearer\s+/i, ""), which returns an AgentAssertion <jwt> value unchanged, so the value was treated as an opaque bearer. With a chatgpt-account-id header it counted as a forwardable caller Codex bearer (hasForwardableCodexBearer). On a pooled route the pool account's Bearer silently replaced it. Before this change, an assertion_only request to a pooled /v1/responses reached ChatGPT as Authorization: Bearer <pool token>. It is now refused with HTTP 400 agent_assertion_unsupported, and nothing is sent upstream.

• One scheme parser. src/lib/authorization-scheme.ts classifies Authorization as bearer, agent assertion, other, or none. Every former replace(/^Bearer\s+/i) site (auth-cors admission and forwarding checks, auth-context, Responses core-auth, audio, GUI session, management auth) now uses authorizationCredential(), which keeps the legacy read for every value except AgentAssertion, which yields no credential. The assertion bytes are never returned by the parser.
• assertion_only is refused, typed, and fail-closed. The request fetch handler returns HTTP 400 { error: { type: "invalid_request_error", code: "agent_assertion_unsupported" } } before admission, routing, or the Responses WebSocket upgrade. Responses auth and materializeCodexUpstreamAuth/…Async refuse it a second time, so no internal hop can swap in a pool, stored-main, or provider credential. The error body never echoes the header. This PR does not add assertion_only support on pooled routes; that is left for a maintainer decision.
• dual_header keeps working exactly as today. The Bearer path is unchanged. x-openai-agent-assertion stays outside FORWARD_HEADERS. It is forwarded only on canonical first-party Direct (isCanonicalOpenAiForwardProvider, main context, no substitution), and only when the outbound Bearer is byte-for-byte the original request's Bearer. Pool overrides (HTTP transport and the WS handshake), substituted main credentials, injected Claude-main credentials, routed providers, compact gateways, and sidecars all drop it. Before this PR it was dropped everywhere, including Direct.
• Redaction. x-openai-agent-assertion is added to the sensitive header keys and colon-label grammar in src/lib/redact.ts, and it is blocked from forwardClientHeaders.
• Test layout: the three new files are registered in a new explicit shard, scripts/test-layout/layout-agent-assertion.json, because layout.json sits one line under the 2,000-line ratchet cap on dev.
• Docs: a "Runtime agent instances (Codex 0.164+)" section in the Codex integration guide. Structure note in structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md.

Auth surface: needs maintainer security review (MAINTAINERS.md).

Verification

• bun run typecheck: pass.
• New focused files: tests/lib/authorization-scheme.test.ts (parser, carry rule, typed refusal, redaction of both header forms), tests/server/agent-assertion-auth.test.ts (admission, forwardable-bearer detection, materialization refusal for pool/main/substituted, Direct transport forward, pool override strip, routed/forwardClientHeaders strip, sidecar allowlists, WS handshake), and tests/responses/agent-assertion-routes.test.ts (real server: Direct dual_header forwards Bearer plus assertion; pooled dual_header sends the pool Bearer with no assertion; an admission-key Bearer is replaced by stored main with no assertion; assertion_only refused on pooled, Direct, routed, and remote bind with and without admission, with zero upstream calls; no assertion bytes anywhere under OPENCODEX_HOME afterwards). 20 pass.
• With only the source wiring reverted (git stash -- src), 9 of those cases fail, including the pooled assertion_only case that reached upstream with the pool Bearer.
• bun run test:changed: 44754 pass / 108 skip / 0 fail across 2068 files.
• bun run test (under lockf /tmp/ocx-heavy-test.lock): one failure, tests/claude-integration/claude-desktop-remote-hub.test.ts > "connected Desktop uses hub IDs across a cold restart (stored profile=false)". It fails the same way in isolation on a clean origin/dev checkout (46a9e97), so it predates this change (a Desktop model label ordering diff). Everything else passed.
• bun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: pass. bun run structure:check: pass. bun run privacy:scan: pass.

Checklist

• 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

  • Added support for Codex runtime agent assertions on eligible direct requests.
  • Direct dual-credential requests preserve the caller’s bearer credential and assertion when forwarded.
  • Pool, routed, stored-credential, and sidecar requests remove the assertion before forwarding.

• Bug Fixes

  • Assertion-only requests now return a clear HTTP 400 unsupported response without credential substitution.

• Security

  • Agent assertions are blocked from unintended forwarding and excluded from logs and diagnostic output.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance covering Codex agent assertion behavior and routing rules.

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The change adds centralized AgentAssertion authorization parsing, rejects assertion-only requests before credential substitution or routing, and forwards x-openai-agent-assertion only for canonical Direct requests that retain the caller’s Bearer credential. Tests, layout mappings, compatibility notes, and integration documentation cover the behavior.

Changes: Codex Agent Assertion Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authorization parsing and credential handling src/lib/authorization-scheme.ts, src/lib/provider-client-headers.ts, src/lib/redact.ts, src/codex/auth-context.ts, src/server/*.ts, tests/lib/authorization-scheme.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/*, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json	A shared parser classifies authorization values and excludes AgentAssertion credentials from credential extraction. Server credential readers use the parser. Assertion headers are blocked from general forwarding and included in sensitive-value redaction.
Assertion-only request rejection src/codex/auth-context.ts, src/server/index/serve-options.ts, src/server/responses/core-auth.ts, tests/server/agent-assertion-auth.test.ts, tests/responses/agent-assertion-routes.test.ts	Admission entry points and Codex authentication materialization reject AgentAssertion authorization with a standardized response or typed error before credential substitution or upstream requests.
Direct forwarding and override behavior src/adapters/openai-responses/transport.ts, src/server/responses/core-auth.ts, src/server/ws-bridge.ts, tests/server/agent-assertion-auth.test.ts, tests/responses/agent-assertion-routes.test.ts, structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md	Canonical Direct forwarding retains the assertion with the caller’s unchanged Bearer credential. Pool, stored-main, routed-provider, and sidecar paths omit it. Tests and documentation describe these conditions.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ServeOptions
  participant CoreAuth
  participant ForwardTransport
  participant OpenAIUpstream
  Client->>ServeOptions: Send Authorization and assertion headers
  ServeOptions->>CoreAuth: Resolve request authentication
  CoreAuth->>ForwardTransport: Provide caller Bearer and assertion when unchanged
  ForwardTransport->>OpenAIUpstream: Forward both headers for canonical Direct requests
  CoreAuth->>ForwardTransport: Provide override credential without assertion
  ForwardTransport->>OpenAIUpstream: Forward override credential without assertion

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Security summary (owner-path merge; no maintainer security review is available).

What changed: a single Authorization-scheme parser (src/lib/authorization-scheme.ts) replaces every replace(/^Bearer\s+/i, "") site (auth-cors admission, core-auth, management-auth, gui-session, the audio paths, ws-bridge and the Responses transport). An AgentAssertion <jwt> value yields no credential and its bytes are never returned. Codex 0.164 runtime assertion_only requests are refused with a typed error on pooled and routed routes. For dual_header, the Bearer is used exactly as before, and x-openai-agent-assertion is forwarded only on first-party OpenAI Direct passthrough and stripped elsewhere. src/lib/redact.ts covers the assertion JWT.

Threats considered:

• A silent credential swap, reproduced on dev before this fix: an AgentAssertion request on a pooled route reached ChatGPT carrying the pool account's Bearer. It is now refused.
• An assertion counted as a forwardable caller credential when chatgpt-account-id was present: now impossible.
• An assertion leaking to third-party or routed upstreams through header forwarding: it is stripped.
• JWT exposure in logs, diagnostics or error bodies: redacted.
• Admission secrets: an assertion is never compared as a proxy secret.
• Scope: assertion_only support on pooled routes is intentionally NOT implemented (that product decision is pending), and refusal is fail-closed with no fallback.

Tests: tests/lib/authorization-scheme.test.ts, tests/server/agent-assertion-auth.test.ts and tests/responses/agent-assertion-routes.test.ts cover both modes on admission, Direct, pooled, routed and sidecar paths, plus redaction. With the wiring reverted, 9 cases fail. CI is green on 981cfeae1b655ada53b5c87b7aecabab1e12b5b0 (all 30 checks), and privacy:scan passes.

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Merged with owner authority per maintainer decision 2026-10-21 (jun): the project owner authorized owner-path (--admin) merges for the pending green PRs after the 2.90.0 release; no second-maintainer approval is available.

Exact-head verification on 981cfeae1b655ada53b5c87b7aecabab1e12b5b0: all checks completed with no failures, the PR is mergeable, there are no change requests, and no unresolved current Major/Critical/P0/P1 review threads. A local squash of this head onto current dev 944647100 passed typecheck, structure:check, the file-size, import-cycle and test-layout ratchets, and this PR's own tests ( 123 pass 0 fail ). The merge is a squash pinned with --match-head-commit.