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Summary

Scope retained reasoning state to the admitted caller and conversation. Plaintext replay additionally requires the exact physical provider identity; Native Chat, native Combo children, bridge Combo retries and Responses compaction consistently carry that principal. Bridge children use a trusted internal identity holder after provisional caller credentials are removed. Opaque serving metadata and rejection memos now use separate caller namespaces too, so a shared conversation identifier does not mix callers' route-change or recovery decisions.

Preserve keyless physical-identity safeguards, per-blob ownership checks and Google's durable signature handling. Keyless requests cannot capture or retrieve principal-scoped plaintext. Cache limits and expiry remain shared; this change does not alter provider authorization or make retained ciphertext portable across accounts. Combo children receive admission without taking ownership of parent logging, send accounting or leases.

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  • The bridge-Combo follow-up reproduced the same two failures before the fix and passed both cases afterward (106 assertions). Related compatibility coverage passed 113 tests / 1,123 assertions. Tests exercise actual bridge dispatch and second-candidate failover, foreign/keyless spoof controls, provider-only outbound credentials and parent accounting. Original typecheck, structure, privacy, layout, import-resolution and size gates passed; independent source review found no blocker.
  • Repository-pinned Bun 1.4.3 on Windows. The metadata follow-up passed 30 metadata/Anthropic recovery tests (115 assertions), 38 identity tests (294 assertions), and 27 layout/tooling tests (568 assertions). Coverage includes caller/keyless separation, unambiguous tuple keys, route-change decisions and recovery through the real Responses handler with a synthetic provider.
  • Source typecheck, structure, full privacy, changed-test import resolution, file-size and diff checks passed. Independent review of all 13 follow-up files found no blocking issue. Four existing non-resolution strict-test diagnostics remain; the repository import gate reports none. This is not a claim that the supplementary strict test check passed.
  • The preceding plaintext-isolation head 5bdd28edc2802679e5455b6d1fe164bb9729f52a passed 353 focused tests plus 96 follow-up fixture tests, and hosted CI passed all four test shards and gates. Those results are historical coverage, not current-head CI proof.
  • Current follow-up head: f27d3c23cb13310b93a55d51fdd56405bb5d3459; hosted CI 39803356181 completed successfully on this head: all four test shards and required gates passed (14 successful jobs, 9 conditional skips). Skipped platform jobs are not counted as native acceptance. The 3cee873 run exposed a fixture setup error before the new test body: a fresh checkout had no repository .tmp parent. The fixture now uses the OS temporary directory and safely handles failed setup; the same two tests still pass with 106 assertions. Product code, assertions and timeouts are unchanged by this fixture correction. Earlier CI 39790103725 passed on b1cf901, not this head. Full local tests were not repeated under the resource exception because concurrent worktrees share the queue and storage is limited. Native platform and live provider behavior remain outside this validation.

Focused follow-up commands used the pinned binary directly:

bun test tests/responses/responses-replay-metadata-principal.test.ts tests/responses/responses-anthropic-thinking-recovery.test.ts --timeout 15000
bun test tests/adapters/reasoning-replay-identity.test.ts --timeout 15000
bun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts --timeout 15000
bun node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc --noEmit
bun scripts/structure-ssot.ts
bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts

Checklist

  • Scope stays focused; the owned replay and recovery contracts are updated.
  • Required local validation passed with scope and limitations documented.
  • The branch targets dev and is within its permitted freshness window.
  • The latest bridge-Combo principal-propagation and keyless-contract findings are fixed and independently reviewed.
  • Ready for maintainer re-review after current-head hosted CI; independent security-boundary acceptance, approval and merge remain separate.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Reasoning replay is isolated by authenticated caller, preventing callers without an identity—or with a different identity—from retrieving another caller’s private reasoning.
    • Native Chat and compact Responses apply caller identity consistently when replaying reasoning, including through combo requests.
    • Recovery of previously rejected reasoning now also requires the same caller identity, helping prevent cross-caller content from being restored.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that replaying retained reasoning requires an authenticated caller identity.

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  • scripts/test-layout/layout-replay.json
  • src/server/responses/core-combo.ts
  • src/server/responses/core-options.ts
  • src/server/responses/request-prepare.ts
  • structure/transports/native-reasoning-retention.md
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  • tests/responses/responses-combo-replay-principal.test.ts

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Reasoning replay cache keys and related recovery state now include caller-principal identity. Native Chat and Responses pass resolved principal data into replay scopes. Keyless callers can bind physical identity, but cannot access principal-scoped plaintext reasoning replay.

Changes: Reasoning replay identity and admission

Layer / File(s) Summary
Principal-scoped replay and recovery
src/responses/reasoning-replay-cache.ts, src/server/responses/anthropic-thinking-recovery.ts, src/server/responses/core-opaque-recovery.ts, src/server/responses/core-replay.ts, structure/transports/anthropic-thinking-recovery.md, tests/adapters/reasoning-replay-identity.test.ts, tests/responses/responses-anthropic-thinking-recovery.test.ts, tests/responses/responses-replay-metadata-principal.test.ts
Replay keys require a non-empty client principal. Serving-identity and opaque-rejection records use principal-and-thread keys, with a separate keyless namespace. Recovery checks compare principal identity. Tests cover isolation, keyless behavior, and physical identity binding.
Principal resolution and replay integration
src/server/chat-completions.ts, src/server/chat-native*.ts, src/server/responses/compact.ts, src/server/responses/core-combo.ts, src/server/responses/core-options.ts, src/server/responses/request-prepare.ts, tests/responses/chat-native-*.test.ts, tests/responses/responses-combo-replay-principal.test.ts, structure/transports/native-reasoning-retention.md
Native Chat forwards admission data to combo children and resolves the caller principal for replay scopes. Responses resolves or preserves the replay principal and passes it into replay scope handling and Combo child requests.
Replay validation and supporting updates
tests/adapters/*reasoning*.test.ts, tests/adapters/google/google-signature-history-roundtrip.test.ts, tests/providers/deepseek-reasoning-replay-gaps.test.ts, tests/server/inference-client-encoder-delivery.test.ts, tests/server/server-key-failover-e2e.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/*, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
Tests cover principal-scoped replay and keyless behavior across adapters, providers, and server flows. The Google signature history test exercises durable replay after a reset. Test-layout mappings include the new Responses principal tests.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatRequest
  participant NativeChatCombo
  participant NativeChat
  participant PrincipalResolver
  participant ReplayScope
  participant ReasoningReplayCache
  ChatRequest->>NativeChatCombo: provide request and admission when present
  NativeChatCombo->>NativeChat: forward admission to child
  NativeChat->>PrincipalResolver: resolve caller principal
  PrincipalResolver->>ReplayScope: provide resolved principal
  ReplayScope->>ReasoningReplayCache: scope replay by thread and principal
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  • lidge-jun/opencodex#1505: Introduced the reasoning replay scope and route-identity contract extended here with principal-scoped cache keys and serving-identity records.
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f27d3

The supplied changes preserve caller-scoped replay identity across Combo dispatch and failover. No issue requiring a fix before merge is established.

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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: isolating retained reasoning state by the admitted caller. This matches the changes across reasoning replay, Native Chat, Combo, and Responses handling.

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@luvs01 luvs01 changed the title fix(replay): scope plaintext reasoning to admitted callers fix(replay): isolate retained reasoning state by admitted caller Oct 22, 2026

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/server/responses/core-combo.ts:
- Around line 466-472: In executeComboResponses, resolve the principal once
before bridge child headers remove authorization, then pass it through the child
options to handleResponses. Update the child options type and request-prepare
principal resolution to use the passed principal when available, falling back to
resolveContextPrincipal otherwise, so bridge retries retain the caller-scoped
replay identity.

Review comments at @structure/transports/native-reasoning-retention.md:
- Around line 19-22: Clarify the keyless memo contract in this passage: keyless
callers share a principal namespace, but serving and rejection memos must still
compare physical identity where required. Keep this physical-identity binding
distinct from plaintext-cache authorization.

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  • scripts/test-layout/layout-replay.json
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  • src/server/responses/anthropic-thinking-recovery.ts
  • src/server/responses/core-combo.ts
  • src/server/responses/core-opaque-recovery.ts
  • src/server/responses/core-replay.ts
  • structure/transports/anthropic-thinking-recovery.md
  • structure/transports/native-reasoning-retention.md
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  • tests/responses/responses-replay-metadata-principal.test.ts

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Functional review at b1cf901bc47d7b0c42588252189d6857edb5f685: the new principal-scoped plaintext cache and separate opaque-memo namespaces have useful focused coverage, but the bridge child can still lose the principal established by its parent.

src/server/responses/core-combo.ts:469 resolves the parent principal from the original request for eligibility. At lines 896/998 onward, buildComboChildHeaders strips authorization and the bridge calls handleResponses with the original loopback admission, without a resolved trusted principal. request-prepare.ts:604 then resolves from the stripped request and overwrites the child replay scope with an absent principal. The native child path separately carries admission, so its new regression does not cover this bridge path.

I independently exercised the real header builder and principal resolver with a configured synthetic OCX key sent only as Bearer on loopback: parent principal present; child Authorization absent; child principal absent. Combined with the child call and scope rewrite above, the same caller loses access to its retained plaintext reasoning when routed through a bridge combo; another candidate repeats that loss. This is a functional loss of valid replay, not evidence of cross-caller disclosure.

Please resolve caller identity before removing the provisional credential, preserve that admitted principal in trusted internal child state, and use it consistently in bridge request preparation. Do not restore caller Authorization as an upstream credential or accept an identity asserted by a client header. Add a real bridge-combo regression using loopback + bearer-only OCX admission, including a second candidate/failover and cross-caller/keyless controls. The existing review concern about the keyless physical-identity documentation also remains worth clarifying.

Independent Bun 1.4.3 / Linux, isolated homes and hard cgroup limits: 114 passed / 0 failed, 719 assertions across reasoning-replay-identity, responses-replay-metadata-principal, chat-native-combo, chat-native-reasoning-replay, chat-native-reasoning-scope and responses-anthropic-thinking-recovery. This focused pass does not exercise the missing bridge regression, prove native platforms, or constitute the separate explicit security-boundary acceptance. Current-head required CI and outstanding reviews remain separate gates.

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Addressed in 3cee87369db267704a6042d6ff0800e1531492fa.

Bridge Combo candidates now receive a trusted internal replay-principal holder captured before provisional credentials are stripped. Explicitly keyless identity is preserved too. Caller Authorization is still removed, and client-supplied identity headers/body fields cannot populate this holder.

The new real-handler regression covers both the first candidate and a 404-to-second-candidate failover. The identical tests failed before the fix and now pass (2 tests, 106 assertions), including foreign/keyless spoof controls, provider-only outbound credentials and parent send/completion accounting. Related compatibility coverage passed 113 tests / 1,123 assertions. Typecheck, structure, privacy, layout and size gates passed; independent source review found no blocker.

The keyless documentation now separates the shared principal namespace from physical-identity comparisons. Current-head hosted CI is pending; the earlier successful b1cf901 run is not counted as this commit's CI. Maintainer functional and security-boundary acceptance remain separate.

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The bridge-principal follow-up is ready for re-review at f27d3c23cb13310b93a55d51fdd56405bb5d3459. CI 39803356181 passed all four test shards and required gates, including the bridge regression in a fresh checkout.

The preceding run exposed a test setup dependency on a missing repository .tmp directory. The final commit uses the OS temporary directory and guards teardown; product behavior, assertions and timeouts are unchanged. The trusted internal principal propagation and the separate keyless controls remain as described in the earlier follow-up.

The verification section is updated and the PR is ready for review. This does not dismiss the outstanding review or claim the separate security-boundary acceptance, native-platform acceptance or live-provider validation.

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This PR is carried onto current dev (9164950d92, after #7549) in #7566, with a Co-authored-by: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net> trailer.

The change set matches this PR's head f27d3c23cb except for one line: the scripts/test-layout/layout.json explicitShards conflict, now resolved to keep both layout-chat.json and layout-replay.json. The bridge-combo principal fix from 3cee873 and its real-handler regression (first candidate and 404 failover, foreign and keyless spoof controls) are included. On origin/dev source the principal regressions fail 12/68; with the carry they pass.

Closing this PR is left to the maintainers.

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Thank you for this work. It has been carried onto current dev in #7566, with your authorship kept as a Co-authored-by trailer, and the maintainer review continues there. Closing this PR in favour of #7566.

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lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 23, 2026
#7523) (#7566)

Carries #7523 onto current dev: retained plaintext reasoning is bound to the admitted caller principal, including bridge combo children and 404 failover; unknown principals fail closed. Maintainer security review posted on the PR.

Co-authored-by: luvs01 <27862058+luvs01@users.noreply.github.com>
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