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zeekayandHanzo Dev 6cbbea2d03 merge: just-every/code v0.6.169 (e4fe007150) — keep Hanzo identity
Our history is just-every's with author emails rewritten, so the graphs are
disjoint and git finds no merge base. Supplied one by hand: d1f1f51a41, the
just-every commit matching our Oct-2025 fork point (22 files apart). 9618
upstream commits, 7004 files, +1.81M/-159k, 37 conflicts.

Resolution:
- Upstream code where our side was the Oct-2025 prototype of a feature they
  have since reimplemented 3-5x larger (agent_runs, browser_sessions,
  history_cell/{agent,browser}, the vt100 harness and its snapshots).
- Upstream's config.rs module split (builder/defaults/sources/validation)
  kept; zen5-coder and the provider-follows-model rule re-applied on top.
- Ours where the file IS the identity: README, package.json, postinstall,
  release notes pipeline, integration-zed.
- Hybrid where upstream improved a file we had branded: updates.rs (their
  release-repo migration, our hanzoai/dev), release.yml (their fail-fast npm
  auth check, our package name), chatwidget.rs (their turn handling, our
  HANZO_USER_KEY hint), exec human output (their 237 lines, our banner).

Superseded and dropped deliberately: our resume_command_name() coder-alias
hack — upstream's derive_resume_command_name() reads the invocation basename
generically, which yields "dev" for us.

LLM.md now records the real topology and the sync point; AGENTS.md and
CLAUDE.md are symlinks to it again. Single parent on purpose: adopting
jecode/main as a second parent would re-import 13,742 commits carrying the
upstream author emails a prior rewrite deliberately removed.

Version 0.2.188 -> 0.2.189.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-08-05 23:09:12 -07:00

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FAQ

Thread vs turn

  • A Thread is conversation state.
  • A Turn is one model execution inside that thread.
  • Multi-turn chat means multiple turns on the same Thread.

run() vs stream()

  • TurnHandle.run() / AsyncTurnHandle.run() is the easiest path. It consumes events until completion and returns the canonical generated app-server Turn model.
  • TurnHandle.stream() / AsyncTurnHandle.stream() yields raw notifications (Notification) so you can react event-by-event.

Choose run() for most apps. Choose stream() for progress UIs, custom timeout logic, or custom parsing.

Sync vs async clients

  • Codex is the sync public API.
  • AsyncCodex is an async replica of the same public API shape.
  • Prefer async with AsyncCodex() for async code. It is the standard path for explicit startup/shutdown, and AsyncCodex initializes lazily on context entry or first awaited API use.

If your app is not already async, stay with Codex.

Public kwargs are snake_case

Public API keyword names are snake_case. The SDK still maps them to wire camelCase under the hood.

If you are migrating older code, update these names:

  • approvalPolicy -> approval_policy
  • baseInstructions -> base_instructions
  • developerInstructions -> developer_instructions
  • modelProvider -> model_provider
  • modelProviders -> model_providers
  • sortKey -> sort_key
  • sourceKinds -> source_kinds
  • outputSchema -> output_schema
  • sandboxPolicy -> sandbox_policy

Why only thread_start(...) and thread_resume(...)?

The public API keeps only explicit lifecycle calls:

  • thread_start(...) to create new threads
  • thread_resume(thread_id, ...) to continue existing threads

This avoids duplicate ways to do the same operation and keeps behavior explicit.

Why does constructor fail?

Codex() is eager: it starts transport and calls initialize in __init__.

Common causes:

  • published runtime package (openai-codex-cli-bin) is not installed
  • local codex_bin override points to a missing file
  • local auth/session is missing
  • incompatible/old app-server

Maintainers stage releases by building the SDK once and the runtime once per platform with the same pinned runtime version. Publish openai-codex-cli-bin as platform wheels only; do not publish an sdist:

cd sdk/python
python scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py generate-types
python scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py \
  stage-sdk \
  /tmp/codex-python-release/openai-codex-app-server-sdk \
  --codex-version <codex-release-tag-or-pep440-version>
python scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py \
  stage-runtime \
  /tmp/codex-python-release/openai-codex-cli-bin \
  /path/to/codex \
  --codex-version <codex-release-tag-or-pep440-version>

If you are packaging a binary for a different target than the Python build host, pass --platform-tag ... to stage-runtime. The intended one-off matrix is macosx_11_0_arm64, macosx_10_9_x86_64, musllinux_1_1_aarch64, musllinux_1_1_x86_64, win_arm64, and win_amd64.

Why does a turn "hang"?

A turn is complete only when turn/completed arrives for that turn ID.

  • run() waits for this automatically.
  • With stream(), keep consuming notifications until completion.

How do I retry safely?

Use retry_on_overload(...) for transient overload failures (ServerBusyError).

Do not blindly retry all errors. For InvalidParamsError or MethodNotFoundError, fix inputs/version compatibility instead.

Common pitfalls

  • Starting a new thread for every prompt when you wanted continuity.
  • Forgetting to close() (or not using context managers).
  • Assuming run() returns extra SDK-only fields instead of the generated Turn model.
  • Mixing SDK input classes with raw dicts incorrectly.