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Thanks for doing this. I've seen a lot of requests for this from users.
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Please don't add documentation back to the OSS repo. It doesn't work to have it in two places. Update these docs instead. I can take care of it after this PR lands if you'd like.
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Sorry, yes, I know, I just asked Codex to write this up when I had it create the PR in the first place. I put this in my personal ~/Documents for now...
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threadIdinstead ofconversationIdso we use the same terms as https://developers.openai.com/codex/sdk/.To test the local build:
I sent:
{ "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "codex", "arguments": { "prompt": "favorite ls option?" }, "_meta": { "progressToken": 0 } } }and got:
{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "`ls -lah` (or `ls -alh`) — long listing, includes dotfiles, human-readable sizes." } ], "structuredContent": { "threadId": "019bbb20-bff6-7130-83aa-bf45ab33250e" } }and successfully used the
threadIdin the follow-up with thecodex-replytool call:{ "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "codex-reply", "arguments": { "prompt": "what is the long versoin", "threadId": "019bbb20-bff6-7130-83aa-bf45ab33250e" }, "_meta": { "progressToken": 1 } } }whose response also has the
threadId:{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Long listing is `ls -l` (adds permissions, owner/group, size, timestamp)." } ], "structuredContent": { "threadId": "019bbb20-bff6-7130-83aa-bf45ab33250e" } }Fixes #3712.