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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added direct OpenAI Responses API support with streaming, structured outputs, usage tracking, custom endpoints, and cancellation handling.
    • Added tool calling with approval workflows, resumable requests, and tool-result processing.
    • Added support for text, file, and image attachments in OpenAI requests.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reconstruction and handling of resumed tool-approval requests.
    • Improved handling of tool approvals, denials, failures, and unsupported responses.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified supported AI runtimes and OpenAI integration options.
  • Tests

    • Updated Responses API coverage and mock-server expectations.

Genkit routes OpenAI through the legacy Chat Completions endpoint, preventing Captain from using newer Responses API capabilities.

Register a direct official SDK adapter that preserves Captain's streaming, structured output, caller-tool, usage, and durable approval contracts while leaving the other API backends on Genkit.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
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Walkthrough

The OpenAI backend now uses a direct Responses API provider. It supports streaming, structured output, tool calls, attachments, usage tracking, and resumable tool approvals. Related mocks and tests validate the Responses API path.

Changes

OpenAI Responses API runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime selection and request input
pkg/ai/provider/init.go, pkg/ai/provider/genkit/genkit.go, pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go
The OpenAI backend now uses openai.New(cfg). Request preparation converts prompts, messages, tools, schemas, and attachments into Responses API input.
Provider construction and streaming execution
pkg/ai/provider/openai/provider.go, pkg/aimock/openaimock/server.go
The provider validates configuration, creates the OpenAI client, streams events, handles response turns and cancellation, validates results, and reports usage and costs.
Tool-call processing
pkg/ai/provider/openai/tools.go
Function calls now support argument validation, handler execution, approval events, result serialization, refusal detection, and response-history preservation.
Approval checkpoint and resume flow
pkg/ai/provider/openai/approval.go
Approval state stores tagged Responses input and output items in versioned checkpoints. Resume logic validates checkpoints and applies approved, denied, or externally supplied tool results.
Mock request observation
pkg/aimock/e2e_*.go, pkg/aimock/genkit_test.go
Mock request assertions now use the Requests field. Prompt helpers poll for matching requests for up to one second.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant OpenAIProvider
  participant OpenAIResponsesAPI
  participant ToolHandler
  Caller->>OpenAIProvider: ExecuteStream(request)
  OpenAIProvider->>OpenAIResponsesAPI: send prepared Responses input
  OpenAIResponsesAPI-->>OpenAIProvider: stream text or function call
  OpenAIProvider->>ToolHandler: execute approved function
  ToolHandler-->>OpenAIProvider: return serialized result
  OpenAIProvider->>OpenAIResponsesAPI: submit function-call output
  OpenAIResponsesAPI-->>OpenAIProvider: stream final response
  OpenAIProvider-->>Caller: emit events and completion
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The provider migration may accept syntactically valid JSON that does not satisfy the requested schema, which could allow nonconforming structured outputs into downstream processing. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up on local schema enforcement.

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In `@pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go`:
- Around line 58-70: In the request setup flow around EffortConfig and the
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Comment thread pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go
Comment thread pkg/ai/provider/openai/input.go
Preserve configured GPT-5.6 reasoning effort when caller tools are present and avoid overflow-prone slice capacity arithmetic flagged by CodeQL.

Poll the mock journal for completed streaming requests so the E2E surface assertion cannot race the server's final journal write.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
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adityathebe marked this pull request as ready for review August 25, 2026 12:45
The OpenAI SDK decodes persisted response messages as input messages because both share type message. This drops the output content and makes the resumed Responses request invalid.

Tag checkpoint items by request or response union and restore response items from their raw wire form. Read restored function calls from the wire payload because SDK ToParam values keep their fields in override metadata.

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a037fc-c3f8-73b6-89ca-149adf6cf1f2
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