docs(codex): explain deferred tool search troubleshooting - #1878
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded troubleshooting guidance to the Codex integration guide. It explains client declarations for ChangesTool Search Documentation
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md`:
- Around line 310-313: Update the troubleshooting guidance in the “tool_search”
section to replace the ambiguous phrase “a needed deferred tool” with “a
deferred tool it needs,” preserving the surrounding explanation and behavior.
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One blocking documentation-accuracy issue:
The new troubleshooting section treats the absence of an incoming type: "tool_search" declaration as meaning deferred discovery was not advertised, and frames an explicit tool_search round-trip as the path to deferred MCP tools. That is too broad for current OpenCodex.
Current routed catalog rows intentionally combine supports_search_tool: true with tool_mode: "code_mode_only". Under code mode, deferred MCP tools can remain callable through exec's tools global / ALL_TOOLS without any tool_search round-trip. So a healthy routed session can have working deferred MCP tooling even if the model never sees or calls tool_search.
Please separate these two mechanisms in the docs:
- Normal routed code mode: deferred MCP tools may already be reachable through
exec/ALL_TOOLS;tool_searchis not required. - Explicit
tool_searchpath: when Codex actually sends a{type:"tool_search"}declaration, OpenCodex exposes it as a function, converts the model call totool_search_call, and consumes the latertool_search_output.
In particular, change wording like "the client/session did not advertise deferred discovery" to the narrower "the client/session did not advertise the tool_search surface" (or equivalent).
The rest of the section matches the current parser/bridge implementation, CI is green, and I found no other blocking issues.
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Requested documentation correction is now on exact head The guide now separates the two mechanisms explicitly:
The troubleshooting wording now says a missing declaration means only that the explicit Validation: frozen docs dependencies unchanged, 385-page production build passed, and |
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md`:
- Around line 293-299: Expand the tool_search example in the Codex integration
guide to document client execution, including execution: "client" and the
parameter schema, then add a Responses continuation showing tool_search_call
followed by tool_search_output. State that both items share the same call_id and
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| ```json | ||
| { | ||
| "tools": [ | ||
| { "type": "tool_search", "description": "Load deferred tools" } | ||
| ] | ||
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printf '%s\n' '--- exact Responses tool declarations and continuation builders ---'
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if not path.is_file() or any(part in {"node_modules", "dist", "build", ".git"} for part in path.parts):
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Document the complete client-executed tool_search flow.
At docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md:293-299, label the shorthand declaration or expand it with execution: "client" and the parameter schema. Add a Responses continuation example with tool_search_call and tool_search_output. State that both items must use the same call_id, and that relays must preserve this call/output history. OpenCodex accepts the current shorthand, but the example does not document the full wire contract.
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md` around lines 293 -
299, Expand the tool_search example in the Codex integration guide to document
client execution, including execution: "client" and the parameter schema, then
add a Responses continuation showing tool_search_call followed by
tool_search_output. State that both items share the same call_id and relays must
preserve the call/output history.
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Summary
tool_searchmust be declared by the Codex client and is not enabled bytool_choice: "auto"tool_search_call, and latertool_search_outputcontinuationCloses #1872.
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tool_search.