fix(server): GPT-6.1 Sol no longer compacts after every tool call on managed Codex#30004

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Fixes #27939.

The managed Codex runtime was pinned to 0.156.1. That version's bundled catalog has no gpt-6.1-sol entry, and its /v1/models request gets a catalog without it. Codex falls back to generic metadata, which exposes every MCP and connector tool directly instead of behind code mode. With many tools, the first request starts near the 244,800-token compaction limit, so Codex compacts after every tool call and loses what it just read (the "compacting every second" reports).

This bumps the managed runtime to 0.166.0. Its catalog lists gpt-6.1-sol with tool_mode: code_mode_only, so the tools stay deferred.

A supported older runtime kept resolving, so a raised pin never reached existing managed installs. On server startup, an active managed runtime older than the pin now starts the existing background install. The old runtime keeps serving sessions until the new one is verified and activated. A failed update leaves the old runtime in place.

Repro: codex app-server driven over its JSON-RPC protocol, gpt-6.1-sol, a stdio MCP server with 1,060 tools (standing in for app connectors), 4 sequential cat commands:

Runtime	First request input tokens	Compactions
0.156.1 (old pin)	250,829	4 (one after every command)
0.166.0 (new pin)	13,674	0

With 300 tools, the first request is 81,497 tokens on 0.156.1 vs 13,662 on 0.166.0.

Verification: the 0.166.0 linux-x64 archive matches its pinned sha256 and size, keeps layoutVersion: 1 with bin/codex and codex-code-mode-host, and runs as codex-cli 0.166.0. vp run check:changed passes. A new case in CodexInstallation.test.ts fails without the startup update and passes with it. Unverified: a managed install and ChatGPT-auth turn in the desktop app, and the other five platform archives (their hashes come from the GitHub release digests).

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Reviewed with sol-loop: 2 rounds with gpt-6.1-sol at high. Verdicts: approved, approved.

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fix(server): managed Codex runtime knows GPT-6.1 Sol and stops compacting after every tool callcb917ec

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Walkthrough

The managed Codex release assets now target version 0.166.0. During initialization, the installer starts an installation when the installed version is older than the pinned release. A test covers this startup update path.

Changes: Codex runtime update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Codex release asset metadata `apps/server/src/provider/CodexInstallation.ts`	All six release entries now use version 0.166.0 URLs, SHA-256 checksums, and expected archive sizes. Platform and architecture mappings are unchanged.
Startup version check and installation state `apps/server/src/provider/CodexInstallation.ts`, `apps/server/src/provider/CodexInstallation.test.ts`	Initialization starts an installation when the installed version is lower than the pinned asset version. The downloading state preserves existing fields. The test checks that an installed version of 0.156.0 updates to 0.156.1.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#27939: The issue reports fallback behavior with the 0.156.1 catalog. This PR updates the managed pin to 0.166.0, whose catalog provides code_mode_only metadata for the reported model.

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The runtime bump and the startup update path look sound. One existing test can now race the automatic update and should be gated before merge. Sessions already open during an update keep the old runtime until they restart, which matches the stated timing but is worth owner awareness.

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The title names the main change: a fix in the server that stops GPT-6.1 Sol from compacting after every tool call on managed Codex. The changeset bumps the managed Codex pin from 0.156.1 to 0.166.0, which is the cause of that behavior. The title follows the conventional commit format and is specific enough for a teammate to understand the primary change. Its length (82 characters) is acceptable for a conventional commit title.

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Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+16 B (+0.3%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+16 B (+1.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.6 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: cefb544 · PR result: 511a3a5 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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fix(server): existing managed Codex installs update to the raised pin on startup511a3a5

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65		-	archiveBytes: 127394863,
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Existing managed Codex installs keep 0.156.1 after the pin bump.

On managed startup, acquire() calls resolve(). resolveManaged() returns the active managed executable whenever its shipped compatibility status is supported. The shipped policy still marks >=0.156.0 as supported, so an active 0.156.1 install is reused. resolveManaged() never compares the active version with the RELEASES pin.

The 0.166.0 asset is installed only through start(), and only after reuseLocal() returns false. Existing managed installs therefore keep the Codex runtime without gpt-6.1-sol, and the compaction fix does not reach them. The PR states that these installs move to the new pin on the next start. This code path does not do that.

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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @maria-rcks

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Fixed in 511a3a5. On startup, an active managed runtime older than the pinned asset now calls start, which downloads, verifies, and activates the pin in the background (CodexInstallation.ts, startup maintenance block). Compatibility checks in resolveManaged are unchanged, so the old runtime keeps resolving until the new one activates. The new test "updates an older supported managed installation to the pinned release on startup" covers it.

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Gate the startup update in the unsupported-version test.
The restart at line 352 now triggers the startup update before the Effect.flip assertion. Initialization runs the update for 0.155.1 because completedRelease does not reject out-of-range versions. The update runs in a forked fiber. If activation finishes before resolve() reports the range error, resolve() can succeed and the flip fails.
Hold the download until after the assertion. Use the same Deferred stall pattern as the stall tests in this file, then release the download after expect(...) and before the explicit start.

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Move sessions off the old runtime after the update.
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