fix(codex): key pool affinity on the conversation cohort, not the thread - #4935
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…ead (#4780) Upstream keys its prompt cache on something the whole tree shares. prompt_cache_key is responses_metadata.session_id, or {source}:{parent_thread_id} for an internal session, and one AgentControl whose session_id is the root thread id is shared with every sub-agent spawned from that root. The upstream suite asserts root and child carrying different thread ids while sending the same promptCacheKey, and openai/codex#44862 went further on 2026-09-11 by making an ephemeral fork inherit its parent's session id. While the proxy keyed per thread, a tree could split across pool accounts while every member kept sending one cache key. The split member asserted a warm prefix that was deterministically cold on its account, so the prompt was replayed in full. Nothing failed; only tokens burned, which is why no log line reports it. The binding unit is now the cohort. A request carrying session-id resolves to HMAC(session, session) and every root, child and grandchild of that tree lands on it. Without a session the cohort is read from the parent's lineage record, falling back to HMAC(parent, parent) when this scope has not seen that parent, which is the same key that parent derives for itself, so a chain of parent-only turns converges instead of splitting at every depth. Which requests bind at all is unchanged. This is not a revert of #4546 wp8. wp8 fixed a child binding under the RAW parent id, an identity unrelated to the root's own binding, so siblings shared an entry the root was not on and a grandchild landed on a key nobody had bound. A cohort key cannot produce that incoherence, because the root's own binding IS the cohort key. The orphan property is pinned as a regression rather than left as an argument. What wp8 additionally gave each thread, a binding of its own, is what this deliberately gives up. The cost is explicit: a tree gains cache locality and loses per-thread placement independence. All members share one binding, so a fan-out cannot spread across accounts and an exhausted account moves the whole tree. First placement is largely subsumed and its hook is now gated on the parent's key actually differing from the request's own.
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Because this helper now returns HMAC(anchor, anchor), every keyFor call in the existing “table is bounded in both dimensions” test uses the same session-id: bulk and therefore returns the same key despite varying thread-id. As a result, oldest === newest, while the test requires the former lookup to be undefined and the latter defined; an isolated invocation confirms both remain defined, so the focused suite will fail once dependencies are available. Vary the session/cohort in that fixture so it still exercises record eviction.
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When two authenticated Pool callers supply the same session-id but different thread IDs, this branch returns the same affinity key because the authorization-derived scope is omitted. The lineage records are scoped, but src/codex/routing/thread-affinity.ts stores bindings in a global map keyed only by this value, so one caller can reuse, detour, release, or otherwise affect the other's binding; the new scope test checks only codexThreadLineageLookup, not the actual routing binding, and therefore misses this. Include the caller scope in the binding key or scope the affinity map itself, then test account resolution across two authorization headers.
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Three CI failures, all in test fixtures rather than in the derivation. The bounded-table test varied only the thread id under one session, so every record landed under a single cohort key and the eviction probe read the newest record back through the oldest key. Each index now gets its own session, so the record cap and the scope cap are probed as before. The preview test asserted that an eligible preview leaves no lineage record, probing through the child's key. That key is now the root's, and the root was recorded earlier in the same test, so the probe answered from the root's entry rather than from anything the preview wrote. It now probes a cohort nothing has recorded, which restores the original meaning. A comment rewrite pushed tests/codex-integration/codex-auth-context.test.ts one line past its file-size cap. The comment is shortened rather than the cap raised, since updateBaseline only lowers caps.
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In `@tests/codex-integration/codex-lineage-placement.test.ts`:
- Around line 592-594: Partition Pool affinity by authenticated scope for
Pool-eligible requests: update codexPoolAffinityKey and the
resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed/bindThreadAffinity flow so reads and writes
consistently include codexLineageScopeKey(headers), while continuing to exclude
request-owned main credentials and fixed-account requests from Pool state. Add a
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CWE: CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
Partition Pool affinity by authenticated scope for Pool-eligible requests.
poolStateEligible() excludes request-owned main credentials and fixed-account requests, but other Pool-eligible requests can still carry different Authorization values. For those requests, codexPoolAffinityKey() derives the same key from session-id; thread-affinity.ts then indexes the binding by that key and separates only by quota scope. The requests can therefore reuse or rebind one another's binding.
The cited test checks only authorization-scoped lineage lookup. It does not exercise resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed() or bindThreadAffinity(), so it can pass while the Pool binding remains shared.
Carry codexLineageScopeKey(headers) through Pool-affinity reads and writes, or derive a consistently scoped affinity key. Add a regression test through a Pool-eligible routing path. Bind caller A, resolve caller B with the same session-id and a different Authorization value, and assert that B neither reuses nor mutates A's binding. Request-owned main credentials must remain excluded from Pool state.
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In `@tests/codex-integration/codex-lineage-placement.test.ts` around lines 592 -
594, Partition Pool affinity by authenticated scope for Pool-eligible requests:
update codexPoolAffinityKey and the
resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed/bindThreadAffinity flow so reads and writes
consistently include codexLineageScopeKey(headers), while continuing to exclude
request-owned main credentials and fixed-account requests from Pool state. Add a
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Pool affinity keyed every Codex V2 thread as itself, while upstream keys its prompt cache on the
whole conversation tree. Two requests could therefore carry an identical
prompt_cache_keyand beserved by different pool accounts. The split-off member's key asserts a warm prefix that is
deterministically cold on its account, so the prompt is replayed in full. Nothing fails and no log
line reports it; only tokens burn.
This makes the binding unit the cohort the client already declares.
The upstream contract, re-derived at the current head
Verified in the pinned clone at
/Users/jun/Developer/codex/121_openai-codex(095da4b7e):codex-rs/core/src/client.rs—prompt_cache_key()returnsresponses_metadata.session_id,or
{source}:{parent_thread_id}for an internal session. Never the thread's own id.codex-rs/core/src/agent/control.rs—session_id"is equal to the root thread's ID", and thatone
AgentControlis "shared with every sub-agent spawned from that root".codex-rs/core/tests/suite/prompt_cache_key.rs— assertsdifferentThreadIds: truewhile rootand child both send
promptCacheKey == expected_session_id.The clone predates openai/codex#44862 ("Preserve parent cache affinity for ephemeral forks"), which
merged on 2026-09-11 and makes an ephemeral fork inherit its parent's session id for exactly
this reason. The issue body is not stale; upstream has moved further toward cohort keying since it
was written.
What changed
A request carrying
session-idresolves toapp:HMAC(session, session), and every root, child andgrandchild of that tree lands on it. Without a session the cohort is read from the parent's lineage
record, falling back to
app:HMAC(parent, parent)when this scope has not seen that parent — thesame key that parent derives for itself, so a chain of parent-only turns converges instead of
splitting at every depth. Which requests bind at all is unchanged.
This is not a revert of #4546 wp8
Stated in the code, in
structure/, and here, because a reader who concludes otherwise will flipit straight back.
wp8 fixed a genuine incoherence: a child bound under the RAW parent id, an identity unrelated to
the root's own
app:HMAC(session, thread)binding, so siblings shared an entry the root was not onand a grandchild keying on its own parent landed on a key nobody had ever bound. A cohort key
cannot produce that, because the root's own binding is the cohort key — one identity for the
tree instead of two competing ones. That property is pinned as a regression rather than left as an
argument: "a grandchild never lands on a key nobody bound" covers both the session case and the
session-less chain.
What wp8 additionally gave each thread, a binding of its own, is what this deliberately gives up.
The cost, stated rather than buried
A tree gains cache locality and loses per-thread placement independence. All members share one
binding, so a fan-out cannot spread across accounts, and when that account is exhausted or retired
the whole tree moves together. That is correct for cache affinity and it is a behaviour change, not
a refinement. It also interacts with the send-budget and placement work #4546 introduced, since a
tree is now one binding for accounting as well as for routing — the issue flags that and it remains
true.
First placement is largely subsumed: a member of a tree any other member has already bound resolves
to that binding, so there is nothing to place.
pickLineageServingAccountis kept for the one casecohort keying cannot unify — a session-less chain whose parent this scope has not recorded — and is
gated on the parent's key actually differing from the request's own, so it never re-asks a question
the binding lookup already answered. Removing it outright would take the
lineage_parentandlineage_siblingaffinity reasons and their diagnostics with it, a wider blast radius than thischange needs.
Closes #4780.
Verification
Local suites were not run for this change, by explicit maintainer instruction; correctness is
argued from source and proven by hosted CI at this head.
The invariant was written before the derivation changed. A new cohort block in
tests/codex-integration/codex-lineage-placement.test.tspins that one tree resolves to one keyand that a different tree does not; that a grandchild never lands on a key nobody bound, in both
the session and session-less chains; that the unbound set is unchanged; that a cohort key stays
inside its authenticated scope; and that a move of the cohort carries every member.
Four existing placement tests encoded the per-thread contract and could not survive it changing.
None was dropped silently:
key shape, the unbound set and the orphan property.
block asserts the child joins the existing binding.
comment says why: the asymmetry is what this gives up.
account, keeping the negative assertion that a stale home contributes nothing.
The detour and model-detour tests are rewritten to assert the property that still holds — members
are served in the same place at the same moment — rather than an account name predicted from the
fixture.
structure/providers/openai-tiers.mdrecords the binding unit, the wp8 distinction andthe fan-out cost. Hosted
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