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Voice through opencodex fails when the call was created by the client itself. ChatGPT voice can hand a live call to a Codex thread on the Mac, and Codex Desktop creates the WebRTC call on its own when its renderer owns it. In both cases the call is created with the user's own ChatGPT login and only its V3 existingCall sideband join reaches opencodex (GET /v1/live/<call_id>). In Pool mode opencodex re-authenticated that join with a Pool-selected account, so it reached the upstream as a different ChatGPT account and Codex gave up after five attempts with 502 Bad Gateway: realtime websocket handshake failed.

Observed on a real install (identifiers omitted): four V3 existingCall voice starts from the ChatGPT iOS remote client (1.2026.266 and 1.2026.267) on Oct 3 and Oct 5, twenty 502 rows in usage.jsonl, joined under two different Pool accounts, neither of which is the ChatGPT account of the Codex login that issued the join. The last voice session that completed its handshake (Sep 30) was a call opencodex created itself, where create and join share one Pool account.

After this change:

  • opencodex records the ids of calls it creates on POST /v1/live / /v1/realtime/calls, extracted from the create Location exactly as openai/codex reads it. Joins for those calls keep Pool selection and thread affinity (openai/codex #35830, unchanged).
  • A join for any other call (/v1/live/<id>, /v1/realtime/calls/<id>, /v1/realtime?call_id=<id>) forwards the caller's own explicit ChatGPT credential through the existing Direct passthrough: bearer claim must match chatgpt-account-id, never the proxy admission secret, same matched-main hard-lock and credits policy, no Pool outcome recorded. Without a caller credential the join keeps Pool selection.
  • The registry is process-local, ids only, at most 1024 for six hours, oldest evicted first. A restart, expiry or eviction makes a created call look caller-owned to a later rejoin; joins normally follow the create immediately.

The rest of the Codex realtime range 6cfe29984..41acdad24 and the Desktop 26.930.21537 → 26.930.31730 bundle change nothing opencodex relays (voice catalog is app-server local, V3 reasoning status and partial_answer ride existing frames, RTP and device changes are media-side). The full matrix is in devlog/_plan/261006_realtime_live_compat/010_incompatibility_matrix.md.

Security review requested: this changes which credential a sideband join carries in Pool mode (src/providers/openai-sidecar.ts resolveCallerOwnedOpenAiSidecar, src/server/live.ts resolveLiveRelay).

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  • New tests: tests/server/live-native-calls.test.ts (Location extraction for API, backend, UUID, query, trailing-slash and suffix shapes; TTL, eviction, clear), tests/server/server-live-existing-call.test.ts (end-to-end Pool-mode existingCall join reaches the upstream as the caller; all three join forms; created call keeps Pool; no bearer keeps Pool; mismatched claim never forwarded; admission secret 401; provider scope 403), and a hard-lock case in tests/codex-integration/main-account-hard-lock-auth.test.ts (caller-owned join refuses without a Pool detour). Both new files are registered in scripts/test-layout/layout.json and tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json.
  • git diff --check clean. Independent static review of the diff by a separate reviewer.
  • No live voice session was run against OpenAI; the causal link between the account overwrite and the upstream refusal is inferred, because Bun hides the upstream handshake status behind the 502.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults (maintainer review recorded in the PR comments).

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  • New Features
    • Voice sideband joins to calls created outside OpenCode now use the caller’s ChatGPT credentials when eligible, with existing account-selection behavior as a fallback.
    • Calls created through OpenCode continue to use their existing account routing.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the Codex integration guide to clarify credential handling for client-created and OpenCode-created calls, including Direct mode.

ChatGPT voice can hand a live call to a Codex thread, and Codex Desktop creates
the call itself when its renderer owns it. In both cases the WebRTC call is
created with the caller's own ChatGPT login and only the V3 existingCall
sideband join reaches opencodex. In Pool mode the join was re-authenticated with
a Pool-selected account, so it reached the upstream as a different ChatGPT
account and Codex reported 502 realtime websocket handshake failed.

Record the call ids handleLive creates (extracted from the create Location the
way openai/codex reads it) and, for a join to any other call, forward the
caller's explicit ChatGPT credential through the Direct passthrough. Calls
created through opencodex keep Pool selection and thread affinity (#35830).
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Native call creation now records call IDs in a bounded, process-local registry. Sideband joins use caller-owned credentials when the target call is not recorded; recorded calls retain existing Pool selection. Tests and documentation cover routing behavior and credential checks.

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Live Sideband Join

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track calls created through OpenCodex
src/server/live-native-calls.ts, src/server/live.ts, tests/server/live-native-calls.test.ts, structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
Successful native call-create responses record parsed call IDs. The registry expires entries after six hours and holds at most 1,024 IDs. Tests cover ID parsing, expiry, eviction, and clearing.
Resolve credentials for existing-call joins
src/providers/openai-sidecar.ts, src/server/live.ts, tests/server/server-live-existing-call.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/main-account-hard-lock-auth.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/guides/codex-integration.md, structure/providers/openai-accounts.md, devlog/_plan/261006_realtime_live_compat/*
For unrecorded calls, relay resolution tries caller-owned credentials before existing sidecar selection. Tests cover caller credentials, Pool fallback, admission refusals, and hard-lock behavior. Documentation and planning notes describe the credential paths and reported incompatibility.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SidebandJoin
  participant resolveLiveRelay
  participant nativeLiveCalls
  participant resolveCallerOwnedOpenAiSidecar
  participant ExistingSidecarSelection
  SidebandJoin->>resolveLiveRelay: target call ID
  resolveLiveRelay->>nativeLiveCalls: check call ID
  alt call ID is recorded
    resolveLiveRelay->>ExistingSidecarSelection: select existing sidecar
  else call ID is not recorded
    resolveLiveRelay->>resolveCallerOwnedOpenAiSidecar: resolve caller credentials
    alt caller-owned relay is unavailable
      resolveLiveRelay->>ExistingSidecarSelection: select existing sidecar
    end
  end
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A hub restart can misroute an existing voice call, though the issue is limited to calls that remain joinable across the restart.

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# Realtime voice: sideband joins for calls opencodex did not create

ChatGPT voice ("GPT Live") can now hand a call to a Codex thread on the user's Mac: the ChatGPT client creates the WebRTC call with its own ChatGPT login, and the local Codex app-server joins the call's control sideband (`V3`, `transport=ExistingCall`). With opencodex injected, that join arrives at `ws://127.0.0.1:<port>/v1/live/<call_id>`, and opencodex re-authenticates it with whichever Pool account it selects. The join therefore reaches the upstream as an account other than the caller that started the call, and Codex reports `502 Bad Gateway: realtime websocket handshake failed` after five attempts. The credential overwrite is confirmed in source and in the user's ledger; that the upstream refused the join because of the account (rather than another handshake fault) is a strong inference, because Bun hides the upstream handshake status.

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P1 Badge Remove unreleased security triage from the tracked devlog

This tracked _plan document publishes the authentication weakness, failure mode, affected client versions, and runtime evidence while the credential-handling fix is still unreleased. Pushing the review branch therefore discloses pre-release security triage in permanent public history; keep these investigation details in .tmp/ and publish only an appropriate outcome after the fix ships.

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Not applying this one. The defect fails closed: a join for a client-created call was re-authenticated with another of the user's own Pool accounts, and OpenAI refused it, so nothing was exposed or gained, only voice failed. This PR's diff already shows the old and new credential choice, which is the test AGENTS.md gives for whether a note may live in devlog/. The plan carries no account identifiers. Leaving the thread open for a maintainer decision.

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Maintainer decision: keep the note. The fix and its description are already public in this PR, and the defect failed closed (the upstream refused the join; nothing was exposed), so the AGENTS.md test for devlog placement is met.

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Maintainer security review (credential selection for sideband joins), head b3f548225b:

  • A join gets the caller's credential only when nativeLiveCalls has no entry for the call id, i.e. this process did not create the call. Calls created here keep Pool selection and thread affinity unchanged.
  • resolveCallerOwnedOpenAiSidecar mirrors the existing Direct-mode branch of resolveFirstUsableOpenAiSidecar: a ForwardAdmissionCredentialError returns undefined (the same as callerBearerMayBeForwarded = false), and directSidecarHeaders forwards only an explicit single Bearer whose ChatGPT JWT account claim equals the caller's chatgpt-account-id, so the proxy admission secret and generic JWTs are never forwarded. Headers go through headersForCodexAuthContext with {kind: "main"}, so the main hard lock and credit policy apply; refusals surface as CodexAccountCooldownError through the existing forwardAuthError path.
  • A caller can only present its own credential, so there is no escalation: the worst case for a forged or unknown call id is the caller joining with its own login, which the upstream then authorizes or refuses.
  • No credential, account or caller is stored; the registry holds ids only, bounded to 1024 entries for 6 h.
  • Without a caller credential, or on any refusal to forward, the join falls back to the unchanged Pool path. recordOutcome is omitted only when no Pool account was selected.

Devlog thread: kept. This PR's public diff and description already describe the old and new credential choice, which is the test AGENTS.md sets for a devlog/ note, and the defect failed closed (the upstream refused the join; nothing was exposed).

Merge: admin squash per the owner's instruction. Exact-head PR CI run 37459331574 success; the merge with current dev (f494403fba) is clean, and no later dev change touches these files. No local tests were run (owner instruction). Live voice against OpenAI remains unverified, as the description states.

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