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fix(adapters): teach code-mode nested helpers in the shared catalog nudge - #1895

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Routed Codex code-mode sessions were told the valid tool names were exactly the flat top-level catalog. That made Grok, Claude, Gemini, Kiro, and Command Code skip live nested helpers such as tools.codex_app__list_threads and tools.codex_app__send_message_to_thread.

The helpers were never missing. Codex installs them on tools.<name> and keeps deferred metadata on the isolate global ALL_TOOLS, not tools.ALL_TOOLS. OpenCodex already leaves supports_search_tool: true so those helpers stay out of exec.description. The shared catalog nudge then contradicted that contract by listing only top-level names.

This change keeps the top-level contract and, when exec is listed (including a wire-renamed cx_exec), teaches the isolate nested-helper path. Cursor guidance gets the same isolate-global discovery sentence. It does not dump deferred tools into exec.description and does not flip supports_search_tool.

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  • bun test tests/tool-catalog-nudge.test.ts tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts tests/adapter-usage.test.ts tests/google-adapter.test.ts tests/kiro-adapter.test.ts tests/umans-provider.test.ts — 147 pass / 0 fail on the PR branch after bun install
  • bun x tsc --noEmit — clean
  • Live Grok code-mode canary: tools.codex_app__list_threads({}) and tools.codex_app__send_message_to_thread({threadId, prompt}) succeeded while those names were absent from the top-level catalog and tools.ALL_TOOLS was empty

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved code-mode guidance so available nested tools are discovered more reliably.
    • Added specialized handling for execution tools, including alternate tool-name formats.
    • Clarified when nested helpers are available outside the top-level tool list.
    • Preserved generic guidance for other tool catalogs.
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    • Expanded coverage for code-mode tool discovery, alternate naming, and fallback guidance.

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The change detects Codex code-mode exec, including wire-renamed forms, and emits nested-helper guidance through isolate-global ALL_TOOLS. Tests cover Codex, generic, and transformed-name catalogs.

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Codex code-mode guidance

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Detect and describe Codex exec tools
src/adapters/tool-catalog-nudge.ts:19-22, src/adapters/tool-catalog-nudge.ts:44-53, src/adapters/tool-catalog-nudge.ts:64-81, tests/tool-catalog-nudge.test.ts:58-85
The catalog nudge detects bare and transformed exec names. It emits Codex-specific ALL_TOOLS guidance and retains generic nested-helper guidance for other catalogs.
Align code-mode guidance with ALL_TOOLS
src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts:618, tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts:450-475
Code-mode guidance identifies isolate-global ALL_TOOLS. Tests preserve top-level apply_patch access and prohibit top-level exec_command and shell_command access.

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The change improves nested-helper discovery, but current guidance still contains two contract contradictions: renamed exec tools are described under the wrong name, and apply_patch can be both disallowed and listed as available. These inconsistencies may cause supported tools to be skipped or used incorrectly and should be fixed before merge.

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In `@src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts`:
- Around line 617-621: Update the code-mode guidance built by codeMode so
nested-helper prohibitions exclude names present in codeModeOtherTopLevelNames,
while retaining the separate statement that those advertised tools remain
callable at the top level; ensure apply_patch is not simultaneously prohibited
and advertised. In tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts lines 450-452, add a
regression case where apply_patch is listed separately and verify the generated
guidance remains unambiguous.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts` around lines 450 -
452.

In `@src/adapters/tool-catalog-nudge.ts`:
- Around line 44-49: Update catalogListsCodeModeExec to return the matching
advertised exec name rather than a boolean, preserving the transformed wire-name
contract. In src/adapters/tool-catalog-nudge.ts lines 66-75, use that returned
name in the Codex guidance, and in tests/tool-catalog-nudge.test.ts lines 75-83,
assert that cx_exec (or the applicable transformed name) is listed while bare
exec is not.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/tool-catalog-nudge.test.ts` around lines 75 - 83.
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jonathanli12 added a commit to jonathanli12/opencodex-jl-custom that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
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Routed providers were told the valid names were exactly the flat top-level catalog. In Codex code mode, deferred helpers such as tools.codex_app__list_threads stay callable inside exec even when they are omitted from the listed names and from exec description. Discover them from the isolate global ALL_TOOLS, not tools.ALL_TOOLS.
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One blocking correctness issue remains on the current head.

The shared catalog nudge now treats any advertised tool named exec (or its transformed wire name) as Codex code mode. That classification is too broad. OpenCodex's existing Cursor code-mode predicate requires a visible freeform exec and no visible bare shell bridge; the shared helper discards the freeform metadata and infers the V8-isolate/ALL_TOOLS contract from the name alone.

That means a normal structured tool named exec, or a mixed catalog containing exec plus exec_command/shell_command, can receive incorrect system guidance saying that exec is JavaScript evaluated in a V8 isolate and that nested helpers should be used through tools.*. This can make routed models send the wrong arguments or avoid a legitimate top-level execution tool.

Please determine code mode from the original OcxTool objects before reducing them to wire names, ideally by sharing the existing semantic predicate. At minimum require a visible freeform exec and exclude the flat shell-bridge case, then pass the verified advertised wire name into the formatting helper.

Please also add focused regressions for:

  • { name: "exec", freeform: false } -> generic guidance, not code-mode guidance;
  • freeform exec plus a visible exec_command/shell_command -> no nested-only code-mode classification;
  • transformed freeform exec such as cx_exec -> still receives the intended code-mode guidance.

The two earlier CodeRabbit findings about transformed cx_exec naming and separately advertised apply_patch are fixed on this head, and the rest of the PR looks focused and sound. Upstream CI should also run successfully on the final exact head before merge.

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lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
One merged, four carried, and one plan decision reversed. #1900 landed with its
three gates verified in the diff first - HTTPS-only non-loopback discovery, the
Bearer refused before any plain-HTTP request builder, and a clean EOF with open
tool calls emitting a typed error rather than done.

The reversal is #1887. The plan had it closed as superseded by #1896; it holds
the catalog-aware guard that decides the bridge from what the request actually
advertised, where #1896 hardcodes the names off a boolean. Closing it would have
re-introduced the defect #1895 exists to remove.

Also recording the process correction that held: WP6 faulted me for merging
#1902 before its CI could be judged, and #1900 was merged three minutes after
its run reported success rather than eight minutes before.
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Landed on dev as #1951 (merge 93e521c80), which takes this branch's commits and resolves
the blocking review finding on top of them.

The blocker was that the shared nudge classified any advertised tool named exec as code
mode, discarding the freeform metadata. #1951 decides it from the tool objects instead — a
freeform exec with no visible bare shell bridge — while that metadata still exists, and the
name-only entry point no longer guesses: it accepts a verified wire name from a caller that had
the objects, and otherwise falls back to the generic parent-tool sentence.

The repository already had exactly this predicate in src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts,
but behind a Cursor namespace check, and this nudge is shared by Anthropic, Google, Kiro,
OpenAI-chat and command-code — so the same two halves are now defined provider-neutrally.

All three regressions you asked for are in: a structured exec gets generic guidance, freeform
exec beside exec_command or shell_command is not classified as nested-only, and a
transformed freeform exec such as cx_exec/custom_exec still gets code-mode guidance.

Verified before merge: bun run typecheck clean, 72 pass / 0 fail across
tool-catalog-nudge, cursor-tool-definitions and cursor-hardening, and the full
cross-platform run green on the exact head.

Closing as superseded — the work is on dev, and thank you for the original change; the
catalog-derived direction was right, it just needed the semantic input.

luvs01 pushed a commit to luvs01/opencodex that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
The simulation reproduced exactly; my explanation of it did not.

I wrote that lidge-jun#1887 conflicts only because lidge-jun#1896 exists, naming the shared
native-exec files. In the sequence I actually ran, lidge-jun#1896 had not been merged
yet. Isolating it: lidge-jun#1887 alone is clean, and so is each of lidge-jun#1900, lidge-jun#1895 and
lidge-jun#1896 paired with it - the conflict needs lidge-jun#1900 and lidge-jun#1895 together, and it lands
in tool-definitions.ts, which is not a native-exec file and has nothing to do
with lidge-jun#1896. I presented dropping lidge-jun#1887 as evidence-driven when the evidence
pointed elsewhere.

The more serious one: closing lidge-jun#1887 as superseded would have deleted a guard
this plan calls critical. lidge-jun#1896's codeModeBridgeGuidance hardcodes exec and the
mcp_opencodex-responses names on a boolean; lidge-jun#1887 derives them from the
advertised catalog and returns none when exec is not advertised. That is the
plan's own no-hardcoded-exec matrix row, and it is the exact defect lidge-jun#1895 exists
to remove - so making lidge-jun#1896 canonical without migrating would re-introduce it
one PR after deleting it. Five items are now listed as migration prerequisites.

Also corrected: the scope comparison is a wash rather than a win for lidge-jun#1896, and
lidge-jun#1903 is a 32-file cross-cutting change rather than a rebase-and-merge item.
lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Three PRs landed and four are held, each for a reason that belongs to the PR
rather than to my schedule.

The part worth keeping is the defect I introduced. #1951 fixed #1895's blocker
by deciding code mode from freeform metadata rather than the name exec, but my
port of the shell-bridge predicate dropped the Cursor original's !tool.namespace
requirement - so a namespaced MCP exec_command cancelled code mode on a genuine
code-mode turn and silently stripped the guidance. It failed safe, generic
rather than false guidance, which is precisely why nothing caught it and why an
audit that runs the predicate against adversarial catalogs beats one that reads
it. #1953 fixes it, driven red first, and a second reviewer then failed to break
the classifier across ten catalog shapes.
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