Epiphany/notes/codex-auth-spine-inventory.md

Codex Auth Spine Inventory

This is the keeper list for the vestigial Codex organ. Anything not justified here is suspect until proven otherwise.

Live Spine

Inputs

• User authentication material from Codex auth storage or an external auth provider.
• Model/provider configuration from Codex config and model provider metadata.
• Per-turn model request data: prompt instructions, formatted input, tools, output schema, reasoning controls, service tier, and model metadata.
• Session identity: conversation/thread id, installation id, window id, session source, optional turn metadata, and optional parent/subagent headers.

Durable Stores

• Codex auth storage under the configured Codex home, loaded by vendor/codex/codex-rs/login/src/auth/manager.rs.
• Auth token state in CodexAuth / ChatgptAuthState, including refreshable ChatGPT tokens and account metadata.
• Model cache managed by vendor/codex/codex-rs/models-manager/src/manager.rs.
• Session-scoped model transport state inside vendor/codex/codex-rs/core/src/client.rs: provider, auth environment telemetry, conversation id, websocket fallback state, and cached websocket session.

Transformations

• codex-login loads auth, refreshes ChatGPT access tokens, preserves account metadata, and exposes CodexAuth.
• codex-model-provider converts CodexAuth plus provider config into a bearer auth provider and API provider.
• models-manager uses provider auth to fetch /models, cache the catalog, and choose default/model metadata.
• codex-core::client builds Responses API requests from typed prompt/model structures, adds Codex/OpenAI identity headers, chooses HTTP or websocket transport, streams response events, and handles auth/error/rate-limit telemetry.

Outputs

• Bearer-authenticated OpenAI/ChatGPT-compatible model calls.
• Streaming model response events.
• Compaction/memory/realtime model helper calls that use the same provider setup.
• Model catalog and model metadata.
• Auth and transport telemetry/errors needed to recover or report failure.

Keep

• login/src/auth/manager.rs: keep as the initial credential compatibility organ. It knows ChatGPT/API-key/agent/external auth modes, refresh semantics, token storage, and account metadata. Long term, wrap it behind an Epiphany OpenAIAuthAdapter instead of letting the rest of Epiphany import it.
• model-provider/src/auth.rs and model-provider/src/provider.rs: keep as the provider auth resolver. This is the narrow bridge from Codex auth state to API bearer auth.
• core/src/client.rs: keep only the model transport subset: provider setup, Responses request construction, HTTP/websocket streaming, identity headers, and auth recovery telemetry. It is too entangled to delete before a native Epiphany model adapter exists.
• models-manager/src/manager.rs: keep narrowly for model catalog refresh, default model selection, and auth-mode filtering until Epiphany has its own typed model catalog document.

Cut Or Seal

• Codex app-server routing is not part of auth/model transport. It can host compatibility wrappers while Aquarium/CLI still speak JSON-RPC, but it must not be the native Epiphany operator surface.
• Codex apps, skills, marketplace, plugin UX, and MCP OAuth handlers are not required for OpenAI subscription compatibility. MCP may survive as a separate CultNet adapter, not as a reason to keep the Codex app-server brain.
• codex-core::client helper calls for memories/realtime/compaction are suspicious unless Epiphany deliberately needs that OpenAI endpoint. Keep them sealed with the transport until the native adapter split can decide.
• models-manager collaboration mode surfaces are not part of the auth spine. Model catalog yes; collaboration-mode presets no.

Extract Target

Create an outside-vendor adapter with this shape:

EpiphanyOpenAIAuthAdapter
  -> load/refresh credentials
  -> expose account/auth mode/model availability

EpiphanyOpenAIModelTransport
  -> accept typed Epiphany model-turn request
  -> call OpenAI Responses API through Codex-compatible auth
  -> emit typed stream events / receipts

The adapter may depend on codex-login, codex-model-provider, codex-model-provider-info, codex-api, and the narrow model-transport pieces of codex-core. It must not depend on codex-app-server, codex_message_processor, plugin/app/skill/marketplace modules, or Epiphany state ownership.

Next Cut

The first epiphany-openai-adapter crate boundary now exists as a native typed surface:

• input: typed model-turn request plus adapter config
• output: typed stream events and terminal usage/error receipt
• current dependency: no Codex app-server and no Codex transport yet
• planned internal dependency: Codex auth/model transport only
• forbidden dependency: Codex app-server or Epiphany JSON-RPC routes

The first attempt to wire codex-core directly as a standalone path dependency escaped the vendored workspace lock and hit transitive ICU/temporal dependency skew. Do not paper over that with random version pins.

The first workspace-verified wrapper now exists as epiphany-openai-codex-spine. It depends on the pure typed adapter plus the keeper Codex auth types and projects AuthManager / CodexAuth into a typed EpiphanyOpenAiAdapterStatus. epiphany-codex-bridge re-exports this spine so the current app-server compatibility shell can compile it without making the pure document crate depend on Codex.

The first transport wrapper is now also in that spine. It maps typed EpiphanyOpenAiModelRequest documents into Codex API ResponsesApiRequest, resolves auth/provider through codex-login + codex-model-provider, opens an HTTP Responses stream with codex-api, and converts stream deltas/completion into typed EpiphanyOpenAiStreamEvent / EpiphanyOpenAiModelReceipt documents. This is still a compatibility reliquary, not final native purity: the next cut is to make an Epiphany-native runtime call this transport boundary directly instead of reaching model turns through thread/epiphany/* JSON-RPC or the Codex host brain.

The CultNet paperwork is now public too. schemas/cultnet/ contains typed schemas for OpenAI adapter status, model request, stream event, and terminal receipt; epiphany-runtime-spine advertises those document types and mutation contracts in its hello/schema catalog. This is the contract bridge the native runtime should consume next. Do not add another JSON-RPC model endpoint and call it progress.

The first native operator/debug edge now exists as the epiphany-openai-spine binary in epiphany-openai-codex-spine. It can report typed adapter status and consume a serialized EpiphanyOpenAiModelRequest document for a model turn without going through Codex app-server JSON-RPC. This is not the final CultNet daemon. It is a buildable extracted edge that proves the spine can be called from Epiphany-owned code and gives the next cut a place to route through while the old thread/epiphany/* model path is starved.

The bad news is useful: the current spine still drags in codex-api and its large transport dependency stack. That is tolerable as a sealed compatibility reliquary, but not as the final shape. The next purification should shrink the surviving Codex dependency surface to credential loading/refresh, provider auth, model selection, and the smallest OpenAI Responses HTTP call that keeps Codex subscription compatibility.

The point is ownership: Epiphany calls a model adapter; it does not live inside the Codex host brain.