Support multimodal custom tool outputs (#12948)

## Summary

This changes `custom_tool_call_output` to use the same output payload
shape as `function_call_output`, so freeform tools can return either
plain text or structured content items.

The main goal is to let `js_repl` return image content from nested
`view_image` calls in its own `custom_tool_call_output`, instead of
relying on a separate injected message.

## What changed

- Changed `custom_tool_call_output.output` from `string` to
`FunctionCallOutputPayload`
- Updated freeform tool plumbing to preserve structured output bodies
- Updated `js_repl` to aggregate nested tool content items and attach
them to the outer `js_repl` result
- Removed the old `js_repl` special case that injected `view_image`
results as a separate pending user image message
- Updated normalization/history/truncation paths to handle multimodal
`custom_tool_call_output`
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema artifacts

## Behavior

Direct `view_image` calls still return a `function_call_output` with
image content.

When `view_image` is called inside `js_repl`, the outer `js_repl`
`custom_tool_call_output` now carries:
- an `input_text` item if the JS produced text output
- one or more `input_image` items from nested tool results

So the nested image result now stays inside the `js_repl` tool output
instead of being injected as a separate message.

## Compatibility

This is intended to be backward-compatible for resumed conversations.

Older histories that stored `custom_tool_call_output.output` as a plain
string still deserialize correctly, and older histories that used the
previous injected-image-message flow also continue to resume.

Added regression coverage for resuming a pre-change rollout containing:
- string-valued `custom_tool_call_output`
- legacy injected image message history


#### [git stack](https://github.com/magus/git-stack-cli)
- 👉 `1` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/12948
This commit is contained in:
Curtis 'Fjord' Hawthorne
2026-02-26 18:17:46 -08:00
committed by GitHub
parent f90e97e414
commit 7e980d7db6
20 changed files with 688 additions and 177 deletions

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@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ pub struct JsReplArgs {
#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct JsExecResult {
pub output: String,
pub content_items: Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>,
}
struct KernelState {
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ struct ExecContext {
#[derive(Default)]
struct ExecToolCalls {
in_flight: usize,
content_items: Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>,
notify: Arc<Notify>,
cancel: CancellationToken,
}
@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ enum JsReplToolCallPayloadKind {
FunctionText,
FunctionContentItems,
CustomText,
CustomContentItems,
McpResult,
McpErrorResult,
Error,
@@ -369,6 +372,21 @@ impl JsReplManager {
Some(state.cancel.clone())
}
async fn record_exec_tool_call_content_items(
exec_tool_calls: &Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, ExecToolCalls>>>,
exec_id: &str,
content_items: Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>,
) {
if content_items.is_empty() {
return;
}
let mut calls = exec_tool_calls.lock().await;
if let Some(state) = calls.get_mut(exec_id) {
state.content_items.extend(content_items);
}
}
async fn finish_exec_tool_call(
exec_tool_calls: &Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, ExecToolCalls>>>,
exec_id: &str,
@@ -592,11 +610,18 @@ impl JsReplManager {
output,
)
}
ResponseInputItem::CustomToolCallOutput { output, .. } => Self::summarize_text_payload(
Some("custom_tool_call_output"),
JsReplToolCallPayloadKind::CustomText,
output,
),
ResponseInputItem::CustomToolCallOutput { output, .. } => {
let payload_kind = if output.content_items().is_some() {
JsReplToolCallPayloadKind::CustomContentItems
} else {
JsReplToolCallPayloadKind::CustomText
};
Self::summarize_function_output_payload(
"custom_tool_call_output",
payload_kind,
output,
)
}
ResponseInputItem::McpToolCallOutput { result, .. } => match result {
Ok(result) => {
let output = FunctionCallOutputPayload::from(result);
@@ -769,7 +794,13 @@ impl JsReplManager {
};
match response {
ExecResultMessage::Ok { output } => Ok(JsExecResult { output }),
ExecResultMessage::Ok { content_items } => {
let (output, content_items) = split_exec_result_content_items(content_items);
Ok(JsExecResult {
output,
content_items,
})
}
ExecResultMessage::Err { message } => Err(FunctionCallError::RespondToModel(message)),
}
}
@@ -1073,10 +1104,22 @@ impl JsReplManager {
error,
} => {
JsReplManager::wait_for_exec_tool_calls_map(&exec_tool_calls, &id).await;
let content_items = {
let calls = exec_tool_calls.lock().await;
calls
.get(&id)
.map(|state| state.content_items.clone())
.unwrap_or_default()
};
let mut pending = pending_execs.lock().await;
if let Some(tx) = pending.remove(&id) {
let payload = if ok {
ExecResultMessage::Ok { output }
ExecResultMessage::Ok {
content_items: build_exec_result_content_items(
output,
content_items,
),
}
} else {
ExecResultMessage::Err {
message: error
@@ -1133,7 +1176,11 @@ impl JsReplManager {
response: None,
error: Some("js_repl execution reset".to_string()),
},
result = JsReplManager::run_tool_request(ctx, req) => result,
result = JsReplManager::run_tool_request(
ctx,
req,
Arc::clone(&exec_tool_calls_for_task),
) => result,
}
}
None => RunToolResult {
@@ -1227,7 +1274,11 @@ impl JsReplManager {
}
}
async fn run_tool_request(exec: ExecContext, req: RunToolRequest) -> RunToolResult {
async fn run_tool_request(
exec: ExecContext,
req: RunToolRequest,
exec_tool_calls: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, ExecToolCalls>>>,
) -> RunToolResult {
if is_js_repl_internal_tool(&req.tool_name) {
let error = "js_repl cannot invoke itself".to_string();
let summary = Self::summarize_tool_call_error(&error);
@@ -1300,39 +1351,13 @@ impl JsReplManager {
.await
{
Ok(response) => {
if let ResponseInputItem::FunctionCallOutput { output, .. } = &response
&& let Some(items) = output.content_items()
{
let mut has_image = false;
let mut content = Vec::with_capacity(items.len());
for item in items {
match item {
FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputText { text } => {
content.push(ContentItem::InputText { text: text.clone() });
}
FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage { image_url } => {
has_image = true;
content.push(ContentItem::InputImage {
image_url: image_url.clone(),
});
}
}
}
if has_image
&& session
.inject_response_items(vec![ResponseInputItem::Message {
role: "user".to_string(),
content,
}])
.await
.is_err()
{
warn!(
tool_name = %tool_name,
"js_repl tool call returned image content but there was no active turn to attach it to"
);
}
if let Some(items) = response_content_items(&response) {
Self::record_exec_tool_call_content_items(
&exec_tool_calls,
&req.exec_id,
items,
)
.await;
}
let summary = Self::summarize_tool_call_response(&response);
@@ -1407,6 +1432,50 @@ impl JsReplManager {
}
}
fn response_content_items(
response: &ResponseInputItem,
) -> Option<Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>> {
match response {
ResponseInputItem::FunctionCallOutput { output, .. }
| ResponseInputItem::CustomToolCallOutput { output, .. } => output
.content_items()
.map(<[FunctionCallOutputContentItem]>::to_vec),
ResponseInputItem::McpToolCallOutput { result, .. } => match result {
Ok(result) => FunctionCallOutputPayload::from(result)
.content_items()
.map(<[FunctionCallOutputContentItem]>::to_vec),
Err(_) => None,
},
ResponseInputItem::Message { .. } => None,
}
}
fn build_exec_result_content_items(
output: String,
content_items: Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>,
) -> Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem> {
let mut all_content_items = Vec::with_capacity(content_items.len() + 1);
all_content_items.push(FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputText { text: output });
all_content_items.extend(content_items);
all_content_items
}
fn split_exec_result_content_items(
mut content_items: Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>,
) -> (String, Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>) {
match content_items.first() {
Some(FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputText { .. }) => {
let FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputText { text } = content_items.remove(0) else {
unreachable!("first content item should be input_text");
};
(text, content_items)
}
Some(FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage { .. }) | None => {
(String::new(), content_items)
}
}
}
fn is_freeform_tool(specs: &[ToolSpec], name: &str) -> bool {
specs
.iter()
@@ -1462,8 +1531,12 @@ struct RunToolResult {
#[derive(Debug)]
enum ExecResultMessage {
Ok { output: String },
Err { message: String },
Ok {
content_items: Vec<FunctionCallOutputContentItem>,
},
Err {
message: String,
},
}
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord)]
@@ -1601,7 +1674,6 @@ mod tests {
use codex_protocol::dynamic_tools::DynamicToolCallOutputContentItem;
use codex_protocol::dynamic_tools::DynamicToolResponse;
use codex_protocol::dynamic_tools::DynamicToolSpec;
use codex_protocol::models::ContentItem;
use codex_protocol::models::FunctionCallOutputContentItem;
use codex_protocol::models::FunctionCallOutputPayload;
use codex_protocol::models::ResponseInputItem;
@@ -1850,6 +1922,35 @@ mod tests {
);
}
#[test]
fn summarize_tool_call_response_for_multimodal_custom_output() {
let response = ResponseInputItem::CustomToolCallOutput {
call_id: "call-1".to_string(),
output: FunctionCallOutputPayload::from_content_items(vec![
FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage {
image_url: "data:image/png;base64,abcd".to_string(),
},
]),
};
let actual = JsReplManager::summarize_tool_call_response(&response);
assert_eq!(
actual,
JsReplToolCallResponseSummary {
response_type: Some("custom_tool_call_output".to_string()),
payload_kind: Some(JsReplToolCallPayloadKind::CustomContentItems),
payload_text_preview: None,
payload_text_length: None,
payload_item_count: Some(1),
text_item_count: Some(0),
image_item_count: Some(1),
structured_content_present: None,
result_is_error: None,
}
);
}
#[test]
fn summarize_tool_call_error_marks_error_payload() {
let actual = JsReplManager::summarize_tool_call_error("tool failed");
@@ -2310,20 +2411,22 @@ console.log(out.output?.body?.text ?? "");
)
.await?;
assert!(result.output.contains("function_call_output"));
let pending_input = session.get_pending_input().await;
let [ResponseInputItem::Message { role, content }] = pending_input.as_slice() else {
panic!(
"view_image should inject exactly one pending input message, got {pending_input:?}"
);
};
assert_eq!(role, "user");
let [ContentItem::InputImage { image_url }] = content.as_slice() else {
panic!(
"view_image should inject exactly one input_image content item, got {content:?}"
);
assert_eq!(
result.content_items.as_slice(),
[FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage {
image_url:
"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVR4nGP4z8DwHwAFAAH/iZk9HQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="
.to_string(),
}]
.as_slice()
);
let [FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage { image_url }] =
result.content_items.as_slice()
else {
panic!("view_image should return exactly one input_image content item");
};
assert!(image_url.starts_with("data:image/png;base64,"));
assert!(session.get_pending_input().await.is_empty());
Ok(())
}
@@ -2404,22 +2507,18 @@ console.log(out.type);
response_watcher_result?;
let result = result?;
assert!(result.output.contains("function_call_output"));
let pending_input = session.get_pending_input().await;
assert_eq!(
pending_input,
vec![ResponseInputItem::Message {
role: "user".to_string(),
content: vec![
ContentItem::InputText {
text: "inline image note".to_string(),
},
ContentItem::InputImage {
image_url: image_url.to_string(),
},
],
}]
result.content_items,
vec![
FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputText {
text: "inline image note".to_string(),
},
FunctionCallOutputContentItem::InputImage {
image_url: image_url.to_string(),
},
]
);
assert!(session.get_pending_input().await.is_empty());
Ok(())
}