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Problem

A ChatGPT subscription that reaches its Codex quota fails the session outright:

Execution failed: The usage limit has been reached...

There is no way to keep working without an operator editing secrets, and nothing bounds how much of a shared subscription a fleet of sandboxes may consume — a background-agent deployment can drain a human's weekly Codex allowance.

Change

Two optional secrets, both no-ops when unset.

OPENAI_API_KEY_FALLBACK

A metered platform key the codex auth proxy uses only when the subscription cannot serve a request:

  • 429 carrying a quota signal (x-codex-rate-limit-reached-type, a spent window, or a usage-limit message) is retried against api.openai.com/v1/responses with the fallback key, transparently to the caller
  • a plain 429 — short-window throttling — is passed through untouched, so transient limits never spend money
  • a broker that cannot mint an access token at all (revoked credentials) also spills over
  • a successful response reporting a spent window keeps its in-flight reply and only redirects the next request, because a started stream cannot be replayed

The name is deliberately distinct from OPENAI_API_KEY: that variable selects metered billing for the whole session and prepareManagedProviderEnv strips it from sessions routed to a subscription. This one rides along unused until the subscription cannot answer.

OPENAI_SUBSCRIPTION_MAX_PERCENT

Bounds the share of a rate-limit window sandboxes may take. Defaults to 100, so existing deployments behave exactly as before; 80 leaves a fifth of both windows for whoever else uses that ChatGPT account.

Enforcing a ceiling from response headers alone overshoots it — a sandbox learns its usage only after spending a turn. A sandbox with a ceiling therefore reads GET /backend-api/wham/usage once before its first model call, which reports both windows without consuming either, and skips the subscription entirely when it is already over. A failed probe leaves enforcement to the response headers rather than blocking the turn. Codex tracks a short (~5h) and a weekly window; the higher usage decides. An unparseable value is ignored with a log line and treated as 100.

Every switch logs [codex-auth-plugin] spilling OpenAI traffic over to OPENAI_API_KEY_FALLBACK: <reason>. ChatGPT-only headers (ChatGPT-Account-Id, originator, session_id) are stripped from fallback requests.

Wire formats are taken from openai/codex rather than guessed:

Detail Source
x-codex-* header family (Codex does not use x-ratelimit-*) codex-rs/codex-api/src/rate_limits.rs
/wham/usage path for ChatGPT-hosted backends codex-rs/backend-client/src/client/rate_limit_resets.rs (PathStyle::ChatGptApi)
rate_limit.{primary,secondary}_window.used_percent, limit_reached codex-rs/codex-backend-openapi-models/src/models/rate_limit_status_payload.rs, rate_limit_window_snapshot.rs

Bug fix: stale OAuth sentinels

OpenCodeServer._setup_managed_oauth returned early when no provider was managed, leaving a managed-by-control-plane sentinel in auth.json on a snapshot-restored sandbox. OpenCode's provider loader prefers an OAuth entry over the provider's API key env var, so such a sandbox authenticates with an empty access token instead of falling back to a key. It now prunes sentinels for providers the control plane no longer brokers, while preserving user-owned entries.

CI coverage

Current main now runs node --test tests/*.test.mjs from the sandbox-runtime Python workflow, so this rebased PR drops its former duplicate TypeScript-workflow job. The existing job discovers the new spillover tests automatically.

Verification

Run in a worktree on main (43ceb361):

  • npm run test:sandbox-runtime-js — 28 pass, 10 new: latch-and-reuse, throttle pass-through, no-key no-op, broker failure, header-only exhaustion, pre-flight spillover over the ceiling (asserts zero /codex/responses calls), subscription retained under the ceiling with exactly one probe per sandbox, ceiling reached via response headers, malformed ceiling ignored, probe failure fail-open. The 3 pre-existing broker tests and 15 tool tests run for the first time.
  • pytest tests in packages/sandbox-runtime — 753 pass, including the new stale-sentinel case.
  • ruff check / ruff format --check clean; prettier clean.
  • Live wire check of the spillover retry: a Codex-shaped streaming body (instructions plus an input message array, stream, store:false, reasoning.effort/summary, include: [reasoning.encrypted_content]) posted to api.openai.com/v1/responses returned 200 with response.completed for gpt-5.3-codex; models.dev lists OPENAI_API_KEY with API pricing for every model in ALLOWED_MODELS, Codex variants included.
  • Not verified against a live account: the /wham/usage response body. The parser is shape-tolerant and any probe failure degrades to header-based enforcement, so a payload change costs at most one overshooting turn per sandbox rather than a broken session.

This is running on a fork deployment (opencodos/background-agents, squash-merged there as one commit); PRs from forks land here as action_required, so the fork's own CI run is the green evidence.

Known limits

  • The spillover latch lasts the sandbox's lifetime, so a session that spilled over stays on the key even if the window resets under it.
  • OpenCode still reports OpenAI costs as 0, because the proxy zeroes model cost at loader time — before it can know whether the request will be metered.
  • Each sandbox probes usage independently; a control-plane-side snapshot shared across sessions would remove the one probe per sandbox.
  • xAI/SuperGrok has the same broker shape but no spillover; the plugin change is OpenAI-only.
  • If you would rather model the fallback as a second provider account under the new model_provider_accounts routing instead of an env var, the plugin logic is unchanged — only the env plumbing moves. Happy to rework it that way.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added automatic fallback from Codex subscriptions to OpenAI API access when limits, credential failures, or eligible rate limits prevent requests.
    • Added configurable fallback usage ceilings and session-level fallback behavior.
    • Preserved request details, cancellation handling, and response behavior during fallback requests.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Removed stale managed credentials while preserving unrelated credentials.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, configuration, logging, and troubleshooting guidance for subscription spillover.
    • Documented the fallback API key and usage-limit settings.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for fallback routing, usage limits, request forwarding, and credential synchronization.

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The PR adds Codex subscription spillover with endpoint-preserving fallback routing, documents its configuration, adds JavaScript test execution in CI, and synchronizes managed OpenCode OAuth entries by removing stale credentials.

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Codex subscription spillover

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fallback configuration and request routing
packages/sandbox-runtime/src/sandbox_runtime/plugins/codex-auth-plugin.js, docs/OPENAI_MODELS.md, docs/SECRETS.md
The plugin probes subscription usage, detects limits and credential failures, preserves the original Chat Completions or Responses endpoint, and latches fallback mode. Documentation defines configuration and troubleshooting steps.
Fallback behavior validation and test execution
packages/sandbox-runtime/tests/codex-auth-plugin.test.mjs, .github/workflows/ci.yml, package.json
Tests cover fallback routing, usage ceilings, throttling, token failures, response headers, request preservation, probe failures, and cancellation. CI runs the sandbox runtime JavaScript tests.

Managed OAuth synchronization

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Managed OAuth file synchronization
packages/sandbox-runtime/src/sandbox_runtime/opencode_server.py, packages/sandbox-runtime/tests/test_openai_oauth_setup.py
The server removes stale managed OAuth entries, preserves unrelated credentials, skips unchanged writes, and creates the auth directory only when a write is needed. A regression test covers this behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cc98d

This change adds fallback billing and quota enforcement while updating CI and authentication cleanup. It is not fully merge-ready because the test job runs dependency and test code with a default-permission token, aborted first requests may remain pending until timeout, malformed ceiling values can be silently accepted, and setup still rewrites unchanged managed-provider auth entries.

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164-180: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject partially numeric ceiling values.

At Line [165], Number.parseFloat accepts values such as "80garbage" as 80. The invalid-value branch at Lines [174-178] then does not run. Parse OPENAI_SUBSCRIPTION_MAX_PERCENT strictly and add a suffix case to the malformed-configuration test.

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Rebased and squashed onto current main; force-pushed as e97265dc.

Review hardening added during the rebase:

  • metered spillover only follows terminal provider-account credential states; sandbox-auth, exchange contention, provider outages, network/timeouts, and retry-safe upstream failures do not spend the fallback key;
  • the control-plane broker route now preserves retryable status semantics, with all ten error codes pinned by tests;
  • generic quota wording no longer triggers spend; ceiling parsing rejects partial numerics;
  • gpt-5.3-codex-spark maps to the live platform-supported gpt-5.3-codex fallback;
  • a failed platform request clears the latch and retries the subscription next turn;
  • the duplicate JS CI job was dropped because current main already runs all sandbox-runtime .test.mjs files.

Verification: 40 sandbox-runtime JS tests, 776 Python tests, 10 broker-status mapping tests, repository typecheck, Ruff, and Prettier passed. A live /v1/models probe confirmed every allowed platform ID except Spark; the explicit mapping covers that one.

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