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Follow-up to #4112, and the payload-reduction half of what #2511 tracks.

Problem

Several OpenAI-compatible providers enforce a raw byte ceiling on the serialized chat-completions body that is separate from any token limit. GitHub Copilot rejects at roughly 5.2MB with a bare HTTP 413 and an empty diagnostic body. Measured on github-copilot/claude-opus-5: four screenshots at 4.44MB went through, five at 5.47MB did not, and plain text crosses at about the same point, so it is a byte limit rather than a token or image-count one. The token limit produces a clean 400 with a useful message and is unaffected by this change.

On that route a turn over the ceiling cannot recover on its own, because compaction has to send the same history in order to summarize it and gets the same rejection. In one local session, 105 successful turns climbed to roughly 74k tokens and were then followed by eighteen consecutive 413s over eight minutes as compaction repeatedly tried and failed.

Nothing downstream of the adapter can shrink a request once it has been built. The one-tier image retry in src/server/image-retry.ts is gated to adapterName === "anthropic", and these providers route through openai-chat.

Change

The image ladder that already solves this for the anthropic and kiro wires operates on generic NormalizeTarget handles, and kiro-images.ts already reuses it for the CodeWhisperer format. This adds the equivalent wrapper for image_url parts in Chat Completions messages, with a 3.5MiB base64 budget that leaves headroom for text and tools under the observed ceiling.

Measured with six 4000x4000 PNGs of real screenshot content in one turn: 6.14MB before, 0.90MB after, all six images still attached and the accompanying text unchanged.

Two deliberate choices are worth review attention:

Images are never dropped on this wire. overflowAction is "none" and the drop callback keeps the original URL. Unlike anthropic, this wire has no downstream guard that would re-attach or textify a removed image, so a drop here is silent data loss from the user's point of view. An image floored at the terminal 320px tier stays attached, and a corrupt or decode-bomb input rides through unchanged rather than disappearing.

buildRequest stays synchronous unless a turn actually carries inline image bytes over the budget. base.ts already permits a promise return and every routed caller awaits it, but a large number of direct callers depend on the synchronous shape. Making every text-only turn async changed 85 existing tests and would alter their timing for no benefit, so the async path is entered only via hasShrinkableOpenAIChatImages.

Behaviour notes

Re-encoding only happens when an image exceeds its tier's dimension and size caps; anything already within them passes through byte-identical, which covers ordinary screenshots. Re-encoded images are emitted as JPEG, so a large PNG with an alpha channel is flattened, the same trade the anthropic and kiro paths already make. Normalization is wire-only, so stored response state keeps the originals and each turn re-shrinks from source, absorbed by the existing encode cache.

This does not address text-driven overflow. A conversation that crosses the ceiling on text alone still fails, and classifying that failure is what #4112 and #4127 cover.

Budget accounting for images this wire cannot drop

The shared core stops counting a target once it calls drop. That is correct for anthropic and kiro, whose drop removes or textifies the image, but this wire's drop is a deliberate no-op leaving the original URL in place. Those bytes stayed on the wire while the accounting forgot them, so the demotion loop could stop early believing it was under budget and still ship an oversized body.

Measured with one truncated-PNG data URL alongside three 1000x1000 noise PNGs: the normalized turn came out at 5,680,788 base64 characters against the 3,670,016 budget. With the fix it lands at 3,179,572 and still retains the undecodable image. NormalizeTarget gains an opt-in retainsBytesOnDrop flag set only by openai-chat-images.ts, so anthropic and kiro accounting is unchanged.

The terminal-overflow branch needed the same treatment for the flag to be coherent. It subtracted a dropped target's bytes unconditionally, which on a retaining wire would credit space that never came free and could stop the loop before reaching a target that can actually leave. That branch is unreachable from openai-chat because it passes overflowAction: "none", but the two drop paths should agree; a regression in the shared suite covers it.

Scope and tradeoffs

structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md documents this as a default lossy transformation for every provider that reaches createOpenAIChatAdapter, not only Copilot, plus mimo-free through its contractParent. It records the JPEG/alpha flattening tradeoff, the pass-through behaviour for images already within their tier caps, and that 3.5MiB bounds inline image base64 only. It is not a serialized request-size guarantee: a turn can still exceed a provider's ceiling on text and tool schemas alone. structure/01_runtime.md carries the adapter-table entry.

The native Chat fast path in src/server/chat-native.ts builds through buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest and bypasses this normalization. That boundary is pinned at dispatch level in openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts, which drives handleChatCompletions against a fake upstream and asserts a 4MB inline image arrives byte-identical, so it exercises the route selection rather than only the builder.

Validation

bun test tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-normalization.test.ts   11 pass, 0 fail
bun test tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts         22 pass, 0 fail
bun test tests/adapters/anthropic tests/providers/kiro                  823 pass, 0 fail
bun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts      17 pass, 0 fail
bun run typecheck                                                         pass
bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts                                               pass

Broader run over tests/adapters, tests/providers/kiro, tests/images and tests/providers/mimo-free-provider.test.ts: 1003 pass / 106 fail / 55 errors on this branch against 991 pass / 106 fail / 55 errors on unmodified dev at 6d3ad12e3, run with the same command in a clean worktree. That is a baseline delta, not a green suite. The two sorted failure lists diff to zero lines and the error count is identical; the difference is the 12 new passing tests. The pre-existing failures are network-pinned transport, GCP ADC, and provider-option spine tests.

One caveat on that broad run: openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts aborts inside the whole-directory batch with SyntaxError: Export named 'pinnedHttpPost' not found. That is order-dependent mock.module pollution from tests/images/download-cap-default.test.ts, it occurs identically on unmodified dev in the same batch, and the file passes 22/22 on its own. It is not caused by this branch, and I have not tried to fix it here.

Both focused suites were re-run with a preload that throws on any un-stubbed fetch, and both still pass, so neither reaches the network.

CodeRabbit's Docstring Coverage pre-merge check was failing at 35.71% on this diff. The last commit documents the three functions it flagged: the finish closure in openai-chat.ts and the two message-walking helpers in openai-chat-images.ts.

New coverage: terminal overflow keeps counting a target whose drop leaves the bytes on the wire; an image this wire cannot drop keeps counting toward the budget; a delegating adapter awaits the built request instead of reading an undefined body; a normalizer rejection degrades to the unshrunk request; text-only turns stay synchronous and unchanged; under-budget image turns stay synchronous and byte-identical; an oversized turn is re-encoded through the real adapter wiring and keeps every image; terminal overflow keeps images attached instead of dropping the oldest; remote https:// URLs are untouched; undecodable images keep their original URL; malformed message shapes neither throw nor lose parts; and imageTierBias from IncomingMeta reaches the normalizer.

Review follow-up

mimo-free wraps this adapter and read baseReq.body from a synchronous cast. Once an image-bearing turn made buildRequest return a promise, that read produced undefined and JSON.parse threw, so image turns on that provider failed outright. Confirmed against the built adapter: body was undefined before the fix and is a string after. It now awaits the delegated call, with a regression test.

A normalizer rejection no longer fails the turn. The shared pipeline already leaves an image it cannot process untouched, so falling back to the unshrunk request means the worst case is the oversized request the caller would have sent anyway.

The terminal-overflow test was vacuous: its 40x40 PNG fits every tier's caps, so processAt passed it through before the injected encoder was reached and the ladder never ran. It now uses a 1000x1000 noise PNG, asserts the encoder reaches the terminal 320px tier, and asserts the total is still over budget while every image is retained.

The mimo regression called the real adapter, whose buildRequest bootstraps a JWT over the network. It passed locally and failed CI with ECONNRESET against api.xiaomimimo.com. It now stubs fetch and resets the JWT cache on both sides, following tests/providers/mimo-free-provider.test.ts.

The stale imageTierBias doc in base.ts now names openai-chat as a second consumer.

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  • New Features

    • OpenAI Chat requests now automatically resize oversized inline images to stay within a 3.5 MiB image budget.
    • Images are preserved when resizing fails or inputs cannot be decoded; no images are dropped.
    • Image quality and tier preferences are respected during normalization.
    • Native Chat passthrough requests retain their original image bytes.
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    • Added documentation describing inline image limits, resizing behavior, and native passthrough handling.

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The OpenAI Chat adapter now detects oversized inline image data URLs, normalizes them within a 3.5 MiB base64 budget, preserves non-data and invalid images, and passes incoming image tier bias to normalization. Tests cover request behavior, delegation, passthrough, and edge cases.

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OpenAI chat image normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Image detection and normalization
src/adapters/openai-chat-images.ts, src/adapters/anthropic-image-normalize.ts
Adds data-URL image scanning and in-place normalization through normalizeImageTargets. Oversized images remain present when normalization reaches the terminal tier, and failed drops continue to count their original bytes.
Adapter request integration
src/adapters/openai-chat.ts, src/adapters/mimo-free.ts, src/adapters/base.ts
Updates buildRequest to accept IncomingMeta, normalize oversized images asynchronously when needed, retain synchronous construction otherwise, and await the base request in the delegating adapter.
Normalization validation and documentation
tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-normalization.test.ts, tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts, tests/adapters/anthropic/anthropic-image-normalize.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json, structure/01_runtime.md, structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md
Adds coverage for image budgets, preservation, malformed inputs, remote URLs, decode failures, tier bias, delegation, terminal-overflow accounting, and native passthrough. Registers the test and documents the adapter behavior.

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  participant Caller
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  participant normalizeOpenAIChatImages
  participant normalizeImageTargets
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  Caller->>buildRequest: provide parsed messages and IncomingMeta
  buildRequest->>buildRequest: detect shrinkable inline images
  buildRequest->>normalizeOpenAIChatImages: normalize with image tier bias
  normalizeOpenAIChatImages->>normalizeImageTargets: normalize image targets
  normalizeImageTargets-->>normalizeOpenAIChatImages: return replacement URLs
  normalizeOpenAIChatImages-->>buildRequest: update image URLs in place
  buildRequest->>OpenAIRequest: finish request construction
  OpenAIRequest-->>Caller: return request or Promise
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Addresses the CodeRabbit findings on lidge-jun#4119.

mimo-free wraps this adapter and read baseReq.body from a synchronous
cast. Once an image-bearing turn made buildRequest return a promise,
that read produced undefined and JSON.parse threw, so image turns on
that provider failed outright. Verified against the built adapter
before and after: body was undefined, and is now a string.

A normalizer rejection no longer fails the turn. The shared pipeline
already leaves an image it cannot process untouched, so degrading to
the unshrunk request is strictly better than losing the turn: the
worst case is the oversized request the caller would have sent anyway.

Also corrects the imageTierBias doc in base.ts, which still claimed
anthropic was the only consumer, and drops a tautological assertion in
the new test that advertised floor-tier coverage it did not provide.

Tests: two new regressions cover the delegated-adapter await and the
normalizer-failure fallback. tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-
normalization.test.ts now 10 pass / 0 fail. Broad run over
tests/adapters, tests/providers/kiro, tests/images and the openai-chat
callers: 1023 pass / 108 fail, unchanged failure set from dev at
57077ca. bun run typecheck and bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts pass.
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The image reduction direction is useful, and awaiting the delegated Mimo build fixes a real async-boundary problem. Two changes are still needed on this head:

  1. tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-normalization.test.ts, the terminal-overflow test: its 40x40 PNG already fits the shared codec's dimension and byte caps. processAt therefore validates/pass-throughs it before reaching the injected sizedEncoder; six such images do not enter terminal overflow. Assert that the encoder actually reaches the terminal tier, that the remaining byte total exceeds the budget, and that every image is retained. Also make the rejection test observe the claimed fallback bytes, not merely a string body/image count.
  2. This is a default lossy transformation for every provider that reaches createOpenAIChatAdapter, not just Copilot, but no public/structure documentation is updated. Document the exact adapter scope, JPEG/alpha/fidelity tradeoff and the fact that 3.5 MiB is a best-effort image budget—not a hard request-size guarantee. The native Chat fast path in chat-completions.ts/chat-native.ts bypasses this builder; add a caller-level regression to make that boundary explicit and avoid advertising universal Chat endpoint recovery. Do not silently widen scope to that fast path without the corresponding contract review.

The reported 1018/108 comparison is useful baseline evidence but is not a green full suite, and the current upstream rollup has no product-test execution. Keep #4112's text/non-stream classification separate. No local product code or live-provider probes were executed for this review.

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Both points were correct. Fixed in 5c4039e.

1. The terminal-overflow test was vacuous. Confirmed by instrumenting the encoder rather than reading the code: the 40x40 PNG is 196 base64 chars and fits tier 0's caps (maxEdge 2000, hardCap 2MiB), so processAt validated and passed it through and encodeCalls stayed at 0. Six of them totalled 1176 bytes against a 3.5MiB budget, so the demotion loop never entered and overflowAction was never consulted. The images survived because nothing touched them.

It now uses the same 1000x1000 noise PNG as the other tests, which misses every tier's caps. That run walks all six tiers (44 encode calls, maxEdges 2000/1024/700/500/400/320), so the test asserts the encoder reaches the terminal tier, that the retained total is still over budget, and that all six images are kept. The rejection test now asserts the exact original bytes come back and that encodeCalls is 0, rather than a string body and an image count.

I checked the new assertions actually bite: clearing the URL in the drop callback fails two tests, where previously the suite passed unchanged.

2. Scope and the fast-path boundary are now documented. structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md gains a section under the 413 contract stating that this is a default lossy transformation for every provider reaching createOpenAIChatAdapter plus mimo-free via contractParent, that re-encoded images are JPEG so PNG alpha is flattened, that pass-through applies when an image already fits its tier's caps, and that 3.5MiB is a best-effort image budget bounding inline image bytes only — a turn can still exceed a provider's ceiling on text and tool schemas alone. structure/01_runtime.md gains the adapter-table row.

The same section states that chat-native.ts builds through buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest and bypasses this normalization, and a caller-level regression now pins it. I did not widen scope to that lane.

One note on that regression: I first imported isNativeChatRouteEligible to assert eligibility directly, but importing src/server/chat-native.ts into this suite triggers SyntaxError: Export named 'pinnedHttpPost' not found in module 'src/lib/pinned-http.ts', which aborts the whole file. That failure reproduces on unmodified dev at 57077ca and is one of the 108 pre-existing failures. The test therefore calls the passthrough builder directly and documents the predicate in a comment.

On validation: agreed the 1019/108 comparison is a baseline delta, not a green suite. The baseline was measured on a clean 57077ca worktree with the same command, and the failure sets now diff to zero lines. bun run typecheck and bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts pass. Keeping #4112 separate.

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이 PR은 GitHub Copilot 같은 OpenAI-compatible chat 경로에서 인라인 이미지가 직렬화 body 바이트 한도(약 5.2MB)를 넘기면 bare HTTP 413이 나고, compaction이 같은 history를 다시 보내며 연쇄 실패하는 문제를 고친다. 관련 추적의 recovery 절반은 #2511이고, 분류(classification) 쪽은 열린 #4127 / #4112가 맡는다. 지금 dev HEAD는 3b4d8c439(package.json 2.50.0, tip은 #4132 spark-quota-devlog-fin / #4114 계열)이다. 이 브랜치는 tip 대비 약 6커밋 뒤처져 있고(+4/-6 diverge), types.ts/config.ts 대분할과는 무관해 닫을 대상이 아니다.

고치는 층은 어댑터 buildRequest다. 새 src/adapters/openai-chat-images.ts가 anthropic/kiro가 이미 쓰는 공유 normalizeImageTargets를 Chat Completions image_url data-URL에 감싼다. 예산은 OPENAI_CHAT_IMAGE_BASE64_BUDGET = 3_670_016(3.5MiB base64 문자 합). 텍스트·툴 스키마 자리를 남기려는 best-effort 이미지 예산이지, 요청 전체 크기 보장은 아니다(structure/04에 명시). 설계 선택은 두 가지다. (1) 이 와이어에서는 이미지를 절대 버리지 않는다overflowAction: "none", drop은 no-op이라 원본 URL이 남는다. anthropic처럼 下游 guard가 다시 붙이거나 textify하지 않기 때문이다. (2) 텍스트만 있는 턴은 계속 동기hasShrinkableOpenAIChatImages가 예산 초과일 때만 normalizeOpenAIChatImages(...).then(finish, finish)로 비동기에 들어간다. base.ts는 이미 Promise를 허용하고 라우팅 호출부는 await하지만, 직접 호출·테스트 타이밍을 깨지 않으려는 선택이다. normalizer가 던져도 finish로 떨어져 안 줄어든 요청을 보내므로, 최악은 예전과 같은 oversized 413이다.

부수 수정이 알맞다. mimo-free.tsbase.buildRequest를 동기 캐스트로 읽던 버그(이미지 턴에서 body === undefined → JSON.parse 폭발)를 await로 고쳤고 회귀 테스트가 있다. base.tsimageTierBias 주석이 openai-chat 소비자를 인정한다. structure 01/04와 openai-chat-image-normalization.test.ts(10케이스: 동기 유지, 재인코딩, terminal overflow 유지, normalizer 실패 degrade, https 통과, undecodable 유지, malformed 안전, mimo await, tierBias 전달, native passthrough 우회)이 layout fixture까지 등록됐다. 작성자 측정으로는 동일 실패 세트 위에 새 테스트 10개만 추가(+652/-175의 대부분은 openai-chat.ts finish 클로저 indent).

점수 66은 "Copilot 413 사망 나선 막는 CLEAR recovery"라서 중상이다. 다만 공유 ladder의 합산 회계와 no-op drop 조합, 서버 image-retry가 아직 anthropic-only인 점, native Chat fast path 우회, tip rebase는 머지 전에 의식해야 한다.

src/adapters/openai-chat-images.ts drop: () => {} / normalizeImageTargets 합산 - 공유 코어는 bomb·undecodable·demotion 실패 때 drop을 호출한 뒤 그 타깃을 sum에서 뺀다. anthropic/kiro의 drop은 textify/제거라 회계가 맞지만, 여기 drop은 no-op이라 원본 큰 data-URL이 와이어에 남은 채 sum만 줄어든다. 일부 이미지가 decode 실패하고 나머지가 크면, demotion이 일찍 멈추고 실제 body는 예산·5.2MB를 넘긴 채로 나갈 수 있다. "버리지 않는다" 선택은 맞지만, no-op drop 경로에서는 실패 타깃의 원본 base64.length를 sum에 남겨 두거나, drop 대신 replace를 생략한 채 entry.size를 원본으로 유지하는 쪽이 회계와 맞다.

src/server/image-retry.ts adapterName === "anthropic" - 이번 PR이 openai-chat에 imageTierBias를 연결했지만, 서버 413 한 단 재시도 게이트는 여전히 anthropic만 연다. bias 배선은 테스트로 증명되지만 실전 openai-chat 413에서는 bias=1 rebuild가 안 돈다. terminal overflow + no-drop이면 첫 정규화 후에도 413이 남을 수 있어, follow-up으로 게이트를 넓힐지(#4127 분류만으로 갈지) 정해야 한다.

src/adapters/openai-chat-images.ts hasShrinkableOpenAIChatImages / OPENAI_CHAT_IMAGE_BASE64_BUDGET - 트리거와 예산 모두 data-URL base64 문자 합만 본다. prefix·JSON·텍스트·툴은 밖이다. structure/04가 "request-size guarantee 아님"을 적어 두었으니 문서상은 맞다. 다만 이미지는 예산 아래인데 텍스트만으로 5.2MB를 넘는 턴은 이 PR 범위 밖(#4112/#4127)이라는 점을 리뷰어가 한 번 더 보면 좋다.

src/adapters/openai-chat.ts buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest / structure/04 native 절 - Chat-inbound native fast path는 정규화를 우회하고 호출자 바이트를 그대로 보낸다. 테스트로 고정해 두어 조용히 범위가 넓어지지 않게 한 점은 좋다. Copilot이 Responses 경유면 이 PR이 먹고, eligible native Chat이면 예전과 같다.

src/adapters/mimo-free.ts await base.buildRequest - 필수 수정이다. 다른 래퍼(azure, cline-pass-…)는 이미 await. tip rebase 때 동기 캐스트가 다시 들어오지 않게만 보면 된다.

src/adapters/openai-chat.ts buildRequestfinish 클로저 - 동작 이전은 대부분 indent. 로직 회귀 위험은 낮아 보이지만 파일이 커서, tip rebase 충돌 시 finish 경계(messages 정규화 → tools/reasoning/body)만 깨지지 않게 보면 된다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • no-op drop과 공유 sum 회계 불일치를 이번 PR에서 고칠지(실패 타깃 원본 크기를 sum에 잔류), 문서·테스트로 "corrupt는 원본 유지 + best-effort"로 남길지
  • shouldAttemptImageTierRetry를 openai-chat까지 넓히는 follow-up을 지금 열지, fix(responses): classify non-streaming provider input overflow #4127 분류 + 이 예방 정규화만으로 닫을지
  • native Chat passthrough 우회를 계약으로 고정할지, Chat-inbound Copilot에도 예산을 넓힐 별도 PR을 받을지
  • tip(3b4d8c439) rebase 후 enforce-target/전체 체크 초록을 머지 게이트로 볼지

너의 추천
rebase onto 현재 dev tip 후 머지하자. 문제 정의·공유 ladder 재사용·이미지 미삭제·동기 유지·mimo await·테스트 10행이 분명하고, types/config 분할로 닫을 대상이 아니다. sum/no-op drop은 머지 전 한 줄 수정 또는 "known limitation + #4127이 남는 413을 분류" 코멘트로 못 박으면 충분하다. image-retry 확대는 별도 작은 follow-up이 낫다.

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Thanks for fixing the vacuous test and documenting the lossy adapter scope. I read the 460f66f -> 5c4039e delta: the new fixture observes actual encoder work, reaches the terminal tier, remains over budget, and retains all six images. The failure-path assertion now checks the original URL bytes. Those parts address my earlier feedback.

One verification boundary remains: directly calling buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest proves that builder preserves bytes, but does not prove the native /v1/chat/completions dispatcher actually selects it. The test name currently implies that wider caller coverage. Please rebase onto current dev and add a small request/dispatch-level regression, or name the builder-only test precisely and keep the missing integration evidence explicit. The import failure on 57077ca is useful historical baseline evidence, not a permanent substitute for checking the current caller.

The PR currently still has a failed enforce-target check and no successful repository product suite in its check rollup. Please resolve those on the new exact head; the old 108-failure baseline comparison is not a green suite. I am keeping the change request pending that caller/readiness gap, not asking you to repeat the now-correct terminal and fallback assertions. No live-provider or local product execution was performed for this follow-up.

… the wire

Several OpenAI-compatible providers enforce a raw byte ceiling on the
serialized chat-completions body, separate from any token limit. GitHub
Copilot rejects at roughly 5.2MB with a bare HTTP 413 and no diagnostic
content, so a turn carrying a few full-resolution screenshots cannot be
sent at all and the conversation cannot recover: compaction has to send
the same history to summarize it, so it fails the same way.

The image ladder that already solves this for the anthropic and kiro
wires is wire-neutral. normalizeImageTargets operates on generic
NormalizeTarget handles, and kiro-images.ts already reuses it for the
CodeWhisperer format. This adds the equivalent wrapper for image_url
parts in Chat Completions messages.

Images are never dropped on this wire. overflowAction is "none" and the
drop callback keeps the original URL, because unlike anthropic there is
no downstream guard that would re-attach or textify a removed image, and
silently discarding a user's screenshot is worse than a large request.

buildRequest stays synchronous unless a turn actually carries inline
image bytes over the budget. base.ts already permits a promise return
and every routed caller awaits it, but many direct callers rely on the
synchronous shape, and making every text-only turn async would change
their timing for no benefit.

Tests: bun test tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-normalization.test.ts
(8 pass). Full tests/adapters, tests/providers/kiro, tests/images and the
openai-chat callers show 1004 pass / 108 fail, against 996 pass / 108 fail
on unmodified dev at 57077ca: same failures, plus the 8 new tests.
bun run typecheck and bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts both pass.
DamnUi and others added 4 commits September 10, 2026 17:50
…failure

Addresses the CodeRabbit findings on lidge-jun#4119.

mimo-free wraps this adapter and read baseReq.body from a synchronous
cast. Once an image-bearing turn made buildRequest return a promise,
that read produced undefined and JSON.parse threw, so image turns on
that provider failed outright. Verified against the built adapter
before and after: body was undefined, and is now a string.

A normalizer rejection no longer fails the turn. The shared pipeline
already leaves an image it cannot process untouched, so degrading to
the unshrunk request is strictly better than losing the turn: the
worst case is the oversized request the caller would have sent anyway.

Also corrects the imageTierBias doc in base.ts, which still claimed
anthropic was the only consumer, and drops a tautological assertion in
the new test that advertised floor-tier coverage it did not provide.

Tests: two new regressions cover the delegated-adapter await and the
normalizer-failure fallback. tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-
normalization.test.ts now 10 pass / 0 fail. Broad run over
tests/adapters, tests/providers/kiro, tests/images and the openai-chat
callers: 1023 pass / 108 fail, unchanged failure set from dev at
57077ca. bun run typecheck and bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts pass.
…egression

IncomingMeta.translatorBudget is required, and the delegating-adapter
regression added in the previous commit omitted it. tsconfig only
includes src, so the test tree is not type-checked and this did not
surface as an error. The two sibling cases in this file already pass a
budget; this makes the third consistent.

Tests: tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-image-normalization.test.ts
10 pass / 0 fail. Broad run unchanged at 1023 pass / 108 fail, same
failure set as dev at 57077ca. typecheck and privacy:scan pass.
…test

The terminal-overflow test used a 40x40 PNG, which fits every tier's
dimension and byte caps. processAt validated and passed it through before
the injected encoder was reached, so the ladder never ran and the assertion
that six images survived held vacuously: encodeCalls was 0 and the total was
1176 bytes against a 3.5MiB budget.

It now uses a 1000x1000 noise PNG that misses those caps, asserts the encoder
reaches the terminal tier, and asserts the total is still over budget when
every image is retained. The rejection test now observes the claimed fallback
bytes rather than a string body and an image count.

Document the scope in structure/. This is a default lossy transformation for
every provider reaching createOpenAIChatAdapter, the JPEG/alpha tradeoff is
real, and 3.5MiB is a best-effort image budget rather than a request-size
guarantee. A caller-level regression pins the native Chat fast path, which
builds through buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest and bypasses this builder.
The shared core stops counting a target once it calls drop, which is correct
for anthropic and kiro because their drop callbacks remove or textify the
image. This wire's drop is a deliberate no-op that leaves the original URL in
place, so those bytes stayed on the wire while the accounting forgot them and
the demotion loop could stop early believing it was under budget.

Measured on one truncated-PNG data URL plus three 1000x1000 noise PNGs: the
normalized turn came out at 5,680,788 base64 chars against a 3,670,016 budget.
With the fix it lands at 3,179,572, still retaining the undecodable image.

NormalizeTarget gains an opt-in retainsBytesOnDrop flag set only by
openai-chat-images, so anthropic and kiro accounting is untouched.

Also make the mimo regression hermetic and prove native dispatch. The mimo
test called the real adapter, whose buildRequest bootstraps a JWT over the
network; it passed locally and failed CI with ECONNRESET against
api.xiaomimimo.com. It now stubs fetch and resets the JWT cache on both sides,
following the pattern in tests/providers/mimo-free-provider.test.ts, and the
file passes with all network blocked at preload.

The native-path assertion moves to openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts and now
drives handleChatCompletions against a fake upstream, so it proves the
dispatcher selects the passthrough builder rather than only that the builder
preserves bytes. That file already imports the handler; importing it into the
image suite triggers unrelated mock pollution from tests/images.
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The terminal-overflow branch subtracted a dropped target's bytes from the
running total unconditionally. On a wire whose drop leaves the original bytes
in place, that made the loop believe a drop had freed space when nothing had
left, so it could stop before dropping a target that can actually go.

Unreachable from openai-chat today because it passes overflowAction "none",
but the flag is part of the shared contract and the two drop paths should
agree. Anthropic and kiro do not set the flag and are unaffected.
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Both points are addressed on 362fe693d.

Rebase. The branch is on the current dev tip 6d3ad12e3, rebased with no conflicts. enforce-target and the rest of the rollup pass on this head.

Dispatch-level regression. You were right that calling buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest directly only proved the builder preserves bytes. The assertion now lives in tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts, drives handleChatCompletions against a fake upstream with a 4MB inline image, and asserts the bytes arrive identical, so it goes through route selection in chat-completions.ts into chat-native.ts. Disabling native dispatch makes it fail with a 502 rather than pass vacuously, so it does bite.

It lives in that file rather than the image suite because importing the handler into the image suite still trips SyntaxError: Export named 'pinnedHttpPost' not found. That turned out to be order-dependent mock.module pollution from tests/images/download-cap-default.test.ts, not a missing export; it reproduces on unmodified dev in the same batch and the native-policy file already imports the handler cleanly.

CI. The test 3/4 failure was mine. The mimo regression called the real adapter, whose buildRequest bootstraps a JWT over the network, so it passed locally and hit ECONNRESET in CI against api.xiaomimimo.com. It now stubs fetch and resets the JWT cache before and after, following tests/providers/mimo-free-provider.test.ts. I re-ran both focused suites with a preload that throws on any un-stubbed fetch; both still pass, so neither touches the network.

One real bug found while rechecking. The shared core subtracts a dropped target's bytes from the running sum. That is right for anthropic and kiro, whose drop actually removes or textifies, but this wire's drop is a no-op, so the bytes stayed on the wire while the accounting forgot them and demotion could stop early and ship an oversized body anyway. Measured on one truncated PNG plus three 1000x1000 noise PNGs: 5,680,788 base64 characters against the 3,670,016 budget; 3,179,572 after the fix, with the corrupt image still retained. NormalizeTarget gains an opt-in retainsBytesOnDrop set only by openai-chat-images.ts. Removing the flag fails the new test, so it is not vacuous.

The last commit extends that to the terminal-overflow branch, which was still subtracting unconditionally. It is unreachable from openai-chat because that path passes overflowAction: "none", but leaving the two drop sites disagreeing would be a trap for the next wire that sets the flag, so there is a regression for it in the shared anthropic suite.

On validation. Agreed that a baseline delta is not a green suite, so I have written it as a delta and left the failures visible. Same command, clean worktree: 1003 pass / 106 fail / 55 errors on this branch against 991 / 106 / 55 on dev at 6d3ad12e3. The sorted failure lists diff to zero lines and the error counts match; the difference is 12 new passing tests. tests/adapters/anthropic and tests/providers/kiro are 823/823, so the shared-core change does not disturb the existing consumers. Typecheck and the privacy scan pass.

Keeping #4112/#4127 classification separate, and I have not widened image-retry.ts beyond anthropic here.

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The finish closure and the two message-walking helpers had no doc comments,
which left the diff's docstring coverage below the repo threshold.
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Rechecked 91835dd. The new test calls handleChatCompletions and observes the actual outgoing native request, including all four unchanged large image URLs. This resolves the builder-versus-dispatch evidence gap in my previous followup.

I also checked the new shared-normalizer accounting: retainsBytesOnDrop is set by the OpenAI Chat no-op drop callback, and the shared core keeps those bytes counted on rejection, failed demotion, and terminal overflow paths rather than subtracting bytes still on the wire. Other callers retain the prior drop-accounting default. This is useful, but it expands the reviewed production delta beyond the dispatcher test.

The author-reported 1003-pass/106-fail/55-error versus 991/106/55 comparison is regression-delta evidence, not a green product suite. Please keep that distinction in readiness reporting and provide the required exact-head checks covering the shared normalizer and native dispatch. The previously failed metadata gate is now green; I am not asking you to redo that resolved gate. No live-provider or local product execution was performed here.

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Rechecked 91835dd. The new test calls handleChatCompletions and observes the actual outgoing native request, including all four unchanged large image URLs. This resolves the builder-versus-dispatch evidence gap in my previous followup.

I also checked the new shared-normalizer accounting: retainsBytesOnDrop is set by the OpenAI Chat no-op drop callback, and the shared core keeps those bytes counted on rejection, failed demotion, and terminal overflow paths rather than subtracting bytes still on the wire. Other callers retain the prior drop-accounting default. This is useful, but it expands the reviewed production delta beyond the dispatcher test.

The author-reported 1003-pass/106-fail/55-error versus 991/106/55 comparison is regression-delta evidence, not a green product suite. Please keep that distinction in readiness reporting and provide the required exact-head checks covering the shared normalizer and native dispatch. The previously failed metadata gate is now green; I am not asking you to redo that resolved gate. No live-provider or local product execution was performed here.

sorry man, messed those points i revieweed but missed that point. will take a bit for this next one

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