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Peter Steinberger bb46b79d3c refactor: internalize OpenClaw agent runtime (#85341)
* refactor: extract agent core package

Introduce packages/agent-core as the OpenClaw-owned home for reusable agent loop, harness, session, prompt, and runtime dependency contracts.

* refactor: extract shared llm runtime

Move provider model registries, stream wrappers, OAuth helpers, and LLM utilities into src/llm with plugin-sdk barrels instead of depending on the old embedded runtime layout.

* refactor: remove pi runtime internals

Rename remaining Pi-shaped agent surfaces to OpenClaw agent runtime names, delete obsolete Pi docs and package graph checks, and add the third-party notice for incorporated code.

* refactor: tighten agent session runtime

Make agent-core/runtime dependencies explicit, consolidate compaction and session transcript helpers, and move model/session helpers behind OpenClaw-owned contracts.

* refactor: remove static model and pi auth paths

Drop static model catalogs and Pi auth bridges, move model/provider facts to manifest-owned runtime contracts, and harden internal embedded-agent utilities.

* refactor: remove legacy provider compat paths

* docs: remove agent parity notes

* fix: skip provider wildcard metadata parsing

* refactor: share session extension sdk loading

* refactor: inline acpx proxy error formatter

* refactor: fold edit recovery into edit tool

* fix: accept extension batch separator

* test: align startup provider plugin expectations

* fix: restore provider-scoped release discovery

* test: align static asset packaging expectations

* fix: run static provider catalogs during scoped discovery

* fix: add provider entry catalogs for scoped live discovery

* fix: load lightweight provider catalog entries

* fix: refresh provider-scoped plugin metadata

* fix: keep provider catalog entries on release live path

* fix: keep static manifest models in release live checks

* fix: harden release model discovery

* fix: reduce OpenAI live cache probe reasoning

* fix: disable OpenAI cache probe reasoning

* ci: extend OpenAI gateway live timeout

* fix: extend live gateway model budget

* fix: stabilize release validation regressions

* fix: honor provider aliases in model rows

* fix: stabilize release validation lanes

* fix: stabilize release memory qa

* ci: stabilize release validation lanes

* ci: prefer ipv4 for live docker node calls

* fix: restore shared tool-call stream wrapper

* ci: remove legacy pi test shard alias

* fix: clean up embedded agent test drift

* fix: stabilize runtime alias status

* fix: clean up embedded agent ci drift

* fix: restore release ci invariants

* fix: clean up post-rebase runtime drift

* fix: restore release ci checks

* fix: restore release ci after rebase

* fix: remove stale pi runtime path

* test: align compaction runtime expectations

* test: update plugin prerelease expectations

* fix: handle claude live tool approvals

* fix: stabilize release validation gates

* fix: finish agent runtime import

* test: finish post-rebase agent runtime mocks

* fix: keep codex compaction native

* fix: stabilize codex app-server hook tests

* test: isolate codex diagnostic active run

* test: remove codex diagnostic completion race

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#	extensions/codex/src/app-server/run-attempt.test.ts

* ci: fix full release manifest performance run id

* refactor: narrow llm plugin sdk boundary

* chore: drop generated google boundary stamps

* fix: repair rebase fallout

* fix: clean up rebased runtime references

* fix: decode codex jwt payloads as base64url

* fix: preserve shipped pi runtime alias

* fix: add scoped sdk virtual modules

* fix: decode llm codex oauth jwt as base64url

* fix: avoid stale vertex adc negative cache

* fix: harden tool arg decoding and codeql path

* fix: keep vertex adc negative checks live

* refactor: consolidate codex jwt and edit helpers

* fix: await codex oauth node runtime imports

* fix: preserve sdk tool and notice contracts

* fix: preserve shipped compat config boundaries

* fix: align codex oauth callback host

* fix: terminate agent-core loop streams on failure

* fix: keep codex oauth callback alive during fallback

* ci: include session tools in critical codeql scans

* fix: keep Cloudflare Anthropic provider auth header

* docs: redirect legacy pi runtime pages

* fix: honor bundled web provider compat discovery

* fix: protect session output spill files

* fix: keep legacy agent dir env blocked

* fix: contain auto-discovered skill symlinks

* fix: harden agent core sdk proxy surfaces

* fix: restore approval reaction sdk compat

* fix: keep live docker runs bounded

* fix: keep codex oauth redirect host aligned

* fix: resolve post-rebase agent runtime drift

* fix: redact anthropic oauth parse failures

* fix: preserve responses strict tool shaping

* fix: repair agent runtime rebase cleanup

* docs: redirect retired parity pages

* fix: bound auto-discovered resources to roots

* fix: repair post-rebase agent test drift

* fix: preserve bundled provider allowlist migration

* fix: preserve manifest-owned provider aliases

* fix: declare photon image dependency

* fix: keep provider headers out of proxy body

* fix: preserve shipped env aliases

* fix: refresh control ui i18n generated state

* fix: quote read fallback paths

* fix: preview edits through configured backend

* test: satisfy core test typecheck

* fix: preserve ZAI usage auth fallback

* test: repair codex diagnostic test

* fix: repair agent runtime rebase drift

* test: finish embedded runner import rename

* fix: repair agent runtime rebase integrations

* test: align compaction oauth fallback expectations

* fix: allow sdk-auth session models

* fix: update doctor tool schema import

* fix: preserve bedrock plugin region

* fix: stream harmony-like prose immediately

* ci: include session runtime in codeql shards

* fix: repair latest rebase integrations

* fix: honor explicit codex websocket transport

* fix: keep openai-compatible credentials provider-scoped

* fix: refresh sdk api baseline after rebase

* fix: route cli runtime aliases through openclaw harness

* test: rename stale harness mock expectation

* test: rename embedded agent overflow calls

* test: clean embedded auth test wording

* test: use openclaw stream types in deepinfra cache test

* fix: refresh sdk api baseline on latest main

* fix: honor bundled discovery compat allowlists

* fix: refresh sdk api baseline after latest rebase

* fix: remove stale rebase imports

* test: rename stale model catalog mock

* test: mock renamed doctor runtime modules

* fix: map canonical kimi env auth

* fix: use internal model registry in bench script

* fix: migrate deepinfra provider catalog entry

* fix: enforce builtin tool suppression

* fix: route compaction auth and proxy payloads safely

* refactor: prune unused llm registry leftovers

* test: update codex hooks session import

* test: fix model picker ci coverage

* test: align model picker auth mock types
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---
summary: "Canonical credential eligibility and resolution semantics for auth profiles"
title: "Auth credential semantics"
read_when:
- Working on auth profile resolution or credential routing
- Debugging model auth failures or profile order
---
This document defines the canonical credential eligibility and resolution semantics used across:
- `resolveAuthProfileOrder`
- `resolveApiKeyForProfile`
- `models status --probe`
- `doctor-auth`
The goal is to keep selection-time and runtime behavior aligned.
## Stable probe reason codes
- `ok`
- `excluded_by_auth_order`
- `missing_credential`
- `invalid_expires`
- `expired`
- `unresolved_ref`
- `no_model`
## Token credentials
Token credentials (`type: "token"`) support inline `token` and/or `tokenRef`.
### Eligibility rules
1. A token profile is ineligible when both `token` and `tokenRef` are absent.
2. `expires` is optional.
3. If `expires` is present, it must be a finite number greater than `0`.
4. If `expires` is invalid (`NaN`, `0`, negative, non-finite, or wrong type), the profile is ineligible with `invalid_expires`.
5. If `expires` is in the past, the profile is ineligible with `expired`.
6. `tokenRef` does not bypass `expires` validation.
### Resolution rules
1. Resolver semantics match eligibility semantics for `expires`.
2. For eligible profiles, token material may be resolved from inline value or `tokenRef`.
3. Unresolvable refs produce `unresolved_ref` in `models status --probe` output.
## Agent copy portability
Agent auth inheritance is read-through. When an agent has no local profile, it
can resolve profiles from the default/main agent store at runtime without
copying secret material into its own `auth-profiles.json`.
Explicit copy flows, such as `openclaw agents add`, use this portability policy:
- `api_key` profiles are portable unless `copyToAgents: false`.
- `token` profiles are portable unless `copyToAgents: false`.
- `oauth` profiles are not portable by default because refresh tokens can be
single-use or rotation-sensitive.
- Provider-owned OAuth flows may opt in with `copyToAgents: true` only when
copying refresh material across agents is known safe.
Non-portable profiles remain available through read-through inheritance unless
the target agent signs in separately and creates its own local profile.
## Config-only auth routes
`auth.profiles` entries with `mode: "aws-sdk"` are routing metadata, not stored
credentials. They are valid when the target provider uses
`models.providers.<id>.auth: "aws-sdk"` or plugin-owned Amazon Bedrock setup
AWS SDK route. These profile ids may appear in `auth.order` and session
overrides even when no matching entry exists in `auth-profiles.json`.
Do not write `type: "aws-sdk"` into `auth-profiles.json`. If a legacy install
has such a marker, `openclaw doctor --fix` moves it to `auth.profiles` and
removes the marker from the credential store.
## Explicit auth order filtering
- When `auth.order.<provider>` or the auth-store order override is set for a
provider, `models status --probe` only probes profile ids that remain in the
resolved auth order for that provider.
- A stored profile for that provider that is omitted from the explicit order is
not silently tried later. Probe output reports it with
`reasonCode: excluded_by_auth_order` and the detail
`Excluded by auth.order for this provider.`
## Probe target resolution
- Probe targets can come from auth profiles, environment credentials, or
`models.json`.
- If a provider has credentials but OpenClaw cannot resolve a probeable model
candidate for it, `models status --probe` reports `status: no_model` with
`reasonCode: no_model`.
## External CLI credential discovery
- Runtime-only credentials owned by external CLIs are discovered only when the
provider, runtime, or auth profile is in scope for the current operation, or
when a stored local profile for that external source already exists.
- Auth-store callers should choose an explicit external-CLI discovery mode:
`none` for persisted/plugin auth only, `existing` for refreshing already
stored external CLI profiles, or `scoped` for a concrete provider/profile set.
- Read-only/status paths pass `allowKeychainPrompt: false`; they use file-backed
external CLI credentials only and do not read or reuse macOS Keychain results.
## OAuth SecretRef Policy Guard
- SecretRef input is for static credentials only.
- If a profile credential is `type: "oauth"`, SecretRef objects are not supported for that profile credential material.
- If `auth.profiles.<id>.mode` is `"oauth"`, SecretRef-backed `keyRef`/`tokenRef` input for that profile is rejected.
- Violations are hard failures in startup/reload auth resolution paths.
## Legacy-Compatible Messaging
For script compatibility, probe errors keep this first line unchanged:
`Auth profile credentials are missing or expired.`
Human-friendly detail and stable reason codes may be added on subsequent lines.
## Related
- [Secrets management](/gateway/secrets)
- [Auth storage](/concepts/oauth)