Driftwatch

OpenAI / OpenAI API /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

value can now return "degraded"

What changed

Producer-side tools call this additive. It breaks exhaustive switches, strict parsers and generated client enums.

Affects this value on ExternalStorageStatus reachable from 4 operations.

New value: degraded.

can now return "degraded"

Who is affected

Code that reads OpenAI's ExternalStorageStatus objects, used by 4 OpenAI operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
ExternalStorageStatus"pending", "unhealthy", "validated""degraded", "pending", "unhealthy", "validated"

Code that breaks

switch (response) {
  // existing branches …
  // no branch for "degraded"
  default:
    throw new Error("unexpected value");
}

Based on OpenAI’s published API specification. How severity is decided.