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OpenAI / OpenAI API /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

phase is no longer accepted

What changed

Usually ignored rather than rejected, so the call succeeds and does something subtly different.

Affects phase on DecisionInputMessage reachable from 1 operation. Grep for it: nothing else will tell you.

Who is affected

Code that sends OpenAI's DecisionInputMessage objects, used by 1 OpenAI operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
DecisionInputMessage.phasepresentabsent

Code that breaks

await client.post("/…", {
  // phase is now ignored, not rejected
  phase: value,
});

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