Feat: request user input tool (#9472)

### Summary
* Add `requestUserInput` tool that the model can use for gather
feedback/asking question mid turn.


### Tool input schema
```
{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "title": "requestUserInput input",
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "required": ["questions"],
  "properties": {
    "questions": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Questions to show the user (1-3). Prefer 1 unless multiple independent decisions block progress.",
      "minItems": 1,
      "maxItems": 3,
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "required": ["id", "header", "question"],
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Stable identifier for mapping answers (snake_case)."
          },
          "header": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Short header label shown in the UI (12 or fewer chars)."
          },
          "question": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Single-sentence prompt shown to the user."
          },
          "options": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "Optional 2-3 mutually exclusive choices. Put the recommended option first and suffix its label with \"(Recommended)\". Only include \"Other\" option if we want to include a free form option. If the question is free form in nature, do not include any option.",
            "minItems": 2,
            "maxItems": 3,
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "required": ["value", "label", "description"],
              "properties": {
                "value": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Machine-readable value (snake_case)."
                },
                "label": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "User-facing label (1-5 words)."
                },
                "description": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "One short sentence explaining impact/tradeoff if selected."
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Tool output schema
```
{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "title": "requestUserInput output",
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "required": ["answers"],
  "properties": {
    "answers": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Map of question id to user answer.",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "required": ["selected"],
        "properties": {
          "selected": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": { "type": "string" }
          },
          "other": {
            "type": ["string", "null"]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```
This commit is contained in:
Shijie Rao
2026-01-19 10:17:30 -08:00
committed by GitHub
parent bf430ad9fe
commit 57ec3a8277
30 changed files with 985 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ use crate::num_format::format_with_separators;
use crate::openai_models::ReasoningEffort as ReasoningEffortConfig;
use crate::parse_command::ParsedCommand;
use crate::plan_tool::UpdatePlanArgs;
use crate::request_user_input::RequestUserInputResponse;
use crate::user_input::UserInput;
use codex_utils_absolute_path::AbsolutePathBuf;
use mcp_types::CallToolResult;
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ pub use crate::approvals::ApplyPatchApprovalRequestEvent;
pub use crate::approvals::ElicitationAction;
pub use crate::approvals::ExecApprovalRequestEvent;
pub use crate::approvals::ExecPolicyAmendment;
pub use crate::request_user_input::RequestUserInputEvent;
/// Open/close tags for special user-input blocks. Used across crates to avoid
/// duplicated hardcoded strings.
@@ -191,6 +193,15 @@ pub enum Op {
decision: ElicitationAction,
},
/// Resolve a request_user_input tool call.
#[serde(rename = "user_input_answer", alias = "request_user_input_response")]
UserInputAnswer {
/// Turn id for the in-flight request.
id: String,
/// User-provided answers.
response: RequestUserInputResponse,
},
/// Append an entry to the persistent cross-session message history.
///
/// Note the entry is not guaranteed to be logged if the user has
@@ -723,6 +734,8 @@ pub enum EventMsg {
ExecApprovalRequest(ExecApprovalRequestEvent),
RequestUserInput(RequestUserInputEvent),
ElicitationRequest(ElicitationRequestEvent),
ApplyPatchApprovalRequest(ApplyPatchApprovalRequestEvent),