diff --git a/site/data/live-codex-worker-result.ts b/site/data/live-codex-worker-result.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61848e972
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/data/live-codex-worker-result.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+export const liveCodexWorkerResult = {
+ generatedAt: '2026-07-13T01:05:15.178Z',
+ codexVersion: '0.144.0-alpha.4',
+ transport: 'stdio JSONL',
+ model: 'GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark',
+ effort: 'low',
+ timings: {
+ coldHandshakeMs: 36.83,
+ coldThreadStartMs: 400.19,
+ turnStartResponseMs: 0.45,
+ wakeToTurnStartedMs: 1.47,
+ trivialTurnCompletedMs: 2060.18,
+ },
+ result: 'READY',
+ passed: true,
+ architecture: 'A dedicated persistent Live app-server connection and worker thread. Do not attach a second app-server to the desktop task.',
+} as const;
diff --git a/site/data/live-harnesses.ts b/site/data/live-harnesses.ts
index 8b2a028d7..e7a18fe43 100644
--- a/site/data/live-harnesses.ts
+++ b/site/data/live-harnesses.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
export const harnessPaths = [
{
- name: 'Supervisor + generation worker',
- harness: 'Codex desktop · canonical progressive path',
- pickup: 'Concurrent control-event intake',
- tradeoff: 'The foreground poll supervisor handles Accept/Discard and the next Go while a fenced worker generates variants.',
- status: 'E2E proven',
+ name: 'Dedicated app-server worker',
+ harness: 'Codex · isolated persistent thread',
+ pickup: '1.47 ms turn wake',
+ tradeoff: 'A separate Live-owned thread can generate while the control supervisor keeps polling. Cold setup is 437 ms; a persistent connection amortizes it.',
+ status: 'Protocol probe passed',
statusTone: 'ready',
+ source: 'https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/app-server',
},
{
name: 'Foreground terminal supervisor',
@@ -17,11 +18,11 @@ export const harnessPaths = [
source: 'https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/app-server#api-overview',
},
{
- name: 'Warm variant producer',
- harness: 'Codex custom agent',
- pickup: 'Spawn/resume cost unknown',
- tradeoff: 'Can pin a faster model and lower reasoning, but fresh context and handoff can erase the gain unless the agent stays warm.',
- status: 'Prototype',
+ name: 'Native generation subagent',
+ harness: 'Codex desktop · current shipped path',
+ pickup: 'Main turn must dispatch it',
+ tradeoff: 'Low-effort compact handoff is safe and fenced, but it cannot start after the desktop task has gone idle.',
+ status: 'Current fallback',
statusTone: 'prototype',
source: 'https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/subagents',
},
@@ -119,32 +120,32 @@ export const liveExperiments = [
},
{
rank: 11,
- title: 'Parallelize ideas, centralize writes — optional fast path',
- evidence: 'Strict-gated provider runs made parallel compact fastest for GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Every worker remained write-free; deterministic assembly performed the only publication.',
- move: 'Use parallel compact only where extra calls are acceptable. Keep progressive compact as the portable default and preserve variant 1 byte-for-byte.',
- expected: 'Lowers time to first option without shared-file races or brand drift.',
- confidence: 'Paid provider smoke matrix',
+ title: 'Parallelize ideas, centralize writes — provider-specific',
+ evidence: 'Parallel compact passed 5/5 for GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, but only 3/5 for Claude Sonnet 4.6. It cut Gemini first review to 1.64 s and GPT full-set completion to 16.21 s.',
+ move: 'Make parallel compact the Gemini default and an OpenAI full-set fast path. Do not enable it for Anthropic until its validation reliability improves.',
+ expected: 'Lowers time to usable options without shared-file races or pretending one call shape fits every provider.',
+ confidence: 'Sixty-run paid matrix',
},
{
rank: 12,
title: 'Trim the producer contract — selected',
- evidence: 'Progressive compact passed every measured brand, component, token, copy, source, and cleanup gate while cutting first-review latency 42–62% for Claude and GPT.',
+ evidence: 'Progressive compact passed 5/5 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.5. It was OpenAI’s fastest and cheapest progressive path; Claude’s other candidates all missed reliability.',
move: 'Keep the stable generation contract cacheable and send only the picked-element context plus the current action and identity lock.',
expected: 'Reduces prefill and output work without weakening the design brief.',
- confidence: 'Cross-provider quality gate',
+ confidence: 'Five runs per candidate',
},
{
rank: 13,
- title: 'Wake on the journal, not terminal stdout — still architectural',
- evidence: 'Codex app-server exposes fs.watch and process output notifications, while this desktop probe still required an explicit terminal read.',
- move: 'Benchmark a plugin/app-server bridge that watches the durable Live journal and starts or steers a dedicated turn directly.',
- expected: 'Frees the main turn if watcher-to-turn startup beats foreground polling.',
- confidence: 'Architectural bet',
+ title: 'Wake a dedicated Codex worker — protocol proven',
+ evidence: 'A cold app-server handshake took 36.83 ms, thread creation 400.19 ms, and turn/start reached turn/started in 1.47 ms. A low-effort Spark probe completed in 2.06 s.',
+ move: 'Keep one Live-owned app-server connection and isolated worker thread warm. Feed it durable events and structured output; never resume the desktop task from a second server.',
+ expected: 'Removes terminal-output pickup and main-turn availability from generation startup while preserving transactional publication fencing.',
+ confidence: 'Official protocol + live probe',
},
];
export const currentHarnessProbe = {
- testedAt: '2026-07-11',
+ testedAt: '2026-07-13',
surface: 'Codex desktop unified exec',
delayedOutputMs: 250,
processExitMs: null,
diff --git a/site/data/live-provider-result.ts b/site/data/live-provider-result.ts
index a1207c752..94a4aef81 100644
--- a/site/data/live-provider-result.ts
+++ b/site/data/live-provider-result.ts
@@ -1,21 +1,31 @@
+const candidate = (
+ firstMedianMs: number | null,
+ firstP95Ms: number | null,
+ allMedianMs: number | null,
+ allP95Ms: number | null,
+ passedRuns: number,
+ costUsd: number,
+) => ({
+ firstMedianMs,
+ firstP95Ms,
+ allMedianMs,
+ allP95Ms,
+ passedRuns,
+ totalRuns: 5,
+ costUsd,
+ reliable: passedRuns === 5,
+});
+
export const liveProviderResult = {
- generatedAt: '2026-07-12T03:22:46.816Z',
+ generatedAt: '2026-07-13T01:11:49.054Z',
fixture: 'vite8-react-brand-fidelity',
- runsPerCandidate: 1,
- statisticallyStable: false,
- paidSmokeMatrix: {
- ran: ['atomic-full', 'progressive-compact', 'parallel-compact'],
- notRun: [
- {
- strategy: 'progressive-full',
- reason: 'External execution credits were exhausted before the direct full-context split comparison could run. No result is inferred.',
- },
- ],
- },
+ runsPerCandidate: 5,
+ statisticallyStable: true,
+ strategies: ['atomic-full', 'progressive-full', 'progressive-compact', 'parallel-compact'],
cleanupControl: {
providerIndependent: true,
- acceptToCleanPickingMs: 171.41,
- productionBuildMs: 378.04,
+ acceptToCleanPickingMs: 172.19,
+ productionBuildMs: 383.51,
markerFree: true,
browserClean: true,
consoleErrors: 0,
@@ -25,45 +35,41 @@ export const liveProviderResult = {
{
provider: 'Anthropic',
model: 'Claude Sonnet 4.6',
- effort: 'Provider default in this sample; future harness runs explicitly use low.',
- atomic: { firstMs: 32208.62, allMs: 32208.62, costUsd: 0.103779, quality: 0.9, passed: true },
- progressiveCompact: { firstMs: 12247.31, allMs: 31709.49, costUsd: 0.057795, quality: 0.9, passed: true },
- parallelCompact: { firstMs: 12361.28, allMs: 31378.19, costUsd: 0.064641, quality: 0.9, passed: true },
- progressiveFirstImprovement: 0.6198,
- parallelFirstImprovement: 0.6162,
+ effort: 'low',
+ atomic: candidate(57168.08, 64787.41, 57168.08, 64787.41, 4, 0.882555),
+ progressiveFull: candidate(18623.04, 21744.52, 40591.04, 57284.19, 3, 1.35405),
+ progressiveCompact: candidate(16387.92, 17641.08, 41505.32, 46789.53, 5, 0.386004),
+ parallelCompact: candidate(10567.09, 10755.49, 19805.73, 20156.03, 3, 0.424566),
+ recommendation: 'Progressive compact is the only 5/5 candidate; use atomic only as a compatibility fallback.',
},
{
provider: 'OpenAI',
model: 'GPT-5.5',
effort: 'low',
- atomic: { firstMs: 22750.85, allMs: 22750.85, costUsd: 0.16728, quality: 0.95, passed: true },
- progressiveCompact: { firstMs: 13124.09, allMs: 24735.95, costUsd: 0.098515, quality: 0.9, passed: true },
- parallelCompact: { firstMs: 11846.73, allMs: 15871.87, costUsd: 0.145085, quality: 0.9, passed: true },
- progressiveFirstImprovement: 0.4231,
- parallelFirstImprovement: 0.4793,
+ atomic: candidate(27266.19, 31780.17, 27266.19, 31780.17, 5, 0.602296),
+ progressiveFull: candidate(12681.34, 14283.56, 36102.57, 41957.05, 5, 0.713001),
+ progressiveCompact: candidate(11777.98, 13334.92, 28867.61, 35691.27, 5, 0.48768),
+ parallelCompact: candidate(11846.01, 13551.87, 16211.64, 19043.63, 5, 0.614395),
+ recommendation: 'Progressive compact wins first review and cost; parallel compact wins full-set completion.',
},
{
provider: 'Google',
model: 'Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite',
effort: 'minimal (provider default)',
- atomic: {
- firstMs: null,
- allMs: null,
- costUsd: null,
- quality: null,
- passed: false,
- reason: 'Both attempts failed strict output validation.',
- },
- progressiveCompact: { firstMs: 2654.97, allMs: 6764.95, costUsd: 0.002813, quality: 0.95, passed: true },
- parallelCompact: { firstMs: 1607.89, allMs: 1988.32, costUsd: 0.003956, quality: 0.95, passed: true },
- progressiveFirstImprovement: null,
- parallelFirstImprovement: null,
+ atomic: candidate(6579.06, 6579.06, 6579.06, 6579.06, 1, 0.034123),
+ progressiveFull: candidate(null, null, null, null, 0, 0.023667),
+ progressiveCompact: candidate(3063.57, 3069.15, 5357.76, 5368.13, 3, 0.015316),
+ parallelCompact: candidate(1635.05, 1973.83, 2193.7, 3576.19, 5, 0.020824),
+ recommendation: 'Parallel compact is the only 5/5 candidate and the clear production path.',
},
],
- cost: {
- apiCalls: 22,
- measuredLowerBoundUsd: 0.643864,
- note: 'Five rejected validation responses predate failed-response usage capture and are excluded. Current runs capture their usage.',
+ totals: {
+ runs: 60,
+ passingRuns: 44,
+ apiCalls: 160,
+ retries: 47,
+ rejectedResponses: 64,
+ estimatedCostUsd: 5.558477,
},
gate: {
dimensions: ['brand', 'component', 'token', 'copy', 'source', 'accept-cleanup'],
@@ -71,8 +77,9 @@ export const liveProviderResult = {
minimumDimension: 0.75,
},
recommendation: {
- default: 'progressive-compact',
- optionalFastPath: 'parallel-compact',
- rationale: 'Progressive compact cut first-review latency 42–62% for Claude and GPT while preserving every quality gate. Parallel compact was strongest for GPT and Gemini but spends more requests.',
+ codexDefault: 'progressive-compact',
+ googleDefault: 'parallel-compact',
+ portableFallback: 'atomic-full',
+ rationale: 'Choose per provider and harness. Compact progressive is the reliable first-review winner for OpenAI and Anthropic; parallel compact is required for Gemini reliability. Harnesses without measured progressive publication retain atomic delivery.',
},
} as const;
diff --git a/site/pages/live-lab/index.astro b/site/pages/live-lab/index.astro
index 983979835..0095a17c7 100644
--- a/site/pages/live-lab/index.astro
+++ b/site/pages/live-lab/index.astro
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { liveInitResult } from '../../data/live-init-result';
import { liveControlResult } from '../../data/live-control-result';
import { liveFrameworkResults } from '../../data/live-framework-results';
import { liveProviderResult } from '../../data/live-provider-result';
+import { liveCodexWorkerResult } from '../../data/live-codex-worker-result';
import { liveAnnotatedResult } from '../../data/live-annotated-result';
import '../../styles/sub-pages.css';
import '../../styles/live-performance.css';
@@ -61,6 +62,12 @@ const progressiveAllDelta = (
- progressiveDeliveryResult.atomic.medianAllMs
);
const initGain = 1 - (liveInitResult.cold.medianMs / liveInitResult.baselineColdMedianMs);
+const providerColumns = [
+ { key: 'atomic', label: 'Atomic full' },
+ { key: 'progressiveFull', label: 'Progressive full' },
+ { key: 'progressiveCompact', label: 'Progressive compact' },
+ { key: 'parallelCompact', label: 'Parallel compact' },
+] as const;
---
Paid provider smoke matrix
-Paid provider matrix · five runs per candidate
+One strict-gated run per candidate. Brand, component, token, copy, source, and cleanup fidelity must all pass.
+Sixty strict-gated runs. Brand, component, token, copy, source, and cleanup fidelity must all pass.
| Provider | Atomic full | Progressive compact | Parallel compact | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | {providerColumns.map(column =>{column.label} | )}||||
| {result.provider}{result.model} · {result.effort} | -- {result.atomic.firstMs === null ? 'Rejected' : displayMs(result.atomic.firstMs)} - {result.atomic.passed ? 'quality gate passed' : ('reason' in result.atomic ? result.atomic.reason : 'quality gate failed')} - | -- {displayMs(result.progressiveCompact.firstMs)} first - {displayMs(result.progressiveCompact.allMs)} all · gate passed - | -- {displayMs(result.parallelCompact.firstMs)} first - {displayMs(result.parallelCompact.allMs)} all · gate passed - | +{result.provider}{result.model} · {result.effort}{result.recommendation} | + {providerColumns.map(column => { + const candidate = result[column.key]; + return ( ++ {candidate.firstMedianMs === null ? 'No valid run' : `${displayMs(candidate.firstMedianMs)} first`} + {candidate.passedRuns}/5 pass{candidate.firstP95Ms === null ? '' : ` · p95 ${displayMs(candidate.firstP95Ms)}`} + {candidate.allMedianMs === null ? 'full set unavailable' : `${displayMs(candidate.allMedianMs)} all`} + | + ); + })}