# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add OpenAI Codex native web search backend

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members relate to adding and fixing support for OpenAI's native server-side web_search tool as a search provider backend. The work involves integrating the Responses API web_search built-in into the existing search provider infrastructure.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115938. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115938 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-115938`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #19320: \[Feature\]: Add Codex / openai \`web.run\` as a search provider

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115938: feat(web): openai-native backend lets Codex Responses turns use the server-side web_search built-in (#19320, salvage #107377)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/transports/codex.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `plugins/web/openai_native/__init__.py`, `plugins/web/openai_native/plugin.yaml`, `plugins/web/openai_native/provider.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_codex_transport.py`, `tests/plugins/web/test_web_search_provider_plugins.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/web-search.md`
- **#42754: fix(codex): support native Responses web_search backend**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115938 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`