Equation 16 · Part 3 · OpenAI Codex as a Software-Engineering System: Models, Harnesses, and Evidence

Symbol o

o_k \sim \Omega_H(o\mid s_k, q_k, b_k),

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o is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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Let $s_k$ be the relevant but incompletely observed repository state. The harness emits $o_k \sim \Omega_H(o\mid s_k, q_k, b_k)$ . where $q_k$ is the model’s query or action and $b_k$ is a context budget. Two agents using the same model can behave differently because their observation functions $\Omega_H$ expose different facts, truncate different histories, or describe tools differently.

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