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fix(openai): render Responses reasoning as chat reasoning_content - #1343
When a chat request routes onto a Responses-only upstream (today: the chatgpt provider on the Codex backend), reasoning silently vanished: the gateway never asked for reasoning summaries, and neither chat-via-Responses converter rendered them. An Anthropic client on /v1/messages with thinking enabled got its answer but never a thinking block. This PR requests summaries when the caller asks for reasoning and renders them as reasoning_content on the chat response, which the dialect layers already turn into thinking.
Verified end to end against a fake Codex backend driving the full Messages → chat → Responses → chat → Messages chain (streaming and non-streaming), and live against the Codex backend from a running gateway.
Non-streaming: reasoning item summaries become the message's reasoning_content. Streaming: response.reasoning_summary_text.delta becomes reasoning_content chunk deltas, with \n\n separators at summary-part and item boundaries.
internal/providers/openai/chat_via_responses.go
Requests reasoning.summary: "auto" whenever the caller asks for reasoning, so a summary exists to render.
Ladder rows for the new rendering rule and the gateway-set summary member.
Request side: ask for the summary
The Responses API emits reasoning summaries only when reasoning.summary is set; chatToResponsesRequest sent only effort. Without the ask, the whole render path downstream has nothing to work with — this was the major CodeRabbit finding. applyMappedChatFields now sets summary: "auto" whenever the request carries a reasoning effort that is not off ("none" keeps just the effort; the model is told not to reason, so there is nothing to summarize). "auto" picks the model's own summarizer rather than pinning a verbosity.
The summary member rides the new optional Summary field on core.Reasoning instead of an untyped extra, so the serialized request carries exactly one reasoning member and the field stays discoverable for the other Responses-speaking adapters.
Response side: render what comes back
Non-streaming, chatResponseFromResponses collects each reasoning item's summary_text parts and merges them as the chat message's reasoning_content extension — the spelling every other adapter emits (internal/providers/openai/reasoning.go, DeepSeek, Fireworks) and the one the Responses and Messages translation layers render as thinking. Items and parts join with \n\n; empty items and empty parts contribute nothing.
Streaming, responsesChatStream maps response.reasoning_summary_text.delta onto reasoning_content chunk deltas. Summary parts are distinct summaries, so an advancing summary_index emits the \n\n separator first — matching the non-streaming join byte-for-byte. A different reasoning item starting text also emits the separator, so two items never merge into a run-on. Empty deltas carry no text: they emit nothing and touch no tracked state, the same rule as the non-streaming filter. An omitted summary_index (a non-compliant upstream) forwards the delta as before, with no separator tracking. response.reasoning_text.delta (raw chain of thought, where offered) rides the same channel.
What this deliberately does not do
No signature minting. Anthropic thinking signatures must come from Anthropic; reasoning that crossed a non-Anthropic upstream comes back as an unsigned thinking block. The ingress already treats unsigned blocks correctly (HasUnsignedThinking keeps such turns on the translated pipeline instead of forwarding them to Anthropic, which would refuse the foreign signature).
No separate reasoning field.reasoning_content is reused rather than adding a second channel, so dashboard, Messages translation, and replay state all read one member.
No change for chat-upstream providers. Everything lives in the chat-via-Responses converters; ChatCompletion against a native chat endpoint is untouched.
Tests
TestChatToResponsesRequest_ReasoningRequestsSummary: the serialized request carries {"effort": ..., "summary": "auto"} for nested and flat effort, "none" gets no summary, no reasoning gets no member, passthrough fields coexist, exactly one reasoning key on the wire.
TestChatResponseFromResponses_ReasoningBecomesReasoningContent: join order across items and parts, absent reasoning, empty items between non-empty ones, refusal coexistence.
TestReasoningSummaryText: missing, null, non-array, empty-part, and multi-part summary shapes.
TestResponsesChatStream_ReasoningDeltas: summary deltas become reasoning_content chunks; repeated deltas within one part concatenate; an advancing index emits the separator; raw reasoning_text deltas ride along.
TestResponsesChatStream_ReasoningDeltas_IndexEdges: per-item index state, second item gets the item separator, omitted index forwards untouched.
TestResponsesChatStream_ReasoningDeltas_EmptyDeltas: empty deltas emit and advance nothing.
go build ./..., go vet ./..., golangci-lint (pinned version), and go test -race ./internal/... all pass.
Refs #1085. Built on the ChatViaResponses work from #1084; this closes the reasoning gap that issue's "Thinking and reasoning replay" bullet tracks.
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New Features
Reasoning summaries from Responses-only models now appear as reasoning content in chat responses and streaming updates.
Summary parts are separated by blank lines, and empty parts are omitted.
Requests ask for an automatic reasoning summary when reasoning is enabled; no summary is requested when reasoning is off.
Explicitly requested reasoning summaries are preserved when a reasoning-effort override is applied.
Behavior Changes
Echoed assistant reasoning content is omitted during request translation. User-supplied reasoning content remains unsupported.
ChatViaResponses dropped reasoning on the floor: chatResponseFromResponses
ignored reasoning output items and responsesChatStream had no case for
reasoning delta events. An Anthropic client on /v1/messages with thinking
enabled against a Responses-only upstream (chatgpt/Codex) never saw a
thinking block — silent loss of a feature the client asked for.
Non-streaming: reasoning item summaries join onto the message's
reasoning_content extra field. Streaming: reasoning_summary_text and
reasoning_text deltas emit as reasoning_content chunk deltas. Both ride the
existing chat dialect handling (anthropicapi renders them as unsigned
thinking blocks; the streaming codec relays the member).
Refs ENTERPILOT#1085
…nses
CodeRabbit review on weselben-orion#11:
- chatToResponsesRequest asked only for reasoning.effort; the Responses
API emits summaries only on request, so the converter had nothing to
render in the real flow. Reasoning gains an optional Summary member,
set to "auto" whenever the request asks for reasoning (off efforts
excluded).
- Non-streaming joined reasoning items with no separator; items now
join with the same \n\n reasoningSummaryText uses between parts,
empty items contributing nothing.
- Streaming ignored summary_index; an advancing index per item now
emits the separator delta, an omitted index forwards untouched.
Refs ENTERPILOT#1085
ADR-0011's ladder is a living table (edited in place by ENTERPILOT#973 and ENTERPILOT#963;
the doc itself says 'add a row when an adapter gains a rule'): record
the Responses reasoning-summary -> reasoning_content rendering rule
and the gateway-set reasoning.summary=auto request member.
…ream
Second CodeRabbit pass:
- Streaming emitted no separator between reasoning items, so two items
merged into one run-on string while the non-streaming converter joins
them with \n\n. The last text-contributing item is now tracked and an
item boundary emits the item separator.
- An empty delta at a new summary_index emitted a leading separator and
advanced the tracked index; empty deltas carry no text and now skip
all separator and index handling, matching the non-streaming filter
of empty parts.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
ChatViaResponses requests automatic reasoning summaries when reasoning is enabled. Non-streaming and streaming conversions map Responses reasoning summaries and reasoning text to chat reasoning_content. Effort overrides preserve a client-provided summary.
Reasoning now includes an optional summary field. Mapped requests set it to auto for non-off effort, and effort overrides preserve a client-provided summary. Assistant reasoning_content is allowed through the translation check; user-supplied content remains unsupported. Tests and the ADR describe these mappings.
Non-streaming conversion joins nonempty summary text with blank lines and adds it as reasoning_content. Tests cover empty or malformed summary data and output order.
Streaming conversion forwards reasoning summary and reasoning text deltas as reasoning_content. It separates summary parts on item changes and advancing summary indices. Tests cover index transitions and empty deltas.
The test now verifies that assistant text survives translation while echoed reasoning is omitted. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains in the assessed changes.
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- Line 28: Update ResponsesRequestWithReasoningEffort to preserve the
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- request translation: drop echoed reasoning_content instead of
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What the PR does. Chat→Responses translation requests reasoning.summary: "auto" when non-off reasoning is enabled. Returned summaries and reasoning deltas become chat reasoning_content; parts/items use \\n\\n separators. Effort overrides preserve client-requested summary. Assistant echoes are stripped from translated input; user-supplied field remains rejected.
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Request mapping
Adds Reasoning.Summary; requests auto summaries on non-off effort; override preserves explicit summary.
Non-stream response
Joins summary text parts and output items into reasoning_content.
Streaming
Maps summary and raw reasoning deltas; tracks summary index and item transitions; skips empty deltas.
Echo handling
Accepts assistant reasoning_content for prior-turn context, then omits it upstream; rejects it on user messages.
Verification:go test ./internal/providers/openai/... ./internal/gateway/... passes. CI reports success/skipped-neutral. Fresh diff review found no actionable issues.
Mergeability Score: 9.5/10 — Approve
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Prior findings fixed; separator/index transitions and echo path covered.
Assert the assistant text in the echoed-message test.
The test comment says the assistant turn survives with its text. The assertions check only the entry count, the role, and the absence of reasoning_content. If the assistant entry kept its role but lost its output_text content, this test would still pass. Add an assertion on assistant["content"].
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TL;DR
When a chat request routes onto a Responses-only upstream (today: the
chatgptprovider on the Codex backend), reasoning silently vanished: the gateway never asked for reasoning summaries, and neither chat-via-Responses converter rendered them. An Anthropic client on/v1/messageswiththinkingenabled got its answer but never a thinking block. This PR requests summaries when the caller asks for reasoning and renders them asreasoning_contenton the chat response, which the dialect layers already turn into thinking.Verified end to end against a fake Codex backend driving the full Messages → chat → Responses → chat → Messages chain (streaming and non-streaming), and live against the Codex backend from a running gateway.
Files to review (5, +329/-12):
internal/providers/openai/chat_via_responses_stream.go(start here)reasoning_content. Streaming:response.reasoning_summary_text.deltabecomesreasoning_contentchunk deltas, with\n\nseparators at summary-part and item boundaries.internal/providers/openai/chat_via_responses.goreasoning.summary: "auto"whenever the caller asks for reasoning, so a summary exists to render.internal/core/types.goReasoninggains the optionalSummarymember.internal/providers/openai/chat_via_responses_test.godocs/adr/0011-field-forwarding-on-translated-paths.mdRequest side: ask for the summary
The Responses API emits reasoning summaries only when
reasoning.summaryis set;chatToResponsesRequestsent onlyeffort. Without the ask, the whole render path downstream has nothing to work with — this was the major CodeRabbit finding.applyMappedChatFieldsnow setssummary: "auto"whenever the request carries a reasoning effort that is not off ("none"keeps just the effort; the model is told not to reason, so there is nothing to summarize)."auto"picks the model's own summarizer rather than pinning a verbosity.The summary member rides the new optional
Summaryfield oncore.Reasoninginstead of an untyped extra, so the serialized request carries exactly onereasoningmember and the field stays discoverable for the other Responses-speaking adapters.Response side: render what comes back
Non-streaming,
chatResponseFromResponsescollects each reasoning item'ssummary_textparts and merges them as the chat message'sreasoning_contentextension — the spelling every other adapter emits (internal/providers/openai/reasoning.go, DeepSeek, Fireworks) and the one the Responses and Messages translation layers render as thinking. Items and parts join with\n\n; empty items and empty parts contribute nothing.Streaming,
responsesChatStreammapsresponse.reasoning_summary_text.deltaontoreasoning_contentchunk deltas. Summary parts are distinct summaries, so an advancingsummary_indexemits the\n\nseparator first — matching the non-streaming join byte-for-byte. A different reasoning item starting text also emits the separator, so two items never merge into a run-on. Empty deltas carry no text: they emit nothing and touch no tracked state, the same rule as the non-streaming filter. An omittedsummary_index(a non-compliant upstream) forwards the delta as before, with no separator tracking.response.reasoning_text.delta(raw chain of thought, where offered) rides the same channel.What this deliberately does not do
HasUnsignedThinkingkeeps such turns on the translated pipeline instead of forwarding them to Anthropic, which would refuse the foreign signature).reasoning_contentis reused rather than adding a second channel, so dashboard, Messages translation, and replay state all read one member.ChatCompletionagainst a native chat endpoint is untouched.Tests
TestChatToResponsesRequest_ReasoningRequestsSummary: the serialized request carries{"effort": ..., "summary": "auto"}for nested and flat effort,"none"gets no summary, no reasoning gets no member, passthrough fields coexist, exactly onereasoningkey on the wire.TestChatResponseFromResponses_ReasoningBecomesReasoningContent: join order across items and parts, absent reasoning, empty items between non-empty ones, refusal coexistence.TestReasoningSummaryText: missing, null, non-array, empty-part, and multi-part summary shapes.TestResponsesChatStream_ReasoningDeltas: summary deltas becomereasoning_contentchunks; repeated deltas within one part concatenate; an advancing index emits the separator; rawreasoning_textdeltas ride along.TestResponsesChatStream_ReasoningDeltas_IndexEdges: per-item index state, second item gets the item separator, omitted index forwards untouched.TestResponsesChatStream_ReasoningDeltas_EmptyDeltas: empty deltas emit and advance nothing.go build ./...,go vet ./...,golangci-lint(pinned version), andgo test -race ./internal/...all pass.Refs #1085. Built on the ChatViaResponses work from #1084; this closes the reasoning gap that issue's "Thinking and reasoning replay" bullet tracks.
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