fix(translation): replay responses reasoning as input history - #645
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Signed-off-by: Sabhatina Selvam <sabhatinas@nvidia.com>
WalkthroughResponses reasoning translation now preserves encrypted reasoning metadata. Encoding replays provider fields when available, emits text as ChangesResponses reasoning preservation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Encrypted reasoning replay is preserved, but standalone empty reasoning can still be sent as an empty assistant message instead of being omitted, potentially altering request history semantics. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs`:
- Line 656: Add a concise Rust comment immediately before the details assignment
involving encrypted_content, explaining that the full reasoning item is retained
only when encrypted_content exists to preserve the replay contract. Keep the
comment focused on this non-obvious behavior and do not change the
implementation.
- Around line 1151-1152: Update encode_responses_input to skip
ContentBlock::Reasoning blocks when their special-input serializer returns None,
rather than adding them to visible_content as an empty assistant message;
preserve existing handling for reasoning blocks that produce serialized content
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| if let Some(text) = item.get("text").and_then(Value::as_str) { | ||
| parts.push(text.to_string()); | ||
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| let details = if item.get("encrypted_content").is_some() { |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the encrypted metadata preservation behavior.
Add a concise comment that explains why the full reasoning item is retained in details only when encrypted_content exists. This replay contract is not apparent from the helper name or the assignment.
As per coding guidelines, add concise comments for Rust private helpers with non-obvious behavior.
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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs` at line 656,
Add a concise Rust comment immediately before the details assignment involving
encrypted_content, explaining that the full reasoning item is retained only when
encrypted_content exists to preserve the replay contract. Keep the comment
focused on this non-obvious behavior and do not change the implementation.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not re-encode omitted reasoning as an empty assistant message.
When this function returns None, encode_responses_input adds the same reasoning block to visible_content. A standalone empty reasoning item then becomes a "type": "message" item with content: "" instead of being omitted. Skip ContentBlock::Reasoning blocks when their special-input serializer returns None.
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if let Some(item) = encode_responses_special_input(block, namespaces) {
encoded.push(item);
emitted_special = true;
- } else {
+ } else if !matches!(block, ContentBlock::Reasoning { .. }) {
visible_content.push(block.clone());
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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs` around lines
1151 - 1152, Update encode_responses_input to skip ContentBlock::Reasoning
blocks when their special-input serializer returns None, rather than adding them
to visible_content as an empty assistant message; preserve existing handling for
reasoning blocks that produce serialized content and for other content types.
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…asoning detail The buffered request decoder in #645 keeps a provider's reasoning item whole as the reasoning detail when it carries encrypted_content. The stream and buffered response encoders here read the payload and item id through the shared helpers, so those helpers now recognise that shape alongside the documented reasoning.encrypted object. This keeps the buffered-decode, re-stream path (used by any route that buffers a reply) carrying the encrypted payload under its original id regardless of which PR lands first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
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This overlaps with one commit that was in #646 (replaying reasoning history to Responses in the summary_text shape with encrypted_content and id, no content array); I dropped that commit from #646 in favour of this PR. One coordination note for whichever lands second: #646's response-side encoders read the encrypted payload and item id through shared helpers, which I taught to accept the verbatim reasoning item you store as the detail, so a reply that is buffered (for a judge) and then re-streamed keeps its encrypted content under the original id with your decoder shape. The remaining overlap is a textual conflict in decode_responses_reasoning_item in buffered.rs. For what it is worth, this same 400 ("array too long, maximum length 0") reproduced in our Sol+Luna escalation runs once the request was no longer exact-replayable, so the fix is needed by every transforming route, not only the stage router. |
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Reviewed the diff against the failure we both hit (Sol rejecting replayed reasoning with "input[N].content: array too long, maximum length 0"). The change is correct: input reasoning items now carry only id, summary and encrypted_content, the provider's content array is never replayed, and keeping the whole item as the detail preserves the id the encrypted payload was issued under, which OpenAI verifies. The updated round-trip test and the new prompt-mutation test cover both the plain and the encrypted case, and CI is green.
One non-blocking observation. When a reasoning block has neither text nor an encrypted detail, encode_responses_reasoning_input returns None and the block falls through to encode_responses_content, which treats a reasoning-only message as text and emits an assistant message item with an empty string as content. Codex always requests encrypted content so this does not arise there, but a client that replays an empty-summary reasoning item without encrypted content would now send an empty assistant message instead of nothing. Skipping the message when the only block was an omitted reasoning item would close that gap; fine as a follow-up.
For coordination with #646: its response-side helpers already accept the verbatim reasoning item you store as the detail, so a reply that is buffered for a judge and re-streamed keeps the payload under the original id with this decoder shape. The only expected overlap is a textual conflict in decode_responses_reasoning_item for whichever lands second.
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Summary
summary/encrypted_contentfields and omit non-emptycontentarrays.Why
Benchmark failure with Switchyard stage-router profile with
openai_responses, Luna as efficient, and Sol as capable. Luna handled the first Responses calls successfully. After tool signals triggered escalation, the stage router added a handoff note to the normalized request IR as plain user text. That intentionally cleared exact same-format replay so the note could reach Sol.Once exact replay was cleared, the Responses codec reconstructed
inputfrom IR. The old encoder reconstructed prior reasoning history as a top-levelreasoninginput item with a non-emptycontentarray usingreasoning_text. Sol rejected that replay shape with HTTP 400:Invalid input[2].content: array too long. Expected an array with maximum length 0, but got an array with length 1 instead.This fix keeps the handoff-note behavior unchanged and fixes the reconstruction path for prior encrypted reasoning.
Validation
cargo fmt --all --checkcargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warningscargo test -p switchyard-translationcargo test --workspace(rerun outside sandbox because wiremock binds local ports)uv run ruff check .uv run mypy switchyarduv run pytest tests/ -v --ignore=tests/e2eNote: full
uv run pytest tests/ -vstops locally at the Docker e2e test because the Docker daemon is not running.