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fix(anthropic): scope Kimi thinking guard to /coding endpoint only - #56730

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What does this PR do?

Narrows the Kimi thinking guard in build_anthropic_kwargs() from _is_kimi_family_endpoint (matches ALL Kimi endpoints) to _is_kimi_coding_endpoint (matches only /coding). This restores the thinking parameter for non-/coding Kimi endpoints that were incorrectly blocked.

Related Issue

Fixes #56727

Type of Change

  • 🐛 Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

Changes Made

  • agent/anthropic_adapter.py: Changed line 2627 from _is_kimi_family_endpoint(base_url, model) to _is_kimi_coding_endpoint(base_url), scoping the thinking guard to only the /coding endpoint. Updated comment to clarify the scope.
  • tests/agent/test_kimi_coding_anthropic_thinking.py: Updated tests for non-/coding Kimi endpoints to assert that thinking IS present (was incorrectly asserting omission). Renamed tests to reflect new behavior.

How to Test

  1. Run python -m pytest tests/agent/test_kimi_coding_anthropic_thinking.py -v — all 17 tests should pass
  2. /coding endpoints still omit thinking (4 parametrized tests pass)
  3. Non-/coding Kimi endpoints now receive thinking (7 parametrized tests pass)
  4. Non-Kimi endpoints unchanged (native Anthropic, MiniMax tests pass)

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  • I've run pytest tests/agent/test_kimi_coding_anthropic_thinking.py -v and all tests pass
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@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working P2 Medium — degraded but workaround exists comp/agent Core agent runtime: loop, agent_init, prompt builder, context-compression, responses endpoint provider/kimi Kimi / Moonshot labels Jul 2, 2026
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This was generated by AI during triage.

Related: fixes #56727 (Kimi thinking wrongly suppressed on non-/coding endpoints). Note the earlier, contradictory #18823, which asks for thinking to be enabled on /coding — this PR intentionally keeps /coding suppressed and only restores non-/coding. Earlier closed attempts at this guard: #49143, #18898. Maintainer should reconcile with #18823's ask.

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Follow-up from #56727: I re-tested the managed Kimi Coding endpoint with the essential omitted-parameter control case.

POST https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1/messages with model: kimi-for-coding returned:

  • thinking omitted → HTTP 200, thinking + text blocks
  • explicit thinking.enabled → HTTP 200, thinking + text blocks
  • explicit thinking.disabled → HTTP 200, text only

So omission does not disable reasoning; managed Kimi Coding enables it by default. I have corrected and closed #56727 because its original premise was not supported. This PR should therefore not claim to fix #56727 on that basis. Any separate non-/coding behavior should be evaluated independently.

The guard that suppressed Anthropic's thinking parameter for Kimi endpoints
was based on a misunderstanding: when the parameter is omitted, Kimi enables
extended thinking server-side by default (it does not disable thinking).

Per reviewer @www654cc-pixel's live testing against api.kimi.com/coding:
- thinking omitted → thinking + text blocks (server-side enabled)
- thinking.enabled → thinking + text blocks (explicitly enabled)
- thinking.disabled → text only (explicitly disabled)

The original concern was that sending thinking.enabled would trigger a
reasoning_content validation error, but the parameter is safe to send.

Fixes NousResearch#56727, addresses reviewer feedback on NousResearch#56730.
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liuhao1024 force-pushed the liuhao/cron-bugfix-56727-kimi-coding-thinking branch from 4348e21 to 4166cc2 Compare July 11, 2026 15:39

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Thanks for following up with the omitted-parameter control case. The current patch needs a different validation target before it can safely change this behavior.

Problems

  • The patch removes the guard for all Kimi/Moonshot endpoints, while current main deliberately applies the family predicate at agent/anthropic_adapter.py:2641. Maintainer commit 83c288da01ebe48a64016d744abef166ef98d1fb expanded that predicate to official and custom/proxied Kimi paths specifically for replayed tool-call compatibility.
  • The changed tests at tests/agent/test_kimi_coding_anthropic_thinking.py:38 and :140 use only a fresh user message with tools=None. They do not test the replayed assistant tool-call path whose unsigned thinking blocks are preserved at agent/anthropic_adapter.py:2276-2279.

Suggested changes

  • Validate the full multi-turn tool-call replay contract for each endpoint category before removing or narrowing the guard.
  • Preserve the custom/proxy coverage unless that replay behavior is independently disproven.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

# 4.6 behavior and preserving the activity-feed UX during long tool runs.
_is_kimi_coding = _is_kimi_family_endpoint(base_url, model)
if reasoning_config and isinstance(reasoning_config, dict) and not _is_kimi_coding:
if reasoning_config and isinstance(reasoning_config, dict):

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This makes thinking unconditional for all Kimi/Moonshot Anthropic-compatible endpoints. Current main intentionally uses _is_kimi_family_endpoint(base_url, model) here, and 83c288da01ebe48a64016d744abef166ef98d1fb broadened it to protect custom/proxied endpoints' replayed tool-call path. Please retain that coverage unless a multi-turn replay repro disproves it.

assert "thinking" not in kwargs, (
"Anthropic thinking must not be sent to Kimi /coding — "
"endpoint requires reasoning_content on history we don't preserve."
assert "thinking" in kwargs, (

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This only verifies kwargs for a fresh single-user-message request with tools=None. Please add coverage for an assistant tool-call followed by replay, which is the compatibility case guarded by current agent/anthropic_adapter.py:2276-2279.

@teknium1 teknium1 added sweeper:risk-compatibility Sweeper risk: may break existing users, config, migrations, defaults, or upgrades sweeper:blast-contained Sweeper blast radius: contained — one narrow path / opt-in / few users labels Jul 15, 2026
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Closing this one — two reasons, both about the PR as it stands rather than the underlying idea:

  1. The diff doesn't match the title/body. The title and description say the guard is narrowed from _is_kimi_family_endpoint to _is_kimi_coding_endpoint (keeping /coding suppressed), and the test plan says "/coding endpoints still omit thinking". But the actual diff removes the guard condition entirely and renames the tests to test_kimi_coding_endpoint_gets_thinking — i.e. it sends thinking to ALL Kimi endpoints including /coding, the opposite of what the description claims. We can't review a change whose stated behavior and implemented behavior contradict each other.

  2. Superseded by feat(agent): adaptive thinking for Kimi-family Anthropic endpoints #67228, which implements the "send thinking to Kimi-family endpoints" direction properly — routing them through the adaptive-thinking contract (thinking.type=adaptive + output_config.effort) with live verification against both api.kimi.com/coding and api.moonshot.cn/anthropic, instead of unconditionally enabling the manual thinking.enabled path the original [Bug]: 400 error for kimi-for-coding #13848 guard existed to protect against.

Also note the landscape shifted under this PR: #67391 (merged) changed replay behavior so Kimi-family endpoints keep thinking blocks in history, which removes part of the original motivation for the guard — that's exactly what #67228 builds on.

If you believe the non-/coding-only scoping from your title is still the right call versus #67228's approach, happy to discuss there. Thanks for digging into #56727!

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Kimi /coding endpoint thinking is incorrectly blocked (was PR #49143)

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