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Overview

Preserve failed client tool results in model-visible history and honor omitted thinking in unary and streaming responses. Heartbeats keep the SSE connection alive while output is buffered or suppressed, and reasoning that resumes after text or tools opens a correctly ordered new block.

Key Changes

Approximately 197 added production-code lines, excluding tests, comments, and whitespace.

• types.rs preserves tool failure status with a text marker and suppresses backend-classified reasoning when display is omitted.
• stream_converter.rs handles resumed blocks, one empty delta per omitted block, tool/text ordering, and current usage snapshots.
• anthropic.rs enables the default heartbeat for every Messages stream, including reasoning buffered after tool calls; all workspaces use the same published protocol release.

Validation

Case	Before	After / regression
is_error=true / malformed status	Status discarded or silently treated as success	Failure marker retained; non-boolean non-null values rejected
Omitted reasoning over multiple chunks	Readable reasoning	Empty text and one empty delta per block, preserving tools and usage
Reasoning resumes after text/tools	Incorrect block lifetime/order	New indices and properly nested events; late tool arguments preserve ordering
Reasoning is hidden or buffered after tools	Default/summarized post-tool reasoning can leave the connection idle	Concurrent real-HTTP cases observe the default 15-second heartbeat, preserve block order, and fail against the old handler
Beta display=updates	Could be misrepresented as ordinary reasoning	Explicit unsupported-feature error

After merging main 3b191715, 30 real-HTTP admission/replay/tool-thinking tests and 420 relevant unit/schema/parser tests pass, with 10 pre-existing ignored tests unchanged. Both independent bindings workspaces pass cargo test --locked --all-targets: 86 Python tests and 43 KVBM tests. The merge preserves main's deterministic tool-call IDs and the existing thinking/text ordering. These tests use scripted CPU backends; they do not qualify live inference or Anthropic hosted behavior.

buffered_messages_enable_default_http_heartbeats covers default, summarized, and omitted display concurrently and observes the default 15-second heartbeat. It fails when the handler's automatic heartbeat is removed. resumed_thinking_keeps_sequential_blocks_and_pending_tool_order checks resumed blocks and interleaved tool arguments; the converter tests retain main's early flushing of completed tool calls. This validates idle-gap behavior; throughput impact was not benchmarked.

Issues and Ongoing Work

• Closes fix(anthropic): preserve tool-error status and honor omitted thinking #17376. Uses the protocol fields published in dynamo-protocols 9.1.0 after feat(anthropic): preserve thinking display and URL image sources frontend-crates#484 merged.
• fix(anthropic): support URL image sources #17380 shares image-enum adoption; preserve its URL conversion when combining. fix: gate Anthropic thinking blocks on request #8485 concerns thinking-block gating; feat(frontend): cap Anthropic streaming responses with a wall-clock deadline #13164 adds a separate overall stream deadline, not this heartbeat behavior.
• Main’s dynamo-decisions crate retains its separate protocol 8.4 dependency; Messages and generation types use 9.1.
• Suppression requires backend-classified reasoning, or a reasoning parser for inline worker output. This does not filter ordinary answer text, generate summaries, or implement opaque reasoning signatures.

Pull Request Checklist

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Anthropic requests can now mark tool results as failed, adding a clear failure indicator to the content sent to the model.
  • Anthropic requests can omit displayed reasoning while retaining ordinary response text, tool calls, and token usage.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on these experimental Anthropic options, including supported values, validation errors, and known limitations.

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Walkthrough

Anthropic conversion now marks failed tool results, validates thinking display settings, and suppresses readable reasoning when display is omitted. The change also pins dynamo-protocols to a Git revision in three Cargo manifests and adds documentation and HTTP tests.

Changes

Anthropic conversion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pin protocol crate source Cargo.toml, lib/bindings/kvbm/Cargo.toml, lib/bindings/python/Cargo.toml	Each manifest resolves dynamo-protocols from the same Git repository revision.
Validate requests and convert tool results lib/llm/src/protocols/anthropic/types.rs, lib/llm/tests/anthropic_tool_thinking_http.rs	Request conversion rejects unsupported thinking display settings. Tool results marked is_error: true receive the [Tool execution failed] prefix. Image conversion matches the base64 source variant.
Suppress omitted reasoning lib/llm/src/protocols/unified.rs, lib/llm/src/protocols/anthropic/..., lib/llm/tests/anthropic_tool_thinking_http.rs, lib/llm/tests/common/http_harness.rs, docs/fern/pages/reference/components/frontend-configuration.mdx	When thinking display is omitted, unary responses use empty thinking text and streaming responses emit one empty thinking delta for the first reasoning chunk. Documentation and HTTP tests cover display modes and invalid requests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to 62b29

Interleaved streams can omit a required thinking event. Correct the block lifecycle or accept this bounded protocol-shape gap.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: preserving Anthropic tool failures and handling thinking display.
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #17376. types.rs preserves failed tool results with the [Tool execution failed] prefix, retains IDs, content, images, and order, and rejects invalid …
Out of Scope Changes check		The reviewed changes remain within #17376. The converter changes implement tool-error and omitted-thinking behavior. The HTTP tests verify those behaviors. The context helper, image handling needed by…
Description check		The description follows the repository template: Overview, Key Changes, Validation, Issues and Ongoing Work, and the checklist are all present. It explains the preservation of failed tool results, the…

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Explanation

The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #17376. types.rs preserves failed tool results with the [Tool execution failed] prefix, retains IDs, content, images, and order, and rejects invalid is_error values. Request and response conversion preserve thinking display. Omitted thinking produces empty unary content and one empty stream delta per reasoning block. Visible text, tools, usage, and ordering remain intact. The HTTP tests cover success and failure results, unary and streaming display modes, interleaved output, invalid combinations, updates, and malformed status values.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The reviewed changes remain within #17376. The converter changes implement tool-error and omitted-thinking behavior. The HTTP tests verify those behaviors. The context helper, image handling needed by tool-result preservation, documentation, and protocol dependency pins support the implementation or its validation. No unrelated feature change is established.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the repository template: Overview, Key Changes, Validation, Issues and Ongoing Work, and the checklist are all present. It explains the preservation of failed tool results, the omitted-thinking behavior, heartbeat changes, and the validation matrix with test counts. It links the issue (#17376) and notes the dependency on the published dynamo-protocols 9.1.0 release. The main gap is the template's Closes line, which is present, but the description does not state the protocol pin still being a draft in the Cargo.toml patch, which the raw summary flags as a readiness gate. The author's checklist box is checked.

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Review comments at @lib/llm/src/protocols/anthropic/stream_converter.rs:
- Around line 535-569: Update the reasoning-stream handling around
thinking_block_started so resumed reasoning after text or a tool flushes or
defers preceding blocks in stream order, then resets the thinking state and
starts a new thinking block with the next block index. In omitted-thinking mode,
emit exactly one empty thinking delta for each newly started block.

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