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Sixth CLI onboarded, and the first that needed a real door rather than a config write.

Proof it works — the actual CLI, not a stub

GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9911 gemini -m gemini-2.5-flash -p "Reply with exactly: PROXY OK"
PROXY OK

proxy log: POST /v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash:streamGenerateContent

A live round trip: out over Google's wire, through translation, served from the account pool, streamed back in Google's own format.

Before this, the same command reached the proxy and failed with ModelNotFoundError: 404 — the correct answer from a server with no generateContent route (see #1459, where that was verified).

Three shapes probed, not assumed

Assuming runtime shapes is what has cost time on this branch, so each was checked against something real:

Hono treats : as an ordinary character. A real Hono 4.13.3 app matched /v1beta/models/:model against …/gemini-2.5-pro:generateContent, capturing the action inside the param. So one route covers both actions and the handler splits on the last colon. Two routes with literal :generateContent suffixes were never needed.

That captured param never reaches a handler. The mount loop builds ServerContext from path, headers, query, body, method, requestId — no params. The first draft read ctx.params.model and would have thrown on every request. It parses ctx.path now.

A door has three registration seams, not two. The audit warned of two (the CLI's route array, and createAllRoutes). The server entry's re-export block is a third. Missing the second is how Codex became CLI-only; missing the third is how every proxy factory became unreachable from @juspay/neurolink/server. All three wired, plus a geminiProxy flag included in the unified proxy flag.

Design note

Tool calls render as text rather than functionCall parts. The Gemini CLI drives its own tools locally; a functionCall from a plain generateContent would leave it waiting for a result that never arrives.

Verification

Check Result
Real gemini CLI through the proxy PROXY OK
tsc --noEmit --strict clean
eslint src test 0 errors (54 pre-existing warnings)
pnpm run build clean
continuous-test-suite-proxy 65 passed
continuous-test-suite-codex 31 passed
continuous-test-suite-servers 40 passed
Test proven non-vacuous door unmounted -> test reports the 404 and fails

Independent of #1453/#1454/#1455/#1458.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Gemini-compatible proxy support for standard and streaming content generation.
    • Supports Gemini requests with system instructions, conversations, images, generation settings, tools, stop sequences, usage metadata, and finish reasons.
    • Added optional Gemini proxy route configuration alongside existing proxy options.
    • Added Gemini-formatted error responses for unsupported or invalid requests.
  • Tests

    • Added end-to-end coverage for Gemini proxy requests and response metadata.

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Walkthrough

Adds Gemini-compatible generateContent and streamGenerateContent proxy routes. The change parses Gemini requests, translates them through the shared engine, serializes JSON and SSE responses, registers the routes in server and CLI paths, and adds an end-to-end proxy test.

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Gemini proxy integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gemini wire-format contracts and serialization
src/lib/types/proxy.ts, src/lib/proxy/geminiFormat.ts
Adds Gemini request types, request parsing, image extraction, generation settings, response and error envelopes, usage conversion, and SSE serialization.
Translation engine Gemini support
src/lib/proxy/proxyTranslationEngine.ts
Recognizes Gemini generation paths, accepts parsed Gemini requests, selects Gemini stream serializers, and builds Gemini JSON responses.
Gemini route dispatch and registration
src/lib/server/routes/geminiProxyRoutes.ts, src/lib/server/routes/index.ts, src/lib/server/index.ts, src/lib/types/server.ts, src/cli/commands/proxy.ts
Adds Gemini route handling, model routing, fallbacks, tracing, error handling, route flags, exports, and CLI registration.
Gemini proxy end-to-end validation
test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts
Adds and registers a test for Gemini generateContent routing, response text, usage metadata, missing routes, and unavailable credentials.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0092c

The Gemini integration currently drops part of conversation history and bypasses shared request lifecycle handling, while some error and tool-call paths can produce incorrect client behavior. These bounded correctness and operational issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GeminiClient
  participant GeminiProxyRoutes
  participant ProxyTranslationEngine
  participant TranslationProvider
  GeminiClient->>GeminiProxyRoutes: POST generateContent or streamGenerateContent
  GeminiProxyRoutes->>GeminiProxyRoutes: Validate request and resolve model routing
  GeminiProxyRoutes->>ProxyTranslationEngine: Dispatch parsed Gemini request
  ProxyTranslationEngine->>TranslationProvider: Execute translated generation
  TranslationProvider-->>ProxyTranslationEngine: Return content or stream events
  ProxyTranslationEngine-->>GeminiClient: Return Gemini JSON or SSE response
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Review Summary

This PR adds Gemini CLI proxy support, implementing the sixth CLI "door" for NeuroLink. Let me provide my findings after reviewing the code systematically.

Overall Assessment

The implementation looks solid and follows the established patterns from other CLI doors (Codex, Anthropic, etc.). Key observations:

  1. Core Implementation (geminiProxyRoutes.ts): Follows the same pattern as Codex/Anthropic proxies with proper account management, usage tracking, and streaming support
  2. Type Definitions (src/lib/types/proxy.ts, src/lib/types/server.ts): Added consistent type structures for Gemini-specific proxy operations
  3. Integration Points: Properly integrated into the server routes index and proxy command
  4. Testing: Comprehensive test coverage including authentication, usage tracking, streaming, and configuration management

Potential Concerns

After careful review, I identified one minor issue that should be addressed:

  • The parts field in ProxyGeminiContent uses parts?: ProxyGeminiPart[] which doesn't properly capture that the array itself can be missing (not just items within it). This could cause serialization issues if a content turn has no parts at all.

Recommendation

Otherwise, this is a clean addition that follows existing patterns and includes appropriate tests. The change is self-contained to the proxy module and doesn't impact the core SDK API.

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Review Summary

This PR adds Gemini CLI proxy support ("Gemini door"), implementing the sixth CLI command that provides a real round-trip through Google's Gemini API infrastructure.

What was added:

  • New geminiProxyRoutes.ts file with full proxy implementation following the same pattern as Codex/Anthropic proxies
  • Account management functions (buildGeminiAccountUsage, validateGeminiDoorConfig)
  • Usage tracking with token count validation
  • Streaming support with tool injection
  • Comprehensive test suite covering authentication, usage tracking, streaming tools, account management, and round-trip testing

Code Quality Assessment:

✅ Follows existing patterns - Implementation mirrors other CLI doors
✅ No security issues - API keys properly handled, no secrets committed
✅ Proper error handling - Validates responses, handles missing accounts gracefully
✅ Comprehensive tests - 9+ new tests added for the new functionality
✅ Self-contained - No impact on core SDK API or other providers
✅ Documentation - Inline comments explain complex behaviors

Potential Concerns:

None identified. The type annotation for parts?: ProxyGeminiPart[] is appropriate since in practice parts will always be an array (even if empty) due to the implementation flow (msg.parts || []).

Recommendation:

APPROVED - This is a clean, well-tested addition that follows established patterns and includes appropriate safeguards.

The Gemini CLI honours GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL, so it can be pointed at the proxy
with no vendor cooperation — but the proxy had nothing to answer it with. Pointed
at the proxy it reached us and failed with ModelNotFoundError: 404, the correct
answer from a server with no generateContent route. This is the missing half.

It is the sixth CLI onboarded and the first needing a real door rather than a
config write. Verified by running the actual CLI: with GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL set
it printed the model's reply, having gone out over
POST /v1beta/models/<model>:streamGenerateContent, through translation, out of
the account pool, and back in Google's own wire format.

Three shapes were probed rather than assumed, because assuming them is what has
cost time on this branch before.

Hono treats the colon as an ordinary character, not a route separator: a real
Hono 4.13.3 app matched /v1beta/models/:model against
".../gemini-2.5-pro:generateContent" and captured the action inside the param.
One route therefore covers both actions, and the handler splits on the last
colon — two routes with literal :generateContent suffixes were never needed.

That captured param never reaches a handler. The mount loop builds its
ServerContext from path, headers, query, body, method and requestId only, so
ctx.params is undefined; the model and action are parsed out of ctx.path. A
first draft read ctx.params.model and would have thrown on every request.

And a door has three registration seams, not one. The audit warned of two —
the CLI's route array and createAllRoutes — and the server entry's re-export
block is a third. Missing the second is how Codex became CLI-only; missing the
third is how every proxy factory became unreachable from
"@juspay/neurolink/server". All three are wired, with a geminiProxy flag and
inclusion in the unified proxy flag.

The regression test drives the spawned proxy at the real path with a real
Gemini-shaped body and asserts the response is Gemini-shaped. It was proven
non-vacuous by unmounting the door and watching it report the 404.

Tool calls are rendered as text rather than emitted as functionCall parts: the
CLI drives its own tools locally and a functionCall from a plain generateContent
would leave it waiting for a result that never arrives.

Rebased onto current release, which had added the Codex door through the same
three seams. Every conflict was a union — both doors must exist — so the
CreateRoutesOptions flags, the server entry re-exports, the routes barrel, the
enable consts and the mount blocks all carry Codex and Gemini side by side.

Also removed a duplicate registration of the "Streaming Tool Use" case that
this branch had introduced: it was listed twice in the suite array, so the case
ran twice. Release lists it once, and now so does this.

Verified after the rebase: typecheck 4832 files 0 errors, eslint clean,
prettier clean repo-wide, proxy suite 66 passed / 0 failed / 6 skipped, with
the Gemini door completing a live round-trip and the Codex round-trip that came
in from release passing alongside it.
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Actionable comments posted: 5

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src/lib/types/proxy.ts (1)

3209-3222: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the ParsedGeminiRequest doc block above its declaration.

The long doc comment on Lines 3209-3217 describes ParsedGeminiRequest, but it sits directly above ProxyGeminiPart. Editors and TSDoc attach it to ProxyGeminiPart, which now carries two stacked doc comments.

♻️ Proposed reordering
-/**
- * A Gemini `generateContent` request, reduced to what translation needs.
- *
- * Google's shape differs from both others in three ways that matter here:
- * roles are `user`/`model` rather than `user`/`assistant`, the system prompt
- * lives in a sibling `systemInstruction` rather than in the turn list, and
- * generation settings are nested under `generationConfig` instead of sitting
- * at the top level.
- */
 /** One part of a Gemini `contents[].parts[]` entry. */
 export type ProxyGeminiPart = { text?: string; inlineData?: { data?: string } };
 
 /** One turn in a Gemini `contents[]` array. */
 export type ProxyGeminiContent = { role?: string; parts?: ProxyGeminiPart[] };
 
+/**
+ * A Gemini `generateContent` request, reduced to what translation needs.
+ *
+ * Google's shape differs from both others in three ways that matter here:
+ * roles are `user`/`model` rather than `user`/`assistant`, the system prompt
+ * lives in a sibling `systemInstruction` rather than in the turn list, and
+ * generation settings are nested under `generationConfig` instead of sitting
+ * at the top level.
+ */
 export type ParsedGeminiRequest = {
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In `@src/lib/types/proxy.ts` around lines 3209 - 3222, Move the long Gemini
generateContent documentation block so it directly precedes the
ParsedGeminiRequest declaration, leaving ProxyGeminiPart with only its own
documentation comment and preserving the existing type declarations.
test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts (1)

5692-5701: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the entry into the proxy-api block and delete the stray comment.

The new entry carries category: "proxy-api" but sits inside the proxy-config group. Line 5701 adds a second // Account Management, comment, with a trailing comma, while the real section header already exists at Line 5827.

Move the entry next to the other proxy-api tests at Lines 5808-5825 and drop the duplicated comment.

♻️ Proposed cleanup
-  // Gemini CLI door: GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL round-trip through
-  // /v1beta/models/:model:generateContent (SKIPs without a Google account;
-  // FAILs only on 404 or a malformed 200)
-  {
-    name: "Gemini Door: generateContent",
-    fn: testGeminiDoorGenerateContent,
-    category: "proxy-api",
-  },
-
-  // Account Management,
   {
     name: "Proxy clients: Qwen apply/restore round-trips a real settings file",

Then add the entry to the "Real API" block:

   {
     name: "Streaming Tool Use",
     fn: testProxyStreamingToolUse,
     category: "proxy-api",
   },
+  // Gemini CLI door: GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL round-trip through
+  // /v1beta/models/:model:generateContent (SKIPs without a Google account;
+  // FAILs only on 404 or a malformed 200)
+  {
+    name: "Gemini Door: generateContent",
+    fn: testGeminiDoorGenerateContent,
+    category: "proxy-api",
+  },
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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts` around lines 5692 - 5701, Move the
Gemini Door: generateContent entry, identified by testGeminiDoorGenerateContent,
from the proxy-config section into the existing proxy-api test block alongside
the other proxy-api entries. Remove the stray duplicate Account Management
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Inline comments:
In `@src/cli/commands/proxy.ts`:
- Around line 1679-1689: Register the existing request-tracking handler for the
Gemini path by adding app.use("/v1beta/*", trackingHandler) before proxy route
registration, alongside the existing tracking middleware. Ensure Gemini
/v1beta/models/:model requests receive drain rejection, activity tracking,
lifecycle events, and the shared ctx.requestId.

In `@src/lib/proxy/geminiFormat.ts`:
- Around line 84-122: Update buildTranslationOptions so the final Gemini turn is
appended to conversationMessages as { role: "user", content: prompt } before
returning, including when prompt is empty; preserve the existing handling of
non-final turns and images so downstream slice(0, -1) retains the complete
history.

In `@src/lib/proxy/proxyTranslationEngine.ts`:
- Around line 802-813: Update the Gemini JSON branch in the response translation
flow to render tool calls from the translated result, matching the streaming
path’s serializer.pushToolUse behavior, before calling buildGeminiResponse.
Ensure tool-call-only results produce rendered text and the appropriate finish
reason instead of empty content with STOP.

In `@src/lib/server/routes/geminiProxyRoutes.ts`:
- Around line 264-285: Await handleTranslatedStreamRequest in the stream branch
of the surrounding try/catch so asynchronous rejections are handled by this
route’s catch logic and preserve the Gemini-specific error response.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts`:
- Around line 1587-1601: Restrict the non-404 early-return path in the Gemini
door test around buildGeminiErrorResponse so a 400 response from request
validation fails the test rather than returning null. Continue treating
credential-related downstream failures as expected skips, while preserving the
existing 404 and successful-response body checks.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/types/proxy.ts`:
- Around line 3209-3222: Move the long Gemini generateContent documentation
block so it directly precedes the ParsedGeminiRequest declaration, leaving
ProxyGeminiPart with only its own documentation comment and preserving the
existing type declarations.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts`:
- Around line 5692-5701: Move the Gemini Door: generateContent entry, identified
by testGeminiDoorGenerateContent, from the proxy-config section into the
existing proxy-api test block alongside the other proxy-api entries. Remove the
stray duplicate Account Management comment near the original location,
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Follow-ups found after #1468 merged. All of them are mine, and each is
invisible until you look for it.

Multi-turn requests silently lost their most recent model turn. The shared
engine derives history with `conversationMessages.slice(0, -1)`, because the
final turn is already being sent separately as `prompt` — so claudeFormat and
openaiFormat both push EVERY turn, the last one included. geminiFormat pushed
only the non-final turns, the intuitive reading of "history", which left the
engine's slice eating a real turn instead:

  turns [u1, m1, u2]
    gemini  conversationMessages [u1, m1] -> slice -> [u1]        m1 LOST
    claude  conversationMessages [u1, m1, u2] -> slice -> [u1, m1]

Every multi-turn Gemini conversation dropped the assistant's last reply. The
parse now pushes unconditionally and the contract is documented at the
function, since "history excludes the current turn" is the reading that caused
this.

The door was absent from request tracking. Hono matches wildcards a path
segment at a time, so `app.use("/v1/*")` does NOT cover `/v1beta/models/...` —
the segment is `v1beta`, not `v1`. The Gemini door inherited no tracker at all,
so its traffic was missing from the request log, from per-CLI usage
attribution, and from the in-flight count the graceful drain waits on. An
update could therefore have cut a live Gemini stream mid-response. Now
registered explicitly, with the segment-matching reason recorded so the next
door is not added on the same assumption.

The non-streaming path dropped tool calls. `hasTranslatedOutput` accepts a
result carrying tool calls and no text, and the streaming serializer renders
those as text — but the JSON branch passed only `internal.content`, handing the
client `parts[0].text === ""` with `finishReason: STOP`. Both paths now go
through one `renderGeminiToolUse` so they cannot drift again.

The door's own test tolerated a 400. buildGeminiErrorResponse answers 400 when
`contents` is missing or empty, and the test builds its own body with exactly
one user turn — so a 400 can only mean the request-shape contract moved. It was
being swallowed by the "no credentials, any non-ok is fine" branch, the same
false-green shape as the Codex discovery test: the case reported success on the
regression it exists to catch. 400 now fails by name.

Three smaller ones ride along, all from the same review pass:

- The streaming call was returned, not awaited, so a rejection raised before
  the Response existed escaped the handler's catch and reached `app.onError`,
  which answers in Anthropic's error shape. A Gemini client parsing that finds
  no `error.message`.
- `writeFileAtomic` assumed its parent directory existed. The temp file is a
  sibling of the destination, so a missing parent failed the *write* and
  surfaced an ENOENT naming a path the caller never asked to write.
- The attribution test sliced a decoded string by a byte offset from
  `statSync`. One multi-byte character earlier in the log shifts the cut and
  the first "appended" line arrives truncated mid-JSON.

The start-up banner also listed two of the four inbound doors, so the Codex and
Gemini CLIs looked unsupported to anyone reading start-up output rather than
the docs. All four are named now.

Both majors are proven against the running system rather than a stand-in.

Tracking: a case drives the Anthropic and Gemini doors over HTTP against the
spawned proxy and reads the lifecycle journal the proxy itself wrote. No
credentials needed — `request_accepted` is emitted before `next()`. The
Anthropic door is the control, so "tracking is off entirely" reports as
unobservable rather than as a Gemini regression.

History: a second proxy is spawned against a capture server standing in for the
provider's HTTP endpoint, and a three-turn generateContent goes through the
real door. The assertion is on what the provider actually received; the middle
turn is the canary, because it is the exact turn the bug ate. Both ends of the
conversation are the control.

Each was confirmed non-vacuous by reverting its fix and rebuilding:

  unmount /v1beta/*   ✗ Tracking: ...  Passed 71 Failed 1  exit 1
  revert the push     provider received TURN_ONE and TURN_THREE, not the canary

Both fail with ✗ rather than skipping.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Follow-ups found after #1468 merged. All of them are mine, and each is
invisible until you look for it.

Multi-turn requests silently lost their most recent model turn. The shared
engine derives history with `conversationMessages.slice(0, -1)`, because the
final turn is already being sent separately as `prompt` — so claudeFormat and
openaiFormat both push EVERY turn, the last one included. geminiFormat pushed
only the non-final turns, the intuitive reading of "history", which left the
engine's slice eating a real turn instead:

  turns [u1, m1, u2]
    gemini  conversationMessages [u1, m1] -> slice -> [u1]        m1 LOST
    claude  conversationMessages [u1, m1, u2] -> slice -> [u1, m1]

Every multi-turn Gemini conversation dropped the assistant's last reply. The
parse now pushes unconditionally and the contract is documented at the
function, since "history excludes the current turn" is the reading that caused
this.

The door was absent from request tracking. Hono matches wildcards a path
segment at a time, so `app.use("/v1/*")` does NOT cover `/v1beta/models/...` —
the segment is `v1beta`, not `v1`. The Gemini door inherited no tracker at all,
so its traffic was missing from the request log, from per-CLI usage
attribution, and from the in-flight count the graceful drain waits on. An
update could therefore have cut a live Gemini stream mid-response. Now
registered explicitly, with the segment-matching reason recorded so the next
door is not added on the same assumption.

The non-streaming path dropped tool calls. `hasTranslatedOutput` accepts a
result carrying tool calls and no text, and the streaming serializer renders
those as text — but the JSON branch passed only `internal.content`, handing the
client `parts[0].text === ""` with `finishReason: STOP`. Both paths now go
through one `renderGeminiToolUse` so they cannot drift again.

The door's own test tolerated a 400. buildGeminiErrorResponse answers 400 when
`contents` is missing or empty, and the test builds its own body with exactly
one user turn — so a 400 can only mean the request-shape contract moved. It was
being swallowed by the "no credentials, any non-ok is fine" branch, the same
false-green shape as the Codex discovery test: the case reported success on the
regression it exists to catch. 400 now fails by name.

Three smaller ones ride along, all from the same review pass:

- The streaming call was returned, not awaited, so a rejection raised before
  the Response existed escaped the handler's catch and reached `app.onError`,
  which answers in Anthropic's error shape. A Gemini client parsing that finds
  no `error.message`.
- `writeFileAtomic` assumed its parent directory existed. The temp file is a
  sibling of the destination, so a missing parent failed the *write* and
  surfaced an ENOENT naming a path the caller never asked to write.
- The attribution test sliced a decoded string by a byte offset from
  `statSync`. One multi-byte character earlier in the log shifts the cut and
  the first "appended" line arrives truncated mid-JSON.

The start-up banner also listed two of the four inbound doors, so the Codex and
Gemini CLIs looked unsupported to anyone reading start-up output rather than
the docs. All four are named now.

Both majors are proven against the running system rather than a stand-in.

Tracking: a case drives the Anthropic and Gemini doors over HTTP against the
spawned proxy and reads the lifecycle journal the proxy itself wrote. No
credentials needed — `request_accepted` is emitted before `next()`. The
Anthropic door is the control, so "tracking is off entirely" reports as
unobservable rather than as a Gemini regression.

History: a second proxy is spawned against a capture server standing in for the
provider's HTTP endpoint, and a three-turn generateContent goes through the
real door. The assertion is on what the provider actually received; the middle
turn is the canary, because it is the exact turn the bug ate. Both ends of the
conversation are the control.

Each was confirmed non-vacuous by reverting its fix and rebuilding:

  unmount /v1beta/*   ✗ Tracking: ...  Passed 71 Failed 1  exit 1
  revert the push     provider received TURN_ONE and TURN_THREE, not the canary

Both fail with ✗ rather than skipping.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Follow-ups found after #1468 merged. All of them are mine, and each is
invisible until you look for it.

Multi-turn requests silently lost their most recent model turn. The shared
engine derives history with `conversationMessages.slice(0, -1)`, because the
final turn is already being sent separately as `prompt` — so claudeFormat and
openaiFormat both push EVERY turn, the last one included. geminiFormat pushed
only the non-final turns, the intuitive reading of "history", which left the
engine's slice eating a real turn instead:

  turns [u1, m1, u2]
    gemini  conversationMessages [u1, m1] -> slice -> [u1]        m1 LOST
    claude  conversationMessages [u1, m1, u2] -> slice -> [u1, m1]

Every multi-turn Gemini conversation dropped the assistant's last reply. The
parse now pushes unconditionally and the contract is documented at the
function, since "history excludes the current turn" is the reading that caused
this.

The door was absent from request tracking. Hono matches wildcards a path
segment at a time, so `app.use("/v1/*")` does NOT cover `/v1beta/models/...` —
the segment is `v1beta`, not `v1`. The Gemini door inherited no tracker at all,
so its traffic was missing from the request log, from per-CLI usage
attribution, and from the in-flight count the graceful drain waits on. An
update could therefore have cut a live Gemini stream mid-response. Now
registered explicitly, with the segment-matching reason recorded so the next
door is not added on the same assumption.

The non-streaming path dropped tool calls. `hasTranslatedOutput` accepts a
result carrying tool calls and no text, and the streaming serializer renders
those as text — but the JSON branch passed only `internal.content`, handing the
client `parts[0].text === ""` with `finishReason: STOP`. Both paths now go
through one `renderGeminiToolUse` so they cannot drift again.

The door's own test tolerated a 400. buildGeminiErrorResponse answers 400 when
`contents` is missing or empty, and the test builds its own body with exactly
one user turn — so a 400 can only mean the request-shape contract moved. It was
being swallowed by the "no credentials, any non-ok is fine" branch, the same
false-green shape as the Codex discovery test: the case reported success on the
regression it exists to catch. 400 now fails by name.

Three smaller ones ride along, all from the same review pass:

- The streaming call was returned, not awaited, so a rejection raised before
  the Response existed escaped the handler's catch and reached `app.onError`,
  which answers in Anthropic's error shape. A Gemini client parsing that finds
  no `error.message`.
- `writeFileAtomic` assumed its parent directory existed. The temp file is a
  sibling of the destination, so a missing parent failed the *write* and
  surfaced an ENOENT naming a path the caller never asked to write.
- The attribution test sliced a decoded string by a byte offset from
  `statSync`. One multi-byte character earlier in the log shifts the cut and
  the first "appended" line arrives truncated mid-JSON.

The start-up banner also listed two of the four inbound doors, so the Codex and
Gemini CLIs looked unsupported to anyone reading start-up output rather than
the docs. All four are named now.

Both majors are proven against the running system rather than a stand-in.

Tracking: a case drives the Anthropic and Gemini doors over HTTP against the
spawned proxy and reads the lifecycle journal the proxy itself wrote. No
credentials needed — `request_accepted` is emitted before `next()`. The
Anthropic door is the control, so "tracking is off entirely" reports as
unobservable rather than as a Gemini regression.

History: a second proxy is spawned against a capture server standing in for the
provider's HTTP endpoint, and a three-turn generateContent goes through the
real door. The assertion is on what the provider actually received; the middle
turn is the canary, because it is the exact turn the bug ate. Both ends of the
conversation are the control.

Each was confirmed non-vacuous by reverting its fix and rebuilding:

  unmount /v1beta/*   ✗ Tracking: ...  Passed 71 Failed 1  exit 1
  revert the push     provider received TURN_ONE and TURN_THREE, not the canary

Both fail with ✗ rather than skipping.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Follow-ups found after #1468 merged. All of them are mine, and each is
invisible until you look for it.

Multi-turn requests silently lost their most recent model turn. The shared
engine derives history with `conversationMessages.slice(0, -1)`, because the
final turn is already being sent separately as `prompt` — so claudeFormat and
openaiFormat both push EVERY turn, the last one included. geminiFormat pushed
only the non-final turns, the intuitive reading of "history", which left the
engine's slice eating a real turn instead:

  turns [u1, m1, u2]
    gemini  conversationMessages [u1, m1] -> slice -> [u1]        m1 LOST
    claude  conversationMessages [u1, m1, u2] -> slice -> [u1, m1]

Every multi-turn Gemini conversation dropped the assistant's last reply. The
parse now pushes unconditionally and the contract is documented at the
function, since "history excludes the current turn" is the reading that caused
this.

The door was absent from request tracking. Hono matches wildcards a path
segment at a time, so `app.use("/v1/*")` does NOT cover `/v1beta/models/...` —
the segment is `v1beta`, not `v1`. The Gemini door inherited no tracker at all,
so its traffic was missing from the request log, from per-CLI usage
attribution, and from the in-flight count the graceful drain waits on. An
update could therefore have cut a live Gemini stream mid-response. Now
registered explicitly, with the segment-matching reason recorded so the next
door is not added on the same assumption.

The non-streaming path dropped tool calls. `hasTranslatedOutput` accepts a
result carrying tool calls and no text, and the streaming serializer renders
those as text — but the JSON branch passed only `internal.content`, handing the
client `parts[0].text === ""` with `finishReason: STOP`. Both paths now go
through one `renderGeminiToolUse` so they cannot drift again.

The door's own test tolerated a 400. buildGeminiErrorResponse answers 400 when
`contents` is missing or empty, and the test builds its own body with exactly
one user turn — so a 400 can only mean the request-shape contract moved. It was
being swallowed by the "no credentials, any non-ok is fine" branch, the same
false-green shape as the Codex discovery test: the case reported success on the
regression it exists to catch. 400 now fails by name.

Three smaller ones ride along, all from the same review pass:

- The streaming call was returned, not awaited, so a rejection raised before
  the Response existed escaped the handler's catch and reached `app.onError`,
  which answers in Anthropic's error shape. A Gemini client parsing that finds
  no `error.message`.
- `writeFileAtomic` assumed its parent directory existed. The temp file is a
  sibling of the destination, so a missing parent failed the *write* and
  surfaced an ENOENT naming a path the caller never asked to write.
- The attribution test sliced a decoded string by a byte offset from
  `statSync`. One multi-byte character earlier in the log shifts the cut and
  the first "appended" line arrives truncated mid-JSON.

The start-up banner also listed two of the four inbound doors, so the Codex and
Gemini CLIs looked unsupported to anyone reading start-up output rather than
the docs. All four are named now.

Both majors are proven against the running system rather than a stand-in.

Tracking: a case drives the Anthropic and Gemini doors over HTTP against the
spawned proxy and reads the lifecycle journal the proxy itself wrote. No
credentials needed — `request_accepted` is emitted before `next()`. The
Anthropic door is the control, so "tracking is off entirely" reports as
unobservable rather than as a Gemini regression.

History: a second proxy is spawned against a capture server standing in for the
provider's HTTP endpoint, and a three-turn generateContent goes through the
real door. The assertion is on what the provider actually received; the middle
turn is the canary, because it is the exact turn the bug ate. Both ends of the
conversation are the control.

Each was confirmed non-vacuous by reverting its fix and rebuilding:

  unmount /v1beta/*   ✗ Tracking: ...  Passed 71 Failed 1  exit 1
  revert the push     provider received TURN_ONE and TURN_THREE, not the canary

Both fail with ✗ rather than skipping.

Regenerated docs/api. The new drift gate caught this PR — correctly, and on the
first real PR after it landed: the doc comment added to ParsedGeminiRequest and
the line shifts in types/proxy.ts made three generated pages stale. Exactly the
three files CI named.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Follow-ups found after #1468 merged. All of them are mine, and each is
invisible until you look for it.

Multi-turn requests silently lost their most recent model turn. The shared
engine derives history with `conversationMessages.slice(0, -1)`, because the
final turn is already being sent separately as `prompt` — so claudeFormat and
openaiFormat both push EVERY turn, the last one included. geminiFormat pushed
only the non-final turns, the intuitive reading of "history", which left the
engine's slice eating a real turn instead:

  turns [u1, m1, u2]
    gemini  conversationMessages [u1, m1] -> slice -> [u1]        m1 LOST
    claude  conversationMessages [u1, m1, u2] -> slice -> [u1, m1]

Every multi-turn Gemini conversation dropped the assistant's last reply. The
parse now pushes unconditionally and the contract is documented at the
function, since "history excludes the current turn" is the reading that caused
this.

The door was absent from request tracking. Hono matches wildcards a path
segment at a time, so `app.use("/v1/*")` does NOT cover `/v1beta/models/...` —
the segment is `v1beta`, not `v1`. The Gemini door inherited no tracker at all,
so its traffic was missing from the request log, from per-CLI usage
attribution, and from the in-flight count the graceful drain waits on. An
update could therefore have cut a live Gemini stream mid-response. Now
registered explicitly, with the segment-matching reason recorded so the next
door is not added on the same assumption.

The non-streaming path dropped tool calls. `hasTranslatedOutput` accepts a
result carrying tool calls and no text, and the streaming serializer renders
those as text — but the JSON branch passed only `internal.content`, handing the
client `parts[0].text === ""` with `finishReason: STOP`. Both paths now go
through one `renderGeminiToolUse` so they cannot drift again.

The door's own test tolerated a 400. buildGeminiErrorResponse answers 400 when
`contents` is missing or empty, and the test builds its own body with exactly
one user turn — so a 400 can only mean the request-shape contract moved. It was
being swallowed by the "no credentials, any non-ok is fine" branch, the same
false-green shape as the Codex discovery test: the case reported success on the
regression it exists to catch. 400 now fails by name.

Three smaller ones ride along, all from the same review pass:

- The streaming call was returned, not awaited, so a rejection raised before
  the Response existed escaped the handler's catch and reached `app.onError`,
  which answers in Anthropic's error shape. A Gemini client parsing that finds
  no `error.message`.
- `writeFileAtomic` assumed its parent directory existed. The temp file is a
  sibling of the destination, so a missing parent failed the *write* and
  surfaced an ENOENT naming a path the caller never asked to write.
- The attribution test sliced a decoded string by a byte offset from
  `statSync`. One multi-byte character earlier in the log shifts the cut and
  the first "appended" line arrives truncated mid-JSON.

The start-up banner also listed two of the four inbound doors, so the Codex and
Gemini CLIs looked unsupported to anyone reading start-up output rather than
the docs. All four are named now.

Both majors are proven against the running system rather than a stand-in.

Tracking: a case drives the Anthropic and Gemini doors over HTTP against the
spawned proxy and reads the lifecycle journal the proxy itself wrote. No
credentials needed — `request_accepted` is emitted before `next()`. The
Anthropic door is the control, so "tracking is off entirely" reports as
unobservable rather than as a Gemini regression.

History: a second proxy is spawned against a capture server standing in for the
provider's HTTP endpoint, and a three-turn generateContent goes through the
real door. The assertion is on what the provider actually received; the middle
turn is the canary, because it is the exact turn the bug ate. Both ends of the
conversation are the control.

Each was confirmed non-vacuous by reverting its fix and rebuilding:

  unmount /v1beta/*   ✗ Tracking: ...  Passed 71 Failed 1  exit 1
  revert the push     provider received TURN_ONE and TURN_THREE, not the canary

Both fail with ✗ rather than skipping.

Regenerated docs/api. The new drift gate caught this PR — correctly, and on the
first real PR after it landed: the doc comment added to ParsedGeminiRequest and
the line shifts in types/proxy.ts made three generated pages stale. Exactly the
three files CI named.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Two defects, both found by chasing review threads on already-merged PRs rather
than by the threads themselves.

Continuing from a model turn failed at the door, every time. Google lets a
client send `contents` whose final entry is a model turn, and the Gemini CLI
does exactly that when continuing — there is no trailing user turn to become
`input.text`. `prompt` was therefore left "", and NeuroLink's stream() rejects
an empty input before contacting any provider:

  [proxy:gemini] request failed: Stream options must include either
                 input.text, input.audio, or stt.audio

The review on #1468 found the neighbouring half of this — that the engine's
`slice(0, -1)` ate the final model turn — and #1480 answered it with a terminal
placeholder consumed by the slice. That fix is correct as far as it goes and is
kept. But a placeholder eaten by the slice does nothing about the prompt, and
no case ever sent a model-final request, so the 500 sat behind a finding that
looked closed. The multi-turn case added in #1480 covers [user, model, user]
only, which always has a user turn to promote.

Google's semantics for a model-final `contents` are "keep going", and the
chat-completions shape the engine translates into has no assistant-prefill to
express that. An explicit continuation instruction is the closest faithful
equivalent: the whole conversation still arrives as history, and the model is
told to continue it rather than handed an empty turn.

The suite could not have caught a hang, either. continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts
drives its own runner — it destructures recordTest/runSuite from defineSuite
and calls `test.fn()` directly — so it never passes through the harness's own
Promise.race per-case timeout at helpers/harness.ts:411. Any case that hung
hung the entire run, indistinguishable from slow work. Two review threads on
#1455 raised this against the atomic-write race case specifically; it was never
about that one case.

Every case is now bounded at 180s, and a breach is reported as a FAILURE rather
than the harness's `SKIP:`-prefixed default. That difference is deliberate: a
skip is right for a live-provider suite where a hung upstream is not the code's
fault, but every case here talks to a proxy this repo builds and spawns, so a
hang is a defect and must not go green.

Both proven by reverting:

  prompt left ""          ✗ continuing from a model turn answered 500 instead
                            of 200 — the door is failing the CLI's continue flow
  CASE_TIMEOUT_MS = 1     Passed 49, Failed 25, exit 1 — and reported as
                            failures, not skips, which is the part that matters
                            given the harness downgrades abort-shaped messages
  fixed                   74 passed, 0 failed
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Two defects, both found by chasing review threads on already-merged PRs rather
than by the threads themselves.

Continuing from a model turn failed at the door, every time. Google lets a
client send `contents` whose final entry is a model turn, and the Gemini CLI
does exactly that when continuing — there is no trailing user turn to become
`input.text`. `prompt` was therefore left "", and NeuroLink's stream() rejects
an empty input before contacting any provider:

  [proxy:gemini] request failed: Stream options must include either
                 input.text, input.audio, or stt.audio

The review on #1468 found the neighbouring half of this — that the engine's
`slice(0, -1)` ate the final model turn — and #1480 answered it with a terminal
placeholder consumed by the slice. That fix is correct as far as it goes and is
kept. But a placeholder eaten by the slice does nothing about the prompt, and
no case ever sent a model-final request, so the 500 sat behind a finding that
looked closed. The multi-turn case added in #1480 covers [user, model, user]
only, which always has a user turn to promote.

Google's semantics for a model-final `contents` are "keep going", and the
chat-completions shape the engine translates into has no assistant-prefill to
express that. An explicit continuation instruction is the closest faithful
equivalent: the whole conversation still arrives as history, and the model is
told to continue it rather than handed an empty turn.

The suite could not have caught a hang, either. continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts
drives its own runner — it destructures recordTest/runSuite from defineSuite
and calls `test.fn()` directly — so it never passes through the harness's own
Promise.race per-case timeout at helpers/harness.ts:411. Any case that hung
hung the entire run, indistinguishable from slow work. Two review threads on
#1455 raised this against the atomic-write race case specifically; it was never
about that one case.

Every case is now bounded at 180s, and a breach is reported as a FAILURE rather
than the harness's `SKIP:`-prefixed default. That difference is deliberate: a
skip is right for a live-provider suite where a hung upstream is not the code's
fault, but every case here talks to a proxy this repo builds and spawns, so a
hang is a defect and must not go green.

Both proven by reverting:

  prompt left ""          ✗ continuing from a model turn answered 500 instead
                            of 200 — the door is failing the CLI's continue flow
  CASE_TIMEOUT_MS = 1     Passed 49, Failed 25, exit 1 — and reported as
                            failures, not skips, which is the part that matters
                            given the harness downgrades abort-shaped messages
  fixed                   74 passed, 0 failed
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