feat(openai-chat): recover inline <think> reasoning behind inlineThinkTagModels

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Closes #5204.

Problem

reasoningTextFrom maps provider thinking to Codex reasoning only from reasoning_content or a plain reasoning field, with reasoning_details covering the structured MiniMax shape. A gateway that serves a thinking model on a backend with no server-side reasoning parser sends none of those: the chain of thought arrives inline in delta.content as a <think>...</think> block, and Codex renders the whole chain of thought as the assistant's answer.

Verified on one gateway, same base URL and key, minutes apart:

Model	system_fingerprint	Reasoning field	Today
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash	vllm-0.28.0.dev0+glm53...-tp4	reasoning	already correct
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7	vllm-0.25.1-tp2	none	chain of thought shown as the answer

reasoning_split: true, reasoning: { effort } and chat_template_kwargs are all ignored by that upstream, so the recovery can only happen proxy side.

Change

A new opt-in provider option inlineThinkTagModels, following the existing reasoningSplitModels / reasoningDetailsModels plumbing. Listed models have their think blocks split back into reasoning on both the streamed and non-streamed openai-chat paths.

Guarantees:

• Off by default. 66 registry providers share this adapter; an unlisted model takes a passthrough that never inspects or rewrites visible content.
• Self-gating even when enabled. The splitter engages only for a response that OPENS with a thinking tag, so an answer that merely mentions <think> is never rewritten.
• Interleaving. Once engaged it keeps splitting later blocks, because M-series models interleave thinking with answer segments.
• No content loss. A block left unterminated at end of stream flushes as reasoning; the EOF path flushes before the truncation verdict, so a carried tail cannot vanish.
• Byte accounting preserved. The parser keeps the existing translator-budget carry accounting.

No second parser: src/adapters/kiro-thinking.ts is generalized and renamed to src/adapters/inline-think-tags.ts, gaining an interleaved option. Kiro constructs it without that option and keeps its current single-leading-block behavior; its suite is unchanged apart from the import.

No registry preset ships this option. It is user configuration, because which models a given gateway parses is a property of that deployment rather than of the vendor.

Verification

Commands and results on macOS, Bun 1.3.14, branch head:

• bun run typecheck — clean.
• bun test tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-inline-think-tags.test.ts — 7 pass, 0 fail (new).
• bun test tests/providers/kiro/kiro-stream.test.ts — 116 pass, 0 fail (unchanged behavior after the rename).
• bun run structure:check — passes.
• bun run privacy:scan — passes.
• bun run skill:surface:check — current.
• bun scripts/file-size-ratchet.ts — see the note below.
• bun run test (full suite) — the only failures are ones that also fail on clean dev in the same environment; see below.

New regression coverage in tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-inline-think-tags.test.ts: a split block, a tag broken across chunk boundaries, interleaved blocks, an answer that merely mentions a think tag, an unterminated block at EOF, the passthrough case without the opt-in, and the non-streaming path.

Pre-existing failures on dev, untouched here

Running on clean dev (dbaad90a) in this environment reproduces, without this branch:

• tests/codex-integration/reserve-catalog-lifecycle.test.ts — 3 failures.
• file-size ratchet: NEW_OVERSIZED src/codex/history-provider.ts 2009 and GREW tests/server/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts 4192. Neither file is touched by this PR and neither baseline entry is changed.
• version-manager shim destruction and the Linux bubblewrap sandbox tests, which are environment dependent on macOS.

This PR raises exactly one ratchet baseline, src/adapters/openai-chat.ts 822 -> 827, for the five lines it adds there. Most of the implementation lives in the shared module specifically to keep that file small.

Deliberately out of scope

No reasoning.inlineThinkTags row was added to src/routing/compatibility/behavior.ts. That surface's keys are a closed set in src/lab/subject/behavior-fingerprint.ts, so adding one changes every Lab subject fingerprint. Happy to add it in a follow-up if you want the option represented there.

Only the English docs-site provider reference is updated; translations are left to the usual localization pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added opt-in recovery of inline <think>, <thinking>, and <reasoning> blocks, separating reasoning from visible response text for supported models.
  • Supports streaming and non-streaming OpenAI-compatible responses, including split, interleaved, and unfinished tags.
  • Added provider configuration to select affected models; behavior remains unchanged unless enabled.

• Documentation

  • Documented configuration and compatibility behavior for inline think-tag recovery.

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  • Added coverage for streaming, non-streaming, boundary-split, interleaved, unfinished, and opt-out scenarios.

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The pull request adds opt-in recovery for inline thinking tags. A shared parser separates reasoning from visible content in streamed and non-streamed OpenAI Chat responses and replaces the Kiro-specific parser.

Changes

Inline think-tag recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared inline-tag parser src/adapters/inline-think-tags.ts	Adds a budget-aware state machine that separates reasoning and text events, handles partial tags, supports interleaved blocks, preserves surrogate pairs, and provides passthrough and one-shot helpers.
Adapter integration src/adapters/openai-chat.ts, src/adapters/kiro/stream.ts, src/adapters/kiro-thinking.ts, tests/adapters/openai/*, tests/providers/kiro/*	Routes opted-in OpenAI Chat content through the splitter for streaming and non-streaming responses. Replaces KiroThinkingParser with InlineThinkTagParser. Tests cover chunk boundaries, interleaving, unterminated blocks, ordinary text, and opt-out behavior.
Provider configuration and validation src/types/provider.ts, src/providers/*, src/router.ts, src/server/auth-cors.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/providers.md, structure/providers/chat-compat.md, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/*	Adds inlineThinkTagModels to provider configuration, registry propagation, policy merging, model-renaming migration, editor-field policy, documentation, and test-layout fixtures.

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

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Gateway
  participant OpenAIChat
  participant InlineThinkContentSplitter
  participant CodexEvents
  Gateway->>OpenAIChat: send streamed or non-streamed content
  OpenAIChat->>InlineThinkContentSplitter: split configured model content
  InlineThinkContentSplitter->>CodexEvents: emit reasoning_raw_delta
  InlineThinkContentSplitter->>CodexEvents: emit text_delta

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inlineThinkTagModels: "editor",

PROVIDER_CONFIG_FIELD_POLICY ends in satisfies Record<keyof OcxProviderConfig, ProviderConfigFieldPolicy>, so every new provider option has to add exactly one row there or bun run typecheck fails. The row grants the same editor policy the neighbouring model-list options already have, and the PR changes nothing else on that file: no auth mode, no credential handling, no redaction boundary, no CORS behaviour.

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Fixed in 5dfe92a. The finding was correct: trimming the remainder after every closing tag also removed indentation that belongs to the answer, which breaks a block that sits inside markdown or code.

The parser now trims only the transition out of the leading block, where the blank line is formatting noise. Once answer text has been emitted, the remainder after a later closing tag is preserved byte-exact. Kiro is single-block, so its behaviour is unchanged and tests/providers/kiro/kiro-stream.test.ts still passes 116/116.

New regression: the blank line before the answer is dropped, but the answer's own indentation survives.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 54 / 80

어떤 서버는 모델의 생각을 따로 보내지 않습니다. <think>로 시작해서 </think>로 끝나는 글을 답 본문에 그대로 넣습니다. 지금은 그 생각까지 답으로 보입니다. 이 PR은 그 묶음을 생각으로 되돌립니다.

켜는 스위치는 제공자 설정의 inlineThinkTagModels입니다. 목록에 적은 모델만 해당하고, 기본은 꺼져 있습니다. 같은 채팅 어댑터를 쓰는 다른 제공자는 본문을 한 글자도 고치지 않습니다. 목록에 있어도, 응답이 그 태그로 시작할 때만 작동합니다. 답 한가운데서 태그를 언급만 한 경우는 안 건드립니다. 한 번 작동하면 뒤에 나오는 태그도 계속 가릅니다. MiniMax처럼 생각과 답을 번갈아 넣는 모델 때문입니다. 태그가 닫히기 전에 스트림이 끝나면, 남은 글은 생각으로 내보내고 버리지 않습니다.

파서는 새로 만들지 않았습니다. Kiro가 쓰던 것을 src/adapters/inline-think-tags.ts로 옮기고, 여러 블록을 보는 선택만 더했습니다. Kiro는 그 선택을 끄므로 맨 앞 블록 하나만 보던 동작이 남습니다. 레지스트리 기본값에는 이 목록이 없습니다. 어느 서버가 생각을 따로 보내는지는 서버마다 다르기 때문입니다.

베이스는 dev입니다. types.ts와 config.ts는 안 건드립니다. 같은 주제로 열린 다른 PR은 없습니다. 아직 초안입니다. hygiene는 src/server/auth-cors.ts의 설정 한 줄 때문에 unsponsored_surface로 막혀 있습니다. 본문에 적힌 테스트는 여기서 다시 실행하지 않았습니다.

src/adapters/inline-think-tags.ts:153 - 주석은 첫 블록과 답 사이의 빈 줄만 버린다고 합니다. 156행은 trimStart()라서 앞쪽 공백을 전부 지웁니다. 답이 들여쓰기로 시작하면 그 칸도 사라집니다. 두 번째 커밋은 답 한가운데 블록 뒤의 들여쓰기는 남기게 고쳤습니다. 맨 앞 전환은 그대로입니다. tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-inline-think-tags.test.ts는 빈 줄이 빠지는 경우만 봅니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

한 번 열리면 답 한가운데의 <think>, <thinking>, <reasoning>도 생각으로 뺍니다 (src/adapters/inline-think-tags.ts:189). M 시리즈는 생각과 답을 섞으므로, 이 동작이 없으면 뒤쪽 생각이 다시 답으로 나옵니다. 코딩 중에 모델이 그 태그를 예로 쓰면 예가 답에서 빠집니다. 줄 앞에서만 다음 블록을 열지, 지금처럼 글 어디서든 열지는 여기서 정하면 됩니다.

inlineThinkTagModels: "editor"는 옆 항목과 같은 정책 한 줄입니다. 인증 동작은 안 바뀝니다. 그 파일에 있어서 hygiene가 보안 리뷰를 요구합니다. maintainer-sponsored를 붙일지는 메인테이너가 보면 됩니다.

behavior.ts에 이 옵션을 넣을지는 작성자가 빼 두었습니다. 넣으면 Lab이 모델을 구별하는 지문이 전부 바뀝니다. 문서와 설정만으로 둘지 같이 보면 됩니다.

너의 추천

목록에 없는 모델은 안전합니다. 기본이 꺼져 있고, 태그로 시작하는 응답만 고치기 때문입니다. 156행은 빈 줄만 지우게 좁히고, 앞에 들여쓰기가 있는 답을 테스트에 하나 두면 됩니다. 189행은 줄 시작의 태그만 다음 생각으로 보는 쪽이 코드 속 태그를 덜 먹습니다. 그 경우 테스트도 없습니다. 닫을 중복 PR은 없습니다. hygiene 라벨은 maintainer-sponsored 전에는 그대로 두는 것이 맞습니다.

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[lidge-jun]

Closing as superseded. The changes from this PR (head 1498edac3ba7, by @alexph-dev) were carried with credit into #5566, which was consolidated into #5619. #5619 merged to dev as e964387. The carry was reimplemented as a squash with review repairs, not merged, so this branch's own commit history is not part of dev. I compared this head against current dev and found its behavior present, in some cases in revised form. Opt-in inlineThinkTagModels inline <think> recovery is present. #5619 reworked the parser to scan incrementally, avoiding quadratic cost.

This is on dev only. It is not in the stable v2.63.0 release and will ship in a later release. Thank you for the contribution.