fix(chat): keep a mid-conversation instruction in its slot on the translated Chat inbound - #5381
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 5 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Chat-to-Responses translator now preserves leading and mid-conversation instruction placement. It defers developer instructions during open tool-call batches and releases them at safe boundaries. New tests cover translation, tool handling, route forwarding, and request validity. ChangesDeveloper instruction placement
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participant ChatMessages
participant InboundTranslator
participant ToolResultState
participant ResponsesBody
ChatMessages->>InboundTranslator: translate user, assistant, developer, and tool messages
InboundTranslator->>ToolResultState: record outstanding tool-call IDs
InboundTranslator->>ResponsesBody: emit leading instructions or inline developer items
ChatMessages->>ToolResultState: provide tool results
InboundTranslator->>ResponsesBody: release held developer instructions
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In `@src/chat/inbound.ts`:
- Line 418: Track conversation start with a dedicated flag rather than
input.length in the inbound message translation flow. Update
beginConversationTurn and the user, assistant, function, and tool message
branches to set this flag, and use it when deciding whether instructions are
leading so empty conversation turns still preserve later instructions
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| case "developer": { | ||
| // A leading block is this request's instructions and keeps that treatment: it is the | ||
| // prompt head, and hoisting it is what the upstream prefix cache wants. | ||
| if (input.length === 0) { |
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Track conversation start independently of input.length.
An empty user or assistant message emits no input item. A later instruction is then treated as leading and moved into body.instructions, ahead of the conversation turn. For example, [user:"", developer:"D2", user:"U2"] hoists D2 instead of preserving it as a chronological developer item.
Set a separate conversation-state flag when a user, assistant, function, or tool message is encountered. Add a regression test for an empty conversation turn before a non-empty instruction.
Proposed fix
const knownNameByCallId = new Map<string, string>();
+ let conversationStarted = false;
const awaitingToolResult = new Set<string>();
const beginConversationTurn = (): void => {
+ conversationStarted = true;
releaseHeldInstructions();
awaitingToolResult.clear();
};
- if (input.length === 0) {
+ if (!conversationStarted) {
pushSystemText(systemParts, msg.content);
break;
}
case "function": {
+ conversationStarted = true;
// Native eligibility diverts legacy image results too, but this translator
// has no legacy function_call/name pairing. Never silently discard them.
case "tool": {
+ conversationStarted = true;
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In `@src/chat/inbound.ts` at line 418, Track conversation start with a dedicated
flag rather than input.length in the inbound message translation flow. Update
beginConversationTurn and the user, assistant, function, and tool message
branches to set this flag, and use it when deciding whether instructions are
leading so empty conversation turns still preserve later instructions
chronologically. Add a regression test covering an empty conversation turn
followed by a non-empty instruction.
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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr
…nslated inbound A Chat Completions request that carries an instruction after the conversation has started lost where it was written. src/chat/inbound.ts routed every system and developer message into systemParts and joined them into body.instructions, so U1 -> A1 -> D2 -> U2 reached the router as instructions plus a three-message input. The position was gone before any adapter ran, and the outbound adapter that has kept that slot since #4161 had nothing left to preserve. Past the first turn the message now becomes the input item the rest of the pipeline already reads: { type: "message", role: "developer", content: [input_text] }, the same representation src/claude/inbound.ts mints for the same shape. A leading block still folds into instructions, so the ordinary prompt head and its prefix-cache behaviour are unchanged. The role is developer rather than system on purpose. The native ChatGPT backend refuses a system item inside input, and canonical forwarding folds a message-shaped system item back onto instructions, which would undo the placement one hop later. An instruction that arrives between a tool call and its result waits for the batch to drain instead of splitting the pair: Kiro refuses an interrupted pair and the Anthropic and Google mappers synthesize a missing result. It rejoins the timeline as soon as the batch closes or the next user or assistant turn begins, so its order relative to the conversation is unchanged.
…ses paths The translator cases cover the split this change introduces: a leading block still becomes body.instructions, a later one becomes a chronological item, and an instruction that arrives inside a tool batch waits for the batch rather than splitting a call from its result. The expected item for a mid-conversation system message is derived from src/claude/inbound.ts rather than restated, so the two inbounds cannot drift apart. The cross-path cases send one transcript three ways against one upstream and read the final wire body: the native Chat route, a combo route that forces translation, and the Responses endpoint carrying the same input. All three must equal the transcript the caller sent. Handing an already-translated object to the adapter would not have caught this, because the position was gone before the adapter ran. The file is registered in scripts/test-layout/layout.json and tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json.
…ted bridge The inbound compatibility doc described the native Chat passthrough and the wire-side placement contract, but said nothing about which of the two homes a system or developer message reaches on the translated bridge. State it: a leading block is the request's instructions, a later one is a chronological developer item, and an instruction inside a tool batch waits for the batch to drain. The wire slot and the role it carries stay owned by the chronological in-conversation instructions contract, which this doc already links.
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리뷰 · 우선순위 69 / 80대화가 이미 시작된 뒤에 오는 system/developer 지시가, Chat → Responses 번역 길에서 맨 앞 라인 - 라인 - 라인 - 도구 배치 안에서 보류한 지시가 여러 개면 라인 - 검증: 새 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점 빈 턴 뒤 지시를 이번 PR에서 깃발로 막을지, 아니면 “빈 content는 대화로 안 친다”를 계약으로 두고 후속으로 둘지. CodeBuddy/Qoder가 developer를 시스템 프롬프트로 올리는 기존 동작은 본문대로 이번 범위 밖으로 둘지. 너의 추천 방향과 테스트 뼈대는 좋습니다. 머지 전에 이 댓글은 grok-bot이 작성했습니다 |
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src/chat/inbound.tsrouted everysystemanddevelopermessage intosystemPartsand joined them intobody.instructions, soU1 -> A1 -> D2 -> U2reached the router as instructions plus a three-message input. The position was gone before any adapter ran, and the outbound adapter that has kept that slot since fix(claude): keep mid-conversation system messages in the timeline #4161 had nothing left to preserve.openai-chatroute sends straight to the Chat wire and forwards the caller'smessagesuntouched, while a combo, a policy route, a synthetic effort row or a preprocessing route enters the Responses pipeline and translates. The same transcript therefore reached a destination in two different orders depending on whether a routing feature was on.{ type: "message", role: "developer", content: [input_text] }, the representationsrc/claude/inbound.tshas minted for the same shape since [Bug]: Mid-conversation role: system messages in Claude inbound are aggregated into top-level instructions, destroying prompt cache prefix #4148. A leading block still folds intobody.instructions, so the ordinary prompt head and its prefix-cache behaviour are unchanged.developerrather thansystemon purpose: the native ChatGPT backend refuses asystemitem insideinput, and canonical forwarding folds a message-shapedsystemitem back ontoinstructions(src/adapters/openai-responses/canonical-forward.ts), which would undo the placement one hop later.src/adapters/kiro/payload.tsrefuses an interrupted pair, and the Anthropic and Google mappers synthesize a missing result when a call and its output stop being adjacent. The held text rejoins the timeline when the batch closes or at the next user or assistant turn, so its order relative to the conversation never changes.src/adapters/openai-chat/passthrough.tsand the role question belong to the neighbouring change in the same unit, andstructure/providers/chat-compat.mdand thedocs-siteprovider reference are left to the documentation lane that reconciles them.Verification
tests/responses/chat-inbound-developer-position.test.ts. The translator cases hold the split this change introduces: a leading block still becomesinstructions, a later one becomes a chronological item, a mixed transcript puts each in a different place, an instruction inside a tool batch lands after the batch rather than between a call and its result, an abandoned batch still releases before the next turn, and an empty instruction produces no item at all.systemmessage is derived fromsrc/claude/inbound.tsby translating the same transcript through that inbound and comparing the items, rather than restated as a literal, so the two inbounds cannot drift apart silently.scripts/test-layout/layout.jsonandtests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json. No file this branch touches carries atests/fixtures/file-size-baseline.jsoncap.developermessage is preserved in place by the OpenAI Chat mapper, mapped in place by the Anthropic, Google, Cursor, Kiro, Devin, Ollama and command-code mappers, and passed through untouched by the native Responses passthrough. The one behaviour worth naming is that the CodeBuddy and Qoder projection hoists any developer message into its appended system prompt, which is that adapter's existing contract and applies equally to the itemssrc/claude/inbound.tsalready produces.Checklist
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src/chat/inbound.ts, the Chat path insrc/responses/parser.ts, and this lane's tests (devlog/_plan/260921_cross_path_contract/010_lane_boundaries.md).src/responses/parser.tsneeded nothing: it already carries adeveloperinput item as a chronological conversation message, which is why reusing that representation is the whole fix.structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md. It describes the Chat inbound and said nothing about which of the two homes an instruction reaches on the translated bridge.structure/providers/chat-compat.mdand thedocs-sitereference are untouched; they belong to the documentation lane, and the paragraph added here links the contract that lane owns rather than restating it.devata6e8df4ec1, so it carries the native developer-role change and the developer-role policy documents that landed before it. WithfoldDeveloperRoleToSystem: false,applyExplicitChatDeveloperRolereturns the caller's array unchanged and the translated adapter emitsdeveloper, which is why the cross-path comparison holds on the integrated tree rather than only on the branch it was written against.scripts/test-layout/layout.jsonandtests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json. The rebase resolution is exactly thedevmap plus this one entry, verified by comparing the parsed maps rather than the diff.Hosted CI
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