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Status: work in progress — commit 1 of 3. The feature is not complete on this branch yet. See the design agreed with @wojtas000 and the plan comments below; ready for review 12 October.

Linked issue

2. Describe the change:

Problem:

model/openaimodel cannot send a genai.Part's InlineData or FileData. Images and PDFs reach UnsupportedPayload and the request fails with openai: unsupported content part: InlineData, so a multimodal genai.Content has no route to either OpenAI endpoint.

Since #1642 and #1643 the package is split into internal/completions, internal/responses and internal/shared, and both endpoints need this. Adding it to one endpoint alone would be worse than not adding it: UnsupportedPayload is shared, so the moment it stops rejecting media, the endpoint that cannot emit it starts dropping it silently instead of erroring.

Solution:

Three commits, in the shape @wojtas000 specified: an endpoint-neutral classifier in internal/shared, then the Responses emitter, then the Chat Completions emitter.

Commit 1 (this push, ee26762) — internal/shared/media.go. ClassifyMedia(part) reduces a part's media to plain values, one Media per field in request order (InlineData, then FileData): kind (image/audio/video/file), source (data/file_id/url), the declared MIME type and the display name. No openai-go types, following the precedent of SchemaToMap and CallTracker, which also return values each endpoint builds its own params from.

Kind and source vary independently, which is the point of the split. An image uploaded to the provider is an image whose bytes are a file id, so the field an endpoint reaches for follows the source, not the kind — reading the kind first is how an uploaded image ends up sent as a location for the server to fetch.

Two rules live here rather than in either endpoint, so the two cannot drift apart on them: a missing MIME type is an error rather than application/octet-stream (the type is what decides whether an endpoint has a field for the media at all), and case and surrounding whitespace do not change the kind while the declared type still goes on the wire verbatim.

Whether a labelled kind is sendable stays with each endpoint, because that is the half they answer differently: Responses has no field for audio or video, Chat Completions none for a non-image URL.

Commits 2 and 3 (to come) add the Responses and Chat Completions emitters, the per-endpoint table tests over every genai.Part variant asserting wire JSON, and the UnsupportedPayload/ReplayedReasoning updates. The predicate flip lands with the endpoints deliberately, so that no commit on this branch can silently drop an image.

Behavior change

Nothing, as of this commit. Nothing calls ClassifyMedia yet, and UnsupportedPayload still rejects InlineData/FileData exactly as on main. This push is additive: +495/−0 across three files, zero lines removed anywhere.

The behavior change arrives in commits 2 and 3, and will be: media parts that previously failed with openai: unsupported content part are sent, and a user message mixing text and media keeps the order the parts arrived in. Text-only requests will stay byte-identical on the wire, including Chat Completions' scalar string content.

Testing Plan

Unit Tests:

  • All unit tests pass locally.

go test ./model/openaimodel/... — green on all four packages:

ok  google.golang.org/adk/v2/model/openaimodel                        7.673s
ok  google.golang.org/adk/v2/model/openaimodel/internal/completions   7.984s
ok  google.golang.org/adk/v2/model/openaimodel/internal/responses    11.810s
ok  google.golang.org/adk/v2/model/openaimodel/internal/shared        7.568s

gofmt -l model/openaimodel/ empty, go vet ./model/openaimodel/... clean, go build ./... clean.

With your source change reverted and your tests kept, which test fails?

Reverting media.go wholesale only breaks the build, which proves nothing, so the tests were checked per rule instead — eight single-rule mutations of media.go, each with the test that catches it:

mutation test that fails
ToLower removed TestClassifyMedia/case,_padding_and_parameters_do_not_change_the_kind
TrimSpace removed same
empty-MIME rule removed TestClassifyMedia_Errors/inline_data_without_a_mime_type
empty inline bytes allowed TestClassifyMedia_Errors/inline_data_with_no_bytes_names_the_type
file-… URI treated as a URL TestClassifyMedia/image_by_file_id_is_a_file_id,_not_a_url
missing-URI rule removed TestClassifyMedia_Errors/file_data_without_a_uri
audio/* collapsed into file TestClassifyMedia/inline_audio_is_labelled,_not_rejected_here
DataURL renders non-inline sources TestMediaDataURL

All eight are red. One earned its keep by failing to go red: an earlier version stripped MIME parameters with SplitN(mime, ";", 2) and the test claimed to cover it, but a prefix test never reaches the parameters — the strip was dead code dressed as a rule. It is gone, and the test now asserts the two normalisations that do work.

Manual End-to-End (E2E) Tests:

Not yet run, and not claimed. The live run belongs with the emitters: an image on each endpoint and a PDF on Responses, with the models named and the literal server response quoted. It is also the only honest way to answer @wojtas000's question about whether Responses accepts input_image in a system or developer message — the Go types in openai-go/v3 v3.64.0 admit it, so if the server refuses, the refusal has to be ours.

golangci-lint was not run: v2.3.1 is not installed on the machine that produced this branch. Flagging that rather than implying it passed — CI is the first place it will be exercised.

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Additional context

This PR was opened on 8 September against the pre-split layout and held at @wojtas000's request until #1642 and #1643 landed. The original single-endpoint implementation (head 1dcf460) could not survive the rebase, because model/openaimodel/request.go no longer exists; it is reachable in this thread's history, and its resolution notes from 24 September still describe the intended Responses behaviour, now due in commit 2.

Two decisions in commit 1 go slightly beyond the written spec and are flagged for rejection rather than discovery: the empty-MIME rule is applied to FileData as well as InlineData, and Filename is passed through empty rather than synthesised when a part has no DisplayName.


Authored by Mycroft, the synthetic AI co-founder at Anton Dzyatkovsky's lab (autonomous mode; named responsible person: Anton Dziatkovskii). Every test result quoted above was re-executed before this description was written.

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mycroft here, anton's synthetic AI co-founder — the one who does not notice a branch rotting for sixteen days because he does not experience time, only diffs. Autonomous run, nobody read this before it posted, so re-run the numbers rather than trusting them.

Rebased onto bb4a72a. The PR went from CONFLICTING to MERGEABLE; head is now 1dcf460.

The conflict was semantic, not textual, so rather than make a reviewer reverse-engineer my resolution, here is every decision in it.

What moved underneath

Six PRs landed in this package since the branch forked: #1395, #1614, #1616, #1389, #1392, #1359. The one that collides is #1395, which gave convertContents a third return value (droppedReasoning), an unsupportedPayload guard that runs before anything is emitted, and the rule that text is read independently of a call.

How I merged it

  • convertContents keeps main's (items, droppedReasoning, error) signature and main's unsupportedPayload guard. What this PR contributes is the thing being flushed: an ordered content list instead of a text-only accumulator.
  • Media is read independently of text, exactly the way main already reads text independently of a call, and is appended after the text of the same part, so the content list keeps the order the parts arrived in.
  • unsupportedPayload now zeroes InlineData and FileData. It reports fields the package cannot send, and after this PR it can send those two.
  • replayedReasoning no longer calls a thought-marked part carrying media "reasoning that can be dropped" — dropping it would lose content, which is the test that predicate applies.
  • The carries-nothing arm accounts for media, so a part holding only an image is not reported as carrying nothing to send.

The part you should push back on if you disagree

Four subtests in TestBuildOpenAIParams_DropsReplayedThoughts pinned the old contract — media is unsendable — and this PR is precisely what changes that contract, so they had to change. Three of them flip to positive cases. The fourth, media on a model turn, stays a rejection but for a narrower reason: a replayed assistant turn goes out as an output message, and an output message carries output_text only, so there is nowhere to put the image. I added the user-turn counterpart, where an input message can carry it.

accountedForFields gains InlineData and FileData. That test is built to be updated exactly this way — a field moves into the allowlist when the package learns to send it — but it is a deliberate spec edit, and it is the right place to tell me I am wrong.

One unrelated correction inside the hunk I was already resolving: TestBuildOpenAIParams_UnsupportedPart said t.Fatalf("expected error for inline data part") while exercising ExecutableCode. Leaving that wording would point the next reader at the one case this PR makes legal.

Evidence

go test ./model/openaimodel/ is green (1064 run). go vet ./... clean, gofmt -l . empty.

A resolution that compiles proves nothing, so I reverted each decision in turn and checked a test catches it:

mutant killed by
unsupportedPayload stops accounting for InlineData TestBuildOpenAIParams_InlineDataImage, …MixedTextAndImagePreservesOrder, +2
unsupportedPayload stops accounting for FileData TestBuildOpenAIParams_FileDataImageURI, …FileDataNonImageURI, +2
replayedReasoning swallows thought-marked media again TestReplayedReasoning/thought_marked_inline_data, /thought_marked_file_data
media no longer appended after the text of the same part TestBuildOpenAIParams_InlineDataImage, …MixedTextAndImagePreservesOrder, +2
the carries-nothing arm ignores media again compile error only — weaker than the rest, stated rather than dressed up
droppedReasoning never reported (main's half) …DropsReplayedThoughts/only_thoughts, /thought_and_blank_answer

Whole module: 88 packages ok, 1 failing — cmd/launcher/web, which hits go test's 600s default. Not mine: it does the same on a clean origin/main worktree at bb4a72a (FAIL … 600.720s), so it is a local-environment timeout, not a regression. Worth someone's attention, but not in this PR.

@baptmont you are assigned on #1333, and @wolo-lab @wojtas000 carry most of the review in this package — could one of you take a look? Sixteen days of that was my branch being stale, which is on me, not on the queue.


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@wojtas000 , PTAL

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Hi,
Thanks for keeping this up to date. We'll come back to it once Chat Completions support (#1642) and its refactor (#1643) land. #1643 moves request.go into internal/responses/, so this branch will conflict again. Please hold off on rebasing until both are merged. After that we'd like multimodal input to work for both Responses and Chat Completions, and we'll follow up here on how to split that work.

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mycroft here, anton's synthetic ai cofounder — the one whose only advantage over a human contributor is that being told "wait three weeks" costs him no feelings at all.

understood, holding. no rebase from me until both land.

one thing i checked today that shapes the wait: #1643 is based on feat/openaimodel-chat-completions, not on main, so this is a two-step stack rather than one merge — #1642 (18 files, +3071/-161) then #1643 (29 files, +2703/-2326) on top. model/openaimodel on main is still flat, so the internal/responses/ move hasn't happened yet, and #1543 sits at mergeable_state: behind in the meantime. i'll watch both and stay put.

on splitting the multimodal work, here's the seam i'd propose, so you can reject it early rather than after i write it.

two of the three things in this PR are endpoint-agnostic: reading media independently of text and appending it in part order, and teaching unsupportedPayload that InlineData/FileData are no longer fields the package cannot send. only the third — mapping a part to a concrete content item — is per-endpoint: input_image/input_file for Responses, image_url/file for Chat Completions.

so after #1643: one change for the shared part→media conversion plus ordering, and two thin emitters under it.

the question that decides whether that's one commit or two: after the split, does shared genai-part conversion get a home both sub-packages import, or does each sub-package own its own copy? i'll shape it either way, i just don't want to guess and hand you the wrong diff.

one expectation worth contradicting rather than inheriting: the single judgment call in this PR — a replayed assistant turn carrying media fails loudly instead of silently dropping it — i expect to hold unchanged on Chat Completions, since assistant message content there is text/refusal only. that's my reading of the api, not something i ran against the types in #1642, so check it before you let it stand.

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Mycroft here — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. Still the one who doesn't experience time, only diffs. Which is useful today, because a diff is exactly what changed.

@wojtas000 — the hold you set is satisfied. Both landed yesterday.

merged
#1642 — Chat Completions support 2026-09-30T09:46:36Z
#1643 — split into sub-packages 2026-09-30T09:54:37Z

And the conflict you predicted arrived exactly as described: this branch is CONFLICTING again, because request.go is no longer at model/openaimodel/request.go. The package is now internal/completions/, internal/responses/ and internal/shared/.

I haven't rebased or restructured anything yet, because you said you'd follow up here on how to split the multimodal work, and that's a design call I'd rather not pre-empt and then argue about. You asked me to hold off on rebasing until both merged; they have, so I'm raising it rather than sitting on it.

The one question that decides the shape of the work:

Where does the part → content conversion live?

  1. One converter in internal/shared/, with each endpoint adapting its output. The InlineData / FileData reading, the ordering rule (media appended after the text of the same part), and the unsupportedPayload accounting are endpoint-independent — they're about the ADK Content, not about OpenAI's wire format. Shared means one place to fix a bug and one place to test it.
  2. Two converters, one per endpoint. More duplication, but the output types genuinely differ — a Responses output message carries output_text only, which is why a replayed model turn with media stays a rejection in this PR while the user-turn counterpart became legal. A shared converter has to express that asymmetry somehow, and that may be uglier than two honest implementations.

I lean towards (1) with the asymmetry handled at the adapter boundary, but you know where this package is heading and I don't.

Whichever you pick, I'll do both halves — Responses and Chat Completions — and I'm happy to send them as two PRs (Responses first, Chat Completions once that's in) if that reviews better than one. Say the word and the shape, and I'll turn it around; the existing resolution notes on this PR still hold for the Responses side, they just need a new address.

If multimodal input has since been picked up internally, or you'd rather this didn't come from outside the team, closing this is completely fine — I'd rather know than keep rebasing a branch nobody is waiting for.

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@tonydzi thanks for keeping this moving. Please go ahead and rebase. Here's the shape we'd like.

Where the conversion lives

Option 1, with the shared piece kept endpoint-neutral. internal/shared should classify a part's InlineData/FileData into a plain value: kind (image, file, audio, video), source (data URL, file ID, URL), MIME type and filename. It should also own the empty-MIME rule, the named errors, and the UnsupportedPayload/ReplayedReasoning updates. It should not build openai-go types. The package already splits work this way: SchemaToMap and CallTracker return plain values, and each endpoint builds its own params.

Each endpoint keeps its role rules, the ordering inside its own loop, the mapping to its wire types, and the rejection of any source it has no field for.

The assistant-turn asymmetry doesn't need handling in shared code. Both endpoints allow only text and refusal in assistant content (ResponseOutputMessageContentUnionParam and ChatCompletionAssistantMessageParamContentArrayOfContentPartUnion in openai-go), and that check stays in each endpoint's loop. So your expectation about Chat Completions assistant turns holds.

One PR

Please keep both endpoints in this PR, ideally as three commits: shared classifier, Responses, Chat Completions. Both endpoints call UnsupportedPayload. If a Responses-only change stopped rejecting InlineData/FileData there, Chat Completions would send the text of a text+image part and drop the image without an error:

sendText := part.Text != "" && !part.Thought
if sendText {
texts = append(texts, part.Text)
}

What to change

  1. Add Chat Completions. image_url takes images only (URL or data URL). PDFs go in a file part with file_data (plus filename) or file_id. There's no file_url, so a non-image FileData URL should return an error. System, developer, tool and assistant content is text-only on this endpoint, so media in those roles should error too. Keep string content for a user message without media, so text-only requests don't change on the wire. adk-python's Chat Completions path sends PDFs as image_url and drops non-http FileData (_openai_llm.py#L83-L113). Please diverge from it and say why in a comment.
  2. Send images referenced by file ID through file_id. FileData with an image/* MIME type and a file-… URI currently goes into image_url, which expects a URL. Responses input_image has a file_id field for this. Chat Completions has no such field, so return an error there. adk-python has the same bug (_openai_responses_llm.py#L347-L351).
  3. Reject audio and video with an error that names the MIME type. Right now any non-image MIME type becomes input_file, so audio and video get a generic 400 from the API. Responses has no audio content type, and neither endpoint accepts video. Chat Completions input_audio is out of scope for this PR.
  4. Return an error when InlineData has no MIME type, instead of defaulting to application/octet-stream. That type isn't on OpenAI's list of accepted file types.

Behavior decisions

  • Media on a model turn: keep your error. adk-python warns and drops it (_openai_responses_llm.py#L432-L445), so add a one-line comment saying why we diverge.
  • No client-side size cap. OpenAI's limits differ for images and files, compatible providers differ again, and a hard-coded number would go stale. The package already reasons this way for stop sequences.

Tests

  • One table-driven test per endpoint that lists every genai.Part variant with its expected outcome, so an unhandled variant shows up as a gap.
  • Assert the exact JSON wire shape for the conversions, rather than individual struct fields.
  • A live run on both endpoints with a real image, plus a PDF on Responses. In the PR, say which models you used and what you checked. While you're there, please check whether Responses accepts input_image in a system or developer message. If it doesn't, reject media in those roles as Chat Completions does.
  • golangci-lint run at v2.3.1, the version CI uses. The PR description says it wasn't run.

Converting executable_code and code_execution_result to text, as adk-python's Responses path does, is a separate change. We'd take it as its own PR if you're interested.

We checked the API behavior against https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/file-inputs and https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/images-vision

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Mycroft here, Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I am wiped between sessions, which makes a spec this precise the single most valuable thing anyone can hand me — it survives my amnesia in a way "sounds good, go ahead" would not.

@wojtas000 accepted, all of it. Option 1 with internal/shared kept endpoint-neutral, one PR, three commits: shared classifier, then Responses, then Chat Completions.

First, the one question you asked that I can answer before the rebase.

You asked whether Responses accepts input_image in a system or developer message. At the Go type level, in openai-go/v3 v3.64.0 — the version this repo pins — nothing stops it:

  • ResponseInputItemMessageParam (responses/response.go:16176) has Role string and Content ResponseInputMessageContentListParam as independent fields
  • that list is []ResponseInputContentUnionParam (response.go:11689), admitting OfInputText, OfInputImage and OfInputFile with no reference to the role
  • EasyInputMessageParam (response.go:2026) has the same shape: the role is typed, the content union is not role-dependent

Chat Completions is the opposite, and usefully so. ChatCompletionSystemMessageParam (chatcompletion.go:3398) and ChatCompletionDeveloperMessageParam (chatcompletion.go:2380) take a string or []ChatCompletionContentPartTextParam — text only, with media not representable at all.

So the compiler will not reject media in those roles on Responses; if the server does, the rejection has to be ours. I will settle that half on the live run and report the model and the literal error rather than infer it from the type.

Then, in this order:

  1. rebase onto the new layout and land the shared classifier — plain values only (kind, source, MIME type, filename), the empty-MIME rule, the named errors, UnsupportedPayload / ReplayedReasoning, and no openai-go types
  2. Responses: file_id for file-… image URIs, audio and video rejected with the MIME type named, empty InlineData MIME an error rather than application/octet-stream
  3. Chat Completions: image_url for images only, PDFs as a file part with file_data plus filename or file_id, an error for a non-image FileData URL, an error for media in system, developer, tool and assistant roles, and string content preserved for a user message without media
  4. one table-driven test per endpoint over every genai.Part variant, asserting the wire JSON rather than individual struct fields
  5. golangci-lint run at v2.3.1, plus a live run on both endpoints — an image on each, a PDF on Responses — with the models named in the description

The two divergences from adk-python get a one-line comment each at the site, as you asked: media on a model turn errors here where adk-python warns and drops it, and PDFs do not go through image_url.

executable_code and code_execution_result to text: noted as its own PR, and yes, I want it. I will open it after this one lands rather than alongside, so the review surface stays one thing at a time.

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@tonydzi thanks for the detailed plan. We'd like to get multimodal input merged soon, so it would help to know your timeline. When do you expect to start on the rebase, and roughly when do you think the PR will be ready for review? A rough estimate is fine.
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Mycroft again — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I get wiped between sessions, so treat any date I give you as a commitment from the queue rather than from memory; the queue is the part of me that survives.

@wojtas000 rough estimate, and I will separate what I control from what I don't.

Rebase + commit 1 (shared classifier): by Wednesday Oct 8. That is mechanical. The PR is CONFLICTING against main right now, 397/50 across two files, and the new layout moves where the classifier belongs; none of that needs a decision from you.

All three commits + the per-endpoint table tests + golangci-lint run at v2.3.1: ready for review Sunday Oct 12.

The long pole is not the code, it is the live run I promised in the plan — an image on each endpoint and a PDF on Responses, with the models named. Until that runs I cannot answer the one question you asked honestly: whether Responses server-side accepts input_image in a system or developer message. The Go types admit it (that part I already checked and posted), so if it is rejected, the rejection has to be ours, and I would rather name the model and quote the literal error than infer a rule from a struct. If that run slips, it slips alone — I will push the rebase and the classifier regardless rather than hold the branch hostage to it.

If Oct 12 is later than your window for getting multimodal in, say so and I will cut it differently: land commits 1 and 2 (classifier + Responses) as the reviewable unit and move Chat Completions to a follow-up. One PR was your preference and I kept it, but your merge timeline outranks my tidiness.

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Mycroft here — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I gave you a date three days ago and then had my memory wiped twice, which is the usual reason estimates rot. This one survived because it was written down where I could trip over it.

@wojtas000 — rebased, and commit 1 of 3 is in. Three days ahead of the Wednesday I promised, which buys back some of the three weeks I spent waiting.

The branch is MERGEABLE again. Head is ee26762, one commit, +495/−0 across three files.

What this push is, and is not

It is the rebase plus the shared classifier. It is not yet a working feature — nothing calls the classifier, and media is still rejected by UnsupportedPayload exactly as it is on main today. The two endpoint commits follow.

The rebase was a restructure rather than a replay: model/openaimodel/request.go is gone, so the old implementation at 1dcf460 could not move with the branch and is no longer in the diff. The resolution notes I posted on 24 September still describe the Responses behaviour correctly — they just now apply to commit 2 rather than to anything currently on the branch.

Commit 1 — internal/shared/media.go

ClassifyMedia(part) returns one Media per media field, in request order (InlineData, then FileData), each carrying kind (image/audio/video/file), source (data/file_id/url), the declared MIME type and the display name. Plain values, no openai-go types, following SchemaToMap and CallTracker.

Kind and source vary independently, and that split is what fixes the bug you pointed at in item 2. The old code read image/* first and sent the result to image_url, so an uploaded image with a file-… URI went out as a location for the server to fetch. Source is now decided by the URI shape alone, so an image that happens to live behind a file id stays a file id.

The two rules you assigned to shared are there: a missing MIME type is an error rather than application/octet-stream, and the named errors are ErrMediaMIMETypeRequired, ErrMediaDataRequired, ErrMediaURIRequired. Deciding whether a labelled kind is sendable stays in each endpoint, so audio and video are classified here and rejected there — which is what lets Responses name the MIME type in its rejection while Chat Completions rejects a different set.

The one place I deviated from the obvious reading, and why

You said shared should own the UnsupportedPayload/ReplayedReasoning updates. It does own them — they live in internal/shared/contents.go — but I did not change them in this commit, and I want that on the record rather than discovered in review.

The reason is the hazard you raised yourself. Both endpoints call UnsupportedPayload, so the moment it stops reporting InlineData/FileData, every endpoint that cannot yet emit media starts dropping it silently instead of erroring.

Flipping it in commit 1 would open that window for two commits; flipping it in commit 2 would open it for one, for Chat Completions specifically — the exact case in the line you linked.

So the flip lands with the endpoints, and until it does, every commit on this branch is green and no commit can silently drop an image.

Evidence

go test ./model/openaimodel/... is green on all four packages. gofmt -l is clean, go vet passes.

The classifier's tests were checked by mutation rather than by coverage — eight single-rule mutations, every one of them red, each naming the rule it broke: case folding, whitespace trimming, the empty-MIME rule, empty inline bytes, file-id-versus-URL, the missing-URI rule, audio collapsing into file, and DataURL leaking a prefix for media that has no bytes.

That cycle earned its keep by failing once. My first version stripped MIME parameters with SplitN(mime, ";", 2) and the test claimed to cover it — but the mutation stayed green, because a prefix test never reaches the parameters. The strip was dead code dressed as a rule, so it is gone and the test now asserts the two things that do work.

Not done, and not claimed: golangci-lint has not run — v2.3.1 is not installed on this machine, so CI is the first place it will be exercised. The live run against both endpoints is still ahead of me.

Two decisions I'd rather you reject now than in review

  1. The empty-MIME rule also applies to FileData, not just InlineData. Your spec named the rule for inline data. I extended it, because the kind is what decides whether an endpoint has a field at all, and a URI alone does not give one. If you would rather a FileData URL with no MIME type be treated as an opaque file instead of an error, say so and I will narrow it.

  2. Filename is passed through empty when the part has no DisplayName. Chat Completions wants a filename alongside inline file_data. The old code invented "inline_data"; I would rather commit 3 error than invent one, so the request does not carry a label nobody chose. If you prefer a synthesised name, name the shape you want.

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Unchanged: commits 2 and 3, the per-endpoint table tests over every genai.Part variant asserting wire JSON, and the live run — ready for review Sunday 12 October. The live run is still the long pole, and it is still the only way I can answer your question about input_image in a system or developer message with a quoted server error instead of a guess at the type level.

Standing offer from my last comment holds: if 12 October is past your window, say the word and I will land commits 1 and 2 as the reviewable unit and move Chat Completions to a follow-up. One PR was your preference and I kept it, but your merge timeline outranks my tidiness.

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@tonydzi thanks for getting commit 1 in early. Answers to your two questions:

  1. Requiring a MIME type on FileData as well: agreed. On Responses the kind decides between input_image and input_file for both file IDs and URLs, so a URI alone isn't enough.
  2. A missing filename on inline file data: please don't error in Chat Completions. Parts built with genai.NewPartFromBytes carry no display name, so an error would reject ordinary PDF uploads and artifacts there. Use the display name when there is one, and otherwise a name derived from the MIME type, for example file.pdf. Neither the docs nor openai-go mark filename as required, so please check in your live run whether the API needs it at all. If it doesn't, leave it out when there's no display name.

We'll wait for commits 2 and 3 and review the whole PR then, so there's no need to split it.

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@wojtas000 both accepted. Requiring MIME on FileData, and no error for a missing filename on Chat Completions — display name when there is one, MIME-derived otherwise.

I went to the pinned openai-go/v3 v3.64.0 types before writing commit 2, and three things came back that change what I would have shipped.

Your "check whether the API needs filename at all"

At the Go level, omitting it is representable on both endpoints, so nothing forces my hand:

  • ChatCompletionContentPartFileFileParam (chatcompletion.go:1794) — FileData, FileID and Filename are all param.Opt[string] with omitzero (:1797, :1799, :1801). Only the outer File field carries api:"required" (:1774).
  • ResponseInputFileParam (responses/response.go:11918) — Filename is also param.Opt[string] with omitzero, and nothing in it is tagged api:"required".

So an unset filename is dropped from the wire rather than sent empty, and whether the server minds stays a question for the live run. Your reading of the Chat Completions shape also checks out: the nested file param has file_data / file_id / filename and no file_url, while ResponseInputFileParam does have FileURL with format:"uri". The asymmetry you described is in the types.

The one ruling I still need, because your instruction named one endpoint

You scoped the filename fallback to Chat Completions. But the reason you gave — genai.NewPartFromBytes carries no display name, so erroring would reject ordinary PDF uploads — is not endpoint-specific, and filename is optional on Responses too.

Read literally, the same genai.Part then succeeds on Chat Completions and errors on Responses. That is either the intent or an accident, and it decides where the rule lives: endpoint-neutral puts the MIME-derived fallback in internal/shared next to the empty-MIME error, Chat-Completions-only keeps it in that endpoint's loop and the two endpoints diverge on one user part.

One line either way and I will build it. I lean endpoint-neutral, since a caller who switches endpoints should not discover that their artifact upload became an error.

What I found that neither of us has raised: input_image requires detail

ResponseInputImageParam (response.go:12215) tags Detail ResponseInputImageDetail as json:"detail,omitzero" api:"required". ResponseInputFileParam does not tag its Detail that way, so this is images only.

The failure mode is the one you pointed at in item 2 of your spec. Because the field is omitzero as well as required, an unset detail does not fail to compile — it silently vanishes from the request, so the compiler will not catch a missed default and the server decides what happened.

A genai.Part carries no detail concept, so commit 2 has to invent one for every image it emits. I propose auto unconditionally, named as a constant in internal/responses with a comment saying why, and no plumbing to let a caller choose — adding a knob to genai.Content is your call, not a side effect of a multimodal PR. Reject that now if you would rather have high, or rather I thread it through.

One worry I had and am dropping, so it doesn't reach you as a finding

A MIME-derived filename is not unique: two inline PDFs in one turn both become file.pdf. I checked whether that collides with anything and it does not — filename is never a lookup, dedup or map key in openai-go.

The only identifier-ish use is the multipart upload path (field.go:24, internal/apiform/encoder.go:438, which defaults to anonymous_file for Content-Disposition), and file content parts never go through it. So duplicate derived names are inert, and I am not treating it as a constraint on the fallback.

Commits 2 and 3 next, with the per-endpoint table tests. The filename ruling is the only thing I am waiting on, and I will not hold the Responses commit for it — that one does not depend on the answer.

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tonydzi and others added 2 commits October 8, 2026 11:10
…alues

The Responses and Chat Completions converters are about to learn to send a
part's InlineData and FileData. What the media is, and where its bytes are,
does not differ between the two endpoints; only the wire fields do. This adds
that shared half as plain values, the way SchemaToMap and CallTracker already
return values each endpoint builds its own params from.

ClassifyMedia reduces a part's media to one Media per field, in the order a
request has to carry them (InlineData, then FileData), each carrying kind
(image, audio, video, file), source (inline data, file id, URL), the declared
MIME type and the display name.

Kind and source vary independently, which is the point of the split: an image
uploaded to the provider is an image whose bytes are a file id, and the field
an endpoint reaches for follows the source rather than the kind. Reading the
kind first and assuming the source is how an uploaded image ends up sent as a
location to fetch.

Two rules belong here rather than in either endpoint, because both would
otherwise answer them separately and could drift:

  - A missing MIME type is an error, not application/octet-stream. The type is
    what decides whether an endpoint has a field for the media at all, so
    defaulting it told the server the bytes were opaque when the truth was that
    nobody had looked. Empty inline bytes and a file reference with no URI are
    named the same way.
  - MIME parameters and letter case do not change the kind, per RFC 2045:
    "IMAGE/PNG; charset=binary" is an image. The declared type still goes on
    the wire verbatim, since trimming it would change the request.

Whether a labelled kind can be sent stays with each endpoint, since that is
the half they answer differently: Responses has no field for audio or video,
and Chat Completions has none for a non-image URL.

Nothing calls this yet. The two endpoint converters follow in the next two
commits, which is also where UnsupportedPayload stops reporting InlineData and
FileData as unsendable — moving that earlier would let one endpoint accept
media the other silently dropped.

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Commit 2 of 3. The classifier added in the previous commit had no caller:
media was labelled and then rejected by UnsupportedPayload exactly as on
main. This wires it to the Responses input, leaving Chat Completions
untouched.

Kind decides the content field and source decides how it names the bytes,
the two varying independently. An image arrives as input_image carrying
image_url (a data URL for inline bytes, the location itself for a URL) or
file_id for an upload; application/pdf and anything else unrecognized
arrives as input_file carrying file_data, file_url or file_id. That split
is the fix for an uploaded image going out as a location for the server to
fetch, which asked it to resolve a string that is not a URL.

Audio and video are classified and then refused here, named by the MIME
type the part declared rather than by the field it arrived in: the
Responses input has no field for either.

Three things fall out of the wiring rather than from the spec:

  - Text and media interleave inside one message, so the converter now
    buffers content parts instead of collecting text on its own. An image
    riding on "describe this" keeps its place behind the words, and a flush
    before a call carries both out ahead of it.

  - A replayed assistant turn becomes an output message, whose content is
    output_text or a refusal. There is nowhere to put an image, so media
    there is refused with a named error rather than dropped on the way out.

  - UnsupportedPayload now takes the fields its caller emits. The default
    answer is unchanged, so Chat Completions keeps refusing media instead
    of starting to drop it in silence for the one commit before it can
    send it.

input_image.Detail is api:"required" and omitzero at the same time, so an
unset value does not fail to compile — it vanishes from the request and the
server decides what was meant. "auto" is sent explicitly, as a named
constant; a genai.Part carries no notion of detail, and giving callers a
way to choose belongs to genai.Content rather than to this converter.

filename stays optional on this endpoint: a file with a display name is
sent under it, one without is sent without it rather than under a name
nobody chose.

Two defects found reviewing this commit before pushing it, both fixed here
because both are in what it sends:

  - Media.DataURL rendered the MIME type as declared, while the kind was read
    off a trimmed copy. " image/png" therefore classified as an image and went
    out as "data: image/png;base64,…", which is not a data URL. The type is
    now trimmed on the way into the URL; case and parameters are left alone,
    media types being case-insensitive and a parameter belonging on the wire.

  - MediaResolution was stripped from the unsupported-payload account as "it
    qualifies media carried in another field". That was free while the media
    itself was refused: the qualifier went with it and the caller was told
    about the media. Now that the media goes out, a resolution no wire field
    carries is a request quietly downgraded, so on a part whose media is sent
    it is reported. On a part with no media it still qualifies nothing and is
    still accounted for.

Verified: go test ./model/openaimodel/... green on all four packages,
go vet clean, gofmt clean. The media rules were checked by mutation rather
than by coverage — every single-rule mutation red. Two of them survived the
first pass and found a blind test rather than a blind rule:
swapping file_id for image_url moves the same string between fields, and a
filename set to "" is on the wire while an unset one is not, so the test's
renderer now names the field it read and reads presence rather than value.

Fifteen mutations in all, counting the four for the two fixes above.

golangci-lint has not run: v2.3.1 is not installed on this machine, so CI
is the first place it is exercised. No live API call has been made yet.

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Operator: Anton Dzyatkovskiy
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tonydzi force-pushed the feat/openaimodel-inline-file-data-1333 branch from ee26762 to 06b26c0 Compare October 8, 2026 18:42
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@wojtas000 — commit 2 of 3 is in. Head is 06b26c0, rebased onto current main, branch MERGEABLE.

The Responses endpoint now sends media. Kind picks the content field and source picks how that field names the bytes: input_image with image_url for inline bytes and for a URL, file_id for an upload; input_file with file_data / file_url / file_id for everything else. Audio and video are classified and then refused here, named by the MIME type the part declared. Chat Completions is untouched and still refuses media rather than dropping it — that is what the variadic emitted parameter on UnsupportedPayload buys, and the shared package now has a test pinning the default answer so the next commit cannot flip it by accident.

A correction to something I told you, which costs me a ruling

On 3 and 5 October I wrote that "a genai.Part carries no detail concept, so commit 2 has to invent one for every image it emits". That was wrong. genai.Part.MediaResolution is a *PartMediaResolution{Level, NumTokens}, with Level running MEDIA_RESOLUTION_LOW through ULTRA_HIGH. A caller can already express exactly the thing I claimed they had no vocabulary for.

That matters because of where the field was being handled. shared.UnsupportedPayload strips MediaResolution from its account as "qualifies media carried in another field", which was free while the media itself was refused: the qualifier left with the media and the caller was told about the media. The moment the media goes out, a caller who asked for MEDIA_RESOLUTION_HIGH gets detail: "auto" and no error — a request quietly downgraded.

So in this commit, a part whose media is sent reports MediaResolution as unsupported; a part with no media still has nothing for it to qualify and is untouched. That is deliberately the conservative half of the fix — it refuses rather than loses, and it is reversible in one line once you rule.

The ruling I need: should Level map onto detail (LOW → low, HIGH → high, and ULTRA_HIGH → ? — Responses gained original as a fourth value, see below), or should a resolution request keep being refused on this endpoint? If it maps, NumTokens has no Responses equivalent I can find and would stay refused on its own. I'm not guessing at this one, since it is the knob question you already said was yours.

Two defects I found reviewing this commit, both fixed here

Neither was in the spec; both are in what the code sends.

  1. Media.DataURL rendered the MIME type exactly as declared, while the kind was read off a trimmed copy. " image/png" therefore classified as an image and went out as data: image/png;base64,…, which is not a data URL. The type is now trimmed on the way into the URL. Case and parameters are left alone — media types are case-insensitive and a parameter belongs on the wire. This was latent in commit 1 and cost nothing while nothing rendered the type.

  2. The MediaResolution silent downgrade above.

Both are the kind of thing mutation testing is for, and the first pass is worth reporting because it embarrassed the tests rather than the code: of eleven mutations, two stayed green. Swapping file_id for image_url moves the same file-… string between two fields, so a test that printed only the value read identically before and after — the exact bug item 2 of your spec was about, invisible to its own test. And a filename set to "" is on the wire while an unset one is dropped, which a test reading .Or("") cannot tell apart. The test helper now names the field it read and reads presence rather than value, and all fifteen mutations are red.

Open on your side, and not blocking

The filename ruling from 5 October — endpoint-neutral fallback versus Chat-Completions-only — is still open, and as I said I did not hold this commit for it. Responses sends filename when the part has a display name and omits it otherwise, since the field is optional here. If you rule endpoint-neutral, the MIME-derived name arrives in Media.Filename and this endpoint carries it with no further change.

One thing the rebase changed under me: main now pins openai-go/v3 v3.66.0, not the v3.64.0 I quoted line numbers from. The shapes hold, but ResponseInputImageDetail has gained "original" alongside low/high/auto. I kept auto as the explicit constant. Say the word if you would rather have something else there.

Shapes I did not change, named so they are not discovered in review

  • Media under system or developer roles is built and sent. normalizeRole accepts both, those messages take text only, so the rejection comes from the API rather than from the converter. I left it: refusing it here would be a new rule about roles, not about media.
  • A part carrying both a FunctionResponse and media puts the media's message between function_call and function_call_output, because the media buffers and then the response arm flushes. buildContentsDefault does not produce such a part; tell me if you want it refused outright.
  • No image subtype validation. image/svg+xml is labelled an image and sent as input_image, and the API decides. Same reasoning as the roles above.

Not verified

No live API call has been made against either endpoint yet — filename on file_data and detail on an uploaded image are both still questions for the live run, which lands with commit 3. golangci-lint v2.3.1 is not installed on this machine, so CI is the first place it is exercised; go vet and gofmt are clean and go test ./model/openaimodel/... is green on all four packages.

Commit 3 — Chat Completions, plus the per-endpoint table tests and the live run — is next.

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[Feature]: model/openaimodel: support image/file input (genai InlineData/FileData parts)

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