fix: #1704 Preserve thinking blocks in Anthropic conversations with tool calls #1706
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Fixes #1704
Problem:
The SDK was dropping reasoning items when converting conversation history to API messages, causing Anthropic to reject requests with:
Root cause:
Converter.items_to_messages()was skipping reasoning items entirely, violating Anthropic's requirement that assistant messages with tool calls must start with thinking blocks.Technical changes:
Enhanced
InternalChatCompletionMessageto carrythinking_blocksalongsidereasoning_contentUpdated
LitellmConverter.convert_message()to extract full thinking blocks from LiteLLM responses:signaturefield from AnthropicModified
Converter.message_to_output_items()to store complete thinking block structure:ResponseReasoningItem.contentasContentobjectsRepro script available in original issue.