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The non-streaming /v1/responses answer used to be re-serialized from a struct
with only ten members, so instructions, metadata, tools, tool_choice,
parallel_tool_calls, temperature, top_p, store, text, reasoning and
truncation were dropped — metadata was write-only, and the object shape
flipped with stream. ResponsesResponse now keeps unknown members in an
UnknownJSONFields passthrough (like ResponsesOutputItem already did), so a
native provider's object is relayed whole, on create and on
GET /v1/responses/{id}. Chat-translated providers have no upstream object, so
they echo the members the caller supplied — on the streamed path too, which was
equally bare — and only those: a default invented here would describe OpenAI's
behaviour rather than the provider's.

Also:

  • truncation: "disabled" (OpenAI's documented default and a no-op) is accepted
    on chat-translated providers instead of being rejected with a 400; "auto"
    still is. Those compatibility errors now carry param.
  • A missing or null input is answered locally with OpenAI's
    missing_required_parameter error instead of reaching the provider as {}
    and coming back as a confusing upstream error. A prompt template is exempt.

Interaction with #955 — handled here, merge order does not matter

#955 adds a typed incomplete_details member with omitempty. On its own that
is correct; combined with this PR's passthrough it silently dropped an
upstream's explicit incomplete_details: null, because the member stops being
unknown and the nil typed value is then omitted. make test-contract failed on
the OpenAI and xAI Responses goldens with both branches merged.

ResponsesResponse.UnmarshalJSON now retains an explicitly received
incomplete_details: null as an extra, so the null survives whether or not the
struct types the member, and a populated value is still emitted once from the
typed field. Verified by merging both branches into a scratch branch: without
the fix TestOpenAIReplayResponses and TestXAIReplayResponses fail on the
missing member, with it make test-contract passes. #955 needs no change and
the two can land in either order.

Tested: table-driven unit tests in internal/core, internal/providers and
internal/server; live against openai/gpt-4.1-mini (native),
anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 and gemini/gemini-2.5-flash (translated) —
asserted field by field that the non-streaming object now matches the streamed
one on all three, and that metadata round-trips through
GET /v1/responses/{id} after both a streamed and a non-streamed create.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Responses now preserve provider-returned and additional response fields across requests, streaming events, and response reconstruction.
    • Responses translated through chat-compatible providers echo caller-supplied request settings in returned responses.
    • The truncation: "disabled" option is now accepted for chat-translated Responses requests.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Requests missing both input and prompt now receive an OpenAI-compatible validation error before provider processing.
    • Unsupported truncation values now identify the offending field in error details.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on missing input validation, truncation behavior, and response object differences between native and translated providers.

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The Responses API now validates missing input locally, preserves unknown response fields, echoes supplied request fields for translated providers, supports disabled truncation, and documents these compatibility behaviors. Tests and golden fixtures cover response fidelity, validation, streaming, and provider behavior.

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Responses API fidelity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Input validation and gateway errors
internal/core/responses.go, internal/server/translated_inference_service.go, internal/core/responses_fidelity_test.go, internal/server/responses_fidelity_test.go, docs/advanced/responses-api.mdx
Requests now require input or prompt. Missing or null input returns the OpenAI-compatible 400 error before provider dispatch.
Response field preservation
internal/core/responses_json.go, internal/core/responses.go, internal/streaming/assemble.go, internal/server/responses_fidelity_test.go, tests/contract/testdata/golden/*/responses.golden.json, docs/advanced/responses-compatibility.mdx
Responses preserve unknown JSON members, explicit incomplete_details: null, provider fields, and extra fields during serialization, retrieval, and stream assembly.
Request echo across providers
internal/providers/responses_echo.go, internal/providers/responses_converter.go, internal/providers/responses_adapter.go, internal/providers/anthropic/responses.go, internal/providers/responses_echo_test.go
Native and chat-translated flows echo supplied request members on non-streaming responses and streaming lifecycle events. Provider-generated members take precedence.
Truncation compatibility
internal/providers/responses_adapter.go, internal/providers/responses_truncation_test.go, docs/advanced/responses-compatibility.mdx
Chat translation accepts empty or "disabled" truncation and rejects unsupported values with Param: "truncation". Documentation describes native and translated-provider behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8c297

Chat-translated responses can omit caller-supplied fields such as frequency and presence penalties. This compatibility regression should be fixed before merge.

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// "disabled" is OpenAI's default and asks for nothing, so it is honored by
// doing nothing. Only "auto", which asks the provider to drop input that
// does not fit, cannot be translated.
if truncation := strings.TrimSpace(req.Truncation); truncation != "" && truncation != "disabled" {

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P2 Normalize Truncation Echoes

Whitespace-padded truncation values such as " disabled " are accepted after trimming, but the translated response echoes the original padded value. This returns a value outside the accepted truncation enum and can make strict Responses clients reject an otherwise successful response. Either reject non-canonical input or echo the canonical "disabled" value. This is non-blocking, but it creates an avoidable compatibility cost.

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Fixed: the echo now carries the canonical spelling the validator accepted, so a padded " disabled " comes back as "disabled". Added a test.

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In `@internal/providers/responses_echo.go`:
- Line 24: Update ResponsesRequestEcho and its JSON echo handling to preserve an
allowlist of echoable ExtraFields, including fields such as frequency_penalty
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  • docs/advanced/responses-api.mdx
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  • internal/providers/anthropic/responses.go
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  • internal/server/translated_inference_service.go
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