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fix(translation): normalize Responses built-in tool roles - #1186

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Prevent built-in tool activity from triggering a new user turn in routing.

Decode Responses tool calls as Assistant and results as Tool, and preserve their original payloads when encoding requests.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Preserved built-in tool calls and results when translating conversation history, including alternating assistant and tool messages.
    • Improved validation for unsupported content in non-user messages before applying text-only conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Lempka <rlempka@nvidia.com>
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Major Handle imagegenerationcall as an assistant input item.

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@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs:
- Around line 734-744: Update the item-type role mapping so
image_generation_call maps to Role::Assistant, and add it to the existing
built-in item-type helper’s recognized list. Preserve the existing replay and
validation behavior; do not introduce a separate replay path.
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  • crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/buffered.rs
  • crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs
  • crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs

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Responses built-in tool items now receive role-aware decoding and replay. OpenAI Chat rejects these items before converting non-user content to text. A request translation test checks the decoded role sequence.

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Built-in tool history handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Responses tool roles and replay
crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs
Known built-in tool input types receive the assistant role, and corresponding output types receive the tool role. Encoding replays matching provider-qualified items for any message role. The test checks for three assistant/tool role pairs.
OpenAI Chat built-in tool validation
crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/buffered.rs
Encoding rejects unknown blocks that contain Responses built-in tool items before converting non-user content to text.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 1d056

Image-generation tool history can be misrepresented as user content during translation; normalize it before merging.

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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A rabbit checks each tool-call trail,
Assistant, tool, in turns prevail.
Chat keeps unknown blocks in view,
And skips the text-only fallback too.
I thump my paws: the roles ring true!

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Review comments at
@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs:
- Around line 734-744: Update the item-type role mapping so
image_generation_call maps to Role::Assistant, and add it to the existing
built-in item-type helper’s recognized list. Preserve the existing replay and
validation behavior; do not introduce a separate replay path.

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  • crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/buffered.rs
  • crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs
  • crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs

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Signed-off-by: Ryan Lempka <rlempka@nvidia.com>
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ryan-lempka merged commit 2d925b8 into main Oct 30, 2026
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ryan-lempka deleted the fix/responses-builtin-roles branch October 30, 2026 19:41
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