feat: route GPT-5.4+ and GPT-6 Astra to /v1/responses and enable tools

[tawnymanticore]

What does this PR do?

TLDR: OpenAI rejects function calling together with a reasoning effort on /v1/chat/completions for GPT-5.4 and newer, so this PR routes those models to /v1/responses and enables function calling on them. Targets main. There are no companion branches.

Before this PR, the OpenAI-direct providers for GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, and GPT-6 Astra had supports_function_calling=False. A user could not attach a tool to a run config with these models. After this PR, the adapter sends these six providers to /v1/responses through the litellm responses bridge. Function calling works at each thinking level, and the adapter requests a reasoning summary, so the reasoning shows in Kiln. The OpenRouter providers for the same models do not change.

Implementation

• Added the provider flag openai_responses_api to KilnModelProvider. A validator permits the flag only on the openai provider.
• When the flag is set, LiteLlmAdapter.litellm_model_id() returns openai/responses/<model_id>. litellm sends this model id to /v1/responses and returns a chat-shaped response.
• The change is in the task adapter only. The shared helper in utils/litellm.py does not change, so the extractor, the embedding adapter, and the reranker stay on /v1/chat/completions.
• The adapter adds reasoning_effort to allowed_openai_params for a flagged provider. The litellm parameter map for gpt-6-astra does not list reasoning_effort, so drop_params removed the thinking level with no error.
• The adapter removes top_p and temperature for a flagged provider when the reasoning effort is not none. OpenAI reasoning models reject these parameters when reasoning is on. litellm removes them for the gpt-5.x names, but gpt-6-astra is outside that name check.
• The adapter sends reasoning_summary="auto" for a flagged provider when the reasoning effort is not none. Without the summary, the responses bridge returns no reasoning_content. This is the third commit, and you can drop it on its own.
• The adapter merges the split choices that the litellm responses bridge returns when a reply has text and a function call in one turn. The bridge emits the text as one choice and all tool calls as a second choice, and Kiln read only the first choice, so the tool call was lost and the narration became the final answer. The merge is gated on the flag. This defect exists on main through the litellm auto-route, but main hides it because tools are off for these models.
• The adapter sends strict: true on the json_schema response format for flagged providers. Kiln never set strict, and the litellm bridge turns the absent key into strict: false, while /v1/responses defaults to true, so structured output ran unconstrained on the bridge. Large models follow the schema by habit, and small models such as gpt-5-nano return array items as strings. The change is gated on the flag because json_schema mode is shared by hundreds of provider entries.
• Removed supports_function_calling=False from the six OpenAI-direct providers and set openai_responses_api=True on them. GPT-5.4 Pro, GPT-5.4 Mini, and GPT-5.4 Nano do not change.
• The flag is explicit on the GPT-5.x providers for a reason. litellm 1.87.1 already sends the gpt-5.x names to /v1/responses when the request has tools and a reasoning effort, so those five flags were stale since KIL-716 Anthropic thinking: none level, summarized reasoning for Opus 4.7/4.8, litellm bump #1480. GPT-6 Astra is outside the litellm name check, and OpenAI rejects it on /v1/chat/completions even without a reasoning effort, because the model always reasons.
• Added unit tests for the validator, the model id, the allowed parameters, the reasoning summary, and the sampling parameters. Added a model list test that checks the six providers.
• Added the paid test test_openai_responses_routing_paid.py. It records each HTTP request and checks the endpoint, the reasoning effort, the tool call, and the cost for each flagged provider.

Before you merge

• The remote config accepts unknown provider fields. An older client reads supports_function_calling=True for these six providers and ignores the new flag. An older client with litellm 1.87 or newer gets the litellm route for the GPT-5.x names. GPT-6 Astra on an older client gets the same 400 error as today.
• This PR does not set store. OpenAI applies its default retention to a response on /v1/responses. litellm already routes GPT-5.4 Pro this way today.
• The paid test test_thinking_level_reasoning_content has content flakes for these models before and after this PR. On main, 5 of the 30 cases pass, and GPT-6 Astra fails all five levels with a 400 on temperature=0. On this branch, 18 of the 30 cases pass, and no 400 appears. See the test results below.

Test Results

All 162 tests of the paid suite for the six OpenAI-direct pairs ran on this branch with --runpaid --ollama: 102 passed, 60 skipped, 0 failed. The 60 skips come from the model config and not from this branch: 54 extraction cases for MIME types that these models do not declare, and 6 G-Eval logprobs cases, because supports_logprobs is false. The extraction tests pass with no regression, because the extractor stays on /v1/chat/completions. The key new result is test_tools_all_built_in_models: main skips it for all six pairs, and this branch runs it and passes on all six. The routing test of this branch passes 9 of 9. The smoke test on GPT-6 Astra passed before the full run.

test_thinking_level_reasoning_content is not in the 162, because its parametrize ID has a different shape, so it ran as a supplement: 30 cases, twice. Run 1 gives 18 passed and 12 failed. Run 2 gives 18 passed and 12 failed with a different set of failing levels. Every failure is the soft assertion "Expected reasoning content, but got None". No 400 about temperature, top_p, reasoning_effort, or tools appears anywhere on this branch. The same 30 cases on main give 5 passed and 25 failed: GPT-6 Astra fails all five levels with a 400 on temperature=0, and the gpt-5.x levels return no reasoning. The OpenRouter twins of GPT-5.4 and GPT-6 Astra, which this branch does not touch, fail 6 of 10 with the same soft assertion. OpenAI does not always return a reasoning summary on either endpoint, so these 12 are content flakes (⚠️), not real errors (❌).

A narration-then-tool-call prompt reproduced the split-choice defect 18 of 18 times on the six models before the merge fix: two choices came back, the tool never ran, and the output was the narration only. The new paid test test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call fails 6 of 6 before the fix and passes 6 of 6 after it. Five new unit tests cover the merge rules, the flag gate, the single-choice identity case, and the tool loop with a synthetic split response. The same prompt on gpt-4.1 through /v1/chat/completions returns one choice with both the text and the tool call, and the tool runs 3 of 3 times.

The strict defect was found by the all-models experiment: the data-gen structured-output test fails on gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-4.1-nano through the bridge with a JSON string instead of an object, and a replay of the same request with strict: true returns objects every time. The new paid test test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict records the wire and fails 6 of 6 before the fix (text.format.strict is false) and passes 6 of 6 after it. Two unit tests cover the flag gate.

GPT-5.4 (openai):

• 17 passed, 10 skipped (9 extraction MIME types the model does not declare, 1 logprobs — unsupported, expected), 0 failed
• Routing test: 4 passed
• Thinking levels (supplement, run 1): 3 passed, 2 content flakes — pre-existing, worse on main
• Extraction: PDF / JPEG / PNG passed

GPT-5.5 (openai):

• 17 passed, 10 skipped (9 extraction MIME types the model does not declare, 1 logprobs — unsupported, expected), 0 failed
• Routing test: 3 passed
• Thinking levels (supplement, run 1): 2 passed, 3 content flakes — pre-existing, worse on main
• Extraction: PDF / JPEG / PNG passed

GPT-5.6 Sol (openai):

• 17 passed, 10 skipped (9 extraction MIME types the model does not declare, 1 logprobs — unsupported, expected), 0 failed
• Routing test: 3 passed
• Thinking levels (supplement, run 1): 3 passed, 2 content flakes — pre-existing, worse on main
• Extraction: PDF / JPEG / PNG passed

GPT-5.6 Terra (openai):

• 17 passed, 10 skipped (9 extraction MIME types the model does not declare, 1 logprobs — unsupported, expected), 0 failed
• Routing test: 3 passed
• Thinking levels (supplement, run 1): 5 passed, 0 content flakes — pre-existing, worse on main
• Extraction: PDF / JPEG / PNG passed

GPT-5.6 Luna (openai):

• 17 passed, 10 skipped (9 extraction MIME types the model does not declare, 1 logprobs — unsupported, expected), 0 failed
• Routing test: 3 passed
• Thinking levels (supplement, run 1): 2 passed, 3 content flakes — pre-existing, worse on main
• Extraction: PDF / JPEG / PNG passed

GPT-6 Astra (openai):

• 17 passed, 10 skipped (9 extraction MIME types the model does not declare, 1 logprobs — unsupported, expected), 0 failed
• Routing test: 4 passed
• Thinking levels (supplement, run 1): 3 passed, 2 content flakes — pre-existing, worse on main
• Extraction: PDF / JPEG / PNG passed

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GPT-5.4 (openai):
✅ test_data_gen_all_models_providers[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers_with_structured_output[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_llm_as_judge[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_output[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_input[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_structured_output_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_structured_input_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_all_models_providers_plaintext[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_tools_all_built_in_models[gpt_5_4-openai] — runs and passes here; main skips it because supports_function_calling was False
✅ test_provider_bad_request[gpt_5_4-openai]
✅ test_supports_vision_is_coherent[gpt_5_4-openai]
⏭️ test_all_built_in_models_logprobs_geval[gpt_5_4-openai] — skipped, model does not support logprobs (expected)
✅ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_4-openai] — application/pdf, image/jpeg, image/png
⏭️ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_4-openai] — skipped for 9 MIME types the model does not declare (audio/mpeg, audio/ogg, audio/wav, text/csv, text/html, text/markdown, text/plain, video/mp4, video/quicktime)
✅ test_openai_responses_drops_custom_sampling_params[gpt_5_4]
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_5_4_openai]
✅ test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call[gpt_5_4_openai] — fails before the merge fix (tool never called), passes after it
✅ test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict[gpt_5_4_openai] — fails before the strict fix (strict false on the wire), passes after it
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_4/none]
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_4/low] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main too)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_4/medium]
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_4/high] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; passed on run 2; fails on main too)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_4/xhigh]

GPT-5.5 (openai):
✅ test_data_gen_all_models_providers[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers_with_structured_output[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_llm_as_judge[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_output[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_input[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_structured_output_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_structured_input_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_all_models_providers_plaintext[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_tools_all_built_in_models[gpt_5_5-openai] — runs and passes here; main skips it because supports_function_calling was False
✅ test_provider_bad_request[gpt_5_5-openai]
✅ test_supports_vision_is_coherent[gpt_5_5-openai]
⏭️ test_all_built_in_models_logprobs_geval[gpt_5_5-openai] — skipped, model does not support logprobs (expected)
✅ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_5-openai] — application/pdf, image/jpeg, image/png
⏭️ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_5-openai] — skipped for 9 MIME types the model does not declare (audio/mpeg, audio/ogg, audio/wav, text/csv, text/html, text/markdown, text/plain, video/mp4, video/quicktime)
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_5_5_openai]
✅ test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call[gpt_5_5_openai] — fails before the merge fix (tool never called), passes after it
✅ test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict[gpt_5_5_openai] — fails before the strict fix (strict false on the wire), passes after it
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_5/none]
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_5/low] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main too)
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_5/medium] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main too)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_5/high] — passed on run 1, failed on run 2 (content flake)
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_5/xhigh] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; passed on run 2; fails on main too)

GPT-5.6 Sol (openai):
✅ test_data_gen_all_models_providers[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers_with_structured_output[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_llm_as_judge[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_output[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_input[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_structured_output_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_structured_input_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_all_models_providers_plaintext[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_tools_all_built_in_models[gpt_5_6_sol-openai] — runs and passes here; main skips it because supports_function_calling was False
✅ test_provider_bad_request[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
✅ test_supports_vision_is_coherent[gpt_5_6_sol-openai]
⏭️ test_all_built_in_models_logprobs_geval[gpt_5_6_sol-openai] — skipped, model does not support logprobs (expected)
✅ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_6_sol-openai] — application/pdf, image/jpeg, image/png
⏭️ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_6_sol-openai] — skipped for 9 MIME types the model does not declare (audio/mpeg, audio/ogg, audio/wav, text/csv, text/html, text/markdown, text/plain, video/mp4, video/quicktime)
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_5_6_sol_openai]
✅ test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call[gpt_5_6_sol_openai] — fails before the merge fix (tool never called), passes after it
✅ test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict[gpt_5_6_sol_openai] — fails before the strict fix (strict false on the wire), passes after it
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_sol/none]
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_sol/low]
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_sol/medium] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main too)
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_sol/high] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; passed on run 2; fails on main too)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_sol/xhigh]

GPT-5.6 Terra (openai):
✅ test_data_gen_all_models_providers[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers_with_structured_output[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_llm_as_judge[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_output[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_input[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_structured_output_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_structured_input_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_all_models_providers_plaintext[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_tools_all_built_in_models[gpt_5_6_terra-openai] — runs and passes here; main skips it because supports_function_calling was False
✅ test_provider_bad_request[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
✅ test_supports_vision_is_coherent[gpt_5_6_terra-openai]
⏭️ test_all_built_in_models_logprobs_geval[gpt_5_6_terra-openai] — skipped, model does not support logprobs (expected)
✅ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_6_terra-openai] — application/pdf, image/jpeg, image/png
⏭️ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_6_terra-openai] — skipped for 9 MIME types the model does not declare (audio/mpeg, audio/ogg, audio/wav, text/csv, text/html, text/markdown, text/plain, video/mp4, video/quicktime)
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_5_6_terra_openai]
✅ test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call[gpt_5_6_terra_openai] — fails before the merge fix (tool never called), passes after it
✅ test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict[gpt_5_6_terra_openai] — fails before the strict fix (strict false on the wire), passes after it
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_terra/none]
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_terra/low]
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_terra/medium]
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_terra/high] — passed on run 1, failed on run 2 (content flake)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_terra/xhigh] — passed on run 1, failed on run 2 (content flake)

GPT-5.6 Luna (openai):
✅ test_data_gen_all_models_providers[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers_with_structured_output[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_llm_as_judge[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_output[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_input[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_structured_output_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_structured_input_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_all_models_providers_plaintext[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_tools_all_built_in_models[gpt_5_6_luna-openai] — runs and passes here; main skips it because supports_function_calling was False
✅ test_provider_bad_request[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
✅ test_supports_vision_is_coherent[gpt_5_6_luna-openai]
⏭️ test_all_built_in_models_logprobs_geval[gpt_5_6_luna-openai] — skipped, model does not support logprobs (expected)
✅ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_6_luna-openai] — application/pdf, image/jpeg, image/png
⏭️ test_extract_document_success[gpt_5_6_luna-openai] — skipped for 9 MIME types the model does not declare (audio/mpeg, audio/ogg, audio/wav, text/csv, text/html, text/markdown, text/plain, video/mp4, video/quicktime)
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_5_6_luna_openai]
✅ test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call[gpt_5_6_luna_openai] — fails before the merge fix (tool never called), passes after it
✅ test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict[gpt_5_6_luna_openai] — fails before the strict fix (strict false on the wire), passes after it
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_luna/none]
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_luna/low] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main too)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_luna/medium] — passed on run 1, failed on run 2 (content flake)
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_luna/high] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; passed on run 2; fails on main too)
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_5_6_luna/xhigh] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; passed on run 2; fails on main too)

GPT-6 Astra (openai):
✅ test_data_gen_all_models_providers[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_data_gen_sample_all_models_providers_with_structured_output[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_llm_as_judge[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_output[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_all_built_in_models_structured_input[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_structured_output_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_structured_input_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_all_models_providers_plaintext[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_cot_prompt_builder[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_tools_all_built_in_models[gpt_6_astra-openai] — runs and passes here; main skips it because supports_function_calling was False
✅ test_provider_bad_request[gpt_6_astra-openai]
✅ test_supports_vision_is_coherent[gpt_6_astra-openai]
⏭️ test_all_built_in_models_logprobs_geval[gpt_6_astra-openai] — skipped, model does not support logprobs (expected)
✅ test_extract_document_success[gpt_6_astra-openai] — application/pdf, image/jpeg, image/png
⏭️ test_extract_document_success[gpt_6_astra-openai] — skipped for 9 MIME types the model does not declare (audio/mpeg, audio/ogg, audio/wav, text/csv, text/html, text/markdown, text/plain, video/mp4, video/quicktime)
✅ test_openai_responses_drops_custom_sampling_params[gpt_6_astra]
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_6_astra_openai]
✅ test_openai_responses_narration_then_tool_call[gpt_6_astra_openai] — fails before the merge fix (tool never called), passes after it
✅ test_openai_responses_structured_output_is_strict[gpt_6_astra_openai] — fails before the strict fix (strict false on the wire), passes after it
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_6_astra/low]
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_6_astra/medium]
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_6_astra/high] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main with a 400 on temperature=0)
⚠️ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_6_astra/xhigh] — no reasoning summary returned (content flake; failed on run 2 too; fails on main with a 400 on temperature=0)
✅ test_thinking_level_reasoning_content[ModelProviderName.openai/gpt_6_astra/max] — passed on run 1, failed on run 2 (content flake)

Control, GPT-5.2 (openai):
✅ test_openai_tools_with_thinking_level_routing[gpt_5_2_chat_completions_control] — stays on /v1/chat/completions

Related Issues

KIL-618. This PR is a per-provider fix, and it is smaller than the migration in the ticket.

Related PRs: #1351 added the workaround on GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4. #1560 and #1755 extended it to GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 Astra. #1562 (closed) explains that OpenAI returns a reasoning summary only on /v1/responses.

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The change adds an openai_responses_api provider flag, routes selected OpenAI reasoning models through LiteLLM’s Responses API bridge, preserves reasoning parameters, removes unsupported sampling parameters, merges split tool responses, and adds unit and paid regression tests.

Changes

OpenAI Responses API routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider configuration and model catalog libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/ml_model_list.py, libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/test_ml_model_list.py	Adds and validates openai_responses_api. Six OpenAI reasoning models now use the flag and support function calling.
LiteLLM Responses API request construction libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/model_adapters/litellm_adapter.py, libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/model_adapters/test_litellm_adapter.py	Routes flagged providers through openai/responses/<model>, preserves reasoning settings, adds strict structured-output schemas, removes unsupported sampling parameters, and merges split choices with tool calls.
Tool-loop and routing regression coverage libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/model_adapters/test_openai_responses_routing_paid.py, libs/core/kiln_ai/utils/test_litellm.py	Verifies endpoint routing, reasoning propagation, tool execution, usage, cost reporting, structured output, sampling-parameter removal, narration followed by tool calls, and provider metadata behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ffb95

Responses API runs that request logprobs may fail when a response contains split text and tool-call choices, preventing affected model calls from completing. Preserve returned logprobs in the merged choice before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant KilnModelProvider
  participant litellm_adapter
  participant LiteLLM
  participant OpenAI
  KilnModelProvider->>litellm_adapter: configure Responses API provider
  litellm_adapter->>LiteLLM: build openai/responses/model request
  LiteLLM->>OpenAI: send reasoning and tool request
  OpenAI-->>LiteLLM: return split reasoning, text, and tool choices
  LiteLLM-->>litellm_adapter: return merged response

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475-478: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve logprobs when merging split choices.

_merge_split_choices creates a new Choices without logprobs, so the merged choice always has logprobs=None. If base_adapter_config.top_logprobs is set, _extract_and_validate_logprobs then raises "Logprobs were required, but no logprobs were returned." for every Responses-routed run where the bridge splits the turn, even when the provider returned logprobs.

Carry the first non-null choice-level logprobs into the merged choice.

🐛 Proposed fix

+        logprobs = next(
+            (
+                choice.logprobs
+                for choice in choices
+                if isinstance(choice, Choices) and choice.logprobs is not None
+            ),
+            None,
+        )
+
         return Choices(
             finish_reason="tool_calls" if tool_calls else choices[0].finish_reason,
             index=0,
             message=merged_message,
+            logprobs=logprobs,
         )

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In `@libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/model_adapters/litellm_adapter.py` around lines
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