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43 changes: 43 additions & 0 deletions src/api/providers/__tests__/lite-llm.spec.ts
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@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
import { Anthropic } from "@anthropic-ai/sdk"
import type OpenAI from "openai"

import { LiteLLMHandler } from "../lite-llm"
import type { ApiHandlerCreateMessageMetadata } from "../../index"
import { ApiHandlerOptions } from "../../../shared/api"
import { litellmDefaultModelId, litellmDefaultModelInfo } from "@roo-code/types"
import { asyncStreamFrom, collectStream } from "../../../test-utils/stream"
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expect(assistantMessage.tool_calls[0].provider_specific_fields.thought_signature).toBe(dummySignature)
})

it("should send tool call ids that carry a thought signature unchanged", async () => {
// LiteLLM encodes the Gemini signature into the id; truncating it breaks the signature.
const signature = "AY89a18ErUKBAfkTYnDbzq6mGnRG5QS8VFogncpDzYVXzC0i_aDwY5o-0123456789abcdef"
const toolCallId = `call_864944__thought__${signature}`
expect(toolCallId.length).toBeGreaterThan(64)

const messages: Anthropic.Messages.MessageParam[] = [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello" },
{
role: "assistant",
content: [{ type: "tool_use", id: toolCallId, name: "read_file", input: { path: "test.txt" } }],
},
{
role: "user",
content: [{ type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: toolCallId, content: "file contents" }],
},
]
mockCreate.mockReturnValue({
withResponse: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({
data: asyncStreamFrom([{ choices: [{ delta: { content: "ok" } }] }]),
}),
})
const metadata: ApiHandlerCreateMessageMetadata = {
taskId: "task-1",
tools: [
{
type: "function",
function: { name: "read_file", description: "Read a file", parameters: {} },
},
],
}

await collectStream(handler.createMessage("You are a helpful assistant", messages, metadata))

const sent: OpenAI.Chat.ChatCompletionMessageParam[] = mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].messages
const assistantMessage = sent.find((msg) => msg.role === "assistant" && msg.tool_calls?.length)
const toolMessage = sent.find((msg) => msg.role === "tool")
expect(assistantMessage?.role === "assistant" && assistantMessage.tool_calls?.[0].id).toBe(toolCallId)
expect(toolMessage?.role === "tool" && toolMessage.tool_call_id).toBe(toolCallId)
})

it("should not inject thought signatures for non-Gemini models", async () => {
const optionsWithGPT4: ApiHandlerOptions = {
...mockOptions,
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions src/api/providers/lite-llm.ts
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Expand Up @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { ApiStream, ApiStreamUsageChunk } from "../transform/stream"
import { convertToOpenAiMessages } from "../transform/openai-format"
import { convertToR1Format } from "../transform/r1-format"
import { GEMINI_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_BYPASS } from "../transform/gemini-format"
import { sanitizeOpenAiCallId } from "../../utils/tool-id"
import { sanitizeLiteLlmCallId } from "../../utils/tool-id"

import type {
SingleCompletionHandler,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -158,11 +158,11 @@ export class LiteLLMHandler extends RouterProvider implements SingleCompletionHa
// never gets inserted mid-turn and causes the model to drop prior reasoning_content.
const openAiMessages = info.preserveReasoning
? convertToR1Format(messages, {
normalizeToolCallId: sanitizeOpenAiCallId,
normalizeToolCallId: sanitizeLiteLlmCallId,
mergeToolResultText: true,
})
: convertToOpenAiMessages(messages, {
normalizeToolCallId: sanitizeOpenAiCallId,
normalizeToolCallId: sanitizeLiteLlmCallId,
})

// Prepare messages with cache control if enabled and supported
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34 changes: 33 additions & 1 deletion src/utils/__tests__/tool-id.spec.ts
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@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
import { sanitizeToolUseId, truncateOpenAiCallId, sanitizeOpenAiCallId, OPENAI_CALL_ID_MAX_LENGTH } from "../tool-id"
import {
sanitizeToolUseId,
truncateOpenAiCallId,
sanitizeOpenAiCallId,
sanitizeLiteLlmCallId,
OPENAI_CALL_ID_MAX_LENGTH,
} from "../tool-id"

describe("sanitizeToolUseId", () => {
describe("valid IDs pass through unchanged", () => {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -184,3 +190,29 @@ describe("OPENAI_CALL_ID_MAX_LENGTH constant", () => {
expect(OPENAI_CALL_ID_MAX_LENGTH).toBe(64)
})
})

describe("sanitizeLiteLlmCallId", () => {
const signature = "AY89a18ErUKBAfkTYnDbzq6mGnRG5QS8VFogncpDzYVXzC0i_aDwY5o-0123456789abcdef"

it("keeps an id that carries a thought signature intact, however long", () => {
const id = `call_864944__thought__${signature}`

expect(id.length).toBeGreaterThan(OPENAI_CALL_ID_MAX_LENGTH)
expect(sanitizeLiteLlmCallId(id)).toBe(id)
})

it("still replaces invalid characters in an id that carries a thought signature", () => {
expect(sanitizeLiteLlmCallId("call_1__thought__ab+c/d=")).toBe("call_1__thought__ab_c_d_")
})

it("truncates other long ids like sanitizeOpenAiCallId", () => {
const id = "call_" + "x".repeat(100)

expect(sanitizeLiteLlmCallId(id)).toBe(sanitizeOpenAiCallId(id))
expect(sanitizeLiteLlmCallId(id).length).toBe(OPENAI_CALL_ID_MAX_LENGTH)
})

it("leaves short ids unchanged", () => {
expect(sanitizeLiteLlmCallId("toolu_123")).toBe("toolu_123")
})
})
18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions src/utils/tool-id.ts
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const sanitized = sanitizeToolUseId(id)
return truncateOpenAiCallId(sanitized, maxLength)
}

/**
* LiteLLM carries a Gemini thought signature inside the tool call id, as
* `<call id>__thought__<signature>`. Truncating such an id corrupts the signature.
*/
export const LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER = "__thought__"

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/**
* Normalize a tool call id for LiteLLM. Ids that carry a thought signature are only
* character-sanitized, because the signature must reach Gemini intact; every other id
* gets the usual OpenAI 64-character treatment.
*
* @param id - The original call_id
* @returns The id to send to LiteLLM
*/
export function sanitizeLiteLlmCallId(id: string): string {
return id.includes(LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER) ? sanitizeToolUseId(id) : sanitizeOpenAiCallId(id)

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<source kind="search">
<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought signature is embedded in the tool call id, so any client that normalizes ids breaks the next turn · Issue #37849 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 37849 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Published: 2 months ago; Crawled: 2 weeks ago; GitHub flagged #25322 as a possible duplicate. ... On the next turn the proxy finds the `__thought__` separator, takes everything after it, and forwards it to Vertex as `thoughtSignature` without validating it.
What goes wrong  | The signature is never captured, because Gemini put it on a separate thought part  | The signature is captured and is sent back, but corrupted in transit
What Google says  | `Function call is missing a thought_signature in functionCall parts`  | `Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;`
Symptom  | The model degenerates: garbage replies, repetition loops  | Hard `400`, the session cannot continue

Worth noting the two interact: #25322 treats embedding the signature in `tool_call_id` as the correct mechanism and asks for it to be fed in more cases. Fixing #25322 alone would make this issue fire more often, not less, because more tool calls would end up carrying a multi-KB id that clients then normalize.

For Gemini models the proxy returns Google&#39;s `thoughtSignature` in two places:

  * `tool_calls[].provider_specific_fields.thought_signature`
  * appended to `tool_calls[].id` after a `__thought__` separator

Neither is a key a generic OpenAI-compatible client knows about, and the second one is actively harmful: `id` is by convention a short identifier, so clients normalize it.

Measured against Vertex Gemini 3, the returned tool call id ranges from 843 to 4423 characters depending on the call. On `/v1/responses` the same blob is placed in both `id` and `call_id`.

When a client normalizes that id, the embedded signature is mangled. On the next turn the proxy finds the `__thought__` separator, takes everything after it, and forwards it to Vertex as `thoughtSignature` without validating it. Google rejects the request:
    
    `Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES),
    Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;
    `

The same corruption produces a second, different error text when the mangled value happens to still be valid base64, which makes this easy to miss when grepping logs:
    
    `&quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid thought signature.&quot;, &quot;status&quot;: &quot;INVALID_ARGUMENT&quot;
    `

There is no way to opt out: checked v1.83.14-stable, v1.90.0, v1.96.0 and main, the embedding is an unconditional `if thought_signature:`.


Before a (hypothetical) fix — the agent answers the first question, then every following turn fails and the conversation is dead.

  1. An operator asks a Telegram assistant (built on OpenClaw) a question that requires a tool.
  2. The client sends `POST https://&lt;proxy&gt;/v1/responses` with `model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview` and one function tool.
  3. `200` comes back with a `function_call` item whose `call_id` is 1223 characters long: `call_2156408__thought__AY89a1/Iab3+RVjKCabD+h7qYLWIf2BWZ9CZDSDoMZpQytG...`
  4. The client stores that `call_id`. Because it is an identifier, it normalizes it into something id-shaped, ending up with a 41 character value such as `AY89a1_S3YvIpUCcBTFSgDfesRLDnA_775ff49bcd`.
  5. The client runs the tool and sends the next turn, echoing back the normalized `call_id` together with the `function_call_output`.
  6. The proxy answers `400`: `Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;`.
  7. The operator sees `LLM request failed` in the chat. </excerpt>
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<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought-signature embedded in tool_call.id leaks into Responses API input[N].id, causing OpenAI 400 &quot;string too long&quot; on router fallback · Issue #41534 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 41534 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Published: last month; Crawled: 2 days ago; File: `litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py` line ~1594 ...             return item   # ← &quot;fc_call_xxx__thought__&lt;902chars&gt;&quot; starts with &quot;fc&quot; → passes through!

## Root Cause (confirmed by source code inspection)

### Step 1 — Gemini embeds thought-signatures into `tool_call.id` (since v1.80.0)

File: `litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py` line ~1594
    
    # Gemini 3.x always embeds a base64 thought-signature for multi-turn context preservation
    # (even without explicit reasoning_effort/budget_tokens — it fires on ANY tool call)
    if thought_signature:
        _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] = _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(
            _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] or &quot;&quot;, thought_signature
        )
    # Result: tool_call.id = &quot;call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 sig&gt;&quot;  →  ~946 chars

`_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` in `litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py`:
    
    THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR: Final = &quot;__thought__&quot;
    
    def _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(tool_call_id: str, thought_signature: str | None) -&gt; str:
        if thought_signature:
            return f&quot;{tool_call_id}{THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR}{thought_signature}&quot;
            return item   # ← &quot;fc_call_xxx__thought__&lt;902chars&gt;&quot; starts with &quot;fc&quot; → passes through!
        return {key: value for key, value in item.items() if key != &quot;id&quot;}

The guard introduced in the same commit (`ab2c9aed`) only validates the prefix (`fc_`), not the length. A 949-char id with a valid `fc_` prefix sails through unchecked.

### All Gemini 3.x models are affected

`thoughtSignature` is emitted by Gemini on every function call for multi-turn context preservation — it does NOT require explicit `reasoning_effort` or `budget_tokens`. Per Google&#39;s docs: &quot;a part can have thoughtSignature without thought: true, e.g., function calls&quot;. All models with `supports_reasoning: true` in the cost map are affected:

  * `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.8-flash`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.5-flash-lite`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, and all `gemini/gemini-3.*` variants

### Relationship to #18160

Issue #18160 reported the same `__thought__` leak on the Chat Completions path (`/v1/chat/completions`). PR #18374 fixed it there by stripping `__thought__` from tool_call ids before sending to non-Gemini providers. The Responses API path (`/v1/responses`) was not covered by that fix and remains broken.
</excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>litellm/litellm/utils.py at main · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/litellm/utils.py</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search7 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 3 weeks ago; def _remove_thought_signature_from_id(tool_call_id: str, separator: str) -&gt; str: ... object as litellm_logging_obj instead of a real Logging instance - this

&quot;&quot;&quot;

if custom_llm_provider in [&quot;gemini&quot;, &quot;vertex_ai&quot;, &quot;vertex_ai_beta&quot;]:

# For vertex_ai, check if it&#39;s actually a Gemini model

if custom_llm_provider in [&quot;vertex_ai&quot;, &quot;vertex_ai_beta&quot;]:

return model is not None and &quot;gemini&quot; in model.lower()

return True

# Check if model name contains gemini

return model is not None and &quot;gemini&quot; in model.lower()

def _remove_thought_signature_from_id(tool_call_id: str, separator: str) -&gt; str:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

Remove thought signature from a tool call ID.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

if separator in tool_call_id:

return tool_call_id.split(separator, 1)[0]

return tool_call_id

def _process_assistant_message_tool_calls(msg_copy: dict, thought_signature_separator: str) -&gt; dict:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

Process assistant message to remove thought signatures from tool call IDs.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

role: Final = msg_copy.get(&quot;role&quot;)

tool_calls: Final = msg_copy.get(&quot;tool_calls&quot;)

if role == &quot;assistant&quot; and isinstance(tool_calls, list):

new_tool_calls: Final = []

for tc in tool_calls:

# Handle both dict and Pydantic model tool calls

if hasattr(tc, &quot;model_dump&quot;):

# It&#39;s a Pydantic model, convert to dict

tc_dict = tc.model_dump()

elif isinstance(tc, dict):

tc_dict = tc.copy()

else:

new_tool_calls.append(tc)

continue

</excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought-signature embedded in tool_call.id leaks into Responses API input[N].id, causing OpenAI 400 &quot;string too long&quot; on router fallback · Issue #41534 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 41534 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Published: last month; Crawled: 2 days ago; `_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` in `litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py`: ...     from litellm.litellm_core_utils.prompt_templates.factory import THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR ...   1. github-actions

  1. User sends a multi-turn Responses API request to LiteLLM Router
  2. Router selects `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash` (or any Gemini 3.x model with `supports_reasoning=True`)
  3. Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 signature&gt;&quot;` (949 chars total)
  4. User&#39;s agent receives the response, reads the 949-char function_call item id
  5. User&#39;s agent sends the next turn, including the prior function_call item (with 949-char id) in `input[]`
  6. Router attempts the call — primary model fails (rate limit, timeout, etc.)
  7. Router falls back to OpenAI (`gpt-4o` / `gpt-5`)
  8. User sees a `BadRequestError: input[17].id string too long (949 &gt; 64)` — the fallback also fails, conversation is permanently broken

### After a fix — the flow succeeds

The user runs the same agentic assistant with the same Gemini → OpenAI fallback chain.

The flow succeeds because LiteLLM strips the `__thought__` suffix before emitting the item id.

  1. User sends a multi-turn Responses API request to LiteLLM Router
  2. Router selects `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash`
  3. Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;&quot;` (39 chars, `__thought__` suffix stripped before applying `fc_` prefix)
  4. User&#39;s agent receives the response, reads the short 39-char item id
  5. User&#39;s agent sends the next turn with the normal-length item id in `input[]`
  6. Router falls back to OpenAI — OpenAI receives `input[17].id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;&quot;` (39 chars ≤ 64) ✓

## Root Cause (confirmed by source code inspection)

### Step 1 — Gemini embeds thought-signatures into `tool_call.id` (since v1.80.0)

File: `litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py` line ~1594
    
    # Gemini 3.x always embeds a base64 thought-signature for multi-turn context preservation
    # (even without explicit reasoning_effort/budget_tokens — it fires on ANY tool call)
    if thought_signature:
        _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] = _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(
            _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] or &quot;&quot;, thought_signature
        )
    # Result: tool_call.id = &quot;call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 sig&gt;&quot;  →  ~946 chars

`_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` in `litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py`:
    
    THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR: Final = &quot;__thought__&quot;
    
    def _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(tool_call_id: str, thought_signature: str | None) -&gt; str:
        if thought_signature:
            return f&quot;{tool_call_id}{THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR}{thought_signature}&quot;
            return item   # ← &quot;fc_call_xxx__thought__&lt;902chars&gt;&quot; starts with &quot;fc&quot; → passes through!
        return {key: value for key, value in item.items() if key != &quot;id&quot;}

The guard introduced in the same commit (`ab2c9aed`) only validates the prefix (`fc_`), not the length. A 949-char id with a valid `fc_` prefix sails through unchecked.

### All Gemini 3.x models are affected

`thoughtSignature` is emitted by Gemini on every function call for multi-turn context preservation — it does NOT require explicit `reasoning_effort` or `budget_tokens`. Per Google&#39;s docs: &quot;a part can have thoughtSignature without thought: true, e.g., function calls&quot;. All models with `supports_reasoning: true` in the cost map are affected:

  * `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.8-flash`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.5-flash-lite`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, and all `gemini/gemini-3.*` variants

### Relationship to #18160

Issue #18160 reported the same `__thought__` leak on the Chat Completions path (`/v1/chat/completions`). PR #18374 fixed it there by stripping `__thought__` from tool_call ids before sending to non-Gemini providers. The Responses API path (`/v1/responses`) was not covered by that fix and remains broken.

## Proposed Fix

### Fix 1 — Strip `__thought__` in `openai_shaped_tool_call_item_id` (primary fix)

File: `litellm/responses/litellm_completion_transformation/custom_tools.py`
    
    from litellm.litellm_core_utils.prompt_templates.factory import THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR
    
    def openai_shaped_tool_call_item_id(item_type: str, tool_id: str) -&gt; str:
        prefix: Final = TOOL_CALL_ITEM_ID_PREFIX_BY_TYPE.get(item_type)
        # Strip Gemini __thought__ suffix before forming the OpenAI-shaped id
        # so the id stays within OpenAI&#39;s 64-char maximum on input[N].id
        clean_id = tool_id.split(THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR, 1)[0] if THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR in tool_id else tool_id
        if prefix is None or not clean_id or clean_id.startswith(prefix):
            return clean_id
        return f&quot;{prefix}_{clean_id}&quot;

### Fix 2 — Also enforce 64-char max in the input item guard (defence in depth)

File: `litellm/llms/openai/responses/transformation.py`
    
    @staticmethod
    def _without_foreign_tool_call_item_id(item: object) -&gt; object:
</excerpt>
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<title>litellm/litellm/utils.py at main · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/litellm/utils.py</location>
<excerpt>citeturn1search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 3 weeks ago; # | https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/new | ... from litellm.secret_managers.main import get_secret ... def _remove_thought_signatures_from_messages(messages: list, thought_signature_separator: str) -&gt; list:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

if custom_llm_provider in [&quot;gemini&quot;, &quot;vertex_ai&quot;, &quot;vertex_ai_beta&quot;]:

# For vertex_ai, check if it&#39;s actually a Gemini model

if custom_llm_provider in [&quot;vertex_ai&quot;, &quot;vertex_ai_beta&quot;]:

return model is not None and &quot;gemini&quot; in model.lower()

return True

# Check if model name contains gemini

return model is not None and &quot;gemini&quot; in model.lower()

def _remove_thought_signature_from_id(tool_call_id: str, separator: str) -&gt; str:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

Remove thought signature from a tool call ID.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

if separator in tool_call_id:

return tool_call_id.split(separator, 1)[0]

return tool_call_id

def _process_assistant_message_tool_calls(msg_copy: dict, thought_signature_separator: str) -&gt; dict:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

Process assistant message to remove thought signatures from tool call IDs.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

role: Final = msg_copy.get(&quot;role&quot;)

tool_calls: Final = msg_copy.get(&quot;tool_calls&quot;)

if role == &quot;assistant&quot; and isinstance(tool_calls, list):

new_tool_calls: Final = []

for tc in tool_calls:

# Handle both dict and Pydantic model tool calls

if hasattr(tc, &quot;model_dump&quot;):

# It&#39;s a Pydantic model, convert to dict

tc_dict = tc.model_dump()

elif isinstance(tc, dict):

tc_dict = tc.copy()

else:

new_tool_calls.append(tc)

continue

# Remove thought signature from ID if present

if isinstance(tc_dict.get(&quot;id&quot;), str):

if thought_signature_separator in tc_dict[&quot;id&quot;]:

tc_dict[&quot;id&quot;] = _remove_thought_signature_from_id(tc_dict[&quot;id&quot;], thought_signature_separator)

new_tool_calls.append(tc_dict)

msg_copy[&quot;tool_calls&quot;] = new_tool_calls

return msg_copy

def _process_tool_message_id(msg_copy: dict, thought_signature_separator: str) -&gt; dict:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

Process tool message to remove thought signature from tool_call_id.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

if msg_copy.get(&quot;role&quot;) == &quot;tool&quot; and isinstance(msg_copy.get(&quot;tool_call_id&quot;), str):

if thought_signature_separator in msg_copy[&quot;tool_call_id&quot;]:

msg_copy[&quot;tool_call_id&quot;] = _remove_thought_signature_from_id(

msg_copy[&quot;tool_call_id&quot;], thought_signature_separator

)

return msg_copy

def _remove_thought_signatures_from_messages(messages: list, thought_signature_separator: str) -&gt; list:

&quot;&quot;&quot;

Remove thought signatures from tool call IDs in all messages.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

processed_messages: Final = []

for msg in messages:

# Handle Pydantic models (convert to dict)

if hasattr(msg, &quot;model_dump&quot;):

msg_dict = msg.model_dump()

elif isinstance(msg, dict):

msg_dict = msg.copy()

else:

# Unknown type, keep as is

processed_messages.append(msg)

continue

# Process assistant messages with tool_calls

msg_dict = _process_assistant_message_tool_calls(msg_dict, thought_signature_separator)

# Process tool messages with tool_call_id

msg_dict = _process_tool_message_id(msg_dict, thought_signature_separator)

processed_messages.append(msg_dict)

return processed_messages

def _restore_correlation_context_if_supported(logging_obj: object) -&gt; None:

&quot;&quot;&quot;Call logging_obj._restore_correlation_context() if it&#39;s actually there.

Some call sites (tests, narrow unit paths) inject a minimal stand-in

object as litellm_logging_obj instead of a real Logging instance - this

method is new plumbing specific to request_correlation_in_logs, not part

of any pre-existing stand-in&#39;s expected interface. `object` (not `Any`)

is deliberate: the getattr() below is exactly how this stays type-safe

</excerpt>
</source>
<omitted_sources count="28">Additional source records were omitted from this bounded result.</omitted_sources>
</source_evidence>

Citations:

- 1: GitHub issue 41534 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/litellm/utils.py?utm_source=openai
- 3: GitHub issue 37849 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

Web query:

site:github.com/BerriAI/litellm "__thought__" "_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature" thought_signature decode next request Base64

Result:

<source_evidence>
<source kind="search">
<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought-signature embedded in tool_call.id leaks into Responses API input[N].id, causing OpenAI 400 &quot;string too long&quot; on router fallback · Issue #41534 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 41534 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Published: last month; Crawled: 2 days ago; Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 signature&gt;&quot;` (949 chars total) ... `_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` in `litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py`: ...   1. github-actions
    litellm.BadRequestError: OpenAIException - {
      &quot;error&quot;: {
        &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid &#39;input[17].id&#39;: string too long. Expected a string with maximum length 64, but got a string with length 949 instead.&quot;,
        &quot;type&quot;: &quot;invalid_request_error&quot;,
        &quot;param&quot;: &quot;input[17].id&quot;,
        &quot;code&quot;: &quot;string_above_max_length&quot;
      }
    }
    Debug Information:
    Cooldown Deployments=[]
    `

Expected: The router falls back to the OpenAI model successfully, stripping or truncating the Gemini-generated thought-signature from the tool call item id before sending.

Actual: The 949-char id (Gemini thought-signature + `fc_` prefix added by v1.101) is passed verbatim to OpenAI, which enforces a 64-char maximum on `input[N].id` and returns a non-retryable 400.

## User Flow

### Before a fix — the flow fails

The user is running an agentic coding assistant (e.g. opencode, Codex, finos-copilot) via LiteLLM Router with a Gemini primary model and OpenAI fallback on the Responses API.

The flow fails when Gemini&#39;s tool_call.id (containing a thought-signature) is replayed to OpenAI on fallback.

  1. User sends a multi-turn Responses API request to LiteLLM Router
  2. Router selects `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash` (or any Gemini 3.x model with `supports_reasoning=True`)
  3. Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 signature&gt;&quot;` (949 chars total)
  4. User&#39;s agent receives the response, reads the 949-char function_call item id
  5. User&#39;s agent sends the next turn, including the prior function_call item (with 949-char id) in `input[]`
  6. Router attempts the call — primary model fails (rate limit, timeout, etc.)
  7. Router falls back to OpenAI (`gpt-4o` / `gpt-5`)
  8. User sees a `BadRequestError: input[17].id string too long (949 &gt; 64)` — the fallback also fails, conversation is permanently broken

### After a fix — the flow succeeds

The user runs the same agentic assistant with the same Gemini → OpenAI fallback chain.

The flow succeeds because LiteLLM strips the `__thought__` suffix before emitting the item id.

  1. User sends a multi-turn Responses API request to LiteLLM Router
  2. Router selects `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash`
  3. Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;&quot;` (39 chars, `__thought__` suffix stripped before applying `fc_` prefix)
  4. User&#39;s agent receives the response, reads the short 39-char item id
  5. User&#39;s agent sends the next turn with the normal-length item id in `input[]`
  6. Router falls back to OpenAI — OpenAI receives `input[17].id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;&quot;` (39 chars ≤ 64) ✓

## Root Cause (confirmed by source code inspection)

### Step 1 — Gemini embeds thought-signatures into `tool_call.id` (since v1.80.0)

File: `litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py` line ~1594
    
    # Gemini 3.x always embeds a base64 thought-signature for multi-turn context preservation
    # (even without explicit reasoning_effort/budget_tokens — it fires on ANY tool call)
    if thought_signature:
        _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] = _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(
            _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] or &quot;&quot;, thought_signature
        )
    # Result: tool_call.id = &quot;call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 sig&gt;&quot;  →  ~946 chars

`_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` in `litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py`:
    
    THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR: Final = &quot;__thought__&quot;
    
    def _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(tool_call_id: str, thought_signature: str | None) -&gt; str:
        if thought_signature:
            return f&quot;{tool_call_id}{THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR}{thought_signature}&quot;
            return item   # ← &quot;fc_call_xxx__thought__&lt;902chars&gt;&quot; starts with &quot;fc&quot; → passes through!
        return {key: value for key, value in item.items() if key != &quot;id&quot;}

The guard introduced in the same commit (`ab2c9aed`) only validates the prefix (`fc_`), not the length. A 949-char id with a valid `fc_` prefix sails through unchecked.

### All Gemini 3.x models are affected

`thoughtSignature` is emitted by Gemini on every function call for multi-turn context preservation — it does NOT require explicit `reasoning_effort` or `budget_tokens`. Per Google&#39;s docs: &quot;a part can have thoughtSignature without thought: true, e.g., function calls&quot;. All models with `supports_reasoning: true` in the cost map are affected:

  * `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.8-flash`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.5-flash-lite`, `vertex_ai/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, and all `gemini/gemini-3.*` variants

### Relationship to #18160

Issue #18160 reported the same `__thought__` leak on the Chat Completions path (`/v1/chat/completions`). PR #18374 fixed it there by stripping `__thought__` from tool_call ids before sending to non-Gemini providers. The Responses API path (`/v1/responses`) was not covered by that fix and remains broken.

## Proposed Fix

### Fix 1 — Strip `__thought__` in `openai_shaped_tool_call_item_id` (primary fix)

File: `litellm/responses/litellm_completion_transformation/custom_tools.py`
    
    from litellm.litellm_core_utils.prompt_templates.factory import THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR
    
    def openai_shaped_tool_call_item_id(item_type: str, tool_id: str) -&gt; str:
        prefix: Final = TOOL_CALL_ITEM_ID_PREFIX_BY_TYPE.get(item_type)
        # Strip Gemini __thought__ suffix before forming the OpenAI-shaped id
        # so the id stays within OpenAI&#39;s 64-char maximum on input[N].id
        clean_id = tool_id.split(THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR, 1)[0] if THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR in tool_id else tool_id
        if prefix is None or not clean_id or clean_id.startswith(prefix):
            return clean_id
        return f&quot;{prefix}_{clean_id}&quot;

### Fix 2 — Also enforce 64-char max in the input item guard (defence in depth)

File: `litellm/llms/openai/responses/transformation.py`
    
    @staticmethod
    def _without_foreign_tool_call_item_id(item: object) -&gt; object:

## LiteLLM version

  * Affected: v1.101.x (regression introduced by commit `ab2c9aed` — `fc_` prefix wrapping)
  * Latent since: v1.80.0 (when `_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` was introduced — raw 946-char id was already being returned to clients)
  * Chat Completions path fix: v1.81 (PR Add gemini thought signature support via tool call id #18374) — Responses API path still unpatched

## Python version

3.11+

## Relevant log output
    
    `component: LiteLLM Router
    level: ERROR
    logger: router.py:7333
    message: litellm.router.py::async_function_with_fallbacks() - Error occurred while trying to do fallbacks - litellm.BadRequestError: OpenAIException - {
      &quot;error&quot;: {
        &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid &#39;input[17].id&#39;: string too long. Expected a string with maximum length 64, but got a string with length 949 instead.&quot;,
        &quot;type&quot;: &quot;invalid_request_error&quot;,
        &quot;param&quot;: &quot;input[17].id&quot;,
        &quot;code&quot;: &quot;string_above_max_length&quot;
      }
    }
    Debug Information:
    Cooldown Deployments=[]
</excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought signature is embedded in the tool call id, so any client that normalizes ids breaks the next turn · Issue #37849 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 37849 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Published: 2 months ago; Crawled: 2 weeks ago; # [Bug]: Gemini thought signature is embedded in the tool call id, so any client that normalizes ids breaks the next turn #37849 ... GitHub flagged #25322 as a possible duplicate. ... What Google says  | `Function call is missing a thought_signature in functionCall parts`  | `Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;` ... If the extracted value does not base64-decode, fall back to the dummy skip-validator signature instead of forwarding it. ... Captured against a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy on Kubernetes, hitting real Vertex AI.
What goes wrong  | The signature is never captured, because Gemini put it on a separate thought part  | The signature is captured and is sent back, but corrupted in transit
What Google says  | `Function call is missing a thought_signature in functionCall parts`  | `Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;`
Symptom  | The model degenerates: garbage replies, repetition loops  | Hard `400`, the session cannot continue

Worth noting the two interact: #25322 treats embedding the signature in `tool_call_id` as the correct mechanism and asks for it to be fed in more cases. Fixing #25322 alone would make this issue fire more often, not less, because more tool calls would end up carrying a multi-KB id that clients then normalize.

For Gemini models the proxy returns Google&#39;s `thoughtSignature` in two places:

  * `tool_calls[].provider_specific_fields.thought_signature`
  * appended to `tool_calls[].id` after a `__thought__` separator

Neither is a key a generic OpenAI-compatible client knows about, and the second one is actively harmful: `id` is by convention a short identifier, so clients normalize it.

Measured against Vertex Gemini 3, the returned tool call id ranges from 843 to 4423 characters depending on the call. On `/v1/responses` the same blob is placed in both `id` and `call_id`.

When a client normalizes that id, the embedded signature is mangled. On the next turn the proxy finds the `__thought__` separator, takes everything after it, and forwards it to Vertex as `thoughtSignature` without validating it. Google rejects the request:
    
    `Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES),
    Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;
    `

The same corruption produces a second, different error text when the mangled value happens to still be valid base64, which makes this easy to miss when grepping logs:
    
    `&quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid thought signature.&quot;, &quot;status&quot;: &quot;INVALID_ARGUMENT&quot;
    `

There is no way to opt out: checked v1.83.14-stable, v1.90.0, v1.96.0 and main, the embedding is an unconditional `if thought_signature:`.


Before a (hypothetical) fix — the agent answers the first question, then every following turn fails and the conversation is dead.

  1. An operator asks a Telegram assistant (built on OpenClaw) a question that requires a tool.
  2. The client sends `POST https://&lt;proxy&gt;/v1/responses` with `model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview` and one function tool.
  3. `200` comes back with a `function_call` item whose `call_id` is 1223 characters long: `call_2156408__thought__AY89a1/Iab3+RVjKCabD+h7qYLWIf2BWZ9CZDSDoMZpQytG...`
  4. The client stores that `call_id`. Because it is an identifier, it normalizes it into something id-shaped, ending up with a 41 character value such as `AY89a1_S3YvIpUCcBTFSgDfesRLDnA_775ff49bcd`.
  5. The client runs the tool and sends the next turn, echoing back the normalized `call_id` together with the `function_call_output`.
  6. The proxy answers `400`: `Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;`.
  7. The operator sees `LLM request failed` in the chat. #### 3. `/v1/responses`, second turn, `call_id` normalized: fails

Identical to 2 with the `call_id` shortened the way an identifier normalizer would (`sanitized[:30] + &quot;_&quot; + sha256hex[:10]`), giving `call_2156408__thought__AY89a1/_57b05e78dc`:
    
    `HTTP 400
    litellm.BadRequestError: Vertex_aiException BadRequestError - {
      &quot;error&quot;: {
        &quot;code&quot;: 400,
        &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed for \&quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc\&quot;&quot;,
        &quot;status&quot;: &quot;INVALID_ARGUMENT&quot;,
        &quot;details&quot;: [{&quot;@type&quot;: &quot;type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest&quot;,
          &quot;fieldViolations&quot;: [{&quot;field&quot;: &quot;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&quot;}]}]
      }
    }
    `

#### 4. `/v1/chat/completions`: same bug, cause is endpoint independent

First turn returns `tool_calls[0].id` of 859 characters (`call_2254344__thought__AY89a19rfaQstNXhYomMSsTSpNLVRjsNCuBX+b2ZYUcVnGF...`) plus `provider_specific_fields.thought_signature` of 836 characters.

Replaying the history with the id normalized to `call_2158562__thought__AY89a1/_ee781c9832`:
    
    `HTTP 400
    litellm.BadRequestError: Vertex_aiException BadRequestError - {
      &quot;error&quot;: {&quot;code&quot;: 400,
        &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed for \&quot;AY89a1/_ee781c9832\&quot;&quot;}
    }
    `

#### Scale, from the same proxy

One client, 19 failed requests over a month on this exact error, up to 22% of that client&#39;s calls in the worst hour, because once a corrupted signature enters the history every later turn fails.

### What part of LiteLLM is this about?

Proxy

### What LiteLLM version are you on ?

v1.90.0</excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>litellm/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py at main · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search4 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 5 days ago; from litellm.llms.base_llm.chat.transformation import BaseConfig, BaseLLMException ... from litellm.types.llms.vertex_ai import ( ... if text_content.startswith(&quot;data:audio&quot;) and &quot;;base64,&quot; in text_content: ... {**_function_chunk, &quot;provider_specific_fields&quot;: {&quot;thought_signature&quot;: thought_signature}} ... chunk = self.response_iterator.__next__() # pyright: ignore[reportAttributeAccessIssue] # sync stream

else:

if content_str is None:

content_str = &quot;&quot;

content_str += _content_str

return content_str, reasoning_content_str

def _extract_thinking_blocks_from_parts(self, parts: list[HttpxPartType]) -&gt; list[ChatCompletionThinkingBlock]:

&quot;&quot;&quot;Extract thinking blocks from parts if present.

Per Google&#39;s docs (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/thinking):

- Parts with `thought: true` contain thinking/reasoning content

- `thoughtSignature` is a separate token for multi-turn context preservation,

it does NOT indicate that the content is thinking (a part can have

thoughtSignature without thought: true, e.g., function calls)

&quot;&quot;&quot;

thinking_blocks: Final[list[ChatCompletionThinkingBlock]] = []

for part in parts:

if part.get(&quot;thought&quot;) is True:

thinking_text = part.get(&quot;text&quot;, &quot;&quot;)

block: ChatCompletionThinkingBlock = {

&quot;type&quot;: &quot;thinking&quot;,

&quot;thinking&quot;: thinking_text,

}

signature = part.get(&quot;thoughtSignature&quot;)

if signature is not None:

block[&quot;signature&quot;] = signature

thinking_blocks.append(block)

return thinking_blocks

def _extract_thought_signatures_from_parts(self, parts: list[HttpxPartType]) -&gt; list[str] | None:

&quot;&quot;&quot;Extract thoughtSignature values from parts.

Per Google&#39;s docs, thoughtSignature is returned for multi-turn context preservation

and can appear on parts even without thought: true (e.g., regular text responses,

function calls). This method extracts all thoughtSignature values from parts.

Returns:

List of thoughtSignature strings if any are found, None otherwise

&quot;&quot;&quot;

signatures: Final[list[str]] = []

for part in parts:

signature = part.get(&quot;thoughtSignature&quot;)

if signature is not None:

signatures.append(signature)

return signatures if signatures else None

@staticmethod

def _extract_server_side_tool_invocations(

parts: list[HttpxPartType],

) -&gt; list[dict[str, object]] | None:

&quot;&quot;&quot;Extract server-side tool invocations (toolCall/toolResponse) from parts.

These are returned by Gemini when context circulation is enabled

(includeServerSideToolInvocations=true). They represent tools executed

server-side (e.g. Google Search) and must be circulated back in

subsequent turns for multi-turn coherence.

Returns:

List of server-side invocation dicts if any found, None otherwise.

&quot;&quot;&quot;

invocations: Final[list[dict[str, object]]] = []


_tools: Final[list[ChatCompletionToolCallChunk]] = []

for part in parts:

if &quot;functionCall&quot; in part:

_function_chunk: ChatCompletionToolCallFunctionChunk = {

&quot;name&quot;: part[&quot;functionCall&quot;][&quot;name&quot;],

&quot;arguments&quot;: json.dumps(part[&quot;functionCall&quot;][&quot;args&quot;], ensure_ascii=False),

}

# Extract thought signature if present

thought_signature = part.get(&quot;thoughtSignature&quot;)

# Gemini 3.5+ returns a stable `id` per function call to enable

# strict response matching. Preserve it as the OpenAI

# tool_call_id so it can be echoed back unchanged.

gemini_call_id = part[&quot;functionCall&quot;].get(&quot;id&quot;)

if is_function_call is True:

function = (

{**_function_chunk, &quot;provider_specific_fields&quot;: {&quot;thought_signature&quot;: thought_signature}}

if thought_signature

else {**_function_chunk}

)

else:

_tool_response_chunk: ChatCompletionToolCallChunk = {

&quot;id&quot;: f&quot;call_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:28]}&quot;,

&quot;type&quot;: &quot;function&quot;,

&quot;function&quot;: _function_chunk,

&quot;index&quot;: cumulative_tool_call_idx,

}

# Gemini 3.5+ returns a stable native `id`; prefer it over

# the synthetic call_&lt;uuid&gt; so the same value can be echoed

# back on the matching `functionResponse`.

if gemini_call_id:

_tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] = gemini_call_id

# Embed thought signature in ID for OpenAI client compatibility

if thought_signature:

_tool_response_chunk[&quot;provider_specific_fields&quot;] = {&quot;thought_signature&quot;: thought_signature}

_tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] = encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(

_tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] or &quot;&quot;, thought_signature

)

_tools.append(_tool_response_chunk)

cumulative_tool_call_idx += 1

if len(_tools) == 0:

tools: list[ChatCompletionToolCallChunk] | None = None

else:

tools = _tools

return function, tools, cumulative_tool_call_idx

@staticmethod

def _transform_logprobs(

logprobs_result: LogprobsResult | None,

) -&gt; ChoiceLogprobs | None:

if logprobs_result is None:

return None

if &quot;chosenCandidates&quot; not in logprobs_result:

return None

logprobs_list: Final[list[ChatCompletionTokenLogprob]] = []

for index, candidate in enumerate(logprobs_result[&quot;chosenCandidates&quot;]):
</excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought signature is embedded in the tool call id, so any client that normalizes ids breaks the next turn · Issue #37849 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 37849 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Published: 2 months ago; Crawled: 2 weeks ago; GitHub flagged #25322 as a possible duplicate. ... What Google says  | `Function call is missing a thought_signature in functionCall parts`  | `Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;` ... Captured against a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy on Kubernetes, hitting real Vertex AI.
What goes wrong  | The signature is never captured, because Gemini put it on a separate thought part  | The signature is captured and is sent back, but corrupted in transit
What Google says  | `Function call is missing a thought_signature in functionCall parts`  | `Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;`
Symptom  | The model degenerates: garbage replies, repetition loops  | Hard `400`, the session cannot continue

Worth noting the two interact: #25322 treats embedding the signature in `tool_call_id` as the correct mechanism and asks for it to be fed in more cases. Fixing #25322 alone would make this issue fire more often, not less, because more tool calls would end up carrying a multi-KB id that clients then normalize.

For Gemini models the proxy returns Google&#39;s `thoughtSignature` in two places:

  * `tool_calls[].provider_specific_fields.thought_signature`
  * appended to `tool_calls[].id` after a `__thought__` separator

Neither is a key a generic OpenAI-compatible client knows about, and the second one is actively harmful: `id` is by convention a short identifier, so clients normalize it.

Measured against Vertex Gemini 3, the returned tool call id ranges from 843 to 4423 characters depending on the call. On `/v1/responses` the same blob is placed in both `id` and `call_id`.

When a client normalizes that id, the embedded signature is mangled. On the next turn the proxy finds the `__thought__` separator, takes everything after it, and forwards it to Vertex as `thoughtSignature` without validating it. Google rejects the request:
    
    `Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES),
    Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;
    `

The same corruption produces a second, different error text when the mangled value happens to still be valid base64, which makes this easy to miss when grepping logs:
    
    `&quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid thought signature.&quot;, &quot;status&quot;: &quot;INVALID_ARGUMENT&quot;
    `

There is no way to opt out: checked v1.83.14-stable, v1.90.0, v1.96.0 and main, the embedding is an unconditional `if thought_signature:`.


Before a (hypothetical) fix — the agent answers the first question, then every following turn fails and the conversation is dead.

  1. An operator asks a Telegram assistant (built on OpenClaw) a question that requires a tool.
  2. The client sends `POST https://&lt;proxy&gt;/v1/responses` with `model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview` and one function tool.
  3. `200` comes back with a `function_call` item whose `call_id` is 1223 characters long: `call_2156408__thought__AY89a1/Iab3+RVjKCabD+h7qYLWIf2BWZ9CZDSDoMZpQytG...`
  4. The client stores that `call_id`. Because it is an identifier, it normalizes it into something id-shaped, ending up with a 41 character value such as `AY89a1_S3YvIpUCcBTFSgDfesRLDnA_775ff49bcd`.
  5. The client runs the tool and sends the next turn, echoing back the normalized `call_id` together with the `function_call_output`.
  6. The proxy answers `400`: `Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed for &quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc&quot;`.
  7. The operator sees `LLM request failed` in the chat. #### 3. `/v1/responses`, second turn, `call_id` normalized: fails

Identical to 2 with the `call_id` shortened the way an identifier normalizer would (`sanitized[:30] + &quot;_&quot; + sha256hex[:10]`), giving `call_2156408__thought__AY89a1/_57b05e78dc`:
    
    `HTTP 400
    litellm.BadRequestError: Vertex_aiException BadRequestError - {
      &quot;error&quot;: {
        &quot;code&quot;: 400,
        &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&#39; (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed for \&quot;AY89a1/_57b05e78dc\&quot;&quot;,
        &quot;status&quot;: &quot;INVALID_ARGUMENT&quot;,
        &quot;details&quot;: [{&quot;@type&quot;: &quot;type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest&quot;,
          &quot;fieldViolations&quot;: [{&quot;field&quot;: &quot;contents[1].parts[0].thought_signature&quot;}]}]
      }
    }
    `

#### 4. `/v1/chat/completions`: same bug, cause is endpoint independent

First turn returns `tool_calls[0].id` of 859 characters (`call_2254344__thought__AY89a19rfaQstNXhYomMSsTSpNLVRjsNCuBX+b2ZYUcVnGF...`) plus `provider_specific_fields.thought_signature` of 836 characters.

Replaying the history with the id normalized to `call_2158562__thought__AY89a1/_ee781c9832`:
    
    `HTTP 400
    litellm.BadRequestError: Vertex_aiException BadRequestError - {
      &quot;error&quot;: {&quot;code&quot;: 400,
        &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Invalid value at &#39;contents[1].…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>[Bug]: Gemini thought-signature embedded in tool_call.id leaks into Responses API input[N].id, causing OpenAI 400 &quot;string too long&quot; on router fallback · Issue #41534 · BerriAI/litellm · GitHub</title>
<location>GitHub issue 41534 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>citeturn1search1 [wordlim: 200] Published: last month; Crawled: 2 days ago; Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 signature&gt;&quot;` (949 chars total) ...   1. github-actions

  1. User sends a multi-turn Responses API request to LiteLLM Router
  2. Router selects `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash` (or any Gemini 3.x model with `supports_reasoning=True`)
  3. Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 signature&gt;&quot;` (949 chars total)
  4. User&#39;s agent receives the response, reads the 949-char function_call item id
  5. User&#39;s agent sends the next turn, including the prior function_call item (with 949-char id) in `input[]`
  6. Router attempts the call — primary model fails (rate limit, timeout, etc.)
  7. Router falls back to OpenAI (`gpt-4o` / `gpt-5`)
  8. User sees a `BadRequestError: input[17].id string too long (949 &gt; 64)` — the fallback also fails, conversation is permanently broken

### After a fix — the flow succeeds

The user runs the same agentic assistant with the same Gemini → OpenAI fallback chain.

The flow succeeds because LiteLLM strips the `__thought__` suffix before emitting the item id.

  1. User sends a multi-turn Responses API request to LiteLLM Router
  2. Router selects `vertex_ai/gemini-3.7-flash`
  3. Gemini returns a function_call output item — LiteLLM stores it with `id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;&quot;` (39 chars, `__thought__` suffix stripped before applying `fc_` prefix)
  4. User&#39;s agent receives the response, reads the short 39-char item id
  5. User&#39;s agent sends the next turn with the normal-length item id in `input[]`
  6. Router falls back to OpenAI — OpenAI receives `input[17].id = &quot;fc_call_&lt;28hex&gt;&quot;` (39 chars ≤ 64) ✓

## Root Cause (confirmed by source code inspection)

### Step 1 — Gemini embeds thought-signatures into `tool_call.id` (since v1.80.0)

File: `litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py` line ~1594
    
    # Gemini 3.x always embeds a base64 thought-signature for multi-turn context preservation
    # (even without explicit reasoning_effort/budget_tokens — it fires on ANY tool call)
    if thought_signature:
        _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] = _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(
            _tool_response_chunk[&quot;id&quot;] or &quot;&quot;, thought_signature
        )
    # Result: tool_call.id = &quot;call_&lt;28hex&gt;__thought__&lt;~902-char base64 sig&gt;&quot;  →  ~946 chars

`_encode_tool_call_id_with_signature` in `litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py`:
    
    THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR: Final = &quot;__thought__&quot;
    
    def _encode_tool_call_id_with_signature(tool_call_id: str, thought_signature: str | None) -&gt; str:
        if thought_signature:
            return f&quot;{tool_call_id}{THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR}{thought_signature}&quot;

## Proposed Fix

### Fix 1 — Strip `__thought__` in `openai_shaped_tool_call_item_id` (primary fix)

File: `litellm/responses/litellm_completion_transformation/custom_tools.py`
    
    from litellm.litellm_core_utils.prompt_templates.factory import THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR
    
    def openai_shaped_tool_call_item_id(item_type: str, tool_id: str) -&gt; str:
        prefix: Final = TOOL_CALL_ITEM_ID_PREFIX_BY_TYPE.get(item_type)
        # Strip Gemini __thought__ suffix before forming the OpenAI-shaped id
        # so the id stays within OpenAI&#39;s 64-char maximum on input[N].id
        clean_id = tool_id.split(THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR, 1)[0] if THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_SEPARATOR in tool_id else tool_id
        if prefix is None or not clean_id or clean_id.startswith(prefix):
            return clean_id
        return f&quot;{prefix}_{clean_id}&quot;

### Fix 2 — Also enforce 64-char max in the input item guard (defence in dep…[truncated]</excerpt>
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Citations:

- 1: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/gemini/vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini.py?utm_source=openai
- 2: GitHub issue 37849 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/litellm/utils.py?utm_source=openai
- 4: GitHub issue 41534 in BerriAI/litellm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

Preserve the thought signature suffix.

LiteLLM appends the raw thought_signature after __thought__. Standard Base64 signatures can contain + and /, and padding can contain =. The next request extracts this suffix and forwards it as Gemini’s thoughtSignature; replacing those characters can cause Gemini to reject the request.

Sanitize only the ID prefix and preserve the marker and signature unchanged.

Suggested fix
--- "a/src/utils/tool-id.ts"
+++ "b/src/utils/tool-id.ts"
@@ -70,5 +70,9 @@
  * @returns The id to send to LiteLLM
  */
 export function sanitizeLiteLlmCallId(id: string): string {
-	return id.includes(LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER) ? sanitizeToolUseId(id) : sanitizeOpenAiCallId(id)
+	const markerIndex = id.indexOf(LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER)
+	if (markerIndex === -1) {
+		return sanitizeOpenAiCallId(id)
+	}
+	return sanitizeToolUseId(id.slice(0, markerIndex)) + id.slice(markerIndex)
 }

Update the unit and request-conversion tests with a standard Base64 signature.

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Suggested change
return id.includes(LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER) ? sanitizeToolUseId(id) : sanitizeOpenAiCallId(id)
const markerIndex = id.indexOf(LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER)
if (markerIndex === -1) {
return sanitizeOpenAiCallId(id)
}
return sanitizeToolUseId(id.slice(0, markerIndex)) + id.slice(markerIndex)
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Review comment at @src/utils/tool-id.ts at line 73:
Update the thought-signature branch in the ID sanitization function to sanitize
only the ID prefix before LITELLM_THOUGHT_SIGNATURE_MARKER, preserving the
marker and signature suffix unchanged. Keep the existing sanitizeOpenAiCallId
path when the marker is absent, and update the relevant unit and
request-conversion tests to cover a standard Base64 signature.

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