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Summary

Gemini (AI Studio direct mode) rejects functionCall parts that lack a thought_signature with INVALID_ARGUMENT ("Function call is missing a thought_signature in functionCall parts"). Three paths dropped or failed to replay it:

  1. Web-search loop — the loop replays the model's web_search call into its iteration [codex] Add Neuralwatt effort routing #2 request without the signature the upstream response carried.
  2. Client replay — Codex re-sends prior tool calls (e.g. default_api:exec) in the conversation history without the signature; direct mode neither observed nor re-injected signatures, unlike CCA/Vertex which share the existing stateless replay cache.
  3. Large tool argument overflow — when tool call arguments exceeded REPLAY_MAX_CANONICAL_ARGS_BYTES (64 KiB), canonicalJsonBounded returned null, causing functionCallKey to return undefined and dropping thought signature caching/replaying for large payload tool turns.

Changes:

  • Google adapter emits the part-level thoughtSignature on tool_call_start events (streaming and buffered parse paths).
  • The web-search loop captures it and attaches it to the replayed assistant toolCall.
  • AI Studio direct mode now uses the existing google-antigravity-replay cache (observe on both parse paths, apply in messagesToGeminiFormat, clear-on-invalid), namespaced by credential fingerprint + wire model so signatures cannot cross providers, keys, or routes; the stable client-thread session derivation is reused.
  • The adapter provides formatErrorBody for direct mode too, classified by googleMode ("Antigravity", "Vertex AI", "Gemini"), so upstream error bodies stop being dropped ("Provider error N" gains the real message).
  • Streaming canonical SHA-256 fallback for large tool arguments (over 64 KiB) so large tool calls continue to preserve thought signatures across replays without memory exhaustion.
  • The web-search sidecar sends only the bare web_search tool shape; the ChatGPT (codex) backend rejects extra parameters such as max_results ("Unknown parameter: 'tools[0].max_results'"), which made every search fail.

Verification

  • bun run typecheck passes.
  • bun run privacy:scan passes.
  • bun test passes (all test files and regression tests pass).
  • Added regression tests in tests/google-antigravity-replay.test.ts verifying streaming SHA-256 calculation for tool arguments over 64 KiB preserving thought signatures.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Google error handling across AI Studio, Vertex, and Antigravity.
    • Preserved thought signatures during streaming, buffered tool calls, web searches, and follow-up responses.
    • Improved replay reliability for large tool-call arguments.
    • Prevented hosted web-search configuration from being unnecessarily replayed.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for AI Studio thought-signature replay, provider-specific errors, web-search signatures, and large-argument replay scenarios.

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Gemini (AI Studio direct) rejects functionCall parts without a
thought_signature (INVALID_ARGUMENT "Function call is missing a
thought_signature in functionCall parts"). The web-search loop replays
the model's web_search call into iteration lidge-jun#2 without the signature the
upstream response carried, so every search-triggering turn 400s as
"Provider error 400".

- google adapter: emit the part-level thoughtSignature on tool_call_start
events (streaming and buffered parse paths)
- web-search loop: capture it into the call record and attach it to the
replayed assistant toolCall, so messagesToGeminiFormat forwards it
- google adapter: provide formatErrorBody for AI-Studio direct mode so
upstream error bodies stop being dropped ("Provider error 400" gains
the real message)
- web-search executor: send only the bare web_search tool shape to the
ChatGPT sidecar, which rejects max_results/search_context_size
("Unknown parameter: 'tools[0].max_results'") and made every search
fail with a 400

Verified: bun run typecheck; 4 new regression tests + 62 existing
google/web-search tests pass.
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Google adapters now preserve and replay thought signatures for AI Studio, Vertex, and Antigravity. Web-search continuations forward valid signatures, and large Antigravity function-call arguments use streaming replay-key generation.

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Google thought-signature replay

Layer / File(s) Summary
AI Studio replay and provider handling
src/adapters/google.ts, src/types.ts
Google response parts and streamed or buffered tool_call_start events retain thoughtSignature values. AI Studio derives credential- and model-scoped replay namespaces, applies cached signatures, observes returned signatures, and clears invalid entries. Error formatting now labels Gemini, Vertex AI, and Antigravity responses.
Web-search signature propagation
src/web-search/loop.ts, src/web-search/executor.ts
Web-search calls capture optional signatures from tool-call events and replay them in assistant toolCall messages. Sidecar requests send only { type: "web_search" }.
Large function-call replay keys
src/adapters/google-antigravity-replay.ts, tests/google-antigravity-replay.test.ts
Antigravity replay keys include the function name and stream oversized canonical arguments into a fixed-size SHA-256 hash. Tests verify deterministic keys and signature replay for large arguments.
Replay and formatting validation
tests/google-direct-thought-signature.test.ts, tests/google-vertex-http.test.ts, tests/web-search-thought-signature.test.ts
Tests cover streaming and buffered AI Studio replay, client-thread isolation, provider error formatting, signature omission, forwarding, and synthetic-signature filtering.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f37f3

The PR changes Gemini tool-call replay and web-search request formatting. Targeted coverage is still missing for the exact bare web-search shape and for credential/model isolation with invalid-signature cache clearing, so regressions could re-break searches or replay signatures across contexts; the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GoogleAdapter
  participant ReplayCache
  participant WebSearchLoop
  participant WebSearchExecutor
  GoogleAdapter->>ReplayCache: apply and observe thoughtSignature
  GoogleAdapter->>WebSearchLoop: emit tool_call_start with thoughtSignature
  WebSearchLoop->>WebSearchExecutor: send bare web_search tool request
  WebSearchLoop->>ReplayCache: replay signature in assistant toolCall message
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Client-replayed tool calls (e.g. exec) in multi-turn conversations reach the
wire without the thought_signature Google minted for the original call, so
the next request fails with 400 INVALID_ARGUMENT ("Function call is missing
a thought_signature in functionCall parts"). The existing stateless replay
cache (google-antigravity-replay) only served CCA/Vertex; AI Studio direct
mode observed nothing and injected nothing.

- wire the same observe/apply/clear replay cache into the direct (ai-studio)
  path, namespaced by credential fingerprint + wire model so signatures
  cannot cross providers, keys, or routes
- reuse the stable client-thread session derivation (vertexReplaySessionId)
- extend both streaming and buffered parse observation plus the
  clear-on-invalid path to direct mode

Verified: bun run typecheck; 3 new regression tests (streaming/buffered
replay + thread namespace isolation) plus existing google/web-search tests
pass.
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Pull request overview

This PR fixes Gemini (AI Studio direct mode) failures caused by missing thoughtSignature on replayed functionCall parts by capturing and replaying signatures through both the web-search loop and client tool-call history replay. It also improves Google-family upstream error surfacing and adjusts the web-search sidecar request to match the ChatGPT (codex) backend’s accepted tool shape.

Changes:

  • Capture thoughtSignature from tool_call_start events and replay it when reconstructing the assistant web_search tool call on iteration #2.
  • Extend the Google adapter to emit/forward thoughtSignature, reuse the existing replay cache for AI Studio direct mode, and provide a unified formatErrorBody.
  • Make the web-search sidecar send only the bare web_search tool shape (no extra parameters), and add regression tests for the above behaviors.

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tests/web-search-thought-signature.test.ts New tests ensuring web-search loop captures/replays thoughtSignature and Google request compilation forwards it.
tests/google-vertex-http.test.ts Updates expectations to reflect formatErrorBody support for AI Studio (“Gemini”).
tests/google-direct-thought-signature.test.ts New tests validating AI Studio direct replay-cache behavior across streaming/non-streaming and per-thread namespaces.
src/web-search/loop.ts Stores thoughtSignature from adapter events and reattaches it to the replayed assistant toolCall.
src/web-search/executor.ts Sends the bare web_search tool declaration to satisfy ChatGPT backend parameter validation.
src/types.ts Extends tool_call_start adapter event to optionally include thoughtSignature.
src/adapters/google.ts Adds direct-mode replay-cache namespacing + emits signature on tool-call start events + unified error formatter hook.

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import { getVertexAccessToken } from "../lib/gcp-adc";
import { fetchAntigravityWithRetry, fetchVertexWithRetry } from "./google-http";
import { safeAntigravityHttpErrorMessage, safeVertexHttpErrorMessage } from "./google-errors";
import { safeAntigravityHttpErrorMessage, safeGoogleHttpErrorMessage, safeVertexHttpErrorMessage } from "./google-errors";

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In `@src/web-search/executor.ts`:
- Around line 61-63: Add a focused Bun regression test near the existing
web-search tests that invokes runWebSearch, captures the outbound fetch request
body, and asserts tools exactly equals [{ type: "web_search" }]. Keep the test
scoped to preventing unsupported properties such as max_results from being
reintroduced.

In `@tests/google-direct-thought-signature.test.ts`:
- Around line 111-121: Extend the existing Google adapter signature tests around
createGoogleAdapter and replayedFunctionCall with focused cases proving
identical thread IDs do not share signatures across different API credentials or
routed models, and proving an inline invalid-signature response clears the
cached entry before the next continuation. Preserve the existing client-thread
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// The ChatGPT (codex) backend rejects extra web_search parameters (observed: "Unknown parameter:
// 'tools[0].max_results'"), so replay only the bare hosted tool shape.
tools: [{ type: "web_search" }],

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a request-body regression test.

No supplied test calls runWebSearch and asserts that tools is exactly [{ type: "web_search" }]. A future change can restore unsupported properties such as max_results without detection.

Add a focused Bun test that captures the outbound fetch body and verifies the exact tool payload. As per path instructions, “A behavior change in src/ should come with a focused regression test near the existing tests for that subsystem.”

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In `@src/web-search/executor.ts` around lines 61 - 63, Add a focused Bun
regression test near the existing web-search tests that invokes runWebSearch,
captures the outbound fetch request body, and asserts tools exactly equals [{
type: "web_search" }]. Keep the test scoped to preventing unsupported properties
such as max_results from being reintroduced.

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Comment on lines +111 to +121
test("signatures do not cross client-thread namespaces", async () => {
const firstAdapter = createGoogleAdapter(provider);
await firstAdapter.buildRequest(scoped(firstTurn(false), "thread-a"));
await firstAdapter.parseResponse!(new Response(JSON.stringify(responseBody())));

const otherThread = await createGoogleAdapter(provider).buildRequest(scoped(continuation(), "thread-b"));
expect(replayedFunctionCall(otherThread.body as string).thoughtSignature).toBeUndefined();

const originalThread = await createGoogleAdapter(provider).buildRequest(scoped(continuation(), "thread-a"));
expect(replayedFunctionCall(originalThread.body as string).thoughtSignature).toBe(SIGNATURE);
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover credential isolation and invalid-signature clearing.

The tests verify client-thread isolation only. They do not verify that identical thread IDs cannot replay a signature across different API keys or routed models. They also do not verify that an inline invalid-signature error clears the cached entry before the next continuation.

Add focused cases for both conditions. As per path instructions, “A behavior change in src/ should come with a focused regression test near the existing tests for that subsystem.”

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In `@tests/google-direct-thought-signature.test.ts` around lines 111 - 121, Extend
the existing Google adapter signature tests around createGoogleAdapter and
replayedFunctionCall with focused cases proving identical thread IDs do not
share signatures across different API credentials or routed models, and proving
an inline invalid-signature response clears the cached entry before the next
continuation. Preserve the existing client-thread isolation assertions and place
the regression coverage alongside these tests.

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Superseded by #1781, landed on dev as 4b95010 with you as co-author — thank you for finding this.

Your diagnosis was right, and the web-search replay you wrote is the behavior that shipped. The reason this went in as a different change: the signature was still being lost on the shared path, so the fix had to move up to where the tool call crosses the Responses boundary. Once it lives there, ordinary continuation and previous_response_id keep it too, not only the search loop.

Two things from your PR were deliberately left out and recorded as follow-ups instead: preserving Google's original functionCall.id, and the parallel FC/FR ordering in the sidecar loop. Both are real, both are independent of signature carriage, and each deserves its own change.

Closing in favor of the merged commit.

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