fix(openai-chat): preserve Mistral typed text and thinking blocks

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Summary

Problem

Mistral can send a typed content array, then a string, in the same response. The openai-chat parser reads only string content. It drops the array's text and thinking blocks. A valid JSON answer then loses its opening bytes. The buffered parser also drops typed arrays.

This was observed with mistral/zai-glm-5-3 on 2.78.0. Large 4 showed the same missing-prefix symptom in eight requests; its cause was not confirmed separately. The offline test below reproduces the byte loss on dev at a5cd5a2b832d727cfef5e77c48547b47b1cbeebb (package 2.85.0).

Reproduction

REPRO.ts.txt

Download the attached REPRO.ts.txt and rename it to REPRO.ts. With source dependencies installed, run the test:

bun REPRO.ts /path/to/opencodex --expect-bug

It supplies these synthetic deltas to parseStream. It makes no HTTP requests:

{"content":[{"type":"thinking","thinking":[{"type":"text","text":"Synthetic reasoning."}],"closed":true},{"type":"text","text":"{\"outcome"}]}
{"content":"\":\"deny\"}"}

Expected answer:

{"outcome":"deny"}

Actual answer before the fix:

":"deny"}

Expected thinking: Synthetic reasoning. Actual thinking before the fix: empty.

Adapter configuration:

{"adapter":"openai-chat","baseUrl":"https://api.mistral.ai/v1"}

The offline test has no model dependency. It was run on Linux x64 with Bun 1.4.3. Mistral Vibe's parser also handles both content forms.

Change

• Read typed text and thinking blocks in both response paths for api.mistral.ai.
• Keep text order and separate thinking. Reject malformed or unsupported blocks.
• Keep the existing string, other-host, byte-budget, and tool-continuation rules.
• Add focused tests, register them, and update the adapter documentation.

This change does not add Mistral signature replay.

Verification

Branch base: 582589c2305cf1ce0e0f7a2a12090dae6eeb6036 (dev). Commit: 27e89f75efc98d53c2f54e6754476b2feac69556. Test runtime: Bun 1.4.3.

• bun test tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-mistral-content.test.ts: On the original base a5cd5a2, unmodified source: 21 pass, 26 fail; patched source: 47 pass, 0 fail. All 47 also pass in the branch run below.
• bun scripts/test.ts --changed=upstream/dev --parallel=1 tests/adapters/openai/ tests/adapters/translator-budget.test.ts tests/adapters/translator-budget-lifetime.test.ts: 631 pass across 30 selected files on the branch base.
• bun scripts/test.ts --parallel=1 tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/structure-ssot.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/repo-hygiene.test.ts: 86 pass across four files. These checks read files as data and are not selected by the import graph.
• bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, and git diff --check: pass.
• cd docs-site && bun run build: pass; 569 pages and 79,369 internal links checked.
• bun REPRO.ts /path/to/patched-opencodex: pass; complete JSON answer and thinking.

All adapter input is synthetic. The full suite and live GLM/Large checks remain unrun. Local checks use the repository's changed-test policy for a draft PR, with other projects running on the host. A broader test attempt was blocked by a sandbox request to chatgpt.com; it is not a passing result. Required CI and review must complete before merge.

Follow-up verification

Current commit: 1d8d96bd6.

Typed reasoning now flushes and resets inline-tag parsing in both response paths. Four new regression cases fail on the previous commit and pass with this correction.

Repeated the verification commands above: 635 related tests pass, including all 51 Mistral cases; 86 additional layout and hygiene tests pass. Type, structure, privacy, whitespace, documentation build, and offline reproduction checks pass.

The full local suite was not run because other projects share the host resources. Broader coverage remains for CI. Live GLM/Large checks remain unrun. CI needs maintainer approval.

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Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Mistral chat responses preserve the order and formatting of typed text and thinking content in streaming and non-streaming responses. Inline thinking tags are handled across adjacent text blocks, while typed thinking content remains separate.
• Bug Fixes
  • Unsupported or malformed typed content blocks from Mistral return an upstream error. Other hosts retain their existing behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

OpenAI Chat response handling now parses Mistral typed text and thinking arrays in streaming and buffered responses. It preserves text order, emits thinking separately, and returns upstream errors for malformed or unsupported blocks. Other hosts retain their prior array behavior.

Changes: Mistral typed chat content

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse typed content events src/adapters/openai-chat/response-events.ts	Parses string content and Mistral text and thinking blocks. Malformed or unsupported Mistral blocks produce upstream errors. Inline-thinking parsing continues across adjacent text blocks and resets at reasoning events.
Wire streaming and buffered responses src/adapters/openai-chat.ts	Streaming and buffered paths use the new content-event parsing. Error events are returned directly.
Test and document typed content tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-mistral-content.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md, structure/providers/chat-compat.md	Tests cover typed content, event ordering, errors, tool-call continuation, and translator-budget handling. The test layout is registered, and documentation describes Mistral-specific handling and the absence of signature replay.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MistralResponse as Mistral response
  participant OpenAIChatAdapter as openai-chat adapter
  participant ChatContentEvents as chatContentEvents
  participant ThinkSplitter as inline-think splitter
  MistralResponse->>OpenAIChatAdapter: Provide response content
  OpenAIChatAdapter->>ChatContentEvents: Parse content
  ChatContentEvents-->>OpenAIChatAdapter: Return text, reasoning, or error events
  OpenAIChatAdapter->>ThinkSplitter: Process text events
  ThinkSplitter-->>OpenAIChatAdapter: Return split content events

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Mistral typed text and thinking blocks are now parsed in streaming and buffered responses, and other hosts keep their existing behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains, beyond the full test suite and CI, which have not yet been run.

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- Line 56: Update response-event handling at the splitter logic on
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Fixed in 1d8d96bd6. Typed reasoning now flushes and resets inline-tag parsing in both response paths. Adjacent text blocks still share the splitter.

The four new regression cases fail on the previous commit and pass with the correction. All 51 Mistral cases and 721 related tests pass. Type, structure, privacy, whitespace, and documentation checks pass. The full suite and live model checks remain unrun. CI still needs maintainer approval.

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Reviewed at 1d8d96b. Typed text/thinking parsing is host-scoped to api.mistral.ai, string/other-host paths unchanged, malformed blocks fail closed with usage preserved, and typed reasoning resets the inline-think splitter in both paths (CodeRabbit finding addressed). Focused Mistral + inline-think + test-layout suites pass 63/0 on a merge with current dev; typecheck clean; CI green.