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feat(anthropic): accept deferred tool loading blocks - #1209

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Closes #1208.

Claude Code sends the tool-search shape when ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH is on — which it must be when ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL is a gateway rather than a first-party Anthropic host. That shape has two parts the Messages translator rejected: a tool marked defer_loading: true, and a tool_reference for each tool the search matched. The tool_reference is the breaking one: it sits inside a tool_result, the translator only knew text/image/document/search_result there, and the 400 repeats on every later turn because the block stays in the transcript.

Shape Before After
tools[].defer_loading accepted, unmarked accepted, marker dropped (it is an ordinary custom tool)
tool_reference in a tool_result 400 degrades to the tool name as text
tool_reference elsewhere in a turn 400 degrades to the tool name as text
tool_search_tool_result 400 degrades to the matched names as text in the user turn

The degradation is deliberate. No provider behind the translated pipeline loads tool schemas by reference, so a reference has no meaning there; the name as text is what lets the model know a tool was found. tool_search_tool_result cannot become a role: "tool" message because the server-side search has no client-side tool_use to pair with, so it goes into the user turn's text instead.

The native Anthropic path is untouched: it already forwards the original body byte-for-byte, so tool_reference still reaches Anthropic as a real reference there.

Testing

  • New tests cover each row of the table above (request_test.go).
  • Replayed a recorded Claude Code body that failed with the reported 400 on main; it translates now.
  • End-to-end through a local gateway against DeepSeek: the replayed body and both reference shapes return 200, and the model's reply names the tools it was told about.
  • go test ./internal/... passes apart from internal/providers, whose TestApplyProviderEnvVars_* cases fail on main too when ambient OPENAI_* env vars are set.

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  • Compatibility
    • Deferred Anthropic tool declarations are accepted, though the deferred-loading setting is not retained.
    • Tool references in messages and tool results are converted to readable text, preserving tool-call IDs where applicable.
    • Tool-search results are represented as user-facing text, including matched tool names and any preceding message text.
    • Token estimates account for tool references and tool-search results.
    • Unsupported content blocks, including container_upload, continue to return a 400 error.

Claude Code sends tool-search payloads when ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH is set: a
tool marked defer_loading, and a tool_reference for each tool the search
matched. The translator rejected tool_reference inside a tool_result, so
every later turn of the conversation failed with a 400.

A deferred tool is an ordinary custom tool, so the marker is accepted and
dropped. A tool_reference degrades to the tool name as text, because no
provider behind the translated pipeline loads tool schemas by reference,
and a server-side tool_search_tool_result degrades the same way into the
user turn. This lets a client running deferred tool loading continue a
conversation against any provider.
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The Anthropic Messages path accepts deferred tool declarations and translates tool_reference and tool_search_tool_result blocks into text. Tool-result content and token estimates also account for tool references.

Changes: Anthropic tool-search translation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Represent and parse deferred tools and references
internal/anthropicapi/types.go, internal/anthropicapi/request.go, internal/anthropicapi/request_test.go
ContentBlock represents tool references and nested search results. Tool includes DeferLoading. The parser decodes search-result content, and a test verifies that translation omits the deferred-loading marker from the function declaration.
Translate tool-search content as text
internal/anthropicapi/request.go, internal/anthropicapi/request_test.go, internal/anthropicapi/token_estimate.go, docs/advanced/anthropic-messages-api.mdx
Tool references become tool-name text in message and tool-result content. Search results become “Tools found” text in the user message. Tests cover these translations, token estimates include these blocks, and the documentation describes the translated behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MessagesRequest
  participant ContentParser
  participant MessageTranslator
  MessagesRequest->>ContentParser: Parse tool-search content
  ContentParser->>MessageTranslator: Decoded tool references
  MessageTranslator->>MessagesRequest: Text content with matched tool names
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Suggested reviewers: santiagodepolonia

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fc6a9

The change lets the translated Anthropic path accept deferred tool-loading shapes and convert them to text. No merge-blocking risk was found; adding a test for malformed search-result content is optional.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 53.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main change: accepting deferred tool-loading blocks in the Anthropic path.
Description check Passed The description includes a clear change summary, rationale, before-and-after behavior, scope, testing details, and issue reference. It satisfies the required Description section; the optional AI Gener…
Linked Issues check Passed The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#1208]. Tool.DeferLoading accepts defer_loading and translated tool conversion drops the marker. tool_reference blocks become tool-name text in or…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain within [#1208]. The added Anthropic types, request conversion, token estimation, focused tests, and translated-pipeline documentation support deferred tool-loading compatibility. No…
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The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#1208]. Tool.DeferLoading accepts defer_loading and translated tool conversion drops the marker. tool_reference blocks become tool-name text in ordinary content and tool_result content. tool_search_tool_result reads the nested search result and renders matched names as text in the user turn. Focused tests cover these shapes. The native forwarding path remains unchanged.

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The changes remain within [#1208]. The added Anthropic types, request conversion, token estimation, focused tests, and translated-pipeline documentation support deferred tool-loading compatibility. No unrelated change is established.

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- Around line 74-75: Update ContentBlock decoding for tool_search_tool_result to
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A tool_search_tool_result keeps its matches in a nested
tool_search_tool_search_result object under content, not on the outer
block. The translator read the outer field, so the matched tool names
were dropped and the downstream model was told nothing about the search.
Decode the nested object and render its references.

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Comment on lines +552 to +569
// decodeSearchResult decodes the nested content object of a
// tool_search_tool_result block, which holds the tools the server-side search
// matched. Other block types leave SearchResult nil.
func (block *ContentBlock) decodeSearchResult() error {
if block.Type != "tool_search_tool_result" {
return nil
}
trimmed := bytes.TrimSpace(block.Content)
if len(trimmed) == 0 || core.IsJSONNull(trimmed) {
return nil
}
var result ToolSearchResult
if err := json.Unmarshal(trimmed, &result); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("tool_search_tool_result content: %v", err)
}
block.SearchResult = &result
return nil
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a test for decodeSearchResult error paths.

The decoder returns an error when content of a tool_search_tool_result block is not a JSON object. An example is a string or an array. parseContent then rejects the whole message with a 400. Anthropic can send an error variant, such as tool_search_tool_result_error, in content. That variant is an object with different fields, so it decodes without error and yields no references. This is safe.

The existing tests cover only the success path. Add a test for the error variant and for malformed content. The test fixes the intended behavior.

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Extend tests for ContentBlock.decodeSearchResult to cover an error-variant
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@komapa Well scoped PR - thank you! Merging

I'm assigning you write permission to the repo - appreciate any issue report, feature request and PRs!

(CI/CD failing because of the docker rate limit - already fixed at another PR)

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Feature: support deferred tool loading (tool_reference) on the Anthropic Messages path

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