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Misclassified reasoning_effort 400 errors in agent

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1 open item. Fix merged in #115736 on 19 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and fixes address a bug where invalid reasoning_effort parameter 400 errors are incorrectly classified as context overflow, causing unintended compression or failure instead of proper error recovery.

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Open PRs1

  • PR#100550fix(agent): preserve invalid reasoning effort errors without compression

Fixes on record

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  • #115736 fix(agent): enum-style and structured reasoning_effort 400s recover instead of failing or compressing (#115277, #100536, salvage #115281)

    merged to main

    files: agent/chat_completion_helpers.py, agent/error_classifier.py, agent/turn_recovery.py, tests/agent/test_auxiliary_parameter_rung_chaining.py, tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py, tests/agent/test_reasoning_disable_recovery.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: other 1

  • #100596 fix(agent): reasoning-effort validation 400s are format errors, not context overflow · other
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#100536[Bug]: custom Responses `invalid_reasoning_effort` 400 is misclassified as context_overflow, triggering bogus compression
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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1 PR closed without merging
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19 Sep 2026

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