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Bedrock Converse empty text block placeholder fix

Cluster 39829 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
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Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

A bug where whitespace-only placeholder text in Bedrock Converse content blocks caused rejections, with multiple fix attempts replacing the placeholder with a non-whitespace string like '(empty message)'.

Open issues1

  • Issue#39829[Bug]: Bedrock Converse rejects whitespace-only placeholder ('text content blocks must contain non-whitespace text'); breaks resuming assistant-first history

Open PRs1

  • PR#39850fix(bedrock): replace whitespace-only ' ' placeholder with '(empty message)' in Converse adapter

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #40075 fix(bedrock): avoid whitespace-only converse placeholders · duplicate → #39871, #39829, #39850
  • #41985 fix(bedrock): use non-whitespace placeholder for empty content blocks · superseded by another PR → 9172048, a7e9111, #66167
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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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