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Claude can send a thinking block as redacted_thinking: encrypted, with opaque data and no text. The Anthropic adapter dropped that block when it streamed in, so the next request went out without it. A failed tool result also went out without is_error, so Claude could not tell that the tool failed. This PR keeps the redacted block through every layer, sends it back unchanged, and marks failed tool results.

🎯 Changes

  • is_error. A tool message with error set now sends tool_result.is_error: true (packages/ai-anthropic/src/adapters/text.ts).
  • Redacted thinking.
    • The stream handler turns a redacted_thinking block into its own reasoning message. Its id starts with redacted_thinking-, and the step uses the same id.
    • The data goes out as REASONING_ENCRYPTED_VALUE, and entityId is that reasoning message id. An AG-UI client attaches the value by entityId, and it keeps message ids.
    • The flag goes through the engine, the stream processor, the UI-to-model and wire converters, interrupt snapshots, and stored threads. On the AG-UI wire, the flag is the id prefix. metadata.tanstack carries nothing for it, because AG-UI clients do not copy event metadata onto messages.
    • The adapter sends the block back as { type: 'redacted_thinking', data }, in the place of the other thinking blocks.
  • Signed thinking. A normal thinking block's signature now goes out as REASONING_ENCRYPTED_VALUE with the reasoning message id. Before, it rode on STEP_FINISHED, and the core gave it the step id, which names no message.
  • Public type change. ThinkingPart and ModelMessage['thinking'] have a new optional redacted?: boolean. The data stays in signature, and content is empty. REDACTED_THINKING_ID_PREFIX is exported from @tanstack/ai/adapter-internals.
  • Docs. docs/chat/thinking-content.md explains the redacted field and what a UI can show for it.
  • Changesets. @tanstack/ai patch, @tanstack/ai-anthropic patch.

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Root cause

Issue. With extended thinking, Claude can stream a redacted_thinking block. The next request, in the same run after a tool call or on the next turn, must send it back unchanged, and it was missing. A tool result for a failed tool also had no is_error.

Cause.

  • The stream handler (processAnthropicStream) had no branch for redacted_thinking, so the block never became a thinking part.
  • appendThinkingBlocks only builds thinking blocks, and no layer had a field that marks a signature as redacted data.
  • The tool_result builder in convertMessagesToAnthropic never read the tool message's error.

Fix.

  • The block becomes its own reasoning message, with a redacted_thinking- id and its data as the encrypted value.
  • Every layer that copies a thinking signature now copies the flag too. Wire readers take the flag from the reasoning message id.
  • appendThinkingBlocks emits redacted_thinking for a redacted part.
  • The tool_result builder sets is_error when the message has error.

Possible alternatives

Testing

Gate 1 repro (agent-written). Run on clean main (36e77d90f), with only the test files added, then on this branch.

packages/ai-anthropic/tests/thinking-replay.test.ts, on main:

× marks a failed tool result with is_error
× sends a redacted thinking block back in the same run
× sends a redacted thinking block back on the next turn
AssertionError: expected [ 'tool_use' ] to deeply equal [ 'redacted_thinking', 'tool_use' ]
AssertionError: expected [ { type: 'text', text: 'Hello.' } ] to deeply equal [ { …(2) }, …(1) ]
Tests  3 failed (3)

packages/ai/tests/redacted-thinking.test.ts, on main:

× survives a stored thread that is loaded into the UI and sent back
× survives the wire from the client to the server
× survives an interrupt snapshot that the client loads
Tests  3 failed (3)

On this branch, both files pass.

New in this push.

  • ties each encrypted value to its reasoning message by id (thinking-replay.test.ts). It streams a signed block with no text and a redacted block. Each entityId must equal its REASONING_MESSAGE_START id. With the old signature path, it fails: the value names the step id.
  • reads the kind from the reasoning message id, without metadata (redacted-thinking.test.ts). It sends only the spec fields, as @ag-ui/client does. A redacted_thinking- id comes back as redacted, and an empty-text signed block comes back as a signature.

Commands run (Windows, one at a time, after the merge of main at a5fce7f95):

  1. vitest run: packages/ai 1948 passed, packages/ai-anthropic 167 passed, packages/ai-client 849 passed.
  2. test:types and test:oxlint for the three packages: pass. oxfmt check of the changed files: pass.
  3. Before the merge: the 49 E2E tests that match thinking, reasoning, or Anthropic passed, including anthropic-redacted-thinking-wire.spec.ts.
  4. Not run for this push: E2E after the merge, and the full nx affected target set.

Manual test.

  1. On main, run pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-anthropic exec vitest run tests/thinking-replay.test.ts with this PR's test file. The tests fail.
  2. On this branch, run the same command. The tests pass.
  3. Run pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e test:e2e -- --grep "redacted thinking". Expect 1 passed.

How this PR makes testing easy. Unit tests in packages/ai-anthropic/tests/thinking-replay.test.ts and packages/ai/tests/redacted-thinking.test.ts, and the E2E route testing/e2e/src/routes/api.anthropic-redacted-thinking-wire.ts. That route scripts Claude's stream and returns the follow-up requests, over the same wire path a browser client uses.

Risk / rollback

Public API change

Before

interface ThinkingPart {
  type: 'thinking'
  content: string
  stepId?: string
  signature?: string
}

After

interface ThinkingPart {
  type: 'thinking'
  content: string
  stepId?: string
  signature?: string
  // The provider encrypted this block: `content` is empty, and `signature`
  // holds the data that goes back unchanged.
  redacted?: boolean
}

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  • New Features
    • Encrypted, redacted thinking blocks are now preserved across stored conversations, tool continuations, and subsequent requests.
    • Redacted thinking is identified in conversation data and can be displayed with a placeholder.
    • Reasoning encryption values are associated with their reasoning messages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Failed tool results are now reported as errors to Claude.

… Claude

The Anthropic adapter dropped a redacted_thinking block when it streamed in, so the next request did not send it back, and Claude can refuse a turn whose thinking blocks changed. A failed tool result also went out without is_error.

A redacted block now becomes a thinking part with redacted: true, an empty content, and its data in signature. The flag goes through the stream, the engine, the stream processor, the UI and wire converters, and interrupt snapshots, and the adapter sends it back as { type: 'redacted_thinking', data }. A tool message with error sends tool_result.is_error: true.
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The change adds redaction metadata for encrypted thinking blocks, preserves that metadata through chat conversions and wire formats, and replays those blocks in Anthropic requests. It also marks failed tool results as errors and adds unit and end-to-end coverage for replay scenarios.

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Redacted Thinking Replay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redacted thinking metadata and wire format
packages/ai/src/types.ts, packages/ai/src/utilities/reasoning-encrypted-value.ts, packages/ai/src/utilities/ag-ui-wire.ts, packages/ai/src/adapter-internals.ts, docs/chat/thinking-content.md, docs/config.json, .changeset/anthropic-thinking-replay.md
Thinking types add an optional redacted field. A prefix constant and predicate identify redacted reasoning IDs, and wire conversion uses the prefix for redacted thinking parts. Documentation and the changeset describe the field and handling.
Chat stream and message preservation
packages/ai/src/activities/chat/index.ts, packages/ai/src/activities/chat/messages.ts, packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/message-updaters.ts, packages/ai/tests/redacted-thinking.test.ts
Chat processing carries redaction state through thinking steps, message conversions, stream updates, and AG-UI reasoning snapshots. Tests cover stored-message, wire, and interrupt-snapshot conversions.
Anthropic block replay and tool errors
packages/ai-anthropic/src/adapters/text.ts, packages/ai-anthropic/tests/thinking-replay.test.ts
The adapter replays redacted thinking blocks, emits encrypted reasoning values associated with reasoning-message IDs, and marks tool results as errors when the source message has an error. Tests cover tool continuation and later-turn replay.
End-to-end replay scenarios
testing/e2e/src/routes/api.anthropic-redacted-thinking-wire.ts, testing/e2e/src/routeTree.gen.ts, testing/e2e/tests/anthropic-redacted-thinking-wire.spec.ts
A test route scripts next-turn and tool-continuation scenarios and returns captured request blocks. The end-to-end test checks replayed blocks and failed tool-result fields.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AnthropicAPI
  participant AnthropicAdapter
  participant TextEngine
  participant ChatMessageConversion
  AnthropicAPI->>AnthropicAdapter: Stream redacted_thinking block
  AnthropicAdapter->>TextEngine: Emit reasoning events and encrypted value
  TextEngine->>ChatMessageConversion: Preserve redacted thinking part
  ChatMessageConversion->>AnthropicAdapter: Supply converted messages for the next request
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ee3c3

Redacted thinking survives normal replay paths, but an afterModel interrupt can omit it from the saved turn and prevent correct replay after resume. Preserve the complete assistant turn before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ee3c3

The change preserves encrypted conversation metadata and tool-failure status across requests. No new privileges or disclosure are demonstrated, but isolation of stored histories and some interruption and recovery behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported exposure is conversation history carried through shared message and wire representations and replayed to the configured provider. The inspected changes do not establish additional tool-execution authority or credential access. Maximum cross-tenant or cross-provider exposure remains unresolved because application-level history selection and authorization were not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The adapter receives opaque data from provider output, creates local reasoning-step identifiers, and later forwards preserved signatures through its existing request sink. Entries without signatures are skipped. Tool-error forwarding adds a boolean rather than a new invocation or an additional error-text payload. These checks establish formatting behavior, not ownership validation of supplied history.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Successful terminal handling finalizes assistant thinking, while error and cancellation paths invoke distinct terminal hooks. The inspected interruption return does not subsequently run successful finalization. Durable restoration of incomplete reasoning after cancellation, partial failure, or interruption was not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Applications persisting opaque reasoning could bind replay history to its originating provider and authorized conversation owner, and enforce that binding when selecting history for requests. This would make ownership explicit; it is not a finding that this PR leaks history across identities.
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Put the redacted blob on its own field. signature should stay the signature of a normal thinking block.

if (thinking.redacted) {
contentBlocks.push({
type: 'redacted_thinking',
data: thinking.signature,

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Do not store the redacted_thinking blob in signature.

signature is the signature of a normal thinking block's text. This data value is a different field. There is no old client that already replays these blocks: the adapter used to drop them. Reusing signature does not keep a working replay.

An old build of this library ignores redacted and sends { type: 'thinking', thinking: '', signature: <blob> }. That is the wrong block type. A separate field leaves signature empty, so the existing if (!thinking.signature) continue check omits the part. Claude can still refuse that turn, but the request no longer contains a malformed thinking block.

A client that stores the part unchanged and sends it back through this code works either way. A client that keeps only content loses the blob wherever it sits.

Carry the bytes on something like data (through the thinking part, the model message, and the wire), and send that field here as redacted_thinking.data. Leave signature for real signatures. Update the ThinkingPart note in packages/ai/src/types.ts that currently says signature holds this data.

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Posted as a comment instead. Not a request for changes.

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Rename thinkingStepRedacted to redactedThinkingStepIds: it is a set of step ids, not a flag.
Document that ThinkingPart.signature holds any provider's opaque reasoning bytes and should become encryptedValue (#1581).

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if (thinking === undefined) return

state.thinkingStepSignatures.set(stepId, signature)
if (extra.redacted === true) state.redactedThinkingStepIds.add(stepId)

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Clear reasoning content when a step becomes redacted.

AdapterYieldChunk allows redacted on a signed step without requiring a new step ID. If that step already contains reasoning text, the processor retains it, and later deltas extend it. getResult() then includes the text.

The Anthropic adapter currently uses a fresh step for redacted_thinking, but the shared processor does not enforce this for other supported adapter events.

🐛 Suggested fix
-    if (extra.redacted === true) state.redactedThinkingStepIds.add(stepId)
+    if (extra.redacted === true) {
+      state.redactedThinkingStepIds.add(stepId)
+      state.thinkingSteps.set(stepId, '')
+    }
...
-      thinking,
+      state.redactedThinkingStepIds.has(stepId) ? '' : thinking,
...
-    const nextThinking = (state.thinkingSteps.get(stepId) ?? '') + delta
+    const nextThinking = state.redactedThinkingStepIds.has(stepId)
+      ? ''
+      : (state.thinkingSteps.get(stepId) ?? '') + delta
...
     if (tanstackMetadata(chunk)?.redacted === true) {
       state.redactedThinkingStepIds.add(stepId)
+      state.thinkingSteps.set(stepId, '')
     }
-    const content = state.thinkingSteps.get(stepId) ?? ''
+    const content = state.redactedThinkingStepIds.has(stepId)
+      ? ''
+      : (state.thinkingSteps.get(stepId) ?? '')

Also apply the redacted-step guard when a hydrated ThinkingPart is adopted, so later deltas cannot repopulate a hydrated redacted part.

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When `extra.redacted` marks a `stepId` in the shared processor, clear its
existing reasoning and ensure later deltas or hydrated `ThinkingPart` values
cannot repopulate it; keep redacted reasoning empty in `getResult()`.

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I made one small change to the internal naming of the redacted step ids. thinkingStepRedacted sounded like the data. I then looked into the use of "signature". It took me a while to realise that field is wrongly named. it maps to encryptedValue in AG-UI and we should probably make the same change. I've raised issue #1581 .

Understanding that mapping then made me realise there's missing information on the AG-UI wire. If an encryptedValue is present, we don't know what kind of encryped value that is. Consumers would have to know about the tanstack metadata we use. I raised an upstream issue ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui#2884.

Looking at compatibility with older clients. The only issue would be mixing versions server side and client side, or having tanstack on the server, and something else on the client. But not much we can do. Approving

…e id

AG-UI clients do not copy event metadata onto messages, so
metadata.tanstack.redacted did not survive a client that is not
TanStack's. A redacted block is now its own reasoning message. Its id
starts with redacted_thinking-, and REASONING_ENCRYPTED_VALUE names that
message in entityId. The server and the snapshot loader read the flag
from the id.

Anthropic thinking signatures now also go out as REASONING_ENCRYPTED_VALUE
for the reasoning message, not on STEP_FINISHED with the step id, so an
AG-UI client can attach them.

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🟠 Major · Preserve redacted thinking before an afterModel interrupt. · index.ts:3316-3319

packages/ai/src/activities/chat/index.ts:3316-3319
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve redacted thinking before an afterModel interrupt.

When registered middleware requests an afterModel interrupt without tool calls, emitBoundaryInterrupts calls this helper. The helper records only text. It does not finalize or copy the newly captured redacted thinking. The interrupt snapshot therefore loses the encrypted data. run() then returns before normal terminal recording can preserve it. A thinking-only response is omitted entirely by the guard on Line 3316. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Reuse addTerminalAssistantMessages() here so the snapshot retains the complete assistant turn.

Proposed fix
   private addAssistantTextMessageForInterrupt(): void {
-    if (this.accumulatedContent.length === 0) return
-    this.messages = [
-      ...this.messages,
-      { role: 'assistant', content: this.accumulatedContent },
-    ]
-    this.middlewareCtx.messages = this.messages
+    this.addTerminalAssistantMessages()
   }
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Update addAssistantTextMessageForInterrupt to call addTerminalAssistantMessages
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AlemTuzlak merged commit 3a09cf0 into main Oct 1, 2026
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main has the reviewed versions of both fixes (#1578 and #1579). The
next merge brings them in. Reverting the earlier drafts first stops the
merge from keeping draft-only parts, such as the per-tool `sequential`
flag that the review removed. The harness stack's `replay` tool field
stays.

This reverts 7b61267 and bbe7796.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01APYv1qshKyjPPpkFyRZhfZ
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Brings in #1578 (parallel server tools) and #1579 (Anthropic redacted
thinking replay), the reviewed versions of the Part B fixes.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01APYv1qshKyjPPpkFyRZhfZ
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