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[Fix] Anthropic tool_use / tool_result pairing errors (400) - #2113
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Anthropic rejects requests where a tool_result is not directly after its tool_use, is preceded by other content, or has no matching tool_use. Shape the history sent to the API so results come first in tool_use order, interrupted calls get a synthetic error result, and orphan results are dropped, on every path rather than only after a summary. Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#2098 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pure normalizer and pushToolResultToUserContent have focused unit coverage (normalizeToolResultPairing.spec.ts:16-80, Task.spec.ts:8174-8278). However, the changed request behavior at `Task.… |
Add a focused attemptApiRequest test. Seed history with assistant tool_use blocks and an interleaved, duplicate, missing, or orphan tool_result set. Capture the createMessage history and assert contiguous tool results in tool-use or… |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly identifies the main change: fixing Anthropic tool_use and tool_result pairing errors. Description check The description explains the problem, root cause, implementation, limitations, linked issue, and test coverage. It omits the template headings and checklist, but it contains the required substantive i… Linked Issues check Issue #2098requires valid tool_result adjacency on every request, ordered and contiguous results, synthetic results for missing calls, orphan removal, retry-safe request shaping, and correct parallel…Out of Scope Changes check The changed production code is limited to request-history normalization and parallel tool-result insertion. The added tests verify those changes. These changes directly support issue #2098and do not …Security Boundaries No changed path meets the security failure conditions. The PR only reorders and filters typed conversation blocks in normalizeToolResultPairingandpushToolResultToUserContent, then sends the shap…Persistence Integrity No changed persistence defect is present. normalizeToolResultPairingshapes a request-local copy and does not mutate or saveapiConversationHistory. The changedpushToolResultToUserContentonly …Lifecycle Resource Cleanup PASS. The changed production path only reshapes in-memory message arrays: normalizeToolResultPairingis a pure synchronous function, andpushToolResultToUserContentperforms duplicate checking plu…Full details: Description check
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The description explains the problem, root cause, implementation, limitations, linked issue, and test coverage. It omits the template headings and checklist, but it contains the required substantive information.
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#2098requires valid tool_result adjacency on every request, ordered and contiguous results, synthetic results for missing calls, orphan removal, retry-safe request shaping, and correct parallel-result writes. The PR applies normalizeToolResultPairing after user-message merging and before image removal in Task.ts. The normalizer orders results by tool_use, removes duplicates and orphans, inserts interrupted results, inserts a user turn before a following assistant turn, preserves trailing assistant turns, and does not mutate input history. pushToolResultToUserContent inserts new results before queued images or text. The added tests cover these behaviors.
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The changed production code is limited to request-history normalization and parallel tool-result insertion. The added tests verify those changes. These changes directly support issue
#2098and do not demonstrate unrelated behavior or refactoring.
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No changed path meets the security failure conditions. The PR only reorders and filters typed conversation blocks in
normalizeToolResultPairingandpushToolResultToUserContent, then sends the shaped history. It does not execute block content, introduce secret or PII handling, or alter approval and allowlist checks. Tool execution and approval-result construction remain in the existing presenter paths.
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No changed persistence defect is present.
normalizeToolResultPairingshapes a request-local copy and does not mutate or saveapiConversationHistory. The changedpushToolResultToUserContentonly reorders pending in-memory blocks. The existing flush path awaitssaveApiConversationHistory()and retains pending results when saving fails (Task.ts:1589-1598). That save path clones history and uses the existing temporary-file/rename/rollback writer. The PR does not alter persistence defaults or save ordering.
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PASS. The changed production path only reshapes in-memory message arrays:
normalizeToolResultPairingis a pure synchronous function, andpushToolResultToUserContentperforms duplicate checking plus array insertion. It adds no listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, or cancellation/restart work. The changed API path applies normalization before image removal and does not create or retain a resource.
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The pure normalizer and
pushToolResultToUserContenthave focused unit coverage (normalizeToolResultPairing.spec.ts:16-80,Task.spec.ts:8174-8278). However, the changed request behavior atTask.ts:5853is not covered at the Task request boundary. ExistingattemptApiRequesthistory tests assert ordinary text/image shaping only (Task.spec.ts:2894-3065); no test puts malformed tool history intoapiConversationHistoryand inspects the messages passed tocreateMessage. The suite would pass if the new normalizer call were removed or placed on the wrong side of request shaping.Resolution
Add a focused
attemptApiRequesttest. Seed history with assistanttool_useblocks and an interleaved, duplicate, missing, or orphantool_resultset. Capture thecreateMessagehistory and assert contiguous tool results in tool-use order, synthetic interruption results, orphan removal, image handling, and unchanged stored history. Keep the existing helper and write-path unit tests.
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pushToolResult appended each tool's images right after its result, so parallel calls produced [result A, image, result B], which Anthropic rejects. Insert new results after the last existing result instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @src/core/task/__tests__/normalizeToolResultPairing.spec.ts:
- Around line 32-40: Add a focused regression test alongside the existing
normalizeToolResultPairing tests for an assistant use("A") followed by a user
turn with string content "hi". Assert the normalized user content contains the
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- Around line 54-56: Update the synthetic fallback created in the tool-result
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143-143: LGTM!
578-579: LGTM!Also applies to: 596-599
5853-5853: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityThe condense request path does not send raw tool blocks to the summarizer.
summarizeConversationconverts everytool_useandtool_resultblock to text before callingapiHandler.createMessage, so Anthropic tool-result adjacency validation cannot fail on that request. The comment’s premise is contradicted, and no normalization change is required for this path.src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts: 1
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| it("adds a synthetic error result for an interrupted tool_use", () => { | ||
| const input = [assistant(use("A"), use("B")), user(result("A"), text("next"))] | ||
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| expect(normalizeToolResultPairing(input)[1].content).toEqual([ | ||
| result("A"), | ||
| { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: "B", content: "Tool execution was interrupted before completion." }, | ||
| text("next"), | ||
| ]) | ||
| }) |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Add the required boundary regression test for string-content user turns.
A string-content user turn can follow an assistant tool_use. toBlocks converts it to a text block before inserting the synthetic result. The current test uses array content only, so it does not protect this branch. Add the focused test below. Do not add is_error until the production implementation adds that field.
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+ it("preserves string content in the user turn after a tool_use", () => {
+ const out = normalizeToolResultPairing([assistant(use("A")), { role: "user", content: "hi" }])
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+ expect(out[1].content).toEqual([
+ { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: "A", content: "Tool execution was interrupted before completion." },
+ text("hi"),
+ ])
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| it("adds a synthetic error result for an interrupted tool_use", () => { | |
| const input = [assistant(use("A"), use("B")), user(result("A"), text("next"))] | |
| expect(normalizeToolResultPairing(input)[1].content).toEqual([ | |
| result("A"), | |
| { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: "B", content: "Tool execution was interrupted before completion." }, | |
| text("next"), | |
| ]) | |
| }) | |
| it("adds a synthetic error result for an interrupted tool_use", () => { | |
| const input = [assistant(use("A"), use("B")), user(result("A"), text("next"))] | |
| expect(normalizeToolResultPairing(input)[1].content).toEqual([ | |
| result("A"), | |
| { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: "B", content: "Tool execution was interrupted before completion." }, | |
| text("next"), | |
| ]) | |
| }) | |
| it("preserves string content in the user turn after a tool_use", () => { | |
| const out = normalizeToolResultPairing([assistant(use("A")), { role: "user", content: "hi" }]) | |
| expect(out[1].content).toEqual([ | |
| { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: "A", content: "Tool execution was interrupted before completion." }, | |
| text("hi"), | |
| ]) | |
| }) |
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Add a focused regression test alongside the existing normalizeToolResultPairing
tests for an assistant use("A") followed by a user turn with string content
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| const results: ToolResultBlock[] = toolUseIds.map( | ||
| (id) => resultsById.get(id) ?? { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: id, content: INTERRUPTED_RESULT }, | ||
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Mark synthetic interrupted results with is_error: true.
The synthetic tool_result built here has no is_error flag, so the model sees it as a successful result with the text "Tool execution was interrupted before completion." This conflicts with the existing convention in src/core/task/Task.ts (resumeTaskFromHistory, lines 3295-3305 and 3340-3347). That code sets is_error: true on interrupted-call results so that "the persisted history cannot be misread as a successful completion of the interrupted tool calls (e.g. attempt_completion)" (issue #1283). The PR objective and issue #2098 also ask for synthetic error results.
Trigger: an assistant turn calls attempt_completion (or any tool) and the result is lost because of cancellation, compaction, or delegation. Normalization then answers it with a non-error result, and the model can treat the interrupted call as completed.
Add is_error: true. Also update the expectation at normalizeToolResultPairing.spec.ts line 37.
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--- "a/src/core/task/normalizeToolResultPairing.ts"
+++ "b/src/core/task/normalizeToolResultPairing.ts"
@@ -51,9 +51,15 @@
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const results: ToolResultBlock[] = toolUseIds.map(
- (id) => resultsById.get(id) ?? { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: id, content: INTERRUPTED_RESULT },
+ (id) =>
+ resultsById.get(id) ?? {
+ type: "tool_result",
+ tool_use_id: id,
+ content: INTERRUPTED_RESULT,
+ is_error: true,
+ },
)
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| const results: ToolResultBlock[] = toolUseIds.map( | |
| (id) => resultsById.get(id) ?? { type: "tool_result", tool_use_id: id, content: INTERRUPTED_RESULT }, | |
| ) | |
| const results: ToolResultBlock[] = toolUseIds.map( | |
| (id) => | |
| resultsById.get(id) ?? { | |
| type: "tool_result", | |
| tool_use_id: id, | |
| content: INTERRUPTED_RESULT, | |
| is_error: true, | |
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Review comment at @src/core/task/normalizeToolResultPairing.ts around lines 54 -
56:
Update the synthetic fallback created in the tool-result mapping within
normalizeToolResultPairing to include is_error: true, while leaving existing
results unchanged. Update the corresponding expectation in
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Fixes #2098
Problem
Anthropic returns 400 when a
tool_resultis not in the user message directly after itstool_use, is preceded by other content (images/text between results), or refers to atool_usethat is not in the previous assistant message. History was only sanitized at write time (validateAndFixToolResultIds, which neither orders results nor handles later history changes), andgetEffectiveApiHistoryonly dropped orphan results on the summary path. Retries re-sent the same invalid payload.Fix
New pure
normalizeToolResultPairingis applied to the history built for each API request (after consecutive-user merging, before image stripping). For every assistant turn withtool_use:tool_useorder, duplicates dropped;tool_usein the previous assistant message are dropped (a user message left empty is removed).Stored history is not mutated; a trailing assistant turn is left alone.
Root cause (write side)
pushToolResultinpresentAssistantMessageappended each tool's images straight after its own result in the flatuserMessageContent. With parallel tool calls that gives[result A, image A, result B], the exact shape in the report.pushToolResultToUserContentnow inserts each new result after the last existing result (ahead of images/text), so new history is written correctly.Limitations
Other causes of orphan or missing results (interrupted tools, condensing, already-corrupted stored history) are covered by the send-time normalizer above rather than a write-side change.
Tests
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normalizeToolResultPairing.spec.ts(interleaved images, ordering/duplicates, interrupted calls, assistant-after-assistant, orphans accept/reject, well-formed history unchanged, no mutation).core/tasksuites (929 tests) andcheck-typespass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code