Follow-up to the reasoning-only response fix. Three additional issues
found by tracing the full replay path:
1. _chat_messages_to_responses_input: when a reasoning-only interim
message was converted to Responses API input, the reasoning items
were emitted as the last items with no following item. The Responses
API requires a following item after each reasoning item (otherwise:
'missing_following_item' error, as seen in OpenHands #11406). Now
emits an empty assistant message as the required following item when
content is empty but reasoning items were added.
2. Duplicate detection: two consecutive reasoning-only incomplete
messages with identical empty content/reasoning but different
encrypted codex_reasoning_items were incorrectly treated as
duplicates, silently dropping the second response's reasoning state.
Now includes codex_reasoning_items in the duplicate comparison.
3. Added tests for both the API input conversion path and the duplicate
detection edge case.
Research context: verified against OpenCode (uses Vercel AI SDK, no
retry loop so avoids the issue), Clawdbot (drops orphaned reasoning
blocks entirely), and OpenHands (hit the missing_following_item error).
Our approach preserves reasoning continuity while satisfying the API
constraint.
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