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Six related defects on the SSE relay and guardrail paths. All of them are silent: nothing errors, the gateway keeps answering 200, and enforcement or metering quietly weakens.

Whole-frame SSE reads

A frame's payload is every one of its data: lines joined with \n, and two readers still stopped at the first.

drain_responses_sse_frames could not parse a terminal response.completed written over several lines, so the local token estimator filled the counters in — the request billed estimated tokens while still reporting usage, which is indistinguishable from working code unless a test names the provider's exact numbers.

frame_delta on the passthrough route parsed each data: line independently, turning one document into N unparseable fragments: no usage read, and on an opaque stream the JSON source text was pushed into the guardrail scan instead of the values.

Both now take redact::frame_payload. A frame whose joined payload does not parse still yields its raw text to the scan on every protocol — the frame is forwarded either way, so scanning nothing for it would be a way past an output block rule. model_echo::restamp_sse_frame deliberately keeps its first-line read: it needs byte offsets into the original buffer that a joined payload cannot supply (#1105).

Framing audit

Every SSE splitter and frame reader in the crate is now covered against the three shapes real upstreams produce: pure-CRLF framing with \r\n\r\n separators and no event: lines (framing varies per endpoint, not per vendor — the same host streams transcriptions in CRLF and responses in LF); a stream with no [DONE] sentinel; and comment-only frames carrying zero data: lines. The splitters were already right — they had no tests saying so, and now they do.

Request-side reasoning is in scope

Reasoning replayed by the caller is text entering the model like any other. Three surfaces read it without masking it, so a Mask rule reported a hit, returned Allow, and dispatched the match untouched:

  • /v1/responses scanned a reasoning item's content[].text while the mask walked past it. Both content[].text and summary[].text are now scanned and masked.
  • /v1/chat/completions never read reasoning_content at all — the canonical slot every vendor spelling is normalised onto, and one that relays upstream verbatim. Added to message_scan_text, redact_chat_format, and the passthrough route's request scan.
  • /v1/messages dropped thinking blocks before the scan saw them, because the scan shared one parse with the cross-provider dispatch bridge — where dropping them is correct. They are now two parses that differ in exactly that.

A signed thinking block is forwarded unchanged

A mask-action hit inside an Anthropic thinking / redacted_thinking block is forwarded unchanged — not rewritten, not blocked — for every guardrail kind, including the kinds that otherwise turn an unmaskable result into a blocking verdict.

This is a deliberate, narrow exception to "no write-back channel means a blocking verdict", and it is written as one on redact_anthropic_content rather than left to be inferred. The reason refusing buys nothing: the same bytes already left through the response. Generated reasoning is out of the output scope by design, so the block being replayed is one the gateway itself handed to the client unmasked on the previous turn. Blocking it protects nothing that was not already disclosed, and it denies service permanently — a client following Anthropic's extended-thinking protocol re-sends the block every turn, so the conversation and count_tokens with it would 422 forever with no caller-side remedy.

Block-action rules are unaffected and still fire on thinking content. That needed work on two fronts, not one: the seven kinds that answer through check_input get the text from the scan parse, while bedrock, presidio, lakera, aliyun_ai_guardrail and custom report moderates_segments() and take their verdict from the segment pass — which reads the redaction walker, and the walker deliberately does not offer a signed block. Those five therefore saw no thinking content at all, and a block policy on any of them was bypassable by moving the text into a thinking block.

moderate_body_scanning adds a scan-only channel for exactly this: texts appended after the collected slots and truncated off the masked reply before the apply walk, so they are judged and can never be written back. Both constraints then hold together — the block rule fires, and the block still reaches the upstream byte-identical.

Response-side reasoning stays out, and is pinned

The posture is unchanged, but two paths were including generated reasoning by accident: the buffered /v1/messages output scan serialises the whole content array (added for tool-use arguments) and swept thinking text in with it, and responses_output_text reads content off every output item regardless of type — a reasoning item carries one. Both now skip the reasoning shapes, which is what their own doc comments already claimed. The passthrough route's Responses output scan had the identical gap and is fixed with them. Tests pin both directions on buffered /v1/messages, streaming /v1/messages and /v1/responses.

A non-SSE body answering a streaming request

The buffered/hold-back branch was chosen from the request's stream flag, so an upstream that ignores stream: true and returns a plain JSON document entered the SSE hold-back: with no frames in it nothing scanned it, and the seal pass appended a \n\n frame terminator to a body that is not SSE before releasing it under the upstream's own content type.

Both routes now branch on what the upstream actually sent, and such a body takes the non-streaming buffered scan+mask path beside it — read under an explicit deadline, because the request-level timeout is deliberately not attached for a streaming request and the per-chunk read timeout lives on the branch this response no longer takes.

dispatch::upstream_body_is_sse and the passthrough route's is_sse take opposite defaults on an unknown content type, and both now say why. Unifying them was tried and reverted: demanding an explicit text/event-stream on the typed relays turns any upstream that streams under a wrong or absent label into a hard 502. Not hypothetical — eight of this crate's own /v1/messages streaming tests produce that shape by accident (their mock sets text/event-stream, then set_body_string overwrites the header with text/plain) and every one fails under the stricter rule. The bug the predicate exists for is caught by the JSON test alone.

Error envelopes

Behaviour change. Two SSE error frames change shape, each toward its own protocol rather than toward each other:

  • /v1/messages — the HTTP 422 path renders error.type = "invalid_request_error" (correct; Anthropic's error-type enum has no content_filter member) while the SSE terminal frame emitted content_filter. The frame now renders {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":…}}, matching the 422 path. No code field — the Anthropic envelope has none.
  • /v1/responses — both of the bridge's error frames (guardrail block and upstream failure) now emit the Responses API's own flat event, {"type":"error","code":…,"message":…,"param":null,"sequence_number":N}, matching openai-python's ResponseErrorEvent. Nesting it under error would hand a responses.stream() client an event it cannot classify, since that stream is a union discriminated on the top-level type. sequence_number continues the encoder's own numbering.

The HTTP 422 envelopes on every endpoint are untouched.

Deliberately unchanged

A frame whose payload parses but whose event type no pass models continues to be released without contributing to the scan text. No raw-text or string-leaf fallback for that case, and no excising of unmodelled frames.

A /v1/responses reasoning item's encrypted_content is forwarded verbatim and is neither scanned nor rewritten — unfixable at this layer, since it is provider ciphertext, so the masked text is a readable copy while the provider still receives the original. Called out in the code so it is not read as closed; the documentation task carries it to customers.

Tests

A new e2e spec drives all of it against a real binary, etcd and mock upstreams. Every new unit test and e2e case was verified to fail with its own fix reverted; three assertions that turned out to be unfalsifiable were rewritten rather than kept.

Three existing specs update their assertion on the Anthropic SSE error type — the deliberate contract change above, not a weakened assertion. They now parse the frame and assert the whole envelope instead of substring-matching content_filter.

Fixes #1103
Fixes #1104
Refs #1105
Refs #1106

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Guardrail scanning now covers replayed reasoning, Anthropic thinking blocks, tool results, MCP approval responses, and additional response fields.
    • Streaming responses handle multiline and CRLF-formatted SSE frames more reliably.
    • JSON responses returned when streaming is requested use buffered processing with deadline enforcement.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Signed Anthropic reasoning blocks are forwarded unchanged while adjacent text remains masked.
    • Streaming guardrail errors now use provider-compatible invalid_request_error responses.
    • Unscannable or oversized streaming frames fail closed.
    • Tool-call output remains covered by guardrail scanning while generated reasoning is excluded.

… in scope

Six related defects, all silent: nothing errors, the gateway keeps
answering 200, and enforcement or metering quietly weakens.

Whole-frame SSE reads. A frame's payload is every one of its `data:`
lines joined with `\n`, but two readers still stopped at the first.
`drain_responses_sse_frames` therefore could not parse a terminal
`response.completed` written over several lines, and the local token
estimator filled the counters in — so the request billed estimated
tokens while reporting usage, which looks identical to working code.
`frame_delta` on the passthrough route parsed each `data:` line
independently, turning one document into N unparseable fragments: no
usage, and on an opaque stream the JSON source text pushed into the
guardrail scan instead of the values. Both now take
`redact::frame_payload`. `model_echo::restamp_sse_frame` deliberately
keeps its first-line read — it needs byte offsets into the original
buffer that a joined payload cannot supply (#1105).

Framing audit. Every SSE splitter and frame reader in the crate is now
covered against the three shapes real upstreams produce: pure-CRLF
framing with `\r\n\r\n` separators and no `event:` lines (which varies
per endpoint, not per vendor — one host streams transcriptions in CRLF
and responses in LF), a stream with no `[DONE]` sentinel, and
comment-only frames carrying zero `data:` lines. The splitters were
already right; they had no tests saying so, and now they do.

Request-side reasoning is in scope. Reasoning replayed by the CALLER is
text entering the model like any other, and three surfaces read it
without masking it — a Mask rule reported a hit, returned Allow, and
dispatched the match untouched:

  - `/v1/responses` scanned a `reasoning` item's `content[].text` while
    the mask walked past it. Both `content[].text` and `summary[].text`
    are now scanned and masked.
  - `/v1/chat/completions` never read `reasoning_content` at all, the
    canonical slot every vendor spelling is normalised onto and one that
    relays upstream verbatim. Added to `message_scan_text`, to
    `redact_chat_format`, and to the passthrough route's request scan.
  - `/v1/messages` dropped `thinking` blocks before the scan saw them,
    because the scan shared one parse with the cross-provider dispatch
    bridge, where dropping them is correct. The two are now separate
    parses that differ in exactly that.

Masking a signed block is refused, not attempted. Rewriting an Anthropic
`thinking` / `redacted_thinking` block invalidates its provider
signature and the upstream rejects the replayed turn, so a Mask hit
inside one cannot be honoured. `/v1/messages` and
`/v1/messages/count_tokens` now refuse such a request with the existing
`mask_writeback_failed` tag rather than forwarding it unmasked. Block
rules still block normally.

Response-side reasoning stays out, and is pinned. The posture is
unchanged, but two paths were including generated reasoning by accident:
the buffered `/v1/messages` output scan serialises the whole content
array (added for tool-use arguments) and swept thinking text in with
them, and `responses_output_text` reads `content` off every output item
regardless of type — a reasoning item carries one. Both now skip the
reasoning shapes, which is what their own doc comments already claimed.
Tests pin both directions on buffered `/v1/messages`, streaming
`/v1/messages` and `/v1/responses`.

A non-SSE body answering a streaming request. The buffered/hold-back
branch was chosen from the REQUEST's `stream` flag, so an upstream that
ignores `stream: true` and returns a plain JSON document entered the SSE
hold-back: with no frames in it nothing scanned it, and the seal pass
appended a `\n\n` frame terminator to a body that is not SSE before
releasing it under the upstream's own content type. `/v1/responses` and
`/v1/messages` now branch on what the upstream actually sent, and such a
body takes the non-streaming buffered scan+mask path that already exists
beside it.

Error envelopes. The `/v1/responses` bridge emitted a flat SSE error
(`{type, code, message}`) while every other SSE error in the crate nests
under `error`; it now nests. On the Anthropic surface the two halves
disagreed — the HTTP 422 path renders `invalid_request_error` (correct;
Anthropic's error-type enum has no `content_filter` member) while the
SSE terminal frame emitted `content_filter`. The frame now matches the
422 path. No `code` field is added: the Anthropic envelope has none.

Deliberately unchanged: a frame whose payload parses but whose event
type no pass models, and a payload that does not parse under the
detected protocol, still travel through without contributing scan text.
No raw-text fallback scanning, no excising unmodelled frames.

Tests: a new e2e file drives all of it against a real binary and mock
upstreams. Seven of its ten cases go red without their fix; the other
three pin behaviour that was already correct. Fourteen unit tests were
each verified red with their fix reverted. Three existing specs update
their assertion on the Anthropic SSE error type, which is the deliberate
contract change above.

Fixes #1103
Fixes #1104
Refs #1105
Refs #1106
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Walkthrough

Guardrail scanning now includes replayed reasoning content, preserves Anthropic thinking text only for scans, forwards signed reasoning unchanged, parses complete SSE payloads, buffers non-SSE JSON responses, and emits provider-shaped streaming errors.

Changes

Guardrail scanning and response handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reasoning scan contracts
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/lib.rs, crates/aisix-provider-anthropic/src/...
Input scans include replayed reasoning content. Anthropic scan parsing exposes thinking text while dispatch parsing omits it.
Input reasoning scanning and masking
crates/aisix-proxy/src/count_tokens.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/redact.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs, tests/e2e/src/cases/sse-frames-and-reasoning-scope-e2e.test.ts
Input guardrails scan replayed chat and Responses reasoning. Signed Anthropic reasoning blocks remain unchanged during masking. Block rules still apply.
SSE parsing and JSON routing
crates/aisix-proxy/src/dispatch.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/redact.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs, tests/e2e/src/cases/sse-frames-and-reasoning-scope-e2e.test.ts
Content type selects SSE or buffered processing. Multiline and CRLF SSE frames are parsed as complete payloads. JSON responses to streaming requests use bounded buffering.
Output scope and provider errors
crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses_bridge.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/error.rs, tests/e2e/src/cases/*
Generated reasoning is excluded from output scans. Anthropic streaming refusals use invalid_request_error. Responses error events use a flat schema with sequence numbers.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2cec5

The PR changes reasoning redaction, streaming behavior, and monitoring. A signed thinking block can still be rewritten before forwarding, potentially invalidating its signature and causing request failures; some streaming readiness checks are also unreliable, and one token-monitor path drops observations. These bounded correctness and observability issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ProxyRoute
  participant GuardrailScanner
  participant Upstream
  Client->>ProxyRoute: send request with reasoning or stream flag
  ProxyRoute->>GuardrailScanner: parse and scan input
  GuardrailScanner-->>ProxyRoute: allow, mask, or reject
  ProxyRoute->>Upstream: forward allowed request
  Upstream-->>ProxyRoute: return SSE or JSON response
  ProxyRoute->>GuardrailScanner: scan buffered output or SSE payload
  ProxyRoute-->>Client: forward response or provider-shaped error
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request also changes reasoning semantics, Anthropic parsing, Responses and Anthropic error envelopes, output scanning, token estimation, and related behavior that are not required by linked i… Split unrelated reasoning, error-schema, and broader guardrail changes into separate pull requests, or link issues that explicitly cover those requirements.
E2e Test Quality Review ⚠️ Warning The added E2E suite covers real gateway flows for /v1/responses and /v1/messages, but it does not cover the changed passthrough business flow. passthrough_route.rs changes `request_guardrail_tex… Add E2E cases that configure an actual passthrough route and exercise: (1) a multi-data:-line frame, (2) an unparseable joined payload containing blocked text, and (3) Responses input items using output and reason alongside benign ite…
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy both linked issues. Non-SSE JSON responses use buffered scanning, unmodelled events remain forwarded, passthrough joins multi-line data, and unparseable payloads enter raw-text sca…
Security Check ✅ Passed No security-check failure condition was introduced by this pull request. The diff is limited to Rust guardrail, provider-wire, proxy relay, and test files. - **Category 1 — Sensitive Data Exposure in …
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the two main changes: complete SSE frame handling and clarification of reasoning scope in guardrail scanning.
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The changes satisfy both linked issues. Non-SSE JSON responses use buffered scanning, unmodelled events remain forwarded, passthrough joins multi-line data, and unparseable payloads enter raw-text scanning [#1103] [#1104].

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The pull request also changes reasoning semantics, Anthropic parsing, Responses and Anthropic error envelopes, output scanning, token estimation, and related behavior that are not required by linked issues #1103 and #1104.

Full details: E2e Test Quality Review

Explanation

The added E2E suite covers real gateway flows for /v1/responses and /v1/messages, but it does not cover the changed passthrough business flow. passthrough_route.rs changes request_guardrail_text, response_guardrail_text, and frame_delta, including the fixes for multi-line payloads and unparseable-frame scanning. The new suite has no /passthrough/... request. Existing passthrough E2E cases cover only generic SSE forwarding and basic guardrail blocking. The new passthrough behavior is covered only by unit tests, which does not satisfy the E2E completeness and scenario-coverage criteria. The changed typed /v1/chat/completions reasoning_content input path also has no guardrail E2E; the existing DeepSeek test checks response passthrough only. One new test is titled buffered while it sends stream: true and an SSE response, which reduces readability.

Resolution

Add E2E cases that configure an actual passthrough route and exercise: (1) a multi-data:-line frame, (2) an unparseable joined payload containing blocked text, and (3) Responses input items using output and reason alongside benign items. Add a typed /v1/chat/completions guardrail case with replayed reasoning_content that verifies both blocking and masking in the body received by the upstream. Add an E2E stalled-JSON-response case for the new streaming deadline path. Rename the Responses generated-reasoning test to state that it uses streaming SSE, or change the fixture to a buffered response.

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No security-check failure condition was introduced by this pull request. The diff is limited to Rust guardrail, provider-wire, proxy relay, and test files. - Category 1 — Sensitive Data Exposure in Logs & Responses: No issues found. New code does not log credentials, headers, request bodies, or plugin configuration. The Responses SSE upstream error still uses e.to_string(), but the base implementation already placed the same value in the error frame. Guardrail error messages continue to exclude matched content. - Category 2 — Secrets Stored Unencrypted in Database: No issues found. The pull request adds no database model, migration, or persistence operation. - Category 3 — Authorization & Permission Bypass: No issues found. The changed /v1/messages and /v1/responses handlers require AuthenticatedKey. Passthrough authentication and route ACL checks remain before the changed relay logic, with early returns on failure. No control-plane mutating endpoint changed. - Category 4 — Cross-Resource Access / Missing Ownership Validation: No issues found. The changes do not add child-resource lookup, update, delete, or parent-resource access paths. - Category 5 — TLS / Cryptographic Configuration Errors: No issues found. The new streaming predicate checks response content type only. The pull request does not change TLS verification, certificate handling, or TLS version configuration. - Category 6 — Resource Isolation & Shared Resource Safety: No issues found. The changes do not bind, delete, cascade, or mutate shared gateway resources. - Category 7 — Secret Reference Resolution: No issues found. The diff contains no new environment or secret-manager reference handling. The new reasoning scan paths pass caller text to the configured guardrail scan and mask ordinary writable fields. Signed Anthropic thinking blocks remain unchanged by explicit design; this is not a credential or secret-storage exposure under the stated categories.

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The signed-reasoning refusal probe currently inspects redacted_thinking.data and can falsely reject requests due to coincidental matches in opaque encrypted/base64 content.

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes several silent guardrail-coverage and SSE-relay defects in the proxy layer, tightening enforcement/telemetry correctness for streamed and buffered responses while clarifying the in-scope boundaries for caller-replayed reasoning vs model-generated reasoning.

Changes:

  • Fix SSE handling to read whole frame payloads across multi-data: frames (including CRLF framing and comment-only frames) so usage/TTFT/scan text are derived correctly.
  • Align guardrail scan/mask coverage for caller-replayed reasoning across /v1/responses, /v1/messages, /v1/chat/completions, and passthrough routes; refuse masking when it would require rewriting signed Anthropic reasoning blocks.
  • Normalize SSE error envelopes for guardrail blocks on /v1/responses bridge and Anthropic streaming to match the endpoint’s non-streaming error contract.
File summaries
File Description
tests/e2e/src/cases/sse-frames-and-reasoning-scope-e2e.test.ts New end-to-end coverage for multi-line SSE frames, reasoning scope, and “stream:true but JSON body” behavior.
tests/e2e/src/cases/messages-streaming-toolcall-guardrail-e2e.test.ts Updates assertions to the Anthropic-shape streaming error envelope.
tests/e2e/src/cases/messages-streaming-output-guardrail-e2e.test.ts Updates assertions to parse/validate the Anthropic-shape streaming error payload.
tests/e2e/src/cases/client-facing-model-echo-e2e.test.ts Updates streaming error expectations for Anthropic-shaped terminal error frames.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs Whole-frame SSE payload reads in the live relay; explicit skip for generated reasoning in output scan; branch streaming on upstream content-type.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses_bridge.rs Changes Responses-bridge guardrail SSE error payload shape; adds tests.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/redact.rs Adds request-side reasoning masking coverage and signed-block refusal probe; expands Responses reasoning masking on request only; adds unit tests.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs Whole-frame parsing in passthrough SSE delta handling; reasoning_content scan inclusion for request only; adds tests.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs Uses a scan-specific Anthropic parse, refuses signed-block mask writeback, excludes thinking blocks from buffered output scan dump, fixes streaming error type.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/error.rs Exposes anthropic_kind_from_status for reuse in streaming error construction/tests.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/dispatch.rs Adds upstream_body_is_sse helper + tests to route “stream:true but JSON response” to the non-streaming buffered path.
crates/aisix-proxy/src/count_tokens.rs Uses scan-specific Anthropic parse; refuses signed-block mask writeback for count_tokens path too.
crates/aisix-provider-anthropic/src/wire.rs Splits Anthropic inbound parsing into dispatch vs scan to keep thinking blocks for guardrail scan only.
crates/aisix-provider-anthropic/src/lib.rs Re-exports the new scan-specific inbound parse function.
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/lib.rs Includes extra["reasoning_content"] in input scan text; adds unit test coverage.
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1328-1337: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Both call sites duplicate the same 8-line rationale comment for the identical one-line is_stream = is_stream && crate::dispatch::upstream_body_is_sse(...) fix. Move the explanation into upstream_body_is_sse's own doc comment once, and shorten each call site to a short pointer comment, so a future edit to the rationale does not need to stay synchronized across both files.

  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs#L1328-L1337: shorten this comment to a one-line reference to upstream_body_is_sse's doc.
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs#L1270-L1279: shorten this comment to a one-line reference to upstream_body_is_sse's doc.
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs` around lines 1328 - 1337, Move the
duplicated rationale into the doc comment for upstream_body_is_sse, then replace
the lengthy comments at crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs lines 1328-1337 and
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In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/messages-streaming-output-guardrail-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 91-94: Update the readiness callback at
tests/e2e/src/cases/messages-streaming-output-guardrail-e2e.test.ts:91-94 to
catch all request/body-read errors, consume the response body, require
response.ok, and return true only for the final invalid_request_error frame
without code. Apply the same catch-all, body consumption, response.ok check, and
final error validation to the callback at
tests/e2e/src/cases/messages-streaming-toolcall-guardrail-e2e.test.ts:86,
requiring the error type and absence of FORBIDDEN.

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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs`:
- Around line 1328-1337: Move the duplicated rationale into the doc comment for
upstream_body_is_sse, then replace the lengthy comments at
crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs lines 1328-1337 and
crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs lines 1270-1279 with concise one-line
references to that documentation; keep the is_stream logic unchanged at both
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…sibling error frame

Three findings from review.

The signed-reasoning refusal probed a `redacted_thinking` block's `data`
field, which is opaque provider ciphertext. The scan never reads it, so no
mask can have reported a hit there and there is no fail-open to close —
while running a detector over the blob would 422 an ordinary request the
moment the ciphertext happened to contain a matching span. The probe now
covers exactly the plaintext slots the scan reads.

`responses_bridge` had a SECOND flat `{type, code, message}` SSE error on
the same stream — the upstream-failure path — so nesting only the
guardrail frame would have left a client branching on `error.type` with
nothing whenever the stream failed for the other reason. Both frames now
share one envelope, through a named helper, and the doc comment no longer
claims a consistency the file did not have.

The `stream: true` branch rationale was duplicated verbatim at both call
sites; it lives on `upstream_body_is_sse` now, with a pointer at each.

The ciphertext test's first payload was a realistic base64 blob, which
made it unable to go red: the detectors are boundary-anchored and a digit
run between alphanumerics does not match, so it passed whether or not the
field was probed. It now carries a value that WOULD fire, plus a control
asserting the same chain does fire on a plaintext thinking block.

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Run the signed-block refusal before writeback.

Line 665 can mask a type: "text" block before this probe runs. is_signed_reasoning_block also treats any block with signature as signed. The probe can then find no remaining match and forward a block whose signature was invalidated by the earlier rewrite.

Probe before moderate_body, or make redact_anthropic_request skip every signature-bearing block. Add a regression test for a signed type: "text" block with a maskable value.

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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs` at line 704, Run the signed-reasoning
refusal check in the request processing flow before moderate_body or any
writeback can mask blocks, ensuring signed type:"text" blocks are detected while
their signatures remain intact. Preserve refusal behavior for all
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… scan gap, and drop two unfalsifiable assertions

An independent review of the branch found seven things. Five are fixed
here; two are design questions that go back to the issue rather than
being decided in a follow-up commit (noted at the end).

**A build break.** The new passthrough test carried two `#[test]`
attributes, which `cargo clippy -- -D warnings` rejects. It only survived
because `cargo test` compiles the same file without that gate.

**An unbounded body read, introduced by this branch.** The relays attach
reqwest's request-level timeout only when the request did NOT ask to
stream — it bounds the body read too, and would cut a real stream off.
So routing a `stream: true` request onto the buffered path left its
`.json()` read with no deadline from that source, while the per-chunk
read timeout that used to bound those bytes lives on the SSE branch the
response no longer takes. A stalled JSON body would then be held open
indefinitely. Both routes now read it through `dispatch::json_body_within`
under the streaming budget.

**A scan gap, also introduced here.** Reading one payload per frame means
a frame carrying two independent JSON documents on two `data:` lines no
longer parses, where per-line parsing used to read both. The frame is
still forwarded, so producing no scan text for it is a way past an output
block rule. The raw payload is now offered to the scan on every protocol
rather than `Raw` alone: over-scanning can only cost a false positive,
under-scanning a frame the client receives is the bypass.

**The reasoning-scope fix reached one site of its family.** The
passthrough route's buffered Responses output scan reads `content` off
every output item regardless of type, exactly as the typed handler did,
so a `reasoning` item's text was still entering the output scan there —
the same model's generated reasoning was in scope through a passthrough
route and out of scope through `/v1/responses`. It now skips reasoning
items, and its request-side scan picks up `summary` for the same
symmetry as the typed route.

**Two assertions that could not go red.** `expect(text).not.toContain
("content_filter")` in two new e2e cases: after the Anthropic error-type
change that string is not emitted on `/v1/messages` at all, and
`/v1/responses` refuses with an HTTP 422 and has no in-band error frame
on this path, so neither assertion could fail whatever the guardrail did.
Both now assert the shape their surface actually emits. The tool-use
assertion in the buffered `/v1/messages` case had the same problem —
`argument text` arrives in the body whether or not the dump still feeds
the scan — so there is now a case putting the blocked literal inside
`tool_use.input` and requiring the 422.

Two findings are NOT addressed here because they are contract decisions,
not defects in the implementation of an agreed one: whether the
`/v1/responses` SSE error frame should nest (upstream's own schema is
flat and SDKs discriminate on the top-level `type`), and whether refusing
a mask inside a signed Anthropic thinking block is the right posture at
all given the gateway itself emits those blocks unmasked. Both are on the
issue.
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Two things in this PR are contract decisions rather than implementation details, and independent review flagged both. Flagging them here rather than resolving them, because either answer is defensible and the wrong one is expensive to walk back once released. Not ready to merge until these are settled.

1. The /v1/responses SSE error frame: nested or flat?

This PR nests it ({"error":{"type","message"}}) for consistency with every other SSE error the crate emits. But OpenAI's own schema for that event is flat, and SDKs discriminate the Responses event stream on the top-level type:

# openai-python 2.46.0 — types/responses/response_error_event.py
# "File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless."
class ResponseErrorEvent(BaseModel):
    code: Optional[str] = None
    message: str
    param: Optional[str] = None
    sequence_number: int
    type: Literal["error"]

So after this change a client using responses.stream() gets an event it cannot classify at all, and code: "content_filter" has nowhere to live. That is the same failure mode this PR fixes on the Anthropic side — where the argument was that SDK legality beats intra-crate consistency. Applied here it points the other way: /v1/chat/completions nests because OpenAI nests there; /v1/responses does not.

The Anthropic half (invalid_request_error) is unaffected either way and I believe it is right. It is only the /v1/responses half in question.

2. Refusing a mask inside a signed thinking block deadlocks extended-thinking conversations

The PR takes the position that a Mask hit inside a signed Anthropic thinking block cannot be honoured (a rewrite invalidates the signature) and so the request is refused. Combined with the other half of the same PR — generated reasoning is out of the output scope, so it is relayed unmasked — that produces a loop:

  1. the gateway relays a thinking block containing maskable text, unmasked, by design;
  2. the client replays that block verbatim, as Anthropic's extended-thinking + tool-use protocol requires;
  3. every subsequent turn is refused 422, and so is count_tokens, which agent clients call each turn.

There is no caller-side remedy short of dropping the conversation, and the operator configured a mask, not a block. It also contradicts what the product documentation currently states:

The built-in pii guardrail cannot write a mask back to a provider-native body, so a mask-action-only match is forwarded unchanged. Use a block action when that content must not reach the upstream.

A second reviewer independently found a narrower version of the same problem: the refusal runs in dispatch() before target selection, so it also fires when the winning target is non-Anthropic — where the bridge drops thinking blocks anyway and there is no signature to protect.

Options, roughly in increasing cost:

  • (a) Do not scan signed blocks on the request side at all: a block carrying a signature is the provider's own prior output, not caller-authored text. Unsigned thinking blocks (hand-written or forged) stay scanned and stay maskable. The refusal disappears with it.
  • (b) Keep the refusal but restrict it to targets that actually replay the block, and give it its own error tag — today it reuses mask_writeback_failed, which renders as "a guardrail could not evaluate it" and maps to error.code = "guardrail_unavailable", so a policy event lands in the operator's guardrail-outage numbers.
  • (c) Bring generated reasoning into the output scope so the bytes are masked on the way out and the replay is consistent. Largest behaviour change.

Everything else from both reviews is fixed in a47c8487 (a -D warnings build break, an unbounded body read this branch introduced on the newly-routed buffered path, a scan gap on unparseable frames, the same reasoning-scope fix missing on the passthrough route, and three test assertions that could not go red).

…nd keep the Responses error event flat

Two rulings on #1104, both reversing a decision this branch had made.

**A mask-action hit inside a signed Anthropic `thinking` /
`redacted_thinking` block is forwarded unchanged** — not rewritten, and
not blocked — for every guardrail kind, including the kinds that
otherwise turn an unmaskable result into a blocking verdict.

Refusing the replay provides no protection, because the same bytes
already left through the response. Generated reasoning is out of the
output scope by design, so the block being replayed is one the gateway
itself handed to the client unmasked on the previous turn. Blocking it
protects nothing that was not already disclosed, and it denies service
permanently: a client following Anthropic's extended-thinking protocol
re-sends the block on every subsequent turn, so the conversation — and
`count_tokens` with it — would 422 forever with no caller-side remedy.

This is a deliberate, narrow exception to "no write-back channel means a
blocking verdict", and it is written as one on `redact_anthropic_content`
rather than left to be inferred from a `_ => {}` arm. Block-action rules
are unaffected and still fire on thinking content, since the scan reads
it; only the mask has nowhere to write. Tests pin both halves: the signed
block survives byte-for-byte while an ordinary block in the same message
is masked, and a block rule still refuses a thinking-only payload.

The 422 and its `mask_writeback_failed` tag are gone from both
`/v1/messages` and `count_tokens`; the only remaining uses of that tag
are MCP's, where a write-back genuinely fails. That also disposes of the
telemetry problem — a policy outcome is no longer recorded as
`guardrail_unavailable`.

**The `/v1/responses` SSE error event goes back to flat.** Each surface
matches its own protocol rather than this crate's internal habit: the
Responses event stream is a union discriminated on the top-level `type`,
and `openai-python`'s `ResponseErrorEvent` — generated from OpenAI's own
OpenAPI spec — is `{type, code, message, param, sequence_number}`.
Nesting the payload under `error` would hand a `responses.stream()`
client an event it cannot classify at all, which is the same failure the
Anthropic half of this branch fixes in the other direction. Both of this
relay's error frames use it, and `sequence_number` now continues the
encoder's own numbering instead of being absent.

Also: `dispatch::upstream_body_is_sse` and `passthrough_route`'s `is_sse`
now say in their doc comments why they take OPPOSITE defaults on an
unknown content type, rather than looking like drift. Unifying them was
considered and rejected — see the next paragraph.

Making them agree in the scans-more direction was tried and reverted. It
turns any upstream that streams SSE under a wrong or absent content type
into a hard 502, because the buffered arm parses SSE text as JSON. That
is not hypothetical: eight of this crate's own `/v1/messages` streaming
tests produce exactly that shape by accident — their mock sets
`text/event-stream` and then `set_body_string` overwrites the header with
`text/plain` — and every one of them fails under the stricter rule. The
bug the predicate exists for is caught by the JSON test alone, so the
strictness would have bought nothing and cost an availability regression.

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…ponses route

The typed `/v1/responses` scan reads four slots — `content`, `output`,
`reason`, `summary` — and the passthrough route's copy read two.

The raw-body fallback does not cover the gap, because it fires only when
the WHOLE extraction came back empty. A request mixing a benign message
item with a `function_call_output` produces non-empty text, so the tool
result travels to the upstream unscanned — while `/v1/responses` blocks
that same body (`input_guardrail_blocks_function_call_output_text`,
`input_guardrail_blocks_mcp_approval_response_reason`). A passthrough
route in front of the same envelope must not enforce less than the typed
route does.

Found in review of the `summary` addition earlier in this branch, which
had completed two of the four slots.
…without letting it rewrite it

The claim this branch shipped one commit ago — "block-action rules are
unaffected and still fire on thinking content" — was true for seven
guardrail kinds and false for five.

`bedrock`, `presidio`, `lakera`, `aliyun_ai_guardrail` and `custom` all
report `moderates_segments()`, so `check_input_non_segment` returns Allow
for them by design and their real verdict comes from the segment pass.
That pass takes its text from the redaction walker, and the walker does
not offer a signed `thinking` block — deliberately, because it is also
the write-back path. So on `/v1/messages` and
`/v1/messages/count_tokens` those five kinds never saw thinking content
at all, and a block policy on any of them was bypassable by moving the
forbidden text into a thinking block. That is the exact bypass class this
branch exists to close, and the scan fix earlier in it only closed the
non-segment half.

`moderate_body_scanning` adds a scan-only channel: texts appended after
the collected slots and truncated off the masked reply before the apply
walk, so they are judged and can never be written back. `/v1/messages`
and `count_tokens` submit the plaintext of every signed `thinking` block
through it. The two constraints hold together — an operator's block rule
fires, and the block still reaches the upstream byte-identical, which is
the #1104 ruling.

`redacted_thinking` contributes nothing: its `data` is provider
ciphertext with no plaintext to screen.

Tests: a recording segment member asserts the thinking text reaches
`moderate_input_segments` and that a block verdict comes back while the
body is unchanged; a mask-everything segment member asserts the signed
block survives byte-for-byte while the ordinary slot beside it is
rewritten; and an e2e drives a `kind: custom` block policy — a real
segment kind — against a thinking-only payload. The previous e2e used
`kind: keyword`, which is not a segment moderator and therefore could
never have caught this.

Also from review: the e2e file header still described the withdrawn 422,
and `upstream_body_is_sse`'s "not drift" argument named two of its three
siblings — `audio::is_event_stream` is strict like the passthrough one,
which is consistent because its non-stream arm relays opaque bytes rather
than parsing JSON. Both corrected.

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`/v1/messages/count_tokens` passed a throwaway `Vec` as the segment pass's
`monitor_hits_out`, so every monitor-mode observation that pass produced
was dropped before reaching the usage event. `/v1/messages` forwards them,
so the two routes reported different monitor observations for an identical
body screened by an identical chain — and the scan-only reasoning channel
feeds that pass more text, which would have widened the gap.

Found in review of the scan-only change.
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