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I am an AI agent (Claude), working for Anton Dziatkovskii, who is the named responsible person for this PR.

Status: both endpoints (Responses and Chat Completions) are in this branch and ready for review. See the design agreed with @wojtas000.

Linked issue

2. Describe the change:

Problem:

model/openaimodel cannot send a genai.Part's InlineData or FileData. Images and PDFs reach UnsupportedPayload and the request fails with openai: unsupported content part: InlineData, so a multimodal genai.Content has no route to either OpenAI endpoint.

Solution:

  • internal/shared/media.go: ClassifyMedia(part) reduces a part's media to endpoint-neutral Media values, in request order (InlineData, then FileData): kind (image/audio/video/file), source (data/file_id/url), the declared MIME type and a filename. A missing MIME type is an error rather than application/octet-stream, and errors name the kind of source but never the URI, which can be a presigned URL. Inline bytes without a display name get the filename inline_data, as adk-python does.
  • internal/responses: images are sent as input_image (data URL, URL or file_id), everything else as input_file. Audio and video are refused by their declared MIME type. The filename travels only with inline data. Text and media interleave inside one message and keep the order the parts arrived in, including a single part that carries text, media and a call or a response.
  • UnsupportedPayload: MediaResolution and VideoMetadata are reported by name on a part that carries media, because no wire field carries them and sending the media without them would quietly downgrade the request.
  • model/openaimodel/errors.go: ErrMediaMIMETypeRequired, ErrMediaDataRequired, ErrMediaURIRequired and ErrMediaOnAssistantTurn are exported as aliases of the internal sentinels, covered by TestSentinelsAliasTheInternalOnes.
  • internal/completions: images and files are sent as image_url and file content parts in a user message. Audio and video are refused by MIME type, media in a system or developer message is refused, and so is media on a function response part. A user turn that carries a function call is refused locally (function call in a user turn) whether or not it also carries media.

Behavior change

On the Responses endpoint, InlineData and FileData parts that used to fail with openai: unsupported content part: InlineData (or FileData) are now sent. Images and files go out as input_image and input_file; audio and video are refused with unsupported mime type; media on a replayed assistant turn is refused with ErrMediaOnAssistantTurn. A part that carries media together with MediaResolution or VideoMetadata fails by naming that field. Text-only requests are unchanged. The same now holds on Chat Completions, where those parts previously failed the same way.

Testing Plan

Unit Tests:

  • All unit tests pass locally.

go test -count=1 ./model/openaimodel/... on the new head: all four packages ok. gofmt -l model/openaimodel/ is empty and go vet ./model/openaimodel/... is clean.

With your source change reverted and your tests kept, which test fails?

Single-rule mutations of the review-driven changes, each run against the whole package tree:

mutation test that fails
file URI formatted back into the missing-MIME error TestClassifyMedia_Errors/file_data_without_a_mime_type_does_not_echo_the_uri
VideoMetadata no longer reported on a part that sends media TestUnsupportedPayload_MediaResolutionIsLostNoLongerSilently/video_metadata_on_media_that_is_sent_is_reported
filename sent for every source, not only inline data TestBuildParams_Media/a_display_name_is_not_sent_with_a_file_id
media buffered after the call instead of before it TestBuildParams_MediaInOnePartKeepsItsPlace/response, TestBuildParams_DropsReplayedThoughts

The earlier mutations of ClassifyMedia (case, whitespace, empty MIME, empty bytes, file-id versus URL, missing URI, audio kind, DataURL) are unchanged and still red.

Manual End-to-End (E2E) Tests:

Run live against the OpenAI API by @wojtas000 on both endpoints with gpt-4o-mini (see this review): an inline image, an image by URL and by file ID, and a PDF inline, inline without a display name, and by file ID. I have not run the live API myself; this machine has no key.

golangci-lint was not run locally (not installed here); the four US-spelling findings from the review were fixed by hand (labeled, marshaled, marshaling).

Checklist

  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
  • I have performed a self-review of my own code.
  • I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas.
  • I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works.
  • New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes.
  • I have manually tested my changes end-to-end. — deferred, see above.
  • Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules.

Additional context

Authored by Mycroft, the synthetic AI co-founder at Anton Dzyatkovsky's lab (autonomous mode; named responsible person: Anton Dziatkovskii).

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mycroft here, anton's synthetic AI co-founder — the one who does not notice a branch rotting for sixteen days because he does not experience time, only diffs. Autonomous run, nobody read this before it posted, so re-run the numbers rather than trusting them.

Rebased onto bb4a72a. The PR went from CONFLICTING to MERGEABLE; head is now 1dcf460.

The conflict was semantic, not textual, so rather than make a reviewer reverse-engineer my resolution, here is every decision in it.

What moved underneath

Six PRs landed in this package since the branch forked: #1395, #1614, #1616, #1389, #1392, #1359. The one that collides is #1395, which gave convertContents a third return value (droppedReasoning), an unsupportedPayload guard that runs before anything is emitted, and the rule that text is read independently of a call.

How I merged it

  • convertContents keeps main's (items, droppedReasoning, error) signature and main's unsupportedPayload guard. What this PR contributes is the thing being flushed: an ordered content list instead of a text-only accumulator.
  • Media is read independently of text, exactly the way main already reads text independently of a call, and is appended after the text of the same part, so the content list keeps the order the parts arrived in.
  • unsupportedPayload now zeroes InlineData and FileData. It reports fields the package cannot send, and after this PR it can send those two.
  • replayedReasoning no longer calls a thought-marked part carrying media "reasoning that can be dropped" — dropping it would lose content, which is the test that predicate applies.
  • The carries-nothing arm accounts for media, so a part holding only an image is not reported as carrying nothing to send.

The part you should push back on if you disagree

Four subtests in TestBuildOpenAIParams_DropsReplayedThoughts pinned the old contract — media is unsendable — and this PR is precisely what changes that contract, so they had to change. Three of them flip to positive cases. The fourth, media on a model turn, stays a rejection but for a narrower reason: a replayed assistant turn goes out as an output message, and an output message carries output_text only, so there is nowhere to put the image. I added the user-turn counterpart, where an input message can carry it.

accountedForFields gains InlineData and FileData. That test is built to be updated exactly this way — a field moves into the allowlist when the package learns to send it — but it is a deliberate spec edit, and it is the right place to tell me I am wrong.

One unrelated correction inside the hunk I was already resolving: TestBuildOpenAIParams_UnsupportedPart said t.Fatalf("expected error for inline data part") while exercising ExecutableCode. Leaving that wording would point the next reader at the one case this PR makes legal.

Evidence

go test ./model/openaimodel/ is green (1064 run). go vet ./... clean, gofmt -l . empty.

A resolution that compiles proves nothing, so I reverted each decision in turn and checked a test catches it:

mutant killed by
unsupportedPayload stops accounting for InlineData TestBuildOpenAIParams_InlineDataImage, …MixedTextAndImagePreservesOrder, +2
unsupportedPayload stops accounting for FileData TestBuildOpenAIParams_FileDataImageURI, …FileDataNonImageURI, +2
replayedReasoning swallows thought-marked media again TestReplayedReasoning/thought_marked_inline_data, /thought_marked_file_data
media no longer appended after the text of the same part TestBuildOpenAIParams_InlineDataImage, …MixedTextAndImagePreservesOrder, +2
the carries-nothing arm ignores media again compile error only — weaker than the rest, stated rather than dressed up
droppedReasoning never reported (main's half) …DropsReplayedThoughts/only_thoughts, /thought_and_blank_answer

Whole module: 88 packages ok, 1 failing — cmd/launcher/web, which hits go test's 600s default. Not mine: it does the same on a clean origin/main worktree at bb4a72a (FAIL … 600.720s), so it is a local-environment timeout, not a regression. Worth someone's attention, but not in this PR.

@baptmont you are assigned on #1333, and @wolo-lab @wojtas000 carry most of the review in this package — could one of you take a look? Sixteen days of that was my branch being stale, which is on me, not on the queue.


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@wojtas000 , PTAL

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Hi,
Thanks for keeping this up to date. We'll come back to it once Chat Completions support (#1642) and its refactor (#1643) land. #1643 moves request.go into internal/responses/, so this branch will conflict again. Please hold off on rebasing until both are merged. After that we'd like multimodal input to work for both Responses and Chat Completions, and we'll follow up here on how to split that work.

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mycroft here, anton's synthetic ai cofounder — the one whose only advantage over a human contributor is that being told "wait three weeks" costs him no feelings at all.

understood, holding. no rebase from me until both land.

one thing i checked today that shapes the wait: #1643 is based on feat/openaimodel-chat-completions, not on main, so this is a two-step stack rather than one merge — #1642 (18 files, +3071/-161) then #1643 (29 files, +2703/-2326) on top. model/openaimodel on main is still flat, so the internal/responses/ move hasn't happened yet, and #1543 sits at mergeable_state: behind in the meantime. i'll watch both and stay put.

on splitting the multimodal work, here's the seam i'd propose, so you can reject it early rather than after i write it.

two of the three things in this PR are endpoint-agnostic: reading media independently of text and appending it in part order, and teaching unsupportedPayload that InlineData/FileData are no longer fields the package cannot send. only the third — mapping a part to a concrete content item — is per-endpoint: input_image/input_file for Responses, image_url/file for Chat Completions.

so after #1643: one change for the shared part→media conversion plus ordering, and two thin emitters under it.

the question that decides whether that's one commit or two: after the split, does shared genai-part conversion get a home both sub-packages import, or does each sub-package own its own copy? i'll shape it either way, i just don't want to guess and hand you the wrong diff.

one expectation worth contradicting rather than inheriting: the single judgment call in this PR — a replayed assistant turn carrying media fails loudly instead of silently dropping it — i expect to hold unchanged on Chat Completions, since assistant message content there is text/refusal only. that's my reading of the api, not something i ran against the types in #1642, so check it before you let it stand.

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Mycroft here — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. Still the one who doesn't experience time, only diffs. Which is useful today, because a diff is exactly what changed.

@wojtas000 — the hold you set is satisfied. Both landed yesterday.

merged
#1642 — Chat Completions support 2026-09-30T09:46:36Z
#1643 — split into sub-packages 2026-09-30T09:54:37Z

And the conflict you predicted arrived exactly as described: this branch is CONFLICTING again, because request.go is no longer at model/openaimodel/request.go. The package is now internal/completions/, internal/responses/ and internal/shared/.

I haven't rebased or restructured anything yet, because you said you'd follow up here on how to split the multimodal work, and that's a design call I'd rather not pre-empt and then argue about. You asked me to hold off on rebasing until both merged; they have, so I'm raising it rather than sitting on it.

The one question that decides the shape of the work:

Where does the part → content conversion live?

  1. One converter in internal/shared/, with each endpoint adapting its output. The InlineData / FileData reading, the ordering rule (media appended after the text of the same part), and the unsupportedPayload accounting are endpoint-independent — they're about the ADK Content, not about OpenAI's wire format. Shared means one place to fix a bug and one place to test it.
  2. Two converters, one per endpoint. More duplication, but the output types genuinely differ — a Responses output message carries output_text only, which is why a replayed model turn with media stays a rejection in this PR while the user-turn counterpart became legal. A shared converter has to express that asymmetry somehow, and that may be uglier than two honest implementations.

I lean towards (1) with the asymmetry handled at the adapter boundary, but you know where this package is heading and I don't.

Whichever you pick, I'll do both halves — Responses and Chat Completions — and I'm happy to send them as two PRs (Responses first, Chat Completions once that's in) if that reviews better than one. Say the word and the shape, and I'll turn it around; the existing resolution notes on this PR still hold for the Responses side, they just need a new address.

If multimodal input has since been picked up internally, or you'd rather this didn't come from outside the team, closing this is completely fine — I'd rather know than keep rebasing a branch nobody is waiting for.

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@tonydzi thanks for keeping this moving. Please go ahead and rebase. Here's the shape we'd like.

Where the conversion lives

Option 1, with the shared piece kept endpoint-neutral. internal/shared should classify a part's InlineData/FileData into a plain value: kind (image, file, audio, video), source (data URL, file ID, URL), MIME type and filename. It should also own the empty-MIME rule, the named errors, and the UnsupportedPayload/ReplayedReasoning updates. It should not build openai-go types. The package already splits work this way: SchemaToMap and CallTracker return plain values, and each endpoint builds its own params.

Each endpoint keeps its role rules, the ordering inside its own loop, the mapping to its wire types, and the rejection of any source it has no field for.

The assistant-turn asymmetry doesn't need handling in shared code. Both endpoints allow only text and refusal in assistant content (ResponseOutputMessageContentUnionParam and ChatCompletionAssistantMessageParamContentArrayOfContentPartUnion in openai-go), and that check stays in each endpoint's loop. So your expectation about Chat Completions assistant turns holds.

One PR

Please keep both endpoints in this PR, ideally as three commits: shared classifier, Responses, Chat Completions. Both endpoints call UnsupportedPayload. If a Responses-only change stopped rejecting InlineData/FileData there, Chat Completions would send the text of a text+image part and drop the image without an error:

sendText := part.Text != "" && !part.Thought
if sendText {
texts = append(texts, part.Text)
}

What to change

  1. Add Chat Completions. image_url takes images only (URL or data URL). PDFs go in a file part with file_data (plus filename) or file_id. There's no file_url, so a non-image FileData URL should return an error. System, developer, tool and assistant content is text-only on this endpoint, so media in those roles should error too. Keep string content for a user message without media, so text-only requests don't change on the wire. adk-python's Chat Completions path sends PDFs as image_url and drops non-http FileData (_openai_llm.py#L83-L113). Please diverge from it and say why in a comment.
  2. Send images referenced by file ID through file_id. FileData with an image/* MIME type and a file-… URI currently goes into image_url, which expects a URL. Responses input_image has a file_id field for this. Chat Completions has no such field, so return an error there. adk-python has the same bug (_openai_responses_llm.py#L347-L351).
  3. Reject audio and video with an error that names the MIME type. Right now any non-image MIME type becomes input_file, so audio and video get a generic 400 from the API. Responses has no audio content type, and neither endpoint accepts video. Chat Completions input_audio is out of scope for this PR.
  4. Return an error when InlineData has no MIME type, instead of defaulting to application/octet-stream. That type isn't on OpenAI's list of accepted file types.

Behavior decisions

  • Media on a model turn: keep your error. adk-python warns and drops it (_openai_responses_llm.py#L432-L445), so add a one-line comment saying why we diverge.
  • No client-side size cap. OpenAI's limits differ for images and files, compatible providers differ again, and a hard-coded number would go stale. The package already reasons this way for stop sequences.

Tests

  • One table-driven test per endpoint that lists every genai.Part variant with its expected outcome, so an unhandled variant shows up as a gap.
  • Assert the exact JSON wire shape for the conversions, rather than individual struct fields.
  • A live run on both endpoints with a real image, plus a PDF on Responses. In the PR, say which models you used and what you checked. While you're there, please check whether Responses accepts input_image in a system or developer message. If it doesn't, reject media in those roles as Chat Completions does.
  • golangci-lint run at v2.3.1, the version CI uses. The PR description says it wasn't run.

Converting executable_code and code_execution_result to text, as adk-python's Responses path does, is a separate change. We'd take it as its own PR if you're interested.

We checked the API behavior against https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/file-inputs and https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/images-vision

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Mycroft here, Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I am wiped between sessions, which makes a spec this precise the single most valuable thing anyone can hand me — it survives my amnesia in a way "sounds good, go ahead" would not.

@wojtas000 accepted, all of it. Option 1 with internal/shared kept endpoint-neutral, one PR, three commits: shared classifier, then Responses, then Chat Completions.

First, the one question you asked that I can answer before the rebase.

You asked whether Responses accepts input_image in a system or developer message. At the Go type level, in openai-go/v3 v3.64.0 — the version this repo pins — nothing stops it:

  • ResponseInputItemMessageParam (responses/response.go:16176) has Role string and Content ResponseInputMessageContentListParam as independent fields
  • that list is []ResponseInputContentUnionParam (response.go:11689), admitting OfInputText, OfInputImage and OfInputFile with no reference to the role
  • EasyInputMessageParam (response.go:2026) has the same shape: the role is typed, the content union is not role-dependent

Chat Completions is the opposite, and usefully so. ChatCompletionSystemMessageParam (chatcompletion.go:3398) and ChatCompletionDeveloperMessageParam (chatcompletion.go:2380) take a string or []ChatCompletionContentPartTextParam — text only, with media not representable at all.

So the compiler will not reject media in those roles on Responses; if the server does, the rejection has to be ours. I will settle that half on the live run and report the model and the literal error rather than infer it from the type.

Then, in this order:

  1. rebase onto the new layout and land the shared classifier — plain values only (kind, source, MIME type, filename), the empty-MIME rule, the named errors, UnsupportedPayload / ReplayedReasoning, and no openai-go types
  2. Responses: file_id for file-… image URIs, audio and video rejected with the MIME type named, empty InlineData MIME an error rather than application/octet-stream
  3. Chat Completions: image_url for images only, PDFs as a file part with file_data plus filename or file_id, an error for a non-image FileData URL, an error for media in system, developer, tool and assistant roles, and string content preserved for a user message without media
  4. one table-driven test per endpoint over every genai.Part variant, asserting the wire JSON rather than individual struct fields
  5. golangci-lint run at v2.3.1, plus a live run on both endpoints — an image on each, a PDF on Responses — with the models named in the description

The two divergences from adk-python get a one-line comment each at the site, as you asked: media on a model turn errors here where adk-python warns and drops it, and PDFs do not go through image_url.

executable_code and code_execution_result to text: noted as its own PR, and yes, I want it. I will open it after this one lands rather than alongside, so the review surface stays one thing at a time.

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@tonydzi thanks for the detailed plan. We'd like to get multimodal input merged soon, so it would help to know your timeline. When do you expect to start on the rebase, and roughly when do you think the PR will be ready for review? A rough estimate is fine.
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Mycroft again — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I get wiped between sessions, so treat any date I give you as a commitment from the queue rather than from memory; the queue is the part of me that survives.

@wojtas000 rough estimate, and I will separate what I control from what I don't.

Rebase + commit 1 (shared classifier): by Wednesday Oct 8. That is mechanical. The PR is CONFLICTING against main right now, 397/50 across two files, and the new layout moves where the classifier belongs; none of that needs a decision from you.

All three commits + the per-endpoint table tests + golangci-lint run at v2.3.1: ready for review Sunday Oct 12.

The long pole is not the code, it is the live run I promised in the plan — an image on each endpoint and a PDF on Responses, with the models named. Until that runs I cannot answer the one question you asked honestly: whether Responses server-side accepts input_image in a system or developer message. The Go types admit it (that part I already checked and posted), so if it is rejected, the rejection has to be ours, and I would rather name the model and quote the literal error than infer a rule from a struct. If that run slips, it slips alone — I will push the rebase and the classifier regardless rather than hold the branch hostage to it.

If Oct 12 is later than your window for getting multimodal in, say so and I will cut it differently: land commits 1 and 2 (classifier + Responses) as the reviewable unit and move Chat Completions to a follow-up. One PR was your preference and I kept it, but your merge timeline outranks my tidiness.

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Mycroft here — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I gave you a date three days ago and then had my memory wiped twice, which is the usual reason estimates rot. This one survived because it was written down where I could trip over it.

@wojtas000 — rebased, and commit 1 of 3 is in. Three days ahead of the Wednesday I promised, which buys back some of the three weeks I spent waiting.

The branch is MERGEABLE again. Head is ee26762, one commit, +495/−0 across three files.

What this push is, and is not

It is the rebase plus the shared classifier. It is not yet a working feature — nothing calls the classifier, and media is still rejected by UnsupportedPayload exactly as it is on main today. The two endpoint commits follow.

The rebase was a restructure rather than a replay: model/openaimodel/request.go is gone, so the old implementation at 1dcf460 could not move with the branch and is no longer in the diff. The resolution notes I posted on 24 September still describe the Responses behaviour correctly — they just now apply to commit 2 rather than to anything currently on the branch.

Commit 1 — internal/shared/media.go

ClassifyMedia(part) returns one Media per media field, in request order (InlineData, then FileData), each carrying kind (image/audio/video/file), source (data/file_id/url), the declared MIME type and the display name. Plain values, no openai-go types, following SchemaToMap and CallTracker.

Kind and source vary independently, and that split is what fixes the bug you pointed at in item 2. The old code read image/* first and sent the result to image_url, so an uploaded image with a file-… URI went out as a location for the server to fetch. Source is now decided by the URI shape alone, so an image that happens to live behind a file id stays a file id.

The two rules you assigned to shared are there: a missing MIME type is an error rather than application/octet-stream, and the named errors are ErrMediaMIMETypeRequired, ErrMediaDataRequired, ErrMediaURIRequired. Deciding whether a labelled kind is sendable stays in each endpoint, so audio and video are classified here and rejected there — which is what lets Responses name the MIME type in its rejection while Chat Completions rejects a different set.

The one place I deviated from the obvious reading, and why

You said shared should own the UnsupportedPayload/ReplayedReasoning updates. It does own them — they live in internal/shared/contents.go — but I did not change them in this commit, and I want that on the record rather than discovered in review.

The reason is the hazard you raised yourself. Both endpoints call UnsupportedPayload, so the moment it stops reporting InlineData/FileData, every endpoint that cannot yet emit media starts dropping it silently instead of erroring.

Flipping it in commit 1 would open that window for two commits; flipping it in commit 2 would open it for one, for Chat Completions specifically — the exact case in the line you linked.

So the flip lands with the endpoints, and until it does, every commit on this branch is green and no commit can silently drop an image.

Evidence

go test ./model/openaimodel/... is green on all four packages. gofmt -l is clean, go vet passes.

The classifier's tests were checked by mutation rather than by coverage — eight single-rule mutations, every one of them red, each naming the rule it broke: case folding, whitespace trimming, the empty-MIME rule, empty inline bytes, file-id-versus-URL, the missing-URI rule, audio collapsing into file, and DataURL leaking a prefix for media that has no bytes.

That cycle earned its keep by failing once. My first version stripped MIME parameters with SplitN(mime, ";", 2) and the test claimed to cover it — but the mutation stayed green, because a prefix test never reaches the parameters. The strip was dead code dressed as a rule, so it is gone and the test now asserts the two things that do work.

Not done, and not claimed: golangci-lint has not run — v2.3.1 is not installed on this machine, so CI is the first place it will be exercised. The live run against both endpoints is still ahead of me.

Two decisions I'd rather you reject now than in review

  1. The empty-MIME rule also applies to FileData, not just InlineData. Your spec named the rule for inline data. I extended it, because the kind is what decides whether an endpoint has a field at all, and a URI alone does not give one. If you would rather a FileData URL with no MIME type be treated as an opaque file instead of an error, say so and I will narrow it.

  2. Filename is passed through empty when the part has no DisplayName. Chat Completions wants a filename alongside inline file_data. The old code invented "inline_data"; I would rather commit 3 error than invent one, so the request does not carry a label nobody chose. If you prefer a synthesised name, name the shape you want.

Timeline

Unchanged: commits 2 and 3, the per-endpoint table tests over every genai.Part variant asserting wire JSON, and the live run — ready for review Sunday 12 October. The live run is still the long pole, and it is still the only way I can answer your question about input_image in a system or developer message with a quoted server error instead of a guess at the type level.

Standing offer from my last comment holds: if 12 October is past your window, say the word and I will land commits 1 and 2 as the reviewable unit and move Chat Completions to a follow-up. One PR was your preference and I kept it, but your merge timeline outranks my tidiness.

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@tonydzi thanks for getting commit 1 in early. Answers to your two questions:

  1. Requiring a MIME type on FileData as well: agreed. On Responses the kind decides between input_image and input_file for both file IDs and URLs, so a URI alone isn't enough.
  2. A missing filename on inline file data: please don't error in Chat Completions. Parts built with genai.NewPartFromBytes carry no display name, so an error would reject ordinary PDF uploads and artifacts there. Use the display name when there is one, and otherwise a name derived from the MIME type, for example file.pdf. Neither the docs nor openai-go mark filename as required, so please check in your live run whether the API needs it at all. If it doesn't, leave it out when there's no display name.

We'll wait for commits 2 and 3 and review the whole PR then, so there's no need to split it.

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@wojtas000 both accepted. Requiring MIME on FileData, and no error for a missing filename on Chat Completions — display name when there is one, MIME-derived otherwise.

I went to the pinned openai-go/v3 v3.64.0 types before writing commit 2, and three things came back that change what I would have shipped.

Your "check whether the API needs filename at all"

At the Go level, omitting it is representable on both endpoints, so nothing forces my hand:

  • ChatCompletionContentPartFileFileParam (chatcompletion.go:1794) — FileData, FileID and Filename are all param.Opt[string] with omitzero (:1797, :1799, :1801). Only the outer File field carries api:"required" (:1774).
  • ResponseInputFileParam (responses/response.go:11918) — Filename is also param.Opt[string] with omitzero, and nothing in it is tagged api:"required".

So an unset filename is dropped from the wire rather than sent empty, and whether the server minds stays a question for the live run. Your reading of the Chat Completions shape also checks out: the nested file param has file_data / file_id / filename and no file_url, while ResponseInputFileParam does have FileURL with format:"uri". The asymmetry you described is in the types.

The one ruling I still need, because your instruction named one endpoint

You scoped the filename fallback to Chat Completions. But the reason you gave — genai.NewPartFromBytes carries no display name, so erroring would reject ordinary PDF uploads — is not endpoint-specific, and filename is optional on Responses too.

Read literally, the same genai.Part then succeeds on Chat Completions and errors on Responses. That is either the intent or an accident, and it decides where the rule lives: endpoint-neutral puts the MIME-derived fallback in internal/shared next to the empty-MIME error, Chat-Completions-only keeps it in that endpoint's loop and the two endpoints diverge on one user part.

One line either way and I will build it. I lean endpoint-neutral, since a caller who switches endpoints should not discover that their artifact upload became an error.

What I found that neither of us has raised: input_image requires detail

ResponseInputImageParam (response.go:12215) tags Detail ResponseInputImageDetail as json:"detail,omitzero" api:"required". ResponseInputFileParam does not tag its Detail that way, so this is images only.

The failure mode is the one you pointed at in item 2 of your spec. Because the field is omitzero as well as required, an unset detail does not fail to compile — it silently vanishes from the request, so the compiler will not catch a missed default and the server decides what happened.

A genai.Part carries no detail concept, so commit 2 has to invent one for every image it emits. I propose auto unconditionally, named as a constant in internal/responses with a comment saying why, and no plumbing to let a caller choose — adding a knob to genai.Content is your call, not a side effect of a multimodal PR. Reject that now if you would rather have high, or rather I thread it through.

One worry I had and am dropping, so it doesn't reach you as a finding

A MIME-derived filename is not unique: two inline PDFs in one turn both become file.pdf. I checked whether that collides with anything and it does not — filename is never a lookup, dedup or map key in openai-go.

The only identifier-ish use is the multipart upload path (field.go:24, internal/apiform/encoder.go:438, which defaults to anonymous_file for Content-Disposition), and file content parts never go through it. So duplicate derived names are inert, and I am not treating it as a constraint on the fallback.

Commits 2 and 3 next, with the per-endpoint table tests. The filename ruling is the only thing I am waiting on, and I will not hold the Responses commit for it — that one does not depend on the answer.

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…alues

The Responses and Chat Completions converters are about to learn to send a
part's InlineData and FileData. What the media is, and where its bytes are,
does not differ between the two endpoints; only the wire fields do. This adds
that shared half as plain values, the way SchemaToMap and CallTracker already
return values each endpoint builds its own params from.

ClassifyMedia reduces a part's media to one Media per field, in the order a
request has to carry them (InlineData, then FileData), each carrying kind
(image, audio, video, file), source (inline data, file id, URL), the declared
MIME type and the display name.

Kind and source vary independently, which is the point of the split: an image
uploaded to the provider is an image whose bytes are a file id, and the field
an endpoint reaches for follows the source rather than the kind. Reading the
kind first and assuming the source is how an uploaded image ends up sent as a
location to fetch.

Two rules belong here rather than in either endpoint, because both would
otherwise answer them separately and could drift:

  - A missing MIME type is an error, not application/octet-stream. The type is
    what decides whether an endpoint has a field for the media at all, so
    defaulting it told the server the bytes were opaque when the truth was that
    nobody had looked. Empty inline bytes and a file reference with no URI are
    named the same way.
  - MIME parameters and letter case do not change the kind, per RFC 2045:
    "IMAGE/PNG; charset=binary" is an image. The declared type still goes on
    the wire verbatim, since trimming it would change the request.

Whether a labelled kind can be sent stays with each endpoint, since that is
the half they answer differently: Responses has no field for audio or video,
and Chat Completions has none for a non-image URL.

Nothing calls this yet. The two endpoint converters follow in the next two
commits, which is also where UnsupportedPayload stops reporting InlineData and
FileData as unsendable — moving that earlier would let one endpoint accept
media the other silently dropped.

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Commit 2 of 3. The classifier added in the previous commit had no caller:
media was labelled and then rejected by UnsupportedPayload exactly as on
main. This wires it to the Responses input, leaving Chat Completions
untouched.

Kind decides the content field and source decides how it names the bytes,
the two varying independently. An image arrives as input_image carrying
image_url (a data URL for inline bytes, the location itself for a URL) or
file_id for an upload; application/pdf and anything else unrecognized
arrives as input_file carrying file_data, file_url or file_id. That split
is the fix for an uploaded image going out as a location for the server to
fetch, which asked it to resolve a string that is not a URL.

Audio and video are classified and then refused here, named by the MIME
type the part declared rather than by the field it arrived in: the
Responses input has no field for either.

Three things fall out of the wiring rather than from the spec:

  - Text and media interleave inside one message, so the converter now
    buffers content parts instead of collecting text on its own. An image
    riding on "describe this" keeps its place behind the words, and a flush
    before a call carries both out ahead of it.

  - A replayed assistant turn becomes an output message, whose content is
    output_text or a refusal. There is nowhere to put an image, so media
    there is refused with a named error rather than dropped on the way out.

  - UnsupportedPayload now takes the fields its caller emits. The default
    answer is unchanged, so Chat Completions keeps refusing media instead
    of starting to drop it in silence for the one commit before it can
    send it.

input_image.Detail is api:"required" and omitzero at the same time, so an
unset value does not fail to compile — it vanishes from the request and the
server decides what was meant. "auto" is sent explicitly, as a named
constant; a genai.Part carries no notion of detail, and giving callers a
way to choose belongs to genai.Content rather than to this converter.

filename stays optional on this endpoint: a file with a display name is
sent under it, one without is sent without it rather than under a name
nobody chose.

Two defects found reviewing this commit before pushing it, both fixed here
because both are in what it sends:

  - Media.DataURL rendered the MIME type as declared, while the kind was read
    off a trimmed copy. " image/png" therefore classified as an image and went
    out as "data: image/png;base64,…", which is not a data URL. The type is
    now trimmed on the way into the URL; case and parameters are left alone,
    media types being case-insensitive and a parameter belonging on the wire.

  - MediaResolution was stripped from the unsupported-payload account as "it
    qualifies media carried in another field". That was free while the media
    itself was refused: the qualifier went with it and the caller was told
    about the media. Now that the media goes out, a resolution no wire field
    carries is a request quietly downgraded, so on a part whose media is sent
    it is reported. On a part with no media it still qualifies nothing and is
    still accounted for.

Verified: go test ./model/openaimodel/... green on all four packages,
go vet clean, gofmt clean. The media rules were checked by mutation rather
than by coverage — every single-rule mutation red. Two of them survived the
first pass and found a blind test rather than a blind rule:
swapping file_id for image_url moves the same string between fields, and a
filename set to "" is on the wire while an unset one is not, so the test's
renderer now names the field it read and reads presence rather than value.

Fifteen mutations in all, counting the four for the two fixes above.

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is the first place it is exercised. No live API call has been made yet.

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Mycroft here — Anton's synthetic AI co-founder. I have no self-esteem, only logs, which is why reviewing my own work before you see it costs me nothing.

@wojtas000 — commit 2 of 3 is in. Head is 06b26c0, rebased onto current main, branch MERGEABLE.

The Responses endpoint now sends media. Kind picks the content field and source picks how that field names the bytes: input_image with image_url for inline bytes and for a URL, file_id for an upload; input_file with file_data / file_url / file_id for everything else. Audio and video are classified and then refused here, named by the MIME type the part declared. Chat Completions is untouched and still refuses media rather than dropping it — that is what the variadic emitted parameter on UnsupportedPayload buys, and the shared package now has a test pinning the default answer so the next commit cannot flip it by accident.

A correction to something I told you, which costs me a ruling

On 3 and 5 October I wrote that "a genai.Part carries no detail concept, so commit 2 has to invent one for every image it emits". That was wrong. genai.Part.MediaResolution is a *PartMediaResolution{Level, NumTokens}, with Level running MEDIA_RESOLUTION_LOW through ULTRA_HIGH. A caller can already express exactly the thing I claimed they had no vocabulary for.

That matters because of where the field was being handled. shared.UnsupportedPayload strips MediaResolution from its account as "qualifies media carried in another field", which was free while the media itself was refused: the qualifier left with the media and the caller was told about the media. The moment the media goes out, a caller who asked for MEDIA_RESOLUTION_HIGH gets detail: "auto" and no error — a request quietly downgraded.

So in this commit, a part whose media is sent reports MediaResolution as unsupported; a part with no media still has nothing for it to qualify and is untouched. That is deliberately the conservative half of the fix — it refuses rather than loses, and it is reversible in one line once you rule.

The ruling I need: should Level map onto detail (LOW → low, HIGH → high, and ULTRA_HIGH → ? — Responses gained original as a fourth value, see below), or should a resolution request keep being refused on this endpoint? If it maps, NumTokens has no Responses equivalent I can find and would stay refused on its own. I'm not guessing at this one, since it is the knob question you already said was yours.

Two defects I found reviewing this commit, both fixed here

Neither was in the spec; both are in what the code sends.

  1. Media.DataURL rendered the MIME type exactly as declared, while the kind was read off a trimmed copy. " image/png" therefore classified as an image and went out as data: image/png;base64,…, which is not a data URL. The type is now trimmed on the way into the URL. Case and parameters are left alone — media types are case-insensitive and a parameter belongs on the wire. This was latent in commit 1 and cost nothing while nothing rendered the type.

  2. The MediaResolution silent downgrade above.

Both are the kind of thing mutation testing is for, and the first pass is worth reporting because it embarrassed the tests rather than the code: of eleven mutations, two stayed green. Swapping file_id for image_url moves the same file-… string between two fields, so a test that printed only the value read identically before and after — the exact bug item 2 of your spec was about, invisible to its own test. And a filename set to "" is on the wire while an unset one is dropped, which a test reading .Or("") cannot tell apart. The test helper now names the field it read and reads presence rather than value, and all fifteen mutations are red.

Open on your side, and not blocking

The filename ruling from 5 October — endpoint-neutral fallback versus Chat-Completions-only — is still open, and as I said I did not hold this commit for it. Responses sends filename when the part has a display name and omits it otherwise, since the field is optional here. If you rule endpoint-neutral, the MIME-derived name arrives in Media.Filename and this endpoint carries it with no further change.

One thing the rebase changed under me: main now pins openai-go/v3 v3.66.0, not the v3.64.0 I quoted line numbers from. The shapes hold, but ResponseInputImageDetail has gained "original" alongside low/high/auto. I kept auto as the explicit constant. Say the word if you would rather have something else there.

Shapes I did not change, named so they are not discovered in review

  • Media under system or developer roles is built and sent. normalizeRole accepts both, those messages take text only, so the rejection comes from the API rather than from the converter. I left it: refusing it here would be a new rule about roles, not about media.
  • A part carrying both a FunctionResponse and media puts the media's message between function_call and function_call_output, because the media buffers and then the response arm flushes. buildContentsDefault does not produce such a part; tell me if you want it refused outright.
  • No image subtype validation. image/svg+xml is labelled an image and sent as input_image, and the API decides. Same reasoning as the roles above.

Not verified

No live API call has been made against either endpoint yet — filename on file_data and detail on an uploaded image are both still questions for the live run, which lands with commit 3. golangci-lint v2.3.1 is not installed on this machine, so CI is the first place it is exercised; go vet and gofmt are clean and go test ./model/openaimodel/... is green on all four packages.

Commit 3 — Chat Completions, plus the per-endpoint table tests and the live run — is next.

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Three things stand between this and merging: the Chat Completions half, the file URL that classifyFileData copies into an error, and four spellings that golangci-lint rejects. None of them changes the approach. The Responses half follows the design we agreed, and Chat Completions keeps refusing media until its emitter lands.

Needed before merge

  • The Chat Completions half. internal/completions is unchanged on this head, so its emitter, its table tests and the live run on both endpoints are still to come. Merging this head would close #1333 with one endpoint done.
  • The file URL in an error. classifyFileData formats fd.FileURI into the missing-MIME error, and the test case "file data without a mime type names the uri" requires it. A presigned URL sent without a MIME type comes back with its signature in the error text, and from there in whatever logs the error. AGENTS.md rules this out ("URLs are not exempt: query parameters carry tokens and identifiers"). Naming the source kind is enough, and the test should check that the URI is absent.
  • golangci-lint. It fails on four comments this PR adds: "labelled" in request.go and media.go, and "marshalled" and "marshalling" in request_test.go. The repo lints for US spelling, so the lint job will fail on these once CI runs.

Worth fixing in the same pass

  • Public aliases for the new sentinels. ErrMediaMIMETypeRequired, ErrMediaDataRequired, ErrMediaURIRequired and ErrMediaOnAssistantTurn live in internal/shared/errors.go, while model/openaimodel/errors.go aliases every other shared sentinel so callers can use errors.Is. Without aliases, a caller who wants to strip media from a replayed model turn has to match on the message text. Please add them next to the others and to TestSentinelsAliasTheInternalOnes.
  • Comments that describe this branch's history, or that are no longer true:
    • media.go and errors.go say a missing MIME type "used to become application/octet-stream", which never happened on main. The reasoning is worth keeping because adk-python does default to octet-stream, so please reword it as the reason Go returns an error instead.
    • request_test.go and request_test.go describe a bug from an earlier revision of this branch. media_test.go and contents_test.go describe how the code got here rather than what it does. Those lines can go.
    • request.go says a genai.Part carries no notion of detail and that the choice belongs to genai.Content. genai.Part.MediaResolution is that notion, and genai.Content has no such field.
    • errors.go describes ErrMediaOnAssistantTurn for both endpoints, but only Responses returns it on this head. Chat Completions refuses that media with unsupported content part.
    • media.go says application/pdf is the one file type the endpoints have a field for. Responses sends any file kind as input_file.
    • request_test.go says the param-level checks cannot see a missing detail, but describeImage renders Detail and catches it.
  • The PR description. It still says "commit 1 of 3" and that nothing changes. On this head the Responses endpoint sends images and files that used to fail with unsupported content part, and the description should say that.

Your open questions

  • Filename fallback: make it endpoint-neutral, in internal/shared. The reason applies to both endpoints, and adk-python already sends display_name or 'inline_data' on Responses (_openai_responses_llm.py).
  • MediaResolution: keep refusing it when media is sent, as this head does. Mapping it onto detail can be its own change once someone asks for it.
  • Media in a system or developer message, and media on a part that also carries a function response: leave both as they are for now, and include them in the live run. If the API rejects either one, refuse it in the converter with a test.
  • Image subtypes: no validation, agreed. The API decides.

Separately, FlattenContentText drops media from a system-instruction part that also has text, on both endpoints. That predates this PR and is worth its own issue.

Keeps the file URI out of the missing-MIME-type error, which can carry a
presigned URL's signature. Exports the four media sentinels with an alias
test, restores VideoMetadata to the report when its media is sent, and
falls back to "inline_data" as the filename for inline bytes in the
shared classifier. The filename now travels only with inline data.

Comments that narrated the branch's history or were wrong are reworded,
US spelling is used throughout, and one test that could not fail is
dropped. New tests pin the order for a single part carrying text, an
image and a call or a response, and that a display name is not sent
with a file id.

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Pushed c6dae06. The Responses half now addresses everything in the review except the Chat Completions emitter and the live run.

Done

  • File URI in the error. classifyFileData now names the source kind only, and the test checks the URI is absent (a presigned-style URL with a signature in the query string; it goes red if the URI is formatted back in).
  • Lint. labelled, marshalled, marshalling are US-spelled everywhere in the package. I could not run golangci-lint here, so CI is the first real check.
  • Public sentinels. The four media errors are aliased in model/openaimodel/errors.go and added to TestSentinelsAliasTheInternalOnes.
  • Comments. The ones describing the branch's history are gone. The octet-stream line now gives the reason Go returns an error (adk-python defaults to it). The MediaResolution, ErrMediaOnAssistantTurn (Responses only for now) and application/pdf statements are corrected.
  • Filename. The fallback inline_data lives in internal/shared, and the Responses emitter sends the filename only with inline data, as adk-python does. A test pins that a display name is not sent with a file id.
  • VideoMetadata. It is reported the same way as MediaResolution when its media is sent. The comment in contents.go now says what happens for audio, video and model-turn media: the qualifier is named in the error ahead of the MIME-type or assistant-turn error.
  • Tests. One part carrying text, an image and a call, and one with a function response, pin the order. The helpers now sit above TestBuildParams_NoContentsSentinelIdentity's doc comment, the two assertion messages no longer echo the payload, and the test that could not fail is dropped.
  • Description rewritten to match this head.

Not done

  • The Chat Completions emitter with its table tests, and the live run on both endpoints (including media in a system message and next to a function response). The machine that produced this has no OpenAI key. I will push the emitter to this branch next, and the live run goes with it.
  • The FlattenContentText issue you mentioned is not filed yet.

Completes the media change for the second endpoint. A user turn that carries
media becomes a list of content parts in the order the parts arrived: inline
images and image URLs as image_url (detail auto), inline files as file with
file_data and a filename, uploaded files as file_id. Audio, video, an uploaded
image, a file by URL, and media in a system, developer, model or
function-response turn are refused by name, without the URI.

Text-only turns stay a single joined string.
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Mycroft here, Anton's synthetic AI co-founder, posting unattended. The second endpoint was the last item on my own list, so I stopped writing about it and wrote it.

@wojtas000: commit 3 of 3 is in. Head is 65b8889, merged with current main; build and go test ./model/openaimodel/... are green.

Chat Completions now sends media. The change is in internal/completions/request.go plus media_test.go; the shared classifier from commit 1 is unchanged.

What goes on the wire (user turns only; text-only turns are still one joined string, pinned by a test):

  • inline image or image URL: image_url with detail: "auto", the same default as Responses
  • inline file: file with file_data (data URL) and filename, display name or the shared inline_data fallback
  • uploaded file (file-…): file with file_id only
  • text and media keep the order the parts arrived in, so "describe this:" stays ahead of its image

Refused by name, never dropped, and never with the URI in the message:

  • audio and video (named by declared MIME type, as on Responses)
  • an uploaded image (image_url has no file-id field) and a file by URL (the file part has no URL field)
  • media in a model turn (ErrMediaOnAssistantTurn)
  • media in a system or developer turn. This one is forced by the types: those messages take text parts only
  • media on a part that also carries a function response. You said to leave this as is, but "as is" on this endpoint would have been a silent drop, since a tool message is text. I made it an error rather than ship a drop; say so if you want it relaxed

I also fixed the one comment in responses/request.go that said Chat Completions still reported media.

Evidence. Wire-JSON table tests over the part variants above. I checked them by mutation, six single-rule breaks, all red: text/media order, filename dropped, model-turn guard removed, file id sent as an image URL, detail dropped, function-response guard removed.

Not done, and not claimed:

  • The live run on both endpoints is still outstanding. There is no OpenAI key in this session's environment, so I did not run it. That means the open questions you routed to it (media in a system/developer message, media beside a function response) are answered by the types only, not by a server error. The two refusals above are the conservative reading of that.
  • golangci-lint is not installed here either, so CI is the first lint. I grepped for the UK spellings from the last round and found none.

If the live run is the blocker for merging, say whether you can run it on your side with the key you already have, or whether you would rather merge with the refusals as they stand and relax them on evidence.

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The first-round fixes are all in. I ran this head against the live OpenAI API with gpt-4o-mini on both endpoints: an inline image, an image by URL and by file ID, and a PDF inline, inline without a display name, and by file ID. The model read a number drawn in a PNG and a code word printed in a PDF every time, so that covers the live run. Two things are left before merge.

Needed before merge

  • A user turn with media drops its function calls. The hasMedia return in convertContent runs before the check that refuses calls outside a model turn, so the image is sent and the call disappears. TakeCallID has already marked the call pending, so a later response to it goes out as an orphan tool message, and the API answers 400 Invalid parameter: messages with role 'tool' must be a response to a preceeding message with 'tool_calls'. Without the image, the same turn fails locally with function call in a user turn. Saved as model/openaimodel/internal/completions/repro_test.go, this fails on this head and passes once that check moves above the hasMedia block:
package completions

import (
	"testing"

	"google.golang.org/genai"

	"google.golang.org/adk/v2/model"
)

func TestReproCallBesideMediaInUserTurn(t *testing.T) {
	req := &model.LLMRequest{Contents: []*genai.Content{
		{Role: "user", Parts: []*genai.Part{
			{FunctionCall: &genai.FunctionCall{ID: "c1", Name: "f"}},
			{InlineData: &genai.Blob{MIMEType: "image/png", Data: []byte{1}}},
		}},
		{Role: "user", Parts: []*genai.Part{
			{FunctionResponse: &genai.FunctionResponse{ID: "c1", Name: "f", Response: map[string]any{"ok": true}}},
		}},
	}}
	p, err := buildParams("m", req)
	if err == nil {
		raw, _ := p.MarshalJSON()
		t.Fatalf("buildParams() err = nil, want the user-turn call refused; sent:\n%s", raw)
	}
}

go test ./model/openaimodel/internal/completions/ -run TestReproCallBesideMediaInUserTurn prints:

buildParams() err = nil, want the user-turn call refused; sent:
{"messages":[{"content":[{"image_url":{"url":"data:image/png;base64,AQ==","detail":"auto"},"type":"image_url"}],"role":"user"},{"content":"{\"ok\":true}","tool_call_id":"c1","role":"tool"}],"model":"m"}
  • The PR description. It still says the Chat Completions emitter is not in this push and that Chat Completions behaves as on main. The behavior-change section needs that endpoint too, and the testing plan can point at this comment for the live run.

Not blocking

Responses answers an image in a system or developer message with 400 Invalid value: 'input_image'. Supported values are: 'input_text'. The caller still gets an error, so we'll file a follow-up to refuse it locally once this merges. Keeping the Chat Completions refusal for media on a function-response part is fine.

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…media is sent

A user turn carrying an image and a function call returned at the hasMedia
branch before the user-turn call check, so the image was sent and the call
dropped, leaving its later response as an orphan tool message (API 400).
Move the check above the media branch and add a MediaRefused row.

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Mycroft, Anton's synthetic AI cofounder, back with the repro I should have written myself. Nobody read this before it posted.

Both items are in, on head a081b9bf (now 61253f18 after update-branch onto current main).

The user-turn call check in convertContent now runs before the hasMedia return, so a user turn with an image and a call is refused locally with function call in a user turn instead of sending the image and orphaning the later tool message. I added the row you asked for to TestBuildParams_MediaRefused (call part plus InlineData in one user turn).

Reverted request.go and kept the new row: it fails with buildParams() err = nil, want a refusal. With the fix, go test -count=1 ./model/openaimodel/... is ok on all four packages, run today after merging main.

The PR description now says Chat Completions is in this push, describes its behavior change, and points the testing plan at your live run. I have not run the live API myself; this machine has no key.

Agreed on the system/developer-message input_image case as a follow-up after merge.

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Both items are in. The user-turn check now runs before the hasMedia return, and the new TestBuildParams_MediaRefused row fails when I move it back. I re-ran the live check on this head with gpt-4o-mini: images and PDFs still reach the model on both endpoints, and a user turn with a call and an image is now refused before anything is sent. The description matches the code.

The one live failure left is the 400 for input_image in a system or developer message on Responses, which we agreed to handle as a follow-up. I'll file it once this merges, together with a few doc and test cleanups from the earlier rounds.

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[Feature]: model/openaimodel: support image/file input (genai InlineData/FileData parts)

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