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Closes #926

Summary

When a thinking model's private reasoning uses the whole max_tokens budget, the worker rewrote the answer to finish_reason: "error" with code empty_model_output. The gateway serves that code as HTTP 500. OpenAI clients retry a 500, and every retry fails the same way. The request also reported no usage.

Now only a generation that stops without visible text or a tool call gets empty_model_output. A generation whose budget runs out first keeps finish_reason: "length" and returns an empty message. That is the OpenAI contract for reasoning models, and length already tells the client the answer was truncated. With include_reasoning: true, the truncated reasoning still arrives as reasoning_content.

Changes

• suppress_thinking_blocks (_generation_base.py) stamps empty_model_output only on a stop terminal. Its message suffix now reads "the model produced only private reasoning", because a stop did not exhaust a budget.
• Tests:
  • The tests that pinned the length stamp now assert length with no error code. This covers the stripper, n>1 candidates, keep_reasoning, the Muse channel pipeline, and the queued chat include_reasoning stream.
  • New stop counterparts keep the empty-answer guard covered.
• The Python and TypeScript SDK READMEs and the gateway's EMPTY_MODEL_OUTPUT doc comment describe the split.

Validation

• pytest over adapters/test_generation_base.py, adapters/test_sglang_muse_channels.py, processors/test_streaming.py, api/test_generate.py, api/test_openai_completions.py, api/test_openai_responses.py, processors/test_strict_grammar.py, processors/test_tool_call_parser.py: 743 passed.
• ruff check and ruff format --check pass on the changed files.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Reasoning that exhausts the generation budget now retains the length finish status instead of being reported as empty model output. Stopped generations with no usable output continue to return an empty_model_output error.

• Documentation

  • Clarified how empty output, private reasoning, and generation-budget exhaustion affect results, including in partial-batch responses.

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Walkthrough

Reasoning-only generations that exhaust the token budget retain finish_reason: "length" without an empty_model_output error. Generations that stop without usable output continue to receive empty_model_output. Tests and SDK documentation now reflect this distinction.

Changes: Generation finish handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Empty-output classification packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/_generation_base.py, packages/sie_gateway/src/http_error.rs, packages/sie_sdk/README.md, packages/sie_ts_sdk/README.md	The adapter applies empty_model_output only when generation stops without usable output. Documentation distinguishes this case from budget exhaustion, which retains the length finish.
Finish-reason validation packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_generation_base.py, packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_sglang_muse_channels.py, packages/sie_server/tests/processors/test_streaming.py	Tests verify that reasoning-only output ending in stop produces empty_model_output, while reasoning truncated by the token limit retains length without an error.

Suggested reviewers: huronat, svonava, shaishmuel

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to d28c9

Reasoning-budget exhaustion now returns a length finish for ordinary requests, as issue #926 asked. A request for several candidates (n greater than 1) can still get empty_model_output instead of length when every candidate comes back empty and at least one hit the token budget. This is a narrow gap with a clear fix, so it is worth addressing but unlikely to block the change.

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Title check		The title names the main change: when reasoning uses up the token budget, the server keeps finish_reason "length" and does not raise empty_model_output. The raw summary and PR objectives confirm this …
Linked Issues check		[#926] requests that a request whose reasoning exhausts max_tokens return a truncated completion (HTTP 200, finish_reason "length", as the Qwen route does) or a 4xx, instead of HTTP 500 empty_model_ou…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changes relate to the #926 objective. The code change is limited to the empty_model_output stamp condition and its message suffix in suppress_thinking_blocks. The suffix change to "the model produ…

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The title names the main change: when reasoning uses up the token budget, the server keeps finish_reason "length" and does not raise empty_model_output. The raw summary and PR objectives confirm this is the core fix, which resolves linked issue #926. The title is specific and accurate, and it follows the conventional commit style.

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[#926] requests that a request whose reasoning exhausts max_tokens return a truncated completion (HTTP 200, finish_reason "length", as the Qwen route does) or a 4xx, instead of HTTP 500 empty_model_output. The diff to packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/_generation_base.py changes suppress_thinking_blocks so the empty_model_output stamp applies only when rewritten.finish_reason == "stop". Previously the condition was in ("stop", "length"). A length terminal now keeps its finish reason and error_code stays None. This matches the first option in the issue. The tests in test_generation_base.py, test_sglang_muse_channels.py and test_streaming.py now assert length with no error for budget exhaustion, and keep empty_model_output for stop with no visible text. Scope of #926 is budget exhaustion during reasoning, and the PR does not change stop-without-output behavior, which the linked objectives do not request. Not verified in this review: the gateway's HTTP status mapping for a length terminal with empty content. The issue reports the Qwen route already returns 200 in this case, and the change relies on that existing mapping.

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All changes relate to the #926 objective. The code change is limited to the empty_model_output stamp condition and its message suffix in suppress_thinking_blocks. The suffix change to "the model produced only private reasoning" follows from the new stop-only rule. Test updates cover the length and stop outcomes that the rule affects. The doc updates (gateway EMPTY_MODEL_OUTPUT comment, Python and TypeScript SDK READMEs) describe the same split. No unrelated functional change appears in the reviewed diff or the raw summary.

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- Line 861: When all candidates are empty and at least one finishes with
"length", the empty-output guard can replace the multi-candidate terminal with
empty_model_output. Before changing the guard that checks
rewritten.finish_reason or the producer that sets it to "stop", establish the
intended aggregate finish-reason contract for n > 1; then update the appropriate
path so the response reports "length" when required without changing other
terminal behavior.

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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Multi-candidate length finishes become empty_model_output when no candidate has text.

The non-streaming SGLang multi-candidate terminal sets the top-level finish_reason to "stop" even when a candidate ended with "length". The guard in _generation_base.py then converts that stop terminal to empty_model_output whenever no candidate has visible text. For an n > 1 request in which every candidate is empty and at least one hit the token budget, the response keeps the old error rather than finish_reason: "length".

The guard checks only candidate text, so a truncated candidate does not prevent the conversion. The top-level reason must reflect the candidate length, or the guard must skip conversion when a candidate ends with "length". Choosing between these options changes the aggregate contract for n > 1 consumers. Make that decision before editing the producer or the guard.

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Review comment at @packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/_generation_base.py at line 861:
When all candidates are empty and at least one finishes with "length", the empty-output guard can replace the multi-candidate terminal with empty_model_output. Before changing the guard that checks rewritten.finish_reason or the producer that sets it to "stop", establish the intended aggregate finish-reason contract for n > 1; then update the appropriate path so the response reports "length" when required without changing other terminal behavior.

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