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Builds on #46 (fix/embed-backfill-budget): the first three commits here are that PR's; the rest are this one. A deploy of this branch carries both.

Summary

ctx learns a third wire protocol, anthropic: the native Anthropic Messages API (POST {base_url}/v1/messages, x-api-key + anthropic-version). Until now a hosted-Claude install had to reach Anthropic through its OpenAI-compatible layer with the openai protocol, which rejects every sampling parameter on the Claude 5 models (ctx always sends temperature), and — as observed on my install — drops response_format silently and offers neither prompt caching nor effort control, so a stripping sidecar sat in front of it. With this PR the chat-class roles (synthesis, translate, dream, digest, chat) talk to api.anthropic.com directly; the embed/rerank roles stay on a local backend, since the Messages API has no such endpoints.

What the wire does:

  • No sampling parameters, no thinking field, no tool_choice — the request carries model, max_tokens (from the pipeline's num_predict), the system prompt as a cached top-level block (cache_control: ephemeral), the messages, and output_config.effort.
  • Effort resolves model_map params.effort > row extra_body.effort > medium (the Claude Opus 5.5 default), validated to low|medium|high|xhigh|max. The chat harness carries params.effort too (it builds its options by hand and initially dropped it — caught in review).
  • Prompt cache that actually hits: the pipelines end their system prompt with a per-call promptguard nonce rule, so that rule goes into a second, uncached block and the stable prefix is the breakpoint; the web-chat stream path adds the top-level automatic cache_control for the growing history. cache_read_input_tokens / cache_creation_input_tokens land in context_llm_log.metadata; prompt_tokens is the total prompt (Anthropic's input_tokens is the uncached remainder only).
  • Streaming with tools for the web-chat harness (ChatStreamBackend, the new protocol dispatch of the stream path): the Messages API SSE events map onto the existing StreamEvent/StreamResult contract; ToolDef → input_schema, assistant tool calls → tool_use blocks, tool rows → tool_result blocks folded into one user turn. Three repairs keep a session alive: the answer's thinking blocks (when the model emits any) ride along in memory to the next iteration of the same turn and are replayed verbatim (the reference asks to keep them while a tool_use awaits its result), an unanswered tool_use from an interrupted turn gets a synthetic is_error result, and id-less tool calls from an openai-wire row earlier in the session get synthetic ids.
  • Stop reasons are mapped onto the vocabulary the consumers read (end_turn→stop, max_tokens→length, tool_use→tool_calls, refusal→content_filter); errors classify like every other wire (429 → rate-limit cooldown with Retry-After, 529 → gateway failover, 401 → auth, 400 → bad request), the same for the error types inside a mid-stream error event.
  • JSON mode is a documented no-op on this wire: output_config.format needs a JSON schema ctx does not carry, so ChatJSON sends the same body as Chat and the pipelines' parsers stay the validator (run Dream with CTX_DREAM_JSON_MODE=off, as the OpenAI-compatible layer already forced).

Row shape (422 on create/update): api_key_ref required, locality: external, num_ctx > 0 (no window discovery on this wire), provider_class: generic, no embed/dream-embed/rerank roles, /v1-root guard. Migration 155 widens the CHECK on context_backends.protocol (the baseline's unnamed constraint is resolved from pg_constraint); no rows change. backend-test probes GET /v1/models with the key; ctx backends seed accepts anthropic on the chat leg (two-host spec), ctx init asks the extra questions; the UI enum and docs (api.md, operations.md, architecture.md, README) carry the protocol.

Also in this PR: ci(lint) bumps the golangci-lint pin to v2.14.0 — the runner's GO_VERSION: "1.27" resolves to go1.27.2 since 2026-10-10 and v2.13.2 cannot read its export data (Lint was red on the root nightlies of 10 and 11 October with everything else green).

How it was verified

Unit (fake upstream, httptest, no key): request shape and headers (non-stream and stream, forbidden sampling keys absent), effort precedence, extra_body merge, JSON no-op, max_tokens fallback, empty-system omission, response decode incl. cache counters and llmlog telemetry, the stop-reason table, error → failover class (429 with Retry-After, 529, 401, 400, 500), SSE fixtures (text with thinking + ping, two tool calls with fragmented partial_json, mid-stream overloaded_error), lenient/hard stream endings, callback abort, thinking/redacted blocks carried and replayed first, orphan and empty-id repair, per-field usage merge, nameless tool_use dropped, the promptguard split (byte-identical prefix across nonces), the stream/non-stream cache_control placement, protocol dispatch across openai/ollama/anthropic rows, validation rules one by one, seed/wizard flows, the handler probe, the chat harness's effort pass-through, and the MW6 dispatch invariant (eighth wire site, Σ acquires == Σ wire contacts). -race clean on the touched packages.

Integration (testcontainers, prod-parity pgvector-timescaledb:pg18 built from db-image/): the full migration chain through 155, then TestMigration155ProtocolCheckAdmitsAnthropic pins the named constraint, that it admits anthropic, is the only CHECK naming the column, keeps the column's DEFAULT 'openai', inserts an anthropic row and rejects an unknown protocol with SQLSTATE 23514. The schema-manifest generator (-tags=genmanifest) ran on the same image and reproduced manifest.json byte for byte (the header had been bumped by hand first). The whole integration suite (-tags=integration -p 1 ./...) ran locally as well: 60 packages green, 10 tests in 6 packages red on this macOS/arm64 seat (armsweep ×3, rrf ×2, handler ×2, llmlogexport, dream, events) — each of them either fails identically on the base commit 218d5f84 (float last-digit parity, /tmp symlink semantics, a byte-identical response anchor) or passes in isolation at HEAD (two timing-sensitive tests under the serial run); none touches this branch's diff, and CI's six Linux shards are green.

Web: bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun run test (100 files, 995 tests) and bun run check (svelte-check, tsc, lint:css — 0 errors).

Live (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-11, env-gated TestAnthropicLive*, skipped in CI): the request shape is accepted; the prompt cache hits on the second call (cache_creation 3033 → cache_read 3033 with a fresh promptguard nonce per call); JSON-mode no-op still yields JSON; effort low and high accepted; the 1-token backend-test probe answers 200 with stop_reason: max_tokens and empty text (so the probe reports ok); a streamed tool round trip completes (tool_use → tool_result → final answer); a bad key → 401 → auth. Not exercised live: the thinking-block replay — Opus 5.5 emitted no thinking block on the short tool turn, even with thinking.display: summarized and effort high, and the block-less round trip was accepted; the replay path is covered by fixtures and follows the reference's rule.

Three independent adversarial review passes (wire vs the Claude API reference, tests vs code, docs vs code; and a pre-push pass on every later commit) produced the follow-up commits on the branch; the remaining review notes are recorded in the code comments.

Operator notes

  • Existing installs: Migration 155 runs at boot and changes no rows. To move a row, set protocol: "anthropic", base_url: "https://api.anthropic.com" (no /v1), keep api_key_ref and num_ctx; the sidecar/shim can go.
  • Thinking tokens count against max_tokens; if a role's rows show metadata.finish_reason = length, raise that role's model_map params.max_tokens.
  • Downgrading below 155 with an anthropic row in the pool dispatches it onto the wrong wire — disable or delete such rows first (operations.md, Migration 155).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for configuring chat backends to use Anthropic’s native Messages API, including streaming responses and tool use.
    • Added separate settings for embedding backfill’s background interval and per-request time budget.
    • Added Anthropic options to backend setup and configuration, with validation for required credentials and context window settings.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup, operations, and API guides with Anthropic configuration and embedding backfill details.

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… query path

Two gaps showed up on a CPU embed backend (Qwen3-Embedding-8B, the documented
~23 tok/s) with a ~10k-token block (issue damienmoon/ctx#1):

1. backfillOneEmbedding was called only at the top of runDreamLoop, so with
   dream.enabled=false (the default) or Dream switched off at runtime nothing
   embedded pending blocks in the background. runEmbedBackfillLoop is now its
   own goroutine, started regardless of Dream: a successful pick loops at once,
   an empty pick waits embed_backfill.interval (default 15 s), 0 = arm off,
   polled for a hot re-enable. The dream loop keeps its inline call; the
   tx-wrapped FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED pick makes two pickers safe (Welle-49).

2. backfillPending had a count cap (sync_cap) but no time budget: one slow
   block consumed the caller's whole deadline (120 s on the CLI client), the
   question's own embed was never admitted and the query answered 500, and the
   failure was memoized as class wire although the backend was only slow for
   this caller. embed_backfill.sync_budget (seconds, default 30, 0 = unbounded)
   bounds the whole pre-search loop per request; each wire call runs under
   what is left. A block that overruns it, or dies with the request context,
   is memoized with the new class caller_timeout: next_attempt_at = now(), the
   query path never picks it again (EmbedFailureQueryPathExcludedPredicate),
   the background arm picks it at once, and a later wire failure there
   reclassifies it as wire with the ordinary backoff.

Also: the "german detected" log line is now "non-english heuristic matched"
(the heuristic fires on Swedish, Danish and Finnish too; the translation was
right, the label was not).

Tests (Rot/Grün through the production functions):
- handler: TestBackfillPending_SyncBudget_Integration — SyncBudget=0 holds the
  request for the backend's full delay (red); SyncBudget=300ms returns inside
  the budget with the parent context intact, the backend sees the cancel, the
  memo is caller_timeout and due now, a second backfillPending makes no wire
  call, the background predicate still sees the block; a request cancel
  mid-embed classifies caller_timeout, not wire.
- events: TestEmbedBackfillArm_RunsWithoutDream_Integration — the arm embeds a
  pending block with DreamEnabled=false, picks a caller_timeout block at once,
  and Interval=0 turns it off.
- compose and description gates: TestComposeDeclaresEveryRegistryKey and
  TestKeyDescriptionsComplete pass with the two new keys.

Run on 2026-10-09 in golang:1.27-alpine with CTX_TEST_PG_IMAGE=localhost/
ctx-db:38fdb74f: go build ./..., go vet -tags=integration, go test -short for
config/store/handler/events (one pre-existing failure, TestRebuildViaWorker_
TimeoutKillsHangingChild, fails identically on the unpatched checkout in this
container), and the backfill integration suites of handler, events and store
all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The comments and the operations paragraph said "issue damienmoon/ctx#1",
which on GitHub reads as a reference into a repository that does not exist
there. The issue lives on the author's Forgejo, a read-only mirror of the
GitHub fork: https://force-push.me/damienmoon/ctx/issues/1. Comments only;
no code changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
embed_backfill.sync_budget and embed_backfill.interval are two new
typDuration keys. TestValidateRejectsNegativeOnEveryDurationKey pins the
count as a drift guard (45 before this branch) and failed in CI. Both keys
are covered by the generic V17 sign walk, which the test exercises per key;
the pin moves to 47 in the commit that explains why, as the comment above
it asks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…he pick

Rebase onto root 4d14549, which gave backfillOneEmbedding an owned
[]string parameter: the peek and the FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED pick now
carry the iterated tenant's scope window as a conjunct, because the
router resolves its embed chain with that tenant's backend visibility
(newRouter(cfg, bt.scope) -> Pool.Chain -> VisibleTo). Without the
window a block of tenant U is embedded on a tenant-private backend of
tenant T whenever T's turn comes up. The dream loop on root already
passes bt.owned; the dedicated arm still called the old three-argument
signature and the branch did not compile.

backfillArmOnce now takes the whole backgroundTenant and hands bt.owned
to backfillOneEmbedding, exactly like runDreamLoop. owned == nil (the
default tenant before its entitlement rows exist) stays the unbounded
legacy pick, so a single-tenant install is unchanged.

Test: TestEmbedBackfillArm_RunsWithoutDream_Integration gains
arm_stays_inside_the_iterated_tenants_scope_window (fixture as in
TestBackfillTenantScope_Integration: global backend plus a private
backend of T, one pending block in scope U). While the arm iterates
only T, the block stays pending and neither backend sees a wire call;
once U joins the rotation, the block is embedded over the global
backend. Red with the arm passing nil instead of bt.owned: the T-only
phase embedded U's block ("pending = 0 while only tenant T is
iterated").

Review finding M3 (rebase).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…path

With embed_backfill.sync_budget=0 the inline embed ran under the bare
request context, and a client that went away mid-embed was still
classified caller_timeout. The query path excluded that class for
good, so with embed_backfill.interval=0 and Dream off the block was
never embedded again: nobody picked it up. The PR table row
"sync_budget=0, interval=0 -> pre-PR behavior" did not hold.

Two conditions, one per key:

- caller_timeout is classified only while a budget is active. It is a
  statement about the budget ("handed to the arm"); with sync_budget=0
  a request cancel keeps ClassifyEmbedError's wire class on the backoff
  curve, exactly as before the PR.
- backfillPending uses EmbedFailureQueryPathExcludedPredicate only while
  the arm runs (embed_backfill.interval > 0, global-only, so the request
  snapshot reads what the arm runs on). With the arm off it keeps the
  plain predicate and retries a caller_timeout block (due at once)
  within its budget, so the hand-off never leaves a block to nobody.

Both keys at 0 are now the pre-PR query path byte for byte: no budget,
wire class on cancel, plain predicate.

Tests (TestBackfillPending_SyncBudget_Integration):
- budget_zero_request_cancel_stays_wire: red before this commit with
  memo class "caller_timeout" due at once, green with "wire" on the
  backoff curve.
- arm_off_query_path_repicks_a_caller_timeout_block: red with
  backfilled = 0, green with the block embedded in one wire call.
- budget_cuts_the_slow_block_and_hands_it_to_the_arm now sets
  Interval = 15 s, since the hand-off it asserts needs a running arm.

Review finding M1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
backfillOneEmbedding peeks the oldest pending block. When no embed
backend was trusted for that block's floor-adjusted sensitivity, it
returned (false, nil) without a memo, and the next pick peeked the same
block again. Every younger block waited behind it for good, including
a caller_timeout block, which after the query path's hand-off only the
background arm still takes, and the scheduler logged one WARN per pick
forever. With the arm on by default, a credentials-default block on a
host whose only embed backend is no-credentials was enough to stop all
background embedding.

Two ways out were on the table:

- Memoize the block (class sensitivity_ineligible on the finite backoff
  curve). Rejected: that class is an infinity class in
  RecordEmbedFailure and in the cutover's memo copy, so the regular
  backfill would carry two meanings for one class. A block the audit
  lowers from the credentials default would wait out its backoff, up to
  backoff_cap (24 h by default). And a large unservable backlog would
  rewrite its memo rows on every backoff period.
- Narrow the pick to what the chain can serve. Chosen. On an empty chain
  for the peeked block, embeddableConjunct probes the weaker levels
  strictest-first. Chain eligibility is downward-closed in rank, because
  the only sensitivity gate in Pool.Chain is Trust.Allows, a rank
  threshold. The first level that resolves is the ceiling. The pick
  then gains "sensitivity = ANY(levels up to the ceiling)" and "scope <>
  ALL(scopes whose floor lifts above it)", and peeks again in the same
  call. Nothing is written, so the memo-free contract of
  store.EmbedFailureSensitivityIneligible holds as designed: eligibility
  is recomputed from the live chain on every pick, a trust change or a
  lowered sensitivity takes effect on the next one, and a pool outage
  (not even public resolves) stays the memo-free no-op it always was,
  still with its WARN. The extra chain probes run only when the oldest
  block is unservable; the normal path is unchanged.

This changes the shared function, so the dream loop's inline backfill
gets the same skip. That is intended: the dream loop had the same
head-of-line hazard.

Tests (TestBackfillTrustHeadOfLine_Integration, new):
- arm_reaches_a_caller_timeout_block_past_an_ineligible_oldest: oldest
  block credentials, the only backend no-credentials, a younger personal
  block with a caller_timeout memo. The arm embeds the younger block,
  and the credentials block stays pending with no memo row. Red before:
  still pending after 5 s.
- one_call_embeds_past_the_ineligible_head: one backfillOneEmbedding
  call (the dream loop's unit) reaches the younger block; the follow-up
  call is an empty pick, still memo-free. Red before: backfilled=false.
- scope_floor_lifts_a_block_out_of_reach: an internal block in a scope
  floored at credentials no longer blocks a plain internal block. Red
  before: backfilled=false.
- pool_outage_stays_memo_free: the only embed backend disabled, so
  nothing is picked or memoized. Green before and after; it pins the
  design constraint.

Review finding M2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After an oversize memo (pre-wire estimate or HTTP 400
exceed_context_size) backfillOneEmbedding reported "nothing backfilled",
and the dedicated arm waited a full embed_backfill.interval before the
next pick. The memo had already moved the block out of the pick and
said nothing about the backend, so the wait bought nothing: 1000
oversize blocks ahead of an embeddable one cost about 4 h at the 15 s
default.

The pick body is now backfillStep and returns a backfillOutcome:
idle (nothing picked, the pick released, or no chain), embedded,
parked (block-specific oversize memo committed), or failed (wire-class
memo committed). The arm loops at once on embedded and parked, and
waits the interval on idle and failed. A wire memo keeps the wait on
purpose: the backend is suspect, so it is probed once per interval
instead of the backlog being walked into wire memos against it. That
is the same rule Pfad A follows when it breaks after a wire failure.

backfillOneEmbedding stays as a thin wrapper (true iff embedded), so the
dream loop and the existing pick tests are unchanged. The dream loop
keeps its pacing: after a memo it falls through to its dream cycle, as
before.

Tests (TestEmbedBackfillArm_Pacing_Integration, Interval = 1 h so any
interval wait outlasts the test):
- parked_blocks_let_the_arm_go_on_at_once: three pre-check oversize
  blocks and one wire-400 oversize block ahead of an embeddable one. The
  young block is embedded within seconds and four infinity memos are
  written. Red before: "young block still pending after 5 s".
- wire_memo_keeps_the_interval_wait: a backend answering 500 sees one
  embed call in 1.5 s with two blocks pending. Green before and after;
  it pins the pacing choice.

Review finding m3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… one poll

embed_backfill.interval is a hot key, but the arm's idle wait was a
single time.After(interval) taken when the wait began. Lowering an
hour-long interval to 15 s left the arm asleep for the rest of the hour.
Only the off state (interval = 0) was polled.

The idle wait now runs in slices of at most backfillArmPoll (15 s) and
re-reads the key between slices, through the iterated tenant's
snapshot like the loop head. The key is global-only, so every tenant
sees the same value. The wait ends once now - start reaches the
current interval, so lowering it shortens the running wait and raising
it lengthens it. A switch to 0 ends the wait and the loop head takes
over with its off-poll. backfillArmPoll becomes a var for the
dreamYieldWait reason, so the test can shorten it.

Test: TestEmbedBackfillArm_IntervalHotReload_Integration. The arm idles
on a 1 h interval, then the store is replaced with interval = 100 ms
(Validate-clean generation, poll 50 ms) and a block is seeded. Red
before: "pending = 1 3 s after lowering the interval from 1 h to
100 ms". Green: embedded within the poll.

Review finding (hot reload of interval).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The arm tests start runEmbedBackfillLoop directly. Deleting
`go s.runEmbedBackfillLoop(ctx)` from Run would leave all of them green,
and a deployment with dream.enabled=false would be back at "nothing
embeds in the background", the original issue.

TestEmbedBackfillArm_WiredIntoRun_Integration boots the whole Run with
DreamEnabled=false over a real test database (DSN for the NOTIFY
listener, the embed backend as a context_backends row because the boot
backlog reloads the pool from the database, interval also set in the env
so both config paths converge). It asserts the end result: the pending
block gets its embedding. Nothing else in Run embeds pending blocks: the
dream loop is off, and the re-embed migration arm is inert without an
active migration. So the block is reachable only through the arm's
goroutine.

Red: with the Run line commented out, "pending = 1 30 s after Run with
DreamEnabled=false". Green: embedded within the first pick (about 4 s
including the boot).

Review finding m4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/operations.md:
- The backfill-memo paragraph claimed "ClearEmbedding does NOT currently
  clear the block's failure memo". Wrong since W04-3: ClearEmbeddingTx,
  behind ClearEmbedding (manage-update, MCP update) and behind
  UpsertBlock's real-content-change path, deletes the block's backfill
  memo (migration_id IS NULL) in the same transaction that nulls its
  vectors. A content edit that shrinks an oversize-parked block makes it
  pickable on the next cycle.
- The arm paragraph now states the hardened contract: per-tenant scope
  window, pacing (embedded or parked: at once; empty pick or wire memo:
  interval), the 15 s slices that apply a hot interval change, the
  memo-free skip past blocks no eligible embed backend can serve, and
  the independent opt-outs (sync_budget=0 keeps wire on a request
  cancel; interval=0 keeps caller_timeout blocks in the query path's
  pick; both at 0 is the pre-arm behavior). It also names the mixed
  case sync_budget > 0, interval = 0, Dream off: a block that never fits
  the budget is cut by every query and stays unembedded until the arm or
  Dream is switched on.
- Remaining risk, named: one arm embed of a large block can hold a CPU
  embed backend for minutes, and an interactive embed on the same
  backend waits behind it (the dispatch layer overtakes waiting
  background acquires, not running prefills, unless the target opted
  into preempt_background). Recommendation: a dream-embed backend, to
  which the scheduler's embed chain switches as soon as any row carries
  that role, while the query path stays on embed.

Code comments and key descriptions:
- Run: the "Backfill stays single-threaded" comment predates the arm.
  Pending embeddings now have the arm plus each dream worker's inline
  pick, kept on distinct blocks by FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED.
- config.go SyncBudget/Interval and descriptions.go: the same pacing
  and opt-out contract in one line each.

Review findings M1, M2, m3, M4 (docs), hot-reload, and the stale
ClearEmbedding claim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The embed-backfill arm, the query-path sync budget and the
caller_timeout hand-off, plus the hardening that ships with them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DamieMoon and others added 16 commits October 22, 2026 23:13
…ation 155

A fourth wire protocol, "anthropic", for the native Anthropic Messages API
(POST /v1/messages). This commit adds the constant and the row shape the
wire needs; the wire itself follows in go/internal/llm.

Validation (422 on create and update, protocol-bound so openai/ollama rows
keep their freedoms): api_key_ref required (the key travels as x-api-key),
locality external, num_ctx > 0 (no window discovery on this wire —
synthesis would fail closed on promptguard.ErrUndeclaredWindow),
provider_class generic, no embed/dream-embed/rerank roles (the Messages
API has no such endpoints; embed.go would silently dispatch them onto the
Ollama path), effort in extra_body or model_map params limited to
low|medium|high|xhigh|max, and the /v1 root guard extended (the wire
appends /v1/messages itself).

Migration 155 widens the CHECK on context_backends.protocol. The baseline
declared it inline and unnamed, so the DO block resolves the name from
pg_constraint by table and definition (the pattern 113 and 114 already
use) before re-adding it as context_backends_protocol_check.

Manifest: the schema contract records column types, indexes, functions,
triggers, rules and hypertables — no CHECK clauses — so a regeneration
after 155 changes only generated_against.migration_max (155) and
migration_count (43). Those two fields are bumped by hand here because the
generator needs Docker (testcontainers), which the authoring seat does not
have; the integration job's contract check verifies the manifest against
the live chain.

Tests: TestValidateAnthropicHappyPath, TestValidateAnthropicRules (one
mutation per rule, plus the valid effort set and the protocol-boundedness
check). docs/architecture.md names the protocol.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
chatWithFormat gains a third leg: ProtocolAnthropic dispatches to
chatAnthropic (anthropic.go), POST {base_url}/v1/messages with x-api-key
and anthropic-version headers (core headers set last, after
extra_headers, as setChatHeaders does). The request carries the system
prompt as a top-level text block with cache_control ephemeral, the user
prompt as the single message, max_tokens from NumPredict (16000 when the
caller sets none — the field is required on this wire), and
output_config.effort resolved from the role's model_map params
(Options.Extra) over the row's extra_body over the explicit default
medium. No sampling parameter is ever marshalled: the Claude 5 models
answer 400 to temperature/top_p/top_k, and the OpenAI-compatible layer ctx
used until now needed a stripping sidecar for exactly that. The think
toggle is ignored (thinking cannot be disabled on Opus 5.5; effort is the
depth control), logprobs are never requested (the decide primitive falls
back through its existing ErrNoLogprobs memo), and ChatJSON is a
documented no-op (output_config.format needs a JSON schema ctx does not
have; the pipelines' parsers stay the validator, the CTX_DREAM_JSON_MODE=off
contract). Other extra_body keys merge top-level, row over params.

Response: text blocks joined, thinking blocks skipped; PromptTokens is the
TOTAL prompt (input_tokens + cache_read + cache_creation — Anthropic's
input_tokens is the uncached remainder) so llmlog's prompt_tokens stays
comparable across wires; the two cache counters travel in new
ChatResponse fields and reach llmlog metadata through
ApplyProviderTelemetry (cache_read_input_tokens /
cache_creation_input_tokens, written only when non-zero so other wires'
rows stay byte-identical); the message id lands in provider_request_id;
cost stays NULL. stop_reason is mapped onto the vocabulary the consumers
read (end_turn→stop, max_tokens→length, tool_use→tool_calls,
refusal→content_filter, unknown raw, absent ""), because dream's cap
detection compares against "length" and the chat harness against
"tool_calls" — a raw pass-through would hide both. Non-2xx answers wrap
httpx.StatusError as on every wire (429 → RateLimit with Retry-After,
529 overloaded → Gateway failover, 401 → Auth, 400 → BadRequest, 500 →
ServerFault) with the provider's error type folded into the message.

Tests (httptest fakes, no live key): request shape and headers, effort
precedence, extra_body merge, JSON no-op, max_tokens fallback, empty
system omitted, response decode incl. cache counters and telemetry,
stop-reason table, error classification; anthropic rows in the wire-path
and finish-reason tables; the MW6 dispatch invariant gains the seventh
wire site (llm/anthropic.go pinned, Σ acquires == Σ wire contacts).

docs/api.md: the Anthropic paragraph under Backend pool.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ChatStreamBackend is the new protocol dispatch of the streaming path: it
takes the Backend (ChatStream took host/key/model loosely and never read
b.Protocol) and routes ProtocolAnthropic to chatStreamAnthropic
(anthropic_stream.go), everything else to ChatStream as before — ollama
rows included, which always streamed over /v1/chat/completions. The chat
harness (chat/engine.go runStream) calls it; ChatStream stays exported as
the openai implementation its tests drive.

The anthropic leg feeds the same StreamEvent/StreamResult contract: a
dedicated SSE parser keys on the data frame's own "type" (message_start →
prompt + cache counters; content_block_start tool_use → pending call and
the ToolCallName event; text_delta → ContentDelta; input_json_delta →
arguments fragments, assembled into the object form ToolCall carries;
message_delta → mapped stop reason and output_tokens; message_stop →
done; error → *StreamError with the provider's error type; ping,
thinking_delta and signature_delta ignored). Lenient ending as on the
openai parser: EOF after message_delta is a complete turn, EOF before it
is a hard error.

Message mapping: system rows lift into the cached top-level system block,
an assistant row with tool calls becomes [text?, tool_use…] (unparseable
arguments replay as {} — the executor already answered them ok:false), a
tool row becomes a user turn with a tool_result block, and consecutive
same-role turns fold into one message (the API requires alternation; a
parallel-call turn yields several tool rows). ToolDef becomes
{name, description, input_schema}; no tool_choice (a 400 on Claude Opus
5.5; auto is what the openai wire sends too).

StreamResult gains the cache counters and the message id; recordLLM
writes them into the web-chat llmlog row (metadata.cache_read_input_tokens
/ cache_creation_input_tokens / provider_request_id) through the shared
ApplyCacheTelemetry.

Tests: three hand-written fixtures from the Messages API event reference
(content with thinking + ping, two tool calls with fragmented
partial_json and an empty-input call, mid-stream overloaded_error);
lenient and hard endings; 529 → ClassGateway via errors.As; callback
abort; the full tool round-trip request shape (headers, cached system,
folded tool results, input_schema, effort, forbidden keys absent); the
dispatch across openai/ollama/anthropic rows; message edge cases. The
MW6 dispatch invariant drives the eighth wire site (llm/anthropic_stream.go
pinned, Σ acquires == Σ wire contacts holds at 8/8 and 10/10).

docs/api.md: the web-chat harness paragraph names the per-protocol stream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The operator surfaces of the new wire protocol.

backend-test: probeBackendURL branches on the protocol before the
provider class — an anthropic row probes GET {base_url}/v1/models with
x-api-key + anthropic-version (no Bearer header); the generic branch
would have hit the bare root with a Bearer header, which the API answers
404 (reported as unreachable) or 401. The 1-token chat probe runs through
llm.Chat as before and so takes the anthropic wire automatically.

ctx backends seed: the chat leg accepts protocol anthropic and is
validated on the spec, before any secret is sealed — the embed leg
rejects it (the Messages API serves no embeddings), a keyless leg and a
leg without num_ctx (no window discovery on this wire) fail with the
reason. The same rules the server enforces as 422s, one layer earlier.

ctx init: the protocol prompt names anthropic; choosing it turns the
single-host wizard into a two-host one — it asks the chat model's
context window (default 100000), a separate embedding host and its
protocol (ollama default), and goes straight to the no-echo key prompt
instead of the "does the host need a key?" detour.

Web UI: 'anthropic' in the PROTOCOLS enum of the backend dialog.

Tests: seed error table (anthropic on embed / keyless / no num_ctx) and
the mixed-protocol happy path; the wizard flow with the scripted ask
(window default, separate embed host, key sealed once, not echoed, not
attached to the embed row); the handler probe against an httptest fake
(path, headers, base_url/auth ok).

Docs: operations.md (Backends — the two-host SeedSpec example and the
spec-level rules; Models & hardware; the CTX_DREAM_JSON_MODE row's
anthropic clause; the Migration 155 section with the downgrade note),
README's engine-agnostic sentence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
chatOptions builds the stream call's Options by hand (the harness owns
NumPredict and the think toggle, so it never runs applyModelParams) and
copied only temperature and top_p from the chat role's params. The
anthropic wire resolves output_config.effort from Options.Extra["effort"]
first — the slot applyModelParams fills on the non-stream path — so a row's
model_map.chat.params.effort was honoured by synthesis and dream but
silently ignored by web chat, which sent extra_body.effort or the default
medium instead. docs/api.md promised the params-over-extra_body precedence
for both. Found by the adversarial review; the existing tests injected
Options.Extra by hand and never went through chatOptions.

chatOptions now lifts params.effort into Options.Extra. Test:
TestChatOptionsCarriesModelMapEffort (and the nil slot without the param).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…the tail

Follow-ups from the three-way review of the anthropic wire against the
claude-api reference, the tests and the docs. Each one is a request the
Messages API would have answered 400 to, or a cache write paid for
nothing.

Thinking blocks ride along. The Claude 5 models think on every answer and
require the FINAL assistant turn of a tool loop to start with its thinking
block (empty text under the default display, the signature carries it).
The parser now re-assembles thinking (thinking_delta + signature_delta,
sealed on content_block_stop) and redacted_thinking blocks into
StreamResult.ProviderBlocks; the harness puts them on the assistant
ChatMsg it appends for the next iteration (ChatMsg.ProviderBlocks,
json:"-" so the OpenAI wire never sees it, not persisted — later turns
replay without them, which the API accepts for non-final turns), and
anthropicMessages emits them first in the assistant turn. Without this
the second iteration of every tool-using turn was a 400.

Orphaned tool_use is repaired. A turn interrupted between the model's
tool call and the tool's result leaves an assistant tool_use without a
tool_result in the persisted history, and the API rejects that on every
later turn of the session. anthropicMessages now answers every unanswered
tool_use with a synthetic is_error tool_result before the next user text
(and at the end of the history). Tool calls without ids — an openai-wire
row earlier in the session; llama.cpp streams calls without one — get
synthetic ids, matched in order to the tool rows that follow.

Prompt cache actually hits. Every pipeline ends its system prompt with
promptguard.Rule(nonce), fresh per call; one cached block carrying it
would be written on every call and read never (cache_creation > 0,
cache_read == 0, a pure 1.25x surcharge). anthropicSystem splits the rule
into a second, unmarked block, so the stable prefix is the breakpoint.
The stream path additionally sends the top-level automatic cache_control,
so the growing history is read from cache across iterations and turns.

Smaller: message_delta usage copies each input counter only when it is
itself present, so a delta carrying input_tokens alone cannot zero the
cache counters; a nameless tool_use block (proxy artefact) is dropped
instead of dispatched as an empty call; StreamError exposes its provider
error type and backends.Classify maps the anthropic types inside a
mid-stream error event onto the classes the equivalent status codes get
(overloaded_error → gateway failover, rate_limit_error → rate limit,
authentication_error → auth, invalid_request_error → bad request,
api_error → stop) — OpenRouter's numeric codes keep the stop default;
handleFrame split into per-event methods (cyclop); the package doc names
the model floor (effort is always sent) and why raw net/http over the Go
SDK.

Tests: thinking/redacted blocks carried and placed first (fixture now
opens with the thinking block Opus 5.5 always sends), orphan and empty-id
repair, per-field usage, nameless tool_use, top-level cache_control on
the stream path and its absence on the non-stream path, the promptguard
split (byte-identical prefix across nonces), StreamError classification.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…mbed key

ctx init, anthropic branch: a non-numeric context window ("100k") no
longer falls back to 100000 silently — the step aborts with the reason
before any secret is sealed or any row written (a typo'd window would
have seeded a tenth of the prompt budget the operator meant). The
separately asked embedding host gets the same "does it need an API key?"
question the single-host flow has, so a keyed openai embedding service
can be seeded next to the Anthropic chat row.

probeBackendURL: the comment claimed the chat probe never runs after a
401 on /v1/models; it does (the row counts as reachable) and 401s the
same way, billing nothing — the comment now says so.

Tests: TestInitBackendsStepAnthropicRejectsBadWindow; the wizard flow
test answers the new embed-key question.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…re and UI help

docs/api.md: the complete stop-reason mapping (stop_sequence, pause_turn,
model_context_window_exceeded were applied but not listed), the 16000
max_tokens fallback, the model floor of the always-sent effort field, the
mid-stream error classification, the refusal-after-partial-text
behaviour, the three session repairs and the two cache breakpoints of the
stream path, and the OpenAI-compatible-layer claims marked as what they
are — observed on the ku-heimdall install, not reference facts.

docs/operations.md: the first-run step names the anthropic wizard
questions; the Migration 155 downgrade note describes both old
fallthroughs (Ollama path on the pipelines, OpenAI SSE on web chat) and
that the pool loads the row unvalidated. docs/architecture.md: the
transport-retry enumeration names the anthropic wire.

go/internal/config/validate.go: the V4 comment lists the four protocols.
Web: ModelMapEditor's help text names the Anthropic wire (and the effort
key's destination); settings.ts' dormant protocol mirror and its test
carry 'anthropic' so the declared mirror is true again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hropic.com

Skipped under -short and without CTX_ANTHROPIC_SMOKE_KEY, so CI never
spends tokens. By hand it proves what the httptest fakes cannot: the
request shape is accepted by the real endpoint, the prompt cache hits on
the second call (stable prefix above 512 tokens, fresh promptguard nonce
per call), the thinking block replays through a streamed tool round trip
(and what the API says about the same round trip without it), effort low
and high are accepted, the 1-token backend-test probe's behaviour on a
thinking model, and a bad key classifying as auth. Every probe logs the
usage it saw (tokens, cache counters, message id).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Integration-tagged: the full migration chain on the prod-parity image,
then the constraint context_backends_protocol_check exists by name,
admits 'anthropic' next to openai/ollama/rerank, is the only CHECK on
the table that mentions the column (the DO block's catalog lookup stays
unambiguous), an anthropic row inserts, and an unknown protocol fails
with SQLSTATE 23514 on that named constraint. Ran locally against
testcontainers (colima) — PASS in 2.2 s; the schema-manifest generator
run on the same image reproduced the hand-bumped manifest.json byte for
byte.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n observed 400

The adversarial review of the last three commits caught an overstatement:
docs/api.md, the anthropic_stream.go comments and a test comment said the
API "requires" the final assistant turn of a tool loop to start with its
thinking block. The claude-api reference asks that a turn whose tool_use
still awaits its result KEEP its thinking block and rejects an altered
one; live on 2026-10-11 (claude-opus-5-5) a short tool turn came back
with no thinking block at all — even with thinking.display summarized
and effort high — and the round trip was accepted. The replay mechanism
stays (it honours the reference's rule whenever a block is produced, and
the fixtures cover that path); the wording now says exactly that.

The live smoke test reports when the replay path was not exercised
instead of logging an "accepted without the block" line that compared
two identical requests, asks for visible reasoning on the tool turn, and
its header says that the integration job (which runs without -short)
relies on the absent key alone. The Migration 155 integration test also
pins that the column's DEFAULT 'openai' survives the constraint swap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ay commit

"accepted either way" said two variants were sent when the live run sent
one (no block was produced); the stale header line said thinking deltas
are ignored while the parser accumulates them into the replay block; the
live test's stripped-block log no longer calls a rejection "expected"
(the reference only asks to keep the block). In the live test the second
and the stripped third round-trip call now send the same effort ("high")
as the first — an effort change invalidates the messages cache by itself
and would mask the prefix question — and the second call's NumPredict
rises 1024 → 2048 to match the first, headroom for the high-effort turn.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ice none

The chat harness's closing call (finalCall, after the iteration cap or the
tool budget) and every iteration on a row below full trust sent no tools
array, while the history still carried tool_use / tool_result blocks and,
inside a turn, the previous iteration's thinking block (ProviderBlocks).

On the Messages API a replayed thinking block is accepted only while the
system prompt, the tools and the earlier messages it was produced under are
unchanged; accounts created on or after 2026-08-31 get a 400 otherwise
(https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/errors#thinking-block-no-longer-matches-the-conversation).
Dropping the tools array on the closing call therefore broke exactly the
request that has to land.

- Full-trust anthropic row, closing call: the same tools array the loop sent
  plus tool_choice {"type":"none"} (Options.ToolChoiceNone). "none" is
  accepted on Claude Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5.5
  (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/errors#forced-tool-use-not-supported)
  and tool_choice is outside the checked prefix
  (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/preserved-thinking).
- Anthropic request without tool definitions (row below full trust, tools
  switched off): ctx's tool definitions still never reach such a row; the
  tool history is rendered as text for that request and no thinking block
  is sent (removing all of them keeps the request valid, same reference).
- openai/ollama wire unchanged: the closing call still sends no tools array
  (E4), pinned by H13a, now with toolsEnabled=true.

Tests: final_call_anthropic_test.go (fake upstream, body inspected: tools
byte-identical to a loop iteration, tool_choice none, thinking replayed;
below full trust: no tools / tool_choice / tool or thinking blocks, history
as text, alternation kept), TestAnthropicStreamToolChoiceNone,
TestAnthropicMessagesWithoutToolsRendersText.

Review finding 1 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…level

max_tokens on the anthropic wire was the pipeline's NumPredict — sized for
the visible answer (synthesis 500, temporal 300, topiclabel 128, translate
100). Claude Opus 5.5 always thinks and thinking tokens count against
max_tokens, so a short budget could end a call at max_tokens with no text
(https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/thinking-troubleshooting,
"The response stops with stop_reason max_tokens": "Raise max_tokens to
leave room for both thinking and text"). max_tokens is a ceiling, billing
follows the tokens generated, so a generous reserve costs nothing by itself.

- anthropicMaxTokens(opts, effort) = NumPredict (or the 16000 fallback)
  + reserve(effort): low 4096, medium 8192, high 16384, xhigh 32768,
  max 65536, capped at the 128K output ceiling of the Claude 5 models.
  Same helper on the non-stream and the stream path.
- Options.ExactMaxTokens keeps a call at NumPredict verbatim: set by the new
  llm.ProbeOptions() (the backend-test 1-token probe, handler chatProbe,
  and the live smoke's probe shape) and by DecideOptions() (decide reads
  logprobs, which this wire never returns — it only has to stay cheap).
- An answer that still ends at the output limit with no text and no tool
  call returns ErrOutputLimitNoText (max_tokens, effort and output tokens
  in the message) instead of an empty answer. Chosen at the wire because
  every pipeline funnels through it and none treats "" + length as an
  error today (dream's cap-hit retry only runs on a parse failure, the
  query synthesis would return an empty synthesis). It classifies as the
  unclassified stop (no failover, no cooldown) and lands in the chain's
  WARN line and the llmlog row's error. A truncated answer WITH text stays
  a FinishReason=length response; the probe keeps its empty max_tokens
  answer as success.

Tests: TestAnthropicMaxTokensThinkingReserve, TestAnthropicMaxTokensWithoutTextIsAnError,
TestAnthropicStreamMaxTokensWithoutTextIsAnError, TestChatProbeAnthropicKeepsOneToken
(red before the probe switched to ProbeOptions: max_tokens=8193 and the
empty answer rejected).

Review finding 2 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nnot take

validateAnthropic checked only `effort`. Both carriers merge verbatim into
the Messages API body — extra_body top-level, model_map params through
applyModelParams' default branch — so a key that body cannot take was a 400
on every call instead of a 422 at write time, the exact pattern the effort
check already follows ("a typo never reaches the provider as a 400").

Rejected on an anthropic row (422, create and update):
- extra_body: temperature / top_p / top_k (400 on the Claude 5 models,
  removed on every model by API version 2026-10-21,
  https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/versioning);
- both carriers: OpenAI-compatible / llama.cpp / OpenRouter / Ollama dialect
  fields (chat_template_kwargs, response_format, reasoning, seed,
  frequency_penalty, presence_penalty, logit_bias, stop, format, …) and the
  fields the wire builds itself (model, messages, system, stream, tools,
  tool_choice);
- output_config that is not an object or carries effort (the effort has
  its own key and precedence).

Stays allowed: model_map params that applyModelParams routes into dedicated
Options fields this wire never marshals (temperature, top_p, top_k, min_p,
repeat_penalty, presence_penalty, num_predict, max_tokens, think) — rejecting
them would only break shared model_map habits for no wire effect; and the
extra_body hatch for Messages API fields the wire does not model
(thinking.display, stop_sequences, metadata, a numeric max_tokens override).
Rejecting at write time rather than filtering on the wire matches the
existing validation and keeps a misconfigured row visible instead of
silently half-applied.

buildAnthropicBody now merges an output_config object one level deep into
the wire's own output_config (params first, row last, resolved effort over
both); the flat merge replaced it and dropped output_config.effort.

Tests: TestValidateAnthropicRejectsUnservedKeys (51 red assertions before),
TestAnthropicOutputConfigDeepMerge.

Review finding 3 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
anthropicMessages tested `m.Content != ""` before building a text block.
An assistant turn whose content is only whitespace — typical when an
earlier turn of the same web-chat session was served by an openai-wire row
that streamed a bare newline ahead of its tool call — became a text block
of whitespace, which the Messages API rejects (the reference states
minLength 1 for a text block; whitespace-only text is rejected in practice
according to error reports, not verified against the live API here).

blankText (strings.TrimSpace == "") now guards every place that builds a
text block on this wire: system rows, user and assistant turns, the tool
history rendered as text (anthropicTextMessages), the system prompt itself
and its promptguard split (a blank stable prefix yields the rule block
alone instead of a blank cached block). A blank tool_result content is
omitted (content is optional on a tool_result). Non-blank text is still
sent verbatim, surrounding whitespace included.

Test: TestAnthropicMessagesDropWhitespaceText (both history renderings,
the system prompt and its split; 10 red assertions before).

Review finding 4 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GottZ and others added 4 commits October 22, 2026 23:13
…utral wording

- anthropic.go: the version comment said 2023-06-01 is "the only GA value";
  https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/versioning lists 2026-10-21 as
  well. The pin stays 2023-06-01, now with the reason: the wire sends none
  of what 2026-10-21 removes (document blocks in assistant turns, citations
  in user text, temperature/top_p/top_k), so the request shape is the same
  under both, 2023-06-01 is what the wire was verified against live, and a
  move belongs to the migration guide with the live smoke re-run.
- The constant is exported (llm.AnthropicVersion) and SetAnthropicHeaders
  with it: backend-test's GET /v1/models probe hard-coded "2023-06-01" and
  ignored the row's extra_headers. It now sends the wire's header set —
  extra_headers first, version pin and x-api-key on top — so the probe
  checks what the wire will send. TestBackendTestAnthropicProbe pins it
  (red before: the row's X-Title never reached the probe).
- Contributor's installation name replaced by neutral wording in
  docs/api.md and anthropic.go.
- protocol_anthropic_integration_test.go: "prod-parity PostgreSQL" was only
  true with CTX_TEST_PG_IMAGE set; the default testdb image is
  timescale/timescaledb-ha:pg18. Said so.

Review finding 5 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TestAnthropicLiveEffortAndProbe only logged an HTTP error from the
backend-test probe shape and passed. backend-test reports a row as
reachable only when that call succeeds, so a rejected probe (a 4xx on
max_tokens 1, say) is exactly the regression the smoke exists to catch.
Any error from the probe is now a t.Errorf with the class backend-test
would report.

Env-gated, so CI never runs it. Verified without the real API against a
local fake upstream via CTX_ANTHROPIC_SMOKE_HOST: a fake answering the
probe with 400 passed before and fails now; a fake answering it like
Claude Opus 5.5 (empty text, stop_reason max_tokens) passes.

Review finding 6 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stream parser kept the reasoning blocks of an answer in a separate
list and anthropicMessages replayed them FIRST, then the joined text, then
the tool_use blocks. That is the API's order only for [thinking, text,
tool_use...]. On Claude Opus 5.5 text between tool calls comes back as
thinking blocks, so a multi-call turn interleaves thinking with its calls
— and the reference rejects thinking blocks in the latest assistant
message that were "edited, reordered, filtered out, or reconstructed"
(https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/errors#thinking-blocks-cannot-be-modified).

- The parser records every content block in stream order (text per block,
  sealed thinking / redacted_thinking, named tool_use) and, for an answer
  that carried a reasoning block, returns the whole turn as ProviderBlocks
  (contentInOrder; blank text blocks left out).
- anthropicMessages replays such a list verbatim as the assistant turn;
  the tool_use ids feed the orphan bookkeeping as before. A list holding
  reasoning blocks only is still placed ahead of the reconstructed text
  and calls.

Not done — persisting the blocks with the assistant row (chat messages do
have a metadata JSON column, so no schema change would be needed): a
replayed thinking block is accepted only while the system prompt, the
tools and every earlier message are unchanged, and the next turn's history
is neither — the system prompt carries the date, buildHistory condenses
and drops old turns past its budget. Persisted blocks would become 400s on
accounts enforced on the prefix check. Follow-up once the history is
append-only (or with the thinking-binding-controls beta's drop_block).
The cache comment that promised hits "across each turn of the session" is
corrected to what holds: within one turn's tool loop; across turns only up
to the first difference, and the 5-minute TTL usually lapses between human
turns. docs/api.md says the same.

Tests: TestAnthropicStreamReplaysContentInAPIOrder (red before: thinking
hoisted ahead of the text and between-call thinking moved before both
calls), TestAnthropicMessagesReasoningOnlyProviderBlocksLeadTheTurn; the
two replay tests now pin the whole-turn ProviderBlocks.

Review finding 8 (PR #47 hardening).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The native Anthropic Messages API wire protocol, plus the hardening that
ships with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@GottZ
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This pull request adds native Anthropic Messages API support for chat backends, including streaming, tool handling, validation, and setup. It also adds configurable query-path embedding budgets and an independent background backfill scheduler with eligibility-aware block selection.

Changes: Anthropic Messages API

Layer / File(s) Summary
Protocol setup, validation, and seeding
go/internal/backends/*, go/migrations/155_backend_protocol_anthropic.sql, go/internal/cli/*, go/web/src/lib/*, go/web/src/routes/settings/backends/ModelMapEditor.svelte, README.md, docs/operations.md, docs/architecture.md
The backend protocol lists now include Anthropic. Backend validation and CLI seeding enforce its chat-only requirements, key, context window, and carrier-key rules. Migration 155 updates the protocol constraint.
Messages API request and streaming wires
go/internal/llm/anthropic.go, go/internal/llm/anthropic_stream.go, go/internal/llm/client.go, go/internal/llm/stream.go, go/internal/llm/*test.go, go/internal/llm/testdata/*
The LLM package builds non-streaming and streaming Messages API requests, maps responses and errors, handles effort and token limits, and retains provider blocks and cache-token counts.
Chat, tool-call, and probe integration
go/internal/chat/*, go/internal/handler/backends_manage.go, go/internal/handler/backends_test_anthropic_test.go, go/internal/llm/chain.go, go/internal/llm/anthropic_live_test.go, docs/api.md, docs/architecture.md, CONTRIBUTORS.md
The chat engine dispatches Anthropic streams and preserves provider blocks through tool loops. Closing calls can retain Anthropic tool definitions with tool_choice: none. Backend probes use Anthropic headers, and chat logging records provider request and cache telemetry.

Embedding backfill scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Backfill budgets and failure memos
go/internal/config/*, go/internal/store/embed_failures.go, go/internal/handler/query.go, go/internal/handler/backfill_syncbudget_integration_test.go, docker-compose.yml, docs/operations.md
Configuration adds sync_budget and interval. Query-path embedding requests use the configured budget, and timed-out blocks receive immediately eligible caller_timeout memos. Query-path selection excludes those memos while background scheduling is enabled.
Independent scheduler arm and eligible block picking
go/internal/events/scheduler.go, go/internal/events/*integration_test.go
The scheduler runs backfill independently of Dream, rotates tenants, and adjusts wait behavior based on pick outcomes. The picker can continue past blocks that are not eligible for the available embedding chain.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatEngine
  participant ChatStreamBackend
  participant AnthropicWire
  participant AnthropicMessagesAPI
  ChatEngine->>ChatStreamBackend: dispatch backend stream request
  ChatStreamBackend->>AnthropicWire: select Anthropic streaming implementation
  AnthropicWire->>AnthropicMessagesAPI: send Messages API request
  AnthropicMessagesAPI-->>AnthropicWire: return streaming events
  AnthropicWire-->>ChatEngine: return stream result and provider blocks
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7edbb

This adds native Anthropic chat support and a background embedding backfill, both reasonably covered by tests. One small gap remains: if Anthropic reports a timeout in the middle of a response stream, the system won't fall back to another backend the way it does for the equivalent HTTP timeout. The fix is a one-line change and is safe to take as a follow-up.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7edbb

The change adds an external service connection and automatic background processing. Credentials can cross endpoint boundaries on redirects, and background processing can lose tenant restrictions when ownership resolution fails. Concurrent attempts can also weaken retry backoff. Exposure depends on configured endpoints, provider permissions, and operational conditions.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The native protocol sends x-api-key through HTTP clients without a redirect-origin restriction. Unlike the existing Authorization carrier, this custom header is copied to unrelated redirect destinations by the default client policy. A configured endpoint returning an attacker-directed redirect can therefore disclose the resolved provider credential during either inference or the administrative probe. Endpoint configuration is privileged, and no such redirect or disclosure was observed.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The new independent arm inherits an existing fail-open tenant fallback: a tenant-register error or no active tenants produces a global identity with no owned-scope restriction. Its picker can then process pending blocks across tenant scopes through shared eligible providers, rather than preserving suspension and ownership exclusions. The helper predates this PR, but the new default-enabled arm makes this embedding path reachable without Dream. Provider visibility and sensitivity gates still constrain destinations.
  • Low · reliability · inferred: Query and scheduled attempts can select the same block because only scheduled selection holds a row lock. A late query caller_timeout upsert unconditionally replaces last_class and next_attempt_at, so it can erase a worker's newly committed wire backoff and make the block due again. Unlocked query selection predates the PR; the immediately eligible timeout class and independent worker introduce this additional ordering failure. The arm's interval and admission controls limit retry frequency, but do not preserve exponential failure containment.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Redirect exposure is bounded by the resolved credential's provider-side permissions, not by the triggering chat session. The global fallback has a different scope: potentially all eligible pending, non-archived blocks across tenants, but only shared visible providers that pass the selected sensitivity and role gates.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The credential path requires a configured endpoint to return an attacker-directed redirect; ordinary chat content alone does not establish that control. The ownership path requires tenant enumeration to fail or produce no active tenants while later backfill operations succeed. Neither path was reproduced against a deployed environment.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The production backend-test action requires valid authentication and server-admin authorization before dispatch. It resolves the tested backend from the pool by ID rather than accepting a URL or credential directly in the probe request. Canonical credential headers overwrite configurable extra headers, and probe responses expose status summaries rather than upstream bodies.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Transactional scheduled picks protect vector and memo commits against competing scheduled workers. They do not establish ordering against detached query-time memo writes. The new timeout upsert can therefore weaken shared-provider failure containment despite interval pacing and admission controls.
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Thanks again, Damien. This is a substantial and careful piece of work: no new dependencies, nothing turned on by default, the dispatch invariant tightened rather than loosened, and Migration 155, the validation, wizard, seed and UI all wired through. The integration side held up in review without findings. I rebased the branch onto the hardened #46 (so onto the current root as well) and added hardening commits on top, one topic each. Your commits are unchanged in substance. Two notes on the rebase: your ci(lint) bump is dropped, because root already pins golangci-lint v2.15.0 for the newer toolchain. And the branch was force-pushed, so the SHAs moved.

The wire findings were checked against the official docs (platform.claude.com), not only against the code:

1 · Closing call keeps the tools array, with tool_choice: none (fix(chat)). After the iteration cap, finalCall sent no tools, and neither did a failover onto a row below full trust. The history still carried tool_use/tool_result and, within the turn, the replayed thinking blocks. Per errors#thinking-block-no-longer-matches-the-conversation, a replayed thinking block is accepted only while system, tools and the preceding messages are unchanged, and that is a 400 for accounts created on or after 2026-08-31. Now a full-trust anthropic row keeps the loop's exact tools array plus tool_choice: {"type":"none"} (accepted on Opus 5.5 per errors#forced-tool-use-not-supported; tool_choice is outside the prefix check per preserved-thinking). A row below full trust never receives tool definitions; its tool history is rendered as text, without thinking blocks. The openai/ollama wire is unchanged (E4/H13a).

2 · Thinking reserve on max_tokens (fix(llm)). max_tokens was the pipeline's NumPredict: synthesis 500, translate 100, temporal 300, topiclabel 128. Opus 5.5 always thinks, and thinking counts against max_tokens (thinking-troubleshooting), so a budget sized for the answer could end at max_tokens with no text. Your own 1-token probe shows the mechanism. The wire now sends NumPredict plus a reserve per effort step, from low 4096 to max 65536, capped at 128K. max_tokens is a ceiling, not a charge. The probe and decide keep exact values (ExactMaxTokens). An answer that still ends at the limit without text is ErrOutputLimitNoText instead of an empty string flowing into FormatAnswer.

3 · Keys the Messages API rejects are a 422 (fix(backends)). validateAnthropic checked only effort. A row's extra_body with temperature/top_p/top_k (removed on Claude 5.x and on API version 2026-10-21) or openai/Ollama dialect keys (chat_template_kwargs, response_format, seed, …) reached the provider as a 400 on every call. So did unknown model_map params that applyModelParams puts top-level. Both carriers are now validated on create and update, in the same pattern as your effort check. model_map temperature/top_p/top_k stay allowed: they land in dedicated Options fields this wire never marshals. output_config is merged one level deep, so an extra_body.output_config no longer replaces the resolved effort.

4 · No whitespace-only text blocks (fix(llm)). An assistant row of only "\n", typical of a llama.cpp turn earlier in the same session on the openai wire, became {"type":"text","text":"\n"}. That is rejected per several error reports; officially only minLength 1 is documented. A blankText check now covers every place that builds a text block, the system split included.

5 · Tool-loop replay in the API's block order (fix(llm)). Within a turn, the replay hoisted all thinking blocks ahead of the text. On Opus 5.5, text between tool calls arrives as thinking blocks, and the docs ask for blocks to be passed back unchanged, so the turn is now replayed in the order it came. Persisting the blocks across turns is not done: the system prompt carries the date and buildHistory trims old turns, so stored blocks would turn into 400s on accounts with the strict check. The cache comment that promised cross-turn reads is corrected. That stays a follow-up for when the history is append-only.

6 · Docs and tidy-ups. The anthropic-version comment ("only GA value") is corrected: 2026-10-21 exists, and 2023-06-01 stays on purpose, with the reason in the comment. The probe now shares llm.AnthropicVersion and SetAnthropicHeaders, so it sends the row's ExtraHeaders like the wire does. Your install's name is replaced with neutral wording in docs/api.md and the code. "prod-parity" in the Migration 155 test now says it applies only with CTX_TEST_PG_IMAGE. The live smoke fails when the 1-token probe is rejected instead of only logging it.

Considered and left out: an explicit ambiguity check in Migration 155 (two matching CHECKs). The migration already fails loudly there, because ADD hits the name. Editing 155 would also put a checksum mismatch on every database that has already run your version, likely yours. Also not changed: locality: external stays required, as you designed it. A localhost proxy speaking the Messages API would be a later, separate step.

Gates: build, vet -tags=integration, golangci-lint v2.15.0 (0 issues), test -short, -race on llm/chat/backends, and the integration suites of chat, llm, backends and handler, all green. No live calls were made from here, so your live results from 11 October stand as the only live evidence. You're in CONTRIBUTORS.md for this one as well.

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Comment on lines +153 to +166
switch pe.ProviderErrorType() {
case "overloaded_error":
return ClassGateway
case "api_error":
return ClassServerFault
case "rate_limit_error":
return ClassRateLimit
case "billing_error":
return ClassBilling
case "authentication_error", "permission_error":
return ClassAuth
case "invalid_request_error", "not_found_error", "request_too_large":
return ClassBadRequest
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Map timeout_error to the same class as HTTP 504.

The comment states that mid-stream error types classify like their HTTP status. The Messages API also defines timeout_error, which corresponds to HTTP 504. Over HTTP, a 504 classifies as ClassGateway and the chain fails over. Inside an HTTP-200 stream, timeout_error matches no case here. It falls through to the ClassServerFault default and stops the chain.

This difference matters when the error event arrives before the first delta. message_start emits no StreamEvent, so started in engine.runStream stays false. A ClassGateway error could therefore still fail over to the next backend.

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--- "a/go/internal/backends/classify.go"
+++ "b/go/internal/backends/classify.go"
@@ -150,9 +150,9 @@
 	// stop-the-chain default below.
 	var pe providerErrorTyper
 	if errors.As(err, &pe) {
 		switch pe.ProviderErrorType() {
-		case "overloaded_error":
+		case "overloaded_error", "timeout_error":
 			return ClassGateway
 		case "api_error":
 			return ClassServerFault
 		case "rate_limit_error":

If you apply the fix, add "timeout_error": backends.ClassGateway to TestStreamErrorClassifiesLikeItsStatus.

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switch pe.ProviderErrorType() {
case "overloaded_error":
return ClassGateway
case "api_error":
return ClassServerFault
case "rate_limit_error":
return ClassRateLimit
case "billing_error":
return ClassBilling
case "authentication_error", "permission_error":
return ClassAuth
case "invalid_request_error", "not_found_error", "request_too_large":
return ClassBadRequest
}
switch pe.ProviderErrorType() {
case "overloaded_error", "timeout_error":
return ClassGateway
case "api_error":
return ClassServerFault
case "rate_limit_error":
return ClassRateLimit
case "billing_error":
return ClassBilling
case "authentication_error", "permission_error":
return ClassAuth
case "invalid_request_error", "not_found_error", "request_too_large":
return ClassBadRequest
}
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Review comment at @go/internal/backends/classify.go around lines 153 - 166:
Update the ProviderErrorType switch in the classification function so
timeout_error returns ClassGateway, matching HTTP 504 behavior. Add the
corresponding timeout_error expectation to
TestStreamErrorClassifiesLikeItsStatus.

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