fix(gui): render thinking blocks from structured reasoning_content - #16
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Fixes GUI rendering of “thinking” blocks when providers stream structured reasoning_content (as separate thinking role messages), aligning behavior with the existing inline <think>...</think> path and making reasoning duration available across render sites.
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- Seed/accumulate
historyItem.reasoningforthinking-role items and close open reasoning spans on role changes in the session reducer. - Extract shared duration helper (
reasoningElapsedMs) and wire it into bothChatandStepContainerrendering paths. - Add regression tests for
fromChatCompletionChunkstructured reasoning parsing and session reducer reasoning accumulation/closure.
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| File | Description |
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| gui/src/util/reasoningDuration.ts | New shared helper to compute reasoning span duration from session state. |
| gui/src/redux/slices/sessionSlice.ts | Close open reasoning spans on role change; seed reasoning metadata for structured thinking messages; mirror structured content into reasoning.text. |
| gui/src/redux/slices/sessionSlice.reasoning.test.ts | New vitest coverage for structured reasoning_content accumulation, closure, and <think> path regression. |
| gui/src/pages/gui/Chat.tsx | Render thinking blocks more robustly; drive in-progress/duration from reasoning span where available. |
| gui/src/components/StepContainer/StepContainer.tsx | Pass elapsed duration into ThinkingBlockPeek for non-chat render path. |
| gui/src/components/mainInput/belowMainInput/ThinkingBlockPeek.tsx | Prefer elapsed duration from state; keep mount-timing as fallback. |
| core/llm/fromChatCompletionChunk.test.ts | New jest coverage for chunk conversion: reasoning_content, tool calls, and null-content priming chunk behavior. |
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 5 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughStructured reasoning from llama.cpp streams is preserved in session state, closed with timestamps, and rendered in thinking blocks. Tests cover conversion, accumulation, tool-call closure, rendering, and duration display. ChangesStructured reasoning support
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participant Provider as llama.cpp stream
participant Converter as fromChatCompletionChunk
participant Session as streamUpdate
participant Chat as Chat
participant Peek as ThinkingBlockPeek
Provider->>Converter: emit reasoning_content delta
Converter->>Session: return thinking message
Session->>Session: accumulate content and start timing
Session->>Session: close reasoning span on role change
Session->>Chat: update chat history
Chat->>Peek: pass thinking content and elapsedMs
Peek-->>Chat: render reasoning duration
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Providers that stream reasoning in a dedicated `reasoning_content` delta rather than as inline `<think>` tags produced no thinking block at all. The reasoning was generated, converted, and reached Redux - it just never rendered. The conversion layer was correct all along. Reasoning reaches the UI by two paths, and only the `<think>` path was wired up: - Inline `<think>` tags are split out of assistant content and populate `lastItem.reasoning`, which is what the thinking block renders from. - Structured `reasoning_content` becomes its own thinking-role history item and never passes through those branches, so it carried no `reasoning` metadata and the block had nothing to display. Give the structured path the same timing metadata the tag path produces, and mirror message content into `reasoning.text` so one block behaves identically for both. Structured reasoning also has no terminator in the stream - it simply stops and the next message begins - so an open span never closed and the block could not report a duration. Close the trailing open span on role change, stopping at the first non-thinking item so an older turn is never reopened. Adds coverage for the previously untested path: converter-level cases for `reasoning_content` and the `reasoning` fallback, and reducer-level cases for accumulation and duration recording. Closes #13 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@gui/src/pages/gui/Chat.tsx`:
- Around line 350-355: Update the last-item check in the thinking-content
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Addresses review feedback on #16. An open reasoning span was only closed by `closeOpenReasoning` on a role change, or by `addPromptCompletionPair` when the thinking item happened to still be `at(-1)`. Two paths escaped both: - User cancellation runs `setInactive`/`abortStream` and never produces a completion pair, so the span stayed open for the life of the session. - With structured `reasoning_content` the tool call the reasoning produced is appended as an assistant item, so the thinking item is no longer last by the time the stream completes and the last-item-only check missed it. In both cases `active` stayed true and `endAt` was never set, so the block span forever and `reasoningElapsedMs` returned undefined permanently. Close from `setInactive`, which every termination route funnels through, and scan back from `addPromptCompletionPair` instead of checking only the last item. `closeOpenReasoning` now walks past assistant items that carry no reasoning of their own, since those belong to the turn still in flight; it still stops at a user message or at an assistant item with its own span, so an earlier turn can never be reopened. Gating the indicator on `isStreaming` in the view was the other option, but that hides the symptom while leaving `endAt` unset, which loses the duration. Also in `reasoningElapsedMs`: check `startAt`/`endAt` against undefined rather than falsily, so an epoch-0 timestamp is not discarded, and make the type-only import explicit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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683-686: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winExclude structured thinking messages from inline tag parsing.
Line 685 excludes only tool messages. It still accepts
message.role === "thinking". The earlier full-message parser at lines 593-632 has the same condition.When
reasoning_contentcontains<think>...</think>, the reducer writes reasoning metadata to the preceding item and creates an assistant item. The thinking block then does not render as structured reasoning.Make both tag-parsing guards assistant-only. Add a regression test with
<think>text in a structured reasoning delta.Proposed fix
- if (messageContent && message.role !== "tool") { + if (messageContent && message.role === "assistant") { ... - message.role !== "tool" + message.role === "assistant"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@gui/src/redux/slices/sessionSlice.ts`:
- Around line 683-686: Update both structured tag-parsing guards in the session
reducer, including the full-message parser and the inline parser near the shown
condition, to accept tags only when message.role is assistant; preserve tool and
thinking messages as structured reasoning. Add a regression test covering a
structured reasoning delta whose reasoning_content contains encoded think tags.
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closeOpenReasoning currently stops scanning at tool messages, which can leave an earlier reasoning.active span unclosed in some end/cancel states.
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Addresses CodeRabbit review on #16. `Chat.tsx` rendered `history.filter(role !== "system").map((item, index) => ...)` but compared that filtered index against the unfiltered `history.length - 1`. With a system item present the arithmetic never matches, so no item is ever "last": an empty thinking item then fails its `stillStreaming` check and is dropped mid-stream, leaving a gap with no explanation. The review flagged one site; the same comparison appeared at five, including the `minHeight` and `InlineErrorMessage` cases. Fixed by preserving each item's ORIGINAL index through the filter rather than by measuring against the filtered length. `index` is also consumed by `isLastUserInput`, `sendInput`, `latestSummaryIndex`, `historyIndex` and `stepsOpen`, all of which resolve against the unfiltered `history` — switching to filtered positions would have fixed `isLast` while silently desynchronising those five. Extracted to `renderedHistory.ts` so the invariant is testable rather than implicit in JSX. Verified the tests fail against the original comparison. Note: no current code path puts a system item into session history — the system message is assembled per-request in `redux/util/constructMessages.ts` and never stored. The `.filter()` is pre-existing and defensive; this makes the indices consistent with it rather than relying on that staying true. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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There are a couple of concrete correctness/maintainability issues in the modified code (notably prevItem wiring in StepContainer and a now-orphaned JSDoc block in sessionSlice) that should be addressed before approval.
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gui/src/redux/slices/sessionSlice.ts:78
- The JSDoc block immediately preceding
closeOpenReasoning(“Initializes tool call states…”) no longer documents the next symbol after insertingcloseOpenReasoning, so it’s now misleading/orphaned. It should be removed or moved tohandleToolCallsInMessage.
* @param message - The chat message containing tool calls to process
* @param lastItem - The chat history item to attach tool call states to
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* Mark the most recent still-open reasoning span as finished.
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…ning Addresses the second review round on #16. All three findings were reachable. **`closeOpenReasoning` stopped at `tool` items** (Copilot). A real agent turn is thinking -> assistant(tool_call) -> tool(result); if the stream ends or is cancelled there, the span from that same turn sits behind the tool item and was left open forever. Only a `user` message actually starts a new turn, which is the same boundary `clearDanglingMessages` uses, so the guard now stops at `user`/`system` rather than at every non-assistant role. **`StepContainer` inferred in-progress from a missing `endAt`** (Copilot). A span closed by an older build, or persisted before this field existed, has no `endAt` and rendered as "Thinking..." forever on every reload. Keyed to `active` now, matching `Chat.tsx`. **Inline `<think>` parsing accepted thinking-role messages** (CodeRabbit). A provider can emit literal tags inside `reasoning_content` -- `fromChatCompletionChunk` yields `{role: "thinking", content: "<think>...</think>"}` -- and both tag guards admitted it, splitting the message down the assistant path. Measured: the structured item was swallowed entirely, leaving zero thinking items. Both guards are assistant-only now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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getRenderedHistory is intended to reflect rendered items but currently includes tool role entries that Chat.tsx renders as null, which can still miscompute the “last rendered” index in sessions that end with a trailing tool item.
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…SDoc Addresses the third review round on #16. **`prevItem` was self-referential.** `ThinkingBlockPeek` compares `prevItem` against its own props to suppress a redacted-thinking block that repeats the one before it, but `StepContainer` passed `props.item` — the current item — so the comparison could never match and the suppression never fired. Now reads `history[index - 1]` from state, mirroring the existing `historyItemAfterThis` selector directly above it. This one is pre-existing on `main` (from the continuedev#12156 merge), not introduced here; it surfaced because it sits two lines from the `inProgress` change. Fixed rather than papered over with `null`, which the review offered as equivalent — it is equivalent only in that both leave the feature dead. **Restored an orphaned JSDoc block.** Inserting `closeOpenReasoning` in a0bef8b left the "Initializes tool call states" comment stranded above it, documenting a function three definitions away. Moved back onto `handleToolCallsInMessage`. 4 tests for the de-duplication, including that an ordinary reasoning block is never suppressed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses the fourth review round on #16. `getRenderedHistory` dropped only `system` items, but `Chat.tsx:308` also returns null for `tool` items. A session ending on a tool result — which is exactly where a cancelled agent turn stops — therefore pointed `isLast` at an item that paints nothing, so no visible item was treated as last and `stillStreaming`, `minHeight` and `InlineErrorMessage` placement were all wrong. The same failure the system-item fix addressed, one role over. Fixed in `getLastRenderedIndex` rather than by filtering `tool` out of `getRenderedHistory`: `Chat.tsx` maps over those items and relies on the null return, so removing them would change which items get mapped at all. The scan walks back over a run of trailing tool results rather than checking only the tail, and the docstring no longer overclaims that the list is "what is actually rendered". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The changes align with the stated root cause, address the identified termination/indexing edge cases, and include focused regression tests for the previously uncovered structured reasoning path.
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Closes #13.
Root cause
Not parsing — the converter and reducer were both correct. The break was in rendering: reasoning reaches the UI by two paths and only one was wired up.
lastItem.reasoning?<think>tagscontentreasoning_contentthinking-role history itemThe thinking block renders from
reasoning. On the structured path that metadata was never created, so the block had nothing to display and did not appear — even though the text was present inmessage.contentand visible in the session JSON.core/llm/openaiTypeConverters.tsis unmodified by this PR. The issue listed it first in scope, but its own "What appears to already work" section correctly predicted the converter was fine.Changes
Structured path gets the same timing metadata as the tag path. A new
thinking-role item is seeded with{text: "", startAt, active: true}, and message content is mirrored intoreasoning.text. Message content stays authoritative — that is what renders — so one block behaves identically for both paths rather than forking on origin.Open spans now close. The tag path is self-terminating (
</think>), but structured reasoning has no terminator — it stops and the next message begins.activestayed true andendAtwas never set, so no duration could be reported.closeOpenReasoningwalks back from the tail and closes the most recent open span.It is called from three places, because a role change alone does not cover every way a stream ends (caught in review):
streamUpdate— the common casesetInactive— every termination route funnels through it, including user cancellation, which produces no completion pair at all and so previously left the span open for the life of the sessionaddPromptCompletionPair— which previously only checkedat(-1). With structured reasoning the tool call the reasoning produced is appended as an assistant item, so the thinking item is no longer last by the time the stream completes and was missed.The scan stops only at a
user/systemmessage, or at an assistant item carrying its own span. Everything else between two user messages — assistant items, the tool calls reasoning produced, and theirtoolresults — belongs to the turn still in flight, and an open span can sit behind any of them. An earlier turn is never reopened.Gating the in-progress indicator on
isStreamingin the view was the alternative, but it hides the spinner while leavingendAtunset — the duration is then lost permanently rather than merely undisplayed.Duration extracted to
gui/src/util/reasoningDuration.ts, shared by both render sites.startAt/endAtare checked againstundefinedrather than falsily, so an epoch-0 timestamp is not silently discarded.StepContainerderives in-progress fromreasoning.activerather than from a missingendAt, so a span persisted without one does not render as "Thinking…" forever after a reload.Inline
<think>parsing is assistant-only (caught in review). A provider can emit literal tags insidereasoning_content;fromChatCompletionChunkthen yields{role: "thinking", content: "<think>…</think>"}. Both tag guards previously excluded onlytool, so they accepted that message and split it down the assistant path — measured, the structured item was swallowed entirely, leaving zero thinking items.ThinkingBlockPeekgets the real previous item (caught in review). It comparesprevItemagainst its own props to suppress a redacted-thinking block repeating the one before it, butStepContainerpassedprops.item— the current item — so the comparison was self-referential and the suppression never fired. Now readshistory[index - 1], mirroring thehistoryItemAfterThisselector beside it. Pre-existing onmain(from the continuedev#12156 merge) rather than introduced here; it surfaced because it sits two lines from theinProgresschange.Render indices keyed to the rendered list (caught in review).
Chat.tsxmapped overhistory.filter(role !== "system")but compared the resulting index against the unfilteredhistory.length - 1, so with a system item present no item is ever "last" — and an empty thinking item then failsstillStreamingand is dropped mid-stream. Five sites shared the comparison. Fixed by carrying each item's original index through the filter, inrenderedHistory.ts, rather than by measuring against the filtered length:indexis also consumed byisLastUserInput,sendInput,latestSummaryIndex,historyIndexandstepsOpen, all of which resolve against the unfiltered array.No current path stores a system item in session history (it is assembled per-request in
redux/util/constructMessages.ts), so this was latent rather than live; the.filter()is pre-existing and the indices should agree with it either way.toolitems are excluded from last on the same grounds (caught in review):Chat.tsx:308renders them as null, and a cancelled agent turn ends on a tool result, so a trailing one would pointisLastat something invisible. Handled ingetLastRenderedIndexrather than by filtering them out of the list, sinceChat.tsxmaps over them and relies on that null return — unlike the system case, this one is live rather than latent.Tests
Adds coverage for a path the issue notes had none.
core/llm/fromChatCompletionChunk.test.ts(6) —reasoning_content→ thinking message,reasoningfield fallback, tool calls not lost to the content branch, content preferred when a chunk carries both, and contentless chunks emitting nothing.gui/src/redux/slices/sessionSlice.reasoning.test.ts(8) — accumulation across deltas, duration recorded when the span closes, and the<think>path unchanged; plus the two escape paths found in review (cancel mid-thought, and completion with the thinking item no longer last), a span stranded behind atoolresult, literal<think>tags insidereasoning_content, and a regression test that an earlier turn's closed span is never reopened.gui/src/util/reasoningDuration.test.ts(5) — span duration, open span, never-timed item, epoch-0 timestamps treated as real values, and a backwards clock.gui/src/components/mainInput/belowMainInput/ThinkingBlockPeek.test.tsx(+4) — redacted de-duplication: suppressed when it repeats the previous item, rendered when the previous item differs or is absent, and never suppressed for ordinary reasoning.gui/src/pages/gui/renderedHistory.test.ts(12) — filtered rendering keeps original indices, and the last rendered item is identified correctly with leading, trailing, multiple and interleaved system items, and with trailing single/repeatedtoolresults. Confirmed to fail against the original comparison.Chunk shapes are copied verbatim from a live llama.cpp
/v1/chat/completionsstream (--jinja --reasoning-format deepseek-legacy, template without<think>prefill).One test asserted that a null-content priming chunk should convert to an empty assistant message. That behavior was never implemented and nothing wants it: all four call sites (
OpenAI.ts:564,index.ts:627,index.ts:1046,WatsonX.ts:317) guard withif (chunk)and skip, soundefinedis the contract for "nothing to emit". Widening the content check to satisfy it would have made every llama.cpp stream emit a leading empty assistant message across all OpenAI-compatible providers. The test now asserts the real contract.Verification
Rebased onto
main(post-#18/#19); no conflicts.sessionSlice.reasoning.test.ts— 8/8 pass (vitest)reasoningDuration.test.ts— 5/5 pass (vitest)renderedHistory.test.ts— 12/12 pass (vitest)guipages + redux + util + components suites — 405/405 pass across 40 files, no regressions from thecloseOpenReasoningscan change, the index rework, or the assistant-only tag guardstsc --noEmitclean inguiprettier --checkclean on all changed filesfromChatCompletionChunk.test.ts— not re-run locally. Thecorejest harness fails to boot in my working copy (Cannot use import statement outside a modulefromtest/jest.setup-after-env.js), which reproduces on unmodifiedmainfor unrelated suites too, so it is a pre-existing environment break rather than anything in this branch. Left to CI.Not covered
Verified against llama.cpp only. DeepSeek Reasoner uses the same
reasoning_contentfield and is expected to benefit, but was not tested against a live endpoint.expandThinkingBlocks(whether blocks render expanded) is a separatesharedConfigconcern and is untouched here.Summary by CodeRabbit
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<think>-tag responses.Tests