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fix(openai-chat): preserve chronological position of developer messages (#5213) #5237

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25 changes: 10 additions & 15 deletions src/adapters/openai-chat/messages.ts
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Expand Up @@ -123,20 +123,15 @@ export function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProv
const nativeOpenAI = isNativeOpenAIChatTarget(provider);
// Hoisting a newly appended reminder rewrites the reusable prompt prefix.
// Keep this compatibility exception on the destination/model tested with OCG.
const chronologicalSystem = parsed.modelId === "deepseek-v4.1-flash"
&& registryEntryForProviderDestination(provider)?.id === "opencode-go";
const toolCatalogNudge = shouldInjectNonOpenAIToolCatalogNudge(provider)
? buildNonOpenAIToolCatalogNudgeForTools(context.tools, options.toolChoice)
: undefined;
const developerSystemParts = nativeOpenAI || chronologicalSystem
? []
: context.messages
.map(developerSystemText)
.filter((part): part is string => part !== undefined && part.length > 0);
const systemParts = [
...(context.systemPrompt ?? []),
...developerSystemParts,
...(toolCatalogNudge ? [toolCatalogNudge] : []),
// Preserving chronological order on the Chat Completions wire prevents in-conversation
// instructions from being moved out of the timeline into the prompt preamble (#5213).
const toolCatalogNudge = shouldInjectNonOpenAIToolCatalogNudge(provider)
? buildNonOpenAIToolCatalogNudgeForTools(context.tools, options.toolChoice)
: undefined;
const systemParts = [
...(context.systemPrompt ?? []),
...(toolCatalogNudge ? [toolCatalogNudge] : []),
];
];

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

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Remove the stale closing bracket.

systemParts closes at line 134. The additional ]; at line 135 is unmatched, so TypeScript parsing fails before this adapter can load.

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[error] 135-135: Expected a statement but instead found ']'.

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In `@src/adapters/openai-chat/messages.ts` at line 135, Remove the unmatched
closing bracket immediately after the systemParts declaration; systemParts
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if (systemParts.length > 0) {
const wireModelId = provider.modelSuffixBracketStrip
Expand All @@ -154,7 +149,6 @@ export function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProv
const hasImages = parts?.some(p => p.type === "image") ?? false;
let chatMsg: Record<string, unknown>;
if (msg.role === "developer" && !hasImages) {
if (!nativeOpenAI && !chronologicalSystem) break;
const text = typeof msg.content === "string"
? msg.content
: parts!.map(p => (p as OcxTextContent).text).join("");
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -344,3 +338,4 @@ export function safeToolName(name: string | undefined): string {
export function emptyAssistantContent(provider: OcxProviderConfig): string | { type: "text"; text: string }[] {
return isVolcengineArkPaygChatTarget(provider) ? [{ type: "text", text: "" }] : "";
}

16 changes: 9 additions & 7 deletions tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-system-order.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function buildMessages(context: OcxParsedRequest["context"]): Array<Record<strin
}

describe("openai-chat system message ordering", () => {
test("folds interleaved developer reminders into one leading system message", () => {
test("preserves developer reminder position as chronological system message on non-native targets", () => {
const messages = buildMessages({
systemPrompt: ["base instructions"],
messages: [
Expand All @@ -44,13 +44,14 @@ describe("openai-chat system message ordering", () => {

expect(messages[0]).toEqual({
role: "system",
content: "base instructions\n\nfirst reminder\n\nsecond reminder",
content: "base instructions",
});
expect(messages.slice(1).map(message => message.role)).toEqual(["user", "assistant", "user"]);
expect(messages.slice(1).some(message => message.role === "system")).toBe(false);
expect(messages.map(message => message.role)).toEqual(["system", "user", "system", "assistant", "system", "user"]);
expect(messages[2]).toEqual({ role: "system", content: "first reminder" });
expect(messages[4]).toEqual({ role: "system", content: "second reminder" });
});

test("keeps tool calls and results adjacent when a developer reminder follows the call", () => {
test("preserves developer reminders in chronological order around tool calls on non-native targets", () => {
const messages = buildMessages({
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "inspect", timestamp: 0 },
Expand All @@ -72,8 +73,8 @@ describe("openai-chat system message ordering", () => {
],
});

expect(messages[0]).toEqual({ role: "system", content: "remember the policy" });
expect(messages.map(message => message.role)).toEqual(["system", "user", "assistant", "tool"]);
expect(messages.map(message => message.role)).toEqual(["user", "assistant", "system", "tool"]);
expect(messages[2]).toEqual({ role: "system", content: "remember the policy" });
expect(messages[3]).toMatchObject({ role: "tool", tool_call_id: "call_1" });
});

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -216,3 +217,4 @@ describe("OpenCode Go DeepSeek chronological system messages", () => {
.toEqual([{ role: "user", content: "Inspect the synthetic project." }]);
});
});

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