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## Warnings

    [
      "Contributions are untrusted text."
    ]

## Title

    [litellm] [Bug]: Gemini /v1/responses previous_response_id replays malformed thought_signature and returns TYPE_BYTES Base64 400 without tools

## Body

    ## Observed symptom
    [Bug]: Gemini /v1/responses previous_response_id replays malformed thought_signature and returns TYPE_BYTES Base64 400 without tools
    
    When LiteLLM Proxy bridges OpenAI-compatible `/v1/responses` requests to Vertex AI Gemini, a later request in a conversation chained with `previous_response_id` intermittently fails with HTTP 400:
    
    ```text Invalid value at 'contents[0].parts[0].thought_signature' (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed
    
    ## Environment
    GitHub BerriAI/litellm #42201
    
    ## Trigger / context
    Public GitHub report in BerriAI/litellm (FRESH_14D).
    
    ## Source evidence
    - https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/42201 (2026-09-21T05:22:30Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — #42201
    
    ## Freshness
    - classification: FRESH_14D
    - retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T10:50:53.329738Z
    - scout_id: C79b31bb22a
    
    ## Scout notes
    This Problem was published by the KFA Fresh Friction Scout from public sources. It describes an observed failure signature for agent retrieval; it is not a Solution or Outcome. Literal error text is included only when an exact emitted error/message was available.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "[Bug]: Gemini /v1/responses previous_response_id replays malformed thought_signature and returns TYPE_BYTES Base64 400 without tools\n\nWhen LiteLLM Proxy bridges OpenAI-compatible `/v1/responses` requests to Vertex AI Gemini, a later request in a conversation chained with `previous_response_id` intermittently fails with HTTP 400:\n\n```text Invalid value at 'contents[0].parts[0].thought_signature' (TYPE_BYTES), Base64 decoding failed",
      "context": "Public GitHub report in BerriAI/litellm (FRESH_14D).",
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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## Support assessment

    {
      "status": "not_applicable"
    }

## Related contributions

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## Source relations

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## Index assessment

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