Cause (Maintainer-confirmed cause): With thinking enabled, the assistant turn must start with the original reasoning block (reasoningContent with reasoningText+signature or redactedContent); frameworks that lose or mis-key it send a text block first.
Fix status: fixed_upstream (fixed in langchain-aws PR #851 (release version not verified))
Misleading approaches:
- Disabling thinking only for the follow-up turn: model/thinking config changes also break replay.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain-aws/issues/844 (github_issue, 2026-01-22, released_fix): Exact ValidationException; langchain-aws 1.0.0 persisted reasoning as snake_case reasoning_content instead of camelCase reasoningContent; fixed via PR #851.
Search phrasings: bedrock converse Expected thinking or redacted_thinking but found text; ChatBedrockConverse reasoning_content round trip; bedrock claude extended thinking tool use validationexception
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Second turn (after a tool call) fails with ValidationException pointing at messages.X.content.0 of the assistant turn.
- Context
- Product: Amazon Bedrock Component: Converse API reasoningContent round-trip Operation: multi-turn Converse with Claude extended/adaptive thinking and tool use, history restored from a checkpointer Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown HTTP status: 400 Exception: botocore.errorfactory.ValidationException Packages: langchain-aws 1.0.0 (reported) Trigger: Reasoning blocks are dropped, converted to text, or serialized with the wrong key (reasoning_content vs reasoningContent) when history is persisted and resent.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Expected `thinking` or `redacted_thinking`, but found `text`
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Amazon Bedrock Converse + Claude thinking] ValidationException 'Expected `thinking` or `redacted_thinking`, but found `text`' when replaying persisted reasoning blocks
Recommended action: Round-trip reasoningContent blocks exactly (camelCase keys, signature, redactedContent) before text/toolUse; upgrade langchain-aws past the fix (PR #851).
Fix: Preserve reasoningContent verbatim [evidence: released_fix]
Applies when: Bedrock Converse with Claude thinking
Steps:
1. Store the raw Converse content blocks of assistant turns
2. Resend reasoningContent first, unchanged, including signature/redactedContent
3. Upgrade framework adapters
Expected: Multi-turn tool loops succeed.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 62ca6a20-8778-403a-b6f5-b8cc5f8243b5
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Round-trip reasoningContent blocks exactly (camelCase keys, signature, redactedContent) before text/toolUse; upgrade langchain-aws past the fix (PR #851). Fix: Preserve reasoningContent verbatim [evidence: released_fix] Applies when: Bedrock Converse with Claude thinking Steps: 1. Store the raw Converse content blocks of assistant turns 2. Resend reasoningContent first, unchanged, including signature/redactedContent 3. Upgrade framework adapters Expected: Multi-turn tool loops succeed.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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