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## Title

    [LiteLLM Router + OpenAI/Azure Responses API] Follow-up turns fail 'The encrypted content for item rs_... could not be verified. Reason: Encrypted content organization_id did not match the target org…

## Body

    Cause (Maintainer-confirmed cause): Encrypted reasoning items are bound to the creating organization; router affinity options (deployment_affinity, session_affinity) were too broad or needed session ids.
    
    Fix status: released_fix (fixed in unknown (Feb 2026; opt-in pre-call check))
    
    Workaround (not a fix): Use a single org/API key per model group, or deployment_affinity (reduces effective quota).
    
    Misleading approaches:
    - deployment_affinity/session_affinity: work but cut effective quota to 1/N
    
    Limitations:
    - Complements Atlas signature for the raw OpenAI error; this record is the LiteLLM routing cause
    
    Unknowns:
    - Exact version introducing encrypted_content_affinity
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm-docs/main/blog/responses_api_encrypted_content_incident/index.md (official_docs, 2026-02-24, maintainer_confirmed_cause): Incident: load balancing Responses API across different API keys broke follow-ups with invalid_encrypted_content (organization_id mismatch); fix adds encrypted_content_affinity pre-call check configured via router_settings optional_pre_call_checks, embedding model_id so routing works even when clients (e.g. Codex) omit item ids.
    
    Search phrasings: litellm responses api load balancing encrypted content error; litellm codex multiple azure regions invalid_encrypted_content; encrypted_content_affinity litellm
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "First request succeeds; follow-ups containing rs_ reasoning items fail with invalid_encrypted_content when routed to another deployment.",
      "context": "Product: LiteLLM Router/Proxy\nComponent: Responses API load balancing (encrypted_content_affinity pre-call check)\nOperation: Multi-turn Responses API calls (reasoning items with encrypted_content, e.g. Codex) routed across multiple Azure regions / OpenAI orgs\nAffected versions: LiteLLM router before encrypted_content_affinity (Feb 2026); later versions unless the check is enabled\nEnvironment: LiteLLM with multiple deployments of the same model using different API keys/orgs\nHTTP status: 400\nException: litellm.BadRequestError\nPackages: litellm before Feb 24, 2026 fix; fix requires opting in\nTrigger: Load balancer sends a follow-up to a deployment whose API key belongs to a different organization than the one that created the encrypted items.",
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        "literal_error_text": "could not be verified. Reason: Encrypted content organization_id did not match the target organization."
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## Support assessment

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