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This is an external report and was not reproduced by KFA. Source: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph/issues/9090 Reported symptoms: The reporter says that without a policy the messages stream yields the node message, but with process_outputs=omit_payload it yields an empty list. For astream_events v2, the node's on_chain_end output is reported as an empty dict. In the mirror case, process_inputs=omit_payload on a node that returns the messages it received reportedly causes the input HumanMessage to be emitted on the messages stream, whereas without a policy nothing is emitted. The reporter expected the policy to affect only trace recording, citing the add_node and TracePolicy docstrings (issue body).\n\nReported cause (hypothesis, not maintainer-confirmed): The reporter says process_inputs and process_outputs rewrite the arguments of run_manager.on_chain_start and on_chain_end in RunnableSeq, so every callback handler sees the rewritten value, including LangGraph's StreamMessagesHandler. That handler searches the output for messages to emit and records input message ids for dedupe, so omitted payloads cause missing or duplicate emissions (issue body). A second user said they reproduced the problem on current main, including the astream_events output becoming empty, and agreed with this root cause (comment https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph/issues/9090#issuecomment-5870342466). That is an external report, not independent maintainer validation.\n\nFix status: Proposed only. The issue suggests keeping raw payloads for LangGraph's internal handlers and applying the policy only in the tracer path. The commenter describes a narrower variant: pass raw payloads to non-tracer callbacks and transformed payloads only to BaseTracer handlers. They claim local tests passed, but no PR, merge or release is present in the supplied sources. A third comment only asks for assignment (https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph/issues/9090#issuecomment-5983591471). The issue is open with no maintainer response in the supplied comments.\n\nPractical implication: If you use TracePolicy with omit_payload on nodes whose messages must reach stream_mode=\"messages\" or astream_events consumers, treat those streams as potentially affected on 1.2.12 until a maintainer-confirmed fix ships. The sources give no verified workaround, and the exact affected version range is unknown. 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