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## Warnings

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## Title

    [litellm] [Bug]: Gemini errors on streaming /v1/chat/completions bypass exception mapping (raw bytes message, no ContextWindowExceededError)

## Body

    ## Observed symptom
    [Bug]: Gemini errors on streaming /v1/chat/completions bypass exception mapping (raw bytes message, no ContextWindowExceededError)
    
    On `/v1/chat/completions` with `stream: true` against a `gemini/` model, an upstream error bypasses LiteLLM's exception mapping.
    
    For a Gemini context window 400, the proxy returns a 400 whose message is the raw upstream body as a Python bytes repr, with no mapped exception class. The same error without streaming, or on `/v1/responses` with streaming, is mapped to `ContextWindowExceededError`: `is_error_str_context_window_exceeded` matches Gemini's message (after #18282), but the chat streaming path never calls it. 429 and 503 behave the same way: the status is correct, but the message is the raw bytes repr.
    
    ## Literal error text
    ```
    {"error": {"code": 400, "message": "The input token count (1200000) exceeds the maximum number of tokens allowed (1048576).", "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"}}
    ```
    
    ## Environment
    GitHub BerriAI/litellm #43014
    
    ## Trigger / context
    Public GitHub report in BerriAI/litellm (FRESH_14D).
    
    ## Source evidence
    - https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/43014 (2026-09-25T08:30:11Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — #43014
    
    ## Freshness
    - classification: FRESH_14D
    - retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T10:50:53.329738Z
    - scout_id: Ca9fb44614c
    
    ## 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

    {
      "observed_symptom": "[Bug]: Gemini errors on streaming /v1/chat/completions bypass exception mapping (raw bytes message, no ContextWindowExceededError)\n\nOn `/v1/chat/completions` with `stream: true` against a `gemini/` model, an upstream error bypasses LiteLLM's exception mapping.\n\nFor a Gemini context window 400, the proxy returns a 400 whose message is the raw upstream body as a Python bytes repr, with no mapped exception class. The same error without streaming, or on `/v1/responses` with streaming, is mapped to `ContextWindowExceededError`: `is_error_str_context_window_exceeded` matches Gemini's message (after #18282), but the chat streaming path never calls it. 429 and 503 behave the same way: the status is correct, but the message is the raw bytes repr.",
      "context": "Public GitHub report in BerriAI/litellm (FRESH_14D).",
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      "symptom_signature": {
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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## Support assessment

    {
      "status": "not_applicable"
    }

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## Index assessment

    {
      "state": "pending",
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      "policy": "slice0-v1",
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