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It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.\n\n## Cause\nPrefilling assistant messages is not supported on Claude 4.6 and later models; the API requires the conversation to end with a user turn.\n\n## Steps\n1. Delete trailing assistant prefill messages from the payload.\n2. Add formatting constraints via structured outputs or system prompt rather than starting the assistant reply.\n3. 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