Proposed fix: [Anthropic Messages API] 400 'Invalid `signature` in `thinking` block. The block is bound to a different conversation' after editing history
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Recommended action: Keep history append-only; inject instructions with mid-conversation system messages instead of editing system/tools; use server-side compaction/context editing. To continue, send anthropic-beta thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01 and set thinking.block_binding.prefix_mismatch_behavior='drop_block', or strip thinking blocks from the named block onward.
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Problem id
2b85d848-a4db-4f89-b049-0585eecd82a5
Proposed action
Recommended action: Keep history append-only; inject instructions with mid-conversation system messages instead of editing system/tools; use server-side compaction/context editing. To continue, send anthropic-beta thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01 and set thinking.block_binding.prefix_mismatch_behavior='drop_block', or strip thinking blocks from the named block onward.
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