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        "text": "Product: Amazon Bedrock (Anthropic Claude extended thinking)\nComponent: Assistant tool-use turn "
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## Title

    Preserve thinking blocks or disable thinking for tool_use turns (atlas afa-p-50cf932ba5)

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): With thinking enabled, the final assistant tool-use turn must begin with its original signed thinking/redacted_thinking block; clients that strip it violate the rule.
    
    Fix status: workaround_only
    
    Limitations:
    - Issue page read via WebFetch summarizer; LiteLLM source comment corroborates the message and workaround.
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/14194 (github_issue, 2025-09-03, reported_symptom): Bedrock Claude 3.7 Sonnet thinking via LiteLLM proxy with tools: 'Expected `thinking` or `redacted_thinking`, but found `tool_use`. When `thinking` is enabled, a final `assistant` message must start with a thinking block'; closed.
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/22b36cbcf6583e2d6b552cc0e87ae6ab82c46341/litellm/llms/bedrock/chat/converse_transformation.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_workaround): LiteLLM drops the thinking param (with modify_params) when the last assistant message with tool_calls has no thinking_blocks and none have them, 'This prevents the error: "Expected thinking or redacted_thinking, but found tool_use"' (refs #14194).
    
    Search phrasings: bedrock thinking found tool_use final assistant message must start with a thinking block; litellm bedrock thinking tool calls error
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

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      "proposed_action": "Recommended action: Round-trip thinking blocks (with signature) unchanged; if unavailable, disable thinking for that turn (LiteLLM does this with modify_params=True when no assistant message has thinking_blocks).\n\nOption: Preserve or disable thinking [evidence: documented_workaround]\nSteps:\n1. Store and resend thinking blocks exactly.\n2. Otherwise set litellm.modify_params=True or drop thinking for turns lacking blocks.\nExpected: Follow-up turns succeed.",
      "applicability": {
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        "text": "Product: Amazon Bedrock (Anthropic Claude extended thinking)\nComponent: Assistant tool-use turn replay with thinking enabled\nOperation: converse / invoke_model with thinking enabled and prior assistant tool calls\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: LibreChat → LiteLLM proxy → Bedrock Claude 3.7 Sonnet thinking (reported); any client that drops thinking blocks\nHTTP status: 400\nException: ValidationException, litellm.BadRequestError\nTrigger: Enabling thinking while the last assistant message with tool calls has no thinking blocks (dropped by the client, produced by a different model, or thinking toggled on mid-conversation)."
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