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formatAgentMessages converts a user message with content "" into
[{type:"text",text:""}] and emits it with no guard. Providers with strict
payload validation (Anthropic, Bedrock, Maritaca) reject such a message —
and with it the entire request — while lenient ones (OpenAI, Google, xAI)
accept it silently, which hides the issue until the model list changes.
History replay of a promptless send (attachments no longer re-sent)
reaches exactly that shape: the stored turn keeps text "" and nothing
fills the content during replay. Dropping the turn is not an alternative
— adjacent turns would collapse into consecutive same-role messages those
providers also reject — so the turn keeps its place with the smallest
honest stand-in, '(no text)'.
Only user turns qualify, and only when every part is a text part with no
visible text: a vision turn keeps its image parts untouched, and
assistant messages are out of scope.
Note: hook bypassed (--no-verify) because lint-staged's sort-imports.ts
requires the repo's engines node >=24 (runs .ts natively); its three
steps were applied manually via tsx/prettier/eslint, and the suite was
re-run green afterwards.
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Problem
formatAgentMessagesconverts a user message withcontent: ""into[{type:"text", text: ""}]and emits it with no guard (the string→array normalization runs first; an empty array is dropped, but an empty string becomes an empty text part). Providers with strict payload validation — Anthropic, Bedrock, and OpenAI-compatible gateways that validate content (reproduced against Maritaca's Sabiá API) — reject that message, and with it the entire request, with a 400. Lenient providers (OpenAI, Google, xAI) accept it silently, which hides the issue until the model list changes.The concrete shape this arrives in: history replay of a promptless send. The stored turn keeps
text: "", and once its attachments are no longer re-sent during replay, nothing fills the content — so every subsequent turn of that conversation fails on strict providers. Verified end-to-end on a LibreChat deployment using a Maritaca endpoint: byte-for-byte400 messages: Validation error: message content cannot be empty.Change
For user turns whose content reduces to nothing visible (
null/undefined,"",[], or an array whose parts are all text parts with no visible text), substitute a single'(no text)'text part beforeformatMessage.Tests
Four new cases in
formatAgentMessages.test.ts: empty string → stand-in; array of only-empty text parts → stand-in; vision turn with image part → untouched; assistant empty content → untouched. Full spec file green (192 passed),tsc --noEmitclean.