ZIm/crates/eval
Bennet Bo Fenner 7be57baef0
agent: Fix issue with Anthropic thinking models (#33317)
cc @osyvokon 

We were seeing a bunch of errors in our backend when people were using
Claude models with thinking enabled.

In the logs we would see
> an error occurred while interacting with the Anthropic API:
invalid_request_error: messages.x.content.0.type: Expected `thinking` or
`redacted_thinking`, but found `text`. When `thinking` is enabled, a
final `assistant` message must start with a thinking block (preceeding
the lastmost set of `tool_use` and `tool_result` blocks). We recommend
you include thinking blocks from previous turns. To avoid this
requirement, disable `thinking`. Please consult our documentation at
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/extended-thinking

However, this issue did not occur frequently and was not easily
reproducible. Turns out it was triggered by us not correctly handling
[Redacted Thinking
Blocks](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/extended-thinking#thinking-redaction).

I could constantly reproduce this issue by including this magic string:
`ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REDACTED_THINKING_46C9A13E193C177646C7398A98432ECCCE4C1253D5E2D82641AC0E52CC2876CB
` in the request, which forces `claude-3-7-sonnet` to emit redacted
thinking blocks (confusingly the magic string does not seem to be
working for `claude-sonnet-4`). As soon as we hit a tool call Anthropic
would return an error.

Thanks to @osyvokon for pointing me in the right direction 😄!


Release Notes:

- agent: Fixed an issue where Anthropic models would sometimes return an
error when thinking was enabled
2025-06-24 16:23:59 +00:00
..
docs eval: Add HTML overview for evaluation runs (#29413) 2025-04-25 17:49:05 +03:00
src agent: Fix issue with Anthropic thinking models (#33317) 2025-06-24 16:23:59 +00:00
.gitignore Add judge to new eval + provide LSP diagnostics (#28713) 2025-04-14 20:18:47 +00:00
Cargo.toml Extract an agent_ui crate from agent (#33284) 2025-06-23 18:00:28 -07:00
LICENSE-GPL Lay the groundwork for a Rust-based eval (#28488) 2025-04-10 04:45:27 +00:00
README.md eval: Add support for reading from a .env file (#29426) 2025-04-25 15:53:02 +00:00
runner_settings.json Introduce a new StreamingEditFileTool (#29733) 2025-05-01 17:37:43 +02:00

Eval

This eval assumes the working directory is the root of the repository. Run it with:

cargo run -p eval

The eval will optionally read a .env file in crates/eval if you need it to set environment variables, such as API keys.

Explorer Tool

The explorer tool generates a self-contained HTML view from one or more thread JSON file. It provides a visual interface to explore the agent thread, including tool calls and results. See ./docs/explorer.md for more details.

Usage

cargo run -p eval --bin explorer -- --input <path-to-json-files> --output <output-html-path>

Example:

cargo run -p eval --bin explorer -- --input ./runs/2025-04-23_15-53-30/fastmcp_bugifx/*/last.messages.json --output /tmp/explorer.html