Responses API: AssistantReasoningDeltaEvent and AssistantReasoningEvent triggered with empty content via BYOK providers (Copilot CLI)
- Dominant language
- Shell
- Stars
- 11.2k
- Forks
- 1.9k
- Avg merge
- 14h 16m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 6
Description
### Describe the bug
When using GitHub Copilot CLI (or SDK) with BYOK—either OpenAI or vLLM—for Responses API, both AssistantReasoningDeltaEvent and AssistantReasoningEvent are triggered but with empty content, even if the provider's response includes reasoning content.
### Affected version
1.0.43
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Set up Copilot CLI to use BYOK, OpenAI or vLLM provider (Windows/WSL). Sample .NET code for SDK (works similarly with CLI):
```csharp
await using var session = await client.CreateSessionAsync(new SessionConfig
{
Provider = new ProviderConfig
{
Type = "openai",
BaseUrl = "https://api.openai.com/v1",
ApiKey = "your_api_key",
WireApi = "responses",
},
ReasoningEffort = "high",
Model = "gpt-5.4-2026-03-05",
OnPermissionRequest = PermissionHandler.ApproveAll,
Streaming = true
});
```
2. Trigger completions or calls that should generate reasoning via the Responses API.
3. See that the events are always empty.
### Expected behavior
These events should present the reasoning/explanation content if the provider response includes it. Content field should not be blank if a reasoning field is present.
### Additional context
- Environment: Windows, WSL
- Copilot CLI version: 1.0.43
- Copilot SDK version: 0.3.0
- BYOK provider: OpenAI or vLLM
Contributor guide
Research direction
No implementation files or tests are named. Reproduce the issue with the Responses API configuration shown for an OpenAI or vLLM BYOK provider, then trace the reasoning event handling. Done means AssistantReasoningDeltaEvent and AssistantReasoningEvent expose the provider's reasoning content instead of empty content.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, shell
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100