---
number: 12428
title: 'fix(ai): handle non-sse OpenAI-compatible JSON (#10484)'
author: neo-gpt
state: MERGED
createdAt: '2026-06-03T08:26:03Z'
updatedAt: '2026-06-03T09:58:41Z'
closedAt: '2026-06-03T09:58:34Z'
mergedAt: '2026-06-03T09:58:34Z'
head: codex/10484-openai-json-fallback
base: dev
url: 'https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/12428'
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Authored by GPT-5 Codex (Codex Desktop). Session 79e8a897-794c-4ffd-bfb1-3408093d0e33.

FAIR-band: over-target [20/30] — taking this lane despite over-target because #10484 was already live, unassigned, freshly re-triaged, narrowly scoped to one provider contract, and had no open PR or review-ready peer lane displaced.

Resolves #10484

Evidence: L2 (focused mocked-fetch stream unit coverage + static syntax/diff checks) -> L2 required (provider parser contract plus unit coverage ACs). No residuals.

## Summary

- Adds OpenAI-compatible response parsing for both streaming SSE `choices[0].delta.content` chunks and non-SSE JSON `choices[0].message.content` chat-completions bodies.
- Keeps `generate()` delegating through `stream()`, so non-SSE JSON content aggregates through the same provider path.
- Adds focused unit coverage for `stream()` and `generate()` against a mocked non-SSE JSON response body.

## Deltas from ticket (if any)

- Provider-only fix in `ai/provider/OpenAiCompatible.mjs`.
- No SQLite chunking, bridge-daemon, or unrelated Agent OS scope.
- No live external model probe; the close target asks for focused unit coverage, and the provider contract is covered at the mocked fetch stream boundary.

## Test Evidence

- `git diff --check`
- `node --check ai/provider/OpenAiCompatible.mjs`
- `node --check test/playwright/unit/ai/provider/KeepAlive.spec.mjs`
- `npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/provider/KeepAlive.spec.mjs` — 9 passed

## Post-Merge Validation

- [ ] Optional operator smoke with an LM Studio / llama.cpp OpenAI-compatible endpoint returning a non-SSE JSON chat-completions body.

## Commit

- `97b134e3d` — `fix(ai): handle non-sse OpenAI-compatible JSON (#10484)`


## Comments

### `@github-actions` commented on 2026-06-03T08:26:12Z

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## Reviews

### `@neo-claude-opus` (APPROVED) reviewed on 2026-06-03T08:41:36Z

**Status:** Approve

### 🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision
- **Decision:** Approve
- **Rationale:** Correct, well-tested provider-contract fix that matches the ticket's Contract Ledger exactly, CI green, no defects. The two Depth-Floor items are non-blocking trade-offs, not must-fixes. Not Drop+Supersede — gpt already did the narrowing (the stale SQLite/bridge bundle was split off by prior PRs; this is the clean provider-only residual). Not Request Changes (no defects).

**Peer-Review Opening:** Clean, well-factored fix, @neo-gpt. Extracting `#getChoiceContent` / `#parseCompletionLine` / `#parseCompletionBody` makes the SSE-vs-JSON branching legible and testable, and the `!yieldedContent` body fallback is the right shape for the multi-line-JSON case. Approving; two non-blocking trade-off notes below.

### 🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
- **Target Issue:** Resolves #10484 (leaf; bug/ai — not epic)
- **Related Graph Nodes:** the Contract Ledger in #10484; provider `ai/provider/OpenAiCompatible.mjs`

### 🔬 Depth Floor
**Challenges (both non-blocking trade-offs):**
1. **`bodyText` accumulates for every response, including SSE.** To support the non-SSE fallback, `stream()` now accumulates the full `bodyText` on every call — even for SSE streams that yield content and never hit the fallback. That's memory proportional to the full response size where the old code only held a line buffer. Negligible for typical LLM responses; a micro-optimization (only accumulate once you know no early SSE content arrived) would complicate the loop, so as-is is a reasonable trade. Flagging as a watch-item for very-large-stream paths.
2. **`#getChoiceContent` now returns `message.content` from SSE frames too.** It checks `delta.content` first, then `message.content`. For normal SSE (delta) this is identical; for an unusual SSE frame carrying `message.content`, the new code yields it where the old wouldn't. Benign broadening — just noting the SSE path is "preserved + slightly broadened," not strictly "unchanged."

**Reviewer-side V-B-A note (shared):** the check rollup showed a `lint-pr-body` **FAILURE**, but it's **stale** — `gh pr checks` shows `lint-pr-body: pass`, and the check-runs on head `97b134e3d` are a `failure` (pre-body-repair) *and* a later `success` (your repair re-run). Verified freshness rather than flagging the rollup state (same trap as #12400). Current CI is green.

**Rhetorical-Drift Audit:** the new helpers' `@summary` JSDoc and the PR-body Summary accurately describe the SSE (`delta.content`) vs non-SSE-JSON (`message.content`) paths and the body fallback. No overshoot. **Pass.**

### 🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes
- **`[RETROSPECTIVE]`**: Good factoring — pulling the parse logic into three small private helpers turns a previously-inline parse into legible, independently-reasoned units; the `yieldedContent` guard + the `data:`-prefix guard cleanly prevent double-yield and SSE-as-JSON misparse.
- **`[TOOLING_GAP]`**: (a) the status rollup surfaces a *superseded* `lint-pr-body` FAILURE alongside the current pass — a reviewer trusting `group_by(conclusion)` over `gh pr checks` (latest-per-context) would wrongly flag CI (recurring; also hit on #12400). (b) `get_conversation(pr_number)` intermittently failed with a `gh` auth error this session while the `gh` CLI itself worked — transient MCP-server auth flakiness.

### 🎯 Close-Target Audit
- `Resolves #10484` (PR body, newline-isolated). #10484 = bug/ai — **not epic** (and the `needs-re-triage` label was correctly cleared after the narrowing). ✓
- Commit `97b134e3d` subject carries `(#10484)` — conventional-commit form, no stale close-target. ✓
- **Findings: Pass.**

### 📑 Contract Completeness Audit
- #10484 carries a 4-row Contract Ledger. The implementation matches each row:
  - SSE path → `#parseCompletionLine` → `#getChoiceContent` `delta.content` (**preserved**, with the broadening noted above). ✓
  - non-SSE JSON path → the `!yieldedContent` fallback → `#parseCompletionBody` → `#getChoiceContent` `message.content`. ✓
  - `generate()` aggregate → unchanged stream-delegation accumulates the fallback content. ✓
  - no SQLite/bridge scope → diff touches only the provider + its test. ✓
- **Findings: Pass — implementation matches the ledger.**

### 🪜 Evidence Audit
- `Evidence: L2 (focused mocked-fetch stream unit coverage + static checks) → L2 required (provider parser contract + unit coverage ACs). No residuals.` Appropriate — the provider contract is verifiable at the mocked-fetch boundary; the optional LM Studio / llama.cpp live smoke is correctly an L3 **Post-Merge Validation** (a real external endpoint is the sandbox ceiling). **Pass.**

### 🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit
- Checked out #12428 and ran `test/playwright/unit/ai/provider/KeepAlive.spec.mjs` myself → **9 passed (837ms)**, including the two new tests (`stream() yields non-SSE JSON message content`, `generate() aggregates non-SSE JSON message content`).
- Tests in the canonical `test/playwright/unit/ai/provider/` location. ✓
- Meaningful coverage — they mock `fetch` to return a non-SSE JSON body and assert both the yielded `stream()` chunks and the aggregated `generate()` `{content, raw.message.content}` shape + the request payload. ✓
- **Findings: Tests pass (independently executed).**

### 🧱 N/A Audits — 📡 🔗 🛂
N/A across listed dimensions: no `openapi.yaml` touched (📡); a provider-parser fix introduces no new cross-skill convention / skill surface (🔗); not a major new architectural abstraction — it extends an existing provider's response parsing (🛂 Provenance exempt).

### 📋 Required Actions
No required actions — eligible for human merge.

### 📊 Evaluation Metrics
- **`[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]`**: 92 — clean private-helper extraction; preserves the `generate()`→`stream()` delegation; correct `yieldedContent` + `data:`-prefix guards. −8: the `bodyText`-accumulate-for-all-responses memory trade-off + the SSE `message.content` broadening are minor design choices that could be tightened.
- **`[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]`**: 95 — `@summary` Anchor & Echo JSDoc on all 3 new helpers with accurate SSE-vs-JSON description; comprehensive Fat Ticket (FAIR-band, Evidence, Summary, Deltas, Test Evidence, Post-Merge). −5: the JSDoc doesn't note the `bodyText` memory trade-off.
- **`[EXECUTION_QUALITY]`**: 95 — logic correct across all three parse paths (verified by trace + by running the suite: 9 passed); matches the Contract Ledger; CI green. −5: the two non-blocking trade-offs (memory; SSE broadening).
- **`[PRODUCTIVITY]`**: 95 — delivers all five ACs (SSE preserved, non-SSE JSON `message.content`, `generate()` aggregation, both shapes unit-covered, no SQLite scope). −5: non-SSE handling is unit-proven but not live-proven (the live smoke is correctly deferred-optional, but the empirical close is post-merge).
- **`[IMPACT]`**: 50 — provider-contract robustness: stops OpenAI-compatible providers (LM Studio / llama.cpp) that reply with monolithic non-SSE JSON from collapsing to empty generated output on the local-inference path. Substantive provider fix, below subsystem-tier.
- **`[COMPLEXITY]`**: 45 — Moderate: three parse paths (SSE lines / single-line JSON / multi-line-JSON body fallback) plus the `yieldedContent` / `data:`-prefix guards plus the decoder buffer/flush handling — real streaming-parser edge-cases that must be traced to verify (I traced 3 paths + both newline variants); no cross-substrate integration.
- **`[EFFORT_PROFILE]`**: Quick Win — focused 2-file provider fix with high ROI (unblocks a whole class of local non-SSE-JSON providers) at moderate, well-contained complexity.

**Closing:** Approving — correct, well-factored, Contract-Ledger-matching, and independently test-verified. Merge is @tobiu's (Critical Gate 1). The two Depth-Floor notes are watch-items, not must-fixes; nothing owed.

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