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What

hasMessageContent recognised text, multiple content, tool calls, reasoning content, reasoning, reasoning signature and refusal — but never msg.Audio. A Chat Completions response whose only output is audio was therefore judged empty, so the pipeline returned ErrEmptyResponse, retried on the same channel, and could finish as HTTP 500 after the upstream had already succeeded and been billed.

The same file already treats three kinds of audio as content at the response level (resp.Speech.Audio, resp.SpeechStreamEvent.AudioBase64, resp.SpeechAudioChunk.Audio). Per-choice message audio was the one case missing.

Closes #2632

How

One branch added to hasMessageContent in llm/pipeline/empty_response.go:

if msg.Audio != nil && (msg.Audio.Data != "" || msg.Audio.Transcript != "") {
    return true
}

• It lives in hasMessageContent, which hasResponseContent already applies to both choice.Message and choice.Delta, so streaming and non-streaming responses are both covered by the one change.
• A transcript alone counts as content: an audio object can outlive its bytes, and the transcript is still externally visible output the client would otherwise lose.
• A present-but-empty OutputAudio{} still counts as empty, matching the existing SpeechResponse{} and bare speech.audio.done guards, so legitimate empty-response retries are not suppressed.

No configuration switch, no retry-policy change, no new type, no dependency change. +9/-0 in source.

This follows the same pattern as #2099, which added moderation responses to this detection.

Tests

Four subtests added to TestHasResponseContent in llm/pipeline/empty_response_test.go:

• message audio data
• message audio transcript only
• empty message audio object — negative guard
• streamed delta audio — the choice.Delta path

Run from llm/ per AGENTS.md:

• Before the fix: go test ./pipeline/ -run TestHasResponseContent -count=1 fails the first, second and fourth; the negative guard passes by design.
• After: ok github.com/looplj/axonhub/llm/pipeline 1.806s
• go test ./pipeline/ -count=1 → ok
• go test ./... -count=1 in llm/ → 41 packages ok
• go test ./... -count=1 at the repo root → 38 packages ok, zero failures
• gofmt -l clean on both changed files; go vet ./pipeline/ clean

One unrelated test fails on this Windows host both with and without the patch: TestWebSocketStreamReturnsErrorWhenReusedConnectionClosesBeforeEvent asserts a Unix socket-error string and gets wsarecv: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine. Verified pre-existing by reverting both changed files to unstable and re-running.

Per .agent/rules/go-general.md rule 2, go build, make build* and golangci-lint run were not run locally; CI's Lint job covers them. No live provider call was made — the evidence is the pure-function predicate plus the reproduction in #2632.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Audio data and transcripts are now recognized as response content, including in streamed responses. Empty audio objects continue to be treated as empty.

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Walkthrough

The empty-response check now treats audio data or a transcript as message content. Tests cover message audio, streamed delta audio, and empty audio objects.

Changes

Chat audio empty-response detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recognize audio message content llm/pipeline/empty_response.go, llm/pipeline/empty_response_test.go	hasMessageContent returns true when message audio has non-empty data or a transcript. Tests check those cases, streamed delta audio, and an empty audio object.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: silentely

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 93dad

Audio-only output is recognized by the predicate, but its retention through retry handling lacks pipeline-level coverage. This bounded test gap is not a merge blocker.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		For [#2632], hasMessageContent now counts non-empty Message.Audio.Data and Message.Audio.Transcript. hasResponseContent applies the helper to both choice.Message and choice.Delta. The empt…	Add a pipeline-level regression test for a valid audio-only Chat Completions response. Verify that the response is retained and that empty-response retry is not triggered. Add a mixed text/audio regression case.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: counting message audio as content during empty-response detection.
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff changes only Chat Completions empty-response detection and its focused tests. The added transcript check is part of the same Message.Audio content decision. No vendor-specific conv…

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Explanation

For [#2632], hasMessageContent now counts non-empty Message.Audio.Data and Message.Audio.Transcript. hasResponseContent applies the helper to both choice.Message and choice.Delta. The empty audio guard also remains correct. The PR adds predicate tests for data, transcript-only audio, empty audio, and delta audio. It does not add the issue-requested simulated pipeline test that proves an audio-only response is retained without an empty-response retry. It also does not add the requested mixed text/audio regression case.

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llm/pipeline/empty_response_test.go (1)

111-119: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add pipeline-level coverage for audio-only Chat Completions output.

The current tests cover hasResponseContent directly, but no test establishes that an audio-only Message or Delta reaches the Chat Completions retry path, avoids PrepareForRetry, and remains the returned response. Add a simulated pipeline test with those assertions.

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Review comment at @llm/pipeline/empty_response_test.go around lines 111 - 119:
Add a simulated pipeline test covering audio-only Chat Completions output for
both a Message and a Delta. Verify the response reaches the retry path without
invoking PrepareForRetry and is returned unchanged; keep the existing direct
hasResponseContent tests intact.

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Review comments at @llm/pipeline/empty_response_test.go:
- Around line 111-119: Add a simulated pipeline test covering audio-only Chat
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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge.

Summary

Counts message audio data or transcripts as response content, avoiding empty-response retries for audio-only answers.

• Chat replies with audio bytes or a transcript count as content.

No actionable issues found. Tests were not run during this review.

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I had an unpublished test scaffold from investigating #2632 and adapted it to the merged baseline b6d184a, without changing production code. It adds pipeline coverage using the real OpenAI inbound/outbound transformers and synthetic executor responses:

• non-streaming data-only, transcript-only, and text/audio output are checked in the final client JSON;
• an SSE metadata-only first delta followed by audio data and [DONE] retains both chunks, with one executor call and no PrepareForRetry;
• a metadata-only stream still retries once and returns ErrEmptyResponse.

The focused cases and go test ./pipeline -count=1 pass locally. No live provider calls were used. Would a small, test-only follow-up PR be useful? I haven't published the branch yet and will avoid duplicating any coverage already underway.