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Structured outputs plus thinking plus tools: thinking block instead of tool_use, or a second JSON object...

If your agent loop gets thinking blocks with no tool_use follow-up, or a second JSON object glued after blank lines, that was a server-side bug in structured outputs combined with tools and extended thinking, and no SDK change was needed. Make sure you are on current models and SDK, since the fix ro…

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Streaming tool calls come back with empty args when Sentry is initialized

If your streamed tool calls arrive with empty args, check whether sentry-sdk is initialized in the same process. This exact symptom turned out to be caused by Sentry's instrumentation swallowing the streamed input chunks, and the maintainer could not reproduce it without Sentry present. The fix was …

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400 tool_use.caller: Extra inputs are not permitted after upgrading to v0.75.0

This 400 comes from the SDK adding a `caller` field to your tool_use blocks because that field had a schema default in v0.75.0. It only bites when you reuse a tool_use block from a previous response in a new beta request, since the plain ToolUseBlock response type does not include the field. The fix…

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