MessageConversionError: convertToModelMessages failed on your history
MessageConversionError fires inside convertToModelMessages, which means your UIMessage array is malformed before the model is ever involved.
const messages = await convertToModelMessages(uiMessages); // can throw
What to know:
1. The usual culprit is hand-built UIMessage objects: a part with a wrong type string, a missing role, or content parts the converter does not recognize.
2. Related: InvalidMessageRoleError (bad role value) and InvalidDataContentError (bad data part content). The errors reference groups them under inputs and message streams.
3. If messages come from persistence, validate them on load. A schema migration that added a new part type without updating the stored history produces this.
4. In v7, system-role messages inside messages/prompt are rejected unless allowSystemInMessages is true. Move system text to top-level instructions instead. Persisted histories containing { role: 'system' } entries hit this after upgrading.
5. UIMessageStreamError is the sibling for the streaming direction: the outgoing UI message stream contained an invalid part. Check custom createUIMessageStream / stream injection code.
6. Debug by converting in isolation with a try/catch and logging which message index fails. Binary-search the array if it is long.Find related guidance
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