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Closes #2231

Problem

#1332 settled the rule for this file: a malformed nested payload inside a well-formed frame is a
claimed response, not padding, so it fails closed through the adapter's structured error channel
instead of being iterated or silently dropped. That rule reached the streaming Google candidate
and OpenAI Chat's tool calls on both paths. Three containers in src/adapters/google.ts were left
one rung below it, and each fails a different way. A fourth case, found during review, fails in the
opposite direction — it terminates on something that is not corruption at all.

Reproduced on dev@03735eca by driving the adapter with a synthetic Response; the probe and its
full output are in #2231.

# Path Trigger (inside a well-formed frame) Observed
A stream candidates[0].content.parts is {} TypeError: {} is not iterable
B stream parts is [null] TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'part.thoughtSignature')
C stream parts is 5 TypeError: number is not iterable
D stream parts is "txt" no error — a string is iterable, so it is walked character by character and the turn completes empty
E stream parts is [5] no error — element skipped, turn completes empty
F–J buffered the same five parts shapes identical: three throw, two complete empty
K buffered candidates is [null] [done] — streaming returns invalid candidates for the same input
L buffered candidates is [5] [done]
M buffered candidates is "abc" [done]"abc".length is 3, so the emptiness check passes and candidates[0] is the character "a"
N both content is [{ parts: [{ text: "lost" }] }] [done] — a complete answer arrives and is discarded
O both content is "txt" [done]
P stream candidates is null, between a content delta and the finish chunk [text(PONG), error(invalid candidates)] — the answer had already fully arrived and the turn failed anyway

A–C and F–H throw out of the adapter. The buffered call site in src/server/responses/core.ts
wraps parseResponse in try { … } finally with no catch, so the TypeError leaves the turn
unstructured instead of becoming an adapter error event.

D, E, I–O are the quieter half — the turn is reported as a successful, empty completion. N is
the one that loses real output: content?.parts reads undefined from any non-record, so a
candidate that mirrors the request's repeated contents shape drops its own text and still reports
success.

P is the #1219 shape one rung in, and it points the other way from all the rest. On clean dev:

text, candidates:null, STOP  : [text(PONG),error(google response contained invalid candidates)]
text, absent-candidates, STOP: [text(PONG),done]
text, candidates:[], STOP    : [text(PONG),done]

null was being read as corruption when it is an absence encoding, so a padding-shaped frame killed
a turn whose answer had already landed — the outcome the #1219 reporter measured, at a different
rung. It surfaced from a CodeRabbit finding on this PR and was confirmed against clean dev before
being acted on.

Correcting my own earlier report. #1325 listed the buffered Google path as "checked and clean —
needs no change", because it returns a normal done for {"candidates":[null]} rather than
throwing. That was true about the throw and wrong about the conclusion: it returns a normal done
because it silently drops the candidate, which is precisely the outcome #1332's rationale names.

Fix

candidate.content.parts is validated before it is iterated — streaming and buffered. A
present, non-null parts must be an array whose every element is a non-null, non-array object.

candidate.content is validated at all — it previously was not. It must be absent, null, a
record, or an empty array. The empty-array carve-out is deliberate: [] is how a JSON writer with
no distinct empty-object form spells an empty content, and it already behaves as "no parts". A
non-empty array is the opposite case, and is where case N was losing output.

The buffered parser gets #1332's candidate guardjson.candidates present, non-null and not
an array, and candidates[0] not a record, both now fail closed exactly as the streaming parser has
since #1332, instead of returning a bare done or a misleading no candidates.

The streaming parser stops terminating on a null candidates container (case P). null joins
absent and empty, which is what the buffered path already did. A non-null, non-array container stays
terminal. A stream made only of such frames still ends on
upstream stream ended without a terminal signal — possible truncation, so skipping them cannot
manufacture a successful empty turn.

One diagnostic type covers every rung. All seven sites — two candidate, one content, two parts,
across both parsers — go through invalidGoogleShapeEvent, which reports the structural reason, the
failing partIndex where there is one, and the offending value's type — never its contents:

google response contained invalid candidates (candidate_not_object; valueType=null)
google response contained invalid content (content_not_object; valueType=array)
google response contained invalid content parts (part_not_object; partIndex=1; valueType=null)

The two candidate messages #1332 introduced keep their exact wording as the message prefix, so
an existing log grep or alert on that string still matches; only exact-equality assertions change,
and #1332's regression is strengthened rather than relaxed.

Guard shape follows the one already in src/adapters/google-antigravity-replay.ts (Array.isArray
plus a per-element object check); the disposition follows #1332, not that site — replay skips,
because replay is a cache, and skipping is what produced K–O here.

Tests

tests/google-hardening.test.ts, alongside the existing #1332 candidate regression: a shared table
of the seven invalid parts shapes and four invalid content shapes, each asserted on both
parseStream and parseResponse; the buffered malformed-candidate and non-array-candidates cases
parameterised so each pins its own valueType; the mid-stream candidates: null case and its
all-null counterpart; an absence matrix pinning the six legal container shapes still completing; and
a well-formed text-plus-tool-call case asserted identically on both paths.

Run with the repository runner, bun scripts/test.ts:

  • tests/google-hardening.test.ts — 60 pass / 0 fail
  • 34 files (every test importing src/adapters/google, plus the adapter-conformance,
    OpenAI-Chat-hardening, image and docs suites) — 701 pass / 0 fail
  • tests/sse-null-data-frame.test.ts is in that set: fix(sse): treat a data frame that parses to a non-record as malformed (#1219) #1240's root-padding behaviour is unchanged.
  • bun x tsc --noEmit — identical output to upstream/dev@03735eca, the single pre-existing
    Cannot find module '@napi-rs/keyring' error on both.

Disclosure on the "CI green locally" box: tests/translator-budget.test.ts has one failing test on
this machine — it shells out to tsc --ignoreConfig, which the locally resolved compiler rejects
with TS5023. Controlled by checking out upstream/dev detached at 03735eca and re-running: it
fails identically there, so it is environmental and not from this change. The Windows suite as a
whole is known-red upstream (#1059).

Notes

  • Three error subjects, not one. invalid candidates / invalid content / invalid content parts name the rung that failed, so a broken candidate list is distinguishable in a log from a
    well-formed candidate whose parts are broken. The parenthesised diagnostic follows the
    diagnoseInvalidToolCalls precedent in src/adapters/openai-chat.ts; the Google errors keep this
    file's plain { type: "error", message } shape rather than adopting that file's status: 502 /
    errorType, which would be a separate decision across all of them.
  • No usage is attached to the new errors. openai-chat preserves usage on its equivalents,
    but every existing structured error in google.ts (invalid candidates, no candidates,
    was not valid JSON) omits it. Adding it only to the new ones would create exactly the in-diff
    asymmetry this PR exists to remove; making it uniform is a one-line change across all of them and
    is yours to call.
  • One pre-existing split is left alone on purpose. A buffered response with absent, null or
    empty candidates is an error (no candidates) while the streaming parser skips the frame and
    waits for a later terminal one. That is about absence at two different transport layers — a
    buffered turn with no candidate has nothing to return, a streaming chunk with none is ordinary —
    and it is pinned by an existing test, so it is out of scope here.
  • A remaining gap, deliberately not in this PR. Fields inside a well-formed part are still
    untyped on the way out: a functionCall that is not a record, or one with a missing, blank or
    non-string name, produces a tool_call_start with name: undefined, and a non-string
    part.text reaches text_delta as a number or object. openai-chat now rejects the equivalents
    via diagnoseInvalidToolCalls / unnamedToolCallEvent, but Google delivers a tool call whole in
    one part instead of assembling it across deltas, so whether that disposition transfers is a policy
    call rather than a parity fix. Filed as [Bug] Google adapter: non-conforming part fields cross the AdapterEvent boundary (nameless tool calls, non-string text) #2233 with reproductions for all fourteen shapes rather
    than folded in here — say the word if you would rather it rode along.
  • docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md gains one bullet, since the new messages are
    operator-visible. The ja / ko / ru / zh-cn mirrors carry two bullets in this section
    against the English four — they are already missing the inline-image bullet that predates this PR,
    so they are incomplete rather than contradicting, and are left for a translation pass that closes
    the whole section at once.
  • All three CodeRabbit findings were accepted and answered in-thread; one of them (case P) was a
    real defect I had not seen, and it changed the fix.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Google adapter handling of malformed response structures.
    • Invalid candidate, content, parts, and part entries now fail clearly and consistently across streaming and buffered responses.
    • Valid responses, including text and tool outputs, continue to behave as expected.
    • Empty or absent containers remain handled as permissible responses.
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    • Clarified Google adapter behavior for malformed responses and keepalive frames.

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The Google adapter now validates candidate, content, and parts containers during streaming and buffered parsing. Malformed structures produce descriptive terminal errors. Absent, null, and empty valid cases remain supported. Tests and documentation cover the behavior.

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lidge-jun#1332 made a malformed nested candidate terminal on the streaming path, on the
rule that a claimed response is not padding. Three containers in the same
adapter never got that rule, and each fails a different way.

`content.parts` is read straight into a `for...of` in both parsers, so a
container that is not an array of objects escapes as a raw `TypeError` —
`{} is not iterable`, or `null is not an object` on `part.thoughtSignature`.
The buffered `parseResponse` call site in `src/server/responses/core.ts` wraps
the call in try/finally with no catch, so the exception leaves the turn
unstructured. A `parts: "txt"` is worse than a crash: a string is iterable, so
it is consumed character by character and the turn completes empty.

`candidate.content` was never inspected at all. `content?.parts` reads
`undefined` from any non-record, so a candidate shaped
`content: [{ parts: [...] }]` — a plausible shape from anything that mirrors the
request's repeated `contents` — dropped its own text and reported success.

The buffered parser also never checked `candidates[0]`. `[null]`, `[5]` and
`["x"]` all reached a bare `done`, reporting a claimed-but-malformed candidate
to the caller as a successful empty turn — the opposite of what the same adapter
does when streaming. A non-array `candidates` was not checked either: `"abc"`
passed the emptiness check because its `length` is 3, and `{}`/`5` were reported
as an absent candidate list rather than a malformed one.

All three now terminate through the existing adapter error channel, carrying the
structural reason, the part index and the offending value's type — never its
contents. The two candidate errors lidge-jun#1332 already emitted get the same treatment,
so one diagnostic type covers every rung; the wording lidge-jun#1332 chose is kept as the
message prefix, so an existing log grep still matches.

Going the other way, the streaming parser was treating a `null` `candidates`
container as corruption and terminating on it. That is the lidge-jun#1219 failure mode one
rung in: a `{"candidates":null}` frame between a content delta and the finish
chunk killed a turn whose answer had already fully arrived, while the same stream
with the key absent or the array empty completed. `null` now joins absence, as it
already does on the buffered side.

Absence stays legal, including the encodings of it that are not records: an
absent, `null` or empty `parts`; an absent, `null` or empty-array `content`
(`[]` is how a JSON writer with no distinct empty-object form spells an empty
object, and it already means "no parts"); and an absent, `null` or empty
`candidates` — while a non-null, non-array `candidates` stays terminal.
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구멍은 구글 어댑터 네스티드 컨테이너임. 지금 dev src/adapters/google.ts 스트림은 후보만 #1332 가드가 있음 (:671-685). candidate.content?.parts는 캐스팅하고 바로 for (const part of parts) (:696-712). parts: {} / 5TypeError. parts: "txt"는 문자 단위로 돌고 빈 턴 성공. [null]part.thoughtSignature에서 터짐. 버퍼는 더 헐거움. parseResponse!candidates?.length만 봄 (:927-929). "abc".length가 3이라 통과하고 candidates[0]"a". [null]은 length 1이라 no candidates도 안 타고 그냥 done. #1325가 버퍼를 깨끗하다고 한 게 틀린 결론임. 던지진 않는데 후보를 삼키고 성공으로 보고함.

호출 쪽이 더 나쁨. 비스트림 src/server/responses/core.ts :4660-4692parseResponsetry { … } finally { cleanupUpstreamAbort() }로만 감쌈. catch 없음. 어댑터 TypeError가 턴을 구조화 에러로 안 만들고 그대로 나감. 컨티뉴 경로 :4552-4574는 catch가 있음. 초기 버퍼만 구멍임. ㅋㅋ 같은 파일에서 비대칭임.

이 PR이 그 세 단을 같은 규칙으로 맞춤. diagnoseGoogleContent / diagnoseGoogleParts / invalidGoogleShapeEvent. 있는 non-null parts는 배열이고 원소가 전부 레코드여야 함. content는 없음/null/레코드/빈 배열만. 빈 배열은 JSON이 빈 객체를 못 쓸 때 쓰는 부재 인코딩이라 통과. 비어 있지 않은 배열은 케이스 N — content: [{ parts: [{ text: "lost" }] }]content?.parts에서 undefined 읽고 답을 버리는 그거. 버퍼에도 후보 가드를 넣어서 [null]/[5]/"abc"done이 아니라 invalid candidates가 됨. 메시지 접두사는 #1332 문구 유지. grep은 살아 있음.

방향 하나 더. 스트림 candidates: null을 부재로 봄 (지금 :671은 undefined만 continue). 콘텐츠 델타랑 STOP 사이에 {"candidates":null}이 오면 답이 이미 왔는데 턴이 죽음. #1219랑 같은 모양 한 단 안쪽임. 전부 null인 스트림은 truncation 가드가 먹음. 성공 빈 턴을 안 만듦. 맞음.

테스트가 tests/google-hardening.test.ts에 양 경로 테이블로 잠금. invalid parts 7, invalid content 4, 버퍼 후보, non-array candidates, mid-stream null, 합법 부재 6종, 정상 텍스트+툴콜. 기존 :118-126 exact "google response contained invalid candidates"는 진단 suffix 붙는 쪽으로 바뀌어야 함. 이 PR이 그렇게 함. src/만 되돌리면 새 케이스가 깨짐.

주의. 안쪽 필드 타이핑은 안 넣음. functionCall이 레코드 아니거나 name이 비문자열이면 지금도 tool_call_start name undefined로 나감. 본문이 #2233으로 분리함. 그 이슈는 이미 닫힘. 이 PR에 접지 말 것. 에러에 usage 안 붙임. 기존 google.ts 에러가 다 생략이라 맞음. 번역 미러(ja/ko/ru/zh-cn)는 원래 이 섹션이 짧아서 이번 불릿만 영문 docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md에 넣음. 괜찮음.

CCA 언랩 이후라 Direct/Vertex/Antigravity 세 모드가 같이 먹음. #2188 사이드카, #2190 x_search, #2217/#2227 modelWireDefaults.wire 안 건드림. types.ts/config.ts 스플릿도 안 씹힘. google.ts + 테스트 + 독스 한 줄임. 닫고 다시 짜라는 신호 아님. draft 아니고 체크리스트 4/4. 2.28 블로커는 아님. 그래도 TypeError랑 침묵 빈 턴이 구글 패밀리 기본 경로라 점수는 있음.

해결방안: CI 그린이면 dev 머지. core.ts에 catch를 새로 넣지 말 것. 가드가 throw를 없애는 게 맞음. #2233 안쪽 필드는 후속. 스플릿이 어댑터 파서를 옮기면 리베이스하지 말고 닫고 다시 짜라. 지금은 그 정도 아님.

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Reviewed exact head 4dd570b. The Google adapter now rejects malformed candidate/content/parts containers through structured diagnostics, preserves valid null streaming keepalive frames, and retains fail-closed terminal behavior. Focused validation and exact-head Cross-platform CI plus React Doctor are green; all review threads are resolved. Approved for dev.

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