fix(claude): keep the caller's max_tokens cap on non-canonical Responses gateways

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Summary

• The Claude /v1/messages ingress deleted max_output_tokens for every provider whose adapter is openai-responses (src/server/claude-messages.ts, the strip block after route settlement). A Claude Code turn routed to a self-hosted or third-party Responses gateway therefore lost the caller's max_tokens cap, so its output spend was no longer bounded by the caller.
• Sibling of fix(responses): strip max_output_tokens only where the backend rejects it #5753, which fixed the same defect in the Responses passthrough: stripUnsupportedForwardParams now drops max_output_tokens only when isCanonicalOpenAiForwardProvider(provider) holds. Because that adapter-side strip already covers the canonical ChatGPT backend (which rejects the field with Unsupported parameter: max_output_tokens), this PR just removes the ingress delete. No new predicate. The decision now happens on the concrete target, as it already does for the Chat ingress since [agent] fix: scope the Responses control strip to the ChatGPT backend and carry Chat reasoning and penalties #4535. That also covers combo and policy children, which are resolved after ingress.
• Scope: only max_output_tokens. The same block still deletes temperature, top_p, stop and user. The Chat ingress stopped doing that in [agent] fix: scope the Responses control strip to the ChatGPT backend and carry Chat reasoning and penalties #4535 (structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md), but on the Claude ingress user comes from Claude Code's metadata.user_id, and forwarding it to third-party gateways is a privacy decision, not a spend fix. Those fields are left for a separate change.

Verification

• Red on upstream/dev before the fix: new test non-canonical openai-responses Claude route keeps the caller's max_tokens cap failed with Expected: 128 / Received: undefined.
• Green after the fix: bun test tests/claude-integration/claude-messages-endpoint.test.ts passes 55, fails 0. That includes the existing canonical test native openai-responses route carries prompt_cache_key + synthesized session_id header, which still asserts that max_output_tokens is absent on the canonical ChatGPT route (it is now stripped by the adapter).
• bun run typecheck passes.
• bun run test:changed (Bun 1.4.3) ran 180 of 2325 files: 4132 pass, 30 skip, 0 fail.
• bun run structure:check passes.
• I did not run the full bun run test locally. That is left to CI.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Requests sent through OpenAI Responses routes now retain the caller’s output token limit.

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The openai-responses adapter retains max_output_tokens for non-canonical gateway routes. An endpoint integration test verifies that a Claude Messages request’s max_tokens value reaches the upstream request as max_output_tokens.

Changes: Responses gateway output cap

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retain and verify the output cap src/server/claude-messages.ts, tests/claude-integration/claude-messages-endpoint.test.ts	The adapter retains max_output_tokens for non-canonical openai-responses routes. The integration test checks that max_tokens: 128 is forwarded as max_output_tokens: 128.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lidge-jun

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Non-canonical Responses gateways now keep the caller's output cap. The only remaining item is a stale code comment, so merge risk is minimal.

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🔵 Trivial · Update the stale comment about max_output_tokens stripping. · claude-messages.ts:1127-1129

src/server/claude-messages.ts:1127-1129
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Update the stale comment about max_output_tokens stripping.

Lines 1127-1129 are unchanged. They still say the code strips sampling params, including max_output_tokens, for the native ChatGPT route. They also say "routed providers keep them".

Line 1196 now says the adapter strips max_output_tokens only for the canonical backend. The code at Lines 1198-1201 deletes only temperature, top_p, stop, and user. The old comment is now misleading.

Reword Lines 1127-1129 so they describe only the remaining ingress deletions. Point to stripUnsupportedForwardParams in src/adapters/openai-responses/canonical-forward.ts for the max_output_tokens rule.

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Review comment at @src/server/claude-messages.ts around lines 1127 - 1129:
Update the comment near the ingress deletions to describe only the removal of
temperature, top_p, stop, and user; clarify that max_output_tokens is handled by
stripUnsupportedForwardParams for the canonical backend, not stripped by this
ingress code.

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Review comments at @src/server/claude-messages.ts:
- Around line 1127-1129: Update the comment near the ingress deletions to
describe only the removal of temperature, top_p, stop, and user; clarify that
max_output_tokens is handled by stripUnsupportedForwardParams for the canonical
backend, not stripped by this ingress code.

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Re CodeRabbit outside-diff note (claude-messages.ts:1127-1129, stale max_output_tokens comment): valid, comment-only. Fixed in fdf205c — the comment now lists only the ingress deletions (temperature/top_p/stop/user, applied on every openai-responses route) and points to stripUnsupportedForwardParams in canonical-forward.ts for the canonical-only max_output_tokens rule. No behaviour change, so no new test; claude-messages-endpoint.test.ts (55 pass), typecheck and test:changed (4132 pass, 0 fail) are green.

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Being carried into #7225 with your authorship preserved; this PR will be closed when the bundle lands.

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Landed on dev in 300e426 via #7225 (your change is its own commit in that bundle, and the squash keeps your authorship as Co-authored-by). Thank you!