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Text-only native generation is raw continuation input. Keep those prompt bytes unchanged and document chat completions as the templated surface for chat, structured instructions, and guard checks, including served enable_thinking and Guardian harm settings.

Preserve sanitized progress through reasoning suppression, tool parsing, queue coalescing, and direct SSE without exposing private text/logprobs or changing text-based TTFT. An unusable reasoning-only terminal now has finish_reason=error and retains empty_model_output.

Guardian now returns only a validated thresholded verdict, or invalid_guard_verdict. It validates physical positions in order and stops at the first sampled Yes/No token. Sampled and alternative probabilities jointly require complete finite Yes/No evidence; incomplete first verdicts cannot fall through to later prose. Later malformed metadata cannot invalidate a complete earlier verdict. It rejects absent/EOS/malformed evidence before generic logprob conversion, validates threshold bounds, and suppresses both prose text and logprobs. Existing thresholds and risk configuration are unchanged.

Validation: 1,191 combined Python tests pass across generation base, SGLang, API, processors, and SDK generation/stream timeouts. All 176 SGLang tests pass again after the final rebase. Ten hostile adapter regressions failed before the final correction and pass after it; direct-helper coverage also rejects incomplete first-verdict rescue. Changed Python files pass Ruff and targeted ty. Independent adversarial re-review reports no remaining findings. Live model behavior remains unverified by these synthetic tests.

Sibling-sweep evidence:

rg -n 'def _thresholded_verdict|def _guard_verdict_logprobs|def suppress_thinking_blocks|async def _stream_generate_events|async def _flush_pending' packages/sie_server/src
processors/streaming.py:2117: async def _flush_pending
adapters/_generation_base.py:629: async def suppress_thinking_blocks
api/generate.py:741: async def _stream_generate_events
adapters/sglang/generation.py:1645: def _guard_verdict_logprobs
adapters/sglang/generation.py:1735: def _thresholded_verdict

All serving guard thresholding uses the one validated SGLang path. Both direct and queued generation, including tool-wrapped streams, preserve sanitized progress; multi-candidate guard generation remains rejected.

Final probability-path sibling sweep:

rg -n '_p_unsafe_from_entry|_p_unsafe_from_verdict_logprobs|_guard_verdict_logprobs|lp_yes.*lp_no' packages tools
19 matches in 2 files: one production calculation chain and its regression tests.

The sampled entry and top alternatives use the same validation and stable normalization; missing evidence cannot produce a safe verdict.

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  • Documentation

    • Clarified handling for text-only, image-based, chat, structured-output, and guard-check requests across SDKs.
    • Documented template-setting precedence, hidden reasoning, Guardian verdict rules, and related failure conditions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Streaming responses now preserve empty progress updates and correctly identify the first visible text.
    • Guard checks fail safely for missing or invalid verdicts without exposing guarded content or log probabilities.
    • Reasoning-only or empty responses now report explicit errors.
    • Streaming remains consistent during tool calls and intermediate reasoning updates.

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The change documents raw and chat generation behavior. It updates streaming progress, guard verdict validation, invalid-verdict errors, and empty-output classification. Tests cover prompt routing, hidden reasoning, guard failures, and probability normalization.

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Generation behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prompt routing documentation
packages/sie_sdk/README.md, packages/sie_sdk/src/sie_sdk/client/sync.py, packages/sie_ts_sdk/README.md, packages/sie_ts_sdk/src/client.ts
The SDK documentation distinguishes raw text generation from chat completion, image prompt rendering, template-setting precedence, guard verdicts, hidden reasoning, and empty-output errors.
Streaming progress and prompt preservation
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/processors/streaming.py, packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/api/generate.py, packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/processors/tool_call_parser.py, packages/sie_server/tests/processors/test_streaming.py, packages/sie_server/tests/api/test_generate.py
Streaming emits empty progress chunks, marks the first visible text separately from sequence numbers, forwards empty non-terminal events, preserves template mappings, and bypasses templates for native prompts.
Guard verdict and empty-output handling
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/sglang/generation.py, packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/_generation_base.py, packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_sglang_generation.py, packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_generation_base.py
Guard processing validates verdict tokens, probabilities, and thresholds; suppresses invalid output; exposes invalid_guard_verdict; and classifies empty visible output with finish_reason="error".

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant StreamingProcessor
  participant SGLangAdapter
  participant GenerationAPI
  Client->>StreamingProcessor: request generation
  StreamingProcessor->>SGLangAdapter: process prompt and stream tokens
  SGLangAdapter->>GenerationAPI: emit progress and verdict events
  GenerationAPI->>Client: forward non-terminal chunks
  SGLangAdapter->>GenerationAPI: emit verdict or invalid_guard_verdict
  GenerationAPI->>Client: return terminal result
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Documentation currently describes an empty model-output error as a successful stop or length completion, which can lead callers to handle the result incorrectly. Correct the contract before merging.

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In `@packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/sglang/generation.py`:
- Around line 1583-1590: Update the verdict branch in _stream_generate_events so
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- Around line 1663-1674: The guard-verdict parsing loop currently rejects a
valid earlier verdict when a later position has malformed metadata. Update the
helper around the token scan and _p_unsafe_from_verdict_logprobs selection to
validate positions in order, return the first sampled Yes/No token with a valid
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- Line 1684: Update the verdict-distribution calculation around the entry token
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🟡 Minor · Correct the empty_model_output finish-reason documentation.

packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/_generation_base.py:804-807
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Correct the empty_model_output finish-reason documentation. The shared adapter rewrites terminal empty output to finish_reason="error" with error_code="empty_model_output". collect_generation propagates that value to buffered results, so its documentation must not state that the result retains stop or length.

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In `@packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/_generation_base.py` around lines
804 - 807, The documentation near collect_generation must state that terminal
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dragosboca added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
Guard models emit invalid_guard_verdict when their first output positions
carry no complete Yes/No distribution (#285), and the SDK READMEs tell
callers to expect that code. The gateway's worker error allowlist predates
it, so the terminal collapsed to a generic inference_error with the
"internal error during generation" message on both the buffered and the
streaming path.

Admit the code so the typed terminal and its message reach the client. It
settles like empty_model_output: terminal, non-retryable, server_error.
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