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João Moura 6ad3bf9390 fix(agents): render message content parts as text, not a python repr (#7109)
* fix(agents): render message content parts as text, not a Python repr

A message whose `content` is a multimodal parts list collapsed to
`str(content)` wherever a message had to become a string, so the model
saw `[{'type': 'text', 'text': 'hello'}]` in Current Task, and memory
stored and searched that same repr.

Four sites flattened it that way: the turn promoted into the executor
prompt, the memory recall query, what `_save_kickoff_to_memory` writes,
and `_message_content_text` (token estimation and oversized-message
splitting).

The extraction already existed, inline in `_format_messages_for_summary`
-- text blocks joined, or `[multimodal content]` when a list carries
none. This lifts it to `_content_parts_text` and routes all five callers
through it, so summary, prompt, memory and token counting agree.

`_message_content_text` becomes `message_content_text`: it now has a
caller outside its module, and `agent/core.py` imports only public names
from `agent_utils`. It is not re-exported from any `__init__`, so no
public import path changes.

`test_list_content_uses_str` pinned the repr, so it is intentionally
rewritten to pin the text. Every other existing caller is unchanged:
30 failures on main, 30 on this branch, identical names.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VwxiogL9mQg9q8cx4qLfYJ

* fix(agents): skip a content part whose text is not a string

`_content_parts_text` joined `block["text"]` straight into a string, and
content blocks are `dict[str, Any]` arriving from a model, so a `text`
key holding an int, dict or None raised `TypeError`. That was contained
to summarization before; routing the prompt, memory and token-estimation
paths through the same helper widened it to `Agent.kickoff`, where the
old `str()` had merely produced an ugly string.

Such a block carries no usable text, so it is skipped. A list left with
nothing usable still falls back to `[multimodal content]`.

Writes the convention down in AGENTS.md rather than leaving it in a
review thread: never `str()` a message's content, use
`message_content_text`. Four sites had independently reached for
`str()`, which is what this whole change is undoing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VwxiogL9mQg9q8cx4qLfYJ

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 19:34:05 +00:00
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