Driftwatch

OpenAI / OpenAI API /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

content is no longer accepted

What changed

Usually ignored rather than rejected, so the call succeeds and does something subtly different.

Affects content on DecisionInputMessage reachable from 1 operation. Grep for it: nothing else will tell you.

Who is affected

Code that sends OpenAI's DecisionInputMessage objects, used by 1 OpenAI operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
DecisionInputMessage.contentpresentabsent

Code that breaks

await client.post("/…", {
  // content is now ignored, not rejected
  content: value,
});

Based on OpenAI’s published API specification. How severity is decided.