Provider state (extra_content)

How GoModel carries provider-specific replay state such as Gemini thought signatures and Anthropic thinking blocks through every API

Some providers attach opaque state to a reply and expect it back, unchanged, on the next turn. Gemini 3 signs its function calls with a thoughtSignature and rejects a history that replays the call without it. Anthropic requires thinking blocks, signatures included, in front of a tool-use turn that continues. Such state has no OpenAI-compatible field, so GoModel carries it in one place: an extra_content object keyed by vendor.

{
  "role": "assistant",
  "tool_calls": [{
    "id": "call_1",
    "type": "function",
    "function": {"name": "lookup_weather", "arguments": "{\"city\":\"Warsaw\"}"},
    "extra_content": {"google": {"thought_signature": "EvACCu0CARFNMg..."}}
  }]
}

This is the shape Google’s own OpenAI-compatible endpoint uses, so clients built against it work unchanged.

Where it appears

API	Location
Chat Completions	tool_calls[].extra_content and, for text-only turns, message.extra_content; also on streamed tool_calls deltas
Responses	function_call output items
Anthropic Messages	tool_use content blocks

Send the member back exactly as you received it. Clients that copy assistant messages into the history verbatim, which is what the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Responses SDKs do, need no changes.

Rules

• Every translation copies it through. Chat, Responses, and Anthropic Messages ingress, streaming, and the assistant-turn echo carry extra_content without looking inside.
• Only the owning provider sees its own vendor. Before a request leaves for a provider, GoModel drops every vendor object that provider does not own. A Gemini signature never reaches Anthropic or OpenAI, and a history that moved between providers does not fail on foreign fields.
• Only the owning adapter reads or writes inside it. Nothing else in the gateway interprets the contents.

Vendors

Vendor	Providers	Members
google	gemini, vertex	thought_signature: the Gemini 3 signature of a function call or text turn. See Gemini thought signatures.
anthropic	anthropic	thinking_blocks: the thinking and redacted_thinking blocks of an assistant turn; is_error: marks a tool result as failed. Set by the Anthropic Messages API ingress.

When a history reaches Gemini 3 without a signature, because the conversation started on another provider or a client dropped the member, GoModel sends Google’s documented placeholder instead of surfacing the 400. Echo the real value whenever you have it; the placeholder costs reasoning continuity for that turn.