fix(translation): keep Responses content-filter stops distinct across formats

[joshuacox]

What

• Read incomplete_details.reason: "content_filter" in the buffered and stream Responses decoders and map it to StopReason::ContentFilter.
• Report a ContentFilter stop as status: "incomplete" with incomplete_details.reason: "content_filter" in the buffered and stream Responses encoders. The buffered encoder also marks the output item itself incomplete.
• The stream decoder carries the Anthropic spelling (refusal) for a content-filter incomplete, the way the token-limit path already carries max_tokens.

Why

Closes #911. A Responses backend that ends a response with status: "incomplete" and incomplete_details.reason: "content_filter" reached Anthropic clients as stop_reason: "end_turn" when buffered and as max_tokens when streamed, and Chat clients as finish_reason: "stop" or "length". The other direction lost the stop too: a Chat content_filter or an Anthropic refusal reached Responses clients as status: "completed". The mapping follows the one #370 set for Chat and Anthropic, where a refusal stop decodes to ContentFilter.

Tests

New tests cover both directions, buffered and streamed:

• responses_content_filter_translates_across_formats (buffered)
• responses_content_filter_incomplete_event_translates_to_moderation_stops (streamed)
• moderation_stops_translate_to_responses_content_filter_incomplete_event (streamed)

All three fail on unmodified main and pass with this change.

• cargo test -p switchyard-translation: all tests pass
• cargo test --workspace: 963 passed, 0 failed
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean
• cargo fmt --all --check: clean

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Content-filtered responses now retain their moderation status when translated between OpenAI Responses, OpenAI Chat, and Anthropic Messages formats, including during streaming.
  • Incomplete responses caused by output-token limits continue to be distinguished from those blocked by content filtering.

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Walkthrough

Responses codecs now preserve content-filter stop reasons in buffered and streamed translations. Chat content_filter and Anthropic refusal stops translate to incomplete Responses output with reason content_filter.

Changes

Content-filter stop translation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Buffered stop translation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/response_translation.rs	Buffered Responses decoding maps content_filter to StopReason::ContentFilter. Encoding maps ContentFilter to incomplete Responses output and marks the output message incomplete. Tests cover translations between Responses, Chat, and Anthropic formats.
Streamed stop translation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs	Responses stream decoding maps content_filter to refusal; stream finalization maps content_filter and refusal to an incomplete event with reason content_filter. Tests cover translations between Responses, Chat, and Anthropic formats.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cca80

A content-filtered response with no output can appear to finish normally in Chat or Anthropic. Preserve its moderation stop before merging.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving Responses content-filter stop reasons across translation formats.
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #911. buffered.rs decodes Responses incomplete_details.reason: "content_filter" to StopReason::ContentFilter and encodes Chat content_filter and …
Out of Scope Changes check		The diff stays within #911. Source changes are limited to buffered and streamed Responses stop-reason mapping. The added tests verify the requested buffered and streamed translations. No server, route…

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“Refusal,” “content_filter,” shine clear,
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- Line 368: Update the no-output branch in the response-buffering logic to
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve ContentFilter when the response has no output items.

If an incomplete response has "reason": "content_filter" and "output": [], this line sets stop_reason to ContentFilter. The no-output branch at Lines 379-387 then replaces it with EndTurn. Chat and Anthropic clients receive a normal finish instead of a moderation stop. Use the response-level stop reason in that branch; default to EndTurn only when no reason was decoded.

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@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs at line 368:
Update the no-output branch in the response-buffering logic to preserve the
already-decoded response-level stop_reason, defaulting to EndTurn only when
stop_reason is absent. Keep the existing ContentFilter mapping intact.

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[harshitwandhare]

I filed #911 and had a fix for it locally, so I ran my two tests against cca80404. I wrote them separately from yours: one buffered, one streamed, each covering both directions. Both pass on this branch, along with your three and the #370 ones. On main the buffered one fails.

The only difference from my fix is in the stream decoder. You carry refusal for a content-filter response.incomplete, and I carried content_filter. The stream encoders map both spellings the same way (Chat turns refusal into content_filter at openai_chat/stream.rs:483, Anthropic turns both into refusal at anthropic/stream.rs:699, and your Responses encoder turns both into content_filter), so clients see the same thing either way. Yours also matches the existing "Anthropic spelling" comment on that arm, so I won't open a second PR.

I only ran the two translation test files, filtered on content_filter, not the whole workspace.