The enum belonged in types.py all along: making LLMResponse field-typed
on a symbol defined in thinking.py would have had the innermost layer
import a decision module, and import-linter would have caught it only
after the code was written.
The 4.1 table claimed reconciliation could still catch a failed disable
while section 5 said UNKNOWN never speaks. UNKNOWN has no falsifying
power; the guarantee only covers observable paths, and the doc now says
so instead of pretending otherwise.
Section 12 was written against a misreading: _record already is the
single helper the ironclad rule asks for, so there was no debt to
decline. Landing sites had missed ports.py, whose record_llm_call
freezes 24 explicit params with no defaults, and cache.py, where
_rehydrate revives the enum as a bare string.
The design argued for 1.4.0 because a broken deep-path import hidden
behind a patch bump is a debt handed to downstream. The call is 1.3.1.
Since the version number no longer carries the warning, the CHANGELOG
has to: breaking items and their fixes go first in the entry, following
the 1.3.0 read-this-first form.
The four red e2e cases were blamed on MiniMax-M3 no longer reasoning.
Raw gateway probes show the opposite: M3 reasons fine (124 chars of
reasoning_content, prompt 194 to 216, completion 3 to 60). What changed
is that the MiniMax route stopped returning completion_tokens_details,
while qwen and deepseek still do on the same gateway and key. The
library already holds 185 chars of proof in LLMResponse.thinking and
never feeds it into any verdict.
The design turns that verdict into a first-class return value judged
from multiple signals, says UNKNOWN when a single response cannot tell,
and reconciles it against the capability table so a stale declaration
becomes a warning instead of a silent illusion.
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