`responses` corrupts previous conversations `assistant` item
OpenAI Developer Community
May 2, 2026
Reproduction tip to frustrate endpoints with tech debt and bloat:
Put actual verbatim Responses outputs into conversations as items, with agreeing schemas where they are also echo-able as inputs, and hosted tool call multi-turn tasks with reasoning.
You will note “phase” as a field in Assistant responses when using GPT-5.4 or greater in multi-turn tasks.
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