`responses` corrupts previous conversations `assistant` item
OpenAI Developer Community
May 2, 2026
OK one slightly odd thing you are doing is you are appending a system message using responses after the conversation is well under way. Can you avoid that?
1. system → original system
2. user → original user
3. assistant → your injected assistant
4. system → NEW system (from Responses input)
I would expect (and I’m probably not the only one) only one system message and then a series of user and assistant messages.
So your pattern is at least non-standard and might not be supported.
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