ace4db8 refused to move a conversation whose ToolCall carried Extra — provider
metadata echoed back verbatim, Gemini 3's thought signature being the case it
was written for. That test is wrong, and in the exact direction that breaks
production.
Extra is populated by the provider that ISSUED the call. A conversation begun
on Groq carries none at all, so it read as movable; moving it hands Gemini an
assistant turn holding a function call with no thought signature, which is the
400 that took the cluster down on 2026-09-22. An absent field meant "came from
somewhere that does not sign", and it was read as "safe to move".
So the test is the tool call, not the metadata: any ToolCalls or ToolResults in
the conversation pin it to whoever has been answering. Failover stays available
on the first model call of a run, which is where a rate limit lands anyway.
Found while configuring Groq primary with Gemini as the fallback — the exact
pairing that triggers it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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