Empirical testing showed the previous design — grafting a verbose
re-invocation reminder into the payload's `description` field for
started and intermediate messages — was actually making Nova Sonic
*worse*, not better: more spurious re-invocations of the same tool,
not fewer. Plausibly the long, instruction-shaped description text
reads as content the model has to respond to, where a terse status
update reads as ambient state.
Replace the reminder grafting with a caller-supplied `template`
keyword argument on `prepare_message_payload_for_realtime`. When
`None` (the default), the payload is serialized to its canonical
JSON form. When provided, `template.format(tool_call_id=…, status=…,
result=…, description=…)` is applied. The template is honored across
all kinds, so callers route per kind based on which wire channel
they're using.
Nova Sonic now defines its own bracketed plain-text template
(`_ASYNC_TOOL_RESULT_TEXT_TEMPLATE`) and applies it on the
cross-modal user-text channel (intermediate / final). The started
path stays on raw JSON (the formal AWS tool-result channel requires
valid JSON). A code comment at the template constant captures the
empirical finding for the next person — short framing yields much
better behavior, surprising as it sounds.
Tests updated for the new template behavior across all kinds. Also
reverts a stream-tool example sleep-duration tweak (20s → 10s) and
adds a commented-out alternative in the function-calling-openai-async-stream
example for parallel testing.
Broaden `tool_resources` to `app_resources` for easy access not just in
tool handlers but in other places like custom `FrameProcessor`s.
Involves 3 changes:
- A rename: `tool_resources` -> `app_resources`
- A new property on `PipelineTask`: `app_resources`
- A new property on `FrameProcessor`: `pipeline_task`
Usage in tool handler:
async def get_weather(params: FunctionCallParams):
resources = cast(MyAppResources, params.app_resources)
...
Usage in custom `FrameProcessor`:
class MyProcessor(FrameProcessor):
async def process_frame(self, frame, direction):
await super().process_frame(frame, direction)
if self.pipeline_task is not None:
resources = cast(MyAppResources, self.pipeline_task.app_resources)
...
The previous `tool_resources` aliases (on `PipelineTask`,
`FunctionCallParams`, and `FrameProcessorSetup`) keep working but are
deprecated as of 1.2.0 and emit `DeprecationWarning`s.
Remove `examples/` from the `pyrightconfig.json` ignore list and fix
the resulting type errors across all example files. Common fixes:
- Required API keys: `os.getenv("X")` -> `os.environ["X"]` so the
return type is `str` rather than `str | None`, and misconfiguration
fails fast.
- Narrow `LLMContextMessage` union members with `isinstance(..., dict)`
before dict-style access.
- `assert isinstance(params.llm, ...)` before calling service-specific
methods that aren't on the base `LLMService`.
- Guard optional frame fields (e.g. `LLMSearchResponseFrame.search_result`)
before use.
Example files like openai.py shadow installed packages when Python adds the
script directory to sys.path. Prepend the parent folder name to each example
file (e.g. openai.py -> function-calling-openai.py). Also split
thinking-and-mcp/ into separate mcp/ and thinking/ directories.
Replace the nested services/speech/ and services/function-calling/ with
top-level voice/ and function-calling/ directories. Update eval script
paths and README to match.
