OpenAI-compatible services that don't support the "developer" message
role can now set supports_developer_role = False on the service class.
BaseOpenAILLMService passes this as convert_developer_to_user to the
adapter, which converts developer messages to user messages before
sending them to the API. Applied to Cerebras and Perplexity.
Also removes the now-redundant developer→user conversion step from
PerplexityLLMAdapter (handled by the parent adapter via the flag).
Two goals:
1. Centralize system_instruction vs context system message resolution into
the LLM adapters. This eliminates duplication between in-pipeline and
out-of-band (run_inference) code paths across ~16 locations in service
llm.py files.
2. Add support for "developer" role messages in conversation context, which
is facilitated by the above centralization.
Shared helpers on BaseLLMAdapter:
- _extract_initial_system_or_developer: extracts/converts messages[0]
based on role and whether system_instruction is provided
- _resolve_system_instruction: warns on conflicts between system_instruction
and context system messages, returns the effective instruction
Developer message handling (new):
- Non-OpenAI adapters: an initial "developer" message is promoted to the
system instruction when no system_instruction is provided; otherwise it
is converted to "user". Subsequent "developer" messages are always
converted to "user". No conflict warning is emitted for developer
messages (unlike "system" messages).
- OpenAI adapter: "developer" messages pass through in conversation
history without triggering conflict warnings.
- OpenAI Responses adapter: "developer" messages are kept as "developer"
role (same as "system", which is also converted to "developer" for the
Responses API).
Other behavior changes:
- Gemini: "initial" system message detection now checks messages[0] only
(previously searched anywhere in the list)
- Bedrock: a lone system message is now converted to "user" instead of
being extracted to an empty message list (matches existing Anthropic
behavior)
The override would re-add `instructions` after the adapter had
intentionally converted it to a developer message for empty contexts.
Added a regression test.
Set store=False in Responses API calls since we send full conversation
history as input items and don't use previous_response_id.
Add 5 run_inference tests for OpenAIResponsesLLMService using real
LLMContext and adapter (only HTTP client mocked).
Uses real LLMContext and adapter (only HTTP client is mocked) to test
basic inference, client exception propagation, system_instruction
override, empty context fallback, and max_tokens override.
* Add system_instruction parameter to run_inference
Allow callers to provide a custom system instruction directly when calling
run_inference, without having to construct provider-specific context objects.
For OpenAI, the instruction is prepended as a system message (preserving
existing messages). For Anthropic, Google, and AWS Bedrock, it overrides the
single system field with a warning when an existing system instruction is
present in the context.
* Use system_instruction parameter in _generate_summary
Pass the summarization prompt via run_inference's system_instruction
parameter instead of embedding it as a system message in the context.
* Add changelog for #3968
