Provider hook families

Family builders wire the common replay, stream, and tool-compat hooks for a provider in one call. Part of the Building provider plugins guide.

Family builders

Shared helper builders now cover the most common replay/tool-compat families, so plugins usually do not need to hand-wire each hook one by one:

import { buildProviderReplayFamilyHooks } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-model-shared";
import { buildProviderStreamFamilyHooks } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-stream";
import { buildProviderToolCompatFamilyHooks } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-tools";

const GOOGLE_FAMILY_HOOKS = {
  ...buildProviderReplayFamilyHooks({ family: "google-gemini" }),
  ...buildProviderStreamFamilyHooks("google-thinking"),
  ...buildProviderToolCompatFamilyHooks("gemini"),
};

api.registerProvider({
  id: "acme-gemini-compatible",
  // ...
  ...GOOGLE_FAMILY_HOOKS,
});

Available replay families today:

Family	What it wires in	Bundled examples
`openai-compatible`	Shared OpenAI-style replay policy for OpenAI-compatible transports, including tool-call-id sanitation, assistant-first ordering fixes, and generic Gemini-turn validation where the transport needs it	`moonshot`, `ollama`, `xai`, `zai`
`anthropic-by-model`	Claude-aware replay policy chosen by `modelId`, so Anthropic-message transports only get Claude-specific thinking-block cleanup when the resolved model is actually a Claude id	`amazon-bedrock`
`native-anthropic-by-model`	Same Claude-by-model policy as `anthropic-by-model`, plus tool-call-id sanitation and native Anthropic tool-use id preservation for transports that must keep vendor-native ids	`anthropic-vertex`, `clawrouter`
`google-gemini`	Native Gemini replay policy plus bootstrap replay sanitation. The shared family keeps the text-output Gemini CLI on tagged reasoning; the direct `google` provider overrides `resolveReasoningOutputMode` to `native` because Gemini API thinking arrives as native thought parts.	`google`, `google-gemini-cli`
`passthrough-gemini`	Gemini thought-signature sanitation for Gemini models running through OpenAI-compatible proxy transports; does not enable native Gemini replay validation or bootstrap rewrites	`openrouter`, `kilocode`, `opencode`, `opencode-go`
`hybrid-anthropic-openai`	Hybrid policy for providers that mix Anthropic-message and OpenAI-compatible model surfaces in one plugin; optional Claude-only thinking-block dropping stays scoped to the Anthropic side	`minimax`

Available stream families today:

Family	What it wires in	Bundled examples
`google-thinking`	Gemini thinking payload normalization on the shared stream path	`google`, `google-gemini-cli`
`kilocode-thinking`	Kilo reasoning wrapper on the shared proxy stream path, with `kilo-auto/balanced` and unsupported proxy reasoning ids skipping injected thinking	`kilocode`
`moonshot-thinking`	Moonshot binary native-thinking payload mapping from config + `/think` level	`moonshot`
`minimax-fast-mode`	MiniMax fast-mode model rewrite on the shared stream path	`minimax`, `minimax-portal`
`openai-responses-defaults`	Shared native OpenAI/Codex Responses wrappers: attribution headers, `/fast`/`serviceTier`, text verbosity, native Codex web search, reasoning-compat payload shaping, and Responses context management	`openai`
`openrouter-thinking`	OpenRouter reasoning wrapper for proxy routes, with unsupported-model/`auto` skips handled centrally	`openrouter`
`tool-stream-default-on`	Default-on `tool_stream` wrapper for providers like Z.AI that want tool streaming unless explicitly disabled	`zai`

SDK seams powering the family builders

Each family builder is composed from lower-level public helpers exported from the same package, which you can reach for when a provider needs to go off the common pattern:

openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-model-shared - ProviderReplayFamily, buildProviderReplayFamilyHooks(...), and the raw replay builders (buildOpenAICompatibleReplayPolicy, buildAnthropicReplayPolicyForModel, buildGoogleGeminiReplayPolicy, buildHybridAnthropicOrOpenAIReplayPolicy). Also exports Gemini replay helpers (sanitizeGoogleGeminiReplayHistory, resolveTaggedReasoningOutputMode) and endpoint/model helpers (resolveProviderEndpoint, normalizeProviderId, normalizeGooglePreviewModelId).
openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-stream - ProviderStreamFamily, buildProviderStreamFamilyHooks(...), composeProviderStreamWrappers(...), plus the shared OpenAI/Codex wrappers (createOpenAIAttributionHeadersWrapper, createOpenAIFastModeWrapper, createOpenAIServiceTierWrapper, createOpenAIResponsesContextManagementWrapper, createCodexNativeWebSearchWrapper), DeepSeek V4 OpenAI-compatible wrapper (createDeepSeekV4OpenAICompatibleThinkingWrapper), Anthropic Messages thinking prefill cleanup (createAnthropicThinkingPrefillPayloadWrapper), plain-text tool-call compat (createPlainTextToolCallCompatWrapper), and shared proxy/provider wrappers (createOpenRouterWrapper, createToolStreamWrapper, createMinimaxFastModeWrapper).
openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-stream-shared - lightweight payload and event wrappers for hot provider paths, including applyCompletionsAnthropicCacheControl (the shared Chat Completions cache-marker layout; native Anthropic Messages uses its own policy), createOpenAICompatibleCompletionsThinkingOffWrapper, createPayloadPatchStreamWrapper, createPlainTextToolCallCompatWrapper, normalizeOpenAICompatibleReasoningPayload(...), and setQwenChatTemplateThinking(...).
Copilot transports can use projectCopilotRequestFacts(messages, contentMode, hasImages?) from provider-stream-shared to derive { initiator, hasImages }. Use "direct" for normalized direct image blocks or "nested" for nested provider content, including user-carried tool_result continuations. An explicit hasImages reuses a caller’s computed vision fact. Runtime identity, header casing, and caller overrides remain with the plugin.
openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-transport-runtime - native Google wire helpers: projectGoogleMessages(...), convertGoogleTools(...), requiresGoogleToolCallId(...), and consumeGoogleGenerateContentStream(...). Prepare and normalize transcript routes before projection. Use replay: "managed" and stream profile: "managed" for managed SSE; the direct SDK uses replay: "signed-parts" and the default stream profile to preserve individual signed parts. Transport owners retain authentication, retries, HTTP cancellation, and trusted video admission; the reducer emits events and usage, and throws failures for the caller to finalize.
openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-tools - ProviderToolCompatFamily, buildProviderToolCompatFamilyHooks("deepseek" | "gemini" | "openai"), and underlying provider schema helpers.

For Gemini-family providers, keep the reasoning-output mode aligned with the transport. Direct Google Gemini API providers should use native reasoning output so OpenClaw consumes native thought parts without adding <think> / <final> prompt directives. Text-only Gemini CLI-style backends that parse a final JSON/text response can keep the shared google-gemini tagged contract.Some stream helpers stay provider-local on purpose. @openclaw/anthropic-provider keeps wrapAnthropicProviderStream, resolveAnthropicBetas, resolveAnthropicFastMode, resolveAnthropicServiceTier, and the lower-level Anthropic wrapper builders in its own public api.ts / contract-api.ts seam because they encode Claude OAuth beta handling and context1m gating. The xAI plugin similarly keeps native xAI Responses shaping in its own wrapStreamFn (/fast aliases, default tool_stream, unsupported strict-tool cleanup, xAI-specific reasoning-payload removal).The same package-root pattern also backs @openclaw/openai-provider (provider builders, default-model helpers, realtime provider builders) and @openclaw/openrouter-provider (provider builder plus onboarding/config helpers).

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