fallback_multimodalTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-fallback-multimodal-multimodal-requests-with-image-url-fallback-betwee-19e97cda

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF Multimodal requests with image_url fallback between providers (e.g., OpenAI to Gemini) lose image data because the messages dictionary is mutated by the first provider's transformation.

How others solved it

THEN Deep-copy the messages list before passing to each fallback provider in the router logic. In Python, use copy.deepcopy(messages) to ensure transformations like converting image_url to inline_data do not alter the original payload, preserving data for subsequent fallback calls.

import copy
messages_copy = copy.deepcopy(messages)
response = await provider.acompletion(messages=messages_copy, **kwargs)

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