{"NIKA-INFER-004":"the provider spent tokens yet the visible answer is empty — a thinking model ate the budget on its reasoning trace (fail-closed · #651 · raise max_tokens or use a no-think variant)"}

the error register

NIKA-INFER-004

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the provider spent tokens yet the visible answer is empty — a thinking model ate the budget on its reasoning trace (fail-closed · #651 · raise max_tokens or use a no-think variant). A typed refusal, one of 103 the registry names: stable code, spec category, the transient flag the retry machinery reads. The engine stamps this page's address on the finding itself. Route on the code, never on prose. Machines read the catalog.

validation_errorcategorywell-formed input, spec-rule violation
stablea retry cannot helpfix the file, not the timing
4of 4 in NIKA-INFERprev / next walk the registry
103registered codesthe normative floor · versioned

hear it from the binary

nika explain NIKA-INFER-004 answers offline with the failure, the fix shape and this page's address: the same text the check finding carries. A code is a contract: never renamed, never repurposed, safe to route on in on_codes and retry policy.

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