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  There is a specific, sinking feeling reserved for Next.js developers when a chat interface works perfectly on   localhost   but fails silently in production. You click "Send," the optimistic UI updates, the loading spinner engages, and then—nothing. The stream hangs, or worse, the tool executes on the server, but the resulting data never makes it back to the client. If you are building with the Vercel AI SDK, Next.js (App Router), and OpenAI, you have likely encountered stream timeouts,  useChat  hydration mismatches, or tool calls that execute into a void. This guide dissects the root causes of these failures and provides production-grade solutions to ensure your streams remain robust, even during complex multi-step tool invocations. The Anatomy of a Stream Failure Before patching the code, we must understand the architecture of a conversational stream in a Serverless environment. When you trigger  useChat  in the Vercel AI SDK, the following "Round...

  You have a production-ready application running on GPT-4. You decide to integrate Claude 3.5 Sonnet for its reasoning capabilities or cost profile. You swap the SDK, change the API key, and update the model name. You run the code, expecting a seamless transition. Instead, your logs explode with  anthropic.BadRequestError . The error messages are specific but frustrating: "messages: roles must alternate between 'user' and 'assistant'" or "max_tokens is required". This is not a simple drop-in replacement. While OpenAI and Anthropic share similar underlying concepts, their API architectures differ strictly regarding conversation history and parameter enforcement. This guide provides a root-cause analysis of these failures and a robust, reusable Python solution to normalize your message history for the Anthropic SDK. The Root Cause: Loose vs. Strict State Machines To fix the code, you must understand the architectural divergence between the two provide...