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Sonnet 5 added to the prefill-removed pitfall

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Docs now warn that Sonnet 5 also rejects prefilled assistant turns with a 400.

What

The Common Pitfalls entry on assistant-message prefills now covers Sonnet 5.

Details
  • Sonnet 5 joins Fable 5, Opus 5, and the 4.6/4.7/4.8 family in the list of models that return a 400 for last-assistant-turn prefills.
Evidence

Prefill removed (Fable 5, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and the 4.6/4.7/4.8 family):

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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