common : move gpt-oss reasoning processing to init params (#16937)

common/chat.cpp

@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ json common_chat_msgs_to_json_oaicompat(const std::vector<common_chat_msg> & msg
         }
         if (!msg.reasoning_content.empty()) {
             jmsg["reasoning_content"] = msg.reasoning_content;
-            jmsg["thinking"] = msg.reasoning_content; // gpt-oss
         }
         if (!msg.tool_name.empty()) {
             jmsg["name"] = msg.tool_name;
@@ -1810,7 +1809,23 @@ static void common_chat_parse_deepseek_v3_1(common_chat_msg_parser & builder) {
 
 static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gpt_oss(const common_chat_template & tmpl, const struct templates_params & inputs) {
     common_chat_params data;
-    auto prompt = apply(tmpl, inputs);
+
+    // Copy reasoning to the "thinking" field as expected by the gpt-oss template
+    auto adjusted_messages = json::array();
+    for (const auto & msg : inputs.messages) {
+        auto has_reasoning_content = msg.contains("reasoning_content") && msg.at("reasoning_content").is_string();
+        auto has_tool_calls = msg.contains("tool_calls") && msg.at("tool_calls").is_array();
+
+        if (has_reasoning_content && has_tool_calls) {
+            auto adjusted_message = msg;
+            adjusted_message["thinking"] = msg.at("reasoning_content");
+            adjusted_messages.push_back(adjusted_message);
+        } else {
+            adjusted_messages.push_back(msg);
+        }
+    }
+
+    auto prompt = apply(tmpl, inputs, /* messages_override= */ adjusted_messages);
 
     // Check if we need to replace the return token with end token during
     // inference and without generation prompt. For more details see: