diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1665b76..1aac5f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ migrate them to the sibling `patch.responses` key / the model patch's `responses
 (env override: `COYOTE_PATCH_<client>_RESPONSES`).
 - Sessions saved after this change may contain the new `reasoning` thinking blocks (encrypted
 reasoning items from the Responses API); older coyote binaries cannot load those sessions.
+- OpenAI native web search (the bundled `web_search_coyote` tool) uses the chat-only
+`gpt-4o-*search-preview` mechanism, which the responses wire does not serve: until the tool is
+updated, pin `wire_api: chat` on the openai client when relying on it.
 
 ### Feat
 
 - support `wire_api: responses | chat` on the openai and openai-compatible clients, with wire-aware request patching on both patch layers
 - report token usage (including cached input tokens) on the openai responses path
-- streaming responses that end with `response.incomplete` now surface the truncation reason (e.g. `max_output_tokens`) when no output was delivered — matching the non-streaming behavior — and record token usage for truncated turns instead of ending silently
+- streaming responses that end with `response.incomplete` now surface the truncation reason (e.g. `max_output_tokens`) when no visible output (text or tool calls) was delivered — matching the non-streaming behavior — and record token usage for truncated turns instead of ending silently
 - the responses wire always sends `include: ["reasoning.encrypted_content"]` and `"strict": false` tool definitions; strict third-party `/v1/responses` servers may reject these as unknown params when opted in via `wire_api: responses` (workaround: a `responses`-keyed client patch, e.g. `include: null` for Groq)
 
 ## v0.10.3 (2026-09-15)
diff --git a/src/client/openai.rs b/src/client/openai.rs
index c3853b2..ffc0933 100644
--- a/src/client/openai.rs
+++ b/src/client/openai.rs
@@ -954,6 +954,10 @@ fn openai_responses_handle_event(data: &Value, handler: &mut SseHandler) -> Resu
             // partial text or tool calls are returned rather than discarded
             // by a hard error; only an empty truncated response bails.
             if handler.has_received_visible_output() {
+                debug!(
+                    "response truncated ({}); keeping partial output",
+                    data["response"]["incomplete_details"]["reason"]
+                );
                 return Ok(true);
             }
             match data["response"]["incomplete_details"]["reason"].as_str() {
diff --git a/src/client/stream.rs b/src/client/stream.rs
index 960eedf..9f2acb9 100644
--- a/src/client/stream.rs
+++ b/src/client/stream.rs
@@ -552,6 +552,23 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(handler.has_received_content());
     }
 
+    /// Pins the deliberate exclusion: thinking blocks count as received
+    /// content but not as visible output, so a thinking-only stream is
+    /// still an empty response to the caller.
+    #[test]
+    fn thinking_blocks_do_not_count_as_visible_output() {
+        let (mut handler, _rx) = new_handler();
+        handler.thinking_block(ThinkingBlock::Thinking {
+            thinking: "hmm".to_string(),
+            signature: "sig".to_string(),
+        });
+        assert!(handler.has_received_content());
+        assert!(!handler.has_received_visible_output());
+
+        handler.text("hello").unwrap();
+        assert!(handler.has_received_visible_output());
+    }
+
     /// Claude splits usage across events: `message_start` carries the input
     /// and cache counts with a provisional output count, `message_delta`
     /// carries only the final output count. Later non-None fields must win.