From b1ddad0808525bd2ccf1b71cc6cae9376a98ae46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shokollm <270575765+shokollm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:34:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix intermittent UnboundLocalError for 'thinking' variable in
 ConversationalAgent.chat() - initialize thinking=None before conditional
 assignment to handle API responses missing message field

---
 src/backend/app/services/ai_agent/agent.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backend/app/services/ai_agent/agent.py b/src/backend/app/services/ai_agent/agent.py
index 5fd5360..a01130d 100644
--- a/src/backend/app/services/ai_agent/agent.py
+++ b/src/backend/app/services/ai_agent/agent.py
@@ -894,6 +894,10 @@ class ConversationalAgent:
 
             result = resp
 
+            # Initialize thinking to None to handle cases where API response
+            # doesn't have the expected message structure (intermittent issue)
+            thinking = None
+
             if result.get("choices") and len(result.get("choices", [])) > 0:
                 choice = result["choices"][0]
                 if "message" in choice: