Added the exact token count for Anthropic and OpenAI (#1004)

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/AnthropicMessageStreamAccumulator.cs

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.Anthropic;
 /// </remarks>
 public sealed class AnthropicMessageStreamAccumulator
 {
+    private const string EVENT_MESSAGE_START = "message_start";
     private const string EVENT_BLOCK_START = "content_block_start";
     private const string EVENT_BLOCK_DELTA = "content_block_delta";
     private const string EVENT_BLOCK_STOP = "content_block_stop";
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ public sealed class AnthropicMessageStreamAccumulator
     /// Takes the next event of the stream and returns what it has to show.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="serverSentEvent">The event to read.</param>
-    /// <returns>The text of this event, empty when it carried none.</returns>
+    /// <returns>The text of this event, empty when it carried none, and the usage of the message start.</returns>
     public AnthropicStreamPart Process(ServerSentEvent serverSentEvent)
     {
         if (serverSentEvent.Data.Length is 0)
@@ -51,6 +52,14 @@ public sealed class AnthropicMessageStreamAccumulator
 
         switch (line.Type)
         {
+            case EVENT_MESSAGE_START:
+                //
+                // What the request carried, read the same way as on the plain text path and for
+                // the same reason: the start states this request alone, cf. ResponseStreamLine.
+                //
+                var usage = line.Message?.Usage?.ToTokenUsage() ?? TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+                return usage.IsKnown ? new AnthropicStreamPart(string.Empty, usage) : AnthropicStreamPart.Nothing;
+
             case EVENT_BLOCK_START:
                 this.openBlocks[line.Index] = new AnthropicContentBlockBuilder(line.ContentBlock);
                 return AnthropicStreamPart.Nothing;

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/AnthropicStreamLine.cs

@@ -9,4 +9,14 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.Anthropic;
 /// <param name="Index">Which content block the event belongs to; blocks are correlated by it.</param>
 /// <param name="ContentBlock">The block as it opens, for a content block start.</param>
 /// <param name="Delta">The piece this event adds, for a content block delta or a message delta.</param>
-public readonly record struct AnthropicStreamLine(string? Type, int Index, JsonElement ContentBlock, AnthropicStreamDelta Delta);
+public readonly record struct AnthropicStreamLine(string? Type, int Index, JsonElement ContentBlock, AnthropicStreamDelta Delta)
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The message the stream opens with, for a message start.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Not a positional parameter, because nobody but the serializer ever builds this line with
+    /// one. It is what states the usage, for the reason given at ResponseStreamLine.GetUsage.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public AnthropicStreamMessage? Message { get; init; }
+}

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/AnthropicStreamMessage.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// ReSharper disable ClassNeverInstantiated.Global
+namespace AIStudio.Provider.Anthropic;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The message a streamed Anthropic messages call opens with, as far as it is read.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// It arrives on the message start event, before any content, and states what the request
+/// carried. Its content is always empty there -- the blocks follow as events of their own -- so
+/// the usage is all there is to read.
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed record AnthropicStreamMessage
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What the request carried, where the stream states it.
+    /// </summary>
+    public AnthropicUsage? Usage { get; init; }
+}

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/AnthropicStreamPart.cs

@@ -8,15 +8,20 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.Anthropic;
 /// and doing so would be a feature of its own rather than a side effect of streaming.
 /// </remarks>
 /// <param name="TextDelta">The text this line carried, empty when it carried none.</param>
-public readonly record struct AnthropicStreamPart(string TextDelta)
+/// <param name="Usage">What the provider said the request carried, unknown on every line but the message start.</param>
+public readonly record struct AnthropicStreamPart(string TextDelta, TokenUsage Usage = default)
 {
     /// <summary>
     /// The part of a line that says nothing to the user, such as an opening or closing block.
     /// </summary>
     public static AnthropicStreamPart Nothing => new(string.Empty);
-    
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Whether this part has anything to show at all.
     /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The usage is not part of that: it is nothing to show, and whether it reaches the answer at
+    /// all is the tool calling loop's decision, which knows which round this is.
+    /// </remarks>
     public bool HasContent => this.TextDelta.Length > 0;
 }

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/AnthropicToolCallingAdapter.cs

@@ -57,14 +57,16 @@ public sealed class AnthropicToolCallingAdapter(Model chatModel, IList<IMessageB
 
         //
         // The text goes out while it is being written; the blocks are put back together behind
-        // it, because they have to return to the provider exactly as they arrived.
+        // it, because they have to return to the provider exactly as they arrived. The usage goes
+        // out with every round: which of them describes the conversation is the loop's decision,
+        // which knows which round this is.
         //
         var accumulator = new AnthropicMessageStreamAccumulator();
         await foreach (var serverSentEvent in streamRequestAsync(request, token))
         {
             var part = accumulator.Process(serverSentEvent);
-            if (part.HasContent)
-                yield return ToolCallingStreamEvent.TextDelta(part.TextDelta);
+            if (part.HasContent || part.Usage.IsKnown)
+                yield return ToolCallingStreamEvent.TextDelta(new ContentStreamChunk(part.TextDelta, [], Usage: part.Usage));
         }
 
         var response = accumulator.Build();

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/AnthropicUsage.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+// ReSharper disable ClassNeverInstantiated.Global
+namespace AIStudio.Provider.Anthropic;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// What Anthropic reports a messages call carried, as it opens the stream.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// The input arrives in up to three parts, and only their sum is what the request carried: the
+/// input tokens are just those after the last cache breakpoint, the other two are what was written
+/// to and read from the cache before it. Read on 2026-09-24 at
+/// https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching.
+///
+/// A missing cache part means that nothing was cached, not that its size is unknown: the API
+/// caches only for a request which asks for it with cache_control, which AI Studio never does on
+/// its own -- somebody could, though, through the additional API parameters. A missing input part
+/// is different, and without it the block states nothing.
+///
+/// The output tokens are left unread on purpose, for the reason given at TokenUsage: they include
+/// the model's thinking, which no later request carries.
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed record AnthropicUsage
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What the request carried after its last cache breakpoint, which is all of it without caching.
+    /// </summary>
+    public int? InputTokens { get; init; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What the request wrote to the cache.
+    /// </summary>
+    public int? CacheCreationInputTokens { get; init; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What the request read from the cache.
+    /// </summary>
+    public int? CacheReadInputTokens { get; init; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// States what this block reports, as far as it can be believed.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The one way from the wire to a usage, shared by the plain text path and the tool calling
+    /// path, so that what counts as believable is decided in a single place.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <returns>The usage, or TokenUsage.UNKNOWN when the block states nothing usable.</returns>
+    public TokenUsage ToTokenUsage() => this.InputTokens is { } inputTokens
+        ? TokenUsage.OfReported(inputTokens + (this.CacheCreationInputTokens ?? 0) + (this.CacheReadInputTokens ?? 0))
+        : TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+}

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/Anthropic/ResponseStreamLine.cs

@@ -9,12 +9,38 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.Anthropic;
 /// <param name="Delta">The delta of the response line.</param>
 public readonly record struct ResponseStreamLine(string Type, int Index, Delta Delta) : IResponseStreamLine
 {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The message the stream opens with, on the message start event only.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Not a positional parameter, because nobody but the serializer ever builds this line with
+    /// one. Only the opening event carries a message, which makes it the only line with a usage.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public AnthropicStreamMessage? Message { get; init; }
+
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public bool ContainsContent() => this != default && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.Delta.Text);
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public ContentStreamChunk GetContent() => new(this.Delta.Text, []);
 
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Read off the message start event, the first line of the stream, and never off the message
+    /// delta at its end. That one carries a usage as well, but a cumulative one: once the model
+    /// used a server tool, it holds what the tool fed back into the same request. The example in
+    /// the streaming documentation, read on 2026-09-24 at
+    /// https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/streaming, shows 2,679 input tokens at
+    /// the start of a message with a web search and 10,682 at its end. No later request carries
+    /// those search results; the start states exactly what this one carried.
+    ///
+    /// The number arriving before the answer is no problem, because it describes the request, not
+    /// the answer. A stream which breaks off afterward leaves the answer with whatever arrived up
+    /// to then, nothing at all included, and the next request carries exactly that -- which is
+    /// what the answer's text is counted as.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public TokenUsage GetUsage() => this.Message?.Usage?.ToTokenUsage() ?? TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+
     #region Implementation of IAnnotationStreamLine
 
     //

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/BaseProvider.cs

@@ -1157,17 +1157,44 @@ public abstract class BaseProvider : IProvider, ISecretId
         // Check if annotations are supported:
         var annotationSupported = typeof(TAnnotation) != typeof(NoResponsesAnnotationStreamLine) && typeof(TAnnotation) != typeof(NoChatCompletionAnnotationStreamLine);
         
+        var isCompleted = false;
         await foreach (var serverSentEvent in this.ReadServerSentEventsAsync(providerName, "responses call", requestBuilder, token))
         {
-            // Check if the line is the end of the stream. This one is read off the raw line
-            // rather than off a payload, because it has none:
+            // Check if the line announces the end of the stream. This one is read off the raw
+            // line rather than off a payload, because it has none:
             if (serverSentEvent.Line.StartsWith("event: response.completed", StringComparison.InvariantCulture))
-                yield break;
+            {
+                isCompleted = true;
+                continue;
+            }
             
             // Skip lines without a payload:
             if (serverSentEvent.Data.Length is 0)
                 continue;
 
+            //
+            // The payload after the announcement is the whole response, and the only line which
+            // states what the request cost. The stream ends here whether that can be read or not,
+            // which keeps the end independent of how a gateway orders the fields of the payload.
+            //
+            if (isCompleted)
+            {
+                var usage = TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+                try
+                {
+                    usage = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ResponsesCompletedStreamLine>(serverSentEvent.Data, JSON_SERIALIZER_OPTIONS)?.GetUsage() ?? TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+                }
+                catch
+                {
+                    // Invalid JSON data states nothing, and the answer is complete either way.
+                }
+
+                if (usage.IsKnown)
+                    yield return new(string.Empty, [], Usage: usage);
+
+                yield break;
+            }
+
             //
             // Find delta lines:
             //

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ChatCompletionStreamPart.cs

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ public readonly record struct ChatCompletionStreamPart(string TextDelta, IList<I
     /// Whether this part has anything to show at all.
     /// </summary>
     /// <remarks>
-    /// The usage is not part of that: it is nothing to show, and whether it is passed on at all is
-    /// the adapter's decision, which knows which round this is.
+    /// The usage is not part of that: it is nothing to show, and whether it reaches the answer at
+    /// all is the tool calling loop's decision, which knows which round this is.
     /// </remarks>
     public bool HasContent => this.TextDelta.Length > 0 || this.Sources.Count > 0;
 }

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ChatCompletionToolCallingAdapter.cs

@@ -56,27 +56,17 @@ public sealed class ChatCompletionToolCallingAdapter<TRequest>(
             ParallelToolCalls = requestDtoBase.Tools is null || !mayAskForSequentialToolCalls ? null : false,
         };
 
-        //
-        // Only the first round passes on what its request cost. Its prompt is the conversation up
-        // to the question, which is exactly what the next question will be sent after. Every later
-        // round carries the tool calls and their results on top, and none of that is sent again
-        // once the answer stands -- a report of such a round would count a chat far larger than
-        // the one the next request carries. What the answer adds, all rounds of text together, is
-        // counted from its text afterwards, cf. ReportedHistory.
-        //
-        var passesOnUsage = this.internalMessages.Count is 0;
-
         //
         // The text goes out while it is being written; the tool calls are put back together
-        // behind it, fragment by fragment.
+        // behind it, fragment by fragment. The usage goes out with every round: which of them
+        // describes the conversation is the loop's decision, which knows which round this is.
         //
         var accumulator = new ChatCompletionToolCallAccumulator(readSources);
         await foreach (var serverSentEvent in streamRequestAsync(requestDto, token))
         {
             var part = accumulator.Process(serverSentEvent);
-            var usage = passesOnUsage ? part.Usage : TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
-            if (part.HasContent || usage.IsKnown)
-                yield return ToolCallingStreamEvent.TextDelta(new ContentStreamChunk(part.TextDelta, part.Sources, Usage: usage));
+            if (part.HasContent || part.Usage.IsKnown)
+                yield return ToolCallingStreamEvent.TextDelta(new ContentStreamChunk(part.TextDelta, part.Sources, Usage: part.Usage));
         }
 
         var message = accumulator.Build();

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ResponsesCompletedStreamLine.cs

@@ -10,4 +10,15 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.OpenAI;
 /// </remarks>
 /// <param name="Type">The type of the stream event.</param>
 /// <param name="Response">The response as a non-streamed call would have returned it.</param>
-public sealed record ResponsesCompletedStreamLine(string Type, ResponsesResponse? Response);
+public sealed record ResponsesCompletedStreamLine(string Type, ResponsesResponse? Response)
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// States what the request of this call carried, as far as it can be believed.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The one way from the wire to a usage, shared by the plain text path and the tool calling
+    /// path, so that what counts as believable is decided in a single place.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <returns>The usage, or TokenUsage.UNKNOWN when the line states nothing usable.</returns>
+    public TokenUsage GetUsage() => this.Response?.GetUsage() ?? TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+}

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ResponsesResponse.cs

@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.OpenAI;
 /// </summary>
 public sealed record ResponsesResponse
 {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The output items after which the usage still describes the request as it was sent.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// A list of the items which are known to leave the input alone, rather than one of those which
+    /// do not: a hosted tool OpenAI adds later would otherwise inflate the number without anybody
+    /// noticing.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private static readonly HashSet<string> OUTPUT_ITEMS_LEAVING_THE_INPUT_ALONE = ["message", "reasoning", "function_call"];
+
     public string Id { get; init; } = string.Empty;
 
     public string Model { get; init; } = string.Empty;
@@ -15,6 +25,30 @@ public sealed record ResponsesResponse
 
     public IList<JsonElement> Output { get; init; } = [];
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What OpenAI says the response cost. Only the completed response carries it.
+    /// </summary>
+    public ResponsesUsage? Usage { get; init; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// States what the request of this response carried, as far as it can be believed.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Only for a response which ran no hosted tool. When OpenAI runs one, such as its web search,
+    /// what the tool found is charged as input tokens of the same response, cf. the pricing read on
+    /// 2026-09-24 at https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing. No later request carries what
+    /// the tool found, so the number would describe a conversation larger than the one there is --
+    /// the same reason why the tool calling loop keeps only the usage of its first round.
+    ///
+    /// A response put back together from its items, for a gateway which never sent the completed
+    /// event, has no usage. Nor is one read off a response which ended as incomplete, because it
+    /// ran out of output tokens: that is rare enough for the estimate to cover it.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <returns>The usage, or TokenUsage.UNKNOWN when the response states nothing usable.</returns>
+    public TokenUsage GetUsage() => this.Output.All(x => OUTPUT_ITEMS_LEAVING_THE_INPUT_ALONE.Contains(ReadString(x, "type")))
+        ? this.Usage?.ToTokenUsage() ?? TokenUsage.UNKNOWN
+        : TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+
     public IReadOnlyList<ResponsesFunctionCallItem> GetFunctionCalls() => this.Output
         .Where(x => ReadString(x, "type").Equals("function_call", StringComparison.Ordinal))
         .Select(x => new ResponsesFunctionCallItem

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ResponsesStreamAccumulator.cs

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public sealed class ResponsesStreamAccumulator
     /// Takes the next event of the stream and returns what it has to show.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="serverSentEvent">The event to read.</param>
-    /// <returns>The text and sources of this event, both empty when it carried neither.</returns>
+    /// <returns>The text and sources of this event, both empty when it carried neither, and the usage of the completed event.</returns>
     public ResponsesStreamPart Process(ServerSentEvent serverSentEvent)
     {
         if (serverSentEvent.Data.Length is 0)
@@ -61,8 +61,15 @@ public sealed class ResponsesStreamAccumulator
         switch (eventType)
         {
             case EVENT_COMPLETED:
-                this.completedResponse = TryDeserialize<ResponsesCompletedStreamLine>(serverSentEvent.Data)?.Response ?? this.completedResponse;
-                return ResponsesStreamPart.Nothing;
+                var completedLine = TryDeserialize<ResponsesCompletedStreamLine>(serverSentEvent.Data);
+                this.completedResponse = completedLine?.Response ?? this.completedResponse;
+
+                //
+                // What the request carried, read the same way as on the plain text path and with
+                // the same exception, a response which ran a hosted tool, cf. ResponsesResponse.
+                //
+                var usage = completedLine?.GetUsage() ?? TokenUsage.UNKNOWN;
+                return usage.IsKnown ? new ResponsesStreamPart(string.Empty, [], usage) : ResponsesStreamPart.Nothing;
             
             case EVENT_TEXT_DELTA:
                 var deltaLine = TryDeserialize<ResponsesDeltaStreamLine>(serverSentEvent.Data);

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ResponsesStreamPart.cs

@@ -5,15 +5,20 @@ namespace AIStudio.Provider.OpenAI;
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="TextDelta">The text this line carried, empty when it carried none.</param>
 /// <param name="Sources">The sources this line announced, empty when it announced none.</param>
-public readonly record struct ResponsesStreamPart(string TextDelta, IList<ISource> Sources)
+/// <param name="Usage">What the provider said the request cost, unknown on every line but the completed event.</param>
+public readonly record struct ResponsesStreamPart(string TextDelta, IList<ISource> Sources, TokenUsage Usage = default)
 {
     /// <summary>
     /// The part of a line which says nothing to the user, such as a bookkeeping event.
     /// </summary>
     public static ResponsesStreamPart Nothing => new(string.Empty, []);
-    
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Whether this part has anything to show at all.
     /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The usage is not part of that: it is nothing to show, and whether it reaches the answer at
+    /// all is the tool calling loop's decision, which knows which round this is.
+    /// </remarks>
     public bool HasContent => this.TextDelta.Length > 0 || this.Sources.Count > 0;
 }

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ResponsesToolCallingAdapter.cs

@@ -59,14 +59,16 @@ public sealed class ResponsesToolCallingAdapter(Model chatModel, IList<object> b
 
         //
         // The text goes out while it is being written, the round only once the stream closed it.
-        // Sources travel with the text because the API announces them as it cites them.
+        // Sources travel with the text because the API announces them as it cites them. The usage
+        // goes out with every round: which of them describes the conversation is the loop's
+        // decision, which knows which round this is.
         //
         var accumulator = new ResponsesStreamAccumulator();
         await foreach (var serverSentEvent in streamRequestAsync(request, token))
         {
             var part = accumulator.Process(serverSentEvent);
-            if (part.HasContent)
-                yield return ToolCallingStreamEvent.TextDelta(new ContentStreamChunk(part.TextDelta, part.Sources));
+            if (part.HasContent || part.Usage.IsKnown)
+                yield return ToolCallingStreamEvent.TextDelta(new ContentStreamChunk(part.TextDelta, part.Sources, Usage: part.Usage));
         }
 
         var response = accumulator.Build();

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/OpenAI/ResponsesUsage.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// ReSharper disable ClassNeverInstantiated.Global
+namespace AIStudio.Provider.OpenAI;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// What OpenAI reports a Responses API call cost, as it closes the stream.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// The input tokens are the whole request. What the API took from its cache is a share of them,
+/// not an addition to them, which is why that detail stays unread. Read on 2026-09-24 at
+/// https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-caching.
+///
+/// The block states more than this, the output and its reasoning share among it. Those are left
+/// unread on purpose, for the reason given at TokenUsage: no later request carries them.
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed record ResponsesUsage
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What everything sent to the model cost, the cached part included.
+    /// </summary>
+    public int? InputTokens { get; init; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// States what this block reports, as far as it can be believed.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Whether the block describes the request at all is not decided here but by the response
+    /// around it, cf. ResponsesResponse.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <returns>The usage, or TokenUsage.UNKNOWN when the block states nothing usable.</returns>
+    public TokenUsage ToTokenUsage() => TokenUsage.OfReported(this.InputTokens);
+}

app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/ToolCallingSystem/Harness/ToolCallingLoop.cs

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoop(ILogger<ToolCallingLoop> logger) : IToolCall
         var toolResultCharacterCount = 0L;
         var toolSources = new List<Source>();
         var hasStreamedTextBefore = false;
+        var isFirstRound = true;
 
         while (true)
         {
@@ -51,7 +52,21 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoop(ILogger<ToolCallingLoop> logger) : IToolCall
 
             ToolCallingRound? round = null;
             var roundStreamedText = false;
-            
+
+            //
+            // Only the first round passes on what its request cost. Its prompt is the conversation up
+            // to the question, which is exactly what the next question will be sent after. Every later
+            // round carries the tool calls and their results on top, and none of that is sent again
+            // once the answer stands -- a report of such a round would count a chat far larger than
+            // the one the next request carries. What the answer adds, all rounds of text together, is
+            // counted from its text afterwards, cf. ReportedHistory.
+            //
+            // Decided here rather than in the adapters, because every wire format reports its usage
+            // per request, and which request this is only the loop knows for all of them alike.
+            //
+            var passesOnUsage = isFirstRound;
+            isFirstRound = false;
+
             //
             // The model's words go out while the round is still running. That includes what it
             // writes before a tool call -- "let me look that up" -- which used to be dropped on
@@ -68,7 +83,17 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoop(ILogger<ToolCallingLoop> logger) : IToolCall
                 if (streamEvent.Delta is null)
                     continue;
 
-                if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(streamEvent.Delta.Content))
+                var delta = streamEvent.Delta;
+                if (!passesOnUsage && delta.Usage.IsKnown)
+                {
+                    // A delta which carried nothing but the usage has nothing left to hand over:
+                    if (delta.Content.Length is 0 && delta.Sources.Count is 0)
+                        continue;
+
+                    delta = delta with { Usage = TokenUsage.UNKNOWN };
+                }
+
+                if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(delta.Content))
                 {
                     //
                     // The separator goes out once the new round actually has something to say:
@@ -76,12 +101,12 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoop(ILogger<ToolCallingLoop> logger) : IToolCall
                     //
                     if (!roundStreamedText && hasStreamedTextBefore)
                         yield return new ContentStreamChunk(ROUND_TEXT_SEPARATOR, []);
-                    
+
                     roundStreamedText = true;
                     hasStreamedTextBefore = true;
                 }
-                
-                yield return streamEvent.Delta;
+
+                yield return delta;
             }
             
             //