diff --git a/crates/forge_app/src/orch.rs b/crates/forge_app/src/orch.rs
index a81145ac80..e63ce75f1e 100644
--- a/crates/forge_app/src/orch.rs
+++ b/crates/forge_app/src/orch.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use tokio::sync::Notify;
 use tracing::warn;
 
 use crate::agent::AgentService;
-use crate::transformers::ModelSpecificReasoning;
+use crate::transformers::{DropReasoningOnlyMessages, ModelSpecificReasoning};
 use crate::{EnvironmentInfra, TemplateEngine};
 
 #[derive(Clone, Setters)]
@@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ impl<S: AgentService + EnvironmentInfra<Config = forge_config::ForgeConfig>> Orc
             .pipe(
                 ModelSpecificReasoning::new(model_id.as_str())
                     .when(|_| model_id.as_str().to_lowercase().contains("claude")),
+            )
+            // Drop reasoning-only assistant turns; Anthropic and Bedrock both reject
+            // messages whose final content block is `thinking`.
+            .pipe(
+                DropReasoningOnlyMessages
+                    .when(|_| model_id.as_str().to_lowercase().contains("claude")),
             );
         let response = self
             .services
diff --git a/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/drop_reasoning_only_messages.rs b/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/drop_reasoning_only_messages.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b55f1d425d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/drop_reasoning_only_messages.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+use forge_domain::{Context, ContextMessage, Role, Transformer};
+
+/// Drops assistant messages whose only content is reasoning.
+///
+/// Anthropic rejects an assistant message whose final content block is
+/// `thinking`, and Bedrock applies the same constraint. A message with
+/// `reasoning_details` but no text or tool calls serializes to that invalid
+/// shape. It typically comes from a turn that was aborted mid-tool-call,
+/// compacted away, or cut short by a stream disconnect; the stranded
+/// reasoning has nothing to anchor, so dropping the whole message is the
+/// safe replay shape.
+pub(crate) struct DropReasoningOnlyMessages;
+
+impl Transformer for DropReasoningOnlyMessages {
+    type Value = Context;
+
+    fn transform(&mut self, mut context: Self::Value) -> Self::Value {
+        context
+            .messages
+            .retain(|entry| !is_reasoning_only(&entry.message));
+        context
+    }
+}
+
+fn is_reasoning_only(message: &ContextMessage) -> bool {
+    let ContextMessage::Text(msg) = message else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    if msg.role != Role::Assistant {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let has_text = !msg.content.is_empty();
+    let has_tool_calls = msg.tool_calls.as_ref().is_some_and(|tc| !tc.is_empty());
+    let has_reasoning = msg.reasoning_details.is_some();
+    has_reasoning && !has_text && !has_tool_calls
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use forge_domain::{
+        Context, ContextMessage, ReasoningFull, Role, TextMessage, ToolCallArguments, ToolCallFull,
+        ToolCallId, Transformer,
+    };
+    use pretty_assertions::assert_eq;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn signed_reasoning() -> Vec<ReasoningFull> {
+        vec![ReasoningFull {
+            text: Some("let me think".to_string()),
+            signature: Some("sig_abc".to_string()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }]
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_drops_reasoning_only_assistant_message() {
+        let fixture = Context::default().add_message(ContextMessage::Text(
+            TextMessage::new(Role::Assistant, "").reasoning_details(signed_reasoning()),
+        ));
+
+        let actual = DropReasoningOnlyMessages.transform(fixture);
+
+        assert!(actual.messages.is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_keeps_assistant_message_with_text() {
+        let fixture = Context::default().add_message(ContextMessage::Text(
+            TextMessage::new(Role::Assistant, "hello").reasoning_details(signed_reasoning()),
+        ));
+
+        let actual = DropReasoningOnlyMessages.transform(fixture);
+
+        assert_eq!(actual.messages.len(), 1);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_keeps_assistant_message_with_tool_call() {
+        let tool_call = ToolCallFull::new("demo")
+            .call_id(ToolCallId::new("call_1"))
+            .arguments(ToolCallArguments::from_json("{}"));
+        let fixture = Context::default().add_message(ContextMessage::Text(
+            TextMessage::new(Role::Assistant, "")
+                .tool_calls(vec![tool_call])
+                .reasoning_details(signed_reasoning()),
+        ));
+
+        let actual = DropReasoningOnlyMessages.transform(fixture);
+
+        assert_eq!(actual.messages.len(), 1);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_drops_when_tool_calls_is_empty_vec() {
+        // `Some(vec![])` is semantically "no tool calls"; treat like `None`.
+        let fixture = Context::default().add_message(ContextMessage::Text(
+            TextMessage::new(Role::Assistant, "")
+                .tool_calls(Vec::<ToolCallFull>::new())
+                .reasoning_details(signed_reasoning()),
+        ));
+
+        let actual = DropReasoningOnlyMessages.transform(fixture);
+
+        assert!(actual.messages.is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_leaves_user_messages_untouched() {
+        let fixture = Context::default()
+            .add_message(ContextMessage::Text(TextMessage::new(Role::User, "hi")));
+
+        let actual = DropReasoningOnlyMessages.transform(fixture);
+
+        assert_eq!(actual.messages.len(), 1);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_leaves_assistant_without_reasoning_untouched() {
+        // Empty assistant messages without reasoning are out of scope for this
+        // transform; preserving them is the caller's decision.
+        let fixture = Context::default()
+            .add_message(ContextMessage::Text(TextMessage::new(Role::Assistant, "")));
+
+        let actual = DropReasoningOnlyMessages.transform(fixture);
+
+        assert_eq!(actual.messages.len(), 1);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/mod.rs b/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/mod.rs
index a8b84543ea..56a5ef1d33 100644
--- a/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/forge_app/src/transformers/mod.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 mod compaction;
 mod dedupe_role;
+mod drop_reasoning_only_messages;
 mod drop_role;
 mod model_specific_reasoning;
 mod strip_working_dir;
 mod trim_context_summary;
 
 pub use compaction::SummaryTransformer;
+pub(crate) use drop_reasoning_only_messages::DropReasoningOnlyMessages;
 pub(crate) use model_specific_reasoning::ModelSpecificReasoning;