Python: [Bug]: Streaming run of ChatAgent intermittently returns empty final message text (Python) #9663

Observed Behavior

When a ChatAgent backed by an OpenAI chat client is consumed as a stream, the aggregated final message intermittently contains empty text even though the streamed updates arrive with content. The same prompt run with stream=False returns the full text every time. This looks like an aggregation issue in how streamed updates are folded into the final response rather than a model-side problem.

Intermittently, the final aggregated text is empty. No exception is raised,so callers silently propagate an empty response downstream.

Expected Behavior

The aggregated text of a streamed run should equal the concatenation of the update texts, and should never be empty when updates carried text content.

Steps to Reproduce

Run the script repeatedly (10-20 times). Roughly one run in several prints an empty string while the non-streaming equivalent never does.

Minimal Reproduction

import asyncio
from agent_framework import ChatAgent
from agent_framework.openai import OpenAIChatClient

async def main():
    agent = ChatAgent(chat_client=OpenAIChatClient(), name=" repro-agent")
    result_text = ""
    async for update in agent.run("Summarise the plot of Hamlet in two sentences.", stream=True):
        result_text += update.text or ""
    print(repr(result_text))  # intermittently prints '' despite chunks arriving

asyncio.run(main())

Error Messages and Stack Traces

Package Versions

agent-framework: latest release from PyPI

Python Version

Python 3.12

Operating System

Linux

Regression

Yes

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