fix(anthropic): record reasoning token usage

[rjmdhiraj]

Closes #4458

Anthropic responses can include reasoning-token counts in usage.output_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens when extended thinking is enabled. This records that value as gen_ai.usage.reasoning_tokens for regular and streaming responses.

Added focused tests for both response formats.

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• New Features

  • Anthropic instrumentation now records reasoning-token usage for synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming responses.
  • Reasoning-token counts are included when available in supported response formats, alongside other token usage details.

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  • Added coverage verifying reasoning-token reporting for streaming and non-streaming responses.

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Anthropic instrumentation now extracts reasoning-token usage from response data and records GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS on synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming spans. Tests check the reasoning-token attribute for non-streaming and streaming responses.

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Anthropic reasoning token telemetry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reasoning token extraction and span emission packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/...	get_reasoning_tokens handles dictionary and object usage values. Synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming instrumentation records GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS.
Reasoning token instrumentation tests packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/tests/test_thinking.py	Tests use SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS for non-streaming and streaming responses.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The instrumentation records reasoning-token usage across response paths. Async regression coverage remains a useful follow-up, but no current production failure is established.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies the coding requirements in issue #4458. get_reasoning_tokens reads usage.output_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens from Anthropic dictionaries and objects. The synchronous and asynch…
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301-306: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert reasoning-token usage in an async thinking test.

The async tests do not provide a reasoning-token value or assert SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS. A regression that removes the _aset_token_usage setter can therefore pass these tests. Add one focused async assertion; the existing sync and streaming tests already cover those paths.

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In
`@packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/__init__.py`
around lines 301 - 306, Update a focused async test for `_aset_token_usage` to
provide a reasoning-token value and assert the span’s
`SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS` attribute matches it. Leave the
existing synchronous and streaming test coverage unchanged.

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- Around line 301-306: Update a focused async test for `_aset_token_usage` to
provide a reasoning-token value and assert the span’s
`SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS` attribute matches it. Leave the
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[doronkopit5]

Thanks for picking this up! The tests pass now, but the attribute still won't be recorded on real Claude responses. A few things need to change:

1. Wrong sub-field name. The Anthropic SDK (added in recent versions, e.g. anthropic==1.8.0) exposes this as usage.output_tokens_details.thinking_tokens (see anthropic/types/output_tokens_details.py). reasoning_tokens is OpenAI's name. As written, get_reasoning_tokens always returns None on real responses, so nothing is emitted in the sync, async or streaming paths.

2. Streaming drops the field. output_tokens_details arrives on the message_delta event, not message_start. The SDK's own accumulator copies it from there (anthropic/lib/streaming/_messages.py). In _process_response_item (streaming.py), the message_delta branch only copies output_tokens. complete_response always starts with "usage": {}, so the else branch that copies the whole usage never runs. output_tokens_details needs to be copied from item.usage there too.

3. The tests use made-up response shapes. Both new tests build SimpleNamespace/dict usage with reasoning_tokens=7, the same wrong key the code reads, so they pass against data the API never sends. The streaming test also builds complete_response by hand, so it skips _process_response_item, which is where the bug in (2) is.

Suggestion: please drop the mock-based tests and cover this with VCR cassettes, like the rest of test_thinking.py. The simplest option is to add a GEN_AI_USAGE_REASONING_TOKENS assertion to the existing thinking tests, e.g. test_anthropic_thinking_legacy (non-streaming) and test_anthropic_thinking_streaming_legacy (streaming), plus their async versions. Then re-record their cassettes (--record-mode=all on those tests) against a current model with extended thinking, using an SDK version that has output_tokens_details. The current cassettes use claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 and don't contain the field, so they need a new recording either way. Recording will also confirm the real field name and where it appears in the stream. Please make sure the cassettes don't include API keys (headers are already filtered in conftest.py, but worth checking).

Smaller notes:

• pyproject.toml allows anthropic>=0.86.0, which doesn't have this field. That's fine at runtime because of the getattr fallback, but the dev/test dependency needs a newer SDK for the cassette tests to mean anything.
• Please name the helper and its internals after Anthropic's field (thinking_tokens). Keeping the span attribute as gen_ai.usage.reasoning_tokens is good, since it matches the OpenAI instrumentation.
• The added docstrings on _set_token_usage/_aset_token_usage don't match the rest of the file, so I'd drop them. There's also an unrelated blank-line removal in the sync _set_token_usage.