Reasoning models at high effort could spend the entire max_tokens budget on thinking and return zero visible content with finish_reason=length; the empty article flowed writer -> editor (reject) -> empty draft post, with the cost booked as success (2026-06-11 incident: prod run acf24029, draft post 921; diagnosis: convo pipeline-v2-phase1 seq 12). - Empty-completion guard at the provider seam (new OpenRouter_Completion_Guard): empty/whitespace content is a failure; one retry with reasoning disabled (per-call override) when finish_reason=length or reasoning was active, then the stage fails. - finish_reason=length always warning-logged (model, stage, tokens). - Failed/retried attempts booked to generation_log with response_status=error + real token burn; run_decisions verdict rows (retry_reasoning_disabled / failed_empty_completion) for v0.18.0 runs. - Writer-path guard in Content_Generator::execute_stage and belt-and-braces empty check in Publisher::create_post. - Reasoning budget sanity: reasoning.max_tokens cap + completion headroom via new prautoblogger_reasoning_max_tokens setting (default constant 2048, 0 = legacy uncapped effort mode); cap replaces effort when active; governor reservations use the effective ceiling. - Body assembly moved to Request_Builder::build_body (300-line cap). - Tests: guard verdict matrix, builder budget shaping, writer/publisher guards, full provider retry path. Agent-Session: prab-empty-draft-guard-20260611
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