A gpt-4.1 Assistant with a vector store, informed in the system message “Search OpenAI knowledge in provided files with tools before answering.” Doesn’t call tools and can’t answer about Responses correctly, fabricating docs it “read”.
Attach 2MB text in the user input box as vector store file, results in Error instead of another response:
{“role”:“user”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“text”:“Please summarize what you see in the attached document.”}],“attachments”:[{“file_id”:“”,“tools”:[{“type”:“file_search”}]}]}
It’s now been 24 hours and the status page still doesn’t show any issues having been tracked or fixed. This issue has us largely dead in the water with regards to processing uploaded files.
This really reduces confidence when there is clearly an issue, but the status page still reports everything being 100% functional.
This is now working for our application again (Assistant API file uploads), at least intermittently. When I attempt to upload files in the platform ui, I still get the same error, but that is of lesser concern to me at this point.
FWIW this has sparked us to accelerate the move to Responses API. Hoping that a non-deprecated feature will see greater reliability.
