diff --git a/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md
index 89db3d18c..31cd9af33 100644
--- a/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed OpenAI-compat streams ending with a bare `finish_reason: "error"` (gateways like OpenRouter reporting upstream failures, e.g. Gemini `MALFORMED_FUNCTION_CALL`) surfacing as a non-retryable `Provider finish_reason: error`. The reason is now mapped to `Provider returned error finish_reason`, which the session retry classifier recognizes as transient, so the turn auto-retries instead of stopping with a pinned error banner.
+
 ## [15.12.1] - 2026-06-12
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/packages/ai/src/providers/openai-completions.ts b/packages/ai/src/providers/openai-completions.ts
index 2cc542744..8e12c3919 100644
--- a/packages/ai/src/providers/openai-completions.ts
+++ b/packages/ai/src/providers/openai-completions.ts
@@ -2109,6 +2109,13 @@ function mapStopReason(reason: ChatCompletionChunk.Choice["finish_reason"] | str
 			return { stopReason: "error", errorMessage: "Provider finish_reason: content_filter" };
 		case "network_error":
 			return { stopReason: "error", errorMessage: "Provider finish_reason: network_error" };
+		case "error":
+			// Gateways (OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, …) report upstream model
+			// failures as a bare `finish_reason: "error"` with no detail. These are
+			// almost always transient (e.g. Gemini MALFORMED_FUNCTION_CALL), so word
+			// the message to match the session retry classifier's transient-transport
+			// pattern (`provider.?returned.?error`) and get the turn auto-retried.
+			return { stopReason: "error", errorMessage: "Provider returned error finish_reason" };
 		default:
 			return {
 				stopReason: "error",
diff --git a/packages/ai/test/openai-completions-error-finish-reason.test.ts b/packages/ai/test/openai-completions-error-finish-reason.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0603f2d18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ai/test/openai-completions-error-finish-reason.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+// Regression coverage for gateways (OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, …) that
+// report upstream model failures as a bare `finish_reason: "error"` — e.g.
+// Gemini MALFORMED_FUNCTION_CALL behind an OpenAI-compat endpoint. The mapped
+// error message must match the session retry classifier's transient-transport
+// pattern (`provider.?returned.?error` in agent-session's
+// #isTransientTransportErrorMessage) so the turn is auto-retried instead of
+// stopping with a pinned error banner.
+import { describe, expect, it } from "bun:test";
+import { streamOpenAICompletions } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai/providers/openai-completions";
+import type { Context, FetchImpl, Model } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai/types";
+import { getBundledModel } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-catalog/models";
+
+// Mirrors the transient-transport alternative the session retry gate matches on.
+const RETRYABLE_PATTERN = /provider.?returned.?error/i;
+
+const completionsModel = {
+	...(getBundledModel("openai", "gpt-4o-mini") as Model<"openai-completions">),
+	api: "openai-completions",
+} satisfies Model<"openai-completions">;
+
+function baseContext(): Context {
+	return {
+		messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Say hello", timestamp: Date.now() }],
+	};
+}
+
+function createSseFetch(events: unknown[]): FetchImpl {
+	async function mockFetch(_input: string | URL | Request, _init?: RequestInit): Promise<Response> {
+		const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+		const stream = new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+			start(controller) {
+				for (const event of events) {
+					const data = typeof event === "string" ? event : JSON.stringify(event);
+					controller.enqueue(encoder.encode(`data: ${data}\n\n`));
+				}
+				controller.close();
+			},
+		});
+		return new Response(stream, {
+			status: 200,
+			headers: { "content-type": "text/event-stream" },
+		});
+	}
+	return mockFetch as typeof fetch;
+}
+
+function completionChunk(extra: Record<string, unknown>): unknown {
+	return {
+		id: "chatcmpl-error-finish",
+		object: "chat.completion.chunk",
+		created: 0,
+		model: completionsModel.id,
+		...extra,
+	};
+}
+
+describe("finish_reason: error", () => {
+	it("maps to a retryable error message", async () => {
+		const fetchMock = createSseFetch([
+			completionChunk({ choices: [{ index: 0, delta: { role: "assistant", content: "Hel" } }] }),
+			completionChunk({ choices: [{ index: 0, delta: {}, finish_reason: "error" }] }),
+			"[DONE]",
+		]);
+
+		const result = await streamOpenAICompletions(completionsModel, baseContext(), {
+			apiKey: "test-key",
+			fetch: fetchMock,
+		}).result();
+
+		expect(result.stopReason).toBe("error");
+		expect(result.errorMessage).toMatch(RETRYABLE_PATTERN);
+	}, 10_000);
+
+	it("stays an error even when the stream carried tool calls", async () => {
+		// The user-visible failure mode: the model garbles a tool call, the
+		// gateway ends the stream with `finish_reason: "error"`. Tool-call
+		// promotion (stop → toolUse) must not paper over the error finish.
+		const fetchMock = createSseFetch([
+			completionChunk({
+				choices: [
+					{
+						index: 0,
+						delta: {
+							role: "assistant",
+							tool_calls: [
+								{
+									index: 0,
+									id: "call_1",
+									type: "function",
+									function: { name: "read", arguments: '{"pattern":"x"}' },
+								},
+							],
+						},
+					},
+				],
+			}),
+			completionChunk({ choices: [{ index: 0, delta: {}, finish_reason: "error" }] }),
+			"[DONE]",
+		]);
+
+		const result = await streamOpenAICompletions(completionsModel, baseContext(), {
+			apiKey: "test-key",
+			fetch: fetchMock,
+		}).result();
+
+		expect(result.stopReason).toBe("error");
+		expect(result.errorMessage).toMatch(RETRYABLE_PATTERN);
+	}, 10_000);
+});