feat(ai): capture gemini thought summaries as thinking blocks

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💡 Motivation and Context

Gemini can return thought summaries when a request sets thinking_config.include_thoughts=True, and the SDK already reports thoughts_token_count as reasoning tokens — but the thought content was formatted as ordinary {"type": "text"} blocks, indistinguishable from the answer in LLM analytics. The Anthropic converter already emits {"type": "thinking", "thinking": ...} blocks, which the PostHog UI renders as reasoning; this brings the Gemini converter in line.

Parts marked thought=True now become thinking blocks in all three formatting paths: responses, inputs (multi-turn callers append prior model content, thoughts included, back into the conversation), and streaming chunks.

Companion PostHog PR that makes a thinking block next to a Gemini-style {"type": "function"} tool-call block render correctly: PostHog/posthog#76883

💚 How did you test it?

• New tests in posthog/test/ai/gemini/test_gemini_converter.py covering the response, input, and streaming-chunk paths (each is a separate code path in the converter).
• Full Gemini suite: 76 passed. ruff format --check, ruff check, and mypy (baseline-filtered) all clean.
• The response-path check uses is True on part.thought so loosely-specced mocks (whose .thought is a truthy Mock) still land on the text branch — the existing mock-based wrapper tests stay green.

📝 Checklist

• I reviewed the submitted code.
• I added tests to verify the changes.
• I updated the docs if needed.
• No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.

If releasing new changes

• Ran sampo add to generate a changeset file

🤖 Agent context

Autonomy: Human-driven (agent-assisted)

• Authored with Claude Code (PostHog Code cloud task), driven by instrumenting a Gemini-based feature in the PostHog app whose reasoning wasn't visible in LLM analytics.
• Verified against the PostHog AIO frontend normalizer that {"type": "thinking", "thinking": ...} is the block shape rendered as reasoning (the Anthropic recipe matches it per-block, provider-agnostically).
• Changeset added as minor: new capture behavior, only active when callers opt into include_thoughts.

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posthog-python Compliance Report

Date: 2026-09-11 15:59:05 UTC
Duration: 256357ms

✅ All Tests Passed!

111/111 tests passed

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Capture_V1 Tests

✅ 94/94 tests passed

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Test	Status	Duration
Endpoint And Method.Targets V1 Endpoint	✅	517ms
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Header Behavior On Retry.Attempt Header Starts At One	✅	511ms
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Response Format Validation.Success Response Has Ok For Each Event	✅	514ms
Response Format Validation.Success No Retry After When All Ok	✅	512ms
Response Format Validation.Success Retry After Present When Retry Events	✅	1516ms
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Retry Behavior.Retries On 408	✅	6516ms
Retry Behavior.Retries On 500	✅	6520ms
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Retry Behavior.Does Not Retry On 401	✅	2513ms
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Retry Behavior.Does Not Retry On 413	✅	2511ms
Retry Behavior.Does Not Retry On 415	✅	2513ms
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Retry Behavior.Implements Backoff	✅	22533ms
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Compression.Sends Gzip Content Encoding	✅	511ms
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Event Options.Disable Skew Correction Override	✅	509ms
Event Options.Process Person Profile Override	✅	510ms
Event Options.Product Tour Id Override	✅	511ms
Event Options.Unset Options Omitted	✅	509ms
Event Options.Options Override In Batch	✅	514ms
Geoip And Historical Migration.Geoip Disable Injected Into Properties	✅	510ms
Geoip And Historical Migration.Historical Migration Set In Body	✅	509ms
Geoip And Historical Migration.Historical Migration Absent By Default	✅	510ms

Feature_Flags Tests

✅ 17/17 tests passed

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Request Payload.Request With Person Properties Device Id	✅	11ms
Request Payload.Flags Request Uses V2 Query Param	✅	9ms
Request Payload.Flags Request Hits Flags Path Not Decide	✅	10ms
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Retry Behavior.Retries Flags On 504	✅	314ms
Side Effect Events.Get Feature Flag Captures Feature Flag Called Event	✅	511ms

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