#28067 [Bug]: Anthropic streaming raises KeyError: 'text' on content_block_start when upstream omits the optional "text" field
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### What happened?
When streaming via the Anthropic chat handler, ModelResponseIterator.chunk_parser() raises KeyError: 'text' at litellm/llms/anthropic/chat/handler.py:789 whenever an upstream provider emits a content_block_start event for a text block without the optional text field.
The Anthropic Messages streaming spec says the initial text on content_block_start is conventionally "" (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/messages-streaming#content-block-events), and some Anthropic-compatible reverse-proxy providers (observed against api-cc.freemodel.dev proxying claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) ship the field unset. The actual content arrives via subsequent content_block_delta chunks regardless, so the field on content_block_start is effectively informational.
Because LiteLLM aborts the stream at this point, callers see a MidStreamFallbackError(litellm.APIConnectionError: 'text') and the model group gets cooled down — even though the request is otherwise healthy.
### Steps to Reproduce
Minimal: feed a chunk that mimics the upstream wire format into the parser dire…