diff --git a/docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/reference/adapters.md b/docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/reference/adapters.md
index ea97ddbcff..0718edc94e 100644
--- a/docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/reference/adapters.md
+++ b/docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/reference/adapters.md
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ interface ProviderAdapter {
 
 - 内部メッセージを OpenAI role に変換し、ツールは `{type:"function", function:{…}}` と
   `tool_choice`（`auto`/`none`/`required` または指定関数）にマッピングします。
+- **ツール結果内の画像**は、`role:"tool"` がテキスト専用のため、ツールラウンドが閉じた後に後続の
+  user vision メッセージ（`image_url` パート）として送られます。ツールメッセージ側には `[image]`
+  マーカーがアンカーとして残ります。
 - **Codex の GPT-5 アイデンティティプロンプトを書き直し**、モデル中立な紹介に変えます。そのためルーティングされたモデルが自分を OpenAI だと主張しません。
 - 正確な段階がないときは **`reasoning_effort` をモデルが公表したサブセットに合わせて調整**します。
   プロバイダーが明示的に alias を設定しない限り、`xhigh` と `max` は異なるラベルのまま保ちます。`provider.noReasoningModels` に含まれる id には値を **一切送りません**。
diff --git a/docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/reference/adapters.md b/docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/reference/adapters.md
index ddfe868649..59bd47eac5 100644
--- a/docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/reference/adapters.md
+++ b/docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/reference/adapters.md
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ interface ProviderAdapter {
 
 - 내부 메시지를 OpenAI role로 변환하고, 툴은 `{type:"function", function:{…}}`과
   `tool_choice`(`auto`/`none`/`required` 또는 지정 함수)로 매핑합니다.
+- **툴 결과에 든 이미지**는 `role:"tool"`이 텍스트 전용이므로, 툴 라운드가 닫힌 뒤 후속
+  user vision 메시지(`image_url` 파트)로 전달됩니다. 툴 메시지에는 `[image]` 마커가 앵커로
+  남습니다.
 - **Codex의 GPT-5 정체성 프롬프트를 다시 작성**해 모델 중립적인 소개로 바꿉니다. 따라서 라우팅된
   모델이 자신을 OpenAI라고 주장하지 않습니다.
 - 정확한 단계가 없으면 **`reasoning_effort`를 모델이 알린 하위 집합에 맞춰 조정**합니다.
diff --git a/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md b/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md
index 25cd3b962e..19676001ac 100644
--- a/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md
+++ b/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/adapters.md
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ provider — xAI, Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM, Groq, OpenRouter, Ollama (local & cloud),
 
 - Converts internal messages to OpenAI roles; maps tools to `{type:"function", function:{…}}` and
   `tool_choice` (`auto`/`none`/`required` or a named function).
+- **Tool-result images** ride in a follow-up user vision message (`image_url` parts) released once
+  the tool round closes, since `role:"tool"` content is text-only; the `[image]` marker stays in the
+  tool message as the anchor.
 - **Rewrites Codex's GPT-5 identity prompt** to a model-agnostic intro so routed models don't claim to
   be OpenAI.
 - **Clamps `reasoning_effort`** to the model's advertised subset when an exact tier is unavailable;
diff --git a/docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/reference/adapters.md b/docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/reference/adapters.md
index 80c7ae6477..0565c280df 100644
--- a/docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/reference/adapters.md
+++ b/docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/reference/adapters.md
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ interface ProviderAdapter {
 - Преобразует внутренние сообщения в роли OpenAI; инструменты отображаются в
   `{type:"function", function:{…}}` и `tool_choice` (`auto`/`none`/`required` или именованная
   функция).
+- **Изображения из результатов инструментов** отправляются отдельным последующим user-сообщением
+  (части `image_url`) после закрытия раунда инструментов, так как содержимое `role:"tool"` может
+  быть только текстом; маркер `[image]` остаётся в сообщении инструмента как якорь.
 - **Переписывает идентификационный промпт Codex про GPT-5** в модельно-нейтральное вступление,
   чтобы маршрутизируемые модели не заявляли, что они от OpenAI.
 - **Прижимает `reasoning_effort`** к объявленному моделью подмножеству, когда точный уровень
diff --git a/docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/reference/adapters.md b/docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/reference/adapters.md
index 6a3d89a98d..dd8eeb54cc 100644
--- a/docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/reference/adapters.md
+++ b/docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/reference/adapters.md
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ interface ProviderAdapter {
 
 - 把内部消息转换成 OpenAI role；工具映射为 `{type:"function", function:{…}}` 和
   `tool_choice`（`auto`/`none`/`required` 或具名函数）。
+- **工具结果中的图片**会在工具轮次结束后，作为后续 user vision 消息（`image_url` 部分）发送，
+  因为 `role:"tool"` 的内容只能是文本；`[image]` 标记仍保留在工具消息中作为锚点。
 - **重写 Codex 的 GPT-5 身份提示词**，改成与模型无关的介绍，避免路由模型自称 OpenAI。
 - 精确层级不可用时，**把 `reasoning_effort` 限制到模型公布的子集**。除非 provider 显式配置
   alias，`xhigh` 与 `max` 保持为不同标签。对于 `provider.noReasoningModels` 中的 id，则**完全
diff --git a/src/adapters/openai-chat.ts b/src/adapters/openai-chat.ts
index 1abd9743a9..0aae451977 100644
--- a/src/adapters/openai-chat.ts
+++ b/src/adapters/openai-chat.ts
@@ -77,6 +77,24 @@ function developerSystemText(message: OcxMessage): string | undefined {
   return message.content.map(part => (part as OcxTextContent).text).join("");
 }
 
+/**
+ * Chat-completions image_url parts for images carried inside a tool result (issue #888). role:"tool"
+ * content is text-only on every chat provider, so these ride in a follow-up user message instead of
+ * being flattened to the "[image]" marker the model can't actually see. Data URLs and remote https
+ * URLs are both valid in image_url.url, unlike Gemini inline_data which needs base64.
+ */
+function toolResultImageChatParts(content: string | OcxContentPart[]): unknown[] {
+  if (typeof content === "string") return [];
+  const parts: unknown[] = [];
+  for (const p of content) {
+    // Skip parts without a usable URL (the tool-output parser accepts the empty file_id shape):
+    // a {"url":""} part would fail the whole request where the "[image]" marker degrades safely.
+    if (p.type !== "image" || !p.imageUrl) continue;
+    parts.push({ type: "image_url", image_url: { url: p.imageUrl, ...(p.detail ? { detail: p.detail } : {}) } });
+  }
+  return parts;
+}
+
 function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProviderConfig): unknown[] {
   const out: unknown[] = [];
   const { context, options } = parsed;
@@ -91,6 +109,7 @@ function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProviderCon
   interface PendingToolCall { id: string; name: string }
   let pendingToolCalls: PendingToolCall[] = [];
   let deferredBarrierMessages: unknown[] = [];
+  let pendingToolResultImageParts: unknown[] = [];
   let mintedIdSeq = 0;
   const seenWireCallIds = new Set<string>();
 
@@ -109,6 +128,22 @@ function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProviderCon
     deferredBarrierMessages = [];
   };
 
+  // Tool-result images collected during the open round land in ONE user vision message once the
+  // round closes — never inside it, where strict providers (Kimi/Moonshot) 400 on interleaved
+  // user messages. Released before deferred barriers so the images stay adjacent to the results
+  // they came from (mirrors google.ts sibling inline_data parts and the Kiro carrier images).
+  const flushToolResultImages = (): void => {
+    if (pendingToolResultImageParts.length === 0) return;
+    out.push({
+      role: "user",
+      content: [
+        { type: "text", text: "[ocx] image output from the preceding tool result(s):" },
+        ...pendingToolResultImageParts,
+      ],
+    });
+    pendingToolResultImageParts = [];
+  };
+
   // Close an unresolved tool round with explicit unavailable-result messages. The wording
   // must not claim interruption, success, failure, or user intent: execution status is
   // UNKNOWN, and for user-input tools this must not read as an answer.
@@ -122,6 +157,7 @@ function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProviderCon
       });
     }
     pendingToolCalls = [];
+    flushToolResultImages();
     releaseDeferredBarriers();
   };
 
@@ -232,8 +268,12 @@ function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProviderCon
             tool_call_id: toolCallId,
             content: contentPartsToText(msg.content),
           });
+          pendingToolResultImageParts.push(...toolResultImageChatParts(msg.content));
           pendingToolCalls.splice(matchIdx, 1);
-          if (pendingToolCalls.length === 0) releaseDeferredBarriers();
+          if (pendingToolCalls.length === 0) {
+            flushToolResultImages();
+            releaseDeferredBarriers();
+          }
         } else {
           if (!toolCallId) toolCallId = `call_orphan_${out.length}`;
           // No matching call in the open round. Close any unresolved round first so the
@@ -257,6 +297,8 @@ function messagesToChatFormat(parsed: OcxParsedRequest, provider: OcxProviderCon
             tool_call_id: toolCallId,
             content: contentPartsToText(msg.content),
           });
+          pendingToolResultImageParts.push(...toolResultImageChatParts(msg.content));
+          flushToolResultImages();
         }
         break;
       }
diff --git a/tests/openai-chat-tool-result-images.test.ts b/tests/openai-chat-tool-result-images.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b2c389e1fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/openai-chat-tool-result-images.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { createOpenAIChatAdapter } from "../src/adapters/openai-chat";
+import type { OcxContentPart, OcxMessage, OcxParsedRequest, OcxProviderConfig } from "../src/types";
+
+// Issue #888: role:"tool" content is text-only on chat-completions providers, so images inside a
+// tool result were flattened to an "[image]" marker and vision-capable routed models hallucinated
+// what they never saw. Tool-result images now ride in a follow-up user vision message released when
+// the tool round closes, without splitting the round (strict providers reject interleaved users).
+
+const provider: OcxProviderConfig = {
+  adapter: "openai-chat",
+  baseUrl: "https://example.test/v1",
+  apiKey: "sk-test",
+  authMode: "key",
+};
+
+const IMAGE_URL = "data:image/png;base64,aGVsbG8taW1hZ2UtYnl0ZXM=";
+
+interface ChatPart {
+  type: string;
+  text?: string;
+  image_url?: { url: string; detail?: string };
+}
+
+interface ChatMsg {
+  role: string;
+  content?: string | ChatPart[];
+  tool_calls?: { id: string; function: { name: string; arguments: string } }[];
+  tool_call_id?: string;
+}
+
+function wire(messages: OcxMessage[]): ChatMsg[] {
+  const parsed: OcxParsedRequest = {
+    modelId: "test-model",
+    context: { messages },
+    stream: false,
+    options: {},
+  };
+  const req = createOpenAIChatAdapter(provider).buildRequest(parsed) as { body: string };
+  return (JSON.parse(req.body) as { messages: ChatMsg[] }).messages;
+}
+
+function user(text: string): OcxMessage {
+  return { role: "user", content: text, timestamp: 0 };
+}
+
+function assistantWithCalls(calls: { id: string; name: string }[]): OcxMessage {
+  return {
+    role: "assistant",
+    content: calls.map(c => ({ type: "toolCall" as const, id: c.id, name: c.name, arguments: {} })),
+    timestamp: 0,
+  };
+}
+
+function toolResult(callId: string, name: string, content: string | OcxContentPart[]): OcxMessage {
+  return { role: "toolResult", toolCallId: callId, toolName: name, content, isError: false, timestamp: 0 };
+}
+
+/** The carrier is a user message whose parts start with an "[ocx]" text label followed by image_url parts. */
+function isImageCarrier(msg: ChatMsg): boolean {
+  if (msg.role !== "user" || !Array.isArray(msg.content)) return false;
+  const [head, ...rest] = msg.content;
+  return head?.type === "text" && typeof head.text === "string" && head.text.startsWith("[ocx]")
+    && rest.length > 0 && rest.every(p => p.type === "image_url");
+}
+
+/** Every role:"tool" message must sit in an unbroken block right after its assistant tool_calls message. */
+function assertRoundsUnbroken(messages: ChatMsg[]): void {
+  for (let i = 0; i < messages.length; i++) {
+    const m = messages[i];
+    if (m.role !== "tool") continue;
+    let j = i - 1;
+    while (j >= 0 && messages[j].role === "tool") j--;
+    expect(j).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    expect(messages[j].role).toBe("assistant");
+    expect((messages[j].tool_calls ?? []).map(tc => tc.id)).toContain(m.tool_call_id);
+  }
+}
+
+test("tool-result images ride a follow-up user message; text, detail, and https URLs survive", () => {
+  const messages = wire([
+    user("read the screenshot"),
+    assistantWithCalls([{ id: "call_1", name: "Read" }]),
+    toolResult("call_1", "Read", [
+      { type: "text", text: "1 match found" },
+      { type: "image", imageUrl: IMAGE_URL, detail: "high" },
+      { type: "image", imageUrl: "https://example.test/shot.png" },
+      { type: "image", imageUrl: "" }, // empty file_id shape: keeps its marker, never reaches the carrier
+    ]),
+  ]);
+  assertRoundsUnbroken(messages);
+  const tool = messages.find(m => m.role === "tool")!;
+  expect(tool.content).toBe("1 match found[image][image][image]");
+  const carrier = messages.find(isImageCarrier)!;
+  expect(carrier).toBeDefined();
+  expect(messages.indexOf(carrier)).toBe(messages.indexOf(tool) + 1);
+  const parts = (carrier.content as ChatPart[]).filter(p => p.type === "image_url");
+  expect(parts.map(p => p.image_url)).toEqual([
+    { url: IMAGE_URL, detail: "high" },
+    { url: "https://example.test/shot.png" },
+  ]);
+});
+
+test("images from a multi-call round flush once, only after the whole round closes", () => {
+  const messages = wire([
+    assistantWithCalls([{ id: "call_1", name: "shot" }, { id: "call_2", name: "list" }]),
+    toolResult("call_1", "shot", [{ type: "image", imageUrl: IMAGE_URL }]),
+    toolResult("call_2", "list", "file1.txt"),
+  ]);
+  assertRoundsUnbroken(messages);
+  const toolIdx = messages.map((m, i) => (m.role === "tool" ? i : -1)).filter(i => i >= 0);
+  expect(toolIdx).toEqual([toolIdx[0], toolIdx[0] + 1]); // nothing interleaves the round
+  const carriers = messages.filter(isImageCarrier);
+  expect(carriers.length).toBe(1);
+  expect(messages.indexOf(carriers[0])).toBe(toolIdx[1] + 1);
+});
+
+test("orphan tool result with an image still emits the carrier after its synthesized pair", () => {
+  const messages = wire([
+    user("hi"),
+    toolResult("call_orphan", "shot", [{ type: "image", imageUrl: IMAGE_URL }]),
+  ]);
+  assertRoundsUnbroken(messages);
+  const tool = messages.find(m => m.role === "tool")!;
+  expect(tool.content).toBe("[image]");
+  const carrier = messages.find(isImageCarrier)!;
+  expect(messages.indexOf(carrier)).toBe(messages.indexOf(tool) + 1);
+});
+
+test("interrupted round: the synthetic closure still flushes collected images", () => {
+  const messages = wire([
+    assistantWithCalls([{ id: "call_1", name: "shot" }, { id: "call_2", name: "list" }]),
+    toolResult("call_1", "shot", [{ type: "image", imageUrl: IMAGE_URL }]),
+  ]);
+  assertRoundsUnbroken(messages);
+  const carrier = messages.find(isImageCarrier)!;
+  expect(carrier).toBeDefined();
+  expect(messages.indexOf(carrier)).toBe(messages.length - 1);
+});
+
+test("image-free tool results emit no carrier and an unchanged wire", () => {
+  const messages = wire([
+    user("hi"),
+    assistantWithCalls([{ id: "call_1", name: "list" }]),
+    toolResult("call_1", "list", "file1.txt"),
+    user("thanks"),
+  ]);
+  expect(messages.some(isImageCarrier)).toBe(false);
+  expect(messages.map(m => m.role)).toEqual(["user", "assistant", "tool", "user"]);
+});