diff --git a/kong/plugins/ai-response-transformer/handler.lua b/kong/plugins/ai-response-transformer/handler.lua
index d4535b37e6d5..cc223a4c0ce8 100644
--- a/kong/plugins/ai-response-transformer/handler.lua
+++ b/kong/plugins/ai-response-transformer/handler.lua
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ function _M:access(conf)
     res_body = kong_utils.inflate_gzip(res_body)
   end
 
+  if kong.ctx.shared.ai_request then
+    kong.ctx.shared.parsed_response = res_body
+  end
+
   -- if asked, introspect the request before proxying
   kong.log.debug("introspecting response with LLM")