hermes-agent/tests/agent/test_codex_ttfb_watchdog.py
adam91holt 8601c4d44c fix(codex): add time-to-first-byte watchdog for stalled Codex streams
The chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex endpoint has an intermittent failure mode
where it accepts the connection but never emits a single stream event — the
socket just hangs. Direct sequential probing reproduces it (0 events, no HTTP
status), and a fresh reconnect then succeeds in ~2s. Today the only guard is
the wall-clock stale timeout in interruptible_api_call, so a dead-on-arrival
connection is held for the full stale window (90-900s depending on context /
config) before the retry loop can reconnect — minutes of wasted wall time per
stall, at a rate of ~20% of calls during affected windows.

Add a TTFB watchdog scoped to the codex_responses path:

- codex_runtime.run_codex_stream stamps agent._codex_stream_last_event_ts on
  *every* stream event (not just output-text deltas), so reasoning-only and
  tool-call-only turns are not mistaken for a stall.
- interruptible_api_call resets that marker before the worker starts and, while
  it is still None, kills the connection once elapsed exceeds the TTFB cutoff
  (default 45s, tunable via HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, 0 disables). The
  raised TimeoutError flows through the existing retry path unchanged.

Once any event has arrived the stream is healthy and only the existing
wall-clock stale timeout applies, so legitimate long generations are never
interrupted. Gated to codex_responses; the chat_completions non-stream,
anthropic and bedrock branches have no first-event signal and are untouched.

Adds tests/agent/test_codex_ttfb_watchdog.py covering the stall kill, the
events-flowing pass-through, and the env-disable path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 05:34:42 -07:00

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"""Regression tests for the Codex time-to-first-byte (TTFB) watchdog.
The chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex endpoint has an intermittent failure mode
where it accepts the connection but never emits a single stream event. The
watchdog in ``interruptible_api_call`` kills such a connection at a short TTFB
cutoff (instead of waiting out the much longer wall-clock stale timeout) so the
retry loop can reconnect promptly. Once any stream event arrives, the stream is
considered healthy and only the wall-clock stale timeout applies — long
generations must never be interrupted by the TTFB cutoff.
The "bytes flowing" signal is ``agent._codex_stream_last_event_ts``, set on
*any* event by ``codex_runtime.run_codex_stream`` — so reasoning-only or
tool-call-only turns (which emit no output-text deltas) are not mistaken for a
stall.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import sys
import time
import types
from types import SimpleNamespace
import pytest
# Stub optional heavy imports so run_agent imports cleanly in isolation.
sys.modules.setdefault("fire", types.SimpleNamespace(Fire=lambda *a, **k: None))
sys.modules.setdefault("firecrawl", types.SimpleNamespace(Firecrawl=object))
sys.modules.setdefault("fal_client", types.SimpleNamespace())
def _make_codex_agent(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path))
(tmp_path / ".env").write_text("", encoding="utf-8")
(tmp_path / "config.yaml").write_text("{}\n", encoding="utf-8")
from run_agent import AIAgent
agent = AIAgent(
model="gpt-5.5",
provider="openai-codex",
api_key="sk-dummy",
base_url="https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex",
quiet_mode=True,
skip_context_files=True,
skip_memory=True,
platform="cli",
)
# The watchdog is gated on the codex_responses api_mode; assert/force it so
# the test is robust to detection-logic changes elsewhere.
agent.api_mode = "codex_responses"
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_emit_status", lambda *a, **k: None)
# Keep the wall-clock stale timeout high so any early kill is unambiguously
# the TTFB path, not the stale-call path.
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_compute_non_stream_stale_timeout", lambda *a, **k: 60.0
)
return agent
def test_ttfb_kills_when_no_stream_event(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Backend accepts the connection but emits no event -> killed at the TTFB
cutoff, well before the 60s wall-clock stale timeout, with a retryable
TimeoutError and a ``codex_ttfb_kill`` close reason."""
from agent import chat_completion_helpers as h
agent = _make_codex_agent(tmp_path, monkeypatch)
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", "1")
closes: list = []
dummy_client = SimpleNamespace()
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_create_request_openai_client", lambda **k: dummy_client)
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_abort_request_openai_client",
lambda c, reason=None: closes.append(reason),
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_close_request_openai_client",
lambda c, reason=None: closes.append(reason),
)
stop = {"flag": False}
def fake_hang(api_kwargs, client=None, on_first_delta=None):
# Never set _codex_stream_last_event_ts: simulate zero events arriving.
deadline = time.time() + 30
while time.time() < deadline and not stop["flag"] and not agent._interrupt_requested:
time.sleep(0.02)
raise RuntimeError("connection closed")
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_run_codex_stream", fake_hang)
t0 = time.time()
try:
with pytest.raises(TimeoutError) as excinfo:
h.interruptible_api_call(agent, {"model": "gpt-5.5", "input": "hi"})
elapsed = time.time() - t0
assert "TTFB" in str(excinfo.value)
assert "codex_ttfb_kill" in closes
# ~1s cutoff + 2s join grace; must be far under the 60s stale timeout.
assert elapsed < 15, f"TTFB watchdog took {elapsed:.1f}s"
finally:
stop["flag"] = True
def test_ttfb_does_not_kill_when_events_flow(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Once a stream event has arrived, a generation that runs past the TTFB
cutoff is NOT killed by the watchdog — it completes normally."""
from agent import chat_completion_helpers as h
agent = _make_codex_agent(tmp_path, monkeypatch)
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", "1")
closes: list = []
dummy_client = SimpleNamespace()
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_create_request_openai_client", lambda **k: dummy_client)
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_abort_request_openai_client",
lambda c, reason=None: closes.append(reason),
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_close_request_openai_client",
lambda c, reason=None: closes.append(reason),
)
sentinel = SimpleNamespace(ok=True)
def fake_stream(api_kwargs, client=None, on_first_delta=None):
# Bytes flowing: mark stream activity right away, then keep generating
# past the 1s TTFB cutoff before returning a real response.
agent._codex_stream_last_event_ts = time.time()
if on_first_delta:
on_first_delta()
time.sleep(2.0)
return sentinel
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_run_codex_stream", fake_stream)
resp = h.interruptible_api_call(agent, {"model": "gpt-5.5", "input": "hi"})
assert resp is sentinel
assert "codex_ttfb_kill" not in closes
def test_ttfb_disabled_via_env_zero(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Setting HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=0 disables the TTFB watchdog;
a no-event stall then falls through to the (here, 60s) stale timeout, so a
short hang is NOT killed by TTFB."""
from agent import chat_completion_helpers as h
agent = _make_codex_agent(tmp_path, monkeypatch)
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", "0")
closes: list = []
dummy_client = SimpleNamespace()
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_create_request_openai_client", lambda **k: dummy_client)
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_abort_request_openai_client",
lambda c, reason=None: closes.append(reason),
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
agent, "_close_request_openai_client",
lambda c, reason=None: closes.append(reason),
)
sentinel = SimpleNamespace(ok=True)
def fake_stream(api_kwargs, client=None, on_first_delta=None):
# No event marker, but only briefly — well under the 60s stale timeout.
time.sleep(2.0)
return sentinel
monkeypatch.setattr(agent, "_run_codex_stream", fake_stream)
resp = h.interruptible_api_call(agent, {"model": "gpt-5.5", "input": "hi"})
assert resp is sentinel
assert "codex_ttfb_kill" not in closes