hermes-agent/tests/agent/test_request_client_reuse.py
Soju06 82e2c9ce40 perf(agent): reuse the per-request OpenAI wire client across sequential LLM calls
Every LLM call built a fresh openai.OpenAI wire client (new httpx pool,
TCP+TLS handshake, measured 19.2ms p50 / 35.5ms p95 per call at ~5 calls
per tool-loop turn) and closed it when the request finished. Cache ONE
reusable wire client on the agent, keyed by the effective client kwargs:

- _create_request_openai_client hands back the cached client when the
  effective kwargs are identical; any change (credential rotation,
  provider failover, vision default_headers) evicts and rebuilds.
- Only a request that produced a response reports a reuse close reason
  (request_complete / stream_request_complete); error unwinds report
  *_error_cleanup and really close, so a retry after a request error
  always builds a fresh pool.
- Cross-thread aborts poison the slot: a pool whose sockets were
  shutdown(SHUT_RDWR) from a stranger thread is never reused (#29507) —
  the owner-thread close discards it and the next create rebuilds. The
  holder read and the abort are atomic (under the holder lock) at all
  three abort sites, so a late abort can never poison the NEXT request's
  checked-out client.
- Worker-side interrupt breaks close the half-read SSE stream on the
  owning thread before building the partial response; a failed close
  poisons the slot (otherwise each interrupt leaked one checked-out
  connection until the pool hit PoolTimeout). run_codex_stream gets the
  same poison-on-close-failure handling.
- Single checked-out slot (in_use): a concurrent call gets an untracked
  client with the old per-request lifecycle.
- release_clients() / close() really close the cached client when idle;
  if a worker has it checked out they abort the sockets and detach the
  slot, deferring the FD release to the worker's own close.
- MoA facade and Mock passthroughs never enter the cache; max_retries=0
  is preserved on all request clients.
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"""Per-request OpenAI wire client reuse across sequential LLM calls.
Building a fresh ``openai.OpenAI`` client per LLM call costs ~19-35ms (new
httpx pool, TCP+TLS handshake), so ``_create_request_openai_client`` caches
ONE reusable wire client on the agent, keyed by the effective client kwargs:
- identical kwargs → same client object handed back (the reuse win);
- kwargs change (credential rotation, provider failover) → evict + rebuild;
- cross-thread abort (#29507) poisons the slot → the owner-thread close does
a real close and the next create rebuilds;
- non-reuse close reasons (error cleanups, stale/interrupt kills, retry
cleanups) discard — only a request that produced a response reports a
reuse reason (request_complete / stream_request_complete);
- vision-header copilot variant is a distinct kwargs key;
- teardown (release_clients / close) really closes the cached client, or
detaches it to the in-flight worker's own close when checked out (#29507);
- MoA facade and Mock passthroughs never enter the cache.
"""
from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
from run_agent import AIAgent
class _StubClient:
"""Minimal non-Mock client: _is_openai_client_closed reads ``is_closed``."""
def __init__(self):
self.is_closed = False
def close(self):
self.is_closed = True
def _make_agent(provider="openai", base_url="https://api.openai.com/v1", model="gpt-5.4"):
with patch("run_agent.OpenAI") as mock_openai:
mock_openai.return_value = MagicMock()
agent = AIAgent(
api_key="sk-test",
base_url=base_url,
provider=provider,
model=model,
quiet_mode=True,
skip_context_files=True,
skip_memory=True,
)
# Non-Mock shared client so the Mock passthrough branch doesn't trigger.
agent.client = _StubClient()
return agent
class _Harness:
"""Patch the wire-client build/close/socket seams and record calls."""
def __init__(self, agent):
self.agent = agent
self.built = [] # (kwargs_copy, reason)
self.closed = [] # (client, reason)
self._patchers = []
def __enter__(self):
def _fake_create(kwargs, *, reason, shared):
# Only record per-request wire clients; teardown tests can also
# trigger a shared-client rebuild via _ensure_primary_openai_client.
if not shared:
self.built.append((dict(kwargs), reason))
return _StubClient()
def _fake_close(client, *, reason, shared):
self.closed.append((client, reason))
self._patchers = [
patch.object(self.agent, "_create_openai_client", side_effect=_fake_create),
patch.object(self.agent, "_close_openai_client", side_effect=_fake_close),
patch.object(self.agent, "_force_close_tcp_sockets", return_value=0),
]
for p in self._patchers:
p.start()
return self
def __exit__(self, *exc):
for p in self._patchers:
p.stop()
def closed_clients(self):
return [client for client, _reason in self.closed]
def test_reuse_on_identical_kwargs_same_object():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="chat_completion_request")
# The agent's outer loop owns retries — the SDK loop must stay off.
assert h.built[-1][0]["max_retries"] == 0
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
assert h.closed == [] # kept for reuse, not really closed
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="chat_completion_request")
assert b is a
assert len(h.built) == 1
def test_reuse_after_streaming_clean_finish():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="chat_completion_stream_request")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="stream_request_complete")
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="chat_completion_stream_request")
assert b is a
assert h.closed == []
def test_rebuild_on_client_kwargs_change():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
# Credential rotation / provider failover mutate _client_kwargs.
agent._client_kwargs["api_key"] = "sk-rotated"
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
# The stale cached client was really closed on eviction.
assert a in h.closed_clients()
assert h.built[-1][0]["api_key"] == "sk-rotated"
# And the rotated client is itself reusable.
agent._close_request_openai_client(b, reason="request_complete")
c = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert c is b
def test_rebuild_after_cross_thread_abort_poisons_cache():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
# Stranger-thread abort (#29507): stale-call detector / interrupt loop
# shutdown(SHUT_RDWR) the pool's sockets. This client must never be
# reused even though the worker's own finally reports a clean reason.
agent._abort_request_openai_client(a, reason="stale_call_kill")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
assert a in h.closed_clients() # poisoned → real close, not kept
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
def test_kill_reason_close_discards_cached_client():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="stream_retry_cleanup")
assert a in h.closed_clients()
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
def test_externally_closed_cached_client_rebuilds():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
a.is_closed = True # e.g. closed behind our back
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
assert len(h.built) == 2
def test_copilot_vision_variant_gets_own_client():
agent = _make_agent(provider="copilot", base_url="https://api.githubcopilot.com")
text_kwargs = {"model": "gpt-5.4", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]}
image_kwargs = {
"model": "gpt-5.4",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "What is in this image?"},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/png;base64,abc"}},
],
}
],
}
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r", api_kwargs=text_kwargs)
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
# Vision request: different default_headers → must not reuse the
# text-variant client.
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r", api_kwargs=image_kwargs)
assert b is not a
assert h.built[-1][0]["default_headers"]["Copilot-Vision-Request"] == "true"
agent._close_request_openai_client(b, reason="request_complete")
# Consecutive vision requests reuse the vision-variant client.
c = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r", api_kwargs=image_kwargs)
assert c is b
def test_release_clients_closes_cached_request_client():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
agent.release_clients()
assert (a, "cache_evict") in h.closed
# Next create rebuilds instead of handing back the closed client.
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
def test_agent_close_closes_cached_request_client():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
agent.close()
assert (a, "agent_close") in h.closed
# Idempotent: a second teardown must not double-close.
before = len(h.closed)
agent._close_cached_request_openai_client(reason="agent_close")
assert len(h.closed) == before
def test_teardown_while_checked_out_defers_close_to_worker():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
# Checked out by an in-flight worker (workers can outlive turns):
# teardown must not client.close() from a stranger thread (#29507) —
# it aborts the sockets and detaches the slot instead.
agent._close_cached_request_openai_client(reason="agent_close")
assert a not in h.closed_clients()
# The worker's own finally sees an untracked client → real close on
# the owning thread, even with a clean-finish reason.
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
assert a in h.closed_clients()
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
def test_concurrent_checkout_gets_untracked_client():
agent = _make_agent()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
# Slot checked out by the first (still in-flight) call: a concurrent
# call gets a fresh client with the old per-request lifecycle.
b = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert b is not a
agent._close_request_openai_client(b, reason="request_complete")
assert b in h.closed_clients() # untracked → really closed
agent._close_request_openai_client(a, reason="request_complete")
assert a not in h.closed_clients() # cached → kept
c = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert c is a
def test_moa_passthrough_unaffected():
agent = _make_agent()
agent.provider = "moa"
facade = agent.client
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert a is facade
assert h.built == [] # facade handed back, no wire client built
# Close behaves exactly as before the cache existed.
agent._close_request_openai_client(facade, reason="request_complete")
assert facade in h.closed_clients()
def test_mock_client_passthrough_unaffected():
agent = _make_agent()
agent.client = MagicMock()
with _Harness(agent) as h:
a = agent._create_request_openai_client(reason="r")
assert a is agent.client
assert h.built == []