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Summary

Provider unit tests in internal/providers/openai and internal/providers/anthropic previously took >300 seconds to run because:

  1. Tests ran sequentially without t.Parallel().
  2. Tests covering HTTP 429/503 error classification triggered full production retry backoff schedules (2s + 4s + 8s...) totaling ~60s of physical sleep per test.

Key Changes

  • Exported ShrinkBackoffForTest() in internal/providers/providerio to clamp retry backoff bases to 1ms during test execution.
  • Enabled t.Parallel() on isolated provider test cases (each running on independent httptest.Server instances).
  • Reduced provider unit test suite runtime from 303s to 2.4s (~125x speedup) with 100% passing rate under go test -race.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests

    • Expanded concurrent test execution across provider integrations.
    • Added validation for cache-write usage reporting.
    • Reduced retry delays during automated testing to shorten validation time.
    • Preserved existing coverage and assertions while improving test-suite efficiency.
  • Refactor

    • Improved internal test support for retry and provider behavior without changing production functionality or public APIs.

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  • internal/config/unknownfields.go
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Walkthrough

Provider tests for Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenAI now run in parallel. A restorable helper shortens retry backoffs during tests. Cache-write-token parsing receives additional test assertions.

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Provider test parallelization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test retry backoff setup
internal/providers/providerio/retry.go, internal/providers/providerio/retry_test.go, internal/providers/anthropic/provider_test.go, internal/providers/openai/provider_test.go
Adds providerio.ShrinkBackoffForTest, verifies restoration, and uses shortened backoffs during provider tests.
Anthropic and Gemini test execution
internal/providers/anthropic/*_test.go, internal/providers/gemini/*_test.go
Adds parallel execution to provider, streaming, serialization, timeout, error, and validation tests.
OpenAI provider and Codex test execution
internal/providers/openai/provider_test.go, internal/providers/openai/codex_test.go, internal/providers/openai/codex_terminal_test.go
Adds parallel execution while keeping the Codex idle-timeout test serial. Usage assertions now include cache-write tokens.
Shared provider and session tests
internal/providers/factory_turn_session_test.go, internal/providers/openai/session_test.go, internal/providers/openai/reasoning_effort_test.go, internal/config/unknownfields.go
Adds parallel execution to factory, session, and reasoning-effort tests. Renames the reflection constant without behavior change.

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The PR speeds up isolated provider tests by enabling parallel execution and shortening retry waits during tests; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: gnanam1990, anandh8x, vasanthdev2004

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In `@internal/providers/providerio/retry.go`:
- Around line 52-61: In retry_test.go, add a focused test for
ShrinkBackoffForTest that records the original retryBackoffBase and
preSendBackoffBase, verifies both are set to one millisecond while the helper is
active, then invokes the returned restoration closure and verifies both values
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  • internal/providers/anthropic/cache_breakpoints_test.go
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  • internal/providers/anthropic/finish_reason_test.go
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  • internal/providers/anthropic/image_test.go
  • internal/providers/anthropic/provider_test.go
  • internal/providers/anthropic/stop_reason_test.go
  • internal/providers/factory_turn_session_test.go
  • internal/providers/gemini/done_test.go
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  • internal/providers/gemini/images_test.go
  • internal/providers/gemini/provider_test.go
  • internal/providers/openai/codex_terminal_test.go
  • internal/providers/openai/codex_test.go
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Comment thread internal/providers/providerio/retry.go
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This is sound and the win is bigger than the title suggests. On base, internal/providers/openai takes 181.5s and internal/providers/anthropic 121.5s, almost entirely the 429 and 503 cases burning the full 2/4/8/16/30s schedule over six attempts. On this branch both are 1.3s. gemini was already 1.4s, which is why it correctly gets no init() shrink.

Nothing is skipped to get there. -v PASS counts are identical on base and on this head (openai 113, anthropic 30, gemini 33).

What I checked, since parallelising 146 tests is the kind of change that pays out later:

  • No t.Setenv collision. The only t.Setenv calls in a parallelised file are in TestOpenAIRequestPromptCacheKey, which you deliberately left serial, and no helper reached from a parallel test calls it. Everything else that touches the environment lives in packages or tests that stayed serial.
  • No shared mutable state. None of the four test packages declare package-level vars, and the only production globals in play are providerio's retryBackoffBase and preSendBackoffBase, both set once from init() before any test runs. t.Parallel() is the first statement in all 146 cases, and servers are closed via t.Cleanup or a deferred Close.
  • Production defaults untouched: 2s and 500ms stay as they were.
  • -race clean at -count=4, -count=10 -parallel 64, -count=8 -cpu=1 and -count=25 -parallel 4, plus a full -race ./....

Two notes, neither blocking.

TestCodexProviderStreamIdleTimeoutPropagates now runs in parallel while configuring StreamIdleTimeout: 50 * time.Millisecond and asserting the stream produces no error event. Its own comment says the fast path does not hit the timeout and the test just confirms the option is accepted, so the 50ms is incidental rather than the thing under test, but it is now a wall-clock window that parallelism can close. I did see it fail this way once, at -race -count=15 -parallel 128 under 160 burner threads:

unexpected error event: "provider stream error: idle timeout after 50ms (upstream stopped sending data)"

Being straight about the calibration: it does not reproduce at CI-realistic parallelism, and the same load at -parallel 1 passed. So this is a "raise the constant or leave this one serial" note, not a reason to hold the PR.

ShrinkBackoffForTest is exported from production retry.go, so it is reachable from the shipped binary even though the only callers are the two test init()s. The deadcode step that would surface it is continue-on-error, so nothing will flag it. Moving it behind export_test.go would close that off, if you want it closed.

Approving.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

  • [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge
    internal/providers/openai/codex_test.go:770
    The PR merge base (ad34dc8...) is behind live main (1b5db176...). The intervening target change added cache-write-token coverage in both internal/providers/openai/codex_test.go and provider_test.go, and merge-tree now reports them as changed in both. Rebase and review the resolved diff so the PR does not discard those upstream test contracts.

Findings

  • [P2] Keep the Codex timeout acceptance test out of the parallel pool
    internal/providers/openai/codex_test.go:748
    This PR, and not merge-base or current main, adds t.Parallel() to the test that configures StreamIdleTimeout: 50 * time.Millisecond. The wrapped OpenAI provider passes that value to ScanSSEDataWithContext, which starts a real-wall-clock idle timer and returns ErrStreamIdle when it wins the select. drainCodexEvents treats that event as a fatal test failure.

    The server writes response.completed synchronously, but once this test competes with the newly parallel provider suite, there is no guarantee that the server handler, HTTP read, SSE scanner, and consumer will run within 50ms. The test's own comment says it only verifies that the option is accepted, not that a 50ms idle expiry behaves correctly.

    Restore the serial scheduling for this test or split the concerns: assert option propagation without arming a tiny live watchdog, and leave the deterministic stalled-stream tests to exercise timeout behavior. This addresses the root cause — a timing-sensitive assertion in the new concurrent schedule — without reversing the product timeout contract or blocking parallelism for the rest of the suite.

cl-ment and others added 4 commits August 28, 2026 23:29
…retry backoffs

Enable t.Parallel() on independent provider test cases and shrink default
retry backoffs from seconds to 1ms during test runs, reducing provider test
suite duration from ~300s to ~2.4s without flakiness.
StreamIdleTimeout arms a wall-clock watchdog. Parallel scheduling can
lose the 50ms race against response.completed even though the test
only checks that the option is accepted.

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