fix(openai-chat): heartbeat while buffering tool-call deltas - #2180
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Tool-call deltas are buffered until a terminal signal, so this adapter can consume upstream frames for a long time while yielding nothing. The Responses bridge arms its stall watchdog on ADAPTER activity, not socket activity, so a model streaming a large argument payload was indistinguishable from a hung upstream and could have its turn aborted while it was progressing normally. Found while investigating #2156. It is not the reported error -- that one is the EOF fail-closed guard, and the guard is correct: a stream that ends mid tool call with neither finish_reason nor [DONE] may have truncated the arguments, and promoting them would execute a partial call. But the silent buffering phase is our own hazard and it is worth closing on its own. A heartbeat is invisible downstream: the bridge consumes it to re-arm the watchdog and emits nothing. The Cursor, Anthropic, Google, and Kiro adapters already use exactly this for their own silent phases. The two test collectors now drop heartbeats, which keeps their assertions about the wire the client actually sees.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe OpenAI Chat adapter now emits heartbeats during tool-call delta processing. The terminal guard forwards these events without adding them to terminal analysis or continuation history. Tests verify filtering, pass-through, and tool-call completion. ChangesHeartbeat propagation and filtering
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change keeps the watchdog alive while buffering tool-call deltas without altering client-visible events. A bounded risk remains because the heartbeat non-retention behavior lacks a direct regression assertion, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to protect memory behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant OpenAIChatStream
participant TerminalGuard
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OpenAIChatStream->>OpenAIChatStream: Process tool-call delta
OpenAIChatStream-->>TerminalGuard: Emit heartbeat
TerminalGuard-->>Consumer: Forward heartbeat
TerminalGuard->>TerminalGuard: Exclude heartbeat from continuation history
OpenAIChatStream-->>TerminalGuard: Emit terminal tool-call event
TerminalGuard-->>Consumer: Emit final completion
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| // A heartbeat is invisible downstream — the bridge consumes it to re-arm the | ||
| // watchdog and emits nothing — which is the same remedy the Cursor, Anthropic, | ||
| // Google, and Kiro adapters already use for their own silent phases. | ||
| yield { type: "heartbeat" }; |
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When an openai-chat provider enables terminalContinuationGuard, guardTerminalEventStream appends every nonterminal event to its seen array (src/server/responses/terminal-guard.ts:193-225). Emitting a fresh heartbeat for every fragment therefore makes a finely chunked tool call—especially a stream of empty argument deltas, which consumes no tool-argument budget—retain an unbounded number of objects until the terminal frame, potentially exhausting proxy memory. Pass heartbeats through without adding them to seen (or coalesce them), and exercise the configured terminal-guard path in the regression test rather than collecting the adapter directly.
AGENTS.md reference: src/AGENTS.md:L24-L26
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In `@tests/openai-chat-hardening.test.ts`:
- Around line 944-949: Strengthen the assertions in the heartbeat/tool-call
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tool-call sequence including every tool_call_delta and the tool_call_end event,
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| expect(raw.filter(e => e.type === "heartbeat").length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(12); | ||
| // And the client-visible wire is unchanged -- a heartbeat is consumed by the bridge. | ||
| const visible = raw.filter(e => e.type !== "heartbeat"); | ||
| expect(visible.some(e => e.type === "error")).toBe(false); | ||
| expect(visible).toContainEqual({ type: "tool_call_start", id: "call_a", name: "shell" }); | ||
| expect(visible.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: "done" }); |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert the complete heartbeat and tool-call sequence.
This fixture contains 13 tool-call deltas, but toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(12) allows a missing heartbeat or duplicate heartbeat to pass. The assertions also omit tool_call_delta and tool_call_end, so buffered arguments or the terminal tool-call event can be lost without failing the test. Assert exactly 13 heartbeats and verify the complete visible sequence.
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- expect(raw.filter(e => e.type === "heartbeat").length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(12);
+ expect(raw.filter(e => e.type === "heartbeat").length).toBe(13);
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+ expect(visible.map(e => e.type)).toEqual([
+ "tool_call_start",
+ "tool_call_delta",
+ "tool_call_end",
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| expect(raw.filter(e => e.type === "heartbeat").length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(12); | |
| // And the client-visible wire is unchanged -- a heartbeat is consumed by the bridge. | |
| const visible = raw.filter(e => e.type !== "heartbeat"); | |
| expect(visible.some(e => e.type === "error")).toBe(false); | |
| expect(visible).toContainEqual({ type: "tool_call_start", id: "call_a", name: "shell" }); | |
| expect(visible.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: "done" }); | |
| expect(raw.filter(e => e.type === "heartbeat").length).toBe(13); | |
| // And the client-visible wire is unchanged -- a heartbeat is consumed by the bridge. | |
| const visible = raw.filter(e => e.type !== "heartbeat"); | |
| expect(visible.some(e => e.type === "error")).toBe(false); | |
| expect(visible).toContainEqual({ type: "tool_call_start", id: "call_a", name: "shell" }); | |
| expect(visible.map(e => e.type)).toEqual([ | |
| "tool_call_start", | |
| "tool_call_delta", | |
| "tool_call_end", | |
| "done", | |
| ]); | |
| expect(visible).toContainEqual({ | |
| type: "tool_call_delta", | |
| arguments: '"x"'.repeat(12), | |
| }); | |
| expect(visible.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: "done" }); |
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In `@tests/openai-chat-hardening.test.ts` around lines 944 - 949, Strengthen the
assertions in the heartbeat/tool-call test: require exactly 13 heartbeat events,
and verify the complete visible tool-call sequence including every
tool_call_delta and the tool_call_end event, while preserving the existing
error-free and final done checks.
A heartbeat is adapter liveness, not turn content. guardTerminalEventStream pushed every nonterminal event into `seen`, and `seen` feeds both the continuation analysis and the rebuilt request. The openai-chat adapter now emits one heartbeat per tool-call delta, so a single large argument payload could grow that array without bound on a provider with terminalContinuationGuard enabled. The empty-completion guard already passes heartbeats through unretained; this matches it. They still reach the consumer, because the bridge needs them to re-arm its stall watchdog. Also corrects the attribution on the heartbeat itself. It was described as fixing #2156, and it does not: the reporter's error is emitted after the adapter reads EOF with pending tool calls, while a stall timeout produces response.incomplete with reason upstream_stall_timeout on a path the bridge has already closed. The heartbeat fixes a real false-stall hazard; #2156 needs the reporter's raw SSE comparison before anyone can say what closed that stream.
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In `@tests/terminal-guard.test.ts`:
- Around line 202-237: The existing tests do not directly verify the
terminal-event retention decision. Extract that decision into a helper used by
guardTerminalEventStream, ensuring heartbeat events are excluded while client
events are retained, and add focused tests covering both cases near the existing
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| test("a retained heartbeat would corrupt the continuation record", () => { | ||
| const clean: AdapterEvent[] = [ | ||
| { type: "text_delta", text: "我接下来会修改相关文件。" }, | ||
| ]; | ||
| const padded: AdapterEvent[] = [ | ||
| { type: "text_delta", text: "我接下来会修改相关文件。" }, | ||
| ...Array.from({ length: 50 }, () => ({ type: "heartbeat" }) as AdapterEvent), | ||
| ]; | ||
| const request = parsed("继续检查"); | ||
| // The guard must not let liveness markers change what the continuation decides or sends. | ||
| expect(analyzeTerminalTurn(request, padded).assistantText) | ||
| .toBe(analyzeTerminalTurn(request, clean).assistantText); | ||
| expect(JSON.stringify(buildContinuationRequest(request, padded).context.messages)) | ||
| .toBe(JSON.stringify(buildContinuationRequest(request, clean).context.messages)); | ||
| }); | ||
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| test("heartbeats reach the consumer so the bridge watchdog stays armed", async () => { | ||
| const actual: AdapterEvent[] = []; | ||
| for await (const event of guardTerminalEventStream({ | ||
| parsed: parsed("继续检查"), | ||
| firstEvents: (async function* () { | ||
| yield { type: "text_delta", text: "我接下来会修改相关文件。" } as AdapterEvent; | ||
| for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) yield { type: "heartbeat" } as AdapterEvent; | ||
| yield { type: "tool_call_start", id: "call_1", name: "exec_command" } as AdapterEvent; | ||
| yield { type: "tool_call_end" } as AdapterEvent; | ||
| yield { type: "done", usage: { inputTokens: 10, outputTokens: 2 } } as AdapterEvent; | ||
| })(), | ||
| continuation: () => (async function* () { | ||
| yield { type: "done" } as AdapterEvent; | ||
| })(), | ||
| adapterName: "openai-chat", | ||
| })) actual.push(event); | ||
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| expect(actual.filter(event => event.type === "heartbeat")).toHaveLength(50); | ||
| expect(actual.filter(event => event.type === "done")).toHaveLength(1); | ||
| }); |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Test the non-retention behavior directly.
These assertions cannot detect a regression that removes the heartbeat branch in src/server/responses/terminal-guard.ts lines 202-205. analyzeTerminalTurn ignores heartbeats, and buildContinuationRequest ignores them too. The passthrough test also succeeds when heartbeats remain in seen.
Extract the retention decision into a helper used by guardTerminalEventStream. Test that the helper excludes heartbeat and retains a client event. This will protect the bounded-memory requirement.
As per path instructions, “A behavior change in src/ should come with a focused regression test near the existing tests for that subsystem.”
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In `@tests/terminal-guard.test.ts` around lines 202 - 237, The existing tests do
not directly verify the terminal-event retention decision. Extract that decision
into a helper used by guardTerminalEventStream, ensuring heartbeat events are
excluded while client events are retained, and add focused tests covering both
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Summary
Found while investigating #2156. This is not the reported error, and I want to be precise about that.
Tool-call deltas are buffered until a terminal signal, so
openai-chatcan consume upstream frames for a long time while yielding nothing downstream. The Responses bridge arms its stall watchdog on adapter activity, not socket activity — so a model streaming a large argument payload is indistinguishable from a hung upstream, and its turn can be aborted while it is progressing normally.That hazard is ours, it is real independently of #2156, and it is worth closing on its own.
A heartbeat is invisible downstream: the bridge consumes it to re-arm the watchdog and emits nothing. The Cursor, Anthropic, Google, and Kiro adapters already use exactly this for their own silent phases, so this is the established remedy rather than a new mechanism.
What this does not change. The EOF fail-closed guard stays exactly as it is. A stream that ends mid tool call with neither
finish_reasonnor[DONE]may have truncated its arguments, and promoting them would execute a partial call — JSON that happens to parse at a truncation boundary is not evidence the call is complete. Widening that guard to accommodate one upstream would reintroduce the defect it exists to prevent.Relates to #2156.
Verification
bun run typecheck— clean.bun run privacy:scan— passed.bun test --isolate tests/openai-chat-eof.test.ts tests/openai-chat-hardening.test.ts tests/bridge.test.ts— 152 pass / 0 fail.src/adapters/openai-chat.tsfails the new test (0 pass / 1 fail). It asserts both halves: at least one heartbeat per consumed delta, and that the client-visible event sequence is unchanged.The two test collectors now drop heartbeats, which keeps their assertions about the wire the client actually sees rather than about an internal signal.
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Correction: this PR does not fix #2156, and no longer claims to
An adversarial review of the causal chain found the attribution wrong, and the evidence is unambiguous:
response.incompletewithincomplete_details.reason = "upstream_stall_timeout"(src/bridge.ts:1371-1396), and the bridge has already cancelled upstream and closed by then — a late adapter event is explicitly discarded (src/bridge.ts:837-845).reader.read()returns EOF with tool calls still pending (src/adapters/openai-chat.ts:1819-1827), and surfaces asresponse.failed.Different path, different client frame. The heartbeat cannot produce the reported error, so it cannot be its fix.
What the heartbeat does fix is real and worth landing on its own: tool-call deltas are buffered until a terminal signal, the bridge arms its watchdog on adapter activity rather than socket activity, and a large argument payload was therefore indistinguishable from a hung upstream. The
#2156references in the source comment and the test have been reworded to say "found while investigating" rather than "fixes", and the PR no longer carries a closing keyword.#2156 stays open with
needs-info. I have asked the reporter for the one thing that would settle it — raw SSE captures from a Pi-direct success and an ocx failure for an equivalent request, through socket close — because the honest reading of their log is that the stream genuinely ended, and what I cannot tell from here is why it ended for ocx and not for Pi.Second finding, fixed here: the terminal guard retained heartbeats
guardTerminalEventStreampushed every nonterminal event intoseen(src/server/responses/terminal-guard.ts:225), andseenfeeds bothanalyzeTerminalTurnandbuildContinuationRequest. Since this PR makes the adapter emit one heartbeat per tool-call delta, a single large argument payload could grow that array without bound on any provider withterminalContinuationGuardenabled.The empty-completion guard already passes heartbeats through unretained (
empty-completion-guard.ts:190-193); the terminal guard now matches it. They still reach the consumer, because that is the entire point — the bridge needs them to re-arm its watchdog.Pinned by two tests: one proves a padded event list produces byte-identical continuation output to a clean one, the other proves 50 heartbeats still arrive downstream alongside exactly one
done.Additional verification
bun test --isolate tests/openai-chat-hardening.test.ts tests/openai-chat-eof.test.ts tests/terminal-guard.test.ts— 112 pass / 0 fail.bun run testonssh lidgeat this tip — 13722 pass / 15 skip / 0 fail across 866 files.bun x tsc --noEmit— exit 0.