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import asyncio
import json
import time
from typing import Any, Optional, Type, Literal

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from loguru import logger

from kavalai.llm_clients.streamer import Streamer
from kavalai.llm_clients.with_retry import with_retry


[docs] class LlmClientParameters(BaseModel): """Optional per-call LLM parameters. Sampling parameters default to ``None`` and are only sent to a provider when explicitly set, so each provider's own defaults apply otherwise (some models, e.g. recent Claude models, reject sampling params outright). ``max_output_tokens`` caps the tokens a call may generate. Each client sends it under its provider's own name (``max_output_tokens`` for OpenAI and Gemini, ``max_tokens`` for Anthropic and WebLLM, ``num_predict`` for Ollama). On reasoning models the cap includes the reasoning tokens. A call that reaches the cap raises :class:`OutputTruncatedError` rather than returning the partial answer. """ temperature: Optional[float] = None top_p: Optional[float] = None reasoning_effort: Optional[str] = None service_tier: Optional[str] = None max_output_tokens: Optional[int] = Field(default=None, gt=0) timeout_seconds: Optional[float] = 30.0 # Inter-chunk inactivity timeout for streaming consumers. When unset, # ``stream_chat_completions`` uses 2 x timeout_seconds so the stream survives # one timed-out attempt plus its retry backoff (timeout_seconds alone # would kill retries). stream_timeout_seconds: Optional[float] = None
[docs] class ChatMessage(BaseModel): """Standard chat completion message.""" role: Optional[str] = None type: Optional[str] = None content: Optional[str] = None
[docs] class ChatHistory(BaseModel): messages: list[ChatMessage]
[docs] def ensure_user_turn(messages: list[ChatMessage]) -> list[ChatMessage]: """Guarantee the history contains a turn a model can answer. Workflow ``llm`` nodes render their whole prompt into a single ``system`` message, and :meth:`BaseLlmClient.prompt` does the same. A chat request with no user turn is unusual and providers disagree about it: Anthropic's Messages API rejects an empty ``messages`` list outright, while small local models answer it literally — ``llama3.2`` prefixes its reply with a literal "assistant" line. So the convention is: if nothing but system content is present, that content becomes the user turn. Histories that already contain a user or assistant message are returned untouched. """ if any(msg.role not in (None, "system") for msg in messages): return messages content = "\n".join(msg.content for msg in messages if msg.content) if not content: return messages return [ChatMessage(role="user", content=content)]
[docs] class ModelCallStat(BaseModel): call_type: Literal["llm", "embedding"] model: Optional[str] = None request_data: Optional[str] = None response_data: Optional[str] = None response_code: Optional[int] = None prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None completion_tokens: Optional[int] = None total_tokens: Optional[int] = None # Subsets of the two counts above, when the provider reports them. cached_prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None reasoning_tokens: Optional[int] = None batch_size: Optional[int] = None duration_seconds: Optional[float] = None
[docs] class ModelStatsReceiver:
[docs] def receive_model_stats(self, stats: ModelCallStat): raise NotImplementedError("You must implement this in the subclass.")
[docs] class ModelStatsLogger(ModelStatsReceiver): """Logs model call statistics using a configurable format.""" def __init__(self, format_str: Optional[str] = None): """ Initialize the logger. Args: format_str: Optional python format string. Default: "Model stats ({model}): {total_tokens} tokens, {duration_seconds:.2f}s" """ self.format_str = ( format_str or "Model stats ({model}): {total_tokens} tokens, {duration_seconds:.2f}s" )
[docs] def receive_model_stats(self, stats: ModelCallStat): logger.info(self.format_str.format(**stats.model_dump()))
[docs] def error_status_code(error: Exception) -> Optional[int]: """Best-effort HTTP status from a provider SDK exception. Every provider raises its own error type, but all of them carry the status somewhere: ``status_code`` (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama), ``code`` (Gemini), or a nested response object. """ for attribute in ("status_code", "code"): value = getattr(error, attribute, None) if isinstance(value, int): return value response = getattr(error, "response", None) status = getattr(response, "status_code", None) return status if isinstance(status, int) else None
[docs] class LlmClientException(RuntimeError): """An error the LLM clients raise themselves, as opposed to a provider SDK."""
[docs] class OutputTruncatedError(LlmClientException): """The provider stopped generating because the output cap was reached. Raised in place of the partial answer. For a structured call that answer is JSON cut off mid-value, which either fails to parse or, after lenient repair, validates into a model with content missing. The retry loop does not retry it: the same cap produces the same cut, and is billed again. ``max_output_tokens`` is the cap that was sent, or ``None`` when the provider's own limit applied. ``reason`` is the stop reason as the provider reported it (``max_output_tokens``, ``MAX_TOKENS``, ``max_tokens``, ``length``). ``partial_output`` is the text generated before the cut, and the token counts are those of the truncated call, which is recorded as a model call like any other because it was billed. """ def __init__( self, *, model: str, reason: str, max_output_tokens: Optional[int] = None, partial_output: str = "", request_data: Any = None, prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None, completion_tokens: Optional[int] = None, cached_prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None, reasoning_tokens: Optional[int] = None, ): self.model = model self.reason = reason self.max_output_tokens = max_output_tokens self.partial_output = partial_output self.request_data = request_data self.prompt_tokens = prompt_tokens self.completion_tokens = completion_tokens self.cached_prompt_tokens = cached_prompt_tokens self.reasoning_tokens = reasoning_tokens super().__init__(self._describe()) def _describe(self) -> str: if self.max_output_tokens is None: limit = "the provider's default output limit" else: limit = f"the output cap of {self.max_output_tokens} tokens" spent = "" if self.completion_tokens is not None: spent = f" after {self.completion_tokens} output tokens" if self.reasoning_tokens: spent += f", {self.reasoning_tokens} of them reasoning" message = ( f"The output of '{self.model}' was cut off at {limit}{spent} " f"(stop reason '{self.reason}')." ) if not self.partial_output: message += " No visible output was produced before the cut." return ( f"{message} The partial output is not returned. Raise " "max_output_tokens (LlmClientParameters, or llm_kwargs in a " "workflow) or ask for a shorter answer." )
def _truncated_call_fields(error: OutputTruncatedError) -> dict: """The :class:`ModelCallStat` fields a truncated call adds to a failure row.""" fields = { "request_data": json.dumps(error.request_data, default=str), "prompt_tokens": error.prompt_tokens, "completion_tokens": error.completion_tokens, "cached_prompt_tokens": error.cached_prompt_tokens, "reasoning_tokens": error.reasoning_tokens, } if error.prompt_tokens is not None and error.completion_tokens is not None: fields["total_tokens"] = error.prompt_tokens + error.completion_tokens if error.partial_output: fields["response_data"] = f"{error}\n\n{error.partial_output}" return fields
[docs] class BaseLlmClient: """Common interface of the LLM clients. ``provider`` is the prefix a subclass sets so that recorded model calls are named ``provider/model`` (``openai/gpt-4o``). """ provider: str = "" def __init__( self, llm_client_parameters: Optional[LlmClientParameters] = None, model_stats_receiver: Optional[ModelStatsReceiver] = None, ): self.parameters = llm_client_parameters or LlmClientParameters() self.model_stats_receiver = ( ModelStatsLogger() if model_stats_receiver is None else model_stats_receiver ) @property def timeout_seconds(self) -> float: """Per-request timeout, 30 s unless ``LlmClientParameters`` sets one.""" return self.parameters.timeout_seconds or 30.0
[docs] async def stream_chat_completions( self, *, chat_history: ChatHistory, response_model: Optional[Type[BaseModel]] = None, stream_delta: bool = False, ) -> Streamer: """ Execute a chat completion and return a Streamer. Args: chat_history: The history of messages. response_model: Optional Pydantic model for structured output. stream_delta: When True, partial chunks carry only the newly generated text and consumers reassemble; otherwise each partial carries the full accumulated (safe-parsed) content so far. Returns: A Streamer instance that will yield the completion events. """ # The inactivity timeout must outlast a single timed-out attempt plus # its retry backoff; retries reset the clock via the restart chunk. timeout = self.parameters.stream_timeout_seconds or 2 * self.timeout_seconds streamer = Streamer(stream_delta=stream_delta, timeout_seconds=timeout) started = time.perf_counter() async def _on_retry(attempt: int, error: Exception): # The next attempt re-registers its value streamers and re-sends # content from scratch; tell consumers to discard what they have. streamer.reset_active() # Each failed attempt gets its own row, so a 429 storm is visible # in the Model Calls table rather than only in the logs. await self._record_failed_call(error, time.perf_counter() - started) await streamer.stream_restart(f"attempt {attempt}: {error}") async def _run(): try: await with_retry( self._run_chat_completions, chat_history=chat_history, response_model=response_model, streamer=streamer, on_retry=_on_retry, ) except Exception as e: await self._record_failed_call(e, time.perf_counter() - started) await streamer.stream_error(e) # Start the completion process in the background with retry asyncio.create_task(_run()) return streamer
[docs] async def chat_completions( self, *, chat_history: ChatHistory, response_model: Optional[Type[BaseModel]] = None, ): streamer = await self.stream_chat_completions( chat_history=chat_history, response_model=response_model ) # The streamer only stops iterating once a 'complete' chunk has arrived, # so the loop always returns; falling through yields None implicitly. async for chunk in streamer: if chunk.type == "complete": if response_model: return response_model.model_validate_json(chunk.value) return chunk.value
[docs] async def stream_prompt( self, system_message: str, response_model: Optional[Type[BaseModel]] = None ) -> Streamer: history = ChatHistory( messages=[ChatMessage(role="system", content=system_message)] ) return await self.stream_chat_completions( chat_history=history, response_model=response_model )
[docs] async def prompt( self, system_message: str, response_model: Optional[Type[BaseModel]] = None ): history = ChatHistory( messages=[ChatMessage(role="system", content=system_message)] ) return await self.chat_completions( chat_history=history, response_model=response_model )
[docs] @classmethod def from_model( cls, model: str, parameters: Optional[LlmClientParameters] = None, stats_receiver: Optional[ModelStatsReceiver] = None, **defaults, ) -> "BaseLlmClient": """Construct this client for a resolved model name. The registry calls this rather than the constructor, so a client whose ``__init__`` does not take the shape below can say so once here instead of making every registration wrap it in a lambda. ``defaults`` are the keyword arguments bound at registration (a base URL, a host, a key). Args: model: Model name with the provider prefix already removed. parameters: Optional per-call sampling/timeout parameters. stats_receiver: Where model-call statistics are reported. Passing it through is what puts a custom client's usage in the backoffice alongside the built-in providers. **defaults: Extra constructor arguments bound at registration. """ return cls( model, llm_client_parameters=parameters, model_stats_receiver=stats_receiver, **defaults, )
async def _send_model_call_stats(self, stats: ModelCallStat): """Subclasses should use this method to report model stats.""" if self.model_stats_receiver is not None: self.model_stats_receiver.receive_model_stats(stats)
[docs] def stat_model_name(self) -> str: """The ``provider/model`` name this client records its calls under.""" model = getattr(self, "model", "") or "" return f"{self.provider}/{model}" if self.provider else model
async def _record_failed_call(self, error: Exception, duration: float) -> None: """Record an attempt that never produced a usable response. Successful calls were the only ones ever written, so the Model Calls table showed a suspiciously healthy service: a provider outage or a rate-limit storm left no trace at all. A failed attempt has no token counts, so the row carries the status code and the error text. A truncated call is the exception: the provider generated and billed its output, so the row also carries the request, the token counts and the partial output. It has no status code, which is what marks it as failed. """ stat = ModelCallStat( call_type="llm", model=self.stat_model_name(), response_code=error_status_code(error), response_data=str(error), duration_seconds=duration, ) if isinstance(error, OutputTruncatedError): stat = stat.model_copy(update=_truncated_call_fields(error)) await self._send_model_call_stats(stat) def _output_truncated( self, reason: str, partial_output: str, *, max_output_tokens: Optional[int] = None, **details: Any, ) -> OutputTruncatedError: """Build the error for a call the provider cut off at the output cap. ``max_output_tokens`` defaults to the cap in the client parameters; a client that sends a cap of its own (Anthropic's required default) passes it. ``details`` are ``request_data`` and the token counts. """ if max_output_tokens is None: max_output_tokens = self.parameters.max_output_tokens return OutputTruncatedError( model=self.stat_model_name(), reason=reason, max_output_tokens=max_output_tokens, partial_output=partial_output, **details, ) async def _record_completed_call( self, *, request_data: Any, response_data: str, started: float, prompt_tokens: int, completion_tokens: int, total_tokens: Optional[int] = None, cached_prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None, reasoning_tokens: Optional[int] = None, ) -> None: """Record a successful completion. ``request_data`` is serialised with ``json.dumps(default=str)``, so provider SDK objects (Pydantic models, enums) in the call kwargs are stored as their string form rather than failing the record. """ await self._send_model_call_stats( ModelCallStat( call_type="llm", model=self.stat_model_name(), request_data=json.dumps(request_data, default=str), response_data=response_data, duration_seconds=time.perf_counter() - started, prompt_tokens=prompt_tokens, completion_tokens=completion_tokens, total_tokens=( prompt_tokens + completion_tokens if total_tokens is None else total_tokens ), cached_prompt_tokens=cached_prompt_tokens, reasoning_tokens=reasoning_tokens, response_code=200, ) ) async def _run_chat_completions( self, chat_history: ChatHistory, response_model: Optional[Type[BaseModel]], streamer: Streamer, ): """Perform the provider call and push chunks into ``streamer``. Runs as the background task started by :meth:`stream_chat_completions`; subclasses override it. """ raise NotImplementedError("Subclasses must implement _run_chat_completions")