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Summary

OpenAI-compatible upstreams that omit [DONE] and then go silent after finish_reason were causing the stream to fail with an idle-timeout error, even though the client had already received a complete response. This fix detects that condition and ends the stream cleanly using the buffered finish_reason, rather than surfacing a spurious read error.

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  • In both the chat completion and text completion streaming read loops, an ErrStreamIdleTimeout that fires after finish_reason (or a pending final Responses event) is now treated as a parked upstream rather than a stream failure. The context is marked with BifrostContextKeyStreamParkedAfterFinish so the deferred release skips draining the connection, and the final chunk is synthesized from the buffered finish_reason.
  • A warning is logged when usage data never arrived before the upstream went silent, since token counts and cost are unavailable for that request.
  • Documentation for custom providers is updated to describe all three silent-termination shapes Bifrost handles automatically: upstream closes the connection, upstream sends SSE heartbeat comments, and upstream sends nothing (idle timeout).
  • AGENTS.md and the investigate-issue skill now mandate a provider-harness run scoped with PROVIDER and FEATURE (or SMOKE=1 for cross-cutting changes) after every fix, with explicit guidance on checking for a stale server on port 8080 before the run.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Refactor
  • Documentation
  • Chore/CI

Affected areas

  • Core (Go)
  • Transports (HTTP)
  • Providers/Integrations
  • Plugins
  • UI (React)
  • Docs

How to test

# Verify the idle-timeout-after-finish_reason fix directly
go test ./core/providers/openai/... -run TestChatStreamSilentParkAfterFinishReasonEndsCleanlyOnIdleTimeout -v
go test ./core/providers/openai/... -run TestTextCompletionStreamSilentParkAfterFinishReasonEndsCleanlyOnIdleTimeout -v

# Full OpenAI streaming test suite
go test ./core/providers/openai/... -v

# Provider harness scoped to the affected path
lsof -nP -iTCP:8080 -sTCP:LISTEN  # confirm no stale server
make run-provider-harness-test APP_DIR=tests/integrations/python CI=1 PROVIDER=openai FEATURE="stream"

The two new tests use a silentParkSSEServer that writes SSE chunks and then holds the connection open indefinitely without sending [DONE]. With a 300 ms idle timeout, both tests assert that all chunks arrive without errors and that the final chunk carries finish_reason: stop.

Breaking changes

  • Yes
  • No

Related issues

Closes #7108

Security considerations

None. The change only affects how the streaming read loop interprets an idle-timeout error relative to stream state; no auth, secrets, or PII are involved.

Checklist

  • I read docs/contributing/README.md and followed the guidelines
  • I added/updated tests where appropriate
  • I updated documentation where needed
  • I verified builds succeed (Go and UI)
  • I verified the CI pipeline passes locally if applicable

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  • Bug Fixes

    • OpenAI-compatible streaming responses now complete cleanly when they provide a finish_reason but omit the [DONE] marker.
    • Chat, text, and fallback completion streams retain final response content without reporting an unnecessary stream error.
    • Streams that stall before receiving a finish signal continue to return an idle-timeout error.
    • Mid-response upstream disconnects now return a retryable completion-marker error instead of a generic unexpected-EOF error.
    • Truncated streaming responses are handled consistently without reusing incomplete connections.
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    • Added guidance for stream termination behavior, heartbeat handling, idle timeouts, and unavailable usage data.

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OpenAI-compatible streams now terminate cleanly after finish_reason when [DONE] is missing and the connection becomes idle. Truncated chunked responses now return io.EOF and discard incomplete connections. Provider-harness guidance now enforces scoped runs and request ceilings.

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OpenAI stream handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Clean termination after finish_reason
core/providers/openai/openai.go, core/providers/openai/streamtruncation_test.go, docs/providers/custom-providers.mdx, core/changelog.md
Streaming accepts idle timeouts after a finish signal, preserves terminal response data, records parked state, and warns when usage is unavailable. Tests and documentation cover chat, text, and Responses-to-Chat fallback streams.
Truncated chunked response handling
core/providers/utils/roundtripper.go, core/providers/utils/makerequest_test.go
Transport parsing separates header and body failures. Truncated chunked reads return io.EOF, remain incomplete, and are not reused. Tests verify partial data and a new connection for the next request.

Provider harness controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoped harness execution guidance
.claude/skills/investigate-issue/SKILL.md, AGENTS.md
Guidance requires scoped harness runs, shared configuration, port-8080 checks, stale-listener handling, request ceilings, and result reporting.
Request budget enforcement
Makefile
The harness counts requests across shards, retries, sequential runs, and cache-parity runs. It blocks launches that exceed HARNESS_MAX_REQUESTS, skips stream-cancellation probes under a cap, and exits with status 3 when the ceiling is exceeded.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UpstreamSSE
  participant OpenAIStreaming
  participant IdleTimeout
  UpstreamSSE->>OpenAIStreaming: Send finish_reason
  OpenAIStreaming->>IdleTimeout: Wait for [DONE] or more data
  IdleTimeout-->>OpenAIStreaming: Return ErrStreamIdleTimeout
  OpenAIStreaming->>OpenAIStreaming: Record parked state and finalize response
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8817c

The reviewed request-budget changes address the previously identified zero-count and shared-budget concerns; no merge-blocking risk remains.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The stream implementation, regression tests, transport handling, documentation, and changelog support issue #7108. The Makefile changes add provider-harness request-budget enforcement and execution … Remove the provider-harness workflow changes from this pull request, or move them to a separate contributor-guidance change. Keep the stream fix and its related tests, transport handling, documentation, and changelog.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: fixing stream termination for custom providers.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the purpose, implementation changes, affected areas, tests, breaking changes, related issue, security considerations, and checklist. It is complete for the non-UI changes in thi…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes meet the coding requirements in issue #7108. core/providers/openai/openai.go parks Chat and Text Completion streams after finish_reason when the upstream becomes idle, preserves buffer…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 90.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
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The stream implementation, regression tests, transport handling, documentation, and changelog support issue #7108. The Makefile changes add provider-harness request-budget enforcement and execution behavior. AGENTS.md and .claude/skills/investigate-issue/SKILL.md add contributor workflow requirements for provider-harness runs. These changes do not implement stream termination or its automated coverage.

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[Bug]: Custom-provider streaming never terminates when the upstream omits [DONE] (heartbeats mask stream_idle_timeout_in_seconds)

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