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aresponses() has no timeout parameter, and ResponsesParams is extra="forbid", so a caller-supplied timeout dies in validation before any request is made:

ValidationError: 1 validation error for ResponsesParams
timeout
  Extra inputs are not permitted [type=extra_forbidden, input_value=60, input_type=int]

#1263 added per-request timeouts and wired them into acompletion and amessages. aresponses was left out, so the Responses path is the one call path with no per-request timeout; a client-wide timeout via client_args is the only workaround.

The fix repeats the #1263 pattern on aresponses, unchanged:

  • timeout: float | None = None on the signature, with the same # noqa: ASYNC109 convention as acompletion / amessages.
  • Routed through _validate_and_forward_timeout into the provider kwargs. From there TIMEOUT_SUPPORT governs it: native providers hand it to their SDK as a request option; unsupported providers raise UnsupportedParameterError.
  • It never enters ResponsesParams — per feat(timeout): centralize per-request timeout handling across providers #1263, timeout is a transport option, not request-body JSON.

No provider changes are needed: every _aresponses implementation already forwards **kwargs into its SDK call.

Verified live against OpenAI gpt-5.1:

call before after
aresponses(..., timeout=0.001) ValidationError ProviderError: [openai] Request timed out.
aresponses(..., timeout=60) ValidationError completes normally

The new unit test asserts both halves of the routing: the value reaches the _aresponses call kwargs, and never appears in the params model.

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Follow-up to #1263.

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  • New Features

    • Added optional timeout settings for synchronous and asynchronous Responses API requests.
    • Timeout values are forwarded to supported providers, helping requests complete within the specified duration.
    • Timeout handling is consistently available across the Responses API and its helper methods.
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    • Unsupported providers now reject timeout settings clearly before any request is initiated.

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The Responses API now accepts an optional per-request timeout in synchronous and asynchronous entry points. The value is validated, forwarded to providers, excluded from ResponsesParams, and rejected for unsupported providers.

Responses timeout support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeout contract and public wrappers
src/any_llm/api.py
The synchronous and asynchronous wrappers accept, document, and forward timeout.
Timeout validation and provider routing
src/any_llm/any_llm.py
AnyLLM.aresponses routes timeout through _validate_and_forward_timeout before the provider call.
Timeout forwarding and support tests
tests/unit/test_responses.py
Tests verify public signatures, forwarding, parameter serialisation, helper behaviour, and unsupported-provider errors.

Possibly related PRs

  • mozilla-ai/any-llm#1192: Both PRs add and forward optional provider-specific parameters through the Responses APIs.
  • mozilla-ai/any-llm#1263: This PR extends the centralised timeout validation and forwarding to the Responses APIs.

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This localized change adds per-request timeouts to the Responses API. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to verify unsupported-provider rejection, omission of an unset timeout, and both structured-output paths; otherwise, provider-specific or default-timeout regressions could go undetected.

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93-104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test the unsupported timeout path.

The new test checks forwarding for a supported provider. It does not check a provider with TIMEOUT_SUPPORT == "unsupported". Add a test that calls aresponses(..., timeout=...) for such a provider and asserts UnsupportedParameterError.

As per coding guidelines, tests/**/*.py must add or adjust tests for every change, covering happy paths and error cases. The PR objectives require unsupported providers to reject a caller-supplied timeout.

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In `@tests/unit/test_responses.py` around lines 93 - 104, The timeout tests around
test_timeout_forwarded_to_provider_not_params should also cover a provider whose
TIMEOUT_SUPPORT is "unsupported": call aresponses with a caller-supplied timeout
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In `@src/any_llm/any_llm.py`:
- Line 1276: Update the timeout parameter description and Raises documentation
in the relevant AnyLLM method to state that timeout is conditionally forwarded
or mapped according to provider support, and that unsupported providers raise
UnsupportedParameterError via _validate_and_forward_timeout.

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In `@tests/unit/test_responses.py`:
- Around line 93-104: The timeout tests around
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Brings in upstream's merges of our mozilla-ai#1291/mozilla-ai#1292/mozilla-ai#1310 plus mozilla-ai#1297, mozilla-ai#1299,
mozilla-ai#1301, mozilla-ai#1302, mozilla-ai#1303, mozilla-ai#1305. Carried-until-merged fork work stays:
mozilla-ai#1294 (gemini reasoning_effort=none), mozilla-ai#1308 (aresponses timeout),
mozilla-ai#1309 (gemini native tool dicts), and the mozilla-ai#1300 carry.
One conflict in tests/unit/test_responses.py: kept our mozilla-ai#1308 timeout
test next to upstream's flatten test. Unit suite: 2234 passed.

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aresponses() was the one call path left out of mozilla-ai#1263: it has no timeout
parameter, and since ResponsesParams is extra="forbid", timeout= raises a
ValidationError. Declare it on the signature and route it through
_validate_and_forward_timeout like acompletion/amessages.
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In `@src/any_llm/api.py`:
- Around line 358-362: Update the timeout parameter documentation in both
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forwarded to the provider client/SDK or mapped by the provider’s conversion
layer. Keep the remaining None, unsupported-provider, and client_args behavior
unchanged and ensure both descriptions are identical.

In `@tests/unit/test_responses.py`:
- Line 139: Update the timeout assertion in the relevant test to verify that the
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expected timeout is None; retain the existing value assertion for non-None
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Comment on lines +358 to +362
timeout: Per-request timeout in seconds, passed through to the provider's client/SDK.
An explicit ``None`` is treated the same as omitting it (the provider's default
applies), so it cannot request an unbounded timeout. Providers that have no
per-request timeout raise `UnsupportedParameterError`; set a timeout on their
client via `client_args` instead.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe mapped timeout handling accurately.

The text says that timeout is passed through to the provider client or SDK. A provider with TIMEOUT_SUPPORT == "mapped" can translate the value in its conversion layer instead. Describe timeout as conditionally forwarded or mapped. Keep the synchronous and asynchronous descriptions identical.

Also applies to: 514-518

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In `@src/any_llm/api.py` around lines 358 - 362, Update the timeout parameter
documentation in both synchronous and asynchronous descriptions to state that
the value may be forwarded to the provider client/SDK or mapped by the
provider’s conversion layer. Keep the remaining None, unsupported-provider, and
client_args behavior unchanged and ensure both descriptions are identical.

with patch.object(type(llm), "_aresponses", new=AsyncMock(return_value=object())) as mock_aresponses:
await llm.aresponses("gpt-4.1-mini", "hello", timeout=requested_timeout)

assert mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs.get("timeout") == expected

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that None omits the provider keyword.

Line 139 uses dict.get("timeout"). It returns None when the key is absent and when the key is incorrectly forwarded as timeout=None. Assert that "timeout" is absent for the None case.

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-    assert mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs.get("timeout") == expected
+    if requested_timeout is None:
+        assert "timeout" not in mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs
+    else:
+        assert mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs["timeout"] == expected

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assert mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs.get("timeout") == expected
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assert "timeout" not in mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs
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assert mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs["timeout"] == expected
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the relevant test to verify that the provider call’s keyword arguments do not
contain the “timeout” key when the expected timeout is None; retain the existing
value assertion for non-None timeout cases.

Source: Coding guidelines

AnyLLM.aresponses accepts the per-request timeout, but any_llm.responses
and any_llm.aresponses never declared it, so callers of the functional API
could only pass it as an untyped **kwargs passthrough that type checkers
and the docstrings did not mention. mozilla-ai#1263 declared it on completion,
acompletion, messages and amessages; do the same for the two Responses
helpers.

Also restore the docstring wording the sibling methods use. huggingface
supports the Responses API while declaring TIMEOUT_SUPPORT "unsupported",
so the UnsupportedParameterError path is reachable here and worth naming.

Tests cover signature exposure, an explicit None staying unset, both the
sync and async helpers, and the unsupported-provider rejection.

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Comment on lines +131 to +141
async def test_timeout_forwarded_to_provider_not_params(
requested_timeout: float | None, expected: float | None
) -> None:
"""timeout is an SDK request option: it must reach the provider call, never ResponsesParams."""
llm = AnyLLM.create("openai", api_key="test-key")
with patch.object(type(llm), "_aresponses", new=AsyncMock(return_value=object())) as mock_aresponses:
await llm.aresponses("gpt-4.1-mini", "hello", timeout=requested_timeout)

assert mock_aresponses.call_args.kwargs.get("timeout") == expected
params = mock_aresponses.call_args.args[0]
assert "timeout" not in params.model_dump(exclude_none=True)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover both structured-output provider paths.

The mock replaces _aresponses, so this test does not execute client.responses.create() or client.responses.parse(). Add timeout assertions for the dataclass or dict structured-output path and the Pydantic responses.parse() path. Confirm that both calls receive timeout=60 outside ResponsesParams.

As per coding guidelines, “Test both the dataclass/dict structured-output path (parse_responses_output) and the separate Pydantic responses.parse() path”.

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test_timeout_forwarded_to_provider_not_params to exercise both structured-output
routes: the dataclass/dict path through parse_responses_output and the separate
Pydantic path through responses.parse(). For each path, verify the provider call
receives timeout=60 as a separate argument and that ResponsesParams does not
contain timeout.

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Approving. The fix is right: timeout now routes through _validate_and_forward_timeout into the provider kwargs, so it never reaches the extra="forbid" ResponsesParams. I confirmed the bug reproduces on the base commit and that the new test fails without the fix.

I rebased onto main (the branch had conflicted with #1310) and pushed one commit on top:

  • api.py: timeout is now declared on the public responses and aresponses helpers. It already worked via **kwargs, but it was the one parameter on those two functions that type checkers and the docstring never mentioned, unlike completion / acompletion / messages / amessages from #1263.
  • Restored the docstring wording the sibling methods use, including the UnsupportedParameterError note.
  • Tests for signature exposure, an explicit None staying unset, both helpers, and the unsupported-provider rejection.

One follow-up worth filing separately. TIMEOUT_SUPPORT is a single per-provider flag, classified against the completion path, but a provider can sit behind a different SDK on the Responses path. HuggingFace is the live case: its responses_client is a plain AsyncOpenAI whose responses.create() accepts a per-request timeout, yet it inherits unsupported from the AsyncInferenceClient completion path, so aresponses(..., timeout=...) is rejected on a path that would have honored it. It fails closed, so nothing is at risk, but the classification is wrong for that path. @peteski22, this is your subsystem, so I would value your read on whether the capability should become path aware.

Thanks @JamMaster1999.

Note: this review was drafted by Claude Opus 5 via back-and-forth with @njbrake. The reasoning and decisions are his; the prose is Claude's.

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…mozilla-ai#1319

Upstream has merged mozilla-ai#1291, mozilla-ai#1292, mozilla-ai#1308, mozilla-ai#1309, mozilla-ai#1310, mozilla-ai#1317, mozilla-ai#1318, mozilla-ai#1320,
mozilla-ai#1325 and mozilla-ai#1352 in their final form, so the fork's own copies are dropped in
favour of upstream's. The tree is exactly upstream main plus the two fixes
still open there: gemini reasoning_effort="none" (mozilla-ai#1294) and closing the
provider stream when the wrapped stream closes (mozilla-ai#1319).

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