feat(billing): measure the whole generation pipeline's real token cost - #503
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The real provider counts on an `extraction_tokens` event came from one folded
extractor trace, so every stage outside that trace contributed zero — the
deduplicator ("the 2nd LLM call"), the playbook aggregator and reviewer, and the
should-run precheck all burned provider tokens that nothing recorded.
They are now accumulated at the single `litellm.completion` chokepoint.
`_completion_with_hard_timeout` is the only wrapper around it in this module and
has exactly one call site, three lines above `_log_token_usage`, so capturing
there counts every future stage by construction instead of reopening a
call-site campaign each time one is added. The figure is honestly
"generation-pipeline tokens", not "all pipelines": evaluation, optimizer and
search stages run as separate jobs with no generation emit and still contribute
nothing.
Three things this had to get right.
**Never sum the two producers.** In a live run the capture is a superset of the
trace fold — both observe the same completions — so adding them would
double-count every extraction token. The capture replaces it. But only when it
observed a completion: a capture that saw none has no opinion rather than an
answer of zero, so a caller that produced `token_totals` by some other route
still bills its real number instead of silently billing 0. That is why
`RunTokenCapture` counts observations rather than inferring emptiness from
all-zero totals — `claude_code` and `openclaw` genuinely return `Usage(0, 0)`.
`sum_trace_tokens` survives for the durable-resume path, decoded in another
process where the ContextVar is empty by construction.
**Install before the prepare gate, fresh each run.** Before, because the gate
runs the should-run precheck's real `generate_chat_response`. Fresh, because
`_execute_extractor` does not cancel its worker on a timeout: an orphan keeps
writing into the object the previous run left behind, which nothing reads again.
Per-run scope keeps the double-bill guard intact — the characterization test's
"item 2 bills ZERO provider tokens" still holds, and it is what caught an
earlier version of this rule that replaced unconditionally.
**A `ContextVar` default of None, never a shared instance.** A worker submitted
to a bare `ThreadPoolExecutor` never copies the context, so a mutable default
would be one process-global object accumulating across organizations.
Also fixed: `record_extraction_tokens` returned early whenever
`billing_input_tokens <= 0`, discarding real provider cost on exactly the runs
this change exists to capture — a stage with no extraction input text, or the
failure path where `_extraction_input_text` raises and the caller swallows it to
`""`. It now no-ops only when the event would carry nothing at all. This adds no
rows today: an all-zero `extraction_tokens` event maps to an all-zero meter dict
and is dropped as EXEMPT on both planes.
And `window_codec`, which persists `token_totals` as JSON another image may
decode. `decode_plan` splatted it into `RunTokenTotals` kwargs, so the two new
cache fields would have raised `TypeError` inside `window_executor.execute`
mid-rollout, unguarded. Decode now ignores unknown keys (safe for every future
addition) and encode writes only a pinned field set (safe for the image already
deployed, which has no tolerance of its own). Consequence, recorded not
absorbed: the cache split is not carried across a durable resume.
Verified: OSS unit suite 5056 passed, 10 skipped. Four mutations — narrowing the
gate, making the decoder strict, encoding every field, disabling accumulation —
each fail the new tests; restores were checksum-verified.
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participant GenerationService
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GenerationService->>RunTokenCapture: begin_run_token_capture()
LiteLLM->>RunTokenCapture: report token usage
RunTokenCapture->>RunTokenTotals: accumulate token buckets
GenerationService->>RunTokenTotals: use captured totals after observed completions
RunTokenTotals->>BillingMeter: provide extraction token totals
BillingMeter->>UsageEventRecorder: record usage event
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In `@reflexio/server/llm/_litellm_text_generation.py`:
- Around line 1199-1201: Update _call_and_parse to invoke
_log_token_usage(turn_params, response) immediately after
_completion_with_hard_timeout returns, before any provenance handling or
response.choices/message parsing; preserve the existing parsing and retry
behavior while ensuring usage is captured even when the response is malformed or
enters same-model retries.
- Line 1211: Update _log_token_usage so cache_read_input_tokens uses the
top-level usage value when present and falls back to
usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens when it is None; pass only the
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Capture usage before response parsing.
When _completion_with_hard_timeout returns a response with usage but choices is empty or malformed, _call_and_parse can raise while reading response.choices[0].message. _log_token_usage runs after that read, so it does not update run_token_capture. The error becomes LiteLLMClientError, and _make_request can advance to the fallback rung. The fallback usage is captured, but the first request is omitted from the accumulated run totals.
Call _log_token_usage(turn_params, response) immediately after _completion_with_hard_timeout returns. Keep provenance and response parsing after that call. This also captures usage for requests that enter the existing same-model retry paths.
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In `@reflexio/server/llm/_litellm_text_generation.py` around lines 1199 - 1201,
Update _call_and_parse to invoke _log_token_usage(turn_params, response)
immediately after _completion_with_hard_timeout returns, before any provenance
handling or response.choices/message parsing; preserve the existing parsing and
retry behavior while ensuring usage is captured even when the response is
malformed or enters same-model retries.
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| capture.observe( | ||
| prompt_tokens=getattr(usage, "prompt_tokens", None), | ||
| completion_tokens=getattr(usage, "completion_tokens", None), | ||
| cache_read_input_tokens=cache_read, |
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Capture nested cache-read tokens.
When usage.cache_read_input_tokens is None, _log_token_usage passes None to RunTokenCapture.observe, although it reads usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens for logging. RunTokenTotals.add converts None to zero, so OpenAI-style responses can omit their cache-read count.
Use the top-level value when present. Otherwise, use the nested value. Select one value instead of adding both.
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- cache_read_input_tokens=cache_read,
+ cache_read_input_tokens=(
+ cache_read
+ if cache_read is not None
+ else getattr(details, "cached_tokens", None)
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| cache_read_input_tokens=cache_read, | |
| cache_read_input_tokens=( | |
| cache_read | |
| if cache_read is not None | |
| else getattr(details, "cached_tokens", None) | |
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In `@reflexio/server/llm/_litellm_text_generation.py` at line 1211, Update
_log_token_usage so cache_read_input_tokens uses the top-level usage value when
present and falls back to usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens when it is
None; pass only the selected value to RunTokenCapture.observe.
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Change 1 captured `cache_read_input_tokens` / `cache_write_input_tokens` at the completion chokepoint, but nothing could carry them: `UsageEvent` had no such fields, so the values died at the emit site. This adds the carrier — two dataclass fields, two kwargs on each of `record_usage_event` / `record_usage_event_strict` / `record_extraction_tokens` — and passes them from both emit paths, the synchronous one and the durable window's billing snapshot. The durable path reads them with `.get(..., 0)` rather than `[...]`. An effects blob written before these keys existed is still billable, and a KeyError at bill time would strand a window whose learnings are already committed. Every docstring says the same thing in the same words, because it is the property most likely to be "fixed" by someone later: the cache counts are INCLUSIVE sub-buckets of `prompt_tokens`, folded in by the provider before we see them. Never add them to it; never sum the four.
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…#506) fix(billing): capture provider usage before the response body is read The two CodeRabbit findings on #503, both verified against the merged code before being taken. #503 was merged without their being addressed; this is the follow-up. ## A rung whose body will not parse still cost money `_log_token_usage` is the single chokepoint that accumulates the run-scoped provider total. It ran AFTER `_build_model_provenance(response)` and `response.choices[0].message` — so a response carrying real usage with an empty or malformed `choices` raised on that read before the accumulation happened. The walk catches it as a transport failure and advances to the next fallback rung, whose usage IS captured, and the run then reports the fallback's tokens while the provider charged for both. The call moves to immediately after `_completion_with_hard_timeout` returns. Nothing it needs comes from the parsed body: it reads only `response.usage` and returns early when that is absent. The mutation test shows the mechanism verbatim: ERROR event=llm_request_end model=minimax/MiniMax-M3 success=False error_type=IndexError error=list index out of range INFO event=llm_fallback_used primary_model=minimax/MiniMax-M3 served_model=zai/glm-5.2 reason=transport_error — two completions billed, one counted. ## The capture disagreed with its own log line Anthropic reports cache reads at the top level; OpenAI nests them under `prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens`. `_log_token_usage` already read the nested field — ten lines above the `observe` call, for the log string — and passed only the top-level one to the capture. Every OpenAI call therefore recorded `cache_read_input_tokens=0` beside a log line printing the real number. SELECT between the two, never sum: they are the same tokens, and both are sub-buckets of `prompt_tokens`, so adding would double-count the most expensive half of the bill. A third test pins that specifically — the forbidden answer is 1600 where both fields read 800. ## Verified - Three mutations, each caught, each restored and checksum-verified with `shasum -a 256 -c`: restoring the old call order, passing only the top-level cache field, and summing the two cache sources. - OSS unit suite: 5059 passed, 10 skipped, 6 subtests passed. - `uv run ruff check reflexio/ tests/` — clean; `ruff format` applied. - `uv run pyright reflexio/server/llm` — 0 errors, 0 warnings. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Bug Fixes** - Improved token usage tracking for cached tokens across supported providers without double-counting. - Token usage is now recorded even when response content is malformed or cannot be fully processed. - Fallback responses retain accurate primary and fallback token totals. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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The real provider counts on an
extraction_tokensevent came from one folded extractor trace, so every stage outside that trace contributed zero — the deduplicator ("the 2nd LLM call"), the playbook aggregator and reviewer, and the should-run precheck all burned provider tokens that nothing recorded.They are now accumulated at the single
litellm.completionchokepoint._completion_with_hard_timeoutis the only wrapper around it in this module and has exactly one call site, three lines above_log_token_usage— verified, not assumed — so capturing there counts every future stage by construction instead of reopening a call-site campaign each time one is added.The figure is honestly generation-pipeline tokens, not "all pipelines". Evaluation, optimizer and search stages run as separate jobs with no generation emit and still contribute nothing; that is stated on the surface rather than glossed.
Three things this had to get right
Never sum the two producers. In a live run the capture is a superset of the trace fold — both observe the same completions — so adding them would double-count every extraction token. The capture replaces it.
But only when it observed something. A capture that saw no completion has no opinion, not an answer of zero, so a caller that produced
token_totalsby another route still bills its real number instead of silently billing 0. This is whyRunTokenCapturecounts observations rather than inferring emptiness from all-zero totals:claude_codeandopenclawgenuinely returnUsage(0, 0).sum_trace_tokenssurvives for the durable-resume path, decoded in another process where the ContextVar is empty by construction.Install before the prepare gate, fresh each run. Before, because the gate runs the should-run precheck's real
generate_chat_response. Fresh, because_execute_extractordoes not cancel its worker on a timeout — an orphan keeps writing into the object the previous run left behind, which nothing reads again. Per-run scope keeps the double-bill guard intact.The
ContextVardefault isNone, never a shared instance: a worker submitted to a bareThreadPoolExecutornever copies the context, so a mutable default would be one process-global object accumulating across organizations.The characterization test caught my first rule, and the design changed
Replacing unconditionally made item 1 bill
0, becausetest_billing_drain_ordering_terminal_emitters_and_double_bill_guardfabricatestoken_totalswith no completion flowing through the chokepoint. The "has an opinion" rule is the fix; the test is unchanged.Also fixed
record_extraction_tokensreturned early wheneverbilling_input_tokens <= 0, discarding real provider cost on exactly the runs this change exists to capture — a stage with no extraction input text, or the failure path where_extraction_input_textraises and the caller swallows it to"". It now no-ops only when the event would carry nothing at all. This adds no rows today: an all-zeroextraction_tokensevent maps to an all-zero meter dict and is dropped asEXEMPTon both planes (checked inbalance_recorder, not assumed).window_codecpersiststoken_totalsas JSON another image may decode, anddecode_plansplatted it intoRunTokenTotalskwargs — so the two new cache fields would have raisedTypeErrorinsidewindow_executor.executemid-rollout, unguarded on a durable-learning path. Decode now ignores unknown keys (safe for every future addition) and encode writes only a pinned field set (safe for the image already deployed, which has no tolerance of its own — tolerance alone could not have protected this first addition). Consequence, recorded rather than absorbed: the cache split is not carried across a durable resume.Verification
billing/enforcement+billing/metering: 747 passed, 1 skipped.The cache sub-buckets are captured but not yet carried into
UsageEvent; that is the carrier-plumbing change that follows.Summary by CodeRabbit
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