Retry with exponential backoff and jitter, and honour Retry-After. Retry empty-choice responses and HTTP 408.
Add max_retries, retry_timeouts, model_timeouts and model_concurrency settings for slow local models.
Add opt-in SSE streaming with an idle timeout. A hung server fails early, and a slow but active generation continues.
Send an optional seed and record the backend fingerprint of each answer.
Stamp saved artifacts with run metadata and write them atomically. Warn in compare when two runs differ.
Save partial results on Ctrl-C. Turn an evaluator panic into an error row.
Reject duplicate models and non-http endpoints in the config.
Adds real OpenAI function-calling support end to end and two test tranches.
Client (internal/llm): Request.Tools advertises tools with tool_choice
auto; Response.ToolCalls carries the model's calls, decoding each
function's JSON-encoded argument string into an object (malformed
arguments preserved raw with Decoded=false). Verified live: the gateway
round-trips tools and the qwen/deepseek tool-call parsers emit the
expected format.
Runner: when a test declares Tools, it serializes the model's tool calls
into a canonical JSON envelope and scores that, not the free text.
Eval (toolcall.go): ToolCalled, NoToolCalled, ToolCallWithArgs (subset
match, number/string coercion), ToolSequence, FirstToolIs, ToolNotCalled,
ToolArgValuesCover - all parse the envelope, no llm dependency.
Tests: 12 function-calling tests (tools/function-calling) covering tool
selection, argument extraction, enum constraints, chained and parallel
calls, no-tool-needed and missing-param abstention, destructive-tool
safety, and name-vs-description traps; 8 ultra-hard single-shot tasks in
existing subcategories. Ground-truth self-consistency tests assert every
documented answer and ideal tool envelope scores 1.0.
An error row with zero latency reads as an instant rejection when it
can be three exhausted request timeouts. A 651-second thinking-model
generation looked instant in the 2026-08-30 run and misdirected the
diagnosis toward gateway rejection. The error path now records the
wall clock across all attempts.
Reasoning models burn thousands of completion tokens before the
answer. Small per-test caps caused silent truncation and zero scores.
The runner now floors max_tokens at the config default (12000). The
client parses finish_reason. Reports mark truncated cells and the
JSON format carries response text for debugging. A stderr progress
reporter prints one line per completed request; --quiet disables it.
Framework runs a category/subcategory test catalog against multiple
LLMs through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Deterministic evaluators
score each response. Reports render as table, markdown, or JSON.
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