Explicit timeouts on every OpenAI and Gemini request (#153)

No AI client set a timeout: OpenAI's SDK waits 600s per attempt and retries
twice (timeouts included); google-genai waits forever. A hung provider call
had no upper bound, so recorrelation_sweep's 15-minute pipeline hold-back was
a guess against an unbounded tail.

- config: stt_timeout_seconds (120), openai_timeout_seconds (60),
  openai_max_retries (1), gemini_timeout_seconds (60).
- app/internal/ai_clients.py builds every OpenAI/AsyncOpenAI client with them
  (transcription, extraction, embeddings, summarizer, vocabulary learner,
  trip chat). gemini.py's shared client gets HttpOptions(timeout=ms).
- A timeout raises like any other provider error, so existing fallbacks are
  unchanged: rules-only correlation, rules decision on tiebreak, raw
  transcript on correction, ai_health "transient".
- MIN_MINUTES_SINCE_PIPELINE_START is now derived from those timeouts
  (pipeline_worst_case_seconds, 3-scene budget + 2 min non-AI slack), floor
  15: 21 min with the defaults. Loop warns if it reaches the scan window.
- tests/test_ai_timeouts.py: client limits, a real hung-socket request that
  gives up in <5s, timeout fallback per tier, the derived bound, and a guard
  against any new OpenAI( outside ai_clients.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Logan Cusano
2026-10-04 18:00:25 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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commit 278edf48dc
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Never creates new incidents — link-only. Zero LLM tokens (uses pre-computed
talkgroup strings, haversine math, and stored embeddings).
"""
import asyncio
import math
from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
from typing import Optional
from app.internal.logger import logger
@@ -33,16 +34,54 @@ from app.config import settings
# itself failed) is NOT held back by this — absence isn't evidence of an
# in-flight pipeline, and #131's own bug predates this field existing.
#
# 15, not 5: neither OpenAI's Whisper client nor Gemini's call in
# llm_correlator.py sets a request timeout (server-26#153), so a hung call can
# run well past a few minutes on SDK-default retries, and this constant is a
# guess against that unbounded tail, not a measured bound. Raising it costs
# nothing on the recovery side: a call that finished processing (linked OR
# genuinely orphaned) always has corr_path set (_apply_and_log writes it even
# on the orphan action), so it's already excluded by the
# `not c.get("corr_path")` filter below and never reaches this check at all —
# this constant only ever delays calls that are still actually running.
MIN_MINUTES_SINCE_PIPELINE_START = 15
# Derived, not guessed (server-26#153). Every AI request the real-time
# pipeline makes now has an explicit timeout (config.py: stt_timeout_seconds,
# openai_timeout_seconds, openai_max_retries, gemini_timeout_seconds), so the
# longest a call can stay "started but no corr_path yet" has an upper bound:
# pipeline_worst_case_seconds() below. The hold-back is that bound rounded up,
# never below the old hand-picked 15.
#
# Raising it costs nothing on the recovery side: a call that finished
# processing (linked OR genuinely orphaned) always has corr_path set
# (_apply_and_log writes it even on the orphan action), so it's already
# excluded by the `not c.get("corr_path")` filter below and never reaches this
# check at all — this constant only ever delays calls that are still actually
# running, or whose pipeline died after writing the marker.
# Scenes whose embeddings are computed before the first scene's correlation
# commits (intelligence.extract_scenes embeds every scene, then upload.py
# correlates them in order; scene 0's commit writes corr_path). Extraction
# rarely returns more than 2; 3 is the budget, not a hard cap.
_BOUND_SCENES = 3
# Non-AI work on the same path: GCS download, Firestore reads/writes, geocoding
# and place verification (httpx, 5s timeouts each).
_NON_AI_SLACK_SECONDS = 120.0
_FLOOR_MINUTES = 15
def pipeline_worst_case_seconds(n_scenes: int = _BOUND_SCENES) -> float:
"""Upper bound on intelligence_started_at -> first corr_path write, from
the configured AI timeouts. Order follows routers/upload.py
_run_intelligence_pipeline."""
openai_attempts = 1 + max(0, settings.openai_max_retries)
stt_rounds = 2 if settings.stt_retry_on_degenerate else 1
stt = stt_rounds * openai_attempts * settings.stt_timeout_seconds
# Transcript correction (inside transcribe_call). gemini.generate_json only
# re-issues a request when the model rejects a thinking level — a fast
# 400, not a timeout — and google-genai itself does not retry.
correction = settings.gemini_timeout_seconds
extraction = openai_attempts * settings.openai_timeout_seconds
embeddings = n_scenes * openai_attempts * settings.openai_timeout_seconds
correlation = 2 * settings.gemini_timeout_seconds # decide + tiebreak, scene 0
return stt + correction + extraction + embeddings + correlation + _NON_AI_SLACK_SECONDS
def _derive_min_minutes() -> int:
return max(_FLOOR_MINUTES, math.ceil(pipeline_worst_case_seconds() / 60))
# 21 with the defaults (stt 120s, openai 60s x2 attempts, gemini 60s, 3 scenes).
MIN_MINUTES_SINCE_PIPELINE_START = _derive_min_minutes()
# Standard link-only retry budget before a call is tombstoned corr_path="unlinked".
MAX_SWEEP_ATTEMPTS = 3
@@ -66,8 +105,17 @@ async def recorrelation_loop() -> None:
logger.info(
f"Re-correlation sweep started — "
f"interval: {settings.summary_interval_minutes}m, "
f"scan window: {settings.recorrelation_scan_minutes}m"
f"scan window: {settings.recorrelation_scan_minutes}m, "
f"pipeline hold-back: {MIN_MINUTES_SINCE_PIPELINE_START}m"
)
if MIN_MINUTES_SINCE_PIPELINE_START >= settings.recorrelation_scan_minutes:
# A call is held back longer than the window that finds it, so the
# sweep can never recover a call whose pipeline died mid-flight.
logger.warning(
f"Re-correlation sweep: pipeline hold-back ({MIN_MINUTES_SINCE_PIPELINE_START}m) "
f">= scan window ({settings.recorrelation_scan_minutes}m) — lower the AI "
f"timeouts or raise RECORRELATION_SCAN_MINUTES"
)
while True:
await asyncio.sleep(interval)
try: