evals: record the synthetic user's tokens, not just its cost - #1645
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WalkthroughChangesSynthetic-user usage tracking
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change records synthetic-user token usage while preserving unavailable usage as unmeasured and keeping existing cost behavior; only a localized test assertion remains to explicitly pin that state, with no demonstrated production impact. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SyntheticUserDriver
participant drive_loop
participant eval_runner
participant scored_trace_usage
SyntheticUserDriver->>drive_loop: Return response and Usage or None
drive_loop->>drive_loop: Aggregate Usage across turns
drive_loop->>eval_runner: Return DriveCaseResult with su_usage
eval_runner->>scored_trace_usage: Provide synthetic-user usage
scored_trace_usage->>scored_trace_usage: Add cost only
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This cannot be retargeted to Why the retarget is blocked
The two branches share an ancestor 322 commits back on evals_v2 and 359 back on the megabranch, so this is a real fork, not a stale rebase. On "the persisted field must move onto the stored task run"Correct for evals_v2, and not expressible on this base:
So the requested shape and this PR's base are mutually exclusive. Retargeting now would mean deleting the drive-side capture too (it lives in Does this still matter?Yes, and the gap is unchanged: an eval sweep spends on three models and the synthetic user is the one whose spend no invoice can check. The reconstruction in the description stands — ~3.0M input tokens over 2,550 driver calls that nothing accounted for. Of the three lanes on evals_v2 today:
So evals_v2 has no SU spend to lose today, and will have unmeasured SU spend the moment the multi-turn lane lands there unless this lands with it. Suggested dispositionTwo coherent options, both Mike's call:
What I would not do is retarget and strip it — that discards the drive-side capture and leaves nothing behind. Generated by Claude Code |
Rebuilt on dchiang/eb-v2-merge (was dchiang/multiturn-eval-megabranch at dccd792). That base already did the structural half of this change: TaskRun.synthetic_user_usage exists, the driven trace is persisted, and the agent's own `usage` is honestly assistant-only. What it still does is throw the driver model's token counts away: synthetic_user_usage=Usage(cost=drive_result.su_total_cost) A cost with no tokens reconciles against no invoice, cannot be split per model, and cannot be recomputed at a different price. The SU is normally a different model on a different provider from the agent under test, so its tokens are exactly the half that makes the figure checkable. SU turns are never persisted as TaskRuns, so anything dropped in the loop is gone for good. - SyntheticUserDriver.respond returns the whole `Usage | None` rather than a float cost. None when the provider reported nothing — a zeroed Usage would read as a genuinely free call rather than an unmeasured one. - DriveCaseResult carries `su_usage`, summed across the case's turns via Usage.__add__ (None-graceful per field, so a turn reporting only cost can't wipe another turn's token counts). `su_total_cost` stays as a derived property, so the interactive runner's CaseCompletedEvent.total_cost is unchanged in behaviour. - The eval runner stores that Usage on the trace TaskRun directly. The per-turn `on_turn(su_cost=...)` hook contract is untouched, so the batch runner's event shapes and spend accounting are unaffected. Tests: SU usage summed across turns; None when no turn reports; token counts preserved when one turn reports only cost; respond() returns the full Usage; the persisted trace carries the driver's tokens. Existing SU mocks widened from (msg, float) to (msg, Usage | None). libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/eval/ + synthetic_user/: 813 passed. Full libs/ + app/desktop: 8127 passed, with 5 failures and 5 errors that all reproduce on the base (vector-store, chunker, model-cache benchmark, document-api, and tkinter-less desktop imports). ruff format clean.
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Persisting the full Usage here is right, but it silently changes what the score-summary rollup reports. scored_trace_usage in app/desktop/studio_server/eval_api.py sums synthetic_user_usage into the per-trace figure null-tolerantly, and its docstring is explicit that it was written against a cost-only field: "Today that field carries cost only, so token counts pass through from the assistant side." Once this field carries tokens and latency, three things change in the run-config usage summary with no code in this diff touching them:
- Mean input/output/total tokens absorb the synthetic user's tokens (~3.5k input per conversation by this PR's own numbers), attributed to the agent under test.
- Reported latency stops meaning agent latency: the litellm adapter stamps
total_llm_latency_mson the usagerespond()now returns,Usage.__add__sums latency across the drive's turns, and the summary blend sums it again into the agent's figure. - New records diverge from migrated legacy records, which have cost blended into
usagebut agent-only tokens — the same summary field reads two different quantities depending on record age.
Cost blending is total-spend semantics and matches the legacy records. Token and latency blending conflates two models, which is the exact conflation this PR argues against. Suggest making scored_trace_usage blend cost only (e.g. add Usage(cost=trace.synthetic_user_usage.cost) rather than the whole object) and updating its docstring in this PR, since this PR is what changes the field's contents. If blending everything is the intent, the docstring and PR description should say so instead.
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Confirmed and fixed in 09751db7. You're right on all three counts, and the magnitude is worse than it reads — measured on the exact shape this branch now writes (agent 100 in / 50 out / 4000ms, SU 3548 in / 61 out / 9000ms):
before input_tokens=100 total_llm_latency_ms=4000 cost=1.25
after input_tokens=3648 total_llm_latency_ms=13000 cost=1.25
Input tokens 36×, latency 3.25×, both attributed to the agent under test — the exact conflation synthetic_user_usage exists to undo, reappearing one layer up in the rollup. And silently: nothing in the diff touched eval_api.py, which is what made it worth catching at review rather than in a dashboard.
Taken your suggestion exactly — scored_trace_usage now adds Usage(cost=trace.synthetic_user_usage.cost) rather than the whole object, and the docstring says why per quantity:
- Cost blends: total-spend semantics, what the trace cost to produce with both models in, and what migrated legacy records already carry fused inside
usage. - Tokens don't: different model, different provider, so folding them in makes
cost / total_tokensmeaningless. - Latency doesn't: this summary reports agent responsiveness, and driver wall clock would make every driven run config look slower than it is.
Your third point — that blending everything gives one field two meanings by record age — is the one I'd have been most likely to miss, and it's called out in the docstring now so the next person changing this field sees the constraint.
Two tests pin the boundary: cost blends while tokens and latency stay agent-only, and an SU record carrying tokens but no cost leaves the total untouched.
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| # respond() returns (message, cost). Tests that don't care about | ||
| # cost get 0.0 — the runner adds it to total_cost regardless. | ||
| instance.respond = AsyncMock(side_effect=[(r, 0.0) for r in replies]) | ||
| instance.respond = AsyncMock(side_effect=[(r, None) for r in replies]) |
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The comment above this line is now stale on both counts: respond() returns (message, Usage | None), and these tests hand back None rather than 0.0.
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Fixed in 09751db7 — it now reads:
# respond() returns (message, Usage | None). Tests that don't care about
# the driver's spend hand back None — the shape a provider that reported
# nothing produces, which the runner totals as zero.Stale on both counts as you said: the return type and the 0.0.
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Review catch (@chiang-daniel). `scored_trace_usage` sums the whole `synthetic_user_usage` object into the per-trace figure a run-config summary reports, and its docstring said so on the premise that "today that field carries cost only, so token counts pass through from the assistant side". This branch is what makes that premise false, so it is this branch's job to fix the rollup. Measured on the shape this branch now writes (agent 100 in / 50 out / 4000ms, SU 3548 in / 61 out / 9000ms): before input_tokens=100 total_llm_latency_ms=4000 cost=1.25 after input_tokens=3648 total_llm_latency_ms=13000 cost=1.25 Input tokens 36x, latency 3.25x, both silently attributed to the agent under test — the exact conflation `synthetic_user_usage` exists to undo, reappearing one layer up. So the blend is now cost only: - Cost is total-spend semantics — what the trace cost to produce, both models in. It is what the summary should report, and it is what migrated legacy records already carry fused inside `usage`. - Tokens are the agent's alone. The SU is normally a different model on a different provider, so folding its tokens in makes cost/token meaningless. - Latency is the agent's alone. This summary reports agent responsiveness; driver wall clock would make every driven run config look slower. Blending everything would also give one field two meanings by record age, since legacy records blend cost only. Two tests pin the boundary: cost blends while tokens and latency stay agent-only, and an SU record with tokens but no cost leaves the total untouched. Also fixed a stale comment in test_runner.py that still described `respond()` as returning a float cost. app/desktop/studio_server/test_eval_api.py scored-trace/synthetic-user tests: 7 passed. Full libs/ + app/desktop: 8129 passed, with the 5 failures and 5 errors that reproduce on the base. ruff format clean.
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In `@libs/core/kiln_ai/synthetic_user/test_eval_drive.py`:
- Line 99: Update the test using fake_su_driver to assert that result.su_usage
is None, distinguishing unavailable usage from reported zero cost, and revise
the nearby comment so it describes the provider returning no usage rather than
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| instance = Mock(spec=SyntheticUserDriver) | ||
| instance.respond = AsyncMock( | ||
| side_effect=[(f"follow-up-{i}", 0.0) for i in range(1, 10)] | ||
| side_effect=[(f"follow-up-{i}", None) for i in range(1, 10)] |
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Assert the unavailable-usage state.
fake_su_driver now models a provider that reports no usage. The existing result.su_total_cost == 0.0 assertion does not distinguish su_usage is None from a reported zero-cost Usage. Add assert result.su_usage is None. Also update the nearby comment that still says each response reports 0.0 cost.
Suggested test update
- # The SU spend rides the result (each mocked respond() reports 0.0 cost).
+ # No mocked respond() reports usage, so unavailable usage is preserved.
leaf = result.chain[-1]
assert leaf.id is None
assert len(leaf.trace) == 6
assert result.su_total_cost == 0.0
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In `@libs/core/kiln_ai/synthetic_user/test_eval_drive.py` at line 99, Update the
test using fake_su_driver to assert that result.su_usage is None, distinguishing
unavailable usage from reported zero cost, and revise the nearby comment so it
describes the provider returning no usage rather than 0.0 cost. Keep the
existing result.su_total_cost assertion and add or update focused test coverage
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What the base already does
dchiang/eb-v2-mergeis the branch where the eval-run/score split and the synthetic-user lane both exist, so the review feedback — "the persisted field must move onto the stored task run" — is already satisfied there:TaskRun.synthetic_user_usage: Usage | Noneexists on the datamodel.scored_run_id, so SU spend is booked once per trace rather than once per judge.usageon that TaskRun is honestly assistant-only (_conversation_usage), with the SU on its own field.None of that needs changing, so all of it is dropped from this branch.
What's left, and why it matters
The base fills that field with a cost-only stub:
Every token count the driver model reported is discarded on the way in. That's the same gap the original PR was about, one layer down:
gpt_5_4@openrouter, SUglm_5_2@fireworks_ai). A cost with no tokens reconciles against neither invoice and cannot be split per model at all.Scale of what's unreadable
Reconstructed from 850 stored drives on the test model engagement (traces replayed through the exact filtering
respond()applies): SU calls run at exactlyturnsper conversation, mean 3,548 input tokens/conversation (p90 6,556, max 25,312) — ~3.0M input tokens over 2,550 driver calls. And a reconstruction is a floor, not a substitute: the SU is often a reasoning model (reasoning bills as output, invisible offline) and its calls share a growing prefix, so cache behaviour moves the invoice and can't be inferred.The change
SyntheticUserDriver.respondreturnsUsage | Noneinstead of a float cost.Nonewhen the provider reported nothing — a zeroedUsagewould read as a genuinely free call rather than an unmeasured one.DriveCaseResult.su_usagereplaces thesu_total_costfield, summed across the case's turns withUsage.__add__. That addition is None-graceful per field, so a turn that reports only cost can't wipe out another turn's token counts — there's a test pinning exactly that.su_total_costsurvives as a derived property, so the interactive runner'sCaseCompletedEvent.total_costis unchanged in behaviour: it wants a float it can add, and "no usage reported" has always summed as zero there.Usageon the trace TaskRun.The per-turn
on_turn(su_cost=...)hook contract is untouched, so the batch runner's event shapes and per-attempt spend accounting are unaffected.Back-compat
TaskRun.synthetic_user_usageis unchanged in name, type and default — this only changes how much of it gets filled in. Records written before this carry cost-only values that still load and read correctly;Nonestill means "not measured". No datamodel change, so no schema regeneration.The one breaking change is internal:
DriveCaseResult(su_total_cost=...)no longer constructs, since that name is now a property. That's deliberate — every construction site should be handing over the fullUsage.Drive fingerprints
Untouched.
compute_drive_fingerprinthashes drive config + run config properties + scenario content; none of those change here, so no stored conversation is invalidated and no re-drive is triggered.Testing
Nonewhen no turn reports; token counts preserved when one turn reports only cost;respond()returns the fullUsage; the persisted trace carries the driver's tokens alongside the agent's.(msg, float)to(msg, Usage | None).libs/core/kiln_ai/adapters/eval/+synthetic_user/: 813 passed.libs/+app/desktop: 8127 passed. The 5 failures and 5 errors (vector-store, chunker, model-cache benchmark, document-api, and tkinter-less desktop imports) all reproduce onorigin/dchiang/eb-v2-mergewith this branch's changes absent.ruff format --checkclean on all touched files.