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provider-openai

v1.0.0

OpenAI Chat Completions provider worker; implements provider::openai::stream and provider::openai::refresh_models behind llm-router.

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  • Linux: arm64 · armv7 · x64
  • Windows: arm64 · x64 · x86
agent-ready brief for v1.0.0
install + config + dependencies + readme + api reference, all in one place. fetch as agent-context.md for an llm to consume.
the same content rendered as discrete blocks below is exposed as a single markdown document at /workers/provider-openai.md. paste it into an llm prompt or pipe it through curl from a worker.

install

install
$iii worker add provider-openai@1.0.0

dependencies

dependencies2

readme

README.md

provider-openai

OpenAI Chat Completions provider worker behind llm-router. Implements the provider protocol from tech-specs/2026-06-agentic/llm-router.md: provider::openai::stream (SSE chunks → AssistantMessageEvent frames into a router-owned channel) and provider::openai::refresh_models (live GET /v1/models filtered to chat/reasoning families ∪ curated capability snapshot → router::models::reconcile).

Behavior

  • Registration: self-declares via router::provider::register with backoff until acked, and re-declares on the router::ready trigger type. The declaration ships a static curated models slice (no cold-catalog hole) and credential_env_var: OPENAI_API_KEY.
  • Identity binding: the router returns a registration_token on first registration; it is persisted in iii-state (scope provider-openai, key registration_token) and presented on every later register/resolve/reconcile. If that state is lost the router rejects re-registration — the operator must clear the binding on the router side.
  • Credentials: resolved per request via router::provider::resolve (config slice → OPENAI_API_KEY env on the router → none). Both api_key and oauth credential shapes are sent as Authorization: Bearer; v1 performs no OAuth refresh.
  • Liveness: ping at least every 30s of upstream silence; a failed channel write (caller gone / router::abort) drops the SSE receiver and aborts the in-flight HTTP request.
  • Errors: 401/403 → auth_expired, 429 → rate_limited (except insufficient_quota, a billing wall → permanent), context_length_exceededcontext_overflow, 5xx/network → transient, other 4xx → permanent. No transport retries here — the router owns retry policy.
  • Structured output: native. A response_format with a schema maps to strict json_schema mode; without one, json_object mode (the caller must mention "JSON" in the prompt per OpenAI's rules). Every curated record declares supports_structured_output: true.
  • Reasoning: thinking_level maps to reasoning_effort per model family (src/reasoning.rs — the ladders encode real 400s: o1 and chat-tuned variants take no param, pro is high-only, xhigh is gpt-5.2+). No reasoning text is streamed back on Chat Completions; completion_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens lands on usage.reasoning.
  • Prompt caching: automatic on OpenAI's side — no request markers. prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens lands on usage.cache_read.
  • Curated snapshot: src/curated.rs carries windows / output ceilings / capability flags / pricing (USD per MTok). Update it against models.dev when OpenAI ships new models — discovery only supplies bare ids.

Tests

cargo test                                            # unit (pure modules + TCP stubs)
III_ENGINE_BIN=$(which iii) cargo test --test integration -- --test-threads=1

The integration suite spawns a real engine, the real router (path dep), this provider, and a local stub upstream — no external API calls anywhere.

Running

The binary takes the standard worker CLI flags: --url (engine WebSocket, default ws://127.0.0.1:49134, falls back to the III_WS_URL environment variable), --manifest (print the registry manifest and exit), and --config (accepted but ignored with a warning — provider config comes from the llm-router configuration entry).

api reference (json)

agent-api-reference.json
{
  "functions": [
    {
      "description": "Internal: router::ready subscriber that re-declares this provider and refreshes its catalog.",
      "metadata": {},
      "name": "provider::openai::on_router_ready",
      "request_schema": {
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
        "description": "Event delivered to a provider's `provider::<id>::on_router_ready` (the `router::ready` trigger payload, currently `{}`). Unknown fields are ignored.",
        "title": "RouterReadyEvent",
        "type": "object"
      },
      "response_schema": {
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
        "description": "Ack returned by a provider's `provider::<id>::on_router_ready`.",
        "properties": {
          "ok": {
            "type": "boolean"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "ok"
        ],
        "title": "ProviderReadyAck",
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    {
      "description": "Refresh the OpenAI catalog slice from GET /v1/models and reconcile it through the router; returns the model count written.",
      "metadata": {},
      "name": "provider::openai::refresh_models",
      "request_schema": {
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
        "description": "Input of a provider's `provider::<id>::refresh_models` — takes no arguments. A struct (not `Value`) keeps the request schema concrete; unknown fields (e.g. the engine-injected `_caller_worker_id`) are ignored.",
        "title": "RefreshModelsRequest",
        "type": "object"
      },
      "response_schema": {
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
        "description": "Output of `provider::<id>::refresh_models`.",
        "properties": {
          "count": {
            "format": "uint",
            "minimum": 0,
            "type": "integer"
          },
          "ok": {
            "type": "boolean"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "count",
          "ok"
        ],
        "title": "RefreshModelsResponse",
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    {
      "description": "Stream an OpenAI chat completion: resolve credentials, call the upstream Chat Completions API, and relay AssistantMessageEvent frames to writer_ref.",
      "metadata": {},
      "name": "provider::openai::stream",
      "request_schema": {
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
        "definitions": {
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            "properties": {
              "description": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "execution_mode": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "label": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "parameters": true
            },
            "required": [
              "description",
              "name",
              "parameters"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "AgentMessage": {
            "anyOf": [
              {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/AssistantMessage"
              },
              {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/FunctionResultMessage"
              },
              {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/CustomMessage"
              },
              {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/UserMessage"
              }
            ],
            "description": "The canonical transcript message union. Untagged: the single-variant role tags disambiguate deserialization."
          },
          "AssistantMessage": {
            "properties": {
              "content": {
                "items": {
                  "$ref": "#/definitions/ContentBlock"
                },
                "type": "array"
              },
              "error_kind": {
                "anyOf": [
                  {
                    "$ref": "#/definitions/ErrorKind"
                  },
                  {
                    "type": "null"
                  }
                ]
              },
              "error_message": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "model": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "native_stop_reason": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "provider": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "role": {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/AssistantRoleTag"
              },
              "stop_reason": {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/StopReason"
              },
              "timestamp": {
                "format": "int64",
                "type": "integer"
              },
              "usage": {
                "anyOf": [
                  {
                    "$ref": "#/definitions/Usage"
                  },
                  {
                    "type": "null"
                  }
                ]
              },
              "warnings": {
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "type": [
                  "array",
                  "null"
                ]
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "content",
              "model",
              "provider",
              "role",
              "stop_reason",
              "timestamp"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "AssistantRoleTag": {
            "enum": [
              "assistant"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "ChannelDirection": {
            "enum": [
              "read",
              "write"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "ContentBlock": {
            "description": "Content blocks — the atomic units of message content (README § Content blocks).",
            "oneOf": [
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                "properties": {
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                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "type": {
                    "enum": [
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                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
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                  "type"
                ],
                "type": "object"
              },
              {
                "properties": {
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                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "mime": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "type": {
                    "enum": [
                      "image"
                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "data",
                  "mime",
                  "type"
                ],
                "type": "object"
              },
              {
                "properties": {
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                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ]
                  },
                  "text": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "type": {
                    "enum": [
                      "thinking"
                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "text",
                  "type"
                ],
                "type": "object"
              },
              {
                "description": "Opaque redacted thinking payload — replayed verbatim on the Anthropic wire.",
                "properties": {
                  "data": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "type": {
                    "enum": [
                      "redacted_thinking"
                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
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                  "type"
                ],
                "type": "object"
              },
              {
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                    "type": "string"
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                ],
                "type": "object"
              },
              {
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                    "type": "string"
                  },
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                    "type": [
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                      "null"
                    ]
                  },
                  "type": {
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                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
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                  "function_call_id",
                  "type"
                ],
                "type": "object"
              }
            ]
          },
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                "items": {
                  "$ref": "#/definitions/ContentBlock"
                },
                "type": "array"
              },
              "custom_type": {
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              },
              "details": true,
              "display": {
                "type": [
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                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "role": {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/CustomRoleTag"
              },
              "timestamp": {
                "format": "int64",
                "type": "integer"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "content",
              "custom_type",
              "role",
              "timestamp"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "CustomRoleTag": {
            "enum": [
              "custom"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "ErrorKind": {
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              "auth_expired",
              "rate_limited",
              "context_overflow",
              "transient",
              "permanent"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "FunctionResultMessage": {
            "properties": {
              "content": {
                "items": {
                  "$ref": "#/definitions/ContentBlock"
                },
                "type": "array"
              },
              "details": true,
              "function_call_id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "function_id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "is_error": {
                "type": "boolean"
              },
              "role": {
                "$ref": "#/definitions/FunctionResultRoleTag"
              },
              "timestamp": {
                "format": "int64",
                "type": "integer"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "content",
              "details",
              "function_call_id",
              "function_id",
              "is_error",
              "role",
              "timestamp"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "FunctionResultRoleTag": {
            "enum": [
              "function_result"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "Model": {
            "description": "The capability record (README § Model descriptor).",
            "properties": {
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                "format": "uint64",
                "minimum": 0,
                "type": "integer"
              },
              "display_name": {
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                ]
              },
              "id": {
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                "format": "uint64",
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                "type": "integer"
              },
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                  },
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                  }
                ]
              },
              "provider": {
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                ]
              },
              "supports_thinking": {
                "type": [
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                ]
              },
              "supports_tools": {
                "type": [
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                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "supports_vision": {
                "type": [
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                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "supports_xhigh": {
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                ]
              },
              "thinking_budgets": {
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                  "type": "integer"
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                ]
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                "format": "double",
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                ]
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                "type": [
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                  "null"
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              },
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                "format": "double",
                "type": [
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                  "null"
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            },
            "type": "object"
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              "type": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "type"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "StopReason": {
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              "length",
              "function_call",
              "aborted",
              "error"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "StreamChannelRef": {
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                "type": "string"
              },
              "channel_id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
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                "$ref": "#/definitions/ChannelDirection"
              }
            },
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              "access_key",
              "channel_id",
              "direction"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "ThinkingLevel": {
            "description": "\"minimal\" requests the lowest reasoning effort and needs only `thinking` support; levels map to provider-native knobs via `Model::thinking_budgets`.",
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              "minimal",
              "low",
              "medium",
              "high",
              "xhigh"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
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                "type": [
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              },
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                "format": "uint64",
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                "type": [
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              },
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              "role",
              "timestamp"
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          },
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            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "description": "Input of a provider worker's `provider::<id>::stream` iii function — what the router forwards per attempt. (No `PartialEq`: `iii_sdk::StreamChannelRef` doesn't implement it.)",
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              {
                "type": "null"
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          },
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          "thinking_level": {
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          },
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              "$ref": "#/definitions/AgentFunction"
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        "description": "Output of a provider's `provider::<id>::stream` (spec § stream contract): the function streams frames to `writer_ref` and returns this ack.",
        "properties": {
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            "type": "boolean"
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        },
        "required": [
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        "type": "object"
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  ],
  "triggers": []
}