Fix: litellm-budget-track reads cost from response headers - #815
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The plugin's OnResponse read pctx.Headers (the request headers) instead of pctx.ResponseHeaders, so it never observed the x-litellm-response-cost header and recorded $0 in every real deployment (both forward and reverse proxy listeners populate response headers on pctx.ResponseHeaders). No unit test covered the plugin, so the bug went unnoticed. This mirrors how the opa plugin reads response headers in OnResponse. Also fall back to X-Litellm-Response-Cost-Original when the bare header is absent: OpenAI /v1/chat/completions responses carry the effective (post-discount) header, but the Anthropic /v1/messages endpoint used by Claude Code — and newer LiteLLM releases — emit only the pre-discount -original variant. Add the plugin's first unit tests: response-header accumulation, the request-header regression guard, the -original fallback, bare-header precedence, invalid/missing cost handling, 429 budget enforcement, ledger persistence, config validation, stale-day ledger reset, and concurrent-response race safety. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@us.ibm.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe LiteLLM budget-tracking plugin now reads response cost headers, falls back to the original-cost header, and retains existing validation and ledger behavior. Tests cover header handling, budget enforcement, persistence, date resets, configuration errors, and concurrent accounting. ChangesLiteLLM cost tracking
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Malformed or non-finite response-cost headers could corrupt the budget ledger and bypass enforcement, so this PR should not merge until those values are rejected safely. A test assertion should also avoid dereferencing a nil violation during failures. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin_test.go`:
- Around line 142-147: Update the test assertions around action.Violation so a
nil value causes t.Fatal and stops execution before dereferencing it; then
separately validate Violation.Status and Violation.Code for the expected values.
In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go`:
- Around line 96-100: In the response-cost parsing flow near the
responseCostHeader and responseCostOriginalHeader lookups, reject parsed costs
where math.IsNaN or math.IsInf(cost, 0) is true before any ledger mutation. Add
coverage in plugin_test.go asserting non-finite costs leave the ledger
unchanged.
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| if action.Violation == nil || action.Violation.Status != http.StatusTooManyRequests { | ||
| t.Errorf("Violation = %+v, want Status 429", action.Violation) | ||
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| if action.Violation.Code != "budget.exceeded" { | ||
| t.Errorf("Violation.Code = %q, want budget.exceeded", action.Violation.Code) | ||
| } |
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Stop after a nil Violation.
If action.Violation is nil, Line 145 dereferences it after t.Errorf and panics. Use t.Fatal for the nil case, then check Status and Code.
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin_test.go` around lines
142 - 147, Update the test assertions around action.Violation so a nil value
causes t.Fatal and stops execution before dereferencing it; then separately
validate Violation.Status and Violation.Code for the expected values.
| costStr := pctx.ResponseHeaders.Get(responseCostHeader) | ||
| if costStr == "" { | ||
| // Anthropic /v1/messages (and newer LiteLLM) omit the bare header. | ||
| costStr = pctx.ResponseHeaders.Get(responseCostOriginalHeader) | ||
| } |
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In Go 1.25, the handling of NaN and infinity values remains consistent with previous versions regarding the encoding/json package, as these values are not supported by the JSON standard [1][2][3]. Specifically, the encoding/json package (both the legacy v1 and the v2 introduced in or around Go 1.25) explicitly rejects NaN and ±Inf values during marshaling [1][2][4][5]. When the encoder encounters these floating-point values, it returns an error: - In encoding/json (v1): The encoder returns an UnsupportedValueError [1][2][3][6]. - In encoding/json/v2: The encoder returns a SemanticError [4][5]. While the strconv.ParseFloat function in the standard library does support parsing the strings "NaN", "Inf", and "Infinity" (case-insensitive) into their respective special floating-point values, this functionality is distinct from JSON serialization requirements [7][8][9]. Because the JSON specification (RFC 7159) does not include a native representation for NaN or ±Inf, they cannot be encoded as valid JSON numbers [1][2][4][3]. Consequently, Go's marshaling functions continue to treat them as unsupported to maintain compatibility with the JSON standard [1][4].
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Reject non-finite response costs before ledger mutation.
strconv.ParseFloat accepts NaN and +Inf. Both pass cost <= 0, set TotalSpend to a non-finite value, and make OnRequest's spend >= MaxBudget check false. json.MarshalIndent then rejects the ledger, but saveLedger ignores the error and can overwrite the spend file with empty data. Reject math.IsNaN(cost) and math.IsInf(cost, 0) and add tests that assert the ledger remains unchanged.
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authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go#L96-L100(this comment)authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin_test.go#L104-L107
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go` around lines 96 -
100, In the response-cost parsing flow near the responseCostHeader and
responseCostOriginalHeader lookups, reject parsed costs where math.IsNaN or
math.IsInf(cost, 0) is true before any ledger mutation. Add coverage in
plugin_test.go asserting non-finite costs leave the ledger unchanged.
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The core fix is right and the bug was real: OnResponse read pctx.Headers (the request map) instead of pctx.ResponseHeaders, so cost was $0 in every deployment.
Verified rather than assumed:
| Check | Result |
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Change is in OnResponse, not OnRequest |
Yes — plugin.go:95-99. Worth noting git labels that hunk @@ ... func (p *BudgetTrack) OnRequest, because it picks the nearest preceding function; the code is in the right place |
| "both forward and reverse proxy listeners populate response headers on pctx.ResponseHeaders" | Correct, and extproc does too (5 assignment sites), so the claim is if anything understated |
| "mirrors how the opa plugin reads response headers" | Consistent with RunResponse dispatch for non-streaming plugins |
| Header matching is case-insensitive | Yes — http.Header.Get canonicalises, so the wire's lowercase x-litellm-response-cost matches the constant |
One substantive gap inline, plus a note on what the new tests can and cannot catch. Neither blocks: this is strictly better than the status quo, and the gap is pre-existing dispatch architecture rather than anything introduced here.
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| // OnResponse reads x-litellm-response-cost and accumulates the spend. | ||
| func (p *BudgetTrack) OnResponse(_ context.Context, pctx *pipeline.Context) pipeline.Action { | ||
| costStr := pctx.Headers.Get("X-Litellm-Response-Cost") | ||
| costStr := pctx.ResponseHeaders.Get(responseCostHeader) |
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suggestion — this line is never reached on the path the PR is aimed at.
The -original fallback is justified by "the Anthropic /v1/messages endpoint used by Claude Code", and Claude Code streams. On the outbound/forward-proxy path, a streamed response with a StreamingResponder in the pipeline never invokes OnResponse at all:
forwardproxy/server.go:406-414—isEventStream(...)andHasStreamingResponders()→handleStreamingResponseforwardproxy/server.go:608— that function's own comment: "RunResponse is intentionally NOT invoked on this path"pipeline.go:146-160—RunResponseis what dispatchesOnResponsefor non-streaming pluginsplugin.go:150-151— BudgetTrack asserts onlyPluginandConfigurable, so it is not aStreamingResponderand has noOnResponseFrame
So the cost header is sitting on pctx unread, and the ledger still records $0.
Where the fix does land:
| Shape | RunResponse reached? |
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| JSON response (buffered) | yes — forwardproxy:457 |
| SSE, no StreamingResponder | yes — forwardproxy:741 (passthrough) |
| Inbound / reverseproxy | yes — reverseproxy:475, unconditional |
| Outbound + SSE + StreamingResponder | no |
That last row is the combination anyone doing cost work is likely to be in, since inference-parser and a2a-parser are both StreamingResponders and are exactly what you would pair with budget tracking. It is also forward-proxy-specific, which is the outbound LiteLLM egress path rather than an edge case.
The extension looks cheap: pctx.ResponseHeaders is assigned at forwardproxy:392, before the streaming branch, so implementing OnResponseFrame and reading the headers on the last=true call would close it without buffering the stream. Failing that, it is worth saying in the docs that streamed responses need a pipeline with no StreamingResponders — otherwise the next person debugging a $0 ledger repeats this trace.
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| // TestOnResponseReadsResponseHeader is the regression guard for the core fix: | ||
| // the cost must be read from ResponseHeaders, not the request Headers. | ||
| func TestOnResponseReadsResponseHeader(t *testing.T) { |
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suggestion — thorough at the function level, but structurally unable to catch the gap above.
All ten tests build a pipeline.Context by hand and call p.OnResponse(...) / p.OnRequest(...) directly. That covers the header logic well — TestOnResponseIgnoresRequestHeader in particular is a proper regression guard for the exact bug being fixed, and TestConcurrentOnResponse is a good instinct for a plugin holding a shared ledger.
What none of them can observe is whether anything calls OnResponse. The PR body notes "No unit test covered the plugin, so the bug went unnoticed" — these close that at the function level while leaving the same shape of blind spot one layer up, where the current gap lives.
A listener-level test would pin it: stand up the forward proxy with an SSE upstream response and a StreamingResponder in the outbound pipeline, then assert the ledger moved. The forwardproxy package already has tests in that style to borrow from, and it would fail today — which is what makes it worth adding.
| ### OnResponse (cost accumulation) | ||
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| 1. Read `X-Litellm-Response-Cost` header from upstream response | ||
| 1. Read the cost from the **response** headers (`pctx.ResponseHeaders`): |
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nit — the new text names the streamed case without mentioning that streaming is where it does not apply.
The added description of the header precedence is good and specific, and calling out that the Anthropic /v1/messages endpoint emits only the -original variant is exactly the detail a reader needs. But that endpoint is the streaming one, so as written the doc implies the Claude Code path is now covered — which, per the comment on plugin.go, depends on whether a StreamingResponder is configured.
One sentence would settle it, something to the effect that on the outbound path a text/event-stream response only reaches OnResponse when no StreamingResponder is in the pipeline.
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Solid bug fix: OnResponse was reading pctx.Headers (request headers) instead of pctx.ResponseHeaders, causing $0 to be recorded for every deployment, and the -original fallback correctly handles Anthropic/newer-LiteLLM traffic. Test suite is thorough and the docs update is accurate.
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plugin_test.go:142—t.Errorfused for the nil-Violation guard; ifaction.Violationis actually nil the next line (action.Violation.Code) will panic. Restructure tot.Fatalor split the nil check.- PR body template sections (
## Summary,## Related issue(s),## Testing Instructions) are unfilled — nit.
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| if action.Type != pipeline.Reject { | ||
| t.Fatalf("OnRequest() over budget = %v, want Reject", action.Type) | ||
| } | ||
| if action.Violation == nil || action.Violation.Status != http.StatusTooManyRequests { |
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suggestion: t.Errorf here won't stop execution — if action.Violation is nil, line 145 (action.Violation.Code) will panic. Use t.Fatal (or t.Fatalf) for the nil guard so execution stops before the dereference:
if action.Violation == nil {
t.Fatal("Violation is nil")
}
if action.Violation.Status != http.StatusTooManyRequests {
t.Errorf("Violation.Status = %d, want 429", action.Violation.Status)
}
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The plugin's OnResponse read pctx.Headers (the request headers) instead of pctx.ResponseHeaders, so it never observed the x-litellm-response-cost header and recorded $0 in every real deployment (both forward and reverse proxy listeners populate response headers on pctx.ResponseHeaders). No unit test covered the plugin, so the bug went unnoticed. This mirrors how the opa plugin reads response headers in OnResponse.
Also fall back to X-Litellm-Response-Cost-Original when the bare header is absent: OpenAI /v1/chat/completions responses carry the effective (post-discount) header, but the Anthropic /v1/messages endpoint used by Claude Code — and newer LiteLLM releases — emit only the pre-discount -original variant.
Add the plugin's first unit tests: response-header accumulation, the request-header regression guard, the -original fallback, bare-header precedence, invalid/missing cost handling, 429 budget enforcement, ledger persistence, config validation, stale-day ledger reset, and concurrent-response race safety.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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