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OpenAI-compatible gateways commit 200 OK as soon as a provider accepts a request, so a later provider failure arrives in the body as an error object with no choices. That reached the SDK's parse helper and surfaced as TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable, naming neither the provider, the status, nor the timeout that caused it. Non-streaming calls now raise the exception the upstream status maps to — a masked 504 is catchable exactly like an honest one.

  • Covers all four non-streaming paths (sync/async × structured/plain); streaming already had this guard inside the SDK. 504 → openai.InternalServerError, 429 → RateLimitError, malformed 200 → APIResponseValidationError. No new public API.
  • Compatibility: these paths now call chat.completions.with_raw_response.create/parse, so test doubles patching chat.completions.create need with_raw_response.create — four in-repo doubles updated.
  • 41 tests; happy path, token usage, tool execution, LengthFinishReasonError and the 404 → Responses fallback all pinned.
  • Also fixes pre-existing test pollution that was blocking this PR: TraceCollectionListener is a singleton, and a leaked trace_batch_id redirected later trace POSTs until an unrelated cassette missed. An autouse fixture now resets it; reproducible on main before this branch.
  • Ignores accelerate GHSA-4j2p-28q2-5m79 with rationale — no patched release exists (advisory covers <=1.14.0, the latest), transitive via docling/unstructured, never imported here.
  • Docs: concepts/llms.mdx in en, ar, ko, pt-BR. Out: the Responses API path and crewai-tools platform actions share the gateway defect and need tickets.

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Changes core LLM error handling on all non-streaming OpenAI-compatible calls; behavior improves for gateways but alters exception types/messages versus the old TypeError path.

Overview
Fixes misleading TypeError on OpenRouter-style gateways when a provider failure arrives in an HTTP 200 body (error, no choices) instead of a real status code.

OpenAI completion provider now reads the raw response before parsing and raises the same OpenAI SDK exception types callers already use for retries (e.g. masked 504 → InternalServerError, 429 → RateLimitError), with clearer messages naming model and host. Applies to all four non-streaming paths (sync/async × plain/structured via with_raw_response); malformed 200s without a proper error object become APIResponseValidationError.

Adds broad gateway envelope tests and updates in-repo test doubles to mock with_raw_response.create/parse. Docs gain a “Gateway Errors” tab in concepts/llms.mdx (en, ar, ko, pt-BR).

Separately: an autouse reset_trace_listener_singleton fixture (plus canary test) stops TraceCollectionListener batch state from leaking across tests and causing distant VCR failures. pip-audit / pre-commit ignore GHSA-4j2p-28q2-5m79 (accelerate, no patched release yet).

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OpenAI-compatible gateways commit `200 OK` as soon as the upstream provider
accepts a request, so a later provider failure arrives in the body as an
`error` object with no `choices`. That reached the SDK's parse helper and
surfaced as `TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable`, naming neither the
provider, the status, nor the fact that a timeout happened.

The four non-streaming paths now inspect the raw body before parsing and raise
the exception the upstream code maps to, so a masked 504 is catchable exactly
like an honest one. Streaming already had this guard inside the SDK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The OpenAI completion provider now inspects raw responses for gateway-wrapped upstream errors and maps status codes to SDK exceptions. Tests cover sync, async, structured, streaming, and compatible-provider paths. Documentation, trace-listener isolation, and audit configuration were also updated.

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Gateway error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect and map gateway errors
lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/openai/completion.py
Sync and async completion paths inspect raw response bodies and raise mapped OpenAI SDK exceptions for embedded upstream errors.
Validate error handling and compatibility
lib/crewai/tests/llms/openai/*, lib/crewai/tests/llms/snowflake/test_snowflake.py, lib/crewai/tests/test_tool_cache_default.py
Tests cover error mapping, malformed responses, normal completions, streaming, compatible providers, credential safety, and raw-response mocks.
Document gateway errors
docs/edge/*/concepts/llms.mdx
Arabic, English, Korean, and Portuguese documentation explains gateway error envelopes, retry handling, and structured-output timeout cases.

Vulnerability audit configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure the audit exception
.github/workflows/vulnerability-scan.yml, .pre-commit-config.yaml
The vulnerability scan workflow and pre-commit hook ignore and document GHSA-4j2p-28q2-5m79.

Trace listener isolation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reset trace listener state
conftest.py, lib/crewai/tests/tracing/test_trace_listener_isolation.py
An autouse fixture clears the cached trace listener instance after each test. The tracing isolation documentation retains the batch-manager canary and explains why no listener-setup canary is used.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OpenAICompletion
  participant Gateway
  participant ErrorMapper
  participant RetryHandler
  OpenAICompletion->>Gateway: Send completion request
  Gateway-->>OpenAICompletion: Return HTTP 200 with upstream error body
  OpenAICompletion->>ErrorMapper: Inspect raw response
  ErrorMapper-->>OpenAICompletion: Raise mapped SDK exception
  OpenAICompletion-->>RetryHandler: Propagate provider failure
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Gateway-wrapped upstream errors are now surfaced as appropriate SDK exceptions across non-streaming completion paths. The remaining risk is a minor inaccurate statement in tracing test documentation, with no identified runtime production impact.

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joaomdmoura and others added 3 commits September 8, 2026 12:29
The provider now reads the raw body before parsing, so a client double that
only implements `create` no longer satisfies it. Same shape as the fixes to the
reasoning-effort retry and Snowflake doubles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
accelerate <=1.14.0 is affected by CVE-2026-69112 (path traversal and DoS via
sharded checkpoint weight_map entries) and 1.14.0 is the latest release, so
there is no version floor to raise to yet. It arrives transitively through
crewai[docling] and unstructured[local-inference]; CrewAI imports accelerate
nowhere and never loads sharded checkpoints.

Carries a TODO to drop the ignore once a patched release ships, and keeps the
workflow and pre-commit lists in sync as both files require.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
TraceCollectionListener caches a TraceBatchManager on the class and
`_initialized` short-circuits `__init__`, so batch state survives for the whole
xdist worker. `test_nested_agent_executor_flow_does_not_finalize_parent_batch`
left `trace_batch_id="debug-trace-batch"` behind, which moved every later trace
POST from /tracing/ephemeral/batches to /tracing/batches/<id>/events. The
recorded cassette then stopped matching, the agent retried, and the second call
found the cassette consumed -- surfacing as ConnectionError in an unrelated
test hundreds of tests later.

Reproduced deterministically by running the leaking test followed by
tests/tracing/test_trace_enable_disable.py::test_trace_calls_when_enabled_via_env;
fails on a68b5e9 too, so this predates the gateway fix it was blocking.

An autouse fixture now clears the cached instance after each test. Two canaries
pin the invariant and fail without the fixture.

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stayed set, the next listener would consider itself registered and collect
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the listener instance state.

TraceCollectionListener.setup_listeners() reads and writes self._listeners_setup, so the active value lives on the singleton instance. This assertion reads the class default, which remains False even when a cached instance has _listeners_setup=True. The canary can therefore pass while listener registrations leak between tests. Assert the flag on TraceCollectionListener() instead.

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where it is always False, so it could never fail. Correct, and the suggested fix
does not work either: `BaseEventListener.__init__` calls `setup_listeners`
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(trace_listener.py:229), so reading it back through `TraceCollectionListener()`
is always True. Neither read observes a leak, so the canary is deleted rather
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The same finding showed the fixture was resetting two class attributes that are
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Fixed — you're right that the assertion was vacuous, and chasing it down found two further problems.

Confirmed: _listeners_setup is assigned on the instance at trace_listener.py:229, and nothing in lib/ ever assigns it at class level, so TraceCollectionListener._listeners_setup is permanently False and the canary could never fail.

The suggested fix doesn't hold either. BaseEventListener.__init__ calls self.setup_listeners(crewai_event_bus) at base_event_listener.py:16, so construction itself sets the flag — TraceCollectionListener()._listeners_setup is always True. I applied it and it failed immediately, including with the isolation fixture active:

FAILED tests/tracing/test_trace_listener_isolation.py::test_listener_setup_flag_starts_clean

So the class read is always False and the instance read is always True; neither observes a leak. The flag lives on the instance the fixture deletes, so it cannot outlive a test — that's guaranteed by construction, not assertable. I removed the canary and recorded the reasoning in the module docstring so nobody re-adds it in either form.

Knock-on fix: the same fact meant the fixture was clearing _initialized and _listeners_setup at class level, where they are never set. Only dropping _instance is load-bearing, so the fixture is now one line.

Verified: the surviving canary still fails without the fixture (AssertionError: assert 'debug-trace-batch' is None), so it isn't vacuous; and three full runs of lib/crewai/tests/ give 438 failures, byte-identical to base a68b5e903.

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(`trace_listener.py:229`), so reading it back through `TraceCollectionListener()`
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the _listeners_setup statement.

BaseEventListener.__init__ calls setup_listeners(), but setup_listeners() returns before assigning self._listeners_setup when tracing and all override modes are disabled. Construction does not always make the flag True. Change this text to state that the flag is set only when listener registration runs. (github.com)

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In `@lib/crewai/tests/tracing/test_trace_listener_isolation.py` around lines 19 -
21, Update the `_listeners_setup` discussion in the test documentation to state
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