koboldcpp/tools/server/tests
Pascal 4ae84dea27
server: add more tool isolation support (ssh remote + podman rootless) (#26774)
* server: add an ssh transport to the tools runtime

--tools-runtime ssh:<target> runs the built-in tools on a remote host,
where target is whatever ssh already resolves, a user@host or a config
alias, so no credentials live in llama.cpp.

Only build_argv and upload differ from the docker transport: the remote
shell re-parses the command line, so the argv travels through
shell_quote_join, and files go over scp with the same quoting on the
remote path. Authentication is key-based and the host key must already
be trusted, since the tools run without a console and any prompt would
hang them.

The target is validated before use. The spec can reach us from the
x-tool-runtime header, and a leading dash would turn it into an ssh
option, which is enough to run a command back on the host.

Nothing is created and nothing is reclaimed, so an ssh spec goes
straight to the tool call instead of through the container runtime.

Note that this is remoting rather than isolation: the tools can do
whatever the target account can do, and the isolation is whatever runs
them on the far side.

* server: support podman in the tools runtime

docker and podman expose the same run, exec, cp and inspect verbs with the
same argument order, so a single implementation drives both and the engine
is carried by the spec prefix: podman:<image> and podman-container:<id> sit
next to the docker forms.

tools_io_docker becomes tools_io_container and the runtime spawner becomes
server_tools_container_runtime, both holding the client binary chosen at
parse time. A single parse_container_runtime() resolves every spec, so
adding another engine is one string in the table.

make_tools_io() now rejects the spawning forms. The spec also reaches it
from the x-tool-runtime header, which is client controlled, and only the
runtime that owns a container is allowed to create one: a tool call can
attach to a running container, nothing more.

* ./build/bin/llama-gen-docs

* server: simplify the tools runtime and drop the file copy step

A server_tools_runtime base with one virtual spec() replaces the
container runtime and the bare spec string that ssh needed next to it,
so server_tools is back to a single pointer and neither setup nor the
handler tests which of the two is set.

write_file used to spill its content into a temporary file on the host
and copy it in, because run_subprocess had no way to feed a child. It
now takes an optional stdin payload and creates the parent directory
and the file in a single round trip through a shell in the isolate.

That removes the upload virtual and both implementations: no more
container cp or scp, no second binary on the host, no sftp subsystem on
the target, no predictable temporary in a shared tmp, and none of the
content reaching an argv the remote shell re-parses. It also fixes
write_file over ssh, which never worked: scp speaks sftp and takes the
remote path literally, so quoting it kept the quotes in the file name.

Writing the payload before reading the output relies on the child
draining stdin as it goes, which holds for cat, its only user today.

* ./build/bin/llama-gen-docs

* server: harden the tools runtime against argv injection and a stdin stall

Validate the container id from x-tool-runtime and --tools-runtime the
same way the ssh target already is, so an id shaped like an option
(docker-container:--privileged) is rejected before it reaches the
engine's exec command line instead of running against a hardened
container. Feed the child's stdin after the watchdog is armed, so a
transport that stalls mid-write is terminated at the deadline rather
than blocking the request forever.

Cover both guards and fix the unknown-scheme test, which used ssh: as
its example and now names a real runtime.

* tests: exercise the tools runtime tests on podman as well as docker

Follow-up #26507. The container runtime drives docker and podman
through one implementation, so parametrize the availability helper,
the container fixture and the attach test on the engine, and cover
both engine prefixes in the container id injection test. Each engine
skips on its own when it is not installed.

The spawn cleanup test stays docker only: it recovers the spawned id
from the container hostname, which docker sets to the short id and
podman rootless does not guarantee. Podman keeps its coverage through
the attach path.

* server: release the container handle before respawning

Follow-up #26507. create() writes over the handle it is given, so a
respawn after the container died on its own leaked the pipes and the
process handle of the previous one.

* server: trim the tools runtime comments

* server: read tool output as raw bytes and harden the runtime on Windows

The stdout pipe is read with read() instead of fgets(), so a chunk
can hold any byte, including NUL, and still streams as soon as data
is available. Past the size cap the pipe keeps draining so the child
never blocks on a full pipe. Both pipe fds are forced to binary mode
on Windows, where the CRT defaults them to text mode and translates
line endings in both directions. Stdin is now always closed after
the feed: the child reads a deterministic EOF, and the Windows
docker and ssh clients stop outliving their command on a stdin pipe
that never closes.

The attach form of --tools-runtime has no lifecycle to own, so it
becomes a static target validated once at startup. This removes the
 subprocess that ran on every tool call and
serialized calls behind a mutex; a stopped container now surfaces
the engine's own error at exec time.

The cidfile path is passed as UTF-8, matching the encoding the
subprocess layer expects for the CreateProcessW command line, so
the spawn form works from a non-ASCII Windows profile.

The SIGPIPE note in server.cpp now names the tools runtime children
as well as the MCP ones.

* clean up comments

* less pollute global scope

* nits

* tests: name the container image after both engines

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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
2026-08-10 13:31:09 +02:00
..
fixtures server: support MCP stdio (#26062) 2026-07-26 01:08:49 +02:00
unit server: add more tool isolation support (ssh remote + podman rootless) (#26774) 2026-08-10 13:31:09 +02:00
.gitignore llama : move end-user examples to tools directory (#13249) 2025-05-02 20:27:13 +02:00
conftest.py tests : speed-up server test suite 3x (#26734) 2026-08-07 21:38:32 +03:00
pytest.ini llama : move end-user examples to tools directory (#13249) 2025-05-02 20:27:13 +02:00
README.md chore : correct typos [no ci] (#20041) 2026-03-05 08:50:21 +01:00
requirements.txt model: add Mellum architecture (#23966) 2026-06-02 22:11:12 +03:00
tests.sh tests : speed-up server test suite 3x (#26734) 2026-08-07 21:38:32 +03:00
utils.py server: add initial tool isolation support (via docker) (#26507) 2026-08-08 16:35:53 +02:00

Server tests

Python based server tests scenario using pytest.

Tests target GitHub workflows job runners with 4 vCPU.

Note: If the host architecture inference speed is faster than GitHub runners one, parallel scenario may randomly fail. To mitigate it, you can increase values in n_predict, kv_size.

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run tests

  1. Build the server
cd ../../..
cmake -B build
cmake --build build --target llama-server
  1. Start the test: ./tests.sh

It's possible to override some scenario steps values with environment variables:

variable description
PORT context.server_port to set the listening port of the server during scenario, default: 8080
LLAMA_SERVER_BIN_PATH to change the server binary path, default: ../../../build/bin/llama-server
DEBUG to enable steps and server verbose mode --verbose
N_GPU_LAYERS number of model layers to offload to VRAM -ngl --n-gpu-layers
LLAMA_CACHE by default server tests re-download models to the tmp subfolder. Set this to your cache (e.g. $HOME/Library/Caches/llama.cpp on Mac or $HOME/.cache/llama.cpp on Unix) to avoid this

To run slow tests (will download many models, make sure to set LLAMA_CACHE if needed):

SLOW_TESTS=1 ./tests.sh

To run with stdout/stderr display in real time (verbose output, but useful for debugging):

DEBUG=1 ./tests.sh -s -v -x

To run all the tests in a file:

./tests.sh unit/test_chat_completion.py -v -x

To run a single test:

./tests.sh unit/test_chat_completion.py::test_invalid_chat_completion_req

Hint: You can compile and run test in single command, useful for local development:

cmake --build build -j --target llama-server && ./tools/server/tests/tests.sh

To see all available arguments, please refer to pytest documentation

Debugging external llama-server

It can sometimes be useful to run the server in a debugger when invesigating test failures. To do this, the environment variable DEBUG_EXTERNAL=1 can be set which will cause the test to skip starting a llama-server itself. Instead, the server can be started in a debugger.

Example using gdb:

$ gdb --args ../../../build/bin/llama-server \
    --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 \
    --temp 0.8 --seed 42 \
    --hf-repo ggml-org/models --hf-file tinyllamas/stories260K.gguf \
    --batch-size 32 --no-slots --alias tinyllama-2 --ctx-size 512 \
    --parallel 2 --n-predict 64

And a break point can be set in before running:

(gdb) br server.cpp:4604
(gdb) r
main: server is listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080 - starting the main loop
srv  update_slots: all slots are idle

And then the test in question can be run in another terminal:

(venv) $ env DEBUG_EXTERNAL=1 ./tests.sh unit/test_chat_completion.py -v -x

And this should trigger the breakpoint and allow inspection of the server state in the debugger terminal.