* 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co> |
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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
- Build the server
cd ../../..
cmake -B build
cmake --build build --target llama-server
- 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.