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Summary

  • Adds a new LLM benchmark that fetches instruction-following scores from Coval's chat simulator (MODEL_TYPE_CHAT), mirroring the S2S fetch-and-ingest pattern
  • Measures instruction adherence identically to S2S (YES→100, NO→0, UNKNOWN→skip, aggregated as pass rate)
  • Registers 4 initial models: openai/gpt-4o, openai/gpt-4o-mini, anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6, google/gemini-2.5-flash
  • Wires up coval-bench fetch-llm CLI command with backfill support (--coval-run-id)

Test plan

  • Verify python -m coval_bench fetch-llm --help shows the command
  • Set COVAL_LLM_* env vars and run fetch-llm against a test Coval agent with MODEL_TYPE_CHAT
  • Confirm instruction-following rows land in the DB with benchmark=LLM
  • Test targeted backfill with --coval-run-id

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Introduces a new LLM benchmark that fetches instruction-following scores
from Coval's chat simulator, mirroring the S2S fetch pattern. Measures
instruction adherence identically (YES/NO/UNKNOWN per conversation,
aggregated as a pass rate).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds an LLM benchmark with four registered chat models and shared instruction-following metrics. It adds Coval API settings for provider agent IDs, metric and test set IDs, fetch intervals, and staleness limits. A fetch pipeline retrieves completed Coval runs, maps verdicts to result rows, writes run data, refreshes statistics, and reports provider status. The CLI exposes scheduled and targeted backfill execution through fetch-llm.

Suggested reviewers: coval-cale

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0b1e3

The new LLM benchmark path can fail to persist results because database and API contracts do not yet accept the LLM benchmark type, and retries or interruptions can create duplicate or stranded benchmark runs. These correctness and availability risks should be fixed before merging.

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runner/src/coval_bench/llm/fetch_chat.py (1)

495-500: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reject blank ids, not only unset ids.

not instruction_metric_id and not test_set_id accept a whitespace-only value such as " ". A whitespace test_set_id then goes into the Coval filter expression and matches no runs. Every provider reports stale and the command fails with "llm fetch failed for all providers", which hides the real cause.

The S2S aggregate rejects blank values explicitly (runner/src/coval_bench/s2s/fetch_v2v.py lines 918-926). Match that behavior so the operator gets a named configuration error.

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-    instruction_metric_id = settings.coval_llm_instruction_metric_id
-    if not instruction_metric_id:
+    instruction_metric_id = (settings.coval_llm_instruction_metric_id or "").strip()
+    if not instruction_metric_id:
         raise RuntimeError("coval_llm_instruction_metric_id is not set")
-    test_set_id = settings.coval_llm_test_set_id
-    if not test_set_id:
+    test_set_id = (settings.coval_llm_test_set_id or "").strip()
+    if not test_set_id:
         raise RuntimeError("coval_llm_test_set_id is not set")
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In `@runner/src/coval_bench/llm/fetch_chat.py` around lines 495 - 500, Update the
validation for coval_llm_instruction_metric_id and coval_llm_test_set_id in the
fetch flow to reject whitespace-only strings as well as unset values, matching
the S2S aggregate behavior. Preserve the existing named RuntimeError messages
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In `@runner/src/coval_bench/llm/fetch_chat.py`:
- Around line 495-500: Update the validation for coval_llm_instruction_metric_id
and coval_llm_test_set_id in the fetch flow to reject whitespace-only strings as
well as unset values, matching the S2S aggregate behavior. Preserve the existing
named RuntimeError messages for each invalid configuration.

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log_run_failed(f"llm fetch failed for all providers: {', '.join(failed)}")
else:
log_run_failed("llm fetch ran no providers (none configured)")
raise click.ClickException("llm fetch failed for all providers")

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Curious about the page size logic here:

page_size=page_size if only_run_ids else WINDOW_PAGE_SIZE,

When --coval-run-id is passed, only_run_ids is truthy, so this resolves to page_size (the CLI default of 100). But what if someone passes --page-size 50? That value gets shadowed by the CLI default of 100 before it reaches this line.

More importantly: is the intent here to use the user-specified page size during backfill, or to force WINDOW_PAGE_SIZE (10) for backfill searches? If it's the former, the conditional seems backwards — it'd be page_size=page_size regardless. If the latter, the CLI --page-size flag is misleading since it only applies to the non-backfill path.

Either way, the current behavior means backfill always uses page size 10, which is 10× slower than the documented default. Worth a quick sanity check?

f"{DATASET_ID}.json"
)
return hashlib.sha256(ref.read_bytes()).hexdigest()
except Exception:

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[Suggestion] This bare except Exception swallows any failure to read the manifest (a typo in the path, a missing file, a permissions error) and persists the string "unknown" as the dataset sha256, which future queries will treat as a real value. Would it be clearer to follow the maybe_ convention here, e.g. maybe_dataset_sha256() -> str | None that returns None on failure, so callers can decide whether to log or fall back? At minimum, a logger.debug or logger.warning in the except block would make the sentinel traceable.

return httpx.AsyncClient(
base_url=settings.coval_api_base,
headers={"X-API-Key": key.get_secret_value()},
timeout=30.0,

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[Suggestion] This is a timeout in seconds, but nothing in the signature says so. Would a named constant such as client_timeout_seconds = 30.0 (module level, next to WINDOW_PAGE_SIZE) make the unit obvious to the next reader?

fetch_and_write_llm(
settings,
only_run_ids=only_run_ids,
window_seconds=window_hours * 3600 if only_run_ids else None,

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[Suggestion] window_hours * 3600 hides a unit conversion in the call site. Would a named constant like SECONDS_PER_HOUR = 3600 (or HOURS_TO_SECONDS) keep the math self-documenting, in line with the _seconds suffix convention used elsewhere in this file?

resp.raise_for_status()
payload = cast("dict[str, Any]", resp.json())
raw = cast("list[dict[str, Any]]", payload.get("runs", []))
for r in raw:

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[Nit] Text is cheap: would for run in raw: be clearer than for r in raw:? The loop body builds a run right away, so the short name saves little.

if mapped is None:
continue
metric_value, status = mapped
sim_id = v.get("simulation_output_id")

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[Nit] Would simulation_output_id (the name of the field it reads, and the one used in the audio_filename path a few lines below) be clearer than sim_id?


@dataclass(frozen=True)
class AgentSpec:
"""One LLM chat provider: the Settings attr holding its Coval agent id + display strings."""

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[Nit] This docstring is a noun phrase rather than a complete sentence, and attr is an abbreviation (attribute). A few of the new docstrings share this style (the CovalRun docstring, """SHA-256 of the packaged LLM manifest...""", """YES -> 100.0, NO -> 0.0, UNKNOWN -> no row.""", and the recent_completed_runs docstring). Would phrasing them as full sentences, e.g. """One LLM chat provider: the Settings attribute holding its Coval agent id, plus display strings.""", keep documentation generation and grepping consistent across the file?

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