fix(proxy): retain image reservation recovery ownership

[mastertyko]

Summary

• transfer image generation/edit API-key reservations to the existing tracked settlement lifecycle
• preserve successful Images JSON/SSE responses while failed or cancelled finalization hands ownership to retrying release
• keep internal Responses settlement reservation-free and prove exactly one handoff across generation/edit and streaming/non-streaming

Why

Image routes charge from authoritative tool_usage.image_gen tokens and deliberately bypass standard internal Responses settlement. A post-hoc finalization failure previously rolled the reservation back to reserved, logged, and returned without a request-scoped settlement or release owner. Reserved quota could remain charged until stale cleanup.

OpenSpec

Archived and synced:

• openspec/changes/archive/2026-08-19-fix-images-finalize-reservation-release/
• openspec/specs/images-api-compat/spec.md

openspec validate images-api-compat --strict passes. Repository-wide openspec validate --specs retains the same eight pre-existing main-branch failures and introduces no new failure.

Validation

• RED: keyed image request returned HTTP 200 but reservation assertion failed with reserved != released
• GREEN: complete image integration file — 59 passed
• focused settlement ownership/retry tests — 11 passed
• post-rebase focused image/settlement matrix — 7 passed
• complete unit suite — 6250 passed, 70 skipped (67 Helm skips because Helm is unavailable; 3 documented load-balancer skips)
• Ruff check + format — passed
• ty — passed
• proxy architecture checks — passed
• changed-file diagnostics — clean

Real-surface QA

An isolated FastAPI + SQLite + fake-upstream instance was exercised with literal curl -i against /v1/images/generations using a limited API key.

• client received HTTP 200 and B64_QA_IMAGE before recovery completed
• gated state: reservation reserved, quota 10240, pending owner 1, finalize calls 1, release calls 1
• after opening the exact release event: reservation released, quota 0, pending owners 0
• QA server, port 33101, SQLite DB, and temp harness were removed

Security and scope

• reuses the existing bounded-concurrency tracked release lifecycle from fix(proxy): retry detached API key release #1545
• no authorization, repository transition, retry policy, schema, migration, setting, dependency, or public response-shape change
• no deployment or dashboard changes

Fixes #1821
Refs #498
Refs #1545

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved usage accounting for image generation and editing in streaming and non-streaming requests.
  • Reservations now settle exactly once using captured image token usage.
  • Completed image responses are preserved when settlement fails or is cancelled, with quota release retried automatically.
  • Standardized API-key model usage tracking for image requests.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for cancellation, persistence failures, retries, and reservation recovery.

• Documentation

  • Updated image API compatibility and settlement behavior requirements.

Exact named regression proof

uv run pytest -q tests/integration/test_proxy_images.py::test_images_generations_finalize_failure_tracks_release_recovery
# 1 passed

During the gated real-surface run, the public HTTP 200 image body arrived first; the persistence drain remained pending while release was blocked, then the reservation released exactly once and quota was restored.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Image generation and edit routes now use tracked API-key settlement for captured image tokens. Failed or cancelled settlement transfers ownership to release handling while preserving completed image responses.

Changes

Image settlement lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image usage settlement adapter app/modules/proxy/_service/api_key_usage.py, openspec/changes/archive/.../design.md	Adds image usage settlement with token normalization, zero-token handling, and delegation to tracked stream settlement.
Image route settlement handoff app/modules/proxy/api.py, openspec/changes/archive/.../proposal.md	Updates generation and edit paths to pass the service and API key into reservation finalization.
Settlement lifecycle contract openspec/changes/archive/..., openspec/specs/images-api-compat/spec.md	Defines exactly-once settlement ownership, captured tool_usage.image_gen accounting, response preservation, and release fallback.
Settlement and release verification tests/integration/test_proxy_images.py, tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py	Covers failed finalization, cancellation cleanup, database release state, zero-token usage, and all image route modes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4e2ac

The change transfers image reservation recovery to the tracked release lifecycle while preserving successful responses and retrying failed finalization. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ImageClient
  participant ImageRoute
  participant ProxyService
  participant UsagePersistence
  participant ReleaseFallback

  ImageClient->>ImageRoute: image generation or edit request
  ImageRoute->>ProxyService: finalize reservation with captured tokens
  ProxyService->>UsagePersistence: tracked image settlement
  alt Settlement succeeds
    UsagePersistence-->>ImageRoute: finalized usage
  else Settlement fails or is cancelled
    UsagePersistence->>ReleaseFallback: transfer release ownership
    ReleaseFallback-->>ImageRoute: release tracked for retry
  end
  ImageRoute-->>ImageClient: completed image response

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #1821 by tracking image settlement ownership and enabling retryable release after failed or cancelled finalization.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, specifications, and tests remain focused on image reservation settlement ownership and recovery described in issue #1821.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving recovery ownership for image reservations in the proxy settlement flow.

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Inline comments:
In `@app/modules/proxy/_service/api_key_usage.py`:
- Around line 374-380: In app/modules/proxy/_service/api_key_usage.py lines
374-380, update the usage-presence check around _StreamSettlement to treat
input_tokens and output_tokens as present when they are not None, including
explicit 0 values; preserve zero-valued fields with status "success". In
tests/unit/test_proxy_utils.py lines 30081-30109, add a captured-usage case with
both token values set to 0 and assert successful status plus zero-valued
settlement fields.

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CI infrastructure retry: the integration-core-3 runner failed during uv setup with No space left on device, and fail-fast cancelled the remaining shards. Closing and reopening to request a clean current-head run; no code change.