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feat(llm): re-resolve llm_overlay after input interpolation rewrites an agent's role (#7518)
* feat(llm): re-resolve llm_overlay after input interpolation rewrites an agent's role

llm_overlay (#7500) resolves an agent's model at construction, by its role text.
A CrewBase crew declares roles as templates in YAML — "Researcher for {repo}" —
that Crew._interpolate_inputs rewrites at kickoff, after construction. An overlay
keyed by the interpolated role, which is the text every trace records, never
matched: on a production flow a plan routed 3 of 5 agents and left the two
templated ones on their declared model.

Agent.interpolate_inputs now looks the overlay up again when the rewrite changed
the role: a key sets llm to the mapped model (create_llm, as construction does),
carrying the streaming flag Crew.kickoff(stream=True) set on the instance it
replaces; a miss, no active overlay, or an unchanged role leaves llm exactly as
it is — construction's resolution and instance stand, nothing reverts. The
executor binds agent.llm per task, after interpolation, so the task runs on the
new model (pinned through prepare_kickoff). Not followed by the swap, documented:
a task's string guardrail LLM, an auto-created Memory LLM, the crew_creation span.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(llm): read llm_overlay once per agent — a re-validation must not replace an llm the agent already runs on

Found while battle-testing the previous commit with real calls: the event bus registers
an agent in its RuntimeState the first time it emits, and RuntimeState(root=[agent])
re-runs Agent.post_init_setup on the same object. Inside a block that maps the agent's
role, the construction-time overlay read (#7500) then replaced the llm the agent was
already running on and dropped the state set on it (stream=True). An agent built outside
the block picked the mapped model up on its second standalone kickoff inside one, against
#7500's own contract; Crew.replay inside a block did the same.

A private flag marks the construction-time read as done; a re-validation keeps the llm the
agent has — the one construction resolved, or the one interpolate_inputs set when the
role changed. Copies (kickoff_for_each) are new instances and read the overlay as before.
Zero-cost tests through RuntimeState; docstrings corrected (a crew Memory built at kickoff
does follow the swap; a stream must be iterated inside the block).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 16:54:00 -03:00

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"""`llm_overlay` swaps an agent's model by role, for the calling context only.
The overlay is read in exactly three places: the validators where `Agent` and
`LiteAgent` resolve their `llm`, and `Agent.interpolate_inputs`, which looks the
interpolated role up again because a templated role only becomes a key once a
kickoff fills its placeholders in. So these tests build agents, interpolate
them, and look at the model they end up with. No LLM is ever called.
`create_llm("openai/gpt-4o")` returns the native OpenAI provider, which strips
the `openai/` prefix, so the resolved model reads `"gpt-4o"`.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import contextvars
import threading
from typing import Any
from crewai import Agent, Crew, Task
from crewai.lite_agent import LiteAgent
from crewai.llm import LLM
from crewai.llm_overlay import active, llm_overlay, overlay_model_for
from crewai.llms.base_llm import BaseLLM
import pytest
# Provider classes are compared by name: tests/llms/*/test_*.py delete a provider
# module from sys.modules and re-import it, so a class object imported here can
# be stale by the time a test in the same worker runs.
OVERLAY = {"Researcher": "openai/gpt-4o"}
TEMPLATE_OVERLAY = {"Researcher for crewAIInc/x": "openai/gpt-4o"}
# What a declared LLM carries beyond its model: an endpoint, a key, and
# generation settings. `create_llm("<mapped model>")` would have none of them.
CONFIGURATION: dict[str, Any] = {
"base_url": "http://localhost:9999/v1",
"api_key": "k",
"timeout": 42,
"temperature": 0.1,
"max_tokens": 77,
}
def _agent(role: str) -> Agent:
return Agent(role=role, goal="g", backstory="b", llm="openai/gpt-4o-mini")
def _configured_llm() -> LLM:
return LLM(model="openai/gpt-4o-mini", **CONFIGURATION)
def _configuration_of(llm: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
return {name: getattr(llm, name) for name in CONFIGURATION}
def test_matching_role_gets_the_overlay_model_others_keep_their_own() -> None:
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
researcher = _agent("Researcher")
writer = _agent("Writer")
assert researcher.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
assert writer.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_overlay_does_not_leak_past_the_block() -> None:
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
assert overlay_model_for("Researcher") == "openai/gpt-4o"
assert active.get() is None
assert overlay_model_for("Researcher") is None
assert _agent("Researcher").llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_overlay_is_reset_when_the_block_raises() -> None:
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError), llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
raise RuntimeError("boom")
assert active.get() is None
def test_nested_overlay_restores_the_outer_one() -> None:
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
with llm_overlay(None):
assert overlay_model_for("Researcher") is None
assert overlay_model_for("Researcher") == "openai/gpt-4o"
@pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:LiteAgent is deprecated")
def test_lite_agent_gets_the_overlay_model() -> None:
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
agent = LiteAgent(
role="Researcher", goal="g", backstory="b", llm="openai/gpt-4o-mini"
)
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_overlay_does_not_cross_plain_threads_unless_context_is_copied() -> None:
"""Pins contextvar semantics; callers threading agents must copy the context."""
seen: dict[str, dict[str, str] | None] = {}
def record(key: str) -> None:
seen[key] = active.get()
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
plain = threading.Thread(target=record, args=("plain",))
plain.start()
plain.join()
ctx = contextvars.copy_context()
copied = threading.Thread(target=ctx.run, args=(record, "copied"))
copied.start()
copied.join()
assert seen["plain"] is None
assert seen["copied"] == OVERLAY
def test_templated_role_matches_once_its_inputs_are_interpolated() -> None:
"""The template is not a key at construction; the interpolated role is."""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_interpolating_to_a_role_that_is_not_a_key_leaves_the_llm_alone() -> None:
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
declared = agent.llm
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/other"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/other"
assert agent.llm is declared and agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_interpolating_outside_any_block_leaves_the_llm_alone() -> None:
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_a_template_role_that_is_itself_a_key_still_matches_at_construction() -> None:
with llm_overlay({"Researcher for {repo}": "openai/gpt-4o"}):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_each_interpolation_resolves_from_the_template() -> None:
"""Each kickoff re-interpolates the original template; the model follows the role.
While the new role is a key it gets that key's model; when it is not, the
agent is back on the llm it was declared with — not on the previous
role's model.
"""
mapping = {
"Researcher for crewAIInc/x": "openai/gpt-4o",
"Researcher for crewAIInc/y": "openai/gpt-4.1",
}
with llm_overlay(mapping):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
declared = agent.llm
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/y"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/y"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4.1"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/z"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/z"
assert agent.llm is declared and agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_a_reused_crew_kicked_off_for_another_input_reverts_to_the_declared_llm() -> (
None
):
"""One `Crew` object, several kickoffs with different inputs, one block.
The mapped model applies while the interpolated role is a key. An input
that interpolates to a role the overlay says nothing about puts the very
declared instance back — the crew must not keep billing the previous
input's provider — and the next input that is a key maps again.
"""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
declared = agent.llm
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/y"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/y"
assert agent.llm is declared and agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_a_template_key_stops_matching_once_the_role_is_interpolated() -> None:
"""The overlay maps the role's current text: the template is a key, the
interpolated text is not, so a kickoff inside the block puts the declared
llm back. Keys are written for the interpolated role — the one traces record."""
with llm_overlay({"Researcher for {repo}": "openai/gpt-4o"}):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_outside_any_block_an_interpolation_that_changes_the_role_changes_nothing() -> (
None
):
"""Block semantics: with no overlay active there is nothing to re-resolve
against, so an agent built inside a block keeps the model it got there."""
with llm_overlay({"Researcher for {repo}": "openai/gpt-4o"}):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
mapped = agent.llm
assert mapped.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert agent.llm is mapped
def test_interpolating_with_no_inputs_does_not_touch_the_llm() -> None:
"""`interpolate_inputs({})` rewrites nothing, so the overlay is not consulted."""
with llm_overlay({"Researcher for {repo}": "openai/gpt-4o"}):
agent = _agent("Writer for {repo}")
agent.interpolate_inputs({})
assert agent.role == "Writer for {repo}"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_a_role_the_interpolation_leaves_unchanged_is_not_resolved_again() -> None:
"""Construction's resolution stands: same model, same llm instance.
Without this an agent built OUTSIDE the block would pick the mapped model
up at a kickoff with inputs, and one built inside would lose the state set
on its llm between construction and kickoff.
"""
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
inside = _agent("Researcher")
outside = _agent("Researcher")
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
inside_llm, outside_llm = inside.llm, outside.llm
inside.interpolate_inputs({"topic": "ai"})
outside.interpolate_inputs({"topic": "ai"})
assert inside.llm is inside_llm and inside.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
assert outside.llm is outside_llm and outside.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
def test_the_streaming_flag_survives_the_kickoff_time_swap() -> None:
"""`Crew.kickoff(stream=True)` sets `agent.llm.stream` before it interpolates."""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
agent.llm.stream = True
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o" and agent.llm.stream is True
def test_the_streaming_flag_of_the_replaced_instance_follows_swap_and_revert() -> None:
"""`Crew.kickoff(stream=True)` flags the instance the agent runs on at that
moment; whatever the interpolation then puts in its place must carry it."""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
declared = agent.llm
# Kickoff 1 does not stream.
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o" and agent.llm.stream is False
# Kickoff 2 streams — the flag lands on the gpt-4o instance — and its
# input interpolates to a role that is not a key.
agent.llm.stream = True
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/y"})
assert agent.llm is declared and declared.stream is True
# Kickoff 3 is back on the key.
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o" and agent.llm.stream is True
def test_a_same_provider_swap_keeps_the_declared_configuration() -> None:
"""The mapped model is built like the declared llm, not from a bare string.
A new instance of the same class, so everything derived from the model is
computed for the new one; the endpoint, key and generation settings the
caller put on the declared llm come along, all the way into the SDK client.
"""
declared = _configured_llm()
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = Agent(
role="Researcher for {repo}", goal="g", backstory="b", llm=declared
)
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
swapped = agent.llm
assert swapped is not declared and type(swapped).__name__ == "OpenAICompletion"
assert swapped.model == "gpt-4o" and declared.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
assert _configuration_of(swapped) == CONFIGURATION
assert str(swapped._client.base_url) == "http://localhost:9999/v1/"
assert swapped._client.timeout == 42
def test_a_cross_provider_swap_carries_settings_but_not_credentials() -> None:
"""Generation settings mean the same thing everywhere; an endpoint and a
key belong to the provider they were issued for. The Anthropic instance
gets Anthropic's own defaults and environment for those."""
declared = _configured_llm()
with llm_overlay({"Researcher": "anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5"}):
agent = Agent(role="Researcher", goal="g", backstory="b", llm=declared)
swapped = agent.llm
assert type(swapped).__name__ == "AnthropicCompletion"
assert swapped.model == "claude-haiku-4-5"
assert swapped.timeout == 42 and swapped.temperature == 0.1
assert swapped.max_tokens == 77
assert swapped.api_key != "k" and swapped.base_url is None
assert swapped.additional_params == {}
def test_a_setting_the_provider_derived_from_the_model_is_not_carried() -> None:
"""Anthropic fills `max_tokens` with the model's output cap when the caller
did not set it; pinning one model's cap on another is a 400 waiting to
happen. The new model derives its own — a cap the caller did set is kept."""
with llm_overlay({"Researcher": "anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5"}):
derived = Agent(
role="Researcher",
goal="g",
backstory="b",
llm="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
)
explicit = Agent(
role="Researcher",
goal="g",
backstory="b",
llm=LLM(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6", max_tokens=500),
)
haiku = LLM(model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5")
sonnet = LLM(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6")
assert sonnet.max_tokens != haiku.max_tokens
assert derived.llm.model == "claude-haiku-4-5"
assert derived.llm.max_tokens == haiku.max_tokens
assert explicit.llm.max_tokens == 500
@pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:LiteAgent is deprecated")
def test_the_construction_time_overlay_keeps_the_declared_configuration_too() -> None:
"""The #7500 path — the agent is built inside the block with its role a key —
goes through the same construction as the kickoff-time swap."""
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
agent = Agent(role="Researcher", goal="g", backstory="b", llm=_configured_llm())
lite = LiteAgent(
role="Researcher", goal="g", backstory="b", llm=_configured_llm()
)
for built in (agent.llm, lite.llm):
assert type(built).__name__ == "OpenAICompletion" and built.model == "gpt-4o"
assert _configuration_of(built) == CONFIGURATION
def test_an_llm_the_caller_assigns_later_is_the_declared_one_from_then_on() -> None:
"""`Agent.llm` is a plain field; a caller may set it after construction.
A miss reverts to what the caller last put there, not to construction's."""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
replacement = LLM(model="openai/gpt-4.1")
agent.llm = replacement
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/y"})
assert agent.llm is replacement
def test_a_model_string_or_none_the_caller_assigns_is_resolved_like_construction(
monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
) -> None:
"""`Agent.llm` takes a string or `None` as well as an instance, and nothing
validates an assignment. Both are resolved the way construction resolves
them before they become the declared llm."""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
agent.llm = "openai/gpt-4.1"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/y"})
assert isinstance(agent.llm, BaseLLM) and agent.llm.model == "gpt-4.1"
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENAI_MODEL_NAME", "gpt-4.1-mini")
agent.llm = None
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/z"})
assert isinstance(agent.llm, BaseLLM) and agent.llm.model == "gpt-4.1-mini"
def test_a_crew_copy_made_inside_the_block_is_built_from_the_declared_llm() -> None:
"""`Crew.copy()` — the `kickoff_for_each` path — copies every agent before its
input is interpolated. A template that is itself a key maps at construction;
a copy built from that mapped llm would record it as its declared one and
never revert, so the copy is built from the declared llm and resolves the
overlay for its own role."""
with llm_overlay({"Researcher for {repo}": "openai/gpt-4o"}):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
task = Task(description="d", expected_output="e", agent=agent)
crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task])
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
copy = crew.copy().agents[0]
assert copy is not agent and copy.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
copy.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert copy.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert copy.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
# Outside any block a copy keeps the llm the agent runs on.
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
mapped = _agent("Researcher")
assert mapped.copy().llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_prepare_kickoff_binds_the_executor_to_the_re_resolved_llm() -> None:
"""The real kickoff ordering: interpolate, then set up the agents' executors."""
from crewai.crews.utils import prepare_kickoff
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
task = Task(description="Map {repo}", expected_output="a map", agent=agent)
crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task])
prepare_kickoff(crew, {"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
assert agent.agent_executor is not None and agent.agent_executor.llm is agent.llm
# Every task re-binds the executor to agent.llm (`_update_executor_parameters`).
agent.create_agent_executor()
assert agent.agent_executor.llm is agent.llm
def test_crew_input_interpolation_routes_the_templated_role() -> None:
"""The kickoff path: Crew._interpolate_inputs is what rewrites agent roles."""
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
task = Task(description="Map {repo}", expected_output="a map", agent=agent)
crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task])
crew._interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
assert agent.role == "Researcher for crewAIInc/x"
assert agent.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_re_validation_of_an_existing_agent_does_not_read_the_overlay_again() -> None:
"""The event bus registers an agent in its RuntimeState the first time it
emits, which re-runs `post_init_setup` on the same object. Inside a block
that maps the agent's role that used to replace an llm the agent already
ran on — an agent built OUTSIDE the block picked the mapped model up on its
first standalone kickoff inside one, and lost `stream=True` with it."""
from crewai import RuntimeState
outside = _agent("Researcher")
outside.llm.stream = True
outside_llm = outside.llm
with llm_overlay(OVERLAY):
inside = _agent("Researcher")
inside_llm = inside.llm
state = RuntimeState(root=[outside, inside])
assert state.root[0] is outside and state.root[1] is inside
assert (
outside.llm is outside_llm
and outside.llm.model == "gpt-4o-mini"
and outside.llm.stream is True
)
assert inside.llm is inside_llm and inside.llm.model == "gpt-4o"
def test_re_validation_keeps_the_llm_a_kickoff_time_swap_set() -> None:
from crewai import RuntimeState
with llm_overlay(TEMPLATE_OVERLAY):
agent = _agent("Researcher for {repo}")
agent.interpolate_inputs({"repo": "crewAIInc/x"})
swapped = agent.llm
assert swapped.model == "gpt-4o"
RuntimeState(root=[agent])
assert agent.llm is swapped