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requestOptions.timeout is configured in seconds, but was passed straight
to the OpenAI SDK, which expects milliseconds. A configured timeout: 300
became 300 ms instead of 5 minutes, so any model taking longer than a fraction
of a second to respond failed with "Connection error".

Fixes continuedev#12450.

The units are confirmed, not assumed

Both halves verified against the sources rather than inferred:

  • The SDK expects ms. openai/client.d.ts:154 documents it explicitly:
    @param {number} [opts.timeout=10 minutes] - The maximum amount of time (in milliseconds) the client will wait for a response before timing out.
  • Our config is seconds. packages/fetch/src/getAgentOptions.ts:13 already
    performs the identical conversion — (requestOptions?.timeout ?? TIMEOUT) * 1000; // measured in ms
    — and its tests assert 300 → 300000 and 7200 → 7200000. The schema
    default of 7200 only makes sense as seconds (2 hours); as ms it would be
    7.2 seconds.

So OpenAI.ts was the one place that skipped a conversion the rest of the
codebase already does consistently.

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Note

Only the this.openai client constructed in OpenAIApi is touched. If other
adapters pass requestOptions.timeout to an ms-expecting API, they have the
same latent bug — not audited here, and worth a follow-up.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected request timeout handling so configured timeouts are applied accurately.
    • Preserved default behavior when no timeout is specified.

…OpenAI SDK

The OpenAI JS SDK expects timeout in milliseconds, but users configure
requestOptions.timeout in seconds. Passing the value directly results in
sub-second timeouts (e.g. timeout: 300 becomes 300ms instead of 5 minutes),
causing "Connection error" for any model that takes more than a fraction
of a second to respond.

Fixes continuedev#12450
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The OpenAI adapter constructor now converts configured request timeouts from seconds to milliseconds. It preserves undefined when no timeout is configured.

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OpenAI timeout configuration

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Convert request timeout units
packages/openai-adapters/src/apis/OpenAI.ts
The constructor multiplies configured request timeouts by 1,000 before passing them to the OpenAI SDK. Unconfigured timeouts remain undefined.

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The PR fixes the seconds-to-milliseconds conversion for configured timeouts, but a timeout of 0 is still treated as unset and falls back to the SDK's 10-minute default. This is a bounded edge-case risk; the PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

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Pull request overview

Fixes a timeout unit mismatch in the OpenAI adapter by converting requestOptions.timeout from seconds (Continue config) to milliseconds (OpenAI SDK expectation), preventing unintended near-immediate timeouts.

Changes:

  • Convert config.requestOptions.timeout from seconds to milliseconds when constructing the OpenAI SDK client.
  • Preserve OpenAI SDK default timeout behavior when no timeout is configured.

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In `@packages/openai-adapters/src/apis/OpenAI.ts`:
- Around line 48-50: Update the timeout mapping in the OpenAI configuration to
check explicitly for undefined so a configured requestOptions.timeout of 0 is
preserved after conversion to milliseconds. Add a test covering the zero-timeout
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Comment thread packages/openai-adapters/src/apis/OpenAI.ts Outdated
Addresses review feedback from CodeRabbit and Copilot on #8.

The truthiness check treated a configured `timeout: 0` as unset and passed
`undefined`, so the SDK applied its 10-minute default instead. `timeout` is
`z.number().optional()` with no positivity constraint, so 0 is schema-valid
and reaches this code.

Use a nullish check, matching how both sides already treat 0 as a real value:
the SDK resolves its default with `options.timeout ?? DEFAULT_TIMEOUT`, and
our own getAgentOptions uses `?? TIMEOUT`.

Adds OpenAI.test.ts covering the seconds→ms conversion, the zero case, and
the unset case. Verified the zero test fails against the previous code
(expected 0, got 600000) rather than merely passing after the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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OpenAI adapter passes timeout to SDK without unit conversion (seconds vs milliseconds)

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