pytest-agentcontract 0.1.1

Deterministic CI tests for LLM agent trajectories — record once, replay offline, assert contracts

pytest-agentcontract

Deterministic CI tests for LLM agent trajectories. Record once, replay offline, assert contracts.

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Your agent calls lookup_order, then check_eligibility, then process_refund. Every time. That's the contract. Test it like any other interface.

# Record a trajectory (hits real APIs once)
pytest --ac-record

# Replay in CI forever (no network, no API keys, no cost, deterministic)
pytest --ac-replay

tests/scenarios/refund-eligible.agentrun.json
├── turn 0: user → "I want a refund for order 123"
├── turn 1: assistant → lookup_order(order_id="123")
├── turn 2: assistant → check_eligibility(order_id="123")
├── turn 3: assistant → process_refund(order_id="123", amount=49.99)
└── turn 4: assistant → "Your refund of $49.99 has been processed."

Install

pip install pytest-agentcontract

With auto-recording interceptors:

pip install pytest-agentcontract[openai]      # OpenAI SDK
pip install pytest-agentcontract[anthropic]    # Anthropic SDK
pip install pytest-agentcontract[all]          # Everything

Framework adapters (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK) are included -- no extras needed.

Quick Start

1. Write a test

@pytest.mark.agentcontract("refund-eligible")
def test_refund_flow(ac_recorder, ac_mode, ac_replay_engine, ac_check_contract):
    if ac_mode == "record":
        # Runs your real agent, records the trajectory
        run_my_agent(ac_recorder)
    elif ac_mode == "replay":
        # Replays from cassette -- no network, no tokens
        result = ac_replay_engine.run()

    contract = ac_check_contract(ac_recorder.run)
    assert contract.passed, contract.failures()

2. Record once

pytest --ac-record -k test_refund_flow
# Creates tests/scenarios/refund-eligible.agentrun.json

3. Replay in CI

pytest --ac-replay
# Deterministic. No API keys. No flakes. Sub-second.

SDK Auto-Recording

Intercept real SDK calls instead of manually building turns:

from agentcontract.recorder.interceptors import patch_openai

def test_with_real_agent(ac_recorder):
    client = openai.OpenAI()
    unpatch = patch_openai(client, ac_recorder)

    # Every chat.completions.create call is recorded automatically
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Refund order 123"}],
        tools=[...],
    )
    unpatch()

Works with Anthropic too:

from agentcontract.recorder.interceptors import patch_anthropic

unpatch = patch_anthropic(client, ac_recorder)

Framework Adapters

Drop-in recording for popular agent frameworks:

# LangGraph
from agentcontract.adapters import record_graph
unpatch = record_graph(compiled_graph, recorder)
result = compiled_graph.invoke({"messages": [("user", "I need a refund")]})
unpatch()

# LlamaIndex
from agentcontract.adapters import record_agent
unpatch = record_agent(agent, recorder)
response = agent.chat("What's the refund policy?")
unpatch()

# OpenAI Agents SDK
from agentcontract.adapters import record_runner
unpatch = record_runner(recorder)
result = Runner.run_sync(agent, "Help with billing")
unpatch()

Configuration

agentcontract.yml in your project root:

version: "1"

scenarios:
  include: ["tests/scenarios/**/*.agentrun.json"]

replay:
  stub_tools: true

defaults:
  assertions:
    - type: contains
      target: final_response
      value: "refund"
    - type: called_with
      target: "tool:process_refund"
      schema:
        order_id: "123"

policies:
  - name: allowed-tools
    type: tool_allowlist
    tools: [lookup_order, check_eligibility, process_refund]

  - name: confirm-before-refund
    type: requires_confirmation
    tools: [process_refund]

Generate a starter config:

agentcontract init

Assertions

Type	What It Checks
exact	Exact string match
contains	Substring present
regex	Pattern match
json_schema	JSON Schema validation on tool args/results
not_called	Tool was NOT invoked
called_with	Tool called with specific arguments
called_count	Exact invocation count

Policies

Policy	What It Enforces
tool_allowlist	Only listed tools may be called
requires_confirmation	Protected tools must follow user confirmation

Target Syntax

• final_response -- last assistant message
• turn:N -- specific turn by index
• full_conversation -- all turns concatenated
• tool_call:function_name:arguments -- tool call arguments
• tool_call:function_name:result -- tool call result

CLI

agentcontract info cassette.agentrun.json       # Cassette summary
agentcontract validate cassette.agentrun.json   # Structure check
agentcontract init                               # Starter config

Why Not VCR / pytest-recording?

VCR records HTTP requests. This records agent decisions.

• VCR: "did the HTTP request match?" -- brittle, breaks on any provider API change
• agentcontract: "did the agent call the right tools with the right args?" -- tests actual behavior

Your agent's contract is: given this input, it calls these tools in this order with these arguments. That's what you want to regression-test, not the HTTP layer underneath.

How It Works

┌─────────┐     ┌──────────┐     ┌───────────────┐
│  pytest  │────▶│ Recorder │────▶│ .agentrun.json│
│ --record │     │          │     │  (cassette)   │
└─────────┘     └──────────┘     └───────┬───────┘
                                         │
┌─────────┐     ┌──────────┐             │
│  pytest  │────▶│  Replay  │◀────────────┘
│ --replay │     │  Engine  │
└─────────┘     └────┬─────┘
                     │
                ┌────▼─────┐
                │Assertion │──▶ pass / fail
                │ Engine   │
                └──────────┘

1. Record: Run your agent against real APIs. The recorder captures every turn, tool call, argument, and result into a .agentrun.json cassette.
2. Replay: The replay engine feeds recorded tool results back. No network. No tokens. Deterministic.
3. Assert: The assertion engine checks contracts -- tool sequences, argument schemas, response content, policies.

License

MIT