| name | agent-recorder-fixtures |
| description | Record real OpenAI/Anthropic HTTP back-and-forth (requests + responses, including streaming text/event-stream) and print paste-ready Swift fixtures for SwiftAgent unit tests (ReplayHTTPClient) using the AgentRecorder CLI or HTTPReplayRecorder. Use when adding/updating any provider adapter tests (text, streaming, structured outputs, tool calls), when payload formats change, or when debugging agent loop mismatches by inspecting recorded JSON/SSE payloads. |
Agent Recorder Fixtures
Overview
Use AgentRecorder to capture real provider payloads and generate paste-ready Swift fixtures for tests using ReplayHTTPClient.
This is the fastest loop for keeping SwiftAgent’s unit tests (and agent-loop behavior) in sync with real OpenAI/Anthropic traffic.
Workflow
- Pick the right scenario
- Existing scenarios live in
AgentRecorder/AgentRecorder/Scenarios/ (grouped by provider + one file per scenario).
- List them quickly with
AgentRecorder --list-scenarios.
- If no scenario matches your test, add one (keep it small and deterministic).
- Set API keys
- Preferred: use a local
Secrets.plist in the repo root (not committed).
- Run with
--secrets-plist Secrets.plist
- Plist keys:
OpenAI_API_Key_Debug / Anthropic_API_Key_Debug
Optional:
- Env vars fallback (useful for CI or quick runs):
OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
AGENT_RECORDER_SECRETS_PLIST is also supported (fallback if env vars are missing).
Legacy:
- If you already have
Secrets.plist under Examples/Example App/ExampleApp/Secrets.plist, either move/symlink it to the repo root or pass the full path via --secrets-plist.
- Run the recorder (Xcode or Terminal)
- Xcode: select
AgentRecorder scheme, set env vars, Run → copy stdout from Debug console.
- Terminal:
xcodebuild -workspace SwiftAgent.xcworkspace -scheme AgentRecorder -destination "platform=macOS,arch=arm64" -derivedDataPath .tmp/DerivedData build -quiet
./.tmp/DerivedData/Build/Products/Debug/AgentRecorder --list-scenarios
./.tmp/DerivedData/Build/Products/Debug/AgentRecorder --secrets-plist Secrets.plist --provider openai --scenario openai/streaming-tool-calls/weather --no-include-headers
- Paste fixtures into tests
- Output is already formatted for
ReplayHTTPClient(recordedResponses:).
- Paste into the relevant test file (common locations):
Tests/SwiftAgentTests/OpenAISession/...
Tests/SwiftAgentTests/AnthropicSession/...
- Run tests
xcodebuild -workspace SwiftAgent.xcworkspace -scheme SwiftAgentTests -testPlan SwiftAgentTests test -quiet
Notes
- Headers may include secrets.
HTTPReplayRecorder redacts common auth header fields, but always review before committing.
- Prefer
--no-include-headers unless you’re explicitly testing header handling.
- Always pass
-quiet to xcodebuild to keep logs readable.
xcodebuild may print noisy destination warnings; ignore if the build succeeds.
- Streaming fixtures are raw
text/event-stream. If the SDK stops consuming early, the recorded payload may be partial (this is usually fine for replaying the SDK’s behavior).
- If you need request bodies for debugging, re-run with
--include-requests.
- OpenAI scenarios: keep models pinned/stable (scenario-defined). Change only when you’re updating fixtures/tests.
- Cleanup: if you used
.tmp/DerivedData (and/or wrote capture files like .tmp/AgentRecorderOutput/*.txt), delete them after you’ve pasted fixtures into tests.