{evaluation, docs}: expose inference duration

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Summary

• Expose InferenceDuration in evaluation and persisted eval-set results.
• Measure actual agent inference duration across invocations, cases, and runs.
• Propagate per-case and per-run duration through service results and run details.
• Exclude evaluator, expected-runner, and trace replay time from the actual-agent metric.

Validation

• cd evaluation && go test ./...
• cd evaluation && go test -race ./...

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📝 Summary

English

Overview

• Adds InferenceDuration tracking for actual agent inference across invocations, cases, and evaluation runs.
• Propagates duration through service results, evaluation results, run details, and persisted eval-set results.
• Excludes evaluator, expected-runner, and trace-replay time.
• Preserves partial results and timing on inference errors.
• Accumulates concurrent durations safely and uses execution-trace timing as a fallback.

Public API and compatibility

Affected exported fields:

• evaluation.EvaluationResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation.EvaluationCaseResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation.EvaluationInferenceDetails.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/evalresult.EvalSetResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/evalresult.EvalCaseResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/service.InferenceResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/service.EvalSetRunResult.InferenceDuration

Each field uses time.Duration. JSON uses inferenceDuration.

The rename from AgentExecutionTime is source- and wire-incompatible. Consumers of the old Go fields or agentExecutionTime JSON key require migration. Omitted zero values can also affect strict JSON consumers.

API review should confirm:

• Each package owns only the duration data required at that layer.
• The name consistently means actual agent inference time.
• Aggregated, per-case, and per-run fields do not overlap.
• Documentation defines aggregation, zero values, trace-mode behavior, and error-path behavior.
• Exporting each field is necessary.
• A compatibility or migration strategy exists for old consumers.

Risks

• Concurrent runs can produce an aggregate duration greater than wall-clock evaluation time.
• Duration can be zero when explicit timing and usable execution traces are unavailable.
• Incomplete propagation could lose timing on failed or conversational inference paths.
• Trace-mode results must not include replay time.
• Strict JSON consumers may reject the renamed field.

Recommended validation

• Run go test ./... in evaluation.
• Run go test -race ./... in evaluation.
• Verify JSON round trips and absence of agentExecutionTime.
• Cover successful, failed, conversational, and trace-mode evaluations.
• Verify per-case, per-run, and concurrent aggregation.
• Confirm evaluator and expected-runner delays do not increase InferenceDuration.

中文

概览

• 新增 InferenceDuration，统计实际 Agent 推理在多次调用、用例和评估运行中的耗时。
• 将耗时传递到服务结果、评估结果、运行详情和持久化评估集结果。
• 不统计 evaluator、expected-runner 和 trace replay 的耗时。
• 推理失败时保留部分结果和已累计的耗时。
• 安全累计并发运行的耗时，并在缺少显式耗时时使用执行 trace 作为回退。

公共 API 与兼容性

受影响的导出字段：

• evaluation.EvaluationResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation.EvaluationCaseResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation.EvaluationInferenceDetails.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/evalresult.EvalSetResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/evalresult.EvalCaseResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/service.InferenceResult.InferenceDuration
• evaluation/service.EvalSetRunResult.InferenceDuration

字段类型为 time.Duration，JSON 字段名为 inferenceDuration。

从 AgentExecutionTime 重命名会造成源码和数据格式不兼容。使用旧 Go 字段或 agentExecutionTime JSON 字段的消费者需要迁移。零值省略也可能影响严格 JSON 消费者。

API 评审应确认：

• 各包仅拥有该层需要的耗时数据。
• InferenceDuration 始终表示实际 Agent 推理耗时。
• 汇总、用例和运行级字段没有职责重叠。
• 文档说明累计规则、零值、trace 模式和错误路径行为。
• 确认各字段确实需要导出。
• 为旧消费者提供兼容或迁移方案。

风险

• 并发运行可能使累计耗时超过评估墙钟时间。
• 缺少显式耗时和可用执行 trace 时，耗时可能为零。
• 失败或会话推理路径的传递不完整时，可能丢失耗时。
• trace 模式不得计入 replay 耗时。
• 严格 JSON 消费者可能无法接受字段重命名。

建议验证

• 在 evaluation 目录运行 go test ./...。
• 在 evaluation 目录运行 go test -race ./...。
• 验证 JSON 往返，并确认不存在 agentExecutionTime。
• 覆盖成功、失败、会话和 trace 模式评估。
• 验证按用例、按运行及并发累计。
• 确认 evaluator 和 expected-runner 的延迟不会增加 InferenceDuration。

Walkthrough

The evaluation pipeline measures agent inference duration, propagates it through service and evaluation results, aggregates it across cases and runs, serializes it as inferenceDuration, adds tests, and updates English and Chinese documentation.

Changes

Agent inference duration tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Result contracts and serialization evaluation/evalresult/evalresult.go, evaluation/evaluation.go, evaluation/service/service.go	Result structures expose InferenceDuration at inference, case, run, and evaluation levels. JSON tags use inferenceDuration.
Inference duration measurement evaluation/service/internal/inference/inference.go, evaluation/service/internal/inference/inference_test.go	Inference calls and conversation turns measure duration and include it in success and error results. Tests verify delayed execution timing and partial results on errors.
Pipeline propagation and aggregation evaluation/service/local/..., evaluation/evaluation.go, evaluation/options.go, evaluation/evaluation_test.go, evaluation/service/local/local_test.go, evaluation/options_test.go	Local service results propagate duration values. Evaluation logic derives values from explicit durations or execution traces, preserves service-provided values, aggregates totals across cases and runs, and stores totals with mutex protection.
Serialization validation and documentation evaluation/service/service_test.go, docs/mkdocs/en/..., docs/mkdocs/zh/...	JSON round-trip coverage includes InferenceDuration. English and Chinese documentation describe field scope, aggregation, and nanosecond JSON encoding.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d14ab

The PR adds duration fields and propagation across evaluation results, but the current head still has a documentation example missing its required import and public result-field renames without demonstrated compatibility handling. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded issues.

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In `@docs/mkdocs/zh/evaluation/service.md`:
- Line 43: Add the missing standard-library time import to the code sample’s
import block so the AgentExecutionTime time.Duration declaration compiles and
remains directly usable.

In `@evaluation/evaluation.go`:
- Around line 562-564: Update the case-result assignment using
agentExecutionTimes so caseResult.AgentExecutionTime is overwritten only when
the derived elapsed duration is positive; retain any existing service-provided
non-zero duration when the derived value is zero or unavailable. Add a
regression test covering inference results without duration while
EvalSetRunResult supplies a per-case duration.

In `@evaluation/service/internal/inference/inference.go`:
- Line 164: Update InferenceWithConversationScenario to return the populated
result, including AgentExecutionTime, when an inference turn fails, and update
inferScenarioConversation to preserve and propagate that partial result. Keep
the existing error behavior unchanged while preventing the failure path from
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1493-1494: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the trace and fallback branches.

These assertions cover only the explicit positive InferenceDuration path. Add cases for a trace-mode result with a non-zero duration and a non-trace result with only execution-trace timestamps. These cases protect the trace-replay exclusion and compatibility fallback in evaluation/service/local/local.go.

As per path instructions, tests must cover meaningful boundary conditions and regression cases.

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覆盖 trace 和回退分支。

这些断言只覆盖显式正 InferenceDuration 分支。请增加以下用例：trace 模式结果包含非零耗时；非 trace 模式结果只包含 execution-trace 时间戳。这些用例可以保护 evaluation/service/local/local.go 中的 trace 重放排除逻辑和兼容性回退逻辑。

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In `@evaluation/evaluation_test.go` around lines 1493 - 1494, Add test cases
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result with a non-zero InferenceDuration must verify trace replay is excluded,
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In `@docs/mkdocs/zh/evaluation/evalresult.md`:
- Line 77: Update the evaluation result documentation to state that JSON-encoded
EvalSetResult.InferenceDuration and EvalCaseResult.InferenceDuration values are
integer nanoseconds, and add representative non-zero inferenceDuration values to
both the eval-set and case-result JSON examples.

In `@evaluation/evalresult/evalresult.go`:
- Around line 32-33: Preserve the duration contract by retaining deprecated
AgentExecutionTime compatibility while using InferenceDuration and
inferenceDuration for new output. In evaluation/evalresult/evalresult.go lines
32-33 and 64-65, accept legacy agentExecutionTime during JSON unmarshalling for
both result types, while continuing to marshal inferenceDuration. In
evaluation/evaluation.go lines 156, 165, and 183, provide deprecated source
migration paths or version these response contracts, covering evaluation, case,
and run-detail responses respectively; add compatibility coverage as needed.

Apply the same fix in `@evaluation/service/service.go` around lines 69 - 71: The
same renamed public and JSON fields are exposed by the service contract.

In `@evaluation/evaluation.go`:
- Around line 692-693: Update the inference-duration selection logic in
evaluation.go to check EvalModeTrace before accepting
inferenceResult.InferenceDuration, ensuring trace replay always remains excluded
even when the explicit duration is positive. Add a regression test covering a
trace-mode result with a positive InferenceDuration.

Apply the same fix in `@evaluation/service/local/local.go` at line 260: The caller
propagates the helper result into case and run outputs, so the same trace-mode
error affects all result paths.

In `@evaluation/service/internal/inference/inference_test.go`:
- Line 612: Add an error-path regression test alongside the existing inference
duration test, targeting InferenceWithConversationScenario and configuring
inferenceInvocation to return an error; assert that the returned partial Result
retains a non-zero or expected elapsed InferenceDuration despite the error.

In `@evaluation/service/internal/inference/inference.go`:
- Line 164: Preserve the partial inference result on all conversation-error
paths: in the inference flow, set result.InferenceDuration before returning
errors from conversation.Next and missing-final-response handling, and return
result instead of discarding it; update the corresponding error returns in the
local inference boundary to propagate that result while preserving existing
error, cancellation, ordering, and lifecycle behavior.

In `@evaluation/service/service_test.go`:
- Line 70: Update the JSON round-trip test around result.InferenceDuration and
decoded.InferenceDuration to inspect the serialized payload directly: assert
that inferenceDuration is present and agentExecutionTime is absent, while
retaining the value assertion.

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In `@evaluation/evaluation_test.go`:
- Around line 1493-1494: Add test cases covering both branches in the evaluation
result duration logic: a trace-mode result with a non-zero InferenceDuration
must verify trace replay is excluded, and a non-trace result with only
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