- LLMClient Protocol for provider-agnostic inference
- VLLMClient for OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions API
- LLM client factory with provider routing (ollama/vllm)
- VLLMConfig with VLLM_* environment variable loading
- Updated extractor worker with health check and provider switching
- Updated event classifier to use LLMClient protocol
- Helm values for vLLM configuration
- 18 unit tests + 6 property-based tests
- Full backward compatibility preserved
_parse_classification_response receives raw model output (with thinking
tags, markdown fences, etc.) but was calling json.loads directly.
Now uses _strip_markdown_fences + _repair_json from the client module
before parsing, matching what _call_ollama does for extractions.
_call_ollama validates against the document extraction schema, which
doesn't match event classification output. The event classifier was
checking 'if attempt.error is None' before trying its own parsing,
so it never got to parse the valid event JSON — 956 consecutive
failures.
Now tries _parse_classification_response whenever raw_output exists,
regardless of the extraction validation error.
- Migration 026 and OllamaConfig now default to qwen3.5:9b instead of
llama3.1:8b. Existing deployments keep their current model (qwen3.5:9b-fast)
since the migration uses WHERE NOT EXISTS on slug.
- Event classifier system prompt expanded with macro-vs-company filtering:
explicitly instructs the model to NOT classify single-company news
(lawsuits, earnings, management changes, debt crises) as macro events.
Sets severity=low and confidence<0.3 for company-specific articles.
Reserves 'critical' severity for multi-country/global market events.
Prevents over-tagging event_types by requiring direct description.
- Updated test_system_prompt_is_concise threshold to accommodate the
expanded prompt (300 → 1000 chars).
When the LLM returns empty summary and no key facts, raise ValueError
so the retry logic kicks in instead of persisting an empty event.
Also strip whitespace from summary and filter empty key_facts entries.
Cleaned up 17 empty events from the database.
Celes Renata