Media provider live lanes

Deepgram live (audio transcription)

Test: extensions/deepgram/audio.live.test.ts
Enable: DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=... DEEPGRAM_LIVE_TEST=1 pnpm test:live extensions/deepgram/audio.live.test.ts

BytePlus coding plan live

Test: extensions/byteplus/live.test.ts
Enable: BYTEPLUS_API_KEY=... BYTEPLUS_LIVE_TEST=1 pnpm test:live extensions/byteplus/live.test.ts
Optional model override: BYTEPLUS_CODING_MODEL=ark-code-latest

ComfyUI workflow media live

Test: extensions/comfy/comfy.live.test.ts
Enable: APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 COMFY_LIVE_TEST=1 pnpm test:live -- extensions/comfy/comfy.live.test.ts
Scope:
- Exercises the comfy image, video, and music_generate paths
- Skips each capability unless plugins.entries.comfy.config.<capability> is configured
- Useful after changing comfy workflow submission, polling, downloads, or plugin registration

Image generation live

Test: test/image-generation.runtime.live.test.ts
Command: pnpm test:live test/image-generation.runtime.live.test.ts
Harness: pnpm test:live:media image
Scope:
- Enumerates every registered image-generation provider plugin
- Uses already-exported provider env vars before checking
- Uses live/env API keys ahead of stored auth profiles by default, so stale test keys in SQLite auth stores do not mask real shell credentials
- Skips providers with no usable auth/profile/model
- Runs each configured provider through the shared image-generation runtime:
  - <provider>:generate
  - <provider>:edit when the provider declares edit support
Current bundled providers covered:
- deepinfra
- fal
- google
- minimax
- openai
- openrouter
- vydra
- xai
Optional narrowing:
- APUS_LIVE_IMAGE_GENERATION_PROVIDERS="openai,google,openrouter,xai"
- APUS_LIVE_IMAGE_GENERATION_PROVIDERS="deepinfra"
- APUS_LIVE_IMAGE_GENERATION_MODELS="openai/gpt-image-2,google/gemini-3.1-flash-image,openrouter/google/gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview,xai/grok-imagine-image"
- APUS_LIVE_IMAGE_GENERATION_CASES="google:flash-generate,google:pro-edit,openrouter:generate,xai:default-generate,xai:default-edit"
Optional auth behavior:
- APUS_LIVE_REQUIRE_PROFILE_KEYS=1 to force profile-store auth and ignore env-only overrides

For the shipped CLI path, add an infer smoke after the provider/runtime live test passes:

APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 APUS_LIVE_INFER_CLI_TEST=1 pnpm test:live -- test/image-generation.infer-cli.live.test.ts
apus infer image providers --json
apus infer image generate \
  --model google/gemini-3.1-flash-image \
  --prompt "Minimal flat test image: one blue square on a white background, no text." \
  --output ./apus-infer-image-smoke.png \
  --json

This covers CLI argument parsing, config/default-agent resolution, bundled plugin activation, the shared image-generation runtime, and the live provider request. Plugin dependencies are expected to be present before runtime load.

Music generation live

Test: extensions/music-generation-providers.live.test.ts
Enable: APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 pnpm test:live -- extensions/music-generation-providers.live.test.ts
Harness: pnpm test:live:media music
Scope:
- Exercises the shared bundled music-generation provider path
- Currently covers fal, google, minimax, and openrouter
- Uses already-exported provider env vars before checking
- Uses live/env API keys ahead of stored auth profiles by default, so stale test keys in SQLite auth stores do not mask real shell credentials
- Skips providers with no usable auth/profile/model
- Runs both declared runtime modes when available:
  - generate with prompt-only input
  - edit when the provider declares capabilities.edit.enabled
- comfy has its own separate live file, not this shared sweep
Optional narrowing:
- APUS_LIVE_MUSIC_GENERATION_PROVIDERS="google,minimax"
- APUS_LIVE_MUSIC_GENERATION_MODELS="google/lyria-3-clip-preview,minimax/music-2.6"
Optional auth behavior:
- APUS_LIVE_REQUIRE_PROFILE_KEYS=1 to force profile-store auth and ignore env-only overrides

Video generation live

Test: extensions/video-generation-providers.live.test.ts
Enable: APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 pnpm test:live -- extensions/video-generation-providers.live.test.ts
Harness: pnpm test:live:media video
Scope:
- Exercises the shared bundled video-generation provider path across alibaba, byteplus, deepinfra, fal, google, minimax, openrouter, pixverse, qwen, runway, together, vydra, xai
- Defaults to the release-safe smoke path: one text-to-video request per provider, one-second lobster prompt, and a per-provider operation cap from APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_TIMEOUT_MS (180000 by default)
- Skips FAL by default because provider-side queue latency can dominate release time; pass APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_PROVIDERS="fal" (or clear the skip list) to run it explicitly
- Uses already-exported provider env vars before checking
- Uses live/env API keys ahead of stored auth profiles by default, so stale test keys in SQLite auth stores do not mask real shell credentials
- Skips providers with no usable auth/profile/model
- Runs only generate by default
- Set APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_FULL_MODES=1 to also run declared transform modes when available:
  - imageToVideo when the provider declares capabilities.imageToVideo.enabled and the selected provider/model accepts buffer-backed local image input in the shared sweep
  - videoToVideo when the provider declares capabilities.videoToVideo.enabled and the selected provider/model accepts buffer-backed local video input in the shared sweep
- Current declared-but-skipped imageToVideo provider in the shared sweep:
  - vydra (buffer-backed local image input is not supported in this lane)
- Provider-specific Vydra coverage:
  - APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 APUS_LIVE_VYDRA_VIDEO=1 pnpm test:live -- extensions/vydra/vydra.live.test.ts
  - That file runs veo3 text-to-video plus a kling image-to-video lane that uses a remote image URL fixture by default (APUS_LIVE_VYDRA_KLING_IMAGE_URL to override).
- Provider-specific xAI coverage:
  - APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 APUS_LIVE_XAI_VIDEO=1 pnpm test:live -- extensions/xai/xai.live.test.ts -t "classic Grok Imagine"
  - The classic case generates a square local PNG first frame, omits geometry, requests a one-second image-to-video clip, polls to completion, and verifies the downloaded buffer.
  - APUS_LIVE_TEST=1 APUS_LIVE_XAI_VIDEO=1 pnpm test:live -- extensions/xai/xai.live.test.ts -t "Grok Imagine Video 1.5"
  - The 1.5 case generates a local PNG first frame, requests a one-second 1080P image-to-video clip, polls to completion, and verifies the downloaded buffer.
- Current videoToVideo live coverage:
  - runway only when the selected model resolves to gen4_aleph
- Current declared-but-skipped videoToVideo providers in the shared sweep:
  - alibaba, google, qwen, xai because those paths currently require remote http(s) reference URLs rather than buffer-backed local input
Optional narrowing:
- APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_PROVIDERS="deepinfra,google,runway,xai"
- APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_MODELS="google/veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview,xai/grok-imagine-video,runway/gen4_aleph"
- APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_SKIP_PROVIDERS="" to include every provider in the default sweep, including FAL
- APUS_LIVE_VIDEO_GENERATION_TIMEOUT_MS=60000 to reduce each provider operation cap for an aggressive smoke run
Optional auth behavior:
- APUS_LIVE_REQUIRE_PROFILE_KEYS=1 to force profile-store auth and ignore env-only overrides

Media live harness

Command: pnpm test:live:media
Entrypoint: test/e2e/qa-lab/media/hosted-media-provider-live.ts, which runs pnpm test:live -- <suite-test-file> per selected suite, so heartbeat and quiet-mode behavior stay consistent with other pnpm test:live runs.
Purpose:
- Runs the shared image, music, and video live suites through one repo-native entrypoint
- Auto-loads missing provider env vars from ~/.profile
- Auto-narrows each suite to providers that currently have usable auth by default
Flags:
- --providers <csv> global provider filter; --image-providers / --music-providers / --video-providers scope a filter to one suite
- --all-providers skips the auth-based auto-filter
- --allow-empty exits 0 when filtering leaves no runnable providers
- --quiet / --no-quiet passed through to test:live
Examples:
- pnpm test:live:media
- pnpm test:live:media image video --providers google,minimax,xai
- pnpm test:live:media video --video-providers runway,xai --all-providers
- pnpm test:live:media music --quiet