feat(eval): add --keep-conversations flag

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What

A new --keep-conversations flag on gd-eval run. Off by default; also settable via GOODDATA_EVAL_KEEP_CONVERSATIONS=1.

A conversation is deleted as soon as its item finishes, so the AI Interaction Intelligence endpoints — GET .../conversations/{id}/steps and .../items — have nothing to read once a run ends. The flag keeps every conversation, passed or failed, so a diagnostic batch can be inspected afterwards. conversation_id and response_id are already in the JSON report per item, so no new bookkeeping was needed.

Where it is enforced, and why there

Inside ChatClient.delete_conversation, not at each call site.

The thirteen agentic evaluators build their own ChatClient deep in the call tree and clean up by hand in their finally blocks — twenty call sites that never pass through ask(). A constructor kwarg would have reached the single-turn path only, and threading one through thirteen signatures is the shape _outcome.py was written to retire.

set_keep_conversations follows set_default_turn_timeout, whose docstring already states the rationale:

The agentic evaluators construct their own clients deep in the call tree, so a CLI flag has to land here rather than being threaded through eight signatures.

It differs in applying at deletion rather than construction, so a client that already exists honours it too.

It also closes a gap in --preserve-failed

--preserve-failed has only ever applied to the single-turn ChatClient.ask() path. Every agentic kind deletes unconditionally today, so a failed agentic conversation could not be inspected even with the flag set.

This looks like an oversight rather than a decision: conversation.py predates --preserve-failed by eight days, and that commit wired the flag into sse_client.py alone. Gating at delete_conversation fixes all thirteen kinds without touching them.

--preserve-failed keeps its existing behaviour; its help text now says which path it covers.

Tests

• keeps on success, keeps on failure, and blocks a direct delete_conversation call — the path the agentic evaluators actually take
• set_keep_conversations affects an already-built client
• env var parsing, including =0 turning it off rather than reading as a truthy non-empty string
• default unchanged: a run that does not ask to keep state leaves none behind
• CLI applies it process-wide, and a bare run does not overwrite an env-set value
• two structural guards: no agentic module may issue its own DELETE, and the modules must still clean up by default. The first scans the package, so a fourteenth kind is covered the day it lands.

1587 passed, ruff clean, ty clean.

Caveat

The flag leaves server-side state behind by design. It is for a diagnostic run, not for CI.

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• New Features
  • Added a --keep-conversations option to retain conversations whether a run passes or fails, including agentic tests.
  • Added environment-based control for conversation retention. When retention is off, existing cleanup behavior remains unchanged.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that --preserve-failed applies only to single-turn tests.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CLI adds --keep-conversations and passes the option into RunConfig. When enabled, the SSE client skips conversation deletion. The option applies to passed and failed conversations, including agentic kinds.

Changes

Conversation Retention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retention option and configuration packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/config.py, packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/cli/main.py	RunConfig adds keep_conversations. The CLI documents the option, including its scope and its distinction from --preserve-failed, and passes the flag value into RunConfig.
SSE retention behavior packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/chat/sse_client.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_sse_client.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_runner.py	The SSE client reads the environment setting, supports a process-wide setter, and skips deletion when retention is enabled. Tests cover environment parsing, deletion behavior, and agentic module deletion calls.
CLI activation and test coverage packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/cli/main.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_cli.py	The CLI enables the SSE client setting when retention is configured. A test checks that the CLI calls the setter when the flag is present and does not call it when the flag is absent.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant RunConfig
  participant SSEClient
  participant ConversationAPI
  CLI->>RunConfig: Pass keep_conversations option
  CLI->>SSEClient: Enable retention when configured
  SSEClient->>SSEClient: Check retention before deletion
  SSEClient-->>ConversationAPI: Send delete request only when retention is off

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4bb29

Fix the retention setting’s lifetime before merging: a later run without the flag can leave conversations behind. The cleanup test also needs to work when retention is enabled through the environment.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4bb29

Retention is opt-in, and normal cleanup remains available. However, enabling it can also retain conversations from later or overlapping evaluations in the same process, even when those evaluations do not request retention. Separate command-line processes limit this exposure. Server-side expiration and access policies were not established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: Retention can outlive the initiating evaluation. Once a run enables it, later runs with retention disabled in their configuration still skip deletion; overlapping clients also share the setting. In embedded or reused processes, this can leave additional evaluation conversation data on the server. Even an early validation failure can leave retention enabled. This is documented process-wide behavior, but its security exposure extends beyond an individual diagnostic run.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The maximum evidenced policy scope is every ChatClient in the same Python process, including clients using different configured hosts, workspaces, or credentials. Actual multi-workspace deployment is unconfirmed. This broadens which conversations can remain stored, not who is authorized to read them.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supported concern is unintended data retention after an authorized operator or in-process caller enables the setting. A later default-configured run can still retain its data. No inspected path lets conversation text enable retention or demonstrates privilege escalation or cross-tenant access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Retention is controlled by process environment or an explicit setter reached from CLI configuration. It defaults to false, and CLI help warns that it leaves state behind for diagnostic use. Authentication and workspace request scoping remain separate from this lifecycle switch; server-side read authorization was not inspected.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Normal exception unwinding preserves conversation cleanup routing and client closure, but cleanup becomes a no-op while retention is enabled. Neither client closure nor the run's restoration block restores retention policy, so they do not contain its effect within one run.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — For embedded or overlapping evaluations, consider run-owned retention policy inherited by that run's clients, with the environment retained as an explicit process default. A shared save-and-restore flag alone would not isolate concurrent runs. Separately establish an expiration or post-inspection cleanup policy for retained diagnostic data.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/cli/main.py:
- Around line 503-504: Update main’s keep-conversations handling so the config
override applies only to that run. Restore the environment-derived setting in a
finally path on every exit, including errors, while preserving the existing
behavior when config.keep_conversations is enabled.

Review comments at @packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_sse_client.py:
- Around line 895-902: Update
test_conversations_are_deleted_when_the_flag_is_off to use pytest’s monkeypatch
fixture to set _KEEP_CONVERSATIONS to False for the test. Also update the nearby
toggle test to use monkeypatch for temporary state changes so it restores the
prior value instead of assuming a default.

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