Call the OpenAI API with proper retry and streaming handling

domain: openai.com · 4 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. POST /v1/chat/completions (or /v1/responses) with model, messages, max_tokens
  2. Stream with stream:true; parse SSE 'data:' lines until [DONE]
  3. Retry 429/5xx with exponential backoff + jitter, honoring Retry-After
  4. Track usage from the usage field (request stream_options.include_usage when streaming)

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