refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends

core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.

Reorg per layer:

- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
  Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
  HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
  (llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
  transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
  Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
  no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
  new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
  to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
  app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.

CI:

- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
  backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
  6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
  drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
  + master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
  no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
  no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
  master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
  logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
  real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
  test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
  exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.

Makefile:

- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
  test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
  drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
  FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
  build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
  on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
  binary.

Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ name: 'tests'
 
 on:
   pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'examples/**'
+      - 'README.md'
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - 'backend/**'
   push:
     branches:
       - master
@@ -97,73 +103,9 @@ jobs:
           node-version: '22'
       - name: Build React UI
         run: make react-ui
-      - name: Build backends
-        run: |
-          make backends/transformers
-          mkdir external && mv backends/transformers external/transformers
-          make backends/llama-cpp backends/local-store backends/silero-vad backends/piper backends/whisper backends/stablediffusion-ggml
       - name: Test
         run: |
-          TRANSFORMER_BACKEND=$PWD/external/transformers/run.sh PATH="$PATH:/root/go/bin" GO_TAGS="tts" make --jobs 5 --output-sync=target test
-      - name: Setup tmate session if tests fail
-        if: ${{ failure() }}
-        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3.23
-        with:
-          detached: true
-          connect-timeout-seconds: 180
-          limit-access-to-actor: true
-
-  tests-e2e-container:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Release space from worker
-        run: |
-          echo "Listing top largest packages"
-          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
-          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
-          echo
-          df -h
-          echo
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^llvm-.*|^libllvm.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
-          sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^dotnet-.*|^aspnetcore-.*' || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mono-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^ghc-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '.*jdk.*|.*jre.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y 'php.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y hhvm powershell firefox monodoc-manual msbuild || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^google-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mongo.*-.*|^postgresql-.*|^mysql-.*|^mssql-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^gfortran-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get autoremove -y
-          sudo apt-get clean
-          echo
-          echo "Listing top largest packages"
-          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
-          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
-          echo
-          sudo rm -rfv build || true
-          df -h
-      - name: Clone
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-      - name: Dependencies
-        run: |
-          # Install protoc
-          curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v26.1/protoc-26.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
-          unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
-          rm protoc.zip
-          go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
-          go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
-          PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make protogen-go
-      - name: Test
-        run: |
-            PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make backends/local-store backends/silero-vad backends/llama-cpp backends/whisper backends/piper backends/stablediffusion-ggml docker-build-e2e e2e-aio
+          PATH="$PATH:/root/go/bin" make --jobs 5 --output-sync=target test
       - name: Setup tmate session if tests fail
         if: ${{ failure() }}
         uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3.23
@@ -200,10 +142,6 @@ jobs:
           node-version: '22'
       - name: Build React UI
         run: make react-ui
-      - name: Build llama-cpp-darwin
-        run: |
-          make protogen-go
-          make backends/llama-cpp-darwin
       - name: Test
         run: |
           export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include