fix(instrumentation-openai): report cache_read tokens on chat completion spans

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Description

The chat completions path of @traceloop/instrumentation-openai never emits
gen_ai.usage.cache_read.input_tokens, even when OpenAI reports cached tokens
in usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens. The attribute is only emitted
by the Responses API path (_endResponsesSpan), so two calls hitting the same
prompt cache produce inconsistent telemetry depending on the API surface.

The gap is visible in our own test recordings: the HAR for
should set attributes in span for chat already contains a real response with
"prompt_tokens_details":{"cached_tokens":0,...}, but _endSpan reads only
total_tokens / completion_tokens / prompt_tokens from usage.

Note this is complementary to #940/#941: once #941 captures the final usage
chunk on streams, _endSpan still would not emit the cache breakdown without
this change.

Per the OTel GenAI semconv, gen_ai.usage.cache_read.input_tokens is a subset
of gen_ai.usage.input_tokens for OpenAI (cached tokens are already included
in prompt_tokens), so this only adds the breakdown attribute and does not
change the totals.

Changes

• _endSpan (packages/instrumentation-openai/src/instrumentation.ts): when
  result.usage is present, read
  usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens (optional chaining; the field is
  absent on some SDK versions) and emit ATTR_GEN_AI_USAGE_CACHE_READ_INPUT_TOKENS.
  This branch is shared by chat completions and legacy completions, both of
  which use the same CompletionUsage shape.

Testing

• Updated the recorded HAR for should set attributes in span for chat so the
  real response's prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens is 5 (decoded the
  gzip+base64 Polly payload, changed the one field, re-encoded).
• Extended the test to assert
  ATTR_GEN_AI_USAGE_CACHE_READ_INPUT_TOKENS == 5 on the span.

Verified against commit 1faf69d. I could not
run the suite locally (mocha 11 + Node 20 loads .ts specs through the ESM
loader in my sandbox, which bypasses the ts-node require hook), so the test is
provided per the existing suite conventions for CI to run.

_{Repro fixtures: AgentMeasure conformance pack — plain JSONL + expected totals, no runtime install. Found during an open ecosystem audit of usage-accounting tools.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • OpenAI chat and text-completion telemetry now reports cached input token usage when provided by the API.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying cached input token counts are recorded correctly.
  • Updated the recorded chat-completion response used by the test.

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Walkthrough

The OpenAI instrumentation now records cached prompt tokens for chat and text-completion spans. The chat test verifies the attribute value using refreshed recording data.

Changes

OpenAI cache-read token instrumentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and validate cache-read tokens packages/instrumentation-openai/src/instrumentation.ts, packages/instrumentation-openai/test/instrumentation.test.ts, packages/instrumentation-openai/test/recordings/.../recording.har	_endSpan records prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens in ATTR_GEN_AI_USAGE_CACHE_READ_INPUT_TOKENS. The chat test verifies the value 5, and its recorded response payload is refreshed.

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Change: Bug fix

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This change adds a new span attribute for cached prompt tokens without altering existing usage totals, and the addition is guarded so it has no effect when the underlying data is absent. The behavior is exercised by an updated test using refreshed recording data. No merge-blocking issues were identified.

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In `@packages/instrumentation-openai/src/instrumentation.ts`:
- Around line 897-901: Update the cached-token extraction near result.usage to
use the generated OpenAI usage type directly, removing the local structural cast
and accessing prompt_tokens_details?.cached_tokens from result.usage while
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Addressed in the latest push: the structural cast is gone, the attribute now reads result.usage?.prompt_tokens_details?.cached_tokens straight off the generated type. Package builds and all 36 tests pass locally (3 pending, pre-existing). CLA signature pending a browser session — will confirm once signed.

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