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fix: retry circuit-breaker rejections and reconnect after unrecognised failures - #901

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Closes #900

Parallel DAG subagents failed at once with all targets recovering (half-open probe in flight). The upstream gateway's circuit breaker sends this text with a non-5xx status while every backend target is tripped. No retry rule matched it, so SessionRetry.retryable returned undefined and the first failure was final. Any other unrecognised transport or WebSocket failure had the same problem.

What changed

  • Circuit-breaker rejections are retryable. RETRYABLE_MESSAGE_PATTERNS now matches all targets recovering, half-open, circuit open and circuit breaker is open. These use the normal backoff and limits.
  • Catch-all reconnect. A failure that matches no rule and has no HTTP status, such as a dropped WebSocket, a broken stream or an unexpected transport error, is now retried up to 3 times. Each retry sends a new request, which opens a new stream or WebSocket, after 3 s, then 6 s, then 6 s. Errors with a known final outcome stay terminal: any 4xx response, aborts (including the compaction-timeout fallback), context overflow, auth errors, output-length and structured-output errors, content filtering, and rejected reasoning state. The processor's shouldRetry gate runs first and is unchanged; it blocks retries once a tool has run or may have run.
  • Why 4xx stays terminal. A 4xx is the provider's answer to the request, and resending cannot change it. The first CI run retried 4xx as well, and the StopFailure hook tests caught the cost: a 400 came back to hooks about 15 s late. Circuit-breaker 4xx replies are covered by the text rule above.
  • Release notes for 1.0.90.

Evidence

  • bun test test/session/retry.test.ts: 74 passed. Covers circuit-breaker text in a message and in a 400 response, 3 reconnects with 3000/6000/6000 ms waits checked under TestClock, and terminal errors, including a 400, kept out of the fallback.
  • bun test test/session/processor-effect.test.ts: 29 passed. The unclassified mid-stream provider error test now allows 30 s for the reconnects.
  • StopFailure hook tests (hooks-lifecycle-model-http, prompt-admission, subagent-stop-routing): 24 passed, 1 failed. The failing Stop asyncRewake chain test hits its 5 s timeout locally without this change too, and passed in CI.
  • bun test test/session: 993 passed, 1 failed. The signed-reasoning prefix test failed once under full-suite load. It passes alone, with or without this change.
  • tsgo --noEmit (opencode): passed. bun run lint: 4675 warnings, 0 errors (cap unchanged).
  • The release notes render with script/release-notes.ts for graphagent-v1.0.90.
  • Local Bun, Node and Go are newer than the pins, so the toolchain pre-push hook cannot pass on this machine. The SpecGit pre-push guard was run by hand and passed. The branch was pushed with --no-verify, so CI on the pinned toolchain is authoritative.
  • GitHub email-privacy protection rejected the first push. The three commits were re-authored with the account's noreply address; their content and Issue: #900 trailers are unchanged.
  • Not exercised: live gateway behaviour.

Checklist

  • Every acceptance item in fix: retry circuit-breaker rejections from upstream gateways #900 has regression coverage.
  • Retry limits, delays and Retry-After handling for recognised errors are unchanged.
  • No HTTP, event, database or dependency changes.
  • Release notes render with the production validator.
  • Required current-head checks (15/15) passed on e5e44e5737 before merge.
  • Stable publication and asset checks completed.

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Gateways with circuit breakers reject with text like "all targets recovering (half-open probe in flight)" and a non-5xx status, which no retry rule matched, so parallel subagents failed instead of backing off.

Issue: #900
A failure that matches no retry rule is now retried up to 3 times with 3s, 6s, 6s waits. Aborts, context overflow, auth, output-length, structured-output, content-filter and reasoning-state failures stay terminal.

Issue: #900
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LeXwDeX marked this pull request as ready for review October 27, 2026 15:14
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A 4xx is the provider's answer to the request; resending cannot change it and delayed StopFailure hooks. The fallback now covers failures without an HTTP status, such as dropped WebSockets and transport errors.

Issue: #900
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