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[Fix] Persistently failing stream is retried forever - #2111
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A mid-stream failure (e.g. OpenRouter 'Upstream idle timeout exceeded') re-queued the same request with no limit. Without auto-approval it did so immediately and silently, and with auto-approval it backed off indefinitely. Retry automatically at most 5 times, then ask the user via api_req_failed. Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#2107 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Issue #2107 requires the affected session to complete coding without the provider error. The changed Task.ts code does not fix the provider timeout. It still sends api_req_failed to the user after… |
Implement a provider or request-flow change that lets the affected Gemini/OpenRouter session complete without the timeout error, or revise the linked issue requirements if graceful failure and bounded retries are the intended outcome. |
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The retry cap and prompt-decline paths have focused coverage in Task.spec.ts: auto-approval makes 6 attempts with 5 backoffs, and manual approval makes 1 attempt with one api_req_failed prompt (li… |
Add a focused mid-stream test that reaches the retry cap, returns yesButtonClicked from api_req_failed, and asserts the resumed request receives retryAttempt: 0 (and can complete or begin a fresh automatic retry window). |
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Check name Status Explanation Description check The description identifies issue #2107, explains the problem, describes the retry cap and prompt flow, states the scope limits, and lists tests. It does not include the template checklist or several o…Title check The title clearly identifies the main issue addressed by the pull request: persistently failing streams retry indefinitely. The [Fix] prefix indicates that the pull request resolves this behavior. Out of Scope Changes check The PR changes only src/core/task/Task.tsand its focusedTask.spec.tstests. The retry cap, backoff, user prompt, fresh retry count, abort behavior, and test coverage directly support the linked …Security Boundaries No changed path meets a security failure condition. In src/core/task/Task.ts:4693-4712, mid-stream retries require currentautoApprovalEnabledand stop at five automatic retries; the fallback uses…Persistence Integrity No changed persistence path exists. The PR changes in-memory retry control in Task.recursivelyMakeClineRequests: it reads provider state, awaitsask,say,backoffAndAnnounce, and pushes retry …Lifecycle Resource Cleanup No changed lifecycle leak or post-cancellation duplicate work is present. The changed path returns the failed async generator before retry handling, and the existing finallyclearsisStreamingand…Full details: Description check
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The description identifies issue
#2107, explains the problem, describes the retry cap and prompt flow, states the scope limits, and lists tests. It does not include the template checklist or several optional sections, but it contains the required implementation and validation details.
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The PR changes only
src/core/task/Task.tsand its focusedTask.spec.tstests. The retry cap, backoff, user prompt, fresh retry count, abort behavior, and test coverage directly support the linked stream-failure problem. No unrelated production behavior or unrelated test area is changed.
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No changed path meets a security failure condition. In
src/core/task/Task.ts:4693-4712, mid-stream retries require currentautoApprovalEnabledand stop at five automatic retries; the fallback usesask("api_req_failed", ...), retries only for the exactyesButtonClickedresponse, and otherwise throws.api_req_failedis not a non-blocking or auto-approved ask (packages/types/src/message.ts:50-56,99-105;src/core/auto-approval/index.ts:194-199,427). The change does not execute input or alter tool allowlists.
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No changed persistence path exists. The PR changes in-memory retry control in
Task.recursivelyMakeClineRequests: it reads provider state, awaitsask,say,backoffAndAnnounce, and pushes retry items onto an in-memory stack. The changed tests only verify retry behavior. No write, default propagation, atomicity, rollback, or partial-failure path changed.
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No changed lifecycle leak or post-cancellation duplicate work is present. The changed path returns the failed async generator before retry handling, and the existing
finallyclearsisStreamingandcurrentRequestAbortController. Automatic retries awaitbackoffAndAnnounce, which checksthis.abort; the caller checks abort again before pushing the next request. The capped and prompted branches reset the retry item only afteraskconfirms, while the loop checksthis.abortbefore starting another request. The existingaskcleanup also clears its timers on every settlement path.
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Issue
#2107requires the affected session to complete coding without the provider error. The changedTask.tscode does not fix the provider timeout. It still sendsapi_req_failedto the user after five automatic retries or when auto-approval is disabled, and it stops when the user declines. The change prevents an infinite retry loop, but it does not meet the issue's stated error-free completion outcome.Resolution
Implement a provider or request-flow change that lets the affected Gemini/OpenRouter session complete without the timeout error, or revise the linked issue requirements if graceful failure and bounded retries are the intended outcome.
Full details: Regression Evidence
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The retry cap and prompt-decline paths have focused coverage in
Task.spec.ts: auto-approval makes 6 attempts with 5 backoffs, and manual approval makes 1 attempt with oneapi_req_failedprompt (lines 626-664). The changed approval path atTask.ts:4700-4711is not focused: the new test always returnsnoButtonClicked, so it does not verify that confirming at the cap retries or resetsretryAttemptto 0. Existing output-token tests cover a separate branch and do not prove this mid-stream behavior.Resolution
Add a focused mid-stream test that reaches the retry cap, returns
yesButtonClickedfromapi_req_failed, and asserts the resumed request receivesretryAttempt: 0(and can complete or begin a fresh automatic retry window).
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Review comments at @src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts:
- Line 662: Strengthen the auto-approved retry test around backoffSpy by
asserting each call receives the expected attempt values in order: 0, 1, 2, 3,
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Review comments at @src/core/task/Task.ts:
- Around line 4707-4711: The confirmed-retry stack item currently resets
retryAttempt to zero, causing shouldAddUserMessageToHistory to treat the reused
currentUserContent as a new history attempt and duplicate the user message.
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Assert that the declined retry rejects.
recursivelyMakeClineRequests throws new Error("API request failed") when the user declines, including after the automatic retry cap is reached. The current .catch(() => {}) hides this rejection. Assert it explicitly:
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Update the test using recursivelyMakeClineRequests to assert that the declined
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Assert each backoff attempt value.
A five-call assertion also passes if every retry uses attempt zero. The mutation-diff hint reports that this exact change to the argument at Task.ts Line 4721 survived. Assert attempts 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 for the auto-approved case, not only the call count. As per path instructions, require “behavior-focused assertions.”
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Strengthen the auto-approved retry test around backoffSpy by asserting each call
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Keep the history attempt separate from the automatic retry count.
On a confirmed retry, this stack item reuses currentUserContent but sets retryAttempt to zero. Line 4014 then passes the same retry state that added the first user message to shouldAddUserMessageToHistory. A non-empty request can append that user message again. Keep the history attempt positive while resetting a separate automatic-retry count. As per path instructions, check “persistence and lifecycle invariants” and “safe restart/resume without lost or duplicated state.”
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The confirmed-retry stack item currently resets retryAttempt to zero, causing
shouldAddUserMessageToHistory to treat the reused currentUserContent as a new
history attempt and duplicate the user message. Update the stack push near
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Fixes #2107
Problem
When the provider ends a stream mid-response (e.g. OpenRouter + Gemini: "Provider ended the request. Upstream idle timeout exceeded."),
recursivelyMakeClineRequestspushed the same request back onto its stack with no upper bound. Without auto-approval the retry was immediate and silent (no backoff, no prompt); with auto-approval it backed off up to 10 minutes between attempts, indefinitely. A persistent upstream timeout therefore looped for hours.Fix
Mid-stream failures now retry automatically at most
MAX_MID_STREAM_AUTO_RETRIES(5) times, with the existing backoff, and only under auto-approval. Without auto-approval, or once the cap is reached, the user is asked viaapi_req_failed(same flow as the existingOutputTokenLimitErrorhandling); confirming restarts with a fresh attempt count, declining stops the task.Not covered
This does not fix the upstream timeout itself (provider pinning / reasoning effort remain the mitigations); it ensures the task stops looping and surfaces the error. Repetitive-reasoning detection is separate (#1904).
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it.eachcovering the auto-approval cap and the no-auto-approval prompt.ask.core/tasksuites (922 tests) andcheck-typespass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code