fix(agent): retry mid-stream transport aborts before tool dispatch - #1014
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Connect-time streamWithReconnect and the CollectStream stall path already recover from transient disconnects and idle timeouts, but a failure DURING CollectStream that is a transport abort (Windows wsarecv/WSAECONNABORTED, connection reset by peer, forcibly closed) still aborted the turn and forced a manual continue. Classify those mid-stream aborts via shouldReconnect (single-sourced) and reuse the existing stall-retry loop with the same safety rules: no forwarded visible prose, empty collected.Text, and error before tool dispatch. Bound unchanged (maxStreamStallRetries=1); transport aborts surface reconnect wording, stalls keep the stall notice. Fixes Gitlawb#973
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Address Vasanthdev2004 review on Gitlawb#976: - isMidStreamTransportAbort no longer delegates to shouldReconnect. Mid-stream retries match abort/reset/EOF/close needles only, not connect-phase timeout or connection refused (a slow healthy server must not cost a second prefill). - Recheck ctx.Err() after a retried CollectStream so ACP still sees errors.Is(err, context.Canceled). - Pin wsarecv without the aborted substring, the retry bound at 1, reconnect notice wording, forwardedVisibleText, header-timeout non-retry, and the cancel-during-retry sentinel.
CodeRabbit nit on Gitlawb#976: OnText("") was setting forwardedVisibleText and blocking an eligible mid-stream abort retry even though collected.Text stayed empty. Only non-empty text counts as forwarded visible prose.
A mid-stream abort retry that then failed to reconnect returned the network error when the user cancelled during streamWithReconnect's backoff, so ACP treated a cancelled turn as an internal error. Count the post-connect reissue as a reconnect even when the replacement connect succeeds immediately.
Greptile SummaryThe PR adds one bounded retry for mid-stream socket aborts when no answer prose or tool execution has been committed.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge with no concrete blocking or independently actionable non-blocking issues identified. The replacement stream is attempted only under a bounded no-answer-text gate, incomplete tool calls are not dispatched, cancellation remains identifiable, and the retry request is rebuilt from unchanged conversation state.
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| Filename | Overview |
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| internal/agent/loop.go | Integrates bounded transport-abort retries into the stream loop while preserving cancellation and existing recovery behavior. |
| internal/agent/reconnect.go | Adds mid-stream transport classification and Windows socket-abort signatures with application-error exclusions. |
| internal/agent/midstream_retry_test.go | Provides focused end-to-end coverage of retry eligibility, safety gates, cancellation, notices, limits, and tracing. |
| internal/agent/reconnect_test.go | Extends connect-time reconnect classification tests for Windows socket-abort messages. |
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flowchart TD
A[Collect provider stream] --> B{Stream error?}
B -- No --> C[Process completed response]
B -- Yes --> D{Timeout or transport abort?}
D -- No --> E[Run existing error recovery]
D -- Yes --> F{No visible or collected answer text?}
F -- No --> G[Return original error]
F -- Yes --> H[Notify and back off]
H --> I[Rebuild request from unchanged messages]
I --> J[Open replacement stream]
J --> K{Retry succeeds?}
K -- Yes --> C
K -- No --> E
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. WalkthroughThe agent now classifies eligible mid-stream transport aborts, retries streams without committed answer text, emits reconnect notices, records reconnects, preserves cancellation errors, and validates retry boundaries and exclusions. ChangesMid-stream retry handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change retries eligible mid-stream transport failures while excluding provider errors, but the provider-error regression test does not verify error identity preservation. This is a bounded test-coverage risk and is mergeable with owner awareness. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Run
participant StreamCompletion
participant AbortClassifier
Run->>StreamCompletion: Collect stream
StreamCompletion-->>Run: Mid-stream transport abort
Run->>AbortClassifier: Classify error
AbortClassifier-->>Run: Retryable abort
Run->>StreamCompletion: Reconnect and collect stream
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The mid-stream/connect-phase split is the right call, and keeping isMidStreamTransportAbort off shouldReconnect rather than reusing it is what makes that split hold. One gap in the exclusion list before this goes in.
The exclusion list misses the prefix that carries every 5xx
classifiedNonTransportPrefixes covers provider request error:, auth error: and rate limit error:. It does not cover provider error:, which is what providerio produces in its default branch, so for every status that is not 401/403/429/503/529 and not 4xx.
That branch is not rare. internal/providers/openai/provider.go:297 defaults a streamed error payload's status to 500 and passes it to classifiedError at :316, so any in-band SSE error whose code is outside the six mapped ones arrives with that prefix and the raw upstream message attached. If the message happens to contain "connection closed", "connection reset", "server closed" or a bare EOF, it is classified as a socket abort.
Same message, opposite verdict, decided only by which prefix providerio picked:
abort=false "provider request error: connection closed is not a supported finish reason"
abort=true "provider error: connection closed is not a supported finish reason"
abort=true "provider error: upstream connection reset by peer"
abort=true "provider error: unexpected EOF while reading upstream response"
abort=false "provider error: 502 Bad Gateway"
The first of those is the string your own midstream_retry_test.go lists as must-not-retry. The guarded case and the unguarded one are the same upstream condition one status class apart.
reconnect.go's own comment is the argument for fixing it: 500/502/504 "are non-idempotent by providerio's rule, the completion POST may already have reached the model before the upstream gave up, so replaying the connect risks duplicate billable work". provider error: is precisely that class.
The HasStatusCode backstop below cannot cover it. It scans the message text for the digits, and it does fire when the upstream echoes them, which is why 502 Bad Gateway above returns false. On the streamed path the 500 is synthesized locally and was never on the wire, so there are no digits to find. It is unreliable rather than absent, and it is not something to rely on here.
Adding "provider error:" to the list should cost nothing. The only other producers of that prefix I found are gemini/provider.go:300 and :305, both local marshal and argument-normalization failures rather than transport aborts. Genuine aborts arrive as provider stream error: or a bare net error, and neither is touched by the exclusion list.
There is a second, quieter consequence: the user is shown [connection lost, reconnecting 1/1] for what is an application error. That is a wrong statement about what happened, not just a wasted retry.
Smaller things, none blocking
Two needles look unreachable under the current tests. unexpected end is shadowed by the word-boundary EOF check that runs first, and connection was aborted only ever appears alongside another matching needle, so neither would fail if removed. Worth one negative case each, or dropping them.
The 5xx and context-limit exclusions have no test of their own. Deleting either leaves the package green.
TestRunDoesNotRetryApplicationErrorContainingEOFSubstring passes with either of the two guards it appears to exercise removed, so it does not pin which one is doing the work.
The abort class reads as Windows-first: wsarecv and forcibly closed are the Windows spellings, and the POSIX side leans on connection reset and the EOF check. That is probably fine in practice, since those cover the common cases, but ECONNABORTED on macOS and Linux renders as "software caused connection abort", which matches nothing in the list.
What is good
Not delegating to shouldReconnect is the decision that makes this safe, and the comment explaining why (connect-phase signals would re-prefill a healthy-but-slow server and lie to the user about the connection) is the sort of reasoning that stops the next person widening it.
Gating on !forwardedVisibleText and no tools dispatched is the right safety argument for a replay, and it is stated where the gate is rather than in the PR body.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P2] Reject classified
provider error:failures before matching transport phrases
internal/agent/reconnect.go:178
The mid-stream abort retry is supposed to fire only for a dropped socket (Windowswsarecv,connection reset by peer, unexpected stream EOF) when the turn has committed no answer text and has not dispatched tools. The implementation decides that from a flattenedcollected.Errorstring: first a short prefix denylist, then substring needles.That denylist is incomplete against the prefixes
providerio.ClassifiedErroractually emits. The function uses:auth error:for 401/403rate limit error:for 429/503/529provider request error:for other 4xxprovider error:for everything else, including 5xx
classifiedNonTransportPrefixeslists the first three and omitsprovider error:. Transport/decode wrappers use a fifth prefix,provider stream error:, which is the class that should remain retryable."provider stream error:"does not contain"provider error:", so adding the missing prefix does not steal genuine socket failures.The gap is reachable, not theoretical. OpenAI-compatible streaming defaults an in-band SSE error object to HTTP 500 when
codeis not one of the six mapped values, then callsclassifiedError. Anthropic in-banderrorevents always callclassifiedError(http.StatusInternalServerError, message). Gemini uses the same helper when status is 0 or 5xx. Those paths never put the digits500in the message, soerrhint.HasStatusCode(..., "500", "502", "503", "504")does not save them. If the upstream prose containsconnection closed,connection reset,server closed, or a word-boundaryeof,isMidStreamTransportAbortreturns true.Concrete failure:
- The provider emits an in-band error that ClassifiedError renders as
provider error: connection closed is not a supported finish reason(orprovider error: upstream connection reset by peer, orprovider error: unexpected EOF while reading upstream response). CollectStreamWithOptionsstores only that string.- No answer text was forwarded, so the stall/abort loop treats it as a socket abort.
- The user sees
[connection lost — reconnecting 1/1…],reconnect_countincrements, the agent sleeps, andRunsubmits the same completion again.
The 4xx twin of that first string is already in
TestRunDoesNotRetryClassifiedProviderErrorWithSocketPhraseand correctly does not retry. Same upstream condition, opposite verdict, decided only by which ClassifiedError prefix was chosen.provider error: 502 Bad Gatewayhappens to be refused because the digits are still in the text; that is not a substitute for the prefix. Vasanthdev2004 asked for this exclusion on this head.Impact is bounded but user-visible: one extra billable completion, a false “connection lost” notice, and if the replacement stream happens to succeed the original application error is never returned. No tool is dispatched and no transcript turn is committed, which is why this is P2 rather than P1.
Root cause, not a one-off string. The retry gate no longer has the HTTP status. Category survives only as the ClassifiedError prefix. The denylist is a reconstructed copy of that taxonomy and it is missing the default/5xx member. Phrase-by-phrase needle fixes will keep leaking the next sibling (
connection closedtoday, some other 5xx prose tomorrow). The durable fix for this PR is: before any EOF/needle match, refuse every ClassifiedError prefix that is not the transport wrapper. Today that means addingprovider error:next to the three prefixes you already exclude. A typed error kind is a later refactor, not a requirement here.Tests that close this without opening a new round. Keep the existing 4xx/auth/rate-limit negatives. Add a
Run-level case whose error isprovider error:plus a socket/EOF phrase (no status digits). Assert exactly oneStreamCompletion, no reconnect notice,reconnect_countunchanged, the original error returned, andOnToolCallnever fired. Keep positives forprovider stream error: unexpected EOF,connection reset by peer, andwsarecv: 10053so the prefix fix cannot disable #973. A classifier table row alone is not enough;Runis where the extra POST and the notice happen.Do not take this finding as a license to widen the PR. Do not add POSIX
software caused connection abort, HTTP/2RST_STREAM/GOAWAY,use of closed network connection, amalformed JSON:exclusion, a new retry bound, stall-notice changes, or a public error-type API. Those are not this defect and they are not required to merge.
Overall guidance to close this in one pass
This branch already spent several review rounds on #976 because a mid-stream retry is a lifecycle, while the tests and fixes followed individual reported strings. That is why feedback dripped: empty OnText blocking retry, context.Canceled lost after the replacement collect, reconnect_count not incremented on an immediate replacement, bare eof matching oneOf, then 4xx provider request error: + connection closed. Each item was real. Each fix was local to the example that had just failed. The next untested ClassifiedError prefix then became the next review.
There is one merge-blocking code issue on this head. It is the same class as the 4xx prefix gate you already shipped: provenance was flattened, then reconstructed from an incomplete list. Treat ClassifiedError’s prefix set as the contract, not the last string someone pasted into a test.
| Input / lifecycle edge | Attempts | Reconnect notice / counter | Required outcome |
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provider error: + connection closed / connection reset / word-boundary eof, no answer text, no tools |
1 | none | Return the original error |
provider request error: + connection closed (existing 4xx twin) |
1 | none | Unchanged: no retry |
auth error: / rate limit error: + socket-looking prose |
1 | none | Unchanged: no retry |
provider stream error: unexpected EOF / connection reset by peer / wsarecv: 10053, no answer text |
2 | one reconnect notice; reconnect_count=1 on immediate replacement |
#973 recovery; bound stays 1 |
| Non-empty forwarded answer text then abort | 1 | none | Unchanged: do not duplicate prose |
| Empty text callback, reasoning-only, or incomplete tool preview then genuine abort | 2 | real reconnect effects | Unchanged: retry allowed; OnToolCall stays 0 |
| Cancel during outer backoff, replacement connect backoff, or replacement collect | stop at cancel | no later work | errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) |
Use literal attempt counts and production-shaped prefixes. A positive sample must match only the signature under test. A negative sample must fail if category-blind substring matching returns.
That matrix is the acceptance bar for this finding. It is not a request to re-audit HTTP/2, POSIX abort spellings, decode errors, or the stall-retry path. Those were considered and are out of this PR’s approved #973 contract. Fix the missing provider error: provenance edge, pin it through Run, keep the genuine provider stream error: retries, and this should not need another classification round.
Prevent classified provider error payloads carrying streamed 5xx messages from falsely matching transport socket abort phrases. Refs Gitlawb#973
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In `@internal/agent/midstream_retry_test.go`:
- Around line 431-432: Update the midStreamAbortProvider test to return a
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Assert preservation of the original error.
strings.Contains(err.Error(), "unexpected EOF") checks only the message. A new error with the same text would pass this test. Make midStreamAbortProvider return a sentinel error and assert errors.Is(err, wantErr) or exact equality, according to the contract.
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In `@internal/agent/midstream_retry_test.go` around lines 431 - 432, Update the
midStreamAbortProvider test to return a sentinel error and verify the returned
error preserves that exact cause using errors.Is (or exact equality if required
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Fixes #973
Summary
Auto-retry mid-stream transport aborts (e.g. Windows
wsarecv/ WSAECONNABORTED, connection resets) when no answer prose has been committed and before tool dispatch.Changes
internal/agent/reconnect.goviaisMidStreamTransportAbort.internal/agent/loop.go.Test plan
internal/agent/reconnect_test.goandinternal/agent/midstream_retry_test.go.Summary by CodeRabbit