fix(codex): stop a refused Codex account from winning the next pick - #4368
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…ht back A 429 caps its cooldown at 15 minutes when the refusal announced a reset, because a reset timestamp is advisory and plan quota usually frees up before it. The window the refusal described is not 15 minutes, so once the cooldown lapses the account is selectable again while its burst window is still spent, and this proxy ranks by a weekly bar that a burst limit never touches, so the refused account still scores as the coolest in the pool and wins the next pick. An unbound request recovers from that by rotating. A bound thread cannot: selection hands it the same account that just refused it, and the pin is re-established on every turn. From the Codex side it reads as a session locked to an exhausted account while a new session rotates normally, with a proxy restart as the only escape. Split the two durations that were previously one. The cooldown still governs blocking and keeps its cap, so probe recovery is unchanged. A new quotaAvoidUntil records the window the refusal actually announced, bounded at six hours so a weekly reset days out cannot take an account out of rotation for the full Retry-After day, and selection plus affinity reuse both pass over an account while it is live. Avoidance is soft in the existing sense: last-resort paths still reach the account when nothing else can serve, and an operator clearing the cooldown or naming the account overrules it. A bound thread also leaves an account carrying an unrecovered quota refusal before the window is consulted, which closes the reset-derived scoped branch that returned ahead of the account-wide affinity sweep. Scope is preserved throughout: an account-wide throttle releases every lane, while a spent Spark window still cannot displace the same thread's Terra binding.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds bounded quota-refusal avoidance and unrecovered-refusal checks to Codex account routing. It also adds replayable transient 5xx failover across pool accounts and records transient outcomes when alternate selection cannot proceed. ChangesCodex routing and pool failover
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participant Client
participant ResponseHandling
participant CodexRouting
participant CodexAccount
Client->>ResponseHandling: send Codex request
ResponseHandling->>CodexAccount: receive response
CodexAccount-->>ResponseHandling: quota refusal or transient 5xx
ResponseHandling->>CodexRouting: record outcome and resolve account
CodexRouting-->>ResponseHandling: eligible account
ResponseHandling->>CodexAccount: retry with alternate account
CodexAccount-->>Client: response
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| lastFailureAt: now, | ||
| cooldownUntil: until, | ||
| quotaAvoidUntil: quotaAvoidUntilFor(meta, now, until), |
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When a reset timestamp extends quotaAvoidUntil beyond the hard cooldown, clearCodexAccountCooldown() removes the cooldown and probe fields but carries this new field through ...rest for both account-wide and scoped health. In a multi-account pool the endpoint therefore returns success while selection continues excluding the account for up to six hours, defeating the operator escape hatch; remove quotaAvoidUntil in the clear path as well.
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| else upstreamHealth.set(accountId, { consecutiveFailures: 0, ...preserved }); | ||
| // Quota avoidance is a preference, like the soft avoid dropped above, and an operator naming | ||
| // this account has overruled it. The hard cooldown is the part that survives. | ||
| const { quotaAvoidUntil: _avoid, ...retained } = preserved; |
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For a reset-derived Spark/shared refusal, the avoidance is stored only in quotaScopedHealth; resetCodexRoutingForManualSelection() reads upstreamHealth and can return before this new destructuring executes. After the 15-minute hard cooldown expires, explicitly selecting that account still leaves it excluded for the announced window, so the promised manual override needs to remove scoped avoidance too.
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| && (!skipFailoverReadyCandidates || !shouldFailover(config, account.id, now))) | ||
| .filter(account => getCodexQuotaHealthSnapshot(account.id, quotaScope, now) === null) | ||
| .filter(account => !isCodexAccountSoftAvoided(account.id, now)) | ||
| .filter(account => !isCodexQuotaAvoided(account.id, quotaScope, now)) |
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This filter covers only entries in config.codexAccounts, while __main__ is appended immediately afterward without an equivalent isCodexQuotaAvoided check. With round-robin or fill-first, once main's capped cooldown lapses, an unbound request can select main again while its avoidance window is live and reproduce the repeated 429 that this change is intended to prevent.
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| // from an account that is demonstrably serving them again. The account-wide marker needs | ||
| // no equivalent: every recovery write below runs it through preservedCooldownFields. |
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The claimed account-wide cleanup does not occur: preservedCooldownFields() strips the refusal status but retains quotaAvoidUntil. If an in-flight request succeeds after an account-wide 429 while the hard cooldown is still live, the success path preserves that avoidance; when the cooldown later expires, routing continues skipping an account that has demonstrably served a request for up to six hours.
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| * the last-resort paths still reach the account when nothing else can serve, so one pessimistic | ||
| * announcement cannot stall routing. | ||
| */ | ||
| quotaAvoidUntil?: number; |
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This introduces a new routing-health state and changes account-selection, affinity, recovery, and manual-override semantics under src/codex/, but the commit updates none of the owner documents mapped for that source area. The scoped repository rule requires every mapped architecture document to be updated in the same change, so the applicable structure/ documentation must be brought into sync.
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리뷰 · 우선순위 70 / 80이 PR은 Codex 풀에서 지금 동작의 문제는 짧습니다. 리셋 시각이 붙은 429는 hard cooldown을 이 PR은 그 간격을 두 층으로 나눕니다. 첫째, 테스트는
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A ChatGPT `server_is_overloaded` 503 wedged a live seven-account pool onto one account. The backend refused in under a second, the body carried no quota evidence, and nothing recorded a failure against the account, so every account health reading stayed healthy and the quota strategy kept choosing the same account because it still had the lowest usage. Ten consecutive refusals in a row, all on one account, with six usable accounts idle. Two gaps produced that. The alternate-account retry only triggers on a quota refusal, so a plain 5xx never reached it. And the terminal outcome recorder only fires for an OK event-stream body, so a pre-stream refusal recorded no outcome at all — the transient failure streak that drives soft avoid and failover never started counting. A replayable transient 5xx now takes the same bounded one-shot alternate-account retry a quota refusal takes, carrying its real status so it records as transient rather than borrowing a quota cooldown it never earned. The streak and upstreamFailoverThreshold then decide when the account is soft-avoided, exactly as they already do for connect errors and timeouts. When no alternate exists — an exact account selector, or a spent same-account budget — the outcome is still recorded, because leaving the account looking healthy is what let the pool hand it the next request. A non-replayable gateway status is still refused. Its body already reached the origin, so a second account's send could duplicate a turn the origin may yet run, which is the whole reason that marker exists.
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In `@src/codex/routing.ts`:
- Line 1169: The routing logic needs a last-resort account selection when quota
filtering leaves eligible pools empty. Add a separate helper or path that
selects a configured, non-paused account while honoring excludeId and
request-scoped constraints without weakening ordinary quota avoidance, then use
it in previewCodexAccountForRequest, resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed, and
pickAlternateCodexAccount; preserve existing behavior when eligible accounts are
available.
In `@src/server/responses/core.ts`:
- Around line 1346-1360: Remove the recordUnmovedTransientOutcome helper and
both calls made when retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount returns "no-alternate",
allowing the existing non-deferred 5xx recording through upstreamResponse.status
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| return !isCodexAccountPaused(config, accountId) | ||
| && !isCodexAccountPlanExcluded(config, accountId) | ||
| && getCodexQuotaHealthSnapshot(accountId, quotaScope, now) === null | ||
| && !isCodexQuotaAvoided(accountId, quotaScope, now) |
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Add last-resort selection for empty eligible pools.
getEligiblePoolAccounts now removes quota-avoided accounts at src/codex/routing.ts:1409. When no active account exists, previewCodexAccountForRequest at lines 2267-2269 and resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed at lines 2468-2480 call pickLowestUsageCodexAccount, which returns null for an empty list. The configured, non-paused fallback at lines 2274-2278 and 2516-2522 cannot run because it requires an existing active account. pickUnboundStrategyAccount also returns null when its round-robin or fill-first eligible list is empty.
pickAlternateCodexAccount has the same gap for fill-first and quota strategies at lines 1729-1737: an all-avoided pool returns no alternate even though the prior eligible list contained those accounts. This applies when MAIN_CODEX_ACCOUNT_ID does not satisfy its separate insertion conditions.
Keep quota avoidance in the ordinary eligible list, but add a separate last-resort path for empty lists. Select a configured, non-paused account while respecting excludeId and request-scoped constraints. Use that path in both no-active entry points and pickAlternateCodexAccount.
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In `@src/codex/routing.ts` at line 1169, The routing logic needs a last-resort
account selection when quota filtering leaves eligible pools empty. Add a
separate helper or path that selects a configured, non-paused account while
honoring excludeId and request-scoped constraints without weakening ordinary
quota avoidance, then use it in previewCodexAccountForRequest,
resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed, and pickAlternateCodexAccount; preserve
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| // A transient 5xx must record even when this request cannot move: the ordinary terminal | ||
| // recorder only fires for an OK event-stream body, so a pre-stream refusal would otherwise | ||
| // leave the account looking healthy no matter how many times it refused, and the pool would | ||
| // keep handing it the next request. | ||
| const recordUnmovedTransientOutcome = (): void => { | ||
| if (!isTransientUpstreamStatus(outcomeStatus)) return; | ||
| recordCodexUpstreamOutcome(config, firstAuthCtx.accountId, outcomeStatus, { | ||
| threadId: firstAuthCtx.affinityKey, | ||
| fixedAccount: firstAuthCtx.fixedAccount, | ||
| modelId: route.modelId, | ||
| probeLeaseId: codexProbeLeaseId(firstAuthCtx), | ||
| probeQuotaScope: codexProbeQuotaScope(firstAuthCtx), | ||
| writerGeneration: firstAuthCtx.writerGeneration, | ||
| }); | ||
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Remove the early transient-outcome recordings
When retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount returns "no-alternate" at src/server/responses/core.ts:1385 or :1436, the caller keeps the original authCtx and upstreamResponse. For a non-deferred 5xx, the caller then records upstreamResponse.status at src/server/responses/core.ts:5889. The early recordUnmovedTransientOutcome() call therefore records the same account and status twice.
Each call increments consecutiveFailures in src/codex/routing.ts:2880. The duplicate also advances the soft-avoid escalation index twice, so upstreamFailoverThreshold is reached earlier than configured.
Remove the transient-only early recording. Keep the separate body-confirmed 429/402 recording.
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- const recordUnmovedTransientOutcome = (): void => {
- if (!isTransientUpstreamStatus(outcomeStatus)) return;
- recordCodexUpstreamOutcome(config, firstAuthCtx.accountId, outcomeStatus, {
- threadId: firstAuthCtx.affinityKey,
- fixedAccount: firstAuthCtx.fixedAccount,
- modelId: route.modelId,
- probeLeaseId: codexProbeLeaseId(firstAuthCtx),
- probeQuotaScope: codexProbeQuotaScope(firstAuthCtx),
- writerGeneration: firstAuthCtx.writerGeneration,
- });
- };
if (outcomeStatus === 400 && ACCOUNT_GATED_NATIVE_OPENAI_MODELS.has(route.modelId)) {
...
}
if (!retryAuthCtx && (firstAuthCtx.fixedAccount || args.sameAccountOnly === true)) {
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return { kind: "no-alternate" };
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In `@src/server/responses/core.ts` around lines 1346 - 1360, Remove the
recordUnmovedTransientOutcome helper and both calls made when
retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount returns "no-alternate", allowing the existing
non-deferred 5xx recording through upstreamResponse.status to remain the sole
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Eight read-only lanes covered every non-merge commit between the last green dev and the merge that re-greened it. Six came back clean, one found only the help text count lidge-jun#4390 had already fixed, and one found a real routing regression. lidge-jun#4368 gave a quota refusal its own avoidance window, and pool candidates honour it, but the main account reaches the candidate list through a separate re-insertion block that never checks it. The same commit also promises that an operator clearing the cooldown or naming the account overrules the avoidance, and neither path does. All three were re-derived against source by a second reviewer before being written down.
lidge-jun#4368 split a quota refusal into a capped cooldown and a longer window recording what the refusal actually announced. Pool candidates honour that window. The main login never did: it is not in config.codexAccounts, so it reaches selection only through a separate re-insertion branch that checked the soft avoid and not the quota avoidance. With the cooldown capped at fifteen minutes and the window running up to six hours, a user with the main login plus a pool saw exactly the failure lidge-jun#4368 was written to stop — the pool stayed avoided while the account that refused came back and won the next pick on a weekly bar a burst limit never touches. The same commit states that an operator clearing the cooldown or naming the account overrules the avoidance. Neither did. A reset-derived refusal writes only the scoped health entry, and resetCodexRoutingForManualSelection read the account-wide map and returned early when it was empty, so naming the account cleared nothing in the case that produced the avoidance. clearCodexAccountCooldown carried quotaAvoidUntil through in its rest spread, which left the operator escape hatch not escaping while automatic probe recovery deliberately drops the same field. Found by a regression sweep over the window between the last green dev and the merge that re-greened it, and re-derived against source by an independent reviewer before any change was made.
Product tree is dev at 7bfb2ad. Only package.json differs, carrying the stable channel version 2.52.0. This promotion follows a CI repair and a regression sweep: dev had drifted 79 commits past its last finished run and the one run allowed to complete had failed. lidge-jun#4390 fixed an integration test that never denied anything and had been red on dev since lidge-jun#4342; lidge-jun#4396/lidge-jun#4397/lidge-jun#4398 closed four gaps in the quota avoidance contract lidge-jun#4368 introduced; lidge-jun#4403 made a port fixture deterministic.
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Two ways a Codex pool could get stuck on one account and stay there. Both were found on a live seven-account pool.
A quota refusal handed the same account straight back
A 429 that announces a reset caps its cooldown at 15 minutes, deliberately: a reset timestamp is advisory and plan quota usually frees up before it, so the account has to stay reachable for the pool to find that out (#433). The window the refusal described is not 15 minutes. Once the cooldown lapses the account is selectable again while its five-hour burst window is still spent, and routing ranks by the weekly bar a burst limit never touches, so the refused account still scores as the coolest in the pool and wins the next pick. An unbound request survives that by rotating; a bound thread does not, since its next turn is handed the same account and re-pins to it. A restart was the only escape.
This splits the two durations that were previously one. The cooldown still governs blocking and keeps its cap, so probe recovery is unchanged. A new
quotaAvoidUntilrecords the window the refusal actually announced, bounded at six hours so a weekly reset days out cannot take an account out of rotation for the full Retry-After day, and selection plus affinity reuse both pass over an account while it is live. Avoidance is soft in the same sense assoftAvoidUntil: the last-resort paths still reach the account when nothing else can serve, and an operator who clears the cooldown or names the account overrules it, so one pessimistic announcement cannot stall routing.A bound thread also leaves an account carrying an unrecovered quota refusal before the window is consulted.
lastFailureStatusis the right evidence because of when it ends —preservedCooldownFieldsstrips it from every recovery write, so it survives exactly until the account serves a request again. That closes the reset-derived scoped branch, which returns ahead of the account-wide affinity sweep. Scope is preserved: an account-wide throttle releases every lane, while a spent Spark window still cannot displace the same thread's Terra binding.A pre-stream 5xx was not account evidence at all
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server_is_overloaded503 wedged the same pool. The backend refused in under a second, the body carried no quota evidence, and nothing recorded a failure, so every health reading stayed healthy and the strategy kept choosing that account because it still had the lowest usage — ten consecutive refusals on one account with six usable accounts idle.Two gaps produced that. The alternate-account retry only triggers on a quota refusal, so a plain 5xx never reached it; and the terminal outcome recorder only fires for an OK event-stream body, so a pre-stream refusal recorded nothing and the transient streak behind soft avoid never started counting.
A replayable transient 5xx now takes the same bounded one-shot alternate-account retry a quota refusal takes, carrying its real status so it records as transient rather than borrowing a quota cooldown it never earned.
upstreamFailoverThresholdthen decides when the account is soft-avoided, exactly as it already does for connect errors and timeouts. When no alternate exists — an exact account selector, or a spent same-account budget — the outcome is still recorded, because leaving the account looking healthy is what let the pool hand it the next request. A non-replayable gateway status is still refused: its body already reached the origin, so a second account's send could duplicate a turn the origin may yet run.Verification
bun x tsc --noEmitbun test tests/codex-integration/codex-routing.test.ts— 177 pass, including two new cases: a bound thread no longer returns to the quota group that refused it once the capped cooldown lapses, and a request the account actually serves releases the threads its refusal moved. Both fail ondev.bun test tests/codex-integration/codex-quota-rejection.test.ts— 67 pass, including transient-5xx selection by status, theserver_is_overloaded503 shape that caused the incident, and the non-replayable gateway status that must stay put.bun test tests/codex-integration/codex-cooldown-recovery.test.ts tests/codex-integration/codex-pool-rotation.test.ts tests/codex-integration/reserve-quota-scope.test.ts tests/codex-integration/codex-affinity-debug.test.ts tests/codex-integration/codex-main-rotation.test.ts— 148 pass.bun test tests/responses/responses-pool-401-refresh.test.ts tests/routing/always-on-429-failover.test.ts tests/codex-integration/codex-quota-rejection.test.ts— 104 pass.bun run testsuite. CI on the final head is the gate.Checklist
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