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Summary

Fixes #1307.

  1. Bounded retry for transient streaming failures in reviewer completion:
    In lib/inprocess-reviewer.ts, reviewer completions running through the in-process host relay now perform up to 2 attempts (MAX_REVIEWER_COMPLETION_ATTEMPTS = 2) with backoff when encountering transient transport/stream failures.

    • Handles corrupted gateway SSE frames (such as the observed NaN DeepSeek chunk parse failure Expected property name or '}' in JSON at position 1 (line 1 column 2)), socket resets (ECONNRESET, ETIMEDOUT, fetch failed), and transient gateway errors (502, 503, 504).
    • Retries apply whether the error is thrown by the provider SDK during completion or resolved as an error AssistantMessage (stopReason: "error").
    • Abort-aware: the backoff respects combinedSignal, exiting immediately if the deadline or caller abort fires.
    • Non-transient errors (such as invalid parameters, auth failures, or tool-call attempts) fail immediately without retry.
    • Adds an optional sleep seam to InProcessReviewerDeps for deterministic testing without wall-clock delays.
  2. Test harness stabilization:
    In tests/inprocess-reviewer.test.ts, ensure signalAwaitingComplete and signalResolvingAbortedComplete retain an active handle while awaiting abort events so Node 22's test runner does not prematurely cancel tests on unrefed AbortSignal.timeout timers.

Testing

  • Added regression tests in tests/inprocess-reviewer.test.ts:
    • Retrying on transient JSON parse error during completion and succeeding on the subsequent attempt.
    • Retrying on transient stopReason: "error" and succeeding on the subsequent attempt.
    • Refusing with PROVIDER_FAILED after exhausting max attempts for persistent transient errors.
    • Exiting immediately without retry on non-transient errors.
  • Ran test suite: 34/34 tests passing in tests/inprocess-reviewer.test.ts and 43/43 tests passing in tests/review-host-relay.test.ts.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Reviewer completions now retry once after transient network or temporary service failures, with a brief pause between attempts. Deterministic parsing errors and other non-transient failures are not retried.
    • When retries are exhausted or a failure is not retryable, completions return a consistent provider-failure result.
    • Abort requests are handled during completion attempts and retry pauses, and aborted requests are not retried.

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The in-process reviewer now retries transient completion failures once with abort-aware backoff. It classifies transport and parsing errors, preserves refusals, handles aborted completions, and adds tests for retry and failure outcomes.

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Reviewer completion retries

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry contracts and abort-aware backoff
lib/inprocess-reviewer.ts
InProcessReviewerDeps adds an injectable sleep function. The reviewer exports retry constants, classifies transient errors, and provides abort-aware default sleeping.
Completion retry loop and validation
lib/inprocess-reviewer.ts, tests/inprocess-reviewer.test.ts
The completion path retries transient thrown errors and error stop reasons once. It handles aborts and refusal fallback. Tests cover successful retries, exhausted retries, non-transient errors, and abort-signal timer cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant runInProcessReviewer
  participant ReviewerProvider
  participant Sleep
  runInProcessReviewer->>ReviewerProvider: Start completion attempt
  ReviewerProvider-->>runInProcessReviewer: Transient transport or parse failure
  runInProcessReviewer->>Sleep: Wait 1,000 ms
  Sleep-->>runInProcessReviewer: Backoff complete
  runInProcessReviewer->>ReviewerProvider: Retry completion
  ReviewerProvider-->>runInProcessReviewer: Assistant message or provider failure
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Production backoff cancellation retains typed abort and timeout outcomes. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The retry implementation, tests, and odd/tasks/fix-1307-deepseek-relay-retry.md support issue [#1307]. The whole-PR assessment also identified unrelated changes in bin/gentle-shell.mjs, `README.md… Remove the unrelated launcher, README, CI, and delegation-guide changes from this PR, or move them to a separate PR.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: retry support for transient in-process completion streaming failures. It matches the pull request objectives and changed files.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#1307] requires reviewer text or a typed provider/stream diagnosis when in-process completion fails. runInProcessReviewer returns a typed PROVIDER_FAILED refusal with the sanitized provider…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
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The retry implementation, tests, and odd/tasks/fix-1307-deepseek-relay-retry.md support issue [#1307]. The whole-PR assessment also identified unrelated changes in bin/gentle-shell.mjs, README.md, .github/workflows/windows-hidden-processes.yml, and assets/orchestrator-delegation.md. These changes do not implement or test the linked issue. The available whole-PR diff could not be re-read because the repository object was unavailable, so removal of those changes at the current head cannot be independently verified.

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In `@lib/inprocess-reviewer.ts`:
- Around line 89-94: Update isTransientReviewerError and the completeSimple
completion flow so HTTP retryability is determined from preserved structured
status or retryability metadata rather than errorMessage text. Ensure the
stopReason === "error" path receives and classifies that metadata, while
retaining message matching only for known JSON-parse and transport signatures.
- Around line 281-285: Track completion failure separately from the rejected
value in the attempt loop around deps.complete: add a boolean or equivalent
result state set in the catch block, and branch on that state instead of
attemptError !== undefined. Preserve the PROVIDER_FAILED refusal behavior for
rejections with undefined, and add a regression test covering an undefined
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- Around line 297-298: Add a retry test covering a transient first completion
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Following the analysis already recorded in #1307, a note about this change rather than about the retry mechanism itself.

The failure that issue describes is deterministic: truncation reproduced on every attempt, so a second attempt truncates again and emits the same malformed frame. Two consequences for this PR.

  • Retrying this class costs another full reasoning phase (about 90 s in my runs) and another completion budget, with no chance of succeeding.
  • Shrinking the budget does not make the retry viable either. In streaming the ceiling is on characters and ignores max_tokens, and in non-streaming max_tokens has a floor of 16,384, so a smaller value never takes effect.

The retry still looks right for genuine transport faults such as socket resets and 502/503/504. For this case the useful shape is detection plus degradation: when a completion ends with stopReason "length" and no content, fail with a typed diagnosis instead of handing an empty or malformed body to a parser, and optionally fall back to another model for that lens. Surfacing the raw frame in the failure envelope would help too, since the frame carrying the usage is precisely the one that fails to parse.

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Thanks @matraket, that analysis (along with the findings by @microonline on #1307) is spot on.

Pushed a2769247 to address this directly:

  • Excluded deterministic truncation/parse errors from retry: isTransientReviewerError no longer matches JSON parse exceptions (Expected property name...). When gateway truncation emits malformed chunks, it fails immediately on attempt 1 with PROVIDER_FAILED instead of burning another ~90s reasoning cycle and token budget.
  • Strictly scoped to transient transport faults: Retries with backoff are now limited to genuine network disconnects (ECONNRESET, ETIMEDOUT, socket hang up) and transient HTTP gateway codes (502, 503, 504, 429).
  • Structured status priority: When error.status is provided, it is authoritative (e.g. 4xx client validation errors fail immediately without falling through to message regex matching).
  • Edge cases and tests: Handled non-Error/undefined rejections safely and retained priorFailure evidence if abort or timeout fires during backoff sleep. Updated unit tests to verify that JSON parse errors are not retried.

Detection plus typed degradation/fallback for that lens would be a solid follow-up at the routing layer, while keeping this PR focused on protecting the in-process relay boundary against real transient transport failures.

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