/** * Provider failure taxonomy. * * Every driver throws whatever its underlying vendor SDK threw, which * means the runtime cannot tell a 429 from a malformed request from a * dead socket — and therefore cannot decide whether to back off, fail * fast, or compact and retry. Classification is the substrate the retry * policy stands on; without it "add a retry" is unimplementable. * * The union is deliberately small. It answers exactly three questions the * runtime asks: is it worth retrying, should the delay come from the * server, and is this a context problem the turn could recover from by * shedding history. */ export type ProviderErrorCode = /** 429. Back off; honour `retryAfterMs` when the server sent one. */ | 'rate_limit' /** 529 / 503 — the model is up but saturated. Back off. */ | 'overloaded' /** Any other 5xx. Back off. */ | 'server_error' /** The request timed out in transit. Retry. */ | 'timeout' /** Socket/DNS/TLS failure before a response. Retry. */ | 'network' /** 401 / 403. A retry cannot help. */ | 'auth' /** 400 and friends. A retry cannot help. */ | 'invalid_request' /** The prompt exceeds the model window. Retrying verbatim cannot help. */ | 'context_length_exceeded' /** The provider refused on safety grounds. */ | 'content_filter' /** 404 — unknown model or endpoint. */ | 'not_found' /** Unclassifiable. Treated as non-retryable. */ | 'unknown' export interface ProviderErrorInit { readonly code: ProviderErrorCode readonly message: string readonly providerId?: string readonly status?: number /** Server-directed backoff, derived from a `Retry-After` header. */ readonly retryAfterMs?: number /** * Override the code's own verdict on retryability. * * Omit and the code decides, which is the normal path. Set it when * something closer to the failure already said so — see * {@link declaredRetryable}. */ readonly retryable?: boolean readonly cause?: unknown } /** * A `retryable` flag declared anywhere on the cause chain. * * Retryability was derived solely from namzu's own code set, so a provider * that says outright "this one is safe to retry" was not listened to — * and the code set is a second-hand inference from status and wording that * necessarily lags every new failure shape a vendor invents. Read * duck-typed rather than through an interface, because the flag arrives on * a foreign SDK's error object that namzu does not control. * * The FIRST link that declares one wins: the outermost declaration is the * most recent statement about the failure, made by whichever layer knew * enough to make it. */ export function declaredRetryable(err: unknown): boolean | undefined { for (const link of causeChain(err)) { const declared = link.retryable if (typeof declared === 'boolean') return declared } return undefined } /** Codes for which sending the identical request again may succeed. */ const RETRYABLE: ReadonlySet = new Set([ 'rate_limit', 'overloaded', 'server_error', 'timeout', 'network', ]) export class ProviderError extends Error { readonly code: ProviderErrorCode readonly providerId: string | undefined readonly status: number | undefined readonly retryAfterMs: number | undefined readonly retryable: boolean constructor(init: ProviderErrorInit) { super(init.message, init.cause !== undefined ? { cause: init.cause } : undefined) this.name = 'ProviderError' this.code = init.code this.providerId = init.providerId this.status = init.status this.retryAfterMs = init.retryAfterMs // The code decides, unless something upstream already declared // otherwise. A vendor SDK that sets `retryable` on its own error is // making a first-hand statement about a failure it produced; namzu's // code set is a second-hand inference from status and wording, and // it necessarily lags every new failure shape a provider invents. // Deriving solely from the code discarded the better signal. this.retryable = init.retryable ?? RETRYABLE.has(init.code) } } export function isProviderError(err: unknown): err is ProviderError { return err instanceof ProviderError } /** * An abort is a control-flow signal, not a provider failure: the turn loop * settles it as `cancelled`. It must never be reclassified or retried. */ export function isAbortError(err: unknown): boolean { if (err instanceof Error && (err.name === 'AbortError' || err.name === 'TimeoutError')) { return true } // DOMException-shaped aborts from fetch, and raw `signal.reason` values. const name = (err as { name?: unknown } | null)?.name return name === 'AbortError' } /** * Every throwable on the cause chain, outermost first. * * A signal was only ever read off the error handed in, so one layer of * wrapping hid it — and wrapping is the normal case, not an edge one: * vendor SDKs wrap their transport errors and the runtime wraps again on * the way out. A rate limit wrapped once classified as `unknown`, which is * treated as non-retryable, so the retry policy was dead for every failure * that was not the outermost throwable. * * The `seen` set is not defensive decoration: a cause cycle is easy to * build by accident when errors are re-wrapped in a retry loop, and * without it this walk never terminates. */ function* causeChain(err: unknown): Generator> { const seen = new Set() let current: unknown = err while (current !== null && typeof current === 'object' && !seen.has(current)) { seen.add(current) yield current as Record current = (current as { cause?: unknown }).cause } } function readStatus(err: unknown): number | undefined { for (const link of causeChain(err)) { const e = link as { status?: unknown statusCode?: unknown response?: { status?: unknown } // Some vendor SDKs hide the status in a metadata bag rather than // on the error itself. It is still a status; not looking there // meant a throttle fell through to message-text matching and, // when the wording did not happen to match, was filed as // `unknown` and never retried. $metadata?: { httpStatusCode?: unknown } } for (const candidate of [ e.status, e.statusCode, e.response?.status, e.$metadata?.httpStatusCode, ]) { if (typeof candidate === 'number' && Number.isFinite(candidate)) return candidate } } return undefined } /** * `Retry-After` is either delta-seconds or an HTTP date. Both appear in * the wild; most providers send seconds. */ function readRetryAfterMs(err: unknown, now: number): number | undefined { for (const link of causeChain(err)) { const headers = link.headers if (!headers) continue let raw: string | undefined if (typeof (headers as Headers).get === 'function') { raw = (headers as Headers).get('retry-after') ?? undefined } else if (typeof headers === 'object') { const bag = headers as Record const value = bag['retry-after'] ?? bag['Retry-After'] if (typeof value === 'string' || typeof value === 'number') raw = String(value) } if (raw === undefined) continue const seconds = Number(raw) if (Number.isFinite(seconds) && seconds >= 0) return Math.round(seconds * 1000) const at = Date.parse(raw) if (Number.isFinite(at)) return Math.max(0, at - now) } return undefined } function readErrnoCode(err: unknown): string | undefined { // The whole chain, not one level down. A transport failure is usually // the innermost link and everything above it is context, so stopping at // depth one meant a socket reset behind two wrappers read as unknown — // which is non-retryable, for the one class of failure where retrying // is almost always right. for (const link of causeChain(err)) { if (typeof link.code === 'string') return link.code } return undefined } /** Every message on the chain, outermost first. */ function chainMessages(err: unknown): string[] { const out: string[] = [] for (const link of causeChain(err)) { if (typeof link.message === 'string' && link.message.length > 0) out.push(link.message) } return out } /** Node/undici transport failures that mean "never reached the model". */ const NETWORK_ERRNOS: ReadonlySet = new Set([ 'ECONNRESET', 'ECONNREFUSED', 'ECONNABORTED', 'EPIPE', 'EHOSTUNREACH', 'ENETUNREACH', 'ENOTFOUND', 'EAI_AGAIN', 'EPROTO', 'UND_ERR_SOCKET', 'UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT', 'UND_ERR_RESPONSE_STATUS_CODE', ]) const TIMEOUT_ERRNOS: ReadonlySet = new Set([ 'ETIMEDOUT', 'ESOCKETTIMEDOUT', 'UND_ERR_HEADERS_TIMEOUT', 'UND_ERR_BODY_TIMEOUT', ]) function codeFromStatus(status: number): ProviderErrorCode { if (status === 429) return 'rate_limit' if (status === 401 || status === 403) return 'auth' if (status === 404) return 'not_found' if (status === 408) return 'timeout' if (status === 529 || status === 503) return 'overloaded' if (status >= 500) return 'server_error' if (status >= 400) return 'invalid_request' return 'unknown' } /** * Message sniffing is the LAST resort, used only when there is no status * and no errno. Vendors that tunnel a 400 through a 200 body (several * gateways do) are only reachable this way. */ function codeFromMessage(message: string): ProviderErrorCode | undefined { const m = message.toLowerCase() if ( m.includes('context length') || m.includes('context_length') || m.includes('maximum context') || m.includes('too many tokens') || m.includes('prompt is too long') || // Real wordings that missed every phrase above and so classified as // a plain invalid request — which is not retryable, and which the // overflow rescue tests for by exact equality. The turn died holding // the remedy. m.includes('too long for') || m.includes('maximum length') || m.includes('exceeds the maximum') || m.includes('input is too large') || m.includes('too large for') ) { return 'context_length_exceeded' } if (m.includes('rate limit') || m.includes('rate_limit') || m.includes('too many requests')) { return 'rate_limit' } if (m.includes('overloaded')) return 'overloaded' if ( m.includes('content filter') || m.includes('content_filter') || m.includes('content policy') ) { return 'content_filter' } if (m.includes('timed out') || m.includes('timeout')) return 'timeout' if (m.includes('unauthorized') || m.includes('invalid api key') || m.includes('authentication')) { return 'auth' } return undefined } /** * Structural failure codes providers put on the error itself, or on the * `type` discriminator of a gateway's error body. * * These were extracted and then thrown away: the walked `code` fed only * the two transport-errno sets, so a provider that said * `context_length_exceeded` in the one field designed to say it was * answered with a substring search that did not match, filed as a plain * invalid request, and never reached the rescue that exists for exactly * this failure. * * A code is checked BEFORE the status because it is strictly more * specific: a 400 is a category, `context_length_exceeded` is the * diagnosis. Only unambiguous codes belong here — anything whose meaning * depends on the body stays with the message pass. */ const STRUCTURAL_CODES: Readonly> = { context_length_exceeded: 'context_length_exceeded', context_window_exceeded: 'context_length_exceeded', max_tokens_exceeded: 'context_length_exceeded', string_above_max_length: 'context_length_exceeded', rate_limit_exceeded: 'rate_limit', rate_limit_error: 'rate_limit', insufficient_quota: 'rate_limit', overloaded_error: 'overloaded', content_filter: 'content_filter', content_policy_violation: 'content_filter', invalid_api_key: 'auth', authentication_error: 'auth', permission_error: 'auth', model_not_found: 'not_found', } function codeFromStructure(err: unknown): ProviderErrorCode | undefined { for (const link of causeChain(err)) { for (const field of [link.code, link.type, (link.error as { type?: unknown })?.type]) { if (typeof field !== 'string') continue const mapped = STRUCTURAL_CODES[field.toLowerCase()] if (mapped) return mapped } } return undefined } /** * Turn whatever a driver threw into a {@link ProviderError}. * * Precedence is deliberate: a STRUCTURAL code is the most specific * signal, then HTTP status, then transport errno, then message text. `context_length_exceeded` is checked * ahead of the generic 400 mapping because it is the one 4xx the runtime * can actually act on (shed history and retry) rather than surface. * * Every signal is read across the WHOLE cause chain, not off the error * handed in. Wrapping is the normal case — a vendor SDK wraps its * transport error and the runtime wraps again on the way out — and reading * only the outer link meant a rate limit wrapped once classified as * `unknown`, which is non-retryable. The retry policy was therefore dead * for every failure that was not the outermost throwable. * * Aborts are passed through untouched — see {@link isAbortError}. */ /** * Every `ProviderErrorKind`, mapped to what the runtime acts on. * * Read structurally rather than with `instanceof`: a driver in one package * throws this and the runtime in another reads it, and two copies of the SDK * in one process make `instanceof` unreliable — the same reason * `isProviderRequestError` exists. * * `retryable` here is about whether resending the SAME request could succeed. * `context_overflow` is correctly false — an identical prompt overflows * identically — and it maps to `context_length_exceeded` so the loop can reach * for compaction, which is a different remedy than a retry. */ const KIND_TO_CODE: Readonly> = { throttle: { code: 'rate_limit', retryable: true }, network: { code: 'network', retryable: true }, server: { code: 'server_error', retryable: true }, auth: { code: 'auth', retryable: false }, context_overflow: { code: 'context_length_exceeded', retryable: false }, bad_request: { code: 'invalid_request', retryable: false }, } function classifyFromProviderRequestError( err: unknown, providerId: string | undefined, now: number, ): ProviderError | undefined { if (!(err instanceof Error) || err.name !== 'ProviderRequestError') return undefined const candidate = err as Error & { kind?: unknown providerId?: unknown status?: unknown retryAfterMs?: unknown } if (typeof candidate.kind !== 'string') return undefined const mapped = KIND_TO_CODE[candidate.kind] if (!mapped) return undefined const retryAfterMs = typeof candidate.retryAfterMs === 'number' ? candidate.retryAfterMs : readRetryAfterMs(err, now) return new ProviderError({ code: mapped.code, message: err.message, retryable: mapped.retryable, cause: err, ...(typeof candidate.providerId === 'string' ? { providerId: candidate.providerId } : providerId !== undefined ? { providerId } : {}), ...(typeof candidate.status === 'number' ? { status: candidate.status } : {}), ...(retryAfterMs !== undefined ? { retryAfterMs } : {}), }) } export function classifyProviderError( err: unknown, providerId?: string, now: number = Date.now(), ): ProviderError { if (isProviderError(err)) return err // A driver that already classified its own failure is read FIRST, and by // its `kind` — the field it set on purpose. // // Without this the classifier fell through to the status heuristics, where // a `ProviderRequestError` carrying `kind: 'context_overflow'` and a 400 // became `invalid_request`, non-retryable. Three of the six kinds landed // wrong that way, and the consequences were not cosmetic: the loop's // overflow branch tests for `context_length_exceeded`, so compaction relief // — the one provider failure this kernel can actually do something about — // was unreachable for exactly the drivers that had diagnosed it correctly. // A driver that classified its own error came out worse than one that did // not, which is the opposite of the incentive the type was created for. const fromKind = classifyFromProviderRequestError(err, providerId, now) if (fromKind) return fromKind const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) const status = readStatus(err) const errno = readErrnoCode(err) const retryAfterMs = readRetryAfterMs(err, now) // Message sniffing also reads the chain. The wording that identifies a // failure sits on the link that produced it, and a wrapper's message is // usually generic ("request failed") — so matching only the outer text // looks at the one string least likely to say anything. const messages = chainMessages(err) const fromMessage = messages.map(codeFromMessage).find((code) => code !== undefined) // A first-hand statement from whoever produced the failure, if there // is one. It outranks the code's inference, not the code itself: the // classification still says WHAT went wrong. const declared = declaredRetryable(err) // The structural code first: it is the one field designed to say what // went wrong, and it is more specific than the status carrying it. A // 400 is a category; `context_length_exceeded` is the diagnosis. const structural = codeFromStructure(err) if (structural !== undefined) { return new ProviderError({ code: structural, message, providerId, ...(status !== undefined ? { status } : {}), ...(retryAfterMs !== undefined ? { retryAfterMs } : {}), ...(declared !== undefined ? { retryable: declared } : {}), cause: err, }) } // A 400 that is really a window overflow must not be filed as a plain // invalid_request: the caller can recover from one and not the other. if (messages.some((m) => codeFromMessage(m) === 'context_length_exceeded')) { return new ProviderError({ code: 'context_length_exceeded', message, providerId, status, ...(declared !== undefined ? { retryable: declared } : {}), cause: err, }) } if (status !== undefined) { return new ProviderError({ code: codeFromStatus(status), message, providerId, status, retryAfterMs, ...(declared !== undefined ? { retryable: declared } : {}), cause: err, }) } if (errno !== undefined) { if (TIMEOUT_ERRNOS.has(errno)) { return new ProviderError({ code: 'timeout', message, providerId, retryable: declared, cause: err, }) } if (NETWORK_ERRNOS.has(errno)) { return new ProviderError({ code: 'network', message, providerId, retryable: declared, cause: err, }) } } // `fetch` rejects with a bare TypeError on transport failure. if (err instanceof TypeError && /fetch|network/i.test(message)) { return new ProviderError({ code: 'network', message, providerId, retryable: declared, cause: err, }) } // The unclassified tail is where a declared flag matters most: a // failure nobody has characterised lands on `unknown`, which is treated // as non-retryable — even when its own author said otherwise. return new ProviderError({ code: fromMessage ?? 'unknown', message, providerId, retryAfterMs, retryable: declared, cause: err, }) }