fix(agent): retry mid-stream transport aborts before tool dispatch - #976
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe agent now retries eligible mid-stream transport aborts when no answer text was committed. It adds Windows socket classifications, preserves cancellation errors, records reconnects, and validates retry limits and exclusion rules. ChangesMid-stream retry handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Mid-stream connection failures are intended to retry automatically, but a zero-length text event can still suppress that retry and leave users with an aborted turn requiring manual continuation. This bounded correctness issue should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Run
participant CollectStream
participant isMidStreamTransportAbort
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Run->>CollectStream: start turn stream
CollectStream->>Provider: request streamed completion
Provider-->>CollectStream: mid-stream transport error
CollectStream-->>Run: collected error
Run->>isMidStreamTransportAbort: classify error
isMidStreamTransportAbort-->>Run: retryable
Run->>CollectStream: retry turn on fresh connection
CollectStream-->>Run: completed answer
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In `@internal/agent/loop.go`:
- Around line 28-31: Update the retry comment near the mid-stream
transport-abort handling to describe the actual gate as having “no answer text,”
including incomplete tool-call previews. Limit the safety claim to avoiding
duplication of visible answer prose rather than implying all partial output is
excluded.
In `@internal/agent/midstream_retry_test.go`:
- Around line 94-115: Extend TestRunRetriesMidStreamAbortAfterIncompleteToolCall
to assert Options.OnToolCall is never invoked after the incomplete-tool-call
abort, then add a persistent-abort test covering retry exhaustion and verifying
an error is returned after exactly two stream attempts.
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Real problem and the safety argument in the loop comment is the right shape: no answer text committed, no tool dispatched, bounded at one retry. I checked the no-dispatch claim and it holds on every path that can reach the gate. Three things before this goes in.
The gate is much wider than the three needles. isMidStreamTransportAbort delegates to shouldReconnect, so the gate now matches all fourteen needles in that list, not the three this PR adds. I ran both predicates over representative strings:
stall=false abort=true "provider stream error: unexpected EOF"
stall=false abort=true "provider stream error: read: connection closed"
stall=false abort=true "net/http: timeout awaiting response headers"
stall=false abort=true "provider stream error: server closed the connection"
stall=false abort=true "dial tcp 10.0.0.1:443: connect: connection refused"
stall=false abort=true "write: broken pipe"
isStreamTimeoutError is false for all of them, so each one is newly retryable. Some of that is probably what you want. But it is a bigger change than the title, the comments and the tests describe, and two cases are uncomfortable. A response-header timeout on a healthy but slow server (an ollama cloud model, say) now costs a second full prefill and tells the user the connection was lost. And the needle list justifies itself with "a genuine transport failure (EOF, reset, refused, timeout) means no response was received, which is safe to reconnect", which is a connect-phase argument; the whole point of this PR is the case where the response HAD started.
I am not saying reuse the classifier is wrong. I am saying the comment should state that the gate matches the entire list, and the tests should pin the classes you actually mean to catch. If you meant only the three, gate on those three.
Cancelling during the retried stream loses the context.Canceled sentinel. The ctx.Err() check sits above the gate, and the comment right there explains why it has to: "returning errors.New(collected.Error) would lose the wrapped sentinel and break errors.Is(err, context.Canceled)". There is no equivalent check after the retry re-collects. Reproduced it:
calls=2 err="context canceled" errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) = false
This predates your change, and I confirmed that by reproducing it with a stall error too, so it is not something you broke. But a transport abort is far more common than a five minute stall, so this PR is what makes it reachable in practice, and internal/acp/agent.go:296 and :335 both branch on that sentinel, so an ACP client sees a user cancel as a failed turn. It is a couple of lines in code you are already touching.
Four claims in the change have no test that notices their removal. I mutated each and ran the package:
- deleting the
wsarecvneedle: suite green. Both test strings also contain "connection was aborted", so that needle is unpinned. maxStreamStallRetries1 to 2: suite green.TestRunGivesUpAfterMaxMidStreamAbortRetriesasserts against1+maxStreamStallRetries, so it reads the constant it is meant to bound. The comment says "do not raise it for #973", which is exactly the thing worth pinning.- collapsing the abort/stall notice selection to the stall wording: suite green. No test passes a notice option, so the half of the change that fixes the misleading wording is unexercised.
- neutralising
!forwardedVisibleTextin the gate: suite green.TestRunDoesNotRetryMidStreamAbortAfterPartialOutputpasses noOnText, so it pinscollected.Text == ""and not the guard it is named for. That guard is load bearing on the reactive-compaction reissue, where the fresh collect is givenCollectOptions{OnUsage: ...}only, socollected.Textcan be empty on a turn that already streamed prose to the user.
One thing I looked at and am happy with: the duplicate tool-call preview on retry. OnToolCallStart does fire twice for the same call id, but dispatch happens once, and that is the stall path's existing behaviour which your comment already calls out as transient previews.
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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.
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Thanks for the check. Addressed in 2f6a35a:
- Gate width.
isMidStreamTransportAbortno longer delegates toshouldReconnect. Mid-stream retries match abort/reset/EOF/close needles only. Connect-phasetimeout/connection refusedstay off this path so a slow healthy server does not cost a second prefill. Tests pinwsarecv: 10053(no aborted substring), header-timeout, and connection refused as non-retry. - Canceled sentinel. Recheck
ctx.Err()after the retriedCollectStream(and again afterrecoverStreamError) so ACP still seeserrors.Is(err, context.Canceled).TestRunCancelDuringMidStreamRetryPreservesContextCanceledhangs the retried stream and cancels it. - Pins. Bound is asserted as literal
2plusmaxStreamStallRetries == 1. Reconnect vs stall notice wording is asserted viaOnReasoning.forwardedVisibleTextis pinned with an emptyOnTextchunk (collected.Text stays empty). Incomplete-toolOnToolCallstill must not fire.
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481-484: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPermit a transport-abort retry after a zero-length text event.
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OnText("")setsforwardedVisibleTexteven though no answer text was committed andcollected.Textremains empty. An eligible abort then returns an error instead of retrying. Restrict the abort gate to committed collected text, or set the flag only for non-empty text. Updateinternal/agent/midstream_retry_test.goLines 140-154 to expect the retry.As per coding guidelines, “PR description, help text, and comments must match what shipped.”
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In `@internal/agent/loop.go`:
- Around line 481-484: Update the retry condition in the stream-stall retry loop
so a zero-length OnText event does not block eligible transport-abort retries;
gate the decision on committed non-empty collected text or only set
forwardedVisibleText for non-empty text. Adjust the relevant midstream retry
test to expect the retry.
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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.
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Addressed the empty-OnText nit in 30a8ede: forwardedVisibleText is set only for non-empty text, so a zero-length chunk no longer blocks an eligible mid-stream abort retry. TestRunRetriesMidStreamAbortAfterEmptyTextEvent now expects the retry.
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Approving. Your CI had never run: held at action_required behind the fork gate with only CodeRabbit green. I released it and the full suite is green, which matters more than usual here because retry logic is easy to get subtly wrong and nothing had ever exercised it.
I went looking for the usual hazards and did not find them: no retry after bytes were delivered to the caller, no re-send of a billed request on a path that had already committed one, and the loop is bounded. The distinction between a transport abort and a clean end of stream holds up.
Two notes, neither blocking.
The comment at reconnect.go:160-166 says connect-phase signals "stay on the connect retry path". There is no such live path: shouldReconnect has exactly one non-test caller, so three of the new needles cannot be reached by any shipped provider. That is a wording problem rather than a behaviour one, but the comment currently describes a route that does not exist.
midStreamAbortNeedles covers socket-level death but not the HTTP/2-native way a peer aborts a single response, RST_STREAM or GOAWAY. So the same server-side abort retries on HTTP/1.1 and ends the run on HTTP/2. Worth adding when you next touch this, since HTTP/2 is the common case for the providers involved.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/agent/loop.go:485
The PR merge base is still27b319c, while livemainis1b5db17(two commits ahead). The merge tree currently applies cleanly, but the repository policy requires the branch to be rebased onto its live target before review/merge. Please rebase and have the resulting diff rechecked.
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[P2] Preserve cancellation while opening the retry stream
internal/agent/loop.go:505
Failure sequence: the first stream reaches the new transport-abort gate; the replacementStreamCompletionthen fails with a reconnectable error;streamWithReconnectstarts its own retry backoff; and the user cancels while that wait is pending. The helper deliberately returns the earlier network error whensleepWithContextobserves cancellation, but this new call site returnsretryErrbefore the later post-collectionctx.Err()check. ACP therefore routes a user-cancelled turn to its internal-error path instead ofStopCancelledbecauseerrors.Is(err, context.Canceled)is false.The root cause is that the PR restored cancellation identity only after collecting the replacement stream, not after the nested connection-recovery helper. Make every new error exit after the post-stream retry check
ctx.Err()first (or have the helper preserve the cancellation sentinel consistently), and add a regression test that cancels specifically during the replacement connection's reconnect backoff. Keep ordinary non-cancellation connection failures and the retry/backoff bound unchanged. -
[P3] Count the new post-connect reissue as a reconnect
internal/agent/loop.go:489
The new branch emits the user-visibleconnection lost — reconnectingnotice, waits, and submits a replacement request. That request incrementsmodel_requests, butreconnect_countremains zero when its connection succeeds immediately: the only existing producer for that counter is the separate loop insidestreamWithReconnect, which runs only after an initial connection attempt fails. Trace and perfbench therefore reportmodel_requests=2withreconnect_count=0for the exact recovery this PR adds.The root cause is that post-connect recovery owns its own retry lifecycle outside the helper that owns the existing reconnect metric. Record one reconnect when this post-connect reissue begins (alongside its reconnect notice), while leaving the helper to count any additional failed connection attempts it retries. Add a trace assertion for a successful replacement connection so the event remains observable without changing the trace schema or perfbench aggregation.
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.
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I rechecked the remediation head. The earlier cancellation, reconnect-telemetry, empty-text, retry-bound, notice, and no-tool-dispatch concerns are addressed, and current-head CI is green across Linux, macOS, and Windows. One low-severity correctness issue remains.
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[P3] Classify EOF as a transport condition, not an arbitrary substring
internal/agent/reconnect.go:168
The new body-stream classifier stores"eof"as a bare needle and applies every needle withstrings.Containsto the complete flattened provider error. That crosses an important category boundary: the string may be transport text, but it may also be arbitrary application-error prose.A concrete failure sequence is:
- A provider rejects a deterministic request with HTTP 400, for example
request does not satisfy oneOf schema. - OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini return their stream channel before the HTTP exchange finishes. Their HTTP-error path then calls
providerio.ClassifiedError, which emitsprovider request error: request does not satisfy oneOf schemathroughStreamEventError; the normalized text does not retain the numeric 400. CollectStreamWithOptionsstores that text incollected.Error. It is not an image rejection or context-limit error, and the 500/502/503/504 guard cannot identify it as an HTTP application error because the status was discarded.isMidStreamTransportAbortlowercases the message and evaluatesstrings.Contains("...oneof...", "eof"), which is true.- With no answer text committed, the loop reports
connection lost, increments reconnect telemetry, waits, rebuilds the same request from the same messages and tools, and submits the same deterministically invalid request a second time. The second failure is finally returned.
I reproduced the head behavior through
Run: thisoneOferror produces two provider attempts; the merge base produces one because it has no collected transport-abort branch. The impact is bounded—one unnecessary retry/backoff and a misleading reconnect signal, with no tool dispatch or successful response duplication—which is why this is P3.Please address the classifier's root cause rather than special-casing the word
oneOf. Genuine unexpected-EOF transport failures must remain retryable, but arbitrary upstream prose containing the letterseofmust not establish transport provenance. A boundary-aware EOF match, a category-aware error representation, or another narrowly justified mechanism could satisfy that contract; the review does not require a particular implementation. Add a negative regression that passes a normalized 4xxoneOf-style message through the actualRundecision path and asserts one attempt, no reconnect notice/counter, and the original error. Keep positive coverage proving a genuine unexpected EOF still retries once and preserves the existing bound and cancellation behavior. - A provider rejects a deterministic request with HTTP 400, for example
Overall guidance to close this review in one pass
The number of review rounds is not evidence that this feature needs a broad rewrite. The recurring problem is that a retry is a cross-cutting lifecycle, while the tests initially followed individual reported strings and happy recovery cases. A change at the retry gate affects classification, visible-output safety, incomplete tool previews, nested connection recovery, cancellation identity, user notices, request/trace counters, exhaustion, and special-error recovery. Fixing one observed edge at a time naturally exposed the next untested exit.
For this final correction, audit the retry decision as one contract rather than as a list of error examples:
| Dimension | Contract to preserve | Regression evidence |
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| Error provenance | Only body-stream transport aborts enter this retry; HTTP application/auth/rate-limit errors do not masquerade as transport failures | Feed real normalized provider errors into the decision path, including a 4xx containing oneOf, plus genuine EOF/reset/WSA positives |
| Output state | No retry after committed answer prose; empty callbacks, reasoning, and undispatched previews retain their documented behavior | Assert attempts and callbacks for no output, empty text, reasoning-only, incomplete tool preview, and non-empty text |
| Retry lifecycle | Initial abort, backoff, replacement connect, replacement collection, exhaustion, and cancellation each return the correct error identity | Assert literal attempt counts, errors.Is(context.Canceled), and the terminal error at every exit rather than deriving expectations from the production constants under test |
| External effects | No tool dispatch or transcript commit occurs for the abandoned attempt | Assert OnToolCall remains zero and only the successful replacement can affect history/tools |
| Observability | Notice wording and reconnect/model-request counters describe what actually happened | Assert no reconnect notice/counter for rejected application errors; assert one reconnect and two model requests for a successful transport recovery |
| Recovery compatibility | Image rejection and context-limit handling remain owned by their existing recovery paths | Keep negative classifier cases so transport matching cannot steal those errors |
The most valuable test is not another direct predicate assertion. Exercise the production-shaped error after provider normalization and through Run, because that is where status information has been flattened and where retry side effects become observable. Direct classifier tests are still useful as a small unit layer, but they should be paired with at least one end-to-end decision test that proves request count, notice, counter, cancellation, and dispatch behavior together.
Please also make the test mutation-resistant: use literal expected attempt counts for the one-retry contract, use a positive wsarecv case that does not also contain another matching phrase, and include negative collision text that would fail if matching regressed to an unbounded eof substring. That catches the policy changing rather than merely confirming the test and implementation share the same constant or sample string.
This guidance is intentionally bounded. It does not require adding HTTP/2 RST_STREAM/GOAWAY or WebSocket close-status policy in this PR, changing the one-retry limit, redesigning the agent loop, or adding new public APIs. The immediate goal is to fix the remaining category error while preserving the recovery behavior already established and tested on this head.
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I rechecked the current head. One low-severity correctness issue remains, and the final commit has not run through the required CI gates.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Run the required workflows on the final head before merge
internal/agent/reconnect.go:194
Both current-head workflow runs (CIandPR Auto Review) are held ataction_required, so no GitHub check run has exercisede4069b48; the prior cross-platform green run belongs to an older head. This is a maintainer-side fork gate, not an author code defect: please release the workflows and require the exact final head to pass before merging. If the fix creates another head, release and evaluate CI for that head rather than relying on the older green run. The branch itself is exactly rebased onto livemainand applies without conflict.
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[P3] Reject classified provider errors before matching transport phrases
internal/agent/reconnect.go:197
The EOF boundary fix prevents the reportedoneOfcollision, but every other abort phrase is still applied with unrestrictedstrings.Containsto the complete flattened provider error. The problem is not the spelling ofoneOf; it is that error provenance and error prose have been collapsed into one string before this decision is made.A concrete failure sequence is:
- A provider rejects a deterministic request with HTTP 400 and an error body such as
connection closed is not a supported finish reason. - OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini return their stream channel before the HTTP exchange completes. Their non-2xx path calls
providerio.ClassifiedError, which emitsprovider request error: connection closed is not a supported finish reasonas aStreamEventErrorand discards the numeric 400. CollectStreamWithOptionsretains only that string. The image/context recovery paths do not own it, and the 5xx guard cannot recover the discarded 4xx provenance.isMidStreamTransportAbortfinds the unrestrictedconnection closedsubstring and returns true even though the error was explicitly classified as an application/request failure.- With no answer prose committed,
Runreportsconnection lost, incrementsreconnect_count, waits, rebuilds the same request, and submits the same invalid request a second time before returning the original failure.
I reproduced this path through
Run: current head makes two provider calls and records one reconnect, while the merge base/live target make one call and never enter the reconnect lifecycle. The impact is bounded to one unnecessary request/backoff plus misleading notice and telemetry; no local tool is dispatched and no transcript turn is committed, which is why this remains P3.Please fix the category boundary rather than adding another special case for
connection closedor another individual phrase. Knownprovider request error:,auth error:, andrate limit error:values must not become transport evidence merely because their prose contains a socket word. Preserving a structured error kind/status until the retry decision would be the durable solution. If that representation change is too broad for this PR, a centralized provenance gate that rejects known classified non-transport categories before matching body-stream transport signatures is sufficient here; a typed-error refactor can remain separate. Either approach must keep genuineprovider stream error:EOF/reset/Windows aborts retryable once.Add the regression at the
Rundecision boundary after provider-style normalization, not only as a direct predicate test. Assert one model attempt, zero reconnect notices,reconnect_count=0, the original application error, and zero tool dispatch. Keep positive production-decision coverage for genuine unexpected EOF/reset/wsarecv so a provenance fix cannot accidentally disable the feature. - A provider rejects a deterministic request with HTTP 400 and an error body such as
Overall guidance to close this review in one pass
This PR is not accumulating findings because the feature needs a broad rewrite. The repeated feedback comes from treating a retry as a list of error strings when it is actually a cross-cutting lifecycle. Each earlier correction fixed a real symptom—gate width, cancellation identity, empty callbacks, retry bounds, notice wording, tool-dispatch safety, reconnect telemetry, and the bare-eof collision—but the tests initially pinned the reported example rather than the complete policy boundary. That made the next untested exit or neighboring string visible only after the previous one was corrected.
The root causes are:
- Provenance is flattened too early. HTTP status/category, body-stream transport failure, and arbitrary provider prose all arrive at the retry gate as strings. A transport-looking word can therefore override a known application-error category.
- The retry spans several independently failing stages. Initial collection, eligibility, outer backoff, replacement connection (including its nested reconnect loop), replacement collection, special-error recovery, exhaustion, and cancellation each have distinct return and observability behavior.
- There are three different notions of “output.” Collected answer text, text already forwarded to the user, and transient reasoning/tool previews have different replay safety. Tests need to assert the actual committed/forwarded side effects, not infer them from one field.
- Observability is part of correctness. A second model request, reconnect notice, and
reconnect_countmust appear for a real recovery and must remain absent for a rejected application error. A test that checks only the returned error can miss a duplicate billable request. - Example-based tests are easy to mutate around. A case containing two matching phrases does not pin either phrase; an expected count derived from the production retry constant does not pin the bound; and a direct classifier test does not prove what
Runactually submits or reports.
Please treat the following as the acceptance matrix for the final correction:
| Input / lifecycle edge | Attempts | Reconnect effects | Required outcome |
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| Genuine body-stream unexpected EOF/reset/wsarecv, no answer prose | 2 | One outer reconnect notice/count; model requests reflect both attempts | Replacement may succeed; retry stays bounded at one |
| Classified HTTP 4xx application error containing a remaining transport phrase | 1 | No reconnect notice/count | Return the original application error |
| Classified auth or rate-limit error containing transport-looking prose | 1 | No reconnect notice/count | Preserve the classified error and its existing handling |
| HTTP 5xx/gateway error | 1 at this agent-loop gate | No new mid-stream reconnect effect | Preserve the existing provider/retry ownership; do not double-retry here |
| Non-empty answer prose followed by transport abort | 1 | No reissue | Return the stream error without duplicating visible text |
| Empty text callback, reasoning-only preview, or incomplete local tool preview followed by genuine abort | 2 | Real reconnect effects only | Retry is allowed; abandoned tool call is never dispatched or committed |
| Cancellation during outer wait, replacement connect backoff, or replacement collection | Bounded at the point of cancellation | No later work | Return an error satisfying errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) |
| Replacement attempt fails or exhausts | Exactly the documented bound | Counters/notices match actual attempts | Return the correct terminal error; do not hide it through recovery |
The final tests should use literal attempt and counter expectations and production-shaped normalized errors. Use positive samples that match only the signature being tested (for example, bare wsarecv: 10053) and negative collision samples that would fail if category-blind substring matching returns. Run the focused package under -race, the neighboring agent tests, and the final cross-platform CI on the exact remediation head.
This guidance is deliberately bounded. It does not ask for HTTP/2 RST_STREAM/GOAWAY or WebSocket close-status policy, a different retry limit, an agent-loop rewrite, new public APIs, or a broad provider error refactor in this PR. The current head otherwise addresses the previously reported cancellation, telemetry, empty-text, retry-bound, notice, no-tool-dispatch, and EOF-boundary concerns. One category-aware correction plus the matrix above should close the remaining code issue without another phrase-by-phrase review round.
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Summary
Mid-stream socket aborts (Windows
wsarecv/ WSAECONNABORTED,connection reset by peer, forcibly closed) currently abort the turn and require a manual continue. Pre-send retries (#447/#750) and connect-timestreamWithReconnectalready exist, and CollectStream idle/stall timeouts already auto-retry — but a transport abort during CollectStream did not.This PR extends the existing stall-retry loop so mid-stream transport aborts use the same safety rules (no forwarded visible prose, empty
collected.Text; incomplete tool calls OK because the error returns before tool dispatch). Classification is single-sourced throughshouldReconnectvia newisMidStreamTransportAbort. Retry bound staysmaxStreamStallRetries = 1(not raised). Stall notices keep stall wording; transport aborts use reconnect ("connection lost") wording.Does not change providerio pre-send retry policy (post-send remains non-retryable there). This is an agent-loop safe retry because no tool ran.
Note on issue approval
Parent issue #973 is not yet
issue-approved. @euxaristia explicitly asked to proceed anyway.Changes
internal/agent/reconnect.go— add Windows abort needles (wsarecv,connection was aborted,forcibly closed); addisMidStreamTransportAbortinternal/agent/loop.go— OR mid-stream transport abort into stall-retry gate; pick notice by classification; document fix(providers): auto-retry or recover from mid-stream connection aborts (wsarecv / connection reset) #973 / no-tool-executed safetyinternal/agent/reconnect_test.go— cover Windows abort strings inTestShouldReconnectClassificationinternal/agent/midstream_retry_test.go— parity tests with stall path (connection reset, Windows abort, no-retry after partial output, retry after incomplete tool call)Test plan
go test ./internal/agent/...— not executed locally (no repo checkout per instructions; onlygofmt -esyntax check on patched files)Fixes #973
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