fix(status): retry a transient inference request refusal - #10956
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`nemoclaw <sandbox> status` exited nonzero for a Phase Ready sandbox when the one in-sandbox inference request it sends came back HTTP 503, while the same output still reported route reachability as reachable, the upstream provider as healthy, and the phase as Ready. `collectSandboxStatusSnapshot` already wrapped the route and invocation probes in `retryUntilAsync`, but derived the attempt count from `recoveredManagedGateway`, which requires this run to have restarted a dead gateway. A Ready sandbox whose gateway is already up therefore got exactly one attempt, so a single transient gateway or availability answer became `failureLabel: "unhealthy"` and exit 1. Move the retry policy out of the attempt count and into the `accept` predicate: retry only when the inference request itself was refused with HTTP 429, 502, 503, or 504, the same signature the onboarding probes already treat as transient. A route that never serves the request still reports unhealthy and exits nonzero after three bounded attempts, and HTTP 401, 403, 404, and 500, an invalid 2xx body, a statusless request, and a failing /v1/models route probe all stay final on the first attempt with no added delay. Fixes #10709 Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change centralizes retryable inference HTTP statuses and applies bounded retry classification to sandbox status and native inference probes. Tests cover transient recovery, final failures, route failures, fallback behavior, retry diagnostics, and operational documentation. ChangesInference probe retries
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Sandbox status now retries transient inference failures, but the documented request and diagnostic behavior may still mislead operators diagnosing recovered managed-gateway failures. Runtime impact is bounded to documentation clarity. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StatusCommand
participant SandboxInferenceRoute
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StatusCommand->>SandboxInferenceRoute: probe inference route
SandboxInferenceRoute-->>StatusCommand: return route result
StatusCommand->>SandboxInferenceRoute: send inference request
SandboxInferenceRoute-->>StatusCommand: return HTTP response
StatusCommand->>InferenceRouteHealth: classify invocation failure
InferenceRouteHealth-->>StatusCommand: return retryable or final
StatusCommand->>SandboxInferenceRoute: retry eligible probe after two seconds
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- Line 1400: Update the status documentation describing inference retries to
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The retry sentence read as if every non-transient failure were final on the first attempt. That is true only for an ordinary run: after the same run recovers a managed gateway, `status` still retries any failed route or inference probe while the restarted delivery chain settles. Name both paths so the timing is unambiguous. Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
The status retry added a second copy of the HTTP 429/502/503/504 set that `probe-retry.ts` already owned for the onboarding probes, so a later change to one retry policy could leave the other behind. Move the set to `src/lib/inference/probe/transient-http-policy.ts`, a typed ESM module that `probe-retry.ts` requires the same way it already requires `core/retry`, and that sandbox code imports directly. Put the invocation-result predicate in `inference-route-health.ts` next to `classifyInferenceInvocationFailureLabel`, which already owns how an invocation result is classified; `status-snapshot.ts` reads it through the import it already had, so its fan-out is unchanged. No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
The retry tests proved only HTTP 503 and only that the inference request ran again. Dropping 429, 502, or 504 from the transient set, or moving the route probe out of the retried operation, would have left them green. Parameterize the recovery test over all four transient statuses, assert the `/v1/models` probe runs once per attempt on both the recovery and the exhaustion path, and add the HTTP 403 case so an authorization denial is pinned as final rather than retried with the stored provider credential. Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
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Addressed the PR Review Advisor findings. Four specialists raised four distinct items; all are now fixed. Documentation drift + Operability and recovery — docs contradicted the recovery path. Both specialists, and CodeRabbit, found the same defect: "every other failure is final on the first attempt" is false once Architecture ownership + Reduction and simplification — two owners for the transient status set. Both specialists flagged
No behavior change; Security and built-in quality (blocker) — no HTTP 403 regression test. Correct: the first-attempt matrix covered 401, 404, 500, invalid body, and statusless, but not 403, so nothing stopped a later edit from retrying an authorization denial with the stored provider credential. Added in 8f82b24 as a Verification evidence — retry coverage did not prove the full probe pair repeats. Also correct, and it caught a real hole: the tests exercised only 503 and asserted only invocation counts, so removing 429, 502, or 504 from the set, or moving the route probe out of the retried operation, would have stayed green. Added in 8f82b24:
Regression evidence against On the two failing E2E jobs. Verification for these three commits
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The extraction left `openai-validation-session.ts` on its own copy of the same four statuses, so the module that claims to own the policy did not yet own it and a later change could move the probe paths apart. Read the shared set there too, and cover the native retry path from the settled side: an HTTP 500 reaches the curl fallback after one request, so widening the shared set fails a test instead of silently spending retries. Each caller keeps its own delay schedule, which is genuinely local. No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
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CI settled on The two failures are the same pre-existing
PR #10939, which changes only files under Second advisor run on Migration completion (blocker) and Architecture ownership independently raised one remaining defect, and they were right: my extraction moved
Mutation check on the shared policy. Temporarily adding So the four-status signature is now pinned by tests rather than by a comment. Verification for b37ec6f
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The retry repeats the route probe and the inference request as a pair, but the existing tests returned the same healthy route on every attempt. A regression that re-probed the route and then ignored the answer would have passed their call counts while reporting a healthy sandbox against a route that had just failed. Add a case where the route answers 200, the inference request returns a transient 503, and the second route probe comes back unreachable. Assert that no second inference request is sent and that the reported health is the second route result. Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
… reference Five pages, and one paragraph inside the `status` section itself, still said `status` sends one inference request. That stopped being true for a transient gateway status, and inside the command reference it contradicted the retry paragraph three screens above it. Say "an inference request" where the count is the only claim, and name the bounded retry on the two operational pages whose readers feel the added wait: troubleshooting and the headless-server deployment guide. The command reference keeps sole ownership of the retried statuses, the attempt count, and the token cost. The `start` sentence is unchanged because `start` still sends exactly one request, and the credential rotation page now says outright that a rejection is not retried. Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
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Third advisor run on Verification evidence — the retry tests did not prove the rechecked route is believed. The loop repeats the Mutation check: changing Documentation drift — the request count was stale outside the command reference. Five pages still said I did not restate the full retry policy on all five pages as the specialist suggested. That would create six owners of one contract, which is the defect Architecture ownership flagged on the previous run. Instead:
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In `@docs/deployment/deploy-to-headless-server.mdx`:
- Line 209: Update the main Inference status description to clarify that
unhealthy is reported only after the final request failure or after all
retryable transient attempts fail, while later successful attempts can report
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444-444: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the HTTP 5xx result description.
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500through599response makes the route unhealthy. HTTP502,503, and504retry, and a later successful attempt reportshealthy. State thatunhealthyfollows a final failure or exhausted transient attempts.Proposed fix
- An HTTP status from `500` through `599` makes the authoritative `inference.local` route unhealthy. + A final HTTP status from `500` through `599` makes the authoritative `inference.local` route unhealthy. HTTP `502`, `503`, and `504` report unhealthy only after all transient attempts fail.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 1402: The status documentation around the ordinary inference run and
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Thank you for the careful implementation and validation. We are closing this PR because the product decision is not to add retries to an ordinary
The current production contract keeps these observations independent:
Those results can coexist without contradiction. The command must exit nonzero because the authoritative inference request failed. Retries remain in scope when NemoClaw owns a settling transition, such as onboarding validation or recovery of a managed gateway. Runtime request retries remain owned by the supported agent or provider client. Ordinary status does not provide availability smoothing. A persistent 503 in normal agent traffic can be investigated as a separate inference-routing or provider issue with an end-to-end reproduction. This PR changes status semantics, so it is outside the accepted product scope. Closing without merge together with #10709. |
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Approved at exact head 98151dd under current maintainer product direction. CI is fully green: all 12 CLI shards and aggregate, protected reviewed-npm audit, self-hosted sandbox/gateway/port/non-root E2E, docs, CodeQL, static checks, typechecks, packaging, and all nine Advisor jobs pass. Advisor text restates the superseded scope decision but identifies no implementation or test defect. All 24 commits are verified and no review threads remain unresolved.
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nemoclaw <sandbox> statusno longer exits nonzero for a Ready sandbox solely because its first in-sandbox inference request receives a transient gateway or availability response. The command retries HTTP429,502,503, and504up to three total attempts, with a two-second delay. It reports success when a later request succeeds and preserves the existing unhealthy result when every attempt fails. Before each retry, it reports the failed probe, next attempt, and delay on stderr without contaminating JSON stdout.Reason
collectSandboxStatusSnapshotalready used a bounded retry primitive, but an ordinary status run supplied no retry delays. Only a status run that had just recovered a stopped managed gateway made multiple attempts. A Ready sandbox with a live gateway therefore treated one transient provider response as authoritative even though route reachability, upstream health, and sandbox phase were all healthy.Onboarding already treats HTTP
429,502,503, and504as transient. This PR gives status probes the same classification without adding another retry layer to normal agent traffic.Related issues
Fixes #10709
Related to #10631. That issue reproduces a direct NVIDIA cloud endpoint
503with a correctly entitled key. This PR mitigates the false-negative status result caused by one such response; it does not claim to repair provider capacity or add a provider-ownedRetry-Afterheader, so it does not close #10631.Changes
src/lib/inference/probe/transient-http-policy.tsand reuse that definition in onboarding validation and sandbox status.429,502,503, or504during an ordinary status run.401,403,404, and500, malformed 2xx responses, statusless failures, and failing route probes final on the first attempt during an ordinary run.Retry ownership
The OpenShell/NemoClaw gateway remains a pass-through and does not replay agent POST or streaming requests. Supported agents already own bounded runtime retries:
503and propagates request cancellation and timeout signals.503as overloaded, retries within its bounded backoff policy, and checks interruption before and during backoff.Adding another gateway retry would multiply attempts across layers and could replay partially observed POST or streaming work. Permanent authorization responses remain outside this PR's transient set.
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npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-snapshot-inference-health.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/inference-route-health.test.ts src/lib/inference/openai-validation-session-fallback.test.ts— 3 files and 88 tests passed before the diagnostic follow-up.npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-snapshot-inference-health.test.ts— 34 tests passed after the diagnostic follow-up, including stderr progress and terminal no-retry assertions.npm run typecheck:cli— passed.npm run docs— passed; Fern reported 0 errors and 5 existing warnings after rendering the OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents variants.npx oxfmt --checkand focusednpx oxlinton the changed TypeScript files — passed.npx tsx scripts/check-docs-published-routes.mts— passed for 69 guarded pages.npm run checks:repository— passed, including the live E2E assertion census after merging the mainline correction from test(e2e): reduce Hermes Discord assertions #11001.npm run validate:pr— passed on the exact head, covering pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push checks.npm run test:changed— the growth guard passed 45 tests and six of seven affected files passed. One unrelated Oclif adapter test exceeded its 5-second timeout while several other worktrees saturated the local machine; an isolated replay also timed out under the same load. The exact-head hosted CLI shards all pass, so the test timeout policy is unchanged.Exact-head hosted validation passes all 12 CLI shards, aggregate CLI tests, build/typecheck, plugin tests, installer integration, repository checks, docs validation and parity, CodeQL, and ShellCheck. All nine PR Review Advisor specialists report no defect. The preceding exact-code head passed the full self-hosted PR qualification matrix, including gateway isolation. Current required checks are blocked only by a repository-wide npm audit endpoint outage: the standalone audit and both image architectures timed out after their three built-in attempts and one targeted rerun, while four concurrent full PR runs show the same failure. Further retries are held until a newer GitHub-run audit demonstrates recovery.
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The retry is bounded at three attempts and has a narrow response signature. It does not retry HTTP
500, permanent authorization failures, invalid successful responses, requests without an HTTP status, or a failed route probe on an ordinary run. A persistent503still reportsunhealthyand exits nonzero with the final diagnostic.All CodeRabbit threads are resolved. CodeRabbit confirmed that
151b69a11fixes its final exact-head documentation finding by describing one request per attempt and naming HTTP status as optional retry evidence. The earlier PR Review Advisor operability finding is corrected in3571b140a: scheduled retries are visible on stderr and the documented timeout envelope reflects all three possible probe pairs.Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen haingu@nvidia.com
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