fix(providers): bound LLM provider concurrency and stop counting 429s as breaker failures - #1259
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ResilientProvider wrapped the LLM provider with a circuit breaker and nothing
else. There was no semaphore, no queue and no concurrency ceiling anywhere on
the provider path, so every captured observation fired compress() immediately.
Under multi-subagent load that is dozens of simultaneous upstream calls, and the
provider answered exactly as you would expect:
OpenAI API error (429): {"error":"too many concurrent requests"}
Those 429s were then fed to the breaker. At the configured threshold of three
failures in sixty seconds it opened, and for the next thirty seconds every
compression failed fast with circuit_breaker_open while the provider was
perfectly healthy and merely busy. Observed in production: continuous
circuit_breaker_open on compression, so observations were captured but never
compressed.
Two changes, and the second matters as much as the first.
Bound the number of in-flight calls, default four and overridable per instance
or with AGENTMEMORY_MAX_PROVIDER_CONCURRENCY. The semaphore hands a released
slot directly to the next waiter instead of decrementing and letting waiters
race for the opening, and releases in a finally so a throw cannot leak a slot
and deadlock everything queued behind it.
Stop recording a rate-limit response as a breaker failure. A 429 says slow down,
not that the provider is broken; treating backpressure as a fault is what
converted a busy upstream into a thirty-second outage. Genuine failures still
open the breaker, and the breaker is still checked before queueing so an open
circuit fails fast rather than occupying a slot.
Tests cover peak concurrency under a burst of 24 calls, slot release on the
error path, that 429s leave the breaker closed, and that real errors still open
it. Each was run against the unmodified source first: peak concurrency measured
24 against a limit of 3, and the breaker measured open where it should have been
closed.
Reading the process environment directly bypassed the user-level agentmemory config file, which is the surface every sibling provider goes through (minimax.ts, providers/index.ts and _fetch.ts all use getEnvVar). Same line count, and it closes a real gap: an operator setting the limit there would have seen it silently ignored. Drop the breaker options passthrough. Nothing in production supplies it, all three constructions in providers/index.ts are bare, and every test that passed it was restating a default. CircuitBreakerOptions goes back to being private. Collapse the one-field options interface into an inline type, merge the two rate-limit regexes into one with an identical truth table, and cut the comments that restated the commit message. The release-handoff note stays: it is design rationale, not narrative. Fold the completion assertion into the concurrency test, which already proved it by resolving all 24 calls, and drop the maxConcurrent arguments that were no-ops against sequentially awaited calls. The one in the slot-release test stays, because at the default of 4 a leaked slot would not deadlock and that test would pass despite the bug.
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ChangesResilient provider controls
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change still uses a default concurrency limit of six instead of the required four, and its test setup omits a required provider mock; these should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
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participant Provider
Caller->>ResilientProvider: invoke provider operation
ResilientProvider->>Semaphore: acquire slot
Semaphore-->>ResilientProvider: return slot or queue-limit error
ResilientProvider->>ResilientProvider: recheck circuit breaker
ResilientProvider->>Provider: invoke operation
Provider-->>ResilientProvider: return result or provider error
ResilientProvider->>ResilientProvider: record half-open rate-limited failure
ResilientProvider->>Semaphore: release slot
ResilientProvider-->>Caller: return result or circuit-breaker error
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Add the required iii-sdk test mock.
test/resilient-provider.test.ts does not declare vi.mock("iii-sdk"), which violates the repository convention for test/**/*.test.ts. Add the mock before the test cases, with sdk.trigger and KV method mocks for get, set, and list.
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In `@test/resilient-provider.test.ts` around lines 1 - 3, Add the
repository-standard vi.mock("iii-sdk") declaration in resilient-provider.test.ts
before the test cases, providing mocks for sdk.trigger and the KV get, set, and
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…cap the queue Four defects a review surfaced in the concurrency bound. The rate-limit filter matched too broadly. Providers interpolate the whole upstream body into the error message, so a genuine 500 whose body carried a link to /docs/guides/rate-limits was classified as backpressure and never reached the breaker, leaving it blind to a provider that was actually broken. Matching on status codes and API error codes instead, with rate[ _]limit for prose and the rate_limit_error / rate_limit_exceeded codes, which does not match the hyphenated form in a URL. There is now a test that fails on the old pattern. Quota exhaustion arrives as a 429 as well, but it is a persistent state rather than backpressure, so excusing it meant the breaker could never open for a provider that would not recover on its own. Billing and insufficient_quota messages are checked first and fall through as genuine failures. 529 overloaded_error is Anthropic's form of the same busy signal and matched nothing, so the exact problem this change exists to fix survived on that path. The default limit moves from 4 to 6 to match CHUNK_CONCURRENCY_DEFAULT in summarize.ts. That value is tuned so a ~100-chunk session finishes inside the 180s invocation budget at roughly 8s per call, and a global gate of 4 both pushed it past that budget and silently turned SUMMARIZE_CHUNK_CONCURRENCY into a no-op above 4 while still logging the requested value. The breaker is re-checked after acquiring a slot. A call that passed the first check may wait while the running calls fail and open the circuit, and without this it is still sent to a provider already known to be down, where each further failure pushes the recovery window further out. The waiting queue is capped. A queued call holds its prompts alive, compression is dispatched fire-and-forget so no backpressure reaches the producer, and an unbounded queue is a memory leak on a service that is already memory-constrained.
Excusing rate limits left half-open as a state the breaker could enter and never leave. isAllowed returns true unconditionally in half-open, and the probe's outcome is recorded nowhere else, so a probe that came back 429 recorded neither success nor failure: the breaker stayed half-open and admitted every subsequent call indefinitely, while reporting half-open to the health endpoint. A probe that came back rate-limited has still failed as a probe, so record it. The test for this initially passed against the broken code. It relied on a constructor option that no longer exists, so the 30s default recovery window applied, a few milliseconds of sleep never reached half-open, the probe never happened, and the assertion held trivially. It now moves the clock past the window with fake timers, and reverting the fix fails it.
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10-10: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSet the required default concurrency limit.
Line 10 sets the default to six. The PR objective requires four.
src/providers/index.ts:55-57constructsResilientProviderwithout options, so normal provider calls use six concurrent requests.Set
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65-67: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRead structured HTTP status fields for rate-limit classification.
If a provider returns an
Errorwithstatus: 429but no matching text inmessage,ResilientProvider.call()treats it as a failure. Three such failures can open the circuit. Read the structured status before matching the message and add a status-only 429 regression test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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… probe assertion
The half-open probe test asserted `not.toBe("half-open")`, which is weaker than
the invariant it protects. It also accepts "closed" — a rate-limited probe
mistaken for full recovery, which is the worse bug — and it would pass vacuously
if the clock advance failed to take, because the breaker would still be open and
the probe would never dispatch. It now asserts the probe actually ran and that
the state is exactly open.
The post-acquire breaker recheck had no coverage at all. Added a test that fills
the single slot, queues calls behind it, and requires the queued ones to be
turned away with circuit_breaker_open rather than reaching a provider already
known to be down. Reverting the recheck fails it.
…ure check AGENTS.md asks for clear naming over comments that restate what the code does. Five blocks in resilient.ts were doing exactly that: the Semaphore doc narrated acquire and release, the resolveMaxConcurrent header restated `configured ?? env ?? default`, and the pre-queue and `finally` comments restated the two lines sitting under them. isRateLimited becomes isBackpressure so the call site states the policy the deleted header used to explain. The new name is also the accurate one, since the quota and billing carve-out returns false for 429s that are not backpressure. The function is module-local, so the rename is two lines. The surviving comments record why a line exists rather than what it does, which no identifier can carry: the summarize.ts concurrency coupling, the queue bound, the quota carve-out, the docs-URL regex regression, the post-queue breaker recheck, and the half-open probe exception. Every other removed line is a comment, so behavior is unchanged.
The gate this branch adds is global, so it silently caps
SUMMARIZE_CHUNK_CONCURRENCY — which summarize.ts explicitly tells operators to
raise for high-throughput providers ("Novita / DeepInfra / DeepSeek typically
allow 100+ concurrent"). With no entry in the env block, an operator following
that advice sets 100, gets 6, and has nothing to point at. providers/index.ts
constructs ResilientProvider bare at all three call sites, so
options.maxConcurrent is a test seam and this variable is the only lever
production has.
Placed beside AGENTMEMORY_LLM_TIMEOUT_MS, the other outbound-call tuning knob,
and states the coupling rather than only the default.
SUMMARIZE_CHUNK_CONCURRENCY and SUMMARIZE_CHUNK_SIZE are themselves absent from
the env block. Documenting them is left out of scope here.
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The bug
ResilientProviderwraps the LLM provider with a circuit breaker and nothing else. There is no semaphore, no queue, and no concurrency ceiling anywhere on the provider path, so every captured observation firescompress()the moment it arrives.Under load that means dozens of simultaneous upstream calls, and the provider answers exactly as you would expect:
Then the second half of the problem: those 429s were fed to the breaker. At its configured threshold of three failures in sixty seconds it opened, and for the next thirty seconds every compression failed fast with
circuit_breaker_open— while the provider was healthy and merely busy.Observed in a deployed instance as a continuous stream of
circuit_breaker_openon compression. Observations were being captured and never compressed.The change
Bound the number of in-flight calls. Default four, overridable per instance or with
AGENTMEMORY_MAX_PROVIDER_CONCURRENCY. The semaphore hands a released slot directly to the next waiter rather than decrementing and letting waiters race for the opening, and it releases in afinallyso a throw cannot leak a slot and deadlock everything queued behind it.Stop recording a rate-limit response as a breaker failure. A 429 says slow down, not you are broken. Treating backpressure as a fault is what converted a busy upstream into a thirty-second outage. Genuine failures still open the breaker, and the breaker is still checked before queueing so an open circuit fails fast instead of occupying a slot.
Why the wrapper rather than the call sites
compress/summarizehave 15+ call sites across 12 files (reflect, consolidation-pipeline, temporal-graph, query-expansion, skill-extract, compress-file, summarize, flow-compress, consolidate, sliding-window, crystallize, graph, eval/self-correct). Bounding at the call site is a twelve-file diff that every future caller has to remember. The wrapper is the single choke point all callers already route through, and it is where the breaker already lives.No dependency was added. There is no concurrency helper among the existing dependencies, and adding one for twenty lines would not earn its keep.
Real behavior proof
Measured on a deployed instance, before and after.
Before — continuous in the logs:
After deploying this change, over the same log window:
circuit_breaker_openAPI error (429)Compression failedTesting
Four tests in
test/resilient-provider.test.ts, each run against the unmodified source first and confirmed to fail:openwhere it should beclosedmaxConcurrent: 1deliberately: at the default of 4 a leaked slot would not deadlock and the test would pass despite the bug)Mutation-checked: making 429s count as breaker failures again kills the rate-limit test.
npm test: 1715 passing.tsc --noEmitunchanged from base (same 30 pre-existing errors, confirmed by stashing).What this does not claim
This fixes the breaker cascade and compression availability. It does not reduce memory. On the instance where it was measured,
iiiholds ~6.7 GB of anonymous heap against a 779 MB store, and this change does not touch that.Summary by CodeRabbit
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