feat(providers): offer reconnect for auth-class inference failures

Author: TheGreatAxios

src/inference-error-message.test.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
 
 import { normalizeInferenceErrorForTerminal } from "./inference-gateway-error.js";
 import {
+  CREDENTIAL_FAILURE_USER_MESSAGE,
   inferenceErrorMessage,
   terminalProviderFailureMessage,
 } from "./inference-error-message.js";
@@ -200,6 +201,155 @@ describe("terminalProviderFailureMessage", () => {
     expect(message.toLowerCase()).not.toContain("retrying");
   });
 
+  test("terminal xAI OAuth 426 names the profile and spells the reconnect command", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForTerminal(
+      {
+        category: "fatal",
+        message: "Upgrade Required",
+        statusCode: 426,
+        raw: { error: { code: "upgrade_required" } },
+      },
+      "xai/default-2",
+    );
+    const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage("xai/default-2", normalized);
+    expect(message).toContain('xAI profile "default-2"');
+    expect(message).toContain('"/connect xai default-2"');
+    expect(message).toContain('reconnect profile "default-2"');
+  });
+
+  test("terminal xAI 401 credential failure spells the reconnect command", () => {
+    const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage("xai/default-2", {
+      category: "credential_failure",
+      message: '{"error":{"code":401}}',
+      statusCode: 401,
+      providerId: "xai/default-2",
+    });
+    expect(message).toContain("/connect");
+    expect(message).toContain('"/connect xai default-2"');
+    expect(message).toContain('reconnect profile "default-2"');
+  });
+
+  test("terminal Codex credential failure keeps branded wording plus the explicit command", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForTerminal(
+      {
+        category: "fatal",
+        message: "Not Found",
+        statusCode: 404,
+        raw: {
+          error: {
+            code: "invalid_token",
+            message: "Not authorized: the access token has been revoked",
+          },
+        },
+      },
+      "codex/work",
+    );
+    const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage("codex/work", normalized);
+    expect(message).toContain('Codex profile "work"');
+    // Branded line keeps its wording (bare /connect); the explicit command is
+    // additive, never a stutter of the generic line.
+    expect(message).toContain("/connect");
+    expect(message).toContain('"/connect codex work"');
+    expect(message).not.toContain("run /connect to reconnect");
+  });
+
+  test.each([
+    {
+      name: "bare 404",
+      providerId: "codex/work",
+      error: {
+        category: "fatal" as const,
+        message: "Not Found",
+        statusCode: 404,
+      },
+      exact:
+        'codex/work Provider failed (fatal): Not Found. Try again or switch models with "/model".',
+    },
+    {
+      name: "quota",
+      providerId: "xai/alice",
+      error: {
+        category: "quota_exhausted" as const,
+        message: "Too Many Requests",
+        statusCode: 429,
+      },
+      exact:
+        "xai/alice Provider failed (retryable): Rate limited. Wait a moment and try again.",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "overflow",
+      providerId: "xai/alice",
+      error: {
+        category: "context_overflow" as const,
+        message: "context length exceeded",
+      },
+      exact:
+        "xai/alice Provider failed (context_overflow): context length exceeded. Try /clear to start fresh.",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "non-OAuth 426",
+      providerId: "custom-provider",
+      error: {
+        category: "fatal" as const,
+        message: "Upgrade Required",
+        statusCode: 426,
+      },
+      exact:
+        'custom-provider Provider failed (fatal): Upgrade Required. Try again or switch models with "/model".',
+    },
+  ])(
+    "non-reconnect $name keeps byte-identical guidance",
+    ({ providerId, error, exact }) => {
+      const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForTerminal(error, providerId);
+      const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage(providerId, normalized);
+      expect(message).toBe(exact);
+      expect(message).not.toContain('"/connect ');
+    },
+  );
+
+  test.each([
+    {
+      providerId: "xai/alice",
+      command: '"/connect xai alice"',
+      profile: "alice",
+    },
+    {
+      providerId: "codex/alice",
+      command: '"/connect codex alice"',
+      profile: "alice",
+    },
+  ])(
+    "reconnect-class $providerId spells the explicit reconnect command",
+    ({ providerId, command, profile }) => {
+      const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForTerminal(
+        {
+          category: "credential_failure",
+          message: "Unauthorized",
+          statusCode: 401,
+        },
+        providerId,
+      );
+      const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage(providerId, normalized);
+      expect(message).toContain(
+        `Run ${command} to reconnect profile "${profile}".`,
+      );
+    },
+  );
+
+  test("bare kind-only id is not reconnect-class and keeps base guidance", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForTerminal(
+      {
+        category: "credential_failure",
+        message: "Unauthorized",
+        statusCode: 401,
+      },
+      "xai",
+    );
+    const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage("xai", normalized);
+    expect(message).not.toContain('"/connect ');
+    expect(message).toContain(CREDENTIAL_FAILURE_USER_MESSAGE);
+  });
+
   test("retryable 429 guidance asks the operator to wait before trying again", () => {
     const message = terminalProviderFailureMessage("codex/default", {
       category: "retryable",

src/inference-error-message.ts

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   gatewayOverloadUserMessage,
   isCodexShortRateLimitInferenceError,
   isGatewayOverloadInferenceError,
+  isKnownOAuthProviderId,
   isXaiShortRateLimitInferenceError,
   parseCodexUsageLimitFromError,
   RATE_LIMIT_USER_MESSAGE,
@@ -167,22 +168,71 @@ export function terminalProviderFailureMessage(
   const diagnosticSentence = /[.!?]$/.test(diagnostic)
     ? diagnostic
     : `${diagnostic}.`;
-  const guidance = terminalProviderFailureGuidance(error, category);
+  const guidance = terminalProviderFailureGuidance(error, category, providerId);
   const tail = guidance.length > 0 ? ` ${guidance}` : "";
   return `${label} Provider failed (${category}): ${diagnosticSentence}${tail}`;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Split a `kind/name` provider id into its reconnect scope. Unslashed ids
+ * reconnect the `default` profile. Returns undefined for malformed ids so the
+ * guidance never spells a broken command. Shared with the reconnect
+ * descriptor (Phase 3) — one split, not two.
+ */
+export function splitReconnectScope(
+  providerId: string,
+): { kind: string; profile: string } | undefined {
+  const slash = providerId.indexOf("/");
+  if (slash <= 0) {
+    return providerId.length > 0
+      ? { kind: providerId, profile: "default" }
+      : undefined;
+  }
+  const kind = providerId.slice(0, slash);
+  const profile = providerId.slice(slash + 1);
+  if (kind.length === 0 || profile.length === 0) return undefined;
+  return { kind, profile };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Explicit one-action reconnect command for reconnect-class terminal failures
+ * (credential_failure on a known-OAuth id): `Run "/connect <kind> <profile>"
+ * to reconnect profile "<profile>".` Empty for anything else, and empty when
+ * the diagnostic already carries the explicit command — never a stutter.
+ */
+function reconnectCommandGuidance(
+  providerId: string,
+  diagnosticMessage: string,
+): string {
+  if (!isKnownOAuthProviderId(providerId)) return "";
+  const scope = splitReconnectScope(providerId);
+  if (scope === undefined) return "";
+  const command = `"/connect ${scope.kind} ${scope.profile}"`;
+  if (diagnosticMessage.includes(command)) return "";
+  return `Run ${command} to reconnect profile "${scope.profile}".`;
+}
+
 function terminalProviderFailureGuidance(
   error: InferenceErrorLike,
   category: string,
+  providerId: string,
 ): string {
   if (category === "credential_failure") {
     // Normalized credential failures already carry the re-login hint in the
     // diagnostic (e.g. Codex profile copy); repeating it reads as a stutter.
     // Shared with the classifier via carriesCodexReLoginHint — one predicate.
-    return carriesCodexReLoginHint(error.message ?? "")
+    const base = carriesCodexReLoginHint(error.message ?? "")
       ? ""
       : CREDENTIAL_FAILURE_USER_MESSAGE;
+    // Reconnect-class failures additionally spell the explicit command so the
+    // operator can repair the named profile in one action (issue #1295). The
+    // Codex branded line keeps its wording; the explicit command is additive.
+    const explicit = reconnectCommandGuidance(
+      error.providerId ?? providerId,
+      error.message ?? "",
+    );
+    if (explicit.length === 0) return base;
+    return base.length > 0 ? `${base} ${explicit}` : explicit;
   }
   if (category === "context_overflow") return "Try /clear to start fresh.";
   // A 429 that survived the harness's paced retries is a wait-it-out rate
@@ -210,7 +260,7 @@ function terminalProviderFailureSummary(
 ): string {
   const label = terminalProviderFailureLabel(providerId, displayLabel);
   const category = terminalProviderFailureCategory(error);
-  const guidance = terminalProviderFailureGuidance(error, category);
+  const guidance = terminalProviderFailureGuidance(error, category, providerId);
   const tail = guidance.length > 0 ? ` ${guidance}` : "";
   return `${label} Provider failed (${category}).${tail}`;
 }

src/inference-gateway-error.test.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,18 @@ const CLOUDFLARE_503_HTML = `<!DOCTYPE html>
 <body><h1>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</h1>
 <p>Cloudflare Ray ID: abc</p></body></html>`;
 
+// PROVISIONAL (Phase 0, issue #1295): the real xAI 426 body for xai/default-2
+// is unknown — the issue reports a bare "HTTP 426 Upgrade Required". Grounded
+// in the status code, the reason phrase, and the OAuth provider id only; no
+// body-signal assertions until a real payload lands.
+const PROVISIONAL_XAI_426_UPGRADE_REQUIRED = {
+  category: "fatal" as const,
+  message: "Upgrade Required",
+  statusCode: 426,
+  providerId: "xai/default-2",
+  raw: { error: { code: "upgrade_required", message: "Upgrade Required" } },
+};
+
 describe("looksLikeHtmlGatewayBody", () => {
   test("detects doctype HTML", () => {
     expect(looksLikeHtmlGatewayBody(CLOUDFLARE_503_HTML)).toBe(true);
@@ -73,6 +85,120 @@ describe("normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry", () => {
     expect(normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry(err)).toEqual(err);
   });
 
+  // Phase 1 (issue #1295): normalizeOAuthUpgradeRequiredError grounds the
+  // provisional marker list — OAuth 426 with upgrade signal is reconnect-class.
+  test("PROVISIONAL: xAI OAuth 426 with upgrade signal normalizes to credential_failure", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry(
+      PROVISIONAL_XAI_426_UPGRADE_REQUIRED,
+    );
+    expect(normalized.category).toBe("credential_failure");
+    expect(normalized.statusCode).toBe(426);
+    expect(normalized.message).toContain('xAI profile "default-2"');
+    expect(normalized.message).toContain("/connect");
+    expect(normalized.raw).toEqual(PROVISIONAL_XAI_426_UPGRADE_REQUIRED.raw);
+  });
+
+  test("xAI OAuth 426 with raw-body auth signal names the profile", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry({
+      category: "fatal",
+      message: "",
+      statusCode: 426,
+      providerId: "xai/default-2",
+      raw: { error: { message: "Not authorized: token revoked" } },
+    });
+    expect(normalized.category).toBe("credential_failure");
+    expect(normalized.message).toContain('xAI profile "default-2"');
+  });
+
+  test("Codex OAuth 426 with auth signal reuses the branded re-login line", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry({
+      category: "fatal",
+      message: "Upgrade Required",
+      statusCode: 426,
+      providerId: "codex/work",
+      raw: { error: { code: "invalid_token" } },
+    });
+    expect(normalized.category).toBe("credential_failure");
+    expect(normalized.message).toContain('Codex profile "work"');
+    expect(carriesCodexReLoginHint(normalized.message)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("OAuth 426 without body signal is still reconnect-class on an OAuth id", () => {
+    const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry({
+      category: "fatal",
+      message: "",
+      statusCode: 426,
+      providerId: "xai/default-2",
+    });
+    expect(normalized.category).toBe("credential_failure");
+    expect(normalized.statusCode).toBe(426);
+    expect(normalized.message).toContain('xAI profile "default-2"');
+  });
+
+  test.each([
+    {
+      name: "API-key 426",
+      error: {
+        category: "fatal" as const,
+        message: "Upgrade Required",
+        statusCode: 426,
+        providerId: "openai/prod",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: "custom-provider 426",
+      error: {
+        category: "fatal" as const,
+        message: "Upgrade Required",
+        statusCode: 426,
+        providerId: "custom-provider",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: "provider-less 426",
+      error: {
+        category: "fatal" as const,
+        message: "Upgrade Required",
+        statusCode: 426,
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: "bare OAuth 426 without signal on a non-OAuth id",
+      error: {
+        category: "fatal" as const,
+        message: "",
+        statusCode: 426,
+        providerId: "openai/prod",
+      },
+    },
+  ])("non-OAuth $name stays fatal", ({ error }) => {
+    expect(normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry(error)).toEqual(error);
+  });
+
+  test("OAuth 426 with quota text stays fatal", () => {
+    const err = {
+      category: "fatal" as const,
+      message: "Upgrade Required",
+      statusCode: 426,
+      providerId: "xai/default-2",
+      raw: { error: { message: "exceeded your current quota" } },
+    };
+    expect(normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry(err)).toEqual(err);
+  });
+
+  test("OAuth 426 with deprecation text stays fatal", () => {
+    const err = {
+      category: "fatal" as const,
+      message: "Upgrade Required",
+      statusCode: 426,
+      providerId: "xai/default-2",
+      raw: {
+        error: { message: "model 'grok-x' has expired — migrate to 'grok-y'" },
+      },
+    };
+    expect(normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry(err)).toEqual(err);
+  });
+
   test("maps GoUsageLimitError 429 to quota_exhausted", () => {
     const normalized = normalizeInferenceErrorForRetry({
       category: "retryable",