fix(combos): hop on a definite zero-output context overflow - #4744
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…skip ci] A heterogeneous combo mixes context windows, so a refusal that says "this turn does not fit THIS model" is not evidence the turn is impossible. The chain stopped at the first undersized target anyway, and a native transport made it worse by reporting a zero-output overflow as a generic upstream_server_error carrying precise context-window prose, which never looked like a context verdict at all. Classify that case from the innermost provider message. classifyError remaps any occurrence of "context window", "context length", "maximum context" or "too many tokens" found anywhere in the blob; inheriting that looseness would let a context_length_exceeded token sitting in a code field beside "Unsupported parameter: user" authorize a replay. The new classifier unwraps only the exact proxy wrapper, within four envelopes and 16,384 characters, and reads the leaf. Three bounds keep the widening honest: - A JSON-shaped body that does not parse fails closed. normalizeUpstreamErrorText caps classificationText at 500 characters, so a long envelope reaches the classifier as a prefix, and reading that prefix as prose would let whichever field landed in the first 500 bytes authorize a hop. - Only statuses that speak about the request are admitted: 400, 413, 422 and 5xx. A 401/403 body that merely quotes context prose keeps its provider-wide cooldown instead of being rescored as request-shaped. - Structured origin_rejected now stops explicitly. The existing test only matched that token in the message, so an origin reporting it out of band could have been overridden by context prose. Cooldown treats a definite overflow as request-shaped, so an oversized turn no longer cools a healthy target. This cannot duplicate visible output. A streaming child reaches combo classification only through preflightComboStreamResponse, which commits the child on any text, tool call or unknown event and synthesizes a failure envelope only for a zero-output terminal, so a turn whose text the client already saw is never reclassified as a hop. tests/helpers/combo-context-overflow-cases.ts pins that directly. Closes #4659 Co-authored-by: RHODIZ IT <info.rhodiz@gmail.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe pull request adds bounded context-overflow failover, stricter admission for combo targets with declared output, and bounded combo-session recall retention. Tests and documentation cover these behaviors. ChangesCombo Routing Controls
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Client->>RequestPreparation: submit combo request
RequestPreparation->>ComboTarget: apply input and output headroom admission
ComboTarget-->>ComboRouter: reject locally or send upstream request
ComboRouter->>FallbackTarget: retry eligible zero-output context overflow
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When a provider returns a 400/5xx credential or billing error whose leaf message also mentions a phrase such as “maximum context window” (for example, code: "invalid_api_key" with “key is invalid for the maximum context window tier”), this new predicate returns "none" before PROVIDER_SCOPED_FAILURE_CODES is checked. That contradicts the existing provider-wide handling for these structured codes and causes every target sharing the bad credential to remain eligible and be retried on later requests. Provider-scoped status/codes should take precedence over the prose-only context classifier.
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리뷰 · 우선순위 76 / 80이 PR은 이슈/초안 PR #4659(RHODIZSECURITY)를 현재 핵심은 스트림 경계도 tip과 맞다. 다만 증거와 레인은 아직 완전하지 않다. head 커밋 메시지에 라인/심볼로 보면 아래가 맞다. 라인 459-500 (failover.ts · CONTEXT_VERDICT_STATUSES / isDefiniteContextOverflow) - 상태·파싱·envelope 예산·innermost message 경계가 본문 주장과 일치한다. 401/403은 여기서 hop이 안 된다. 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
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… [skip ci] Upstream Codex classifies a streamed context overflow on one exact token: `is_context_window_error` matches `error.code == "context_length_exceeded"` on a `response.failed` event, and its own fixture pairs that code with the message the other assertions here already use. The proxy relays the nested terminal error verbatim, so the same overflow reaches the classifier either with that structured code or, when a transport rewrites the envelope, as a generic upstream_server_error. Pin both to the same verdict so a future narrowing cannot quietly drop the shape the real upstream sends. Co-authored-by: RHODIZ IT <info.rhodiz@gmail.com>
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| for (let unwrapped = 0; unwrapped <= MAX_CONTEXT_OVERFLOW_ENVELOPES; unwrapped += 1) { | ||
| const providerPrefix = /^Provider error \d{3}:\s*/.exec(text); | ||
| if (providerPrefix) text = text.slice(providerPrefix[0].length).trim(); | ||
| if (!text.startsWith("{")) return isDefiniteContextOverflowMessage(text); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Parse non-object JSON before text classification.
At src/combos/failover.ts:507, isDefiniteContextOverflow sends every trimmed value that does not start with { to the phrase matcher. Therefore, ["context window exceeded"] and "context window exceeded" can match as provider prose. comboFailureDecision then returns "hop", and comboFailureCooldownScope returns "none", even though no object message field was accepted.
The existing tests cover non-object JSON without an overflow phrase, but not phrase-bearing arrays or string scalars. Parse these JSON-shaped values and reject every parsed value that is not an object.
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- if (!text.startsWith("{")) return isDefiniteContextOverflowMessage(text);
+ const startsJsonValue = text.startsWith("{")
+ || text.startsWith("[")
+ || text.startsWith('"');
+ if (!startsJsonValue) return isDefiniteContextOverflowMessage(text);
if (unwrapped === MAX_CONTEXT_OVERFLOW_ENVELOPES) return false;
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| if (!text.startsWith("{")) return isDefiniteContextOverflowMessage(text); | |
| const startsJsonValue = text.startsWith("{") | |
| || text.startsWith("[") | |
| || text.startsWith('"'); | |
| if (!startsJsonValue) return isDefiniteContextOverflowMessage(text); |
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In `@src/combos/failover.ts` at line 507, Update isDefiniteContextOverflow in the
non-object JSON path to parse JSON-shaped values before applying phrase
classification, and reject parsed arrays, string scalars, and all other
non-object values. Preserve phrase matching only for non-JSON provider prose and
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…[skip ci] A combo could route a large turn onto a fallback whose total context window cannot hold the input plus the output allowance the caller asked for. That target answers 200, emits a few hundred tokens and stops on finish_reason: length, which the Anthropic surface renders as "response exceeded the output token maximum" naming a limit the model never approached. Raising CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS only changes the number in that message. By the time it happens, output has committed and no later target may be tried. Admit a combo child against both budgets before dispatch. When the caller declared max_output_tokens, require estimated input <= input ceiling AND estimated input + min(declared output, target output ceiling) <= context window, and refuse locally with 413 input_admission_refused before any upstream bytes are sent. Combo policy already treats that local code as a safe hop, so the ladder selects a larger-context target without replaying committed output. The two budgets are checked separately on purpose. resolveInputCeiling already answers "how much input may this target take", and modelMaxInputTokens can tighten it below the window; charging the output reserve against that tightened number would count the reserve twice and skip a target that fits. The window is what input and output actually share, so the reserve belongs there. Reserving min(declared, target ceiling) rather than a fixed slice is what makes this catch the reported case: the common industry reservation of min(max_output, 20k) leaves 100k + 20k inside a 128k window, so the turn is admitted and fails upstream anyway. Canonical native slugs that the narrower pinned table does not carry now resolve their window from the generated in-tree bundle. That table gap is why the gate was completely inert on the route where this was observed. The bundle is compiled in, not a catalog read, so this adds no I/O, and explicit provider and operator caps may only narrow the result. It deliberately covers slugs retired from the picker, because a retired slug is still dispatchable when an operator names it explicitly in a combo target, which is exactly that configuration. Scope stays narrow. Direct and single-target requests keep the deliberately loose 2.5x pathological-input gate, because they have nowhere to hop. Compaction turns stay exempt. Unknown context and a caller that declared no output allowance both remain fail-open, so no limits are invented for custom providers. Closes #4664 Co-authored-by: RHODIZ IT <info.rhodiz@gmail.com>
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| // The shape upstream Codex actually emits: a `response.failed` whose error carries the exact | ||
| // `context_length_exceeded` code alongside this message. The proxy relays the nested error | ||
| // verbatim, so both the structured and the generic-wrapper form must reach the same verdict. | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make this regression test discriminate the overflow classifier.
The generic fallback in comboFailureDecision returns "hop" for status >= 500 after higher-priority checks. Therefore, the 502 assertion can pass even if structured context-overflow detection fails. Use status 400, 413, or 422, with context_length_exceeded in the JSON body and overflow prose in the innermost error message. Keep the generic upstream_server_error prose case separate without options.code.
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Update the comboFailureDecision regression test to use a non-5xx status such as
400, 413, or 422 while supplying context_length_exceeded in the JSON body and
overflow prose in the innermost error message, so the assertion specifically
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…ws [skip ci] OPENAI_CODEX_PROVIDER_ID is the routing provider name, and its value is the string "openai". Using it to index the generated bundle therefore skipped the native Codex rows entirely and read the public API rows instead. The two agree on Spark's 128k window, so the case that motivated the fallback still resolved, but any slug where they differ would have taken the wrong window -- and gpt-5-codex-mini exists only in the native catalog, so it resolved nothing at all. Name the catalog keys explicitly and say in a comment why the provider id is not one of them. Co-authored-by: RHODIZ IT <info.rhodiz@gmail.com>
…llowance [skip ci] The no-declared-allowance row passed `undefined` as the second argument of a builder whose parameter has a default. A default parameter applies to an explicit `undefined`, so the row built a request carrying 64,000 max output tokens and then asserted that no output reserve was applied. It would have asserted the opposite of what it covers, and it would have done so by passing. Split the builder in two so the no-allowance case cannot silently acquire one.
The remembered model id is provider-reported and arrives on the response, so nothing upstream of the recall store bounds its length. Lane keys are already SHA-256 digests, which means the 256-lane cap bounded the number of entries but not the bytes those entries held. A long-running process could accumulate arbitrarily large remembered strings. Bound retention on two more axes: 1 KiB per remembered model id and 64 KiB in aggregate. The size test runs on code units before encoding, because a UTF-8 encoding is never smaller than its code-unit count, so the bound never pays the allocation it exists to prevent. Aggregate eviction drops the least recently written lane, which is the front of the map because every write re-inserts its own lane at the back. A single entry is capped far below the aggregate budget, so a write can never evict itself. Every removal now goes through one helper that releases the entry's bytes, so the counter cannot drift from the map through the read-time invalidation path, the reconciliation path, or a lane rewrite. An unretainable model id DECLINES the write rather than clearing the lane. That is the ordering-sensitive part. This callback carries a config generation, not a request order, so two accepted completions on one lane under the same generation can arrive out of order; a clearing branch would let the older one erase the newer selection. Declining matches how every other rejection in rememberComboForLane already returns, and leaves the established contract intact: an older response never overwrites or clears a newer one. Register the store for periodic expiry as well. The TTL was previously evaluated only on read or on a generation change, so a lane that is never read again held its entry until the process exited. Closes #4525 Co-authored-by: luvs01 <27862058+luvs01@users.noreply.github.com>
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Carries #4659 by @RHODIZSECURITY onto current
dev, with the classifier hardened.A heterogeneous combo mixes context windows, so a refusal that says "this turn does not fit THIS model" is not evidence that the turn is impossible. The chain stopped at the first undersized target anyway. A native transport made it worse: it reports a zero-output overflow as a generic
upstream_server_errorcarrying precise context-window prose, which never looked like a context verdict at all, so a combo holding a 128k target in front of a 1M target ended the turn instead of advancing.src/combos/failover.tsnow classifies that case from the innermost provider message.classifyErrorremaps any occurrence ofcontext window,context length,maximum contextortoo many tokensfound anywhere in the blob; inheriting that looseness would let acontext_length_exceededtoken sitting in acodefield besideUnsupported parameter: userauthorize a replay. The new classifier unwraps only the exact proxy wrapper, within four envelopes and 16,384 characters, and reads the leaf message. Cooldown treats a definite overflow as request-shaped, so an oversized turn no longer cools a healthy target.Three bounds were added on top of the original patch:
normalizeUpstreamErrorTextcapsclassificationTextat 500 characters, so a long envelope reaches the classifier as a JSON prefix. The original version fell back to prose matching on a parse failure, which would let whichever field happened to land in the first 500 bytes authorize a hop.origin_rejectedstops explicitly. The existing guard only matched that token in the message, so an origin reporting it out of band could have been overridden by context prose reaching the new hop rule first.context_length_exceededis deliberately kept in the generic terminal list, unlike the original patch. The definite classifier runs earlier and owns every hop, so the entry now serves only as the fail-closed default for context signals that are not definite. That also leaves the existing contradictory-envelope assertions inrouter-combo-failover-classification.test.tsintact rather than weakening them.This cannot duplicate visible output. A streaming child reaches combo classification only through
preflightComboStreamResponse, which commits the child on any text, tool call or unknown event and synthesizes a failure envelope only for a zero-output terminal. A turn whose text or tool call the client already saw is never reclassified as a hop.How this compares to upstream Codex
Checked against the
openai/codexcheckout at095da4b7e(2026-09-08). Upstream classifies a streamed context overflow on one exact token —is_context_window_errormatcheserror.code == "context_length_exceeded"on aresponse.failedevent (codex-rs/codex-api/src/sse/responses.rs:711) — and its own fixture pairs that code with the same message this PR's tests use. The classifier here is a superset: the structured code still reaches the same verdict, and the innermost message is additional evidence rather than a looser substitute.The no-replay boundary is ours, not inherited. Upstream marks
ContextWindowExceedednon-retryable, but its generic retry loop has no "output already emitted" predicate at all —turn.rs:1506gates only onerr.is_retryable(), while text deltas are emitted to the client atturn.rs:2700. So the committed-output latch incombo-stream-preflight.tsis an opencodex-owned contract and this lane is strictly stricter than upstream, which is why it is pinned by its own regression rather than assumed.Verification
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dev(3070d64d88):tests/that depends on the old terminal verdict (rgovercontext_length_exceeded,context window,context length,maximum context,too many tokens,comboFailureDecision,comboFailureCooldownScope). Four assertion sites change; all four are updated in this PR. The contradictory-envelope and truncated-envelope assertions atrouter-combo-failover-classification.test.ts:240-262are unaffected and were re-derived by hand against the new code path.src/server/responses/combo-stream-preflight.ts:151-211andsrc/server/responses/core-combo.ts:559-635: only akind: "failed"preflight result reachescomboFailureDecision, andoutputCommittedblocks that conversion once any non-control event has been seen.src/combos/failover.ts534 → 619 lines, no baseline entry, global threshold 2,000.tests/server/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts4,156 → 4,128 lines against its frozen 4,166 cap — the helper extraction is what keeps it under.structure/runtime.mdownssrc/combos/perstructure/manifest.jsonand is updated with the new contract and its regression coverage.Hosted CI: this layer is not the lane tip, so its head commit carries
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