fix(agent): retry mid-stream transport aborts before tool dispatch - #976
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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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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, including Windows socket errors, connection resets, unexpected EOFs, and broken pipes, when no answer text was committed. It excludes connect-phase timeouts and preserves ChangesMid-stream retry handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change retries mid-stream transport aborts, but a zero-length text event can still prevent recovery when no answer text was committed, leaving some turns to fail instead of retrying. This is a bounded correctness risk that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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isMidStreamTransportAbort-->>Run: retryable
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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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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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