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, and status documentation. ChangesInference probe retries
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Sandbox status now retries transient gateway failures and can recover to healthy, but the deployment guide may incorrectly imply that all 5xx responses immediately report unhealthy. Update the wording before merge so operational expectations match behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StatusCommand
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StatusCommand->>SandboxRoute: probe inference route
SandboxRoute-->>StatusCommand: route result
StatusCommand->>InferenceProbe: send inference request
InferenceProbe-->>StatusCommand: HTTP response
StatusCommand->>RetryPolicy: classify response
RetryPolicy-->>StatusCommand: retryable or final
StatusCommand->>SandboxRoute: retry route probe after two seconds
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- Line 1400: Update the status documentation describing inference retries to
clarify that the “every other failure is final on the first attempt” rule
applies only to ordinary runs; after managed gateway recovery, failed route or
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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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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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- Line 209: Update the main Inference status description to clarify that
unhealthy is reported only after the final request failure or after all
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| `$$nemoclaw headless-agent status` exits nonzero when the sandbox, gateway, local container, or authoritative inference route is not verified. Its main `Inference` line probes `https://inference.local/v1/models` from inside the sandbox, then sends one inference request over the same route when that probe reports the route reachable. The line reports `healthy` when the route served the request, `unauthorized` when the route rejected it with HTTP `401` or `403`, and `unhealthy` when the route returned HTTP `500` through `599`. | ||
| `$$nemoclaw headless-agent status` exits nonzero when the sandbox, gateway, local container, or authoritative inference route is not verified. Its main `Inference` line probes `https://inference.local/v1/models` from inside the sandbox, then sends an inference request over the same route when that probe reports the route reachable. It repeats both probes up to three total attempts when that request returns a transient gateway status; refer to the [CLI commands reference](../reference/commands) for the retried statuses and their token cost. The line reports `healthy` when the route served the request, `unauthorized` when the route rejected it with HTTP `401` or `403`, and `unhealthy` when the route returned HTTP `500` through `599`. |
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Describe the retry result accurately.
Line 209 says HTTP 500 through 599 reports unhealthy. HTTP 502, 503, and 504 can instead finish healthy after a later attempt. State that unhealthy is reported after a final failure or after all transient attempts fail.
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- The line reports `healthy` when the route served the request, `unauthorized` when the route rejected it with HTTP `401` or `403`, and `unhealthy` when the route returned HTTP `500` through `599`.
+ The line reports `healthy` when the route served the request, `unauthorized` when the route rejected it with HTTP `401` or `403`, and `unhealthy` after a final failure or after all transient attempts fail.As per coding guidelines, docs/ is the source of truth for public-facing documentation.
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| `$$nemoclaw headless-agent status` exits nonzero when the sandbox, gateway, local container, or authoritative inference route is not verified. Its main `Inference` line probes `https://inference.local/v1/models` from inside the sandbox, then sends an inference request over the same route when that probe reports the route reachable. It repeats both probes up to three total attempts when that request returns a transient gateway status; refer to the [CLI commands reference](../reference/commands) for the retried statuses and their token cost. The line reports `healthy` when the route served the request, `unauthorized` when the route rejected it with HTTP `401` or `403`, and `unhealthy` when the route returned HTTP `500` through `599`. | |
| `$$nemoclaw headless-agent status` exits nonzero when the sandbox, gateway, local container, or authoritative inference route is not verified. Its main `Inference` line probes `https://inference.local/v1/models` from inside the sandbox, then sends an inference request over the same route when that probe reports the route reachable. It repeats both probes up to three total attempts when that request returns a transient gateway status; refer to the [CLI commands reference](../reference/commands) for the retried statuses and their token cost. The line reports `healthy` when the route served the request, `unauthorized` when the route rejected it with HTTP `401` or `403`, and `unhealthy` after a final failure or after all transient attempts fail. |
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In `@docs/deployment/deploy-to-headless-server.mdx` at 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 healthy even if an earlier response was
HTTP 502, 503, or 504.
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PR #10941 is a different author changing workflow YAML, a shell script, and a test Dockerfile. It shares nothing with this branch except I re-ran the failed jobs once; the result was identical, which is what ruled out flake. I am not re-running again, since the cause is outside this branch. Current state of this PR: 3 failing jobs, all inherited rather than introduced. |
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nemoclaw <sandbox> statusno longer exits nonzero for a Phase Ready sandbox when the one in-sandbox inference request it sends comes back with a transient gateway or availability status. Before, a single HTTP503producedInference: unhealthyand exit1alongsideroute reachability: reachable,upstream: healthy, andPhase: Ready. Nowstatussends up to three bounded attempts for HTTP429,502,503, and504, and reports success when the route serves the request. A route that never serves it still reportsunhealthyand exits nonzero.Reason
collectSandboxStatusSnapshotalready wrapped the route and invocation probes inretryUntilAsync, but derived the attempt count fromrecoveredManagedGateway:recoveredManagedGatewayrequiresrecovery.wasRunning === false(status-snapshot.ts:449-450), so it is only true when that samestatusrun restarted a dead gateway. For a Ready sandbox whose gateway is already up,wasRunningistrue, the delay array is empty, andretryUntilAsyncruns exactly one attempt. One transient answer therefore becamefailureLabel: "unhealthy", whichisInferenceHealthFailingturns into exit1on both the text and--jsonpaths.src/lib/inference/probe-retry.ts:21-26already records this repository's position that HTTP429,502,503, and504are transient gateway and availability answers that must be retried with backoff (#2980, #3033). Onboarding probes honor it; the sandbox-scoped status probe never adopted it. The one-shot inference request reachedstatusin #8731.Reproduced through
collectSandboxStatusSnapshotwith a probe that answers503once and then succeeds: the probe was called once andinferenceHealthcame backok: false,failureLabel: "unhealthy", with theroute reachabilitysubprobe stillreachableand the upstream subprobe still healthy — the reported output exactly.Related issues
Fixes #10709
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src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-snapshot.ts: delete therecoveredManagedGateway-derived attempt count and make the delay schedule unconditional (3 attempts, 2 seconds apart, the schedule this block already used). The policy moves intoretryUntilAsync'sacceptpredicate, which is what its documented contract is for.TRANSIENT_INFERENCE_INVOCATION_STATUSESandinferenceInvocationFailureIsTransient. The set is declared module-locally becauseprobe-retry.tsis@ts-nocheckCommonJS and cannot export to a typed module, and becauseci/source-architecture-budget.jsonpins this file's fan-out at exactly 19 under a two-sided ratchet. The predicate is typed throughReturnType<typeof runSandboxInferenceInvocationProbe>, so no import is added and the budget file is untouched.recoveredManagedGatewaybranch keeps fix(status): wait for inference after gateway recovery #8572's behavior byte-for-byte: after that run recovers a managed gateway, every failure shape still retries three times.src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-snapshot-inference-health.test.ts: 8 cases. Two are the regression tests and fail on unmodifiedorigin/main; six pin the scope so a later change cannot widen the retry silently.docs/reference/commands.mdx: state the retry signature and what stays final on the first attempt.Cost: only a request that was already refused with one of the four statuses pays anything — up to two extra 16-token requests and about four seconds. The healthy path, HTTP
401,403,404, and500, an invalid 2xx body, a statusless request, and a failing/v1/modelsroute probe all add exactly zero attempts and zero delay.start, rebuild preflight, launch readiness, andinference setkeep their one-shot behavior. Widening those changes Ready-publication and provider-rollback semantics and is not needed for this issue.Two adjacent defects found while investigating are left for their own issues:
buildInvokedRouteHealthlabels a failing/v1/chat/completionsrequest with the/v1/modelsURL, so one URL renders as bothunhealthyandreachable; andProviderHealthStatuscarries nohttpStatus, so--jsonautomation cannot tell a transient503from a permanent401without parsing prose.Verification
node_modules/.bin/vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-snapshot-inference-health.test.ts— 29 passed (21 existing, 8 added); 30 ms of test time, so no real sleeps leaked instatus-snapshot.tsreverted toorigin/main— 2 failed, 27 passed, confirming the two regression tests fail without the fixnode_modules/.bin/vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/— 265 files, 3867 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failednode_modules/.bin/vitest run test/cli/sandbox-status-json.test.ts test/cli/sandbox-status-text.test.ts— 28 passed, including the permanentBROKEN 503models-route case, which still exits 1 on the first attemptnode_modules/.bin/vitest run test/cli/status-gateway-lifecycle.test.ts test/cli/status-root-json.test.ts test/cli/status-routing.test.ts— 8 passednpm run checks:repository— passed; source architecture reports 1854 files, 5905 edges, 0 cycles, andci/source-architecture-budget.jsonis unchangednpm run test:titles:check— passednpm run test-size:check— 33 passednpx tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.src.json— 0 errorsnpx oxfmt --checkandnpx oxlinton both changed source files — cleanbash scripts/check-spdx-headers.shon the changed files — passednpx commitlint --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD— passednpx markdownlint-cli2 docs/reference/commands.mdx— 13 findings, identical to the count on the unmodified file, so the edited sentence adds noneNot run:
npm run validate:prandnpm run check. Both shell out toprek, whose release binary download returns HTTP 503 from this network, so the git hooks are not installed here. The equivalent checks were run directly and are listed above.npm run docswas not run; the change edits one sentence inside an existing paragraph and adds no page, link, or heading.Review notes
Sensitive path (inference, sandbox). The retry is bounded at three attempts with a narrow transient signature, and the fail-closed verdict is preserved: a route that stays unavailable across all three attempts still reports
unhealthyand exits nonzero with the same detail string.src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-snapshot-inference-health.test.tscovers both the recovery and the persistent-failure outcomes, and the five-case table includes HTTP500specifically to pin that the signature is the narrow set and not "any 5xx".Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen haingu@nvidia.com
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