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Delivery update — 2026-09-27

Merged under the maintainer's explicit bypass authorization: head 15b963485b643ef01a109ed422d084d35f41acfd, merge b3442542cc2b8400857b825ac44e4fd6eaf0c47b. This is administrative source delivery, not proof of independent approval or current-head hosted gate success. Parent #1209, image repair #1223, structured recovery #1251 and stage receipt #1253 are now on main. Combined structured/cooldown/image regressions passed 87/87 with warnings as errors (22.92 s) on the same tree as final #1253. The zero-cooldown review defect was repaired before delivery. Consumer immutable release/pin and deployed Noema success remain separate and unverified. Statements below describe predecessor evidence and pre-merge state.

Problem

Noema sends orchestrator/free with a JSON schema. The structured final-synthesis path advanced after a provider 429, then returned the last error when every eligible candidate was rate-limited. Conduct and passthrough already had bounded cooldown recovery; final synthesis did not. The Noema run below used an older sidecar pin, so its single caller attempt is not evidence of the number of gateway-internal attempts.

Change

  • Record 429 cooldowns before closing HTTP errors; do not trip the provider circuit for a quota rejection.
  • Reuse the existing bounded cooldown wait in virtual structured synthesis, then retry only final synthesis on the earliest ready eligible candidate. Preserve the route attempt record.
  • Keep concrete-model requests, mixed 429/502 failures, nonretryable 429, and deadline exhaustion fail-closed; after a 413 retires one route, wait for the remaining 429 route.
  • Record the source-versus-hosted evidence boundary in the doctoring runbook.

Verification

  • RED on parent 84736f4d: an all-429 orchestrator/free JSON-schema request propagated a 429 without waiting.
  • GREEN at 6042d351: focused structured/rate-limit suites, Full suite at final head aa00d635: 5080 passed, 5 skipped (Rust receipt extension built first with the documented locked maturin develop command). Focused structured/rate-limit suites passed after each repair. Local Rust receipt extension built with the documented maturin develop --locked --release command before full-suite rerun.
  • git diff --check clean.

Stack and delivery

Base: main after #1209 and #1223 delivery. Related release work: #1083 and #1229. Consumer sidecar pin work: ContextualWisdomLab/.github#2369. This source repair must reach protected main and a released artifact before the consumer pin can prove Noema delivery. The predecessor-head Security and Quality run passed its four jobs. CodeRabbit now identified the zero-cooldown replay defect; the repair is below. Earlier skipped reviews are not approvals. Independent review is still absent. The older Noema run and local tests do not establish consumer delivery.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • 개선 사항
    • 구조화된 합성 요청에서 모든 후보가 일시적인 속도 제한 상태일 때 복구를 기다린 뒤 재시도합니다.
    • 속도 제한 응답을 받은 후보는 재시도 대상에서 제외하지 않아 이후 회복 시 다시 시도할 수 있습니다.
    • 재시도 시간 초과 또는 복구 실패 시 속도 제한 문제에 관한 오류 정보를 유지합니다.
  • 테스트
    • 속도 제한 후 재시도, 대기 시간과 요청 기한 처리, 복구 실패 및 여러 유형의 후보 오류가 섞인 경우를 검증하는 회귀 테스트를 추가했습니다.
  • 문서
    • 구조화된 합성의 속도 제한 후속 조치와 현재 남은 단계를 기록했습니다.

Current-head review repair — 2026-09-27

Head 15b963485b643ef01a109ed422d084d35f41acfd integrates main including #1223. A new zero-cooldown regression failed before the repair: synthesis sent again after a 429 with no active cooldown. The shared retry boundary now propagates the classified error if no eligible route remains cooling, while preserving expired-deadline storm classification. The preexisting-cooldown test asserts expiry at the actual send boundary. Local strict verification: 83 related tests passed; one new-test identity assertion was corrected to status/code and one recorded attempt, then that regression and the cooldown-boundary test passed 2/2. The previous complete 5080-pass suite and four hosted green jobs belong to aa00d635, not this head. New current-head hosted acceptance and independent settlement remain unverified.

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가상 모델의 구조화 합성에서 429 응답과 후보별 쿨다운을 처리하는 재시도 흐름을 추가했습니다. 관련 오류 기록 동작을 조정하고, 합성 및 복구 단계의 회귀 테스트와 런북 내용을 보강했습니다.

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구조화 합성의 429 복구

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429 분류와 후보 상태
contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py
429 응답은 공급자 실패로 집계하지 않습니다. 재시도 가능한 429 후보는 요청 제외 대상에 추가하지 않으며, 활성 쿨다운 후보는 교차 후보 라우팅에서 제외합니다.
쿨다운 대기와 재시도
contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py, tests/test_structured_output_distinct_fallback.py, docs/doctoring/autonomous_kpi_runbook.md
모든 후보가 쿨다운 중이면 제한된 시간 동안 복구를 기다립니다. 재시도 가능한 오류 조합에서만 다시 시도하며, 테스트는 복구 성공, 대기 기한 만료, 혼합 오류, 재시도 불가 429 및 복구 요청의 동작을 확인합니다. 런북에는 429 후속 기록과 미완료된 배포 단계가 추가됐습니다.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: claude

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to aa00d

Structured synthesis can make repeated provider calls after a 429 when the cooldown is configured to zero. This bounded but avoidable behavior should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to aa00d

The recovery path is limited to eligible gateway-selected providers and has a bounded wait. No security vulnerability was established, but production request admission and interruption behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A caller reaching gateway-selected structured synthesis can cause additional attempts within the eligible provider pool and cooldown wait budget; the changed test functions are not themselves production entrypoints.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Retry does not select outside the previously filtered candidate set; the production selector also filters disabled agents, ZDR eligibility, required tags, and provider exclusions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The recovery wait has an administrator-configured budget or model timeout and fails with a 429 when the cooldown cannot fit. The examined tests cover ordinary terminal paths, not cancellation during the wait.
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Noema 429 owner handoff (2026-09-25, exact head 6042d351): .github #2281 run 35706001754/job 106725035785 explicitly vendored CO 767e67fbc6b881a452761f32abb69b9971b9b03b at 13:47:11Z. Preflight logged two OpenRouter 429s; the main orchestrator/free request ended 429 after 1627s, but its request ID, gateway-internal candidate count, and quota/Retry-After headers are absent. Do not infer the actual final-synthesis sequence or remaining eligible capacity from the single caller attempt. Your RED/GREEN all-429 JSON-schema test establishes a distinct source repair; #1249/#1250 cover the earlier synchronous _invoke same-agent retry. Consumer .github#2369 currently pins 5665b0ad, which lacks this structured repair, so acceptance still needs protected owner integration, immutable pin-compatible release, exact consumer pin, and a fresh hosted Noema/OpenCode verdict.

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Please independently review the current structured-429 repair at aa00d635b48589a26b705a37506ef2923549956d. Its four Security and Quality jobs are terminal SUCCESS on this head. Automatic review was skipped because this is a stacked PR; no head change or gate relaxation is requested. Verify all-429 structured exhaustion, attempt accounting, response ownership, and preservation of unknown-outcome no-replay behavior. This request is not approval or release authorization.

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tests/test_structured_output_distinct_fallback.py (1)

242-243: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

전송 시점의 쿨다운 상태를 검사하세요.

현재 proxy_send_once 모의 객체는 쿨다운이 끝나기 전에도 성공을 반환합니다. 따라서 대기 로직을 생략해도 이 테스트는 통과할 수 있습니다. 충분한 쿨다운 시간을 설정하고 side_effect에서 전송 시점의 orchestrator._rate_limit_remaining(agent.id) is None을 검사하세요.

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In @tests/test_structured_output_distinct_fallback.py around lines 242 - 243,
`proxy_send_once` 모의 객체가 쿨다운 중에도 성공을 반환해 대기 로직을 검증하지 못합니다. 이 테스트에서 충분한 쿨다운 시간을
설정하고, `side_effect`를 사용해 전송 시점에 `orchestrator._rate_limit_remaining(agent.id)`이
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Inline comments:
In @contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py:
- Around line 7393-7475: In send_synthesis, after confirming the failed round
contains only retryable 429 or request-too-large outcomes, re-raise the original
exception if no non-excluded synthesis candidate has an active rate-limit
cooldown. Preserve the existing wait_deadline storm handling and retry behavior
when a cooldown is active.

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In @tests/test_structured_output_distinct_fallback.py:
- Around line 242-243: `proxy_send_once` 모의 객체가 쿨다운 중에도 성공을 반환해 대기 로직을 검증하지
못합니다. 이 테스트에서 충분한 쿨다운 시간을 설정하고, `side_effect`를 사용해 전송 시점에
`orchestrator._rate_limit_remaining(agent.id)`이 `None`인지 확인하세요.

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def send_synthesis(
payload: dict[str, Any],
*,
allow_cross_candidate_fallback: bool = True,
require_output: bool = True,
repair_mode: bool = False,
) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], ModelAgent]:
"""Retry only virtual synthesis after every available route returns 429."""
nonlocal final_agent
if not virtual_model or not allow_cross_candidate_fallback:
return send_synthesis_once(
payload,
allow_cross_candidate_fallback=allow_cross_candidate_fallback,
require_output=require_output,
repair_mode=repair_mode,
)
preferred = final_agent
wait_deadline: float | None = None
while True:
available = [
candidate for candidate in synthesis_candidates
if candidate.id not in request_exclusions
]
synthesis_eligible_agent_ids.extend(
candidate.id for candidate in available
if candidate.id not in synthesis_eligible_agent_ids
)
cooling = [
candidate for candidate in available
if self._rate_limit_remaining(candidate.id) is not None
]
if wait_deadline is not None and time.monotonic() >= wait_deadline:
storm = rate_limited_storm_error(
agent_id=preferred.id,
model=preferred.model,
retry_after_seconds=0.0,
transport="structured_synthesis",
cooldown_source=self._rate_limit_cooldown_source(preferred.id),
)
raise _attach_route_evidence_to_upstream_error(
storm,
_route_evidence_payload(
eligible_agent_ids=synthesis_eligible_agent_ids,
attempted=synthesis_route_attempts,
terminal_reason="rate_limited_storm",
),
) from None
if available and len(cooling) == len(available):
if wait_deadline is None:
wait_deadline = time.monotonic() + self._rate_limit_wait_budget(preferred)
try:
self._await_rate_limit_recovery(
cooling,
deadline=wait_deadline,
transport="structured_synthesis",
virtual_selector=True,
)
except ProviderUpstreamError as storm:
raise _attach_route_evidence_to_upstream_error(
storm,
_route_evidence_payload(
eligible_agent_ids=synthesis_eligible_agent_ids,
attempted=synthesis_route_attempts,
terminal_reason="rate_limited_storm",
),
) from None
round_start = len(synthesis_route_attempts)
try:
return send_synthesis_once(
payload, require_output=require_output, repair_mode=repair_mode
)
except ProviderUpstreamError as exc:
round_attempts = synthesis_route_attempts[round_start:]
if not exc.retryable or not round_attempts or any(
row.get("provider_status") != 429
and row.get("outcome") != "request_too_large"
for row in round_attempts
):
raise
if wait_deadline is None:
wait_deadline = time.monotonic() + self._rate_limit_wait_budget(preferred)
final_agent = preferred

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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쿨다운이 0인 429 라운드는 즉시 재시도하지 말고 종료하세요.

rate_limit_unknown_cooldown_seconds=0이면 429 처리 후 쿨다운이 즉시 만료됩니다. 이때 cooling이 비어 _await_rate_limit_recovery를 호출하지 않고, send_synthesis_once를 다시 호출합니다. 429 후보는 request_exclusions에 추가되지 않으므로 wait_deadline까지 공급자 요청이 반복될 수 있습니다.

wait_deadline이 이미 만료된 경우의 storm 오류 처리는 유지하세요. 활성 쿨다운이 없는 경우에는 원래 예외를 다시 발생시키세요.

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                 except ProviderUpstreamError as exc:
                     round_attempts = synthesis_route_attempts[round_start:]
                     if not exc.retryable or not round_attempts or any(
                         row.get("provider_status") != 429
                         and row.get("outcome") != "request_too_large"
                         for row in round_attempts
                     ):
                         raise
+                    if not any(
+                        self._rate_limit_remaining(candidate.id) is not None
+                        for candidate in synthesis_candidates
+                        if candidate.id not in request_exclusions
+                    ):
+                        raise
                     if wait_deadline is None:
                         wait_deadline = time.monotonic() + self._rate_limit_wait_budget(preferred)
                     final_agent = preferred
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In @contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py around lines 7393 - 7475, In
send_synthesis, after confirming the failed round contains only retryable 429 or
request-too-large outcomes, re-raise the original exception if no non-excluded
synthesis candidate has an active rate-limit cooldown. Preserve the existing
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Verified against aa00d63 and reproduced the finding. Zero-cooldown all-429 and mixed 429/413 cases generated 210/257 extra calls within a 20ms wait budget. Owner-preserving successor #1284 at ced8859 adds the shared active-cooldown guard, preserves already-expired storm handling, and strengthens cooldown expiry assertion at transport entry. Structured regression file: 45 passed; adjacent admission file: 35 passed; both process exit 0. No parent head mutation. Hosted current-head gates are queued. Please independently verify the successor; this reply does not resolve the thread or assert approval.

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@seonghobae, verified. Commit ced8859 (PR #1284) is fetchable and contains the fix.

The send_synthesis except ProviderUpstreamError as exc block adds two guards after the retryable/all-429-or-413 check:

  1. if wait_deadline is not None and time.monotonic() >= wait_deadline: continue — preserves the already-expired storm path by looping back to the top, where the existing wait_deadline check raises rate_limited_storm_error.
  2. if not any(self._rate_limit_remaining(candidate.id) is not None for candidate in synthesis_candidates if candidate.id not in request_exclusions): raise — the active-cooldown guard. When rate_limit_unknown_cooldown_seconds=0 (or any cooldown already expired), no non-excluded candidate has a positive remaining cooldown, so this re-raises the original exception instead of looping into another send_synthesis_once call.

This matches the original finding: the zero-cooldown all-429 case no longer produces unbounded retries within the wait budget.

I have not run the successor's test suite myself, so I cannot independently confirm the "45 passed / 35 passed, exit 0" claim beyond inspecting the diff. The code change itself is present and logically closes the gap this thread raised.

This thread stays open per your instruction ("this reply does not resolve the thread"). Since the successor PR (#1284) is the actual location of the fix, resolution belongs there, not here.

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Independent review finding4114418369 is reproduced and repaired in stacked successor #1284 at ced8859653a5e075b6f357696eb575204e02261e; your #1251 head remains unchanged.

Baseline zero-cooldown RED: two eligible candidates produced210 extra sends for all429 and257 extra sends for mixed429/413 in20ms. The successor returns the original429 after one call per candidate when no live cooldown exists; it retains already-expired storm handling and active-cooldown recovery. The prior-cooldown regression now asserts cooldown expiry at transport entry.

Full structured file45 passed and rate-limit admission35 passed, both process exit0; diff-check passed. The local interpreter has a missing pytest-asyncio config warning; no full-suite/wire-delivery claim. Please review and integrate the successor through ordinary protected delivery. The review is COMMENTED, not approval; hosted matching-head checks and independent approval remain required.

Base automatically changed from fix/protected-main-ci-regressions-20260920 to main September 27, 2026 10:42
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