Retry a dead provider item inline instead of ending the turn

Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent)

Co-authored-by: Sisyphus <clio-agent@sisyphuslabs.ai>
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Muhammad Zakir Ramadhan
2026-09-05 17:30:00 +07:00
co-authored by Sisyphus
parent 4f6ed43fed
commit a4edbcc71e
2 changed files with 178 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import {
isStepCount,
generateText,
streamText,
APICallError,
type LanguageModel,
type ModelMessage,
type ToolApprovalResponse,
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ import { Notebook, type NotebookState } from './notebook';
import { Permissions, type PermissionConfig } from './permission';
import type { PluginHost } from './plugins';
import { systemPrompt } from './prompt';
import { pruneToFit } from './prune';
import { detachProviderItems, pruneToFit } from './prune';
import { createSkillTool, renderSkills, type Skill } from './skills';
import { disabledToolNames, onBashOutput, tools as builtinTools, type ToolSetName } from './tools';
@@ -96,6 +97,17 @@ const REPEAT_LIMIT = 3;
const callKey = (toolName: string, input: unknown) => `${toolName}:${JSON.stringify(input ?? null)}`;
/**
* The provider rejected an `item_reference` because it no longer holds that item:
* 404 "Item with id 'msg_...' not found". Retrying the same history repeats it, so
* this is the one failure that is worth answering by rewriting the history.
*/
const isStaleItemError = (error: unknown): boolean =>
APICallError.isInstance(error) && /item with id '[^']*' not found/i.test(error.message);
const STALE_ITEM_NOTICE =
'The provider no longer had part of this session stored. Re-sent the history inline and carried on.';
type ApprovalContext = Pick<ApprovalRequest, 'matchedPattern' | 'suggestedPattern' | 'repeated'>;
export class Session {
@@ -109,6 +121,8 @@ export class Session {
private readonly permissions: Permissions;
/** Calls seen this turn, for the repeat guard. Cleared per turn, not per step. */
private readonly seen = new Map<string, number>();
/** One stale-item repair per turn, so a repeating 404 cannot loop the run. */
private staleItemsRepaired = false;
private controller: AbortController | undefined;
constructor(private readonly opts: SessionOptions) {
@@ -331,6 +345,7 @@ export class Session {
// Per turn, not per step: a tool called once in each of three steps is the
// loop this guards against.
this.seen.clear();
this.staleItemsRepaired = false;
const outputs: Extract<AgentEvent, { type: 'tool-output' }>[] = [];
onBashOutput(({ toolCallId, chunk }) => {
@@ -346,6 +361,19 @@ export class Session {
}
}
/**
* Rewrites the history so nothing points at provider-side storage, once per turn.
*
* The 404 repeats for every reference in the request, and a repair that could run
* twice would retry a request that cannot be made to work.
*/
private repairStaleItems(): boolean {
if (this.staleItemsRepaired) return false;
this.staleItemsRepaired = true;
this.replace(detachProviderItems(this.messages));
return true;
}
private async *run(
signal: AbortSignal,
threshold: number,
@@ -360,6 +388,8 @@ export class Session {
const guardNotices: string[] = [];
const why = new Map<string, ApprovalContext>();
let sawError = false;
let delivered = false;
let staleRetry = false;
const result = streamText({
model: this.model,
@@ -405,14 +435,17 @@ export class Session {
while (guardNotices.length > 0) yield { type: 'notice', text: guardNotices.shift()! };
switch (part.type) {
case 'text-delta':
delivered = true;
yield { type: 'text', text: part.text };
break;
case 'reasoning-delta':
delivered = true;
yield { type: 'reasoning', text: part.text };
break;
case 'tool-input-start':
// Arrives before the arguments finish streaming, so the UI can name
// the tool while the model is still writing its input.
delivered = true;
yield { type: 'tool-start', id: part.id, name: part.toolName };
break;
case 'tool-call':
@@ -448,6 +481,14 @@ export class Session {
yield { type: 'done' };
return;
case 'error':
// A stale item is rejected before generation starts, so nothing has
// been said yet and the request can be rebuilt. Once output is on
// screen it cannot be unsent, and a retry would repeat it.
if (!delivered && isStaleItemError(part.error) && this.repairStaleItems()) {
yield { type: 'notice', text: STALE_ITEM_NOTICE };
staleRetry = true;
break;
}
sawError = true;
yield { type: 'error', error: part.error };
break;
@@ -460,10 +501,18 @@ export class Session {
yield { type: 'done' };
return;
}
if (!delivered && isStaleItemError(error) && this.repairStaleItems()) {
yield { type: 'notice', text: STALE_ITEM_NOTICE };
continue;
}
yield { type: 'error', error };
return;
}
// The history was rewritten under this run, so its promise-shaped results
// describe a request that no longer stands. Run again rather than read them.
if (staleRetry) continue;
// A stream that ended in an error has no response messages or usage to
// await; touching them would throw NoOutputGeneratedError.
if (sawError) return;
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
import { expect, test } from 'bun:test';
import { MockLanguageModelV4, simulateReadableStream } from 'ai/test';
import type { LanguageModelV4CallOptions, LanguageModelV4StreamPart } from '@ai-sdk/provider';
import type { ModelMessage } from 'ai';
import { APICallError, type ModelMessage } from 'ai';
import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
import { join } from 'node:path';
@@ -326,3 +326,130 @@ test('a compacted turn sends no assistant item reference whose reasoning was pru
}
}
}), 20_000);
test('a compacted turn inlines a plain assistant item instead of referencing remote storage', async () => {
const seen: LanguageModelV4CallOptions[] = [];
const session = new Session({
messages: [
{ role: 'user', content: `earlier question ${'x'.repeat(4000)}` },
{
role: 'assistant',
content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'remembered answer', providerOptions: { openai: { itemId: 'msg_stale' } } }],
},
],
compactThreshold: 100,
model: new MockLanguageModelV4({
doStream: async (o) => {
seen.push(o);
return stream(text('ok'));
},
}),
askApproval: async () => 'deny',
});
const events: AgentEvent[] = [];
for await (const event of session.send('continue')) events.push(event);
expect(events.some((event) => event.type === 'compacted')).toBe(true);
expect(JSON.stringify(seen[0]?.prompt)).not.toContain('msg_stale');
expect(JSON.stringify(seen[0]?.prompt)).toContain('remembered answer');
});
/**
* The failure this guards against: an item reference the provider no longer holds is
* rejected with 404 "Item with id 'msg_...' not found", and every retry of the same
* history is rejected the same way, so resuming a session could never get going.
*/
const staleItem = (id: string) =>
new APICallError({
message: `Item with id '${id}' not found.`,
url: 'https://api.openai.com/v1/responses',
requestBodyValues: {},
statusCode: 404,
isRetryable: false,
});
const withStoredItem = (): ModelMessage[] => [
{ role: 'user', content: 'earlier question' },
{
role: 'assistant',
content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'remembered answer', providerOptions: { openai: { itemId: 'msg_gone' } } }],
},
];
test('a rejected stale item reference is retried inline rather than ending the turn', async () => {
const seen: LanguageModelV4CallOptions[] = [];
let call = 0;
const session = new Session({
messages: withStoredItem(),
model: new MockLanguageModelV4({
doStream: async (o) => {
seen.push(o);
if (call++ === 0) throw staleItem('msg_gone');
return stream(text('picked up where we left off'));
},
}),
askApproval: async () => 'deny',
maxRetries: 0,
});
const events: AgentEvent[] = [];
for await (const event of session.send('continue')) events.push(event);
expect(events.map((e) => e.type)).toEqual(['notice', 'text', 'done']);
expect(call).toBe(2);
expect(JSON.stringify(seen[0]?.prompt)).toContain('msg_gone');
// The retry carries the same content with nothing pointing at provider storage.
expect(JSON.stringify(seen[1]?.prompt)).not.toContain('msg_gone');
expect(JSON.stringify(seen[1]?.prompt)).toContain('remembered answer');
// Repaired in place, so a save or a later turn cannot resend the dead reference.
expect(JSON.stringify(session.messages)).not.toContain('msg_gone');
});
test('a stale item rejection that survives the repair is reported once, not looped', async () => {
let call = 0;
const session = new Session({
messages: withStoredItem(),
model: new MockLanguageModelV4({
doStream: async () => {
call++;
throw staleItem('msg_gone');
},
}),
askApproval: async () => 'deny',
maxRetries: 0,
});
const events: AgentEvent[] = [];
for await (const event of session.send('continue')) events.push(event);
expect(events.map((e) => e.type)).toEqual(['notice', 'error']);
expect(call).toBe(2);
});
test('a stale item arriving after text was streamed is reported, not silently repeated', async () => {
let call = 0;
const session = new Session({
messages: withStoredItem(),
model: new MockLanguageModelV4({
doStream: async () => {
call++;
return stream([
{ type: 'text-start', id: '0' },
{ type: 'text-delta', id: '0', delta: 'half an answer' },
{ type: 'error', error: staleItem('msg_gone') },
]);
},
}),
askApproval: async () => 'deny',
maxRetries: 0,
});
const events: AgentEvent[] = [];
for await (const event of session.send('continue')) events.push(event);
// Retrying here would deliver "half an answer" twice.
expect(events.map((e) => e.type)).toEqual(['text', 'error']);
expect(call).toBe(1);
});