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修复 OpenAI 兼容层两条在链路上不可观测的失败路径:

  1. 静默截断 — OpenAI SDK 把「连接正常关闭但未收到 [DONE]」当正常结束,适配器不发 message_stop,半截消息被当完整回复发出(stop_reason 为 null)、无任何报错
  2. 停滞挂起 — SDK request timeout 在响应头到达后即被清除,服务端返回 200 后停止发送且不关闭连接时读取无限期阻塞:不超时、不报错、不重试

改动

  • 适配器迭代结束无 finish_reason 时抛 OpenAIStreamIncompleteError(可重试),OPENAI_ALLOW_INCOMPLETE_STREAM=1 可恢复旧行为
  • ChatGPT Responses 路径补齐同类截断检测
  • 新增流空闲看门狗(OPENAI_STREAM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS,默认 90s,0/off 关闭):每次尝试持有独立 AbortController,空闲超时单独计数(上限 2 次),半程 warn 日志
  • 重试框架 streamRetry.ts:前缀比对续传;续传分歧时丢弃前缀重开请求(MAX_RESUME_RESTARTS=1);零事件截断豁免 hasProgress 守卫、单独重试预算(上限 2 次)
  • 用户中断(Ctrl+C)静默退出,与 Anthropic 路径对齐
  • OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES 可配置 SDK 级重试(默认 10)

变更文件

  • 新增:streamRetry.ts(407 行)、streamIdleTimeout.tsopenaiStreamTermination.ts(model-provider)及对应测试
  • 修改:openai/index.tsresponsesAdapter.tsclient.ts(可配置重试)、openaiStreamAdapter.ts(无 finish_reason 截断检测;修复 mid-text reasoning chunk 携带的 finish_reason 被跳过的问题)

Test plan

  • bun run precheck 全绿:typecheck 零错误 + biome 零修复
  • 全量 bun test:6064 pass / 10 skip / 0 fail
  • 新增 77 个用例:streamRetry 22、streamIdleTimeout 6、client 6、openaiStreamAdapter 增量、sideQuery

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • OpenAI streaming requests now automatically retry interrupted, stalled, or incomplete responses.
    • Retry limits can be configured with OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES.
    • Stream idle timeouts are detected and configurable, with a 90-second default.
    • Incomplete-stream handling can be configured with OPENAI_ALLOW_INCOMPLETE_STREAM.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of interleaved reasoning and text output.
    • Prevented loss of completion details when reasoning chunks are empty or combined with final content.
    • Aborted requests no longer produce unnecessary API error messages.

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OpenAI streaming now detects incomplete responses, retries resumable failures, monitors idle timeouts, supports configurable retry counts, and suppresses interleaved reasoning blocks. Tests cover adapters, retry behavior, timeout handling, configuration, and client construction.

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OpenAI stream resilience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stream termination and adapter behavior
packages/@ant/model-provider/src/..., src/services/api/openai/responsesAdapter.ts, packages/@ant/model-provider/src/shared/__tests__/*
Exports incomplete-stream utilities. Chat and Responses adapters now detect missing terminal signals. Interleaved reasoning after text has started is suppressed.
Idle watchdog and resumable retry engine
src/services/api/openai/streamIdleTimeout.ts, src/services/api/openai/streamRetry.ts, src/services/api/openai/__tests__/streamIdleTimeout.test.ts, src/services/api/openai/__tests__/streamRetry.test.ts
Adds idle monitoring, retryable-error classification, resumable event filtering, divergence restarts, backoff, and retry-budget handling.
Retry configuration and query integration
src/services/api/openai/client.ts, src/services/api/openai/index.ts, src/services/api/openai/__tests__/*, src/utils/__tests__/sideQuery.chatgptAuth.test.ts
Adds configurable OpenAI retry counts. The query path uses resumable retries, resets state between attempts, emits adapter output events, and handles caller aborts without yielding an API error.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  QueryModelOpenAI->>retryOpenAIStream: create a stream with retry options
  retryOpenAIStream->>watchStreamIdle: monitor each attempt
  watchStreamIdle->>OpenAICompatibleAPI: read stream events
  OpenAICompatibleAPI-->>watchStreamIdle: return events or stall
  watchStreamIdle-->>retryOpenAIStream: events or timeout error
  retryOpenAIStream-->>QueryModelOpenAI: filtered output events or terminal error
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- 静默截断:迭代结束无 finish_reason 时抛 OpenAIStreamIncompleteError,
  不再把半截消息当完整回复(stop_reason 为 null)
- 停滞挂起:新增流空闲看门狗(OPENAI_STREAM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS,默认 90s),
  每次尝试持有独立 AbortController,空闲超时单独计数(上限 2 次)
- 重试框架:streamRetry 前缀比对续传;续传分歧时丢弃前缀重开请求
  (MAX_RESUME_RESTARTS=1);零事件截断豁免 hasProgress 守卫单独重试
- 用户中断(Ctrl+C)静默退出,与 Anthropic 路径对齐
- ChatGPT Responses 路径补齐同类截断检测
- OpenAI 请求 maxRetries 可通过 OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES 配置(默认 10)
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In `@src/services/api/openai/client.ts`:
- Around line 23-25: Update the retry-value parsing near OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES to
reject partially numeric or fractional strings such as “5foo” and “1.5”; parse
and validate the complete value as a non-negative integer, returning
DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES for invalid inputs.

In `@src/services/api/openai/index.ts`:
- Around line 389-410: Configure the OpenAI SDK client and retryOpenAIStream so
retries do not multiply across stream establishment and the outer stream loop.
Use a single retry owner or enforce one shared total request budget, ensuring
final 429, 5xx, and connection errors cannot trigger the SDK’s full retries and
the outer retries for the same logical stream.

In `@src/services/api/openai/streamRetry.ts`:
- Around line 396-398: Update retryOpenAIStream’s finally block to invoke
abortAttempt before removing the abort listener, and update watchStreamIdle’s
finally block to await iterator.return?.() so early generator termination
releases the upstream stream while preserving existing timeout handling.

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Comment on lines +23 to +25
const raw = process.env.OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES
const parsed = raw ? Number.parseInt(raw, 10) : Number.NaN
return Number.isFinite(parsed) && parsed >= 0 ? parsed : DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject partially numeric retry values.

Number.parseInt accepts values such as 5foo and 1.5. The helper then returns 5 and 1 instead of using the documented fallback.

Parse the complete value and require a non-negative integer.

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   const raw = process.env.OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES
-  const parsed = raw ? Number.parseInt(raw, 10) : Number.NaN
-  return Number.isFinite(parsed) && parsed >= 0 ? parsed : DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES
+  const parsed = raw?.trim() ? Number(raw) : Number.NaN
+  return Number.isInteger(parsed) && parsed >= 0
+    ? parsed
+    : DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES
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const raw = process.env.OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES
const parsed = raw ? Number.parseInt(raw, 10) : Number.NaN
return Number.isFinite(parsed) && parsed >= 0 ? parsed : DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES
const raw = process.env.OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES
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In `@src/services/api/openai/client.ts` around lines 23 - 25, Update the
retry-value parsing near OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES to reject partially numeric or
fractional strings such as “5foo” and “1.5”; parse and validate the complete
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Comment on lines +389 to +410
await getOpenAIClient({
fetchOverride: options.fetchOverride as unknown as typeof fetch,
source: options.querySource,
}).chat.completions.create(
buildOpenAIRequestBody({
model: openaiModel,
messages: openaiMessages,
tools: openaiTools,
toolChoice: openaiToolChoice,
enableThinking,
maxTokens,
temperatureOverride: options.temperatureOverride,
promptCacheKey,
}),
{ signal: attemptSignal },
),
openaiModel,
{ includeCacheWriteTokens: useOfficialOpenAICache },
)

const adaptedStream = retryOpenAIStream(createAdaptedStream, {
maxRetries: getOpenAIMaxRetries(),

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In the OpenAI Node SDK (including version 6.34.0), the client automatically retries certain requests [1][2]. However, these retries do not apply to streaming responses once the stream has begun transmitting data [3][4]. Automatic Retries Overview: - Default Behavior: The SDK automatically retries failed requests up to 2 times by default [1][2]. - Eligible Errors: Retries occur for network connectivity problems, 408 Request Timeout, 409 Conflict, 429 Rate Limit, and status codes >= 500 [1][2]. - Configuration: You can modify or disable this behavior globally during client initialization or per-request [1][2]. javascript // Global configuration const client = new OpenAI({ maxRetries: 0 }); // Disable retries // Per-request configuration await client.chat.completions.create({ ... }, { maxRetries: 5 }); - Backoff and Headers: The SDK employs an exponential backoff strategy [1][2]. It is designed to respect the Retry-After header provided by the API when a 429 error occurs, using the provided duration to determine the next retry attempt [5][6][3][4]. Streaming Limitations: - The SDK&#39;s automatic retry mechanism functions only during the initial connection setup phase, before the first byte of the response stream is received [3][4]. - If a stream is interrupted or fails after data has begun flowing, the SDK cannot transparently resume or retry the request, as it cannot replay the partial response [3][4]. In such cases, the error is thrown, and handling the recovery (e.g., restarting the request) is the responsibility of the application [3][4]. Important Considerations for Retries: - Idempotency: Automatic retries are generally only safe for idempotent operations [4]. When using tools or functions that may trigger side effects (such as sending emails or processing payments), be aware that an automatic retry on a "failed" request—which may have actually succeeded on the server side—could result in duplicate actions [3][4]. You can use an idempotency key to prevent this, but you must supply it yourself as the SDK does not automate this process [4]. [3][4].
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<title>openai - npmx</title> https://npmx.dev/package/openai/v/6.34.0 #### Streaming responses ... We provide support for streaming responses using Server Sent Events (SSE). ... ``` import OpenAI from &`#39`;openai&`#39`;; ... const client = new OpenAI(); ... const stream = await client.responses.create({ model: &`#39`;gpt-5.2&`#39`;, input: &`#39`;Say "Sheep sleep deep" ten times fast!&`#39`;, stream: true, }); ... for await (const event of stream) { console.log(event); } ... #### Handling errors ... When the library is unable to connect to the API, or if the API returns a non-success status code (i.e., 4xx or 5xx response), a subclass of`APIError` will be thrown: ... Error codes are as follows: ... | Status Code | Error Type | | --- | --- | | 400 | `BadRequestError` | | 401 | `AuthenticationError` | | 403 | `PermissionDeniedError` | | 404 | `NotFoundError` | | 422 | `UnprocessableEntityError` | | 429 | `RateLimitError` | | >=500 | `InternalServerError` | | N/A | `APIConnectionError` | ... ##### Retries ... Certain errors will be automatically retried 2 times by default, with a short exponential backoff. Connection errors (for example, due to a network connectivity problem), 408 Request Timeout, 409 Conflict, 429 Rate Limit, and >=500 Internal errors will all be retried by default. ... You can use the`maxRetries` option to configure or disable this: ... ``` // Configure the default for all requests: const client = new OpenAI({ maxRetries: 0, // default is 2 }); ... // Or, configure per-request: await client.chat.completions.create({ messages: [{ role: &`#39`;user&`#39`;, content: &`#39`;How can I get the name of the current day in JavaScript?&`#39`; }], model: &`#39`;gpt-5.2&`#39`; }, { maxRetries: 5, }); ``` <title>openai/openai-node</title> https://github.com/openai/openai-node ## Streaming responses ... We provide support for streaming responses using Server-Sent Events (SSE). ... ```ts import OpenAI from &`#39`;openai&`#39`;; const client = new OpenAI(); const stream = await client.responses.create({ model: &`#39`;gpt-5.5&`#39`;, input: &`#39`;Say "Sheep sleep deep" ten times fast!&`#39`;, stream: true, }); ... for await (const event of stream) { console.log(event); } ... ## Handling errors ... When the library is unable to connect to the API, or if the API returns a non-success status code (i.e., 4xx or 5xx response), a subclass of `APIError` will be thrown: ```ts const job = await client.fineTuning.jobs .create({ model: &`#39`;gpt-4o&`#39`;, training_file: &`#39`;file-abc123&`#39`; }) .catch(async (err) => { if (err instanceof OpenAI.APIError) { console.log(err.requestID); console.log(err.status); // 400 console.log(err instanceof OpenAI.BadRequestError); // true for an HTTP 400 response console.log(err.headers); // response Headers } else { throw err; } }); ``` ... Error codes are as follows: ... | Status Code | Error Type | | ----------- | -------------------------- | | 400 | `BadRequestError` | | 401 | `AuthenticationError` | | 403 | `PermissionDeniedError` | | 404 | `NotFoundError` | | 409 | `ConflictError` | | 422 | `UnprocessableEntityError` | | 429 | `RateLimitError` | | >=500 | `InternalServerError` | | N/A | `APIConnectionError` | ... ### Retries ... Certain errors will be automatically retried 2 times by default, with a short exponential backoff. Connection errors (for example, due to a network connectivity problem), 408 Request Timeout, 409 Conflict, 429 Rate Limit, and >=500 Internal errors will all be retried by default. You can use the `maxRetries` option to configure or disable this: ```js // Configure the default for all requests: const client = new OpenAI({ maxRetries: 0, // default is 2 }); // Or, configure per-request: await client.chat.completions.create({ messages: [{ role: &`#39`;user&`#39`;, content: &`#39`;How can I get the name of the current day in JavaScript?&`#39`; }], model: &`#39`;gpt-5.5&`#39`; }, { maxRetries: 5, }); ``` ... Note that requests ... time out will be <title>Building AI APIs With Node.js - DEV Community</title> https://dev.to/nazar-boyko/building-ai-apis-with-nodejs-564l The SDK gives you two surfaces. The older `chat.completions.create ... `responses.create ... `, the Responses ... , which OpenAI now ... work because it was designed around streaming and tool calls from the start and ... Completions and ... ll meet it in the wild. ... `lib/openai.ts` ``` import OpenAI from "openai"; ... // Reads OPENAI_API_KEY from the environment by default. export const openai = new OpenAI({ timeout: 30_000, // 30s, not the 10-minute default — more on that below maxRetries: 2, // this is also the default; being explicit documents intent }); ``` ... Under the hood, when you ask for a stream the API doesn&`#39`;t hand you JSON. It opens a `text/event-stream` and pushes server-sent events: data-only SSE frames, one small chunk at a time, until it sends a terminal marker. The SDK wraps that raw stream in an async iterable so you can just loop over it. ... Here&`#39`;s the part the tutorials skip. You almost never want the browser talking to OpenAI directly: your API key would be sitting in client code, and you&`#39`;d have no place to enforce auth, rate limits, or logging. So your Node server sits in the middle: it consumes the OpenAI stream and re-emits it to the browser as its own SSE stream. A relay race, where your server is the runner in the middle who never gets to stop. ... ``` app.post("/api/chat", async (req, res) => { // 1. Open an SSE response to the browser. res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/event-stream", "Cache-Control": "no-cache", Connection: "keep-alive", }); // 2. Consume the upstream stream. const stream = await openai.responses.create({ model: "gpt-4o-mini", input: req.body.messages, stream: true, }); try { for await (const event of stream) { if (event.type === "response.output_text.delta") { // 3. Re-emit each chunk as our own SSE frame. res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ text: event.delta })}\n\n`); } } res.write("data: [DONE]\n\n"); } catch (err) { res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ error: "stream_failed" })}\n\n`); } finally { res.end(); } }); ``` ... The error mid-stream case. Once you&`#39`;ve sent `200 OK` and started writing frames, you can&`#39`;t suddenly send a 500: the headers are already gone. So errors that happen after the first byte have to be communicated inside the stream, as a `data:` frame your client knows how to interpret. ... isn&`#39`;t ... tell the browser something broke ... ## Retries: The SDK Already Does More Than You Think (And Less) ... Now the unglamorous reliability work. Good news first: the SDK retries for you. By default it retries failed requests 2 times, with a short exponential backoff, on exactly the errors that are worth retrying: connection errors, `408 Request Timeout`, `409 Conflict`, `429 Rate Limit`, and any `5xx`. It reads the `Retry-After` header when one&`#39`;s present instead of guessing. You can tune or kill that behavior: ... `Tuning retries` ``` // Globally, on the client: const openai = new OpenAI({ maxRetries: 3 }); ... // Or per request, when one call deserves different treatment: await openai.responses.create( { model: "gpt-4o-mini", input }, { maxRetries: 5 }, ); ``` ... The catch is that retries and streaming don&`#39`;t mix the way you&`#39`;d hope. The automatic retry happens during connection setup, before the first byte arrives. Once a stream has started flowing and dies in the middle, the SDK can&`#39`;t transparently retry it, because it would have to replay the half-delivered response. Half a token stream is gone. If resilience mid-stream matters to you, you own that: catch the error, and either restart the whole generation or accept the partial answer. There&`#39`;s no free lunch on a connection that&`#39`;s already talking. ... The second catch is subtler and more dangerous. Retries are only safe on idempotent operations, and an LLM call usually isn&`#39`;t one, especially once it can call tools. If your mo…[truncated] <title>Building AI APIs With Node.js: Streaming, Retries, Tokens</title> https://www.nazarboyko.com/articles/building-ai-apis-with-nodejs The SDK gives you two surfaces. The older`chat.completions.create()`, the one everybody knows, and the newer`responses.create()`, the Responses API, which OpenAI now recommends for new work because it was designed around streaming and tool calls from the start and gives you typed, semantic events instead of raw deltas. I&`#39`;ll show both where they differ, because most existing code is still on Chat Completions and you&`#39`;ll meet it in the wild. ... // Reads OPENAI_API_KEY from the environment by default. export const openai = new OpenAI({ timeout: 30_000, // 30s, not the 10-minute default — more on that below maxRetries: 2, // this is also the default; being explicit documents intent }); ... Under the hood, when you ask for a stream the API doesn&`#39`;t hand you JSON. It opens a`text/event-stream` and pushes server-sent events: data-only SSE frames, one small chunk at a time, until it sends a terminal marker. The SDK wraps that raw stream in an async iterable so you can just loop over it. ... Here&`#39`;s the part the tutorials skip. You almost never want the browser talking to OpenAI directly: your API key would be sitting in client code, and you&`#39`;d have no place to enforce auth, rate limits, or logging. So your Node server sits in the middle: it consumes the OpenAI stream and re-emits it to the browser as its own SSE stream. A relay race, where your server is the runner in the middle who never gets to stop. ... ``` app.post("/api/chat", async (req, res) => { // 1. Open an SSE response to the browser. res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/event-stream", "Cache-Control": "no-cache", Connection: "keep-alive", }); // 2. Consume the upstream stream. const stream = await openai.responses.create({ model: "gpt-4o-mini", input: req.body.messages, stream: true, }); try { for await (const event of stream) { if (event.type === "response.output_text.delta") { // 3. Re-emit each chunk as our own SSE frame. res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ text: event.delta })}\n\n`); } } res.write("data: [DONE]\n\n"); } catch (err) { res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ error: "stream_failed" })}\n\n`); } finally { res.end(); } }); ``` ... The error mid-stream case. Once you&`#39`;ve sent`200 OK` and started writing frames, you can&`#39`;t suddenly send a 500: the headers are already gone. So errors that happen after the first byte have to be communicated inside the stream, as a`data:` frame your client knows how to interpret. That`catch` block isn&`#39`;t optional politeness; it&`#39`;s the only way to tell the browser something broke. ... ## Retries: The SDK Already Does More Than You Think (And Less) ... Now the unglamorous reliability work. Good news first: the SDK retries for you. By default it retries failed requests 2 times, with a short exponential backoff, on exactly the errors that are worth retrying: connection errors,`408 Request Timeout`,`409 Conflict`,`429 Rate Limit`, and any`5xx`. It reads the`Retry-After` header when one&`#39`;s present instead of guessing. You can tune or kill that behavior: ... ``` // Globally, on the client: const openai = new OpenAI({ maxRetries: 3 }); ... // Or per request, when one call deserves different treatment: await openai.responses.create( { model: "gpt-4o-mini", input }, { maxRetries: 5 }, ); ... The catch is that retries and streaming don&`#39`;t mix the way you&`#39`;d hope. The automatic retry happens during connection setup, before the first byte arrives. Once a stream has started flowing and dies in the middle, the SDK can&`#39`;t transparently retry it, because it would have to replay the half-delivered response. Half a token stream is gone. If resilience mid-stream matters to you, you own that: catch the error, and either restart the whole generation or accept the partial answer. There&`#39`;s no free lunch on a connection that&`#39`;s already talking. ... The second catch is subtler and m…[truncated] <title>src/client.ts at 5436f42d · openai/openai-node</title> https://github.com/openai/openai-node/blob/5436f42d/src/client.ts /** * The maximum amount ... milliseconds) that ... * much ... this timeout before the ... succeeds or fails. ... /** * The maximum number of times that the client will retry a request in case of a * temporary failure, like a network error or a 5XX error from the server. * * `@default` 2 */ maxRetries?: number | undefined; ... maxRetries ... private async makeRequest( optionsInput: PromiseOrValue<FinalRequestOptions>, retriesRemaining: number | null, retryOfRequestLogID: string | undefined, ): Promise<APIResponseProps> { const options = await optionsInput; const maxRetries = options.maxRetries ?? this.maxRetries; if (retriesRemaining == null) { retriesRemaining = maxRetries; } await this.prepareOptions(options); const { req, url, timeout } = await this.buildRequest(options, { retryCount: maxRetries - retriesRemaining, }); await this.prepareRequest(req, { url, options }); ... url (https://example ... )" ... " with cause ... 43, timeout: 1ms ... not provide enough information to ... ) + (&`#39`; ... ${requestLog ... loggerFor(this).debug( ... OfRequestLog ... OfRequestLog ... ?? requestLog ... ` ... ${requestLog ... debug( ... out&`#39`; : &`#39`; ... )`, format ... Details({ ... OfRequestLogID ... url ... durationMs ... headersTime - startTime ... message: response.message, }), ); ... (response instanceof OAuthError || response instanceof SubjectTokenProvider ... ) { ... } if (isTimeout) { throw ... APIConnectionTimeout ... (); } ... ({ ... cause ... }); ... response.headers. ... .filter ... name]) => name ... &`#39`;) .map(([name ... .join(&`#39`;&`#39`;); ... LogStr}${specialHeaders ... if (!response. ... ) { if ( response.status === 401 && this._workloadIdentityAuth && security.bearerAuth && !options.__metadata?.[&`#39`;hasStreamingBody&`#39`;] && !options.__metadata?.[&`#39`;workloadIdentityTokenRefreshed&`#39`;] ) { await Shims.CancelReadableStream(response.body); this._workloadIdentityAuth.invalidateToken(); return this.makeRequest( { ...options, __metadata: { ...options.__metadata, workloadIdentityTokenRefreshed: true, }, }, retriesRemaining, retryOfRequestLogID ?? requestLogID, ); } const shouldRetry = await this.shouldRetry(response); if (retriesRemaining && shouldRetry) { const retryMessage = `retrying, ${retriesRemaining} attempts remaining`; // We don&`#39`;t need the body of this response. await Shims.CancelReadableStream(response.body); loggerFor(this).info(`${responseInfo} - ${retryMessage}`); loggerFor(this).debug( `[${requestLogID}] response error (${retryMessage})`, formatRequestDetails({ retryOfRequestLogID, url: response.url, status: response.status, headers: response.headers, durationMs: headersTime - startTime, }), ); return this.retryRequest( options, retriesRemaining, retryOfRequestLogID ?? requestLogID, response.headers, ); } const retryMessage = shouldRetry ? `error; no more retries left` : `error; not retryable`; loggerFor(this).info(`${responseInfo} - ${retryMessage}`); const errText = await response.text().catch((err: any) => castToError(err).message); const errJSON = ... (errText) as any; const errMessage = errJSON ? undefined : errText; logger ... debug( ... OfRequestLog ... private async shouldRetry(response: Response): Promise<boolean> { // Note this is not a standard header. const shouldRetryHeader = response.headers.get(&`#39`;x-should-retry&`#39`;); // If the server explicitly says whether or not to retry, obey. if (shouldRetryHeader === &`#39`;true&`#39`;) return true; if (shouldRetryHeader === &`#39`;false&`#39`;) return false; // Retry on request timeouts. if (response.status === 408) return true; // Retry on lock timeouts. if (response.status === 409) return true; // Retry on rate limits. if (response.status === 429) return true; // Retry internal errors. if (response.status >= 500) return true; return false; } private async retryRequest( options: FinalRequestOptions, retriesRemaining: number, requestLogID: string, responseHeaders?: Hea…[truncated]

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Prevent multiplicative retries across the SDK and stream loop.

With OPENAI_MAX_RETRIES=10, the SDK can issue 11 requests while establishing each stream, and retryOpenAIStream() can invoke the factory 11 times after progress. The outer retry predicate accepts the SDK’s final 429, 5xx, and connection errors. Therefore, 121 requests are reachable for one logical stream.

This can amplify provider incidents and delay failure reporting. Use one retry owner for each failure phase, or enforce one shared total request budget.

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In `@src/services/api/openai/index.ts` around lines 389 - 410, Configure the
OpenAI SDK client and retryOpenAIStream so retries do not multiply across stream
establishment and the outer stream loop. Use a single retry owner or enforce one
shared total request budget, ensuring final 429, 5xx, and connection errors
cannot trigger the SDK’s full retries and the outer retries for the same logical
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Release the upstream stream when either generator closes. When a consumer terminates retryOpenAIStream early, its for await loop calls return() on watchStreamIdle. Because watchStreamIdle manually obtains the source iterator, it does not forward that return(). Its finally only clears timers. Also, retryOpenAIStream removes the abort listener without aborting the per-attempt controller. The OpenAI SDK/fetch read can therefore remain active after early termination.

  • In streamRetry.ts, call abortAttempt() in the finally before removing the listener.
  • In streamIdleTimeout.ts, call await iterator.return?.() in the finally.

The idle-timeout path already calls abortAttempt() before rejecting the pending read, so this concern applies to early generator termination, not timeout handling.

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In `@src/services/api/openai/streamRetry.ts` around lines 396 - 398, Update
retryOpenAIStream’s finally block to invoke abortAttempt before removing the
abort listener, and update watchStreamIdle’s finally block to await
iterator.return?.() so early generator termination releases the upstream stream
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