fix(combos): a pool-held 429 must not park the combo target past the pool

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Summary

Follow-up to #6255. When every Anthropic account is cooled, the pool refuses locally with a 429 whose Retry-After is getAnthropicPoolRetryAfterSeconds() — the earliest per-account cooldown, restated. #6255 deliberately still cools the combo target on that refusal (no account was identified), so the server-delay path records it as an authoritative upstream delay, up to the 24h MAX_SERVER_DELAY_MS ceiling.

That number is local pool state, not an upstream statement, and local state changes: an account is added, resumed, re-authenticated, or has its cooldown cleared. Nothing clears a target cooldown except a combo edit or delete (clearComboTargetCooldowns is only called from src/server/management/combo-routes.ts). So once a weekly window has exhausted every account, a freshly added account is ignored by every combo routing through Anthropic until the target expires — up to a day — while the pool itself would already serve it.

This happened in production: an account added at 12:48 would have been unusable through the combo until the next day.

Fix

isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal() in core-combo.ts classifies that one response by provenance, not by current pool state alone: the target is the OAuth anthropic provider, no account was identified for the failure, the status is 429, and the pool is holding the wait (no eligible account, at least one known cooldown expiry). Only then is the pool's restated Retry-After withheld from the target cooldown at the single combo failure site.

It only reads the pool through existing anthropic-routing exports, so no auth surface (src/oauth/) is modified.

The target still cools — the anti-hammer guard #6255 intended — but for the local fallback, which coolComboTarget already caps at ten minutes. Re-offering the target while the pool still holds the wait costs one local refusal with zero upstream sends, so nothing is hammered and no quota is spent.

Deliberately narrow

I first tried simply capping every server-stated delay at ten minutes and dropped it: it breaks the tested wait-vs-failover contract, because earliestComboCooldownExpiry would report a false expiry. This change leaves that contract alone:

• A real upstream Retry-After still parks the target in full: an upstream 429 on a pool account always cools and names that account (failedAccount), an API-key provider never qualifies, and a single account is never cooled by rotation (the existing "strict no-op" case).
• tests/codex-integration/combo-authoritative-reset.test.ts (780s–7200s server delays honoured in full) passes unchanged.
• Codex pools are out of scope — this is the Anthropic pool's own refusal only.

Verification

• bun run typecheck — clean.
• bun test tests/routing/always-on-429-failover.test.ts — 11/11, two new cases:
  • the classifier is false with any account eligible, true once all are cooled with a known expiry, false for an identified account, an API-key provider and a non-429 status, and false again the moment a new account is saved;
  • a pool-held 429 cools the combo target, but it is selectable again at ten minutes rather than after the pool's four-day Retry-After.
• Red/green: with the classifier forced to false, both new cases fail; restored, both pass.
• tests/routing + combos.test.ts + combo-authoritative-reset.test.ts + combo-permanent-failure-cooldown.test.ts: 1249 pass / 21 fail with the change vs 1247 pass / 21 fail on dev — the same 21 pre-existing failures; +2 are the new cases.
• No layout or file-size-baseline change: cases added to an existing file, and neither touched file is tracked in file-size-baseline.json.

The second new case mirrors the call-site condition rather than driving a full combo dispatch through core-combo.ts, so the wiring itself (one conditional on retryAfter) is covered by review rather than by an HTTP-level test. Happy to add one if you'd like it pinned end to end.

Full-suite validation was not run locally; the focused set above plus typecheck is what I exercised, with remaining coverage left to CI.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed. (No user-facing doc change: routing behaviour after pool exhaustion now recovers within minutes rather than up to a day.)
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. (No credential, auth, workflow or dependency change. Reads existing pool health only; the anti-hammer target cooldown is preserved.)

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved failover handling for Anthropic OAuth pools when an unidentified 429 occurs, no account is eligible, and the pool has a retry delay. Combo targets now use a brief local cooldown instead of inheriting the pool’s retry delay.
  • Preserved upstream retry delays when an eligible account receives a rate limit, so those failures continue to respect the reported wait time. Identified cooled accounts and other provider or failure cases retain their existing cooldown behavior.

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The change identifies Anthropic OAuth 429 responses caused by all pool accounts being unavailable. Combo failure advancement omits the pool’s retry delay for these responses. Tests cover the predicate conditions and resulting combo-target cooldown.

Changes

Anthropic pool-held waits

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect Anthropic pool-held waits src/server/responses/core-combo.ts, tests/routing/always-on-429-failover.test.ts	Adds isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal for Anthropic OAuth 429 responses with no failed account, no eligible pool account, and a reported pool retry delay. Tests cover these conditions, including cases that must not be classified as local refusals.
Apply pool wait state to combo failures src/server/responses/core-combo.ts, tests/routing/always-on-429-failover.test.ts, structure/runtime.md	Checks for a pool-local refusal before combo advancement. Matching failures omit the pool’s retry delay while retaining the failed account. Tests cover target cooldown behavior with and without an eligible account. Runtime documentation describes the cooldown exception.

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Change: Bug fix

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The change uses a local combo cooldown for pool-held Anthropic OAuth 429s; the reviewed evidence establishes no unresolved material user-facing risk.

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Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/server/responses/core-combo.ts: The Anthropic routing import adds getAnthropicPoolRetryAfterSeconds and getEligibleAnthropicAccounts.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/server/responses/core-combo.ts: Adds exported isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal, which returns true only for an Anthropic OAuth 429 with no failed account, no eligible accounts at now, and a non-null pool retry delay.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/server/responses/core-combo.ts: The failure path now resolves the failed account before advancing the combo and checks for an Anthropic pool-local refusal. It omits failure.retryAfter for that case while still passing the failed account; previously, it always passed the original retry delay and computed the failed account inline.
• observed — Modified behavior in tests/routing/always-on-429-failover.test.ts: Imports add combo-target cooldown helpers, translator-budget and combo-dispatch helpers, isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal, and the pool retry-after accessor.

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P2 at src/server/responses/core-combo.ts:995-1000: current global OAuth-pool state does not prove that this particular 429 was synthesized by the pool. For example, an Anthropic API-key request can return a genuine upstream Retry-After while stored OAuth accounts happen to be cooled. The new condition checks the provider name/status/global eligibility, not auth mode or refusal origin; with no attributed failedAccount, it drops that real delay before target cooldown is recorded. This violates the stated preservation of upstream wait directives. The existing review comment identifies the same issue, and the surrounding account-attributed path should not be conflated with this unqualified target path.

Carry explicit local-all-cooled refusal provenance from request-transport through consumeComboFailure/ConsumedComboFailure (an internal marker, not inference from current global state or message text), and suppress target Retry-After only for that provenance. Keep upstream 429/reset evidence authoritative regardless of unrelated pool state.

Add a production-dispatch regression for both (1) a local pool-held refusal followed by a newly eligible account and (2) an API-key/upstream 429 with cooled OAuth state, asserting the latter target remains parked for the actual Retry-After. The current second test mirrors the proposed conditional and calls coolComboTarget directly, so it can pass while the production source-selection contract is wrong. Update the owned combo/pool contract documentation as well. Readiness is currently open and required hosted CI has not run; no sponsorship, CI waiver, security scan or live account experiment was performed.

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Release triage (maintainer lane): I re-checked head 46a3280bc510f7b5c84ed2c638809112abaf8888 against @Ingwannu's P2 with an independent review.

• API-key 429s keep their Retry-After. isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal() now requires authMode: "oauth", no failedAccount, status 429, and a pool that holds the wait. A genuine upstream Retry-After on an API-key provider therefore still parks the target in full.
• The remaining OAuth path with no failedAccount also keeps the wait. With the pool off and two or more accounts, the first send does not stamp the account label. However, recordAnthropicAccountRefusal still cools that account for the full upstream Retry-After, and the next attempt is refused locally by AnthropicAccountCooldownError without calling upstream. So the combo drops Retry-After only while the pool enforces an equivalent wait. No path was found where a real upstream wait is lost.
• Non-blocking follow-ups: (1) the predicate checks eligibility across the whole pool. With a strict model route, all routed accounts can be cooled while accounts outside the route are eligible, and the target then still parks for the route's Retry-After. That is unchanged from dev, so this is a partial fix, not a regression. (2) structure/runtime.md around line 507 could gain one sentence about the pool-held cooldown case.

I approved the pending fork workflow runs for this head, and hosted CI is in progress. @Ingwannu, could you re-review against 46a3280bc5 and confirm whether your changes request is resolved?

Maintainer integration (@lidge-jun): the P2 is fixed at 46a3280 and carried into head 0602d7b. isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal now requires provider anthropic with authMode oauth, status 429, no identified failed account, no eligible pool account and a live pool retry-after. An API-key 429, or one on an identified pool account, keeps its full Retry-After. An independent review confirmed this, and regressions are in tests/routing/always-on-429-failover.test.ts. Happy to revert if you see a remaining gap.

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Maintainer integration record (MAINTAINERS.md, dev only)

• Exact head: 0602d7badcb797109fc06603823c21742f443c60. Its base is a6114b62ed, and GitHub reports it MERGEABLE against the current dev. The only maintainer commit on top of the author's head 46a3280bc5 is 0602d7badc "docs(structure): record the pool-local 429 combo cooldown exception", which adds the owner-doc sentence to structure/runtime.md.

• Hosted CI at this head: Cross-platform CI run 36865472438 passed. Attempt 1 was the fork-approval action_required gate; attempt 2 ran after a maintainer approved the fork workflow. Every job that ran passed: test 1/4 through test 4/4, gates, structure gate, storage policy, docker smoke, api usage, keyring, npm-global and ci. React Doctor run 36865472481 passed, and hygiene passed.

• Local suites were not run, on the project owner's explicit instruction. Hosted CI is the only execution evidence.

• Security: this PR is outside the MAINTAINERS.md security boundary. It changes combo cooldown logic and only reads OAuth pool state, through existing exports. No security review is required.

• Findings: an independent correctness review at 46a3280bc5 returned PASS. @Ingwannu's P2 (an API-key 429 losing its Retry-After) is fixed. isAnthropicPoolLocalRefusal requires authMode: "oauth", no identified failedAccount, status 429, and a pool that holds the wait. On the remaining OAuth path with no failedAccount (pool off, two or more accounts), the account is still cooled for the full upstream wait, and the pool enforces that wait locally. Two non-blocking P3s remain. First, strict model routes keep the old target parking, which is unchanged from dev. Second, the doc sentence, now added.

• Maintainer objection: @Ingwannu's CHANGES_REQUESTED review is still open. A re-review was requested in fix(combos): a pool-held 429 must not park the combo target past the pool #6383 (comment). Merging needs that review withdrawn or a recorded maintainer-integration decision.

• Attribution: author @vadymhimself. The squash keeps the author and adds Co-authored-by for the maintainer doc commit.

• Enforce PR target branch: run 36865469159 (attempt 1) passed at this exact head. Its duplicate rerun has been stuck in the runner queue for hours, and that check does not execute head code.