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ed4b3e7afa fix(buzz-agent): recover from context-window 400s instead of sticking (#4946)
Provider `context_length_exceeded` 400s permanently wedged agent
sessions: the turn errored, the oversized history persisted in the
in-memory session, and the usage baseline stayed frozen at the last
successful sub-threshold reading (failed requests report no usage), so
the preflight handoff gate never fired again — every later prompt failed
identically until an agent restart. The byte-truncation fallback never
intervened because it is a request-body limiter (`estimated_bytes`), not
a context-window defence; at context-window scale it is a measured
no-op.

This adds the reactive recovery path:

- **Typed classification.** `AgentError::LlmContextExceeded` is
classified at both non-success provider terminals — the shared `post()`
(Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks) and `openrouter_post()` — on `status ==
400` plus a context-window body match, so ordinary 400s stay terminal.
- **Forced handoff.** A context-400 forces a summarize-handoff that
bypasses `should_handoff()` and `BUZZ_AGENT_MAX_HANDOFFS`, bounded by
its own per-turn budget (`MAX_CONTEXT_RECOVERIES_PER_RUN = 3`).
- **Shrink ladder.** The summarize prompt budget halves from the
observed rejected history size — not from `max_context_tokens`, the
number the provider just contradicted — rung to rung, with a 4096-byte
floor. A summarize call rejected for the same reason takes the next rung
instead of re-sticking. At the floor (overflow dominated by unshrinkable
frame: system prompt, tool schemas, live prompt) recovery is refused and
the provider error surfaces clearly instead of self-healing.
- **Baseline reset.** The stale usage baseline is cleared when a request
fails, so the preflight gate cannot stay frozen sub-threshold on
retries.

Named behavior changes:

1. **Anthropic and OpenRouter errors now carry the `(model)` stamp.**
Provider arms return their `Result` into the central error mapper
instead of early-returning past it, making the code match its documented
single-convergence contract at that mapper.
2. **`max_rounds` now counts completions the loop acts on.** A request
rejected with a context-400 that is then successfully recovered refunds
its round before the retry, paired 1:1 with a consumed recovery rung, so
the round cap is neither weakened nor able to drop a recovered turn
unanswered.

Related: #4805 — the complementary proactive fix (per-session
handoff-cap kill switch that let sessions grow to the provider wall).
#4805 prevents reaching the wall; this PR recovers at it.

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Co-authored-by: npub17jjz49l9jjmhhk7cac63j8yt9z555n9cw8vk7v5jz4vzw4ppld5qgj57cc <f4a42a97e594b77bdbd8ee35191c8b28a94a4cb871d96f32921558275421fb68@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-08-05 16:58:25 -04:00
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