fix(billing): do not auto-retry billed tool Seer requests

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What changed

• Face Reading, Runes, KP, Horary, Feng Shui, and Dream Symbols Ask-the-Seer chats no longer auto-retry after a 5xx or a thrown fetch.
• A single Send now posts the billed request once. Failures show the existing unavailable message so the user can retry deliberately.

Why this change is safe

• Root cause: enforceToolSeerGate calls consumeBillingAction before the LLM. These UIs retried 500/502 and catch-path network/stream errors, so one click could consume the per-tool free instance and then debit a PAYG credit.
• Trigger: PAYG user asks Face Reading (or the other five tools) with a valid analysis. The route returns 500 after the gate (Groq/handler error) or the stream throws. The UI waited 1.5s and posted again.
• Scope is limited to removing those retries. 401 token refresh in fetchWithFirebaseAuthRequired is unchanged (auth fails before debit).
• Distinct from empty-question (Fix Seer billing for empty questions #59) and missing-chart (Fix Seer billing when natal chart context is missing #64–Fix Medical Seer billing when chart context is missing #66) billing. Complementary to “no refund when a valid LLM call fails” — this stops the extra unsolicited debit.

Verification

• pnpm exec eslint on the six chat files + new test (pre-existing warnings only; 0 errors)
• pnpm test — 74 suites / 399 tests, including tests/unit/seerBilledRetry.test.ts
• Playwright smoke not run (unauthenticated E2E cannot exercise signed-in Seer debit)

Regression prevention

• tests/unit/seerBilledRetry.test.ts fails if those UIs restore RETRY_DELAY_MS / isRetryableStatus / a second await performFetch()
• Other Seer chats were already single-post.

Release checklist (solo-friendly)

• CI is green:
  • CI / Lint + Jest
  • CI / Playwright smoke
• Ready to merge to main.
• Prefer merging the existing critical backlog (fix(profile): do not delete stored reports on profile save #74 wipe, fix(generation): do not overwrite real tool reports with placeholders #73 placeholder overwrite, fix(generation): stop catalog fill spinning on placeholder tools #72 catalog hang, fix(generation): refill catalog after birth-data hash change #69–fix(generation): do not advance profile hash without natal regen #71, fix(security): keep profile saves working after Generate and billing #70 hasOnly, Fix double credit debit when mystical regen races the generation lock #31 regen debit) alongside this.

  

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated
future-seer	Ready	Preview	Sep 11, 2026 11:34am UTC

[AndyOliverR]

Superseded by #78 — unique fix cherry-picked onto current main (billed tool Seer UIs no longer auto-retry after debit).