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What changed

  • Bounds empty and mid-stream automatic retries and gates them on autoApprovalEnabled. Disabled auto-approval, exhausted retry budgets, and failures after a tool executes require explicit approval; approved retries retain a visible countdown and reset to a fresh capped budget.
  • Propagates Anthropic stop_reason, avoids retrying empty max_tokens responses, and preserves signed thinking blocks without allowing cross-index signature contamination.
  • Preserves logical user-turn identity across retry restoration. If restoring the original turn cannot be persisted, the approved retry now stops before issuing another billed API request.
  • Clears request-status timers on every wait settlement and extends the lifecycle model with explicit automatic remove/restore transitions and identity invariants.

Why this change was made

Users reported billed Anthropic requests that repeatedly produced no response. Silent retries, unhandled terminal stop reasons, and incomplete signed-thinking persistence could hide the failure or corrupt a continuation instead of giving the user a bounded, actionable result.

Impact

Failed or empty model streams can no longer retry indefinitely or proceed after retry-history restoration fails. Users receive visible retry state and terminal guidance, while persisted conversations retain stable message identity across retries and restarts.

The full test suite passed with 8,278 tests and 39 skipped, alongside focused retry/provider suites, all seven lifecycle models, typecheck, lint, and changed-code mutation testing with no reported survivors or uncovered mutants. No browser proof applies because the change is extension-host retry and persistence logic. No separate user-facing documentation update is required; the lifecycle architecture documentation reflects the strengthened model invariant.

The duplicated Anthropic Vertex streaming loop remains outside this PR's scope.

…ies, unhandled max_tokens stops, and dropped thinking signatures

- Bound mid-stream API failure retries (3 automatic attempts), announce
  every retry through the visible backoff countdown, and ask the user
  once the budget is exhausted instead of looping silently.
- Propagate the response stop_reason through the usage stream and stop
  retrying when an empty response ended with max_tokens, surfacing
  remediation guidance instead of re-billing the full context.
- Capture Anthropic thinking-block signatures (signature_delta) and
  replay each signed thinking block unchanged on tool-use
  continuations.
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  • New Features
    • Added bounded automatic retries for empty responses and mid-stream failures.
    • Retry progress is displayed, with user prompts after automatic retries are exhausted.
    • Retry handling avoids duplicate conversation messages and preserves message identity.
    • Token-limit terminations now provide a specific error instead of being retried.
    • Preserved signed Anthropic reasoning content across tool-use continuations, including multiple reasoning blocks.
    • Exposed model stop reasons in streaming usage updates.

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The change captures Anthropic thinking signatures and stop reasons, replays signed thinking blocks, adds bounded retry handling, preserves user-message identity, and validates retry state transitions.

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Anthropic streaming and task recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Anthropic stream signatures and stop reasons
src/api/providers/anthropic.ts, src/api/transform/stream.ts, src/api/providers/__tests__/anthropic.spec.ts
AnthropicHandler captures signed thinking blocks, emits completed signatures, exposes completed block getters, and includes stopReason in usage chunks. Tests cover block pairing, filtering, clearing, and stop-reason propagation.
Signed thinking history replay
src/core/task/apiConversationHistory.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/apiConversationHistory.spec.ts
Assistant message preparation replays each completed Anthropic thinking block with its matching signature.
Bounded task retry handling
src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts, scripts/check-api-retry-persistence.ts, package.json, docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md
Task execution bounds automatic retries, handles empty max_tokens responses, prompts after exhaustion, records failures, preserves message identity, and runs state-model validation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Anthropic streaming and retry flow

sequenceDiagram
  participant AnthropicAPI
  participant AnthropicHandler
  participant Task
  participant User
  AnthropicAPI->>AnthropicHandler: Stream thinking, signatures, and stop reason
  AnthropicHandler->>Task: Emit completed blocks and usage stopReason
  Task->>Task: Track failures and automatic retries
  Task->>User: Request retry after retry limit
  User->>Task: Approve or decline recovery
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 22b6e

Stream failures can repeat an already executed tool operation, while failed history restoration can leave a completed turn unavailable after restart. These risks should be fixed before merge.


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Regression Evidence ❌ Error A caller-level negative path lacks focused coverage. In Task.ts, the approved empty-response retry restores currentItem.removedUserMessage at line 3124 but ignores the false result from `restore… Add a Task.spec.ts integration test for an approved empty-response retry with both saveApiConversationHistory and retrySaveApiConversationHistory failing. Assert the retry does not proceed after restoration failure and that in-memory …
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary fix: preventing billed API requests from returning no response when streams fail silently or end at max_tokens.
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Security Boundaries ✅ Passed No changed path meets the security failure conditions. Task.ts limits automatic retry to retryState?.autoApprovalEnabled, prevents mid-stream automatic retry after tool use, and routes capped or m…
Persistence Integrity ✅ Passed No changed persistence-integrity failure is present. The new restore and terminal-failure paths await their save and bounded retry operations in src/core/task/Task.ts. recordTerminalApiFailure rem…
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A caller-level negative path lacks focused coverage. In Task.ts, the approved empty-response retry restores currentItem.removedUserMessage at line 3124 but ignores the false result from restoreApiHistoryUserMessage. The new tests cover successful restoration at the caller and persistence failure for declined retries, and they test the helper failure in isolation. They do not cover persistence failure during an approved retry, where history can diverge before the retry proceeds. No Playwright snapshot is required because the diff contains no durable UI change.

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Add a Task.spec.ts integration test for an approved empty-response retry with both saveApiConversationHistory and retrySaveApiConversationHistory failing. Assert the retry does not proceed after restoration failure and that in-memory history and message counts remain consistent. Update the approved-retry caller to check the restoration result and take the terminal failure path before issuing another API request.

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Keep the current mid-stream retry guard. shouldAddUserMessage is false for automatic retries, but the original user message remains in history and must be removed before a manual retry. Tool continuations with non-empty content are added and counted normally. The decline path also calls addToApiConversationHistory, which validates tool-result IDs.

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Fixed and pushed through 22b6eeff1, with the follow-up tool-side-effect approval guard in 77738b62c.

  • Added cross-index signature_delta protection and regression coverage.
  • Gated automatic retries on auto-approval and explicit approval after tool execution; approved retries show countdowns and reset a capped budget.
  • Preserved empty-continuation history and logical turn identity.
  • Added bounded persistence success propagation/rollback for restore and terminal failure records.
  • Cleared ask() status timers on cancellation and covered delayed TaskIdle prevention.
  • Updated the lifecycle model and explicit reconstruction rejection.

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- Restore the exact removed user-message record (messageId/ts) instead of
  rebuilding it, so merge-on-save never duplicates the user turn on disk.
- Add negative guard tests: non-Anthropic protocols never receive thinking
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- Kill surviving mutation-diff mutants: stray thinking-delta index guard,
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- Deduplicate the retry-suite test helpers into one shared scope.
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3699-3700: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not auto-retry a failed stream after tool execution starts.

presentAssistantMessage can execute tools before streaming ends. On failure, abortStream does not persist the partial assistant turn or userMessageContent to apiConversationHistory, so the retry can issue the same tool call again. autoApprovalEnabled: false still requires approval, but auto-approved terminal commands, MCP calls, and file writes can execute again. The retry cap limits replays but does not prevent duplicate effects. Track tool execution for the failed attempt and skip automatic retry after execution begins. Add a regression test that asserts one tool execution when the stream fails afterward.

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In `@src/core/task/Task.ts` around lines 3699 - 3700, Update
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3124-3124: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stop the retry when user-message restoration is not durable.

restoreApiHistoryUserMessage() returns false after all writes fail, but this caller ignores that result. If the original user-message write also failed, the next billed request runs from in-memory history only. A restart can then lose the logical user turn that produced the response or tool execution.

Check the result before starting the request. Surface a persistence error and stop this retry when restoration fails.

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-					await this.restoreApiHistoryUserMessage(currentItem.removedUserMessage)
+					if (!(await this.restoreApiHistoryUserMessage(currentItem.removedUserMessage))) {
+						await this.say("error", "Failed to persist the restored API conversation history.")
+						return false
+					}

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In `@src/core/task/Task.ts` at line 3124, In the retry flow around
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Complete the restoration model for automatic retry paths.

retry-visible and receive-max-tokens-empty keep turnPresent set to true. The BFS therefore does not model the user-turn removal and restoration performed by production code on these paths. The standalone identity check is not connected to a transition.

Model removal before retry or terminal handling. Model restoration with the original identity before the next request or terminal state. Otherwise, an automatic-path reconstruction regression can pass this checker.

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- Around line 63-73: Update the retry-visible and receive-max-tokens-empty
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Fixed in 55341285800c80160d8bf48b035f1ddc59b4b953: approved empty-response retries now stop when the original user turn cannot be persisted, with focused caller-level coverage and explicit automatic remove/restore identity transitions in the lifecycle model.

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