feat(inference): opt-in failureNotices — tell the room when a turn produced nothing - #178
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…oduced nothing The chronicle marker already tells the resident its turn failed; people in the room saw only silence and couldn't tell a dead turn from a quiet one (Fable: 'silence should mark itself'). With AgentConfig.failureNotices, a short, clearly automatic notice goes to the agent's speaking room on the first failure of a streak and every 5th after (so a stuck loop can't flood it), for both exhausted inference errors and refusals. Default off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem. When a turn fails outright (provider error, refusal, over-budget), the framework records it (stderr, failures.log, an
[inference-failed]marker the agent sees next turn), but the people in the room see only silence. They can't tell a dead turn from a quiet agent, so they wait, or resend and pile up more failing turns.Fix. Opt-in
AgentConfig.failureNotices.noteInferenceExhaustedandnoteRefusalpost a one-line automatic notice to the agent's locus:⚠️ [automatic notice] <agent>'s reply failed to generate: <reason>, with the reason trimmed to one line. It posts on the first failure of a streak and on every 5th after, so a stuck loop can't flood the channel. It's best-effort: an undeliverable notice is logged and dropped.Tests.
test/inference-failure-observability.test.ts: notices post on failures 1 and 5 only, go to the resolved locus, and are absent when the option is off. Full suite: 955 pass / 0 fail.🤖 Generated with Claude Code