fix(combos): fail over zero-output stream failures, recording each terminal once

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Summary

Lands @Ingwannu's #2433 with the one blocker fixed.

#2433 adds a bounded SSE preflight so failover combos can retry terminal failures
before output commits, plus model-lifecycle HTTP 410 classification. Review found
it correct except for one accounting seam: the preflight recorded a failed
terminal at src/server/responses/core.ts:1974, but native forward and pool
passthrough already record that same physical terminal through their eager and
tee inspectors. The once-guard lived on the exported callback in
handleComboResponses, so it never saw the inspector's direct invocation, and a
single 502 produced consecutiveFailures: 2 — soft-avoid and rotation firing at
half the configured threshold on a healthy account.

This moves the guard to where the recorder is built, in handleResponsesInner,
so the preflight callback and both inspectors share one guarded function.

The lifetime question that matters: the guard must be per streamed attempt, not
per request, or a combo failing over across three targets would record one
terminal instead of three. It is per attempt — each combo target calls
handleResponses afresh at core.ts:1915, each call builds a new
handleResponsesInner at :2163, so each attempt gets its own guard at
:3579. Independently confirmed before this PR was opened.

Closes #2431.

Verification

bun test tests/combos.test.ts tests/combo-stream-preflight.test.ts \
  tests/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts tests/core-lab-boundary.test.ts
 127 pass, 0 fail, 697 assertions
bun run typecheck
 exit 0

Red-green on the new regression
(tests/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts:973): RED before the fix with
consecutiveFailures: 2 against an expected 1; GREEN after. The test is
load-bearing — remove the guard and the tee inspector plus the preflight both
record, putting it back at 2.

Checklist

• Targets dev
• Regression test added and proven load-bearing
• Core/Lab boundary intact (core-lab-boundary green)
• No request-body, API-key, or account-identifier logging
• Bun-native TypeScript, exports preserved
• Original author's commits preserved in history

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved combo failover for HTTP 410 responses that explicitly indicate model retirement or unavailability.
  • Added safer streaming failover: failures before visible output may switch targets, while streams are committed after output begins or buffering reaches its limit.
  • Preserved buffered streaming output and prevented duplicate text or tool execution during retries.

• Documentation

  • Updated combo failover guidance in English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.

• Bug Fixes

  • Zero-output streaming failures now return sanitized errors instead of replaying committed streams.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds lifecycle-aware HTTP 410 failover and bounded SSE preflight handling. Zero-output stream failures can advance to another target. Streams commit after output, terminal completion, or the buffer cap. Tests and combo documentation cover the new behavior.

Changes

Combo failover behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Model lifecycle failure classification src/combos/failover.ts, tests/combos.test.ts	HTTP 410 responses hop only when recognized model lifecycle signals are present. Generic 410 responses remain terminal.
Bounded streaming preflight src/server/responses/combo-stream-preflight.ts, tests/combo-stream-preflight.test.ts	The preflight buffers bounded SSE data, classifies commitment events, replays accepted data, and converts zero-output terminal failures into sanitized responses.
Combo response integration and accounting src/server/responses/core.ts, tests/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts	Non-runTurn SSE responses use preflight before target commitment. Failure status, receipts, cooldown behavior, native streams, and duplicate outcome recording are covered.
Failover behavior documentation docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/combos.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/guides/combos.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/guides/combos.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/guides/combos.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/guides/combos.md, structure/04-transports-and-sidecars.md	The guides document lifecycle-specific 410 failover and the bounded streaming commitment boundary.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to abdea

The change enables failover for zero-output terminal failures while recording each terminal once. The remaining risk is limited to clarifying one Russian documentation phrase; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Combo
  participant Provider
  participant Backup
  Client->>Combo: send streaming request
  Combo->>Provider: request selected target
  Provider-->>Combo: return bounded Responses SSE prefix
  alt zero-output response.failed
    Combo->>Backup: request next eligible target
    Backup-->>Combo: return replacement stream
  else output, terminal event, or buffer cap
    Combo-->>Client: replay and relay committed stream
  end

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Suggested reviewers: ingwannu, wibias

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes zero-output stream failover and exactly-once terminal recording, which are the PR’s primary implementation changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #2431 by adding bounded pre-output SSE failover, fail-closed post-output behavior, lifecycle-aware 410 failover, and per-attempt accounting.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation, tests, design documentation, and translated guides directly support the failover and terminal-accounting objectives in issue #2431.
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/guides/combos.md`:
- Line 156: В абзаце о потоковых запросах замените неоднозначное «повторяемый
terminal response.failed» на формулировку, явно означающую, что для этого
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use unambiguous wording for retryable.

повторяемый terminal can mean “repeatable” or “recurring terminal,” not “eligible for a retry.” The runtime retries a classified response.failed only before output commitment. Replace this phrase with wording such as терминальное событие ... для которого разрешена повторная попытка, or retain retryable, so the Russian page does not imply that terminal failures can generally be replayed.

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-Если повторяемый terminal `response.failed` приходит до текста, reasoning, вызова инструмента или другого события вывода,
+Если терминальное событие `response.failed`, для которого разрешена повторная попытка, приходит до текста, reasoning, вызова инструмента или другого события вывода,

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Suggested change

Для потоковых запросов одного HTTP-статуса upstream недостаточно для окончательного решения. OpenCodex буферизует только ограниченный префикс Responses SSE выбранной дочерней цели до начала вывода. Если повторяемый terminal `response.failed` приходит до текста, reasoning, вызова инструмента или другого события вывода, попытка отмечается как неудачная и combo может перейти к следующей подходящей цели. После начала вывода или достижения лимита буфера текущая цель считается выбранной; более поздний сбой потока не воспроизводится у другого провайдера. Это предотвращает дублирование текста и выполнения инструментов.

Для потоковых запросов одного HTTP-статуса upstream недостаточно для окончательного решения. OpenCodex буферизует только ограниченный префикс Responses SSE выбранной дочерней цели до начала вывода. Если терминальное событие `response.failed`, для которого разрешена повторная попытка, приходит до текста, reasoning, вызова инструмента или другого события вывода, попытка отмечается как неудачная и combo может перейти к следующей подходящей цели. После начала вывода или достижения лимита буфера текущая цель считается выбранной; более поздний сбой потока не воспроизводится у другого провайдера. Это предотвращает дублирование текста и выполнения инструментов.

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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/guides/combos.md` at line 156, В абзаце о
потоковых запросах замените неоднозначное «повторяемый terminal response.failed»
на формулировку, явно означающую, что для этого терминального события разрешена
повторная попытка. Сохраните условие, что retry допускается только до начала
вывода или достижения лимита буфера, и синхронно обновите соответствующую
формулировку в английском источнике и русской странице.

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