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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe pull request adds per-model retry and ordered fallback configuration for language-model inference. It centralizes retry and error handling, applies it across Ask-related paths, and updates schemas, tests, documentation, and changelog entries. ChangesInference retry and fallback support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant AskCodebase
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Client->>AskCodebase: Submit Ask request
AskCodebase->>RetryExecutor: Execute configured model
RetryExecutor->>Provider: Send inference request
Provider-->>RetryExecutor: Return result or error
RetryExecutor->>Provider: Retry transient failure or use fallback model
RetryExecutor-->>AskCodebase: Return result and served model
AskCodebase-->>Client: Return response or detailed inference error
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Persistent provider failures can keep blocking Ask and MCP requests running through many full agent executions and backoff periods. Add a shared execution deadline and cancellation path before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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🟠 Major · Bound the prompt for each fallback model. · askCodebase.ts:167-234
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftBound the prompt for each fallback model.
createMessageStreambuilds the samemessageHistory, system prompt, and tool set for every candidate. The candidate’scontextWindowis used only in response metadata and is not used to boundcreateAgentStreaminput. A fallback with a smaller context window can therefore receive an over-limit prompt and fail with a context-length error. Apply a candidate-specific token bound before invoking the fallback model.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Problem
When an inference request failed inside Ask (or the MCP
ask_codebasetool), the system surfaced a generic "operation failed" error with no provider details, and had no retry or fallback strategy — making outages undebuggable and brittle.Changes
inferenceRetry.server.tsreports[provider/model] message (status N) | provider response: ...with the provider status preserved (INFERENCE_ERROR); wired into streaming chat,askCodebase, search-assist, and review-agent.retry: { maxRetries, initialBackoffMs, maxBackoffMs }on every model (defaults 3/500ms/8000ms); transient failures only (network, 408/429/5xx).fallbackModelsper model;askCodebase(MCP + blocking API) falls through the chain and aggregates all attempts on total failure. Streaming chat retries without switching models.askCodebaseis now best-effort instead of failing the request.Note
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Touches core Ask/MCP inference behavior and error surfaces; misconfigured fallbacks or retry policy could change which model runs or how failures appear to clients.
Overview
Adds [EE] per-model retry and ordered fallback configuration for Ask inference, documented in config guides and reflected across the v3 language-model schema docs.
Each model can set
retry(maxRetries,initialBackoffMs,maxBackoffMs) for transient failures (network, 408/429/5xx) with exponential backoff.fallbackModels(up to five references to other configured models) apply to blocking Ask paths—the MCPask_codebasetool and the blocking chat API—while interactive streaming chat is documented as retry-only on the selected model.When all attempts fail, clients get per-model error details (model, message, status); full provider bodies stay out of responses, with truncated snippets reserved for server logs. The unreleased CHANGELOG entry matches this behavior and the improved provider error reporting for Ask, MCP, and the blocking chat API.
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Fixes #1156 by adding per-model retries and ordered fallbacks to Ask inference and the MCP
ask_codebasetool, so transient provider failures no longer immediately fail requests and exhausted failures expose actionable context.INFERENCE_ERROR.retryandfallbackModels.Written for commit 121c560. Summary will update on new commits.
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