Summary
Terminal provider failures do not expose a complete structured retry summary. Attempt count can appear in rendered text and fatal records already have session/event identity, but cumulative backoff and correlation data are not propagated together as typed exhaustion metadata to the failing tool boundary.
Split from #35 after the transient overload retry policy was fixed by #32.
Desired behavior
On retry exhaustion, provide a structured, sanitized summary containing:
- total attempts;
- cumulative backoff or sleep time;
- total elapsed retry time;
- final retry/exhaustion category; and
- session ID and event ID, or an equivalent stable correlation reference to the fatal record.
The parent should not need to parse a rendered error string or search ~/.kit/errors to correlate the tool failure with its fatal record. This issue is about terminal accounting; live progress belongs in a separate issue.
Suggested coverage
- Use deterministic time to verify attempts, cumulative delays, and elapsed time.
- Verify the parent-visible structured failure correlates with the schema-v2 fatal record.
- Cover
subagent(...) through compose(background=true).
- Assert no provider body, credentials, private prompts, or customer identifiers are exposed.
Environment
- Originally observed with Kit
0.1.96 on Darwin 25.6.0 arm64.
- Confirmed as a remaining gap on Kit
0.1.105 on Darwin 25.5.0 arm64.
- Surface: ACP; provider route:
openai-subscription.
Related work
Summary
Terminal provider failures do not expose a complete structured retry summary. Attempt count can appear in rendered text and fatal records already have session/event identity, but cumulative backoff and correlation data are not propagated together as typed exhaustion metadata to the failing tool boundary.
Split from #35 after the transient overload retry policy was fixed by #32.
Desired behavior
On retry exhaustion, provide a structured, sanitized summary containing:
The parent should not need to parse a rendered error string or search
~/.kit/errorsto correlate the tool failure with its fatal record. This issue is about terminal accounting; live progress belongs in a separate issue.Suggested coverage
subagent(...)throughcompose(background=true).Environment
0.1.96onDarwin 25.6.0 arm64.0.1.105onDarwin 25.5.0 arm64.openai-subscription.Related work