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Wait out LLM outages with backoff (L5: outages delay, never fail)
A 502, 503 or 504 from the LiteLLM proxy, or a dropped connection, is
retried after 5, 15 and 45 seconds before the call fails. Twice on
2026-10-07 a short burst of 502s stopped work outright: the integration
tier at 16:39 and an e2e conversation at 20:43, where the item waited on
the operator after one refused call.

Not retried: a 500 (it may be the request's fault), a timeout (it already
had its request_timeout_s), or a budget refusal. Rate limits keep their
single 20-second retry. The time spent waiting is reported with the rate
limit's (last_rate_limit_wait_s), so it isn't counted as the model's.

Tests: an outage waited out, one that outlasts the backoff, a dropped
connection, a 500 and a timeout not retried, a budget refusal not waited
on. The offline agent in test_agent_build skips the backoff (its proxy
doesn't exist).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPQ14L3LikyefCMFBqEbKE
2026-10-07 21:11:45 +00:00

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"""LLM access (architecture L9).
One client interface, present from the first real LLM call. All traffic goes
to the LiteLLM proxy — the VM's single LLM destination; the agent holds one
LiteLLM token and no vendor credentials. The base URL and token come from the
agent's config (nisse_dev.config), nothing hardcoded.
Model identity is expressed as roles (L9), resolved to concrete model strings
from config; the resolved mapping is pinned at task start so a mid-task
config change cannot split a task across two planners.
"""
import json
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Any, ClassVar, Protocol
import httpx
from nisse_dev.canonical import (
AssistantText,
CanonicalEvent,
StoredEvent,
ToolCall,
mint_call_id,
)
from nisse_dev.render import OpenAIChatRenderer
from nisse_dev.render_anthropic import AnthropicMessagesRenderer
class LLMError(RuntimeError):
pass
# A rate limit is a transient condition, not a bad request. Losing a
# ten-turn delegation to one wastes far more tokens than waiting out the
# window, so retry once before surfacing it (L9's caps still bound the
# total).
RATE_LIMIT_STATUS = 429
RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_S = 20.0
# The proxy, or what's behind it, briefly gone: a 502/503/504 or a dropped
# connection. Outages delay, never fail (L5): waited out with backoff before
# the work is stopped. Not a 500 (it may be the request) and not a timeout
# (a hung model has had its request_timeout_s already).
OUTAGE_STATUSES = frozenset({502, 503, 504})
OUTAGE_BACKOFF_S = (5.0, 15.0, 45.0)
# Generous by default. Output is billed by what is produced, not by the
# ceiling, and a ceiling too low does not fail loudly — it truncates a tool
# call mid-argument and hands back something that parses. Measured: Opus
# writing an architecture plan routinely spends 3,000-4,000 output tokens and
# was observed at 4,064 against a 4,096 limit.
DEFAULT_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 16384
# How long one request may take before it is abandoned (llm.request_timeout_s).
# A safety net for a hung connection, not a budget: a dense local model
# writing a whole module in one turn was measured taking over 120 s, and
# timing it out failed work that was going well.
DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S = 600.0
class UpstreamUnavailable(LLMError):
"""The proxy or provider could not be reached, or refused for reasons
unrelated to what was asked: a network blip, a timeout, a 5xx, a rate
limit that did not clear, an exhausted budget.
Worth distinguishing because the *work* is not at fault. A delegation
stopped by one of these has a branch that may be perfectly good, so it is
preserved and resumed rather than discarded — unlike a delegate that made
a mess, which is cleaned up.
"""
class BudgetExhausted(UpstreamUnavailable):
"""The proxy refused because a spend limit is gone.
Distinct from the rest of its family because it will not clear on its
own within the hour: an exhausted daily budget takes external models away
until it resets, so retrying wastes time and the operator needs telling.
L9 keeps the budget itself at the proxy; recognising its refusal is ours.
"""
def _looks_like_budget_refusal(text: str) -> bool:
# Pattern-matched rather than contracted: LiteLLM's wording is not a
# documented interface, so this errs toward missing one rather than
# misreporting an unrelated failure as a budget problem.
lowered = text.lower()
return "budget" in lowered and (
"exceed" in lowered or "exhaust" in lowered or "limit" in lowered
)
class TruncatedResponse(LLMError):
"""The model was cut off mid-answer.
Raised rather than returned, because the damage is silent: a truncated
tool call arrives with required arguments simply absent, and a truncated
write_file would write half a file and report success. A cut-off turn is
a failed turn, and every caller already retries or gates on LLMError.
"""
class LLMClient(Protocol):
def complete(
self,
events: list[StoredEvent],
tools: list[dict[str, Any]] | None,
model: str,
system: str | None = None,
) -> list[CanonicalEvent]: ...
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class RoleMap:
executor: str # the old loop's (control.py), until M2.8
planner: str # the old loop's, until M2.8
helper: str # delegations (L9)
expert: str # ask_expert (L9)
driver: str = "" # drives the new loop; unset, the planner's model
classifier: str = "" # reads go-aheads now, actions later (L4); unset, expert's
ROLES: ClassVar[tuple[str, ...]] = (
"executor",
"planner",
"helper",
"expert",
"driver",
"classifier",
)
_FALLBACK: ClassVar[dict[str, str]] = {"driver": "planner", "classifier": "expert"}
def resolve(self, role: str) -> str:
if role not in self.ROLES:
raise LLMError(f"unknown role: {role!r}")
model = str(getattr(self, role))
if not model and role in self._FALLBACK:
return self.resolve(self._FALLBACK[role])
return model
def pinned(self) -> dict[str, str]:
"""The full resolved mapping, to record at task start (L9)."""
return {role: self.resolve(role) for role in self.ROLES}
@classmethod
def from_pinned(cls, pinned: dict[str, str], default: "RoleMap") -> "RoleMap":
"""A work item's pinned mapping; a role it predates comes from
``default``."""
return cls(**{r: pinned.get(r) or default.resolve(r) for r in cls.ROLES})
class LiteLLMClient:
def __init__(
self,
base_url: str,
token: str,
*,
timeout_s: float = DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S,
transport: httpx.BaseTransport | None = None,
sleep: Any = time.sleep,
max_tokens: int | None = None,
) -> None:
self._http = httpx.Client(
base_url=base_url.rstrip("/"),
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
timeout=timeout_s,
transport=transport,
)
self._renderer = OpenAIChatRenderer()
self._sleep = sleep
self._max_tokens = max_tokens or DEFAULT_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS
# Set after each call so a caller can meter itself (L9 caps);
# a side channel rather than a return value, so the LLMClient
# protocol stays the same for every implementation.
self.last_usage: dict[str, int] = {}
self.last_model: str | None = None
self.last_cost: float = 0.0
# Set even when the call then fails: time spent waiting out a rate
# limit is the proxy's, not the model's (the benchmark subtracts it).
self.last_rate_limit_wait_s: float = 0.0
def complete(
self,
events: list[StoredEvent],
tools: list[dict[str, Any]] | None,
model: str,
system: str | None = None,
*,
max_tokens: int | None = None,
require_tool_call: bool = False,
) -> list[CanonicalEvent]:
body = self._renderer.render(events, tools, model, system=system)
if require_tool_call and tools:
# Only for models whose server enforces it; see BudgetedClient.
body["tool_choice"] = "required"
# A ceiling on this route too: without one a runaway turn is bounded
# only by the provider's default, and the same truncation check has
# nothing to check against. A caller that knows the model's limits
# (the context budget) passes a tighter one.
body["max_tokens"] = max_tokens or self._max_tokens
self.last_rate_limit_wait_s = 0.0 # not the last call's, if this one raises
response, self.last_rate_limit_wait_s = _post_with_rate_limit_retry(
self._http, "/chat/completions", body, self._sleep
)
if response.status_code != 200:
_raise_for_upstream(response)
raise LLMError(
f"LLM request returned {response.status_code}: {response.text[:500]}"
)
# LiteLLM prices every call; kept so a caller can meter spending.
self.last_cost = _response_cost(response)
return self._parse(response.json(), requested_model=model)
def _parse(
self, data: dict[str, Any], requested_model: str
) -> list[CanonicalEvent]:
try:
choice = data["choices"][0]
message = choice["message"]
except (KeyError, IndexError) as exc:
raise LLMError(f"malformed completion response: {exc}") from exc
if choice.get("finish_reason") == "length":
raise TruncatedResponse(
f"{requested_model} hit its output limit mid-answer; raise "
"llm.max_output_tokens, or the model's max_output_tokens in LiteLLM"
)
produced_by = data.get("model") or requested_model
# What actually answered, which is not always what was asked for: a
# proxy fallback answers under another model's name.
self.last_model = produced_by
usage = data.get("usage") or {}
self.last_usage = {
"input": int(usage.get("prompt_tokens") or 0),
"output": int(usage.get("completion_tokens") or 0),
}
out: list[CanonicalEvent] = []
if message.get("content"):
out.append(AssistantText(text=message["content"], model=produced_by))
# Provider tool-call IDs are mapped at the boundary (L7): each call
# gets a locally-minted canonical ID; the provider's is dropped, since
# every future request is rendered wholly from the canonical log.
for call in message.get("tool_calls") or []:
raw = call["function"]["arguments"] or "{}"
# Weak models emit truncated or non-JSON argument strings; that is
# a bad model turn, not a client crash (L9).
try:
arguments = json.loads(raw)
except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
raise LLMError(
f"tool call {call['function']['name']!r} had non-JSON "
f"arguments: {raw[:200]!r}"
) from exc
if not isinstance(arguments, dict):
raise LLMError(
f"tool call {call['function']['name']!r} arguments were "
f"{type(arguments).__name__}, expected object"
)
out.append(
ToolCall(
call_id=mint_call_id(),
tool=call["function"]["name"],
arguments=arguments,
)
)
return out
def close(self) -> None:
self._http.close()
class AnthropicPassthroughClient:
"""LiteLLM's Anthropic passthrough (L9). Same interface as LiteLLMClient,
so a caller chooses a route rather than a different kind of client.
Delegations take this path because fidelity matters there (L9);
ask_expert and fallbacks use the normalized route, where it does not.
"""
def __init__(
self,
base_url: str,
token: str,
*,
timeout_s: float = DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S,
max_tokens: int | None = None,
transport: httpx.BaseTransport | None = None,
sleep: Any = time.sleep,
) -> None:
self._http = httpx.Client(
base_url=base_url.rstrip("/"),
headers={
"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}",
"x-api-key": token,
"anthropic-version": "2023-06-01",
},
timeout=timeout_s,
transport=transport,
)
self._renderer = AnthropicMessagesRenderer()
self._max_tokens = max_tokens or DEFAULT_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS
self._sleep = sleep
self.last_usage: dict[str, int] = {}
self.last_model: str | None = None
self.last_cost: float = 0.0
# Set even when the call then fails: time spent waiting out a rate
# limit is the proxy's, not the model's (the benchmark subtracts it).
self.last_rate_limit_wait_s: float = 0.0
def complete(
self,
events: list[StoredEvent],
tools: list[dict[str, Any]] | None,
model: str,
system: str | None = None,
*,
max_tokens: int | None = None,
require_tool_call: bool = False,
) -> list[CanonicalEvent]:
body = self._renderer.render(
events,
tools,
model,
system=system,
max_tokens=max_tokens or self._max_tokens,
)
if require_tool_call and tools:
body["tool_choice"] = {"type": "any"} # Anthropic's name for it
self.last_rate_limit_wait_s = 0.0 # not the last call's, if this one raises
response, self.last_rate_limit_wait_s = _post_with_rate_limit_retry(
self._http, "/v1/messages", body, self._sleep
)
if response.status_code != 200:
_raise_for_upstream(response)
raise LLMError(
f"passthrough returned {response.status_code}: {response.text[:500]}"
)
# LiteLLM prices every call; kept so a caller can meter spending.
self.last_cost = _response_cost(response)
return self._parse(response.json(), requested_model=model)
def _parse(
self, data: dict[str, Any], requested_model: str
) -> list[CanonicalEvent]:
if data.get("stop_reason") == "max_tokens":
raise TruncatedResponse(
f"{requested_model} hit its output limit mid-answer; raise "
"llm.max_output_tokens, or the model's max_output_tokens in LiteLLM"
)
content = data.get("content")
if not isinstance(content, list):
raise LLMError(f"malformed passthrough response: {str(data)[:300]}")
produced_by = data.get("model") or requested_model
# What actually answered, which is not always what was asked for: a
# proxy fallback answers under another model's name.
self.last_model = produced_by
usage = data.get("usage") or {}
self.last_usage = {
"input": int(usage.get("input_tokens") or 0),
"output": int(usage.get("output_tokens") or 0),
}
out: list[CanonicalEvent] = []
for block in content:
kind = block.get("type")
if kind == "text" and block.get("text"):
out.append(AssistantText(text=block["text"], model=produced_by))
elif kind == "tool_use":
# Provider ids are mapped at the boundary and never used as a
# join key (L7); the canonical log owns identity.
out.append(
ToolCall(
call_id=mint_call_id(),
tool=block["name"],
arguments=block.get("input") or {},
)
)
# Vendor-opaque reasoning blocks (thinking, redacted_thinking) are
# deliberately dropped for now: L7 requires storing them tagged
# with the producing model and never replaying them outside the
# session that made them, and the canonical schema has no event
# for that yet. Nothing requests extended thinking, so none arrive.
return out
def close(self) -> None:
self._http.close()
def _post_with_rate_limit_retry(
http: httpx.Client, path: str, body: dict[str, Any], sleep: Any
) -> tuple[httpx.Response, float]:
"""The response, and how long was spent waiting: out a rate limit (once)
or an outage (with backoff), not on the model."""
waited = 0.0
rate_limited = False
outages = iter(OUTAGE_BACKOFF_S)
while True:
try:
response = http.post(path, json=body)
except httpx.TimeoutException as exc:
raise UpstreamUnavailable(f"LLM request failed: {exc}") from exc
except httpx.HTTPError as exc:
# Could not reach the proxy at all: nothing about the request was
# wrong, so callers holding work in progress should keep it.
pause = next(outages, None)
if pause is None:
raise UpstreamUnavailable(f"LLM request failed: {exc}") from exc
sleep(pause)
waited += pause
continue
if response.status_code == RATE_LIMIT_STATUS and not rate_limited:
rate_limited = True
sleep(RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_S)
waited += RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_S
continue
if response.status_code in OUTAGE_STATUSES and not _looks_like_budget_refusal(
response.text
):
pause = next(outages, None)
if pause is not None:
sleep(pause)
waited += pause
continue
return response, waited
# Model families we have a native renderer adapter for. L9: delegations take
# the vendor's passthrough route because a normalising middlebox is lossy
# exactly where a long-running delegation lives.
def _response_cost(response: httpx.Response) -> float:
try:
return float(response.headers.get("x-litellm-response-cost") or 0.0)
except ValueError:
return 0.0
def _raise_for_upstream(response: httpx.Response) -> None:
"""Classify a non-200 as upstream trouble where it plainly is.
A 4xx that is not a rate limit means the request itself was wrong, and
preserving work on the strength of one would hide a real bug — so the
benefit of the doubt stops at the server's own door.
"""
if _looks_like_budget_refusal(response.text):
raise BudgetExhausted(
f"the proxy refused on budget grounds: {response.text[:300]}"
)
if response.status_code >= 500 or response.status_code == RATE_LIMIT_STATUS:
raise UpstreamUnavailable(
f"upstream returned {response.status_code}: {response.text[:300]}"
)