A provider 429 stops failing as "No output generated" (BB-172) - #4698
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A 429 on the user's own provider key failed a swarm session as "The session
failed for an unknown reason." Three separate gaps produced that, fixed here
in the order the error travels.
`classifyTurnFailure` decides rate_limited vs failed and its regex had no
`429` alternative, despite a doc comment claiming it matched "429-phrased"
errors. On the local-BYOK path `runner.ts` re-throws the provider's sentence
with no code or HTTP status appended, so a throttled key arrives as prose
only and fell straight through to a hard failure.
`classifyRateLimit` then split account-wide caps from per-host provider
limits by matching /spend|cap|quota|budget/. No MCPJam limit copy contains
any of those words — not "Daily credit limit reached.", not
"Daily MCPJam model limit reached.", and none of the denial codes. Every
account-wide limit was therefore treated as a per-host rate limit, and the
run kept burning its remaining targets against a limit no other host could
escape. The four existing tests passed on invented fixtures ("Daily spend cap
reached") that no producer emits. It now keys on the backend denial code,
which `runner.ts` concatenates into the message, and keeps the prose check as
a second signal.
`classifyHttpStatus` in the SDK describer mapped 401 and 403 and let 429 fall
to `internal/unknown`, so the catalog's `provider/quota` entry was
unreachable. Routed by status and, for the local-BYOK shape that loses the
status field, by message. The message regex is `429`/"too many requests"
rather than "rate limit" on purpose: that broader wording also matches
MCPJam's own account limit, which is a different slug with different advice.
Verified against measured baselines rather than raw pass/fail: server suite
holds at 73 pre-existing failures across the same 17 harness-local files and
gains 4 passing tests; server tsc holds at 226 pre-existing errors, none in
the touched files; SDK describer 117/117 and `typecheck -w @mcpjam/sdk` clean.
Rendering the per-session card is a follow-up.
Refs BB-172
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A session throttled by the user's own provider still failed as a hard
`failed`, showing "No output generated. Check the stream for errors." The
regex widened in the previous commit never saw the 429 at all.
`consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless` drains a turn by awaiting the AI SDK's
accessors. `consumeStream()` swallows the stream's error and resolves; the
next `await handle.result.response` rejects with `NoOutputGeneratedError`,
whose sentence names neither the provider nor a status. That exception
escapes `runUnifiedAssistantTurn`, so the runner never reaches its
`if (lastEngineError) throw new Error(lastEngineError.message)` and the
message the engine did capture is discarded. `classifyTurnFailure` matches
none of its alternatives against the wrapper, so the outcome is `failed`
and no per-session card can render.
Measured against ai@6.0.160 and a local 429 server: the error reaches ONLY
`streamText`'s `onError` — `consumeStream({ onError })` is never called,
so capturing it there does nothing — and it arrives before the accessors
reject. `runDirectChatTurn` therefore keeps the error its `onError` already
sees (an abort excluded, since that branch returns first) and exposes it as
`lastStreamError`; the headless consumer throws it in place of any
rejection that follows. Every consumer of that terminal gains this, not
just swarms: chat on an org custom provider surfaced the same wrapper.
Verified against the real functions, no mocks: driving `runDirectChatTurn`
+ `consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless` at a 429 provider, the escaping error is
`RetryError: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: Too Many Requests` and
`classifyTurnFailure` returns `rate_limited`. Reproduced in the app before
the fix: 15 swarm sessions against a fake 429 provider, 90 POSTs served,
every session red with the wrapper text.
The added assertions use the RetryError wording rather than a synthetic
"429 Too Many Requests", and the abort case is pinned so a cancelled turn
keeps reporting the abort instead of a stream error.
Verified: direct-chat-turn 21/21 (the new case failed first with the
wrapper message), that terminal's consumers plus sessionSimulation and the
mcp routes 859/859 across 49 files, SDK describer 118/118, `typecheck -w
@mcpjam/sdk` clean, server tsc 228 — exactly main's count, no error in a
touched file.
Refs BB-172
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WalkthroughThe change preserves provider errors received through Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change improves provider throttling behavior, but connection failures targeting port 429 can be reported as rate limits instead of transport errors. Restrict the message matcher and add an exact :429 regression before merging. Thanks for using CodeRabbit! It's free for OSS, and your support helps us grow. If you like it, consider giving us a shout-out. Comment |
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/resolve-turn-runtime.ts`:
- Line 131: Restrict the bare-429 matching in
mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/resolve-turn-runtime.ts lines 131-131 and
sdk/src/error-describer/describe.ts lines 428-428 so host-port text such as
“127.0.0.1:429” is not classified as rate_limited; match 429 only in a
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| message: string, | ||
| ): "rate_limited" | "failed" { | ||
| return /rate.?limit|spend|\bquota\b|\bbudget\b|\bcap\b/i.test(message) | ||
| return /rate.?limit|too many requests|\b429\b|spend|\bquota\b|\bbudget\b|\bcap\b/i.test( |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not treat a host port of 429 as HTTP status 429.
\b429\b also matches connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:429. This converts a connection failure into rate_limited. In the SDK path, it also prevents messageSlug from returning the transport error. Match 429 only in a status-like context, or explicitly exclude host-port tokens. Add regressions for the exact :429 case.
mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/resolve-turn-runtime.ts#L131-L131: restrict the bare-429 matcher before returningrate_limited.sdk/src/error-describer/describe.ts#L428-L428: apply the same restriction so transport classification remains reachable.
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/resolve-turn-runtime.ts` at line 131, Restrict
the bare-429 matching in mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/resolve-turn-runtime.ts
lines 131-131 and sdk/src/error-describer/describe.ts lines 428-428 so host-port
text such as “127.0.0.1:429” is not classified as rate_limited; match 429 only
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<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/sessionSimulation/swarm-runner.ts">
<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/sessionSimulation/swarm-runner.ts:301">
P2: When the backend returns `billing_feature_not_included`, this allowlist cannot trigger the intended whole-run account-limit handling because the upstream classifier marks the 403 response as `failed` first. Classify the denial code before the prose classifier, or add the account-wide codes to the shared rate-limit classifier.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/sessionSimulation/swarm-runner.ts:301">
P2: ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE re-declares the backend denial-code list that already lives as `USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES` in `server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts`. That list is the single source of truth the backend greps against, so a newly added account-wide code must be edited in two places, and the two copies can silently drift. The divergence is real, not cosmetic: this copy adds `mcpjam_rate_limit`, which the source file explicitly documents as "the opposite of user-owned", so the mirror is already not a pure mirror. Consider exporting a shared canonical set of account-level denial codes (or reusing `isUserOwnedDenialCode`) and deriving this classification from it, with `mcpjam_rate_limit` added as a documented extension, so there is one list to maintain.</violation>
</file>
<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/direct-chat-turn.test.ts">
<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/direct-chat-turn.test.ts:905">
P3: This abort test does not verify the behavior it is named for. Because every awaited accessor resolves normally, `consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless` never enters its catch branch, so the test passes even if `onError` wrongly stored `streamError` on abort — exactly the regression the test claims to guard. Assert `handle.lastStreamError()` is undefined (in addition to `result.aborted`) so a future change that starts recording a stream error on abort fails this test.</violation>
</file>
<file name="sdk/src/error-describer/describe.ts">
<violation number="1" location="sdk/src/error-describer/describe.ts:428">
P2: The `\b429\b` alternative matches any standalone `429` in the message, even when it is not an HTTP status or rate-limit indicator (for example a provider body that echoes a numeric code, an order/reference number, a port, or a count such as "429 records"). Because this runs before `messageSlug` and other fallbacks in `resolveSlug`, such a message is silently misclassified as `provider/quota`, giving the user rate-limit help text for an unrelated provider failure. The comment acknowledges the tradeoff but only against the generic "rate limit" phrase, not against unrelated numeric content. Consider anchoring the match to rate-limit context, e.g. requiring proximity to status wording or a leading "HTTP/error", while still accepting the bare local-BYOK shape the PR targets.</violation>
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| * provider key. Mirrors `USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES` in | ||
| * `server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts` plus MCPJam's own throttle. */ | ||
| const ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE = | ||
| /\b(?:user_rate_limit|org_rate_limit|mcpjam_rate_limit|billing_limit_reached|wallet_locked|billing_feature_not_included)\b/i; |
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P2: When the backend returns billing_feature_not_included, this allowlist cannot trigger the intended whole-run account-limit handling because the upstream classifier marks the 403 response as failed first. Classify the denial code before the prose classifier, or add the account-wide codes to the shared rate-limit classifier.
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<comment>When the backend returns `billing_feature_not_included`, this allowlist cannot trigger the intended whole-run account-limit handling because the upstream classifier marks the 403 response as `failed` first. Classify the denial code before the prose classifier, or add the account-wide codes to the shared rate-limit classifier.</comment>
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@@ -294,23 +294,34 @@ function terminalForOutcome(
+ * provider key. Mirrors `USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES` in
+ * `server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts` plus MCPJam's own throttle. */
+const ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE =
+ /\b(?:user_rate_limit|org_rate_limit|mcpjam_rate_limit|billing_limit_reached|wallet_locked|billing_feature_not_included)\b/i;
+
/**
</file context>
| * provider key. Mirrors `USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES` in | ||
| * `server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts` plus MCPJam's own throttle. */ | ||
| const ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE = | ||
| /\b(?:user_rate_limit|org_rate_limit|mcpjam_rate_limit|billing_limit_reached|wallet_locked|billing_feature_not_included)\b/i; |
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P2: ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE re-declares the backend denial-code list that already lives as USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES in server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts. That list is the single source of truth the backend greps against, so a newly added account-wide code must be edited in two places, and the two copies can silently drift. The divergence is real, not cosmetic: this copy adds mcpjam_rate_limit, which the source file explicitly documents as "the opposite of user-owned", so the mirror is already not a pure mirror. Consider exporting a shared canonical set of account-level denial codes (or reusing isUserOwnedDenialCode) and deriving this classification from it, with mcpjam_rate_limit added as a documented extension, so there is one list to maintain.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/services/sessionSimulation/swarm-runner.ts, line 301:
<comment>ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE re-declares the backend denial-code list that already lives as `USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES` in `server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts`. That list is the single source of truth the backend greps against, so a newly added account-wide code must be edited in two places, and the two copies can silently drift. The divergence is real, not cosmetic: this copy adds `mcpjam_rate_limit`, which the source file explicitly documents as "the opposite of user-owned", so the mirror is already not a pure mirror. Consider exporting a shared canonical set of account-level denial codes (or reusing `isUserOwnedDenialCode`) and deriving this classification from it, with `mcpjam_rate_limit` added as a documented extension, so there is one list to maintain.</comment>
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@@ -294,23 +294,34 @@ function terminalForOutcome(
+ * provider key. Mirrors `USER_OWNED_DENIAL_CODES` in
+ * `server/utils/mcpjam-stream-handler.ts` plus MCPJam's own throttle. */
+const ACCOUNT_LIMIT_CODE =
+ /\b(?:user_rate_limit|org_rate_limit|mcpjam_rate_limit|billing_limit_reached|wallet_locked|billing_feature_not_included)\b/i;
+
/**
</file context>
| // A bare 429 needs no http/status prefix — the local-BYOK swarm path drops | ||
| // the status field and leaves only this wording. Narrower than "rate limit" | ||
| // on purpose: that also matches MCPJam's own account limit, a different slug. | ||
| if (/\b429\b|too many requests/i.test(message)) return "provider/quota"; |
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P2: The \b429\b alternative matches any standalone 429 in the message, even when it is not an HTTP status or rate-limit indicator (for example a provider body that echoes a numeric code, an order/reference number, a port, or a count such as "429 records"). Because this runs before messageSlug and other fallbacks in resolveSlug, such a message is silently misclassified as provider/quota, giving the user rate-limit help text for an unrelated provider failure. The comment acknowledges the tradeoff but only against the generic "rate limit" phrase, not against unrelated numeric content. Consider anchoring the match to rate-limit context, e.g. requiring proximity to status wording or a leading "HTTP/error", while still accepting the bare local-BYOK shape the PR targets.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At sdk/src/error-describer/describe.ts, line 428:
<comment>The `\b429\b` alternative matches any standalone `429` in the message, even when it is not an HTTP status or rate-limit indicator (for example a provider body that echoes a numeric code, an order/reference number, a port, or a count such as "429 records"). Because this runs before `messageSlug` and other fallbacks in `resolveSlug`, such a message is silently misclassified as `provider/quota`, giving the user rate-limit help text for an unrelated provider failure. The comment acknowledges the tradeoff but only against the generic "rate limit" phrase, not against unrelated numeric content. Consider anchoring the match to rate-limit context, e.g. requiring proximity to status wording or a leading "HTTP/error", while still accepting the bare local-BYOK shape the PR targets.</comment>
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@@ -415,12 +415,17 @@ function classifyMcpError(error: unknown): string | undefined {
+ // A bare 429 needs no http/status prefix — the local-BYOK swarm path drops
+ // the status field and leaves only this wording. Narrower than "rate limit"
+ // on purpose: that also matches MCPJam's own account limit, a different slug.
+ if (/\b429\b|too many requests/i.test(message)) return "provider/quota";
return undefined;
}
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| }); | ||
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| const result = await consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless(handle); | ||
| expect(result.aborted).toBe(true); |
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P3: This abort test does not verify the behavior it is named for. Because every awaited accessor resolves normally, consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless never enters its catch branch, so the test passes even if onError wrongly stored streamError on abort — exactly the regression the test claims to guard. Assert handle.lastStreamError() is undefined (in addition to result.aborted) so a future change that starts recording a stream error on abort fails this test.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/direct-chat-turn.test.ts, line 905:
<comment>This abort test does not verify the behavior it is named for. Because every awaited accessor resolves normally, `consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless` never enters its catch branch, so the test passes even if `onError` wrongly stored `streamError` on abort — exactly the regression the test claims to guard. Assert `handle.lastStreamError()` is undefined (in addition to `result.aborted`) so a future change that starts recording a stream error on abort fails this test.</comment>
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@@ -835,4 +835,73 @@ describe("runDirectChatTurn — eval headless contract (PR 4a)", () => {
+ });
+
+ const result = await consumeDirectChatTurnHeadless(handle);
+ expect(result.aborted).toBe(true);
+ });
});
</file context>
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A swarm session throttled by the user's own model provider failed as a hard
failure with no usable explanation. Fixing that took two changes on the
local-BYOK path — the only path where a 429 arrives as prose, with no code and
no HTTP status attached, because
runner.tsre-throws the provider's sentenceas-is there while the hosted path appends
(code, HTTP status).The message never survived
consumeDirectChatTurnHeadlessdrains a turn by awaiting the AI SDK'saccessors.
consumeStream()swallows the stream's error and resolves; the nextawait handle.result.responserejects withNoOutputGeneratedError— "Nooutput generated. Check the stream for errors." That exception escapes
runUnifiedAssistantTurn, so the runner never reaches its ownif (lastEngineError) throw new Error(lastEngineError.message)and the sentencethe engine captured is discarded.
Measured against
ai@6.0.160and a local 429 server: the error reaches ONLYstreamText'sonError,consumeStream({ onError })is never called, and itarrives before the accessors reject.
runDirectChatTurnnow keeps the error itsonErroralready sees — an abort excluded, since that branch returns first —and exposes it as
lastStreamError; the headless consumer throws it in place ofany rejection that follows. Every consumer of that terminal gains this, not just
swarms: chat on an org custom provider surfaced the same wrapper text.
Nothing classified a 429 even when the message did survive
classifyTurnFailurehad no429alternative, despite a doc comment claimingit matched "429-phrased" errors. Added
429and "too many requests",word-anchored so a port or id containing those digits is not read as a
rate-limit.
classifyHttpStatusin the SDK describer mapped 401 and 403 and let 429 fallto
internal/unknown, so the catalog'sprovider/quotaentry wasunreachable. Now routed by status and, for the shape that loses the status
field, by message. The message regex is
429/"too many requests" rather than"rate limit" on purpose: the broader wording also matches MCPJam's own account
limit, which is a different slug with different advice.
classifyRateLimitsplit account-wide caps from per-host provider limits bymatching
/spend|cap|quota|budget/. No MCPJam limit copy contains any ofthose words — not "Daily credit limit reached.", not "Daily MCPJam model limit
reached.", and none of the denial codes. Every account-wide limit was
therefore treated as a per-host rate limit, and the run kept burning its
remaining targets against a limit no other host could escape. It now keys on
the backend denial code, which
runner.tsconcatenates into the message, andkeeps the prose check as a second signal. The four existing tests passed on
invented fixtures ("Daily spend cap reached") that no producer emits.
How to reproduce
The bug's shape needs the local-BYOK path, which is
ollamaor acustom:provider (
isLocalRuntimeEligible). Everything else is proxied and comes backwith a code and a status.
POST /v1/chat/completionsanswers
429with{"error":{"message":"Too Many Requests"}}. That wordingcarries no "rate limit"/quota/spend words, so
mainclassifies it as a hardfailure.
VITE_MCPJAM_HOSTED_MODE(npm run dev:server) andthe client with it, or the hosted SSRF guard rejects a loopback base URL.
openai-compatible, base URLhttp://127.0.0.1:<port>/v1. Pin its model on the client the swarm targets(Clients → the client → Agent → Model).
On
mainevery session goes red and reads "No output generated. Check thestream for errors." On this branch the sessions are classified
rate_limitedand the banner carries the provider's own sentence, "Failed after 3 attempts.
Last error: Too Many Requests".
Verification
Driving the real functions against a 429 provider, no mocks: the error escaping
consumeDirectChatTurnHeadlessisRetryError: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: Too Many RequestsandclassifyTurnFailurereturnsrate_limited.direct-chat-turnsessionSimulation+ mcp routestypecheck -w @mcpjam/sdktscmain's count, none in a touched fileThe new assertions use the
RetryErrorwording rather than a synthetic "429 TooMany Requests": three retries then that wrapper is what a real throttle
produces, and no test held that string. The abort case is pinned too, so a
cancelled turn keeps reporting the abort instead of a stream error.
Rendering the per-session card is #4699, stacked on this branch.
Refs BB-172
Summary by cubic
Fixes the local-BYOK 429 path so a throttled provider key fails a swarm session as
rate_limitedwith the provider's own sentence, instead of a hard failure reading "No output generated. Check the stream for errors."runDirectChatTurnnow keeps the stream's own error andconsumeDirectChatTurnHeadlessthrows it, replacing the AI SDK'sNoOutputGeneratedErrorwrapper; aborted turns still report the abort.classifyTurnFailureand the SDK describer now match bare429and "too many requests" wording, word-anchored so a port or id containing 429 still fails hard.classifyRateLimitnow keys on backend denial codes so MCPJam account-wide limits halt the whole run while a per-host provider 429 only stops that host.Written for commit 2d8df5e. Summary will update on new commits.