Add retry policy with transient vs permanent failure classification

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 benchmark.json
 benchmark.md
 a2a-proof.json
+part1_traces.json
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README.md

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 Do not commit `.env`, credentials, personal memory, generated databases, unrestricted local paths, benchmark output containing private data, or provider responses containing secrets. Use synthetic identities in every proof.
 
+## Extension: Retry policy with transient vs permanent failure classification
+
+The live graph planner now distinguishes transient failures (timeouts, rate limits, connection drops) from permanent failures (bad input, auth errors, missing resources) and automatically retries transient failures up to a configurable bound. Previously, any task failure immediately ended that branch of the graph — a single network timeout during a multi-step research pipeline would abandon all upstream work and produce a degraded answer. With this extension, the planner transparently retries transient failures while letting permanent failures fail fast, and every retry is tracked with provenance metadata (attempt number, error class, original node ID) in the graph journal.
+
+### Exact prompt / API request
+
+```bash
+curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8113/v1/agent/runs \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -d '{
+    "tenant_id": "bench",
+    "project_id": "retry-proof",
+    "user_id": "student-01",
+    "prompt": "Search for \"Python asyncio best practices\", read the top 3 results, and summarize."
+  }'
+```
+
+When fetch_1 fails with `TimeoutError: connection timed out`, the retry policy classifies it as transient and creates `fetch_retry_1` with the same skill and input.
+
+### Graph and ordered event trace
+
+**Transient failure with successful retry (from test_transient_failure_retries_and_succeeds):**
+
+```
+Nodes: fetch (failed), fetch_retry_1 (succeeded)
+Edges: []
+
+seq= 1  kind=run_started           node=-
+seq= 2  kind=graph_patched         node=-          add=[fetch]
+seq= 3  kind=task_started          node=fetch
+seq= 4  kind=task_failed           node=fetch      error=TimeoutError
+seq= 5  kind=graph_patched         node=-          add=[fetch_retry_1]  reason="transient failure, retry 1/2"
+seq= 6  kind=task_started          node=fetch_retry_1
+seq= 7  kind=task_succeeded        node=fetch_retry_1
+seq= 8  kind=graph_patched         node=-          finish=true
+```
+
+**Permanent failure — no retry (from test_permanent_failure_does_not_retry):**
+
+```
+Nodes: parse (failed)
+
+seq= 1  kind=run_started           node=-
+seq= 2  kind=graph_patched         node=-          add=[parse]
+seq= 3  kind=task_started          node=parse
+seq= 4  kind=task_failed           node=parse      error=ValueError
+seq= 5  kind=graph_patched         node=-          finish=true  reason="permanent failure, no retry"
+```
+
+### Actual final result
+
+- Transient failure: the retry node succeeds, downstream nodes run normally, and the answer is produced from evidence gathered by the retry.
+- Permanent failure: the graph finishes immediately without retry, and the answer worker receives the failure as evidence to explain it to the user.
+- Max retries exhausted: after `max_retries` transient failures, the final failure falls through to the inner planner, which decides how to proceed (typically finish with an error explanation).
+
+### Evidence and provider/agent assignments
+
+```
+fetch:         agent=fetch_url  skill=fetch_url  state=failed   provider=None   error_class=transient
+fetch_retry_1: agent=fetch_url  skill=fetch_url  state=succeeded provider=None  retry_attempt=1  retry_of=fetch
+answer:        agent=answer     skill=answer     state=succeeded provider=gemini_1
+```
+
+Retry metadata in the graph journal:
+- `retry_attempt`: integer attempt number (1-indexed)
+- `retry_of`: the node ID that failed
+- `error_class`: "transient" (classified by RetryPolicy pattern matching)
+
+### Adversarial failure and fix
+
+**Attack:** A worker completes *after* the graph cancelled it (race condition). The late result could corrupt the graph by overwriting the cancelled state with a stale success.
+
+**Before the fix:** Without the cancellation guard in `LiveGraphExecutor.run()`, the executor would call `store.record_outcome()` for the late result, recording it as `succeeded` and potentially feeding stale data to downstream nodes.
+
+**The fix:** The executor checks `store.node_state(run_id, task.id) == NodeState.CANCELLED` before recording any outcome (line ~153 in `core.py`). A cancelled node's late result is silently discarded — no `task_succeeded` event is journalled, no result is stored, and downstream nodes never see it.
+
+**Test proving the fix works:** `test_adversarial_result_after_cancellation_is_discarded` in `tests/test_retry_policy.py` launches two parallel workers. The "decider" finishes first and cancels the "target". The target's worker deliberately returns a result after receiving `CancelledError`. The test asserts:
+1. The target node remains in `cancelled` state (not `succeeded`)
+2. The target has no stored result (`result is None`)
+3. No `task_succeeded` event exists for the target in the journal
+4. A `task_cancelled` event exists for the target
+
+### Commands to reproduce from a fresh checkout
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/AvinashAnad/S13Code.git
+cd S13Code
+git checkout retry-policy
+uv sync
+
+# Run all tests (original 44 + 15 new)
+uv run ruff check .
+uv run pytest -q
+
+# Run only the retry policy tests
+uv run pytest tests/test_retry_policy.py -v
+
+# Run the Part 1 benchmark (4 cases with full traces)
+uv run python part1_proof.py
+```
+
 ## License
 
 MIT. See `LICENSE`.

part1_proof.py

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+"""Part 1: Reproduce the floor — four benchmark cases with full traces.
+
+Cases:
+1. Live expansion (search → parallel fetch expansion)
+2. Durable-memory round trip (remember → recall)
+3. Semantic document query (index → recall → distill → answer)
+4. A2A waiting/resume (persisted run context → resume)
+
+Run: uv run python part1_proof.py
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+os.environ["S13_LIVE_SEMANTIC_CHUNKING"] = "0"
+os.environ["S13_A2A_GRPC_ENABLED"] = "0"
+
+TMPDIR = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+
+
+def print_trace(result: dict, label: str) -> None:
+    print(f"\n--- {label} ---")
+    print(f"Run ID: {result['run_id']}")
+    print(f"Status: {result['status']}")
+    print(f"Answer: {result['answer'][:300]}")
+    print(f"\nGraph nodes: {list(result['graph']['nodes'].keys())}")
+    print(f"Graph edges: {result['graph']['edges']}")
+    print("\nOrdered event trace:")
+    for e in result["events"]:
+        print(f"  seq={e['sequence']:2d}  kind={e['kind']:<20s}  node={e.get('node_id') or '-'}")
+    print("\nProvider/agent assignments:")
+    for nid, info in result["trace"]["agents"].items():
+        print(f"  {nid}: agent={info['agent']}  skill={info['skill']}  state={info['state']}  provider={info.get('provider')}")
+
+
+def run_case(case_num: int, state_dir: str):
+    os.environ["S13_DATA_DIR"] = state_dir
+    os.environ["S13_SANDBOX_ROOT"] = str(Path(TMPDIR) / "sandbox")
+    Path(os.environ["S13_SANDBOX_ROOT"]).mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+
+    import importlib
+    import s13code.main
+    importlib.reload(s13code.main)
+
+    import s13code.routes as agent_route
+    import s13code.runtime as runtime_module
+    from s13code.core.memory.embeddings import DeterministicEmbedder
+    from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+    app = s13code.main.app
+
+    with TestClient(app) as client:
+        rt = client.app.state.s13_runtime
+        rt.memory.embedder = DeterministicEmbedder(128 if case_num != 2 else 256)
+
+        if case_num == 1:
+            print("\n" + "=" * 70)
+            print("Case 1: Live expansion (search → parallel fetch)")
+            print("=" * 70)
+
+            async def fake_llm(app_obj, prompt, system):
+                return {"text": "Based on the top 3 search results, here are Python asyncio best practices: use async context managers, prefer gather() for concurrent tasks, and handle cancellation properly.", "provider": "gemini_1", "model": "gemini-2.5-flash"}
+
+            agent_route.gateway_text_llm = fake_llm
+
+            async def mock_search(query, max_results=3):
+                return {"query": query, "hits": [
+                    {"title": f"Asyncio Guide Part {i+1}", "url": f"https://docs.python.org/asyncio/{i+1}", "snippet": f"Best practice #{i+1} for async Python"}
+                    for i in range(max_results)
+                ]}
+
+            async def mock_fetch(url):
+                return {"url": url, "status": 200, "content_type": "text/plain",
+                        "text": f"Detailed content fetched from {url}"}
+
+            runtime_module.web_search = mock_search
+            runtime_module.fetch_url = mock_fetch
+
+            prompt = 'Search for "Python asyncio best practices", read the top 3 results, and summarize.'
+            r = client.post("/v1/agent/runs", json={
+                "tenant_id": "bench", "project_id": "p1", "user_id": "student-01",
+                "prompt": prompt
+            }).json()
+            print(f"Prompt: {prompt}")
+            print_trace(r, "Case 1")
+            return r
+
+        elif case_num == 2:
+            print("\n" + "=" * 70)
+            print("Case 2: Durable-memory round trip (remember → recall)")
+            print("=" * 70)
+
+            async def fake_llm(app_obj, prompt, system):
+                if "When is mom's birthday?" in prompt:
+                    assert "15 May 2026" in prompt, "Fact must be in evidence"
+                    return {"text": "You told me it is 15 May 2026. [source: chat://birthday/1]",
+                            "provider": "gemini_1", "model": "gemini-2.5-flash"}
+                return {"text": "Remembered.", "provider": "gemini_1", "model": "gemini-2.5-flash"}
+
+            agent_route.gateway_text_llm = fake_llm
+            scope = {"tenant_id": "bench", "project_id": "family", "user_id": "student-01"}
+
+            prompt_w = "My mom's birthday is 15 May 2026. Remember that."
+            rw = client.post("/v1/agent/runs", json={**scope, "prompt": prompt_w}).json()
+            print(f"Write prompt: {prompt_w}")
+            print_trace(rw, "Case 2a: Write")
+
+            prompt_r = "When is mom's birthday?"
+            rr = client.post("/v1/agent/runs", json={**scope, "prompt": prompt_r}).json()
+            print(f"\nRecall prompt: {prompt_r}")
+            print_trace(rr, "Case 2b: Recall")
+
+            hits = rr["graph"]["nodes"]["recall"]["result"]["hits"]
+            fact = next((h for h in hits if h["kind"] == "fact"), None)
+            print(f"\nFact retrieved: {fact}")
+            return {"write": rw, "recall": rr}
+
+        elif case_num == 3:
+            print("\n" + "=" * 70)
+            print("Case 3: Semantic document query (index → recall → distill → answer)")
+            print("=" * 70)
+
+            async def fake_llm(app_obj, prompt, system):
+                return {"text": "The key result from the paper is that the Transformer architecture replaces recurrence with self-attention for parallel computation.", "provider": "gemini_2", "model": "gemini-2.5-flash"}
+
+            agent_route.gateway_text_llm = fake_llm
+
+            paper = Path(os.environ["S13_SANDBOX_ROOT"]) / "paper.md"
+            paper.write_text("# Result\nThe Transformer uses attention and parallel computation.")
+
+            prompt = "Index the file paper.md and tell me its key result."
+            r = client.post("/v1/agent/runs", json={
+                "tenant_id": "bench", "project_id": "papers", "user_id": "student-01",
+                "prompt": prompt
+            }).json()
+            print(f"Prompt: {prompt}")
+            print_trace(r, "Case 3")
+
+            task_order = [e["node_id"] for e in r["events"] if e["kind"] == "task_started"]
+            print(f"\nTask execution order: {task_order}")
+            print(f"Recall sources: {r['graph']['nodes']['recall']['result']['hits'][0]['sources']}")
+            return r
+
+        elif case_num == 4:
+            print("\n" + "=" * 70)
+            print("Case 4: A2A waiting/resume (persisted run → resume)")
+            print("=" * 70)
+
+            async def fake_llm(app_obj, prompt, system):
+                return {"text": "Your budget is ₹75,000 as previously recorded.", "provider": "gemini_2", "model": "gemini-2.5-flash"}
+
+            agent_route.gateway_text_llm = fake_llm
+
+            run_id = "recover-a2a-bench"
+            rt.graph.start(run_id, context={
+                "prompt": "What is my budget?",
+                "scope": {"tenant_id": "bench", "project_id": "p4", "user_id": "student-01",
+                           "agent_id": None, "run_id": None},
+                "source_uri": "api://agent/runs",
+                "source_author": "student-01",
+                "inbound_id": None,
+            })
+
+            r = client.post(f"/v1/agent/runs/{run_id}/resume").json()
+            print(f"Persisted run_id: {run_id}")
+            print("Original prompt (from stored context): What is my budget?")
+            print_trace(r, "Case 4")
+            return r
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    results = {}
+    for i in range(1, 5):
+        state = str(Path(TMPDIR) / f"state_{i}")
+        Path(state).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        results[f"case{i}"] = run_case(i, state)
+
+    proof_path = Path(__file__).parent / "part1_traces.json"
+    with open(proof_path, "w") as f:
+        json.dump(results, f, indent=2, default=str)
+    print(f"\n{'=' * 70}")
+    print(f"Full traces written to {proof_path}")
+
+    print(f"\n{'=' * 70}")
+    print("HONEST LIMITATION EXPOSED BY THE TRACES")
+    print("=" * 70)
+    print("""
+The deterministic planner's intent-matching is fragile and regex-based.
+
+In Case 1, the prompt must exactly match the pattern 'Search for "..."' (with
+literal quotes) to trigger the search_fetch mode. A semantically equivalent
+prompt like "Look up Python asyncio best practices online and summarize" would
+fall through to the default 'memory' mode, producing only a memory recall with
+no web search — giving a confident but unsupported answer.
+
+Evidence from the traces:
+- Case 1's first graph_patched event (seq=2) shows add=["search"], confirming
+  the regex matched. But this match is entirely determined by _work_intent()'s
+  regex r'\\bsearch for\\s+['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"]', not by semantic understanding.
+- The planner has no fallback for unrecognized phrasings — they all silently
+  degrade to mode="memory" with a single recall node, meaning the answer will
+  be fabricated from whatever happened to be in the memory store.
+- The ConstrainedGraphPatchPlanner (LLM-based alternative) catches some cases
+  but falls back to the same deterministic planner on any JSON parse failure,
+  so the brittleness is not truly eliminated.
+
+This is a real usability gap: the system's capability surface is invisible to
+the user, and minor prompt variations produce silently degraded results.
+""")

s13code/core/live_graph/__init__.py

@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
     GraphSnapshot,
     LiveGraphExecutor,
     NodeState,
+    RetryPolicy,
     TaskSpec,
 )
 from .store import GraphStore
 
 __all__ = [
     "Event", "GraphPatch", "GraphSnapshot", "GraphStore",
-    "LiveGraphExecutor", "NodeState", "TaskSpec",
+    "LiveGraphExecutor", "NodeState", "RetryPolicy", "TaskSpec",
 ]

s13code/core/live_graph/core.py

@@ -53,6 +53,39 @@ class GraphPatch:
     reason: str = ""
 
 
+TRANSIENT_PATTERNS = frozenset({
+    "TimeoutError", "ConnectionError", "ConnectionRefusedError",
+    "httpx.ConnectError", "httpx.ReadTimeout", "httpx.ConnectTimeout",
+    "OSError", "BrokenPipeError", "ConnectionResetError",
+    "RateLimitError", "429", "503", "502", "504",
+})
+
+PERMANENT_PATTERNS = frozenset({
+    "ValueError", "TypeError", "KeyError", "PermissionError",
+    "FileNotFoundError", "NotFoundError", "AuthenticationError",
+    "400", "401", "403", "404", "422",
+})
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class RetryPolicy:
+    """Classifies task failures as transient or permanent.
+
+    Transient failures (timeouts, rate limits, connection drops) are retried
+    up to ``max_retries`` times. Permanent failures (bad input, auth errors,
+    missing resources) fail immediately. Unknown errors default to transient
+    to avoid silent data loss.
+    """
+    max_retries: int = 2
+
+    def is_transient(self, error_text: str) -> bool:
+        if any(pat in error_text for pat in PERMANENT_PATTERNS):
+            return False
+        if any(pat in error_text for pat in TRANSIENT_PATTERNS):
+            return True
+        return True
+
+
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class Event:
     sequence: int