fix(task): bound the auto-approval retry loop in attemptApiRequest - #1324
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The autoApprovalEnabled path of attemptApiRequest recursed with no cap — only abort stopped it. On a persistent API error (e.g. HTTP 429 fair usage, a whole-account rate limit), each retry is charged against the account and worsens the condition; observed 17 retries (~2h50) and 48 (~8h) in production. Add MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES = 3 (same convention as MAX_CONTEXT_WINDOW_RETRIES) checked before backoffAndAnnounce so the refused request never sleeps on a backoff that cannot succeed, and stop loudly with an Error naming the cap and the last underlying error. The context-window and interactive retry paths are untouched. Add a mutation-checked spec: always-failing stream + autoApprovalEnabled must throw after MAX+1 total attempts; the in-mock guard fails fast if the cap is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude-Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughAuto-approval now allows one initial request and up to three retries. Persistent API failures raise ChangesAuto-approval retry cap
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Auto-approval retries are now capped and persistent failures terminate rather than continuing to re-push requests. The implementation is broadly covered, but a small amount of terminal-path test coverage remains needed to prevent regressions in toggle and unavailable-provider-state handling. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Task
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Task->>APIStream: Send initial request
APIStream-->>Task: Return API error
Task->>backoffAndAnnounce: Back off before retry
backoffAndAnnounce-->>Task: Complete retry backoff
Task->>APIStream: Send retry request
APIStream-->>Task: Return repeated API error
Task-->>Task: Throw ApiRetryCapExceededError after three retries
Task-->>Task: Abort the task without another request
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In `@src/core/task/Task.ts`:
- Around line 4429-4438: Make the retry-limit failure from
Task.attemptApiRequest distinguishable as terminal, and handle that condition
before recursivelyMakeClineRequests enters the generic stream-failure retry path
so no further auto-approved API retry occurs. In src/core/task/Task.ts lines
4429-4438, preserve the cap and error context while preventing
backoffAndAnnounce from handling it; in src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts
lines 947-1019, add an orchestration-level test that verifies exactly four
requests and three backoffs.
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| if (retryAttempt >= MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES) { | ||
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| `[Task#attemptApiRequest] task ${this.taskId}.${this.instanceId} aborted after ` + | ||
| `${MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES} auto-approval retries — persistent API error ` + | ||
| `(last: ${error.message ?? JSON.stringify(serializeError(error))}). Retry loop capped (roo-extensions#3195).`, | ||
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Doesn't this throw land in the streaming_failed catch in recursivelyMakeClineRequests (line 3271), which re-pushes the stack item with retryAttempt + 1 and continues (3316-3323)? Line 2798 reads retryAttempt back off the stack item, so the next generator call starts from 0 — production still loops without bound after these four attempts. Would the cap need to live at the consumer re-push (or a shared counter) to actually bound the loop?
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| // 1 initial attempt + MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES(3) retries, then the loop must throw. | ||
| const iterator = cline.attemptApiRequest(0) |
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This drives attemptApiRequest directly, but production consumes it through recursivelyMakeClineRequests, whose catch re-pushes with a fresh retryAttempt. Could we assert the cap through that boundary too, so a consumer-side regression can't ship green?
| expect(attemptCount).toBe(4) | ||
| expect(createMessageSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4) | ||
| // Exactly as many backoffs as retries — the request that finally threw never slept. | ||
| expect(backoffSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3) |
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On the consumer side, the streaming_failed handler also calls backoffAndAnnounce (Task.ts:3301) before re-pushing, so the final refused request sleeps on the full backoff before being re-queued. Is that the intended ordering?
| // attempt is charged against the account and postpones recovery. Stop loudly instead of | ||
| // recursing until abort. | ||
| if (retryAttempt >= MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES) { | ||
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When MAX_CONTEXT_WINDOW_RETRIES is exhausted, the truncation branch above falls through to this check with retryAttempt already >= 3 — the message blames the auto-approval cap for an exhaustion failure. Worth a distinct message for that case?
| const DEFAULT_USAGE_COLLECTION_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000 // 5 seconds | ||
| const FORCED_CONTEXT_REDUCTION_PERCENT = 75 // Keep 75% of context (remove 25%) on context window errors | ||
| const MAX_CONTEXT_WINDOW_RETRIES = 3 // Maximum retries for context window errors | ||
| const MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES = 3 // Bounds the auto-approval retry loop (persistent API errors, e.g. HTTP 429) |
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Does the bound hold for mid-stream failures? A stream that yields a first chunk and then errors exits through the consumer loop without reaching this check, so the comment may overclaim.
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The internal cap did not bound production: the streaming_failed handler in
recursivelyMakeClineRequests caught the capped error and re-pushed the stack
item, and since attemptApiRequest only checks the cap after an error occurs,
every re-push issued another full API request — the loop never ended.
- ApiRetryCapExceededError (exported): distinct terminal signal from the
first-chunk cap; the consumer honors it before the generic retry path —
loud say("error"), abortReason=streaming_failed, abortTask, re-throw into
the outer catch so the parent sees didEndLoop=true (a bare break reported
"completed normally").
- Consumer-side cap for mid-stream failures: retryAttempt at
MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES with auto-approval on stops instead of
re-pushing.
- Context-window exhaustion falling through the cap now names its own cause
instead of blaming the auto-approval cap.
- Constant comment scoped to what it actually bounds (first-chunk +
mid-stream re-push; not mid-stream without auto-approval).
- Tests: cap asserted through the recursivelyMakeClineRequests boundary
(4 requests / 3 backoffs, mutation-hardened), marker terminal (1 attempt /
0 backoffs), context-window message, instanceof on the existing test.
Mutation-verified: disabling the consumer guard reddens both consumer
tests; disabling the context-window cause reddens the message test.
Refs roo-extensions#3195
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In `@src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts`:
- Around line 1328-1333: Add a behavior-focused test alongside the existing
auto-approval terminal-marker scenario in Task.spec.ts, using
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ApiRetryCapExceededError setup. Assert one attempt, no backoff or retry,
abortTask called once with abortReason "streaming_failed", the capped-error
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Learning: In `src/core/task/Task.ts`, the auto-approval retry cap is enforced at two boundaries: first-chunk failures in `Task.attemptApiRequest` and mid-stream failures in `Task.recursivelyMakeClineRequests`. `ApiRetryCapExceededError` is terminal in the streaming-failure handler even if auto-approval is disabled after the request starts. Mid-stream retries increment `StackItem.retryAttempt`, and the handler stops before backoff or re-push when the count reaches `MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES`.
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| apiConfiguration: mockApiConfig, | ||
| autoApprovalEnabled: true, | ||
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Add the autoApprovalEnabled: false case for the terminal marker.
The guard at Task.ts Line 3681 checks error instanceof ApiRetryCapExceededError outside the autoApprovalEnabled condition. The code comment at Task.ts Lines 3676-3678 states the marker stays terminal even when auto-approval is disabled after the request starts.
This test sets autoApprovalEnabled: true, so it does not prove that independence. If the instanceof check moved inside the autoApprovalEnabled condition, this test would still pass and the documented mid-flight-toggle invariant would break silently.
Add the same scenario with autoApprovalEnabled: false and assert the same terminal outcome.
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it("keeps ApiRetryCapExceededError terminal when auto-approval is disabled mid-flight", async () => {
const task = new Task({
provider: mockProvider,
apiConfiguration: mockApiConfig,
task: "test task",
startTask: false,
})
const state = await mockProvider.getState()
vi.spyOn(mockProvider, "getState").mockResolvedValue({
...state,
apiConfiguration: mockApiConfig,
// Auto-approval was on when the request started, then flipped off.
autoApprovalEnabled: false,
requestDelaySeconds: 1,
})
vi.spyOn(task.diffViewProvider, "reset").mockResolvedValue(undefined)
vi.spyOn(getTaskTestAccess(task), "getSystemPrompt").mockResolvedValue("mock system prompt")
const capError = new ApiRetryCapExceededError(
"[Task#attemptApiRequest] task aborted — persistent API error after 3 auto-approval retries " +
"(last: API Error). Retry loop capped (roo-extensions#3195).",
)
const attemptSpy = vi.spyOn(task, "attemptApiRequest").mockImplementation(
() =>
// eslint-disable-next-line require-yield
(async function* () {
throw capError
})() as AsyncGenerator<ApiStreamChunk>,
)
const backoffSpy = vi.spyOn(getTaskTestAccess(task), "backoffAndAnnounce").mockResolvedValue(undefined)
const saySpy = vi.spyOn(task, "say")
const abortTaskSpy = vi.spyOn(task, "abortTask").mockImplementation(async () => {
task.abort = true
})
const result = await task.recursivelyMakeClineRequests([{ type: "text", text: "original user request" }])
// Terminal regardless of the auto-approval toggle — no re-push, no backoff.
expect(attemptSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
expect(backoffSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
expect(abortTaskSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
expect(task.abortReason).toBe("streaming_failed")
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Assert the terminal outcome in the stateForBackoff undefined test.
The second createMessage call throws ApiRetryCapExceededError mid-stream, so the terminal handler in Task.ts runs: it calls say("error", capMessage), sets abortReason = "streaming_failed", and calls abortTask(). The test registers spies for say (Line 1468) and abortTask (Line 1469) but asserts neither. The say spy is currently dead code.
expect(attempts).toBe(2) proves the re-push stopped, but it does not prove the stop was the terminal cap path. A regression that ends the loop for another reason (for example, the outer catch swallowing an error before the terminal handler) still satisfies the count and result === true.
Bind the spies to assertions so the terminal contract is covered.
As per path instructions, "For tests that assert only mock call counts, confirm a corresponding return-value assertion exists" and "Require regression coverage at the lowest valid harness with behavior-focused assertions, including relevant negative, error, false/unset, and boundary cases."
💚 Proposed assertions
const backoffSpy = vi.spyOn(getTaskTestAccess(task), "backoffAndAnnounce").mockResolvedValue(undefined)
- vi.spyOn(task, "say")
- vi.spyOn(task, "abortTask").mockImplementation(async () => {
+ const saySpy = vi.spyOn(task, "say")
+ const abortTaskSpy = vi.spyOn(task, "abortTask").mockImplementation(async () => {
task.abort = true
}) expect(attempts).toBe(2)
expect(backoffSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ // The stop came from the terminal cap path, not from an unrelated swallowed error.
+ expect(abortTaskSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(task.abortReason).toBe("streaming_failed")
+ expect(saySpy.mock.calls.find((call) => call[0] === "error")?.[1]).toContain(
+ "terminal after re-push",
+ )
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In `@src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts` at line 1468, Update the
stateForBackoff-undefined test around the task.say and abortTask spies to assert
the terminal cap path: verify say is called with the error level and cap
message, abortTask is called, and abortReason becomes "streaming_failed". Keep
the existing attempts and successful-result assertions while adding these
behavior-focused terminal-outcome checks.
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Bounded auto-approval retry loop in
attemptApiRequestCloses a class of unbounded retry:
attemptApiRequestrecurses under theautoApprovalEnabledpath with no cap — onlythis.abortstops it. On apersistent API error (e.g. HTTP 429 fair-usage, a whole-account rate limit),
each retry is not only a failure but worsens the condition, and the only bound
was
MAX_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_SECONDSon the delay, not the count.Observed impact (both on a persisted 429, far from theoretical):
(Details in jsboige/roo-extensions#3195 — the defects exists upstream; this
PR is filed from a fork after user GO.)
Change
Add
MAX_AUTO_APPROVAL_RETRIES = 3next to the existingMAX_CONTEXT_WINDOW_RETRIESconvention, and check it beforebackoffAndAnnounceso the last refused request doesn't sleep on a backoff that can never succeed.
and the last underlying error.
Test
should cap the auto-approval retry loop on a persistent API errorinTask.spec.ts— always-failing stream,autoApprovalEnabled: true.Assertions:
MAX+1total attempts (1 initial + 3 retries) with a message matching/capped.*#3195/;expect(attemptCount).toBeLessThanOrEqual(4)inside the mock fails fast if the cap is removed (mutation-checked, not just "a test exists");Design notes
autoApprovalEnabledretry exists to ride out transient failures. Arepeated attempt budget of
MAX_CONTEXT_WINDOW_RETRIES-style (3) preservesthat purpose for transient errors while bounding a persistent one.
point of change.
Checklist
autoApprovalEnabledpath ofattemptApiRequestroo-codecounterpart: fork copy applied in jsboige/roo-extensions PR (separate)🤖 jsboige · claude-interactive (po-2025) — filed from fork per jsboige/roo-extensions#3195 GO