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Why

--retries only repeats failed tests; could_not_run is final. When the single model call that picks a click or type target failed (for example on a timeout), the locator returned provider_error and the test ended could_not_run, so it never got its retry.

This is the part of #167 (thanks @bagrat) that #169 didn't already cover. #169 made stale locator results and stale action refusals fail the step; this adds the locator's provider_error.

What changes

• A locator provider_error now fails the step with code provider_error and the message "the model call that picks the target failed; run the test again".
• Provider failures that affect the whole run (a rejected key, a configuration error, a rate limit) are thrown before this point and still stop the run with could_not_run. The existing tests for those pass unchanged.

Testing

• flow-runner.provider-errors.test.ts: the "scoped to the step" test now expects a failed test and a failed step with code provider_error. It fails on main (could_not_run) and passes with this change.
• npx tsc --noEmit -p packages/core and eslint are clean, and npx vitest run packages/core passes (728).
• The CodeScene pre-commit safeguard passes.

    

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Architecture

Data flow

Review

2 findings on the diff · reviewed f49a8f9

• 🟠 Refresh retry list omits provider_error, so that failure still ends could_not_run · flow-runner/sentence-execution.ts:92-94
• 🟠 visionFallbackNote appends a vision note to a provider_error · locator/observation.ts:119-120

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Refresh retry list omits provider_error, so that failure still ends could_not_run

When a click is refused as stale, refreshAfterQuiet calls locate(); if it returns unresolved("provider_error") the check at sentence-execution.ts:919 does not include it, throws new Error("The target could not be resolved."), and record(unsupported(...)) makes the…

Fix: Add "provider_error" to the reason list in the refresh callback’s retried.reason check in packages/core/src/flow-runner/sentence-execution.ts, beside "timeout".

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1. [medium, correctness] packages/core/src/flow-runner/sentence-execution.ts lines 92-94
   Problem: Refresh retry list omits `provider_error`, so that failure still ends `could_not_run`. When a click is refused as `stale`, `refreshAfterQuiet` calls `locate()`; if it returns `unresolved("provider_error")` the check at sentence-execution.ts:919 does not include it, throws `new Error("The target could not be resolved.")`, and `record(unsupported(...))` makes the…
   Fix: Add `"provider_error"` to the reason list in the `refresh` callback's `retried.reason` check in `packages/core/src/flow-runner/sentence-execution.ts`, beside `"timeout"`.

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visionFallbackNote appends a vision note to a provider_error

visionFallbackNote in observation.ts returns the ”vision fallback could not run” note for any reason other than no_candidates and stale. A provider_error on a click with a visionResolver set ends its message with an unrelated vision sentence.

Fix: Add "provider_error" to the exclusion list in visionFallbackNote in packages/core/src/locator/observation.ts.

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1. [medium, correctness] packages/core/src/locator/observation.ts lines 119-120
   Problem: `visionFallbackNote` appends a vision note to a `provider_error`. `visionFallbackNote` in `observation.ts` returns the "vision fallback could not run" note for any reason other than `no_candidates` and `stale`. A `provider_error` on a click with a `visionResolver` set ends its message with an unrelated vision sentence.
   Fix: Add `"provider_error"` to the exclusion list in `visionFallbackNote` in `packages/core/src/locator/observation.ts`.