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The retry budget belonged to one model call, so a sub-agent could wait out its whole budget, fail its task, and leave the main agent a fresh budget for its next call: one run could wait about twice the budget. A call that runs out of budget now records that on the run's model_retry marker, which every model call of the run shares, sub-agents included. Later calls in that run are tried once and not retried, and a call that is still retrying stops at its next wait. A Retry-After longer than what is left ends only that call. Runs without the marker keep a budget per call. The guide now describes the run-wide budget. Fixes EvoScientist#626
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- Line 23: Update the run-wide wait description in the model retry guidance:
clarify that total wait can exceed one budget when a call succeeds before
exhausting its budget and a later call also retries. State that the marker
prevents later retries only after a call exhausts its budget.
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Only a call that uses its whole budget stops the run's retries. A call that recovers within its budget, or gives up on a Retry-After longer than what is left while its own backoff would still fit, leaves the next call a full budget, so the waits of a run's calls can add up to more than one budget. The guide and the run key comment said a run waits about one budget in all, and the docs index and the middleware docstring described the budget as shared by the run; they now state the distinction.
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Thanks @Thanatos9404, the run-wide mark and the graph-level tests look right. One change to the Retry-After exception, flagged inline at EvoScientist/middleware/model_retry.py, with a test and the matching wording in docs/guides/model-retry.md; plus a sync-path test in tests/test_model_retry.py.
| # A Retry-After longer than what is left ends this call only; the | ||
| # run's budget is used up once the backoff itself no longer fits. | ||
| if now + max(backoff, MIN_WAIT_SECONDS) > deadline: |
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This also leaves the run unmarked when the call has already waited most of its budget on Retry-After waits. With a 60 s budget and a provider that keeps answering 429 with retry-after: 25, the call waits 25 + 25 s and gives up at 50 s because the next 25 s does not fit, but its own backoff (4 s) still fits, so nothing is marked and the main agent's next call waits another 50 s: 100 s for the run while the provider stays limited, and 3000 s for the unattended 1800 s budget with retry-after: 500. That is the double wait from #626, for rate limits that send a Retry-After. The exception only holds for a first failure, where nothing has been waited yet.
Suggestion: mark the run whenever a call gives up after at least one wait (the two cases above then wait 50 s and 1500 s):
| # A Retry-After longer than what is left ends this call only; the | |
| # run's budget is used up once the backoff itself no longer fits. | |
| if now + max(backoff, MIN_WAIT_SECONDS) > deadline: | |
| # A first failure whose Retry-After does not fit ends this call only; | |
| # after a wait, or once the backoff no longer fits, the run is spent. | |
| if attempt > 1 or now + max(backoff, MIN_WAIT_SECONDS) > deadline: |
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Thanks, good catch on the double wait with Retry-After. I took all four suggestions as written in 5c0776e: a call that gives up after at least one wait now marks the run, and only a first failure whose Retry-After does not fit leaves the next call a budget of its own. Your two tests and the guide paragraph are in, and the sync twin fails if wrap_model_call passes None to _overran.
| assert await h.mw.awrap_model_call(h.request, h.handler([_transient(), OK])) is OK | ||
| assert h.sleeps == [1.0] | ||
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A test for the case above; on the current head the later call waits 25 s again:
| async def test_a_call_that_waited_until_no_retry_after_fits_used_the_budget(run): | |
| h = _Harness() | |
| limited = _transient(429, headers=httpx.Headers({"retry-after": "25"})) | |
| with pytest.raises(ProviderStreamError): | |
| await h.mw.awrap_model_call(h.request, h.handler([limited] * 3)) | |
| assert h.sleeps == [25.0, 25.0] | |
| later = _Harness() | |
| with pytest.raises(ProviderStreamError): | |
| await later.mw.awrap_model_call(later.request, later.handler([limited, OK])) | |
| assert later.sleeps == [] | |
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| Two consequences of a budget per call: | ||
| Once a model call has used its whole budget (its next backoff wait no longer fits in what is left, or a wait ran past the budget), later model calls in the same run are tried once and not retried, and a call that is still retrying at that point stops at its next wait. Only that ends the run's retries: a call that recovers within its budget, or that gives up on a Retry-After longer than what is left while its own backoff would still fit, leaves the next call a full budget of its own, so a run can wait more than one budget in total. With the 60 s default, a call that retries for 55 s and then succeeds can be followed by another call that retries for 55 s. When a sub-agent's call uses the budget up, its task fails and the main agent carries on, but the main agent's next call is not retried, so with the provider still down the run ends there instead of waiting a second budget. The cost: a run whose provider comes back only after more than one budget no longer gets through by having the main agent wait and dispatch the sub-agent again. The next message starts a new run, with a full budget. |
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Three points in this paragraph. With the change in model_retry.py, the Retry-After exception covers only a first failure. An answer to an approval or a question also continues the turn in a new run: each resume builds a fresh model_retry marker (on the server backend the resume goes through run.respond and carries none), so a turn that pauses gets a full budget again. And the cost sentence: before this change only a provider that came back between one and two budgets got the run through (after two, the main agent's own budget had run out as well), and the mark stays after the provider recovers, so a later transient failure in the same run is not retried.
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| Once a model call has used its whole budget (its next backoff wait no longer fits in what is left, or a wait ran past the budget), later model calls in the same run are tried once and not retried, and a call that is still retrying at that point stops at its next wait. Only that ends the run's retries: a call that recovers within its budget, or that gives up on a Retry-After longer than what is left while its own backoff would still fit, leaves the next call a full budget of its own, so a run can wait more than one budget in total. With the 60 s default, a call that retries for 55 s and then succeeds can be followed by another call that retries for 55 s. When a sub-agent's call uses the budget up, its task fails and the main agent carries on, but the main agent's next call is not retried, so with the provider still down the run ends there instead of waiting a second budget. The cost: a run whose provider comes back only after more than one budget no longer gets through by having the main agent wait and dispatch the sub-agent again. The next message starts a new run, with a full budget. | |
| Once a model call has used its whole budget (it has waited at least once and its next wait no longer fits in what is left, or a wait ran past the budget), later model calls in the same run are tried once and not retried, and a call that is still retrying at that point stops at its next wait. Only that ends the run's retries: a call that recovers within its budget, or whose first failure carries a Retry-After longer than the budget, leaves the next call a full budget of its own, so a run can wait more than one budget in total. With the 60 s default, a call that retries for 55 s and then succeeds can be followed by another call that retries for 55 s. When a sub-agent's call uses the budget up, its task fails and the main agent carries on, but the main agent's next call is not retried, so with the provider still down the run ends there instead of waiting a second budget. The cost: a run whose provider comes back between one and two budgets after the sub-agent's first failure used to get through, because the main agent waited and dispatched the sub-agent again, and now ends; and once a call has used its budget up, a later transient failure in the same run is not retried even if the provider came back in between. The next message, and the answer to an approval or a question, starts a new run with a full budget. |
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| with pytest.raises(ProviderStreamError): | ||
| mw.wrap_model_call(request, handler) | ||
| assert sum(sleeps) == 55.0 |
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The overrun branch is tested on the async path only: passing None instead of run to _overran in wrap_model_call keeps every test green. Suggestion, a sync twin of test_a_wait_that_overran_the_budget_counts_as_using_it:
| assert sum(sleeps) == 55.0 | |
| assert sum(sleeps) == 55.0 | |
| def test_sync_path_counts_a_wait_that_overran_as_using_the_budget(run): | |
| mw, clock, sleeps, request = _sync_harness() | |
| def _suspended_sleep(seconds): | |
| sleeps.append(seconds) | |
| clock.now += seconds + 120.0 | |
| mw._sync_sleep = _suspended_sleep | |
| def _down(_request): | |
| raise _transient() | |
| for _ in range(2): | |
| with pytest.raises(ProviderStreamError): | |
| mw.wrap_model_call(request, _down) | |
| assert sleeps == [1.0] |
…udget A call that gave up because a Retry-After no longer fitted in what was left ended only itself whenever its own backoff would still have fitted. With a provider that keeps answering 429 with retry-after: 25, a call waited 25 + 25 s of its 60 s budget, gave up, and the next call in the run waited 50 s again. The run is now marked whenever a call gives up after at least one wait; a first failure whose Retry-After does not fit still ends only that call. Both paths share _plan_retry, so the sync path follows. Add a test for that case and a sync twin of the overrun test, and update the guide: the narrower exception, what the change costs, and that the answer to an approval or a question also starts a new run.
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Thanks, one small nit from my side
_effective_tier read the marker itself and both wrappers read it again right after, so every call looked it up twice. The wrappers now read it once and pass it to _effective_tier.
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🟡 Minor · Do not spend the run for an over-budget provider Retry-After. · model_retry.py:487-490
EvoScientist/middleware/model_retry.py:487-490
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not spend the run for an over-budget provider
Retry-After.When a later retry selects a provider
Retry-Afterthat exceeds the remaining run budget,attempt > 1still calls_spend_run(run). A subsequent honored model call then skips retries. This violates the contract that an over-budget providerRetry-Afterends only the current call.Limit
_spend_run(run)to backoff-driven exhaustion. Preserve_overran()for waits that already started.Suggested fix
- if attempt > 1 or now + max(backoff, MIN_WAIT_SECONDS) > deadline: + if retry_after_seconds(failure) is None and ( + attempt > 1 or now + max(backoff, MIN_WAIT_SECONDS) > deadline + ): _spend_run(run)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 487-490: Update the _spend_run(run) condition in the retry flow so
a provider Retry-After that exceeds the remaining budget ends only the current
call, not the entire run. Gate run spending on retry_after_seconds(failure)
being None while retaining the existing attempt and backoff exhaustion checks,
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The model retry budget belonged to one model call. When a sub-agent's call waited out its budget and failed, the
tasktool handed the failure back as a tool error, the main agent carried on, and its next call started a budget of its own. With the provider still down, one run could wait about twice the budget (an hour with the unattended default), and longer if the main agent kept dispatching the sub-agent.Once one model call in a run has used its whole budget, later model calls in that run are tried once and not retried, as the issue describes. A call that recovers does not mark the run, so a run can still wait more than one budget in total.
How it works:
configurable["model_retry"], a dict thatresolve_per_run_configbuilds fresh for each run. LangGraph mergesconfigurableshallowly into each node's config and into the sub-agents thetasktool starts, so all model calls of a run, sub-agents included, see that same dict. I checked this on the real graph: within a run the main agent and the sub-agent read the same object, and the next run gets a new one.ModelRetryMiddlewaresetsbudget_spenton that dict. A providerRetry-Afterlonger than what is left ends only that call and does not mark the run while its own backoff would still fit./goallayers build their retry layer with the run key honoured too, so they also stop retrying once the run is marked spent.What stays the same: a call that recovers within its budget, or fails for a reason that is not transient, does not mark the run. Layers built with
honor_run_key=False(the scheduler graph and its grader) ignore the marker as before. Runs that carry no marker (WebUI and the other runs the server starts on its own) keep a budget per call. The next message is a new run with a full budget.The cost is the one in the issue: a run whose provider comes back between one and two budgets used to get through (the main agent waited, then dispatched the sub-agent again) and now ends.
docs/guides/model-retry.mdnow describes when a run's retries end instead of listing the second wait as a consequence of a per-call budget.Fixes #626
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tests/test_model_retry.py, with the injected clock and sleep: a spent run leaves later calls one try, on the async and the sync path; a wait that overran counts as using the budget; a call that is still retrying stops once another one runs out; the next run gets a full budget; a recovered call, a non-transient failure, and aRetry-Afterlonger than the whole budget leave the run its retries; a layer that ignores the run key, and calls made outside a run, keep a budget each.tests/test_model_retry_graph.py, on the real main graph: a sub-agent reached throughtaskwaits out a 60 s budget (55 s of waits), then the main agent's next call fails once. Onmainthat call is retried and the run carries on; with this change it is not, the run waits 55 s in all and ends with the error. A second test checks that the next turn on the same thread gets a full budget again. Thewaitsfixture there now also injects a clock that only the recorded waits move and a fixed jitter draw, so a budget means something in these tests without any real waiting.Results (Windows 11, Python 3.13):
main, 6 of the new tests fail (the later call is retried); with this changetests/test_model_retry.pyandtests/test_model_retry_graph.pypass, 79 tests, and all six model-retry test files pass, 151 tests.uv run pytest --timeout=60: 6792 passed, 68 skipped, 11 failed; the same 11 fail onmainon this machine, all withOSError: [WinError 1314]when a test creates a symlink.uv run ruff check .anduv run ruff format --check .: passed.Type of change
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uv run ruff check .passesuv run pytestpasses (apart from the 11 symlink-permission failures above, which fail onmaintoo)Summary by CodeRabbit
Retry-Afterdelay, leave the budget available.