[Hylouis233]

Problem

Codex retry exhaustion with an explicit structured HTTP 429 was reported as a generic provider error, hiding the existing usage-limit state. Cached notification evidence could also override a contradictory completion status.

Change

Classify responseTooManyFailedAttempts with numeric status 429 as usage_limit at both notification paths and root completion. Explicit completion status takes precedence over contradictory cached classification; missing status preserves earlier details and retry metadata. Non-429 exhaustion and unrelated transport errors keep their existing handling.

The implementation uses one shared typed predicate and the generated Codex error-info union. Current root/descendant terminalization is preserved. Thanks @Hylouis233 for the original #17501 contribution and captured payload. Contributor history is preserved with main merged.

Scope and approval

Focused maintainer takeover addressing #16288. Two adapter source/test files change. No UI, other provider, automatic-resume policy or reset-time inference changes. No merge is requested.

Verification

At 49dacaa, with 253f139 merged:

• 181 Codex adapter replay tests pass. The PR's 15 added cases were reduced to 6 covering direct classification, contradictory completion evidence in both directions and missing-status retention across retry/non-retry paths.
• Seven targeted mutation probes establish that the affected classification sites and evidence-retention rules are exercised. Reverting production to main fails five cases; non-429 remains the passing control.
• Scoped lint, formatting and server typecheck pass, with existing unrelated warnings/suggestions retained.
• Final main drift check against 012e4ec found neither changed file had moved. Fresh full Opus and Sol reviews are clean. Replay tests drive the actual adapter with controlled app-server frames and inspect emitted terminal events, failure details and retry metadata.

No live Codex HTTP 429, durable orchestration replay, native client or end-to-end Limited/Resume UI was exercised. The structured payload shape comes from the contributor's captured app-server output and generated schema. Client presentation reuses the existing usage-limit path.

Prepared through T3 Code: Claude Opus 5.5 test reduction/full review, Claude Fable 5.1 implementation, GPT-6.1 Sol independent review.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 49dacaa

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped Codex adapter bug fix that classifies existing retry exhaustion with HTTP 429 using the established usage-limit recovery path. It adds replay coverage for direct, contradictory, and incomplete error evidence without changing schemas, defaults, or other production components.

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📝 Walkthrough

Codex retry exhaustion with HTTP 429 is classified as usage_limit. Terminal failure classification uses completion HTTP status when present and notification status otherwise. Tests cover status combinations and retry metadata.

Changes: Codex retry exhaustion classification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify retry exhaustion across failure paths apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts	The adapter forwards structured Codex error information. HTTP 429 exhaustion maps to usage_limit; other exhaustion statuses map to provider_error. Terminal failure reuse checks the message, error code, and derived class.
Validate failure classification and metadata apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts	Tests verify completion-status precedence, notification-status fallback, failure messages, reusable thread disposition, responseTooManyFailedAttempts, and retry attempt reporting.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 49dac

A completion reporting HTTP 429 or 500 now determines the terminal failure classification even when an earlier notification disagrees. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 49dac

The change is narrowly scoped and preserves existing turn ownership and recovery safeguards. No security regression was established, although the upstream error producer and runtime behavior were not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The changed behavior applies to failure and retry state for existing active Codex turns. Notification handling resolves the supplied turn ID to an active context, and terminal events retain that context's provider-thread, provider-turn, and run identifiers.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The inspected path consumes provider metadata through the existing child-process client rather than a newly exposed application request. It changes a state-classification signal, not credential access, sandbox policy, or tool authority. Native producer influence and runtime decoding were not fully traced, so direct attacker control of this metadata remains unproven.
• observed — Usage-limit classification alone does not cause automatic continuation. Existing recovery logic requires a failed usage-limit run, a valid reset window, eligible thread state, no pending runtime request, and enabled recovery state before issuing a continuation command.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The same typed predicate governs notification and completion classification. Explicit contradictory completion status cannot inherit the cached failure class, reducing inconsistent control state while retaining compatible notification details and retry metadata.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: classifying Codex HTTP 429 retry exhaustion as a usage limit.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts:
- Line 5541: Update makeRootTerminalEvent so reusing previousFailure.failure
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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Hi! We are cleaning up open PRs, and this one names a harness (Codex) but not which model version created it. If this change is really important, we recommend rebuilding the PR with a newer model and noting the model in the PR description.

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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Reopening, this was closed by mistake. Sorry for the noise!

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 015ecc5

[Hylouis233]

@maria-rcks Thanks for reopening this. I've added explicit model/harness attribution to the description and independently re-reviewed the change rather than attributing an unrecorded model version to the original submission.

The follow-up in 41be69b fixes the valid CodeRabbit finding and adds regression coverage. The original code fails six new classification cases; the fixed adapter passes all 176 tests, with a passing server typecheck and no new diagnostics. Validation evidence and the remaining live-provider/UI verification limitation are recorded in the PR description. The scope remains the same two-file fix for #16288.

[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one. I’ll reduce the tests to the useful coverage, update the implementation against current main, and verify it before publishing the changes.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 49dacaa