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DottaandPaperclip c65ab09d9f fix(recovery): wait for provider quota resets (#9635)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source control plane people use to manage
AI-agent companies and keep assigned work moving safely.
> - The recovery subsystem decides whether a failed agent run should
retry, wait, block for configuration, or escalate to another owner.
> - Provider usage-limit failures currently arrive as generic
`adapter_failed` results, so stranded-work reconciliation can create
takeover recovery even when the provider states that capacity will reset
later.
> - Credential and model lookup failures are also configuration
problems, not evidence that another agent should take over the task.
> - This pull request classifies those failure families at recovery time
and persists the classification on the run.
> - Quota failures now schedule a monitor for the original assignee at
the parsed reset time, or after a bounded default backoff when no reset
time is available.
> - The benefit is that transient provider capacity waits no longer wake
recovery owners, while configuration failures stop with an actionable
classification.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public GitHub issue exists for this exact change.

**What happened?** When an assigned issue's latest run failed with a
provider usage-limit message such as "try again at 12:00 AM (UTC),"
recovery treated the run as generic `adapter_failed` work and could
create a takeover action. Missing credentials and `model_not_found`
failures followed the same generic path.

**Expected behavior:** Provider quota failures should keep the original
assignee and schedule a monitor for the reset time, without creating
recovery work or immediately waking another owner. Missing credentials
and model lookup failures should be classified as
`configuration_incomplete` and blocked with the configuration fix
recorded.

**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Assign and start an issue for an agent.
2. Record a failed heartbeat run with `errorCode: adapter_failed` and a
provider quota/reset message.
3. Run stranded assigned-issue reconciliation.
4. Observe that the old behavior routes the issue through generic
recovery instead of waiting for provider capacity.

Reproduced on `master` at `9af96461d`. This is a core recovery bug, not
adapter-specific, and applies to built-from-source deployments with
either embedded PGlite or Postgres.

Related work checked: #9288 adds adapter-side Claude provider-limit
classification; #5392 suppresses some recovery creation for quota-class
errors; #9634 is a broader recovery-routing change with overlapping
provider-quota behavior. This PR is the narrow recovery-service fix with
focused parsed-reset, fallback-backoff, zero-takeover, and
configuration-failure coverage.

## What Changed

- Added conservative recovery-time classification for provider quota,
missing-credential, and model-not-found adapter failures.
- Parsed provider reset timestamps with a default one-hour backoff when
no usable reset time is present.
- Persisted `provider_quota` or `configuration_incomplete` metadata on
the failed heartbeat run.
- Scheduled quota monitors for the active issue owner, including the
current review participant, without creating recovery actions or
enqueueing takeover wakes.
- Routed configuration failures to blocked recovery with actionable
evidence instead of a takeover.
- Added unit and embedded-database regression coverage for
parsed/fallback quota timing, zero CTO/recovery wake behavior, and
configuration classification.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/services/recovery/provider-failure-classification.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/issue-recovery-actions.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/issue-monitor-scheduler.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-stale-queue-invalidation.test.ts` — 4
files passed, 66 tests passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/shared typecheck` — passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` — passed.

## Risks

- Recovery behavior changes for text-matched adapter failures; matching
is intentionally conservative, and unmatched failures retain the
existing generic recovery path.
- Provider reset strings do not always include a date or timezone;
parsing chooses the next future matching time and falls back to a
one-hour wait when the timestamp is unusable.
- This overlaps the provider-quota portion of broader recovery-routing
PR #9634, so only one implementation should land if both remain open.
- No schema, migration, API contract, or UI changes are included. No
documentation update is needed because this corrects internal recovery
behavior without changing operator commands or configuration.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap
first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex with model `gpt-5.4`, medium reasoning, tool use, and
code execution. The runtime does not expose its configured
context-window size.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-07-16 09:24:38 -05:00
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