fix(responses): classify non-streaming provider input overflow

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Summary

Closes #4112. This is separate from #4119's image reduction and #2511's input-size recovery work.

A final upstream HTTP 413 was given a typed context failure only for streaming Responses calls. Non-streaming calls, including routed synthetic compaction, instead received an unclassified upstream error.

• Keep HTTP 413 and JSON for non-streaming callers, with invalid_request_error / context_length_exceeded.
• Use a fixed proxy-owned error message instead of echoing upstream response content.
• Preserve streaming SSE behavior and bounded body consumption. Combo attempts retain failure accounting before outer-boundary classification; local admission codes retain their distinct purpose.
• Add adapter, synthetic compact, and non-streaming combo regressions; update the architecture contract and document the pending behavior.

No transcript shortening, image transformation, successful fake completion, or automatic compaction replay is introduced. Native compact passthrough is unchanged.

Verification

• Base: 57077ca3260494aa4266b4108a7bd4c8a4dac288.
• Current head: 15c03e8b1058e26f71b7c2fac6c46cc76577cab5.
• Initial hosted run 34361461242 on 493620254 found an existing image-retry test still asserting the old Provider error 413 prose (204 passed / 1 failed in that shard). Follow-up updates that assertion to the exact typed JSON contract while retaining HTTP 413 and exactly two upstream calls. Runtime code is unchanged in the follow-up; new-head CI is pending, not green.
• git diff --check: passed.
• Node 24 syntax-only node --check on both changed source files and the modified test file: passed with fresh temporary HOME, OPENCODEX_HOME, CODEX_HOME. This does not execute imports or prove Bun runtime behavior/type correctness.
• Protected runtime configuration hashes were unchanged before/after the syntax checks.
• Bun product tests, typecheck, full suite, and docs build: NOT RUN locally. The available installed Bun/dependency environment is not the repository's isolated test environment; no installed runtime or configuration was changed to compensate.
• Required acceptance: exact-head hosted CI covering tests/responses/responses-context-overflow.test.ts, surrounding compact/combo and one-read failure tests, typecheck, and documentation build. In particular, verify that local refusal codes remain distinct and the failed combo target is not counted as successful.

@lidge-jun please independently review the JSON contract and combo-boundary scope.

Update: exact-head CI on 15c03e8b1058e26f71b7c2fac6c46cc76577cab5 is green (28 successful, 2 skipped conditional matrix jobs), so the validation this PR was held in Draft for is complete and it is now ready for review.

Independent re-verification of the two scope questions raised above, by source reading:

• Dropping !options.comboAttempt from the runTurn 413 check (src/server/responses/core.ts:7475) is inert, not a behavior change: the enclosing if (!upstreamResponse.ok) block returns through consumeComboFailure at core.ts:7455-7462 whenever options.comboAttempt is set, so control cannot reach the 413 check on a combo attempt. The passthrough site at core.ts:5726-5735 has the same shape. A failed combo target therefore still cannot be recorded as a successful attempt.
• Local refusal codes stay distinct. classifyOverflow excludes outbound_body_too_large and translation_buffer_limit for non-streaming, and input_admission_refused never reaches that branch at all: comboFailureDecision returns hop for it (src/combos/failover.ts:447), so it is not evaluated against failureDecision === "stop". Streaming combo classification is byte-identical to before the diff.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults; no auth/destination policy change, and the new response contains fixed public fields only.
• Exact-head Bun/runtime, typecheck and docs-build validation is complete (run on 15c03e8b1: 28 successful, 2 skipped conditional matrix jobs, 0 failures).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Non-streaming Responses requests encountering provider input overflow now return HTTP 413 with a structured JSON error: invalid_request_error and context_length_exceeded.
  • Upstream error details are replaced with a consistent, bounded message.
  • Routed compaction and combined requests preserve the classified overflow response without unnecessary retries.
  • Streaming requests continue to receive the terminal SSE failure format.
• Documentation
  • Updated proxy and transport documentation to describe the structured 413 response behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Responses server now classifies final upstream HTTP 413 failures as context_length_exceeded. Non-streaming callers receive typed JSON with HTTP 413. Streaming callers retain terminal SSE failures. Combo, passthrough, compaction, tests, and documentation cover the behavior.

Changes

Context-overflow response handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Overflow response contract and routing src/server/responses/context-overflow.ts, src/server/responses/core.ts	Adds a JSON 413 response with invalid_request_error and context_length_exceeded. Applies the mapping to combo, native passthrough, and generic adapter recovery paths. Preserves streaming failures and excludes local admission-limit errors.
Overflow behavior validation tests/responses/responses-context-overflow.test.ts, tests/adapters/anthropic/anthropic-image-retry-e2e.test.ts	Tests typed 413 responses across adapters, routed compaction, combo streaming and non-streaming modes, and the Anthropic R2 response shape.
Overflow behavior documentation docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/proxy-formats.md, structure/04-transports-and-sidecars.md	Documents typed non-streaming 413 responses, terminal streaming failures, compaction propagation, and separate local refusal contracts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 15c03

This change should return a fixed typed context-overflow error for provider HTTP 413 responses. Combo requests can still return the wrong error contract when an upstream response uses certain error codes, and the public documentation inaccurately labels the implemented behavior as pending; these should be corrected before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ResponsesCore
  participant UpstreamProvider
  Client->>ResponsesCore: POST /v1/responses
  ResponsesCore->>UpstreamProvider: Forward request
  UpstreamProvider-->>ResponsesCore: HTTP 413
  ResponsesCore-->>Client: Typed JSON 413 or terminal SSE failure

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue [#4112]. They classify qualifying non-streaming provider HTTP 413 responses as invalid_request_error with code context_length_exceeded, preserve HTTP 413 and the proxy-owned …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, regression tests, and documentation changes are directly related to issue [#4112]. They update overflow classification contracts and verify the affected adapter, compaction, combo, streaming…
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[Ingwannu]

Follow-up pushed: 15c03e8b1058e26f71b7c2fac6c46cc76577cab5. Initial hosted CI caught an old wording assertion in the Anthropic 413-twice regression. The test now asserts the exact typed JSON error, while HTTP 413 and exactly two upstream calls remain mandatory. No runtime code, CI workflow, timeout, or retry allowance was changed to pass it. Syntax-only checks and diff checks pass; new-head hosted execution is pending. Keeping Draft and the issue open.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 68 / 80

이 PR은 #4112를 고칩니다. 지금 dev HEAD는 3b4d8c439(package.json 2.50.0, tip에 #4132 Spark 쿼터 문서 정리와 #4114가 있고, #4128 Spark attribution은 이미 dev에 들어간 뒤입니다). 증상은 이렇습니다. 스트리밍 Responses 요청이 업스트림 HTTP 413을 받으면 streamingContextOverflowResponse가 context_length_exceeded 터미널 SSE로 바꿔 주고, Codex는 그걸 “컨텍스트가 찼다”로 이해합니다. 그런데 같은 413이 비스트리밍으로 오면 clientRequestedStream 가드 때문에 분류가 건너뛰어지고, formatPassthroughUpstreamError / 일반 upstream 경로로 떨어져 upstream_error 같은 분류되지 않은 413이 됩니다. 이슈 본문대로 GitHub Copilot 등에서 라우티드 합성 compaction이 stream: false로 나가면, 큰 세션이 compact를 시도할 때마다 분류 안 된 413만 반복되고 세션이 복구되지 않습니다.

고치는 범위는 좁습니다. src/server/responses/context-overflow.ts에 jsonContextOverflowResponse()를 추가해서, 이미 쓰는 PROVIDER_INPUT_TOO_LARGE_MESSAGE와 같은 프록시 소유 문구로 invalid_request_error / context_length_exceeded JSON을 HTTP 413과 함께 돌려줍니다. src/server/responses/core.ts의 패스스루 실패 두 곳(대략 현재 dev의 5732·7468 근처)과 combo 바깥 경계에서, 최종 업스트림 413이면 스트림이면 기존 SSE, 아니면 새 JSON으로 갈라집니다. combo 쪽에서는 outbound_body_too_large·translation_buffer_limit 같은 로컬 입장 거부 코드는 업스트림 거절로 다시 붙이지 않게 막아 두었습니다. 입력 줄이기, 이미지 변환, 가짜 성공, 자동 compact 재시도는 넣지 않았고, 네이티브 compact 패스스루도 그대로입니다. 그래서 #4119(이미지 축소)와 #2511(입력 크기 복구)과 겹치지 않는, “분류만” 고치는 PR입니다.

테스트는 tests/responses/responses-context-overflow.test.ts에서 non-stream openai-responses/openai-chat/anthropic, routed compact(한 번만 hit), combo stream/non-stream stop을 잡고, Anthropic 이미지 재시도 e2e는 옛 "Provider error 413" 문장 대신 typed JSON을 검사하도록 고쳤습니다(후속 커밋 15c03e8). structure/04_transports-and-sidecars.md와 docs-site/.../proxy-formats.md도 비스트리밍 계약을 맞춰 두었습니다. 리뷰 시점 exact-head CI는 test 샤드·macos·gates·hygiene 등이 pass로 보입니다. Draft 유지·머지 요청 없음은 본문 그대로입니다.

src/server/responses/core.ts handleComboResponses storedPool401ReplayDispatched 분기 - 지금 dev는 이 분기에서 lastFailure만 그대로 돌려줍니다. 이 PR은 여기에 classifyOverflow && failureDecision === "stop"이면 JSON/SSE 분류를 넣습니다. 풀 401 sticky 이후에도 바깥 클라이언트에는 typed overflow가 나가게 하려는 의도로 보이지만, “401 sticky면 원래 실패 envelope을 보존한다”는 기존 감각과 살짝 겹칩니다. 의도한 확장인지 한 번만 확인하면 됩니다.

src/server/responses/core.ts 두 번째 413 분류 지점(현재 dev 7468 근처) - 조건에서 && !options.comboAttempt를 뺐습니다. 같은 함수 앞쪽에서 comboAttempt면 consumeComboFailure 후 이미 return 하므로 실동작은 같고, 죽은 가드 정리에 가깝습니다. 문제는 아니지만, 나중에 combo 조기 return이 바뀌면 이 지점이 다시 살아날 수 있으니 주석 한 줄이 있으면 더 안전합니다.

src/server/responses/core.ts 로컬 outbound 입장 거부(~4973) - 비스트리밍은 계속 outbound_body_too_large를 쓰고, 업스트림 413만 context_length_exceeded로 갑니다. PR의 combo 제외 조건과 맞춰 “로컬 입장 vs 업스트림 거절”이 분리되어 있어 좋습니다. 이 경로는 의도적으로 안 건드린 것으로 읽힙니다.

docs-site/.../proxy-formats.md - “pending dev implementation for #4112” 문구는 머지 뒤에는 현재형으로 바꾸는 편이 읽기 좋습니다. 머지 직후 한 줄 follow-up이면 충분합니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

• storedPool401ReplayDispatched 경로에 overflow 분류를 넣는 것이 의도인지, 아니면 sticky 401 실패 envelope을 그대로 둘지
• Draft를 Ready로 올리고 exact-head CI 초록만 보고 머지할지(리뷰 시점 주요 체크는 이미 pass로 보임)
• #4112만 닫고 Feature: opt-in per-provider request byte budget that downscales then prunes inline images #2511/fix(openai-chat): normalize oversized inline images before they reach the wire #4119 복구 작업은 별도 트랙으로 둘지(PR 범위와 일치)

너의 추천
CI 초록 확인 후 Draft 해제하고 머지하세요. #4112의 핵심(비스트리밍·합성 compact가 typed context_length_exceeded를 받게 하기)을 정확히 건드리고, SSE·로컬 입장 코드·네이티브 compact는 보존했습니다. 입력 축소/재시도는 넣지 않았으니 #2511·#4119와 충돌하지 않습니다. types/config 분할 때문에 닫을 대상도 아닙니다. 401 sticky 분기만 의도 확인하면 됩니다.

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- Around line 2991-2993: Update classifyOverflow to rely only on trusted
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Do not use provider error codes as local-failure provenance.

failure.upstreamCode comes from the provider response body. A combo target can return HTTP 413 with error.code set to outbound_body_too_large or translation_buffer_limit. This makes classifyOverflow false.

The combo path then returns its generic upstream_error envelope instead of the required fixed context_length_exceeded JSON response. It can also include provider error text that this 413 contract must suppress.

Track locally generated admission failures with trusted provenance. Exclude only that trusted marker. Add a combo regression where an upstream HTTP 413 uses each excluded code and assert the fixed JSON response with status 413.

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Maintainer integration review. Exact-head CI at 15c03e8: Cross-platform CI success, enforce-target success, PR hygiene success, React Doctor success; the queued duplicates are ready_for_review re-triggers at the same SHA and the one cancelled labeler run was superseded by a success. Scope verified at source: dropping the comboAttempt guard at the runTurn 413 check is inert because the enclosing !ok block returns through consumeComboFailure first, and local refusal codes stay distinct because classifyOverflow excludes outbound_body_too_large and translation_buffer_limit while input_admission_refused routes to hop in combos/failover.