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error.rs

1//! The harness-neutral error taxonomy for the integration seam.
2//!
3//! [`HarnessError`] is the single error type every [`crate::AgentHarness`] /
4//! [`crate::AgentSession`] method returns. It is **harness-neutral**: no variant names a
5//! concrete harness, and only the transport/protocol variants reference the notion of a wire
6//! at all (as generic descriptions, never a specific protocol type). An adapter maps its own
7//! failures onto these variants; callers above the adapter branch on the variant alone.
8
9/// The neutral error taxonomy for the harness-integration seam.
10///
11/// Every arm is harness-neutral. [`Self::CapabilityNotSupported`] is the first-class outcome an
12/// observability-only harness returns from [`crate::AgentSession::intervene`] for any command —
13/// it is a legitimate, gated rejection, not an internal failure.
14#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
15#[non_exhaustive]
16pub enum HarnessError {
17    /// The requested intervention primitive is not in the harness's advertised capability set.
18    ///
19    /// This is the first-class rejection an observability-only harness (empty capability set)
20    /// returns for *every* command, and the rejection any harness returns for a primitive it did
21    /// not advertise. It is a normal, expected outcome of capability gating — not a fault.
22    #[error("capability not supported: {primitive}")]
23    CapabilityNotSupported {
24        /// A neutral label naming the unsupported primitive (e.g. `"pause_resume"`).
25        primitive: String,
26    },
27    /// The command targets a stale or unknown activity attempt and is a no-op.
28    ///
29    /// A command addressed to a superseded attempt (a later attempt is now live) or to a session
30    /// that has already reached its terminal result is dropped without effect.
31    #[error("stale target: {detail}")]
32    StaleTarget {
33        /// Human-readable detail describing why the target is stale.
34        detail: String,
35    },
36    /// The underlying transport failed (spawn/connect failure, broken pipe, EOF, I/O error).
37    ///
38    /// Neutral: it describes *that* the transport failed and carries the detail, never *which*
39    /// transport. An adapter maps its own I/O failures here.
40    #[error("transport error: {detail}")]
41    Transport {
42        /// Human-readable description of the transport failure.
43        detail: String,
44    },
45    /// A message was received that violates the wire protocol contract.
46    ///
47    /// Malformed framing, an undecodable envelope, a response that correlates to no outstanding
48    /// request, or a terminal result delivered on the wrong message kind. This signals a bug in
49    /// the peer or the adapter, distinct from an ordinary transport outage.
50    #[error("protocol error: {detail}")]
51    Protocol {
52        /// Human-readable description of the protocol violation.
53        detail: String,
54    },
55    /// The harness reported an application-level failure while running the agent.
56    ///
57    /// The agent ran but ended in failure (a non-success exit, an error result, a rejected run).
58    /// Distinct from [`Self::Transport`] (the channel broke) and [`Self::Protocol`] (a malformed
59    /// message): here the channel and framing were sound and the harness *reported* failure.
60    #[error("harness reported failure: {detail}")]
61    Harness {
62        /// Human-readable description of the reported failure.
63        detail: String,
64    },
65    /// The harness cannot be launched as CONFIGURED, so no run was started.
66    ///
67    /// A DETERMINISTIC refusal, and its own variant for the same reason
68    /// [`Self::Contract`] is: the channel never opened, so [`Self::Transport`] is wrong
69    /// and would tell an operator a story about a flaky pipe; no frame was exchanged, so
70    /// [`Self::Protocol`] is wrong; and nothing ran, so [`Self::Harness`] is wrong. What
71    /// is wrong is a value somebody WROTE — an environment pass-through entry that is a
72    /// `KEY=VALUE` pair instead of a name, a declaration that omits the variable the
73    /// program is looked up on. The next attempt reads the same document and meets the
74    /// same wall, so retrying spends a worker's attempt budget to learn nothing. The
75    /// worker maps this variant to a TERMINAL activity failure.
76    #[error("harness configuration refusal: {detail}")]
77    Configuration {
78        /// Human-readable description naming the setting and what is wrong with it.
79        detail: String,
80    },
81    /// The run completed, but its native outcome cannot satisfy the canonical
82    /// agent-outcome contract (`AgentOutcome { text, stop_reason }`).
83    ///
84    /// A DETERMINISTIC refusal, and that is the whole reason it is its own variant: the channel
85    /// was sound ([`Self::Transport`] is wrong), the frames were well-formed ([`Self::Protocol`]
86    /// is wrong — and a protocol fault CAN be a transient peer flake, which this never is), and
87    /// the run did not fail ([`Self::Harness`] is wrong). The run's *configuration* produces an
88    /// outcome the seam excludes — e.g. a structured output where the contract's `text` demands a
89    /// String — so re-running it re-spends a whole agent run to hit the same wall. The worker
90    /// maps this variant to a TERMINAL activity failure; every other variant stays retryable.
91    #[error("agent-outcome contract refusal: {detail}")]
92    Contract {
93        /// Human-readable description naming the contract and what was found.
94        detail: String,
95    },
96}
97
98impl HarnessError {
99    /// Builds a [`Self::CapabilityNotSupported`] naming the unsupported primitive.
100    #[must_use]
101    pub fn capability_not_supported(primitive: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
102        Self::CapabilityNotSupported {
103            primitive: primitive.into(),
104        }
105    }
106
107    /// Builds a [`Self::StaleTarget`] with a detail message.
108    #[must_use]
109    pub fn stale_target(detail: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
110        Self::StaleTarget {
111            detail: detail.into(),
112        }
113    }
114
115    /// Builds a [`Self::Transport`] with a detail message.
116    #[must_use]
117    pub fn transport(detail: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
118        Self::Transport {
119            detail: detail.into(),
120        }
121    }
122
123    /// Builds a [`Self::Protocol`] with a detail message.
124    #[must_use]
125    pub fn protocol(detail: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
126        Self::Protocol {
127            detail: detail.into(),
128        }
129    }
130
131    /// Builds a [`Self::Harness`] with a detail message.
132    #[must_use]
133    pub fn harness(detail: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
134        Self::Harness {
135            detail: detail.into(),
136        }
137    }
138
139    /// Builds a [`Self::Contract`] with a detail message naming the canonical
140    /// agent-outcome contract and what was found instead.
141    #[must_use]
142    pub fn contract(detail: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
143        Self::Contract {
144            detail: detail.into(),
145        }
146    }
147
148    /// Builds a [`Self::Configuration`] with a detail message naming the setting that
149    /// makes the harness unlaunchable.
150    #[must_use]
151    pub fn configuration(detail: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
152        Self::Configuration {
153            detail: detail.into(),
154        }
155    }
156
157    /// Whether this error is DETERMINISTIC — a property of how the run is
158    /// configured, so retrying re-spends a whole agent run to hit the same
159    /// wall — as opposed to potentially transient (a provider-overload burst,
160    /// a one-off malformed frame, a dropped pipe, a superseded attempt).
161    ///
162    /// This is THE retry-classification decision for the seam, made here in
163    /// the defining crate with an EXHAUSTIVE match — legal despite
164    /// `#[non_exhaustive]` — so adding a variant is a compile error at this
165    /// site and its classification is decided on purpose, never defaulted by
166    /// a caller's wildcard arm. The worker maps `true` to a terminal activity
167    /// failure and `false` to a retryable one.
168    ///
169    /// Per variant:
170    /// - [`Self::Contract`]: deterministic by definition — the run completed
171    ///   and its configured outcome shape cannot satisfy the agent-outcome
172    ///   contract; the next attempt is configured identically.
173    /// - [`Self::Configuration`]: deterministic by definition — the launch was
174    ///   refused by a value in the document, and the next attempt reads the
175    ///   same document. A refusal that presented as a transient transport
176    ///   failure would tell the operator the wrong story AND spend the whole
177    ///   attempt budget confirming it.
178    /// - [`Self::Transport`]: a broken channel can heal.
179    /// - [`Self::Protocol`]: a malformed frame CAN be a one-off peer flake
180    ///   (truncated stream, interleaved write), so it stays retryable even
181    ///   though some protocol faults are in fact permanent.
182    /// - [`Self::Harness`]: the run failed; overload and timeouts recur or
183    ///   do not — that judgement belongs to the retry policy.
184    /// - [`Self::CapabilityNotSupported`] / [`Self::StaleTarget`]: gating and
185    ///   staleness outcomes on the intervention path; when they surface from
186    ///   a result path at all they describe a racing world, not a fixed one.
187    #[must_use]
188    pub fn is_deterministic(&self) -> bool {
189        match self {
190            Self::Contract { .. } | Self::Configuration { .. } => true,
191            Self::CapabilityNotSupported { .. }
192            | Self::StaleTarget { .. }
193            | Self::Transport { .. }
194            | Self::Protocol { .. }
195            | Self::Harness { .. } => false,
196        }
197    }
198}
199
200#[cfg(test)]
201mod tests {
202    use super::HarnessError;
203
204    fn assert_send_sync_static<T: Send + Sync + 'static>() {}
205
206    #[test]
207    fn harness_error_is_send_sync_static() {
208        assert_send_sync_static::<HarnessError>();
209    }
210
211    #[test]
212    fn capability_not_supported_names_the_primitive() {
213        let error = HarnessError::capability_not_supported("pause_resume");
214        assert_eq!(error.to_string(), "capability not supported: pause_resume");
215        assert!(matches!(error, HarnessError::CapabilityNotSupported { .. }));
216    }
217
218    #[test]
219    fn each_constructor_renders_its_class() {
220        assert_eq!(
221            HarnessError::stale_target("attempt 2 superseded").to_string(),
222            "stale target: attempt 2 superseded"
223        );
224        assert_eq!(
225            HarnessError::transport("broken pipe").to_string(),
226            "transport error: broken pipe"
227        );
228        assert_eq!(
229            HarnessError::protocol("no matching id").to_string(),
230            "protocol error: no matching id"
231        );
232        assert_eq!(
233            HarnessError::harness("exit code 1").to_string(),
234            "harness reported failure: exit code 1"
235        );
236        assert_eq!(
237            HarnessError::contract("output is a JSON object").to_string(),
238            "agent-outcome contract refusal: output is a JSON object"
239        );
240    }
241
242    /// The retry-classification decision, pinned in the crate that makes it:
243    /// exactly the contract refusal is deterministic; every class that can be
244    /// transient stays non-deterministic. (The match inside `is_deterministic`
245    /// is exhaustive, so a new variant fails compilation there — this test
246    /// pins the ANSWERS, the compiler pins the completeness.)
247    #[test]
248    fn only_the_contract_refusal_is_deterministic() {
249        assert!(HarnessError::contract("output is a JSON object").is_deterministic());
250        for transient in [
251            HarnessError::transport("broken pipe"),
252            HarnessError::protocol("invalid JSON frame"),
253            HarnessError::harness("run stopped without completing"),
254            HarnessError::stale_target("attempt 2 superseded"),
255            HarnessError::capability_not_supported("pause_resume"),
256        ] {
257            assert!(
258                !transient.is_deterministic(),
259                "{transient:?} can be transient and must not classify deterministic"
260            );
261        }
262    }
263}