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chain.rs

1//! The provider chain: an ordered list of LLM providers, tried in turn.
2//!
3//! Failover handles one common local-gate failure: an unavailable local
4//! endpoint otherwise blocks **every** commit because "could not analyze" is a
5//! hard stop by design.
6//!
7//! ## Two independent questions about a failure
8//!
9//! - `should_failover` — does the next provider get asked? HTTP transport
10//!   failures advance the chain for 408, 429, 5xx and status-less failures
11//!   (timeout, connection refused, an empty body). A backend may also report a
12//!   typed usage-limit failure. A 401/403 or backend authentication failure
13//!   must **not** advance: that is misconfiguration, and quietly asking a
14//!   second provider masks it. An unparseable non-empty response advances only
15//!   after its own three response attempts.
16//! - `is_sticky` — is the failure remembered for the rest of the run? Every
17//!   endpoint-level failure that advances the chain, plus the two that are a property of the
18//!   connection rather than the request: a stale API key returns 401 for every
19//!   file, and re-handshaking forty-nine times to be told so again is pure
20//!   wall-clock on a commit gate that is going to exit 2 anyway. A *request*
21//!   -level 4xx is deliberately excluded - remembering one would let a single
22//!   oversized payload stop the chain for every later file.
23//!   Unparseable output is excluded for the same reason: it belongs to one
24//!   model response, even though a fallback may salvage that file.
25//!
26//! Conflating the two is what makes a chain either mask a bad key or re-ask a
27//! dead endpoint once per file. A remembered failure is then replayed through
28//! `should_failover` exactly as a live one would be, so a demoted 401 still
29//! stops the chain and a demoted 500 still advances it.
30//!
31//! An **empty** response does fail over. It reaches here as
32//! `Transport { status: None }` only after the SDK has already retried it, and
33//! a provider that keeps answering with nothing is as unusable as one that is
34//! down - which is exactly the flakiness that failed 7 of 49 files on drep's
35//! own first gated push. It also produced zero output tokens, so the attempts
36//! it burned cost almost nothing.
37//!
38//! ## The cache key moves with the provider
39//!
40//! The key is computed from the provider's *backend identity and* model, so it is
41//! computed **inside** the loop, once per provider tried. Keying provider 1 and
42//! then letting provider 2 serve the answer would file that answer under a key
43//! it did not come from, and a later run with provider 1 healthy would get a
44//! hit that never came from provider 1. [`Served::key`] is the key of the
45//! provider that actually answered; the caller stores under that key or not at
46//! all.
47//!
48//! The backend is in the key because a model name is not an identity: one model
49//! served locally, through an API and through a ChatGPT subscription can have
50//! the same name while producing three distinct request paths.
51
52use std::sync::OnceLock;
53use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
54
55use crate::config::LlmConfig;
56use crate::llm::backend::{BackendFactory, ProviderBackend};
57use crate::llm::cache::{Cache, CacheKey};
58use crate::llm::concurrency::Limiter;
59use crate::llm::error::LlmError;
60use crate::llm::json_parsing::Extracted;
61
62mod policy;
63use policy::{is_sticky, should_failover};
64
65/// One provider: a backend, its concurrency budget, and the
66/// two pieces of run-scoped state that belong to it.
67///
68/// The limiter is per provider rather than per process because the slot
69/// represents in-flight backend work, and `max_concurrent`
70/// is configured per `[[llm]]` entry. A single shared limiter would apply the
71/// local model's generous budget to a rate-limited cloud endpoint.
72///
73/// `down` and `served` live here rather than in vectors parallel to the
74/// provider list. Parallel vectors force a length invariant the type system
75/// cannot check, and make every reader defensive about an index that is
76/// structurally always valid — a `mark_down` that silently did nothing on an
77/// out-of-range index would be invisible.
78///
79/// The cache identity is computed once because it includes stable backend
80/// metadata such as the Codex CLI version. The model and display location stay
81/// on the backend so reporting cannot drift from the client that is used.
82#[derive(Debug)]
83pub struct Provider {
84    /// `pub(crate)` for the same reason `LlmClient`'s fields are: the test
85    /// fixtures build a chain through the production `ProviderChain::new` and
86    /// then shrink only the backoff delays, so a retry test does not spend
87    /// seconds asleep. Not part of the public API.
88    pub(crate) backend: ProviderBackend,
89    identity: String,
90    limiter: Limiter,
91    /// Why this provider was demoted, set once. `OnceLock` rather than a
92    /// `Mutex<Option<_>>` because the value is write-once and read-often, and
93    /// first-writer-wins is the semantics we want anyway — concurrent files
94    /// hitting the same dead endpoint should record the first reason, not race
95    /// to overwrite it.
96    down: OnceLock<LlmError>,
97    /// How many files this provider answered, cache hits included.
98    served: AtomicUsize,
99}
100
101impl Provider {
102    /// The model this provider asks for.
103    pub fn model(&self) -> &str {
104        self.backend.model()
105    }
106
107    /// The backend-neutral location this provider talks to.
108    pub fn location(&self) -> &str {
109        self.backend.location()
110    }
111
112    /// The concurrency budget for this provider's backend.
113    ///
114    /// Exposed because it is the only thing that can demonstrate the limiter
115    /// works: wiremock never overlaps requests, so neither an in-flight
116    /// counter nor wall-clock can tell a working limiter from a deleted one.
117    /// Observing `available()` while the analysis runs can.
118    pub fn limiter(&self) -> &Limiter {
119        &self.limiter
120    }
121
122    /// How many files this provider answered.
123    ///
124    /// Counted here rather than carried out through the analysis result and
125    /// rejoined against the chain later: the chain already knows who answered,
126    /// it is already shared for the whole process, and it already holds
127    /// per-provider interior-mutable state. A cache hit counts — the answer
128    /// still originated with that provider, and the user's code was still
129    /// reviewed by that model.
130    pub fn served(&self) -> usize {
131        self.served.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
132    }
133
134    /// Whether this provider has been demoted for the rest of the run.
135    pub fn is_down(&self) -> bool {
136        self.down.get().is_some()
137    }
138
139    /// Why it was demoted, if it was.
140    fn down_reason(&self) -> Option<&LlmError> {
141        self.down.get()
142    }
143
144    /// Demote for the rest of the run, recording why. First writer wins; a
145    /// concurrent second failure is dropped rather than overwriting the reason
146    /// a user is about to read.
147    fn mark_down(&self, err: LlmError) {
148        let _ = self.down.set(err);
149    }
150
151    fn record_served(&self) {
152        self.served.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
153    }
154
155    /// This provider's cache key for one prompt.
156    ///
157    /// The single definition of "which key belongs to which provider". It lives
158    /// here rather than at the call site so a test cannot compute the key a
159    /// different way than production does - which is exactly how the endpoint
160    /// went missing from it: the tests spelled out `model` and `temperature` by
161    /// hand and agreed with the bug.
162    pub fn cache_key(&self, cache: &Cache, system_prompt: &str, user_content: &str) -> CacheKey {
163        cache.key(
164            system_prompt,
165            user_content,
166            &self.identity,
167            self.model(),
168            self.backend.request_identity(),
169            self.backend.temperature(),
170        )
171    }
172
173    #[cfg(test)]
174    pub(crate) fn for_test(backend: ProviderBackend, max_concurrent: usize) -> Self {
175        let identity = backend.identity();
176        Self {
177            backend,
178            identity,
179            limiter: Limiter::new(max_concurrent),
180            down: OnceLock::new(),
181            served: AtomicUsize::new(0),
182        }
183    }
184}
185
186/// One provider's contribution to a failed file.
187///
188/// `skipped` distinguishes "tried now and failed" from "already down from
189/// earlier in this run". Both are worth reporting: a user reading why a file
190/// went unanalyzed needs to know the local endpoint has been dead since file
191/// three, not just that the cloud fallback then returned a 401.
192#[derive(Debug)]
193pub struct Attempt {
194    /// Zero-based position in the chain. Rendered one-based.
195    pub provider: usize,
196    /// The model that provider asks for, for a message the user can act on.
197    pub model: String,
198    /// Why it failed.
199    pub error: LlmError,
200    /// True when this provider was already marked down and was not contacted
201    /// for this file.
202    pub skipped: bool,
203}
204
205impl Attempt {
206    fn new(index: usize, provider: &Provider, error: LlmError, skipped: bool) -> Self {
207        Self {
208            provider: index,
209            model: provider.model().to_owned(),
210            error,
211            skipped,
212        }
213    }
214}
215
216/// No provider produced an answer, with what each one contributed.
217///
218/// `attempts` is never empty: [`ProviderChain::new`] rejects an empty chain, so
219/// a file that could not be analyzed always names at least one provider. It can
220/// be *shorter* than `chain_len` — a 401 at the head stops the chain, and the
221/// providers below it were never consulted.
222///
223/// `chain_len` is carried so the caller can tell "the only provider failed"
224/// from "a chain stopped early", which are the same `attempts.len() == 1` but
225/// very different questions for the user.
226#[derive(Debug)]
227pub struct ChainError {
228    pub attempts: Vec<Attempt>,
229    pub chain_len: usize,
230}
231
232/// A response, and which provider produced it.
233///
234/// `key` is that provider's cache key - the caller stores under it, so the
235/// entry is filed against the model that actually answered.
236#[derive(Debug)]
237pub struct Served {
238    /// Zero-based position in the chain.
239    pub provider: usize,
240    /// The cache key of the provider that answered.
241    pub key: CacheKey,
242    /// What came back.
243    pub extracted: Extracted,
244    /// True when the cache answered and no request was made.
245    pub from_cache: bool,
246}
247
248/// An ordered chain of providers with sticky demotion.
249///
250/// Built once per process from `Config::providers()` and shared across the
251/// analyzer, so the demotion one file discovers is visible to every other.
252#[derive(Debug)]
253pub struct ProviderChain {
254    /// `pub(crate)` so the test fixtures can shrink the per-provider backoff.
255    /// See [`Provider`].
256    pub(crate) providers: Vec<Provider>,
257}
258
259impl ProviderChain {
260    #[cfg(test)]
261    pub(crate) fn for_test(providers: impl IntoIterator<Item = (ProviderBackend, usize)>) -> Self {
262        Self {
263            providers: providers
264                .into_iter()
265                .map(|(backend, max_concurrent)| Provider::for_test(backend, max_concurrent))
266                .collect(),
267        }
268    }
269
270    /// Build a chain from the enabled providers, in order.
271    ///
272    /// A misconfigured entry is fatal rather than skipped. Skipping it would
273    /// be the same masking that the 401 rule forbids: an endpoint-less
274    /// `[[llm]]` block is a broken install, and a gate that quietly routes
275    /// around it is a gate reporting on a configuration the user did not
276    /// write. The index is carried into the message because with several
277    /// providers "LLM model is not set" does not say which one.
278    pub fn new(cfgs: &[&LlmConfig]) -> Result<Self, LlmError> {
279        if cfgs.is_empty() {
280            return Err(LlmError::NotConfigured(
281                "no enabled `[[llm]]` provider".to_string(),
282            ));
283        }
284        let mut providers = Vec::with_capacity(cfgs.len());
285        let mut factory = BackendFactory::new();
286        for (index, cfg) in cfgs.iter().enumerate() {
287            let backend = factory
288                .build(cfg)
289                .map_err(|err| LlmError::NotConfigured(format!("[[llm]] #{}: {err}", index + 1)))?;
290            let identity = backend.identity();
291            providers.push(Provider {
292                backend,
293                identity,
294                limiter: Limiter::new(cfg.max_concurrent),
295                down: OnceLock::new(),
296                served: AtomicUsize::new(0),
297            });
298        }
299        Ok(Self { providers })
300    }
301
302    /// The providers, in preference order.
303    pub fn providers(&self) -> &[Provider] {
304        &self.providers
305    }
306
307    /// Send one prompt down the chain, consulting the cache per provider.
308    ///
309    /// Returns the first answer anyone gives, or every provider's reason for
310    /// not giving one.
311    pub async fn complete_json(
312        &self,
313        system_prompt: &str,
314        user_content: &str,
315        cache: &Cache,
316    ) -> Result<Served, ChainError> {
317        self.complete_json_in_mode(system_prompt, user_content, cache, true)
318            .await
319    }
320
321    /// Send one prompt down the chain without accepting a cached answer.
322    ///
323    /// Used only after a cache-only preflight has identified an exact miss and
324    /// the caller has reserved authority for a fresh provider pass.
325    pub async fn complete_json_fresh(
326        &self,
327        system_prompt: &str,
328        user_content: &str,
329        cache: &Cache,
330    ) -> Result<Served, ChainError> {
331        self.complete_json_in_mode(system_prompt, user_content, cache, false)
332            .await
333    }
334
335    async fn complete_json_in_mode(
336        &self,
337        system_prompt: &str,
338        user_content: &str,
339        cache: &Cache,
340        consult_cache: bool,
341    ) -> Result<Served, ChainError> {
342        let mut attempts: Vec<Attempt> = Vec::new();
343
344        for (index, provider) in self.providers.iter().enumerate() {
345            match try_provider(
346                index,
347                provider,
348                system_prompt,
349                user_content,
350                cache,
351                consult_cache,
352            )
353            .await
354            {
355                ProviderOutcome::Served(served) => return Ok(served),
356                // One place decides what a failure means for the loop, so the
357                // three ways a provider can fail cannot disagree about it.
358                ProviderOutcome::Failed { attempt, advance } => {
359                    attempts.push(attempt);
360                    if !advance {
361                        return Err(self.error(attempts));
362                    }
363                }
364            }
365        }
366
367        Err(self.error(attempts))
368    }
369
370    /// Return the first cached answer in provider order without contacting any
371    /// backend. A miss is not a provider failure: nothing was attempted and no
372    /// provider should be demoted merely because this machine has not reviewed
373    /// the payload yet.
374    pub fn cached_json(
375        &self,
376        system_prompt: &str,
377        user_content: &str,
378        cache: &Cache,
379    ) -> Option<Served> {
380        for (index, provider) in self.providers.iter().enumerate() {
381            let key = provider.cache_key(cache, system_prompt, user_content);
382            if let Some(served) = cached_for(index, provider, &key, cache) {
383                return Some(served);
384            }
385        }
386        None
387    }
388
389    fn error(&self, attempts: Vec<Attempt>) -> ChainError {
390        ChainError {
391            attempts,
392            chain_len: self.providers.len(),
393        }
394    }
395}
396
397/// What one provider did with the request.
398enum ProviderOutcome {
399    Served(Served),
400    Failed { attempt: Attempt, advance: bool },
401}
402
403impl ProviderOutcome {
404    /// A provider skipped because it was already demoted.
405    ///
406    /// The recorded reason is replayed through [`should_failover`] exactly as a
407    /// live failure would be, so a remembered 401 stops the chain here and a
408    /// remembered 500 advances it. Deciding otherwise would let a bad key be
409    /// routed around on every file after the first.
410    fn demoted(index: usize, provider: &Provider, err: &LlmError) -> Self {
411        ProviderOutcome::Failed {
412            advance: should_failover(err),
413            attempt: Attempt::new(index, provider, err.clone(), true),
414        }
415    }
416}
417
418/// Try one provider: cache, demotion check, limiter, request.
419///
420/// A free function rather than a method because it reads no chain state — all
421/// of it now lives on the `Provider` it is handed.
422async fn try_provider(
423    index: usize,
424    provider: &Provider,
425    system_prompt: &str,
426    user_content: &str,
427    cache: &Cache,
428    consult_cache: bool,
429) -> ProviderOutcome {
430    // The key is computed here, from *this* provider's model, and the `Served`
431    // carries it back so the caller cannot file the answer under a different
432    // provider's key. A cache hit precedes demotion because it spends no
433    // backend request and remains the preferred provider's own verdict.
434    let key = provider.cache_key(cache, system_prompt, user_content);
435    if consult_cache && let Some(served) = cached_for(index, provider, &key, cache) {
436        return ProviderOutcome::Served(served);
437    }
438
439    // Already down: report what it said the first time rather than paying the
440    // SDK's backoff schedule to be told again.
441    if let Some(err) = provider.down_reason() {
442        return ProviderOutcome::demoted(index, provider, err);
443    }
444
445    // The slot is held for the request and released on every exit path,
446    // failover included. The cache hit above never takes one: the slot
447    // represents in-flight backend work, and a cache read is not in flight.
448    let guard = provider.limiter.acquire().await;
449
450    // Re-check after waiting. Files are analyzed concurrently, so the check
451    // above can only stop files that had not yet started; everything already
452    // queued on this provider's limiter passed it before the first failure
453    // landed. Without this second look, forty-nine files queued against a dead
454    // endpoint each pay the SDK's full retry schedule anyway, and sticky
455    // demotion saves nothing in the one case it exists for. With it, the waste
456    // is bounded by `max_concurrent` rather than by the number of files.
457    if let Some(err) = provider.down_reason() {
458        drop(guard);
459        return ProviderOutcome::demoted(index, provider, err);
460    }
461
462    let outcome = provider
463        .backend
464        .complete_json(system_prompt, user_content)
465        .await;
466    drop(guard);
467
468    match outcome {
469        Ok(extracted) => {
470            provider.record_served();
471            ProviderOutcome::Served(Served {
472                provider: index,
473                key,
474                extracted,
475                from_cache: false,
476            })
477        }
478        Err(err) => {
479            if is_sticky(&err) {
480                provider.mark_down(err.clone());
481            }
482            ProviderOutcome::Failed {
483                advance: should_failover(&err),
484                attempt: Attempt::new(index, provider, err, false),
485            }
486        }
487    }
488}
489
490/// Build the one canonical cache-hit result, including served accounting.
491fn cached_for(index: usize, provider: &Provider, key: &CacheKey, cache: &Cache) -> Option<Served> {
492    let value = cache.get(key)?;
493    provider.record_served();
494    Some(Served {
495        provider: index,
496        key: key.clone(),
497        extracted: Extracted::Complete(value),
498        from_cache: true,
499    })
500}
501
502#[cfg(test)]
503mod tests;