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Closes #1201
Part of #1191

Summary

Every error envelope now answers two questions without the prose: was I charged? and what do I do next?

  • GFlowError gains three RFC 9457 extension members, emitted by to_problem_details() (so CLI --json, MCP _gflow_error_dict, the worker queue and the structured log all get them from one place):
    • charged: no | maybe | yes
    • next_action: retry | retry_after | wait | reauth | fix_input | reconcile | none
    • operation_id: emitted only when set
  • Every class in EXIT_CODE_MAP declares its own charged and next_action (a table test fails for a class that inherits instead of deciding). charged: no is used only where the class proves nothing was submitted.
  • Raise sites can override all three through the constructor (the FlowApiError legacy branch forwards them too).
  • retryable is unchanged and always agrees with next_action (retryable is true exactly for retry / retry_after). next_action is resolved against is_retryable() at emit time, so the existing per-instance flips agree as well: retryable=True reCAPTCHA sites, retryable=False agent-only and post-submit sites, and client.py's post-construction exc.retryable = False. A flip away from retry reads reconcile when the class says Flow may have billed, otherwise none.
  • The issue's own override: a non-retryable MediaDownloadError (every such site is a finished, billed clip, MediaDownloadError: decide its retry flag and whether an HTTP-error signed URL should raise it (from #898) #941) reads charged: yes, next_action: reconcile, with the media id as operation_id. The free recovery read (gflow data download / gflow_download_media) keeps no / retry.
  • Hand-built envelopes carry the members too: CLI unexpected_payload, MCP _masked_unexpected_dict, the worker's unknown-error branch (maybe / none), and all four gflow_auth_status error branches (charged: no, a credit-free probe).
  • New docs/ERRORS.md: every member, the value meanings, and every type URI with its exit code and defaults (a test fails when a type is missing or a row disagrees with the code). Linked from docs/INDEX.md, docs/MCP.md and docs/USAGE.md, and mirrored to the website with a nav entry. CHANGELOG [Unreleased] updated.

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Tests

  • tests/test_problem_details_extensions.py: per-class defaults table over EXIT_CODE_MAP, retryable/next_action agreement over every GFlowError subclass x retryable in {None, True, False}, a post-construction flip, raise-site overrides, the billed vs free MediaDownloadError, CLI and MCP envelopes carrying the same members, and the docs table matching the code.
  • Surface assertions added to tests/worker/test_daemon.py (typed and untyped queued failures) and tests/mcp/test_auth_status_tool.py. The pinned masked envelope in tests/mcp/test_telemetry_hook.py gains the two members.

Gates (local, final tree after the review fixes)

Gate Result
check_repo_hygiene.py pass
check_doc_links.py pass
check_website_docs_pii.py pass
generate_website_docs.py --check pass
check_council_memory.py pass
generate_plugin_skills.py --check pass
ruff check src tests pass
ruff format --check src tests pass
pyright src 0 errors
pytest -m "not live and not e2e and not smoke" -n 8 --dist worksteal --cov 6393 passed, 30 skipped, 93% coverage (run with UV_LINK_MODE=copy, which this machine needs for the wheel-install tests)

Review

Two independent reviews (code-review and ponytail-review) were addressed in 55c299cc. Each behaviour change got a failing test first (28 red for the expected reasons, then green).

Fixed

  1. Failed asset write after generation. storage.write_asset_async's ConfigurationError now reads maybe / reconcile. The asset is in the Flow project.

  2. Chain errors after billed links. Any GFlowError raised after at least one completed link now reads yes / reconcile / retryable: false, whatever its class.

  3. video extend --output render failure. A render that fails after billed segments reads yes / reconcile, and its hint points at the free re-render, gflow scene create --output.

  4. ChainPartialError. It reads yes only when it carries completed links; otherwise maybe.

  5. MediaAttributionError. The default is now maybe, not yes.

  6. Hand-built envelopes. All of these now carry charged / next_action / retryable through one helper, errors.outcome_members, so retryable cannot disagree with next_action:

    • MCP: _bad_param (all call sites), no-profile, no-default-profile, missing profile directory, the masked unexpected error, and the gflow_auth_status branches
    • the task_payload fallback and the cancel-before-run record
    • the worker's unknown-error branch, indeterminate-outcome and daemon-recovery

    One test walks the builders.

  7. Missing URIs in docs/ERRORS.md. It now lists the nine hand-built URIs. The doc tests compare every row (exit, charged, next_action) with what the code emits.

  8. Result-shaped failures. I added the fields rather than narrowing the doc. video t2v/i2v/r2v failures, both video extend paths and the partial video chain document now carry charged / next_action. No follow-up issue was needed.

  9. Sites that submitted nothing. These now read no: the migrated extend editor guard (none), the /about landing (reauth), and both balance-read FlowAppErrors (the /about one reads reauth).

  10. retry with charged: maybe.

    • The labs video poll timeout after submit now reads reconcile, with the media id as operation_id.
    • The scene-render poll timeout reads charged: no.
    • docs/ERRORS.md now says exactly what retry with maybe means: every known post-submit site is overridden to reconcile, so a retry that reaches the caller comes from a site gflow treats as before the submit.
  11. Silent inheritance. Every GFlowError subclass now declares its own defaults, and the test covers all subclasses, not just the mapped ones. ProfileLockedError reads wait; BatchPartialError and BatchIntegrityError read no / reconcile.

  12. A test that could not fail. A new test checks that each class's declared next_action agrees with RETRYABLE_ERRORS. The resolver cannot hide a bad declaration from it.

  13. Constructors that reject the overrides. I corrected the doc instead of widening seven constructors: those classes have the attribute set after construction, which is what the chain and extend fixes do.

  14. retry_after. RateLimitError emits a retry_after member when it has one and next_action is retry_after. Doc row added.

  15. docs/MCP.md. The paragraph no longer splits the "Everything else is terminal" sentence. The website mirror is regenerated.

Not done

  • No dedicated tests for two of the overrides. The two balance-read overrides (chore(deps): bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 3 to 7 #9) are a one-keyword change on each raise and have no test of their own; driving credits offline needs a fake page plus an RPC reply. The scene-render poll timeout also has no dedicated test.
  • Open question, not done as instructed: should RETRYABLE_ERRORS, the class next_action and the instance retryable collapse into one source? Today the declaration test and the emit-time resolver keep them consistent.

CI status

  • Known failure, fixed by the separate tz PR: tests/test_telemetry_notice.py::test_consent_region_from_iana_timezone[Atlantic/Faeroe-False]. Ubuntu 24.04's tzdata 2026e moved legacy links into tzdata-legacy. The same failure appears on a develop-identical docs PR (docs(roadmap): replace the v0.9–v0.11 roadmap with current themes #1207). It is the only failing test.
  • SonarCloud: zero new issues and zero hotspots. The S3358 smell is fixed in 30907c0f. new_coverage reads 0% only because the test jobs failed on the tz test and uploaded no coverage. Locally, coverage is 93%.

E2E scope

This change touches no Flow surface. It adds members to the error envelopes and changes no transport, selector or request, so there is no e2e test to run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Error responses across CLI JSON, MCP tools, and queued tasks now indicate whether a request may have incurred a charge and what action to take next. Responses may also include an operation ID.
    • Partial video-generation failures provide clearer billing status and reconciliation guidance.
  • Documentation

    • Added a reference explaining error fields, retry guidance, charge status, and exit codes, with links from the usage and MCP guides.

…m details

Every error envelope (CLI --json, MCP results, worker queue) now says whether
Flow may have billed the failed operation and what a caller should do next.
Each class in EXIT_CODE_MAP declares its own defaults; raise sites may
override them. next_action is reconciled with is_retryable at emit time, so
the two never disagree, including after a post-construction retryable flip.
A non-retryable MediaDownloadError (a billed clip, #941) reads charged: yes,
next_action: reconcile, with its media id as operation_id.

docs/ERRORS.md lists every type URI, its exit code and these defaults; a
test keeps the table in step with the code.

Closes #1201
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Walkthrough

The change adds charge status, next action, optional operation identifiers, and rate-limit delays to error representations. It assigns defaults and raise-site overrides across CLI, MCP, worker, and video paths, adds regression tests, and documents the fields and error defaults.

Changes: Standardized error outcomes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and resolve error outcomes
src/gflow_cli/errors.py, tests/test_problem_details_extensions.py
Error classes gain charge and next-action defaults. Problem-details output resolves those fields against retryability and includes an operation ID or rate-limit delay when applicable. Tests check defaults, overrides, serialization, and documented error rows.
Propagate outcomes through CLI operations
src/gflow_cli/api/*, src/gflow_cli/chain.py, src/gflow_cli/cli_video.py, src/gflow_cli/json_output.py, src/gflow_cli/storage.py, tests/cli/*, tests/test_charged_surfaces.py
API, chain, video, and storage paths add outcome metadata for timeouts, partial completion, and failed results. Regression tests check the generated errors and JSON fields.
Add outcomes to MCP and worker errors
src/gflow_cli/mcp/*, src/gflow_cli/worker/*, tests/mcp/*, tests/worker/*
MCP and worker error payloads add outcome metadata for authentication, task cancellation and recovery, and unexpected failures. Tests check the response fields.
Document the error envelope
CHANGELOG.md, docs/ERRORS.md, docs/INDEX.md, docs/MCP.md, docs/USAGE.md, website/docs/ERRORS.md, website/docs/MCP.md, website/docs/USAGE.md, website/mkdocs.yml
The changelog and documentation describe the envelope fields, defaults, error types, and CLI, MCP, and worker cases. The website navigation adds an Error envelope entry.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 1191 — The tracking issue includes the requested error-outcome fields and documentation, which this change adds.
  • Issue 1159 — The change marks non-retryable billed media-download errors as charged and recommends reconciliation.
  • Issue 1202 — The new reference documents the current exit-code map, but this change does not implement the proposed stable-code migration.
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 55c29

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Review follow-up for #1201:

- Billed paths no longer read charged: no. A failed asset write, any chain
  error after a completed link, and an extend render failure after billed
  segments read reconcile; ChainPartialError reads yes only with completed
  links; MediaAttributionError defaults to maybe.
- Sites that provably submitted nothing read no (the extend editor guard,
  the /about landing as reauth, both balance reads); the labs poll timeout
  after submit reads reconcile with the media id.
- Every GFlowError subclass declares its own defaults (ProfileLockedError
  is wait, the batch errors reconcile), and class defaults must agree with
  RETRYABLE_ERRORS.
- Hand-built MCP and worker envelopes, the task fallback and the
  cancel-before-run record carry charged, next_action and retryable through
  one helper; result-shaped --json failures carry charged and next_action.
- RateLimitError emits retry_after; docs/ERRORS.md lists the hand-built
  URIs and tests compare its rows to what the code emits; the MCP.md
  paragraph no longer splits a sentence.

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Explicit retryable can contradict next_action in the stored state.

If a raise site passes both retryable=True and a non-retry next_action (or the reverse), the constructor stores both. resolved_next_action() repairs the output at emit time, so the envelopes agree. The repair rewrites the explicit next_action in silence. A site such as read_credits passes next_action="reauth" with retryable=False, which is consistent. A future inconsistent call would lose its action without any signal.

Consider asserting or logging the conflict in __init__. This is optional because the emit-time reconciliation already protects the contract.


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CodeRabbit triage (review on 55c299cc):

  • errors.py 182-190, "explicit retryable can contradict next_action in the stored state": declined. The emitted envelope cannot disagree: resolved_next_action() reconciles the two at emit time, and the tests check that over every class with retryable set to None, True and False, and after a post-construction flip. No raise site passes a conflicting pair today. An assert in __init__ would turn that mistake into a crash on an error path, which loses the original error. A log line would add noise for a state the output already corrects.
  • Pre-merge "Linked Issues" (keep Flow's own error in detail on the migrated status-record path): out of scope. That is migrated video: a failed generation reports a bare 'status 4' and drops Flow's error #1111, a Flow-surface change (parsing the jwpduf status record). This PR does not close it and the body says so.
  • Pre-merge "Docstring Coverage": not acted on. It is advisory. The new public helpers (outcome_members, resolved_next_action) have docstrings, and the remaining misses are private test helpers.

… every queue record

Defects found reviewing the stacked #1214, all in #1201 code:

- video extend: a run that spent credits reads charged: yes even when no
  segment finished, and carries the submitted segment's media id as
  operation_id (run_extend_chain stamps it on a failed poll).
- video extend --output: the whole render step after billed segments is
  covered (scene read-back, concat inputs, render), and its hint is a
  runnable `gflow scene create --project <id> <clip refs> --output <path>`.
- worker: a video Flow reports failed reads maybe/reconcile with its media
  id, the same as CLI video_result.
- labs t2v/i2v poll: the post-submit deadline raises TransportTimeoutError
  (maybe/reconcile, media id) instead of a builtin TimeoutError that
  surfaced as an unclassified error.
- video chain: an untyped error after billed links is wrapped in
  ChainPartialError, which lists completed_media_ids; a typed one carries
  the last completed link as operation_id.
- queue: a cancel before submit reads `none` at any pre-submit phase; the
  cancelled, indeterminate and daemon-recovery records carry a type URI and
  no invented HTTP status.
…e is fixable

CodeRabbit follow-ups on bf242f7:

- chain: a later link's error keeps its own operation_id (an in-flight
  poll timeout names the link being generated); only an error with none
  gets the last completed link's id.
- storage: write_asset_async takes charged/next_action (default
  maybe/reconcile for an asset Flow made); concatenate_scene passes
  no/fix_input, since a scene render spends nothing.
- labs poll docstring names the TransportTimeoutError it now raises.
…ne database

Ubuntu 24.04's tzdata 2026e moves backward links (Atlantic/Faeroe, Portugal,
Eire, Iceland, Poland) into tzdata-legacy, which the CI runners do not install.
ZoneInfo then refuses the alias, consent_region() fails closed, and the
Atlantic/Faeroe row (expected False) went red on every PR, develop included;
the three legacy rows expecting True passed for the wrong reason.

The mapping test now stubs the zone lookup, so every row checks the
name-to-region mapping on any machine. A separate test pins the fail-closed
behaviour for an alias the installed zone database cannot load.

(cherry picked from commit 9f356c9)
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CI note: this branch now carries a cherry-pick (-x) of #1215's test-only commit 9f356c9d. CI on every PR, develop included, was failing on test_consent_region_from_iana_timezone[Atlantic/Faeroe-False], because Ubuntu 24.04's tzdata 2026e moved legacy zone links into tzdata-legacy. That failure also left SonarCloud's new-code coverage at 0%. The commit is identical to #1215's, so git drops it as a duplicate when #1215 merges first.

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