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fix(combo): fallback on provider moderation refusal - #8428
When a provider or gateway rejects an input prompt via content moderation filters (e.g. HTTP 400 with The input was refused by moderation. Categories: harassment. or error codes like moderation_refusal / content_filter), the proxy previously classified the response as a generic invalid_request_error and halted combo execution (comboFailureDecision returns "stop"). In heterogeneous combo routing, moderation filter policies are provider/model-specific; when one provider's filter rejects a prompt, the request should fall back to alternate targets in the combo. Furthermore, the refusing target must not receive cooldown (comboFailureCooldownScope returns "none") because moderation refusals are request-specific and not evidence of target unhealthiness.
Add isProviderModerationRefusal(status, message, code) to src/combos/failover.ts.
Recognize moderation refusal phrases (refused by moderation, blocked by moderation, flagged by moderation, content management policy, or error codes moderation_refusal / content_filter).
Preserve strict terminal boundaries: cyber policy refusals, origin rejections, and non-replayable codes take precedence and remain hard terminal stops.
Return "none" in comboFailureCooldownScope for provider moderation refusals.
Return "hop" in comboFailureDecision so combos fail over to backup targets.
Harden against reflected parameter values in validation errors, allow explicit moderation codes with empty/absent messages, normalize hard codes case-insensitively, check wrappers for hard-stop codes, and fail closed on malformed JSON.
Add support for indexed content parameter paths (input[0].content, messages[0].content, messages[1].content[0].text).
Direct moderation verdicts after validation prefixes hop to alternate providers.
Multi-event SSE bodies reject unparsed notes and fail closed.
Mixed-code hard stops (root upstream_no_response with nested moderation, or moderation wrapper around inner hard code) outrank moderation evidence and stop.
Restrict malformed/truncated JSON recovery to error/response envelopes, validate parameters before unwrapping messages, and fail closed when wrapper limit is exhausted on unexamined structured text.
Prioritize authoritative error / response envelope over root message in truncated JSON recovery, and scope explicit moderation code parameter override specifically to the error object.
Add comprehensive test coverage in tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts.
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bun test tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts: 115 pass, 0 fail (post-merge with upstream/dev dfc54804e).
bun test tests/combos/ tests/routing/combo-terminal-refusal.test.ts tests/server/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts: 214 pass, 0 fail.
bun run typecheck: no type errors across 2,384 files (post-merge).
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Provider content-moderation refusals now move requests to the next configured provider without temporarily marking the refusing provider unavailable.
Supported moderation messages and response formats are recognized for HTTP 400 and 422 responses, including cases with an explicit moderation code and no message.
Generic request errors, cyber-policy refusals, and other excluded error types retain their existing handling and are not treated as moderation refusals.
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The failover module now identifies provider moderation refusals in HTTP 400 and 422 responses. These refusals hop to another combo target without cooldown. Tests cover recognized refusals, excluded hard-stop codes, malformed payloads, and generic 400 errors.
Adds a classifier for selected status codes, refusal codes, message phrases, and bounded provider-error or single-line SSE JSON wrappers. It rejects malformed or conflicting content, unsupported parameter values, and excluded hard-stop codes.
Apply and test refusal routing src/combos/failover.ts, tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts
Recognized moderation refusals use cooldown scope "none" and failure decision "hop". The failure decision normalizes the supplied code for existing hard-stop checks. Tests cover recognized refusals and terminal cases.
lidge-jun/opencodex#7965 asks for provider error classification during combo failover. This change classifies moderation refusals and keeps specified hard-stop codes terminal, but does not add the typed exhausted-combo diagnostic described in the issue.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review f4ae8
Some unusually structured provider validation errors can trigger unnecessary retries on alternate targets. The remaining risk is bounded; merging warrants owner awareness or targeted fixes.
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Review comments at @src/combos/failover.ts:
- Around line 673-675: Normalize the response code before the failover checks in
comboFailureDecision and isProviderModerationRefusal, so hard codes such as
CYBER_POLICY remain detectable even when they appear beyond the 500-character
classification limit. Add a regression test covering a truncated 422 response
with moderation wording and verify the prompt is not sent to another target.
- Around line 650-654: Update the moderation matching logic in the failover
error classification so quoted or reflected parameter values such as “blocked by
moderation” do not count as moderation-verdict evidence. Require evidence from
the error that distinguishes an actual moderation refusal from reflected input,
while preserving validation errors for normal error handling.
- Line 727: Update normalizeUpstreamErrorText and its namesModerationRefusal
fallback so malformed JSON-shaped text and exhausted wrapper parsing cannot be
classified as moderation refusals; preserve moderation detection for plain-text
responses.
- Around line 703-705: Update the 400/422 handling in the failover flow to check
every parsed wrapper for hard-code signals, including upstream_no_response,
before peeling the wrapper or accepting moderation wording as a reason to hop.
Preserve the behavior that avoids switching targets while the first target may
still be executing.
- Line 670: Update the failover error-recognition guard so an explicit
content_filter moderation code is recognized even when its message is empty or
absent, while retaining the message-length limit and rejecting other
message-less errors. Add regression coverage for a zero-output streaming
content_filter error without a message and verify that an available alternate
target is tried.
Review comments at @tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts:
- Around line 773-776: Update the moderation-code tests around
isProviderModerationRefusal, comboFailureDecision, and comboFailureCooldownScope
to verify embedded-code parsing without a separate code argument. Add JSON-body
and single-line SSE cases with neutral messages, and assert that each is
classified as a moderation refusal, hops, and has no cooldown scope.
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Review comments at @src/combos/failover.ts:
- Around line 712-713: Classify moderation using the intact, bounded response
envelope before truncating the error body; otherwise, a long JSON body may fail
parsing and incorrectly trigger refusal instead of trying an alternate. Update
the response-classification flow around the `text.startsWith` and `wasParsed`
checks, preserving the existing hard-stop and reflected-input checks.
- Around line 712-713: Update the moderation classifier near the `wasParsed`
check to recognize plain-text moderation messages after peeling a provider error
wrapper, including when the original response was JSON. Preserve the existing
hard-code and reflected-validation checks, and keep rejecting unrelated JSON or
array content.
- Around line 758-759: Update the response-body check near the
namesModerationRefusal call in failover handling to reject unparsed bodies
beginning with the SSE data: prefix before phrase matching, while preserving the
existing parsed, JSON, and array checks; add a regression test showing that a
diagnostic note in a multi-event SSE body does not trigger a combo hop without
cooldown.
- Around line 650-653: Update the error-message classification around the
“validation error” and “cannot contain” checks to recognize an explicit
moderation verdict after a validation prefix, such as a prompt being blocked,
and route it to the alternate-provider path. Distinguish that direct verdict
from validation errors that merely reflect invalid input values, which should
retain their existing rejection behavior.
- Around line 738-739: Update the e.param validation check in the failover
moderation-refusal path to recognize indexed content paths such as
input[0].content and messages[0].content, so these errors can trigger an
alternate attempt. Preserve the existing reflected-validation checks and
rejection of unrelated parameter paths.
Review comments at @tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts:
- Around line 798-810: Extend the mixed-code regression cases near
isProviderModerationRefusal and comboFailureDecision to cover 422 JSON and
single-line SSE with a root upstream_no_response code plus nested moderation
evidence, and a moderation-coded wrapper around an inner hard code. Assert each
case is not classified as a provider moderation refusal and yields a "stop"
decision.
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Review comments at @src/combos/failover.ts:
- Around line 727-737: Restrict malformed-response recovery in the message
extraction block to an authoritative error.message within the error envelope,
rather than matching any message field such as diagnostic.message. Honor the
error’s param when determining whether the refusal applies; if the authoritative
message or required param cannot be recovered reliably, fail closed instead of
treating the response as a moderation refusal.
- Around line 798-799: Update the classifier around moderationCodeSeen and the
structured-text checks so exhausting the wrapper limit fails closed: do not
grant a combo hop when structured text remains unexamined, even if an outer
moderation code was seen. Add a regression test for the JSON message wrappers
that conceal upstream_no_response.
- Around line 732-735: Update the malformed moderation-message branch around
namesModerationRefusal to check retained hard-code signatures, including
upstream_no_response, before allowing a failover hop; a matching non-replayable
signature must prevent the hop even when the body also contains a moderation
message. Add a regression test for this malformed 422 envelope.
- Around line 770-776: Move the `e.param` validation ahead of the `e.message`
unwrapping branch: return false for a nonempty parameter that
`isAllowedModerationParam` rejects before updating `text` or continuing to
another target.
Review comments at @tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts:
- Around line 931-934: Extend the moderation truncation test to pass a 400
response whose metadata pushes the refusal message beyond the production cutoff
through consumeComboFailure, then assert that routing hops without applying
cooldown. Keep the existing direct classification assertions if they remain
useful.
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Owner decision on lidge-jun#8428 after nine review rounds: a denylist over prose
did not converge, so the hop now needs structured evidence. A body hops
only when a moderation_refusal or content_filter code states the verdict
(the caller's or one in the body), every other code and type anywhere in
the body is on a short compatible list, no unrelated param appears off
the coded record, and the existing vetoes (root verdict codes, hard
tokens in any spelling, safety and terminal copy, malformed
response_format, subscription gate, a specific classifyError verdict)
see nothing. Prose alone never hops, so the quote tracker, verdict
phrases and truncated-envelope recovery are removed. Tests that expected
prose-only hops now assert the terminal decision and the coded hop.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
…flight envelopes
Final-review follow-ups on the structured-only design: the responses
stream preflight and the Messages native preflight judged a moderation
refusal on the whole SSE event, then rebuilt a slim error envelope that
dropped the root code or innererror, so the combo loop reclassified it as
a plain stop (or a 5xx with target cooldown). When the whole event states
a moderation verdict, the rebuilt response now carries the event as combo
failure evidence, and the native preflight treats that verdict as the
request-level 400 it is. Transport parity tests cover both paths.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
Final-review follow-ups on the structured-only design:
- Safety-system wording in its common upstream phrasings (rejected by or
as a result of a safety system, for safety reasons, considered high
risk) vetoes a coded moderation hop, beyond the three exact copies
safetyRefusalCodeFromMessage names.
- The Messages native preflight reads a moderation verdict as a 400 only
when the event states no status (or 400/422); a frame that states 429 or
503 keeps the record mapping and its target cooldown, as dev did, and
carries moderation evidence only on a 400/422.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
… envelopes
Final-review follow-ups:
- The responses stream preflight attaches the whole frame as combo failure
evidence whenever either the frame or its rebuilt slim envelope reads as
a moderation verdict, so a veto the envelope dropped (a root verdict, a
nested cyber_policy) is judged by the loop instead of turning into a hop.
- The Messages native preflight reads the event's own status with the
responses preflight's parser (status, status_code, http_status, numeric
or string); a framed non-400/422 status is never a moderation refusal,
even when the record type maps to 400.
- structure/ names all four whole-body judges.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
…verdict
A response.failed frame names itself in its root type, which the
structured-verdict walk read as an incompatible verdict, so a genuine
coded refusal hopped over HTTP and bare error frames but stopped over
response.failed once the whole frame was attached. The root response.*
type is skipped as the carrier label. The verdict size bound now matches
the 64 KiB body readers.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
…on verdict
Final-review follow-ups, applied in the shared verdict so every carrier
agrees:
- A stated status/status_code/http_status other than 400/422 anywhere in
the body vetoes a moderation hop, so an HTTP body that says 429 keeps
dev's stop and target cooldown like the stream and native readers.
- Verdict-like keys beyond code/type (error_code, error_type, reason,
kind, category) must be compatible, and safety or policy flags
(safety_violation, blocked, policy_violation) veto, except inside
Azure's per-category content-filter results.
- A status-less coded stream frame reads as the 400 the other readers
judge it as, so it keeps the no-cool verdict.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
….failed verdicts as 400
Final-review follow-ups:
- Billing, quota and account-state wording (credit balance, quota,
payment required, insufficient funds, suspended account, rate limit)
and the shared quota and Anthropic billing detectors veto a coded
moderation hop, so that provider evidence keeps its cooldown.
- A structured moderation verdict in a response.failed frame with no
stated status is the 400 the HTTP and native readers judge it as,
replacing the log tap's synthetic 502, so it hops without cooling on
every carrier.
Co-authored-by: Omar <13569609+omar391@users.noreply.github.com>
…verdict keys
A content_filter code beside a parameter error, a missing model or an inactive
account hopped with no cooldown, though dev stopped and cooled those bodies.
Every prose field beside the code must now describe the moderation refusal.
Account, organization and API-key state wording and flags veto the hop, and
status and verdict keys are compared folded so httpStatus and errorCode count.
Value. Worth landing. When a gateway's own moderation filter refuses a prompt with a structured verdict (moderation_refusal, or Azure content_filter with innererror) on HTTP 400/422, the combo can now try the next target instead of ending the turn, and the refusing target is not cooled, because the refusal is about the prompt on that provider and says nothing about the provider's health.
Scope (owner decision). The hop is granted on structured evidence only. Prose alone never hops. Anything else in the body keeps dev's decision and cooldown. That includes root verdict codes, hard-refusal tokens in any spelling, safety or terminal-refusal copy, quota, billing or account-state evidence, a stated non-400/422 status, a param outside prompt/input, and parameter or model errors next to the code. HTTP, the Responses stream preflight, the Messages native preflight and policy fallback judge the same whole body, so they agree.
UX change. A combo user whose first target's gateway filter refuses a prompt may now get an answer from the next declared target instead of a 400. A refused prompt therefore reaches another provider the user already listed in the combo. This is documented in guides/combos.md (en/ko/ja/zh-cn) and in structure/providers-and-adapters.md. Model-side terminal refusals (invalid_prompt, content_policy_violation, cyber/bio policy) still stop.
Existing users. No regression expected. Single-target routes and non-combo traffic are unchanged. Every body that dev stops and cools still stops and cools unless its only evidence is a structured moderation verdict. The narrowing review rounds compared this against dev's classifier on adversarial bodies.
Windows. None. This is pure classification logic with no file, process or path handling.
…of a response.failed carrier
Prose beside a content_filter code under keys other than message (hint, note,
metadata.raw) still hopped without cooling, though dev stopped those bodies.
Every prose string in the body must now describe the moderation refusal.
A real response.failed event carries the whole response object, whose tools
and text format have their own type fields; the verdict walk read them as
incompatible codes, so a genuine coded refusal on that carrier stopped. The
walk now reads only the response object's error record.
… only
The previous commit read only the error record of a response.failed response
object, so a stated status, a safety flag or unrelated prose elsewhere on that
object no longer vetoed the no-cool hop. The walk now reads the whole response
object except the fields that echo the caller's request (instructions, tools,
text, reasoning, input, output, metadata...).
…and response metadata
Four bodies that dev stops and cools still hopped without cooling:
- a param outside the prompt/input paths on the record that carries the
moderation code (param "temperature");
- prose inside array items (details: ["The model gpt-9 does not exist"]);
- one prose field that mixes moderation wording with other evidence
("Refused by moderation. Your account is past due.");
- evidence inside a response.failed frame's response.metadata.
Params are now checked on every record, array strings are prose like any
other field, each clause of a prose string must name the refusal or be a
known follow-up (categories, change the prompt and retry, documentation),
and response.metadata is read.
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Summary
When a provider or gateway rejects an input prompt via content moderation filters (e.g. HTTP 400 with
The input was refused by moderation. Categories: harassment.or error codes likemoderation_refusal/content_filter), the proxy previously classified the response as a genericinvalid_request_errorand halted combo execution (comboFailureDecisionreturns"stop"). In heterogeneous combo routing, moderation filter policies are provider/model-specific; when one provider's filter rejects a prompt, the request should fall back to alternate targets in the combo. Furthermore, the refusing target must not receive cooldown (comboFailureCooldownScopereturns"none") because moderation refusals are request-specific and not evidence of target unhealthiness.isProviderModerationRefusal(status, message, code)tosrc/combos/failover.ts.refused by moderation,blocked by moderation,flagged by moderation,content management policy, or error codesmoderation_refusal/content_filter)."none"incomboFailureCooldownScopefor provider moderation refusals."hop"incomboFailureDecisionso combos fail over to backup targets.input[0].content,messages[0].content,messages[1].content[0].text).upstream_no_responsewith nested moderation, or moderation wrapper around inner hard code) outrank moderation evidence and stop.error/responseenvelope over root message in truncated JSON recovery, and scope explicit moderation code parameter override specifically to the error object.tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts.Verification
bun test tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts: 115 pass, 0 fail (post-merge with upstream/devdfc54804e).bun test tests/combos/ tests/routing/combo-terminal-refusal.test.ts tests/server/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts: 214 pass, 0 fail.bun run typecheck: no type errors across 2,384 files (post-merge).bun run structure:check: SSOT checks passed.bun run privacy:scan: passed.opencodex-patchand proxyGET /healthz.Review readiness checklist
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