[huang195]

Problem

In praxis mode, when a client leaves before the response head, the gateway records a gateway_refused row. agentop then shows a gateway failure for a client that only stopped. Direct mode records client_canceled for the same case.

Found in the #1725 live check: a Claude Code process exited while the hop waited for the head of GET /mcp-registry/v0/servers. A user who stops a turn before the first token is probably the same case (median ttfbMs was 2–3 s in that run).

Cause

The code expected Praxis 0.8.0 to give status 499 for a client that left before the head. But when Praxis wrote nothing to the client, logging gives the hook session.response_written().map_or(0, …), so the status is 0 (praxis-proxy-protocol 0.8.0, handler/with_body.rs). downstream_gone is false, because no head came. So the row fell to the catch-all gateway_refused.

Change

• Exchange::deferred (praxis/filters/src/record/row.rs): status 0 gives client_canceled (499), as status 499 does. An upstream failure does not get status 0: Praxis writes it as 502.
• observe.rs: correct the comment that said "always 499".

Tests

• New unit test deferred_nothing_written_is_client_canceled. It failed before the fix (no status code, gateway_refused), and it passes now.
• cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings and cargo test --locked in praxis/: all pass.
• End to end, with scripts/dev/praxis-live-check.sh up praxis: 4 curl requests through the hop with --max-time 0.12–0.25 s, cut before the 401 head. Pingora logged 3 Fail to proxy (the other cut came before the hop). The store shows 3 rows 499 client_canceled and no gateway_refused.

Not checked

• The earlier --max-time 0.1–0.3 loop in the same check made 5 requests that got a 401 but left no inner /v1/messages row, only CONNECT rows. Later identical requests left rows. I did not find the cause, and this PR does not change it.

Size: 21 changed lines.

Part of #1725

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Deferred exchanges ending with status 0 are now recorded as client cancellations, consistent with client disconnects and downstream-gone cases. They include request and response records, report response status 499, and carry a client-gone error, making these canceled requests visible in exchange records.

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Walkthrough

Deferred exchanges with status 0 are now classified as client cancellations and recorded with status 499. A test checks the resulting rows and error. A comment documents the status-0 case.

Changes: Deferred exchange cancellation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Status-0 cancellation recording praxis/filters/src/filters/observe.rs, praxis/filters/src/record/row.rs	Exchange::deferred now treats status 0 as a client cancellation and records status 499 with the existing client_canceled error. The comment documents the status-0 case, and a test checks the request and response rows.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• Issue 1714 includes a live check that exposed the client-exit case addressed here.

Possibly related PRs

• rossoctl/cortex#1758: Introduced the Exchange::deferred row handling that this change updates.

Suggested reviewers: clawgenti

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to d59ab

Status-0 deferred exchanges are recorded as client cancellations. No merge-blocking issue was established.

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[clawgenti]

Summary

The fix is correct. In Praxis 0.8.0, logging passes session.response_written().map_or(0, …) to emit_deferred_records, so a client that leaves before anything is written reaches Exchange::deferred as status 0 with downstream_gone == false, and fell through to gateway_refused. Upstream failures before the head are still written as 502 by fail_to_proxy, so they do not collide with the new status-0 branch.

I checked this end to end against the real cortex-gateway binary, using throwaway tests in server/tests/gateway.rs with a slow mock origin. Each case ran on both base (ce71277) and head:

Case	base	head
GET, client shuts down before the head	status null, gateway_refused	499 client_canceled
Streaming POST /v1/messages (SSE origin), client leaves before the head	gateway_refused	499 client_canceled
Client drops the socket without a shutdown	gateway_refused	499 client_canceled
Client half-closes write and waits	gateway_refused	499 client_canceled
Client leaves, then the upstream closes	gateway_refused	499 client_canceled
Upstream closes before the head / connection refused	502 gateway_refused	502 gateway_refused (unchanged)
Client leaves mid request body (existing mid_body_abort_is_client_canceled)	499	499 (unchanged)

Locally cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -D warnings and cargo test --locked pass, including the new deferred_nothing_written_is_client_canceled. To run the gateway tests as root I had to add allow_root. With that, supervisor_gateway_yaml_serves was the only failure, because its golden config can't take that override. That is a sandbox limitation and not related to this PR.

I have one suggestion, which is optional: add a gateway-level regression test. I also have a comment-wrap nit.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Rust (praxis filters), tests
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CI status: passing (38 pass, 1 skipped)

[clawgenti]

suggestion: This unit test pins deferred(0, false, false). It does not pin the fact that Praxis actually reports status 0 here. That comes from with_body.rs in praxis-proxy-protocol 0.8.0, and the same assumption already broke once: the old comment said "always 499". A gateway test in server/tests/gateway.rs would catch a Praxis bump that changes it again. It fits the existing harness. Sketch (it passed on head and failed on base when I ran it):

#[test]
fn client_leaves_before_head_is_client_canceled() {
    let o = origin(|_, s| {
        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1500));
        respond(s, "200 OK", &[("Content-Type", "text/plain")], b"ok");
    });
    let i = ingest();
    let g = gateway(&o, &i, true);
    let mut s = g.connect();
    s.write_all(&head("GET", "/v1/models", &[("X-Cortex-Token", TOKEN)], 0))
        .expect("head");
    std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300));
    let _ = s.shutdown(Shutdown::Both);
    let lines = i.take(2);
    let resp = response_row(&lines);
    assert_eq!(resp["event"]["statusCode"], 499);
    assert_eq!(resp["event"]["error"]["kind"], "client_canceled");
}

[clawgenti]

nit: This line is now 109 columns and the rest of the block wraps near 80. rustfmt does not wrap comments, so it is worth rewrapping by hand.