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Documentation only. Recovers the #4546 follow-on roadmap, which was written during the delivery of #4580/#4589 and then stranded: both commits were made on a branch that was squash-merged, so the plan never reached dev.

It also records what the wp4 investigation found in the code, which changes the first implementation step:

handleResponses already owns a request-scoped transient-retry budget (src/server/responses/core.ts:7554-7560), and its own comment says it is declared there "so BOTH the initial send and the later recovery refetches share it." That is true for the adapter path. It is not true for the Codex passthrough legs at :5488, :5570, :5790 and :5885, which sit in an earlier scope in the same function and pass neither attempts nor onSendsConsumed — so each one takes the helper's fresh default of 3. The measured amplification (4 sends on a default Codex 5xx, 7 on 401-then-5xx, 12 across a three-target combo) comes from that gap rather than from a missing mechanism, which makes hoisting the existing owner the smallest first step instead of building a parallel one.

The plan was also corrected against two independent audit rounds, which failed an earlier draft and found four wrong claims in it:

  • The feat(providers): add opt-in transient-5xx retry with a shared total-send budget #2981 budget is not the opt-in part; transientRetryPolicyFor is. The helper itself is used unconditionally.
  • The same-request account resend is retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount, not applyFailureFailover, which only selects and promotes.
  • Continuation repair is already covered on the policy path; what escapes is empty-completion, rebuildAndRefetch, compact, generic OAuth hops, and the Kiro/Cursor adapter retries.
  • Retry-After is already shortened by local caps, so treating it as a lower bound is a behavior change to argue for rather than a gap to close.

Two consequences for the design are recorded: a flat ceiling of 3 sends would break today's working 3-same-account-plus-1-alternate recovery, so the two budgets must be separate; and removing the floor is three sites rather than one, because both retry helpers re-floor with Math.max(1, attempts) while continuation, the combo hop and 429 rebuildAndRefetch currently depend on that floor to make progress.

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    • Added a detailed implementation plan for applying shared send budgets across retries, failover, continuation, OAuth, passthrough, and adapter resend flows.
    • Documented separate same-account and cross-account limits, pool-wide retry caps, and explicit handling when budgets are exhausted.
    • Added verification requirements for exact upstream-send counts, including additional retry instrumentation.

Four claims were wrong: the #2981 helper is not the opt-in part and Codex passthrough gets a fresh allowance per leg; the same-request account resend is retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount, not applyFailureFailover; continuation repair is already covered on the policy path while empty-completion, rebuildAndRefetch, compact and generic OAuth hops are not; and Retry-After is already shortened by local caps, so treating it as a lower bound is a behavior change. A 3-send ceiling would also break the 3+1 recovery the plan measured.
…capes it

handleResponses already owns a request-scoped transient budget and documents itself as covering recovery refetches, but the Codex passthrough legs sit in an earlier scope and pass neither attempts nor onSendsConsumed, so each takes a fresh default of 3. That is the source of the measured 4/7/12, and hoisting the owner is the smallest first step.
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The pull request adds a design plan for one shared send budget across passthrough, retry, failover, continuation, combo, OAuth, and adapter resend paths. It also defines budget propagation, exhaustion behavior, account limits, retry-ratio limits, and verification.

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Shared send budget design
devlog/_plan/260914_cost_guard_stabilization/040_send_budget.md
The plan identifies retry amplification and budget-scope gaps. It specifies propagation through HandleResponsesOptions and AdapterFetchContext, decrementing across resend paths, explicit zero-budget refusal paths, same-account and cross-account limits, a pool-wide retry-ratio cap, and exact upstream-send-count verification.

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This PR only updates a planning document, so nothing in production changes today. However, the plan itself states two incompatible send-ceiling rules for the retry/failover budget, and following the wrong one in a future implementation could break the existing alternate-account recovery path. It is worth reconciling this contradiction (and the two smaller documentation gaps around staged enforcement and the pool-wide retry-ratio definition) before treating this roadmap as ready to implement from.

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Comment on lines +41 to +43
Measured today, per logical request: **4** sends on a default Codex 5xx (three
transient attempts plus one cross-account alternate), **7** when a 401 precedes the
5xx, and **12** across a three-target combo.

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P2 Badge Correct the 401-to-5xx send count

For the ordinary stored-Pool Codex path, a 401 causes one direct refresh replay at src/server/responses/core.ts:5674-5699; if that replay returns a 5xx, codex401ReplayKind === "stored" makes sameAccountOnly true at lines 5973-5984, so the alternate-account function refuses another send. That sequence therefore uses two physical sends, not seven. If seven describes a more specific reset/combo scenario, name those prerequisites rather than making 401-then-5xx the table-test expectation.

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always calls the helper with no `attempts` and no `onSendsConsumed`
(`src/server/responses/core.ts:5488, 5570, 5790, 5885`), so every recovery leg gets a

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P2 Badge Update the source anchors to match the reviewed tree

At this commit, these four fetchWithTransientRetry calls begin at core.ts:5495, :5577, :5797, and :5892, while the listed lines point to unrelated statements. Several later anchors are stale too: applyFailureFailover is at routing.ts:2332, the continuation budget use is at core.ts:8313, the floor is at core.ts:7560, and noteAttemptSend starts at request-log.ts:1316. Because this is explicitly a diff-level implementation plan, regenerate the anchors against the committed tree so implementers reach the claimed seams.

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Comment on lines +110 to +113
4. **The ceiling cannot be 3.** Today's own Codex 5xx recovery is 3 same-account plus
1 alternate, so a 3-send cap silently breaks a working path. Budget the
same-account attempts and the cross-account move separately, and treat 401-then-5xx
and multi-target combo as deliberate policy decisions rather than fallout.

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P2 Badge Reconcile the ceiling with the stated total-budget rule

When wp4 is implemented from this plan, this instruction permits three same-account sends plus an additional alternate send, contradicting the governing rule at lines 19-21 that caps the logical request at three total upstream sends. Separate counters do not resolve that invariant; they change the policy to four total sends. Specify whether the alternate must consume the total budget (for example, two same-account sends plus one move) or revise the rule and its planned tests to define the new four-send ceiling.

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이 PR은 코드가 아니라 문서만 고칩니다. 대상 파일은 하나뿐입니다.

현재 dev HEAD 849f3c9cc 에는 이미 devlog/_plan/260914_cost_guard_stabilization/040_send_budget.md 가 있습니다. 거기에는 Today / The rule / Evidence to add 까지만 있고, #4546 cost-guard 안의 wp4(보내기 예산)를 어떻게 구현할지에 대한 diff급 계획은 빠져 있습니다. 이 PR은 그 빠진 부분을 되살립니다. #4580/#4589 을 만들 때 적었던 로드맵이 squash-merge 된 브랜치에만 남아서 dev 에 안 들어온 상태를 복구하는 문서 PR입니다.

추가되는 ## Diff-level plan (wp4) 섹션은 조사 결과와 감사에서 틀린 네 가지 주장을 먼저 바로잡습니다.

첫째, #2981 이 만든 fetchWithTransientRetry (src/lib/upstream-retry.ts 약 400행) 자체는 호출마다 쓰는 공통 예산이고, 옵트인·키인증 제한은 transientRetryPolicyFor (src/providers/key-failover.ts 약 314행) 쪽에 있습니다. Codex passthrough 다리들(src/server/responses/core.ts 현재 HEAD 기준 약 5495·5577·5797·5892행)은 attempts / onSendsConsumed 없이 헬퍼를 부르므로, 다리마다 기본값 3이 새로 잡힙니다. 문서가 말하는 4/7/12 배율은 그 구멍에서 나옵니다.

둘째, 같은 요청 안의 계정 재전송은 applyFailureFailover (src/codex/routing.ts 현재 약 2332행, 선택·승격만)이 아니라 retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount (core.ts 현재 약 1431행)이고, 그 함수는 fetchWithHeaderTimeout 을 직접 부릅니다. 측정값의 +1 alternate가 여기입니다.

셋째, continuation 수리 경로는 이미 remainingTransientSendBudget 을 씁니다. 빠져나가는 쪽은 empty-completion, rebuildAndRefetch, compact, 일반 OAuth hop, Kiro/Cursor 어댑터 재시도입니다. 넷째, Retry-After 는 이미 로컬 상한으로 짧아지므로, 하한으로 취급하는 것은 메울 구멍이 아니라 행동 변경입니다.

그래서 0번 단계가 handleResponses 안에 이미 있는 요청 범위 예산 주인(core.ts 약 7554–7560행, 주석에도 initial send와 recovery refetch가 공유한다고 적혀 있음)을 passthrough 다리까지 끌어올리는 것으로 바뀝니다. 새 메커니즘을 또 만드는 것보다 작습니다. 같은 계정 3번 + 교차 계정 1번 모양을 깨지 않으려면 평평한 3-send 천장도 안 되고, 바닥(Math.max(1, …)) 제거는 upstream-retry.ts 두 헬퍼와 continuation/combo/429 경로까지 세 군데를 같이 손봐야 한다는 점도 문서에 적혀 있습니다.

현재 dev 방향과도 맞습니다. HEAD는 #4592 로 live-binding affinity 관측을 닫은 뒤이고, cost-guard 스택(#4580/#4581/#4589) 다음으로 남아 있던 보내기 예산(wp4) 로드맵을 dev 에 다시 붙이는 일입니다. types.ts/config.ts 분리 캠페인과 겹치지 않고, 소스·테스트는 안 바꿉니다.

라인 문서 본문 - 인용 줄번호가 현재 HEAD보다 조금 앞에 있습니다. 예: passthrough 5488/5570/5790/5885 → 실제 약 5495/5577/5797/5892, retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount 1645 → 약 1431, applyFailureFailover 2260 → 약 2332, noteAttemptSend 1310 → 약 1316. 심볼·경로·동작 주장은 맞지만, 구현 PR이 이 숫자를 그대로 복사하면 빗나갑니다.
경로/040_send_budget.md - 문서만 추가이고 CI/로컬 스위트는 의도적으로 안 돌렸습니다. 문서 PR로는 괜찮지만, 다음에 오는 구현 PR은 문서가 요구하는 send-count 표 테스트를 처음부터 달아야 합니다.
경로/src/adapters/kiro-retry.ts·src/adapters/cursor/transport-retry.ts - 문서도 인정하듯 이 안쪽 재시도는 noteAttemptSend 가 한 번만 올라가서 지금도 세기가 안 보입니다. 검증 순서를 적을 때 '먼저 계측 → 그다음 표 테스트'를 더 뚜렷이 하면 후속 작업이 덜 헷갈립니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 줄번호 드리프트를 이 PR에서 고칠지, 아니면 바로 이어질 구현 PR이 HEAD를 다시 읽고 고칠지.
  • wp4 구현을 2.55.0 릴리스 전에 넣을지, 문서만 dev 에 먼저 심고 구현은 2.56.0 쪽으로 미룰지.
  • 평평한 3-send 천장 대신 same-account / cross-account 예산을 나누는 기본값을 문서의 측정(4/7/12) 그대로 잠글지.

너의 추천
문서만이고 #4546 cost-guard 다음 단계(wp4)의 주인·구멍·순서를 dev 에 되살리는 내용이라 병합을 추천합니다. 병합 직후나 바로 이어질 구현 브랜치에서 인용 줄번호만 HEAD에 맞춰 고치면 됩니다. types/config 분리와 무관하고, 중복 PR도 아닙니다. 소스 변경은 이 PR 범위 밖입니다.

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In `@devlog/_plan/260914_cost_guard_stabilization/040_send_budget.md`:
- Around line 110-113: Resolve the conflicting send-ceiling rules in the budget
plan: update or explicitly supersede the earlier three-total-send rule, then
state one final policy with separate same-account and cross-account limits,
including the required three same-account attempts plus one alternate-account
move.
- Around line 79-90: Update the staged budget plan to explicitly identify
hoisting the shared budget owner as an intermediate scope fix, not the final
total-send enforcement. State that step 3 must first make zero remaining budget
refuse further sends before the final ceiling can be enforced, while preserving
the current Math.max(1, budget - used) behavior during step 0.
- Around line 114-115: Expand the pool-wide retry-ratio cap in the budget plan
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Comment on lines +79 to +90
0. **Start by making the existing budget owner cover the passthrough.** `handleResponses`
already declares one at `src/server/responses/core.ts:7554-7560`, and its own comment says
it is declared there "so BOTH the initial send and the later recovery refetches share it."
That holds for the adapter path. It does **not** hold for the Codex passthrough legs at
`:5488`, `:5570`, `:5790` and `:5885`, which sit in an earlier scope in the same function
and pass neither `attempts` nor `onSendsConsumed` -- so each takes the helper's fresh
default of 3. The measured 4/7/12 come from that gap, not from a missing mechanism, which
makes hoisting the owner the smallest change that removes fresh-per-leg. It also preserves
the 3 same-account + 1 cross-account shape the audit warned a flat ceiling would break,
because the cross-account send goes through `retryCodexPoolOnAlternateAccount` and is not
a transient attempt at all. Keep the `Math.max(1, budget - used)` floor for this step: it
is what lets a later leg make progress, and removing it is step 3's separate problem.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

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Make the staged budget contract explicit.

Math.max(1, budget - used) still gives a later leg one attempt after the shared budget reaches zero. Step 0 removes the fresh-per-leg default, but it does not enforce the one-total-send rule at Line [19] through Line [21]. State that step 0 is an intermediate scope fix and make the zero-budget refusal in step 3 a prerequisite for the final ceiling.

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In `@devlog/_plan/260914_cost_guard_stabilization/040_send_budget.md` around lines
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Comment on lines +110 to +113
4. **The ceiling cannot be 3.** Today's own Codex 5xx recovery is 3 same-account plus
1 alternate, so a 3-send cap silently breaks a working path. Budget the
same-account attempts and the cross-account move separately, and treat 401-then-5xx
and multi-target combo as deliberate policy decisions rather than fallout.

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Resolve the conflicting send ceilings.

Line [20] and Line [21] define at most three total sends, including one cross-account move. This section states that the current path needs three same-account sends plus one alternate and requires separate limits. These are incompatible implementation contracts. Replace the earlier rule or mark it superseded, then state the final same-account and cross-account limits once.

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In `@devlog/_plan/260914_cost_guard_stabilization/040_send_budget.md` around lines
110 - 113, Resolve the conflicting send-ceiling rules in the budget plan: update
or explicitly supersede the earlier three-total-send rule, then state one final
policy with separate same-account and cross-account limits, including the
required three same-account attempts plus one alternate-account move.

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Comment on lines +114 to +115
5. **A pool-wide retry ratio cap** above the per-request budget, because per-request
limits alone do not prevent a retry storm.

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Define the pool-wide retry-ratio contract.

The plan names a cap but does not define its numerator, denominator, time window, pool or account scope, or action at the limit. The verification section checks per-request send counts only, so it cannot prove this cross-request control. Add the formula, scope, refusal behavior, and a multi-request overload test.

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In `@devlog/_plan/260914_cost_guard_stabilization/040_send_budget.md` around lines
114 - 115, Expand the pool-wide retry-ratio cap in the budget plan by defining
its numerator, denominator, measurement window, pool/account scope, and refusal
behavior at the limit. Update the verification section to include a
multi-request overload test that demonstrates the cross-request cap, rather than
checking only per-request send counts.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr.

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lidge-jun merged commit 99678c1 into dev Sep 14, 2026
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lidge-jun deleted the codex/260914-cost-guard-roadmap branch September 14, 2026 07:35
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