agent_loop: make truncated-empty recovery clock-aware, same-cap-first, and bounded by sanil-23 · Pull Request #341 · tinyhumansai/tinyagents

sanil-23 · 2026-10-08T06:17:54Z

A call that returns length with no text and no tool call ("dead") was retried once at a
doubled cap, then nudged once, and if the nudge died too the loop surfaced the blank and the
host closed the turn. Three days of Terminal-Bench 2.0 runs on a hosted reasoning model
(deepseek-v4.1-flash, high effort) showed where that loses:

One 13-minute turn spent ten minutes in four dead calls (58 s at 16k, 123 s at 32k, then
151 s and 182 s at the 65k ceiling) at only 6k of context, ran its last commands with the
shell clamped to one or two seconds, and ended with nothing written.
A turn whose single nudge also died closed at 524 s of an 1800 s budget, deliverable
unwritten, 21 minutes unused.
Most dead calls are a long think the model does not repeat: in one run five of seven were
followed by a live call of about 3k tokens, so the doubled cap was never needed, and once
raised it made every later dead call cost 136–160 s instead of 31 s.
Some are a step that genuinely no longer fits (23k tokens after a 16k death).

The recovery now reads the dead call (its duration and output tokens give the rate this
model emits at here) and the run's clock, and:

retries first at the same cap; growth (doubled, clamped at 4x) waits for a second death
at that cap, so the default truncated_empty_retries becomes 2;
skips a retry that cannot grow the cap or that would run past half the remaining wall
clock at that rate, emits truncated_empty_retry_skipped with the reason, and pins the
cap for the nudge to what the clock affords (never below the original);
keeps nudging while the clock has room for another bounded call, halving the cap each
time down to 2048 and at most six times, with a repeat nudge that names the new limit.
The cap is the one limit on deliberation these providers honour.

Runs without a clock keep today's single nudge; the per-turn reset of the raised cap is
unchanged. ResponseTurn carries the call's start time so the recovery can measure it.

Measured on the same tasks after the change: a run that still died at every cap cost 465 s
and $0.16 instead of 1480 s and $0.91 for the same non-result; another kept all five dead
calls at the base cap (424 s instead of 683 s) and got its deliverable written.

Tests: the first retry keeps the cap; the second raises it and the next turn is back at the
per-turn cap; at the ceiling the dead call is nudged, not retried; a 400 ms dead call with
600 ms of a 1 s run left is nudged at once at the original cap; nudges repeat at halving
caps while the clock allows and stop at six; without a clock the count stays 1 + 2 + 1.
2288 harness tests pass.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Bug Fixes
- Improved recovery from empty responses cut off by the output limit. The first retry keeps the original limit; a later retry can increase it, up to four times the original.
- Retries now account for remaining run time and may be skipped when there isn’t enough time. When possible, the system adjusts the output limit or asks for a brief response or one action.
New Features
- The default allowance for retries after these responses is now two.

…first, and bounded A call that returns `length` with no text and no tool call ("dead") was retried once at a doubled cap, then nudged once, and if the nudge died too the loop surfaced the blank and the host closed the turn. Three days of Terminal-Bench 2.0 runs on a hosted reasoning model (deepseek-v4.1-flash, high effort) showed where that loses: - One 13-minute turn spent ten minutes in four dead calls (58 s at 16k, 123 s at 32k, then 151 s and 182 s at the 65k ceiling) at only 6k of context, ran its last commands with the shell clamped to one or two seconds, and ended with nothing written. - A turn whose single nudge also died closed at 524 s of an 1800 s budget, deliverable unwritten, 21 minutes unused. - Most dead calls are a long think the model does not repeat: in one run five of seven were followed by a live call of about 3k tokens, so the doubled cap was never needed, and once raised it made every later dead call cost 136–160 s instead of 31 s. - Some are a step that genuinely no longer fits (23k tokens after a 16k death). The recovery now reads the dead call (its duration and output tokens give the rate this model emits at here) and the run's clock, and: 1. retries first at the same cap; growth (doubled, clamped at 4x) waits for a second death at that cap, so the default `truncated_empty_retries` becomes 2; 2. skips a retry that cannot grow the cap or that would run past half the remaining wall clock at that rate, emits `truncated_empty_retry_skipped` with the reason, and pins the cap for the nudge to what the clock affords (never below the original); 3. keeps nudging while the clock has room for another bounded call, halving the cap each time down to 2048 and at most six times, with a repeat nudge that names the new limit. The cap is the one limit on deliberation these providers honour. Runs without a clock keep today's single nudge; the per-turn reset of the raised cap is unchanged. `ResponseTurn` carries the call's start time so the recovery can measure it. Measured on the same tasks after the change: a run that still died at every cap cost 465 s and $0.16 instead of 1480 s and $0.91 for the same non-result; another kept all five dead calls at the base cap (424 s instead of 683 s) and got its deliverable written. Tests: the first retry keeps the cap; the second raises it and the next turn is back at the per-turn cap; at the ceiling the dead call is nudged, not retried; a 400 ms dead call with 600 ms of a 1 s run left is nudged at once at the original cap; nudges repeat at halving caps while the clock allows and stop at six; without a clock the count stays 1 + 2 + 1. 2288 harness tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/mod_tests.rs
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/response_recovery.rs
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery_tests.rs

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Walkthrough

Truncated-empty recovery now plans retries and nudges using call duration, output tokens, token caps, and remaining wall-clock time. The default retry count is two. Tests cover retry caps, skipped retries, and repeated nudges.

Changes

Truncated response recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry plan and cap policy `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/types.rs`, `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs`, `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/runtime/types.rs`	`ResponseTurn` records the model-call start time. `TurnRecovery` plans retries using call duration, token counts, remaining time, and token caps. The first retry keeps the current cap; later retries can double it up to four times the original cap. The default retry count changes from one to two.
Retry, nudge, and validation `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs`, `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/response_recovery.rs`, `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/mod_tests.rs`, `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/lifecycle_tests.rs`, `crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery_tests.rs`	The run loop passes the call start time into response recovery. Recovery uses retry plans to retry or skip truncated-empty responses and can issue additional nudges within clock, call, and nudge limits. Tests cover retry caps, timing-based skips, and nudge behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Model
  participant run_loop_body
  participant response_recovery
  participant TurnRecovery
  Model->>run_loop_body: returns response and call start time
  run_loop_body->>response_recovery: passes ResponseTurn
  response_recovery->>TurnRecovery: builds retry plan
  TurnRecovery-->>response_recovery: returns retry plan and token cap
  response_recovery->>Model: retries or sends a truncation nudge

Suggested reviewers: senamakel

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 81cfe

Recovery can return a blank response without its allowed nudge, or retry beyond its intended time allowance. Fix these clock-aware recovery paths before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 81cfe

Clock-aware recovery can issue additional external requests even when automatic recovery is explicitly disabled. Existing call and time limits contain the impact, but the opt-out no longer reliably controls execution.

Retained concerns

Medium · security · observed: Clock-driven nudges bypass the configured nudge allowance, including the explicit recovery opt-out. With both recovery counts set to zero, a clocked, token-capped run can still schedule up to six clock-driven nudges when affordability and remaining-call checks pass. This permits additional external requests and continuation despite the caller's documented no-reissue policy. Global call limits and ordinary execution controls remain intact.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The demonstrated exposure is per invocation using a clock and a configured output cap: unexpected additional provider requests and continuation opportunities within the run's existing tool surface. Recovery counters are local to that invocation, while the global model-call allowance bounds total continuation. No cross-tenant or credential-boundary expansion is established by the inspected source.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

observed — A qualifying provider response reaches the clock-only branch independently of the configured nudge allowance. Thus both recovery counts can be zero while a nudge is still scheduled, violating the documented no-reissue contract and allowing further billable requests. The source establishes this control bypass; deliberate induction through malicious task input was not demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Recovery-scheduled calls return through the normal loop's cancellation, pending-control, deadline, and model-call checks. These retained controls limit the policy regression; the clock-only branch does not bypass them.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Retry growth is clamped at four times the original cap. Repeat and clock-only nudges reduce the cap toward 2048 without increasing an already smaller cap. The clock-driven extension stops at six nudges, although a caller-configured larger policy allowance can permit more. The existing zero-policy test covers an unclocked invocation and does not counter the clocked opt-out regression.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Preserve zero recovery counts as a hard opt-out. If continuation beyond the configured nudge allowance is desired, expose a separate explicit authorization while retaining the existing call, clock, and tool controls.

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tinysweeper · 2026-10-08T06:22:39Z

Tiny Sweeper review

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State: Ready for maintainer review
Priority: medium
Reviewed head: 0749cb99c1f5
Updated: 1791462230 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface	Files	Review signal	Count
Production	5	Active findings	3
Tests	3	Noted findings	0
Documentation	0	Resolved findings	51
Configuration	0	Pending checks/questions	0

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: Test coverage is assessed from changed tests and lane evidence; execution is not claimed without trusted check data.

What changed

No supported behavioral explanation was produced.

Features

Modified — Default truncated_empty_retries raised to 2: RunPolicy::default now permits two retries (three attempts total): one at the same cap and one with room, matching the new same-cap-first policy. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/runtime/types.rs#impl Default for RunPolicy {, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/runtime/types.rs#pub struct RunPolicy {)
Internal refactor — started_at_ms threaded through ResponseTurn: ResponseTurn now carries the start time of the model call, letting recovery compute the dead call's duration and estimate what a retry or nudge would cost at the observed rate. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/types.rs#pub(super) struct ResponseTurn<'a> {, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs#impl<State: Send + Sync, Ctx: Send + Sync> AgentHarness<State, Ctx> {)

Tests

addition — Clock-budget nudge bounds: nudge_cap clamped to the affordable cap, rejection when even the minimum cap exceeds the clock budget, uncapped nudges using the dead call duration as their estimate, and clock-scaled retry estimates without usage data: Unit tests directly exercise the TruncatedRetryPlan bounds introduced in this revision, including the affordable-cap and minimum-cap cases earlier findings were about. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery_tests.rs#fn boost_leaves_an_unset_cap_unset() {)

Findings

medium · critique · Enforce the clock nudge limit on policy-allowed nudges — `TRUNCATED_CLOCK_NUDGE_LIMIT` is checked only inside `clock_allows_another_nudge`. If `policy.truncated_empty_nudges` is greater than 6 and each nudge continues to fit the clock, t (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/turn\_recovery\.rs)
medium · critique · Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry — When a capped call exhausts its retry budget, `truncated_empty_retries_used` is already positive but `truncated_empty_nudges_used` becomes only `1`. Unless the retry was skipped fo (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/response\_recovery\.rs:344)
medium · critique · Enforce the clock-only nudge limit in the scheduling condition — `clock_allows_another_nudge` includes the `TRUNCATED_CLOCK_NUDGE_LIMIT` check, but it is ORed with the policy branch. When the configured policy allows more nudges than the clock-o (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/response\_recovery\.rs:330)

Resolved this pass

Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Do not return a cap that exceeds the clock budget
Bound clock-only nudges before scheduling them
Do not let the minimum cap exceed the affordable budget
Bound nudges by the affordable cap
Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Enable the nudge required by this clock-budget test

Before merge

None.

How this fits together

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Agent review details

critique

Conclusion: Success
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Lane summary: Reviewed 3 files; 3 findings. _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/turn\_recovery\.rs — Enforce the clock nudge limit on policy-allowed nudges
Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/response\_recovery\.rs — Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry
Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/response\_recovery\.rs — Enforce the clock-only nudge limit in the scheduling condition

security

Conclusion: Success
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Lane summary: Reviewed 3 files; 0 findings. _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

tests

Conclusion: Success
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Positive: The tests and description lanes report that all previously active findings (cap exceeding the clock budget, minimum cap over budget, unbounded clock-only nudges, cap reduction after a capped retry) are now addressed and covered by tests that would fail on regression.
Lane summary: The revision replaces the unconditional double-the-cap retry with a TruncatedRetryPlan that keeps the first retry at the same cap, grows only on a second death, and yields to the wall clock — all of the earlier findings (cap exceeding the clock budget, minimum cap over budget, bounding clock-only nudges, reducing the cap after a capped retry) are now addressed and covered by unit tests in turn_recovery_tests.rs plus end-to-end tests in mod_tests.rs covering the ceiling, the clock share, repeated nudges, and the nudge limit. The default retry count change to 2 is documented and every behavioural path introduced here has a test that would fail on regression. The change looks sound and safe to merge. _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

commits

Conclusion: Neutral
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

Conclusion: Success
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Lane summary: The clock-aware truncated-empty recovery now behaves as described: the first retry keeps the cap, growth waits for a second death, retries and nudges are bounded by the remaining wall clock, the nudge cap is clamped to what the clock affords with a floor check, and ceiling retries are skipped with a reason. The earlier findings about caps exceeding the clock budget and unbounded clock-only nudges are addressed by `nudge_cap`/`affordable_cap` clamping and the `TRUNCATED_CLOCK_NUDGE_LIMIT`, with tests covering each case. The change looks sound; I found no new problems. _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

e2e

Conclusion: Neutral
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.

Evidence and run details

Models: gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
Spend: $0.046889
Tokens: 491720 input · 27753 output · 48344 cached · 0 embedding

Head	State	Pass summary
`4e888e77fb98`	ready for maintainer review	3 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1791440773)
`99fe331c5d6d`	ready for maintainer review	4 active finding(s), 24 resolved finding(s) (at 1791458721)
`81cfe8d21b18`	changes requested	1 active finding(s), 32 resolved finding(s) (at 1791460552)
`f3f013703e12`	ready for maintainer review	1 active finding(s), 46 resolved finding(s) (at 1791461886)
`0749cb99c1f5`	ready for maintainer review	3 active finding(s), 51 resolved finding(s) (at 1791462230)

tinysweeper

tinysweeper found nothing blocking. Approving.

             $0.0206 · 431,078 in / 28,961 out · 33,109 cached (8%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash, deepseek-v4-flash
critique:    $0.0113 · 198,122 in / 13,042 out · 15,360 cached (8%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
security:    $0.0085 · 154,427 in / 6,608 out  · 14,421 cached (9%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0004 · 48,237 in  / 5,945 out  · 1,856 cached (4%)  · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0001 · 15,134 in  / 244 out    · 1,472 cached (10%) · glm-5.3-flash

Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

The truncated-empty nudge gate no longer requires a prior nudge to have been used, so a clock-driven retry can proceed on its own. When that clock-only path is taken, the halved cap is now applied to the repeat attempt as well, keeping the retry budget consistent with the nudge that triggered it. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

Extend the recovery-pop lifecycle test with another truncated empty reply so the retraction path is exercised across three consecutive blank responses, and update the expected retraction count to match. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

tinysweeper

tinysweeper found nothing blocking. Approving.

             $0.0446 · 479,871 in / 29,046 out · 113,955 cached (24%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
critique:    $0.0247 · 231,918 in / 15,769 out · 57,602 cached (25%)  · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
security:    $0.0195 · 200,476 in / 9,426 out  · 54,689 cached (27%)  · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0001 · 15,799 in  / 849 out    · 1,536 cached (10%)   · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0001 · 15,970 in  / 537 out    · 0 cached (0%)        · glm-5.3-flash

…e_recovery.rs,crates/tinyagents Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

Add tests asserting that the nudge cap is clamped to the affordable cap when the remaining clock budget is smaller than the requested cap, and that nudging is rejected outright when even the minimum cap exceeds the remaining budget. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

Reformatted the policy_nudge_fits closure chain onto fewer lines to satisfy rustfmt line width. No behaviour change. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

The remaining-time budget in the nudge cap clamping test was raised from three to six seconds so the clock-affordable cap no longer clamps below the configured base, letting the test exercise the intended branch. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

Raise the scripted cap to 4096 tokens so the dead call's 400 ms estimate exceeds half the remaining clock and the loop skips the retry, then asserts the nudge runs at 2048 tokens. The previous 2048-token setup no longer exercised the skip path. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

The nudge cap now computes the affordable token budget inline from the remaining time and token rate, and only applies it when it meets the minimum of the halved cap and the nudge floor. Previously the affordable cap was consulted separately, which could return a cap below the floor or skip the nudge entirely. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

The wall clock retry test now explicitly disables truncated-empty nudges in its run policy, so the test exercises the clock yield path without interference from the nudge behaviour. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

Reformatted the affordable token computation onto a single line to satisfy rustfmt line-width rules. No behaviour change. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

tinysweeper

Requesting changes: 1 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is critical.

Fix or reply to the findings below and push. The next review clears this automatically once they are gone — you should not need to dismiss anything by hand.

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description: $0.0001 · 16,873 in  / 1,218 out  · 1,408 cached (8%)   · glm-5.3-flash

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🟡 Minor · Scale the fallback estimate with the candidate cap. · turn_recovery.rs:80-105

crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs:80-105
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Scale the fallback estimate with the candidate cap.

When output_tokens is zero, expected_ms() uses only dead_ms, even when next is greater than current. The second retry can therefore pass fits_clock() although a cap-scaled estimate exceeds half of the remaining clock.

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         match (self.ms_per_token(), self.next) {
             (Some(rate), Some(next)) => (rate * next as f64) as u64,
-            _ => self.dead_ms,
+            _ => match (self.current, self.next) {
+                (Some(current), Some(next)) if current > 0 => self
+                    .dead_ms
+                    .saturating_mul(u64::from(next))
+                    / u64::from(current),
+                _ => self.dead_ms,
+            },
         }

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Review comment at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs
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Update the fallback in expected_ms to scale dead_ms by next relative to current
when both caps are available and current is nonzero, using saturating
arithmetic; otherwise retain dead_ms. This ensures fits_clock evaluates retries
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Review comments at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs:
- Around line 162-167: Update `another_nudge_fits()` so an uncapped call can
pass the cap check when `self.current` is `None`, using `dead_ms` as its time
estimate while preserving the remaining-clock limit; add a test with a clock set
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Review comments at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs:
- Around line 80-105: Update the fallback in expected_ms to scale dead_ms by
next relative to current when both caps are available and current is nonzero,
using saturating arithmetic; otherwise retain dead_ms. This ensures fits_clock
evaluates retries against the candidate cap.

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crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/mod_tests.rs
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/response_recovery.rs
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery.rs
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/turn_recovery_tests.rs

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Uncapped truncated calls were previously rejected outright because the nudge-fit check required a nudge cap, even when the previous call's duration left room for another attempt. The check now falls back to the dead call duration for uncapped calls while still rejecting capped calls with no affordable nudge cap. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

The repeat cap for truncated empty nudges now also applies when the truncated retry was skipped because the plan was not worth it, such as a clock-only retry. Previously such turns could keep nudging without the cap, so the recovery loop could repeat longer than intended. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

The truncated-retry skip check now calls fits_clock instead of worth_it, so the decision reflects whether the retry fits the remaining clock rather than a broader worthiness heuristic. fits_clock is widened to pub(super) to allow the call from the response recovery path. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

When no per-token rate is known but a current token count exists, the expected duration for the next retry is now extrapolated from the dead call's duration in proportion to the larger candidate cap, instead of falling back to the raw dead-call time. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

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critique:    $0.0171 · 138,986 in / 9,374 out  · 18,487 cached (13%) · gpt-5.6-luna
security:    $0.0170 · 152,232 in / 7,632 out  · 19,741 cached (13%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0003 · 36,092 in  / 3,553 out  · 1,536 cached (4%)   · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0002 · 17,537 in  / 1,304 out  · 1,408 cached (8%)   · glm-5.3-flash

When a truncated retry was skipped because the cap could not grow, the follow-up nudge reused the previous cap instead of the reduced one, so the fifth call could still ask for 8192 tokens. The nudge now detects that case and applies the plan's reduced cap, and the test asserts the new ceiling. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

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security:    $0.0164 · 138,556 in / 5,912 out  · 19,259 cached (14%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0001 · 17,455 in  / 750 out    · 0 cached (0%)       · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0001 · 17,661 in  / 512 out    · 1,408 cached (8%)   · glm-5.3-flash

tinysweeper · 2026-10-08T12:24:12Z

+            let retry_was_skipped_at_ceiling = truncated_retry
+                .as_ref()
+                .is_some_and(|plan| !plan.first_retry && !plan.cap_grows());
+            let repeat_cap = (turn_recovery.truncated_empty_nudges_used > 1


Reduce the cap on the first nudge after a capped retry

When a capped call exhausts its retry budget, truncated_empty_retries_used is already positive but truncated_empty_nudges_used becomes only 1. Unless the retry was skipped for the clock or at the ceiling, all conditions here are therefore false, so repeat_cap is None and the next nudge leaves boosted_max_tokens unchanged. For example, a capped call at 8,000 tokens can retry once at that cap, fail again, and then receive the generic nudge while the next call still has an 8,000-token limit. This contradicts the surrounding behavior, which says to halve the cap on each nudge, and allows the first nudged call to repeat the same long hidden-reasoning failure. Include the fact that a capped retry was consumed when deciding whether to apply nudge_cap.

[RULE] retry-cap-reduction ·

tinysweeper · 2026-10-08T12:24:12Z

+            .is_some_and(|plan| plan.remaining.is_none() || plan.another_nudge_fits());
        if truncated_empty
-            && turn_recovery.truncated_empty_nudges_used < self.policy.truncated_empty_nudges
+            && (turn_recovery.truncated_empty_nudges_used < self.policy.truncated_empty_nudges


Enforce the clock-only nudge limit in the scheduling condition

clock_allows_another_nudge includes the TRUNCATED_CLOCK_NUDGE_LIMIT check, but it is ORed with the policy branch. When the configured policy allows more nudges than the clock-only limit, the left side remains true even after the clock-only limit is reached, so policy_nudge_fits can schedule additional nudges. For example, with truncated_empty_nudges = 10, a capped call that repeatedly dies while the clock still has enough room can reach six nudges and continue scheduling more. Apply the clock limit to the combined condition, rather than only to the clock-only branch.

[RULE] bounded-retry-count ·

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