VT migration abandoned (v1.0 scope becomes two projects), Q1 resolved
to Gitea PyPI, Q6 resolved as judge exemption (unwired zero-consumer
eval scaffolding), migration docs annotated with implementation errata,
and the reference/ read-only rule clarified for the worktree workflow.
The fixture used to DROP the shared llm_calls table on every run, wiping
concurrent migration-batch telemetry (and its own count assertion was
polluted in return). Assertions now filter by a per-run call_id prefix
and teardown deletes only its own rows.
AIMD ceiling now respects per-source max_concurrency and the pacer is
assembled explicitly in the client; MIN_CALLS parses as strict int;
acceptance doc corrects source-5 attempt count to 549; design and
migration notes aligned with implemented 429/stall/suppression
semantics and AIMD constants documented.
Round 8 forensics caught the healthy source circuit-opened by five
random empty completions (~20% ambient failure rate makes a 5-streak
land every ~3000 attempts), blacking out the only good source for 60s.
When the window holds min_calls samples below the failure-rate
threshold, a streak is noise and no longer opens the gate; cold-start
and low-traffic semantics are unchanged and sudden death of a warm
source is still caught by the rate channel.
Round 6 hit account-level rate throttling the concurrency AIMD cannot
absorb: at 26 req/min the gateway still returned 16% 429s and each one
burned a third of the retry budget. Retry-After-guided 429s now back
off without consuming attempts (gRPC pushback semantics); the retry
loop gains a per-call ceiling using the same dual-condition stall
verdict as quota-wait (local window exceeded AND no global progress).
Round 5 left three residual failure classes; ladder exhaustion (3.2%
of structured calls with a single re-ask) and 429 leakage (5.8%, AIMD
oscillating above the sustainable point) are addressable: re-ask
default goes 1 to 2 (conservative vs instructor's 3) and the AIMD cut
factor drops to 0.5.
Round 4 showed tail placement routes the third attempt to junk sources
whenever the credible alternative is gate-skipped (tight-RPM source
admitted as credible, then skipped by the limiter, falling through to
the flapping watchdog source). Demoted sources now sit between credible
and non-credible candidates.
Round 3 showed unconditional yield-after-two-failures pushes the third
attempt onto known-bad sources in heterogeneous pools (83% vs 10%
expected success). OutcomeAwareSelector now exposes health(); a failed
source only yields when some untried candidate scores at least half its
health. Health-blind selectors keep the unconditional rule.
P6 round 2 showed routing convergence turns account-level 429s into
the binding constraint (62% throttle rate at full concurrency). Each
source now carries a local AIMD limit: multiplicative cut on 429,
additive growth on success. Over-limit picks queue via the existing
quota-wait poll instead of burning retry budget or tripping the
circuit-open verdict.
RetryMW keeps a per-call failure map (local, never instance state):
a source failing twice in one call yields to the next candidate.
Attempt outcomes feed OutcomeAwareSelector behind a swallow-and-warn
guard; ResultInvalid and provider-rejected paths record success with
count_attempt=False so the breaker window stays clean. Same accounting
applied in EmbeddingClient.
Score is success-rate EWMA over (1 + inflight) with a 0.05 exploration
floor so quarantined sources can prove recovery; EWMA climb doubles as
slow-start. New optional OutcomeAwareSelector port feeds attempt
outcomes.
Dual-channel opening: consecutive failures (CHS-compatible, no streak
bump) plus windowed failure rate (two 30s buckets, min_calls guard).
429s bypass both channels as backpressure, and a probe hitting 429
releases instead of holding the lease. Open duration doubles per
rate/probe reopen up to max_cooldown_s, decaying after stable CLOSED.
record_success gains count_attempt so bad-result successes stay out of
the window.
Threshold auto-raise now uses per-source concurrency only (the M2
global-concurrency formula neutered the breaker at scale). Four new
optional keys: MIN_CALLS, FAIL_RATE, WINDOW_S, MAX_COOLDOWN_S.
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