retry_after_s never had a written definition, so each backend improvised
and they drifted apart. It now answers exactly one question: how long
until a retry is *certainly* worth attempting. OPEN has such a moment
(the cooldown deadline); HALF_OPEN does not, because the probe can come
back at any time -- so it reports 0.0, which already means "retry now"
elsewhere in the library.
Six exits are brought in line. The half-open rejection is the one issue
14 reported: it returned the probe lease remainder, a deadlock-guard
value derived from 2x the slowest timeout, so a 60s cooldown told
callers to wait 600s. Worse, retry.py fed that number into the source
cooldown memo, whose set_until only moves forward -- a source stayed
skipped in-process for the whole lease even after its probe succeeded
and the gate closed. That now writes an already-expired deadline, so
the memo goes back to recording only real OPEN cooldowns.
The other five were pre-existing memory/redis divergences hidden by a
contract-test blind spot (the suite pinned that a second caller gets
rejected, never what number it got): redis reported the probe TTL on
grant and the lease remainder on fenced-out writes, where memory has
always reported 0. Contract cases now pin all four half-open exits on
both backends, with 1:1 real-wait variants for redis since the
fake-clock ones skip there.
The gate check forced operators to guess a per-call token size before
they could enable the TPM gate at all; est_tokens is now an optional
tuning override and effective_est_tokens() derives the reservation from
the provider quota. Reservation and settlement already read the same
derived value, so the deposit still nets to zero on both the success
path and the non-dead transient failure path.
The rest of _validate_gates is untouched, and the est_tokens field plus
its EST_TOKENS env key stay put for migration compatibility.
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.
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.
Includes config aggregation for multi-source env keys, from_env and
from_settings factories with explicit shared-backend injection,
gather_bounded, top-level exports, tightened import-linter layers with
the gate removed from the Makefile, and the finalized .env.example.
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