Track equivalent classified failures across agent retries

[senamakel]

Summary

• Add an independent classified-failure ledger keyed by failure class, operation, and resource or permission scope.
• Count equivalent failures across intervening tool calls and clear only the observed blocker when it changes.
• Keep the existing exact-repeat API and ladder unchanged.

Verification

• cargo fmt --check
• cargo test -p tinyagents-harness no_progress --lib (25 passed)
• cargo clippy -p tinyagents-harness --lib -- -D warnings

API and behavior

ClassifiedFailureTracker::record takes a recovery budget and returns the existing NoProgress verdict. A zero budget halts on the first classified failure. clear requires the host to observe recovery for the same key. This is additive; no existing caller changes behavior.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added classified failure tracking that groups equivalent failures by category, operation, and scope.
  • Failure counts can be checked against a recovery budget, with tracking continuing within the budget and halting after it is exceeded.
  • Individual failure groups can be cleared, or all tracked counts reset. A group remains tracked until explicitly cleared.
  • The new tracking types are available through the harness’s public interface.

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Tiny Sweeper review

Adds `ClassifiedFailure` and `ClassifiedFailureTracker` to the no-progress module for tracking equivalent classified failures across agent retries with configurable recovery budgets. The change also updates re-exports in the crate root and module. No active findings; the earlier off-by-one concern in the recovery-budget logic is resolved.

State: Ready for maintainer review
Priority: none
Reviewed head: 30571ea37a17
Updated: 1790339976 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface	Files	Review signal	Count
Production	3	Active findings	0
Tests	0	Noted findings	0
Documentation	1	Resolved findings	3
Configuration	0	Pending checks/questions	0

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: No supported feature-to-test mapping was available; this does not mean tests are absent or passed.

What changed

New module `classified.rs` defines `ClassifiedFailure` (a key by class, operation, scope) and `ClassifiedFailureTracker` (an additive ledger with `record`, `clear`, `reset`). Both types are re-exported from `no_progress/mod.rs` and `lib.rs`. Existing public items remain unchanged.

Features

• Added — ClassifiedFailure: Provides a stable key for grouping equivalent failures by class, operation, and scope, independent of error prose or argument values. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/classified.rs)
• Added — ClassifiedFailureTracker: Counts equivalent failures across intervening tool calls; returns `NoProgress::Halt` when the count exceeds a per-key `recovery_budget`. Supports clearing a single blocker via `clear()` and resetting all counts via `reset()`. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/classified.rs)
• Modified — Re-export of new types: Makes `ClassifiedFailure` and `ClassifiedFailureTracker` publicly accessible from `tinyagents_harness` and `no_progress` modules. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/lib.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod.rs)

Tests

No supported feature-to-test mapping was produced. Test execution is not inferred.

Findings

No active actionable findings.

Resolved this pass

• Allow the configured recovery budget after the first failure
• Allow the configured recovery budget after the first failure
• Allow the configured recovery budget after the first failure

Before merge

None.

How this fits together

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critique

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Reviewed 2 files; 0 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `981e9fb9e238`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _3 memory call(s) failed (model: cortex: v1/answer: timed out after 20s), so this review saw part of what the engine holds._

security

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Positive: The recovery-budget off-by-one issue is fixed; a nonzero budget now correctly permits the configured number of retries after the initial failure.
• Lane summary: The recovery-budget off-by-one issue is fixed: a nonzero budget now permits the configured number of retries after the initial failure. The change looks safe to merge. 1 file was not security-reviewed: crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md (prose or tabular data). _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `981e9fb9e238`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _3 memory call(s) failed (model: cortex: v1/answer: timed out after 20s), so this review saw part of what the engine holds._

tests

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Adds `ClassifiedFailure` and `ClassifiedFailureTracker` to the no-progress module, providing a class-scoped failure escalation path with recovery budgets. Unit tests cover the core halt/clear logic and the zero-budget edge case. No behavioural regression introduced. (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `981e9fb9e238`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _3 memory call(s) failed (model: cortex: v1/answer: timed out after 20s), so this review saw part of what the engine holds._

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: Adds a `ClassifiedFailureTracker` that counts equivalent failures keyed by class, operation, and scope, with a recovery budget that correctly permits the configured number of retries before halting. No problems introduced. The earlier off-by-one concern is resolved in this implementation. Safe to merge.}, (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `981e9fb9e238`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _3 memory call(s) failed (model: cortex: v1/answer: timed out after 20s), so this review saw part of what the engine holds._

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: ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
• Spend: $0.006343
• Tokens: 139001 input · 9817 output · 12984 cached · 432 embedding

Head	State	Pass summary
13d1350fd202	ready for maintainer review	1 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1790339562)
30571ea37a17	ready for maintainer review	0 active finding(s), 3 resolved finding(s) (at 1790339976)

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The no-progress module adds ClassifiedFailure keys and a thread-safe ClassifiedFailureTracker. The tracker counts failures by key, applies a recovery budget, and provides methods to clear one key or reset all counts. Both types are publicly re-exported and documented.

Changes

Classified failure tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Failure keys and tracking crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/classified.rs	Adds failure keys based on class, operation, and scope. The tracker counts failures per key and returns Halt when the count exceeds the recovery budget. Tests cover interleaved keys, clearing a key, and a zero recovery budget.
Public exports and documentation crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/lib.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md	Re-exports ClassifiedFailure and ClassifiedFailureTracker and documents the tracker’s grouping, recovery-budget, and clearing behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 13d13

Document the new-turn reset so future drivers do not halt on stale failures. The documentation gap is bounded and does not currently block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 13d13

The new tracker is additive and is not shown affecting current production execution. Its main design risk is that future callers must identify blockers consistently and clear them only after observing recovery.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — If a caller shares one tracker across assets or identities, the caller's choice of scope determines which failures share a count. No production sharing pattern or independently attackable scope is established here.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The tracker accepts caller-defined key strings and budget values. Its documented recovery condition is not checked by clear, and reset unconditionally drops all counts.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — A mutex serializes individual record, clear, and reset operations; it does not make an external recovery observation and subsequent clear one atomic transition.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — When integrating the tracker, bind its lifetime and scope to the intended turn and identity, keep budgets stable for a key, and require a trusted recovery observation before clearing. If untrusted input can define keys, bound key cardinality and validate its provenance.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: tracking equivalent classified failures across agent retries.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 u…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md`:
- Around line 34-37: Update the README’s ClassifiedFailureTracker description to
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NoProgress::Halt does not reset this tracker; clarify that prior counts
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