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feat(errors): send a stable code with every refusal a client acts on - #1984
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A caller that maps refusals today matches detail text, which a release may reword. Each refusal a caller acts on now carries Otari-Error-Code (budget_exceeded, user_blocked, user_not_found, rate_limited, upstream_rate_limited, invalid_model, model_not_allowed). A budget refusal also names the scope that refused (Otari-Budget-Scope), and a rate_limits refusal names its rule (Otari-Rate-Limit-Rule).
…events Otari-Error-Code reached a client only as a header, which a proxy may drop and an SDK may not surface, and a failure after a stream had started had no headers left to carry it. The code is now also "code" in the error body, and "error.code" in the Chat Completions and Responses stream error event. Two refusals gain codes: context_length_exceeded, for a prompt any-llm classified as too long for the model, and pricing_required, for the 402 on an unpriced model.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe gateway adds stable refusal codes to selected HTTP responses and streamed error events. It covers budget, rate-limit, provider, model, and pricing refusals. The API reference and tests describe or verify the updated responses. ChangesStructured refusal codes
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Fallback budget refusals retain their code and scope, and post-start streaming refusals retain their available codes. No identified issue remains that should block merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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🟠 Major · Preserve the budget code when a fallback top-up fails. · _pipeline.py:1542
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the budget code when a fallback top-up fails.
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increase_reservationrefuses a fallback candidate’s larger estimate, it raises a coded budgetHTTPException. Line 1542 replaces that exception without its headers. The client receives the 403 but losesbudget_exceededandOtari-Budget-Scope. Copy the refusal headers into the replacement exception while keeping the fallback detail. Add a regression test for an exhausted fallback top-up.As per coding guidelines, “Each finding must name the file and line, show the reachable bad outcome, explain impact, and recommend a concrete fix. Require a regression test that fails before the fix.”
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- Line 1542: When replacing the exception from a refused fallback top-up,
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The failover path replaced the refusal with its own detail and dropped the headers, so a client lost budget_exceeded and Otari-Budget-Scope. Also type error_headers' extra headers and list every budget scope in the docs.
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Description
When Otari refuses a request, a client today can only tell why by reading the
detailtext, which a release may reword. This gives every refusal a client is expected to act on a stable code:budget_exceeded,user_blocked,user_not_found,rate_limited,upstream_rate_limited,invalid_model,model_not_allowed,context_length_exceededandpricing_required.The code travels three ways, so it survives whatever sits between Otari and the client:
Otari-Error-Coderesponse header;codein the error body, next todetail(a proxy may drop a header, and some SDKs only surface the body);error.codein the error event that ends a Chat Completions or Responses stream, where there are no headers left to carry it.Two refusals also say which limit refused: a budget refusal sends
Otari-Budget-Scope(userfor the user's own budget, otherwise the ceiling's scope), and arate_limitsrefusal sendsOtari-Rate-Limit-Rule. That is what lets a client such as MLPA tell a per-user budget from a shared one without matching text.Nothing changes for a refusal that has no code: its response is exactly what it was. This is the first piece split out of the MLPA pilot (#1981).
How to test it locally
request_limit: 1, a user on it and a key for that user, and send two chat completions. The second answers 403 withOtari-Error-Code: budget_exceeded,Otari-Budget-Scope: user, and{"detail": "...", "code": "budget_exceeded"}.invalid_model.{"detail": ...}body.Covered by
tests/unit/test_provider_error_classification.py(codes per failure, the stream event),tests/unit/test_rate_limit_rules.pyandtests/integration/test_rate_limit_rules.py(rule name and code on a 429),tests/integration/test_service_key_end_users.py(budget code, scope and body) andtests/integration/test_hybrid_mode_chat.py.PR Type
Relevant issues
Split out of #1981.
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tests/unit,tests/integration).make lint,make typecheck,make test).uv run python scripts/generate_openapi.py).ARCHITECTURE.mdorscripts/check_architecture.py, the description names the rule and says why.The spec is unchanged (
make openapi-checkpasses): the codes ride on error responses the spec does not describe. Locally I ranmake lint,make typecheck, the unit suite and the integration files above, not the full integration suite.AI Usage
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Summary
Added stable error codes for refusals that require client action. Responses include codes in the
Otari-Error-Codeheader and body. Stream-ending errors includeerror.code.Added budget-scope and rate-limit-rule headers to relevant refusals. Preserved budget-refusal headers during failover. Documented the codes and headers in the API reference, and updated tests for the new behavior.