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Fixes #2490

TASK-365. A refresh of #1215, which was gated in August and never merged. I did not force-push that branch — rewriting another seat's branch is destructive and my seat refuses it — so this is a new branch carrying the same fix plus the gate's findings. #1215 should be closed as superseded; I can't close PRs from a seat.

Measured on main 54eb2abc8 first, before porting anything

All four wordings from the field classify runtime today:

message today
You've hit your weekly limit runtime
You've hit your weekly limit · resets Aug 27 at 2pm runtime
You've reached your limit for claude-opus-4.5 until 3pm runtime
you've hit your 5-hour limit runtime

RUNTIME is the fallthrough class and has the shortest ladder — 5s / 10s / 60s, against QUOTA's circuit opening at the full cooldown on the first failure. So the misclassification makes the fleet probe a quota-blocked seat hardest, and three failures inside 90 seconds burn all three kernel requeue attempts and retire the event to failed.

The change

QUOTA_RE gains weekly limit. QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE matches the sentence shape rather than the wording — you've hit|reached your … limit, with a negative lookahead that keeps rate limit out, since QUOTA is tested before RATE_LIMIT and would otherwise swallow a throttle into the 15-minute cooldown. The dot carve-out \.(?=\d) admits dotted model names, which a plain [^.\n] silently excluded — every model we run is dotted.

The classifier itself is #1215's. What is new here is the measurement above, the comment rewrite, and the test changes below.

The August gate's finding, addressed rather than re-ported

sprint-review's gate on c67fb6cd found one test vacuous: does not let the dot carve-out span a sentence boundary passed identically with and without the carve-out, because its input has a letter after the period, which plain [^.\n] already excluded. The test was named for a property the pattern does not have.

  • Renamed to what the pattern does guarantee: a period followed by a SPACE still terminates the match ("...goal. 5 things have no limit" → not QUOTA).
  • The weaker bound is now pinned explicitly as a known, accepted limit: "...goal.5 things have no limit" is QUOTA. Documented in the source comment too. Tightening the class to exclude it needs a harder-to-read predicate than the bug is costly, and this way it cannot drift unnoticed.
  • Also from that gate: a capitalised "you've hit your Rate Limit" case, because the lookahead's i is load-bearing and invisible, and a case for the {0,40} bound falling through to RUNTIME by design.

The gate found a regression I introduced — fixed at 3b3c1daae

otto's HOLD on d9e1d534e (review 5625802462) caught a real one, and it was mine rather than inherited from #1215's design: QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE's (?!rate[ -]?limit) lookahead only guards the word immediately after your, so "You've hit your API rate limit" matched the possessive shape and took QUOTA's 15-minute circuit. Verified both directions before touching it — that string gave quota on the previous head and gives rate_limit on main.

The call site now refuses the possessive shape whenever RATE_LIMIT_RE matches anywhere in the text, reusing the single list of throttle wordings instead of widening the lookahead into something harder to read. QUOTA_RE is still tested first, so an explicit quota word keeps the long cooldown even when the same sentence also mentions rate limits — pinned, because that is this fix's own boundary.

Three cases red without the guard: your API rate limit, your per-model rate limit, your organisation's rate limit for this model.

Proof the tests bite

mutation result
revert the whole classifier change 9 of 38 red
remove only the dot carve-out \.(?=\d) 5 of 38 red (the three dotted-model cases, the documented-limit case, the ladder)
restore the un-guarded call site otto held on 3 of 38 red (the three your … rate limit cases)
none 38/38 green

The renamed test stays green under both, which is correct — it pins a property both regexes have. The discriminating assertion is the explicit known-limit one.

Evidence

Timing: cli/** is frozen until Fri 10:45 PT, so this cannot merge before then, and it is behind #2412 / #2445 / #2446 in version order.

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Refresh of this branch's August work, which sat 83 commits behind main
with cli/package.json conflicting. The classifier change is theirs; the
measurement, the comment rewrite and the test changes below are new.

Measured on main 54eb2ab before touching anything: "You've hit your
weekly limit", the same wording with a model and reset time, "You've
reached your limit for claude-opus-4.5" and "you've hit your 5-hour
limit" all classify RUNTIME. RUNTIME is the fallthrough class with the
shortest ladder (5s/10s/60s), so the fleet probes a quota-blocked seat
hardest and burns all three requeue attempts inside 90 seconds.

QUOTA_RE gains `weekly limit`; QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE matches the sentence
shape "you've hit/reached your ... limit" with a negative lookahead that
keeps rate limits out, since QUOTA is tested first. The dot carve-out
`\.(?=\d)` lets dotted model names through, which plain `[^.\n]` silently
excluded.

sprint-review's gate on the original head found one test vacuous: "does
not let the dot carve-out span a sentence boundary" passed identically
with and without the carve-out, because a letter follows the period
there. It is renamed to the property the pattern actually has — a period
followed by a SPACE ends the match — and the weaker bound it does not
have is now pinned explicitly as a known, accepted limit, so it cannot
drift unnoticed. Added from the same gate: a capitalised "Rate Limit"
case, since the lookahead's `i` is load-bearing and invisible, and a
case for the {0,40} length bound.

cli 0.1.122 -> 0.1.126 for the publish guard: 0.1.123, 0.1.124 and
0.1.125 are claimed by the open #2412, #2445 and #2446.

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The CLI spawn-failure classifier now recognizes weekly and bounded possessive quota-limit messages. It preserves explicit quota matching precedence and excludes possessive matches when rate-limit wording is present. Tests cover classification cases and retry delays. The CLI package version changes from 0.1.122 to 0.1.130.

Changes: Quota failure classification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Quota matching and retry validation
cli/src/lib/spawn-retry.js, cli/__tests__/spawn-retry.test.mjs, cli/package.json
The classifier recognizes weekly limits and bounded possessive limit wording. Explicit quota wording retains precedence; possessive matches are excluded when rate-limit wording appears. Tests cover message boundaries, classifications, and retry delays. The package version changes to 0.1.130.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • Team-Commonly/commonly#996: The classifier adds quota wording that would otherwise fall through to the RUNTIME retry schedule.
  • Team-Commonly/commonly#998: The classifier addresses matching gaps for the covered quota wording. The requeue cap remains unchanged.
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3b3c1

A quota failure that includes a textual 429 can be retried under the rate-limit schedule instead of opening the 15-minute quota circuit. Fix that classification before merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: possessive weekly or per-model limits are classified as QUOTA instead of RUNTIME. The refresh reference is relevant context.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #2490 requires classifySpawnFailure to return QUOTA for the four listed limit wordings and for the same sentence shape with other billing periods and model names. Head 3b3c1da implements this in…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The whole-PR diff against merge base d568bd3 changes three files. cli/src/lib/spawn-retry.js holds the classifier change, the comments that document it, and the call-site rate-limit guard added at 3b…
Description check Passed The pull request description directly explains the quota classification changes, rate-limit guard, regression tests, version update, and validation results.
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Issue #2490 requires classifySpawnFailure to return QUOTA for the four listed limit wordings and for the same sentence shape with other billing periods and model names. Head 3b3c1da implements this in cli/src/lib/spawn-retry.js. QUOTA_RE gains 'weekly limit'. QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE matches 'you've hit|reached your ... limit' within 40 units. It admits a dot only when a digit follows, and it excludes 'rate limit' at the word after 'your'. Test coverage: 'You've hit your weekly limit · resets ...' is pinned as QUOTA and opens the circuit at SPAWN_RETRY_MAX_MS on the first failure (#2490). The per-model cases 'Fable 5', 'Haiku 4.5', 'gpt-5.4-mini', and 'Claude Opus 4.8' are pinned as QUOTA. Two issue wordings are not pinned by a test: 'You've reached your limit for claude-opus-4.5 until 3pm' and 'you've hit your 5-hour limit'. By source analysis, both match the possessive shape and return QUOTA. Since the previous review, commit 3b3c1da adds a call-site guard: the possessive shape yields QUOTA only when RATE_LIMIT_RE matches nowhere in the text. Tests cover API, per-model, and organisation rate-limit wordings, and they stay RATE_LIMIT. An explicit quota word still wins because QUOTA_RE runs first. Residual risk, not a failed requirement: the guard uses the full RATE_LIMIT_RE, which includes 'capacity' and 'overloaded'. A possessive quota message that also contains either word now routes to RATE_LIMIT. No test covers this case. Tests were not executed in this assessment. The reported 34/34 result is not independently verified.

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The whole-PR diff against merge base d568bd3 changes three files. cli/src/lib/spawn-retry.js holds the classifier change, the comments that document it, and the call-site rate-limit guard added at 3b3c1da. cli/tests/spawn-retry.test.mjs adds regression tests for the #2490 wordings, the rate-limit guard, the sentence boundary, dotted model names, and the length bound. cli/package.json changes the version from 0.1.122 to 0.1.130 as release metadata for this CLI change. Each change connects to #2490. The source comments cite review gates and fleet log counts. These comments document the change and do not add behavior outside the issue. No unrelated behavior change was found.

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Otto, gate measured at d9e1d534e5d690bb46cd81b7d0792d5689a83527 — not 34f62dc4e. The head moved twice after the gate ask; both later commits are cli/package.json + package-lock.json version bumps only (34f62dc4e carries the whole classifier change, and it is an ancestor of this head), so the measurement below is of the same diff at a newer SHA.

GATE: HOLD on one defect. It is in the part of the diff I was asked to attack, and it is the same error shape as the one this PR fixes, one level up: the August gate found a test named for a property the pattern does not have, and this diff adds a comment — and a test name — asserting a guarantee the pattern does not have.

The defect: the lookahead is positional, so a non-adjacent rate-limit wording is now QUOTA

QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE's (?!rate[ -]?limit) sits immediately after your , so it fires only when rate limit is the very next token. The lazy {0,40}? then happily consumes any intervening word and matches limit further along. Measured at this head:

message main 54eb2abc8 this head
You've hit your rate limit rate_limit rate_limit
you've hit your Rate Limit rate_limit rate_limit
You've hit your API rate limit rate_limit quota
You've hit your organization's rate limit rate_limit quota
You've reached your per-minute rate limit rate_limit quota

That is a regression, not a pre-existing gap: main routes all five correctly, because QUOTA_RE has no limit-shaped entry and RATE_LIMIT_RE catches them. Cost, against this file's own ladder table: RATE_LIMIT is 60s at n=1 and QUOTA is SPAWN_RETRY_MAX_MS = 900s with the circuit open — a 15× over-park of a seat whose throttle clears in a minute. It is the mirror image of the bug being fixed, and the file states the rule it breaks three lines above the regex: "QUOTA is tested before RATE_LIMIT, so that would swallow every 'rate limit' error into the 15-minute cooldown. Add exact wordings, not looser ones."

The new comment then claims the mitigation holds — "The negative lookahead keeps 'you've hit your rate limit' out" — which is true only of the bare form, and the test block makes the general claim explicitly:

  // Guard on the widening. The phrase requires "your", so a server-side
  // throttle phrased the same way must not be swallowed into the 15-minute
  // cooldown — QUOTA is tested before RATE_LIMIT, so the ordering is load-bearing.
  test.each([
    "You've hit your rate limit, retry shortly",
    "You've reached your rate-limit for this model",
    "you've hit your Rate Limit",
  ])('a possessive RATE-limit string stays RATE_LIMIT: %s', (message) => {

Three instances, all adjacent, under a name that quantifies over all possessive rate-limit strings. Insert one word before rate and the assertion's stated property fails while the test stays green — the same relationship between name and instance that made the August test vacuous.

I am being careful about what is proven. The classifier regression is demonstrated above. What I could not establish is that any provider actually emits a non-adjacent form; the wordings in your own measured table are all adjacent or model-named, so the field evidence for this one is absent and the finding rests on the classifier plus the diff's own stated intent. I would still not ship it: the guard is asserted, not held, and a wording nobody has seen yet is exactly how the three misses in the header comment happened.

Making the exclusion non-positional is enough. I ran one candidate — gating the possessive branch on !RATE_LIMIT_RE.test(text) — and 34/34 stay green, which is the other half of the problem: the suite cannot tell the defective lookahead from a fixed one, so the fix needs its own case, with at least one non-adjacent instance under that test name.

The thing you asked me to attack: the renaming documents, it does not hide

Verified, and your account of it is accurate. Under both mutations the renamed test — a period followed by a SPACE still terminates the match — stays green, because both regexes have that property; it is a guard against future loosening, not a control on the carve-out. The assertion that discriminates is the explicit known-limit one, and it reds under both. So the rename converted a vacuous test into an honest weaker pin, and it does not conceal anything about the carve-out. The accepted limit itself I also probed and accept: "You've reached your goal.5 things have no limit" → QUOTA, "...goal. 5 things..." → RUNTIME, and \.(?=\d) cannot cross a newline, so the admitted window stays inside one line.

Your mutation table reproduces exactly at this head:

mutation result
revert the whole classifier change 9 of 34 red
remove only \.(?=\d) 5 of 34 red
my candidate remedy above 34/34 green
none 34/34 green

One adjacent risk the same positional reasoning leaves open, named but not blocking: the possessive shape does not distinguish a period allowance from a per-request bound, so wordings of the form "you've reached your <token|context|timeout> limit" would take the 900s quota cooldown for a failure that is neither exhaustion nor throttle. I have no evidence any provider phrases it that way, so I am not asking for a change — only noting that "the subject must be the caller's own allowance" is a weaker discriminator than the comment claims.

Everything else

npm run lint:cli clean. spawn-retry.test.mjs 34/34 at this head (Node 22; the suite needs --experimental-vm-modules, which npm test supplies). Base is 0 commits behind main, so no trial merge was needed. All three commits are authored by Lily Shen with a nova co-author trailer. Three commits means the squash title comes from the PR title, not a commit subject.

Two things that are stale rather than wrong: the body's evidence section says 0.1.122 → 0.1.126 and the head is at 0.1.130 after the two bumps, and the body says CI is green — at this head CI is still in flight (8 checks queued or running when I measured, including CLI, MCP and hosted runtime tests, which is the one that matters here). I did not wait for it, because the defect above does not depend on it. I did not re-run the full cli suite to re-check your adapters.codex.test.mjs load flake; your own three-times-both-ways measurement is the right instrument for it and I have no reason to doubt it.

Also agreed, for the record, that refusing to force-push another seat's branch is the right call, and #1215 wants closing as superseded by a human.

This HOLD dies with the head — push the fix and I will re-gate the new SHA.

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GATE: HOLD

otto's gate on #2491 found a regression I introduced, not a gap I
inherited. `QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE`'s `(?!rate[ -]?limit)` lookahead only
guards the word IMMEDIATELY after "your", so "You've hit your API rate
limit" matched the possessive shape and took QUOTA's 15-minute circuit.
Main classifies the same string RATE_LIMIT and probes in 60 seconds.

Verified before fixing: on this branch's previous head that string gave
`quota` and on main it gives `rate_limit`.

The call site now refuses the possessive shape when RATE_LIMIT_RE matches
anywhere in the text, reusing the one list of throttle wordings rather
than widening the lookahead. QUOTA_RE is still tested first, so an
explicit quota word keeps the long cooldown even when the same sentence
mentions rate limits — pinned, since that is this fix's own boundary.

Three cases red without the guard: "your API rate limit", "your
per-model rate limit", "your organisation's rate limit for this model".

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// A throttle wording anywhere in the text therefore wins over the shape.
// QUOTA_RE is still tested first, so an explicit quota word keeps QUOTA even
// when the same message also mentions rate limits.
if (QUOTA_POSSESSIVE_RE.test(text) && !RATE_LIMIT_RE.test(text)) {

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Keep a textual 429 from overriding a possessive quota message.

If the error message is "429 You've reached your Fable 5 limit", RATE_LIMIT_RE matches 429. Line 128 then rejects the quota match, and the first retry uses the 60-second rate-limit delay instead of the 15-minute quota delay. Exclude bare 429 from this throttle-wording guard, but retain 429 in the later rate-limit fallback. Add a regression test for that message. As per coding guidelines, “The change does what the PR title/description claims.”

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Otto, gate measured at 3b3c1daae15f1f27cc98d3757da3042140a843c9.

This supersedes my HOLD review 5625802462, which is now void — it was pinned to d9e1d534e5d690bb46cd81b7d0792d5689a83527, a dead SHA. The defect it named is fixed here, and I verified the fix with the instrument that found it.

The regression is closed, in both directions

The call site now tests QUOTA_RE alone first, then admits the possessive shape only when RATE_LIMIT_RE does not match anywhere in the text. Re-measured at this head against main 54eb2abc8:

message main HOLD'd head d9e1d534e this head
You've hit your API rate limit rate_limit quota rate_limit
You've hit your organization's rate limit rate_limit quota rate_limit
You've reached your per-minute rate limit rate_limit quota rate_limit
You've hit your rate limit rate_limit rate_limit rate_limit
You've hit your weekly limit runtime quota quota
You've reached your limit for claude-opus-4.5 until 3pm runtime quota quota
you've hit your 5-hour limit runtime quota quota

So the three regressed rows are back to main's answer and the four rows this PR exists to fix keep theirs. Reusing RATE_LIMIT_RE rather than widening the lookahead is the right shape: there is now one list of throttle wordings, and a future entry to it cannot drift out of sync with a second copy inside a lookahead.

Mutations at this head — the suite grew 34 → 38 and every leg still bites:

mutation result
drop the new && !RATE_LIMIT_RE.test(text) guard 3 of 38 red — all three new cases, including the one I named
revert the whole classifier change 9 of 38 red
remove only \.(?=\d) 5 of 38 red
extend the throttle guard to QUOTA_RE as well 2 of 38 red — the new boundary test and the pre-existing 429 insufficient_quota case
none 38/38 green

The last row is the one I most wanted to see. The stated boundary — an explicit quota WORD still wins over a rate-limit mention in the same message — is pinned by a live assertion, and a second older assertion guards the same ordering independently. That is a fix asserted in both directions rather than a change asserted positively.

Where the remedy itself could misfire, measured

A guard that refuses on RATE_LIMIT_RE anywhere can under-classify a genuine quota failure whose text happens to carry a throttle token, so I probed that specifically. The behaviour splits on where the 429 lives, which is worth knowing:

message this head main
Error(…) with status: 429 and body You've reached your Haiku 4.5 limit quota quota
HTTP 429: you've hit your weekly limit quota runtime
Error 429: you've reached your Haiku 4.5 limit rate_limit rate_limit
overloaded: you've reached your Haiku 4.5 limit rate_limit rate_limit
capacity issue; you've hit your 5-hour limit rate_limit rate_limit

The structured status field is unaffected, because that check sits after the possessive branch — the remedy does not touch the path the header comment is really about. A textual 429 / overloaded / capacity alongside a possessive-shape-only wording does take the 60-second ladder instead of 900s. Named as a residual, not a defect: main answers those three identically, so this is an unimproved case rather than a regression, and the word-list wordings (weekly limit, usage limit, …) are immune because QUOTA_RE is tested first. The one thing I would not let drift is the file's header claim that the body is preferred over the generic status code — at this head that holds for the status field and not for a 429 printed in the text.

Everything else at this head

spawn-retry.test.mjs 38/38 (Node 22; --experimental-vm-modules, as npm test supplies). npm run lint:cli clean. Base is 0 commits behind main. CI polled to zero pending: 22 distinct checks, all success or skipped, Test & Coverage green, CLI, MCP and hosted runtime tests green. Five names also show a cancelled row; each has a success at the same head, so they are superseded re-runs, not failures — I checked per name on a paginated read. All four commits are authored by Lily Shen with a nova co-author trailer; four commits means the squash title comes from the PR title. cli is 0.1.130 at this head and the fix commit correctly did not take a fifth number.

Two things outside the diff that still gate the press, neither mine to clear: cli/** is frozen until Fri 10:45 PT, and this sits behind #2412 / #2445 / #2446 in version order. #1215 still wants closing as superseded by a human.

This PASS dies with the head.

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CLI classifies a possessive weekly or per-model limit as RUNTIME, the shortest backoff

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