fix(web_chat): distinguish transient provider outage from model misconfig + fail fast on expired managed JWT

[YellowSnnowmann]

Summary

• Stop mislabelling a transient model outage as a misconfiguration: the model_unavailable classifier arm told users to "check your model settings" and hid the retry for failures a retry would clear.
• Fail fast on an expired managed session JWT instead of firing a doomed request that surfaces as a misleading "model unavailable".
• Log the raw upstream error at the managed inference boundary so the true cause is diagnosable.

Problem

Reported in #5503: over a long session all model tiers progressively "die" until an app restart. This PR addresses the in-repo presentation and fail-fast defects (the core router/provider degradation trigger lives backend / vendored-tinyagents-side and needs production logs — tracked separately):

• web_chat/web_errors.rs: one model_unavailable arm matched both "model doesn't exist / not configured" (terminal) and "temporarily unavailable / overloaded" (transient), labelling all of them source: config, retryable: false with "check your model settings". A transient outage was therefore shown as a user misconfiguration with no retry.
• inference/provider/openhuman_backend_model.rs: managed inference did not precheck the recorded session-JWT exp before dispatch (unlike the REST callers' require_live_session_token), so an expired-but-stored token produced doomed requests until a 401 propagated — consistent with "restart fixes it".
• No logging of the raw upstream failure on the managed path, so operators couldn't see what the backend actually returned.

Solution

• Split the model_unavailable arm on a transient-marker discriminator: transient bodies route to the retryable "temporarily unavailable" provider copy; genuine model rejections keep the non-retryable config copy. Arm ordering preserved (config-rejection predicate still checked first).
• resolve_bearer: precheck the recorded exp via classify_session_token; an expired managed token fails fast as SESSION_EXPIRED (actionable re-auth) and publishes SessionExpired before any request. Offline / exp-less sessions are unchanged; the post-call 401 net still covers server-side revocation.
• Log the raw upstream ProviderError (status/code/provider/retryable, secret-scrubbed) at the managed invoke/stream boundary.

Submission Checklist

• Tests added or updated — web_tests.rs: a transient "unavailable" body classifies retryable/temporarily-unavailable (not the config copy); a genuine rejection stays non-retryable config. openhuman_backend_model.rs: expired exp fast-fails SESSION_EXPIRED; future exp and exp-less offline sessions resolve normally.
• Diff coverage ≥ 80% — enforced by CI (ci-lite.yml); changed lines covered by the added classifier + resolve_bearer tests. cargo test green locally.
• Coverage matrix updated — N/A: behaviour-only change.
• Affected feature IDs under ## Related — N/A: behaviour-only change.
• No new external network dependencies — N/A.
• Manual smoke checklist — N/A.
• Linked issue referenced in ## Related (partial — see below).

Impact

• Users get an accurate, retryable error on a transient outage instead of being sent to fix settings that are fine; an expired session routes to re-auth instead of silently failing every turn. No API/migration impact. Scope note: this is the presentation + fail-fast subset of Bug: LLM router progressively degrades throughout session — reasoning, agentic, quick all fail until app restart #5503; it does not claim to fix the underlying "why do tiers degrade over hours" trigger, which is backend/router-side and needs the new upstream-error logs to diagnose.

Related

• Closes: (none — partial fix; keep Bug: LLM router progressively degrades throughout session — reasoning, agentic, quick all fail until app restart #5503 open for the backend degradation trigger)
• Refs: Bug: LLM router progressively degrades throughout session — reasoning, agentic, quick all fail until app restart #5503
• Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs: backend/router investigation of the degradation trigger using the new upstream-error logs; optional model-availability status indicator (larger UI change).

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CI note (pre-existing broken-main, folded fix)

This PR carries one extra commit unrelated to the router change:
test(embeddings): unbreak stale effective-provider test after tinymemory v1.0.1.
The Rust Core Coverage lane runs the whole openhuman::inference namespace
(not just the changed web_chat/openhuman_backend_model files), so it surfaced a
pre-existing failure in inference::embeddings::rpc::tests::get_settings_reports_effective_provider_separately_from_the_setting
that fails identically on plain main. The tinymemory → v1.0.1 submodule bump
changed the effective-embedder ladder (local Ollama now resolves from an explicit
memory_tree.embedding_endpoint override or the unified workload_local_model
setting, not the embeddings_provider string alone) and the test was not updated
with the bump. The fix drives the deterministic explicit-endpoint rung, matching
tinymemory's own effective_slug_reports_ollama_for_explicit_endpoint_override
test, and preserves the test's #5402 assertion. It is not a gate weakening and is
not caused by this PR; it is included only to unblock this PR's coverage lane.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of expired session tokens with clear expiration errors and notifications.
  • Distinguished temporary provider outages from permanent model or configuration errors.
  • Temporary outages and overloads are now identified as retryable provider errors.
  • Preserved non-retryable handling for missing models and rejected endpoints.
  • Updated local embedding configuration behavior to reflect current routing settings.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for token expiration scenarios and transient model availability failures.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds local session-token expiry checks and sanitized managed-inference logging. It also separates transient provider outages from persistent model errors in web-chat classification and updates embedding-provider regression setup for local Ollama routing.

Changes

Managed session expiry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session expiry resolution and validation src/openhuman/inference/provider/openhuman_backend_model.rs	Managed token resolution checks session expiry metadata before requests, publishes SessionExpired when needed, and tests expired, future-expiry, and exp-less sessions.
Managed dispatch failure logging src/openhuman/inference/provider/openhuman_backend_model.rs	Managed invoke and stream paths log sanitized provider and non-provider failures.

Transient provider error classification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transient outage classification and regression coverage src/openhuman/web_chat/web_errors.rs, src/openhuman/web_chat/web_tests.rs	Transient outage markers produce retryable provider_error results. Terminal model and endpoint failures remain non-retryable model_unavailable results. Tests cover HTTP 5xx and status-less responses.

Embedding routing regression test

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Effective embedding provider setup src/openhuman/inference/embeddings/rpc.rs	The regression test configures an explicit local Ollama endpoint and model while preserving picker and effective-provider assertions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to e86dc

The PR improves transient-outage classification and expired-session handling. One localized fallback message omits available provider detail for some transient errors, which modestly reduces user and operator context but is non-blocking and suitable for follow-up after normal checks.

Possibly related PRs

• tinyhumansai/openhuman#5346: Updates embedding-provider resolution tests with local Ollama routing.
• tinyhumansai/openhuman#5402: Modifies effective embedder resolution tests in rpc.rs.
• tinyhumansai/openhuman#5469: Relates to SessionExpired event handling in openhuman_backend_model.rs.

Suggested labels: rust-core, bug

Suggested reviewers: m3ga-mind, senamakel

Poem

A rabbit checks tokens before they run,
Marks expired sessions when work is done.
Ollama paths now point just right,
While outages retry instead of blame in fright.
Provider logs stay clean and small—
Hop, hop, safer errors for all!

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/openhuman/web_chat/web_errors.rs (1)

985-1000: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use with_provider_detail on the fallback transient arm.

This arm returns a fixed message. The matching provider_error arms above call with_provider_detail, including the model-unavailable transient branch. Bare overloaded or retry-later bodies then lose scrubbed upstream detail in the user-facing copy.

♻️ Proposed fix

     } else if is_transient_unavailability_text(&lower) {
         // A transient upstream-outage marker that no more specific arm above
         // claimed (e.g. a bare 5xx "overloaded" such as Anthropic's 529, or
         // "please retry later") is a temporary provider outage — surface the
         // retryable "temporarily unavailable" provider copy rather than the flat
         // inference bucket, so the user gets an accurate, retryable error (`#5503`).
         ClassifiedError {
             error_type: "provider_error",
-            message: "The AI provider is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."
-                .to_string(),
+            message: with_provider_detail(
+                "The AI provider is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.",
+                err,
+            ),
             source: "provider",
             retryable: true,
             retry_after_ms: None,
             provider,
             fallback_available,
         }

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In `@src/openhuman/web_chat/web_errors.rs` around lines 985 - 1000, The fallback
transient-unavailability branch should preserve scrubbed upstream details by
applying with_provider_detail to its fixed temporary-unavailability message,
matching the existing provider_error branches and the model-unavailable
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is_transient_unavailability_text without changing its retryability or
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Inline comments:
In `@src/openhuman/web_chat/web_tests.rs`:
- Around line 430-477: Update the explanatory comment in
classify_inference_error_transient_model_unavailable_without_5xx_status_uses_split_arm:
state that the 503 fixtures are handled by the generic 5xx arm, while the 529
fixture reaches the transient-unavailability fallback via “overloaded” or
“currently overloaded”; preserve the test logic and assertions unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/openhuman/web_chat/web_errors.rs`:
- Around line 985-1000: The fallback transient-unavailability branch should
preserve scrubbed upstream details by applying with_provider_detail to its fixed
temporary-unavailability message, matching the existing provider_error branches
and the model-unavailable transient branch. Update the ClassifiedError
construction in is_transient_unavailability_text without changing its
retryability or classification.

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• src/openhuman/inference/embeddings/rpc.rs
• src/openhuman/inference/provider/openhuman_backend_model.rs
• src/openhuman/web_chat/web_errors.rs
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Changed files

src/openhuman/web_chat

• src/openhuman/web_chat/web_errors.rs
• src/openhuman/web_chat/web_tests.rs

src/openhuman/inference/provider

• src/openhuman/inference/provider/openhuman_backend_model.rs

src/openhuman/inference/embeddings

• src/openhuman/inference/embeddings/rpc.rs