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fix(errors): stop telling users to simplify a prompt a retired route never took (#875) - #886
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…never took (#875) Every labs tRPC route except project-create now answers HTTP 404 with Flow's own explanation — "Flow RPCs have been deprecated and disabled. Flow has migrated to https://flow.google.com." — and gflow surfaced it as a bare WireFormatError (exit 7) carrying the class-default remediation: check the payload, retry with a simpler prompt, file a bug. All three are wrong, in the same way #803 and #789 were wrong: gflow asserting something nothing measured, on the exact field a user reads to find out what to do next. The payload is fine. `gflow character list` is a read with no prompt at all. And there is no bug to file, because Flow documents the condition in the very body being classified — the one thing the remediation did not repeat. The refusal is now recognised by that message, never by which host an account is served and never by a route allowlist, so a route we have not observed yet is covered the day Flow retires it. Detection sits in `_raise_for_non_retryable`, the single classifier all six `_get_json`/`_post_json` sites route through, so every caller is covered rather than the one the issue named. Error class and exit code are unchanged; a `None` hint keeps the class default for every other 4xx. The hint deliberately suggests no setting. The first draft pointed at GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOST=flow.google.com; running it returned the SAME 404, because this read has no migrated arm to route to. Shipping that would have repeated the exact failure this change fixes. That run also falsified a KNOWN_ISSUES claim: `character list` does not work on the migrated host. `list_characters` reads projectInitialData unconditionally. Measured twice on denon82, on auto and with the host pinned — exit 7 both times. Verified live on denon82 (2026-09-20), before and after.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe client now detects Flow’s retired Labs routes from the provider response body and adds route-specific remediation to ChangesRetired Flow route remediation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A different Flow error containing the deprecation prefix could receive misleading route-retirement guidance. Match the complete provider message before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@src/gflow_cli/api/client.py`:
- Line 3725: Update _labs_rpc_retired_hint to extract the provider error message
with _extract_provider_error_message and require an exact case-insensitive match
against the complete retirement message, including every clause and the
migration URL; return None when extraction fails or only a prefix appears.
Replace the prefix marker with a constant representing the full observed
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| measured. The route is gone, ``gflow character list`` has no prompt to simplify, | ||
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sed -n '3685,3830p' src/gflow_cli/api/client.py
sed -n '100,180p' tests/api/test_client_errors.py
rg -n -i 'Flow RPCs have been deprecated|labs_rpc_retired|retired.*route|deprecation' . --glob '!CHANGELOG.md'Repository: ffroliva/gflow-cli
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printf '%s\n' '--- extractor and retired matcher ---'
sed -n '3625,3740p' src/gflow_cli/api/client.py
printf '%s\n' '--- focused tests ---'
sed -n '1,180p' tests/api/test_client_errors.py
printf '%s\n' '--- exact retirement documentation ---'
sed -n '110,145p' docs/LIVE_VERIFICATION_v0.79.0.md
sed -n '50,72p' docs/PROJECT_STATUS.md
sed -n '24,42p' docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-17-project-create-on-flow-google-com.md
printf '%s\n' '--- related implementation comments ---'
sed -n '1848,1882p' src/gflow_cli/api/client.py
sed -n '2698,2718p' src/gflow_cli/api/transports/migrated_composer.pyRepository: ffroliva/gflow-cli
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Match the complete extracted retirement message. The repository contract identifies the full observed message as the retirement signal. A different 4xx message that contains only the prefix can therefore receive the permanent-route remediation. Extract the provider message and compare all retirement clauses.
Proposed fix
-_LABS_RPC_RETIRED_MARKER = "flow rpcs have been deprecated"
+_LABS_RPC_RETIRED_MESSAGE = (
+ "Flow RPCs have been deprecated and disabled. "
+ "Flow has migrated to https://flow.google.com."
+)
def _labs_rpc_retired_hint(body_text: str, *, route: str) -> str | None:
- if _LABS_RPC_RETIRED_MARKER not in body_text.lower():
+ provider_message = _extract_provider_error_message(body_text)
+ if (
+ provider_message is None
+ or provider_message.casefold() != _LABS_RPC_RETIRED_MESSAGE.casefold()
+ ):
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In `@src/gflow_cli/api/client.py` at line 3725, Update _labs_rpc_retired_hint to
extract the provider error message with _extract_provider_error_message and
require an exact case-insensitive match against the complete retirement message,
including every clause and the migration URL; return None when extraction fails
or only a prefix appears. Replace the prefix marker with a constant representing
the full observed retirement message.
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…#875) (#887) #886 fixed what gflow says when a labs tRPC route answers 404 "Flow RPCs have been deprecated and disabled", and covered it with unit tests over a captured body. Those prove our classifier does what we think. They cannot prove Flow still answers the way we captured it — and if Flow changes the wording, un-retires the route, or starts answering 401, they stay green while the user-facing remediation goes quietly wrong again. That is the gap this repo exists to close, so #886 left it as recorded debt. This pays it. The test asserts the remediation names the retired route and #639, and never tells the user to check a payload that is fine, simplify a prompt that does not exist, file a bug for a condition Flow documents in the body being classified, or set GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOST — measured not to help, because this read has no migrated arm. Two choices make it runnable on any profile in the nightly canary, with no extra configuration and no account writes: - No project fixture. The route is retired before any project lookup, so the diagnosis is project-independent and a syntactically valid id is enough. - It SKIPS rather than passes when the labs tRPC API still answers. A silent green would let a cohort change retire the test without anyone noticing, which is the skip_on_migrated_host failure mode in reverse. Verified live on denon82 (2026-09-20): passes in 11.9s against real Flow, and — with the detection marker disabled — fails with the pre-fix message verbatim, so it is a guard rather than a test that can only pass. Deselected by default; runs only under -m e2e_auth with GFLOW_CLI_E2E_PROFILE set.
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Summary
Fixes #875.
Every labs tRPC route except project-create answers HTTP 404 with Flow's own explanation — "Flow RPCs have been deprecated and disabled. Flow has migrated to https://flow.google.com." — and gflow surfaced it as a bare
WireFormatError(exit 7) carrying the class-default remediation:All three claims are wrong, in the same way #803 and #789 were wrong — gflow asserting something nothing measured, on the exact field a user reads to decide what to do next. The payload is fine.
gflow character listis a read with no prompt at all. And there is no bug to file, because Flow documents the condition in the very body being classified — the one thing the remediation did not repeat.Where the fix lands
At
_raise_for_non_retryable, the single classifier all six_get_json/_post_jsonsites route through — socreateScene,commitWorkflow,createEntityand the rest are covered, not just the route the issue named. That was #875's explicit open question ("whether the same 404 shape reaches the write routes was not exercised"); keying on the body rather than a route allowlist answers it by construction.remediation_hint=Nonekeeps the class default for every other 4xx. Error class and exit code unchanged (option 1 in the issue).+37 in
client.py, no deletions.The hint deliberately suggests no setting
The first draft pointed at
GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOST=flow.google.com. I ran it. The same 404 comes back —list_charactersreadsprojectInitialDataunconditionally and has no migrated arm to route to.Shipping that would have repeated the exact failure this PR fixes: advice nothing measured, in the remediation field. The measurement is recorded in a comment at the raise site and pinned by a test asserting the hint never names that setting.
A falsified doc claim, found by that run
KNOWN_ISSUES.md:19asserted "character createandcharacter listwork on the migrated host."character listdoes not — exit 7, measured twice ondenon82(2026-09-20), onautoand with the host pinned. Corrected here because it is the same claim family;character createis untouched and still works.Live verification (denon82, 2026-09-20)
Same profile, same project, same route, before and after.
Before:
After:
status: 404,route: projectInitialData,exit_code: 7,retryable: false— unchanged in both.Validation
ruff check/ruff format --check— cleanpyright src— 0 errors, 0 warningscheck_repo_hygiene.py— 1171 files, no violationscheck_doc_links.py— 198 files, all links resolvedgenerate_website_docs.py --check— mirror in sync (regenerated for the KNOWN_ISSUES fix)check_website_docs_pii.py— clean ·check_council_memory.py— 51 files, all citedpytest tests/api tests/mcp— 2008 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failedtests/api/test_client_errors.py, incl. one asserting detection is by body not route, and one asserting an ordinary 4xx keeps the class defaultKnown debt
No e2e test covers the retired-route diagnosis. This touches a Flow surface, so the Iron Law wants one, and it is not blocked — an
e2e_authtest (zero credits, ~30s) drivingcharacter liston a migrated profile would be a real regression guard, and the nightly canary already runs against these profiles.Merging on the maintainer's call with that recorded rather than silently dropped. Tracked to follow immediately in a separate PR.
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Bug Fixes
flow.google.com.Documentation
character createworks, whilecharacter listremains unsupported through the retired route on both automatic and forced Flow hosts.