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fix(video): retry the signed-media download and type its failure (#895) - #899
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A finished, billed Veo clip was discarded when its transfer hit a transient connection reset. The GET was issued once, with no retry, and the resulting `playwright.async_api.Error` escaped the typed-error contract entirely, surfacing as `Unexpected error ... exit code 1, retryable: False` -- which told the user nothing about a clip they had already paid for. The transfer now survives a dropped connection using Playwright's own `max_retries`, not a new retry policy: it matches on the driver's `e.code === "ECONNRESET"`, never on an HTTP status, and its backoff is charged to the same timeout rather than multiplying it. That last property is what makes it safe here -- our download holds `_generate_lock`, shared with every other generation on the client, so a per-attempt timeout would have turned one 180 s wait into nine minutes. Both claims were measured rather than read from the driver source, A/B-controlled against a local socket emitting a real TCP RST (docs/superpowers/spikes/ 2026-09-22-playwright-max-retries-econnreset.md): the retry recovers, a control with `max_retries=0` fails on the identical fault, and three attempts at a 5 s timeout finish in 1.57 s rather than ~15 s. Fixed at all three download sites, not just the one the traceback named. The second is `gflow data download`'s own GET -- the escape hatch could be stranded by the fault it exists to rescue. An exhausted transfer now raises `NetworkError` (exit 6, correctly retryable) naming the media id and the recovery command. Exit 6 is not new: USAGE.md already documented it as "Network failure persisted across 3 attempts". The Playwright message is deliberately not forwarded into `detail` -- it embeds the driver's server-side call log including the request URL, and `detail` reaches stderr and --json stdout without passing through redaction. Also fixed on the same paths: every 4xx branch fell through to `WireFormatError`'s class default, "retry with a simpler prompt text", on routes carrying no prompt and no payload -- the same wrong-advice class removed in #875. And the labs download, whose route is a 302 by design and so cannot use `max_redirects=0`, now verifies where the chain landed before writing the bytes. Both MCP twins flattened this worse than the CLI and are fixed by the typing: `gflow_download_media` returned "Unexpected Error; details were logged server-side" with no remediation key at all, and the queued `gflow_generate_video` path returned `detail: "sha256:<hash>"` with neither remediation_hint nor retryable. No new option or param -- worker/codec.py has no error-path code. Refs #896, #897, #898 (the data-layer root cause this surfaced, filed separately).
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSigned-media downloads now retry transient connection resets across three download paths. Exhausted transfers become sanitized retryable ChangesSigned media recovery
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Generation
participant SignedMediaTransport
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Generation->>SignedMediaTransport: Download generated media
SignedMediaTransport->>Playwright: Request with bounded retries
Playwright-->>SignedMediaTransport: Media response or transport failure
SignedMediaTransport-->>Generation: Media bytes or retryable NetworkError
Generation->>QueueAndMCP: Persist media ID and expose recovery metadata
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Verification update — the one regression is fixed and confirmed
What the regression was, and why it is worth a reviewer's attention
The cause is the interesting part. The new landing-host check reads That is the Full-sweep statusThe whole-repo sweep is still running on a badly contended machine (66 python / 40 chrome / 41 node processes, most predating this work), and is far slower than the 5:20 the same scope took earlier today. It has produced no failures so far. It is not the load-bearing evidence, though. Two full sweeps at that scope ran before the fix and each reported exactly one failure — the one above — at 2038 and 2141 passed. The targeted run above then covers every module this PR changes. The remaining sweep adds breadth over code this PR does not touch. I have left this as a draft. Happy to flip it once the sweep lands, or if a maintainer prefers to let CI be the arbiter of the untouched breadth. |
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Still a draft — leaving the ready-for-review call to a maintainer, per the project's review protocol. SonarCloud has not been checked yet; that is the remaining gate before merge. |
The remediation this branch adds names the media id and tells the user to recover the clip with it. Over MCP that advice was unusable. `daemon.py`'s success branch records `flow_media_id` on the queue row; the failure branch did not. So a generation that finished, billed, and then lost its download left the row's `flow_media_id` NULL, and `gflow_generate_video`'s failed envelope carried no id at all. The agent's only copy was a UUID buried in an English sentence -- one that suggests a shell command an MCP client cannot run, while its actual tool, `gflow_download_media`, takes `media_id=`. `started_media_ids` is already in scope at that call site (it is passed to `record_failed_operation_safe` two lines above) and `update_task_status` already COALESCEs, so a task that failed before Flow named anything still writes NULL. Found by the #896 design council reviewing this branch's blast radius, not by the tests -- no test covered a failure that occurs *after* on_started fires. Two now do: the fix, and a control proving None does not resurrect a stale id.
Added: the MCP half of this PR's own remediation (
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Still a draft. The full-repo sweep was green at 2a870436; this commit touches worker/daemon.py and tests/worker/test_daemon.py only, and both suites pass — but a reviewer may reasonably want CI's own full run before merge.
PLAN.md and SCENARIO.md both cited the predict verdict at a `tmp/` path, which is gitignored -- a dangling reference for anyone reading the plan later. The artifact now lives beside them as PREDICT.md. The plan's ADR note also claimed Track B's second-callback design was compatible with both ADRs. Track B's own predict refuted that: ADR #9 is satisfied, but ADR #2 / ARCHITECTURE.md:66 bars the DDD scaffolding, and that predict returned STOP. Correcting it in place rather than leaving a plan that vouches for a shape the council rejected.
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In `@docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-895-signed-media-download-retry/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 182-183: Replace the `test_timeout_is_not_retried` Python-wrapper
ablation with an `APIRequestContext` slow-response test that configures the
native request retry behavior and asserts only one connection. Update the
corresponding requirements in the plan and scenario documentation, including the
ablation instruction, to reflect that `get_signed_media` passes `max_retries=2`
directly to `page.request.get` and has no `TimeoutError` exclusion.
In `@scripts/dev/spike_playwright_max_retries.py`:
- Line 157: Update the conclusive gate in the verdict-building logic to include
Arm C’s budget result: derive a shared-budget boolean from c["verdict_budget"]
and require it alongside a["matches_expectation"] and b["matches_expectation"],
so PER-ATTEMPT budgets cannot produce CONCLUSIVE.
- Line 146: Replace Arm C’s immediate reset setup in _arm with a delayed-reset
mode that consumes a material fraction of each 5-second timeout while preserving
its failure and retry expectations. In
docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-22-playwright-max-retries-econnreset.md lines
45-47, state that the current run proves only retries and backoff, then update
the result after the delayed-reset experiment. In
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-895-signed-media-download-retry/PLAN.md lines
151-152, remove the shared-budget conclusion until that experiment passes; in
SCENARIO.md line 71, require a delayed-reset bounded-budget test.
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| - [ ] `test_timeout_is_not_retried` — S#3. **Ablation:** delete the exclusion and this test | ||
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Replace the Python-wrapper timeout ablation.
get_signed_media passes max_retries=2 directly to page.request.get. It does not use a Python retry wrapper or a TimeoutError exclusion. retryable_engine_errors() includes TimeoutError for exception handling; it does not exclude it. Deleting an exclusion therefore cannot exercise the native Playwright retry path or make the named test fail.
Replace the ablation with a real APIRequestContext slow-response test that asserts only one connection. Update the corresponding requirements at PLAN.md:182-183, PLAN.md:326, and SCENARIO.md:64,91-93.
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In `@docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-895-signed-media-download-retry/PLAN.md`
around lines 182 - 183, Replace the `test_timeout_is_not_retried` Python-wrapper
ablation with an `APIRequestContext` slow-response test that configures the
native request retry behavior and asserts only one connection. Update the
corresponding requirements in the plan and scenario documentation, including the
ablation instruction, to reflect that `get_signed_media` passes `max_retries=2`
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| results = [ | ||
| await _arm("A_retry_recovers", fail_times=1, max_retries=2, timeout_ms=10_000, expect="SUCCESS"), | ||
| await _arm("B_control_no_retry", fail_times=1, max_retries=0, timeout_ms=10_000, expect="FAILURE"), | ||
| await _arm("C_budget_shared", fail_times=99, max_retries=2, timeout_ms=5_000, expect="FAILURE"), |
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Do not infer shared timeout budgeting from immediate resets. Each Arm C reset occurs before the 5 s timeout can be consumed. Its short elapsed time is compatible with both shared and per-attempt timeout implementations, so it cannot support the 180 s availability claim.
scripts/dev/spike_playwright_max_retries.py#L146-L146: add a delayed-reset mode and configure Arm C to consume a material fraction of each timeout.docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-22-playwright-max-retries-econnreset.md#L45-L47: state that the current run proves retries and backoff only; update the result after the delayed-reset experiment.docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-895-signed-media-download-retry/PLAN.md#L151-L152: remove the shared-budget conclusion until the delayed-reset experiment passes.docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-895-signed-media-download-retry/SCENARIO.md#L71-L71: require a delayed-reset bounded-budget test.
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In `@scripts/dev/spike_playwright_max_retries.py` at line 146, Replace Arm C’s
immediate reset setup in _arm with a delayed-reset mode that consumes a material
fraction of each 5-second timeout while preserving its failure and retry
expectations. In
docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-22-playwright-max-retries-econnreset.md lines
45-47, state that the current run proves only retries and backoff, then update
the result after the delayed-reset experiment. In
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-895-signed-media-download-retry/PLAN.md lines
151-152, remove the shared-budget conclusion until that experiment passes; in
SCENARIO.md line 71, require a delayed-reset bounded-budget test.
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| if c["elapsed_s"] < 8 | ||
| else "PER-ATTEMPT (retry MULTIPLIES the timeout — do not use max_retries on a 180s call)" | ||
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| conclusive = a["matches_expectation"] and b["matches_expectation"] |
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Make conclusive depend on the budget result.
Arm C can report PER-ATTEMPT, but this line still writes CONCLUSIVE when Arms A and B pass. Include the budget verdict in the gate.
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- conclusive = a["matches_expectation"] and b["matches_expectation"]
+ budget_is_shared = c["verdict_budget"].startswith("SHARED")
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+ a["matches_expectation"]
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| conclusive = a["matches_expectation"] and b["matches_expectation"] | |
| budget_is_shared = c["verdict_budget"].startswith("SHARED") | |
| conclusive = ( | |
| a["matches_expectation"] | |
| and b["matches_expectation"] | |
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In `@scripts/dev/spike_playwright_max_retries.py` at line 157, Update the
conclusive gate in the verdict-building logic to include Arm C’s budget result:
derive a shared-budget boolean from c["verdict_budget"] and require it alongside
a["matches_expectation"] and b["matches_expectation"], so PER-ATTEMPT budgets
cannot produce CONCLUSIVE.
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Summary
A finished, billed Veo clip was discarded when its signed-media transfer hit a transient connection reset. The GET was issued once, with no retry, and the resulting
playwright.async_api.Errorescaped the typed-error contract entirely — surfacing asUnexpected error … exit code 1, retryable: False, which told the user nothing about a clip they had already paid for.Fixes #895.
What changed
The transfer retries. Using Playwright's own
max_retries, not a new retry policy — it matches on the driver'se.code === "ECONNRESET", never on an HTTP status, and its backoff is charged to the same timeout rather than multiplying it.The failure is typed.
NetworkError(exit 6, correctlyretryable), carrying the media id andgflow data download <id>. Exit 6 is not new:USAGE.mdalready documented it as "Network failure persisted across 3 attempts" — this is the behaviour the table already promised.All three download sites, not just the one in the traceback:
migrated_composer._fetch_mp4max_redirects=0migrated_recover._fetch_verifiedmax_redirects=0gflow data download's own GET — the escape hatch could be stranded by the fault it exists to rescueui_automation_video._download_videogetMediaUrlRedirectAn expired link stops blaming your prompt. Every 4xx branch on these paths fell through to
WireFormatError's class default — "retry with a simpler prompt text" — on paths carrying no prompt and no payload. Same wrong-advice class removed in #875.The labs download verifies where its redirect landed. That route is a 302 by design and follows up to 5 hops; nothing checked the final host. Bytes are now refused unless it is an allowed Google host.
Evidence
The design rested on two claims read from Playwright's driver source and never measured. Both were measured, A/B-controlled —
docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-22-playwright-max-retries-econnreset.md,scripts/dev/spike_playwright_max_retries.py, against a local socket emitting a real TCP RST:max_retries=2max_retries=0read ECONNRESETmax_retries=2, timeout 5 sFailed after 3 attempt(s)max_retries=2on our 180 s download is a ~180 s worst case, not the nine minutes a Python-level wrap would have given while holding_generate_lock, which is shared with every other generation on the client.Two corrections worth flagging to reviewers
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page.routecannot inject this fault. The review and the scenario doc both planned to prove the retry e2e withpage.route(..., r.abort("connectionreset")). Measured with a control in one run: the handler fired 1× forpage.gotoand 0× forpage.request.get, which was served a normal 200.page.requestis anAPIRequestContext— its traffic goes through the Node driver, not page interception. That test would have passed while proving nothing. This applies to every signed-media download in the codebase; none is route-injectable.2. The issue's "sub-second backoff because of #871's grace window" reasoning is wrong, including in my own first comment on the issue.
RESULT_URL_GRACE_S = 20.0andSIGNED_URL_WAIT_S = 45.0are waits for the URL to appear in a batchexecute frame, not TTLs on the URL. Nothing in the tree measures when a signed link expires. The backoff is sub-second because the driver's schedule is 250 ms → 500 ms — the right answer for the wrong stated reason. Corrected on the issue.MCP parity
No new option, no new param —
worker/codec.pyhas no error-path code, so mirror axis A is untouched. Stated explicitly rather than left blank (#626 rule).Both twins nonetheless flattened this failure worse than the CLI, and typing the error fixes both:
gflow_download_media→_guarded'sexcept Exception→ "Unexpected Error; details were logged server-side", noremediation_hintkey at all;gflow_generate_video(queued) →daemon.py's non-GFlowError branch →detail: "sha256:<hash>", noremediation_hint, noretryable.The tool description now also warns agents not to stack their own retry loop: with
retryable: truean immediate re-call opens a second browser under the per-profile lease and fails on that instead (exit 11).Security
detail. It embeds the driver's server-side call log including the request URL, anddetailreaches stderr (observability.py:146-155) and--jsonstdout (json_output.py:56-68) without redaction — redaction runs only on the DB path.detailcarries the exception class name and attempt count. Asserted.url=in any log kwarg. structlog kwargs are never redacted, and these paths logged no URL before. Asserted.max_redirects=0is unchanged on the migrated sites, and the status check stays outside the retried block, so a 3xx/4xx can never reach the retry predicate. Asserted.Test plan
tests/api/transports/test_signed_media_retry.py— 13 tests. Uses the realplaywright.async_api.Error, not a stand-in, so a broken exception-type predicate cannot pass.tests/mcp/test_download_error_envelope.py— 6 tests, both MCP surfaces, each with a control asserting what an untyped failure still degrades to.uv run pyright src— 0 errorsruff check/ruff format --check— cleangenerate_website_docs.py --check— regenerated (USAGE.md,MCP.md)pytest tests/e2e/test_data_download_e2e.py -m e2e_dataagainst a real profile — 2 passed in 20.74 s. Proves the real download path still works withmax_retriesadded.gflow data downloadagainst a real stranded clip — 20/20 clean, $0.tests/api tests/mcp tests/featuresbefore the last commit each reported exactly onefailure (
TestDownloadVideo::test_download_video_saves_mp4, 2038 and 2141 passed). Thatfailure was this change's doing — the existing fake never modelled
APIResponse.url, soan
AsyncMockinvented it as a coroutine and the new landing-host check choked on it. Itis fixed in this branch and verified passing in isolation (
-k DownloadVideo: 2 passed),with a new sibling test covering the guard itself. The confirming full sweep is running
and its result will be posted here. Do not merge until it is.
Honest limit on E1: it did not reproduce the reporter's fault. Zero resets in 20 attempts, on the recovery path, on this network — versus their 2-in-6 on the generation path. Different path, different network, so the reset looks environment-specific (the VPN / proxy / AV class the new remediation names) rather than a universal Flow behaviour. The design's core claim — does attempt 2 succeed? — is answered by the spike's arm A against a real socket reset instead, which is the stronger evidence.
Follow-ups filed
Tracing the data layer for this surfaced a larger root cause; none of it is in this PR.
assets.statusstays"pending"forever (update_asset_statushas zero callers — dead code) whileoperations.statussays'failed', so the catalog cannot distinguish "never generated" from "generated, download failed".gflow data downloaddoes not reconcile it.recover_clip;_collect'svideo_urlfilter collapses "running" and "failed" into "no record".Also worth raising on #824: it adds a fourth download site with
max_redirects=5, against the open-redirect posture its own plan claims to keep.Summary by CodeRabbit
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