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Summary

The direct Messages encoder classified generic-coded context overflows as HTTP 400 but omitted the compaction-triggering code. Apply the shared overflow verdict to the emitted code while preserving deterministic undeclared-tool errors, original error evidence and proxy/transport metadata.

Head 52c0fe231ca651402bc7d77014de1e827431ad8c normally merges prior head 70d7968390f8649ed028baa7c94ed34c3e40d62b with dev 0a30c551304927c93c26a96c034bd39a166c7460 (#8164). The original luvs01/opencodex#812 commit bd0c4d9714ecacd2e9074e744c8250dd99499a98 and both histories are preserved. The PR delta remains six files.

• Keep the four generic-code/retryable: true stream/fold cases and an errorType: upstream_error variant.
• Use fix(messages): normalize Messages error responses and Anthropic headers #8153's fixed compaction sentence. Five fixture IDs on the two direct-writer paths have explicit expected deltas against the immutable baseline; other paths keep their comparisons.
• Preserve fix(messages): normalize streamed Messages error events #8164's native fold-502 expectations alongside those direct-writer deltas. The two lane sets are disjoint.
• Align the upstream normalization fixture's generic-code case with the shared overflow contract: compaction code and fixed message on both stream paths, HTTP 400 on direct fold.
• Preserve the predicate, fixture/golden data, assertions outside the declared deltas, time limits and documentation budgets.

Relationship to #8129: Its broader retry/plain-text change independently contains the same encoder normalization. This PR retains its focused fix and parity matrix; it does not include or replace that contributor's broader changes. Reconcile the overlapping hunk when either PR lands. Combined transport-send-count acceptance remains separate.

Verification

Current integration

Pinned Bun 1.4.4 on Windows, repository preload and test lock retained:

• bun scripts/test.ts tests/claude-integration/messages-error-normalization.test.ts: 49 passed / 0 failed / 343 assertions.
• bun scripts/test.ts tests/claude-integration/messages-overflow-baseline-contract.test.ts: 2 passed / 0 failed / 5 assertions.
• bun scripts/test.ts tests/claude-integration/messages-sse-continuation.test.ts: 8 passed / 0 failed / 56 assertions. Repeated observations are not counted as additional coverage.
• bun check --no-script --noEmit: 2,316 source files, no errors. The package-script invocation first hit a shared-dependency launcher remapping error; the direct pinned checker succeeded without reinstalling dependencies.
• bun scripts/structure-ssot.ts, bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts, bun scripts/file-size-ratchet.ts and git diff --check: passed. Structure/size checks initially stopped on tracked files omitted by sparse checkout; materializing the required tracked paths resolved that environment issue without changing the commit.
• Independent read-only review found no blocker. Parent verified the six reviewed blob IDs against the committed tree, both merge parents, and a clean worktree. Golden/case-table data remain identical to dev.

Exact-head CI41841057990 attempt 2 succeeded, with all four Ubuntu shards and aggregate passing; Catalog41841057866 succeeded. The CodeRabbit walkthrough names 52c0fe2 as both source and covered commit; check126617628554 succeeded and there are zero unresolved review threads, with pagination complete.

Attempt 1 remains cancelled, not a pass: test4/4's test step finished successfully, but job126612607255 exceeded the unchanged 15-minute total-job limit. One targeted retry reran only that shard and its aggregate; job126622664590 passed in 14m39s, aggregate126630997971 succeeded. Code, assertions, timeout, shard count and CI policy were unchanged. The 21-second margin is small; no further retry is scheduled.

ci:full covers the differential helper spawned by subprocess and golden/source data outside the parsed import graph. This is the repository's four-shard Ubuntu PR lane; native Windows/macOS policy skips do not establish platform acceptance.

Failed Windows validation and scope limits

The broader local run was not a pass. In the isolated messages-overflow-native.test.ts run, 1 passed / 14 failed / 14 errors / 190 assertions, exit 1, about 429 seconds. The 14 cases exceeded the unchanged 30-second budget for a 64-row child slice. A separate eight-row diagnostic completed, but that does not establish why the larger slices time out or exclude a regression.

Other native SSE/count-tokens/fold files also timed out. Source-oracle/path-filter diagnostics exposed Windows separator behavior; native passthrough also encountered ACL/EBUSY failures. These are recorded failures, not accepted native-platform coverage. No assertion or timeout was weakened. The full local suite and additional expensive paths were not repeated under the repository's resource exception; broader regression coverage is left to exact-head Ubuntu CI. Installed-app, live-provider, full native Windows/macOS and the combined #8129 one-send scenario remain unverified.

Prior-head evidence

At 70d7968, CI41810263300, Catalog41810263467 and CodeRabbit succeeded. That CI reported 19,500 passed / 41 skipped / 0 failed across 765 files, plus 9 fixture checks. Earlier local focused runs passed 94 tests / 31,670 assertions and 105 tests / 453 assertions. These remain evidence for those revisions and are not substituted for the new merge's CI.

The earlier CI41806517660 failure was an upstream fixture still expecting the old direct generic-overflow message/fold status; the two expectation corrections are retained. An earlier source-work broad test attempted an external x.ai connection and was blocked by automatic approval review; it was not retried or bypassed.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Owning docs and baseline-delta explanations are updated.
• Focused local validation and source gates are recorded with failures and limits.
• Independent code review covers the six committed result blobs.
• Exact-head hosted CI and CodeRabbit coverage are complete.
• Ready for maintainer review on this merged head.
• Maintainer acceptance is complete.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Context-window overflow errors are consistently reported as context_length_exceeded, including when the upstream response uses a generic error code or is marked retryable.
  • Direct streamed and folded responses now agree on the overflow classification. Folded responses use HTTP 400 for these errors.
  • Undeclared tool-call errors retain their existing classification.
• Documentation
  • Clarified how context-window overflow and terminal errors are represented in direct client responses.

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Walkthrough

The Messages encoder now uses shared context-overflow classification for terminal errors. Classified, non-deterministic overflow errors receive the context_length_exceeded code, including when the upstream error is retryable. Tests and documentation cover stream and folded-response behavior.

Changes: Messages context-overflow handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Terminal error mapping src/protocols/encoders/messages.ts	The encoder uses isContextOverflowError to classify terminal errors. Classified, non-deterministic overflow errors receive context_length_exceeded; deterministic undeclared-tool-call errors retain their code.
Overflow validation and documentation tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts, tests/claude-integration/messages-error-normalization.test.ts, tests/helpers/messages-overflow-assertions.ts, structure/data-planes/protocol-paths.md, structure/data-planes/error-detail.md	Tests cover retryable generic-coded overflow errors in stream and folded responses. Integration assertions and fixture expectations reflect the updated code, message, and status. Documentation describes the shared overflow verdict and its status handling.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• Issue 7307 concerns long-turn Anthropic Messages failures and context-limit behavior. This change maps generic-coded context-overflow errors to context_length_exceeded; it does not address the issue’s cache-prefix or image-normalization requirements.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 52c0f

The overflow normalization has no established functional blocker. Adding header assertions would protect transport metadata against regressions; the remaining gap is suitable for follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title names the main change: normalizing direct context overflow errors in the claude Messages path, with parity test coverage. The raw summary shows the Messages encoder now assigns context_lengt…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: normalizing direct context overflow errors in the claude Messages path, with parity test coverage. The raw summary shows the Messages encoder now assigns context_length_exceeded to definite generic-coded overflow errors and adds stream/fold parity tests. The title is specific and concise, and it matches the PR objectives.

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Nitpick comments: 1

tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts: 1

344-345: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover a non-server_error error type in the generic-code overflow matrix.

Every case in this matrix sets errorType: "server_error". The direct encoder decides overflow from the message and code. It reads errorType only to exclude rate-limit, authentication, and permission types. Producers can also emit upstream_error, so this combination is reachable, but no case checks it. Pairing each generic code with a second error type keeps the matrix from implying that normalization depends on errorType.

Suggested test change

-  test.each(["server_error", "upstream_error", "api_error", "internal_error"])(
-    "generic-coded %s context overflow triggers client compaction on both paths", async code => {
-      const events: AdapterEvent[] = [{ type: "error", errorType: "server_error",
+  test.each([
+    ["server_error", "server_error"],
+    ["upstream_error", "server_error"],
+    ["api_error", "upstream_error"],
+    ["internal_error", "server_error"],
+  ])(
+    "generic-coded %s context overflow triggers client compaction on both paths", async (code, errorType) => {
+      const events: AdapterEvent[] = [{ type: "error", errorType,

The expected frame and status in this case do not change for the direct encoder. The parity assertions still compare the legacy path with the same hard-coded frame, so a difference on the legacy side would fail the test.

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Review comment at @tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts
around lines 344 - 345:
Update the generic-code overflow matrix in the test.each block that creates
AdapterEvent entries to vary errorType independently of code. Include at least
one generic code paired with upstream_error, while keeping the expected
direct-encoder frame and status unchanged and retaining the legacy-path parity
assertions.

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Review comments at @tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts:
- Around line 344-345: Update the generic-code overflow matrix in the test.each
block that creates AdapterEvent entries to vary errorType independently of code.
Include at least one generic code paired with upstream_error, while keeping the
expected direct-encoder frame and status unchanged and retaining the legacy-path
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tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts: 1

349-350: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a non-retryable case for a generic-coded overflow.

Every generic-coded overflow case in the new test.each sets retryable: true. The encoder emits the overflow code without reading retryable. A regression that suppresses normalization only when retryable is false would pass these cases. Add one parity case for a non-retryable generic code, so the stream frame and folded status are checked on that path.

Suggested test addition

+  test("generic-coded context overflow stays terminal when not retryable", async () => {
+    const events: AdapterEvent[] = [{ type: "error", errorType: "server_error",
+      code: "server_error", message: "Your input exceeds the context window of this model", retryable: false }];
+    const frames = await expectStreamParity(events);
+    expect(frames).toEqual([{ event: "error", data: { type: "error", error: {
+      type: "invalid_request_error", code: "context_length_exceeded",
+      message: "prompt is too long: The request exceeds the model's context window.",
+    } } }]);
+    const response = await expectFoldParity(events);
+    expect(response.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(response.body).toEqual(frames[0]!.data);
+  });
+
   test.each([400, 413, undefined])("context rejection remains terminal with upstream status %s", async status => {

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Review comment at @tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts
around lines 349 - 350:
Add a parity test near the generic-coded context overflow cases in
`protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts` with `retryable: false`. Verify that
stream encoding still normalizes the overflow to `context_length_exceeded` and
that folded encoding produces the matching error body with status 400.

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Review comments at @tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts:
- Around line 349-350: Add a parity test near the generic-coded context overflow
cases in `protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts` with `retryable: false`.
Verify that stream encoding still normalizes the overflow to
`context_length_exceeded` and that folded encoding produces the matching error
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Please review current head 52c0fe2 once. It normally merges prior head 70d7968 with dev 0a30c55 (#8164), preserving both histories. The helper conflict keeps native fold-502 expectations alongside the disjoint direct-writer overflow deltas; golden data is unchanged. CI41841057990 is running with ci:full. The PR stays draft pending current-head validation; the Windows timeouts and local coverage limits are recorded in its body.

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Nitpick comments: 1

tests/helpers/messages-overflow-assertions.ts: 1

44-52: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert mediaType on the corrected direct-stream and direct-fold overflow rows.

These five rows take the error branch, which never compares mediaType. A Content-Type regression on them would pass the helper. The baseline and head values match for both lanes (null for direct-stream and application/json for direct-fold), so the added check passes at the current head. Keep the scope to correctedOverflow rows, because the header producers for the other error lanes were not established.

🧪 Suggested test assertion

   expect(after.text).not.toContain("zq7Vb2LmN4pX9tR1sK8wD3fH6jY0cA5e");
+  if (correctedOverflow) expect(after.mediaType).toBe(expected.mediaType);
   if (base.input.fixedLocal) return;

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Review comment at @tests/helpers/messages-overflow-assertions.ts around lines 44
- 52:
Update the correctedOverflow assertion in the message overflow helper to compare
after.mediaType with expected.mediaType. Limit this check to correctedOverflow
rows and preserve the existing behavior for all other error lanes.

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Review comments at @tests/helpers/messages-overflow-assertions.ts:
- Around line 44-52: Update the correctedOverflow assertion in the message
overflow helper to compare after.mediaType with expected.mediaType. Limit this
check to correctedOverflow rows and preserve the existing behavior for all other
error lanes.

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Maintainer integration into dev under MAINTAINERS.md (lidge-jun, admin).

• Checked head: 52c0fe2, base dev at 0a30c55, mergeable.
• Exact-head CI run 41841057990: gates, test 1/4–4/4, ci, structure gate, hygiene, docker smoke, npm-global, api usage, storage policy, CodeRabbit all pass; test changed skipped under ci:full.
• Review: diff limited to the direct Messages encoder overflow code plus owning structure docs and parity tests; no open change requests or unresolved threads.

Thanks @luvs01. #8129 overlaps this fix; its remaining scope is being carried separately.