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Summary

When the web-search consumer paused, a buffered semantic event kept the upstream raw-byte inactivity timer running and could incorrectly fail a healthy stream. Pause and resume the remaining upstream inactivity budget across the semantic handoff, without resetting it, and separately bound a stalled consumer so the original reader is cancelled. Keep the separate post-terminal drain deadline and identify consumer timeout distinctly from upstream inactivity. Synchronous empty chunks now yield to the event loop so they cannot starve the upstream inactivity timer.

Closes #8159

The shared structure/runtime.md contract is updated because it owns the web-search timeout behavior. The coordinator approved the scope expansion to src/images/loop.ts and its tests: image-loop consumer inactivity is now classified as 504 before generic provider-stream errors, matching the web-search loop. Prior art: the WHATWG Streams Standard describes demand, backpressure and cancellation; the HTML event-loop processing model describes microtask checkpoint processing.

Verification

• Before the fix, PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun test tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts -t 'a paused consumer does not count as upstream byte inactivity' — exit 1, reproducing RoutedModelInactivityError.

• Before the empty-chunk fix, PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" bun test tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts -t 'synchronous empty chunks cannot starve the inactivity deadline' — exit 1; the task-owned subprocess exceeded its five-second watchdog despite a 100 ms inactivity limit. After the fix this test passed in 139 ms, exit 0.

• Before the image-loop fix, bun test tests/images/loop.test.ts -t 'a stalled search-stream consumer reports a timeout in the terminal' — exit 1: emitted status 502 and Provider stream error instead of status 504 and the original timeout message. After the fix the same command exited 0, 1 pass.

• bun test --isolate tests/images/loop.test.ts tests/images/loop-reasoning-replay.test.ts tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts tests/web-search/web-search-timeout-contract.test.ts tests/web-search/web-search.test.ts — exit 0, 189 pass, 0 fail.

• bun run typecheck — exit 0.

• bun test tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts — exit 0, 9 pass.

• bun run structure:check — exit 0.

• bun run privacy:scan — exit 0.

• bun run test:changed — exit 1, 19,814 pass, 39 skip, 23 fail, 9 errors across 795 files. The following failing files were each run alone with bun test --isolate <file> on head c4c03026431332c325d27207d5fd56f7d7a77c08 and clean origin/dev 3b23d46e7debb62800a4a4427c7fddef897288a4:

  File	Head	dev	Assessment
  tests/codex-integration/catalog-omit-disabled-native.test.ts	exit 1, 5 fail	exit 1, 1 fail	Same first retained-sync timeout; head had further cascading timeouts.
  tests/codex-integration/codex-config-write-lock.test.ts	exit 1, 1 fail	exit 1, 1 fail	Same lock timeout on both.
  tests/codex-integration/native-codex-toggle.test.ts	initial exit 1, 8 fail; rerun exit 0, 14 pass	exit 0, 14 pass	Passed in isolation on head rerun. The same off/on case also timed out on both head and dev when run alone with -t 'the status read follows an off-then-on round trip against the same stale server config'; its codex --version child exceeded the test timeout.
  tests/codex-integration/native-ultrafast-picker.test.ts	exit 1, 1 fail	exit 1, 1 fail	Same retained-sync timeout on both.
  tests/config/settings-desktop-switch-apply.test.ts	exit 0, 12 pass	exit 0, 12 pass	Passed in isolation on both.
  tests/routing/combo-management-api.test.ts	exit 0, 41 pass	exit 0, 41 pass	Passed in isolation on both.
  tests/server/server-native-catalog-priority.test.ts	exit 0, 7 pass	exit 0, 7 pass	Passed in isolation on both.

  The changed suite remains failed; these comparisons do not certify it green. PR CI must pass before merge.

• Full bun run test not run locally because six lanes run concurrently. Hosted CI covers the wider Ubuntu test shards; macOS and Windows are covered by maintainer batch policy.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved reliability of web-search progress streaming when processing pauses or incoming data stalls.
  • Streams that stop receiving events now time out, while pauses handing events to the consumer are handled separately.
  • Abandoned streams are bounded by a consumer timeout, reported as a gateway error for search and image requests.
  • Empty data chunks no longer incorrectly reset the upstream inactivity timer.

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Walkthrough

The progress stream now distinguishes upstream byte inactivity from downstream consumer delays. It pauses the upstream inactivity budget during blocked event delivery and applies a separate consumer timeout. The search and image loops map consumer timeout errors to 504 responses.

Changes: Web-search progress stream

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stream deadlines and error handling src/web-search/progress-stream.ts, tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts	The stream adds a configurable consumer timeout, defaulting to at least 300,000 ms. It pauses the remaining upstream inactivity budget while event delivery is blocked. Empty chunks do not renew that budget, and upstream inactivity tracking stops after a terminal event. Tests cover timeout behavior, cancellation, aborts, empty chunks, and terminal draining.
Loop timeout mapping and response validation src/web-search/loop.ts, src/images/loop.ts, tests/images/loop.test.ts, tests/images/loop-reasoning-replay.test.ts, structure/runtime.md	The search and image loops convert consumer inactivity errors to 504 LoopErrors. An image-loop test checks the 504 error event and failed terminal SSE response. A mock preserves the progress-stream module exports, and the runtime documentation describes the timeout behavior.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c4c03

An abandoned stream can retain its upstream connection indefinitely. The consumer lifetime bound should be fixed before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly describes the separation of consumer and upstream inactivity handling in the web-search stream.
Linked Issues check		[#8159] src/web-search/progress-stream.ts pauses the remaining upstream inactivity budget during semantic handoff and resumes it without resetting it. Nonempty bytes reset the budget; synchronous em…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#8159] The progress-stream changes, web-search timeout mapping, regression tests, and structure/runtime.md update support the issue. src/images/loop.ts maps the same consumer timeout to 504, and …
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

[#8159] src/web-search/progress-stream.ts pauses the remaining upstream inactivity budget during semantic handoff and resumes it without resetting it. Nonempty bytes reset the budget; synchronous empty chunks yield to the event loop. A separate consumer timeout cancels the original reader, and post-terminal draining keeps its own deadline. tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts covers these cases, including cancellation. The author reports that focused tests passed. The changed-test suite remains failed; the reported comparisons do not establish that it passed.

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[#8159] The progress-stream changes, web-search timeout mapping, regression tests, and structure/runtime.md update support the issue. src/images/loop.ts maps the same consumer timeout to 504, and its tests cover that mapping and preserve the new export in mocks. These changes support the shared stream behavior. The whole-PR summary shows no unrelated changes.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 1

tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts: 1

211-222: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add a remaining-budget regression for blocked handoffs.

In tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts, consume part of the inactivity budget and confirm that a semantic delivery blocks. Then resume into a stalled upstream read and assert that the remaining budget expires before a fresh budget would. The current tests could miss a reset specific to blocked deliveries.

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Review comment at @tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts around
lines 211 - 222:
Add a regression test around parseStreamWithProgress that consumes part of the
inactivity budget, verifies a semantic delivery blocks, then resumes into a
stalled upstream read and confirms the remaining budget expires before a fresh
full budget would. Ensure the test detects a timeout reset specifically across
the blocked delivery handoff.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/web-search/progress-stream.ts:
- Around line 30-35: Update error handling in the image loop to recognize
WebSearchConsumerInactivityError and return it as a 504, matching the web-search
loop; ensure it is handled before the generic Provider stream error mapping
while preserving other error mappings.

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Review comments at @tests/web-search/web-search-progress-stream.test.ts:
- Around line 211-222: Add a regression test around parseStreamWithProgress that
consumes part of the inactivity budget, verifies a semantic delivery blocks,
then resumes into a stalled upstream read and confirms the remaining budget
expires before a fresh full budget would. Ensure the test detects a timeout
reset specifically across the blocked delivery handoff.

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Major · Bound the wait for the consumer’s next request · progress-stream.ts:231-270

src/web-search/progress-stream.ts:231-270
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Bound the wait for the consumer’s next request

In src/web-search/progress-stream.ts:256-270, the consumer timer ends when an event is delivered. If the consumer never requests another event, the parser can keep reading SSE comments without another handoff. Each comment resets upstream inactivity, so the reader can remain open indefinitely.

Start a consumer deadline when the generator yields an event, and clear it when the consumer requests the next event. Keep the existing bound for pending handoffs. Add a regression test with recurring SSE comments after the first delivered event.

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Review comment at @src/web-search/progress-stream.ts around lines 231 - 270:
Update the progress-stream generator’s event-yield flow to start a consumer
deadline when it yields an event and clear that deadline when the consumer
requests the next event. Preserve the existing timeout for pending handoffs in
deliverWithTimeout, and add a regression test showing recurring SSE comments
cannot keep the stream open indefinitely after the first event.

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Review comments at @src/web-search/progress-stream.ts:
- Around line 231-270: Update the progress-stream generator’s event-yield flow
to start a consumer deadline when it yields an event and clear that deadline
when the consumer requests the next event. Preserve the existing timeout for
pending handoffs in deliverWithTimeout, and add a regression test showing
recurring SSE comments cannot keep the stream open indefinitely after the first
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Maintainer integration into dev under MAINTAINERS.md (lidge-jun, admin).

• Checked head: c4c0302; all 30 PR checks on this head passed (the test 4/4 cancelled at the 15-minute job deadline in attempt 1 was rerun on the same head and passed); no unresolved review threads.
• Review: a paused downstream consumer no longer counts against the upstream byte-inactivity timer; it has its own deadline (default 300 s) and surfaces as 504 in both the web-search and image loops (CodeRabbit finding fixed with a red-to-green regression). Synchronous empty-chunk streams yield to the event loop so the inactivity timer still fires.