fix(llm-client): Retry stream disconnects before doing fallback

[grahamking]

Move the first stream-event check inside the retry check, before fallback. Transport failures and timeouts now retry before candidate fallback runs. Preserve no-replay behavior after streaming starts.

Add one regression test covering retry recovery and exhaustion.

Sonnet 5's review:

Verdict: solid. The core change moves stream-decode of the first event inside send_once's retry boundary via a new prepare_response_stream helper, and classifies pre-first-event Transport/Timeout errors as retryable rather than letting them fall straight through to candidate fallback. Logic checks out.

Assisted-by: Pi:GPT 6 Astra medium
Signed-off-by: Graham King grahamk@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of streaming responses when the initial event encounters a transport or timeout error.
  • Streaming requests now retry appropriately when failures occur before the first event.
  • Context overflow responses are reported with a specific typed error.
  • Preserved valid initial stream events while continuing to process the remaining response.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Streaming retry handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prepare and validate decoded streams crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs	Streaming responses now store decoded chunks, status, and headers. The first event is validated inside the retry boundary. Transport and timeout failures remain retryable, and context overflow returns its typed error.
Consume prepared streams and test retries crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs	Completion handling consumes prepared streams. Documentation and tests cover recovery and exhaustion when a stream fails before its first event.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 20144

The streaming retry behavior has no supported merge-blocking runtime risk. Adding the requested test intent comment remains worthwhile for repository compliance.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs (1)

1670-1670: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add an intent comment to this regression test.

Explain that the test covers recovery and exhaustion when the stream disconnects before its first decoded event.

Proposed comment

+    // Verifies retry recovery and exhaustion when the stream disconnects before its first event.
     #[tokio::test]

As per coding guidelines: “For Rust changes, add concise comments for ... tests that encode important behavior.” <coding_guidelines>

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In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs` at line 1670, Add a concise intent
comment immediately above the Rust regression test marked by #[tokio::test],
stating that it verifies recovery and eventual exhaustion when the stream
disconnects before its first decoded event.

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In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs`:
- Line 1670: Add a concise intent comment immediately above the Rust regression
test marked by #[tokio::test], stating that it verifies recovery and eventual
exhaustion when the stream disconnects before its first decoded event.

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[ayushag-nv]

nice change