fix: honor structured status when classifying missing provider VMs

[austinywang]

The historical Nightly stats 404 → retryable 502 problem was already fixed in 01973f785ae7 (#12420). This PR closes the remaining misclassification at the same boundary: an SDK HTTP 502 whose diagnostic mentions “VM not found” was interpreted as permanent absence and marked the owned machine destroyed.

The shared classifier now gives a concrete HTTP 4xx/5xx status precedence over wrapper text and legacy error codes. Only HTTP 404 is classified as provider absence; other HTTP failures remain retryable provider-operation errors even when diagnostics mention a missing VM. It selects the first numeric status in the valid 400–599 range, so invalid provider sentinels cannot hide a retryable response status. Unstructured legacy errors retain their fallback heuristics, with cycle protection for nested causes. This establishes the invariant that an observed HTTP failure cannot be reclassified from misleading status text or invalid sentinels.

The workflow regression coverage exercises the real Freestyle SDK injected-fetch → driver → Effect gateway → workflow → shared HTTP/presentation contract. It verifies typed 404 retention/non-retryability, failed observation writes, ownership-before-provider access, and typed 401/403/429/5xx plus transport failures remaining retryable without destroying the row. Additional classifier tests cover invalid status sentinels masking 502/503 responses. The fixture explicitly supplies the repository’s current ownerTeamId ownership field.

Validation:

• Test-only commit 091789dc6d precedes the implementation commit af20ca6442; the two-commit history preserves the failing-regression then fix proof. Follow-up review correction: b015f9cb81.
• Final HEAD 5dab73879f includes current origin/main (58e9f224f8) and all required CI checks are green: web tests/typecheck/build/validation, workflow guards, Linux preflight, complexity, database/migrations, security, Greptile, and reviewer checks. macOS suites are correctly skipped because this is backend-only.
• Localization audit: no user-facing strings changed. Swift file and warning budgets were not touched.
• Focused local classifier probes passed. The clone does not have web dependencies installed, so the full Bun fixture tests were validated in GitHub CI rather than locally.
• No production credentials, live VMs, billing, snapshots, flags, or production deployment were used.
• Austin’s required tagged dev build was attempted fail-closed through Blacksmith plus the direct backend. Backend provisioning succeeded at https://cmux-dev-backend-1.tail137216.ts.net:4715/; Blacksmith run 35417512057 stayed queued for the configured 1200 seconds and was cancelled by the launcher. The legacy fleet fallback was stopped and no local build was run, so the authenticated app, Cloud UI gates, and vm ls could not be verified.

Fixes #12627.

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Walkthrough

isProviderNotFoundError now traverses nested causes iteratively and treats valid non-404 HTTP statuses as non-not-found results. New tests cover VM stats classification, authorization, observation failures, and retryable provider failures.

Changes

Provider stats error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider error classification web/services/vms/providerErrors.ts, web/tests/vm-provider-errors.test.ts, web/oxlint-complexity-baseline.txt	The classifier uses a shared failure shape, cycle detection, and authoritative numeric HTTP statuses. Tests cover non-404 statuses, nested causes, and invalid status sentinels. The related Oxlint baseline entry was removed.
VM stats outcome validation web/tests/vm-stats-not-found.test.ts	Integration-style tests cover typed provider NOT_FOUND, failed observation writes, ownership checks, typed 502 responses, and transport failures. Assertions verify HTTP responses, retryability, provider requests, repository writes, and row status changes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (24 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets the coding requirements in [#12627]. isProviderNotFoundError treats HTTP 404 as provider VM absence and treats other valid HTTP failures as non-missing. It preserves legacy code and mes…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within [#12627]. The classifier refactor and regression tests implement the requested provider error boundary and caller behavior. The Oxlint baseline deletion removes the grandfather…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only provider VM error classification, its complexity baseline entry, and regression tests. It does not change Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui clients, Ghostty r…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request diff changes only web TypeScript tests/services and an Oxlint baseline file. It contains no Swift files or production Swift changes, so the Swift actor-isolation check is not ap…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only web TypeScript tests/services and an Oxlint baseline file. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, Xcode, or other Swift-runtime files. Therefore, it introduces no prod…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only web TypeScript tests, provider classification code, and an Oxlint baseline entry. It changes no Swift or CmuxControlSocket files. The scoped diff contains no browse…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only one text baseline file and three TypeScript files under web/. It adds or moves no Swift production code, agent-history loader, synchronous file parsing, or…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only providerErrors.ts, the Oxlint baseline, and tests. isProviderNotFoundError now traverses structured provider failures and applies HTTP-status precedence; …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The pull request introduces no fixed sleeps, timers, delays, or wall-clock waits. The production change uses a bounded cause-traversal loop, not polling or elapsed-time synchronization. The repeated `…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS. The only production algorithm change is in web/services/vms/providerErrors.ts. isProviderNotFoundError now performs one linear traversal of the nested cause chain with cycle protection. `h…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only three TypeScript files and one text file. It contains no Swift paths or Swift concurrency code. The custom check applies to cmux-owned Swift code…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS — The reviewed diff changes only one TXT file and three TypeScript files. It adds no Swift files or Swift isolation/concurrency annotations, so it cannot introduce any of the specified `@concurre…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only three TypeScript files and one text baseline file. It introduces no Swift, Package.swift, AppKit, or Ghostty code, so the Swift package-boundary …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only four web files: the Oxlint baseline, provider error code, and two tests. It changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, Xcode project/workspace…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only one text file and three TypeScript files. It adds no Swift files or production Swift logging. The changed additions contain no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logge…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The only production change is internal provider-error classification in web/services/vms/providerErrors.ts; it adds no user-facing text, API fields, or recovery copy. The changed 5xx path uses…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes provider-error classification, tests, and a complexity baseline only. providerErrors.ts adds diagnostic matching and status handling, but it does not add or modify user-facing t…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed range changes only three TypeScript files and one text baseline file. It contains no Swift or SwiftUI paths and no SwiftUI state/layout patterns. Therefore the SwiftUI state-layout …
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only web TypeScript tests/services and an Oxlint baseline entry. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files, so the Swift architectural-rethink failure conditions do…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The reviewed range changes only web TypeScript, test, and Oxlint baseline files. It introduces or changes no Swift, NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup code. The auxi…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	PASS — The PR changes only four intentional paths: handwritten provider source, two checked-in VM regression test files, and a one-line removal from the Oxlint complexity baseline. The new test uses a…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff changes only web TypeScript/tests and an Oxlint baseline file. It contains no Swift files under any production Sources/ path, so this check is not applicable and introduces no prod…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: honoring structured HTTP status when classifying missing provider VMs.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed, why it changed, the regression coverage, validation results, limitations, and linked issue. It does not reproduce the template headings, review-trigger block, or…

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Review audit (re-checked against final HEAD 2d70867c6c06c67e4112b4aec099bca8410303cc)

Comment ID	Author	File:line	Ask	Disposition	Commit SHA
4056162987	coderabbitai[bot]	web/services/vms/providerErrors.ts:75	Filter invalid status sentinels before selecting a numeric HTTP status, so status: 0/600/-1 cannot mask a retryable 502/503.	fix	b015f9cb81
IC_kwDORDHQWM8AAAABVpdjUw	greptile-apps	N/A	Review confirms the classifier and workflow are safe to merge; no corrective ask.	already-fixed	2d70867c6c
IC_kwDORDHQWM8AAAABVpjhPw	cursor	N/A	Bugbot spend limit notice; no code finding.	already-fixed	2d70867c6c
IC_kwDORDHQWM8AAAABVjQyCg	lawrencecchen	N/A	Build-policy notice; this backend-only PR has no macOS build requirement.	already-fixed	2d70867c6c
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Fleet instruction update for head 1380ec92f37e63fa7f651d8f8b37db1e3da0453e: this PR is classified other. No macOS build tag is claimed. The current controller app recipe does not establish iOS/test readiness; that requires the appropriate validated recipe. Use cmux-ci for supported jobs, retain the returned ID and receipt, and wait on the same ID after any timeout. Do not use retired maclease allocation or post credentials. Exact-head tags will be posted only after the applicable build succeeds.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the classifier preserves retryability for non-404 HTTP and transport failures while retaining terminal handling for genuine 404 responses.

Summary

This PR corrects Cloud VM provider-error classification so valid HTTP status information takes precedence over misleading legacy codes and diagnostic text.

• Treats only HTTP 404 as provider absence while leaving authentication, throttling, server, and transport failures retryable.
• Traverses wrapped causes with cycle protection and ignores invalid status sentinels.
• Adds classifier and end-to-end workflow coverage for ownership checks, observation writes, response contracts, and row-destruction behavior.
• Removes the resolved classifier entry from the complexity baseline.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  E[Provider error] --> O{Object and unseen?}
  O -- No --> L{Legacy missing detail found?}
  O -- Yes --> S{Valid HTTP status 400–599?}
  S -- Yes, 404 --> N[Classify as provider absence]
  S -- Yes, other --> R[Classify as retryable provider operation failure]
  S -- No --> H[Record legacy code or message heuristic]
  H --> C[Follow cause]
  C --> O
  L -- Yes --> N
  L -- No --> R

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In `@web/services/vms/providerErrors.ts`:
- Line 75: Update the status selection in the provider error handling to filter
candidate.status, candidate.statusCode, and candidate.response?.status to
numeric HTTP values from 400 through 599 before applying precedence; then use
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