fix(resilience): stop counting capacity pushback as circuit-breaker failures

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Description

Backend capacity pushback (429 by default) no longer counts toward opening a worker's circuit breaker.

Problem

record_outcome records a circuit-breaker failure for every status in retryable_status_codes — which includes 429 and 503. Backends emit these routinely as backpressure (queue full, rate limits), so a load spike could open the breakers of the busiest workers, excluding them for the CB timeout and concentrating traffic on the remaining workers — amplifying pressure instead of shedding it.

Solution

A new capacity_status_codes set (default {429}) on the resolved resilience config, per-worker overridable via ResilienceUpdate exactly like the retryable set. Statuses in it remain retryable on another worker but record no circuit-breaker sample in either direction: no failure, and no success either — a half-open breaker must not be closed by a request the worker refused. 503 stays a fault by default (indistinguishable from an outage); operators can add it to the capacity set for backends known to use it as pushback.

Changes

• crates/protocols/src/worker.rs: ResilienceUpdate.capacity_status_codes (additive, skip-none)
• model_gateway/src/worker/resilience.rs: default set, resolution, field
• model_gateway/src/worker/worker.rs: record_outcome skips CB accounting for capacity statuses
• Tests: 429 storm never opens the breaker while 500s still do; 429 does not close a half-open breaker; default/override resolution

Test Plan

• cargo test -p smg --lib — 1562 passed (4 new)
• cargo test -p openai-protocol — green
• cargo clippy -p smg -p openai-protocol --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean
• nightly cargo fmt

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added configurable HTTP status codes for capacity pushback responses.
  • Status code 429 is treated as a retryable capacity response by default.
  • Worker-specific settings can replace the default capacity status codes.

• Bug Fixes

  • Capacity pushback responses no longer incorrectly affect circuit-breaker state.
  • These responses remain retryable, while genuine failures continue to be tracked normally.
  • Retryable status-code configuration now preserves capacity pushback handling.

Walkthrough

The change adds configurable capacity pushback HTTP statuses. The default is 429. Capacity statuses remain retryable but do not create circuit-breaker samples.

Changes

Capacity pushback resilience

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resilience update contract crates/protocols/src/worker.rs	ResilienceUpdate accepts optional capacity status-code overrides and includes them in is_empty.
Capacity status resolution model_gateway/src/worker/resilience.rs	ResolvedResilience defaults capacity statuses to 429 and replaces them when a worker override is present. Tests cover defaults, overrides, and retryability.
Circuit-breaker outcome handling model_gateway/src/worker/worker.rs	Worker::record_outcome skips circuit-breaker recording for configured capacity statuses. Tests cover closed and half-open breaker behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 42c27

Custom retryable-status overrides can make configured capacity responses non-retryable, causing requests to fail on the first worker instead of being retried elsewhere. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Worker
  participant ResolvedResilience
  participant CircuitBreaker
  Worker->>ResolvedResilience: check response status
  ResolvedResilience-->>Worker: capacity status match or no match
  Worker->>CircuitBreaker: record non-capacity outcome

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In `@model_gateway/src/worker/resilience.rs`:
- Around line 250-265: Update capacity_codes_override_replaces_default to use
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- Around line 111-115: Ensure the effective retryable status-code set always
includes every resolved capacity status code, including defaults when overrides
omit them. Update the construction or validation around retryable_status_codes
and capacity_status_codes so partial retryable overrides cannot make a capacity
response such as 429 non-retryable, while preserving explicitly configured
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[pallasathena92]

Correction on my earlier reply: the "Fixed in 47d119b" commit was superseded and is not part of the merge — disregard it. The finding's premise doesn't hold in this codebase: per-worker retryable_status_codes never gates retryability (every retry path goes through the router-global is_retryable_status, which always covers 429); its only consumer is circuit-breaker classification, which capacity codes short-circuit before reaching. The merged version documents exactly this and pins it with partial_retryable_override_leaves_capacity_pushback_retryable, so no union is needed.