#10551: feat(infra): add error classification for smarter retry decisions
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Error Resilience and Retry Logic
## Human View
### Summary
Currently `retryAsync` relies on per-channel `shouldRetry` callbacks with ad-hoc regex matching (e.g. `TELEGRAM_RETRY_RE`). This works, but means:
- Every new channel re-invents the same classification logic
- Auth errors (401/403) and billing errors (402) still get retried — wasting time and API credits
- No centralized place to understand *why* a retry was skipped
This PR adds `src/infra/error-classifier.ts` — a single `classifyError()` function that inspects:
1. **HTTP status codes** — 429 → rate_limit, 401/403 → auth, 402 → billing, 5xx → retryable
2. **Node.js network codes** — ECONNRESET, ETIMEDOUT → retryable; ENOTFOUND → fatal
3. **Provider message patterns** — OpenAI quota, Anthropic overloaded, generic timeouts
Six categories: `retryable`, `rate_limit`, `auth`, `billing`, `fatal`, `unknown`.
#### Integration
Two drop-in helpers for existing `retryAsync`:
```ts
import { isRetryableError, retryAfterMs } from "./error-classifier.js";
retryAsync(fn, {
shouldRetry: isRetryableError,
retryAfterMs,
});
```
#### What this does NOT change
- No modifications to existing `retry.ts` or `retry-policy.ts`
- No breaking changes
- Purely additive — new file + tests
### Test plan
- [x] 30 vitest tests in `error-classifier.test.ts`
- [x] HTTP status codes (429, 401, 402, 403, 400, 404, 500, 502, 503, 501)
- [x] Network error codes (ECONNRESET, ETIMEDOUT, ECONNREFUSED, ENOTFOUND, CERT_HAS_EXPIRED)
- [x] Provider message patterns (OpenAI quota, rate limit, Anthropic overloaded, timeout, socket hang up)
- [x] Edge cases (null, undefined, string errors, Error instances, nested response.status)
- [x] Priority: HTTP status > error code > message pattern
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## AI View (DCCE Protocol v1.0)
### Metadata
- **Generator**: Claude (Anthropic) via Cursor IDE
- **Methodology**: AI-assisted development with human oversight and review
### AI Contribution Summary
- Solution design and implementation
- Test development (30 test cases)
### Verification Steps Performed
1. Analyzed existing codebase patterns
2. Implemented feature with comprehensive tests
3. Ran test suite (30 tests passing)
### Human Review Guidance
- Core changes are in: `src/infra/error-classifier.ts`, `retry.ts`, `retry-policy.ts`
- Verify test coverage matches the described scenarios
Made with M7 [Cursor](https://cursor.com)
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<h2>Greptile Overview</h2>
<h3>Greptile Summary</h3>
- Adds a new `src/infra/error-classifier.ts` module that classifies arbitrary thrown values into retry categories (HTTP status, network code, message patterns) and provides `shouldRetry`/`retryAfterMs` helpers for `retryAsync()`.
- Adds a vitest suite covering status-code classification, common Node/network error codes, provider message pattern matching, and a few precedence/edge cases.
- Intended to centralize retry decision logic so callers can avoid ad-hoc regexes and skip retries for auth/billing errors.
<h3>Confidence Score: 4/5</h3>
- Mostly safe to merge, but contains a small logical defect in status classification code ordering.
- The PR is additive with good test coverage; the main issue found is an unreachable `501` special-case in `classifyStatus()`, which indicates intended behavior/reason text won’t ever apply as written.
- src/infra/error-classifier.ts
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