fix(sprout-agent): retry on pre-response transport errors

crates/sprout-agent/src/llm.rs

@@ -675,6 +675,17 @@ async fn backoff_with_jitter(attempt: u32) {
     tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(delay)).await;
 }
 
+/// Transport-layer errors safe to retry for non-streaming LLM POSTs.
+///
+/// Covers timeouts, connect failures, and the broader request-class errors
+/// reqwest reports for pre-response failures: TLS handshake aborts, sockets
+/// dropped or reset mid-send, h2 GOAWAY/RST_STREAM, hyper protocol errors.
+/// Body-serialization happens before the retry loop, so `is_request()` here
+/// is always a network failure, never a malformed request we'd just resend.
+fn is_retryable_transport_error(e: &reqwest::Error) -> bool {
+    e.is_timeout() || e.is_connect() || e.is_request()
+}
+
 async fn post<F>(http: &Client, url: &str, body: &Value, apply: F) -> Result<Value, AgentError>
 where
     F: Fn(reqwest::RequestBuilder) -> reqwest::RequestBuilder,
@@ -692,7 +703,13 @@ where
         {
             Ok(r) => r,
             Err(e) => {
-                if attempt + 1 < MAX_RETRIES && (e.is_timeout() || e.is_connect()) {
+                if attempt + 1 < MAX_RETRIES && is_retryable_transport_error(&e) {
+                    tracing::warn!(
+                        attempt = attempt + 1,
+                        max_attempts = MAX_RETRIES,
+                        error = %e,
+                        "llm: transport error, retrying"
+                    );
                     backoff_with_jitter(attempt).await;
                     continue;
                 }
@@ -704,6 +721,12 @@ where
             return Err(AgentError::LlmAuth(read_error_body(resp).await));
         }
         if (status.is_server_error() || status == 429) && attempt + 1 < MAX_RETRIES {
+            tracing::warn!(
+                attempt = attempt + 1,
+                max_attempts = MAX_RETRIES,
+                %status,
+                "llm: retryable status, retrying"
+            );
             backoff_with_jitter(attempt).await;
             continue;
         }
@@ -1092,4 +1115,73 @@ mod tests {
             "data:image/png;base64,aW1n"
         );
     }
+
+    /// Regression: a connection that is accepted and then dropped before any
+    /// HTTP response bytes are written surfaces as a reqwest request-class
+    /// error (not `is_connect()`, not `is_timeout()`). The retry predicate
+    /// must recognize it; otherwise transient TLS/h2/proxy hiccups bubble
+    /// out of the agent as `transport: error sending request ...`.
+    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+    async fn post_retries_on_dropped_connection_before_response() {
+        use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU32, Ordering};
+        use std::sync::Arc;
+        use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
+        use tokio::net::TcpListener;
+
+        let listener = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:0").await.unwrap();
+        let url = format!("http://{}/v1/x", listener.local_addr().unwrap());
+        let accepts = Arc::new(AtomicU32::new(0));
+        let accepts_srv = accepts.clone();
+
+        tokio::spawn(async move {
+            loop {
+                let (mut sock, _) = match listener.accept().await {
+                    Ok(p) => p,
+                    Err(_) => return,
+                };
+                let n = accepts_srv.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                if n == 0 {
+                    // First attempt: read the request, then drop the socket
+                    // without writing a response. reqwest surfaces this as
+                    // a request-class error (is_request() == true).
+                    let mut tmp = [0u8; 4096];
+                    let _ = sock.read(&mut tmp).await;
+                    drop(sock);
+                    continue;
+                }
+                // Subsequent attempts: serve a tiny JSON body.
+                let mut buf = Vec::new();
+                let mut tmp = [0u8; 4096];
+                while !buf.windows(4).any(|w| w == b"\r\n\r\n") {
+                    match sock.read(&mut tmp).await {
+                        Ok(0) | Err(_) => return,
+                        Ok(k) => buf.extend_from_slice(&tmp[..k]),
+                    }
+                }
+                let body = "{\"ok\":true}";
+                let resp = format!(
+                    "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\n\
+                     Content-Length: {}\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n{}",
+                    body.len(),
+                    body,
+                );
+                let _ = sock.write_all(resp.as_bytes()).await;
+                let _ = sock.shutdown().await;
+            }
+        });
+
+        let client = Client::builder()
+            .timeout(Duration::from_secs(5))
+            .build()
+            .unwrap();
+        let out = post(&client, &url, &serde_json::json!({}), |b| b)
+            .await
+            .expect("post should succeed after retry");
+        assert_eq!(out, serde_json::json!({ "ok": true }));
+        assert!(
+            accepts.load(Ordering::SeqCst) >= 2,
+            "server should have seen at least 2 connection attempts, saw {}",
+            accepts.load(Ordering::SeqCst)
+        );
+    }
 }