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v1.4.1: Fix infinite error loop

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@Ascendral Ascendral released this 28 Feb 06:26
· 476 commits to main since this release
v1.4.1
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Bug Fix

Fixed: Agent was looping 50 times on non-retryable errors (missing API key, auth failure, billing issues) instead of stopping immediately.

What changed

  • Fatal error detection — New isFatalError() recognizes permanent failures (missing API key, 401/403, billing, model not found) and stops the agent loop immediately
  • Circuit breaker — If the same non-fatal error repeats 3 times consecutively, the agent stops instead of burning through all 50 iterations
  • Early API key check — Providers detect missing API keys before making HTTP requests and show actionable error messages
  • Human-readable errors — No more raw JSON dumps. Errors now say things like "Set OPENAI_API_KEY or run: codebot --setup"

Before

✗ LLM error after retries:  — { "error": { "message": "You didn't provide an API key..." } }
(repeated 50 times)
✗ Max iterations (50) reached.

After

✗ No API key configured for gpt-4.1. Set OPENAI_API_KEY or run: codebot --setup

Tests

138 passing (up from 131), including new tests for fatal error detection, circuit breaker behavior, and billing/quota error patterns.

npm install -g codebot-ai@1.4.1
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