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Kiro answers 400 ValidationException: Improperly formed request when the identity a request was routed under cannot serve it. classifyKiroRefusal returned other for this shape, so the account stayed selected, no other login was tried, and inside a combo the 400 ended the chain even when a later target could serve the turn.

  • classifyKiroRefusal now returns the account-scoped kind profile for this shape. It needs status 400 and both vendor tokens (the ValidationException name and the "improperly formed request" wording), so a genuinely bad payload, or a caller that echoes only one token, stays terminal. Rotation and the existing Kiro cooldown apply unchanged.
  • comboFailureDecision treats the same shape as a hop, also when it arrives wrapped as Provider error 400: {...}. It is checked before the generic invalid_request_error stop.

We run OpenCodex as a shared gateway with several Kiro logins and saw this 400 reach clients while other logins and combo targets could have served the turn.

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On the rebased head (Bun 1.4.3):

  • bun test tests/providers/kiro/kiro-refusal.test.ts tests/codex-integration/combos.test.ts: 102 pass, 0 fail (467 expects).
  • bun scripts/privacy-scan.ts: passed.
  • bunx tsc --noEmit -p .: exit 0.

New cases: the classifier convicts only the two-token 400 shape (and not a bare "improperly formed request", a bare ValidationException, or other statuses); the combo policy hops on the raw and the wrapped shape and stops on the one-token variants.

I did not run the full bun run test suite; the change touches only these two functions, and the focused files above cover both callers.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Kiro profile-related request errors now allow failover to another provider instead of stopping the request.
    • Improved recognition of these errors in wrapped provider responses.

Kiro answers `400 ValidationException: Improperly formed request` when the
identity a request was routed under cannot serve it. classifyKiroRefusal
returned `other`, so the rotation loop stopped: the account stayed selected,
no other login was tried, and inside a combo the 400 ended the chain even
though a later target could serve the turn.

Classify it as the account-scoped kind `profile` (400 only, and both the
vendor exception name and the "improperly formed request" wording are
required, so a genuinely bad payload or a caller echoing one token stays
terminal). Rotation and the existing Kiro cooldown apply unchanged.
comboFailureDecision treats the same shape, also inside a transport-wrapped
frame, as a hop, before the generic invalid_request_error stop.
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📝 Walkthrough

The Kiro refusal adapter recognizes a specific status-400 profile validation error. The combo failure decision treats matching errors as eligible for failover. Tests cover the refusal classification and failover behavior.

Changes: Kiro profile refusal failover

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify Kiro profile refusals
src/adapters/kiro-refusal.ts, tests/providers/kiro/kiro-refusal.test.ts
Adds the profile refusal kind and a helper for detecting matching status-400 errors in wrapped text. Tests cover required message content, status codes, and the body-size limit.
Route matching refusals through failover
src/combos/failover.ts, tests/codex-integration/combos.test.ts
Checks for a Kiro profile refusal before the generic invalid-request stop rule. Tests distinguish matching messages from similar messages that should stop.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: vadymhimself

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This change lets combos fail over when Kiro rejects a request as improperly formed. The check is not limited to Kiro, though, and it matches loosely on raw text. As a result, some 400 errors that should stop immediately may instead be retried on the next combo target. The effect is wasted attempts and a different final error, not lost data, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness. Ideally the check would be scoped to Kiro first.

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The title describes the main change: rotate Kiro accounts when a 400 response reports an improperly formed validator request. The wording is awkward, but the title is specific and related to the changeset.

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Review comments at @src/adapters/kiro-refusal.ts:
- Line 51: Update the combo-hop predicate that checks VALIDATION_EXCEPTION and
IMPROPER_REQUEST_WORD to unwrap the “Provider error 400: ” frame, parse the
response body, and apply the same reason and message checks as
classifyKiroRefusal. Add a predicate test confirming that tokens split across
metadata and message fields do not grant a combo hop.

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- Line 863: Update comboFailureDecision and the shared combo failure path to
pass the failed target’s provider, and call isKiroAccountProfileRefusal only for
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  • src/adapters/kiro-refusal.ts
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Comment thread src/adapters/kiro-refusal.ts Outdated
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export function isKiroAccountProfileRefusal(status: number, bodyText: string): boolean {
if (status !== 400 || Buffer.byteLength(bodyText, "utf8") > BOUNDED_BODY_MAX_BYTES) return false;
return bodyText.includes(VALIDATION_EXCEPTION) && IMPROPER_REQUEST_WORD.test(bodyText);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match the parsed refusal fields before granting a combo hop.

For {"metadata":"ValidationException","message":"Improperly formed request"}, classifyKiroRefusal returns other, but this predicate returns true. It finds the two tokens in unrelated fields. The combo layer therefore hops on a refusal that the Kiro account layer treats as terminal. Unwrap the Provider error 400: frame, parse the body, and apply the same reason and message checks as classifyKiroRefusal. Add this split-field case to the predicate tests. As per path instructions, “Flag Node-only APIs that break under Bun, provider/adapter contract drift, and changes that bypass the shared routing/config layers.”

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Update the combo-hop predicate that checks VALIDATION_EXCEPTION and
IMPROPER_REQUEST_WORD to unwrap the “Provider error 400: ” frame, parse the
response body, and apply the same reason and message checks as
classifyKiroRefusal. Add a predicate test confirming that tokens split across
metadata and message fields do not grant a combo hop.

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Comment thread src/combos/failover.ts Outdated
// Kiro's body validator rejects the request for the identity it was routed under. The account
// layer rotates logins first; this is the no-alternate case, so the next combo target is the
// only remaining chance to serve the turn. Must precede the generic invalid_request_error stop.
if (isKiroAccountProfileRefusal(status, message)) return "hop";

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Restrict the Kiro profile hop to Kiro targets.

comboFailureDecision handles failures from every combo provider, but this branch does not know which provider failed. If a non-Kiro target returns status 400 with both phrases in its error text, the branch hops instead of applying the generic terminal-invalid-request rule. Pass the failed target’s provider through the shared combo failure path. Apply isKiroAccountProfileRefusal only when that provider is Kiro, and add a non-Kiro regression case. As per coding guidelines, “Preserve existing public exports and configuration compatibility unless the task explicitly changes them.” As per path instructions, “Flag Node-only APIs that break under Bun, provider/adapter contract drift, and changes that bypass the shared routing/config layers.”

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Update comboFailureDecision and the shared combo failure path to pass the failed
target’s provider, and call isKiroAccountProfileRefusal only for Kiro targets.
Add a regression case confirming a non-Kiro target with the same status and
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[P2] Fence the Kiro-specific hop by the failed provider — src/combos/failover.ts:861.

comboFailureDecision is shared by every target, while the new isKiroAccountProfileRefusal(status, message) branch sees no provider identity. A non-Kiro target returning HTTP 400 with ValidationException: Improperly formed request now hops where its invalid-request verdict previously stopped. Those words alone do not prove that another account or provider can serve it; this can resend an invalid payload to another declared target. The unresolved CodeRabbit thread identifies the same missing fence.

Pass trustworthy failed-target identity into the decision or constrain this rule at the Kiro-owned boundary. Add non-Kiro and unrelated/malformed-payload negative controls alongside a Kiro account-rotation/combo exhaustion integration test; current unit fixtures demonstrate string matching, not successful account recovery. Keep the Draft and update the owning Kiro/failover structure contract (none is changed in this diff). This is scoped static correctness feedback at 58f9fd8c501ee450d605a81d4fe1e5e341e0e59f, not a live Kiro probe, execution approval, sponsorship or merge approval.

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Thanks for the review. Fixed in 112b721.

  • The hop is now gated on the failed target's adapter being kiro (failedAdapter is passed from executeComboResponses). Other providers, and callers that do not pass it, keep the terminal invalid_request stop.
  • The combo predicate now unwraps the Provider error 400: frame and applies the same parsed reason/message rules as classifyKiroRefusal, so the split-field body ({"metadata":"ValidationException","message":"Improperly formed request"}) no longer matches.
  • While adding the integration test I found that the combo layer sees the adapter-normalized Kiro invalid request: ... text, not the raw body, so the predicate accepts that prefix too. The same words without the prefix do not match.
  • New tests: a non-Kiro 400 stops (unit and server e2e), unrelated and malformed Kiro payloads stop, a Kiro account rotation that serves, and a combo hop after all Kiro accounts refuse.
  • structure/providers/kiro.md and structure/transports/responses-failover.md are updated.

bun test tests/server/server-kiro-refusal-e2e.test.ts tests/providers/kiro/kiro-refusal.test.ts tests/codex-integration/combos.test.ts: 131 pass, 0 fail (bun 1.4.3); tsc --noEmit clean. Still Draft.

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Landed on dev as part of the dispatch/usage/failover bundle #7389 (squash bddd61f), with Co-authored-by credit. Adaptations are listed in #7389 (ratchet move for #7323/#7373; the Kiro hop is now fenced to the adapter the failed leg actually resolved). Closing as absorbed. Thank you!

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