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- Add CircuitBreaker and CircuitBreakerConfig for failure protection - Add calculate_delay() with exponential/linear/constant backoff strategies - Add shared constants: API_KEY_PREFIX, DEFAULT_BASE_URL, SDK_VERSION, retry settings
- Add field to all FrontalError subclasses for remediation hints - Preserve API error codes in error_for_status() output - Add human-readable fix messages for common status codes (401, 404, 409, 429, 400/422, 5xx) - Update __init__.py exports to include new types and utilities
- safe_to_retry now only applies to GET/HEAD/OPTIONS methods - Mutation requests (POST/PUT/DELETE) are never auto-replayed - This aligns with TypeSDK SDK policy: mutation requests are never replayed automatically - Update _api_error() to compute _safe based on method idempotency
- Add with lowercase convenience aliases (agents, ai, audit, auth, etc.) - Aliases map to the same typed classes from for backward compatibility - New code can use - Existing imports from continue to work unchanged
- Add utils/ package with shared constants, retry, circuit_breaker, and error helpers - utils/constants.py: API_KEY_PREFIX, DEFAULT_BASE_URL, SDK_VERSION, retry settings - utils/retry.py: calculate_delay() with exponential/linear/constant backoff strategies and jitter - utils/circuit_breaker.py: CircuitBreaker and CircuitBreakerConfig utilities - utils/errors.py: error_for_status, FrontalError, RateLimitError re-exports - utils/__init__.py: package-level re-exports for convenient imports
- Add __main__.py to enable running the SDK as - Prints SDK version and available services (agents, ai, workflows, etc.) - Checks for FRONTAL_API_KEY environment variable - Useful for quick diagnostics and testing
frontal_sdk.utils.circuit_breaker duplicated the canonical implementation in frontal_sdk.core.circuit_breaker. Replace the duplicate with a thin re-export so both import paths share one implementation, and publish FrontalError, RateLimitError, and the circuit breaker helpers from the utils package surface.
Drop the never-populated ``code`` key from ``_ErrorContext`` since the API error code is passed to each error constructor as a named argument, and shorten the ``fix`` remediation hints for not-found, validation, conflict, and rate-limit responses. Also remove the stale BackendProtocol entry from the core __all__ export list — the symbol no longer exists in the package — and keep the remaining imports and __all__ entries in sorted order.
The FRONTAL_API_KEY_OLD fallback predates the documented FRONTAL_API_KEY convention, so the CLI diagnostics now read only the canonical variable via the existing DEFAULT_API_KEY_ENV constant. While here, hoist the module-level os import instead of importing it per call.
The agents, ai, functions, and workflows resource modules exposed documented-by-omission public methods. Add one-line docstrings to the builder setters (scopes, triggers, steps, limits) and the accessor methods (get, update, delete, run, list) so editors and API docs surface what each call does.
Add two runnable examples that cover workflows the docs reference but had no script for: text streaming with typed text, finish, and error parts, and structured error handling that prints the error code and per-field validation details from a FrontalError. Register both in the examples README with their uv run commands.
Add offline RESPX coverage for the two new example scripts: the streaming example against a mocked SSE body of text deltas, a finish chunk, and [DONE], and the error-handling example against a mocked 400 VALIDATION_ERROR response, asserting the rendered field messages.
Add a five-minute quickstart covering install, API key configuration, first sync and async requests, agent definition and run watching, text streaming, and structured error handling, plus a next-steps section linking the existing reference docs. Register the page in the docs index and in both mcp.json catalogs so it is discoverable.
Re-wrap two over-indented expressions in core.circuit_breaker, sort the resource imports in the api namespace module, and add the missing final newlines in utils.constants and utils.retry so the working tree passes `ruff format --check`.
scripts/check_contracts.py fails while frontal_sdk/utils exists, and the package no longer carries any logic of its own: the previous commit turned circuit_breaker, errors, and constants into re-exports of the canonical frontal_sdk.core modules, and nothing inside or outside the SDK imports the package. Delete the remaining duplicate retry and constants definitions so the contract gate passes.
coverage-floor.json recorded 146 matched api operations, but the published api.openapi.json snapshot has only ever matched 142: running the current checker logic against the inventory at cbc5b4c, the commit that introduced the floor, reproduces 142 as well. The floor value was never accurate, so re-baseline the ratchet to the real number instead of reporting perpetual drift.
The conformance report and migration matrix still described the 370-entry inventory while the SDK now implements 383 operations. Refresh the counts and add the snapshot conformance numbers: 142 of 383 api snapshot operations are matched by the inventory, 227 inventory operations are absent from the pinned upstream snapshot, and 241 snapshot operations are outside the inventory. The ai surface matches 7/7 in both directions. Document in contracts/README.md that the checker reports this gap as informational drift, because the snapshots are sha256-pinned upstream inputs that must not be hand-edited and the inventory is the contract source for the implemented methods.
The globbed every Markdown file under the repository root, so local scratch files such as .context/todos.md leaked into the generated docs/mcp.json and mcp.json catalogs. Enumerate tracked files with `git ls-files` instead so the catalogs are reproducible from a clean checkout.
Regenerate mcp.json and docs/mcp.json so the catalogs list the 26 tracked documents added since the last refresh: CLAUDE.md, docs/FUNCTIONS.md, the .cursor/ and .vscode/ guides, .claude rules, and the skills/ references. The generated output now matches the tracked-file-only generator, including the previously added docs/GETTING_STARTED.md entry.
The two OpenAPI drift reports printed bare counts, which are not actionable. Break them down by inventory domain on one side and by snapshot path group on the other, and point both lines at contracts/README.md. The warnings still fire with the same severity; reporting the detail does not suppress anything.
Record how the api.openapi.json snapshot relates to its upstream: it is shared byte-for-byte with the TypeScript SDK, whose manifest pins the upstream artifact as sha256 c4603577 while both repositories committed ca5f245, and https://openapi.frontal.dev no longer serves the spec. The committed snapshot therefore predates the baseline it should track, and refreshing it is an upstream action — republish, copy in unchanged, update the manifest sha256 — after which the drift lines and coverage floor recompute automatically.
error_for_status attaches human-readable remediation hints, but no test asserted them, so the reworded strings could silently regress. Cover the mapping end to end through the HTTP layer: parametrized status/code pairs that must produce a hint (401/403, 404, 409, 429, 400/422, 500/503), cases that must stay hint-free (mapped statuses with unmapped codes, unmapped statuses with a code), and the generic fallback hint for an unmapped status without a code.
The top-level "matched"/"unmatched" keys counted inventory entries backed by resource methods while the new openapiConformance block counts inventory entries matched by the pinned snapshot, so the same word meant two different things in one file. Rename the inventory counters to inventoryMethodsImplemented/Unimplemented and spell out both meanings in the note.
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new circuit breaker no longer opens on cancellation, and the SDK's own HTTP path does not use it yet. Two docstrings contradict each other about callback behavior. Fix this before merge, but it is a minor documentation issue. Pre-merge checks |
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The route assertion does not detect whether
examples/stream_text.pyprints text deltas or the finish reason. Capture stdout and assert both outputs.Suggested test assertions
def test_stream_text_example_with_mocked_sse( monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, + capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str], ) -> None: @@ assert route.called + output = capsys.readouterr().out + assert "one two" in output + assert "[finished: stop]" in output🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @frontal_sdk/core/__init__.py:
- Around line 30-33: Update the exports in frontal_sdk.core so callers can
import CircuitBreakerOpenError and CircuitState from the package facade: import
both from circuit_breaker and add both names to __all__.
Review comments at @frontal_sdk/core/circuit_breaker.py:
- Around line 167-168: Update the circuit-breaker transition flow so on_open,
on_close, and on_half_open callbacks are recorded while self._lock is held, then
invoked only after the lock is released; preserve the existing transition
conditions and callback behavior.
- Around line 101-104: Update execute() and execute_async() to classify
exceptions before calling _record_failure: record NetworkError and FrontalError
responses only when their status is in BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUS, and re-raise
cancellations and all other exceptions without recording a failure. Ensure the
predicate does not treat unrelated exceptions as breaker failures and apply the
same classification in both paths.
Review comments at @frontal_sdk/resources/ai.py:
- Line 1014: Update the docstrings for SyncAI.rerank at
frontal_sdk/resources/ai.py:1014 and AsyncAI.rerank at
frontal_sdk/resources/ai.py:1333 to describe returning rerank scores in a
RerankResult, not reordered documents; clarify that callers apply the scores to
their documents.
Review comments at @frontal_sdk/resources/functions.py:
- Line 542: Update the function update description to characterize the PATCH
request as a patch rather than a replacement at
frontal_sdk/resources/functions.py:542-542, and make the same wording change for
the workflow update description at frontal_sdk/resources/workflows.py:750-750.
Review comments at @frontal_sdk/resources/workflows.py:
- Line 871: Update the docstring for WorkflowApprovals.list to describe listing
approvals with an optional status filter, without implying that unfiltered
results are pending.
Review comments at @scripts/generate_docs_manifest.py:
- Line 22: Update the path collection in the manifest generator to include only
paths that currently refer to files, filtering out deleted Markdown files
returned by git ls-files before adding them to paths.
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- Around line 164-165: Update test_stream_text_example_with_mocked_sse to
capture stdout when running examples/stream_text.py and assert that it contains
both the streamed text deltas and the finish reason.
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Classify breaker failures before recording them.
Both execute() and execute_async() record every raised BaseException. This includes cancellation and all FrontalError instances, including 4xx errors that do not indicate service failure. A cancelled half-open probe can therefore reopen the circuit.
Use an exception predicate that counts NetworkError and FrontalError responses in BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUS, and re-raises other exceptions without recording a failure. Apply the same logic to both execution paths. Ensure the predicate does not classify unrelated exceptions as failures.
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Update execute() and execute_async() to classify exceptions before calling
_record_failure: record NetworkError and FrontalError responses only when their
status is in BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUS, and re-raise cancellations and all other
exceptions without recording a failure. Ensure the predicate does not treat
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Replace the six-branch if-chain in error_for_status() with a _STATUS_ERRORS table plus a _classify() helper that maps a status code and error code to an error subtype and fix hint. The if-chain pushed the function past SonarQube Cloud's cognitive complexity limit of 15, which failed the pull request quality gate. The table form keeps the hint text and the error codes it applies to side by side, so adding a status no longer grows a nesting-sensitive branch chain. Behavior is unchanged: the same error subtypes, hints, and codes are produced for every status/code pair, including the generic fallback hint when the API returns no error code.
main() in scripts/check_contracts.py reached a cognitive complexity of 55 against a limit of 15, failing the SonarQube Cloud quality gate on every pull request. Split it into single-responsibility helpers: validate_inputs, load_specs, process_domain, domain_expected_operations, report_resource_mismatch, operation_in_spec, compute_coverage, collect_obsolete_package_errors, print_summary, and print_floor_drift. main() now only wires them together. The script's stdout and exit codes are byte-identical to before, so the contract gate and the committed reports are unaffected. Two hardening changes: the coverage floor is now shape-checked before use instead of failing with an AttributeError, and the resolved HTTP method is threaded through explicitly so the snapshot lookup cannot silently switch back to the alias form.
CircuitBreakerOpenError and CircuitState are public in frontal_sdk.core.circuit_breaker but were absent from frontal_sdk.core, so callers who import from the package facade could not catch the open-circuit error.
Transition callbacks (on_open, on_close, on_half_open) fired while self._lock was held. Because the lock is a non-reentrant threading.Lock, any callback that read breaker.state or breaker.failures, or called force_close, deadlocked the thread. Record the transition under the lock and announce it after release. The mutating helpers (_record, _record_failure, _reset) now assume the caller already holds the lock, matching how execute(), execute_async(), and force_close() use them. Also narrow the failure path from BaseException to Exception so asyncio.CancelledError, KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit no longer count as service failures. Only errors raised by the operation itself open the circuit; is_failure still classifies non-raising responses. Adds tests/test_circuit_breaker.py covering the callbacks, the cancellation rule, and the state machine.
Three docstrings promised behavior the methods do not have: - SyncAI.rerank and AsyncAI.rerank claimed to reorder documents, but both return RerankResult scores and the caller applies them. - FunctionAccessor.update and WorkflowAccessor.update said "Replace" while sending a PATCH, so omitted fields are preserved rather than overwritten. - WorkflowApprovals.list described a pending-only list, but it sends no status filter when callers omit status.
git ls-files lists tracked paths even when their deletion has not been staged, so a maintainer who deletes a tracked .md file before regenerating gets a link to a missing file in docs/mcp.json and mcp.json. Check that each path still refers to a file.
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The two docstrings disagree about calling force_close from a callback.
The class docstring says a callback "must not call back into the breaker (for example force_close)". The _notify docstring says a callback may "call force_close" without a deadlock. The code supports the _notify version, because _notify runs with no lock held. A recursion risk exists only if on_close calls force_close. Make the two docstrings agree.
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- so a callback may read :attr:`state` or :attr:`failures`. It must
- not call back into the breaker (for example :meth:`force_close`),
- which recurses instead of blocking.
+ so a callback may read :attr:`state` or :attr:`failures` or call
+ :meth:`force_close`. An ``on_close`` callback must not call
+ :meth:`force_close`, because that recurses.Also applies to: 213-214
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Review comment at @frontal_sdk/core/circuit_breaker.py around lines 65 - 68:
Update the CircuitBreaker class docstring to agree with the _notify docstring:
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Summary
Adds resilience primitives to
frontal_sdk/coreand improves error ergonomics:frontal_sdk/core/circuit_breaker.py) — closed/open/half-open state machine with configurablefailure_threshold,reset_timeout,on_open/on_close/on_half_opencallbacks, andCircuitBreakerOpenError(code="CIRCUIT_BREAKER_OPEN"). While the circuit is open, or a half-open probe is in flight, calls short-circuit instead of reaching the API.frontal_sdk/core/retry.py) —BackoffStrategyandcalculate_delay().frontal_sdk/core/constants.py) —DEFAULT_BASE_URLandSDK_VERSION.frontal_sdk.core, so the publicfrontal_sdk.coresurface grows.Error handling:
fixhints (frontal_sdk/core/errors.py) —error_for_status()now propagates the API's errorcodeand attaches a human-readable remediation hint to 401/403, 404, 409, 429, and 500-range responses.FrontalError.fixisNonewhen no hint applies, so UIs and agents can branch on it without a status table.frontal_sdk/core/http.py) —safe_to_retryis now limited to idempotentGET/HEAD/OPTIONS.PUT/DELETEare no longer marked auto-replayable, matching the TypeScript SDK policy ("mutation requests are never replayed automatically").Public API and docs:
python -m frontal_sdkentry point (frontal_sdk/__main__.py) prints the SDK version, API key detection, and available services for quick diagnostics.frontal_sdk/api/__init__.py) re-export the typed resources fromfrontal_sdk.resources, giving a stableapi.*namespace alongside the existing uppercase names.examples/stream_text.py(SSE text deltas) andexamples/handle_errors.py(branching oncode,fix,fields, andsafe_to_retry), wired intotests/test_examples.pywith mocked HTTP.docs/GETTING_STARTED.mdplus builder/accessor docstrings on theagents,ai,functions, andworkflowsresources.mcp.json/docs/mcp.jsoncatalog for editor tooling.Contract reporting:
api.openapi.jsonbaseline covers a subset of the API with a different path vocabulary, so both drift directions are now reported per domain as informational rather than as failures, with the snapshot provenance and refresh path documented incontracts/README.md.contracts/coverage-floor.jsonapi floor re-baselined 146 → 142,scripts/check_contracts.pyemits the per-domain breakdown, andscripts/generate_docs_manifest.pyis limited to tracked markdown.Validation
ruff format --check .(127 files),ruff check .uv build,scripts/check_distribution.py,mypy --strict(42 files),pytest(73 passed, incl.test_client.py,test_examples.py,test_docs.py)scripts/check_contracts.pygreenCompatibility
Additive, with one behavior change:
frontal_sdk.coregainsCircuitBreaker,CircuitBreakerConfig,CircuitBreakerOpenError,BackoffStrategy,calculate_delay,DEFAULT_BASE_URL, andSDK_VERSION.FrontalErrorandRateLimitErroraccept and expose afixkeyword/attribute, defaulting toNone.frontal_sdk.apilowercase aliases andpython -m frontal_sdkare new; existingfrontal_sdk.resources, the uppercase top-level exports, andfrontal_sdk.clientare untouched.error_for_status()no longer returnssafe_to_retry=TrueforPUTandDELETEresponses. Callers that replayed those methods based onsafe_to_retrywill now seeFalse.Summary by CodeRabbit
python -m frontal_sdkcommand to check the SDK version, API-key configuration, and available services.frontal_sdk.api.PUTandDELETErequests as safe to replay.