fix(fallback)+docs(adr-0004): D16 — honor "usable chunks streamed" qualifier on SPAWN_FAILED

cold-audit catch from 2026-05-23

Cold-audit Finding 17 (P2 fallback correctness). ADR 0004 § Trigger
taxonomy Hard triggers bullet 3 says "Provider CLI exit code ≠ 0
**with no usable response chunks streamed**" — the qualifier was
not honored. Pre-D16 code in `collectAllChunks` re-raised SPAWN_FAILED
unconditionally, discarding any partial chunks. Concrete failure:
provider yields 1000 chars of completion then exits non-zero (e.g.,
post-stream cleanup error) → chunks dropped, fallback to next provider,
user pays double spawn cost and loses the original provider's output.

Coordinated change across two layers, single commit per the
ADR-with-code pattern (D11 / D15 precedent):

1. docs/adr/0004-fallback-engine.md — Amendment 1 (top of doc, matching
   D11/D15 placement convention):
   - Documents the "usable chunks streamed" semantics precisely
   - Behavior split: chunks.length > 0 + SPAWN_FAILED → synthesize stop
     + return (Case B); chunks.length === 0 + SPAWN_FAILED → re-throw
     (Case A, hard trigger fires as before)
   - finish_reason='length' rationale (4 reasons documented)
   - Streaming-path note: ADR 0004 first-chunk rule already handles the
     analogous case for D10's real-streaming branch; D16 applies to
     buffered path only
   - Cache behavior: write-through `getOrCompute` (preserves D4 singleflight
     during truncation event) then evict via `set(ttlMs=0)` (so future
     fresh callers re-spawn). `__truncated` non-enumerable marker
     travels with the chunks array for follower visibility

2. server.mjs `collectAllChunks` salvage path:
   - try/catch around the for-await loop
   - On SPAWN_FAILED with chunks.length > 0: synthesize stop chunk
     `{type:'stop', finish_reason:'length'}`, log warn event
     `spawn_failed_after_usable_chunks`, mark chunks array with
     non-enumerable `__truncated`, return (no re-throw)
   - On SPAWN_FAILED with chunks.length === 0 OR any other error:
     re-throw (preserves existing hard-trigger semantics)

3. server.mjs `executeHopFn` cache eviction:
   - After `cacheStore.getOrCompute(...)` returns, check `result.__truncated`
   - If truncated: `cacheStore.set(keyId, hopCacheKey, result, 0)` —
     ttlMs=0 causes `_isAlive` to treat the entry as expired on next
     read (verified in lib/cache/store.mjs)

4. test-features.mjs Suite 13 — 3 new tests:
   - Case A regression: SPAWN_FAILED at iter 0 + 2-hop chain → openai
     serves, X-OLP-Fallback-Hops: 1 (no behavior change)
   - Case B 2-hop: 2 deltas + SPAWN_FAILED → anthropic serves with
     synthesized stop, hops=0, finish_reason='length', content
     concatenates, openai NOT called
   - Case B single-hop: 1 delta + SPAWN_FAILED → HTTP 200 (not 502),
     finish_reason='length', partial content visible

Tests: 297 → 300 (+3). All pass on Node 20.

Pre-commit fold-ins (per evidence-first checkpoint #4 — fold-ins
themselves need second-pass review):

- **Error-chunk-in-chunks fold-in (sonnet flagged)**: pre-D12 code
  pushed error chunks BEFORE throwing. Post-D16's `chunks.length > 0`
  check would incorrectly include an error chunk and trigger Case B
  for a path that's actually Case A. Moved the `type === 'error'`
  check BEFORE the push, restoring the invariant that the chunks
  array contains only delta/stop chunks. Verified all 3 scenarios:
  (1) error at iter 0 → throws before push → length=0 → Case A
  (2) delta×2 + error at iter 3 → throws before push → length=2 → Case B
      with delta×2 + synthesized stop (no error chunk leaks)
  (3) delta + non-zero exit from outside loop → length=1 → Case B

- **ADR doc-code drift fold-in (D16 reviewer flagged)**: original
  Amendment 1 text said the salvaged result "bypasses
  cacheStore.getOrCompute and is returned directly, exactly as the
  cache-bypass path does." This was factually wrong — the code
  write-throughs via getOrCompute then evicts via ttlMs=0. The drift
  was ironic: D16 was about removing doc-code drift in ADR 0004
  bullet 3 itself, and the amendment was about to ship fresh drift.
  Corrected to accurately describe the write-then-evict pattern and
  the rationale (preserving D4 singleflight during truncation events).

Authority:
- ADR 0004 § Trigger taxonomy Hard triggers bullet 3 (the qualifier
  this amendment makes load-bearing)
  https://github.com/dtzp555-max/olp/blob/main/docs/adr/0004-fallback-engine.md
- ADR 0005 § Cache write conditions item 1 — "response completed
  successfully (no truncation, no error mid-stream)"
- OpenAI Chat Completions finish_reason enum (stop|length|tool_calls|
  content_filter|function_call|null)
  https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/object
- ADR 0004 § Fallback safety — first-chunk rule (already governs the
  analogous case in the real-streaming path)
- ALIGNMENT.md Rule 2(c) spirit — ADR amendment + code change land
  in same merge (D11 / D15 precedent)
- CC 开发铁律 v1.6 § 10.x — Cold Audit caught this; diff-review
  passes focused on first-chunk rule for streaming missed the
  buffered path's truncation-vs-fallback decision point

Reviewer (Iron Rule v1.6 § 10.x Mode A, fresh-context opus, independent
of drafter): APPROVE_WITH_MINOR. Folded the ADR doc-code drift minor
before commit. Walked all 3 error-chunk scenarios against actual code
to verify the pre-commit fold-in is correct. Analyzed the eviction
race window (sub-ms post-inflight pre-eviction window where a fresh
caller could hit the truncated cache before eviction lands) and
concluded it's structurally bounded — one-shot leak per truncation
event; subsequent callers re-spawn. Acceptable as v0.1.

Follow-up items (reviewer's non-blocking suggestions, NOT in this PR):
- 4th test asserting second identical request triggers fresh spawn
  (defense-in-depth around the eviction; store.mjs ttlMs=0 semantics
  are independently established)
- `cacheStore.delete()` API (cleaner than set-with-ttlMs=0 — leaves
  no dead entry in the namespace map; future PR)
- `cache_evicted_truncated` log event for dashboard observability
- SPAWN_TIMEOUT salvage parity — same architectural argument as
  SPAWN_FAILED (user paid for partial content); deferred as a
  separate cold-audit finding for a future D-stage

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- **Authors:** project maintainer (with AI drafting assistance)
- **Related:** OLP v0.1 spec §4.3; ADR 0001 (project founding — fallback is OLP's core value proposition); ADR 0002 (plugin architecture); ADR 0003 (IR — fallback replays IR across chain hops)
## Amendments
### Amendment 1 — 2026-05-24: Buffered-path SPAWN_FAILED with usable chunks must NOT trigger fallback (D16)
- **Finding:** Cold-audit Finding 17 (P2 fallback correctness) — Hard triggers bullet 3 in the Decision section below reads: "Provider CLI exit code ≠ 0 **with no usable response chunks streamed**." The qualifier "with no usable response chunks streamed" is load-bearing. Pre-D16 code in `server.mjs` `collectAllChunks` had no catch block: if the provider generator threw `ProviderError(SPAWN_FAILED)` after yielding N>0 IR delta/stop chunks, the throw propagated out of the `for await` loop, discarding the accumulated chunks. The fallback engine then treated SPAWN_FAILED as a hard trigger unconditionally, advanced the chain, and served the next provider's response. The original provider's actual partial output — content the user had already paid for — was silently dropped.
- **Clarification — "usable response chunks streamed":** A chunks array has usable chunks if `chunks.length > 0` where the counted chunks are IR delta or stop chunks (i.e., `type === 'delta'` or `type === 'stop'`). Chunks of `type === 'error'` are excluded from this count — they are failure signals, not usable content. In the buffered path (`collectAllChunks` in `server.mjs`), `type === 'error'` chunks cause an immediate throw before being pushed to the array (see existing code), so in practice `chunks.length > 0` after the loop implies the array contains only delta/stop chunks and the count correctly reflects usable content. The N=1 boundary is intentional: even a single non-empty delta chunk represents content the provider has committed and the user has paid for in quota; dropping it to serve an alternate provider's response is strict waste and potentially misleading (the second provider may produce different content for the same prompt).
- **Behavior change (D16):** In the buffered path (`collectAllChunks` in `server.mjs`), when the provider generator throws `ProviderError` with `code === 'SPAWN_FAILED'` after yielding one or more chunks:
- If `chunks.length > 0`: synthesize a final stop chunk `{ type: 'stop', finish_reason: 'length' }`, push it to the chunks array, log a `warn` event `spawn_failed_after_usable_chunks`, and **return the chunks** (do not re-throw). The fallback engine sees a successful return value and does not advance the chain. The client receives the partial response with `finish_reason: 'length'`. `X-OLP-Fallback-Hops: 0` is emitted.
- If `chunks.length === 0`: the SPAWN_FAILED error propagates as before. The fallback engine fires the hard trigger and advances the chain (Case A — correct behavior unchanged).
- Any other error code (not SPAWN_FAILED): always re-thrown, behavior unchanged.
- **Cache behavior:** truncated responses (those produced by the SPAWN_FAILED salvage path) are NOT persistently cached. ADR 0005 § "Cache write conditions" item 1 requires "response completed successfully (no truncation, no error mid-stream)"; a salvaged partial response does not meet this condition. In `executeHopFn`, the salvaged result is written through `cacheStore.getOrCompute` normally so that concurrent inflight callers (D4 singleflight) share the spawn and all receive the partial response — then the entry is immediately evicted via `cacheStore.set(keyId, hopCacheKey, result, ttlMs=0)`, which causes `_isAlive` to treat the entry as expired on the next read. The write-then-evict pattern preserves D4 singleflight during the truncation event (the right behavior — concurrent callers should share the partial spawn rather than each triggering their own) while ensuring future fresh callers re-spawn the provider rather than serving cached truncated content. The salvage path uses a non-enumerable `__truncated` marker on the returned chunks array to signal the eviction; the marker does not appear in `JSON.stringify` or in any client-visible surface.
- **finish_reason choice:** The synthesized stop chunk uses `finish_reason: 'length'` because: (a) it is in the OpenAI spec enum (`stop | length | tool_calls | content_filter | function_call | null`); (b) it semantically maps to "output was truncated due to resource constraints," which is the closest available enum value to "truncated because the provider process exited non-zero during cleanup after streaming output"; (c) `null` is inferior — some clients retry on `null` finish_reason expecting additional chunks, which would cause spurious re-requests; (d) `stop` would be misleading — it implies the model naturally terminated at a sentence boundary, which is false. Using `length` correctly signals to the client that the output was cut short and they may wish to re-request or continue.
- **Streaming path note:** The D10 real-streaming branch (single-hop, `server.mjs` lines 401510) already handles the analogous case correctly via ADR 0004's first-chunk rule: once `firstChunkEmitted === true`, any subsequent error truncates the response with `res.end()` (no re-throw, no fallback). This amendment applies specifically to the **buffered path** (`collectAllChunks` + multi-hop fallback chains). The streaming path is not changed by D16.
- **Procedural mechanism:** CC 开发铁律 v1.6 § 10.x (Cold Audit). Diff-review reviewers on earlier passes focused on the first-chunk rule for the real-streaming path; the buffered path has its own truncation-vs-fallback decision point, which the cold-audit pass on 2026-05-23 identified as Finding 17.
## Context
A multi-provider proxy is only valuable if it fails over gracefully. Per spec §1, OLP's core value proposition is "your IDEs and family clients keep working as long as *any* of your subscriptions has quota left." If Anthropic returns 529 (overloaded), or OpenAI returns 429 with `insufficient_quota`, or `claude -p` exits non-zero, the client should not see an error; the client should see the next provider in the chain transparently take over.