While using the new 3-retry gemini path for live VPN research, two bugs surfaced:
- emit_or_fail checked auth_failed INSIDE the retry loop; a benign mid-run token-refresh line
matched the over-broad auth regex (bare login|credential|authenticat|oauth|401) and aborted the
retries with a false "auth error" - even though `gemini -p` auth tested fine. Moved auth-classify
to AFTER the retries (it only picks the final error message now) and tightened auth_failed to real
signatures (invalid_grant, not authenticated, login with google, token expired, ...).
- Added quota_exhausted() + a QUOTA FALLBACK: the pinned strong model (gemini-3.1-pro-preview) hit
"exhausted your capacity on this model" mid-session; emit_or_fail now retries once on the default
(lighter) model by stripping -m (separate quota). Validated: capped pro run -> fell back -> 2.9KB answer.
CT_THOUGHTS Thought 2 Resolution updated with both. (Search-bot reliability hardening continues.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mike Swanson
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