fix(models): raise the original failure when a same-key retry is refused 422

[mattmillerai]

ELI-5

client.models.run() retries some failures by re-sending the request under the same Idempotency-Key. Against a deployment that treats a key as single-use, that re-send comes back 422 idempotency_key_reuse — and until now that refusal was the exception the caller got, throwing away the 504/500 that caused the retry in the first place. The refusal only says "you asked twice"; it says nothing about why the call failed. Now run raises the original failure and hangs the 422 off it as __cause__, so nothing is lost and the useful error is the one you see.

What changed

Both retry loops in src/comfy_sdk/models.py (sync and async, kept structurally identical) now remember the first retryable failure. If a later attempt is refused for key reuse, that first failure is raised with the refusal chained on:

except _CANDIDATE_FAILURES as exc:
    if first is not None and _is_key_reuse(exc):
        raise _as_sdk_error(first, key) from _as_sdk_error(exc, key)
    delay = retrier.delay_before_retry(exc)
    if delay is None:
        raise
    if first is None:
        first = exc
    time.sleep(delay)

• _is_key_reuse matches the wire facts (http_status == 422 and code == "idempotency_key_reuse") and also accepts either layer's typed IdempotencyKeyReuse outright, so the answer does not depend on which layer raised.
• The loop runs inside translating(), which converts and stamps only the exception it is handed — an ApiError chained on as __cause__ would have reached the caller as a raw protocol type. _as_sdk_error therefore translates and stamps both halves before the raise, rather than changing translating()'s contract for its other 20 call sites. to_sdk_error is already called directly this way in jobs.py and client.py.
• Each translated half inherits the original's traceback, so the chain points at the attempt that produced it. Verified by hand:

comfy_sdk.exceptions.IdempotencyKeyReuse: key already used
  ... models.py line 314, in run  ->  low.post_model_run(...)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

comfy_sdk.router_exceptions.DeadlineExceeded: router deadline
  ... models.py line 322, in run  ->  raise _as_sdk_error(first, key) from _as_sdk_error(exc, key)
  ... models.py line 314, in run  ->  low.post_model_run(...)

Both halves carry the call's Idempotency-Key, so the replay idiom still works off either.

Only key reuse substitutes, and only after there has already been a retry. Nothing about which failures are retried changed: _is_key_reuse fires only on a 422, which RetryPolicy.should_retry already answered False for, so short-circuiting delay_before_retry cannot change any retry decision.

Docs updated to match: the retry_possibly_in_flight docstring, the two module-docstring sentences in retry.py that asserted the old behaviour ("a 422 that replaces the real error", "replaces the genuine 5xx"), the Models.run / AsyncModels.run docstrings, three stale README passages, and a ### Changed entry in CHANGELOG.md flagging the behaviour change for except IdempotencyKeyReuse callers.

Behaviour change

except IdempotencyKeyReuse around models.run no longer catches the rejected-resend case. Catch the failure you care about (or ComfyError) and inspect exc.__cause__. A key refusal on the first attempt — a caller passing a key the server already consumed — is unchanged and still raises IdempotencyKeyReuse directly; a test pins that.

No capability is removed: the 422 remains fully reachable (type, status, message, key, traceback) via __cause__, and three tests assert it is there rather than merely asserting it is gone.

Tests

tests/test_models_run_retry.py, one updated and five added:

1. Updated test_the_default_collect_loop_against_a_non_collecting_deployment — it pinned pytest.raises(IdempotencyKeyReuse), which was the bug. Now asserts ComfyError with http_status == 504, isinstance(exc.__cause__, IdempotencyKeyReuse), both halves carrying the same key, and model_run_count == 2. The retry_collectable=False half is unchanged.
2. Async mirror of (1) through AsyncComfy, which is what proves the second loop was edited too.
3. Opt-in path: persistent 500 under retry_possibly_in_flight=True against a key-rejecting deployment — http_status == 500, __cause__ is IdempotencyKeyReuse, model_run_count == 2, one key on the wire.
4. Negative: a 500 followed by a 404 still raises the 404 — last-wins survives for everything but key reuse.
5. A first-attempt key refusal is still raised as itself.
6. Only the first retryable failure is kept: 500 → 503 → 422 surfaces the 500.

tests/conftest.py needed no change — ServerState.model_run_v2_key_rule already answers a repeated key 422 idempotency_key_reuse, and model_run_collects_after_deadline already models the non-collecting deployment.

tests/test_sync_async_parity.py was checked for a loop-source-shape assertion: it has none (it compares namespace/method names, kinds and signatures), so nothing there needed updating, and both loops are byte-for-byte identical apart from await / asyncio.sleep.

Provenance

• Authored by: agent-work loop
• Verified: uv run --extra dev ruff check . clean; ruff format --check . 51 files already formatted; mypy src no issues in 19 source files; uv run --extra dev pytest -q 723 passed / 4 skipped (the skips are the network-gated tests/integration/test_gateway_e2e.py); python3 scripts/check_public_repo_hygiene.py OK; plus a hand-run repro printing the chained traceback shown above.
• Deviations: the task described the retry.py module-docstring sentence at lines 33/54/72; on current main that sentence lives at line 84, and two further sentences asserting the old behaviour (in is_unknown_outcome_status and the retry_possibly_in_flight field doc) were updated alongside it. Three README passages also asserted the old behaviour and were corrected, which was not in the described scope but would otherwise have shipped stale.

Residual

• Comfy.submit / AsyncComfy.submit were not changed and not exercised for this defect. They carry a structurally similar retry loop (src/comfy_sdk/client.py, _retry_delay) that re-sends under one Idempotency-Key and re-raises the last attempt's error. Today it retries only a 429 carrying Retry-After, which the v2 contract says releases the key, so a same-key resend there should not meet a 422 — the exposure is theoretical rather than demonstrated, and I did not build a repro for it. If a deployment is found that keeps a key claimed across a 429, submit has exactly the bug this PR fixes in models.run and needs the same treatment.
• _stamp is imported across modules from comfy_sdk.exceptions into comfy_sdk.models (same package, private name). The alternative was widening translating() to translate an explicit __cause__ chain, which would have altered a helper used by ~20 call sites to serve one of them. Worth a reviewer's opinion; if the private import is unwanted, moving the translate-and-stamp pair into exceptions.py as a named public helper is a mechanical follow-up.
• Source material I could not read. This work derives from a read-only investigation recorded in the issue tracker; its findings comment and the linked spike are not reachable from the environment this PR was written in, so the implementation was built from the description of the defect rather than from that evidence directly. Everything asserted here was re-verified against the code and the test stub. Two pull requests were named as sequencing dependencies — the router-deadline 504 same-key-retry work (feat: collect a Router deadline 504 under the same Idempotency-Key by default #99) and the exception key/request-id work (feat: carry the Idempotency-Key and request id on every exception models.run raises #97); both are merged, so this branches from main and no stacking or rebase was needed, and no residual note could be added to either since neither is open.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Model runs now preserve the most recent eligible failure when a same-key retry is rejected due to idempotency-key reuse.
  • The rejection remains available as the underlying cause, with a resend_refused indicator for clearer diagnosis.
  • Behavior is consistent across synchronous and asynchronous runs, including gateway and server retries.

• New Features

  • Added a helper for custom retry logic to identify failures that may have claimed an idempotency key.

• Documentation

  • Updated retry and typed-error documentation to explain these behaviors.

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Walkthrough

The SDK now preserves eligible retry-triggering failures when a same-key resend returns IdempotencyKeyReuse. It chains the refusal as __cause__, sets .resend_refused, and applies the behavior to synchronous and asynchronous model runs.

Changes

Retry error propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Error normalization and claim classification src/comfy_sdk/exceptions.py, src/comfy_sdk/models.py, src/comfy_sdk/retry.py	The SDK exposes .resend_refused, detects key reuse, and adds may_have_claimed_key() for failure classification.
Synchronous and asynchronous retry flow src/comfy_sdk/models.py, src/comfy_sdk/retry.py	Model runs preserve the most recent claim-capable failure when a same-key resend is refused. The refusal is chained as __cause__. Non-claiming failures and terminal failures remain unchanged.
Retry behavior validation tests/test_models_run_retry.py	Tests cover synchronous and asynchronous retries, transport failures, terminal failures, first-attempt refusals, key retention, and claim classification.
Retry behavior documentation README.md, CHANGELOG.md	Documentation describes the substitution rule, direct refusal cases, chained causes, .resend_refused, and may_have_claimed_key().

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant models.run
  participant RetryPolicy
  participant Server
  Client->>models.run: start model run with idempotency key
  models.run->>Server: send request
  Server-->>models.run: retryable failure
  models.run->>RetryPolicy: classify failure
  RetryPolicy->>Server: resend with same key
  Server-->>models.run: 422 idempotency_key_reuse
  models.run-->>Client: raise original failure with refusal as __cause__

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A rejected resend can surface an outdated failure to synchronous SDK callers, obscuring the most relevant result. Correct the retained-error selection before merging.

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The synchronous loop saves original_error only once, so after two claim-capable failures a final same-key refusal is chained onto the first failure rather than the required most recent one. Update the retained failure on every may_have_claimed_key result, matching the async loop and documented contract.

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In `@src/comfy_sdk/models.py` around lines 355 - 383, The synchronous retry loop
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