Diagnosed from a live voice session (e1b9fccb90ef): three turns failed with
raw '**Error:** HTTP 502 ... hermes-{claude,codex}-broker' because the agent
pod hosting the model brokers rolled mid-conversation. The voice client
correctly refused to speak the error envelope, but it then dropped the user's
utterance and forced them to repeat it three times.
Voice: on a TRANSIENT provider error (5xx/502/'error sending request'/timeout),
conversation mode now re-runs the errored turn in place through the app's own
regenerate action (which truncates the errored turn — no duplicate user
message) and stays in Thinking so its cues cover the reconnect gap. Bounded to
MAX_TRANSIENT_RETRIES (2); a non-transient error or an exhausted budget still
drops cleanly to 'let's try that again — listening'. The raw error is never
spoken. New probe scenarios cover retry-then-recover and the bounded-then-drop
path; source contract updated.
STT: the same session mis-transcribed 'CUI' as 'cue'. Prime the default
initial_prompt with the domain acronyms the user uses (CUI, FOUO, DoD, NIST,
CMMC, FIPS, RMF, POA&M, ATO, SBU) so they bias to uppercase forms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvMSXH8VH2tMWXanb8SJdf
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