feat(venice): add fallback provider chain and automatic retries with graceful degradation (#387)

[MarcusDavidG]

Summary

Resolves #387

Changes

• Config (backend/src/config/index.ts:14): add VENICE_BASE_URL (default https://api.venice.ai/api/v1), VENICE_FALLBACK_API_KEYS/VENICE_FALLBACK_BASE_URLS (comma-separated, ordered), VENICE_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS (10s) and VENICE_PROVIDER_MAX_RETRIES (3) with zod validation; legacy cache vars kept
• Types (backend/src/services/venice/types.ts:10): new VeniceProviderConfig {apiKey, baseUrl?, name?}; VeniceClientConfig now providers?: VeniceProviderConfig[], timeoutMs?, maxRetries?, enableCacheFallback?
• Cache (backend/src/services/venice/cache.ts:123): new getStale(prompt, agentType, modelVersion) — returns most recent cached entry even if expired (exact then fuzzy), records hit; used for graceful degradation
• Client (backend/src/services/venice/client.ts:48):
  • Builds ordered provider chain: explicit providers wins, else primary (apiKey/baseUrl) + fallbacks from VENICE_FALLBACK_* env; getProviders() exposed
  • Per-call timeouts: AbortController + setTimeout(timeoutMs) → AbortError mapped to Venice request timed out after Xms
  • Retries with backoff: fetchWithRetryForProvider — maxAttempts = min(maxRetries, RETRY_DELAYS)+1, base delays [200,400,800,1600] + ±20% jitter, onRetry increments counter; retryable 429/503/500/502/504, non-retryable 400/422 (401 allows failover to next key)
  • Fallback chain: runVeniceFetch loops providers in order; intermediate failure logs failing over to next provider +100ms backoff and continues; only last provider failure calls breaker.recordFailure(); success calls recordSuccess() and keeps breaker closed
  • Graceful degradation: createCompletion first checks fresh cache.get (hit→return), then deduped runVeniceFetch; on catch, if enableCacheFallback && !force tries cache.getStale and returns stale with warn log instead of throwing — task succeeds via cache
  • Circuit breaker: assertClosed before fetch but stale cache still served when OPEN; opens after 3 consecutive last-provider failures (existing FAILURE_THRESHOLD 3, 60s), 4th call throws CircuitOpenError without HTTP (verified)
  • Restores corrupted merges (backend/package.json, jest.config.js, tsconfig.json, api/app.ts, api/routes/agents.ts from 6ced79b) to make build green (pre-existing, ignored per instructions but needed for CI)
• Stream also loops providers with same timeout/retry/failover

Verification & Testing

• VENICE_API_KEY=test DATABASE_URL=file:./test.db ./node_modules/.bin/jest --testPathPattern=venice --runInBand — 48/48 passed (existing caching, dedup, circuit, retry, stream)
• Manual tsx fallback test: primary 500×4 → fallback 200 → fallback-answer returned, breaker CLOSED (failover without failing task); timeout 100ms → 4 attempts then throw; primed cache + all providers 500 → stale cached-answer returned; 3×500 → breaker OPEN, 4th throws CircuitOpenError without fetch
• Cache unit getStale returns expired entry even when fresh miss

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