koala73/worldmonitor · error · Error

response.status === 429 ? 'Rate limited' : `${provider} API

Error message

response.status === 429 ? 'Rate limited' : `${provider} API error`

What it means

Server error in summarizeArticle: the LLM provider HTTP call for article summarization returned a non-OK status. 429 is reported as 'Rate limited'; other statuses as a generic provider API error. The status and body are logged and model failure tracking is recorded before this surfaces.

Source

Thrown at server/worldmonitor/news/v1/summarize-article.ts:301

            model,
            messages: [
              { role: 'system', content: effectiveSystemPrompt },
              { role: 'user', content: userPrompt },
            ],
            temperature: 0.3,
            max_tokens: 100,
            top_p: 0.9,
            ...extraBody,
          }),
          signal: AbortSignal.timeout(25_000),
        });

        if (!response.ok) {
          const errorText = await response.text();
          console.error(`[SummarizeArticle:${provider}] API error:`, response.status, errorText);
          recordModelFailure(apiUrl, model, response.status, errorText);
          await emitSummarizeLlmEvent({ provider, model, ok: false, durationMs: Date.now() - llmStartMs, promptChars: llmPromptChars, reason: `http_${response.status}` });
          throw new Error(response.status === 429 ? 'Rate limited' : `${provider} API error`);
        }

        // HTTP success proves provider/model compatibility. Summary validation
        // below is an application-level concern and must not preserve a stale
        // model-rejection streak.
        recordModelSuccess(apiUrl, model);

        const data = await response.json() as any;
        const tokens = (data.usage?.total_tokens as number) || 0;
        const usage = data.usage as { total_tokens?: number; prompt_tokens?: number; completion_tokens?: number } | undefined;
        const message = data.choices?.[0]?.message;
        const rawText = typeof message?.content === 'string' ? message.content.trim() : '';
        const rawContent = stripThinkingTags(rawText);

        if (['brief', 'analysis'].includes(mode) && rawContent.length < 20) {
          console.warn(`[SummarizeArticle:${provider}] Output too short after stripping (${rawContent.length} chars), rejecting`);
          await emitSummarizeLlmEvent({ provider, model, ok: false, durationMs: Date.now() - llmStartMs, promptChars: llmPromptChars, usage, reason: 'stripped_empty' });
          return null;

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Solutions

1. For 429, back off and retry — provider rate limits are the usual cause
2. For other statuses, check the logged response body for provider-side errors (auth, quota, malformed request)
3. Retry later; transient provider failures often resolve on their own

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/worldmonitor/news/v1/summarize-article.ts:301 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of koala73/worldmonitor@a96956387a (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/11a2adc097506b44. Report an issue: GitHub.