refactor(ai): address PR #176 review — finite-timeout wording, env doc, tests, permanent provider-http module

- Wording: every comment now says the stream timeouts are RAISED to a
  generous-but-finite ~15-min silence timeout, not "disabled (0)" (the stale
  comments contradicted the code, which uses AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS, default
  900000ms).
- Architecture (the load-bearing-temporary trap): the streaming fetch reached
  the chat provider only by riding the "temporary DIAGNOSTIC" telemetry, so
  deleting the telemetry by its own label would silently revert the timeout fix.
  Legitimize it: rename ai-http-diagnostics.ts -> ai-provider-http.ts,
  createDiagnosticFetch -> createInstrumentedFetch, field aiDiagnosticFetch ->
  aiProviderFetch, drop the "temporary" labels, and document the chat transport
  (streaming fetch + instrumentation) as one intentional construct.
- Docs: AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS added to .env.example next to AI_EMBEDDING_TIMEOUT_MS.
- Tests:
  - ai-provider-http.spec: createInstrumentedFetch delegates to the injected
    baseFetch with the same input/init, returns the Response untouched, rethrows
    the error, and defaults to global fetch — covering the baseFetch seam.
  - ai-streaming-fetch.spec: the delayed-server test is now LOAD-BEARING — with
    AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS set below the 1.5s server delay the call actually rejects
    (a lost dispatcher -> global 300s default would NOT), proving the configured
    dispatcher is wired; plus the default-timeout happy path.

server tsc clean; ai-streaming-fetch / ai-provider-http / ai.service / mcp-servers
/ ai-error specs green (41).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.env.example

@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ MCP_DOCMOST_PASSWORD=
 # A slow/hung embeddings endpoint fails after this and the batch continues.
 # AI_EMBEDDING_TIMEOUT_MS=120000
 
+# Silence timeout (ms) for streaming chat/agent AI calls AND external-MCP traffic.
+# Bounds time-to-first-byte and the gap BETWEEN chunks (NOT the total turn length),
+# so an arbitrarily long turn that keeps streaming is never cut. Finite so a hung
+# provider is eventually broken instead of leaking forever. Default 900000 (15 min).
+# AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS=900000
+
 # --- Anonymous public-share AI assistant ---
 # Opt-in per workspace (AI settings -> "public share assistant"; off by default).
 # When enabled, anonymous visitors of a published share can ask an AI about that

apps/server/src/integrations/ai/ai-provider-http.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import { createInstrumentedFetch } from './ai-provider-http';
+
+/**
+ * createInstrumentedFetch must be behavior-neutral: it delegates to the supplied
+ * baseFetch with the SAME input/init, returns the Response object untouched (so
+ * the streamed SSE body is never read/cloned), and rethrows the same error. The
+ * baseFetch injection is the seam that carries the streaming fetch (#175) onto
+ * the chat provider, so it is tested directly.
+ */
+describe('createInstrumentedFetch', () => {
+  it('delegates to the injected baseFetch with the same input/init', async () => {
+    const fakeResponse = new Response('ok', { status: 200 });
+    const baseFetch = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(fakeResponse);
+    const instrumented = createInstrumentedFetch('test', baseFetch as never);
+
+    const init = { method: 'POST', body: '{"q":1}' };
+    const res = await instrumented('https://example.com/v1/chat', init);
+
+    expect(baseFetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(baseFetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith('https://example.com/v1/chat', init);
+    // The Response is returned UNTOUCHED (same reference — never read/cloned).
+    expect(res).toBe(fakeResponse);
+  });
+
+  it('rethrows the base fetch error unchanged (pre-response failure)', async () => {
+    const err = Object.assign(new TypeError('fetch failed'), {
+      cause: { code: 'ECONNRESET' },
+    });
+    const baseFetch = jest.fn().mockRejectedValue(err);
+    const instrumented = createInstrumentedFetch('test', baseFetch as never);
+
+    await expect(instrumented('https://example.com/')).rejects.toBe(err);
+  });
+
+  it('defaults to the global fetch when no baseFetch is given', () => {
+    // Constructing without a baseFetch must not throw — it simply wraps global
+    // fetch (the non-chat default).
+    expect(() => createInstrumentedFetch('test')).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/integrations/ai/ai-provider-http.ts

@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
 
 /**
- * DIAGNOSTIC (provider ECONNRESET investigation) — temporary.
+ * The provider HTTP fetch used by the chat path: a thin, behavior-neutral
+ * instrumentation wrapper around a supplied `fetch`.
  *
- * A PASSIVE, behavior-neutral wrapper around the global `fetch`, injected into
+ * It defaults to the global `fetch`, but the chat provider passes the streaming
- * the OpenAI-compatible provider client (`createOpenAI({ fetch })`, the z.ai
+ * fetch (which RAISES undici's 300s stream timeouts to a generous-but-finite
- * path). Per provider HTTP call it logs: time-to-response-headers + status +
+ * silence timeout so a long agent turn is not severed mid-stream — #175). So this
- * request-body size on success; and on a pre-response rejection the failure
+ * wrapper observes the EXACT transport a turn uses. It NEVER retries, times out,
- * latency + error code/cause + request-body size + the idle gap since the
+ * swaps the dispatcher, or reads/clones the response body — the Response is
- * previous provider call. It NEVER retries, times out, swaps the dispatcher, or
+ * returned untouched (streaming unaffected) and any error is rethrown unchanged.
- * reads/clones the response body — the Response is returned untouched (streaming
+ *
- * unaffected) and any error is rethrown unchanged.
+ * Per provider HTTP call it logs: time-to-response-headers + status + request
+ * body size on success; and on a pre-response rejection the failure latency +
+ * error code/cause + request body size + the idle gap since the previous call.
+ * This telemetry is intentional and kept (it diagnoses provider connection
+ * resets / mid-stream cuts), and it is load-bearing: the streaming fetch reaches
+ * the chat provider THROUGH this wrapper, so the two are one construct.
  *
  * How to read the result (a long agentic turn makes one provider call per step):
  *  - a failed turn whose last provider line is "PRE-RESPONSE FAILED ... ECONNRESET"
@@ -23,13 +29,13 @@ import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
  *    different failure mode.
  *
  * The seq/last-call timestamps are module-level, so under concurrent turns the
- * idle-gap figure is approximate (fine for single-user reproduction).
+ * idle-gap figure is approximate (fine for single-user diagnosis).
  */
-export function createDiagnosticFetch(
+export function createInstrumentedFetch(
   context: string,
   // The underlying fetch to instrument. Defaults to the global fetch; the chat
-  // provider passes a streaming fetch (disabled undici stream timeouts, #175) so
+  // provider passes the streaming fetch (raised, finite undici stream timeouts,
-  // the telemetry observes the SAME transport the long agent turn actually uses.
+  // #175) so the telemetry observes the SAME transport the long agent turn uses.
   baseFetch: typeof fetch = fetch,
 ): typeof fetch {
   const logger = new Logger(context);
@@ -56,7 +62,7 @@ export function createDiagnosticFetch(
       // clone the body) so the streamed SSE response is unaffected.
       const res = await baseFetch(input, init);
       logger.log(
-        `provider HTTP DIAGNOSTIC: call#${callId} OK ` +
+        `provider HTTP: call#${callId} OK ` +
           `headersAfter=${Date.now() - startedAt}ms status=${res.status} ` +
           `reqBytes=${bodyBytes ?? 'n/a'} idleSincePrevCall=${idleSincePrev ?? 'n/a'}ms`,
       );
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ export function createDiagnosticFetch(
         cause?: { code?: string; message?: string };
       };
       logger.warn(
-        `provider HTTP DIAGNOSTIC: call#${callId} PRE-RESPONSE FAILED ` +
+        `provider HTTP: call#${callId} PRE-RESPONSE FAILED ` +
           `after=${Date.now() - startedAt}ms code=${e?.cause?.code ?? 'none'} ` +
           `name=${e?.name ?? 'Error'} cause=${e?.cause?.message ?? e?.message ?? 'unknown'} ` +
           `reqBytes=${bodyBytes ?? 'n/a'} idleSincePrevCall=${idleSincePrev ?? 'n/a'}ms`,

apps/server/src/integrations/ai/ai-streaming-fetch.spec.ts

@@ -48,10 +48,13 @@ describe('streamTimeoutMs', () => {
 });
 
 describe('createStreamingFetch — against a delayed server', () => {
+  const ORIG = process.env.AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS;
   let server: http.Server;
   let url: string;
-  // The server waits before sending ANY byte (a long time-to-first-token).
+  // The server waits before sending ANY byte (a long time-to-first-token). It is
-  const DELAY = 400;
+  // > undici's ~1s timeout-timer granularity so a sub-second configured timeout
+  // fires deterministically in the load-bearing test below.
+  const DELAY = 1500;
 
   beforeAll(async () => {
     server = http.createServer((_req, res) => {
@@ -69,10 +72,41 @@ describe('createStreamingFetch — against a delayed server', () => {
     await new Promise<void>((resolve) => server.close(() => resolve()));
   });
 
-  it('streams the delayed response instead of timing out', async () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (ORIG === undefined) delete process.env.AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS;
+    else process.env.AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS = ORIG;
+  });
+
+  it('streams the delayed response at the default (generous) timeout', async () => {
+    delete process.env.AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS; // default 15 min >> DELAY
     const streamingFetch = createStreamingFetch();
     const res = await streamingFetch(url);
     expect(res.status).toBe(200);
     expect(await res.text()).toBe('ok');
   });
+
+  it('LOAD-BEARING: a sub-DELAY AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS actually severs the response', async () => {
+    // Proves the configured dispatcher is wired into the fetch: with the timeout
+    // set below DELAY the call must reject with undici's headers-timeout. If the
+    // dispatcher were lost (fallback to global fetch's 300s default), the 1.5s
+    // response would slip through and this would NOT throw.
+    process.env.AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS = '500';
+    const streamingFetch = createStreamingFetch();
+    let caught: unknown;
+    const startedAt = Date.now();
+    try {
+      await streamingFetch(url).then((r) => r.text());
+    } catch (e) {
+      caught = e;
+    }
+    // It rejected (a lost dispatcher -> global 300s default would NOT reject on a
+    // 1.5s response) and it did so BEFORE the response would have arrived (DELAY).
+    // Use `.name` (realm-safe) — undici's TypeError fails cross-realm instanceof.
+    expect(caught).toBeDefined();
+    expect((caught as Error)?.name).toBe('TypeError');
+    expect(Date.now() - startedAt).toBeLessThan(DELAY);
+    // When present, the undici cause is the headers timeout.
+    const code = (caught as { cause?: { code?: string } })?.cause?.code;
+    if (code) expect(code).toBe('UND_ERR_HEADERS_TIMEOUT');
+  });
 });

apps/server/src/integrations/ai/ai.service.ts

@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ import { AiNotConfiguredException } from './ai-not-configured.exception';
 import { AiEmbeddingNotConfiguredException } from './ai-embedding-not-configured.exception';
 import { AiSttNotConfiguredException } from './ai-stt-not-configured.exception';
 import { describeProviderError } from './ai-error.util';
-// DIAGNOSTIC (provider ECONNRESET investigation) — temporary.
+import { createInstrumentedFetch } from './ai-provider-http';
-import { createDiagnosticFetch } from './ai-http-diagnostics';
 import { createStreamingFetch } from './ai-streaming-fetch';
 import { AiProviderCredentialsRepo } from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-chat/ai-provider-credentials.repo';
 import { SecretBoxService } from '../crypto/secret-box';
@@ -46,12 +45,12 @@ export interface ChatModelOverride {
 export class AiService {
   private readonly logger = new Logger(AiService.name);
 
-  // Provider HTTP fetch for the chat path: a streaming fetch that DISABLES
+  // Provider HTTP fetch for the chat path: the streaming fetch — which RAISES
-  // undici's 300s headers/body timeouts (#175 — long agent turns were severed
+  // undici's 300s headers/body timeouts to a generous-but-finite silence timeout
-  // mid-stream), wrapped with passive ECONNRESET-investigation telemetry so the
+  // so a long agent turn is not severed mid-stream (#175) — wrapped with the
-  // logs observe the exact transport the turn uses. Held for the service
+  // provider-HTTP instrumentation so the logs observe that exact transport. Held
-  // lifetime to reuse the streaming dispatcher's connection pool.
+  // for the service lifetime to reuse the streaming dispatcher's connection pool.
-  private readonly aiDiagnosticFetch = createDiagnosticFetch(
+  private readonly aiProviderFetch = createInstrumentedFetch(
     'AiService:provider-http',
     createStreamingFetch(),
   );
@@ -152,13 +151,12 @@ export class AiService {
         // endpoint. The default callable createOpenAI(...)(model) targets the
         // Responses API (/responses), which OpenAI-compatible gateways
         // (OpenRouter, etc.) reject on multi-turn requests (history with
-        // assistant messages) → 400.
+        // assistant messages) → 400. The provider fetch is the instrumented
-        // DIAGNOSTIC (provider ECONNRESET investigation) — temporary: pass the
+        // streaming fetch (finite-but-generous stream timeouts, #175).
-        // passive instrumented fetch (logging only; no behavior change).
         return createOpenAI({
           apiKey,
           baseURL: baseUrl,
-          fetch: this.aiDiagnosticFetch,
+          fetch: this.aiProviderFetch,
         }).chat(chatModel);
       case 'gemini':
         return createGoogleGenerativeAI({ apiKey })(chatModel);