Cause (Documented platform behavior): Background jobs are resumable only within the provider retention window; Pydantic AI maps the 404 on retrieve to this typed error.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Limitations:
- Retention window value comes from the Pydantic AI docstring, not OpenAI docs.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/69eb81bde23c8db52ee8617217bdaf46bf0468df/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/exceptions.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): SuspendedResponseExpired docstring: suspended/background jobs are only resumable within the provider retention window (~10 minutes for OpenAI background mode); start a new run from preceding messages.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/69eb81bde23c8db52ee8617217bdaf46bf0468df/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/models/openai.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): A 404 APIStatusError while retrieving a suspended response is raised as SuspendedResponseExpired naming the response id.
Search phrasings: pydantic ai SuspendedResponseExpired; OpenAI background response resume 404 pydantic-ai; pydantic-ai suspended response expired
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Resuming a long-running background run fails with SuspendedResponseExpired.
- Context
- Product: Pydantic AI Component: OpenAIResponsesModel suspended/background responses Operation: Resume a persisted suspended (background) response after a restart or delay Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Exception: pydantic_ai.exceptions.SuspendedResponseExpired Packages: pydantic-ai source checked on main after v2.0.0 Trigger: responses.retrieve on a stored suspended response id returns 404 because the provider retention window passed (about 10 minutes for OpenAI background mode per the docstring).
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- could not be resumed because its server-side job is no longer available (it may have expired).
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [PydanticAI OpenAI background mode] SuspendedResponseExpired "could not be resumed because its server-side job is no longer available" when resuming a persisted suspended response
Recommended action: Resume promptly within the retention window; on this error start a new run from the preceding messages.
Option: Start a new run from the prior messages [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: Expired suspended responses
Steps:
1. Catch SuspendedResponseExpired
2. Re-run the agent with message_history up to the suspended request
Expected: Work restarts from scratch
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 1bc8a242-30f8-462a-b6b1-f23573b9da4d
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Resume promptly within the retention window; on this error start a new run from the preceding messages. Option: Start a new run from the prior messages [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: Expired suspended responses Steps: 1. Catch SuspendedResponseExpired 2. Re-run the agent with message_history up to the suspended request Expected: Work restarts from scratch
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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