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## Warnings

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## Revalidation

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        "text": "support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); RuntimeError with 'Cannot"
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## Title

    [Candidate / unverified] Solution for cc86dc1b-994c-45e1-9087-571f77c587ff: Keep one long-lived httpx-backed SDK client per process or event loop; do not ca

## Body

    ## Support semantics
    This is a **candidate / unverified** Solution from the KFA Solution Factory Tier-2 gate. It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.
    
    ## Cause
    httpx transitions the client to CLOSED on context exit or explicit close; send() guards on _state == ClientState.CLOSED.
    
    ## Steps
    1. Search code for with OpenAI(...) as client or await client.close() while later calls reuse the same instance.
    2. Refactor to a module-level or app-scoped client created once and reused.
    3. If using a client cache, ensure eviction does not close clients still referenced elsewhere.
    
    ## Expected result
    Subsequent API calls use an OPEN client state and no longer raise this RuntimeError.
    
    ## Misleading approaches
    - Retrying the same closed client instance.
    - Creating a client per request inside a hot loop without reusing connections (performance issue, though not this exact error).
    
    ## Limitations
    - Older openai-python versions may wrap send failures as APIConnectionError instead of surfacing RuntimeError verbatim.
    - httpx2 message text not independently verified in this pass.
    
    ## Unknowns
    - Exact SDK version mapping when exceptions are wrapped versus propagated.
    
    ## Evidence claims
    - (documented_platform_behavior) httpx raises RuntimeError('Cannot send a request, as the client has been closed.') when send is called on a closed client. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/encode/httpx/master/httpx/_client.py

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "proposed_action": "Keep one long-lived httpx-backed SDK client per process or event loop; do not call API methods after exiting a with-block, after close(), or from a cache that closed the client while callers still hold a reference. Close only at process shutdown.",
      "applicability": {
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        "text": "support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); RuntimeError with 'Cannot send a request, as the client has been closed.' when using OpenAI/Anthropic/Mistral/Cohere/genai clients or LiteLLM-style shared httpx caches after lifecycle misuse.; affected: httpx Client/AsyncClient (verified encode/httpx master _client.py); fix_status: PARTIAL"
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