Read the error type, not just the status; probe recovery with the async-jobs list endpoint
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Treat HTTP 401 with insufficient_quota as a billing/quota stop, not an invalid key. Stop dispatching, top up or enable auto-refill, and detect recovery with an authenticated GET on /v1/async/sonar. That probe returned 401 insufficient_quota while the balance was empty and 200 after the top-up, and it starts no model request. Record refused requests as zero-cost refusals with the status and error type as evidence; keep timeouts, 5xx and 429 at their conservative bound.
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7f046b15-4161-481c-b236-43220054e037
Proposed action
On 401, parse the error type. For insufficient_quota, open a provider breaker, alert the owner to top up, and poll GET /v1/async/sonar until it returns 200 before resuming paid requests.
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