fix(client-runtime): relay disconnects no longer show as thread errors

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When a T3 Connect (relay) connection drops, the RPC session reports " disconnected." with a network hint appended after the period. The transport-error patterns were anchored to the end of the message, so they didn't match, and the web chat view showed the disconnect as a thread error instead of treating it as a connection blip.

The three session sentences now match at the end of the message, or when followed by exactly that network hint. Any other trailing text (for example "...was disconnected. Sign in again.") is a different error and still shows. Mobile and web both use this matcher through sanitizeThreadErrorMessage.

Verified with new cases in transport.test.ts: the hinted messages fail on main and pass here, and a disconnect sentence followed by other text is not treated as a transport error; client-runtime typecheck is clean.

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Verdict: Approved at 9881bc6

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped client-runtime bug fix that recognizes relay disconnect messages with their existing network hint while preserving unrelated error text. It includes targeted tests and introduces no schema, default, deployment, security, billing, or static-analysis changes.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	4.9 KiB	4.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.7 KiB	3.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.4 KiB	20.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	4.9 KiB	4.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.7 KiB	3.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.8 KiB	20.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 8fb068c · PR result: 9881bc6 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 106.1 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 106.4 KiB

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Transport-error matching now recognizes three connection-message phrases when they end with a period or the exact network-blocking hint. Tests cover hinted relay messages and a ChatGPT message that is not classified as a transport error.

Changes

Transport error matching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Match connection messages with appended hints packages/client-runtime/src/errors/transport.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/errors/transport.test.ts	The matcher uses an escaped network-blocking hint and accepts the supported phrases when followed by a period and either the end of the message or the exact hint. Tests cover hinted relay messages and confirm a ChatGPT message is not matched.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9881b

A narrow error-message case can hide the thread error banner. Anchor the socket-disconnect match so unrelated trailing errors remain visible.

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packages/client-runtime/src/errors/transport.test.ts (1)

34-43: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the hinted “is not connected” form.

is not connected is another alternative in the suffix-aware matcher, but the tests only check that phrase without NETWORK_BLOCKING_HINT. Add it to the existing hinted cases. A regression that keeps the bare match but loses suffix handling for this alternative would pass the current assertions.

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     for (const sentence of [
+      "Relay environment is not connected.",
       "Relay environment disconnected.",
       "Relay environment could not establish a WebSocket connection.",
     ]) {

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Review comment at @packages/client-runtime/src/errors/transport.test.ts around
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Add “Relay environment is not connected.” to the hinted cases in the test
“recognizes relay connection errors that carry the network hint,” so it verifies
this alternative still matches when followed by NETWORK_BLOCKING_HINT.

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- Around line 34-43: Add “Relay environment is not connected.” to the hinted
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