test(mcp): add failing tests for circuit-breaker recovery

The MCP circuit breaker in tools/mcp_tool.py has no half-open state and
no reset-on-reconnect behavior, so once it trips after 3 consecutive
failures it stays tripped for the process lifetime. These tests lock
in the intended recovery behavior:

1. test_circuit_breaker_half_opens_after_cooldown — after the cooldown
   elapses, the next call must actually probe the session; success
   closes the breaker.
2. test_circuit_breaker_reopens_on_probe_failure — a failed probe
   re-arms the cooldown instead of letting every subsequent call
   through.
3. test_circuit_breaker_cleared_on_reconnect — a successful OAuth
   recovery resets the breaker even if the post-reconnect retry
   fails (a successful reconnect is sufficient evidence the server
   is viable again).

All three currently fail, as expected.

Author: benbarclay

tests/tools/test_mcp_circuit_breaker.py

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+"""Tests for MCP tool-handler circuit-breaker recovery.
+
+The circuit breaker in ``tools/mcp_tool.py`` is intended to short-circuit
+calls to an MCP server that has failed ``_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_THRESHOLD``
+consecutive times, then *transition back to a usable state* once the
+server has had time to recover (or an explicit reconnect succeeds).
+
+The original implementation only had two states — closed and open — with
+no mechanism to transition back to closed, so a tripped breaker stayed
+tripped for the lifetime of the process. These tests lock in the
+half-open / cooldown / reconnect-resets-breaker behavior that fixes
+that.
+"""
+import json
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+
+
+pytest.importorskip("mcp.client.auth.oauth2")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def _install_stub_server(mcp_tool_module, name: str, call_tool_impl):
+    """Install a fake MCP server in the module's registry.
+
+    ``call_tool_impl`` is an async function stored at ``session.call_tool``
+    (it's what the tool handler invokes).
+    """
+    server = MagicMock()
+    server.name = name
+    session = MagicMock()
+    session.call_tool = call_tool_impl
+    server.session = session
+    server._reconnect_event = MagicMock()
+    server._ready = MagicMock()
+    server._ready.is_set.return_value = True
+
+    mcp_tool_module._servers[name] = server
+    mcp_tool_module._server_error_counts.pop(name, None)
+    if hasattr(mcp_tool_module, "_server_breaker_opened_at"):
+        mcp_tool_module._server_breaker_opened_at.pop(name, None)
+    return server
+
+
+def _cleanup(mcp_tool_module, name: str) -> None:
+    mcp_tool_module._servers.pop(name, None)
+    mcp_tool_module._server_error_counts.pop(name, None)
+    if hasattr(mcp_tool_module, "_server_breaker_opened_at"):
+        mcp_tool_module._server_breaker_opened_at.pop(name, None)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tests
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_circuit_breaker_half_opens_after_cooldown(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """After a tripped breaker's cooldown elapses, the *next* call must
+    actually execute against the session (half-open probe). When the
+    probe succeeds, the breaker resets to fully closed.
+    """
+    monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path))
+
+    from tools import mcp_tool
+    from tools.mcp_tool import _make_tool_handler
+
+    call_count = {"n": 0}
+
+    async def _call_tool_success(*a, **kw):
+        call_count["n"] += 1
+        result = MagicMock()
+        result.isError = False
+        block = MagicMock()
+        block.text = "ok"
+        result.content = [block]
+        result.structuredContent = None
+        return result
+
+    _install_stub_server(mcp_tool, "srv", _call_tool_success)
+    mcp_tool._ensure_mcp_loop()
+
+    try:
+        # Trip the breaker by setting the count at/above threshold and
+        # stamping the open-time to "now".
+        mcp_tool._server_error_counts["srv"] = mcp_tool._CIRCUIT_BREAKER_THRESHOLD
+        fake_now = [1000.0]
+
+        def _fake_monotonic():
+            return fake_now[0]
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(mcp_tool.time, "monotonic", _fake_monotonic)
+        # The breaker-open timestamp dict is introduced by the fix; on
+        # a pre-fix build it won't exist, which will cause the test to
+        # fail at the .get() inside the gate (correct — the fix is
+        # required for this state to be tracked at all).
+        if hasattr(mcp_tool, "_server_breaker_opened_at"):
+            mcp_tool._server_breaker_opened_at["srv"] = fake_now[0]
+        cooldown = getattr(mcp_tool, "_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_COOLDOWN_SEC", 60.0)
+
+        handler = _make_tool_handler("srv", "tool1", 10.0)
+
+        # Before cooldown: must short-circuit (no session call).
+        result = handler({})
+        parsed = json.loads(result)
+        assert "error" in parsed, parsed
+        assert "unreachable" in parsed["error"].lower()
+        assert call_count["n"] == 0, (
+            "breaker should short-circuit before cooldown elapses"
+        )
+
+        # Advance past cooldown → next call is a half-open probe that
+        # actually hits the session.
+        fake_now[0] += cooldown + 1.0
+
+        result = handler({})
+        parsed = json.loads(result)
+        assert parsed.get("result") == "ok", parsed
+        assert call_count["n"] == 1, "half-open probe should invoke session"
+
+        # On probe success the breaker must close (count reset to 0).
+        assert mcp_tool._server_error_counts.get("srv", 0) == 0
+    finally:
+        _cleanup(mcp_tool, "srv")
+
+
+def test_circuit_breaker_reopens_on_probe_failure(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """If the half-open probe fails, the breaker must re-arm the
+    cooldown (not let every subsequent call through).
+    """
+    monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path))
+
+    from tools import mcp_tool
+    from tools.mcp_tool import _make_tool_handler
+
+    call_count = {"n": 0}
+
+    async def _call_tool_fails(*a, **kw):
+        call_count["n"] += 1
+        raise RuntimeError("still broken")
+
+    _install_stub_server(mcp_tool, "srv", _call_tool_fails)
+    mcp_tool._ensure_mcp_loop()
+
+    try:
+        mcp_tool._server_error_counts["srv"] = mcp_tool._CIRCUIT_BREAKER_THRESHOLD
+        fake_now = [1000.0]
+
+        def _fake_monotonic():
+            return fake_now[0]
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(mcp_tool.time, "monotonic", _fake_monotonic)
+        if hasattr(mcp_tool, "_server_breaker_opened_at"):
+            mcp_tool._server_breaker_opened_at["srv"] = fake_now[0]
+        cooldown = getattr(mcp_tool, "_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_COOLDOWN_SEC", 60.0)
+
+        handler = _make_tool_handler("srv", "tool1", 10.0)
+
+        # Advance past cooldown, run probe, expect failure.
+        fake_now[0] += cooldown + 1.0
+        result = handler({})
+        parsed = json.loads(result)
+        assert "error" in parsed
+        assert call_count["n"] == 1, "probe should invoke session once"
+
+        # The probe failure must have re-armed the cooldown — another
+        # immediate call should short-circuit, not invoke session again.
+        result = handler({})
+        parsed = json.loads(result)
+        assert "unreachable" in parsed.get("error", "").lower()
+        assert call_count["n"] == 1, (
+            "breaker should re-open and block further calls after probe failure"
+        )
+    finally:
+        _cleanup(mcp_tool, "srv")
+
+
+def test_circuit_breaker_cleared_on_reconnect(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """When the auth-recovery path successfully reconnects the server,
+    the breaker should be cleared so subsequent calls aren't gated on a
+    stale failure count — even if the post-reconnect retry itself fails.
+
+    This locks in the fix-#2 contract: a successful reconnect is
+    sufficient evidence that the server is viable again. Under the old
+    implementation, reset only happened on retry *success*, so a
+    reconnect+retry-failure left the counter pinned above threshold
+    forever.
+    """
+    monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path))
+
+    from tools import mcp_tool
+    from tools.mcp_oauth_manager import get_manager, reset_manager_for_tests
+    from mcp.client.auth import OAuthFlowError
+
+    reset_manager_for_tests()
+
+    async def _call_tool_unused(*a, **kw):  # pragma: no cover
+        raise AssertionError("session.call_tool should not be reached in this test")
+
+    _install_stub_server(mcp_tool, "srv", _call_tool_unused)
+    mcp_tool._ensure_mcp_loop()
+
+    # Open the breaker well above threshold, with a recent open-time so
+    # it would short-circuit everything without a reset.
+    mcp_tool._server_error_counts["srv"] = mcp_tool._CIRCUIT_BREAKER_THRESHOLD + 2
+    if hasattr(mcp_tool, "_server_breaker_opened_at"):
+        import time as _time
+        mcp_tool._server_breaker_opened_at["srv"] = _time.monotonic()
+
+    # Force handle_401 to claim recovery succeeded.
+    mgr = get_manager()
+
+    async def _h401(name, token=None):
+        return True
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(mgr, "handle_401", _h401)
+
+    try:
+        # Retry fails *after* the successful reconnect. Under the old
+        # implementation this bumps an already-tripped counter even
+        # higher. Under fix #2 the reset happens on successful
+        # reconnect, and the post-retry bump only raises the fresh
+        # count to 1 — still below threshold.
+        def _retry_call():
+            raise OAuthFlowError("still failing post-reconnect")
+
+        result = mcp_tool._handle_auth_error_and_retry(
+            "srv",
+            OAuthFlowError("initial"),
+            _retry_call,
+            "tools/call test",
+        )
+        # The call as a whole still surfaces needs_reauth because the
+        # retry itself didn't succeed, but the breaker state must
+        # reflect the successful reconnect.
+        assert result is not None
+        parsed = json.loads(result)
+        assert parsed.get("needs_reauth") is True, parsed
+
+        # Post-reconnect count was reset to 0, then the failing retry
+        # bumped it to exactly 1 — well below threshold.
+        count = mcp_tool._server_error_counts.get("srv", 0)
+        assert count < mcp_tool._CIRCUIT_BREAKER_THRESHOLD, (
+            f"successful reconnect must reset the breaker below threshold; "
+            f"got count={count}, threshold={mcp_tool._CIRCUIT_BREAKER_THRESHOLD}"
+        )
+    finally:
+        _cleanup(mcp_tool, "srv")