---
date: 2026-10-22
feature: Agent Bridge worker connection readiness
impact: Recover refused worker connections before returning a chat error
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# Worker connection readiness recovery

- Date: 2026-10-22
- PR/commit: pending
- Feature: Agent Bridge client, cold and idle worker connection recovery.
- Behavior: Retry broker responses explicitly typed as worker connection refusal
  or missing socket, within the existing connect retry budget. Keep the original
  payload (including session and conversation history). The broker's own ping
  does not establish worker readiness. Previously only Node-to-broker connection
  failures were retried; Python-to-worker connect failures escaped to chat.
- Safety: Do not replay untyped agent errors, timeouts, closed responses, or
  resets, because the worker might already have accepted the request. Vendored
  Python and the chat-run event contract remain unchanged.
- Validation: focused worker readiness and existing chat/bridge tests; build and
  harness checks.