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Haiku classification: 300 items fail silently with no retry or error detail #26

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Problem

During /nf:solve Haiku classification (Phase 1b), 300 of 2334 items (12.8%) failed to classify. The classification agent reported "failed": 300 but no error details — we don't know if these were API timeouts, context length issues, or malformed inputs.

Observed Output

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 Haiku Classification Results
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 Genuine:  11
 FP:       594
 Review:   19

 From cache: 0 | Newly classified: 2034 | Failed: 300
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Expected Behavior

  1. Log failure reasons — at minimum a breakdown by error type (timeout, token limit, parse error)
  2. Retry failed items — at least once with backoff
  3. Report which items failed — so users can manually classify or investigate
  4. Persist partial results — currently the 2034 successes are saved, but the 300 failures are silently dropped (they default to "unclassified" which is treated as FP in some flows)

Impact

A 12.8% failure rate means ~1 in 8 items go unclassified. If any genuine issues are among the 300, they'll be missed entirely.

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