fix: reject non-streaming chat on run errors

[jan-kubica]

Summary

• reject non-streaming text calls when the provider stream emits RUN_ERROR
• share the consumer-facing error conversion with StreamProcessor, preserving the provider code and sanitized raw event
• cover the behavior with a unit regression test and a mocked OpenAI wire-level E2E test

Root cause

streamToText accumulated only text chunks and ignored RUN_ERROR. As a result, chat({ stream: false }) could resolve with empty or partial text after a provider failure, while the streaming UI path surfaced the same failure through onError.

Test plan

• pnpm test:pr
• pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e test:e2e (349 passed, 1 gated live smoke skipped)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Non-streaming chat requests now reject when a provider reports a run error instead of returning incomplete text.
  • Error responses preserve the provider’s message, error code, and underlying event details.
  • Added a fallback message when run-error details are unavailable.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for non-streaming provider errors, including rate-limit failures.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR centralizes RUN_ERROR conversion, applies it to stream-to-text processing, and adds unit and end-to-end coverage for non-streaming chat rejection.

Changes

RUN_ERROR propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Centralized error conversion packages/ai/src/utilities/errors.ts	Adds runErrorEventToError, including message fallback and preservation of error code and raw event data.
Stream error handling and unit coverage packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts, packages/ai/src/stream-to-response.ts, packages/ai/tests/stream-to-response.test.ts	Uses the shared converter for stream errors. streamToText now throws on RUN_ERROR. Tests verify rejection after partial text.
Non-streaming E2E validation testing/e2e/src/routes/api.non-streaming-run-error.ts, testing/e2e/src/routeTree.gen.ts, testing/e2e/tests/non-streaming-run-error.spec.ts, .changeset/calm-lions-throw.md	Adds a synthetic rate-limit route, registers it, tests its rejection payload, and records a patch release.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to 0efe6

The change is localized and covered by regression and end-to-end tests; only a minor test-file placement cleanup remains, with no merge-blocking product or production risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant E2ETest
participant NonStreamingRunErrorRoute
participant OpenAIChatAdapter
E2ETest->>NonStreamingRunErrorRoute: POST /api/non-streaming-run-error
NonStreamingRunErrorRoute->>OpenAIChatAdapter: Invoke non-streaming chat
OpenAIChatAdapter-->>NonStreamingRunErrorRoute: Return 429 RUN_ERROR
NonStreamingRunErrorRoute-->>E2ETest: Return rejection message and code

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Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/ai#862: Handles RUN_ERROR emission from the Ollama adapter.
• TanStack/ai#1110: Handles RUN_ERROR events in another AI streaming path.

Suggested reviewers:tombeckenham

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: rejecting non-streaming chat requests when run errors occur.
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testing/e2e/tests/non-streaming-run-error.spec.ts

Parsing error: "parserOptions.project" has been provided for @typescript-eslint/parser.
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[AlemTuzlak]

why is this in draft?

[jan-kubica]

@AlemTuzlak I was limited by the repository rules, which allows only 5 PRs opened at the same time, opening as a draft was a workaround. Flipping to "ready"
[same applies to all other PRs I am copying the message there so the context is kept]

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• .changeset/calm-lions-throw.md
• packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts
• packages/ai/src/stream-to-response.ts
• packages/ai/src/utilities/errors.ts
• packages/ai/tests/stream-to-response.test.ts
• testing/e2e/src/routeTree.gen.ts
• testing/e2e/src/routes/api.non-streaming-run-error.ts
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move this unit test beside streamToText.

Lines 3 and 38-67 add this unit test under packages/ai/tests. Place it beside packages/ai/src/stream-to-response.ts to meet the required unit-test layout.

As per coding guidelines, “Unit tests in *.test.ts files alongside source”.

Also applies to: 38-67

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In `@packages/ai/tests/stream-to-response.test.ts` at line 3, Move the unit test
importing and exercising streamToText from the package-level tests directory
into a .test.ts file alongside stream-to-response.ts, preserving its existing
assertions and behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Thanks for the PR, @jan-kubica! 🙌 @tombeckenham will take a look.

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