fix(provider): pass xAI's raised Grok CLI version gate

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Fixes #14.

Problem

xAI now rejects inference requests with HTTP 426 when x-grok-client-version is below 1.0.13. The extension hardcoded 0.2.91, so every request failed:

grok-cli API error (426): 426 "Your Grok CLI version (0.2.91) is outdated. Please update to version 1.0.13 or later ..."

Probes against cli-chat-proxy.grok.com/v1/responses show the gate reads only x-grok-client-version. User-Agent doesn't matter: changing only the UA still gets 426, changing only the header gets 200, and a missing header gets 426 "(none)". /models, /billing, and Imagine on api.x.ai aren't gated.

Changes

• Version lookup. Each process reads the latest stable release once from https://x.ai/cli/stable (the pointer the official installer reads) and sends it per request. If the lookup fails, the bundled 1.0.46 is sent instead. A raised minimum then needs only a pi restart, not an extension release. PI_GROK_CLI_VERSION_URL overrides the pointer URL; it's documented in CONFIGURATION.md. A caller-supplied x-grok-client-version header still wins.
• Same identity as the official client. User-Agent: grok-shell/<version> (macos; aarch64) and x-grok-client-identifier: grok-shell, matching headers captured from grok 1.0.40.
• Require pi ≥ 0.86.0 (peer and dev dependencies, plus the README). pi-ai 0.86 changed provider errors from OpenAI API error (…) to grok-cli API error (…). That silently disabled the proxy retry with a new conversation ID (401/502/520) and the account rotation on exhausted balance (402). Both matchers now use the new prefix. pi 0.86 also added a "pending" stop reason; a response that ends with it now fails instead of reporting done.

Verification

• bun run check passes (328 tests).
• New real-adapter tests use local HTTP servers: one for the version pointer, one for the 401/520 conversation retry, and one for the 402 rotation through pi-ai's own error formatting.
• Live check: the new header set and the version from the real pointer (1.0.46) get HTTP 200 from cli-chat-proxy.grok.com/v1/responses.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Requests now use the latest stable Grok CLI version when available, with a fallback version if the lookup fails. You can configure the version source URL.
• Bug Fixes
  • Proxy retries now recognize Grok CLI errors with status codes 401, 502, and 520.
  • Responses that end while still pending now return an error instead of being treated as complete.
  • Balance-exhaustion errors now identify the Grok CLI provider.
• Compatibility
  • The minimum supported Pi version is now 0.86.0.

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• src/provider/proxyRetry.ts
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The provider now resolves the stable Grok CLI version and sends it in request headers. It updates Grok CLI error handling and requires Pi runtime packages at version 0.86.0 or newer.

Changes

Grok CLI provider updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve and send the Grok CLI version CONFIGURATION.md, src/provider/stream.ts, src/provider/register.ts, tests/provider/stream.test.ts, tests/provider/register.test.ts, tests/stateTestHelpers.ts	The provider fetches a stable version from the configured or default URL, caches the lookup, and falls back to 1.0.46 on lookup failures or invalid responses. streamSimple resolves the version and adds version headers before user-supplied headers. Tests cover version lookup, headers, and overrides.
Handle Grok CLI errors and account rotation src/provider/proxyRetry.ts, src/provider/rotation.ts, tests/provider/register.test.ts, tests/provider/rotation.test.ts	Retry and balance-exhaustion errors use the grok-cli API label. A pending stop reason now produces an error. Tests cover pending responses and rotation after a 402 balance-exhaustion response.
Update Pi runtime compatibility README.md, package.json, tests/provider/package.test.ts	The documented minimum Pi version, peer dependency minimums, development dependency ranges, and package test expectations change to version 0.86.0.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant streamSimple
  participant resolveGrokCliVersion
  participant StableVersionEndpoint
  participant GrokCLIProxy
  streamSimple->>resolveGrokCliVersion: Resolve CLI version
  resolveGrokCliVersion->>StableVersionEndpoint: GET configured or default URL
  StableVersionEndpoint-->>resolveGrokCliVersion: Stable version response
  resolveGrokCliVersion-->>streamSimple: Resolved or fallback version
  streamSimple->>GrokCLIProxy: Send request with version headers

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c24d3

Update the lockfile or confirm that frozen installs accept it before merging. The inconsistent dependency metadata may block CI and publishing; the version lookup and error-handling changes have no established additional blocking defect.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c24d3

The version lookup has validation, a timeout and a bundled fallback. No credential disclosure or expanded account authority was established, but configuration ownership and deployment exposure remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new lookup executes with the provider process's network reachability. Its destination is configurable, but whether an untrusted user or tenant can control that configuration is unknown; an attacker-controlled request path was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The version fetch carries no API key, prompt, request body or inference headers. Returned text crosses into inference headers only after anchored version-format validation, which excludes CR/LF header-control characters. Invalid content and lookup errors select the bundled fallback.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The resolver shares one lookup promise across concurrent requests and applies a five-second timeout. It reads the complete response text without an explicit byte limit, so the timeout is not a response-size bound.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If shared deployments allow tenant-controlled configuration, restrict lookup destinations and redirects to trusted HTTPS endpoints. An explicit response-size limit would additionally contain resource use from a faulty or hostile endpoint.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The version lookup and header changes are within issue #14. The PR also changes proxy retry status matching, pending stop-reason handling, account-rotation balance errors, and the Pi minimum version…	Remove the unrelated proxy retry, pending stop-reason, account-rotation, and Pi-version changes, or link them to active issues that define those coding requirements.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 9 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the provider fix and the raised xAI Grok CLI version gate, which is the primary purpose of the changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #14 requires requests to use a Grok CLI version accepted by xAI. The PR resolves the stable version from PI_GROK_CLI_VERSION_URL or the default pointer, uses 1.0.46 as a fallback, sends the …

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The version lookup and header changes are within issue #14. The PR also changes proxy retry status matching, pending stop-reason handling, account-rotation balance errors, and the Pi minimum version. The summary does not connect these changes to the version-gate requirement in issue #14. These changes are outside the directly linked issue scope.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 9 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[High risk] Updates provider version gate and dependency requirements.

The PR appears safe to merge based on this review.

Summary

The PR updates the version sent to xAI and adapts provider error handling to Pi 0.86.

• Looks up the stable Grok CLI version, with a bundled fallback and a shared in-flight refresh after HTTP 426.
• Updates proxy retry and balance-exhaustion matching, and rejects responses that end pending.
• Raises the declared Pi minimum and adds adapter-backed tests.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  A[Provider request] --> B[Resolve cached or stable version]
  B --> C[Send Grok request]
  C -->|HTTP 426 before output| D[Share in-flight version refresh]
  D --> E[Retry once with resolved version]
  C -->|Other response| F[Complete or report error]
  E --> F

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