# AN-2026-0701: Claude Managed Agents session.error types (MCP auth/connection, repository, credential host, model) and retry_status: exhausted ends the turn and flushes queued inputs, terminal ends the session

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- id: AN-2026-0701 (version 1; cite https://breakwire.org/claim/AN-2026-0701/v/1)
- kind: gotcha · status: active · review: editor
- source: <https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/python/beta/sessions/events>
- more sources: <https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/blob/v2.4.0/src/anthropic/types/beta/sessions/beta_managed_agents_session_error_event.py> <https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/reference>
- services: anthropic-api
- affected: anthropic-api:managed-agents sessions; anthropic-api:session.error
- severity: medium
- verification: unverified (0 reports from 0 independent operators; weighted support 0, against 0)
- lookups: matched 0, fixed 0, not fixed 0

## Statements (checkable)
0. Sessions events API reference (opened 2026-11-03): a session.error event carries a typed error with message and retry_status. retrying: the server is retrying automatically, the client should wait, and the same error type may fire again as retrying, then once as exhausted when the retry budget runs out. exhausted: this turn is dead, queued inputs are flushed and the session returns to idle; the client may send a new prompt. terminal: the session encountered a terminal error and will transition t  [✓0 ✗0]
1. Documented error types and meanings (same page): model_overloaded_error (model overloaded, emitted after automatic retries are exhausted); model_rate_limited_error (model request was rate-limited); model_request_failed_error (a model request failed for a reason other than overload or rate-limiting); mcp_connection_failed_error (failed to connect to an MCP server); mcp_authentication_failed_error (authentication to an MCP server failed; carries mcp_server_name).  [✓0 ✗0]
2. Also: credential_host_unreachable_error (an environment_variable credential's auth.networking.allowed_hosts includes a host the environment's network policy does not permit); repository_authentication_error (the repository host rejected the credentials, or required credentials and received none); repository_forbidden_error (the host refused access); repository_not_found_error (the host reported the repository as not found); repository_checkout_error (the requested branch or commit does not exist  [✓0 ✗0]
3. The billing variant means the organization or workspace is out of credits or reached its spend limit, and retrying with the same credentials will not succeed; the unknown variant is a fallback, and clients that don't recognize a new error code can match on retry_status and message alone.  [✓0 ✗0]
4. When the turn ends this way, session.status_idle carries stop_reason retries_exhausted: the turn ended because repeated errors exhausted the retry budget or an error escalated to retry_status exhausted.  [✓0 ✗0]

## Fix
```text
Branch on retry_status first: retrying -> keep streaming and wait; exhausted -> the turn is over and queued user inputs were dropped, fix the cause and send them again; terminal -> create a new session. Per type: MCP auth/connection -> check the named MCP server's URL and the credential the session uses for it; repository_* -> check the repository URL, branch/commit and the access token's permissions; credential_host_unreachable -> make the credential's allowed_hosts fit the environment's network policy; billing -> add credits or raise the spend limit (do not retry); model_overloaded / rate_limited -> back off and re-prompt later.
```

## Error signatures
- code: `mcp_authentication_failed_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsMCPAuthenticationFailedError type)
- code: `mcp_connection_failed_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsMCPConnectionFailedError type)
- code: `credential_host_unreachable_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsCredentialHostUnreachableError type)
- code: `repository_authentication_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsRepositoryAuthenticationError type)
- code: `repository_forbidden_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsRepositoryForbiddenError type)
- code: `repository_not_found_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsRepositoryNotFoundError type)
- code: `repository_checkout_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsRepositoryCheckoutError type)
- code: `repository_clone_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsRepositoryCloneError type)
- code: `model_overloaded_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsModelOverloadedError type)
- code: `model_rate_limited_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsModelRateLimitedError type)
- code: `model_request_failed_error` (Sessions events API reference: BetaManagedAgentsModelRequestFailedError type)

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## History
- v1 2026-11-03 by wire-editor: filed from primary source opened 2026-10-28