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Bugs / Features

What is the current behavior?

sendRequest replaces the caller's RequestInit.signal with its internal timeout signal. A pre-aborted POST is still sent, cancelling an in-flight request has no effect, and cancellation cannot stop reading a streamed response body.

What is the new behavior?

Compose the caller signal with the SDK deadline using AbortSignal.any. Caller cancellation reaches native fetch and its response body. SDK timeouts remain VoltAgentAPIError with status 408; competing aborts retain the first signal's reason. Clear the deadline timer in finally on every fetch outcome.

Before response headers, caller abort reasons propagate unchanged. Body reads retain the runtime's native fetch semantics, which differ between Node 20 and Node 24.

Fixes #1443.

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Validation against 72a46c7 in the actual workspace:

  • SDK tests on Node 20.20.2 and Node 24.19: 31 passed each, including 14 new cancellation, timeout and cleanup cases. Most cases use a real local HTTP server; deterministic competing-abort tests defer only the fetch rejection.
  • pnpm build:all: passed for 29 projects.
  • pnpm lint:ci: passed for 1,785 files, with 5 existing warnings.
  • pnpm sp lint and pnpm publint:all: passed; publint covered 14 projects.
  • Original pre-commit and commit-msg hooks: passed.
  • Additional SDK tsc --noEmit reports four diagnostics in the unchanged src/evals/index.spec.ts; all four also occur on the exact base.

Workspace dependencies and lifecycle scripts were installed with frozen pnpm 8.10.5. Playwright browser downloads were not provisioned. The full monorepo suite, including Docker E2E, was not run; the SDK package suite above was run explicitly.

AI assistance: OpenAI Codex helped reproduce, implement, test and review this change. An independent review checked the public API behavior and Node 20/24 cancellation differences.


Summary by cubic

Fixes the SDK's handling of caller abort signals so that pre-aborted requests are not sent and in-flight requests and response bodies can be cancelled. Combines the caller's signal with an internal timeout signal via AbortSignal.any instead of replacing it. Preserves caller abort reasons before response headers and native fetch behavior during body reads. Keeps SDK timeouts reported as HTTP 408 and clears the deadline timer on every outcome. Fixes #1443.

Written for commit fcdcbd8. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Requests now respect caller-provided cancellation signals alongside SDK timeouts. Caller-triggered cancellations preserve their original errors, while SDK-triggered timeouts continue to report a timeout.

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The SDK now combines caller cancellation with its configured request timeout. Caller aborts propagate as caller errors, while SDK timeouts remain 408 API errors. New tests cover cancellation, timeout behavior, successful responses, connection failures, and timer cleanup.

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SDK Request Cancellation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Caller cancellation and timeout handling
packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts, packages/sdk/src/client/cancellation.spec.ts, .changeset/calm-signals-return.md
fetchWithTimeout passes a signal that combines the caller signal with the SDK timeout signal. Caller abort errors are rethrown; SDK timeouts become 408 API errors. Tests cover cancellation before and during requests, response-body cancellation, timeout ordering, successful responses, connection failures, and timer cleanup. The changeset records the patch.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fcdcb

Callers that pass an abort signal on Node 20.0 to 20.2 would fail before the request is sent. Either add a fallback or declare a minimum Node version of 20.3 or later. The impact is narrow, so the change is mergeable with that awareness.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: honoring caller abort signals in the SDK.
Description check Passed The description covers the required checklist, linked issue, tests, documentation status, changeset, current behavior, new behavior, fix reference, and reviewer notes. It is complete and directly rela…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1443 requires caller cancellation before dispatch, during fetch, and during response-body reads, while keeping caller aborts distinct from SDK timeouts. VoltAgentCoreAPI.fetchWithTimeout comp…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #1443. The implementation changes request-signal and timeout handling. The added tests verify the requested cancellation behavior and preserve existing network-error beha…
Docstring Coverage Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
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- Around line 136-138: Update the signal construction in the client request flow
to avoid calling AbortSignal.any when it is unavailable: provide a fallback that
preserves cancellation from both init.signal and controller.signal, or raise the
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Comment on lines +136 to +138
const signal = init.signal
? AbortSignal.any([init.signal, controller.signal])
: controller.signal;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Repository: VoltAgent/voltagent

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for f in package.json packages/sdk/package.json pnpm-workspace.yaml .nvmrc .node-version; do
  if [ -f "$f" ]; then
    echo "### $f"
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done
printf '%s\n' '--- changed method ---'
nl -ba packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts | sed -n '95,180p'
printf '%s\n' '--- runtime references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!node_modules/**' --glob '!dist/**' -- 'AbortSignal.any' .

Repository: VoltAgent/voltagent

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official Node.js documentation AbortSignal.any added version 20.3.0 18.17.0

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Yes. The official Node.js documentation lists **`AbortSignal.any(signals)`** as added in **v20.3.0 and v18.17.0**. It returns a signal that aborts when any input signal aborts. ([nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/globals.html?utm_source=openai))

The Node.js release notes independently confirm the implementation in both releases: [v20.3.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v20.3.0) and [v18.17.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.17.0). ([nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v20.3.0?utm_source=openai))

Citations:

- 1: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/globals.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v20.3.0?utm_source=openai

Handle Node 20.0–20.2 compatibility.

The repository declares Node >=20, which includes versions before AbortSignal.any was added in Node 20.3. When a caller provides init.signal, this code can throw TypeError: AbortSignal.any is not a function before fetch runs.

Add a compatibility fallback for Node 20.0–20.2, or declare the SDK's minimum Node version as >=20.3.

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Review comment at @packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts around lines 136 - 138:
Update the signal construction in the client request flow to avoid calling
AbortSignal.any when it is unavailable: provide a fallback that preserves
cancellation from both init.signal and controller.signal, or raise the SDK’s
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AbortSignal.any was added in Node 20.3.0, so this call is unavailable on 20.0–20.2. The root manifest says >=20, while the SDK manifest has no engine minimum.

There is an existing inconsistency in the dependency requirements: the SDK depends on @voltagent/core ^2.7.4; even core 2.7.4 requires the OpenTelemetry logs exporter ^0.204.0 and trace exporter ^0.203.0. Those minimum versions (logs, traces) already declare ^18.19.0 || >=20.6.0. That does not establish the intended SDK support policy by itself.

Native composition preserves caller cancellation after response headers, while the response body is still being consumed, without adding a long-lived manual forwarding listener. Removing such a listener when fetch resolves would lose that behavior.

Could a maintainer confirm the intended minimum SDK runtime before we choose compatibility handling or align the declared minimum? This also addresses the duplicate concern in the cubic review.

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@lux-liang Thanks for the clarification. My original finding treated the root >=20 requirement as the SDK support policy. That inference was too strong. The dependency engine requirements also do not establish the intended SDK minimum.

A maintainer needs to confirm that minimum before choosing a fallback or changing the SDK declaration. The compatibility question remains open pending that decision.

Any fallback must preserve caller cancellation during response-body reads. Removing a forwarding listener when fetch resolves would break that behavior.


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Repo: VoltAgent/voltagent PR: 1444
File: packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts:136-138
Timestamp: 2026-10-09T08:10:50.213Z
Learning: In packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts, VoltAgentCoreAPI.fetchWithTimeout must preserve caller cancellation after fetch resolves, while the response body is still being consumed. A manual signal-composition fallback must not remove its caller-abort forwarding listener merely because fetch has returned response headers.

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<file name="packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts:137">
P1: This breaks requests with caller signals on Node 20.0–20.2, which the package’s `node >=20` engine range supports. Add a compatible signal-composition fallback or raise the supported minimum to Node 20.3.</violation>
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private async fetchWithTimeout(url: string, init: RequestInit): Promise<Response> {
const controller = new AbortController();
const signal = init.signal
? AbortSignal.any([init.signal, controller.signal])

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P1: This breaks requests with caller signals on Node 20.0–20.2, which the package’s node >=20 engine range supports. Add a compatible signal-composition fallback or raise the supported minimum to Node 20.3.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/sdk/src/client/index.ts, line 137:

<comment>This breaks requests with caller signals on Node 20.0–20.2, which the package’s `node >=20` engine range supports. Add a compatible signal-composition fallback or raise the supported minimum to Node 20.3.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -133,24 +133,28 @@ export class VoltAgentCoreAPI {
   private async fetchWithTimeout(url: string, init: RequestInit): Promise<Response> {
     const controller = new AbortController();
+    const signal = init.signal
+      ? AbortSignal.any([init.signal, controller.signal])
+      : controller.signal;
     const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), this.timeout);
</file context>

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