Revisit and improve error handling/fallback server when the server fails to start.

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#192 opened on Oct 28, 2025 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: fastapi, python
Domain: backend, cli

Research direction

Start by reading the serve_from_cli entry point and tracing how the fallback server is used when startup fails. Identify the unhandled exceptions in both paths and define completion as providing helpful CLI and fallback-server error handling without leaving startup failures unhandled.

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Description

I recently revisited serve_from_cli and realised it raises a bunch of unhandled exceptions, which is less than helpful.

It would be nice to improve error handling, both on the CLI and in the fallback server if it's used.

Dominant language: Python
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Forks: 4
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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