Continue backfill after context load failures

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Skip errors from the context document loader so an unavailable context collection does not prevent later strategies from finding posts. Keep interval configuration errors and cancellation observable, and preserve request accounting and removal of failed loads from the cache.

Add regression tests for synchronous and asynchronous loader failures, reply-tree fallback, cancellation, request limits, and interval errors. Document the behaviour and add the changelog entry.

Fixes #1249

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6.1-sol

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Walkthrough

Backfill now skips ordinary context collection loader failures and can continue to later configured strategies. Cancellation and request-budget errors still propagate. Regression tests, the README, and changelog entries describe the behavior.

Changes

Backfill Context Failure Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle context collection loader failures packages/backfill/src/backfill.ts	loadObject now accepts options for skipping loader errors and throwing on request-budget exhaustion. Context collection loads treat ordinary loader failures as missing collections; aborts and budget errors still propagate.
Validate and document failure behavior packages/backfill/src/backfill.test.ts, packages/backfill/README.md, changes.d/backfill/context-load-failures.md, CHANGES.md	Tests cover loader failures, continuation to later strategies, request budgets, cancellation, retries, and interval errors. The README and changelogs document the behavior and its exceptions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Backfill as backfill()
  participant Loader as documentLoader
  participant ReplyTree as reply-tree strategy
  Backfill->>Loader: Load context collection
  Loader-->>Backfill: Reject with loader error
  Backfill->>Backfill: Treat collection as missing
  Backfill->>ReplyTree: Continue with configured strategy
  ReplyTree-->>Backfill: Yield embedded reply-tree data

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Suggested reviewers: dahlia

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a05a7

The backfill fix looks sound. The changelog entry should live only in the changes.d fragment, so remove the direct CHANGES.md edit before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: backfill continues after context loads fail.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the loader-failure behavior, preserved cancellation and configuration errors, tests, documentation, and linked issue. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1249 requires failed context loads to allow later strategies, including reply-tree, to run; the default context strategy must finish without yielding items. The implementation skips context loa…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #1249. backfill.ts implements the requested failure handling. The tests verify required behavior. README.md, CHANGES.md, and the versioned changelog entry document …

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @CHANGES.md:
- Line 17: Remove the manually added backfill entry from the unreleased
changelog section and leave the change note in the repository’s changelog
fragment so the changelog generation process can add it.

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Thanks!