Python: wrap Anthropic and Gemini SDK exceptions in ChatClientException

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Summary

_inner_get_response() in the OpenAI, Mistral, Ollama, and Bedrock chat clients all translate raw provider SDK exceptions into the framework's ChatClientException hierarchy (ChatClientInvalidAuthException for auth failures, ChatClientInvalidRequestException for bad requests, ChatClientException otherwise). Mistral's test suite explicitly asserts this behavior (test_get_response_http_error_wrapped, test_get_response_network_error_wrapped).

The Anthropic and Gemini clients call their SDKs directly with no try/except at all, so a raw anthropic.APIError or google.genai.errors.APIError (and subclasses) propagates unwrapped instead. Code written against the framework's provider-agnostic abstraction - catching ChatClientException to handle "any chat client failure," which is the documented purpose of that base class - silently fails to catch failures from these two providers specifically.

Fix

Wraps both the streaming and non-streaming call sites in both RawAnthropicClient._inner_get_response and RawGeminiChatClient._inner_get_response, classifying auth vs. bad-request vs. other errors the same way Mistral's existing implementation already does:

• Anthropic: anthropic.AuthenticationError → ChatClientInvalidAuthException, anthropic.BadRequestError → ChatClientInvalidRequestException, any other anthropic.APIError → ChatClientException.
• Gemini: google.genai.errors.ClientError with code == 401 → ChatClientInvalidAuthException, other ClientError → ChatClientInvalidRequestException, any other google.genai.errors.APIError (including ServerError) → ChatClientException.

I verified both SDKs' actual exception hierarchies against the installed anthropic (0.103.1) and google-genai packages rather than assuming from memory, since anthropic.InternalServerError in particular doesn't carry a class-level status_code the way AuthenticationError/BadRequestError do.

Testing

Added regression tests mirroring Mistral's existing coverage pattern:

• test_anthropic_client.py: test_inner_get_response_wraps_sdk_errors (parametrized over AuthenticationError/BadRequestError/InternalServerError) + test_inner_get_response_streaming_wraps_sdk_errors.
• test_gemini_client.py: test_get_response_wraps_sdk_errors (parametrized over 401/400 ClientError + ServerError) + test_get_response_streaming_wraps_sdk_errors.

Ran locally (editable install of agent-framework-core, -anthropic, and -gemini, pytest, Python 3.13 via conda):

• packages/anthropic: full suite passes, 162 tests, no regressions.
• packages/gemini: full suite passes, 154 tests, no regressions.
• ruff format + ruff check (pinned ruff==0.16.3) clean on all four changed files.

I don't have a way to hit the live Anthropic or Gemini APIs in this environment, so verification is at the unit level (real SDK exception classes, mocked HTTP layer) rather than an end-to-end run against production endpoints - happy to have this validated further in CI/review.

Scope note

Per CONTRIBUTING.md's guidance to discuss non-trivial changes first: this felt like a "small, obvious fix" (matching an existing, already-tested pattern used by 4 of 6 sibling providers, no new API surface, no behavioral change to successful responses) rather than something needing a design discussion, so I went straight to a PR. Happy to file an issue first if that's preferred for something touching this many provider packages.

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Pull request overview

Normalizes Anthropic and Gemini SDK failures into the framework’s chat-client exception hierarchy.

Changes:

• Wraps streaming and non-streaming provider errors.
• Adds regression tests for error classification.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 6 comments.

File	Description
python/packages/gemini/agent_framework_gemini/_chat_client.py	Adds Gemini exception translation.
python/packages/gemini/tests/test_gemini_client.py	Tests Gemini error wrapping.
python/packages/anthropic/agent_framework_anthropic/_chat_client.py	Adds Anthropic exception translation.
python/packages/anthropic/tests/test_anthropic_client.py	Tests Anthropic error wrapping.

Suppressed comments (2)

python/packages/gemini/agent_framework_gemini/_chat_client.py:597

• A 403 from Gemini/Vertex represents an authentication/authorization failure, not an invalid request. Include it with 401 here so the non-streaming path emits ChatClientInvalidAuthException consistently with the framework's existing provider mappings.

                if ex.code == 401:

python/packages/anthropic/agent_framework_anthropic/_chat_client.py:594

• The non-streaming path maps Anthropic's 403 PermissionDeniedError to the generic base exception. Classify 403 as ChatClientInvalidAuthException so callers can handle credential and permission failures consistently across providers and response modes.

            except AnthropicAPIError as ex:
                raise ChatClientException(f"Anthropic chat request failed: {ex}", inner_exception=ex) from ex

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