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Susana Ferreira dba45cede7 fix: remove 403 from key failover and cooldown on 401 (#27419)
## Problem

When a key returned 401 or 403, the pool marked it permanently
unavailable for the lifetime of that in-memory pool. This is bad UX: a
transient auth failure or a briefly-misconfigured key could take a key
out of rotation until the operator either restarted Coder or
reconfigured the key (even re-saving the same working value).

## Changes

- **403 removed from key failover**: it's a per-request authorization
failure, not a key-level problem, so it's surfaced to the caller as-is
without marking the key or failing over.
- **401 now applies a temporary cooldown** (like 429) so the key
recovers on its own instead of staying blocked.
- When every key is in an auth-failure cooldown, the pool reports a
`502` with no `Retry-After`, but the keys still recover automatically
once the cooldown elapses.

Closes
https://linear.app/codercom/issue/AIGOV-421/ai-gateway-a-quarantined-centralized-key-never-recovers-without-a
Closes
https://linear.app/codercom/issue/AIGOV-533/403s-misclassifying-keys-as-permanently-down-in-ai-gateway

> [!NOTE]
> Initially generated by Claude Opus 4.7, modified and reviewed by
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