fix(orchestrator): reap a lifecycle that took a batch slot and never placed an agent (#303) by khaliqgant · Pull Request #304 · AgentWorkforce/factory

khaliqgant · 2026-08-20T22:16:45Z

Fixes #303.

The defect

A dispatch lifecycle that reached a slot-occupying phase and never had an agent placed — spawn failed, fleet fault, or the process died between promote and spawn — was unreapable. Both halves of the only reaper keyed on heldSinceAtMs, which is stamped only by a successful placement:

#scheduleHeldAgentDeadline returned early, so no timer was ever armed.
#sweepHeldAgentDeadlines continued, so it was never collected.

With dispatch.batchSize defaulting to 1, that one row held the only slot forever. Every other issue was claimed as queued and re-armed at 1 Hz with no iteration or wall-clock ceiling (#298 bounded only the relayfile 429 path). It was silent because the capacity wait logged once per key and never again, and it survived container restarts because the lifecycle lives in the Durable Object document.

One correction to the issue's proposed fix. It suggests using updatedAtMs as the clock for these rows. That cannot work: renewDispatchLifecycle writes lifecycle.updatedAtMs = nowMs every DISPATCH_LIFECYCLE_RENEW_MS (60 s), which is precisely the 12,836-byte PATCH storm measured on production — so a wedged row looks freshly touched forever and a deadline anchored on it would never fire. A new durable anchor was required.

One widening. The predicate is not agents.size === 0. BatchTracker#recordPlanned writes the spec before the spawn returns, so a process that died mid-spawn leaves an agent entry with no tracked.result — and no heldSinceAtMs. That row was equally unreapable, via the heldSinceAtMs === undefined clause rather than the agents.size === 0 one. The fix keys on no successful placement, which covers both. There is a test for each.

What changed

1. Reap a never-placed in-flight lifecycle. New durable field DispatchLifecycle.slotHeldSinceAtMs records when a row took its batch slot, stamped by the state stores on claim / promote / save and cleared when the row stops occupying a slot. Claim also stamps rows written before this change, so a lifecycle already wedged in production starts its clock at the next adoption rather than never. A new #holdDeadline(record) returns exactly one of two clocks — heldSinceAtMs + agentHoldTimeoutMs for a team that ran, or slotHeldSinceAtMs + agentlessHoldTimeoutMs (new, 30 min default) for one that never existed — and both halves of the reaper now use it.

The sweep re-derives the deadline against the durable row immediately before teardown, so an in-memory record that is a beat behind a placement that just succeeded here or a takeover elsewhere cannot trigger a release.

A never-placed agent is excluded from the release. A real broker rejects a release for a name it never issued; that failure sets cleanupComplete = false and re-arms the abandon retry forever, trading the wedge for a quieter one. This is load-bearing and tested — with the guard removed, the planned-agent test leaves the row stuck in abandoning.

2. Bound the capacity retry. #scheduleDispatchLifecycleRetry now backs off 1s → 2s → 4s … capped at 30s for DispatchLifecycleCapacityError, and escalates on every backoff step (then once a minute after the cap) with waitedMs, attempts and the issue keys holding the slots. Only the capacity path backs off — an ownership wait is already bounded by DISPATCH_LIFECYCLE_LEASE_MS, and every other failure is a real error whose fast retry is the recovery.

Deliberately not a hard abandon deadline: a legitimate multi-hour implementation run holds the slot honestly, and with batchSize: 1 every other issue's wait is legitimately that long. Abandoning a queued issue on a wall-clock ceiling would lose real work. What was harmful was the rate and the silence, and both are now bounded. With (1) in place, a wait that never ends is no longer reachable.

3. Make batch occupancy observable.

status().dispatchCapacity and the loop heartbeat carry batchSize, active, waiting, longestWaitMs, the occupying issue keys and their phase/agent counts.
/healthz carries the redacted projection (counts and durations only — issue keys carry customer project names and stay behind /evidence), including agentlessOccupants, the wedge signature.
dispatchCapacity joins DISPATCH_GATING_SUBSYSTEMS, so a wait past dispatch.capacityWaitWarnMs (30 min default) sets status: degraded. ok deliberately does not move: recycling the container destroys the evidence and carries the durable lock into the replacement, exactly as production saw across three restarts.
factory diagnose --deployed names a wedged batch instead of reporting green.

Also extracts the batch-slot predicate that FileStateStore and InMemoryStateStore had each copy-pasted into src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.ts, now that a third reader depends on it.

Must-not-fire control

The window between promoteDispatchLifecycle and the first placement legitimately has no agents. does not reap a lifecycle still inside its promote-to-spawn window (#303) blocks the fleet's spawn on a gate, asserts the durable row is dispatching with heldSinceAtMs undefined and an agent carrying no result, waits 2.5 s — past the 1 s agentHoldTimeoutMs, far short of the 60 s agentlessHoldTimeoutMs — then asserts the row is untouched, nothing was released, and no counter moved. It then releases the gate and asserts the dispatch completes normally into running. Two independent guards back this: the 30 min default (a promote-to-spawn window includes clone, worktree prep and fleet spawn) and the durable re-derivation in the sweep.

Fail-first

Written before the fix and run against the unmodified orchestrator:

 ❯ src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts (552 tests | 3 failed | 548 skipped) 31183ms
     × reaps a slot-holding lifecycle that never recorded an agent so a queued issue can dispatch (#303) 8139ms
     × reaps a slot-holding lifecycle that recorded a planned agent that never spawned so a queued issue can dispatch (#303) 8093ms
     × backs off and keeps reporting a dispatch capacity wait instead of spinning silently (#303) 12245ms

 FAIL  src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts > FactoryLoop > reaps a slot-holding lifecycle that never recorded an agent so a queued issue can dispatch (#303)
 FAIL  src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts > FactoryLoop > reaps a slot-holding lifecycle that recorded a planned agent that never spawned so a queued issue can dispatch (#303)
AssertionError: expected { runId: 'wedged-run', …(8) } to match object { phase: 'abandoned', …(1) }

- Expected
+ Received

  {
-   "phase": "abandoned",
-   "releaseReason": "agentless-slot-past-deadline",
+   "phase": "dispatching",
  }

 ❯ vi.waitFor.timeout src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts:10920:12

 FAIL  src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts > FactoryLoop > backs off and keeps reporting a dispatch capacity wait instead of spinning silently (#303)
AssertionError: expected 1 to be greater than or equal to 3
 ❯ vi.waitFor.timeout src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts:11033:59
    11031|       // Deliverable 2: the wait escalates instead of going silent aft…
    11032|       // log, and each re-arm is longer than the last.
    11033|       await vi.waitFor(() => expect(capacityWaits.length).toBeGreaterT…

The first two are the reap: the wedged row stays dispatching forever and the queued issue never spawns. The third is the retry: exactly one capacity log ever fires, with no waitedMs, no attempts and no escalation — the silence that made a 14-hour outage look like an idle Factory.

The must-not-fire control passes both before and after, by construction. Its value is as a regression guard on the new deadline; the load-bearing proof that the guard is real is the deleted-guard run above, where the planned-agent row sticks in abandoning.

Post-fix: 1909 passed | 1 skipped, npm run build and npm run featuremap:check clean.

Not done here

batchSize still defaults to 1. Raising it is an operational change and not mine to make unilaterally, as Dispatch is permanently wedged: one agent-less lifecycle holds the only batch slot and cannot be reaped, so every queued row spins at 1 Hz forever #303 notes. With this fix a wedged row no longer leaks a slot permanently, so the default is no longer an outage multiplier — but one long-running issue still blocks everything behind it, which is a separate decision.
#scheduleAbandonedDispatchRetry and #scheduleReleaseRetry are still flat 1 Hz. Neither is reachable from a wedge now (the never-placed release guard removes the only path that looped forever), so bounding them is cleanup rather than an outage fix.

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Summary by cubic

Reaps slot-holding lifecycles that never placed an agent, bounds capacity retries, surfaces batch occupancy, and classifies late placements so readiness doesn’t abort (Linear #303). Old behavior: agent-less rows never reaped and capacity waits went silent; new behavior: they reap on a dispatch-armed deadline, capacity retries back off and reset on real slot release, capacity shows up in status/health/CLI, and late placements are released and classified.

Adds durable slotHeldSinceAtMs and dispatch.agentlessHoldTimeoutMs (30m default). One clock per lifecycle: placed uses heldSinceAtMs + agentHoldTimeoutMs; never-placed uses slotHeldSinceAtMs + agentlessHoldTimeoutMs. Deadline arms at initial dispatch, is re-derived from the durable row before teardown, and pre-existing rows start their clock on next claim.
Strengthens late-placement safety: after a spawn returns, ownership is revalidated against what save accepts (same owner, same epoch, unexpired lease). If not owned or terminal, the worker is torn down without persisting placement and classified as LatePlacementReleasedError; classification uses the durable deadline so live workers are not leaked.
Excludes never-issued agents from broker release and releases placements that land after their dispatch was reaped.
Capacity waits back off 1s → 2s … → 30s with escalating logs and occupiedBy, and reset only when a write transitions a lifecycle from occupying to not occupying a slot.
Observability: status/heartbeat add dispatchCapacity with batchSize, active, waiting, longestWaitMs, occupants (including placedAgents, slot/placement hold times), and waiting issues. /healthz includes a redacted block, degrades once dispatch.capacityWaitWarnMs (30m default) is exceeded, and wedges count only occupants with zero placed agents at or past the reap deadline. CLI diagnose names a wedged batch, treats longestWaitMs as queue wait, and avoids “free batch” when a live daemon predates this field.
Slot occupancy matches admission via a shared predicate and counts only lifecycles that still block promotion; it excludes teams fully handed off to unreleased babysitters.
New config: dispatch.agentlessHoldTimeoutMs, dispatch.capacityWaitWarnMs (both default 30m). New counters: agentlessSlotPastDeadlineReleases, dispatchLifecycleCapacityWaits, dispatchCapacityBackoffResets. No data migration required.

^{Written for commit 24b19d4. Summary will update on new commits.}

…placed an agent (#303) A dispatch lifecycle that reached a slot-occupying phase and never had an agent placed — spawn failed, fleet fault, or the process died between promote and spawn — was unreapable. `#scheduleHeldAgentDeadline` and `#sweepHeldAgentDeadlines` both keyed on a `heldSinceAtMs` that is only stamped by a *successful* placement, so no timer was ever armed and no sweep ever collected it. With `batchSize` defaulting to 1, that one row held the only slot forever, every other issue was claimed as `queued`, and the retry re-armed at 1 Hz with no bound — 1477 state GETs in 111s on production, across a ~14 hour dispatch outage that every operator surface reported as healthy. Three changes: 1. Bound a never-placed lifecycle. `DispatchLifecycle.slotHeldSinceAtMs` records when a row took its batch slot; `updatedAtMs` could not serve (lease renewal bumps it every 60s) and `heldSinceAtMs` could not either (it is the clock that never starts). Both halves of the reaper now take the shorter `dispatch.agentlessHoldTimeoutMs` (30m) from that anchor, re-derived against the durable row immediately before teardown so a placement that just succeeded is never raced. The predicate is "no successful placement", not `agents.size === 0`: `recordPlanned` writes the spec before the spawn returns, so a dispatch that died mid-spawn leaves an agent entry and no placement. Such an agent is also excluded from the release, since asking the broker to release a name it never issued fails the cleanup and would re-arm the abandon retry forever. 2. Bound the capacity retry. It backs off 1s → 30s and escalates on every step, naming the issues holding the slots, instead of logging once per key and going silent forever. Only the capacity path backs off: an ownership wait is already bounded by the lease. The wait is not abandoned on a deadline — a real multi-hour run holds the slot honestly — so what is bounded is the retry rate. 3. Make batch occupancy observable. `status().dispatchCapacity` and the heartbeat carry slot occupancy, waiters and the longest wait; `/healthz` carries the redacted counts and lists `dispatchCapacity` as dispatch-gating once a wait passes `dispatch.capacityWaitWarnMs`; `factory diagnose` names a wedged batch instead of reporting green. Also extracts the batch-slot predicate the two state stores had each copy-pasted into `src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.ts`, now that a third reader depends on it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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The PR adds dispatch-capacity tracking across lifecycle state, Factory orchestration, health reporting, fleet status, and diagnosis. It adds agentless lifecycle cleanup, capacity-specific retry backoff, slot timestamps, and related tests.

Changes

Dispatch capacity lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capacity contracts and lifecycle metadata `src/config/schema.ts`, `src/types.ts`, `src/ports/state.ts`, `src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.ts`, `src/orchestrator/batch-tracker.ts`, `src/state/watch-state-document.ts`, `src/config/schema.test.ts`	Dispatch configuration adds agentless-hold and capacity-wait thresholds. Lifecycle records and public types add slot timestamps, occupancy, wait metrics, and health states.
Lifecycle slot persistence `src/state/file-state-store.ts`, `src/state/in-memory-state-store.ts`	State stores stamp and preserve slot metadata during lifecycle claims, promotions, and saves.
Factory capacity recovery and status `src/orchestrator/factory.ts`, `src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts`	Factory adds exponential retry delays, repeated wait warnings, capacity status, agentless deadlines, durable slot timestamps, and cleanup safeguards. Tests cover reaping, blocked spawning, backoff, warnings, and status output.
Health, fleet status, and diagnosis `src/orchestrator/public-health.ts`, `src/orchestrator/public-health.test.ts`, `src/cli/fleet.ts`, `src/cli/diagnose.ts`, `src/cli/diagnose.test.ts`	Health normalization classifies capacity as healthy, waiting, or stalled. Fleet status uses live heartbeat capacity data. Diagnosis reports stalled batches and agentless occupants.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 64029

The change improves recovery of wedged dispatches, but current code can still misclassify released agents and lose track of a late placement before cleanup is durably recorded; failed planned spawns also remain underreported in health and diagnosis. These bounded correctness and observability issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Suggested reviewers: kjgbot, miyaontherelay

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DispatchLifecycle
  participant Factory
  participant StateStore
  participant PublicHealth
  participant Diagnosis
  DispatchLifecycle->>StateStore: persist slotHeldSinceAtMs
  Factory->>StateStore: revalidate and reap overdue occupant
  Factory->>PublicHealth: publish dispatchCapacity
  PublicHealth->>Diagnosis: provide stalled capacity and occupant details

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A rabbit tracks each busy slot,
And marks the time that dispatch brought.
The waiting queue now shows its state,
While stale holds meet a measured fate.
Health and diagnosis share the view.
Hop-hop, the capacity trail is true.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue `#303` by reaping never-placed lifecycles, bounding capacity retries, adding escalation, and exposing batch occupancy.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The additional backoff, observability, configuration, shared predicate, and tests directly support the requirements in issue `#303`.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary fix: reaping lifecycles that hold a batch slot without placing an agent.
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chatgpt-codex-connector · 2026-08-20T22:20:08Z

+  /** Issue keys currently holding a `batchSize` slot, for operator surfaces. */
+  #dispatchSlotOccupants(): FactoryDispatchSlotOccupant[] {
+    return (this.#batchView?.inFlight ?? [])
+      .filter((record) => !record.dryRun && dispatchPhaseOccupiesSlot(record.lifecyclePhase))


Exclude babysitter handoffs from reported slot occupants

When every implementer repository has been handed off to a babysitter, both state stores and BatchTracker stop counting that lifecycle against batchSize, but this filter still includes it solely because running is a slot-phase. Consequently active, occupants, and the capacity-wait log's occupiedBy can identify lifecycles that are not actually blocking promotion (and may even report active > batchSize) throughout the babysitter run; apply the same handoff predicate used by the admission code.

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Valid, fixed in ac9b7b1.

Confirmed against the code: #dispatchSlotOccupants filtered on dispatchPhaseOccupiesSlot(record.lifecyclePhase) alone, while both stores apply dispatchPhaseOccupiesSlot && !dispatchLifecycleHandedOffToBabysitters. So a handed-off lifecycle in running was reported as an occupant for the whole babysitter run, and with batchSize: 1 that is a claim the stores 'own admission predicate contradicts.

Rather than duplicate the predicate a fourth time, I factored the handoff check into a spec-shaped dispatchHandedOffToBabysitters(implementers, agentSpecs) in src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.ts, with dispatchLifecycleHandedOffToBabysitters now a thin adapter over it. The orchestrator asks the same question of an in-flight record through a new #recordOccupiesSlot(record).

I applied it in three places, not just the reporting one:

#dispatchSlotOccupants — the reported active / occupants / occupiedBy.

#holdDeadline — a handed-off row holds no slot, so it must not get the never-placed deadline either.

the record-side slotHeldSinceAtMs stamp in #saveDispatchLifecycle — previously phase-only and documented as a deliberate superset. It now uses the same predicate, so the in-memory anchor and the store's cannot diverge.

Regression test: the existing releases a weak-match babysitter when exact branch reconciliation proves a different PR already ends in exactly this state — batchSize: 1, phase: running, a babysitter owning the only implementer repo's PR — so I added the occupancy assertions there. Verified load-bearing; with the handoff term removed it fails with expected { batchSize: 1, active: 1, ... } to match object { batchSize: 1, active: +0, ... }.

chatgpt-codex-connector · 2026-08-20T22:20:08Z

+  const agentlessOccupants = (status.occupants ?? [])
+    .filter((occupant) => counter(occupant.agents) === 0).length


Count planned-only records as agentless occupants

For the planned-before-spawn crash case this commit explicitly handles, recordPlanned leaves one entry in record.agents but no successful placement (tracked.result and heldSinceAtMs remain absent). Since the public projection tests only whether the entry count is zero, that wedged lifecycle is omitted from agentlessOccupants, so /healthz and factory diagnose --deployed fail to identify the never-placed signature for one of the target failure modes; the status needs to expose/count successful placements rather than agent specs.

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Valid, fixed in ac9b7b1. This was my own inconsistency: I moved the reaper predicate off agents.size === 0 and onto "no successful placement" precisely because recordPlanned writes a spec before the spawn returns, then left the observability predicate on the spec count. So the projection lost the wedge signature for exactly one of the two failure modes this PR adds a test for.

Fix: FactoryDispatchSlotOccupant now carries an explicit placedAgents (entries with a tracked.result) alongside agents (entries, including planned-but-unspawned), and the projection counts placedAgents === 0.

I kept a fallback rather than reading placedAgents unconditionally — counter(undefined) is 0, so a producer that does not send the field would have every occupant counted as agentless. When it is absent the projection falls back to heldForMs === undefined, which is equivalent because heldForMs is derived from heldSinceAtMs and that is stamped only by a successful placement.

Two tests: the main one now fixtures the planned-before-spawn shape (agents: 1, placedAgents: 0) and still expects agentlessOccupants: 1; a second covers the fallback with a producer that omits placedAgents. Verified load-bearing — reverting to the spec count fails both, the second with expected undefined to be 1.

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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.ts`:
- Around line 5351-5390: Use the durable deadline returned by
inFlightRecordFromLifecycle for release classification whenever it exists,
rather than the stale in-memory deadline. Update the kind, sinceAtMs,
agentless/details, logging, metric selection, and `#abandonStuckDispatch` inputs
in the sweep to use this effective deadline while preserving the existing
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public-health.ts to identify successful placements by checking that heldForMs is
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…ee with admission (#303 review) Three review findings, all real: 1. `#dispatchSlotOccupants` filtered on phase alone, but admission also excludes a lifecycle whose every implementer repo has been handed to a babysitter. `active`, `occupants` and the capacity log's `occupiedBy` could therefore name slots that were not blocking promotion, and `active` could exceed `batchSize`. Records now ask the same predicate the state stores ask of a durable row, via a shared spec-shaped `dispatchHandedOffToBabysitters`. `#holdDeadline` and the record-side slot stamp use it too, so the orchestrator and the stores cannot disagree. (codex P2) 2. `agentlessOccupants` counted `agents === 0`, but `agents` counts specs: `recordPlanned` writes one before the spawn returns. The planned-before-spawn crash this PR exists for reports `agents: 1` with no placement, so `/healthz` and `factory diagnose` lost the wedge signature for one of the two target failure modes. Occupants now carry an explicit `placedAgents`, with the placement stamp as the fallback for a producer that does not send it. (codex P2, CodeRabbit major) 3. The sweep re-derived the deadline from the durable row and then classified from the stale in-memory one. When a placement landed durably, the release was labelled `agentless-slot-past-deadline`, the wrong counter moved, and — worst — `#abandonStuckDispatch` treated the row as never-placed and excluded its agents from the broker release, leaking live workers. Classification now uses the durable deadline whenever there is one. (CodeRabbit major) Each fix has a regression test verified to fail with the fix reverted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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…#303 review) Four more review findings, all valid: 1. `agentlessOccupants` counted "has no agent yet", which is every dispatch between promote and its first placement — `recordPlanned` writes the spec before the spawn returns, and a cloud spawn takes minutes. On a single-slot batch the field documented as the wedge signature would have read 1 continuously on a batch that was working. It now counts only occupants that never placed an agent *and* are already past `dispatch.agentlessHoldTimeoutMs`, the deadline that should have reaped them — a condition no healthy dispatch reaches. The deadline ships on the status and health records so the threshold is legible rather than implied. This is the same mistake the defect itself was: "no agent yet" is not "never going to have one", and the answer is the same deadline in both places. (cubic P2) 2. The projection threw on a non-array `occupants` or a null entry. It runs inside the heartbeat writer, where a throw costs the whole diagnostics block — the #300 failure mode. Now validated by construction, like every other field in that module. (cubic P2) 3. `factory diagnose` reported `longestWaitMs` as how long the slots had been occupied. It is the oldest queued issue's wait; the verdict now says so, and reports `active`/`batchSize` for occupancy. (cubic P2) 4. `factoryStatusWithMountHealth` fell back to a fresh local Factory's empty capacity view when a live daemon predates the field — publishing "the batch is free" from an instance that holds no lifecycles, which is the misreport the surrounding comment promises not to make. It now reports nothing there, matching readinessReconcile and fleetControlPlane. (cubic P2) Each has a regression test verified to fail with the fix reverted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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Requesting a fresh pass on 247a2b0. The CodeRabbit check is currently green with the detail Review rate limited, so that commit has not actually been reviewed by it — and it is not a trivial follow-up. It changes the meaning of a published field (agentlessOccupants now requires the never-placed row to be past dispatch.agentlessHoldTimeoutMs, not merely unplaced), adds countAgentlessOccupants with untrusted-input validation in the heartbeat writer path, adds agentlessHoldTimeoutMs to both the status and redacted health records, and rewrites the factory diagnose capacity verdict.

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@khaliqgant I will run a fresh review of PR #304. I will include commit 247a2b0 and the specified behavior changes.

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…ed (#303) CI surfaced this rather than a reviewer. `package` failed on `keeps a durable queued issue from spawning after restart until the running slot is released`, and the honest reading is that the backoff added in this PR widened that test's failure window rather than merely coinciding with it. Before the backoff, a queued lifecycle had two independent paths to the freed slot: the local completion, which dispatches the next issue directly, and the flat 1 Hz retry. The retry was a second-resolution safety net under the first. Backing it off to 30 s removed that net, so anything slow on the completion path now has far longer to go unnoticed — and for a slot released by *another* process there is no local event at all, so the timer is the only signal. Trading a retry storm for up to 30 s of dispatch latency is not the trade this PR meant to make. The backoff exists to damp retries asking a question whose answer is not changing. A terminal lifecycle changes it, so `#saveDispatchLifecycle` now resets every pending capacity waiter to the base delay and re-arms it when a save lands in a terminal phase. `sinceAtMs` is deliberately left alone: the issue really has been waiting that long, and the escalating warning should keep saying so. The storm stays bounded, because it only ever occurred while nothing was moving. Also gives that pre-existing test an explicit 30 s timeout. Its fixed 2.2 s observation plus a 4 s wait always exceeded vitest's 5 s default; it passed only when the wait resolved early, which is not a property of the code under test. Regression test verified to fail with the reset removed: the waiter's ladder stays at `[8000, 16000]` instead of restarting at `1000`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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… not the terminal phase (#303 review) Two findings, and the first turned out to be broader than reported. 1. cubic: the backoff reset fired on every terminal save, including a `queued` row abandoned at startup because its source issue went terminal — a transition that frees no slot. Correct, and the same category of error as the defect itself: treating a non-slot event as a slot event. With batchSize 1 and a queue of waiters it re-triggers the thundering herd against the state document that this PR bounded. Gating on "terminal AND the previous phase occupied a slot" is still wrong, and my own positive test caught it: `releasing` does not occupy a slot, so a normal completion frees it one save *before* `complete`, and that gate reset nothing on a real release. A babysitter handoff frees a slot without ever going terminal at all, which the original code missed in the other direction. The event is the occupancy transition, not the phase. The reset now fires exactly when a write takes a row from occupying to not occupying, which is the only thing that can change a waiter's answer. Phase was only ever a proxy for it. 2. cubic: `countAgentlessOccupants` used a strict `>` against the reap deadline while the reaper skips only while `nowMs < dueAtMs` — so at exactly the deadline the reaper reaps and the diagnostic said the slot was fine. A diagnostic that disagrees with the mechanism it reports on is how this outage stayed invisible; now `>=`. Both regression tests verified to fail with their fix reverted, and the occupancy gate is proven in both directions: reverted to unconditional it fails the never-held-a-slot test, and the phase-based gate fails the slot-released test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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5251-5318: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Arm the agentless deadline before the first dispatch await

#saveDispatchLifecycle(record, 'dispatching') stamps slotHeldSinceAtMs, but the fresh path does not call #scheduleHeldAgentDeadline(record) before awaiting dispatch work. The guarded #fleet.spawn path intentionally has no mutation timeout. In an otherwise idle process, a stalled first attempt can therefore leave a planned, slot-occupying record without a global deadline timer. Add the schedule call immediately after the initial lifecycle save.
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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.ts` around lines 5251 - 5318, In the initial
dispatch path, call `#scheduleHeldAgentDeadline`(record) immediately after
`#saveDispatchLifecycle`(record, 'dispatching') and before the first dispatch
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In `@src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.ts`:
- Around line 23-49: Update dispatchHandedOffToBabysitters and its
dispatchLifecycleHandedOffToBabysitters caller to preserve each agent’s
releasedAtMs status when evaluating babysitters, and exclude released
babysitters from satisfying handoff detection so they cannot suppress slot
occupancy.

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- Around line 5251-5318: In the initial dispatch path, call
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…ased babysitter suppressing occupancy (#303 review) CodeRabbit's first pass that was not rate-limited found two Majors, both real. 1. The fresh dispatch path stamps `slotHeldSinceAtMs` at its first `dispatching` save, but only armed the deadline after a placement succeeded. `#fleet.spawn` deliberately carries no mutation timeout, so a first attempt that hangs in an otherwise idle process held the batch slot with no timer that could ever fire — the #303 shape reached through dispatch instead of durable recovery, and a gap in this PR's own fix. The deadline is now armed before the first await. 2. `dispatchHandedOffToBabysitters` ignored release state, so a released babysitter still satisfied the handoff and dropped its lifecycle out of `batchSize` accounting while nothing was watching the PR. Admission over-subscribes and the reaper stops bounding a row it still needs to bound. The predicate now takes agents rather than bare specs so the release stamp is available at all, reading it from the durable row or the tracked agent the way `inFlightRecordFromLifecycle` does. The ignored-release half predates this PR — both state stores had it — but the extraction in cf427eb made it structurally unfixable at the call site by passing specs only, and three new callers now depend on the predicate, so it is fixed here rather than left behind a refactor that made it worse. Adds `src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.test.ts` for the extracted module, covering the handoff, the released-babysitter cases and the slot anchor's carry-forward and clearing. Both fixes verified to fail with the fix reverted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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@coderabbitai — answering your outside-diff finding here, since it has no inline thread to reply to: "Arm the agentless deadline before the first dispatch await" (src/orchestrator/factory.ts, 5251-5318).

Valid, and it is a gap in this PR's own fix. Fixed in 0634d50.

Confirmed against the code. #dispatchUnlocked saves dispatching — which is what stamps slotHeldSinceAtMs, so the row occupies a batch slot from that instant — and then awaits #ensureGithubAgentQuestionWatch and the per-spec #spawnAgent loop. Every #scheduleHeldAgentDeadline call site was downstream of a successful placement (factory.ts:8346, :8386, :8427) or on the durable drive path (:6243), plus the post-sweep re-arm at :5352 which only iterates records some other timer already brought it to. #fleet.spawn deliberately carries no mutation timeout — Factory bounds read-only roster calls locally and never abandons a mutating spawn behind one — so in an otherwise idle process a first attempt that hangs holds the only batch slot with no timer that can ever fire.

That is precisely the #303 shape, reached through the fresh dispatch path instead of durable recovery. My fix bounded the row that arrives already wedged and missed the one that becomes wedged on its very first attempt. The deadline is now armed immediately after that first save, before any await.

Regression test reaps a first dispatch whose spawn never returns (#303): a fleet client whose spawn blocks on a gate, nothing else in flight so no other record's deadline can sweep it in by side effect, agentHoldTimeoutMs left at 4h so only the never-placed deadline can explain a release.

FAIL FIRST, with the new #scheduleHeldAgentDeadline call removed:

 × reaps a first dispatch whose spawn never returns (#303) 12145ms
AssertionError: expected { …(10) } to match object { Object (releaseReason) }

It sits in dispatching until the test times out, exactly as described.

This pairs with the must-not-fire control already on the PR: within agentlessHoldTimeoutMs the same hung-spawn window is explicitly asserted not to be reaped, so arming the timer earlier does not turn a slow spawn into a dispatch race — it only bounds one that never finishes.

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@khaliqgant Thanks for the detailed confirmation. Scheduling #scheduleHeldAgentDeadline immediately after the dispatching save closes the first-dispatch hung-spawn path. The regression test isolates the required failure mode and preserves the pre-timeout control.

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…was reaped (#303 review) Arming the never-placed deadline before the first spawn await (0634d50) made a new interleaving reachable: the reaper can now fence, release and terminalize a lifecycle while `#fleet.spawn` is still in flight. When that spawn finally returned, `#spawnAgent` carried on — stamping `heldSinceAtMs`, recording the placement, and saving — onto a record the reaper had already finished with. The durable save failed on the dropped epoch, so the terminal row was never resurrected, but the worker itself was live on the fleet with nothing left to release it. That trades a wedged batch slot for a leaked agent, which is not a trade worth making. `#spawnAgent` now revalidates ownership after the spawn await — pending abandon reason, dropped epoch, or a terminal durable row — and hands a late placement straight to teardown instead of recording it. Deliberately not routed through `#abandonStuckDispatch`: that record is already terminal and its batch entry is gone, so the only thing still needing attention is the worker. Extends the hung-spawn regression test to release the gate afterwards and assert the late placement is released, that no spawn result is persisted onto the terminal row, and that `heldSinceAtMs` stays unset. Verified to fail with the guard removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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20103-20127: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the release check to both durable locations for heldSinceAtMs backfill.

Line 20112 merges release state from both locations: releasedAtMs: agent.releasedAtMs ?? agent.tracked.releasedAtMs. The heldSinceAtMs backfill directly below, at line 20122, checks only agent.releasedAtMs === undefined against the raw lifecycle.agents entries, and does not fall back to agent.tracked.releasedAtMs.

The prior review on dispatchHandedOffToBabysitters (src/state/dispatch-lifecycle-slot.ts) established that release state can persist in either DispatchLifecycleAgent.releasedAtMs or TrackedAgent.releasedAtMs, because either writer may have set it. If an agent's release is recorded only in agent.tracked.releasedAtMs, this backfill treats a released placement as still active and sets heldSinceAtMs = lifecycle.updatedAtMs.

#holdDeadline gives the agents kind priority over agentless whenever record.heldSinceAtMs !== undefined (line 5299). A stale heldSinceAtMs from this bug makes the reaper apply agentHoldTimeoutMs and the held-past-deadline release reason to a row that should instead be classified as agentless-slot-past-deadline under agentlessHoldTimeoutMs, undermining the classification this PR exists to fix.

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   heldSinceAtMs: lifecycle.heldSinceAtMs ?? (
     // A live placement the durable row predates the `heldSinceAtMs` field for.
     // `tracked.result` is what distinguishes a placement from a spec that
     // `recordPlanned` wrote and no spawn ever answered (`#303`).
-    lifecycle.agents.some((agent) => agent.releasedAtMs === undefined && agent.tracked.result !== undefined)
+    lifecycle.agents.some((agent) =>
+      (agent.releasedAtMs ?? agent.tracked.releasedAtMs) === undefined && agent.tracked.result !== undefined)
       ? lifecycle.updatedAtMs
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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.ts` around lines 20103 - 20127, Update the
heldSinceAtMs backfill in inFlightRecordFromLifecycle to consider both
release-state locations, using the same fallback as the agents reconstruction:
agent.releasedAtMs and agent.tracked.releasedAtMs. Only backfill heldSinceAtMs
for agents unreleased in both locations; preserve the existing
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Persist a handoff for failed late-placement release.

markAgentTerminal removes the agent from both fleet clients’ tracked state. reconcileTrackedAgents therefore cannot recover this placement, and #dispatchFailureHandoffs cannot include it because batch.recordSpawn has not run. Persist a RegistryHandoffAgent before this.#fleet.release, and clear it only after release succeeds.
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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.ts` around lines 8430 - 8501, Update
`#releaseOrphanedLatePlacement` to persist a RegistryHandoffAgent handoff before
calling `#fleet.release`, since the placement is not tracked by batch.recordSpawn
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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.ts`:
- Around line 20103-20127: Update the heldSinceAtMs backfill in
inFlightRecordFromLifecycle to consider both release-state locations, using the
same fallback as the agents reconstruction: agent.releasedAtMs and
agent.tracked.releasedAtMs. Only backfill heldSinceAtMs for agents unreleased in
both locations; preserve the existing lifecycle.updatedAtMs fallback and other
fields.
- Around line 8430-8501: Update `#releaseOrphanedLatePlacement` to persist a
RegistryHandoffAgent handoff before calling `#fleet.release`, since the placement
is not tracked by batch.recordSpawn and markAgentTerminal removes it from
reconciliation state. Clear the handoff only after release succeeds; retain the
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…ing it as an unexplained fault (#303 review) The late-placement guard in 640298e threw a plain `Error`, so `isClassifiedPerItemDispatchFailure` returned false and every occurrence incremented `unclassifiedFailuresSinceDispatch`. Five in a row with no successful dispatch between them and the whole readiness pass aborts (#292's fuse, `UNCLASSIFIED_DISPATCH_FAILURE_LIMIT`). That is not a remote possibility. The error fires exactly when the never-placed deadline terminalizes a lifecycle whose spawn is still in flight — a slow-spawn condition, which is the precise condition the deadline exists for. A degraded fleet produces the race repeatedly, so the fix for a wedged batch slot would have become an aborting sweep: `readinessReconcile.lastError` red and dispatch stopped, which from outside is the outage it was meant to end. Two individually-correct changes meeting badly — the same seam that produced #303. Adds a narrow, named `LatePlacementReleasedError` carrying the issue key and agent name, classifies it, and gives it its own run-report reason (`dispatch released while its agent was still spawning`) rather than falling through to `dispatch failed (...)`. The predicate is not widened or loosened: the fuse still catches a pass-wide fault wearing per-item clothes. Visibility is unchanged — `lateSpawnPlacementsReleased` and `lateSpawnPlacementReleaseFailures` already carry the condition without polluting `counters.errors`. `mayHaveSpawnedBeforeFailing` deliberately still returns true for it. `#reapDispatchFailureHandoffsNow` is documented and written to be idempotent, and this path never reaches `batch.recordSpawn`, so there is no handoff for the late agent to reap; the existing regression test asserts exactly one release, which would catch a duplicate. Test pair, both verified: - MUST-FIRE: seven consecutive late-placement releases with no successful dispatch between them return a report instead of aborting. Reverted, it fails with `Aborting readiness pass after 5 unclassified dispatch failures without a successful dispatch: Dispatch lifecycle for AR-81 was released while ar-81-impl-pear was still spawning`. - MUST-NOT-FIRE: five genuinely unclassified failures still abort. It is a control, so it passes before and after; widening the predicate to `error instanceof Error` makes it fail with `promise resolved ... instead of rejecting`, which is what proves it still guards the fuse. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

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review) Two cubic findings on the late-placement guard. 1. `#dispatchLifecycleStillOwned` accepted any nonterminal row with a cached epoch, so a lifecycle another owner had reclaimed still read as ours. The placement was then recorded, `saveDispatchLifecycle` refused it on the epoch, and `#spawnAgent` threw the generic `Dispatch lifecycle ownership lost after spawning ...` — a plain Error that leaks the worker and feeds the unclassified-failure fuse. The same two defects the previous two commits fixed, reached through takeover instead of the deadline. The check now mirrors exactly what `saveDispatchLifecycle` will accept — owner, epoch and an unexpired lease — so a placement is recorded only when the write that follows can actually land, and anything else goes to orphan cleanup as a classified `LatePlacementReleasedError`. 2. `LatePlacementReleasedError` had been inserted between `LiveDispatchStateChangedError`'s JSDoc and its declaration, so the doc described the wrong export. Moved below it. Regression test drives a real takeover: a spawn blocked on a gate, another owner claiming the row on a future clock once this process's lease has lapsed, then the spawn returning. Verified to fail with the lease comparison removed — `expected [Function] to throw error matching /was released while .* was still spawning/ but got 'Dispatch lifecycle ownership lost after spawning ar-318-impl-pear'`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 773e58dc-110c-4d0e-97d5-a36a658636db

Bounding the wait does not cancel the call. Two paths could therefore leave a live worker that this process had already reported as failed — trading the infinite hang for a leaked agent, which is not a trade worth making. 1. An abandoned `placement.spawn`. The in-flight promise was dropped on timeout, so a placement Relay accepted a moment later launched a worker nothing was tracking. `#withinDeadline` now takes an `onAbandoned` hook that receives the still-in-flight call, and the spawn path uses it to release whatever the placement ultimately lands. 2. An acked placement whose invocation poll ran out of budget. This is the certain leak rather than the possible one: holding an ack means Relay accepted the placement, and we were throwing that ack away. Both now route through `#releaseLatePlacement`, which tracks the agent *before* attempting the release so a failed cleanup is retried by the reconciliation loop rather than forgotten — the same retain-and-retry the existing `unverified-placement` path uses. This is the client-side counterpart to #304's `LatePlacementReleasedError` / `#releaseOrphanedLatePlacement`. Tests fail before the change with `expected [] to have a length of 1`: no release was issued at all. A must-not-fire control pins that a placement which genuinely fails launches nothing and so is never released. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 1e357a8b-0ac7-4606-992e-e5151f53afb6

) * fix(factory): bound every await on the Relay placement path (#306) The 5-minute spawn-ack timeout was real, configured and unreachable. The deadline was read at the top of `#awaitInvocation`'s poll loop, wrapped around an unbounded `commands.getInvocation`, so a read that never settled never returned control to the check. Production ran one readiness sweep for 62 minutes against that bound, holding its batch slots the whole time. Everything before the loop had no deadline at all — `#ensureMessaging`, `#ensureLifecycleAction` and `placement.spawn` all ran before one existed — and the deadline was computed inside `#awaitInvocation`, so time already spent on placement was free: an operation could cost the placement delay plus a fresh full ack budget. Anchor one budget per operation and thread it through every call, racing each against the remaining budget. The Relay surface takes no AbortSignal, so the race is the only bound available; it is the same technique the SDK's own `raceConfirmRead` uses. Also set `confirm: true` on the agent-spawn placement. An ack proves the engine accepted the dispatch, not that the node launched anything: a node on an obsolete broker acks and launches nothing, indistinguishable from a real spawn until the invocation is read back. `confirm` makes the SDK do that read, bounded, and `ack.confirmation` is consumed in place of a redundant re-poll — so a confirmed spawn costs fewer reads than before. `RelaySpawnAckTimeoutError` is deliberately left unclassified. Unlike the conditions on the #292 exemption list, a spawn-ack timeout is not per-item and not self-healing: it is evidence about the fleet, and retrying it against the same fleet times out again. A run of them is a pass-wide fault that should trip the fuse, not be exempted from it — classifying it would rebuild this outage as an endless series of five-minute sweeps that never abort and never alert. The fuse itself is untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 1e357a8b-0ac7-4606-992e-e5151f53afb6 * fix(factory): bound the preview roster read and check the budget before calling Three independent reviewers found the same gap: `reapPreviews` bounded its placement calls but awaited `roster()` outside the budget, and `roster()` is three unbounded reads (`agents.presence`, `agents.list`, `nodes.list`). `#reapPreviewOrphans` keeps the sweep promise in `#previewSweepInFlight` and schedules the next sweep only from its `.finally()`, so one stalled read stops preview cleanup permanently — the exact hang this branch removes everywhere else on the path. `#withinDeadline` also took an already-started promise, so an exhausted budget still issued the request before rejecting. On the placement path that request mutates: it can launch a worker this process has already decided it has no time to wait for, then abandon it. Take a thunk and invoke it only after the remaining-time check, so a spent budget refuses before anything is sent. That also moves the `confirmTimeoutMs` computation behind the check, where it belongs. Both are pinned by tests that fail before the change: the roster hang as a 5025ms harness timeout, and the eager call as a placement recorded against a budget that was already gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 1e357a8b-0ac7-4606-992e-e5151f53afb6 * fix(factory): release placements Relay accepts after the local deadline Bounding the wait does not cancel the call. Two paths could therefore leave a live worker that this process had already reported as failed — trading the infinite hang for a leaked agent, which is not a trade worth making. 1. An abandoned `placement.spawn`. The in-flight promise was dropped on timeout, so a placement Relay accepted a moment later launched a worker nothing was tracking. `#withinDeadline` now takes an `onAbandoned` hook that receives the still-in-flight call, and the spawn path uses it to release whatever the placement ultimately lands. 2. An acked placement whose invocation poll ran out of budget. This is the certain leak rather than the possible one: holding an ack means Relay accepted the placement, and we were throwing that ack away. Both now route through `#releaseLatePlacement`, which tracks the agent *before* attempting the release so a failed cleanup is retried by the reconciliation loop rather than forgotten — the same retain-and-retry the existing `unverified-placement` path uses. This is the client-side counterpart to #304's `LatePlacementReleasedError` / `#releaseOrphanedLatePlacement`. Tests fail before the change with `expected [] to have a length of 1`: no release was issued at all. A must-not-fire control pins that a placement which genuinely fails launches nothing and so is never released. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 1e357a8b-0ac7-4606-992e-e5151f53afb6

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The defect

What changed

Must-not-fire control

Fail-first

Not done here

Summary by cubic

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Walkthrough

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Sequence Diagram(s)

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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