fix: bind serial governor before provider launch - #2552
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Reviewer's GuideHardens serial dispatch by making the authenticated keeper’s acknowledged open-to-dispatched claim the mandatory budget/WIP admission point before provider launch, then commits results against that exact claim with lifecycle and execution-contract fencing. Sequence diagram for canonical serial dispatch reservationsequenceDiagram
participant Dispatch
participant Keeper as AuthenticatedKeeper
participant Provider
Dispatch->>Keeper: _reserve_serial_dispatch()
Keeper-->>Dispatch: projected claim receipt
alt claim accepted and receipt matches
Dispatch->>Provider: _journaled_agent_dispatch()
Provider-->>Dispatch: result
Dispatch->>Keeper: _commit_serial_reserved_result()
else claim rejected or unacknowledged
Dispatch-->>Provider: no provider launch
end
Flow diagram for serial budget and result lifecycleflowchart LR
A[Open task] --> B[_reserve_serial_dispatch]
B --> C{Keeper claim acknowledged?}
C -- No --> D[Fail closed]
C -- Yes --> E[Decrement batch remainder]
E --> F[_journaled_agent_dispatch]
F --> G[_commit_serial_reserved_result]
G --> H[Result committed without second budget charge]
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSerial dispatch now claims each task through the keeper before provider execution. It debits budget at claim time and commits each result against the exact reservation. Tests validate claim ordering, claim failure behavior, canonical budget tracking, and concurrent board writes. ChangesSerial dispatch reservation flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Serial dispatch now requires an acknowledged reservation, but a stale task claim can still stop the whole batch, while a provider exception can leave a task consuming dispatched/WIP capacity until cleanup runs. These behaviors should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant dispatch_tasks
participant keeper
participant provider
participant _commit_serial_reserved_result
dispatch_tasks->>keeper: claim task as dispatched
keeper-->>dispatch_tasks: return reservation receipt
dispatch_tasks->>provider: launch provider with reservation id
provider-->>dispatch_tasks: return DispatchResult
dispatch_tasks->_commit_serial_reserved_result: commit reserved result
_commit_serial_reserved_result->>keeper: sync result against claim
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Needs a human reviewer. If the canonical claim or fencing logic is wrong, a provider can be launched for an incorrectly reserved task or budget admission, and the provider may create external work before the error is detected. Reverting the change prevents future claims but does not undo provider-side actions or already consumed canonical budget.
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In `@cli/src/limen/dispatch.py`:
- Around line 5782-5785: Update _reserve_serial_dispatch and its caller so
global rejections (queue busy or keeper rejection) raise a distinct exception,
while task-scoped claim failures are handled by logging the blocked task and
continuing to the next candidate. Preserve the final dispatch summary and ensure
task-scoped failures do not abort the batch when budget and machine capacity
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| except Exception as exc: | ||
| _release_machine_admission(task.id) | ||
| print(f" CLAIM BLOCKED {task.id}: {str(exc)[:200]}; no provider launched") | ||
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Do not abort the whole batch for a task-scoped claim rejection.
_reserve_serial_dispatch raises for task-scoped reasons as well as global ones. Examples are "task disappeared before canonical claim", "task is no longer dispatchable by the selected agent", "task dependencies or ownership changed before canonical claim", and "task is no longer admitted by the routine buildout gate". This handler returns for all of them, so one stale candidate stops every remaining candidate in the beat while budget and machine slots are still free. The beat also skips the final ── {mode}: {dispatched} task(s) summary.
Raise a distinct exception for the global rejections (queue busy and keeper rejection) and continue on the task-scoped ones.
🐛 Proposed fix: classify the rejection
+class _SerialClaimUnavailable(RuntimeError):
+ """The claim seam itself is unavailable; stop this beat."""
+
+
def _reserve_serial_dispatch( with _queue_lock(tasks_path) as got:
if not got:
- raise RuntimeError("queue busy before canonical claim")
+ raise _SerialClaimUnavailable("queue busy before canonical claim")+ except _SerialClaimUnavailable as exc:
+ _release_machine_admission(task.id)
+ print(f" CLAIM BLOCKED {task.id}: {str(exc)[:200]}; no provider launched")
+ return
except Exception as exc:
_release_machine_admission(task.id)
print(f" CLAIM BLOCKED {task.id}: {str(exc)[:200]}; no provider launched")
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In `@cli/src/limen/dispatch.py` around lines 5782 - 5785, Update
_reserve_serial_dispatch and its caller so global rejections (queue busy or
keeper rejection) raise a distinct exception, while task-scoped claim failures
are handled by logging the blocked task and continuing to the next candidate.
Preserve the final dispatch summary and ensure task-scoped failures do not abort
the batch when budget and machine capacity remain.
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| result = _journaled_agent_dispatch( | ||
| agent_filter, | ||
| reserved_task, |
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When serial dispatch targets github_actions, passing the keeper-returned reserved_task makes this path fail before launching the workflow: the task now has status dispatched, while _call_remote_adapter calls _authoritative_remote_verification, which reloads the unchanged local tasks.yaml projection and requires its still-open status to match. Because apply_limen_file_sync does not refresh that read-only local projection, every serial GitHub Actions claim reaches the status-mismatch error; either verify against the canonical projected receipt or explicitly permit the open-to-dispatched claim relationship.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L32-L34
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| desired = commit_base.model_copy(deep=True) | ||
| target = next(task for task in desired.tasks if task.id == reserved_task.id) | ||
| _apply_result(target, agent, result, now, desired.portal.budget.track, charge_budget=False) |
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When a serial plan-only provider returns PlanHandoffResult, _apply_result changes this canonically claimed task from dispatched back to open; the keeper treats every dispatched → open transition as a cancellation and refunds the reservation. Since this call also disables local charging, the successfully completed planner run consumes no daily or per-agent budget, allowing plan-only work to bypass the governor before the builder claims it. Commit the handoff through an execution-complete transition that preserves the planner debit rather than the no-execution release path.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L383-L385
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| desired = commit_base.model_copy(deep=True) | ||
| target = next(task for task in desired.tasks if task.id == reserved_task.id) | ||
| _apply_result(target, agent, result, now, desired.portal.budget.track, charge_budget=False) |
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If _journaled_agent_dispatch returns a blocked result before invoking a provider—for example when record_reservation raises WorkLoanJournalError, the workstream launch contract is invalid, or host admission is denied—this result is applied to an already-dispatched task. _apply_result consequently records lifecycle_repair="provider-terminal" with execution_started=True and leaves the claim debit consumed even though no provider ran. Carry explicit launch state into this commit and release/refund the reservation for pre-launch failures instead of recording fabricated execution evidence.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L383-L385
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| if not _result_contract_is_current(current_task, selected_contract_hash) or current_owner not in { | ||
| selected_lifecycle_token, | ||
| reserved_lifecycle_token, | ||
| }: | ||
| print(f" FENCE {reserved_task.id}: execution or lifecycle ownership changed; fresh task wins") | ||
| return False |
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If another process rewrites the local task row while a serial provider runs, this local-cache comparison discards the provider result even when the canonical keeper still holds the exact reserved_task claim. The canonical task and budget then remain dispatched until later recovery, and synchronous-only outcomes such as PlanHandoffResult, _NOOP, or a pre-launch blocked result cannot be reconstructed by PR/session harvesting after _clear_result_receipts runs. Submit the result using the reserved claim as the CAS precondition and let the keeper reject an actual canonical race, rather than allowing a lagging local projection to fence it.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L32-L34
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Closes #1995.
What changed
open → dispatchedprojection before invoking any providerThe beat still uses the serial engine, so hardening this seam makes the daily cap, per-lane cap, receipt requirement, and dispatched/WIP exclusion bind at the actual provider-spawn boundary.
Verification
python -m pytest cli/tests/test_dispatch.py -q→ 310 passedpython-typecheckgate could not start because the supplied runtime does not includemypy; CI remains the authoritative typecheckNew regressions prove both orderings: a provider observes an acknowledged canonical claim before it runs, and a rejected canonical claim results in zero provider calls.
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Require an acknowledged canonical reservation before running serial dispatches and safely reconcile results against that reservation.
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