Expose a host-neutral document state-store port

[khaliqgant]

Summary

• extract the whole-document persistence seam from FileStateStore without changing its lock, temporary-file, fsync, rename, parent-directory sync, byte, mode, or missing-file behavior
• expose DocumentStateStore and WatchStateDocumentStore so deployment hosts can supply durable persistence without reimplementing the StateStore behavioral surface
• add a public CLI embedding entrypoint with an injected stateStoreFactory; injected stores must pass assertReady before Factory construction, and may expose a host-defined stateStore.backend value in status
• keep the file backend as the unchanged default and keep ordinary status reads lazy

Boundary

This PR contains no Cloudflare implementation, environment selector, Worker binding, or hosting policy. The Cloudflare SQLite Durable Object adapter is owned by factory-cloud and injects through this port.

The measured live v3 file is 1,758,815 bytes, 13.42 times the 128 KiB Durable Object KV value ceiling. That measurement drives the host implementation toward normalized SQLite records, but no provider-specific code is part of this public package.

Atomicity and failure behavior

FileStateStore retains the existing cross-process advisory lock and atomic replace sequence. A remote WatchStateDocumentStore must serialize the complete read-modify-write callback, typically with revision compare-and-set and retry. An injected backend is a dispatch-admission dependency: unreadable state exits nonzero before createFactory, never as an empty document.

Verification

• npm run build
• npm test -- --run: 86 files passed, 1 skipped; 1,648 tests passed, 1 skipped
• npm run featuremap:check -- --base origin/main
• git diff --check

The must-not-fire regression verifies exact file bytes and 0600 mode remain unchanged. The negative control proves an injected unreadable backend prevents Factory construction. Restart durability and disk-wipe coverage live with the host-specific implementation in factory-cloud.

Measurement and design were posted before implementation in #268. Part of #268.

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Walkthrough

The change adds versioned watch-state documents, a pluggable DocumentStateStore, file-backed persistence, CLI state-store injection, readiness checks, backend status reporting, public exports, tests, and documentation.

Changes

Document state storage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document contract and validation src/state/document-store.ts, src/state/watch-state-document.ts, src/state/*.test.ts, src/index.ts	Adds versioned persisted workspace types, strict validation, legacy normalization, conflict handling, and public exports.
File-backed persistence adapter src/state/file-state-store.ts, src/state/file-state-store.test.ts	Moves persistence and mutation locking into the document-store abstraction. The file adapter uses readiness checks, atomic writes, advisory locks, JSON formatting, and private file permissions.
CLI state-store injection and status src/cli/fleet.ts, src/cli/fleet.test.ts	Adds host-provided state-store factories, readiness validation before Factory construction, backend metadata in status output, and startup failure tests.
Public exports and published contract src/cli/index.ts, package.json, src/__tests__/dist-entrypoints.test.ts, .agentworkforce/agents/factory-feature-guardian/manifest-contract.test.ts	Publishes the ./cli entrypoint and verifies its runFleetCli export and public types.
Documentation and feature catalog README.md, docs/document-state-store.md, .agentworkforce/features/manifest.yaml	Documents injected document persistence, file-adapter behavior, readiness checks, backend reporting, and updated catalog entries.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 141ad

The PR adds an injectable durable state store, but hosts with open connections or lease timers may not have a supported cleanup hook at CLI shutdown. This is a bounded follow-up risk and the change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant FleetCLI
  participant DocumentStateStore
  participant Factory
  Host->>FleetCLI: provide stateStoreFactory
  FleetCLI->>DocumentStateStore: create and assertReady()
  DocumentStateStore-->>FleetCLI: readiness result
  FleetCLI->>Factory: construct with ready state store
  Factory-->>FleetCLI: return status with backend metadata

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A rabbit stores each watch with care,
In versioned docs kept safe and fair.
The CLI checks readiness bright,
Then reports the backend right.
Atomic hops through files it makes—
“Stable state!” the bunny shakes.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exposing a host-neutral document state-store port.
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[khaliqgant]

RULING from the principal: the OSS Factory must not be opinionated about where it lives. Restructure required.

factory-durable-state-0817: Khaliq, verbatim — "we don't want the OSS factory to be opinionated about where it lives, anything related to the cloudflare should live in factory-cloud."

AgentWorkforce/factory is public and vendor-neutral. This PR currently ships Cloudflare into it. That has to move, and the good news is that your central design decision is exactly right and survives intact — it is only the placement of the concrete implementation that changes.

What STAYS in factory — and this is the valuable part of the PR

• src/state/document-store.ts (48 lines). The whole-document persistence port. This is the correct OSS abstraction and it is the thing that makes any durable backend possible. Keep it.
• The FileStateStore seam extraction, with your stated guarantee preserved verbatim: no change to its lock, temp-file, fsync, rename, parent-directory sync, bytes, or mode semantics. That constraint was the right one to hold yourself to, and holding it is what makes this refactor safe.
• src/state/watch-state-document.ts normalisation, if it is host-agnostic — confirm that it is.
• The file-state-store.test.ts additions proving the file path is byte-for-byte unchanged.

What MOVES to factory-cloud

• src/state/cloudflare-state-store.ts and cloudflare-state-store.test.ts
• src/hosted/document-state.ts (443 lines) and the Worker-safe SQLite Durable Object service
• docs/cloudflare-durable-state.md
• src/hosted/worker-safety.test.ts, to the extent it is Cloudflare-specific

The specific thing that makes it opinionated, and how to fix it

FACTORY_STATE_BACKEND / FACTORY_STATE_URL selecting a backend named cloudflare-do inside the OSS repo is the opinion. A public dispatcher should not enumerate one vendor's hosting product.

Use the pattern this codebase already uses everywhere: constructor injection through ports. Factory already does exactly this — ports.githubWriteback, ports.fleet, ports.mount, ports.stateResolution, and ports.triage are all injected, with a local default when absent. src/orchestrator/factory.ts:719 is the canonical shape:

this.#githubWriteback = ports.githubWriteback ?? new GhCliGithubWriteback()

So: factory exports the DocumentStore interface and accepts an injected implementation, defaulting to the file-backed one. factory-cloud provides the Cloudflare DocumentStore and injects it. No vendor name in the public repo, no env-var enum naming a product, and the OSS default stays a plain local file.

If you believe a genuinely host-agnostic remote option belongs in OSS, the honest version is a transport-shaped one — say, an HTTP document store with no vendor semantics — and it must be justified on its own merits rather than as a wrapper for one provider. Do not smuggle Cloudflare back in under a generic name; the ruling is about the dependency and the vocabulary, not the spelling.

Requirements that carry over unchanged

Everything I briefed you on still holds and I want it preserved across the move:

1. The byte-size measurement. I still have not seen it, and it remains your first deliverable — it decides whether a DO KV single value (128 KiB cap) suffices or whether the chunking you built is load-bearing. You mention "normalized/chunked records", which suggests you concluded chunking is needed; say so explicitly with the number, because "we chunked it" and "we had to chunk it" are different claims and only one of them justifies the complexity.
2. Fail closed. Your summary says you "fail closed before Factory construction when remote state is unreadable or uninitialized." That is exactly right and it is the single most important property here — an unreadable state document must never read as "no claims exist", because that redispatches everything. Keep the negative control: point it at an unreachable backend and prove it fails loudly rather than returning an empty document.
3. Revision compare-and-set with conflict retries — good, and it is the property a DO's serialized access makes natural.
4. The restart-durability proof is still the headline test, jointly with factory-cloud-cutover-lead-0817: dispatch, restart, claim survived and was not redispatched.

Coordination

This restructure straddles two repos, so agree the seam with factory-cloud-cutover-lead-0817 before you split the branch — it owns factory-cloud#1 and will consume whatever port you expose. One agreed interface, not two. Post the proposed DocumentStore signature on this PR and have it confirm.

Do not close this PR. Split it: the port and the seam extraction stay here and can land on their own merits; the Cloudflare implementation goes to a factory-cloud PR. The OSS half is genuinely useful without the vendor half, which is a good sign the abstraction is right.

You do not merge. Khaliq owns that gate.

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Addressed both Cubic findings at 27253ba.

1. FileStateStore now forwards agentQuestionDedupeLimit to DocumentStateStore. A regression test sets the limit to one and proves the older question is evicted, preserving the pre-extraction constructor behavior.
2. parseWatchStateDocument now validates every persisted GitHub watch, waiting clarification, and dispatch lifecycle record, including the nested issue, triage, agent, lease, claim, PR, and cost shapes used at runtime. Readiness therefore rejects malformed durable records before Factory construction instead of accepting a map through a type assertion.

Verification: build passes; focused state/CLI/package suite passes 165 tests; both unrelated full-suite timeout cases pass together in isolation (65 tests), confirming shared-host contention. The stricter parser also accepts the measured 1,758,815-byte live v3 document with all three workspaces.

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Added the headline host-neutral restart regression at bf07e2f: it claims the real DispatchLifecycle through DocumentStateStore, deletes the entire simulated ephemeral state directory, constructs a new process-facing store over the same durable document port, and proves a competing owner is not allowed to redispatch. The paired file-backend regression continues to assert unchanged exact bytes and 0600 mode.

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src/cli/fleet.ts (1)

106-113: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an optional dispose() to CliStateStore and release it in the shutdown chain.

runFleetCli disposes notionClaims, notionContracts, mount, fleet, and reporter in the finally block at lines 525-565. An injected state store has no release hook, so a host adapter that holds a socket, HTTP agent, or lease timer cannot clean up at exit. CliStateStore is a published contract for the factory-cloud consumer, so adding the optional member now avoids a later breaking change.

♻️ Proposed contract addition

 export type CliStateStore = StateStore & {
   /** Host readiness gate. The CLI invokes it before constructing Factory. */
   assertReady(): Promise<void>
   /** Optional host-defined identifier included in status output. */
   readonly backend?: string
+  /** Optional host cleanup hook invoked during CLI shutdown. */
+  dispose?(): Promise<void>
 }

Then release it in the existing shutdown chain, next to the mount disposal:

try {
  await stateStore?.dispose?.()
} catch {
  err.write('[factory] warning: durable state store failed during shutdown\n')
}

This requires hoisting stateStore to the outer runFleetCli scope, next to mount and fleet.

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In `@src/cli/fleet.ts` around lines 106 - 113, Add an optional dispose method to
the CliStateStore contract, hoist the stateStore reference in runFleetCli
alongside mount and fleet, and invoke stateStore?.dispose?.() in the existing
finally shutdown chain near mount disposal. Catch disposal failures and write
the specified warning without interrupting the remaining cleanup.

src/state/file-state-store.ts (1)

65-82: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the existing DocumentStateStore class JSDoc.

List getBatch, dispatch attempts, critical records, resume markers, Slack threads, agent-question records, failure handoffs, and canonical state as process-local data that is lost on restart. Include the exact methods in the documentation. Also identify discovery sweeps and dispatch lifecycles as persisted collections.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/state/file-state-store.ts` around lines 65 - 82, Update the existing
JSDoc for DocumentStateStore to document getBatch, dispatch attempts, critical
records, resume markers, Slack threads, agent-question records, failure
handoffs, and canonical state as process-local data lost on restart, naming the
exact implementing methods. Also document discovery sweeps and dispatch
lifecycles as persisted collections, without changing runtime behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 565-566: Update the deployment guidance near the
DocumentStateStore reference to scope it to the embedded CLI and identify
WatchStateDocumentStore as the host-provided persistence interface, injected
through stateStoreFactory. Do not describe DocumentStateStore as the injection
port, and preserve the separate hosted entrypoint contract.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/cli/fleet.ts`:
- Around line 106-113: Add an optional dispose method to the CliStateStore
contract, hoist the stateStore reference in runFleetCli alongside mount and
fleet, and invoke stateStore?.dispose?.() in the existing finally shutdown chain
near mount disposal. Catch disposal failures and write the specified warning
without interrupting the remaining cleanup.

In `@src/state/file-state-store.ts`:
- Around line 65-82: Update the existing JSDoc for DocumentStateStore to
document getBatch, dispatch attempts, critical records, resume markers, Slack
threads, agent-question records, failure handoffs, and canonical state as
process-local data lost on restart, naming the exact implementing methods. Also
document discovery sweeps and dispatch lifecycles as persisted collections,
without changing runtime behavior.

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