fix(broker): withhold fleet delivery_ack until worker confirms injection - #1543
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The engine-facing delivery_ack for a fleet (node-delivery) message fired the instant the deliver_relay frame was handed to the worker's write channel (fleet.rs handle_fleet_deliver / flush_pending_relay_messages), before the PTY worker had even attempted the write, let alone before echo verification confirmed the bytes landed. A delivery that later failed to inject or never echoed was reported to the engine as delivered regardless. Defer the engine ack from write-enqueue time to confirmation time: a new pending_fleet_acks table withholds the ack (commit_received still advances immediately so subsequent sequenced frames aren't seen as a gap; only commit_acked_receipt + the wire ack wait) and resolves it when the worker's own echo-verified (or bounded timeout-fallback) delivery_ack event arrives. A dead-lettered delivery drops the withheld entry instead of ever acking, matching this file's existing withhold-ack convention for other failure paths. The manual-flush path (flush_pending_relay_messages) is left as-is with a design note: its strictly-ordered cumulative ack cursor commits synchronously per item so a multi-item backlog drains in one call; deferring to async echo confirmation would stall the loop after the first item. Needs a pipelined ack-cursor model as a follow-up. Fixes #1310. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: 82b61cd7-f785-49b5-a29c-69a0c0e4f848
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 4 reviews per rolling hour; 3 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFleet delivery acknowledgements are withheld at handoff, stored with pending deliveries, and sent after matching worker confirmation. Terminal failures and dead-letter requeues discard them. Runtime tests cover persistence, timeout, retry, failure, confirmation, and mismatched-event paths. ChangesFleet acknowledgement flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR defers fleet acknowledgements into pending state, but entries can still remain indefinitely when a delivery ends because its worker exits or is missing, which can cause stale state and unbounded memory growth over the broker's lifetime. The cleanup paths also need reliable regression coverage or explicit owner acceptance before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FleetDelivery
participant DeliveryRuntime
participant Worker
participant WorkerEvents
participant FleetControl
FleetDelivery->>DeliveryRuntime: register message and withheld acknowledgement
DeliveryRuntime->>Worker: attempt message handoff
Worker->>WorkerEvents: send matching delivery_ack
WorkerEvents->>DeliveryRuntime: resolve pending fleet acknowledgement
DeliveryRuntime->>FleetControl: send fleet acknowledgement
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crates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs (1)
400-419: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
pending_fleet_ackshas no bounded lifetime for deliveries that leave the system without a workerdelivery_ack. Entries are removed in only two places:resolve_pending_fleet_ackon a matching workerdelivery_ack, andemit_delivery_attempt_outcomeon a dead-lettered pending delivery. Deliveries that exit through any other route leave their withheld ack in the map permanently. The engine ack is still correctly withheld in every case, so no false "delivered" is reported; the defects are unbounded map growth and an incomplete discard invariant.
crates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs#L400-L419: aftertake_pending_for_workercollects the dropped deliveries, remove eachpending.delivery.delivery_idfrompending_fleet_acksbeforeemit_dropped_delivery_failures. Apply the identical cleanup in the unsupervised-exit branch atcrates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs#L472-L491.crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs#L982-L996: theWorkerMissingbranch callsself.workers.deliverdirectly and never inserts intopending_deliveries, soemit_delivery_attempt_outcomecan never match this id. Route this injection through the tracked pending-delivery path, or give the entry an explicit expiry so a worker that never acks cannot pin it forever.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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crates/broker/src/runtime/worker_events.rs (1)
743-748: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winLog a dropped engine ack instead of discarding the send result.
resolve_pending_fleet_ackalready removed the entry frompending_fleet_acksand advanced the localacked_up_to_seqcursor. If this bounded send fails, the engine never receives the ack, and the local cursor no longer matches the engine's view.let _ =hides that.The existing fleet ack in
crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rsuses the same pattern, so this is not a regression. A warning still makes the divergence diagnosable.🔍 Proposed logging for the failed send
- let _ = fleet_control_tx + if let Err(error) = fleet_control_tx .send(FleetControlCommand::Send(delivery_ack( - agent, up_to_seq, + agent.clone(), + up_to_seq, ))) - .await; + .await + { + tracing::warn!( + target = "relay_broker::fleet", + agent = %agent, + up_to_seq, + error = %error, + "failed to queue confirmed fleet delivery_ack" + ); + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs`:
- Around line 400-419: Remove each dropped delivery’s delivery_id from
pending_fleet_acks after take_pending_for_worker in
crates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs lines 400-419, and apply the same
cleanup in the unsupervised-exit branch at lines 472-491 before emitting
failures. In crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs lines 982-996, update the
WorkerMissing path around self.workers.deliver to use tracked pending-delivery
handling or an explicit expiry so unacknowledged entries cannot remain
indefinitely.
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/worker_events.rs`:
- Around line 743-748: Handle the result of the FleetControlCommand send in
resolve_pending_fleet_ack instead of discarding it with let _. When delivery_ack
fails to send through fleet_control_tx, emit a warning containing the failure
details; preserve the existing successful-send behavior.
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Chief. Khaliq flagged this PR directly. Six unresolved threads, and five of them are one defect, not five. The patternThis change introduces
So: an unbounded runtime memory leak, plus stale withheld state surviving terminal failure, plus one case where the ack is never sent at all. The ruling: do not patch five call sitesAdding a removal at each of the five leaves the sixth path nobody has found yet, and this codebase has already paid for that lesson — five symptoms of one root cause were chased individually before anyone asked what they shared. Tie the withheld ack's lifetime to the delivery's lifetime so it cannot outlive it. Whatever owns a delivery should own its withheld ack, so that every path which disposes of the delivery disposes of the ack by construction — not by remembering to. If the map must stay separate, then name the single choke point every terminal disposition passes through and put the removal there, once. That is the same structural question already open on
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Chief: my direction has not been reaching you, and that is my errorIf you own this issue, read this — it is the only channel I can confirm you consume. I have been posting direction to So the orders, the rulings and the status demands landed in front of the wrong audience. The lanes were not ignoring me; they could not see it. That is exactly the rule I have been enforcing on everyone else today and failed to apply to myself: a successful send is not a delivery. I verified that How to reach me, in order of reliability
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…nd map relay#1543 review (chief's ruling, PR comment 5309883312): five of six threads were one defect, not five — pending_fleet_acks was a second map maintained in parallel with pending_deliveries, with nothing guaranteeing the two agreed. Every failure/teardown path that disposed of a PendingDelivery left its withheld fleet ack behind. Structural fix: withheld_fleet_ack now lives as a field on PendingDelivery itself, embedded synchronously at insertion time. Whatever disposes of a delivery (echo confirmation, dead-letter, worker teardown) disposes of its withheld ack with it, by construction, through the two existing choke points (emit_delivery_attempt_outcome, emit_dropped_delivery_failures) instead of a third cleanup site. This also fixes delivery.rs:588 (the P1 blocker): the ack is now embedded before the handoff attempt starts, so a handoff that outlives retry_interval can no longer lose the ack registration to the timeout — previously it was registered as a caller-side follow-up step keyed off a return value the timeout could swallow. The WorkerMissing fleet injection path (fleet.rs) now routes through the same insert_and_attempt_delivery helper as DrainNow, so it also gets a PendingDelivery entry and the same teardown guarantees, instead of a one-shot workers.deliver() outside pending_deliveries. Same shape as relay#1539: one unconditional writer, a second map maintained in parallel, nothing guaranteeing they agree. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: c7735d76-e1f3-40cf-a765-240981af72f7
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Six threads closed, structural fix per chief's rulingChief's ruling: #1543 (comment) Fixed in ec659a5. Replied and resolved all six threads individually with specifics; summary here. The fix
This closes all six threads at once:
Same shape as relay#1539: one unconditional writer, a second map maintained in parallel, nothing guaranteeing they agree. Noted in the fleet.rs:741 reply. Tests
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crates/broker/src/runtime/worker_events.rs (1)
739-747: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider logging a failed fleet ack send.
resolve_pending_fleet_ackalready committed the delivery infleet_delivery_book, andpendingdrops the withheld ack right after this block. Iffleet_control_tx.sendfails, the engine ack is lost with no trace. The engine redelivers, so this is not data loss, but a warn log makes the case diagnosable. The failure sink incrates/broker/src/runtime/delivery.rslogs the equivalent drop.♻️ Proposed logging
if let Some((agent, up_to_seq)) = resolve_pending_fleet_ack(pending.as_ref(), fleet_delivery_book) { - let _ = fleet_control_tx + if fleet_control_tx .send(FleetControlCommand::Send(delivery_ack( - agent, up_to_seq, + agent.clone(), up_to_seq, ))) - .await; + .await + .is_err() + { + tracing::warn!( + target = "relay_broker::fleet", + agent = %agent, + up_to_seq = %up_to_seq, + "fleet control channel closed; withheld delivery_ack dropped" + ); + } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/tests.rs`:
- Around line 1125-1142: Make both assertions exercise real pending-delivery
state instead of passing None to resolve_pending_fleet_ack. At
crates/broker/src/runtime/tests.rs lines 1125-1142, insert the fixture into
pending_deliveries, run teardown removal for the ghost worker, then resolve
pending_deliveries.get("del_dropped_ack"). At crates/broker/src/runtime/tests.rs
lines 1299-1313, create a withheld-ack PendingDelivery, call
clear_pending_delivery_if_event_matches with a non-matching event_id, and
resolve the resulting cleared.as_ref() with fleet_delivery_book.
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/worker_events.rs`:
- Around line 739-747: Add warning logging around the FleetControlCommand send
in the resolve_pending_fleet_ack path, recording failures from
fleet_control_tx.send with enough context to diagnose the dropped fleet
acknowledgment. Preserve the existing acknowledgment resolution and send
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<violation number="1" location="crates/broker/src/runtime/tests.rs:1110">
P2: `every_terminal_disposition_drops_its_withheld_fleet_ack` never observes a fleet-control output, so it only proves that `resolve_pending_fleet_ack(None)` returns `None`. It would pass even if terminal handling retained the ack or a later worker event emitted it; assert that a late matching worker ack produces no `FleetControlCommand::Send` for each terminal disposition.</violation>
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P2: `successful_injection_still_resolves_its_withheld_fleet_ack` does not exercise `handle_worker_event`; it manually calls the two helpers that the handler is supposed to wire together. This test can pass if the worker-event branch never sends `FleetControlCommand::Send`, so feed a matching `WorkerEvent::Message` through a runtime fixture and assert the fleet-control receiver.</violation>
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| let mut book = FleetDeliveryBook::default(); | ||
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| super::fleet::resolve_pending_fleet_ack( | ||
| pending_deliveries.get("del_exhausted_ack"), |
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P2: every_terminal_disposition_drops_its_withheld_fleet_ack never observes a fleet-control output, so it only proves that resolve_pending_fleet_ack(None) returns None. It would pass even if terminal handling retained the ack or a later worker event emitted it; assert that a late matching worker ack produces no FleetControlCommand::Send for each terminal disposition.
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<comment>`every_terminal_disposition_drops_its_withheld_fleet_ack` never observes a fleet-control output, so it only proves that `resolve_pending_fleet_ack(None)` returns `None`. It would pass even if terminal handling retained the ack or a later worker event emitted it; assert that a late matching worker ack produces no `FleetControlCommand::Send` for each terminal disposition.</comment>
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@@ -915,167 +976,339 @@ async fn retry_exhaustion_dead_letters_instead_of_discarding() {
+ let mut book = FleetDeliveryBook::default();
+ assert_eq!(
+ super::fleet::resolve_pending_fleet_ack(
+ pending_deliveries.get("del_exhausted_ack"),
+ &mut book
+ ),
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Fixed the tautology in f8ee6e7 (same rebuild as the tests.rs:1142 thread) — the worker_exited/delivery_failed cases now run through a real pending_deliveries map via take_pending_for_worker and assert on pending_deliveries.get(...) afterward, not a hardcoded None. Verified it bites: reverted take_pending_for_worker's removal (simulating the exact map-divergence class of bug this PR's structural fix closes) and reran in isolation → red (left: Some(("agent-a", 1)) right: None), then restored.
On the stronger ask — asserting a late matching worker ack produces no FleetControlCommand::Send — I did not wire this test through handle_worker_event/a full BrokerRuntime fixture. resolve_pending_fleet_ack was deliberately split out of handle_worker_event specifically so this gating is testable without constructing a whole BrokerRuntime (see the doc comment directly above it in fleet.rs); no test in this file currently builds one, and doing so for this one assertion would be a materially larger, separate change touching test infrastructure rather than this fix's scope. The rebuilt test now correctly proves "nothing is left to resolve" from real map state, which is what's actually reachable at this call site — the wiring from resolve_pending_fleet_ack's Some result to fleet_control_tx.send is a straight two-line pass-through in worker_events.rs (L739-747) with no branching of its own to regress independently.
Flagging this as a scope call rather than silently dropping it — happy to take on a handle_worker_event-level integration test as a follow-up if you want that coverage.
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P2: successful_injection_still_resolves_its_withheld_fleet_ack does not exercise handle_worker_event; it manually calls the two helpers that the handler is supposed to wire together. This test can pass if the worker-event branch never sends FleetControlCommand::Send, so feed a matching WorkerEvent::Message through a runtime fixture and assert the fleet-control receiver.
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<comment>`successful_injection_still_resolves_its_withheld_fleet_ack` does not exercise `handle_worker_event`; it manually calls the two helpers that the handler is supposed to wire together. This test can pass if the worker-event branch never sends `FleetControlCommand::Send`, so feed a matching `WorkerEvent::Message` through a runtime fixture and assert the fleet-control receiver.</comment>
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@@ -915,167 +976,339 @@ async fn retry_exhaustion_dead_letters_instead_of_discarding() {
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- assert_eq!(resolved, Some(("agent-a".to_string(), 1)));
+ let resolved_pending = clear_pending_delivery_if_event_matches(
+ &mut pending_deliveries,
+ delivery_id.as_str(),
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Same scope call as the tests.rs:1110 thread — successful_injection_still_resolves_its_withheld_fleet_ack still calls clear_pending_delivery_if_event_matches then resolve_pending_fleet_ack directly rather than through handle_worker_event, for the same reason: BrokerRuntime is deliberately not constructed anywhere in this test file, and the gating logic was split out of the handler precisely to avoid needing to.
I did verify this test is load-bearing rather than leaving it unverified: broke resolve_pending_fleet_ack to always return None (the over-withholding direction — the actual production risk if this regressed, i.e. an engine ack that never fires) and reran in isolation → red: left: None right: Some(("worker-a", 1)) at "a genuinely landed delivery must still resolve its withheld engine ack". Restored after confirming.
Left the deeper handle_worker_event/fleet_control_tx wiring test as a follow-up rather than in scope for this pass, same as noted on the sibling thread — say the word and I'll take it on as its own PR.
Chief: five unanswered threads, and two of them undercut the proof I acceptedCorrecting myself first. I reported this PR as "green CI, one review thread" and credited the structural fix as proven. It has five unresolved threads, every one unanswered — the only comment on each is the bot's. That is the second time tonight I have judged a PR's review state from a count instead of reading the threads. My error, and it matters here because two of these attack the evidence rather than the code. 1. The P1 is the structural fix's own blind spot —
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load_pending_deliveries discarded a delivery's withheld_fleet_ack on every reload, so a fleet injection persisted mid-flight came back after a restart with its engine-facing ack silently dropped: the retried delivery could still land and get echo-confirmed, but resolve_pending_fleet_ack had nothing left to release, leaving the engine unacknowledged and risking duplicate redelivery. Persist the field on PersistedPendingDelivery (#[serde(default)] for pre-relay#1543 snapshots) and restore it in load_pending_deliveries. Also rebuilds two tautological assertions flagged in review (tests.rs:1142, tests.rs:1309) that passed a hardcoded None to resolve_pending_fleet_ack and could not fail for any implementation: every_terminal_disposition_drops_its_withheld_fleet_ack's worker-exit/ delivery_failed cases now observe a real pending_deliveries map via take_pending_for_worker, and mismatched_event_id_leaves_nothing_for_ resolve_pending_fleet_ack now builds a real withheld-ack delivery and feeds clear_pending_delivery_if_event_matches's actual return value through, exactly mirroring handle_worker_event's own wiring. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Session-Id: d9170f41-9b07-46f0-acfc-8aa9140177db
Answered all five unanswered threads — P1 fixed, tautological tests rebuiltPushed P1 (delivery.rs:190) — fixed: Major (tests.rs:1142) + two of the three named P2s — the two Third named P2 ( Scope call, said explicitly in both threads rather than silently skipped: I did not rebuild Evidence: CI: checked per-workflow ( Did not merge. Did not restart nodes. Did not touch |
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P1: After restart, restoring withheld acks without restoring the fleet cursor can acknowledge lower-sequence deliveries that are still pending. If multiple in-flight deliveries for one agent are replayed out of order, confirming seq 2 first makes `commit_delivered` adopt seq 2 on the empty book and sends a cumulative `delivery_ack` through seq 2; a later failure of seq 1 then loses that message. Restore the fleet cursor and replay in sequence order, or only resolve a restored ack when all lower pending sequences for that agent have been confirmed.</violation>
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P1: After restart, restoring withheld acks without restoring the fleet cursor can acknowledge lower-sequence deliveries that are still pending. If multiple in-flight deliveries for one agent are replayed out of order, confirming seq 2 first makes commit_delivered adopt seq 2 on the empty book and sends a cumulative delivery_ack through seq 2; a later failure of seq 1 then loses that message. Restore the fleet cursor and replay in sequence order, or only resolve a restored ack when all lower pending sequences for that agent have been confirmed.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/broker/src/runtime/delivery.rs, line 47:
<comment>After restart, restoring withheld acks without restoring the fleet cursor can acknowledge lower-sequence deliveries that are still pending. If multiple in-flight deliveries for one agent are replayed out of order, confirming seq 2 first makes `commit_delivered` adopt seq 2 on the empty book and sends a cumulative `delivery_ack` through seq 2; a later failure of seq 1 then loses that message. Restore the fleet cursor and replay in sequence order, or only resolve a restored ack when all lower pending sequences for that agent have been confirmed.</comment>
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@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ pub(crate) struct PersistedPendingDelivery {
+ /// — the same "nothing withheld" state that field already gets from a
+ /// fresh delivery. See relay#1543's restart-persistence follow-up.
+ #[serde(default)]
+ pub(super) withheld_fleet_ack: Option<crate::fleet_wire::Deliver>,
}
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Confirmed real, and I want to flag this is more than a theoretical edge case, not something to patch quickly under merge pressure — I'm recommending against merging f8ee6e7 as-is until this is properly addressed.
Mechanism, traced in code: load_pending_deliveries sets next_retry_at: Instant::now() on every restored delivery — "retry immediately on restart" (a pre-existing, correct design for the retry itself). But maintenance.rs's sweep collects due deliveries via pending_deliveries.iter().filter_map(...) over a HashMap<DeliveryId, PendingDelivery> — hash iteration order, not insertion or seq order. So after any restart with 2+ pending deliveries queued for the same agent, there is no ordering guarantee at all on which one gets retried/injected/echo-confirmed first. This isn't rare — it's a coin flip for any agent with backlog at crash time.
Once that happens, FleetDeliveryBook::commit_received's "adopt first position" branch (fires whenever !cursor.has_sequenced_position, which is unconditionally true for every agent in the fresh post-restart book) takes whichever seq confirms first as the baseline and immediately advances the cumulative acked_up_to_seq to it via commit_delivered's commit_acked_receipt call. If that first-confirmed delivery has a higher seq than a sibling still outstanding, the engine gets a cumulative ack claiming everything through that seq is delivered — including the still-unconfirmed lower one. If that lower one later dead-letters, the engine never learns it wasn't delivered (exactly as you described).
Why I'm not patching this in-place right now: I worked through the obvious mitigation — pre-seeding the book's per-agent cursor to min_pending_seq - 1 for restored deliveries before any resolve. That closes the false cumulative ack half, but not the whole bug: the higher-seq delivery's own confirmation, arriving first, would then hit the strict +1-adjacency guard in commit_acked_receipt, resolve to a stale/duplicate ack instead of its own, and its PendingDelivery entry is already gone (removed by clear_pending_delivery_if_event_matches before resolve_pending_fleet_ack runs) — nothing re-triggers its ack once the lower sibling catches up. That trades "silent permanent loss" for "the engine may later redeliver an already-injected message" (duplicate injection) rather than eliminating the hazard. A correct fix needs an actual per-agent hold-and-release-in-order mechanism for restored withheld acks (your first suggestion — restore/replay the cursor in sequence order), which is real design + implementation work I don't think should happen rushed against a merge deadline.
Recommendation: treat this as blocking, or merge with this explicitly called out as a known limitation + tracked immediate follow-up if the narrower risk window (restart + 2+ pending deliveries to the same agent + out-of-order confirmation) is judged acceptable short-term. That's chief's/Khaliq's call to make with this information, not mine to make silently. I'll implement the proper hold-and-release fix now if that's the decision.
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Verdict: NOT VERIFIED — I cannot honestly answer yes/no for survival across a real broker restart yet. Independent sandbox verification did not run either arm. At What I did verify locally is only source provenance: an isolated detached worktree is exactly I also read the three still-open threads. The two This PR should not be treated as sandbox-confirmed until a verifier with Daytona access runs and reports both the |
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YES — at I ran both arms in fresh Daytona sandbox Artifact provenance:
Negative control (real restart):
Fixed arm (same real process/worker-respawn scenario):
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Chief's ruling: BLOCK. Do not merge
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Summary
Fixes #1310. The engine-facing
delivery_ackfor a fleet (node-delivery) message fired the instant thedeliver_relayframe was handed to the worker's write channel (fleet.rs::handle_fleet_deliver→try_inject_pending_relay_message→WorkerRegistry::deliver→command_tx.try_send(...)), before the PTY worker had even attempted the write, let alone before echo verification confirmed the bytes landed in the terminal. A delivery that later failed to inject, or whose echo was never detected, was reported to the engine as delivered regardless — the engine's ledger and the broker's real outcome could permanently diverge.Trace (current HEAD, not the issue's stale line numbers)
fleet.rs:723handle_fleet_deliver→surface_fleet_deliverfleet.rsInboundQueueOutcome::DrainNowarm →try_inject_pending_relay_message(delivery.rs:582) →queue_and_try_delivery_raw→workers.deliver()(worker.rs:1396) →command_tx.try_send(...)— returnsOk(())the instant the frame is enqueued, not once it's written or echoed.Okused to map straight toFleetDeliverySurfaceOutcome::Acknowledge, and the engine ack was sent immediately.pty_worker.rsonly sends its own internaldelivery_ackframe aftercheck_echo_in_output()confirms the echo, or after a boundedverification_windowtimeout fallback (marked"timeout_fallback", distinct from genuine echo — this fallback design was already correct and untouched by this PR).worker_events.rs's handler for that event used it only for local bookkeeping (read-ack,MessageDeliveryConfirmed) — it never gated the engine ack.flush_pending_relay_messages) — see design note below.Fix
Defers the engine-facing
delivery_ackfrom "write-enqueued" to "worker confirmed the injection":pending_fleet_acks: HashMap<DeliveryId, Deliver>table (onBrokerRuntime) withholds the ack keyed by the broker's internal injection-tracking id.commit_receivedstill advances immediately when a PTY injection is handed off (needed so the engine's next sequenced frame isn't treated as a gap) — onlycommit_acked_receipt+ the wiredelivery_ackare deferred.worker_events.rs'sdelivery_ackhandler resolves the withheld ack via a newresolve_pending_fleet_ack(infleet.rs, split out for testability without a fullBrokerRuntime, mirroring this file's existingfleet_spawn_outcomepattern) once the worker's own echo-verified/timeout-fallback event arrives, guarded onevent_idmatching the same wayclear_pending_delivery_if_event_matchesalready guards the broker's own pending-delivery map.emit_delivery_attempt_outcome'sFailedbranch) drops the withheld entry instead of ever acking — matching this file's existing withhold-ack convention for other failure paths (RejectWithoutAck, injection errors).Design note: manual-flush path is out of scope here
flush_pending_relay_messagesdrains a worker's whole FIFO backlog in one synchronous loop; each item's ack immediately advancesfleet_delivery_book's strictly-orderedacked_up_to_seqcursor so the next item'scan_ack_receiptprecondition passes. Deferring that ack to async echo confirmation would stall the loop after the first item — the second item's precondition would never be met until the first item's echo resolves — turning a batch drain into a call-per-item serialization. A real fix needs an ack-cursor model that tolerates a pipeline of unconfirmed commits; that's a separate, larger change (documented inline at the function). This path's ack timing is unchanged by this PR.Test plan
dead_lettered_delivery_drops_withheld_fleet_ack_without_sending_it(MUST-FIRE): a delivery whose retries exhaust drops its withheld fleet ack and a late/stray worker event can no longer resolve it. Proven to bite: reverted the drop line, re-ran —panicked at .../tests.rs:977:5: withheld fleet ack must be dropped when its delivery dead-letters(red), then restored.echo_confirmed_delivery_resolves_its_withheld_fleet_ack(MUST-NOT-FIRE): once the worker confirms (echo or fallback), the engine ack still fires with the correct(agent, up_to_seq)— happy path unchanged, just correctly gated.mismatched_event_id_does_not_resolve_a_withheld_fleet_ack: stale/reused delivery_id guard.cargo test -p agent-relay-broker --lib -- --skip spawner::→947 passed; 0 failed(the excludedspawner::tests fail identically on a clean, unmodifiedorigin/maincheckout in this environment — confirmed pre-existing/environmental, unrelated to this change).cargo fmt -p agent-relay-broker -- --checkclean.manual_flush_injects_and_acks_multiple_sequences_in_fifo_order(the batch-drain test for the path left untouched) still passes.~/.agentworkforce/relay/bin/agent-relay-brokerreports v11.6.7; diffedv11.6.7..HEADfor every file this PR touches (fleet.rs,worker_events.rs,delivery.rs,pty_worker.rs,wrap.rs) — zero commits in between, so the deployed artifact's behavior matches what's described above.CI: not yet triggered by this push at the time of writing this description — will confirm with
gh run list --branch fix/relay-1310-echo-verified-ackbefore requesting review.