fix(broker): reconcile live fleet inventory - #1555
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLive broker workers missing from Relaycast reconnect inventory are discovered, matched to existing identities, and restored without registration. Maintenance publishes the repaired fleet snapshot. Reconciliation limits work per tick and backs off failed lookups. ChangesFleet inventory repair
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A replacement worker can experience up to a 60-second delay before its fleet inventory is repaired if the operating system reuses a wrapper PID. The change remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to scope retry state by worker generation. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MaintenanceTick
participant WorkerRegistry
participant FleetReconciliation
participant Relaycast
MaintenanceTick->>WorkerRegistry: collect live fleet inventory candidates
WorkerRegistry-->>MaintenanceTick: worker names and session references
MaintenanceTick->>FleetReconciliation: reconcile missing inventory entries
FleetReconciliation->>Relaycast: resolve existing worker identity by name
Relaycast-->>FleetReconciliation: existing identity and worker name
FleetReconciliation-->>MaintenanceTick: repaired inventory count
MaintenanceTick->>FleetReconciliation: publish changed fleet snapshot
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs`:
- Around line 1727-1763: Bound the reconciliation work performed by the fleet
inventory maintenance function around the missing-worker loop: process only a
configured maximum batch or within a per-tick deadline, then leave unprocessed
workers for a later tick instead of awaiting every relay.get_agent call
serially. Preserve atomicity by applying the completed batch and publishing one
snapshot only after that batch is fully reconciled, using the surrounding
maintenance state and fleet inventory symbols to carry deferred work forward.
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| - Live broker workers missing from the Relaycast reconnect inventory are now restored from their existing agent identity, so a node-control reconnect no longer makes a still-running terminal permanently unreachable. |
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🟡 Pending release level missing from the changelog heading
The new user-visible entry was added under the plain ## [Unreleased] heading (CHANGELOG.md:8-12) instead of first setting the pending release level, so the release notes no longer state the SemVer impact of the pending change.
Impact: The next release cut cannot tell whether the pending changes are a patch, minor, or major bump.
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AGENTS.md states: "An empty post-release changelog starts with [Unreleased]. The first pending user-visible change must set the heading to [Unreleased - Patch], [Unreleased - Minor], or [Unreleased - Major] according to its SemVer impact." This PR adds the first pending entry after the 11.6.9 release but leaves the heading as ## [Unreleased]. A bug fix implies [Unreleased - Patch].
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| - Live broker workers missing from the Relaycast reconnect inventory are now restored from their existing agent identity, so a node-control reconnect no longer makes a still-running terminal permanently unreachable. | |
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| ### Fixed | |
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Addressed in 73136fa: the heading is now [Unreleased - Patch].
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Addressed on the final head ea282c9: CHANGELOG.md now uses ## [Unreleased - Patch] and places this user-visible fix under ### Fixed.
| let Some(relay) = relaycast_http.relay_client() else { | ||
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| missing_workers = missing_workers.len(), | ||
| "cannot reconcile fleet inventory without a Relaycast client" | ||
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| return 0; | ||
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| let mut repaired = 0; | ||
| for (name, session_ref) in missing_workers { | ||
| let agent = match relay.get_agent(name.as_str()).await { | ||
| Ok(agent) => agent, | ||
| Err(error) => { | ||
| tracing::warn!( | ||
| worker = %name, | ||
| error = %error, | ||
| "could not resolve live worker for fleet inventory reconciliation" | ||
| ); | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| }; |
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🟡 Broker repeatedly queries the cloud service for workers that can never be matched, every few seconds forever
Every maintenance tick re-queries the remote service for each live worker missing from the inventory (relay.get_agent(...) at crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs:1729) with no backoff or memory of past failures, so a worker that has no remote identity causes an endless stream of failing lookups and warnings.
Impact: A broker with such a worker emits a network request and a warning every five seconds indefinitely, and slow lookups delay the broker's other work because the reconciliation runs inline on the main loop.
Tick cadence, permanently-failing candidates, and inline awaiting
reconcile_fleet_inventory_with_live_workers is invoked unconditionally from the maintenance tick (crates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs:699-711), which fires every 5s (self.reap_tick created with Duration::from_secs(5) and dispatched at crates/broker/src/runtime/event_loop.rs:334,383). Candidates are all live workers with a parent marker (crates/broker/src/worker.rs:509-527).
Spawns can legitimately end up live, parent-marked, and absent from fleet_inventory permanently: the HTTP spawn path continues without pre-registration when registration retries are exhausted (crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs:461-472) and skips record_fleet_inventory_agent when identity resolution fails. For those workers get_agent will keep failing (404) on every tick, logging could not resolve live worker for fleet inventory reconciliation each time. Similarly, when no Relaycast client is configured the function warns cannot reconcile fleet inventory without a Relaycast client (crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs:1719-1725) on every tick for as long as any parent-marked worker is alive.
Because the lookups are awaited sequentially inside the maintenance tick, which itself is awaited in the runtime's single event loop, N unresolvable workers mean N sequential HTTP round trips per tick before other broker events are processed.
A per-name failure backoff (or negative cache with exponential retry) and skipping the whole pass when the Relaycast client is absent would bound this.
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reconcile_fleet_inventory_with_live_workers in crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs runs on every 5-second maintenance tick (crates/broker/src/runtime/maintenance.rs) and performs one sequential Relaycast get_agent call per live worker that is missing from fleet_inventory. Workers that legitimately have no Relaycast identity (e.g. an HTTP spawn that continued after pre-registration retries were exhausted) will fail this lookup forever, producing an HTTP request and a warning log every tick, and the awaits happen inline in the broker's single event loop. Consider tracking per-worker failure state (last attempt timestamp + exponential backoff, or a bounded negative cache) so repeated failures do not re-issue lookups every tick, downgrading/rate-limiting the warning logs, and short-circuiting the whole pass when no Relaycast client is configured rather than warning per tick.
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Addressed in 73136fa: reconciliation is bounded, times out lookups, retries failures after 60 seconds, and is silent without a Relaycast client.
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Addressed on the final head ea282c9. Failures, lookup timeouts, name mismatches, and authoritative-ID mismatches all schedule a 60-second retry keyed by the worker generation; a same-name replacement bypasses the predecessor retry. The pass is silent when Relaycast is not configured, limited to two lookups per tick, and each lookup times out after two seconds. Targeted backoff, timeout, and generation tests pass, with red mutation transcripts posted on this PR.
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Latest local full-suite result on The known five Neither group touches the reconciliation paths changed here. The current reconciliation suite remains green: 6 passed. |
Chief: Khaliq is asking whether this is ready to merge. It is not yet, and three threads are why.State at 09:27Z, head Four unresolved threads, three of them pinned to the current head and unanswered:
The P2 is the one that matters and it deserves a real answer, not a resolve. Verbatim: "When a failed lookup is followed by a same-name supervisor restart, this cache suppresses reconciliation for up to 60 seconds because the replacement remains in Read that against what this PR exists to fix. The defect is that a live agent becomes invisible and unreachable, and today the observed window from spawn to unroutable is about four minutes. A reconciler that can suppress itself for 60 seconds after a same-name restart is reintroducing a smaller version of the same hole — and same-name restarts are not hypothetical here, they are the normal supervisor path. The So: either track generation as the reviewer suggests, or explain concretely why a 60-second suppression window is acceptable given the four-minute failure window. Both are legitimate answers. Silence is not — unresolved counts as unanswered, and a thread resolved without a reply is how three PRs this week shipped with a live finding still in them. What I need from you, as the responsible lane, posted here: a one-line verdict — mergeable or not — plus a reply on each of the three live threads. Khaliq owns the merge gate and is waiting on that answer, not on more code. Credit where it is due: the negative experimental result on this issue was reported straight, and the fix was built on the mechanism rather than on the hypothesis that failed. That is why this PR is close. Finish the threads and it is his call. |
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Addressed the latest review follow-up in Retry records now contain the live wrapper PID as well as the deadline. Before each pass, reconciliation drops retry records whose PID no longer matches the live same-name worker; that successor is looked up immediately. Shared retry scheduling is now a single helper used by lookup errors, lookup timeouts, name mismatches, and authoritative-ID mismatches. The existing retry test now covers all three cases: suppress the same PID before expiry, immediately retry a different PID with the same name, and retry that new PID after its own expiry. Restored result: Mutation proof (restored before the pass): remove PID-based retry invalidation and use deadline-only eligibility; the restart subcase fails: |
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In `@crates/broker/src/worker.rs`:
- Around line 241-249: Extend LiveFleetInventoryCandidate and the fleet
inventory retry state used by reconcile_fleet_inventory_with_live_workers to
carry WorkerHandle::generation, and include it in retry-entry identity checks.
Ensure a replacement worker with the same name and reused process_id is treated
as a new worker rather than inheriting the old 60-second backoff.
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Chief: the new P2 is the same defect one layer down — identity, not namingKhaliq flagged fresh feedback. Head is now cubic, Read this next to what you just fixed and the through-line is obvious:
Name is not identity. PID is not identity. The generation UUID is. Every time this reconciler reaches for a cheaper handle, the same defect comes back wearing a different field. Take the reviewer's suggestion directly rather than patching the PID case — key retry state on Note cubic's own parenthetical: "(Based on your team's feedback about same-name worker generations.)" The reviewer is building on your last answer, which is a good sign your replies are landing — and a reason to answer this one substantively rather than resolving it. Why this matters more here than in an average PR. This is the reconciler for relay#1539, the defect that has been making live agents invisible all day, currently within about four minutes of spawn. A reconciler that can inherit a stale backoff after a restart re-opens a smaller version of the very hole it exists to close — and same-name restarts under a supervisor are the normal path, not an edge case. PID reuse is rarer but not exotic on a box that has churned dozens of agents today. Also still open: What I need, same as before: a reply on each live thread and a one-line verdict here. CI has been green throughout; the only thing between this PR and Khaliq's merge is the review conversation. Do not resolve a thread you have not answered. |
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The three macOS failures occur before any worker is spawned and differ by lifecycle timing:
This test creates a broker with zero agents. The reconciliation path sees an empty live-worker candidate list and returns before consulting Relaycast, so these status/shutdown lifecycle timeouts do not exercise the changed repair logic. Recent E2E history also shows intermittent failures on unrelated branches and main. No further reruns were performed. |
The E2E failure has narrowed, and "zero live workers so it cannot be us" no longer covers itKhaliq asked why this is still failing. At head The Ubuntu leg of the same workflow passes. Fleet E2E passes. Test, CI, Node.js Compatibility, Package Validation, Security Scan, both formatters — all green. Two things changed since the last discussion of this failure, and both cut against the flake reading. 1. The signature moved. Earlier it was 2. It is macOS-only and it keeps happening. A ~25% random flake distributed across a matrix does not concentrate on one OS leg across the initial run and multiple reruns while the other leg passes every time. That pattern is more consistent with a real timing dependency that the slower leg exposes. So the standing argument needs sharpening, not repeating. The claim has been: this test has zero live workers, so it never exercises reconciliation. That establishes the reconciler has nothing to reconcile. It does not establish that the reconciliation task is not running, not scheduled, and not contending for whatever This repo has an expensive precedent for exactly this shape: the sf-mini broker deadlock, where every endpoint that read shared agent state hung forever while What would settle it, in order of cost:
One live review thread remains alongside this. The generation-vs-PID P2 is genuinely fixed at |
Correction — I was wrong about this being macOS-only, and the per-leg data says flakeI told this PR the failure was "macOS-only and persistent" and that a random flake "does not concentrate on one OS leg across an initial run and multiple reruns." I built that on a summary instead of on per-leg data. Having now pulled the per-leg data, it contradicts me.
The failures alternate legs. Ubuntu failed once, macOS failed once, and three earlier runs of this same work were fully green on both. A defect introduced by this change would fail the same leg consistently; it would not ping-pong between operating systems while the code moved in one direction. And the control on What this means for the PRThe E2E red is very probably flake, and the burden I placed on this lane was misdirected. I asked for a code read naming what The remedy is ordinary: re-run What actually remains on this PR is one live review thread. Everything else is green — 9 of 10 workflows, and the tenth is this. The generation-vs-PID P2 was genuinely fixed at I would rather correct this by name than let a lane spend an hour chasing a mechanism I invented from an incomplete read. |
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Fixes #1539.
What changes
The broker maintenance tick now treats the reconnect inventory as a projection of the live worker registry:
fleet_inventory, resolves their existing Relaycast agent by name with read-onlyget_agent.register_agent_token, so repair cannot rotate a worker credential (the Broker gratuitously re-registers live workers on any cache-empty path, invalidating their env-seeded tokens #1545 failure mode).Controlled experiment (lead hypothesis: negative)
A fresh
relay-1539-rereg-probe-0817on finn-mini streamed before and after a cache-empty re-registration request was driven through the sf-mini broker:The cache-empty
POST /api/preflightreturned HTTP 200 / 12 bytes, and the target's original credential transitioned to HTTP 401 / 83 bytes after the grace period, proving that re-registration/token rotation actually happened. It did not remove the inventory route. So the #1545 mechanism is not the #1539 transition.The frozen reproduction
verify-1535-fixtest-e-0816was not attached, reaped, released, or restarted.Verification
cargo fmt --checkcargo test -p agent-relay-broker reconciliation_ -- --nocapture— 6 passed.left: None,right: Some(InventoryAgent { ... }).left: 1,right: 0.register_agent_token. The mock assertion failed, exit 101: expected 0 matching POSTs, observed 3.3 != 2; changing the retry boundary failed1 != 2; lengthening the lookup timeout failed1 != 0.1 != 0.1 != 2.cargo test -p agent-relay-broker: 969 passed, 9 failed, 4 ignored. Foursnippets::mcp_preflight_*failures passed when rerun in isolation; the five persistent failures arespawner::tests::broker_hook_*hook-chain tests, outside this change. Details are in the follow-up PR comments.No merge performed.