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Fixes #1127.

Every StateKV method (get/set/update/delete/list) issues a plain sdk.trigger() call with no explicit timeoutMs, so it silently inherits the worker's global invocationTimeoutMs (180000ms, set in src/index.ts) — a ceiling sized for LLM-backed functions like mem::graph-extract's provider.compress() call, which legitimately needs that much slack for slow local models.

A KV round-trip is a local file-backed read/write and should never take anywhere near that long under healthy conditions. Functions that issue many sequential KV calls per invocation have no way to distinguish "one of my KV calls is stuck" from "the LLM is just being slow" — both silently consume the same 180s budget.

mem::graph-extract makes up to 19 sequential kv.get/kv.set calls per invocation with zero per-call protection. When the underlying file_based state adapter stalls on even one of them (observed repeatedly over ~7 days on my machine — see #1127 for the full incident writeup), the whole invocation hangs silently until the outer 180s ceiling kills it from the outside, with an error that names the function ("Invocation timeout after 180000ms: mem::graph-extract") but gives no indication the actual stall was in a KV call, not the LLM call. The same underlying stall was independently observed crashing an unrelated state::get call, since a wedged file-based adapter blocks any caller, not just graph-extract's.

Fix

iii-sdk's TriggerRequest already supports a per-call timeoutMs override (node_modules/iii-sdk/dist/index.d.mts) — this PR just wires it through StateKV with a 10s ceiling: comfortably above any healthy KV round-trip, far below the 180s LLM-sized default. A stuck KV call now fails fast and attributably (naming the function_id + scope/key) instead of silently blocking the entire invocation for up to 3 minutes.

I deliberately scoped this to StateKV itself rather than patching graph.ts alone, since StateKV is shared by nearly every function in the codebase (governance, branch-aware, evict, migrate, snapshot, cascade, consolidation-pipeline, frontier, etc.) — all of them share the exact same unguarded pattern and would benefit from the same protection, not just the one function where the symptom happened to surface first.

What this doesn't fix

This does not explain why the file-based KV adapter stalls in the first place (contention? a stuck lock? something else in iii-sdk/the engine itself) — that's outside this package's source and I don't have visibility into it. This PR makes a stall fail fast and loud instead of silent and slow; it doesn't prevent the stall from happening. I've noted this distinction in #1127.

Testing

  • Added test/kv.test.ts (new file — no prior direct unit test existed for StateKV): asserts every method passes a timeoutMs strictly less than the 180s worker default, that a rejection propagates to the caller, and that function_id/payload are still forwarded correctly alongside the new field.
  • Verified the new test fails on unmodified src/state/kv.ts (via git stash) and passes with the fix — confirms it actually exercises the change.
  • Full suite: npx vitest run → 1444 passed / 7 failed (pre-existing, confirmed present on unmodified upstream main too — see note below), our 3 new tests included in the pass count.
  • npx tsc --noEmit: no errors in the changed file (src/state/kv.ts); pre-existing unrelated errors elsewhere in the repo are untouched by this diff.

Note on the 7 pre-existing test failures (unrelated to this change)

test/fetch-timeout.test.ts (6 tests) and test/context-slots.test.ts (1 test) fail identically on a clean checkout of upstream/main with no changes applied — confirmed via git stash + env -i (clean shell env). Root cause looks like src/config.ts's ENV_FILE/DATA_DIR resolving to the literal ~/.agentmemory/.env on whatever machine runs the tests (not a repo-relative fixture path), so these tests pick up real, machine-specific config values (e.g. a real AGENTMEMORY_LLM_TIMEOUT_MS override) instead of a clean test fixture. Flagging in case it's useful, but didn't want to scope-creep this PR into fixing it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • State-backed key-value operations now use a dedicated 10-second timeout by default.
    • Customize the timeout with AGENTMEMORY_KV_TIMEOUT_MS; invalid, non-positive, or oversized values safely use the default.
    • Timeout errors are surfaced when operations exceed the configured limit.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration guidance and documented the new environment variable in the configuration reference.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for default, custom, invalid, maximum, and timeout scenarios across key-value operations.

…0s LLM-sized worker default

Every StateKV method (get/set/update/delete/list) issues a plain
sdk.trigger() call with no explicit timeoutMs, so it silently inherited
the worker's global invocationTimeoutMs (180000ms, src/index.ts) — a
ceiling sized for LLM-backed functions like mem::graph-extract's
provider.compress() call, which legitimately needs that much slack for
slow local models.

A KV round-trip is a local file-backed read/write and should never
take anywhere near that long under healthy conditions. Functions that
issue many sequential KV calls per invocation have no way to tell "one
of my KV calls is stuck" apart from "the LLM is just being slow" — both
silently consume the same 180s budget. mem::graph-extract makes up to
19 sequential kv.get/kv.set calls per invocation with zero per-call
protection; when the underlying file_based state adapter stalls on
even one of them (observed repeatedly over several days, see rohitg00#1127),
the whole invocation hangs silently until the outer 180s ceiling kills
it from the outside, with an error that names the function
("Invocation timeout after 180000ms: mem::graph-extract") but gives no
indication the actual stall was in a KV call. The same stall was also
observed independently crashing an unrelated state::get call, since a
wedged file-based adapter blocks any caller, not just graph-extract's.

iii-sdk's TriggerRequest already supports a per-call timeoutMs override
— this just wires it through StateKV with a 10s ceiling, comfortably
above any healthy KV round-trip and far below the 180s LLM-sized
default, so a stuck KV call now fails fast and attributably (naming
the function_id + scope/key) instead of silently blocking the entire
invocation.

Fixes rohitg00#1127.
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StateKV now resolves a configurable per-call timeout for all SDK-backed KV operations. Tests cover defaults, valid overrides, invalid values, request forwarding, and timeout error propagation.

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KV timeout handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve the KV timeout
.env.example, plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md, src/state/kv.ts
Defines a 10-second default, validates AGENTMEMORY_KV_TIMEOUT_MS, and documents the configuration variable.
Wire KV-specific timeouts
src/state/kv.ts
Passes the resolved timeout to get, set, update, delete, and list.
Validate timeout behavior
test/kv.test.ts
Tests default and override values, fallback handling, request forwarding, and timeout error propagation.

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The change gives StateKV operations a bounded 10-second timeout so stalled calls fail fast instead of consuming the worker’s 180-second budget; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Environment
  participant StateKV
  participant SDKTrigger
  Environment->>StateKV: AGENTMEMORY_KV_TIMEOUT_MS
  StateKV->>SDKTrigger: KV operation with resolved timeout
  SDKTrigger-->>StateKV: Result or timeout error
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- Around line 21-29: Update the timeout assertions in the KV test loop over
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Assert timeoutMs === 10_000 exactly rather than the looser ">0 and
<180s" check, so a future change to KV_TIMEOUT_MS shows up as a
deliberate diff in this test instead of passing silently as long as
it stays somewhere under the old ceiling.
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Production data point for the 180s default, if it is useful.

On a self-hosted instance (0.9.28, file_based state adapter, ~7k sessions) the daemon logged 103 invocations hitting the inherited 180s ceiling in a 13-hour window, 30 Jul 12:47 → 31 Jul 02:02:

[agentmemory] warn recordAccess failed {"memoryId":"mem_ms3h7kn9_4e2260790520",
  "error":"Invocation timeout after 180000ms: state::set"}

Breakdown: 102 × state::set, 1 × state::get, all from the same caller — recordAccess in src/functions/access-tracker.ts. That is squarely the case this PR describes: a plain KV round-trip against a local file-backed adapter, sitting on a budget sized for LLM work.

Two things that make it worse than the bare timeout, both visible in that code path:

recordAccess holds withKeyedLock(mem:access:${memoryId}) across the kv.set, so each stalled call also pins that key for the full three minutes. With KV_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000 the same stall releases the key 18× sooner.

It is reached as void recordAccessBatch(...) from mem::search, mem::context and mem::relations, so nothing awaits it and nothing surfaces it — the warn line is the only signal an operator gets, and it arrives three minutes after the fact.

To be explicit about what this is not: I am not claiming these caused the outage that surrounded them. api::liveness takes no lock and does no I/O, and it was also unreachable, so whatever wedged that instance sat below this layer. These 103 lines stand on their own as the failure mode your PR fixes, independent of that.

10s reads right for a local file-backed adapter. Worth considering whether it should be an env override rather than a constant, since a network-backed state adapter would want more headroom.

The 10s KV_TIMEOUT_MS was a hardcoded constant sized for the file_based
adapter. A network-backed state adapter would legitimately want more
headroom, so make it an env override with a strict-digits parse (matching
the openai.ts precedent) that falls back to the 10s default on anything
malformed. Docs + generated reference regenerated via `pnpm skills:gen`.
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@dmazhukov — appreciate you posting this, especially with the per-caller breakdown and the lock-pinning detail. That's a clean independent confirmation of exactly the failure mode this PR targets, and the 18x-faster lock release under the fix is a good number to have on record.

Pushed AGENTMEMORY_KV_TIMEOUT_MS as a follow-up commit (c4b7b7c) addressing the env-override suggestion:

  • StateKV now resolves its timeout once at module load: env override if set and valid, otherwise the existing 10s default. Unset default keeps today's behavior unchanged for the file_based case you're describing — a network-backed adapter can raise it without a code change or a fork.
  • Validation is a strict-digits parse (/^\d+$/ before Number()), not plain parseInt — mirrors parsePositiveInt in src/providers/openai.ts (the Unify timeout env vars: OPENAI_TIMEOUT_MS + AGENTMEMORY_LLM_TIMEOUT_MS #446 CodeRabbit catch) rather than the looser pattern in _fetch.ts, since parseInt alone would silently accept something like "30000ms" as 30000 instead of rejecting the typo. Malformed or non-positive values ("30ms", "1_000", "-30", "0", empty string) all fall back to the 10s default rather than being coerced into something unintended.
  • Deliberately module-load-scoped, not a per-call param the way fetchWithTimeout's timeoutMs argument works — StateKV's callers don't have a principled reason to want different timeouts per call site the way LLM-fetch callers might; one process-wide knob matches the actual need (a different adapter class, not a different call).
  • test/kv.test.ts now covers default-when-unset, override-respected-when-valid, and fallback-on-malformed (via vi.resetModules() + dynamic re-import per case, matching the pattern already used in test/agent-id-scope.test.ts for module-load-time env resolution).
  • AGENTMEMORY_KV_TIMEOUT_MS documented in .env.example and regenerated into plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md via pnpm skills:gen, so it isn't a silent addition to the recognized-variables count.

Full suite: 1446 passed / 7 failed, same 7 pre-existing machine-config failures called out in the PR description (confirmed identical on origin/main, unrelated to this change) — none in kv.test.ts. tsc --noEmit shows no new errors in the touched files.

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Remove implementation narration from the source file.

These lines explain the parser implementation. Move configuration guidance to .env.example and plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md. Keep resolveKvTimeoutMs as the source of code meaning.

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In `@src/state/kv.ts` around lines 21 - 30, Remove the explanatory comments
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- Around line 21-30: Remove the explanatory comments surrounding
resolveKvTimeoutMs in src/state/kv.ts, keeping the function and its behavior
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strict-digits parsing rationale to .env.example and
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# Conflicts:
#	plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md
…t max

iii-sdk forwards timeoutMs straight into setTimeout with no clamping, so any
value above 2_147_483_647 silently becomes a ~1ms timeout instead of erroring
or falling back — the strict-digits parse alone didn't catch this since an
overflowing value still passes as a valid positive integer. Add the ceiling
check plus boundary tests (max valid value, first invalid value above it),
and move the parsing-contract prose out of kv.ts into .env.example.

Addresses coderabbitai review comment on PR rohitg00#1128.
…act-hang

# Conflicts:
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Checking in on this — it's been open a few weeks now. Rebased onto current main (031b474) to keep it mergeable in the meantime; no conflicts in the actual change, just the usual churn in the autogenerated plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md.

Recap of where it stands:

  • Original fix (StateKV per-call timeout) + the two CodeRabbit review rounds are both addressed and acknowledged on-thread.
  • @dmazhukov independently confirmed the underlying failure mode in production (103 invocations hitting the 180s ceiling in a 13-hour window on a real 0.9.28/file_based instance).
  • Full suite green (1734/1734) and tsc --noEmit clean on the touched files as of this rebase.

Happy to make any further changes if there's something you'd like adjusted — just let me know.

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mem::graph-extract hangs to its own 180s invocation timeout on every batch, eventually stalling state::get and crashing the worker

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