[sachalmalick]

This integrates batch observation, policy evaluation, drain actuation, and replica-floor and authoritative idle-target reconciliation into Planner's native tick lifecycle. It makes each lease and scaling opinion derive from one snapshot while preserving fail-closed ordering across startup, plugin failures, budget constraints, and uncertain Redis outcomes.

CLOSES: LLM-188

How This Was Implemented

• Request one batch snapshot per enabled native tick and anchor policy time after collection completes.
• Project batch observations into plugin context and evaluate the native policy exactly once per tick.
• Merge dynamic batch floors and exact idle targets with plugin scaling proposals while preserving PROPOSE/RECONCILE provenance, replaying CONSTRAIN bounds, retaining verified pending startup capacity, and keeping GPU/power budgets final.
• Apply the batch floor to explicit decode targets emitted in either PROPOSE or RECONCILE; when no explicit decode target exists, retain the expected/current replica baseline.
• Require explicit sustained evidence before reducing an in-progress startup target and restart that window when inventory or floor changes.
• Force a zero-rate lease when the pipeline fails or final budgets cannot satisfy the floor.
• Apply the drain lease before replica mutation and treat an actuation error as outcome-unknown without scaling or automatic replay.

Walkthrough

• plugins/builtins/observe.py gathers batch state and preserves unrelated observations when optional collection fails.
• plugins/orchestrator/engine_adapter.py computes one plan, merges its active floor or exact idle target, preserves upstream provenance, replays constraints, and projects leased caps with audit events.
• core/base.py enforces lease-before-scale ordering and serializes effect submission across ticks.
• core/planner_factory.py installs the native provider and connects its writer fence when batch scheduling is enabled.
• Orchestrator, observe-plugin, factory, and tick-lifecycle tests cover cadence, mapping, startup, budgets, advisory mode, provenance, and failure ordering.

Validation

• Prior final stacked validation: 939 unique tests passed, including exact-idle merge, constraint replay, no-op, rollout, and fail-closed regressions.
• Post-restack focused validation: all 4 PROPOSE/RECONCILE floor tests passed; all 115 observation tests and 37 strict evidence-verifier tests also pass on the combined stack.
• uvx pre-commit run --from-ref origin/main --to-ref HEAD and git diff --check passed on the applicable revisions; trusted full CI is running on head 05ff3e56b4d547e8d7dfd773aa79d428b8c21a58.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Enabled batch scheduling in planner ticks, using current job demand, worker capacity, and dispatcher feedback.
  • Batch plans can set decode replica floors and control admission through drain limits, including during startup rollouts.
  • Applied drain limits before scaling updates; advisory mode continues to avoid applying them.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of observation and capacity-refresh failures, allowing planning to continue while omitting unavailable data.
  • Prevented scaling updates when applying drain limits fails or the pipeline cannot safely determine an admission limit.

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Walkthrough

The planner now collects batch-scheduling observations and refreshes replica state before collecting worker counts. The adapter computes batch-aware scaling and drain-limit decisions. Non-advisory effect submission applies drain limits before scaling effects.

Changes

Batch scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Batch observation and tick input components/src/dynamo/planner/core/types.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/environment/{base.py,interface.py}, components/src/dynamo/planner/plugins/builtins/observe.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/plugins/orchestrator/engine_adapter.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/plugins/orchestrator/test_environment_observe_plugin.py	Scheduled ticks can request batch observations. The observe plugin collects batch data, refreshes replica state before worker counts, and updates the timestamp for batch ticks. Tests cover collection and refresh failures.
Batch plan and effect projection components/src/dynamo/planner/core/planner_factory.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/plugins/orchestrator/engine_adapter.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/plugins/orchestrator/test_engine_adapter.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_planner_factory.py	Environment construction supplies the native provider when batch scheduling is enabled. The adapter projects replica floors, scale targets, and drain limits, and records audit events. Tests cover startup, GPU budgets, leases, and pipeline outcomes.
Drain-limit effect submission components/src/dynamo/planner/core/base.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_tick_lifecycle.py	Non-advisory submissions apply drain limits before scaling effects. Lifecycle tests cover advisory ticks, stale effects, stalled submissions, and application errors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bb135

Batch scheduling now runs on native planner ticks, with drain limits applied before scaling. No concrete production defect remains. A small follow-up test for the rollout state the Kubernetes connector actually reports would strengthen regression protection.

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components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/plugins/orchestrator/test_engine_adapter.py (1)

539-550: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for the rollout state that the Kubernetes connector actually reports.

This test sets expected_num_decode=4. During a non-startup rollout, PlannerEnvironmentImpl._refresh_replica_counts reports expected=None with scaling=True. Add a case with expected_num_decode=None, decode_scaling_in_progress=True, ready_num_decode=1, and batch_replica_floor=2. That case should assert decision is None. Without it, the rollout-cancellation path in _project_scale_to has no test.

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test_project_scale_to_batch_floor_does_not_cancel_rollout_scale_up with
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