[biswapanda]

Summary

• Extract reusable admission/deadline primitives without HTTP serialization, discovery, or model-executor dependencies.
• Preserve owned admission capacity while blocking preflight work is outstanding, including caller abandonment and deadline expiry.
• Return explicit deadline versus task-join outcomes for the execution adapter to classify.

Telemetry

Decision cleanup overruns remain request-correlated structured warnings, not a new Prometheus metric. No dashboard, alert rule, or Dynamo component currently consumes a dedicated cleanup counter, so the unshipped counter, registration, generated names, and catalog entry are removed rather than inventing a consumer or granting a staging exception.

• Reader: operators investigating overdue cleanup use the warning and inherited request span.
• Series budget: 0 new series per frontend process; 0 across all scraped frontends. No new labels or engine-metric duplication.
• Stability: no metric is introduced, so there is no experimental metric to promote or deprecate. Any future counter requires a named continuous consumer, bounded-series calculation, experimental catalog entry, and production update path in the same change.
• Agent guidance: lib/llm/AGENTS.md records the log-only diagnostic, tracing/admission requirements, and the distinction between local cleanup and physical GPU settlement.
• Regression: the overrun test checks that the metric is absent while preserving warning correlation, admission retention, and eventual permit release.

Telemetry fix 1f864a0882: confirmed the new regression fails while the counter is still exported, then passed all 11 lifecycle tests and 67 frontend metric tests after removal. Strict Clippy passed with warnings denied. At the updated integrated stack tip, all 11 lifecycle tests and 34 decision-handler tests passed. Generated Python metric names were regenerated from Rust; formatting, pre-commit, docs lint, Fern configuration and broken-link checks passed. Independent review found no correctness issues. This is CPU-side telemetry/lifecycle validation, not a fresh GPU or full JSON trace-field qualification. The existing local Python environment audit reports dependency advisories; this change adds or changes no dependency pins.

Latest review follow-up

Background deadline cleanup inherits the current HTTP request span, so overrun warnings and cleanup errors retain request identifiers without changing cancellation or admission ownership. The strengthened regression failed with the original bare spawn and all 11 lifecycle tests pass with the fix. Shared-helper extraction and Drop-guard observation of an abandoned dispatch future remain separate follow-ups; deadline instrumentation does not claim to solve either or establish physical GPU settlement.

Phase 1 scope

The integrated stack supports only OpenAI POST /v1/decisions and Jev/TypeSafe POST /v1/systemone. Every top-level nvext envelope is rejected, including {} and explicit "oai". Public SGLang-native Decisions request/response types, adapters, projection and selector support are removed. SGLang /generate scoring remains an internal execution primitive, not a third public contract. Optional native-format support is deferred to DEP #15960. This scope supersedes the earlier three-contract implementation description.

Stack

Dynamo review order: D1: mocker → D2: native scoring → D3: discovery → D4: admission → D5: execution → D6a: HTTP → D6b: OpenAPI → D7: qualification. Each PR targets its predecessor; merge from the base upward and update dependent bases as prerequisites land.

D4 of the Dynamo decision API stack. Base: bis/decisions-d3-discovery; the linear review stack carries earlier foundations, while these lifecycle primitives remain a separate responsibility. The execution coordinator consumes them in D5.

Related: umbrella DEP #15843 and its dependency plan.

No public routes are exposed. Tested private staged entries have exact-item lint expectations that are removed when the execution layer supplies their production callers. Local task completion is not represented as physical GPU settlement.

Validation

The core train is based on main snapshot 532616d12d, with each dependent PR restacked on its updated predecessor. Exact current fix SHAs are recorded in the review replies; historical evidence below retains its original source revision.

Fresh integrated-stack validation and complete GPU pytest output ran at tip 876e2980df44ac3ec16d3079965e1c58039e5cd3: both committed native SGLang tests passed on stock 0.5.22/GB200 with pinned Qwen3-0.6B; four official OpenAI/TypeSafe client/wire cases passed separately against the live worker. The incompatible 43-choice Jev probe returned the new actionable HTTP 422 diagnostic. These are integrated-stack results, not a claim that lower slices expose public routes independently.

Recorded earlier-source validation also passed 294 mocker tests, 51 System One tests, 52 frontend service tests, nine live CPU HTTP tests, focused routing/protocol/lifecycle/OpenAPI and Python regressions, strict LLM all-target Clippy without default features, formatting/pre-commit, and locked metadata. Documentation configuration and broken-link checks passed. Counts overlap; new-head remote CI is tracked separately. This does not qualify the 27B model, model quality, performance/scaling, or physical GPU cancellation settlement.

Historical validation before this main rebase

Rebased onto main 02da7f44861b65758b960770e0763e9faa8e4ca4. D3 and later use crates.io dynamo-decisions =0.1.0 with dynamo-protocols =8.2.0; obsolete Git dependency/source patches are removed. The prior unpublished-crate prerequisite is no longer applicable.

Validation below is integrated-stack evidence, not a claim that lower slices already expose public HTTP routes.

• Locked Cargo metadata passed for the root, Python-binding and KVBM-binding workspaces; published decision-core tests: 40 passed.
• Fresh Python binding build passed. Ten CPU HTTP/helper tests and ten manual-marker policy tests passed; malformed content types and empty questions are rejected before worker inference.
• Nine wire/official synchronous SDK checks passed against real cached Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B revision 1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0, SGLang 0.5.19, and the final combined source 2f90adc5360cbdd5de6e5d78e9fb150cb5513595; independent-native parity was deselected.
• Rust formatting and whitespace checks passed. A broader local Rust test rebuild hit disk exhaustion and is not counted as a passing test run; focused reruns and actual current-head remote CI remain separately tracked.

Only OpenAI /v1/decisions and Jev /v1/systemone are public decision contracts. No native SGLang wire format or nvext.format selector is supported. No new claim of independent numerical parity, Decision Index quality, full client-language coverage or physical GPU settlement is made.

Historical validation before the registry integration

The following records concern earlier source revisions and are not current-head CI evidence.

• Final restacked tip 4fc7c6c79b0fa40e67fbf6710c0b83c5b3ad7cc1 rebuilt the Python extension with locked public dependencies and no local override; all ten HTTP integration tests and four official SDK/wire tests passed against that final extension on CPU services. Its runtime/fixture sources match the live-GPU-tested source.
• The updated frontend stack passed 199 protocol/core tests, strict all-target Clippy and formatting; its published final tree matches the source used for the live SDK run. Dynamo pins the public frontend revision e2805e94675457ff445c261b2d12eed0d227a3b0, without machine-local dependency overrides.
• Integrated Phase 1 source passed all ten CPU HTTP fixtures, 25 SGLang registration tests, and official-client/wire checks against the CPU mocker. Negative fixtures cover both routes and verify rejected requests do not reach workers. These are integrated-source results, not claims that every lower slice exposes HTTP.
• Live Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B revision 1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0, SGLang 0.5.19: four wire/official synchronous Python SDK tests passed using OpenAI 3.26.0 and TypeSafe SDK 0.7.2. Same-worker native scoring comparison also passed. The independent-native-server fixture was deselected and was not requalified in this run.
• Live GPU validation used the Phase 1 source before restacking. Final committed source equivalence and public-dependency build/CPU checks are recorded separately; historical three-contract runs do not qualify this revised scope.
• These results do not complete async/JavaScript SDK coverage, Decision Index quality/coverage, performance/scaling, authenticated-gateway qualification, or physical GPU settlement. New-head CI is separate and is not claimed passing here.

Historical validation before the Phase 1 scope update

The following records describe earlier revisions, not current-head CI or a new qualification claim.

• Lifecycle primitive unit tests: seven passed.
• Strict cargo clippy -p dynamo-llm --all-targets -- -D warnings: passed.
• Rust formatting and whitespace checks: passed.

The scope is CPU-side admission/preflight ownership. Backend physical completion/abort acknowledgement remains an independent release gate.

Implementation tracking: Part of #15961. This is a non-closing link to the decision-model delivery roadmap; the umbrella DEP remains open.

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[biswapanda]

/ok to test aaa48c0

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Walkthrough

The HTTP service declares a private lifecycle module. The module adds helpers for admission, cancellation-aware operations, blocking work with permit ownership, and dispatch deadlines. Tests cover the helpers’ outcomes and permit handling.

Changes

Decision lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Admission and cancellation-aware work lib/llm/src/http/service.rs, lib/llm/src/http/service/decision_lifecycle.rs	The service declares the lifecycle module. Admission distinguishes oversized requests from exhausted capacity. Cancellation-aware operations and blocking work preserve their specified results and permit ownership. Tests cover admission, cancellation, and permit behavior.
Dispatch results and deadlines lib/llm/src/http/service/decision_lifecycle.rs	Dispatch returns completed output, or reports a task failure or deadline. Task failure and deadline expiry kill the parent context; deadline expiry also drains the local task. Tests cover these outcomes.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: Low · up to aaa48

Deadline handling can wait longer than requested when a task does not respond to cancellation. Bound the drain or establish a cancellation contract before relying on this helper for deadline-sensitive work.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Explanation

The description has substantive content for Overview-equivalent points (scope, admission/deadline primitives, outcome classification), a Validation section with specific test results, and a Stack/Scope section. However, it does not follow the required template: there are no explicit 'Overview', 'Key Changes', 'Validation', or 'Issues and Ongoing Work' headings. It uses 'Summary', 'Telemetry', 'Latest review follow-up', 'Phase 1 scope', 'Stack', 'Validation', and 'Historical validation' sections instead. The 'Closes #XXXX' / issue link line is absent; the description instead uses a non-closing 'Part of #15961' reference, which is acceptable for an advisory check but still differs from the template. The Pull Request Checklist entry ('I used Dynamo's /pr-checklist skill') is not present. The description is also very long and includes extensive historical validation and telemetry text unrelated to the code change summary (e.g., the telemetry section describes a removed metric, and the Validation section mixes many older revisions and unrelated GPU/SDK results), which makes it hard to tell what the reviewer should check. Most of the required information is present, so the check is a pass on completeness, but the template structure should be aligned.

Resolution

Not required for PASS, but to align with the template: rename or reorganize sections into Overview, Key Changes, Validation, and Issues and Ongoing Work; add the issue reference line (for example, a 'Part of #15961' or closing reference as appropriate); and add the Pull Request Checklist item. Consider trimming historical validation records that refer to earlier revisions.

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: Still present: after a deadline, dispatch_with_deadline kills the parent and then awaits the task without a bound. A task that does not observe parent.kill(), such as work blocked behind non-cancellable blocking preflight, can keep the dispatcher waiting past the deadline; the current code has neither a drain bound nor a documented caller contract.
• Original discussion: The deadline path still kills the parent and then awaits the task without any bound, so a task that does not observe cancellation, including blocking preflight work, can make dispatch_with_deadline return long after the requested deadline instead of promptly reporting Deadline.
• Original discussion: The previously raised deadline-drain defect is still present: dispatch_with_deadline kills the parent after timeout_at expires, then awaits the supplied JoinHandle without any bound or documented caller contract, so a task that does not observe parent.kill() can keep the dispatcher waiting past the deadline.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: on deadline expiry dispatch_with_deadline calls parent.kill() and then awaits the task without any bound. If a caller passes work that is blocked in non-cancellable preflight, including the provided spawn_blocking_with_permit closure, this helper will not return the deadline outcome until that work finishes, so the request can remain stuck past its deadline. The helper needs either an enforced bounded drain or a documented/validated contract that submitted tasks observe the parent kill and finish promptly.

[luckyq]

Traced permit accounting (panic/Err/deadline/client disconnect), the kill tree, and the only caller in D5; no leak or ordering issue found. Approving with two design notes:

• decision_lifecycle.rs:26-28: try_acquire_many_owned is non-queuing. With 256 permits and a steady stream of 1-3 branch requests holding ~200, a 100-branch request gets 429 on every attempt while its deadline budget goes unused. acquire_many_owned under timeout_at(deadline) would keep the same bound with FIFO admission.
• decision_lifecycle.rs:94-97: the post-deadline task.await drain is unbounded; the contract that the task observes parent.kill() is enforced only by the doc comment. A grace timeout_at around the drain with a warn log would make a future stray .await in dispatch visible instead of a silent hang with permits held.

[biswapanda]

fixed in d9fa371. Review follow-up: after the deadline signals cancellation, local task drainage is bounded to one second and logs a warning on violation. Noncooperative tasks retain their permits until they finish, preventing premature capacity reuse; lifecycle regression tests passed. Immediate non-queuing admission is intentionally retained rather than introducing FIFO waiting, and the helper contract now states this explicitly. This bounds frontend waiting, not physical GPU cancellation settlement.

[jh-nv]

Re-reviewed at cc68cc2, including the one-second cancellation grace. Nothing blocking. Approving.

[biswapanda]

Latest review follow-up is published: #15851 at bca82d2, this PR at 44f64b5, and the dependent core train restacked through fba6215. The execution caller adaptation is 84c69a8. All nine new discussions have replies: six implemented fixes/simplifications and three explicitly deferred follow-up ideas; deferral is not an implementation claim.

Validation on the freshly rebuilt integrated tip fba6215: 59 Rust decision tests, 11 lifecycle tests (including request-span capture), 57 model-selection tests, 11 WorkerSet tests, 14 OpenAPI tests, strict no-default-features all-target Clippy, 205 SGLang unit tests, 12 live CPU-mocker HTTP cases, and four external wire/official synchronous OpenAI/TypeSafe SDK cases passed. The SDK harness also validates real error responses against generated schemas. Counts overlap. Scoped pre-commit/formatting passed; Cargo manifests and lockfiles are unchanged.

The migration-selection and missing-request-ID regressions were reproduced before their fixes. An independent review found no new actionable defects. These are CPU/live-HTTP integration results, not new GPU model qualification, performance measurements, or proof of physical GPU cancellation settlement. New-head CI is separate and not claimed complete.