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The second of M3's PRs (m3-plan), building on the foundations #24 merged: a follow-up can now publish what it was steered to produce, and a central fleet routes a chain back to the host that holds its workspace. Resolves both engineering deferrals recorded in ADR-0018's Consequences, per ADR-0019.

What this delivers

Publication (P2 + P3)

  • runs.published_sha (migration 0034) — the chain's expected-tip record, written by the engine's git.push handler post-push (the work_branch pattern, crash-safe by determinism); branch.pushed events carry the commit.
  • GitScmService.push derives the chain's expected tip and drives the expected-tip CAS; a lost CAS surfaces as a typed tip_conflict → terminal RunFailure("publish_conflict") (i18n'd in both locales). FakeScmService can lie, so fails-closed is testable.
  • The synthetic publish tail: followupTemplate appends an approval checkpoint presenting the cumulative patch, then the base's own git.push/pr.open steps verbatim. Engine guards (keyed on the synthetic phase id, inexpressible in the template language) read approved and published from separate records: empty steer → whole tail skipped; byte-identical approved bytes → checkpoint carried forward; push/pr.open always run (idempotent), so an approved-but-unpublished chain completes.

Host affinity (A2 + A3)

  • run.host.<uuid> queue family; the enqueue-side resolver (dbRunQueueResolver) is the single routing seam — central runs with a stamped workspace_host route to their host's queue, which only workers mounting that storage poll. Follow-ups and initial-run resumes become host-bound with zero call-site changes; the claim-time decline survives as the deploy-skew fallback.
  • The dead-pin rule made mechanical: sweepDeadHostRuns fails runs parked ≥5 min on a host no live-and-ready heartbeat has advertised for ≥5 min — workspace_lost, typed, with a notification. A host back within grace drains its queue; rolling deploys never trip it (the identity belongs to the volume).

Docs: design 04 (the affinity paragraph now describes the shipped queue), design 08 (the volume IS the host), manual 03 + 06 in both locales, CHANGELOG.

Verification

Full gate green at every commit (bun run check, bun test with Postgres — 712 pass / 0 fail / 6 declared skips, templates:validate, build). Compliance suite through both transports: changed steer pauses at its own approval then advances the chain twice; unchanged steer completes in one leg, checkpoint skipped, push run; question-only steer skips the tail; lost CAS fails typed with no record. Real-git chain walk: a follow-up advance parents on the ancestor's tip with cumulative content; a human advance conflicts typed. Fetch-level two-worker test: the holder claims a pinned run, an identically-equipped peer never sees it. Every new behavior neuter-verified (each disabled in turn; its tests failed).

Still owed before merge: a codex review round, and the live smoke from the m3-plan verify criteria (steer a finished repo run on prod → approve → the branch advances by exactly one deterministic commit; a manual push then forces publish_conflict).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Follow-up changes now require approval before publishing cumulative patches to the existing branch and pull request.
    • Unchanged follow-ups no longer prompt for approval or create duplicate commits.
    • Workspaces route runs and follow-ups to their designated host for consistent execution.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Conflict detection prevents publishing over externally modified branches.
    • Runs whose workspace host is unavailable now fail with workspace_lost and send notifications.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for follow-up publishing and workspace host affinity.

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ADR-0019 P2 — the engine wiring for the expected-tip CAS:

- runs.published_sha (additive migration 0034), written by the git.push
  handler right after the push resolves — the work_branch pattern, so a
  crash between push and record re-runs an idempotent push on resume
  and the record lands then. The branch.pushed event carries the commit
  so the timeline names what actually landed.
- GitScmService.push derives the chain's expected tip (latest non-null
  published_sha across the workspace_key group by run number), passes
  it to applyApprovedPatch, and maps TipConflictError to a typed
  tip_conflict result. PushResult grows the arm; the engine maps it to
  RunFailure(publish_conflict) — terminal, because a retry reproduces
  the refusal deterministically, and the remote was never touched.
- FakeScmService can now lie (tipConflictNext) — fails-closed is
  untestable until the fake can express the conflict.

Tests: compliance through both transports (publication recorded +
event stamped; lost CAS fails typed with no record and no push) and a
real-git chain walk in the worker suite (follow-up advance parented on
the ancestor's tip, cumulative content, then a human advance
conflicting typed). All five neuter-verified.
ADR-0018 amendment, slice A2 — the per-host queue. A new name family
run.host.<uuid> (disjoint from the executor-set queues, generated and
never parsed back) carries central runs whose workspace_host is
stamped. The routing decision lives in ONE place: the enqueue-side
resolver generalizes from executor-id derivation to queue-name
derivation (dbRunQueueResolver) — runtime_id IS NULL AND
workspace_host set routes to the host queue, a daemon pin keeps its
executor-set routing (the pin owns affinity), everything else is
unchanged. Every send path — submit, follow-up, straggler sweep,
stranded-checkpoint sweep, lease sweeper, drain re-enqueue — funnels
through enqueueRun/enqueueRunAfter, so follow-ups AND initial-run
resumes become host-bound with zero call-site changes.

The consumer side is one line: selectRunQueues adds the worker's own
host queue (never a peer's), advertised from the storage identity A1
minted. The claim-time WorkspaceElsewhereError decline and its
five-minute grace remain as the deploy-skew fallback.

Tests: resolver routing against real rows (host pin → host queue,
runtime pin wins, unknown → loud null), pure queue selection, and a
fetch-level two-worker test — the holder claims the pinned run, a peer
with the identical executor set never sees it, an unpinned run stays
fair game. Routing tests neuter-verified.
…gated, guarded

ADR-0019 P3 — the synthetic publish tail. followupTemplate appends a
publish phase when the whole publication story exists (base flow has
git.push, base declares a workspace, the seed found a patch key, the
chain has a work branch): an approval checkpoint presenting the
CUMULATIVE patch, then the base's own git.push and pr.open steps
verbatim — their with-config is author intent the synthetic flow must
not lose (their when-conditions are stripped; the engine's guards
replace them).

The guards key on the synthetic phase id, never expressible in the
template language, and read approved and published from separate
records: the whole tail is skipped only when the steer's patch is
EMPTY; the checkpoint alone is skipped when the patch is
byte-identical to bytes the chain already approved (an earlier
follow-up's publish checkpoint, or anything published — nothing
publishes unapproved bytes); push and pr.open always run, both
idempotent, so an approved-but-unpublished chain completes instead of
being skipped past. A base-flow approval that never reached a push is
deliberately not counted — the conservative direction re-asks a human.

Compliance through both transports: changed steer pauses at its own
approval then advances the chain twice; unchanged steer completes in
one leg with the checkpoint skipped and the push run; question-only
steer skips the tail entirely. All neuter-verified (guards off, tail
off). i18n gains publish_conflict in both locales; manual 03 en+zh-CN
rewrites the 'publishing stays with the original run' bullet the tail
supersedes; CHANGELOG covers publication and host routing.
…notification

ADR-0018 amendment, slice A3 — the dead-host sweeper, the honesty half
of the per-host queue. A run parked on a host queue only its holder can
serve waits forever if that host is gone; ADR-0018's rule is that a
dead pin fails workspace_lost and is never re-routed (re-routing lands
the agent in an empty directory and lets it report success).

sweepDeadHostRuns (run-lifecycle, beside its sibling sweeps) fails
central host-pinned runs when no live-and-ready heartbeat has
advertised their host for five minutes AND the run itself has been
parked that long — three states, each with its own parked-since
marker: queued (queued_at), running with no lease (the crash-recovery
re-enqueue only the holder could claim), and waiting_approval fully
decided (a resume enqueued to a queue nobody polls). Finalization is
the same CAS as every other path, so racing replicas fail each run
exactly once; the worker stage syncs notifications like the
offline-runtimes stage. A host back within grace drains its queue
instead, and rolling deploys never trip it — the identity belongs to
the storage.

Docs: design 04's affinity paragraph rewritten around the shipped
queue (the 'per-host queue is the real fix' promise resolves), design
08 notes the volume IS the host, manual 06 gains a host-affinity
section in both locales. Sweeper tests neuter-verified.
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The change adds host-specific queue routing and dead-host recovery for workspace-pinned runs. It also adds approval-gated cumulative follow-up publication, published commit tracking, and atomic branch-tip conflict handling.

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Workspace host affinity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Host-specific run queue routing
packages/core/src/queue.ts, packages/orchestration/src/queue.ts, apps/api/src/index.ts, apps/worker/src/*
Queue resolution now returns host-specific queues for pinned central runs and executor queues otherwise. Workers poll their own host queue when they have a workspace-host identity.
Dead-host detection and recovery
packages/orchestration/src/engine/run-lifecycle.ts, apps/worker/src/index.ts, packages/orchestration/src/engine/engine.integration.test.ts, docs/*
The sweeper fails pinned runs after the heartbeat grace period with workspace_lost and synchronizes notifications. Tests and documentation cover host identity, routing, and recovery.

Follow-up publication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Publication state and conflict contract
packages/db/..., packages/orchestration/src/engine/deps.ts, packages/orchestration/src/engine/fakes.ts, apps/worker/src/deps/scm.ts
Runs record publishedSha. SCM publication uses the latest workspace-chain tip and returns typed tip_conflict results.
Approval-gated follow-up publication
packages/orchestration/src/followup.ts, packages/orchestration/src/engine/engine.ts, packages/orchestration/src/engine/engine.integration.test.ts, apps/worker/src/deps/workspace.test.ts, packages/i18n/locales/*, docs/manual/*
Follow-ups add a conditional approval and publication tail for cumulative patches. Empty and duplicate patches skip defined steps. Successful pushes record commit metadata, while branch divergence produces publish_conflict without pushing.

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This PR adds follow-up publication and host-routed workspace affinity; the supplied checks are green, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal final review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Worker
  participant RunQueue
  participant Database
  Worker->>RunQueue: poll executor and own host queues
  RunQueue->>Database: resolve run queue
  Database-->>RunQueue: host-specific or executor queue
  RunQueue-->>Worker: deliver eligible run
  Worker->>Database: sweep pinned runs
  Database-->>Worker: finalize stale runs as workspace_lost
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sequenceDiagram
  participant FollowupTemplate
  participant Engine
  participant Database
  participant SCM
  FollowupTemplate->>Engine: add publish approval tail
  Engine->>Database: inspect patch and published tip
  Database-->>Engine: publication decision and expected tip
  Engine->>SCM: push cumulative patch
  SCM-->>Engine: commit SHA or publish conflict
  Engine->>Database: record publication result
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  • ainaive/agrippa#23: Extends the same follow-up and workspace-affinity orchestration areas.
  • ainaive/agrippa#24: Adds related expected-tip publication, host pinning, and queue-routing foundations.
  • ainaive/agrippa#18: Introduces worker heartbeat infrastructure used by dead-host detection.
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In `@docs/design/04-execution-runtime.md`:
- Line 98: Update the stale publication statement in the execution-runtime
design document to describe approval-gated follow-up publication as supported,
aligning it with the implementation and removing the claim that follow-up
publication is out of scope. Preserve the surrounding host-affinity and
queue-routing behavior.

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- Around line 2230-2239: Update the own-patch lookup in the surrounding engine
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hutusi added 2 commits August 16, 2026 22:07
…ale attempt's

CodeRabbit review on PR #25, two findings, both verified valid:

1. (Major) computeTailGuards ordered the run's own patch lookup by
   iteration alone — but a retried steer plain-INSERTS a second row
   with the same key and the same iteration, so the order ties and
   Postgres may return the stale attempt's digest (reproduced: the
   regression test fails deterministically without the fix, both
   transports). A stale digest deciding publication could suppress the
   approval checkpoint for bytes a human never saw, or push an empty
   patch. createdAt is now the tiebreaker — the same latest-row-wins
   rule priorArtifacts already applies, so the guard and the evidence
   machinery agree on which row is canonical.

2. (Minor) design 04's steering paragraph still ended with the
   superseded 'publication is out of scope … publishing stays the
   ancestor's business' — the P3 docs pass rewrote the affinity
   paragraph and missed this one four lines up. It now describes the
   approval-gated tail and the expected-tip CAS.
…clines everywhere

Codex review round 4 on PR #25, four findings, all verified valid:

1. (P1) The carry-forward treated every published run as approved and
   every patch row of an approved run as approved bytes — an
   auto-published base flow could exempt its follow-ups from the gate,
   and an earlier loop iteration's never-presented patch counted. The
   publish checkpoint now RECORDS the digest it presents
   (payload.patchSha256), and the carry-forward matches only those
   records. Publication is deliberately not approval; the first
   unchanged steer after any base flow re-asks once, and the approval
   then carries. Compliance test rewritten as the two-stage walk.

2. (P1) pg-boss's retry of a crashed job bypasses the enqueue-side
   resolver, so a host-pinned run could be redelivered to the wrong
   host and fail a false workspace_lost while the holder was healthy.
   The engine now declines any central run pinned to another host's
   storage — unconditionally, before the claim (EngineDeps grows the
   worker's storage identity); the consumer completes such declines
   for crashed running runs too, and the lease sweeper's re-enqueue
   routes them through the resolver onto the host queue. A dead host
   stays the dead-host sweeper's terminal decision.

3. (P2) The dead-host grace accepted ANY decision older than the
   window — a run whose newest checkpoint was approved seconds ago
   could fail immediately. The grace now measures from max(decided_at).

4. (P2) A recovery PR (ancestor pushed, PR creation failed) composed
   from the follow-up's empty context: body interpolation lost
   ancestor artifacts and the waiver section lost the ancestors'
   accepted findings. Follow-up runs now backfill chain artifact
   VALUES and decided-checkpoint responses (produced/digest state
   stays their own), and composePrBody reads review gates across the
   chain, chronologically, so the last human decision per finding
   still wins.

All four neuter-verified (each disabled in turn; seven test failures
across both transports, zero passes).
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