fix: dispatch-failure ceiling ignored orphan/any-reason failures, no gate for pending-decision items - #599
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds dispatch and orphan-restoration safeguards, but a label-read failure can still dispatch items awaiting a decision, and restoration failures can leave jobs stuck or incorrectly marked as capped. These are concrete merge-readiness risks requiring owner follow-up before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant OrphanReconcile
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OrphanReconcile->>DispatchFailureCeiling: Count consecutive failures of any reason
OrphanReconcile->>ItemBackend: Release the dead-job claim
OrphanReconcile->>ItemBackend: Restore labels or apply needs-manual-dispatch
OrphanReconcile->>ItemBackend: Post a cap comment when the ceiling is reached
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src/dispatch_failure_ceiling.rs (1)
124-158: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider sharing the cycle segmentation with
dispatch_cycle_failure_reasons.
dispatch_cycle_coarse_outcomesrepeats the dispatch-index collection, segment slicing, success detection, and cap-marker detection ofdispatch_cycle_failure_reasons(lines 64-111). Both counts must agree on what a "cycle" is. If one segmentation rule changes later, the two ceilings can disagree silently.A single pass that returns the reason (
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In `@src/dashboard/orphan_reconcile.rs`:
- Around line 173-183: Update restore_ready_for_work to return the at-cap
outcome only when its restoration transaction successfully applies the label
change. Tie the result to the transaction closure’s successful Some outcome,
preserving None for completed or cancelled items, lookup failures, and
rollbacks, so reconcile_orphaned_jobs does not post a cap comment for skipped
restorations.
- Around line 205-220: Update the defensive release call in
reconcile_orphaned_jobs to ignore both success and database-error results from
claim::release, so a failed best-effort cleanup does not abort the restoration
transaction; preserve the existing owner string and release invocation.
In `@src/supervisor.rs`:
- Around line 150-155: Update the gate evaluation around NEEDS_DECISION_LABEL
and list_labels so any database or result error is treated as waiting rather
than false. Log the label-read failure, and ensure the supervisor does not
dispatch the item unless it successfully confirms the item lacks the gate label.
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In `@src/dispatch_failure_ceiling.rs`:
- Around line 124-158: Refactor dispatch_cycle_coarse_outcomes and
dispatch_cycle_failure_reasons to share one cycle-segmentation pass and
definition. Have the shared result provide each cycle’s failure reason, success
status, and cap_already_reported flag, then derive both counters from it while
preserving their existing outcomes.
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| let at_cap = mcp | ||
| .with_backend_db(|conn| -> Option<bool> { | ||
| let comments = agentflare_backend::comment::list_by_item(conn, item_id).ok()?; | ||
| Some( | ||
| crate::dispatch_failure_ceiling::consecutive_failure_count_any_reason(&comments) | ||
| >= crate::dispatch_failure_ceiling::DISPATCH_FAILURE_CAP_ANY_REASON, | ||
| ) | ||
| }) | ||
| .ok() | ||
| .flatten() | ||
| .unwrap_or(false); |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Return at_cap only when the restoration transaction applied it.
at_cap is computed before the transaction and returned unconditionally. The transaction closure returns None early when the item state group is completed or cancelled, and also when item::get, state::get, resolve_project, or label::list_by_project fails or the transaction rolls back. In those cases no label change happens, but restore_ready_for_work still returns true, so reconcile_orphaned_jobs posts post_any_reason_cap_comment.
The result is a cap comment on an item that was deliberately skipped. That comment also carries DISPATCH_FAILURE_CAP_MARKER, so it resets the any-reason streak for later counting.
🔧 Proposed fix: report the applied outcome
- let _ = mcp.with_backend_db(|conn| -> Option<()> {
+ let applied = mcp.with_backend_db(|conn| -> Option<()> {
let item = agentflare_backend::item::get(conn, item_id).ok()?;
@@
match result {
Ok(()) => conn.execute_batch("COMMIT").ok(),
Err(_) => {
let _ = conn.execute_batch("ROLLBACK");
None
}
}
});
- at_cap
+ at_cap && matches!(applied, Ok(Some(())))
}Also applies to: 232-257
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In `@src/dashboard/orphan_reconcile.rs` around lines 173 - 183, Update
restore_ready_for_work to return the at-cap outcome only when its restoration
transaction successfully applies the label change. Tie the result to the
transaction closure’s successful Some outcome, preserving None for completed or
cancelled items, lookup failures, and rollbacks, so reconcile_orphaned_jobs does
not post a cap comment for skipped restorations.
| // Defense in depth: `reconcile_orphaned_jobs` already tries to | ||
| // release this claim via `release_and_comment` under a | ||
| // `with_owner_override` scope before calling here, but that | ||
| // release is best-effort (`let _ = ...`) and its failure is | ||
| // silent. Without this, a release that silently didn't take | ||
| // leaves the claim "live" for its full TTL even after this | ||
| // function puts `ready-for-work` back on -- `run_discovery_tick` | ||
| // sees the item as dispatchable, but the actual dispatch (and | ||
| // `redispatch`) both refuse with "blocked_by_live_claim" until | ||
| // the TTL naturally expires (items #185/#187 reproduced this: | ||
| // stuck for the better part of an hour with no visible error, | ||
| // owner strings confirmed to be this exact job's own dead | ||
| // claim). Same owner string `reconcile_orphaned_jobs` already | ||
| // constructs (`{agent}:{job_id}`) so this only ever releases the | ||
| // dead job's own lease, never a live one held by something else. | ||
| agentflare_backend::claim::release(conn, item_id, &format!("{agent}:{job_id}"))?; |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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#!/bin/bash
# Inspect claim::release semantics for a missing claim and an owner mismatch.
set -euo pipefail
fd -t f 'claim.rs' | while IFS= read -r f; do
echo "=== $f"
rg -n -C 20 'pub fn release' "$f"
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if command -v ctx_read >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ctx_read src/dashboard/orphan_reconcile.rs --lines 170:230
ctx_read crates/agentflare-backend/src/claim.rs --lines 1:40
ctx_read crates/agentflare-db-kit/src/claim.rs --lines 160:178
else
echo "lean-ctx unavailable; using targeted native reads."
sed -n '170,230p' src/dashboard/orphan_reconcile.rs
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Keep the defensive alternative. claim::release returns Ok(false) for absent or foreign-owned claims, but conn.execute can return a database error. The ? propagates that error and aborts the restoration transaction. Ignore this best-effort release result.
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In `@src/dashboard/orphan_reconcile.rs` around lines 205 - 220, Update the
defensive release call in reconcile_orphaned_jobs to ignore both success and
database-error results from claim::release, so a failed best-effort cleanup does
not abort the restoration transaction; preserve the existing owner string and
release invocation.
| if let Some(gate_id) = label_id_by_name.get(NEEDS_DECISION_LABEL) { | ||
| let gated = mcp | ||
| .with_backend_db(|conn| agentflare_backend::item::list_labels(conn, &item.id)) | ||
| .ok() | ||
| .and_then(Result::ok) | ||
| .is_some_and(|ids| ids.contains(gate_id)); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Fail closed when the gate label lookup fails.
Lines 151-155 convert both database errors into false. If list_labels fails for an item that has needs-decision, the supervisor can dispatch that item.
Treat a label-read failure as waiting, log the failure, and continue. Do not dispatch until the supervisor confirms that the item lacks needs-decision.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@src/supervisor.rs` around lines 150 - 155, Update the gate evaluation around
NEEDS_DECISION_LABEL and list_labels so any database or result error is treated
as waiting rather than false. Log the label-read failure, and ensure the
supervisor does not dispatch the item unless it successfully confirms the item
lacks the gate label.
…etry forever DISPATCH_FAILURE_CAP only trips after 3 consecutive dispatch cycles with an identical failure reason. An item whose job fails for a mix of different reasons -- or orphans (daemon restart mid-job) and posts no failure marker at all -- resets that streak every time, so the cap can never trip. Item #164 hit 400+ dispatch cycles this way, only 2 of which ever landed on the identical-reason cap. Add a looser DISPATCH_FAILURE_CAP_ANY_REASON (6) that counts consecutive non-success dispatch cycles regardless of reason, including unrecorded (orphaned) ones. Wire it into handle_terminal_job_failure (clean-failure path) alongside the existing identical-reason check, and into restore_ready_for_work (the orphan-restart path in reconcile_orphaned_jobs, which previously never applied any cap at all) so a job that keeps orphaning across repeated daemon restarts also eventually lands on needs-manual-dispatch instead of being unconditionally resurrected. Split orphan_reconcile.rs's test module out to orphan_reconcile_tests.rs (included via include!, mirroring cli::work's work_duplicate_pr_tests.rs split) to stay under the LOC gate after the new coverage. Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: fix/dispatch-failure-ceiling-any-reason
Discovery tick dispatches purely on the ready-for-work label, so items #184/#185/#186/#187 (go/no-go candidates from #166's spec) whose own description says "Decision pending — not dispatched" got auto-dispatched and re-dispatched across multiple agents anyway -- the prose was never actually enforced. Add a needs-decision label that blocks run_discovery_tick even while ready-for-work is also present. Stripping ready-for-work alone wouldn't have been durable: redispatch unconditionally re-attaches it, so the new label has to keep gating on its own until a human clears it. Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: fix/dispatch-failure-ceiling-any-reason
find_duplicate_pr searches for any open PR carrying the item's "for item #N" marker, with no way to tell "a fresh dispatch about to redundantly open a second PR" apart from "a self-repair job reclaiming its own item's existing worktree/branch, whose entire job is to push a fix onto that exact PR." The latter hit the same short-circuit, bailed with "needs human review" without ever attempting a repair, and released the claim -- which only clears assignee_agent, never restores the state group, so the item was left orphaned in "started" with no label either run_discovery_tick or run_review_sweep would ever revisit (reproduced live on item #186/PR #597, whose CI stayed red with no further attempts). Exclude a still-open PR whose head branch matches the current worktree's branch from counting as a duplicate at all -- it's this job's own PR, not a competing one. A merged match still always short-circuits regardless of branch, since that's this check's other job: self-heal an item whose PR landed while its tracked state fell out of sync (items #122/#156). Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: fix/dispatch-failure-ceiling-any-reason
reconcile_orphaned_jobs already tries to release a dead job's claim via release_and_comment under a with_owner_override scope before calling restore_ready_for_work, but that release is best-effort (let _ = ...) and its failure is silent. When it silently doesn't take, restore_ready_for_work still puts ready-for-work back on the item -- so run_discovery_tick sees it as dispatchable, but the actual dispatch (and redispatch) both refuse with "blocked_by_live_claim" until the claim's TTL naturally expires (up to 4h). Reproduced live on items #185/#187: both sat stuck for the better part of an hour with no visible error, owner strings confirmed to be their own now- dead job's claim. restore_ready_for_work now releases the claim itself too, using the same owner string reconcile_orphaned_jobs already constructs -- defense in depth, not a replacement for the earlier release, so it only ever touches the dead job's own lease. Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: fix/dispatch-failure-ceiling-any-reason
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cc23f66) — the identical-failure cap only counted matching failure reasons, so alternatingorphaned by daemon restart/Workflow failed due to step dependency failurenever tripped it, letting items redispatch indefinitely.needs-decisionlabel instead of relying on prose in the item description (b8ee46f) — the daemon had no way to actually honor "Decision pending — not dispatched" text.accfcfc).restore_ready_for_worktoo (1f3af19).Motivated by two items (#184, #185 in the linked project) that were both explicitly marked "Decision pending — not dispatched" in their descriptions but got auto-dispatched and failed ~20 times over 24h anyway — burning cycles on a currently-deployed daemon that has neither of these gates.
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cargo build --bin agentflare— cleancargo test --bin agentflare— 1558 passed, 0 failed, 8 ignoredsupervisor::tests::needs_decision_label_blocks_dispatch_even_though_ready_for_work_is_present,dashboard::orphan_reconcile::tests::*(16 tests incl.handle_terminal_job_failure_restores_ready_for_work_below_identical_failure_cap)Summary by CodeRabbit
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needs-decisionnow wait for manual review and are not dispatched automatically, even when otherwise ready.