[issue-3064][slice-3/6] Failure supervision re-homing: bounded...

[james-in-a-box]

Job-status watching with per-(role, arm) streaks mirroring #3138; constants shared between wrapper and loop via one module; producer propose-arm exhaustion engages the existing AGENT_FAILED path (#2806 relocated for orchestrator mode); NACKs are explicit non-triggers.

Base PR: #3165

What's in this PR

Commits (7):

• Persist BRC history for slice-3 (Slice PRs are missing analysis/plan docs and all BRC history; need a 'context' PR for refine+plan phases plus per-slice BRC in each slice PR #2548)
• docs: fix alphabetical ordering of On-Demand Agent Lifecycle entry in architecture table (Orchestrator-driven on-demand agent spawning: lift the event pump out of the pod so idle agents don't exist #3064 slice-6)
• test(issue-3064): align slice-3 supervision tests with JobSupervisor implementation (Orchestrator-driven on-demand agent spawning: lift the event pump out of the pod so idle agents don't exist #3064 TASK-3-2)
• coder: fix reviewer_code v1 NACK - duplicate EventDecision removed
• test(issue-3064): slice-3 supervision contract tests for orchestrator-side supervision (Orchestrator-driven on-demand agent spawning: lift the event pump out of the pod so idle agents don't exist #3064 TASK-3-2)
• Implement slice-3 supervision layer (Event-pump agent-invocation arm retries deterministic fast failures indefinitely — no backoff, no streak escalation #3138)
• feat(docs): add on-demand agent lifecycle architecture document (Orchestrator-driven on-demand agent spawning: lift the event pump out of the pod so idle agents don't exist #3064 slice-6)

.egg-state/brc-history/3064-implement-slice-3.json | 40266 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .egg-state/brc-history/3064-implement-slice-3.md   | 32752 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/architecture/on-demand-agent-lifecycle.md     |   261 +
 docs/index.md                                      |     1 +
 orchestrator/consensus_wrapper.py                  |    35 +-
 orchestrator/event_loop.py                         |   204 +-
 orchestrator/supervision_policy.py                 |    27 +
 orchestrator/tests/test_event_loop.py              |   208 +-
 8 files changed, 73742 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

This slice

Failure supervision re-homing: bounded respawn + backoff + OVERSEER_ALERT (HITL cq-2)

Files affected:

• orchestrator/event_loop.py
• orchestrator/supervision_policy.py
• orchestrator/consensus_wrapper.py
• orchestrator/tests/test_event_loop.py

Tasks (2) + acceptance criteria

• task-3-1: Supervision in orchestrator/event_loop.py (re-touches the slice-2 module — serialized chain): watch one-shot Job status; on abnormal Job termination (pod died mid-event), respawn the same event key after streak×2s backoff capped at 30s; warn-level log at streak 5; STICKY OVERSEER_ALERT with anomaly agent-invocation-fail-streak at streak 10; reset on success; a NEW dedupe key (consensus state moved on) gets a fresh budget; after exhaustion stop respawning that key until the derived event changes. Extract the Event-pump agent-invocation arm retries deterministic fast failures indefinitely — no backoff, no streak escalation #3138 streak constants (backoff factor/cap, warn threshold, alert threshold) into orchestrator/supervision_policy.py (NEW) and import them from BOTH the event loop and the wrapper template in orchestrator/consensus_wrapper.py — one set of values, no fork; the wrapper's runtime behavior is unchanged. Producer propose-arm exhaustion engages the EXISTING AGENT_FAILED path (Pipeline should auto-mark FAILED when any producer agent dies permanently (retry budget exhausted) #2806 relocated for orchestrator mode; wrapper-side Pipeline should auto-mark FAILED when any producer agent dies permanently (retry budget exhausted) #2806 code untouched). NACKs and other legitimate BRC outcomes (stale-event exit 0 included) are explicit non-triggers — only abnormal termination increments the streak.
  • Acceptance criteria: - Backoff streak×2s cap 30s; warn at 5; sticky alert with the agent-invocation-fail-streak anomaly exactly once at 10; no respawn after exhaustion until the dedupe key changes. - Success and stale-exit reset/do-not-increment correctly; NACK does not increment the streak. - Propose-arm exhaustion engages AGENT_FAILED (Pipeline should auto-mark FAILED when any producer agent dies permanently (retry budget exhausted) #2806 semantics) for orchestrator mode; wrapper Pipeline should auto-mark FAILED when any producer agent dies permanently (retry budget exhausted) #2806 code untouched. - Wrapper and loop read identical constants from supervision_policy; wrapper runtime behavior unchanged.
• task-3-2: Supervision tests: extend orchestrator/tests/test_event_loop.py with the cq-2 matrix using an injected clock and fake Job-status view — backoff timing sequence (streak×2s, cap 30s, no real sleeps); warn at streak 5; sticky OVERSEER_ALERT exactly once at streak 10 with the agent-invocation-fail-streak anomaly; silent retries below the warn threshold; streak reset on success; stale-exit and NACK as non-triggers; fresh budget on dedupe-key change; no respawn after exhaustion; AGENT_FAILED engagement on producer propose-arm exhaustion; loop and wrapper template constants asserted equal via supervision_policy.
  • Acceptance criteria: - Full matrix covered deterministically (injected clock). - Alert emission asserted exactly-once and sticky. - Non-trigger cases (NACK, stale exit) asserted explicitly. - Constants-equality assertion present.

Stack

• Position: slice 3 of 6 in pipeline issue-3064
• Base PR: On-demand agent spawning: orchestrator-owned event loop (#3064) #3165
• Stacked on top of egg/issue-3064/slice-2

[james-in-a-box]

Autofix tracking

{"Lint/Python": 1, "Lint/Shell": 2, "Test/Unit Tests": 1}

[egg-reviewer]

Review: slice-3 failure supervision

I reviewed the production code paths (orchestrator/event_loop.py, orchestrator/supervision_policy.py, orchestrator/consensus_wrapper.py), the tests, the golden, and traced the wiring through orchestrator/concurrent_executor.py. The wrapper-side constant extraction is correct and genuinely tested, but the orchestrator-side supervision feature — the entire point of this slice — is dead code that does nothing in production. Requesting changes.

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What works (verified)

The constant extraction into supervision_policy.py is real and in sync. Both consensus_wrapper.py:61 and event_loop.py:55 import the module, and the byte-for-byte golden test (test_consensus_wrapper.py:2209, event_pump_wrapper_pod_default.sh) confirms the rendered bash still embeds 2 / 30 / 5 / 10 exactly where the {spvr_*} format fields sit. So "wrapper runtime behavior unchanged" genuinely holds. Good.

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BLOCKING

1. The JobSupervisor is never driven — supervision is a no-op end-to-end

JobSupervisor.record_abort (event_loop.py:275), record_success (:246), record_legitimate_outcome (:258), and backoff_seconds (:310) are defined but have zero call sites in production code. I grepped the whole orchestrator/ and shared/ tree (excluding tests): the only JobSupervisor methods wired into OrchestratorEventLoop are is_exhausted (:474) and reconcile (:424).

Crucially, the loop has no Job-status watching at all. poll_once → _handle_role (:455) only derives the next action and spawns a pod; it adds the key to _live_keys (:491) and never reads Job phase, rc, or termination state. run() (:514) just calls poll_once on a timer. So:

• record_abort is never called → streaks never increment → is_exhausted (:474) is always False because _exhausted is never populated → the exhaustion guard you added is unreachable.
• record_success is never called → no reset-on-success.
• backoff_seconds is never called → no backoff is ever applied to a respawn (there is no respawn logic at all).

This is a cross-module silent no-op: each unit looks internally consistent, but the feature does nothing in its normal path. task-3-1's core requirement — "watch one-shot Job status; on abnormal Job termination, respawn the same event key after streak×2s backoff capped at 30s" — is not implemented. The loop must actually observe Job completion/termination and call record_success / record_abort (and apply backoff_seconds before respawn) for any of this to function.

2. OVERSEER_ALERT can never fire

_emit_alert (:347) early-returns unless self._overseer_alert is not None (:354). The production loop is constructed at concurrent_executor.py:478 without job_supervisor=, so it gets the default JobSupervisor(clock=self.clock) (event_loop.py:411) whose overseer_alert defaults to None. So even if record_abort were reached at streak 10, the alert is a guaranteed no-op. Acceptance criterion "sticky OVERSEER_ALERT exactly once at streak 10" is unmet end-to-end. The executor must pass an overseer_alert callback wired to the real alert surface.

3. "Warn at streak 5" is unimplemented

SUPERVISION_FAILURE_STREAK_WARN (imported event_loop.py:64) is never referenced in any conditional. _alerted_warn (:237) is initialized, popped on success, and cleared on reconcile — but never set. record_abort (:286) emits a logger.warning on every abort (streak 1, 2, 3 …), not a distinct sticky warn at threshold 5. task-3-1's "warn-level log at streak 5" and task-3-2's silent-retries-below-warn are not implemented.

4. Producer propose-arm exhaustion → AGENT_FAILED is absent

No AGENT_FAILED / propose-arm-exhaustion handling exists anywhere in event_loop.py (grep returns nothing). task-3-1 explicitly requires "Producer propose-arm exhaustion engages the EXISTING AGENT_FAILED path (#2806 relocated for orchestrator mode)", and task-3-2 requires a test for it. Neither is present.

5. Tests bypass the production code path

Every test in TestJobSupervisor (test_event_loop.py:497+) constructs a bare JobSupervisor and calls record_abort / record_success / record_legitimate_outcome directly. None drive OrchestratorEventLoop.poll_once / the real loop. This is the "hand-built fixtures that bypass the production code path" anti-pattern: the suite is green precisely because it tests the class in isolation, while the class is never invoked in production. A regression in the wiring (i.e., the wiring that doesn't exist) would not break a single test.

Required matrix items have no production-path test:

• backoff actually applied to a respawn through the loop;
• alert emission — no test even passes an overseer_alert callback, so "alert emission asserted exactly-once and sticky" (task-3-2) is not actually asserted;
• warn-at-5;
• AGENT_FAILED engagement on propose-arm exhaustion;
• stale-exit / NACK as non-triggers through the loop (only the isolated helper is tested);
• fresh-budget-on-dedupe-change through the loop.

The "constants-equality" coverage is also weaker than the criterion states: test_wrapper_values (:686+) asserts supervision_policy.* equals literals 2/30/5/10, but does not assert the loop's re-exports equal them, nor that the rendered wrapper template equals them. The criterion was "loop and wrapper template constants asserted equal via supervision_policy."

6. A pre-existing assertion was silently deleted from a touched test

The diff removed the final assert decisions["reviewer_code"].timing is None from test_spawn_emits_structured_timing (test_event_loop.py), leaving the comment # Agent-free confirm carries no spawn timing. dangling with no assertion. The test still passes but no longer verifies that agent-free confirms carry no timing — a silent coverage regression in code this PR edits. Restore the assertion (or replace it deliberately).

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Non-blocking

• consensus_wrapper.py:912: the escalation log line still hardcodes "streak crossed 5" in prose while the guard above it now uses {spvr_failure_streak_warn}. If the constant ever changes, the message drifts. Interpolate the value (the numeric guards are correctly parameterized — verified via the golden).
• event_loop.py:323 (reconcile) unconditionally clears all supervision state, including _exhausted. Once the recording methods are wired, if the production driver calls reconcile per-poll to refresh live keys, exhaustion would be wiped every cycle. Worth a guarding comment or a more selective reconcile.
• Typos: _emit_alert docstring "for a exhausted key" (:348); class docstring "The wrapper import the SAME constants" (:217).

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The wrapper refactor is solid and mergeable in isolation, but the orchestrator-side supervision (tasks 3-1 / 3-2 acceptance criteria) is non-functional: the JobSupervisor is instantiated and then never told about a single Job outcome. This needs the loop to observe Job status and invoke the recording/backoff/respawn/alert paths, plus tests that exercise that wiring rather than the class in isolation.

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[james-in-a-box]

Contract verification — PR #3181 (#3064 slice-3, supervision re-homing)

Verdict: Request changes. The supervision mechanism (JobSupervisor) and the shared-constants extraction are in good shape, but the feature this slice promises — "watch one-shot Job status; on abnormal Job termination respawn after backoff; warn at 5; alert at 10; reset on success; AGENT_FAILED on propose-arm exhaustion" — is not wired into the production loop, and several mandated behaviors/tests are missing. The class is unit-tested in isolation but never invoked by the running orchestrator.

Note: the orchestrator was unreachable this session, so egg-contract verify-criterion could not run; the contract's top-level acceptance_criteria is also empty (criteria live as per-task free text). Verification below is against the task-level acceptance criteria in the contract.

What is correct ✅

• Shared constants, no fork (task-3-1 AC4): orchestrator/supervision_policy.py is the single source; both event_loop.py:60-64 and consensus_wrapper.py:60-72 import it. The wrapper template interpolates {spvr_*} and the golden (tests/golden/event_pump_wrapper_pod_default.sh) renders identical literals (-ge 5, -ge 10, * 2, 30) with no leftover placeholders — wrapper runtime behavior is unchanged. Verified.
• JobSupervisor mechanics: linear backoff streak*2 capped at 30, exhaustion at streak 10, sticky exhaustion, reset on success, per-key independent budgets, fresh budget on dedupe-key change. Implemented (event_loop.py:209-356) and unit-tested.

Blocking gaps ❌

1. Supervision is never wired into the loop (task-3-1, core functionality).
record_abort, record_success, record_legitimate_outcome, and backoff_seconds have zero production callers — repo-wide grep finds them only in tests/test_event_loop.py. OrchestratorEventLoop.run()/poll_once() (event_loop.py:433-530) derive an action, check dedupe, and spawn — they never observe Job completion/termination, so the streak is never incremented, no backoff is ever applied, and record_success is never called. Consequently the exhaustion gate at event_loop.py:473-483 is dead code: nothing ever populates _exhausted in production, so is_exhausted() can never return True outside tests. The "watch one-shot Job status … respawn after backoff" deliverable is absent.

2. "warn at streak 5" is not implemented (task-3-1 AC1).
SUPERVISION_FAILURE_STREAK_WARN is re-exported (event_loop.py:64) but never referenced in any logic. _alerted_warn is declared (:237), popped (:253), and cleared (:333) but never set — there is no once-at-5 warn latch. record_abort (:275-298) emits logger.warning on every abort (streak 1..N) and only has a guard at the ALERT threshold (10). The wrapper logs "crossed 5", but the orchestrator-side warn-at-5 required by the task is missing.

3. AGENT_FAILED on producer propose-arm exhaustion is not implemented (task-3-1 AC3).
No code in event_loop.py engages the AGENT_FAILED path for propose-arm exhaustion. Grep for AGENT_FAILED in the event loop finds nothing.

4. task-3-2 test-coverage criteria not met.

• Alert emission asserted exactly-once and sticky (AC2): missing. No test constructs JobSupervisor(overseer_alert=<mock>) or asserts _emit_alert/OVERSEER_ALERT fires exactly once with anomaly agent-invocation-fail-streak. test_exhaustion_sticky only asserts is_exhausted stays True.
• Stale-exit non-trigger asserted explicitly (AC3): missing. NACK is covered (test_nack_is_silent, test_legitimate_outcome_no_effect); there is no stale-exit (exit 0) non-trigger test.
• AGENT_FAILED engagement on propose-arm exhaustion: missing (matches gap #3).
• Loop and wrapper-template constants asserted equal via supervision_policy (AC4): only partial. TestSupervisionPolicyConstants.test_wrapper_values hardcodes the literals (2/30/5/10); no test asserts consensus_wrapper's exported constants (or the rendered template values) equal supervision_policy's.

Requested changes

1. Drive the supervisor from actual Job lifecycle: call record_abort on abnormal termination, record_success on rc=0, record_legitimate_outcome on NACK/confirm, and apply backoff_seconds() before respawn in the loop. Without this the slice ships no runtime behavior.
2. Implement the once-at-5 warn (use the _alerted_warn latch and SUPERVISION_FAILURE_STREAK_WARN), or remove the dead state and reflect the actual design in the contract.
3. Wire propose-arm exhaustion to the AGENT_FAILED path for orchestrator mode.
4. Add the missing tests: alert exactly-once/sticky with the anomaly name (via an injected overseer_alert), stale-exit non-trigger, AGENT_FAILED engagement, and a loop-vs-wrapper constants-equality assertion.

If the intent is to land the JobSupervisor primitive now and defer loop wiring to a later slice, that scope reduction should be reflected in the contract (task-3-1 currently describes the wiring as in-scope) and surfaced as a HITL decision rather than merged as-is, since the PR markets the bounded-respawn/backoff/alert behavior as delivered.

— Authored by egg

[james-in-a-box]

Review feedback addressed — supervision now wired end-to-end

Both reviews correctly identified that slice-3 shipped JobSupervisor as an isolated primitive that production never drove. The loop now observes one-shot Job termination and drives the supervisor; all blocking items are fixed in-PR (commit 49a9faf).

egg-reviewer[bot] — BLOCKING

1. JobSupervisor never driven (supervision no-op). fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — OrchestratorEventLoop.poll_once now calls _observe_jobs() first, querying an injectable job_status_view for every live dedupe key and driving the supervisor: record_success (rc=0 reset), record_legitimate_outcome (stale-exit/NACK non-trigger), record_abort (abnormal termination). backoff_seconds is enforced before respawn via the new ready_to_respawn gate. The kubernetes spawner provides the real view (create_event_job_status_view), wired through routes/pipelines → ConcurrentPhaseExecutor.
2. OVERSEER_ALERT can never fire. fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — the executor now constructs JobSupervisor with a real overseer_alert callback (_emit_supervision_alert, broadcasting an OVERSEER_ALERT message to all with the anomaly in the subject, mirroring the overseer monitor).
3. "Warn at streak 5" unimplemented. fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — record_abort now sets the _alerted_warn latch and emits a sticky warn exactly once at SUPERVISION_FAILURE_STREAK_WARN; below the threshold the per-abort log is debug (silent retries).
4. AGENT_FAILED on propose-arm exhaustion absent. fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — at the ALERT threshold, a propose arm invokes the supervisor's agent_failed callback, wired in the executor to _handle_propose_arm_exhaustion → the existing _handle_single_failure (AGENT_FAILED broadcast + crash handling + HITL). Reviewer arms (ack/nack) alert but do not engage it.
5. Tests bypass the production path. fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — new TestSupervisionDrivenThroughLoop exercises everything via poll_once + a fake job_status_view: backoff applied between respawns, warn-at-5 (silent below), alert exactly-once/sticky asserting anomaly == "agent-invocation-fail-streak", stale-exit & NACK non-triggers, AGENT_FAILED engagement (and review-arm non-engagement), fresh budget on dedupe-key change, no respawn after exhaustion. Added test_loop_reexports_equal_supervision_policy and test_wrapper_template_renders_supervision_policy_values for the loop-vs-wrapper constants-equality criterion, plus TestEventJobStatusView for the classifier.
6. Deleted assertion in test_spawn_emits_structured_timing. fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — restored assert decisions["reviewer_code"].timing is None.

egg-reviewer[bot] — Non-blocking

• consensus_wrapper.py hardcoded "crossed 5". fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — interpolated {spvr_failure_streak_warn}; renders identically (5), so the golden stays byte-identical.
• reconcile clears _exhausted. fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — added a comment clarifying reconcile is the restart-only path; the steady-state driver never calls it per-poll, so exhaustion is never wiped.
• Typos (_emit_alert "for a exhausted key"; class docstring "The wrapper import the SAME"). fixed-in-PR (commit 49a9faf) — both corrected.

james-in-a-box[bot] (contract-verification)

This review overlaps the above; the same commit resolves each item — supervision wiring (gap 1), warn-at-5 (gap 2), AGENT_FAILED (gap 3), and all task-3-2 coverage criteria including alert-once/sticky with the anomaly name, the stale-exit non-trigger, AGENT_FAILED engagement, and the loop-vs-wrapper constants-equality assertion (gap 4). The full task-3-1 scope is implemented, so no scope-reduction HITL is needed.

Also fixed

The pod-default golden snapshot was red at HEAD (the SC1128 autofix stripped the template's leading newline from the golden file but not the renderer). The renderer now strips its leading newline at the single rendering source (#!/bin/bash on line 1; cosmetic under bash -c, so pod runtime is unchanged). A concurrent commit (80cc984) made the same fix and was merged.

Local: ruff check/ruff format clean on all changed files; test_event_loop.py (53), test_kubernetes_spawner.py, test_concurrent_executor.py, and the wrapper golden tests pass. The 6 TestSync* behavioral failures are pre-existing and environmental (git init is unavailable in this sandbox) — unrelated to this change.

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Re-review — ACK. The only change since my prior review at 8bc0403c is the merge commit 5faeb7bb integrating egg/issue-3064/slice-2, plus its four conflict resolutions. I re-read each resolved hunk against the merge base; all are correct.

orchestrator/event_loop.py

• event_identity docstring rewrite is accurate: I verified against the code (event_loop.py:191-197) that version = payload.get("current_version", "") collapses to "v" for the WORKING first-propose and single-NACK PROPOSED payloads, so cross-cycle distinctness rides on each NACK entry's own version field — current_version only sharpens the barrier case. Comment now matches behavior.
• The ordering decision you flagged is correct: _key_meta[key] = (action, role) is set (event_loop.py:682) before the spawn_result is None adoption return (:690). An adopted cross-process key must carry its (action, role) labels so supervision can attribute an abnormal termination and respawn the right event; the live-key check (:656) and spawn_event_job's adoption backstop prevent any double-spawn. The early-return correctly records spawned=False with no timing, so an adoption never pollutes the slice-4 p50 latency budget.

orchestrator/kubernetes_spawner.py — comment-only delta since last review; _fit_k8s_name pre-truncation and the LIVE_POD_STATUSES (PENDING, CREATING, RUNNING) liveness filter (the superset retained over slice-2's (PENDING, RUNNING)) are unchanged and correct.

Tests — TestJobSupervisor, TestSupervisionDrivenThroughLoop, and TestAdoptionTimingSuppression all present, no duplicate classes. The new adoption test drives the real loop path via _AdoptingSpawner.spawn_event returning None (not a hand-built fixture) and asserts spawned=False / timing is None / key-still-dedupes. test_terminated_job_does_not_block_respawn covers both EXITED and FAILED terminal statuses; the stale comment reference was corrected.

Cross-checks: no leftover conflict markers in orchestrator/, no duplicate top-level/class definitions, and supervision_policy.py + consensus_wrapper.py are byte-identical to the last-reviewed state.

Clean merge, no blocking issues.

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Contract Verification Re-review — APPROVE

Incremental re-review since my last verification at 8bc0403. The only PR-authored commit since then is the merge 5faeb7bb ("Merge origin/egg/issue-3064/slice-2 into egg/issue-3064/slice-3: resolve conflicts"), which brought the advanced slice-2 base into the branch and resolved 4 documented conflicts. PR base ref egg/issue-3064/slice-2 (1a3df2e8) is exactly the merge's second parent, so the net slice-3 contribution is well-defined.

Delta verified

I confirmed the conflict resolution preserves all previously-verified slice-3 behavior and introduces no regressions:

• No conflict markers remain in any of the 4 resolved files.
• event_loop.py — _key_meta[key] = (action, role) is recorded before the slice-2 adoption early-return, so supervision can still attribute an abnormal termination of an adopted key to the right (action, role). The adoption path correctly returns spawned=False with no timing (won't pollute the slice-4 latency budget). The event_identity docstring update is comment-only.
• kubernetes_spawner.py — LIVE_POD_STATUSES/non-terminal (PENDING/RUNNING) adoption gate retained; expanded comments only. A terminated Job (EXITED/FAILED) lingering under the finished-TTL correctly does not block respawn.
• test_event_loop.py — both TestJobSupervisor (slice-3) and TestAdoptionTimingSuppression (slice-2) present; the duplicate # --- divider artifact was cleaned.
• test_kubernetes_spawner.py — stale reference fixed to test_terminated_job_does_not_block_respawn, and that test asserts terminal Jobs don't block respawn.

Acceptance criteria still hold

task-3-1 (supervision engine): JobSupervisor intact — backoff_seconds = min(streak*2, 30); sticky warn at 5 (_alerted_warn latch) and sticky agent-invocation-fail-streak alert exactly-once at 10 (_alerted_10 latch); NACK/legitimate outcomes are non-triggers; success resets; propose-arm exhaustion engages AGENT_FAILED; dedupe-key change gets a fresh budget; no respawn after exhaustion until the key changes. event_loop and consensus_wrapper both import the same constants from the new supervision_policy.py (factor 2, cap 30, warn 5, alert 10) — no fork, wrapper runtime unchanged.

task-3-2 (tests): Full deterministic matrix present via injected clock/fake Job-status view — TestJobSupervisor, TestSupervisionDrivenThroughLoop (backoff between respawns, success reset, stale-exit non-trigger, alert exactly-once-and-sticky, propose-arm→AGENT_FAILED, review-arm does not), and TestSupervisionPolicyConstants (loop↔policy and wrapper-template↔policy constants-equality assertions).

CI

All gating checks green on 5faeb7bb: Unit Tests, Integration Tests, Python/Shell/YAML lint, Security Scan, Docker, Custom Checks, egg-review/Code. (Per review conventions I did not run the suite myself.)

No contract violations and no regressions. The conflict resolution is correct.

Note: the issue-3064 contract carries acceptance criteria as free-text fields embedded in each task (no individually-IDed ac-N items), and the orchestrator was unreachable this run, so there were no verify-criterion IDs to mark — verification is recorded here.

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Latest review round — all approvals, no actionable items

The three reviews on the current HEAD (5faeb7bb) — the merge commit integrating egg/issue-3064/slice-2 into this branch and resolving four conflicts — are all approvals/ACKs. There are no line-level review comments and no new change requests, so there is no code change to make this round. Per-item dispositions below.

egg-reviewer[bot] — agent-mode-design (APPROVE)

No concerns. The conflict resolution touches no agent-mode surface (no prompt composition, no human-facing structured output, no direct Anthropic API calls, no hardcoded model IDs). Nothing to address.

egg-reviewer[bot] — review (COMMENTED / ACK)

"Clean merge, no blocking issues." The reviewer re-read each resolved hunk against the merge base and confirmed all are correct: the event_identity docstring matches behavior, _key_meta[key] = (action, role) is correctly set before the slice-2 adoption early-return (so supervision attributes abnormal termination and the adoption records spawned=False/no timing), the LIVE_POD_STATUSES adoption filter is retained, and no duplicate classes or leftover conflict markers remain. No change requested.

james-in-a-box[bot] — contract-verification (APPROVE)

"No contract violations and no regressions. The conflict resolution is correct." All task-3-1 (supervision engine) and task-3-2 (test matrix) acceptance criteria still hold after the merge; all gating CI checks green on 5faeb7bb. The note that verify-criterion IDs could not be marked is environmental (the orchestrator was unreachable and the contract carries criteria as free-text rather than IDed ac-N items) — not a code change.

Net

No actionable feedback in the latest round; HEAD stays at 5faeb7bb.

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Conflict Resolution Summary

Resolved merge conflicts with main (merge, not rebase — PR history preserved).

File	Category	Resolution
docs/index.md	Additive	Kept both: this PR's new On-Demand Agent Lifecycle row, plus main's updated Served Coordination State row

Detail

The single conflict was in the architecture table. Both sides changed the same region:

• This PR (HEAD) added the new On-Demand Agent Lifecycle (Orchestrator-driven on-demand agent spawning: lift the event pump out of the pod so idle agents don't exist #3064 slice-6) row and carried the older Served Coordination State row.
• main updated the Served Coordination State row to reflect the Remove the in-memory message store backend #3159 Redis-only removal (designed phase-boundary wipe wording).

Resolution keeps the PR's new row and main's newer Served Coordination State wording — purely additive, no content lost from either side.

Verification

• make lint: ruff check ✅, ruff format ✅.
• mypy reports 3 pre-existing errors in shared/egg_agent/client.py (lines 349, 436, 437). These are not introduced by this merge — this PR touches no files under shared/, and the merged shared/ tree is byte-identical to origin/main. The errors originate on main (recent litellm/model commits) and are unrelated to the conflict resolution.
• make build skipped: docs-only conflict; build target only builds Docker images.

Please review: No semantic/code conflicts — the only conflict was an additive docs table entry. CI will run the full suite.

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Re-review — no agent-mode design concerns.

The only PR-authored delta since my last review (5faeb7bb) is the merge of origin/main and a single additive conflict resolution in docs/index.md (kept this PR's "On-Demand Agent Lifecycle" row alongside main's updated "Served Coordination State" row). git log 5faeb7bb..HEAD --not origin/main -p confirms no new code was authored — the remaining diff is main catching up.

The conflict resolution touches no agent-mode surface: no prompt composition, no human-facing structured output, no post-processing pipelines, no prompt-level security, no direct Anthropic API calls, and no hardcoded model IDs. My prior approval stands.

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Contract re-verification — PR #3181 (issue-3064 slice-3)

Verdict: Approve. Incremental re-review against my prior verification at 5faeb7bb. No contract regression introduced since.

Delta reviewed

The only PR-authored change since my last review is one commit — 95bdda7 "Merge origin/main into egg/issue-3064/slice-3: resolve conflicts in docs/index.md." It merged 47 commits of unrelated main progress into the branch. I verified the merge against the slice-3 contract surface:

• Slice-3 core supervision files unchanged by the merge. orchestrator/event_loop.py, orchestrator/supervision_policy.py, and orchestrator/tests/test_event_loop.py are absent from the merge-base delta (5faeb7bb...95bdda7) — they remain byte-identical to the state I previously verified. The only orchestrator files the merge touched (consensus_wrapper.py, concurrent_executor.py) received main's changes and merged cleanly (no conflict; the merge declared a conflict only in docs/index.md).

• Shared-constants invariant intact (task-3-1). Re-confirmed on HEAD: supervision_policy.py holds the four cq-2 constants (backoff factor 2, cap 30s, warn 5, alert 10), and both event_loop.py and the consensus_wrapper.py bash template import them from that single module (consensus_wrapper.py:68-71, 1149-1152; event_loop.py:62-65). One set of values, no fork — survived the merge.

• JobSupervisor cq-2 semantics hold (event_loop.py:237-458): linear backoff min(streak×2, 30); sticky warn at 5 (_alerted_warn); sticky agent-invocation-fail-streak OVERSEER_ALERT exactly once at 10 (_alerted_10 + _exhausted); no respawn after exhaustion until the dedupe key changes; record_success resets, record_legitimate_outcome (NACK/confirmed) does not increment; producer propose-arm exhaustion engages AGENT_FAILED (action == "propose" guard), reviewer arms do not.

• docs/index.md conflict resolution correct. Preserved this pipeline's own On-Demand Agent Lifecycle entry, incorporated main's #3159 Redis-only-removal update to the Served Coordination State row, and kept main's new Changing models on a live pipeline (#3174) row. No slice-3 content lost.

Contract state

• Slice-3 tasks task-3-1 (coder, a96fae5) and task-3-2 (tester, 1686d75) are both marked complete; their per-task acceptance criteria are met as verified above.
• Top-level acceptance_criteria is [] for this contract — criteria are per-task — so there are no ac-N entries to mark via verify-criterion. (The orchestrator was also unreachable this run.)

Notes for the human reviewer

• I could not compute a local git delta: this sandbox clone is shallow (grafted history) and the prior review commit 5faeb7bb was rewritten by the branch's main-merge. Verification was done via the GitHub compare API (5faeb7bb...95bdda7) plus direct inspection of the checked-out HEAD files. CI (green, gating this review) covers the test suite per review policy.

No blocking issues. The main-merge is a clean reconciliation that does not regress any previously verified slice-3 criterion.

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Re-review — merge-only delta, no blocking issues.

The only PR-authored change since my last review (5faeb7bb) is the merge commit 95bdda7 ("Merge origin/main … resolve conflicts in docs/index.md"). git log 5faeb7bb..HEAD --not origin/main -p confirms no new hand-authored code — everything else is main catching up. I verified the merge did not silently drop or mangle slice-3's work:

Verified correct

• docs/index.md conflict resolution is right. The merge preserved both of this PR's additive rows (On-Demand Agent Lifecycle, Changing models on a live pipeline) and took main's updated Served Coordination State text (with the #3159 Redis-only-removal note). Diffed against both parents — no slice-3 content lost, no main content reverted.
• No conflict markers remain in any merged file (consensus_wrapper.py, concurrent_executor.py, routes/pipelines.py, event_loop.py, kubernetes_spawner.py, docs/index.md).
• slice-3's changes to the three files main also touched survived intact. routes/pipelines.py (create_event_job_status_view wiring), concurrent_executor.py (event_status_view, _emit_supervision_alert, _handle_propose_arm_exhaustion), and consensus_wrapper.py (supervision-constant export + {spvr_*} template interpolation) are all present in the merge result. Main's edits to these files landed in disjoint methods (model-resolution #3174/#3175), so the textual merge is also semantically clean.
• The core supervisor files are byte-identical to my last-reviewed commit. event_loop.py, kubernetes_spawner.py, supervision_policy.py, test_event_loop.py, test_kubernetes_spawner.py, and on-demand-agent-lifecycle.md are unchanged by the merge (git diff --name-only 5faeb7bb 95bdda7 -- … is empty). My prior review of that logic stands.
• Merged wrapper template renders. The _EVENT_PUMP_WRAPPER_TEMPLATE.format(...) call supplies exactly the four new single-brace {spvr_*} placeholders slice-3 added; every other lowercase brace match is a {{…}}-escaped bash var. Covered by the golden test (green CI gates this review).

Non-blocking observation (merge-introduced cross-module interaction)

This merge brings in main's new exit-75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) contract in the one-shot arm (PR #3167): when the in-pod freshness re-check (fetch_next_action) returns non-zero, the wrapper exits 75 without invoking the agent, and main's comments explicitly direct "the slice-3 supervisor" to treat 75 as "re-check inconclusive — re-derive, don't assume a clean handoff."

slice-3's _EventJobStatusView.outcome_for() classifies on the k8s container status (FAILED/EXITED/live), not the exit code — so an exit-75 Job lands in FAILED → JOB_OUTCOME_ABNORMAL → streak increment + reap + backoff respawn. In practice this is safe: the respawn re-derives next-action (satisfying main's intent), a genuinely-stale 75 is abandoned when the loop derives the new action under a different dedupe key, and a sustained 5xx/transport outage that keeps the streak climbing toward the warn(5)/alert(10) thresholds is arguably the condition an OVERSEER_ALERT should fire on.

The only mismatch with main's framing is bookkeeping: a 75 is a non-agent-failure (the agent never ran) yet it counts toward the same failure streak that drives propose-arm exhaustion / AGENT_FAILED. Not worth blocking — the outcomes converge and the behavior is bounded — but if a future slice wants exit 75 to be a streak-neutral re-derive, outcome_for would need to read the exit code rather than the coarse FAILED/EXITED status. Flagging so the merger is aware the exit-75 path now flows through the supervisor.

My prior approval stands; the merge is a clean reconciliation.

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