#13531: retire and background-reap cold warm-slot task state

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Summary

Closes the cold-fallback disk leak tracked in #13531 without putting recursive deletion on the foreground task-completion path.

• each isolated cold task gets an opaque generation ID persisted in the durable launch journal;
• after native process-group settlement, foreground completion only atomically renames that reconstructible generation into a retired namespace;
• exact crash recovery can retire the generation from durable ownership evidence;
• the background warmer reclaims at most one retired generation per pass outside slot/checkout locks;
• reclamation watches the existing foreground-preemption FIFO and stops when real work arrives;
• an explicit bounded cleanup --max-generations N action exposes the same reaper for maintenance;
• invalid/untrusted cleanup identities cannot select filesystem paths.

Stacked on #13530 because both touch the warm-slot helper. Retarget to main after #13530 lands.

Related: #13531, #13091, teamleaderleo/glaeda#1095.

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Summary by cubic

Closes the cold-fallback disk leak from #13531 by moving recursive cache deletion off the foreground task-completion path. Cold tasks get an opaque generation ID recorded in the durable launch journal; after native process-group settlement, the foreground path only atomically renames the generation into a retired namespace, and the background warmer reclaims at most one retired generation per pass.

• The reaper runs under its own lock, bounded to cleanup --max-generations N (1–32), and continues reclaiming later generations when one tree fails.
• Reclamation runs before warming outside slot/checkout locks and aborts when the preemption FIFO signals foreground demand.
• Crash recovery retires only the generation recorded in durable ownership evidence, and recovery events report the lease kind and retirement outcome separately.
• Cleanup identities are validated as 32 lowercase hex characters so untrusted inputs cannot select filesystem paths; unknown retired entries are left alone.
• The dev-fleet warm-slot lifecycle regression tests now run in the CI preflight group.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved management of temporary build data by safely retiring completed cold-task data and reclaiming it during background maintenance.
  • Added bounded cleanup controls for explicitly reclaiming retired cold-task data.
  • Added recovery handling to retire the exact cold-task data associated with interrupted or stale work.

• Documentation

  • Documented cold-task cleanup, reclamation limits, preemption behavior, and crash recovery safeguards.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for retirement, recovery, cleanup limits, safety validation, and foreground-priority behavior.

Testing

• Added regression coverage for cold-generation retirement, bounded cleanup, unknown-entry preservation, failure isolation, and foreground preemption.
• Latest-head CI is running on the cleanup follow-up commits.
• The cleanup waiter now blocks on process completion and the foreground preemption channel; the normal path has no fixed polling interval.

Demo Video

N/A — this changes background dev-fleet cache lifecycle behavior with no UI surface.

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Checklist

• I tested the latest follow-up locally
• I added or updated tests for behavior changes
• iOS deterministic soak coverage is unaffected; this PR changes dev-fleet warm-slot cleanup only
• I updated docs for the lifecycle and cleanup command
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds opaque cold-task generations, atomic retirement, bounded cleanup, preemption handling, durable recovery tracking, a cleanup CLI command, documentation, and lifecycle tests wired into CI.

Changes

Cold Cache Lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generation retirement and bounded cleanup scripts/dev-fleet-warm-slot.py, tests/test_dev_fleet_warm_slot.py, .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml, docs/dev-fleet-warm-slots.md	Cold-task directories use validated generation IDs. Settled generations move to retired-cold-tasks. Cleanup supports bounded budgets, locking, detached removal, and foreground preemption. The warmer and cleanup command invoke this lifecycle. Tests and documentation cover the behavior, including CI execution.
Durable generation tracking and recovery scripts/dev-fleet-warm-slot.py, tests/test_dev_fleet_warm_slot.py	Cold generation IDs are recorded in native inflight data, leases, and receipts. Recovery uses durable generation data to retire exact cold-task directories and reports retirement status. Recovery tests validate this path.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant task_run
  participant run_native
  participant recover
  participant cleanup_retired_cold_tasks
  task_run->>run_native: record cold_task_generation_id
  run_native->>task_run: return task result and retirement status
  recover->>recover: read inflight or lease generation
  recover->>task_run: retire exact cold generation
  cleanup_retired_cold_tasks->>cleanup_retired_cold_tasks: reclaim retired generations

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f21f4

A single undeletable retired generation can prevent later cold-task state from being reclaimed, preserving the disk-growth problem this change is intended to address. Isolate failures per generation before merging.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	❌ Error	The PR adds fixed polling waits to production Python runtime code in cleanup_retired_cold_tasks. The loop calls select.select(..., 0.05) or proc.wait(timeout=0.05) while waiting for /bin/rm, a…	Replace the fixed-interval polling with cancellation-aware process supervision. Wait for the cleanup process completion through a real process-completion event, while independently handling the existing preemption FIFO. Use an explicit, tes…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The new warmer cleanup path sorts every entry in retired-cold-tasks at scripts/dev-fleet-warm-slot.py:393-396, then scans the full sorted collection at lines 409-414, although it reclaims at most …	Replace the full sorted(...) plus candidate-list scan with a bounded one-pass iterator that selects up to max_generations valid generation directories without sorting. If deterministic ordering is required, maintain an explicit queue/in…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 7.41% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (22 passed)

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only warm-slot lifecycle code, its documentation, tests, and a CI step that runs those tests. The patch does not modify Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport, Ghos…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-range diff changes only YAML, Markdown, and Python files. It contains no changed Swift source, so it cannot introduce or worsen Swift 6 actor-isolation issues. The added Python tests …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python tests. It contains no Swift or Swift project files, so the custom check for blocking or timing-based synchroni…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI YAML, documentation, Python warm-slot code, and Python tests. It does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift or ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, and no ad…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml, docs/dev-fleet-warm-slots.md, scripts/dev-fleet-warm-slot.py, and tests/test_dev_fleet_warm_slot.py. It …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python tests. It introduces no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript change, so the cache-substitution correctness condit…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, and Python files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift concurrency patterns. The Swift concurrency modernization check is therefo…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift concurrency declarations. The only Swift-related text is the test …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only CI YAML, Markdown documentation, Python production code, and Python tests. It introduces no Swift files or production Swift changes, so the Swift package-b…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The review range changes only .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml, documentation, Python code, and Python tests. The workflow change only runs the warm-slot lifecycle tests. It does not change a `Packag…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, and Python files. It adds no Swift, Objective-C, or runtime Swift logging statements. The added Python subprocess output and test fixture print are outsid…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	No cmux end-user path is established. The diff changes the machine-local scripts/dev-fleet-warm-slot.py dev-fleet worker and its benchmark/tests, CI, and developer documentation. Repository searches…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The diff changes only CI guards, developer-fleet operational documentation, a machine-local Python warm-slot helper, and tests. It adds no Swift UI text, string-catalog or Info.plist entries, web UI/A…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only YAML, Markdown, and Python files. It contains no Swift or SwiftUI changes, so the SwiftUI state-layout failure conditions do not apply.
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only YAML, Markdown, and Python files. It contains no Swift files or SwiftUI/AppKit lifecycle code. Therefore the Swift architectural rethink failure conditions…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request diff changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python tests. It contains no Swift or window implementation changes, so the auxiliary-window close-shortcut rule is not applicable.
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative diff changes only four tracked text files: one workflow config, one documentation file, one hand-written Python script, and one test module. No artifact path, binary payload, l…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python test files. It contains no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so the no-test/debug-seam condition …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: retiring and background-reclaiming cold warm-slot task state.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required Summary, Testing, Demo Video, Review Trigger, and Checklist sections. It explains the behavior, testing coverage, documentation updates, and remaining review-stat…

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 7.41% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux No Hacky Sleeps

Explanation

The PR adds fixed polling waits to production Python runtime code in cleanup_retired_cold_tasks. The loop calls select.select(..., 0.05) or proc.wait(timeout=0.05) while waiting for /bin/rm, and uses proc.wait(timeout=1.0) during forced teardown. These elapsed-time waits coordinate filesystem cleanup and process/preemption lifecycle. They hide the gap between cleanup-process completion and foreground-demand handling instead of using a completion event with the preemption owner’s signal. The added test sleeps are test-only and the workflow YAML is out of scope.

Resolution

Replace the fixed-interval polling with cancellation-aware process supervision. Wait for the cleanup process completion through a real process-completion event, while independently handling the existing preemption FIFO. Use an explicit, tested cancellation deadline abstraction only for SIGTERM-to-SIGKILL escalation, rather than direct fixed polling timeouts in the cleanup loop.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The new warmer cleanup path sorts every entry in retired-cold-tasks at scripts/dev-fleet-warm-slot.py:393-396, then scans the full sorted collection at lines 409-414, although it reclaims at most one generation. Retired generations can accumulate per cold task, and the PR provides no collection-size bound or cleanup benchmark. This makes each warmer pass O(n log n) before deleting one item, which violates the rule for scalable runtime collections.

Resolution

Replace the full sorted(...) plus candidate-list scan with a bounded one-pass iterator that selects up to max_generations valid generation directories without sorting. If deterministic ordering is required, maintain an explicit queue/index or document and benchmark a hard bound on the retired namespace.

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