fix(attach): isolate registration stalls and back off on database overload - #1706
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe broker now performs HTTP API spawn registration outside the runtime actor with a 20-second timeout and an eight-request admission limit. CLI attach retries database overload responses using server-provided delays and reports broker lookup failures with cleanup. Attach resilience
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Disconnected spawn requests can leave remote registrations allocated until manual cleanup, so this lifecycle gap should be fixed before merge. The changelog heading also needs to follow the repository release convention. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
participant BrokerRuntime
participant FleetControl
CLI->>BrokerRuntime: Request local attach and spawn
BrokerRuntime->>FleetControl: Prepare cloud registration asynchronously
FleetControl-->>BrokerRuntime: Registration result
BrokerRuntime-->>CLI: Spawn or timeout response
CLI->>FleetControl: Retry terminal session request after overload
FleetControl-->>CLI: Retry-After response or success
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| let registration = timeout(API_SPAWN_REGISTRATION_TIMEOUT, | ||
| prepare_api_spawn_registration(&req, &http, &control, &node)).await | ||
| .unwrap_or_else(|_| Err("spawn_registration_timeout: cloud registration exceeded 20s; no local worker was started; remote registration may have completed".to_string())); |
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If agent.register succeeds but a later step such as identity lookup or channel reconciliation stalls past 20 seconds, this outer timeout drops the future after the remote side effect has occurred. Unlike a node-control reply that arrives after its receiver is dropped, this case triggers no compensating agent.deregister; the caller receives a failure and the name is freed while Relaycast retains a node-bound agent with no local worker, which can consume capacity, receive deliveries, and conflict with a retry. Preserve enough completed-registration state to roll it back before returning the timeout error.
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| if reply.is_closed() { | ||
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When the HTTP caller disconnects after preparation succeeds, PreparedApiSpawn can already contain a successful fleet or HTTP registration, but this early return merely drops it. No local worker or inventory entry is created and no deregistration is sent, leaving a remotely active agent bound to this node; the same leak occurs if the subsequent live-worker recheck rejects the spawn. Undo the prepared registration before abandoning the launch.
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| // Do not acknowledge release of a name that could still launch later. | ||
| if let ListenApiRequest::Release { name, .. } = &req { | ||
| if self.pending_api_spawn_names.contains(name) { |
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While an API registration is pending, the runtime intentionally continues processing fleet events, but this reservation check only covers ListenApiRequest::Release. A cloud action.invoke release goes directly through handle_fleet_action_release in runtime/fleet.rs without consulting pending_api_spawn_names; during the registration window it reports the absent worker as not found, after which the pending request can still finish and launch the supposedly released agent. Cancel or reject pending spawns from the fleet release path as well.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 8: Update the top-level changelog heading from “Unreleased - Patch” to
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs`:
- Around line 599-601: Update the reply.is_closed() branch in finish_api_spawn
to consume any successful registration, bind its authoritative agent identity to
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Use the standard [Unreleased] heading.
The repository guideline requires the root CHANGELOG.md to retain ## [Unreleased]. ## [Unreleased - Patch] does not follow the required Keep a Changelog heading format. Keep the patch classification in release planning, not in the heading.
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| if reply.is_closed() { | ||
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Release the prepared registration when the spawn reply closes.
When prepare_api_spawn_registration returns a remote registration, it may already have bound the agent and reconciled its channels. finish_api_spawn returns before binding token.agent_id to the runtime fleet_delivery_book, so it skips both relaycast_http.release_agent_identity and fleet deregistration. Consume the successful registration on this path, bind its authoritative identity before calling deregister_fleet_agent, and release the Relaycast identity. Do not apply this to the timeout Err; that path has no returned identity and needs server-side reconciliation.
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs` around lines 599 - 601, Update the
reply.is_closed() branch in finish_api_spawn to consume any successful
registration, bind its authoritative agent identity to fleet_delivery_book, then
deregister the fleet agent and release the Relaycast identity. Keep the timeout
Err path unchanged because it does not return a registration identity.
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<file name="crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs">
<violation number="1" location="crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs:585">
P1: A fleet `action.invoke` release can bypass this `ListenApiRequest::Release` guard while the name remains pending, so the spawn can still launch after the release reports the worker as absent. Apply the reservation or cancellation check in `handle_fleet_action_release` as well.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs:599">
P1: When remote registration commits but the caller disconnects or the 20-second preparation timeout fires, `finish_api_spawn` drops the registration and starts no local worker without releasing the Relaycast/Fleet identity. The name and seat can remain occupied, causing later retries to hit duplicate registration; clean up the committed identity before clearing this pending spawn.</violation>
</file>
<file name=".agentworkforce/trajectories/completed/2026-09/traj_pg9aglu4aqlw/trajectory.json">
<violation number="1" location=".agentworkforce/trajectories/completed/2026-09/traj_pg9aglu4aqlw/trajectory.json:50">
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</file>
<file name="CHANGELOG.md">
<violation number="1" location="CHANGELOG.md:12">
P3: This bullet ends with implementation backstory ('registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline'), which the changelog convention says to drop. Keep only the user-visible impact and name the concrete command surface (e.g. `agent-relay local agent attach`) instead.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="CHANGELOG.md:13">
P3: This bullet combines two separate behaviors: retrying database-overload rejections, and explaining attach lookup failures. Split them into one bullet each, and for the retry one name the concrete attempt bound instead of generic 'retries ... with backoff' wording, per the repo changelog convention.</violation>
</file>
<file name="crates/broker/src/listen_api.rs">
<violation number="1" location="crates/broker/src/listen_api.rs:620">
P2: While the broker is still waiting for Relaycast readiness, `/health` bypasses this branch and continues returning `status: ok` with fabricated zero-agent/offline fields. Apply the unavailable-runtime response to the startup health path as well, or centralize the health payload construction so every `/health` path reports runtime unavailability consistently.</violation>
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| pub(super) async fn finish_api_spawn(&mut self, prepared: PreparedApiSpawn) { | ||
| if let ListenApiRequest::Spawn { name, reply, .. } = &prepared.request { | ||
| self.pending_api_spawn_names.remove(name); | ||
| if reply.is_closed() { |
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P1: When remote registration commits but the caller disconnects or the 20-second preparation timeout fires, finish_api_spawn drops the registration and starts no local worker without releasing the Relaycast/Fleet identity. The name and seat can remain occupied, causing later retries to hit duplicate registration; clean up the committed identity before clearing this pending spawn.
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<comment>When remote registration commits but the caller disconnects or the 20-second preparation timeout fires, `finish_api_spawn` drops the registration and starts no local worker without releasing the Relaycast/Fleet identity. The name and seat can remain occupied, causing later retries to hit duplicate registration; clean up the committed identity before clearing this pending spawn.</comment>
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@@ -268,8 +268,353 @@ fn observer_token_filters_are_empty(filters: &ObserverTokenFilters) -> bool {
+ pub(super) async fn finish_api_spawn(&mut self, prepared: PreparedApiSpawn) {
+ if let ListenApiRequest::Spawn { name, reply, .. } = &prepared.request {
+ self.pending_api_spawn_names.remove(name);
+ if reply.is_closed() {
+ return;
+ }
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| return; | ||
| } | ||
| // Do not acknowledge release of a name that could still launch later. | ||
| if let ListenApiRequest::Release { name, .. } = &req { |
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P1: A fleet action.invoke release can bypass this ListenApiRequest::Release guard while the name remains pending, so the spawn can still launch after the release reports the worker as absent. Apply the reservation or cancellation check in handle_fleet_action_release as well.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs, line 585:
<comment>A fleet `action.invoke` release can bypass this `ListenApiRequest::Release` guard while the name remains pending, so the spawn can still launch after the release reports the worker as absent. Apply the reservation or cancellation check in `handle_fleet_action_release` as well.</comment>
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@@ -268,8 +268,353 @@ fn observer_token_filters_are_empty(filters: &ObserverTokenFilters) -> bool {
+ return;
+ }
+ // Do not acknowledge release of a name that could still launch later.
+ if let ListenApiRequest::Release { name, .. } = &req {
+ if self.pending_api_spawn_names.contains(name) {
+ if let ListenApiRequest::Release { reply, .. } = req {
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| // Keep the existing public liveness HTTP contract: a busy actor must | ||
| // not induce a supervisor restart storm. But never present fabricated | ||
| // zero-agent/offline values as a successful runtime observation. | ||
| payload["runtimeResponsive"] = json!(false); |
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P2: While the broker is still waiting for Relaycast readiness, /health bypasses this branch and continues returning status: ok with fabricated zero-agent/offline fields. Apply the unavailable-runtime response to the startup health path as well, or centralize the health payload construction so every /health path reports runtime unavailability consistently.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/broker/src/listen_api.rs, line 620:
<comment>While the broker is still waiting for Relaycast readiness, `/health` bypasses this branch and continues returning `status: ok` with fabricated zero-agent/offline fields. Apply the unavailable-runtime response to the startup health path as well, or centralize the health payload construction so every `/health` path reports runtime unavailability consistently.</comment>
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@@ -612,6 +612,29 @@ async fn listen_api_health(
+ // Keep the existing public liveness HTTP contract: a busy actor must
+ // not induce a supervisor restart storm. But never present fabricated
+ // zero-agent/offline values as a successful runtime observation.
+ payload["runtimeResponsive"] = json!(false);
+ if payload["status"] == "ok" {
+ payload["status"] = json!("degraded");
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| "projectId": "AgentWorkforce/relay", | ||
| "tags": [], | ||
| "_trace": { | ||
| "startRef": "d754fff143c464c367ac743ccc3c8085bf5ef04d", |
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P3: This completed trajectory records no commits and no changed files, and its _trace.startRef equals endRef, so it does not span the work it claims to represent. Populate commits and filesChanged with the actual PR commits/files and set startRef/endRef to distinct refs covering them so the audit trail is accurate. Since this is generated by the Trail/CLI tooling, regenerate from the owning renderer rather than hand-editing if that source is available.
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+ "projectId": "AgentWorkforce/relay",
+ "tags": [],
+ "_trace": {
+ "startRef": "d754fff143c464c367ac743ccc3c8085bf5ef04d",
+ "endRef": "d754fff143c464c367ac743ccc3c8085bf5ef04d"
+ }
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| - Local agent attach, snapshots, and input remain responsive while HTTP spawns wait for cloud registration; registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline. | ||
| - Fleet attach retries explicit database-overload rejections with server-directed backoff, and attach lookup failures explain that the agent may still be running. |
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P3: This bullet combines two separate behaviors: retrying database-overload rejections, and explaining attach lookup failures. Split them into one bullet each, and for the retry one name the concrete attempt bound instead of generic 'retries ... with backoff' wording, per the repo changelog convention.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At CHANGELOG.md, line 13:
<comment>This bullet combines two separate behaviors: retrying database-overload rejections, and explaining attach lookup failures. Split them into one bullet each, and for the retry one name the concrete attempt bound instead of generic 'retries ... with backoff' wording, per the repo changelog convention.</comment>
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@@ -5,7 +5,13 @@ All notable changes to Agent Relay will be documented in this file.
+### Fixed
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+- Local agent attach, snapshots, and input remain responsive while HTTP spawns wait for cloud registration; registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline.
+- Fleet attach retries explicit database-overload rejections with server-directed backoff, and attach lookup failures explain that the agent may still be running.
+- Broker health marks runtime status as unavailable instead of claiming zero agents when its status lookup times out.
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| - Fleet attach retries explicit database-overload rejections with server-directed backoff, and attach lookup failures explain that the agent may still be running. | |
| - `agent-relay node agent attach --node` retries explicit database-overload rejections using the server's Retry-After, within a bounded retry budget. | |
| - Attach lookup failures now explain that the agent may still be running instead of reporting it as dead. |
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| - Local agent attach, snapshots, and input remain responsive while HTTP spawns wait for cloud registration; registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline. |
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P3: This bullet ends with implementation backstory ('registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline'), which the changelog convention says to drop. Keep only the user-visible impact and name the concrete command surface (e.g. agent-relay local agent attach) instead.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At CHANGELOG.md, line 12:
<comment>This bullet ends with implementation backstory ('registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline'), which the changelog convention says to drop. Keep only the user-visible impact and name the concrete command surface (e.g. `agent-relay local agent attach`) instead.</comment>
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@@ -5,7 +5,13 @@ All notable changes to Agent Relay will be documented in this file.
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+### Fixed
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+- Local agent attach, snapshots, and input remain responsive while HTTP spawns wait for cloud registration; registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline.
+- Fleet attach retries explicit database-overload rejections with server-directed backoff, and attach lookup failures explain that the agent may still be running.
+- Broker health marks runtime status as unavailable instead of claiming zero agents when its status lookup times out.
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| - Local agent attach, snapshots, and input remain responsive while HTTP spawns wait for cloud registration; registration now has bounded concurrency and an overall deadline. | |
| - `agent-relay local agent attach`, snapshots, and input stay responsive while an HTTP spawn waits for cloud registration. |
Incident
drive session-thread-rollouttimed out while the worker was alive. Wrangler observed a duplicate Relaycast registration taking 35,722 ms; HTTP spawn awaited cloud preparation in the broker's serial runtime handler, blocking unrelated attach/list/snapshot requests.Changes
503 database_overloadedfor fleet terminal-session creation, honoring Retry-After within the existing bounded retry budget. Do not newly retry ambiguous timeouts or unknown 5xx.Verification
slow registration blocked attach lookup) and PASSES with this change.Boundaries / rollout
This is client/broker isolation, NOT a cure for server-side D1 capacity pressure or every other network-awaiting runtime handler. No brokers restarted and no deployment performed. Keep sf-mini and finn-mini brokers running until an explicitly approved rollout. Relayfile-cloud PR #205 addresses a different service and is not a prerequisite that solves Relaycast attach.
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