feat(worker): packet B4 — docling shadow extraction mode (WORKER_DOCUMENT_EXTRACTOR_MODE=legacy|shadow, default legacy)

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Summary

• Packet B4 — Docling worker shadow mode (docs/rag-improvement/README.md §B4, HANDOVER S7+), authorised by the Gate B PASS of 2026-08-18 (evidence run 32176604314 at 8a92378, record docs/rag-improvement/gate-b-decision-record-2026-08-18.md, landed by PR Packet S6b: Gate B PASS — Docling lab benchmark run, decision record, and harness fixes #2154). Touches worker/** (high-risk ingestion surface); no RAG surface, no supabase/**, no worker/python/requirements* change.
• Typed env in src/lib/env.ts (+ .env.example): WORKER_DOCUMENT_EXTRACTOR_MODE=legacy|shadow (default legacy — byte-for-byte the current pipeline; kill switch and one-step rollback), WORKER_SHADOW_EXTRACTION_COHORT_PERCENT (zod-bounded to the authorised 1–5 %, owner-approved default 2), WORKER_DOCLING_PYTHON_BIN (docling venv interpreter; unset ⇒ runtime_unavailable, nothing spawned).
• New worker/shadow-extraction.ts (pure, unit-tested; house pattern of assertion-tagging.ts): deterministic sha256 bucket, cohort predicate over the legacy result + src/lib/index-quality.ts output (owner-approved signals: tables = legacy found ≥1 table_crop or "low table row extraction coverage"; OCR = ocr_coverage ≥ 0.25 or needs_ocr_page_count > 0; layout proxy = "low heading density" / "low section path coverage"; PDFs only), bounded runner (spawn detached + terminateProcessTree, 120 s timeout = the Gate B lab cap, 40-page cap recorded as skipped_page_cap, ≤ 1 docling process per worker recorded as skipped_concurrent), strict numbers-only zod projection, fixed 17-key ShadowExtractionRecord. Fail-open: never throws, never blocks the job.
• worker/main.ts: legacy extraction is timed; the shadow call sits only after commitDocumentIndexGeneration (the live index never depends on it) and before finalMetadata, so the record rides the existing apply_document_metadata_patch deep-merge as documents.metadata.shadow_extraction — no new write site, no chunk / embedding / index-unit / table-fact / document_index_quality write from the shadow path; ranking, verification and the prompt never read the key. Startup logs the mode and warns (fail-open) when the docling venv is missing.
• New worker/python/shadow_docling_extract.py mirrors the Gate B lab converter block (CPU, TesseractCliOcrOptions, do_table_structure=True, DOCLING_ARTIFACTS_PATH; docling imported lazily) and emits aggregate counts only (page / character / table / cell / numeric-token, docling_version, peak_rss_bytes); exit 0 / 10 (extraction_failed, exception class name only) / 20 (runtime_unavailable). test_shadow_docling_extract.py runs at image build in the OCR venv without docling.
• Dockerfile.worker (owner decision 2026-08-19: provision in this PR): apt ca-certificates libgl1 libglib2.0-0; second venv /opt/docling-venv from the Gate B lab lock eval/docling/requirements.txt (docling==2.120.2 by construction, CPU-only torch, --require-hashes + pip check); docling-tools models download baked into /opt/docling-models; ENV WORKER_DOCLING_PYTHON_BIN, DOCLING_ARTIFACTS_PATH, TORCHDYNAMO_DISABLE=1 (eager — no C++ toolchain), HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 (no run-time model fetch). WORKER_DOCUMENT_EXTRACTOR_MODE is deliberately not baked in — the kill switch stays a Railway variable. railway.worker.json watches the lab lock; worker/validate-runtime.ts probes the docling venv + pip check at every image build (offline).
• Docs: HANDOVER status row (S7 = B4 open; S8+ still gated) + S7+ note; docs/worker-deploy-runbook.md "Shadow extraction mode (packet B4)" (preconditions, enable, observe, kill switch); docs/ingestion-state-machine.md W1 note (no new writer / transition).
• Ledger: the pending B4 inbox add (abc21f52-…) is unreconciled, so issues:done is rejected today; per owner decision the request is cancelled with a resolution reason via scripts/ledger-inbox.mjs cancel (request file travels here; no hand edit).

RAG impact: no retrieval behaviour change — the shadow path writes only documents.metadata.shadow_extraction after the legacy generation is committed; retrieval, ranking, selection, chunking, document_index_quality, and every ranking input are untouched (pr-policy classifies no changed path as a RAG-ranking surface; this line is belt-and-braces).

Verification

• npm run verify:pr-local — heavy plan (worker/env/container scope): plan = check:runtime, check:installed-lock-parity, format:changed, sitemap:check, docs:check-index/inventory/scripts/links, check:branch-review-ledger, check:outstanding-issues, check:ledger-write-discipline, lint, typecheck, test, build, check:rag:fixtures, check:medication-interactions, check:medication-lexicon-report → Test Files 673 passed | 2 skipped (675) · Tests 7292 passed | 29 skipped (7321) · failed: (none) · verify:pr-local exit=0 (two earlier attempts stopped at DATABASE_HEAVY_RUN_ADMISSION_BUSY — shared-lock contention from another worktree's gate, not this diff)
• Focused vitest (explicit files; test:focused rejects tests/ paths): npx vitest run tests/worker-shadow-extraction.test.ts tests/worker-safe-logging.test.ts tests/document-metadata-merge.test.ts tests/worker-visual-capture.test.ts tests/worker-runtime-validation.test.ts tests/container-ci-contract.test.ts tests/railway-config.test.ts tests/assertion-tagging.test.ts tests/index-quality.test.ts → Test Files 9 passed (9) · Tests 117 passed (117)
• Python unittest (local Python 3.11, no docling — the same condition as the image build): python -m unittest discover -s worker/python -p "test_shadow_docling_extract.py" → Ran 7 tests … OK
• npx tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json → tsc exit=0; npx eslint <changed ts> → exit 0
• npm run check:production-readiness (env + ingestion behaviour changed): ran in the fresh worktree with no .env.local — the environment schema (with the three new B4 vars) loads cleanly; the report's only FAILs are the expected absent local secrets (Missing server environment variables: NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY, Missing OPENAI_API_KEY), unrelated to this diff. Bound proof through the same script: WORKER_SHADOW_EXTRACTION_COHORT_PERCENT=9 and WORKER_DOCUMENT_EXTRACTOR_MODE=docling each fail with Environment schema validation failed: [ "WORKER_SHADOW_EXTRACTION_COHORT_PERCENT" … / [ "WORKER_DOCUMENT_EXTRACTOR_MODE" …; shadow + 2 passes schema validation.
• ingestion-worker-reviewer subagent review of the diff: approve-with-nits (P3 docling_version regex not end-anchored — fixed in this head; P3 observation that the ≤120 s post-commit window is a disclosed, runbook-gated reclaim exposure — no change).
• Verification not run: local Docker build of Dockerfile.worker (CI's Docker image build job is the build contract per docs/worker-deploy-runbook.md §1; it builds the docling venv, prefetches models, runs the Python unittest and validate-runtime inside the image). Not run: verify:ui (no UI change), provider-backed evals/canaries (not applicable — no retrieval or answer change).

Risk and rollout

• Risk: Ingestion worker (high-risk surface). Default legacy changes nothing at run time. In shadow: (a) the one non-fail-open mode is a container-level OOM kill during the ≤120 s docling window (docling peaked ~1.4 GiB in the lab) — the index is already committed, but the job would sit processing until the 45-min reclaim and burn an attempt; memory headroom is therefore a hard runbook precondition before enabling. (b) Cohort cost at 2 %: ≤ ~57 documents per full reindex, each ≤ 120 s, ≤ 40 pages, one process at a time. (c) Container: the worker image grows by several GB and the build by ~10 min (torch + models); the CI Docker image build job builds app + worker on one runner — the lab image with the same venv + models built on the same runner class for Gate B, but if this job hits ENOSPC/timeout the fallback is to split the provisioning into its own PR, not to weaken the gate. (d) HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 means a missing baked model fails the shadow run loudly (extraction_failed) rather than reaching HuggingFace from production.
• Two Gate B caveats bind this PR verbatim: (1) the table-heavy leg passed at parity-on-ceiling, not by a demonstrated gain — the queued docling-lab-fixtures.v2 hardness corpus precedes any promotion argument built on table quality; (2) docling ran eager at ~9–19 s/doc on 2 CPUs vs legacy's ~1 s — shadow-cohort sizing must budget for that (this PR budgets it with the 120 s / 40-page / one-process bounds and the 2 % cohort). Shadow numbers are measurements, not a promotion argument.
• Rollback: set WORKER_DOCUMENT_EXTRACTOR_MODE=legacy (or unset) on the Railway worker service and redeploy — no migration, no reindex; existing shadow_extraction keys stay as inert history. Reverting the PR restores the previous image.
• Provider or production effects: None from this PR. Enabling shadow in production is a separate operator step (Railway variable) after the runbook preconditions; reading live documents.metadata to evaluate shadow results is a provider action needing explicit approval.

Clinical Governance Preflight

• Source-backed claims still require linked source verification before clinical use — the shadow path produces no clinical output and no retrievable artifact; answers, citations, and source verification are untouched.
• No patient-identifiable document workflow was introduced or expanded without explicit governance approval — the shadow record is aggregate numbers only (counts, timings, fixed-vocabulary outcome, semver, exception class name); extracted text is stripped by a strict zod projection and canary-tested on both the TypeScript and Python sides; stdout/stderr are never persisted.
• Supabase target remains Clinical KB Database (sjrfecxgysukkwxsowpy) — no Supabase config, migration, or RPC change; the record rides the existing apply_document_metadata_patch merge.
• Service-role keys and private document access remain server-only — the worker's existing service-role client is unchanged; the shadow module has no Supabase client at all (pinned by test).
• Demo/synthetic content remains clearly separated from real clinical sources — no content change; the docling venv is built from the Gate B lab lock and models, and only aggregate numbers leave the worker.
• Source metadata, review status, and outdated/unknown-source behavior remain conservative — document_index_quality, quality_score, issues, extraction_quality, and source-governance inputs are not written by the shadow path (structurally: no Supabase call in the module).
• Deployment classification/TGA SaMD impact was checked when clinical decision-support behavior changed — no clinical decision-support behavior changed; provenance and clinical-content governance are unaffected (SaMD/TGA assessment: not applicable to this change).

Notes

• Design approved in-session 2026-08-19: cohort 2 %, signals tables + OCR + layout proxy, docling runtime in this PR, ledger cancel-with-reason. Plan and evidence trail: this PR's HANDOVER S7 row.
• CI scope: worker/** + Dockerfile.worker ⇒ container_changed (Docker image build with the new venv/model layers, Python unittest, validate-runtime), ingestion_sast_changed, build_changed.
• Reviewer: ingestion-worker-reviewer (per HANDOVER S7+); ledger record appended with npm run ledger:append.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added optional Docling shadow extraction for PDF documents.
  • Runs on a deterministic cohort after legacy indexing without changing indexed content.
  • Records aggregate extraction metrics, quality comparisons, and resource usage in metadata.
  • Added configurable cohort size, runtime path, offline execution, and resource limits.
  • Added startup validation, observability, safe failure handling, and rollback support.

• Documentation

  • Added setup, deployment, state-transition, enablement, and rollback guidance.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for extraction results, configuration, runtime validation, security, limits, and failure scenarios.

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The worker adds an optional Docling shadow mode. It processes a deterministic PDF cohort after legacy indexing, records aggregate extraction metrics, isolates failures, and preserves indexed content. Docker provisioning, runtime validation, configuration, tests, and operational documentation are included.

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Docling shadow extraction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime configuration and provisioning .env.example, src/lib/env.ts, Dockerfile.worker, railway.worker.json, tests/railway-config.test.ts	Adds shadow-mode settings, bounded cohort configuration, an isolated Docling virtual environment, offline model provisioning, runtime libraries, and deployment watch coverage.
Docling aggregate runner worker/python/shadow_docling_extract.py, worker/python/test_shadow_docling_extract.py	Adds PDF conversion with Docling and sanitized aggregate JSON output. Tests cover numeric-token parity, projection, runtime failures, extraction failures, and exit codes.
Cohorting and worker integration worker/shadow-extraction.ts, worker/prerequisites.ts, worker/main.ts, tests/worker-shadow-extraction.test.ts	Adds deterministic cohort selection, bounded subprocess execution, fixed-shape metadata, fail-open outcomes, prerequisite checks, post-commit execution, and metadata merging.
Runtime validation and operator documentation worker/validate-runtime.ts, docs/ingestion-state-machine.md, docs/rag-improvement/HANDOVER.md, docs/worker-deploy-runbook.md	Adds Docling runtime and pip validation. Documents state behavior, deployment controls, observability, enablement, rollback, and remaining gates.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk:🟠 High · up to 7a30e

Shadow mode can currently either fail an ingestion job after its index is already committed or remain stuck when a timed-out extraction does not settle, potentially leaving work processing or consuming worker capacity. These concrete correctness and availability risks should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant WorkerMain
participant runShadowExtraction
participant runDoclingShadowScript
participant shadow_docling_extract.py
participant DocumentMetadata
WorkerMain->>runShadowExtraction: post-commit document and legacy metrics
runShadowExtraction->>runDoclingShadowScript: selected PDF and bounded runner settings
runDoclingShadowScript->>shadow_docling_extract.py: invoke Docling subprocess
shadow_docling_extract.py-->>runDoclingShadowScript: aggregate JSON result
runDoclingShadowScript-->>runShadowExtraction: validated outcome and metrics
runShadowExtraction-->>WorkerMain: fixed-shape shadow record
WorkerMain->>DocumentMetadata: merge aggregate shadow metadata

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• BigSimmo/Database#615: Adds a separate optional Python-based worker feature with prerequisite checks.
• BigSimmo/Database#912: Adds related PDF extraction prerequisites and regression coverage.

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316-326: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Rename the gated-packet heading to match the new S8+ row.

The status table now splits S7 (open) from S8+ (still gated). The heading at line 316 still reads ### S7+ — gated packets (do not start without an explicit owner decision), and the B4 bullet under it states the packet is opened. A reader who lands on the heading first sees S7 described as gated.

Rename the heading to S8+ so the heading and the table agree.

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In `@docs/rag-improvement/HANDOVER.md` around lines 316 - 326, Rename the
gated-packet section heading from “S7+” to “S8+” while preserving the existing
gated-packets wording and all content, including the B4 Docling shadow entry.

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Inline comments:
In `@worker/main.ts`:
- Around line 1900-1907: In the shadow-mode branch of processJob, guard the
awaited updateJobProgress call with error handling so lease-loss errors cannot
propagate to failOrRetryJob after commitDocumentIndexGeneration succeeds. Match
the existing swallowed-error behavior used by the shadowHeartbeat callback while
preserving the interval and progress values.
In `@worker/shadow-extraction.ts`:
- Around line 389-408: Update the timeout callback in runDoclingShadowScript to
await terminateProcessTree(child), then call finish with timedOut true and the
appropriate null exitCode and spawnErrorCode after the termination grace period
completes. Preserve the existing duplicate-settlement guard so a later close or
error event cannot settle the extraction promise again.
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In `@docs/rag-improvement/HANDOVER.md`:
- Around line 316-326: Rename the gated-packet section heading from “S7+” to
“S8+” while preserving the existing gated-packets wording and all content,
including the B4 Docling shadow entry.

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Review follow-up landed in 8cb82f1: (1) pre-shadow updateJobProgress now swallows a lost-lease throw — shadow mode can never fail an already-committed job; (2) the docling runner settles after a timeout kill even without a close event; (3) HANDOVER gated-packets heading renamed S8+ to match the status table (the outside-diff CodeRabbit note). Both inline threads replied to and resolved. The earlier Lighthouse budget failure on cd610ef was desktop-forms lcpMs +160 (+21.2%) — an app-route timing measurement on a PR that changes only worker/Docker/docs (the identical app code passed on ad3fb74), i.e. the known bimodal Lighthouse flake, not this diff.
🤖 Addressed by Claude Code