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  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented stale workflow attempts from overwriting newer runner reservations.
    • Preserved retry status when completion productivity is unspecified.
    • Ensured new work does not inherit an earlier unproductive classification.
    • Added clear reporting for stale completions and unavailable authoritative storage.
    • Prevented fallback reservations from completing until primary storage recovers.
    • Preserved same-attempt completion idempotency across retries.
    • Ensured expired deferred issues remain blocked at their expiration time.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified reservation ownership, recovery behavior, stale completion handling, and retry semantics.

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Runner reservations now capture workflow-attempt identity. Completion recording rejects stale attempts, uses authoritative primary storage in automatic mode, preserves retry state, and reports recording reasons. Tests cover ownership, storage, idempotence, retry bounds, head changes, and expiration boundaries.

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Workflow Attempt Fencing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reservation identity and retry state
scripts/runner_lib/core.py
Reservations store repository, run ID, and run attempt data. Same-head retries preserve the prior unproductive marker.
Completion fencing and authoritative storage
scripts/runner_lib/core.py, docs/keepalive/GoalsAndPlumbing.md
Completion recording rejects stale attempts, uses the primary reservation for automatic storage, reports persistence status and reasons, and documents sanitized storage diagnostics.
Completion behavior validation
tests/scripts/test_runner_lib.py
Tests cover stale identities, authoritative storage failures, no-write results, same-attempt idempotence, bounded retries, cooldown behavior, and new-head state.
Deferred-issue expiration validation
tests/test_backplane_registry.py
Tests use a fixed validation clock and verify blocking expiration at and before the validation timestamp in normal and strict CLI modes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant WorkflowAttempt
  participant record_completion
  participant PrimaryStorage
  WorkflowAttempt->>record_completion: Submit workflow identity and head
  record_completion->>PrimaryStorage: Validate authoritative reservation
  PrimaryStorage-->>record_completion: Return ownership or stale-attempt
  record_completion-->>WorkflowAttempt: Return recorded status and reason
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The runner behavior is not blocked, but stale task-source documentation can mislead future maintenance and should be corrected.

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- Line 1218: Add tests for the head-change condition around the prior/key
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🟡 Changes recommended

Fallback storage can allow stale completions to persist state during primary-store outages.

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Pull request overview

This PR hardens shared runner state against stale workflow completions and preserves bounded retry behavior.

Changes:

  • Adds workflow-attempt fencing and stale-completion reporting.
  • Preserves unproductive retry state across unmeasured completions.
  • Adds regression tests and documents the updated contract.

A critical issue remains: the fallback storage path can bypass the authoritative reservation fence during primary-store outages.

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File Summary
tests/scripts/test_runner_lib.py Adds regression coverage for stale completions and retry behavior.
scripts/runner_lib/core.py Implements reservation fencing and retry-state preservation; fallback handling needs correction.
docs/keepalive/GoalsAndPlumbing.md Documents identity, recovery, and retry semantics.
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Comment thread scripts/runner_lib/core.py Outdated
Comment on lines +1216 to +1223
if prior.get("workflow_attempt_id") and (
prior.get("workflow_attempt_id") != _workflow_attempt_id()
or (prior.get("key") != key and produced_work is not True)
):
# A completion rerun from an earlier attempt must not overwrite a newer reservation,
# including when both attempts target the same head. The owning attempt may report
# a new head only when it explicitly measured productive work. Return an observation only.
return {**prior, "completion_recorded": False, "completion_reason": "stale-attempt"}
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Addressed the two review findings in 42c2080. Auto-storage completion now requires the primary reservation and writes only that store; primary read/write failures or missing reservations return recorded=false with an explicit reason, without redirecting completion to stale fallback state. This applies even if caller identity is missing. Dispatch fallback remains available; recovery and ambiguous-write retry behavior are documented. Added owning-attempt productive-new-head acceptance and different-attempt rejection, plus primary outage/missing-record, empty/stale fallback, missing caller identity and primary-write routing regressions. Ten regression cases failed before the repair; all 87 runner tests now pass both normally and with GitHub Actions identity variables populated. Ruff, isolated mypy, template sync/completeness and git diff --check pass. Merged current main without conflicts. Review threads remain untouched; fresh exact-head CI/review is required before merge.

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Addressed the storage-diagnostics finding: both authoritative completion exception paths now log read/write operation, exception/cause types, and HTTP status when available. The shared GitHub API preserves underlying exceptions as causes; logging that metadata distinguishes HTTP authorization/API errors from network errors without copying potentially sensitive raw exception text, URLs or response bodies. Added six read/write diagnostic and non-disclosure cases, plus two checks preserving explicit single-store exception propagation. All 95 runner tests pass normally and under GitHub Actions identity; Ruff, isolated mypy, template sync/completeness and diff checks pass.

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Updated to 48dab04: preserved the incoming autofix commit and merged current main, resolving the backplane test conflict by combining strict/default modes, expiry boundaries and JSON finding assertions. All 128 runner/backplane tests pass; 95 runner tests also pass with Actions identity populated. The live backplane CLI now reports blocking_count=0 using the already-merged registry update, with one nonblocking stale reference warning. Ruff and template validation pass. Fresh CI/review is required on this head. Because the requested CodeRabbit re-review was rate-limited, an independent read-only advisory review is being collected through Orchestrator; this does not override active review threads or required checks.

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🟡 Minor · Update the later task-extraction description. · docs/keepalive/GoalsAndPlumbing.md:227-228

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Update the later task-extraction description.

Lines 236-241 still state that keepalive extracts tasks only from the Automated Status Summary. This conflicts with the new rule that qualifying outside checkboxes affect the task appendix. Update the Data Flow section to include both task sources.

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Orchestrator fallback review completed on 48dab04 via Cursor (advisory, not CodeRabbit approval). It found no runner-logic defect, but correctly identified a Black formatting failure introduced during conflict resolution. Reproduced it locally and applied Black in the latest commit. All three changed Python files now pass Black --check --line-length 100 and Ruff lint; all 128 runner/backplane tests pass again. The advisory review log is retained locally at /Users/teacher/.codex/handoff/dispatch-logs/offload.cursor.1789439384977043000.log. Fresh exact-head CI and reviewer disposition of the remaining productive-head-change thread are still required; no merge or waiver was performed.

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