docs(gap-baseline): correct stale _invoke deadline recommendation - #1043
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The 2026-08-30 entry on TaskOrchestrator._invoke's serial candidate/retry loop recommended "an overall deadline on _invoke's candidate/retry loop" as the fix direction. That contradicts this org's binding no-fixed- inference-cap policy (docs/product-goal-directive.md section 8: no common timeout ceiling across the application/agent/gateway stack, default stays null/unbounded, real communication failures end via the upstream provider's own timeout) -- a policy already applied once since this entry was written (docs/doctoring/autofix-and-noema-review-model-job-timeout- removal.md reverted job-level timeouts around synchronous model calls for the same reason). Annotate the entry in place: keep the historical stall measurements and root cause, mark the deadline recommendation as superseded, and point to .github#1804 (today's follow-up root-cause analysis) for the actual fix direction -- either landing #911's unmerged EWMA candidate-exclusion data, or a documented policy exception if racing non-equivalent endpoints is ever deliberately authorized. Neither is done here; this is documentation only, no code touched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BV96rXhqoR3tYZ9AeAVur4
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In `@docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md`:
- Around line 2701-2703: Update the documentation sentence around
contextual-orchestrator#911 to state that `#911`’s merged EWMA behavior only
reorders candidate ranking and does not provide durable exclusion or skipping of
saturated candidates; describe durable candidate-exclusion/skip behavior as a
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…only CodeRabbit flagged that the correction paragraph mischaracterized contextual-orchestrator#911 as "EWMA-based candidate-exclusion data." Per .github#1804 (the source PR#1043 already cites), #911's routing-observation EWMA data only reorders candidates by score — it does not exclude or skip a saturated one. Landing #911 alone would not solve the serial-failover stall. Verified directly via the GitHub API that #911 is still open, unmerged, and mergeable_state=blocked, so CodeRabbit's "already merged" premise for this same finding is false and was not acted on. The underlying re-ranking-vs-exclusion mischaracterization was real on its own terms and is fixed here: a separate, not-yet-built durable exclusion/skip mechanism (consuming #911's ranking data once #911 lands) is what's actually still required, not #911 by itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BV96rXhqoR3tYZ9AeAVur4
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The correction above defers option (a) to a "not-yet-built durable candidate-exclusion/skip mechanism". Reading TaskOrchestrator at pin 414f229 shows a per-agent breaker already exists and still would not exclude a stalled candidate, for two independent reasons: 1. The tool-bearing passthrough re-raises a bare TimeoutError as 500 internal_error before _record_failure (orchestrator.py:8048) runs, so the breaker never counts the failure. Measured: 0 of 21, 0 of 48, 0 of 63 and 0 of 65 passthrough timeouts recorded as circuit_failure, against 9/14 and 10/15 on the no-tools _invoke route-walk. That is #1082's scope. 2. _circuit_open clears state["failures"] to 0.0 once circuit_reset_seconds (30.0) have elapsed since opened_at (orchestrator.py:8036-8038). Against the ~90s attempts these stalls take, a route is re-admitted after 30s and needs three fresh failures to be excluded again. Also records that #911 remains unmerged as of this amendment. The conclusion is unchanged: a fixed wall-clock deadline on the candidate/retry loop is still barred by product-goal-directive section 8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BV96rXhqoR3tYZ9AeAVur4
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It is in fact further from merged than this document implies. So Ranking vs. durable exclusion is already distinguished, in the reviewed text itself:
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Failing check on Not this PR's. The diff is No fix to port. The preflight side is healthy and behaved exactly as Not re-running. A 429 from an exhausted pool is deterministic under load, not a flake, and reproducing it costs a runner slot from the queue causing the shortage. The new evidence, which sharpens this PR's own argument. The amendment I pushed in
def _record_success(self, agent_id: str) -> None:
with self._circuit_lock:
cleared = self._circuit.pop(agent_id, None)So with That does not change this PR's conclusion — a fixed wall-clock deadline is still barred by directive section 8 — but it does mean the "not-yet-built" exclusion mechanism has three independent gaps rather than two. I will fold this into the amendment at the next push rather than pushing again an hour after the last one; recording it here so the evidence is not lost if that push is delayed. Head unchanged at Generated by Claude Code |
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Failing check on Not this PR's, and the promised rerun cannot arrive. The dispatch that would publish the verdict is rejected at No fix to port. The workflow side is already merged — Not re-running. The failure is deterministic, not flaky: the gate fails for want of an exact-head verdict, and the dispatch that would create one is rejected at an authorization check a re-run cannot influence. This comment covers this class on this PR — a repeat of the same authorization failure here will not draw a second note. Head unchanged at Generated by Claude Code |
_record_success (orchestrator.py:8073-8077 at pin 414f229) pops the agent's circuit state rather than decrementing it, so with a threshold of 3 any single success zeroes the accumulated failure count. A route that alternates failure and success -- what an overloaded provider does -- never reaches the threshold and is never excluded, however long each failure runs. Recorded as a property rather than one log's reading: the same sequence appeared on three separate pull requests on 2026-09-06, each on the single ready route the post-.github#1957 preflight had found. Also corrects how far #911 is from landing. It is not merely unmerged: its base is codex/nim-evidence-successor, which is #1068 (open), itself based on codex/stacked-security-successor. "Once #911 lands" requires that whole stack. The conclusion is unchanged -- a fixed wall-clock deadline on the candidate/retry loop is still barred by product-goal-directive section 8. The count of missing pieces in the not-yet-built exclusion mechanism goes from two to three. Gate: 3392 passed, 3 failed, 2 skipped. All three failures are pre-existing and reproduce identically on origin/main (missing fast_mlsirm, missing OTLP HTTP exporter, and test_spend_analytics asserting mixed vs tokenizer); this change is documentation only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BV96rXhqoR3tYZ9AeAVur4
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Fresh no-heuristics documentation review at exact head 6b158f4: The valid delta is the explicit retirement of the fixed overall The amendment correctly exposes three concrete production findings at the cited source pin: Because the current document still describes an unsupported automatic replacement direction and exact-head Noema/OpenCode review gates are failed/non-terminal, this PR is not ready. I am preserving the delta and moving it to Draft rather than closing or weakening checks. |
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Direct documentation repair is now published at exact head 05fe717. The new no-heuristics boundary preserves the measured breaker findings and the valid retirement of the fixed The PR remains Draft and requires fresh exact-head Checks/review. No historical GREEN was transferred. |
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You are right, and the flaw is the same class this PR exists to remove. I am fixing the text rather than defending it, and leaving the PR in Draft. The specific defect you caught. My amendment said a durable exclusion "still needs a reset policy scaled to the observed attempt duration rather than a fixed 30 s." That is one unjustified constant replaced by another — with measurement supplying the appearance of justification rather than an actual decision procedure. It is exactly the heuristic substitution the correction above retires, reintroduced two paragraphs later. Your phrasing is the right test: neither EWMA ordering nor an observed-duration-derived reset identifies an exclusion/admission decision without an explicit statistical/availability model, a stated loss or utility, a preregistered experiment, an uncertainty treatment, and executable provenance. Replaced with exactly that, plus the two governed alternatives (fail closed, or explicit operator authority). No replacement duration is proposed. The three findings are now labelled non-authoritative diagnostics, in those words: reproducible observations of what the code does, not a routing policy, not authorization for a threshold change, not a merge gate — standing as evidence until the canonical routing owner supplies a governed model, the path fails closed, or an explicit operator authority is recorded. Ownership corrected. I also found the same defect upstream of my amendment, in the pre-existing option-(a) text that says the fix direction "consumes the still-unmerged Staying in Draft. I am not flipping it back, and I am not touching the checks. The exact-head Noema/OpenCode gates are failed or non-terminal for the organization-wide reasons tracked at Pushing once the repository gate finishes; I will report the result here. Generated by Claude Code |
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Correcting my previous comment: I am not pushing. Your direct repair at Comparing your boundary paragraph against what I had drafted, yours covers every point and states the "do not replace 3/30 seconds with different repository-authored values" rule more sharply than I did. Nothing of mine is owed. One residual, and it is my sentence that causes it. Your repair appends the boundary but leaves the body line I introduced. At
while the boundary you added at the end says:
The body prescribes the exact substitution the boundary forbids. Your paragraph is later and explicit so it governs on a careful read, but a reader reaching line 2745 first gets the prohibited recommendation with no signal that it has been retired — which is the same failure mode this whole entry exists to fix, one level down. A second, milder instance at line 2703: the pre-existing option-(a) text still frames the direction as consuming I am not pushing either fix. You are actively editing this file and hold the authority on it; I would rather name the residual precisely than race you for it. If you would like me to remove line 2744-2745 and add a scoping note at 2703, say so and I will do exactly that and nothing else — otherwise I will leave the file to you. Staying out of the Draft state and not touching checks. Generated by Claude Code |
Current exact-head governance repair — 2026-09-07
05fe7178c12f37206458e256e468f498e9a5ce20_invokedeadline.3failures and30seconds must not be replaced with other repository-authored constants. fix(routing): remove heuristic batch and embedding decisions #1000 remains the canonical implementation owner.What was stale
The 2026-08-30 entry in
docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md(around line 2664-2682) documentingTaskOrchestrator._invoke()'s serial candidate/retry loop stall recommended, as its fix direction: "an overall deadline on_invoke's candidate/retry loop, not another timeout increase on the sidecar's client side."Why it's being corrected
That recommendation contradicts this org's binding no-fixed-inference-cap policy —
docs/product-goal-directive.mdsection 8: no common timeout ceiling across the application/agent/gateway stack, the default stays null/unbounded, and a real communication failure is left to end via the upstream provider's own timeout/error, not an artificial cutoff. This policy has already been enforced once since this entry was written:docs/doctoring/autofix-and-noema-review-model-job-timeout-removal.mdreverted job-level timeouts that had been added around two other synchronous model calls, for exactly this reason.Leaving the stale recommendation live in the canonical gap-baseline doc risked a future agent implementing a fixed
_invokedeadline and violating the policy.What the correction says
Appended a dated correction paragraph directly after the original entry (nothing in the historical record — stall measurements, root cause — was deleted or altered):
docs/product-goal-directive.md§8..github#1804(today's follow-up investigation, root-causing the same_invokeserial-failover mechanism via four cross-repo stalls measured at 649.5s/1332.6s/1462.9s/2161.9s) as where the fuller, current analysis lives.contextual-orchestrator#911, or (b) a documented, owner-approved policy exception if deliberately racing non-equivalent endpoints is ever authorized — and that neither is done as of this correction. Notes (b) is constrained by this org'sendpoint_equivalenceracing invariant (docs/doctoring/equivalent-endpoint-racing.md; this repo'sCLAUDE.mdheader).Documentation-only change — no code, workflow, or test file touched. No contract test asserts exact structure/strings of this file (checked
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