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Fixes #1876

Summary

The durable HTTP bridge ledger can leave ownerless unknown or acknowledged operations fenced forever after an upstream transport loss. This adds a conservative terminal abandoned state and a bounded heartbeat sweep.

Safety

  • Only stale rows older than max(30 minutes, existing bridge request budget) are eligible.
  • Live durable owners, canonical and detached pending requests, and event-batcher contexts are protected.
  • The transition is CAS-fenced on operation state, updated_at, and session owner, epoch, and lease.
  • Abandoned rows remain retained for audit and cannot be replayed, reset, or written by late callbacks.
  • A later continuation receives the standard 400 previous_response_not_found full-history recovery contract without dispatching upstream.

Evidence and validation

Live VPS evidence for #1876 showed 77 acknowledged and 83 unknown rows, with oldest rows almost five days old. Focused lifecycle and event tests pass (51 passed), abandonment/admission tests pass, Ruff and ty pass, Python compileall passes, and strict OpenSpec validation passes. The full proxy unit file has one unrelated pre-existing fixture failure because the file_account_pins table is absent.

OpenSpec change: openspec/changes/abandon-expired-http-bridge-operations/

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automatic cleanup for expired, inactive HTTP bridge operations.
    • Introduced an abandoned terminal state while preserving active and recoverable operations.
    • Added metrics and diagnostics for abandoned operations.
    • Abandoned continuations now return a standard recovery error without resending requests.
    • Cleanup now handles large operation sets incrementally across maintenance cycles.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented abandoned operations from being modified, replayed, or recovered incorrectly.
    • Improved protection for operations with pending activity during cleanup.
  • Documentation

    • Added specifications covering abandonment, recovery, retention, and observability.

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This change adds terminal abandonment for stale ambiguous HTTP bridge operations. Heartbeat maintenance protects active work, performs bounded durable sweeps, records observability data, rejects late mutations, and returns a deterministic continuity error for abandoned continuations.

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HTTP bridge operation abandonment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Abandonment contracts and observability
app/db/models.py, app/core/metrics/prometheus.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/protocol.py, openspec/changes/abandon-expired-http-bridge-operations/*, app/main.py
Adds the ABANDONED state, the maintenance protocol, the source-state metric, and specifications for eligibility, fencing, retention, recovery, diagnostics, and isolated maintenance passes.
Durable abandonment and terminal fencing
app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_repository.py, app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_coordinator.py, tests/unit/test_bridge_ring_lifecycle.py
Adds bounded abandonment sweeps with resumable keyset cursors and compare-and-set transitions for stale unknown and acknowledged operations. Abandoned records reject recovery, event writes, state updates, and late settlement while remaining eligible for retention purge.
Heartbeat sweep and local protection
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/session_registry.py, app/modules/proxy/http_bridge_event_batcher.py, tests/unit/test_proxy_http_bridge.py, tests/unit/test_http_bridge_event_batcher.py
Adds the heartbeat maintenance pass, protects operation IDs from local sessions and pending batches, applies the inactivity cutoff, and isolates failures between maintenance passes.
Continuation handling and recovery fencing
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/request_submit.py, tests/unit/test_proxy_http_bridge.py
Returns a 400 previous_response_not_found response for abandoned continuations without claiming the operation or sending upstream data.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3949b

This change introduces automatic abandonment of stale HTTP bridge operations, but the current implementation may still terminate an operation after later status progress or create request contention when the protected-operation set is large. These bounded correctness and availability risks require owner follow-up or explicit acceptance before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Heartbeat
  participant SessionRegistry
  participant EventBatcher
  participant Coordinator
  participant Repository
  Heartbeat->>SessionRegistry: run abandonment maintenance
  SessionRegistry->>EventBatcher: collect pending operation IDs
  SessionRegistry->>Coordinator: submit cutoff and protected IDs
  Coordinator->>Repository: abandon stale operations
  Repository-->>Coordinator: return abandonment records
  Coordinator-->>SessionRegistry: return records
  SessionRegistry-->>Heartbeat: record metric and logs
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In `@app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_repository.py`:
- Around line 1421-1434: Bound the protected operation ID exclusion in the sweep
around protected_operation_ids and candidate_filter so oversized configurations
cannot exceed the database parameter limit or cause the query to return no
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1519-1527: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fence abandonment against concurrent nonterminal event writes.

Lines 1521-1526 compare only operation state and updated_at. append_operation_event and append_operation_events can persist a nonterminal event without changing updated_at. The CAS can therefore abandon an acknowledged operation after a status event has been persisted.

Include durable event progress in the candidate and CAS predicates. A persisted status event must make the abandonment update affect zero rows. Add a regression test for an event append that commits before the abandonment CAS.

This violates the requirement that a concurrent status proof wins over abandonment.

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In `@app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_repository.py` around lines 1519 - 1527,
Update the abandonment CAS in the repository method containing compare_and_set
to include durable nonterminal event progress in both the candidate snapshot and
its WHERE predicates, so an event persisted by append_operation_event or
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abandonment CAS and verify the operation is not abandoned.

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1453-1501: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Bound the oversized-protection scan.

The loop stops only after it finds batch_size unprotected candidates. If protected IDs cover every stale row, it reads every eligible page before it exits. This can hold sqlite_writer_section for an unbounded time and block bridge writes.

Add a finite scan budget. Preserve progress across sweeps so a protected prefix does not starve later eligible rows. Add a regression test with more protected stale rows than the scan budget.

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cursor must enforce a finite scan budget instead of scanning until batch_size
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Thanks — this is a carefully built fix for a well-evidenced production wedge (#1876), and the review iterations already hardened the two CodeRabbit Majors (event-progress CAS fence in 23fbb66, bounded protected-prefix scan in 3949b19) with regression tests. CI is fully green. Two items from the codex review on the current head still need a response before this can merge:

  1. P1 — cross-replica protection (app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/session_registry.py::abandon_stale_http_bridge_operations): the protection snapshot (local pending requests + event-batcher spool) is process-local, and the append fences in durable_bridge_repository.py (append_operation_event, append_terminal_operation_event) check owner_instance_id/owner_epoch but not lease expiry. So in a multi-replica deployment, if replica A's durable lease briefly lapses (renewal blip) while A is still finalizing a 30-minute-stale eventless operation, replica B's sweep can abandon it and A's terminal write gets fenced. The consequence is degraded-but-recoverable (client falls into the 400 full-history recovery contract), and the event_bytes CAS covers races within a sweep — but please either (a) add a grace window so eligibility requires the lease to have been expired for more than a renewal blip (e.g. lease_expires_at <= now - <bridge request budget or one lease period>), or (b) write down the rebuttal in the design doc: that a lease-expired owner is already considered dead by the ownership model and the recovery contract is the intended conservative outcome. Either resolution works; silence on a P1 doesn't.

  2. P2 — missing abandonment reason: openspec/changes/abandon-expired-http-bridge-operations/specs/proxy-runtime-observability/spec.md requires the structured diagnostic to contain "source state, abandonment reason, bounded age, and owner-lease outcome", but the extra payload in session_registry.py emits only source_state, age_seconds, owner_lease_outcome, session_hash. Add a low-cardinality reason field (e.g. "stale_owner") and assert it in the maintenance test, so the implementation matches its own normative spec.

Everything else looks merge-ready to me: the CAS predicates, the abandoned fences across all write/recovery/reset paths, the String(32) state column (no migration needed, alembic checks agree), and the test coverage for the sweep, cursor resume, and full-history recovery contract are all solid.

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Thanks for the detailed review. Both points checked out and are fixed in d893faa5. Owned sessions now get one full durable lease period of grace after lease expiry before abandonment, so a brief cross-replica renewal blip cannot fence active finalization. Ownerless sessions remain immediately eligible. The structured diagnostic now also emits reason=stale_owner, with regression coverage and matching OpenSpec updates.

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#	app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_repository.py
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Comment on lines +1544 to +1547
stale_owner = or_(
HttpBridgeSessionRecord.owner_instance_id.is_(None),
HttpBridgeSessionRecord.lease_expires_at.is_(None),
HttpBridgeSessionRecord.lease_expires_at <= lease_expired_before,

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P1 Badge Delay abandonment after ownerless releases

When a stale request is being closed, _close_http_bridge_session_resources calls release_live_session before cancelling the upstream reader and failing or settling pending requests (helpers.py:991-1024); another replica can then evaluate this owner_instance_id IS NULL branch and abandon the operation immediately because the lease-expiry grace is applied only when an owner remains present, while the releasing replica's in-memory protection is invisible cross-replica. Fresh evidence beyond the prior thread is that release_session deliberately stores owner_instance_id=None with lease_expires_at=now, but this predicate ignores that timestamp for ownerless rows, so the claimed additional lease-period protection does not cover graceful-release finalization. Require recently released ownerless sessions to age through the same grace before fencing their operations.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L109-L113

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if not operation.created and operation.state == "abandoned":
_record_continuity_fail_closed(
surface="http_bridge",
reason="abandoned_operation_full_history_recovery",
previous_response_id=request_state.previous_response_id,
session_id=request_state.session_id,
upstream_error_code="previous_response_not_found",
)
raise ProxyResponseError(
400,
_http_bridge_client_full_history_recovery_error(),
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P1 Badge Recover abandoned hard-continuity operations explicitly

In server_anchored_replay_once or server_indefinite_recovery mode, _http_bridge_operation_fence_for_hard_continuity_enabled records operations for turn-state-header requests whose previous_response_id is already None, so those operations can also reach abandoned. This unconditional branch then returns previous_response_not_found and instructs the client to retry without previous_response_id; for that hard-continuity path there is no such field to remove, leaving the same turn-state request to hit the same abandoned fingerprint and 400 again. Distinguish this path and return a recovery contract that causes the client to discard the hard continuity anchor and resend full history, with bridge-level coverage for an abandoned turn-state operation.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L127-L130

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if not use_bounded_protection:
statement = statement.with_for_update()

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P1 Badge Lock session rows in oversized abandonment sweeps

When the local protection set exceeds 500 IDs, this branch deliberately omits FOR UPDATE, yet the sweep performs all candidate CAS updates and commits only after the loop. On PostgreSQL, a concurrent lease renewal or takeover can therefore update and commit the session after its operation's CAS has read the expired-owner snapshot but before the sweep transaction commits; the newly live owner is then left with an abandoned operation. The normal path prevents this by retaining the session-row lock, so the bounded path needs equivalent locking or an atomic session version check that cannot commit behind a successful renewal.

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