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Per-org leaseholders went live on Khoury prod on 2026-09-14. A real 190-repo burst for Khoury-CS3650 that afternoon drained in 29.5 minutes at an effective concurrency of 5.20 against 8 configured.

Reconstructed from pgmq.a_async_calls (read time = vt - 480s, finish = archived_at), the loss decomposes exactly:

configured (orgSlotMaxPerOrg 2 × drainConcurrency 4)   8.00
× leaseholder residency (~1.8 of 2 resident)           7.20
× within-batch utilisation (0.73)                      5.26   ← measured 5.20

The leaseholders were fine. The 0.73 is within-batch straggler waiting: across 47 batches of exactly 4, the mean message took 48.4s but the batch's slowest took 68.4s, and processBatch did not claim again until every message settled. Sampling in-flight count every 30s shows the sawtooth — 8, then 1–2, then 8.

What changed

The org-leased path now keeps n in flight and tops up the shortfall as each settles. Simulated against the measured duration distribution — mean 48.2s, slowest-of-four 68.5s, worst 94.9s, all asserted against production figures so the fixture cannot drift:

batch-and-wait   : 2.78/4 = 69.5% utilisation, 54.9 min, 52 claims
continuous refill: 3.96/4 = 99.1% utilisation, 38.6 min, 194 claims

Both arms run the shipped driver, selected by a boolean that resolveAsyncWorkerTuning produced from an env string — not a hand-rolled copy of the loop being replaced. 69.5% reproduces the 0.708 measured in production (48.4 ÷ 68.4).

Keeping the per-org cap honest

claim_org_slot_and_read re-picks the neediest org on every call, which was safe when rotation could only happen between batches. Under refill a top-up could rotate while up to n-1 of the previous org's messages were still running, leaving that org at max_per_org × n + (n-1)11 against a configured 8.

A defaulted pin_org argument restricts a claim to one org. Top-ups issued with work in flight are pinned; claims at rest are not, so genuine rotation survives where it costs nothing. The status row is scoped to the pin too — without that, a drained pinned org reports no_capacity forever because some other org has work.

Four lease behaviours now key on inFlightCount() > 0, all inert before this change because nothing was ever in flight between batches: a run does not release a slot it is still using; renewal outlives finished while draining; the idle budget does not start with work running; the probe set is pinned and truncated.

Priority ordering

Only the highest-priority queue is streamed. Truncating the probe set to the held queue would otherwise let a low-priority stream outlive a main-queue backlog indefinitely — a regression against batch-at-a-time, which re-probed at every boundary. On a lower-priority queue the run drains a batch and lets the in-flight set empty, restoring the full unpinned probe at today's cadence. Analytics work pays the 27%; urgent work does not.

Deploy skew

PostgREST resolves an overload by the set of argument names, so sending pin_org to a pre-migration database answers PGRST202 — the same code as a genuinely missing function, which is fatal on first failure. The key is omitted rather than sent as null on unpinned claims, and a PGRST202 on a pinned claim degrades that run to batch-at-a-time rather than taking the org-leased path down during any window where the image leads the migration.

Ceilings raised, defaults unchanged

MAX_ORG_SLOT_MAX_PER_ORG 2 → 4, and the in-flight product ceiling 8 → 16 — the latter now its own constant rather than borrowing MAX_DRAIN_CONCURRENCY. Those bounded different resources (one isolate's heap and VT model, versus one org's share of a fleet-wide GitHub limiter) and agreed on 8 by coincidence.

Shipped defaults do not move, because the reservoir cuts both ways. At 40 starts/min per org:

org d (p50) c=8 c=16
neu-cs2000 23.1s 20.8/min (52%) 41.6/min — over
Khoury-CS3650 46.0s 10.4/min (26%) 20.9/min (52%)
neu-cs5004 25.7s 18.7/min (47%) 37.4/min (93%)

orgSlotMaxPerOrg has no per-org dimension, so raising it for a slow org raises it for a fast one. 8 remains the only value ever justified from a measurement, and the file says so rather than letting 16 inherit that justification.

Kill switch

orgSlotContinuousRefill (integer 0|1, default 1) selects the drain shape, so refill rolls back with a values change instead of orgSlotGlobalCap: 0, which would also give up per-org leasing.

Integer rather than a string boolean because Boolean("false") === true in JS — a string-valued kill switch fails open at exactly the moment someone reaches for it. The rollback is total: drainBatchAtATime never populates inFlight, so every behaviour above goes inert together.

Lease TTL: number unchanged, argument corrected

The file justified MIN_ORG_SLOT_LEASE_TTL_SECONDS = 45 from a cited 32.2s worst message. Over the clean VT=480 regime (2,337 messages) the real figure is 97.7s, and 36 of them already outrun the shipped 60s TTL with zero slots reaped.

That is only explicable if renewal is decoupled from handler duration — it is an independent setInterval, and the handlers are await-driven I/O, so a 97.7s create_repo is 97.7s of awaiting during which the timer fires ~5 times. The floor must exceed the longest the event loop can go unyielding, not the longest message. 45 stays, and a Jest assertion now pins floor < 97.7 so nobody "fixes" this by raising it past the worst message — which would have silently clamped prod's shipped 60s up.

⚠️ An earlier pass produced a fake 484s maximum: the prod visibility timeout changed 300s → 480s on 2026-09-10, so subtracting a flat 480 across that boundary inflates every earlier duration by exactly 180s. Worth knowing before anyone re-derives these numbers.

Tests

Harness 176 → 198, deno 470 → 476, jest 65 → 72, guard-rails 184 → 189.

Every new assertion was shown failing against a deliberately broken version. Two worth calling out, because both were initially vacuous and only the negative test revealed it:

  • The pin_org scenario first pinned to the bigger org — so when the pin was ignored the allocator picked it anyway and the check passed against a no-op. Re-fixtured to pin the smaller org, with the needier one also alphabetically first so the unpinned choice is unambiguous under both arms of the ORDER BY. Against a migration that accepts pin_org and ignores it, 12 of 22 checks go red.
  • The kill-switch guard-rail initially asserted only that the render succeeded. Rendering the env entry as a literal "1" still passed four of five checks — so it now asserts the value reaches the pod.

Known gaps

  • Nothing has traversed PostgREST with the new signature. The old 7-arg overload is dropped (a defaulted argument creates a second function, and a 7-arg call then matches both and fails function is not unique), so a body omitting pin_org must resolve against the single defaulted function. That is exactly the kind of thing that passes in SQL and fails over HTTP — will verify on this PR's preview.
  • The 16-in-flight regime is unmeasured. Every c=16 figure is extrapolated from c≤8 assuming per-message duration does not stretch with concurrency, which the available data cannot establish: the only same-org comparison is 242 samples at c=4 against 4 samples at c=8, with the sign backwards.
  • requiredVisibilityTimeoutSeconds(n) = n × 120 is left alone deliberately. Its premise — that a batch partially serialises — no longer describes a refill stream, where each message's VT clock starts at its own claim. Recorded as an open question with the experiment that would settle it, not acted on.
  • floor(lifetime / PER_MESSAGE_VT_BUDGET_SECONDS) still caps n on the org-leased path, where "does the work fit inside a lifetime" no longer has an answer. Left alone; it only ever reduces n, so it errs safe.
  • drainBatchAtATime adds one line the pre-refill loop lacked: a .catch routing a rejected handler to onError. It cannot change control flow (allSettled already tolerated rejections) — it only surfaces to Sentry an event previously dropped. Flagged because a rollback path should be a transcription.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable wall-clock run budgets for organization-based async processing.
    • Added organization-pinned claims and continuous refill controls.
    • Increased supported per-organization concurrency to 1–4, with up to 16 in-flight messages.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved lease handling and graceful fallback for unsupported environments.
    • Invalid refill and run-budget settings now fail safely.
    • Improved organization resolution for empty or missing organization values.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for run budgets, refill behavior, concurrency limits, validation, and fallback scenarios.

…atch at a time

Per-org leaseholders went live on Khoury prod 2026-09-14. A real 190-repo burst
for Khoury-CS3650 that afternoon drained in 29.5 minutes at an effective
concurrency of 5.20 against 8 configured. Reconstructed from pgmq.a_async_calls
(read time = vt - 480s, finish = archived_at), the loss decomposes exactly:

  configured (orgSlotMaxPerOrg 2 x drainConcurrency 4)   8.00
  x leaseholder residency (~1.8 of 2 resident)           7.20
  x within-batch utilisation (0.73)                      5.26   measured 5.20

The 0.73 is within-batch straggler waiting: across 47 batches of exactly 4, the
mean message took 48.4s but the batch's slowest took 68.4s, and processBatch did
not claim again until every message settled. Sampling in-flight count every 30s
shows the sawtooth -- 8, then 1-2, then 8.

CONTINUOUS REFILL. The org-leased path now keeps n messages in flight and tops
up the shortfall as each settles: one claim per wake-up, where a wake-up is the
start of the run or a message completing. Simulated against the measured
duration distribution (mean 48.2s, slowest-of-four 68.5s, worst 94.9s -- all
asserted against production so the fixture cannot drift):

  batch-and-wait   : 2.78/4 = 69.5% utilisation, 54.9 min, 52 claims
  continuous refill: 3.96/4 = 99.1% utilisation, 38.6 min, 194 claims

Both arms run the SHIPPED driver, selected by a boolean that
resolveAsyncWorkerTuning produced from an env string -- not a hand-rolled copy
of the loop being replaced. Claim traffic is ~one RPC per message, 0.66/s
fleet-wide at globalCap 8 against a measured ~288/s ceiling.

KEEPING THE PER-ORG CAP HONEST. claim_org_slot_and_read re-picks the neediest
org on every call, which was safe when rotation could only happen between
batches. Under refill a top-up could rotate while up to n-1 of the previous
org's messages were still running, leaving that org at max_per_org x n + (n-1)
-- 11 against a configured 8. A new `pin_org` argument (defaulted, so the old
call shape still resolves) restricts a claim to one org; top-ups issued with
work in flight are pinned, claims at rest are not, so genuine rotation survives
where it is free. The status row is scoped to the pin too: without that a
drained pinned org reports no_capacity forever because some other org has work.

Four lease behaviours now key on inFlightCount() > 0, all inert before this
change because nothing was ever in flight between batches: a run does not
release a slot it is still using; renewal outlives `finished` while draining;
the idle budget does not start with work running; and the probe set is pinned
and truncated.

PRIORITY. Only the highest-priority queue is streamed. Truncating the probe set
to the held queue would otherwise let a low-priority stream outlive a main-queue
backlog indefinitely -- a regression against batch-at-a-time, which re-probed at
every boundary. On any lower-priority queue the run drains a batch and lets the
in-flight set empty, restoring the full unpinned probe at today's cadence.
Analytics work pays the 27%; urgent work does not.

DEPLOY SKEW. PostgREST resolves an overload by the SET OF ARGUMENT NAMES, so
sending pin_org to a pre-migration database answers PGRST202 -- the same code as
a genuinely missing function, which is fatal on first failure. The key is
omitted rather than sent as null on unpinned claims, and a PGRST202 on a pinned
claim degrades that run to batch-at-a-time instead of taking the org-leased path
down during any window where the image leads the migration.

CEILINGS RAISED, DEFAULTS UNCHANGED. MAX_ORG_SLOT_MAX_PER_ORG 2 -> 4 and the
in-flight product ceiling 8 -> 16, the latter now its own constant rather than
borrowing MAX_DRAIN_CONCURRENCY -- those bounded different resources (one
isolate's heap and VT model, versus one org's share of a fleet-wide GitHub
limiter) and agreed on 8 by coincidence. Shipped defaults do not move, because
the reservoir cuts both ways: at 40 starts/min per org, 16 in flight is 52% for
Khoury-CS3650 (46.0s/message) and 104% for neu-cs2000 (23.1s/message), and
orgSlotMaxPerOrg has no per-org dimension. 8 remains the only value ever
justified from a measurement.

KILL SWITCH. orgSlotContinuousRefill (integer 0|1, default 1) selects the drain
shape, so refill can be rolled back with a values change instead of
orgSlotGlobalCap: 0, which would also give up per-org leasing. Integer rather
than a string boolean because Boolean("false") === true in JS -- a string-valued
kill switch fails open at exactly the moment someone reaches for it. The
rollback is total: drainBatchAtATime never populates inFlight, so every
behaviour above goes inert together.

LEASE TTL: NUMBER UNCHANGED, ARGUMENT CORRECTED. The file justified
MIN_ORG_SLOT_LEASE_TTL_SECONDS = 45 from a cited 32.2s worst message. The real
figure over the clean VT=480 regime (2,337 messages) is 97.7s, and 36 of them
already outrun the shipped 60s TTL with zero slots reaped. That is only
explicable if renewal is decoupled from handler duration -- it is an independent
setInterval, and the handlers are await-driven I/O. The floor must exceed the
longest the event loop can go unyielding, not the longest message. 45 stays; a
Jest assertion now pins floor < 97.7 so nobody "fixes" this by raising it.

An earlier 14-day pass produced a fake 484s maximum: the prod visibility timeout
changed 300s -> 480s on 2026-09-10, so subtracting a flat 480 across that
boundary inflates every earlier duration by exactly 180s.

Tests: harness 176 -> 198, deno 470 -> 476, jest 65 -> 72, guard-rails 184 -> 189.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds continuous refill, isolate run budgets, pinned organization claims, stream fairness, raised per-organization limits, chart validation, worker integration, schema updates, and regression coverage.

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Organization lease drain

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Chart and tuning controls
charts/pawtograder/..., supabase/functions/_shared/asyncWorkerTuning.ts, tests/unit/async-worker-tuning.test.ts
Adds continuous-refill and run-budget settings. Raises the per-organization range to 1–4 and the product ceiling to 16.
Bounded lease drain engine
supabase/functions/_shared/orgLeaseRun.ts, supabase/functions/_shared/orgLeaseRun.test.ts
Adds isolate claim deadlines, pinned shortfall claims, stream quanta, deferred release, continued renewal, and continuous-refill dispatch.
Pinned allocator contract
supabase/migrations/20260914120000_async_lease_pin_org.sql, tests/manual/per_org_async_leases/*
Adds pin_org, normalized organization resolution, named composite results, and scoped no_demand and no_capacity statuses.
Worker and schema wiring
supabase/functions/github-async-worker/index.ts, supabase/functions/_shared/SupabaseTypes.d.ts, utils/supabase/SupabaseTypes.d.ts
Routes the worker through drainOrgLease and updates generated database typings.
Validation and regression coverage
charts/pawtograder/tests/render-guardrails.sh, tests/unit/async-worker-tuning.test.ts, tests/manual/per_org_async_leases/run.sh
Tests chart rendering, fail-safe tuning, run budgets, stream fairness, pinned allocation, migration overrides, and empty organization handling.

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Regenerate the Supabase declaration and remove the hand-authored comment.

client-local replaces the declaration before postprocessing. The postprocessor does not add RPC comments. The migration defines pin_org text default null, and generated declarations use optional properties for defaulted arguments. Keep pin_org?: string. Keep the explanation in OrgSlotRpc.claim, not in the generated file.

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           n: number;
-          // Optional, with a server-side DEFAULT of null: given, the allocator considers only that
-          // org and does not fall back to re-picking the neediest one. Optional in BOTH directions
-          // on purpose — an old image that never sends it keeps working against a new database, and
-          // the worker omits the key entirely (rather than sending null) when it is not pinning, so
-          // a new image keeps working against a database that predates the parameter.
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In `@supabase/functions/_shared/asyncWorkerTuning.ts`:
- Around line 1211-1217: Update the continuous refill handling around
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CodeRabbit on #982. `GITHUB_ASYNC_WORKER_ORG_SLOT_CONTINUOUS_REFILL=false` was
correctly REJECTED by readBounded and then fell back to the default of 1, so
`continuousRefill` resolved true. The kill switch failed open on exactly the
value an operator is most likely to type when reaching for it -- the same
failure mode the integer-over-string-boolean choice was made to avoid,
reintroduced through the fallback path. The comment directly above that call
said "a kill switch that fails open is worse than no kill switch".

Reproduced before changing anything: "false", "off", "no" all resolved to
refill ON via the rejection path, and "2" via the clamp path. Worse than
reported in one respect -- the Sentry issue said `effective: 1` and the worker
ran 1, so the report was consistent and wrong together, and nothing in the
telemetry would have contradicted an operator who believed refill was off.

An opt-in `failSafeValue` on Bounds, consumed on both unusable paths. A special
case would have had to re-derive whether an issue occurred and rewrite that
issue's `effective` and message, or keep reporting a value the worker was not
running. The option is provably inert for knobs that do not set it, pinned by a
test that walks every other knob.

  absent / empty                     -> 1 (on), no issue. An older chart or a
                                        pre-flag image is not an operator edit.
  present but unparseable or out of
  range                              -> 0 (off), reported with effective: 0.

WHY THIS KNOB AND NOT ITS NEIGHBOURS. `continuousRefill` is the only knob whose
fallback equals its range MAXIMUM:

  drainConcurrency    1-8     fallback 4
  visibilityTimeout   60-1800 fallback 300
  orgSlotGlobalCap    0-8     fallback 0    (== min, off)
  orgSlotMaxPerOrg    1-4     fallback 1    (== min)
  orgSlotLeaseTtl     45-300  fallback 60
  continuousRefill    0-1     fallback 1    <- == max

`fallback === max` is the checkable signature of a knob where "fall back to the
default" and "fail safe" come apart. That is now a unit test walking the other
five, so the next permissive-default knob is noticed rather than inherited.

The chart already refuses these values at render time, so this path is only
reachable through the Helm-bypass routes the chart cannot see -- a hand-edited
Deployment, `kubectl set env`, a local functions serve. The prose now separates
loud from safe: the integer choice makes a typo REPORTED rather than silently
truthy, and failSafeValue is what makes it SAFE. The paragraph that asserted the
opposite is kept, marked as what it was, because the mistake is the reason the
rule exists.

Not changed, but noted: `maxPerOrg` clamps an out-of-range value UPWARD to 4.
That is intent-preserving and stays within argued-safe bounds only while the
product ceiling and globalCap checks downstream of it hold. It is the one
remaining knob where a malformed edit resolves to something more aggressive than
the shipped value, and the first place to look if this pattern bites again.

Tests: jest 72 -> 76, guard-rails 189 unchanged (this was a runtime bug; the
chart already refused these values at render time).

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Good catch — fixed in 78bf7279, and it was worse than described in one respect.

Reproduced before changing anything:

"false" → refill=true   issue=rejected/eff=1
"off"   → refill=true   issue=rejected/eff=1
"no"    → refill=true   issue=rejected/eff=1
"2"     → refill=true   issue=clamped/eff=1
"0 "    → refill=false  (trim already handled this one)

The Sentry issue reported effective: 1 and the worker ran 1 — consistent and wrong together, so nothing in the telemetry would have contradicted an operator who believed they had switched refill off. And the comment directly above that call said "a kill switch that fails open is worse than no kill switch".

Fix: an opt-in failSafeValue on Bounds, consumed on both unusable paths. A special case would have had to re-derive whether an issue occurred and rewrite that issue's effective and message — otherwise the report keeps claiming a value the worker is not running, which is the lying-telemetry half of the bug. The option is provably inert for knobs that do not set it, pinned by a test that walks every other knob.

absent / empty                   → 1 (on), no issue
present but unparseable or
out of range                     → 0 (off), reported with effective: 0

Absence stays on deliberately: an older chart or a pre-flag image is not an operator edit.

Why this knob and not its neighbours. Surveying all six turned up a crisper property than "their fallbacks point the safe way" — continuousRefill is the only one whose fallback equals its range maximum:

knob range fallback fallback == max?
drainConcurrency 1–8 4 no
visibilityTimeoutSeconds 60–1800 300 no
orgSlotGlobalCap 0–8 0 no (== min, off)
orgSlotMaxPerOrg 1–4 1 no (== min)
orgSlotLeaseTtlSeconds 45–300 60 no
orgSlotContinuousRefill 0–1 1 yes

fallback === max is the checkable signature of a knob where "fall back to the default" and "fail safe" come apart. That's now a unit test walking the other five, so the next permissive-default knob gets noticed rather than inherited.

Worth noting the chart already refuses these values at render time — this path is only reachable through the Helm-bypass routes the chart cannot see (a hand-edited Deployment, kubectl set env, a local functions serve). So the runtime rule is defence in depth, which is why guard-rails are unchanged at 189 while jest went 72 → 76.

The paragraph that asserted the opposite is kept, marked as what it was, since the mistake is the reason the rule exists.

One thing this survey turned up that we did not change: maxPerOrg clamps an out-of-range value upward to 4. That is intent-preserving and stays within argued-safe bounds only while the product ceiling and globalCap checks downstream of it hold. It is the one remaining knob where a malformed edit resolves to something more aggressive than the shipped value — first place to look if this pattern bites again.

Deliberate break (removing just the opt-in line restores the previous behaviour), three tests failing for three distinct reasons — the rejection path, the clamp path, and the absent-vs-malformed asymmetry that is the actual rule:

✕ FAILS SAFE on a malformed value instead of failing open
✕ treats an out-of-range value as unusable, not as extra-on
✕ distinguishes ABSENT from PRESENT-BUT-UNUSABLE, which is the whole rule
Tests: 3 failed, 73 passed, 76 total

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`no_capacity` does not prove the server wrote nothing. The `claimed` CTE is
data-modifying and commits whenever an org qualifies and a slot is free;
`picked` then re-reads the queue under `FOR UPDATE OF q SKIP LOCKED` and can
return nothing if a concurrent archive, delete or read holds those rows. The
UNION ALL then answers `no_capacity` with a live slot row already written.

claimOnce treated that status as proof of no write and dropped the queue from
`touchedQueues`, so the committed lease was never released and stayed live for
a full TTL -- one global_cap and one max_per_org burned under an isolate that
had already returned, repeating on every cron tick that lost the race.
Reproduced locally: session A holds `FOR UPDATE` on the org's ready rows,
session B's claim returns `no_capacity` with zero messages while
async_worker_slots shows the row live. Refill worsens it in both directions: a
top-up's limit is the SHORTFALL, often 1, so one locked row suffices where a
batch claim needed all n, and there are ~n times as many claims.

`touchedQueues` now narrows only on `no_demand`, the one status that proves the
claimed CTE never ran.

Also in this commit, each with a regression test:

  * `inFlightCount` was optional and defaulted to `() => 0`, so a driver passing
    `inFlight` but not `inFlightCount` type-checked and ran with every refill
    safety property silently off -- top-ups going out unpinned, releases no
    longer deferred, renewal stopping while handlers ran. The assertion that
    would have caught it was itself gated on `inFlightCount() > 0`. Now
    `run.tracksInFlight`, throwing at entry before anything is claimed.

  * `maxInFlight` and the run's `drainConcurrency` were unlinked arguments on
    two calls. claim() caps ONE claim at drainConcurrency, not the in-flight
    SET, so maxInFlight 8 against drainConcurrency 4 held 8 handlers under one
    slot while the allocator budgeted 4 -- double the accounted concurrency
    against the per-org GitHub limiter, invisible in the slot table. The
    comment claiming the two could not diverge was wrong. Now coupled through
    `run.drainConcurrency`, and drainBatchAtATime honours maxInFlight rather
    than ignoring it.

  * The kill switch still failed OPEN on a blanked variable. readBounded folded
    an empty value in with `undefined` and returned the permissive default
    before failSafeValue was consulted, so `...CONTINUOUS_REFILL=` -- what
    `kubectl set env NAME=` produces -- resolved refill ON with no issue
    reported. That is the same failure mode 78bf727 was written to close, on
    the Helm-bypass path failSafeValue exists for.

  * `continuousRefill = refill.value === 1` contradicted the documented widening
    contract: raising MAX to 2 would make a configured 2 resolve OFF, silently,
    for the value an operator picked to get more of it. Now `> 0`.

  * `Math.max(1, Math.min(n, Math.floor(NaN)))` is NaN, not 1, and crosses the
    wire as `n: null`, raising P0001, which claimOnce classifies as a
    deployment error and ends the run on first failure.

  * The backstop catch in start() called opts.onError directly, so a throw from
    the reporter re-rejected the promise the catch exists to make non-rejecting
    -- an unhandled rejection with nothing attached, which takes the isolate
    down. The invariant was stated three lines above and rested on a callback
    this module does not own.

  * The new Sentry tags were written on the shared run scope and never cleared,
    so `org_slot_release_deferred` and `org_slot_refill` latched and were copied
    onto every per-message event captured afterwards. The file already
    documents this exact shape for pgmq_archive_failed.

Comments corrected alongside: the no_capacity branch claimed the opposite of
what no_capacity means, and the "11 rather than 8" figure needed max_per_org 2
while the same text cited the shipped value of 1.

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…t in depth

Per-claim cost grew with backlog depth -- 5.20ms at depth 0, 10.47ms at 2000,
18.16ms at 5000, about 2.6us per visible message -- and every claim holds the
single advisory lock 1346850129, shared by every queue and org, so that cost is
serialized fleet-wide. Continuous refill issues roughly one claim per message
rather than one per batch, which made total serialized lock time quadratic in
burst size: draining a 5000-message backlog cost ~60s of global-lock time
against ~15s batch-at-a-time. That is worst exactly during the release bursts
this feature exists to drain, and a deep burst is the FAST-method case --
fix_assignment_repo_permissions enqueues one message per repo in a loop.

EXPLAIN at depth 5000 showed `ready` doing a seq scan of every visible row plus
a hash join to classes (the vt index cannot help, since a burst makes ~100% of
rows visible), and `picked` doing a nested loop over all of them into 5000
bitmap probes, a 505kB quicksort, and then Limit 4 -- 26,797 buffer hits to
return four msg_ids.

Three changes:

  * The org resolver moves into a plpgsql constant interpolated into both
    `demand` and `picked`, and reaches classes.github_org through a correlated
    scalar subquery instead of a left join. That makes it an expression over one
    queue row with no join obligation on the consumer, which is what lets a
    four-row scan use it. It requires an index on classes ((id::text)): without
    one the per-row lookup seq-scans a 414-row classes at 100ms/call against
    12ms with it. The resolver is still defined ONCE, because demand and picked
    disagreeing about an org would claim a slot for one and read another's work.

  * `demand` replaces the `ready` CTE, applies the pin filter at scan level, and
    carries a LIMIT of n * max_per_org on the pinned path.
    least(ceil(R/n) + a_all, max_per_org) is invariant under
    R -> min(R, n * max_per_org) in both directions of the case split, so the
    bound is behavior-preserving. It is applied only when pinned, which also
    keeps it away from the one consumer whose value is not provably inert, the
    ORDER BY tiebreak -- a pinned call has at most one candidate, so it never
    orders anything.

  * `picked` applies the resolver directly rather than semijoining against a
    materialized `ready`, so the LIMIT bounds the scan, plus an uncorrelated
    `exists (select 1 from claimed)` fence. Without that fence every
    no_demand/no_capacity call walked the whole pkey index with a predicate
    nothing could satisfy, costing 2.6ms -> 4.9ms at depth 0.

Pinned top-up at depth 5000: 22.80ms -> 1.78ms, and flat across 0/2000/5000
(2.89 / 1.79 / 1.78). Buffer hits 10,964 -> 111 pinned, 10,964 -> 2,799
unpinned; `picked` alone 10,923 -> 4.

THE REGRESSION. The unpinned path still scans the whole backlog and now pays a
per-row class lookup: 8.01 -> 10.07ms on a 2400-message six-org shape with a
one-in-three class fallback, and storm throughput 143-147 -> 114-120 claim
calls/sec. Production's fallback rate is one in seven and globalCap is 8 rather
than the storm's 48 sessions, so this should be milder in prod, but it is real.
A per-statement jsonb map of classes fixes it (10.1 -> 7.4ms) and was REFUSED:
making the resolver cheap per row flips picked back to scan-and-sort and takes
the pinned depth-5000 claim from 1.8ms to 10.9ms. Refill's hot path is the
pinned top-up, so the trade goes the other way.

Second shape-dependence worth knowing: the bound is the offset of the pinned
org's first ready message, not queue depth. With four contiguous 1250-message
org blocks, a pinned claim on the front block is 16.12 -> 1.71ms and on the back
block 16.34 -> 10.89ms. Better everywhere, flat only when the org's work is
reachable early.

picked's early stop is a PLAN choice, not a structural guarantee. It is stable
because a correlated subplan in the qual is costed per row, so the
LIMIT-fraction discount always favours the ordered scan and more strongly as the
queue deepens -- but the jsonb-map experiment proves by construction that a
cheap resolver flips it.

No index on the queue tables earns its keep: the resolver depends on a second
table so it is not an expression-index candidate, pgmq creates q_<name>
dynamically so a migration cannot index queues that do not exist yet, and a
partial index on vt is useless when a burst makes ~100% of rows visible.

Behavior verified identical to the previous function over 40,000 randomized
differential trials against a mutation-tested oracle (15/15 planted changes
caught, including target_drops_a_all and picked_ignores_winning_org), plus
tests/manual/per_org_async_leases 198/198 including the 48-session storm and the
renew/claim race. That oracle is single-session, so SKIP LOCKED never skips and
the advisory lock is never contended: concurrency and locking are NOT covered by
it. No lock, own-row FOR UPDATE, surplus-release or free_slot logic changed.

Header prose corrected in the same pass: the ~288/s ceiling was the empty-queue
figure measured with the slowest method, the 99.1% headline is a single-org
single-leaseholder simulation with flat 20ms claim latency and no lock
contention (now labelled an upper bound), and the ceil(ready/n) throttle is
documented as algebraically inert -- the predicate is exactly
a_others < max_per_org -- rather than as a live constraint.

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The generated types had not been regenerated for either of the two org-slot
migrations. async_worker_slots, created by 20260912120000, appeared zero times
in the file, and claim_org_slot_and_read / renew_org_slot / release_org_slot
were likewise absent -- so every caller was typed against a schema that had not
existed for two migrations.

#982 had papered over one line of that by hand-editing the file, which CLAUDE.md
prohibits ("auto-generated ... Do not hand-edit") and which the next
`npm run client-local` would have silently reverted. That edit is dropped here;
the explanation it carried already lives on OrgSlotRpc.pin_org.

The file was stale in the other direction too: it still declared
database_ram_metrics, which 20260827120000 dropped. Regenerating removes it.
Confirmed that is the ONLY top-level name the regeneration removes, and that
supabase/functions/metrics/index.ts references it in a comment only.

Generated from a database reset to the full chain of 427 migrations, then
formatted with the lockfile's prettier 3.5.3. Note `npm run client-local` ends
in a bare `npx prettier --write`, so on a node_modules that has drifted from
package-lock.json it will format these two files with the wrong version and fail
the lint job -- which is how this was caught.

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EDGE_WORKER_TIMEOUT_MS=480000 and GITHUB_ASYNC_WORKER_VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
=480 are the same number in prod, and the runtime hard-kills the isolate at its
wall clock -- 664 times in 75 minutes across 27 pods. beginOrgLeaseRun bounded
only IDLE time (DEFAULT_IDLE_BUDGET_MS = 50_000); a busy run's shouldContinue is
`() => !finished`, and finished is set only by a lost slot, a spent idle budget,
maxStallMs, or a dead RPC. So a leaseholder that is actually working drains
until the runtime kills it mid-batch, and whatever it had read stays invisible
for the remainder of its VT -- which, VT being the isolate lifetime, is
essentially a full 480s.

The previous commit made the gap sharper rather than closing it: the idle
deadline now arms only when `inFlightCount() === 0`, so the one existing time
bound explicitly REFUSES to arm while work is in flight.

Signature in pgmq.a_async_calls: groups sharing one enqueued_at second,
read_ct=2, archived_at - enqueued_at clustered at 482-507s with the actual work
only 1-13s, last read reconstructing as vt - 480s. sync_repo_permissions
redelivery 20.8% (9/13) -> 26.0% (9/14) -> 35.4% (9/15); whole-queue 4.0% ->
14.5%. This fired PawtograderQueueOldestMessageAging on 2026-09-15 at ~18:21
UTC against a queue whose depth never exceeded 27.

THE ANCHOR IS MODULE STATE, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. `started` in
github-async-worker/index.ts is reset in a `.finally()` when runBatchHandler
resolves, and the cron is `* * * * *` poking twice per tick against a 50s idle
budget, so ONE ISOLATE HOSTS A SEQUENCE OF RUNS across its 480s life. A
run-scoped deadline is not merely imprecise, it is useless in exactly the case
that matters: the dangerous run is a YOUNG run starting LATE in the isolate's
life, and a run-scoped budget hands it a full fresh allowance so it is killed
minutes short of its own deadline. The deadline is therefore stored as an
ABSOLUTE INSTANT (`anchor + budgetMs`) from a module-level
`ISOLATE_STARTED_AT = Date.now()`, so every run in the isolate resolves to the
same instant and inherits the remainder rather than refreshing it.

beginOrgLeaseRun THROWS if the budget is armed with an injected `now` but no
`isolateStartedAt`: the two clocks are different epochs, the deadline could
never be reached, and any test of it would pass vacuously.

The gate is the first thing in claim(), not in shouldContinue(). Past the
deadline it tags org_slot=run_budget_spent, releases via the existing
releaseSlotUnlessDraining, sets finished, and returns null -- so in-flight work
FINISHES, the drivers break, and the caller releases. This reuses the
no_capacity machinery (deferred release, renewal past finished) rather than
adding a new state.

SIZING: 480 - 120 - 30 = 330s (250s at the 400s default). ONE reserve, not n:
after the deadline the in-flight set only drains, and drains concurrently, so
what must fit is the LONGEST remaining message, not the sum.

The p50 ~280s figure for create_repo that motivated this is the 2026-09-07
number. On the VT=480 regime (2,337 messages, 2026-09-11 onward) create_repo is
p50 27.8s / p99 93.8s / max 97.7s, the worst of any method, so a 120s reserve
covers every message in the current dataset; the residual risk is a RETURN of
the 2026-09-07 regime. Either way a ~280s message cannot be guaranteed to drain
out by any budget worth having -- reserving 280s of 480s idles ~65% of every
isolate, and at the 400s default leaves nothing -- so this ELIMINATES the strand
for the ~78% of traffic at 1-1.4s p50 and SHRINKS it for the rest. VT is
deliberately untouched; decoupling it from the wall clock is the other lever.

Knob GITHUB_ASYNC_WORKER_ORG_SLOT_RUN_BUDGET_SECONDS, bounds min 120
(= PER_MESSAGE_VT_BUDGET_SECONDS), max = fallback =
orgSlotRunBudgetCeilingSeconds(lifetime), failSafeValue: min. `fallback === max`
is this file's own documented signature for needing failSafeValue, so the
"only knob that needs it" paragraph and the test pinning that asymmetry are
updated (now shape-based rather than count-based). Deliberately NOT maxPerOrg's
upward clamp: since the ceiling IS the default, clamping 600 -> 330 would give
an operator exactly what not setting the variable gives -- their edit reported
and inert. Fail-safe direction differs by layer on purpose: tuning resolves an
unusable value DOWN (operator intent), while orgLeaseRun treats a 0/NaN budget
as UNBOUNDED (caller arithmetic), because "never claims" is a green-lights hung
queue.

Also retracts the paragraph in drainWithContinuousRefill that argued against
this change: its mean-duration/lifetime model predicts <1% redelivery for the
dominant methods against 35.4% measured. Two suspect assumptions are named
(calibrated on the create_repo burst; assumes kills fall on draining and idle
isolates alike, when only busy runs stay resident to be killed). No replacement
closed form is offered -- flagged unresolved rather than invented.

Tests: 8 new Deno, 10 new Jest, 2 updated. Each verified against a
counterfactual applied to the production file, run, and reverted: gate removed
(5 deno fail, still claiming to 674460ms past a 480000 kill); anchor at run
start (ONLY the module-state test fails, which is the trap -- every
injected-clock budget test passes); in-flight work dropped at the deadline;
slot released unconditionally; knob without failSafeValue (3 jest fail); fixed
330s default instead of lifetime-derived (5 jest fail). The negative control
asserts the defect directly: an unbudgeted run claims at >=330s and >=480s with
inFlightAt(480_000) === 4, a full stranded set at the kill, against 0 with the
budget on.

NOT INCLUDED: chart plumbing. helm is unavailable in the dev environment, so
values.yaml / _edge-functions-workload.tpl / validations.yaml could not be
render-tested; the knob is unsettable via Helm until that lands. The derived
default is correct without it and failSafeValue covers the Helm-bypass paths. A
values+validations edit that cannot be rendered is a risk to every deploy.

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Codex P1 on #982, and the same defect an internal review measured. When every
globalCap slot is held by a deep stream, each holder stays pinned to its current
org on every refill and new cron invocations get no_capacity. A holder only
unpins once its org has no ready messages, so a newly waiting org can get ZERO
throughput until an entire backlog drains. Batch-at-a-time re-probed the
allocator at every boundary and moved a holder off a saturated org within ~68s;
refill only issues an unpinned claim when inFlight is empty, which with a deep
backlog never happens. The module already makes this argument for QUEUES and
called it "a regression against batch-at-a-time"; the identical property for
ORGS was neither mentioned nor bought back.

A pinned stream may now claim DEFAULT_STREAM_QUANTUM_REFILLS (8) x
drainConcurrency messages -- 32 at the shipped n of 4 -- before the top-up is
SKIPPED. The driver then waits on completions until inFlight empties, and the
next claim is unpinned by the rule already there (draining === false means no
pin_org and a full priority probe). The reconsideration is reached by WAITING,
never by relaxing the pin.

THE IN-FLIGHT BOUND IS UNCHANGED, AND PROVABLY SO. Reachable per-org concurrency
stays max_per_org * n. No quantum value, including 1, can make
max_per_org * n + (n-1) reachable, because this never issues an unpinned claim
while anything is in flight -- it only ever DECLINES to issue a pinned one. It
is quiesced_for_priority on a counter instead of a queue name, and strictly
cheaper, since that path pays a drain-out per batch.

MESSAGES, NOT WALL CLOCK. A drain-out costs exactly one tail, E[max of n] - E[X],
which is message-shaped: 20.0s on the create_repo burst (68.4 - 48.4) and ~1s on
sync_repo_permissions / sync_student_team, about 78% of traffic. One wall-clock
number would cost two orders of magnitude more on one workload than the other. A
message quantum holds the FRACTION steady and lets cadence fall out of the
workload: ~11s between reconsiderations on the fast mix, ~244s on create_repo.

k = 8 IS MEASURED, NOT FELT. Swept through the 190-message production-duration
simulation: k=2 -> 80.0%, k=4 -> 90.1%, k=6 -> 93.1%, k=8 -> 93.7%, k=12 and
k=16 -> 96.5%, unbounded -> 99.1%. The analytic model 0.41/(k+0.41) predicts
4.9% at k=8 and matches every point. k=8 spends 5.4 of the ~27 points refill
recovered; k=4 doubles that for a cadence runBudgetMs mostly caps anyway, and
k=16 pushes the create_repo cadence past the 330s run budget, where the quantum
stops being reachable within a run at all.

STREAM_QUANTUM_BACKOFF_CAP = 4. A reconsideration that returns the org it just
left paid a full drain-out for nothing, which is the whole single-org-burst
case. The quantum doubles after such an answer and snaps back to base on any
rotation, cutting pure waste from 5.4 points to 1.9 (99.1% -> 97.2%). The cap
exists because the allocator's tiebreak is alphabetical once a_others ties, so a
reconsideration CAN legitimately re-pick our org while another waits.

Stated plainly because it deserves scrutiny: the backoff is also what keeps the
pre-existing headline test green -- a flat quantum lands at 0.937 against an
existing `r.utilization > 0.95`. No existing test was weakened or deleted to
accommodate this; the backoff is independently justified by the measurement
above, on a fixture where it buys no fairness at all.

Also, per CodeRabbit on the same PR: drainWithContinuousRefill now REFUSES a
maxInFlight that is not run.drainConcurrency rather than coercing it. It is
exported with direct callers, and its loop computed the shortfall from
maxInFlight while run.claim clamps only each individual claim to
drainConcurrency, so maxInFlight 8 against drainConcurrency 4 accumulated eight
handlers under a slot budgeted for four. Throwing matches tracksInFlight ten
lines above, which throws for the identical class of mistake; enforcing one and
silently rewriting the other is not a contract. Production is unaffected --
drainOrgLease normalizes first and cannot produce a rejected value.

Nine new tests, each verified against a counterfactual applied to the production
file and reverted. Quantum gate deleted: 5 fail, the starved class first served
at message 232 of a 32-message quantum. The TEMPTING WRONG FIX -- dropping the
pin mid-stream instead of draining out -- passes the fairness test and is caught
only by the accounting one: "unpinned claims were issued with 0, 3 in flight;
every one must be zero or the per-org cap stops being counted". Backoff removed:
the second gap stays 32 where 64 was expected, and the headline test drops to
0.937. Quantum gate moved ahead of the deadline gate: the budget stops ending
the run. The negative control is a shipped test asserting the starved class's
first message is index 240 of 240 -- zero throughput for the entire backlog.

Residual, stated honestly: on a create_repo-class burst the cadence is ~244s
against a 330s runBudgetMs, so there the quantum only modestly beats what the
wall-clock budget already delivers. It closes the gap decisively wherever
closing it is cheap and defers to the budget on the one workload where it is
not. The fleet-level cadence argument (quantum / globalCap) assumes phase
uniformity and is an argument, not a measurement; the per-holder bound is tested.

streamQuantumRefills has no env var yet; asyncWorkerTuning.ts is where one goes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… the status row nullable

Two review findings on #982.

BLANK github_org SILENTLY DISABLED REFILL (CodeRabbit). public.classes.github_org
is nullable text with NO check constraint, and five existing migrations guard ''
by hand (github_org <> '' in 20250908133405, 20251004115504, 20260909170000;
nullif(trim(github_org), '') in 20260315200001, 20260322000001), so '' is a live
state the schema already treats as real. The resolver wrapped its three envelope
arms in nullif(..., '') but not the class fallback, so such a class resolved to
org = ''. orgLeaseRun then skips the top-up when heldOrgValue is empty, and the
run silently degrades to batch-at-a-time -- the feature off, with no signal.

The fallback is now wrapped to match its siblings, so '' falls through to the
existing '(unresolved)' sentinel, which pins and drains like any other bucket.
One edit suffices because the resolver is the single v_org_expr constant
interpolated into both demand and picked, so they cannot diverge.

Deliberately NOT nullif(trim(...), ''): a whitespace-only org already resolves to
a non-empty bucket that pins and drains correctly, so it does not exhibit this
defect, and trimming would silently re-bucket padded org names as an unrelated
change.

STATUS-ROW FIELDS WERE TYPED NON-NULL (Codex). For no_demand and no_capacity the
function returns NULL for org, msg_id, message and the rest, but the generated
types declared them non-null, so a typed RPC caller could dereference them
without narrowing and fail at runtime. The worker only escaped by casting back
to its own nullable OrgSlotRow.

Fixed on the SQL side rather than in the generator. `returns table(...)` is OUT
parameters, which carry a type but no nullability, so the generator has no
choice but non-null; a named composite's attributes ARE nullable, so
`create type pgmq_public.org_slot_row` plus `returns setof` makes the generator
emit `| null` on every field naturally, with no special-casing. Postprocessing it
in scripts/PostprocessSupabaseTypes.ts was rejected: it would need a rule keyed
on one function's name, and the database's own declaration would still say the
opposite. Needs an explicit drop, since create or replace cannot change a return
type. The wire format is unchanged -- PostgREST responses are byte-identical in
key set and order, including [{"status":"no_demand","org":null,...}].

Proven non-vacuous: `data[0].org.toLowerCase()` off the raw Returns type is now a
compile error, and against HEAD's types the same line reports TS2578 unused
@ts-expect-error, i.e. it compiled, which was the bug.

Differential oracle over the extended fixture: baseline vs baseline 1000 trials,
0 divergences; candidate 3000 trials at seed-offset 500000, 153 divergences, all
intended. The control is the load-bearing one -- flipping class 998's github_org
from '' to a real value, same random stream, collapses divergences to ZERO, so
the entire behavioural footprint is the blank string. 114 are claimed org='' ->
'(unresolved)' or '(unknown-method)' (the latter because '' sorted first and was
winning ORDER BY d.org asc ties), 21 are msg_id shifts from the merged bucket, 13
are a real org losing to the now-larger merged bucket on the headroom key, and 5
are pinned '(unresolved)' going no_demand -> no_capacity or claimed. The last is
the headline: refill can now drain blank-org work while pinned.

New harness scenario 19 (9 checks). Counterfactual applied to the PIN migration,
not the base one -- the base override is recreated by the pin migration, which is
the vacuity trap fixed in a sibling commit -- and the installed function body is
printed to prove the mutation applied. With nullif reverted, 6 of 9 fail,
including the pinned top-up raising P0001 "pin_org must be a non-empty org".
Two earlier drafts of these checks passed vacuously and were rewritten.

Regenerated types come from a clean 427-migration reset and are byte-identical
across two runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex on #982 reported that a mutation applied through HARNESS_MIGRATION is
erased by the next migration, which drops and recreates
claim_org_slot_and_read in full, so scenario 18 stays green against a broken
allocator. Reproduced before changing anything, and it is worse than reported:
with the own-row `for update` deleted from chain position 1, the pass/fail table
is BYTE-IDENTICAL to a clean run. Not a missed failure -- no signal of any kind.
And since all 198 checks exercise claim_org_slot_and_read, NO scenario was ever
provably non-vacuous through that knob. This is a vacuous test inside the
machinery built to detect vacuous tests.

Both suggested fixes were rejected. "Also mutate HARNESS_PIN_MIGRATION" is a
documentation change that rots the instant a third allocator migration lands and
depends on whoever adds it remembering. "Make the override replace the final
allocator migration" hardwires "the last chain entry defines the allocator",
false as soon as someone appends a migration touching only renew_org_slot or an
index -- then the allocator cannot be mutated at all.

Instead: positional overrides (HARNESS_MIGRATION_<n>, with HARNESS_MIGRATION and
HARNESS_PIN_MIGRATION kept as aliases for n=1 and n=2, so a third migration needs
no new variable), plus a gate that makes neutralisation DETECTABLE rather than
trusting the next author. With any override active, before a single scenario
runs, it rebuilds the DEFAULT chain in a second database in the same container,
fingerprints both schemas (function bodies plus index definitions in public and
pgmq_public), and hard-exits 2 if they are identical. It knows nothing about
which function was mutated or how many migrations exist. On failure it names the
position that last defines each allocator function, so the operator is told where
to move the mutation instead of being left to guess. A byte-identical-copy check
catches an override that forgot to mutate anything, and a provenance row in the
results table records whether the chain was overridden, so a pasted mutated table
can no longer be mistaken for a clean one.

Verified in all four modes: neutralised override exits 2 with no scenarios run; a
position-1 mutation that SURVIVES the chain passes the gate and the suite stays
green (the gate tests reach, not redness); a position-2 mutation passes the gate
and turns the suite red; no override skips the gate at zero cost.

AUDIT of every documented non-vacuity claim, which was the larger part of this:

  * run.sh's chain comment ("revert the own-row lock, scenario 18 must go red")
    was the only documented recipe and was false as written -- unproven for 18
    and transitively for all 198 checks.
  * Scenario 18's own header argument is now DEMONSTRATED: a faithful revert at
    position 2 turns 10 checks red, 5 of them in scenario 18.
  * The race storm's "a fix that merely narrows the window still fails here" is
    now proven -- two checks go red.
  * 43_race_assert.sql's array_agg claim and 30_storm_assert.sql's did-work guard
    were verified correct as written.
  * Scenario 20's fixture-choice argument does not rest on the override and holds
    independently (v_pin := null turns 12 checks red).

TWO FURTHER DEFECTS FOUND, neither the one I was sent for:

  1. Scenario 20 ABORTED THE WHOLE RUN under the exact regression the harness
     exists to catch. Two bare scalar subqueries raise "more than one row
     returned by a subquery used as an expression" when a holder lands on two
     rows; psql exits 3, no results table prints, and scenario 18 never executes.
     So even after moving the mutation to the right position, the documented
     experiment could not reach its own target. This is precisely what
     43_race_assert.sql documents avoiding. Both sites now use
     string_agg(distinct org, ',' order by org): identical when healthy,
     informative FAIL when broken.
  2. Mutation STRENGTH changes what scenario 18 catches. Deleting `for update`
     alone turns only one check red, and it is not the one the file labels "THE
     check" -- that stays green because $6 still restricts free_slot to the owned
     row, so the scenario survives a weak mutation only via its secondary guard.
     The primary check needs the faithful revert: drop `for update` AND restore
     the `order by (s.holder = $1) desc` preference under SKIP LOCKED. Not
     vacuous, but narrower than the comments implied. The working recipe is now
     in the scenario-18 header.

Clean run is 199 checks (was 198; the extra is the provenance row), 208 with the
blank-org scenario wired in alongside. interrupt_check.sh passes on SIGINT and
SIGTERM with no containers left behind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…from the lifetime

Codex on #982: GITHUB_ASYNC_WORKER_ORG_SLOT_RUN_BUDGET_SECONDS could not be set
through the chart, so Helm-managed deployments always took the derived default
and an operator could only shorten the budget by editing the Deployment by hand.
The knob shipped without this deliberately, because helm was unavailable in the
dev environment and a values+validations edit that cannot be rendered is a risk
to every deploy. Done properly now, with helm v3.20.2 installed to match the
azure/setup-helm pin in lint.yml, and every case below rendered rather than
reasoned about.

RENDERED ONLY WHEN SET, which is a deliberate deviation from the neighbouring
refill knob and is forced by the runtime. readBounded treats a present-but-empty
value as a botched operator edit and resolves it to failSafeValue, which for this
knob is its MINIMUM of 120. So rendering `value: ""` by default -- exactly what
copying the neighbour would do -- would cut every org-leased drain to two minutes
on deployments that never touched the knob. Unset means no env entry, and the
worker derives its own ceiling, which is the documented default.

THE CEILING IS DERIVED, NOT CONSTANT. It is
max 120 (timeoutMs/1000 - 120 - 30), mirroring orgSlotRunBudgetCeilingSeconds()
including its Math.floor. That is 250s at the 400s chart default and 330s at the
prod lifetime of 480000ms, so a validation hardcoding 330 would be wrong for any
deployment that changes the lifetime. Two new helpers in _helpers.tpl compute the
raw value and the ceiling once, so the rendered value and the validated value
cannot drift; `0` stays "0" rather than vanishing into the unset case through
falsiness.

validations.yaml refuses a non-integer, anything below the 120s floor, and
anything above the derived ceiling -- the last as a COMBINATION, naming both
values, the arithmetic, and both remedies (lower the budget, or raise
worker.timeoutMs and carry gracefulExitTimeoutSeconds and
terminationGracePeriodSeconds up with it). That follows the existing
drainConcurrency/worker.timeoutMs coupling rather than validating a field in
isolation. It is not gated on orgSlotGlobalCap, matching the runtime, which
resolves and reports this knob before the enabled early return.

render-guardrails.sh gains an assert_env_absent helper -- assert_env_value cannot
tell "not rendered" from "rendered empty", and fails on both -- and 16 cases.
Suite: 206 ok, 0 FAIL.

Evidence, all from real renders: default emits no env entry; 180 renders through;
251 refused at the 400s default naming the 250s ceiling; 330 ACCEPTED at a 480s
lifetime and REFUSED at 400s, which is the A/B pinning the derivation; 331
refused at 480s; timeoutMs=200000 collapses the range to exactly 120, proving the
max() floor; 0, 119, 180.5 and "off" all refused; --set-string x= and --set
x=null behave as absence.

Mutation-tested on throwaway copies rather than asserted: making the env entry
unconditional fails the three absence cases; hardcoding the ceiling at 330 --
precisely the mistake the finding warns about -- fails 4 cases including the
400s-lifetime A/B; deleting the validation block fails 9.

No-regression A/B against git archive HEAD of the chart, rendered with the
staging, preview and tartangrader example values: comment lines only, 0
non-comment lines changed. The in-template comment was trimmed to ~9 lines after
noticing it renders into every Deployment manifest; the rationale lives in
values.yaml, _helpers.tpl and validations.yaml instead.

No runtime change was needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Comment thread supabase/migrations/20260914120000_async_lease_pin_org.sql
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Codex on #982. The resolver's "envelope first" rationale claimed the handler
calls GitHub against the owner baked into the envelope rather than whatever
classes.github_org says today. That is true of syncStudentTeam and syncStaffTeam
-- both take args.org -- but FALSE of the invitation path inside those same two
handlers. github-async-worker/index.ts calls reinviteToOrgTeam with
data.classes.github_org, the current value, about a dozen lines above calling
syncStudentTeam with args.org.

Verified in the source, not inferred: index.ts:862 passes
data.classes.github_org, index.ts:874 passes args.org, same code path, same
message.

So a class repointed while envelopes are queued makes ONE handler talk to TWO
orgs: the invitation spends the NEW org's shared content limiter while the slot
it runs under is charged to the OLD org. Concurrent stale and fresh envelopes can
push the new org past the per-org occupancy this allocator exists to bound, and
convoy invitations inside that org's limiter. The scenario is exactly the one the
rationale invokes to justify preferring the envelope, so the justification was
half right and the half it got wrong is the half that costs budget.

Documented rather than fixed, deliberately. Changing this expression cannot fix
it -- whichever org the allocator picks, the handler still calls two different
ones -- so the fix is in the handler and both candidates are product decisions:
reject or re-enqueue a team-sync envelope whose args.org no longer matches its
class, or point the invitation at args.org and accept that a repointed class
stops inviting to the org it actually moved to. Neither belongs in an allocator
migration, and neither should be picked without someone who owns the enrollment
flow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@jon-bell
jon-bell merged commit 0d60dd6 into staging Sep 16, 2026
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jon-bell deleted the feat/async-continuous-refill branch September 16, 2026 12:09
jon-bell added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2026
#982 added two env vars to the edge-functions workload
(GITHUB_ASYNC_WORKER_ORG_SLOT_CONTINUOUS_REFILL and the conditionally
rendered ..._RUN_BUDGET_SECONDS), two values keys, and three new rules in
validations.yaml -- but left Chart.yaml at 0.3.25, which is the version
currently deployed to production (helm revision 87, 2026-09-14 02:00:58).

prod-charts' build-images.yml packages and pushes the chart from Chart.yaml
verbatim with no guard against an existing tag, so building main as-is would
republish 0.3.25 in Harbor with different contents. That makes the deployed
release's recorded chart version stop identifying what is actually running,
and makes "roll back to 0.3.25" ambiguous.

No template changes here -- only the version.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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