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Rebuild the leaderboard on opener completion, and fix the queue report's null worker-status key - #364
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branch_worker_status is NULL for a branch that is done or unqueued, and _collection_summary used that NULL as a dict key. The server encodes with sort_keys, which cannot order None against the string keys beside it, so one finished branch anywhere in scope made the entire queue report raise TypeError rather than merely carry an oddly named bucket. Against the production queue that is every request: 54,185 of 54,206 branches are done, and the Queue view cannot be served at all. The bucket is named not_applicable, matching cache_state's spelling for the same idea -- a row for which the dimension does not apply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpacbZRqT46b4Duhxq5QNQ
The client polls every two seconds and the leaderboard is rebuilt for each poll, so the server is never idle and requests queue behind one another -- which is what the shared-collection lock was papering over rather than fixing. The answer only grows when an opener's tree finishes, which the production swarm does about every 27 minutes. opener_completion_signal reads that in two indexed counts over opener_work (~0.14ms), and report_server serves the cached report while it stands still. Measured end to end against the production cache: a repeat leaderboard request went from 18.4s to 0.005s, serving identical bytes. The encoded body is cached with the report, because re-encoding 3.7MB per poll is its own cost once the build is gone. The obvious signal does not work, and the measurement is in AGENTS.md so it is not retried: a branch-result watermark (MAX(updated_at)) cannot miss a change, but it covers branches written at every depth and moved 189 times in 180 seconds against an answer that moves once per 1,650. A 90-second sample during a quiet stretch shows zero changes and reads as a green light, which is how this was nearly shipped. The signal is a hint, never an answer: the build still rescreens every opener, so a stale signal costs freshness and not correctness. It is also not exhaustive -- a repair or an import changes the cache without completing queue work -- so REPORT_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS bounds how long that can go unnoticed, and an unreadable signal rebuilds rather than asserting a freshness the server cannot support. Queue-backed reports are deliberately excluded. Their subject is what the swarm is doing now, so serving one a minute old would make a liveness dashboard report a liveness it no longer has. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpacbZRqT46b4Duhxq5QNQ
The comment still pointed at a branch-result watermark, which is not what decides the set -- opener_completion_signal is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpacbZRqT46b4Duhxq5QNQ
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| body = collect_report_once(request) | ||
| if token is not None: | ||
| with cached_reports_lock: | ||
| cached_reports[request] = (token, now, body) |
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Because ReportRequest includes the user-controlled limit parameter, every distinct /api/view/leaderboard?limit=... value creates a separate entry here that is never removed; expiration only prevents reuse and does not evict the entry. Since a full encoded leaderboard is multi-megabyte, repeated distinct limits can permanently grow the server by gigabytes until it is restarted. Bound this cache, evict expired variants, or normalize limits before using requests as keys.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L551-L554
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| connection = sqlite3.connect( | ||
| f"file:{sources.queue_path}?mode=ro", uri=True) |
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When --queue-path contains a valid filename character with SQLite URI meaning, such as ? or #, interpolating it directly makes SQLite open a truncated, different path and opener_completion_signal returns None after finding no opener_work table. That disables revalidation and causes every two-second leaderboard poll to perform the full rebuild; use the existing percent-encoding URI helper or otherwise escape the path.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L513-L518
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| """ | ||
| token = opener_completion_signal(configuration.sources) | ||
| now = time.time() | ||
| if token is not None: | ||
| with cached_reports_lock: | ||
| entry = cached_reports.get(request) | ||
| if (entry is not None and entry[0] == token | ||
| and now - entry[1] <= REPORT_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS): | ||
| return entry[2] | ||
| body = collect_report_once(request) | ||
| if token is not None: | ||
| with cached_reports_lock: | ||
| cached_reports[request] = (token, now, body) | ||
| return body |
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Stale body can be cached under a newer completion token.
token is read (line 431) before collect_report_once runs (line 439). But collect_report_once shares one in-flight build across concurrent identical requests — a "waiter" request receives the body a different, earlier-started caller is building, not one built from its own token read.
Concretely: build A starts while the signal is T0. Mid-build, an opener completes and the signal moves to T1. Request B arrives, reads T1, misses the cache (nothing is stored under T1 yet), joins A's in-flight build as a waiter, and receives A's pre-T1 body. B then stores (T1, now, body_built_at_T0) at line 442. Every subsequent poll reads T1, matches this entry, and is served the outdated leaderboard for up to REPORT_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS (120s) — even though the signal already reflects the newer state.
This inverts the guarantee the design relies on (stated in this PR's AGENTS.md addition): "a stale signal costs freshness and never correctness" only holds if the cached body is never older than the token it's filed under. With builds taking ~18s against a 2s poll interval, most builds have several waiters, so this is reachable in normal operation, not just a rare race.
A fix: have the builder capture the token it read at build start (e.g. on InFlightReport), and have every caller — builder and waiters alike — cache the body under that token rather than their own.
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| token = opener_completion_signal(configuration.sources) | ||
| now = time.time() | ||
| if token is not None: | ||
| with cached_reports_lock: | ||
| entry = cached_reports.get(request) | ||
| if (entry is not None and entry[0] == token | ||
| and now - entry[1] <= REPORT_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS): | ||
| return entry[2] | ||
| body = collect_report_once(request) | ||
| if token is not None: | ||
| with cached_reports_lock: | ||
| cached_reports[request] = (token, now, body) | ||
| return body |
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A degraded (cache-error) leaderboard gets cached and pinned for up to 120s.
cached_report_body stores whatever collect_report_once returns unconditionally (line 442), with no check that the underlying build actually succeeded. collect_leaderboard_report catches (sqlite3.Error, OSError) around its cache access and, on failure, does not raise — it returns a normal report with an empty ranking (total_rows: 0, rows: []) plus sources.cache.error set.
The leaderboard build itself writes to the same cache the swarm is concurrently writing to (_store_opener_folds), so a transient lock contention error is a real, if uncommon, possibility. Before this change, each 2-second poll rebuilt independently and recovered on the very next request. After this change, that one degraded response gets cached under the current token and served to every poll for up to REPORT_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS (120s) or until the completion token moves (~27 minutes in production) — whichever comes first.
A fix: only store the entry when the report indicates success, e.g. gate the write at line 441-442 on report["sources"]["cache"].get("ok"), which requires threading that flag out of collect_report_once alongside the encoded body.
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| try: | ||
| connection = sqlite3.connect( | ||
| f"file:{sources.queue_path}?mode=ro", uri=True) | ||
| except (sqlite3.Error, OSError): | ||
| return None | ||
| try: | ||
| return tuple(connection.execute( | ||
| "SELECT COUNT(*), MAX(opener_work_id) FROM opener_work " | ||
| "WHERE state = 'complete'").fetchone()) | ||
| except sqlite3.Error: | ||
| return None | ||
| finally: | ||
| connection.close() | ||
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opener_completion_signal's exception-handling branches have no test coverage.
AGENTS.md's "Before committing and pushing" section requires: "Write tests for every new or changed executable path." This function is entirely new, but every reference to it in tests/test_report_server.py mocks it out via patch("report_server.opener_completion_signal", ...), and tests/test_report_model.py never calls it at all.
The two except branches here — the connect failure at line 4036-4037 and the query failure at line 4042-4043 — are never exercised by any test, directly or incidentally. A regression in either exception type, the SQL, or the connection URI (f"file:{sources.queue_path}?mode=ro") would pass the full suite silently, since the only assertions that touch this path go through the mock.
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Five review findings, each with a test that fails without its fix. A waiter must not file the builder's body under its own token. A waiter joins a build that started before the waiter read the signal, so the body it receives can predate the token it holds; filing under that token publishes a body older than the state the token names, and every later poll matching it is served the stale ranking until the entry expires. Only the builder files now, under the token it read before starting -- conservative in the safe direction, because a signal that moves mid-build leaves the entry under the older token and the next request rebuilds. A build that recorded a source error is not cached. collect_leaderboard_report catches its own SQLite and OS errors and returns an ordinary report with an empty ranking and the error on the source, so a degraded build is a normal-looking 200. Caching one pinned an empty leaderboard for up to the staleness bound, where every poll used to recover on the next request. A source that was never consulted carries ok=false with no error, which is not a failure and must not read as one. The cache is bounded. Its key is the request, and a request carries a user-controlled limit, so distinct ?limit= values each pinned a multi-megabyte body for the life of the process; expiry alone only stops an entry being reused, never removes it. Expired entries are purged on write and the oldest go after that. An entry is aged from when its build started, not when it finished: the age is meant to say how stale the content is, and the content is as old as the read that produced it. opener_completion_signal builds its URI through erd_queue.read_only_database_uri rather than interpolating the path. A queue path holding '?' or '#' is a valid filename and a URI delimiter, so interpolation opened a different database, returned None, and silently disabled revalidation. Its two failure arms now have tests that call it rather than mock it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpacbZRqT46b4Duhxq5QNQ
…nsean/wordle into claude/event-driven-reports * 'claude/event-driven-reports' of https://github.com/ahernsean/wordle: Screen the opener vocabulary before folding it, and store what it settles
Two report defects found while the reporter was serving live data. The queue report returned every branch it had registered when the caller named no limit, which the web client does not send by default. On the production queue that is 54,201 rows and a 68 MB payload: the request completes, so nothing errors, but the browser spends minutes fetching and rendering before it can show anything and the view reads as hung. Every other row-bearing report already defaults a limit; this one now defaults 100, and matched_rows still reports the full count so the view says how much it is not showing. A worker with a stale heartbeat was reported dead even while its process was running. The node counter that drives the heartbeat lives inside _BranchWorker._heartbeat, so a worker spending a long time inside one kernel call reports nothing for the whole of it -- observed live at 122.4M nodes and 0/s with the process at 74% CPU and a heartbeat 1,402 seconds old, against a 30-second liveness window. A fresh heartbeat still proves liveness on its own and costs no lookup; a stale one now consults the process table before the worker is called dead, matching the claims-not-heartbeats rule the scheduler already follows. The command line is checked with the pid, because pid numbers are reused and a recycled one would otherwise resurrect a departed worker. heartbeat_age_seconds is reported alongside, so "running but not reporting" is visible rather than inferred. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpacbZRqT46b4Duhxq5QNQ
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The builder released waiters and dropped its in-flight marker before storing the entry, leaving a window in which the build was finished, the marker was gone and the cache was still empty. A request arriving there found neither and started a second build of a report already in hand. Wrong only in cost, never in content -- but the fix removes a branch rather than adding one, so it is cheaper than the race it closes. The window is a dict write while reaching it takes an HTTP round trip, so it is not reachable by timing alone: a first attempt at a guard passed against the old ordering in 12 of 12 runs and proved nothing. The test now widens exactly the window in question, by slowing release of the lock the marker is dropped under, which is the last thing the old ordering did before publishing. It catches the old ordering in 10 of 10 runs and passes the new one in 10 of 10. Under the correct ordering the entry is already stored by then, so widening changes nothing -- which is the property being asserted. Reported by Codex on PR #364. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpacbZRqT46b4Duhxq5QNQ
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Two independent changes to the report server, in separate commits.
The queue report cannot be served at all
_collection_summaryusedbranch_worker_statusdirectly as a dict key, andthat column is NULL for a branch that is done or unqueued. The server encodes
with
sort_keys=True, which cannot orderNoneagainst the string keys besideit, so one finished branch anywhere in scope raises
TypeErrorduringencoding.
Against the production queue that is every request: 54,185 of 54,206 branches
are done. Encoding happens outside the handler's
try, so the failure is noteven a 500 — the server closes the connection with no response and prints a
traceback to stderr. A browser sees a failed fetch, which reads as the server
being down rather than as a broken report.
The bucket is now named
not_applicable, matchingcache_state's spelling forthe same idea — a row for which the dimension does not apply.
The leaderboard is rebuilt on every poll
report_client.htmlpolls every two seconds, and a leaderboard build rescreensthe whole opener vocabulary. The server is therefore never idle and requests
queue behind one another, which is what the shared-collection lock was papering
over rather than fixing.
The answer only grows when an opener's tree finishes — about every 27 minutes on
the production swarm.
opener_completion_signalreads that in two indexedcounts over
opener_work(~0.14 ms), andreport_serverserves the cachedreport while it stands still. Measured end to end against the production
cache: a repeat leaderboard request went from 18.4 s to 0.005 s, serving
identical bytes. The encoded body is cached with the report, because
re-encoding 3.7 MB per poll is its own cost once the build is gone.
The obvious signal does not work, and the measurement is in
AGENTS.mdso itis not retried. A branch-result watermark (
MAX(updated_at)) cannot miss achange, and is useless here: it covers branches written at every depth and moved
189 times in 180 seconds (median gap 1.0 s) against an answer that moves
once per 1,650. A 90-second sample taken during a quiet stretch shows zero
changes and reads as a green light, which is how this was nearly shipped.
Three properties keep it honest, each with a test that fails without it:
opener against the cache, so a stale signal costs freshness and never
correctness.
cache without completing queue work — so
REPORT_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDSboundshow long such a change can go unnoticed. That age is a backstop for the rare
case, not the mechanism.
None, which is treated as "assumechanged": serving a cached report on no information asserts a freshness the
server cannot support.
Queue-backed reports are deliberately excluded from
REVALIDATED_REPORT_KINDS. Their subject is what the swarm is doing right now,so serving one a minute old would make a liveness dashboard report a liveness it
no longer has. Caching them would be cheap and wrong.
Moving the encode inside the handler's
tryis what surfaced the first bug: aserialization failure now produces a proper error response instead of a dropped
connection.