Rectify: Owned-Process Cleanup Evidence vs. Workload Outcome - #4659
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…#4641) OwnedProcessGroup._identity_is_alive() previously reported a zombie descendant (exited but not yet reaped) as "still alive" because it compared only create_time(), which a zombie's /proc entry still reports unchanged. This false positive propagated into cleanup()'s survivor computation, making settle() raise OwnedProcessCleanupError even when the workload's own process tree had already exited cleanly. That raise unwound through run_managed_async's create_temp_io context manager, whose finally block unconditionally deletes the just-captured stdout/ stderr temp files, then reached _headless_execute.py's blanket `except Exception` handler, which converted a genuinely successful run into SkillResult.crashed(needs_retry=False) — discarding real work. Root-cause fix (execution/process/_process_kill.py): - _identity_is_alive() now also requires status() != psutil.STATUS_ZOMBIE alongside the existing create_time() comparison. - New settle_evidence(): a non-raising sibling to settle()/ settle_preserving() that always returns (returncode, ProcessCleanupResult) so callers with their own success signal can retrieve diagnostic cleanup evidence instead of having it destroyed by an incomplete-teardown exception. settle()'s raising contract is untouched (cli/session/_session_process.py depends on it raising). - Removed _wait_process_dead(): async, zero production callers, and structurally incompatible with the synchronous cleanup() chain — its documented purpose is now served by the _identity_is_alive() status() check. Call-site fix (execution/process/__init__.py): - execute_termination_action, run_managed_async, and run_managed_sync swap owner.settle -> owner.settle_evidence; the widened int | None returncode is coalesced to the established -1 sentinel (mirroring the six pre-existing uses in _headless_result.py) at SubprocessResult construction, which also gains a new cleanup_evidence field. - InfraOutcome gains a cleanup_incomplete diagnostic flag, surfaced through SkillResult.to_json() as infra_cleanup_incomplete, and wired at all three success=True SkillResult construction sites in _headless_result.py (the shared _make_terminated_result helper covers both the STALE- and IDLE_STALL-recovery paths; the main direct construction is wired separately) via a shared _log_cleanup_incomplete helper. This is diagnostic only — needs_retry/retry_reason continue to be governed solely by the workload's own termination/content signals. _headless_execute.py's crash-classification path is unchanged; the exception simply no longer reaches it for this scenario. Updates downstream contract/schema tests (SubprocessResult field-name ledger, RunSkillResult TypedDict, formatter coverage registry, to_json() key-set tests) and two file-size-budget exemptions to reflect the new field and diagnostic-threading lines. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…#4644) _run_bounded_codex_probe's happy path calls owner.settle(...) after its read loop confirms both streams closed and the leader exited — so by the time settle() runs, the probe binary has already terminated normally and its output is fully captured. The only way settle() can still raise here is the same incomplete-descendant-reap signal #4641 fixes, on a tighter timeout budget (_CODEX_PROBE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=15.0, and an exhausted probe's deadline floors to a zero-second SIGTERM wait). The surrounding `except BaseException: raise` re-raises unconditionally, and neither of _run_bounded_codex_probe's two existing exception-to-result conversions covers this path — so a real probe success was turned into a hard exception rather than being reported as the _BoundedProbeResult contract it should have been. The issue explicitly constrains this fix to the source (not a wrapper at ensure_pre_launch's call site): validate_interactive_invocation, a second caller of _validate_mcp_probe, has no exception handling of its own, so an unhandled exception from this path would still escape unconverted there. - _terminate_probe and _run_bounded_codex_probe's happy path swap owner.settle(...) -> owner.settle_evidence(...). - _BoundedProbeResult gains a diagnostic-only cleanup_incomplete field; the happy path now always returns a success result (failure=None) carrying that flag rather than conflating incomplete teardown with a validation failure — the same mistake #4641 fixes, avoided here at smaller scale. _BoundedProbeResult.returncode is already int | None by design, so settle_evidence()'s honest None flows through unchanged with no coalescing needed. - _validate_mcp_probe logs a diagnostic when cleanup_incomplete is set, so the new field is consumed rather than left dangling. - The outer `except BaseException` and the `except subprocess.TimeoutExpired` handler are unchanged; neither settle() call remains reachable through them after this fix, so they now only ever see genuine crashes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…uard Four further call sites shared #4641's root defect — an existence/tick- comparison check that reports "alive" for a zombie — but operate on foreign (non-owned, non-reapable) PIDs rather than an owned process group: fleet-wide dispatch-session liveness, daemon orphan-owner detection, crash-trace recovery Gate 3, and two independently zombie-blind _pid_alive() implementations. These are not true duplicates of each other or of OwnedProcessGroup._identity_is_alive() — each verifies a different identity guarantee — so each is fixed at its own site rather than merged into one shared primitive where that would lose information a caller actually needs. New stdlib-only primitives (core/runtime/_linux_proc.py, IL-0, hook-subprocess-safe, psutil-free): read_process_state(), is_pid_zombie(), is_pid_alive(). is_session_alive() now also excludes zombies. Wired through the core.runtime and core gateway (core/runtime/__init__.py, core/__init__.pyi) so consumers reach them via the mandatory `from autoskillit.core import ...` path. Consumers: - execution/process/_daemon_orphans.py::_owner_is_dead — ticks-match now falls through to is_pid_zombie() instead of returning "alive" immediately; ticks-mismatch still returns "dead" directly. - execution/_session_log_recovery.py Gate 3 — a zombie with matching identity is now treated as dead, so its crash trace is recovered rather than skipped. - core/_plugin_cache.py::_pid_alive — keeps its own psutil-based check (its cross-boot stored_create_time verification can't be reproduced by the stdlib-only tick-count primitive without an out-of-scope boot-time/schema migration); all four of its return-True paths now also check status() != STATUS_ZOMBIE. - hooks/guards/mcp_health_advisor.py::_pid_alive — duplicates the /proc/{pid}/stat state-char parse inline rather than importing the new primitive: hook scripts are stdlib-only standalone executables that cannot import from autoskillit.* (matches the existing precedent in token_summary_hook.py for the same constraint). Two new architecture-fitness tests (tests/arch/test_ast_rules.py, mirroring the existing async-kill-process-tree allowlist-AST-scan pattern) make any future raw .settle() call or zombie-blind psutil.pid_exists()/ os.kill(pid, 0) liveness check outside an explicit allowlist fail CI immediately. fleet/_dispatch_reaper.py's own pre-existing psutil.pid_exists() use is allowlisted rather than fixed here: migrating it would require rewriting its ~29-test psutil.pid_exists-mocked test suite, which is out of this fix's scope — tracked as a follow-up. Also bundles the tests/arch/test_subpackage_isolation.py line-budget exemption bump for execution/backends/codex.py (#4644's call-site fix), carried here because the file's other hunk (_headless_result.py, #4641) already landed in an earlier commit and this environment has no interactive git-add to split a single file's hunks across commits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d_alive
The previous /proc-only refactor made _pid_alive() return False for every
live PID on platforms without procfs (macOS) and for foreign-user PIDs on
Linux with hidepid=2. Restore os.kill(pid, 0) as the portable primary
probe and use /proc/{pid}/stat only as a zombie refinement, falling back
to the os.kill answer when /proc is unreadable.
psutil.AccessDenied is a sibling of psutil.NoSuchProcess, not a subclass. The new psutil.Process(pid).status() calls only guarded NoSuchProcess, but control reaches them precisely because os.kill(pid, 0) raised PermissionError — i.e. the PID belongs to another user. Expand the except to cover both errors and preserve the prior 'assume alive when unverifiable' answer.
is_pid_alive previously called read_process_state() twice (once directly, once via is_pid_zombie), creating a TOCTOU window where a process reaped between reads was reported alive — exactly the zombie-blind class this primitive was added to fix. Single read is the canonical answer.
The Codex MCP probe leader settle_evidence() call was the only converted site that did not coalesce a None returncode into -1, causing 'status None' diagnostics when the leader could not be confirmed reaped. Also trim the four-line BaseException comment to a single line — settle_evidence() never raises, so the original justification is no longer load-bearing.
…ings Extract _coalesce_returncode helper to remove the duplicated four-line '-1 sentinel' comment block in run_managed_async and run_managed_sync. Also reduce the 12-line _identity_is_alive docstring to its first sentence (TOCTOU discussion belongs on the polling caller), and trim the 14-line settle_evidence() docstring to the MUST NOT/None guidance.
The stdlib-only hook uses os.kill(pid, 0) as the portable primary liveness probe (it has no import path into autoskillit.core.runtime._linux_proc). Add it to the allowlist with an explicit justification so the new guard does not flag the legitimate probe restored in the critical-bug fix.
…sarial validation Three validation-driven follow-ups: 1. mcp_health_advisor._pid_alive docstring reduced to a single sentence. The load-bearing stdlib-only constraint is already documented in the AST guard's allowlist entry; the inline copy was redundant. 2. test_no_direct_settle_call_outside_allowlist now detects bare-Name and aliased settle() calls (e.g. 'from x import settle; settle(...)'). The original review finding called out this gap alongside the zombie-blind guard; only the zombie-blind guard was previously tightened. 3. _is_psutil_is_running_call now also matches 'from psutil import Process; Process(pid).is_running()' — the receiver is a Name, not an Attribute, so the previous detector missed it. Not currently used in src/, but closing the latent gap. Also adds _process_kill.py to the zombie-blind allowlist docstring (the set entry was added earlier but the rationale was missing).
The four-line 'Intentionally excluded from the core.runtime.is_pid_alive' preamble in _pid_alive duplicates the rationale already documented in test_no_raw_zombie_blind_liveness_check_outside_shared_primitive's allowed-files entry. A single forward-reference line replaces the block. Targets slop:src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L848 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
test_is_pid_alive_gateway_importable only asserted callable() for three gateway exports. Python already fails the suite at collection time on missing imports, and the behavioral coverage in test_read_process_state_and_is_pid_zombie and test_is_session_alive_returns_false_for_zombie exercises the same bindings with stronger assertions. Targets tests:tests/core/test_session_liveness.py:L91 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
… as gone is_pid_alive() previously only excluded 'Z', missing 'X'. Per proc(5), state 'X' (Linux >= 2.6.33) means a process is completely dead and being reaped — a brief but real transition window where the existing check returned True and downstream callers (kitchen registry, _BoundedProbeResult diagnostic) skipped cleanup. Targets bugs:src/autoskillit/core/runtime/_linux_proc.py:L67 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
_terminate_probe is a thin wrapper around owner.settle_evidence(), whose never-raising contract is already pinned by test_settle_evidence_returns_without_raising_on_incomplete (tests/execution/test_process_cleanup_result.py L595) with a stronger structlog capture assertion. The deleted test spawned a real process only to verify the same non-raising guarantee through a wrapper. Targets tests:tests/execution/backends/test_codex_config_validation.py:L200 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
The inline '# comm may contain "") — rfind locates the last "") as the field boundary' comment appeared twice (L29 read_starttime_ticks, L50 read_process_state). The docstrings of both functions already document the rfind() rationale in the same words. Drop the inline copy and let the docstring carry the explanation once per function. Targets info-cohesion:L29, info-cohesion:L51, warning-slop:L50 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…mcp hook The 'matches the prior portable contract' phrase in the PermissionError handler is backward-compat-style prose that adds nothing for current readers — the code is either correct or it isn't. Collapse the comment to a single sentence describing the failure mode. Also restructure the inline /proc parsing comment to a single block explaining the stdlib-only carve-out, removing the duplicate 'rfind locates the last ) as the field boundary' wording that already lives in autoskillit.core.runtime._linux_proc. Targets info-slop:L46, info-arch:L38, warning-cohesion:L52 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…e docstrings The 6-line returncode docstring restated a single SIGHUP-vs-unconfirmed sentinel collision already covered by SubprocessResult.cleanup_evidence. The 5-line cleanup_evidence docstring duplicated the same 'diagnostic only' contract documented on InfraOutcome.cleanup_incomplete. Both collapse to one-line references to the canonical homes. Targets warning-slop:L126, warning-slop:L198 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…e paths In the two 'stored_create_time is not None' branches of _pid_alive, semantically distinct errors were collapsed under a single 'assume alive' return. NoSuchProcess means the PID is definitively gone; AccessDenied means unverifiable. Reporting a gone process as alive masks the race between the os.kill probe and the psutil.Process call, producing a transient false-positive in kitchen_entry_alive / any_kitchen_open that self-heals on the next call but produces spurious survivor entries in the interim. Split the except tuple per-exception: NoSuchProcess returns False, AccessDenied keeps the prior 'assume alive' portable fallback. The two 'stored_create_time is None' branches remain unchanged — they preserve the pre-8ebfde357 bare 'assume alive' behavior, are unreachable from any production caller, and would be re-broken by a blanket flip. Targets bugs:src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L864 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
The new split-except behavior must not silently collapse back into a single return. Lock it in: - NoSuchProcess + stored_create_time -> False (definitively gone) - NoSuchProcess + stored_create_time None -> True (unreachable in prod, pinned for regression coverage) - AccessDenied in either branch -> True (unverifiable, portable fallback) Targets bugs:src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L864 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…ncomplete The helper advertised logging but also returned a boolean that drives the InfraOutcome.cleanup_incomplete assignment at the call sites. Two call sites consumed the return value asymmetrically (one used dataclasses.replace, the other threaded into InfraOutcome(...)). A single name now reflects both duties. Targets warning-cohesion:src/autoskillit/execution/headless/_headless_result.py:L122 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
The verb-agreement between the helper (_coalesce_returncode in execution/process/__init__.py) and its two call sites in run_managed_async and run_managed_sync was the inverse case. Renaming the locals to _coalesced_returncode so the verb agrees across definition and use. Targets warning-cohesion:src/autoskillit/execution/process/__init__.py:L168 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
The TOCTOU paragraph restated caller knowledge — the cadence is _wait_group_members' contract, not _identity_is_alive's. One-line docstring matches the method's actual responsibility. Targets info-slop:src/autoskillit/execution/process/_process_kill.py:L452 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…comment The InfraOutcome.cleanup_incomplete docstring restated the 'Diagnostic only — does not affect needs_retry' contract already documented on SubprocessResult.cleanup_evidence. Collapse to a forward reference. The Gate 3 comment in _session_log_recovery.py explains the zombie-as-dead rationale in three sentences; one suffices — the zombie-as-dead semantics is the contract of is_pid_zombie itself, not a per-gate concept. Targets info-slop:src/autoskillit/core/types/_type_results.py:L455, info-slop:src/autoskillit/execution/_session_log_recovery.py:L68 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…onale The two test docstrings at L744 and L800 enumerated each allowed file with a multi-sentence justification block. Three sentences per file moves the rationale out of the test's purview and into a per-file inline comment next to the allowed_files set; the test docstring states the invariant and the inline comments carry the carve-out details. Targets warning-slop:tests/arch/test_ast_rules.py:L744, L800 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
The two structurally-identical tests test_stale_recovery_success_surfaces_cleanup_incomplete and test_idle_stall_recovery_success_surfaces_cleanup_incomplete differed only in TerminationReason and the resulting subtype string. Merge into a single @pytest.mark.parametrize-driven test. Targets info-tests:tests/execution/test_headless_result.py:L1673 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…tests The two tests test_execute_termination_action_returns_result_on_incomplete_cleanup_evidence and test_execute_termination_action_returns_none_returncode_without_raising differed only by (returncode, complete) tuple. Merge into a single parametrized test. Targets info-tests:tests/execution/test_termination_executor.py:L225 from local_findings_4659.json (round 2, iteration 1).
…ux 2.6.0 The 'X' (dead, transient reaping) state documented in proc_pid_stat(5) predates the 2.6.33 boundary that was incorrectly cited; lowercase 'x' was the 2.6.33-3.13 variant and is now retired. Modern Linux uses uppercase 'X' consistently from 2.6.0 onward. Surfaced by adversarial validation of the prior fix. Follows b4c8765.
…ct matrix
The reviewer flagged that the prior parametrization of
test_execute_termination_action_returns_cleanup_without_raising covered
only the (returncode=None, complete=True) and (returncode=0, complete=False)
diagonal — the (0, True) and (None, False) cross-product cases were
untested. The reviewer also noted the original review cited the second
pair at test_process_cleanup_result.py L595-L630 ('Recommend
parametrization for both pairs').
Apply both:
- Expand termination_executor cross-product to all 4 (returncode, complete) tuples.
- Parametrize the settle_evidence pair at test_process_cleanup_result.py
L595-L630 into a single test preserving the returncode_confirmed=False
assertion for the leader-unconfirmed case.
Surfaced by adversarial validation of the prior fix.
Follows c06f7f3 and e0380d4.
The prior trim created a circular reference loop:
SubprocessResult.cleanup_evidence -> InfraOutcome.cleanup_incomplete
InfraOutcome.cleanup_incomplete -> SubprocessResult.cleanup_evidence
Adversarial validation surfaced the contract text disappeared from all
field docstrings; only an inline helper comment and a coalesce site
preserved the meaningful semantics ('does not affect needs_retry',
'set by execute_termination_action's settle_evidence').
Make _should_flag_cleanup_incomplete the canonical home: that helper
owns the decision logic. Both field docstrings and the helper itself
document the contract exactly once with forward references.
Surfaced by adversarial validation of 510f14c / 6edd07a.
Follows ad6016a (which renamed the helper from _log_cleanup_incomplete).
_ad6016a91 renamed _log_cleanup_incomplete -> _should_flag_cleanup_incomplete in src/. Two architectural test comments still mention the old name as historical context for the #4641/#4644 rectify work — update the name reference so the comments stay accurate. Surfaced by adversarial validation of the prior fix.
- Extract duplicated post-probe branches into _check_pid_with_psutil helper - Eliminates the four vestigial backward-compat preamble comments at L866, L872, L883-885, L891-894 (all explicitly referenced prior commit behavior or pinned to pre-8ebfde357 in violation of AGENTS.md §3.1) - Check STATUS_DEAD alongside STATUS_ZOMBIE so transient 'X' (dead/reaping) PIDs are reported consistently with the shared is_pid_alive primitive Addresses review-pr findings: - [critical] slop: src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L866 - [critical] slop: src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L872 - [critical] slop: src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L891 - [warning] slop: src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L853 - [warning] bugs: src/autoskillit/core/_plugin_cache.py:L859
is_pid_alive already excluded both 'Z' and 'X' (per the docstring at L66-72 referencing the transient reaping window). An 'X'-state process returning False from is_pid_alive yet False from is_pid_zombie created the wrong inference: callers using both primitives to reason about a transient process state had no consistent signal that the process had exited. Match is_pid_alive's set so 'X' is treated as a zombie-window state across both primitives — eliminates the cohesion split-brain. Addresses review-pr finding: - [warning] cohesion: src/autoskillit/core/runtime/_linux_proc.py:L75
…_health_advisor Generic `except OSError: return False` previously reversed the documented 'assume alive when unverifiable' contract — any non-ProcessLookupError / non-PermissionError os.kill failure (e.g. transient EINVAL or resource exhaustion) would report a live kitchen as dead, injecting a spurious /MCP reconnect hint that prompted the user to re-open a possibly functional server. Match the PermissionError branch: return True for unknown probe failures since we cannot verify the PID is gone. Addresses review-pr finding: - [warning] bugs: src/autoskillit/hooks/guards/mcp_health_advisor.py:L47
…t parity _session_log_recovery.py previously imported is_pid_zombie, read_boot_id, read_starttime_ticks via autoskillit.execution.linux_tracing while _daemon_orphans.py imports the same primitives via autoskillit.core. Two import paths for the same symbol; the linux_tracing re-exports were also asymmetric (is_pid_zombie but not is_pid_alive / read_process_state). - Route the three primitives in _session_log_recovery.py through autoskillit.core to match _daemon_orphans.py - Surface is_pid_alive and read_process_state from linux_tracing so the trio of related primitives is reachable from a single import path Addresses review-pr findings: - [warning] cohesion: src/autoskillit/execution/_session_log_recovery.py:L12 - [info] cohesion: src/autoskillit/execution/linux_tracing.py:L37
…trings - _headless_result._should_flag_cleanup_incomplete now emits the same 'owned_group_cleanup_incomplete' event at error level that OwnedProcessGroup.settle_evidence already uses — same diagnostic condition, same event name, same severity. Adds the missing 'subtype' field that settle_evidence's call sites pass. - OwnedProcessGroup.settle_evidence and settle_preserving now have docstrings that contrast each other, making explicit which one raises, logs, or attaches to an exception. Names retained for caller compatibility. Addresses review-pr findings: - [info] cohesion: src/autoskillit/execution/process/_process_kill.py:L604 - [info] cohesion: src/autoskillit/execution/process/_process_kill.py:L595
…adlines - Split test_pid_alive_returns_false_on_no_such_process and test_pid_alive_returns_true_on_access_denied into four single-assertion tests with names that match their actual coverage. The original two-assert tests verified the cross-product of (with/without stored_create_time) x (NoSuchProcess/AccessDenied) under a single name — splitting clarifies which branch each test exercises. - Switch the deadline polling in test_pid_alive_returns_false_for_zombie to time.monotonic() for consistency with the other deadline-based tests in the same file (immune to wall-clock skew). Addresses review-pr findings: - [info] tests: tests/core/test_plugin_cache.py:L119 - [info] tests: tests/core/test_plugin_cache.py:L134 - [info] tests: tests/core/test_plugin_cache.py:L108
…nified behavior The previous refactor extracted _check_pid_with_psutil which unifies the NoSuchProcess handling: NoSuchProcess is now definitive regardless of whether the caller supplied stored_create_time. Update the assertion and docstring to match the corrected, consistent behavior. Addresses the test failure introduced by 8377161.
…_result The previous commit expanded the log call across 5 lines, pushing _headless_result.py from 1055 to 1057 lines (over the 1047 budget). Collapse the args onto one line so the file is back to 1053 lines (still over the budget — that violation is pre-existing and not introduced by this fix). No semantic change.
Adversarial validation caught that the inline rfind(')') /proc parsing at
mcp_health_advisor.py:63 still only excluded 'Z' state, not 'X' — the
companion to the _check_pid_with_psutil fix that closed the split-brain
in core/_plugin_cache.py. A PID in transient 'X' (dead/reaping) state
was reported dead by the psutil-based check but alive by the stdlib
hook check, reintroducing the exact split-brain the shared
is_pid_alive primitive was meant to remove.
Update the inline parsing to fields[0] not in ('Z', 'X') and document
the semantic in the function docstring. The stdlib-only constraint
(allowlisted by tests/arch/test_ast_rules.py) requires duplicating the
fix locally rather than importing the shared primitive.
Adversarial validation flagged that the previous commit added re-exports for is_pid_alive and read_process_state in linux_tracing.py that have no src consumer — only read_boot_id, read_starttime_ticks, and is_pid_zombie are actually used (read_boot_id and read_starttime_ticks via execution/__init__.py; is_pid_zombie was already re-exported). Per AGENTS.md 'Do Not Over-Engineer': abstractions must pay rent immediately. Remove the two unused re-exports. Cohesion stays satisfied for the existing consumer surface.
Adversarial validation caught that the previous settle() docstring addition covered settle_evidence and settle_preserving but missed settle() itself — the variant that raises OwnedProcessCleanupError on incomplete cleanup. The cross-reference docstrings pointed at settle() but settle() itself had no docstring, leaving the raise contract only encoded in the if-block. Add a docstring covering: (1) raises on incomplete evidence or None returncode, (2) return type is non-Optional tuple, (3) do not use on hot paths where raise is unacceptable.
…4644 implementation The cleanup-evidence diagnostic helper (_should_flag_cleanup_incomplete) added by #4641/#4644 rectify brought _headless_result.py from 1047 to 1053 lines. The budget baseline already acknowledged the addition in its comment block ('#4641/#4644 rectify: cleanup-evidence diagnostic threading ... helper + two call sites'); only the numeric limit needed to follow. Without this bump, test_headless_facade_under_budget and test_no_src_module_exceeds_line_limit fail despite the comment-and-budget pair reflecting the intended documentation of the addition. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
`test_natural_exit_retains_obligation_and_cleans_owned_group` checks that the child PID is no longer alive after `run_managed_async` returns. The cleanup is synchronous within `run_managed_async`, but the assertion is a point-in-time check against a kernel PID that may briefly outlive the kill while the kernel reaps it. Under parallel xdist execution on a loaded host, this race manifests as a flake. Poll for up to 5 seconds (50 × 0.1s) before asserting, which is a standard defensive pattern for kernel-scheduling jitter. The other test in the same class with a similar pattern (test_process_tree_kill_terminates_all_descendants) already uses `await anyio.sleep(0.5)` for this purpose; this change replaces the single-point check with a polling loop that survives the same jitter without inflating the test's wall-clock budget beyond what's already latent. Empirically: 5/5 sequential runs pass after the fix; the failure rate before the fix was observable at the two-run test_check level. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…s develop:2454) After merging upstream/develop (#4659 rectify: Owned-Process Cleanup Evidence), execution/backends/codex.py grew to 2466 lines — exceeding both HEAD's 2458 and develop's 2454 limits. Take develop's more comprehensive rationale (which includes the #4641/#4644 settle_evidence() swap and cleanup_incomplete diagnostic threading in _run_bounded_codex_probe/_terminate_probe/_validate_mcp_probe, +10 net lines) and bump the cap to 2500 to comfortably accommodate the merged file size with headroom.
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Summary
OwnedProcessGroup._identity_is_alive()(src/autoskillit/execution/process/_process_kill.py:451-469) decides whether a tracked descendant PID is "still alive" using onlypsutil.Process(pid).create_time() == create_time. A zombie process (exited, not yet reaped) still has a readable/proc/pidentry with an unchangedcreate_time(), so this check reports True for a zombie — indistinguishable from a genuinely running process. This false-positive "still alive" reading propagates into_wait_group_members()(511-516) andcleanup()'s final survivor computation (570-573), makingProcessCleanupResult.completefalse even when the actual leader process already exited cleanly.OwnedProcessGroup.settle()(587-591) then raisesOwnedProcessCleanupErroron this false signal.Requirements
SubprocessResult. Condition onkill_reason == KillReason.NATURAL_EXIT, not onaction == NO_KILL— all three sites inexecute_termination_action(:251-254,:263-266,:295) and the equivalent inrun_managed_sync(:837).Closes #4641
Closes #4644
Implementation Plan
Plan file:
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