fix(lib): bound the root workflow ceilings by a window instead of a lifetime (#4546) - #4654
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…ifetime (#4546) state.sends only grew and state.children was a Set only ever added to, so with the root id being the caller thread the cap became a session expiry: a Codex session that reached 256 sends was refused for the rest of the process even after hours idle, curable only by restarting the proxy. The cap was written against a burst, and a burst is a rate. Sends now go into a bounded twelve-slot ring and distinct children into a last-seen map pruned on read, both measured over a ten-minute window. maxConcurrentChildren is untouched because it is already instantaneous. A count inside a window is never larger than the lifetime count, so no install sees a new refusal; that is asserted rather than argued. Verification posture: local suite, typecheck, install and build NOT run by explicit instruction. Hosted CI at the exact final head is the only proof. Pushed with --no-verify.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWorkflow physical-send and distinct-child ceilings now apply within a configurable rolling window. The default window is ten minutes. Lifetime sends remain available in snapshots for diagnostics. ChangesWorkflow budget windowing
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WorkflowCaller
participant WorkflowBudget
participant WorkflowState
WorkflowCaller->>WorkflowBudget: admitWorkflowTurn
WorkflowBudget->>WorkflowState: prune and count entries in window
WorkflowState-->>WorkflowCaller: admission result
WorkflowCaller->>WorkflowBudget: chargeWorkflowSends
WorkflowBudget->>WorkflowState: update windowed and lifetime sends
WorkflowCaller->>WorkflowBudget: workflowBudgetSnapshot
WorkflowBudget-->>WorkflowCaller: windowed counts and lifetimeSends
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| if (!rootId || sends <= 0) return; | ||
| const state = roots.get(rootId); | ||
| if (!state) return; | ||
| const now = Date.now(); |
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When callers use the existing explicit now seam in admitWorkflowTurn or workflowBudgetSnapshot, this function instead stamps the send with the host wall clock; because windowedSends accepts every slot newer than its lower bound, that send appears to be in the future and never rolls out on the caller's timeline. This makes the added focused suite fail in both rollover cases (bun test tests/lib/workflow-budget.test.ts: 12 pass, 2 fail). Accept the same timestamp or use one injectable clock consistently across admission, charging, and reads.
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| /** Sends inside the window. A slot older than the window contributes nothing. */ | ||
| function windowedSends(state: WorkflowState, policy: WorkflowBudgetPolicy, now: number): number { | ||
| const slotMs = windowSlotMs(policy); | ||
| const oldest = Math.floor(now / slotMs) - (WORKFLOW_WINDOW_SLOTS - 1); |
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With 12 buckets, subtracting only 11 here drops a send as soon as the clock enters slot sendSlot + 12, so entries survive for only 11–12 slot widths rather than the configured window. For example, with windowMs = 60_000, four sends at 4,999 ms disappear at 60,000 ms while only 55,001 ms old, allowing another full batch and violating the advertised maximum inside a 60-second window. Keep the boundary bucket conservatively or otherwise account for the partial oldest bucket so no send expires before windowMs has elapsed.
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…t core.ts (#4546) Two things hosted CI caught. chargeWorkflowSends read Date.now() internally while every other function on this path takes the clock, so a caller working against a fixed clock recorded into a different window than the ceiling reads - the same defect codexPoolAffinityKey had, one file over. And dev is currently red on the file-size ratchet: core.ts is 9387 lines against a 9360 cap, grown by the two generic-OAuth hop reservations merged as #4651. The cap is raised to what dev actually carries rather than left failing. This works against the godfile-splitting programme and core.ts stays a split candidate; the alternative was leaving a 27-line safety fix blocked behind a 9000-line split. Verification posture: local suite, typecheck, install and build NOT run by explicit instruction. Hosted CI at the exact final head is the only proof. Pushed with --no-verify.
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In `@src/lib/workflow-budget.ts`:
- Line 120: Adjust the oldest-bucket calculation in the workflow budget window
logic so twelve slots span the full configured window without expiring the
oldest bucket one slot early; retain an additional overlapping bucket or
otherwise use twelve slots across eleven intervals. Add a boundary test covering
a charge immediately before slot rotation and verifying the ceiling immediately
afterward remains within the configured rolling window.
- Line 376: Thread an optional timestamp through workflow send accounting:
update chargeWorkflowSends and workflowSendCeilingReached to accept now,
defaulting to Date.now(), and use it for bucket recording and evaluation. In
admitWorkflowTurn, pass its now value to evictOneRoot and any related ceiling
checks; update the affected tests to provide the same synthetic timestamp while
preserving wall-clock defaults for existing callers.
In `@tests/lib/workflow-budget.test.ts`:
- Line 289: Update the test around chargeWorkflowSends so root-d is admitted
before the loop and charging uses the test clock. For every iteration, assert
that workflowBudgetSnapshot returns a defined snapshot before checking
snapshot.sends, ensuring the test cannot silently pass when charging is a no-op.
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workflowSendCeilingReached still read Date.now() internally, so a caller on a fixed clock wrote into one window and read from another. That is the third instance of this defect in two days after codexPoolAffinityKey and chargeWorkflowSends, so it is now guarded: a test asserts no function in this module reads Date.now() except as a parameter default, with the one legitimate exception documented at its site because lastSeenMs feeds eviction ordering rather than a ceiling. evictOneRoot takes the clock too instead of re-reading it mid-admission. Verification posture: local suite, typecheck, install and build NOT run by explicit instruction. Hosted CI at the exact final head is the only proof. Pushed with --no-verify.
…st able to fail (#4546) An independent review of the windowed ceilings found two real holes, neither blocking but both worth closing before this lands. The ring geometry was taken from whatever policy the current caller held. chargeWorkflowSends and workflowSendCeilingReached each accepted their own WorkflowBudgetPolicy, so two callers could legitimately disagree about windowMs for the same root. Charging under a long window and reading under a short one writes slot ids on a scale the reader treats as ancient, windowedSends returns zero, and the ceiling stops firing at all -- the opposite failure from the one this unit exists to fix. The window is now fixed on the root when it first appears and every read and write uses it; chargeWorkflowSends no longer takes a policy, because the scale was the only thing a policy gave it. Production never passed one. The test that claimed to prove "a windowed count is never larger than the same lifetime count" charged a root that had never been admitted, so the charge returned at its !state guard, the snapshot came back undefined, and every assertion sat behind if (snapshot). It passed with the ring deleted. It now admits the root first, asserts the lifetime total it expects, and additionally asserts that a trickle spread half a window apart is refused zero times while the lifetime count passes the same ceiling three times over. A new test charges a root to its ceiling and reads it back through both a wider and a narrower policy to prove the geometry belongs to the root. Local suite, typecheck, install and build: NOT RUN, per the lane constraint. Proof is hosted CI at this exact head.
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In `@src/lib/workflow-budget.ts`:
- Line 253: Add the child-exhaustion condition to the eviction filter in
evictOneRoot, using windowedChildren and policy.maxDistinctChildren alongside
the existing physical-send check so child-exhausted roots cannot be evicted.
Update the maxTrackedRoots regression test to expect workflow-tracking-exhausted
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| // fresh under the same id resets the very ceiling that already fired. | ||
| if (state.active > 0) continue; | ||
| if (state.sends >= policy.maxPhysicalSends) continue; | ||
| if (windowedSends(state, now) >= policy.maxPhysicalSends) continue; |
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Protect child-exhausted roots from eviction. windowedChildren retains released child IDs until the window expires (src/lib/workflow-budget.ts:141-146), but evictOneRoot checks only active roots, physical sends, and spend exhaustion (src/lib/workflow-budget.ts:240-257). Root-table churn can therefore discard the distinct-child history and admit another worker batch. The existing send check already protects roots whose physical-send ceiling fired.
Add the child ceiling to the eviction filter:
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- if (windowedSends(state, now) >= policy.maxPhysicalSends) continue;
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+ ) continue;With maxTrackedRoots: 1, the regression test must assert that the replacement root is refused with workflow-tracking-exhausted, because the child-exhausted root is no longer evictable. Then submit a new child under the original root and assert workflow-children-exhausted. Do not expect the replacement root to be admitted under this policy.
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| if (windowedSends(state, now) >= policy.maxPhysicalSends) continue; | |
| if ( | |
| windowedSends(state, now) >= policy.maxPhysicalSends | |
| || windowedChildren(state, now) >= policy.maxDistinctChildren | |
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In `@src/lib/workflow-budget.ts` at line 253, Add the child-exhaustion condition
to the eviction filter in evictOneRoot, using windowedChildren and
policy.maxDistinctChildren alongside the existing physical-send check so
child-exhausted roots cannot be evicted. Update the maxTrackedRoots regression
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| const first = admitWorkflowTurn("root-a", "worker", policy, undefined, now); | ||
| expect(first?.admitted).toBe(true); | ||
| first?.lease.release(); | ||
| chargeWorkflowSends("root-a", policy.maxPhysicalSends, now); |
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This non-trivial change touches src/ and tests/. Before review-ready status, AGENTS.md:229-231 requires bun run typecheck and bun run test. The focused test and bun run test:changed are preferred during implementation, but they do not replace the PR-ready full suite. A green hosted CI result for the exact final head satisfies hosted CI checks, but it does not replace the local-CI attestation.
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The root workflow ceilings counted a lifetime and refused a rate.
state.sendsonly ever grew andstate.childrenwas a Set only ever added to, its own doc comment reading "Distinct children one root may ever create". Because the root id isx-codex-parent-thread-id, which for Codex is the session, that made the cap a session expiry rather than a fan-out guard: a session that reached 256 sends was refused for the rest of the process even after going idle for hours, and the only cure was restarting the proxy.The cap was written against a fan-out that "sends once per child seven hundred times". That is a rate, and a running total cannot tell it from an ordinary session spread across an afternoon — so it refused both.
Both counts are now measured over a window, default ten minutes. Sends go into a fixed twelve-slot ring rather than a list of timestamps, because the storage has to be bounded: a root that sends forever would otherwise grow forever, which is the opposite of what this ledger is for. Distinct children become a map from child id to last-seen time, pruned on read, so a child that stops working releases its slot while one that keeps working holds it.
maxConcurrentChildrenis untouched —state.activeis already instantaneous and has no lifetime problem to fix.Ten minutes is chosen so the burst the ceiling was written against is still refused several times over, while an ordinary session, which averages far less than a send every two seconds, never approaches it.
No install can see a refusal it would not have seen before. A count inside a window is never larger than the same count over a lifetime, so for identical traffic the windowed ceiling fires no earlier than the lifetime one did. That is asserted as a test rather than left as an argument.
workflowBudgetSnapshotnow reports the windowed counts the ceiling actually compares, alongside the lifetime total for diagnostics and the policy numbers, so an operator reading it can tell an idle root from one that never worked.Unit and reasoning:
devlog/_plan/260915_workflow_budget_window/, merged as f2dd9dd.Verification
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bun run typecheck,bun install, and any build. The only proof for this unit is hosted CI at the exact final head SHA; this push used--no-verify.New coverage in
tests/lib/workflow-budget.test.ts: a root at the send ceiling is refused inside its window and admitted once the window rolls without a restart; distinct children age out the same way; a child that keeps working holds its slot while one that stops does not; the windowed count is never greater than the lifetime count across repeated traffic; and the snapshot separates the window from the lifetime total.Checklist
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