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Distributed workers send command metrics through WorkerStatus heartbeats. WorkerRegistration carries identity, RunId, and capabilities; coordinators preserve final status after disconnects or expired heartbeats. Run-report aggregation filters registrations and statuses by the current run.

The wire API uses SerializedModuleResult.Payload, ModuleAssignmentOptions, and native capability lists. SignalR uses MaxReceiveMessageSize. Architecture documentation covers the migration and the six worker operations plus five additional master operations, including heartbeat-based final metrics.

SignalR validates current connection and assignment ownership. Admitted results prevent reconnect redispatch while delivery waits on the fence. Failed delivery releases its admission without clearing other concurrent publications. Publication and result waits share reconnect-aware HubException handling; permanent closure invalidates earlier reconnect success. Re-registration restores the same in-flight assignment before publication retries.

Core failure handling preserves accepted outcomes after transport errors. If an accepted outcome cannot serialize, such as a cyclic output object, the worker publishes a failed serialization result so the master's waiter completes. Disconnect removal, reconnect tracking, and registration restoration share the per-worker-index lock. Existing bounded concurrency and cancellation-aware terminal publication remain intact.

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  • All 200 distributed and 68 SignalR tests pass, including real-server reconnects, admission/redispatch races, permanent-close regression, and injected delivery failure.
  • The SignalR Release solution build, scoped formatting, and all 61 package API baseline checks pass. SignalR formatting also passes severity-info verification.
  • Four distributed tests exceeded their five-second test deadlines in the loaded Ubuntu CI run. Their harness deadlines are now 30 seconds; operation timings, throttling assertions, and routing behavior are unchanged.
  • Documentation installs and builds with Node 24.14.1 and yarn, checking 25 analyzer pages and generating 331 documents. Existing dependency and Docusaurus warnings remain.

Local .NET validation uses the default 10-minute/2-GB guard. The earlier full core info-severity formatting limit remains deferred to CI without retry or increased limits. Fresh CI and review are required before merging.

Closes #4379

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The distributed wire contracts now use list-based capabilities, ModuleAssignmentOptions, and SerializedModuleResult.Payload. Worker telemetry now uses WorkerStatus heartbeats. Coordinators persist and expose statuses, and report collection filters and aggregates them by run.

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Distributed status and wire contract

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Wire DTO and serialization contracts
src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/..., src/ModularPipelines/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, test/ModularPipelines.Distributed.UnitTests/Serialization/*
Capability fields now use lists. ModuleAssignmentConfiguration became ModuleAssignmentOptions. SerializedJson became Payload. WorkerStatus carries worker telemetry. The custom set converter was removed.
Coordinator status storage and SignalR recovery
src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/Coordination/*, src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.Redis/Coordination/*, src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Hub/*
In-memory, Redis, and SignalR coordinators store worker statuses and expose status retrieval. SignalR registration replacement, heartbeat ownership, and result completion use per-worker synchronization and registration checks.
Worker heartbeat and report aggregation
src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/Worker/*, src/ModularPipelines/Engine/RunReportService.cs, src/ModularPipelines/PipelineBuilder.cs, test/*
Workers send run-scoped status objects. RunReportService polls statuses and aggregates final metrics by worker index and run identifier.
Capability routing and runtime configuration
src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/CapabilityMatcher.cs, src/ModularPipelines.Build/Program.cs, src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/*, docs/docs/distributed/architecture.md, test/*
Capability matching caches worker capabilities. SignalR uses MaxReceiveMessageSize. Build configuration reads prefixed instance variables. Documentation and tests describe the updated coordinator and liveness flow.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

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  participant WorkerModuleExecutor
  participant DistributedPipelineHub
  participant SignalRMasterState
  participant RunReportService
  WorkerModuleExecutor->>DistributedPipelineHub: send WorkerStatus heartbeat
  DistributedPipelineHub->>SignalRMasterState: validate and persist status
  RunReportService->>SignalRMasterState: request worker statuses
  SignalRMasterState-->>RunReportService: return run-matched statuses
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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527)

Solid refactor overall — the DTO renames (Payload, ModuleAssignmentOptions), moving telemetry into a dedicated WorkerStatus heartbeat type, and dropping the custom ReadOnlySetJsonConverter in favor of native list serialization are clean, transport-neutral improvements that reduce bespoke serialization code. I traced the changes against origin/main and confirmed four issues that should be addressed before merge, in order of severity.

1. Final worker metrics can be silently dropped on a reconnect race (Correctness)

src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Hub/DistributedPipelineHub.cs:69

Heartbeat(WorkerStatus) only applies an update if (_masterState.Workers.TryGetValue(Context.ConnectionId, ...)). This replaces the old flow where RunReportService.PublishWorkerMetricsAsync called RegisterWorkerAsync, whose hub handler unconditionally upserted state.Workers[connectionId]. Now it calls SendHeartbeatAsyncHeartbeat, which is a no-op if the connection isn't already tracked.

SignalRWorkerCoordinator.SendHeartbeatAsync (Coordination/SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:112) is a bare InvokeAsync with no retry. If the worker's SignalR connection blips and reconnects right before this final call, OnReconnectedAsync's RegisterWorker re-registration (which repopulates state.Workers) races against the heartbeat send on an independent async path. If the heartbeat lands before re-registration completes, the final UnattributedCommandCount/ModuleCommandCounts are dropped, and WaitForFinalWorkerMetricsAsync on the master will time out waiting for that worker, undercounting its commands in the run report.

Suggestion: either have the worker await/retry the final heartbeat until it's acknowledged as applied (e.g. have Heartbeat return a bool and retry on false), or have the hub upsert into _masterState.Workers from Heartbeat the same way RegisterWorker does when the connection isn't yet tracked, rather than silently discarding. The latter is more robust since it doesn't require a client-side protocol change.

2. Capability matching regressed from O(1) set lookup to O(n) list scan (Efficiency)

src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/Capabilities/CapabilityMatcher.cs:12

CanExecute(ModuleAssignment, WorkerRegistration) used to delegate to CanExecute(assignment, worker.Capabilities) (the IReadOnlySet<Capability> overload, with an empty-requirements fast path and O(1) Contains). Now that WorkerRegistration.Capabilities is an IReadOnlyList<Capability>, it inlines assignment.RequiredCapabilities.All(worker.Capabilities.Contains), making every Contains an O(n) linear scan, and it also loses the empty-RequiredCapabilities fast path from the set-based overload.

This method sits in the hot dispatch loop (DistributedPipelineHub.TryAssignPendingWork, and the equivalent in-memory/Redis coordinators), called once per pending assignment against every idle worker. With more than a handful of capability tags this turns matching into a needless quadratic-ish cost versus the previous set-backed check.

Suggestion: convert worker.Capabilities to a HashSet<Capability> once at the matching boundary (or store a materialized set alongside the wire-format list on WorkerRegistration), so the list is only used for serialization and the set is used for membership checks — preserving the O(1) lookups without giving up the simpler list-based wire format.

3. WaitForFinalWorkerMetricsAsync loses run-scoping once WorkerStatus replaces WorkerRegistration for polling (Correctness, narrow)

src/ModularPipelines/Engine/RunReportService.cs:582-640

expectedWorkerIndexes is computed once from initialWorkers (WorkerRegistration, which carries RunIdentifier) filtered by IsCurrentExecution. Every subsequent poll then calls GetWorkerStatusesAsync, which filters purely by WorkerIndex membership — WorkerStatus (unlike WorkerRegistration) has no RunIdentifier, so there's no way to re-check run-scoping per poll.

This is fine for the common case of one coordinator instance per pipeline run, but if a coordinator is ever reused across sequential executions (e.g. a long-lived master host), a stale worker index from a prior run reporting UnattributedCommandCount could satisfy the completion check for the current run's expected worker index.

Suggestion: either carry RunIdentifier on WorkerStatus too (small DTO addition, keeps the correlation explicit), or key _workerStatuses/heartbeat storage by (RunIdentifier, WorkerIndex) in the coordinators so stale-run entries can't leak into the current run's polling. If coordinators are guaranteed fresh-per-run today, a comment on WorkerStatus noting that assumption would at least make the implicit contract explicit for future changes.

4. Duplicated, structurally-inconsistent liveness check across coordinators (Maintainability)

src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/Coordination/InMemoryDistributedCoordinator.cs:118-125 vs src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Coordination/SignalRMasterCoordinator.cs:171-178

InMemoryDistributedCoordinator.GetRegisteredWorkersAsync uses status_exists && (hasFinalCount || heartbeatLive), while SignalRMasterCoordinator's equivalent uses (status_exists && hasFinalCount) || heartbeatLive — a different boolean structure for the same liveness concept. They happen to agree today because both RegisterWorkerAsync paths always seed a WorkerStatus entry at registration, so status_exists is always true whenever a heartbeat could be live. But the divergence means the invariant is implicit and unenforced — if the Redis coordinator (or a future backend) doesn't seed WorkerStatus on registration, this becomes a backend-dependent behavioral difference for identical worker state.

Suggestion: since InMemoryDistributedCoordinator and SignalRMasterCoordinator (and presumably RedisDistributedCoordinator) now share near-identical _workers/_workerStatuses/heartbeat bookkeeping, consider extracting the liveness predicate (and ideally the whole registration/heartbeat/liveness bookkeeping) into a small shared helper or base type that all three coordinators compose, rather than re-implementing the same three-way join independently in each backend. That removes the class of bug where one backend's tweak silently diverges from the others.


None of these are blocking regressions in the common single-run, non-reconnecting path, but #1 and #2 affect the reliability and performance of the distributed execution path this PR touches directly, so I'd like to see them addressed or explicitly acknowledged before merge.

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Addressed all four exact-head findings at eb9a2aa:\n\n- SignalR heartbeats now survive the reconnect/register race while rejecting cross-worker updates.\n- capability membership uses one cached HashSet per WorkerRegistration and restores the empty-requirements fast path.\n- WorkerStatus now carries RunIdentifier; report polling filters every status poll by run, including reused worker indexes.\n- all coordinators use WorkerStatus.IsLive for identical heartbeat/final-metrics semantics; registration preserves same-run reconnect metrics and resets different-run status.\n\nValidation:\n- RunReportTests 94/94\n- Distributed full suite 134/134\n- SignalR full suite 49/49\n- Redis suite 49 passed, 7 real-Redis tests environment-skipped\n- core Tests.slnf Release build passed (181 existing warnings)\n- SignalR Release build passed (1 existing warning)\n- Redis Release build passed clean\n- scoped format + git diff --check clean\n\n@claude review

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Verified the fix commit (eb9a2aa3) against all four issues raised in the previous review, by diffing 2f399fce..eb9a2aa3 and running the actual test suites against this branch (not just trusting the PR description). All four are resolved:

  1. Heartbeat drop on reconnect raceDistributedPipelineHub.Heartbeat (and the in-memory/Redis equivalents) now persist the WorkerStatus unconditionally unless the connection is known to belong to a different worker index, rather than requiring the connection to already be tracked. This closes the exact race window described (final heartbeat landing before RegisterWorker re-populates state.Workers on reconnect) without needing a client-side retry protocol — matches the suggested fix. New tests Heartbeat_Before_Reconnection_Registration_Preserves_Final_Status and Heartbeat_From_Connected_Worker_Cannot_Update_Another_Worker cover both the race and the "can't spoof another worker's status while your own connection is tracked" case. Ran ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.UnitTests (49/49 pass) and the full 49 pass including these new tests.
  2. O(n) capability matchingCapabilityMatcher.CanExecute now restores the empty-RequiredCapabilities fast path and caches a HashSet<Capability> per WorkerRegistration via a ConditionalWeakTable, so repeated matches against the same worker instance (the hot dispatch loop) are back to O(1) membership checks without changing the wire-format list. No leak risk since entries are evicted with their WorkerRegistration key.
  3. WaitForFinalWorkerMetricsAsync losing run-scopingWorkerStatus now carries RunIdentifier, set consistently from the periodic and final heartbeats (WorkerModuleExecutor, RunReportService) and from registration-seeded statuses in all three coordinators. GetWorkerStatusesAsync filters every poll by IsCurrentExecution(status.RunIdentifier, executionIdentifier). The updated RunReportTests test now explicitly injects a stale-run entry with the same WorkerIndex as the current run and confirms it no longer satisfies the completion check — directly targets the scenario called out.
  4. Duplicated/inconsistent liveness checkInMemoryDistributedCoordinator, SignalRMasterCoordinator, and RedisDistributedCoordinator all now call the single WorkerStatus.IsLive(status, hasLiveHeartbeat) static helper, eliminating the three independently-maintained boolean structures.

Ran the test suites directly against this branch to confirm, matching the PR description's numbers:

  • ModularPipelines.Distributed.UnitTests: 134/134 passed
  • ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.UnitTests: 49/49 passed
  • ModularPipelines.UnitTests (RunReportTests): 94/94 passed (1 unrelated Windows-only skip elsewhere in the project)

No new issues introduced by this round of fixes. Nice, targeted patch — each fix maps directly to the reported issue with a regression test that would have failed before the change.

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Merged current main and resolved the test-coordinator overlap by preserving both behaviors: WorkerStatus DTO passthrough and completion-signal tracking.

Validation:

  • distributed unit tests: 139/139 passed with coverage
  • Redis unit tests: 49 passed, 7 environment-gated skipped
  • SignalR unit tests: 49/49 passed
  • RunReport tests: 94/94 passed with coverage
  • distributed + Redis builds: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • SignalR build: 0 errors, 1 unchanged pre-existing StyleCop warning
  • core unit-test project build: 0 errors (181 existing warnings)

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527)

This PR's own content hasn't changed since the last review (which went CLEAR at eb9a2aa38c2354d7223af7e766a2f84fecc3d90d, after the four previously-flagged issues — the reconnect-race heartbeat drop, the O(n) capability-matching regression, the WaitForFinalWorkerMetricsAsync run-scoping gap, and the duplicated worker-status-aggregation logic — were fixed and verified). The only thing new at the current head is a merge commit (4e43a76) bringing in unrelated upstream main changes from #4502 ("Preserve distributed always-run teardown"), which touches DistributedModuleExecutor.cs, AlwaysRunHandler.cs, and IAlwaysRunHandler.cs — none of which overlap with this PR's own changed files.

The merge did require one bit of manual conflict resolution: DistributedModuleExecutorTests.cs's NoDequeueCoordinator test-double wrapper (added by #4502) had to be updated to satisfy this PR's IDistributedMasterCoordinator interface changes — adding a GetWorkerStatusesAsync passthrough and updating SendHeartbeatAsync to take the new WorkerStatus parameter instead of a bare workerIndex, plus switching two WorkerRegistration capability arguments from new HashSet<Capability>() to [] to match the IReadOnlyList<Capability> type change. I checked this against the rest of the wrapper's delegation pattern and the current IDistributedMasterCoordinator shape — it's a correct, minimal, mechanical adaptation with no logic changes, consistent with how every other member on that wrapper just forwards to inner.

No new issues found. Checked for bugs and CLAUDE.md compliance against the current head.

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In `@src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Hub/DistributedPipelineHub.cs`:
- Around line 83-84: Update the heartbeat handling in DistributedPipelineHub to
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Synced current main (#4518) in 8729d5f. Resolved API-baseline overlap by retaining the wire DTO names (ModuleAssignmentOptions, MaxReceiveMessageSize) while adding #4518's configuration overloads and activation API. Local validation: distributed build 0 warnings/0 errors; distributed tests 145/145; SignalR build 0 errors (1 existing style warning); SignalR tests 50/50. @claude review

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the change since the last CLEAR review at 4e43a76de15f048829aa11f64105e305982b7729. The only new commit at the current head is a merge commit (8729d5fd) bringing in upstream main changes from #4518 ("Unify distributed activation and configuration"), which reworks DistributedOptions.Enabled/TotalInstances into a DistributedRole (Auto/Master/Worker) model.

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  • Diffed every file touched by the merge (4e43a76..8729d5fd) against main's tip (e1cba4696f) to separate "picked up verbatim from main" from "PR-specific content." Only 8 files genuinely differ from main's tip: docs/docs/distributed/architecture.md, src/ModularPipelines.Build/Program.cs, SignalRDistributedCoordinatorFactory.cs, two PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt files, RunReportService.cs, PipelineBuilder.cs, and ConfigurationTests.cs — matching CodeRabbit's own "files selected for processing" list.
  • For each, the delta from main's tip is explained entirely by this PR's own pre-existing changes (e.g. WorkerStatus/Payload/ModuleAssignmentOptions renames, ReadOnlySetJsonConverter removal) persisting correctly alongside main's Role-based refactor — not by any new, PR-specific merge-conflict logic. PipelineBuilder.ActivateDistributedModeIfConfigured (the largest hunk, 104 lines) is byte-for-byte identical to main's version; the PR simply took main's side for that method.
  • RunReportService.cs's two-line change (options.Enabled && options.TotalInstances > 1 && ...options.Enabled && ...) is consistent with dropping the now-removed TotalInstances gate, matching main's activation model.
  • Built ModularPipelines.Tests.slnf (core + unit tests) and src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.slnx in Release — both succeed with 0 errors (183 pre-existing nullability warnings, unrelated to this change).
  • Ran ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.UnitTests ConfigurationTests (covers the new IOptions<SignalRDistributedOptions> DI change and the new ConfigurationSectionBindsOptions test): 3/3 passed.
  • Ran ModularPipelines.UnitTests RunReportTests (covers RunReportService.cs's changed methods): 93/93 passed, 1 pre-existing Windows-only skip.

No new issues found. The four substantive issues from the original review round (heartbeat drop on reconnect race, O(n) capability matching, run-scoping loss in WaitForFinalWorkerMetricsAsync, duplicated liveness checks) remain fixed and unaffected by this merge.

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Addressed both heartbeat ownership findings in 1523275. Global worker status now accepts updates only from the connection owning the current registration; pre-registration reconnect status remains connection-scoped until a matching registration validates WorkerIndex and RunIdentifier. Added cross-connection regression coverage. Validation: SignalR build (0 errors; 1 existing warning), SignalR tests 51/51, scoped whitespace verification clean. @claude review

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- Around line 197-198: Update the status-handling method around
_masterState.WorkerStatuses and _masterState.Heartbeats to validate registration
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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the single new commit at the current head (1523275b, "fix(signalr): bind worker heartbeats"), which addresses the two CodeRabbit findings about heartbeat ownership/spoofing on DistributedPipelineHub.Heartbeat (the prior claude review had already gone CLEAR at 8729d5fd, and no code changed in between besides this fix).

What changed:

  • Heartbeat no longer writes directly to the global _masterState.WorkerStatuses[status.WorkerIndex] for an unregistered connection. It now stashes the status in a new connection-scoped PendingWorkerStatuses dictionary (keyed by ConnectionId, not WorkerIndex), so an unregistered connection can no longer clobber another worker's live status just by guessing/replaying a WorkerIndex.
  • For an already-registered connection, TryRecordHeartbeat now checks ReferenceEquals(currentRegistration, worker.Registration) — i.e. the heartbeat is only applied if this connection's own registration object is still the one currently occupying that WorkerIndex slot in _masterState.Registrations. A stale/superseded connection (e.g. after a reconnect replaces the registration for the same index) can no longer overwrite the new owner's status, closing the exact race the previous review's autofix asked for.
  • RegisterWorker drains PendingWorkerStatuses for its own connection and only applies the pending status if IsStatusForRegistration matches (WorkerIndex + RunIdentifier), so a pre-registration heartbeat is applied only once registration proves ownership — matching CodeRabbit's suggested fix shape.
  • OnDisconnectedAsync cleans up PendingWorkerStatuses for the disconnecting connection, so there's no unbounded growth from connections that heartbeat but never register.

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  • Checked out the PR branch in a worktree and ran the full ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.UnitTests suite in Release: 51/51 passed, matching the author's reported numbers.
  • To confirm the new/modified tests are genuine regression tests and not vacuous, I reverted just DistributedPipelineHub.cs/SignalRMasterState.cs to the prior (8729d5fd) version while keeping the new test file, and re-ran the hub tests: both Heartbeat_Before_Reconnection_Registration_Preserves_Final_Status (now also asserting the heartbeat is not visible in global state pre-registration) and the new Superseded_Connection_Cannot_Overwrite_Current_Worker_Status fail against the old code — the latter reproduces exactly the "two connections sharing a WorkerIndex with different run identifiers" scenario CodeRabbit called out, with the old connection's heartbeat (UnattributedCommandCount = 99) overwriting the current owner's status. Both pass against the fix commit.

No new issues found, and the fix closes the reported spoofing/race window with a test that would have caught it. This also fully resolves the two actionable CodeRabbit comments from this PR.

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Synced fixed main at \ca754a2686af0dad22f010c05f247251d5681eb8\ so the collectible-metadata CI failures rerun with #4534. Targeted \GeneratedRuntimeMetadataTests: 33/33 passed locally.

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the change since the last CLEAR review at 1523275b251ddf75ecb426d61d1b084173b99daa. The current head (ca754a2686af0dad22f010c05f247251d5681eb8) is a merge commit ("Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into codex-pr-4527-conflict") bringing in 6 new upstream main commits, most recently #4534 ("test: isolate collectible metadata probes"), per the author's own PR comment explaining the sync was to pick up that CI fix.

How I verified the merge itself, not just trusted it:

  • Diffed every file touched by the merge range (1523275b..ca754a2686) to identify which files are genuinely PR-specific vs. picked up verbatim from main.
  • 62 files changed in the merge range. Cross-checking against git diff 9a35185519..2ac4af184d (main's own commit range that got merged in) shows the vast majority are unrelated main-only changes: gh/kind generated CLI options regeneration, ModuleLoggerScopeModuleOutputContextScope renaming (#4528), and Cobra CLI parsing fixes (#4508) — none of which touch distributed wire DTOs, coordinators, or worker status/telemetry code.
  • The only files in the merge-range diff that also belong to this PR's own changeset (WorkerModuleExecutor.cs, DistributedModuleExecutorTests.cs, test/.../WorkerModuleExecutorTests.cs) were checked line-by-line against main's own diff for the same files — in each case the hunks are byte-for-byte identical to what main introduced (the ModuleOutputContextScope rename and its ambient-context test assertions). No PR-specific conflict-resolution logic was introduced; git simply carried this PR's pre-existing content forward through the merge.
  • Confirmed no new commits touch src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/**, src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.Redis/**, or src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/** (the PR's actual subject matter) beyond the mechanical rename above.

No new issues found — this sync is a clean, no-op merge from the PR's perspective. All previously-flagged and fixed issues (reconnect-race heartbeat drop, O(n) capability matching, run-scoping loss, heartbeat ownership/spoofing) remain intact and unaffected.

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Resolved the heartbeat/registration TOCTOU race at exact head 0d6c27c385f8d5b76003f43e253b2b975c6e6500.

Validation:

  • ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.slnx Release build: passed (one existing SA1502 warning in MasterServerHost.cs)
  • DistributedPipelineHubTests: 6/6 passed
  • full ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.UnitTests: 52/52 passed
  • scoped whitespace verification: passed
  • git diff --check: passed
  • broad format verification remains blocked by existing whitespace in ZipCentralDirectory.cs, outside this PR

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In `@src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Hub/SignalRMasterState.cs`:
- Line 86: Update the worker registration logic around
Workers[worker.ConnectionId] and Registrations[WorkerIndex] so replacing a
worker index removes or revokes the prior connection from Workers, while
preserving or requeueing any in-flight assignment through reconnection. Add a
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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the single new commit since the last CLEAR review at ca754a2686af0dad22f010c05f247251d5681eb8: 0d6c27c ("fix(signalr): serialize worker status updates").

What it does: Moves RegisterWorker's and Heartbeat's multi-step state mutations (Registrations, Workers, WorkerStatuses, Heartbeats) from DistributedPipelineHub into new SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker/TryRecordHeartbeat methods, each guarded by a per-worker-index lock (GetWorkerStateLock, backed by a ConcurrentDictionary<int, object>). This closes a real race: previously, a registration replacement (e.g. a reconnect claiming a worker index) and an in-flight stale heartbeat for the old registration could interleave across the four separate concurrent-dictionary writes, letting the stale heartbeat's status/timestamp land after the new registration's initial state, and stomping data that belongs to the new owner.

Verification performed, not just read-through:

  • Traced the lock-key derivation on both sides: TryRecordHeartbeat locks on worker.Registration.WorkerIndex, where worker comes from Workers.TryGetValue(connectionId, ...) in Heartbeat. WorkerState.Registration is init-only (src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Hub/WorkerState.cs), so that key is stable for the lifetime of the WorkerState instance and can't drift between the lookup and the lock acquisition.
  • Confirmed the nested-lock path is safe: RegisterWorker (hub) calls TryRestoreReconnect (takes _pendingReconnectLock) before calling state.RegisterWorker (takes the per-index lock) — sequential, not nested, so no new lock-ordering/deadlock risk versus the pre-existing _pendingReconnectLock usage elsewhere in the file.
  • Checked TryRecordHeartbeat's post-lock guard (ReferenceEquals(currentRegistration, registration)) still correctly rejects a stale heartbeat once a replacement registration has landed, now that the read-check-write is atomic under the lock rather than split across four independent ConcurrentDictionary operations.
  • Walked the new Registration_Replacement_Cannot_Race_With_Stale_Heartbeat_Persistence test by hand: it holds the worker-index lock on the main thread, starts a heartbeat task that blocks trying to acquire the same lock (verified via SpinWait.SpinUntil + a hard failure if the heartbeat manages to bypass it), then calls RegisterWorker reentrantly from the thread already holding the lock (valid — lock/Monitor is reentrant per-thread) before releasing. This is a legitimate way to deterministically prove the mutual exclusion without relying on timing luck.
  • Confirmed no duplicate/orphaned IsStatusForRegistration definition was left behind — the hub's private copy was removed and only the state class's copy remains, referenced from both RegisterWorker and TryRecordHeartbeat.
  • Cross-checked WorkerRegistration/WorkerStatus record shapes against the new test's usage (positional WorkerIndex + RunIdentifier/UnattributedCommandCount init-only properties) — matches the existing definitions, no compile risk.

Minor, non-blocking observation: _workerStateLocks entries are never evicted, so lock objects accumulate per worker index for the lifetime of SignalRMasterState. This is consistent with the pre-existing pattern for Registrations/WorkerStatuses/Heartbeats (also indexed by worker index and never cleared), and worker index counts are bounded by the configured distributed worker count per run, so this isn't a practical leak — not raising as an issue.

No new issues found. This is a focused, well-tested concurrency fix that closes the race it targets without introducing new lock-ordering or correctness risk.

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Merged current main to refresh CI after the Ubuntu artifact showed one timeout in Registration_Replacement_Cannot_Race_With_Stale_Heartbeat_Persistence. The focused test now passes locally, and the complete SignalR distributed suite passes 52/52.

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the change since the last CLEAR review at 0d6c27c385f8d5b76003f43e253b2b975c6e6500. The current head (ed873ff8485a3652483b16d45d40dbd4eced0d1f) is a merge commit ("Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into codex-pr-4527-main-sync") bringing in main's #4514 ("Skip distributed dispatch for master cache hits").

Verification performed, not just read-through:

  • Diffed every file this PR touches (gh pr diff --name-only) between the prior CLEAR head and the current head. Restricting to the PR's own source files, the only change is a single auto-generated PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt addition (ModularPipelines.Reporting.ModuleRunReport.CacheHitAtMaster), which originates from #4514, not from this PR's authorship.
  • Diffed the PR's own test files across the same range: the only non-zero diffs are in test/ModularPipelines.Distributed.UnitTests/Master/DistributedModuleExecutorTests.cs (+363) and test/ModularPipelines.UnitTests/Engine/RunReportTests.cs (+25). Confirmed both blocks (e.g. the new RunReportRecordsMasterCacheDispatchAvoidance test referencing DistributedCacheHitTracker) come verbatim from 11826bb725 (#4514) via git show 11826bb725 --stat, not from new work in this branch.
  • Checked for leftover merge-conflict artifacts (<<<<<<</=======/>>>>>>>) — none found in this branch's tracked source.

No new PR-authored content exists since the prior CLEAR review; this merge is purely a main-sync with no textual conflicts in the areas this PR owns. No new issues found.

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Resolved the outstanding reconnect finding at exact head dcdf3b7. Replaced SignalR connections are removed atomically; in-flight work enters the existing reconnect lifecycle; stale connections cannot request work or publish results. Validation: DistributedPipelineHubTests 7/7 and full SignalR suite 53/53; git diff --check clean. @claude review

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the change since the last CLEAR review at ed873ff8485a3652483b16d45d40dbd4eced0d1f. The new commit (dcdf3b7ae3, "fix(signalr): revoke replaced workers") touches only DistributedPipelineHub.cs, SignalRMasterState.cs, and their tests.

What this commit does: it fixes exactly the high-risk correctness concern CodeRabbit's automated risk assessment raised on this PR — a SignalR reconnect could leave a stale/replaced worker connection eligible to receive work or publish results after a new connection took over the same worker index.

Verification performed, not just read-through:

  • Traced SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker: it now scans Workers.Values for any existing entry with the same WorkerIndex under the per-index lock (GetWorkerStateLock), evicts it from Workers, and returns it as supersededWorker so the hub can reclaim its in-flight assignment as a PendingReconnect (reusing the existing grace-period re-enqueue machinery) rather than losing the work outright.
  • Traced the new TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync: it takes the assignment-delivery fence, then the same per-worker-index lock used by RegisterWorker, and rejects the completion (Accepted = false) unless the calling connection's WorkerState/WorkerRegistration are still the live ones by reference. Since RegisterWorker and TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync serialize on the same per-index lock, a superseded connection's in-flight PublishResult either loses the race and is rejected by reference-identity, or wins the race and is accepted before the new registration lands — no window where a stale connection's result is silently accepted after replacement. PublishResult and RequestWork also now bail out immediately once Context.ConnectionId is no longer in Workers (removed synchronously by RegisterWorker), so a superseded connection can't be assigned new work either.
  • Confirmed the reconnect-restore path composes correctly: when the same worker reconnects with a matching resumingModuleTypeName, TryRestoreReconnect finds the PendingReconnect just created from the superseded worker's cleared assignment and transfers it onto the new WorkerState, so legitimate reconnects don't lose in-flight work.
  • Built src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.slnx in Release — succeeds, no new warnings.
  • Ran test/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR.UnitTests twice: 53/53 passed on the second run. The first run had one failure, Registration_Replacement_Cannot_Race_With_Stale_Heartbeat_Persistence, on a heartbeatStarted.Wait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)) timing out — this test predates this commit (added in the earlier 0d6c27c commit, already reviewed CLEAR) and passed cleanly on retry, so this reads as pre-existing timing flakiness under load rather than a regression from this change; it isn't part of this commit's diff.
  • The new test Superseded_Connection_Cannot_Request_Work_Or_Publish_Result directly covers the fixed scenario: it registers an old connection, assigns it work, registers a new connection for the same worker index with a matching resumingModuleTypeName, then asserts the old connection is evicted from Workers, the new connection holds the transferred assignment, the old connection's RequestWork/PublishResult calls are no-ops, and the result waiter is still incomplete. This matches the code path traced above.

Minor, non-blocking observations:

  • RegisterWorker's superseded-worker lookup (Workers.Values.FirstOrDefault(...)) is an O(n) scan across all connected workers rather than an index-keyed lookup. Registration is infrequent relative to the hot dispatch path, and worker counts are bounded by configured distributed worker count, so this isn't a practical concern — flagging only for awareness, consistent with similar previously-accepted trade-offs in this state class (e.g. _workerStateLocks never being evicted).

No new issues found. This is a targeted, well-tested fix that closes the exact race it targets without introducing new lock-ordering or correctness risk.

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Synced merged #4445/current origin/main at exact head e8ba015; merge was conflict-free. Full SignalR suite passes 53/53; git diff --check clean. @claude review

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the change since the last CLEAR review at dcdf3b7ae336d54f0fc982b711cc1a93b6dfdc22. The current head (e8ba0159817d183a92e870502417b441e877d1f8) is a merge commit ("Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into codex-pr-4527-main-sync") bringing in main's #4445 ("Refresh stale generated integration pull requests").

Verification performed, not just read-through:

  • Diffed dcdf3b7ae3..e8ba015981 directly (git diff --stat): the only files touched are .github/workflows/dotnet.yml, .github/workflows/generate-cli-options.yml, scripts/Assert-GeneratedOptionsFreshness.ps1, scripts/GeneratedOptionsProvenance.ps1, scripts/Resolve-GeneratedIntegrationValidation.ps1, scripts/Test-GeneratedOptionsProvenance.ps1, scripts/Test-ResolveGeneratedIntegrationValidation.ps1, scripts/Write-GeneratedOptionsProvenance.ps1, tools/ModularPipelines.OptionsGenerator/README.md, and tools/ModularPipelines.OptionsGenerator/scripts/{Get-ProjectSarifResults.ps1,Test-WritePublicApiSnapshotFromSarif.ps1,Test-WriteRemovedPublicApiSnapshotFromSarif.ps1}.
  • Cross-checked against gh pr diff 4527 --name-only: none of those files appear in this PR's own changed-files list (the PR owns src/ModularPipelines.Distributed*, src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/**, src/ModularPipelines/Engine/RunReportService.cs, src/ModularPipelines/PipelineBuilder.cs, and their matching test projects/docs). The generated-options-provenance/CI tooling files brought in by this merge are entirely outside this PR's scope.
  • Searched for leftover merge-conflict markers (<<<<<<</=======/>>>>>>>) across the merge range — none found, consistent with the description's "merge was conflict-free" claim.

No PR-authored content changed since the prior CLEAR review; this is purely a main-sync merge with zero overlap with the files this PR owns. No new issues found.

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Synced current main at 53fb65890e. Resolved the list-based capability DTO conflict while preserving main's impossible-route and late-worker tests; adapted the internal routing exception to accept the shared collection shape.

Validation: focused routing regression 1/1; full distributed suite 157/157; git diff --check clean.

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527)

Reviewed the change since the last BLOCKING review at 628475bd91f3171f9e30ee44b5f858d60caa3437. The single new commit at head 18c1881075b3f79fc337c1a0748e22cb6ae77e35 addresses that review's non-blocking items cleanly, but I don't think it closes the blocking race itself.

Non-blocking items — verified fixed:

  • The three dangling using ModularPipelines.Distributed.Serialization; directives (MasterServerHost.cs, SignalRDistributedCoordinatorFactory.cs, SignalRIntegrationTests.cs) are gone.
  • docs/docs/distributed/architecture.md:12-22 now documents the MaximumReceiveMessageSizeMaxReceiveMessageSize migration mapping.
  • The Redis cross-run WorkerStatus concern is resolved architecturally rather than via the literal suggested patch: RedisKeyBuilder.WorkerStatuses (RedisKeyBuilder.cs:24) is keyed by {prefix}:{{runId}}:workers:status, so each run gets its own hash — there's no shared key for a stale prior-run status to leak through, making RegisterWorkerAsync's When.NotExists write (RedisDistributedCoordinator.cs:192-196) safe for same-run reconnects without needing a manual RunId comparison.

Blocking item — the reconnect/result race from the previous review is only half-fixed

The previous review (628475bd, quoting the trace): "If the reconnect RegisterWorker call wins the lock first, by the time the original connection's already-in-flight PublishResult call acquires the lock, worker.CurrentAssignment has already been cleared ... TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync returns (false, []) and PublishResult returns without ever storing the result." Its suggested fix was to have the reconnect path acquire EnterAssignmentDeliveryFenceAsync for the in-flight module before clearing/superseding it, so the two operations get a total order.

What actually shipped is different: TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync (SignalRMasterState.cs:323-348) now does its ownership check synchronously under GetWorkerStateLock before its first await, then unconditionally completes once it acquires the delivery fence. That's a real fix for the ordering the new test Admitted_Result_Survives_Replacement_While_Waiting_For_Delivery (DistributedPipelineHubTests.cs:295-335) exercises — where PublishResult's admission check wins the GetWorkerStateLock race before RegisterWorker supersedes the connection, so the already-admitted result now survives a concurrent supersession that lands while it's waiting on the fence.

But that test only covers one direction. It never exercises the direction the original finding actually described — RegisterWorker finishing its supersede-and-clear (and, when resumingModuleTypeName matches, its TryRestoreReconnect resumption) before the stale connection's PublishResult is even processed. Tracing that ordering through the current code:

  1. oldHub.RegisterWorker registers worker index 1 on old-connection; it's assigned module M (DistributedPipelineHub.cs:21-76).
  2. currentHub.RegisterWorker runs to completion for the same index with resumingModuleTypeName: "M" before old-connection's already-sent PublishResult(M) is processed by the hub (plausible if, e.g., a replacement worker process starts while the original's result is still in flight — the exact scenario RegisterWorker's own comment at DistributedPipelineHub.cs:46-48 calls out: "a replacement process can reuse it without owning the original execution"). Inside this call: state.RegisterWorker (SignalRMasterState.cs:80-114) removes old-connection from Workers and clears its CurrentAssignment (WorkerState.ClearAssignment, WorkerState.cs:50); TryRestoreReconnect (SignalRMasterState.cs:185-239) then finds the pending reconnect for M and reassigns it onto current-connection via worker.TryAssign(assignment) — all synchronously within the one RegisterWorker call, no await in between.
  3. oldHub.PublishResult(result) now runs. Its very first line, state.Workers.TryGetValue(Context.ConnectionId, out var sendingWorker) (DistributedPipelineHub.cs:109), fails outright — old-connection is gone from Workers — so the method returns at line 111 without ever reaching TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync. The result is dropped silently: no exception is thrown back to the hub method's caller path, ResultWaiters[M] is never completed, and current-connection is left believing it still owes a fresh execution of M.

Since PublishResultAsync on the worker side only clears its own _inFlightAssignment after InvokeAsync returns without throwing (SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:90-100), and SignalR's InvokeAsync completes once the hub method returns regardless of what it did internally, the original worker has no signal that its result was discarded — there's no retry path back to the newly-registered connection. M ends up executed twice for a non-idempotent module, which is the exact "duplicate execution" consequence the original review flagged.

I couldn't run this as an actual test in this review environment (no write access to pr-head here), so I can't rule out some interaction I'm missing, but the trace only relies on code that's unchanged by this fix (DistributedPipelineHub.cs:109-112's unlocked Workers lookup, and SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker/TryRestoreReconnect running fully synchronously). I'd suggest either implementing the fence-based ordering the original review proposed (have RegisterWorker's supersede-and-clear step take EnterAssignmentDeliveryFenceAsync for the superseded worker's in-flight module before clearing it, establishing the total order for both directions of the race, not just the one the new test covers), or adding a regression test for this specific ordering (RegisterWorker for the replacement — including a matching resumingModuleTypeName — completing fully before the stale connection's PublishResult is processed) to confirm it's actually safe before treating this as resolved.

The rest of the PR remains in the state prior reviews already verified: capability-set caching, run-scoped status aggregation, unified IsLive liveness semantics, and the heartbeat/registration ownership hardening are all unaffected by this commit.

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Addressed the silent-success path identified in review 5658139066 in 646c41a.

The registration-completes-first ordering already exists in Superseded_Connection_Cannot_Request_Work_Or_Publish_Result: the replacement registers with a matching resumption before the old connection publishes. Rejection is required by the current connection/assignment ownership contract, which also prevents one worker completing another worker's assignment. Putting registration behind the delivery fence cannot make an old invocation that has not yet entered the hub precede registration; accepting that later submission would contradict those ownership checks.

The valid gap was the successful response for a rejected result. Both rejection paths now throw HubException. SignalRWorkerCoordinator.PublishResultAsync therefore retains its in-flight assignment instead of clearing it. The new real-server integration test finishes replacement registration before old publication, observes the rejection, then re-registers using the retained assignment and successfully resubmits the completed result. It verifies exactly one assignment delivery, an empty queue, and no pending reconnect. The existing tests for admission before replacement still pass.

All three acknowledgment regressions failed before the fix. Info-severity formatting also exposed existing logging-evaluation and unused-wire-argument diagnostics in the touched hub; logging now checks the appropriate level, and the positional request argument is explicitly discarded because registration owns the capability set.

Validation: all 58 SignalR tests pass in Release; the SignalR solution builds with zero warnings/errors; scoped formatting verifies at severity info, and diff checks pass. The existing 10-minute/2-GB guard remains unchanged. A fresh CI/review cycle is pending.

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527)

Reviewed head 646c41a6706259d639f1ff159bf752c87e3c5627, the commit that addressed the previously-flagged "silent-success path" (review 5658139066) by making PublishResult throw HubException on both rejection paths so the worker retains its in-flight assignment for resubmission.

Verified fixed from prior rounds:

  • The registration-vs-publish ordering race from the last BLOCKING review (18c1881075) is now closed: PublishResult throws instead of silently dropping the result, and the new real-server integration test (Superseded_Connection_Cannot_Request_Work_Or_Publish_Result) exercises the registration-completes-first ordering.
  • Capability-set caching, run-scoped status aggregation, unified IsLive liveness semantics, and heartbeat/registration ownership hardening from earlier rounds remain intact.

New blocking finding — the retained assignment is never actually resubmitted in production code

The fix described in the last comment ("SignalRWorkerCoordinator.PublishResultAsync therefore retains its in-flight assignment instead of clearing it... re-registers using the retained assignment and successfully resubmits the completed result") only happens today inside the test itself (SignalRIntegrationTests.cs:453-455), which manually calls RegisterWorkerAsync and then PublishResultAsync a second time with its own retained result variable. There is no equivalent automatic resubmission path in WorkerModuleExecutor.

Tracing production code: DistributedPipelineHub.PublishResult throws HubException on rejection (DistributedPipelineHub.cs:111,130). SignalRWorkerCoordinator.PublishResultAsync (SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:90-100) has no exception handling and lets it propagate — and WaitForResultAsync's reconnect-and-retry loop explicitly excludes HubException (ex is not ... HubException), so that mechanism doesn't help either. Back in WorkerModuleExecutor.ExecuteAndPublishAsync, the call to PublishResultAsync (line 350) has no HubException-specific handling, so the exception is caught only by ExecuteAssignmentAsync's generic catch (Exception ex) (lines 289-294), which logs "Module execution failed" and calls PublishFailureAsync — republishing a synthesized FAILURE result for a module that actually succeeded. If the worker has since regained ownership, that failure publish succeeds and overwrites the real success with a false failure. If not, the second publish is rejected too, and PublishFailureAsync's own catch (lines 403-408) just LogCriticals and swallows it, so the result is silently dropped and the master waits up to ModuleResultTimeout (45 min default) for a module that already finished.

In other words, the exception-based signal this commit introduced is correctly thrown, but nothing in WorkerModuleExecutor distinguishes "rejected, retained assignment, should resubmit" from "genuinely failed" — so the retained _inFlightAssignment is inert outside of the test that manually drives it. Suggest adding a HubException-specific catch around the PublishResultAsync call in ExecuteAndPublishAsync/ExecuteAssignmentAsync that re-registers (or waits for re-registration) and resubmits the already-serialized result, mirroring what the integration test does by hand, rather than falling through to the generic failure path.

Second blocking finding — OnDisconnectedAsync mutates worker state without the per-index lock RegisterWorker uses

DistributedPipelineHub.OnDisconnectedAsync (DistributedPipelineHub.cs:176-209) never acquires GetWorkerStateLock, unlike SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker/TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync, which do (SignalRMasterState.cs:83,119,329). Its Workers.TryRemoveClearAssignment()TrackPendingReconnect sequence is therefore unsynchronized with a concurrent RegisterWorker call for the same worker index.

Concretely: worker index 1's connection A is mid-execution when it drops. OnDisconnectedAsync(A) removes A from Workers but is preempted before calling TrackPendingReconnect. Meanwhile the reconnecting client registers as connection B under GetWorkerStateLock(1); since A is already gone from Workers, RegisterWorker's live scan (SignalRMasterState.cs:85-86) finds no supersededWorker, and the immediately-following TryRestoreReconnect finds no PendingReconnect yet (it hasn't been created), so B ends up idle with CurrentAssignment == null. OnDisconnectedAsync(A) then creates the PendingReconnect too late; after the grace period the same module is re-enqueued and executed by another worker, while B can never successfully publish the module it actually finished (TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync's ownership check requires worker.CurrentAssignment to match, which is null for B). This reintroduces the same class of duplicate-execution race the rest of this PR works hard to close for the RegisterWorker/PublishResult path, just via the disconnect path instead. Suggest having OnDisconnectedAsync take GetWorkerStateLock(workerIndex) around its remove/clear/track sequence (matching the pattern already established elsewhere in this file) so it gets a total order against concurrent RegisterWorker calls for the same index.

Non-blocking observations (not required to unblock, but worth a follow-up):

  • RunReportService's new GetWorkerStatusesAsync-based aggregation path (RunReportService.cs:442-448) dropped the old WorkerRegistration-based GroupBy(WorkerIndex).MaxBy(RegisteredAt) dedup. If any IDistributedMasterCoordinator.GetWorkerStatusesAsync implementation (built-in or custom — this is a documented extension point per docs/docs/distributed/architecture.md) ever returns more than one WorkerStatus entry for the same worker index within a run, command counts get summed once per duplicate instead of picking the latest entry.
  • SignalRMasterCoordinator.RegisterWorkerAsync/SendHeartbeatAsync re-implement WorkerStatuses.AddOrUpdate reconciliation logic that now duplicates what SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker/TryRecordHeartbeat own, without the new locking/eviction semantics. Worth collapsing to delegate to SignalRMasterState so the two copies can't drift.

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Addressed both blocking findings in review 5658520763 with 4f54aae.

  1. SignalRWorkerCoordinator now retains and automatically retries the same serialized publication after a genuine connection transition. The transition is successful only after re-registration restores assignment ownership, so publication cannot race ahead of registration. The new real-server regression calls PublishResultAsync once, restarts the server, and observes automatic registration/resubmission with an identical payload and one assignment delivery. It failed before the fix. Core WorkerModuleExecutor also preserves an already accepted module result when the fallback publication path runs; a separate regression previously turned successful value 3 into an exception result and now preserves that success. No SignalR dependency was added to core code.

An unrelated replacement still receives ownership protection: a HubException on an otherwise unchanged connection is propagated, rather than automatically re-registering and taking the replacement's assignment. The existing superseded-connection rejection test and explicit resubmission test remain green.

  1. Registration/recovery and disconnect removal/clear/pending tracking now share the same per-worker-index lock. Logging and grace-task scheduling stay outside that lock. A deterministic barrier test previously let registration finish between removal and pending tracking, losing the assignment; it now restores and publishes the same assignment without redispatch. Grace scheduling also tolerates result completion disposing pending state before the delayed task starts.

Minor observations: GetWorkerStatusesAsync already promises the latest status for each registered worker; its return documentation now explicitly says at most one per worker index. Every built-in coordinator stores statuses by index. WorkerStatus has no registration timestamp, so choosing an arbitrary duplicate from a custom provider would invent an ordering; custom coordinators must implement that latest-status contract. SignalRMasterCoordinator's interface methods serve the master's local executor, which has no SignalR connection. Delegating these calls to connection-indexed WorkerState registration/heartbeat handling would create remote dispatch ownership for a local worker. That ownership behavior remains separate; a shared metrics-only helper can be considered independently.

Validation: 60 SignalR and 178 distributed tests pass. Core and SignalR Release builds have zero warnings/errors. Scoped SignalR severity-info formatting, standard core/distributed-test formatting, all 61 API baseline checks, and diff checks pass. The API conflict resolution was generated after rebasing onto main 2e2ddab. Default guard limits retained.

The publication regression initially exposed a test-server shutdown race: an immediate retry opened another WebSocket on the stopping server, causing its 30-second drain. Archived trace spans show the second WebSocket lasting 29,989 ms. Gating test retries until shutdown finishes fixes the setup without changing retry delays or timeout limits; five consecutive final runs passed. No debug instrumentation remains. Awaiting fresh CI/review.

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Review: PR #4527 — Polish distributed wire DTOs

Reviewed the distributed worker-status/heartbeat refactor across ModularPipelines.Distributed, ModularPipelines.Distributed.Redis, and ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR, tracing the changed coordinator, hub, and worker-executor paths against their callers and tests.

Blocking: PublishFailureAsync can retry the exact serialization failure that triggered it, permanently dropping the failure publish

File: src/ModularPipelines/Distributed/Worker/WorkerModuleExecutor.cs:390-406

var resultTask = module.AsInternal().ResultTask;
// A transport failure cannot replace an outcome already accepted by the module.
var terminalResult = resultTask.IsCompletedSuccessfully
    ? resultTask.Result
    : ModuleResultFactory.CreateException(...);
var serialized = _serializer.Serialize(terminalResult, ...);
await _coordinator.PublishResultAsync(serialized, cancellationToken);

The intent (stated in the PR description: "Core failure handling preserves an already accepted module outcome instead of synthesizing a failure for successful execution") is sound for genuine transport failures — e.g. PublishResultAsync fails after the result serialized fine. But ExecuteAndPublishAsync's catch block (line 352) also fires when _serializer.Serialize(result, ...) itself throws (line 340), while resultTask is already IsCompletedSuccessfully. In that case:

  1. ExecuteAndPublishAsync catches the serialization exception and rethrows.
  2. PublishFailureAsync is invoked with that same exception, but since resultTask.IsCompletedSuccessfully is true, it reuses resultTask.Result as terminalResult — the same object that just failed to serialize.
  3. _serializer.Serialize(terminalResult, ...) throws again, identically.
  4. That second exception is caught by PublishFailureAsync's own outer catch, which only logs at Critical — no result is ever published for this module.
  5. The master's ResultWaiters TCS for this module never completes, hanging the master indefinitely.

This is reachable whenever a module completes successfully but its ModuleResult contains data the serializer can't handle (e.g. a non-serializable/circular Output). Previously the code always synthesized a fresh, reliably-serializable exception result via ModuleResultFactory.CreateException, which didn't have this failure mode.

Suggested fix: distinguish "accepted result failed to transport" from "accepted result failed to serialize" instead of branching only on IsCompletedSuccessfully. For example, wrap the Serialize call on the reused resultTask.Result in its own try/catch, and fall back to ModuleResultFactory.CreateException (using the serialization exception) only when serialization itself is what fails:

var terminalResult = resultTask.IsCompletedSuccessfully
    ? resultTask.Result
    : ModuleResultFactory.CreateException(resultType, exception, new ModuleExecutionContext(module, module.GetType()));

SerializedModuleResult serialized;
try
{
    serialized = _serializer.Serialize(terminalResult, assignment.ModuleTypeName, assignment.ResultTypeName, instanceIndex);
}
catch (Exception serializeException) when (resultTask.IsCompletedSuccessfully)
{
    // The accepted outcome itself can't be serialized — synthesize a failure instead of retrying the same throw.
    var fallback = ModuleResultFactory.CreateException(resultType, serializeException, new ModuleExecutionContext(module, module.GetType()));
    serialized = _serializer.Serialize(fallback, assignment.ModuleTypeName, assignment.ResultTypeName, instanceIndex);
}

This keeps the new "don't clobber a successful outcome with a manufactured failure" behavior for the transport-failure case it was designed for, while still guaranteeing forward progress (and thus no master hang) when the accepted outcome is the thing that's unserializable. No test currently exercises this path — WorkerModuleExecutorTests (both Worker/ and top-level copies) don't cover a serialize-throws-after-successful-completion scenario, so this regression wouldn't be caught by CI as-is.

Checked, no issue found

  • Redis WorkerStatuses write using When.NotExists — safe, since RedisKeyBuilder's _runPrefix already embeds the run ID and can't leak across runs.
  • InMemoryDistributedCoordinator.SendHeartbeatAsync's unconditional status overwrite — the periodic heartbeat loop is always canceled and awaited to completion in WorkerModuleExecutor.ExecuteAsync's finally before the final heartbeat is sent, so the suspected reordering race isn't reachable.
  • SignalRMasterState.TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync / RegisterWorker reconnect race — traced a concurrent-reconnect-during-publish scenario; the PendingReconnect/reconnectedWorkers bookkeeping reconciles it correctly.

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Pushed bc50ce9.

Review 5658935966 is fixed: when an already accepted module result cannot serialize, the worker publishes a serialization-exception result instead of serializing that same outcome indefinitely. The new regression uses the real ModuleResultSerializer and a cyclic output object. Before the fix, the master result wait timed out; afterward it receives the serialized error. The existing transport-rejection regression still preserves successful value 3.

Greptile finding 4001754552 is also fixed. Result admission now reserves the module under the reconnect-state lock before releasing the worker-index lock. Reconnect tracking, redispatch claims, and return-to-queue operations reject reserved modules until completion records the result and removes the reservation atomically. The extended regression keeps the delivery fence held, advances pending reconnect state as if grace expired, and verifies that neither redispatch nor requeue can occur. It failed before the reservation fix. Both replacement/resume cases pass, with the original result delivered and no next assignment cleared.

CodeFactor flagged PublishResultAsync complexity 17. Registration waiting and the retry predicate are now named helpers, preserving the existing connection-generation snapshot, cancellation, ownership rejection, and serialized-payload behavior.

Validation: 179 distributed and 60 SignalR tests pass in Release, including the existing real-server reconnect/publication tests. Core and SignalR solution builds have zero warnings/errors. Scoped SignalR severity-info formatting, standard core/distributed-test formatting, all 61 API baseline checks, and git diff --check pass. Tests always signal worker completion during cleanup, including the reproducing timeout. All .NET commands retained the default 10-minute/2-GB guard. No generated files, public API baselines, or docs changed in this follow-up.

Awaiting subsequent CI and review before resolving the admission thread or merging.

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Reviewed head bc50ce95b7cc35cc5ca97401e4a70d56634fbc37, the commit ("fix(distributed): complete failed serialization and reserve admitted results") that follows the previous BLOCKING review at 4f54aae9ee.

Verified fixed: PublishFailureAsync no longer retries an unserializable accepted result forever

The previous finding traced a master hang: when a module completes successfully but its ModuleResult can't be serialized (e.g. a cyclic Output object), PublishFailureAsync reused resultTask.Result as terminalResult (since IsCompletedSuccessfully is true) and called _serializer.Serialize on the same unserializable object — throwing identically, being swallowed by the outer catch (LogCritical only), and leaving the master's ResultWaiters TCS for that module incomplete indefinitely.

WorkerModuleExecutor.cs:400-421 now wraps that Serialize call in its own try/catch, scoped with when (resultTask.IsCompletedSuccessfully), and on failure synthesizes a fresh exception result via ModuleResultFactory.CreateException from the serialization exception before serializing again — this second serialization can't hit the same cyclic-reference problem, so it always produces something publishable and the master's waiter always completes. This is exactly the fix shape the prior review suggested. The new test Unserializable_Success_Publishes_A_Serialization_Failure (WorkerModuleExecutorTests.cs) exercises it end-to-end with a genuinely cyclic CyclicOutput module and asserts a serialized failure with a "cycle" message is produced.

Also closes a residual reconnect-admission race

Beyond the specific finding, this commit adds _admittedWorkerResults (SignalRMasterState.cs:13) to close a narrower window than the fence alone covered: TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync now marks a module's result as admitted (under GetWorkerStateLock + _pendingReconnectLock) before awaiting the delivery fence semaphore, and TrackPendingReconnect/TryClaimRedispatch/TryReturnRedispatchToQueue all consult this via HasAcceptedResult under _pendingReconnectLock. This prevents a concurrent disconnect/reconnect from claiming a redispatch for a module whose result has been admitted but is still waiting on the fence to actually complete the ResultWaiters TCS. Lock ordering stays consistent (GetWorkerStateLock always acquired before _pendingReconnectLock, never the reverse), so this doesn't introduce a deadlock risk. The extended DistributedPipelineHubTests case exercises exactly this window (asserts TryClaimRedispatch/TryReturnRedispatchToQueue both return false while delivery is fenced).

Other changes in this commit

The SignalRWorkerCoordinator.PublishResultAsync split into WaitForRegistrationAsync/CanRetryPublication is a pure extraction with no behavior change.

Prior rounds' findings remain correctly addressed — confirmed still in place on this head: PublishResult throws HubException on both rejection paths (no silent drop), OnDisconnectedAsync takes GetWorkerStateLock around its remove/clear/track sequence, and the registration-vs-publish ordering fix from earlier rounds is untouched by this commit.

No new issues found in this round.

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Pushed dd76abb after rebasing onto merged #4547 (main c66bb4e). Conflict resolutions retain the bounded concurrent worker pool, independent 30-second failure-publication window, cancellation-aware Redis command waits, and cancellation-aware SignalR delivery fences alongside the DTO and admission fixes. Updated the new concurrency test fixtures to ModuleAssignmentOptions and capability lists.

The serialization-failure regression exposed one integration gap: its fallback result still reported NotStarted. The fallback context now records Failed and the serialization exception. The strengthened test failed before this change and passes now. The earlier accepted-result/reconnect fixes remain intact; range-diff confirms only the necessary conflict resolutions in those commits.

Validation: 200 distributed, 62 SignalR, and 59 Redis tests pass; eight live Redis cases skip without a configured test connection string. Core, SignalR, and Redis Release solution builds pass with zero warnings/errors. Standard scoped formatting, all 61 API baseline checks, and git diff --check pass. Documentation installs and builds under Node 24.14.1 and yarn, checking 25 analyzer pages and processing 331 documents. All .NET commands use the unchanged 10-minute/2-GB guard; the earlier broad info-severity formatter limit remains deferred to CI.

Current-head CI and review are required before merging. The prior bc50 review is clear, and all review threads are already resolved; no thread was resolved during this rebase.

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527) — follow-up

Reviewed the change since the last CLEAR review at 10247948cbb25558d760e9dd682f2708422c8b8a. Ran a full pass again given how much has landed since (superseded-worker revocation, heartbeat/registration locking, the flaky-test fix) plus four dedicated deep-dive passes over the SignalR hub/master-state concurrency, the SignalR worker reconnect/retry state machine, the Redis coordinator, and RunReportService/WorkerModuleExecutor/CapabilityMatcher. Most hypotheses raised this round didn't survive verification — the locking design (GetWorkerStateLock, ReferenceEquals ownership checks, _admittedWorkerResults) is unusually well guarded and backed by targeted regression tests. What follows are the items that held up.

1. Docs describe an obsolete coordinator contract (Correctness of documentation)

docs/docs/distributed/architecture.md:155,175,194

This section still says "the shipped IDistributedCoordinator interface defines seven methods" and that RegisterWorkerAsync is "call[ed] again after execution with final command metrics." Neither is true of the current code: the interface is split into IDistributedMasterCoordinator (5 methods) and IDistributedWorkerCoordinator (6 methods), and final metrics flow through SendHeartbeatAsync(WorkerStatus, ...), not a second RegisterWorkerAsync call — which the same file correctly describes a few sections later (lines 53-55, 310-314). CodeRabbit flagged this exact drift twice (at two different line numbers as the doc shifted under later commits) and it wasn't addressed either time.

Why this matters architecturally: this table is the contract a custom IDistributedCoordinatorFactory implementer reads to know what to implement. Left as-is, it actively points integrators at the wrong method for final-metrics reporting. Suggest updating the table to reflect the master/worker split and correcting the RegisterWorkerAsync/SendHeartbeatAsync division of responsibility — a small, mechanical fix, but worth closing out before this becomes the reference doc contributors copy from.

2. WaitForResultAsync and PublishResultAsync disagree on HubException retry policy (Design inconsistency)

src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Coordination/SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:139-163

PublishResultAsync's CanRetryPublication retries a HubException once HasReconnectSince(connectionGeneration) is true — i.e., "this failed, but we've reconnected since, so try again." WaitForResultAsync's catch filter (ex is not HubException) excludes HubException from retry unconditionally, never consulting the same reconnect-generation check. Both methods sit on the same reconnect subsystem and conceptually want the same policy ("retry if we've reconnected since this attempt started"), but only one of them implements it.

Suggestion: extract the shared "is this exception retryable given reconnect state" decision into one method both call, rather than have it re-implemented (and drift) independently in two places. That also removes the need to reason about WaitForRegistrationAsync's failure path separately — today (line ~120) a registration-wait failure detected before PublishResultAsync's try block starts bypasses the retry gate entirely, while the identical failure surfacing mid-attempt via the InvokeAsync catch gets the retry path — one shared helper would make both call sites consistent by construction instead of by convention.

3. OnClosedAsync leaves a stale "reconnect succeeded" flag after a permanent disconnect (Correctness, self-limiting)

src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Coordination/SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:266-275

OnClosedAsync resolves _connectionTransition to false but never bumps _connectionGeneration or resets _lastReconnectSucceeded. Concretely: reconnect #1 succeeds (gen 0→1, _lastReconnectSucceeded=true). A PublishResultAsync attempt that captured generation 0 later fails after a second reconnect attempt is exhausted and OnClosedAsync fires (generation stays at 1). WaitForReconnectAsync(0, ...)'s fast path then fires (1≠0) and returns the stale _lastReconnectSucceeded=true, so the caller issues one more InvokeAsync against the now-permanently-closed connection before the next loop iteration correctly detects 1==1 and rethrows. Not a hang — it self-corrects within one extra round trip — but it's a real invariant break ("generation changed ⇒ flag reflects current connection state") worth closing by having OnClosedAsync set _lastReconnectSucceeded = false (and/or bump the generation) when the connection closes for good.

4. _admittedWorkerResults add has no matching try/finally (Defensive gap, low severity)

src/ModularPipelines.Distributed.SignalR/Hub/SignalRMasterState.cs:337-361

TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync adds to _admittedWorkerResults under the worker-state lock, then releases the lock and awaits EnterAssignmentDeliveryFenceAsync before CompleteResult removes the entry. If anything throws in that window, the module type name is stuck in _admittedWorkerResults forever — HasAcceptedResult then permanently blocks redispatch for it while its ResultWaiters entry never completes, hanging any WaitForResult caller. Currently low-probability (the only await there is an uncancellable SemaphoreSlim.WaitAsync(default)), but there's no structural guard if a future change threads a real CancellationToken through that call. Worth a try/finally (or moving the add inside the same construct that guarantees CompleteResult runs) for defense in depth, matching the care already taken elsewhere in this file (e.g. the ReferenceEquals ownership checks).

Also noted, not blocking

  • SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker's superseded-connection lookup (line 86) is an O(n) scan of Workers.Values, and _workerStateLocks/_assignmentDeliveryFences (lines 14-15) grow without eviction for the life of the instance — both already discussed and accepted as reasonable trade-offs in earlier rounds of this review given bounded worker/module counts per run; re-noting only for visibility, not asking for a change.
  • RedisDistributedCoordinator.RegisterWorkerAsync/SendHeartbeatAsync/RefreshHeartbeatAsync accept a CancellationToken that's never observed in the Redis calls — pre-existing gap, not a regression from this PR.
  • SignalRDistributedOptions.MaximumReceiveMessageSizeMaxReceiveMessageSize is a breaking rename of a previously-shipped public API (confirmed via PublicAPI.Shipped.txt/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt); the repo has no changelog convention to update, so I'm not asking for one, just flagging that consumers pinning the old name will break on upgrade.

None of the above are regressions in the common single-run, non-reconnecting path, and the concurrency-hardening work in this PR (superseded-connection revocation, per-index locking, run-scoped metrics) continues to hold up well under adversarial tracing. Items 1-2 are the ones I'd actually like addressed (or explicitly acknowledged) before merge; 3-4 are good to fix but low severity given the self-limiting/low-probability nature of their failure modes.

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Pushed 77e74ff addressing review 5659550195 and the Ubuntu failure in run 34809320961.

  1. The architecture reference now documents the six IDistributedWorkerCoordinator operations and five additional IDistributedMasterCoordinator operations. Registration carries identity/capabilities; SendHeartbeatAsync carries status and final metrics. Redis operation tables include statuses and cancellation.
  2. PublishResultAsync and WaitForResultAsync now share CanRetryHubInvocation and wait for registration before invoking the hub. A HubException retries only when the connection has entered a new reconnect transition; caller cancellation still terminates the operation. Failed re-registration remains terminal for both methods because assignment ownership was not restored, rather than retrying against an unregistered connection.
  3. OnClosedAsync clears the earlier reconnect-success flag. The deterministic old-generation regression failed before the fix and passes now. Four cases additionally cover HubException retry eligibility and caller cancellation.
  4. Result admission is released in finally if fence acquisition or delivery fails. Per-module admission counts preserve another concurrent publication's reservation. A fault-injection test verifies that a failed acquisition permits reconnect recovery afterward; existing admission/redispatch race tests remain green.

The Ubuntu log shows four distributed tests hitting their five-second test deadlines under load. Two timeout diagnostics report that the test task had already completed; another reports caller cancellation interrupting its 100-ms observation window. Raised only these four test harness deadlines to 30 seconds, retaining operation timings, throttling assertions, and routing behavior. No CI rerun was used to seek green.

Validation: 200 distributed and 68 SignalR tests pass; the final SignalR Release solution build has zero warnings/errors; scoped formatting, SignalR severity-info verification, and all 61 API baseline checks pass. Node 24.14.1 yarn install/build succeeds in 279.52 seconds, generating 331 documents and checking 25 analyzer pages. Existing dependency/deprecation warnings remain. All .NET commands retain the 10-minute/2-GB guard; the earlier broad core info-format limit remains deferred without retry or increased limits. Fresh CI/review is now required before merging.

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Review: Polish distributed wire DTOs (#4527)

Reviewed head 77e74ff93e67b665fbb19281652005a6db2fcde6, which addresses the four items from the previous BLOCKING review at dd76abb9545f6198802e2d11bb7e920d591369b4. I verified each fix directly against the code and its regression tests rather than taking the commit message at face value.

1. Obsolete coordinator-contract docs — fixed
docs/docs/distributed/architecture.md:155-179 now correctly describes the IDistributedWorkerCoordinator (six ops) / IDistributedMasterCoordinator (+five ops) split and states that SendHeartbeatAsync carries final metrics, matching the rest of the file.

2. WaitForResultAsync/PublishResultAsync retry-policy inconsistency — fixed
Both now go through the shared CanRetryHubInvocation/WaitForRegistrationAsync (SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:92-171), so a HubException is retried only when a reconnect has happened since the attempt started, consistently in both methods. Covered by the new parameterized Hub_Rejection_Retries_Only_During_Reconnect_Without_Caller_Cancellation test.

3. Stale _lastReconnectSucceeded after permanent close — fixed
OnClosedAsync (SignalRWorkerCoordinator.cs:265-275) now resets _lastReconnectSucceeded = false on close, so a later WaitForReconnectAsync fast-path can't return a stale "succeeded" flag from an earlier reconnect. Directly exercised by Permanent_Close_Invalidates_Earlier_Successful_Reconnect.

4. _admittedWorkerResults reservation leak on fence/delivery failure — fixed
TryCompleteWorkerResultAsync (SignalRMasterState.cs:331-382) now releases the admission reservation in a finally block, so a failed fence acquisition or delivery no longer permanently blocks redispatch for that module. Failed_Result_Delivery_Releases_Admission_For_Reconnect_Recovery fault-injects a disposed fence and asserts TrackPendingReconnect still succeeds afterward.

Independently checked, no new issue found

  • The remaining non-blocking items from earlier rounds (SignalRMasterState.RegisterWorker's O(n) Workers.Values scan on registration, and SignalRMasterCoordinator re-implementing the same seed-or-preserve WorkerStatus AddOrUpdate logic as SignalRMasterState) are unchanged in this head — both were already raised and explicitly discussed/accepted as reasonable trade-offs (bounded worker counts; the master-coordinator path serves the local in-process executor and has no SignalR connection to delegate to), so I'm not re-opening them.
  • PublishResultAsync's new retry loop can, for a non-HubException failure, wait through the full SignalR auto-reconnect window before throwing rather than failing fast. This mirrors WaitForResultAsync's pre-existing retry behavior (unchanged by this PR, now just shared via CanRetryHubInvocation), so it's an established pattern rather than a new regression.
  • Confirmed the Redis WorkerStatuses When.NotExists write and the SignalR MaxReceiveMessageSize rename docs (both flagged by CodeRabbit on this head) are already resolved — the former by RedisKeyBuilder's per-run key prefix, the latter by the new "Upgrading SignalR configuration for v4" section in the architecture doc.

This PR has been through an unusually thorough review cycle (9+ rounds tracing the reconnect/admission/redispatch concurrency surface), and the fixes in this head close out the last remaining blocking items cleanly with targeted regression coverage. No new actionable findings this round.

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