Dev CI red at 1c441d9a: readiness-cutoff reap test (#6126) returns terminal_uncertain under full shard

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Summary

Dev CI is red at 1c441d9a (merge of #6126). The previous dev run at 98fab059 was green: https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36574549305. The range 98fab059..1c441d9a contains only #6126, which touches packages/coding-agent/src/sdk/broker/lifecycle.ts (+321/-204), test/sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e.test.ts, and a changelog fragment.

Failing run: https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36580791654

Failures

1. test:@gajae-code/coding-agent:shard-6-of-8 runs sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e.test.ts › createExternal reaps a synchronous Atomics.wait extension when readiness expires. This test was added by fix(sdk): reap unregistered hosts at readiness cutoff #6126. The expected result was certainty: "retryable", error.code: "readiness_timeout". The received result was certainty: "uncertain", error.code: "terminal_uncertain", with the message "Lifecycle startup cleanup could not be proven ... spawned process could not be verified dead" (lifecycle.ts:6980). On the fix(sdk): reap unregistered hosts at readiness cutoff #6126 head 850a0fc6, the targeted job passed. When the same test ran inside the full shard on the merge commit, the broker hit the unproven-exit path this PR was meant to remove.
2. test:@gajae-code/coding-agent:shard-8-of-8 runs sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence.test.ts › returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery. The expected message contained "Lifecycle startup cleanup could not be proven ... Original launch failure: Session". The received message was "Lifecycle terminal evidence could not be verified after persistence" (broker.ts:5178). The test file and broker.ts are unchanged in the range. broker.ts imports ./lifecycle, which did change.
3. test:packages/coding-agent/test/sdk-broker-restart.test.ts › allows one owner during simultaneous primary lock takeover failed with Broker lock is held by a live owner (broker.ts:3820). The test file and broker.ts are unchanged in the range. This may be an unrelated timing flake, but it cannot be excluded because broker.ts depends on the changed lifecycle.ts.

Blob comparison (green 98fab059 vs red 1c441d9a)

path	green	red
src/sdk/broker/lifecycle.ts	23a00e5dc846	6c89b515169f (DIFF)
test/sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e.test.ts	c595042a90d6	0dbae9e1f0d9 (DIFF)
src/sdk/broker/broker.ts	91629e241226	91629e241226
test/sdk-broker-restart.test.ts	7895fb277f45	7895fb277f45
test/sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence.test.ts	8f0bb352c59c	8f0bb352c59c

Assessment

At least failure 1 is attributable to #6126. The new readiness-cutoff reap test is not stable under full-shard load: exit proof still misses within the budget, and the broker falls back to terminal_uncertain. Failure 2 exercises the same cutoff/recovery interplay in lifecycle.ts. The evidence here comes from CI logs and a blob diff. No local reproduction has been done yet.

Suggested next step

Re-run the red shards on dev. If shard-6 fails again, the options are to tighten the proof budget handling in lifecycle.ts or to revert #6126. 008f7b14 (#6135) also modifies lifecycle.ts, so its Dev CI run will show whether that change also affects this.

[probepark]

ASK

Q: How should Dev CI be brought back to green after #6126 (red since 1c441d9a)?

WHY: The only change in 98fab059..1c441d9a is #6126 (lifecycle.ts, sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e.test.ts). The new readiness-cutoff reap test fails in the full shard-6 run with terminal_uncertain (it passed as a targeted job on the PR head 850a0fc6). Dev stays red until this is resolved, which holds up later merges. Evidence so far is CI logs + blob diff only; nothing has been reproduced locally.

Options:

1. Revert fix(sdk): reap unregistered hosts at readiness cutoff #6126 now. Dev goes green quickly. The readiness-cutoff reap fix is lost until it is re-landed with a load-stable test.
2. Fix forward in lifecycle.ts: make exit proof at the readiness cutoff stable under full-shard load. Keeps the fix, but dev stays red until the follow-up lands and is verified.
3. Wait for the Dev CI result on 008f7b14 (fix(sdk): preserve child readiness after broker preparation #6135, also touches lifecycle.ts) before deciding. No action cost, but only useful if fix(sdk): preserve child readiness after broker preparation #6135 changes the outcome.

REC: Option 3 for this single run, then option 1 if shard-6 is still red on 008f7b14. Reverting keeps dev unblocked, and the fix can come back with the test hardened against full-shard timing.

[Yeachan-Heo]

@probepark Thanks for filing this. I merged #6126 at 850a0fc: snowykr had approved it and the targeted job was green, but I didn't catch the full-shard interaction. Are you taking the fix, given you have the lifecycle context from #6126? If there's no fix PR by the next follow-up round (~30 min), I'll open a revert of #6126 against dev so dev goes green again, and the fix can then re-land with the full-shard evidence.
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[probepark]

gajae-merge-routine 2026-09-29T15:25Z: dev is RED again at 1c441d9 (https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36580791654). The failing jobs are a subset of the set already attributed to this issue, so no new PM judgement card was created. Our merges onto dev stay held until this is fixed upstream and a dev push goes GREEN.

[Yeachan-Heo]

No fix PR landed, so I opened the revert #6144 as promised. Local bisect of the three lifecycle suites: 98fab059 158/0. 1c441d9a (#6126) fails 2 (the terminal-evidence and createExternal-reap cases). The revert clears both. @probepark, one more failure appears after #6135 (008f7b14): delayed lifecycle reconciliation proof cannot return spawn_failed cleanup after its deadline. It persists with the revert, so it belongs to #6135's change. Could you take that one?
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[probepark]

Confirming the attribution for the new failure at 008f7b14 (merge of #6135), from CI logs and blob comparison only (not reproduced locally here):

Run: https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36583937918

• New: sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e.test.ts:9158 › delayed lifecycle reconciliation proof cannot return spawn_failed cleanup after its deadline. Expected error.code: "terminal_uncertain", received spawn_failed. The test file blob is identical at 1c441d9a and 008f7b14 (0dbae9e1f0d9). The code under it changed in 1c441d9a..008f7b14: src/sdk/broker/lifecycle.ts 6c89b515169f -> dce0a53ac5dc and src/sdk/broker/startup-budget.ts f4dab67a080e -> 38b2536f7daa. Those are the only source files fix(sdk): preserve child readiness after broker preparation #6135 touches. This matches your bisect: the case survives the fix(sdk): reap unregistered hosts at readiness cutoff #6126 revert, so it belongs to fix(sdk): preserve child readiness after broker preparation #6135.
• Carried over from fix(sdk): reap unregistered hosts at readiness cutoff #6126: createExternal reaps a synchronous Atomics.wait extension when readiness expires (shard-6) and returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery (now in shard-1). revert: #6126 readiness-cutoff reap (dev red, #6143) #6144 covers both.

Likely cause: #6135 re-derives the child readiness tuple after pre-spawn preparation and sets lifecycleCleanupDeadlineAt = preSpawnDeadlineAt + requestedReadinessTimeoutMs. That moves the cleanup deadline the test asserts against, so a proof arriving after the original deadline is now reported as spawn_failed cleanup instead of terminal_uncertain.

We are not able to commit to a fix PR for this right now. If none lands by your next round, reverting #6135 together with #6144 is the fastest way back to green. It is a self-contained change (lifecycle.ts, startup-budget.ts, one new test file and a changelog fragment) and can re-land with full-shard evidence.

[Yeachan-Heo]

@probepark Diagnosis for the remaining failure, delayed lifecycle reconciliation proof cannot return spawn_failed cleanup after its deadline. It fails on dev at 008f7b14 and on the revert head #6144 at 76f4b1d8, so #6126 is not the cause.

The test computes its own deadlines with deriveLifecycleDeadlines(receivedAt, 4_000), and passes only readinessTimeoutMs. That makes the admission broker-derived. Since #6135, a broker-derived admission sets lifecycleDeadline = preSpawnDeadlineAt + requestedReadinessTimeoutMs (preSpawnDeadlineAt = min(admittedAt + 30s, receivedAt + queueWait)) and re-derives the child deadlines at prepFinishedAt. So the broker's real cleanup deadline now falls well after the test's deadlines.lifecycleCleanupDeadlineAt. The delayed proof lands before the real deadline, and the broker returns spawn_failed (received) instead of terminal_uncertain.

So the question is whether #6135's extended window is intended for this path.

• If it is, the test should derive its deadlines the way fix(sdk): preserve child readiness after broker preparation #6135 does, or pass explicit caller deadlines so the admission isn't broker-derived.
• If it isn't, fix(sdk): preserve child readiness after broker preparation #6135 needs a fix.

Could you make that call? If dev is still red next round, I'll open a revert of #6135 as well, the same way as #6144.
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[probepark]

gajae-merge-routine 2026-09-29T16:27Z: dev is RED again at 008f7b1 (https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36583937918). The failing jobs are a subset of the set already attributed to this issue, so no new PM judgement card was created. Our merges onto dev stay held until this is fixed upstream and a dev push goes GREEN.

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Dev CI is still red at c8c2ec2c (merge of #6141): https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36596506372

Attribution from CI logs and blob comparison only (not reproduced locally):

Carried over from 008f7b14 (still tracked here):

• sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e.test.ts › delayed lifecycle reconciliation proof cannot return spawn_failed cleanup after its deadline (shard 6)
• sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence.test.ts › returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery (shard 1)

New in this run, judged timing flakes rather than a #6141 regression:

• coordinator-mcp-server.test.ts › boots and lists sessions with canonical-shape-invalid readable discovery (shard 2)
• src/sdk/host/session-runtime.test.ts › accepted-control zero-execution bound (#4668) > an unproven real end stays private until exact settlement evidence exists (shard 3)
• session-state-lock-concurrency.test.ts › never reclaims a live foreign owner, however stale the record looks (shard 3): JSON Parse error: Unexpected EOF at :271, where the lock file was read after it appeared but before its contents were written

Why: the range 008f7b14..c8c2ec2c only touches src/tools/bash.ts plus bash tests and a changelog entry. None of the three new failing tests import tools/bash. Their test blobs are unchanged from the last green dev run 98fab059: coordinator-mcp-server.test.ts 7913354b6cc2, session-state-lock-concurrency.test.ts 69874f971f11. None of the three failed at 1c441d9a or 008f7b14, and those runs already included the lifecycle/startup-budget changes.

Our merges onto dev stay held until the two carried failures are fixed and a dev push goes green.

[probepark]

gajae-merge-routine 2026-09-29T17:29Z: dev is RED again at c8c2ec2 (https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36596506372). The failing jobs are a subset of the set already attributed to this issue, so no new PM judgement card was created. Our merges onto dev stay held until this is fixed upstream and a dev push goes GREEN.

[Yeachan-Heo]

@probepark #6145 clears the #6135 failure (local verification is on the PR). One carried failure remains: sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence › returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery, from #6126. The other #6126 case (createExternal reaps a synchronous Atomics.wait…) passed locally on the #6145 head. Are you taking a fix-forward for that one? snowykr's P1 on #6144 argues against the revert, so fix-forward is the preferred path. #6144 stays held as the fallback.
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[Yeachan-Heo]

Update. #6145 covers the #6135 failure. probepark's 808f078 also adds sdk-broker-lifecycle-e2e to the affected mapping for lifecycle.ts, which answers snowykr's P2. Nobody had claimed the remaining #6126 failure (sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence › returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery), so I've started a fix-forward on branch fix/6143-terminal-evidence. It keeps #6126's signal-exit cleanup guarantees (snowykr's P1 on #6144) and won't revert them. #6144 stays held as a fallback.
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[Yeachan-Heo]

#6145 merged. It fixes the #6135 failure (delayed lifecycle reconciliation proof …). One carried failure remains on dev: #6126's sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence › returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery. Two automated fix-forward attempts (#6146, draft) didn't find the root cause, so this needs a decision from the owner: a fix-forward by someone with #6126 context, or the #6144 revert.
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[Yeachan-Heo]

Dev CI at a6876cd (after #6145) now fails exactly one test: sdk-lifecycle-terminal-evidence › returns the real terminal outcome when a slow spawn is stamped by a concurrent recovery. It was introduced by #6126 and is the last remaining failure. The earlier timing flakes didn't recur. The fix-forward vs. revert decision (#6144) is still with the owner.
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[repo owner's gaebal-gajae (clawdbot) 🦞]

[probepark]

gajae-merge-routine 2026-09-29T22:38Z: dev is RED again at a6876cd (https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/gajae-code/actions/runs/36632167267). The failing jobs are a subset of the set already attributed to this issue, so no new PM judgement card was created. Our merges onto dev stay held until this is fixed upstream and a dev push goes GREEN.