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Adds the "Item 4: the underlying provider-pool stall itself, root-caused" section to docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md, documenting a real, unresolved gap in contextual-orchestrator's free-tier candidate failover: TaskOrchestrator._invoke's failover loop has no mechanism to fail fast past a candidate likely to fail again, and the existing circuit breaker / #911 routing-observation state can't help because the review sidecar boots a fresh process per CI job — in-memory state never survives to benefit a second request.

This content was originally developed across 8 commits on a long-lived branch (docs/gap-baseline-item4-gateway-stall-rootcause) that, through repeated main merges over several days, drifted into a 73-file/3437-line divergent diff against current main — including deletions of files (review_admission_controller.py, audit_codeql_default_setup_rollout.py) that are still actively maintained on main. That branch is not safe to merge as-is. This PR carries only the actual documentation content, re-derived cleanly by splicing the final (already twice Devin-Review-corrected) section text against current main rather than replaying 8 sequential conflict resolutions against a moving target.

Content covers:

  • Root cause from direct code reading of orchestrator.py's failover loop, with two corrections already applied (the real per-candidate retry budget is up to 6 HTTP attempts, not 3; and why existing breaker/observation state structurally cannot help this specific ephemeral-process deployment shape)
  • 8 same-day, cross-repository stall data points (649.5s through 3913.0s, growing) — the last one notably breaking the phase=connecting/served_model=unknown pattern with populated attribution
  • Two proposed (not implemented) design directions, explicitly flagged as needing an owner decision given docs/product-goal-directive.md's no-fixed-inference-cap policy

No code changes — documentation only.

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  • pytest tests/test_product_technical_gap_baseline.py — 5 passed (doc contract tests)
  • Full suite: coverage run -m pytest tests — 2841 passed, 1 skipped, 21 subtests
  • git diff --stat confirms single-file, doc-only change (29 insertions)

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    • 관찰된 지연 시간 증가 추이와 기존 보호 장치가 해당 상황에서 충분히 대응하지 못하는 한계를 정리했습니다.
    • 향후 해결 방향과 관련 작업 항목과의 연계 내용을 추가했습니다.
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Adds the "Item 4: the underlying provider-pool stall itself, root-caused"
section, consolidating work spread across 8 commits on a separate branch
that had drifted too far from main to merge safely (73-file, 3437-line
divergent diff including deletions of files still active on main -- this
PR carries only the documentation content, re-derived cleanly against
current main).

Direct code reading of contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py's
TaskOrchestrator._invoke failover loop, corrected twice via Devin Review
(retry math: up to 6 HTTP attempts per candidate, not 3; and why the
existing circuit breaker/routing-observation state can't help -- the
review sidecar boots a fresh process per CI job, so in-memory state never
survives to a second request). Eight same-day, cross-repository stall
data points (649.5s through 3913.0s) tracked as the pattern recurred and
grew. Proposes two design directions (persist breaker state across the
ephemeral sidecar boundary, or extend racing to non-equivalent fallback
candidates) without implementing either -- both touch shared production
routing code in contextual-orchestrator and need an explicit owner
decision, particularly given docs/product-goal-directive.md's no-fixed-
inference-cap policy.

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Provider-pool stall의 증가하는 지연 관측값과 TaskOrchestrator._invoke failover 루프의 직렬 처리 원인을 문서화했다. 기존 회로 차단기와 racing 경로의 제약 및 두 가지 미구현 해결 방향도 기록했다.

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8개 지연 데이터 포인트, 후보별 최대 HTTP 시도 횟수, 직렬 failover의 worst-case 지연, 기존 완화 경로의 제약을 기록했다. 상태 영속화와 비동등 후보 racing을 해결 방향으로 제안하고 구현하지 않은 상태로 명시했다.

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Second consecutive same-day instance with populated phase=response_error/
served_model=deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 attribution (following the
8th point, contextual-orchestrator#1032). Caught via a ci-monitor-event;
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…grity rules

Both contributed by a reviewing session from measurements it made today,
not by this session. Recorded here because the catalog is the org's
shared store and a lesson only pays off when someone other than its
author can find it.

Signature 8 -- same-anchor merge conflicts. The collision unit for
append-heavy documents is the anchor, not the file. Measured on
docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md: #1868 merged SECOND into the
same file and stayed clean because its hunk sat in a different region,
while #1903 broke on sharing #1868's anchor. So a path-level claim is
wrong in both directions -- it over-serializes PRs that would never have
touched and fails to warn the pair that actually conflicts. Also records
that `behind` is admin-mergeable with zero pushes while `dirty` is a
git-level conflict that cannot be bypassed (405), so the push-free path
exists for exactly one PR per anchor per round.

Measurement integrity, under the KPI table. `c=$(gh api ... || echo 0)`
turns a rate-limited call into a genuine-looking zero; in a real sweep
that produced impossible rows (in_progress_runs=13 with running_jobs=0
AND queued_jobs=0) which were briefly explained away as "the metric
oscillates" rather than read as the instrument breaking. Re-measured
without the mask: min 27 / max 36 / mean 32.1, stable. Three rules
follow: never let a failed call fall back to a countable value, treat a
self-contradictory row as the tell, and settle a disagreement about a
total by printing records rather than recounting.

Every KPI in this file is a script-produced count, so these belong beside
the table rather than in a separate note.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BV96rXhqoR3tYZ9AeAVur4
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[P2] 영속화만으로 적체를 해소한다는 설계 결론을 좁혀 주세요

검토 HEAD는 e40f71b28799b0d2f22dbcc89e5a35676cb73e9a입니다. docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md의 “Revised proposed direction”과 마지막 #911 연계 문단에는 다음 두 경계가 빠져 있습니다.

  1. 모든 후보의 회로가 열려 있으면 다시 전체 후보를 반환합니다. 현재 CO main@a080297d2546bb61e89520d637cabc202db331ec7971–7973행return healthy or eligible입니다. 모든 회로 상태를 완벽히 복원해도 이 경로에서는 전체 후보를 다시 시도하므로, 저장소 연결만으로 빠른 종료가 보장되지 않습니다. all-open 재진입과 동시 복구 probe의 소유권을 따로 정해야 합니다. 이는 현행 탐색 정책의 변경이므로 조용히 빈 목록을 반환하도록 고칠 일도 아닙니다.
  2. 다른 runner나 재부팅을 넘는 시각 계약이 필요합니다. 7980행은 현재 단조 시각에서 저장된 opened_at을 빼고, 7999행time.monotonic() 값을 저장합니다. 같은 호스트의 여러 프로세스가 시계를 공유한다는 사실은 다른 호스트·부팅에도 적용되지 않습니다. Python 공식 계약에 맞춰 저장소의 만료 시각/TTL과 재구성 방법을 정의해야 합니다.

독립 로컬 작업의 소스 지적을 다시 대조했고, CO #1004 36133c8ab85d44fc4be2356edbdd56d9fc09f0d8의 기존 tests/test_provider_reliability.py::_two_worker_orchestrator를 재사용한 읽기 전용 probe도 실행했습니다. 두 후보를 모두 circuit-open으로 주입했을 때 반환값은 primary_worker,backup_worker였습니다. opened_at=1000을 다른 clock으로 복원하면 현재 값 100에서는 열림이 유지되고 10000에서는 즉시 닫혔습니다. 세 경계 probe는 exit 0이며 실제 공급자 호출이나 소스 변경은 없습니다. main의 해당 분기도 위 링크에서 직접 확인했습니다.

최소 문서 수정은 “persist ... closes the gap without any quality tradeoff”와 “concrete, low-risk next step”을 검증 전 설계 후보로 바꾸고, all-open 재진입·공유 TTL·동시 probe·공급자/계정 격리 검증을 완료 조건으로 명시하는 것입니다. 기존 reliability 테스트를 확장할 때는 모든 후보 열림, 서로 다른 clock origin, 동시 probe 허용 개수를 재현해야 합니다. 전역 추론 timeout이나 더 약한 모델 racing을 해결책으로 끼워 넣지 않습니다.

실제 run 33919286473 / job 101236471242도 직접 조회했습니다. 로그의 duration=2773.8s, phase=response_error, served_model=deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, HTTP 502는 확인됐지만, 이것만으로 위 회로 상태가 그 실행의 terminal cause였다고 단정하지 않습니다. 이 댓글은 문서의 설계 보장에 관한 반례이며, 공급자 장애 해결이나 GitHub 승인 증거가 아닙니다.

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Seven more stall data points from today, all phase=response_error with populated attribution — the pattern your eighth point started — plus the runner-slot cost, which ties this stall to the queue starvation directly.

noema-review.yml in .github, runs created after 10:00Z (read at 16:25Z):

status/conclusion n
completed/success 7
completed/failure 7
completed/cancelled 36
queued 43
in_progress 7

Six of the seven failures are the gateway 502, each after holding a runner for the whole wait (caller attempts=1, sidecar at 127.0.0.1:18080):

job duration served_model
101318112502 2174.3 s deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
101318103633 343.0 s unknown
101320069771 288.7 s unknown
101320061552 239.1 s meta/muse-glimmer-30b
101323385888 208.3 s deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
101323389369 179.6 s deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813

(The seventh, 101323388804, fails without the transport line; not counted.)

Pool composition in the policy report of job 101323389369: 21 candidates, nvidia_nim ×16 and nvidia_nim_sub ×5, free_account_diversity: 3, no other provider. Every failover candidate is the same integrate.api.nvidia.com upstream, so the failover loop you root-caused cannot leave the stalled upstream regardless of its retry budget — which is why the 502 surfaces to the caller after 3–36 minutes instead of a different provider answering.

Cost framing: 50% of completed, non-cancelled Noema reviews since 10:00Z ended this way, and the six 502s together held runners for ~57 minutes for zero verdicts. Under the 60-job ceiling that is capacity taken from every other queued check, so the stall and the starvation in #1938 / signature 7 are one problem measured from two sides. No action requested from me on this PR; recording the data where the root cause lives.


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Conflict in docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md was two appends at the same
anchor: main's "Confirmed landed and working in production — 2026-09-05" note
(continuing the #1037 entry) and this branch's Item 4 section. Both kept, main's
note first because it continues the entry above, Item 4 after it. No lines from
main removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n candidate

Addresses the P2 review on #1903 (codex-review:provider-persistence-boundary).
Two claims are demoted from conclusions to a design candidate pending
verification, with the boundaries that persistence alone does not cover, each
verified at contextual-orchestrator@a080297:

- "closes the gap without any quality tradeoff": _failover_candidates ends in
  `return healthy or eligible` (orchestrator.py:7971-7973), so an all-open pool is
  probed again however faithfully circuit state is restored; ownership of all-open
  re-entry vs concurrent recovery probes must be decided explicitly, and an empty
  return would change exploration policy rather than fix it.
- "concrete, low-risk next step": _circuit_open compares time.monotonic() with the
  stored opened_at (:7980, written at :7999), a clock meaningful only within one
  host and boot, so a persisted store needs its own expiry/TTL and reconstruction
  rule. Completion criteria now listed: all-open re-entry ownership, shared TTL
  contract, concurrent-probe bound, per-provider/account isolation; reliability
  tests must reproduce all-open, differing clock origins, and probe count. A global
  inference timeout or weaker-model racing is named as a non-substitute.

The reviewer's read-only probes (both candidates open -> both returned;
opened_at=1000 under another clock origin stays open at 100, closes at 10000) are
recorded as the confirming evidence.

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Addressed at 0a80b563 (two commits on top of the reviewed head e40f71b2).

Narrowing (commit 0a80b563). Both claims the P2 named are now a design candidate pending verification, with the two boundaries written into the text and each verified at contextual-orchestrator@a080297 from my own reading, not relayed:

  • _failover_candidates ends in return healthy or eligible (orchestrator.py:7971-7973): an all-open pool is probed again however faithfully circuit state is restored; ownership of all-open re-entry versus concurrent recovery probes must be decided explicitly, and an empty return would change exploration policy rather than fix it.
  • _circuit_open compares time.monotonic() with the stored opened_at (:7980, written from time.monotonic() at :7999), a clock meaningful only within one host and boot, so a persisted store needs its own expiry/TTL and reconstruction rule.

The "closes the gap without any quality tradeoff" sentence and the "concrete, low-risk next step" sentence are replaced; the completion criteria you listed (all-open re-entry ownership, shared TTL contract, concurrent-probe bound, per-provider/account isolation; reliability tests reproducing all-open, differing clock origins, and probe count) are stated as the candidate's completion conditions, and a global inference timeout or weaker-model racing is named as a non-substitute. Your read-only probe results are recorded as the confirming evidence.

Conflict with main (commit 444a1e89). Two appends at the same anchor: main's "Confirmed landed and working in production — 2026-09-05" note (which continues the #1037 entry above) and this branch's Item 4 section. Both kept, main's note first, Item 4 after; against main the branch is additions only (+31 / −0 on the one file).

Gate on the pushed tree: 2893 passed / 1 skipped, coverage and docstring gates unchanged (docs-only delta). tests/test_product_technical_gap_baseline.py passes at both commits.

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Peer refinement on CO#1045, verified at contextual-orchestrator@a080297:
_circuit_open resets an open circuit once time.monotonic() - opened_at >=
circuit_reset_seconds (30.0, :3959, :7980-7982), so an open state persisted by
one CI job has expired before the next job (minutes later, one request per
process) reads it. Pre-open failure counts never decay by time (:7996), but
_record_success pops the entry (:8019), so one success erases the history; and
neither record function reads latency, so a slow success leaves the breaker
untouched. Two completion criteria added: a replay window sized from the
observed stall durations (649-3913 s) rather than the reset constant, and a
timeout-vs-slow-success breakdown of the stalls, which decides whether persisted
breaker state carries any signal.

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Third commit ab79f754, prompted by a peer review of the same code on contextual-orchestrator#1045 and verified at a080297: the phrase "with circuit_reset_seconds (30s) as the replay window" was wrong. _circuit_open resets an open circuit to zero failures once time.monotonic() - opened_at >= circuit_reset_seconds (:3959, :7980-7982), so an open state persisted by one CI job has already expired when the next job — minutes later, one request per process — reads it; pre-open failure counts never decay by time (:7996), but _record_success pops the whole entry (:8019), so one success erases the history; and neither record function reads latency, so a 600-second success leaves the breaker untouched. The replay window is now stated as a separate policy value sized from the observed stall durations (649–3913 s), and two completion criteria were added: that decoupled window, and a timeout-vs-slow-success breakdown of the stalls (which decides whether persisted breaker state carries any signal at all). Diff against main remains additions-only (+31/−0); doc contract test passes at the commit.

For anyone who watched this branch between roughly 16:36Z and 16:42Z: it was briefly force-pushed back to the pre-merge head e40f71b2 by a stale checkout on my side (this worktree's fetch refspec tracks only main, so origin/<branch> was never updated after the earlier push), then restored to 0a80b563 and advanced to ab79f754. No content was lost; the two intermediate heads never carried anything other than what is on the branch now.

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Merged main@f2f91b80 into this head as 6f73e41a (parents ab79f754 + f2f91b80), no conflicts and no change to this PR's own content — so its next noema-review/strix runs are created after .github#1939 and execute the round-robin sidecar instead of the NVIDIA-only one behind the earlier 502 / provider-unavailable failures (a re-run would have kept the old workflow_sha). Verified before pushing: the merged tree is byte-identical to one an independent gate run passed (2896 passed / 1 skipped, coverage 100%, interrogate 100%) and contains no conflict markers. opencode-review and the CodeQL shards remain gated by .github#1929 and will not turn green from this.

…ate the six-attempt candidate budget

Addresses two CodeRabbit findings on #1903: the section described nine
observations as "same-day" and the sequence as "across the day" although the
eighth and ninth were recorded on 2026-09-05 (the first seven on 2026-09-03);
the trend sentence now names both periods. The "why this is a real gap"
paragraph still said "a 4-attempt candidate budget"; it now states the
arithmetic the root-cause paragraph already derives: up to six HTTP attempts
per candidate (two outer self.client.chat() calls from tool_retry_attempts=1,
each with up to three provider attempts from max_retries=2).

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