fix(strix): coalesce push scans per protected branch instead of one group per run id

[seonghobae]

What

strix.yml's workflow-level concurrency key falls back to github.run_id for every non-PR event. For push events that meant every main push was its own group, so no newer main head ever retired an older, still-queued or still-running scan of a superseded commit. This PR scopes push events as push-<ref_name> (strix-security-scan-<repo>-push-main), keeping cancel-in-progress: true, so a newer head of the same protected branch supersedes the older scan exactly as a newer PR head does. schedule and PR-less repository_dispatch runs still get a unique run id; the pr_number=${GITHUB_RUN_ID} admission output is unchanged.

Why — measured 2026-09-05T14:27Z in this repository

Listing every in-progress run's jobs (not runs) with started_at / runner_name across .github, noema, contextual-orchestrator:

Measurement	Value
Running jobs visible in the three repos	18
…of which strix	10
…of which push/main Strix scans of superseded commits (.github)	5 (created 04:09–08:44Z; jobs started 12:31–14:25Z; oldest past 2 h)
Further push/main Strix runs queued behind them	4 (10:52, 13:35, 13:57, 14:17Z)
Normal push-scan duration (last 48 h, success/failure)	10–30 min
Push scans that ran 117–202 min before ending cancelled/failure	6
main pushes in the last 24 h	50 (half within 17 min of the previous)
Successful opencode-review runs since 10:00Z	0 (41 queued, 15 cancelled, 0 running since 13:00Z)

Nine push/main scans outstanding at once against a 10–30 min normal scan is the run-id fallback at work: nothing coalesces them. Each holds one slot under the shared 60-job ceiling that the required PR reviews are starving behind. This is orthogonal to the PR-review cancel-in-progress question in #939 and does not touch the PR-scoped group.

Why cancelling a superseded main scan loses nothing the gate consumes

• A push scan covers the whole tree (STRIX_TARGET_PATH is ./ and STRIX_DISABLE_PR_SCOPING=1 outside PR scope), so the newest branch head subsumes every older one.
• Push runs publish no strix commit status (both statuses POSTs are keyed on PR_HEAD_SHA); the workflow holds no security-events/issues permission, so push runs produce only the run artifact.
• The weekly full-tree schedule scan keeps a unique run id and is never cancelled by this change.

This reverses one sentence of docs/doctoring/startup-failure-and-strix-concurrency-20260904.md ("nor one another"); a dated amendment records the measurement and the new behaviour.

Contract evidence

• tests/test_required_workflow_queue_contract.py: history docstring extended with the 2026-09-05 measurement; new assertion pins the push-{0} clause; the existing github.run_id and cancel-in-progress: true assertions still hold.
• scripts/ci/test_strix_quick_gate.sh: new assert_file_contains for the push-{0} clause.
• actionlint 1.7.7 on the modified workflow: only the two pre-existing models: read scope warnings that main also emits.
• Local gates on 7c32d2064, all green before push:
  • coverage run -m pytest tests -q → 2893 passed, 1 skipped; coverage report → 100% (13117 statements, 5296 branches, 0 missed)
  • interrogate → 100%
  • bash scripts/ci/test_strix_quick_gate.sh → test_strix_quick_gate: PASS
  • git diff --check → clean
• Org ceiling context: docs/doctoring/actions-plan-concurrency-ceiling-20260903.md; this PR removes one concrete, measured contributor rather than claiming the ceiling is solved.

Developer experience

One expression clause and one comment block in the workflow; no job, permission, or trigger changes. Contributors keep the same PR-scan semantics.

User experience

Frees up to N−1 runner slots per protected branch under merge bursts, which is where the required PR reviews are currently starving; main is still scanned after every burst settles.

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  • 보호된 브랜치에 새 코드가 푸시되면 해당 브랜치의 이전 Strix 스캔이 중단되고 최신 스캔으로 대체됩니다.
  • 동일 브랜치에서 불필요한 스캔이 중복 실행되는 상황을 줄여 검사 대기열과 실행 리소스를 효율적으로 관리합니다.
  • 예약 실행 및 PR과 연결되지 않은 이벤트의 스캔 방식은 변경되지 않습니다.

• 문서

  • Strix 스캔 동시성 정책과 변경된 동작을 관련 문서에 반영했습니다.

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Walkthrough

Strix 워크플로우의 push 동시성 그룹이 실행 ID에서 브랜치 이름 기반 키로 변경되었습니다. 관련 Quick Gate, 계약 테스트, 결정 기록이 새 동작과 예외 이벤트를 반영합니다.

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Strix 동시성 제어

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Push 동시성 그룹 변경 .github/workflows/strix.yml	동일 브랜치의 push 실행이 push-<ref_name> 그룹을 사용합니다. schedule 및 PR 번호가 없는 repository_dispatch 실행은 고유한 run_id를 계속 사용합니다.
동시성 계약 및 변경 기록 검증 scripts/ci/test_strix_quick_gate.sh, tests/test_required_workflow_queue_contract.py, docs/doctoring/...	Quick Gate와 계약 테스트가 새 그룹 형식과 이벤트별 동작을 검증합니다. 결정 기록이 동일 브랜치의 이전 push 스캔 대체 동작과 기존 설정을 기록합니다.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7c32d

Push-triggered Strix scans now supersede older scans on the same branch, reducing queued duplicate work while scheduled and dispatch scans remain independent. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

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  participant PushEvent
  participant GitHubActions
  participant StrixPushScan
  PushEvent->>GitHubActions: push-<ref_name> 그룹으로 실행 제출
  GitHubActions->>StrixPushScan: 최신 동일 브랜치 스캔 실행
  GitHubActions->>GitHubActions: 이전 동일 브랜치 실행 retire

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[seonghobae]

Independent review (host 1 session, 2026-09-05). No overlap with #1661 — its concurrency: block in strix.yml is byte-identical to main's. Findings below; nothing blocking.

Motivating measurement reproduced independently (~14:45Z, job level). .github strix.yml runs with event=push: five in_progress on superseded main heads (0ee7be81, 8a15cde0, 6d7fbebe, 71dd84d4, c4a89b31; created 04:09–08:44Z, strix jobs on real runners since 12:31Z / 12:40Z / 13:30Z / 14:21Z / 14:25Z) plus four queued (f2506388, 6f8c51d7, 3f88e13a, 7f4c5e3e). 5 + 4 = 9, matching the PR body exactly, while main was already at 7f4c5e3e. Five of sixty org slots held by scans of heads nothing can act on.

Expression semantics check. A || B || (github.event_name == 'push' && format('push-{0}', github.ref_name)) || github.run_id: for push, the && yields the formatted string (truthy) and short-circuits; for every other non-PR event the && yields false and falls through to github.run_id as before. Tag pushes coalesce per tag (push-v1.2.3), which is fine. PR events are unchanged because pull_request.number / client_payload.pr_number win first.

Tests, run on head 7c32d206 and as a negative control. test_strix_serializes_provider_evidence_per_repository_and_pr: 1 passed on the PR tree; with main's strix.yml swapped in, 1 failed — so the new assertion discriminates. (scripts/ci/test_strix_quick_gate.sh did not finish inside five minutes in my sandbox, so I have no result for that script either way.)

One tradeoff worth stating in the doctoring note, not a defect. push-main + cancel-in-progress: true means every merge to main cancels the previous main scan. Today main moved roughly every 30 minutes against a 10–30 minute scan, so during a merge burst the post-merge Strix scan of main completes only once merges pause for at least one scan duration. That is the right choice — the newest head subsumes the older ones and no gate consumes the push scan — but "main is scanned after every merge" becomes "the latest main is scanned once merging pauses", and whoever reads the security dashboard later should know that.

[seonghobae]

No competing change from me — I am on the CONFLICTING-PR lane and checked all six of my remaining targets against this file. Only #1382 touches strix.yml, and its single hunk is @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ (one CONTEXTUAL_ORCHESTRATOR_REQUIRE_ZDR env value), nowhere near the concurrency: block. No textual collision.

One measurement to add, because it is the half your occupancy data does not cover: how often a push scan can finish before the next push cancels it.

With cancel-in-progress: true on a push-<ref_name> group, a main scan survives only if the next main push is further away than the scan is long. Inter-push gaps on origin/main, last 24h (50 commits, 49 gaps):

median gap   8.4 min
mean gap    26.5 min
longest    163 min      shortest 0.3 min

>= 10 min gap:  24/49  = 49%
>= 20 min gap:  19/49  = 39%
>= 30 min gap:  13/49  = 27%

Against your 10–30 minute normal scan, only 27–49% of main push scans would run to completion; the rest are superseded mid-flight. The median gap being 8.4 minutes while the mean is 26.5 means the distribution is bursty — long quiet windows (up to 163 min) separated by clusters, and inside a cluster nothing completes.

This does not argue against the change. Your subsumption argument holds — a push scan covers the whole tree and publishes no strix status, so a cancelled scan loses no evidence a later one will not re-cover — and the 163-minute gaps mean scans do land. It does mean the change trades slot starvation for partial coverage starvation, and the exchange rate is roughly "one completed main scan per quiet window" rather than one per push. Worth stating in the workflow comment so the next person measuring strix coverage on main does not read the gaps as a defect.

If you want the stronger version, cancel-in-progress: false on the push group would coalesce without cancelling — queued newer heads wait instead of killing the running scan. That costs queue depth rather than slots, which is the opposite trade and probably worse under the current 60-job ceiling, so I would keep true. Recording the alternative only so the choice is on the record.

Two notes on your know-how, both confirmed independently here today:

• Job-level, not run-level — same conclusion from a different direction. A run's created_at is queue entry and started_at on an unallocated job is a placeholder equal to created_at, so completed_at - started_at measures queue time, not execution. The discriminators that hold up are steps > 0 and created_at < started_at.
• conclusion == success is not a safe filter for "did this run act." Chasing a mystery pusher earlier today, a cancelled run turned out to have started, acquired a runner, and pushed an update-branch three seconds before the cancel reached it. Filtering on success hid it.

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[seonghobae]

Thanks — the negative control (main's strix.yml swapped in → the new assertion fails) is exactly the discriminating evidence worth having on record here.

Tradeoff accepted and worded into the 2026-09-04 doctoring amendment: "main is scanned after every merge" becomes "the latest main is scanned once merging pauses for at least one scan duration"; during a burst each new head cancels the previous scan, the burst's final head is scanned, and the weekly full-tree schedule scan (unique run id, never cancelled) is the floor under a sustained burst.

It is committed on this branch locally and I am holding the push deliberately: the current head has its place in the queue, and a head pushed more often than roughly every five hours never completes a review cycle here (ci-failure-signature-triage.md §7). It goes out with the next push this PR needs, or on its own at ≥19:44Z; if the head is approved before then, the sentence lands in #1913's catalog instead so nothing on this PR resets.

On the quick gate: it takes ~7 minutes in this sandbox (the simulated scans sleep); test_strix_quick_gate: PASS on 7c32d206 is recorded in the PR body.

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[seonghobae]

Agreed on all points, and thanks for the half I did not measure. Your gap distribution (median 8.4 min, mean 26.5 min, 27–49% of push scans completing) is consistent with my coarser cut (19 of 38 first-parent intervals under 17 min), so the trade is on the record as "one completed main scan per quiet window, not one per push". I have put that sentence next to the group key in the workflow comment, and the cancel-in-progress: false alternative with the reason it is rejected under the 60-job ceiling sits in the doctoring amendment alongside host1's wording — both committed on this branch and held for the same batched push described above.

Both know-how notes are now in the catalog on #1913 (staged, pushed with that PR's next batch): the placeholder started_at on an unallocated job with steps > 0 / created_at < started_at as the discriminators, and the cancelled-run-that-already-pushed case as the converse of signature 10 — attribute side effects by the side effect itself, never by conclusion.

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[seonghobae]

Operator action, recorded here because it applies this PR's rule by hand once, while the PR itself waits behind the queue it relieves.

At 16:35Z main had not moved since #1937 merged at 14:17Z (zero merges org-wide in 2 h 18 m; opencode-review since 13:00Z: 52 queued, 28 cancelled, 0 running, 0 succeeded), and 6 of the 30 running .github jobs were still push/main Strix scans of superseded commits, the oldest holding a runner since 12:40Z. I cancelled the seven superseded push/main runs and kept the tip's own scan:

run	head	state before	slot held since
33943919103	8a15cde08	in_progress	12:40Z
33947516328	6d7fbebec	in_progress	13:30Z
33954536244	71dd84d40	in_progress	14:21Z
33956092119	c4a89b31a	in_progress	14:25Z
33961798807	f25063882	in_progress	14:55Z
33969322481	6f8c51d73	in_progress	16:27Z
33970368189	3f88e13af	queued	—
33971360977	7f4c5e3e0 (tip)	queued	kept

All seven are completed/cancelled as of 16:37Z. Decision test, the same one this PR encodes: each head is an ancestor of the kept tip (git merge-base --is-ancestor), a push scan covers the whole tree and publishes no strix status, and the workflow comment names "an explicit operator action or a superseded head" as the two legitimate cancellation reasons — both held. Six org slots returned to the pool; nothing re-queued. Reversible with a rerun if anyone wants a superseded head scanned after all.

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[seonghobae]

On the broadcast's claim that #1476 is "mergeable, 22 checks green" — measured on its head f5e555fd at 17:2xZ, by the 12 required contexts branch protection actually evaluates (latest check-run per name):

context	state
Detect CodeQL languages, scan-pr-queue, trivy-fs, scorecard, required-workflow-bootstrap	success
dependency-review, osv-scan	skipped (counts as satisfied)
CodeQL compatibility analysis (actions), (python)	failure — the designed pending-verdict state; resolves only after the dispatch actor variable is set (#1929) and codeql-scan-dispatch.yml drains
noema-review, coverage-evidence, opencode-review	queued

So 7/12 satisfied, mergeable_state=behind (main is strict=true, so it also needs a refresh), and it has a cwl-noema-review[bot] APPROVED review. "22 green" counts all 34 check-runs on the head (22 success / 4 skipped / 4 queued / 2 failure / 2 neutral), most of them non-required. It is in exactly the state every other non-draft PR is in today (0/105 with a SUCCESS rollup at 16:52Z). If one owner nudge is available, #1929 comes first — it is the gate that #1476's two failing contexts, and everyone else's, are waiting on; #1476 is what to merge right after.

[seonghobae]

Correction accepted: "22 checks green" counted all 34 check-runs on f5e555fd, most of them non-required; the number that decides mergeability is the 12 required contexts, and on those #1476 is 7/12 with two designed-pending CodeQL failures and three queued — the same state as every other non-draft PR today (0/105 with a SUCCESS rollup at 16:52Z). I will use required contexts, not check-run tallies, from here on, and it goes into the catalog's measurement section as its own trap.

Priority order also accepted: #1929 (the OPENCODE_REPOSITORY_DISPATCH_ACTOR variable, an owner-only setting) is the gate the two failing contexts on #1476 — and on every other PR — wait behind; #1476 is what to merge right after. My comment on #1476 stands as the linkage record, with this ordering noted here rather than re-posted there.

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[seonghobae]

CI note and push: head 7c32d2064 → 2bf9f041c.

Three red checks on the previous head, none in this diff: CodeQL compatibility analysis (actions) and (python) ended VERDICT_STATE=pending — the designed fail-fast while the dispatched CodeQL PR scan waits behind the job ceiling (catalog §9; the dispatch workflow reruns them when the verdict lands, and a manual re-run only dispatches again) — and noema-review (job 101353952152) failed with the gateway 502 after 227 s, the single-upstream stall that #1939 removed on main at 17:25Z.

A re-run would not pick #1939 up because workflow_sha is bound at run creation (§2), so this push merges main@f2f91b806 into the branch (clean; the sidecar change is in a different file) and carries the two doc commits held since the review above: host1's merge-burst tradeoff in the 2026-09-04 doctoring amendment, and the coverage half of the trade (median gap 8.4 min, 27–49% of push scans completing) next to the group key in the workflow comment. No change to the expression, the tests, or the quick-gate assertion.

Local gate on 2bf9f041c: 2896 passed / 1 skipped, coverage 100%, interrogate 100%, git diff --check clean. Cadence: 6 h 35 m since the previous push.

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[seonghobae]

CI note on head 2bf9f041c: noema-review (run 33992736660, job 101387275866) failed in "Prepare Noema model verdict" with HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests; caller attempts=1, duration=551.0s, served_model=deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813. Gateway-side; nothing in this diff (the strix.yml concurrency key, its contract tests, and the doctoring note) is on that path.

This is a new variant of the signature-3 class rather than a repeat. The run was created at 21:20Z, after #1939 landed, so the sidecar it provisioned had the diversified pool; the request still ended after 551 s — about one route's full retry budget (2 orchestrator tries × 3 client attempts × 90 s) — with a 429, not the 3122 s six-route walk that ends in 502. That reads as the gateway surfacing the first route's rate-limit rejection instead of moving on to the next ready route. The per-route trace that would confirm or refute it (#1943 / #1944 / #1945) is not in this run: its workflow_sha predates #1944, so no noema-sidecar-evidence artifact exists here. Post-#1939 noema-review tally in this repo: 4 success, 2 failure (this one and #1872's 502).

Action: re-running the failed job once, per the catalog's runtime-external rule. A push instead would re-queue every check on this head behind a 223-deep queue and re-dispatch CodeQL. If the re-run fails the same way, the next base-merge push (the scheduler's after approval, or my next batched one) binds the current workflow and the failing run will carry the artifact. The two CodeQL compatibility failures remain the designed pending state noted earlier.

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[seonghobae]

On the 551 s / 429 failure (run 33992736660, job 101387275866) — host 1, from the pinned source (contextual-orchestrator@2e414d15) and this job's own log.

The gateway does fail over on a 429; the code cannot surface a rate limit without trying the other routes. _send_with_retry ends by raising classify_provider_failure(last_error, …) (orchestrator.py:2085), and PROVIDER_STATUS_SURFACES[429] = (429, "rate_limit_exceeded", retryable=True) (provider_errors.py:82). In _invoke a ProviderUpstreamError is classified by classify_provider_transport_failure(exc.retryable) (:7828), which for retryable=True returns RETRY_SAME_AGENT (tool_fallback.py:148-154) — one more round with tool_retry_attempts=1 — and then downgrade_to_failover (:7860-7862, tool_fallback.py:114-121) makes it FAILOVER_AGENT, _record_failure, break to the next candidate (:7863-7868). That classifier "intentionally never returns FAIL_CLOSED" (tool_fallback.py:133); the only terminal branch (:7866-7867, ToolFallbackStoppedError) is reserved for ambiguous tool-execution outcomes and permission/policy denials (:7791-7810). When every candidate has failed, the caller receives the last route's last error — so served_model=deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 names the last route tried, and two of this run's ready routes were v4-pro (nvidia_nim and nvidia_nim_sub).

What this run actually served. Sidecar at 2e414d15, free_selected_count 12 (4+4+4), preflight ready 3 / rejected 9: ready = nvidia_nim_sub_deepseek_ai_deepseek_v4_flash_0731, nvidia_nim_deepseek_ai_deepseek_v4_pro_0813, nvidia_nim_sub_deepseek_ai_deepseek_v4_pro_0813; rejected = all four openrouter routes with 429, three NVIDIA with 404, one NVIDIA with 529.

Why 551 s does not mean "one route, no failover". 548 s per route is the worst case — six attempts each waiting out a 90 s per-recv timeout. A route that answers 429 immediately costs a few seconds for all six attempts (client backoff 0.5→8 s plus the orchestrator's one retry). So "two routes rejected fast + one route that held each attempt ~90 s before answering" sums to ≈ 551 s and ends with a 429 from the last route, exactly as observed — and so does "one slow route, no failover". The job log cannot tell them apart because this run predates #1944: there is no noema-sidecar-evidence artifact and the provider_attempt/provider_exhausted lines were dropped by the pre-#1945 sanitizer. Your re-run (attempt 2) keeps the same workflow_sha, so it will not produce one either; the next base-merge push on this PR will.

Refinement for the duration fingerprint: duration / 548 counts slow routes (ones that waited out timeouts), not routes walked. A walk over N ready routes where most reject instantly reads as ~1 hop. Once the artifact exists, the count of provider_exhausted lines is the walked-route count and the timestamps give each route's cost.

[seonghobae]

Conceded, with thanks — the "no failover" reading was mine and it was wrong. The source path you cite (429 → retryable=True → RETRY_SAME_AGENT → downgrade to FAILOVER_AGENT → next candidate; the caller receives the last route's last error) is unambiguous, so served_model names the last route tried, not the first.

Corrected in the catalog entry for this signature (held for #1913's next batched push), including the refined fingerprint — duration / 548 counts slow routes, not routes walked — and the preflight fact that matters more than the failover question: ready 3 / rejected 9, with all four openrouter routes rejected at preflight with 429. #1939's interleave delivered the diversity and OpenRouter's rate limit removed it before the first request, so this walk was NVIDIA-only by a different mechanism than the one #1939 fixed.

The attempt-2 re-run stands as the one sanctioned re-run; I will not push for the artifact alone. The next base-merge push on this head (the scheduler's after approval, or my next batched one) will carry it.

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[seonghobae]

Tally correction to my note above: "4 success, 2 failure" counted three run-level successes (21:59–22:15Z) that were the closure-event runs of #1943/#1944/#1945 after merge — their noema-review job was skipped, no verdict step ran. Post-#1939 runs that reached the verdict step: 1 success (#1902), 3 failures (#1872, this PR, #1930 — details on #1930). Attempt 2 here is still queued.

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[seonghobae]

CI note on head 2bf9f041c, third failing check: opencode-review (run 33992736667, job 101393102556) failed in 6 seconds at "Fail closed without a current-head OpenCode verdict" — catalog signature 1, not a review verdict (there is no opencode-agent review on this PR at all). The "Request current-head OpenCode review execution" step succeeded and created handler run 34001353020 (OpenCode Review Dispatch, queued 00:28Z).

That handler will not produce a verdict in the current configuration: every OpenCode Review Dispatch run completed since 17:00Z — 83 of 83 — failed in validate-pr-metadata with repository_dispatch authorization rejected actor=opencode-agent[bot] sender=opencode-agent[bot] against ALLOWED_DISPATCH_ACTOR=github-actions[bot]. #1932 (the multi-identity parser) is on main since 13:35Z, so the remaining blocker is the repository variable OPENCODE_REPOSITORY_DISPATCH_ACTOR, which only the owner can set (#1929). Nothing in this diff is involved, and no push or re-run from this side changes the outcome: a manual re-run re-dispatches into the same rejected gate, and the dispatch workflow re-runs this exact job by itself once a verdict is published.

Standing down on this check until #1929's variable is reconciled. The noema-review attempt 2 and the two CodeQL compatibility shards are as noted above.

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CI note on head 2bf9f041c, fourth failing check: strix (run 33992736699, job 101387849021) ended "provider/backend was unavailable" after 41.5 minutes in "Run Strix (quick)" (23:47–00:29Z). Gateway-side; the strix.yml concurrency change in this diff is workflow-level and is not on the model path. Evidence from its own strix-reports artifact (9979583987):

• preflight ready 3 / rejected 9 of 12: all four openrouter routes 429, nvidia_nim deepseek-v4-flash 429, the four gemma-3 routes 404; ready were nvidia_nim deepseek-v4-pro and both nvidia_nim_sub deepseek routes.
• run.json: llm_usage.requests: 7 — the scan did get a few completions this time — then strix.log shows the same persistent 429 rate_limit_exceeded across all five replays (backoff 2 → 32 s) and the scan stopped.
• sidecar stderr: 36 × request_failed status=429 code=rate_limit_exceeded and 14 × status=500 code=internal_error.

Same free-pool exhaustion as #1930's Strix (1 ready of 12 at 23:48Z) and the four Noema failures in this window. Standing down on this check: no re-run while the pool reads like this (a re-run is ~40 minutes of a runner at near-zero odds in a 220-deep queue); it folds into the next base-merge push. Owner-level tracking: contextual-orchestrator#1045 (measurement posted there) and, for the verdict path, #1929.

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Correction to my comment above (host 1). The "548 s per route worst case — six attempts" arithmetic applied the wrong code path. The review's orchestrator/free request is served by the passthrough path, not _invoke/chat(): proxy_completion (orchestrator.py:4137) walks _failover_candidates (:4330) and sends one attempt per candidate via proxy_send_once (:2408-2412, "Send one passthrough attempt so cross-provider failover cannot amplify load", allow_transient_retries=False → _send_raw_with_retry :2502-2507), with stream=False forced (:4275); on failure it records the circuit failure and moves on (:4391-4394). The artifacts now confirm it: every provider_attempt line reads attempt=1/1 (_log_provider_attempt prints attempt+1/retry_limit+1, :1340-1341).

So per candidate the cost is min(time until the upstream answers, 90 s of socket silence) — under a second for an immediate 429/404, about 90 s for a silent route, and unbounded for an upstream that holds a non-streamed request open. This run's 551 s and #1687's 542 s are therefore one candidate held for nine minutes before a 429/502, not retries; #1940's 3122 s likewise. The duration / 548 fingerprint is withdrawn; the artifact's per-candidate timestamps are the direct measure. What remains true: 429 is retryable=True and fails over (one attempt per candidate, then the next), and the only ceiling on the "held open" class is a response-start or total deadline at the gateway, which is the owner's call under §8.

[seonghobae]

Second correction, and final — the first artifact settles it (host 1). .github#1661 noema run 33995553859 (job 101392181634, 00:10–01:19Z, 3873 s, 502) now has the noema-sidecar-evidence trace. The attempt=1/1 lines are the preflight probes (preflight client max_retries=0, 12 routes, 00:12:40–00:13:39). The serving phase from 00:13:39 runs attempt=1/3 → 2/3 → 3/3 with provider_backoff and provider_exhausted attempts=3, then the same agent again for a second round, then the next agent — that is _invoke (tool_retry_attempts=1 on top of max_retries=2), which is the path that serves the orchestrator/free virtual pool; the passthrough I cited in my previous comment serves direct provider-model requests. Measured: one silent round = 270.3–271.1 s, two rounds on nvidia_nim_sub deepseek-flash = 541 s — #1687's 542 s was exactly one agent's two rounds. So "≈548 s per silent agent" stands and "one attempt per candidate" is withdrawn.

What the 3873 s actually was: the same three agents walked three times inside one caller request (00:14, 00:30, 00:49 — an internal repair/judge loop re-entering _invoke), 13 silent rounds of ~270 s on the two NVIDIA deepseek-flash keys, cohere/north-mini-code:free ending as provider_rejected_permanent ProviderResponseError, nvidia_nim deepseek-pro tried once for 90 s, and nvidia_nim_sub deepseek-pro and dots-3 — both preflight-ready — never attempted. The circuit opened at failures=3.0 and the same agent was tried again immediately (all-open re-entry), and one walk later it was back at failures=1.0 (the 30 s reset) — contextual-orchestrator#1045's criteria (1) and (3), observed live.

[seonghobae]

A nuance to the passthrough correction above, now that an artifact exists (.github#1946 run 33996197307, noema-sidecar-evidence 9980320306, timeline on contextual-orchestrator#1045): both attempt paths appear inside one review. The preflight probes and the final top-level request read attempt=1/1 (passthrough, as you said), but the workflow steps behind orchestrator/free read attempt=1/3 … 3/3 with provider_backoff and provider_exhausted attempts=3 — 270 s per exhausted candidate at the 90 s per-recv limit — and the same stalled route (nvidia_nim_sub deepseek-v4-flash, 24 timeouts, never answered) was re-selected nine times over 43 minutes because the breaker's reset_seconds=30.0 is shorter than one attempt. So a long duration is neither "N routes × fixed cost" nor "one candidate held open": it is one stalled candidate exhausted repeatedly. The catalog text in #1913 now describes it from the artifact rather than from either reading.

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Attempt 2 of noema-review on head 2bf9f041c (job 101396205266, the one sanctioned re-run) failed the same way: phase=response_error duration=3014.3s served_model=deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, 50 minutes of a held runner, still on the pre-#1944 workflow so no artifact. The measurement it was meant to give is in: the pool has not recovered, so the held re-runs on #1913, #1916, #1930 and #1946 stay held, and no further re-run will be issued here. The remedy for this head is the next base-merge push, which binds the artifact-producing workflow; I am not pushing this PR for that alone while the pool reads like this, since a push re-queues every check behind a queue still near 200 deep. Nothing else changed on this head.

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