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Two independent ways a hard HTTP bridge key stops making progress on its own,
both observed on the same deployment, both ending in a client-visible failure
with no upstream fault: a retry-circuit half-open lease that is taken and never
returned, and a continuity anchor that upstream has rejected but the proxy keeps
replaying. They share the file and the recovery machinery, so they are fixed
together.

First defect: a leaked half-open probe

A hard bridge key that carries any durable retry-circuit row can be refused for
up to the full half-open lease (600s) while the client is told retry_after=1.
The client reconnects roughly once a second, is suppressed each time, and the
key makes no progress until the lease expires on its own.

Live evidence

Measured over a 3 hour window on a running deployment:

  • 103 client-visible submit_retry_circuit_suppressed
  • 0 http_bridge_retry_circuit event=suppressed

The cooldown branch is the only branch that emits event=suppressed, and it
never fired. All 103 suppressions came from the half-open branch, which reports
cooldown=0, so the client receives retry_after=1 while the key stays locked
for the remainder of the lease.

Circuit transitions in the same window: 38 half_open, 5 opened, 0 reset.
All 5 opened records read failures=2 cooldown_seconds=60.0; the consecutive
failure counter never reached 3 during the container's lifetime, so the observed
lockout was not produced by a key crossing the open threshold.

Root causes

1. A cooldown that had already elapsed loads as a live one.
_load_http_bridge_retry_circuit computed persisted_cooldown_until = now_monotonic + cooldown_remaining unconditionally. When the durable cooldown
had already elapsed, cooldown_remaining is 0.0 and the deadline becomes
now_monotonic: non-zero and in the past at the same time. That is exactly the
state _http_bridge_precreated_retry_allowed reads as "a cooldown just ended",
so it takes the exclusive half-open probe lease on a key that was not cooling
down. Below-threshold rows reach this on every load, because
persist_retry_circuit writes now_wall as cooldown_until_epoch for a
failure count under the open threshold.

The deadline now loads as 0.0 when nothing remains, which is the value the
rest of the circuit already uses for "not cooling down".

2. A probe lease is only ever released by settling the circuit.
A half-open lease admits one probe and suppresses every other request on the key
until that probe records a failure or clears the circuit on success. A probe
that ends in this proxy's own continuity-ownership loss does neither, so the
lease is held for its full duration while the upstream is healthy.

New _release_http_bridge_retry_circuit_half_open hands the lease back without
touching consecutive_failures or any live cooldown: the next request simply
becomes the probe. It is called from
_reset_http_bridge_session_after_local_terminal_error and from the
CONTINUITY_OWNER_UNAVAILABLE reattach path. The six server-continuity details
(continuity_owner_unavailable, previous_response_owner_unavailable,
previous_response_not_found, bridge_previous_response_not_found,
bridge_owner_unreachable, bridge_instance_mismatch) release the lease and no
longer charge the circuit, since they describe this proxy losing its anchor
rather than an upstream transport failure.

The half-open suppression branch had no log line of its own. It now logs
event=half_open_suppressed with the remaining lease, so a key held behind a
lease is distinguishable in the logs from one that was admitted. Returning a
lease logs event=half_open_released and increments the existing
http_bridge_retry_circuit_total counter under a new half_open_released
outcome.

3. The reset that escapes a stale anchor produces the failure that re-arms the cooldown.
_reset_http_bridge_session_after_local_terminal_error closes the bridge
session, which tears down a websocket that sibling turns may still be pending
on. Those readers wake on the teardown and report the ordinary transport class
stream_incomplete, which the circuit charges. The sequence closes on itself
with no upstream input:

cooldown -> reattach cannot reuse the durable session
        -> anchor replayed against an account that never held it
        -> previous_response_not_found
        -> local reset -> teardown reported as stream_incomplete
        -> cooldown

When the reset is performed for our own continuity loss, it now marks the
physical sends it is already settling with the existing
_HTTPBridgeResponseCreateAttempt.disarmed flag, the same marker a failed send
sets. The reader's attempt selection then classifies them as settled instead
of eligible, so the teardown is not charged. A teardown without that marker
keeps the send eligible and charges the circuit exactly as before.

Proof of oracle

Eight tests are added. Run against this branch's app/ tree they all pass. Run
unchanged against main's app/ tree (52092bc9), four of them fail:

FAILED test_http_bridge_retry_circuit_ignores_server_continuity_ownership_loss
FAILED test_http_bridge_local_terminal_error_reset_returns_half_open_probe
FAILED test_http_bridge_retry_circuit_elapsed_durable_cooldown_does_not_burn_half_open_probe
FAILED test_http_bridge_stale_anchor_reset_does_not_arm_its_own_cooldown
4 failed, 4 passed, 654 deselected in 2.06s

Negative controls

The other four pass in both trees by design. They fail if this change
over-reaches:

  • test_http_bridge_upstream_teardown_without_continuity_loss_still_arms_cooldown
    — a teardown with no continuity-loss marker still arms the cooldown.
  • test_http_bridge_retry_circuit_still_trips_on_genuine_upstream_stream_incomplete
    — genuine upstream stream_incomplete still trips the circuit.
  • test_http_bridge_retry_circuit_suppressed_attempt_does_not_extend_cooldown
    — a suppressed attempt does not extend the cooldown.
  • test_http_bridge_live_durable_owner_is_not_reclaimable
    — ownership, reclaim, and takeover behavior are unchanged.

Second defect: a continuity anchor upstream has rejected is never dropped

The same hard bridge key has a second way to stop making progress, with no
cooldown involved. previous_response_not_found is upstream's definitive answer
about one response id. The bridge treats it as terminal for the request, but it
never invalidates its own copies of that id, so the next turn on the session
sends the same rejected anchor again.

Two carriers hold it, and both re-inject it:

  • http_bridge_sessions.latest_response_id, read by the fresh-reattach path
    (fresh_reattach_anchor_injected), which adds previous_response_id to a
    payload that arrived without one. It survives process restarts.
  • the in-memory session.last_completed_response_id, read by the session-level
    anchor path (session_anchor_injected).

_clear_durable_http_bridge_response_anchor already exists and does exactly the
right fenced write, but it is only reachable from the eventless
missing_response_created_timeout path. session.last_completed_response_id is
only cleared on an account rebind. Neither reacts to upstream saying the id does
not exist.

Injecting the anchor also enables store-context input trimming, so the damage is
larger than one lost anchor: a client payload carrying the whole conversation is
trimmed against a response upstream no longer has. A representative live line is
store_context_input_trimmed original_items=192 trimmed_to=4 on a turn whose
anchor upstream had already rejected twice.

Live evidence

Measured on a deployment running main plus the first commit of this branch:

container lifetime (35 min) one 15-min window inside it
continuity_fail_closed reason=previous_response_not_found 102 93
of those, previous_response_source=proxy_injected 51 46
distinct previous_response_id behind all of them 4 4
event=fresh_reattach_anchor_injected - 48
session_anchor_injected - 52
store_context_input_trimmed - 100
event=durable_anchor_invalidated 0 0
event=terminal_error detail=stream_incomplete - 93

Four response ids account for every one of those failures, and the anchor
invalidation path never fired once. A read-only SQLite check against the same
deployment found those ids still sitting in http_bridge_sessions.latest_response_id
on state=active rows minutes after upstream had rejected them. Clearing that
column is what lets such a session continue, and no code path does it.

Fix

When upstream rejects an anchor this proxy injected, invalidate both carriers.
Three conditions keep the invalidation to exactly the id that is proven gone:
the anchor must be proxy-injected; it must be the id upstream named, when the
error message carries one; and the durable write, which reuses the existing
fenced clear, must still find that id on the row. So a concurrent turn that
already stored a newer anchor keeps it, and a differently anchored request that
merely matched the same anonymous error event keeps its own. The in-memory
anchor is cleared under the same equality check, and its dependent state (input
item count, prefix fingerprint, pending tool-call manifest) goes with it.

A client-supplied anchor is the client's own state and is left alone: it still
returns the standard error, and this proxy simply stops storing and replaying
it on the client's behalf.

ambiguous_continuation_recovery_mode is not the lever for this.
_HTTP_BRIDGE_AMBIGUOUS_RECOVERY_ERROR_CODES covers outcomes where upstream
acceptance is genuinely unknown; this outcome is a definitive answer, and the
server_* modes replay from the anchor that was just rejected.
client_full_history_once cannot apply either, because it requires a
client-supplied previous_response_id (request_submit.py).

Proof of oracle

test_previous_response_not_found_drops_only_the_proxy_injected_anchor drives a
real previous_response_not_found event through
_process_http_bridge_upstream_text for a session holding the anchor in both
carriers, and
test_durable_bridge_clear_response_anchor_keeps_a_newer_anchor exercises the
fenced write directly. With the two production hunks reverted and the tests
unchanged:

FAILED test_previous_response_not_found_drops_only_the_proxy_injected_anchor[True-True]
   AssertionError: assert 0 == 1                 (the durable clear is never called)
FAILED test_durable_bridge_clear_response_anchor_keeps_a_newer_anchor
   AssertionError: assert None == 'resp_newer'   (an unrelated newer anchor is wiped)
2 failed, 2 passed, 724 deselected

The other two parameters are the negative controls, and both pass in either
tree by design:

  • [False-True] is a client-supplied anchor. No clear may happen and the
    session must be untouched.
  • [True-False] is a proxy-injected anchor while upstream's message names a
    different response id. Removing only the named-id check makes this one fail
    with assert 1 == 0.

Scope

On the retry circuit, only its accounting of server-side continuity loss
changes. Ownership, reclaim, takeover, quarantine, and the open threshold are
untouched. Genuine upstream stream_incomplete, stream_idle_timeout, and
clean_close failures keep tripping the circuit as before.

On the anchor, only previous_response_not_found against an anchor this proxy
injected triggers the invalidation. The eventless-timeout clear keeps its
existing behaviour, alias rows and latest_turn_state stay in place so the
durable session remains reattachable, and the fenced write still refuses when
the row no longer holds the rejected id. clear_latest_response_anchor and
_execute_fenced_session_update gain an optional argument each and are
unchanged for existing callers.

Not covered: the native WebSocket transport keeps its own
_WebSocketContinuityState.last_completed_response_id, which is likewise only
rewritten on a completion and never invalidated by a rejection. Every failure
measured here is on the HTTP bridge, so that surface is left alone rather than
changed without evidence of the same wedge.

Why this is a separate PR

Checked against the open PRs that touch these files; none owns either surface:

Validation

uv run ruff format --check .                      ->  955 files already formatted
uv run ruff check app/ tests/                     ->  All checks passed!
uv run ty check                                   ->  All checks passed!
uv run python scripts/check_proxy_architecture.py ->  proxy architecture checks passed
uv run pytest tests/unit -q -p no:randomly        ->  6443 passed, 3 skipped, 12 warnings in 136.23s

http_bridge/mixin.py ends at 2434 lines and streaming/mixin.py at 1100,
within the 2436 and 1100 ratchets in scripts/check_proxy_architecture.py.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery when response ownership or continuity becomes unavailable.
    • Prevented stale response anchors from removing newer valid anchors.
    • Improved handling of rejected previous-response references.
    • Added safer, bounded retries during model-transition conflicts.
    • Refined retry suppression and cooldown behavior for continuity failures.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for recovery flows, retry limits, stale anchors, cooldowns, and durable session state.

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The HTTP bridge separates server continuity failures from upstream transport failures. Recovery releases half-open probes and disarms pending response attempts. Model-transition owner conflicts allow one account-neutral fork. Response-anchor cleanup preserves newer anchors.

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HTTP bridge continuity recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry-circuit state and failure policy
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/retry_circuit.py
The circuit classifies continuity failures, restores expired cooldowns as inactive, logs suppressed probes, releases half-open leases, and excludes server continuity failures from failure accounting.
Continuity-loss recovery integration
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/protocol.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/mixin.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/streaming.py
Recovery paths release half-open probes, classify previous-response continuity loss, disarm pending response-create attempts, and complete session teardown.
Model-transition owner-conflict fallback
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/streaming.py
Model-transition owner conflicts create one account-neutral hard fork, clear inherited continuity state, exclude the failed account, and preserve parent-turn aliases.
Conditional response-anchor invalidation
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/upstream_events.py, app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_coordinator.py, app/modules/proxy/durable_bridge_repository.py
Rejected proxy-injected anchors are cleared from memory and durable state only when the expected response ID still matches. Newer anchors remain unchanged.
Continuity and recovery regression coverage
tests/unit/test_proxy_http_bridge.py, tests/unit/test_durable_bridge_sessions.py
Tests cover anchor preservation, bounded retries, circuit release, cooldown restoration, suppressed attempts, durable ownership, genuine upstream failures, and teardown behavior.

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The change improves recovery for wedged bridge sessions, but the current implementation still has race paths that can permit concurrent half-open probes or re-arm a retry lockout during teardown, causing continued client-visible stalls. Owner follow-up is needed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Upstream
  participant HTTPBridge
  participant RetryCircuit
  participant DurableRepository
  Upstream->>HTTPBridge: previous_response_not_found
  HTTPBridge->>HTTPBridge: identify rejected proxy-injected anchor
  HTTPBridge->>DurableRepository: conditionally clear expected response ID
  DurableRepository-->>HTTPBridge: preserve newer anchor when IDs differ
  HTTPBridge->>RetryCircuit: release half-open lease
  RetryCircuit-->>HTTPBridge: preserve continuity-failure state
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In `@app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/retry_circuit.py`:
- Around line 500-524: Bind each half-open lease to the request that acquired it
by storing an owner or generation when the lease is created, and require
_release_http_bridge_retry_circuit_half_open to verify that identity before
clearing half_open_until. Update the lease-acquisition state and callers,
including the streaming and mixin paths, so only the owning probe can release
the lease; bypassed requests must not release another probe’s lease.

In `@app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/streaming.py`:
- Around line 3645-3661: Move the pending-attempt disarm transition in the reset
flow before the first await, ahead of
_release_http_bridge_retry_circuit_half_open. Ensure attempt selection cannot
observe eligible attempts during this transition by using session.pending_lock,
and preserve the existing retry-circuit accounting while preventing teardown
from recording stream_incomplete for these settled attempts.
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Comment thread app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/retry_circuit.py
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if account_neutral_recovery and selection.error_code == CONTINUITY_OWNER_UNAVAILABLE:
# Ownership loss is ours, so hand back any half-open probe
# this reattach consumed instead of suppressing the key.
await self._release_http_bridge_retry_circuit_half_open(
session, detail=CONTINUITY_OWNER_UNAVAILABLE
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P1 Badge Release probes on every owner-unavailable exit

In _reconnect_http_bridge_session, the new release is restricted to account-neutral recovery with CONTINUITY_OWNER_UNAVAILABLE, but a half-open request can also terminate with the same previous_response_owner_unavailable result when its required owner is usage-limited, becomes excluded during selection recovery, or a different account is returned (lines 2198–2202, 2223–2225, and 2248–2254). Those exits never settle or release the probe, so affected hard keys remain suppressed for the full 600-second lease—the lockout this change is intended to remove.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L103-L108

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await self._release_http_bridge_retry_circuit_half_open(
session,
detail=server_continuity_loss_detail,
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P2 Badge Release the probe only after cancellation-safe reset ownership

If the request task is cancelled after this await clears the lease but before the following pending_lock acquisition and session detachment, the reset exits with the stale session still registered and its attempts not disarmed while the retry circuit accepts replacement work. Make releasing the probe part of a cancellation-safe finalization sequence after the reset has claimed/detached and settled the affected lifecycle.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L109-L113

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await self._release_http_bridge_retry_circuit_half_open(
session, detail=CONTINUITY_OWNER_UNAVAILABLE
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P2 Badge Finalize the handoff if probe release is cancelled

This new await sits outside the surrounding BaseException cleanup used by the other reattach awaits. If cancellation is delivered while waiting for the retry-circuit lock, control skips complete_failed_handoff(), leaving session.handoff_in_progress and the inflight handoff future unresolved, so later requests for the key can wait indefinitely; wrap the release so handoff finalization still runs on cancellation.

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async def _reset_for_continuity_loss(service: Any, session: Any, *, server_continuity_loss: bool) -> None:
cast(Any, service)._detach_http_bridge_session_locked = Mock(return_value=session)
cast(Any, service)._fail_pending_websocket_requests = AsyncMock(return_value=True)
cast(Any, service)._close_http_bridge_session = AsyncMock()

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P1 Badge Exercise the real bridge teardown path in regression coverage

The regression helper replaces both _fail_pending_websocket_requests and _close_http_bridge_session with mocks, and the test then manually invokes retry-circuit accounting, so it never exercises the production interaction that caused the bug: closing the session wakes the actual upstream reader, which snapshots and classifies pending attempts through the retirement funnel. Add bridge-surface coverage using the real close/reader cleanup path, including partial cleanup failure, so ordering regressions are detectable.

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Komzpa force-pushed the fix/bridge-retry-circuit-half-open-lease-20260820 branch from 99c8b61 to 2e1a5a8 Compare August 20, 2026 19:12
@Komzpa Komzpa changed the title fix(proxy): stop the bridge retry circuit from locking hard keys behind a leaked half-open probe fix(proxy): stop hard bridge keys wedging on a leaked half-open probe and a rejected continuity anchor Aug 20, 2026
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* fix(compact): absorb active recovery replay semantics

* fix(proxy): reject mixed post-compact tool suffix replays

(cherry picked from commit c597226)
* fix(db): repair retired identity/warmup stamp

* fix(db): repair partial file-account-pin migration

(cherry picked from commit b6c217f)
A reattach that proved silent/wedged quarantines its session key, but the
quarantine gate only cleared two booleans. `bridge_session_key` was still
re-adopted from `durable_lookup.canonical_kind/canonical_key`, and the
session was still created under that same poisoned key, so for the whole
600s `_HTTP_BRIDGE_QUARANTINE_TTL_SECONDS` window every request rebuilt a
fresh wedged bridge on the key that was already known to be dead.

Demote the key instead of only dropping the anchor. When a quarantined key
carries a sealed durable full-resend proof that matches the payload, the
request dispatches on a soft account-neutral replay key with the client's
own full conversation, and the original key's continuity is advanced only
after that recovery actually completes.

- `quarantine.py`: entries carry a `generation`, and clearing takes a key
  plus an expected generation, so a late recovery cannot clear a quarantine
  that was re-armed underneath it.
- `upstream_events.py`: on a completed response, rebind and renew the
  original durable row before clearing its quarantine, so continuity is not
  stranded on the throwaway recovery key.
- `streaming.py`: the quarantine gate demotes the key; the recovery key is
  named after the body this dispatch actually sends.

`durable_recovery_attempt_fingerprint` deliberately keeps hashing the
unprojected body. It is the key of persisted `http_bridge_recovery_attempts`
rows, so hashing the projected body instead would mint a different
fingerprint, a row journalled before a restart would stop matching, and the
one-shot replay fence would silently open once. Covered by
`test_quarantined_full_resend_recovery_fence_survives_restart_fingerprint`.

(cherry picked from commit 5e1f568)
An HTTP bridge model transition could return `continuity_owner_conflict`
indefinitely when a durable model owner and a stale hard alias pointed at
different accounts, even though the request was safe to start on a fresh child
bridge.

Add a narrowly gated account-neutral model-transition fork, limited to the exact
`continuity_owner_conflict` error, local requests and an account-neutral
effective Responses payload. Forwarded requests, previous-response
continuations, resolved file owners, account-scoped hosted references, and
post-compaction payloads whose compacted context is not carried in the request
remain fail-closed.

The forked child key is pinned `hard`, and the child request state drops the
parent affinity policy, hard continuity anchor and reused parent turn state so
the submit and clean-close paths do not classify it as the parent's owner-bound
turn.

(cherry picked from commit 52092bc)
…ures

Suppressing a duplicate tool-call event synthesises a terminal error, and that
synthetic failure must not count against account health -- the account did
nothing wrong. The WebSocket path reset the penalty flag unconditionally, so a
genuine `response.failed` or `error` arriving after a suppression was exempted
too, and the balancer kept routing to an account that was actually failing.
Direct SSE already scopes the exemption to the synthesised terminal; this makes
the WebSocket path agree.

Also assert the persisted terminal error code in the HTTP-bridge replay test,
so a regression that emits the right SSE event while recording the wrong code
is caught, and list the already-present direct-SSE coverage in the OpenSpec
task list.
Quarantine recovery rebinds the durable session with `clear_continuity=True`
and renews it, but nothing proved the row it wrote was still the row it looked
up. Three ways that went wrong:

A recovery started at quarantine generation N could complete after the same key
was quarantined again at N+1, and would then rebind and renew the original
durable row -- overwriting the newer continuity owner and anchor even though
`_clear_http_bridge_quarantine_key` correctly refused to clear the newer
quarantine. Thread the captured generation through and re-check it before any
durable mutation.

`renew_live_session` does not return `None` when ownership changed under it:
`_execute_fenced_session_update` returns the current foreign-owner snapshot
after the fenced update affects no row. Treating any non-`None` snapshot as
success cleared quarantine for a response id that was never persisted. Validate
the returned session id, owner instance, owner epoch, account and response id
before reporting success.

The normative responses-api-compat scenario still required quarantine to clear
without a durable write, which this recovery contradicts. Add an OpenSpec delta
for fenced durable recovery rather than leaving code and spec disagreeing.
…on replay

The recovery fence claims the canonical parent row using `payload.model` before
the code decides the turn will run as a fresh model-transition child. A
same-account claim preserves the parent's old `latest_response_id`, so once the
child finished and the origin lease was released the canonical row advertised
the new model while still carrying an anchor produced by the old one. The next
turn to reattach then continued from a response the advertised model never
produced.

Decide the model-transition fresh replay before the stale recovery claim, and
when the claim belongs to such a child, leave the parent's stored model and
`latest_response_id` as the matched pair they were.
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async with session.pending_lock:
for pending_request_state in session.pending_requests:
pending_attempt = getattr(pending_request_state, "response_create_attempt", None)
if pending_attempt is not None:
pending_attempt.disarmed = True

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P1 Badge Serialize disarming with bridge submission

When a submitter has passed the current-session check while holding session.lifecycle_lock but has not yet appended its request (request_submit.py:1890-1894), this loop can disarm the existing attempts and detach the session before that submitter appends and sends an undisarmed attempt. Because the reset never acquires lifecycle_lock, closing the socket can then classify the late attempt as eligible and record the manufactured stream_incomplete, recreating the cooldown this change is intended to prevent; make disarm/detach atomic with submit lifecycle ownership or recheck pending attempts after detachment.

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### Requirement: HTTP bridge retry circuit MUST gate hard-key half-open probes

For hard HTTP bridge keys, the proxy MUST preserve one-probe exclusivity when a
server-side continuity failure returns an unused half-open retry-circuit probe.

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P1 Badge Specify rejected-anchor invalidation in OpenSpec

Fresh evidence beyond the earlier missing-artifact finding is that the newly added delta specifies only half-open retry-probe behavior, while this same commit also introduces a new contract that conditionally deletes durable and in-memory anchors when upstream returns previous_response_not_found. The named-versus-anonymous matching rules, fence-miss behavior, and dependent-state clearing therefore remain undocumented despite being externally significant proxy behavior; add testable requirements for this invalidation path before treating the change as ready.

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state.cooldown_until = now
state.half_open_until = 0.0
state.half_open_owner_session_id = None

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P1 Badge Coordinate returned probes across replicas

In a multi-replica deployment, returning the probe only changes this process-local state and never atomically updates or claims the durable circuit row. After replica A executes these assignments, its next reconnect can acquire the fresh local lease, while replica B loads the same elapsed durable cooldown as 0.0 and admits the same hard key without observing A's owner; additional requests on B also pass, so the new one-probe exclusivity guarantee is not enforced cluster-wide. Persist and atomically claim the returned probe state, or otherwise coordinate its ownership through the durable circuit.

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…nd a leaked half-open probe

A hard bridge key that has any durable retry-circuit row can be refused
for up to the full half-open lease (600s) while reporting `retry_after=1`,
so a client reconnects in a tight loop and never makes progress.

Two independent causes, both in the retry circuit:

* `_load_http_bridge_retry_circuit` turned a durable cooldown that had
  already elapsed into `now_monotonic`, which is non-zero *and* in the
  past. That is precisely the state `_http_bridge_precreated_retry_allowed`
  reads as "a cooldown just ended", so it burned an exclusive half-open
  probe lease on a key that was never cooling down. Below-threshold rows
  hit this every time, because `persist_retry_circuit` writes `now_wall`
  for them.

* The probe holding a lease releases it only by recording a failure or by
  clearing the circuit on success. A probe that dies of this proxy's own
  continuity-ownership loss does neither, so the lease leaked for its full
  duration and every other request on the key was refused for a
  server-side reason the upstream never caused.

Server-side continuity-ownership loss now returns the probe lease instead
of consuming it, and never charges `consecutive_failures`. Genuine
upstream `stream_incomplete` / `stream_idle_timeout` / `clean_close`
failures keep tripping the circuit unchanged. Ownership, reclaim, and
takeover behavior are deliberately untouched.

The half-open suppression branch was also completely silent; it now logs,
so a key locked behind a lease is distinguishable from one admitted.
…uit strike

The reset that escapes a stale continuity anchor closes the bridge
session, tearing down a websocket that sibling turns are still pending
on. The reader wakes on that teardown and reports the ordinary transport
class, `stream_incomplete`, which the retry circuit counts. So the escape
hatch re-arms the cooldown that forced the escape, and the loop sustains
itself with no upstream input at all: cooldown -> reattach cannot reuse
the durable session -> anchor replayed against an account that never had
it -> `previous_response_not_found` -> local reset -> teardown counted as
`stream_incomplete` -> cooldown.

Disarm the physical sends this reset is already settling, reusing the
existing `_HTTPBridgeResponseCreateAttempt.disarmed` marker that a failed
send sets. The reader's attempt selection then classifies them `settled`
rather than `eligible`, so the teardown is not charged.

Scoped strictly to resets we initiate for our own continuity loss. A
teardown with no such marker keeps the send eligible and still charges
the circuit exactly as before -- covered by a negative control that
reproduces the loop without the patch.
…elper

`_reset_for_continuity_loss` already takes `service: Any`, so the three
`cast(Any, service)` wrappers are no-ops. Repo-wide `uv run ty check`, which
is what `make typecheck` runs, reports them as `redundant-cast` and exits
non-zero.
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…inal

Every `surface=websocket_stream` continuity_fail_closed line in the 2026-08-20
outage carried `owner_lookup_source=unknown owner_lookup_outcome=unknown
previous_response_age_seconds=unknown same_session=unknown`, while the
http_bridge surface populated the same fields. The logger reads owner state off
the request, and the HTTP-bridge terminal cleanup path reached it without
seeding that state, so the one surface that was failing was also the one
surface that could not say why.

Seed the owner fields from the bridge-owned session before the websocket
terminal is sanitized and logged. This is diagnostics only; no routing or
continuity behaviour changes.
…d ones

A session that received `previous_response_not_found` for a given response id
kept that id and re-sent it on every following turn, because the drop path only
recognised anchors codex-lb had injected itself. A client-supplied anchor that
upstream had rejected stayed in both `http_bridge_sessions.latest_response_id`
and `session.last_completed_response_id` and was replayed forever.

Live evidence from 2026-08-20: one session spent an hour on a single rejected
anchor, 25 operations from 19:48Z to 20:45Z, every one failing in 120-580 ms
with `previous_response_not_found`. Across three hours, operations sharing an
anchor with at least one sibling failed 94.8% of the time against 0.7% for
uniquely anchored ones. `sticky_sessions.continuity_abandoned_at` had never
been set on any row in the database's history, so nothing ever released a dead
anchor.

Widen the rejected-anchor match to any anchor this session actually sent, keep
the existing fence so a newer owner's anchor is never cleared, and log each
clear with the anchor id, reason and fence decision -- the path was previously
silent, which is why an hour-long user-visible outage left no trace naming it.
A blue-green deploy keeps the retiring container running while the router
already points at the replacement, so both are ring members and
`/health/ready` reports `ring_size: 2`. A request for a session owned by the
retiring instance reached the new one and got a bare 409 telling the client to
"retry to reach the correct replica" -- with nothing anywhere doing that. A user
watched a working session burn 20 reconnect attempts on it, and the container
log shows six such rejections in one deploy window.

Forward to the owner instead. Ownership transfer was the alternative and is
unsafe: the retiring instance may still be streaming that very turn, and the
durable owner/epoch/lease code already fences live ownership for that reason.
Retained blue-green containers register without an advertised endpoint, so
derive one from the container's instance id, and refuse to derive from an id
containing path or authority separators.

A member with no fresh heartbeat row now resolves to no endpoint at all rather
than a derived hostname; forwarding to an instance that has stopped answering
is worse than reporting no owner, and the existing stale-metadata guarantee
depends on it.
Dropping an anchor upstream had rejected stopped the endless replay, but the
clear happened after the turn had already failed closed, so a user still lost a
turn per dead anchor -- twice per anchor in practice, once for the proxy
injected copy and once for the client supplied one, four seconds apart in the
live log.

Upstream naming the response id it cannot find is a complete diagnosis with a
purely local remedy, so once the fenced clear has actually succeeded, requeue
the claimed terminal request and replay it fresh instead of surfacing the
error.

Retry only when the existing replay-safe body is present, nothing was streamed
downstream, no other request is pending on the session, and the durable fence
really cleared the anchor; a second rejection after that means something else
is wrong and stays fail-closed. The retry is the proxy's own choice, so it does
not charge the retry circuit. If retry setup fails the terminal state is
restored rather than swallowed.
When the items compaction must preserve exceeded the upstream size budget on
their own, compaction raised `responses_compact_input_too_large` and the
session was finished: it could not compact, so it could not continue, and there
was no way back without abandoning the conversation. A user hit exactly that.

Refusing to compact is worse than compacting lossily, so demote the oldest
generated goal and plan state anchors -- `create_goal`, `get_goal`,
`update_goal`, `update_plan` and their generated marker messages -- when the
required set does not fit. The newest anchor of each kind survives, as do
structural developer/system state and the side-effecting tail, and call/output
pairs are dropped whole so the transcript stays consistent.

The cap is not raised. It is a local estimate (100k estimated tokens over a
`len(json.dumps(...))/4` approximation) and this lane could not measure what
upstream actually accepts, so moving it would be guessing. Current state that
still cannot fit continues to fail closed; only recoverable history is given
up. The other two raise sites, for an unusable `call_id` and for the final wire
payload, are untouched -- they are different failures.
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The generation counter lived on the registry entry, so it died with it. A
bridge request may run for two hours, while `_prune_http_bridge_quarantine_registry`
drops an entry after ten minutes of quiet or under the 1,024-entry cap. A
generation-1 completion could therefore still be in flight when its entry was
evicted and the same session key was quarantined again as a fresh generation-1
entry -- and the stale completion then passed every generation check, rebound
the durable row, and cleared a quarantine that had nothing to do with it.

Issue generations from a counter on the service instead, seeded from the
highest generation still in the registry so a restart cannot hand out a number
that is already in flight. Eviction no longer resets anything.

Reported in review of Soju06#1862.
`_retry_http_bridge_precreated_request` releases the request's account-scoped
lease before reconnecting, with a comment saying a fresh hard replay may select
a replacement account. It then asked `_reconnect_http_bridge_session` to require
that same account anyway, and the reconnect re-imposed it a second time: an
account-neutral replay key unconditionally overrode the caller and resolved the
session's own account as a required continuity owner.

So a replay whose account had gone silent was pinned to it. The integration
test did not catch that, because its fake swapped the account in by hand
instead of letting account selection run.

An account-neutral replay key is server-namespaced; any account can serve it.
Bind the opening account by default, since most reconnects resume
account-scoped upstream state, but let a caller that has proven its request
carries none -- no continuity anchor, no injected anchor, no account-scoped
file, nothing streamed yet -- pass `allow_account_rebind` and land elsewhere.
That decision stays with the caller: deriving it inside the reconnect from the
key alone would silently loosen every other account-neutral recovery, which is
what `test_reconnect_account_neutral_recovery_requires_typed_owner_without_callsite_flag`
already forbids.

`owner_bound` and `rebind_allowed` are returned as a pair rather than one
boolean because they are not opposites: an ordinary account-bound session is
neither, so allowing a rebind must not loosen its owner requirements.

The reconnect now drives the account switch and the integration test exercises
selection instead of manufacturing the result.

Reported in review of Soju06#1862.
Session keys are frozen dataclasses. A plain attribute declaration on a
Protocol asks for a writable member, so `ty` rejected `session.key` as
incompatible with `_AccountNeutralReplayKey`.
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require_same_account=(
(account_neutral_recovery or account_bound_replay)
and not fresh_hard_request_account_switch_allowed
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P1 Badge Keep account-bound retries on their original account

When a hard-key request has no explicit anchor or file but candidate_portable is false—for example, because it already carries a durable operation_id—the code sets account_bound_replay=True, yet fresh_hard_request_account_switch_allowed is also true. This condition consequently passes require_same_account=False, allowing selection to fall back to another account and resend account-scoped state or an ambiguously dispatched operation there. Apply the fresh-account exception only to portable/account-neutral requests; account-bound replays must retain the original owner.

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if not generation_matches():
return False
advanced = await service._durable_bridge.renew_live_session(
session_id=active_lookup.session_id,
api_key_id=api_key_id,

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P1 Badge Fence quarantine generation atomically with durable renewal

If generation N+1 is installed after this generation check but while renew_live_session is awaiting its database write, the stale generation-N recovery still persists its response ID and related continuity fields. The post-await check only returns False; it cannot undo the durable mutation, so the newer quarantine remains visible while its durable owner/anchor has already been overwritten, contrary to the recovery invariant. Include the generation/snapshot in an atomic durable CAS or serialize generation changes with this mutation.

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if not hostname or any(separator in hostname for separator in ("/", "\\", ":", "@")):
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P2 Badge Reject all URL delimiters in derived owner hostnames

When an explicitly configured or persisted endpointless instance ID contains delimiters not covered by this four-character check, such as pod?x or pod#x, the function still returns a URL, but the suffix becomes a query or fragment and the request targets pod on the default port rather than port 2455. Whitespace and other non-hostname characters are accepted as well, contradicting the safe-hostname-token contract and potentially forwarding a live session to the wrong endpoint. Validate the complete instance ID as a hostname token before deriving the URL.

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