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Agents on this Mac have been serializing heavy local QA by hand. qa-slot.py and one-off scripts like package-run.py each took ~/.codex/local-ios-qa.lock and checked memory and disk on their own. A manager session then polled for the result. This PR adds tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py, a small stdlib-only runner that queues one job at a time behind that same lock.

A caller submits a command with its argv, cwd, job id and kind, which is package, render or simulator. The runner handles the rest:

  • Queueing. It takes a ticket, so this tool's jobs run in submission order, then blocks on the shared flock. Holders that use qa-slot.py or package-run.py keep working unchanged.
  • Admission. It requires memory pressure level 1 or 2, at least 35% memory free and 5 GiB of disk free. These are the operational limits from qa-slot.py, not calibrated values. It waits for other heavy processes (xcodebuild, swift-build, swift-test, swift-frontend, swift-driver, blender) to exit, using kqueue, and never signals them.
  • Agent-device service. The idle xcodebuild test-without-building -only-testing AgentDeviceRunnerUITests/RunnerTests/testCommand service is recognized by its full command line, not its name: test-without-building must be its only action and testCommand its only selected test. It never blocks package or render jobs. It blocks a simulator job unless every destination names a different device by id=, since a name, an OS or an implicit destination may resolve to that job's device.
  • Simulator jobs. These name an existing device, which must be Shutdown. The runner boots it and shuts down only a device it booted itself. Package and render jobs never call simctl.
  • Lifecycle. run and submit hold SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGHUP from job creation until their handlers are installed, so an interruption at any point after the job exists is recorded as cancelled. A setup failure that cannot be recorded removes the new job directory, keeping the id reusable. The runner resets an inherited SIGCHLD=SIG_IGN while it owns the payload; under it, Darwin reaped the payload and a failing job was recorded as succeeded.
  • Cleanup. Cancel, timeout and a normal exit signal only the job's own process group, SIGTERM then SIGKILL. The runner keeps the group leader unreaped until every check finishes, so the group id cannot be reused while it is signalled. Escaped descendants are found and reported, never signalled: a PID recheck followed by kill cannot rule out reuse in between, and macOS has no identity-bound signal. A live escapee ends the job cleanup_failed, keeps the shared lock through the cleanup hold, and makes later admissions wait while that exact process is alive.

Cancelling without signaling a PID

cancel used to check the runner's start time and then send SIGTERM to its PID, so a PID reused in between could get the signal. Now each runner holds the read end of cancel.fifo in its job directory, and a listener thread turns a byte there into SIGTERM for the runner's own main thread. cancel writes that byte. When no runner is reading, the open fails and nothing is sent. An interrupted submit used to exit 130 without a receipt while its runner kept going. Now it cancels the runner, which is still its own unreaped child, and writes the receipt with cancelRequested, unless the interruption landed mid-write: stdout was then blocked, and writing again would make submit unstoppable. A submit interrupted while still waiting for its queue ticket records the job as cancelled instead of leaving it queued and stale, and a failed first record write removes the new job directory so the id stays reusable. Admission also compares heavy-process names case-insensitively, so Blender.app counts, and the ticket counter is replaced atomically.

Descendants that leave the job's process group

The first version signaled only the job's process group. A real swift test cancel through the queue then left swiftpm-testing-helper running at full CPU. SwiftPM starts that helper in its own process group, so after swift-test died launchd adopted it, and the runner had already released the shared lock.

Now the runner puts a random per-job owner token in the child's environment. At cleanup it finds escaped processes either by that exact token, which it reads from each same-user process's exec-time arguments through KERN_PROCARGS2, or by a live parent chain from the job's child. A ps snapshot only nominates candidates. The parent chain counts only when the kernel's current links, read from the pinned process up to the child, hold at every step and each parent started no later than its child, so a reused PID is not adopted. It never matches by name. It pins each one to its PID, kernel start time in microseconds and uid, and records it in escapedProcesses. Earlier versions signalled these processes after a recheck; the maintainer chose report-only instead, because that recheck cannot exclude PID reuse before the signal.

A parent blocks on wait, which takes the job's liveness flock, or reads job.json. status and cancel work the same way. README has the commands, the exit codes and what the tool cannot sense.

Why

Root wants to hand heavy tests, simulator runs and Blender renders to a queue while deterministic work continues, without a manager session spending tokens on 15-second polls. The runner waits in its own process. Each wait has a deadline. Admission and job run time have separate limits.

Verification

  • At fca21727, the same command ran 89 tests in about 73 s, all passing. Escapee tests now assert that the escapee is still alive, recorded as retained, named in cleanupError, and never signalled, and that admission waits for a live retained record or an unreadable or malformed one, naming the file, and ignores a record whose process has exited. Mutations that signal escapees again, claim success, skip the admission check, drop either group signal, or skip record validation all fail the suite.
  • At 1ceb1100, python3 -m unittest discover -s tools/qa-resource -p 'test_*.py' ran 87 tests in about 48 s, all passing, with fake processes and mocked kernel reads only. New tests drive deterministic PID-reuse schedules through the ownership proof, send each signal at the run/submit handoff and during submit's post-spawn handler install, fail setup at each file and at the error record, and run a failing payload under an inherited ignored SIGCHLD. Fourteen mutations, each removing one of these guarantees, all fail the suite. A fresh Sol review of the lifecycle and an Astra second opinion on PID/PGID ownership and SIGCHLD preceded the last commit; the Sol findings are fixed in it.
  • At 00d516c1, the same command ran 74 tests in about 55 s, all passing, twice. New tests check that cancel never calls os.kill or os.killpg, that an interrupted submit (SIGTERM, or SIGHUP with SIGCHLD ignored) still reports and cancels its job, and that cleanup finishes when a cancel lands as it starts.
  • At b65fe9e3, python3 -m unittest discover -s tools/qa-resource -p 'test_*.py' ran 65 tests in 58 s, all passing. The escaped-descendant tests check that a start_new_session/setsid descendant, a SIGTERM-ignoring one, a token-less one, and one with an empty argv[0] are all gone, while an unrelated sentinel with the same command stays alive.
  • A fake swift test that starts a CPU-spinning helper with process_group=0, the way SwiftPM does, reproduces the field failure at ebc7633f. Cancel reports cancelled, while the helper keeps running under launchd at 88% CPU and the lock is free. At b65fe9e3 the same helper is found by token and terminated on cancel, timeout and normal exit, and the sentinel survives.
  • The first version's suite, which still passes inside the 65 tests, ran 38 tests in 29 s. The tests use a temporary lock, a temporary state directory, fake xcrun/sysctl/memory_pressure/df/ps, and sleep or token commands. They cover:
    • two queued jobs in order with no overlap
    • a foreign lock holder, both waited out and timed out
    • timeout and cancel cleanup, including a descendant that ignores SIGTERM
    • cancel during spawn
    • stale metadata after a SIGKILLed runner
    • boot, bootstatus, shutdown and memory failures
    • a package job that never calls simctl
    • shutdown of only the device the job owns
    • a non-cooperating process waited out and never killed
    • classification of the agent-device service
  • A token job run through real ps, sysctl, memory_pressure and df, with a temporary lock, succeeded. It listed the live agent-device xcodebuild as ignored, and that process was still running afterward.
  • I ran no Blender, xcodebuild, swift build or real simulator job, and nothing touched the real shared lock or ~/.codex/qa-resource.
  • Ruff was not available offline, so it was not run.
  • CI: .github/workflows/qa-resource.yml runs the same unittest command on macos-26 with Python 3.14 for pull requests that touch tools/qa-resource/ or the workflow, and for pushes to main. It has read-only permissions, no secrets and a 10-minute limit. The first hosted run is 36925661603 at 0ecaf300. The suite needs macOS but no Xcode or simulator. At 0ecaf300 it ran 74 tests locally in 57.8 s, all passing.

Risk

  • If another lane shuts down and re-boots this job's simulator mid-job, the final shutdown hits their session.
  • A SIGKILLed runner leaves its child group running and unlocked. status reports it as stale and the tool never cleans it up. Token-bearing orphans now block the next admission.
  • The owner token is a cooperative marker in the process's own memory. A descendant that drops it from its environment and has left the parent chain before cleanup, one whose environment Darwin hides (cs_restricted), or one under another uid is invisible to the runner. succeeded means no observable owned process remained.
  • A chain of processes that each live shorter than one scan interval can slip past the two-scan check.
  • A live escaped process is never stopped by the queue. Its job ends cleanup_failed, and new jobs wait until it exits or a person stops it. This matters for helpers like swiftpm-testing-helper that outlive their parent.

Base: codex/public-assembly-20260930 (#191). This PR adds only tools/qa-resource/.

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  • New Features
    • Added commands to submit, monitor, wait for, and cancel QA jobs. Jobs are queued and checked against system resources and device availability, with status and exit results provided.
    • Added simulator lifecycle management and cleanup for job-owned processes, with safeguards when cleanup cannot be confirmed.
  • Documentation
    • Documented job commands, admission requirements, results, cleanup behavior, and tool limitations.
  • Tests
    • Added automated QA queue tests that run on macOS for relevant changes.

Adds tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py, a stdlib-only runner that takes
package, render or simulator jobs one at a time under the existing
~/.codex/local-ios-qa.lock. It checks memory, disk and other heavy
processes at admission, waits for foreign builds to exit with kqueue
without signaling them, and ignores the agent-device testCommand service
for package and render jobs. On cancel or timeout it stops only its own
child process group, and shuts down only a simulator it booted. Parents
block on `wait`, which takes the job's liveness flock, or read job.json.

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The pull request adds a macOS QA resource queue with commands to run, submit, wait for, inspect, and cancel jobs. It adds resource admission checks, simulator handling, process cleanup, operational documentation, automated tests, and a GitHub Actions workflow.

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QA resource queue

Layer / File(s) Summary
Process ownership and admission
tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py, tools/qa-resource/test_qa_resource.py
Adds process identity and ownership discovery, process classification, resource checks, and simulator device inspection. Tests cover ownership, process discovery, and admission conditions.
Queue execution and cleanup
tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py, tools/qa-resource/test_qa_resource.py
Adds process-group waiting and signaling, job records, FIFO cancellation, queue tickets, shared-lock handling, admission polling, payload execution, simulator lifecycle handling, and owned-process cleanup. Tests cover queue execution, cleanup, simulator handling, and failure paths.
Submission and job commands
tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py, tools/qa-resource/test_qa_resource.py, tools/qa-resource/README.md, .github/workflows/qa-resource.yml
Adds asynchronous submission, runner resumption, status reporting, wait and cancel operations, argument validation, and CLI wiring. The README documents command usage, queue operation, ownership and cleanup behavior, and limitations. The workflow runs the unittest suite on macOS.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant QA_CLI as QA CLI
  participant Runner as qa_resource.py
  participant Queue as Ticket queue and shared lock
  participant macOS as macOS system commands
  participant Payload as Payload process
  QA_CLI->>Runner: Submit or run job
  Runner->>Queue: Acquire ticket and shared lock
  Runner->>macOS: Check resources and simulator state
  Runner->>Payload: Start admitted payload
  Payload-->>Runner: Return exit status
  Runner->>Runner: Confirm owned-process cleanup
  Runner-->>QA_CLI: Report job result
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fca21

A simulator job could overlap with an agent-device service if that service can target the same device using a lowercase ID. Confirm that behavior or normalize IDs before relying on the exemption.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fca21

The runner remains a local command tool operating with its caller's authority, and cleanup deliberately avoids signaling unrelated processes. The main residual risk is uncertain simulator ownership after a boot timeout, which can leave device state requiring manual reconciliation. Shared or elevated use would require stronger state-directory isolation.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · observed: A simulator boot timeout ends the serialized job lifecycle without reconciling uncertain device ownership. The runner reports the device state, skips shutdown, and releases the shared lock; the regression test explicitly permits a Booting device at that point. Avoiding an unproven shutdown protects unrelated ownership, and later same-device jobs remain blocked unless the device is Shutdown, but the new lifecycle can leave unmanaged runtime state requiring manual recovery. This is a local failure-containment concern, not a verified unauthorized-access finding.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Effective exposure follows the invoking local user's authority: submitted commands inherit its environment and access, while coordination affects local QA jobs and the selected simulator. The reviewed execution path adds no privilege elevation or shell expansion. Running it under a more privileged account would correspondingly expand its asset and credential exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Filesystem access is the trust boundary for job state. The detached runner reloads job.json, including execution inputs, from a caller-selected state directory. Default paths are under the user's home and the cancellation FIFO is created with mode 0600, but the reviewed creation and loading paths do not authenticate record integrity or enforce a private directory owner policy. A less-trusted writer to that directory could therefore alter queued execution inputs; such shared deployment was not established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Cleanup signals only the child process group while its unreaped leader pins the group identity. Escaped identities are reported rather than individually signaled. Later admission checks exact retained PID, start time, and UID, and malformed or unreadable retained records remain blockers rather than being treated as clear.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep this interface explicitly same-user and require private state directories before any shared or elevated deployment. For uncertain simulator boot outcomes, consider a persisted reconciliation-required state that preserves the no-unproven-shutdown rule while making recovery responsibility explicit.
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HEAVY_NAMES = {"xcodebuild", "swift-build", "swift-test", "swift-frontend",
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P1 Badge Recognize the macOS Blender executable

When Blender runs from the standard macOS app bundle, ps ... comm= reports /Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender, whose basename is capitalized. Because membership in HEAVY_NAMES is case-sensitive and contains only blender, admission ignores that active render and may start another heavy job concurrently, defeating the tool's main protection on the shared Mac. Add the app-bundle executable name or normalize basenames before comparison.

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Fixed in 484a4c1. Heavy-process names are now compared in lower case, so /Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender blocks admission. Test: test_blender_app_bundle_executable_blocks_package_job.

"sys.exit(q.main(sys.argv[2:]))")


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P1 Badge Add the QA resource suite to automated checks

This new test suite is not referenced by the Makefile or any GitHub workflow, so neither make check nor CI executes its queue, cancellation, timeout, and process-cleanup coverage. Future changes under tools/qa-resource/ can therefore merge without running these safety-critical tests; add a macOS workflow or a corresponding make check target.

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Agreed that the suite isn't wired into make check or CI yet. Deferred, not fixed here: wiring it means changing the shared Makefile and .github/workflows, which is outside this PR's scope of tools/qa-resource/ only. Root can decide on a target or a macOS workflow. Until then, run it locally with python3 -m unittest discover -s tools/qa-resource -p 'test_*.py', which takes about 55 s with temp state and no simulators or builds.

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Fixed in 0ecaf30 after root's decision. .github/workflows/qa-resource.yml runs python -m unittest discover -s tools/qa-resource -p 'test_*.py' -v on macos-26 with Python 3.14, for pull requests that touch tools/qa-resource/** or the workflow, and for pushes to main. It has read-only contents permission, no secrets and no persisted checkout credentials, and stops after 10 minutes. The shared Makefile is unchanged. The first hosted run is 36925661603 on this head.

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seq = int(counter.read_text()) + 1 if counter.exists() else 1
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P2 Badge Update the ticket counter atomically

If a submitter is killed, the volume fills, or an I/O error occurs after write_text truncates counter but before the new sequence is fully written, the counter remains empty or partial. Every subsequent submission then fails at int(counter.read_text()), leaving the queue unusable until someone repairs its internal state manually. Write the new counter through a temporary file and atomically replace the old one, as write_job already does.

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Fixed in 484a4c1. The counter is written to counter.tmp and moved into place with os.replace, as job.json already was. Test: test_counter_survives_failed_write_and_next_ticket_continues. An ENOSPC on the temporary file leaves counter intact, and the next ticket continues the sequence.

Cancelling a `swift test` job killed the job's process group but left
swiftpm-testing-helper running. SwiftPM starts that helper in its own
process group, and once swift-test died launchd adopted it, while the
runner had already released the shared lock. Timeout and a normal exit
had the same gap.

Each job's child now carries a per-job owner token in its environment.
At cleanup the runner finds escaped processes by that token, read through
KERN_PROCARGS2, or by live parent ancestry. It pins each one to its PID,
kernel start time in microseconds and uid, and rechecks that identity
before signaling it by PID, never by another group. Success needs two
consecutive complete empty scans. Anything it cannot confirm gone makes
the job cleanup_failed and keeps the lock held. Admission waits on any
live token-bearing process, and nested jobs are refused.

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…cally

Admission compared executable names case-sensitively, so Blender run
from /Applications/Blender.app (executable "Blender") did not block a
second heavy job. Names are now compared in lower case.

The ticket counter was rewritten in place. A kill or a full disk between
truncation and write left it empty, and every later submission failed
parsing it. It is now written to counter.tmp and moved over with
os.replace, as job.json already is.

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 3/5

[Medium risk] Adds a local job queue tool for CI test coordination.

The PR does not appear safe to merge while cancellation leaves escaped helpers running and separate state directories can bypass the retained-process admission check.

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  1. P1 Escaped helpers survive cancellation ▶
  2. P1 Separate state directories miss helpers ▶
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### Issue 1
tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py:685-691
When a payload starts a helper in a separate process group, cancelling or timing out the job now reports the helper but does not stop it. The helper can keep consuming CPU after the shared lock is released. The job returns `cleanup_failed` after a hold of up to 300 seconds, and later jobs wait until the helper exits or someone stops it manually.

### Issue 2
tools/qa-resource/qa_resource.py:1029
If two invocations use different `--state-dir` values but the same shared `--lock`, this scan cannot see a tokenless helper recorded by the first job. Once the first runner releases the lock, the second job can start while that helper is still running, despite the new admission check.

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Summary

The PR adds a macOS QA-job queue with shared-lock admission, simulator handling, cancellation, process ownership tracking, tests, documentation, and CI. Since the previous review, it stops signalling escaped descendants and adds admission checks for retained-process records.

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flowchart LR
  A[Submit or run] --> B[Queue ticket]
  B --> C[Shared QA lock]
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`cancel` checked the runner's start time and then sent SIGTERM to its
PID, so a PID reused in between could receive the signal. Each runner
now holds the read end of cancel.fifo in its job directory, and a
listener thread turns a byte there into SIGTERM for the runner's own
main thread. `cancel` writes that byte. With no runner reading, the open
fails with ENXIO and nothing is sent. Jobs started by an older runner
have no FIFO and are refused.

An interrupted `submit` used to exit 130 without a receipt while its
detached runner kept going. The runner now starts with SIGTERM, SIGINT
and SIGHUP blocked and unblocks them once its handlers are installed.
`submit` keeps SIGCHLD at its default so the runner stays its unreaped
child, cancels it on any of those signals, writes the receipt unbuffered
with cancelRequested, and returns 130.

Cleanup tolerates a cancel that lands as it begins, and stops the
listener before handlers are restored. The listener's fd is never closed
while its thread could still be blocked reading it.

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Please review the current head 00d516c118dc86755036179a6251626ce7688250 against the actual base codex/public-assembly-20260930. It answers the two findings on b65fe9e3: cancel now writes to a per-job FIFO instead of signaling a runner PID, and an interrupted submit cancels the runner it started and still reports it.

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The queue's 74 tests ran only when someone remembered to run them by
hand. A new workflow runs them on macos-26 with Python 3.14 for pull
requests that touch tools/qa-resource/ or the workflow, and for pushes
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pending push is not replaced before it is tested. The job stops after
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The --max-wait test now holds its payload on a release file instead of
a 0.5 s sleep, so a slow runner cannot finish the job before the short
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Please review the current head 0ecaf300e71d7f916ff566b7db5b51dbabd796cd against the actual base codex/public-assembly-20260930. It adds .github/workflows/qa-resource.yml, which runs the queue's unittest suite on macOS for changes to tools/qa-resource/ or the workflow. It also makes one test wait on a release file instead of a sleep.

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`submit` printed its receipt before the detached runner opened
cancel.fifo for reading. A `cancel` in that window got ENXIO, reported
that nothing was listening, and the job then ran anyway.

The command that creates the job now opens the FIFO's read end at once
and hands it to the runner with the liveness lock and ticket. A cancel
sent during startup is queued in the pipe, and the runner's listener
delivers it once its handlers are installed. Once neither process holds
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If creating the job's log files, making cancel.fifo, or opening its read
end failed after the job directory existed, `run` or `submit` exited with
a traceback and left the job `queued`. With no runner, `wait` reported it
stale, and its id could not be reused without manual cleanup.

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🟡 Minor · Reject cancellation after the job reaches a terminal state. · qa_resource.py:1044-1091

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Reject cancellation after the job reaches a terminal state.

CancelListener.stop() disables delivery before its timed join. If the join fails, cleanup continues with the FIFO descriptor open. During this interval, cancel_job() can open the FIFO through the listener's O_RDWR descriptor, write successfully, and report cancelRequested: true even though no listener can deliver the byte.

This race affects teardown only. The listener has already set active to False; it cannot cancel an active payload through this path.

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  • Outside-diff Minor, "reject cancellation after the job reaches a terminal state" (qa_resource.py:1044-1091). The window is real, but the behavior is settled, so there's no code change. A cancel that arrives after cleanup has begun is acknowledged but changes nothing. cancelRequested means only that the request reached a live runner's FIFO. The outcome is in job.json and wait, as the README says, and Greptile reached the same conclusion on thread 4160139736. The suggested status check would not close the window anyway. Cleanup stops the listener at line 1045 but writes the terminal status only at line 1075, so a cancel in that gap still reads running. A runner that has left the gap has already finished.
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P2 Badge Finish the receipt after an interrupted write

When submit is interrupted while stdout is blocked or during a partial os.write, printing is already true, so this branch skips writing the cancellation receipt and returns 130 with empty or invalid JSON. This is reproducible with the full-pipe scenario covered by test_blocked_submit_receipt_does_not_hold_finished_jobs_liveness, and it breaks the documented guarantee that an interrupted submission reports the handed-off job; preserve the unwritten bytes or emit the complete receipt after cancelling the runner.

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Fixed the documented contract in 1e1f4d1 rather than retrying the write. An interrupted write means stdout itself was blocked, usually a pipe nobody drains. Writing the receipt again would block on the same pipe and leave the submitter unstoppable, which is what test_blocked_submit_receipt_does_not_hold_finished_jobs_liveness guards (it SIGTERMs a submitter on a full pipe and requires exit within 3 s). The receipt is far below PIPE_BUF, so a pipe write is atomic and the interrupted case leaves no receipt, not truncated JSON. The README now says this, the branch explains it, and the test asserts exit 130. A mutation that always rewrites the receipt makes that test hang and fail. The caller supplied the job ID, so wait ID and job.json still report the cancelled job.

The README promised a cancelRequested receipt for any interrupted submit.
When the interruption lands mid-write, stdout is what was blocking, and a
second write would block again and leave the submitter unstoppable. Say so
in the README and at the branch, and assert the blocked submitter exits 130.

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service = (Path(process["comm"]).name == "xcodebuild"
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P1 Badge Require the service to be the sole selected test

An xcodebuild invocation can legally repeat -only-testing to select multiple tests, but this membership check exempts the entire process whenever one selector names SERVICE_TEST. Thus a command selecting both testCommand and another suite is ignored for package/render jobs even while the additional suite performs heavy work, allowing overlapping jobs on the shared Mac. Require the parsed selector set to contain only the service before classifying the process as ignored. Apple documents repeated -only-testing options.

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Fixed in ddd61e2. The service exemption now requires the set of -only-testing selectors to be exactly {testCommand}, so a process that also selects another suite blocks admission. Two cases cover a mixed selection in each option form, and the old membership check fails them. The README states the rule.

xcodebuild accepts repeated -only-testing. The membership check ignored a
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P1 Badge Require test-without-building to be the sole action

When an xcodebuild command includes build or another build action alongside test-without-building and selects only SERVICE_TEST, this predicate still classifies the whole process as ignored, so package or render jobs may start while that invocation is compiling. The xcodebuild(1) manual documents [action ...], permits one or more actions, and says -only-testing constrains only test actions; require test-without-building to be the sole action before granting the exemption.

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Fixed in 9ef2757. The exemption now also requires that no other xcodebuild action (build, build-for-testing, test, analyze, archive, install, installsrc, clean, docbuild) appears, so a compiling invocation blocks admission. A value spelled like an action only errs toward blocking. Two cases cover a build action before and after test-without-building.

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deadline = time.monotonic() + job["admissionDeadline"]
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ticket_path, ticket = acquire_ticket(directory.parent.parent, job["jobId"], deadline)

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P2 Badge Handle interruption before acquiring the submit ticket

If submit receives SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP while acquire_ticket is waiting for .guard, the submission handlers have not yet been installed. SIGINT unwinds through the finalizer and SIGTERM/SIGHUP terminate the process, but no runner exists to finish the record, so job.json remains queued after its liveness lock is released; wait then reports a stale job and the supplied ID cannot be reused without manual deletion. Install the interruption handlers before this blocking call or terminalize the unstarted job when it is interrupted.

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Fixed in 9ef2757. submit now installs a one-shot handler for SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP before acquire_ticket. An interruption before the runner exists records the job as cancelled (exit 130, the signal, and a specific error) while its liveness lock is still held, then restores the caller's handlers. The handler is swapped directly to the existing deferral handler, so there is no window with the default action. A new test sends each real signal from inside the ticket wait and checks the record, the restored handlers and the released lock.

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ownerToken=secrets.token_hex(16), escapedProcesses=[], cancelChannel=CANCEL_FIFO,
ignoredProcesses=[], logs={name: str(directory / (name + ".log"))
for name in ("output", "runner")})
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P2 Badge Clean up the job directory when the initial record write fails

If the first metadata write fails, for example because the state volume reaches ENOSPC or a quota, it occurs before the setup-error handler and propagates as an uncaught OSError. The newly created job directory and possibly job.json.tmp remain behind without a usable result, so every retry with the same job ID is rejected as a duplicate. Include this write in setup failure handling and remove the newly created directory when no terminal record can be persisted.

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Fixed in 9ef2757. A failed first write now closes the lock, removes job.json.tmp, job.json, live.lock and the directory this call created, and raises JobSetupError (exit 125) naming the write error and anything it could not remove. It removes those paths by name rather than with rmtree, which also keeps the tool on the system Python 3.9. A new test simulates ENOSPC after a partial temp write, then reuses the same id.

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matches = any(re.search(r"(?:^|,)\s*id=" + re.escape(device or "") + r"(?:,|$)", d)
for d in destinations)
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P1 Badge Treat non-UDID service destinations as possible matches

When the agent-device xcodebuild selects its simulator by name and OS, or leaves destination resolution implicit, this test cannot match it because it recognizes only id=<UDID>. If the target is still Shutdown while that process is resolving or starting its destination, the later device-state check also passes and this queue may boot the same simulator concurrently; Apple documents name-based simulator destinations in Technical Note TN2339. Treat a service as running on another device only when its explicit destination IDs prove that, or resolve its destination before ignoring it.

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Fixed in 9ef2757. In simulator mode the service is ignored only when it has destinations and every one names a different device by id=. A name, an OS, an implicit destination, or any mix including one, blocks the simulator job. Package and render jobs still ignore the idle service. A new test covers implicit, name-based and mixed destinations, plus the all-other-ids case that stays ignored.

- Exempt the agent-device service only when test-without-building is its
  only action; -only-testing does not constrain build actions.
- In simulator mode, ignore the service only when explicit destination ids
  place it on other devices. A name, OS or implicit destination may resolve
  to the job's device while it is still Shutdown.
- Record a submit interrupted while waiting for its queue ticket as
  cancelled, instead of leaving it queued with no runner and stale.
- Remove the new job directory when its first record write fails, so the
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P1 Badge Revalidate ancestry before pinning escaped PIDs

When an escaped descendant exits and its PID is reused after process_snapshot() but before kernel_identity(), ancestry still comes from the stale snapshot while the identity and executable come from the new, unrelated process. The later checks compare only that new identity with itself and never revalidate its parent chain, so cleanup can record proof="ancestry" and signal another agent's same-user process. Revalidate the current parent chain after pinning the PID, with identities for the relevant links, before treating ancestry as ownership.

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Fixed in 955ac91. The snapshot now only nominates. kernel_identity also returns the parent PID (kp_eproc.e_ppid at offset 560, checked against the SDK header), and kernel_ancestry walks the kernel's current chain from the pinned execution up to the payload. A link fails the proof when its parent is gone, is pid 1, or started after its child, so a reused PID or reused intermediate link is not owned. The existing before/after start-time check ties the proof to the recorded identity. Deterministic PID-reuse schedules (reused leaf, reused link, reused PID, and reuse between the pin and the final read in 1ceb110) cover it, plus a live check that the parsed parent equals os.getppid(). Removing the kernel walk, the start-time comparison, or using the wrong offset each fails those tests. The README lists one window that remains: the check-to-signal gap after proof, which macOS cannot close without an identity-bound signal.

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P2 Badge Install run signal handlers before creating the job

For the foreground run command, SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP can arrive after create_job() has persisted queued state but before run_job() installs its handlers. Default signal handling then exits without terminalizing the record; once the liveness descriptor closes, status reports a stale job and the supplied ID remains unusable. Protect the setup-to-run_job handoff or record an unstarted cancellation as the submit path now does.

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Fixed in 955ac91. main blocks SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGHUP from job creation until run_job or submit installs handlers. Both unblock inside their own try, so a held signal becomes a recorded cancellation. A test sends each signal at the handoff for both run and submit and checks the cancelled record, the released lock, and the restored mask and handlers. In 1ceb110 run_job also opens its runner log inside the protected region.

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live = (directory / "live.lock").open("a+")
fcntl.flock(live, fcntl.LOCK_EX | fcntl.LOCK_NB)

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P2 Badge Roll back the directory when live-lock creation fails

Although the first job.json write now has rollback, live.lock is opened before that protected block. If the volume or quota is exhausted after directory.mkdir() succeeds, this open raises an uncaught OSError and leaves the empty job directory behind, so every retry with the same ID is rejected as a duplicate. Include live-lock creation and locking in the initial setup rollback and translate the failure to the documented setup error.

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Fixed in 955ac91 and 1ceb110. live.lock creation and locking are inside the setup rollback. The record, including its token, is built before the directory exists. If a later setup failure cannot be recorded either, the job's files and directory are removed by name. Tests cover a full disk at live.lock, at the first write, and at the error record, plus a token failure, and each retries the same id.

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child = subprocess.Popen(job["argv"], cwd=job["cwd"], start_new_session=True,
env=environment, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
stdout=output, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

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P1 Badge Reset SIGCHLD before launching foreground payloads

When run is invoked by a supervisor or wrapper that has set SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN, run_job() inherits that disposition, unlike the protected submit path. Darwin then automatically reaps the payload; wait_child_exit() treats the resulting ESRCH as completion, and Python's Popen.wait() maps the subsequent ECHILD to status 0, so a failing payload is recorded as succeeded. Set SIGCHLD to its default disposition while the payload is owned and restore it after cleanup.

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Fixed in 955ac91. run_job sets SIGCHLD to SIG_DFL before spawning and restores the caller's disposition only after cleanup has finished with the payload. It is kept apart from the runner-signal set, which cleanup sets to SIG_IGN. A test runs a real failing payload under a caller with SIGCHLD ignored, expects exit 3 and status failed, and (in 1ceb110) checks the caller's SIG_IGN is back afterwards. Without the reset it records success.

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…e gaps

- Ancestry proof now comes from the kernel's current parent chain of the
  pinned process. A ps snapshot only nominates descendants, so a PID reused
  in between can no longer be recorded as owned and signalled. kinfo_proc
  supplies each link's parent and start time together, and a parent that
  started after its child fails the proof.
- run_job resets an inherited SIGCHLD disposition while it owns the payload.
  Under SIG_IGN, Darwin reaped the payload, Popen mapped ECHILD to 0 and a
  failure was recorded as success; the PID and group were also unpinned.
- main blocks SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGHUP from job creation until run_job or
  submit installs handlers, so an interruption there is recorded as cancelled.
- live.lock creation joins the setup rollback, keeping the id reusable.

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- Build the job record, including its token, before the directory exists.
- When a setup failure cannot be recorded either, remove the new job's
  files and directory instead of leaving a queued record with no runner.
- Open the runner log inside run_job's protected region, so a descriptor
  failure is recorded and releases the lock, FIFO and ticket.
- Install submit's post-spawn handlers inside the region that cancels the
  runner, so a signal between the installs cannot abandon it.
- Test PID reuse between the pin and the final identity read, and that a
  caller's ignored SIGCHLD is restored after a completed run.

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job.update(status="admission_timeout" if isinstance(error, DeadlineExpired) else "error",
exitCode=75 if isinstance(error, DeadlineExpired) else 125,
error=f"cannot submit runner: {error}", finishedAt=timestamp())
write_job(directory, job)

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P2 Badge Remove submissions whose terminal record cannot be written

When acquire_ticket fails because the state volume fills while writing counter.tmp, this error-record write is likely to fail for the same reason. The exception then escapes through finally, which closes the liveness lock but leaves the previous queued record and directory behind; status reports a stale job and the caller cannot reuse the ID. Handle a failed terminal write like fail_unstarted_job by removing the unstarted job directory.

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Valid. A full disk during acquire_ticket can make submit's error-record write fail too, leaving the queued record. The fix would route that branch through the same rollback fail_unstarted_job now uses. This PR has had four fix rounds today, so it's held for the maintainer's decision on a fifth rather than fixed in fca2172, which only carries the report-only escapee change.

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directory.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
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P2 Badge Convert directory creation failures into setup errors

If the state directory is unwritable, its volume is full, or an intermediate path is not a directory, either mkdir raises an uncaught OSError before the protected setup block. The CLI therefore prints a traceback and exits with Python's generic status instead of the documented setup status 125. Include both directory-creation calls in the JobSetupError handling; no rollback is needed when the job directory was never created.

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Valid. Both mkdir calls in create_job can raise OSError before the setup-error handling, which prints a traceback instead of returning 125. No job state is left behind in that case. Held with the finding above for the maintainer's decision on a fifth round.

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A PID recheck followed by kill cannot rule out the PID being reused in
between, and macOS has no identity-bound signal. Cleanup now signals only
the pinned child group, whose unreaped leader keeps its id from being
reused. A live escapee is recorded as retained, the job ends
cleanup_failed with it listed, the shared lock is held through the cleanup
hold, and later admissions wait while that exact execution is alive,
including escapees proven only by ancestry, which carry no token.

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- At the cleanup deadline, record every proven identity still alive, not only
  those that left the payload group, so a later admission can wait for a
  member that dropped its token while process scans were failing.
- retained_blockers validates each job record and retained entry. A non-object
  record, a non-list escapedProcesses, or an entry without integer pid,
  start_us and uid is a path-specific waiting reason, not a crash or a bypass.

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remaining, complete = owned.snapshot(time.monotonic() + SENSING_TIMEOUT)
if not complete:
owned.error("initial discovery incomplete: " + (owned.last_incomplete or "unknown reason"))
# Discover escapes before the group SIGTERM, so their proof is recorded before their
# parents die and launchd adopts them. They are reported, never signalled: a PID
# recheck followed by kill cannot rule out reuse in between, and macOS has no
# identity-bound signal. The group is safe to signal because its unreaped leader pins

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P1 Escaped helpers survive cancellation
When a payload starts a helper in a separate process group, cancelling or timing out the job now reports the helper but does not stop it. The helper can keep consuming CPU after the shared lock is released. The job returns cleanup_failed after a hold of up to 300 seconds, and later jobs wait until the helper exits or someone stops it manually.

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When a payload starts a helper in a separate process group, cancelling or timing out the job now reports the helper but does not stop it. The helper can keep consuming CPU after the shared lock is released. The job returns `cleanup_failed` after a hold of up to 300 seconds, and later jobs wait until the helper exits or someone stops it manually.

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Intended. The maintainer chose report-only for escaped descendants in 22638a7. A recheck followed by kill cannot exclude PID reuse in between, and macOS has no identity-bound signal, so the queue must not signal processes outside its pinned group. The consequences you list are the accepted trade: the job ends cleanup_failed with the helper named, the lock is held through the cleanup hold, and later admissions wait until the helper exits or a person stops it. The README's "Escaped descendants" section and the PR's Risk section state this.

reasons = resource_blockers(pressure, memory, sense_disk())
heavy, owner_reasons = owner_blockers()
reasons.extend(owner_reasons)
retained, retained_reasons = retained_blockers(directory.parent, job["jobId"])

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P1 Separate state directories miss helpers
If two invocations use different --state-dir values but the same shared --lock, this scan cannot see a tokenless helper recorded by the first job. Once the first runner releases the lock, the second job can start while that helper is still running, despite the new admission check.

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Valid, as a scope limit. Retained records live under each state directory, so a job using a different --state-dir with the same shared --lock cannot see a tokenless escapee recorded by another state directory. Token-bearing escapees are still caught machine-wide by the owner-token scan, and every default caller, including the heavy-admit wrapper, uses the default state directory. The README already scopes FIFO ordering to this tool's tickets. This head is frozen for review, so I'm reporting it to the maintainer as a residual rather than changing it here.

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Agreed. This is a documented scope limitation rather than an actionable defect for this frozen head: retained-process records are state-directory-local, while token-bearing escapees remain discoverable machine-wide. Since the default callers share the default state directory, I’ll treat this as a residual risk for the maintainer rather than request a change in this PR.

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ids = [re.search(r"(?:^|,)\s*id=([^,\s]+)", d) for d in destinations]
elsewhere = bool(ids) and all(match and match.group(1) != device for match in ids)

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Compare destination IDs case-insensitively.

The agent-device exemption for simulator jobs fails open when the service's destination ID uses different letter case from the target device.

  • job["device"] must exactly match a udid from xcrun simctl list devices -j, so it is always uppercase (Line 1042).
  • Line 477 uses an exact string comparison against the service's -destination value.
  • If the service was started with id=<lowercase udid> for the same device, match.group(1) != device is True. The service is then classified as "ignored", and the simulator job is admitted while the service targets its device.
  • The comment on Line 475 names this risk: a destination can resolve to the target device while the device is still Shutdown. In that state, the target["state"] != "Shutdown" check does not block the job.
  • UUID parsing is normally case-insensitive. Normalize both sides before comparing them.
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ids = [re.search(r"(?:^|,)\s*id=([^,\s]+)", d) for d in destinations]
elsewhere = bool(ids) and all(match and match.group(1) != device for match in ids)
ids = [re.search(r"(?:^|,)\s*id=([^,\s]+)", d) for d in destinations]
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elsewhere = bool(ids) and all(match and match.group(1).casefold() != target for match in ids)
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