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docs(fleet-pause): a pause set by hand is three ordered calls, a wait and a check; a live check replaces the drill - #2314
"Budget breaker: close the gaps found in review before it is armed" (#2251) asks, as item 12, for a drill of two races in which a pause set by hand is read as the breaker's own and later lifted by it:
the pause is set in the single API call between a trip's final check and its own write of the pause;
the pause is set while a source left over from an earlier failed trip is still on an unpaused fleet.
The drill needs a throwaway organisation, because the three variable names are fixed in the writer on purpose, and there is none. The maintainer chose to close the races by procedure and to check the one assumption the procedure rests on against the real API, instead of creating an organisation or adding a way to rename the variables.
Design
AGENTS.md, plus two sentences of operator advice in the breaker's own notices.
A hand pause is three calls, a wait and a check: delete AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE, set AGENTS_PAUSED=true with visibility=all, delete AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE again; wait until every Budget Breaker run that was in progress has finished (a command is given); read both variables; repeat all of it until the answer is exactly AGENTS_PAUSED=true (all) with no source.
The first delete removes a leftover source. Without it, a breaker run landing just after the pause is set reads the pause as its own and, if the leftover end time has passed, lifts it.
The last delete covers a trip in progress: a trip writes its source before its final check, so if the pause lands in the one call after that check, the trip's source is still there and is removed.
The check covers a resume in progress, which no ordering of calls can. The breaker re-reads the state immediately before its first write; a resume decided after that read sets the pause back to false whatever is done from outside, with every call looking successful. A run that has read the state finishes within seconds, and after a resume its source is gone and it never touches a pause without one, so one repeat is enough. Found in review of the first version of this change.
The pause call sets visibility=all every time. A value-only update keeps whatever visibility the variable has; private reaches only private repositories, and all 14 repositories here are public. gh variable set --org is warned against for the same reason: its default is private, on updates too.
The breaker's trip notice and its tracking-issue text gave the old two-call advice with no check. Both now point at the procedure.
Checked by exhaustive interleaving against the breaker's read and write sequence taken from the code: up to four breaker runs, sixteen starting states, every interleaving. With the wait and one repeat, every case ends paused with no source. Without the repeat, the resume race leaves the fleet running; without the wait, the check can pass just before a resume lands, which is why the wait is for the runs themselves and not "a minute".
Arming preconditions: a sixth live check replaces the drill and is stated as blocking arming. Twenty times with a throwaway variable: create it and find it in the list, update it and find the new value, delete it and find it gone. Reads should use the dedicated write credential once it exists, since that is the breaker's reader. One stale read fails it and keeps arming blocked until a drill has been run after all.
Risk
The procedure is only as good as its use: a hand pause set from the web interface, or with gh variable set, skips it. The existing sentence telling the maintainer to check that the source is absent afterwards is kept, pointing at the procedure.
The read-after-write check has not been run yet. Until it passes, the procedure's guarantee is an assumption.
Not changed: the stale sentence in the same section saying feature-ideation keeps running through a pause. That text is generated from the pause registry and should change when the feature-ideation channel that carries the gate reaches this repository.
Test plan
Exhaustive interleaving check of the procedure (a model checker written for this review, not added to the repository): 0 failing cases for one to four breaker runs with one repeat, after more than a million interleavings; the failing cases it found for weaker versions are listed on the pull request.
Breaker suites after the notice change: test_budget_breaker_writer, test_budget_breaker and test_fleet_pause_coverage, 196 of 196; shellcheck clean.
markdownlint-cli2 AGENTS.md: 0 errors.
tests/test_fleet_pause_coverage.bats, which compares this document with the pause registry: 60 of 60.
The interleavings were checked by reading the writer's trip sequence and the decision library, not by execution; the race tests in tests/dev-lead/unit/test_budget_breaker_writer.bats cover the breaker's side of them against a stub.
Rollback
Revert the squash commit.
Monitoring
The result of the read-after-write check, recorded on "Auto-pause companion" (#1565) with the other live checks.
…read-after-write check replaces the drill
The hand-pause drill asked for before arming needs a test organisation, and
there is none. The two races it covers are closed by procedure instead: delete
the pause source, set the pause, delete the source again. The first delete
removes a leftover source that would make the pause read as the breaker's own;
the last covers a trip that had already passed its final check. A sixth live
check, that a read of the variable list sees the write before it, replaces the
drill in the arming preconditions.
Also warns against gh variable set --org for this: its default visibility is
private, which reaches none of this organisation's public repositories.
Refs #2251
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It is labeled dev-lead:hands-off (deliberately kept off-limits to dev-lead (e.g. changes to the dev-lead automation itself)), so dev-lead will not pick it up while that label is present. This notice is posted once so the withhold is visible rather than looking like a stalled run.
To re-enable automated pickup: remove the dev-lead:hands-off label.
Updated pause guidance with a step-by-step procedure that accounts for breaker races and variable visibility.
Expanded the arming checklist to six live checks, including 20 comparisons to verify that recent variable changes are visible.
Added steps to verify the pause state after waiting and repeat the procedure if the observed state differs.
Updated pause notices and tracking-issue guidance to point to the documented procedure and clarify that an in-progress breaker run may affect a hand-set pause.
AGENTS.md documents a procedure to set and verify a manual pause. It updates related breaker guidance and adds a variable-list consistency check to the live arming checklist. Two scripts direct maintainers to the procedure.
Changes: Fleet pause procedure and checks
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Summary
Document the hand-pause procedure and references AGENTS.md, scripts/budget_breaker.sh, scripts/lib/budget-breaker-writer.sh
Documents ordered source deletion, pause creation or update with visibility all, waiting for in-progress runs, and state verification. Related instructions in AGENTS.md and both scripts refer to this procedure.
Add the arming variable-list check AGENTS.md
The live arming checklist increases from five checks to six. It adds 20 create, list, update, and delete cycles for a throwaway organization variable. A stale read blocks arming.
This PR documents a manual fleet-pause procedure. The final check reads the pause variables with individual GETs, and the new arming drill does not test those reads. A stale read could make the pause look complete when it is not. The impact is bounded and the fix is small: either confirm the GET behavior or add individual GETs to the drill.
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The title describes the manual pause procedure and the live check that replaces the drill.
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The description is mostly complete. It lacks a Summary section, a risk category, and the template checklist. It also does not give the exact commands used for the breaker suites or shellcheck.
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This pull request updates the AGENTS.md documentation to detail the three-step manual pause procedure (DELETE, PATCH, DELETE) designed to prevent race conditions with the budget breaker. It also updates the limits section to reference this procedure and adds a sixth live check to verify that variable list reads immediately reflect preceding writes. I have no feedback to provide as there are no review comments.
1. If a breaker run is already resuming, its later AGENTS_PAUSED=false write can land after this call and undo the hand pause; the final source delete cannot restore it.
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- Line 860: Update the `gh api` PATCH that sets `AGENTS_PAUSED` to also set its
visibility to `all`, so the pause applies to public repositories even if the
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- Around line 1252-1255: Update the read-after-write procedure in the checklist
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…k, and the live check covers deletes
From review. The three calls do not cover a resume the breaker has already
decided on: it can set the pause back to false after them, with every call
looking successful. Nothing from outside can stop that write, so the procedure
now ends by reading the state a minute later and repeating once if it is not
as expected. The pause call sets visibility to all every time, because a
value-only update keeps a private visibility that reaches no public
repository. The live check that replaces the drill now creates, updates and
deletes, since the guarantee depends on a deleted source being gone from the
next read, and it is stated as blocking arming.
Refs #2251
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- Around line 1272-1273: Update the throwaway-variable verification instructions
to require `gh api --paginate` for each read after creation, update, and
deletion, ensuring every page is searched for the expected variable state.
- Around line 899-905: Update the pause verification flow around _bbw_gh and
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…repeat until it passes, and point the breaker's notices at the procedure
An independent exhaustive interleaving of the procedure against the breaker's
read and write sequence found it safe with one repeat, but only if the check
comes after any run that had already read the state has finished: a check made
while such a run is still going can pass just before it lifts the pause. A
minute is not a bound (no call has a timeout below the 10-minute job limit), so
the procedure now waits on the runs that were in progress, and repeats until
the check passes. The breaker's trip notice and tracking-issue text still gave
the two-call advice with no check; both now point at the procedure.
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Independent check of the reworked procedure, head b0e97bee.
I had the procedure checked by exhaustive interleaving against the breaker's own read and write sequence, derived step by step from scripts/budget_breaker.sh and scripts/lib/budget-breaker-writer.sh (16 starting states, one to four breaker runs, quota evidence present or not, every interleaving).
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Three calls and a check, no repeat
Fails: the resume race (a run that decided to resume after the calls) leaves the fleet running in 18 of 1,056 one-run cases
Three calls, check, one repeat, check made after the earlier runs finished
0 failures; more than a million interleavings with up to four runs
Same, but the check may land while an earlier run is still going
Fails silently: the check passes, then the run lifts the pause (6 of 2,993 one-run cases)
The old two-call advice in the breaker's own notices (set, then delete, no check)
Fails in 94 of 550 one-run cases
Changed as a result: the procedure now waits on the Budget Breaker runs that were in progress, not "a minute" (no call in a run has a timeout below the 10-minute job limit); it repeats until the check passes rather than once; and the trip notice and tracking-issue text now point at the procedure instead of the two-call advice. The checker also found two places where a 404 from the operator's delete makes the breaker report a wrong failure and skip its resume notice, without affecting the pause; filed as #2329.
…le, and every route to a hand pause goes through the procedure
From review. The wait now reports success only if the listing and every wait
worked, and says to use a personal gh login (gh run watch does not accept a
fine-grained token). The check reads the two variables one at a time instead of
a list that was asked for 100 per page and not paginated. 'Overriding a breaker
pause by hand' still told the operator to keep a pause by deleting the source
alone, which a decided resume can undo; it now points at the procedure. The live
check's reads paginate as the breaker does.
Refs #2251
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From review: the check printed the passing answer for any failed read of the
source, including a rate limit or an expired login. It now tells a 404 from
other failures and reports those as a failed check.
Refs #2251
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…se-procedure
Updates this branch onto the renamed main and rewrites its petry-projects references to combsmith (GitHub Actions does not redirect uses: after an org rename). Rename-aware merge: base and branch were rewritten first, so rename-only differences do not conflict.
if p=$(gh api orgs/combsmith/actions/variables/AGENTS_PAUSED --jq '"\(.value) (\(.visibility))"' 2>/dev/null); then echo "AGENTS_PAUSED=$p"; else echo "AGENTS_PAUSED could not be read"; fi
if v=$(gh api orgs/combsmith/actions/variables/AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE --jq .value 2>&1); then echo "AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE=$v"
elif grep -q 'HTTP 404' <<< "$v"; then echo "no AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE"; else echo "AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE could not be read"; fi
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Validate the endpoint used by the final check
After the final check was changed to per-variable GET requests, the arming precondition still tests read-after-write/delete visibility only through the paginated variable-list endpoint. In the resume race this procedure is intended to close, the list can satisfy that test while a completed AGENTS_PAUSED=false write is still stale through the individual-variable endpoint, allowing these commands to report the expected hand-pause state and stop. Exercise these same GET requests in the live check (with the credential used here), or perform the postcondition through the already-tested list endpoint.
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- Around line 912-914: Update the live consistency check for AGENTS_PAUSED and
AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE to verify read-after-write behavior using individual GETs
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if p=$(gh api orgs/combsmith/actions/variables/AGENTS_PAUSED --jq '"\(.value) (\(.visibility))"' 2>/dev/null); then echo "AGENTS_PAUSED=$p"; else echo "AGENTS_PAUSED could not be read"; fi
if v=$(gh api orgs/combsmith/actions/variables/AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE --jq .value 2>&1); then echo "AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE=$v"
elif grep -q 'HTTP 404' <<< "$v"; then echo "no AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE"; else echo "AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE could not be read"; fi
Include individual GETs in the live consistency check.
The arming check exercises the variable-list endpoint, but the final pause check uses individual GETs. A passing list check does not test those reads.
Confirm their read-after-write behavior, or add individual GETs after each create, update, and delete in the live check.
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Update the live consistency check for AGENTS_PAUSED and AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE to
verify read-after-write behavior using individual GETs after each create,
update, and delete, in addition to the variable-list endpoint check. Reuse the
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Problem
"Budget breaker: close the gaps found in review before it is armed" (#2251) asks, as item 12, for a drill of two races in which a pause set by hand is read as the breaker's own and later lifted by it:
The drill needs a throwaway organisation, because the three variable names are fixed in the writer on purpose, and there is none. The maintainer chose to close the races by procedure and to check the one assumption the procedure rests on against the real API, instead of creating an organisation or adding a way to rename the variables.
Design
AGENTS.md, plus two sentences of operator advice in the breaker's own notices.AGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCE, setAGENTS_PAUSED=truewithvisibility=all, deleteAGENTS_PAUSE_SOURCEagain; wait until every Budget Breaker run that was in progress has finished (a command is given); read both variables; repeat all of it until the answer is exactlyAGENTS_PAUSED=true (all)with no source.falsewhatever is done from outside, with every call looking successful. A run that has read the state finishes within seconds, and after a resume its source is gone and it never touches a pause without one, so one repeat is enough. Found in review of the first version of this change.visibility=allevery time. A value-only update keeps whatever visibility the variable has;privatereaches only private repositories, and all 14 repositories here are public.gh variable set --orgis warned against for the same reason: its default isprivate, on updates too.Risk
gh variable set, skips it. The existing sentence telling the maintainer to check that the source is absent afterwards is kept, pointing at the procedure.Test plan
Exhaustive interleaving check of the procedure (a model checker written for this review, not added to the repository): 0 failing cases for one to four breaker runs with one repeat, after more than a million interleavings; the failing cases it found for weaker versions are listed on the pull request.
Breaker suites after the notice change:
test_budget_breaker_writer,test_budget_breakerandtest_fleet_pause_coverage, 196 of 196;shellcheckclean.markdownlint-cli2 AGENTS.md: 0 errors.tests/test_fleet_pause_coverage.bats, which compares this document with the pause registry: 60 of 60.The interleavings were checked by reading the writer's trip sequence and the decision library, not by execution; the race tests in
tests/dev-lead/unit/test_budget_breaker_writer.batscover the breaker's side of them against a stub.Rollback
Revert the squash commit.
Monitoring
The result of the read-after-write check, recorded on "Auto-pause companion" (#1565) with the other live checks.
Refs #2251
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