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api: cap each client's live sandboxes, counted from the pod reflector and a Redis pending set - #1172
Adds a per-client live cap: the most sandboxes with a live runtime one ECW client key may hold at once. It's built to the per-client admission RFC in PR #1072 (docs/space/rfcs/2026-10-28-substrate-independent-client-admission.md): Decision 5 ("one count interface"), Decision 6 ("how the limits compose") and the "Per-client live cap" row of "What to keep, rework or drop". It ships off: with neither new variable set, nothing is capped and no Redis call is made.
Counting (Decision 5).Substrate::live_sandboxes_for_client(ids, activating, already_pending) is a synchronous cache read:
Kubernetes counts from a new index kept beside the sandbox-pod reflector (kubernetes/client_live_pods.rs). It maps space.pplx.net/client-id → sandbox → qualifying pods, and pending pods count; terminal and deleting pods don't, as in the network-slot index, so a pod stuck terminating on a lost node doesn't hold its client's slot. Nor does a drain's stopped re-placement pod (checkpoint stopped-materialization), which runs no VM, so a re-placed stopped sandbox counts like one whose pod ended with its VM. It's updated from the same watch events and rebuilt whole on a re-list, like the network-slot index. A cold reflector answers Unknown(PodCacheCold). It answers Unknown(PodCacheStale) from a watch error or the end of its stream until the next live event, and during a re-list until the rebuilt index is in. A watch that's merely quiet stays trusted: the watcher reconnects a watch that's idle past its timeout. While stale, the cap counts the pending set alone: a frozen index never causes a refusal, and admissions within one pending window stay under the cap.
Direct answers Unknown(Unsupported), and the cap admits.
The pending set (client_live_cap/live_pending.lua) records admissions the reflectors haven't seen yet, in Redis next to the existing buckets. It keeps one sorted set per client id whose entries are each reservation's sandbox and owner token, each with its own expiry (a sandbox counts once while any of its entries is live), an id registry for unknown's count, and a sandbox → ids companion for teardown. Every key shares one hash tag. A check reads the pending members, counts the visible sandboxes not among them, then runs a reserve script at the same cutoff. The script refuses at the cap, asks for a redo when it would refuse on members the read missed (at most three passes), and refuses to decide on a cutoff older than the grace.
An admitted activation holds a LiveReservation. A background task renews it while the activation runs. keep() on success lets it lapse after 30 s, which covers the watch delay. Dropping it on any failure removes only that attempt's entry. A reservation rides in its activation's charge, so a detached wake leader that outlives the request takes it over. A confirmed delete (or a node that had no such sandbox), a create's rollback and a suspend, which remove the sandbox's pods, snapshot its entries before their substrate call and forget exactly those afterwards, so an activation that reserves in between keeps counting; a failed delete leaves them to lapse.
Where the cap runs (Decision 6). The CapPolicy that PR #1068 stamps on every path now decides it:
Reserved, before any cluster token is spent:
a create, before it branches between an admitted claim, a pool bypass and a pool attempt. Right after a pool claim, before the adoption's label patch, the member moves to the claimed sandbox's id, so a warm hit counts once; a fallback to cold moves it back.
a Start or Wake of a created or stopped sandbox.
an implicit access or control wake of a dormant sandbox, once the auto-wake policy allows it. A request that didn't reserve, such as a mid-stream reconnect, is checked where a pod is created instead.
ReserveAtClaim: the Kubernetes lease winner decides it. A fresh claim reserves before its charge and becomes Reserved. A takeover of a lapsed restoring lease becomes Check, after a read-only pre-check when no reusable pod is visible, so a client at its cap doesn't pay a token on every takeover retry. The reservation rides with the detached wake leader, so a disconnected caller doesn't uncount a restore that's still running.
Check: ensure_pod_exists checks on the branch that's about to create a pod, and before the retry path's cross-node re-drive. A refusal abandons the claim it created and returns a refused charge. The charge reaches it through PodMaterializationOwnership::with_charge.
Deferred cold charges (the access path's started recovery, and start_execution's stale-snapshot cold start) run a read-only pre-check when the reflector shows no reusable pod (ready, not being deleted) for the sandbox, so a client at its cap doesn't spend a cluster token on every retry.
A call that reaches a live pod creates nothing and isn't checked, and the activating sandbox never counts against itself, so a running sandbox is never refused.
Refusal. A 429 with the cluster limiter's jittered Retry-After and a message naming the key and cap. It carries no cluster-backpressure cause, so the async dispatcher retries it against its attempt budget. control_runtime_client already passes a 429 from its first call through, and its fallback wake is itself checked.
Caps. There are two env defaults: SPACE_API_CLIENT_LIVE_CAP_PER_CLIENT for listed keys, and SPACE_API_CLIENT_LIVE_CAP_UNKNOWN, which every unlisted id shares. Unset or 0 means no cap, and native is never capped. The quotas flag gains a live map (unknown sets the shared cap). An entry applies only while the env default for that key is set, and a 0 entry is ignored: the flag tunes and assigns the caps the environment enabled. Naming an id in the flag moves it from unknown to its own key under the per-client default. When the flag stops resolving, its last valid value stands for 10 minutes (RFC KEY_SET_STALENESS), then the env allowlist alone applies. The key set is the env allowlist plus, while the per-client default is set, the flag's live ids and its overrides ids (the latter while the concurrency limiter isn't off). So a flag entry can't move an id out from under unknown's cap into no cap. Each decision is counted in sandbox.api.client_live_cap.decision, tagged with the check, decision, reason and resolved key. A refusal carries its own error kind, and ActivationRejectionKind::LiveCap where admission rejections are classified, at request entry and from the pod-create check alike: a wake it refuses records on the reconnect series as rejected/rate_limited, like a concurrency-limiter refusal, not as the wait_budget cluster-saturation tag, and it isn't counted as a cluster admission rejection. The cap counts only while the base's SPACE_ACTIVATION_CLIENT_ATTRIBUTION_ENABLED is on: with it off, pods carry no client label, and counting the pending set alone would cap a 30 s admission rate rather than live sandboxes, so every check admits. Every fail-open case has its own reason (misconfigured, store_unavailable, unsupported, pod_cache_cold, attribution_disabled), and so does the pending-only check of a stale cache (pod_cache_stale).
Docs: docs/configuration.md (variables, plus a "Live cap" section), docs/ecw.md, and the direct.rs module doc.
Validation
At this head, on a Linux devbox: workspace cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings is clean, and the affected tests at CI's opt-level 0 (client_live_cap, client_live_pods, recovery_charge, the ensure_pod_exists cap-policy cases, the access, ports and spaced paths, cluster_admission, lifecycle and delete paths, e2b) pass, and so does the rest of pplx-space-api, pplx-space-metrics and the DB fixtures: the full workspace (11317 of 11318 unprivileged; the one failure, node-mgr's stopped_unbound_snapshot_reaches_filesystem_without_allocating, and the privileged lane's six fs-verity, contained_launcher and spaced-guest-worker failures are this devbox's environment, in crates this PR doesn't touch), against a real Redis and Postgres. With attribution off, the cap admits without counting (drop the guard): attribution_off_admits_without_counting fails. Nothing revives a lapsed member past the cap: a_lapsed_member_is_never_revived_past_the_cap fails when a reserve renews against the read's cutoff instead of now, and when renew and swap ignore the member's expiry. CI's full run, Kind smoke included, passed on an earlier head; CI on this head covers the rest.
The full-workspace and mutation results below are from an earlier head. On a Linux devbox:
Targeted tests at CI's opt-level 0 (client_live_cap, client_live_pods, recovery_charge, the ensure_pod_exists cap-policy cases, sandbox_pod_view, pod_reflector, cluster_admission): 83 passed, against a real Redis and Postgres.
Full workspace through CI's entry points. run-rust-checks.sh tests-unprivileged: 10957 of 10958 passed. tests-privileged: 61 of 67 passed. Every failure is a test that fails on this kind of devbox at main for environment reasons, and CI's lanes cover them: node-mgr stopped_unbound_snapshot_reaches_filesystem_without_allocating, and in the privileged lane the fs-verity trio, two contained_launcher "unsafe ancestors" tests and spaced-guest-worker::embedding.
Mutation checks, one per invariant the cap relies on. Each mutant was applied and the named test re-run:
Pending set covers admissions the reflector hasn't seen (Lua total = visible): the_pending_set_counts_admissions_the_reflector_has_not_seen fails.
A running sandbox is never refused (stop excluding the activating sandbox): a_running_sandbox_is_never_refused and the_activating_sandbox_and_pending_ones_never_count fail.
A pending, visible sandbox counts once (stop excluding pending members from the visible count): a_pending_sandbox_the_reflector_shows_counts_once fails.
Direct admits as unknown (Direct answers Known(0)): direct_admits_as_unknown fails.
ensure_pod_exists checks a Check charge (drop Check from the policy match): a_pod_create_is_checked_against_the_live_cap_by_its_cap_policy fails.
A failed attempt never uncounts a sibling (release drops the member regardless of owners): a_failed_attempt_never_uncounts_a_sibling fails.
Teardown forgets a sandbox's entries (forget removes nothing): a_kept_member_lapses_after_its_ttl_or_when_forgotten fails.
The run also applied two more mutants, "a flag entry can't turn a cap on" and "terminal pods don't count", but their verdicts weren't captured, so they're unverified.
Not validated: a Kind or deployed smoke run, so the cap is untested end to end through ECW handlers and the dispatcher. The create and lifecycle reserve sites have no controller-level test.
Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply. This is a new guardrail, off by default.
Risk: with no cap set, the new code paths return before any Redis call. The changes outside the cap are a new reflector index on the watch path (a few map updates per pod event), the RecoveryCharge constructors now carrying the admission handle, and teardown's forget (a no-op without a cap). With a cap set, the main risk is a wrong refusal, a 429 on a create or wake under the cap. Every uncertain count fails open, and a refused attempt removes only its own pending member. To roll back, unset both variables. Nothing persistent is written outside Redis keys that expire on their own.
Dependencies
None outstanding. It builds on PR #1068 (ActivationClient, the record, the pod label, the attribution switch that gates both, and the ChargeState / CapPolicy split) and PR #1061 (ActivationRejectionKind), both merged; this PR's base is main.
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A takeover whose restore pod isn't ready yet. The takeover pre-check treats a pod as reusable only when it's ready, or Pending and schedulable, so a pod on a lost node never passes as reusable. The cost: a restore pod that's Running but not yet ready doesn't skip the pre-check, so a client already at its cap gets a retryable 429 for that takeover, and a retry once the pod is ready reuses it. It over-refuses; it never admits past the cap.
The degraded key set. The flag's last valid value is kept for KEY_SET_STALENESS (10 minutes). SPACE_API_CLIENT_QUOTAS_FLAG_REQUIRED, and counting each unlisted id on its own while degraded, are resolver behavior, so they're left to that move. Past the 10 minutes, an outage falls back to the env allowlist, as the RFC specifies when the flag isn't declared required: flag-listed clients count under unknown until the flag resolves again.
Direct. Direct's start and restore paths don't call the cap. Its count is always Unknown(Unsupported), so the outcome (admit, before any Redis round trip) is the same. Closing the gap also needs a Direct point that reserves for a ReserveAtClaim charge and checks a Check one, with RecoveryCharge's live-cap methods built without the kubernetes feature. It's a row in the direct.rs gap table. Calling it there would change Direct, which belongs in its own PR.
A cap refusal inside a restore drive. A Check refusal from ensure_pod_exists during a lease winner's wake drive runs the wake's existing failure cleanup, which reverts the restore claim, rather than a separate refused-charge release. The outcome is the same, and the refusal reaches the caller as the 429.
The pre-check's pod lookup. The deferred-cold pre-check finds a sandbox's pod by scanning the reflector store. It runs only on recovery paths, after the pod is already missing from the access path's view. It matches the pod by sandbox id, not by execution generation, since the claim that picks the generation runs after it. While a ready pod from an earlier generation lingers, an at-cap client can spend one cluster token before ensure_pod_exists refuses it. Matching only the current generation would instead risk refusing a running sandbox.
A create whose caller disconnects. A reservation travels with its charge, and the wake leader that may outlive a request takes it over, so a detached wake or restore stays counted however long it runs. A create builds its pod in the request instead: if the caller drops, its cancel guard removes the pod, and the dropped reservation lapses after one TTL, covering the watch delay.
No metric when no cap applies. With no cap configured for a key, the check returns without a decision metric. The cluster controller runs dispatched ECW operations through its own cap, so the SPACE_API_CLIENT_LIVE_CAP_* variables have to be set there too; docs/configuration.md says so.
Redis Cluster. The pending-set script touches keys it doesn't declare. All of them share one hash tag, so they live in one slot, which standalone Redis and same-slot cluster access allow.
Clients already over their cap. A client can exceed its cap only after an operator lowers it, or after a flag outage moves it under unknown. Such a client can be refused a connect to a sandbox whose pod is Running but not yet ready (the pre-checks treat only a ready pod, or a Pending one the scheduler hasn't marked Unschedulable, as reusable, so a pod left on a lost node or an unschedulable pinned restore doesn't skip them). The same holds for a pod another replica created that this replica's reflector hasn't seen yet: the pre-check, and ensure_pod_exists's own check before its create, both run before the create's conflict path would find it. A client at or under its cap isn't affected.
A long stale period, and a member that lapses mid-activation. The RFC has a stale cache fail open; here it counts pending members alone instead, so a burst still can't pass the cap within one pending window. While the index is stale, only pending members count, and a kept member lapses 20 to 30 s after its activation succeeds. So the cap bounds each pending window, not the total: over a long watch outage a client can gain up to its cap again in each window. Likewise, if renewals fail for longer than the TTL (a Redis outage or a stalled task), the member lapses and the activation runs uncounted until its pod reaches the reflector. Both fail toward admitting, as every other store failure here does.
Pods and sandboxes from before attribution was on. A sandbox whose pods were created by an older release or with attribution off has no recorded activating client, and a pod that replaces one of its pods without an ECW request stays unlabeled. It's counted again only after an ECW create, fork, connect or resume relabels it, so turning attribution on doesn't count a client's existing sandboxes at once. docs/configuration.md says to turn attribution on first.
A failure after the substrate call. An activation reserved at entry (a create's warm-pool adoption from its label patch until a rollback hands the pod back (a transient label failure lapses too, since it may have landed), a cold create from its substrate call, an explicit Start, Wake or Restore, or an implicit wake once its cluster token is admitted) lets its member lapse after one TTL on any later failure, instead of releasing it, because the substrate call may have created a pod the reflector hasn't shown yet and nothing else counts it. This departs from the RFC, which releases on every failure path: a failed activation counts for up to 30 s (a substrate refusal that never creates a pod included), and a retry loop over a sandbox that keeps failing keeps it counted until the retries stop. Refusals, and failures before the substrate call (the cluster token, a cold create's database writes), still release at once, so rate-limited retries don't accumulate members. Failed creates that reach the substrate can hold at most the client's cap: once they fill it, the next create is refused before its substrate call. The cost is that a repeatable failure that never creates a pod (network-slot or cancel-storm backpressure, an unresolvable placement, an apiserver that rejects the pod) turns into a live-cap 429 for up to 30 s once a client's failed attempts fill its cap. On the shared unknown cap one unlisted client's failures do that for every unlisted client. Releasing at once on failures the substrate knows came before the pod create needs that signal plumbed out of the substrate, which this PR doesn't do. a_reservation_whose_pod_may_exist_lapses_when_dropped covers the reservation side.
An unconfirmed pod. Wherever a pod may exist after an error (a create that fails and whose follow-up read fails too, a stale-pod cleanup that fails after the read found the pod, a failed cross-node re-drive, or a failed restore wake), the reservation is kept rather than released and lapses after one TTL. A re-drive or wake error that left no pod overcounts the same way for that TTL. This departs from the RFC, which releases on every failure path: a client whose broken sandbox keeps failing to restore under a retry loop stays counted for that sandbox until the retries stop. No test drives these paths: they need an apiserver double that fails the create and the read, or the cleanup, wired to a Redis-backed cap.
A sandbox whose pod is deleting. A deleting pod stops counting at once, so a pod stuck terminating on a lost node never holds its client's slot. The cost: while it's deleting, its sandbox counts nowhere, so if the client fills its cap in that window, a later rebuild of that sandbox (an implicit wake or reconnect) is refused at the cap, and an uncapped replacement such as an evacuation can put the client one over.
Override ids during a flag outage. The cap reads the quotas flag's overrides ids through the concurrency limiter's own decode, so the two agree while the flag resolves. When it stops resolving, the cap keeps the last good value for KEY_SET_STALENESS (10 minutes) and the limiter drops it at once, so for that long an id listed only in overrides is its own key here and unspecified there.
A cap configured but unable to count. The recovery pre-checks skip their pod-store scan and record read only when no cap is configured. With a cap set but attribution off or no Redis URL, they still do that work before the cap admits.
A watch that stalls without an error. The count trusts the reflector until a watch error, a re-list or the end of the stream. A connection that stalls silently is caught by the watcher's idle timeout (the apiserver's 290 s watch timeout plus a margin), and is trusted until then, up to about 295 s. The RFC instead marks the cache stale after POD_CACHE_STALENESS of quiet; that isn't implemented, because a quiet watch on an idle namespace is healthy, and kube-runtime doesn't surface bookmarks to the event stream as a liveness signal. Bounding it means a shorter watcher timeout or a heartbeat.
Site-level tests. The create and lifecycle reserve sites aren't covered by a controller-level test. Their invariants are tested at the cap and substrate level (below).
AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the code, tests and this description from the RFC.
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Walkthrough
The pull request adds per-client live-sandbox cap enforcement. It adds Redis-backed pending reservations, Kubernetes live-pod counting, and shared live-count types. It connects cap checks to cluster admission, recovery charges, sandbox lifecycle paths, pod creation, wake, restore, and teardown. It also updates metrics, configuration, tests, and ECW documentation.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 2c521
The per-client live-sandbox cap is off by default, and the earlier review concerns about its reservation handling are fixed in the current code. The cap still changes how sandboxes are created, woken, restored and torn down, and this has not been validated in a Kind or deployed environment. A fork replay under a different client can still reuse the first client's target, which is a narrow edge case and not part of this change. Owners should accept or validate the lifecycle paths before enabling the cap.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 2c521
When enabled, the new cap lets an authenticated caller choose which named client's capacity is charged, potentially blocking that client's future activations. Caps are disabled by default, and several outage conditions deliberately relax enforcement, so this is a best-effort guardrail rather than a strong client-isolation boundary.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: When caps and attribution are enabled, an authenticated ECW caller can submit another listed client's X-Client-ID and create its own sandboxes against that client's live budget. The API authenticates the caller's organization but does not bind this header to it; counting is client-label-based rather than organization-scoped. Keeping those runtimes alive can cause the targeted client's future activations to receive 429 responses without accessing its sandboxes. Caller-selected attribution already existed, but this PR extends its effect from request concurrency to runtime-lifetime admission denial. Exposure depends on whether a trusted upstream control overrides or validates the header, which was not evidenced.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The independently targetable scope is named client budgets in the shared Kubernetes sandbox inventory, potentially spanning organizations because counting has no organization filter. An attacker needs valid ECW credentials and permission and capacity to create its own sandboxes, but does not need authority over the targeted client's sandboxes.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — Submitting a targeted listed ID on authenticated creates can populate that client's pending and visible counts with attacker-owned runtimes. Once the cap is filled, legitimate activations using that ID are refused. Unlike the pre-existing request-concurrency charge, this denial can persist after the attacking requests finish.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — ECW API-key authentication and federated-owner validation remain separate controls. The live cap adds a restrictive admission decision, not an access grant. Its reservation ownership controls prevent one attempt's release or teardown snapshot from indiscriminately removing another attempt's reservation, but do not authenticate the chosen client label.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Redis failures, a cold reflector, disabled attribution and unsupported counting admit deliberately. A stale reflector instead counts pending admissions alone. Consequently, enforcement is not a strict lifetime ceiling during degraded operation; decision reasons distinguish these modes, and the inspected stale-cache test explicitly expects existing frozen pods not to count.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — If the cap must isolate mutually untrusted clients, derive its charging identity from an authenticated principal or validate allowed client aliases against that principal. Alternatively, enforce a trusted ingress override and explicitly document the cap as unsuitable for isolation when callers can choose the header.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/client_live_cap/mod.rs:
- Around line 161-184: Update FlagRetention and the check_for flow so the last
raw quotas flag value is stored alongside its parsed entry; call
QuotasFlag::parse only when the resolved raw value differs from the retained
value, then update both together. Reuse the existing parsed entry for unchanged
values so parse and decode_field warnings occur only when the flag changes.
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Minor · Do not adopt a pool sandbox after its live reservation has lapsed. · reservation.rs:102-135
crates/l40_api/api/src/client_live_cap/reservation.rs:102-135 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not adopt a pool sandbox after its live reservation has lapsed.
When swap returns 0, the planned reservation no longer protects a cap slot. The adoption caller currently ignores that result and labels the pool pod anyway. If another admission takes the freed slot before this claim is adopted, the adopted pod has no pending member while the reflector is delayed, so the next admission can exceed the cap.
Propagate the missing-owner result separately from Redis errors. At queries.rs, abort and roll back the pool adoption before relabeling, or perform a fresh cap-checked reservation for the adopted sandbox. Keep Redis errors on the existing intentional fail-open path.
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lines 102 - 135:
Update LiveCapReservation::swap and its adoption caller in queries.rs to
distinguish a missing or lapsed reservation from Redis errors: propagate the
missing-reservation outcome, then abort and roll back pool adoption before
relabeling or obtain a fresh cap-checked reservation for the adopted sandbox.
Preserve the existing intentional fail-open behavior for Redis errors.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/client_live_cap/reservation.rs:
- Around line 102-135: Update LiveCapReservation::swap and its adoption caller
in queries.rs to distinguish a missing or lapsed reservation from Redis errors:
propagate the missing-reservation outcome, then abort and roll back pool
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On the outside-diff comment about adopting a warm-pool sandbox after its reservation lapsed (client_live_cap/reservation.rs, LiveReservation::swap): leaving it as it is. While the create holds its reservation, the renewer refreshes the member every 10 seconds against a 30-second TTL. So swap finds nothing to move only after two or three renewals in a row have failed, which means Redis has been failing for 20 to 30 seconds. Its other cause, a forget, needs a delete or suspend of the create's own planned id. In that state the cap already admits by design: a Redis error fails open, as docs/configuration.md says. Aborting the adoption, or re-reserving, only on the Ok(false) arm would refuse or retry on a Redis outage, while the same outage at reserve time admits. The adopted pod is labeled before the create commits, so the reflectors count it once its watch event lands, and only that window goes uncovered.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/sandbox/lifecycle.rs:
- Around line 1693-1707: Update reconnect_controller_error_outcome and its use
in the reconnect error path to distinguish live_cap_controller_error refusals
from cluster-admission 429s, assigning live-cap refusals a distinct reason or
excluding them from the reconnect series. Preserve exhausted/wait_budget for
bare cluster-admission 429s, and use a reliable error-source distinction rather
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263-273: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Remove the redundant ClientLiveCap built inside new and with_config.
ClusterSandboxAdmission::new builds a ClientLiveCap with ClientLiveCap::new. It then calls with_config, which builds a second ClientLiveCap with the default config. with_live_cap immediately replaces that second cap.
Each ClientLiveCap::with_config can build a PendingSet and its Redis pool when it has a Redis URL and a cap. The default config has no cap, so the extra pool is not built today. The pattern still invites a mistake if the default changes.
A cleaner shape is to have with_config take the ClientLiveCap as an argument, or to have new build the struct directly. The current form also hides which cap an instance uses until with_live_cap runs.
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Update ClusterSandboxAdmission::new and with_config so each instance constructs
and retains only one ClientLiveCap, rather than creating a default cap and
immediately replacing it with the configured cap. Preserve the supplied
substrate, feature flags, and admission configuration while making the chosen
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/cluster_admission/mod.rs:
- Around line 263-273: Update ClusterSandboxAdmission::new and with_config so
each instance constructs and retains only one ClientLiveCap, rather than
creating a default cap and immediately replacing it with the configured cap.
Preserve the supplied substrate, feature flags, and admission configuration
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- Line 379: Remove metric-tag tuple assertions from both reconnect tests. In the
first test, assert the error kinds of refused and saturated using
is_live_cap_refusal() and is_cluster_admission_rejection(); in the second,
remove the reconnect_error_outcome binding and tag assertion while retaining the
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Exercise client attribution in the setup parity test.
Both fixtures pass client_id: None. The equality assertion still passes if a create path drops every supplied client ID. Give both requests the same non-None ID, and assert that the resolved setup and cold runtime metadata retain it. This protects the client label used by live-cap counting. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/per_sandbox_setup/tests.rs at line 65:
Update the setup parity test fixtures to use the same non-None client ID, then assert that both the resolved setup and cold runtime metadata retain it. Keep the existing parity assertion so the test covers client attribution as well as equality.
If the patch sends false instead of null, value.as_str() returns None. The rollback tests then count the patch as a label removal. Accept Value::Null for removal and reject other non-string values. The production merge patch uses null to remove the label. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/pool/tests.rs at line 1294:
Update the clear-patch value handling around value.as_str() so JSON null is accepted as label removal, string values remain valid labels, and other non-string values such as false are rejected rather than counted as removals. Preserve the production merge-patch semantics and ensure the rollback tests cover both null removal and rejection of invalid values.
This test discards a fallible result. Propagate the error so the test requires resolve_pod_ip to complete, as well as requiring the record and execution state to match. As per coding guidelines, “No new let _ = some_fallible_call().”
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- let _ = substrate.resolve_pod_ip(sandbox_id).await;+ substrate.resolve_pod_ip(sandbox_id).await?;
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/tests/activating_client.rs at line 352:
Update the test containing the call to substrate.resolve_pod_ip so it propagates the fallible result and fails if pod resolution fails, while preserving the existing record and execution-state assertions.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/sandbox/queries.rs:
- Line 1645: Update rollback_created_sandbox to forget the sandbox’s live-cap
member only after teardown is confirmed, including when the sandbox is already
absent; preserve the member if deletion fails because the pod may still exist.
Reuse the existing forget_live_sandbox behavior used by the lifecycle delete
path.
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@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/execution.rs:
- Around line 1524-1527: In restore_execution_inner, transfer the preclaimed
live reservation to the detached wake leader instead of leaving it in the
caller-driven future. Keep the reservation counted until pod creation or
termination completes, then call keep() from the leader; preserve the existing
non-preclaimed path. Add a cancellation regression test at the owning layer
using controlled time to verify the reservation remains held after the HTTP
caller disconnects.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/pod_ops/ensure_pod.rs:
- Around line 574-576: In the pod-create flow around
check_live_cap_for_pod_create, first use
redrive_unschedulable_restore_cross_node’s authoritative pod check to determine
whether a successor is needed; retain an already-bound pod without checking the
cap, and run the cap check only when creating a successor.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/fork_operations.rs:
- Line 995: Update the fork replay checks in the early replay probe and locked
admission to require the stored payload’s client_id to match the incoming
client_id. Preserve replay of older payloads that have no client_id, and keep
the existing fingerprint checks unchanged.
---
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Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/per_sandbox_setup/tests.rs:
- Line 65: Update the setup parity test fixtures to use the same non-None client
ID, then assert that both the resolved setup and cold runtime metadata retain
it. Keep the existing parity assertion so the test covers client attribution as
well as equality.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/pool/tests.rs:
- Line 1294: Update the clear-patch value handling around value.as_str() so JSON
null is accepted as label removal, string values remain valid labels, and other
non-string values such as false are rejected rather than counted as removals.
Preserve the production merge-patch semantics and ensure the rollback tests
cover both null removal and rejection of invalid values.
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@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/tests/activating_client.rs:
- Line 352: Update the test containing the call to substrate.resolve_pod_ip so
it propagates the fallible result and fails if pod resolution fails, while
preserving the existing record and execution-state assertions.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/sandbox/spaced.rs:
- Line 678: Update the implicit-wake flow in connect_spaced_runtime_client to
transfer the reservation through RestoreClaimHandling.live to the detached wake
leader instead of passing only live.is_some() as the charge. In the claim-winner
block, retain the handed-in reservation when decide_restore_claim_cap returns
none, and do not overwrite it with a newly derived reservation.
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@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/tests.rs:
- Line 6146: Update the wait on request_started in the restore test so pod
creation cannot leave the test blocked indefinitely: apply a bounded timeout and
concurrently detect if handler completes first, failing the test in that case.
Preserve the existing permit consumption behavior when the request starts.
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- Around line 2345-2346: Update the suspended branch in the lifecycle flow
around `forget_live_sandbox` to pass the owner or generation held by that
suspend execution, and propagate it through the Redis cleanup so only that
reservation is removed while other owners’ members remain. Add a regression test
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1. In `crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/mod.rs` at line 2075,
either: - remove `#[cfg_attr(not(feature = "kubernetes"),
allow(unused_variables))]` and use the unused parameters in a way that does not
need a lint suppression (for example, bind them to `_`-prefixed names in the
non-Kubernetes arm, or pass them through a `cfg`-gated block), or - keep the
attribute and add a specific reason in an adjacent comment or in the attribute,
for example `#[cfg_attr(not(feature = "kubernetes"), expect(unused_variables,
reason = "..."))]`, naming why the parameters are unused when the `kubernetes`
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/client_live_cap/live_pending.lua:
- Around line 80-82: Update prune to remove all expired members from the
client’s sorted set before checking affected sandboxes, then check each distinct
sandbox only once with holds_any and remove the client index when no live
membership remains. Preserve the empty-client cleanup currently performed
through drop_entry, while leaving release and forget behavior unchanged.
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`#[cfg_attr(not(feature = "kubernetes"), allow(unused_variables))]` attribute.
Avoid the suppression in the non-Kubernetes build by binding the unused
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"kubernetes")]`. - Keep the attribute and add a reason, for example
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Summary
Adds a per-client live cap: the most sandboxes with a live runtime one ECW client key may hold at once. It's built to the per-client admission RFC in PR #1072 (
docs/space/rfcs/2026-10-28-substrate-independent-client-admission.md): Decision 5 ("one count interface"), Decision 6 ("how the limits compose") and the "Per-client live cap" row of "What to keep, rework or drop". It ships off: with neither new variable set, nothing is capped and no Redis call is made.Counting (Decision 5).
Substrate::live_sandboxes_for_client(ids, activating, already_pending)is a synchronous cache read:kubernetes/client_live_pods.rs). It mapsspace.pplx.net/client-id→ sandbox → qualifying pods, and pending pods count; terminal and deleting pods don't, as in the network-slot index, so a pod stuck terminating on a lost node doesn't hold its client's slot. Nor does a drain's stopped re-placement pod (checkpointstopped-materialization), which runs no VM, so a re-placedstoppedsandbox counts like one whose pod ended with its VM. It's updated from the same watch events and rebuilt whole on a re-list, like the network-slot index. A cold reflector answersUnknown(PodCacheCold). It answersUnknown(PodCacheStale)from a watch error or the end of its stream until the next live event, and during a re-list until the rebuilt index is in. A watch that's merely quiet stays trusted: the watcher reconnects a watch that's idle past its timeout. While stale, the cap counts the pending set alone: a frozen index never causes a refusal, and admissions within one pending window stay under the cap.Unknown(Unsupported), and the cap admits.client_live_cap/live_pending.lua) records admissions the reflectors haven't seen yet, in Redis next to the existing buckets. It keeps one sorted set per client id whose entries are each reservation's sandbox and owner token, each with its own expiry (a sandbox counts once while any of its entries is live), an id registry forunknown's count, and a sandbox → ids companion for teardown. Every key shares one hash tag. A check reads the pending members, counts the visible sandboxes not among them, then runs a reserve script at the same cutoff. The script refuses at the cap, asks for a redo when it would refuse on members the read missed (at most three passes), and refuses to decide on a cutoff older than the grace.LiveReservation. A background task renews it while the activation runs.keep()on success lets it lapse after 30 s, which covers the watch delay. Dropping it on any failure removes only that attempt's entry. A reservation rides in its activation's charge, so a detached wake leader that outlives the request takes it over. A confirmed delete (or a node that had no such sandbox), a create's rollback and a suspend, which remove the sandbox's pods, snapshot its entries before their substrate call and forget exactly those afterwards, so an activation that reserves in between keeps counting; a failed delete leaves them to lapse.Where the cap runs (Decision 6). The
CapPolicythat PR #1068 stamps on every path now decides it:Reserved, before any cluster token is spent:createdorstoppedsandbox.ReserveAtClaim: the Kubernetes lease winner decides it. A fresh claim reserves before its charge and becomesReserved. A takeover of a lapsedrestoringlease becomesCheck, after a read-only pre-check when no reusable pod is visible, so a client at its cap doesn't pay a token on every takeover retry. The reservation rides with the detached wake leader, so a disconnected caller doesn't uncount a restore that's still running.Check:ensure_pod_existschecks on the branch that's about to create a pod, and before the retry path's cross-node re-drive. A refusal abandons the claim it created and returns a refused charge. The charge reaches it throughPodMaterializationOwnership::with_charge.start_execution's stale-snapshot cold start) run a read-only pre-check when the reflector shows no reusable pod (ready, not being deleted) for the sandbox, so a client at its cap doesn't spend a cluster token on every retry.Refusal. A
429with the cluster limiter's jitteredRetry-Afterand a message naming the key and cap. It carries no cluster-backpressure cause, so the async dispatcher retries it against its attempt budget.control_runtime_clientalready passes a429from its first call through, and its fallback wake is itself checked.Caps. There are two env defaults:
SPACE_API_CLIENT_LIVE_CAP_PER_CLIENTfor listed keys, andSPACE_API_CLIENT_LIVE_CAP_UNKNOWN, which every unlisted id shares. Unset or0means no cap, andnativeis never capped. The quotas flag gains alivemap (unknownsets the shared cap). An entry applies only while the env default for that key is set, and a0entry is ignored: the flag tunes and assigns the caps the environment enabled. Naming an id in the flag moves it fromunknownto its own key under the per-client default. When the flag stops resolving, its last valid value stands for 10 minutes (RFCKEY_SET_STALENESS), then the env allowlist alone applies. The key set is the env allowlist plus, while the per-client default is set, the flag'sliveids and itsoverridesids (the latter while the concurrency limiter isn'toff). So a flag entry can't move an id out from underunknown's cap into no cap. Each decision is counted insandbox.api.client_live_cap.decision, tagged with the check, decision, reason and resolved key. A refusal carries its own error kind, andActivationRejectionKind::LiveCapwhere admission rejections are classified, at request entry and from the pod-create check alike: a wake it refuses records on the reconnect series asrejected/rate_limited, like a concurrency-limiter refusal, not as thewait_budgetcluster-saturation tag, and it isn't counted as a cluster admission rejection. The cap counts only while the base'sSPACE_ACTIVATION_CLIENT_ATTRIBUTION_ENABLEDis on: with it off, pods carry no client label, and counting the pending set alone would cap a 30 s admission rate rather than live sandboxes, so every check admits. Every fail-open case has its own reason (misconfigured,store_unavailable,unsupported,pod_cache_cold,attribution_disabled), and so does the pending-only check of a stale cache (pod_cache_stale).Docs:
docs/configuration.md(variables, plus a "Live cap" section),docs/ecw.md, and thedirect.rsmodule doc.Validation
At this head, on a Linux devbox: workspace
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warningsis clean, and the affected tests at CI's opt-level 0 (client_live_cap,client_live_pods,recovery_charge, theensure_pod_existscap-policy cases, the access, ports and spaced paths,cluster_admission, lifecycle and delete paths, e2b) pass, and so does the rest ofpplx-space-api,pplx-space-metricsand the DB fixtures: the full workspace (11317 of 11318 unprivileged; the one failure, node-mgr'sstopped_unbound_snapshot_reaches_filesystem_without_allocating, and the privileged lane's six fs-verity,contained_launcherandspaced-guest-workerfailures are this devbox's environment, in crates this PR doesn't touch), against a real Redis and Postgres. With attribution off, the cap admits without counting (drop the guard):attribution_off_admits_without_countingfails. Nothing revives a lapsed member past the cap:a_lapsed_member_is_never_revived_past_the_capfails when a reserve renews against the read's cutoff instead of now, and when renew and swap ignore the member's expiry. CI's full run, Kind smoke included, passed on an earlier head; CI on this head covers the rest.The full-workspace and mutation results below are from an earlier head. On a Linux devbox:
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings: clean.cargo arch: no required findings.client_live_cap,client_live_pods,recovery_charge, theensure_pod_existscap-policy cases,sandbox_pod_view,pod_reflector,cluster_admission): 83 passed, against a real Redis and Postgres.run-rust-checks.sh tests-unprivileged: 10957 of 10958 passed.tests-privileged: 61 of 67 passed. Every failure is a test that fails on this kind of devbox atmainfor environment reasons, and CI's lanes cover them: node-mgrstopped_unbound_snapshot_reaches_filesystem_without_allocating, and in the privileged lane the fs-verity trio, twocontained_launcher"unsafe ancestors" tests andspaced-guest-worker::embedding.total = visible):the_pending_set_counts_admissions_the_reflector_has_not_seenfails.a_running_sandbox_is_never_refusedandthe_activating_sandbox_and_pending_ones_never_countfail.a_pending_sandbox_the_reflector_shows_counts_oncefails.Known(0)):direct_admits_as_unknownfails.ensure_pod_existschecks aCheckcharge (dropCheckfrom the policy match):a_pod_create_is_checked_against_the_live_cap_by_its_cap_policyfails.a_failed_attempt_never_uncounts_a_siblingfails.a_kept_member_lapses_after_its_ttl_or_when_forgottenfails.Not validated: a Kind or deployed smoke run, so the cap is untested end to end through ECW handlers and the dispatcher. The create and lifecycle reserve sites have no controller-level test.
Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply. This is a new guardrail, off by default.
Risk: with no cap set, the new code paths return before any Redis call. The changes outside the cap are a new reflector index on the watch path (a few map updates per pod event), the
RecoveryChargeconstructors now carrying the admission handle, and teardown'sforget(a no-op without a cap). With a cap set, the main risk is a wrong refusal, a429on a create or wake under the cap. Every uncertain count fails open, and a refused attempt removes only its own pending member. To roll back, unset both variables. Nothing persistent is written outside Redis keys that expire on their own.Dependencies
None outstanding. It builds on PR #1068 (
ActivationClient, the record, the pod label, the attribution switch that gates both, and theChargeState/CapPolicysplit) and PR #1061 (ActivationRejectionKind), both merged; this PR's base ismain.Not covered
Pendingand schedulable, so a pod on a lost node never passes as reusable. The cost: a restore pod that'sRunningbut not yet ready doesn't skip the pre-check, so a client already at its cap gets a retryable 429 for that takeover, and a retry once the pod is ready reuses it. It over-refuses; it never admits past the cap.client_live_capfrom the same inputs (env allowlist, quotas flag) and should move onto PR [api] tag limiter decisions and reconnect metrics with the bounded client id #1058's resolver once both land. Until then, a non-label allowlist entry is ignored here rather than warned about.KEY_SET_STALENESS(10 minutes).SPACE_API_CLIENT_QUOTAS_FLAG_REQUIRED, and counting each unlisted id on its own while degraded, are resolver behavior, so they're left to that move. Past the 10 minutes, an outage falls back to the env allowlist, as the RFC specifies when the flag isn't declared required: flag-listed clients count underunknownuntil the flag resolves again.Unknown(Unsupported), so the outcome (admit, before any Redis round trip) is the same. Closing the gap also needs a Direct point that reserves for aReserveAtClaimcharge and checks aCheckone, withRecoveryCharge's live-cap methods built without thekubernetesfeature. It's a row in thedirect.rsgap table. Calling it there would change Direct, which belongs in its own PR.Checkrefusal fromensure_pod_existsduring a lease winner's wake drive runs the wake's existing failure cleanup, which reverts the restore claim, rather than a separate refused-charge release. The outcome is the same, and the refusal reaches the caller as the429.ensure_pod_existsrefuses it. Matching only the current generation would instead risk refusing a running sandbox.SPACE_API_CLIENT_LIVE_CAP_*variables have to be set there too;docs/configuration.mdsays so.unknown. Such a client can be refused a connect to a sandbox whose pod isRunningbut not yet ready (the pre-checks treat only a ready pod, or aPendingone the scheduler hasn't marked Unschedulable, as reusable, so a pod left on a lost node or an unschedulable pinned restore doesn't skip them). The same holds for a pod another replica created that this replica's reflector hasn't seen yet: the pre-check, andensure_pod_exists's own check before its create, both run before the create's conflict path would find it. A client at or under its cap isn't affected.docs/configuration.mdsays to turn attribution on first.429for up to 30 s once a client's failed attempts fill its cap. On the sharedunknowncap one unlisted client's failures do that for every unlisted client. Releasing at once on failures the substrate knows came before the pod create needs that signal plumbed out of the substrate, which this PR doesn't do.a_reservation_whose_pod_may_exist_lapses_when_droppedcovers the reservation side.overridesids through the concurrency limiter's own decode, so the two agree while the flag resolves. When it stops resolving, the cap keeps the last good value forKEY_SET_STALENESS(10 minutes) and the limiter drops it at once, so for that long an id listed only inoverridesis its own key here and unspecified there.POD_CACHE_STALENESSof quiet; that isn't implemented, because a quiet watch on an idle namespace is healthy, and kube-runtime doesn't surface bookmarks to the event stream as a liveness signal. Bounding it means a shorter watcher timeout or a heartbeat.AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the code, tests and this description from the RFC.