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Summary

The snapshot-retention sweeper now reclaims a stopped sandbox's disk snapshots, not only full ones. Before this, discovery, the claim, claimed-row recovery and the finalize floor recheck all filtered type = 'full', so a disk row's S3 bytes were never reclaimed. Every evacuation of a stopped sandbox publishes a disk artifact, and each later evacuation of the same sandbox leaves the previous one behind, so without this they accumulate for good.

A ready disk row with artifact_origin = 'stop' (a node-drain evacuation or an execution retire's backup) is now pruned once it's past min_age, unless the existing restore-source guard shields it. These rows have no keep-N floor, and they don't count toward a full row's floor. full rows keep the keep-newest-keep_n policy exactly as before.

Named disk snapshots (artifact_origin = 'snapshot', such as a fork capture) stay unswept on purpose, as on main. Nothing pins one, restore-as-new loads them and the public snapshot list shows them, and once a backup is in, the node's snapshot GC may drop the local copy, so the S3 copy can be the only one. Fork-copied disk rows (fork), which the fork operation retires itself, and legacy disk rows without an artifact origin stay unswept too.

Nothing else protects stop rows. snapshot_is_live_restore_source, which is kind-agnostic, shields the pinned disk artifact that the stopped restore selectors load (they select only by pin), including every backup attempt of that artifact, and including a restoring row that the evacuation restore sweep re-places as stopped. Node drain can still reuse an unpinned stop row: when sbx-mgr finds a ready backup of the node's current artifact, drain pins it instead of uploading again. Pruning such a row before the pin lands costs an upload, not the data: the stopped evacuation's teardown waits for a ready disk row matching the pin before it releases the source node, and the next drain tick finds no backup and uploads again.

ClaimRefusalReason::SnapshotNotFull and its snapshot_not_full metric tag are removed. A claim on an unswept disk row is refused as keep_n_floor. Comments in node drain, the sandbox store's drain writes, the stuck-snapshot reaper and the stopped restore selector that described disk rows as outside the sweep now say what's true.

Validation

At this head, on a Linux devbox:

• pplx-space-snapshot-retention tests: 79 passed. New tests in tests/postgres/disk_artifacts.rs:
  • a live sweep with keep_n = 5 prunes four superseded stop rows past min_age, and keeps both backup attempts of the pinned artifact and a younger unpinned row;
  • a restoring row with evacuation_restore_target = 'stopped' keeps its pinned disk rows while the unpinned ones are candidates;
  • named, fork-copied and origin-less disk rows past the gate are neither candidates nor claimable, against a stop row that is;
  • newer stop rows don't satisfy a full row's floor, every unpinned stop row past the gate is prunable, the newest included, and finalize reports no floor breach for it;
  • a parked disk claim pages through recovery.
• Against main's store, all five fail.
• Eleven mutants of the new branches each fail at least one of these tests: sweeping disk rows of any origin from discovery or the claim, comparing the claim's origin with = (a NULL origin then fails the claim with a decode error), dropping the restore-source guard from discovery or the claim, excluding stop rows from discovery or the claim, letting disk rows count toward the full floor, dropping the disk arm of the finalize floor, and restoring the full-only scope of either claimed-recovery query.
• Discovery over one sandbox's history (keep_n = 3, 2,000-candidate page) stays flat: 53 ms for 2,000 stop rows, 60 ms for 5,000 and 76 ms for 20,000, against 63 ms and 91 ms for 2,000 and 5,000 full rows.
• Full workspace, ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh tests-unprivileged: 11,426 passed. The privileged lane wasn't re-run at this head; CI's lanes run it.
• cargo clippy -D warnings on the changed crates and their dependents.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. Unbounded S3 growth once stopped-sandbox evacuation is turned on. Nothing is wrong until then.

Risk: the sweeper now deletes stop disk rows. One that's unpinned, outside any retry window and past min_age is deleted even if it's the sandbox's newest. The restore paths that load these select only by pin, and the evacuation re-uploads an artifact whose row is gone. If the sweep claims a row between sbx-mgr's backup check and drain's pin write, and the pin lands before finalize, finalize also logs a current-artifact breach and bumps snapshot_retention_sweeper.current_artifact_breached for it, though nothing is lost; that window needs drain to reuse a backup more than min_age old. Roll back by reverting this change, or by turning the sweeper off or into dry run (SPACE_SNAPSHOT_RETENTION_SWEEPER_ENABLED, SPACE_SNAPSHOT_RETENTION_SWEEPER_DRY_RUN). Dry run reports the disk rows it would prune, so an environment can check the new candidates before deleting.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests and this description, under the author's direction and review.

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Why: The sweeper will now delete aged stop-origin disk backups. The restore-source guard and new tests bound the risk, but this deletion behavior warrants explicit acceptance before merging.

Commit: e10d501d1564.

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Walkthrough

The retention sweep now considers eligible, ready stop-origin disk snapshots for pruning, subject to the age gate and restore-source protection. Full snapshots retain the keep-N floor. Recovery scans include deleting snapshots of any type. PostgreSQL tests cover disk-row eligibility, restore-source protection, and recovery behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1406: Both PRs update record_stopped_evacuation_artifact documentation to describe protection of the stopped sandbox’s stop disk snapshot.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to e10d5

The sweeper will now delete aged stop-origin disk backups. The restore-source guard and new tests bound the risk, but this deletion behavior warrants explicit acceptance before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 4a7ff

Automatic deletion now covers an additional class of backups. Restore-source protections and source-release checks limit the exposure, and no newly introduced security flaw was demonstrated. Some retry and rollback assumptions remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The expanded authority is destructive access to eligible stop-origin disk backup prefixes and their catalog records across the sandboxes processed by retention. It is not merely an API annotation change. Effective tenant and environment exposure additionally depends on deployment database and object-storage authority, which was not established here.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Discovery alone does not authorize deletion. Claim admission coordinates with fork-source operations, locks the owning sandbox and snapshot, and revalidates readiness, restore protection, age, and the exact usable storage location. Encrypted or changed locations are refused before the destructive workflow proceeds.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Evacuation can record a pin after retention has claimed its backup because that marker write does not reject deleting snapshots. However, the post-pin authorization requires a ready backup matching the current disk artifact before local teardown. For this interleaving, the deleting row fails authorization and the local source is retained. The subsequent node-side reupload completion path remains only partially verified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define a rollback procedure that reconciles pending disk deletion claims before returning to a full-only recovery version. This would preserve cleanup ownership across rollback; it is an operational proposal, not an observed security defect.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title uses the bracketed area prefix "[snapshot-retention]" followed by a lowercase summary ("reclaim stopped-sandbox disk snapshots..."), which matches the required format. It has no trailing per…
Description Follows The Pr Template		The description contains all required template items: a substantive ## Summary, a ## Validation section with named tests and results, a ## Severity and risk section with severity and risk, and a…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The pull request fixes application behavior under crates/. Its Validation section reports 79 passing retention tests and states that all five new disk-artifact tests fail against main's store. The…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff does not remove or weaken a test, assertion, lint, CI check, or repository guard without justification. The old SnapshotNotFull claim case in `crates/l40_api/snapshot/retention/src/tests.rs…
Public-Safe Content		PASS. The reviewed diff adds no credentials, private keys, internal URLs, cloud account IDs, real resource ARNs, workstation paths, private links, production logs, incident details, or undisclosed sec…

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The title uses the bracketed area prefix "[snapshot-retention]" followed by a lowercase summary ("reclaim stopped-sandbox disk snapshots..."), which matches the required format. It has no trailing period and no ticket ID. It names the main change: the sweeper now reclaims stop-origin disk snapshots past the age gate, guarded by the restore-source check, and the objectives and summaries confirm this.

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The description contains all required template items: a substantive ## Summary, a ## Validation section with named tests and results, a ## Severity and risk section with severity and risk, and an AI assistance: line identifying Claude Code and the drafted content.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

The pull request fixes application behavior under crates/. Its Validation section reports 79 passing retention tests and states that all five new disk-artifact tests fail against main's store. The added tests include sweep_keeps_pinned_and_young_disk_rows_and_prunes_the_superseded_ones, restoring_stopped_evacuation_keeps_its_pinned_disk_source, and full_keep_n_is_unchanged_by_disk_rows, which directly cover the changed retention behavior.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

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The diff does not remove or weaken a test, assertion, lint, CI check, or repository guard without justification. The old SnapshotNotFull claim case in crates/l40_api/snapshot/retention/src/tests.rs is replaced by disk_artifacts.rs coverage for unswept disk origins and KeepNFloor; the description explains the changed claim semantics. The new tests also cover pruning, age gating, restore-source protection, keep-N isolation, and recovery. No lint, CI, allowlist, baseline, or test-configuration files changed.

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- Around line 277-299: Update the stopped disk/stop eligibility predicate in
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• crates/libs/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/store/k8s_store_postgres_tests/stopped_restore_selector_tests.rs
• crates/libs/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/store/restore_source.rs
• crates/libs/cluster/controller/server/src/node_drain/store.rs
• crates/libs/cluster/controller/server/src/node_drain/store/stopped_evacuation_tests.rs
• crates/libs/cluster/controller/server/src/stuck_snapshot_reaper/store.rs
• crates/libs/metrics/src/snapshot_retention_sweeper.rs
• crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/drain.rs
• crates/libs/snapshot/retention/src/lib.rs
• crates/libs/snapshot/retention/src/store.rs
• crates/libs/snapshot/retention/src/tests.rs
• crates/libs/snapshot/retention/src/tests/postgres/disk_artifacts.rs

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• crates/libs/metrics/src/snapshot_retention_sweeper.rs

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