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Summary

A runtime upgrade attempt's final outcome now survives the deletion of its sandbox's row. An attempt refused for a stale suspended copy still gets its refusal back after a later attempt evicted the copy and the sandbox was staged again under the same id. Its delayed retry never fences or boots, and GetRuntimeUpgrade naming that attempt answers with it.

This is the last of eight pull requests split from this one's earlier, larger revision; PR #1708 and the api changes after it build on it.

Terms

• Attempt: one try at an operation, named by attempt_id. The Kubernetes shim sends its pod UID, so kubelet's retries of one pod continue one attempt.
• Final for an attempt: a rollback or refusal recorded in sandbox_runtime_upgrade_attempt_outcomes (or a refused start in sandbox_runtime_upgrade_refused_attempts), so that attempt's retries are answered from the record and never fence or boot.
• Stale-copy eviction: evict_stale_checkpoint_copy (crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/stale_copy.rs) deletes a backed-up suspended copy that isn't the checkpoint the upgrade was decided from, row included, so staging can bring the decided one.

The problem

The two per-attempt tables declared REFERENCES sandboxes(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, and delete_sandbox_child_rows deleted them too. So when attempt A was refused for a stale copy and attempt B's upgrade then evicted the copy, deleting the sandbox's row, A's recorded refusal went with it. Once B's stage restored the sandbox under the same id, A's delayed retry passed the finality check and could fence and boot the sandbox.

How this fixes it

• 20261112170005_sandbox_runtime_upgrade_per_attempt_rows_outlive_sandbox rebuilds both per-attempt tables without the foreign key, keeping every row and the _by_sandbox indexes, as sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned already has none. It sorts after the abandoned migration, 20261112170004.
• delete_sandbox_child_rows no longer deletes them (crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs).
• Its down migration refuses while a per-attempt row names a sandbox the node no longer holds: the foreign key it restores can't keep that row, and dropping the row would let that attempt's delayed retry fence or boot again.
• GetRuntimeUpgrade answers from the kept row (get_runtime_upgrade in crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs). A request naming an attempt whose outcome is final gets it even after the operation's report went with the sandbox's row, as that attempt's retries do, so a caller waiting on the attempt settles instead of running to its deadline: a rollback or refusal before the fence as the status, and a refused start as ABSENT with refused_attempt_id and refused_attempt_failure naming it, even once a later attempt's rollback, refusal or upgrade in progress is the operation's report. A request that names no attempt gets refused_attempt_id only beside a report that reached the target, so a kept refused start never rides along with a later attempt's unfinished report. The RUNTIME_UPGRADE_STATUS_ABSENT and refused_attempt_id comments in proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.proto, and their copies in the generated Go, say that finality holds across the sandbox row's deletion and why.
• Both RPCs check the kept row's sandbox (refuse_another_request in crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade.rs, runtime_upgrade_attempt_sandbox in the store). A kept row names the sandbox it was recorded for, so an UpgradeRuntime or GetRuntimeUpgrade naming another sandbox for that operation and attempt is refused with INVALID_ARGUMENT, not handed that attempt's outcome, though the live row and the operation's outcome that the identity check also reads are gone, and whether or not that other sandbox holds a report of the operation since. A kept refused start was recorded for a started target, so a retry of that attempt asking for a stopped one is refused with INVALID_ARGUMENT as another request, as it was while the operation's records stood, rather than fencing and booting.

Validation

• runtime_upgrade::stale_copy::tests::a_refused_attempts_retry_stays_refused_after_another_attempt_restages_the_sandbox: attempt A, sent without stage_from, is refused for the stale copy; attempt B evicts it, deleting the row; the sandbox is staged again under the same id on the decided checkpoint. A's retry under the same attempt id gets FAILED_PRECONDITION with its own refusal, asks nothing of node-manager and leaves the operation unrecorded. A GetRuntimeUpgrade naming A then answers REFUSED with A's failure, and an UpgradeRuntime or GetRuntimeUpgrade naming another sandbox answers INVALID_ARGUMENT. Restoring the attempt-outcome delete in delete_sandbox_child_rows, keeping the foreign key, dropping the report's fallback to the kept row, or dropping the kept row's sandbox from refuse_another_request fails it.
• runtime_upgrade::rpc::tests::a_refused_activation_stays_reported_after_its_sandbox_row_is_deleted: a started target already on its target refuses an attempt's activation, then the sandbox's row is deleted. The attempt's retry is still refused; a GetRuntimeUpgrade naming it answers ABSENT with refused_attempt_id and the recorded failure, also after the sandbox is staged again and another attempt's refusal, then a third attempt's upgrade in progress, becomes the report. One naming no attempt sees none beside those later reports, and one naming another attempt sees none. A retry of the attempt asking for a stopped target answers INVALID_ARGUMENT. Both RPCs refuse a request naming another sandbox with INVALID_ARGUMENT, before and after that sandbox holds a report of the operation. Dropping the refused-attempt answer, either clause that answers it beside a later attempt's report, the refused-attempts table from runtime_upgrade_attempt_sandbox, the sandbox check from either RPC, confining GetRuntimeUpgrade's check to a missing report, passing a kept refused start beside an unreached report to a request naming no attempt, letting a stopped-target retry of the attempt through, or treating ALREADY_ON_TARGET as unreached fails it or a_report_for_a_named_attempt_is_that_attempts_own.
• Store runtime_upgrades::tests: the attempt-outcome and refused-attempt records outlive the sandbox's row.
• pplx-space-db-migrate tests::runtime_upgrade_migrations_follow_their_predecessors_and_round_trip covers all five runtime-upgrade migrations: at the head neither per-attempt table references sandboxes; the fifth's down refuses with its guard's CHECK while a refused-attempt or attempt-outcome row names a deleted sandbox, then restores both foreign keys. Without the guard, or without either of its two terms, the test fails.
• pplx-space-db-migrate tests::the_per_attempt_foreign_key_migration_keeps_every_recorded_row: rows recorded in both tables before the fifth migration are there after it, unchanged and in order. An up migration that drops a column fails it.
• The full workspace run on a Linux devbox: clippy, the isolated-crates build and the architecture check pass, and the unprivileged tests pass (12,955). The privileged tests pass but for six in pplx-space-node-runtime-core, pplx-space-node-runtime-supervisor and pplx-space-spaced-guest-worker (verity sealing, the execution cache, the contained launcher, and the guest-worker embedding test). That devbox fails the same six on every head of this stack, and none of them touch the code this PR changes. That run predates only a proto comment change, so CI on this head covers the final tree.

Not covered

• sandbox_runtime_upgrade_attempt_outcomes and sandbox_runtime_upgrade_refused_attempts are never pruned, and neither is sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned. They're no longer deleted with the sandbox, so they grow by one row per attempt rolled back or refused, and per refused start, for as long as the node's database lives. A follow-up would prune all three by age, once no retry for an operation can still arrive: past the control plane's deadline for the operation, and only for a sandbox the node no longer holds.
• The per-attempt rows keep only the sandbox, not the operation's target or authorization. Once the sandbox's row is deleted, a request that reuses a kept attempt id with another target environment or authorization (or a stopped target beside a kept rollback or refusal) gets that attempt's final outcome as FAILED_PRECONDITION rather than INVALID_ARGUMENT. Nothing fences or boots for it; only a misbehaving client sends one.
• Since the per-attempt rows are never deleted, once a node records any attempt's rollback, refusal or refused start, the refused-attempts and attempt-outcomes down migrations refuse until an operator deletes those rows.
• After a sandbox is deleted and staged again, the report can still name a refused attempt from before the delete. That attempt was refused, so a caller waiting on its own attempt settles correctly.

Dependencies

PR #1756 (stacked base), the seventh of the eight. This merges after it. PR #1708 is based on this branch.

Rollout

Deploy sandbox-manager and node-api from this stack before any control plane that reads the attempt fields or calls AbandonRuntimeUpgrade. To roll sandbox-manager back, use a build that keeps all five runtime-upgrade migrations and their files under db/sandbox-manager/, as db/README.md requires.

Upgrading from an earlier revision of this change. Earlier revisions stamped these migrations as 20261106144509, 20261106220000, 20261107002711 and 20261107193000, and later as 20261110163611 to 20261110163614 plus 20261111020848, with per-pod tables and a pod_uid column. A database whose history holds any of them refuses this sandbox-manager at startup, since it doesn't bundle those versions. To move such a database forward, run the down migrations of the revision that wrote it, newest first; delete their history rows from _sqlx_migrations; then restart, and startup applies 20261112170001 to 20261112170005. The down migrations refuse while their rows are recorded (an abandoned operation, any pod's or attempt's outcome, a refused pod or attempt, a refused outcome, or a per-pod row whose sandbox is gone); delete those rows first.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. Without it, a refused attempt's delayed retry can fence and boot a sandbox that a later attempt's eviction restaged.

Risk: low. The migration rebuilds two tables at startup; the cost is that their rows now accumulate (see "Not covered"). Roll back by reverting the code; a binary rollback keeps the migration.

Docs

docs/execution-environments.md, "Booting an upgrade in its pod": the per-attempt rows outliving the sandbox, GetRuntimeUpgrade answering from them, the fifth migration's down guard, and the per-attempt down migrations staying blocked once rows exist.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, docs and this description.

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Walkthrough

The change retains per-attempt runtime-upgrade records after sandbox deletion by removing foreign keys and changing sandbox cleanup. The API associates records with sandbox IDs, rejects requests that name a different sandbox, and can return a matching attempt’s settled outcome or refused activation when the operation report is absent or reflects another attempt. Migration tests cover row preservation and rollback guards. API tests cover retained results, retries, and sandbox identity checks. Documentation and protocol comments describe the updated behavior.

Merge Risk: High · up to ddc8b

This change keeps per-attempt runtime-upgrade records after a sandbox is deleted, adds a schema migration, and makes the upgrade status API check which sandbox an attempt belongs to. It is well tested and fixes a real stale-retry problem. It still changes how sandbox rows are deleted and what is stored, and it adds a one-way migration step that blocks rollback while retained rows exist. Treat it as a high-care merge: confirm the rollout and rollback plan and the unbounded growth of the retained rows before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to ddc8b

The change strengthens retry safety by preserving final decisions after deletion and checking the recorded sandbox identity. No new authorization bypass was established. Longer-lived records and rollback compatibility remain the main operational risks.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The changed state resides in the sandbox manager’s local database and is keyed by operation and attempt, with a recorded sandbox identity. Access uses an existing node-level allowlist of root, operator, and node-api service principals rather than a tenant-scoped grant. The PR extends result availability after deletion without expanding that principal set.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Caller-supplied operation, attempt, and sandbox identifiers do not directly authorize execution. Both status and upgrade paths compare retained attempt ownership with the requested sandbox. UpgradeRuntime also retains its peer authorization and the additional start-context authorization required for staging.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The regression source exercises refusal, stale-copy eviction, deletion, fixture-based restaging under the same sandbox ID, and a delayed retry. It asserts that the retry makes no additional node-manager calls and receives its own refusal, while mismatched sandbox requests are rejected. Migration tests separately assert that orphaned records block rollback and leave the migration applied.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If retention cleanup is introduced, require a demonstrated end to replay reachability or preserve equivalent finality tombstones. Treat sandbox deletion and operator-driven rollback cleanup as insufficient reasons by themselves to erase these records.

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Title check		The title starts with the bracketed area [sbx-mgr], which matches the required area prefix format. It is followed by a lowercase summary that describes the main change: keeping a pod's runtime upgrade…
Description Follows The Pr Template		The PR description (PR #1707, author the-gigi-pplx) contains all four required items with real content. 1. ## Summary: Present. It states that a runtime upgrade attempt's final outcome survives de…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		Applicability. The check applies. The PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/. A refused runtime-upgrade attempt lost its finality when its sandbox row was deleted, so a delayed …
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff does not remove, disable, or weaken a test, assertion, lint, CI check, or repository guard without a stated reason. What I checked (base refs/coderabbit/pre-merge-check/base to head): - **S…
Agent Tooling Runs No New Commands		The check applies to agent plugin manifests, skills, and guideline files. The reviewed diff (base to head) changes 16 files: Rust sources and tests under crates/, SQL migrations under db/sandbox-manag…
Public-Safe Content		The Public-safe content check passes. I scanned the added lines of the full PR range (796 lines across the Rust, SQL, proto, Go, and docs files) and the PR title and description. - Secrets: No pri…

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The title starts with the bracketed area [sbx-mgr], which matches the required area prefix format. It is followed by a lowercase summary that describes the main change: keeping a pod's runtime upgrade finality records when its sandbox row is deleted. The summary aligns with the changeset, which keeps per-attempt rollback and refusal rows after sandbox deletion. The wording uses 'pod' while the code uses 'attempt', but the title still describes the main change accurately. No trailing period, ticket ID, or internal link is present.

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The PR description (PR #1707, author the-gigi-pplx) contains all four required items with real content. 1. ## Summary: Present. It states that a runtime upgrade attempt's final outcome survives deletion of its sandbox row, and describes the problem and the fix. 2. ## Validation: Present. It names specific tests (for example, a_refused_attempts_retry_stays_refused_after_another_attempt_restages_the_sandbox and runtime_upgrade_migrations_follow_their_predecessors_and_round_trip) and reports results, including the workspace run (clippy, isolated-crates build, architecture check, 12,955 unprivileged tests passing, six privileged failures attributed to the devbox). 3. ## Severity and risk: Present. It gives "Severity: medium" and "Risk: low", with explanations for each. 4. AI assistance line: Present. It reads "AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, docs and this description." Presence is the only criterion, so no code inspection was needed. The check passes.

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Applicability. The check applies. The PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/. A refused runtime-upgrade attempt lost its finality when its sandbox row was deleted, so a delayed retry could fence and boot a sandbox. The changed files are under crates/l30_storage and crates/l40_api, plus a migration under db/. Validation section names regression tests. Each named test exists in the PR head tree: - runtime_upgrade::stale_copy::tests::a_refused_attempts_retry_stays_refused_after_another_attempt_restages_the_sandbox (crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/stale_copy/tests.rs:1393) reproduces the reported scenario. The PR says that restoring the attempt-outcome delete in delete_sandbox_child_rows, keeping the foreign key, or dropping the report fallback makes it fail. - runtime_upgrade::rpc::tests::a_refused_activation_stays_reported_after_its_sandbox_row_is_deleted (rpc/tests.rs:2252) covers the refused-activation path. The PR lists reverts that make it fail. - runtime_upgrade_migrations_follow_their_predecessors_and_round_trip (crates/l30_storage/db/migrate/src/tests.rs:248) and the_per_attempt_foreign_key_migration_keeps_every_recorded_row (tests.rs:394) cover the migration guard and row preservation. Fails without the fix. The PR names specific reverts for these tests. The delete_sandbox_child_rows diff in crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs removes the two per-attempt DELETE statements, which is the behavior change those reverts target. I did not run the tests. The check requires only that the Validation section names a test that fails without the fix and passes with it. The named tests and their stated failure conditions meet that requirement.

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The diff does not remove, disable, or weaken a test, assertion, lint, CI check, or repository guard without a stated reason. What I checked (base refs/coderabbit/pre-merge-check/base to head): - Suppressions and skips: no added #[allow], #[expect], #[ignore], should_panic, pytest.mark.skip/xfail, continue-on-error, SPACE_TEST_DEPS_OPTIONAL, or lint-level changes. - Config, allowlists, and CI: no changes to Cargo.toml, deny.toml, clippy.toml, .gitleaks.toml, ARCHITECTURE.toml, baseline or known-failures files, kind-pull-paths.txt, nextest config, .github/, or ci/. - Review guidance: no changes to AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, .agents/, or docs/rust/. - Removed assertions: only two assert lines are removed across the changed files. - runtime_upgrades/tests.rs (each_attempts_rollback_or_refusal_is_kept_for_that_attempt): assert_eq!(attempt_outcome("attempt-b"), None) becomes assert_eq!(attempt_outcome("attempt-b"), rolled_back("b's boot failed")). The new assertion is stricter, and it checks the new retained-history behavior. - runtime_upgrades/tests.rs (a_refused_attempt_is_recorded_only_for_an_operation_that_reached_its_target): None becomes Some(RuntimeUpgradeRefusedAttempt { attempt_id: "attempt-a", failure: Some("refused") }). This is also stricter. - Both changes invert old expectations that encoded the cascade-delete behavior this PR removes. The PR description's "The problem" section and the updated doc comments give the reason. - Removed test functions: none. The one -fn line is report_for_attempt, which changes only its visibility to pub(in crate::service::runtime_upgrade) so the new stale-copy tests can import it. Its body is unchanged. - Migration test: RUNTIME_UPGRADE_MIGRATIONS grows from 4 to 5 entries, and new round-trip and rollback-guard assertions are added. Nothing is loosened. - Other test-doc edits: the removed lines are doc comments and proto comments that now describe retained history. They are not guards. One minor point, not a failure condition: the surviving test deleting_the_sandbox_deletes_its_recorded_outcomes still asserts only that the operation-level report is removed. Its name is now slightly misleading, but it does not weaken any check.

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The check applies to agent plugin manifests, skills, and guideline files. The reviewed diff (base to head) changes 16 files: Rust sources and tests under crates/, SQL migrations under db/sandbox-manager/, docs/execution-environments.md, proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.proto, and the generated shim/proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.pb.go. None of them is a plugin manifest (plugin.json, plugin.yaml), a SKILL.md file, a command or skill file, or a guideline file for agents. A path filter over the changed files found no agent-tooling files. A search of all added lines found no inline shell substitution (! followed by a backtick-quoted command), no hooks key, no mcp entry, no allowed-tools key, no lsp entry, and no command: entry. docs/execution-environments.md is a product document, not an agent skill or guideline file. Its changes are prose and do not add any agent-run command. The check therefore finds nothing to fail.

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The Public-safe content check passes. I scanned the added lines of the full PR range (796 lines across the Rust, SQL, proto, Go, and docs files) and the PR title and description. - Secrets: No private-key blocks, AWS key or ARN patterns, GitHub or Slack token patterns, or password/secret/token assignments. - Hosts and URLs: No http(s):// links, internal domains, or private tracker, chat, or document links. The only cluster hit is the test helper name with_cluster_api in a Rust test, which is not a real cluster name. - Identifiers: No IP addresses, email addresses, UUIDs, long hex strings, or 12-digit account-like numbers. - Personal paths: No /Users/ or /home/ paths in the diff. The description says "Linux devbox", which names no host or path. - Production data: No raw logs or production measurements. The test counts in the description (12,955 tests and the six named privileged failures) are CI validation results. - Security: The description explains a retry-fencing bug (a refused attempt's retry could fence and boot a restaged sandbox). This PR contains the fix, so it is not an unfixed or undisclosed vulnerability. The "Not covered" items are design limitations, not open vulnerabilities. - References: The PR references (#1708, #1756) point to other PRs in the same public repository. No finding applies, so no file or line is cited.

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Major · Preserve pod outcomes across stale-copy eviction. · execution-environments.md:13

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Preserve pod outcomes across stale-copy eviction.

If pod A receives a stale-checkpoint refusal without stage_from, the refusal is recorded for A. A later pod B can evict the copy, which deletes A’s outcome. If B stages the checkpoint but does not settle the operation, a retry from A can fence or boot instead of receiving its final refusal.

The PR description mentions unrecorded stale-copy refusals; this no-staging path records one before eviction deletes it. Preserve the outcome across eviction and restaging, and test A’s retry after B’s eviction.

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Update the stale-checkpoint refusal and stale-copy eviction flow so evicting and restaging a checkpoint does not delete pod A’s recorded final refusal; retries from A must return that refusal rather than fence or boot. Add coverage for A’s retry after pod B evicts and stages the copy without settling the operation.

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@coderabbitai Thanks, fixed in 4a2b483 by keeping the per-pod rows.

A refused pod's finality now survives an eviction of its sandbox's row, so its delayed retry never fences or boots. A fifth migration, 20261111020848_sandbox_runtime_upgrade_per_pod_rows_outlive_sandbox, rebuilds sandbox_runtime_upgrade_refused_pods and sandbox_runtime_upgrade_pod_outcomes without their foreign key to sandboxes, and delete_sandbox_child_rows no longer deletes them, as it already didn't delete sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned. Its down migration refuses while a per-pod row names a sandbox the node no longer holds.

stale_copy::tests::a_refused_pods_retry_stays_refused_after_another_pod_restages_the_sandbox drives exactly the sequence you described: pod A is refused for the stale copy, pod B evicts it and the sandbox is staged again under the same id, and A's retry is refused with its own refusal before anything is fenced or asked of node-manager. Restoring the delete, or keeping the foreign key, fails it.

The rows are no longer deleted with the sandbox, so the PR's Not covered section now lists their growth next to the abandoned table's, with the pruning follow-up.

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printf '%s\n' '--- regression test outline and context ---'
ast-grep outline crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/stale_copy/tests.rs --match 'a_refused_pods_retry_stays_refused_after_another_pod_restages_the_sandbox' --view expanded
rg -n -A 125 -B 5 'fn a_refused_pods_retry_stays_refused_after_another_pod_restages_the_sandbox' crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/stale_copy/tests.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- runtime upgrade RPC retry checks ---'
ast-grep outline crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs --items all --match 'upgrade_runtime|refus|outcome' --view expanded
rg -n -C 8 'runtime_upgrade_refused_pod|runtime_upgrade_pod_outcome|recorded.*(refusal|outcome)' crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- documentation of retained rows ---'
rg -n -C 3 'prun|refused.pod|pod.outcome|abandon' docs/execution-environments.md | tail -100

Length of output: 39002

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@the-gigi-pplx I inspected commit 4a2b483f3. The retained rows and regression test address the eviction retry concern. I did not run the test.

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# `pplx-space-sbx-mgr-store`

## Changes

- Only some child tables declare `ON DELETE CASCADE`: register a new sandbox
  child table in `delete_sandbox_child_rows` (`src/db.rs`).

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Minor · Scope refused-pod lookups to the sandbox. · rpc.rs:755-770

crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs:755-770
Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Scope refused-pod lookups to the sandbox.

If sandbox A is deleted without abandonment and sandbox B reuses its operation ID, a GetRuntimeUpgrade request without a pod UID can return A’s refused pod and failure as B’s. Scope both refused-pod lookups to the requested sandbox. The PR description mentions operation-ID reuse.

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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs around lines 755 - 770:
Update the refused-pod lookup paths in GetRuntimeUpgrade to scope results to the requested sandbox as well as the operation ID, including both the pod-specific database lookup and the no-pod fallback. Preserve the existing pod filtering and response behavior while ensuring an operation ID reused by another sandbox cannot return its refused pod or failure.

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@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs:
- Around line 755-770: Update the refused-pod lookup paths in GetRuntimeUpgrade
to scope results to the requested sandbox as well as the operation ID, including
both the pod-specific database lookup and the no-pod fallback. Preserve the
existing pod filtering and response behavior while ensuring an operation ID
reused by another sandbox cannot return its refused pod or failure.

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Files ignored due to path filters: 1

• shim/proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.pb.go is excluded by !**/*.pb.go, !**/*.pb.go

Files selected for processing: 10

• crates/l30_storage/db/migrate/src/tests.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/read/runtime_upgrade.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/stale_copy/tests.rs
• docs/execution-environments.md
• proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.proto

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[the-gigi-pplx]

@coderabbitai Thanks. This one stays as it is, and it's listed under "Not covered" in the description.

Reaching it takes an operation id reused across sandboxes, which the api never produces. It derives every operation id as a v5 UUID over a name that starts with the sandbox id (operation_id in crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/runtime_upgrade.rs), so an id the api generates names exactly one sandbox. Scoping the refused-pod lookups to the sandbox would guard only against a caller that breaks that contract, and the node's other "names another sandbox" checks make the same assumption.

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
file="crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/runtime_upgrade.rs"
printf '%s\n' '--- locate cited file ---'
fd -t f '^runtime_upgrade\.rs$' crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate
printf '%s\n' '--- file outline ---'
ast-grep outline "$file" --items all --view expanded
printf '%s\n' '--- operation ID implementation and call sites ---'
rg -n -C 12 '\boperation_id\b|new_v5|Uuid::' "$file"

Length of output: 5740

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@the-gigi-pplx Acknowledged. operation_id includes the sandbox ID in its UUID v5 input. I won’t request sandbox-scoped refused-pod lookups for this case.

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[zibi-pplx]

Approved. Preserving terminal outcomes across sandbox deletion closes the delayed-retry hole.

As a non-blocking follow-up, I'd like sbxmgr to use an opaque attempt ID: stable across retries, with a new ID for each replacement attempt. The cluster/shim would own the mapping to pods; sbxmgr would record and report outcomes by operation and attempt, preserving finality across deletion and restaging. That keeps pod lifecycle semantics at the cluster boundary.