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sandbox-manager: own durable guest updates and forced restarts - #1730
Add local operator guest-update status/apply and guest-restart commands. Mutations discover the execution and generate an operation ID automatically; retry flags are printed before submission without contaminating JSON stdout. Sandbox-manager admits durable operations, fences the execution, serializes with lifecycle work, and reconciles interrupted staging, activation, configuration, and settlement. The driver starts only after admission releases its locks. Conclusively retired executions supersede unfinished receipts; recoverable quarantine preserves them. Two additive SQLite tables preserve receipts, explicit rollback authority, forward release history, and bounded retry/quarantine decisions.
A durably aborted, unstarted activation refunds its charge atomically with settlement; ambiguous or changed guest evidence retains the charge. Exhausted normal host-wait retries report retry_exhausted.
Normal selection requires a newer workspace version and a newer guest_update_required_since marker. A root-owned policy selects verified artifacts, exact qualified templates, and a compatibility ceiling. Normal maintenance defers while busy or short of lifecycle headroom; --force permits killing API workloads. Dormant guests are never woken. Automatic fleet rollout is not enabled.
Untouched pending operations settle without holding or reconfiguring the guest; configuration observers act only on a reported hold. Terminal confirmation rejections stop repeated Configure/Commit calls and emit operation-correlated warnings. RPC deadlines remain retryable within a viable trial; fresh durable guest status remains authoritative after an ambiguous reply, while receipts keep typed outcomes rather than remote error text.
A spontaneous stable guest restart settles an Activating restart receipt even when an earlier apply remains in the journal. Admission and lifecycle settlement retire stale execution receipts without waiting for the node activation permit. Default status exposes the current execution. Qualification loss settles as Deferred, and automatic requeue clears the previous outcome and observed identity. Backoff skips policy reload while retaining status reconciliation. Cancellation before activation introduces no new backoff; cancellation after activation retains churn protection. Malformed promotion fields return InvalidArgument, and Arm/Confirm share the fresh authority check.
Validation
The template-attestation regression fails before the fix and passes afterward: removing a template, an absent template, changed authorization and changed promotion cannot authorize activation or commit. The manager also rechecks after configuration RPCs. Synthetic smoke-fixture checks distinguish unavailable admission from live release, with an explicit receipt-only path after stop; all 31 existing smoke-framework tests pass.
Earlier validation passed all 704 SQLite store tests. All ten focused manager tests pass after the template-attestation correction. Pending settlement is exercised without a host listener for all four terminal outcomes; an unexpected maintenance RPC fails that test. The decision matrix covers matching/foreign guest receipts and existing admission holds, and the confirmation classifier covers every gRPC status code. Refund and exhaustion regressions fail before the fixes and pass afterward: duplicate settlement cannot refund twice, changed/missing guest evidence keeps the charge, and the final host-wait failure records retry_exhausted. The retirement matrix covers the lifecycle sweep, cleanup ownership and authoritative execution retirement. Reconnection now obtains a fresh held observation before another decision; that transport ordering was checked in code, not with a new deployment fault-injection run. Native all-target lint and formatting pass for the current correction; ARM64 Linux all-target lint passed before this policy-only correction.
The nine guest-update store tests pass after the requeue change. lifecycle_retires_old_execution_without_waiting_for_the_node_permit verifies settlement without a guest RPC while the node permit is occupied. The journal outcome matrix covers a spontaneous restart after earlier Committed/RolledBack attempts, even after receipt expiry.
Earlier full-stack node.guest_update seed/code-runtime canaries on prior stack revisions covered manager restart, no-op/busy/force behavior, two-slot storage, checkpoint dispatch, pause/resume and suspend/restore. The hung-candidate canary covered timeout mutation, stop supersession, cold-start recovery and rollback. All fixtures were cleaned up. Those canaries were not rerun for the final accounting, admission, and confirmation changes. Earlier architecture checks, 54 smoke-framework tests and pinned Go protobuf checks passed; the unchanged-main macOS test failures remain tracked in #1727.
The snapshot-reaper smoke probe now tolerates the directory disappearing between its existence check and listing, while preserving existing-path and execution failures. test_directory_removed_between_probe_and_listing_is_reaped reproduces the CI race before the fix and passes afterward; all nine snapshot-reaper adapter tests pass.
cancellation_only_introduces_backoff_after_activation and malformed_promotion_fields_are_invalid_arguments fail before their fixes and pass afterward. The cancellation matrix covers Pending, Staged and Activating.
Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: new opt-in capability. Incorrect fencing or recovery could interrupt work or retain an admission hold; durable reconciliation owns retries, and force intentionally terminates work. Long-lived processes and retained result windows can prevent normal eligibility. Worker concurrency is capped at one; timeout changes do not wait on the activation driver, and stop/delete revoke its authority. Only explicit capture acquisition preempts maintenance; read-only inventory does not. Admission shares the capture lock, preventing a receipt from appearing after settlement, and waits briefly for ordinary observer reads rather than rejecting them immediately. Queued capture cancels staging and prevents a new activation; an armed trial must settle within the conservative activation budget or the capture fails. An unresponsive guest still cannot safely be captured. Recover unbacked-up customer data or verify a current backup before retiring it; delete discards its disk and stop may proceed after a failed flush. Use the independent operator recovery path when ordinary guest access is unavailable. Drain unfinished maintenance before rolling host services back. Rollback binaries must recognize the stored retry_exhausted outcome. The SQLite down migration refuses unfinished operations; do not erase release history while maintenance is enabled.
Rollout
Deploy the complete host stack and every OCI builder first, publish selector-capable templates, then enable explicit canaries under a fleet-compatible ceiling. Legacy guests keep their current behavior. Automatic release allocation, representative eligibility, catalog provenance, and the remaining rollout qualification matrix are tracked in #1726. The rollout owner must provide the per-target fleet failure breaker before automatic admission. The current evidence does not qualify arbitrary OCI images or independent SSH repair after selector failure.
Stack
Depends on the bundle/selector foundation and host–guest maintenance protocol. Review and deploy all three together, merging from the bottom upward.
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This PR adds manager RPCs and CLI commands for guest-update status, apply, and restart. It adds durable operation and policy state, server-side policy validation and execution, recovery scanning, and guest-configuration observation. Lifecycle paths coordinate capture with active updates. Documentation and smoke scenarios cover update, restart, recovery, failure, and lifecycle behavior. The snapshot probe also handles a directory removed during listing.
Possibly related issues
perplexityai/SPACE#1726 — The PR adds explicitly authorized operator updates, while this issue concerns release qualification and safeguards before automatic updates.
perplexityai/SPACE#875 — The PR changes suspend and capture coordination with guest maintenance, but does not add the owned-work model or capture deadline changes described by the issue.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1729 — The guest-update driver uses the update protocol types and RPC contract added by this PR.
perplexityai/SPACE#1703 — This PR uses the shared protobuf module path affected by the crate changes in that PR.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5515c
The new maintenance workflow can restart customer workloads, but access remains restricted to local operators. Artifact policy checks, execution fencing, durable accounting, and recovery controls limit unintended authority or repeated disruption. No introduced security concern was verified; broader deployment and recovery coverage remains incomplete.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — An authorized local operator can select manager-visible customer sandboxes and request forced interruption. This is host-local administrative authority, not tenant-scoped authority. Each admitted operation remains bound to one sandbox execution; the examined path does not grant mutation authority over a replacement or foreign execution.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Both mutation handlers require the root/operator allowlist. Production transport uses a grouped Unix socket and kernel-derived peer credentials. Apply requests match an installed promotion rather than supplying an artifact path or minting authorization; policy and payload files must be root-owned, non-symlink regular files beneath non-writable root-owned directories.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — New operation IDs do not replenish promotion allowance. Activation charges, identity-qualified refunds, retry limits, and quarantine updates are transactional. Forced maintenance is not automatically requeued after an ambiguous activation. Retired or replaced executions terminally supersede unfinished receipts without contacting the guest.
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299-317: Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
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Pause and Suspend fail for as long as the guest agent is unreachable while an operation is active.
settle_guest_update_for_lifecycle passes every error from drive_guest_update back to pause (pause_resume.rs Line 272) and to suspend (suspend.rs Lines 260-261). The errors come from update_client, get_status, hold, configure_update and release. Each RPC call has a 5 s budget.
Trigger: an operation is in Pending, Staged or Activating, and then spaced-host or the guest stops answering. Examples are a selector failure or a host agent crash during the restart. In this state:
Every Pause, Suspend, auto-lifecycle suspend and drain-evacuation suspend returns an error.
The record deadline is checked only after a successful get_status, so the deadline never ends the operation.
Recovery fails the same way, so the receipt stays active.
The sandbox cannot be suspended or drained until the guest answers again. In the Activating phase, the call can also hold the artifact lock for up to ACTIVATION_BUDGET (210 s) before it returns.
Fix: on the lifecycle path, bound the settlement. If the guest cannot be reached, or the record deadline has passed, settle the record as Cancelled or RecoveryRequired locally without guest RPCs, then let the lifecycle transition continue. The guest's own journal and selector already recover the committed release on the next boot or restore.
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Review comments at @crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/guest_updates.rs:
- Line 217: Update the admission check on SandboxRow.state to use the combined
SandboxStatus correctly: admit only an unowned Started row and refuse
cleanup-owned statuses. Use the generated legacy_state accessor only if it
preserves that ownership distinction; otherwise compare against the exact
unowned Started status.
- Around line 406-409: Update the teardown path that retires an execution so its
unfinished guest-update receipt is settled or safely retired, allowing recovery
and down migration to proceed; coordinate with `supersede` as needed to handle
receipts when the sandbox row remains. Confirm the execution is actually retired
before settling the receipt—do not infer retirement from a non-`Started` state
or weaken existing safeguards for live executions.
Review comments at @space_smoke/direct_node.py:
- Around line 393-396: Update _agent_run to re-raise ScenarioTimedOut from
self.command before handling retryable RuntimeError exceptions, so a scenario
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sandbox-manager: own durable guest upgrades and forced restarts
sandbox-manager: own durable guest updates and forced restarts
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docs/spaced-upgrades.md: 1
80-87: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
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Fix the documented CLI usage: --expected-execution and --policy behavior.
Lines 83-84 show guest-update status and apply without noting that apply reads /etc/space/guest-update/policy.json by default (--policy). Line 90 says to reuse --expected-execution after an ambiguous response. That flag exists in GuestMaintenanceArgs. But status does not accept --expected-execution or --force. The text can mislead an operator into passing these flags to status.
State that --operation applies to status and apply, that --expected-execution applies to apply and guest-restart only, and name the --policy default.
Also applies to: 89-90
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/guest_update.rs:
- Around line 168-170: Update the expected_execution_id parsing in the guest
update handler and restart_guest_rpc to occur immediately after into_inner(),
before replay_guest_update or any policy/probe work; map parse failures to
InvalidArgument while preserving the parsed ID for the later request
construction.
- Around line 348-358: Update settle_guest_update_for_lifecycle and the
corresponding update-admission and pause-settlement flow so admission is
serialized with pause settlement and the sandbox state transition, using the
existing synchronization mechanism. Handle receipts found for an already-paused
sandbox safely: avoid attempting an update that requires Started, but still
perform any required guest settlement and propagate its errors rather than
treating the receipt as absent.
Review comments at @crates/l50_app/sbx/mgr/cli/src/dispatch/guest_update.rs:
- Around line 56-60: Bound the policy input read in the guest update dispatch
flow before loading the full file into memory. Replace the unbounded read with a
read capped at MAX_METADATA_BYTES plus one byte, then preserve the existing size
rejection and Policy parsing behavior.
Review comments at @space_smoke/scenarios/node_guest_update_failure.py:
- Around line 28-31: Update the polling loop around guest_maintenance_status so
it captures each returned receipt and stops when the phase is ACTIVATING or
COMPLETE, rather than waiting only for ACTIVATING. Keep the deadline check and
include the latest receipt in the failure message when the operation completes
without entering a trial or the deadline expires.
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Stop the ACTIVATING poll when the operation completes.
If the operation reaches GUEST_UPDATE_OPERATION_PHASE_COMPLETE first (for example, outcome deferred), the loop waits the full 30 seconds. It then fails with "fixture never entered a trial" and no receipt. Fail early and include the receipt.
Proposed fix
- while test.guest_maintenance_status(operation).phase != "GUEST_UPDATE_OPERATION_PHASE_ACTIVATING":- test.context.verify(time.monotonic() < deadline, "fixture never entered a trial")+ while True:+ receipt = test.guest_maintenance_status(operation)+ if receipt.phase == "GUEST_UPDATE_OPERATION_PHASE_ACTIVATING":+ break+ test.context.verify(+ receipt.phase != "GUEST_UPDATE_OPERATION_PHASE_COMPLETE"+ and time.monotonic() < deadline,+ f"fixture never entered a trial: {receipt}",+ )
test.context.wait(0.2)
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Update the ACTIVATING poll to retain each status receipt and stop waiting if the
operation reaches GUEST_UPDATE_OPERATION_PHASE_COMPLETE before activation. Fail
immediately with the receipt in the failure message, while preserving the
existing deadline check and polling behavior for other phases.
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391-396: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Re-raise ScenarioTimedOut before retrying in _agent_run.
self.command can raise ScenarioTimedOut. If ScenarioTimedOut subclasses RuntimeError, the except RuntimeError branch on Line 393 swallows it. The one-shot scenario alarm is lost. The scenario can then continue past its deadline. restart_managers in this file already re-raises it first, so the pattern exists. Add the same guard here.
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Update the exception handling in _agent_run to re-raise ScenarioTimedOut before
the RuntimeError retry branch, matching the existing safeguard in
restart_managers; preserve retries for other RuntimeError exceptions.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/guest_update.rs:
- Around line 264-269: Update the task spawned around `service.run_guest_update`
to observe shutdown: clone `shutdown_token` before spawning and select between
its cancellation and the update future. Preserve the existing warning when the
update completes with an error; cancellation should stop the task without
logging that completion warning.
- Around line 338-342: Update run_guest_update and drive_guest_update so a
lifecycle request can stop the active background operation before waiting for
the artifact lock. Ensure staging and the activation wait observe cancellation
and return promptly, then let the existing lifecycle path settle the durable
record; preserve the current artifact-lock safeguards and keep lifecycle
handlers latency-bounded.
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Review comments at @space_smoke/direct_node.py:
- Around line 391-396: Update the exception handling in _agent_run to re-raise
ScenarioTimedOut before the RuntimeError retry branch, matching the existing
safeguard in restart_managers; preserve retries for other RuntimeError
exceptions.
Review comments at @space_smoke/scenarios/node_guest_update_failure.py:
- Around line 29-31: Update the ACTIVATING poll to retain each status receipt
and stop waiting if the operation reaches GUEST_UPDATE_OPERATION_PHASE_COMPLETE
before activation. Fail immediately with the receipt in the failure message,
while preserving the existing deadline check and polling behavior for other
phases.
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Review comments at @crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/auto_lifecycle.rs:
- Line 57: Update the artifact-lock acquisition path around
self.waiters.send_replace so snapshot deletion and other non-capture callers can
wait without signaling priority, allowing guest updates to finish staging or a
trial. Retain priority signaling for lifecycle and capture operations, and
preserve blocking behavior for non-capture callers.
Review comments at @docs/spaced-upgrades.md:
- Around line 103-104: Update the Apply/restart guidance to instruct users to
generate and record the operation ID and execution ID before submitting, then
pass both flags on the initial command. Preserve the guidance to poll that same
operation and reuse both IDs after an ambiguous response.
- Line 100: Separate the forced `guest-restart` command from the normal
`guest-update` command sequence in the spaced-upgrade procedure. Present it as
an explicit, optional action, making clear that operators should use it only
when terminating active API workloads is intended; keep the update and status
commands in their existing order.
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Review comments at @crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/guest_updates.rs:
- Around line 434-442: Update supersede so a pending receipt is completed as
Superseded when its execution is conclusively retired, including the
stranded-receipt recovery case, but remains pending when quarantine can recover
that same execution. Use authoritative state to distinguish retirement from
recoverable quarantine, and add regression coverage for both outcomes.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/guest_update.rs:
- Around line 279-296: The spawned driver can reach the artifact lock before the
admission guards are released and exit without processing the durable receipt.
In admit_guest_update, explicitly drop _writer and _artifact before spawning
run_guest_update; preserve the existing phase check, semaphore admission, and
lifecycle settlement behavior.
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Review comments at @docs/spaced-upgrades.md:
- Line 226: Update the damaged-journal recovery guidance around RecoveryRequired
to state that entering this state replaces update-state, so the original
malformed journal bytes are no longer available afterward; advise preserving the
journal before restarting when possible. Keep the guidance focused on this
recovery limitation.
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@the-gigi-pplx — addressed the three follow-up findings in 7e887710590a.
Accepted: Pending/Staged cancellation no longer introduces a new backoff. Activating cancellation retains it, and the existing MAX preserves older backoff. The cancellation matrix fails before the fix and passes afterward.
Accepted: all malformed promotion version/digest fields return InvalidArgument. The five-field regression fails with the former Internal mapping and passes now.
Accepted the shared helper: Arm and Confirm call the same fresh authority check, and a confirmation already destined for abort avoids the load. Retained fresh checks before irreversible transitions and status polling during backoff, because the pending operation owns recovery of a hold after a guest restart.
All nine focused manager tests, nine guest-update store tests, and manager all-target clippy pass. CodeRabbit’s damaged-journal documentation correction is included too.
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Review comments at @docs/spaced-upgrades.md:
- Around line 165-167: Update the maintenance-preemption statement to include a
scheduled lifecycle event within the activation budget plus 30-second margin and
the operation deadline as triggers that defer arming or abort a running trial.
Preserve the statement that inventory reads and ordinary artifact-lock waiters
do not preempt maintenance.
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Review comments at @docs/spaced-upgrades.md:
- Around line 253-254: Update the rollback guidance around “Drain unfinished
maintenance” to explain that draining does not make an older catalog safe after
the sandbox-manager migration is applied: require a compatible catalog and a
reviewed, state-preserving recovery plan, noting that the down migration drops
receipt and policy tables. Link to the existing database rollback guidance and
preserve the existing selector-recovery instructions.
- Line 204: Qualify the crash/reboot recovery guarantee in the documentation
sentence about durable manager and guest receipts: clarify that recovery uses
both receipts, that a host failure before writeback may lose guest receipts
despite guest fsync, and that manager receipts must be reconciled with guest
status after host failure. Reference the guest I/O lifecycle boundaries.
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Major · Recheck template qualification before Arm and Confirm. · guest_update.rs:600-700
crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/guest_update.rs:600-700 Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Recheck template qualification before Arm and Confirm.
If an operator removes the running template from a nonempty qualified_templates list during staging or trial, policy::permits still accepts the unchanged promotion and authorization. Arm or Confirm can then activate or commit on a template that no longer has the required operator attestation. Check the current sandbox template against the freshly loaded policy before both transitions.
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/guest_update.rs
around lines 600 - 700:
Revalidate the current sandbox template against the freshly loaded policy before
the Arm and Confirm transitions in the maintenance_decision match; the existing
policy::permits checks only the action. Use the template identity from the
current observed state and preserve the policy’s existing semantics for empty
qualified_templates lists, preventing activation or commit when a nonempty list
no longer includes that template.
Minor · Keep unavailable admission status distinct from released · direct_node.py:101-119
space_smoke/direct_node.py:101-119 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Keep unavailable admission status distinct from released
When live status fails, await_guest_maintenance treats a completed receipt as proof that admission is released. The release check can therefore pass without observing admission. Preserve an unknown state and require a live release observation for running guests. Keep a separate receipt-only path for the stopped-guest case.
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Review comment at @space_smoke/direct_node.py around lines 101 - 119:
The GuestMaintenanceObservation.parse method defaults missing admission_held
status to false, conflating unavailable status with observed release. Preserve
unavailable status as unknown, and update await_guest_maintenance to require a
live release observation for running guests while retaining a separate
receipt-only path for stopped guests.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/guest_update.rs:
- Around line 600-700: Revalidate the current sandbox template against the
freshly loaded policy before the Arm and Confirm transitions in the
maintenance_decision match; the existing policy::permits checks only the action.
Use the template identity from the current observed state and preserve the
policy’s existing semantics for empty qualified_templates lists, preventing
activation or commit when a nonempty list no longer includes that template.
Review comments at @space_smoke/direct_node.py:
- Around line 101-119: The GuestMaintenanceObservation.parse method defaults
missing admission_held status to false, conflating unavailable status with
observed release. Preserve unavailable status as unknown, and update
await_guest_maintenance to require a live release observation for running guests
while retaining a separate receipt-only path for stopped guests.
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## Summary
Add local operator `guest-update status/apply` and `guest-restart` commands. Mutations discover the execution and generate an operation ID automatically; retry flags are printed before submission without contaminating JSON stdout. Sandbox-manager admits durable operations, fences the execution, serializes with lifecycle work, and reconciles interrupted staging, activation, configuration, and settlement. The driver starts only after admission releases its locks. Conclusively retired executions supersede unfinished receipts; recoverable quarantine preserves them. Two additive SQLite tables preserve receipts, explicit rollback authority, forward release history, and bounded retry/quarantine decisions.
A durably aborted, unstarted activation refunds its charge atomically with settlement; ambiguous or changed guest evidence retains the charge. Exhausted normal host-wait retries report `retry_exhausted`.
Normal selection requires a newer workspace version and a newer `guest_update_required_since` marker. A root-owned policy selects verified artifacts, exact qualified templates, and a compatibility ceiling. Normal maintenance defers while busy or short of lifecycle headroom; `--force` permits killing API workloads. Dormant guests are never woken. Automatic fleet rollout is not enabled.
Untouched pending operations settle without holding or reconfiguring the guest; configuration observers act only on a reported hold. Terminal confirmation rejections stop repeated Configure/Commit calls and emit operation-correlated warnings. RPC deadlines remain retryable within a viable trial; fresh durable guest status remains authoritative after an ambiguous reply, while receipts keep typed outcomes rather than remote error text.
A spontaneous stable guest restart settles an Activating restart receipt even when an earlier apply remains in the journal. Admission and lifecycle settlement retire stale execution receipts without waiting for the node activation permit. Default status exposes the current execution. Qualification loss settles as Deferred, and automatic requeue clears the previous outcome and observed identity. Backoff skips policy reload while retaining status reconciliation. Cancellation before activation introduces no new backoff; cancellation after activation retains churn protection. Malformed promotion fields return InvalidArgument, and Arm/Confirm share the fresh authority check.
## Validation
The template-attestation regression fails before the fix and passes afterward: removing a template, an absent template, changed authorization and changed promotion cannot authorize activation or commit. The manager also rechecks after configuration RPCs. Synthetic smoke-fixture checks distinguish unavailable admission from live release, with an explicit receipt-only path after stop; all 31 existing smoke-framework tests pass.
Earlier validation passed all 704 SQLite store tests. All ten focused manager tests pass after the template-attestation correction. Pending settlement is exercised without a host listener for all four terminal outcomes; an unexpected maintenance RPC fails that test. The decision matrix covers matching/foreign guest receipts and existing admission holds, and the confirmation classifier covers every gRPC status code. Refund and exhaustion regressions fail before the fixes and pass afterward: duplicate settlement cannot refund twice, changed/missing guest evidence keeps the charge, and the final host-wait failure records retry_exhausted. The retirement matrix covers the lifecycle sweep, cleanup ownership and authoritative execution retirement. Reconnection now obtains a fresh held observation before another decision; that transport ordering was checked in code, not with a new deployment fault-injection run. Native all-target lint and formatting pass for the current correction; ARM64 Linux all-target lint passed before this policy-only correction.
The nine guest-update store tests pass after the requeue change. `lifecycle_retires_old_execution_without_waiting_for_the_node_permit` verifies settlement without a guest RPC while the node permit is occupied. The journal outcome matrix covers a spontaneous restart after earlier Committed/RolledBack attempts, even after receipt expiry.
Earlier full-stack `node.guest_update` seed/code-runtime canaries on prior stack revisions covered manager restart, no-op/busy/force behavior, two-slot storage, checkpoint dispatch, pause/resume and suspend/restore. The hung-candidate canary covered timeout mutation, stop supersession, cold-start recovery and rollback. All fixtures were cleaned up. Those canaries were not rerun for the final accounting, admission, and confirmation changes. Earlier architecture checks, 54 smoke-framework tests and pinned Go protobuf checks passed; the unchanged-main macOS test failures remain tracked in #1727.
The snapshot-reaper smoke probe now tolerates the directory disappearing between its existence check and listing, while preserving existing-path and execution failures. `test_directory_removed_between_probe_and_listing_is_reaped` reproduces the CI race before the fix and passes afterward; all nine snapshot-reaper adapter tests pass.
`cancellation_only_introduces_backoff_after_activation` and `malformed_promotion_fields_are_invalid_arguments` fail before their fixes and pass afterward. The cancellation matrix covers Pending, Staged and Activating.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: new opt-in capability. Incorrect fencing or recovery could interrupt work or retain an admission hold; durable reconciliation owns retries, and force intentionally terminates work. Long-lived processes and retained result windows can prevent normal eligibility. Worker concurrency is capped at one; timeout changes do not wait on the activation driver, and stop/delete revoke its authority. Only explicit capture acquisition preempts maintenance; read-only inventory does not. Admission shares the capture lock, preventing a receipt from appearing after settlement, and waits briefly for ordinary observer reads rather than rejecting them immediately. Queued capture cancels staging and prevents a new activation; an armed trial must settle within the conservative activation budget or the capture fails. An unresponsive guest still cannot safely be captured. Recover unbacked-up customer data or verify a current backup before retiring it; delete discards its disk and stop may proceed after a failed flush. Use the independent operator recovery path when ordinary guest access is unavailable. Drain unfinished maintenance before rolling host services back. Rollback binaries must recognize the stored `retry_exhausted` outcome. The SQLite down migration refuses unfinished operations; do not erase release history while maintenance is enabled.
## Rollout
Deploy the complete host stack and every OCI builder first, publish selector-capable templates, then enable explicit canaries under a fleet-compatible ceiling. Legacy guests keep their current behavior. Automatic release allocation, representative eligibility, catalog provenance, and the remaining rollout qualification matrix are tracked in #1726. The rollout owner must provide the per-target fleet failure breaker before automatic admission. The current evidence does not qualify arbitrary OCI images or independent SSH repair after selector failure.
## Stack
Depends on the bundle/selector foundation and host–guest maintenance protocol. Review and deploy all three together, merging from the bottom upward.
AI assistance: Codex drafted implementation, tests, and this description.
## Summary
Build both native Windows agent payloads and prepare their bundle descriptors. The Windows `spaced.exe` CLI reports the workspace version or queries the installed service’s SCM state without start/stop privileges. Unix commands are preserved in a platform-specific module; Windows CI now compiles the CLI too. `--platform windows` reads `spaced-svc.exe` and `spaced.exe` and records a distinct recovery contract, restricted to the existing x86-64 Windows backend. Linux remains the default and produces identical descriptor bytes. The schema, logical payload roles, protobufs and SQLite tables are unchanged.
This is CLI and packaging groundwork, not working Windows self-update. The existing host policy still refuses Windows bundles. The Windows runbook records the recovery, storage, workload and CH lifecycle qualification boundaries before admission can be enabled.
## Validation
All five `pplx-space-spaced-update` library tests pass, including the real Python publisher feeding the Rust descriptor reader for both targets with distinct service/CLI payloads. Native and Windows GNU all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Both Windows executables cross-build successfully; the Unix CLI help command still exposes its existing commands. A disposable comparison confirms byte-identical default Linux output against the parent publisher; Windows ARM64 is rejected before accessing payloads.
Native Windows execution, SCM status queries, NTFS recovery and Cloud Hypervisor lifecycle have not been exercised by this change. Cross-compilation does not provide that runtime qualification.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: development groundwork. An incorrect target flag can describe the wrong intended recovery ABI; existing host policy continues to reject unsupported contracts. This does not install or start a Windows candidate.
## Stack
Depends on #1730 and its two prerequisites. Keep this draft separate from their merge decision. The Windows recovery supervisor, maintenance RPC implementation and runtime qualification remain subsequent implementation work.
AI assistance: Codex drafted implementation, validation, documentation and this description.
Fresh policy authorization now requires the current template to remain qualified before Arm and Confirm, and is checked again after configuration RPCs before Commit. Missing/removed template attestation, a changed authorization, and a changed promotion all refuse the transition. The template-removal regression fails before the fix and passes afterward; all ten manager guest-update tests and focused all-target Clippy pass.
The smoke fixture preserves unavailable admission as unknown. Running-guest completion requires an explicit live admission_held=false; only the stopped-execution scenario uses the separate receipt-only wait. Synthetic unknown/held/released observations and all 31 existing smoke-framework tests pass.
These were review-summary findings rather than resolvable inline threads. No SQL or protobuf changes were needed.
## Summary
Consolidate guest implementations into `pplx-space-spaced-guest-server`, with explicit `platform::linux`, `platform::macos`, and `platform::windows` backends. Linux and macOS share Unix mechanisms; neither is the implicit crate default. Remove the separate Windows crate and select dependencies by target OS. Existing root exports remain available to embedding callers. macOS retains development capabilities, not qualified guest-image support.
Build both native Windows agent payloads and prepare their bundle descriptors. The Windows `spaced.exe` CLI reports the workspace version or queries the installed service’s SCM state without start/stop privileges. Unix commands are preserved in a platform-specific module; Windows CI now compiles the CLI too. `--platform windows` reads `spaced-svc.exe` and `spaced.exe` and records a distinct recovery contract, restricted to the existing x86-64 Windows backend. Linux remains the default and produces identical descriptor bytes. The schema, logical payload roles, protobufs and SQLite tables are unchanged.
This is CLI and packaging groundwork, not working Windows self-update. The existing host policy still refuses Windows bundles. The Windows runbook records the recovery, storage, workload and CH lifecycle qualification boundaries before admission can be enabled.
## Validation
All five `pplx-space-spaced-update` library tests pass, including the real Python publisher feeding the Rust descriptor reader for both targets with distinct service/CLI payloads. Native and Windows GNU all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Both Windows executables cross-build successfully; the Unix CLI help command still exposes its existing commands. A disposable comparison confirms byte-identical default Linux output against the parent publisher; Windows ARM64 is rejected before accessing payloads.
Native Windows execution, SCM status queries, NTFS recovery and Cloud Hypervisor lifecycle have not been exercised by this change. Cross-compilation does not provide that runtime qualification.
The consolidation passes native macOS, ARM64 Linux musl and Windows GNU all-target/all-feature Clippy for the guest server, service and CLI; native host-server consumer Clippy also passes. All 41 native guest-server library tests pass, both Windows executables cross-build, and architecture checking reports zero required violations. Full workspace and native Windows validation remain with CI.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: development groundwork. An incorrect target flag can describe the wrong intended recovery ABI; existing host policy continues to reject unsupported contracts. This does not install or start a Windows candidate. Module moves change tracing targets: guest-server module targets gain `platform::unix`, and `pplx_space_spaced_guest_windows` targets become `pplx_space_spaced_guest_server::platform::windows`. Adjust exact-target log filters accordingly. No protobuf, SQL or on-disk update-contract change is introduced.
## Stack
Depends on #1730 and its two prerequisites. Keep this draft separate from their merge decision. The Windows recovery supervisor, maintenance RPC implementation and runtime qualification remain subsequent implementation work.
AI assistance: Codex drafted implementation, validation, documentation and this description.
## Summary
Consolidate guest implementations into `pplx-space-spaced-guest-server`, with explicit `platform::linux`, `platform::macos`, and `platform::windows` backends. Linux and macOS share Unix mechanisms; neither is the implicit crate default. Remove the separate Windows crate and select dependencies by target OS. Existing root exports remain available to embedding callers. macOS retains development capabilities, not qualified guest-image support.
Build both native Windows agent payloads and prepare their bundle descriptors. The Windows `spaced.exe` CLI reports the workspace version or queries the installed service’s SCM state without start/stop privileges. Unix commands are preserved in a platform-specific module; Windows CI now compiles the CLI too. `--platform windows` reads `spaced-svc.exe` and `spaced.exe` and records a distinct recovery contract, restricted to the existing x86-64 Windows backend. Linux remains the default and produces identical descriptor bytes. The schema, logical payload roles, protobufs and SQLite tables are unchanged.
This is CLI and packaging groundwork, not working Windows self-update. The existing host policy still refuses Windows bundles. The Windows runbook records the recovery, storage, workload and CH lifecycle qualification boundaries before admission can be enabled.
## Validation
All five `pplx-space-spaced-update` library tests pass, including the real Python publisher feeding the Rust descriptor reader for both targets with distinct service/CLI payloads. Native and Windows GNU all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Both Windows executables cross-build successfully; the Unix CLI help command still exposes its existing commands. A disposable comparison confirms byte-identical default Linux output against the parent publisher; Windows ARM64 is rejected before accessing payloads.
Native Windows execution, SCM status queries, NTFS recovery and Cloud Hypervisor lifecycle have not been exercised by this change. Cross-compilation does not provide that runtime qualification.
The consolidation passes native macOS, ARM64 Linux musl and Windows GNU all-target/all-feature Clippy for the guest server, service and CLI; native host-server consumer Clippy also passes. All 41 native guest-server library tests pass, both Windows executables cross-build, and architecture checking reports zero required violations. Full workspace and native Windows validation remain with CI. Updated the Guide source link for the moved cgroup implementation; the old link caused both documentation builds to fail.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: development groundwork. An incorrect target flag can describe the wrong intended recovery ABI; existing host policy continues to reject unsupported contracts. This does not install or start a Windows candidate. Module moves change tracing targets: guest-server module targets gain `platform::unix`, and `pplx_space_spaced_guest_windows` targets become `pplx_space_spaced_guest_server::platform::windows`. Adjust exact-target log filters accordingly. No protobuf, SQL or on-disk update-contract change is introduced.
## Stack
Rebased onto main after #1728, #1729 and #1730 merged. The Windows recovery supervisor, maintenance RPC implementation and runtime qualification remain subsequent implementation work.
AI assistance: Codex drafted implementation, validation, documentation and this description.
## Summary
Consolidate guest implementations into `pplx-space-spaced-guest-server`, with explicit `platform::linux`, `platform::macos`, and `platform::windows` backends. Linux and macOS share Unix mechanisms; neither is the implicit crate default. Remove the separate Windows crate and select dependencies by target OS. Existing root exports remain available to embedding callers. macOS retains development capabilities, not qualified guest-image support.
Build both native Windows agent payloads and prepare their bundle descriptors. The Windows `spaced.exe` CLI reports the workspace version or queries the installed service’s SCM state without start/stop privileges. Unix commands are preserved in a platform-specific module; Windows CI now compiles the CLI too. `--platform windows` reads `spaced-svc.exe` and `spaced.exe` and records a distinct recovery contract, restricted to the existing x86-64 Windows backend. Linux remains the default and produces identical descriptor bytes. The schema, logical payload roles, protobufs and SQLite tables are unchanged.
This is CLI and packaging groundwork, not working Windows self-update. The existing host policy still refuses Windows bundles. The Windows runbook records the recovery, storage, workload and CH lifecycle qualification boundaries before admission can be enabled.
## Validation
All five `pplx-space-spaced-update` library tests pass, including the real Python publisher feeding the Rust descriptor reader for both targets with distinct service/CLI payloads. Native and Windows GNU all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Both Windows executables cross-build successfully; the Unix CLI help command still exposes its existing commands. A disposable comparison confirms byte-identical default Linux output against the parent publisher; Windows ARM64 is rejected before accessing payloads.
Native Windows execution, SCM status queries, NTFS recovery and Cloud Hypervisor lifecycle have not been exercised by this change. Cross-compilation does not provide that runtime qualification.
The consolidation passes native macOS, ARM64 Linux musl and Windows GNU all-target/all-feature Clippy for the guest server, service and CLI; native host-server consumer Clippy also passes. All 41 native guest-server library tests pass, both Windows executables cross-build, and architecture checking reports zero required violations. Full workspace and native Windows validation remain with CI. Updated the Guide source link for the moved cgroup implementation; the old link caused both documentation builds to fail. Updated the isolated signal test’s exact child-test selector after the module move; the stale selector ran no child test and timed out waiting for readiness. The corrected SIGINT/SIGTERM subprocess test passes in an ARM64 Linux container.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: development groundwork. An incorrect target flag can describe the wrong intended recovery ABI; existing host policy continues to reject unsupported contracts. This does not install or start a Windows candidate. Module moves change tracing targets: guest-server module targets gain `platform::unix`, and `pplx_space_spaced_guest_windows` targets become `pplx_space_spaced_guest_server::platform::windows`. Adjust exact-target log filters accordingly. No protobuf, SQL or on-disk update-contract change is introduced.
## Stack
Rebased onto main after #1728, #1729 and #1730 merged. The Windows recovery supervisor, maintenance RPC implementation and runtime qualification remain subsequent implementation work.
AI assistance: Codex drafted implementation, validation, documentation and this description.
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Summary
Add local operator
guest-update status/applyandguest-restartcommands. Mutations discover the execution and generate an operation ID automatically; retry flags are printed before submission without contaminating JSON stdout. Sandbox-manager admits durable operations, fences the execution, serializes with lifecycle work, and reconciles interrupted staging, activation, configuration, and settlement. The driver starts only after admission releases its locks. Conclusively retired executions supersede unfinished receipts; recoverable quarantine preserves them. Two additive SQLite tables preserve receipts, explicit rollback authority, forward release history, and bounded retry/quarantine decisions.A durably aborted, unstarted activation refunds its charge atomically with settlement; ambiguous or changed guest evidence retains the charge. Exhausted normal host-wait retries report
retry_exhausted.Normal selection requires a newer workspace version and a newer
guest_update_required_sincemarker. A root-owned policy selects verified artifacts, exact qualified templates, and a compatibility ceiling. Normal maintenance defers while busy or short of lifecycle headroom;--forcepermits killing API workloads. Dormant guests are never woken. Automatic fleet rollout is not enabled.Untouched pending operations settle without holding or reconfiguring the guest; configuration observers act only on a reported hold. Terminal confirmation rejections stop repeated Configure/Commit calls and emit operation-correlated warnings. RPC deadlines remain retryable within a viable trial; fresh durable guest status remains authoritative after an ambiguous reply, while receipts keep typed outcomes rather than remote error text.
A spontaneous stable guest restart settles an Activating restart receipt even when an earlier apply remains in the journal. Admission and lifecycle settlement retire stale execution receipts without waiting for the node activation permit. Default status exposes the current execution. Qualification loss settles as Deferred, and automatic requeue clears the previous outcome and observed identity. Backoff skips policy reload while retaining status reconciliation. Cancellation before activation introduces no new backoff; cancellation after activation retains churn protection. Malformed promotion fields return InvalidArgument, and Arm/Confirm share the fresh authority check.
Validation
The template-attestation regression fails before the fix and passes afterward: removing a template, an absent template, changed authorization and changed promotion cannot authorize activation or commit. The manager also rechecks after configuration RPCs. Synthetic smoke-fixture checks distinguish unavailable admission from live release, with an explicit receipt-only path after stop; all 31 existing smoke-framework tests pass.
Earlier validation passed all 704 SQLite store tests. All ten focused manager tests pass after the template-attestation correction. Pending settlement is exercised without a host listener for all four terminal outcomes; an unexpected maintenance RPC fails that test. The decision matrix covers matching/foreign guest receipts and existing admission holds, and the confirmation classifier covers every gRPC status code. Refund and exhaustion regressions fail before the fixes and pass afterward: duplicate settlement cannot refund twice, changed/missing guest evidence keeps the charge, and the final host-wait failure records retry_exhausted. The retirement matrix covers the lifecycle sweep, cleanup ownership and authoritative execution retirement. Reconnection now obtains a fresh held observation before another decision; that transport ordering was checked in code, not with a new deployment fault-injection run. Native all-target lint and formatting pass for the current correction; ARM64 Linux all-target lint passed before this policy-only correction.
The nine guest-update store tests pass after the requeue change.
lifecycle_retires_old_execution_without_waiting_for_the_node_permitverifies settlement without a guest RPC while the node permit is occupied. The journal outcome matrix covers a spontaneous restart after earlier Committed/RolledBack attempts, even after receipt expiry.Earlier full-stack
node.guest_updateseed/code-runtime canaries on prior stack revisions covered manager restart, no-op/busy/force behavior, two-slot storage, checkpoint dispatch, pause/resume and suspend/restore. The hung-candidate canary covered timeout mutation, stop supersession, cold-start recovery and rollback. All fixtures were cleaned up. Those canaries were not rerun for the final accounting, admission, and confirmation changes. Earlier architecture checks, 54 smoke-framework tests and pinned Go protobuf checks passed; the unchanged-main macOS test failures remain tracked in #1727.The snapshot-reaper smoke probe now tolerates the directory disappearing between its existence check and listing, while preserving existing-path and execution failures.
test_directory_removed_between_probe_and_listing_is_reapedreproduces the CI race before the fix and passes afterward; all nine snapshot-reaper adapter tests pass.cancellation_only_introduces_backoff_after_activationandmalformed_promotion_fields_are_invalid_argumentsfail before their fixes and pass afterward. The cancellation matrix covers Pending, Staged and Activating.Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: new opt-in capability. Incorrect fencing or recovery could interrupt work or retain an admission hold; durable reconciliation owns retries, and force intentionally terminates work. Long-lived processes and retained result windows can prevent normal eligibility. Worker concurrency is capped at one; timeout changes do not wait on the activation driver, and stop/delete revoke its authority. Only explicit capture acquisition preempts maintenance; read-only inventory does not. Admission shares the capture lock, preventing a receipt from appearing after settlement, and waits briefly for ordinary observer reads rather than rejecting them immediately. Queued capture cancels staging and prevents a new activation; an armed trial must settle within the conservative activation budget or the capture fails. An unresponsive guest still cannot safely be captured. Recover unbacked-up customer data or verify a current backup before retiring it; delete discards its disk and stop may proceed after a failed flush. Use the independent operator recovery path when ordinary guest access is unavailable. Drain unfinished maintenance before rolling host services back. Rollback binaries must recognize the stored
retry_exhaustedoutcome. The SQLite down migration refuses unfinished operations; do not erase release history while maintenance is enabled.Rollout
Deploy the complete host stack and every OCI builder first, publish selector-capable templates, then enable explicit canaries under a fleet-compatible ceiling. Legacy guests keep their current behavior. Automatic release allocation, representative eligibility, catalog provenance, and the remaining rollout qualification matrix are tracked in #1726. The rollout owner must provide the per-target fleet failure breaker before automatic admission. The current evidence does not qualify arbitrary OCI images or independent SSH repair after selector failure.
Stack
Depends on the bundle/selector foundation and host–guest maintenance protocol. Review and deploy all three together, merging from the bottom upward.
AI assistance: Codex drafted implementation, tests, and this description.