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What

Adds the kind scenario local.retired_execution_pod_gc_reaps_retired_pods, which runs the cluster controller's retired_execution_pod_gc loop (#1631) and the create cancel cleanup (#1630) against real retired pods.

The scenario builds both pod shapes the loop reaps:

• terminal_retired: a node-side idle auto-suspend retires the execution as suspended and leaves its pod Succeeded.
• replaced_never_started: the scenario kills the sandbox-manager during a cold create's activation. node-ctl publishes its inventory until the API applies the rolled-back row and retires the execution as replaced. The pod stays Pending with no IP.

Phases:

1. A stranded create whose create ends. Its cleanup deletes the Pending pod (api: delete a cancelled create's pod when its execution is already retired #1630).
2. Two stranded creates whose API replicas are force-killed, so no create cleanup runs. Their Pending pods stay behind.
3. One of those pods is swapped for a Pending clone that has a pod IP. The loop must keep it.
4. GC off: all three pods stay for 60 s.
5. Dry-run with a 20 s threshold. The GC's cluster_reconciler.outcome counter reads exactly one would reap per shape in the fake metrics intake. Both pods stay for 50 s, well past the threshold.
6. Live: both retired pods are deleted. The pod with an IP and a live sandbox stay.
7. The controller's GC env is put back to its standing values.

Supporting changes:

• Typed control methods on the kind adapter: execution rows, pod documents, a UID-preconditioned pod delete, controller env patching, the fake-intake counter read and flush, sandbox-row probes and an admin force-delete.
• attempt_create(confirmed_absent=...), which lets the run-marker cleanup skip creates the API already deleted.
• A 600 s sharding estimate.

The scenario is opt-in (ignored=), so it runs only when named. It force-kills every public API replica twice and rolls the controller twice, which would drop requests from other scenarios sharing the cluster. Its counter read has been run only against the fake intake (telemetry datadog); the OTel/Prometheus read path has not been run yet.

Why

The loop's unit tests use fakes. This scenario checks the loop on a real cluster, against pods produced by the real retirement paths, including replaced from a node's activation rollback. It also checks the safety properties: the off and dry-run modes, the threshold, and the skip for a Pending pod with an IP. Dry-run is checked through the metric the rollout depends on, not through logs.

Testing

E2E on kind (SKIP_BOOTSTRAP=1, telemetry datadog into the stack's fake intake), with #1630 and #1631 deployed:

uv run --frozen --python 3.11 -m space_smoke run local.retired_execution_pod_gc_reaps_retired_pods
RESULT: {"cleanup_failures": [], ..., "summary": "Retired execution pod gc reaps retired pods passed", "verdict": "pass"}

Phase	Seconds
a node-side idle suspend leaves its Succeeded pod	10.9
a stranded create whose create ends: its cleanup deletes the Pending pod	45.6
two stranded creates whose API is killed leave their Pending pods	77.3
swap one stranded pod for a Pending clone with a pod IP	0.3
GC off: the retired pods stay	61.1
dry-run: would-reap for exactly the retired pods, and none deleted	68.7
live: the retired pods are reaped; the pod with an IP and the live sandbox stay	101.6
restore the standing GC config	15.4

Evidence from the run:

strand_attempt_1..3: outcome "replaced" (crashed at "starting", space-local-worker2)
create_cleanup_deleted_pod_after_seconds: 0.0
gc_off_kept:   3 pods for 60 s
gc_env_dry_run: ENABLED=true DRY_RUN=true THRESHOLD_SECS=20 INTERVAL_SECS=5
dry_run_would_reap: {"replaced_never_started": 1, "terminal_retired": 1}   (expected the same; live counts 0)
dry_run_kept:  space-sbx-01a1be5de309...-g1 (Succeeded), space-sbx-01a1be5ebfdd...-g1 (Pending) for 50 s
observed (live): {"live/replaced_never_started": 1, "live/terminal_retired": 1}
reaped_after_config_seconds: 38.2, 38.2   (threshold 20, interval 5)
with_ip_kept:  space-sbx-01a1be5f3aab...-g1 for 50 s
  SandboxPodExecution(phase='Pending', pod_ip='192.0.2.10', sandbox_not_ready=True, row_state='replaced', row_active=False)
live_sandbox_kept: space-sbx-01a1be5ddc67...-g1 (Running)
after: every SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_* key back to unset

After the run, kubectl --context kind-space-local -n space get pods showed no space-sbx- pods, and the sandboxes table was empty.

Unit tests: uv run --frozen python -m unittest space_smoke.tests.test_retired_execution_pod_gc_scenario space_smoke.tests.test_protocol_conformance space_smoke.tests.test_framework passed (39 tests).

Stacked on #1631 (base shehan/retired-execution-pod-gc).

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Walkthrough

Adds a Kind-based smoke harness for retired execution pod garbage collection. It configures and restores GC settings, creates terminal and stranded pod cases, and inspects pod and execution-row state. The scenario checks persistence with GC disabled, dry-run verdicts and counters, live reaping, and preservation of a pod with an IP and the active sandbox. New tests cover classification, configuration validation, planted-pod fields, dry-run counts, and reap timing.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1631: Adds the controller GC loop whose configuration, verdicts, and outcomes this PR exercises.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1630: Changes create cleanup behavior for retired executions, which the smoke scenario exercises.

Merge Risk: Low · up to c70bd

The new smoke scenario has bounded reliability and coverage gaps, but does not change production GC.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to c70bd

The changes are confined to opt-in local-cluster testing and do not change the production garbage collector. Existing isolation and resource-identity checks limit exposure. One interruption path can let background sandbox creation outlive scenario cleanup, potentially leaving local test resources behind.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: The new stranded-create workflow starts a daemon worker without registering ownership of that worker before discovery and fault injection. If setup fails or is interrupted before the worker registers its per-create compensation, ResourceScope cleanup can traverse its existing entries while the worker subsequently registers cleanup and submits the create. This can leave run-owned sandbox state beyond the scenario lifecycle and contaminate later local tests. Normal requests register cleanup before submission, and successful paths join returned workers; those controls do not close the early-shutdown race.

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Security Blast Radius

• observed — The controls exercise substantial existing local authority: deployment-wide API disruption, root execution in a selected node's operator shell, sandbox administrative deletion, and sandbox-namespace pod mutation. Current scenario inputs are derived from run-owned resources; the adapter methods do not independently enforce run ownership for every operation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Destructive pod, node, and controller controls apply the existing isolated-Kind guard. That guard requires a loopback API URL and either the default local context or an approved named context pinned to its cluster UID. Kubernetes calls pin the configured context, and controller environment writes additionally verify live lease ownership.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Public API restart acquires the existing mutation lease immediately before deletion, releases it in a finally block, and waits for rollout and readiness. The lease lasts one hour. The restart method checks only for a local ownership object, unlike controller writes that revalidate live ownership; no practical takeover path during the ordinary restart was established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Revalidate live public-API lease ownership immediately before destructive deletion, matching the controller-write control. This would strengthen fencing after an exceptional pause or ownership change; it is not evidence of a remotely exploitable boundary bypass.

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space_smoke/tests/test_retired_execution_pod_gc_scenario.py: 1

50-87: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Remove or trim the tests of harness-only code: ClassifierMirrorTest and test_plant_cannot_schedule_and_drops_the_source_identity.

This PR changes only a smoke scenario and its harness. The test policy says changes limited to smoke-test definitions or harnesses add no tests. It also says not to add a test of a smoke test.

The classifier tests assert hand-written shapes against would_reap. The author wrote both from the same reading of the Rust rule. The oracle is not independent, so a refactor of the mirror breaks the tests while no product behavior is checked. The plant test restates build_planted_pod.

Keep only the tests that check the verdict assertions in VerdictTest, if you can justify them as mutation-checked. Cite the bench run as the evidence for the rest.

As per coding guidelines: "Changes limited to non-application code add no tests. This includes ... smoke-test definitions or harnesses" and "Do not add change-detector tests".

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around lines 50 - 87:
Remove the harness-only ClassifierMirrorTest cases that compare hand-built pod
shapes with gc.would_reap, and remove
test_plant_cannot_schedule_and_drops_the_source_identity. Retain only
VerdictTest assertions if they are mutation-checked, and cite the bench run as
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space_smoke/adapters.py: 1

5576-5582: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Run the intake read through self.executor and avoid an undeclared host jq dependency.

_retired_execution_pod_gc_intake_counts calls subprocess.run directly. Every other kubectl operation in KindHarness goes through self.executor. This call skips the executor's base environment. It also needs jq on the host, and the scenario does not declare required_tools.

Trigger: a Datadog-mode bench on a host without jq. The dry-run phase raises RuntimeError only after the setup phases (about 10 minutes) have run.

Fix: call self.executor.run(["bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c", script], timeout=180). Alternatively, fetch the payload with self.kubectl("get", "--raw", ...) and filter it in Python. The intake is flushed in reset_retired_execution_pod_gc_counts, so the payload stays small.

Proposed change

-        result = subprocess.run(["bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c", script], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=180)
+        result = self.executor.run(["bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c", script], timeout=180)
         if result.returncode != 0:
-            raise RuntimeError(f"read the retired-pod GC counter from the metrics intake: {result.stderr[-500:]}")
+            raise RuntimeError(f"read the retired-pod GC counter from the metrics intake: {result.detail()[-500:]}")

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Review comment at @space_smoke/adapters.py around lines 5576 - 5582:
Update _retired_execution_pod_gc_intake_counts to run the intake read through
self.executor and remove the undeclared host jq dependency, using Python to
filter the payload if needed. Preserve the 180-second timeout and adapt failure
reporting to the result interface returned by self.executor.

space_smoke/scenarios/local_retired_execution_pod_gc_reaps_retired_pods.py: 1

39-42: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Fail fast when the bench telemetry mode cannot read the GC counter.

retired_execution_pod_gc_counts supports only otel and datadog. In off mode it raises SmokeConfigurationError.

The @smoke.scenario decorator accepts telemetry_mode="otel" only, so implicit selection does not skip this scenario on a datadog or off bench. On an off bench, the scenario spends the idle suspend, the strand attempts, two API restarts, and the 60 s GC-off window. It then fails with an inconclusive verdict at the dry-run phase.

Fix: check the telemetry mode before the first phase. For example, add a telemetry_mode() method to RetiredExecutionPodGcControl and call it from RetiredExecutionPodGcAssertions before idle_suspended_pod.

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around lines 39 - 42:
Before the first phase in the retired execution pod GC scenario, check the bench
telemetry mode and handle unsupported modes before calling
gc.idle_suspended_pod(); the GC counter supports only otel and datadog. Ensure
off mode exits through the established smoke configuration or skip behavior
without performing the scenario’s side effects, and do not rely on the
decorator’s otel-only telemetry selection to handle other modes.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @space_smoke/adapters.py:
- Around line 5660-5671: Update force_restart_public_api to call
wait_public_api_ready with the provided timeout after wait_public_api_rollout
completes, so the method returns only once the fresh API is ready.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @space_smoke/adapters.py:
- Around line 5576-5582: Update _retired_execution_pod_gc_intake_counts to run
the intake read through self.executor and remove the undeclared host jq
dependency, using Python to filter the payload if needed. Preserve the
180-second timeout and adapt failure reporting to the result interface returned
by self.executor.

Review comments at
@space_smoke/scenarios/local_retired_execution_pod_gc_reaps_retired_pods.py:
- Around line 39-42: Before the first phase in the retired execution pod GC
scenario, check the bench telemetry mode and handle unsupported modes before
calling gc.idle_suspended_pod(); the GC counter supports only otel and datadog.
Ensure off mode exits through the established smoke configuration or skip
behavior without performing the scenario’s side effects, and do not rely on the
decorator’s otel-only telemetry selection to handle other modes.

Review comments at @space_smoke/tests/test_retired_execution_pod_gc_scenario.py:
- Around line 50-87: Remove the harness-only ClassifierMirrorTest cases that
compare hand-built pod shapes with gc.would_reap, and remove
test_plant_cannot_schedule_and_drops_the_source_identity. Retain only
VerdictTest assertions if they are mutation-checked, and cite the bench run as
evidence for the remaining coverage.

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space_smoke/retired_execution_pod_gc.py: 1

527-561: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Make the live threshold check detect an early reap.

If the controller first observes a pod late in the rollout, a reap on the next five-second tick can pass the current check. A fresh target alone does not close this gap: the scenario also needs to bound its first observation, which the existing smoke controls do not expose.

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Update expect_reaped and the live scenario setup so a pod’s first observation is
bounded relative to the threshold; currently, a late first observation can make
a reap on the next tick pass. Establish a safe bound from the existing timing
settings, expose the necessary scenario control, and verify the first
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- Around line 527-561: Update expect_reaped and the live scenario setup so a
pod’s first observation is bounded relative to the threshold; currently, a late
first observation can make a reap on the next tick pass. Establish a safe bound
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Preserve the existing early-reap check for subsequent observations.

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