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suspend: retain admitted work when RPC callers disappear - #1762
Own suspend preparation and publication in the tracked state-writer task after acquiring lifecycle locks. Preparation failures are logged when the response waiter has disappeared. Cancelling a blocking or nonblocking caller retains its guards; cancelling a lock waiter creates no detached work. Give node CaptureVmState its longer method budget while ordinary RPCs retain 120 seconds and shorter client deadlines still apply.
Validation
The real suspend-handler cancellation regression fails with the base handler and passes with this change. It now also requires exactly one guest-preparation invocation after cancellation, and none for a cancelled lock waiter. The completed stack passes 15 gRPC tests and 1,833 sandbox-manager tests; one unrelated non-UTF-8 filename test cannot run on the macOS filesystem. Formatting, native Clippy and the isolated gRPC library check pass. The cancellation test inherits only the existing guest-I/O substitute into the owned task and asserts it runs exactly once. Moving that substitute into service options would also change the shared pause-retry plumbing, so that test-harness refactor is deferred.
Severity and risk
High: request cancellation can release lifecycle ownership while capture continues. This patch closes caller ownership only; producer receipts and recovery follow in the next patch. Blocking callers can still time out while owned work converges. Preparation and publication errors mark the owned task span failed for blocking and nonblocking requests; this does not change drain accounting. No schema or wire changes in this patch.
Stack: patch 1 of 3. Capture recovery follows in #1763, then bounded post-publication backup handoff in #1765.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
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Walkthrough
The gRPC server adds a path-based timeout layer. The node-manager server gives CaptureVmState a longer timeout than other methods. Suspend preparation and artifact publication now run in a tracked state-writer task. Tests cover method timeouts, client deadlines, suspend cancellation, lock retention, and rollback.
Suspend work now keeps running and holds its lifecycle locks after the caller disconnects, and the node manager's capture RPC gets a longer timeout. No concrete defect was found, and the author reports tests covering cancellation and timeouts. Because this changes locking, cancellation and timeout behavior on a snapshot-writing path, owners should confirm the reported test runs before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2b16f
The change improves cancellation safety without broadening access. Longer capture waits remain bounded, but completion and recovery after abrupt process interruption are not fully established by this patch.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — Retained suspend work targets the resolved sandbox, but shares host-wide state-writer capacity with other mutations. The existing limit is 256 active foreground writers, with 16 additional slots reserved for teardown methods. Child work inherits its parent's lease, preserving admission accounting after the caller disappears.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Suspend still authorizes through ALLOW_SANDBOX_OPERATOR before spawning work, and CaptureVmState still requires ALLOW_NODE_ADMIN_OR_SBXMGR before converting and dispatching the capture request. The new layer uses the request path only to select a duration; it does not grant identity or route around authorization.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The staging cleanup guard is distinct from the lifecycle artifact mutex. Its unchanged explicit cleanup delegates deletion to node manager; an armed Drop retains staging because abandonment does not prove that the remote producer stopped. Publication disarms the guard after successful publication and otherwise selects cleanup or preservation. These existing mechanisms are not evidence of complete recovery after every interruption, nor an introduced PR regression.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Follow-on recovery work should demonstrate that retained staging and existing capture records converge safely after hard exit, including repeated recovery and proof that producers have terminated before reclamation or retry. This is a recovery-validation proposal, not a finding that this PR introduces unsafe cleanup.
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Title check
The title uses the lowercase area prefix "suspend:" followed by a lowercase summary, matching the required format. It names the main change: suspend preparation and publication move into the tracked s…
Description Follows The Pr Template
The PR description contains all four required items, each with real content: 1. ## Summary: Present. It states that merging the change makes the tracked state-writer task own suspend preparation…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test
The PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/. The Validation section says that "the real suspend-handler cancellation regression fails with the base handler and passes with this change.…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified
The diff does not remove, disable, or weaken any test, assertion, lint, CI check, allowlist, or repository guard, and it does not change any AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, .agents/ skill, or…
Agent Tooling Runs No New Commands
The check applies to agent plugin manifests (plugin.json, plugin.yaml), SKILL.md files, command or skill files, and guideline files. The PR changes none of them. The changed-file inventory (`git diff …
Public-Safe Content
No public-safety violations found in the diff, title, or description. - Diff scan: I scanned all 353 added lines in the 8 changed files. I found no credentials, tokens, private keys, or API keys. I fo…
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The title uses the lowercase area prefix "suspend:" followed by a lowercase summary, matching the required format. It names the main change: suspend preparation and publication move into the tracked state-writer task so admitted work survives caller cancellation. The title has no trailing period, ticket ID, or link.
Full details: Description Follows The Pr Template
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The PR description contains all four required items, each with real content: 1. ## Summary: Present. It states that merging the change makes the tracked state-writer task own suspend preparation and publication after lock acquisition, and that the node CaptureVmState budget is extended. 2. ## Validation: Present. It names what was run and the results: the cancellation regression fails on the base handler and passes with the change, 15 gRPC tests and 1,833 sandbox-manager tests pass, one unrelated non-UTF-8 filename test cannot run on macOS, and formatting, native Clippy and the isolated gRPC library check pass. 3. ## Severity and risk: Present. It gives the severity "High" and states the risk: request cancellation can release lifecycle ownership while capture continues, and blocking callers can time out while owned work converges. 4. AI assistance: line: Present. It reads "AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description." The check is presence-only, so no further code investigation was needed. The check passes.
Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test
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The PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/. The Validation section says that "the real suspend-handler cancellation regression fails with the base handler and passes with this change." It also says the test now requires one guest-preparation invocation after cancellation. The diff adds this regression test in crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/suspend/tests.rs as cancelled_suspend_keeps_preparation_owned_but_never_detaches_lock_waiters. The source change in suspend.rs moves preparation and publication into a tracked owner. Validation names the test by behavior rather than by its exact identifier. That is a minor wording gap, but the named regression test, its base-fails/change-passes result, and the matching diff are all present, so the criterion is met.
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The diff does not remove, disable, or weaken any test, assertion, lint, CI check, allowlist, or repository guard, and it does not change any AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, .agents/ skill, or docs/rust/ text. Evidence from git diff --name-status and the patch: - No test deleted or weakened. The only test change in suspend/tests.rs is an added test, cancelled_suspend_keeps_preparation_owned_but_never_detaches_lock_waiters. The diff has no removed assertions. - No new suppression attributes. A grep of added *.rs lines finds no #[allow], #[expect], or #[ignore]. No skip, xfail, continue-on-error, SPACE_TEST_DEPS_OPTIONAL, nextest, deny.toml, clippy.toml, or allowlist edits appear. - No lint or CI change. No [lints] table, workflow, or CI file is touched. - Cargo dev-dependency.crates/l40_api/grpc/server/Cargo.toml adds test-util to the dev tokio features. It keeps the existing features. This is an addition, not a removal. - Removed lines are runtime code. The removed lines in suspend.rs and run.rs are production logic: lock-guard scoping moved into the detached task, and the gRPC builder call changed to a timeout-aware builder. Lock guards and request timeouts are runtime behavior, not repository guards in the sense of this check. The capture-RPC budget increase is a behavior change that a reviewer should weigh on its merits, but it is not a weakened test or guard under these criteria. No items to list.
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The check applies to agent plugin manifests (plugin.json, plugin.yaml), SKILL.md files, command or skill files, and guideline files. The PR changes none of them. The changed-file inventory (git diff --name-status over the review range) lists 8 files, all Rust sources or Cargo.toml: - crates/l40_api/grpc/server/Cargo.toml (modified) - crates/l40_api/grpc/server/src/lib.rs (modified) - crates/l40_api/grpc/server/src/method_timeout.rs (added) - crates/l40_api/grpc/server/src/method_timeout/tests.rs (added) - crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/run.rs (modified) - crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/pause_resume.rs (modified) - crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/suspend.rs (modified) - crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/suspend/tests.rs (modified) A path search for plugin manifests, SKILL.md, skills/commands directories, hooks, MCP, LSP, .claude, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursor, and guideline or markdown files returned no matches. A search of added diff lines for !`` substitutions and for hooks, mcp_servers, mcpServers, allowed-tools, or lsp returned no matches. The new gRPC "method_timeout" layer and the Tonic/Tower dependency changes are server-side Rust code. They are not agent tooling, and the check does not cover them. No failure condition applies, so the check passes.
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No public-safety violations found in the diff, title, or description. - Diff scan: I scanned all 353 added lines in the 8 changed files. I found no credentials, tokens, private keys, or API keys. I found no cloud account IDs or ARNs, no internal hostnames or internal URLs, and no absolute personal paths (/Users/, /home/). - The only address-like hit is TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:0") and format!("http://{address}") in crates/l40_api/grpc/server/src/method_timeout/tests.rs. This is a loopback test address with an ephemeral port. It is not sensitive. - Description and title: the PR description contains no URLs or links. It refers only to PR numbers #1763 and #1765 in the same repository. It mentions a macOS filesystem but gives no path. It contains no production logs, measurements, or cluster or environment names. - Vulnerability check: the description calls the cancellation ownership issue "High" severity. It describes a lifecycle and reliability defect, not a security vulnerability. The patch addresses part of it, and the description states that later patches cover the rest. I did not treat this as an undisclosed security vulnerability under the check. The title and description are the PR-provided text. The author is zibi-pplx, as reported by the provider.
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- Around line 226-229: In the preparation error arm, check whether admitted.send
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## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. After the capture invocation boundary, errors remain uncertain. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence, recover only the admitted artifact, and retain unresolved captures after six hours. Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Validation through this patch: 1,833 sandbox-manager tests and 30 Linux node-manager capture/request tests pass. The receipt-abandonment and shutdown re-arm regressions fail before their fixes and pass afterward. Real-handler cancellation tests still cover queued, running and stopping capture. Earlier validation of the unchanged store/migration code passed 710 store tests, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection. One existing privileged btrfs test is not run; one unchanged macOS filename test is excluded. Native and Linux targeted all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Real Firecracker/btrfs end-to-end and full workspace CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Drain old suspends before upgrading where possible. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Restore compensation skips the gate; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion.
The complete stack passes 1,833 sandbox-manager tests and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Affected-package all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity and full CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Own suspend preparation and publication in the tracked state-writer task after acquiring lifecycle locks. Preparation failures are logged when the response waiter has disappeared. Cancelling a blocking or nonblocking caller retains its guards; cancelling a lock waiter creates no detached work. Give node CaptureVmState its longer method budget while ordinary RPCs retain 120 seconds and shorter client deadlines still apply.
## Validation
The real suspend-handler cancellation regression fails with the base handler and passes with this change. It now also requires exactly one guest-preparation invocation after cancellation, and none for a cancelled lock waiter. The completed stack passes 15 gRPC tests and 1,833 sandbox-manager tests; one unrelated non-UTF-8 filename test cannot run on the macOS filesystem. Formatting, native Clippy and the isolated gRPC library check pass. The cancellation test inherits only the existing guest-I/O substitute into the owned task and asserts it runs exactly once. Moving that substitute into service options would also change the shared pause-retry plumbing, so that test-harness refactor is deferred.
## Severity and risk
High: request cancellation can release lifecycle ownership while capture continues. This patch closes caller ownership only; producer receipts and recovery follow in the next patch. Blocking callers can still time out while owned work converges. Preparation and publication errors mark the owned task span failed for blocking and nonblocking requests; this does not change drain accounting. No schema or wire changes in this patch.
Stack: patch 1 of 3. Capture recovery follows in #1763, then bounded post-publication backup handoff in #1765.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. After the capture invocation boundary, errors remain uncertain. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence, recover only the admitted artifact, and retain unresolved captures after six hours. Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Validation through this patch: 1,833 sandbox-manager tests and 30 Linux node-manager capture/request tests pass. The receipt-abandonment and shutdown re-arm regressions fail before their fixes and pass afterward. Real-handler cancellation tests still cover queued, running and stopping capture. Earlier validation of the unchanged store/migration code passed 710 store tests, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection. One existing privileged btrfs test is not run; one unchanged macOS filename test is excluded. Native and Linux targeted all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Real Firecracker/btrfs end-to-end and full workspace CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Drain old suspends before upgrading where possible. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Restore compensation skips the gate; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion.
The complete stack passes 1,833 sandbox-manager tests and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Affected-package all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity and full CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. After the capture invocation boundary, errors remain uncertain. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence, recover only the admitted artifact, and retain unresolved captures after six hours. The six-hour limit is an explicit total automatic-recovery grace measured from durable admission, not a capture timeout and not a fresh six hours after a receipt arrives. It is named separately from the legacy receipt-based seal retry window. Pending errors expose elapsed age and the bound; the existing periodic recovery pass logs them. Keep this conservative grace for late producer completion and transient seal failures: there is no measured basis here for claiming six hours is required. An earlier terminal cutoff is deferred because quarantined rows leave the automatic publication scan and could strand a late recoverable capture. Expiry retains evidence for operator recovery; it never proves the producer stopped.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Validation through this patch: 1,833 sandbox-manager tests and 30 Linux node-manager capture/request tests pass. The receipt-abandonment and shutdown re-arm regressions fail before their fixes and pass afterward. Real-handler cancellation tests still cover queued, running and stopping capture. Classification coverage includes missing receipts, late receipts, and reuse of the same admission at the expiry boundary; receipt mtime never renews the clock. Earlier validation of the unchanged store/migration code passed 710 store tests, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection. One existing privileged btrfs test is not run; one unchanged macOS filename test is excluded. Native and Linux targeted all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Real Firecracker/btrfs end-to-end and full workspace CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Drain old suspends before upgrading where possible. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Restore compensation skips the gate; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. All 13 registration tests pass, including wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata and unfinished legacy uploads.
The complete stack passes 1,833 sandbox-manager tests and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Affected-package all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity and full CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. After the capture invocation boundary, errors remain uncertain. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match both the admitted ID and the sandbox's encryption mode before its files are accepted; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
The current stack passes 1,834 sandbox-manager tests under repository-configured nextest and 712 store tests. The wrong-attempt staging guard, predecessor retained-source deferral, encryption-mode mismatch and malformed-sidecar handoff cases reproduced their reported failures before the fixes. Existing cancellation tests cover queued, running and stopping capture. Recovery tests cover ownership escalation, startup without clock renewal, late receipt sealing/publication, and the fixed six-hour boundary. Native affected-package all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Earlier unchanged producer-side validation passed 30 Linux node-manager capture/request tests, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the existing privileged btrfs test was not run locally. The synthetic seal transport tests establish artifact identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity. Current-head CI supplies the remaining platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Restore compensation skips the gate; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The complete stack passes 1,834 sandbox-manager tests under repository-configured nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Affected-package all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity and full CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. After the capture invocation boundary, errors remain uncertain. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. A future admission timestamp after a backward clock adjustment remains recoverable and emits an operator-attention diagnostic; clock skew never counts as expiry. A persistently incorrect clock requires operator correction rather than silently extending an unobserved wait. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match both the admitted ID and the sandbox's encryption mode before its files are accepted; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
The current stack passes 1,834 sandbox-manager tests under repository-configured nextest and 712 store tests. The wrong-attempt staging guard, predecessor retained-source deferral, encryption-mode mismatch and malformed-sidecar handoff cases reproduced their reported failures before the fixes. Existing cancellation tests cover queued, running and stopping capture. Recovery tests cover ownership escalation, startup without clock renewal, late receipt sealing/publication, and the fixed six-hour boundary. Native affected-package all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Earlier unchanged producer-side validation passed 30 Linux node-manager capture/request tests, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the existing privileged btrfs test was not run locally. The synthetic seal transport tests establish artifact identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity. Current-head CI supplies the remaining platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Restore compensation skips the gate; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The complete stack passes 1,834 sandbox-manager tests under repository-configured nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Affected-package all-target Clippy, formatting and architecture checks pass. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity and full CI qualification remain pending.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. A producer that finishes with an error after capture starts records a durable FAILED outcome. Recovery immediately retains that attempt in quarantine, regardless of liveness; the marker does not authorize rollback, sealing, or deletion. Crash/abandonment with no outcome remains uncertain. Failure settlement cannot overwrite a committed receipt whose rename succeeded before a later error. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. A future admission timestamp after a backward clock adjustment remains recoverable and emits an operator-attention diagnostic; clock skew never counts as expiry. A persistently incorrect clock requires operator correction rather than silently extending an unobserved wait. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match the admitted ID, sandbox ID and encryption mode before its files are accepted. A contradictory committed receipt blocks adoption even when complete sealed files exist. Publication validates sandbox identity before removing recovery evidence or renaming bytes; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Local regressions reproduced terminal producer errors leaving only an intent, refusal/failure evidence reaching sealing, mismatched receipt/sidecar identity being adopted, restore retirement entering the backup gate, and a handoff crossing its deadline remaining retryable. The focused sandbox-manager run passed 32 recovery/publication tests; its remaining deadline-crossing case reproduced the stale-age defect, which is now fixed. The real Linux capture-handler regression reproduced the missing FAILED marker before its fix. Formatting passes. Final producer settlement and deadline validation is pending in current-head CI.
Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests, affected-package all-target Clippy, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the privileged btrfs test was not run locally. Synthetic seal transport tests establish identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. A producer that finishes with an error after capture starts records a durable FAILED outcome. Recovery immediately retains that attempt in quarantine, regardless of liveness; the marker does not authorize rollback, sealing, or deletion. Crash/abandonment with no outcome remains uncertain. Failure settlement cannot overwrite a committed receipt whose rename succeeded before a later error. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. A future admission timestamp after a backward clock adjustment remains recoverable and emits an operator-attention diagnostic; clock skew never counts as expiry. A persistently incorrect clock requires operator correction rather than silently extending an unobserved wait. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match the admitted ID, sandbox ID and encryption mode before its files are accepted. A contradictory committed receipt blocks adoption even when complete sealed files exist. Publication validates sandbox identity before removing recovery evidence or renaming bytes; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Local regressions reproduced terminal producer errors leaving only an intent, refusal/failure evidence reaching sealing, mismatched receipt/sidecar identity being adopted, restore retirement entering the backup gate, and a handoff crossing its deadline remaining retryable. The focused sandbox-manager run passed 32 recovery/publication tests; its remaining deadline-crossing case reproduced the stale-age defect, which is now fixed. The real Linux capture-handler regression reproduced the missing FAILED marker before its fix. CI ran 12,810 Rust tests: 12,809 passed; the remaining publication fixture is now aligned with the sandbox directory contract. Formatting passes. Final producer settlement and deadline validation is pending in current-head CI.
Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests, affected-package all-target Clippy, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the privileged btrfs test was not run locally. Synthetic seal transport tests establish identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. A producer that finishes with an error after capture starts records a durable FAILED outcome. Recovery immediately retains that attempt in quarantine, regardless of liveness; the marker does not authorize rollback, sealing, or deletion. Crash/abandonment with no outcome remains uncertain. Failure settlement cannot overwrite a committed receipt whose rename succeeded before a later error. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. A future admission timestamp after a backward clock adjustment remains recoverable and emits an operator-attention diagnostic; clock skew never counts as expiry. A persistently incorrect clock requires operator correction rather than silently extending an unobserved wait. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match the admitted ID, sandbox ID and encryption mode before its files are accepted. A contradictory committed receipt blocks adoption even when complete sealed files exist. Unreadable producer outcomes block candidate selection at every age: they retry within the window and retain quarantine after expiry. Publication validates sandbox identity before removing recovery evidence or renaming bytes; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Local regressions reproduced terminal producer errors leaving only an intent, refusal/failure evidence reaching sealing, mismatched receipt/sidecar identity being adopted, restore retirement entering the backup gate, and a handoff crossing its deadline remaining retryable. The focused sandbox-manager run passed 32 recovery/publication tests; its remaining deadline-crossing case reproduced the stale-age defect, which is now fixed. The real Linux capture-handler regression reproduced the missing FAILED marker before its fix. CI ran 12,810 Rust tests: 12,809 passed; the remaining publication fixture is now aligned with the sandbox directory contract. Formatting passes. Final producer settlement and deadline validation is pending in current-head CI.
Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests, affected-package all-target Clippy, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the privileged btrfs test was not run locally. Synthetic seal transport tests establish identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. A producer that finishes with an error after capture starts records a durable FAILED outcome. Recovery immediately retains that attempt in quarantine, regardless of liveness; the marker does not authorize rollback, sealing, or deletion. Crash/abandonment with no outcome remains uncertain. Failure settlement cannot overwrite a committed receipt whose rename succeeded before a later error. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. Unreadable artifact sidecars cannot bypass this escalation while producer ownership is unresolved. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. A future admission timestamp after a backward clock adjustment remains recoverable and emits an operator-attention diagnostic; clock skew never counts as expiry. A persistently incorrect clock requires operator correction rather than silently extending an unobserved wait. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match the admitted ID, sandbox ID and encryption mode before its files are accepted. A contradictory committed receipt blocks adoption even when complete sealed files exist. Unreadable producer outcomes block candidate selection at every age: they retry within the window and retain quarantine after expiry. Publication validates sandbox identity before removing recovery evidence or renaming bytes; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Local regressions reproduced terminal producer errors leaving only an intent, refusal/failure evidence reaching sealing, mismatched receipt/sidecar identity being adopted, restore retirement entering the backup gate, and a handoff crossing its deadline remaining retryable. The focused sandbox-manager run passed 32 recovery/publication tests; its remaining deadline-crossing case reproduced the stale-age defect, which is now fixed. The real Linux capture-handler regression reproduced the missing FAILED marker before its fix. CI ran 12,810 Rust tests: 12,809 passed; the remaining publication fixture is now aligned with the sandbox directory contract. Formatting passes. Final producer settlement and deadline validation is pending in current-head CI.
Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests, affected-package all-target Clippy, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the privileged btrfs test was not run locally. Synthetic seal transport tests establish identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following #1762. #1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The removed `node_local_backup_fence_failure_preserves_runtime_and_rolls_back_to_paused` test exercised `require_node_local_backup_handoff`, which this patch replaces. Its `current_local_artifact_id.is_none()` assertion no longer holds: live rollback must retain the newly published capture. The replacement, `node_local_suspend_of_a_superseded_execution_retains_the_published_capture_on_live_rollback` in `registration_tests.rs`, checks the Internal error code, backup-fence metadata, preserved execution generation on both the sandbox row and upload payload, retained PID/artifact, paused state, and successful wake.
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following #1762 and #1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of #829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
AI assistance: Codex drafted code, tests and this description.
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## Summary
Bind each suspend to its artifact ID and immutable admission time in sandbox-manager SQLite. Node-manager validates and pins the existing staging path, then commits the existing receipt after successful capture and confirmed runtime stop. Both encrypted runtime implementations use the existing tracked node operation as their single capture owner. Receipt claims and outcome persistence run off the async workers; the owner explicitly settles pre-capture refusals before returning. Abandoned receipt values retain uncertainty and perform no filesystem work in Drop. Exclusive producer admission fences duplicate RPCs. Pre-capture refusal renames the intent to a durable refusal record; recovery can promptly roll back a live runtime. A producer that finishes with an error after capture starts records a durable FAILED outcome. Recovery immediately retains that attempt in quarantine, regardless of liveness; the marker does not authorize rollback, sealing, or deletion. Crash/abandonment with no outcome remains uncertain. Failure settlement cannot overwrite a committed receipt whose rename succeeded before a later error. This evidence belongs beside the existing capture bytes, so no additional table, protobuf field or RPC is needed.
Keep ambiguous captures suspending with their evidence and recover only the admitted artifact. Unresolved producer ownership escalates after twenty minutes from durable admission (the sixteen-minute capture wait plus four minutes of scheduling grace): each recovery pass emits an error identifying the attempt and elapsed age, and classification reports operator attention required. Unreadable artifact sidecars cannot bypass this escalation while producer ownership is unresolved. This does not change lifecycle state, release resources, or remove the row from reconciliation. A matching late receipt can still seal and publish automatically. Callers continue to observe an in-progress suspend; wake does not bypass ownership, and blocking retries retain their request deadline. Operators investigate the producer and retained files without deleting evidence or inferring that elapsed time proves capture stopped.
The separate six-hour total automatic-recovery grace covers late producer completion and transient seal failures, measured from the same immutable admission. Neither a receipt nor restart renews it; expiry retains evidence in quarantine for operator recovery. A future admission timestamp after a backward clock adjustment remains recoverable and emits an operator-attention diagnostic; clock skew never counts as expiry. A persistently incorrect clock requires operator correction rather than silently extending an unobserved wait. The legacy receipt-based seal window remains separately named. These are explicit availability defaults, not measured completion guarantees. Candidate metadata must match the admitted ID, sandbox ID and encryption mode before its files are accepted. A contradictory committed receipt blocks adoption even when complete sealed files exist. Unreadable producer outcomes block candidate selection at every age: they retry within the window and retain quarantine after expiry. Publication validates sandbox identity before removing recovery evidence or renaming bytes; a different predecessor's retained-source check cannot stall the current attempt. The teardown stage writer also checks the admitted ID inside its existing transaction, reusing the existing reader without new SQL or schema.
Extend the existing staging reclaimer to retire unrelated attempts under lifecycle exclusion. Attempt identity survives deletion, eviction and cleanup ownership; only settled unowned states clear it.
## Validation
Local regressions reproduced terminal producer errors leaving only an intent, refusal/failure evidence reaching sealing, mismatched receipt/sidecar identity being adopted, restore retirement entering the backup gate, and a handoff crossing its deadline remaining retryable. The focused sandbox-manager run passed 32 recovery/publication tests; its remaining deadline-crossing case reproduced the stale-age defect, which is now fixed. The real Linux capture-handler regression reproduced the missing FAILED marker before its fix. CI ran 12,810 Rust tests: 12,809 passed; the remaining publication fixture is now aligned with the sandbox directory contract. Formatting passes. Final producer settlement and deadline validation is pending in current-head CI.
Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests, affected-package all-target Clippy, migration down/up/history and unknown-migration rejection, Linux targeted Clippy and architecture checks. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS; the privileged btrfs test was not run locally. Synthetic seal transport tests establish identity and file shape, not real encryption or restore integrity.
## Severity and risk
High: a lost capture response can discard completion evidence or roll back a runtime that the producer subsequently stops. The additive migration must deploy with the worker services. Downgrade through the migration runner only after unresolved identities settle; old binaries reject unbundled migration history. A crash after stop but before durable receipt commitment still requires retained/operator recovery. Legacy encrypted suspending rows without identity quarantine at first recovery, including old in-flight suspends interrupted by this upgrade. Requests that never reach the producer, invalid staging identities, or failed refusal persistence remain uncertain until the fixed window expires. Monitoring stays armed through the final pre-submission owner check and disarmed after submission; only a proven refusal followed by rollback re-arms it. Unknown runtime liveness cannot authorize rollback or sealing, and a receipt/live-runtime contradiction emits a warning and recovery metric.
The removed `failed_encrypted_capture_may_release_volume` boolean helper encoded release based on liveness alone. The replacement rule never releases on an ambiguous capture failure: sealing requires the admitted committed receipt and a known-gone runtime. Existing transport tests `uncommitted_encrypted_capture_record_is_never_sealed` and `both_seal_entry_points_reject_a_live_runtime_and_ignore_other_attempts` assert no release RPC for unfinished, live or unknown cases. They verify the service boundary, not a real dm-crypt mount. Encrypted capture requests without valid staging now fail validation with `InvalidArgument` before capture, rather than reaching a later `Unavailable` path.
## Rollout
Use a coordinated worker rollout. Before replacing the old sandbox-manager/node-manager pair, quiesce suspend admission from API traffic, automatic lifecycle and teardown/drain work, and let encrypted `suspending` operations finish on the old pair. Verify none remain before starting the new recovery process; a cordon alone does not stop all suspend producers. Hold the affected worker upgrade if an old operation remains unresolved rather than silently treating it as migrated. This PR does not provide a per-worker suspend-admission switch.
If an interrupted upgrade leaves a legacy row blocked, preserve its runtime, staging directories, receipts and encrypted volumes. An operator must establish the matching capture identity and runtime disposition, then validate seal/restore before releasing the retained copy. Do not infer the attempt from the newest directory, populate the new identity column speculatively, or use deletion as a compatibility repair. There is no automatic migration of ambiguous legacy captures; use a reviewed, per-row recovery procedure or retain the worker for investigation. Downgrade requires the migration-aware path above, not only replacing the binary.
## Stack
Patch 2 of 3, following perplexityai#1762. perplexityai#1765 adds bounded post-publication backup-handoff recovery.
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## Summary
Preserve a published suspend capture when backup handoff fails, and give that failure a bounded owner instead of leaving cleanup and wake waiting indefinitely.
| Handoff outcome | Lifecycle result |
| --- | --- |
| Failure while a plaintext VM is still live | Roll back to paused with the newly published artifact, retaining wake availability. |
| Transient failure after publication | The existing cleanup job retries the same artifact/upload before runtime cleanup. |
| Terminal upload failure or expired retry window | Retain the artifact in quarantine and finish the cleanup job atomically. Wake refuses explicitly instead of waiting for cleanup forever. |
| Transfer handles already persisted | Complete cleanup without another remote registration, including after restart or expiry. |
Remote attempts are capped at 30 seconds. Pending handoff emits an error after five minutes and ends on the first failed attempt at or after fifteen minutes from the cleanup job's persisted creation time. Reconciliation does not renew that clock. Age is refreshed after the awaited attempt, so crossing the deadline settles on that failure rather than adding another backoff. The gate uses the persisted suspending lifecycle, so both episode-backed restore compensation and row-intent restore retirement skip it across retries and restarts; teardown suspends retain their existing remote-durability requirement. Node-local cleanup requires persisted transfer ownership, not a completed remote upload.
The final handoff evidence read and quarantine decision hold the same database mutex used by the upload worker, so a concurrent persisted handoff wins. Older upload payloads without an execution generation are accepted only with matching artifact/sandbox identity, staged metadata and persisted transfer handles; this never authorizes a new unfenced registration. Explicit generation mismatches remain refusals. Existing handoffs are checked before local sidecar reads; malformed metadata cannot block already-persisted transfer ownership. New uploads still require valid sidecar metadata.
Two guarded SQLite operations use existing columns: live rollback adopts the new artifact rather than its retired predecessor, and terminal settlement clears cleanup ownership and finishes its job in one transaction. Both reject stale execution/artifact owners without changing any rows. There is no additional migration, protobuf change, journal or worker.
## Validation
The removed `node_local_backup_fence_failure_preserves_runtime_and_rolls_back_to_paused` test exercised `require_node_local_backup_handoff`, which this patch replaces. Its `current_local_artifact_id.is_none()` assertion no longer holds: live rollback must retain the newly published capture. The replacement, `node_local_suspend_of_a_superseded_execution_retains_the_published_capture_on_live_rollback` in `registration_tests.rs`, checks the Internal error code, backup-fence metadata, preserved execution generation on both the sandbox row and upload payload, retained PID/artifact, paused state, and successful wake.
The terminal-handoff regression fails with the previous cleanup gate and passes with this change. Tests exercise the real cleanup orchestration and wake path across transient retry, terminal failure, expiry, already-persisted handoff and live rollback. They also verify stale-owner rejection and atomic job completion. The concurrent-handoff regression fails before the final evidence recheck; the legacy-handoff case fails before its narrow compatibility exception. The registration cases cover wrong artifact, wrong generation, missing metadata, unfinished legacy uploads and malformed sidecar after durable handoff; the malformed-sidecar case fails before moving the read behind the existing-upload check.
The restore-retirement regression reproduced a wrong-generation retained upload preventing node dispatch. An injected clock reproduced the deadline-crossing defect without wall-clock sleeps. Final-fix validation is pending in current-head CI; formatting passes. Earlier full validation passed 1,834 sandbox-manager tests with nextest and 712 store tests. One unchanged non-UTF-8 filename test is excluded on macOS. Tests use synthetic services and artifacts; real Firecracker/btrfs restore integrity requires platform qualification.
## Severity and risk
High: a valid capture can be quarantined after a transient handoff failure, or cleanup can retain wake indefinitely. A prolonged outage or terminal refusal still requires operator recovery; this change does not promise zero quarantines. The existing runtime and artifact retention rules remain in force. Settle pending handoffs before downgrading: older cleanup code lacks this retry and terminal policy. This patch adds no schema rollback requirement beyond its parent patch.
## Stack
Patch 3 of 3, following perplexityai#1762 and perplexityai#1763. This incorporates the post-publication handoff scope of perplexityai#829 into the capture-recovery stack, with a bounded retry window and wake regression coverage.
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Summary
Own suspend preparation and publication in the tracked state-writer task after acquiring lifecycle locks. Preparation failures are logged when the response waiter has disappeared. Cancelling a blocking or nonblocking caller retains its guards; cancelling a lock waiter creates no detached work. Give node CaptureVmState its longer method budget while ordinary RPCs retain 120 seconds and shorter client deadlines still apply.
Validation
The real suspend-handler cancellation regression fails with the base handler and passes with this change. It now also requires exactly one guest-preparation invocation after cancellation, and none for a cancelled lock waiter. The completed stack passes 15 gRPC tests and 1,833 sandbox-manager tests; one unrelated non-UTF-8 filename test cannot run on the macOS filesystem. Formatting, native Clippy and the isolated gRPC library check pass. The cancellation test inherits only the existing guest-I/O substitute into the owned task and asserts it runs exactly once. Moving that substitute into service options would also change the shared pause-retry plumbing, so that test-harness refactor is deferred.
Severity and risk
High: request cancellation can release lifecycle ownership while capture continues. This patch closes caller ownership only; producer receipts and recovery follow in the next patch. Blocking callers can still time out while owned work converges. Preparation and publication errors mark the owned task span failed for blocking and nonblocking requests; this does not change drain accounting. No schema or wire changes in this patch.
Stack: patch 1 of 3. Capture recovery follows in #1763, then bounded post-publication backup handoff in #1765.
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