ARCHITECTURE 7.8 gains the pool resource semantics, the two-sentence
failure verdict and the two config keys; the ownership rule lands in a
new 4.5 because it is a cross-subsystem discipline, not a telemetry
convention. CHANGELOG leads with the three items downstream must read
first: the 3.12 floor, the connection count going from 10 per client to
on demand, and aclose no longer closing injected components.
README gains the key with the reason a single-source scope wants wait,
and the price of choosing it. .env.example carries the same warning
since README points at it as the full key list. ARCHITECTURE 7.4 records
why the missing cell is unrelated to source count -- and why keying on
len(sources) would be the worse debt -- plus the six-exit retry_after_s
contract and the admission convergence; 9 registers the key.
CHANGELOG stays unreleased per the release checklist: the version bump
belongs to the release run, not here. Its "read this first" section
covers the half-open retry_after_s change, which is visible even on the
default fail_fast setting.
The unreleased entry now covers both issues as one release note: #13 hands
schema control to downstreams, #12 hands over the other half — deleting
data — and ships three knobs that change nothing by default.
Top of the section is the 1.2.1 RLS template defect Task 4 found. That
template bound the write-side policy to app.tenant_id, but PostgresRecorder
writes every tenant through one pool and never calls set_config, so every
INSERT is rejected — and telemetry degrades silently, so the symptom is an
empty table, not an error. The entry says how to check for it (count rows
with a BYPASSRLS role; grep the per-row write warning) and what the new
WITH CHECK (true) template trades away.
ARCHITECTURE gets #12's half of D15: the library must not even hold the
means to delete, because REVOKE UPDATE, DELETE and a retention policy can
only be reconciled by DROP PARTITION (owner) rather than DELETE (app).
7.8 and 9 record the text cap, its default of no truncation, and why the
cut is per text rather than over the serialized JSON.
The CHANGELOG pointed at research-wiki for the RLS template and its
three traps, but setuptools has no MANIFEST.in here: the sdist carries
src/polygateway and the README only. A downstream pip install could not
reach any of it. The template and the traps now live in the README
section on multi-tenancy, and the CHANGELOG points there.
ARCHITECTURE.md is the single source of truth for architecture, and this
change had added nothing to it. Section 5.2 gains an entry in the same
shape as the issue #4 overlay one, and 7.8's field list gains tenant_id
and meta -- plus reasoning_tokens, which issue #6 had already left out,
so the port's field-count chain reads 18 to 20 to 21 to 22 to 24 with no
gaps.
Issue #10 Task 6. The install pin moves from ==1.1.* to >=1.2,<2 - left
alone, everyone following the README would have stayed silently on
1.1.2 without this fix and without a warning. Telemetry field count
re-measured via inspect.signature: still 22.
PostgreSQL checks the schema CREATE privilege before the IF NOT EXISTS
existence test, so an account with only table-level INSERT was denied on
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS even though the table was right there and
writable. The denial set _failed and the whole recorder went no-op for
the process lifetime, silently: 150+ calls downstream lost their latency,
token and cost rows with nothing but one warning to show for it.
The probe is the direct fix. The larger fix is the criterion: structural
degradation now means "provably cannot write" (pool creation failed, or
the table is absent and cannot be created), not "something threw during
init" -- a probe or acquire failure just skips the row and retries on the
next call.
SQLite stays as it is on purpose. Measured: it short-circuits the
statement at parse time, so it passes even under another connection's
EXCLUSIVE lock or on a read-only file. A probe there would buy nothing;
the docstring now says so to keep symmetry-minded future edits away.
Patch rather than minor: the error surface is unchanged and no public
signature moved. What downstream must notice is timing, not types — the
worst-case call duration rises to roughly max_attempts * timeout_s now
that the retry budget actually applies.
Pre-release review caught an overreaching promise in the changelog entry:
the 429 bound holds only when the stall verdict can fire at all, i.e. when
the whole scope has no progress. The verdict is a conjunction, so a call
does not die while other calls in the scope are still producing — by
design — which leaves no hard per-call ceiling in that case. That property
predates this fix and is now stated with its precondition instead of as an
unconditional guarantee.
The wiki sync in the release checklist is a no-op again: the doc site has
been down since 2026-08-02 and its landing page names CHANGELOG.md as the
version source of truth, which this commit updates.
Independent verification found the first cut had swapped one bug for a
worse one. The budgets were split by "did we send a request", so a 429
attempt counted as productive — but 429 is exempt from the retry budget,
so its time burned neither budget. Against a queueing gateway that holds
the request for the full timeout before answering 429, a call could hang
for 301 attempts / 25.2 hours, measured, versus 301 seconds before the
change.
The split is now by which budget the time consumes: time that burns
max_attempts is excluded from stall, time that does not (429 attempts
included) belongs to stall. Measured again: back to one attempt / 301s.
Only the chat loop needs this — embedding and ocr count 429 against
max_attempts unconditionally, so the gap never existed there. The stall
verdict moved into _stalled(), which both call sites had duplicated, to
keep __call__ under the complexity gate.
ARCHITECTURE.md 7.3 now carries the new metering and notes that the G6
ttft guard became conservative redundancy. The changelog entry leads with
what downstream must act on: the worst-case call duration rises to
max_attempts * timeout_s, and any STALL_WINDOW_S that was inflated to work
around this can go back to the default.
GovernanceBackendError arrived with the M2 distributed backends but never
made it into the section 6.1 table, so it had no place in the taxonomy
callers actually read. That omission is why the README missed it too.
Records the reparenting, the new governance_backend_down reason, and why
SourceNotConfiguredError deliberately stays outside the reparented family:
a misconfigured source name must burn its failure budget and surface,
not retry forever in silence.
VT migration abandoned (v1.0 scope becomes two projects), Q1 resolved
to Gitea PyPI, Q6 resolved as judge exemption (unwired zero-consumer
eval scaffolding), migration docs annotated with implementation errata,
and the reference/ read-only rule clarified for the worktree workflow.
Classify empty completions as transient per human ruling (fixes flaky
real-gateway smoke and prevents caching empty responses), rename the
factory injection parameter gate to breaker per the frozen design,
rewrite the probe-entry cleanup without except BaseException, declare
python-dotenv explicitly, add a mid-backoff cancellation test, and
record all implementation errata in the design and architecture docs.
Correct the section 6.1 reason enum against actual CHS code, make
retry_after_s a non-optional float, add structured_data to LLMResponse
extensions, finalize the structured parameter type, document SSE
missing-done semantics and watchdog thinking-token liveness, add the
StructuredMW layer to the default onion order, and register
middleware/structured.py in the module map.
Per 2026-07-20 human decisions: multi-source switching/cooldown ships
with M1 (retry-loop signatures freeze there), both GovDoc and
Video-Tree must pass the M1 onboarding smoke test, and Redis
integration tests use the lab's remote Redis with isolated namespaces.
Define the five-step ladder (native-schema prevention, repair, shape
validation, bounded feedback re-ask, ResultInvalidError) as D14;
rewrite section 7.9 accordingly, give the structured parameter its
three-tier semantics in the chat() signature, and scope the bounded
re-ask outside transport retry and breaker counting.
Record tenacity vs self-built evaluation as D13 in ARCHITECTURE.md
(self-built wins: per-attempt orchestration, cancellation guarantees,
supply-chain discipline). Add research-wiki/ROADMAP.md expanding the
milestone table with ordering rationale and exit criteria.