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.
The design traces the incident to four stacked defects rather than one bad
default: the pool is the only resource in the library that pre-allocates,
the kill switch keys off which step failed instead of what failed, the
degraded state can neither recover nor be observed, and the ownership rules
make the sanctioned sharing path unusable.
The plan sequences the tracker ahead of the pool and failure work so every
commit stays green, and records two facts the implementer needs up front:
the pool-construction path has zero test coverage today, and the commit
gate runs the full suite plus a complexity ceiling.
Branch review caught the docs claiming something the code does not do.
CHANGELOG, README and the design's behaviour matrix all said a
force-opened source under circuit_open=wait waits out the full stall
window. It does not: the probe let through after each cooldown is a
real attempt, so it burns a max_attempts slot like any other, and a
401 source usually runs out of retry budget first -- reason is
retry_exhausted, not stalled. Which budget wins depends on
max_attempts against the cooldowns and the stall window.
The behaviour is right; only the prose was wrong. Charging the probe
to the retry budget is exactly the split issue #8 settled: the
question is who spends max_attempts, and a probe does send a real
request. A test now pins it so the claim cannot drift again.
Also drops the planned "woke up" log line. Each wait round already
logs on entry with its duration, and a still-blocked wake-up logs the
next round immediately, so a second line would only double the volume.
The breaker conflates "this source is unhealthy" with "kill this call
now". Limiter rejections already choose between wait and fail_fast;
breaker rejections had no such choice, so a single-source scope loses
its whole retry budget the moment the gate opens.
Design adds {SCOPE}__CIRCUIT_OPEN (default fail_fast, so existing
deployments keep their control flow) and pins retry_after_s to "time
until a *certain* retry moment" across all six gate exits. The latter
also fixes a separate bug the issue missed: a half-open rejection fed
the probe lease (up to 2x timeout) into the source cooldown memo, whose
set_until only moves forward -- so a recovered source stayed blacklisted
in-process long after the gate closed. That one bites multi-source
deployments too, it is just hidden when other sources absorb the load.
Human-approved 2026-08-19; both documents revised after Codex review.
The plan review caught three mistakes that would have gone red in the
tests rather than in the implementation. Column counts: COLUMNS is the
insert field list and excludes the database-filled created_at, so a
stale table has 23 physical columns and a current one 25, not 22 and 24.
Warning capture: the library logs through loguru, which never reaches
caplog, so that assertion would have passed forever without seeing a
single line. And the stale-table-under-least-privilege fixture is
least_privilege_pre_tenant_dsn -- the other one builds a complete table
and never reaches the missing-column path at all.
Three more: make lint rewrites files, so verification uses make check;
the recorder signature change now ships with its only call site instead
of leaving a TypeError between two commits; and the backfill statements
the library runs are not the ones it prints -- the library probes first
to dodge the exclusive lock, while a script handed to a DBA has to carry
IF NOT EXISTS or it cannot be run twice.
On the cap side, all three clients build their emitter inside __init__,
so a required parameter there would strand anyone constructing a client
directly. The emitter stays required, the clients take a defaulted one.
Twelve tasks across the two plans, each with the files it touches, the
evidence it has to produce, and the command that proves it. #13 goes
first: both branches edit config.py and client.py, and #12's
partitioning template leans on the schema SQL helper and the untargeted
conflict clause that #13 introduces.
Writing the cap plan surfaced a trap worth its own guard. digest_messages
appends the very same dict when a message's content is not a list, so
the telemetry copy, the caller's messages and the cache key all share
one object -- capping in place would poison the caller's request and the
cache key at once, silently. Two red-line tests now pin that down, and
the plan asks for an in-place version to be written and run first, to
prove the tests actually catch it.
OcrClient emits through the same helper and its rows land in the same
table as chat rows. Covering only chat and embed would leave one table
holding rows that have a tenant and rows that never will, and the
issue's own irreversibility argument applies to those rows too.
The design said two paths because the issue said two paths. Corrected
at the source rather than only in the plan, so a later reader does not
find OCR work with no design behind it.
The tenant_id rule was wrong in a way that would have shipped: the plan
said reject when strip() is empty, but the design says reject leading and
trailing whitespace outright. " t1" survives the weaker rule and then
compares unequal to "t1" inside an RLS policy, so a caller who pads the
value silently loses rows.
Adds the test that guards a promise nothing else was guarding -- same
messages and namespace with different meta must still hit the cache.
Without it, folding meta into the key passes every other assertion and
costs a full cache cold start plus a permanently lower hit rate, which
degrades quietly instead of failing.
Also pins _record's new parameter positions, splits the backfill-failure
setup per backend (ownership check on PG, read-only file on SQLite, and
says what SQLite cannot assert), puts the red-green gate on the
integration task, and names the two wiki pages.
Eight tasks against the approved design, ordered so the port and both
telemetry backends land before the three call paths that feed them.
Writing the plan turned up a third telemetry path the design missed:
OcrClient emits through the same helper and builds its ChatRequest on
the spot, just as embedding does. OCR rows share the table with chat
rows, so leaving them out would put a hole in a multi-tenant caller's
audit trail, and the same irreversibility argument applies. Listed as
Task 6 and flagged as beyond the approved scope -- it may be dropped,
but only by stating the limitation in the CHANGELOG, not silently.
The integration task pins the issue's own argument as a test: build a
22-column table, open it with the current recorder, and assert the old
rows read back as the empty string rather than NULL -- NULL under an
RLS policy is invisible to everyone, not merely unassigned.
Codex review: the code blocks reference httpx and PolyGatewayError, but
neither module imports them today. A zero-context implementer copying
them verbatim would stall on F821.
Registration pages carry the chosen approach, why the split is by "which
budget the time consumes", the five rejected alternatives with reasons,
and the 3.6 correction found during independent verification.
Six tasks: StallClock plus the chat loop, then embedding, ocr, the config
comments, the full-suite regression with doc sync, and independent
verification. Codex review raised four points, all confirmed and folded in:
a stale line reference in the fidelity section, explicit cancellation
acceptance for T2/T3 (the new attempting() wrapper now wraps their existing
cancel paths), a telemetry-boundary test pinning the design's claim that
telemetry jitter must not feed the stall verdict, and concrete test
construction for the embedding/ocr regressions.
Letting SourceNotConfiguredError through the gate wrappers opened a hole
the recheck caught: _record_quietly only degrades GovernanceBackendError,
so an assembly defect raised from the accounting side would now escape and
destroy a response from a call that had already genuinely succeeded. That
inverts the exact invariant _record_quietly exists to hold.
Widening _record_quietly is the right fix rather than narrowing the
wrappers, because that layer degrades by what the path is (accounting, the
call is already done) rather than by which error type shows up. Narrowing
would have left 4 of 9 wrapper methods as exceptions to a rule nobody can
remember.
No backend raises it from an accounting method today, so this is a
guardrail for whoever adds source-name validation to a breaker backend.
The stub that first reported this green was wrong: its record_success
lacked count_attempt, so it raised TypeError and the wrapper relabeled it.
Fixed signature, then the test failed as it should have.
Also finishes the three-to-five leak path correction across the four
remaining spots, including the wiki summary card that indexes this design.
Independent verification caught that the split shipped in the previous
commit did not actually hold on the only path production uses. The gate
wrappers re-raise GovernanceBackendError but nothing else, so
SourceNotConfiguredError fell into the following `except Exception` and
came back out as a governance_backend_down failure with retry_after_s=5.0.
A misconfigured source name would still retry forever and never surface.
The existing tests missed it because both of them call the private _cfg()
directly, one layer below the wrapper the governance loops actually go
through. The regression test goes through QuotaGate.
telemetry.py has to widen its terminal catch in the same commit: once the
wrapper stops relabeling the error, it is no longer a GovernanceBackendError,
and it is raised before any attempt exists, so the path would have recorded
no telemetry at all.
Also corrects the leak path count from three to five. QuotaGate.stats and
BreakerGate.retry_after_s are not wrapped by _record_quietly either.
Five tasks, with the ARCHITECTURE section 6.1 revision first so the code
never contradicts the single source of truth, and the reparenting kept
atomic because scope is a required keyword argument and any split would
leave an unrunnable tree.
The Codex review caught that the planned test evidence pointed at the
wrong stubs: the ones at test_backpressure.py:176-186 cover accounting-side
degradation, not the three gate paths that actually leak to callers, and
try_acquire and try_enter have no stub at all.
The thinking matrix had been running inside make ci all along, which is
not what the design claimed. It takes seven minutes, spends 137 real
calls, and its criteria are statistical, so a network hiccup fails the
build for reasons unrelated to the change under test -- one run died on
three consecutive network errors exhausting the source.
The project already has the mechanism for this: the slow marker, which
addopts excludes by default and the config comments describe as "CI runs
it on demand". Marking the matrix slow brings make ci back down from
seven minutes to ninety seconds while the matrix stays a merge
requirement via -m slow.
The design also claimed e2e does not run in CI. It does: make test runs
pytest over tests/, e2e included, and the existing smoke tests really
call the gateway whenever .env has credentials. Only slow-marked tests
are excluded. Both documents now say so.
Version sources are pyproject and __init__; a test enforces they agree,
and it caught the second one being missed.
The verifier caught that the disable-direction evidence only proved "no
regression", not "actually took effect": on M3 the disabled runs and the
no-opinion baseline are identically distributed, because that model does
not reason by default anyway. So the disable runs alone cannot rule out
the very failure mode issue #5 is about -- the parameter being silently
dropped upstream. The bogus-value experiment that does rule it out was
sitting in the findings document instead of the test suite; it is now
case L3b, and the L3 assertion that could never fail is gone.
Also from the review: the e2e helper caught bare Exception, which would
have disguised a library bug as an unavailable source, exactly the
silence the reporting discipline exists to prevent; the unregistered
model warning fired on every request instead of once per source; and the
transport caught ValueError broadly enough to mislabel unrelated errors,
now narrowed to a dedicated ThinkingUnsupportedError.
The design and plan still described the original judgement criteria,
which the measurements had already overturned. Both now match what the
tests actually do, and the design no longer claims the only new failure
surface is the openai one -- dissect configures MiniMax-M2.7 with
ENABLE_THINKING=false and will fail at assembly, which has to be
coordinated before this merges.
Ten tasks in a fixed order: land reasoning_tokens first so it can serve
as the acceptance instrument for the thinking-switch fix, then reshape
the provider profile, add the model-level capability table, wire the
assembly guard, fold enable_thinking into the cache fingerprint, and
verify the whole thing against the live API.
Incorporates a read-only Codex review: resolve_thinking now takes the
model name so its errors can name it, and the warning assertion uses a
loguru sink because caplog cannot see loguru output.
Wiki site synced across six pages (commit 4c8dc09 on the wiki repo) and
issue #2 answered with the shipping conditions for the downstream
workaround removal.
Leaves the wiki-site sync, the issue #2 reply and the version bump
unticked -- those are external deliverables this repository cannot
self-certify, and the pre-merge review was right to flag their absence.
The reviewer confirmed the T1-T4 ordering holds -- it re-derived every
intermediate state and checked that no construction path can produce
est_tokens=0 with tpm>0 before T4 -- but found four gaps.
Two existing tests go red and the plan never said so: test_types.py:94
asserts the very constraint T4 deletes, and test_embedding.py:105 is a
transport-level case for the fallback T3 rewrites, easy to miss while
looking only at test_openai_compat.py.
The T4 acceptance line claimed all three settlement sides use the
derived value, but the cancel branch never assigns actual and leaves it
at the retry.py:329 initial zero -- an implementer would have "fixed"
a branch the design freezes. Corrected here and in the design section
5 sentence it came from.
USAGE_SOURCES would have landed with no consumer, so T1 now carries the
two value-domain assertions the design asks for, including the one that
pins the no-runtime-validation ruling.
The ordering is the load-bearing part. All three changes interlock and
every wrong interleaving fails silently: flipping the usage fallback to
(0, 0) before the settlement points read the derived value refunds the
whole pre-deduction on success, and flipping the embedding transport
before _merge goes three-state mislabels unavailable batches as
measured. So the plan adds the capability first, moves all five call
sites onto it while it is still equivalent, only then lets the third
state take effect, and unbinds the constraint last.
Registers both wiki entries and links the plan to its design.
Also note that the seven architecture amendments predate the plan,
tighten T12 to independent implementation layers, and add fallback
guidance for read-only reference protocol imports.
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