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Summary

  • expose public job status and cancellation APIs
  • add idempotency-key status and durable cancel-or-fence APIs
  • await async submission hooks so callers can durably bind or reject accepted jobs
  • cancel accepted remote work before propagating submission-hook failures

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Depends on the matching Smithers idempotency-key tombstone endpoint.

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  • New Features

    • Added APIs to retrieve and cancel dispatched jobs, look up jobs by idempotency key, and fence jobs.
    • Submission callbacks can now be asynchronous and finish before job polling begins.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Callback failures now propagate after cancellation is attempted, with warnings when cancellation is unconfirmed or the job may have completed.
    • Improved reporting of dispatch errors and job-status warnings in tool results.

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The dispatch client adds job retrieval, cancellation, idempotency-key lookup, and fencing helpers. Submission hooks can be synchronous or asynchronous. When a hook fails after job acceptance, the client attempts cancellation and propagates the original exception with applicable outcome notes. The job-management helpers are exported through jig.dispatch.

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Dispatch job lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Job-management APIs and exports
src/jig/dispatch/client.py, src/jig/dispatch/__init__.py, tests/test_dispatch_module.py
Added job retrieval, cancellation, and idempotency-key lookup helpers. The helpers validate response shapes and map request errors. The package exports the new helpers. Tests cover responses, URL encoding, and errors.
Remote cancellation and fencing
src/jig/dispatch/client.py, tests/test_dispatch_module.py
Added cancellation and fencing outcomes, bounded requests, and retries for retryable failures. Tests cover terminal states, cancellation acknowledgments, and unacknowledged fences.
Asynchronous submission-hook handling
src/jig/dispatch/client.py, src/jig/tools/registry.py, docs/dispatch.md, tests/test_dispatch_module.py
Submission hooks can be asynchronous. Hook failures trigger cancellation fencing and propagate the original exception. Exception notes report terminal or unacknowledged outcomes and are included in dispatched tool errors. Documentation and tests cover these outcomes.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant submit_and_poll as _submit_and_poll
  participant hook as on_submitted
  participant fence as cancellation fence
  participant registry as ToolRegistry
  submit_and_poll->>hook: Invoke and await hook
  alt Hook succeeds
    hook-->>submit_and_poll: Completion
  else Hook fails
    hook-->>submit_and_poll: Exception
    submit_and_poll->>fence: Cancel or fence accepted job
    fence-->>submit_and_poll: Cancellation outcome
    submit_and_poll-->>registry: Propagate exception with applicable note
  end
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A submission-hook failure can still bypass the configured post-dispatch error callback. Correct that routing before merging unless the missing callback is explicitly accepted.

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In `@src/jig/dispatch/client.py`:
- Line 306: Update both callback annotations in the relevant client dispatch
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What changed in this PR

Adds durable dispatch status, cancellation, idempotency, and submission-hook controls.

Changes:

  • Added job lookup, cancellation, and fencing APIs.
  • Awaited submission hooks and added cancellation on hook failure.
  • Expanded dispatch API and lifecycle tests.
File Summary
tests/​test_dispatch_module.py Tests new APIs and hook behavior.
src/​jig/​dispatch/​client.py Implements APIs and hook lifecycle changes; two moderate issues and one documentation nit remain.
src/​jig/​dispatch/​__init__.py Exports the new dispatch APIs.

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The on_submitted rejection path called _cancel_remote_job, which logs and
swallows 503s and transport failures. The hook exception then propagated as
if the record-or-cancel boundary had held, while the accepted job could
still be running — and a retry under the same idempotency key could reuse
that live work.

Split the strict cancellation out of _cancel_remote_job as
_delete_remote_job, which raises a typed DispatchError; the best-effort
wrapper stays for the timeout and caller-cancellation paths, where a failed
cancellation must not replace the original exception.

The rejection path now goes through _fence_rejected_submission: it prefers
the durable idempotency-key fence when the submission carried a key, retries
a retryable failure, and returns the last error rather than swallowing it.
The hook exception stays the raised exception, with a note saying the job
may still be running.

docs/dispatch.md still described the old behaviour — on_dispatch_submitted
failures "logged and swallowed", its return value "never awaited". Both are
now the opposite. Updated the hook table and the sync/async paragraph, and
dropped the same stale claim from a registry comment.

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🟠 Major · Handle submission-hook JigToolError as a post-dispatch failure. · registry.py:308

src/jig/tools/registry.py:308
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Handle submission-hook JigToolError as a post-dispatch failure.

If on_dispatch_submitted raises JigToolError after job acceptance, this branch treats the exception as a pre-dispatch rejection. It skips on_dispatch_error, although dispatch_entered is true and the documented hook contract covers failures after shipping. Use dispatch_entered to distinguish this case from a genuine gate or payload rejection.

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In `@src/jig/tools/registry.py` at line 308, Update the JigToolError handler to
use dispatch_entered to distinguish failures after dispatch from gate or payload
rejections. When on_dispatch_submitted raises after job acceptance, handle it as
a post-dispatch failure and invoke on_dispatch_error; preserve the existing
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In `@src/jig/dispatch/client.py`:
- Around line 124-125: Update `_delete_remote_job` and the keyed fence handling
so an HTTP 409 is treated as safe only when the job is already cancelled; detect
an already-completed job and report that outcome to the caller instead of
presenting it as a successful cancellation.
- Around line 528-531: Update the error propagation from the dispatch
submission-hook failure path so a failed cancellation fence is included in the
ToolResult.error returned by ToolRegistry._execute_dispatched; do not rely on
exception notes, which str(e) omits. Preserve the existing error result behavior
when cancellation succeeds.
- Around line 199-201: Give the idempotency-key fencing request in
cancel_or_fence an explicit timeout, reusing the timeout value or pattern used
by _delete_remote_job for job-ID cancellation. Ensure the request remains
bounded even when the caller-provided HTTP client has no default timeout.

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In `@src/jig/tools/registry.py`:
- Line 308: Update the JigToolError handler to use dispatch_entered to
distinguish failures after dispatch from gate or payload rejections. When
on_dispatch_submitted raises after job acceptance, handle it as a post-dispatch
failure and invoke on_dispatch_error; preserve the existing rejection behavior
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A cancellation request against a job that already reached a terminal
state answers the same way whether it was cancelled or ran to
completion. Reporting the latter as a clean record-or-cancel rejection
tells the caller the opposite of the truth: the worker ran and its
effects landed with nobody recording them.

_fence_rejected_submission now returns a discriminated outcome rather
than an error-or-None, and resolves which terminal state it hit — from
the fence response when the submission carried an idempotency key,
otherwise with one extra job read. A status it cannot read is reported
as terminal-of-unknown-kind, never as a clean stop.

Also: bound the idempotency-key fence request with the same explicit
timeout the per-job DELETE already used, so a caller-supplied client
built with timeout=None cannot hold the hook exception indefinitely;
and fold exception notes into ToolResult.error, which was built from
str(e) and so dropped the only warning a dispatched tool's caller gets
that its job may still be running.

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cirsteve and others added 3 commits September 25, 2026 17:24
Two holes in the record-or-cancel boundary added in 8a81587.

The terminal-status read-back went out on the caller's client with no
timeout — the same unbounded-request bug _CANCEL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS was
introduced to close, one function over. It now runs under wait_for, and
a read that times out leaves the outcome terminal-of-unknown-kind, which
is what not knowing the status already means on this path.

asyncio.shield protected the fence task but not the await on it, so one
cancel() during the fence abandoned it mid-flight: the listener nonce
leaked, the hook exception was replaced by a bare CancelledError, and a
detached task was left to outlive the HTTP client it was using. The
fence is now drained to completion across repeated cancellation, with
the listener cleanup in a finally.

Cancellation still wins when it arrives — absorbing it would tell the
canceller this coroutine stopped when it did not, which breaks task
groups — but the hook failure rides along as its cause, and the fence
warning is restated as a note so it survives a caller reading str(exc).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three gaps in the record-or-cancel boundary, plus the cleanup around it.

A tool whose execute_timeout fired while a rejected submission was being
fenced lost the fence warning: wait_for raises TimeoutError *from* the
CancelledError that carries the note, and the registry's timeout branch
built a fixed message. _with_notes now follows the __cause__ chain
(deduplicating a warning restated at more than one link), and the
timeout branch uses it.

The keyed fence never named the terminal status it hit. Smithers answers
DELETE /jobs/by-idempotency/{key} 409 with only a "detail" string, so the
status field the code read was always absent — the tests passed only
because they mocked a 409 body smithers never sends. A statusless keyed
409 now reads the job back by id, like the per-job path already did, and
the fixtures match the server's real response bodies.

A JigToolError raised from on_dispatch_submitted was handled as a gate
rejection, skipping on_dispatch_error although the job had shipped and
been fenced. That branch now fires the hook when dispatch_entered.

Cleanup: the five hand-rolled smithers request/parse blocks go through
one _send / _json_object pair. The shield-then-drain loop is factored out
of _await_fence as _drain and reused by the caller-cancellation and
timeout paths, which had the same abandon-on-second-cancel flaw the fence
did; on the timeout path a cancellation arriving meanwhile now wins
instead of being absorbed. The ran-to-terminal warning no longer claims
a failed job's effects "landed".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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