[Docs] Specify persisted ownership and generation model for the lifecycle P1 workstream - #1706
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WalkthroughThe PR adds a persisted ownership and generation model for five lifecycle gaps. It documents ownership boundaries, generation semantics, immutable reads, and cache convergence histories. Existing lifecycle reports now link to the new specification and its remediation blocks. No production behavior changes. ChangesLifecycle P1 documentation
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- Line 111: Update the bounded-property statement near mergeHistoryDelta to
describe conflict resolution per field rather than asserting blanket
last-writer-wins. Preserve status-transition legality and childIds union
semantics, explicitly limit last-writer-wins to fields that use it, and add the
corresponding exceptions to the convergence property and tests.
- Line 79: Update scripts/check-task-lifecycle.ts so stale-generation completion
is modeled as a reachable rejected action after resume, rather than being
omitted because complete(child, g0) is disabled; alternatively add an explicit
offerComplete(child, g) transition that reaches the rejection behavior. Ensure
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current-generation completion remains unchanged.
- Line 119: Update the reconcile() documentation to remove the claim that the
mtime skip is exact, and qualify it as best-effort because identical mtimeMs
values can leave cached payloads stale after an atomic replacement. Add
collision coverage for this case, or change reconciliation to use a stronger
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docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-persisted-ownership-model.md (1)
70-75: 🗄️ Data Integrity & IntegrationThe downgrade-writer loss claim is refuted.
TaskHistoryStorewrites deltas by spreading them over the current disk object, so unknown fields are preserved. Its downgrade write-through updatesglobalState; it does not rewritehistory_item.json. Existing-file migration also skips the write. No inspected path rewriteshistory_item.jsonfrom only known fields.docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md (1)
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| **Acceptance/rejection landmarks.** Two named landmarks must be reachable in the future checker: `stale-generation-completion-rejected` (a `g0` completion offered after resume created `g1` is rejected at both the reducer and the lock-time boundary) and `resumed-generation-completion-accepted` (a `g1` completion moves child → `completed`, parent → `active`). | ||
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| **Bounded future checker shape.** Extend `scripts/check-task-lifecycle.ts` — not the shared-store checker — with a per-child generation counter and one new action `resume(child)` (enabled when the child is `interrupted`; bumps the generation and returns the child toward `active` under the existing re-delegation rules). `complete(child, g)` becomes enabled only when `g` equals the modeled current generation. Keep the existing three task slots; depth may rise to at most 14 to cover one interrupt/resume/complete cycle per child; the 10,000-state budget and landmark reachability rules apply unchanged. Bounds cannot truncate silently: the existing frontier check already fails on any unseen successor. |
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Make the stale-generation rejection landmark reachable.
The future checker enables complete(child, g) only when g equals the current generation. After resume, complete(child, g0) is therefore disabled, not rejected. The checker cannot reach or prove stale-generation-completion-rejected. Model stale completion offers as reachable rejected actions, or add an explicit offerComplete(child, g) transition.
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In `@docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-persisted-ownership-model.md` at line 79,
Update scripts/check-task-lifecycle.ts so stale-generation completion is modeled
as a reachable rejected action after resume, rather than being omitted because
complete(child, g0) is disabled; alternatively add an explicit
offerComplete(child, g) transition that reaches the rejection behavior. Ensure
the stale-generation-completion-rejected landmark becomes reachable while valid
current-generation completion remains unchanged.
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| ## LIFE-BLK-P1-020 — stale-cache and convergence histories (GAP-020) | ||
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| **Bounded property.** Watch/reconcile convergence is eventual and failure-tolerant, not coherent. For any finite, quiescing sequence of peer writes, a host whose next `reconcile()` completes successfully converges its cache to disk for every task ID. During the stale window there is no coherence guarantee: same-field conflicts remain last-writer-wins at the `mergeHistoryDelta` boundary. Exclusions: repeated reconcile failure (no convergence bound), network filesystems, process crash/power loss mid-write (`LIFE-BLK-P2-004`), and lock-implementation semantics. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Describe per-field conflict semantics, not blanket last-writer-wins.
Line 19 says mergeHistoryDelta enforces status-transition legality and childIds union semantics. Line 111 says same-field conflicts remain last-writer-wins at that boundary. A stale status write may be rejected, and concurrent childIds additions may be merged. Limit last-writer-wins to fields that use it, and list the exceptions in the convergence property and tests.
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In `@docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-persisted-ownership-model.md` at line 111,
Update the bounded-property statement near mergeHistoryDelta to describe
conflict resolution per field rather than asserting blanket last-writer-wins.
Preserve status-transition legality and childIds union semantics, explicitly
limit last-writer-wins to fields that use it, and add the corresponding
exceptions to the convergence property and tests.
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| 2. **Missed-watch history.** `fs.watch` error or platform unreliability (handled in `startWatcher`, which logs and falls back) → no event → cache stays stale until the periodic reconcile (`RECONCILE_INTERVAL_MS`, 5 minutes) or an explicit refresh. Stale-read window bound: one periodic interval plus one reconcile pass, when reconciles succeed. | ||
| 3. **Explicit-refresh history.** `invalidate(taskId)` (used by `delegateParentAndOpenChild` and the `reopenParentFromDelegation` continuation before reading authoritative state) or webview-triggered `invalidateAll()` + `reconcile()` (`webviewMessageHandler`) → cache re-read from disk inside the store lock. Window bound: zero for the invalidated entry once the call resolves. | ||
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| `reconcile()`'s mtime skip is exact for this property because `taskFileMtimes` records the last observed mtime per task; the lock-file liveness fallback keeps a task live across a peer's atomic rename window instead of evicting it. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Remove the exactness claim from mtime-based convergence.
reconcile() skips a cached task when the observed mtimeMs equals taskFileMtimes. A peer can atomically replace history_item.json while the filesystem reports the same mtimeMs for both writes. Because stat succeeds, the lock-file fallback does not run, so the cache can retain stale payload data. Qualify this property and add collision coverage, or use a stronger change marker or forced read.
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In `@docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-persisted-ownership-model.md` at line 119,
Update the reconcile() documentation to remove the claim that the mtime skip is
exact, and qualify it as best-effort because identical mtimeMs values can leave
cached payloads stale after an atomic replacement. Add collision coverage for
this case, or change reconciliation to use a stronger change marker or force a
read instead of relying solely on taskFileMtimes.
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Part of #1689 (workstream under umbrella #1688, sourcing from #1626). This PR completes the documentation/formal-model scope of the five P1 blocks; it intentionally does not close #1689 or any
LIFE-GAP, whose closure criteria require later production implementation evidence.Description
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docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-persisted-ownership-model.md, the specification deliverable for the P1 "Persisted ownership and generation" workstream, and cross-references it from the gap report, the lifecycle model page, and the remediation block register. No production code, checker, schema, or test behavior changes.Per block:
mergeHistoryDeltaunder the per-file advisory lock insideTaskHistoryStore.atomicUpdatePair, driven byClineProvider.reopenParentFromDelegation), the required exact-child ownership check, the retained shortest [BUG] Cross-window stale subtask completion can orphan a newer child #1469 stale-completion witness in the shared-store checker, the unchanged bounds (2 hosts, 3 task slots, depth ≤ 32, ≤ 100k states, 6 scenarios), and the deterministic two-store production test required before the witness may be promoted to a universal invariant.status, lineage, delegation pointers, completion fields,pendingAction) from metadata writes (Task.saveClineMessages→taskMetadata→mergeHistoryDelta), makes the monotonic-detachment invariant explicit with the retained fix(task): guard saveClineMessages against abandoned tasks to prevent race in abandonSubtask #1021 stale-save witness, and claims no current safety.stale-generation-completion-rejectedandresumed-generation-completion-acceptedlandmarks, and a bounded future checker shape forscripts/check-task-lifecycle.ts(3 task slots, depth ≤ 14, unchanged 10k-state budget).PendingTaskAction.actionIdis documented as pending-approval identity, not an attempt token.TaskHistoryStore.get/getAll/getByWorkspace(every production and test caller classified; all currently read-only;getTaskWithIdpropagates the live cache reference), the immutable-read decision options (freeze-at-write preferred, clone-on-read, type-level), clone/freeze mutation-regression test criteria, and compatibility exclusions.Reviewer notes: the gap-report register rows for GAP-001/002/012/017/020 gain only a spec pointer in the witness column; severity, dependencies, and closure criteria are unchanged. Prettier re-padded the register table columns at commit time (whitespace-only outside those five rows).
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task-lifecycle-remediation-blocks.md: duplicate-block-rowrgcheck prints nothing; the 38-row block/GAP suffix Node check exits 0.pnpm lifecycle:model-check: full umbrella green, including the shared-store checker with both [BUG] Cross-window stale subtask completion can orphan a newer child #1469/fix(task): guard saveClineMessages against abandoned tasks to prevent race in abandonSubtask #1021 known-unsafe witness ratchets intact.pnpm test: 13/13 turbo tasks passed.Pre-Submission Checklist
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docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-remediation-blocks.md):TaskHistoryStore.atomicUpdatePair,ClineProvider.reopenParentFromDelegation,mergeHistoryDeltalinked ✔; checker unchanged with justification (encoding the ownership guard now would model unimplemented behavior; the witness must remain a witness until the production fix) ✔; promotion test, E2E/CI evidence requirements explicit ✔; witness/landmark reachability ratcheted by the existing checker ✔; does not overstate GAP-001 closure ✔; no dependencies ✔.Task.saveClineMessages,taskMetadata,mergeHistoryDeltalinked ✔; checker unchanged with the same faithfulness justification; fix(task): guard saveClineMessages against abandoned tasks to prevent race in abandonSubtask #1021 witness retained ✔; deterministic interruption fault-injection test requirements at eachsaveClineMessagespersistence step explicit ✔; no claim of current safety ✔; dependency on P1-001 vocabulary satisfied within the new doc ✔.PendingTaskAction.actionId, interruption/resume/completion reducers linked ✔; checker change deferred with justification (no persisted generation token exists inhistoryItemSchema); bounded future checker shape and both landmarks specified ✔; reducer/store/API rejection and restart E2E criteria recorded for the implementation PR ✔; dependency on P1-001 satisfied ✔.TaskHistoryStore.get/getAll(+getByWorkspace) linked; exhaustive direct-caller inventory classified ✔; model/checker non-applicability justified (read-side API contract, no faithful transition boundary) ✔; clone/freeze mutation-regression test criteria and compatibility exclusions recorded ✔; no dependencies ✔.invalidate,reconcilesymbols linked ✔; checker unchanged with justification (watcher/timers are environment effects; the explorer already modelsrefreshas an environment action; thestale-cache-newer-disklandmark stays reachable) ✔; existing cross-instance evidence named and deterministic missed-watch/reconcile-failure fault-injection tests specified ✔; dependency on P1-001 satisfied ✔.Get in Touch
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