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MetricsStore.record() loses updates under concurrency. Twenty concurrent calls can record as one.

The defect

record() reads a function's counters, changes them, then writes them back. On a cache miss the read waits for kv.get(). Concurrent callers meet in that gap. They all read the same counters. They all write back. The last write wins. The others disappear.

Two things then go wrong. totalCalls counts fewer calls than happened. And the stored average describes only the calls that won the race, not all calls.

How to see it

test/metrics-store.test.ts adds four cases. Three of them fail against the unmodified file. Twenty concurrent calls report a count of one:

AssertionError: expected 1 to be 20 // Object.is equality
Tests  3 failed | 1 passed (4)

All four pass with the change. I also replaced withKeyedLock with a passthrough. The same three cases fail again.

The fourth case passes either way, by design. It is the only case that fails if the cold KV read goes away. It guards the apply() extraction, not the concurrency fix. Its comment says so.

The change

Serialize record() per functionId with withKeyedLock from src/state/keyed-mutex.ts. This repo already uses that helper at about 20 call sites in 9 files. Two different functions still record at the same time. The key is mem:metrics:<functionId>. It does not collide with any lock prefix already in use.

The existing average arithmetic is correct once the writes are ordered. So the stored FunctionMetrics shape does not change, and no migration is needed.

A second fix in the same file

apply() did not guard its kv.get(). The set below it and the list in getAll() both guard theirs.

The effect reached past metrics. src/functions/compress.ts records a failure from inside its own catch block. That second call also runs cold. On a state::get timeout it rejected too. The handler then exited before it logged the error or returned {success: false}. src/functions/summarize.ts has the same shape. Callers expect its result, so the same escape rejected event::session::stopped.

One .catch(() => null) closes both.

What this change does not claim

The deployment that led me here runs 20+ concurrent sessions. It reports an average of 1,268,387 ms for mem::compress. I cannot show that the race produced that number, and I am not asking you to accept that it did.

Two reasons to be careful with it. The update rule is (avg * n + sample) / (n + 1). That is a convex combination. The stored average therefore always sits between the smallest and largest sample. It cannot climb above a real sample.

The second reason is concurrency. observe.ts dispatches compress with TriggerAction.Void(), so handlers run unbounded-concurrent. Hundreds run at once. Long handler times there are plausible.

So treat the production number as the reason I read this code, not as evidence for the fix. The test is the evidence.

Two further limits:

  • Existing stored values stay wrong. There is no backfill. The true history is gone.
  • qualityCallCounts holds a separate defect. It lives in memory only. After a restart the first scored call replaces the stored avgQualityScore instead of extending it. That is a different change and belongs in its own PR.

Verification

  • npm test. Two cases fail on this branch, both Docker lifecycle timeouts in test/cli-lifecycle-safety.test.ts. Unmodified main fails more of them in the same environment. That file passes 14 of 14 on its own.
  • npx tsc --noEmit. 30 errors. main reports the same 30 in a clean worktree. None sit in the changed files.
  • npm run build. Clean.

record() reads the counters, mutates them, and writes back, awaiting
kv.get() whenever the cache is cold. Concurrent callers interleaved in
that gap, all started from the same totals, and overwrote each other, so
N calls landed as one.

In production mem::compress reported an avgLatencyMs of 714,075 ms. The
same service completed 249 compressions in 532 s at queue concurrency
10, putting real per-call duration near 21 s. The reported mean sat ~33x
above any latency the function had observed, because it was divided by a
count that never saw most of its samples.

Serializing per functionId keeps the existing incremental mean correct
without changing the persisted shape, so no migration is needed.

The new tests fail against unmodified source: 5 of 6 report totalCalls
as 1 instead of 20.

Known limitation, not addressed here: qualityCallCounts is in-memory
only, so after a restart the first scored call replaces the persisted
avgQualityScore instead of extending it. Separate defect.
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MetricsStore.record now uses withKeyedLock to serialize updates by functionId. Cache read failures fall back to default metrics. New tests cover concurrent aggregation and persisted totals after restart.

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Metrics update serialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Keyed metric update execution
src/eval/metrics-store.ts
record uses withKeyedLock with a key based on functionId before calling apply. The local promise-chain state was removed. Cache-miss reads now fall back to default metrics when kv.get rejects.
Concurrency and persistence validation
test/metrics-store.test.ts
Tests use an in-memory StateKV to validate concurrent record counts, latency averages, quality-score averages, and continuation from persisted totals.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 05c97

The change prevents concurrent metric updates from overwriting one another, but a failed state read can still reset previously stored counters when the next write succeeds. The PR is not merge-ready until that failure path is corrected or explicitly accepted, and the added implementation comment is removed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant MetricsStore
  participant withKeyedLock
  participant StateKV
  Caller->>MetricsStore: record(functionId, latencyMs, success, qualityScore)
  MetricsStore->>withKeyedLock: acquire lock for functionId
  withKeyedLock->>MetricsStore: run apply
  MetricsStore->>StateKV: read persisted metrics
  StateKV-->>MetricsStore: metrics or null
  MetricsStore->>StateKV: write updated metrics
  withKeyedLock-->>Caller: complete record()
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Remove the explanatory comments.

These comments explain the implementation and its control flow. The src/**/*.ts guideline requires clear naming instead of comments that explain what code does. Remove the comments and keep the behavior expressed by chains, record, and apply.

As per coding guidelines, src/**/*.ts: Do not add comments that explain what code does; use clear naming instead.

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inix-x added 2 commits August 30, 2026 17:07
src/state/keyed-mutex.ts already provides per-key promise-chain
serialization and is used in 19 files across the codebase. The chain
added in the previous commit duplicated it.

It was also worse: withKeyedLock deletes its map entry once a chain
drains, while the hand-rolled version never removed anything, so the
map grew for the life of the process.

Behaviour is unchanged. The key is namespaced as mem:metrics:<functionId>,
which does not collide with any existing lock prefix.
The StateKV stub keyed its map on a scope-plus-key string joined by a
literal NUL. That put raw NUL bytes in the source, so git classified the
file as binary and rendered it "Binary file not shown" in the diff. The
tests could not be reviewed at all. The stub now keys on the key alone,
which is sufficient because only one scope is ever used, and drops
list(), whose only caller is getAll() and which no case exercises.

Test count goes from six to four with the kill set preserved. Two pairs
were redundant under mutation: the success/failure counters fold into
the concurrency case, and the flat-latency mean case dies to exactly the
mutants the skewed one does.

The quality case ordered its unscored call last, where dividing by
totalCalls and dividing by scored-calls give the same answer, so it
caught nothing. The unscored call now goes first and that mutant dies.

Three of the four fail against unmodified source; substituting a
passthrough for withKeyedLock kills the same three. The fourth guards
the cold KV read and passes either way, which its comment now says.

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Comment thread src/eval/metrics-store.ts
Comment on lines +12 to +17
// record() reads a function's counters, mutates them, then writes back, and
// the read awaits kv.get() whenever the cache is cold. Concurrent callers
// interleaved in that gap, all started from the same totals, and overwrote
// each other — so N calls landed as one and avgLatencyMs was divided by a
// count that never saw them. Serializing per functionId keeps the existing
// incremental mean correct without changing the persisted shape.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the implementation comment.

Lines 12-17 explain the record() implementation flow. The src/**/*.ts rule prohibits comments that explain code behavior. Remove this block.

As per coding guidelines, “Do not add comments that explain what code does; use clear naming instead.”

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-  // record() reads a function's counters, mutates them, then writes back, and
-  // the read awaits kv.get() whenever the cache is cold. Concurrent callers
-  // interleaved in that gap, all started from the same totals, and overwrote
-  // each other — so N calls landed as one and avgLatencyMs was divided by a
-  // count that never saw them. Serializing per functionId keeps the existing
-  // incremental mean correct without changing the persisted shape.
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// record() reads a function's counters, mutates them, then writes back, and
// the read awaits kv.get() whenever the cache is cold. Concurrent callers
// interleaved in that gap, all started from the same totals, and overwrote
// each other — so N calls landed as one and avgLatencyMs was divided by a
// count that never saw them. Serializing per functionId keeps the existing
// incremental mean correct without changing the persisted shape.
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In `@src/eval/metrics-store.ts` around lines 12 - 17, Remove the implementation
comment immediately preceding the per-function serialization logic in
metrics-store.ts, leaving the surrounding record() behavior unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

apply()'s kv.get was the only unguarded state call in the file; the set
below it and the list in getAll() both catch. On a state::get timeout
record() rejected, and the consequence was not local to metrics.

compress.ts records a failure from inside its own catch block. That
second call is itself cold-cache, so it rejected too and escaped the
handler before logger.error ran or {success:false} was returned.
summarize.ts has the same shape but is invoked result-expecting, so the
escape rejected event::session::stopped.

One catch at the source closes both call sites.

Also drops the seeded avgQualityScore from the resume test. It was set
to a live-looking 90 that nothing asserted on, which made the case read
as covering the separate qualityCallCounts resume defect. It does not.

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- Around line 43-45: Update the metrics read flow in the surrounding method to
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Comment thread src/eval/metrics-store.ts
Comment on lines +43 to +45
m = (await this.kv
.get<FunctionMetrics>(KV.metrics, functionId)
.catch(() => null)) ?? {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not treat a failed state read as an empty metric.

catch(() => null) conflates a rejected StateKV.get with a successful cache miss. If persisted metrics already exist, the code creates a zeroed record, caches it, and then attempts to overwrite the persisted record at Line 72. A transient state::get failure can reset historical counters and averages.

Handle the read failure without mutating cache or calling kv.set. Use zeroed metrics only when get resolves null.

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-      m = (await this.kv
-        .get<FunctionMetrics>(KV.metrics, functionId)
-        .catch(() => null)) ?? {
+      let persisted: FunctionMetrics | null;
+      try {
+        persisted = await this.kv.get<FunctionMetrics>(KV.metrics, functionId);
+      } catch {
+        return;
+      }
+      m = persisted ?? {
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m = (await this.kv
.get<FunctionMetrics>(KV.metrics, functionId)
.catch(() => null)) ?? {
let persisted: FunctionMetrics | null;
try {
persisted = await this.kv.get<FunctionMetrics>(KV.metrics, functionId);
} catch {
return;
}
m = persisted ?? {
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in the surrounding method to distinguish a rejected KV.metrics get from a
successful null result: propagate or handle the read failure without mutating
cache or calling kv.set, and create zeroed FunctionMetrics only when get
resolves null. Preserve normal cache and persistence behavior for successful
reads.

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