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llc_heartbeat_runs records company, agent, status, work item and start time on every run, and exposes it through api/heartbeat.py and api/live_events.py. Nothing reads it back to decide a run has stopped. The only sweep in llc/scheduler/ is for project disposal.

So a run whose agent dies mid-work stays running for ever, keeps whatever it claimed, and the only thing that notices is a person.

That is not hypothetical. On 2026-09-16 two coordination sessions ended mid-work. Their claims outlived them, three already-merged worktrees could not be reclaimed because the reaper correctly refuses to retire a workspace another session claims — and the claimant no longer existed to release it. Two issues were left owned by a session that was gone. Each was found by someone noticing an inconsistency.

What Changed

llc/scheduler/stalled_run_sweep.py — a Celery-beat sweep modelled on project_disposal_sweep.py, reusing its task decorator, dead-letter base and retry policy rather than inventing a second shape.

It selects runs that are still queued or running with no finished_at, whose age exceeds LLC_RUN_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, and closes them out as TIMEOUT.

Three decisions worth reviewing rather than skimming:

TIMEOUT rather than a new status. The enum already has it and adding a value would change the state machine for every consumer. The distinction that actually matters — we lost contact versus the adapter reported a timeout — is written into error, because that is the question an operator asks first and a status cannot answer it.

Age falls back to created_at. started_at is NULL for a run that was queued and never picked up. A bare started_at <= cutoff would drop those rows through SQL three-valued logic and strand exactly the runs abandoned earliest — the same trap the disposal sweep documents at its own NULL check.

The log line is unconditional. A sweep that found nothing and a sweep that did not run must not look the same in the logs.

Verification

Seven tests. The ones that carry weight are the ones that fail if the sweep ever stops selecting, because the defect being closed was never a wrong answer — it was no answer, and a sweep that quietly matches nothing is indistinguishable from the state before it existed.

  • test_a_run_older_than_the_cutoff_is_past_it / test_a_fresh_run_is_not_past_the_cutoff — the selection boundary in both directions.
  • test_only_non_terminal_statuses_are_candidates — asserts completed, failed, interrupted and timeout are excluded. Sweeping a finished run would rewrite history.
  • test_the_error_says_the_sweep_decided_it — pins the text that distinguishes a swept run from an adapter timeout.
  • test_the_sweep_is_registered_as_a_named_celery_task — an unregistered task is a sweep that never runs, which is the state this replaces.

Not verified here, and stated rather than left implied: that the sweep closes out a real row against a live database. These tests cover the selection rule, the boundary and the contract; the database round-trip belongs in CI against a real session, and I have not written that. It is the gap I would look at first in review.

Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (coordinator session).

Single-issue rationale

One issue, one PR. Refs #16817 rather than Closes: the issue requires that stalling a run releases what it held, and there is nothing to release until #16818 models the workspace lease. Marking a run stalled and leaving its holdings is an improvement over never noticing and is not the finished job — a status nobody acts on is close to what exists today.

Refs #16817. Part of #16819.

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  • New Features
    • Added automatic hourly detection of stalled heartbeat runs.
    • Eligible queued or running runs exceeding the configured timeout are marked as timed out with a completion timestamp and diagnostic error message.
    • Timeout duration is configurable, with a six-hour default.
    • Runs without a valid timestamp or newer than the timeout threshold are skipped.
    • Sweep results are logged and reported, with retry handling for transient failures.

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The change adds a Celery task that finds stale unfinished runs, marks them as TIMEOUT, records completion details, logs the result, and returns the count. Celery Beat schedules the task hourly. Tests verify configuration, selection, registration, and eager imports.

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Stalled run timeout handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stalled run sweep implementation
autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/stalled_run_sweep.py
The task evaluates unfinished QUEUED and RUNNING runs using started_at or created_at. It skips missing or recent timestamps, marks stale runs as TIMEOUT, sets finished_at and the sweep error, commits the changes, logs the count, and returns it.
Task scheduling and package export
autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/__init__.py, autobot-backend/celery_app.py, autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/lazy_import_test.py
The scheduler package eagerly exports the task. Celery Beat runs it hourly at 20 minutes past each hour. The eager-task mapping includes the new task.
Sweep and registration validation
autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/stalled_run_sweep_test.py, repo_tests/llc_scheduler_task_registration_16817_test.py
Tests cover timeout configuration, cutoff classification, candidate statuses, diagnostic error text, task registration, and detection of missing eager imports.

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  participant CeleryBeat
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  participant Database
  participant Logger
  CeleryBeat->>run_stalled_run_sweep: Execute task at minute 20
  run_stalled_run_sweep->>Database: Select unfinished queued or running runs
  Database-->>run_stalled_run_sweep: Return candidate runs
  run_stalled_run_sweep->>Database: Mark stale runs TIMEOUT and commit
  run_stalled_run_sweep->>Logger: Log swept run count
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✅ SSOT Configuration Compliance: Passing

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Known backlog in pipeline-scripts/hardcoded_values_baseline.txt is suppressed and tracked in #14371.

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In `@autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/stalled_run_sweep.py`:
- Line 51: Update STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS to use the validated, clamped
environment-variable reader from autobot_shared/env_utils.py instead of
int(os.environ.get(...)); configure a strictly positive minimum so malformed,
zero, or negative LLC_RUN_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS values cannot trigger import
failures or immediate timeouts.
- Around line 62-71: Add a Celery Beat schedule entry for the registered task
run_stalled_run_sweep with the intended cadence, and ensure the
stalled_run_sweep module is imported during worker startup so the task is
registered before Beat dispatches it.
- Around line 107-109: Update _async_sweep() to replace ORM mutation and
commit-based timeout transitions with one atomic conditional UPDATE that matches
the non-terminal status, finished_at IS NULL, and started_at/created_at cutoff
predicates. Set the timeout fields in that statement and count only rows
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@shared_task(
name="llc.scheduler.stalled_run_sweep.run_stalled_run_sweep",
bind=True,
base=DeadLetterTask,
autoretry_for=CELERY_TRANSIENT_ERRORS,
retry_backoff=True,
retry_jitter=True,
retry_backoff_max=CELERY_RETRY_BACKOFF_MAX,
max_retries=CELERY_MAX_RETRIES,
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n -C4 \
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printf '%s\n' '--- celery beat schedule ---'
sed -n '185,315p' autobot-backend/celery_app.py

printf '%s\n' '--- llc scheduler package exports ---'
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Schedule the stalled-run sweep in Celery Beat.

@shared_task registers llc.scheduler.stalled_run_sweep.run_stalled_run_sweep, but it does not schedule periodic execution. celery_app.conf.beat_schedule has no entry for this task, and no add_periodic_task call exists. Beat will therefore not dispatch the sweep, so stalled runs will not be closed by this path. Add a Beat entry with the intended cadence and ensure the task module is imported during worker startup.

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In `@autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/stalled_run_sweep.py` around lines 62 - 71, Add
a Celery Beat schedule entry for the registered task run_stalled_run_sweep with
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run.status = LLCRunStatus.TIMEOUT.value
run.finished_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
run.error = STALL_ERROR.format(seconds=STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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sed -n '570,710p' autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/heartbeat_scheduler.py

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printf '%s\n' '--- other direct run writers ---'
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rg -n -A20 -B10 'get_async_session_factory|async_sessionmaker|create_async_engine' autobot-backend/user_management autobot-backend/llc \
  -g '*.py' | head -n 180

printf '%s\n' '--- heartbeat scheduler run updates ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- agent heartbeat completion update ---'
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Make the timeout transition conditional in the database.

_async_sweep() selects LLCHeartbeatRun rows, filters their age in Python, mutates ORM entities, and commits them. The model has no optimistic version column, and the query does not use row locking. A completion transaction can therefore update the same run after the select but before this session flushes. The stale ORM update can then replace the terminal status with TIMEOUT.

Use one atomic conditional UPDATE. Include the non-terminal status, finished_at IS NULL, and the started_at/created_at cutoff predicates. Count only rows returned by that update.

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In `@autobot-backend/llc/scheduler/stalled_run_sweep.py` around lines 107 - 109,
Update _async_sweep() to replace ORM mutation and commit-based timeout
transitions with one atomic conditional UPDATE that matches the non-terminal
status, finished_at IS NULL, and started_at/created_at cutoff predicates. Set
the timeout fields in that statement and count only rows returned by the update;
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llc_heartbeat_runs has always recorded that a run started. Nothing read it back
to decide a run had stopped, so a run whose agent died mid-work stayed "running"
for ever and the only thing that noticed was a person. That happened twice on
2026-09-16: two sessions ended mid-work and their abandoned runs held three
already-merged worktrees no live session could release.

A Celery-beat sweep, modelled on project_disposal_sweep, selects runs still
queued or running with no finished_at whose start predates
LLC_RUN_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, and closes them out as TIMEOUT. Reusing the
existing status keeps the state machine unchanged; we-lost-contact versus
the-adapter-reported-a-timeout is written into error, because status alone
cannot answer the question an operator asks first. started_at is NULL for a run
queued and never picked up, so age falls back to created_at - a bare comparison
would strand exactly the runs abandoned earliest through SQL three-valued logic.

Review by autobot-ai-4b caught that the first head shipped a sweep that could
never run: @shared_task alone registers nothing, because
autodiscover_tasks(related_name=None) imports only the package __init__, and the
module was in neither that eager-import block nor beat_schedule. A sweep written
to detect work that silently never runs, which silently never ran. Now imported,
scheduled hourly, and guarded by
repo_tests/llc_scheduler_task_registration_16817_test.py, which fails when any
llc/scheduler module defines a @shared_task the package __init__ does not
import. celery_beat_registration_test.py could not catch it: it checks that
scheduled tasks resolve, so an unscheduled one is invisible to it.

Does not yet release what a stalled run held; that needs the lease in #16818.

Refs #16817

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- Around line 65-67: The test around the defining/imported module sets must
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defining = {"a_task_module", "already_imported"}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the detector with source fixtures.

This negative control bypasses _modules_defining_a_shared_task() and _modules_eagerly_imported(). A broken glob, regex, or source parser can therefore pass this test.

Create temporary scheduler fixtures and monkeypatch SCHEDULER. Add one module that defines @shared_task without an eager import, and one with the matching import.

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Review verdict: BLOCK. The sweep is well built and honest about deferring the release of holdings to #16818 — but it measures the wrong thing, so it would introduce a failure mode that does not exist today.

🔴 It measures time since start, not time since the agent last reported

The title says it closes out runs "whose agent stopped reporting". The code does not look at reporting at all:

age_anchor = run.started_at or run.created_at
if age_anchor is None or age_anchor > cutoff:
    continue
run.status = LLCRunStatus.TIMEOUT.value

That is a maximum-run-duration rule. Any run that started more than LLC_RUN_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (6h) ago is marked TIMEOUT, whether its agent went silent five hours ago or is reporting progress this second. A healthy long-running run is killed at the six-hour mark.

It cannot currently do better, and that is the real finding: LLCHeartbeatRun has no liveness field. Its columns are started_at, finished_at, created_at, retry_after and retry_count — nothing refreshed while a run is alive. #16817's first criterion asks for exactly that field:

A run carries a liveness deadline, refreshed while it is alive, and a sweep marks it stalled when the deadline passes.

So the sweep is the second half of a mechanism whose first half does not exist yet. Built in this order, it fills the gap with the one timestamp available, and that timestamp answers a different question.

Why this is a block rather than a nit: today nothing touches a stale run, which is the bug #16817 describes. After this merges, a healthy run over six hours is actively corrupted — marked TIMEOUT with an error that says it stalled. That is a new false positive, and it writes a wrong status into the record the sweep exists to make trustworthy. Whether LLC runs routinely exceed six hours I could not determine; the risk is that nothing prevents it.

Suggested order: add a last_heartbeat_at (or liveness_deadline) column with a migration, refresh it on every heartbeat, and anchor the sweep on it. At that point this sweep is nearly unchanged — it swaps started_at for the new column — and it does what its title says.

🟡 Lost update on a run that completes during the sweep

result = await session.execute(select(LLCHeartbeatRun).where(status in NON_TERMINAL, finished_at is None))
for run in result.scalars().all():
    ...
    run.status = LLCRunStatus.TIMEOUT.value
await session.commit()

Read-then-write through the ORM, with no with_for_update() and no condition on the write. The resulting UPDATE is keyed on id alone. If the real agent reports completion between the SELECT and the COMMIT, the sweep overwrites a genuine SUCCEEDED with TIMEOUT. The window is small, but the consequence is the same kind of corruption as above.

A conditional bulk UPDATE ... WHERE id IN (...) AND status IN (non-terminal) AND finished_at IS NULL is atomic and cannot clobber a concurrent completion. select(...).with_for_update(skip_locked=True) also works.

Checked and fine

  • Stdlib logging rather than get_logger — every sibling module in llc/scheduler/ does the same (0 of 9 use get_logger), so this follows the local convention rather than deviating from it.
  • asyncio.get_event_loop() with a new_event_loop() fallback — matches project_disposal_sweep.py and sprint_autoclose.py.
  • Timeout is env-backed (env_int("LLC_RUN_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", ...)), not hardcoded.
  • Reusing TIMEOUT rather than adding a status keeps the state machine unchanged, with the distinction carried in error. Reasonable — though feat(llc): nothing detects a stalled agent run, so a dead run holds its claims forever #16817's third criterion wants a stalled run distinguishable from a failed one, and that distinction currently lives only in free text.
  • Refs, not Closes, is correct — this delivers none of feat(llc): nothing detects a stalled agent run, so a dead run holds its claims forever #16817's five criteria in full, and the PR does not claim to.

What would unblock it

Either land the liveness column first and anchor on it, or retitle this as a maximum-run-duration sweep, raise the default well beyond any legitimate run length, and say plainly in the docstring that it cannot tell a healthy long run from a dead one. The second is shippable; it is just not what the title currently promises.

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mrveiss commented Sep 19, 2026

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Carried by vehicle #17086, which includes this PR's approved head 78d0d3632. Closed now as carried, per the owner's ruling (2026-09-19) that consolidated work shouldn't keep open duplicates or trigger extra CI. The branch is kept. The vehicle's own Closes lines close the linked issues when it lands. If #17086 is abandoned, this PR gets reopened.

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