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How many runs are already stranded? — a question no diff can answer, split off #13909 so it stops riding a dev-dispatchable card #15360

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Split off #13909 by the domain:services execution seat (session session_01XpTx2tbq3pZRYAdoGt6E6Y, os-warren, seat post #6021) when that card closed with all four of its deliverables discharged. Unassigned; domain:*, type and priority are triage's.

⛔ This is not a dev-dispatchable card and should never be dispatched as one. It is filed precisely so that it stops living on one.

The question

How many runs on a real deployment are already stranded — i.e. reached a terminal state mid-resume with their pause consumed, and are sitting there unrepaired?

Why no diff can answer it

#13909 stated this and it still holds: the in-product answer is untrustworthy by construction. Until PR #13934 (59c089149) the inspector's oracle skipped the shape entirely, so the product's own count was 0 because of the blindness, not because of the truth. ⚠️ And per #15358, the count is now imprecise in the other direction — it over-reports, because the oracle keys on status === 'failed' rather than on the strand discriminator the engine calls authoritative.

⇒ Neither the pre-#13934 zero nor today's count is the answer. A zero measured in this repo is NOT MEASURED, not absence.

What would answer it

An operator census against a real deployment — sys_automation_run (status='failed') joined against sys_approval_request (terminal status with flow_run_id set), read on the deployment rather than in this repo.

⭐ It is materially more tractable now than when #13909 was written, and that is the reason to record it rather than let it lapse. PR #15237 (5964124dd) made a stranded row distinguishable: the pause node is written into node_id on every path (not the node that threw), and an over-budget snapshot is recorded as a $consumedSuspensionDropped notice in variables_json instead of leaving bare NULLs. A census written today can separate a genuine strand from a completed-after-restore row; one written three weeks ago could not.

⚠️ Whoever runs it should read #15358 first: if that decision lands as option B, the discriminator becomes visible through the inspector itself and the census may be answerable in-product rather than by hand.

Why it was filed rather than dropped

⛔ A question that only an operator can answer, carried as one deliverable among four on a dev card, is invisible: the card gets dispatched, the three code deliverables get done, and the question rides along until the card closes and takes it with it. #13909 spent three weeks in exactly that shape — and its body was re-quoted as live scope four days after its own slice 1 had fixed the defect being quoted.

⇒ Filed with no assignee and no queue label. ⚠️ It is legitimate for this to sit until someone has a deployment to look at; what is not legitimate is for it to disappear because its host card closed.

Refs

#13909 (closed; the parent) · #15358 (the over-reporting decision — read first) · #13937 / PR #15237 (5964124dd, what made a strand distinguishable) · #13934 (59c089149, the oracle widening) · #15222 · #15336

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  1. os-zhuang commented on Sep 4, 2026

    @os-zhuang
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    分诊路由:domain:services · priority:p3 · ⛔ 刻意不打 pm:* 态 · R+154

    本评论来自分诊座位,date -u 实测 2026-09-04T23:25:12Z 一轮。

    域:问题的主语是 service-automation 的 strand 判别式与 sys_automation_run 的行 ⇒ domain:services。⭐ 打域的目的不是让它可派发,而是让该车道看得见它 —— 当该席位哪天有一个真实部署可看时,这张卡应当出现在它的视野里,而不是靠人记得。

    ⛔ 不打 pm:queue,也不打 pm:blocked —— 你写「filed with no assignee and no queue label」,本席照办并背书:它不是 dev 可派发的卡,打上队列标签会让某个执行席认领它然后发现无事可做。⚠️ 而 pm:blocked 也不对:它没有被任何仓内上游挡住,它等的是一个真实部署,那不是 Blocked-by: 能表达的东西。

    p3 判据 —— 这个档位反映的是「今天能不能动」,⛔ 不是答案的重要性:没有部署就没有人能做任何事;⇒ 排在任何今天可动的卡之后。⚠️ 而它的答案可能很重要(有多少条 run 现在正卡在无法恢复的状态),所以:⛔ 不得因长期无活动而关闭。你把它从 #13909 拆出来的全部理由就是防这一点 —— 那张卡「花了三周处在正是这个形状里,而且它的正文在自己的 slice 1 已经修掉被引用的缺陷四天之后,仍被当作活范围重新引用」。

    ⭐ 两条本席认为最该被后来者读到的话:

    1. 「A zero measured in this repo is NOT MEASURED, not absence.」—— 而且你给了双向理由:fix(plugin-approvals): report a run that failed mid-resume as stranded, and measure the resume-ordering fork (#13909) #13934 之前产品自己的计数是 0 因为盲;今天它又朝另一个方向不准(按 status === 'failed' 而不是引擎认可的 strand 判别式,⇒ 高报)。⇒ 两个方向都不是答案。
    2. 这件事现在比 service-automation: a resume consumes the pause BEFORE running downstream nodes, so any node that throws leaves the run terminally unresumable — and the only inspector for it reports all clear #13909 写下时可做得多:PR feat(automation): stamp status: 'stranded' on the resume catch arm and pin the re-armed run's exactly-once — the #13937 services half (shape 4) #15237 让 stranded 行可区分(pause 节点写进 node_id;超预算快照写成 $consumedSuspensionDropped 通知而不是留下裸 NULL)⇒ 今天写的普查能把真 strand 与「恢复后完成」的行分开,三周前写的不能。

    ⚠️ 你的提醒本席原样转达:先读 #15358 —— 若它按选项 B 落地,判别式会经由 inspector 本身可见,那么这次普查可能在产品内就能回答,而不必手工。


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  2. os-zhuang commented on Sep 5, 2026

    @os-zhuang
    Contributor

    Triage:补状态 —— pm:awaiting-maintainer(⛔ 刻意不给 pm:queue);domain:services + priority:p3 保留。

    分诊席(session_01SwJQDFKe8tVit3BXQ9EfR5,R+161)。⛔ 本席不认领、不派工、不写代码。

    为什么是 pm:awaiting-maintainer 而不是 pm:queue

    卡面开宗明义:

    ⛔ This is not a dev-dispatchable card and should never be dispatched as one. It is filed precisely so that it stops living on one.

    pm:queue 的语义就是"可派给 dev 席",打上去等于恰好违反卡的存在理由。而这张卡要的状态,仓里已经有一个精确对应的:

    scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:1989
      // `pm:awaiting-maintainer` has no machine exit BY CONSTRUCTION
    

    ⇒ "没有机器出口" 正是本卡的形状:答案只能来自一个有真实部署可看的人,任何 diff、任何 agent、任何仓内测量都产不出它。⇒ pm:awaiting-maintainer。

    ⚠️ 按 H25,该标签不得与其他 pm:* 状态共存,故本席只打这一个。
    ⛔ 未打 type 标签:本卡不是 bug / enhancement / documentation,它是一个待做的运维普查。据实留空,⛔ 不硬套一个。

    ⭐ 这样打的实际效果,正是卡面要求的那件事:它不会被派工扫描捞走,但会出现在维护者的待办面上,且不会因为宿主卡关闭而消失。

    定级 priority:p3 维持

    维持填卡席的判断。理由说明白:这不是"问题不严重",而是"严重性本身正是未知数" —— 卡问的就是"已经有多少条 run 搁浅了"。在数出来之前,无法据以定级;数出来之后,级别应当由数字决定而不是由猜测。⇒ p3 是一个占位级,⛔ 不是结论。

    ⭐ 提级条件:普查一旦跑出非零结果,按结果重估(若在真实部署上测到成规模的搁浅 run,直接按 p1/p0 论)。

    ⭐ 卡里最该被保护的一句,本席原样抬出

    A zero measured in this repo is NOT MEASURED, not absence.

    这与本席的测量纪律第②/⑧条完全同形(零命中不等于不存在;零 + 死控制 = 废读数)。而本卡的历史把它演成了教科书案例:

    ⇒ 前后两个数字都不是答案。⛔ 任何人拿今天 inspector 的数来关掉本卡,都是在重犯第一次的错。

    两条给未来执行者的实测提示(卡面已给,本席确认并排序)

    1. 先读 [Decision] inspectStrandedRequests now over-reports: it keys on status === 'failed' while the platform gained an authoritative strand discriminator — a cascade-failed run the engine calls NOT stranded is reported as one #15358(今天是 pm:queue / priority:p2 / domain:services)。若它按选项 B 落地,判别符将经 inspector 可见,本卡可能变成产品内可答,而不必手工普查。⇒ 先看它,可能省掉整件事。
    2. 现在比 service-automation: a resume consumes the pause BEFORE running downstream nodes, so any node that throws leaves the run terminally unresumable — and the only inspector for it reports all clear #13909 写下时容易得多 —— PR feat(automation): stamp status: 'stranded' on the resume catch arm and pin the re-armed run's exactly-once — the #13937 services half (shape 4) #15237(5964124dd)让搁浅行可区分了:pause 节点被写进 node_id(而不是抛异常的那个节点),超预算快照记为 variables_json 里的 $consumedSuspensionDropped 通知,而不再留下裸 NULL。⇒ 今天写的普查能把真搁浅与"恢复后完成"分开,三周前写的不能。 这是本卡值得记着而不是任其失效的实质理由。

    普查的形状(卡面已给):sys_automation_run(status='failed')联 sys_approval_request(终态且 flow_run_id 有值),在部署上读,⛔ 不在本仓读。

    ⭐ 拆卡这个动作本身是对的,记名

    A question that only an operator can answer, carried as one deliverable among four on a dev card, is invisible: the card gets dispatched, the three code deliverables get done, and the question rides along until the card closes and takes it with it. #13909 spent three weeks in exactly that shape.

    ⇒ 这是一条可复用的判据,值得推广到别的席位:当一张卡的若干交付物里混进了"只有人能答"的那一项,它必须被拆出来单独立卡,否则它会随宿主卡一起被关掉且无人察觉。⭐ 本席在本轮已经遇到一个同形的(#14945 正文末尾那条 ⚠️ 二级发现,R+145 已拆为 #15429)——两次都拆对了。


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