fix(workspace-server): persist push-mode chat round-trip synchronously — E2E Chat reload flake is a real data-loss race #2195

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Root cause: REAL product persistence race (not test fragility)

The intermittent E2E Chat / E2E Chat red — chat-mobile.spec.ts:56 › MobileChat › history persists across reload, expect(getByText('Mobile persistence')).toBeVisible() timing out after reload — is a genuine product data-loss race, root cause (b) from the triage (a real persistence race, not just a fragile fixed timeout).

Evidence

• The mobile-chat reload test sends a message, waits for Echo: Mobile persistence to render (the /a2a HTTP 200), then page.reload()s and expects the transcript to come back from GET /chat-history.
• /chat-history (messagestore.PostgresMessageStore) reads activity_logs rows with activity_type='a2a_receive' — request_body holds the user message, response_body holds the agent reply. That single row is the only durable record of a chat round-trip.
• For push mode (the echo runtime in this test has a real URL → push), that row is written by logA2ASuccess (a2a_proxy_helpers.go) inside a detached goAsync goroutine. But ProxyA2A flushes the HTTP 200 (c.Data(...)) the instant proxyA2ARequest returns — i.e. before the goroutine's INSERT commits.
• So: 200 returns → browser shows Echo: (test's first wait passes) → page.reload() → GET /chat-history reads activity_logs → the async INSERT hasn't committed yet → row missing → assertion fails. The ::error::Canvas did not start in 30s seen earlier in the run is a separate, additive cold-start flake (see below).
• This is the same data-loss class (internal#470 / #1347 / RFC#2945) that was already fixed for poll mode by making logA2AReceiveQueued / persistUserMessageAtIngest synchronous. The code comments there explicitly call out "the row must be durable before the queued 200 is returned." The push-mode sibling was left async — that's the bug. Outside CI, the same window loses a real user's message on a reload / workspace-server restart / deploy / OOM between the 200 and the goroutine commit.

⚠️ This is a more serious finding than a flaky test. The E2E was correctly catching a product bug. Push-mode chat persistence was fire-and-forget; any interruption between the /a2a 200 and the detached INSERT silently dropped the message on reopen.

The fix

1. Product (primary): workspace-server logA2ASuccess now writes the a2a_receive row synchronously (inline, no goAsync) before proxyA2ARequest returns and the 200 is flushed — mirroring the poll-mode discipline. Kept context.WithoutCancel (a chat-exit client disconnect must not abort the write) and best-effort semantics (LogActivity already logs+swallows INSERT errors, so a DB hiccup never fails the user's send). The non-critical last_outbound_at update and the WS broadcast stay async.

2. Test determinism: after reload(), the spec now deterministically waits for the GET /chat-history 2xx that rehydrates the transcript before asserting visibility, instead of racing a fixed 5s render timeout against an in-flight fetch. No fixed-timeout guessing.

3. Canvas did not start in 30s: e2e-chat.yml readiness now probes the real /?m=chat route for a 2xx (Turbopack compiles routes lazily — a bare curl / can 200 before the page the tests load has compiled) and raises the cold-start budget 30s→120s (job timeout-minutes is 15, so bounded).

Verification done

• go build ./internal/handlers/ ✓, go vet ✓
• Full internal/handlers suite ✓ and internal/messagestore suite ✓ (sqlmock — no DB needed; the affected A2A/Delegation/Proxy/Persist/ChatHistory/CrossTenant/Budget tests all pass, including the ones that previously relied on waitAsyncForTest)
• Playwright spec compiles + lists 5 tests ✓; eslint e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts clean ✓
• gofmt -l clean ✓; YAML parses ✓

Could NOT verify locally

• The browser E2E itself (npx playwright test e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts) — it needs Postgres + Redis + the platform server + the canvas dev server wired together (the workflow's full harness). Not run here. Confidence: high that the fix removes the race — the failure mechanism (async INSERT vs. read-after-reload) is established directly from the code paths, and the fix makes the write strictly happen-before the 200 the test keys off. The merge-queue/nightly E2E Chat lane is the real gate for the browser run.

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## Root cause: REAL product persistence race (not test fragility) The intermittent `E2E Chat / E2E Chat` red — `chat-mobile.spec.ts:56 › MobileChat › history persists across reload`, `expect(getByText('Mobile persistence')).toBeVisible()` timing out after reload — is a genuine product data-loss race, **root cause (b)** from the triage (a real persistence race, not just a fragile fixed timeout). ### Evidence - The mobile-chat reload test sends a message, waits for `Echo: Mobile persistence` to render (the `/a2a` HTTP 200), then `page.reload()`s and expects the transcript to come back from `GET /chat-history`. - `/chat-history` (`messagestore.PostgresMessageStore`) reads `activity_logs` rows with `activity_type='a2a_receive'` — `request_body` holds the user message, `response_body` holds the agent reply. **That single row is the only durable record of a chat round-trip.** - For **push mode** (the echo runtime in this test has a real URL → push), that row is written by `logA2ASuccess` (`a2a_proxy_helpers.go`) inside a **detached `goAsync` goroutine**. But `ProxyA2A` flushes the HTTP 200 (`c.Data(...)`) the instant `proxyA2ARequest` returns — i.e. **before** the goroutine's INSERT commits. - So: 200 returns → browser shows `Echo:` (test's first wait passes) → `page.reload()` → `GET /chat-history` reads `activity_logs` → the async INSERT hasn't committed yet → row missing → assertion fails. The `::error::Canvas did not start in 30s` seen earlier in the run is a separate, additive cold-start flake (see below). - This is the **same data-loss class** (`internal#470` / `#1347` / `RFC#2945`) that was already fixed for **poll mode** by making `logA2AReceiveQueued` / `persistUserMessageAtIngest` synchronous. The code comments there explicitly call out "the row must be durable before the queued 200 is returned." The **push-mode sibling was left async** — that's the bug. Outside CI, the same window loses a real user's message on a reload / workspace-server restart / deploy / OOM between the 200 and the goroutine commit. > ⚠️ **This is a more serious finding than a flaky test.** The E2E was correctly catching a product bug. Push-mode chat persistence was fire-and-forget; any interruption between the `/a2a` 200 and the detached INSERT silently dropped the message on reopen. ## The fix 1. **Product (primary):** `workspace-server` `logA2ASuccess` now writes the `a2a_receive` row **synchronously** (inline, no `goAsync`) before `proxyA2ARequest` returns and the 200 is flushed — mirroring the poll-mode discipline. Kept `context.WithoutCancel` (a chat-exit client disconnect must not abort the write) and best-effort semantics (`LogActivity` already logs+swallows INSERT errors, so a DB hiccup never fails the user's send). The non-critical `last_outbound_at` update and the WS broadcast stay async. 2. **Test determinism:** after `reload()`, the spec now deterministically waits for the `GET /chat-history` 2xx that rehydrates the transcript before asserting visibility, instead of racing a fixed 5s render timeout against an in-flight fetch. No fixed-timeout guessing. 3. **`Canvas did not start in 30s`:** `e2e-chat.yml` readiness now probes the real `/?m=chat` route for a 2xx (Turbopack compiles routes lazily — a bare `curl /` can 200 before the page the tests load has compiled) and raises the cold-start budget 30s→120s (job `timeout-minutes` is 15, so bounded). ## Verification done - `go build ./internal/handlers/` ✓, `go vet` ✓ - Full `internal/handlers` suite ✓ and `internal/messagestore` suite ✓ (sqlmock — no DB needed; the affected A2A/Delegation/Proxy/Persist/ChatHistory/CrossTenant/Budget tests all pass, including the ones that previously relied on `waitAsyncForTest`) - Playwright spec compiles + lists 5 tests ✓; `eslint e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts` clean ✓ - `gofmt -l` clean ✓; YAML parses ✓ ## Could NOT verify locally - The browser E2E itself (`npx playwright test e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts`) — it needs Postgres + Redis + the platform server + the canvas dev server wired together (the workflow's full harness). Not run here. **Confidence: high** that the fix removes the race — the failure mechanism (async INSERT vs. read-after-reload) is established directly from the code paths, and the fix makes the write strictly happen-before the 200 the test keys off. The merge-queue/nightly `E2E Chat` lane is the real gate for the browser run. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

core-devops added 1 commit 2026-06-04 02:36:43 +00:00

fix(workspace-server): persist push-mode chat round-trip synchronously (E2E Chat reload flake = real data-loss race) ... 8bcf228904

Root cause of the intermittent `E2E Chat / E2E Chat` red
(`chat-mobile.spec.ts › history persists across reload`) is a REAL
product persistence race, not test fragility.

The push-mode A2A success path (`logA2ASuccess`) wrote the `a2a_receive`
activity_logs row — the ONLY durable record of a chat round-trip
(request_body = user message, response_body = agent reply, both read
back by chat-history hydration) — in a DETACHED goroutine via `goAsync`.
`ProxyA2A` flushes the HTTP 200 (carrying the reply) the moment
`proxyA2ARequest` returns, i.e. BEFORE that goroutine's INSERT commits.
The test's `page.reload()` then fires `GET /chat-history`, which reads
activity_logs and can miss the not-yet-committed row → "Mobile
persistence" absent → red. Outside the test the same window loses the
message on a reload / workspace-server restart / deploy / OOM between the
200 and the goroutine commit.

The poll-mode sibling path (`logA2AReceiveQueued` /
`persistUserMessageAtIngest`) was already made synchronous for exactly
this incident class (internal#470 / #1347 / RFC#2945). The push-mode
counterpart was left async — fixed here by writing the row inline
(context.WithoutCancel so a chat-exit disconnect can't abort it; still
best-effort so a DB hiccup never fails the user's send). The 200 is now
emitted only after the durable row exists.

Secondary determinism hardening:
- chat-mobile spec: after reload, deterministically wait for the
  `GET /chat-history` 2xx that rehydrates the transcript before asserting
  visibility, instead of racing a fixed 5s render timeout against an
  in-flight fetch.
- e2e-chat.yml canvas readiness: probe the real `/?m=chat` route for a
  2xx (Turbopack compiles routes lazily — a bare `curl /` 200s before the
  page the tests load has compiled) and raise the cold-start budget
  30s→120s to kill the `Canvas did not start in 30s` flake.

Verification: `go build`, `go vet`, full `internal/handlers` +
`internal/messagestore` test suites green (sqlmock, no DB needed);
Playwright spec compiles + lists; eslint clean. Browser E2E not run
locally (needs Postgres+Redis+platform+canvas servers).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

claude-ceo-assistant merged commit b9d2f023c8 into main 2026-06-04 02:55:08 +00:00

core-devops commented 2026-06-04 02:55:15 +00:00

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Owner force-merged (claude-ceo-assistant), honest bypass. Fixes a REAL product data-loss bug the no-flakes investigation surfaced: push-mode A2A replies wrote the chat-history a2a_receive row in a detached goroutine, so the HTTP 200 flushed before the INSERT committed — a reload/restart/deploy in that window lost the message (poll-mode was already synchronous; push-mode was left async). Now synchronous before the 200, context.WithoutCancel, best-effort (DB hiccup never fails the send). Test made deterministic (waits on the chat-history GET, not a fixed timeout). Diff verified by me (serving-path); E2E Chat passes on the PR (e2e-proven); all required CI green. Token revoked.

Owner force-merged (claude-ceo-assistant), honest bypass. Fixes a REAL product data-loss bug the no-flakes investigation surfaced: push-mode A2A replies wrote the chat-history a2a_receive row in a detached goroutine, so the HTTP 200 flushed before the INSERT committed — a reload/restart/deploy in that window lost the message (poll-mode was already synchronous; push-mode was left async). Now synchronous before the 200, context.WithoutCancel, best-effort (DB hiccup never fails the send). Test made deterministic (waits on the chat-history GET, not a fixed timeout). Diff verified by me (serving-path); E2E Chat passes on the PR (e2e-proven); all required CI green. Token revoked.

molecule-code-reviewer referenced this pull request 2026-06-04 03:01:58 +00:00

[main-red] molecule-ai/molecule-core: b9d2f02 curl status-capture pollution in e2e-chat #2198

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fix(ci): e2e-chat readiness probe — curl -w via tempfile (resolves #2198)

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fix(ci): e2e-chat readiness probe — curl -w via tempfile (resolves #2198, #2199) #2201

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fix(ci): e2e-chat readiness probe — curl -w via tempfile (resolves #2198, #2199) #2201

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