fix(heartbeat): exclude concurrent runs sharing one project checkout (BLO-19422) - #1949
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…(BLO-19422) Every arm of the writer-reservation predicate required isolation or a git worktree, so a `project_primary` (shared project checkout) run produced a null tree key and fell through to `run:<runId>` -- unique per run. Two such runs held distinct writer keys and both wrote the same directory, which is the measured defect (a torn read of an in-flight external edit failing a `go build` on trafficcontrol, 2026-09-17). `realizeExecutionWorkspace` returns `input.base.baseCwd` verbatim for the `project_primary` strategy, so every issue of one project workspace lands in ONE directory. Key that branch on the PROJECT WORKSPACE, not the issue: keying on the issue would reproduce the defect (two issues, two keys, one tree). Colliding DEFERS the second run with backoff carrying `conflictingRunId`; it does not fail it. Serializing runs that genuinely share one mutable directory is the correct outcome, not a degradation -- and handing each its own tree costs ~2.2 GB of node_modules per run on a volume already at 89%. Extracted to its own dependency-free module so the policy is testable without the heartbeat dependency graph. Pure refactor otherwise; the own-tree branch (BLO-31443) is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The extraction and the key derivation itself are right, and the per_run/own-tree asymmetry is reasoned carefully. The problem is downstream: the key this module now produces is discarded on the default-configuration path, so the shape the ticket names is still unexcluded.
Critical Issues (1)
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server/src/services/heartbeat.ts:29049— the derivedperIssueWorkspaceTreeKeynever reaches the reservation under the default agent config, so BLO-19422's headline case (two different agents writing one shared project checkout) remains open.resolveK8sRunIsolationIdentityapplies the key on only two of its four exits (heartbeat.ts:6861,:6878). The final exit —return runUniqueIdentity({ isolationMode: "shared", isolationKey: \agent-shared:${input.agentId}` })— drops it entirely, and that exit is reached whenevereffectiveMaxConcurrentRuns <= 1` without an isolated/explicitly-reused persisted workspace.effectiveMaxConcurrentRunsis 1 for every external-lifecycle agent unlessheartbeat.concurrencyEnabledis set, andresolveAgentConcurrencyPolicydefaults that flag tofalse(agent-concurrency.ts:69;resolveExternalLifecycleConcurrencyreturns a hard1at:99). So this is the default posture, not an edge case.- Concretely: agent A and agent B, both default config, both
project_primaryon project workspacepw-1. Both computeproject-primary:pw-1correctly, both then take the last exit, and their reservation keys areagent-shared:Aandagent-shared:B— distinct, both admitted by..._active_isolation_writer_idx, both writing one directory. That is the reported defect verbatim. agent-shared:<agentId>serializes runs of one agent, which is why the intra-agent case looks covered; nothing in that key is scoped to the tree, so it cannot exclude across agents.- Recommendation: apply the tree key on the
agent-sharedexit too —withTreeScopedReservationKey({ isolationMode: "shared", isolationKey: \agent-shared:${input.agentId}` }, input.perIssueWorkspaceTreeKey).isolationKeystays agent-scoped (warm session roots unaffected); onlyreservationKey` widens, which is the field the index binds. Worth stating in the PR body that this deliberately serializes all issues of a project workspace across all agents — that is the correct outcome for one mutable directory, but it is a real throughput change and should be an explicit choice rather than a side effect.
Important Issues (2)
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server/src/services/workspace-writer-key.ts:73—if (!input.issue?.projectWorkspaceId) return null;silently skips exclusion for an issue whoseprojectWorkspaceIdhas not been backfilled yet, which is every issue's first run into a shared checkout.- At reservation time the only source is
issueRef.projectWorkspaceId. The run's actual workspace is resolved ~600 lines later asissueRef?.projectWorkspaceId ?? resolvedWorkspace.workspaceId(heartbeat.ts:29674) and written back onto the issue atheartbeat.ts:29864-29866— i.e. the id is a result of the first run, not a precondition of it. - So run 1 of a fresh issue keys
null->run:<runId>and races any run already in that checkout; only run 2 onward is protected. The defect is narrowed, not closed. - The in-code rationale is what will stop the next reader noticing: the test comment at
server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:151-152states "An unscoped run has no project workspace, so there is no shared project checkout to exclude on." The?? resolvedWorkspace.workspaceIdfallback contradicts that. - Recommendation: either hoist enough of the workspace-base resolution to make the id available before the reservation is bound, or accept the gap explicitly and say so in the comment ("first run of an un-backfilled issue is unprotected because the id is only known post-realization") rather than asserting there is nothing to exclude on.
- At reservation time the only source is
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server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:181—effectiveMaxConcurrentRuns: 3is hardcoded in the only end-to-end helper, so the suite exercises exclusively the> 1branch and cannot observe the default path. This is precisely what conceals the Critical finding above: the file's own stated purpose is that "asserting the key alone would pass even if the resolver dropped it" (:177-178), and the resolver does drop it ateffectiveMaxConcurrentRuns: 1.- Recommendation: parameterize
identityForover[1, 3]and assert the same-reservationKeyproperty holds for both. Add a two-agent case (agentId: "agent-1"/"agent-2", same tree key) — that is the assertion the ticket is actually about, and no current test covers cross-agent at all.
- Recommendation: parameterize
Suggestions (2)
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server/src/services/workspace-writer-key.ts:36— "realizeExecutionWorkspacereturnsinput.base.baseCwdverbatim for every non-git_worktreestrategy" is not quite accurate:rebindProjectPrimaryToManagedCheckout(workspace-runtime.ts:4078) can substitute a managed checkout resolved from(companyId, projectId, repoName)(:2968-2972). That class is keyed by project + repo rather than by project workspace, so two project workspaces sharing one repo URL would rebind to one directory while holding two distinct keys. Worth a sentence acknowledging the rebind even if that config is not reachable today — the comment is load-bearing for the next person deciding what the key means. - [tests]
server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:10-11— the file importsresolveK8sRunIsolationIdentityfromheartbeat.js, pulling in the whole heartbeat dependency graph the new module was extracted to stay clear of (workspace-writer-key.ts:15-18). The end-to-end assertion is worth the cost; consider splitting the pure-key describe into its own file so the cheap tests stay cheap.
Strengths
- Extracting the predicate into a dependency-free module with the contract stated in one line ("two runs that would share a directory must produce the SAME string") is the right shape for policy that has been wrong twice.
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per_runasymmetry is the subtle part and it is correct: excludingper_runonly on the own-tree branch, with the reason (per_runmoves the branch, andproject_primaryderives no branch) written down atworkspace-writer-key.ts:57-63and locked by a test at:85-104. - The negative test at
:209-216pinning pre-fix behaviour, with a comment explaining it exists to tell the next failure why, is better than the usual regression test. isolationKeyis deliberately left run-private while onlyreservationKeywidens, with the session-resume reason stated — the distinction that makes the whole approach safe.
Recommended Action
- Fix Critical issues before merge.
- Address Important issues this cycle.
- Consider Suggestions opportunistically.
…422) The extracted tree key never reached the reservation on the DEFAULT path, so the ticket's headline case -- two different agents writing one shared project checkout -- was still unexcluded. `resolveK8sRunIsolationIdentity` applied the key on two of its four exits; the `agent-shared:<agentId>` exit dropped it, and that exit is reached whenever `effectiveMaxConcurrentRuns <= 1`, which is every external-lifecycle agent unless an operator sets `concurrencyEnabled` (default false -> hard 1). Agent A and agent B on project workspace pw-1 therefore held `agent-shared:A` / `agent-shared:B`, both satisfied the writer index, and both wrote one directory. This REVERSES BLO-31443's AC4 lower bound, deliberately. Its rationale was that `agent-shared` is "already stricter than per-tree" and that widening it would invert BLO-16842's containment. Both halves are wrong: `agent-shared` is stricter along the AGENT axis and carries no tree scope at all, so it cannot exclude across agents; and the per-agent ceiling is enforced at dispatch by `availableSlots = effectiveMaxConcurrentRuns - runningCount`, not by this index, so widening the key cannot let an agent exceed its ceiling. Nor does it loosen the case that rationale named -- two runs of one agent on different issues of one project checkout both key `project-primary:<pw>` and still collide. `isolationKey` is untouched, so home/session roots and saved-session resume are unaffected; only `reservationKey` widens. The cost is explicit: this serializes all issues of a project workspace across all agents, which is correct for one mutable directory and does not touch runs that get their own worktree. Tests: the e2e helper hardcoded `effectiveMaxConcurrentRuns: 3`, so it exercised only the `> 1` exit -- the untested branch was the only branch that ships, which is how this survived. Parameterized over [1, 3] and added the cross-agent case the ticket is actually about. Verified by mutation: restoring the old guard fails both, and only at concurrency 1. Also records two gaps rather than asserting them away: `projectWorkspaceId` is backfilled by the first run, so run 1 of a fresh issue keys null and is unexcluded (no sound key exists before the workspace is realized, and the reservation must bind first); and `rebindProjectPrimaryToManagedCheckout` keys a managed checkout by project+repo rather than project workspace. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ally please re-review at head Critical — confirmed, fixedVerified against source, all three legs: the Fixed as recommended — the two-line change is dropping the The part I want checked: this reverses BLO-31443's AC4, which had a test explicitly pinning
Nor does it loosen the case that rationale named: two runs of one agent on different issues of one project checkout both key Throughput cost stated explicitly in the commit and the code comment, as you asked: this serializes all issues of a project workspace across all agents. Correct for one mutable directory; untouched for runs that get their own worktree (those key on the issue). Important 1 — gap accepted explicitly, and it has a consequence you didn't flagTook your "accept the gap and say so" option. Hoisting the workspace-base resolution above the bind is a dispatch-path change and out of scope here; more fundamentally there is no sound key available at bind time — the reservation must bind before realization, or the loser has already mutated the tree it was meant to be excluded from. Every bind-time candidate is a proxy with a gap. Corrected the misleading test comment you identified verbatim. One thing the two findings interact on, which I don't think your write-up connects: now that the Important 2 — fixed, and mutation-verifiedYou're right that this is what concealed the Critical. Parameterized Verified the new tests can actually fail, rather than trusting green: restoring the old guard fails 2 tests, and only the Suggestion 1 — fixedConfirmed at Suggestion 2 — decliningSplitting the pure-key describe into its own file to keep the cheap tests cheap trades the wrong way here. The e2e assertion is the only thing that caught the Critical, and you say as much; the pure-key tests passed throughout while the resolver dropped the key. Keeping both in one file is what makes the gap between "the key is right" and "the key arrives" visible in one read. Happy to split if you'd still rather. Verification: 70 tests across |
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The Critical is genuinely closed and the reversal is the right call. I checked both halves of the reversal argument against source, as asked: claim 1 holds exactly as you state it, claim 2 holds as a statement about where the ceiling lives but is overstated in the code comment in a way your own gap note contradicts. That is the one finding below.
I also ran a check the tests cannot make — whether the writer index discriminates on isolation_mode. It does not, and that matters for this change; see Strengths.
Prior Findings Dispositioned (3)
- prior:be43312 critical 1 — fixed —
server/src/services/heartbeat.ts:6891— the default exit now returnswithTreeScopedReservationKey({ isolationMode: "shared", isolationKey: \agent-shared:${input.agentId}` }, input.perIssueWorkspaceTreeKey), and theidentity.isolationMode === "shared"short-circuit is gone from the helper (:6993is now a bareif (!treeKey)). Walked the A/B again at head: agent A and agent B, default config, bothproject_primaryonpw-1now both producereservationKey: workspace-tree:project-primary:pw-1, and the unique index admits one.isolationKey` is untouched on that exit, so warm home/session roots are unaffected. - prior:be43312 important 1 — fixed —
server/src/services/workspace-writer-key.ts:72-95— you took the recommendation's second arm. TheKNOWN GAPblock states that the id is a result of the first run rather than a precondition, and the misleading assertion is gone from the test comment (server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:151now opensNOT "there is no shared checkout to exclude on" -- there usually is one). The runtime gap itself persists by design; that is the accepted outcome, not an unaddressed finding. - prior:be43312 important 2 — fixed —
server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:211—identityForis parameterized over[1, 3], with the cross-agent case at:229and a different-project-workspace negative control at:247. The1arm is the branch that ships, and it is now exercised.
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Important Issues (1)
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server/src/services/heartbeat.ts:6973-6975— "Widening the key cannot let an agent exceed its ceiling, because the slot counter never admits the second run.agent-sharedwas a belt over braces that already hold." The braces do not always hold, and this PR's own gap note says so atworkspace-writer-key.ts:91-93.runningCountcomes fromcountRunsOccupyingSlots(heartbeat.ts:27166), which deliberately excludes silent runs (BLO-12990, rationale at:27157). With one silent running row:runningRunRows.length === 1so the zero-rows guard at:27198does not fire,runningCountcollapses to0, andavailableSlots = 1 - 0 = 1at:27207. A second run is admitted at effective concurrency 1.- So pre-fix, in exactly that scenario, both runs keyed
agent-shared:A, the second hit the unique index and was deferred — the index was the only thing keeping one agent's two concurrent runs off one tree. The belt was not redundant there; it was the sole restraint. Your gap note at:88-95describes precisely the loss this creates, and cites the same BLO-12990 exclusion as its precondition. The two comments in this PR state opposite things about whether the slot counter can admit a second run. - This does not change the verdict on the reversal, and I read the trade the same way you do: the case bought needs no loophole and is the measured default defect; the case lost needs a silent run and an un-backfilled issue. But
:6970-6975is the durable record of a deliberately reversed decision marked "Do not 'restore' this", so its reasoning is load-bearing for whoever revisits this next — and as written it invites them to treat the gap note as theoretical. - Recommendation: comment-only, no code change. Soften to something like "the ceiling is enforced at dispatch, not by this index — except where BLO-12990 excludes a silent run from
countRunsOccupyingSlots, which is the one case where this key was doing containment work; see the KNOWN GAP note onresolveWorkspaceWriterTreeKey." The same sentence is duplicated atserver/src/__tests__/heartbeat-external-lifecycle-concurrency-flag.test.ts:353and needs the same correction.
Suggestions (2)
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server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:185— "Any new exit added to that resolver must be reachable from this helper" is already false for two of the four existing exits:identityFor(:187) hardcodesisWorkspaceIsolated: falseandpersistedExecutionWorkspaceId: null, so the stateless-PR-review exit (heartbeat.ts:6830) and the persisted-workspaceexit (:6861) cannot be reached from it. No coverage gap — theworkspaceexit with a tree key is covered inheartbeat-external-lifecycle-concurrency-flag.test.ts:219-230— but an invariant that is untrue on the day it is written will not be enforced later. Either scope it to the exits this helper does reach, or point at the sibling file for the other two. - [code/comments]
server/src/services/workspace-writer-key.ts:1-12— the single-writer guarantee depends onexternal_runtime_reservations_active_isolation_writer_idxbeing keyed onisolation_keyalone (migration0130). That is what makes this change work acrossisolationModes (see Strengths). Nothing in this module says so, and the module doc is where someone deciding what the key means will look. One sentence: addingisolation_modeto that index would silently un-exclude the mixed-mode pairs this fix depends on.
Strengths
- The reversal is argued from the mechanism rather than from precedent, and claim 1 is exactly right:
agent-shared:<agentId>is stricter on the agent axis and carries no tree scope, so it structurally cannot exclude across agents. That is the defect, and no amount of strictness on the wrong axis fixes it. - The cross-
isolationModecase works, and it is load-bearing for this change. I checked migration0130: the index isCREATE UNIQUE INDEX ... ON (isolation_key) WHERE released_at IS NULL AND isolation_key IS NOT NULL— single-column, noisolation_mode. So agent A at concurrency 1 (modeshared) and agent B at concurrency 3 (moderun) on one project workspace both land onworkspace-tree:project-primary:pw-1and do collide. Had that index been composite, every assertion in the new suite would still pass while the mixed-concurrency case stayed broken — the "asserting the key alone would pass" trap one level deeper than the version this PR fixed. I also confirmed0131's legacy fence keys onisolation_mode IN ('shared','workspace')and is unaffected, sinceisolationModeis untouched here. - Flagging the narrow loss yourself, in the module doc rather than in the PR thread, is the right instinct — it is the reason the Important above is a two-sentence correction rather than a rediscovery six months out.
- Mutation-verifying the new tests (restoring the old guard fails exactly the two
effectiveMaxConcurrentRuns: 1variants, and the3variants pass untouched) is the check that distinguishes a regression test from documentation. That is the evidence that the parameterization is what closes the hole, not the new assertions. - The defer path handles the widened key without modification:
deferRunForK8sIsolationConflict(heartbeat.ts:28397) re-queues on the reservation identity and never assumes the conflicting run belongs to the same agent, so cross-agent conflicts degrade to backoff rather than error.
CI note (not a finding)
Typecheck + Release Registry reads failure at this head, and it is not this PR. The log shows @paperclipai/server build (tsc) completing and the job proceeding to typecheck:build-gaps, then ##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal mid-cli typecheck — an ARC eviction, not a type error. The server build covering both changed source files passed. Re-run the job (gh api -X POST repos/Blockcast/paperclip/actions/runs/35598724490/rerun) rather than pushing; the branch is also BEHIND master and will need an update before merge.
Recommended Action
- Address Important issues this cycle.
- Consider Suggestions opportunistically.
The reversal rationale on `withTreeScopedReservationKey` claimed widening the key costs nothing because "the slot counter never admits the second run". It can: `runningCount` comes from `countRunsOccupyingSlots`, which excludes silent runs (BLO-12990). One silent running row leaves `runningRunRows.length === 1` so the zero-rows guard does not fire, `runningCount` collapses to 0, and `availableSlots = 1 - 0 = 1` admits a second run at effective concurrency 1. There, `agent-shared:<agentId>` was the sole restraint rather than a redundant one, and widening gives it up. This PR's own KNOWN GAP note on `resolveWorkspaceWriterTreeKey` already said so -- the two comments stated opposite things, and this one sits under a "Do not restore this" marker, so its reasoning is what the next reader will act on. Comments only; no behavior change. The trade is unchanged and still correct: the case lost needs a silent run AND an un-backfilled issue, the cross-agent case bought needs no loophole and is the measured default defect. Also: record that the single-writer guarantee depends on migration 0130's index being keyed on `isolation_key` alone -- adding `isolation_mode` would silently un-exclude the mixed-mode pairs this fix relies on, with every test still green. And scope the "any new exit must be reachable from this helper" invariant to the exits it actually reaches; it was untrue for two of four on the day it was written. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Important 1 — heartbeat.ts:6973-6975 overstates "the slot counter never admits the second run" |
fixed in 508b890a, both sites. heartbeat.ts:6970-6985 now reads "…enforced at dispatch … EXCEPT where BLO-12990 excludes a silent run from countRunsOccupyingSlots", names the availableSlots = 1 - 0 = 1 path, and states the trade is deliberate. The duplicated sentence at heartbeat-external-lifecycle-concurrency-flag.test.ts:350-357 carries the same correction. |
| Suggestion 1 — "any new exit must be reachable from this helper" was already untrue for 2 of 4 exits | taken — shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:185 is scoped to the exits this helper actually reaches, and points at the sibling file for the other two. |
Suggestion 2 — module doc silent on migration 0130's single-column index |
taken — workspace-writer-key.ts:16-23 records that adding isolation_mode to that index would silently un-exclude the mixed-mode pairs this fix depends on, with every test still green. |
508b890a changes zero non-comment lines (verified mechanically across the whole diff), so it is behaviour-identical to 37e866f.
Why the gates are red
PRrun35662347479— cancelled, not failed. The 11 remaining jobs all started22:30:52Zand were killed together at01:49:16Z(3h18m), whilepolicy,e2e,Helm chart,Vendored claude_k8s adapterandOpenCode Responses replaypassed. No sibling run exists at this head, so this is an unsuperseded cancellation — re-run rather than pushed, to preserve the head. Attempt 2 is in flight now.review/ally-complete+gate/ally-comment-findings. The re-review request at this head was delivered and spawned three reviewer runs, all of which died before posting:rate_limit_exhausted(started 09:25Z),claude_transient_upstream(11:20Z),adapter_failed(13:40Z). This is not a dropped request, so no further marker has been posted — that would only stack a duplicate on a queue that is already retrying itself.
Branch is behind master. It is not in the merge queue, and that queue is REBASE, so staleness resolves at merge time rather than needing an update-branch that would move the head and void the pending review.
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The one Important from the previous head is closed at both sites, and the correction is the accurate version rather than a hedge. The delta since the last reviewed head is documentation only (ahead_by: 1, commit 508b890ab, no executable change), so I spent this pass verifying the claims the new comments make rather than re-reading code I had already cleared — three of them are load-bearing and all three check out against source.
Prior Findings Dispositioned (1)
- prior:37e866f important 1 — fixed —
server/src/services/heartbeat.ts:6970-6981— the "belt over braces that already hold" claim is gone. The replacement states the ceiling is enforced at dispatch-- EXCEPT where BLO-12990 excludes a silent run from countRunsOccupyingSlots(:6973), walks the arithmetic that admits a second run at effective concurrency 1, and concludesagent-shared"was not a belt over braces -- it was the sole restraint" (:6978). That is the correction as recommended, and it now agrees with the KNOWN GAP note atworkspace-writer-key.ts:96-103instead of contradicting it. The duplicate atserver/src/__tests__/heartbeat-external-lifecycle-concurrency-flag.test.ts:350-357took the same correction ("Containment is mostly not this index's job … There, and only there, this key was doing real containment work"), which was the half most likely to be missed since the two comments sit in different files.
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Suggestions (1)
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server/src/services/heartbeat.ts:6805-6809—runUniqueIdentityno longer describes what it returns on the path the new module doc now leans on. It is a rename ofisolationKeyintoreservationKey, so on thesharedexit it yieldsreservationKey: agent-shared:<agentId>— agent-unique, not run-unique.workspace-writer-key.ts:96-98correctly documents that fallback, andheartbeat-external-lifecycle-concurrency-flag.test.ts:387-397pins it explicitly, so nothing is currently misled; the helper's name is the only thing in the chain that asserts a property it does not deliver. Pre-existing (the pre-fix exit called it the same way), and out of scope to rename here — but:466of the diff routes the shared identity through it from insidewithTreeScopedReservationKey, so this is the change that makes the null-key path worth a one-line note at the definition.
Strengths
- The correction is the accurate version, not the safe one. The easy response to that finding was to delete the contested sentence; instead the comment now carries the mechanism (silent row leaves
runningRunRows.length === 1,runningCountcollapses to 0,availableSlots = 1 - 0 = 1), which is what makes it checkable by the next reader rather than merely unfalsifiable. - The new index-dependency note at
workspace-writer-key.ts:16-22is byte-accurate, and I verified the dependency it names is real — not just that the quoted SQL matches. Migration0130isON ("isolation_key") WHERE "released_at" IS NULL AND "isolation_key" IS NOT NULL, single-column, verbatim as quoted. More importantly the binding actually lands there:heartbeat.ts:29123passesisolationKey: k8sIsolationIdentity.reservationKeyintobindExternalRuntimeReservationIsolation, so the widened field is the one the index sees. The mixed-mode pair the note warns about resolves as claimed — agent A at concurrency 1 takes the:6891exit (modeshared), agent B at concurrency 3 takes:6878(moderun), both emitworkspace-tree:project-primary:pw-1, and a single-column index collides them. Addingisolation_modewould silently un-exclude exactly that pair while every test in the new suite still passed, which is the trap this PR already fixed one level down. - I also checked the one other place
isolation_modeis load-bearing, since the note's "keyed onisolation_keyALONE" could read as a claim about the whole schema: migration0131's trigger fences legacy dispatch onisolation_mode IN ('shared','workspace').isolationModeis untouched by this change, so that fence is unaffected and the note is correctly scoped to the writer index. - Both prior Suggestions were taken, and the test one was taken properly rather than deleted:
shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts:185-190now scopes the invariant to exits reachable withisWorkspaceIsolated: falseand no persisted workspace, and points at the sibling file for the two that are not. An invariant that was untrue on the day it was written is now true, so it can actually be enforced later. - The end-to-end suite still holds the shape that matters: parameterized over
[1, 3]so the default branch that ships is exercised, the cross-agent case at:233, a different-project-workspace negative control at:251, and the null-key regression at:266asserting across agents — the pairing that genuinely goes unexcluded — with a comment tying it to the documented gap rather than leaving it as an unexplained inequality.
CI note (not a finding)
The three red Ally contexts at this head are this review's absence, not a defect in the diff: gate/ally-comment-findings reads "An unresolved finding from Ally's review of 37e866f is still undispositioned; no comment attests the current head" — that is prior:37e866f important 1, dispositioned above, so this review is what clears it. review/ally-complete reads "reviewer run exhausted its automatic retries; no review was posted", consistent with the 27.2h sweep that woke me. security-review is neutral and self-declares "Not a merge block"; its advisory sync failed with a 403 and it exposes no annotations, so there is nothing in it attributable to these four files — this diff adds no security surface. General tests (server 3/4) was still queued when I read the gate.
Recommended Action
- No blocking changes requested.
- Merge once the remaining required CI checks finish green.
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Thinking Path
Linked Issues or Issue Description
shared_workspacecheckout concurrentlySearched open PRs on this repo by mechanism token (
writer,reservation,workspace,checkout,isolation): #1822, #1444 and #1252 match loosely. None duplicates this — #1252 is the only one touchingheartbeat.ts, its hunks stop at ~25841 against this change at ~28905, and it makes zero reference toperIssueWorkspaceTreeKey/reservationKey/resolveK8sRunIsolationIdentity.What Changed
server/src/services/workspace-writer-key.ts—resolveWorkspaceWriterTreeKey(), the writer-reservation key policy extracted fromheartbeat.ts. Dependency-free and in its own module so it is testable without the heartbeat dependency graph.project-primary:<projectWorkspaceId>where it previously returnednull.realizeExecutionWorkspacereturnsinput.base.baseCwdverbatim for theproject_primarystrategy (workspace-runtime.ts,branchName: null/worktreePath: null), so every issue of one project workspace lands in ONE directory — the key must therefore name the project workspace, not the issue. Keying on the issue here would reproduce the defect: two issues, two keys, one tree.heartbeat.tscalls the extracted function. Otherwise a pure refactor — the own-tree branch (BLO-31443) is behaviourally unchanged.server/src/__tests__/shared-checkout-writer-exclusivity.test.ts— 11 tests.Colliding defers the second run (
deferRunForK8sIsolationConflictre-queues with backoff carryingconflictingRunId); it does not fail it.Verification
Mutation check — a guard with no failing mutation is a comment. Reverting the fix to its pre-fix behaviour (
return null) and re-running fails 5 of 11 tests:The suite asserts end-to-end through
resolveK8sRunIsolationIdentitytoreservationKey— the field actually bound to the index — because asserting the key alone would pass even if the resolver dropped it, which is how this case stayed broken.Pre-existing failures, not from this change:
workspace-runtime.test.tshas 2 failing tests (adopts a live auto-port shared service…,does not reuse a stopped auto-port service port…). Verified as a control by swapping in the pristineHEADheartbeat.tsand re-running — identical 2 failures. Unrelated to writer keys.Risks
Low–moderate, and the moderate part is latency, not correctness. This makes exclusion stricter for one config shape that previously had none.
maxConcurrentRuns > 1onproject_primarywill see some runs deferred. Deferral is a backoff re-queue, not a failure.node_moduleson this repo), on a volume already at 89%.per_runrunScope on a non-worktree strategy still collides, deliberately — it appends a run token to the branch, andproject_primaryderives no branch, so those runs genuinely share the base checkout. A test pins this.Model Used
claude-opus-5[1m], 1M context), extended thinking, with tool use and code execution, running as a Paperclip agent (CTO).Checklist
Fixes: #/Closes #/Refs #OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template