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Summary

Follow-up to merged CL-02 evidence-ledger PR #1333 after re-validating its review findings against current dev.

The immediate post-merge findings from #1333 were already addressed by #1343 and the closure gate in #1348, so this PR does not duplicate those fixes. It fixes only concurrency and lock failures that still reproduce in the current implementation.

Fixes

  • serialize ordinary appendLabEvent writes with the same ledger mutation lock used by read-modify-write operations
  • serialize sensitive purge replay, deletion planning, artifact deletion, and ledger rewrite with ordinary appends so an append cannot be silently lost by the purge rename
  • hold that same mutation lock while canonical conformance, live, and fabric producers publish artifacts and append their event, so purge cannot delete a just-published shared digest before its new reference becomes visible
  • recover a well-formed lock immediately when its recorded process is already dead instead of making writers fail for the first 60 seconds after an abrupt exit
  • replace the synchronous busy-spin lock retry with Bun.sleepSync, avoiding a full CPU core burn during contention
  • keep SQLite rebuild outside the mutation critical section because it is disposable and replays the canonical ledger again

Why these are real

Before this change, normal evidence persistence called appendLabEvent() without acquiring compatibility.jsonl.lock, while purge replayed the ledger and later atomically renamed a rewritten file over it. An append that landed after purge's replay but before its rename was written to the old inode and then disappeared from the canonical ledger.

Canonical producers also wrote content-addressed artifacts before the event append. A concurrent purge could calculate its deletion plan after the artifact write but before the event became visible, delete that digest, then let the producer append an event that references missing evidence.

The stale-lock path required a dead holder's lock to age for 60 seconds even though lock acquisition itself times out after 5 seconds, causing deterministic write failures after an abrupt process exit. Contention also used a synchronous busy loop for retry sleeps.

Regression coverage

Adds focused tests proving that:

  • ordinary append waits for a live ledger mutation lock
  • appendLabEventIfAbsent immediately recovers a lock left by an exited process
  • canonical persistence publishes artifacts while the ledger mutation lock is held
  • sensitive purge waits for the same lock before rewriting the ledger

Scope

  • base: dev
  • starting SHA: 81ada7cd092d4be3b25f3013c996cd3262a2f99b
  • 6 changed files
  • no schema, database migration, dependency, environment-variable, or frozen CL-00 semantic changes
  • no speculative review churn

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability when purging sensitive ledger data by coordinating cleanup and ledger updates under a single lock.
    • Prevented concurrent ledger operations from conflicting or losing events.
    • Automatically recovers from locks left behind by processes that have exited.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for concurrent appends, sensitive-data purges, lock waiting, and stale-lock recovery.

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Walkthrough

The ledger store now provides a shared mutation lock for replay and append operations. Observation persistence and sensitive-evidence purges use the lock for ledger and artifact changes. Tests cover lock waiting, stale-lock recovery, append persistence, and purge synchronization.

Changes

Ledger mutation locking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared mutation context and lock handling
src/lab/ledger/store.ts
Adds LedgerMutationContext and withLedgerMutation. Append paths validate before acquiring the non-reentrant lock. Lock waiting uses Bun.sleepSync, and locks from dead processes are stale regardless of age.
Locked observation persistence
src/lab/fabric/observe.ts, src/lab/observe/from-conformance.ts, src/lab/observe/from-live.ts
Creates and appends Fabric, conformance, and live observation events inside withLedgerMutation.
Locked sensitive-evidence purge
src/lab/ledger/purge.ts
Runs ledger replay, invalidation planning, tombstone creation, artifact cleanup, and ledger updates inside the mutation callback. SQLite rebuilding remains outside the lock.
Mutation lock and recovery validation
tests/lab-ledger-mutation-lock.test.ts
Adds child-process tests for live-lock waiting, exited-process lock recovery, observation persistence, event replay, and sensitive-ledger purge synchronization.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 52c92

The PR serializes ledger mutations and improves stale-lock recovery; the remaining follow-up is limited to strengthening tests that verify lock files are cleaned up, with no actionable merge-blocking risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ObservationPersistence
  participant withLedgerMutation
  participant LedgerFile
  participant ArtifactStorage
  participant SQLiteProjection
  ObservationPersistence->>withLedgerMutation: create and persist observation event
  withLedgerMutation->>LedgerFile: replay and append event
  ObservationPersistence->>ArtifactStorage: publish canonical artifacts while lock is held
  withLedgerMutation-->>ObservationPersistence: return persisted event and ledger path
  ObservationPersistence->>SQLiteProjection: rebuild projection after lock release
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Suggested reviewers: ingwannu, lidge-jun

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lab/ledger/purge.ts`:
- Around line 196-213: Move the scratch and export purge blocks using
purgeBoundedDirectory before the withLedgerMutation callback acquires the ledger
lock, while preserving their completed entries and ordering before “ledger”.
Keep artifact deletion inside the locked callback because it depends on
deletionPlan from the replay snapshot, and leave the existing ledger mutation
behavior unchanged.

In `@src/lab/ledger/store.ts`:
- Around line 186-194: Remove the redundant caller-side validation in
appendLabEvent while preserving the pre-lock validated event needed by
appendLabEventIfAbsent for its eventId check. Keep defensive validation in
LedgerMutationContext.append within withLedgerMutation, including for purge
consumers, so each append is validated exactly once.
- Line 88: Make stale-lock recovery ownership-safe around isLockHolderAlive and
withLedgerMutation: never unconditionally unlink lockPath after observing a
stale PID, since another waiter may have replaced it. Use a platform-supported
ownership/compare-and-remove primitive; otherwise fail closed and require
explicit orphan-lock cleanup, preserving appendLabEventIfAbsent serialization.
Treat foreign-host PIDs as potentially alive unless ownership can be
established.

In `@tests/lab-ledger-mutation-lock.test.ts`:
- Around line 178-185: Update the cleanup in the test’s finally block to assert
that `${ledgerPath}.lock` does not exist after purge and replay assertions,
matching the existing lock-release check in Test 2. Remove the silent unlink
cleanup and its now-unused unlinkSync import.
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In `@src/lab/ledger/store.ts`:
- Around line 188-201: Update withLedgerMutation and the underlying
withLedgerLock handling so a thenable returned by the callback keeps the ledger
lock held until it settles, releasing it on fulfillment or rejection;
alternatively, explicitly reject async callbacks and invalidate the mutation
context after synchronous completion. Ensure mutation methods replay, append,
and appendIfAbsent cannot be used after the lock is released.
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In `@tests/lab-ledger-mutation-lock.test.ts`:
- Around line 181-208: Add a post-persistence assertion in the test covering
persistConformanceResult to verify existsSync(`${ledgerPath}.lock`) is false
after the call returns, alongside the existing replay assertion, while
preserving the current in-lock ArtifactStore.put check.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/lab-ledger-mutation-lock.test.ts` around lines 9 -
20: The purge test has the same lock-cleanup assertion gap and is covered by the
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