test(verify-subagent-pull-under-load): verify the four scenarios the payload change shipped unverified - #548
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…lded tasks Doubt-review (3 cycles, single-model + cross-model @propose-review-1) corrected the first draft's fatal verification holes: F1 could converge on the never- stripped terminal frame; the guard row read bridge counters no E2E surface exposes; the cadence-disable falsifiability run needed a production knob that does not exist; P4 was not like-for-like across carriers; X1's terminal-frame absence was unobservable on a socket force_kill closes first. design.md now anchors anti-vacuity on carrier exhaustion + the __resyncRequestId wire discriminator, pins the run shape F1 needs, makes X1 an explicitly unwatched run asserted on the replay stream, and ships P4 as a sensitivity table with a shippable INCONCLUSIVE outcome. test-plan.md: 24 scenarios (22 automated, 2 manual-only); all folded 1:1.
…narios Substrate: the synthetic Agent-tick producer gains two sentinel-gated behaviours — `[[entries:a..b@n]]` (timeline grows then PLATEAUS, always a FULL snapshot) and `[[bus:ms]]` (real `subagents:*` frames coalesced at the real producer's 250 ms). The bus frames are load-bearing: the strip, the frame buffer and therefore the whole RESYNC path live on that channel, so a tick-only producer exercises none of it. Both OFF without a sentinel, so the existing throttle rows stay byte-identical (pinned by E7). F1 converges 5 -> 30 RENDERED entries while the agent is still non-terminal, with the delivering carrier identified POSITIVELY (the converging reply's `__resyncRequestId` equals a captured `reason:"cadence"` request id) and the other three carriers excluded by measurement. F4 inverts it on a strip-OFF harness start, which is what makes F2/F3 mean anything. X1 kills a deliberately UNWATCHED run (one resync would store a fat reply and fail the row for the wrong reason) and asserts on the post-kill replay stream, since force_kill closes the bridge WS before the signal. P4 verdict: pull 1 060 B/s vs 37 455 B/s of push removed — PASS by ~35x, flat across a 100/250/1000 ms bus-cadence sensitivity table. P5: 0 / 17.7 / 29.9 / 99.6 % across four watch patterns; C4 kill switch NOT triggered. Review-gate fixes: admit `tool_execution_end` to the collector (its terminal branch was dead, making X3's claim vacuous); assert repliesPerSec>0 on pull arms (frames>0 alone is satisfied by pushes, so a broken pull path could write a silent zero into the evidence); rule out open-time replies by CONTENT rather than wall-clock ordering.
…easurements.json Round-2 review caught 7 stale numbers: the file was transcribed from a FIRST measurement run and went stale when the specs were re-run after the round-1 fixes. Every number is now derived from measurements.json (verified mechanically, 24/24 match), and a provenance section says to re-derive rather than edit in place. Also corrects tasks.md 1.5: only compose.test.yml needed the PI_DASHBOARD_SUBAGENT_STRIP passthrough (subagent-frame-strip.ts reads process.env directly), evidenced by the arm difference 53 229 vs 15 575 B/s.
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WalkthroughAdds a synthetic watched-subagent fixture, WebSocket wire collection, Playwright verification and measurement suites, OpenSpec requirements, compose configuration, and archived results for subagent pull behavior. ChangesSubagent pull verification
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FauxFixture as faux-agent-ticks.ext.ts
participant EventBus as pi.events.emit
participant WebSocket as WebSocket /ws
participant Collector as collectSubagentWire(page)
participant E2E as subagent-pull-under-load.spec.ts
FauxFixture->>EventBus: Emits subagents:* snapshots
EventBus->>WebSocket: Forwards subagent frames
WebSocket->>Collector: Records inbound frames and bytes
E2E->>WebSocket: Sends subagent_resync_request
WebSocket->>Collector: Records resync replies with __resyncRequestId
E2E->>E2E: Checks rendered entries and replay state
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10-10: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestore path-alphabetical order.
Move the
faux-roles.jsonrow before thefaux-scenarios.tsrow.As per coding guidelines, “keep rows path-alphabetical.”
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In `@docker/AGENTS.md`:
- Line 12: Shorten the purpose records at docker/AGENTS.md lines 12-12,
qa/fixtures/AGENTS.md lines 8-8, and qa/fixtures/AGENTS.md lines 10-10:
summarize the test compose overlay’s primary isolation behavior, the synthetic
tick fixture contract, and the shared scenario catalog purpose respectively.
Keep all records concise and path-alphabetical, removing detailed implementation
history while preserving essential purpose.
In
`@openspec/changes/archive/2026-08-24-verify-subagent-pull-under-load/heap-evidence.md`:
- Around line 67-70: Update the “fat push frames” row to use the recorded
Section 1 count of 102 non-terminal push frames, unless 27 is an intentionally
defined subset; if retaining 27, explicitly identify and explain that subset in
the evidence.
In
`@openspec/changes/archive/2026-08-24-verify-subagent-pull-under-load/test-plan.md`:
- Line 3: Update the Generated date in the document metadata to the actual
generation date, August 25, 2026, while preserving the existing Stage value.
In `@qa/fixtures/faux-agent-ticks.ext.ts`:
- Around line 107-110: Move the synthetic-agent parameters into named fixture
configuration profiles: in qa/fixtures/faux-agent-ticks.ext.ts lines 107-110,
load bus cadence defaults and bounds from configuration; in
qa/fixtures/faux-scenarios.ts lines 1084-1128, select named watched-growth
profiles instead of embedding numeric sentinel values. Ensure the fixture and
scenarios consistently use configured tick counts and entry-growth values.
In `@tests/e2e/AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 109-110: Reorder the two subagent-pull entries in the file-record
table so both appear before subagent-thin-tick-liveness.spec.ts, preserving each
row’s content unchanged and maintaining path-alphabetical order.
In `@tests/e2e/helpers/index.ts`:
- Around line 455-456: Update SUBAGENT_STATUS_OF to also read the status from
ev.data.result.details, while preserving the existing data.details and
data.partialResult.details fallbacks and empty-string default.
In `@tests/e2e/subagent-pull-measurements.spec.ts`:
- Around line 169-174: Update the recursive retry in measureOnce so it forwards
the original requireReplies setting when invoking measureOnce again, preserving
reply validation and preventing a failed pull arm from recording a zero reply
rate.
In `@tests/e2e/subagent-pull-under-load.spec.ts`:
- Around line 262-271: Strengthen the convergence assertion around openIds and
openReplyMax by recording the last open request time and computing the maximum
timeline size possible when the bridge handled that request, including the
defined bus-interval and RTT slack. Assert that the rendered count is strictly
greater than this request-time bound, rather than only asserting open-time
replies contain fewer than END_ENTRIES.
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In `@qa/fixtures/AGENTS.md`:
- Line 10: Restore path-alphabetical ordering in the fixture documentation table
by moving the faux-roles.json row before the faux-scenarios.ts row, without
changing either row’s content.
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…tatus, tighten F6, split AGENTS rows - requireReplies was dropped on the spawn retry, so a pull arm could retry with reply validation off and record replyBytesPerSec: 0 (the exact silent zero the flag exists to prevent). - SUBAGENT_STATUS_OF ignored data.result.details.status, the slot tool_execution_end uses and the one ENTRY_COUNT_OF already reads, so any status filter silently missed the terminal carrier. - F6 bounded the open-time carrier only by count (<30), which a 29-entry reply would satisfy; now also asserts by TOKEN that the converging reply did not answer an open-time request. - heap-evidence prose still said '0 of 27 pushes' after the table moved to 102. - test-plan Generated date was two days in the future. - tests/e2e/AGENTS.md rows were not path-alphabetical (pull sorts before thin). - Over-length AGENTS rows promoted to sidecars via the project's own scripts/split-large-agents.mjs (qa/fixtures 12084->1047 B, docker 20438->2937 B).
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… it (#549) (#553) * fix(e2e): resolve the measurement evidence path instead of hardcoding it (#549) Both measurement specs hardcoded the PRE-ARCHIVE change directory: const EVIDENCE_PATH = "openspec/changes/verify-subagent-pull-under-load/measurements.json"; and `record()` opened it with `mkdirSync(dirname(EVIDENCE_PATH), { recursive: true })`. Once the change was archived (#548) that combination CREATED the pre-archive directory rather than failing, with two consequences: 1. A phantom active-change directory reappeared on every re-measure — tooling that enumerates `openspec/changes/*` sees an active change that is really a leftover of an archived one. 2. Worse for evidence integrity: the write silently landed somewhere OTHER than the archived `heap-evidence.md`'s source of truth, so a re-run looked like it left the archived numbers unchanged while actually recording different ones elsewhere. That happened during #548 — the final post-fix run's numbers went to the stray path and were never transcribed. Exactly the staleness the evidence file exists to prevent. New `tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts`: - `resolveEvidencePath(name, root?)` prefers the active `openspec/changes/<name>/`, falls back to the NEWEST `openspec/changes/archive/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<name>/`, and THROWS when the change is in neither place. It never creates a directory — a misdirected write must be loud, not silent. - The archive matcher is anchored at both ends, so `verify-x` cannot match `verify-x-followup`, and a non-directory entry that matches the name pattern is ignored. - Repo root is derived from the module's own URL, not cwd, since specs run from varying working directories. - `recordMeasurement()` absorbs the byte-identical `record()` that both specs carried, so the path rule has ONE home. Coverage: `tests/` was collected by no vitest project, and both consuming specs are opt-in (`PI_SYNTH_AGENT_TICKS=1`), so this logic could never run in CI. Adds a deliberately narrow `tests` project whose include glob is `e2e/helpers/__tests__/` only — Playwright specs still belong to `npm run test:e2e`, which needs a docker harness and a browser. 10 unit tests cover active-dir preference, the newest-archive pick for a change archived twice, prefix-collision rejection, a matching non-directory, and the fail-loud path (including that no directory appears as a side effect of the failure). Verified non-vacuous: restoring the old create-anyway behaviour turns 6 of the 10 red. Closes #549 * fix(e2e): preserve existing evidence and reject traversal change names (#549) Three CodeRabbit findings on PR #553, all valid. 1. (Major) `recordMeasurement()` wrapped BOTH `readFileSync` and `JSON.parse` in one blanket `catch`, so an unreadable or half-written `measurements.json` was silently replaced by an object holding only the newest key — every measurement recorded before it dropped without a word. That is the same silent-evidence-loss failure this module exists to prevent, just one layer in. Extracted `readEvidence(path)`: ENOENT yields `{}` (genuine first write), every other read error is rethrown, a parse failure throws naming the file, and a parsed array/primitive/null is rejected instead of being cast to `Record` and mutated. A damaged evidence file now stops the run rather than being overwritten by it. 2. (Minor) `changeName` was joined into a path unvalidated. `join(changesDir, "../..")` resolves to the repo root — a real directory — so a traversal name resolved successfully and would have written `measurements.json` outside `openspec/` entirely. `assertSingleComponent()` now rejects empty, `.`, `..`, and any name containing `/` or `\`. 3. (Minor) Both `docs/` records were compound prose, violating the repo's caveman-style rule. Rewritten through DocScribe: one fact per line, no sentence chaining. No backticked glob tokens, since `kb dox lint` resolves those as real paths and reports broken-ref. Tests 10 → 25. New cases: five traversal/separator forms rejected, a traversal name proven not to resolve to the repo root, existing keys read back, malformed JSON left ON DISK rather than clobbered, four non-object JSON shapes rejected, and a non-ENOENT read error (mode 000) rethrown rather than swallowed. Both fixes verified non-vacuous: commenting out the guard turns 4 red; restoring the blanket catch turns the rethrow case red. * fix(e2e): persist reserved measurement keys as own properties (#549) CodeRabbit follow-up on PR #553. `current[key] = value` with key `"__proto__"` mutates the object's prototype instead of adding a property, so that measurement never reaches the JSON — a recorded number silently absent from the evidence file, which is the failure class this module exists to prevent. `Object.defineProperty` with an enumerable descriptor records every key as an own property. `recordMeasurement()` gains an optional `repoRoot` (defaulting to `REPO_ROOT`, matching the other exports) so the behaviour is assertable against a temp fixture instead of the real tree. Five regression tests assert through the ROUND TRIP TO DISK — reading the file back and checking `Object.hasOwn` — rather than inspecting the in-memory object, which would pass on the broken code. Reachability, stated plainly: every `key` at both call sites is a string literal (`"F1"`, `"P1-harness-ceiling"`, ...), so this was not reachable. Fixed because the descriptor costs one line, not because it was exploitable. Non-vacuity: restoring `current[key] = value` turns the two `__proto__` cases red. The `constructor`/`prototype`/`toString` cases pass either way — plain assignment creates own properties that shadow the prototype — and are kept as boundary documentation, not as teeth. * fix(e2e): restore the archived evidence my own test overwrote (#549) Commit d4e9952 swept `openspec/changes/archive/2026-08-24-verify-subagent- pull-under-load/measurements.json` into the diff, replacing the real recorded measurements (X1, F1, P1-P5) with test fixtures. Cause, and it is worth naming precisely: the new reserved-key tests called `recordMeasurement(CHANGE, key, value, root)` BEFORE `recordMeasurement` had a `repoRoot` parameter. The fourth argument was silently ignored, the helper fell back to `REPO_ROOT`, and the red test run wrote fixture data into the real archived evidence file. `git add -A` then committed it. That is precisely the failure this change exists to prevent — a measurement write landing in the authoritative evidence file unnoticed — reproduced by the test suite meant to prevent it. Restored from origin/develop. The parameter now exists, and every test passes its temp `root` explicitly, so the suite writes only inside its fixture dir.
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Why
reduce-subagent-details-payload(archived 2026-08-15) shipped the push/pull split for subagent timelines, but four of its manifest scenarios were never verified — none was observable on the harness, whose subagents finish in ~600 ms, so there was never a mid-run window in which a timeline grows while somebody watches it. Carrying that gap as prose inside an archived change makes it invisible. This change makes it work.No production behaviour change. Only
qa/fixtures/,tests/e2e/,docker/, one L1 test, and the change's own openspec dir.The substrate, and why it isn't a real faux subagent
A nested faux subagent cannot be scripted here — its inner
createAgentSessionresolves a different faux core with an empty response queue, so it dies after ~2 no-op turns. That was root-caused and written off upstream inreduce-bridge-tick-bandwidth, which routed around it with a syntheticAgent-tick producer. This change extends that producer with two sentinel-gated behaviours:[[entries:5..30@60]]— the timeline grows then PLATEAUS for ~9 s. The plateau is load-bearing, not padding: terminal frames are never stripped, so without it the rendered count would converge onsubagents:completedand F1 would pass while the pull path never ran.[[bus:250]]— realsubagents:*frames at the real producer'sPROGRESS_THROTTLE_MS. These are what make the pull path exist at all: the strip, the frame buffer and the resync responder all live on that channel.Both are off without a sentinel, so the existing throttle rows stay byte-identical (pinned by E7).
How the rows avoid being vacuous
Every classification keys on
__resyncRequestId, never on eventType — a resync reply and a pushed frame are bothsubagent_started.F1's convergence is attributed by carrier exhaustion, with all four carriers accounted for:
reason:"cadence"request idF4invertsF2on aPI_DASHBOARD_SUBAGENT_STRIP=0harness start — without it, "0 fat pushes" could equally mean "the fixture never produced a timeline".X1runs unwatched by construction and asserts it: a single resync stores a fat reply, which would fail the row for a reason unrelated to the regression. Assertions are made on the post-kill replay stream, sinceforce_killcloses the bridge WS before the signal.Measured
Full numbers + provenance:
openspec/changes/archive/2026-08-24-verify-subagent-pull-under-load/heap-evidence.md, derived frommeasurements.json(24/24 values verified mechanically).Review
Two rounds through an isolated
@reviewgate. Round 1 raised a blocking scope finding (a bundled production commit → split out as #546) plus a deadtool_execution_endbranch that made X3's claim vacuous, a silent-zero reply rate that could have written0into the evidence, and an F6 check that asserted wall-clock ordering while claiming a content check. Round 2 caught 7 stale transcribed numbers. All fixed and re-verified green.Deferred (manifest
manual-only): 7.2 visual check of the replayed X1 card, 7.3 human read of the evidence file.