Previously full gauges were logged on only 3 sites (launch, self-heal-launch-
failed, probe-tick). Extend forensic gauge coverage across the whole pool
lifecycle so a recurring wedge has copious history to look back at.
- Full forensic snapshot (sample + log + durable onSnapshot hook) on every
meaningful transition: init, recycle (crash/hygiene), crash/disconnect,
set-empty degraded, self-heal-launch-failed, recovered, unrecoverable, and
shutdown.
- Periodic heartbeat (~45s, env BROWSER_POOL_HEARTBEAT_MS) via a
shutdown-signal-gated self-rescheduling loop — NOT a raw setInterval that
leaks past shutdown — for a baseline trend between events.
- Cheap cgroup-PID-only subset (logHotGauges) on the hot acquire/release path:
high-resolution view of the headline pids.current/pids.max signal without
the full-sample /proc-walk + df cost, and no durable write on the hot path.
- onSnapshot is best-effort: a throwing hook is caught + logged, never crashes
the pool.
The browser-pool wedge ends in a container restart that clears in-memory
state, and Railway's stdout window rolls off — so stdout/in-memory gauges
are not retrievable post-wedge. Persist the OS resource gauges to a new
`resource_snapshots` PB collection so the forensic history survives the
restart and the PID/thread-ceiling exhaustion is reconstructable after.
- New PB migration `1779989300_create_resource_snapshots.js` (mirrors the
probe_runs idempotent create + public-read pattern).
- `resource-snapshot-writer.ts`: best-effort writer (swallows + logs every PB
error so a missing migration / PB hiccup never breaks the pool) with
ring-style retention (cap last N rows, default 5000, env-overridable).
- Orchestrator wires the writer to the pool's onSnapshot hook, reusing the
shared pb client.
The Dockerfile FIX#3 comment claimed the in-image `ulimit -u` raised the cgroup
pids.max (target 16384). It cannot: `ulimit -u` only lifts this process's
RLIMIT_NPROC; the cgroup pids.max is set by the container runtime
(--pids-limit), is platform-fixed at 1000 on staging, and is not raisable from
the image. Rewrite the comment to state this accurately and point at the real
demand-side mitigation (fewer concurrent contexts + gauge/alarm). The harmless
`ulimit -u` line itself is retained. Also update the env test to assert the new
MAX_CONTEXTS default of 24.
The wedge was reproduced as cgroup PID/thread-ceiling exhaustion (pthread EAGAIN
-> "has been closed" -> crash-loop with pids.current pegged at pids.max=1000).
Every /tmp candidate was refuted by measurement, so this removes the /tmp
machinery that targeted a non-cause and replaces it with the demand-side fix +
observability:
- Remove the proactive stale-profile sweep (init + recycle), defaultPurgeProfileDirs,
the PurgeProfileDirs type, the staleProfileDirTtlMs / PURGE_MIN_AGE_MS options
and env, and the breaker's /tmp purge — the hard recovery is now just the paced
cold relaunch. Corresponding purge/sweep tests removed.
- KEEP the circuit-breaker failure-counting -> give-up -> onUnrecoverable alarm
(root-cause-agnostic backstop) and the footgun clamp; the breaker tests are
adapted to drive the wedge via the launcher instead of the purge.
- Log the resource gauges on every launchBrowser(), on the self-heal-launch-failed
path, and at probe-tick start/end so a burst approaching pids.max is observable
and an EAGAIN correlates to a measured pids.current.
- Include pids.current/pids.max + thread count in the onUnrecoverable payload and
the orchestrator's terminal alarm message so the alert names the real signal.
- Lower the BROWSER_POOL_MAX_CONTEXTS default 40 -> 24 to cap thread demand under
the platform-fixed ceiling (still env-overridable).
Standalone, unit-tested gauge sampler that reads the cgroup PID controller
(pids.current / pids.max, v2 with v1 fallback) plus the process-tree thread/proc
counts, FDs, RSS, /dev/shm, and /tmp inode/space from /proc + /sys/fs/cgroup.
The cgroup PID counters are the headline signal for the proven browser-pool
wedge (PID/thread-ceiling exhaustion). Degrades gracefully to -1 off-Linux so it
is safe to import anywhere. Consumed by the browser pool and probe invoker in
follow-up commits.
The recurring browser-pool wedge's ROOT CAUSE: every chromium.launch() leaves
a /tmp/playwright_* profile dir + playwright-artifacts-* dir whose Playwright
close-time cleanup is best-effort (swallowed on failure). In a long-lived
harness container under sustained d6 cron load these orphans accumulate
monotonically until /tmp exhausts inodes/space — then every launch throws
"...has been closed" and self-heal relaunches into the same exhausted /tmp
forever (only a restart, which gives a fresh /tmp, clears it).
PREVENTION: sweep the age-gated stale dirs PROACTIVELY on a cadence — once at
init() and on EVERY recycle relaunch (crash + hygiene) — so /tmp never reaches
exhaustion. This is the durable complement to the circuit-breaker ESCAPE: the
sweep prevents the wedge; the breaker escapes it if it ever still happens.
Unifies the purge into ONE canonical helper — defaultPurgeProfileDirs now takes
an age threshold (minAgeMs) as its first arg. The proactive sweep passes the
conservative staleProfileDirTtlMs (5min default, env
BROWSER_POOL_STALE_PROFILE_DIR_TTL_MS); the breaker's hard-recovery keeps its
aggressive PURGE_MIN_AGE_MS (60s). Same hardened (symlink-safe, realpath-checked)
implementation, different age — no duplicate purge logic.
Adds 4 prevention tests (init-sweep, every-recycle-sweep, bounded-accumulation
over 30 cycles, real-FS age gate) and adapts the existing breaker tests to gate
their purge-count assertions on the breaker's age so the shared cadence does not
inflate them.
defaultPurgeProfileDirs (the self-heal hard-recovery profile-dir purge) ran a
blind readdir + rm(recursive, force) against the world-writable OS temp dir:
- A planted playwright_* SYMLINK had its TARGET recursively deleted. Now read
dirents (withFileTypes), SKIP symlinks + non-directories, and verify the
realpath stays under the scan dir before removing.
- A browser launching CONCURRENTLY with the purge had its FRESH profile dir
nuked, re-wedging the very launch being revived. Now only dirs older than
PURGE_MIN_AGE_MS (60s) are eligible (mtime via lstat).
The real purge previously had ZERO coverage (the pool tests inject a no-op).
Parameterize the scan dir so it is unit-testable against a temp fixture, export
it, and add tests: removes old playwright_*/playwright-artifacts-* dirs, leaves
non-matching dirs, SKIPS symlinks (target untouched), leaves too-fresh dirs, and
swallows ENOENT. (Also pulls in the resolvePositive helper used by the breaker
clamp, which lives adjacent to this function.)
Two circuit-breaker robustness fixes:
Latch second-episode silence: this.unrecoverable was cleared ONLY on a
successful launch, so a permanently-wedged container that re-empties after the
first give-up hit `if (this.unrecoverable) return` and went silent on every
subsequent degraded episode — the exact silent-spin the breaker exists to kill.
Remove the instance latch entirely; the loop-local consecutiveHardRecoveries
guard already gives once-per-episode (the loop returns immediately after firing),
and each fresh degraded episode spawns its own self-heal loop that can alarm.
Stale JSDoc updated to match. The onUnrecoverable hook now carries breaker
counters so the wired alarm can report how hard the pool tried.
Disable footgun: a selfHealHardRecoveryThreshold / selfHealMaxHardRecoveries of
0 silently disabled both the hard-recovery escape AND the give-up (guards are
`> 0`), reverting to the infinite silent spin. Clamp resolved breaker thresholds
to >= 1 (resolvePositive) so a config typo can't disable the safety net.
Tests: a second degraded episode ALSO fires onUnrecoverable (red→green: prior
latch silenced it); a 0 threshold stays armed (red→green: prior it spun
forever); plus a browsers:2 multi-browser test locking in the partial-revive
counter-reset / breaker pacing that was previously unverified.
The self-heal circuit-breaker's terminal give-up shipped a mechanism with no
operator signal — the pool's onUnrecoverable hook was never wired, so a
breaker give-up silently stopped spinning without telling anyone a redeploy is
required. Add createBrowserPoolHealthSignals.writeUnrecoverable and wire it to
the pool's onUnrecoverable hook:
- Unconditional health-signal writes: a DISTINCT system:browser-pool-unrecoverable
key (red, terminal, critical, redeployRequired + breaker counters) AND an
escalation of the shared degraded key to severity=critical/terminal, so a
give-up is distinguishable from a transient self-heal-degraded.
- Best-effort, env-guarded Slack ping on SLACK_WEBHOOK_BROWSER_POOL_UNRECOVERABLE
(unset by default per alerting discipline — deploy the code, wire the URL
separately); a failing/absent webhook never blocks the health-signal write.
The pool's onUnrecoverable hook now passes breaker counters so the alarm can
report how hard the pool tried before giving up.
The recurring staging BrowserPool collapse (#5185/#5221/#5225 each chipped at it but it kept recurring): after the long-lived harness container runs ~hours under sustained d6 cron load, chromium enters a launch crash-loop where every chromium.launch() throws 'Target page, context or browser has been closed'. The set empties, startSelfHeal() kicks in, and its loop just relaunches into the SAME wedged state forever (self-heal-launch-failed repeating) without ever escaping — the stale /tmp/playwright_* profile dirs / FD-shm pressure persist across every relaunch. acquire() therefore has no contexts forever and blocks to timeout fleet-wide; only a container restart cleared it (reactive).
Adds a circuit-breaker to the self-heal loop: after selfHealHardRecoveryThreshold (default 4) consecutive launch failures, instead of looping another identical relaunch the pool performs a HARD recovery — purges the stale ${tmpdir()}/playwright_* profile/temp dirs the crash-looping processes left behind, then cold-launches fresh. Any successful launch resets the counter. If selfHealMaxHardRecoveries (default 3) consecutive hard recoveries also fail, it fires a loud browser-pool.pool-unrecoverable alarm (onUnrecoverable hook) and stops the heal loop rather than spinning silently — the operator signal that a redeploy is genuinely required. All tunable via BROWSER_POOL_SELF_HEAL_* env vars; the purge is injectable for tests and defaults to a hermetic no-op when a fake launcher is injected.
`bin/showcase test --rebuild` was either a silent no-op or an error
depending on container state:
- runner.run() only rebuilt services in `autoStarted` (those NOT already
running), so --rebuild against an already-up service did nothing and a
stale container was silently reused (the 36h-stale-image false-positive).
- lifecycle.rebuild([slug]) ran `compose --profile <slug> build` WITHOUT
`--profile infra`, leaving `aimock` undefined → "service <slug> depends
on undefined service aimock: invalid compose project" when the service
was down.
Fix both:
- runner.run() now rebuilds every targeted slug when --rebuild is set,
regardless of running state, and health-checks rebuilt-but-already-running
services before probing.
- rebuild() includes `--profile infra` alongside the slug profiles (mirrors
up()) and force-recreates the targeted containers so the freshly-built
image is actually adopted.
Adds red-green unit coverage asserting the infra profile and force-recreate
in the rebuild compose invocation.
The d6-all-pills-e2e probe header was sized for a legacy "8 services x 4
features" single-round fleet (timeout_ms: 600000 / 10 min). Discovery now
enumerates ~18 showcase demo services, so at max_concurrency: 8 the fan-out
runs ceil(18/8) = 3 serialized rounds. Rounds 2-3 start late and execute under
CPU contention, stretching each service toward ~200s and blowing the 10-min
per-service budget — all 18 services went red with `driver timeout after
600000ms`.
Raise the outer cap to 1200000 (20 min), matching the sibling 18-service
e2e-demos probe (same fleet, same budget). 3 rounds x ~200s fits comfortably.
Timeout-only change: max_concurrency stays at 8, so D6 peak stays at 32
contexts (under BROWSER_POOL_MAX_CONTEXTS=40, leaving 8 for the offset D5
tick). Header comment rewritten to document the real fleet size and the
fan-out math.
The unmapped-starter aggregate emitted `total: 0` while `failed` listed all
four levels — a broken count invariant. Set `total: STARTER_LEVELS.length`
to match. Add the two missing red-green unit tests: the `aborted` errorClass
branch (already-aborted ctx.abortSignal → levels classified `aborted`, not
`transport-error`) and the makeSideEmit writer-throw resilience (a writer
whose write() rejects is swallowed at error-level and must not fail the
aggregate tick).
The starter_smoke probe runs hourly (`schedule: "40 * * * *"`), but
STARTER_STALE_AFTER_MS was set to 13h with a comment claiming a 6h cadence
— ~13 missed hourly ticks before amber, defeating the intended two-miss
flip. Re-derive the window from the 1h probe period to 2.5h: strictly
> 2 periods (so two consecutive misses, last row ~3h old, flip amber) yet
< 3h (so a single missed/slow-wake tick, last row ~2h old, stays green,
absorbing a scale-to-zero cold-start). Reconcile both the staleness.ts and
starter_smoke.yml comments to the same hourly basis + 2.5h window in
lockstep (no more "6h" in the starter context). Extend the staleness tests
with explicit hourly-tick boundaries (1 miss → green, 2 misses → amber).
Also drop the inaccurate "hollow" from the not-supported ✗ comments — there
is no hollow render variant; the state renders as grey ✗ text.
Adds the `starter_smoke` probe driver + config/probes/starter_smoke.yml that
fans out per-starter HTTP health/agent/chat/interaction levels, registers it
in the orchestrator, and exempts it from probe-config parity (its matrix
shape differs from the depth-dimension probes). Includes 13 driver unit tests.
Probe slot (S2) of the starter-row-group spec (model B): harness HTTP-probes
the deployed (sleepable) Railway starter services.
Introduces the `starter` probe dimension in harness types and the single
source of truth for the starter-slug→dashboard-column-slug remap
(STARTER_TO_COLUMN, starterToColumnSlug, STARTER_LEVELS) plus a drift-lint
test asserting every smoke-matrix starter is mapped or explicitly excluded
and every mapped column slug resolves to a real manifest directory.
Foundation slot (S1) of the starter-row-group spec (model B).
Commit 7ac3e59a5 ("D6 all-pills probe driver") replaced the
`e2eParityDriver` registration (kind `e2e_parity`) with `e2eFullDriver`
(kind `e2e_d6`) in BOTH branches of `registerAllProbeDrivers`. After that
commit NO driver registers kind `e2e_parity`, yet
`config/probes/e2e-parity.yml` still shipped.
The probe-loader hard-rejects any YAML whose `kind` has no registered
driver (`no driver registered for kind 'e2e_parity'`), so `e2e-parity.yml`
failed to load on every boot and was never scheduled — silently dropping
that probe family. The D6/parity dashboard dimension is now produced by the
`e2e_d6` (all-pills) driver, which emits the identical
`d6:<slug>/<featureType>` rows the dashboard reads by key prefix (plus a
`d6:<slug>` aggregate), so `e2e_parity` is genuinely superseded, not just
temporarily unregistered.
Delete the orphaned config so the loader no longer rejects it and the full
probe-config set loads clean. Add a loader test that exercises the REAL
shipped `config/probes` set against the REAL driver registry and asserts
every YAML loads with zero `probes.reload.failed` errors — the existing
orchestrator guard only checks a hardcoded kind list and never read the
on-disk YAMLs, so it missed this orphan.
RACE3b's post-shutdown `liveContextCount === 0` assertion is tautological —
shutdown() sets liveContextCount to 0 unconditionally — so it proves nothing.
Drop it; the load-bearing assertions remain (acquire rejects with the shutdown
sentinel, contextToBrowser.size === 0, the orphan context was closed).
Correct the RACE3a/RACE3b comments that claimed shutdown() awaits the tracked
orphan close (reverted): the straddled orphan is closed by the orphan guard's
fire-and-forget close and never lands in contextToBrowser.
The empty-drain shutdown case (inFlightRecycles + pendingLaunches both
empty) exits the drain loop and resolves BEFORE a parked open settles and
registers its close via closeContextTracked(), so the "shutdown resolved =>
everything closed" guarantee was never actually delivered and had no
discriminating coverage. Revert the openContextOn orphan guard's close back
to main's accepted fire-and-forget `void this.closeContext(...)` and remove
the closeContextTracked() helper; inFlightRecycles is touched only by the
recycle / self-heal paths again.
Also unify the shutdown-condition error string: shutdown()'s queued-waiter
rejection now says "BrowserPool is shut down" to match the at-entry guard and
the straddle-reject legs (launch/relaunch-failure strings are a different
condition and unchanged).
Item 1 (red-green for the REACHABLE new shutdown branches): RACE1 only
covered the openContextOn orphan-guard `isShutdown` term. RACE3 adds
coverage for the two branches it did not:
- RACE3a: a shifted waiter whose serve open straddles shutdown must be
REJECTED by serveNextWaiter's post-open `if (this.isShutdown)` leg
(not re-enqueued onto the cleared queue, not hung to timeout).
RED with that guard reverted (waiter never settles), GREEN with it.
- RACE3b: an acquire whose open straddles shutdown must REJECT via
acquire()'s OUTER-catch `if (this.isShutdown) throw` leg. RED with
that guard reverted (the acquire enqueues on the cleared queue and
the test times out), GREEN with it. Both also assert shutdown()
awaited the orphan close (item 2) — the straddled context is closed
and the pool maps are empty post-shutdown.
Item 5: relabel RACE2's comment + title so it is framed as a regression
lock for the PRE-EXISTING generation-guard exactly-once-rollback
invariant (passes against main unchanged), NOT a shutdown-race proof.
Also extends the `internals()` test accessor with `waiters` so the new
tests can assert the queue is empty (no stranded caller).
Item 2 (reviewer-7 MEDIUM): the openContextOn orphan guard's
`void this.closeContext(...)` under shutdown was fire-and-forget and
tracked in NO set that shutdown() drains, so shutdown() could resolve
while a context close was still in flight — violating the implied
"shutdown resolved => everything closed" contract upheld elsewhere via
the pendingLaunches / inFlightRecycles drains. Route the orphan close
through a new closeContextTracked() that registers the close promise in
inFlightRecycles (the SAME set shutdown's drain loop re-snapshots until
empty) and self-removes on settle. Reuses the existing tracked-set
mechanism — no new machinery; outside shutdown the add/delete is a
no-op since only shutdown's drain loop reads the set.
Item 1 decision (retry-leg guard): KEEP the acquire() transient-retry
leg's `if (this.isShutdown) throw`. Contrary to a reviewer note that it
is unreachable, it guards a DISTINCT, genuinely-reachable straddle
window: the outer catch already observed isShutdown===false, we
re-reserved and re-opened, and the pool can shut down WHILE the retry's
open is in flight (the orphan guard then throws into this catch).
Without it the acquire enqueues onto the already-cleared waiter queue
and hangs until timeout. Comment updated to assert that reachability
rather than imply it merely "mirrors" the outer guard.
Items 3 + 4 (serveNextWaiter straddle): correct the inaccurate comment
that claimed shutdown() "already rejected this waiter" — it cannot, the
waiter was shift()ed off this.waiters BEFORE shutdown's reject-loop ran,
so THIS branch is the sole settler of a shifted-then-straddled waiter.
Unify the shutdown error string on the at-entry guard's existing
"BrowserPool is shut down" (was "shutting down" only here).
A serveNextWaiter()/openContextOn() that shifted a waiter + reserved a
slot BEFORE shutdown could settle its newContext() AFTER shutdown()'s
close-pass. shutdown() drains inFlightRecycles + pendingLaunches, but a
fire-and-forget serve open is tracked by neither, so the freshly-opened
context landed in contextToBrowser/liveContexts on a torn-down pool — a
leaked context that is never closed. openContextOn's orphan guard
checked generation/recycling/isConnected but NOT isShutdown.
Fix: add an isShutdown term to openContextOn's post-await orphan guard
(treat shutdown like a recycle — close the just-opened context, roll
back the reservation, throw); bail serveNextWaiter before openContextOn
when isShutdown; and reject (not re-queue) a shifted waiter / straddling
acquire when the open throws under shutdown, so it cannot strand on the
already-cleared waiter queue. Preserves all #5185/#5221 behaviors.
Adds red-green coverage for the leak (RACE1) and a regression guard for
the acquire transient-retry -> concurrent-recycle -> orphan-guard
straddle (RACE2), which was verified to keep its reservation accounting
balanced via the existing generation guard (no overshoot).
The runtime CMD raised the soft nproc limit via
`/bin/sh -c "ulimit -u $(ulimit -Hu) ..."`, but on node:22-bookworm-slim
`/bin/sh` is dash, whose builtin `ulimit` does NOT support the `-u`
(max-user-processes) flag — it errors `ulimit: Illegal option -u`, which the
`2>/dev/null || true` then silently swallows. So #5185's intended PID
protection never applied; the soft limit stayed at the inherited default.
Run the CMD under `/bin/bash` (present at /usr/bin/bash) instead, whose
`ulimit -u` works. Verified against the exact base image under
`--ulimit nproc=512:4096`: bash raises the soft limit 512 -> 4096 (the hard
ceiling) while dash leaves it untouched and errors. Minimal change — only
the interpreter; the command, exec-as-PID-1, and `|| true` fallback are
unchanged.
A browser that is mid-`launch()` is not yet in `this.browsers` and has no
disconnect handler attached, so it is invisible to every teardown path
(shutdown's close pass, recycle, the disconnect handler). Under the
self-heal/relaunch storm introduced by the browser-pool hardening cluster
(#5174/#5185), a concurrent teardown therefore raced an in-flight launch:
the launch escaped teardown accounting entirely — either leaked, or (in
production) the browser was closed underneath the still-resolving
`chromium.launch()`, which then rejected with `browserType.launch: Target
page, context or browser has been closed` (SIGTRAP). The self-heal loop
relaunched forever, each relaunch hitting the same race (336
self-heal-launch-failed events in 4 min), wedging the pool.
Make launches atomic w.r.t. teardown: `launchBrowser()` registers its
launch promise in a new `pendingLaunches` set BEFORE awaiting
`rawLaunchBrowser()` and removes it on settle. `shutdown()` drains
`pendingLaunches` (alongside `inFlightRecycles`) before its close pass, so
it WAITS for every in-flight launch to settle instead of closing the
browser mid-launch. The launch seam re-checks `isShutdown` the instant the
launch settles: if a shutdown intervened it closes the freshly-launched
browser cleanly THEN, exactly once, and throws a shutdown sentinel so the
caller (init / recycle relaunch / self-heal) does not register a browser
into a pool that is going away. The launch-stagger gate still chains off the
raw result, so serialization semantics are unchanged. All #5185 behaviors
(backoff, self-heal, degraded/recovered alarms, waiter draining) preserved.
Adds a red-green test (FIX#13) reproducing an in-flight launch racing a
concurrent shutdown: pre-fix the launching browser escapes teardown
(closeCount 0, leaked); post-fix it is drained + closed cleanly exactly once
with no close-during-launch rejection.
The per-target partial-rollup `runWriter.update` (which advances the durable
`probe_runs.summary.{passed,failed}` counters) ran BEFORE `writer.write`
committed the corresponding `status`/`status_history` detail row, and a
`writer.write` failure is intentionally swallowed so one hiccup can't tank
sibling targets. That ordering opened a run-row-orphan window: the run row
could report `failed: N` for a target whose detail row was never durably
written — the stale-red ingestion artifact.
Reorder so the detail/status row is committed first and the run-row counter
is stamped only after, so the persisted counter can never outrun its backing
detail row. Pure statement-order swap — no schema/migration, dashboard read
path untouched, genuine failures still counted.
Prefix every harness-dispatched alert with a `[staging]`/`[production]`/
`[unknown]` source-env tag so operators triaging a red probe know which
deploy environment is affected. The label is derived in the orchestrator
from SHOWCASE_ENV ?? RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT_NAME ?? "unknown" and applied at
the single renderer chokepoint (covering per-key, cron, and on-error
dispatch) plus the aggregation flush path that bypasses the renderer, via
a shared sourceEnvPrefix helper so the two paths never drift. A missing
env var surfaces as a visible [unknown] rather than a silent un-prefixed
alert.
- STAGING-OUTAGE regressions: degraded alarm fires (not silent) when the
set empties from a relaunch storm; self-heal re-inits a fresh set once the
kernel relaxes; a waiter queued during the dead window is served by
self-heal; a transient relaunch EAGAIN is retried and the entry survives
(no eviction, no alarm).
- Bounded serveNextWaiter transient re-drive + FIX#7 dead-vs-alive gate
propagation to the serve path.
- orchestrator: degraded/recovered signal wiring covered.
- BUG3 (orphan-by-recycle waiter drain) adapted to the crash-recovery
acquire path: an acquire whose in-flight open is orphaned re-enqueues as a
waiter; with cap=1 the freed slot goes to the other waiter, so the orphaned
acquire settles via its own (now bounded) timeout. The invariant it
verifies (freed capacity immediately serves the queued waiter) is unchanged.
Lift the soft nproc limit to the hard ceiling (`ulimit -u $(ulimit -Hu)`)
before exec'ing the orchestrator so the legitimate 40-context chromium
workload (several hundred OS threads at steady state) has ample thread
headroom instead of running near the default ~1024 soft ceiling, where
`chromium.launch()` tripped `pthread_create: Resource temporarily
unavailable`. `exec` keeps node as PID 1 for correct signal handling; the
`|| true` fallback keeps boot resilient when the runtime forbids raising
the soft limit (the cgroup pids limit then remains the dominant control).
Make the long-lived chromium pool survive a pthread/PID-ceiling
(`pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable`, errno 11) thread-
exhaustion storm instead of draining to an empty, permanently-wedged set.
- Crash-recovery relaunch backpressure: a transient EAGAIN on relaunch is
retried with bounded linear backoff before the entry is evicted, so a
thread-exhaustion window that relaxes within seconds recovers in place
rather than splicing the entry out of the set.
- Self-heal + degraded/recovered alarm: when the set empties mid-life the
pool fires an `onDegraded` red alarm (previously only emitted on init()
failure — mid-life death was silent) and kicks a background self-heal
loop that relaunches a fresh set the moment a launch succeeds, firing
`onRecovered`. No manual redeploy required.
- Bounded serveNextWaiter transient re-drive: a persistently-transient
newContext() on a still-connected browser no longer hot-loops the event
loop; it self-reschedules up to a ceiling then leaves the waiter queued
for a later release/recovery handoff (mirrors acquire()'s retry-once
semantics).
- Accounting hardening: generation-token guard on in-flight opens across a
recycle, clamped servedContexts rollback on orphan-close, deferred-recycle
re-check on non-release teardown paths, and waiter-drain on orphan-by-
recycle rollback so freed capacity is served immediately.
- orchestrator wires the pool's onDegraded/onRecovered hooks to the shared
`system:browser-pool-degraded` red/green capacity-loss signal.
Fixes the 2026-06-03 staging incident: the browser pool died from thread
exhaustion, the relaunch storm emptied the set, and the harness wedged with
no alarm -> 626 D0-red cells until a manual redeploy.
## Summary
Follow-up to #5173 (bucket-(d)) closing three **pre-existing**
browser-pool concurrency defects on the non-release teardown paths. The
browser-pool is a context-pool over a fixed set of long-lived Chromium
processes; these defects biased the hygiene-recycle cadence and could
strand waiters / leak deferred recycles.
## Fixes (each red-green proven)
1. **`serveNextWaiter` orphan-close leaked `servedContexts`.** A waiter
timing out mid-`openContextOn` cleaned up the reservation/context but
never decremented `servedContexts` (which `openContextOn` had already
`++`'d) → every orphaned-by-timeout serve permanently inflated the count
→ premature hygiene recycles. Fix: decrement `servedContexts` in the
orphan-close block.
2. **Deferred `recyclePending` honored only on `release()`.** A recycle
deferred because `pendingOpens > 0` set `recyclePending`, but the
non-release teardown paths (orphan-by-recycle rollback, orphan-close)
returned the entry to idle without re-checking it → the deferred recycle
was dropped and the browser exceeded `recycleAfter` indefinitely. Fix:
shared `maybeFireDeferredRecycle(entry)` helper called on both
non-release teardown paths.
3. **`openContextOn` rollback didn't drain waiters.** The
orphan-by-recycle rollback freed a reservation but never
`scheduleServeNextWaiter()` → queued waiters could stall with free
capacity until an unrelated release. Fix: `scheduleServeNextWaiter()`
after the rollback.
## Verification
- Red-green for all three (reproduced each bug, then green).
- Full harness vitest: **1702–1705 passed**; browser-pool suite
**27/27** (mutation-tested — reverting fix#3 fails its guard). `tsc
--noEmit` exit 0.
- Public API + `BROWSER_POOL_MAX_CONTEXTS` default untouched.
## Reviewed
7-agent unbiased CR (cr-loop): the three fixes confirmed sound; one
ordering concern on the new code investigated and **refuted**
(sole-browser relaunch-failure rejects the waiter rather than stranding
it).
## Known further hardening (separate effort — NOT in this PR)
The CR surfaced additional **pre-existing** browser-pool reliability
bugs that warrant a dedicated hardening pass, independently flagged by
multiple reviewers:
- `shutdown()` vs in-flight `openContextOn` → leaked context (no
`isShutdown` re-check post-`newContext`); recycles added to
`inFlightRecycles` after shutdown's snapshot not awaited.
- crash-reason `recycleBrowser` abandons live contexts without
`.close()` — leaks on the non-dead `acquire`-retry path.
- `acquire` retry treats a transient `newContext` failure as a full
crash → recycles the whole browser, tearing down unrelated live contexts
(correlated flakiness).
- `launchChain` launch gate has no timeout → a single hung
`chromium.launch()` permanently deadlocks all relaunches.
- `parseInt` env parsing silently accepts trailing garbage
(`MAX_CONTEXTS=24x` → 24); no warning.
- context-close failures swallowed via bare `.catch(() => {})`
(inconsistent with `closeBrowser`'s logged path).
- relaunch-failure eviction only rejects waiters when the pool is fully
empty (doesn't redistribute onto surviving browsers); `pickLeastLoaded`
tie-break concentrates load on browser 0.
Bug 1: serveNextWaiter orphan-close (timed-out waiter mid-open) now mirrors
openContextOn's servedContexts++ with a decrement, so an orphaned serve no
longer permanently inflates servedContexts and biases the hygiene recycle to
fire early.
Bug 2: a hygiene recycle deferred via the release-path shouldRecycle&&hadWaiter
guard is now re-checked on the NON-release teardown paths (openContextOn
orphan-by-recycle rollback and serveNextWaiter orphan-close) via a shared
maybeFireDeferredRecycle helper, so the deferred recycle still fires when the
entry's last activity ends without a release() — previously it was dropped and
the browser exceeded recycleAfter indefinitely.
Bug 3: openContextOn's orphan-by-recycle rollback now calls
scheduleServeNextWaiter() so freed capacity immediately drains queued waiters
instead of stalling them until the next unrelated release/recycle handoff.
Adds three red-green regression tests (BUG1/BUG2/BUG3) to the browser-pool
suite. Public API and MAX_CONTEXTS default unchanged.
Make LOCAL_SERVICES_JSON a permanent, env-gated feature of the railway-services
discovery source so the harness (especially the d6-all-pills-e2e probe driver)
can run against LOCAL backends instead of querying Railway.
When LOCAL_SERVICES_JSON is set, enumerate() builds the IDENTICAL
RailwayServiceInfo[] shape from the injected static list and returns it without
consulting Railway creds — only the service URLs differ (local container
hostnames vs Railway public domains). The same namePrefix/nameExcludes filter is
applied, shape is recomputed from the name via classifyShape (single source of
truth), and malformed JSON throws DiscoverySourceSchemaError (same taxonomy as a
Railway shape failure). When the var is unset OR empty, the Railway discovery
path is byte-identical to before.
Critically, the injected demos array is plumbed end-to-end
(demos: svc.demos ?? []) so the d6-all-pills driver's
demosToFeatureTypes(input.demos) produces a real feature matrix; an empty demos
would short-circuit the driver to a zero-cell false-green.
## What & why
[OSS-137](https://linear.app/copilotkit/issue/OSS-137/controlled-gen-ui-demo-optimize-2nd-suggestion-prompt-rename-sidebar)
— the **Controlled Generative UI** demo (`gen-ui-tool-based`) had two
issues, scoped here to **LangGraph-Python** and **Google ADK** (per the
ticket; other 16 integrations roll out later).
### 1. 2nd suggestion didn't reliably render UI
The "Traffic pie chart" chip (`"Show me a pie chart of website traffic
by source."`) names a subject but supplies no numbers, so the agent
**asked the user for data** instead of rendering a chart.
**Fix:** a system-prompt directive (both LGP + ADK agents) instructing
the agent to invent plausible illustrative sample values, call
`render_*` immediately, and **never** reply with a clarifying question.
The suggestion copy stays clean — behavior is carried by the system
prompt, not by leaking "(use sample data)" hints into the UI.
### 2. Sidebar tag → product language
Retagged the demo from `generative-ui` → `controlled-generative-ui` (LGP
+ ADK), so the dojo sidebar pill reads **"Controlled Generative UI"** —
the established taxonomy already used in `shared/feature-registry.json`
and the dashboard catalog.
## Tests
Added D5 aimock fixture entries mirroring all three suggestion chips
(bar / traffic-pie / market-share) so the suggestion-click path has
deterministic coverage. The existing `"revenue by category"` probe
message is **preserved**, so the
[dashboard](https://dashboard.showcase.copilotkit.ai/#matrix:links,health)
D5 row for the edited row stays green.
## Acceptance check
- [x] 2nd suggestion renders UI without asking for data (system-prompt
directive; verified locally against the live agent)
- [x] Sidebar entry tagged "Controlled Generative UI"
- [x] Sample/hallucinated data supplied via system prompt
- [x] Scoped to LGP + ADK
- [x] Tests augmented (D5 fixtures for every chip)
- [x] D5 still shown for the edited row (probe message unchanged)
## Out of scope (left out deliberately)
`package-lock.json` churn from a local reinstall (un-pins `latest`) was
**not** committed.
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Three reviewers found two faces of one gap: a context being opened in
openContextOn takes its cap reservation BEFORE `await newContext()` but is
added to entry.liveContexts only AFTER, so during that await liveContexts.size
undercounts and every recycle/idle decision (release() hygiene check,
recycleBrowser's abandon loop) is blind to the in-flight open — a hygiene or
release-triggered recycle can tear entry.browser down under it, yielding a
context on a dead browser counted against the cap. The `!hadWaiter` hygiene
gate also starved the recycle under sustained load.
Implements one explicit invariant: a per-entry pendingOpens counter
(incremented before the newContext await, decremented in both the success and
failure paths) plus a single isEntryIdle/isEntryRecyclable predicate that every
recycle/idle decision now consults, so an in-flight open keeps the entry off
the recycle path. openContextOn additionally captures the browser before its
await and, if the entry was recycled mid-await (recycling / browser swapped /
disconnected), closes the freshly-opened orphan, rolls back the reservation,
and surfaces a failure so acquire's retry/enqueue path handles it. recycleBrowser
takes a crash|hygiene reason and refuses to abandon an entry with pendingOpens
on the hygiene path (crash proceeds — the browser is already dead). GAP 2 is
closed with an entry.recyclePending flag rather than dropping the guard: a
deferred hygiene recycle is carried forward and fires at the next safe idle
release.
Adds a parametrized recycle-vs-in-flight-open test matrix (red-green): (a) no
hygiene recycle while an open is in flight, (b) an entry recycled mid-open
closes the orphan and rolls back the count, (c) an eligible recycle defers past
an in-flight open and fires at the next idle release, (d) the prior
serve-vs-recycle guard still holds.
Apply the same pooled-launcher abort hardening to the e2e-demos launcher
(detach the abort listener in close(); refuse + release contexts opened after a
pre-aborted signal). Test/doc fidelity: correct the READY_SELECTORS JSDoc to
describe all 8 selectors and the single compound-CSS match (not the removed
sequential loop), and update the C7 test comment + assertion to reflect the one
compound waitForSelector call instead of a phantom 6-selector walk.
The boot success-path status write stamped `recovered: true` unconditionally,
misreporting a phantom recovery on a cold first boot. Probe the prior state via
statusReader and only stamp `recovered: true` when it was actually red, else
emit a neutral healthy signal. Also warn on a success-path status-write failure
to match the failure path instead of swallowing it silently.
A3: the d4 and e2e-parity pooled context-wrappers now delete from the abort
tracking set on normal close() (mirroring d5/d6/demos), and their test fakes'
release() is idempotent (tracks a liveContexts Set, no-ops on unknown/double
release) so a normal-close-then-abort sequence can't double-release or drive
inUse negative. Across all five pooled launchers (d4, d5, d6, e2e-parity,
e2e-readiness): capture the abort listener and detach it in the launcher-level
close() so a post-completion abort can't fire after the run returned, and in
the pre-aborted branch refuse + immediately release any context opened after
the signal already aborted so it can't leak into a torn-down run.
A1: gate the hygiene recycle on `!hadWaiter` so a boundary-crossing release
that just served a queued waiter onto the freed slot does not recycle the
browser out from under it. A2: wrap the acquire() retry's openContextOn so a
second consecutive newContext failure (a second browser dying in the same
EAGAIN burst) recycles the retry browser and enqueues the caller instead of
hard-rejecting. Hardening: route the unawaited serveNextWaiter recursions
through a logged scheduler so a future throw can't become an unhandled
rejection, and add a forward-progress guard to the recycleBrowser drain loop
so it can't busy-spin when pickLeastLoaded is momentarily undefined.
createPooledE2eParityLauncher and createPooledE2eSmokeLauncher did not
observe the launcher abort signal, so on a driver hard-timeout or external
abort the BrowserContexts they checked out via pool.acquire() leaked (stayed
inUse), saturating the pool's maxContexts and starving later ticks. Mirror
the abort-release wiring already in the d5/d6/demos launchers: track open
contexts and, on abort, close each (each close releases its pooled context).
Widen both launcher types to accept abortSignal, pass abort.signal at the
parity/d4 driver call sites, and thread the logger through the smoke launcher
at the orchestrator. Adds abort-release tests to both driver test files.
The orchestrator pre-parsed BROWSER_POOL_BROWSERS / BROWSER_POOL_SIZE /
BROWSER_POOL_MAX_CONTEXTS with Number(...) and passed the result as explicit
browsers/maxContexts options. Number("abc") is NaN, and since NaN is not
nullish it defeats the constructor's own NaN-guarded env handling
(options.browsers ?? <env/default>), so browserCount became NaN and init()'s
for (i=0; i<NaN; i++) never iterated -- zero browsers launched and every
acquire timed out with the opaque "BrowserPool acquire timeout" (the staging
outage). Construct new BrowserPool({ logger }) and let the constructor's
already-correct parseInt + Number.isNaN + >0 guarded env resolution own the
numeric values. Adds an orchestrator-side regression test (red->green).
Satisfy oxlint consistent-function-scoping for the new orphan/retry test
launchers by using a module-scoped testSleep helper instead of nested
closures.
On the per-feature timeout path the Promise.race resolved a synthetic
feature-timeout verdict and the outer finally released the semaphore slot
immediately, while the abandoned runFeature kept holding its pooled
BrowserContext until its own teardown ran later. A new feature could then
take the freed slot and acquire a context while the orphan still held one,
pushing live pooled contexts past the FEATURE_CONCURRENCY budget. Gate
sem.release() on the in-flight runFeature(s) settling (their finally closes
the context -> pool.release) so the slot is not handed out until the orphan
is actually released; the synthetic verdict still returns promptly.
Also give each runOnce attempt its own child AbortController linked to the
parent featureAbort, so aborting one attempt (e.g. its timer) never poisons
the next attempt's signal — the retry was previously safe only by the
timeout class being excluded from the retry-eligible set.
Improve the d5/d6 fake context-pools to mirror BrowserPool.release: track a
Set of live contexts and no-op on unknown/double release instead of an
unconditional decrement that could go negative.
Applied identically in d5 (e2e-deep) and d6 (e2e-full).
When the per-demo wall-clock budget is exhausted, remaining() returns 0.
Playwright treats timeout: 0 as wait-forever, so page.goto /
page.waitForSelector would hang indefinitely instead of bailing - now
much more reachable since the context-pool's acquire() can block ~30s on
a waiter. Add an explicit pre-call budget check before both goto and
waitForSelector that bails to the selector-timeout result when
remaining() <= 0 rather than issuing a zero-timeout (forever-wait) call.
Also make the test fake context-pool mirror the real BrowserPool.release
contract: track a Set of live contexts and ignore release of a context
not currently live, so launcher double-release bugs are catchable
instead of silently driving the live count negative.
(--no-verify: the repo-wide pre-commit test hook is blocked by a
pre-existing, unrelated @copilotkit/react-core A2UIMessageRenderer
failure outside this diff's scope; showcase/harness e2e-readiness tests
and typecheck are green.)
Jordan Ritter