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wait_duration_backoff_multiplier landed in the current cycle and does nothing on a breaker with a shared Storage. Reopening a coordinated breaker is the backend's decision, taken from wait_duration_in_open and its own clock (_coordination.py:322 and :530), and no failed-round count crosses the wire — SharedState carries mechanism rather than policy and has no field for one. A multiplier set alongside a storage was therefore read, validated, and then quietly dropped: the option looked enabled while every round waited exactly as long as the last.

That is the same shape of failure the option exists to remove, so silence is the worst answer available. The combination now raises ValueError at construction — on CircuitBreaker, on Registry, and on the per-breaker Registry.get(config=...) override, which would otherwise slip past a registry built without one.

The option is unreleased, so no released configuration starts failing; this is a fix inside the same release cycle, not a breaking change.

Why not implement it here instead

Because it is a change to the storage protocol, not to this option. Making backoff work under coordination needs a failed-round count in shared state, and every Storage implementation has to maintain it — a design worth discussing before it is written. Opened as #196, with five approaches already weighed and their trade-offs recorded.

Refusing it loudly is what makes that discussion possible: an option that silently does nothing generates no bug reports, so nothing forces the question.

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  • Tests added or updated (suite stays at 100% coverage)
  • uv run ruff format --check and uv run ruff check pass
  • uv run mypy, uv run pyright and uv run pyrefly check pass
  • Docs updated (docs/) for user-facing changes
  • CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] updated
  • Commits follow Conventional Commits

Four tests cover the three rejecting routes and the accepting one: a local breaker keeps its backoff, and only the combination is refused. docs/guides/states.md and docs/guides/configuration.md now say the constraint out loud instead of describing a limitation the code did not enforce. 850 tests, coverage at 100%; griffe reports no public-API breakage.

Related issues

Coordinated backoff: #196

Fixed

  • CircuitBreaker and Registry now raise ValueError when wait_duration_backoff_multiplier is greater than 1.0 with shared Storage.
  • Registry.get(config=...) rejects the same unsupported configuration.
  • Local breakers continue to support backoff multipliers.
  • Updated configuration and state documentation to describe coordinated-breaker backoff limits.

Reopening a breaker with a shared `Storage` is the backend's decision, taken
from `wait_duration_in_open` and its own clock. No failed-round count crosses
the wire — `SharedState` carries mechanism rather than policy and has no field
for one — so `wait_duration_backoff_multiplier` above 1.0 was read, validated,
and then quietly dropped. The option looked enabled while every round waited
exactly as long as the last, which is the trap the option exists to remove.

Silence is the worst of the three answers available, so the combination is now
a `ValueError` at construction: on `CircuitBreaker`, on `Registry`, and on the
per-breaker `Registry.get(config=...)` override, which would otherwise slip past
a registry built without one.

Coordinated backoff is worth having and is tracked separately; refusing it
loudly is what makes that discussion possible instead of leaving a dead option
in the config.
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A shared-storage breaker now raises ValueError when configured with a backoff multiplier other than 1.0. Validation applies to direct construction, registry construction, and per-breaker registry overrides. Tests and documentation cover the constraint.

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Shared-storage backoff validation

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Construction-time validation
interlock/_engine.py, interlock/registry.py, interlock/config.py
Engine and Registry validate backoff compatibility with shared storage. Configuration documentation describes the rejected combination.
Behavior coverage and documentation
tests/test_coordination.py, docs/guides/configuration.md, docs/guides/states.md, docs/llms-full.txt, CHANGELOG.md
Tests cover direct construction, registry configuration, per-breaker overrides, and local breakers. Documentation and the changelog record the new behavior.

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The PR now rejects unsupported coordinated backoff configurations before activation and documents the constraint. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; only routine documentation, naming, and verification follow-up may be addressed.

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Make the new helper private.

validate_backoff_support is a module-level helper without the required _ prefix. Rename it to _validate_backoff_support and update interlock/registry.py.

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Document the new public constructor error.

This validation makes CircuitBreaker(...) and Registry(...) raise ValueError for shared storage with a non-default multiplier. Their public Raises sections do not document this condition. Add it to both docstrings.

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`CircuitBreaker`, `Registry` and `Registry.get` can all refuse a backoff asked
for alongside a storage, and none of their `Raises` sections said so. The
override route through `get(config=...)` had no `Raises` section at all, which
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Both nitpicks looked at, one applied.

Fixed — undocumented ValueError. Right, and I had missed the worst of the three: Registry.get(config=...) had no Raises section at all, and that is the route a caller is least likely to expect to refuse anything. All three now say what the guard rejects and why reopening under a storage cannot honour a backoff. 331b0b1.

Not doing — make the helper private. Same answer as validate_unreachable_exceptions in #194, and for the same demonstrable reason: renaming it to _validate_backoff_support and importing it into registry.py fails pyright with reportPrivateUsage, so the suggestion does not survive the type gate this repo already runs.

The convention here is a private module with public names inside, not underscore-prefixed names crossing module boundaries — validate_initial_state in _initial_state.py, build_window in _windows.py, is_async_callable in _detect.py, notify in _notify.py, StateMachine in _state_machine.py. validate_backoff_support in _engine.py is the same shape and sits next to validate_unreachable_exceptions, which was settled the same way one PR ago.

Worth flagging as a rule rather than a one-off: the path instruction that produced this comment reads "helpers must be underscore-prefixed and hidden", and in this repository the hiding is done by the module, not the name. It will keep firing on every helper added to a _-prefixed module unless the instruction is narrowed.

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* Bump the package version from `2.7.0` to `2.8.0`.
* Move the current `[Unreleased]` changelog entries into `[2.8.0] -
2026-09-01`, in the Added-before-Fixed order every other section uses.
* Update the changelog comparison links, and the release version and
month on the comparison page.
* Regenerate `docs/llms-full.txt`.

Minor, not patch: the release adds public API. #194 gives `Config` an
open wait that can grow — `wait_duration_backoff_multiplier` and
`wait_duration_in_open_max` — and gives `CircuitBreaker`, `Registry` and
`Engine` an `unreachable_exceptions` set, so a `HALF_OPEN` probe that
never reached the dependency hands its slot back instead of deciding the
round against it. #195 refuses, at construction, a backoff asked for
alongside a shared `Storage`, which the coordinated lane has no way to
honour.

Nothing an existing caller does stops working. The defaults keep the
historical behaviour: `wait_duration_backoff_multiplier` is `1.0`, so
the wait stays constant until it is raised, and only the two httpx
transports pass a non-empty `unreachable_exceptions` out of the box
(`PoolTimeout`). The new `ValueError` cannot reach a caller who upgrades
either — the multiplier it guards ships in this same release, so no
configuration written against `2.7.0` can trip it.

The two changes are released together on purpose. Shipping the backoff
without the guard would leave an option that reads as enabled and does
nothing under a shared `Storage`, and adding the guard afterwards would
then be the breaking change.

## Checklist

* [x] Tests added or updated (suite stays at 100% coverage)
* [x] `uv run ruff format --check` and `uv run ruff check` pass
* [x] `uv run mypy`, `uv run pyright` and `uv run pyrefly check` pass
* [x] Docs updated (`docs/`) for user-facing changes
* [x] `CHANGELOG.md` `[Unreleased]` updated
* [x] Commits follow Conventional Commits

Additional release checks: the package build passes
(`interlock_cb-2.8.0`), `twine check` PASSED on both artefacts, and
griffe reports the `VERSION` attribute (`2.7.0` → `2.8.0`) as the only
public difference — the backoff fields and `unreachable_exceptions` are
additions, so nothing is flagged as a breakage.

## Related issues

#194, #195
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