feat(runner): isolate structured workflows in one-attempt Kubernetes Pods

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Stack 3 of 3 · base #291 · replaces #287

Review after #291 merges, or diff against feat/workflow-rail-outbox.

What this does

#291 leased structured workflow attempts in Postgres and deleted the shared-daemon executor. This adds the executor that claims those leases: one bare Kubernetes Pod and one capability Secret per attempt, for exactly one attempt.

Before, a structured workflow ran on a long-lived daemon alongside other tenants' work, holding fleet-wide credentials. Now it runs alone, with a short-lived App installation token scoped to its one target repository, in a process that cannot outlive its attempt.

flowchart TD
    Disp["dispatcher<br/>workflow-run lease claimed by controller"]:::ctl
    Payload["workflow-runner-payload.ts<br/>resolves Gate-2 policy, bounds input"]:::ctl
    Cap["workflow-runner-capability.ts<br/>mints per-attempt capability Secret"]:::sec
    Spawn["workflow-runner-spawner.ts<br/>creates ONE bare Pod, then reparents<br/>the Secret to that exact Pod UID"]:::sec
    Pod["src/runner/main.ts<br/>one attempt, one Pod"]:::pod
    Guard["process-boundary.ts<br/>worker cannot outlive its attempt"]:::pod
    Scan["output-sanitizer.ts<br/>fail CLOSED: disable, fail or timeout<br/>rejects the command"]:::stop
    Result["workflow-runner-result.ts<br/>terminal payload stored<br/>BEFORE projections and ACK"]:::ctl
    Recon["workflow-runner-reconciler.ts<br/>liveness reaper, expiry notifier"]:::ctl
    Clean["workflow-runner-resources.ts<br/>Pod + Secret torn down"]:::sec
    Fence["fenced by run id, attempt id,<br/>owner id, lease, command receipt"]:::gate

    Disp --> Payload --> Cap --> Spawn --> Pod
    Pod --> Guard
    Pod -->|"every RPC command"| Scan
    Scan --> Result --> Recon --> Clean
    Fence -.->|"gates every mutation"| Result
classDef ctl fill:#2c3e50,color:#ffffff
classDef sec fill:#8e44ad,color:#ffffff
classDef pod fill:#1e8449,color:#ffffff
classDef stop fill:#c0392b,color:#ffffff
classDef gate fill:#ecf0f1,color:#2c3e50

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The isolation contract

src/shared/workflow-runner-messages.ts is a deliberately separate schema from ws-messages.ts, not a superset, so the two protocols cannot drift into each other and a workflow-run can never re-enter the shared-daemon rail by accident.

The runner's deny set rejects App credentials, PAT, database URL, Valkey URL, Kubernetes config, Context7 key, global GitHub token and daemon-auth tokens, and fails startup if a cloud metadata endpoint answers. What the Pod gets is one short-lived installation token scoped to one repository. This is also why structured dispatch fails closed in PAT mode: a PAT cannot be narrowed to a single repo.

Stricter output scanning than the general path

safePostToGitHub is fail-open: a provider outage falls back to the regex pass rather than blocking a comment. The runner RPC scanner inverts that. Scanner disablement, failure or timeout rejects the command and converts the result into a fixed safe failure, logging workflow_runner_output_scan_unavailable at error. The Pod handles attacker-influenced repository content while holding a repo-scoped write token; silently degrading to regex-only there is not an acceptable trade.

Ordering that matters

The terminal payload is stored before projections and before the ACK. A crash between store and ACK replays into an idempotent projection. The reverse order loses the result outright.

Also in here

Area	Change
Orchestrator	ws-server liveness reaper and queue-worker resilience, app.ts wiring
CI	New admission-policy job validating the runner admission spec against Kubernetes 1.30 (bun run test:admission)
bunfig.toml	Drops the global 30s test timeout, which the runner tests exceed
Docs	Architecture, deployment, observability, daemon-fleet runbook, workflow pages

Verification

Gate	Result
typecheck · lint · format	pass, 0 errors
11 check:* gates	pass
test	213 / 213 files pass, against live Postgres 17 + Valkey so no suite is silently skipped

The tip of this stack is byte-identical to #287's head (44de644): git diff between the two trees is empty. The split moved code between commits, it did not change it.

Replaces #287, which GitHub would not let me re-base once it had joined a stack.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Structured workflow runs now execute in isolated, one-attempt Kubernetes runner Pods.
  • Workflow runners support secure reconnects, lease handling, deadline enforcement, and durable result reporting.
  • Per-repository configuration gates are now enforced for workflow execution and review behavior.
  • Production releases publish variant-specific latest image aliases.

• Security

  • Runner environments, credentials, network access, and output handling now use stricter isolation and secret protection.
  • Admission policies validate workflow-runner workloads before execution.

• Documentation

  • Architecture, deployment, operations, repository configuration, and workflow guides now reflect the updated execution model.

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Walkthrough

This change adds isolated workflow-runner execution with Kubernetes-managed Pods, capability-authenticated WebSocket control, durable attempt and result handling, admission-policy validation, updated queue and reaper behavior, CI coverage for the boundary, and matching architecture and operations documentation.

Changes

Workflow runner isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CI gates and admission harness .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/docker-build.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml, package.json, scripts/build.ts, scripts/check-docs-sync.ts, CONTRIBUTING.md, mkdocs.yml	Adds admission-policy CI jobs in GitHub and GitLab, adds a daemon process-boundary smoke step and latest-<variant> tags for prod releases, adds test:admission, builds src/runner/main.ts, and updates test-tree guidance and docs navigation.
Admission policy and Kubernetes boundary examples/workflow-runner-admission.yaml, scripts/test-workflow-runner-admission.*, src/k8s/workflow-runner-spawner.ts, test/fixtures/workflow-runner-kind.yaml, test/k8s/workflow-runner-spawner.test.ts	Defines the canonical workflow-runner namespace, egress policy, parameter ConfigMap, and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, adds a kind-based admission harness, and adds Pod and Secret creation, drift validation, and owned cleanup for workflow-runner resources.
Runner protocol and process boundary src/shared/workflow-runner-*.ts, src/runner/*, src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-capability.ts, test/shared/*, test/runner/*, test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-capability.test.ts	Adds the workflow-runner message schemas, provider environment rules, HMAC capability paths, runner environment and cloud-metadata guards, token deadline handling, runner WebSocket client logic, workflow execution entrypoint, and the related tests.
Controller dispatch, storage, and reconciliation src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-*.ts, src/orchestrator/ws-server.ts, src/config.ts, test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-*.test.ts, test/orchestrator/ws-server.test.ts	Adds durable workflow-runner attempt storage, payload preparation, output sanitization, dispatch, controller session handling, result projection, resource serialization, reconciler passes, WebSocket routing for runner paths, and a controller requirement for WORKFLOW_RUNNER_CAPABILITY_SECRET.
Queue worker and lifecycle recovery src/orchestrator/queue-worker.ts, src/orchestrator/liveness-reaper.ts, src/app.ts, test/integration/workflow-dispatch-wakeup.test.ts, test/orchestrator/liveness-reaper*.test.ts, test/orchestrator/queue-worker-resilience.test.ts, test/orchestrator/daemon-disconnect-lifecycle.test.ts, test/config.test.ts, test/webhook/events/*cache.test.ts	Routes workflow-run jobs through dedicated dispatch and lease deferral, expands reaping to queued dispatches, leased attempts, dead daemons, and cleanup waits, awaits reaper shutdown during app stop, and adds recovery and lifecycle coverage.
Architecture and operations documentation CLAUDE.md, docs/build/architecture.md, docs/operate/*, docs/use/*	Rewrites the documented architecture from shared-daemon execution to dual rails with isolated workflow runners, updates deployment and observability contracts, documents repo-config gates and workflow behavior, and updates workflow failure and turn-cap descriptions.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 07341

The PR is not merge-ready: its fail-closed admission policy can reject every workflow-runner Pod and fail the CI gate, while result reconciliation can starve valid results behind invalid rows. The implementation also permits plaintext cluster-local transport for token-bearing sessions and retains queue, reconciliation, and test-gate issues that require fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Webhook
  participant Controller
  participant Queue
  participant RunnerPod
  participant GitHub

  Webhook->>Controller: structured workflow request
  Controller->>Queue: publish workflow-run job
  Controller->>Controller: claim attempt and ensure runner resources
  RunnerPod->>Controller: register over workflow-runner WebSocket
  Controller-->>RunnerPod: job payload
  RunnerPod->>Controller: command updates and terminal result
  Controller->>GitHub: project terminal state and reactions
  Controller->>Controller: mark result processed and clean resources

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 198-199: Update the admission-policy checkout step using
actions/checkout to set persist-credentials to false, preventing subsequent
repository-controlled commands from accessing the token through Git
configuration.

In @.gitlab-ci.yml:
- Around line 142-149: Add /certs/client to the GitLab Runner Docker executor
volumes configuration so the DinD TLS client certificates are shared with the
job container; preserve the existing Docker command and admission harness
behavior.

In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Line 122: Update the deployment documentation’s attestation claims to match
the current image pipelines: remove or qualify the statements that every
published tag includes SLSA/SBOM attestations and that operators should run gh
attestation verify, unless the pipeline is restored to produce and verify them.
Keep CLAUDE.md and deployment.md consistent about the absence of attestations.

In `@docs/operate/observability.md`:
- Line 383: Reconcile the installation-token mint count in the observability
documentation: make the “eight call sites” statement match the 13 entries in the
via list, or correct the list to contain only the actual call sites. Preserve
the existing mintInstallationToken and GithubAppTokenMintLogSchema references
and ensure the documented coverage is complete and consistent.

In `@docs/operate/runbooks/daemon-fleet.md`:
- Line 201: Update the migration rollout instructions near the zero-in-flight
cutover guidance by replacing “reconstructable” with “reconstructible,” without
changing the surrounding wording or behavior.

In `@examples/workflow-runner-admission.yaml`:
- Around line 246-248: Remove the CEL checks for hostnameOverride,
seLinuxChangePolicy, supplementalGroupsPolicy, and restartPolicyRules from the
Pod-field validation expression used by the admission policy, or isolate them
behind a Kubernetes-version-specific policy; keep all fields supported by the
v1.30.13 Pod schema unchanged.
- Around line 186-188: Update the orchestratorOrigin validation in
assertSecureOrchestratorUrl to remove the plaintext ws:// cluster-local regex
allowance, requiring wss:// URLs instead unless the existing implementation
explicitly enforces documented transport encryption for that path.

Apply the same fix in `@src/runner/main.ts` at line 123: Runtime validation must
enforce the same secure-or-approved-cluster-local URL policy before sending the
capability.

In `@scripts/test-workflow-runner-admission.ts`:
- Around line 428-433: Strengthen the plaintext-origin case around requireDenied
and podWithOrigin so it verifies the denial message specifically identifies the
non-cluster-local ws:// scheme rule, rather than only matching the policy name.
Add or reuse a retrying assertion that waits for ConfigMap propagation and
requires both policy denial and the expected validation message, then use it for
publicPlaintextOrigin.

In `@src/k8s/workflow-runner-spawner.ts`:
- Line 473: Separate validation used by ensurePod for create responses from
validation of an existing Pod after a 409. Keep strict checks for the create
response, but have validateExistingPod ignore server-owned annotations and
tolerate admission-added imagePullSecrets when the desired Pod omits them.
Continue rejecting drift in fields owned by this boundary so
reconcileActiveResources preserves its existing safety checks.

In `@src/orchestrator/liveness-reaper.ts`:
- Around line 136-139: Update reapDeadDaemonCandidates() to bound the Valkey
EXISTS recheck with an explicit timeout, ensuring a stalled send("EXISTS", ...)
cannot retain the transaction’s daemons row lock indefinitely. Treat timeout
failures as “still alive” by returning null, while preserving the existing
behavior for successful existence checks and other errors.

In `@src/orchestrator/queue-worker.ts`:
- Line 81: Remove the blocking sleep after capacity deferral in the queue
worker’s iterate flow. Replace it with delayed retry scheduling or per-job
eligibility timing so the deferred workflow becomes available later while the
global worker continues leasing and dispatching unrelated jobs.

In `@src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-controller.ts`:
- Around line 158-161: Update registerRunner to set a synchronous in-flight
registration marker before its first await, and have the duplicate-registration
guard reject both already-registered and in-progress registrations. Ensure the
marker is cleared or finalized appropriately on failure so valid future
registration behavior is preserved, and prevent concurrent register frames from
reaching prepareWorkflowRunnerPayload.

In `@src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-dispatch.ts`:
- Line 74: Make the notifyRunnerStartFailures call in
failWorkflowRunnerResourceAttempt best-effort by catching and swallowing
notification errors, allowing the subsequent cleanup to execute and preserving
the accepted return flow. Rely on reconcilePendingWorkflowFailureNotifications
for durable retry handling.

In `@src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-payload.ts`:
- Around line 116-121: Bound the file pagination in the workflow runner around
octokit.paginate and pulls.listFiles by enforcing the intended filename cap and
stopping pagination with done() once the cap is reached. Preserve the existing
pull request parameters and downstream processing for the files collected before
the limit.

In `@src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-reconciler.ts`:
- Around line 76-81: Update reconcileWorkflowRunners to isolate each
reconciliation phase by handling failures from
reconcilePendingWorkflowRunnerResults,
reconcilePendingWorkflowFailureNotifications, reconcileActiveResources, and
reconcileCleanup independently, so one rejected phase does not prevent
subsequent phases from running while preserving the existing phase order.
- Around line 21-28: Reuse the shared requiredRunnerConfig validator in the
reconciler instead of checking only for undefined values. Export
requiredRunnerConfig from workflow-runner-dispatch.ts, then call it from the
guard in the reconciler before ensureCurrentWorkflowRunnerResources so empty
daemonImage, orchestratorPublicUrl, and workflowRunnerCapabilitySecret values
follow the same validation behavior as dispatchWorkflowRunner.

In `@src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-store.ts`:
- Line 201: Update the capacity predicate in the workflow-runner store to derive
the owner identity from RUNNER_ID_PREFIX instead of hardcoding
“workflow-runner:”, matching the identity construction used near the existing
RUNNER_ID_PREFIX reference and preserving the attempt_id suffix.
- Around line 598-603: Update findPendingWorkflowRunnerResults to validate each
row’s workflow_result_payload with safeParse instead of parse; log invalid rows
and exclude them from the returned results while preserving valid rows. Ensure
reconcilePendingWorkflowRunnerResults can continue processing valid pending
results when another row has an invalid payload.

In `@src/orchestrator/ws-server.ts`:
- Around line 324-329: Update the shutdown cleanup flow around
handleWorkflowRunnerClose and drainDisconnectCleanups to track in-flight
releaseRunnerSession(session) promises and await them during shutdown. Ensure
the runner-side drain completes token revocation before drainDisconnectCleanups
returns, while preserving the existing runner-resource reconciliation behavior.

In `@src/runner/workflow-executor.ts`:
- Line 20: Validate job.context at runtime before the assertion in the workflow
executor, ensuring owner, repo, and entityNumber are present before constructing
runContext.target and invoking the workflow handler. Prefer updating
WorkflowRunnerPayloadSchema to require these fields, or parse context with an
equivalent runtime schema, while preserving the existing SerializableBotContext
usage after validation.

In `@src/runner/ws-client.ts`:
- Around line 151-153: Start a registration watchdog in connect() that rejects
or resolves the pending waitForJob() attempt after the configured timeout when
workflow-runner:registered is not received, and clear that watchdog in
handleRegistered(). Ensure the existing jobPromise and reconnect behavior remain
intact for successful registration and normal socket closure.

In `@test/k8s/workflow-runner-spawner.test.ts`:
- Line 457: Add an inline suppression for the no-await-in-loop lint rule at the
sequential ensureWorkflowRunnerResources call, preserving the existing
await-in-loop ordering and avoiding Promise.all.

In `@test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-controller.test.ts`:
- Around line 599-601: Fix the max-nested-callbacks violations in the
workflow-runner tests by extracting the command-result filter predicates into
module-scope named helpers, such as countCommandResults and
hasInvalidCommandResult. Replace the inline nested callbacks near both waitUntil
usages with calls to these helpers while preserving the existing result-count
and invalid-result assertions.
- Line 211: Replace the hardcoded protocolVersion value in the registerRunner
test setup with the imported WORKFLOW_RUNNER_PROTOCOL_VERSION constant used by
registerRunner, ensuring tests remain aligned when the protocol changes.

In `@test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-dispatch.test.ts`:
- Around line 114-118: Add a test alongside the existing capacity case for the
stale admission outcome, configuring claimWorkflowRunnerAttempt to return stale
and asserting dispatchWorkflowRunner returns stale without calling
ensureCurrentWorkflowRunnerResources or loggerInfo.

In `@test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-result.test.ts`:
- Around line 264-279: Add tests covering both fail-closed guards in
projectWorkflowRunnerResult: verify a "missing" resultStates entry rejects with
the durable-storage error without calling markWorkflowRunnerResultProcessed, and
verify a mismatched attemptsByRun entry rejects as no longer current without
calling setState. Use the existing pending fixture and preserve the current
retry test.

In `@test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-store.test.ts`:
- Around line 339-383: Extend the workflow-runner result tests around
storeWorkflowRunnerResult with handed-off coverage: add a case satisfying
running status, non-null attempt_completed_at, null lease_expires_at, and
workflow_state.handedOffTo matching result.childRunId, then add a case with a
mismatched handedOffTo and assert StaleWorkflowAttemptError. Preserve the
existing succeeded assertions and use the established test helpers.

In `@test/orchestrator/ws-server.test.ts`:
- Around line 489-490: Update the test setup around startWebSocketServer to
explicitly provide a workflowRunnerCapabilitySecret, reusing withServer if
appropriate or setting and restoring the configuration value within the test.
Preserve the existing daemonAuthToken and wsPort overrides while ensuring the
test does not depend on an ambient WORKFLOW_RUNNER_CAPABILITY_SECRET.

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• docs/build/architecture.md
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• src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-dispatch.ts
• src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-output.ts
• src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-payload.ts
• src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-reconciler.ts
• src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-resources.ts
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• src/runner/process-boundary.ts
• src/runner/token-deadline.ts
• src/runner/workflow-executor.ts
• src/runner/ws-client.ts
• src/shared/workflow-runner-messages.ts
• src/shared/workflow-runner-provider.ts
• test/config.test.ts
• test/fixtures/workflow-runner-kind.yaml
• test/integration/workflow-dispatch-wakeup.test.ts
• test/k8s/workflow-runner-spawner.test.ts
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Summary

Reviewed PR #292 (feat/isolated-workflow-runner → main, 77 files, +14508/-450) — the final stack that moves structured workflows into one-attempt Kubernetes Pods behind a capability-scoped WebSocket.

The isolation contract holds up under scrutiny. Every frame the runner sends is bound to the capability-authenticated URL path, the terminal payload is stored before projection and before ACK, and each fencing dimension (run id, attempt id, owner id, Postgres lease, Pod UID delete precondition, command-receipt idempotency) is independently enforced. Validation is clean. One minor test-coverage gap; no blockers or majors.

What was checked

Validation (all green).

• bun run typecheck — clean. Note: the workspace initially had no node_modules, which made the first typecheck/lint runs report command not found; re-ran after bun install --frozen-lockfile (582 packages).
• bun run lint — exit 0, 621 pre-existing style warnings, 0 errors.
• 22 relevant suites run one-per-process (matching scripts/test-isolated.sh, which exists precisely because Bun's mock.module is process-global): all of test/runner/*, test/shared/workflow-runner-*, test/orchestrator/workflow-runner-* (including the DB-backed store/controller/result suites), test/k8s/workflow-runner-spawner, test/orchestrator/liveness-reaper*, test/orchestrator/queue-worker* — 22/22 pass.

Capability and transport boundary.

• workflow-runner-capability.ts: HMAC domain-separated with NUL delimiters over runId|attemptId|expiry; CAPABILITY_PATTERN fixes the token to 62 chars so constantTimeEqual's length guard can never mask a truncated compare; expired tokens rejected before any HMAC comparison; the previous rotation slot is only honoured when actually configured.
• ws-server.ts: runner paths and /ws are disjoint auth realms — a daemon token cannot authenticate a runner path and vice versa. Run/attempt ids are UUID-validated before HMAC derivation.
• Identity binding verified: handleWorkflowRunnerMessage calls identityMatches on every frame type before dispatch, so a runner holding a valid capability for attempt A cannot register, heartbeat, command, or report a result as attempt B. I specifically chased this as a candidate payload-confusion vulnerability (the register handler reads message.payload.runId/attemptId, not ws.data.*) and confirmed the gate at controller.ts:151-153 closes it. This also neutralises the related attemptChains-pollution vector.

Attempt state machine and ordering.

• activeAttemptFromRow requires all nine conditions to agree before an attempt is considered live.
• Every fencing/expiry path (expireWorkflowAttempts, failWorkflowRunnerAttempt, failDaemonOwnershipInTransaction) leaves workflow_result_payload NULL, so a fenced attempt registers as invalid (→ close 1008 → client abort → pending rejection) rather than completed. Traced this exhaustively.
• storeWorkflowRunnerResult writes result_processed_at = NULL, so a crash between store and ACK replays into the idempotent projection; registerRunner drains result-pending before replying.
• findPendingWorkflowRunnerResults uses per-row safeParse, so one poison row cannot stall the loader.

Kubernetes resource lifecycle.

• podBoundary() enumerates every security-relevant field; plainData() JSON-round-trips both sides so isDeepStrictEqual is not defeated by model-class prototypes.
• Secret ownerReferences are compared exactly including the Pod UID, so the GC anchor cannot drift; deletes carry preconditions: { uid }.
• Pod-before-Secret ordering is intentional (the Secret is GC-anchored to the exact Pod UID); kubelet retries CreateContainerConfigError until the Secret lands, and a permanent ensureSecret failure cascades through failWorkflowRunnerResourceAttempt.
• assertSecureOrchestratorUrl and assertDigestPinnedRunnerImage both fail closed and reject embedded credentials.
• Capability derivation is deterministic from attempt.attemptDeadlineAt in both call sites (workflow-runner-dispatch.ts:113, workflow-runner-reconciler.ts:36), so dispatch and reconciliation never disagree on the token.

Queue and reaper changes.

• deferWorkflow's retry loop is safe against double-publication: deferLeasedWorkflowJob is idempotent via its per-deferral receipt (already-moved) and ensureWorkflowJobQueued dedupes in Lua.
• sleep now removes its abort listener and clears its timer; the loop uses a real AbortController.
• liveness-reaper.ts: listDaemonCandidates excludes runner attempts (attempt_id IS NULL / offer_id IS NULL), so a Pod with no Valkey key is never Valkey-reaped; daemonKeyExists treats a Valkey stall as "alive" so a stall defers rather than fences on no evidence; the FOR UPDATE recheck closes the stale-snapshot race.

Runner process boundary. FORBIDDEN_RUNNER_ENV, assertCloudMetadataUnavailable, exactly-one-credential-chain enforcement, and capability/installation-token registration as sensitive values (constructor + main.ts:143, both before any handler runs).

Findings

• [minor] test/runner/ws-client.test.ts:78 — the workflow-runner:registered → state: "completed" branch (src/runner/ws-client.ts:319-330) has no test coverage. readyMessage is the only registered-payload factory in the suite, so the recovery path that resolves pending hand-off-child commands with the command id as childRunId and settles waitForJob() with null is never exercised. A regression there would hang a reconnecting runner until activeDeadlineSeconds with no failing test.

Reasoning

One candidate finding was investigated and retracted. I initially flagged handleRegistered's completed branch as silently dropping pending non-hand-off commands, which would hang the runner. Disproving it took three steps: (1) pending.resolve({ childRunId: commandId }) is correct because applyHandOffCommand (controller.ts:500) deliberately reuses the command id as the child run id; (2) for a set-state to be pending when completed arrives, the registration state would have to be completed, which requires workflow_result_payload IS NOT NULL AND result_processed_at IS NOT NULL — written only after the handler returned (and workflow-executor.ts awaits every client.command, so pendingCommands is empty by then) or by applyHandOffCommand itself; (3) src/workflows/handlers/ship.ts is the sole handOffChild caller and issues no concurrent setState. Unreachable in practice, so I dropped it rather than post a false positive — but the branch's subtlety is exactly why I kept the coverage observation.

A second candidate was a tooling artifact, not a defect. Running the runner suites in a single Bun process surfaced SyntaxError: Export named 'installFatalHandlers' not found in module 'src/logger.ts'. The cause is test/runner/ws-client.test.ts:5 mocking src/logger without that export, leaking process-globally into test/runner/main.test.ts. scripts/test-isolated.sh — which is what CI runs — executes one file per process specifically to prevent this, and the same incomplete-mock pattern predates this PR in ~20 existing test files. Not worth flagging.

Other paths examined and dismissed: armResultRetry's retryTimer !== null guard; sendResultUntilAck throwing synchronously at one site while rejecting at another (the caller wraps both); storeWorkflowRunnerResult's unreachable handed-off branch (main.ts returns early without sending a result on hand-off); deleteWorkflowRunnerResources returning true unconditionally (deletes are best-effort by design); constantTimeEqual truncation (the regex fixes both operands to 62 bytes); registerRunner's finally-block token revocation on send failure (fail-closed, intentional); the reconnect loop skipping the registration watchdog when new WebSocket throws (bounded by activeDeadlineSeconds and the DB lease).

I cross-checked every candidate against the review-learnings block and the maintainer digest. Nothing I am reporting overlaps the eight previously-declined findings or the fixes already landed in 269926e, and the one finding I am posting is not covered by any existing directive — so there was no new durable repo policy to persist.

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From:      chrisleekr
Source:    #291
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Recorded:  2026-09-02
Directive: Do not flag newly added sweep/reconcile/shutdown functions as dead code, unused exports, or "nothing schedules this" when the function carries an explicit dormancy docstring naming the follow-up PR that wires it (e.g. "Dormant on this branch: no scheduler calls this yet... the isolated-runner slice wires it into liveness-reaper.ts reapOnce()").</directive> <parameter name="rationale">This repo lands durable rails as an ordered PR stack: the store/sweep primitives land first, the scheduler that drives them lands in the next PR. The maintainer's position is that wiring a sweep in the PR before the rail it sweeps is the split running backwards, so the dormancy is deliberate and self-documented. Flagging it re-litigates an already-settled design decision.</rationale> <parameter name="scope">local
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