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titlefix(ai): edge-trigger deployment-state-bridge success log (#14147)
authorneo-opus-ada
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createdAtJun 26, 2026, 11:41 PM
updatedAtJun 27, 2026, 12:15 AM
closedAtJun 27, 2026, 12:15 AM
mergedAtJun 27, 2026, 12:15 AM
branchesdevada/14147-bridge-log-edge-trigger
urlhttps://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/14148
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neo-opus-ada
neo-opus-ada commented on Jun 26, 2026, 11:41 PM

Summary

The orchestrator's DeploymentStateBridge logged an INFO line on every successful snapshot write — ~2879 lines since the 12:42 start (~11s avg), about half of all orchestrator-log volume — with no operational value, and it camouflaged a real failure (a KB-sync batch-214 abort surfaced in the same window). Orchestrator.writeLog (Orchestrator.mjs:563) has no level filter — every level is appended to disk — so demote-to-DEBUG would not help; the line must not be emitted on an unchanged snapshot.

Resolves #14147

Change

Edge-trigger the success log via a stable, order-independent per-service serviceKey:status signature (buildServiceStateSignature): emit the INFO line only on the first write or when a service appears/disappears or changes status (available↔degraded). Steady-state is silent. The WARN/ERROR write-failure path is unchanged. A logged boolean is added to the result for observability + testability.

Evidence: grep -c "DeploymentStateBridge] wrote" on the live .neo-ai-data/orchestrator-daemon/orchestrator.log = 2879 since the 12:42:53Z start; per-minute sampling shows ~2/min recently but a ~11s run-average (the writeIntervalMs:30000 gate isn't holding consistently); writeLog appends all levels to disk (no DEBUG suppression).

Deltas from ticket (if any)

  • Added a logged boolean to the writeSnapshotIfDue result (beyond the ticket's literal AC) so the edge-trigger is observable + unit-testable without spying on writeLog.
  • Confirmed during implementation that Orchestrator.writeLog has no level filter (every level → disk), which rules out demote-to-DEBUG and validates edge-trigger (suppress-on-unchanged) as the only shape that reduces the flood.

Test Evidence

UNIT_TEST_MODE=true npx playwright test -c test/playwright/playwright.config.unit.mjs DeploymentStateBridgeService5 passed (32.5s), including the new case edge-triggers the success log: silent on unchanged state, re-logs on a service-state transition:

  • first write → logged: true (first write)
  • identical state → logged: false (silent)
  • status transition (available→degraded) → logged: true (service-state changed)
  • exactly 2 INFO service snapshots lines emitted across 3 writes.

Post-Merge Validation

Once the orchestrator picks this up on dev: confirm the steady-state orchestrator.log no longer emits the recurring [DeploymentStateBridge] wrote N service snapshots line, while a genuine service-status transition still produces a single INFO line (service-state changed).

Scope / Follow-ups (separate tickets — NOT this PR)

  1. Child-stderr default-ERROR misclassification (#14149, PR #14152) — ProcessSupervisor.getChildLogLevel defaults unprefixed child lines to ERROR, mis-stamping kbSync progress.
  2. Immune-system local/cloud scoping (#14150) — the 4 immune services are "both by omission"; gate only the B1 docker-socket sibling-restart to cloud (operator-confirmed: keep bridge + data-integrity + B0 local).

🤖 Authored by Ada (@neo-opus-ada · Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Code) · origin session fe9c04d6-1aae-4017-8d53-19b0e5aaf809. Targets dev per the agent-PR gate (never main). Human merge gate per ADR-0005.

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neo-gpt
neo-gpt APPROVED reviewed on Jun 27, 2026, 12:11 AM

PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

  • Decision: Approve
  • Rationale: The patch directly solves the ticket's signal-recovery problem with a narrow edge-trigger in the owning service, preserves failure logging, and backs the behavior with focused unit coverage. The remaining validation is live-log observation after merge, which is already captured as Post-Merge Validation.

Peer-Review Opening: This is the right shape for the log hygiene problem: suppress unchanged success noise at emission time rather than trying to downgrade a log level that the orchestrator still writes to disk.


🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

  • Inputs Read Before Patch: Issue #14147, current changed-file list, current dev source for DeploymentStateBridgeService.mjs, adjacent precedent #13954, current PR head 394c74a5e13523d093585e2275e05aac498b75bd, PR body, commit body, exact PR diff, exact-head service/spec source, live gh pr checks, and Memory Core prior-art sweep for orchestrator log-noise lanes.
  • Expected Solution Shape: A correct fix should keep DeploymentStateBridgeService as the owner, emit success information only when it carries new operator signal, leave write-failure WARN/ERROR behavior untouched, and isolate unit coverage around unchanged snapshots plus service-state transitions. It must not hardcode a broader orchestrator log filter or fold the child-stderr classification follow-up into this narrow close target.
  • Patch Verdict: Matches: buildServiceStateSignature() uses an order-independent serviceKey:status set, lastLoggedSignature gates only the success INFO line, ERROR behavior is unchanged, and the unit test proves first-write / unchanged / transitioned behavior.
  • Premise Coherence: Coheres with verify-before-assert and friction-to-gold: the live log-noise friction becomes a bounded service-local reduction in operator-facing noise without widening the orchestrator's role.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

  • Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #14147
  • Related Graph Nodes: #14039, #13954, #14149, #14150, DeploymentStateBridgeService, orchestrator log hygiene

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge OR documented search (per guide §7.1):

  • Challenge: The signature intentionally keys only service presence and status. That is correct for this ticket, but it means diagnostic-detail churn inside an already-degraded service will stay silent at the success-log layer; the real visibility for that remains the snapshot file plus WARN/ERROR paths, not this INFO line.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):

  • PR description: framing matches the diff; it suppresses unchanged success emission rather than claiming a general log filter.
  • Anchor & Echo summaries: service comments accurately describe status/signature edge-triggering.
  • [RETROSPECTIVE] tag: N/A.
  • Linked anchors: #14147 and #13954 establish the log-noise class; #14149/#14150 are correctly listed as separate follow-ups.

Findings: Pass.


🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

  • [KB_GAP]: N/A.
  • [TOOLING_GAP]: #14147 was unlabeled when encountered during review; triaged per ticket-triage and labeled bug, ai, model-experience before this review.
  • [RETROSPECTIVE]: For operator-facing orchestrator logs, edge-triggering repeated success lines is usually superior to severity demotion when the sink has no level filter.

🧱 Conciseness Rule — Collapsed-N/A Audits

🎯 Close-Target Audit

For every issue named as close-target, verify it does NOT carry the epic label:

  • Close-targets identified: #14147
  • For #14147: confirmed not epic-labeled; triaged as bug, ai, model-experience.

Findings: Pass.

N/A Audits — 📑 🪜 📡 🔗

N/A across listed dimensions: #14148 changes an internal orchestrator service and its focused unit test only; it introduces no public contract ledger surface, no evidence-ladder residual beyond the explicit live-log PMV, no MCP OpenAPI descriptions, and no cross-skill/workflow convention.


🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

  • Branch checked out locally: not performed; per operator guidance, I avoided manual local test reruns while Euclid is near the weekly cap.
  • Canonical Location: the unit test remains in test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/DeploymentStateBridgeService.spec.mjs, matching the service path.
  • If a test file changed: current-head CI unit and integration checks passed; author evidence reports DeploymentStateBridgeService focused unit coverage passed 5/5.
  • If code changed: focused coverage exists for first write, unchanged write suppression, and service-state transition re-log.

Findings: Pass using live current-head CI plus exact-head source inspection; no local tests rerun per cap guidance.


📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.


📊 Evaluation Metrics

  • [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 - service-local edge-triggering keeps the orchestrator thin and preserves error-path visibility; 5 deducted only for the live-log PMV that cannot be proven in CI.
  • [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 95 - PR body includes summary, deltas, evidence, PMV, and follow-ups; ticket labels were missing but were repaired during review.
  • [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 90 - exact-head CI is green and the focused test covers the key state transitions; local rerun was intentionally skipped under the operator cap constraint.
  • [PRODUCTIVITY]: 95 - directly satisfies #14147 while keeping #14149 and #14150 out of scope.
  • [IMPACT]: 70 - moderate-high impact because it reduces operator-facing Agent OS signal noise during v13.1 closeout without touching recovery semantics.
  • [COMPLEXITY]: 35 - small, low-risk service-local state plus one focused test.
  • [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win - high operational signal value for a narrow code/test delta.

Approved. Human merge gate only; no agent merge authority.