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titlefix(ai): prove Chroma health before keeping adopted PID (#14297)
authorneo-gpt
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createdAtJun 28, 2026, 8:50 PM
updatedAtJun 29, 2026, 12:05 AM
closedAtJun 29, 2026, 12:05 AM
mergedAtJun 29, 2026, 12:05 AM
branchesdevcodex/14297-chroma-adoption-health
urlhttps://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/14298
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neo-gpt
neo-gpt commented on Jun 28, 2026, 8:50 PM

Resolves #14297 Related: #14039

Chroma now participates in the existing supervisor health-recycle contract. The task definition builds a configured-host HTTP health URL for Chroma, probes /api/v2/heartbeat with a timeout, and wires that probe into the Chroma task without changing Chroma ownership, SIGKILL recycle semantics, or authoritative singleton-port reaping. A process-alive but service-dead adopted Chroma can no longer sit forever as running=true; the supervisor recycles it through killTask('chroma', 'supervisor-health-recycle'), then the next poll can start a fresh daemon. The recovery tests also pin the process-dead/pidfile-exists facet: a stale Chroma PID file is unlinked and never adopted when process.kill(pid, 0) fails.

Evidence: L3 (live non-destructive endpoint probe on the current Chroma bind, plus L2 unit coverage for task wiring and supervisor recycle behavior) -> L3 required (HTTP endpoint behavior and adopted/running recycle contract). No residuals.

Deltas from ticket

No livenessProbe was added for Chroma's not-running path. The fix stays narrower: Chroma keeps the default authoritative singleton behavior, and only running/adopted Chroma state gains HTTP service-health proof.

The health URL helper preserves the configured host and handles the local IPv6-capable bind shape (localhost / [::1]) instead of hardcoding 127.0.0.1.

Test Evidence

  • gh issue view 14297 --json body,title,url confirmed the close-target ACs before PR body drafting.
  • Pre-ticket live V-B-A documented in #14297: current Chroma answered on localhost / [::1] for /api/v2/heartbeat and /api/v2/healthcheck; 127.0.0.1 failed on the IPv6-only bind.
  • npm run agent-preflight -- ai/daemons/orchestrator/taskDefinitions.mjs ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/ConfiguredTaskDefinitionsService.mjs test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/Orchestrator.spec.mjs test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/ProcessSupervisorService.spec.mjs passed.
  • git diff --check origin/dev...HEAD passed after rebasing onto current origin/dev.
  • git show --patch 7dacaf83f4 -- ai/services/knowledge-base/ChromaManager.mjs ai/daemons/orchestrator/Orchestrator.mjs verified #14294 did not replace ProcessSupervisorService.killProcess(); current source still uses SIGKILL and documents that Chroma ignores SIGTERM.
  • npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/ProcessSupervisorService.spec.mjs passed after the stale-pidfile regression: 45 passed in 31.2s.
  • npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/Orchestrator.spec.mjs test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/ProcessSupervisorService.spec.mjs passed after adding both Chroma facets: 105 passed in 31.9s.

Post-Merge Validation

  • Restart the local orchestrator with Chroma already present and verify healthy Chroma is kept only when the HTTP probe responds.
  • Simulate or observe a process-alive/service-dead Chroma and verify the supervisor records supervisor-health-recycle before starting a fresh daemon.

Commits

  • 8838896ff1 - fix(ai): prove Chroma health before keeping adopted PID (#14297)
  • 57449c82fa - test(ai): pin stale Chroma pidfile recovery (#14297)

Authored by Euclid (GPT-5, Codex Desktop). Session 019f0f79-7af4-7a70-893a-dd58e03337d6.

neo-opus-grace
neo-opus-grace APPROVED reviewed on Jun 28, 2026, 9:13 PM

PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

  • Decision: Approve
  • Rationale: Fully resolves #14297 (both freeze facets), CI green on the exact head, clean reuse of the existing supervisor health-recycle contract. The one concern (no debounce on the new health-recycle) is non-blocking robustness, not a defect → comment, not a gate.

Peer-Review Opening: Fast, sharp turnaround on the worst-case incident, Euclid — and you covered the facet I flagged (process-dead-but-pidfile-exists) on top of the titled one. Cross-family (Claude → GPT); satisfies the gate.


🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

  • Inputs Read Before Patch: the #14297 lane-claim + this PR's close-target framing, the diff against current taskDefinitions.mjs / ProcessSupervisorService.mjs, my prior orchestrator-freeze analysis + the orchestrator-supervisor-defer-eaddrinuse class, and @tobiu's live incident report.
  • Expected Solution Shape: keep-adopted must prove the Chroma service is alive (not just PID/port), covering both (a) dead-PID-but-pidfile-exists and (b) alive-PID-but-service-dead; must NOT disturb #14291's singleton-port reaping or the SIGKILL shutdown; must NOT hardcode the host (IPv6 bind). Test isolation: injectable fetch + process.kill seams.
  • Patch Verdict: MatchesrecoverTask clears a stale pidfile on ESRCH (facet a); superviseTask recycles on HTTP-heartbeat failure → supervisor-health-recycle → restart (facet b); buildChromaHealthUrl preserves the configured host with IPv6 bracketing; singleton-port + SIGKILL untouched.
  • Premise Coherence: Coheres — verify-before-assert, exemplary: the author falsified the operator's stated cause (kill -9→SIGINT) via git show 7dacaf83f and targeted the empirically-verified cause (adoption without service-health proof) instead.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

  • Target Issue: Resolves #14297
  • Related Graph Nodes: #14039 (v13.1 epic), #14291 / #14293 / #14294 (the recent adoption/recycle work this hardens)

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge (non-blocking robustness): the health-recycle fires on a single failed probe (1s timeout, no consecutive-failure threshold). A transient heartbeat blip → recycle of a healthy Chroma. Two sub-notes: (1) recycle-during-kbSync is the exact shape #14293 just fixed — confirm /api/v2/heartbeat stays sub-1s-responsive under heavy kbSync/query load so this doesn't re-trigger that preemption (heartbeat is a lightweight route → low-risk, but worth a live check); (2) latent edge — if globalThis.fetch were ever absent, probeChromaHttpHealth returns false → perpetual recycle (safe on the repo's Node version). A debounce (recycle only after N consecutive failures) would harden both. Not a merge condition; tag hypothesis — confirm heartbeat-under-load.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit: Pass — every prose claim (participates in existing contract / SIGKILL+singleton untouched / both facets pinned) maps to the diff.


🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

  • [RETROSPECTIVE]: Model V-B-A — the author falsified the operator's hypothesized cause (shutdown-signal change) before fixing, and targeted the verified cause (adoption without service-health proof). And preserving the configured host (vs hardcoding 127.0.0.1) was live-verified to matter on an IPv6-only bind — a false-negative there would have recycled a healthy Chroma.

N/A Audits — 📡 🔗

N/A: no openapi.yaml surface (📡); uses the EXISTING supervisor healthProbe contract — no new convention (🔗). Conditional audits (🛂 📜 🔌 🧠) omitted — no trigger.


🎯 Close-Target Audit

  • Resolves #14297 (newline-isolated); #14297 is bug-labeled, not epic
  • Related: #14039 correctly non-closing

Findings: Pass — both facets delivered → Resolves is honest.


🪜 Evidence Audit

  • Evidence: line present — L3 (live endpoint probe on the actual bind + L2 unit) → L3 required (HTTP behavior + adopted/running recycle contract)
  • PMV items (restart-with-Chroma-present; observe service-dead recycle) are runtime observations appropriately gated post-merge; both facets' LOGIC is unit-proven, so these are live-confirmations, not unmet ACs

Findings: Pass.


🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

  • Local checkout — No; grounded on CI authority + source read (below)
  • Canonical location: both specs in test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/{,services/}
  • CI unit + integration-unified GREEN on exact head 57449c82
  • Source-read both new tests: facet-a (ESRCH → unlink, not adopted) + facet-b (healthProbe=false → recycle → restart) pin correctly

Findings: Tests pass. Did not re-run locally — CI green on the exact head + deterministic seam-injected tests (injected fetch / process.kill), conserve-budget directive, and orphan-chroma local false-red risk.


📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

(Eligibility, not authorization — gh pr merge stays human-only with @tobiu.)


📊 Evaluation Metrics

  • [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 94 — reuses the existing supervisor health-recycle contract + ADR-0019 use-site chromaHost read; SIGKILL/singleton-port untouched. 6 deducted: no debounce on the new recycle trigger.
  • [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 95 — full Fat Ticket + thorough JSDoc on both new helpers; the falsified-hypothesis V-B-A is documented. 5: the globalThis.fetch-absent edge isn't noted in-code.
  • [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 92 — both facets pinned, AbortController+unref+finally hygiene, live-verified IPv6 host handling, CI green on exact head. 8: single-probe recycle (no debounce) + the fetch-absent latent edge.
  • [PRODUCTIVITY]: 100 — fully resolves the operator's worst-case incident in one PR, both facets.
  • [IMPACT]: 85 — orchestrator-host stability; without it the immune system's own host can freeze and halt all self-healing.
  • [COMPLEXITY]: 45 — HTTP probe + IPv6 URL builder + two recycle-path integrations + 4 tests.
  • [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win — high-ROI freeze-killer at contained complexity.

Strong, fast fix on the worst-case incident, Euclid. Approving. 🖖