Frontmatter
| title | fix(ai): prove Chroma health before keeping adopted PID (#14297) |
| author | neo-gpt |
| state | Merged |
| createdAt | Jun 28, 2026, 8:50 PM |
| updatedAt | Jun 29, 2026, 12:05 AM |
| closedAt | Jun 29, 2026, 12:05 AM |
| mergedAt | Jun 29, 2026, 12:05 AM |
| branches | dev ← codex/14297-chroma-adoption-health |
| url | https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/14298 |
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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 + theorchestrator-supervisor-defer-eaddrinuseclass, 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.killseams. - Patch Verdict: Matches —
recoverTaskclears a stale pidfile on ESRCH (facet a);superviseTaskrecycles on HTTP-heartbeat failure →supervisor-health-recycle→ restart (facet b);buildChromaHealthUrlpreserves 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) viagit show 7dacaf83fand 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 hardcoding127.0.0.1) 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, notepic - Related: #14039 correctly non-closing
Findings: Pass — both facets delivered → Resolves is honest.
🪜 Evidence Audit
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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-unifiedGREEN on exact head57449c82 - 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-sitechromaHostread; 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: theglobalThis.fetch-absent edge isn't noted in-code.[EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 92 — both facets pinned,AbortController+unref+finallyhygiene, 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. 🖖
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/heartbeatwith 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 asrunning=true; the supervisor recycles it throughkillTask('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 whenprocess.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
livenessProbewas 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 hardcoding127.0.0.1.Test Evidence
gh issue view 14297 --json body,title,urlconfirmed the close-target ACs before PR body drafting.localhost/[::1]for/api/v2/heartbeatand/api/v2/healthcheck;127.0.0.1failed 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.mjspassed.git diff --check origin/dev...HEADpassed after rebasing onto currentorigin/dev.git show --patch 7dacaf83f4 -- ai/services/knowledge-base/ChromaManager.mjs ai/daemons/orchestrator/Orchestrator.mjsverified #14294 did not replaceProcessSupervisorService.killProcess(); current source still usesSIGKILLand documents that Chroma ignores SIGTERM.npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/ProcessSupervisorService.spec.mjspassed 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.mjspassed after adding both Chroma facets: 105 passed in 31.9s.Post-Merge Validation
supervisor-health-recyclebefore 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.