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fix(config): wait for complete owner metadata during first registration - #8270
A concurrent first registration can see the owner file name before its JSON write finishes. The old creation check treated that file's presence as completion, so strict metadata loading returned unowned immediately instead of using the existing creation wait.
Keep retrying the strict owner/manifest load within the existing 100 ms window while a non-tombstoned manifest is present. Complete matching metadata still loads immediately.
Add a deterministic publication-window regression plus empty/mismatched-owner controls. Invalid metadata remains unowned and unchanged; the 50 ms lock bound, ownership validation, uninstall tombstone and removal rules are unchanged.
Update the ownership contract documentation.
This was found while investigating dev batch CI42335784441, macOS job128292332452. One cold-start child returned exit 2. Those logs do not distinguish this publication window from a creator exceeding the existing 100 ms bound; this PR fixes the independently reproduced window, not a claimed definitive attribution of that CI failure. Related historical work: #8093, #8238 and #8239.
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Candidate: 227325efbedd6fdb2511e425080849eb95146552, tree ff1c29a215febcc5dde17dbcd82565534d9a8854, based on dev 41f316f40eadece9cf0d36b89eabe7e8fddce4bd.
Native Windows / pinned Bun1.4.4, using the normal isolated scripts/test.ts --parallel=1 runner:
RED: the three new cases on unchanged production code produced 2 pass / 1 fail / 15 assertions. The partial-owner case returned unowned instead of recorded; both refusal controls passed.
Affected file:tests/config/config-ownership-concurrent-record.test.ts — 45 pass / 6 existing platform skips / 0 fail / 208 assertions, 55.72s. The clock-controlled child completes the owner JSON at the first creation poll, avoiding a scheduler-dependent race test.
Broader Windows check: removal/uninstall files initially produced 29 pass / 31 platform skips / 1 fail. The ordinary removal case preserved an unexpected .OPENCODEX-UNINSTALL.JSON.tmp as unowned residue. That successful-initial-creation/removal path does not execute the changed wait condition.
One bounded diagnostic rerun:30 pass / 31 skips / 0 fail / 160 assertions, 5.87s, with unchanged assertions and temporary post-result metadata/counter logging. It found no residue and empty replace-retry counters. The diagnostic test edit was removed and its original SHA-256 restored. This later pass is not evidence that the intermittent Windows residue producer is fixed.
Independent read-only review found the strict matching-pair and tombstone boundaries preserved.
The full local suite was not repeated under the repository's resource exception. Hosted PR CI is separate; ci:full is requested for the shared/subprocess contract. macOS runtime confirmation belongs to the next maintainer batch; no per-PR cross-platform dispatch was started.
Remaining limits: a creator paused beyond 100 ms can still be refused; the cached-unowned reread path retains its existing behavior. Independent maintainer/security acceptance and the unrelated intermittent Windows residue investigation remain open.
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Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults by an independent maintainer before merge.
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Bug Fixes
First-time registration now waits briefly for ownership information to finish being recorded, helping prevent files from being incorrectly claimed during concurrent setup.
Incomplete or mismatched ownership information no longer grants ownership; affected files remain unrecorded and are reported as residual during uninstall.
Registration now continues waiting when a manifest exists but does not yet have a valid matching owner pair. Tests cover owner-file publication, empty contents, and mismatched owner IDs.
Changes: Ownership publication wait
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Manifest and owner-pair wait src/lib/config-ownership.ts, tests/config/config-ownership-concurrent-record.test.ts, structure/config-ownership.md
The wait condition now checks for a valid matching ownership pair while a manifest exists, except for a tombstoned manifest without an owner. Tests verify registration after owner-file publication and verify that empty or mismatched owner data remains unowned. The documentation describes the wait and its outcomes.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8121: Adds the first-registration wait and 100 ms retry window that this change updates.
Suggested reviewers:lidge-jun, ingwannu
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 22732
The change is mergeable with normal checks. The existing cached-unowned registration limitation remains, and a matching-owner publication test would improve coverage.
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Review comments at @src/lib/config-ownership.ts:
- Around line 598-600: Update the cached-unowned registration path around the
`creating` check to apply the existing bounded wait for owner publication before
returning `unowned`; if publication completes within the wait window, load the
published ownership, and retain the current deadline fallback.
Review comments at @tests/config/config-ownership-concurrent-record.test.ts:
- Around line 837-840: Extend the ownership test to cover a mismatched JSON
record becoming a matching owner: replace the mismatch by calling
observeOwnerPublication with owner and assert it returns "recorded". Keep the
existing mismatch-control assertion intact.
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Maintainer review (contributor-backlog lane), head 8629c95f64, trial-merged with dev0fac612a93.
Holding this one. The fix itself is right: the new publication-window tests fail on dev (4 of them) and pass here, and the 13 ownership-related test files pass on the merge (615 tests).
What blocks. The cached-unowned branch now re-enters loadOrCreateOwnership, whose wait loop treats "manifest present, no valid owner pair" as creation in progress. A home stuck in that state (a corrupt .opencodex-owner.json, or a manifest left by a crash before the owner was written) therefore spends the full 100 ms Bun.sleepSync on every registration, not once. Registration runs on request paths, e.g. materializeInlineImage (src/images/artifacts.ts:252) once per inline image, plus atomic config writes and the mutation lock.
Probe (isolated home; seed a home, overwrite the owner file with {corrupt, then call recordOwnedConfigPath 20 times):
this PR: {"ms":1974,"results":[false]}
dev: {"ms":1,"results":[false]}
What to change. Keep the bounded wait, but spend it at most once per stuck state: for example, remember in the ownership cache that the wait already expired for this home together with the manifest/owner identity you observed, and skip the wait until either file changes. A regression test like the probe above (N registrations against a permanently invalid owner stay well under one wait) would pin it.
Addressed the registration-path wait regression in f235655.
The cached-unowned branch was re-entering the full publication wait on every registration, so a home stuck at "manifest present, no valid owner pair" (a stopped creation or a corrupt .opencodex-owner.json) paid the 100ms wait per registration on the request path.
Change:
initializeConfigOwnership now remembers the dev:ino:size:mtime identity of the manifest/owner pair for which a wait already expired (expiredCreationWait). While that pair is unchanged the registration resolves unowned without touching the wait; either file changing re-arms a single wait, so a late-published owner marker is still picked up.
The marker is recorded only when a manifest exists — without one the wait ends in a single pass anyway, and a cached-unowned empty home can still be claimed.
Regression test: an unchanged ownerless manifest spends the publication wait once, not per registration — 20 repeat registrations against a permanently invalid owner marker complete in less time than the single wait already paid, with zero additional Bun.sleepSync calls.
observeOwnerPublication's cached-unowned publication cases now write a new incomplete marker so the re-armed wait is still exercised.
Validation: bun run typecheck clean; bun test tests/config/config-ownership-concurrent-record.test.ts — all publication-wait and ownership tests pass; the only failures are the pre-existing elevated-privileges removeOwnedConfigState refusals when run as administrator. config-ownership-uninstall.test.ts and config-ownership-removal.test.ts pass (30/0 fail).
CI note (contributor-backlog lane), head f23565525c. test 5/5 failed one test: tests/usage/usage-filter-index.test.ts › "two processes rebuilding the same ledger both report every row" (one process reported candidates: null). Because that path registers owned paths from two processes, I checked whether this PR causes it. It does not: run 5 times each in an isolated home, the test fails 2 of 5 on plain devd97bfe45f3 and passes 5 of 5 on a trial merge of this head. It is a pre-existing flake on dev. I re-ran only the failed job of the same run (same head).
Analysis of the test 5/5 failure on head f23565525c: it is unrelated to this PR's diff.
The failing assertion is filtered usage index crash and multi-writer safety > two processes rebuilding the same ledger both report every row (usage-ledger rebuild), while this PR only touches src/lib/config-ownership.ts and its test file. Looks like a timing-sensitive multi-writer flake rather than a regression from this change — a re-run should clear it.
Head f23565525c, judged against devc0fedf266e (trial merge 2e39dbdfc9).
Value. On a concurrent first registration, the owner marker's file name appears before its JSON is written. The old check treated "the file exists" as "creation finished", so a strict metadata load could cache the home as unowned for the rest of the process. The fix keeps waiting within the existing 100 ms bound until a valid matching manifest and owner pair loads. This was found from a dev batch CI failure on macOS, and dev has no fix for it.
No UX change. Complete metadata still loads immediately. Invalid metadata never grants ownership, a non-empty unowned root is still never claimed, and the tombstone, lock bound and uninstall rules are unchanged. No CLI, dashboard or config semantics change.
No regression.
The lane held head 8629c95f64: a home stuck with a manifest but no valid owner marker paid the 100 ms Bun.sleepSync on every registration, on request paths such as inline images (20 calls took 1,974 ms against 1 ms on dev). The author's f23565525c spends that wait once per unchanged manifest/owner identity, and a change to either file re-arms one wait. The same probe now takes 102 ms for 20 calls: one wait, then immediate.
Failing-first: the publication-window tests fail on dev (4) and pass here, and a new test asserts that repeat registrations do not sleep.
On the trial merge with current dev: config-ownership-concurrent-record (57), config-ownership-removal (33), config-ownership-uninstall (24), spend-ledger-owner (34) and oauth-store-multi (64) pass. Earlier, catalog-writer (18) and service (211) also passed.
Also on the merge commit: test-layout and layout tooling, the file-size and import-cycle ratchets, repo hygiene, structure SSOT, skill-ocx, preset counts and the Lab core boundary pass, and so do typecheck, structure:check and privacy:scan. All tests ran in an isolated home (env -i, temp HOME/OPENCODEX_HOME/CODEX_HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR).
Independent reviews. The review of 8629c95f64 returned FAIL (the repeated wait). A fresh final review of this exact head returned PASS: the identity suppression cannot skip a wait that a real concurrent creation needs, and nothing dev did is lost. Both used GOAT review tasks on mistral/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017.
Follow-up nits: also clear the expired-wait map in removeOwnedConfigState/removeCanonicalOwnedConfigState (unreachable today), and name the once-per-state rule in structure/config-ownership.md.
CI. All 38 checks on this exact head are green. One test 5/5 failure (usage-filter-index "two processes rebuilding the same ledger") was re-run alone. That test fails 2 of 5 times on plain dev and passed 5 of 5 on this trial merge, so the flake predates this PR.
Squash merge. --admin is used only because the repository requires an approving review this lane cannot submit, and --match-head-commit pins the merge to the judged head.
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Revalidate ownership before caching a spent publication wait
If another process completes the owner marker after loadOrCreateOwnership()'s final failed read but before creationWaitIdentity() samples it, this stores the completed metadata pair as an expired wait. Every subsequent registration then takes the identity-match branch and returns unowned without rereading the now-valid pair, until either metadata file changes or the cache is evicted. This turns a bounded creation timeout into persistent registration failures and leaves subsequently created paths outside uninstall tracking. I reproduced this by completing the owner JSON immediately after the final invalid read; subsequent registrations remained unowned. The expired-wait optimization should suppress further waiting, not the strict ownership reload.
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Fixed in #8422 (cabf951). Both halves of the race are closed:
On an expired-wait identity match, initializeConfigOwnership now runs one plain loadOwnership() instead of returning unowned blind, so the record suppresses the bounded wait but never the strict reload. A completed pair registers on the first call that sees it.
A spent wait is only recorded when the sampled identity stayed unchanged across the wait, so it can never name the state a completing write produced between the last failed read and the post-wait sample; a changed pair spends its own wait once.
Regression tests in tests/config/config-ownership-concurrent-record.test.ts cover both: one completes the pair under the recorded stat identity and asserts the next registration records rather than sticking unowned (fails as unowned without the fix), and one asserts a mid-wait pair change spends its own wait.
Follow-up for the post-merge review finding on the expired publication wait: fixed in draft PR #8422 (cabf95195b4, branch codex/ownership-expired-wait-race-20261109).
The expired-wait record could be written under the identity of a completed owner/manifest pair (sampled after the last failed read in loadOrCreateOwnership()), so later registrations matched it and stayed unowned without reloading. The fix reloads once on an identity match and only records a spent wait for an identity that stayed unchanged across the wait. Regression tests cover both halves and fail on the unfixed code.
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Summary
A concurrent first registration can see the owner file name before its JSON write finishes. The old creation check treated that file's presence as completion, so strict metadata loading returned
unownedimmediately instead of using the existing creation wait.This was found while investigating dev batch CI42335784441, macOS job128292332452. One cold-start child returned exit 2. Those logs do not distinguish this publication window from a creator exceeding the existing 100 ms bound; this PR fixes the independently reproduced window, not a claimed definitive attribution of that CI failure. Related historical work: #8093, #8238 and #8239.
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Candidate:
227325efbedd6fdb2511e425080849eb95146552, treeff1c29a215febcc5dde17dbcd82565534d9a8854, based on dev41f316f40eadece9cf0d36b89eabe7e8fddce4bd.Native Windows / pinned Bun1.4.4, using the normal isolated
scripts/test.ts --parallel=1runner:unownedinstead ofrecorded; both refusal controls passed.tests/config/config-ownership-concurrent-record.test.ts— 45 pass / 6 existing platform skips / 0 fail / 208 assertions, 55.72s. The clock-controlled child completes the owner JSON at the first creation poll, avoiding a scheduler-dependent race test..OPENCODEX-UNINSTALL.JSON.tmpas unowned residue. That successful-initial-creation/removal path does not execute the changed wait condition.The full local suite was not repeated under the repository's resource exception. Hosted PR CI is separate;
ci:fullis requested for the shared/subprocess contract. macOS runtime confirmation belongs to the next maintainer batch; no per-PR cross-platform dispatch was started.Remaining limits: a creator paused beyond 100 ms can still be refused; the cached-unowned reread path retains its existing behavior. Independent maintainer/security acceptance and the unrelated intermittent Windows residue investigation remain open.
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