fix(agents): make SQL store signatures content-sensitive (#4709)

backend/AGENTS.md

@@ -977,6 +977,7 @@ The cached value is reused for both the blocking (`runs.wait`) and streaming (`_
 
 **GitHub event-driven agents** (webhook-driven IM channel):
 - Custom agents declare a `github:` block in their `config.yaml` to bind to repos and event triggers; the webhook route is fail-closed by default (mounted only when `GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET` is set) and exempt from auth/CSRF because authenticity is enforced by HMAC.
+- Registry caching is keyed by the configured agent store's opaque signature: file storage uses agent config mtimes, while database storage hashes the ordered owner/name/config/soul contents so same-timestamp writes still invalidate webhook routing.
 - Outbound is **log-only** by design: each agent posts its own reply mid-run via the `gh` CLI from its sandbox, so the manager uses `fire_and_forget=True` and `runs.create()` returns once pending.
 - **Follow-up buffering while busy** (issue #4121): because outbound is log-only, the pre-existing `THREAD_BUSY_MESSAGE` reply on a `ConflictError` was invisible to the commenter — a comment posted while a run was already active looked like it had been silently ignored. When `ChannelRunPolicy.buffer_followups_on_busy=True` (GitHub's default), a `ConflictError` on `runs.create()` now also appends the triggering message to a per-thread, in-memory buffer (`ChannelManager._followup_buffers`) — deduped by GitHub delivery id, capped at `FOLLOWUP_BUFFER_MAX_PER_THREAD` (20, oldest dropped with a WARNING log on overflow). The first successful `runs.create()` on a thread now captures its `run_id` and spawns a background watcher that subscribes to that run's `StreamBridge` stream; once it observes `END_SENTINEL`, the watcher drains up to `FOLLOWUP_DRAIN_BATCH_SIZE` (10) buffered entries into one `<followups-while-busy>`-wrapped input and fires a follow-up `runs.create()` — itself watched the same way, so a backlog deeper than one batch chains into further drain cycles instead of growing one unbounded input. If that follow-up `runs.create()` itself hits `ConflictError` (e.g. a manual Web UI turn or a scheduled run raced onto the same thread), the batch is requeued rather than lost, and is retried whenever this manager next successfully creates and watches a run on that thread. Reactions/acknowledgment (e.g. GitHub's `eyes`/`confused` reaction API) on buffered comments are intentionally **out of scope** for this mechanism and left to a follow-up — comments are coalesced silently. **Plumbing**: the watcher needs the Gateway's `StreamBridge` singleton, which `ChannelManager` did not previously have access to; it is threaded from `app.py`'s lifespan (where `app.state.stream_bridge` is already set by `langgraph_runtime`) through `start_channel_service(get_stream_bridge=...)` → `ChannelService.__init__` → `ChannelManager.__init__`, as a zero-arg closure mirroring the existing `launch_run=lambda **kwargs: launch_scheduled_thread_run(app=app, **kwargs)` pattern used for `ScheduledTaskService` in the same lifespan function. A `ChannelManager` constructed without it (e.g. directly in a test) still buffers safely — it just has no watcher to auto-drain. **Scope limitation**: the buffer and watcher state are per-process, in-memory. Under `GATEWAY_WORKERS>1` or multi-pod, a follow-up comment routed to a different worker process than the one running the busy thread's agent will not see that buffer. This is a known, deliberately deferred limitation with the same shape as the cross-pod gap described for issue #4120 (a shared buffer store or IM-leader election would be needed to close it) — single-process/single-pod deployments, the safe default, see no correctness issue from this, only the documented per-process scope.
 - See [backend/docs/GITHUB_AGENTS.md](docs/GITHUB_AGENTS.md) for the architecture diagrams: webhook → fan-out → `InboundMessage` dispatch, `preferred_thread_id = UUID5(repo, number, agent_name)` thread determinism, mention-handle precedence chain, GH token lifecycle via `GH_TOKEN`/`GITHUB_TOKEN` per-call `extra_env`, and the narrow `ConflictError` (HTTP 409) thread-create race recovery.

backend/app/gateway/github/registry.py

@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ delivery. We avoid re-loading every agent on each call via a small cache keyed
 on the store's :meth:`~deerflow.persistence.agents.base.AgentStore.signature`
 change token: the file backend derives it from ``config.yaml`` mtimes (any
 edit, addition, or deletion invalidates the cache transparently); the db backend
-derives it from ``max(updated_at)`` + the row count. Operators who hand-edit a
+derives it from a deterministic digest of each agent's owner, name, config, and
-``config.yaml`` see the change on the next webhook.
+soul. Operators who hand-edit a ``config.yaml`` see the change on the next
+webhook.
 
 Cache invalidation caveat (file backend): mtime granularity on macOS HFS+ /
 APFS is ~1 µs but on some filesystems (FAT, network shares with caching) it's

backend/docs/GITHUB_AGENTS.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ graph LR
 
     OperatorYaml["config.yaml<br/>channels.github:<br/>  enabled: true<br/>  default_mention_login"]:::operator
     AgentYaml["agents/{name}/config.yaml<br/>github:<br/>  installation_id<br/>  bot_login<br/>  bindings: [{repo, triggers}]"]:::agent
-    Registry["build_github_agent_registry()<br/>(mtime-cached, asyncio.to_thread)"]:::route
+    Registry["build_github_agent_registry()<br/>(store-signature cached, asyncio.to_thread)"]:::route
     Webhook["POST /api/webhooks/github<br/>(HMAC verify)"]:::route
 
     OperatorYaml --> Registry
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ graph LR
     Registry --> Webhook
 ```
 
+Registry cache invalidation uses the configured agent store's opaque signature.
+The file backend derives it from agent config mtimes; the database backend uses
+a deterministic digest of the stored owner, name, config, and soul, so an update
+still invalidates the registry when two writes share the same timestamp.
+
 Each agent binding lists the **events it cares about** under `triggers:`. Events absent from `triggers:` are not delivered to that agent — the dispatcher never loads the agent for them. `DEFAULT_TRIGGERS` only supplies **field-level defaults** (e.g. `require_mention: true`) for events a binding did declare; it is no longer an enablement list.
 
 ## Webhook → Fan-out → Dispatch

backend/packages/harness/deerflow/persistence/agents/base.py

@@ -126,6 +126,6 @@ class AgentStore(abc.ABC):
 
         Equal tokens mean "nothing changed since last read". The GitHub registry
         keys its cache off this instead of ``stat()`` so it works for both
-        backends (mtime triples for ``file``; ``max(updated_at)`` + row count for
+        backends (mtime triples for ``file``; a deterministic digest of stored
-        ``db``).
+        agent contents for ``db``).
         """

backend/packages/harness/deerflow/persistence/agents/sql.py

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ the app, so this adds no dependency.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import hashlib
+import json
 import logging
 import shutil
 import threading
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ import uuid
 from collections.abc import Hashable
 from datetime import UTC, datetime
 
-from sqlalchemy import Engine, create_engine, delete, event, func, select
+from sqlalchemy import Engine, create_engine, delete, event, select
 from sqlalchemy.exc import IntegrityError
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session, sessionmaker
 
@@ -33,7 +35,6 @@ from deerflow.persistence.agents.base import (
 )
 from deerflow.persistence.agents.model import AgentRow
 from deerflow.runtime.user_context import get_effective_user_id
-from deerflow.utils.time import coerce_iso
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -210,12 +211,35 @@ class SqlAgentStore(AgentStore):
         return "missing"
 
     def signature(self) -> Hashable:
-        # MAX(updated_at) is not covered by an index (only user_id and the
+        # The GitHub registry uses this token to decide whether cached agent
-        # (user_id, name) unique constraint are), so this is a small full scan.
+        # bindings are still current. Timestamps alone are not sufficient
-        # It runs only on the webhook registry's cache-freshness check against a
+        # because two writes can reuse the same database timestamp.
-        # tiny agents table, so an index is not warranted; revisit if agents ever
+        # Computing the digest reads the small agents table only on the
-        # grow into the thousands with frequent webhook deliveries.
+        # registry's cache-freshness check; revisit if agent counts or webhook
+        # delivery rates grow enough for this scan to become material.
         with self._Session() as session:
-            max_updated, count = session.execute(select(func.max(AgentRow.updated_at), func.count(AgentRow.id))).one()
+            rows = session.execute(
-        token = coerce_iso(max_updated) if isinstance(max_updated, datetime) else str(max_updated)
+                select(
-        return (token, int(count))
+                    AgentRow.user_id,
+                    AgentRow.name,
+                    AgentRow.config,
+                    AgentRow.soul,
+                ).order_by(AgentRow.user_id, AgentRow.name)
+            ).all()
+
+        payload = [
+            {
+                "user_id": user_id,
+                "name": name,
+                "config": config or {},
+                "soul": soul or "",
+            }
+            for user_id, name, config, soul in rows
+        ]
+        serialized = json.dumps(
+            payload,
+            ensure_ascii=False,
+            sort_keys=True,
+            separators=(",", ":"),
+        )
+        return hashlib.sha256(serialized.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()

backend/tests/test_agent_store_sql.py

@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@ signature the GitHub registry keys its cache off.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from datetime import datetime
 from unittest import mock
 
 import pytest
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 
+import deerflow.persistence.agents.model as agent_model
 from deerflow.config.agents_config import AgentConfig
 from deerflow.persistence.agents.base import AgentExistsError
 from deerflow.persistence.agents.model import AgentRow
@@ -160,6 +162,36 @@ def test_signature_changes_on_mutation(store):
     assert store.signature() != after_create
 
 
+def test_signature_changes_when_update_reuses_timestamp(store, monkeypatch):
+    store.create(
+        "x",
+        {"name": "x", "description": "before"},
+        "s",
+        user_id="u1",
+    )
+    after_create = store.signature()
+
+    with store._Session() as session:
+        frozen_timestamp = session.query(AgentRow).one().updated_at
+
+    class FrozenDateTime(datetime):
+        @classmethod
+        def now(cls, tz=None):
+            return frozen_timestamp
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(agent_model, "datetime", FrozenDateTime)
+
+    store.update(
+        "x",
+        {"name": "x", "description": "changed"},
+        None,
+        user_id="u1",
+    )
+
+    assert store.get("x", user_id="u1").description == "changed"
+    assert store.signature() != after_create
+
+
 def test_sync_engine_mirrors_async_pragmas(tmp_path):
     # The db backend's sync engine must set the same per-connection SQLite PRAGMAs
     # the async engine does (persistence/engine.py), not leave synchronous=FULL