deer-flow/backend/tests/AGENTS.md
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fix(mcp): make durable task claims cancellation-safe (#4966)
* feat(mcp): re-scope to MCP task claim lifecycle only

Keep PR #4966 a small, closed MCP lease/cancellation state-machine change and
move RunJournal and Run lifecycle work into dedicated follow-ups. This branch
contains only the MCP task claim lifecycle:

- mcp task release/snapshot fencing by owner + per-claim lease token
- phase-level single-flight poll/cancel/notification owners with retained handoff
- routine cancellation no longer persisted as a task failure diagnostic
- bounded ordinary release ownership retention past the drain deadline
- 0018_mcp_task_lease_tokens migration + migration/bootstrap head assertions
- wait_for_task_until helper (MCP uses it); worker-specific capture helper moved
  to the run-finalization follow-up

RunJournal (journal.py + test_run_journal.py) and run lifecycle
(manager/worker/store/run sql + run tests) are preserved on
backup/cancellation-safety-full and will be raised as separate follow-ups.

* fix(mcp): unblock claims after ambiguous handoff resolves

A phase-level single-flight owner only guards an ambiguous claim outcome. Once
the claim resolves, the phase owner is released immediately; the handoff may
continue releasing returned rows as bounded, service-owned background work
(transferred to _compensation_tasks on timeout). Per-claim token fencing rejects
a late release against a newer claim generation, so a stuck release no longer
locks the whole phase until process restart.

- README: drop the stale progress-snapshot sentence from the bounded ordinary
  release description.
- service: pop the identity-checked phase owner as soon as the claim outcome is
  known, then release returned rows with the bounded path; carry the release in
  _compensation_tasks if it exceeds the drain deadline.
- mcp/AGENTS.md: document that only an unresolved claim outcome (not the handoff)
  blocks later phase scans, and that returned-row releases may continue in the
  background once the owner is released.
- tests: pin that the phase owner is released before a stuck release finishes
  while the release stays service strong-owned.

* refactor(mcp): remove unused single-record claim wrappers

_poll_one, _cancel_one, and _notify_one are unreachable in production: the
worker always processes claimed records through _run_claimed_batch, so these
wrappers preserved a second, dead single-record lifecycle (state is None)
whose only observable behavior was a wrapper-specific cancellation release.

Remove the three wrappers and migrate the regressions that guarded their
cancel/release invariants to exercise the production _run_claimed_batch path
(operation=_*_one_claimed, release=_release_*_after_cancellation). The single
wrapper-only "state is None" contract (test_poll_release_hang_without_batch)
is deleted; all 11 remaining invariants (CancelledError preservation, repeated
cancellation, poll-only token-fenced lease release, notification claimed vs
dispatched phase release, hung compensation -> service ownership, and
background compensation exactly-once observation) are now covered through the
real batch lifecycle.

* fix(mcp): fence claim-owned mutations against stale generations

The per-claim token check in the ORM release/apply paths was only in the
SELECT; the final write went out by primary key. On SQLite (where
with_for_update() is a no-op) a mutation from an older claim generation
could therefore clear a claim that a newer generation had reclaimed after lease
expiry — the exact distributed lease-fencing failure the per-claim token was
meant to prevent.

Make every claim-owned mutation a single atomic conditional UPDATE with the
owner and per-claim token in the WHERE clause (rowcount 0 => stale, return
False, no mutation):

- release_claim: atomic fence; record the poll-failure event after the fence
  wins (same transaction, holding the write lock).
- apply_snapshot / apply_cancel_snapshot: atomic fence; record the event after.
- finish_notification_run: atomic fence; use a CASE on event_version >>
  dispatch_version to keep a newer event pending for redelivery instead of
  swallowing it as delivered.

Add one regression per path: a stale generation's release/apply/finish after a
same-worker reclaim is rejected and never clears the newer claim.

* test(mcp): pin the migration chain head to the lease-token revision

0026_mcp_task_lease_tokens becomes the alembic head, so the chain-head pin in the 0025 repair test had to move on. Follow the 0023 precedent there (single head plus expected predecessor) instead of pinning a literal head, and give the new revision its own migration test, which owns the pin and covers the nullable claim-token columns on upgrade and their removal on downgrade.

* refactor(mcp): close cancellation cleanup leftovers

* fix(mcp): retain cancelled release diagnostics

* test(mcp): remove obsolete settled compensation case

* test(mcp): cover interleaved lease reclaim races

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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
2026-09-20 19:11:42 +08:00

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# Backend Tests
Backend tests must preserve the runtime invariants they exercise without changing production execution topology.
## MCP claim fencing
`test_mcp_task_repository.py` covers same-worker reclaim during an in-flight
release, poll/cancel snapshot, or notification completion. Use explicit events
to pause the old operation at the persistence boundary, reclaim via the real
repository, then verify the entire new row remains unchanged. Reclaiming before
the old operation starts does not catch SQLite SELECT/ORM-flush races. Keep the
old completion timestamp within its original lease so expiry cannot mask a
missing token fence; always drain paused tasks and restore session patches.
## Executor starvation tests
`test_executor_starvation.py` covers the deterministic starvation semantics from RFC #4560:
- default-executor saturation and queueing;
- cancellation of an awaiter while an already-started synchronous worker continues;
- isolation between the asyncio default executor and DeerFlow's dedicated file-I/O executor.
Use explicit synchronization such as `threading.Event` rather than sleep-based timing thresholds for worker lifecycle assertions. Every test must release blocked workers and restore any process-global monkeypatches so teardown cannot leak threads or state into later tests.
Stress/soak testing, AnyIO worker instrumentation, Uvicorn multi-process behavior, and broad production executor redesign are separate concerns and should not be folded into these deterministic regressions.