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feat(channels): arbitrate IM transports with a per-provider leader lease (#6843)
* feat(channels): arbitrate IM transports with a per-provider leader lease

Every Gateway instance connected every enabled IM platform with the same
bot credentials, so channels could not run on more than one instance
(Telegram 409 storms, Discord answering twice, scattered per-process
state). channels.leader_lease was reserved by #6746; this implements it.

- channel_leases table (migration 0041): one row per provider. Acquire is
  one dialect-native upsert decided against the database clock and bumps
  a fencing epoch; renew extends only a live lease at the holder's epoch;
  release sets the expiry to 0 so a peer takes over on its next tick.
- app/channels/leadership.py: the holder's local monotonic deadline
  (send time of the last confirmed renewal + lease_seconds); holds() turns
  false one renewal interval early, so the transport stops at least
  grace_seconds before a peer may connect. DB calls are bounded.
- ChannelService: start fence in _start_channel (no DB call) behind every
  start path; fixed-rate supervisor renews/acquires and runs transport
  starts/stops as per-provider tasks; takeover reloads the provider's
  saved config; failed starts back off; shutdown releases only leases
  whose transport stopped. get_status reports leader/leader_here and the
  holder's transport state on every instance.
- Notification worker leaves rows of providers another instance holds.
- Gate: the enabled=false refusal now recommends auto/true; an explicit
  true with database.backend memory is refused when a channel is enabled.
- Docs, Helm, deployment guides, AGENTS.md and CHANGELOG updated.

* docs(changelog): link the channel leader lease entry to #6843

* fix(channels): see peer-held leases for providers absent from local config

Review on #6843: a provider connected from the web UI on a peer never
enters this instance's channel config, so the notification worker here
still claimed its rows (and parked them for 900s) and GET /api/channels/
reported no leader for it. Every supervision round, and startup, now also
reads the whole lease table once (bounded), and notification exclusions
and status use those observations: a provider whose live lease a peer
holds is left to it even without local config.

Running that read concurrently with renewals exposed that, through
SQLAlchemy's aiosqlite adapter, an UPDATE ... RETURNING racing a read on
another connection can hand back one of its own bind values instead of
the column (stored rows stay correct; plain sqlite3 and raw aiosqlite do
not show it). A lease must never take such a row for a confirmed
renewal, so acquire/renew/release now decide by affected-row count and
acquire reads its epoch back in the same transaction.

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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
2026-10-14 13:51:42 +08:00
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