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stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 f4cdf71795 Bound the work-queue durability claim to the appendfsync window
Redis runs with appendfsync everysec, so an unclean stop loses up to a
second of journaled entries. Name that where the docstrings promised a
crash costs nothing, and state the setting and its trade-off on the
configuration page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CL9zvnnvcp1mvA8o7impxk
2026-09-06 17:16:01 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 57eace2226 Bound what the API accepts, and close the holes the audit found
**SQLite is the database, and now says so.** `metric_minute` and every run
table are written with `sqlalchemy.dialects.sqlite.insert(...)
.on_conflict_do_update` and with `max(a, b)`, neither of which another
dialect has — so pointing `DATABASE_URL` at Postgres migrated cleanly,
served, logged in, and then lost every observability flush into the
collector's hold buffer and failed every run. It refuses at startup
instead. (The Postgres in the compose stack is Umami's; the engine's own
database has been a file beside the flows since 2026-08-21.)

**Every integer query parameter is bounded.** The caps were written as
`min(limit, 500)`, which a negative walks straight through — `?limit=-1`
compiles to `LIMIT -1` and SQLite returns the whole table. Ten signatures,
now `Query(ge=…, le=…)`. `hours=0` still means an hour, which
`_window_hours` was already deliberate about.

**Exports are capped at 10 000 runs** and say so with `X-Truncated`. The
filters bounded a sensible request and nothing bounded an unfiltered one,
which read every row into memory before a byte was streamed. `_series`
resolves cached curves in two queries rather than a `Run` lookup and a
`RunMetric` query per restored node — a comparison of twenty runs was
calling that twenty times over.

**`PUT /artifacts` has a size limit** (`MAX_ARTIFACT_BYTES`, 2 GiB, 0 to
disable), checked against `Content-Length` and again against the stream for
a chunked body, and its writes moved off the event loop.

**`/observability/timeseries` takes `since`/`until`**, the same window
`/runs` and `/events` take, capped at 2000 points — `hours=720&bucket_s=60`
was 43 200 of them in one array. It is also what a dragged chart needs to
re-fetch at its own resolution rather than magnifying buckets it has.

**Composite indexes** for the three list screens: `run(flow, created_at)`
and `(status, created_at)`, `flow_run(flow, started_at)`,
`engine_event(type, ts)`. Every index was single-column, so SQLite picked
one and sorted the rest by hand. Verified against a copy of a live database
(250k `flow_run` rows): the planner takes all four.

**Redis clients have socket timeouts.** A Redis that stops answering
without closing the connection hung the caller until the kernel gave up —
including `/utils/health/`, whose job is to notice.

**The panels file is written under one lock.** `save_panels` and
`unpair_panel` are both read-modify-write, and a save that read before an
unpair wrote put the old nonce back — silently un-revoking a screen that
had just been unpaired. The nonce carry-forward was written to make that
impossible; the gap between its read and its write is where it happened.

**Startup releases what it acquired.** Everything past `event_bus.bind`
registers how to close itself and the `finally` walks that list backwards;
a failure part-way through used to reach none of the shutdown steps and
leave the worker pool's subprocesses and every background task behind —
under `--reload`, once per bad edit. `modules.reconcile` moved into the
background: `uv` gets five minutes twice over, the healthcheck allows
eighty seconds, and the autoheal restarted the container before it could
finish installing.

`delete_run` takes SQLite's write lock up front (`core.db.writing`) rather
than upgrading a deferred transaction and losing to whichever flush
committed in between. `modules.sync` is serialised — two applies mutated
one venv at once. The proxied-call and stream dicts are bounded, and a
reused id cancels its predecessor instead of dropping the reference.

Security, found in passing and small enough to fix here:

- **`/secrets/` required only a signed-in user.** The names alone say what
  this installation talks to, and `PUT /{name}` takes any name, so any
  account could overwrite the credential a flow authenticates with.
  Superuser now — which `/search` already assumed and said so.
- **`POST /login/access-token` had no rate limit.** Argon2 is deliberately
  expensive and the route is unauthenticated and runs in the shared
  threadpool. Ten *failed* attempts per address per five minutes; a
  successful sign-in spends nothing.
- **a password reset link worked repeatedly for 48 hours.** The token now
  carries a digest of the password hash it was minted against, so it stops
  verifying once it has set one. No table of spent tokens needed.
- **enrolment accepted `http://`**, sending the claim code and then this
  installation's credential in clear. https, or a local address.
- the rate limiter read `request.client.host`, which behind Traefik is the
  proxy — so every per-address limit was one global bucket and one caller
  could lock out everyone. It reads the forwarded address, and its
  bucket table is capped rather than growing one key per address forever.
- SMTP has a timeout and sends after the response, so an unreachable mail
  host cannot pin a threadpool worker, and a reply's timing no longer says
  whether the address exists.

Test suite: engine-written rows are cleared between modules. A `FlowRun`
left `running` by one module turned up in another's query. Per-test
rollback is not available here — the module-scoped `client` runs the real
lifespan and its collector and run service write through sessions of their
own — so this bounds it where the writes come from. Three consecutive
green runs, orders randomised.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M6hPWS6YEbT1P8LxhhFb2T
2026-08-29 20:40:05 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 da528340a9 Cut the round trips a message costs the engine
Measured with `make bench-engine` against a real Redis: 103.6 -> 164.4
messages a second on a five-node chain (p50 latency 2125 -> 1171 ms) and
34.8 -> 63.2 on a fan-out of twenty. Against the memory backend, which is
what a pip install runs on, 262 -> 626.

The two that bought most of it:

- `StateBackend.record` puts a published value, its timestamp, its series
  and its version counter in one round trip. They were four calls building
  four pipelines, and a value crossing an edge pays them twice. A released
  rate-limit hold rides along instead of a DEL per port.
- the readiness check reads a node's inputs and hands them to the node,
  rather than reading the triggering ones to count them and having the node
  read the same keys again a moment later.

`apply_outputs` was a second copy of `_record_outputs` and is now the same
code plus the event that distinguishes it.

The rest, each small:

- `_derive` builds a node-by-id map and a `consumes` index, so dispatching
  an item and publishing a value stop scanning every node in the
  installation.
- `read_all` is memoised against the store revision — it sits on the
  publish path, so a dashboard slider was reading and validating every
  flow file per value. Same mechanism `_wiring` already uses.
- the `message_value` source block is built once per node instead of per
  emission.
- both timer threads ask the queue to promote only when something is
  actually due, which takes an idle engine from ~4 Redis round trips a
  second to one.
- the shared httpx client is bounded (32 connections, one retry); its
  default pool is 100 with no per-host cap, so one slow endpoint could
  take it and every other sender node with it.
- the MQTT and delay nodes no longer log a line per message at INFO.

Robustness, in the same pass:

- `MemoryWorkQueue._done` was a set nothing ever removed from — one entry
  per non-idempotent node per item, for the life of the process, in the
  default configuration. Capped, the way the Redis side expires its
  markers.
- a saturated engine can claim from the due lane past the cascade limit.
  The capacity gate sits in front of the claim, so the due lane's priority
  — decided inside it — did not apply while every slot was held: a motor's
  stop was not behind the long nodes, it was unread. Only after a slot has
  genuinely failed to free for half a second, and briefly, so the backlog
  is not starved in turn.
- `reclaim_stale` dispatches through that same gate. It could return sixty
  entries and push in-flight far past the limit the gate exists to hold.
- a flow's nodes are stopped together rather than one after another. Each
  gets `NODE_STOP_TIMEOUT`, so a flow whose broker was unreachable took
  five seconds per node — long enough to outlast `REBUILD_WAIT` and 503
  the deploy.
- the worker pool and the HTTP client are closed on a thread, not on the
  event loop, and a run closes the state backend it built (on Redis, a
  client and a connection pool per run).
- the five background tasks say something when they die. Each catches
  exceptions inside its loop, so one raised anywhere else left the engine
  serving with no metrics, no alerts or no artifact sweep, silently.

`tests/flow/test_round_trips.py` counts the state operations one message
costs — four, where it was about eleven — because none of the above would
fail a behavioural test if it were undone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M6hPWS6YEbT1P8LxhhFb2T
2026-08-29 19:58:39 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 c3675688c8 Wait for a deadline instead of polling for one
Docs / docs (push) Successful in 25s
Playwright Tests / test-playwright (1, 2) (push) Successful in 2m23s
Playwright Tests / test-playwright (2, 2) (push) Successful in 2m0s
pre-commit / pre-commit (push) Failing after 4m31s
Test Backend / test-backend (push) Successful in 2m55s
Compose Smoke Test / test-compose (push) Successful in 35s
Playwright Tests / merge-reports (push) Successful in 1m11s
The timer thread promoted due work on a fixed one-second tick, so every
delayed item was 0-1000ms late whatever the load — measured on the house
at 705ms mean on a rollershutter stop, which is 2-4% of a 26-second
travel and accumulates in the position the motor node believes it is at.
It now sleeps to the soonest deadline and is woken when a nearer one is
scheduled, which measures 0.9ms end to end through Redis.

A promoted timer also went to the back of the queue. It goes into a due
lane of its own that `claim` reads first, so work that has waited out a
deadline is not held up by work that is merely queued.

Beside it, in the same code: seeding a message now bumps its version, so
a re-put flow's synchronous nodes no longer wait forever on a value that
is sitting in state; the consumer group drops the consumers of engines
that are gone (138 had accumulated on this installation); and the cast
that closes the long-standing `xclaim` mypy error.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 11:51:58 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 0ffcabfdb9 Media dtypes: image, audio and video as narrowed artifact references
Docs / docs (push) Successful in 30s
Playwright Tests / test-playwright (1, 2) (push) Successful in 3m7s
Playwright Tests / test-playwright (2, 2) (push) Successful in 1m54s
pre-commit / pre-commit (push) Failing after 4m24s
Test Backend / test-backend (push) Successful in 3m8s
Compose Smoke Test / test-compose (push) Successful in 40s
Playwright Tests / merge-reports (push) Successful in 1m33s
A port may now declare `image`, `audio` or `video`. Each is the artifact
reference the engine already had, narrowed by the `media_type` on it, so a
speech recogniser declares what it eats rather than taking any bytes at all and
finding out. Bytes still never travel as a message and nothing on the wire
stops being JSON: a camera publishes one reference per frame, a microphone one
per chunk, and a reference may carry a `meta` dict nothing here interprets.

Streaming media is therefore an ordinary streaming port — with one change to
what that means. An emission used to journal an item with no payload, so
downstream read whatever was current when the item was claimed; a consumer
slower than its producer saw only the newest chunk and the ones between were
lost. That is right for a training curve and wrong for a second of speech, so
an emission now journals a `kind="emission"` item carrying its values, and the
executor hands them to the nodes reading that message instead of writing them
to state again. The value in state stays the latest, which is what everything
else reads, and the wave is filtered by what actually changed rather than
walking everything reachable. No queue serialization change — the existing
`outputs` field carries it.

Continuous media makes the store's missing GC a real problem, so this closes
it: `sweep_artifacts` runs hourly, keeps every digest a `run_artifact` row
records or a live message holds, spares anything written in the last hour, and
stands aside entirely while a run is in flight, since a node may store a
checkpoint long before it returns the reference to it. That also collects the
orphans a deleted flow has always left behind. `ARTIFACT_GC_INTERVAL_S=0` turns
it off.

Around the edges: `GET /artifacts/{digest}` serves the media type the caller
passes and answers ranged requests, so a browser plays a clip rather than
downloading it; `PUT` spools to disk instead of holding the whole body in
memory, as does `save_artifact` given a path; a Media widget draws whatever its
message points at, and a wall panel may fetch the bytes its own tiles are
showing and nothing else; and a connector gets `save_artifact`, for a device
whose readings are bytes.

What this cannot do is live video: a frame every second or two is a glance, and
the honest answer above that is the camera's own stream, which the widget takes
as a URL and the browser plays from source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 23:44:55 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 180da3d640 Stop paying five Redis round trips and a global lock per message
The engine was I/O-bound on its own state backend. `RedisState.lock()` is one
key — `pipeline:_lock` — for the whole process, taken five times a message at
two round trips each, and every cascade and every node read queued behind it.
Inside it, reading a node's inputs was three round trips per input (an EXISTS
for `in`, then EXISTS and GET for the value), writing was two updates that a
single transaction already gives, and the version counters went one INCR at a
time.

Replaced with the atomic command that was always available: `get_present` is
one MGET and tells a missing key from one holding null, so the lock it used to
be read under bought nothing; value and timestamp land in one `update`, which
is a MULTI/EXEC; `increment_multi` pipelines the counters. `values()` — what
every websocket snapshot calls — is two reads whatever the message count
instead of two per message.

Beside that: every webhook did its blocking XADD on the asyncio event loop
(MQTT already used `to_thread`); the per-execution `NodeOutcome` was built and
validated even with no run watching; `_minute` built a tz-aware datetime per
event on the loop thread to key a dict, and now keys on an int; `move_due`
promoted delayed items one round trip each, every second; `FLOW_MAX_CASCADES`
makes the in-flight ceiling a setting rather than a constant.

`orjson` replaces stdlib json where a message pays for it — state, the
journal, the engine side of the worker pipe. `fluksio-worker` stays
dependency-free, and the run-cache digest stays on stdlib so no stored key is
invalidated. A non-finite number now stores as `null` rather than the bare
`NaN` that was never JSON.

Measured with `scripts/bench_engine.py` against a real Redis, 200 messages:
a five-node chain went from 43.9 to 103.1 msg/s with p50 latency 2110ms →
782ms and p95 3913ms → 1439ms; one source into twenty consumers went from 5.4
to 33.7 msg/s. In memory, twenty consumers went from 187 to 448 msg/s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BpfSinyCBfjuieikyfMPbf
2026-08-26 10:12:25 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 5726c80948 Say how much work is waiting, not just how much is running
`RedisWorkQueue.stats` read XPENDING, which counts entries delivered to a
consumer and not yet acknowledged — work in progress. Entries sitting in the
stream undelivered were counted nowhere, so an engine hours behind reported
itself idle: on the house, `pending: 4` while the group's lag was 1554.

The group's own `lag` is the missing number. `backlog` now carries it on both
queues (`len(_items)` in memory), leads the health tile, and a sustained one
publishes `engine_degraded` from the timer thread — named with the flow most
of the waiting work belongs to, sampled from the undelivered tail, since that
is the actionable half. It is a summary problem rather than a /utils/health
503: a backlog should not restart the container.

Also drops the keyspace `scan_iter` `stats()` did per poll to count parked
items — it walked every state and idempotency key twice per ten seconds — for
a set the park/unpark path maintains.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BpfSinyCBfjuieikyfMPbf
2026-08-26 09:43:23 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 4941c2787c Add fluksio status, and ask for a run's parameters at a terminal
Two halves of the same gap: the CLI could start work but not show you any.

`fluksio status` draws the home screen's top half in a terminal — health and
what is wrong with it, every flow with its state and node count, and the
recent runs and failures under them. `--watch` keeps it there. Rich does the
drawing; it was already installed under fastapi's own CLI, and is named now
because a command depends on it.

`fluksio run` with no parameters at a terminal asks for them, one line per
declared input with its declared value in brackets — so Enter through the lot
is what running the defaults looks like, and an artifact input takes the
`@run:` spelling the engine now resolves. A scripted run is untouched: passing
any parameter, or piping the command, skips the questions, as does --defaults.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019V5bsYGNxcgPs4xXmTPx69
2026-08-25 07:42:09 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 93374a310e Refuse what a node cannot publish, and stop timing out work that is fine
Four things the python SDK turned up, each fixed where every client sees it.

A key no port declares is now an error rather than a silent drop, on the
return, the yield and the emit alike — the contract the docs already stated.
The SDK reads literal yields at sync time, so a typo fails before anything
runs, and an emission of one fails the call rather than being logged where
nobody looks.

NaN and infinity are refused at the port. JSON cannot spell either, so one
that travelled came back as a 500, a socket frame that stopped the canvas, or
a metric batch the database dropped whole.

An artifact input takes `@run:<id>.<output>` or a bare digest, resolved on the
engine — so the CLI, the run dialog and a python caller mean the same thing,
and a sweep can pass one at all.

Node timeouts are off by default. The clock measured silence, which a training
node is full of, and remote workers had already stopped enforcing it — their
heartbeat reset it. Now a heartbeat proves the agent rather than the node,
ninety seconds of nothing fails the call either way, and the engine touches
work it is still running so a long node is not redelivered at sixty seconds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019V5bsYGNxcgPs4xXmTPx69
2026-08-25 07:30:14 +02:00
stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 60d7ec81c0 Rename the import package app to fluksio
A wheel whose top-level module is `app` collides with anything else in a
user's venv, so the package that is about to be published takes the name
it is published under. Only the Python package moves; the repo, the
Docker WORKDIR and the compose project keep theirs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 21:48:05 +02:00