fix(orchestrator): key the in-flight dispatch guard where dispatch writes it (#367)

[khaliqgant]

Do not merge — Khaliq owns the merge gate.

Closes #367 (in part; see "What was already fixed" below).

What #367 asked for, and what was actually left

#367 was verified read-only against origin/main 2f32e69 (= released
0.1.73). Between then and this branch, bffa2da (#346) landed on main and
already converged the writer:

$ git show bffa2da -- src/orchestrator/factory.ts | grep -A1 'async #abandonStuckDispatch(record'
   async #abandonStuckDispatch(record: InFlightIssue, reason: string): Promise<void> {
-    const key = issueKey(record.issue)
+    const key = dispatchLifecycleKey(record.issue)

That was incidental to #346's post-spawn-fence work — it carried no test that
pins the invariant. So this PR does not re-fix item 1. It verifies it
mechanically, adds the must-fire/must-not-fire pair that #367 asked for, fixes
the second field that was still live, and lands the cross-check as a CI guard.

#abandonedDispatchReasons at this branch's base, every accessor, by hand and
by AST scan:

line	site	key
4417	#releaseOrphanedGithubLifecycle	candidate.key ← listDispatchLifecycles (lifecycle key space)
6426	#sweepHeldAgents	dispatchLifecycleKey(record.issue)
7344	#driveDispatchLifecycle(key)	caller at :7204 passes dispatchLifecycleKey (:7200)
9826	#dispatchLifecycleStillOwned	dispatchLifecycleKey(record.issue)
10944	#abandonStuckDispatch (writer)	dispatchLifecycleKey(record.issue)
11091	#abandonStuckDispatchFenced(…, key)	key param ← dispatchLifecycleKey

One key space. Nothing to change.

What this PR fixes: #dispatchInFlight (#367 item 2)

The issue called this one "dead rather than harmful". It is dead, and
load-bearing — which is worse than either.

src/orchestrator/factory.ts:4106 (base):

const dispatchCallActive = this.#dispatchInFlight.has(issueKey(lifecycle.issue))

Every entry in that map is written by dispatch() as
`${dispatchLifecycleKey(decision.issue)}:${dryRun ? 'dry-run' : 'live'}:${phase}` —
so the read is wrong twice: wrong key function, and missing the
:<dry-run|live>:<phase> suffix entirely. dispatchCallActive is
unconditionally false. stop() at :1531 already reads the map by its real
shape (`${key}:live:`), which is the precedent this follows.

What it guards: #githubOrphanRecoveryContext classifies a nonterminal
lifecycle with no live agent as an orphaned claim. At that point in the loop
activeIssueIdentities is seeded only from waiting clarifications — the
registry-agents pass runs after — so dispatchCallActive is the only
in-process signal that a dispatch() call owns this row right now. With it
dead, a dispatch parked in fleet.spawn (no agent on the roster yet, row still
dispatching) is orphan-shaped, and #releaseOrphanedGithubLifecycle renews
the lease with our own cached epoch — so it succeeds — and clears the claim
underneath the live call.

Fixed by reading the map by the shape it is written under — live only, both
phases, the same `${key}:live:` prefix stop() uses at :1531:

#hasDispatchCallInFlight(issue: IssueRef): boolean {
  const livePrefix = `${dispatchLifecycleKey(issue)}:live:`
  for (const key of this.#dispatchInFlight.keys()) {
    if (key.startsWith(livePrefix)) return true
  }
  return false
}

Both halves of that suffix were settled by review, in opposite directions:

• :dry-run:* excluded (codex P2). The dry-run half of the key is decided
  once and is the same value in both functions, and durableDispatch is
  !dryRun && … (:5140), so a dry-run call provably never claims a lifecycle.
  Matching it would preserve a genuinely orphaned claim.
• :live:escalation included (cubic P1, the counter-case). The phase half
  is NOT stable. dispatch() derives it from the incoming decision (:4983);
  #dispatchUnlocked re-derives the escalation reason from the post-routing
  decision (:5109); and authoritativeRoutedDecision (:19321) upgrades a
  routeless confidence: 'low' triage to 'high' once the live labels resolve
  a repository. So an escalation-keyed call does reach lifecycle creation, and
  narrowing to :live:dispatch alone reopened this defect for that path.

variant	:live:dispatch in flight	:live:escalation in flight
has(issueKey(issue)) — the #367 defect	fails	fails
has(…:live:dispatch)	passes	fails
…:live: prefix — shipping	passes	passes

Tests

Four new tests, two must-fire/must-not-fire pairs. Each pair's arms differ in
exactly one value, so swapping them fails both.

1. The abandon fence and the ownership predicate (#367 items 3 + 4) —
factory.test.ts, the abandon fence and the ownership predicate share a key space (#367).

The existing #303 late-placement coverage cannot see this defect: there the
abandon has already run to completion, so isTerminalDispatchLifecycle answers
on its own and the fence is never reached. These arms hold the abandoning
save open, which keeps the lease, the cached epoch and a nonterminal persisted
row all intact — every other arm of #dispatchLifecycleStillOwned says
"owned", so the fence is the only thing that can decide.

Ablation (writer reverted to the pre-#346 issueKey(record.issue), i.e. the
exact state #367 describes) — the must-fire fails, and for the right reason:

AssertionError: expected [] to deep equally contain { name: 'ar-367-impl-pear', … }
- Expected: { "name": "ar-367-impl-pear", "reason": "dispatch-released-before-placement" }
+ Received: [ { "name": "ar-367-impl-pear", "reason": "issue-abandoned" } ]

That received value is the production shape: the fence was invisible, so the
late placement was accepted onto a record the reaper had already fenced, and
the worker was only picked up much later by the abandon's own cleanup. The
CONTROL arm (agentlessHoldTimeoutMs moved out of reach, nothing else changed)
passes under the same ablation.

2. Orphan recovery vs. an in-flight dispatch (#367 item 2) —
factory.test.ts, orphan recovery sees a dispatch that is still in flight (#367).
Three arms: a live dispatch mid-spawn, an escalation-keyed call whose phase was
upgraded by routing, and the shared CONTROL with nothing in flight.

Ablation (dispatchCallActive reverted to the issueKey read) — both in-flight
arms fail:

× preserves the claim of a dispatch whose spawn has not returned  15091ms
Error: the readiness sweep never completed

The sweep classes the row as an orphan, recovers it, and re-dispatches the same
work unit — which joins the very dispatch() promise still parked on the spawn
gate. The assertion is deliberately bounded by withDeadline so that arrives
named rather than as a slow test. The CONTROL arm still releases the identical
claim once no dispatch is in flight.

CI guard (#367 item 5)

src/orchestrator/dispatch-keymap.test.ts — the cross-check from #367, on the
TypeScript AST, running under npm test (so it needs no workflow change).

For every this.#field.get/set/has/delete(…) in factory.ts it resolves the
argument to one of issueKey / dispatchLifecycleKey / dispatchIssueIdentity
/ issueStateKey / trackerKey — directly, through a same-scope const
binding, or through a template literal whose first interpolation is one (the
composite <key>:<dry-run>:<phase> shape, treated as its own key space, which
is what surfaces #dispatchInFlight) — and fails on any field keyed under more
than one.

To be exact about its reach on the field this PR fixes: the repaired read is a
startsWith scan, which is not a Map accessor, so #dispatchInFlight is
cross-checked on its writes only. The three behavioural arms above are what
protect the read.

At this branch's base it reports exactly the mismatch this PR fixes:

MISMATCH #dispatchInFlight
    dispatchLifecycleKey+composite: 4987, 4994, 5000, 5001
    issueKey: 4106

fields analysed: 33; fields keyed by >1 key-function: 0   ← after the fix

Its coverage is stated, not implied. A key arriving as a function parameter
is not resolved; those 251 sites are reported as unresolved and still need
review by hand (this is the blind spot #367 itself called out at :6730). The
second test in that file is the must-not-fire for the guard: a scan that stopped
resolving anything would otherwise report zero mismatches and pass silently, so
it asserts a floor on the resolved-field count and that the two fields at issue
are among them.

Live attribution — deliberately not claimed

#367 may or may not relate to the live stuck-slot symptom. factory-cloud#78
already cleared that occupant, and the current production dispatch outage is a
separate readiness-sweep hang owned elsewhere. Nothing here is offered as an
explanation for any production symptom; these are proven correctness bugs and
are worth fixing on that basis alone.

Not touched: #330 (sibling cleanup, still open).

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The change fixes in-flight dispatch detection by matching live lifecycle keys, adds regression coverage for abandonment and orphan recovery, and introduces a compiler-based static check for inconsistent map and set key functions.

Changes

Dispatch lifecycle correctness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
In-flight dispatch detection src/orchestrator/factory.ts, src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts	FactoryLoop now detects live dispatch calls through #hasDispatchCallInFlight. Tests cover dispatch and escalation phases and verify claim release after completion.
Abandonment lifecycle regressions src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts	Regression tests cover paused abandonment, late placement release, and acceptance when the abandonment deadline does not fire.
Key-map consistency analysis src/orchestrator/dispatch-keymap.test.ts	A TypeScript AST scan checks resolvable FactoryLoop field accessors for consistent key functions and verifies that unresolved sites remain visible.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9bfa5

The PR fixes dispatch ownership detection and adds targeted regression coverage, but the new guard does not yet catch mutable local rebinding or Set.add key writes, and one control test should await a pending dispatch during cleanup to avoid test-side unhandled rejections. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded issues.

Suggested reviewers: kjgbot, miyaontherelay

Poem

A rabbit checks each lifecycle key,

While live calls hide no more.
Tests guard fences through the night,
Maps keep one key at the door.
The burrow builds a watchful light.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: correcting the in-flight dispatch guard to use the key format written by dispatch().
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the key mismatch fix, regression tests, AST-based CI guard, and scope relative to issue #367.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The pull request satisfies issue #367. It corrects #dispatchInFlight key detection for both live phases, verifies the already-converged #abandonedDispatchReasons key invariant, adds must-fire and must…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The production change, regression tests, and static-analysis guard all support the objectives in issue #367. No unrelated code changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…

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The pull request satisfies issue #367. It corrects #dispatchInFlight key detection for both live phases, verifies the already-converged #abandonedDispatchReasons key invariant, adds must-fire and must-not-fire tests, and adds the requested keymap cross-check.

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Restrict the lifecycle guard to live dispatch entries

When a live GitHub orphan-recovery sweep overlaps either an explicit dry-run dispatch or a triage escalation for the same work unit, this broad prefix matches those :dry-run:* and :live:escalation entries and marks the durable lifecycle active. Neither call can own that lifecycle—the dry-run path skips durable dispatch entirely, and escalation returns before lifecycle creation—so an actually orphaned factory:in-progress claim is incorrectly preserved until a later sweep. Match only the exact :live:dispatch entry, analogous to the existing live-only filtering in stop().

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[khaliqgant]

Agreed, and fixed in 658032b. I checked both premises against this head before taking it rather than on the description alone:

• dry run — #dispatchUnlocked:5140: const durableDispatch = !dryRun && this.#usesDurableDispatchLifecycle(). A :dry-run:* call never claims a lifecycle.
• escalation — #dispatchUnlocked:5109-5114: if (escalationReason) { … return … } returns above :5140, so a :live:escalation call never reaches lifecycle creation either.

So neither can own the durable row this guard protects, and matching them preserves a genuinely orphaned factory:in-progress claim until a later sweep. The guard is now an exact lookup on the one key that can own it:

#hasDispatchCallInFlight(issue: IssueRef): boolean {
  return this.#dispatchInFlight.has(`${dispatchLifecycleKey(issue)}:live:dispatch`)
}

Two notes on what changed beyond the narrowing itself.

The failure direction was benign — a preserved orphan is picked up by the next sweep, whereas a released live claim kills a running dispatch — so this is precision rather than a second correctness bug. I say that to be accurate about severity, not to argue against the change.

It also improved the CI guard this PR adds. The prefix scan was a startsWith loop, which is not a Map accessor, so dispatch-keymap.test.ts could not classify the read at all and #dispatchInFlight was covered on its writes only. The exact .has() lookup is a template literal whose first interpolation is dispatchLifecycleKey, so the field is now cross-checked on both sides.

Ablation re-run after the narrowing, so the guard is still load-bearing and not merely tightened into a no-op: reverting to the original has(issueKey(lifecycle.issue)) still fails preserves the claim of a dispatch whose spawn has not returned with Error: the readiness sweep never completed.

Not covered: I did not build a fixture in which a live orphan-recovery sweep overlaps a dry-run or escalation dispatch for the same work unit. The existing pair covers the direction that would re-open #367 (a live dispatch must stay preserved); over-narrowing is what it catches, under-narrowing is not. Flagging that rather than implying the narrowing is itself under test.

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[khaliqgant]

Follow-up on fcd95a9, and a correction to my reply above.

Your dry-run half stands and is kept. Your escalation half does not, and cubic caught why on the next pass: the phase component of a #dispatchInFlight key is not stable between the two functions. dispatch() derives it from the incoming decision (:4983), but #dispatchUnlocked re-derives the escalation reason from the post-routing decision (:5109), and authoritativeRoutedDecision (:19321) upgrades a routeless confidence: 'low' triage to 'high' once the live labels resolve a repository. An escalation-keyed call then falls through the :5109 return and creates a lifecycle — so :live:dispatch alone missed a real owner and reopened #367 for that path.

I checked the escalation claim against #dispatchUnlocked:5109 when I took your finding, which is where the early return is — but not against :5107, one line above it, where the decision it tests is rebuilt. That is my error, not a bad finding: the return you cited does exist and does precede lifecycle creation. It just is not reached for the decision dispatch() keyed.

The guard is now the `${key}:live:` prefix — dry-run excluded on your reasoning, both live phases matched on cubic's. Detail and the ablation table are on cubic's thread; a new must-fire pins the transition.

Also correcting myself: I claimed the exact-.has() form brought this read inside dispatch-keymap.test.ts's coverage. The prefix scan gives that up, so the field is cross-checked on its writes only and the behavioural arms protect the read.

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CI note: an intermittent hang that is not this PR

Recording this because this branch's CI history looks worse than the change is, and because it is currently costing every PR and main itself.

src/cli/teammate-mcp.test.ts > exposes discover and bounded ask to the spawned worker through its injected MCP server intermittently hangs and is cut off by vitest's default 5s timeout:

Error: Test timed out in 5000ms.
If this is a long-running test, pass a timeout value as the last argument or configure it globally with "testTimeout".
 ❯ src/cli/teammate-mcp.test.ts:9:3

It is not slow-and-marginal. Measured five consecutive isolated runs on this branch: 282ms, 312ms, 289ms, 295ms, 618ms — roughly 300ms against a 5000ms ceiling, so the failures are a hang, not overrun. vitest.config.ts sets no testTimeout, so the 5s default is what surfaces it.

Not attributable to this branch:

• Untouched here — git diff bffa2da..HEAD -- src/cli/teammate-mcp.test.ts is empty. The file arrives with 92a6c24 (139: "Who can I ask?" — discover teammate agents by skill and engage them; publish cards for hosted personas #178), an ancestor of this branch's base.
• main's own tip 952d450e fails the identical test with the identical message, in a CI run that started one minute before this branch's. main is red on it independently.
• Reproduces locally, off CI, so it is not a runner-load artifact.
• Structurally unreachable from this change: #hasDispatchCallInFlight has exactly one caller, #githubOrphanRecoveryContext, gated at :3344 behind issueSource === 'github', which that test does not use.

A/B, because a single unpaired comparison suggested otherwise and was wrong. Alternating this branch's factory.ts against the base's, three rounds back to back, same isolated test:

round	base	this branch
1	pass	pass
2	pass	pass
3	pass	pass

An earlier one-off "base passes, mine fails" was load, not causation. Stating it because I reported that comparison before running the paired version.

CI history on unchanged code (fcd95a9), three attempts, no new commit:

attempt	result	failures
1	failure	3 tests in factory.test.ts (:22962, :28638, :30058) — did not recur
2 (rerun)	failure	teammate-mcp.test.ts 5s timeout — same as main
3 (rerun)	success	—

Three different outcomes from one commit. The green is real, but one green run on a suite behaving like this is weaker evidence than it looks, and I would rather say so than present it as clean.

Not fixing it here: it belongs to whoever owns #178 / 92a6c24, and adding a global testTimeout would be a repo-wide change well outside #367. Flagging it as a blocker on the suite rather than working around it.

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src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts (1)

14343-14376: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Await dispatched in the finally block of the control arm.

The control arm awaits dispatched at Line 14363 inside try. If an assertion or vi.waitFor above that line fails, the finally block runs factory.stop() and rm(root, ...) while the dispatch() promise is still pending. The in-flight dispatch can then reject after the directory is removed, which surfaces as an unhandled rejection in an unrelated test. The must-fire arm at Line 14331 already awaits the promise in finally.

♻️ Proposed fix

       } finally {
         spawnGate.resolve()
         abandoningGate.resolve()
+        await dispatched.catch(() => undefined)
         await factory.stop()
         await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
       }

Keep the bare await dispatched at Line 14363 so a real dispatch failure still fails the control arm.

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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts` around lines 14343 - 14376, Update the
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removing the temporary root, while retaining the existing await dispatched in
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Inline comments:
In `@src/orchestrator/dispatch-keymap.test.ts`:
- Around line 96-99: Update the variable-declaration handling in the scanner so
only immutable const bindings are recorded with their initializer’s key
function; exclude let and var declarations, or otherwise invalidate their stored
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- Line 39: Update the ACCESSORS set to include add so Set.add operations such as
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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts`:
- Around line 14343-14376: Update the control test’s finally block to await
dispatched before stopping the factory or removing the temporary root, while
retaining the existing await dispatched in the try block so genuine dispatch
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Addressed: the review-body nitpick on the control arm's teardown (61a251b)

Replying here rather than in a thread because this finding was posted inside a review body, so it has no thread to reply to — and by the same token it does not appear in a reviewThreads query. Every inline thread on this PR reads resolved; this one still needed doing. Recording that so the zero-unresolved count is not mistaken for zero-outstanding.

The finding is valid. The it.each control declared dispatched inside its try:

try {
  const dispatched = startDispatch().catch(() => undefined)
  await withDeadline(spawnStarted.promise, 12_000, 'the spawn was never entered')
  …
} finally {
  spawnGate.resolve()
  await factory.stop()
  await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
}

A throw at that withDeadline leaves the dispatch running across factory.stop() and rm(root), and its late rejection surfaces from teardown instead of the assertion that actually failed — the failure gets misattributed to the cleanup. It was also the only one of the three arms not already hoisting and draining; the two must-not-fire arms do. Now all three share one shape.

The .catch(() => undefined) stays deliberately: a finally that can itself throw is the same misattribution in the other direction. What proves the dispatch really landed a lifecycle is the githubOrphanedLifecycleClaimsReleased assertion, not the drain.

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Review tally on this PR, since it is more informative than the diff: 7 findings, all valid — codex 1, cubic 3, CodeRabbit 3. Five of the seven were errors I introduced during this PR rather than pre-existing defects, including one where taking an earlier suggestion at face value reopened the very bug being fixed for a different code path. The shipped change is small; it got there through review.

[khaliqgant]

Merge-gate status at 61a251b

Do not merge — Khaliq owns the merge gate. This is the state to decide from, including the one gap.

CI

$ gh run list --repo AgentWorkforce/factory --branch fix/367-abandon-fence-key
CI | completed | success | 61a251b6edad1bb5c50ce5025a21eaf0ca8396ac

PR head 61a251b6… = local head 61a251b6…. Jobs: package, kubernetes-provider-e2e, load-e2e, verification-gate-e2e, verification-stack-e2e — all success. Local: build exit 0, suite 2258 passed / 1 skipped, exit 0.

Caveat already recorded above: this suite is flaky. fcd95a9 needed three attempts on unchanged code (red / red / green). Read one green run accordingly.

Review coverage, by head

reviewer	last head reviewed	outcome
cubic	61a251b (final)	0 issues found across 1 file (changes from recent commits) — file count matches this commit, so it is a real re-review
CodeRabbit	67da8da	has not reviewed the final head
codex	8a78d43	1 finding, answered twice; thread now outdated

The gap worth knowing about: 61a251b is unreviewed by CodeRabbit, and 61a251b is the commit that implements CodeRabbit's own review-body nitpick. Its Request CodeRabbit review check is green on this head, but that check goes green because the request posted — CodeRabbit's last comment still reads Review limit reached (free OSS tier). I am not treating that green check as coverage.

The change in question is test-only: hoisting dispatched out of a try so finally can drain it, matching the two sibling arms. Low risk, and cubic did cover it. Your call whether that is sufficient or whether it should wait for a CodeRabbit pass.

Findings

7, all valid — codex 1, cubic 3, CodeRabbit 3. Five of the seven were errors I introduced during this PR rather than pre-existing defects; one of those was taking an earlier review suggestion at face value, which reopened the bug being fixed for a different code path until cubic caught it. Each has its own commit and a recorded ablation.

Not addressed here, deliberately

• src/cli/teammate-mcp.test.ts intermittently hangs to the 5s vitest default. Untouched by this branch, red on main's tip, reproduces locally, ~300ms normally. Evidence in the comment above. Belongs to 139: "Who can I ask?" — discover teammate agents by skill and engage them; publish cards for hosted personas #178 / 92a6c24.
• [factory] Retire #deduplicateQueuedGithubLifecycleAliases now that the claim key is provider-neutral #330, the sibling cleanup, is still open and out of scope.
• No claim is made that [factory] #329 left the only writer of #abandonedDispatchReasons on issueKey while all three readers use dispatchLifecycleKey #367 explains any production symptom.