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fix(engine): remove D1 hot-path amplification - #350

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Summary

  • stop steady fleet heartbeats from draining and scanning all pending workspace invocations
  • remove stale-presence UPDATE sweeps from roster and agent-detail reads
  • exclude expired pending deliveries at read time and add partial indexes for active presence and delivery paths
  • preserve drains on reconnect, handler-liveness, provider-liveness, and capacity-available transitions

Root cause

The prior query-plan fix made the pending-invocation scan cheaper, but the scan was still triggered by every node heartbeat. Agent reads also performed two presence UPDATE sweeps, and agent detail could walk retained delivery history. These request-amplification paths kept D1 work high even with the query-plan regression fixed.

Validation

  • mise exec node@22 -- npx turbo build
  • mise exec node@22 -- npx turbo test (67 engine files / 680 engine tests; all workspace tasks green)
  • mise exec node@22 -- npx turbo lint
  • focused engine conformance tests: 100 passed
  • git diff --check

Deployment

Includes migration 0042_d1_read_path_indexes.sql. A companion relaycast-cloud change provisions the missing Cloudflare Cron Trigger and moves durable presence cleanup onto scheduled maintenance.

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Companion infrastructure fix: https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relaycast-cloud/pull/80

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Walkthrough

The PR changes agent presence reads to avoid durable cleanup, filters expired deliveries from pending views, adds partial indexes for active records, and limits heartbeat queue drains to dispatchability transitions. Node registration now boxes Tungstenite errors.

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Read paths and active-record indexes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read paths and active-record indexes
packages/engine/src/engine/agent.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/delivery.ts, packages/engine/src/db/schema.ts, packages/engine/src/db/migrations/0042_d1_read_path_indexes.sql, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/agentLifecycle.test.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/delivery.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
Agent roster and detail reads derive stale presence without persisting status changes. Maintenance normalizes stale agents. Pending delivery reads exclude expired records and use deterministic ordering. Partial indexes support active agent and delivery queries.

Conditional heartbeat dispatch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Conditional heartbeat dispatch
packages/engine/src/ports/realtime.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/action.ts, packages/engine/src/adapters/node/realtime.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/node.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/node.test.ts, packages/engine/CHANGELOG.md
Heartbeat handling records provider-aware state and drains queued work after liveness, readiness, registration, or capacity transitions. Deferred work is included for eligible drains. Tests verify steady and full-capacity heartbeats do not drain work.

Node registration error propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Box node registration send errors
packages/sdk-rust/src/ws.rs
Node registration send failures now return boxed Tungstenite errors.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6c3ec

For legacy single-socket nodes without a provider row, steady heartbeats can still trigger repeated pending-invocation scans, bringing back the D1 read amplification this change is meant to eliminate. This creates a concrete production-performance risk and should be corrected before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Node
  participant HeartbeatState
  participant Realtime
  participant DrainNodeInvocations
  Node->>HeartbeatState: Load provider, liveness, readiness, and capacity state
  HeartbeatState-->>Node: Return dispatch transition state
  Node->>Realtime: Drain after registration or an eligible heartbeat transition
  Realtime->>DrainNodeInvocations: Pass includeDeferred
  DrainNodeInvocations-->>Realtime: Dispatch queued invocations
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Poem

A rabbit watched the heartbeat flow,
And sent deferred work when states said go.
Stale paws stayed read-only,
Expired parcels left the view,
Boxed errors helped clean failures show.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: reducing D1 hot-path amplification in the engine.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the D1 performance changes, affected paths, validation, and deployment requirements.
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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (2)
packages/engine/src/engine/node.ts (1)

1745-1748: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not treat a missing provider row as a heartbeat transition.

For a legacy single-socket node, prior.provider is absent by design. When message.handlers_live is true, !prior.provider is therefore true on every heartbeat. A live node then returns true from shouldDrainAfterHeartbeat, and Lines [1922]-[1926] start a forced pending-invocation scan on every steady heartbeat. This reintroduces the D1 read amplification that this PR removes.

Require an actual provider state transition here. Handle a newly created provider as a separate, explicit case. Add a regression test for a live legacy node with no provider row.

Proposed condition
-    && (!prior.provider || !isProviderLive(prior.provider) || !prior.provider.handlersLive)
+    && prior.provider
+    && (!isProviderLive(prior.provider) || !prior.provider.handlersLive)
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In `@packages/engine/src/engine/node.ts` around lines 1745 - 1748, Update
shouldDrainAfterHeartbeat so a missing prior.provider does not qualify as a
provider transition; only compare live-state changes when an actual prior
provider exists. Handle newly created providers in a separate explicit branch,
and add a regression test covering a live legacy node with no provider row to
ensure steady heartbeats do not trigger the pending-invocation scan.
packages/sdk-rust/src/ws.rs (1)

604-609: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the rationale above send_node_register.

The comment says that boxing is not used, but the implementation now returns Box<tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Error> and boxes the Sink::send error. Replace the comment with the current rationale so maintainers do not revert the boxed error fix.

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-// The error type is `tungstenite::Error`, fixed by the `Sink` bound this
-// function is generic over, and Rust 1.98's tightened `result_large_err`
-// threshold now flags it. Boxing would mean allocating on a path that only ever
-// forwards `write.send()`, and would change the signature of an external
-// crate's error for every caller — so the size is acknowledged rather than
-// worked around.
+// Box the `tungstenite::Error` returned by `Sink::send` so this helper keeps
+// a small error result while preserving the underlying send error.
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In `@packages/sdk-rust/src/ws.rs` around lines 604 - 609, Update the rationale
comment immediately above send_node_register to match the implementation:
document that the function returns a boxed tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Error
and boxes the Sink::send error to address Rust 1.98’s result_large_err
threshold, rather than claiming boxing is avoided.
🔇 Additional comments (7)
packages/sdk-rust/src/ws.rs (1)

611-614: LGTM!

Also applies to: 630-633

packages/engine/src/ports/realtime.ts (2)

65-69: LGTM!


197-201: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

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Verify every NodeConnectionRegistry implementation honors includeDeferred.

packages/engine/src/engine/node.ts now depends on { includeDeferred: true } to bypass retry delays after reconnect and readiness transitions. packages/engine/src/adapters/node/realtime.ts forwards the option, but another implementation could accept the optional parameter and ignore its behavior. Verify every implementation, including out-of-process adapters, and add a contract test for forced drains.

packages/engine/src/engine/action.ts (1)

15-15: LGTM!

Also applies to: 1622-1622, 1647-1649

packages/engine/src/adapters/node/realtime.ts (1)

5-5: LGTM!

Also applies to: 537-538, 591-612

packages/engine/src/engine/node.ts (1)

28-33: LGTM!

Also applies to: 1888-1890

packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/node.test.ts (1)

1-1: LGTM!

Also applies to: 1607-1607, 1677-1689

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Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/engine/src/engine/node.ts`:
- Around line 1745-1748: Update shouldDrainAfterHeartbeat so a missing
prior.provider does not qualify as a provider transition; only compare
live-state changes when an actual prior provider exists. Handle newly created
providers in a separate explicit branch, and add a regression test covering a
live legacy node with no provider row to ensure steady heartbeats do not trigger
the pending-invocation scan.

In `@packages/sdk-rust/src/ws.rs`:
- Around line 604-609: Update the rationale comment immediately above
send_node_register to match the implementation: document that the function
returns a boxed tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Error and boxes the Sink::send
error to address Rust 1.98’s result_large_err threshold, rather than claiming
boxing is avoided.

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