[world-vercel] Fail the run on a lost event payload instead of retrying forever - #3742
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A frame stream that dies mid-body reaches us as a truncated response, which
is exactly what a dropped socket looks like. So an event whose stored payload
is permanently gone was indistinguishable from a transient blip, and the
runtime kept redelivering a replay that could never succeed: one run re-read
a single missing payload 12,932 times in 26 minutes, and the backend query
behind each attempt throttled its table.
The World now sends a terminal `{_error: 1, code}` frame for failures that a
retry cannot fix. Handle it:
- `payload-missing` raises `CorruptedEventLogError`, so the run fails with
`CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG` rather than looping. The log does reference a payload
nothing can produce.
- An unknown code raises a `WorkflowWorldError` with no retryable code and no
status, which is also terminal. A future code stays safe without needing a
client release first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🧪 E2E Test Results❌ Some tests failed ❌ Failed E2E Tests▲ Vercel Production (2 failed)express-quickjs (1 failed):
sveltekit-quickjs (1 failed):
vercel-http-transport (1 failed)express (1 failed):
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| ❌ ▲ Vercel Production | 3576 | 2 | 742 | 4320 |
| ✅ 💻 Local Development | 3922 | 0 | 558 | 4480 |
| ✅ 📦 Local Production | 3922 | 0 | 558 | 4480 |
| ✅ 🐘 Local Postgres | 3922 | 0 | 558 | 4480 |
| ✅ 🪟 Windows | 160 | 0 | 0 | 160 |
| ✅ 🌐 Cross-language Conformance | 9 | 0 | 132 | 141 |
| ❌ vercel-http-transport | 816 | 1 | 143 | 960 |
| ✅ vercel-multi-region | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| ✅ vercel-ws-transport | 553 | 0 | 87 | 640 |
| Total | 16907 | 3 | 2778 | 19688 |
Details by Category
❌ ▲ Vercel Production
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| ✅ astro-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ astro-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ example-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ example-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ express-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ❌ express-quickjs | 131 | 1 | 28 |
| ✅ fastify-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ fastify-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ hono-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ hono-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nest-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nest-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-node | 157 | 0 | 3 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-quickjs | 157 | 0 | 3 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-node | 157 | 0 | 3 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-quickjs | 157 | 0 | 3 |
| ✅ nitro-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nitro-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nuxt-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nuxt-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ python-node | 8 | 0 | 152 |
| ✅ sveltekit-node | 151 | 0 | 9 |
| ❌ sveltekit-quickjs | 150 | 1 | 9 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ vite-node | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ vite-quickjs | 132 | 0 | 28 |
✅ 💻 Local Development
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| ✅ astro-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ astro-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ express-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ express-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ fastify-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ fastify-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ hono-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ hono-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nest-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nest-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary-node | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary-quickjs | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable-node | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-canary-node | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-canary-quickjs | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-stable-node | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-stable-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nitro-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nitro-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nuxt-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nuxt-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ sveltekit-stable-node | 153 | 0 | 7 |
| ✅ sveltekit-stable-quickjs | 153 | 0 | 7 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ vite-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ vite-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
✅ 📦 Local Production
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| ✅ astro-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ astro-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ express-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ express-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ fastify-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ fastify-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ hono-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ hono-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nest-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nest-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary-node | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary-quickjs | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable-node | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-canary-node | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-canary-quickjs | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-stable-node | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-stable-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nitro-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nitro-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nuxt-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nuxt-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ sveltekit-stable-node | 153 | 0 | 7 |
| ✅ sveltekit-stable-quickjs | 153 | 0 | 7 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ vite-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ vite-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
✅ 🐘 Local Postgres
| App | Passed | Failed | Skipped |
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| ✅ astro-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ astro-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ express-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ express-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ fastify-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ fastify-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ hono-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ hono-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nest-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nest-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary-node | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary-quickjs | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable-node | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-canary-node | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-canary-quickjs | 141 | 0 | 19 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-stable-node | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nextjs-webpack-stable-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
| ✅ nitro-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nitro-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nuxt-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ nuxt-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ sveltekit-stable-node | 153 | 0 | 7 |
| ✅ sveltekit-stable-quickjs | 153 | 0 | 7 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ tanstack-start-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ vite-stable-node | 134 | 0 | 26 |
| ✅ vite-stable-quickjs | 134 | 0 | 26 |
✅ 🪟 Windows
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| ✅ nextjs-turbopack-quickjs | 160 | 0 | 0 |
✅ 🌐 Cross-language Conformance
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| ✅ python | 9 | 0 | 132 |
❌ vercel-http-transport
| App | Passed | Failed | Skipped |
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| ✅ example | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ❌ express | 131 | 1 | 28 |
| ✅ hono | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack | 157 | 0 | 3 |
| ✅ nitro | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ vite | 132 | 0 | 28 |
✅ vercel-multi-region
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| ✅ nextjs-turbopack | 27 | 0 | 0 |
✅ vercel-ws-transport
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| ✅ example | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ express | 132 | 0 | 28 |
| ✅ nextjs-turbopack | 157 | 0 | 3 |
| ✅ vite | 132 | 0 | 28 |
📊 Workflow Benchmarkscommit Backend:
Streams
📈 STSO distribution vs main (inline / queue-hop histograms)1020 steps (inline) Cumulative STSO time: main 142387ms → this run 140687ms (Δ -1700ms, -1%) 📈 CRTT drill-down vs main (RTT distributions & profiles)RTT over stream progress (avg per tenth of stream, bars scaled min→max): RTT by chunk size (avg per log size bin, ~160B → ~12KB serialized, bars scaled min→max): Delivery jitter over stream progress (avg positive CDV per tenth of stream, bars scaled min→max): ℹ️ Metric definitions & methodologyStreams: first-chunk RTT (the stream-open path, before any buffering/backpressure), CRTT percentiles, and worst delivery stall (CDV max). Cells are medians across iterations; per-run values in the artifacts. No 🔴/🟢 marks until targets attach. The collapsed STSO distribution section above buckets every step gap, split inline (same warm process — pure framework overhead) vs queue-hop (fresh process — dispatch, reinit, replay). The collapsed CRTT drill-down: per-variant RTT histograms (fixed log bins, Best/P75/P90/P99 deltas compare against the most recent benchmark run on Metrics — TTFS: time to first step body (in-deployment start() → first step body) · Fan-out TTFS: fan-out time to first step (in-deployment start() → first of the parallel step bodies to complete) · Fan-out TTLS: fan-out time to last step (in-deployment start() → last of the parallel step bodies to complete, i.e. when the Promise.all resolves) · STSO: step-to-step overhead (gap between consecutive step bodies) · WO: workflow overhead (whole-run time outside step bodies, in-deployment anchored) · CRTT: chunk round-trip time (per-chunk write → read latency, one clock domain: deployment → stream backend → same deployment) · CDV: chunk delay variation / delivery jitter (inter-arrival gap minus inter-write gap per seq-adjacent pair; skew-free; the row is each run's MAX positive value, so one stall moves it) Scenarios — step: one trivial no-op step, no stream; no hooks, so the run stays in turbo mode (in-process fast path) · stream: one streaming step; no hooks, so the run stays in turbo mode (in-process fast path) · hook + stream: registers a hook before one step, which exits turbo mode (dispatch path) · 1020 steps: 1020 trivial sequential steps; STSO is measured between consecutive steps in the given step ranges, and WO is the whole-run overhead outside step bodies · Promise.all(100 steps): 100 trivial no-op steps started together in a single Promise.all; Fan-out TTFS is the first of them to complete and Fan-out TTLS the last, both from the in-deployment clientStart, so their gap is the spread the runtime adds across the fan-out · paced control (100/s, 60B): the control: 300 tiny (~60B) deltas metronome-paced at 100/s — zero workload structure, so it reads the transport floor and flush cadence, and disambiguates transport-wide vs workload-specific when a replay row moves · size sweep (100/s, 160B-12KB): same pacing as the control with deltas padded in rotation across seven log-spaced sizes (~160B–12KB) — rotation decouples size from stream position, so it isolates whether chunk size causes latency · replay gateway-gpt-5.4-nano-2000t (1x): raw provider SSE cadence captured at the AI gateway boundary (gpt-5.4-nano, the most popular gateway model; per-token deltas p50 208B = the modal production chunk size), replayed exactly as measured — the typical customer's workload; its CDV is the typical customer's real delivery jitter · replay eve-gpt-5.6-sol-2000t (1x): a captured eve turn (gpt-5.6-sol, the most-used demanding eve model; ~2000 output tokens = production p50 turn length) replayed exactly as measured — eve's envelope protocol re-ships the cumulative message so sizes ramp 142B→13KB; the demanding outlier tenant's reality · replay eve-gpt-5.6-sol-2000t (2x): the same eve capture at 2x — the headroom/stress row; real fast-tier models emit the same chunk sizes at proportionally higher rate, so time compression is a faithful speed model · first chunk (pooled): every run's seq-0 RTT pooled across all stream scenarios — the first chunk precedes any workload differentiation, so pooling samples one shared stream-open path with exact percentiles Replay cadences (semantic sha256) — eve-gpt-5.6-sol-2000t 🔴 marks a percentile over its target (within target is left unmarked). Targets (p75/p90/p99, ms) — TTFS 200/300/600 All timestamps are deployment-side; runs are triggered in-deployment, so the CI runner and api.vercel.com sit outside every measured window. TTFS = Cold starts stay in the numbers (real bursty-workload latency, inflates P75+); Best is the warm floor. |
Sim WorldSimulated world deterministic testing for races. Traces 🟠 world-sim scenario book — 1 fail of 41 total
Full trace: |
1 participant
Problem
A frame stream commits to
200with its first byte, so a failure partway through the body has no status code left to carry it. The World's only way to signal one was to error the body, which reaches us as a truncated response. That is also exactly what a dropped socket looks like, so the runtime could not tell "retry me" from "this can never work" and kept redelivering.When the failure is an event payload that no longer exists in storage, every redelivery re-reads the same absent object. One production run re-read a single missing payload 12,932 times in 26 minutes, and the backend event query behind each attempt is what throttled its table.
Change
The World now ends such a stream with a terminal
{_error: 1, code, message}frame instead of erroring the body. This PR consumes it:payload-missing→CorruptedEventLogError, so the run fails withCORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG. That is accurate: the log references a payload nothing can produce.WorkflowWorldErrorwith no retryable code and no status, so it is terminal too. A code this client has never heard of does not become a redelivery loop, and a future one can be handled explicitly later without needing a client release first.Transient failures are unchanged: the World still errors the body for those, and the runtime still redelivers, which is the right move.
Compatibility
The decoder already rejected any unrecognized
_-prefixed control frame, so a client without this change fails loudly on the new frame rather than mistaking a short log for a complete one. It still retries; only a client that knows the code can stop.Tests
payload-missingproduces aCorruptedEventLogErrornaming the ref, and is not aWorkflowWorldError(so not redelivered).WorkflowWorldError(no status, non-retryable code).packages/core:isRetryableWorldError(CorruptedEventLogError)isfalse, next to the existingCORRUPTED_EVENT_LOGmapping assertion.Full
@workflow/world-vercelsuite passes (558 tests).Notes
WORKFLOW_SERVER_URL_OVERRIDEis temporarily pointed at that branch's preview so E2E exercises the new frame; it reverts to''before merge, and theNo Test Overrides/Biomefailures on it are expected until then.CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOGdocs updated to mention an unreadable stored payload as a cause.