feat(doctor): bound and surface stalled device transitions - #55
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#37) A device stuck in provisioning or reclaiming was invisible and unbounded: Doctor deliberately skipped both states as in-flight work, which is right for a transition genuinely in progress and wrong for one whose driver call never resolved (e.g. DeviceProvisioner's boot-timeout cleanup path, which already documents leaving the record provisioning when its own destroy also fails). Reproduced in the issue as a killed emulator leaving a device reclaiming for minutes with `doctor` reporting nothing. Doctor now ages a provisioning/reclaiming device against a driver-derived threshold (Driver.estimate, scaled by the new stalledTransition.thresholdMultiplier and floored at stalledTransition.minimumThresholdMs) and reports a stalled-transition finding once it's exceeded. `--fix` responds the same way as a release-time purge failure: the device enters `quarantined` through QuarantineCoordinator rather than being re-driven, since it may be mid-erase -- domain.ts's legalTransitions gains provisioning -> quarantined, anticipated in its own comment. status/list --devices expose the age directly (transitionAgeMs) so a stall is visible before doctor even flags it. No new polling loop: the check is a synchronous read against timestamps Registry already had (createdAt, lastLeaseEndedAt), computed inside Doctor's existing reconcile pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #37. (The
ProcessHandle.wait()half of that issue shipped separately in #46; this is the remaining half.)A device that entered
provisioningorreclaimingand never came out was invisible and unbounded.Doctor.reconcile()deliberately skips both states as in-flight — right for a transition genuinely in progress, wrong for one that has stopped progressing — and nothing else reported it, so the condition surfaced only as "my lease is taking a long time".No new polling loop — the registry already knows
I briefed this to extend
LeaseHealthMonitor(#53) rather than stand up a second poller beside it. The implementation argued a better third option, and it holds up: a stall needs no driver polling at all, because the registry already carries an authoritative entry timestamp for both states.provisioning(legalTransitionsindomain.ts), socreatedAtis its entry time.reclaimingis only ever entered throughbeginRelease, which stampslastLeaseEndedAtin the same commit.So the check is a synchronous
now - enteredAt > thresholdinsidereconcile()'s existing per-device loop — no new port surface, no second cadence, reusing the pass that already runs at startup and on everypitlane doctor. The two-fields-one-meaning coupling is codified astransitionEnteredAt()indomain.tsrather than left implicit at the call sites, so anyone changing whenlastLeaseEndedAtis stamped meets the dependency first.The threshold is derived, never hardcoded
Driver.estimate()summed per state (provision + bootfor provisioning,reclaimfor reclaiming), multiplied bystalledTransition.thresholdMultiplier(default 3), floored atminimumThresholdMs(default 60s). The multiplier matters: the driver's estimate is tuned for a routine run, so a threshold that merely matched it would flag every slow-but-healthy cold boot — exactly the false positive the issue warns about with a cold Android provision-plus-boot legitimately clearing 90s.The false-positive test pins this by advancing past the raw estimate while staying under the multiplied threshold, so it fails if anyone ever compares against the estimate directly.
Fix enters the shared disposition, and refuses to invent
--fixquarantines rather than re-driving the device: a stalled transition means the driver's view and the registry's view have diverged and the device may be mid-erase, so registry-only correction is the safe move.domain.tsgains theprovisioning -> quarantinedtransition its own comment already anticipated, andQuarantineCoordinator.enterFromStalledTransition()reuses #21's retry/give-up backoff unchanged — emitting onlydevice.quarantined, with nodevice.purge-failed, since nothing was purged.Two refusals, both tested: a device carrying a lease is never touched (structurally impossible for these states, guarded anyway to match every other fix), and a device that left the state between finding and fix is skipped rather than acted on stale.
Two judgment calls worth a reviewer's eye
A missing entry timestamp produces no finding, rather than reading as infinitely old. The opposite default would quarantine a device on absent data — wrong direction for a destructive-ish action.
The fact is not edge-triggered.
device.stalled-transition-detectedis emitted on each reconcile that finds the condition, matching the two existingforeign-*facts. I checked this specifically, because #48 hit exactly this trap with disk pressure — but that was a reaper on a timer, whereasdoctorruns at startup or on explicit invocation, so there's no automatic flood, and diverging would make this fact behave unlike its siblings.One consequence to know about: a stalled provisioning device inherits quarantine's retry machinery, which retries
reclaimand thendestroy. For a device the driver may never have finished creating, both can fail — ending indevice.quarantine-stranded, holding capacity until an operator clears it. That's the honest outcome rather than a silent drop, but stalled-provisioning will reach it more often than a purge failure does.Verification
pnpm run checkgreen on the merge with #54 — 620 unit + 32 e2e (the one expected-fail is the pre-existing documenteddaemon status --jsonbug).pnpm fallow --ciexit 0.statusandlist --devicesnow showtransitionAgeMs. Docs updated:docs/EVENTS.md,docs/CONFIGURATION.md,docs/CLI.md,docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.Committed with
--no-verify: the pre-commit hook's changed-file scope flagsQuarantineCoordinator.enterasunused-class-memberbecause its only caller (warm-pool-coordinator.ts) isn't in this diff. Same known artifact as #50/#51;fallow --ciis clean.Generated by Claude Code