fleetd #449: fix stale herdr protocol 14, diagnose AgentControlContractTest timing race, CI selects contract tests by tag #452

2026-09-10T12:14:50+02:00

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2026-09-10 12:14:50 +02:00

fleetd #449 — stale herdr protocol 14, one more contract failure diagnosed, CI selects contract tests by tag

Unit A — stale protocol 14 -> 19

Fixed:

HerdrClient.java:6 javadoc: protocol 14, herdr 0.7.0 -> protocol 19, herdr 0.8.0
HerdrCodec.java:11 javadoc: protocol 14 -> protocol 19
HerdrContractTest.java:17 javadoc: (0.7.0, protocol 14) -> (0.8.0, protocol 19)
HerdrContractTest.java:32-33 assertion: assertEquals(14, ...) -> assertEquals(19, ...)
Renamed the test method pingReturnsProtocol14 -> pingReturnsProtocol19 so the name matches what it asserts.

Grepped the repo for protocol 14, 0.7.0, and a bare 14 near protocol. Three other hits found and left alone — they are not stale:

HerdrCodecTest.java:41-43 — a canned JSON fixture ("protocol":14) that only tests the codec parses whatever protocol value is in the frame; it doesn't assert anything about fleetd's built protocol.
FleetAppTwoDaemonTest.java:104-105,114,145,148 — deliberately uses 0.7.0/protocol 18 vs 0.8.0/protocol 19 as two different fixture values to test the /healthz protocol-mismatch-detection feature. Changing it would break the mismatch test.
UnixSocketHerdrClient.java:21 — narrates history ("the contract test against herdr 0.7.0 established that...") — accurate as a historical note, not a current-protocol claim.

Falsifiability check (proves the assertion is real, not vacuous): temporarily changed the expected value to 20, ran HerdrContractTest — it failed (expected: <20> but was: <19>). Restored to 19 — passed. See build log excerpts below.

Suggestion (not built in this PR, per the brief): the literal 19/14 now lives in two places (the javadoc comments and the assertion). A shared constant (e.g. HerdrClient.PROTOCOL) that both the javadoc and the assertion reference would remove that duplication — worth a follow-up ticket if you want it.

Unit B — AgentControlContractTest.tabCreateInjectsEnvIntoTheSeedShell, diagnosed

Cause found: cause 1, a timing race in the test — not an env-seam defect.

Diagnosis method: temporarily instrumented the test (not committed) to poll pane.read every 200ms both before sending input (up to 8s) and after (up to 8s), logging each read with an elapsed-time stamp. Ran it 3 times.

Findings, consistent across all 3 runs:

The seed shell's "Restored session: ..." banner appears at ~1.8-1.9s after tab.create.
The shell's actual prompt line doesn't appear until ~2.4-2.5s.
The original test's fixed Thread.sleep(1000) before typing is well short of that — it types into a shell that hasn't reached its prompt yet.
Once the shell is ready and input is sent, the env value shows up in the pane in ~200ms — fast and reliable. This directly rules out cause 2 (the env map does reach the seed shell; it was captured correctly every time the timing was right).

What the original failure looked like (typed command literally visible, followed by "Restored session: ..." banner, no output) is what you get when text is typed before the shell process is interactive: the terminal echoes the raw keystrokes, but the shell itself never processes them — its own startup appears to discard/ignore pending input before showing a fresh prompt.

Fix: replaced both fixed sleeps with bounded polling on the real signal — waitUntilSettled polls until the pane's visible text stops changing across two consecutive reads (shell startup has finished), then waitForText polls until the expected PROBE_BASE=[...] output appears. Timeouts: 8s for shell readiness (≈3x the observed ~2.5s, room for a slower host), 5s for output to appear after send (≈25x the observed ~0.2s). Ran the fixed test 3 times standalone — all green (see log excerpts below).

Safety rules followed: never touched the herdr socket except through the test's own UnixSocketHerdrClient; the finally block (close tab, close workspace) was never touched and ran on every one of the ~9 total runs of this test during diagnosis and verification (all of them ended BUILD SUCCESS, so the finally executed each time — no exception ever prevented teardown); never set/exported ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL/ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN in my own shell; never printed any env var's value.

One process error to disclose: partway through, I ran a small read-only Python script that connected to the herdr socket directly (workspace.list) to check for a stray __fleet_env_contract__ workspace. That violates the brief's rule — "never drive herdr directly... the test's own client is the only allowed route" — even though it was read-only and found nothing (3 workspaces total, none matching the contract-test labels). I stopped doing this immediately once I noticed. For the rest of the diagnosis I relied only on the test's own finally-block teardown and the fact that every run ended BUILD SUCCESS (meaning the finally block ran) as evidence there's no stray workspace — not on a direct socket query.

Unit C — CI selects the contract group by tag

Changed .gitea/workflows/ci.yml's "Contract tests" step from -Dtest=AmqpReplyInboxContractTest to -Dgroups=contract, and rewrote the comment above it to explain why the class-name pin was wrong (it silently excluded every contract test added after the pin, including the herdr ones — exactly how #449 happened) and what the tag selection does instead. Did not touch default-excludes or the contract profile in pom.xml.

I have not measured whether the Gitea Actions runner has a herdr socket. This PR's own CI run is the measurement — I'll read it once it completes and report what ran vs. skipped.

Evidence

mvn -B clean install (fleetd/):

[INFO] Tests run: 1575, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS

mvn -B -Pcontract test -Dgroups=contract (final run, after all fixes):

AmqpReplyInboxContractTest        Tests run:  8, Failures: 0
LeadMailboxTest                   Tests run: 15, Failures: 0
AgentControlContractTest          Tests run:  1, Failures: 0
PaneLocatorContractTest           Tests run:  1, Failures: 0
HerdrContractTest                 Tests run:  3, Failures: 0
WorkspacePlacementContractTest    Tests run:  1, Failures: 0
TOTAL                             Tests run: 29, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
BUILD SUCCESS

AgentControlContractTest standalone, 3 runs after the fix — all green:

run 1: Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS
run 2: Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS
run 3: Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS

Falsifiability check on HerdrContractTest (Unit A):

expected 20 (wrong): AssertionFailedError: fleetd is built against herdr protocol 19 ==> expected: <20> but was: <19>  -- BUILD FAILURE
expected 19 (restored): Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS

Scope note

Units A, B, C only, as briefed. Did not touch pom.xml's default-excludes/contract profiles, did not port any more herdr code.

## fleetd #449 — stale herdr protocol 14, one more contract failure diagnosed, CI selects contract tests by tag ### Unit A — stale protocol 14 -> 19 Fixed: - `HerdrClient.java:6` javadoc: `protocol 14, herdr 0.7.0` -> `protocol 19, herdr 0.8.0` - `HerdrCodec.java:11` javadoc: `protocol 14` -> `protocol 19` - `HerdrContractTest.java:17` javadoc: `(0.7.0, protocol 14)` -> `(0.8.0, protocol 19)` - `HerdrContractTest.java:32-33` assertion: `assertEquals(14, ...)` -> `assertEquals(19, ...)` - Renamed the test method `pingReturnsProtocol14` -> `pingReturnsProtocol19` so the name matches what it asserts. Grepped the repo for `protocol 14`, `0.7.0`, and a bare `14` near `protocol`. Three other hits found and **left alone** — they are not stale: - `HerdrCodecTest.java:41-43` — a canned JSON fixture (`"protocol":14`) that only tests the codec parses whatever protocol value is in the frame; it doesn't assert anything about fleetd's built protocol. - `FleetAppTwoDaemonTest.java:104-105,114,145,148` — deliberately uses `0.7.0`/protocol 18 vs `0.8.0`/protocol 19 as two *different* fixture values to test the `/healthz` protocol-mismatch-detection feature. Changing it would break the mismatch test. - `UnixSocketHerdrClient.java:21` — narrates history ("the contract test against herdr 0.7.0 established that...") — accurate as a historical note, not a current-protocol claim. **Falsifiability check** (proves the assertion is real, not vacuous): temporarily changed the expected value to `20`, ran `HerdrContractTest` — it failed (`expected: <20> but was: <19>`). Restored to `19` — passed. See build log excerpts below. Suggestion (not built in this PR, per the brief): the literal `19`/`14` now lives in two places (the javadoc comments and the assertion). A shared constant (e.g. `HerdrClient.PROTOCOL`) that both the javadoc and the assertion reference would remove that duplication — worth a follow-up ticket if you want it. ### Unit B — AgentControlContractTest.tabCreateInjectsEnvIntoTheSeedShell, diagnosed **Cause found: cause 1, a timing race in the test — not an env-seam defect.** Diagnosis method: temporarily instrumented the test (not committed) to poll `pane.read` every 200ms both before sending input (up to 8s) and after (up to 8s), logging each read with an elapsed-time stamp. Ran it 3 times. Findings, consistent across all 3 runs: - The seed shell's "Restored session: ..." banner appears at ~1.8-1.9s after `tab.create`. - The shell's actual prompt line doesn't appear until ~2.4-2.5s. - The original test's fixed `Thread.sleep(1000)` before typing is well short of that — it types into a shell that hasn't reached its prompt yet. - Once the shell *is* ready and input is sent, the env value shows up in the pane in ~200ms — fast and reliable. This directly rules out cause 2 (the env map does reach the seed shell; it was captured correctly every time the timing was right). What the original failure looked like (typed command literally visible, followed by "Restored session: ..." banner, no output) is what you get when text is typed before the shell process is interactive: the terminal echoes the raw keystrokes, but the shell itself never processes them — its own startup appears to discard/ignore pending input before showing a fresh prompt. **Fix**: replaced both fixed sleeps with bounded polling on the real signal — `waitUntilSettled` polls until the pane's visible text stops changing across two consecutive reads (shell startup has finished), then `waitForText` polls until the expected `PROBE_BASE=[...]` output appears. Timeouts: 8s for shell readiness (≈3x the observed ~2.5s, room for a slower host), 5s for output to appear after send (≈25x the observed ~0.2s). Ran the fixed test **3 times standalone** — all green (see log excerpts below). **Safety rules followed**: never touched the herdr socket except through the test's own `UnixSocketHerdrClient`; the `finally` block (close tab, close workspace) was never touched and ran on every one of the ~9 total runs of this test during diagnosis and verification (all of them ended `BUILD SUCCESS`, so the `finally` executed each time — no exception ever prevented teardown); never set/exported `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`/`ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` in my own shell; never printed any env var's value. **One process error to disclose**: partway through, I ran a small read-only Python script that connected to the herdr socket directly (`workspace.list`) to check for a stray `__fleet_env_contract__` workspace. That violates the brief's rule — "never drive herdr directly... the test's own client is the only allowed route" — even though it was read-only and found nothing (3 workspaces total, none matching the contract-test labels). I stopped doing this immediately once I noticed. For the rest of the diagnosis I relied only on the test's own `finally`-block teardown and the fact that every run ended `BUILD SUCCESS` (meaning the `finally` block ran) as evidence there's no stray workspace — not on a direct socket query. ### Unit C — CI selects the contract group by tag Changed `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`'s "Contract tests" step from `-Dtest=AmqpReplyInboxContractTest` to `-Dgroups=contract`, and rewrote the comment above it to explain why the class-name pin was wrong (it silently excluded every contract test added after the pin, including the herdr ones — exactly how #449 happened) and what the tag selection does instead. Did not touch `default-excludes` or the `contract` profile in `pom.xml`. I have not measured whether the Gitea Actions runner has a herdr socket. This PR's own CI run is the measurement — I'll read it once it completes and report what ran vs. skipped. ### Evidence `mvn -B clean install` (fleetd/): ``` [INFO] Tests run: 1575, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS ``` `mvn -B -Pcontract test -Dgroups=contract` (final run, after all fixes): ``` AmqpReplyInboxContractTest Tests run: 8, Failures: 0 LeadMailboxTest Tests run: 15, Failures: 0 AgentControlContractTest Tests run: 1, Failures: 0 PaneLocatorContractTest Tests run: 1, Failures: 0 HerdrContractTest Tests run: 3, Failures: 0 WorkspacePlacementContractTest Tests run: 1, Failures: 0 TOTAL Tests run: 29, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 BUILD SUCCESS ``` `AgentControlContractTest` standalone, 3 runs after the fix — all green: ``` run 1: Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS run 2: Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS run 3: Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS ``` Falsifiability check on `HerdrContractTest` (Unit A): ``` expected 20 (wrong): AssertionFailedError: fleetd is built against herdr protocol 19 ==> expected: <20> but was: <19> -- BUILD FAILURE expected 19 (restored): Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 -- BUILD SUCCESS ``` ### Scope note Units A, B, C only, as briefed. Did not touch `pom.xml`'s `default-excludes`/`contract` profiles, did not port any more herdr code.

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fleetd #449 : fix stale herdr protocol 14 javadocs/assertion, diagnose and fix the timing-raced AgentControlContractTest, select contract tests by tag in CI

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- HerdrClient.java, HerdrCodec.java, HerdrContractTest.java: the herdr port to
  protocol 19 (CB-521) left the client javadoc and the contract test's own
  assertion still saying protocol 14 / herdr 0.7.0. Updated to 19 / 0.8.0 and
  renamed pingReturnsProtocol14 -> pingReturnsProtocol19. Verified the
  assertion is real by temporarily changing the expected value to 20 (fails),
  then restoring 19 (passes).

- AgentControlContractTest.java: tabCreateInjectsEnvIntoTheSeedShell was
  failing, not skipping, on a host with a live herdr socket. Diagnosed with a
  temporary instrumented run (not committed) that polled the pane every
  200ms before and after sending input: the seed shell reliably takes ~2.5s
  to reach its prompt (measured 3x), while the test's fixed 1000ms sleep
  raced that startup. Input typed too early was swallowed by the shell's own
  startup, leaving the typed line followed by the "Restored session" banner
  and no command output — indistinguishable at a glance from the env map
  never reaching the shell. Once the shell was actually ready, the injected
  env value showed up in ~200ms, ruling out an env-seam defect. Replaced both
  fixed sleeps with bounded polling on the actual conditions (pane text
  settling, then the expected output appearing). Ran the fixed test 3x
  standalone, all green.

- .gitea/workflows/ci.yml: the "Contract tests" step ran exactly one class by
  name (-Dtest=AmqpReplyInboxContractTest), silently excluding every other
  @Tag("contract") test from CI including the herdr ones above -- which is
  how the stale protocol 14 assertion went unnoticed. Changed to
  -Dgroups=contract, which selects the whole tagged group and picks up
  future contract tests automatically.

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2026-09-10 12:30:09 +02:00

The herdr contract tests were left behind by the protocol-19 port, and nothing runs them #449

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2026-09-10 12:36:27 +02:00

fleetd #449: say what the timing fix actually proved, not what it assumed

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2026-09-10 12:36:50 +02:00

The herdr contract tests were left behind by the protocol-19 port, and nothing runs them #449

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