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Problem

Coverage shards fail intermittently on PRs that do not touch the code involved, ejecting PRs from the merge queue. Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1466.

The named flake is src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.test.ts, step "scheduled prune bound ... sweeps a stale persisted-request lock whose request was never written" — seen failing then passing on rerun on #4505 (shard 1/4) and #4504 (shard 4/4).

Root cause (a real defect, proven)

A scheduled prune runs from a timer callback, so no caller owns its promise and nothing could wait for it (jsx-cache.ts:1778, void (async () => {...})()). inFlightJsxCachePrunes tracked only key strings, never the promises, so waitForJsxCacheMaintenanceForTests could not settle them.

cancelScheduledJsxCachePrunes() cleared the timers it could see, but a pass already suspended on its filesystem scan resumed afterwards and armed the follow-up work its own bookkeeping asked for. The new timer then fired inside whichever test happened to be running:

A timer was started before the test, but completed during the test.
  at scheduleJsxCachePruneRetry           (jsx-cache.ts:1771)
  at promotePersistedJsxCachePruneRequest (jsx-cache.ts:1537)
  at async primordialPromiseThen          (primordials/promise.ts:27)

Because the timer lands on whichever test is running, the step named in CI is a symptom, not the location of the bug — which is consistent with the flake moving between shards and passing on rerun.

Fix

  • Cancellation is now a fence. Each pass captures a generation counter when it starts and re-arms only while that generation is current, so a pass resuming after a cancellation declines to schedule the follow-up timer or promotion instead of racing teardown for it.
  • In-flight passes are retained as promises rather than bare keys, so waitForJsxCacheMaintenance can settle them. Cancelling cannot unwind filesystem work already issued, so teardown has to await it.
  • waitForJsxCacheMaintenanceForTests → waitForJsxCacheMaintenance: draining the module's background work is the module's own contract, not a test-only affordance.
  • Five follow-up commits address review findings from Codex and CodeRabbit, all threads resolved:
    • post-cancellation promotion requests no longer strand (the fence was applied too broadly);
    • overlapping prune passes get independent identity, so teardown cannot lose one;
    • the three retries a scheduled pass can arm inside the scan are fenced by its generation;
    • a fenced promotion that rejects still pumps whatever else is pending.
  • One finding is deliberately deferred: the retries in recoverStaleFilesystemLease are shared with the serve/refresh/write paths, where the retry is wanted, so fencing them needs the generation carried rather than passed. Tracked as veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1474.

Sanitizers were already enabled for this file and stay enabled; no sanitize*: false is added.

Verification — and an important caveat

What is proven:

  • The regression test should leave no armed timer when cancellation lands mid-promotion is deterministic (it cancels synchronously while the promotion is suspended; no wall-clock dependency) and was checked red/green: it fails with the generation fence removed and passes with it.
  • deno fmt, deno lint, deno check clean. lint:check-awaits, lint:sanitizer-baseline (340/340), lint:testing-front-door, lint:test-semantic-dispositions all pass.
  • The four MDX integration suites that use the renamed teardown API pass.
  • Full CI green on commit 940b3d5, including all four coverage shards.

What is not proven, stated plainly:

  • I first reproduced the flake locally at 1 failure in 30 runs — but that loop ran without the environment CI actually uses (UNIT_DENO_TEST_ENV from scripts/test/suites.ts: DENO_TESTING=1, VF_DISABLE_LRU_INTERVAL=1, VERYFRONT_TEST_OFFLINE_REACT=1, …). Re-running the pre-fix code 30 times under the CI-exact env produced 0 failures, so that reproduction does not establish what I thought it did.
  • 0/30 is still consistent with a ~3% flake rate, so this neither confirms nor refutes that the fixed defect is the cause of fix(agent): treat file-only messages as empty conversation to prevent EMPTY_COMPLETION #1466. This PR should be treated as a real, independently verified bug fix that is a plausible cause, not as a confirmed reproduction of the CI flake. fix(agent): treat file-only messages as empty conversation to prevent EMPTY_COMPLETION #1466 should stay open until a shard flake is observed or ruled out after this lands.

Correction on the separate "pending promise" symptom

An earlier revision of this description claimed the Promise resolution is still pending but the event loop has already resolved shard failure bisects to src/platform/adapters/fs/veryfront/adapter.test.ts. That claim was wrong and has been removed. It was an artifact of the same missing-env mistake: without DENO_TESTING=1 the env overlay in src/testing/bdd.ts is not consulted (src/platform/compat/process/env.ts:22-31), a feature flag the test sets never takes effect, and the step hangs on await started (adapter.test.ts:600), which is what produced the leak I bisected to. Under the correct env that file passes, and 8/8 CI-exact local runs of the 278-file batch showed no leak. That symptom remains unexplained and is not addressed here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability of JSX cache maintenance when cleanup operations overlap or are cancelled.
    • Prevented cancelled cleanup requests from leaving scheduled maintenance timers behind.
    • Improved completion tracking for ongoing cache maintenance activities.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for cancellation during persisted cache cleanup.
    • Updated integration and shared-environment tests to consistently wait for cache maintenance completion.

A scheduled prune runs from a timer callback, so no caller owns its promise
and nothing could wait for it. cancelScheduledJsxCachePrunes() cleared the
timers it could see, but a pass already suspended on its filesystem scan
resumed afterwards and armed the follow-up work its own bookkeeping asked
for. The new timer then fired inside whichever test happened to be running,
which the leak sanitizer reported against that unrelated test:

  A timer was started before the test, but completed during the test.
    at scheduleJsxCachePruneRetry (jsx-cache.ts:1771)
    at promotePersistedJsxCachePruneRequest (jsx-cache.ts:1537)

That is the intermittent "scheduled prune bound" failure: the step named in
CI is only the one unlucky enough to be running when a prior test's timer
landed, which is why it moved between shards and passed on rerun.

- Cancellation is now a fence. Each pass captures a generation counter when
  it starts and re-arms only while that generation is current, so a pass
  that resumes after a cancellation declines to schedule the follow-up
  timer or promotion instead of racing teardown for it.
- In-flight passes are retained as promises rather than bare keys, so
  waitForJsxCacheMaintenance can settle them. Cancelling cannot unwind
  filesystem work already issued, so teardown has to await it.
- waitForJsxCacheMaintenanceForTests is renamed waitForJsxCacheMaintenance:
  draining the module's background work is the module's own contract, not a
  test-only affordance.

Verified by running the affected file 40 times with no failures; the same
loop reproduced the flake once in 30 runs beforehand.

Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1466
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The JSX cache now tracks overlapping prune passes by pass ID, uses a generation counter to fence cancellation, drains all maintenance promises, and exposes the renamed maintenance wait helper. Tests cover cancellation during persisted prune promotion and update cleanup calls.

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JSX Cache Prune Cancellation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prune tracking and cancellation
src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.ts
Prune operations now use per-pass promises and per-key counts. Generation checks prevent cancelled promotions and timers from scheduling follow-up work.
Maintenance wait API
src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.ts
waitForJsxCacheMaintenance drains persistence, promotion, and in-flight prune operations. The exported internal API uses the renamed helper.
Cancellation regression coverage
src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.test.ts, tests/integration/transforms/mdx/*.test.ts
Tests verify that cancellation during persisted promotion leaves no scheduled timers. Cleanup paths use waitForJsxCacheMaintenance.

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Cancelled cache maintenance can re-arm background retry work after cleanup, leaving unexpected timers active. Apply the generation fence to retry scheduling before merging.

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Entrypoint Modules Source size Server leaks
src/index.client.ts 289 2311 KiB ✅ 0

A server module in a client graph aborts hydration in the browser. New leaks fail CI; known leaks are tracked in scripts/lint/client-bundle-baseline.json to burn down.

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Addresses Codex review on #4511.

The generation fence was applied too broadly in the promotion pump. When a
cancellation retired an active promotion and new work asked for the same
request directory before that promise settled,
requestPersistedJsxCachePrunePromotion only set
activeJsxCachePrunePromotionRequestedAgain. The settle handler then put the
directory back in the pending set but returned on the generation mismatch
without pumping it, and every later request for that directory
short-circuited on "already pending", so the work sat stranded until an
unrelated directory happened to start the pump.

The flag is already generation-scoped -- cancellation clears it -- so a set
flag means the request arrived after the cancellation and is still live:

- The fulfilled handler no longer checks the generation at all. It re-queues
  only what someone asked for again, and arming a timer is fenced inside the
  promotion itself.
- The rejected handler keeps the fence for its own retry, which does belong
  to the retired generation, but now pumps a request that arrived after the
  cancellation instead of leaving it pending and unowned.

Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1466
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Comment thread src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.ts
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Addresses Codex review on #4511.

Two passes for one cache directory can overlap. A firing pass keeps its map
entry as a reserved slot with no timer, which is exactly what lets a
follow-up arm the next timer for the same key before the first pass settles.
Keying the in-flight map by prune key therefore let the second pass overwrite
the first's promise, so whichever settled first deleted the shared entry and
made the other invisible to waitForJsxCacheMaintenance(). The same settle
could also delete a newer pass's reserved scheduled entry.

- In-flight passes are keyed by a per-pass id, so each pass retires only its
  own promise and teardown sees every pass that is still running.
- The persisted-request scan needs to know whether a key is covered at all,
  not by whom, so a small reference count replaces the membership check.
- The reserved scheduled entry is retired only when it is still the settling
  pass's own entry and still has no timer.

Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1466
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Comment thread src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.ts
Addresses Codex and CodeRabbit review on #4511, which both flagged this.

The generation fence covered a pass's own follow-up but not the retries the
scan arms on its way through. collectExcessJsxArtifacts schedules a retry
when the directory scan fails and again when an artifact removal asks to be
revisited, so a pass that resumed after a cancellation re-armed exactly the
timers teardown had just retired, and waitForJsxCacheMaintenance() could
settle the pass while maintenance was armed again.

collectExcessJsxArtifacts and revisitJsxCacheDirectory now take the prune
generation and check it before arming either retry. The parameter is
optional: callers outside a scheduled pass, including the direct callers in
the suites, pass nothing and are never fenced, so ordinary maintenance is
unchanged.

This covers the prune-owned retries. The lease-recovery retries in
recoverStaleFilesystemLease are reached from withJsxArtifactLock on the
serve, refresh and write paths as well, where the retry is wanted, so
fencing those needs the generation carried rather than passed and is tracked
separately in veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1474.

Regression test "should leave no armed timer when cancellation lands
mid-scan" fails without the fence and passes with it.

Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1466
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Comment thread src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.ts Outdated
Addresses Codex review on #4511.

The generation-mismatch branch pumped only when the request was for the same
directory the fenced pass had been promoting. A request for a *different*
directory that arrived while that pass still owned the promotion slot was
added to the pending set and then left there: it did not set
activeJsxCachePrunePromotionRequestedAgain, so this branch returned without
pumping, and every later request for it short-circuited on "already pending".
It stayed stranded until some unrelated directory happened to start the pump.

The slot is free once the fenced pass rejects, so this branch now always
pumps, and re-queues its own directory only when someone asked for it again.

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Comment thread src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/jsx-cache.ts
Addresses Codex review on #4511.

Threading the generation into the scan fenced the two retries
collectExcessJsxArtifacts arms itself, but not the one revisitJsxCacheDirectory
arms when the scan rejects outright. The scan's own catch only covers the
directory walk, so a failure in a later awaited operation -- dating or removing
an artifact -- propagates out and re-armed the directory unconditionally,
leaving waitForJsxCacheMaintenance() able to finish with a timer armed.

That catch now consults mayArmJsxCachePruneRetry as well, so all three retries
a scheduled pass can arm are fenced by the generation it started in.

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