fix(engine): drain deliveries when agents are released - #448
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughIrreversible agent release now atomically dead-letters queued and delivered deliveries. Release paths reject adapters without atomic writes and roll back lifecycle changes on failure. Tests cover release paths, rollback, and expired delivery capacity. ChangesReleased Agent Delivery Cleanup
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseOperation
participant ReleaseCompletion
participant DeliveryStore
participant AgentState
ReleaseOperation->>ReleaseCompletion: complete irreversible release
ReleaseCompletion->>DeliveryStore: dead-letter queued and delivered rows
ReleaseCompletion->>AgentState: tombstone agent and remove lifecycle state
AgentState-->>ReleaseOperation: commit atomic release or roll back
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The release documentation should state both delivery states protected by atomic cleanup. This is a narrow, low-risk documentation correction before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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🟡 Failed release discards pending deliveries
On non-atomic handles, completeLocally dead-letters deliveries before the agent tombstone update. A later failure leaves the agent active without those messages.
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runAtomicWrites falls back to sequential committed statements when an adapter exposes neither transactions nor batching. This local release path permits that fallback for unguarded releases. The invocation completion, membership deletion, and new delivery transition therefore commit before the agent tombstone update. If the later update fails, the release rejects after active deliveries have already become terminal.
Example: A self-hosted sequential adapter has a legacy agent occupying the target tombstone name. The delivery update commits, then the tombstone rename hits the unique-name constraint. The target keeps its active identity but can no longer replay or acknowledge the dead-lettered messages.
Recommended fix: Require atomic capability for every irreversible local release, or reorder and guard the delivery transition so it can only run after the tombstone update succeeds without creating a partial-release state.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 23: Update the changelog entry to explicitly state that permanent agent
release immediately dead-letters active deliveries in both the queued and
delivered states, while preserving the existing capacity-restoration and TTL
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In `@packages/engine/src/engine/action.ts`:
- Around line 2620-2625: Refactor completeNodeInvocation and
applyReleaseCompletionEffect so invocation completion and all delete-agent
release writes execute within one shared atomic database unit, matching the
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Name both delivery states.
Line 706 mentions only queued deliveries, but irreversible release also transitions delivered delivery rows. Update the README so it matches the release contract.
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-before identity, membership, or queued deliveries change. Successful cleanup
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“before identity, membership” to mention both queued and delivered delivery
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Summary
queuedanddeliveredrows when an agent identity is permanently releasedRCA
A channel message materializes one durable delivery per recipient. Production inspection found 60 offline channel members and 62–71 delivery rows per post. The workspace held 5,582 rows still stored with active statuses; 3,651 were already TTL-expired and correctly excluded from admission, leaving roughly 1,931 effective active deliveries.
Permanent agent release removed channel/DM membership, stopping future fan-out, but left that recipient's existing
queued/deliveredrows active until TTL. A tombstoned identity can never acknowledge those rows, so fleet teardown did not promptly recover workspace capacity and subsequent channel/DM writes hitworkspace_delivery_depth_exceeded.The fix terminalizes those unrecoverable rows as
dead_letteredwithrecipient agent releasedinside the release transaction wherever the release path is atomic.Verification
npm run typecheck --workspace @relaycast/enginenpm run lint --workspace @relaycast/enginenpm test --workspace @relaycast/engine— 99 files, 1,155 tests passedNote
Medium Risk
Changes irreversible agent lifecycle and delivery accounting in the engine; mistakes could leave capacity stuck or partially settle releases, but behavior is guarded by required atomic writes and broad regression coverage.
Overview
Permanent agent release now frees workspace delivery capacity immediately by dead-lettering the released recipient's active
queuedanddeliveredrows withrecipient agent releasedinside the same atomic write as tombstone, membership removal, and node cleanup.The engine adds
buildDeadLetterReleasedAgentDeliveriesWriteand wires it through DELETE agent, localdelete_agentrelease, and node-completed release. Legacy node completion drops the separateapplyReleaseCompletionEffectpath in favor ofcompleteReleaseNodeInvocationfor every builtin release, so guarded and unguarded completions share one transactional implementation. All irreversible releases now setrequireAtomic: true, refusing adapters that cannot run a transaction or atomic batch before any identity or delivery mutation.Docs and API text (
README,openapi.yaml, changelogs) describe atomic release requirements and immediate delivery settlement. Tests extend release/delete conformance checks, addreleaseAtomicity.test.ts(rollback/refusal across delete/local/node paths and adapter modes), and assert expired-but-unswept rows do not count toward workspace depth.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit bd76719. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.