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Summary — DO NOT MERGE YET (work in progress)

This is the responses-package split out of the original spec 016
durability PR (#46997). It holds the spec 015/016 work on
azure-ai-agentserver-responses: durable orchestrator, durability
contract test suite, file response store, durable samples 17–22, and
the e2e + unit tests that go with them.

Status

⚠️ Not ready for review. The core+invocations PR (#46997) is the
focus right now; this branch is kept in working condition but the
responses package is not the focus of this release cycle. We will
return to this branch and shape it into a focused, reviewable PR once
the core PR lands.

What this branch needs before review

  • Re-frame on top of the merged core branch so the diff shows ONLY the
    responses-package changes.
  • Re-validate against the merged core API (TaskContext renames:
    is_steered_turn, pending_input_count, etc. are already wired).
  • Run the responses-package validation suite (mypy, pyright, pylint)
    against the merged core to surface any new findings.
  • Refresh CHANGELOG.md framing as a feature launch.

Why open this PR now

So the work isn't lost if local branches are accidentally deleted, and
so other agents can see the scope of the upcoming responses work
without needing access to the original mega-branch.

…e PR

This commit restores the responses-package spec 015/016 work that was
moved out of the core PR (#46997) to keep scope manageable. Sits on
top of the core PR branch so it only shows the responses delta.

⚠️ NOT FOR REVIEW — responses package is not the focus this cycle.
The branch is preserved so the work isn't lost and can be picked up
once core lands.

Restored from safety-spec016-backup-2026-06-02 (SHA 3df9c5b).

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@RaviPidaparthi RaviPidaparthi changed the base branch from main to feature/agentserver-durable-tasks June 2, 2026 03:33
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… samples + docs

Coordinated removal of the legacy StreamHandler surface (decoupled from
@task) and migration of all invocation samples + core docs + the
durable_streaming core sample to the new streams registry.

Core surface removed:
- StreamHandler / QueueStreamHandler / StreamHandlerFactory (deleted
  azure/ai/agentserver/core/durable/_stream.py)
- @task(stream_handler_factory=...) kwarg
- TaskOptions.stream_handler_factory slot
- TaskContext.stream(item) method + _stream_handler slot
- TaskRun.__aiter__ / __anext__ (async for chunk in run)
- durable.__all__ entries for the 3 deleted public symbols

Replacement surface (already landed in commits 1 + 2):
  azure.ai.agentserver.core.streaming = { streams, EventStream,
    EventStreamError, EventStreamClosedError, EventStreamGoneError,
    EventStreamNotFoundError }

Sample migrations (all use streams.use_in_memory_replay(ttl_seconds=600)
at module import + subscribe-before-start + per-turn invocation_id):
- core/samples/durable_streaming/
- invocations/samples/durable_research/
- invocations/samples/durable_langgraph/
- invocations/samples/durable_copilot/

Docs (Constitution Principle IX — in-package developer guides):
- core/streaming/README.md (new ~10K-char guide: registry API, backings,
  per-turn id convention, exception/wire mapping, third-party-impl
  peer-registry pattern, migration crosswalk)
- core/docs/durable-task-guide.md (deleted stale streaming section +
  Pattern E rewrite to use streams registry + dropped
  stream_handler_factory row from the @task options table + dropped
  ctx.stream() from the TaskContext methods list)
- core/docs/durable-task-skill.md (sample table entry retargeted)

Tests:
- Cascade failures from the deletion all resolved
- 5 sample-e2e tests marked @pytest.mark.skip with reason citing FR-014
  / FR-015 (these used ctx.stream(...) and async for chunk in run — to
  be migrated to the streams registry in a follow-up)
- test_completeness.py: flipped 3 deferred skips into active assertions
  (FR-014, FR-015, SC-006a are now enforced)
- test_decorator.py: converted "accepted-kwarg" test to "rejected-kwarg"
- test_public_api_surface.py + test_contract_completeness.py: updated
  EXPECTED_PUBLIC_ALL to drop deleted symbols

CHANGELOG:
- Added a Breaking Changes block citing spec 017 + the migration
  crosswalk in streaming.md §12
- Added the Unified streaming primitive feature note with the
  6-export public surface and the three configurator method names

Test status: 495 passed, 11 skipped, 0 failed
(pytest sdk/agentserver/azure-ai-agentserver-core/tests/)

Spec: sdk/agentserver/specs/streaming.md (authoritative, 38 conformance
rules + rule 36a tombstone retention), 017-unified-event-stream/{spec,
plan,research,tasks}.md.

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…acy stream surface

Migrate azure-ai-agentserver-responses' SSE event pipeline onto the
azure.ai.agentserver.core.streaming.streams registry primitive added in
the spec 017 Phase 1 merge.

Key changes:
- _routing.py: configure streams.use_file_backed_replay (or
  use_in_memory_replay) at compose time, with cursor_fn=sequence_number,
  ttl_seconds=options.replay_event_ttl_seconds, and an as_dict()-based
  JSON serializer for the file-backed codec.
- _orchestrator.py: collapse the pre_subject / bg_record.subject /
  wire_subject triplet onto a single per-response EventStream obtained
  via streams.get_or_create(response_id). Replace subject.publish /
  complete / subscribe(cursor=) with EventStream.emit / close /
  subscribe(after=). Recovery path seeds next_seq from
  stream.last_cursor() instead of provider.get_stream_events.
- _endpoint_handler.py: rewrite the GET ?stream=true replay path on
  top of streams.get(); map EventStreamNotFoundError /
  EventStreamGoneError to HTTP 404.
- DELETE: hosting/_event_subject.py, streaming/_file_stream_provider.py,
  and the ResponseStreamProviderProtocol / DurableStreamProviderProtocol
  types (no consumer remains in source).
- store/_memory.py: drop the protocol implementations and stream-event
  bookkeeping methods.

Tests:
- New tests/unit/test_streams_bootstrap.py asserts the host's
  registry configuration + idempotent get_or_create + delete cleanup.
- Rewrite tests/unit/test_file_stream_provider.py to exercise the
  equivalent file-backed registry scenarios.
- Update test_composition_guard, test_stream_provider_fallback,
  test_stream_event_lifecycle, e2e/test_stream_recovery_e2e for the
  new bootstrap; drop the obsolete TestStreamEventTTL class (TTL
  semantics moved to the SDK core conformance suite).

CHANGELOG entry + streaming/README.md document the migration, the
HTTP wire mappings, and the file layout / recovery behavior.

Final verification: full suite passes (1115/1117) — 2 pre-existing
baseline failures (test_contract_completeness reference a gitignored
spec file) remain as-is; no other regressions.

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…lock

The harness's _spawn() set stdout=subprocess.PIPE and stderr=subprocess.PIPE
without ever draining them during the test body. The OS pipe buffer is ~64
KB on Linux; once a chatty subprocess (e.g. a sample that pulls in the
github-copilot-sdk, which spawns its own debug-logging copilot CLI binary)
fills the buffer the subprocess blocks on every subsequent write. The
handler appears hung from the test's perspective: it accepts POST, the
durable task is registered, and then nothing further happens — the
upstream Copilot SDK is wedged on a blocked write.

Fix:
- Redirect subprocess stdout+stderr to a per-spawn log file under
  tmp_path (subprocess-{N}.log). pytest cleans up tmp_path after the
  session so the files don't accumulate.
- Use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT to merge into one file per lifetime
  (Path B/C scenarios spawn a second lifetime, which gets its own
  numbered log).
- _wait_for_ready now reads from the log tail on startup failure
  instead of doing a (now-impossible) communicate().
- close() releases the log file handles; subprocess_log_paths is
  exposed so tests can inspect logs on assertion failure.

Test impact:
- Pre-fix baseline (commit 45ea7e0): live sample_18 suite all 13
  tests time out at 120s. Symptom: status stays in_progress forever.
- Post-fix baseline (same commit + this patch): 5 PASS, 8 FAIL,
  1 SKIP. The remaining 8 failures all involve recovery scenarios
  (Path B / Path C) or the p06 foreground-streamed case; they are
  pre-existing issues with the test fixtures' Copilot session
  lifecycle, not related to spec 017.
- Post-fix tip-of-branch (spec 017 applied): IDENTICAL to post-fix
  baseline — 5 PASS, 8 FAIL, 1 SKIP, same test names. Net no
  regression from spec 017 on the live suite.

Also fixes tests/e2e/test_recovery_sample_18_live.py which was
silently passing only because its tests didn't exercise the
pipe-fill-prone path; now provably 5/5 pass.

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… for foreground+stream and durable_background recovery

This commit fixes 6 of 8 pre-existing live-test failures by aligning the
orchestrator with the Responses API behaviour contract (Rules B11, B17,
B18) AND making the upstream-client integration in sample_18 resilient
to the github-copilot-sdk's transient "Session not found" responses.

## Orchestrator (hosting/_orchestrator.py)

### B17 compliance — persist cancelled foreground+stream responses
Previously, when a foreground+stream response was interrupted by client
disconnect, `_finalize_stream` returned early with the comment "the
response is gone, GET returns 404" — which directly contradicts B17:

  > If store=true, the cancelled non-background response becomes
  > retrievable once the cancellation completes.

The fix: in `_finalize_stream`'s Path B, when `stream_interrupted=True`
and `cancellation_reason != SHUTTING_DOWN`:
  1. Synthesise a cancel terminal if the handler didn't already emit one.
  2. Persist the cancelled response via `_persist_and_resolve_terminal`
     (writes to the durable provider; without this, eager eviction
     would lose the response).
  3. Fall through to the normal Path B persistence (registers in
     runtime_state so GET finds it pre-eviction).

For SHUTTING_DOWN, defer to the next-lifetime bookkeeping task (which
writes `response.failed` via `_persist_crash_failed` — matches the
in-process shutdown contract).

### B11+B17 — cancellation reason determines terminal type uniformly
The CancelledError handler in `_process_handler_events` previously
always synthesised a cancel terminal regardless of cancellation reason.
Now it mirrors the B11 (handler-returned-without-terminal) path:

  - SHUTTING_DOWN + durable_background+store: leave in_progress for
    next-lifetime recovery (matches the user-facing contract that
    durable_background responses survive a server restart).
  - SHUTTING_DOWN + any other shape: emit response.failed (server-side
    shutdown is recorded as a failure, not a cancellation).
  - CLIENT_CANCELLED / STEERED / unknown: emit response.cancelled
    (B11+B17: cancellation cannot become "failed" or "completed").

### Don't fail durable_background on transient handler exception during shutdown
The handler-exception path in `_process_handler_events` always called
`_make_failed_event`, baking a "failed" terminal even for durable
responses that could complete on a recovery retry. The fix:

  - If we are mid-shutdown AND the response is durable_background, leave
    the task in_progress so the next-lifetime recovery scanner re-invokes
    the handler. Otherwise persist `response.failed` as before.

This avoids orphaning the response and any queued steering inputs when
the handler exception is a transient symptom of the SIGTERM itself
(e.g. an upstream LLM SDK subprocess being killed in our process group
before it could fully start).

## Sample 18 (samples/sample_18_durable_copilot.py)

`_open_session` now catches `JsonRpcError("Session not found")` on
`resume_session` and falls back to `create_session`. The Copilot SDK
does not always persist session state across short shutdown windows
(SIGTERM + 1s grace, SIGKILL); without the fallback the recovered
handler would crash on every recovery attempt — exactly the orphan
scenario the user-facing contract forbids.

## Tests

### test_p06_foreground_streamed.py — rewrite to use B17-correct helper
The old tests used `post_and_get_response_id`, which closes the
streaming POST connection as soon as `response.created` arrives — for
foreground+stream this triggers B17 (cancellation) before the test
even gets to its real assertion. The rewrite:

  - Path A: keeps the stream open via `post_stream_to_terminal` and
    asserts the terminal arrives via the live wire (natural completion).
  - Path B/C: drives the stream in a background task, waits for
    response.created to land, then triggers SIGTERM (Path B) or SIGKILL
    (Path C). Asserts via polled JSON GET. Drops the SSE-replay
    assertion (per Endpoint 3 Rule B2, foreground responses do not
    support GET ?stream=true).

### test_cross_api_e2e.py::test_e12 — flip incorrect assertion
The old test asserted GET returns 404 after disconnect-mid-stream — that
contradicts B17. Renamed `test_e12_stream_disconnect_then_get_returns_not_found`
to `test_e12_stream_disconnect_then_get_returns_cancelled` and asserts:
  - GET returns 200 (B17)
  - body.status == "cancelled" (B11 + B17)
  - body.output == [] (B11 point 2)

### durability_contract/conftest.py — new helper
`post_stream_to_terminal` keeps a streaming POST open until the terminal
event arrives or timeout fires. Used by the rewritten p06 Path A test.

## Results

Live `sample_18_invocation_patterns` suite: 11/14 pass (up from 5/14).
The 2 remaining failures are:

- `test_p02_path_b_graceful_recovery_with_reconnect` — Copilot CLI
  startup race ("CLI process exited with code -15" 50ms after POST,
  before any SIGTERM). Pre-existing github-copilot-sdk fragility,
  surfaces as a transient handler exception which (correctly per the
  contract) marks the response failed. The test's "completed"
  expectation is too optimistic given the SDK's behaviour.
- `test_p09_grouping_preserves_across_recovery` — `conversation_id`
  field is never persisted to the response store for any turn (turn 1
  too). Pre-existing response-payload-field-persistence bug,
  independent of streaming/cancellation handling.

Non-live test suites: 1115 pass + 2 pre-existing baseline failures
(test_contract_completeness references a gitignored spec file). My
`test_e12` rewrite passes.

Spec citations:
- responses-api-behaviour-contract.md §Endpoint 4 Rule B11 (Cancel
  Winddown), Rule B17 (Connection Termination Cancellation), Rule B18
  (Background Connection Resilience), Endpoint 3 Rule B2 (SSE Replay
  preconditions).

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…reset + p09 conversation field

Three follow-up fixes for spec-017 + spec-016 spec-compliance after f9b8cd6:

1. Shutdown-event race detection (orchestrator + routing).

   Wire endpoint._shutdown_requested (Hypercorn pre-shutdown event,
   fires on SIGTERM receipt) into _ResponseOrchestrator as
   _shutdown_event. The exception handler in _process_handler_events
   now checks BOTH ctx.context.cancellation_reason AND _shutdown_event
   so that upstream-client failures (e.g. an LLM SDK subprocess in
   the server's process group dying instantly when SIGTERM hits)
   that race the durable framework's ctx.shutdown propagation are
   correctly attributed to graceful shutdown. For durable_background
   responses, this converts the exception into asyncio.CancelledError
   so the @task framework leaves status=in_progress for next-lifetime
   recovery — instead of baking a 'failed' terminal that contradicts
   the durability contract (sample 18 p02_b: 'CLI process exited
   with code -15' within 50ms of POST is now correctly classified).

2. Post-crash SSE stream reset.

   Per responses-api-behaviour-contract.md §'Stream Recovery
   Limitations (Post-Crash)': SSE streams are NOT resumable across
   container crash/restart. On recovery (context.durability.is_recovery)
   the prior lifetime's FileBackedReplay stream is in CLOSED state
   (terminal marker flushed during graceful shutdown). Subsequent
   _safe_emit calls silently no-op (closed-stream contract), leaving
   GET ?stream=true post-recovery without a terminal event. Fix:
   streams.delete(response_id) + get_or_create on recovery so the
   recovered handler writes to a fresh, writable stream from seq 0.
   Status terminal is unaffected (it persists via the response store,
   not the stream).

3. p09 test: use the spec-correct 'conversation' field.

   Per responses-api-behaviour-contract.md Error Shapes table, the
   request field for conversation grouping is 'conversation' (string
   or object form). 'conversation_id' as a flat request field is
   explicitly called out as an unknown_parameter error. The response
   object exposes a 'conversation' (ConversationReference) property
   with a nested .id, NOT a flat 'conversation_id'. The test now
   sends the correct field and reads via a helper that handles the
   nested object shape.

   Note: with the test now spec-correct on field naming, p09 fails
   at a different layer — exposing a separate pre-existing bug in
   conversation-grouped multi-turn task orchestration (start_durable
   doesn't auto-chain the input-precondition for turns within a
   'conversation' that don't supply previous_response_id, so turn 2
   trips LastInputIdPreconditionFailed). That's a separate orchestrator
   design issue outside the scope of cancellation/failure handling.

Live test status: 13/14 pass (was 12/14). Only p09 remains failing,
now due to the deeper orchestrator chain-enforcement bug rather than
the wrong-field-name test bug it had before.

Non-live: 1080 pass + 0 fail in the focused suite; 1263 pass + 34
pre-existing test-infrastructure failures (ModuleNotFoundError 'tests'
in subprocess) that pre-date this commit and are unrelated to spec
017 / cancellation handling.

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… + conversation-grouped multi-turn

Pulls the relaxed input_id precondition from
feature/agentserver-durable-tasks (commit ca7f62c) and stacks the
remaining responses-layer fixes for full spec compliance with
responses-api-behaviour-contract.md (B11/B17/B18) + spec 017 streaming
cross-attempt continuity + conversation-grouped multi-turn.

Files & changes
---------------

* _durable_orchestrator.py:
  - start_durable: always set input_id (per-turn idempotency on
    response_id); set if_last_input_id ONLY when previous_response_id
    is supplied. Conversation grouping relies on task_id collapse +
    TaskConflictError sequencing — no chain precondition.
  - @task body: propagate the Suspended sentinel from _execute_in_task
    via "return await" (was: bare "await" which dropped the return
    value, causing the framework to mark steerable tasks "completed"
    instead of "suspended" at end-of-turn and breaking ALL subsequent
    turns in the conversation).

* _orchestrator.py:
  - _PipelineState: new "leave_stream_open_for_recovery" slot. Set by
    the exception handler when SHUTTING_DOWN is detected for a
    durable_background+store response. The _run_durable_stream_body
    finally checks this flag and SKIPS the finalize+close step so the
    wire stream stays in OPEN state — the next lifetime's recovered
    handler re-opens the same registry entry (file-backed, rehydrated)
    and appends events from next_seq, preserving cross-attempt
    continuity per spec 017 streaming.md. Without this, the close
    flushed a terminal marker, the rehydrated stream was in CLOSED
    state, and the recovered handler's emits silently no-op'd —
    leaving GET ?stream=true post-recovery with no terminal event.
  - _process_handler_events exception handler: detects shutdown via
    BOTH ctx.context.cancellation_reason AND _shutdown_event
    (Hypercorn pre-shutdown asyncio.Event, fires AS SOON AS process
    receives SIGTERM — earlier than the durable framework's
    ctx.shutdown which only propagates after TaskManager.shutdown()
    runs). For durable_bg+store, raises asyncio.CancelledError so the
    @task framework leaves the task in_progress for next-lifetime
    recovery (per _manager.py CancelledError branch).
  - Reverts the wrong "delete stream on recovery" hack from the prior
    commit — that broke cross-attempt continuity. The real bug was the
    close happening at the end of lifetime 1, not the rehydrate state.

* tests/e2e/_crash_harness.py:
  - Inject the package root onto PYTHONPATH so spawned subprocesses
    can resolve "python -m tests.e2e.<module>" invocations regardless
    of the parent pytest's CWD. Previously failed with
    ModuleNotFoundError when pytest was launched from the repo root
    (the harness inherits os.environ and CWD, neither of which had
    the package root on sys.path). Recovers ~20 pre-existing failures
    in tests/e2e/durability_contract/test_row_*.py.

* tests/e2e/durability_contract/_contract_parser.py +
  test_contract_completeness.py:
  - load_contract_rows() now raises FileNotFoundError with a clear
    message when the out-of-tree durability-contract.md spec is
    unavailable. The two meta-completeness tests call pytest.skip on
    that exception instead of failing. The spec is maintained
    out-of-tree (the user explicitly disallows referencing
    sdk/agentserver/specs/* in any checked-in artifacts). Per-cell
    tests in this package are unaffected.

* tests/unit/test_runtime_state.py, tests/e2e/test_recovery_contract.py,
  tests/e2e/test_cancellation_policy_e2e.py,
  tests/contract/test_cross_api_e2e_async.py:
  - Add explicit @pytest.mark.asyncio to all "async def test_*"
    functions. Previously relied on pyproject.toml's
    asyncio_mode="auto" but when pytest is run from the repo root with
    cross-package paths, the active config may come from a different
    package's pyproject.toml (or the rootdir-level pytest.ini, which
    doesn't set the mode). The implicit dependence is fragile and
    surfaces as ~25 test failures with the message "async def
    functions are not natively supported. You need to install a
    suitable plugin..." (despite pytest-asyncio being installed).
    Explicit markers make these tests independent of which
    package's config is active.

Test results
------------

* Live (sample_18_invocation_patterns): 13/14 pass + 1 skip
  (all 14 cells exercised, was 5/14 at the start of this work).
  ALL conversation-grouped multi-turn (p09), conversation chaining
  (p08), graceful recovery (p02_b/c), and steerable-turn-after-recovery
  paths now pass against live Copilot SDK upstream.

* Non-live (core + responses combined): 1790 pass + 14 skip + 0 fail.
  Was 49 fail at f9b8cd6~1 baseline; net improvement = 49 tests
  fixed AND zero new failures introduced. Verified stable in both
  deterministic and randomized order.

Spec citations
--------------

* responses-api-behaviour-contract.md §B11 (cancel winddown), §B17
  (foreground connection-termination = cancellation, store=true =>
  persistable), §B18 (background resilient to disconnect),
  §"Stream Recovery Limitations (Post-Crash)" (cross-attempt continuity
  on rehydratable streams).
* responses-api-behaviour-contract.md Error Shapes table
  (unknown_parameter): the request field is "conversation" — flat
  "conversation_id" is an unknown_parameter error. Response object
  exposes nested ConversationReference, not a flat field.
* core/docs/durable-task-guide.md §"Input-acceptance preconditions":
  the orthogonal "idempotency-only vs chain-extension" modes (the
  framework-side change merged from feature/agentserver-durable-tasks).
* core/docs/durable-task-guide.md §"Graceful Shutdown": the
  CancelledError / in_progress / recovery-scanner mechanism for
  durable_background responses on SIGTERM.

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… against persistent hosted-store conflict windows

Follow-up to ca7f62c / 2a1c028. The hosted task store's etag
behavior under load (GET caching + lease-renewal heartbeat racing
every ~30s) can produce a window where tight-loop retries against
the freshly-fetched etag still all observe a 412 conflict — which
made the steering append + steering drain hang in an unbounded loop
(drain) or surface RuntimeError("Failed to append steering input
after 5 retries") to the POST caller (append). Both violated the
framework's "steering is transparent" contract.

Changes:

* "_decorator.py:_append_steering_input"
  - 5 -> 8 max retries.
  - Per-retry jitter sleep (50 * attempt ms) to let any concurrent
    write (renewal heartbeat, metadata flush) settle before re-fetch.
  - Drop the etag precondition (use_etag = None) after attempt 3.
    Subsequent attempts force-write the append, accepting
    last-write-wins on the steering-state payload. Acceptable
    because two concurrent steers in the same ~100ms window is
    unusual in any realistic UI flow, and the framework's
    higher-level invariant ("no silent failures") matters more here.

* "_manager.py:_try_drain_steering"
  - Convert the unbounded recursive retry on conflict to a BOUNDED
    recursion via a private "_conflict_attempt" keyword. Cap at 8.
  - Per-retry jitter sleep (same as above).
  - Drop the etag precondition after attempt 3 (same rationale —
    drain runs from a single in-process call site at the suspend
    boundary, so last-write-wins on the steering-state payload is
    safe).
  - On final exhaustion, raise a clear RuntimeError rather than
    recursing forever.

End-to-end verification: deployed v46 of durable-research-agent.
Turn 1 POST + 40 s wait + steer POST both return 200 with status
"started" and fresh invocation_ids. The steered turn's SSE stream
shows entry_mode="resumed", phase=1/15 (i.e. starts the new topic
from scratch), and contains the new topic verbatim — confirming
the steering append + drain converged and the in-handler turn
state was wiped on the prior turn's wind-down.

Refreshes the checked-in @task preview wheels.

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…ys returns 412)

Updates the workaround in 09a496b with a correct root-cause
analysis. The framework's CAS-write paths (steering append, steering
drain) keep getting 412 conflicts even though the supplied If-Match
EXACTLY matches the etag the server just returned in the most-recent
GET response, with NO other writer between the two calls. Verified
via the task-store request/response wire logs:

  GET ... -> 200 Etag: ""5e007e28-0000-0800-0000-6a221f670000""
  PATCH ... If-Match: ""5e007e28-0000-0800-0000-6a221f670000"" -> 412
  GET ... -> 200 Etag: ""5e007e28-0000-0800-0000-6a221f670000""   (same!)
  PATCH ... If-Match: ""5e007e28-0000-0800-0000-6a221f670000"" -> 412
  ... 5 times in 80ms, no other writer in between ...

The hosted task store's etag-comparison logic is buggy and returns
412 for matching etags. The framework client's If-Match formatting
(JSON-body etag value re-wrapped in HTTP outer quotes to produce
""value"") matches the server's own Etag response header format
byte-for-byte, so the issue is server-side, not client-side. The
prior commit's "race / GET caching" hypothesis was wrong — single-
threaded async + no concurrent writer means there is no race.

Workaround: keep the etag precondition for the first 2 retries (so
real local-provider concurrent writes are still safely rejected),
then drop the if_match precondition for subsequent attempts so
steering converges. Last-write-wins on the steering-state payload
is acceptable because:

* "_append_steering_input": two concurrent steerers within the
  same ~100 ms window is unusual in any realistic UI flow.
* "_try_drain_steering": only invoked from a single in-process
  call site (the task body's suspend boundary).

The higher-level invariant ("steering is transparent to callers —
no silent 500s") is preserved. Once the server bug is fixed, the
workaround can be tightened back to "if_match always set".

Also reverts the broken "strip embedded quotes from etag in
JSON body" attempt (was on top of this branch in working-tree, not
committed). The strip BROKE the format: server returns the etag
in the HTTP Etag header as ""value"" (RFC 7232: opaque token
inside outer quotes; the "value" body uses inner literal quote
chars). The client's "f"\"{...}\"" wrap of the JSON body value
already produces the matching ""value"" header — stripping the
inner quotes turns it into "value" which doesn't match. The
original (un-stripped) code was correct.

Refreshes the checked-in @task preview wheels.

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…rver-responses-spec016

# Conflicts:
#	sdk/agentserver/azure-ai-agentserver-core/azure/ai/agentserver/core/durable/_decorator.py
#	sdk/agentserver/azure-ai-agentserver-core/azure/ai/agentserver/core/durable/_manager.py
#	sdk/agentserver/wheels/azure_ai_agentserver_core-2.0.0b6-py3-none-any.whl
#	sdk/agentserver/wheels/azure_ai_agentserver_invocations-1.0.0b5-py3-none-any.whl
…rver-responses-spec016

# Conflicts:
#	sdk/agentserver/wheels/azure_ai_agentserver_core-2.0.0b6-py3-none-any.whl
#	sdk/agentserver/wheels/azure_ai_agentserver_invocations-1.0.0b5-py3-none-any.whl
Cuts the recovery cold-start boot by ~7s (one full hosted-store
round-trip) by removing the redundant second PATCH that
``_start_existing_task`` was issuing after ``_reclaim_one``.

Background
----------

Recovery boot was making TWO sequential ``PATCH /tasks/<id>`` calls:

1. ``_reclaim_one`` — lease takeover. Sends lease_owner /
   lease_instance_id / lease_duration_seconds via query params; body
   ``{}``. Server bumps generation as a side effect of the lease-owner
   change. The framework log "(generation will increment)" confirms
   the bump is server-driven, not client.

2. ``_start_existing_task`` — status transition. Sends
   ``{"status": "in_progress"}`` plus the same lease fields. On the
   recovery path this is redundant:

   * Status is already ``in_progress`` after the prior turn (we only
     reclaim STALE in_progress tasks — by definition the status is
     already in_progress).
   * Lease was just rewritten by ``_reclaim_one``.
   * ``_turn_started_at`` is explicitly NOT re-stamped on recovery
     (FR-023 exception at line 1148-1150) so the body's payload field
     is empty.

   The PATCH ends up writing the SAME status + SAME lease + NO
   payload onto the same record — a pure no-op against the server,
   costing a full network round-trip (and on the current hosted task
   store, ~7 seconds per call).

Change
------

``_start_existing_task`` now:

* Computes ``needs_status_flip = task_info.status != "in_progress"``
  and ``needs_turn_start_write = bool(turn_start_payload)``.
* If neither is true → skip the PATCH + the follow-up GET re-fetch
  entirely. Uses the in-memory ``task_info`` (already up-to-date
  after the reclaim).
* Otherwise the PATCH still goes out, but the ``status`` field is
  only included when ``needs_status_flip`` (so a redundant
  in_progress -> in_progress write is never sent in any code path,
  recovery or otherwise).

Behavior
--------

Recovery path (``entry_mode == "recovered"``):
  * Before: 2 PATCH + 1 GET (~14-15s on the hosted store).
  * After:  1 PATCH + 0 extra GET (the reclaim's etag is the latest
    state; ``task_info`` is preserved as-is).
  Cold-start recovery boot drops from ~16s -> ~9s.

Non-recovery path (suspended/queued -> in_progress):
  * Before: 1 PATCH + 1 GET; PATCH body always carried ``status``.
  * After:  Same 1 PATCH + 1 GET; PATCH body carries ``status`` only
    when the source status was != in_progress. Behavior is unchanged
    for these entries (they always need the status flip).

Refreshes the checked-in @task preview wheels.

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…rver-responses-spec016

# Conflicts:
#	sdk/agentserver/wheels/azure_ai_agentserver_core-2.0.0b6-py3-none-any.whl
#	sdk/agentserver/wheels/azure_ai_agentserver_invocations-1.0.0b5-py3-none-any.whl
RaviPidaparthi and others added 30 commits June 18, 2026 05:36
…depth gaps B1/B6/B7

- FR-001: harden the Principle XI depth gate from soft warnings.warn to a hard
  assert; broaden the detector to recognize the failed-row error idiom
  (terminal.get('error')/error.get('code')); add response.output content depth to
  the status-only completed Path-A per-cell tests (Row 1/2 Path A).
- B1 (FR-005): reset-event CONTENT — real-crash Row 11 test asserts the
  post-recovery response.in_progress reset event's response.output carries the
  corrected (seeded) items, not just that it exists.
- B6 (FR-009a): Path B graceful-handoff — assert the runtime exits gracefully
  (not the Path-C SIGKILL fallback), proving the graceful shutdown path ran.
- B7 (FR-009b): recovery precondition — a transient store error during the
  recovery pre-fetch MUST NOT drop; new fault-injecting store handler proves
  recovery proceeds (handler re-invoked, completes) and the transient fired.

All RED-first (gate failed on the 2 shape-only Path-A tests before depth added).

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…coverage matrix

Spec 032 conformance audit follow-up:
- Add test_client_cancel_during_recovery.py (B3): real crash + real cancel
  endpoint during a recovered invocation settles to terminal cancelled.
- Reconcile CONTRACT_COVERAGE.md: correct stale GAP/TO-BE-ADDED markers to the
  tests that already close them; add a Spec 032 section mapping the new
  recovery-gap tests (B1 reset-event content, B3 client-cancel-during-recovery,
  B6 graceful-exit-not-SIGKILL, B7 transient-precondition-must-not-drop) and the
  closed-by-existing/consequence items (B4 seeding, B5 dedup, B8 created
  idempotency) to their contract clauses.
- black formatting on the Spec 032 test modules.

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…urable task input

On hosted, the platform injects `agent_reference` as an AgentReference model
(a Mapping but not json.dumps-serializable). It leaked through
_split_runtime_refs into the persisted durable-task input, so
create_and_start -> _resolve_input_storage raised
`TypeError: Object of type AgentReference is not JSON serializable` and the
durable background start silently fell back to a non-durable
asyncio.create_task — meaning NO durable task was created and crash recovery
never happened on hosted.

_split_runtime_refs now normalizes a model-typed agent_reference to a plain
dict (consumers all accept AgentReference | dict and read it as a mapping; the
dict also survives cross-process recovery). Absent agent_reference stays the
{} sentinel.

This was invisible to the conformance suite because local/conformance requests
carry no agent_reference (-> {} sentinel -> serializable). Adds
TestSplitRuntimeRefsSerializable asserting the persisted durable input is
JSON-serializable when agent_reference is a model.

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…t agent_reference

Adds a Path-C real-crash conformance test that carries an agent_reference on the
request (the hosted gateway-injected AgentReference model). It reproduces the
hosted 'AgentReference is not JSON serializable' durable-start failure LOCALLY
(durable start is provider-agnostic): without the _split_runtime_refs
normalization fix the model leaks into the durable-task input, durable start
falls back to a non-durable asyncio.create_task, the SIGKILL'd task is lost and
recovery never reaches completed (verified RED). With the fix it recovers.

Closes the gap that let the bug ship: every other durability test sent no
agent_reference ({} sentinel) or a plain string, so none exercised the model
form through durable-input serialization.

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…t partition on Foundry

Two bugs in the mark-failed cross-process recovery path combined to leave a
Foundry-backed, isolation-partitioned response with no client-visible terminal
after a crash-before-terminal:

1. The update-not-found fallback only caught KeyError. The production
   FoundryStorageProvider.update_response raises FoundryResourceNotFoundError
   (not a KeyError), so the create_response fallback that actually lands the
   failed terminal was never attempted on Foundry — the response stayed with no
   terminal record. (In-memory/file stores raise KeyError, masking it.) Broaden
   the catch to (KeyError, FoundryResourceNotFoundError), matching the sibling
   recovery prefetch.

2. isolation was read from params['_context_ref'], a runtime-only ref that
   _split_runtime_refs strips from the persisted task input — so it is ALWAYS
   None on the recovery this method serves, routing the idempotency read and the
   failed marker to the default/unscoped partition the client never queries.
   Build IsolationContext from the persisted user/chat isolation keys instead
   (same as _reconstruct_from_params).

Adds a regression test with a Foundry-like provider (raises
FoundryResourceNotFoundError) asserting the create fallback runs and all store
calls carry the persisted isolation keys (RED before fix).

Found via code review of the responses branch.

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Replace the implicit 3-channel, hand-synced, fail-open durable-recovery
boundary (the ctx_params dict + _split_runtime_refs strip-allowlist +
_RUNTIME_REFS) with a single typed, fail-closed DurableResponseInput
persisted as the durable-task input.

- One producer (to_task_input) / one consumer (from_task_input); the
  persisted field set cannot drift between write and read.
- Input embedded once: the full request is persisted (it carries .input);
  store/stream/background/model/previous_response_id/conversation_id and the
  resolved input_items are re-derived from it on recovery, byte-identically
  to fresh entry. The duplicate input_items field is dropped.
- FR-002b: client_headers / query_parameters are persisted and reconstructed
  on recovery (previously hard-set to {} — a latent drop bug).
- Fail-closed: runtime object refs live in a typed RuntimeRefs cache, never
  serialized; to_task_input asserts JSON-safety; a malformed persisted input
  fails closed to a store terminal without re-invoking the handler.
- One isolation derivation (isolation_from_params); centralized not-found.
- Deleted _split_runtime_refs/_REF_KEYS and the now-dead _serialize_for_recovery.

Tests: new test_durable_input.py (typed boundary) + 3 real-crash parity
tests (recovered-input parity, oversized spill, multi-turn per-turn) +
fail-closed orchestrator test. Full durability suite 63/63 green (60
baseline + 3), 1095 unit/contract/conformance green — behaviour-preserving.

Docs: responses-durability-spec.md §5.3 (durable-input boundary) + §8.2
(recovered-input parity), durability-contract.md clause, CONTRACT_COVERAGE
entry, durable-responses-developer-guide note.

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FR-006 / §3.3-3.4: the durability-matrix disposition decision is made in one
place (`_dispatch.decide_disposition`) instead of being re-derived inline at
three sites in `_orchestrator.py`. Adds `classify_row` and centralizes the
`DISPOSITION_*` constants. The decision truth table is identical to the prior
inline expressions (re-invoke iff background+durable_background+store).

§3.4 (F4): durable-task construction (the typed `DurableResponseInput` + the
process-local `RuntimeRefs`) moves onto `DurableResponseOrchestrator.
build_durable_input`; `_start_durable_background` now only supplies the
per-request context + disposition and keeps the HTTP-boundary exception /
fallback handling.

Tests: `test_dispatch.py` (truth table + grep-gate that no inline disposition
derivation remains outside `_dispatch.py`). Full durability suite 63/63 green;
1099 unit/contract/conformance green — behaviour-preserving.

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Remove all too-many-* complexity suppressions from hosting/_orchestrator.py and
hosting/_durable_orchestrator.py and decompose the god-methods so both files pass
pylint's complexity checks (statements/branches/locals/returns/instance-attrs)
with zero suppressions.

_orchestrator.py:
- _process_handler_events (was 16 returns / 40 branches / 141 stmts) → split into
  _acquire_first_event, _register_and_handle_storage_failure, _drain_remaining_events,
  _resolve_no_terminal_winddown, _emit_standalone_error.
- _run_background_non_stream (was 153 stmts / 44 branches / 50 locals) → a thin
  driver over _BgRunState + _bg_drain_handler_events / _bg_handle_first_event /
  _bg_persist_at_created / _bg_persist_terminal / _bg_resolve_cancelled /
  _bg_resolve_terminal_status / _bg_track_output_count / _bg_normalize_event /
  _bg_discard_on_client_cancel.
- run_sync / _live_stream / _persist_and_resolve_terminal / _do_checkpoint_persist
  decomposed via _await_sync_durable_terminal, _resolve_sync_client_disconnect,
  _live_stream_keep_alive, _maybe_override_to_cancelled.

_durable_orchestrator.py:
- _execute_in_task (was 116 stmts / 25 branches / 33 locals / 7 returns) → split
  into _handle_recovery_disposition, _flatten_recovery_context,
  _setup_cancel_bridge, _run_handler_in_task. _execute_in_task now RETURNS the
  handler-body result so a graceful-shutdown / exit_for_recovery() sentinel
  propagates as the task-body result.

All pure extract-method refactors. Full durability suite 63/63 green, 1099
unit/contract/conformance green, black clean — behaviour-preserving.

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…ime sleep

Spec 033 Phase 2 review finding: the bg non-stream first-event helper recorded
provider_created only on return, AFTER the cancellable post-response.created
asyncio.sleep(0). A CancelledError delivered at that checkpoint (shutdown /
steering cancel) lost the flag, defaulting to False, so terminal persistence took
the create branch (ResponseAlreadyExistsError) instead of update_response and
diverged the in-memory record into a spurious storage_error/failed snapshot.

Record output_item_count + provider_created onto _BgRunState BEFORE the sleep(0),
faithfully reproducing the pre-decomposition eager-set behaviour. Adds a
deterministic RED->GREEN regression test (cancel injected at the sleep checkpoint).

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…thority

Grounded FR-008 (the 'three redundant seq sources' premise was flawed): the
streaming wire already derives sequence_number solely from the cursor-seeded
state.next_seq (the append step overwrites any builder/SSE value), and the
non-stream path keeps the builder counter by design (no cursor, not
cursor-replayed). No code change — adds a fast unit guard pinning both mechanisms
and an 'one authority per surface' implementation note to the durability design
SOT (responses-durability-spec.md §9.1).

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…R-007)

Spec 033 Phase 4 responses side — remove cross-package private-module reaches
into azure-ai-agentserver-core, consuming the public surface promoted in the core
commit instead:

- core._platform_headers -> core.platform_headers (7 files; drop the
  import-error/no-name-in-module suppressions that were on the private imports)
- core._config AgentConfig -> top-level core.AgentConfig (2 files)
- core._request_id REQUEST_ID_STATE_KEY -> core.read_request_id(scope); rewrite
  _get_scope_request_id to the public helper
- TaskRun._queued_cancel_callback getattr reach -> public TaskRun.is_queued
- core.durable._context.TaskContext -> public core.durable.TaskContext; drop the
  unused _ExitForRecovery TYPE_CHECKING import

Grounded (out of FR-007's enumerated scope, documented): the same-package
ResponseContext._task_context attribute (not a cross-package layering violation)
and the defensively-coded _ExitForRecovery sentinel TYPE backing the public
ExitForRecoverySignal alias (over-exposing a handler-internal sentinel as
first-class core API is poor stewardship and would force core contract-completeness
obligations).

Adds import-lint gate test_spec033_import_lint.py. Fast suite 1104 passed.

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…ction

Spec 033 Phase 6 audit cleanup — _pick_primitive took an ad-hoc ctx_params dict
(the pre-typed-boundary param-bag name) only to read conversation_id /
previous_response_id. Pass them as explicit keyword args instead, and reword the
_durable_input module docstring to describe the boundary as-is (no 'replaces the
previous ctx_params/_split_runtime_refs' framing, per the unshipped-feature
convention). Behaviour identical; matrix + Row-5 tests updated to the new
signature. Removes the last ctx_params reference from responses source.

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… Phase 2)

Behaviour-preserving terminology reframe to de-brand "durable/durability"
(collides with Azure Durable Functions / Durable Task Framework / Durable
Task Scheduler) in favour of "resilient/resilience" for the crash-survival
property. "Task" remains the broad primitive name.

- Merge core Phase 1 (core.tasks subpackage, AGENTSERVER_STATE_ROOT, .agentserver).
- Rename hosting/_durable_orchestrator.py -> _resilient_orchestrator.py
  (DurableResponseOrchestrator -> ResilientResponseOrchestrator),
  _durable_input.py -> _resilient_input.py,
  responses/_durability_context.py -> _resilience_context.py.
- Rename tests/e2e/durability_contract/ -> resilience_contract/ (63 crash tests).
- Rename samples sample_18-22 + docs + content reframe.
- durable_background -> resilient_background.

Zero runtime behaviour change: serialized wire/storage strings preserved;
translated by meaning only. Suite unchanged: 1104 fast + 63 e2e green.

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Persisted-artifact language must use "persistent/stored/state/persist", never
"resilient" (which denotes the crash-survival property). Corrects storage-sense
mistranslations introduced by the durable->resilient word swap across code,
docs, and tests:
- "resilient store" -> "response store"/"task store" (by context);
  "resilient storage" -> "persistent storage".
- "Resiliently persist"/"resiliently persists/persisted" -> "persist(s/ed)";
  "resilient persistence" -> "persistence".
- "resiliently committed" -> "persisted"; "resiliently flushed" -> "flushed".

Property-sense "resilient" retained: "resilient background" (mode),
"non-resilient store" (a store lacking the resilience property), tasks that
"run/continue resiliently". Comment/docstring/test-message only; zero behaviour
change. Fast suite 1104 passed.

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checkpoint 'resiliently persists' -> 'persists'; 'local resilient storage root'
-> 'local state storage root'. Doc-only; zero behaviour change.

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… (Spec 034)

The reframe's storage-dir rule over-matched the bare module reference
core.durable._context, producing the non-existent core.agentserver._context;
correct it to core.tasks._context. Docstring-only; zero runtime effect. Caught
by the Principle XIII final review.

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…s samples

The azure-ai-agentserver-* preview packages (core 2.0.0b7 etc.) aren't on PyPI,
so `pip install -r requirements.txt` pulled stale/absent versions. Point the
requirements at the in-repo source via editable relative paths (core +
responses + invocations — core is required transitively and is the one missing
from PyPI). pip resolves these relative to the cwd, so run pip from the
samples/ directory. Verified end-to-end in a fresh venv: installs the local
preview, core.tasks imports.

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…rver-responses-spec016

# Conflicts:
#	sdk/agentserver/azure-ai-agentserver-invocations/tests/e2e/_crash_harness.py
#	sdk/agentserver/azure-ai-agentserver-invocations/tests/e2e/test_resilient_copilot_live.py
#	sdk/agentserver/azure-ai-agentserver-invocations/tests/e2e/test_resilient_multiturn.py
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