a2a_protocol_server/agent_card/

hot_reload.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Hot-reload agent card handler.
//!
//! [`HotReloadAgentCardHandler`] wraps an [`AgentCard`] behind an
//! [`Arc<RwLock<_>>`](std::sync::Arc) so the card can be replaced at runtime
//! without restarting the server. The handler implements [`AgentCardProducer`]
//! and can therefore be used with [`DynamicAgentCardHandler`](super::DynamicAgentCardHandler).
//!
//! Three reload strategies are provided:
//!
//! | Method | Platform | Mechanism |
//! |---|---|---|
//! | [`reload_from_file`](HotReloadAgentCardHandler::reload_from_file) | all | Reads a JSON file on demand |
//! | [`spawn_poll_watcher`](HotReloadAgentCardHandler::spawn_poll_watcher) | all | Polls file modification time at a configurable interval |
//! | [`spawn_signal_watcher`](HotReloadAgentCardHandler::spawn_signal_watcher) | unix | Reloads on `SIGHUP` |
//!
//! # Example
//!
//! ```no_run
//! use std::path::Path;
//! use std::sync::Arc;
//! use a2a_protocol_types::agent_card::AgentCard;
//! use a2a_protocol_server::agent_card::hot_reload::HotReloadAgentCardHandler;
//!
//! # fn example(card: AgentCard) {
//! let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);
//!
//! // Periodic polling (cross-platform).
//! let handle = handler.spawn_poll_watcher(
//!     Path::new("/etc/a2a/agent.json"),
//!     std::time::Duration::from_secs(30),
//! );
//! // `handle` can be dropped or `.abort()`-ed to stop polling.
//! # }
//! ```

use std::future::Future;
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use std::pin::Pin;
use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};

use a2a_protocol_types::agent_card::AgentCard;
use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;

use crate::agent_card::dynamic_handler::AgentCardProducer;
use crate::error::{ServerError, ServerResult};

/// An agent card handler that supports hot-reloading.
///
/// The current [`AgentCard`] is stored behind an [`Arc<RwLock<_>>`] so that it
/// can be atomically swapped while the server continues to serve requests.
///
/// This type implements [`AgentCardProducer`], so it can be plugged directly
/// into a [`DynamicAgentCardHandler`](super::DynamicAgentCardHandler) for
/// full HTTP caching support.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct HotReloadAgentCardHandler {
    card: Arc<RwLock<AgentCard>>,
}

impl HotReloadAgentCardHandler {
    /// Creates a new handler with the given initial [`AgentCard`].
    #[must_use]
    pub fn new(card: AgentCard) -> Self {
        Self {
            card: Arc::new(RwLock::new(card)),
        }
    }

    /// Returns a snapshot of the current [`AgentCard`].
    ///
    /// This acquires a short-lived read lock and clones the card.
    ///
    /// A poisoned lock is recovered from rather than propagated — see
    /// [`update`](Self::update).
    #[must_use]
    pub fn current(&self) -> AgentCard {
        self.card
            .read()
            .unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner)
            .clone()
    }

    /// Replaces the current agent card with `card`.
    ///
    /// All subsequent requests will see the new card immediately.
    ///
    /// # A poisoned lock is recovered from, not propagated
    ///
    /// Both accessors used to `expect` on the lock, so one panic anywhere
    /// under the write lock turned *every subsequent agent-card request* into
    /// a panic — on the request path, in a handler whose whole purpose is to
    /// answer `GetAgentCard`. In a release build that is worse still: this
    /// workspace sets `panic = "abort"`, so the second panic is a process
    /// abort rather than one failed request.
    ///
    /// Recovery is correct here, not merely convenient. The only write is this
    /// whole-value assignment of an already-constructed `AgentCard`, so there
    /// is no state in which the guarded value is half-updated for a later
    /// reader to observe. The same reasoning the rest of this workspace
    /// applies to its `std` mutexes.
    pub fn update(&self, card: AgentCard) {
        let mut guard = self
            .card
            .write()
            .unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner);
        *guard = card;
    }

    /// Reloads the agent card from a JSON file at `path`.
    ///
    /// The file is read synchronously (agent card files are expected to be
    /// small). On success the internal card is replaced atomically.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns [`ServerError::Internal`] if the file cannot be read or parsed.
    pub fn reload_from_file(&self, path: &Path) -> ServerResult<()> {
        let contents = std::fs::read_to_string(path).map_err(|e| {
            ServerError::Internal(format!(
                "failed to read agent card file {}: {e}",
                path.display()
            ))
        })?;
        self.reload_from_json(&contents)
    }

    /// Reloads the agent card from a JSON string.
    ///
    /// On success the internal card is replaced atomically.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns [`ServerError::Serialization`] if `json` is not valid agent card JSON.
    pub fn reload_from_json(&self, json: &str) -> ServerResult<()> {
        let card: AgentCard = serde_json::from_str(json)?;
        self.update(card);
        Ok(())
    }

    /// Spawns a background task that periodically checks whether the file at
    /// `path` has been modified and reloads the agent card when it has.
    ///
    /// The watcher compares the file's modification time on each tick and only
    /// re-reads the file when the timestamp changes. This is cross-platform
    /// and requires no OS-specific file notification APIs.
    ///
    /// Returns a [`tokio::task::JoinHandle`] that can be used to abort the
    /// watcher (via [`JoinHandle::abort`](tokio::task::JoinHandle::abort)).
    #[must_use]
    pub fn spawn_poll_watcher(
        &self,
        path: &Path,
        interval: Duration,
    ) -> tokio::task::JoinHandle<()> {
        let handler = self.clone();
        let path = path.to_path_buf();
        tokio::spawn(poll_watcher_loop(handler, path, interval))
    }

    /// Spawns a background task that reloads the agent card from `path`
    /// whenever the process receives `SIGHUP`.
    ///
    /// This is the traditional Unix mechanism for configuration reload and
    /// integrates well with process managers (systemd, supervisord, etc.).
    ///
    /// Returns a [`tokio::task::JoinHandle`] that can be used to abort the
    /// watcher (via [`JoinHandle::abort`](tokio::task::JoinHandle::abort)).
    ///
    /// If the handler cannot be registered for an ordinary I/O reason, the
    /// watcher logs a warning and exits; reload-on-SIGHUP is then unavailable,
    /// and [`reload_from_file`](Self::reload_from_file) and
    /// [`spawn_poll_watcher`](Self::spawn_poll_watcher) still work.
    ///
    /// # Panics
    ///
    /// Panics **here, at this call**, if the current Tokio runtime has no
    /// signal driver — `there is no signal driver running, must be called from
    /// the context of Tokio runtime`. That is what a runtime built by hand
    /// without `enable_all()` (or at least `enable_io()`) gives you; the
    /// `#[tokio::main]` default has it.
    ///
    /// Registration used to happen inside the spawned task, which made the
    /// same panic much worse. It fired *after* this function had already
    /// returned a handle, so a caller had no way to see it coming and nothing
    /// to catch — and this workspace builds release with `panic = "abort"`, so
    /// what a developer would meet as a failing startup in the first case is a
    /// process abort at an arbitrary later moment in the second. Registering
    /// synchronously does not remove the panic; it moves it to the caller's own
    /// startup path, where it is deterministic and where this paragraph is
    /// about the function it is attached to.
    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[must_use]
    pub fn spawn_signal_watcher(&self, path: &Path) -> tokio::task::JoinHandle<()> {
        use tokio::signal::unix::{SignalKind, signal};

        // Registered before the spawn — see this function's `# Panics`.
        let stream = signal(SignalKind::hangup());
        let handler = self.clone();
        let path = path.to_path_buf();
        tokio::spawn(signal_watcher_loop(handler, path, stream))
    }
}

impl AgentCardProducer for HotReloadAgentCardHandler {
    fn produce<'a>(&'a self) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<AgentCard>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move { Ok(self.current()) })
    }
}

/// Returns the modification time of a file, or `None` if the metadata cannot
/// be read.
fn file_mtime(path: &Path) -> Option<SystemTime> {
    std::fs::metadata(path).ok().and_then(|m| m.modified().ok())
}

/// Async wrapper around [`file_mtime`] that runs the blocking `stat` on the
/// blocking thread pool, so the watcher loop never stalls a runtime worker on a
/// slow/stalled volume (NFS, etc.).
async fn file_mtime_async(path: &Path) -> Option<SystemTime> {
    let path = path.to_path_buf();
    tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || file_mtime(&path))
        .await
        .ok()
        .flatten()
}

/// Async wrapper that reads the card file on the blocking thread pool and then
/// parses/installs it (parsing is CPU-only and stays inline). Keeps the public
/// synchronous [`HotReloadAgentCardHandler::reload_from_file`] unchanged for
/// callers that want it, while the background watchers avoid blocking IO on a
/// runtime worker.
async fn reload_from_file_async(
    handler: &HotReloadAgentCardHandler,
    path: &Path,
) -> ServerResult<()> {
    let owned = path.to_path_buf();
    let read = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || std::fs::read_to_string(&owned))
        .await
        .map_err(|e| ServerError::Internal(format!("agent card read task failed: {e}")))?;
    let contents = read.map_err(|e| {
        ServerError::Internal(format!(
            "failed to read agent card file {}: {e}",
            path.display()
        ))
    })?;
    handler.reload_from_json(&contents)
}

/// Background loop that polls `path` for modification time changes and reloads
/// the agent card when a change is detected.
async fn poll_watcher_loop(handler: HotReloadAgentCardHandler, path: PathBuf, interval: Duration) {
    let mut last_mtime = file_mtime_async(&path).await;
    let mut tick = tokio::time::interval(interval);
    // The first tick completes immediately; consume it so we don't reload on
    // startup (the caller already loaded the initial card).
    tick.tick().await;

    loop {
        tick.tick().await;
        let current_mtime = file_mtime_async(&path).await;
        if current_mtime != last_mtime {
            last_mtime = current_mtime;
            if let Err(e) = reload_from_file_async(&handler, &path).await {
                // Log the error but keep polling. The file may be temporarily
                // unavailable during an atomic rename-based deploy.
                #[cfg(feature = "tracing")]
                tracing::warn!(
                    path = %path.display(),
                    error = %e,
                    "hot-reload: failed to reload agent card",
                );
                let _ = e;
            }
        }
    }
}

/// Background loop that reloads the agent card on `SIGHUP`.
///
/// Takes the already-registered stream rather than registering one, so that a
/// registration failure is the caller's to see — see
/// [`HotReloadAgentCardHandler::spawn_signal_watcher`].
#[cfg(unix)]
async fn signal_watcher_loop(
    handler: HotReloadAgentCardHandler,
    path: PathBuf,
    stream: std::io::Result<tokio::signal::unix::Signal>,
) {
    let mut stream = match stream {
        Ok(stream) => stream,
        Err(e) => {
            #[cfg(feature = "tracing")]
            tracing::warn!(
                error = %e,
                "hot-reload: could not register a SIGHUP handler; \
                 reload-on-SIGHUP is unavailable for this process"
            );
            // Consumed only by `trace`-gated logging above; matches the
            // convention the rest of this file already uses.
            let _ = e;
            return;
        }
    };

    // `while … is_some()`, not `loop { recv().await; }`. The discarded
    // `Option` was a latent hot loop: `None` means no further signals can
    // arrive, and the old loop answered that by asking again immediately,
    // forever, at whatever CPU one task can consume.
    while stream.recv().await.is_some() {
        if let Err(e) = reload_from_file_async(&handler, &path).await {
            #[cfg(feature = "tracing")]
            tracing::warn!(
                path = %path.display(),
                error = %e,
                "hot-reload: SIGHUP reload failed",
            );
            let _ = e;
        }
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use crate::agent_card::caching::tests::minimal_agent_card;

    /// A runtime with no signal driver must fail *at the call site*, not
    /// later in a detached task.
    ///
    /// `tokio::signal::unix::signal` panics — it does not return `Err` — with
    /// "there is no signal driver running, must be called from the context of
    /// Tokio runtime", which is what a hand-built runtime without
    /// `enable_all()` gives you. Registration used to happen inside the spawned
    /// task, so that panic arrived after `spawn_signal_watcher` had already
    /// returned a handle: nothing to catch, nothing to see coming, and a
    /// process abort rather than a failed request under this workspace's
    /// release `panic = "abort"`.
    ///
    /// `catch_unwind` works here only because tests build with the dev
    /// profile, which unwinds. That is precisely the asymmetry this test is
    /// about: in release there is nothing to catch, which is why the panic has
    /// to happen where the caller can see it instead.
    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn a_runtime_without_a_signal_driver_fails_at_the_call_site() {
        let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
            .enable_time() // deliberately not enable_all(): no I/O, no signal driver
            .build()
            .expect("runtime");
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(minimal_agent_card());

        // No panic-hook swap around this `catch_unwind`, deliberately, and
        // `scripts/check_panic_hooks.sh` keeps it that way. `set_hook` is
        // process-global while libtest runs tests as parallel threads in one
        // process, so silencing the hook here silences every *other* thread
        // for as long as the window is held — a genuinely failing test that
        // races it loses its message and reddens CI with no reason in the
        // log. Nothing is gained by the swap: libtest already captures panic
        // output per test and discards it when the test passes.
        let outcome = rt.block_on(async {
            std::panic::catch_unwind(std::panic::AssertUnwindSafe(|| {
                let _handle = handler.spawn_signal_watcher(Path::new("/nonexistent"));
            }))
        });

        let payload = outcome.expect_err(
            "registration must happen inside spawn_signal_watcher, so the failure \
             is the caller's — returning a handle here means it fires later, detached",
        );
        let msg = payload
            .downcast_ref::<String>()
            .cloned()
            .unwrap_or_else(|| {
                payload
                    .downcast_ref::<&str>()
                    .map_or_else(String::new, |s| (*s).to_string())
            });
        assert!(
            msg.contains("signal driver"),
            "expected tokio's missing-signal-driver panic, got: {msg}"
        );
    }

    /// A panic under the write lock must not turn every later agent-card
    /// request into a panic.
    ///
    /// Both accessors used to `expect` on the lock. Poisoning is sticky, so one
    /// panic anywhere under it made `current()` — the function that answers
    /// `GetAgentCard` — panic from then on. This workspace builds release with
    /// `panic = "abort"`, which makes the second panic a process abort rather
    /// than one failed request.
    #[test]
    fn a_poisoned_lock_does_not_disable_the_card_handler() {
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(minimal_agent_card());
        let name_before = handler.current().name;

        let poisoner = handler.clone();
        // No panic-hook swap — see the test above for why.
        let outcome = std::panic::catch_unwind(std::panic::AssertUnwindSafe(|| {
            let _guard = poisoner.card.write().expect("uncontended");
            panic!("poison the lock");
        }));
        assert!(outcome.is_err(), "the closure must actually have panicked");
        assert!(
            handler.card.is_poisoned(),
            "and it must actually have poisoned the lock"
        );

        assert_eq!(
            handler.current().name,
            name_before,
            "reads must still work through a poisoned lock"
        );

        let mut replacement = minimal_agent_card();
        replacement.name = "after-poison".to_string();
        handler.update(replacement);
        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "after-poison", "and so must writes");
    }

    #[test]
    fn new_handler_returns_initial_card() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card.clone());
        let current = handler.current();
        assert_eq!(current.name, card.name);
        assert_eq!(current.version, card.version);
    }

    #[test]
    fn update_replaces_card() {
        let card1 = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card1);

        let mut card2 = minimal_agent_card();
        card2.name = "Updated Agent".into();
        handler.update(card2);

        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "Updated Agent");
    }

    #[test]
    fn reload_from_json_valid() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let mut new_card = minimal_agent_card();
        new_card.name = "JSON Reloaded".into();
        let json = serde_json::to_string(&new_card).unwrap();

        handler.reload_from_json(&json).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "JSON Reloaded");
    }

    #[test]
    fn reload_from_json_invalid() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let result = handler.reload_from_json("not valid json {{{");
        assert!(result.is_err());
        // Original card should be unchanged.
        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "Test Agent");
    }

    #[test]
    fn reload_from_file_valid() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_hot_reload_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("agent_card.json");

        let mut new_card = minimal_agent_card();
        new_card.name = "File Reloaded".into();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&new_card).unwrap()).unwrap();

        handler.reload_from_file(&file).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "File Reloaded");

        // Cleanup.
        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&file);
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);
    }

    #[test]
    fn reload_from_file_missing() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let result = handler.reload_from_file(Path::new("/tmp/nonexistent_a2a_card.json"));
        assert!(result.is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn clone_shares_state() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler1 = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);
        let handler2 = handler1.clone();

        let mut new_card = minimal_agent_card();
        new_card.name = "Shared Update".into();
        handler1.update(new_card);

        // Both clones should see the update.
        assert_eq!(handler2.current().name, "Shared Update");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn producer_trait_returns_current_card() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card.clone());

        let produced = handler.produce().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(produced.name, card.name);
    }

    /// Covers lines 167-171 (`spawn_signal_watcher`, unix only).
    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn signal_watcher_can_be_spawned_and_aborted() {
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_signal_watcher_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("agent_card.json");

        let initial = minimal_agent_card();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&initial).unwrap()).unwrap();

        let handle = handler.spawn_signal_watcher(&file);
        // Just verify it can be spawned and aborted without panicking.
        handle.abort();

        // Cleanup
        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&file);
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);
    }

    /// Verifies that `signal_watcher_loop` actually reloads the card on
    /// `SIGHUP` — not merely that the task can be spawned and aborted. Kills
    /// the `replace signal_watcher_loop with ()` mutant, which would otherwise
    /// leave the reload behavior (the entire point of the loop) untested.
    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn signal_watcher_reloads_on_sighup() {
        use tokio::signal::unix::{SignalKind, signal};

        // Register a guard SIGHUP stream up front. This overrides the default
        // "terminate" disposition for the whole process so raising SIGHUP
        // below does not kill the test runner, independent of how quickly the
        // watcher task gets scheduled.
        let _guard = signal(SignalKind::hangup()).expect("register guard SIGHUP handler");

        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_signal_reload_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("agent_card.json");

        let initial = minimal_agent_card();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&initial).unwrap()).unwrap();

        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(initial);
        let handle = handler.spawn_signal_watcher(&file);

        // Give the watcher task time to run and register its own SIGHUP stream
        // before we raise the signal. A signal delivered before a stream is
        // created is not observed by that stream.
        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(200)).await;

        // Write an updated card, then raise SIGHUP to trigger the reload.
        let mut updated = minimal_agent_card();
        updated.name = "SIGHUP Reloaded".into();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&updated).unwrap()).unwrap();

        // Raise SIGHUP to this process. Using `kill(1)` keeps the test free of
        // a `libc`/`nix` dependency; `kill` is always present under `#[cfg(unix)]`.
        let status = std::process::Command::new("kill")
            .args(["-HUP", &std::process::id().to_string()])
            .status()
            .expect("send SIGHUP via kill(1)");
        assert!(status.success(), "kill -HUP <self> should succeed");

        // Poll for the reload with a bounded timeout so a regression fails
        // fast instead of hanging.
        let reloaded = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), async {
            loop {
                if handler.current().name == "SIGHUP Reloaded" {
                    return true;
                }
                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(25)).await;
            }
        })
        .await
        .unwrap_or(false);

        handle.abort();
        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&file);
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);

        assert!(
            reloaded,
            "signal_watcher_loop should reload the agent card on SIGHUP"
        );
    }

    /// Covers `file_mtime` helper function (line 182-184).
    #[test]
    fn file_mtime_returns_none_for_missing_file() {
        let result = file_mtime(Path::new("/tmp/nonexistent_a2a_mtime_test.json"));
        assert!(result.is_none(), "missing file should return None");
    }

    /// Covers `file_mtime` for existing file.
    #[test]
    fn file_mtime_returns_some_for_existing_file() {
        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_mtime_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("test.json");
        std::fs::write(&file, "{}").unwrap();

        let result = file_mtime(&file);
        assert!(result.is_some(), "existing file should return Some");

        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&file);
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn poll_watcher_handles_missing_file_gracefully() {
        // Covers lines 200-209: the error branch in poll_watcher_loop when
        // reload_from_file fails (file temporarily missing during deploy).
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_poll_missing_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("agent_card.json");

        // Write initial file.
        let initial = minimal_agent_card();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&initial).unwrap()).unwrap();

        let handle = handler.spawn_poll_watcher(&file, Duration::from_millis(50));

        // Wait for poller to start.
        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100)).await;

        // Delete the file to trigger the reload error path.
        std::fs::remove_file(&file).unwrap();

        // Wait for the poller to detect the change and hit the error.
        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(200)).await;

        // The handler should still have the original card (reload failed).
        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "Test Agent");

        handle.abort();
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn poll_watcher_handles_invalid_json_gracefully() {
        // Covers lines 200-209: reload fails due to invalid JSON.
        let card = minimal_agent_card();
        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(card);

        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_poll_invalid_json_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("agent_card.json");

        let initial = minimal_agent_card();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&initial).unwrap()).unwrap();

        let handle = handler.spawn_poll_watcher(&file, Duration::from_millis(50));

        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100)).await;

        // Write invalid JSON to trigger the reload error path.
        std::fs::write(&file, "not valid json {{{").unwrap();

        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(200)).await;

        // The handler should still have the original card.
        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "Test Agent");

        handle.abort();
        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&file);
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn poll_watcher_detects_change() {
        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("a2a_poll_watcher_test");
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
        let file = dir.join("agent_card.json");

        let initial = minimal_agent_card();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&initial).unwrap()).unwrap();

        let handler = HotReloadAgentCardHandler::new(initial);
        let handle = handler.spawn_poll_watcher(&file, Duration::from_millis(50));

        // Wait a moment, then write an updated card.
        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100)).await;

        let mut updated = minimal_agent_card();
        updated.name = "Poll Updated".into();
        std::fs::write(&file, serde_json::to_string(&updated).unwrap()).unwrap();

        // Wait for the poller to detect the change, bounded by a deadline
        // rather than by a fixed budget. What has to fit in the window is a
        // tick of the 50ms interval, an mtime read and a parse, on a machine
        // running the rest of this binary's tests beside it — and 200ms did
        // not fit on `Test (1.88, macos-latest)` for f69fced2, where this was
        // the one failure in 1248. The assertion is unchanged in strength: a
        // reload that never happens still fails the test, at the deadline,
        // rather than hanging.
        let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(10);
        while handler.current().name != "Poll Updated" {
            assert!(
                std::time::Instant::now() < deadline,
                "the poll watcher did not pick up the rewritten card within 10s"
            );
            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(25)).await;
        }

        assert_eq!(handler.current().name, "Poll Updated");

        handle.abort();

        // Cleanup.
        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&file);
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir(&dir);
    }
}