a2a_protocol_server/store/sqlite_store/

mod.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! SQLite-backed [`TaskStore`] implementation.
//!
//! Requires the `sqlite` feature flag. Uses `sqlx` for async `SQLite` access.
//!
//! # Example
//!
//! ```rust,no_run
//! use a2a_protocol_server::store::SqliteTaskStore;
//!
//! # async fn example() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
//! let store = SqliteTaskStore::new("sqlite:tasks.db").await?;
//! # Ok(())
//! # }
//! ```

use std::borrow::Cow;
use std::future::Future;
use std::pin::Pin;

use a2a_protocol_types::error::{A2aError, A2aResult};
use a2a_protocol_types::events::StreamResponse;
use a2a_protocol_types::params::ListTasksParams;
use a2a_protocol_types::responses::TaskListResponse;
use a2a_protocol_types::task::{Task, TaskId};
use sqlx::Row as _;
use sqlx::sqlite::SqlitePool;

use super::event_log_sql::{
    decode_text_row, encode_text, limit_to_i64, report_no_op_append, seq_from_i64, seq_to_i64,
};
use super::task_store::{ArtifactDelta, RecordedEvent, TaskStore};
use crate::metrics::MetricsHandle;
use crate::store::terminal::{refusal, sql_write_allowed};

/// SQLite-backed [`TaskStore`].
///
/// Stores tasks as JSON blobs in a `tasks` table. Suitable for single-node
/// production deployments that need persistence across restarts.
///
/// # Schema
///
/// The store auto-creates the following table on first use:
///
/// ```sql
/// CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tasks (
///     id         TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
///     context_id TEXT NOT NULL,
///     state      TEXT NOT NULL,
///     data       TEXT NOT NULL,
///     updated_at TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT (strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f','now'))
/// );
/// ```
///
/// `list()` returns tasks most-recently-updated first (spec §3.1.4), ordered by
/// `(updated_at DESC, id DESC)` with a composite row-value cursor. `updated_at`
/// is written at millisecond precision in a fixed-width format so TEXT
/// comparison matches chronological order.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct SqliteTaskStore {
    pool: SqlitePool,
    /// Largest page `list` will return. See
    /// [`with_max_page_size`](SqliteTaskStore::with_max_page_size).
    max_page_size: u32,
    /// Where an append that recorded nothing is reported. See
    /// [`with_metrics`](SqliteTaskStore::with_metrics).
    metrics: MetricsHandle,
}

impl SqliteTaskStore {
    /// Caps the page size `list` returns, however large a page is asked for.
    ///
    /// Defaults to [`DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_SIZE`], which explains why this store
    /// needs its own knob rather than reading [`TaskStoreConfig`].
    ///
    /// [`TaskStoreConfig`]: crate::store::TaskStoreConfig
    /// [`DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_SIZE`]: crate::store::DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_SIZE
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn with_max_page_size(mut self, max: u32) -> Self {
        self.max_page_size = max;
        self
    }

    /// Sets where this store reports an event it could not record.
    ///
    /// Defaults to [`NoopMetrics`](crate::metrics::NoopMetrics). An append is
    /// `ON CONFLICT (task_id, seq) DO NOTHING`, so one that lands on a
    /// position another writer already holds returns `Ok(())` having written
    /// nothing — see
    /// [`event_append_error`](crate::metrics::event_append_error). This is how
    /// that becomes visible.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn with_metrics(mut self, metrics: MetricsHandle) -> Self {
        self.metrics = metrics;
        self
    }

    /// Opens (or creates) a `SQLite` database and initializes the schema.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an error if the database cannot be opened or the schema migration fails.
    pub async fn new(url: &str) -> Result<Self, sqlx::Error> {
        let pool = sqlite_pool(url).await?;
        Self::from_pool(pool).await
    }

    /// Opens a `SQLite` database with automatic schema migration.
    ///
    /// Runs all pending migrations before returning the store. This is the
    /// recommended constructor for production deployments because it ensures
    /// the schema is always up to date without duplicating DDL statements.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an error if the database cannot be opened or any migration fails.
    pub async fn with_migrations(url: &str) -> Result<Self, sqlx::Error> {
        let pool = sqlite_pool(url).await?;

        let runner = super::migration::MigrationRunner::new(pool.clone());
        runner.run_pending().await?;

        Ok(Self {
            pool,
            max_page_size: crate::store::DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_SIZE,
            metrics: MetricsHandle::default(),
        })
    }

    /// Creates a store from an existing connection pool.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an error if the schema migration fails.
    pub async fn from_pool(pool: SqlitePool) -> Result<Self, sqlx::Error> {
        sqlx::query(
            "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tasks (
                id         TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
                context_id TEXT NOT NULL,
                state      TEXT NOT NULL,
                data       TEXT NOT NULL,
                updated_at TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT (strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f','now')),
                created_at TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT (datetime('now'))
            )",
        )
        .execute(&pool)
        .await?;

        // Added after the `tasks` table so the foreign key has something to
        // point at on a database being created from scratch. Existing
        // databases gain it here on first open; no data migration is needed,
        // because a document written before this table existed is already
        // complete.
        sqlx::query(journal::CREATE_TABLE_SQL)
            .execute(&pool)
            .await?;

        // The other half of migration 6. Unlike the journal this carries no
        // foreign key, so its order relative to `tasks` does not matter — but
        // it must exist here too, or a store built by `from_pool` refuses
        // every keyed send.
        sqlx::query(idempotency::CREATE_TABLE_SQL)
            .execute(&pool)
            .await?;

        // The other half of migration 7. After `tasks`, like the journal,
        // because it carries the same foreign key.
        sqlx::query(event_log::CREATE_TABLE_SQL)
            .execute(&pool)
            .await?;

        sqlx::query("CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_tasks_context_id ON tasks(context_id)")
            .execute(&pool)
            .await?;

        sqlx::query("CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_tasks_state ON tasks(state)")
            .execute(&pool)
            .await?;

        sqlx::query(
            "CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_tasks_context_id_state ON tasks(context_id, state)",
        )
        .execute(&pool)
        .await?;

        // Supports the most-recently-updated-first ordering and composite
        // (updated_at, id) cursor used by list().
        sqlx::query(
            "CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_tasks_updated_at ON tasks(updated_at DESC, id DESC)",
        )
        .execute(&pool)
        .await?;

        Ok(Self {
            pool,
            max_page_size: crate::store::DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_SIZE,
            metrics: MetricsHandle::default(),
        })
    }

    /// Writes journal rows for an append, falling back to a whole-task write
    /// if they cannot be stored.
    ///
    /// The fallback covers the case the foreign key exists to catch: a delta
    /// for a task that was never saved. There is no row to append to, so the
    /// insert violates the key and `save` is what makes the task exist. Any
    /// other insert failure takes the same route, because writing the task
    /// whole is always a correct answer to "this append did not land" — and if
    /// the database is genuinely unwell, `save` reports it.
    ///
    /// The rows land only while the task may still be written by a writer
    /// holding `task`'s state (see [`crate::store::terminal`]): the insert
    /// selects from its `VALUES` under an `EXISTS` on the task row carrying
    /// that guard, so the check and the insert are one statement. When nothing
    /// is inserted — the guard refused, or every row was a replayed position —
    /// `save` decides: it refuses with the conflict, or rewrites a record that
    /// the replay already describes.
    async fn journal_append(&self, task: &Task, rows: Vec<journal::Row>) -> A2aResult<()> {
        let mut query_builder = sqlx::QueryBuilder::new(
            "INSERT INTO task_artifact_appends (task_id, artifact, seq, part) SELECT * FROM (",
        );
        query_builder.push_values(rows, |mut b, (artifact, seq, part)| {
            b.push_bind(task.id.0.clone())
                .push_bind(artifact)
                .push_bind(seq)
                .push_bind(part);
        });
        query_builder.push(") WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM tasks WHERE id = ");
        query_builder.push_bind(task.id.0.clone());
        query_builder.push(" AND ");
        query_builder.push(crate::store::terminal::SQL_STATE_NOT_TERMINAL_OR_EQUALS);
        query_builder.push_bind(task.status.state.to_string());
        query_builder.push("))");
        // Replay of an already-journalled append is a no-op rather than a
        // duplicate-key failure, because `seq` is the part's position: the same
        // append twice names the same slot with the same bytes.
        query_builder.push(" ON CONFLICT(task_id, artifact, seq) DO NOTHING");

        match query_builder.build().execute(&self.pool).await {
            Ok(done) if done.rows_affected() > 0 => Ok(()),
            _ => self.save(task).await,
        }
    }

    /// Deletes terminal tasks that have outlived `policy`.
    ///
    /// Nothing calls this for you. A persistent store keeps every task until
    /// an operator says otherwise — see [`retention`](crate::store::retention)
    /// for why that is the default and why the in-memory store does the
    /// opposite — so this is the hook for whatever already schedules work: a
    /// cron entry, a Kubernetes `CronJob`, a `tokio` interval in your own
    /// binary.
    ///
    /// Only `Completed`, `Failed`, `Canceled` and `Rejected` tasks are
    /// eligible. A task still `Working`, or parked in `InputRequired` waiting
    /// on a human, is never deleted however old it is.
    ///
    /// Safe to run from several replicas at once: each batch is a single
    /// `DELETE` whose subquery picks the rows, so two sweeps racing delete
    /// disjoint sets rather than colliding.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an error if a delete fails. A sweep that fails partway has
    /// still committed its earlier batches; the counts in the returned report
    /// are lost in that case, but the deletions are not undone and the next
    /// sweep simply continues.
    pub async fn purge_expired(
        &self,
        policy: &super::retention::RetentionPolicy,
    ) -> A2aResult<super::retention::PurgeReport> {
        super::retention::sqlite::purge(
            &self.pool,
            "tasks",
            &[journal::DELETE_ORPHANS_SQL, event_log::DELETE_ORPHANS_SQL],
            idempotency::EXPIRE_SQL,
            policy,
        )
        .await
        .map_err(to_a2a_error)
    }
}

// The pragmas these two apply were written out here and in three other
// modules, byte-identical and unguarded. They live in one place now; see
// `crate::sqlite_pool` for what each one is load-bearing for.
use crate::sqlite_pool::sqlite_pool;

pub(super) mod event_log;
pub(super) mod idempotency;
pub(super) mod journal;

/// Converts a `sqlx::Error` to an `A2aError`.
#[allow(clippy::needless_pass_by_value)]
fn to_a2a_error(e: sqlx::Error) -> A2aError {
    A2aError::internal(format!("sqlite error: {e}"))
}

/// Builds the `UPDATE` that splices an artifact delta into the stored JSON,
/// plus the single JSON payload it binds.
///
/// Returns `Ok(None)` when the delta cannot be applied exactly, in which case
/// the caller must fall back to a whole-record `save`. Every refusal below is a
/// case where an in-place edit could produce a document that differs from the
/// task it was given, and a store that is quietly wrong is worse than one that
/// is slower:
///
/// - **No artifacts on the task.** There is no array to append into, so the
///   delta does not describe this task.
/// - **The index is out of range**, or `Pushed` does not name the last
///   position. The delta describes a different shape than the task has.
/// - **Fewer parts present than `count` claims** were appended. Splicing the
///   wrong tail would corrupt the record silently.
/// - **More than `MAX_INLINE_APPEND` parts at once.** Each appended part
///   needs its own `json_set` path, so the statement grows with the batch;
///   past a small bound a single `save` is both simpler and cheaper. Streaming
///   agents append one part per event, so this is the rare path.
///
/// The `?1` parameter is always a JSON *array* of the appended parts (or a
/// one-element array holding the pushed artifact), so the statement shape does
/// not change with the payload and `SQLite` can reuse its prepared plan.
/// Above this many parts in one event, rewriting the record wins.
///
/// At module scope so the boundary tests assert against the same constant the
/// implementation uses, rather than a copy of its value that could drift.
const MAX_INLINE_APPEND: usize = 8;

fn artifact_delta_sql(task: &Task, delta: ArtifactDelta) -> A2aResult<Option<DeltaStatement>> {
    let Some(artifacts) = task.artifacts.as_ref() else {
        return Ok(None);
    };

    match delta {
        ArtifactDelta::AppendedParts { index, count } => {
            if count == 0 || count > MAX_INLINE_APPEND {
                return Ok(None);
            }
            let Some(artifact) = artifacts.get(index) else {
                return Ok(None);
            };
            if artifact.parts.len() < count {
                return Ok(None);
            }
            let tail = &artifact.parts[artifact.parts.len() - count..];
            let payload = serde_json::to_string(tail)
                .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("failed to serialize parts: {e}")))?;

            if count == 1 {
                // The overwhelmingly common case: one part per event. The path
                // is assembled by SQLite from a bound parameter, so the SQL
                // text is constant and its prepared plan is reused across every
                // event of every stream. An earlier version interpolated the
                // index into the SQL, which made the text unique per artifact
                // index and measurably *slower* than a plain `save` on small
                // documents — 8.4% at 3 events, where the saved serialization
                // is worth less than the preparation it cost.
                return Ok(Some(DeltaStatement {
                    sql: APPEND_ONE_PART_SQL,
                    payload,
                    index: Some(index),
                }));
            }

            // Rare: several parts in one event. Each needs its own `[#]`
            // append, so the statement text varies with the batch size.
            let exprs = (0..count)
                .map(|i| format!("'$.artifacts[{index}].parts[#]', json_extract(?1, '$[{i}]')"))
                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
                .join(", ");
            Ok(Some(DeltaStatement {
                sql: Cow::Owned(format!(
                    "UPDATE tasks SET data = json_set(data, {exprs}) \
                     WHERE id = ?2 AND json_type(data, '$.artifacts') = 'array'{MULTI_PART_GUARD}"
                )),
                payload,
                index: None,
            }))
        }
        ArtifactDelta::Pushed { index } => {
            if index + 1 != artifacts.len() {
                return Ok(None);
            }
            let Some(artifact) = artifacts.get(index) else {
                return Ok(None);
            };
            let payload = serde_json::to_string(std::slice::from_ref(artifact))
                .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("failed to serialize artifact: {e}")))?;
            Ok(Some(DeltaStatement {
                sql: PUSH_ARTIFACT_SQL,
                payload,
                index: None,
            }))
        }
    }
}

/// A prepared artifact-delta update: the statement, its JSON payload, and the
/// artifact index when the statement takes one as a bound parameter.
struct DeltaStatement {
    sql: Cow<'static, str>,
    payload: String,
    index: Option<usize>,
}

/// Append one part to the artifact at a bound index.
///
/// `json_set`'s path argument is an ordinary text expression, so concatenating
/// the bound index into it keeps the *statement* constant while the path
/// varies. `[#]` is `SQLite`'s one-past-the-end subscript, which is what makes
/// this an append rather than an overwrite.
///
/// The `json_type(...) = 'array'` guard is what makes the fallback correct
/// rather than merely likely: a stored document with no artifacts array — a
/// task saved before it produced any — does not match, the statement reports
/// zero rows affected, and the caller rewrites the record whole.
///
/// Every artifact statement also carries the terminal guard (see
/// [`crate::store::terminal`]) on its last parameter, the writer's state: a
/// delta from a writer that still believes the task is running is refused on
/// a task stored terminal, and the zero rows send it to `save`, which reports
/// the refusal.
const APPEND_ONE_PART_SQL: Cow<'static, str> = Cow::Borrowed(sql_write_allowed!(
    "UPDATE tasks SET data = json_set(data, '$.artifacts[' || ?3 || '].parts[#]', \
     json_extract(?1, '$[0]')) \
     WHERE id = ?2 AND json_type(data, '$.artifacts') = 'array' AND ",
    "state",
    "?4"
));

/// Append a whole artifact at the end of the array.
const PUSH_ARTIFACT_SQL: Cow<'static, str> = Cow::Borrowed(sql_write_allowed!(
    "UPDATE tasks SET data = json_set(data, '$.artifacts[#]', json_extract(?1, '$[0]')) \
     WHERE id = ?2 AND json_type(data, '$.artifacts') = 'array' AND ",
    "state",
    "?3"
));

/// The terminal guard for the several-parts append, whose statement text is
/// assembled at run time and takes no index parameter.
const MULTI_PART_GUARD: &str = sql_write_allowed!(" AND ", "state", "?3");

#[allow(clippy::manual_async_fn)]
impl TaskStore for SqliteTaskStore {
    fn supports_idempotency(&self) -> bool {
        true
    }

    fn claim_idempotency_key<'a>(
        &'a self,
        key: &'a str,
        message_id: &'a a2a_protocol_types::message::MessageId,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<super::task_store::IdempotencyClaim>> + Send + 'a>>
    {
        use super::task_store::IdempotencyClaim;

        Box::pin(async move {
            // One transaction around the insert and the read that follows it.
            // The INSERT escalates SQLite to a write lock, so from that point
            // no other connection can delete the row this then reads — which
            // is what makes a losing claim see the winner rather than an empty
            // table.
            let mut tx = self.pool.begin().await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            let inserted = sqlx::query(idempotency::CLAIM_SQL)
                .bind(key)
                .bind(message_id.0.as_str())
                .bind(task_id.0.as_str())
                .execute(&mut *tx)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?
                .rows_affected();

            if inserted == 1 {
                tx.commit().await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
                return Ok(IdempotencyClaim::Claimed);
            }

            let holder = sqlx::query(idempotency::HOLDER_SQL)
                .bind(key)
                .fetch_optional(&mut *tx)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            tx.commit().await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            let Some(row) = holder else {
                // Unreachable while the transaction above holds its write
                // lock, and reported rather than assumed away: a claim that
                // neither inserted nor found a holder must never look like a
                // successful one, or the send it guards runs twice.
                return Err(A2aError::internal(
                    "idempotency key was neither claimed nor held; the row vanished \
                     inside the claiming transaction",
                ));
            };

            let held_by: String = row.try_get("message_id").map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            let held_task: String = row.try_get("task_id").map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            if held_by == message_id.0 {
                Ok(IdempotencyClaim::Replay(TaskId::new(held_task)))
            } else {
                Ok(IdempotencyClaim::Conflict {
                    held_by: a2a_protocol_types::message::MessageId::new(held_by),
                })
            }
        })
    }

    fn release_idempotency_key<'a>(
        &'a self,
        key: &'a str,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            sqlx::query(idempotency::RELEASE_SQL)
                .bind(key)
                .execute(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            Ok(())
        })
    }

    fn save<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let id = task.id.0.as_str();
            let context_id = task.context_id.0.as_str();
            let state = task.status.state.to_string();
            let data = serde_json::to_string(task)
                .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("failed to serialize task: {e}")))?;
            // `updated_at` carries the status timestamp (spec §3.1.4 ordering
            // + statusTimestampAfter); write wall-clock is the fallback for
            // tasks without one.
            let status_ts = super::status_timestamp_sqlite(task.status.timestamp.as_deref());

            // One transaction, because the document and the journal are two
            // halves of one fact. `data` now contains every part, so the
            // journal rows are superseded; a crash between the two statements
            // would leave them to be spliced on again, duplicating nothing
            // (splice skips positions the document already holds) but only
            // because that overlap is handled. Committing them together means
            // not relying on it.
            let mut tx = self.pool.begin().await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            // The upsert's `WHERE` is the terminal guard (see
            // `crate::store::terminal`): a stored terminal row in another state
            // is left alone and the statement changes nothing.
            let written = sqlx::query(sql_write_allowed!(
                "INSERT INTO tasks (id, context_id, state, data, updated_at)
                 VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, COALESCE(?5, strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f','now')))
                 ON CONFLICT(id) DO UPDATE SET
                     context_id = excluded.context_id,
                     state = excluded.state,
                     data = excluded.data,
                     updated_at = excluded.updated_at
                 WHERE ",
                "tasks.state",
                "excluded.state"
            ))
            .bind(id)
            .bind(context_id)
            .bind(&state)
            .bind(&data)
            .bind(&status_ts)
            .execute(&mut *tx)
            .await
            .map_err(to_a2a_error)?
            .rows_affected();

            if written == 0 {
                // Read inside the transaction that was refused, so the state
                // reported is the one that refused it. Rolled back so the
                // journal rows of the stored task are not deleted below.
                let stored: Option<(String,)> =
                    sqlx::query_as("SELECT state FROM tasks WHERE id = ?1")
                        .bind(id)
                        .fetch_optional(&mut *tx)
                        .await
                        .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
                tx.rollback().await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
                return Err(refusal(task, stored.map(|(s,)| s).as_deref()));
            }

            sqlx::query(journal::DELETE_FOR_TASK_SQL)
                .bind(id)
                .execute(&mut *tx)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            tx.commit().await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            Ok(())
        })
    }

    /// Appends into the stored JSON document instead of rewriting it.
    ///
    /// `save` serializes the whole task in Rust and ships it as a bind
    /// parameter, so a streaming agent pays for every artifact it has already
    /// persisted on every subsequent event. This sends only what changed and
    /// lets `SQLite` splice it into the document with `json_set`.
    ///
    /// # What this does and does not remove
    ///
    /// Removed: the Rust-side `serde_json::to_string` of the whole task, and
    /// the transfer of the whole document as a parameter. Both scale with the
    /// stream so far.
    ///
    /// Not removed: `SQLite` still parses and rewrites the row internally, so
    /// the statement remains linear in document size. A blob-per-task schema
    /// cannot avoid that; only a normalized artifacts table could, and the
    /// measurement in `benches/benches/backpressure.rs` says that is not where
    /// this store's time goes — the per-event round trip dominates by roughly
    /// 3:1 at 502 events. Doing the larger surgery for the smaller term would
    /// be the wrong trade, and it is recorded here rather than left implied.
    ///
    /// `updated_at` is deliberately untouched: it carries the *status*
    /// timestamp that orders `list` (§3.1.4), and appending an artifact does
    /// not change a task's status. This matches `InMemoryTaskStore`, which
    /// keeps the task's list position across an append.
    ///
    /// Falls back to `save` whenever the delta cannot be applied exactly.
    /// The refused cases, and why each one is refused, are documented on the
    /// private statement builder this calls.
    fn save_artifact_delta<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
        delta: ArtifactDelta,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            // The append path, and the reason this method is worth having:
            // rows whose cost does not grow with the stream. `Pushed` keeps the
            // `json_set` path below — it happens once per artifact rather than
            // once per event, so it is not what the measurement was about.
            if let ArtifactDelta::AppendedParts { index, count } = delta {
                let Some(rows) = journal::rows_for_append(task, index, count)? else {
                    return self.save(task).await;
                };
                return self.journal_append(task, rows).await;
            }

            let Some(stmt) = artifact_delta_sql(task, delta)? else {
                return self.save(task).await;
            };

            let mut query = sqlx::query(stmt.sql.as_ref())
                .bind(&stmt.payload)
                .bind(task.id.0.as_str());
            // Bound rather than interpolated, so the statement text — and the
            // plan SQLite caches for it — is the same for every artifact index.
            if let Some(index) = stmt.index {
                query = query.bind(i64::try_from(index).unwrap_or(i64::MAX));
            }
            // The terminal guard's operand, always the last parameter.
            query = query.bind(task.status.state.to_string());

            let affected = query
                .execute(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?
                .rows_affected();

            // No row matched: the task is not stored yet and the append had
            // nothing to append to, or the terminal guard refused it. `save`
            // makes it exist, or reports the refusal.
            if affected == 0 {
                return self.save(task).await;
            }

            Ok(())
        })
    }

    /// Rewrites the stored document's `status` alone.
    ///
    /// `save` serializes the whole task — history included, up to 1,024
    /// messages — and ships it as a bind parameter, so a status transition on
    /// an aged channel costs what that channel has accumulated. This sends one
    /// `TaskStatus`.
    ///
    /// Three columns are what `save` would have left behind and so are what
    /// this has to leave behind: the document's `$.status`, the `state` column
    /// that `list` filters on, and `updated_at`, which carries the status
    /// timestamp that §3.1.4 orders by. Missing the last one would leave the
    /// row correct and mis-ordered.
    ///
    /// It deliberately does **not** touch the journal, and that is the one
    /// place it diverges from `save` on purpose. `save` deletes the journal
    /// rows because it has just rewritten `data` with every part in it, so
    /// they are superseded. This rewrites only the status, so the document
    /// still lacks those parts and the rows are still the record of them.
    /// Deleting them here would silently drop appended artifact parts.
    ///
    /// Falls back to `save` when no row matched, which means the task is not
    /// stored yet and there is nothing to update in place.
    fn save_status_delta<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let status = serde_json::to_string(&task.status)
                .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("failed to serialize status: {e}")))?;
            let state = task.status.state.to_string();
            let status_ts = super::status_timestamp_sqlite(task.status.timestamp.as_deref());

            // Guarded on the state column (see `crate::store::terminal`). Zero
            // rows means absent *or* refused; `save` tells the two apart,
            // inserting the one and reporting the other.
            let affected = sqlx::query(sql_write_allowed!(
                "UPDATE tasks
                    SET data = json_set(data, '$.status', json(?1)),
                        state = ?2,
                        updated_at = COALESCE(?3, strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f','now'))
                  WHERE id = ?4 AND ",
                "state",
                "?2"
            ))
            .bind(&status)
            .bind(&state)
            .bind(&status_ts)
            .bind(task.id.0.as_str())
            .execute(&self.pool)
            .await
            .map_err(to_a2a_error)?
            .rows_affected();

            if affected == 0 {
                return self.save(task).await;
            }

            Ok(())
        })
    }

    fn get<'a>(
        &'a self,
        id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Option<Task>>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let row: Option<(String,)> = sqlx::query_as("SELECT data FROM tasks WHERE id = ?1")
                .bind(id.0.as_str())
                .fetch_optional(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            match row {
                Some((data,)) => {
                    let mut task: Task = serde_json::from_str(&data).map_err(|e| {
                        A2aError::internal(format!("failed to deserialize task: {e}"))
                    })?;
                    // A second round trip on every read, which is the price of
                    // the append being O(1). It is the right way round: a
                    // streaming task is appended to once per event and read
                    // rarely, and this query returns nothing at all for a task
                    // whose last write was a full `save` — which is every
                    // finished task.
                    let rows: Vec<journal::Row> = sqlx::query_as(journal::SELECT_FOR_TASK_SQL)
                        .bind(id.0.as_str())
                        .fetch_all(&self.pool)
                        .await
                        .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
                    journal::splice(&mut task, rows)?;
                    Ok(Some(task))
                }
                None => Ok(None),
            }
        })
    }

    #[allow(clippy::too_many_lines)]
    fn list<'a>(
        &'a self,
        params: &'a ListTasksParams,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<TaskListResponse>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            // Build dynamic query with optional filters.
            let mut conditions = Vec::new();
            let mut bind_values: Vec<String> = Vec::new();

            if let Some(ref ctx) = params.context_id {
                conditions.push(format!("context_id = ?{}", bind_values.len() + 1));
                bind_values.push(ctx.clone());
            }
            if let Some(ref status) = params.status {
                conditions.push(format!("state = ?{}", bind_values.len() + 1));
                bind_values.push(status.to_string());
            }
            // §3.1.4 statusTimestampAfter: strictly-after filter on the
            // status timestamp, which is what `updated_at` stores. An
            // unparseable value cannot reach the store through the handler
            // (which validates it); treat it as matching nothing rather than
            // silently returning everything.
            if let Some(ref after) = params.status_timestamp_after {
                let Some(after_dt) = super::status_timestamp_sqlite(Some(after)) else {
                    return Ok(TaskListResponse::new(Vec::new()));
                };
                conditions.push(format!("updated_at > ?{}", bind_values.len() + 1));
                bind_values.push(after_dt);
            }
            // Composite (updated_at, id) row-value cursor: resume strictly
            // before the last row of the previous page under the
            // status-timestamp-descending order (spec §3.1.4). A token not
            // produced by us decodes to None → empty page (never a full scan).
            if let Some(ref token) = params.page_token {
                let Some((cursor_ua, cursor_id)) = super::cursor::decode(token) else {
                    return Ok(TaskListResponse::new(Vec::new()));
                };
                let p = bind_values.len();
                conditions.push(format!("(updated_at, id) < (?{}, ?{})", p + 1, p + 2));
                bind_values.push(cursor_ua.to_string());
                bind_values.push(cursor_id.to_string());
            }

            let where_clause = if conditions.is_empty() {
                String::new()
            } else {
                format!("WHERE {}", conditions.join(" AND "))
            };

            let page_size = match params.page_size {
                Some(0) | None => 50_u32,
                Some(n) => n.min(self.max_page_size),
            };

            // Fetch one extra to detect next page. LIMIT is a parameterized
            // bind rather than string interpolation.
            let limit = super::pagination::fetch_limit(page_size);
            let limit_param = bind_values.len() + 1;
            let sql = format!(
                "SELECT updated_at, data FROM tasks {where_clause} \
                 ORDER BY updated_at DESC, id DESC LIMIT ?{limit_param}"
            );

            let mut query = sqlx::query_as::<_, (String, String)>(&sql);
            for val in &bind_values {
                query = query.bind(val);
            }
            query = query.bind(limit);

            let rows: Vec<(String, String)> =
                query.fetch_all(&self.pool).await.map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            let mut rows: Vec<(String, Task)> = rows
                .into_iter()
                .map(|(updated_at, data)| {
                    serde_json::from_str::<Task>(&data)
                        .map(|task| (updated_at, task))
                        .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("deserialize: {e}")))
                })
                .collect::<A2aResult<Vec<_>>>()?;

            // `list` splices too. Easy to forget, and the failure is quiet: a
            // task listed mid-stream would come back missing its most recent
            // parts while `get` on the same id returned them.
            //
            // One query for the whole page, not one per task. A page holds up
            // to 1,000 tasks, and the point of this table is to stop paying per
            // event — replacing that with paying per row listed would be a poor
            // trade.
            if !rows.is_empty() {
                let mut journal_query = sqlx::QueryBuilder::new(
                    "SELECT task_id, artifact, seq, part FROM task_artifact_appends WHERE task_id IN (",
                );
                let mut separated = journal_query.separated(", ");
                for (_, task) in &rows {
                    separated.push_bind(task.id.0.clone());
                }
                journal_query.push(") ORDER BY task_id, artifact, seq");

                let journalled: Vec<(String, i64, i64, String)> = journal_query
                    .build_query_as()
                    .fetch_all(&self.pool)
                    .await
                    .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

                if !journalled.is_empty() {
                    let mut by_task: std::collections::HashMap<String, Vec<journal::Row>> =
                        std::collections::HashMap::new();
                    for (task_id, artifact, seq, part) in journalled {
                        by_task
                            .entry(task_id)
                            .or_default()
                            .push((artifact, seq, part));
                    }
                    for (_, task) in &mut rows {
                        if let Some(task_rows) = by_task.remove(task.id.0.as_str()) {
                            journal::splice(task, task_rows)?;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            let next_page_token =
                if super::pagination::has_next_page(rows.len(), page_size as usize) {
                    rows.truncate(page_size as usize);
                    rows.last()
                        .map(|(ua, task)| super::cursor::encode(ua, task.id.0.as_str()))
                        .unwrap_or_default()
                } else {
                    String::new()
                };

            #[allow(clippy::cast_possible_truncation)]
            let page_len = rows.len() as u32;
            let tasks: Vec<Task> = rows.into_iter().map(|(_, task)| task).collect();
            let mut response = TaskListResponse::new(tasks);
            response.next_page_token = next_page_token;
            response.page_size = page_len;
            Ok(response)
        })
    }

    fn insert_if_absent<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<bool>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let id = task.id.0.as_str();
            let context_id = task.context_id.0.as_str();
            let state = task.status.state.to_string();
            let data = serde_json::to_string(task)
                .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("failed to serialize task: {e}")))?;

            let status_ts = super::status_timestamp_sqlite(task.status.timestamp.as_deref());
            let result = sqlx::query(
                "INSERT OR IGNORE INTO tasks (id, context_id, state, data, updated_at)
                 VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, COALESCE(?5, strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f','now')))",
            )
            .bind(id)
            .bind(context_id)
            .bind(&state)
            .bind(&data)
            .bind(&status_ts)
            .execute(&self.pool)
            .await
            .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            Ok(result.rows_affected() > 0)
        })
    }

    fn supports_event_log(&self) -> bool {
        true
    }

    fn append_event<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
        seq: u64,
        event: &'a StreamResponse,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let position = seq_to_i64(seq)?;
            let payload = encode_text(event)?;
            // `rows_affected()` was discarded here until 0.13. `DO NOTHING` is
            // right — the position is the idempotency key — but "nothing
            // happened" and "another writer owns this position" are the same
            // answer, and only one of them is safe to ignore.
            let changed_nothing = sqlx::query(event_log::APPEND_SQL)
                .bind(task_id.0.as_str())
                .bind(position)
                .bind(&payload)
                .execute(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?
                .rows_affected()
                == 0;
            if changed_nothing {
                // Only on the collision path, so the append itself keeps its
                // single round trip.
                let stored: Option<(String,)> = sqlx::query_as(event_log::SELECT_PAYLOAD_SQL)
                    .bind(task_id.0.as_str())
                    .bind(position)
                    .fetch_optional(&self.pool)
                    .await
                    .unwrap_or(None);
                let same = stored.is_some_and(|(held,)| held == payload);
                report_no_op_append(&*self.metrics, task_id, seq, same);
            }
            Ok(())
        })
    }

    fn last_event_seq<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<u64>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let (max,): (i64,) = sqlx::query_as(event_log::LAST_SEQ_SQL)
                .bind(task_id.0.as_str())
                .fetch_one(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            seq_from_i64(max)
        })
    }

    fn earliest_event_seq<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Option<u64>>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let (min,): (Option<i64>,) = sqlx::query_as(event_log::EARLIEST_SEQ_SQL)
                .bind(task_id.0.as_str())
                .fetch_one(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            min.map(seq_from_i64).transpose()
        })
    }

    fn read_events<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
        after_seq: u64,
        limit: usize,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Vec<RecordedEvent>>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let rows: Vec<(i64, String)> = sqlx::query_as(event_log::SELECT_AFTER_SQL)
                .bind(task_id.0.as_str())
                .bind(seq_to_i64(after_seq)?)
                .bind(limit_to_i64(limit))
                .fetch_all(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            rows.into_iter().map(decode_text_row).collect()
        })
    }

    fn delete<'a>(
        &'a self,
        id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            // The event log goes with the task, for the same reason and with
            // the same caveat as the journal rows below: the cascade only
            // fires with `foreign_keys=ON`, and orphaned events would be
            // replayed onto a task that later reused the id.
            sqlx::query(event_log::DELETE_FOR_TASK_SQL)
                .bind(id.0.as_str())
                .execute(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            // Explicit rather than left to `ON DELETE CASCADE`: the cascade
            // only fires when `foreign_keys=ON`, which this crate's own pool
            // sets but a pool handed to `from_pool` may not. Orphaned journal
            // rows would be spliced onto a task that later reused the id.
            sqlx::query(journal::DELETE_FOR_TASK_SQL)
                .bind(id.0.as_str())
                .execute(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;

            sqlx::query("DELETE FROM tasks WHERE id = ?1")
                .bind(id.0.as_str())
                .execute(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            Ok(())
        })
    }

    fn count<'a>(&'a self) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<u64>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let row: (i64,) = sqlx::query_as("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tasks")
                .fetch_one(&self.pool)
                .await
                .map_err(to_a2a_error)?;
            #[allow(clippy::cast_sign_loss)]
            Ok(row.0 as u64)
        })
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod artifact_delta_tests;
#[cfg(test)]
mod retention_key_tests;
#[cfg(test)]
mod retention_tests;
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;

#[cfg(test)]
mod event_log_tests;
#[cfg(test)]
mod idempotency_tests;