leviath_runtime/pipeline/persist.rs
1//! Per-agent snapshot writing and interaction-status reflection.
2
3use super::*;
4
5// ─── Persistence (per-agent snapshot writing) ────────────────────────────────
6
7/// How long an agent may go without a snapshot before one is written purely to
8/// refresh `updated_at`.
9///
10/// The watermark below debounces on *progress*, which means a run that is busy
11/// but not progressing (one long inference, or a genuinely wedged one) writes
12/// nothing at all. Observers then cannot tell "working" from "dead", because
13/// `updated_at` looks equally old in both cases. A periodic beat makes a stale
14/// timestamp mean something.
15pub(crate) const PERSIST_HEARTBEAT_SECS: i64 = 30;
16
17/// Longest log line the event broadcast carries; the on-disk stage logs keep
18/// the full line. 8 KB shows any tool banner or error whole while keeping the
19/// (never-shrinking) broadcast ring's worst-case floor at ring-size x this.
20pub(crate) const BROADCAST_LOG_LINE_MAX_BYTES: usize = 8 * 1024;
21
22/// Clone `line` for the event broadcast, truncated to
23/// [`BROADCAST_LOG_LINE_MAX_BYTES`] on a char boundary with a marker so a
24/// reader knows to fetch the stage log for the rest.
25fn truncate_log_line(line: &str) -> String {
26 if line.len() <= BROADCAST_LOG_LINE_MAX_BYTES {
27 return line.to_string();
28 }
29 let cut = leviath_core::text::floor_char_boundary(line, BROADCAST_LOG_LINE_MAX_BYTES);
30 format!(
31 "{} [truncated {} bytes]",
32 line.split_at(cut).0,
33 line.len() - cut
34 )
35}
36
37/// Debounce watermark: the (iteration, stage index, status) last persisted for an
38/// agent. A snapshot is written only when one of these changes, so the world
39/// writes on meaningful progress rather than every tick. `None` until the first
40/// snapshot, so a freshly-spawned agent is always written once.
41#[derive(Component, Default)]
42pub struct PersistWatermark {
43 last: Option<(usize, usize, leviath_core::run_meta::RunStatus)>,
44 /// When the last snapshot was written, for the heartbeat above.
45 last_written_at: Option<i64>,
46 /// When the watermark itself last changed - that is, when the agent last
47 /// actually moved.
48 ///
49 /// `last_written_at` cannot answer that: the heartbeat advances it whether
50 /// or not anything happened, which is the whole point of the heartbeat and
51 /// exactly why `meta.json`'s `updated_at` is not evidence of progress. Issue
52 /// #184 was reported on the strength of a fresh `updated_at`, so this is the
53 /// timestamp `lev ps` ages its rows against.
54 last_progress_at: Option<i64>,
55 /// The taint audit already on disk, as `(stage index, event count)`.
56 ///
57 /// The audit file is only rewritten when the gate recorded a new event.
58 /// Without it every snapshot re-serialized the whole (append-only) log,
59 /// an O(events) allocation per tick that grew with the run.
60 last_taint: Option<(usize, usize)>,
61}
62
63impl PersistWatermark {
64 /// Unix seconds when this agent last made progress (iteration, stage, or
65 /// status changed). `None` before the first snapshot.
66 pub fn last_progress_at(&self) -> Option<i64> {
67 self.last_progress_at
68 }
69
70 /// The run status the last dispatched snapshot carried, if any - the proof
71 /// that a given status has reached the persistence lane. Unloading
72 /// decisions key on this: an entity may only be slimmed or paged out once
73 /// the state being dropped is known to be on its way to disk.
74 pub(crate) fn persisted_status(&self) -> Option<leviath_core::run_meta::RunStatus> {
75 self.last.as_ref().map(|(_, _, status)| status.clone())
76 }
77
78 /// Move both stamps back to `at`, so a test can reach the heartbeat window
79 /// without sleeping through it.
80 #[cfg(test)]
81 pub(crate) fn backdate(&mut self, at: i64) {
82 self.last_written_at = Some(at);
83 self.last_progress_at = Some(at);
84 }
85
86 /// Stamp the watermark as though a snapshot with `status` was dispatched,
87 /// so unload tests can drive [`Self::persisted_status`] without running the
88 /// full persistence schedule.
89 #[cfg(test)]
90 pub(crate) fn stamp_status(&mut self, status: leviath_core::run_meta::RunStatus) {
91 self.last = Some((0, 0, status));
92 }
93}
94
95/// The sending end of the persistence I/O lane (the receiving end is drained by
96/// `persistence_bridge::persistence_worker`).
97#[derive(Resource)]
98pub struct PersistenceStage(pub UnboundedSender<PersistMsg>);
99
100/// What `reflect_interaction_status` selects.
101///
102/// `&'static` is bevy's `WorldQuery` convention, not a claim about
103/// lifetimes: the borrow is bound when the query is fetched.
104type ReflectInteractionStatusQuery = (
105 Entity,
106 &'static mut AgentState,
107 Option<&'static AwaitingInteraction>,
108);
109
110/// Persistence-dispatch system: for each agent carrying run metadata whose
111/// (iteration, stage, status) has changed since its last snapshot, build the
112/// `meta.json` + `context.json` value snapshot and hand it to the persistence
113/// lane. Fire-and-forget - no result to collect; the single-worker lane keeps a
114/// given agent's writes ordered. Agents without [`RunMetadata`] aren't persisted.
115/// Interaction-status reflection system: mirror the shared [`InteractionHub`]'s
116/// open requests into agent status so a blocked agent shows as `Waiting` (and
117/// the dashboard / `lev ps` surface its prompt) instead of a silent `Active`.
118///
119/// An agent's `ask_user_*` / tool-approval / plan-approval call blocks deep in
120/// the async tool lane, invisible to the ECS - which otherwise leaves the agent
121/// `Active` with meta.json written `running`, so the dashboard (gated on
122/// `WaitingInput`) never shows the prompt and the run looks frozen. This system
123/// closes that gap: an agent whose id has an open hub request flips
124/// `Active → Waiting` (tagged [`AwaitingInteraction`]); when the request clears
125/// it flips back `Waiting → Active`. No-op when the world has no hub resource
126/// (test worlds).
127///
128/// Agents parked by the engine rather than by a prompt - fan-out parents
129/// ([`FanOutWaiting`]) and stages holding for sub-agents
130/// ([`WaitingForChildren`]) - are excluded. Their `Waiting` belongs to whoever
131/// set it, and the clearing arm below would otherwise walk them back to `Active`
132/// the moment an unrelated prompt of theirs resolved, un-parking a run whose
133/// children are still going.
134pub fn reflect_interaction_status(
135 hub: Option<Res<InteractionHub>>,
136 mut agents: Query<
137 ReflectInteractionStatusQuery,
138 (Without<FanOutWaiting>, Without<WaitingForChildren>),
139 >,
140 mut commands: Commands,
141) {
142 crate::tick_scope::clear();
143 let Some(hub) = hub else { return };
144 let pending: std::collections::HashSet<String> =
145 hub.pending().into_iter().map(|(id, _)| id).collect();
146 for (entity, mut state, marked) in agents.iter_mut() {
147 crate::tick_scope::enter(entity);
148 match (pending.contains(&state.agent_id), marked.is_some()) {
149 // Newly blocked on a prompt: surface it as Waiting.
150 (true, false) => {
151 if state.status == AgentStatus::Active {
152 state.status = AgentStatus::Waiting;
153 commands.entity(entity).insert(AwaitingInteraction);
154 }
155 }
156 // Request cleared (answered / cancelled): return to Active, unless
157 // the agent has since reached a terminal status.
158 (false, true) => {
159 commands.entity(entity).remove::<AwaitingInteraction>();
160 if state.status == AgentStatus::Waiting {
161 state.status = AgentStatus::Active;
162 }
163 }
164 _ => {}
165 }
166 }
167}
168
169/// Reconcile a [`StageLedger`]'s per-stage `status` + timestamps against the
170/// agent's current stage index and status.
171///
172/// The cursor stage takes the mapped agent status and is marked entered. Every
173/// other stage is judged on whether it has *ever* been entered, not on where it
174/// sits relative to the cursor: one the run has been in and left is `Complete`,
175/// one it has not is `Pending` while the run is live and
176/// [`Skipped`](leviath_core::run_meta::StageRunStatus::Skipped) once the run is
177/// over.
178///
179/// Position used to stand in for "has run", which is only true of a linear
180/// blueprint. A graph reaches its stages in whatever order its edges describe,
181/// so every branch the run went past without taking was filed as `Complete`
182/// with an empty `region_tokens` - and since that map holds the high-water mark
183/// each region reached rather than what the stage itself added, an empty one in
184/// the middle of the sequence made the next real stage appear to have written
185/// every region from nothing (#372).
186///
187/// `started_at`/`ended_at` are stamped once and never overwritten, so repeated
188/// calls are idempotent.
189pub(crate) fn reconcile_stage_ledger(
190 ledger: &mut StageLedger,
191 cursor_index: usize,
192 status: &AgentStatus,
193 now: i64,
194) {
195 use leviath_core::run_meta::StageRunStatus;
196 let active = crate::persistence::stage_status_from(status);
197 let run_is_over = matches!(
198 status,
199 AgentStatus::Complete | AgentStatus::Error { .. } | AgentStatus::Cancelled
200 );
201 for rec in ledger.0.iter_mut() {
202 if rec.index == cursor_index {
203 rec.entered = true;
204 if rec.started_at.is_none() {
205 rec.started_at = Some(now);
206 }
207 if active == StageRunStatus::Complete && rec.ended_at.is_none() {
208 rec.ended_at = Some(now);
209 }
210 rec.status = active.clone();
211 continue;
212 }
213 // Billed tokens count as evidence as well as the flag. Reconcile runs
214 // on the persist tick rather than on stage entry, so resting "did this
215 // run" entirely on having been observed as the cursor would report a
216 // stage that somehow slipped between two ticks as never entered - and
217 // calling a stage that did work `Skipped` is a worse error than the one
218 // being fixed. A stage with tokens against its name ran.
219 rec.entered |= rec.prompt_tokens > 0 || rec.completion_tokens > 0;
220 if !rec.entered {
221 rec.status = match run_is_over {
222 true => StageRunStatus::Skipped,
223 false => StageRunStatus::Pending,
224 };
225 continue;
226 }
227 // Entered earlier and not the current stage, so it has been left. A
228 // stage that loops back becomes the cursor again and is re-marked.
229 rec.status = StageRunStatus::Complete;
230 if rec.ended_at.is_none() {
231 rec.ended_at = Some(now);
232 }
233 }
234}
235
236/// What `dispatch_persistence` selects.
237///
238/// `&'static` is bevy's `WorldQuery` convention, not a claim about
239/// lifetimes: the borrow is bound when the query is fetched.
240type PersistenceQuery = (
241 Entity,
242 &'static RunMetadata,
243 &'static AgentState,
244 &'static ContextWindow,
245 &'static StageCursor,
246 &'static TokenTotals,
247 &'static mut PersistWatermark,
248 Option<&'static mut StageLedger>,
249 Option<&'static mut StageIoBuffer>,
250 Option<&'static crate::taint::TaintGate>,
251 Option<&'static crate::components::ParentRef>,
252 Option<&'static crate::components::SubAgentChildren>,
253 Option<&'static crate::fanout::FanOutWaiting>,
254 (
255 Option<&'static crate::interaction_points::AwaitingInteractionPoint>,
256 Option<&'static crate::interaction_points::InteractionPointCursor>,
257 Option<&'static crate::interaction_points::InteractionPointRounds>,
258 Option<&'static crate::persistence::RunOutcomeFlags>,
259 Option<&'static crate::persistence::FinalOutput>,
260 // The remaining reasons a run can be parked. Read here because this is
261 // where they are queryable, and recorded on `meta.json` so a client
262 // does not have to reconstruct them from what it can see.
263 Option<&'static crate::gate_prompt::AwaitingGatePrompt>,
264 Option<&'static super::WaitingForChildren>,
265 Option<&'static crate::components::AwaitingInteraction>,
266 Option<&'static super::PausedForSetup>,
267 ),
268);
269
270/// Hand each agent's current state to the persistence lane, which writes it to
271/// disk off the schedule thread.
272///
273/// Coalescing lives here rather than in the lane: an agent whose digest has not
274/// changed since its last send is skipped, so a world full of idle runs costs
275/// nothing per tick.
276pub fn dispatch_persistence(
277 mut agents: Query<PersistenceQuery>,
278 stage: Res<PersistenceStage>,
279 hub: Option<Res<InteractionHub>>,
280 sink: Option<Res<crate::host::WorldEventSink>>,
281) {
282 crate::tick_scope::clear();
283 for (
284 entity,
285 md,
286 state,
287 window,
288 cursor,
289 totals,
290 mut watermark,
291 mut ledger,
292 buffer,
293 taint_gate,
294 parent_ref,
295 children,
296 fan_out_waiting,
297 (
298 awaiting_point,
299 ip_cursor,
300 ip_rounds,
301 outcome_flags,
302 final_output,
303 gate_prompt,
304 waiting_for_children,
305 awaiting_interaction,
306 paused_for_setup,
307 ),
308 ) in agents.iter_mut()
309 {
310 crate::tick_scope::enter(entity);
311 let now = chrono::Utc::now().timestamp();
312
313 // Reconcile the stage ledger every persist tick so status/timestamps track
314 // the agent regardless of whether the run-level watermark changed.
315 if let Some(ledger) = ledger.as_deref_mut() {
316 reconcile_stage_ledger(ledger, cursor.index, &state.status, now);
317 }
318
319 // Always flush any buffered per-stage output/log lines.
320 let (output_appends, log_appends) = match buffer {
321 Some(mut buf) => (
322 std::mem::take(&mut buf.output),
323 std::mem::take(&mut buf.logs),
324 ),
325 None => (Vec::new(), Vec::new()),
326 };
327 let has_appends = !output_appends.is_empty() || !log_appends.is_empty();
328
329 let status = crate::persistence::run_status_from(&state.status);
330 let current = (state.iteration, cursor.index, status);
331 let watermark_changed = watermark.last.as_ref() != Some(¤t);
332 // Beat even when nothing changed, so `updated_at` distinguishes a run
333 // that is slow from one that nothing is driving.
334 let due_for_heartbeat = watermark
335 .last_written_at
336 .is_none_or(|at| now.saturating_sub(at) >= PERSIST_HEARTBEAT_SECS);
337 if !watermark_changed && !has_appends && !due_for_heartbeat {
338 continue; // nothing meaningful changed, nothing buffered, beat not due
339 }
340
341 // Stream each buffered line to WS subscribers as a `Log` event (in
342 // addition to the disk append below). No-op in worlds without the sink
343 // (test / `lev run`); a zero-subscriber `send` error is ignored.
344 //
345 // Truncated for the broadcast only - the full line still reaches the
346 // stage log on disk. The ring retains every slot's strings until the
347 // slot is overwritten, so an assistant's whole multi-KB turn broadcast
348 // per line made the ring a multi-MB permanent floor after any busy run.
349 if let Some(sink) = &sink {
350 for (_idx, line) in output_appends.iter().chain(log_appends.iter()) {
351 // `Res<T>` derefs to `T` in bevy_ecs 0.19; it is not a tuple struct.
352 let _ = sink.0.send(crate::host::WorldEvent::Log {
353 run_id: md.run_id.clone(),
354 agent_id: state.agent_id.clone(),
355 line: truncate_log_line(line),
356 });
357 }
358 }
359
360 // Buffered lines with no real progress and no heartbeat due: journal
361 // just the lines. The full path below deep-clones the whole context
362 // window per snapshot, and tool activity buffers lines several times
363 // per iteration - snapshotting on each batch multiplied the lane's
364 // biggest allocation by the run's tool traffic for no new state.
365 if !watermark_changed && !due_for_heartbeat {
366 let _ = stage.0.send(PersistMsg::StageLines {
367 run_id: md.run_id.clone(),
368 output_appends,
369 log_appends,
370 });
371 continue;
372 }
373
374 if watermark_changed {
375 watermark.last = Some(current);
376 watermark.last_progress_at = Some(now);
377 }
378 watermark.last_written_at = Some(now);
379
380 // Tree links, for a deterministic restart-time rebuild of the graph.
381 let depth = parent_ref.map(|p| p.depth).unwrap_or(0);
382 let max_child_depth = children.map(|c| c.max_child_depth).unwrap_or(0);
383 let flags = outcome_flags.cloned().unwrap_or_default();
384 // Read the progress stamp *after* the update above, so a write that
385 // carried progress reports `now` and a heartbeat-only write reports
386 // whenever the run last moved. That difference is the whole signal: it is
387 // what lets an observer reading `meta.json` tell a slow run from a wedged
388 // one, which `updated_at` (which is `now` either way) cannot.
389 let meta = build_run_meta(
390 crate::persistence::RunMetaSources {
391 md,
392 state,
393 totals,
394 flags: &flags,
395 final_output,
396 parked: leviath_core::run_meta::WaitMarkers {
397 gate_prompt: gate_prompt.is_some_and(|g| g.0 > 0),
398 interaction_point: awaiting_point.is_some(),
399 fan_out_outstanding: fan_out_waiting.map(|f| f.outstanding()),
400 // The count needs each child's status, which this query
401 // cannot reach; the listing computes it live. Recording
402 // the reason without the number is the honest half.
403 children_outstanding: waiting_for_children
404 .map(|_| children.map(|c| c.children.len()).unwrap_or(0)),
405 interaction: hub.as_ref().and_then(|h| {
406 h.pending()
407 .into_iter()
408 .find(|(agent_id, _)| *agent_id == state.agent_id)
409 .map(|(_, req)| req.kind)
410 }),
411 awaiting_interaction: awaiting_interaction.is_some(),
412 needs_setup: paused_for_setup.map(|p| leviath_core::run_meta::SetupNeeded {
413 blocker: p.blocker,
414 remedy: p.remedy.clone(),
415 }),
416 },
417 },
418 crate::persistence::RunPosition {
419 stage_index: cursor.index,
420 now_secs: now,
421 last_progress_at: watermark.last_progress_at(),
422 depth,
423 max_child_depth,
424 },
425 );
426 let context = build_context_snapshot(window, &state.current_stage);
427 let stages = ledger.as_deref().map(|l| l.0.clone()).unwrap_or_default();
428 // Persist the taint gate's audit log (per-stage) when it gained events
429 // since the last write, so security decisions are inspectable after
430 // the fact. The log is append-only, so an unchanged (stage, count)
431 // means the file on disk is already current - re-serializing the whole
432 // log every heartbeat was an O(events) allocation that grew with the
433 // run.
434 let taint_audit = taint_gate
435 .filter(|g| !g.audit_log().is_empty())
436 .and_then(|g| {
437 let key = (cursor.index, g.audit_log().len());
438 if watermark.last_taint == Some(key) {
439 return None;
440 }
441 watermark.last_taint = Some(key);
442 Some((
443 cursor.index,
444 serde_json::to_string(g.audit_log())
445 .expect("GateEvent slice always serializes"),
446 ))
447 });
448 // A parent parked mid fan-out: persist its waiting state so the
449 // split/merge resumes after a restart (removed once it's no longer
450 // waiting - see the writer).
451 let fanout = fan_out_waiting
452 .map(|w| serde_json::to_string(&w.to_state()).expect("FanOutState always serializes"));
453 // An agent parked at a stage-boundary interaction point: persist the open
454 // point (cursor/round + the reviewed document) so a restart re-presents the
455 // same prompt rather than dropping it and re-inferring (issue #38). The
456 // document comes from the open request in the hub - which is present by the
457 // time `reflect_interaction_status` (running just before this system) has
458 // flipped the agent to `Waiting`. If the request isn't registered yet, skip
459 // this tick; the next persist captures it (removing any stale sidecar).
460 let interactions = awaiting_point.and_then(|_| {
461 let request = hub
462 .as_ref()?
463 .pending()
464 .into_iter()
465 .find(|(aid, req)| aid == &state.agent_id && req.id.contains("-point-"))?;
466 let ip_state = crate::interaction_points::InteractionPointState {
467 cursor: ip_cursor.map_or(0, |c| c.0),
468 round: ip_rounds.map_or(0, |r| r.0),
469 body: request.1.body.unwrap_or_default(),
470 };
471 Some(serde_json::to_string(&ip_state).expect("InteractionPointState always serializes"))
472 });
473 // Always carry the answer's bytes when the agent holds them; the
474 // persistence lane decides whether they still need writing.
475 //
476 // This used to be skipped here, keyed on a watermark advanced when the
477 // job was *built*. That assumed every job it built would be written,
478 // and the lane explicitly does not promise that: it coalesces queued
479 // snapshots per run and keeps only the newest. A run that finished
480 // inside one persistence window therefore had the job carrying the body
481 // dropped as superseded, while every later job carried `None` and still
482 // rewrote `meta.json` with the descriptor - leaving the descriptor and
483 // the sidecar permanently disagreeing, which `read_final_output` reads
484 // as "no answer" (issue #276).
485 //
486 // The skip itself was worth keeping - it stops a heartbeat rewriting a
487 // quarter-megabyte file every thirty seconds - so it moved to the lane,
488 // past the coalescing, where "did this get written" is a fact rather
489 // than an assumption. The cost here is one clone of the answer per
490 // snapshot, on a path that already deep-clones the whole context window.
491 let final_output_body = final_output.map(|o| o.0.content.clone());
492 let _ = stage.0.send(PersistMsg::Snapshot(Box::new(PersistJob {
493 run_id: md.run_id.clone(),
494 meta,
495 context,
496 stages,
497 output_appends,
498 log_appends,
499 taint_audit,
500 final_output: final_output_body,
501 fanout,
502 interactions,
503 })));
504 }
505}