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localai-org-maint-bot 4e4597dfc2 fix(worker): resolve staging directory symlinks
Resolve allowed directories before comparing them with resolved files.
Otherwise staging rejects valid files under macOS temporary paths.
Cover aliased roots, sibling paths, and symlinks escaping the root.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6
2026-09-08 01:05:42 +00:00
localai-org-maint-bot 2756eaeab0 Merge master into the distributed test branch
Include current gallery and virtual-model path fixes before continuing
the requested test repairs.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6
2026-09-08 01:05:42 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto 561d623976 feat(gallery): add EXL3 vllm.cpp models (#11912)
* docs: design EXL3 gallery entries

Define the pinned Qwen3.8 and DeepSeek V4 Flash entries before changing the gallery.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 [web]

* feat(gallery): add EXL3 vllm.cpp models

Add pinned Qwen3.8 and DeepSeek V4 Flash configurations. Bind the staged DFlash companion path so vllm.cpp opens LocalAI's managed snapshot.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-07 20:55:42 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto aff9db9758 fix(distributed): resolve paths for virtual models (#11911)
Virtual model names have no primary file to anchor the worker path.
Companion assets still stage successfully, but relative options retain
an incorrect model directory and fail to load.

Derive the worker root from successfully staged option assets when the
primary path is absent. Cover Buffalo packs, files, directories,
overrides, and failed transfers. Document the frontend upgrade.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6 golangci-lint

Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-07 19:32:17 +02:00
localai-org-maint-bot 0291189e82 test(nodes): adapt fixtures to worker transport
Merge current master and adapt incoming tests to the distributed APIs.
The sound mock now implements NewClientForNode and uses WorkerLocalAddress.
The upload finalization test supplies the existing direct test dialer.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6
2026-09-07 17:05:45 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto e494033607 fix(distributed): finalize stalled model uploads (#11910)
A worker can retain all model bytes with an unfinished-upload marker.
Retries then start at zero and repeatedly fail with HTTP 416.

Verify the existing bytes and finalize same-file retries at full size.
Reuse the normal integrity checks so corrupt content cannot be accepted.
Add regression coverage and document worker recovery.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6 golangci-lint

Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-07 18:52:29 +02:00
localai-org-maint-bot 994ec9dde0 test: guard shared PostgreSQL setup on macOS
Apply the existing Docker skip at the container entry point so the
maintenance-connection regression cannot bypass it.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6
2026-09-07 16:08:13 +00:00
localai-org-maint-bot d397393022 Merge master into the distributed test branch
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6
2026-09-07 16:08:13 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto 88d19567b8 feat(faces): replay saved face enrollments (#11908)
Accept original embeddings and timestamps so clients can restore faces
when the in-memory store restarts. Derive stable IDs from exact vectors
to make registration retries preserve identity without duplicate entries.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6 golangci-lint

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-07 17:40:27 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto fb8b7a359a fix(distributed): stage sound detection audio (#11907)
* fix(distributed): stage sound detection audio

Sound detection passes frontend temporary paths directly to remote
workers, unlike transcription. Stage the WAV before classification so
CED can read it without a shared temporary directory.

Preserve the original request for retries and propagate staging errors
without calling the backend. Cover staging, request preservation, and
error handling with regression tests.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6 golangci-lint

* test(distributed): verify routed sound staging

Call sound detection through the client returned by SmartRouter.Route.
This checks interface dispatch through both routing wrappers, rather
than constructing FileStagingClient directly.

The test fails without the sound-staging override and passes with it.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6 golangci-lint

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-07 17:12:37 +02:00
localai-org-maint-bot 8403d9da05 Merge master into test/distributed-e2e-ci
Preserve heartbeat checkpoints and backend readiness across the tunnel
transport changes. Update incoming tests for the renamed worker address
fields and health monitor arguments.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6
2026-09-07 04:08:18 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e7b2e1ee55 test(openai): drop the audio snapshot nothing reads
The mutex round the realtime transport double added a snapshot accessor for each
recorded slice. Only the event one has a caller, so make lint refuses the build:

    realtime_doubles_test.go:64:25: func (*fakeTransport).recordedAudio is unused (unused)

No spec has ever read the audio log, before the mutex or after it, so the
accessor is deleted rather than nolinted and the struct comment says where the
next one comes from. audioLog stays written, because a double that silently
discarded what a coordinator sent it would be a different double.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 07:58:36 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto d170de2095 test(worker): script the kernel out of the port bookkeeping specs
Probing every candidate before handing it out is right, and it made sixteen
specs that were never about the kernel depend on it. They build a supervisor
directly, name the ports they expect literally, and those literals sit inside
Linux's default ephemeral range, so with the real probe each one asks this host
whether 50051 is bindable at that instant.

The first full -race run over ./core/... and ./pkg/... after the probe landed
went red on four of them, and holding 50051, 50052, 50060 and 50061 from
another process turns eleven red deterministically. Nothing was wrong with the
allocator in either case: something else on the machine held a port, which is
the situation the probe exists to survive.

So the specs that assert bookkeeping now inject a probe that always says yes,
and say why once. The two specs that are about the probe leave the field unset
and keep asking real sockets, which is what still fails if the probe is removed.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 07:01:23 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 7b66df6651 test: fix the three data races that made -race runs noisy
None was introduced by this branch and all three are in test code, which is
what made them survive: every suite passed on every run and only the race
detector said otherwise. A known-failing -race run is worse than a noisy one,
because a real race raised by production code lands in the same report and is
read as one of these.

galleryop: gatedModelManager guarded the recorded names and not the gate
channel itself. A spec frees the parked worker by closing the gate and
installing a fresh one, on the spec goroutine, while the worker goroutine reads
the field to park on it. The channel is now read and replaced under the same
mutex, and cleanup closes idempotently.

pkg/model: two specs swapped xlog's package logger to capture output and
swapped it back on cleanup. xlog.SetLogger writes an unsynchronised global, so
the restore raced with the backend process watcher, which logs while a process
is stopping; the captured bytes.Buffer was written by that goroutine and read
by an Eventually at the same time. SetLogger is now called once for the whole
test binary, from init, before a goroutine exists to race with, and a spec
swaps the DESTINATION under a mutex through a routing slog.Handler. Per-spec
level filtering is preserved deliberately: one of these specs asserts that a
debug emission is filtered OUT and would pass vacuously against a handler that
recorded everything.

openai: fakeTransport appended to its event and audio logs from the response
and turn coordinators' goroutines while a spec ranged over them. Both are
behind a mutex and are read through snapshot accessors; the fields are renamed
so a raw read from another spec file does not compile.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 05:24:18 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 3462e57a3b fix(distributed): back a failed claim off instead of respinning it
The claim queue's attempts counter grew without bound and nothing read it. At
the default two-second poll a permanently undispatchable row cost about 43000
UPDATEs a day, and it cost more than writes: rows are claimed oldest first, so
the oldest stuck row was re-claimed ahead of every newer one on every tick and
held a dispatch slot while it failed. One poison row starved the queue behind
it.

No dead letter, and that is the decision rather than the omission. Read
settleClaim: the only outcome that releases a claim is one where NOTHING was
learned about the work. No agent worker was connected, the tunnel broke, a peer
could not be reached, the stream was refused before the request body left this
replica. Not one of those is a worker saying it ran the job and it failed, and
an attempt ceiling would turn "the fleet was away long enough" into a job
failure nobody reported, which is the collapse this whole design exists to
prevent pointed at work instead of at nodes. The one verdict available here,
that no build of any worker serves this kind, is already settled as an answer.

So the retry stays unbounded and the RATE does not. Each release stamps the row
with the earliest it may be claimed again, doubling from two seconds to a cap
of sixty, computed in the release statement from the row's own attempts count
and stamped on the DATABASE clock, because that is the clock competing replicas
order the queue on. Queued work becomes claimable again within one cap of the
fleet returning, and a stuck row no longer holds the head of the queue. A claim
released by the reap carries no delay at all: that work was never handed to
anyone, so there is nothing to back off from.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 05:24:18 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 21a63c8edf fix(distributed): drop a departed node's cached HTTP clients
A frontend keeps two caches of one http.Client per worker: the control
client's, built on the first verb issued to a node, and the HTTP file stager's,
built on the first file staged to it. Both are keyed by node ID and neither was
ever pruned. Their own comments said so and named what a fix would need, a
signal that a node has left, which did not exist when they were written and
does now.

The map slot is the smaller half. Each entry holds an http.Transport whose idle
connections are streams on that worker's tunnel, kept until IdleConnTimeout
even after the tunnel is gone, so ForgetNode closes them rather than leaving
them to the collector. Both are registered on the deployment's one departure
notifier, as two subscribers and not one: a node can be in either cache without
being in the other, and a single hook would say only that some client was kept.

ForgetNode is on the FileStager interface rather than on the one implementation
that has state to drop, so a stager that grows a per-node map later cannot be
added without answering the question, and so registerDepartureEvictions can
take a FileStager and still fail to compile if the registration is deleted. The
S3 stager's is a documented no-op that deliberately does not forward to the
control client, which registers itself: forwarding would evict a cache it does
not own, twice per departure, and the second drop would not appear in the
subscriber names the wiring spec reads.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 05:06:21 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 80f4da42ad fix(distributed): bound the health monitor's miss streaks to live rows
HealthMonitor.misses holds one consecutive-failed-probe count per (node,
model, replica) and nothing ever removed an entry whose row had gone. It is
the only per-node state in a frontend that grows on model churn rather than on
fleet size, so a deployment that loads and unloads models for months
accumulates an integer per tuple it ever probed and gives none back.

There are four ways a row stops being visible to the pass, not one. A node
departs and the pass skips its probes; a node goes offline or unhealthy on a
stale heartbeat and the pass skips it entirely; an operator sets a node
draining; or the row is removed by an unload, a scale-down or an eviction, and
nothing tells this monitor.

So the bound is the pass itself, and not a subscription on the departure
notifier. The notifier evicts the caches a DEPARTURE invalidates and it keeps
that one meaning; this reads a different fact, that there is no longer a row
to count misses against, and covers all four cases with one rule. A row the
pass could not probe is marked seen before the probe, so an unreachable worker
still leaves its streak exactly as it was rather than having it forgiven; a
pass that could not list the fleet prunes nothing, since it observed nothing.
Forgetting only ever delays a reap by up to the miss threshold and can never
cause one.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 05:06:09 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 4b9cd31dd3 fix(worker): check a gRPC port is free before handing it out
The backend port allocator allocated from its own bookkeeping alone. That
bookkeeping records what this worker did with a port, and the collision it
cannot see is with something this worker never did: the default base port is
50051, inside Linux's default ephemeral range of 32768 to 60999, so the kernel
hands ports in this range to outbound connections and to anything that binds
port 0. A backend handed one of those dies on bind, and the frontend sees a
backend that will not start.

Every candidate is now probed by binding the exact address the backend will
listen on, in all four allocation branches: the key's own port, the free pool,
a grown port and a stolen one. Probing the free pool matters as much as
probing a grown port, because a port this worker released is exactly as
available to the kernel as one it never used.

A candidate that fails the probe is quarantined rather than blacklisted, since
whatever holds it is usually an ephemeral connection that gives it back, and
its affinity claim is dropped so an unbindable port does not stay reserved for
the key that last held it. Exhaustion now says how many candidates were
skipped, which is what tells an operator "something else is in my range" from
"my range is too narrow".

This does not remove the race and cannot: between the probe and the child's
bind the kernel can still give the port away. It removes the far larger window
in which the allocator hands out a port the kernel gave away minutes ago,
which was the whole of the observed one-in-three harness flake. The e2e
harness comment that recorded the missing check is corrected, and the docs say
how to move the range out of the ephemeral one entirely.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 05:05:58 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto f207976281 fix(distributed): say that skills and collections are replica-local
Skills and RAG collections had no cross-replica invalidation, and the two
builders that would have published one were deleted earlier in this branch
because nothing called them. Wiring one now would be wrong, not merely late.

Both features are derived entirely from the frontend's own state directory.
A skills.Service indexes <state dir>/skills, a collections backend enumerates
<state dir>/collections and holds one handle per collection it found there,
and no replica reads or writes another replica's copy of either. In
distributed mode PostgreSQL carries a skill's NAME and description in
skills_metadata, and nothing else: Get, Search, Export and the resource verbs
all read local files. So a peer told to drop a cache entry would rebuild it
from a directory that does not hold the change. For a postgres-engine
collection it would be worse than a no-op, since re-deriving one on a replica
with no local index file yields a collection that answers with an empty file
list against a populated vector store. What is missing is shared storage, not
a broadcast.

Recorded rather than left silent: the two cache fields say why nothing
invalidates them, a distributed frontend logs the limitation once at startup,
and the docs name the two deployments that avoid it. The new spec pins the
premise, so a change that moved either directory onto storage every replica
mounts reddens and the decision gets taken again.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 05:05:46 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a1b5c177bc feat(cluster): make a peer prove which replica it is
GET /api/cluster/peer authenticated with the deployment's shared
registration token and took the dialling replica's id from ?id= on trust.
Every worker holds that token, so anything holding it could open a peer
link as any replica: relay through it to every worker tunnel that replica
owns, displace a real replica's inbound link by declaring its id, and
point the roughly 31 GiB per-session receive window at one replica.

Validating the id against the instances table does not fix this, because
the attack declares a real replica's id. So the route now checks two
credentials and needs both. The shared token still says the dialler
belongs to this deployment; a new per-replica credential says which
replica it is.

The credential follows the per-node worker credential rather than
inventing a second mechanism: crypto/rand.Text, stored only as a hex
SHA-256, compared in constant time, with no fallback to the shared token.
It differs in the stronger direction. A worker's credential is minted by
the frontend and handed over once; a replica writes its own instances
row, so it mints its own secret, publishes only the hash in the same
statement that publishes its address, and never sends the plaintext
anywhere but the peer dial.

A peer that presents no credential is refused, not waved through. An old
replica and an attacker holding the shared token send the same request,
so accepting the first accepts the second; there is no safe downgrade
here, only a quiet one. The refusal is made loud instead, on both sides,
naming the upgrade rather than the network. On the documented
frontend-first order a new replica still dials an old one; an old replica
cannot dial a new one, which costs relayed requests that land on a
not-yet-restarted replica and surfaces as no route, never as absence.

A rejected peer gets its own sentinel, ErrPeerRejected, whose unwrap
chain carries ErrPeerUnreachable as well and no absence sentinel at all.
Keeping the older sentinel means no existing consumer changes behaviour;
the cause stays out of the chain, so absence cannot escape through it and
nothing can read an authorization failure as a worker that went away.

One consequence beyond the fix: a replica with no advertised address has
no instances row, so it now cannot dial out either. It was already
unreachable inward. The startup error and the docs say so.

Registry.Register, NewMembership, NewPeerPool, PeerHandler and
RegisterClusterRoutes all gained required arguments, so the identity
cannot be dropped without a compile failure.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-06 04:05:56 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 18d20239df fix(ui): keep trace expansion stable during refresh
Squashed merge of #11278.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-05 22:09:16 +00:00
pengmin 718357219b fix(ui): send collection intervals as numbers
Squashed merge of #11819.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-05 22:09:16 +00:00
Anupam Mediratta 1479aef8cd fix(deps): upgrade path-to-regexp to 8.4.0 (CVE-2026-4926)
Squashed merge of #11633.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-05 22:09:16 +00:00
Tai An 37e18a4bf3 fix(quantization): record job progress without an attached listener (#11874)
A quantization job that runs with no client on its progress stream stays
"queued" forever, in the API and in state.json, while the finished artifact
sits on disk. state.json was written once by StartJob, and the only code that
advanced a job afterwards lived inside the stream callback of StreamProgress,
so job state depended on somebody watching it.

The backend's progress stream cannot simply gain a second reader: each job owns
one queue.Queue and QuantizationProgress pops from it, so two consumers split
the updates rather than both seeing them. The stream has to be opened exactly
once per job.

StartJob now starts watchProgress on the application context (the request
context is done as soon as the handler returns). That goroutine is the single
reader: it applies each update to the job -- in the cross-replica store and in
state.json, terminal statuses still winning over late updates -- and republishes
it in-process. StreamProgress becomes a pure reader over that fan-out and no
longer loads a backend or opens a stream. A client attaching to a job that has
already finished, including one hydrated from disk after a restart, gets a final
event built from the stored job instead of blocking.

Two paths used to end a client's stream by breaking the gRPC connection and now
release it explicitly: StopJob kills the backend, so it publishes the stopped
event itself; and a stream that ends without a terminal update means the backend
is gone, so the job is recorded as failed rather than left running forever.

Signed-off-by: Tai An <antai12232931@outlook.com>
2026-09-05 22:09:16 +00:00
dependabot[bot] ee2920d619 chore(deps): bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 3 updates (#11869)
Bumps the npm_and_yarn group with 3 updates in the /core/http/react-ui directory: [@humanfs/node](https://github.com/humanwhocodes/humanfs/tree/HEAD/packages/node), [fast-uri](https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri) and [qs](https://github.com/ljharb/qs).


Updates `@humanfs/node` from 0.16.7 to 0.16.8
- [Release notes](https://github.com/humanwhocodes/humanfs/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/humanwhocodes/humanfs/blob/main/packages/node/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/humanwhocodes/humanfs/commits/node-v0.16.8/packages/node)

Updates `fast-uri` from 3.1.5 to 3.1.7
- [Release notes](https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases)
- [Commits](https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/compare/v3.1.5...v3.1.7)

Updates `qs` from 6.15.3 to 6.16.0
- [Changelog](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/compare/v6.15.3...v6.16.0)

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: "@humanfs/node"
  dependency-version: 0.16.8
  dependency-type: indirect
  dependency-group: npm_and_yarn
- dependency-name: fast-uri
  dependency-version: 3.1.7
  dependency-type: indirect
  dependency-group: npm_and_yarn
- dependency-name: qs
  dependency-version: 6.16.0
  dependency-type: indirect
  dependency-group: npm_and_yarn
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-05 11:25:54 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 730d259976 chore(distributed): take the nats-io modules out of the build
Distributed mode has not dialled a message broker since the control plane
moved onto the workers' own outward tunnels and every fan-out family moved
onto PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY. What was left was the dependency itself, and
the code that existed only to feed it.

Dropped from go.mod: nats-io/jwt/v2, nats-io/nats.go, nats-io/nkeys,
nats-io/nuid and testcontainers-go/modules/nats, along with the fourteen
indirect requires that only the NATS testcontainer pulled in. go.sum carries
no nats line either, so the removal is not the partial kind where the require
goes and the checksum stays.

Deleted with them: pkg/natsauth in full, the broker client's remaining
options and TLS files, the per-node JWT minting on both the register and the
approve path, and the natsauth.Config parameter threaded through the node
routes. The credential manager is renamed and stripped rather than deleted,
because it still holds the tunnel token that every re-registration rotates.

The bus flags stay accepted and ignored, and are now hidden, on every command
that had them, so an existing unit file, compose file or Helm values file
still starts on the day of the upgrade. What is not kept is the validation
that REQUIRED one: a distributed frontend started with no bus URL is no
longer fatal. The TLS paths lose type:"existingfile" deliberately, so a
certificate deleted along with the broker cannot fail a startup.

One operator-visible behaviour change: --nats-require-auth no longer makes an
agent worker wait through admin approval. Ask for that wait with
--distributed-require-auth, which already implied it. It is documented in the
migration section and pinned from both sides.

A deployment now needs PostgreSQL and the frontends' own HTTP listener, and
nothing else.

coverage-baseline.txt moves from 54.2 to 62.0.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-05 03:27:17 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto d3dfad90b9 chore(distributed): stop telling an operator to run a NATS cluster
Every carrier had already moved and no process opened a bus connection, but
the surface an operator reads still described a deployment with a broker in
it: a compose service, a 220-line credential-generation script, two CI steps
pulling a container nothing started, two flag tables offering --nats-url, an
architecture diagram with a NATS box wired to the workers, a join-command
generator in the Nodes page that emitted --nats-url for agent workers, and a
test suite that stood a NATS server up for specs that no longer used it.

That is the one way this programme could still fail invisibly. Every test
passes, every binary works, and every production deployment goes on running
and paying for infrastructure that carries nothing.

Nothing in this repository starts a NATS server any more. The compose file is
four services, the docs say to shut the broker down and what to keep, and the
e2e suite runs on one PostgreSQL container.

The three LOCALAI_NATS_*_TIMEOUT env vars are KEPT, and are now documented
twice as being kept. They were never broker settings: each names a control-RPC
budget the frontend applies to a worker, still read and still enforced. They
carry the prefix only because they arrived with the bus, and renaming them
would break every existing deployment for cosmetics.

The agent worker's join command was the last surface still emitting the flag,
two tasks after the agent worker stopped dialling. The Playwright spec that
covered it asserted the opposite of what is now true, so it is inverted rather
than deleted, and it reads the rendered command string rather than the
component's variables: the variables are what the fix removes, so a spec
reading them would have stopped compiling instead of failing, and a compile
error is not evidence about what an operator is shown.

nats_jwt_test.go and its helpers are deleted. They pinned a real server
ENFORCING the minted permissions. The CONTENT of those allow lists is still
pinned, untouched, by pkg/natsauth's own suites, including the spec that
refuses to let the agent lists go empty, since an empty allow list in NATS
means unrestricted. The enforcement half is retired rather than moved:
enforcement is a property of a connection, and nothing opens one.

The suite's own NATS container goes with them, which the brief left for the
next task. Removing the pre-pull while BeforeSuite still ran the image would
have defeated the step rather than cleaned it up, and this change removes the
last reader of TestInfra.NC. agent_native_executor_test.go and
mcp_ci_job_test.go are moved onto infra.Bus() instead of deleted: they were
the last two specs building a bridge and a dispatcher on a client nobody uses,
which is exactly the drift TestInfra.Bus's own comment warns about.

cluster.Options.NatsURL is now fed a deliberately dead address rather than a
live container's. Frontends and agent workers still receive LOCALAI_NATS_URL,
because that is the coverage for the promise that an existing command line
still starts; sourcing it from a running server would have let a regression
that actually dialled it pass. The control in cluster_control_test.go keeps
its assertion and loses its explanation, which claimed the deployment had a
bus and no longer could.

One latent spec race surfaced and is fixed: the background-run spec waited for
a COUNT of events and then read a snapshot for the terminal status, which is
the last event of a run and therefore always arrives after the count is met.
Its immediate twin had already been fixed this way. Nothing in production
changed.

pkg/natsauth keeps its files. It is reachable from production only through the
natsauth.Config parameter thread, and that thread is the next task's.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-04 07:46:08 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a6b2d7c0ec fix(distributed): read a departed agent tunnel as the routing fact it is
Task 4 gave agent workers tunnels and deliberately left the NodeType skip in
HealthMonitor.tunnelDeparted, with a spec asserting that an agent node whose
presence reader answers PresenceGone is NOT marked unhealthy. That spec was
scaffolding. It was true while an agent worker took its jobs and its verbs over
the message bus: a departure row for one said nothing about whether it could
work, and an early bug in the new tunnel client could otherwise have demoted a
fleet of healthy agent workers.

There is no bus. An agent worker is reachable through its tunnel and through
nothing else, so a departed agent tunnel means exactly what a departed backend
tunnel means: no live replica holds it, the departure has outlived the reconnect
grace, and that is a routing fact the scheduler and a reaper may act on. The
skip would now hide the only symptom an unreachable agent worker has. This is
the deliberate removal Task 4's M6 predicted, and task-4-report.md is where that
mutation already stands recorded red against the spec this commit deletes.

The skip existed at ONE site. router_liveness.go has none: its candidates come
from queries that already filter node_type = 'backend'. The two skips in
managers_distributed.go stay, because an agent worker still runs no backend
processes, so it has no backend to list and no backend op to apply.

Two node types can depart now, which is why the second half exists. Before this,
one type could depart and every per-node cache a departure left stale was
dropped from wherever its owner happened to notice, so a reader could not tell
which caches a demotion invalidated by reading the demotion path. Departure gets
ONE notification point. DepartureNotifier is edge triggered, because the monitor
runs on a ticker and a departed node stays departed; its subscribers are NAMED,
because what has to be caught is a forgotten cache and a count can say only that
one of four is missing; and NewHealthMonitor takes it as a required positional
argument, so a caller that does not pass one fails to compile.

Four caches subscribe: prefix-cache affinity in every model, probe freshness at
every address, in-flight staging operations, and the per-node breakdown of every
open gallery operation. The prefix-cache one is registered only when
prefix-cache routing is enabled, so --distributed-prefix-cache=false stays a
true no-op. The notification carries the node's name as well as its id, because
the staging tracker keys on the name and the other two key on the id, and a
subscriber should not have to read the registry from inside an eviction hook.

A departure notification is an act on absence, so it fires only on the routing
fact. A tunnel lost inside the grace, a worker that never dialled, a presence
query that failed and a stale heartbeat all announce nothing, asserted per node
type. The stale-heartbeat branch is excluded on purpose: it already marks the
node offline, which deletes its rows and runs the registry's replica-removed
hooks, so firing there too would double-evict and make the notification mean two
different things at its subscribers.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-04 06:33:14 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 3b4858851a feat(distributed): carry an agent cancel on the worker's own tunnel
agent.<name>.cancel was the last family on a message bus, and the only
reason an agent worker dialled one. Its subscriber is the worker running
the execution, and a worker has no database, so the family could not move
to the PostgreSQL fan-out carrier: a cancel published there would reach no
worker while reporting that it had been sent.

It is a control verb now. An agent worker mounts workerctl.PathAgentCancel
on the loopback control plane behind its tunnel and applies the cancel to
the same registry the executor registers a run on. The frontend issues it
through nodes.AgentControlClient.CancelAgentRun.

That call is a FAN-OUT and not a pick, because nothing records which worker
holds a given execution: the claim row names the claiming replica, and it
is deleted when the run ends. Every agent worker a live replica can reach
is asked over its own tunnel, relayed by the peer mesh when a peer holds
it, and each worker answers only for itself.

The answers stay apart, which is why this family was held back. A cancel a
worker made is nil. A cancel some worker could not be asked is
ErrAgentCancelUndelivered, which is neither a refusal nor a missing run. A
cancel every reachable worker declined to own is ErrAgentRunNotOnAnyWorker.
A deployment with no agent worker is ErrNoAgentWorker. Neither new sentinel
wraps ErrWorkerUnroutable and neither is a worker answer, so nothing is
reaped, demoted or evicted because of a cancel.

A worker in the ABSENT CONNECTION condition, one whose tunnel was lost
inside the reconnect grace, counts as undelivered. It is not retried in the
call and not queued: a retry would spend a budget the caller did not
choose, and a queue would need durable state whose only consumer is a run
whose control stream went with the tunnel. A worker whose departure has
outlived the grace is the one routing fact a caller may act on and is
excluded, or a single retired agent node would make every cancel
undelivered for ever.

The fan-out reads a different node set from the pick. A draining worker
takes no new work but is still finishing what it holds, so it is offered
the cancel; a pending one is refused by the tunnel route on every dial and
is not.

With that, nothing in LocalAI connects to NATS. The agent worker's dial,
its credential ladder and its refresh loop are gone, and so is the
frontend's cancel carrier. LOCALAI_NATS_URL is accepted and ignored
everywhere, and distributed mode no longer requires it.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-04 05:18:02 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto b45076c5f7 refactor(distributed): delete MessagingClient and shrink the NATS client to fan-out
Nothing in the tree publishes, subscribes, queue-subscribes or requests through
the MessagingClient interface any more, so it is deleted rather than shrunk to
Broadcaster: two exported names for one method set in one package is an
invitation for the next author to pick whichever the surrounding file already
imported.

    $ grep -rn 'messaging\.MessagingClient' --include='*.go' .
    core/services/syncstate/syncstate.go:54:  // It is messaging.Broadcaster rather than messaging.MessagingClient because

(one hit, a comment; no live referent. The naive grep in the plan also matches
prose and the local test type names fakeMessagingClient and
countingMessagingClient, so it can never be empty.)

*messaging.Client is shrunk to exactly Broadcaster plus its own lifecycle.
QueueSubscribe, QueueSubscribeReply, SubscribeReply, Request, Conn and the
package helpers QueueSubscribeJSON and RequestJSON go with it; none had a
production caller. Deleting the methods rather than only the call sites is what
makes putting a family back on this carrier a build error instead of a line that
compiles, publishes successfully, and is delivered onto a carrier the deployment
is being taken off. Conn is in that list because while it existed every other
name was one c.Conn().X() away; the flush-and-verdict that its real consumers
needed is now ConfirmRoundTrip, which keeps the NATS JWT permission specs armed.

The client, its options and its TLS plumbing are NOT deleted, and both processes
stay on the bus. agent.<name>.cancel is the one fan-out family that could not
move: its only subscriber is the agent worker, which has no database and cannot
join the PostgreSQL carrier at all, so a cancel published there would reach no
worker and be reported as sent. The frontend passes the client to
newFanoutBridges as its cancelCarrier and the worker subscribes on it, so
--nats-url stays required on agent-worker. Both go with the tunnel cancel verb.

The struct field is renamed Nats -> CancelCarrier to say what it is for, and
agentpool loses the messaging.Publisher it held only to be non-nil: it never
published on it, and it was gating whether a frontend runs agents distributed or
in an in-process pool. Retiring the bus would have flipped every replica back to
the in-process pool silently. The gate now reads the agent store, which is the
dependency the mode actually requires.

Also deletes four subject builders with no production publisher
(SubjectFineTuneProgress, SubjectFineTuneCancel, SubjectCacheInvalidateSkills,
SubjectCacheInvalidateCollection), the queue and request/reply halves of the
shared test double, and the e2e specs that were their only callers. Every
surviving subject is now pinned to its exact literal, because a subject is a
cross-version wire format and a rename that looks internal stops half a fleet
hearing the other half.

Docs: distributed-mode.md and cli-reference.md no longer claim NATS carries the
agent-worker job subjects, the frontend's cross-replica events, or an agent
worker's real work.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-04 03:51:06 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 44cb495169 feat(distributed): move the last nine fan-out families onto PostgreSQL
Gallery progress and cancel, the operation cache's start and end, the model
and backend cache invalidations, staging progress, and the prefix cache's
observations and invalidations now travel on the LISTEN/NOTIFY carrier. No
subject is published or subscribed on messaging.Client anywhere in the tree,
which is what makes retiring that package a deletion rather than a migration:

  $ grep -rn 'natsClient\.Publish\|nats\.Publish\|\.Nats\.Publish\|QueueSubscribe\|SubscribeReply\|\.Request(' \
      --include='*.go' core/ pkg/ | grep -v _test \
    | grep -v 'c\.Request()\|ctx\.Request()\|Request()\.Context' \
    | grep -v 'core/services/testutil/fakebus.go'
  core/services/messaging/client.go:168,170,172,227,234,236,250,252,254,268,269,287
  core/services/messaging/interfaces.go:21,22,23

Every remaining hit is inside core/services/messaging itself. The production
reads of the NATS client are now three, all of them the documented agent-worker
exception: Close on shutdown, the agent pool's publisher, and the agent-cancel
carrier passed to newFanoutBridges.

Prefix-cache observations publish like every other family rather than through a
method that refuses a message too large for a notification. The plan proposed
such a refusal on the reasoning that a long prompt makes a chain of thousands of
entries; ExtractChain caps a chain at Config.MaxDepth blocks, MaxDepth is a
constant with no operator knob, and the chain reaching Sync.Observe has one
source, the router's own extraction hook. A worst-case observation is a few
kilobytes against an 8000-byte cap, so the hot-path spill the refusal was
designed to avoid cannot occur, and shipping it would have added the programme's
only deliberate message drop to guard a condition that cannot arise. pgbus gains
FitsInline instead, a predicate that shares one size decision with Publish and
decides nothing, and core/application refuses at startup to wire a prefix cache
whose configured depth would put every observation over the cap.

The carrier choice is no longer stated at four sites. StagingTracker.SetPublisher
and SubscribeBroadcasts become one SetBroadcaster, so a tracker that publishes
where its peers are not listening cannot be spelled; prefixcache.Sync gains
SubscribeBroadcasts, which reads the carrier it publishes on; and the gallery
service and the operation cache are wired by methods on DistributedServices that
name no carrier at all, so the NATS client beside it cannot be handed over.
OpCache.SetMessagingClient and GalleryService.SetNATSClient are renamed to
SetBroadcaster so a missed call site fails to compile.

Two pre-existing defects that the two-real-carrier specs surfaced are fixed. A
progress tick published before a cancel and delivered after it cleared Cancelled
and left the operation reading as still running on that replica; mergeStatus now
drops a stale tick rather than merging it. GetStatus and GetAllStatus handed out
the stored OpStatus pointer while the broadcast subscribers mutated it in place,
so an /api/operations response could be marshalled mid-write; both now copy.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-04 02:55:15 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 5a95bb3c0a refactor(distributed): move job and agent fan-out onto the PostgreSQL carrier
Five of the six families whose subscriber is an open HTTP response rather
than a process-lifetime cache now travel on pgbus: jobs.<id>.progress,
jobs.<id>.result, jobs.<id>.cancel, agent.<name>.events.<user> and
responses.<id>.cancel. Both ends of each move together, so there is no
state where a publisher is on one carrier and its subscriber on the other.

agent.<name>.cancel does NOT move, and the plan was wrong about why. Its
only subscriber in the tree is the agent worker, which has no database and
so cannot join the PostgreSQL carrier at all. Publishing that cancel on
pgbus would have lost every cancel of a worker-run agent while returning
nil, which reports a cancel that reached nobody as a cancel that was sent.
EventBridge now names its cancel carrier separately, a frontend replica
sets it to the carrier the worker reads, and it stays there until a cancel
rides the worker's tunnel like every other verb addressed to a worker.

The carrier drops at 256 rather than blocking, which is not safe on its own
for a result: a lost result has no successor message. It is not the only
path. The claiming replica persists the terminal line before it releases
the claim, and an open progress stream re-reads the job row once after
subscribing and then periodically, so a dropped terminal broadcast costs
promptness and never the answer.

Both per-request subscriptions close in a defer instead of on one return
path, and pgbus grows Subscribers() so the leak they would otherwise cause
can be asserted. It has no other symptom: only the first subscriber of a
channel issues a LISTEN, so a leaked filter just adds one closure per
notification for every stream the replica has ever served. Subscribe now
issues its LISTEN before it registers, which makes that count a readiness
signal rather than a figure to compare against itself.

Two rules that were stated at several sites and pinned at none are now one
each. The re-broadcaster is built beside the dispatcher and the bridge and
handed to the dispatch loop, so no line is left that can point it at a
carrier nobody subscribes to while every spec stays green. The set of
statuses a job never leaves is one exported set that the SSE bridge and the
store both read. The last hand-written subject filter in production code
became messaging.SubjectAgentEventsWildcard.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-04 01:47:34 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 245010f2f6 feat(distributed): carry the state.*.delta families on PostgreSQL
syncstate.Config held one carrier field typed as the NATS client, so a
pgbus.Bus could not be handed to a SyncedMap at all: it satisfies
messaging.Broadcaster and not MessagingClient. The durable re-hydration
path built for the responses map therefore had a NATS-only consumer and
nothing in the build said so.

The field becomes Bus messaging.Broadcaster, SubscribeJSON moves to its
own file and relaxes its parameter to Broadcaster, and the four adopters
fan out over PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY: fine-tune jobs, quantization jobs,
agent tasks with their per-tenant children, and Open Responses metadata.
A new spec proves it on a real database, over two Bus instances on two
pinned listener connections: a Set and a Delete carry, a payload past the
8000-byte notification cap comes back byte identical through the spill
row, two families sharing one LISTEN channel stay separate, and a
terminated listener re-hydrates a row written while it was gone.

The five sites that each chose a carrier for an adopter are collapsed
into one DistributedServices.Broadcast() accessor. Five field reads were
five chances to leave one family on NATS with nothing failing, because
messaging.Client satisfies Broadcaster too. The accessor also refuses to
hand out a nil pgbus.Bus wrapped in a non-nil interface, which every
adopter would read as "broadcast" and dereference on the first Set.
SetTaskSyncNATS and SetJobSyncNATS are renamed to SetTaskSyncBus and
SetJobSyncBus so a missed wiring site fails to compile.

The response metadata table gains a retention of its own, defaulting to
24 hours. It inherited the Open Responses store TTL, which defaults to 0
meaning no expiration. Zero is defensible for a map that dies with the
process and is not for a table: the table grew for the life of the
deployment and a restarting replica re-hydrated every response the
cluster had ever created. A row that names its own expiry is still judged
on that column alone, and "this row is dead" now has one SQL spelling
that PurgeExpired deletes by and ListUnexpired is the negation of, so a
hydrate cannot resurrect what a sweep has already retired.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 22:50:54 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 09acb3823a fix(distributed): give one tenant's agent tasks a subject of their own
Every AgentJobService built its tasks SyncedMap with the name "agent.tasks",
and there is one service per user. So every tenant published on and subscribed
to the same subject, state.agent-tasks.delta, and SyncedMap.apply scopes
nothing: a task tenant A created was written into tenant B's in-memory map on
every replica, and ListTasks reads that map. Nothing repaired it short of a
process restart.

The subject now carries the tenant in a token of its own,
state.<name>.<tenant>.delta. Four tokens where the unscoped builder makes
three, deliberately: SubjectMatches compares token count before anything else,
so a tenant's subject and the cluster-wide one cannot cross-match, and neither
can two tenants. Putting the tenant inside the name token would not do that,
because the sanitizer folds '.' to '-' and the only filter that could then span
tenants is state.*.delta, which spans every other family too.

The rule is stated once. subscribeFilters calls publishSubject rather than
restating the subject, so a map cannot end up publishing scoped and subscribing
unscoped, which would leak exactly as before while every publish assertion
passed. The one case that decides on its own is the cluster-wide administrative
view: it hydrates from every tenant's rows, so it also takes the per-tenant
wildcard, or it would be stale the moment any tenant wrote. A tenant hydrates
from its own rows and applies only its own deltas. PerTenant defaults to false,
so finetune, quantization and the responses store keep the subject they have.

The second half of the same defect was the delete. taskStoreAdapter.Delete
called DeleteTask(id) and JobStore deleted by primary key with no user
predicate, reachable from DELETE /api/agent/tasks/:id, which takes the id off
the URL. A tenant who learned another tenant's task id destroyed that tenant's
row. The user id now travels with the id and lands as a user_id predicate.
Empty stays the administrative any-owner scope, the same thing an empty id
already means for ListTasks and ListJobs. A foreign delete removes nothing and
returns no error: not yours and not there are the same answer to the caller,
and neither is a store failure.

SetUserID rebuilds the tasks map for the same reason SetTaskSyncNATS does.
GetJobs happens to set the user id first, nothing enforced it, and with the
order reversed the map would be built with an empty tenant and put that user's
tasks back on the cluster-wide subject.

Both halves predate this programme; they are surfaced here rather than caused.
Neither is fully closed for a deployment with the agent pool off, where the
task routes are still served by one cluster-wide service that every
authenticated caller shares; that is a separate gap and it is documented.

testutil.FakeBus grew a real defect this was the first change to trip:
Unsubscribe matched on the filter string, so with two subscribers on one
filter, closing one deafened the other. Subscriptions now carry an id.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 21:54:42 +00:00
dependabot[bot] 99a2e855a8 chore(deps): bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#11835)
Bumps the npm_and_yarn group with 2 updates in the /core/http/react-ui directory: [react-router](https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/tree/HEAD/packages/react-router) and [browserslist](https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist).


Updates `react-router` from 7.18.1 to 7.18.2
- [Release notes](https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/blob/react-router@7.18.2/packages/react-router/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/commits/react-router@7.18.2/packages/react-router)

Updates `browserslist` from 4.28.2 to 4.28.8
- [Release notes](https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/compare/4.28.2...4.28.8)

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  dependency-version: 7.18.2
  dependency-type: direct:production
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2026-09-03 23:38:23 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 43f7a5d108 feat(distributed): give responses.metadata something to re-hydrate from
The responses.metadata SyncedMap had no durable Store, so its reconnect
re-hydrate replaced nothing. That was survivable while responses converged
through deltas on a broker that mostly stayed up. It is not survivable on a
carrier whose listener is one pinned PostgreSQL session: every response created
while the subscription was down stays invisible on that replica forever, and the
symptom is a 404 from one replica and a 200 from another for the same
response_id.

State that must survive a gap now lives in a response_metadata table, and the
notification only says it changed. The map writes through on a Set and reads the
table on hydrate, on reconnect and on reconcile, so the gap closes instead of
becoming permanent.

The row carries the whole projection as JSON rather than one column per field. A
column-per-field schema would be a second definition of what a peer may act on,
and the two would drift the first time syncedResponse gained a field: the map
would broadcast the new field and hydrate without it, so a replica that had
reconnected would serve a different response body from one that had not, with
nothing failing anywhere. Only PayloadJSON is ever decoded; owner_replica and
owner are indexed copies for an operator reading the table by hand.

A missing row and an unreachable database are different facts. Every store and
adapter method returns a driver failure as an error and never as an empty
result, and syncstate replaces nothing when its source errors, so an outage
leaves the map holding what it had rather than blanking it into a cluster-wide
404.

Liveness is the database's clock, spelled expires_at IS NULL OR expires_at >
now(), because every replica hydrating from this table must agree on which rows
are live and a Go-side cutoff makes that a property of whichever process asked.
The test container shares the host clock, so no behavioural spec can tell the
two apart; the statement shape is pinned instead. The constructor refuses a
non-PostgreSQL handle, because an unguarded now() on the single-binary path
reads as a missing migration.

A ticker sweeps expired rows every five minutes on each replica, and Close waits
for it rather than racing it. Note that the sweep removes nothing while
LOCALAI_OPEN_RESPONSES_STORE_TTL is 0, which is the default: with no TTL nothing
ever expires and the table grows for the life of the deployment. The docs say so
plainly.

EnableDistributed takes the store positionally and last, so a call site that
forgets it fails to compile rather than silently restoring the deltas-only map
this change exists to replace. A nil store there is refused by name: it is
reached only from the distributed branch of route registration, so it is a
wiring bug and not a deployment shape.

What still never leaves the owning replica is unchanged: the resume buffer and
the CancelFunc. The write-through is one row per response state change, not one
per generated token.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 21:11:59 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 78f4ff7934 feat(distributed): dispatch queued work as a claim queue
The three NATS queue groups jobs.new, jobs.mcp-ci.new and agent.execute are
gone. Dispatching work is now a row in a work_claims table, taken by one
frontend replica with SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED and driven on an agent
worker as a streaming control RPC over that worker's tunnel. Exactly-one
delivery among competing consumers is a database problem, not a broker feature.
An agent worker has no database, so it never claims; it executes what the
claiming replica hands it.

A claim must not outlive the replica that took it. The reap releases a claim
whose owner is no longer a live replica in the instances table, on the database
clock, and never asks how long the claim has been held. A job that legitimately
runs for an hour on a heartbeating replica is left alone, while a claim whose
owner stopped heartbeating becomes claimable again within one liveness window.
A replica with no advertised address has no instances row at all, so it refuses
to claim rather than have its work reaped out from under it mid-run.

The settle rule is stated once, in settleClaim, and every exit path calls it. A
transport failure releases the claim and never completes or discards it; only a
decoded reply line completes it. That line is deliberately not
cluster.IsWorkerAnswer, which accepts the stream refusals a worker's tunnel
writes before any request body reaches its control server: completing on those
would discard work that never ran.

The terminal line is persisted before the claim is completed, so a store that
refuses leaves the claim standing rather than leaving the job running for ever.
That is the dropped-result defect fixed structurally rather than by retry.

This also surfaces a pre-existing gap rather than causing one: no worker has
ever served plain task jobs, and publishing them into an empty queue group left
them running with no trace. Such a claim is now failed with a reason.

Removes QueueWorkers, --agent-subject and --agent-queue, and narrows an agent
worker's minted JWT by agent.execute and jobs.mcp-ci.new.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 20:22:34 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto fcb93b128e feat(distributed): let a worker name a broadcast the frontend decides on
A worker has no database and cannot NOTIFY, and it does not need to: every
message it sends is produced inside a handler the frontend invoked, so
there is always an open control response to write on. This adds the two
ends of that, and the authorization decision that sits between them, and
nothing that dispatches yet.

workerctl.Envelope gains Subject, a REQUEST and not an instruction. Empty
means the line is for this caller alone, which is what every pre-existing
progress line is, and omitempty keeps those lines byte-identical for an
older reader. It qualifies a progress line and never a reply line: a reply
is the worker's verdict about the work, and there is no version of
"publish my verdict for me" this control plane has to carry.

nodes.MayBroadcast is the replacement for pkg/natsauth's allow list, and
the inversion is the point. NATS read an EMPTY allow list as NO
RESTRICTION, which is why phase 3 refused to delete the backend branch and
spelled it {"_INBOX.>"}. This one reads an empty list, and an absent node
type, as DENY EVERYTHING, and a table-driven spec pins that by emptying
the agent entry and asserting all three of its subjects are then refused.
Matching goes through messaging.SubjectMatches, the one definition in the
tree, so a filter that fires here fires on the carrier.

nodes.Rebroadcaster.Handle returns a bool and never an error. A refused or
failed re-broadcast is logged and the RPC continues, because the RPC's
outcome is the worker's verdict about the work and a publish failure says
nothing about it. The return shape is asserted at compile time in the file
that states the rule, so changing it to an error does not compile.

ControlClient.CallStreaming's progress callback now takes the line's
subject alongside its raw bytes. The client no longer decodes progress at
all: what a line means is a question about the verb and whether a named
broadcast may be made is a question about the node, and it knows neither.
Both moved into installProgressBridge, which every one of the three
streaming call sites in unloader.go goes through. A line naming a subject
is dropped there rather than delivered as install progress, because
backend.install and backend.upgrade are a backend worker's verbs and a
backend worker is allowed no subjects.

agents.StreamPublisher is the producing end, a messaging.Publisher writing
NDJSON envelopes onto an in-flight control response and flushing each one,
so a tick reaches the frontend while the handler is still running.
Serialized, because two concurrent encodes on one http.ResponseWriter
interleave bytes and tear the framing.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 17:31:13 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 9d7a2457d9 feat(distributed): stop a backend on one route, whatever the worker is
nodes.<id>.backend.stop was the last worker-facing NATS subject, and it existed
only because ONE publisher had not moved. An agent worker already mounted
workerctl.PathBackendStop on the tunnel it holds, and a backend worker already
took its stop there, so RemoteUnloaderAdapter branched on NodeType to pick a
carrier for a verb both kinds of worker served the same way.

The branch is gone, and with it nodeTypeOf and its NodeTypeBackend default,
which removes one of the ten NodeType branches left to sweep. The adapter loses
its messaging.MessagingClient outright rather than keeping an unused field: it
now holds no publisher, so re-routing any verb back onto the bus is a change to
the struct and to every caller of the constructor, and does not compile until
all of them agree. messaging.SubjectNodeBackendStop and subjectNodePrefix are
deleted, the agent worker's subscription with them.

pkg/natsauth drops the per-node backend.stop grant from the agent SUB list. That
is a narrowing of eleven entries to ten, never to nothing: NATS reads an EMPTY
allow list as unrestricted, so the coverage spec asserts both that the retired
subject is no longer covered and that the queue subjects an agent worker lives
on still are. The e2e half proves it against a real enforcing server: one spec
subscribes successfully on an agent-minted JWT, the next is refused the retired
subject on a JWT minted the same way.

Both halves of the old split were pinned, so both pins are re-aimed rather than
deleted, and the two node types are asserted separately rather than as one
parameterised case, because only two cases can show that the two used to differ.
Three assertions that the adapter published nothing are deleted instead: with no
publisher to hold, no change could ever redden them.

The CLI's handler set moves into agentWorkerControlHandlers so a spec can stand
it up and post to it. That wiring was a bare literal no spec pinned, and
deleting the subscription made it the ONLY carrier for backend.stop: a dropped
field would have been a 404 the frontend reads as a worker too old to serve the
verb, and nothing in the repo would have noticed.

Mutations: the agent branch restored off the control route reddens two specs;
the backend branch restored, separately, reddens five; PathBackendDelete in
place of PathBackendStop reddens nine across both node types; dropping the CLI
wiring line reddens the new wiring table; re-adding the allow-list entry reddens
the unit spec and the JWT e2e spec; and restoring the publisher for real does
not compile.

Four comments this change falsified are fixed, in core/cli, pkg/model and the
distributed-mode docs, which now say both kinds of worker serve
POST /v1/control/backend/stop and what each does with it.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 16:41:59 +00:00
Dimitris Karakasilis 8aeea4cdde fix(gallery): persist inference defaults where the loader reads them (#11232)
The recommended sampling parameters for a model family were applied at
install and then never took effect. Two things went wrong on the way to
disk.

They were written as top level keys. ModelConfig embeds PredictionOptions
under the "parameters" yaml key, so temperature, top_p, top_k, min_p,
repeat_penalty and presence_penalty are only read from there. At the top
level they parse without error and are then ignored for the life of the
model.

They were also merged in after the YAML had already been marshalled. The
only re-marshal sat behind the artifact binding, which an entry carrying
files: never reaches, so for those entries the defaults were computed and
then dropped before anything was written.

Neither failure was visible in normal use. ApplyInferenceDefaults runs
again at load time and fills the same values from the same table, so the
model ends up tuned correctly while the file on disk pins nothing. It
surfaces when someone edits one of those values expecting it to win, or
when a family is absent from inference_defaults.json and there is nothing
to refill from.

Both install paths are covered: an entry carrying files:, and one that
binds a primary artifact instead.

The empty base spec asserted that the authored parameters block landed
verbatim. It now checks the authored keys individually, because the family
defaults are merged into that same block.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5

Signed-off-by: Dimitris Karakasilis <dimitris@karakasilis.me>
2026-09-03 18:30:26 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 5effa47527 feat(distributed): make MCP execution and discovery a selection
mcp.tools.execute and mcp.discovery were the only NATS subjects that
combined a queue group with a reply, and no carrier in this design
provides both. They never needed one: a queue group is a way of choosing
a subscriber, and choosing is a query.

The frontend now lists the approved, non-draining agent nodes, asks the
node_connections table in one joined statement which of those tunnels a
live replica holds, prefers one this replica holds so the call skips the
relay hop, and issues an ordinary control RPC on the path task 4 already
mounted. A peer-held tunnel is reached through the relay. That is a
choice a broker's hidden balancing could not make.

The selection reads presence and nothing else. It is filtered only on
node type and on the two statuses an operator controls, never on a health
verdict written on another clock, because refusing a worker that is
connected and answering is the same defect as picking one that is gone.
An empty fleet answers ErrNoAgentWorker, which is deliberately neither
ErrWorkerUnroutable nor anything cluster.IsWorkerAnswer accepts: nothing
was asked of any worker, so no reap guard may act on it.

A reply carrying an Error is the worker's own answer and is returned
unchanged; it is never offered to a second worker, which would turn "this
MCP server rejected your arguments" into "the fleet is broken" and could
run a tool twice. A call that never reached a worker is retried against a
different pick, at most three times, and whatever error is finally
returned is returned unwrapped so its identity survives the loop.

MCP prompts and resources now answer 501 in distributed mode instead of
an empty 200. They are served only from sessions the frontend holds, and
in distributed mode it holds none. That gap predates the removal of the
bus and is not closed by it; this only stops it being silent.

Agent workers keep every other subject, including nodes.<id>.backend.stop.
Their minted JWT loses the two MCP subjects and keeps a non-empty allow
list, because NATS reads an empty one as no restriction at all.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 12:04:41 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 64059cd7d7 feat(distributed): give agent workers a tunnel of their own
Phase 2 gated agent nodes out of tunnel credentials at the mint site.
That was right while nothing dialled into an agent worker: a credential
would have replaced nothing, and the gate was structural rather than a
second check that could drift. It is wrong now that the frontend needs to
reach an agent worker by RPC.

attachTunnelToken mints for backend and agent nodes and CLEARS for
anything else, through one tunnelEligible predicate rather than two
conditions that can be widened separately. ConnectHandler still never
reads NodeType, so an empty hash is still what refuses an ineligible
node.

An agent worker now starts a loopback control server behind the same
bearer check a backend worker uses, and holds one tunnel whose only
stream tag is http: it runs no backend processes, so the grpc tag has
nothing to route to and is not offered. Its MCP tool, MCP discovery and
backend.stop verbs are served from ONE implementation reached by both the
bus and the tunnel, so a frontend cannot get different bytes depending on
which carrier delivered.

The tunnel is an ADDITION. --nats-url is still required, and agent jobs,
MCP execution, MCP CI jobs and nodes.<id>.backend.stop all still travel
on the bus.

Absence semantics are unchanged. An agent node now has a real
node_connections row whose departure ages past the grace, so the node
type check in HealthMonitor.tunnelDeparted stopped being an optimisation
and became the rule; its comment says so, and the spec that pins it is
shown red under a mutation that deletes the check. The scheduler needed
no change: every placement query already filters node_type = backend, so
an agent node never reaches nodeMayTakeWork.

Shared rules moved to one site each. The request bounds, the POST-only
check and the unknown-path 404 live in workerctl and are called by both
worker packages; the bearer check that guards every extra route is one
function in core/services/nodes used by both server constructors.
workerctl.AllPaths splits into BackendPaths and AgentPaths, with AllPaths
as their deduped union, because a backend worker does not mount the agent
verbs and asserting otherwise would fail a correct worker.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 11:22:38 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 49128cf486 feat(distributed): keep the listener draining and let it come back
PostgreSQL holds undelivered notifications in a queue it shares with every
session on the server, and it kills a listener that stops draining. Two failure
modes follow, and both are silent: a carrier that blocked on a slow resolver
would lose its connection and with it every later broadcast, and a carrier that
reconnected without re-registering would be connected and deaf.

The receive and dispatch halves were already separate. What was missing is
everything around them. The listener path moves into listener.go and gains a
carrier-level Dropped() so a replica that is behind can be seen; the queue depth
and the spill retention become Config fields with exported defaults; the LISTEN
session gets an application_name so an operator can count listeners in
pg_stat_activity and a spec can drop exactly one of them; and OnReconnect fires
after the re-LISTEN, on a goroutine of its own, because a callback re-hydrates
from a database and must never run on the path whose only job is to drain.

That callback is reached through an optional interface assertion, so deleting
its invocation compiles and every adopter silently stops converging. The spec is
the only guard, and it is named in a comment at the site.

The slow consumer is proved through the transport rather than a seam: an ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE lock on bus_messages stalls the resolver's spill SELECT for exactly as
long as the spec holds it, and the listener is shown still draining and dropping
while it does. The dropped connection is a pg_terminate_backend matched on the
carrier's own application name.

Neither Dropped nor IsConnected is on messaging.Broadcaster, and a spec asserts
that over the interface type. Both are facts about a frontend; the conditions a
scheduler acts on are facts about a worker, and no consumer holding the
interface can read one as the other.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 10:23:40 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 8f71c08d94 fix(distributed): order LISTEN and UNLISTEN on one lock
Unsubscribe decided a channel had lost its last subscriber under one
lock and issued the UNLISTEN after releasing it. A Subscribe on the same
root could decide to LISTEN in that window, and the two reached the
connection in the wrong order: the root ended up not listened with a
live subscription on it. It does not heal, because the next Subscribe
sees the registration already there and never re-LISTENs, so the whole
root stays deaf on that replica until the connection drops.

The decision and the statement it implies now happen under one lock,
held across both, at both call sites. A second lock and not the
registration lock: issuing waits on the listener goroutine, delivery
takes the registration lock, and holding that across the wait deadlocks
the carrier.

The race is spec'd through a barrier seam rather than by racing
goroutines. The natural window is microseconds wide, and a spec that
waits for it to open passes by luck; the seam scripts the interleaving,
so the spec decides in both directions.

Resolving a spilled message moved off the listener. PostgreSQL keeps
undelivered notifications in a shared, fixed-size queue, so a listener
that stops draining it can block COMMIT for every publisher on the
server, not only this one. The listener now only drains; one resolver
goroutine reads the row back and dispatches, which also keeps a spilled
message and an inline one on the same subject in the order they were
published.

Three wiring lines that could be deleted with the suite staying green:
the sweeper's start is now pinned by a Config interval, and the two
lines that carry the bus into the deployment now refuse to boot when
either is missing. A subscription can also report what it dropped, so
the party that missed a message is the party that can see it.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 07:45:56 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto cf619fc91b feat(distributed): carry fan-out on PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY
Distributed mode needs an operator to run a NATS cluster. This adds the
carrier that replaces its fan-out half, so a deployment eventually needs
PostgreSQL and its own HTTP listener and nothing else.

pgbus holds one PostgreSQL session per replica, pinned for the life of
the process because LISTEN registrations belong to one backend session
and a pooled handle would lose them on the next checkout. Publishes go
out on the pool with pg_notify.

Subjects map onto a channel by their first token, from a closed set of
roots. A subject outside the set is refused at publish AND at subscribe
rather than mapped to a channel of its own: a channel name is capped at
63 bytes, and one LISTEN per job id would be unbounded. Refused rather
than dropped, because a subject that goes nowhere and reports nothing is
the class of defect this work exists to remove.

PostgreSQL refuses a notify payload of 8000 bytes or more, and several
subjects on this bus exceed that in normal operation: a job result
carries a whole LLM output, a gallery progress event carries one entry
per node. Those are written to a row and the notification carries the
id. What is measured against the cap is the ENCODED notification, not
the caller's payload, because the subject and the envelope travel too.

The filter grammar is not respelled here. Subscribe asks
messaging.ValidFilter and delivery asks messaging.SubjectMatches, which
makes this the first production caller of a matcher that had only test
doubles. New refuses a DSN that names a different database from the
pool: that pairing publishes successfully, delivers nothing, on every
replica, and reports no error anywhere.

Nothing publishes on it and nothing subscribes yet. The construction is
wired anyway, because the DSN has exactly one legitimate source and a
setting that decides whether any broadcast is delivered should not be
invented by whichever call site is migrated first.

Delivery is at-most-once, like NATS core. Nothing downstream may read a
message it did not receive as evidence about a node: a carrier that
cannot deliver is not a worker that is gone.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 06:28:03 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto cbdd495850 refactor(distributed): one subject matcher, shared by the carrier and the doubles
Three copies of "does this filter match this subject" lived in the tree: one
in testutil.FakeBus, a byte-identical second inside galleryop's own private
fakeBus, and a third in pkg/natsauth with different semantics. The first two
are doubles the specs publish through, and the carrier the pgbus work is about
to add needs the same rule in production. Two spellings drift, and the drift
reads as a peer that receives an event on one replica and not on another.

messaging.SubjectMatches is now the only definition either double uses. The
natsauth copy stays: it matches a NATS server allow list, so it has to
implement the '>' tail wildcard this one deliberately refuses, and Task 16
deletes that package anyway.

'>' is refused rather than implemented because no surviving subscription uses
it, and a caller who writes one must get no messages rather than silently
getting every message on the prefix. The refusal is checked BEFORE the
filter == subject fast path: a verbatim port checks equality first, and then
the filter "a.>" matches the literal subject "a.>", which is the contract
leaking. One table row pins that ordering and it is the only row that does.

messaging.ValidFilter refuses an empty filter, a '>' filter and an empty token
so a subscriber is told at subscribe time instead of staying silently empty for
the life of the process. FakeBus.Subscribe calls it, which is what keeps the
double honest about what the carrier will do, and three new testutil specs pin
that wiring: the previous state of the tree had no spec at all that failed when
the double's wildcard routing was replaced by exact matching in any package the
plan named.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 06:02:20 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto dd9aff58ff feat(distributed): take the backend worker off NATS entirely
A local-ai worker no longer opens a bus connection. connectNATS and its
spec are gone; Run registers once, starts its tunnel, arms /readyz on that
tunnel, and heartbeats. The worker's bus credential flags (--nats-jwt,
--nats-user-seed, --nats-require-auth, the three TLS flags) and
Config.NatsAuthRequired go with it. --nats-url stays, accepted and
ignored, so an existing worker command line still parses.

/readyz was the thing most likely to wedge a tunnel-only worker: it
required a live NATS link, so a worker with no bus would have reported
itself unready forever. nodes.NATSReadiness becomes nodes.TunnelReadiness
over a local interface{ Connected() bool }, and worker.Tunnel gains
Connected(), backed by a mutex-guarded session field the loop publishes
and clears. A closed-but-not-yet-cleared session reads as disconnected:
the loop waits for every in-flight stream before it clears the field, and
the probe must answer not-ready through that wait.

The heartbeat gate is DELETED rather than re-pointed at the tunnel. The
heartbeat is the worker's own answer that its process is alive; whether
the frontend can reach it is a separate fact the frontend already holds
and ages against LOCALAI_WORKER_RECONNECT_GRACE. Withholding the
heartbeat would report an unreachable worker as an absent one on the one
path with no grace, where the health monitor marks it offline and its
pending backend ops are deleted behind it. heartbeatLoop is given no view
of the tunnel, so a gate cannot be added back without changing its
signature.

Removing the NATS credential manager from this path also removes a defect
it carried: its refresh loop re-registered on a timer to renew a JWT, and
Register CLEARS a node's NodeModel rows. Any backend worker running on
frontend-minted credentials had its replica rows deleted roughly every
18 hours.

Of core/cli/workerregistry, everything survives. The manager is still
used in full by core/cli/agent_worker.go, which still needs NATS: Acquire,
Provider, RefreshLoop, HasCredentials and TunnelToken are all untouched.
The backend worker simply calls RegisterFullWithRetry directly now.

WorkerPermissions is documented as serving agent nodes, and its non-agent
branch narrowed to _INBOX.> on both sides. It is NOT deleted: NATS reads
an empty allow list as no restriction, so returning nil would upgrade
every JWT the frontend still mints for a backend node from its own inbox
to the whole account.

Agent workers keep the bus everywhere: their CLI flags, their
subscriptions, the agent branch of WorkerPermissions, and the compose
service with its LOCALAI_NATS_URL and depends_on: nats.

Also corrected two flags the Nodes page advertised that do not exist
(--distributed-nats, --distributed-db), and a log line plus several
comments that still named a bus the code no longer touches.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 01:14:29 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 749cc7ad81 fix(distributed): let absence be decided by something, at all three call sites
Removing "Presence: clusterRegistry" from the options literal in
initDistributed left all seven suites and tests/e2e/distributed green.
The predicate was right and its input was silently nil, which returns the
deployment to absence being decided by nothing, with no log line and no
failing request. That is the fourth finding of this exact shape in this
phase.

The two assignments move out of a twenty-field literal into
distributedSchedulerOptions, a named function a unit spec can reach.
Deleting either is now red. The health monitor takes its presence reader
and grace as a required positional pair instead, so deleting those does
not compile at all. requireAbsenceWiring then refuses to start a
distributed frontend whose scheduler or health monitor has no source of
absence, because refusing to boot is the only symptom either failure has.

With a fresh heartbeat and a permanently gone tunnel there was no reaper
at all. A heartbeat says the worker's supervisor is alive; it says
nothing about whether anything here can reach that worker's backends,
because those are reached over the tunnel. A proxy that stops upgrading
WebSockets, a rotated registration credential or a reconnect loop longer
than the grace left a node listed healthy forever while every request for
a model already loaded on it failed "no route to that worker", and every
reaper keyed on the heartbeat. The health monitor now reads presence from
the same place and against the same window as the scheduler and demotes
such a node. That also ends the 15s re-promotion: the demotion arm
returns before the recovery arm, so the scheduler's demotion is no longer
undone on the next tick, and recovery needs the tunnel back rather than
just the heartbeat.

The demotion is status-only. MarkOffline would DELETE the node's rows,
and deleting rows on a presence read would give any future defect in that
read the widest blast radius in the system for nothing the demotion does
not already deliver.

LRU eviction is the third path that commits work to a node, and it read
only the stored status. A node full enough to be an eviction target is
exactly the node the VRAM and idle selectors never offer, so
pickReachableNode structurally cannot cover it. It now runs its chosen
node through the same nodeMayTakeWork predicate, demotes it and evicts
again rather than handing back an install that cannot land. Presence is
read after the transaction and not inside it: reading it inside would
hold a FOR UPDATE lock across a query needing a second pooled connection,
which is how concurrent evictions deadlock a pool.

Also: a router built with a presence reader and no grace now has its
documented default pinned by a spec rather than only claimed by a
comment; ageDeparture asserts RowsAffected, since an UPDATE matching
nothing succeeds and the inside-the-grace spec returned the same verdict
either way; the scheduler comment that still described the bus is
corrected; the docs stop conflating heartbeat recovery with tunnel
recovery and name the third reader; and an overlong rewrapped line in
membership.go is folded.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-03 00:33:21 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 93af91419b feat(distributed): read worker absence from the database, not from a bus timeout
The scheduler decided whether a worker had gone away from
nats.ErrNoResponders: one frontend's observation that nobody answered IT
within a request budget. Two replicas asking in the same moment could
disagree and demote each other's workers, and a worker re-homing its
tunnel between replicas looked identical to one that had died.

SmartRouter now reads cluster.Presence instead. Only PresenceGone -- no
live replica holds the tunnel AND the departure has outlived the
reconnect grace -- excludes a node from placement, and it is a fact every
replica reads identically from the database. PresenceReconnecting,
PresenceUnknown and a failed presence query are all non-verdicts and
place work as normal: excluding on a database hiccup would cost the fleet
its capacity for a reason that has nothing to do with any worker.

nodeAnswersOnBus is deleted. It excluded on a sentinel no control RPC can
produce, so it decided nothing while PingNode cost a relayed round trip
per scheduling decision to feed it. PingNode goes with it, from the
adapter and from NodeCommandSender. isRequestTimeout drops nats.ErrTimeout:
every verb this adapter sends now travels over the worker's tunnel.

The predicate is named nodeMayTakeWork rather than nodeHasRoute. "Route"
is ErrWorkerUnroutable in this package, the condition nobody may act on;
PresenceGone is the one a scheduler may. Spelling them the same way is
the collapse this work exists to prevent.

Also folds in ReapStale's return rename: it counts connection rows
CLEARED, never rows deleted, and reading it as a delete count would make
a worker that is re-dialling right now look forgotten.

The spec pinning that a message merely quoting "nats: timeout" is not a
timeout was scripting a SUCCESSFUL reply carrying the phrase, which comes
back with a nil error and never reaches the classifier. Restoring the
string match left it green. It now scripts a 5xx whose body carries the
phrase, and asserts that the phrase reaches the classifier as a
precondition.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-02 22:28:49 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 4c3e0deb19 test(distributed): pin the unreadable-request rule at all three file verbs
The rule "a body this worker could not parse is a non-2xx, never the
worker's answer" is written at three exits in control_files.go and only
ensure was pinned. Turning stage's or listdir's decode exit into a
200-with-error left worker and nodes entirely green, and what that
converts is a frontend's malformed request into the worker's own verdict
about a file, which passes cluster.IsWorkerAnswer and reaches a reap
guard. The production code was already right; nothing held it there.

The e2e NATS JWT spec was asserting the opposite of the code and passing.
It published nodes.<id>.files.in and called it an allowed subject after
that grant was deleted, and it could not tell: a permission violation
does not close the connection, so FlushTimeout and IsConnected both stay
happy. It now reads LastError, the way its sibling always has, and
asserts the denial plus the one publish right a backend worker has left.

Also pinned, each mutation-verified alone: the CreateTemp branch (an
existing staging-tmp at 0500 reaches it without a seam), the walk's
context check (a caller that gave up must fail the listing, never be
answered with a short one), and the cache and data directory layout.

The data directory was derived twice, once in worker.go and once for the
listdir verb; worker.go now reads the same helper, so a move cannot leave
a verb listing files the file server does not serve. The per-verb RPC
ceiling moves from an argument at five call sites into fileRPCBudget,
so no site can name the wrong one, and the two values are asserted.

The body-cap table now holds both directions locally and with two
different claims: a body exactly at the cap proves the bound is a
ceiling and not an off-by-one, and an absolute megabyte proves the cap
stays above real gallery traffic. Only the second notices a cap shrunk
to 64 KiB.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-02 21:54:04 +00:00