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A hosted task invocation must remain running after worker registration and readiness. This adds an opt-in persistent task.run provider that launches only after a fenced durable acceptance, stores final callback output before sending it, and returns callback success only after the matching engine terminal receipt is stored locally.

Depends on AgentWorkforce/relaycast#436 (wire contract reviewed at c80202f2dfe7a15a6cef5b81f2452b1d7acd6add). Refs #1766. This is dependency 2 in the engine → broker → Flows adapter sequence; AgentWorkforce/flows#397 follows against this contract. No unpublished registry dependency is assumed or added.

  • Persist invocation, execution attempt, worker generation, pre-launch claim, final outbox, and terminal receipt. Replays reconcile the original attempt; an uncertain previously claimed launch fails instead of launching another worker.
  • Route correlated acceptance/result replies to the broker runtime. Retry lost acknowledgments, preserve deadlines and explicit worker failure, fence stale callbacks, and return retryable HTTP 503 while a durable receipt is unavailable.
  • Preserve JSON accounting numbers across the wire and accept canonical JavaScript numeric receipts. Reject changed final output/accounting and stale generations.
  • Keep existing short spawn readiness and ordinary local result callback behavior. The new capability is disabled by default and requires AGENT_RELAY_TASK_PROVIDER=1 with persistent hosted mode.

Validation on macOS arm64 with Rust/Cargo 1.94.0:

  • Full cargo test: 1,401 passed, 0 failed, 5 existing ignored; exit 0.
  • Full cargo test --release: 1,401 passed, 0 failed, 5 existing ignored; exit 0.
  • Strict fleet wire round-trip/fence tests: 2 passed, including all existing short-action fixtures. Three added fixtures also passed the schemas from locally packed Relaycast YAML Based Broker SDK workflows #436 types; this uses that exact source revision, not a newly published registry package.
  • Full cargo clippy -- -D warnings and cargo fmt -- --check: exit 0.

Tests ran with telemetry disabled and inherited host GIT_CONFIG_* / RELAY_ATTEST_* variables removed only from the test subprocess. The first unisolated run failed five unchanged Git-hook fixtures because those host settings injected an unrelated hook/session; fixtures retain their own hook setup and no tests were skipped to pass. The five existing ignores are two external harness executable tests, two pre-existing Relaycast API fixture tests, and one PTY doctest. Linux, Windows, and cross-target CI remain for the PR checks.

Rollout requires deploying the Relaycast task engine first, then a broker containing this change with the provider explicitly enabled, then the Flows adapter. Only one global task.run provider is enabled per workspace. Disconnected providers cannot immediately observe deadline expiry, and an unknown worker process is never claimed to have stopped. No merge, deployment, package publication, or preview completion proof is included in this PR. See specs/durable-task-provider.md for callback retry and storage recovery behavior.

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10 automated findings (Cursor Bugbot + CodeRabbit) landed across this branch's review history; all are now addressed (replied inline per finding):

  • 6 were already fixed by earlier commits in this branch before merge conflict resolution — verified by re-reading current code against each finding's claim, not just trusting the bot.
  • 2 were still genuinely open after this branch merged main and I resolved conflicts, both in task lifecycle handling, fixed in dda7a8a7f with regression tests that fail without the fix:
    • Deadline path leaves worker running: fail_task only persisted final_result and re-sent Accept; it never stopped the worker generation. Once final_result is set, maintain_tasks's expired-claimed sweep permanently excludes that record, so a worker could run until an unrelated failed receipt arrived, or forever if the broker disconnected first. fail_task now stops the generation itself.
    • Rejected tasks never leave the ledger: terminal_record_expired required receipt.is_some(), but reject() only ever sets rejection — a rejected invocation could never be compacted, so the ledger grew unbounded. Now checks receipt.is_some() || rejection.is_some().

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  • Change type: feature
  • RelayFlow case: 1766-durable-task-receipt

The external case launches the supplied exact base/head broker against a loopback engine wire fixture. Base returns handler_unavailable for task.run; head waits for acceptance, emits a fenced explicit failure, and reconciles its terminal receipt after SIGKILL and a lost final acknowledgment. The case deliberately omits the CLI to trigger a real provider failure without a model launch. Both local arm runners and the repository manifest/observation validators passed. CI must still attest and execute the Linux broker artifacts in the Cloud proof environment; this does not claim a deployed engine or successful LLM output proof.


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Introduces durable task execution, fleet wire contract changes, and callback acknowledgment tied to engine receipts—core orchestration and duplicate-launch prevention paths that depend on persistent state and Relaycast engine behavior.

Overview
Adds an opt-in durable task.run provider (env AGENT_RELAY_TASK_PROVIDER=1, persistent hosted broker only) that advertises a global task capability and runs invocations through acceptance, fenced worker generations, and engine receipts instead of treating spawn readiness as completion.

Wire and protocol: Fleet wire gains action.accept, optional task_execution on invokes, and task-scoped fields on action.result (final, execution_id, worker_generation, accounting). Node registration marks task.run with execution_mode: "task". Correlated task_receipt_* replies/errors are routed to the runtime instead of agent-registration waiters.

Durability and lifecycle: A new TaskStore ledger persists invocations, launch claims, final callback outbox, and terminal receipts with atomic writes and pruning after deadline + 24h grace. The runtime sends accept/result frames, launches workers only after a durable running receipt, binds callback tokens to generations, retries lost ACKs via maintenance, and maps /api/agent-result to 503 retryable or 409 conflict when receipts are pending or outcomes disagree.

Workers: Spawns can use a preclaimed UUID generation and stop_task_generation tears down task workers without ordinary supervisor restart.

Existing short spawn actions and non-task result callbacks are unchanged when the provider is off. Spec and a RelayFlow case document rollout and prove fenced failure survives broker restart.

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This change adds an opt-in persistent broker task provider. It adds task wire contracts, durable storage, generation fencing, callback reconciliation, retry handling, and restart-focused tests.

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Durable task provider

Layer / File(s) Summary
Task wire contracts and routing
crates/broker/src/fleet_wire.rs, crates/broker/src/node_control.rs, crates/broker/tests/fixtures/fleet-wire/*, crates/broker/tests/fleet_wire_fixtures.rs
Adds task execution metadata, action.accept, task result fields, capability metadata, wire validation, and task receipt routing.
Durable task ledger and fencing
crates/broker/src/runtime/task_store.rs
Adds atomic ledger persistence, invocation and receipt validation, launch claims, generation fencing, idempotent results, and terminal-record compaction.
Runtime task orchestration and worker generations
crates/broker/src/runtime/{init.rs,event_loop.rs,fleet.rs,mod.rs,maintenance.rs,relaycast_events.rs}, crates/broker/src/worker.rs
Enables the provider in persistent hosted mode, wires task events into the runtime, launches workers with preclaimed generations, and stops terminal generations.
Invocation, callback, and receipt reconciliation
crates/broker/src/runtime/{api.rs,tasks.rs}, crates/broker/src/listen_api.rs
Routes task requests and callbacks, stores terminal results, reconciles callbacks with receipts, returns retryable or conflict responses, and retries unfinished tasks.
Behavioral validation and specification
crates/broker/src/runtime/tests.rs, tests/relayflows/cases/1766-durable-task-receipt/*, specs/durable-task-provider.md, CHANGELOG.md
Adds coverage for restart, duplicate delivery, worker failures, receipt loss, persistence failures, deadline handling, numeric reconciliation, and WebSocket frame parsing. Documents the provider and changelog entry.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant BrokerRuntime
  participant TaskStore
  participant Relaycast
  participant WorkerRegistry
  Agent->>BrokerRuntime: SubmitAgentResult callback
  BrokerRuntime->>TaskStore: queue_final result
  BrokerRuntime->>Relaycast: action.result request
  Relaycast-->>BrokerRuntime: action.accept and final receipt
  BrokerRuntime->>TaskStore: finish receipt
  BrokerRuntime-->>Agent: callback acknowledgement
  BrokerRuntime->>WorkerRegistry: stop_task_generation on terminal failure
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Malformed durable state can be deleted or block recovery, while a launched task can continue beyond its deadline. These issues should be fixed before enabling the provider.

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🟠 Major · Finalize expired records after a running receipt. · crates/broker/src/runtime/tasks.rs:187-188

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Finalize expired records after a running receipt.

A terminal receipt is persisted before this branch. However, a validated running receipt for an expired record leaves receipt and rejection unset. maintain_tasks can then resend ActionAccept, and callbacks can time out as retryable. Compaction cannot remove the record because TaskStore::compact requires a receipt.

Queue the final failure through fail_task. TaskStore::finish will persist the subsequent terminal receipt.

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         if record.expired() {
+            self.fail_task(&request.invocation, "task_expired").await;
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…ted task records

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- "Deadline path leaves worker running": handle_task_reply's deadline
  branch called fail_task, which only persisted a final_result and
  re-sent Accept -- it never stopped the worker generation. Once
  final_result is set, maintain_tasks's expired-claimed sweep (which
  filters on final_result.is_none()) permanently excludes that record,
  so the worker kept running until an independent failed receipt
  arrived from the engine, or forever if the broker disconnected
  first. fail_task now stops the generation itself using the record
  queue_final already returns; stop_task_generation is a no-op if the
  worker was never spawned or already stopped, so this is safe for
  every fail_task call site (pre-launch validation failures included).

- "Rejected tasks never leave the ledger": terminal_record_expired
  required receipt.is_some(), but reject() only ever sets rejection,
  never receipt, so a rejected invocation (stale_task_execution,
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  check and compact() never removed it -- unbounded ledger growth.
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