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Concurrent catalogue requests already used the shared adaptive limiter, but its WATCH transactions shared a Redis connection. Four concurrent requests could all pass admission while Redis counted only one. A successful response could also overwrite rate-limit learning recorded concurrently. This caused the limiter to undercount and underpace catalogue traffic; DOFEK-SERVER-82 captured the upstream 429.

Replace the connection-scoped transaction with one parameterized Lua compare-and-set, shared by every adaptive state writer. Conflicts reload current state. Existing pacing, scope keys, sync-step budget rules, and expiry remain unchanged; no dependencies, retry settings, or infrastructure changes. The server-side fix applies to requests from both clients.

Validation:

  • Real Redis: three regressions failed before the fix and pass afterward, covering provider/user admissions and concurrent success/429 learning.
  • 305 focused unit tests pass across adaptive state, HTTP handling, catalogue composition, and sync cooldown/failure handling.
  • Full pnpm lint and root/server/web TypeScript checks pass. SQL lint required starting the workspace ClickHouse fixture.
  • Independent static review found no critical or important issues.

Production deployment and catalogue refresh verification remain outstanding. No resilience knobs were added; this restores the existing policy and does not establish the upstream provider's quota.

Summary by Sourcery

Restore reliable concurrent adaptive throttling for catalogue requests by replacing connection-scoped Redis transactions with atomic compare-and-set state updates.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent concurrent adaptive rate-limit admissions from bypassing shared pacing and request counting.
  • Preserve rate-limit learning when success and throttling updates occur concurrently.

Enhancements:

  • Use Redis compare-and-set updates shared across adaptive admission, success, and rate-limit state writers while retaining existing pacing, scope, budget, and expiry behavior.

Documentation:

  • Document the concurrent adaptive throttling incident, its resolution, validation results, and remaining production verification risks.

Tests:

  • Add real-Redis regression coverage for concurrent provider and user admissions and concurrent rate-limit learning.
  • Update adaptive rate-limit unit tests for compare-and-set conflict handling.

Summary by cubic

Fixes concurrent catalogue requests bypassing adaptive rate-limit throttling because connection-scoped WATCH transactions undercounted admissions and could erase concurrently learned rate-limit state, which Sentry DOFEK-SERVER-82 captured as an upstream 429.

Replaces those transactions with one parameterized Lua compare-and-set shared by every adaptive state writer. Conflicts reload current state and retry. Existing pacing, scope keys, sync-step budget rules, and expiry are unchanged; no dependencies or infrastructure change, so the server-side fix applies to requests from both clients.

Validation

  • Three real-Redis regressions failed before the fix and pass after; they now also assert that conflict retries reload competing state and that each consecutive admission gap keeps existing pacing.
  • 305 focused unit tests plus full lint and TypeScript checks pass.
  • Merging current main conflicted only on incident-note entries in docs/production-incident-baseline.md; the source fix is unchanged.
  • Production deployment and catalogue refresh verification remain outstanding. No resilience knobs were added; this restores the existing policy and does not establish the upstream provider's quota.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Concurrent provider requests now preserve shared request counts and throttle state, helping keep request pacing consistent. Rate-limit updates are applied consistently when requests overlap.
  • Documentation
    • Added a production incident record covering reported symptoms, validation results, local setup prerequisites, and remaining operational risks, including outstanding production verification and uncertainty about the upstream quota.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for concurrent provider requests and overlapping rate-limit updates.

Replace connection-scoped WATCH transactions with atomic Redis compare-and-set for admission and learned state. Preserve pacing and cover concurrent admissions and success/429 updates against real Redis.

Refs DOFEK-SERVER-82
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Implementation

Replace connection-scoped Redis transactions with a Lua compare-and-set, and route admissions and all adaptive-state writers through conflict-safe updates while retaining the existing pacing and expiry behavior.

  • src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.ts L32-46, L263-287, L295-306 (+7 small edits)

Documentation

Record the incident evidence, fix and validation, plus the remaining production-verification and upstream-quota risks.

  • docs/production-incident-baseline.md L36226-36241

Tests

Update unit coverage for compare-and-set persistence and conflict retries, and add real-Redis regressions for concurrent admissions and success/rate-limit updates.

  • src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.integration.test.ts L1-100
  • src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.test.ts L66-79, L606-623, L742-747 (+20 small edits)

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Walkthrough

Redis adaptive rate-limit state updates now use Lua compare-and-set with retries after conflicts. Unit and Redis integration tests cover persistence, concurrent admissions, and concurrent updates. The incident baseline documents the reproduction, validation results, and remaining production and quota uncertainties.

Changes: Adaptive rate-limit concurrency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redis compare-and-set state updates
src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.ts
Redis state changes now use a Lua compare-and-set script with a four-window expiry and retries on conflicts. Admission, success, and rate-limit recording use the shared update path.
Compare-and-set validation
src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.test.ts, src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.integration.test.ts, docs/production-incident-baseline.md
Unit tests cover compare-and-set persistence and conflict retries. Redis integration tests check concurrent provider- and user-scoped admissions, TTL, and a concurrent rate-limit update and success. The incident baseline records the reproduction, validation results, and unresolved production and registry details.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: type/bug

Suggested reviewers: cubic-dev-ai

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 9e629

The previously identified documentation issues are fixed, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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  • Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Review comments at @docs/production-incident-baseline.md:
- Line 36027: Update the retrospective in the “Retrospective / next time”
section to remove the agent-skill dependency and instead provide human-readable
steps or a link to the testing guide; retain the guidance that concurrent
adaptive admissions must be tested against real Redis because transaction mocks
do not verify WATCH isolation.
- Line 36023: Update the Redis adaptive store link in the incident cause in
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646ae3ea8ca235d2668d9b3d617465c9348cd909, so readers can inspect the WATCH-based
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Review comments at @src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.test.ts:
- Around line 607-616: Update the conflict test and its
`createMockRedisAdaptiveStore` setup so the first compare-and-set conflict
writes a competing state with `requestCount` 5 into `values`. Assert that the
retry produces a final `requestCount` of 6 and that the second `eval` uses the
competing raw value as its expected-value argument, proving the retry reloads
current state.

Review comments at @src/lib/provider-adaptive-rate-limit.ts:
- Line 286: Update the `#updateState` retry loop to retry only when
`RedisClient.eval` returns the documented conflict reply `0`; preserve the
successful return for `1` and throw an error for any other reply so unexpected
values cannot cause endless retries.

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Trivial · Check spacing between consecutive admissions · provider-adaptive-rate-limit.integration.test.ts:33-57

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Check spacing between consecutive admissions

The span assertion can pass if several requests are admitted together and a later request is delayed. A concurrent pacing regression could therefore pass both scope tests. Check each consecutive admission gap, with appropriate timing tolerance.

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Update the concurrent admission test using admittedAt to sort admission
timestamps and assert each consecutive gap meets the expected pacing interval
with an appropriate timing tolerance. Keep the existing total-span assertion if
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@Asherlc Asherlc changed the title Fix concurrent requests bypassing adaptive throttling [server] Fix concurrent requests bypassing adaptive throttling Nov 10, 2026
Verify conflict retries reload a competing state and check each consecutive Redis admission gap. Pin incident evidence to the deployed revision and link the human testing guide.
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Review Summary: LGTM

The changes directly resolve DOFEK-SERVER-82 where concurrent admissions bypassed rate limiting due to connection-scoped WATCH transactions sharing a Redis client.

Key Highlights

  • Atomic Compare-and-Set Script: Replaced connection-scoped WATCH/MULTI/EXEC transactions with a single parameterized Lua script (COMPARE_AND_SET_ADAPTIVE_STATE). This eliminates race conditions and missed updates across concurrent requests sharing the same Redis connection.
  • Consistent Writer Coverage: Routed awaitAdmission, recordSuccess, and recordRateLimit through the unified #updateState CAS loop, preventing concurrent successful responses from clobbering learned rate-limit cooldowns, budgets, or quotas.
  • Verification & Documentation: Thorough test coverage added (including real Redis integration regressions for concurrent admissions and quota learning) along with comprehensive incident documentation in docs/production-incident-baseline.md following project standards.

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Addressed the actionable feedback in #3248 (review) and #3248 (review).

Fixed five items: pinned the historical cause citation, replaced the agent-skill instruction with human testing guidance, strengthened the competing-state reload test, checked every consecutive Redis admission gap (900/800/700ms schedule with 50ms tolerance), and added the [server] PR-title prefix.

The unexpected-EVAL-reply guard was declined with the configured-client and YAGNI evidence in its inline thread; the runtime implementation is unchanged.

Validation: 305 focused unit tests and all three real-Redis regressions pass; full lint and root/server/web typechecks pass. A deliberate stale-state mutation fails the strengthened reload test.

Commit: 9e629fc

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