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Problem

A user's host-service log showed git/readWorkspaceRefs timing out at its 15 s worker budget 170 times, plus 25 more at 30 s. That task runs local git only (config, rev-parse, remote get-url), and the budget starts at dispatch, so plain git was taking over 15 s on that machine. Every timeout still cost a worker slot for the full 15 s and left a git process behind, and the PR runtime kept scheduling the same workspace again on the next watcher event and the 5 min sweep. On a host already slow to exec, that is load stacked on the process carrying terminal I/O.

Change

  • WorkerTaskRunner tags a budget expiry: the rejection now carries code: WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT (isWorkerTaskTimeout exported). The message is unchanged.
  • PullRequestRuntimeManager.syncWorkspaceRow tracks consecutive timeouts per workspace. After two in a row the workspace sits out its branch sync for 5 min, doubling per further timeout up to 1 h. Any successful read clears the streak. Non-timeout git failures behave as before.
  • Logged once per cooldown: git is not answering for a workspace; pausing its branch sync for Nm.

Both the watcher path and the 5 min sweep go through syncWorkspaceRow, so both are covered.

Testing

  • New tests: two timeouts start the cooldown and later polls never reach git, the window doubles after the next timeout, a success clears it; a non-timeout failure never starts one. The cooldown test was checked to fail with the check disabled.
  • bun test src/runtime/pull-requests (63 pass), bun test src/workers (14 pass), bun run typecheck, biome clean.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UWyngsh3WSdEM6kmf1P8s5


Summary by cubic

Stops re-polling a workspace whose git reads keep timing out. Previously each timeout cost a worker slot for the full 15-second budget and the watcher plus 5-minute sweep kept rescheduling the same workspace; now after two consecutive timeouts the workspace pauses its branch sync for a window that doubles from 5 minutes up to an hour, and a successful read clears the streak.

Bug Fixes

  • Worker timeout rejections now carry code: WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT; isWorkerTaskTimeout identifies them.
  • Non-timeout git failures still behave as before.

Written for commit 0325868. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved pull request synchronization resilience when workspace branch reads repeatedly time out.
    • Automatically pauses affected synchronization briefly after repeated timeouts, with progressively longer cooldowns up to one hour.
    • Resumes normal synchronization after a successful read.
    • Non-timeout errors continue to be handled without triggering the cooldown behavior.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for timeout cooldowns, recovery, and non-timeout failures.

…ng out

One user's host-service log had the refs read (branch, HEAD, upstream: all
local git config and rev-parse) blow its 15s worker budget 170 times. On a
machine where every exec is slow, each retry costs a worker slot for 15s and
queues more git processes behind the ones already stuck, and the 5-minute
sweep plus every watcher event kept scheduling them.

The worker runner now tags a budget expiry with a stable code, and the PR
runtime uses it: after two consecutive timeouts a workspace sits out its
branch sync for a growing window (5 min doubling to 1 h). A successful read
clears the streak. Other git failures are untouched.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UWyngsh3WSdEM6kmf1P8s5
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Walkthrough

The change adds structured worker timeout errors and applies per-workspace exponential cooldowns to pull-request refs reads. Tests cover cooldown activation, extension, reset after success, and exclusion of non-timeout failures.

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Refs Read Timeout Cooldown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Structured worker timeout errors
packages/host-service/src/workers/WorkerTaskRunner.ts
Worker task timeouts now include WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT_CODE. The exported isWorkerTaskTimeout guard identifies these errors.
Workspace refs timeout cooldown
packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts
Workspace sync tracks consecutive refs-read timeouts. After two timeouts, refs reads enter a 5-minute cooldown that doubles up to one hour. Successful reads clear the state.
Cooldown behavior validation
packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.test.ts
Tests cover cooldown activation, 10-minute extension, successful-read reset, and continued reads after non-timeout failures.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 03258

A workspace can pause branch synchronization for five minutes after timeouts separated by an ordinary Git error, delaying pull-request branch updates. The fix is bounded but should be applied before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkerTaskRunner
  participant syncWorkspaceRow
  participant refsTimeouts
  participant git/readWorkspaceRefs
  WorkerTaskRunner-->>syncWorkspaceRow: Return structured timeout error
  syncWorkspaceRow->>refsTimeouts: Record workspace timeout
  refsTimeouts-->>syncWorkspaceRow: Apply cooldown
  syncWorkspaceRow-->>git/readWorkspaceRefs: Skip read during cooldown
  git/readWorkspaceRefs-->>syncWorkspaceRow: Return successful refs read
  syncWorkspaceRow->>refsTimeouts: Clear timeout state
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This PR adds a machine-readable worker timeout code and applies per-workspace exponential cooldowns after repeated Git refs-read timeouts.

  • Starts cooldown after two consecutive timeouts, doubling from five minutes to one hour.
  • Clears timeout state after a successful refs read.
  • Adds focused tests for cooldown growth, suppression, recovery, and non-timeout errors.
  • The inline worker fallback remains untagged, so cooldown protection does not operate in that supported execution mode.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR should not merge until inline refs-read timeouts participate in the cooldown; otherwise the fix stops working when the worker pool falls back to inline execution.

Normal worker timeouts correctly trigger the new backoff, but inline execution emits an uncoded timeout that the new predicate rejects, preserving repeated costly Git polling in a supported degraded-worker state. Deleted timed-out workspaces also leave stale map entries.

Files Needing Attention: packages/host-service/src/workers/WorkerTaskRunner.ts, packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts Adds per-workspace timeout streaks and exponential cooldowns, but stale entries are not removed with deleted workspaces.
packages/host-service/src/workers/WorkerTaskRunner.ts Tags worker-runner budget expiries and exports a classifier, but the classifier does not cover inline pool timeouts.
packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.test.ts Covers cooldown behavior through synthesized coded errors, but does not exercise the supported inline-timeout path that omits the code.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[Workspace watcher or periodic sweep] --> B[Serialized workspace sync]
  B --> C{Cooldown active?}
  C -- Yes --> D[Skip refs read]
  C -- No --> E[Read refs through host worker pool]
  E --> F{Execution path}
  F -- Worker --> G[Budget timeout carries timeout code]
  F -- Inline fallback --> H[Budget timeout lacks timeout code]
  G --> I[Increment streak and apply cooldown]
  H --> J[Classified as ordinary failure]
  J --> K[Next poll retries Git]
  E --> L[Successful read]
  L --> M[Clear timeout streak]
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### Issue 1
packages/host-service/src/workers/WorkerTaskRunner.ts:30-34
**Inline timeouts bypass cooldown**

When the host worker bundle is unavailable, the worker crash circuit opens, or a task retries after a worker crash, refs reads run inline. That path creates `WorkerTaskError` without `WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT_CODE`, so this predicate returns false and the cooldown never starts. The service therefore keeps scheduling the expensive Git reads that this change is intended to stop. Tag the inline timeout with the same code or otherwise recognize both timeout paths.

### Issue 2
packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts:252-255
**Deleted workspaces retain cooldown state**

A successful refs read is the only path that removes an entry from this new map. Workspace deletion events and missing-row handling leave the entry behind, so a long-lived host-service process accumulates stale cooldown records for timed-out workspaces that are later removed. Clear the timeout state when a workspace disappears or is deleted.

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Comment on lines +30 to +34
export function isWorkerTaskTimeout(error: unknown): boolean {
return (
error instanceof WorkerTaskError && error.code === WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT_CODE
);
}

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P1 Inline timeouts bypass cooldown

When the host worker bundle is unavailable, the worker crash circuit opens, or a task retries after a worker crash, refs reads run inline. That path creates WorkerTaskError without WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT_CODE, so this predicate returns false and the cooldown never starts. The service therefore keeps scheduling the expensive Git reads that this change is intended to stop. Tag the inline timeout with the same code or otherwise recognize both timeout paths.

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Path: packages/host-service/src/workers/WorkerTaskRunner.ts
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**Inline timeouts bypass cooldown**

When the host worker bundle is unavailable, the worker crash circuit opens, or a task retries after a worker crash, refs reads run inline. That path creates `WorkerTaskError` without `WORKER_TASK_TIMEOUT_CODE`, so this predicate returns false and the cooldown never starts. The service therefore keeps scheduling the expensive Git reads that this change is intended to stop. Tag the inline timeout with the same code or otherwise recognize both timeout paths.

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private readonly refsTimeouts = new Map<
string,
{ streak: number; skipUntil: number }
>();

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P2 Deleted workspaces retain cooldown state

A successful refs read is the only path that removes an entry from this new map. Workspace deletion events and missing-row handling leave the entry behind, so a long-lived host-service process accumulates stale cooldown records for timed-out workspaces that are later removed. Clear the timeout state when a workspace disappears or is deleted.

Knowledge Base Used: Local host service runtime

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Path: packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts
Line: 252-255

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**Deleted workspaces retain cooldown state**

A successful refs read is the only path that removes an entry from this new map. Workspace deletion events and missing-row handling leave the entry behind, so a long-lived host-service process accumulates stale cooldown records for timed-out workspaces that are later removed. Clear the timeout state when a workspace disappears or is deleted.

**Knowledge Base Used:** [Local host service runtime](https://app.greptile.com/personal-org-6810/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/superset-sh/superset/-/docs/host-service-runtime.md)

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In `@packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts`:
- Around line 757-759: Update the error-handling branch around
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Comment on lines +757 to +759
if (isWorkerTaskTimeout(error)) {
this.noteRefsReadTimeout(workspace.id, workspace.worktreePath);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reset the timeout streak after a non-timeout failure.

A timeout, then a plain Git error, then another timeout starts a cooldown. The plain error leaves the prior refsTimeouts entry intact, so the two timeouts are treated as consecutive.

Delete the entry when isWorkerTaskTimeout(error) is false. Add this three-attempt sequence to the cooldown test.

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 		} catch (error) {
 			if (isWorkerTaskTimeout(error)) {
 				this.noteRefsReadTimeout(workspace.id, workspace.worktreePath);
+			} else {
+				this.refsTimeouts.delete(workspace.id);
 			}
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if (isWorkerTaskTimeout(error)) {
this.noteRefsReadTimeout(workspace.id, workspace.worktreePath);
}
if (isWorkerTaskTimeout(error)) {
this.noteRefsReadTimeout(workspace.id, workspace.worktreePath);
} else {
this.refsTimeouts.delete(workspace.id);
}
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In `@packages/host-service/src/runtime/pull-requests/pull-requests.ts` around
lines 757 - 759, Update the error-handling branch around isWorkerTaskTimeout so
non-timeout failures delete the corresponding refsTimeouts entry, while timeout
failures continue calling noteRefsReadTimeout. Extend the cooldown test with
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