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feat(signals): skip scout suggestion scans on low-activity projects - #104535

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Problem

  • A project that ingested once and went quiet still gets a full sandbox and model session, and the scan ends with nothing to suggest. The agent is right to refuse; there was nothing to suggest a scout for.
  • The only eligibility gate on ingestion is Team.ingested_event, a lifetime flag. It removed the never-ingested projects and nothing else.
  • Those wasted scans take slots from projects that would get a usable batch: the US coordinator has run at its per-tick cap since tier 2 opened.
  • Sizing, thresholds, and the evidence behind them are in the issue.

Closes #104517

Origin

  • Scout: a custom scout
  • First signal: 2026-09-22
  • Inbox report: open
  • Task started by: auto-start, after the report was rated P2 and ready to fix

Changes

  • A dispatch-time activity check on the candidates the planner picks, not over the pool: one bounded ClickHouse read per picked candidate per tick, counting events and distinct active days over the project and its child environments together.
  • A project under either line is stamped with a new low_activity status instead of scanned. The planner then leaves it alone until its refresh window passes and re-checks it, so a project that picks up traffic is scanned one window later.
  • The stamp keeps any prior items, the same as failed, and leaves the failure breaker alone — a quiet project is not a broken one.
  • A skipped project emits $scout_suggestions_generated with status = skipped, skip_reason = low_activity, and the two measured numbers, so the saving reads off the same event completed runs use. Both emitters now go through one function.
  • The coordinator overselects the plan 2x, so a tick still fills when several candidates are skipped.

Defaults, all signals-scout-suggestions payload knobs, parsed with the same defensive clamping as the rest:

+ activity_window_days: 14
+ min_events_in_window: 100        # 0 disables the volume check
+ min_active_days_in_window: 3     # 0 disables the spread check

Deliberately unchanged:

Path Behavior
team_allowlist projects Scanned whatever the read says (dogfood, support)
Manual "Suggest a scout" refresh Untouched — the person asked for the scan
A read that fails or times out Dispatches anyway; the coordinator has already stamped the refresh window
A read that hits the row cap Counts as active — the numbers are then a floor that clears every threshold

Mechanical: plan_suggestion_runs takes a limit; the migration is choices-only and emits no SQL; the generated signals API types pick up the new enum member.

How did you test this code?

  • products/signals/backend/test/test_scout_suggestions.py, run locally, all green. Also ran posthog/temporal/tests/ai/test_module_integrity.py and hogli lint:tach.
  • New coverage and the regression each group catches:
    • TestTeamIsActiveEnough — a threshold read as strict/inclusive the wrong way, or a capped read treated as quiet, would skip an active project. Parameterized over both lines, the boundary, the capped read, and each knob at 0.
    • TestSelectTeamsToScan — a quiet project still being dispatched, an allowlisted project being skipped, a low_activity stamp clobbering prior items or bumping the breaker, a failed read costing a project its refresh window, and overselected candidates past the cap being read and stamped anyway.
    • TestReadTeamActivity (ClickHouse-backed) — the SQL scoping: events in a child environment must count, events in an unrelated team must not, and events outside the window must not. No existing test touches this query.
    • TestPlanSuggestionRuns — a low_activity row must wait the full refresh window, not the short stale one, or the check would re-read every tick; and limit must override the per-tick cap, which is what makes overselect work.
    • TestSuggestionSettings — the three new knobs parse and clamp.
  • Not done: no manual run against a live stack, so run_scout_suggestions --plan and the post-deploy read described in the issue are unverified.

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Docs update

Updated products/signals/backend/scout_harness/AGENTS.md and products/signals/backend/management/AGENTS.md in this PR. No user-facing docs change: the strip shows nothing either way.

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Agent: Claude Code, Opus 5

Skills invoked: /django-migrations, /writing-tests, /reviewing-with-coderabbit, /writing-pr-descriptions.

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Two decisions worth a reviewer's attention:

  • The issue asked for the ClickHouse read in its own Temporal activity. It sits inside the existing planning activity instead, whose start_to_close_timeout went from 2 to 5 minutes. A separate activity per candidate would add a round trip each and buys nothing here — the read is bounded and the planning activity already heartbeats. Say so if you want it split.
  • The new PlanSuggestionsOutput.skipped_team_ids field defaults to an empty list, so a plan recorded before this change still replays deterministically across the deploy; the workflow's only new branch reads that field.

Public artifact: no material outside this repository went into the diff, the tests, or this description. The fixtures are invented.


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Scout suggestion planning now over-selects candidates and applies dispatch-time activity checks. Configured thresholds use a bounded 1–90 day window. Low-activity projects receive the low_activity status while preserving prior suggestions and failure counters. Allowlisted projects, failed reads, and capped reads remain dispatchable. Coordinator and command outputs report skipped teams. Shared telemetry records generation outcomes. Tests cover configuration, selection, persistence, and activity aggregation.

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Rare overlapping scans can hide newer suggestions, retries can repeat activity-check work, and screen-reader users are not notified when a scan becomes low activity. Address these issues before relying on the new dispatch behavior broadly.

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products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py-532-543 (1)

532-543: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Tag the activity read with product and feature.

When no enclosing tag context supplies these values, sync_execute raises in local non-test debug mode. select_teams_to_scan catches the error and dispatches the run, so the activity filter is bypassed.

Use existing query-tagging enum values. Feature.SIGNALS_SCOUT_SUGGESTIONS is not declared.

🔧 Suggested fix
-from posthog.clickhouse.query_tagging import tag_queries
+from posthog.clickhouse.query_tagging import Feature, Product, tag_queries
...
-    tag_queries(trigger="signals_scout_suggestions_activity_check")
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+        trigger="signals_scout_suggestions_activity_check",
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trigger value; import these enum symbols from posthog.clickhouse.query_tagging
and do not use the undeclared Feature.SIGNALS_SCOUT_SUGGESTIONS.
products/signals/backend/temporal/agentic/scout_suggestions.py-149-151 (1)

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Prevent retries after low-activity side effects.

select_teams_to_scan writes LOW_ACTIVITY and emits $scout_suggestions_generated before the planning activity returns. If the worker fails or the activity times out after these operations, Temporal retries the activity and repeats the ClickHouse reads and skip events. The status update is repeatable, but the telemetry event is not.

Set maximum_attempts=1. The 30-minute coordinator schedule can re-plan the lost tick without replaying these side effects.

🔧 Suggested fix
             start_to_close_timeout=timedelta(minutes=5),
-            retry_policy=RetryPolicy(maximum_attempts=3),
+            # Do not replay the low-activity writes and telemetry. The next scheduled tick
+            # re-plans a lost attempt.
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149 - 151, Update the activity retry policy surrounding select_teams_to_scan to
set RetryPolicy(maximum_attempts=1), preventing retries from replaying its
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In `@products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py`:
- Around line 532-543: Update the tag_queries call before sync_execute in the
activity-check flow to provide Product.SIGNALS and Feature.ENRICHMENT, while
preserving the existing trigger value; import these enum symbols from
posthog.clickhouse.query_tagging and do not use the undeclared
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products/signals/frontend/inbox/components/config/scouts/ScoutSuggestionsStrip.tsx-130-133 (1)

130-133: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Announce the skipped-scan status.

When StripBody renders the low_activity message, no ancestor provides live-region semantics. Screen readers may not announce the newly inserted message. Add role="status" or aria-live="polite" to the status text.

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-                    <span>
+                    <span role="status">
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- Around line 130-133: Update the low_activity message rendered by StripBody to
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aria-live="polite" on the existing span so screen readers announce newly
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657-657: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the low-activity write against a newer scan.

select_teams_to_scan reads activity before _record_low_activity calls mark_low_activity. The row lock starts only inside mark_low_activity, which unconditionally sets LOW_ACTIVITY and last_completed_at. A concurrent scan can complete between these operations, so the stale decision can hide its newer result. Make the update conditional on the expected decision stamp, and emit skip telemetry only when the update succeeds.

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In `@products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py` at line 657, Update
the low-activity write flow around mark_low_activity and _record_low_activity to
conditionally update the row only when its decision stamp still matches the
value read by select_teams_to_scan. Preserve a newer scan’s result when the
stamp differs, and emit skip telemetry only after the conditional update
succeeds.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py`:
- Line 657: Update the low-activity write flow around mark_low_activity and
_record_low_activity to conditionally update the row only when its decision
stamp still matches the value read by select_teams_to_scan. Preserve a newer
scan’s result when the stamp differs, and emit skip telemetry only after the
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The scheduled suggestion producer gated only on `Team.ingested_event`, a
lifetime check, so a project that ingested once and went quiet still got a
full sandbox and model session and still ended with an empty batch.

Adds a dispatch-time activity check on the candidates the planner picks: one
bounded ClickHouse read per candidate over the project and its child
environments, counting events and distinct active days in a 14-day window.
A project under 100 events or under 3 active days is stamped with the new
`low_activity` status instead of scanned, and the planner leaves it alone
until its refresh window passes.

All three thresholds are `signals-scout-suggestions` payload knobs. Allowlisted
projects and the manual refresh endpoint keep their current behavior. The
coordinator overselects the plan so a tick still fills when candidates are
skipped, and a skipped project emits `$scout_suggestions_generated` with
`skip_reason = low_activity` plus the two measured numbers.

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A `low_activity` stamp runs no scan and resets no failure count, so a
project that tripped the breaker before it went quiet waited up to 16
refresh windows for its next activity check, and nothing that could
happen while it stayed quiet would shorten that.

The planner now ignores the failure count for scheduling while the row
holds that status, for both the backoff and the cooldown. The count
stays on the row and holds the next scan back as soon as one runs.

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A `low_activity` row keeps the prior batch, so the strip renders its
cards with no note saying the last scheduled scan was skipped. The
footer already explains the two sibling states, `stale` and `failed`.

Adds the third note and a Storybook story for the state, matching how
the siblings are covered.

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`max_rows_to_read` counts rows read while the query counts the rows that pass the
window filter, so `read_overflow_mode: break` could return a partial aggregate below
the cap. `capped` was derived from that filtered count, so a truncated read looked
like an exact one and a busy project could be stamped `low_activity`.

The read now uses `read_overflow_mode: throw`. A row-cap refusal maps to
`capped=True`, which the check already reads as active; any other failure keeps
propagating to the caller's dispatch-anyway path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The planning activity retries up to three times, and it emits the skip event
inline. A timeout or a lost completion re-picked the same project and captured a
second `$scout_suggestions_generated` with `status=skipped`, so the skip total
the feature is measured by read high.

The skip now carries a stable event id, keyed on the project and the refresh
stamp the decision was made against, which ingestion collapses. A completed run
needs none: its activity runs at most once.

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`sync_execute` adds no `max_execution_time`, and the pooled client's socket
timeout is effectively infinite in production, so the read had no time bound at
all. Temporal cannot reclaim the thread of a sync activity it has timed out, so
a stalled read held a worker thread while the next attempt started, and the
whole tick's planning failed.

The read now carries its own execution cap, well above a healthy read and well
below the planning activity's budget. A timed-out read raises, which the caller
already answers by dispatching the project rather than costing it a refresh
window. Both overflow modes throw, because a partial aggregate reads as a quiet
project.

This bounds the server side only. A half-open connection still needs a bounded
socket timeout, which means a dedicated pool rather than a query setting.

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A Temporal activity keeps `Workload.ONLINE`: the rewrite to the offline workload
covers API-key auth and Celery only, and nothing on the Temporal worker changes
the default. So every tick sent its per-candidate event reads to the interactive
cluster, serially, with a per-tick cap an operator can raise by flag.

The read now asks for the offline workload, like the other products' scheduled
Temporal reads. `readonly=True` is deliberately not paired with it: that branch
returns before the offline routing, so it would keep the online host and drop the
resolved credentials.

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The read carried only a `trigger` tag, and nothing can infer product or feature
for raw SQL, so `sync_execute` refused it wherever `DEBUG` is on. The refusal
landed on the caller's dispatch-anyway path, which meant the local
`run_scout_suggestions --plan` check held no project back and read as "no quiet
projects" rather than as a broken read. In production the same gap logged a
warning with a stack trace for every candidate read on every tick.

The read now names the product, the freshness feature the tag list documents for
"when did this project last receive data" probes, and its own query type.

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The Migration risk check has not finished for this commit, so stamphog cannot tell a safe migration from a risky one yet. The review runs again on the next push, or you can re-request it once the check reports.

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Comment on lines +3131 to +3132
# The project was too quiet in the activity window to be worth a scan, so none ran.
LOW_ACTIVITY = "low_activity", "Low activity"

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Update the desktop suggestion status contract

consider compatibility

Issue description

The API can now return low_activity, but products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts still defines ScoutSuggestionSet.status as "fresh" | "stale" | "failed" | "empty". scoutGet casts the response without validation, so TypeScript treats a valid server response as impossible. This can cause incorrect exhaustive handling in desktop consumers.

Why we think it's a valid issue
  • Checked: the server path that produces the status, the desktop type mirror, and every desktop reader of that field.
  • Found: low_activity is absent from _EXPIRING_STATUSES at products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py:936, so effective_status returns it unchanged at products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py:944-948, and the serializer at products/signals/backend/scout_suggestions_api.py:129 puts it on the wire. The premise holds: the handwritten union at products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts:685 still lists only four values, and scoutGet casts the body without validation at products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts:2486.
  • Found: no desktop code branches on the field. The only reader is the EMPTY_SET default at products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/scouts/hooks/useScoutSuggestions.ts:16, which sets "empty" and stays valid. ScoutsFleetView.tsx:186 reads suggestions?.items only. So there is no exhaustive switch to break today, and the desktop typecheck passes either way.
  • Found: the other two mirrors of this union did get the new member — products/signals/frontend/generated/api.schemas.ts:5711 and services/mcp/src/api/generated.ts:87362 — and the main frontend handles the value at products/signals/frontend/inbox/components/config/scouts/ScoutSuggestionsStrip.tsx:129. The desktop mirror is the one copy left behind.
  • Impact: the type now understates the server contract. Nothing misbehaves at run time and nothing fails to compile, so the cost is latent: the next desktop author who narrows on status gets a union that excludes a value the server sends. The fix is one union member plus the comment.
  • Priority: lowered to consider. The drift is real and one line to correct, but I confirmed zero affected consumers, so it does not meet the should_fix bar of a broken caller or a changed invariant other code relies on.
Suggested fix

Add "low_activity" to the desktop ScoutSuggestionSet.status union and update its comment. Then run the desktop typecheck.

Prompt to fix with AI (copy-paste)
## Context
@products/signals/backend/models.py#L3131-3132

<issue_description>
The API can now return `low_activity`, but `products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts` still defines `ScoutSuggestionSet.status` as `"fresh" | "stale" | "failed" | "empty"`. `scoutGet` casts the response without validation, so TypeScript treats a valid server response as impossible. This can cause incorrect exhaustive handling in desktop consumers.
</issue_description>

<issue_validation>
- **Checked:** the server path that produces the status, the desktop type mirror, and every desktop reader of that field.
- **Found:** `low_activity` is absent from `_EXPIRING_STATUSES` at `products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py:936`, so `effective_status` returns it unchanged at `products/signals/backend/scout_harness/suggestions.py:944-948`, and the serializer at `products/signals/backend/scout_suggestions_api.py:129` puts it on the wire. The premise holds: the handwritten union at `products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts:685` still lists only four values, and `scoutGet` casts the body without validation at `products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts:2486`.
- **Found:** no desktop code branches on the field. The only reader is the `EMPTY_SET` default at `products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/scouts/hooks/useScoutSuggestions.ts:16`, which sets `"empty"` and stays valid. `ScoutsFleetView.tsx:186` reads `suggestions?.items` only. So there is no exhaustive `switch` to break today, and the desktop typecheck passes either way.
- **Found:** the other two mirrors of this union did get the new member — `products/signals/frontend/generated/api.schemas.ts:5711` and `services/mcp/src/api/generated.ts:87362` — and the main frontend handles the value at `products/signals/frontend/inbox/components/config/scouts/ScoutSuggestionsStrip.tsx:129`. The desktop mirror is the one copy left behind.
- **Impact:** the type now understates the server contract. Nothing misbehaves at run time and nothing fails to compile, so the cost is latent: the next desktop author who narrows on `status` gets a union that excludes a value the server sends. The fix is one union member plus the comment.
- **Priority:** lowered to `consider`. The drift is real and one line to correct, but I confirmed zero affected consumers, so it does not meet the `should_fix` bar of a broken caller or a changed invariant other code relies on.
</issue_validation>

## Task
Investigate the issue and solve it

<potential_solution>
Add `"low_activity"` to the desktop `ScoutSuggestionSet.status` union and update its comment. Then run the desktop typecheck.
</potential_solution>

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