Reviewer and merger PR leases minted a fixed 120-minute expiry (#407 AC6/AC7)
and derived staleness from two further activity bands: stale at 30 minutes,
reclaimable at 60. A session that died — daemon crash, transport flap, client
restart — therefore kept a PR blocked for an hour before anyone could reclaim
it, and two hours before manual cleanup was sanctioned. #718 records the
resulting deadlock: a merge stalled behind a reviewer lease that had stopped
being live long before it stopped being authoritative.
The flaw was using a long fixed expiry as a proxy for "the owner is probably
still alive" instead of making the owner continuously prove liveness.
Sliding window
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`LEASE_TTL_MINUTES = 10` now governs acquisition, and every write of the lease
marker re-derives `expires_at` from the moment of the write, so each heartbeat
slides the window forward. An actively heartbeating session is never evicted
and has no maximum lifetime; a dead one releases its hold within one TTL.
`LEASE_RENEWAL_MINUTES` is named separately from the acquisition TTL. Renewal
previously had no seam at all: the heartbeat slid the expiry only as a side
effect of re-defaulting the acquisition constant, so the two durations could
not be reasoned about or tuned independently. `format_lease_body` now takes an
explicit `ttl_minutes`, and the heartbeat passes the renewal window rather than
relying on that default.
Merger leases acquire through the same lease-body formatter, so they inherit
the identical window by construction rather than by a parallel constant.
Removal of the reclaim tier
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`classify_lease_freshness` no longer returns `reclaimable`. Beyond being an
extra waiting tier, that band is unreachable under a sliding TTL: a heartbeat
stamps `last_activity` and `expires_at` together, so a lease idle for a full
TTL is necessarily already expired. Expiry is now the only takeover gate.
No reclaim path is lost. `find_active_reviewer_lease` already ignores expired
markers, so an expired foreign lease never gated acquisition; and the
`foreign_expired` classification carries the same
`NEXT_ACTION_RELEASE_EXPIRED_LEASE` the retired `foreign_reclaimable` did. The
two updated tests in `test_reviewer_pr_lease.py` assert exactly that: the
classification label changes, the sanctioned next action does not.
`STALE_WARNING_MINUTES` drops to 5 — half the window — so the warning still
fires while the owner can heartbeat and recover.
Diagnostics
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Adds `lease_seconds_remaining`, and the heartbeat tool now returns
`ttl_minutes`, `expires_at`, and `seconds_remaining`, so an operator can
distinguish "held and live" from "held and dying" instead of only seeing that
a lease exists. All additions are additive; no existing key changed.
Also removes `pr_work_lease.DEFAULT_REVIEWER_LEASE_TTL_MINUTES`, a duplicate of
the reviewer TTL with no readers anywhere in the tree, which could only drift.
Legacy markers minted under the old 120-minute TTL still parse and are judged
against their own recorded `expires_at`, so no lease is retroactively expired
by this change.
Full suite: 3425 passed, 6 skipped, 2 failed. Both failures
(`test_issue_702_review_findings_f1_f6`, `test_reconciler_supersession_close`)
reproduce identically on clean master b05075fd25 and are pre-existing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QxXHZ7rqXtLgTusngaWgKZ
sysadminandClaude Opus 4.8
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