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executus/run/critic_deadline_test.go
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fix(run): address gadfly review of the critic-deadline PR
All 11 findings were real (3 clusters):

- Failsafe ceiling could pre-empt the critic's backstop (e9c9483f, 9109317b,
  d5a9bf0d, 76ad171e): CriticAbsoluteMax was 6h, but the host's backstop
  (MaxRuntime × multiplier, or its own absolute max) can reach 6h+, so the
  ceiling fired first and reintroduced a premature hard cap. Now CriticAbsoluteMax
  is a 24h RUNAWAY guard set far beyond any realistic backstop (the host clamps
  its own backstop to a much smaller absolute max, e.g. mort's 6h convar), so it
  never pre-empts a healthy supervised run. Comments corrected.

- nil Monitor handle lost the MaxRuntime cap (df016a6f, 9dd42827): a critic-enabled
  run whose host Monitor returned no handle had no deadline-watch and was bounded
  only by the generous ceiling. Added an unsupervised-run failsafe that re-wraps
  runCtx to the nominal MaxRuntime when the critic is enabled but didn't arm.
  New test TestCriticOwnsDeadline_NilHandleFallsBackToMaxRuntime.

- CriticSoftTimeout vestigial / dead fallback (f7764919, 9805bebe, 6864086f,
  b2b11721): the soft trigger is now always the resolved MaxRuntime (> 0), so the
  CriticSoftTimeout field + its startCritic fallback were unreachable. Removed the
  field entirely; the remaining 90s floor is documented as defensive-only.

- DRY (f30ce827): extracted e.criticOwnsDeadline(ra), now the single predicate used
  by both Run and startCritic so they can't drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jo75sqmeVPgFUWZQBn179X
2026-06-30 11:32:46 -04:00

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package run_test
import (
"context"
"sync"
"testing"
"time"
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/majordomo/llm"
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/majordomo/provider/fake"
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/executus/run"
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/executus/tool"
)
// slowToolInvocation builds an Invocation whose session factory adds a "slow"
// tool that sleeps for d (respecting ctx). The model script calls it once, then
// answers — so the run's wall-clock is dominated by d, letting a test set a tiny
// MaxRuntime and observe whether MaxRuntime hard-cancels the run.
func slowToolInvocation(runID string, d time.Duration) tool.Invocation {
slow := llm.DefineTool("slow", "sleeps for a while",
func(ctx context.Context, _ struct{}) (any, error) {
select {
case <-time.After(d):
return "ok", nil
case <-ctx.Done():
return nil, ctx.Err()
}
})
return tool.Invocation{
RunID: runID,
SessionToolFactory: func(_ tool.AgentSession) tool.SessionTools {
return tool.SessionTools{Tools: []llm.Tool{slow}}
},
}
}
func slowModel() llm.Model {
fp := fake.New("fake")
fp.Enqueue("m",
fake.ReplyWith(llm.Response{ToolCalls: []llm.ToolCall{{ID: "c1", Name: "slow", Arguments: []byte(`{}`)}}}),
fake.Reply("done"),
)
m, _ := fp.Model("m")
return m
}
// TestNoCritic_MaxRuntimeIsHardCap: the legacy contract is preserved — without a
// critic, MaxRuntime is a literal WithTimeout that kills a run whose work outlasts
// it. The slow tool (200ms) outlasts MaxRuntime (20ms), so runCtx cancels mid-tool
// and the run ends in error (timeout).
func TestNoCritic_MaxRuntimeIsHardCap(t *testing.T) {
m := slowModel()
ex := run.New(run.Config{
Registry: tool.NewRegistry(),
Models: func(ctx context.Context, _ string) (context.Context, llm.Model, error) { return ctx, m, nil },
})
res := ex.Run(context.Background(),
run.RunnableAgent{Name: "x", ModelTier: "m", MaxIterations: 5, MaxRuntime: 20 * time.Millisecond},
slowToolInvocation("r", 200*time.Millisecond), "go")
if res.Err == nil {
t.Fatalf("non-critic run should hard-timeout at MaxRuntime; got output=%q err=nil", res.Output)
}
}
// TestCriticOwnsDeadline_SurvivesPastMaxRuntime: the fix — when the critic owns the
// deadline (Ports.Critic set + Critic.Enabled), MaxRuntime becomes the SOFT trigger
// and is NOT a hard cap. The fake critic exposes no hard deadline (Deadline()==zero,
// no kill), so the only hard ceiling is CriticAbsoluteMax (10s here). The slow tool
// (200ms) outlasts the tiny MaxRuntime (20ms) but the run completes — proving the
// old agentexec two-tier semantics are restored.
func TestCriticOwnsDeadline_SurvivesPastMaxRuntime(t *testing.T) {
m := slowModel()
h := &fakeCriticHandle{} // Deadline()==zero → no hard deadline, no kill
ex := run.New(run.Config{
Registry: tool.NewRegistry(),
Models: func(ctx context.Context, _ string) (context.Context, llm.Model, error) { return ctx, m, nil },
Ports: run.Ports{Critic: &fakeCritic{h: h}},
Defaults: run.Defaults{CriticAbsoluteMax: 10 * time.Second},
})
res := ex.Run(context.Background(),
run.RunnableAgent{Name: "watched", ModelTier: "m", MaxIterations: 5, MaxRuntime: 20 * time.Millisecond,
Critic: run.CriticConfig{Enabled: true}},
slowToolInvocation("r", 200*time.Millisecond), "go")
if res.Err != nil {
t.Fatalf("critic-owned run must survive past MaxRuntime (soft trigger); got err=%v", res.Err)
}
if res.Output != "done" {
t.Errorf("output = %q, want %q", res.Output, "done")
}
}
// capturingCritic records the soft trigger the executor passes to Monitor.
type capturingCritic struct {
mu sync.Mutex
soft time.Duration
h run.CriticHandle
}
func (c *capturingCritic) Monitor(_ context.Context, _ run.RunInfo, soft time.Duration) run.CriticHandle {
c.mu.Lock()
c.soft = soft
c.mu.Unlock()
return c.h
}
// TestCriticSoftTriggerIsMaxRuntime: the soft trigger handed to the host critic is
// the run's resolved MaxRuntime (mort's two-tier model — the critic first wakes once
// the run exceeds its nominal budget), not some global/default value.
func TestCriticSoftTriggerIsMaxRuntime(t *testing.T) {
fp := fake.New("fake")
fp.Enqueue("m", fake.Reply("done"))
m, _ := fp.Model("m")
cc := &capturingCritic{h: &fakeCriticHandle{}}
ex := run.New(run.Config{
Registry: tool.NewRegistry(),
Models: func(ctx context.Context, _ string) (context.Context, llm.Model, error) { return ctx, m, nil },
Ports: run.Ports{Critic: cc},
})
const wantSoft = 7 * time.Minute
ex.Run(context.Background(),
run.RunnableAgent{Name: "x", ModelTier: "m", MaxRuntime: wantSoft, Critic: run.CriticConfig{Enabled: true}},
tool.Invocation{RunID: "r"}, "go")
cc.mu.Lock()
got := cc.soft
cc.mu.Unlock()
if got != wantSoft {
t.Errorf("soft trigger = %v, want the agent's MaxRuntime %v", got, wantSoft)
}
}
// TestCriticOwnsDeadline_NilHandleFallsBackToMaxRuntime: the agent enables the
// critic but the host Monitor returns NO handle (nil) — there is no deadline-watch,
// so the run is unsupervised. It must fall back to the nominal MaxRuntime hard cap
// (the slow 200ms tool outlasts the 20ms MaxRuntime → the run errors), NOT run free
// up to the generous CriticAbsoluteMax runaway ceiling.
func TestCriticOwnsDeadline_NilHandleFallsBackToMaxRuntime(t *testing.T) {
m := slowModel()
cc := &capturingCritic{} // h is the nil interface → Monitor returns a nil handle
ex := run.New(run.Config{
Registry: tool.NewRegistry(),
Models: func(ctx context.Context, _ string) (context.Context, llm.Model, error) { return ctx, m, nil },
Ports: run.Ports{Critic: cc},
Defaults: run.Defaults{CriticAbsoluteMax: time.Hour}, // generous ceiling; must NOT be what bounds the run
})
res := ex.Run(context.Background(),
run.RunnableAgent{Name: "x", ModelTier: "m", MaxIterations: 5, MaxRuntime: 20 * time.Millisecond,
Critic: run.CriticConfig{Enabled: true}},
slowToolInvocation("r", 200*time.Millisecond), "go")
if res.Err == nil {
t.Fatalf("critic-enabled run with a nil Monitor handle must fall back to the MaxRuntime hard cap; got output=%q err=nil", res.Output)
}
}