run_all previously sized its pool from the ready snapshot at round start (min(capacity, ready_count)). If a round started with only 1 ready task (e.g. a just-claimed PM), only 1 thread ran; that thread entered a marker wait (up to 3600s) after its model turn, and children created/retried mid-round had no free thread to claim them. run_loop is blocked joining that round, so no new round starts; if the other worker had already scaled down, the queued child waited out the full wait timeout unclaimed. Fix: always start capacity threads. Idle threads exit immediately when no task is ready and nothing is active, and poll every 0.2s while something is active, so mid-round arrivals are claimed. Test: run_all with capacity=2, 1 initial task whose mocked run_one creates a child then polls for it; without the fix the PM poll times out in 5s (1 result), with the fix both tasks dispatch in the same round (0.2s).
Marker waits run after _run_attempt has cleared _running, so the run_loop heartbeat thread no longer refreshes the waiting parent. sweep_stale_tasks (default 300s) then kills a parent waiting up to the 3600s marker timeout, as seen in the marker live test (PM2 swept mid wait-threads). Poll and wait loops now heartbeat the parent each iteration (interval clamped to <=60s, well under the 300s threshold), best-effort, without touching _running, so no new capacity leak and cancel still works (empty _running entry has no proc/container to kill). Tests: 2 new sweep-survival tests (stale heartbeat at -299s, 2s wait, sweep must spare the parent); both fail 2/2 on pre-fix code and pass with the fix.
Host can now fetch code directly from GitHub instead of receiving a VM-built tarball, bypassing the VM->host scp/kex failures and stale-tar risk. Design: VM sends only two small scripts (host_git_fetch.sh + host_deploy.sh, sha-verified via the existing transfer chain, now with a chunk_key fallback that does not need SSH_PASSWORD); host clones via a read-only deploy key (SSH only, HTTPS refused, key must exist with mode 0600), checks out the exact 40-char commit, verifies HEAD, builds a tar in the same format as the VM release (DEPLOYED_COMMIT + RELEASE.json, member names without ./ prefix so host_deploy.sh tar -O works), then calls the unchanged host_deploy.sh for staging swap, backup, health and rollback. Git fetch tolerates the known intermittent host->GitHub degradation: 120s timeout, 3 attempts, 10s sleep, live untouched until host_deploy runs. VM gates: clean tree, tests, commit must be on origin/main, SSH repo only, full sha only; --source tar remains the default. Tests: deploy suite OK, including 6 new host_git_fetch simulations (success with clean tar members, unknown commit, key permissions/missing, HTTPS refusal, short sha) and 4 new deploy.py git-mode helpers plus chunk_key fallback; git-mode dry-run verified against HEAD 630d14f.
Coordinator tasks bypass _run_attempt, so their _claim placeholder in _running was never cleared: each completed coordinator permanently reduced the worker process effective capacity until it could claim nothing, while heartbeat stayed fresh and the capacity gate returned silently. This caused the 2026-10-28 40-person stall (autoscale-1 had one leaked slot, then claimed coordinator A and filled up) and the old 18-person C-6 never-claim (autoscale-1 leaked both A and B). Fix: wrap the run_one coordinator branch in try/finally _running_clear, so normal and exception paths both release. Also log capacity-gate refusals (worker_claim_refused_capacity) throttled to once per 30s; throttling applies to the log only, refusal always returns False. Tests: coordinator completion releases slot, next claim succeeds, capacity-log throttle; both leak tests fail on pre-fix code.
Two veto layers in reconcile(), worker.py untouched:
- Global live-coordinator veto: a running task whose
coordinator_parts parse (via cloud.coordinator.parse_parts)
to a non-empty list and whose last_heartbeat is within
120s blocks all scale-down this round; low_streak is
frozen, not reset, so scale-down resumes on the next
low-depth round once the veto lifts.
- Per-victim busy veto: a LIFO victim whose workers row
is alive with running>0 is skipped, but only when the
DB also has a live running task (ghost registry rows
with no live DB task do not block).
- Coordinator-veto query failure fails closed (no stop,
guard error recorded); victim-veto read failure fails
open for that layer only.
- A missing/stale workers row is treated as idle.
Tests: 7 new ScaleDownGuardTestCase cases (live/stale
coordinator, non-coordinator, invalid parts, busy/idle
victims, ghost registry, streak freeze); cloud suite
1077 tests OK (4 skipped).
Postgres 翻译层对未登记主键的表把 INSERT OR REPLACE 退化为
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING，致使 memory_settings、task_memory_flags、
memory_extraction_log 首写之后的所有更新静默丢弃（2026-10-28
生产实测：提取日志永远停在首写原因）。补三张表主键登记，并
在翻译层加回归测试（SQLite 原生 OR REPLACE 测不出来）。
Docker tasks do not inherit the worker process environment, they only
get extra_env (-e). SEARXNG_URL in the worker unit EnvironmentFile
therefore never reached codex -> MCP inside the container, so the
auto chain skipped SearXNG and only DuckDuckGo was tried (live e2e:
'all search providers failed: duckduckgo (DNS)').
_docker_task_context now merges any set SEARXNG_URL /
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY / EXA_API_KEY / TAVILY_API_KEY / BRAVE_API_KEY
from the worker environment into extra_env (values never logged;
paid keys follow the same extra_env path as gateway keys).
Tests: 2 new docker-env tests; websearch + tenant isolation = 25
passing; full cloud suite 1038 passing (4 skipped).
Worker --websearch-mcp (default off) seeds tenant codex-home with
websearch MCP on _tenant_dirs (container path); old tenants merge
on next task. Autoscaler unit gains the flag. Tinyproxy filter
adds Perplexity/Exa/Tavily/Brave/DuckDuckGo + exact
searx.diante.me (no diante.me wildcard, control plane stays out).
Tests: test_websearch_worker 4 + websearch_mcp 12 + tenant 7 = 23 OK.
Not pushed, not merged, not deployed; SearXNG host/DNS/nginx and
tinyproxy reload are host steps.
web_search auto chain Perplexity/Exa/Tavily/Brave/SearXNG/DuckDuckGo
with pinned-provider no-fallback, web_fetch with head+tail truncation,
codex-home seeding helper (idempotent, never writes keys).
Tests: cloud/tests/test_websearch_mcp.py 12/12 (mocked HTTP).
Not wired into worker, not deployed, paid backends not live-tested.
host