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Summary

  • Serialize complete Alfred observation refreshes so periodic and forced
    passes cannot interleave snapshot publication, gauge resets, or scoring.
  • Force a fresh snapshot before each node-condition supplemental decision and
    skip evaluation when refresh is unavailable or fails.
  • Keep supplemental passes independent of the regular decision cadence.
  • Fold coincident early/regular signals even when the regular deadline becomes
    ready while an early refresh is in flight, preventing stale fallback after a
    failed refresh.
  • Cover cadence, collision, failure, and serialization behavior with
    deterministic tests and update OEP-0008's node-condition early-pass status.

Scope

This PR is stacked on #827 and is groundwork for Node-Health Policy #2.

It does not add evacuation candidates, remediation signals, capability
machinery, a Dispatcher, migration writes, a new migration package, or
workload-package changes.

Verification

go test ./pkg/alfred/... ./cmd/alfred/... -count=1
go test -race ./pkg/alfred/engine ./pkg/alfred/observer -count=1
go vet ./pkg/alfred/... ./cmd/alfred/...
go test ./pkg/alfred/engine -run '^TestStartElapsedDeadlineDuringFailedEarlyRefreshSkipsStaleDecision$' -count=100
go test -race ./pkg/alfred/engine -run '^TestStartCoincidentRegularAndEarlyTickRefreshesOnce$' -count=1000
go test ./pkg/alfred/observer -run '^TestRefreshHoldsSerializationLockDuringBuildAndPublication$' -count=100
pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added supplemental decision passes triggered by configured events without changing the regular decision schedule.
    • Supplemental passes now refresh snapshots before evaluation to ensure decisions use current data.
    • Regular intervals are reloaded after scheduled passes, preserving updated timing.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented scheduled and event-triggered refreshes from running concurrently.
    • Failed or unsupported refreshes now skip evaluation instead of producing decisions from stale data.
    • Combined simultaneous triggers into a single refresh and decision pass.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration and implementation guidance to describe supplemental passes and current readiness considerations.

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Alfred now runs supplemental decision passes after configured events. Each pass refreshes the snapshot before evaluation. Regular decision timing remains unchanged, and concurrent snapshot refreshes are serialized.

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Alfred decision refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Decision loop refresh and scheduling
pkg/alfred/engine/*
The decision loop uses one reusable, injectable timer. Early signals trigger refresh-before-evaluation passes without moving the regular deadline. Coincident signals are coalesced. Refresh failures and sources without refresh support skip evaluation and reporting. Tests cover refresh ordering, timer behavior, cadence preservation, failure handling, and coincident signals.
Serialized observer refresh
pkg/alfred/observer/*
The observer loop adds Refresh, routes initial and periodic passes through it, preserves RunOnce, and serializes snapshot building and publication with a mutex.
Supplemental pass contracts and documentation
pkg/alfred/config/config.go, pkg/alfred/engine/earlytick.go, oeps/0008-alfred-gpu-cluster-caretaker/README.md
Configuration and documentation describe supplemental passes, preserved regular cadence, and serialized refresh behavior. The implementation history records current gaps.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2f012

The change refreshes and serializes Alfred decision passes while preserving regular cadence. Merge risk is low, with remaining concerns limited to potentially hanging or flaky tests and an inaccurate implementation-history date.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EarlyTicker
  participant DecisionLoop
  participant ObserverLoop
  participant Policy
  EarlyTicker->>DecisionLoop: request supplemental pass
  DecisionLoop->>ObserverLoop: Refresh snapshot
  ObserverLoop-->>DecisionLoop: return refreshed snapshot
  DecisionLoop->>Policy: evaluate decision
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pkg/alfred/engine/loop_test.go (1)

427-427: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Raise the polling deadlines to reduce CI flakiness.

Both helpers give the loop goroutine one second. The pre-existing waitFor helper in TestStartEarlyTickRunsSupplementalPass uses five seconds. Under -race on a loaded runner, one second can expire before the loop goroutine is scheduled, which fails the test without a code defect.

♻️ Proposed change
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(time.Second)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
 	for atomic.LoadInt64(&p.calls) < want {
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(time.Second)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
 	for !fakeClock.HasWaiters() {

Also applies to: 438-438

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In `@pkg/alfred/engine/loop_test.go` at line 427, Increase the polling deadlines
in both affected test helpers from one second to five seconds, matching the
existing waitFor usage in TestStartEarlyTickRunsSupplementalPass. Keep the loop
behavior and assertions unchanged.
pkg/alfred/engine/loop.go (1)

123-123: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use a sentinel error for the unsupported-refresh case.

fmt.Errorf with a constant string has no formatting arguments. A package-level sentinel also lets callers and tests distinguish "no refresh support" from a failed refresh with errors.Is.

♻️ Proposed refactor
+// errRefreshUnsupported reports a snapshot source that cannot refresh.
+var errRefreshUnsupported = errors.New("snapshot source does not support refresh")
+
 func (l *DecisionLoop) runFreshDecision(ctx context.Context) error {
 	refresher, ok := l.Snapshots.(snapshotRefresher)
 	if !ok {
-		return fmt.Errorf("snapshot source does not support refresh")
+		return errRefreshUnsupported
 	}

Add the errors import with this change.

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In `@pkg/alfred/engine/loop.go` at line 123, Define a package-level sentinel error
for the unsupported-refresh condition in the code containing the refresh logic,
import errors, and return that sentinel instead of constructing a
constant-string error in the refresh support check. Preserve the existing
message and ensure callers can distinguish this case with errors.Is.

Source: Coding guidelines

pkg/alfred/observer/loop_test.go (1)

226-226: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the entered notification non-blocking. snapshot.Build currently performs one NodeList call per Refresh pass. If a later change adds pagination or another node query, the two-entry channel can fill and block the build before it returns. Use a non-blocking send so maxActive remains the concurrency assertion.

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In `@pkg/alfred/observer/loop_test.go` at line 226, Update the entered
notification in the relevant test around the entered channel to use a
non-blocking send, so additional NodeList calls cannot block snapshot.Build;
preserve maxActive as the concurrency assertion.
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In `@pkg/alfred/engine/loop_test.go`:
- Line 427: Increase the polling deadlines in both affected test helpers from
one second to five seconds, matching the existing waitFor usage in
TestStartEarlyTickRunsSupplementalPass. Keep the loop behavior and assertions
unchanged.

In `@pkg/alfred/engine/loop.go`:
- Line 123: Define a package-level sentinel error for the unsupported-refresh
condition in the code containing the refresh logic, import errors, and return
that sentinel instead of constructing a constant-string error in the refresh
support check. Preserve the existing message and ensure callers can distinguish
this case with errors.Is.

In `@pkg/alfred/observer/loop_test.go`:
- Line 226: Update the entered notification in the relevant test around the
entered channel to use a non-blocking send, so additional NodeList calls cannot
block snapshot.Build; preserve maxActive as the concurrency assertion.

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Review follow-up after rebase onto #827:

  • Fixed in 66d30b3: the two polling helpers now allow five seconds under loaded/race CI without changing their assertions or normal duration.
  • Fixed in 66d30b3: the observer test notification is non-blocking; maxActive remains the concurrency assertion.
  • Kept the unsupported-refresh error local rather than adding a package sentinel. runFreshDecision is unexported, its production caller only logs the error, and the fail-closed test already distinguishes the path by behavior. No caller uses or needs errors.Is identity, so a sentinel would add an unused contract without changing behavior.

Fresh full Alfred tests, focused race tests, vet, 100x timer-collision tests, and the repository pre-commit gate pass on the rebased head.

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In `@pkg/alfred/observer/loop_test.go`:
- Line 278: Make the serialization regression test deterministic by
synchronizing on the second Refresh call reaching the lock-contention point
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time.After fallback so release occurs only after that contention signal, while
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pkg/alfred/engine/loop_test.go (1)

54-59: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the instrumentation sends non-blocking.

C() sends on reads from the decision-loop goroutine. C() runs during every select evaluation, including the inner non-blocking selects. If the loop performs more reads than the test consumes plus the channel capacity, the send blocks inside the select statement. The loop then stops observing ctx.Done(), and TestStartEarlyTickDoesNotResetRegularCadence (Line 323) and TestStartCoincidentRegularAndEarlyTickRefreshesOnce (Line 508) block on the unguarded <-done. The failure surfaces as a package-level test timeout instead of a clear assertion failure.

A non-blocking send keeps the assertions intact and removes the hang.

♻️ Proposed non-blocking instrumentation
 func (t *notifyingTimer) C() <-chan time.Time {
 	if t.reads != nil {
-		t.reads <- struct{}{}
+		select {
+		case t.reads <- struct{}{}:
+		default:
+		}
 	}
 	return t.Timer.C()
 }
 
 func (t *notifyingTimer) Reset(d time.Duration) bool {
 	active := t.Timer.Reset(d)
 	if t.resets != nil {
-		t.resets <- d
+		select {
+		case t.resets <- d:
+		default:
+		}
 	}
 	return active
 }
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In `@pkg/alfred/engine/loop_test.go` around lines 54 - 59, Update notifyingTimer.C
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but continue immediately when the channel cannot accept it. Preserve returning
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In `@oeps/0008-alfred-gpu-cluster-caretaker/README.md`:
- Around line 2678-2682: Move the serialized early-pass refresh behavior text
from the 2026-08-31 history entry into the existing 2026-09-07 entry, preserving
the OMENative compatibility baseline content under 2026-08-31 and keeping the
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In `@pkg/alfred/engine/loop_test.go`:
- Around line 54-59: Update notifyingTimer.C so its send on reads is
non-blocking: attempt to send the instrumentation signal but continue
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Review follow-up fixed in 819f2ce: notifyingTimer.C now sends instrumentation signals non-blockingly, so future extra timer-channel reads cannot stall the decision loop while the existing exact read-count assertions remain intact. The OEP history placement is corrected as well. Verified with the full Alfred test suite, focused engine/observer race tests, and 1,000 timer-collision repetitions.

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