fix: stop demo query streams from dying mid-flight (research#86) - #714
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Three consecutive demo queries failed live on 2026-07-29 with "Stream error: network error". The backend never errored; the response body went silent for the whole SQL-generation phase and the connection was severed mid-flight. Streaming (the incident): - Add `with_keepalive`, wrapping the serialized stream so a bare delimiter is emitted every 10s while the pipeline produces nothing. A bare delimiter splits into an empty part, which every existing client parser already skips, so this needs no protocol or client change. Applied to all four streaming endpoints (query, confirm, refresh, connect-database). - Set `Cache-Control: no-cache, no-transform` and `X-Accel-Buffering: no` to discourage intermediaries from buffering the body. The media type stays `application/json`: the wire format is delimited JSON, not SSE, so declaring `text/event-stream` would misdescribe it. Migrating to real SSE is a follow-up. - Move every synchronous LLM call off the event loop via `asyncio.to_thread`: `get_analysis`, `heal_and_execute`, the follow-up agent and both `format_ai_response` calls. `RelevancyAgent.get_answer` was `async def` but called `run_completion` synchronously, so its `create_task` concurrency with table-finding was illusory and it blocked the loop too. This is why the failures clustered across users rather than hitting one request. Instrumentation (why it stayed undiagnosable): - `run_completion` now applies `Config.LLM_TIMEOUT` (default 90s), passed to litellm so it aborts the HTTP request rather than hanging forever, and logs every call's duration with a caller label. Calls over `LLM_SLOW_CALL_THRESHOLD` (default 20s) log at WARNING. The analysis agent had zero instrumentation, so the original slowness left no trace at all. - Route `HealerAgent` through `run_completion` so it inherits both; it called `litellm.completion` directly and had no timeout. UI: - The `sqlQuery !== undefined` render guard was always true, since `sqlQuery` is initialized to `""`. Failed runs painted an empty "Query Analysis" card, which made the screenshots misleading. Guard on truthiness. Memory (present in the same logs, unrelated to the failure): - Default `AZURE_API_VERSION` to `2025-03-01-preview`. Graphiti's client uses the Azure Responses API, which rejects older versions with HTTP 400, so every episode write was failing. - `len(history[1])` threw on the first message of a session, where the client sends no result array. Use a falsy check. - Log the previously silent `except` in `update_user_information`, which hid the failure on that path entirely. Tests: 6 new unit tests for the keepalive wrapper covering pass-through, silent-gap emission, client-parser compatibility, exception propagation and teardown on client disconnect. Verified at the wire level against uvicorn: keepalive frames arrive every ~0.4s through a 2s silent gap. Refs: research#86, incident 2026-07-29 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Simulating a hung provider (a local server that accepts the request and never replies) showed the timeout aborts, but far later than configured: a 3s LLM_TIMEOUT took 10.81s to fail, because `timeout` is per attempt and both the provider SDK and litellm apply their own retry loops on top. Extrapolated to the 90s default, worst case was ~270s — long enough to defeat the point of having a timeout. Pin the budget: `max_retries` comes from the new LLM_MAX_RETRIES (default 1) and litellm's outer `num_retries` loop is disabled, so the two do not multiply. Measured after the change: the same hung provider fails in 3.19s against a 3s timeout. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The off-topic test asserted that the SQL card *is* visible with no SQL behind it, which encoded the phantom "Query Analysis" card from the 2026-07-29 incident rather than guarding against it. An off-topic query never reaches SQL generation: the pipeline emits only `reasoning_step` and `followup_questions`, no `sql_query` event. Since `analysisInfo` is populated solely in the `sql_query` branch, the card had nothing to render — no SQL, and no explanation either, because `isValid` defaults to true when unset. It drew a bare header. The off-topic reason already reaches the user as a normal AI message, which the test still asserts. Verified the event sequence against the real `run_query` pipeline with the relevancy agent returning Off-topic. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request centralizes LLM timeout, retry, and logging controls; offloads blocking LLM, embedding, and SQL work; adds database timeouts and streaming keepalives; prevents empty SQL-analysis cards; and updates Azure API version examples. ChangesReliability and streaming updates
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR fixes the stream failures and event-loop blocking, but merge readiness is still affected by bounded correctness issues: certain database URL options can bypass the intended statement timeout, and an invalid keepalive interval can prevent stream data from being consumed. These should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens QueryWeaver’s streaming endpoints against proxy idle timeouts and event-loop starvation by adding a keepalive wrapper around delimited JSON streams, and by moving synchronous LLM work off the asyncio event loop while also adding LLM timeout/retry instrumentation. It also fixes a frontend/UI artifact that could render an empty “Query Analysis” card on failed/off-topic runs.
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- Add
with_keepalivewrapper + anti-buffering headers and apply them to all streaming endpoints (query/confirm/refresh/connect). - Add LLM call instrumentation and bounded timeout/retry settings via
Config+run_completion, and offload known sync LLM calls withasyncio.to_thread. - Fix frontend + E2E expectations to avoid rendering/asserting a phantom “Query Analysis” SQL card when no SQL exists.
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api/routes/streaming.py |
Introduces the async keepalive wrapper and shared streaming headers. |
api/routes/graphs.py |
Wraps graph streaming endpoints with keepalive + adds anti-buffering headers. |
api/routes/database.py |
Wraps DB connect streaming endpoint with keepalive + adds anti-buffering headers. |
api/core/text2sql.py |
Offloads synchronous LLM and formatter/healer work to threads to prevent event-loop blocking. |
api/agents/utils.py |
Adds run_completion timeout/retry defaults and duration logging with per-caller labels. |
api/agents/analysis_agent.py |
Labels analysis LLM calls for instrumentation. |
api/agents/relevancy_agent.py |
Runs synchronous completion off-loop to preserve concurrency with other tasks. |
api/agents/healer_agent.py |
Routes healer LLM calls through run_completion (timeouts/retries/logging). |
api/agents/follow_up_agent.py |
Labels follow-up LLM calls for instrumentation. |
api/agents/response_formatter_agent.py |
Labels formatter LLM calls for instrumentation. |
api/memory/graphiti_tool.py |
Fixes history handling and adds logging; also adjusts Azure API version default. |
tests/test_stream_keepalive.py |
Adds unit tests verifying keepalive emission and teardown semantics. |
app/src/components/chat/ChatInterface.tsx |
Fixes SQL card guard to avoid rendering empty “Query Analysis” card. |
e2e/tests/chat.spec.ts |
Updates E2E assertion to expect no SQL card for off-topic queries. |
.env.example |
Documents new LLM_* env vars and updates Azure API version guidance. |
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api/memory/graphiti_tool.py:742
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update_user_information, thisasyncmethod calls litellm’s synchronouscompletion()a few lines below. Because this runs inside the event loop (and is used by the background memory task), it can still block the loop and interfere with streaming responses. Run the completion off-loop and apply the configured timeout/retry bounds.
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280-282: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 TrivialRun Pylint with project dependencies installed before merge.
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In `@api/agents/utils.py`:
- Around line 12-14: Update the custom_model and custom_api_key parameters in
run_completion to use explicit optional string annotations, changing each from
str to str | None while preserving their None defaults and the rest of the
function signature.
In `@api/config.py`:
- Around line 148-155: Enforce the configured total-call deadline across the
direct completion path: update api/config.py lines 148-155 and
api/agents/utils.py lines 29-35 so retries cannot extend execution beyond the
90-second LLM_TIMEOUT, preferably by setting the retry count to zero if no
deadline mechanism exists. Ensure kwargs cannot override the timeout or retry
settings unintentionally; apply the change at the relevant LLM_MAX_RETRIES and
completion call symbols.
In `@api/memory/graphiti_tool.py`:
- Around line 775-778: Update the AZURE_API_VERSION examples in README.md and
examples/README.md from 2024-12-01-preview to 2025-03-01-preview or later,
matching the default used by the Graphiti client. Do not modify the workflow’s
secret-based configuration; validate that secret separately.
In `@app/src/components/chat/ChatInterface.tsx`:
- Around line 239-243: Update the SQL card condition near the
sqlQuery/analysisInfo check to trim sqlQuery and render only when it is
non-empty or at least one analysisInfo property has a defined, meaningful value;
do not rely on Object.keys(analysisInfo).length because the metadata keys are
initialized with undefined values. Apply this before creating sqlMessage.
In `@e2e/tests/chat.spec.ts`:
- Around line 96-97: Replace the isSQLQueryMessageVisible-based check in the
chat test with a direct strict Playwright locator assertion for SQL-card
absence, so selector errors fail the test and Playwright waits for the final DOM
state; do not rely on the helper’s caught-error boolean.
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In `@api/memory/graphiti_tool.py`:
- Around line 280-282: Install the project’s required Python dependencies,
including fastapi, litellm, redis, and psycopg2, then rerun Pylint across all
Python files and resolve any remaining import or lint errors before merging.
Apply the same fix in `@api/routes/streaming.py` around lines 29 - 62.
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Six findings from the Copilot and CodeRabbit reviews: - The memory path had the same blocking-call bug this PR fixes elsewhere: `update_user_information` and `summarize_conversation` are `async` but called `litellm.completion` synchronously, and they run as detached tasks via `save_memory_background` — so they could stall unrelated streaming responses. Both now go through `run_completion` inside `asyncio.to_thread`, which also gives them the shared timeout and retry bounds. (Copilot) - The render guard still had a hole: `analysisInfo` is built with all five keys defined unconditionally, so `Object.keys(...).length > 0` was always true once any `sql_query` event arrived, even with every value undefined. Check the values instead, and trim the SQL before rendering. (CodeRabbit) - The off-topic E2E assertion used `isSQLQueryMessageVisible()`, which catches locator errors and returns false, so it would pass on a broken selector. Use a strict `toHaveCount(0)` web-first assertion via a new public `sqlQueryCard` accessor, matching the existing `confirmationDialog` precedent. (CodeRabbit) - `AZURE_API_VERSION` examples in README.md and examples/README.md still showed 2024-12-01-preview, which the Responses API rejects. (CodeRabbit) - `custom_model` / `custom_api_key` annotated `str | None`. (CodeRabbit) - Test module docstring referred to `_with_keepalive`; the exported name is `with_keepalive`. (Copilot) Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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hasAnalysisInfocurrently treatsconfidence(number) andisValid(boolean) as “something to show”. This can still render a phantom SQL/analysis card with an empty body (ChatMessage only rendersexplanation/missing/ambiguitieswhen invalid, and never rendersconfidence), reintroducing the empty “Query Analysis” header behavior you’re trying to prevent.
const trimmedSqlQuery = sqlQuery.trim();
const hasAnalysisInfo = Object.values(analysisInfo).some(
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256-263: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winInitialize
messageswithout the prompt in both empty-history branches.Both methods append the same prompt twice when
history[1]is empty.
api/memory/graphiti_tool.py#L256-L263: initializemessages = []inupdate_user_information, then appendpromptonce.api/memory/graphiti_tool.py#L739-L746: initializemessages = []insummarize_conversation, then appendpromptonce.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…eview) Both findings from @Naseem77 are valid, and they matter more than "two more instances of the same pattern": a keepalive cannot be written while the event loop is blocked, so these two calls could defeat the keepalive this PR adds. - `api/graph.py` `find()` called litellm and the embedding provider synchronously before its first await, while being launched via `asyncio.create_task`. That made its concurrency with the relevancy agent illusory and blocked the loop — and it is the call that logs "Calling LLM to find relevant tables/columns", the last line before the stall in the 2026-07-29 logs. Now offloaded via `asyncio.to_thread` and routed through `run_completion`, so it also picks up the shared timeout and duration logging. The embedding call is offloaded too. - `loader_class.execute_sql_query` ran on the loop in both `run_query` and `run_confirmed`. A slow query blocked every other request and stopped keepalives on its own stream. Both now offloaded. The third call site, inside `_run_sql`, already runs within the healer's thread and is left synchronous. Verified with the incident harness. With the keepalive enabled but these calls back on the loop, a 12s stall still severs the stream and delivers **zero** keepalives. With them offloaded, keepalives flow every 2s through the whole execution phase and the query completes. Starvation probe during a slow query: 63 requests served, 0.00s worst latency. All graph queries on this path were already using the async client and needed no change. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@Naseem77 both valid — fixed in 4d633cf. And they matter more than I'd credited: a keepalive can't be written while the event loop is blocked, so either of these could have defeated the keepalive this PR adds. Your #1 is especially pointed — I proved the interaction on the incident harness. With the keepalive fully enabled but these calls back on the loop, a 12s stall behind a 5s idle timeout still kills the stream and delivers zero keepalives: With them offloaded, same 12s stall in SQL execution: Starvation probe during a slow query: 63 What I changed
On your suggested alternatives: I went with offloading rather than async provider APIs / async drivers. Threads bound the change to this PR and keep behaviour identical, whereas swapping the DB layer to async drivers is a much larger migration. Statement/connection timeouts on the loaders are a real gap and worth a separate issue — offloading stops one slow query from blocking everyone, but it does not bound how long that query itself can run. I also checked the rest of this path while in there: every graph query in |
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- The error log on this failure path drops the traceback, which makes the next incident harder to diagnose. Since this is explicitly an instrumentation fix, log the exception with stack trace (or set exc_info=True).
except Exception as e:
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- When the LLM call fails, the warning log omits the underlying exception details. Adding
exc_info=Truepreserves the stack trace in logs without changing the control flow.
started = time.monotonic()
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522-527: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftTrack database timeouts and cancellation behavior separately.
These
asyncio.to_threadcalls correctly move SQL execution off the event loop. However, the suppliedapi/loaders/postgres_loader.pyimplementation still callspsycopg2.connectandcursor.executewithout connection or statement timeouts. A stalled query can occupy a worker indefinitely and reduce capacity for the otherto_threadcalls. Ifrun_confirmedis cancelled, the synchronous destructive query can continue in the worker thread after the awaiting task is cancelled. Add database-side timeouts and define cancellation or idempotency behavior for confirmed operations. Python documents thatasyncio.to_thread()runs the function in another thread and cancellation affects the awaited Future; therefore, cancellation does not stop a synchronous call already running in that thread. (docs.python.org)The supplied loader contract and PR objective identify this as a separate reliability gap.
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… idle tests Addresses the remaining items from @Naseem77's review. Items 1 and 2 of his list (offload table-finding and SQL execution) landed in 4d633cf, ten minutes after that review was written against 779c7ec. **Keepalive teardown.** Rewrote `with_keepalive` so the producer runs as a task feeding a queue, instead of this generator racing `anext` against a timeout. The previous version cleaned up by awaiting a cancellation and then calling `aclose()` on the inner generator; once cancellation is pending an `await` re-raises immediately, which could leave that `aclose()` racing an in-flight pull — the `asynchronous generator is already running` signature. Cleanup is now a single non-awaiting `cancel()`, and the inner stream is consumed by a plain `async for` so its closure follows ordinary task cancellation. Note: I could not reproduce that error locally — abrupt ASGI disconnect, task cancellation mid-gap, a 60-step sweep of cancellation timings, and teardown during a non-cancellable `to_thread` call all completed cleanly on both the old and new code. The rewrite removes the construct that produces that signature rather than being verified against a reproduction. **DB timeouts**, bounding execution now that it runs in a worker thread that cannot be cancelled: `DB_CONNECT_TIMEOUT` (10s) and `DB_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT` (60s), applied in `execute_sql_query` for PostgreSQL (`connect_timeout` plus a server-side `statement_timeout`), MySQL (connect/read/write timeouts) and Snowflake (login/network timeouts plus `STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS`). Scoped to query execution, leaving the schema-load path unchanged. Loader values use `setdefault` so a URL-supplied value still wins. **Tests.** `tests/test_stream_idle_timeout.py` drives the real `run_query` through the real serializer and asserts the stream never idles longer than the keepalive interval, with the stall injected into the analysis, table-finding and SQL-execution stages in turn. `tests/test_find_offloading.py` asserts `api.graph.find` keeps the loop responsive. Both were checked against injected regressions: putting the analysis and SQL calls back on the loop fails with "no keepalive during the ... stall", and un-offloading `find` fails with "event loop was starved: 1 ticks in 1.20s (expected roughly 60)". Two more keepalive teardown tests cover cancellation timing and producer cleanup. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All review threads on this PR are now closed — 28/28. The last one was the total-call deadline I had been declining, and I was wrong to keep declining it. My argument was that a hard wall-clock deadline can't be enforced for calls running in
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The module was reached both ways in one file (`import api.config` for reload, `from api.config import Config` elsewhere). Reload needs the module object, so use an aliased `from api import config as api_config` and keep the file on a single style. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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max(0, ...)silently converts a negativeLLM_MAX_RETRIESinto zero, even though the preceding contract says negative values are invalid. A misconfiguredLLM_MAX_RETRIES=-1therefore changes retry behavior without the startup error used for the other timeout safeguards. Validate that this value is non-negative and raise a clear configuration error instead of clamping it.
"""Provider kwargs that bound one logical LLM call end to end.
api/loaders/postgres_loader.py:214
- Passing
connection_urlas the DSN and then supplying a newoptions=keyword replaces the URL's libpqoptionsvalue in psycopg2. Schema loading therefore drops user-supplied options (including a stricterstatement_timeoutorapplication_name) and can use a looser timeout than the same URL gets during query execution. Merge the URL options and clamp only the timeout directive instead of replacingoptionswholesale.
conn = psycopg2.connect(
connection_url,
connect_timeout=Config.DB_CONNECT_TIMEOUT,
options=f"-c statement_timeout={Config.DB_SCHEMA_TIMEOUT * 1000}",
)
api/loaders/snowflake_loader.py:263
_parse_snowflake_urlinitializeslogin_timeoutto 30, but this schema-introspection path only overridesnetwork_timeout. As a result,DB_CONNECT_TIMEOUTis ignored for Snowflake schema loads; configuring it to 5 seconds still permits a login to wait 30 seconds, unlike the other loaders and Snowflake query execution. Overridelogin_timeoutfrom the configured value here as well.
conn_params = dict(conn_params)
conn_params["network_timeout"] = Config.DB_SCHEMA_TIMEOUT
api/agents/utils.py:47
completion_args['model']can contain the caller-suppliedcustom_model; model validation only checks its vendor/model shape and permits control characters. Logging it with%sallows a model name containing CR/LF to inject forged log records. Sanitize the model only for logging (without changing the value sent to LiteLLM) at each of the three log sites.
started = time.monotonic()
api/config.py:225
LLM_TIMEOUTis described as a wall-clock ceiling, but the defaultLLM_MAX_RETRIES=1is passed to the provider SDK, so a timeout can be retried and one call may consume roughly two timeout periods (plus backoff). That means a hung analysis can still occupy a worker for about 180 seconds at the defaults, contrary to the stated ceiling and the reported 3-second failure bound. Enforce the deadline across all attempts, or make the default retry budget zero if the ceiling is the requirement.
# with litellm's outer loop disabled, so the worst case stays close to
# LLM_TIMEOUT rather than a multiple of it.
# Zero is valid here (it means "no retry", a strict ceiling); negative is
# not.
# pylint: disable-next=invalid-name
LLM_MAX_RETRIES: int = max(0, int(os.getenv("LLM_MAX_RETRIES", "1")))
@classmethod
def llm_call_bounds(cls) -> dict:
"""Provider kwargs that bound one logical LLM call end to end.
api/core/text2sql.py:424
- Cancelling the coroutine awaiting
asyncio.to_threaddoes not cancel an already-running provider call. A client disconnect during this analysis (and similarly during SQL, embedding, or formatting calls) leaves the worker occupied until the timeout/retry budget expires; a burst of disconnects can exhaust the shared default executor and queue subsequent work, causing severe latency during the same incident pattern. Use cancellable async provider/driver calls or isolate and cap these blocking workloads with dedicated executors/limiters.
answer_an = await asyncio.to_thread(
agent_an.get_analysis,
queries_history[-1], tables, db_description, instructions, memory_context,
db_type, user_rules_spec,
)
api/loaders/postgres_loader.py:28
- This regex scans the raw options string without respecting quoted values. A valid unrelated option such as
-c application_name='demo --statement_timeout=0'therefore matches the text inside the value, removes it, and can leave malformed or altered connection options. Parse/tokenize libpq options with quote awareness and clamp only actual timeout directives.
r"(?i)(?:^|\s)(?:-c\s*|--)statement[-_]timeout\s*=\s*"
r"('[^']*'|\"[^\"]*\"|\S*)"
api/routes/graphs.py:321
- This is the one streaming route that awaits
refresh_database_schemabefore constructingStreamingResponse;_resolve_refresh_targetperforms the graph lookup during that await. If that lookup is slow or hangs,with_keepalivehas not started and no headers/heartbeat can reach the client, so the claimed keepalive coverage does not cover the refresh endpoint's preflight. Move the preflight into the wrapped generator (while preserving its HTTP error handling) or bound it separately.
return StreamingResponse(
with_keepalive(generator),
media_type="application/json",
headers=STREAM_HEADERS,
app/src/components/chat/ChatInterface.tsx:252
isValidandconfidenceare included inanalysisInfo, but neither is rendered inChatMessage; a failedsql_queryevent with an empty SQL string andis_valid: false(or only a confidence value) still satisfies this predicate and creates the empty “Query Analysis” card this change is meant to remove. Base the guard on the displayed fields (explanation,missing, andambiguities) and require non-whitespace content, while retainingisValidfor styling.
const hasAnalysisInfo = Object.values(analysisInfo).some(
value => value !== undefined && value !== null && value !== ''
);
…he pool Sixth review from @Naseem77. All four valid, and the first is a privilege bug I introduced earlier in this PR. **1. Introspection dropped URL connection options (security).** `options=` replaces the entire URL-supplied options string. `_execution_connect_kwargs` merges them, but when the schema deadline was added I wrote a raw `options=` at the introspection connect instead of reusing it — so `-c role=app_reader` was discarded and introspection connected as the URL's owning role, reading tables the connection had been scoped away from. His live probe showed exactly that: a restricted table extracted along with its sample value. The duplication is what allowed the divergence, so both paths now share `_connect_kwargs(url, budget_seconds)`; the only difference is the budget. **2. Deadlines did not bound socket reads.** A server-side `statement_timeout` only fires while the server is still talking to us; on a blackholed connection the client blocks in a read with no deadline. PostgreSQL connections now carry `tcp_user_timeout` (probed for libpq 12+, since older libpq rejects unknown keywords) plus keepalives, so the OS terminates the connection. Snowflake gets an explicit `socket_timeout` — `network_timeout` bounds retries, not reads, so a 5s configuration was still using the connector's 60s socket default. **3. The introspection cap broke across event loops.** A module-level `asyncio.Semaphore` binds to the first loop that contends on it and then raises `is bound to a different event loop`, which breaks any second `asyncio.run()`. Replaced with a dedicated `ThreadPoolExecutor`, which is loop-independent and bounds the worker threads themselves — so a cancelled introspection cannot free its slot while its worker is still running, which the semaphore needed a shield to approximate. **4. Valid PostgreSQL integer syntax was loosened.** The parser handled only decimal digits, so `077777` (octal, 32.767s), `0x10` (16ms) and `+5s` were replaced by the 60s ceiling — loosening stricter requests. It now implements the accepted grammar: optional sign, hex/octal/binary/decimal with digit separators, bare leading zero as octal, optional unit. Tests: 12 new cases. Both new guards were checked against the pre-fix behaviour — reinstating the raw `options=` fails with "URL role was dropped — introspection would run with more privilege", and reading a bare leading zero as decimal fails the octal case. The cross-loop test runs two separate `asyncio.run()` batches. 311 unit + 14 SDK tests pass; pylint 10.00/10; make lint clean. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@Naseem77 all four valid — fixed in 1. Introspection dropped URL connection options — privilege. Confirmed. The duplication is what let the two paths diverge, so they now share one builder, 2. Deadlines didn't bound socket reads. Right on both counts. A server-side 3. Semaphore bound to one event loop. Reproduced: Replaced with a dedicated 4. Integer grammar. Confirmed all three of your values were being loosened. Now implemented properly: Tests: 12 new cases, and I checked the two important guards actually bite. Reinstating the raw 311 unit + 14 SDK pass, pylint 10.00/10, One note on the socket-read fix: |
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…adline Seventh review from @Naseem77. All three valid; the first was a defect in the budget mechanism I added one review earlier. **1. The retry configuration disabled the retries it budgeted for.** litellm treats `num_retries` as overriding `max_retries`, so `{max_retries: 1, num_retries: 0}` made exactly one request while the timeout was divided as though two would happen — no retry at all, and half the intended deadline. Confirmed by counting requests against a local server: 1 where 2 were expected. Both library mechanisms are now off and `run_completion` owns the retry loop, handing each attempt what is left of the budget. Measured: retries=0 -> 1 request retries=1 -> 2 requests retries=3 -> 4 blackholed provider, 5s budget -> raised Timeout after 5.2s, 1 request A retry therefore happens only when time remains, which is the case worth retrying: a fast transient failure rather than a call that already spent the budget. Fixed a real bug found while testing this — the attempt kwargs were passed as several `**` expansions, so a caller overriding `timeout` hit `TypeError: got multiple values for keyword argument` instead of overriding. **2. TCP settings did not enforce the deadline.** Correct: `tcp_user_timeout` bounds unacknowledged outbound data and keepalives only detect a dead peer, so a stalled backend or proxy keeps TCP healthy while the client blocks in a read. Added `api/loaders/deadline.py` — a guard that cancels the statement at the deadline and closes the connection if the cancel does not take, which makes the blocked read raise and releases the worker. Applied to introspection and to user-query execution. URL socket settings are now clamped rather than deferred to, so `tcp_user_timeout=0&keepalives=0` can no longer switch the safeguards off; a URL may still tighten them. **3. Real-number timeout syntax was loosened.** `.5s` (500ms), `5.s` and `5e3ms` (5s) were all rewritten to the 60s ceiling. The grammar now accepts leading and trailing decimal points and exponent notation alongside the sign/radix forms. Tests: 20 new cases — attempt counts per retry setting, budget exhaustion stopping further attempts, library knobs staying off, the guard cancelling then closing (including when cancel itself fails), URL socket clamping, and the new numeric forms. Also fixed cross-file test pollution the reload-based validation tests were causing: they rebind `api.config.Config`, so tests patching a freshly imported reference were patching a different object than the module under test held. 333 unit + 14 SDK tests pass; pylint 10.00/10; make lint clean. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@Naseem77 all three valid — fixed in 1. The retry config disabled the retries it budgeted for. Confirmed exactly as you described. litellm treats Took your first option: both library mechanisms off, and So a retry happens only when time remains — a fast transient failure, not a call that already spent the budget. Testing this also surfaced a real bug: the attempt kwargs were passed as several 2. TCP settings didn't enforce the deadline. You're right, and my previous reply overclaimed — I said I'd verified the parameters were passed, not that anything terminated the connection, and Added Being precise about the limits: 3. Real-number syntax. Confirmed all three were loosened; now handled: Tests: 20 new cases. Also fixed cross-file pollution my own validation tests were causing — they reload 333 unit + 14 SDK pass, pylint 10.00/10, |
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The guard tests monkeypatch the module's grace constant, so the module object is needed regardless; drop the parallel `from ... import deadline_guard` and call through the module. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… retries
Three fixes from review:
The deadline guard escalated through conn.close(), but psycopg2 holds a
connection lock during a blocking read, so the close from the timer thread
joined the deadlock instead of breaking it - and PQcancel can hang against a
black-holed server with nothing bounding it. The guard now duplicates the
connection's socket at entry and escalates by shutdown(2) on it: no driver
lock, no network round trip, and the blocked read raises at once. The dup is
taken at entry (never at fire time) so a recycled descriptor number can never
be hit, and closing it on exit disarms a late callback. Reproduced in tests
against a real blocked socket read holding the driver lock, with a hanging
cancel.
The postgres guard ended right after cursor.execute(), leaving fetch, commit
and rollback unbounded - a peer that answers the query but stalls on the
commit held the worker just as effectively. One guard now spans all of them,
and loader cleanup is suppressed so a rollback/close failure cannot mask the
error that got there (the mysql and snowflake loaders had the same masking
pattern, plus an unbound-cursor NameError in their error paths).
LLM retries now run on one verdict: transport failures and 408/429/5xx are
transient and retried against the remaining budget with backoff (Retry-After
honoured, capped); 4xx verdicts about the request itself fail immediately - a
401 does not become a valid key by asking twice. run_batch_completion applies
the same policy to batch calls, retrying only the failed slots, which replaces
the conflicting {max_retries, num_retries} pair that litellm resolved to no
retry at all; the key-validation probe in settings uses the shared single-
attempt bounds for the same reason.
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@Naseem77 all three valid — fixed in 1. The deadline could freeze instead of enforce. You're right, and the failure is structural: psycopg2 holds a connection lock during a blocking read, so the 2. Commit outside the deadline. Valid — a peer that answers the execute but stalls returning rows or acknowledging the commit held the worker just as effectively, and write/DDL queries always reach the commit. One guard now spans execute, fetch, commit and rollback. Fixing it exposed a masking bug in the same error path: after a deadline shutdown, the 3. Retry policy. Valid on both halves. There's now one verdict function: transport failures (no status code) and 408/429/5xx are transient and retried against the remaining budget, with backoff —
One honest limitation on your "test against a real unresponsive psycopg2 connection": the new tests reproduce the mechanism — a real blocked socket read, the real lock semantics, a hanging cancel — but not a live libpq stack, which the unit suite can't host. If the live probe you ran is repeatable, I'd genuinely like to see it against this commit. |
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Closes the two findings from @Naseem77's latest review, then stops here — see the PR comment on scope. **1. The deadline guard no longer calls `conn.cancel()`.** PQcancel opens its own connection to the server, so against a black-holed host it hangs, and psycopg2 does not release the GIL around it — a hanging cancel stalls every Python thread in the process, including the event loop and so every stream keepalive. Running it on a separate daemon timer was no protection: a thread that cannot acquire the GIL cannot run, which is why his probe saw socket shutdown at 5.1s for a 1s deadline with a 0.5s grace. The escalation was already a `shutdown(2)` on a duplicated descriptor, and that is what actually releases the blocked read, so the cancel was removed rather than replaced. There is now one timer firing at the deadline and no grace period, so the deadline is the whole clock. Skipping the cancel costs little: the backend aborts the query itself once it notices the client socket is gone. This is a net deletion, and it removes a failure mode worse than the gap it was closing. **2. `Retry-After` is read from litellm's headers and honoured in full.** litellm keeps the provider's original headers as `litellm_response_headers`; `exc.response.headers` is its own reconstructed response and carries none, so every real 429 fell through to the exponential guess. Measured against a live `429 Retry-After: 10` with a 15s budget: before: 2 requests, 0.52s apart (the 0.5s fallback) after: 2 requests, 10.02s apart, 10.19s total The delay is no longer capped at 8s either. Capping produced a retry certain to be refused again, whereas the caller already declines a delay that outlives the budget — so a long `Retry-After` now means no retry rather than a premature one. Verified: same 429 with a 5s budget makes exactly 1 request. HTTP-date form is accepted alongside seconds. An existing test asserted the capping behaviour and is updated to the new contract. 362 unit + 14 SDK tests pass; pylint 10.00/10; make lint clean. Refs: research#86 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@Naseem77 both valid — fixed in 1. Hanging I removed the cancel rather than isolating it. The escalation was already 2. Now read from I dropped the 8s cap for provider-supplied delays as you suggested — capping produced a retry certain to be refused again, and the budget check already declines a delay it can't afford. The exponential fallback stays capped, since that one is a guess. An existing test asserted the capping and is updated. 362 unit + 14 SDK pass, pylint 10.00/10, On scope. I'd like to freeze the PR here, and I think the record supports it rather than my patience running out. The last four rounds have all been about machinery added in response to review — the retry loop, the deadline guard, the Retry-After parsing. None of it existed when this PR opened. Each mitigation creates surface that produces the next finding, and finding #1 this round is the clearest signal: the guard I added to satisfy an earlier review could freeze the process, which is strictly worse than the stall it was closing. That is a loop with no natural end, and it is now at 39 files and +3500 lines from an 8-item list. The original incident fix — keepalives, moving the blocking calls off the loop, the timeout instrumentation, the UI guard — has been complete and green for days and is worth shipping on its own. So: I've made no further changes beyond these two, and I'd rather the DB deadline/timeout/retry hardening be judged as a unit here or split into its own PR than keep iterating under review pressure. Your call which — and if you do keep probing, the two things I still can't verify from my side are the |
Fixes the 29 Jul demo failure investigated in FalkorDB/research#86 — all eight action items, plus two issues found while verifying them.
What went wrong
Three consecutive demo queries failed live with
Stream error: network error. The backend never errored; the response body went silent for the entire SQL-generation phase and the connection was severed mid-flight.Step 1chunk (text2sql.py:351) nothing was written until thesql_querychunk (:415). Everything expensive happens in that gap — schema lookup, relevancy, table finding, memory search, and the whole analysis call. There was no heartbeat.get_analysiswas a synchronous LLM call invoked withoutawaitinside an async generator, so it parked uvicorn's event loop for its full duration — no bytes could flush to any open stream. This is why three attempts failed together rather than one request getting unlucky.application/json, which proxies buffer and idle-timeout, unliketext/event-stream.The
Query Analysiscard in the incident screenshot was a UI artifact, not evidence that anything succeeded.Still unknown: why the LLM was slow in that window.
analysis_agent.pyhad no timing, no logging and no timeout, so the slowness left no trace. Item 2 below is what makes it diagnosable next time.Changes
Streaming (the incident)
api/routes/streaming.pywithwith_keepalive, wrapping the serialized stream so one call covers a whole endpoint including silent gaps added later. It emits a bare delimiter every 10s while the pipeline produces nothing. A bare delimiter splits into an empty part, which every existing client parser already skips (chat.ts:120,Index.tsx:290,DatabaseModal.tsx:199— all verified), so this needs no protocol change and no client change. Applied to all four streaming endpoints: query, confirm, refresh, connect-database.Cache-Control: no-cache, no-transformandX-Accel-Buffering: noto discourage intermediaries from buffering.asyncio.to_thread:get_analysis,heal_and_execute, the follow-up agent, and bothformat_ai_responsecalls.Instrumentation
run_completionnow appliesConfig.LLM_TIMEOUT(default 90s) per attempt, passed to litellm so it aborts the HTTP request rather than hanging, and logs every call's duration with a caller label. Calls overLLM_SLOW_CALL_THRESHOLD(default 20s) log at WARNING.HealerAgentrouted throughrun_completionso it inherits both — it calledlitellm.completiondirectly with no timeout.UI
sqlQuery !== undefinedwas always true, sincesqlQueryis initialized to"". Failed runs painted an empty "Query Analysis" card. Guard on truthiness instead.Memory (present in the same logs, unrelated to the failure)
AZURE_API_VERSION→2025-03-01-preview. Graphiti's client uses the Azure Responses API, which rejects older versions with HTTP 400, so every episode write was failing.len(history[1])threw on the first message of a session, where the client sends no result array.exceptinupdate_user_informationnow logs.Two things found while verifying
RelevancyAgent.get_answerwas a fourth instance of the blocking-call bug. It isasync def, so thecreate_taskattext2sql.py:379looks concurrent with table-finding — but it calledrun_completionsynchronously, so it blocked the loop and the concurrency was illusory. That call sits exactly where the failed queries stalled (Calling LLM to find relevant tables/columns).The timeout was not a real ceiling. Against a hung provider, a 3s
LLM_TIMEOUTtook 10.81s to fail:timeoutis per attempt and the provider SDK and litellm each retry on top, so the effective bound was a multiple of the configured one — ~270s at the 90s default. Pinned viaLLM_MAX_RETRIES(default 1) with litellm's outer loop disabled; the same hung provider now fails in 3.19s.Verification
Reproduced the incident and the fix against the real pipeline, with only
litellm.completionand the graph/DB seams stubbed, behind a TCP proxy enforcing an idle timeout.Legacy code — 12s stall, 5s proxy idle timeout:
Fixed code — identical conditions:
Event-loop starvation — probing
/healthduring a 10s query:Instrumentation output — the line that was missing during the incident:
Also verified at the wire level against uvicorn: keepalive frames arrive every ~0.4s through a 2s silent gap.
Tests: 6 new unit tests for the wrapper (pass-through, silent-gap emission, client-parser compatibility, exception propagation, teardown on client disconnect). One caught a real bug in the first implementation —
aclose()raced the cancelled pull and raisedasynchronous generator is already running.221 unit + 14 SDK tests pass; pylint 10.00/10;
tsc --noEmitclean.Reviewer notes
One deviation from the original plan:
media_typestaysapplication/jsonrather than becomingtext/event-stream. The wire format is delimiter-separated JSON, not SSE framing, so that header would misdescribe the body — it works today only because the client uses a rawfetchreader instead ofEventSource. With keepalives flowing, the media type is no longer load-bearing. A real SSE migration is worth doing separately.One behavior change beyond the eight items: the off-topic E2E assertion was inverted. It asserted the SQL card is visible with no SQL behind it, which encoded the phantom card rather than guarding against it. An off-topic query emits only
reasoning_step+followup_questions(verified against the real pipeline), andanalysisInfois populated solely in thesql_querybranch, so the card rendered a bare header with nothing under it. The off-topic explanation still reaches the user as a normal AI message, which the test continues to assert. Playwright could not be run locally (needs the CRM demo Postgres, a loaded graph and auth setup), so CI is the first browser run of this.Deployment:
AZURE_API_VERSIONis supplied to Playwright from a repo secret and set on Railway. This PR only changes the default — if either has an old value pinned, memory writes keep failing and need updating separately. The three newLLM_*vars all have working defaults, so no env change is required to deploy.Refs: FalkorDB/research#86 · incident 2026-07-29
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