Owner decision (b), 2026-11-09. PendingUpdatesEvaluator re-flattened every
deployed instance on each cache-TTL expiry even when nothing had changed.
- Migration AddConfigGraphRowVersions: a non-concurrency rowversion column
+ index on the 18 configuration tables the evaluation reads (Templates +
5 member tables, Instances + 4 override/binding tables, DataConnections,
DeployedConfigSnapshots, Sites, SharedScripts, ExternalSystemDefinitions,
ExternalSystemMethods, DatabaseConnectionDefinitions). SQL Server only in
the model; SQLite test contexts are untouched. Script:
docs/plans/sql/AddConfigGraphRowVersions.sql. Joins the coordinated
central-pair migration window (#107 item 4).
- IConfigGraphWatermarkReader / ConfigGraphWatermarkReader: ONE query of
MAX(RowVersion) + COUNT_BIG(*) per table (count catches deletes, which
raise no rowversion). rowversion is engine-bumped for any writer, so a
peer central node's edit moves it — not the per-process watermark MG-3
removed.
- The secret store (outside the DB) gets its own stamp: SHA-256 over
ListAsync(includeDeleted: true) metadata.
- Evaluator re-serves the last CLEAN snapshot while watermark + secret
stamp are unchanged; every PendingUpdatesFullEvaluationEvery'th (default
10, validated >= 1, 1 = off) is full regardless — the safety net for a
same-KEK re-wrap or an input table missing from the set. Always full when
the token is unavailable/unreadable, after an evaluation that could not
compute a site's artifact hash, on Re-check, and after a deploy completion.
It only re-serves a real earlier answer, never manufactures one.
Tests: SQL Server (real migrated DB) — token stable without writes, moves
for a peer-connection INSERT/UPDATE and a non-max DELETE, moves for a local
EF write, a detached Update still saves (not a concurrency token), and a
guard that every table the evaluator's repository reads touch is covered.
Evaluator — reuse without flatten (re-served answer still shows the stale
instance), watermark move, 4 secret changes, every-Nth, 5 no-token modes,
unclean evaluation not reused, cache Re-check and deploy completion force
full. Mutation-proven: token compare, clean check, cache force flag, row
count, and an uncovered read each turn tests red.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Audit roadmap T2 (alog.md §15.2): with AuditLog:Archive:Enabled (default off)
the purge actor writes each expired monthly partition to Parquet under an
absolute AuditLog:Archive:Directory before switching it out, so audit rows
outlive RetentionDays.
- Parquet.Net 6.1.0 (fully managed; NuGetAudit clean) in central package
management.
- AuditArchiveParquet: data file = the ten stored columns, OccurredAtUtc as a
UTC microsecond timestamp plus exact OccurredAtUtcTicks, and ChainSeq/RowHash;
tombstone file = the month's per-channel purge tombstones. Buffered row
groups; the files are plain Parquet (DuckDB/pyarrow read them).
- AuditLogPartitionArchive (IAuditLogArchive): reads the partition's rows,
chain heads and tombstones in one transaction under the chain lock SHARED,
writes {Directory}/{YYYY}/auditlog-{YYYY-MM}-{stamp}Z.parquet,
.tombstones.parquet and a .manifest.json (counts, SHA-256 per file, each
month's head and prior anchor) via tmp + rename, manifest last. Archives are
never overwritten.
- Archive before purge: SwitchOutPartitionAsync gains an internal guarded
overload. Under the EXCLUSIVE chain lock it re-counts the partition and
re-reads each month's LastSeq and THROWs 51002/51003 (nothing purged) unless
both still equal the archive's, so the switch's checkpoint anchor is exactly
the archive's chain end. The manifest is then marked Purged.
- Fail closed: a partition that cannot be archived is not purged; the failure
takes the existing AuditLogPurgeFailedEvent / PurgeFailures path. Success
publishes AuditLogArchivedEvent.
- Verify: file hashes and counts against the manifest, the chain recomputed
from the archived rows and tombstones (AuditChainVerifier), and the chain end
against the database anchor (Matches / Superseded / NotPurged / Mismatch).
- AuditLogArchiveOptionsValidator: Directory required when enabled and must be
absolute; RowGroupSize, timeouts bounded.
No migration: the purger role already reads AuditLog, the head and tombstones.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Audit roadmap T1 (alog.md §11.4): one chain per UTC calendar month of
OccurredAtUtc. Each chained row carries ChainSeq (gap-free within its month)
and RowHash = SHA-256(prev.RowHash || canonical(row)); the v1 canonical form
(AuditChainHasher) is pinned by a known-answer vector computed independently.
- Migration AddAuditLogHashChain: nullable ChainSeq/RowHash on dbo.AuditLog
(metadata-only add), AuditLogChainHead (per-month chain end + partition-purge
checkpoint anchor), AuditLogChainTombstone, two partition-aligned filtered
indexes, scadabridge_audit_chainer role with a column-level UPDATE grant.
Production script docs/plans/sql/AddAuditLogHashChain.sql.
- AuditLogHashChain chains unchained rows oldest month first under an
exclusive sp_getapplock (zero timeout, so a dual-active central pair still
yields one chain), with an optimistic head check and a ChainSeq IS NULL
row-count check that roll a pass back instead of leaving a gap. The ingest
path is untouched.
- Purges keep the chain verifiable: the partition switch records the month's
checkpoint anchor and drops its tombstones; the per-channel DELETE writes a
tombstone per chained row in the same transaction (OUTPUT INTO). Both, and
the SourceNode backfill, hold the chain lock; the backfill skips chained
rows. The switch staging table gains the two new columns.
- AuditChainVerifier reports the first break (partition, ChainSeq, EventId,
kind) for edited, deleted, reordered rows and tail truncation.
- AuditLogHashChainService (central, default OFF via AuditLog:HashChain).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Comment/XML-doc changes only, no code logic:
- strip project-tracking references (WP*, P*-*, row-NN, #NN, Task N) from
comments, keeping the explanatory rationale
- add missing summaries, <param>, <returns>, <typeparam> and <inheritdoc/>
- replace misused <inheritdoc/> with real docs; where <inheritdoc/> was
combined with useful remarks, move the rationale into // comments
- drop stale replicationActor <param> on DeploymentManagerActor ctor
Remaining 5 are false positives (CWE-1236 x2, failures-1, year-0001, M365).
Build 0 errors / 0 warnings.
The per-IP unlock throttle's counters were a process-local ConcurrentDictionary
on each central node, so the effective fleet cap was N x
MaxUnlockAttemptsPerIpPerHour per client (failing over to the other node handed
the client a fresh budget) and a node restart cleared the window outright.
The window now lives in the central MS SQL BundleUnlockAttempt table — the HA
store both central nodes already share, so no new infrastructure, no new port,
no consensus protocol:
- Commons: BundleUnlockAttempt entity + IBundleUnlockAttemptRepository.
- ConfigurationDatabase: entity config (one index,
IX_BundleUnlockAttempt_Client_Attempted, serving both the windowed count and
the prune), repository (AsNoTracking count, ExecuteDeleteAsync prune),
DbSet, DI registration, migration AddBundleUnlockAttemptTable + the
hand-written idempotent production script under docs/plans/sql/.
- Transport: IBundleUnlockAttemptWindow seam + SqlBundleUnlockAttemptWindow
(singleton; resolves the scoped repository from its own scope per call, like
the central purge singletons). BundleUnlockRateLimiter keeps the policy and
gains TryRegisterAttemptAsync; BundleImporter.LoadAsync calls it.
Behaviour preserved from row 44: locked bundles spend no hourly budget (the
lockout check still runs first), throttle denials burn no per-bundle strike and
are NOT recorded so they cannot roll the window forward, unattributable clients
share the stricter <unattributed> bucket, and the budget counts attempts rather
than failures. Config keys and their semantics are unchanged, so the rig's 500
override stays valid.
Three deliberate trades, documented in both Transport docs:
- FAILS OPEN. A store error logs a Warning naming the client and cap, and
permits the attempt. This is a best-effort rate cap over an already
authenticated, Administrator-gated surface — the availability of legitimate
imports outranks the cap, and a DB blip must not make the import wizard
unusable. Falling back to the process-local window was considered and
rejected: it would still block a legitimate operator's 11th import.
- Approximate. Count-then-insert is not atomic across nodes, so simultaneous
attempts can overshoot by the number in flight — bounded, self-correcting
within the window, and not worth provider-specific raw SQL.
- Pruned opportunistically on the unlock path (CAS-claimed at most every 15
min per process, bounded to 1000 rows, retaining 2x the window, best-effort
try/catch) rather than by a new background service — Transport owns no
central scheduler. Same shape as DeploymentService's terminal-record sweep.
Tests: Transport.IntegrationTests 116 passed (+10 — two limiter instances over
one store enforcing a single combined window, restart durability, denials
burning no budget, sliding release, bucket isolation, store-failure fail-open,
caller-cancellation not swallowed, no-shared-window fallback, prune and its
negative control); ConfigurationDatabase 395 passed (+5).
Installs SqlServerRetryingExecutionStrategy (5 retries, 30s cap) so transient SQL
faults retry transparently on every read-side path. Manual transactions aren't
auto-retried, so AuditLogIngestActor's idempotent dual-write is wrapped in an
explicit CreateExecutionStrategy().ExecuteAsync to become retriable. Verified
empirically that existing manual transactions (BundleImporter) are unaffected —
EF skips the strategy while a transaction is already active.
Remove project bookkeeping citations from shipped code comments across the
solution: hyphenated task IDs (WP-14, StoreAndForward-025), milestone/task/
issue refs (M3, Task 4, Audit Log #23, #21), Bundle X task-bundle labels,
and C/D/K/S/T phase labels.
Comment text only — no code logic, string/log literals, or XML-doc structure
changed. Genuine descriptions are preserved (only the citation is stripped),
and technical lookalikes are retained (UTF-8, SHA-256, T00:00:00, M365,
UTC-5, pre-C4/pre-C5 schema versions). Flagged by the new CommentChecker
TaskReferenceInComment / TrackingReferenceInComment checks plus targeted
grep passes; full solution builds clean, append-only guard tests pass.
Resolve all 622 issues flagged by the enhanced CommentChecker: add missing
<returns> tags (incl. the standard phrasing on non-generic Task methods),
add missing <summary> tags, and replace misused/redundant <inheritdoc/> on
members that override or implement nothing with real documentation.
Documentation-only — no behavior change; solution builds clean.
Joseph Doherty