feat(backend): SQLite storage layer + CDC pipeline

[Pritom14]

Summary

Replaces the in-memory fakeStore with the two real outbound adapters the Go backend needs to persist and deliver session state:

• internal/storage/sqlite - persistence satisfying the existing ports.LifecycleStore contract.
• internal/cdc - transactional-outbox publisher, JSONL delivery, durable consumer, and an in-process broadcaster.

Both are wired into main.go alongside the Lifecycle Manager and reaper, so the write path is live end-to-end:

LCM.Upsert -> sqlite store (1 tx: session + change_log + outbox)
           -> cdc publisher -> session-events.jsonl
           -> cdc consumer (byte cursor, idempotent) -> Broadcaster -> [FE transport, deferred]

What was introduced

Storage (internal/storage/sqlite)

• modernc.org/sqlite (pure Go, no CGO) so the 3-OS binary cross-compiles cleanly.
• goose embedded migrations (0001_init.sql); sqlc-generated typed queries checked in under gen/.
• Atomic Upsert: the session row, change_log entry, and outbox row are written in a single *sql.Tx (all-or-nothing).
• revision is an optimistic-concurrency (CAS) check, not a debug counter: insert requires incoming revision 0 and persists 1; update requires the loaded revision to equal the stored one and bumps it +1; zero rows affected returns a revision-mismatch error. This mirrors the original fakeStore semantics exactly.
• Metadata (branch, workspacePath, etc.) lives in a separate session_metadata table written by PatchMetadata, deliberately off the canonical CDC path (no revision bump, no event).
• Durable reaction_trackers: escalation budgets now survive a restart, fixing the in-memory-only behaviour that re-fired human pages after a daemon bounce.

CDC (internal/cdc)

• Publisher drains the outbox to a JSONL log; size-based rotation writes a reset marker.
• Consumer tails via a byte cursor, detects rotation with os.SameFile, resyncs from a full-state snapshot on a gap, and persists its position in consumer_offsets.
• Janitor reclaims acknowledged outbox rows below the slowest consumer offset.
• Broadcaster is the in-process fan-out port the frontend transport will subscribe to (WS/SSE wiring intentionally deferred to the FE task).

Composition root (main.go, cdc_wiring.go, lifecycle_wiring.go)

• startCDC stands up publisher / consumer / janitor + broadcaster.
• startLifecycle constructs the LCM, makes escalation budgets durable via WithReactionStore, teaches it to enumerate sessions via WithSessionLister(store.ListAll), and starts the reaper.

Migration 0002: projects + pr_enrichment

Two further tables, both written outside the LCM write path (no revision bump, no change_log/outbox event), so neither rides the CDC pipeline. Store methods follow the existing reaction_trackers adapter pattern with storage-local row structs (ProjectRow, PREnrichmentRow).

Table: projects

The durable registry of repos AO manages, the SQLite twin of the old YAML config (global config.yaml plus per-repo agent-orchestrator.yaml). Keyed by the same {basename}_{sha256(path:originUrl)[:10]} id that sessions.project_id references.

• Function: persist and enumerate managed repos (path, repo owner/name/platform/origin URL, default branch, display name, session prefix, source, registration time).
• Soft delete via archived_at (NULL = active). Archiving keeps the row so a session's project_id always resolves; there is no FK from sessions.project_id to projects.id (SQLite cannot ALTER ADD a FK, and a backfill can land sessions before their project row), so the soft-delete row is what prevents dangling references.
• Reads: ListProjects returns active rows only (WHERE archived_at IS NULL); GetProject resolves any row regardless of state and reports ArchivedAt.
• Methods: UpsertProject, GetProject (returns ok), ListProjects, ArchiveProject, DeleteProject (hard purge).

Table: pr_enrichment

A per-session cache of the rich SCM facts that do not belong in the canonical lifecycle (which keeps only pr_state / reason / number / url).

• Function: store the SCM observer's fetched PR detail: CI summary, review decision, mergeability, pending review comments (opaque JSON blob), CI failure log tail, last-fetched time.
• 1:1 with a session, session_id PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES sessions(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, so enrichment dies with its session (same cascade as session_metadata).
• Methods: UpsertPREnrichment, GetPREnrichment (returns ok), DeletePREnrichment.

Both tables are currently dormant: the SCM observer that writes pr_enrichment and the project-registration/archive handler that writes projects are downstream daemon-lane work and do not exist yet. The schema, queries, and store methods are in place so that wiring is purely additive.

Temporary stubs and how to fill them in

The write path is live, but three collaborators owned by the daemon/coding-agents lane do not have production implementations yet. They are stubbed with TODO(daemon-lane) markers in lifecycle_wiring.go. A no-op here is safe only because it merely drops an outbound side-effect; none of them fake success.

Stub	File / call site	How to replace
noopNotifier	lifecycle_wiring.go, passed to lifecycle.New(store, noopNotifier{}, ...)	Implement the notifier multiplexer over the real notifier plugins (desktop / Slack / webhook) and pass it in place of noopNotifier{}. Until then human-facing notifications are silently dropped.
noopMessenger	lifecycle_wiring.go, passed to lifecycle.New(store, _, noopMessenger{})	Back it with the runtime/agent plugins so it injects a prompt into the live agent pane. Until then auto-nudge reactions are no-ops.
reaper.MapRegistry{} (empty)	lifecycle_wiring.go, reaper.New(lcm, reaper.MapRegistry{}, ...)	Register the real runtime adapters keyed by name, e.g. reaper.MapRegistry{"tmux": tmuxRuntime, "process": procRuntime}. With an empty registry the reaper ticks escalations but probes nothing, which is correct until runtimes exist.

Deliberately NOT stubbed (see comment block in main.go)

• Session Manager - session.New needs real Runtime / Agent / Workspace plugins. No-op versions would make Spawn appear to succeed while creating no live pane (a silent-failure footgun), so it is deferred rather than faked. The LCM already exposes the read surface (RunningSessions) the SM would wrap.
• HTTP API routes - httpd.New takes no SM/LCM today; surfacing the store over HTTP needs a constructor signature change plus handlers that call into the SM, so it is tracked with the SM work.

The distinction: stub when the no-op is semantically honest (no notifier => no notification). Do not stub when the no-op would lie about success (no runtime => ghost session).

gitignore

Added *.db, *.db-shm, *.db-wal, session-events.jsonl[.*] under the Go section. The default AO_DATA_DIR lives outside the repo, so nothing leaks today; this guards against a data dir pointed at the tree during local dev.

Test plan

• gofmt -l . clean
• go build ./...
• go vet ./...
• go test -race ./... green
• Contract parity: existing lifecycle/session suites pass against the SQLite store
• Revision CAS, outbox atomicity, CDC ordering + idempotency, rotation/resync, janitor vacuum
• Reaction durability across a simulated restart (no duplicate escalation)
• projects: upsert/get/list/delete round-trip, archive hides from ListProjects while GetProject still resolves
• pr_enrichment: upsert/get/delete round-trip
• Smoke boot: daemon starts, creates ao.db + WAL + session-events.jsonl, drains cleanly on SIGTERM

[harshitsinghbhandari]

Code review from the LCM/SM lane (aa-27). Compat is green — port shape, schema columns, aa-7 v3 blockers, pragmas, the durable ReactionStore seam all line up with what backend/internal/lifecycle/* expects. That's covered separately and won't be re-derived here.

This is the code-quality pass on the adapter itself. Verdict: REQUEST-CHANGES on two correctness gaps; everything else below is "should fix" or nit. Re-reviewed after the two follow-up commits (23b8fe4 projects + pr_enrichment, 4ce9044 typed metadata + structured PR facts) — neither addresses the findings below; details on the new work at the end.

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Blockers

B1 — Consumer drops live events across restart-with-rotation

File: backend/internal/cdc/consumer.go Start (~84-106) + Poll (~107-149)

On Start, c.prevInfo == nil and c.cursor = 0, so neither rotation branch in Poll fires on the first tick. If the JSONL rotated between the last successful poll and a restart, the events in session-events.jsonl.1 are never read into the live stream — only their net effect resurfaces via session_snapshot (and only after a future rotation, see S3). For an at-least-once contract this is a hole.

Repro: lastSeq=100, writer emits 101..600 (spans rotation at 1 MiB), SIGTERM lands exactly at rotation, restart. Consumer reads only seq 601+.

Fix: on Start, if c.snapshot != nil, call c.resync(ctx) once before the poll loop. Or gap-probe: read one line, resync iff e.Seq > c.lastSeq + 1. The closest existing test (TestConsumerRestartSkipsDelivered) doesn't exercise rotation-across-restart.

B2 — sendToAgent rollback corrupts shared tracker state, and now persists it

File: backend/internal/lifecycle/reactions.go sendToAgent (~325-358; failure rollback ~348-356)

sendToAgent mutates tk (a pointer into m.trackers), drops the lock for the messenger Send, then on failure re-acquires and decrements tk.attempts-- / zeroes tk.firstAttemptAt. Two concurrent callers for the same (id, key) can race so the loser's rollback undoes the winner's successful attempt: in-memory attempts undercounts, firstAttemptAt is zeroed (escalation anchor lost), and persistTracker now writes that corrupted state to SQLite.

Pre-PR this was a transient memory glitch that reset on restart. With WithReactionStore write-through, LoadReactionTrackers re-hydrates the corruption. The file header at reactions.go:197-209 already acknowledges the broader concurrency class; the durability seam is the right time to address it.

Companion path: clearSessionTrackers deletes the map entry while an in-flight sendToAgent still holds the orphaned tk; the post-Send rollback then re-persistTrackers a tracker for a session whose incident is over.

Fixes (pick one): (a) snapshot-and-CAS rollback (only roll back if tk hasn't been touched), (b) hold the lock across messenger.Send or introduce a per-(session, key) lock, (c) pass a generation through PersistedTracker and reject stale generations server-side. Worth a -race test under reaction_durability_test.go.

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Should fix (top 5)

• S1 queries/cdc.sql — DeleteSentOutboxBelow uses change_log_seq < ? but the watermark is MIN(last_seq) which is already acknowledged. One char fix to <=; otherwise a quiet daemon never fully vacuums.
• S2 cdc/publisher.go Drain — a permanently-failing outbox row blocks the entire pipeline forever (no DLQ, no attempts threshold). At minimum log attempts; better, skip rows past N attempts (or move to a dead_outbox).
• S3 cdc_wiring.go snapshot stamps every emitted event with the same Seq: maxSeq, and collapses N original event types into session_snapshot. Any subscriber that dedups by seq (a documented idempotency key) will drop N-1 of N snapshot events. Either give each snapshot event a unique seq or scan change_log from lastSeq+1 instead of ListAll → sessions.
• S4 storage/sqlite/db.go — SetMaxOpenConns(1) serialises every write across unrelated sessions, contradicting the throughput intent of keyedMutex in lifecycle/manager.go. Either align the docstrings or commit to multi-conn + BEGIN IMMEDIATE.
• S6 cdc/broadcast.go Publish — holds RLock while invoking subscriber callbacks; a blocking or panicking subscriber takes down the consumer loop. Copy subs under RLock, release, then iterate with recover().

Full list (S5/S7-S10 + 12 nits + test gaps) in the off-PR review doc. Happy to pair on B1 or B2 — both fixes are localised.

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Re: the two follow-up commits

• 23b8fe4 (projects + pr_enrichment): migrations/0002_pr_projects.sql adds projects (soft-delete via archived_at) and structured PR fact tables (pr + pr_check + pr_comment with FK CASCADE), both off the canonical CDC path. Good shape, no review-worthy issues.
• 4ce9044 (typed metadata + structured PR facts): session_metadata retyped from KV bag to a 1:1 typed table backed by domain.SessionMetadata, with json:"-" on SessionRecord.Metadata enforcing the off-CDC invariant at the type level. Strict improvement — the Meta* string constants going away removes a class of silent-drop bugs, and the LCM/SM/reaper threading is self-contained (no compat break on the LCM lane).

So the new work doesn't introduce review-worthy issues of its own; it just doesn't address the existing ones. B1 and B2 still want resolving before more code starts depending on the durable tracker invariant.

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Nothing in the storage adapter itself (revision CAS, outbox atomicity, sqlc usage, Detecting round-trip, metadata side-channel) is incorrect — the parity test against fakeStore is the right shape and passes. Bugs are concentrated in the CDC consumer and the new tracker write-through path.

[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR replaces the in-memory fakeStore with a production SQLite persistence layer (internal/storage/sqlite) and a trigger-driven CDC pipeline (internal/cdc), wiring both into main.go alongside the Lifecycle Manager and reaper.

• Storage: Six-table schema (projects, sessions, pr, pr_checks, pr_comment, change_log) applied via embedded goose migrations; sqlc-generated typed queries; dual read/write connection pools (single writer + 8 readers) with WAL pragmas; atomic PR observation writes using inTx.
• CDC: DB triggers write change_log atomically with each change; a Poller tails the log by cursor and fans events through a Broadcaster to future SSE/WS subscribers; SeekToHead on startup skips history.
• Wiring: storeAdapter bridges *sqlite.Store to ports.SessionStore + ports.PRWriter; noopNotifier / noopMessenger / empty reaper.MapRegistry are honest stubs pending downstream daemon-lane work; the main.go shutdown path explicitly cancels context before draining goroutines (fixing the previously-flagged LIFO-defer deadlock).

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge; the write path, CDC pipeline, and shutdown sequencing are all structurally sound with no data-loss or correctness issues introduced.

Both new findings are quality nits: a stale timestamp in one CDC trigger (easily fixed in a follow-up migration) and a global mutex replacing a per-session one (a deliberate simplification with acceptable throughput impact at current scale). The previously-flagged build-breaking issues, the shutdown deadlock, and the CI-tracker-clearing bug have all been addressed. The core persistence and event-delivery plumbing looks correct.

backend/internal/storage/sqlite/migrations/0001_init.sql — the pr_checks_cdc_update trigger's created_at, and backend/internal/lifecycle/manager.go — the global mutex trade-off worth a comment.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
backend/internal/storage/sqlite/migrations/0001_init.sql	New 6-table schema with CDC triggers; the pr_checks_cdc_update trigger uses NEW.created_at (stale original insert timestamp) rather than datetime('now') for status-change events.
backend/internal/storage/sqlite/store.go	Core store struct with dual read/write connection pools, writeMu mutex, and inTx helper; correctly wires sqlc-generated queries and enforces single-writer discipline.
backend/internal/storage/sqlite/db.go	Opens the SQLite database with WAL pragmas, applies embedded goose migrations, and returns a Store with separate writer (MaxOpenConns=1) and reader (MaxOpenConns=8) pools.
backend/internal/cdc/poller.go	Trigger-driven CDC poller that tails change_log by cursor (lastSeq), broadcasts in-order events to the Broadcaster, and supports SeekToHead for live-only delivery on startup.
backend/internal/cdc/broadcast.go	Fan-out broadcaster with recover-on-panic delivery; subscription/unsubscription is lock-protected and publish uses RLock for concurrent delivery.
backend/internal/lifecycle/manager.go	Lifecycle engine replaced per-session keyedMutex with a single global sync.Mutex, serializing all session writes; mutate/OnSpawnCompleted/OnKillRequested all contend on one lock.
backend/internal/lifecycle/reactions.go	Reaction dispatch refactored to use content-driven feedback reactions with seenSig dedup and CI brake; dispatch("") clears feedback trackers after every poll cycle (previously flagged).
backend/lifecycle_wiring.go	Wires the sqlite Store as a storeAdapter satisfying SessionStore and PRWriter; PRFactsForSession correctly picks the most-recently-updated active PR and folds in unresolved comment presence.
backend/main.go	Startup now opens the SQLite store, starts CDC pipeline and lifecycle stack, then does explicit cancel-then-drain shutdown (fixing the LIFO-defer deadlock flagged in a prior review.
backend/internal/storage/sqlite/pr_store.go	WritePRObservation atomically persists scalar PR facts, check runs, and a full comment-set replacement in one write transaction.
backend/internal/storage/sqlite/changelog_store.go	Exposes ReadChangeLogAfter, project-scoped variant, and MaxChangeLogSeq for the CDC poller; asInt64 correctly handles the NULL aggregate from an empty table.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant SM as SessionManager
    participant LCM as lifecycle.Manager
    participant Store as sqlite.Store
    participant DB as SQLite (triggers)
    participant CL as change_log
    participant Poller as cdc.Poller
    participant Bcast as cdc.Broadcaster
    participant FE as SSE/WS (future)

    SM->>Store: CreateSession(rec)
    Store->>DB: INSERT sessions
    DB-->>CL: sessions_cdc_insert trigger → session_created
    LCM->>Store: UpdateSession(rec)
    Store->>DB: UPDATE sessions
    DB-->>CL: sessions_cdc_update trigger → session_updated
    LCM->>Store: WritePRObservation(pr, checks, comments)
    Store->>DB: UPSERT pr / pr_checks
    DB-->>CL: pr_cdc_insert/update, pr_checks_cdc_insert/update
    Poller->>Store: ReadChangeLogAfter(lastSeq, 512)
    Store-->>Poller: []ChangeLogRow
    Poller->>Bcast: Publish(Event)
    Bcast->>FE: subscriber fn(Event)

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[AgentWrapper]

@greptile please re-review — the branch has been substantially reworked since the last pass (force-pushed onto the trigger-driven storage/CDC redesign, then the whole lifecycle lane ported onto it).

How the previous review was addressed:

Prior finding	Resolution
main.go:61 (P0) double-wrap NewStore	Fixed — store, err := sqlite.Open(...) used directly.
cdc_wiring.go:38 (P0) stale outbox API	File rewritten to the trigger → poller → broadcaster model.
lifecycle_wiring.go:55 (P0) undefined store methods / LifecycleStore	Rewritten — storeAdapter bridges *sqlite.Store to the new SessionStore/PRWriter ports; durable reaction-trackers removed.
cdc_e2e_test.go:50 (P0) stale test	Removed; replaced by wiring_test.go (store → trigger → change_log → poller → broadcaster, end to end).
cdc_wiring.go:136 (P1) snapshot seq collision	Moot — snapshot-resync was removed in the trigger-driven redesign (clients track their own offset).
cdc/jsonl.go:21 (P2) rotation comment	Moot — the JSONL log was removed; CDC is captured by DB triggers.
config/config.go:163 (P2) UserConfigDir → UserStateDir	Not applied — os.UserStateDir doesn't exist in the Go stdlib (see inline reply). Kept UserConfigDir.

The whole backend now builds and go test -race ./... is green. The lifecycle lane (LCM, reactions, session manager, reaper, boot) was ported onto the new model and trimmed from ~6.2k to ~2.8k LOC.

[illegalcall]

We have 2 PRs that recommend the backend architecture and library choices:

• Architecture / code structure: #41
• Technical stack / libraries: #25

Let’s try to follow those.

If you disagree with any part of those recommendations, let’s comment/contribute there and keep those PRs as the source of truth.

Based on that, I recommend these changes here:

• Use the recommended SQLite driver path: github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver first, unless the stack PR changes.
• Keep this PR focused on internal/storage/sqlite and CDC persistence.
• Correlate the storage/CDC implementation with the architecture PR’s lifecycle/session boundaries.
• If we want to change the lifecycle architecture, let’s discuss that on the architecture PR first.
• Keep lifecycle writes routed through the LCM contract unless the architecture PR changes.
• Preserve the documented per-session LCM write model unless we agree to change it in the architecture PR.
• Align CDC with the recommended storage/change-log/outbox direction, or update/discuss that in the architecture PR first.
• Update stale comments in main.go that still mention the old JSONL/outbox flow.

[illegalcall]

This can hang on early srv.Run failures. The CDC/reaper goroutines stop only when ctx is cancelled, but stop() is deferred before these Stop() waits, so LIFO defer order waits first and cancels last. If srv.Run(ctx) returns without a signal, for example runfile.Write fails, lcStack.Stop()/cdcPipe.Stop() can block forever. Please cancel the context before waiting on those goroutines.

[AgentWrapper]

Fixed in 0dbd304 — same root cause you and Greptile both flagged. The goroutines are now drained explicitly after srv.Run returns: stop() cancels the context first, then lcStack.Stop()/cdcPipe.Stop() wait. Verified by booting + SIGTERM (drains and exits cleanly in <1s).

[illegalcall]

UpsertPRCheck updates an existing (pr_url, name, commit_hash) row on conflict, but CDC only has an AFTER INSERT trigger for pr_checks. A check moving from in_progress to failed/passed on the same commit updates SQLite without emitting change_log, so live clients and offset catch-up miss the status change. Please add an AFTER UPDATE trigger and a regression test.

[AgentWrapper]

Great catch — this was the sharpest comment on the PR. Fixed in 70aab5e: added a pr_checks_cdc_update trigger guarded on OLD.status <> NEW.status, so a status flip on the same commit emits change_log while a no-op re-poll stays silent. Added a regression test asserting both (emit on change, suppress no-op).

[illegalcall]

This writes one PR observation as multiple independent store calls: scalar PR upsert, each check, then comment replacement. If a later step fails or the context is cancelled, the PR row and its CDC event can already be committed while checks/comments are stale or partial. The observation should be persisted in one storage transaction so the DB state and emitted CDC stay consistent.

[AgentWrapper]

Fixed in 70aab5e. writePR now persists the scalar facts, checks, and comments in a single transaction via Store.WritePRObservation (scalar upsert first so the check/comment CDC triggers can resolve the session id within the same tx). Collapsed the three PRWriter write methods into one WritePR since the engine only ever writes an observation as a whole. Round-trip test added.

[illegalcall]

The stack PR recommends trying github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver first behind database/sql. If we are choosing modernc.org/sqlite instead, let’s capture the reason in the stack PR and keep that as the source of truth.

[AgentWrapper]

Recorded the rationale at the import site in 70aab5e: modernc.org/sqlite is the pure-Go / CGO-free driver, chosen so the daemon cross-compiles and ships as a static binary with no libsqlite/CGO toolchain dependency (tradeoff: some raw throughput vs a C-backed driver). Happy to mirror that into the stack PR as the source of truth if you point me at it.

[illegalcall]

This comment still describes the old outbox/JSONL/janitor flow, while the current implementation uses trigger-driven change_log polling. Please update this and the related startup comment below to match the implementation.

[AgentWrapper]

Updated in 0dbd304 — both the store-open and lifecycle startup comments now describe the trigger-driven flow (DB trigger → change_log → poller → broadcaster), with no mention of the removed outbox/JSONL/janitor. Thanks!