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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. WalkthroughThe ACP connection now enforces frame, request, byte, notification, and busy-reply limits. It coalesces notifications by method and session, preserves session updates, aborts blocked writers during overload, and bounds shutdown waits. Tests cover saturation, ordering, cancellation, stalled writes, and EOF handling. ChangesACP resource limits
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change bounds frame size and request-handler concurrency, but notification dispatch remains unbounded and the test setup can race while mutating shared state, leaving resource-exhaustion protection incomplete and validation potentially flaky or panic. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 79-80: Update Serve’s JSON-RPC reader to enforce maxFrameBytes
while accumulating newline-delimited frames: read bounded fragments, reject and
terminate the connection when an unterminated frame exceeds the limit, and
preserve normal frame handling for valid input. Add a regression test covering
an oversized unterminated frame.
- Around line 307-318: Update handleLine and semaphore admission so response
frames are dispatched without waiting for maxConcurrentRequests capacity, while
new requests and notifications use bounded admission by queueing or rejecting
when saturated. Change acquireSem to report whether it acquired a slot, and only
launch the handler goroutine and call releaseSem when admission succeeds;
preserve correct cancellation behavior and add coverage for nested callbacks and
canceled admission.
Apply the same fix in `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go` around lines 307 - 318.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go`:
- Around line 492-524: Add a regression test for readNDJSONFrame using a
newline-terminated input whose total frame length is limit + 1, ensuring the
final byte is '\n'; assert it returns a frame-limit error. Cover the
delimiter-handling failure path alongside
TestReadNDJSONFrameRejectsOversizedUnterminatedFrame.
- Around line 526-593: Extend
TestConnRejectsSaturatedRequestsWithoutBlockingResponses to send a notification
while b.sem is full, then assert the notification handler is not invoked. Keep
the existing saturated request assertion and release/cleanup flow unchanged,
using a synchronization signal or equivalent bounded wait to verify the notifier
does not run.
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 389-393: Update readNDJSONFrame to reuse a scratch byte buffer
instead of allocating a new got slice for each read, while preserving the
existing frame limit and error behavior. Add a regression test using an
io.Reader that returns one byte per read and assert allocations remain within a
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Both problems are real and the frame reader is the better half of this: handling the unterminated case is exactly what ReadBytes could not do, and returning the partial line alongside the error keeps Serve's existing shape intact. No complaints there.
The throttle is the problem, and specifically what it does to notifications.
The semaphore drops session/cancel, which is the only notifier this repo registers. agent.go:89 is the single HandleNotify call in the tree, and handleCancel reaches sess.invokeCancel(). So the one message that frees occupied slots is now discarded exactly when every slot is occupied. Fill 128 handlers, send a cancel, nothing happens, and the connection stays saturated until those handlers finish on their own. The throttle makes its own trigger condition unrecoverable.
Measured on both heads with the same fixture, 128 blocking work handlers and then one cancel frame:
this branch: PROBE handlers started = 128 of 128
PROBE cancel notifications delivered = 0
main: PROBE handlers started = 128 of 128
PROBE cancel notifications delivered = 1
Notifications should not share a budget with the requests they are meant to interrupt. The simplest correct thing is to leave the notify path alone: it is bounded in practice by the handlers actually registered, and there is exactly one. If you would rather bound it too, give it its own small allowance, or run cancel inline on the read loop since handleCancel only unmarshals and flips a flag.
Two things I looked at and decided are not blocking, noted so nobody re-derives them.
Writing the busy reply from the read loop means an undrained peer blocks reading. That is not new: handleLine already calls writeError on that goroutine for parse errors and bad versions, so the class predates this PR. It does become reachable with well-formed input rather than only malformed input, which is worth knowing, but I would not hold the PR for it.
The limit is off by one against the constant. buf includes the newline, so a frame whose payload is exactly limit bytes is rejected and the real maximum payload is limit - 1. Your own TestReadNDJSONFrameRejectsOversizedTerminatedFrame pins that, so it is deliberate; it just means maxFrameBytes is not quite the number it reads as. Fine either way, only worth a word in the comment.
Also frameLimit has no setter and NewConn never sets it, so in production it is always the constant and the field exists for tests. That is fine, but say so on the field or someone will go looking for the configuration that sets it.
Fix the cancel path and I will approve.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 211-214: Prevent oversized frames from reaching request dispatch:
update readNDJSONFrame to return no frame alongside the limit error, or change
Serve so handleLine is called only when err is nil. Extend the regression test
for an oversized ping request to verify its handler is not invoked.
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The cancel fix is right, and I re-ran the same fixture rather than reading the commit message. 128 handlers saturated, then one session/cancel:
handlers started = 128 of 128
cancel notifications delivered = 1
It was 0 before. Unthrottling the notify path entirely was the right call over giving it its own allowance, since there is exactly one notifier registered and it only unmarshals and flips a flag.
Moving acquireSem inside the goroutine is also the right instinct, and I want to say why explicitly, because the obvious alternative is wrong: acquiring before the go would block the read loop while the semaphore is full, and session/cancel arrives on that same stream, so cancel would stop being READ rather than stop being dispatched. That is the same bug one layer down. Spawning first keeps the stream drainable.
The cost is the thing the PR opens by naming. Measured on this head:
handlers executing = 128 (cap 128)
goroutines: base=4 now=4005 delta=4001 for 4000 queued requests
One goroutine per inbound request, unbounded, which is the sentence at the top of the description. What is bounded now is handler EXECUTION, and that is the expensive half, so this is already better than main on two of three axes. But a peer that streams requests still grows the process without limit, just more cheaply than before.
The missing piece is a bound on the QUEUE, not on execution, and you had the mechanism and removed it: codeServerBusy. Cap the requests waiting for a slot, and reply -32000 past the cap rather than spawning. Cancel stays unthrottled, the stream stays drainable, and the count stops being a function of what the peer sends.
To be clear about weight, since this is the second round: I am asking for it because the unbounded goroutine is the problem this PR exists to fix, not because what is here is worse than what it replaces. If you would rather land the two axes that are fixed and do the queue bound as a follow-up, say so and I will approve this as it stands.
Two smaller things on the rewrite.
readNDJSONFrame is cleaner than the previous version and the ErrBufferFull loop is the right shape. It accumulates up to limit before rejecting, so a hostile peer can still make the process hold 64 MiB per connection, which the old ReadBytes also did without a ceiling; worth a word in the comment that the bound is on retention rather than on nothing.
The comment on the limit now states the off-by-one plainly, which answers my last note.
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You did the harder of the two options I offered, so clearing my verdict.
The acquire is non-blocking now: select on the semaphore with a default that replies -32000 instead of spawning. That bounds the goroutine count by the cap rather than by what the peer sends, which was the thing this PR exists to fix, and it does it without reintroducing the bug I warned about, because the read loop never blocks on the semaphore and cancel stays on the unthrottled notify path.
Falsified rather than read. Making the acquire blocking again, which is the obvious-looking alternative, hangs TestConnSaturatedRequestsReturnsServerBusy until the test binary times out:
panic: test timed out after 1m0s
That is the read-loop stall itself, and it is worth noticing that your test catches it rather than just catching the busy reply. Green with it restored, including -race -count=2.
One thing still open, and it is the one I marked non-blocking: the readNDJSONFrame doc says the frame is bounded by limit and states the off-by-one, but not that the bound is on retention rather than on nothing, so a hostile peer can still hold 64 MiB per connection before the reject. Worth a clause whenever you are next in the file.
Also worth knowing: your CI had never run on any of your PRs. They were all parked at action_required, GitHub's approval gate for outside contributors, so CodeRabbit was the only check you were seeing. I released all eleven. This one is green. Three came back red and I have posted diagnoses on #941, #952 and #954, all Windows only, and #952 is the one worth reading first because it is a problem with the approach rather than the code.
gofmt clean, go vet clean, CI green, 8 commits behind main.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:189
This head is based onad34dc8d81daa6e2c171df4c237b14aff8561ff9, while livemainis1b5db1765672820caac1684b168c9898b5ba3593and changes both ACP files. The repository requires a fresh base; please rebase and have the resolved ACP diff reviewed again.
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[P1] Reject an oversized frame before dispatching it
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:192
readNDJSONFramereturns the over-limit buffer alongside its error, butServecallshandleLinefor any nonblank buffer before checking that error. A valid request padded past the limit (including with JSON whitespace) can therefore run its handler and side effects before the connection is rejected. Ensure a frame-limit failure is never passed to dispatch, and cover it with a handler-invocation regression test. -
[P1] Keep saturated-request replies from stalling cancellation intake
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:349
When all request slots are full, this writes the-32000response synchronously on the only input-reader goroutine. If the client is backpressuring stdout, that write blocks before a followingsession/cancelnotification can be read, so the full request pool cannot be cancelled. Preserve busy responses, but ensure their output backpressure cannot stop the read loop from receiving cancellation.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 355-363: Bound server-busy response handling in the
request-serving flow around c.sem and c.writeError by using a fixed writer
worker or bounded error-response queue; when saturated, terminate the session
rather than creating additional goroutines or retaining rejected requests.
Preserve the server-busy response for capacity-available queue entries, and add
a saturation test that stalls output, sends many excess requests, and verifies
bounded goroutine or queue growth.
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[P1] Bound rejected-request response work when stdout is blocked
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:354
The semaphore bounds handlers that are admitted, but its full-capacity branch does not bound rejected work: every excess request copies its ID, incrementswg, and starts a goroutine forwriteError. All replies serialize throughwriteMu(internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:518), so an ACP client that stops reading stdout leaves the first busy reply blocked inw.Writeand every later rejected request leaves another goroutine blocked behind that mutex.Servealso waits for these goroutines in its deferredwg.Wait(internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:161), so a stalled peer can grow memory/goroutines without bound and prevent a clean session shutdown. The current stalled-writer regression demonstrates that cancellation can still be read behind one busy reply, but it does not exercise many rejected requests or verify bounded growth.Please address the root cause: overload admission and overload response delivery need a shared bounded failure policy. Do not create one detached response writer per rejected request. Instead, ensure that an output-stalled session has a fixed bound on queued/waiting busy replies and then stops accepting work or terminates the session. Preserve the current nonblocking request admission and the unthrottled
session/cancelintake; do not move semaphore acquisition onto the read loop. Add a regression test that fills the request slots, stalls stdout, streams substantially more requests than the limit, and proves bounded queued/goroutine work plus eventual shutdown.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 563-574: Update the write path around writeMu in write so
admission can be canceled while waiting for a stalled writer: replace the
unconditional mutex wait with the connection’s existing overload/cancellation
signaling mechanism, returning errBusyOverload when cancellation occurs, while
preserving both overload checks and normal serialization. Add a regression test
covering writeBusyLoop holding writeMu, a later tripOverload, and Serve
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Merge readiness
- [P2] Keep the unrelated config cleanup out of this security fix
internal/config/unknownfields.go:134
Thisreflect.Ptr→reflect.Pointerupdate is behaviorally unrelated to the approved ACP resource-limit issue and is not explained by the PR. Please remove it from this change or give it its own approved, tested PR so the security fix remains reviewable and scoped.
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[P1] Let overload cancel handlers waiting for the serialized writer
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:571
The fixed-size busy queue limits only rejected work; it does not make the session's output path cancellable. A stalled peer can leavewriteBusyLoopinw.Writewhile it ownswriteMu. If an already admitted handler completes during that stall, it can passwrite's firstoverloadedcheck and then block atwriteMu.Lock. A subsequent rejected request fills the busy queue and another callstripOverload; this cancels the serve context, but neither the mutex wait nor the blocked write observes that cancellation. Because the admitted handler remains counted inwg,Servethen blocks in its deferredwg.Waitrather than terminating the overloaded session.Address the root cause by giving tracked writers a bounded, cancellation-aware admission/drain policy, instead of relying on an unconditional mutex wait after overload. The policy must preserve normal serialized output, keep the input loop able to receive cancellation, and ensure that a peer which stops reading cannot retain a tracked handler indefinitely. Add a regression that stalls output, places an admitted handler behind the writer, then overflows the busy queue and proves
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[P1] Bound notification dispatch as well as request dispatch
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:382
The semaphore covers only request frames. Every registered notification still incrementswgand starts a goroutine without admission control; production registerssession/cancelthrough this path, where each invocation JSON-decodes input and serializes through the agent/session locks. A client can therefore stream valid cancel notifications faster than that work drains and continue accumulating goroutines and memory—the session-wide resource-exhaustion path that #923 says to close.Address the root cause with a bounded notification policy, such as coalescing repeated cancellation for a session or a small dedicated bounded work path. Do not put cancellation behind the request semaphore or block the read loop: cancellation must remain promptly consumable while request capacity is full. Add a flood regression that proves notification work stays bounded while a saturated request can still be cancelled.
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[P2] Do not discard a busy reply that was already admitted to the queue
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:528
The queue accepts the first saturated request's ID, but its delivery is not part of the overload state machine. If a later request finds the one-slot queue full,tripOverloadsetsoverloadedand cancels the busy worker. The worker either exits before reading that accepted ID or callswriteError, whose new early and post-lock overload checks reject the response. A readable client that sends a burst can therefore receive neither the promised-32000for the request already accepted intobusyChnor a reply for the request that overflowed it.Address the root cause by defining one bounded overload-response lifecycle: either flush IDs that were successfully admitted before terminating the session, or do not admit an ID once the policy can no longer guarantee its response. Keep the queue and worker bounds, and add a burst-overload regression that verifies response behavior for both the queued and overflow-causing requests.
Guidance for the next revision
The remaining findings are variations of one underlying problem: the PR bounds only selected admission points, but ACP work continues across several independent lifecycles—input acceptance, notification dispatch, queued rejection replies, serialized output, cancellation, and Serve shutdown. A local nonblocking select or a single-worker queue is not enough by itself when work admitted before the limit can wait indefinitely at a later boundary, or when cancellation makes an already admitted response impossible to deliver.
Please approach the next revision as one session-wide resource and shutdown design, rather than addressing these locations independently:
- Define the ACP session states and transitions explicitly: accepting work, overloaded, draining, and terminated. For each state, specify whether requests, notifications, outbound calls, normal handler replies, and busy replies are admitted, queued, dropped, or failed.
- Put a fixed bound on every attacker-controlled unit of concurrent or retained work. That includes not only request handlers, but also registered notifications, IDs awaiting busy replies, handlers waiting for output serialization, and any goroutine retained to make the session terminate cleanly. Cancellation may need a special coalescing/control path, but it must not become an unbounded bypass.
- Make output ownership part of shutdown. A blocked
io.Writercannot be force-cancelled by a context or a mutex, so tracked handlers must not be able to wait forever behind it. Pick a bounded policy for waiting writers and makeServe's drain behavior consistent with it. - Keep overload decisions and response delivery in one coherent policy. If an ID is accepted as eligible for a
-32000reply, later overload must not silently invalidate that decision unless the protocol/session is deliberately closed under a documented, testable rule. - Test the transitions rather than only individual happy paths. Use a controllable stalled writer and a small semaphore/queue to cover: a normal handler already waiting for output when overload begins; a flood of cancellation notifications while requests are saturated; multiple rejected requests crossing the busy-queue boundary; and eventual
Servereturn without unbounded goroutines or releasing the stalled writer. Run these under-race.
This keeps the intended design—nonblocking input, prompt cancellation, serialized JSON-RPC output, bounded resource use, and deterministic shutdown—without requiring a broad rewrite or weakening ACP behavior under normal load.
…ers (fixes Gitlawb#923) Inbound ACP requests and notifications previously spawned unbound goroutines without rate limiting or concurrency backpressure. This adds maxFrameBytes (64MB) and bounds concurrent in-flight dispatch goroutines via a buffered semaphore (maxConcurrentRequests = 128) in Conn.
…usy error when saturated
A frame-limit error no longer reaches handleLine, so a padded valid request cannot run its handler. Saturated -32000 replies are written asynchronously so stdout backpressure cannot stall session/cancel.
…n on overflow Rejected requests share one buffered busy queue and one writer goroutine. When that queue is full the session is cancelled instead of spawning another writer. Admitted handlers skip further writes once overloaded so Serve can exit while stdout is stalled.
A stalled peer can hold the serialized writer. The second Call now returns context.Canceled instead of blocking behind that lock.
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457-460: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winBound the wait for semaphore saturation.
This loop has no deadline. If a slot is never occupied, the test hangs until the package timeout panics, instead of reporting a clear failure. The other new tests in this file use bounded
selectwaits witht.Fatal.🔧 Proposed fix
- // Wait until both slots are occupied - for len(conn.sem) < 2 { - time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond) - } + // Wait until both slots are occupied + deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second) + for len(conn.sem) < 2 { + if time.Now().After(deadline) { + t.Fatalf("timed out waiting for semaphore saturation, len = %d", len(conn.sem)) + } + time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond) + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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746-763: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMake the goroutine bound assertion retry instead of sampling once.
runtime.NumGoroutine()is sampled immediately afterServereturns. At that moment the flood goroutine can still be writing, and each canceled write inacquireWriteleaves one helper goroutine blocked onwriteMu.writeMustays held until the deferredclose(gate)runs, which is after this assertion. The fixed slack of 8 is therefore timing-dependent and can flake under load.Poll until the count settles inside a deadline.
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after := runtime.NumGoroutine() - if delta := after - before; delta > 8 { - t.Fatalf("goroutine growth = %d after %d rejected requests, want bounded", delta, extra) + deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second) + delta := after - before + for delta > 8 && time.Now().Before(deadline) { + time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond) + delta = runtime.NumGoroutine() - before + } + if delta > 8 { + t.Fatalf("goroutine growth = %d after %d rejected requests, want bounded", delta, extra) }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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356-381: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winBound notification dispatch concurrency
internal/acp/jsonrpc.gostarts one goroutine per notification without a limit. A slow or blockedNotifyFunccan therefore accumulate goroutines while request handlers remain saturated. Use a separate notification semaphore or fixed notifier pool, and preserve the separate path forsession/cancel.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 408-424: Update Conn.dispatchRequest so writeError and writeResult
use a response context independent of Serve’s cancellation, allowing in-flight
handler responses to be written during normal shutdown while preserving the
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go`:
- Around line 457-460: Replace the unbounded polling loop that waits for
len(conn.sem) to reach 2 with a bounded select-based wait, using a timeout and
t.Fatal on expiration. Preserve the success condition while ensuring the test
reports a clear failure instead of hanging.
- Around line 746-763: Replace the immediate goroutine-count assertion after
Serve returns with polling until the goroutine count is within the allowed
bound, using a bounded deadline and short retry interval. Keep the existing
timeout failure behavior and verify the settled count remains bounded after the
rejected requests, allowing the flood writer and deferred gate cleanup to
finish.
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 356-381: Bound notification dispatch concurrency in the
request/notification handling flow by adding a separate notification semaphore
or fixed notifier pool, rather than spawning unlimited goroutines for
notifications. Keep notification execution independent from the request
semaphore, and preserve the existing special handling path for session/cancel.
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Handler work still sees the cancelled Serve context. The response write uses an independent context so a request that finishes during shutdown is not dropped. write still honors the overload trip.
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[P1] Do not coalesce cancellation across different sessions
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:409
The new notification queue has one replacement slot for an entire method.session/cancelis session-scoped:handleCanceldecodesCancelParams.SessionIDand invokes only that session's cancel function. OncenotifyOn["session/cancel"]is set, a cancel for session A can be put innotifyQ, then overwritten by a cancel for session B beforerunNotifyconsumes it; A is never passed tohandleCanceland its prompt continues. This can happen even before the first notifier goroutine is scheduled, so it is not dependent on a deliberately slow cancel handler.Address the root cause by making the bounded notification policy follow the control message's identity rather than only its method name. A policy keyed by session ID (with a bounded session lifecycle), or another bounded lossless control-message path, would preserve one cancellation per target without restoring unbounded notification goroutines. Keep cancellation independent of the saturated request semaphore. Add a regression that sends interleaved cancels for two active session IDs before the notification worker drains and proves both prompts are cancelled.
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[P1] Let overload terminate a handler already inside a stalled write
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:705
writeAbortonly unblocks writers waiting to acquirewriteMu. If an admitted handler has already acquired it and the peer stops draining stdout, it remains blocked inc.w.Write; a subsequent request burst can fill the semaphore, enqueue a busy reply, then trip overload. Cancellation andwriteAbortdo not interrupt the already-started write, but the handler remains inwg, soServeblocks forever inwg.Wait. The current regression covers the different ordering where the busy writer owns the lock and the handler is merely waiting behind it.Address the root cause at the output-ownership/shutdown boundary: define how an overloaded ACP session stops or detaches tracked work when its transport writer cannot make progress. The solution needs to preserve normal serialized output and the bounded admission policy, while ensuring a handler that already owns a blocked write cannot retain
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[P2] Drain accepted busy replies before returning from the ACP command
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:176
writeBusyLoopis not joined byServe. When overload cancels the connection,Servecan return whileflushBusystill holds IDs that were accepted bybusyCh; the only production caller,runACP, immediately returns an error exit. Process teardown can therefore end the worker before it writes the promised-32000responses. The current test keeps an in-process recorder alive afterServehas returned, so it does not exercise the CLI lifetime where the response is lost.Address the root cause by making busy-ID admission and shutdown one lifecycle: an ID admitted as eligible for a busy response must have a deterministic terminal outcome before the production ACP command tears down. That can be a bounded drain/join protocol or a policy that avoids accepting an ID unless its response can be completed; it should not require replying to IDs intentionally rejected after the queue-overflow boundary. Add coverage through
runACP(or an equivalent process-lifetime harness) that races overload against accepted busy replies and verifies the admitted IDs' outcome.
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In `@internal/acp/agent_test.go`:
- Around line 662-669: Move the MethodSessionCancel interceptor registration out
of the running-Serve phase so conn.notifiers is not mutated concurrently with
dispatchNotify. Extend newHarness with an optional pre-Serve setup hook, or
construct the connection and start Serve after applying the override, while
preserving the existing cancellation-count and blocking behavior.
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Line 489: Replace the Background context used for response writes in Serve
with a bounded context using the responseWriteTimeout constant, so stalled
in-flight writes eventually unblock and Serve can return after EOF. Define the
timeout alongside the existing limits and add a regression test covering a
stalled writer, one admitted request, input closure, and eventual Serve
completion.
- Line 446: Update the notification queue logic around notifyQ and runNotify so
duplicate non-idempotent session/update payloads are preserved instead of
overwriting notifyQ[key]; restrict key-based coalescing to idempotent
notifications such as session/cancel, or use a bounded FIFO for session/update
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| origCancel := h.agent.conn.notifiers[MethodSessionCancel] | ||
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Do not mutate conn.notifiers after Serve starts.
newHarness starts agentConn.Serve at Line 105. HandleNotify performs an unsynchronized map write (c.notifiers[method] = fn), and dispatchNotify reads the same map from the Serve goroutine. This test writes the map while Serve runs, so a concurrent notification produces a Go map race. go test -race can report it, and the runtime can panic with "concurrent map read and map write".
Register the interceptor before Serve starts. Pass a hook through newHarness, or build the Agent and connection in the test and start Serve after the override.
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In `@internal/acp/agent_test.go` around lines 662 - 669, Move the
MethodSessionCancel interceptor registration out of the running-Serve phase so
conn.notifiers is not mutated concurrently with dispatchNotify. Extend
newHarness with an optional pre-Serve setup hook, or construct the connection
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cancellation-count and blocking behavior.
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[P1] Do not coalesce
session/updatepayloads
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:443
The new notification queue applies its one-entry replacement slot to every(method, sessionId)pair.session/updateis not idempotent:notifier.textemits every streamed delta separately, and tool/plan updates follow the same path. If the editor's update handler is still processing update A, then B and C arrive,notifyQ[key]is first set to B and then overwritten with C;runNotifycalls the handler for A and C only. The editor can consequently render truncated assistant output, miss tool-state transitions, or observe a plan without its intervening state.Address the root cause by separating reliable stream events from notifications that are safe to coalesce. Preserve ordered delivery for
session/update(with explicit bounded backpressure, a bounded FIFO, or an equivalent policy that has a defined failure outcome), and reserve latest-value replacement only for idempotent state/control messages where loss is protocol-safe. Add a regression that blocks an update handler, emits several text and non-text updates for one session, and proves that the consumer observes every required event in order. -
[P2] Do not drop a cancellation when the notifier cap is full
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:450
After 32 distinct notification keys are active, this branch returns without invoking or retaining the next notification. A sufficiently bursty client can fill the scheduling window before the notifier goroutines drain; the 33rdsession/cancelis then discarded, soAgent.handleCancelnever calls that session's cancel function and its prompt continues.handleCancelis normally short-lived, making this a narrower path than the stream-loss findings, but an ACP control message must not be silently lost because other sessions happened to cancel first.Address the root cause by defining cancellation as a bounded lossless control path, rather than treating it as an ordinary best-effort notification. The policy may coalesce duplicate cancels for the same session, but it must retain one pending cancel for every affected session or explicitly apply backpressure; it must also stay independent of the saturated request semaphore. Add a regression that sends more than
maxNotifyActivedistinct session cancels before workers drain and verifies every session receives its cancellation. -
[P1] Bound total admitted request memory, not only each frame
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:89
A 64 MiB frame limit combined with 128 admitted request handlers still permits roughly 8 GiB of attacker-controlled request data to be live at once. A peer can send 128 valid near-limitsession/promptframes whose provider work blocks; decoding retains the prompt content for each active handler, and only request 129 takes the busy path. This is enough to OOM a normal desktop process before the nominal concurrency limit becomes protective, so the implementation does not provide the aggregate memory cap required by #923.Address the root cause by bounding the product of frame size and concurrent retained work, not those dimensions independently. Account for a frame's bytes before admitting it, release that accounting when the handler reaches its terminal state, and make over-budget requests follow a defined bounded rejection/connection-close policy. A smaller coupled frame/concurrency limit is also acceptable if it establishes a defensible aggregate ceiling. Add a test with a small injected byte budget and blocking handlers that proves the budget, not merely the handler count, stops additional payload admission.
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[P2] Finish the accepted busy-reply lifecycle before the ACP command returns
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:197
writeBusyLoopis started outsideServe's wait group. Once overload cancels the connection,Servemay return after its 100 ms handler drain while the busy worker is still waiting forwriteMuor blocked in its persistentWrite.runACPimmediately turns that return into a process exit, so IDs that were successfully admitted tobusyChcan lose their promised-32000response during process teardown.TestQueuedBusyReplySurvivesOverloadBurstdoes not establish the production guarantee because it opens the writer gate and polls its in-process recorder only afterServehas returned.Address the root cause by making busy-ID admission and command shutdown one lifecycle. An ID admitted as eligible for
-32000needs a deterministic terminal outcome beforerunACPexits: either a bounded drain/join protocol, or a policy that declines admission unless that outcome can be guaranteed. Keep the queue bounded and do not expand the promise to IDs intentionally rejected after the overflow boundary. Add coverage throughrunACPor an equivalent process-lifetime harness that stalls output, triggers overload, and verifies the terminal outcome of every admitted busy ID before the command returns.
Queue session/update in a FIFO, deliver every session/cancel past the notify cap, account inflight bytes before admit, and join writeBusyLoop.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go`:
- Around line 1272-1274: Update the assertion in the test around the got
collection to verify both the count and exact ordered payload sequence,
comparing got against the three expected updates so reordered deliveries fail.
- Line 1319: Update the test setup around conn.inflightLimit and the first
request so the byte budget admits exactly one frame; wait until the first
request’s handler has started before sending the second frame, ensuring the
-32000 response verifies in-flight accounting for the second request.
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 447-451: Update the MethodSessionUpdate and MethodSessionCancel
dispatch paths in the message switch to acquire permits from a shared bounded
admission queue or permit pool before starting handler goroutines, and release
them when handling completes. Ensure both notification types share the same
global bound while preserving per-session update ordering and cancellation
delivery.
- Line 208: Update the busy-writer lifecycle around writeBusyLoop and
c.wg.Add(1) so shutdown remains bounded or cancellable even when c.overloaded is
false. Ensure the deferred shutdown path can terminate a persistent blocked
write and never wait indefinitely for the busy writer after input closes.
- Line 484: Update the queue-draining logic around sessionUpdateQ and updateOn
so that consuming the final queued update also deletes the corresponding
sessionUpdateQ[target] entry, releasing the target key and payload storage while
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Delete emptied sessionUpdateQ keys, admit session/update and cancel under maxSpecialNotify, and always bound writeBusyLoop join on shutdown.
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The blocking gaps from the earlier review (session/update ordering, per-session cancel delivery, aggregate inflight-byte budgeting) look addressed on 882eafc1. What remains is one session-wide design thread: admission and overload trip are bounded, but response delivery and command shutdown still use three independent policies (handler replies, busy replies, and Serve/runACP exit). The items below are variations of that root cause, not three unrelated bugs.
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[P2] Unify shutdown drain policy instead of always capping
wg.Waitat 100ms
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:217
What happens.Serve's defer always raceswg.WaitagainstoverloadDrainTimeout(100ms), regardless of whetheroverloadedis set. The comment directly above the defer describes skipping the wait only on overload, but the code applies the cap on every exit path (EOF, signal cancel, and overload).Why it matters. On merge-base
main, this defer waited without a timeout so in-flight handlers could finish writing after stdin closed. The 100ms cap is a reasonable escape when a handler is blocked inside a stalledw.Write— that was a real hang class this PR correctly targets. The problem is applying the same cap on clean shutdown: a handler that has already receivedctxcancellation, computed its final result, and is emitting through thecontext.Background()response path (dispatchRequestat line 623) may still be insidelockWrite/Writewhen the 100ms timer fires.Servethen returns,runACPexits immediately (internal/cli/acp.go:82), and the editor can miss a reply that the handler already produced.TestServeEOFStillWritesInFlightResponseonly covers the fast path where the handler unblocks and writes well under 100ms; it does not stall stdout.Root cause. Shutdown policy is split across comments, tests, and behavior:
writeCtx = context.Background()says "finish replies after Serve cancellation," while the unconditional 100ms cap says "never wait long forwg," with no explicit rule for which path wins when stdout is slow.Guidance. Treat shutdown as an explicit state machine, not a single timer:
- On clean EOF/cancel (not overloaded): wait for
wgwithout the 100ms cap, or wait until every admitted handler either completes its response write or hits a separate, documented write-side timeout. Do not restore unbounded waiting behind a transportWritethat will never make progress — that reintroduces the pre-PR hang. - On overload (
overloaded == true): keep a bounded drain (the current 100ms or similar) so a stalled peer cannot retainServeindefinitely. - Align the defer comment with whichever policy you ship.
Add a regression that closes stdin (or cancels the signal context) while stdout is stalled, with a handler that has already been cancelled and is writing its terminal reply, and assert whether the response is delivered before
Servereturns or a documented timeout/error path is taken. - On clean EOF/cancel (not overloaded): wait for
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[P3] Tie busy-ID admission to a terminal outcome before
runACPexits
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:767
What happens. When request admission fails,tryEnqueueBusymay place a request ID onbusyCh(capacity 1).writeBusyLoopdrains that queue throughwriteBusy, which callswriteMsg(..., persist=true)withcontext.Background(). The persist path intentionally bypasses theoverloadedwrite gate so-32000can still be emitted during teardown — that part is correct.The gap is completion before process exit. If stdout is stalled,
writeBusyblocks waiting forwriteMuwhile another goroutine holds it insidew.Write.Serve's defer may return after the 100mswgcap whilewriteBusyLoopis still insideflushBusy.runACPthen returnsexitCrashand the process tears down, so an ID already accepted intobusyChmay never receive its promised-32000.TestQueuedBusyReplySurvivesOverloadBurstopens the writer gate and polls an in-process recorder afterServehas returned; it does not model the production CLI lifetime where the worker dies with the process.Root cause. Busy-reply admission and command shutdown are not one lifecycle. Admission promises a response; shutdown does not guarantee the busy worker reaches a terminal write before
runACPreturns.Guidance. Pick one bounded policy and test it end-to-end through
runACP(or an equivalent process-lifetime harness):- Join path: after input closes or overload trips, bounded-wait for
writeBusyLoopto finish flushing admitted IDs beforerunACPreturns; or - Decline path: do not admit an ID to
busyChunless the persist write can complete within a bounded write budget (and overflow immediately totripOverloadinstead); or - Documented loss path: explicitly document that admitted busy IDs may be abandoned when the transport is stalled, and ensure the overflow-triggering request (the one that trips overload when the queue is full) is never promised a reply — which is already the case at lines 415–417.
Keep the queue bounded and the single-writer design. Do not extend the
-32000promise to requests intentionally rejected past the overflow boundary. - Join path: after input closes or overload trips, bounded-wait for
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[P3] Give every admitted inbound request an explicit terminal outcome on overload
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:621
What happens.tripOverloadsetsoverloadedand callsserveCancel, which cancels thectxpassed into admitted handlers. Asession/prompthandler may still run down the success path:runTurnobservescontext.Canceled,stopReasonForreturnsStopCancelled, andhandleSessionPromptreturnsPromptResult{StopReason: ...}with a nil error.dispatchRequestthen callswriteResult, butwriteMsgrejects non-persist writes whenoverloadedis true, and the error is discarded (_ = c.write(...)at line 638). No JSON-RPC response frame is emitted for that request ID.Why it matters (and what it is not). This is separate from the intentional "no reply for the request that overflows the busy queue" case (lines 415–417). It affects requests that were admitted and executed before overload. In practice the connection is already fatal (
ServereturnserrBusyOverload,runACPexits withexitCrash), so many editors will observe process death rather than an infinite hang. The defect is still missing protocol closure: the server computed a terminal handler outcome but did not serialize it.Root cause. Overload teardown blocks non-persist outbound writes globally, but handler completion does not translate that into an alternate terminal signal (error frame, fail-fast on the read loop, or a documented "connection dead, no per-id reply" rule for admitted work).
Guidance. During overload wind-down, every admitted inbound ID should have a defined terminal outcome:
- Prefer emitting a response while the transport is still writable (result with
stopReason: cancelled, or an explicit-32000/connection-fatal error), using the same persist/background-write policy you use for EOF shutdown; or - If the design is "overload means no further per-id replies," document that and ensure clients fail fast (for example by closing the write side promptly) rather than leaving them waiting for a frame that will never come.
Add a regression where a blocking handler is admitted, overload is triggered by a later saturated request, the first handler unwinds to a cancelled stop reason, and the test asserts the client receives either the expected response/error frame or a documented connection-fatal signal — not silence.
- Prefer emitting a response while the transport is still writable (result with
Guidance for the next revision
The prior round's resource-exhaustion findings are largely in place. The remaining work is to make shutdown one coherent policy across the boundaries this PR already touches:
- Name the session states explicitly — accepting, overloaded, draining, terminated — and for each state specify whether inbound requests, notifications, handler replies, busy replies, and outbound agent
Calls are admitted, queued, written, or abandoned. - Separate clean shutdown from overload shutdown. EOF/signal cancel should preserve in-flight reply delivery where the transport can still accept bytes. Overload should keep the bounded escape from stalled
Writecalls. The unconditional 100ms cap mixes those two stories. - Make output ownership part of termination. A blocked
io.Writercannot be force-cancelled; admitted work must not wait forever behind it, but work that has already produced a reply should either get a bounded write window or a documented abandonment rule beforerunACPexits. - Test through command lifetime, not only
Serve. Several tests validate behavior while theConnand recorder remain alive afterServereturns. Production exits the process immediately; extend coverage for busy-reply and overload paths accordingly.
This keeps the intended design — non-blocking input, prompt session/cancel under saturation, bounded memory/goroutines, serialized JSON-RPC output — without asking for a broad rewrite of the admission machinery that is already working.
Cap wg.Wait at 100ms only when overloaded. Admitted handler replies use persist writes during overload so cancelled turns still emit a frame.
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The shutdown fixes on d3d6d51 look good: clean EOF/cancel again waits unbounded for wg, overload keeps the 100ms escape hatch, and admitted handler replies now use persist writes when overloaded so cancelled stop-reason results are not silently dropped. The resource-exhaustion work for #923 — frame bounds, non-blocking admission, byte budget, cancel/update ordering — is largely in place. What remains is two places where admission policy and response delivery still disagree about what was rejected and what was promised.
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[P3] Unify busy-reply admission with command shutdown so admitted IDs reach a terminal outcome
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:417
What happens. WhentryAdmitfails,handleLinecopies the request ID and callstryEnqueueBusy. If the one-slotbusyChaccepts it, that ID is implicitly promised a-32000frame fromwriteBusyLoop(771-798).writeBusyuseswriteMsg(..., persist=true)so the reply can still be emitted during overload teardown — that part is correct.The failure path is a compound edge: stdout is stalled (peer not draining), a busy reply is blocked inside
w.Writewhile holdingwriteMu, and a later reject fillsbusyChand trips overload (419-420).tripOverloadcancels the serve context and closeswriteAbort, butwriteBusyis in the persist branch oflockWrite(823-832), which waits only on mutex acquisition and does not selectwriteAbort. The blockedWritedoes not observe cancellation.On overload exit,
Serve's defer capswg.WaitatoverloadDrainTimeout(100ms) and returns (219-228) even thoughwriteBusyLoopmay still be insidewriteBusy/flushBusy.runACPthen returnsexitCrashimmediately (internal/cli/acp.go:82-84) with no post-Servedrain, so the process can exit while an ID already accepted intobusyChhas not been written.Why it matters (and what it is not). This is not the same as the intentional no-reply case when
busyChis already full (419-420): that overflow-triggering request is correctly denied a response so the read loop never blocks. This finding is about IDs accepted into the queue. It also only bites when stdout is stalled and overload trips; on a healthy transport,writeBusycompletes and the issue does not reproduce.On overload the session is already fatal, so many editors will observe process death rather than hang forever. The defect is still lifecycle inconsistency within this PR's own busy-reply design: admission says "you get
-32000", shutdown says "100ms then exit", andrunACPdoes not reconcile the two.Root cause. Busy-reply admission, persist writer completion,
Serveoverload drain, andrunACPexit are four independent policies. Admission can commit to a response before the shutdown path has any way to complete or explicitly abandon that commitment when the transport cannot make progress.TestQueuedBusyReplySurvivesOverloadBurstvalidates delivery only while the test process keeps the recorder alive afterServereturns; it does not exercise command lifetime.Guidance (address the root cause, not just the timer). Treat busy admission and command shutdown as one state machine. For each admitted busy ID, pick exactly one terminal outcome before
runACPreturns:- Delivered —
-32000reached stdout (or kernel pipe buffer) within a bounded write budget. - Declined — ID never entered
busyChbecause the persist write could not complete within that budget; overflow totripOverloadinstead. - Documented abandonment — overload on a stalled transport means admitted busy IDs may be lost; do not enqueue unless willing to abandon on stall (simplest, but weakens the
-32000promise).
Recommended shape: propagate a rejection reason from
tryAdmit(byte budget vs semaphore vs success) and a shutdown phase (accepting → overloaded → draining → terminated). Busy admission should check whether a persist write can make progress (e.g.writeMuavailable, or a short try-lock/write deadline) before enqueueing. On overload shutdown, either joinwriteBusyLoopwith the same bounded budget used for handler drain, or decline admission when the writer is stalled.Regression to add: stall stdout, fill
busyChwith one admitted reject, trip overload with a second reject, then run throughrunACP(not justServe) and assert the admitted ID's terminal outcome matches the chosen policy.Do not regress: non-blocking read loop, single-slot
busyCh, no-32000for the overflow-triggering request, unthrottledsession/cancel, and fatal overload exit. - Delivered —
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[P3] Propagate admission failure reason into the busy reply instead of one message for every reject
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:559
What happens.tryAdmitcan return false for two different reasons:- Byte budget —
admittedBytes+n > maxInflightBytes(565-567), with semaphore slots potentially still free. - Concurrency — semaphore
selectdefault after bytes were reserved (574-584).
Both paths converge on the same
tryEnqueueBusy→writeBusyLoop→writeBusychain, which always uses one static error:Message: "server busy: max concurrent requests exceeded"(
773).TestInflightByteBudgetRejectsonly checks that-32000appears; it does not assert the message, so the byte-budget path is untested for semantics.Why it matters. Issue #923 adds an aggregate memory cap distinct from handler count. When the byte budget rejects a frame while slots remain, the client is told the problem is concurrency. That misleads retry/backoff logic (waiting for handlers to finish will not help if the cap is bytes) and makes it harder to verify #923 in tests or production logs.
Root cause.
tryAdmitis a single boolean gate with no exported rejection reason, andwriteBusyLoophardcodes onebusytemplate for all saturated rejects. The admission layer knows why it failed; the response layer always claims concurrency.Guidance (address the root cause). Thread rejection reason through the busy path:
- Change
tryAdmit(or addtryAdmitWithReason) to returnadmitOK,admitByteBudget, oradmitConcurrency(or equivalent). - Pass that reason into
tryEnqueueBusy/writeBusyso the-32000message (orerror.data) reflects the actual limit hit, e.g."server busy: in-flight byte budget exceeded"vs"server busy: max concurrent requests exceeded". - Keep one non-blocking admission shape and one
writeBusyLoop; only the error payload changes. - Extend
TestInflightByteBudgetRejectsto setinflightLimitso the first frame fits and the second fails on bytes with sem capacity remaining, then assert the response message documents memory pressure.
Do not regress: byte-budget enforcement itself,
-32000code, non-blocking admission, or the shared busy-writer design. - Byte budget —
Guidance for the next revision
Both findings share one underlying theme: admission decides what happened, but response delivery does not carry that decision through to shutdown or to the wire.
Please treat the next pass as tightening that contract rather than adding more caps:
- Name rejection reasons at the admission boundary — byte budget, concurrency, and (if kept) busy-queue admission should each have a defined response shape or explicit "no reply" rule.
- Name terminal outcomes at the command boundary — for every ID admitted to
busyCh, state whetherrunACPguarantees delivery, guaranteed decline, or documented loss before exit. - Test through
runACPfor shutdown paths — several tests validate behavior whileConnand recorders stay alive afterServereturns; production exits the process immediately. Extend at least one stalled-writer + overload test through the CLI entry point. - Keep the fatal overload story — this guidance is not asking to keep
Servealive on overload or to reply to overflow-triggering requests. It is asking for internal consistency between what admission promises and what shutdown completes.
This keeps the design you have — non-blocking input, prompt session/cancel, bounded memory/goroutines, serialized output, fatal overload — without reopening the admission machinery that is already working.
Own the write closer, stop admitting busy IDs after overload, and close the writer so a stalled Write cannot hold Serve. Busy JSON is best-effort only while the pipe still accepts bytes.
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Fixes #923 (Z-017)
Summary
In
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go,handleLinespawned an unbounded goroutine for each inbound request without backpressure, exposing the process to potential thread/memory exhaustion from high-cadence streams.Changes
maxFrameBytes = 64 * 1024 * 1024limit constant.sem chan struct{}inConnwith amaxConcurrentRequests = 128limit.handleLineacquires from the semaphore before launching dispatch goroutines, providing natural backpressure to the input stream.Validation
go test -race ./internal/acp/...passes cleanly.Summary by CodeRabbit
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Session Management