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evaluateHealth measured memory severity as heapUsed / heapTotal. heapTotal is the heap V8 has committed so far, not the ceiling it may grow to, and V8 sizes it to demand, so a healthy busy process sits near 100% of it more or less permanently. Since heapTotal <= heap_size_limit always holds, that ratio could only ever over-report severity, never under-report it.

HealthSnapshot.memory now carries an optional heapSizeLimit, measured in monitor.ts next to process.memoryUsage(). evaluateHealth measures against it when present and falls back to heapTotal when absent, so existing callers and any persisted snapshot keep their current behaviour.

The viewer recomputed the same ratio client-side for its HEAP gauge, so that gets the same correction in a second commit.

Fixes #1223

Why

On a live Railway deployment the service reported memory_critical_97%_rss557mb while using 6.0% of the heap it may actually grow into:

bytes
heapUsed 390,771,624
heapTotal 404,930,560
heap_size_limit 6,492,782,592

Because src/triggers/api.ts:274 maps critical to 503, GET /agentmemory/health returned HTTP 503 on a healthy service. At that moment the container was at 3.0 GB of an 8 GB limit, the circuit breaker was closed, and CPU was 3.4%. /agentmemory/livez returned 200 throughout, which is why deploy/railway/railway.json never noticed: it healthchecks /livez, not /health.

#158 reported this same formula at low RSS. The fix that landed added the 512 MB memoryRssFloorBytes gate, which quiets the alert for small processes but left the ratio itself wrong, so the report comes back for any process above the floor. That floor is unchanged here.

How to verify

npm test. test/health-thresholds.test.ts gains four cases, two of which fail on main for the right reason:

× stays healthy when a busy process fills its committed heap but sits far below the V8 limit
  → expected 'critical' to be 'healthy'

× reports the percentage against the limit, not against the committed heap
  → expected 'memory_warn_97%_rss557mb' to be 'memory_warn_6%_rss557mb'

The other two are guards rather than regressions: one asserts a heap genuinely approaching the limit still reports critical, so the change cannot be mistaken for muting the alert, and one asserts a snapshot with no heapSizeLimit behaves exactly as before.

Measured on this branch: 1661 passed, 1 skipped. Baseline on main at 2d38dafe: 1657 passed, 1 skipped. npm run build clean on both.

Overlap with #1177

#1177 also touches src/health/thresholds.ts, src/health/monitor.ts, and src/types.ts. Its hunks sit about twelve lines below mine in thresholds.ts, and adjacent to mine in the other two. Whichever lands first, the other needs a small rebase. Both sides are pure additions, so it should be mechanical. Happy to rebase on request.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • Memory health metrics and dashboard gauges now use the available heap limit for more accurate usage and severity indicators.
    • Health snapshots include the heap limit when available, with fallback behavior preserved.
    • Worker health checks now time out after 5 seconds.
  • Reliability
    • Added alerts for state-store connectivity failures.
    • Optional self-healing can restart services after sustained connectivity issues or engine failure.
  • Deployment
    • Improved Railway health checks, restart behavior, and deployment guidance.

inix-x added 2 commits August 18, 2026 05:52
evaluateHealth divided heapUsed by heapTotal. heapTotal is the heap V8 has
committed so far, not the ceiling it may grow to, and V8 sizes it to demand, so
a healthy busy process sits near 100% of it more or less permanently. Since
heapTotal <= heap_size_limit always holds, the ratio could only ever
over-report severity, never under-report it.

A live deployment reported memory_critical_97% while using 6% of its 6192 MB
heap limit. That made GET /agentmemory/health return 503 on a service whose
container was at 3.0 GB of an 8 GB limit with the circuit breaker closed.

The snapshot now carries heapSizeLimit, measured in monitor.ts alongside
process.memoryUsage(). evaluateHealth measures against it when present and
falls back to heapTotal when absent, so existing callers and any persisted
snapshot keep their current behaviour.

The 512 MB RSS floor from rohitg00#158 stays as-is. It suppressed the alert for small
processes but left the ratio wrong, so the report returned for any process
above the floor.

Refs: rohitg00#1223
Signed-off-by: Omar Gerardo <omargrard@gmail.com>
The dashboard recomputed heapUsed / heapTotal client-side, so it carried the
same over-reporting as the health thresholds did. On a process using 6% of its
heap limit the gauge still rendered red and read "438 / 484 MB", contradicting
the status the API now reports.

It reads heapSizeLimit from the snapshot when present and falls back to
heapTotal, and the label names the same ceiling the bar measures against.

Refs: rohitg00#1223
Signed-off-by: Omar Gerardo <omargrard@gmail.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds V8 heap-limit-aware health metrics, KV failure escalation, post-startup engine-death handling, and source-built Railway deployment validation. It also updates deployment documentation and adds tests for health, viewer, and entrypoint behavior.

Changes

Health monitoring and memory metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expose and consume the V8 heap limit
src/types.ts, src/health/monitor.ts, src/health/thresholds.ts, src/viewer/index.html, test/health-thresholds.test.ts, test/viewer-heap-gauge.test.ts
Health snapshots include heapSizeLimit. Threshold evaluation and dashboard rendering use it when positive, with heapTotal fallback. Tests cover severity, percentages, rounding, and fallback behavior.
Detect and escalate sustained KV failures
src/health/monitor.ts, src/health/thresholds.ts, test/health-monitor.test.ts, test/health-thresholds.test.ts
KV probe errors produce the kv_probe_failed critical alert. Opt-in escalation arms after a healthy probe, counts consecutive failures, requests SIGTERM at the threshold, and forces exit if shutdown stalls. Worker probes time out after 5 seconds.
Terminate after post-startup engine death
src/cli.ts, docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md
The CLI records engine start time and exits after abnormal engine death beyond the 5-second startup grace period unless disabled by configuration. The plan documents this behavior and its verification requirements.

Railway deployment resilience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build and verify the Railway image
.dockerignore, deploy/railway/Dockerfile, deploy/railway/entrypoint.sh, deploy/railway/railway.json, test/deploy-entrypoint-drift.test.ts
Railway builds the package from repository source, validates the resolved SDK and bundled artifacts, disables the observability worker, uses a 60-second health-check timeout, and always restarts the service.
Document deployment behavior
deploy/README.md, deploy/railway/README.md, docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md
Documentation records platform-specific build sources, Railway port configuration, self-healing settings, restart behavior, retired watchdog settings, and deployment verification procedures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f5b2b

This PR corrects heap severity reporting, but Docker deployments may still remain running after the engine container dies, preventing intended recovery and risking an unhealthy service that is not restarted. The viewer also has a bounded threshold mismatch that can show inconsistent memory status, so owner follow-up is needed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Engine
  participant CLI
  participant HealthMonitor
  participant Process
  Engine->>CLI: Exit with code, signal, and stderr
  CLI->>CLI: Check startup grace period
  CLI->>Process: Exit on post-startup engine death
  HealthMonitor->>Process: Request SIGTERM after KV failure threshold
  Process-->>HealthMonitor: Graceful shutdown or timeout
  HealthMonitor->>Process: Force exit with status 1
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The heap-limit fix is in scope for issue #1223, but the PR also includes extensive unrelated engine-death handling, KV escalation, deployment changes, entrypoint changes, Docker build changes, documen… Separate the unrelated hang-resilience, KV escalation, deployment, Docker, documentation, and entrypoint changes into focused pull requests. Keep this PR limited to heapSizeLimit collection, health and viewer calculations, compatibility fal…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 30.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 7 files. (7 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: measuring heap severity against the V8 heap limit.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies issue #1223 by collecting optional heapSizeLimit data, using it for health severity and the viewer gauge, falling back to heapTotal, and adding focused tests.
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The heap-limit fix is in scope for issue #1223, but the PR also includes extensive unrelated engine-death handling, KV escalation, deployment changes, entrypoint changes, Docker build changes, documentation, and drift tests.

Resolution

Separate the unrelated hang-resilience, KV escalation, deployment, Docker, documentation, and entrypoint changes into focused pull requests. Keep this PR limited to heapSizeLimit collection, health and viewer calculations, compatibility fallback, and related tests.

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src/types.ts (1)

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Remove explanatory comments from the changed src/**/*.ts segments.

The repository guideline requires clear naming instead of comments that explain code behavior.

  • src/types.ts#L229-L230: remove the JSDoc comment above heapSizeLimit.
  • src/health/thresholds.ts#L62-L64: remove the explanatory comments above heapCeiling.

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In `@src/types.ts` around lines 229 - 230, Remove the explanatory JSDoc above
heapSizeLimit in src/types.ts lines 229-230 and the explanatory comments above
heapCeiling in src/health/thresholds.ts lines 62-64; leave both declarations
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Assert the fallback percentage, not only the status.

toBe("critical") does not confirm that heapTotal is the denominator. Several incorrect denominators could still produce a critical status.

Assert the exact alert, such as memory_critical_97%_rss1100mb.

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In `@test/health-thresholds.test.ts` around lines 162 - 173, Strengthen the test
around evaluateHealth in the “falls back to the committed heap when
heapSizeLimit is absent” case by asserting the exact alert value, such as
memory_critical_97%_rss1100mb, in addition to the critical status. This must
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In `@src/viewer/index.html`:
- Around line 1582-1584: Update the heap metrics calculation around heapLimit,
heapCeiling, and heapPct to retain the raw byte-valued heap ceiling for
percentage calculations, matching evaluateHealth. Apply MB rounding only when
preparing the displayed heap limit label, while preserving the existing fallback
behavior.

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In `@src/types.ts`:
- Around line 229-230: Remove the explanatory JSDoc above heapSizeLimit in
src/types.ts lines 229-230 and the explanatory comments above heapCeiling in
src/health/thresholds.ts lines 62-64; leave both declarations unchanged.

In `@test/health-thresholds.test.ts`:
- Around line 162-173: Strengthen the test around evaluateHealth in the “falls
back to the committed heap when heapSizeLimit is absent” case by asserting the
exact alert value, such as memory_critical_97%_rss1100mb, in addition to the
critical status. This must verify that heapTotal is used as the fallback
denominator rather than relying only on the status.
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inix-x added 2 commits August 18, 2026 06:15
The gauge rounded both operands to MB before dividing, while evaluateHealth
divides the raw byte values. Near a threshold boundary the two could land on
different sides of it, which defeats the point of having the gauge mirror the
health status.

The percentage now comes off the byte values, and the MB rounding applies only
to the label the gauge displays.

Refs: rohitg00#1223
Signed-off-by: Omar Gerardo <omargrard@gmail.com>
The gauge changes had no coverage, while viewer-graph-cooldown and
viewer-memories-sort already assert viewer behaviour the same way. This follows
that pattern: read src/viewer/index.html and assert the shape of the emitted
JS.

Three cases. The gauge measures against heapSizeLimit and falls back to
heapTotal, the percentage divides raw byte values rather than the MB-rounded
label numbers, and the rounding is applied only where the label is built. Each
one fails against the previous implementation.

Refs: rohitg00#1223
Signed-off-by: Omar Gerardo <omargrard@gmail.com>

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In `@test/viewer-heap-gauge.test.ts`:
- Around line 12-30: Replace the source-text regex assertions in the viewer heap
gauge tests with runtime behavior coverage, preferably by testing an extracted
pure calculation helper or executing the viewer gauge logic. Cover valid,
absent, and zero heapSizeLimit values plus byte inputs where MB rounding would
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In `@src/types.ts`:
- Around line 229-230: Remove the explanatory heap-ceiling comments near
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comments in src/health/thresholds.ts lines 62-64; leave the identifiers and
behavior unchanged.

In `@src/viewer/index.html`:
- Around line 1587-1589: Update the heap color threshold logic near heapPct and
heapColor to use an unrounded heap percentage, matching evaluateHealth’s raw
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/** v8.getHeapStatistics().heap_size_limit — the ceiling V8 may grow to. */
heapSizeLimit?: number;

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove explanatory comments from TypeScript source files.

The added comments explain implementation details. Use the existing clear identifiers instead.

  • src/types.ts#L229-L230: remove the heapSizeLimit documentation comment.
  • src/health/thresholds.ts#L62-L64: remove the heap-ceiling rationale comments.

As per coding guidelines, “Do not add comments that explain what code does; use clear naming instead.”

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inix-x added 3 commits August 18, 2026 09:54
Review asked why these assert on the emitted JS instead of running the gauge.
The answer was not visible from the file: the viewer ships as a single HTML
file with inline JS, so there is nothing to import and execute, and the two
existing viewer tests solve it the same way.

Refs: rohitg00#1223
Signed-off-by: Omar Gerardo <omargrard@gmail.com>
The colour was chosen from the rounded display value while evaluateHealth
compares the raw one, so the two disagreed inside a whole percentage point. At
80.4% health warns, but a rounded 80 failed the gauge's `> 80` test and left
the bar on the lower colour.

The percentage is now kept unrounded for the comparison and rounded only for
the label. Same shape as the surrounding fix: round at the display edge, never
before a threshold test.

Refs: rohitg00#1223
Signed-off-by: Omar Gerardo <omargrard@gmail.com>
The doc comment named the V8 call the field comes from, but monitor.ts already
shows that at the only place the field is populated, so the comment restated
what the code says.

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- Around line 31-38: Update the viewer’s rssAboveFloor calculation to compare
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Comment on lines +31 to +38
it("picks the gauge colour on the unrounded percentage", () => {
// Rounding first put the gauge a whole point out of step with
// evaluateHealth, which compares the raw value: at 80.4% health warns
// while a rounded 80 left the bar on the lower colour.
expect(viewer).toMatch(/heapPct\s*=\s*Math\.round\(heapPercent\)/);
expect(viewer).toMatch(/heapColor\s*=\s*\(heapPercent\s*>\s*80\s*&&\s*rssAboveFloor\)/);
expect(viewer).toMatch(/\(heapPercent\s*>\s*60\s*&&\s*rssAboveFloor\)/);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Compare the RSS floor using raw bytes and cover its boundary.

The viewer rounds snap.memory.rss to MB before evaluating rssAboveFloor, while evaluateHealth compares raw bytes. A value such as 511.5 MiB can therefore receive a warning or critical gauge color even though health evaluation considers it below the floor. Compare raw RSS bytes in src/viewer/index.html and add a boundary assertion here.

Proposed viewer fix
-          var rss = Math.round((snap.memory.rss || 0) / 1024 / 1024);
+          var rssBytes = snap.memory.rss || 0;
+          var rss = Math.round(rssBytes / 1024 / 1024);
...
-          var rssAboveFloor = rss >= 512;
+          var rssAboveFloor = rssBytes >= 512 * 1024 * 1024;
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rssAboveFloor calculation to compare snap.memory.rss as raw bytes against the
existing RSS floor, matching evaluateHealth instead of the rounded MB value.
Extend the test around the gauge-color assertions to cover the exact floor
boundary and ensure values below it are not treated as above-floor.

inix-x added 4 commits August 26, 2026 00:45
registerHealthMonitor has always probed the state store every 30s and measured
event-loop lag, then written the snapshot to KV and returned. evaluateHealth
never read kvConnectivity, so the one signal that reaches the state store was
collected and discarded.

Treat a failed probe as critical, and add an opt-in escalation that exits the
process after 10 consecutive failures so the platform can restart it.

The escalation gates on kvConnectivity specifically, not on snapshot.status:
evaluateHealth raises critical from five independent conditions, so gating on
the aggregate would let a CPU spike during a consolidation pass kill a process
that is not wedged. It also refuses to arm until one healthy probe has been
seen, which stops a store that is already stalled at boot from escalating on
every container start and spending the platform's restart budget.

The counter advances before the snapshot persist, not after. That persist races
no timeout, and a stalled store parks it for the engine's full invocation
timeout, so a counter behind it would never advance during the exact failure
this exists to catch. Two source-order assertions pin that ordering, since no
test constructs registerHealthMonitor and the call site is otherwise executed
by nothing.

Threshold is 10 rather than 3 because src/index.ts documents state::set
exceeding the SDK's 30s timeout under sustained hook load, and a 5s probe
cannot tell a slow store from a dead one.

Also race the workers probe. Unraced it inherited the engine's 180s invocation
timeout and parked the whole collection upstream of the probe.

The connection block in thresholds.ts is now documented as unreachable:
iii-sdk's setConnectionState only assigns a private field and emits nothing, so
connectionState stays "connected" for the life of the process.
The engine is spawned detached and already had an exit handler carrying the exit
code, the signal, and up to 16KB of its dying stderr. It set startupFailure,
logged under vlog, and returned. startupFailure is only ever read on startup
paths, so an engine that died while serving was recorded and forgotten.

That is the failure this deployment actually hits. The engine owns the REST
listener, the stream port, and the state store, so once it dies the surviving
node process cannot serve anything, but it stays up reconnecting forever. The
platform sees a live container and no HTTP, and reports the service healthy.
Confirmed by inspecting a wedged container: no iii process, 3111/3112/49134 all
unbound, only the viewer's loopback listener left.

Report the death on stderr with its captured output and exit non-zero so a
supervisor restarts the container.

On by default, unlike the probe-based escalation. This acts on a process-exit
event rather than a threshold, so there is no false positive to trade against.
Opt out with AGENTMEMORY_EXIT_ON_ENGINE_DEATH=0.

The startup grace is deliberately short. It exists so a failed spawn keeps the
startup path's clearer message, and a failed spawn surfaces within a second or
two. A longer window is a hole in the only mechanism that catches this: an
engine dying inside it after startup completed would leave the container up and
serving nothing, which is the bug itself.

Verified in a container: engine killed at 11s and at 63s both exit 1 with the
diagnostic; the opt-out leaves it running.
The Dockerfile installed the published @agentmemory/agentmemory package, so it
never carried this repo's source. The deployed container ran 0.9.28 with none of
the health fixes on this branch, and /opt/agentmemory/src did not exist. Any
fork-level fix was invisible to production.

Build the package here and install the packed tarball. Installing the tarball
rather than copying files keeps npm placing the package at
node_modules/<pkg-name>/, which reproduces the exact prefix entrypoint.sh
hardcodes for the iii worker config. Moving that prefix would kill the container
at boot under set -eu, so two build-time asserts now fail the build instead: one
on the resolved iii-sdk version, one on the installed layout.

No lockfile: .gitignore excludes it by repo policy, so it is absent from any
git-based build context and npm ci cannot run. That trades build reproducibility
away, which is the policy's cost rather than a choice made here. The builder
upgrades npm first because node:22-slim ships 10.9.x, whose arborist fails this
tree without a lockfile with "Cannot read properties of null (reading
'edgesOut')" -- reproduced on a clean git-only context.

npm pack ships only the files allowlist, so the runtime install would otherwise
resolve the repo's overrides unpinned. Derive them from the packed tarball so a
new CVE pin cannot silently fail to reach the container.

restartPolicyType becomes ALWAYS: the SIGTERM shutdown path ends in exit(0),
which ON_FAILURE reads as success and would not restart.

This also commits deploy settings that were already live but uncommitted: the
in-memory OTEL exporter stays disabled (it drove the heap growth that crashed
the container on 2026-08-23) and healthcheckTimeout stays at 60 for the BM25
startup backfill. The reason for the exporter divergence now lives next to the
value rather than only in a test.

The drift guard pins the four entrypoints against each other without line
indices, so an insertion anywhere fails it rather than breaking it.
Keeps the reasoning that produced the two fixes, including the parts that turned
out wrong, because the wrong turns are the reusable material.

The first diagnosis blamed a stalled state worker inside a live process. It was
an engine process death: the REST listener lives inside the engine, so it dies
first rather than last, and the state::set timeout in the evidence is a
consequence of the engine already being gone.

That misreading came from one discarded assumption. The ECONNREFUSED reconnect
stream was written off as background noise on the belief it starts at boot. It
does not, and the arithmetic settles it: the SDK caps a reconnect attempt at 39
seconds, while one deployment logged attempt 807 over a span needing 70.9
seconds per attempt. Dividing elapsed time by the attempt number dates the
outage to within minutes, and that signal sits in the log buffer already.

Also corrected: a once-per-boot cap that bounds nothing at the deployment level
because the exits are the subshell's, a SIGTERM grace justified as protecting a
store it cannot reach, an acceptance example that contradicted the code, and a
verification command that grepped a path the same document elsewhere says does
not exist.

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src/health/monitor.ts (1)

8-13: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace explanatory field comments with invariant-bearing names.

Rename consecutiveStalls to consecutiveKvProbeFailures. Rename armed to hasSeenHealthyKvProbe. Then remove the added comments.

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In `@src/health/monitor.ts` around lines 8 - 13, In the EscalationState interface,
rename consecutiveStalls to consecutiveKvProbeFailures and armed to
hasSeenHealthyKvProbe, then remove the explanatory comments for those fields.
Update all references to preserve the existing escalation behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@deploy/railway/README.md`:
- Around line 124-126: Correct the removal-date statement in the watchdog
documentation so it does not claim the AGENTMEMORY_WATCHDOG removal occurred
before the stated current date; use the actual removal date or rewrite it in
future tense while preserving the explanation of the engine-exit handler and
external uptime monitoring.

In `@docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md`:
- Around line 58-65: Align the implementation plan with current decisions: in
docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md lines 58-65
and 214-220, mark the August 26 correction and retirement as planned rather than
completed; at lines 422-430, replace the lockfile/npm ci guidance with the KTD6
source-build procedure; at lines 494-506, change startup grace from 60 seconds
to 5 seconds; and at lines 607-628, describe escalation as armed consecutive KV
probe errors rather than consecutive critical snapshots.

In `@src/cli.ts`:
- Around line 970-989: Replace the detached Docker client lifetime assumption
around the engine exit handler with Docker-specific monitoring of the actual
engine container, or a long-lived supervisor representing that container. Ensure
later container termination triggers the existing recovery and process-exit
behavior, while preserving the current startupFailure handling for failures
during startup.

In `@test/deploy-entrypoint-drift.test.ts`:
- Around line 42-45: Update the assertions in the deploy-entrypoint drift test
to run each file through code() before matching enabled values, ensuring regex
checks inspect executable configuration rather than comments. Preserve the
expected enabled: false result for railway and enabled: true result for fly,
render, and coolify.
- Around line 1-4: Add the required iii-sdk mock setup to
deploy-entrypoint-drift.test.ts, including mocks for sdk.trigger, kv.get,
kv.set, and kv.list, while preserving the existing file-reading test behavior.

---

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In `@src/health/monitor.ts`:
- Around line 8-13: In the EscalationState interface, rename consecutiveStalls
to consecutiveKvProbeFailures and armed to hasSeenHealthyKvProbe, then remove
the explanatory comments for those fields. Update all references to preserve the
existing escalation behavior.
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Comment thread deploy/railway/README.md
Comment on lines +124 to +126
An earlier revision of this file documented an in-container shell watchdog
(`AGENTMEMORY_WATCHDOG*`). That was removed on 2026-08-26 in favour of the
engine-exit handler above plus external uptime monitoring.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the watchdog removal date.

August 26, 2026 is tomorrow relative to August 25, 2026. This past-tense statement says that the removal already occurred. Use the actual removal date or future tense.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@deploy/railway/README.md` around lines 124 - 126, Correct the removal-date
statement in the watchdog documentation so it does not claim the
AGENTMEMORY_WATCHDOG removal occurred before the stated current date; use the
actual removal date or rewrite it in future tense while preserving the
explanation of the engine-exit handler and external uptime monitoring.

Comment on lines +58 to +65
**CORRECTED 2026-08-26: the root cause below is wrong, and the correction is
load-bearing for every unit in this plan.** This is not an application hang. The
**iii engine process dies and the node process keeps running.** Verified by
`railway ssh` into a wedged container: `/proc` held only `tini` and
`node /usr/local/bin/agentmemory`, with **no `iii` process at all**;
`/proc/net/tcp` had one listener, `127.0.0.1:3113` (the viewer, owned by node),
while 3111, 3112 and 49134 were all unbound; `/data/state_store.db` mtime equalled
`last_ok` exactly.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the implementation plan with the current decisions and code.

The plan has conflicting build and recovery instructions. It also records August 26, 2026 events as completed, but the review date is August 25, 2026.

  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L58-L65: Correct or mark the August 26, 2026 correction as planned.
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L214-L220: Correct or mark the August 26, 2026 retirement as planned.
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L422-L430: Replace the lockfile and npm ci instruction with the KTD6 source-build procedure.
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L494-L506: Change the stated startup grace period from 60 seconds to 5 seconds.
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L607-L628: Describe escalation as armed consecutive KV probe errors, not consecutive critical snapshots.
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  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L58-L65 (this comment)
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L214-L220
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L422-L430
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L494-L506
  • docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md#L607-L628
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In `@docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md` around
lines 58 - 65, Align the implementation plan with current decisions: in
docs/plans/2026-08-25-001-infra-agentmemory-hang-resilience-plan.md lines 58-65
and 214-220, mark the August 26 correction and retirement as planned rather than
completed; at lines 422-430, replace the lockfile/npm ci guidance with the KTD6
source-build procedure; at lines 494-506, change startup grace from 60 seconds
to 5 seconds; and at lines 607-628, describe escalation as armed consecutive KV
probe errors rather than consecutive critical snapshots.

Comment thread src/cli.ts
Comment on lines +970 to +989
// The engine owns the REST listener, the stream port and the state store.
// When it dies the surviving node process cannot serve anything, but it
// stays up reconnecting forever, so the platform sees a healthy container
// and no HTTP. That is the shape of every wedge observed so far.
//
// Report it and exit, so a supervisor can restart the whole container.
// This is a process-exit event, not a heuristic probe, so there is no
// false-positive to tune. Death during startup keeps the old path: the
// startup code below reads `startupFailure` and renders a better message.
const engineRanFor = Date.now() - spawnedAt;
if (engineRanFor > ENGINE_STARTUP_GRACE_MS) {
console.error(
`[agentmemory] engine exited after ${Math.round(engineRanFor / 1000)}s ` +
`(code=${code} signal=${signal}); nothing can be served without it, exiting`,
);
if (stderr.trim()) console.error(`[agentmemory] engine stderr:\n${stderr}`);
if (process.env["AGENTMEMORY_EXIT_ON_ENGINE_DEATH"] !== "0") {
process.exit(1);
}
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Supervise the Docker engine container instead of the detached Docker client.

docker compose up -d exits with code 0 after it starts the containers. This handler then has no child process that represents the engine lifetime. If the engine container dies later, the Node process stays alive.

Add Docker-specific container exit monitoring, or run a long-lived supervisor, before treating Docker mode as covered by engine-death recovery.

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In `@src/cli.ts` around lines 970 - 989, Replace the detached Docker client
lifetime assumption around the engine exit handler with Docker-specific
monitoring of the actual engine container, or a long-lived supervisor
representing that container. Ensure later container termination triggers the
existing recovery and process-exit behavior, while preserving the current
startupFailure handling for failures during startup.

Comment on lines +1 to +4
import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Add the required iii-sdk mock.

This test file matches test/**/*.test.ts but does not mock iii-sdk, sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, or kv.list as required by the test contract.

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sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list, while preserving the existing
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Comment on lines +42 to +45
expect(files.railway).toMatch(/enabled: false/);
for (const t of ["fly", "render", "coolify"] as const) {
expect(files[t]).toMatch(/enabled: true/);
expect(files[t]).not.toMatch(/enabled: false/);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match executable configuration instead of comments.

The raw-file regex can match a comment containing enabled: false while the YAML value remains enabled: true. Apply code() before these assertions.

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-    expect(files.railway).toMatch(/enabled: false/);
+    expect(code(files.railway)).toMatch(/enabled: false/);
     for (const t of ["fly", "render", "coolify"] as const) {
-      expect(files[t]).toMatch(/enabled: true/);
-      expect(files[t]).not.toMatch(/enabled: false/);
+      expect(code(files[t])).toMatch(/enabled: true/);
+      expect(code(files[t])).not.toMatch(/enabled: false/);
     }
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expect(files.railway).toMatch(/enabled: false/);
for (const t of ["fly", "render", "coolify"] as const) {
expect(files[t]).toMatch(/enabled: true/);
expect(files[t]).not.toMatch(/enabled: false/);
expect(code(files.railway)).toMatch(/enabled: false/);
for (const t of ["fly", "render", "coolify"] as const) {
expect(code(files[t])).toMatch(/enabled: true/);
expect(code(files[t])).not.toMatch(/enabled: false/);
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In `@test/deploy-entrypoint-drift.test.ts` around lines 42 - 45, Update the
assertions in the deploy-entrypoint drift test to run each file through code()
before matching enabled values, ensuring regex checks inspect executable
configuration rather than comments. Preserve the expected enabled: false result
for railway and enabled: true result for fly, render, and coolify.

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