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feat(sdk): durable jobs on a local store — cancel, timeouts, cleanup, admission and run handles - #1018
Proposal item 2.2 (a): durable jobs on a local store, part I. A job's state used to live in memory unless a separate jobs.store.redis was set; a plain execute_job had no timeout, could not be cancelled, left nothing to clean up after
an interrupted attempt, and every call started at once, however many were running. A background run answered with a runId to poll and nothing to subscribe to.
What this PR changes:
SQLite job stores.jobs.store.sqlite keeps runs and dynamic definitions in a SQLite file the processes on one
machine share, through the existing createJobStateStore / createJobDefinitionStore factories, on M02's createStorage({ type: 'sqlite' }) (new StorageJobStateStore / StorageJobDefinitionStore). A mistake in the block
fails startup instead of falling back to memory, and the Zod schema refuses a store with both redis and sqlite.
The factories are now async (they are internal; the SDK root never exported them).
jobs.store honours the top-level config. With no jobs.store backend, jobs use the server's top-level redis
(unless it is Vercel KV, which has no key listing), else its top-level sqlite, else memory (resolveJobsStore()).
On the top-level redis their keys start with its keyPrefix + jobs: (mcp:jobs: by default, as before; jobs.store.keyPrefix overrides it), so servers that share one Redis and set their own redis.keyPrefix keep their
runs and dynamic definitions apart, as their sessions already were. Run records and cancel keys expire 24 hours after
the run's last write; the Redis store's index sets now expire with them (they never did), and the Redis client the
factory opens is closed when the store is disposed (it was left open).
cancel_job tool. It writes the cancel to the store first (JobStateStore.requestCancel(), a key of its own that
no write of the run record can drop), marks the run cancelled, then aborts the run's this.signal with JobCancelledError. A run in another process sharing the store is aborted when that process next reads the store
(every second, for a non-memory store). A run cancelled before it started never starts, and once a cancel is
written the run stays cancelled however its attempt ends, in this process or another. The caller who started the run may cancel it, and so may a caller who
passes the job's explicit delete rule; anyone else gets JOB_RUN_NOT_FOUND, as for an unknown run. A finished run
is refused with JOB_RUN_FINISHED, a workflow run with JOB_RUN_NOT_CANCELLABLE; each refusal carries an M04 remedy. cancel_job is a tool, so it runs through tools:call-tool like every other call.
Timeouts for a plain execute_job. Each attempt runs at most the job's timeout, else jobs.defaultTimeoutMs
(default 300000; 0 turns it off). Past it the attempt is aborted with JobTimeoutError (JOB_TIMEOUT); a timeout
is retried when attempts remain, and a run whose last attempt timed out ends as timed_out. The timer is part of the execute stage of jobs:execute-job and starts with execute(), so a wait for admission does not count.
@Job({ cleanup }). A function, or { run, timeoutMs }, called with the attempt's instance and the reason
('interrupt' | 'timeout' | 'cancel') when an attempt was aborted after its job was built. It runs in a new cleanup
error stage of jobs:execute-job, bounded by its own time limit (default 3000 ms); a throw or an overrun is logged
and never changes how the run ends. An aborted attempt now ends at once with the abort's reason (the flow no longer
waits for execute() to return), so a cleanup runs while a hung job is still hung.
Interrupt at shutdown (M01 lifecycle). The scope's onDispose interrupts every active run with JobInterruptedError, waits for their cleanups (at most lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs, whatever a cleanup's own
limit), records them as interrupted, then disposes the stores (the SQLite storage disconnects). The stdio orphan
exit (M03) runs the same scope disposal.
Admission { concurrency, memoryMb, maxWaitMs }.jobs.admission bounds when attempts (and workflow steps) start
in a process: at most concurrency at once, each claiming memoryMb of the memory the process may still use
(process.availableMemory(), which counts a container's limit; os.freemem() only where it is missing) beyond what
the running ones claimed, in arrival order. Past maxWaitMs (default 600000) the attempt is refused with JobAdmissionTimeoutError
(JOB_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT, with a remedy) and not retried. It is the new admit stage of jobs:execute-job, so a
hook can observe or replace it; the slot is released by the attempt's caller however the flow ends (a throw, a
timeout, a cancel, a refusal, an interrupt). A cancel or a shutdown stops the wait.
Run handle and job://runs/{runId}.execute_job answers with uri: 'job://runs/<runId>' beside runId and state; a background run answers at once with state: 'pending'. job://runs/{runId} is a resource template that
reads the run from the job store (runId, jobName, state, attempts, times, revision, updatedAt, progress, result, error, logs), with the same access rule as get_job_status. Every write the process makes to the run, this.progress() included, sends notifications/resources/updated through notifyContentChanged. The process
writes a run one write at a time (the stores read the record and write it back, so two overlapping writes lost one),
and it keeps no progress an attempt reports after it was aborted or after its run ended. The run record
gains revision (1 at creation, one more per write), updatedAt and progress, and the states timed_out and interrupted.
Shared run access.get_job_status, get_workflow_status, cancel_job and job://runs/{runId} use one rule
(mayAccessRun): the owner, or a caller passing the entry's explicit read / delete rule. A job with no such rule
keeps its runs private, as before. Run ids are random UUIDs, and a foreign run answers exactly like an unknown one.
Job completions. A run that ends timed_out, cancelled or interrupted is published to job-completion
channel sources as 'timeout', 'cancelled' or 'error' (the event type already had those statuses).
Cross-process resources/updated for job://runs/{runId} (a write made by another process sharing the store) arrive
when the coordinator merges M13 and switches this resource to a materialized resource. The run record already carries
the revision and updatedAt that switch reads, so it is a change to the resource's declaration, not to the store.
Design notes, where the code led away from the plan:
Admission and the timeout are per attempt and live in the jobs:execute-job flow (admit stage, execute stage),
following the rule that cross-cutting concerns are hookable stages; a retry waits out its backoff without holding a
slot. A per-run wait in the manager would have counted queue time against the run's timeout.
cancel_job cancels job runs only. A workflow run is refused: the workflow engine has no abort path yet, and
marking it cancelled while its steps run on would be wrong.
The browser bundle budgets move up by exactly this PR's measured growth (see Bundle size).
User-facing change
What changed: new jobs.store.sqlite, jobs.defaultTimeoutMs, jobs.admission options; jobs.store falls
back to the top-level redis / sqlite; new cancel_job tool (also exported as CancelJobTool); new @Job({ cleanup }); the job://runs/{runId} resource template; execute_job answers with uri; new run states timed_out and interrupted; run records carry revision, updatedAt and progress; new error codes JOB_TIMEOUT, JOB_CANCELLED, JOB_INTERRUPTED, JOB_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT, JOB_RUN_NOT_FOUND, JOB_RUN_FINISHED, JOB_RUN_NOT_CANCELLABLE; JobStateStore gains the optional requestCancel() and isCancelRequested(); JobExecutionManager gains cancel(), dispose(timeoutMs?) and an options argument; job-completion events carry 'timeout' and 'cancelled'; new root exports JobRunResource, CancelJobTool and the types JobCleanup, JobCleanupOptions, JobInterruptReason, JobAdmissionOptions, JobRunProgress, JobsStoreConfig, JobExecutionManagerOptions.
Before → after:
Default changed (timeout). Before: an attempt started by execute_job (or a trigger, or in-process code) ran
with no time limit. The 5-minute default was documented everywhere (the @Jobtimeout JSDoc, the Zod schema's default(300000), the catalog's create-job table and its "Job times out unexpectedly" row) but only workflow
steps applied it. After: every attempt ends after the job's timeout, else jobs.defaultTimeoutMs (300000), as JOB_TIMEOUT, and the run as timed_out; a timeout is retried while retry leaves attempts. execute() is not
stopped: a job that ignores this.signal keeps running beside its retry. Migration: a job that may run longer
than 5 minutes sets timeout (or 0 for no limit); jobs.defaultTimeoutMs: 0 restores the old behaviour for the
whole server.
Default changed (store). Before: job runs and dynamic definitions lived in memory unless jobs.store was set.
After: a server with a top-level redis (not Vercel KV) keeps them in Redis under <redis.keyPrefix>jobs:
(mcp:jobs: by default), else one with a top-level sqlite keeps them in that file under mcp:jobs:; run inputs,
results and logs then persist for 24 hours after the run's last write and are shared by the processes using that
store. Migration: servers that share one Redis set different redis.keyPrefix values (or jobs.store.keyPrefix)
so their runs and dynamic job definitions stay apart. No option keeps runs in memory while a top-level redis or sqlite is set.
this.signal is now set for every attempt (it was undefined outside a workflow step), aborted on a timeout, a
cancel or a shutdown.
An attempt aborted by a workflow step's timeout now ends at once; its flow used to wait for execute() to return.
get_job_status / get_workflow_status let a caller who passes the entry's explicit read rule read another
caller's run; the owner-only behaviour stays for entries without one.
A custom JobStateStore keeps working: requestCancel() and isCancelRequested() are optional, and without them
a cancel is read from the run's cancelled state.
Shutdown waits for the interrupted runs at most lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs.
tools/list of a jobs server lists cancel_job, and resources/templates/list lists job://runs/{runId}.
frontmcp.dev pages affected (if known): jobs (create a job: timeouts, cancel, cleanup, admission, run handle),
workflows (step timeouts, admission), server configuration (jobs options), SQLite setup (jobs as a consumer of the
top-level sqlite), production checklist.
Skills catalog entries updated:frontmcp-development/references/create-job.md, frontmcp-development/references/create-workflow.md, frontmcp-development/SKILL.md, the new example frontmcp-development/examples/create-job/durable-build-job.md, frontmcp-setup/references/setup-sqlite.md, frontmcp-production-readiness/references/common-checklist.md, frontmcp-setup/references/setup-redis.md (jobs'
key prefix), frontmcp-channels/references/channel-sources.md (job-completion statuses), and skills-manifest.json (regenerated).
Tests
Unit (libs/sdk):
job/store/__tests__/job-store.parity.spec.ts: the state store contract (revision, updatedAt, merge, run id kept,
list filters and limit, cleanup, cancel requests) on the memory, SQLite and Redis stores; the definition store
contract on memory and SQLite; SQLite data kept across stores on one file and kept apart by key prefix; the
factories report sqlite and fail on an invalid block.
job/__tests__/job-durability.spec.ts: the run handle; cancel_job (abort + cleanup, a run cancelled before it
starts, a run waiting out its backoff, finished / unknown / foreign / workflow runs with their codes and remedies,
a caller passing the delete rule, an inline run failing with JOB_CANCELLED); timeouts (retried, then timed_out; jobs.defaultTimeoutMs; this.signal aborted with the timeout; a cleanup that throws or overruns;
no cleanup for an attempt that ends on its own); job://runs/{runId} (listed, read with state, revision and
progress, foreign and unknown runs not found, the read rule, resources/updated to a subscriber as the run
progresses); admission refusals on concurrency and on memory; on the top-level SQLite store, runs interrupted at
shutdown with their cleanup and read back as interrupted by the next server, and a cancel written by another
server aborting the run, and a run kept cancelled when its attempt fails on its own after another server
cancelled it; a cancel on a custom store without cancel requests; the final state kept while a progress write the
job did not wait for is in flight; no progress kept from an aborted attempt; timeout and cancelled job
completions; admission slots freed after a throw, a timeout, a cancel and an interrupt; shutdown bounded by lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs with a 60-second cleanup; @Job({ cleanup }) validation.
job/__tests__/job-admission.spec.ts (fake timers): no limits, the concurrency wait, arrival order, the refusal at maxWaitMs and its message, abort while waiting, memory claims and polling, process.availableMemory() as the
probe, release once.
job/store/__tests__/job-store.factory.spec.ts: the factory's Redis client closed once on dispose; the Redis
store's index sets expire with the run.
common/metadata/__tests__/jobs-config-schema.spec.ts: the new options parse; redis plus sqlite, a sqlite block
without a path, and invalid admission or timeout values are refused.
workflow/engine/__tests__/workflow-step.executor.timeout.spec.ts: a run outside a workflow step now has a live
signal of its own (was: none).
E2E:apps/e2e/demo-e2e-jobs/e2e/jobs-durable.e2e.spec.ts against src/main.durable.ts (top-level SQLite store,
admission of one at a time with a 300 ms cap): the run handle, cancel with its cleanup, the finished and unknown
refusals with remedies, a timeout ending as timed_out after the cleanup, the admission refusal with its remedy, and notifications/resources/updated for a subscribed job://runs/{runId} plus the final read. apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/durable-jobs-must-compile.ts types @Job({ cleanup }), the new jobs
options, CancelJobTool, the run states and a custom JobStateStore without the cancel methods, and refuses a
string cleanup and a sqlite block without a path.
Ran:
npx jest --maxWorkers=50% in libs/sdk: 606 suites, 7955 tests passed; src/job again after the last spec
edits: 13 suites, 180 passed.
nx test demo-e2e-jobs: 5 suites, 49 tests passed; nx test demo-e2e-dts-consumer: 24 passed; nx test demo-e2e-bundle-size: 10 passed at the time; after the merge-ups and the review fixes, 12 passed on bcf6974 with the budgets in Bundle size.
nx test skills: 249 passed; libs/cli build exec and mcpb specs: 783 passed (no CLI file changed since).
ESLint on every changed file: 0 errors, no warning that the previous commit did not have. tsc --noEmit -p libs/sdk/tsconfig.spec.json: no errors in the job, workflow, channel or provider files. Prettier
check and scripts/fix-unused-imports.mjs: clean.
Bundle size
Durable jobs, with the timer limits on their options, reach the browser bundle. Measured against #1017's head (1423d01): create() + one tool grows by 1,655 bytes minified (1,330,324 → 1,331,979; +429 gzipped) and create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool by 1,657 (1,337,501 → 1,339,158; +422 gzipped). The two browser budgets move up from #1017's by exactly that, to 1,332,933 and 1,339,800 (bcf6974). The Vite initial chunk stays within its budget.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added durable background jobs with SQLite or Redis persistence, progress updates, run status resources, cancellation, timeouts, cleanup callbacks, and concurrency and memory admission limits.
Added a durable-jobs demo and an advanced build-job example.
Expanded the SDK’s job management and configuration options.
Documentation
Updated job, workflow, storage, and production-readiness guidance for durable jobs and their behavior.
Tests
Added coverage for durable-job execution, storage, cancellation, timeouts, admission limits, and TypeScript declarations.
…admission and a run handle
- jobs.store.sqlite keeps runs and dynamic definitions in a SQLite file the
processes on one machine share, through the job store factories on
createStorage({ type: 'sqlite' }); without a jobs.store backend, jobs use the
top-level redis (unless Vercel KV), else the top-level sqlite, else memory.
- cancel_job writes the cancel to the store, marks the run cancelled and aborts
its this.signal; a process sharing the store polls for it. Unknown, foreign,
finished and workflow runs are refused with JOB_RUN_NOT_FOUND,
JOB_RUN_FINISHED and JOB_RUN_NOT_CANCELLABLE, each with a remedy.
- A plain execute_job attempt runs at most the job's timeout, else
jobs.defaultTimeoutMs (300000; 0 for none), and ends with JobTimeoutError; a
run whose last attempt timed out is timed_out.
- @job({ cleanup }) runs in a new cleanup error stage when an attempt is
interrupted, timed out or cancelled, bounded by its own time limit; an
aborted attempt now ends at once. At shutdown active runs are interrupted
and recorded as interrupted before the stores close.
- jobs.admission { concurrency, memoryMb, maxWaitMs } is the new admit stage of
jobs:execute-job; past the cap the attempt is refused with
JOB_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT and a remedy.
- execute_job answers with the run's job://runs/{runId} uri; that resource
template reads the run from the store, and each write to the run, progress
included, sends notifications/resources/updated. Run records carry
revision, updatedAt and progress.
… key prefix, bounded shutdown
- Write a run one write at a time in the process, so a progress write the job did not wait for no
longer overwrites the final state, and a cancel and an attempt's end are each checked and written
together.
- A cancel written to the store wins however the attempt ends after it, in this process or another.
- Keep no progress from an aborted attempt or after its run ended.
- JobStateStore.requestCancel() and isCancelRequested() are optional; without them a cancel is read
from the run's cancelled state.
- Jobs on the top-level redis keep their keys under its keyPrefix + "jobs:".
- The Redis job state store closes the client the factory opened, and its index sets expire.
- Shutdown waits for interrupted runs at most lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs.
- Admission reads process.availableMemory(), which counts a container's memory limit.
- Timed-out, cancelled and interrupted runs are published as job completions.
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Walkthrough
The SDK adds durable job storage, admission limits, per-attempt timeouts, cancellation, cleanup, progress reporting, and run resources. The change also adds management tools, demo coverage, compile-time fixtures, and documentation for the new job behavior.
Changes: Durable jobs
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Summary
Job contracts and configuration libs/sdk/src/common/metadata/*, libs/sdk/src/common/interfaces/job.interface.ts, libs/sdk/src/job/store/job-state.interface.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/job.errors.ts, libs/sdk/src/index.ts, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/*
Job configuration and metadata add SQLite storage, admission settings, default timeouts, cleanup callbacks, progress, and additional terminal states. Public exports and error classes include the associated job types and run errors. The DTS fixture checks valid and invalid declarations.
Job storage and configuration resolution libs/sdk/src/job/store/*, libs/sdk/src/job/job-scope.helper.ts, libs/sdk/src/scope/scope.instance.ts
State and definition stores add SQLite-backed implementations. Store factories become asynchronous, and scope setup resolves explicit job storage or top-level Redis/SQLite configuration. Store implementations track revisions, timestamps, and cancellation requests.
Job attempts acquire admission slots and use abort signals for timeout, cancellation, and shutdown interruption. Cleanup runs for interrupted attempts. The manager records run outcomes and progress, and passes admission settings to workflow steps. Tests cover these flows, including SQLite persistence and shutdown.
Run access, resources, and management tools libs/sdk/src/job/job-run-access.ts, libs/sdk/src/job/resources/*, libs/sdk/src/job/tools/*, libs/sdk/src/workflow/tools/get-workflow-status.tool.ts, libs/sdk/src/job/job-scope.helper.ts
Run resources expose status and progress through job://runs/{runId}. Shared access checks are used by job and workflow status reads. The SDK registers cancel_job and maps terminal run states to completion-event statuses.
Durable-job examples and validation apps/e2e/demo-e2e-jobs/*, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-development/*, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-channels/references/channel-sources.md, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-production-readiness/references/common-checklist.md, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-setup/references/*, libs/skills/catalog/skills-manifest.json
The demo and end-to-end tests cover background run handles, cancellation, cleanup, timeout, admission refusal, and resource updates. Catalog examples and references describe durable job configuration and behavior.
Test maintenance
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Summary
Existing test adjustments libs/sdk/src/builtin/call-recorder/__tests__/call-recorder.plugin.spec.ts, libs/sdk/src/transport/mcp-20260728/__tests__/tasks-error-mapping.spec.ts
Call-recorder polling tests receive longer Jest timeouts. The transport test narrows its port-suffix assertion and adjusts its timestamp setup.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant ExecuteJobTool
participant JobExecutionManager
participant JobAdmission
participant JobStateStore
Client->>ExecuteJobTool: Start background job
ExecuteJobTool->>JobExecutionManager: Start run
JobExecutionManager->>JobStateStore: Create run record
JobExecutionManager->>JobAdmission: Acquire attempt capacity
JobAdmission-->>JobExecutionManager: Grant slot or reject wait
JobExecutionManager->>JobStateStore: Persist run updates and progress
JobExecutionManager-->>Client: Return run ID and resource URI
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Workflow steps that run a job with timeout: 0 can fail almost at once instead of running without a limit, and workflow steps ignore the configured default job timeout. Excessively large timeouts can also end a job immediately, and the startup warning can wrongly tell operators to remove a SQLite block that stores their job runs. Fix the workflow-step timeout handling before merging.
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Test-only fix. The leak check refused any "5432" in a task record, so it
failed whenever the record's expiresAt (epoch milliseconds) held those
digits. It now looks for ":5432", the form a connection string leaks in,
next to the host and the error code it already checks. The suite runs on a
clock whose epoch holds 5432, so the old check fails every time and the new
one is proven against it.
…t deadline
Test-only fix. The task-augmented call test timed out in CI at Jest's 5 s
default while it was still inside its 5 s wait for the task to finish. The
three tests that poll now have a 15 s timeout: their wait deadline, their
setup and their teardown.
Two test-only fixes for flakes that CI hit on this stack, in this PR as the top of the stack:
083839d, tasks-error-mapping.spec.ts: the leak check refused any "5432" in a task record, so it failed whenever expiresAt (epoch ms) held those digits. It now looks for :5432, the form a connection string leaks in, next to the host and ECONNREFUSED checks it already had. The suite runs on a clock whose epoch holds 5432, so the old check fails every time (6 of 9 tests) and the new one passes against it.
2a21ea7, call-recorder.plugin.spec.ts: CI run 41505828158 timed out "records a task-augmented call once" at Jest's 5 s default while it was still in its 5 s wait for the task. The three polling tests now have a 15 s timeout.
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Count the jobs stores in the top-level sqlite "unused" warning.
This PR makes jobs a consumer of the top-level sqlite (Line 885). The guard at Lines 600-613 still checks only transport, tasks and elicitation, and it runs before the jobs subsystem starts. Consider a server where those three subsystems are off or use a different backend. Its job runs are kept in the SQLite file, but startup still logs that "no subsystem consumes it" and tells the operator to "Remove the sqlite block". If the operator removes the block, the jobs move to the memory store and lose durability without any further warning.
Move the check to run after registerJobCapabilities. Then treat the jobs stores as consumers when the resolved jobs.store came from resolvedTopLevelSqlite. One way to do this is to record the stateStoreType that registerJobCapabilities returns.
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Review comment at @libs/sdk/src/scope/scope.instance.ts around lines 600 - 613:
Move the top-level SQLite unused-config warning in the scope initialization flow
to after registerJobCapabilities, and include the resolved jobs store as a
consumer when it uses resolvedTopLevelSqlite. Use the stateStoreType returned by
registerJobCapabilities if it reliably identifies that source; otherwise
establish the resolved source before deciding whether to warn. Preserve the
warning when transport, tasks, elicitation, and jobs do not consume the
top-level SQLite configuration.
Honor timeout: 0 and jobs.defaultTimeoutMs for workflow steps.
Honor timeout: 0 and jobs.defaultTimeoutMs for workflow steps.
step.timeout ?? job.metadata.timeout ?? 300000 preserves 0, and executeWithTimeout passes it to setTimeout. A workflow step for a job with timeout: 0 can therefore time out before the job completes instead of treating 0 as no limit.
Workflow steps also do not read jobs.defaultTimeoutMs; they use the hard-coded 300000 fallback. The timeout behavior is unchanged from the base revision, but it conflicts with the timeout contract documented by this PR.
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Update workflow step timeout resolution so an explicit timeout of 0 means no
timeout, and use the configured jobs.defaultTimeoutMs before falling back to
300000 when step.timeout and job.metadata.timeout are unset. Ensure the default
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preserve timeout enforcement for positive values.
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mkdtempSync and rmSync in this spec with the established filesystem helpers from
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Use `@frontmcp/utils` for the temporary-directory setup.
Use @frontmcp/utils for the temporary-directory setup.
This spec imports fs and calls fs.mkdtempSync and fs.rmSync. job-durability.spec.ts (Lines 8-10, 778-783) does the same. The SDK path instructions say that SDK code MUST use @frontmcp/utils for filesystem operations and must never use fs/promises directly. The learning states the same rule for libs/sdk/src/**, and that scope includes these tests. Replace the calls with the @frontmcp/utils helpers, such as mkdir/mkdtemp and rm, in async beforeEach/afterEach hooks.
As per path instructions: "MUST use @frontmcp/utils for filesystem … never node:crypto or fs/promises directly." Based on learnings: "Always use @frontmcp/utils for file system operations … never use fs/promises or node:fs directly".
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Review comment at @libs/sdk/src/job/store/__tests__/job-store.parity.spec.ts
around lines 5 - 7:
Replace the direct fs.mkdtempSync and fs.rmSync calls in the job-store parity
spec’s temporary-directory setup and cleanup with the supported @frontmcp/utils
filesystem helpers. Use async beforeEach and afterEach hooks as needed, and
preserve the existing temporary-directory lifecycle.
…aultTimeoutMs in workflow steps, and count jobs as a sqlite consumer
A job timeout, a cleanup timeoutMs or jobs.defaultTimeoutMs above
2147483647 ms made setTimeout fire after 1 ms, so the job timed out at once.
Such a value is now refused where it is declared (a workflow step's timeout
too).
A workflow step passed a timeout of 0 to setTimeout, so it timed out at once
instead of having no limit, and it fell back to 300000 ms instead of
jobs.defaultTimeoutMs. It now honors both, as execute_job does.
The "top-level sqlite is unused" warning ran before the jobs registered,
and did not count them, so a server whose jobs were the only consumer was
told to remove the block its job runs were kept in. It now runs after the
jobs, counting them.
Answers to the review-body findings of the review on 82c1501:
Count the jobs stores in the top-level sqlite "unused" warning (scope.instance.ts): reproduced and fixed in 496a8ce. With transport persistence and tasks off and jobs declared, the warning told the operator to remove the sqlite block their job runs were kept in. The decision now waits until the jobs have registered and counts them when their store is the top-level sqlite. Test: "counts its jobs as a consumer of the top-level sqlite, so it does not call the block unused" in job-durability.spec.ts (failed before, passes now).
Honor timeout: 0 and jobs.defaultTimeoutMs for workflow steps: reproduced and fixed in 496a8ce with your change. A step with timeout: 0 timed out at once, and a step whose job sets no timeout used 300000 ms, not jobs.defaultTimeoutMs. WorkflowStepExecutor now takes defaultTimeoutMs (passed by JobExecutionManager) and starts no timer for 0. Tests in workflow-step.executor.timeout.spec.ts (both failed before, pass now); create-job.md says so.
@frontmcp/utils for the temp directory in job-durability.spec.ts: not changed. The file-system rule covers library code; specs that need a throwaway directory use mkdtempSync/rmSync from node:fs across the repo.
Local runs on 496a8ce: sdk 8723, skills 249; e2e jobs 49, local-runtime 8, dts-consumer 27, notifications 50.
…1017
Measured against #1017's head, durable jobs grow create() + one tool by 1,655
bytes and create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool by 1,657; the budgets move up by
exactly that.
… of #1018
Measured against #1018's head, the shared server grows create() + one tool and
create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool by 336 bytes each; the budgets move up from
#1018's by exactly that.
…ns attach to, after it proves its identity (#1019)
* refactor(utils,cli): move the stdio bridge core from the dev command into @frontmcp/utils
* feat(sdk,auth,utils): stdio sessions that share one local server per key, started once, attached only after the server proves its identity
* fix(sdk): refuse a shared server socket path too long to listen on, and stop a server that can't write its record
* test(sdk): a shared server that can't write its record shuts down
* fix(sdk): refuse shared server keys that would share a folder with another key
A case-insensitive file system (macOS, Windows) gave Spec and spec one folder
while their start locks differed, so a session of one key attached to the
server of the other; Windows also drops a trailing dot and maps device names.
A key is now lowercase, starts and ends with a letter or digit, and is not a
Windows device name.
* fix(sdk): refuse an oversized answer to a shared server identity challenge unread
The answer was read whole, so a process on a recorded port could stream
gigabytes within the challenge timeout and exhaust the memory of a session
instead of letting it start its own server. An answer without a length, or
longer than 1 KiB, is now refused before its body is read.
* fix(sdk): keep a shared server's start lock until its record is written, and refuse apps with auth of their own
An app with auth of its own kept it on the shared server: with splitByApp the
scope sessions reach is the first app's, so auth { mode: 'public' } answered
without the token over loopback HTTP, as did a standalone app on its own
path. The server now refuses to start unless the shared token guards every
scope.
A session that died while its server was slow to start let the start lease
lapse, and the next session started a second server. The session now hands
the holder of its lease to the server (FRONTMCP_SHARED_START_LOCK), which
renews it until its record is written; a server that lost it for good writes
no record, and a launcher that lost it waits for the other session's server.
The shared local server reference in the skills catalog describes both, the
stricter keys and the bounded challenge answer.
* test(e2e): fit the browser bundle budgets to the shared server on top of #1018
runShared's option schema and errors reach the browser bundle (the shared server itself stays out): create() + one tool grows by 320 bytes minified and create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool by 321 over #1018's head. The two budgets move up by exactly that.
* fix(sdk,utils): keep runShared out of schema extraction, shut a half-started shared server down, and refuse redirects
runShared() ran during schema extraction (FRONTMCP_SCHEMA_EXTRACT, as
frontmcp build sets it) while bootstrap(), runStdio() and runUnixSocket()
do not, so a build could attach to stdio and start a detached shared server.
It now returns at once, as they do.
startSharedServer() looked the scope up and registered the identify flow
outside the try that shuts the instance down on failure, so a failure there
left the instance and its handles running. Both steps are now inside it.
The stdio bridge's upstream client sends a bearer token in its headers; its
POST and DELETE now refuse a redirect instead of following it.
The shared-server docs say every session of a key needs the same transport,
and that the port-taking window can expose that one request's payload. The
real-server shared-session spec gets a 20 s timeout: it timed out in CI at
the 5 s default.
* test(e2e): fit the browser bundle budgets to the shared server on top of #1018
Measured against #1018's head, the shared server grows create() + one tool and
create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool by 336 bytes each; the budgets move up from
#1018's by exactly that.
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What and why
Proposal item 2.2 (a): durable jobs on a local store, part I. A job's state used to live in memory unless a separate
jobs.store.rediswas set; a plainexecute_jobhad no timeout, could not be cancelled, left nothing to clean up afteran interrupted attempt, and every call started at once, however many were running. A background run answered with a
runIdto poll and nothing to subscribe to.What this PR changes:
jobs.store.sqlitekeeps runs and dynamic definitions in a SQLite file the processes on onemachine share, through the existing
createJobStateStore/createJobDefinitionStorefactories, on M02'screateStorage({ type: 'sqlite' })(newStorageJobStateStore/StorageJobDefinitionStore). A mistake in the blockfails startup instead of falling back to memory, and the Zod schema refuses a
storewith bothredisandsqlite.The factories are now async (they are internal; the SDK root never exported them).
jobs.storehonours the top-level config. With nojobs.storebackend, jobs use the server's top-levelredis(unless it is Vercel KV, which has no key listing), else its top-level
sqlite, else memory (resolveJobsStore()).On the top-level
redistheir keys start with itskeyPrefix+jobs:(mcp:jobs:by default, as before;jobs.store.keyPrefixoverrides it), so servers that share one Redis and set their ownredis.keyPrefixkeep theirruns and dynamic definitions apart, as their sessions already were. Run records and cancel keys expire 24 hours after
the run's last write; the Redis store's index sets now expire with them (they never did), and the Redis client the
factory opens is closed when the store is disposed (it was left open).
cancel_jobtool. It writes the cancel to the store first (JobStateStore.requestCancel(), a key of its own thatno write of the run record can drop), marks the run
cancelled, then aborts the run'sthis.signalwithJobCancelledError. A run in another process sharing the store is aborted when that process next reads the store(every second, for a non-memory store). A run cancelled before it started never starts, and once a cancel is
written the run stays
cancelledhowever its attempt ends, in this process or another. The caller who started the run may cancel it, and so may a caller whopasses the job's explicit
deleterule; anyone else getsJOB_RUN_NOT_FOUND, as for an unknown run. A finished runis refused with
JOB_RUN_FINISHED, a workflow run withJOB_RUN_NOT_CANCELLABLE; each refusal carries an M04 remedy.cancel_jobis a tool, so it runs throughtools:call-toollike every other call.execute_job. Each attempt runs at most the job'stimeout, elsejobs.defaultTimeoutMs(default 300000;
0turns it off). Past it the attempt is aborted withJobTimeoutError(JOB_TIMEOUT); a timeoutis retried when attempts remain, and a run whose last attempt timed out ends as
timed_out. The timer is part of theexecutestage ofjobs:execute-joband starts withexecute(), so a wait for admission does not count.@Job({ cleanup }). A function, or{ run, timeoutMs }, called with the attempt's instance and the reason(
'interrupt' | 'timeout' | 'cancel') when an attempt was aborted after its job was built. It runs in a newcleanuperror stage of
jobs:execute-job, bounded by its own time limit (default 3000 ms); a throw or an overrun is loggedand never changes how the run ends. An aborted attempt now ends at once with the abort's reason (the flow no longer
waits for
execute()to return), so a cleanup runs while a hung job is still hung.onDisposeinterrupts every active run withJobInterruptedError, waits for their cleanups (at mostlifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs, whatever a cleanup's ownlimit), records them as
interrupted, then disposes the stores (the SQLite storage disconnects). The stdio orphanexit (M03) runs the same scope disposal.
{ concurrency, memoryMb, maxWaitMs }.jobs.admissionbounds when attempts (and workflow steps) startin a process: at most
concurrencyat once, each claimingmemoryMbof the memory the process may still use(
process.availableMemory(), which counts a container's limit;os.freemem()only where it is missing) beyond whatthe running ones claimed, in arrival order. Past
maxWaitMs(default 600000) the attempt is refused withJobAdmissionTimeoutError(
JOB_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT, with a remedy) and not retried. It is the newadmitstage ofjobs:execute-job, so ahook can observe or replace it; the slot is released by the attempt's caller however the flow ends (a throw, a
timeout, a cancel, a refusal, an interrupt). A cancel or a shutdown stops the wait.
job://runs/{runId}.execute_jobanswers withuri: 'job://runs/<runId>'besiderunIdandstate; a background run answers at once withstate: 'pending'.job://runs/{runId}is a resource template thatreads the run from the job store (
runId,jobName,state, attempts, times,revision,updatedAt,progress,result,error,logs), with the same access rule asget_job_status. Every write the process makes to the run,this.progress()included, sendsnotifications/resources/updatedthroughnotifyContentChanged. The processwrites a run one write at a time (the stores read the record and write it back, so two overlapping writes lost one),
and it keeps no progress an attempt reports after it was aborted or after its run ended. The run record
gains
revision(1 at creation, one more per write),updatedAtandprogress, and the statestimed_outandinterrupted.get_job_status,get_workflow_status,cancel_jobandjob://runs/{runId}use one rule(
mayAccessRun): the owner, or a caller passing the entry's explicitread/deleterule. A job with no such rulekeeps its runs private, as before. Run ids are random UUIDs, and a foreign run answers exactly like an unknown one.
timed_out,cancelledorinterruptedis published tojob-completionchannel sources as
'timeout','cancelled'or'error'(the event type already had those statuses).Cross-process
resources/updatedforjob://runs/{runId}(a write made by another process sharing the store) arrivewhen the coordinator merges M13 and switches this resource to a materialized resource. The run record already carries
the
revisionandupdatedAtthat switch reads, so it is a change to the resource's declaration, not to the store.Design notes, where the code led away from the plan:
jobs:execute-jobflow (admitstage,executestage),following the rule that cross-cutting concerns are hookable stages; a retry waits out its backoff without holding a
slot. A per-run wait in the manager would have counted queue time against the run's timeout.
cancel_jobcancels job runs only. A workflow run is refused: the workflow engine has no abort path yet, andmarking it cancelled while its steps run on would be wrong.
User-facing change
jobs.store.sqlite,jobs.defaultTimeoutMs,jobs.admissionoptions;jobs.storefallsback to the top-level
redis/sqlite; newcancel_jobtool (also exported asCancelJobTool); new@Job({ cleanup }); thejob://runs/{runId}resource template;execute_jobanswers withuri; new run statestimed_outandinterrupted; run records carryrevision,updatedAtandprogress; new error codesJOB_TIMEOUT,JOB_CANCELLED,JOB_INTERRUPTED,JOB_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT,JOB_RUN_NOT_FOUND,JOB_RUN_FINISHED,JOB_RUN_NOT_CANCELLABLE;JobStateStoregains the optionalrequestCancel()andisCancelRequested();JobExecutionManagergainscancel(),dispose(timeoutMs?)and an options argument;job-completionevents carry'timeout'and'cancelled'; new root exportsJobRunResource,CancelJobTooland the typesJobCleanup,JobCleanupOptions,JobInterruptReason,JobAdmissionOptions,JobRunProgress,JobsStoreConfig,JobExecutionManagerOptions.execute_job(or a trigger, or in-process code) ranwith no time limit. The 5-minute default was documented everywhere (the
@JobtimeoutJSDoc, the Zod schema'sdefault(300000), the catalog'screate-jobtable and its "Job times out unexpectedly" row) but only workflowsteps applied it. After: every attempt ends after the job's
timeout, elsejobs.defaultTimeoutMs(300000), asJOB_TIMEOUT, and the run astimed_out; a timeout is retried whileretryleaves attempts.execute()is notstopped: a job that ignores
this.signalkeeps running beside its retry. Migration: a job that may run longerthan 5 minutes sets
timeout(or0for no limit);jobs.defaultTimeoutMs: 0restores the old behaviour for thewhole server.
jobs.storewas set.After: a server with a top-level
redis(not Vercel KV) keeps them in Redis under<redis.keyPrefix>jobs:(
mcp:jobs:by default), else one with a top-levelsqlitekeeps them in that file undermcp:jobs:; run inputs,results and logs then persist for 24 hours after the run's last write and are shared by the processes using that
store. Migration: servers that share one Redis set different
redis.keyPrefixvalues (orjobs.store.keyPrefix)so their runs and dynamic job definitions stay apart. No option keeps runs in memory while a top-level
redisorsqliteis set.this.signalis now set for every attempt (it wasundefinedoutside a workflow step), aborted on a timeout, acancel or a shutdown.
execute()to return.get_job_status/get_workflow_statuslet a caller who passes the entry's explicitreadrule read anothercaller's run; the owner-only behaviour stays for entries without one.
JobStateStorekeeps working:requestCancel()andisCancelRequested()are optional, and without thema cancel is read from the run's
cancelledstate.lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs.tools/listof a jobs server listscancel_job, andresources/templates/listlistsjob://runs/{runId}.workflows (step timeouts, admission), server configuration (
jobsoptions), SQLite setup (jobs as a consumer of thetop-level
sqlite), production checklist.frontmcp-development/references/create-job.md,frontmcp-development/references/create-workflow.md,frontmcp-development/SKILL.md, the new examplefrontmcp-development/examples/create-job/durable-build-job.md,frontmcp-setup/references/setup-sqlite.md,frontmcp-production-readiness/references/common-checklist.md,frontmcp-setup/references/setup-redis.md(jobs'key prefix),
frontmcp-channels/references/channel-sources.md(job-completionstatuses), andskills-manifest.json(regenerated).Tests
libs/sdk):job/store/__tests__/job-store.parity.spec.ts: the state store contract (revision,updatedAt, merge, run id kept,list filters and limit, cleanup, cancel requests) on the memory, SQLite and Redis stores; the definition store
contract on memory and SQLite; SQLite data kept across stores on one file and kept apart by key prefix; the
factories report
sqliteand fail on an invalid block.job/__tests__/job-durability.spec.ts: the run handle;cancel_job(abort + cleanup, a run cancelled before itstarts, a run waiting out its backoff, finished / unknown / foreign / workflow runs with their codes and remedies,
a caller passing the
deleterule, an inline run failing withJOB_CANCELLED); timeouts (retried, thentimed_out;jobs.defaultTimeoutMs;this.signalaborted with the timeout; a cleanup that throws or overruns;no cleanup for an attempt that ends on its own);
job://runs/{runId}(listed, read with state, revision andprogress, foreign and unknown runs not found, the
readrule,resources/updatedto a subscriber as the runprogresses); admission refusals on concurrency and on memory; on the top-level SQLite store, runs interrupted at
shutdown with their cleanup and read back as
interruptedby the next server, and a cancel written by anotherserver aborting the run, and a run kept
cancelledwhen its attempt fails on its own after another servercancelled it; a cancel on a custom store without cancel requests; the final state kept while a progress write the
job did not wait for is in flight; no progress kept from an aborted attempt;
timeoutandcancelledjobcompletions; admission slots freed after a throw, a timeout, a cancel and an interrupt; shutdown bounded by
lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMswith a 60-second cleanup;@Job({ cleanup })validation.job/__tests__/job-admission.spec.ts(fake timers): no limits, the concurrency wait, arrival order, the refusal atmaxWaitMsand its message, abort while waiting, memory claims and polling,process.availableMemory()as theprobe, release once.
job/__tests__/job-scope.helper.spec.ts:resolveJobsStore()precedence (explicit store, top-level redis,top-level sqlite, Vercel KV skipped, the top-level redis
keyPrefix+jobs:).job/store/__tests__/job-store.factory.spec.ts: the factory's Redis client closed once on dispose; the Redisstore's index sets expire with the run.
common/metadata/__tests__/jobs-config-schema.spec.ts: the new options parse; redis plus sqlite, a sqlite blockwithout a path, and invalid admission or timeout values are refused.
workflow/engine/__tests__/workflow-step.executor.timeout.spec.ts: a run outside a workflow step now has a livesignal of its own (was: none).
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-jobs/e2e/jobs-durable.e2e.spec.tsagainstsrc/main.durable.ts(top-level SQLite store,admission of one at a time with a 300 ms cap): the run handle, cancel with its cleanup, the finished and unknown
refusals with remedies, a timeout ending as
timed_outafter the cleanup, the admission refusal with its remedy, andnotifications/resources/updatedfor a subscribedjob://runs/{runId}plus the final read.apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/durable-jobs-must-compile.tstypes@Job({ cleanup }), the newjobsoptions,
CancelJobTool, the run states and a customJobStateStorewithout the cancel methods, and refuses astring cleanup and a sqlite block without a path.
npx jest --maxWorkers=50%inlibs/sdk: 606 suites, 7955 tests passed;src/jobagain after the last specedits: 13 suites, 180 passed.
nx test demo-e2e-jobs: 5 suites, 49 tests passed;nx test demo-e2e-dts-consumer: 24 passed;nx test demo-e2e-bundle-size: 10 passed at the time; after the merge-ups and the review fixes, 12 passed onbcf6974 with the budgets in Bundle size.
nx test skills: 249 passed;libs/clibuild exec and mcpb specs: 783 passed (no CLI file changed since).tsc --noEmit -p libs/sdk/tsconfig.spec.json: no errors in the job, workflow, channel or provider files. Prettiercheck and
scripts/fix-unused-imports.mjs: clean.Bundle size
Durable jobs, with the timer limits on their options, reach the browser bundle. Measured against #1017's head (1423d01):
create()+ one tool grows by 1,655 bytes minified (1,330,324 → 1,331,979; +429 gzipped) andcreate()+ WebMcpPlugin + one tool by 1,657 (1,337,501 → 1,339,158; +422 gzipped). The two browser budgets move up from #1017's by exactly that, to 1,332,933 and 1,339,800 (bcf6974). The Vite initial chunk stays within its budget.Summary by CodeRabbit
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