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Problem. A routine run still going after an hour is listed as an error and, with "Fresh session each run", stopped. Some runs legitimately take two or three hours: builds, downloads, benchmarks on local hardware. The hour is not what keeps runs from overlapping, since the supervisor already skips the next slot of a routine that is still running.

Change. The limit is read from ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN where the portal starts. Anything that is not a number of minutes above zero leaves the default, and the value is capped where a timer could no longer hold it. Both Compose files pass the variable on and .env.example shows it, so a Docker or Portainer install can set it in .env. Documented in the routines guide and the configuration reference.

Per-routine limit (after review). A routine's page has a "Run time limit (minutes)" field, empty for the portal's default, which it names. The API takes timeoutMin on create and update (whole minutes; null or 0 for the default; anything else refused), and lists timeoutDefaultMin with the routines. The agent's routine_create and routine_update take it too, through the same check. Schema 16 adds a nullable timeout_min column; existing routines keep the default. Documented in the routines guide, the configuration and API references, and the upgrading guide.

Default unchanged. Unset, the limit stays 60 minutes.

Tested. New core/server/test/routines-timeout.test.mjs: a manual run with the variable set receives that wait, and the helper holds its edges (unset, empty, 0, negative, non-numeric, fractional, oversized). tests/deploy-files.test.mts passes with the Compose and .env.example changes, and docker compose config renders the variable on both files. The server suite was run; its only failures were environment-dependent and the same without this change.

For the per-routine limit: a run gets the routine's minutes, clearing with null or 0 takes the default, bad values are refused by the API and the tools alike with nothing saved, a version 15 database upgrades to schema 16 with every routine on the default, and the routines browser spec types a limit, saves it as a number and clears it.

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• New Features

  • Routine runs now have configurable time limits, with a default of 60 minutes. Runs exceeding their limit are reported as errors; they are stopped in fresh sessions and continue in kept sessions.
  • Set a portal-wide default and override it for individual routines. Leave a routine’s limit blank to use the portal default; ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN sets the fallback when no portal default is configured.
  • Run limits include time spent waiting for an ongoing turn.

• Documentation

  • Updated routine and configuration guides to explain timeout behavior and skipped scheduled slots when a previous run is still ongoing.
  • Added upgrade guidance for the routine time-limit setting.

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Routine runs now use a configurable portal default or per-routine limit. The change adds persistence, validation, API and agent-tool support, supervisor timeout resolution, and web controls. Session asks use one deadline across waiting and execution.

Changes: Routine Run Time Limits

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store and migrate routine time limits core/server/src/db.ts, core/server/src/routines/store.ts, core/server/src/schema-version.ts, core/server/test/schema-fingerprint.test.mjs	The routines table adds nullable timeout_min, and routine inserts store the per-routine limit. Schema version 17 adds the column to existing tables. Migration tests check that existing routines receive a null limit.
Validate and store timeout settings core/server/src/routines/timeout.ts, core/server/src/api/routines.ts, core/server/src/pi/routine-tools.ts, core/server/test/routines-timeout.test.mjs, tests/tool-texts.test.mts	Timeout parsing validates minute values and handles values that clear a limit. API routes and agent tools accept and validate per-routine limits and the portal default. Tests cover accepted, cleared, and rejected values.
Resolve and apply routine run limits core/server/src/routines/supervisor.ts, core/server/src/session-manager.ts, .env.example, docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.portainer.yml, core/server/test/routines-timeout.test.mjs, docs/guide/routines.md, docs/reference/configuration.md	The supervisor resolves a routine limit or portal default and passes it to sessions. Session asks share one deadline across waiting and execution. Configuration and tests cover timeout resolution and behavior.
Expose timeout settings in the web interface core/web/src/api.ts, core/web/src/components/RoutinesPage.tsx, core/web/src/locales/de.ts, tests/browser/sessions-routines.spec.mts, docs/reference/api.md, docs/guide/upgrading.md	The web interface displays and saves portal-default and per-routine limits. Browser tests cover setting and clearing values. API and upgrade documentation and German translations are updated.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RoutinePage
  participant RoutineAPI
  participant RoutineSupervisor
  participant SessionManager
  RoutinePage->>RoutineAPI: Submit timeout settings
  RoutineAPI->>RoutineAPI: Validate and store settings
  RoutineSupervisor->>SessionManager: Pass resolved timeoutMs

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Possibly related PRs

• thecodacus/pithagoras#328: Changes child-chat tracking and SessionManager.backgroundWork, which can affect cleanup after a timed-out routine run.
• thecodacus/pithagoras#323: Adds child-chat lifecycle tracking and cleanup behavior used by the routine timeout cleanup path.
• thecodacus/pithagoras#349: Changes how SessionManager.abort() settles stopped runs, which affects routine runs stopped after a timeout.

Suggested reviewers: thecodacus

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[Piggidragon]

This seems like a useful feature. Due to that it should not be an env variable only, but rather a timeout setting in the routine tab for easier configuration and transparency.

Following distinguishments should be made:

• Gloabl timeout (default: 60 mins.)
• per routine timeout (default: gloabl timeout)

This makes it possible to assign known long routines a longer timeout without having other routines, that may get stuck, be affected with a long wait before canceling.

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Agreed, two levels is the better shape: a known long routine can run longer without a stuck one anywhere else being allowed the same. I will add a per-routine timeout to this PR, kept on the routine and shown on its page, defaulting to the global value, with the variable as the global default. I will push it to this branch and re-request the review.

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Apply the run limit to the complete run.

If the routine’s session has an earlier ask in progress, sessions.ask waits for that ask to settle before it starts either timeout. It then gives waitForIdle and askNow a full timeout each. A run can therefore exceed its configured limit or remain queued indefinitely. It stays marked as running and skips later schedule slots. Start one deadline when the routine starts, and apply its remaining time to queueing, idle waiting, and execution.

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Describe the configured limit instead of a fixed hour.

When ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN is set to another value, the statement that a run becomes an error “after an hour” is false. Change it to “after its run time limit” so the guide agrees with the new configuration described below.

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[Piggidragon]

Thanks for this. The core change is correct: validation, the minute → ms conversion and timer cap, fresh versus kept sessions, the v15 → v16 upgrade and the routine page's draft/save logic all hold up. Tests and the German locale are in. Two points block the merge; the rest should be fixed but does not block.

Blocking

1. The portal-wide default is still env-only (core/server/src/routines/supervisor.ts:62-69, core/web/src/components/RoutinesPage.tsx:776-791)

The change request asked for the limit as a setting in the Routines tab, not an env variable only: a global timeout (default 60) and a per-routine one (default: the global). The per-routine level is there. The global level is still ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN, read once at import, and the page only shows it.

So to give every routine two hours, an owner has to edit .env or the stack and recreate the container. Per-routine values set in the UI instead no longer follow the default.

Suggested: store the default as a portal setting, like the routines' report default (PUT /api/routines/report-default). Keep ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN as the fallback when nothing is stored, read it at run time, and make it editable on the Routines page next to the per-routine field.

2. Conflict with main (docs/guide/upgrading.md)

#328 added "Subagents work in chats of their own" at the same place as "A routine's own run time limit". Please merge main and keep both sections. Main's schema is still 15, so 16 and its pinned fingerprint stay valid; re-run schema-fingerprint.test.mjs after the merge.

Non-blocking

3. The limit is not one deadline, and the new texts promise more than the code does (supervisor.ts:229-232, session-manager.ts:2370-2377, 2393-2403, 2556-2559, docs/guide/routines.md:56-58, docs/reference/configuration.md:41)

sessions.ask gives the full timeoutMs first to waitForIdle and then again to askNow. In a kept session a timed-out turn keeps running and running is cleared, so the next slot fires, waits up to one limit for the old turn, then runs up to another.

Example: an hourly routine in a kept session with a limit of 180 can show "running" for close to 6 h. The UI hint ("a run still going after this is listed as an error") and the guide ("skips its next slot whatever it is set to") say otherwise.

The mechanism is older than this PR, but the limit is now large and user-set. Either take one deadline when run() starts and give ask the time left for both waits, or say in the texts that in a kept session the next run waits for the turn still going.

4. The guide still says "after an hour" (docs/guide/routines.md:48)

"A run that is still going after an hour is listed as an error" is wrong once the variable or a routine's own limit is set. Suggested: "after its run time limit (an hour unless set otherwise)".

5. The env default follows other rules than the per-routine value (supervisor.ts:62-69 against store.ts:57-69)

The env accepts fractional minutes and has its own ms cap, and the default is shown unrounded. An unusable value is dropped without a log line:

• ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN=50000 shows "35791.39411666667 (portal default)";
• 2.5 gives a default the field itself refuses;
• 60min silently gives 60.

Suggested: parse it with the readTimeout rule (whole minutes, 1 to MAX_TIMEOUT_MIN, one shared constant), log when the value is ignored, and document the range.

6. Agent tools (core/server/src/pi/routine-tools.ts:55-66, 87, 193)

routine_update shares the create-time description ("0 or unset: the portal's default"), but on update unset keeps the current value. routines_list does not show a routine's limit, so the agent can set it but not read it back. Give update its own description ("0 for the portal's default; leave out to keep it"), add the limit to describe(), and adjust the tool-text budget.

Aside: in RoutinesPage.tsx:358-360, minutesText landed between placeName's doc comment and placeName.

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npm run build -w core/server; npm test -w core/server (1582 pass; one failure in extension-ui.test.mjs, unrelated: the shipped extensions report no kinds in a fresh checkout); the routines, schema-fingerprint, upgrade and shutdown-runs tests; i18n, tool-texts and deploy-files; cd core/web && npx tsc -b; sessions-routines.spec.mts (23/23 including the new spec). The PR also ran on a test install, which upgraded its database from schema 6 without trouble.

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Pushed, with main merged in. All of it addressed:

1. The default is a stored setting on the Routines page now (PUT /api/routines/timeout-default), read as a run starts; ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN is only the fallback when nothing is stored, and the list says both.
2. Merged main and kept both upgrading sections. Main had taken schema 16 meanwhile, so the column is schema 17; the fingerprint test pins it and upgrades from 16.
3. One deadline: sessions.ask shares it between queueing, waiting for a running turn and the run, so a kept session's run cannot take twice its limit.
4. "after its run time limit (an hour unless set otherwise)".
5. The variable goes through the same readTimeout rule as the field (new routines/timeout.ts, one shared maximum); what it refuses is named in the log and leaves the hour.
6. routine_update has its own description, and routines_list shows each routine's limit.
7. minutesText moved above the doc comment.

CodeRabbit's finding on the field after saving 0 is fixed in the last commit.

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Test clearing an already-unset default.

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Test clearing an already-unset default.

Saving 45 first changes stored from 45 to null when 0 is saved. The existing prop-change handler clears the field in that case, so this test also passes without the fix in RoutinesPage.tsx Line 384. Add a case that saves 0 while stored is already null.

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Pushed, with main merged in. All of it addressed:

1. The default is a stored setting on the Routines page now (PUT /api/routines/timeout-default), read as a run starts; ROUTINE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MIN is only the fallback when nothing is stored, and the list says both.
2. Merged main and kept both upgrading sections. Main had taken schema 16 meanwhile, so the column is schema 17; the fingerprint test pins it and upgrades from 16.
3. One deadline: sessions.ask shares it between queueing, waiting for a running turn and the run, so a kept session's run cannot take twice its limit.
4. "after its run time limit (an hour unless set otherwise)".
5. The variable goes through the same readTimeout rule as the field (new routines/timeout.ts, one shared maximum); what it refuses is named in the log and leaves the hour.
6. routine_update has its own description, and routines_list shows each routine's limit.
7. minutesText moved above the doc comment.

CodeRabbit's two findings since are in the last commits: the field shows the cleared default after a 0 is saved, and a save goes out once (disabling the field during the save blurred it, which saved again).

[Piggidragon]

You might need to either fix the failing tests or there is some actual bug. Probably the tests. If any of them are flaky open an issue please.

(also why are you using Fable 5.1 when Opus 5.5 is better and cheaper)