feat: scalable bots - #355
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Claude finished @didinele's task in 4m 47s —— View job Review: feat: scalable botsRead the design doc and every changed file, focusing on correctness, edge cases, repo conventions, security, and performance. The design is well thought through and unusually well documented — the write-behind session store, the "no
🔴 High — dead middle replica → permanent coverage gap + restart loopThe watcher lets only the globally-lowest holder react to a gap, and reacting means restart → re-derive. But With steady state
This defeats the doc's central "coverage is always complete" guarantee for the steady state — it only holds at cold boot or when the gap is immediately above the lowest contiguous run. The replica that can fill the gap is the holder of 🟡 Medium — test gap for the failover pathTests cover cold-boot coverage and hot-spare takeover via the idle poll, but nothing exercises the watcher restart / take-over-a-dead-peer's-index path — exactly where the bug above lives. A test that frees a middle index's lease and asserts its shards get re-covered would catch it. 🟢 Minor — silent fallback if
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds horizontal scaling for AMA, ModMail, and social bots. Replicas claim Discord shards through Redis, persist gateway sessions, coordinate shutdown, publish replica-specific guild lists, filter shard-owned work, and receive Compose-based scaling configuration. ChangesHorizontal bot scaling
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to The scalable-bot changes have no supported merge-blocking production risk in the current evidence; the remaining follow-up is to clarify failover behavior and roadmap wording so documentation matches the intended operation. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BotProcess
participant createBotGateway
participant DiscordGateway
participant Redis
participant WebSocketManager
BotProcess->>createBotGateway: provide botId and token
createBotGateway->>DiscordGateway: fetch shard metadata
createBotGateway->>Redis: claim replica lease and IDENTIFY window
Redis-->>createBotGateway: replica assignment and throttle result
createBotGateway->>WebSocketManager: configure shard IDs and session callbacks
WebSocketManager->>Redis: read and write shard sessions
BotProcess->>Redis: publish replica guild list
BotProcess->>Redis: release leases and flush sessions on shutdown
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Correctness (high): a dead middle replica leaves a permanent coverage gap and puts the lowest replica into an infinite restart loop.
The watcher only lets the globally-lowest holder react (lowestHeld !== heldIndices[0] → return), and reacting means SIGTERM → re-derive via claimReplicaSlot. But re-derivation claims the lowest free index and then greedily claims contiguous indices above it (replica.ts:202-208), stopping at the first index a live peer still holds. So the lowest replica cannot jump over a living peer to fill a gap above it.
Concrete failure — shardCount=16, SHARDS_PER_REPLICA=4, totalIndices=4, steady state A[0] B[1] C[2] D[3]:
C(index 2) dies; its lease expires, index 2 becomes a gap.- Watcher:
lowestHeld=0(A) → onlyAacts;B/Dreturn early. After 2 checksArestarts. - Reboot:
Aclaims index 0, greedy tries index 1 — held by liveB→ break.Aholds[0]again. Index 2 is still unclaimed. A's watcher fires again → restart again. Shards 8–11 stay dark indefinitely, andA's shards (0–3) bounce every ~90s.
This directly contradicts the doc's central "coverage is always complete… picked up by the replica below it" guarantee — that only holds at cold boot (all indices free) or when the gap is immediately above the lowest contiguous run. Only a full ./compose up recovers.
The replica that can fix a gap is the one holding the index immediately below the lowest gap (gaps[0] - 1): on reboot it reclaims its own index and greedily absorbs the freed gap. Consider selecting the acting replica that way instead of "globally lowest holder". Fix this →
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Test coverage gap. The suite covers cold-boot coverage (full and under-provisioned) and the hot-spare takeover via the idle-poll loop, but nothing exercises the watcher restart path — i.e. "a peer that had already claimed an index dies, and its shards get taken over." That's precisely the path where the greedy-contiguous re-derivation fails to fill a middle gap (see the startWatching comment). A test that boots A[0] B[1] C[2] D[3], frees index 2's lease, and asserts some replica ends up covering shards 8–11 would have caught it.
| // each other. Docker sets `HOSTNAME` to the container id, which is exactly the "one file per replica" key | ||
| // needed. Only applied when the bot is actually scaled, so an unscaled deployment keeps the plain | ||
| // `<date>.log` name operators already grep for, and doesn't accumulate a new file per container recreate. | ||
| const suffix = process.env['SHARDS_PER_REPLICA'] ? process.env['HOSTNAME'] : undefined; |
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Minor: the per-writer suffix is process.env['HOSTNAME'], which relies on Docker always exporting HOSTNAME. If a scaled bot ever runs somewhere HOSTNAME is unset (or is cleared in the env file), suffix becomes undefined and every replica silently falls back to the shared <date>.log — reintroducing exactly the interleaving/corruption this guards against, with no warning. Since SHARDS_PER_REPLICA being set already means "expect multiple writers", consider logging a warning (or falling back to pid) when scaled but HOSTNAME is empty, so the degraded case is visible rather than silent.
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packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/env.ts (1)
92-99: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd the motivating issue reference to the new rationale comments.
packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/env.ts#L92-L99: Add#355to the horizontal-scaling rationale.packages/public/pino-rotate-file/src/index.ts#L21-L30: Add#355to the multi-writer log-file rationale.packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/prodLogTransport.ts#L23-L27: Add#355to the replica-specific suffix rationale.As per coding guidelines, use substantial “why” comments that reference the issue number that motivated them.
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packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/__tests__/replica.test.ts (2)
142-161: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe hot-spare test depends on real wall-clock timing.
The test polls every 5ms and deletes the lease after 20ms of real time. Under a loaded CI runner the assertion order still holds, but the margin is small and the failure mode is a flaky suite rather than a clear signal. Consider driving this with
vi.useFakeTimers(), or raisehotSparePollMsand the delete delay so the ratio is not this tight.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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1-45: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd tests for
guildShardIdandownsShardForGuild.These two functions decide whether a replica acts on a guild. Four sweeps in this PR depend on them (
services/modmail-bot/src/lib/preventThreadArchive.ts,scheduledCloseSweep.ts,threadNukeSweep.ts, andservices/ama-bot/src/lib/scheduledCloseSweep.ts). A wrong answer either duplicates work across replicas or drops it entirely, and neither function is covered here.Two properties are worth asserting:
guildShardIdmatches Discord's(guild_id >> 22) % num_shardsfor a known snowflake, andownsShardForGuildreturnstruefor every guild before a slot is claimed. The second property is what keepsservices/apiworking, and it depends on module state that this file already mutates throughboot, so order it deliberately.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@compose`:
- Around line 94-95: Update the gateway request in the curl invocation to
provide the Authorization header through standard input or a protected file
descriptor, ensuring the bot token is not present in curl’s process arguments
while preserving the existing request and error-handling behavior.
- Around line 65-70: Update the environment lookup logic to track whether
.env.private contains the requested key, rather than relying on private_value
being non-empty. In the key-resolution block, return the private value whenever
the key exists—including an explicit empty value—and fall back to public_value
only when the key is absent.
In `@docs/roadmap/12-horizontal-scaling.md`:
- Around line 44-48: Correct the three-replica ownership example to show the
absorbing replica holding indices [2, 3], with index 2 owning [8-11] and index 3
owning [12,13], while separately showing the combined shard range [8-13]. Do not
imply that index 2 alone owns the combined range.
- Around line 3-5: Update the roadmap status header to remove the claim that
this document blocks P8, since P8 is no longer blocked. Keep scaling described
as off by default, but replace “every bot behaves exactly as before” with an
accurate description that createBotGateway still uses the shared Redis session
store, claims a replica slot, and builds the Redis identify throttler when
SHARDS_PER_REPLICA is unset.
In `@packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/data/bots.ts`:
- Around line 65-100: Update readGuildList in
packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/data/bots.ts (lines 65-100) to load
replica entries without refreshing TTL, using an entity flag such as
refreshTTLOnRead: false that RedisStore.get in _store.ts honors. Update
packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/__tests__/bots.test.ts (line 30) so the
Redis fake treats expired keys as missing and records pExpire calls; assert that
readGuildList makes no TTL-refresh calls while preserving stale-member pruning.
Apply the same fix in
`@packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/__tests__/bots.test.ts` at line 30.
In `@packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/env.ts`:
- Around line 100-105: Update the SHARDS_PER_REPLICA validator to enforce the
same decimal-only grammar as compose before converting the value, rejecting
formats such as scientific notation and hexadecimal while preserving trimming,
empty-value handling, and positive integer validation.
In `@packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/replica.ts`:
- Around line 272-306: Update startWatching so it does not restart a replica for
gaps caused by leases this process recently released during its own restart;
track the released indices and ignore or defer overlapping gaps until they are
reclaimed. Preserve takeover behavior for persistent gaps belonging to other
replicas, while keeping the existing debounce and logging flow.
- Around line 238-261: The startRenewing renewal loop must treat sustained Redis
renewal failures as lease loss: track consecutive failure duration or attempts,
and terminate the process once failures persist beyond LEASE_TTL_MS so the
replica cannot continue running unowned shards. Reset the failure tracking after
a successful renewal, while preserving the existing immediate restart when
RENEW_SCRIPT reports a lost lease.
- Around line 184-199: Start renewing the primary lease immediately after the
successful claim in the replica startup flow, before the settle wait and greedy
claim loop, so it cannot expire during initialization. Reuse the existing
held-indices collection by adding later greedy indices to it, and remove or
relocate the existing startRenewing call to avoid starting duplicate renewal
loops.
In `@packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/sessions.ts`:
- Around line 94-107: Update the flush write failure handling in flush so a
shard is re-marked dirty when store.set or store.delete throws, preserving it
for a later retry including shutdown flushes. Use the existing dirty-tracking
mechanism for the affected shard and retain the current error logging.
In `@packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/shutdown.ts`:
- Around line 44-56: Update packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/shutdown.ts lines
44-56, using onShutdown and runSteps, to support ordering replica-lease release
after all replica-scoped shutdown steps, including gateway-sessions. In
packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/client.ts lines 148-151, preserve guild-list
removal before lease release; make no other ordering changes there.
Apply the same fix in `@packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/client.ts` around lines
148 - 151.
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In `@packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/env.ts`:
- Around line 92-99: Update the rationale comments in
packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/env.ts lines 92-99,
packages/public/pino-rotate-file/src/index.ts lines 21-30, and
packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/prodLogTransport.ts lines 23-27 to
reference issue `#355`; no other code changes are needed.
In `@packages/private/bot-core/src/lib/__tests__/replica.test.ts`:
- Around line 142-161: Stabilize the hot-spare test around claimReplicaSlot by
removing its tight real-time dependency: use fake timers to control polling and
lease deletion, or increase both hotSparePollMs and the lease-delete delay to
provide a safer timing margin while preserving the takeover assertion.
- Around line 1-45: Add tests in the replica test suite for guildShardId,
asserting a known snowflake matches Discord’s (guild ID shifted right by 22)
modulo the shard count, and for ownsShardForGuild, asserting it returns true for
every guild before any replica slot is claimed. Reuse the existing boot state
flow and order the unclaimed-slot assertion before boot mutates module state.
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In `@docs/roadmap/12-horizontal-scaling.md`:
- Around line 63-66: Update the coverage guarantee in the roadmap section to
state that coverage converges only after gap detection and reassignment or
restart complete, and explicitly acknowledge that transiently uncovered shards
can occur during that window. Keep the claim about no duplicate indexes separate
from this qualified coverage behavior.
- Around line 80-84: Update the documentation around SHARDS_PER_REPLICA to
describe it as the steady-state per-replica target, not an absolute capacity
bound. Reconcile the examples showing replicas temporarily exceeding the target
during failover or when a peer is missing, and replace claims that a replica
never exceeds the value or that container sizing depends on it alone. Preserve
the existing short-tail scaling explanation while documenting the expected
failover load.
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| correctness concern, however the timing falls. | ||
| - **Coverage is always complete.** An index nobody claimed is picked up by the replica below it, so running fewer | ||
| replicas than intended means somebody works harder, not that a guild stops being watched. |
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Qualify the coverage guarantee.
“Coverage is always complete” conflicts with Lines 102-105 and 110-113. Those lines describe an unclaimed index that remains uncovered until gap detection and a restart complete. State that coverage converges after reassignment and that transient dark shards are possible during this window.
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-- Coverage is always complete. An index nobody claimed is picked up by the replica below it, so running fewer
-- replicas than intended means somebody works harder, not that a guild stops being watched.
+- Coverage converges to complete after reassignment. A temporarily unclaimed index can leave its shards
+- uncovered during lease expiry, gap detection, or restart. The predecessor then picks up the index.📝 Committable suggestion
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| - **Claims are atomic, so two replicas can never hold the same index.** The settle window is therefore never a | |
| correctness concern, however the timing falls. | |
| - **Coverage is always complete.** An index nobody claimed is picked up by the replica below it, so running fewer | |
| replicas than intended means somebody works harder, not that a guild stops being watched. | |
| - **Claims are atomic, so two replicas can never hold the same index.** The settle window is therefore never a | |
| correctness concern, however the timing falls. | |
| - **Coverage converges to complete after reassignment.** A temporarily unclaimed index can leave its shards | |
| uncovered during lease expiry, gap detection, or restart. The predecessor then picks up the index. |
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In `@docs/roadmap/12-horizontal-scaling.md` around lines 63 - 66, Update the
coverage guarantee in the roadmap section to state that coverage converges only
after gap detection and reassignment or restart complete, and explicitly
acknowledge that transiently uncovered shards can occur during that window. Keep
the claim about no duplicate indexes separate from this qualified coverage
behavior.
| - **`SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` stays the capacity bound its name promises**, not a divisor. A replica never exceeds it | ||
| unless it is covering for a peer that never claimed its index. | ||
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| So a short tail is **headroom, not imbalance** — `4/4/4/2` fills to `4/4/4/3`, `4/4/4/4`, and then a fifth index | ||
| appears. Sizing a container is a question about `SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` alone. |
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Describe SHARDS_PER_REPLICA as a steady-state target.
Lines 53-55 show a replica holding 6 shards while SHARDS_PER_REPLICA=4. Lines 88-90 also allow this when a replica is missing. Therefore, this setting is not a hard failover capacity or the only container-sizing input. Document the expected failover load and replace the “never exceeds” and “alone” claims.
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-- **`SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` stays the capacity bound its name promises**, not a divisor. A replica never exceeds it
-- unless it is covering for a peer that never claimed its index.
+- **`SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` is the steady-state target**, not a hard failover bound. A replica can exceed it
+- while covering an unclaimed index, including after a previously assigned peer leaves. Size containers for
+- the expected failover load.
- Sizing a container is a question about `SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` alone.
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| - **`SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` stays the capacity bound its name promises**, not a divisor. A replica never exceeds it | |
| unless it is covering for a peer that never claimed its index. | |
| So a short tail is **headroom, not imbalance** — `4/4/4/2` fills to `4/4/4/3`, `4/4/4/4`, and then a fifth index | |
| appears. Sizing a container is a question about `SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` alone. | |
| - **`SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` is the steady-state target**, not a hard failover bound. A replica can exceed it | |
| while covering an unclaimed index, including after a previously assigned peer leaves. Size containers for | |
| the expected failover load. | |
| So a short tail is **headroom, not imbalance** — `4/4/4/2` fills to `4/4/4/3`, `4/4/4/4`, and then a fifth index | |
| appears. Size containers for `SHARDS_PER_REPLICA` plus the intended failover assignment. |
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In `@docs/roadmap/12-horizontal-scaling.md` around lines 80 - 84, Update the
documentation around SHARDS_PER_REPLICA to describe it as the steady-state
per-replica target, not an absolute capacity bound. Reconcile the examples
showing replicas temporarily exceeding the target during failover or when a peer
is missing, and replace claims that a replica never exceeds the value or that
container sizing depends on it alone. Preserve the existing short-tail scaling
explanation while documenting the expected failover load.
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| if (heldIndices.length > 1 && (await hasWaitingSpare(botId))) { | ||
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| { botId, heldIndices }, | ||
| 'a hot spare is waiting and this replica is covering extra indices, restarting to hand them over', | ||
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| process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM'); | ||
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Stability (medium): the give-back restart is ungated, so a single spare can restart every over-covering replica at once → wider blackout than the one handoff intends.
This branch fires whenever heldIndices.length > 1 && hasWaitingSpare(botId), with no per-replica gating and no debounce (unlike the gap branch below, which elects a single reactor and waits two checks). When two or more replicas are each covering extra indices and one spare appears, they all pass this predicate inside the same ~30s watch window and all SIGTERM together.
Concrete: totalIndices=4, only two replicas alive — R0[0,1], R1[2,3] — one spare S advertises.
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R0andR1seeheldIndices.length===2andhasWaitingSpare()===true. - Both restart in the same window →
releaseAllsheds all four indices at once → every shard dark until they reboot. - Only one index can actually be absorbed by the lone spare;
R1's restart was pointless churn.
Coverage still converges (claims are atomic), so this is a transient-availability regression rather than a correctness bug — but it turns "one new replica joins" into a full-cluster bounce exactly in the under-provisioned regime this feature targets. Consider electing a single reactor per cycle (e.g. only the replica holding the highest covering index gives back, so one index is handed off per round and the next round handles the rest) or reusing the two-consecutive-check debounce here. Fix this →
| // TODO: We don't kill the gateway to prevent it from settings state to null/none. Should investigate | ||
| // if discord.js is making the right assumption here, and if not, open a PR. | ||
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Convention (medium): replacing this rationale with a bare TODO loses knowledge that guards against a real regression.
The removed comment explained why the gateway is deliberately never destroyed: WebSocketManager.destroy can't be passed recover: 'resume' at the manager level, so every manager-level destroy hits the options.recover !== Resume branch in @discordjs/ws and calls updateSessionInfo(shardId, null) — wiping exactly the sessions lib/sessions.ts just flushed. A future maintainer reading only "TODO: investigate if discord.js is making the right assumption" could add a gateway.destroy() here and silently break session resumption, which is the whole point of the session store.
Per CLAUDE.md ("substantial 'why' comments referencing the issue number that motivated the code"), I'd keep that rationale (and the #355 reference). Same applies to the ownsShardForGuild sweep filters in services/modmail-bot/src/lib/*Sweep.ts — their removed comments explained that the filter is load-bearing (not redundant), so a maintainer is less likely to delete it. Also two typos introduced by this commit: "indeces" (replica.ts:267, 367) and "settings state to null" (should be "setting state") here.
| while (primary === null) { | ||
| await advertiseSpare(botId, token); | ||
| await sleep(hotSparePollMs); | ||
| primary = await claimLowestFree(); | ||
| } |
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Minor: a replica parked in this hot-spare loop has no shutdown hook to withdraw its advertisement — onShutdown('replica-lease', …) is only registered at line 261, after a slot is claimed. If a spare is SIGTERMed mid-idle, its shardspares: entry lingers until SPARE_STALE_MS (40s) prunes it. During that window a covering replica's watcher can hasWaitingSpare() === true for a spare that's already gone, restart to hand off, and then have to recover the resulting gap via the watcher. It self-heals, so this is low-impact, but registering a small withdrawSpare shutdown hook (or advertising with a short TTL that renewal refreshes) would make the idle case clean rather than merely self-correcting.
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