fix(memory-proposals): close the duplicate-pending race and reap stale applies

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Closes #276. Closes #277.

Both are Phase 13c follow-ups from #275, open since 2026-06-24. Done together
because they share the same files, the same schema change and the same three
adapters — splitting them meant loading that context twice.

#276 — the duplicate-pending guard

rejectIfDuplicatePending listed pending rows, compared them in JS, then
inserted. Two concurrent proposeForget calls for one target both passed the
pre-check, and nothing at the storage layer stopped the second.

A second bug the issue does not mention, and the one more likely to bite
first. The guard read limit: 1000. Past a thousand pending rows for one
store it silently stopped guarding — no error, no log, and no concurrency
required. The duplicate question is now asked in the query
(countPendingMemoryProposalsByTarget) instead of by paging rows into memory.

The race itself is closed by materialising the forget target as a
target_discriminator column with a partial unique index scoped to
status='pending', so a target can be proposed again once the previous one is
approved, rejected or expired. That also makes isUniqueViolation live for the
first time — it has never executed on the SQL path.

Why a materialised column rather than an expression index. The issue records
the deferral reason as flaky-CI history with JSON-derived unique indexes. A
plain TEXT column with a plain partial index is a different mechanism, and the
table already carries a partial index (idx_memory_proposals_pending_lookup).

#277 — stuck applying proposals

expireMemoryProposalsBefore only touches status='pending', so a proposal
whose process died mid-apply stayed applying indefinitely and was found only
by manual inspection.

The apply path deliberately leaves a visible in-flight row rather than a false
applied — that behaviour is preserved. Only its permanence was the bug.

• applying_at is stamped when approved -> applying is claimed. Deliberately
  not measured from reviewed_at: the two coincide only because approve and
  apply happen in one request today, and a sweep measured off approval would
  start failing live work the moment that stops being true.
• the sweep rides the existing MemoryExpirationCron tick rather than
  adding a second timer, with a 15-minute threshold — well above any realistic
  forget, because sweeping early marks live work failed while sweeping late only
  lets a stuck row linger.
• the recorded result says partial deletion is unknown rather than implying a
  clean rollback: a crash inside dispatch may already have removed memories.

Three things found while building this

The discriminator existed in three copies, and the memory adapter already
enforced uniqueness in code while the SQL adapters enforced nothing — which is
exactly why isUniqueViolation exists but never fired. All three now use one
implementation in @betterdb/shared.

That implementation was unstable. It did JSON.stringify(scope), which
follows key insertion order, so {threadId, agentId} and {agentId, threadId}
describe the same target and produced different keys. Harmless while the
comparison was in memory; permanent once it backs a unique index. Scope keys
are now emitted in a fixed order, with absent and empty treated alike, and a
separator that a value cannot forge.

Postgres was included. It has full memory-proposal support (all seven
methods), so all three adapters carry the change. Postgres uses
ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS; sqlite needs an explicit migration helper, which
backfills row by row and tolerates a unique violation — a database that already
holds duplicate pending rows for one target cannot have all of them keyed, so
the first keeps the discriminator and the rest stay NULL and sit outside the
partial index.

Verification

• storage tests run against both MemoryAdapter and SqliteAdapter through
  describe.each, since the whole point of memory forget: duplicate-pending guard is racy (no DB-level uniqueness) #276 is that the two disagreed
• a 7-test upgrade suite that seeds a genuine pre-memory forget: duplicate-pending guard is racy (no DB-level uniqueness) #276 schema — see the review
  rounds below for why that exists
• 12 tests pinning the discriminator, including key order, separator forging,
  and a malformed legacy payload
• tests for the sweep and the cron, including that a failed audit write still
  clears the row — losing the audit trail must not leave it stuck in the state
  the sweep exists to clear
• 43 passing across the memory-proposal specs, stable over repeated runs
• tsc --noEmit clean; full apps/api suite stable across two runs at 10
  pre-existing failures (9 *.e2e-spec.ts needing Docker, plus
  license.service.spec.ts, already failing on master)

Prettier was run only on files that were already clean on master — five of the
touched files are prettier-dirty on master, and formatting them would have
buried this diff in unrelated reformatting.

Two things worth reviewer attention

applying_at and target_discriminator are required on
StoredMemoryProposal, not optional. Every stored row genuinely has both, so
strict is honest — but it broke an existing fixture, which is fixed here. The
compiler finds any other construction site.

Review rounds

Every finding was verified against the code before acting. Two would have broken
startup outright, and both were invisible to the original tests because those
only ever built a fresh database:

• sqlite would not initialize on an existing install. The new indexes were
  created in createSchema, which references columns only the migration adds —
  on an existing database CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS is a no-op, so
  initialize() threw no such column: applying_at. Reproduced against a real
  legacy schema before fixing; the index creation moved into the migration and a
  7-test upgrade suite now covers that path.
• postgres would not initialize either. JSON.parse sat outside the guard,
  and pg already parses jsonb — so a column holding a scalar string arrives as a
  plain string and the parse throws, escaping initialize(). Contained the way
  sqlite already did it.
• The sweep skipped the rows it exists for. applying_at was NULL on rows
  that predate the column, so anything already stuck was never swept. Both
  adapters now backfill it.
• postgres skipped the discriminator backfill, leaving rows outside the
  partial index and unguarded. It now mirrors sqlite.
• The discriminator collided. tags: ['a','b'] and ['a,b'] produced the
  same key, and a malformed legacy payload produced the same key as a genuine
  empty-scope target. Values are percent-encoded and payloads validated with the
  Zod schema rather than cast.
• The migration swallowed every error, which would have hidden a missing
  index — shipping the very race it closes. Only no such table is benign now,
  and the rethrow carries the original error as cause.

One earlier caveat is resolved. The description previously flagged an
intermittent failure in the integrity spec. Instrumenting the insert pair showed
both adapters raising a real UNIQUE error every time while .rejects.toThrow
intermittently reported "did not throw" — the test was measuring itself, and the
constraint it covers never was. It now captures the rejection and matches the
message, and asserts the index exists and is UNIQUE and partial, since a
non-unique index of the same name would satisfy IF NOT EXISTS and silently
leave the guard off.

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Medium Risk
Touches core memory-proposal persistence, migrations on existing SQLite/Postgres installs, and irreversible forget apply semantics—including race handling between live apply and stale sweep.

Overview
Closes #276 and #277 by hardening memory forget proposals at the storage layer and in the apply lifecycle.

Duplicate pending guard: Forget targets are keyed via a materialized target_discriminator (shared memoryForgetTargetDiscriminator with stable scope ordering and encoded values) and a partial unique index on pending rows. Pre-checks use countPendingMemoryProposalsByTarget instead of listing up to 1000 proposals in memory. SQLite and Postgres get idempotent migrations/backfills that tolerate legacy duplicates and malformed payloads.

Stale applying rows: Claims stamp applying_at (required by schema when moving to applying). A sweep moves rows stuck in applying before a cutoff to failed with partial: unknown, wired into the existing expiration cron with a 15-minute grace window. Apply dispatch is capped at 10 minutes so timeouts finish before the sweep; finalize updates are guarded on expected_status: ['applying'] so a sweep win does not flip a row to false success.

Service layer: Rate-limit slots are released when insert loses the unique-index race; extensive tests cover adapters, upgrades, discriminator collisions, sweep/cron, and apply-vs-sweep races.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved memory proposal handling with target-specific duplicate detection.
  • Added tracking for application start times and automatic recovery of stalled applications.
  • Added dispatch timeouts for operations that do not complete promptly.
  • Existing databases are upgraded automatically, including recovery of interrupted migrations.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented duplicate pending proposals for the same memory target.
  • Improved handling of malformed legacy proposal data during upgrades.
  • Preserved accurate proposal status and audit records during application races.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for uniqueness, recovery, timeouts, migrations, expiration, and target identification.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Memory proposals now use stable target discriminators and applying timestamps. Memory, SQLite, and Postgres storage enforce pending-target uniqueness, count matching proposals, and recover stale applying rows. Application dispatch has a timeout, and stale recovery preserves terminal states.

Changes

Memory proposal integrity

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Target identity and proposal state contract packages/shared/src/utils/memory-proposals.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/__tests__/target-discriminator.spec.ts	Schemas persist applying_at and target_discriminator. The shared helper generates deterministic, encoded target keys.
Storage uniqueness and recovery operations apps/api/src/common/interfaces/storage-port.interface.ts, apps/api/src/storage/adapters/*, apps/api/src/storage/adapters/__tests__/*	Memory, SQLite, and Postgres adapters persist target metadata, enforce pending-target uniqueness, count matching rows, and recover stale applying proposals. Legacy backfills validate payloads and can resume after interruption.
Proposal application and expiration recovery proprietary/memory-proposals/memory-proposal.service.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/memory-apply.service.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/memory-expiration.cron.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/__tests__/*	The service stores discriminators, releases rate-limit reservations after creation failures, and audits stale recovery. The cron invokes the stale sweep. Apply finalization remains guarded against concurrent sweeps.
Bounded apply dispatch proprietary/memory-proposals/apply-timing.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/memory-apply.dispatcher.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/__tests__/apply-sweep-race.spec.ts	Dispatches use a configurable timeout and MemoryApplyTimeoutError. Completion clears timers while timed-out underlying operations continue.
Integrity and race validation apps/api/src/storage/adapters/__tests__/*, proprietary/memory-proposals/__tests__/memory-proposal.service.spec.ts, proprietary/memory-proposals/__tests__/memory-apply.dispatcher.spec.ts	Tests validate storage integrity, migration recovery, stale sweeps, status schemas, duplicate races, rate-limit release, and timeout behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c7d74

The change still carries merge-blocking correctness and upgrade risks: timed-out forgets may continue after replacement work starts, discriminator values may not match their payloads, and some legacy applying rows may remain stuck after restart. These issues can cause duplicate pending work, late memory deletion, or failed startup, so they should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MemoryExpirationCron
  participant MemoryProposalService
  participant StoragePort
  participant AuditStore
  MemoryExpirationCron->>MemoryProposalService: failStaleApplyingProposals(cutoff, system)
  MemoryProposalService->>StoragePort: failStaleApplyingMemoryProposalsBefore(cutoff)
  StoragePort-->>MemoryProposalService: recovered proposals
  MemoryProposalService->>AuditStore: write stale_apply audit events
  MemoryProposalService-->>MemoryExpirationCron: recovered proposal count

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apps/api/src/storage/adapters/memory.adapter.ts (1)

1729-1735: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Match the SQL adapters and compare the stored target_discriminator.

Both sites recompute the key from proposal_payload. The SQLite and PostgreSQL adapters compare the persisted target_discriminator column instead. Two behaviours differ:

• A caller-supplied target_discriminator that differs from the computed value is persisted, then ignored here.
• A row with a NULL discriminator is counted here, but it is outside the partial unique index and is not counted in SQL.

Compare the stored value so all adapters answer the same question.

♻️ Proposed change

       if (
         existing.status === 'pending' &&
         existing.connection_id === input.connection_id &&
         existing.store_name === input.store_name &&
-        memoryForgetTargetDiscriminator(existing.proposal_payload) === discriminator
+        existing.target_discriminator === (input.target_discriminator ?? discriminator)
       ) {

       if (
         proposal.status === 'pending' &&
         proposal.connection_id === input.connection_id &&
         proposal.store_name === input.store_name &&
-        memoryForgetTargetDiscriminator(proposal.proposal_payload) === input.target_discriminator
+        proposal.target_discriminator === input.target_discriminator
       ) {

Also applies to: 1888-1905

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In `@apps/api/src/storage/adapters/memory.adapter.ts` around lines 1729 - 1735,
Update the pending-proposal matching logic to compare each stored proposal’s
target_discriminator against the input discriminator, rather than recomputing it
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In `@apps/api/src/storage/adapters/sqlite.adapter.ts`:
- Around line 116-160: Update addMemoryProposalIntegrityColumns to backfill
applying_at for existing rows whose status is applying, using reviewed_at and
falling back to proposed_at when reviewed_at is unavailable; ensure this runs
after adding the column and preserves non-applying rows.
- Around line 1617-1638: Update createSchema to call
addMemoryProposalIntegrityColumns(this.db) before executing the schema db.exec,
then remove the later invocation so existing databases gain the required columns
before indexes are created.

In `@packages/shared/src/utils/memory-proposals.ts`:
- Around line 180-192: Update memoryForgetTargetDiscriminator to encode each
scope value and tag before joining them, preserving deterministic tag sorting
and the existing field structure while preventing delimiter collisions.
Coordinate the discriminator format change with a backfill of existing pending
rows, or apply it before persisted discriminator values are released.

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In `@apps/api/src/storage/adapters/memory.adapter.ts`:
- Around line 1729-1735: Update the pending-proposal matching logic to compare
each stored proposal’s target_discriminator against the input discriminator,
rather than recomputing it from proposal_payload. Apply this consistently in
both affected memory-adapter paths, including the logic around memoryProposals
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Overlap with #283 — this PR will be trimmed before merge

#283 ("Fail stale applying memory proposals", @caioribeiroclw-pixel) implements
the #277 half of this PR and has been approved since 2026-07-07. I planned #277
from the issue text and did not check for an open PR covering it, so this
duplicates work that was already done and reviewed.

Plan: land #283 first, then strip the #277 half out of this PR. What remains
is everything #283 does not touch:

• memory forget: duplicate-pending guard is racy (no DB-level uniqueness) #276 — the duplicate-pending race: target_discriminator as a materialised
  column, the partial unique index, and the counted guard replacing the
  limit: 1000 scan that silently stopped guarding past a thousand rows
• the shared, stable, percent-encoded discriminator replacing three divergent
  copies
• the migration fixes review surfaced: index ordering that broke initialize()
  on existing sqlite installs, the postgres JSON.parse that escaped
  initialize(), payload validation, and the migration no longer swallowing
  errors

Currently blocked: #283's only failing check is the CLA, which the
contributor has not signed. I have asked there. Until that clears this PR stays
as-is rather than deleting a working, tested implementation on the assumption a
third party will act.

One difference worth recording in case #283 lands and this half is dropped:
the two time staleness differently. #283 uses reviewed_at; this PR added an
applying_at column stamped at the approved -> applying claim. They are
equivalent today only because approve and apply happen in one request — if that
is ever decoupled, a sweep measured from reviewed_at starts failing work that
is still running. Noted on #283 as well.

Not asking for a re-review yet — flagging so nobody reviews the #277 half twice.

[KIvanow]

Solid work on closing the dedup race - the partial unique index plus the unique-violation catch is the right approach, and the migration/discriminator hardening from the last round holds up. One must-fix and a few smaller ones, all in the new sweep-vs-apply interaction rather than the migration path.

1. (blocking) The apply finalize is not CAS-guarded, so the stale sweep can be resurrected into a false success. memory-apply.service.ts claims approved -> applying with expected_status, but both finalize writes (applying -> applied at ~L99 and applying -> failed at ~L73) omit expected_status, justified by "we hold the exclusive applying claim." The new sweep breaks that invariant: it flips applying -> failed out from under a still-running apply. Interleave: apply runs past the cutoff, cron marks it failed(stale_apply) and warns operators the delete may be partial, then the apply completes and unconditionally overwrites failed -> applied. Result is a terminal-state flip-flop and a contradictory audit trail, with applied_result claiming clean success right after operators were told to verify. Please pass expected_status: ['applying'] on both finalize writes and treat a null return as "the sweep took the row, do not resurrect."

2. The 15-minute cutoff is unenforced. MemoryApplyDispatcher.dispatch has no timeout, so nothing bounds apply duration below STALE_APPLY_AFTER_MS. Even with #1 fixed, a legitimately slow forget (>15 min) gets marked failed(partial:'unknown') while the delete actually succeeds, and since the row is no longer pending an operator can re-propose and re-apply an already-forgotten target. Please enforce a dispatch timeout strictly below the cutoff, or document and validate the bound.

3. Rate-limit token leaked when a duplicate loses the index race. memory-proposal.service.ts proposeForget: the isUniqueViolation branch throws DuplicatePendingMemoryProposalError before rateLimiter.release(...), whereas every other error path releases. The loser of a concurrent duplicate reserved a slot and never frees it, permanently burning against the 30/hour budget without creating anything. Release on this branch too.

4. sqlite backfill is skipped after a mid-migration crash. addMemoryProposalIntegrityColumns runs each ALTER/backfill as its own auto-committed statement, then if (hadDiscriminator) return; before the row-by-row backfill. A crash after ADD COLUMN target_discriminator commits but partway through the backfill leaves the remaining pending rows NULL on restart (hadDiscriminator is now true, so the backfill is skipped), permanently outside the partial index and unguarded. Postgres avoids this by re-running its backfill unconditionally. Make the sqlite backfill idempotent (re-select WHERE target_discriminator IS NULL AND status='pending' every startup) or wrap the migration in a transaction.

Minor: the in-memory adapter dedups on the payload-derived discriminator while SQL matches the stored target_discriminator column, so the backends would diverge if an explicit discriminator is ever passed (and the shared tests would not catch it). And nothing couples status='applying' with stamping applying_at, so a future writer that sets the status without the timestamp would recreate the stuck-forever state (the current apply path stamps it, so this is defensive).

[jamby77]

All six verified against the code and fixed in c7d740c. Findings 1 and 2 were bugs I introduced with the sweep — the CAS invariant the finalize writes relied on stopped holding the moment the cron could take a row out from under a running apply.

1. CAS-guard both finalize writes. Both now pass expected_status: ['applying'].

• Failure path: a null return means the sweep already recorded its own verdict, so the apply re-reads the row and returns the sweep's result unchanged.
• Success path: a null return logs an error and appends an audit event (reconciled: 'completed_after_stale_sweep') recording that the delete did succeed while the proposal stays failed. The row is not resurrected — the operator was told to verify, and that stands.

2. Bound the dispatch under the cutoff. New apply-timing.ts holds STALE_APPLY_AFTER_MS (moved out of the cron, so the two constants sit together) and APPLY_DISPATCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 10min. dispatch() races the run against a timer, clearTimeout in finally so nothing leaks, and a test asserts the ordering invariant APPLY_DISPATCH_TIMEOUT_MS < STALE_APPLY_AFTER_MS so the bound cannot silently drift above the cutoff.

3. Release on the duplicate branch. The release moved above the throw, so every exit frees the slot.

4. sqlite backfill runs unconditionally. Dropped the if (hadDiscriminator) return;. The select was already the idempotent WHERE target_discriminator IS NULL AND status='pending' form, so it costs one no-op query per startup once the backfill has completed, and finishes a crash-interrupted one. Kept it out of a transaction to match the postgres path.

Minors: the memory adapter now dedups on the stored target_discriminator column (null treated as outside the index, as in SQL), and UpdateMemoryProposalStatusInputSchema gained a .refine() rejecting status: 'applying' without applying_at.

Tests: new apply-sweep-race.spec.ts (7) covering no-resurrection, the audit reconciliation, both guards, the timeout and the no-leaked-timer case; a crash-recovery test in memory-proposal-upgrade.spec.ts that ALTERs both columns, backfills only one row, and asserts the other is keyed on the next initialize(); a rate-limit test asserting the slot returns to full after a lost index race; and three schema tests. Proved non-vacuous by reverting the CAS guards first: 2 failed, then green. Full api suite passes apart from the pre-existing license.service failure on master.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/api/src/storage/adapters/sqlite.adapter.ts`:
- Around line 160-165: The applying_at backfill currently runs only when the
column is newly added, leaving NULL claim times after an interrupted
initialization. Move the idempotent UPDATE that sets applying_at via COALESCE
outside the hadDiscriminator/column-addition condition so it executes on every
initialization, and add a restart test covering an existing applying_at column
with a NULL claim time.

In `@proprietary/memory-proposals/memory-apply.dispatcher.ts`:
- Around line 25-39: The dispatch flow in memory-apply.dispatcher.ts lines 25-39
must retain exclusive target ownership until run settles: make the forget
operation cancellable and await cancellation settlement, or otherwise keep
ownership active after timeout. In memory-apply.service.ts lines 63-89, do not
turn an uncancelled MemoryApplyTimeoutError into a terminal failure that
releases ownership. In
proprietary/memory-proposals/__tests__/apply-sweep-race.spec.ts lines 128-139,
add coverage proving a timed-out original proposal cannot allow a replacement
before the original forget settles.

Apply the same fix in `@apps/api/src/storage/adapters/memory.adapter.ts` around
lines 1729 - 1741: The primary adapter path must reject mismatched target
identity.

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[KIvanow]

Thanks for the thorough fixes. Re-reviewed at e36d54e8 and confirmed all four are resolved: the finalize writes are now CAS-guarded on applying with the sweep-took-it reconciliation handled cleanly (nice touch keeping the terminal state failed and recording the reconciliation in the audit), the 10-minute dispatch timeout sits safely below the 15-minute sweep in a shared constant, the rate-limit reservation is released before the duplicate throw, and the sqlite discriminator/applying_at backfills now run unconditionally so a mid-migration crash recovers. Removing target_discriminator from the input to close the fake-vs-SQL divergence is the right call.

One regression the timeout introduced, though:

memory-apply.dispatcher.ts dispatch() can crash the process via an abandoned run() rejection. Promise.race([this.run(proposal), deadline]) abandons run() when the deadline wins, but run() is uncancellable and awaits store.forget() / store.forgetByScope() with no internal catch. If that slow forget later rejects (very plausible for an operation already slow enough to blow the 10-minute budget: connection drop, downstream timeout), the rejection has no handler attached, surfaces as an unhandledRejection, and main.ts turns that into process.exit(1). So a forget that exceeds the timeout and then errors takes the whole monitor down. The two conditions are correlated, so this is a realistic path, not just theoretical.

One line closes it:

const work = this.run(proposal);
work.catch(() => {}); // uncancellable; if it rejects after the deadline won, don't let it become an unhandledRejection
return await Promise.race([work, deadline]);

Everything else looks good to clear once this is handled.

[jamby77]

Thanks — I dug into this one and I don't think the abandoned run() can reach unhandledRejection, so I've pushed a test rather than the work.catch(() => {}) line.

Promise.race subscribes to every input: it calls .then(resolve, reject) on each one. So this.run(proposal) always has a rejection handler attached, installed by race itself. When the deadline wins and run() rejects later, that rejection is delivered to the race's already-settled reject — a no-op — and never becomes an unhandled rejection. The extra .catch() would be a second handler on a promise that already has one.

Verified two ways:

1. Plain Node 22, no Jest in the picture:

process.on('unhandledRejection', (r) => console.log('UNHANDLED:', String(r)));
let rej;
const work = new Promise((_r, j) => { rej = j; });
const deadline = new Promise((_r, j) => setTimeout(() => j(new Error('timeout')), 5));
try { await Promise.race([work, deadline]); } catch (e) { console.log('race rejected with:', e.message); }
rej(new Error('late failure'));
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 50));

Prints race rejected with: timeout and nothing else — no UNHANDLED:.

2. Against the real dispatcher: 102188a1 adds does not leave an unhandled rejection when an abandoned forget fails later — a forget() that hangs past a 5ms timeout, then rejects, with a process.on('unhandledRejection') listener asserting nothing fires. It passes both with and without the .catch(), which is the point: the property holds on Promise.race alone.

I kept the test because the property is worth pinning — it's Promise.race's subscribe-to-all behaviour doing the work, and a future refactor to setTimeout + a bare await would silently reintroduce exactly the crash you described. Happy to add the .catch() as belt-and-braces if you'd rather have it explicit at the call site, but as it stands it's unreachable defence.

Everything else from the round is unchanged.

[jamby77]

Merged as-is, so the plan in the overlap note above did not happen — the #277 half shipped from here rather than from #283.

@caioribeiroclw-pixel — apologies, this supersedes your #283. It was approved first and the only thing keeping it from landing was the unsigned CLA; we decided not to hold #276 behind that any longer. Your approach was sound, and one detail from it is worth keeping in mind: #283 measured staleness from reviewed_at while this PR stamps an applying_at column at the approved -> applying claim. They agree today only because approve and apply happen in one request.