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Emit structured activity records and save a checkpoint when the bound ACP harness stops. Checkpoint helper failures have typed, sanitized error details. Timeout and cancellation terminate the helper process group; the shutdown receipt is written only after a successful save.

Validation: ACP activity, failure, timeout, cancellation, and receipt regressions passed in the integrated suite.

This layer exceeds 1,000 changed lines because the activity contract, shutdown integration, and failure-path tests form one observable lifecycle boundary. Separating the helper cleanup tests from that implementation would leave the shutdown contract unverified in this layer.

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Final integrated checks passed: ACP/provider/reaper tests and Clippy; 3,451 native desktop tests (19 ignored); native Clippy; desktop TypeScript and lint; root security; and file-size checks. The frontend run passed 7,008 tests before the final type-only extraction and test formatting. Repository-wide just ci and GitHub CI are still running. No human runtime acceptance is claimed.

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  • New Features

    • Added optional JSON activity logging with sanitized tool metadata, lifecycle events, output sizes, exit codes, and timing.
    • Added workspace checkpointing during normal shutdown and startup cancellation, with validation, timeout handling, and failure reporting.
    • Added activity_log and checkpoint_on_stop command-line options.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved shutdown handling to terminate failed or timed-out checkpoint processes and preserve recovery errors.
    • Extended Kubernetes shutdown grace periods to support checkpointing and final presence cleanup.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded testing and remote-agent documentation for checkpointing, activity redaction, shutdown behavior, and recovery scenarios.

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The ACP crate adds sanitized activity logging and workspace checkpointing. Checkpoints run during startup cancellation and normal shutdown when enabled. Kubernetes shutdown timing increases to 300 seconds, with compile-time budget checks and updated integration coverage.

Changes: ACP Runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure ACP runtime options
crates/buzz-acp/src/config.rs, crates/buzz-acp/src/lib.rs, crates/buzz-acp/src/setup_mode.rs
Adds activity_log and checkpoint_on_stop options. Startup parses CliArgs, configures logging, and selects the observer.
Record sanitized activity
crates/buzz-acp/src/activity.rs, crates/buzz-acp/src/observer.rs
Adds bounded activity records with hashed identifiers and sanitized tool metadata. The observer emits completed records with the buzz.activity.v1 schema.
Save checkpoints during shutdown
crates/buzz-acp/src/checkpoint.rs, crates/buzz-acp/src/lib.rs, crates/buzz-acp/tests/checkpoint_stop.rs, crates/buzz-acp/TESTING.md
Adds receipt validation, bounded output capture, timeout handling, process-group termination, and checkpoint outcome events. Startup cancellation and normal shutdown return checkpoint results.
Align Kubernetes shutdown budgets
crates/buzz-backend-kubernetes/src/config.rs, crates/buzz-backend-kubernetes/src/cluster.rs, crates/buzz-backend-kubernetes/src/pod.rs, docs/remote-agents.md
Sets the termination grace period to 300 seconds and adds checkpoint and stop-tail budget checks. Documentation and tests use the updated timing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Harness
  participant CheckpointSave as checkpoint::save
  participant CheckpointHelper as buzz-agent-checkpoint
  participant Observer as ObserverHandle
  Harness->>CheckpointSave: save during cancellation or shutdown
  CheckpointSave->>Observer: emit checkpoint-started
  CheckpointSave->>CheckpointHelper: execute save command
  CheckpointHelper-->>CheckpointSave: return bounded receipt output
  CheckpointSave->>CheckpointSave: validate receipt and status
  CheckpointSave->>Observer: emit checkpoint-saved or checkpoint-failed
  CheckpointSave-->>Harness: return checkpoint result
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When checkpoint-on-stop is enabled, a harness that fails during startup exits without saving a workspace checkpoint or recording a stop event. Cancellation and normal shutdown still checkpoint correctly. This is a bounded gap. The change is mergeable, but this follow-up should be fixed.

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crates/buzz-acp/src/checkpoint.rs: 1

101-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve a fixed checkpoint failure class.

Recovery remains correct because the workspace is retained. However, diagnosis loses useful information. run_checkpoint collapses spawn, timeout, non-zero exit, and receipt failures into one error. checkpoint_failed also has no details, and the activity recorder discards failure payloads.

Use fixed internal classes only. Do not include helper output.

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-        Err(error) => {
-            emit("checkpoint_failed", serde_json::json!({}));
-            Err(error)
+        Err(reason) => {
+            let reason = reason.as_str();
+            emit("checkpoint_failed", serde_json::json!({ "reason": reason }));
+            tracing::warn!(reason, "workspace checkpoint failed");
+            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
+                "checkpoint failed ({reason}); retain the Sandbox workspace for explicit recovery"
+            ))
         }

Classify spawn, timeout, non-zero exit, invalid receipt, and helper I/O failures before returning from run_checkpoint. Preserve the fixed reason in the activity record instead of discarding it.

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Review comment at @crates/buzz-acp/src/checkpoint.rs around lines 101 - 106:
Update run_checkpoint to classify spawn, timeout, non-zero exit, invalid
receipt, and helper I/O failures using fixed internal reason strings, without
including helper output. Preserve each reason when emitting the
checkpoint_failed activity and log it via tracing, then return an error
containing the fixed class while retaining the existing workspace-recovery
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Review comments at @crates/buzz-acp/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 4441-4446: Increase the agent Pod’s termination grace period via
TERMINATION_GRACE_SECONDS to more than 180 seconds with additional margin, so
the shutdown drains and checkpoint::save timeout can complete before
termination. Preserve the existing checkpoint_on_stop behavior and
checkpoint::save flow.

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Review comments at @crates/buzz-acp/src/checkpoint.rs:
- Around line 101-106: Update run_checkpoint to classify spawn, timeout,
non-zero exit, invalid receipt, and helper I/O failures using fixed internal
reason strings, without including helper output. Preserve each reason when
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- Around line 2889-2891: Update the startup result handling in tokio_main around
run_harness so startup errors are retained instead of returned immediately,
allowing checkpoint::save and the harness_stopped activity to run. Emit reason
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -nP -C3 'async fn connect\(' crates/buzz-acp/src/relay.rs

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printf '%s\n' '--- lib.rs run_harness signature and startup readiness ---'
rg -n -C 5 -F -- 'async fn run_harness' crates/buzz-acp/src/lib.rs
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printf '%s\n' '--- lib.rs shutdown path ---'
sed -n '4425,4520p' crates/buzz-acp/src/lib.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- ACP tests for startup failure/cancellation/checkpoint ---'
rg -n -C 6 -P 'startup_(ready|cancel)|checkpoint_on_stop|relay connect error|channel discovery|startup_subscription_rules|AgentRuntime::prepare' crates/buzz-acp/src --glob '*.rs'

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printf '%s\n' '--- lib.rs shutdown path ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- ACP lifecycle consumers and tests ---'
rg -n -C 6 -P 'checkpoint_failed|checkpoint_saved|harness_stopped|startup_(ready|cancel)|checkpoint_on_stop|relay connect error|channel discovery|startup_subscription_rules|AgentRuntime::prepare|retain the Sandbox workspace' --type=rust

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Run the stop checkpoint for startup errors.

run_harness can fail before it sends startup_ready. tokio_main returns that error before it calls checkpoint::save, so an enabled checkpoint is skipped. The activity stream also receives no harness_stopped record.

Preserve the startup error as the primary error, and use a distinct reason for startup failure.

Suggested fix
     };
     signal_task.abort();
-    if let Some(result) = result {
-        return result;
-    }
+    let startup_error = match result {
+        Some(Ok(())) => return Ok(()),
+        Some(Err(error)) => Some(error),
+        None => None,
+    };
     // The startup future has now dropped, killing adapter process groups and
     // removing temporary keys. Existing work still needs a checkpoint even
     // when cancellation happened before the relay became available.
@@
             "harness_stopped",
             None,
             &observer::ObserverContext::default(),
-            serde_json::json!({"reason":"startup_cancelled"}),
+            serde_json::json!({
+                "reason": if startup_error.is_some() {
+                    "startup_failed"
+                } else {
+                    "startup_cancelled"
+                }
+            }),
         );
     }
-    checkpoint_result
+    match startup_error {
+        Some(error) => Err(match checkpoint_result {
+            Ok(()) => error,
+            Err(checkpoint) => error.context(checkpoint.to_string()),
+        }),
+        None => checkpoint_result,
+    }
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Review comment at @crates/buzz-acp/src/lib.rs around lines 2889 - 2891:
Update the startup result handling in tokio_main around run_harness so startup
errors are retained instead of returned immediately, allowing checkpoint::save
and the harness_stopped activity to run. Emit reason startup_failed when an
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Add an opt-in JSONL activity log that records bounded, redacted tool and
lifecycle activity from the observer feed on stderr, so prompts, agent
text, and secrets never enter the platform stream. The binary now
parses CLI arguments before installing logging because the log format
depends on the flag.

Add an opt-in stop checkpoint that runs buzz-agent-checkpoint save
after sessions drain, including when shutdown cancels startup. It
validates the receipt and makes shutdown fail when the checkpoint fails.

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