@remnic/core 9.7.14 → 9.8.0

package/src/access-recall-concurrency.ts

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+/**
+ * Per-principal recall concurrency + single-flight coalescing (issue #1906).
+ *
+ * Extracted from access-service.ts (structural ratchet #1520/#1995): the
+ * machinery that replaced the former width-1 `withBudgetLock` recall
+ * serialization with a per-principal concurrency semaphore plus query-level
+ * single-flight coalescing and atomic cross-namespace budget admission.
+ *
+ * These are free functions taking a {@link RecallCoordinatorHost} (the
+ * EngramAccessService instance) rather than methods, so the per-instance
+ * semaphore/flight state and budget/idempotency/execute dependencies stay on
+ * the service while the ~600 lines of coalescing logic live in their own
+ * module. `raceAbort` and `attachFlightAbort` need no host (they operate on the
+ * caller signal / flight object alone).
+ */
+import { abortError, throwIfAborted } from "./abort-error.js";
+import { hashAccessIdempotencyPayload } from "./access-idempotency.js";
+import {
+  EngramAccessInputError,
+  type EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  type EngramAccessRecallResponse,
+} from "./access-service.js";
+import {
+  type BudgetDecision,
+  type BudgetReservation,
+  type CrossNamespaceBudget,
+  toBudgetWarning,
+} from "./cross-namespace-budget.js";
+
+/**
+ * Per-principal recall concurrency slot (issue #1906). `active` counts
+ * in-flight recalls holding a permit; `waiters` is the FIFO queue of callers
+ * blocked on a permit. Process-local (per AGENTS.md multi-instance reality);
+ * entries self-delete when idle so the map never grows unbounded.
+ */
+interface PrincipalSemaphore {
+  active: number;
+  waiters: Array<{ take: () => void; drop: () => void }>;
+}
+
+/** Result of one coalesced recall pipeline (issue #1906). */
+export type RecallExecResult = {
+  response: EngramAccessRecallResponse;
+  budgetRecordPrincipal: string | null;
+  /** The pipeline's own atomic budget reservation token, so a consumer that
+   *  fails AFTER the pipeline (response clone, idempotency put) can release
+   *  the exact entry (#1906 review round 3). */
+  reservation?: BudgetReservation;
+};
+
+/**
+ * A shared single-flight recall execution (issue #1906 review). Identical
+ * concurrent recalls for one principal coalesce onto one `promise`. The flight
+ * owns its OWN AbortController so a single caller disconnecting never cancels
+ * the shared pipeline; `live` refcounts attached callers and the controller is
+ * aborted only when EVERY attached caller has aborted.
+ */
+interface RecallFlight {
+  promise: Promise<RecallExecResult>;
+  controller: AbortController;
+  live: number;
+  /** Set true the instant the shared pipeline acquires its concurrency slot and
+   *  begins executing. Before this, a KEYED flight whose only caller aborts must
+   *  cancel (nothing has committed); after it, a keyed flight must persist
+   *  regardless of caller disconnects (round 5 #1). Unkeyed flights ignore it —
+   *  they carry no `persisted` gate and cancel whenever every caller leaves
+   *  (round 14 #3). */
+  committed: boolean;
+  /** Called when the flight goes idle (no attached callers remain). Used to
+   *  unregister the flight from `recallInFlight` only AFTER its consumers have
+   *  finished — never on raw pipeline settle — so an identical arrival while a
+   *  consumer is still finishing (e.g. a slow put) still coalesces (round 6 #1). */
+  onIdle?: () => void;
+  /** For KEYED flights only: settles when the leader's idempotency persistence
+   *  (idempotency.put) completes — resolves on success, rejects with the put
+   *  error on failure. The leader's consumeFlight detaches BEFORE its put runs,
+   *  so `onIdle` awaits this gate before unregistering the flight — keeping it
+   *  discoverable through the persistence window so an identical arrival during a
+   *  slow put still coalesces instead of starting a second pipeline (round 12 #2,
+   *  originally the round-7 #1 follower gate). */
+  persisted?: {
+    promise: Promise<void>;
+    resolve: () => void;
+    reject: (reason: unknown) => void;
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The EngramAccessService surface these coordinator functions read/mutate. The
+ * service passes `this` (via an unknown cast at the single call site) so the
+ * per-instance state and dependencies stay owned by the service.
+ */
+export interface RecallCoordinatorHost {
+  readonly recallSemaphores: Map<string, PrincipalSemaphore>;
+  readonly recallInFlight: Map<string, RecallFlight>;
+  readonly budget: Pick<CrossNamespaceBudget, "record" | "release">;
+  readonly orchestrator: { readonly config: { readonly recallMaxConcurrentPerPrincipal: number } };
+  executeRecall(request: EngramAccessRecallRequest): Promise<RecallExecResult>;
+  handleIdempotentRead<T>(options: {
+    operation: string;
+    idempotencyKey?: string;
+    requestFingerprint: unknown;
+    execute: () => Promise<T>;
+    afterStore?: (response: T) => Promise<void> | void;
+  }): Promise<T>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Acquire a recall slot for `key` (issue #1906). Resolves with a release
+ * fn; rejects with an AbortError if `signal` fires while queued. A `limit`
+ * of `0` (or any non-positive/non-finite value, which cannot occur after
+ * config parse) means "unlimited". Waiters are served FIFO; an aborted
+ * waiter leaves the queue immediately and never holds a permit. Empty
+ * entries self-delete so the map never grows unbounded (the 2026-07-10
+ * unbounded-state-file lesson: every structure has a delete path).
+ */
+function acquireRecallSlot(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  key: string,
+  limit: number,
+  signal?: AbortSignal,
+): Promise<{ release: () => void; waitedMs: number }> {
+  const cap = Number.isFinite(limit) && limit > 0 ? limit : Infinity;
+  const sem = host.recallSemaphores.get(key) ?? { active: 0, waiters: [] };
+  host.recallSemaphores.set(key, sem);
+  const release = () => {
+    sem.active--;
+    const next = sem.waiters.shift();
+    if (next) {
+      sem.active++;
+      next.take();
+    }
+    if (sem.active === 0 && sem.waiters.length === 0) {
+      host.recallSemaphores.delete(key);
+    }
+  };
+  if (sem.active < cap) {
+    // Slot free — acquired immediately, NO queue wait. (Measuring wall-clock
+    // here would count event-loop scheduling jitter under load and wrongly
+    // report a positive queueWaitMs for an uncontended recall.)
+    sem.active++;
+    return Promise.resolve({ release, waitedMs: 0 });
+  }
+  // Contended — measure the real time spent blocked for a slot.
+  const startedWaiting = Date.now();
+  return new Promise<{ release: () => void; waitedMs: number }>((resolve, reject) => {
+    const waiter = {
+      take: () => {
+        signal?.removeEventListener("abort", waiter.drop);
+        resolve({ release, waitedMs: Date.now() - startedWaiting });
+      },
+      drop: () => {
+        const i = sem.waiters.indexOf(waiter);
+        if (i >= 0) sem.waiters.splice(i, 1);
+        if (sem.active === 0 && sem.waiters.length === 0) {
+          host.recallSemaphores.delete(key);
+        }
+        reject(abortError("operation aborted"));
+      },
+    };
+    if (signal?.aborted) {
+      waiter.drop();
+      return;
+    }
+    signal?.addEventListener("abort", waiter.drop, { once: true });
+    sem.waiters.push(waiter);
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Runs `fn` under a per-principal recall slot, passing the measured queue
+ * wait (ms) — 0 for an uncontended acquire, the real blocked time when the
+ * cap was reached — so it can be folded additively into recall-timings.
+ * Replaces the former width-1 `withBudgetLock` FIFO serialization (issue
+ * #1906): budget accounting stays correct because peek/record are synchronous
+ * (see cross-namespace-budget.ts). Release always runs in `finally`.
+ */
+export async function withRecallConcurrency<T>(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  principal: string,
+  signal: AbortSignal | undefined,
+  fn: (queueWaitMs: number) => Promise<T>,
+): Promise<T> {
+  const key = principal || "__anonymous__";
+  const limit = host.orchestrator.config.recallMaxConcurrentPerPrincipal;
+  throwIfAborted(signal);
+  const { release, waitedMs } = await acquireRecallSlot(host, key, limit, signal);
+  try {
+    // The signal may have fired while queued: `take()` already removed the
+    // abort listener when granting this slot, so re-check before entering `fn`.
+    // Without this, a caller (or flight controller) that aborted just after
+    // admission would still start the recall pipeline and reserve/run work
+    // until a later rollback; the `finally` below releases the slot instead
+    // (round 14 #2).
+    throwIfAborted(signal);
+    return await fn(waitedMs);
+  } finally {
+    release();
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Race `p` against `signal` (issue #1906). A single-flight caller waits on
+ * the shared flight promise but must be able to leave on its own abort. The
+ * abort listener is removed as soon as the race settles (either `p` won or
+ * the abort fired) so a settled-first promise never leaks a listener on a
+ * long-lived signal.
+ *
+ * Pre-check the signal BEFORE building the race: an already-aborted signal
+ * must win even when `p` is already fulfilled. `Promise.race` settles from
+ * already-resolved members in array order, so a fulfilled `p` (index 0) would
+ * otherwise beat the synchronously-rejected abort racer (index 1) and let an
+ * aborted caller proceed into its own persistence + budget accounting before
+ * the next abort check runs (round 15 #1).
+ */
+export function raceAbort<T>(p: Promise<T>, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<T> {
+  if (!signal) return p;
+  if (signal.aborted) return Promise.reject(abortError("operation aborted"));
+  let onAbort: (() => void) | undefined;
+  const racer = new Promise<never>((_resolve, reject) => {
+    onAbort = () => reject(abortError("operation aborted"));
+    signal.addEventListener("abort", onAbort, { once: true });
+  });
+  return Promise.race([p, racer]).finally(() => {
+    if (onAbort) signal.removeEventListener("abort", onAbort);
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Attach a caller to a single-flight recall (issue #1906 review). Increments
+ * the flight refcount and (when `cancelOnAbort`) wires the caller's abort so
+ * the SHARED pipeline is cancelled when every attached caller has aborted —
+ * EXCEPT a KEYED flight that has already committed to execution, which must
+ * persist regardless of caller disconnects (round 5 #1). A caller attached
+ * with `cancelOnAbort=false` still holds a refcount slot (keeping the flight
+ * alive) but never cancels it. Returns a `detach` to call when the caller
+ * settles.
+ */
+function attachFlightAbort(
+  flight: RecallFlight,
+  signal: AbortSignal | undefined,
+  cancelOnAbort: boolean,
+): () => void {
+  flight.live += 1;
+  let settled = false;
+  const onAbort = () => {
+    if (settled) return;
+    settled = true;
+    flight.live -= 1;
+    if (flight.live === 0) {
+      // A KEYED flight that already began executing must persist even though
+      // its last caller left (round 5 #1); cancel only a flight that has not
+      // committed (still queued for a slot) or has nothing to persist —
+      // unkeyed, no `persisted` gate (round 14 #3).
+      if (!flight.persisted || !flight.committed) flight.controller.abort();
+      flight.onIdle?.();
+    }
+  };
+  if (cancelOnAbort && signal) {
+    if (signal.aborted) {
+      onAbort();
+    } else {
+      signal.addEventListener("abort", onAbort, { once: true });
+    }
+  }
+  return () => {
+    if (settled) return;
+    settled = true;
+    flight.live -= 1;
+    if (cancelOnAbort && signal) signal.removeEventListener("abort", onAbort);
+    // Unregister only once the LAST consumer finishes, so a joiner arriving
+    // while a consumer is still settling (slow put / hooked consume) still
+    // coalesces onto the shared result (round 6 #1).
+    if (flight.live === 0) flight.onIdle?.();
+  };
+}
+
+/** Consume a shared recall flight for one caller (issue #1906 review). When
+ *  `race` is true the caller leaves early on its own abort; when false (a
+ *  committed idempotency-keyed leader) it awaits the flight to completion so
+ *  persistence survives its disconnect (round 5 #1). `cancelOnAbort` (default
+ *  `race`) decides whether this caller's abort counts toward cancelling the
+ *  shared pipeline: a keyed leader awaits the flight (race=false) yet still
+ *  wires its abort so that, while the flight is only QUEUED and no other caller
+ *  is attached, its disconnect cancels the not-yet-committed pipeline (round
+ *  14 #3). Records this caller's OWN cross-namespace budget event (coalesced
+ *  callers), clones the response inside the rollback scope, and returns the
+ *  reservation this caller owns so an outer failure can release the exact
+ *  entry. If the caller leaves before observing the result, the pipeline
+ *  reservation it owns is released once the flight resolves so a cancelled
+ *  recall never leaks quota (round 5 #2). */
+export async function consumeFlight(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  flight: RecallFlight,
+  request: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  recordBudget: boolean,
+  race: boolean,
+  cancelOnAbort: boolean = race,
+): Promise<{ response: EngramAccessRecallResponse; reservation: BudgetReservation | undefined }> {
+  const detach = attachFlightAbort(flight, request.abortSignal, cancelOnAbort);
+  try {
+    let result: RecallExecResult;
+    try {
+      result = race
+        ? await raceAbort(flight.promise, request.abortSignal)
+        : await flight.promise;
+    } catch (err) {
+      // This caller left before observing the result. If it OWNS the
+      // pipeline's reservation (recordBudget=false) and the flight still
+      // resolves with one, release it so a cancelled recall does not leak
+      // quota (round 5 #2). A rejected flight already rolled back inside
+      // executeRecall, so the resolve handler simply never fires.
+      if (!recordBudget) {
+        flight.promise.then(
+          (settled) => {
+            if (settled.reservation) host.budget.release(settled.reservation);
+          },
+          () => {},
+        );
+      }
+      throw err;
+    }
+    // A committed (race=false) caller applies its own abort later (after
+    // persistence); a racing caller re-checks here. If the abort landed in the
+    // gap AFTER the result resolved, release the pipeline reservation this
+    // caller owns (recordBudget=false) rather than leak it (round 6 #2).
+    if (race && request.abortSignal?.aborted) {
+      if (!recordBudget && result.reservation) {
+        host.budget.release(result.reservation);
+      }
+      throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+    }
+    // A caller that ran the pipeline inherits its reservation token; a
+    // coalesced caller records its OWN cross-namespace event below.
+    let reservation = recordBudget ? undefined : result.reservation;
+    let ownDecision: BudgetDecision | undefined;
+    if (recordBudget && result.budgetRecordPrincipal) {
+      const decision = host.budget.record(result.budgetRecordPrincipal);
+      if (!decision.allowed) {
+        throw new EngramAccessInputError(
+          `recall denied: cross-namespace budget exceeded (${decision.count}/${decision.limit.hardLimit} in ${decision.limit.windowMs}ms window)`,
+        );
+      }
+      reservation = decision.reservation;
+      ownDecision = decision;
+    }
+    try {
+      const response = structuredClone(result.response);
+      if (ownDecision) {
+        // The clone carries the LEADER's budgetWarning; replace it with THIS
+        // coalesced caller's OWN soft-limit decision so the caller whose event
+        // actually crossed the soft limit sees its own warning (round 4 #2).
+        // `toBudgetWarning` strips the server-only `reservation` token so the
+        // principal id never reaches the response / cache (round 10 #2).
+        response.budgetWarning = toBudgetWarning(ownDecision);
+      }
+      return { response, reservation };
+    } catch (err) {
+      // Clone threw on a successful pipeline — release the admission entry
+      // rather than leak it (round 3 #1).
+      host.budget.release(reservation);
+      throw err;
+    }
+  } finally {
+    detach();
+  }
+}
+
+/** UNKEYED follower path (issue #1906 review): join an already-registered
+ *  flight WITHOUT taking a concurrency slot. Only unkeyed callers reach here —
+ *  keyed callers enter the idempotency guard first (round 12 #1) and coalesce
+ *  via leadRecallFlight's existing-join instead. Mirrors the leaders' final
+ *  post-consume abort guard: a caller that disconnected after its per-caller
+ *  reservation was recorded but before delivery releases it rather than leaking
+ *  quota (round 8 #1). */
+async function followRecallFlight(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  flight: RecallFlight,
+  request: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+): Promise<EngramAccessRecallResponse> {
+  const consumed = await consumeFlight(host, flight, request, true, true);
+  try {
+    throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+  } catch (err) {
+    host.budget.release(consumed.reservation);
+    throw err;
+  }
+  return consumed.response;
+}
+
+/** Non-coalesced recall (single-flight disabled): per-request execution
+ *  under a concurrency slot, the caller's own signal driving its pipeline. */
+async function runRecallDirect(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  request: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  normalizedRequest: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  requestFingerprint: unknown,
+  queueWaitMs: number,
+): Promise<EngramAccessRecallResponse> {
+  let capturedReservation: BudgetReservation | undefined;
+  let response: EngramAccessRecallResponse;
+  try {
+    response = await host.handleIdempotentRead({
+      operation: "recall",
+      idempotencyKey: request.idempotencyKey,
+      requestFingerprint,
+      execute: async () => {
+        // Create + await the pipeline inside the closure so its rejection is
+        // observed immediately (no unhandled-rejection window across the
+        // idempotency-lock await). The caller's own signal drives this
+        // non-coalesced pipeline.
+        const exec = host.executeRecall({ ...normalizedRequest, queueWaitMs });
+        let result: RecallExecResult;
+        try {
+          result = await raceAbort(exec, request.abortSignal);
+        } catch (err) {
+          // Caller left (abort) before observing the result. If exec still
+          // resolves with a reservation, release it so the cancelled recall
+          // does not leak quota (round 5 #2). A rejected exec already rolled
+          // back inside executeRecall.
+          exec.then(
+            (settled) => {
+              if (settled.reservation) host.budget.release(settled.reservation);
+            },
+            () => {},
+          );
+          throw err;
+        }
+        let cloned: EngramAccessRecallResponse;
+        try {
+          cloned = structuredClone(result.response);
+        } catch (err) {
+          // Clone threw on a successful pipeline — release now (round 3 #1);
+          // leave capturedReservation unset so the outer catch is a no-op.
+          host.budget.release(result.reservation);
+          throw err;
+        }
+        // Clone succeeded — the outer catch owns rollback if a later step
+        // (idempotency put) fails (round 4 #1).
+        capturedReservation = result.reservation;
+        return cloned;
+      },
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (capturedReservation) host.budget.release(capturedReservation);
+    throw err;
+  }
+  try {
+    throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Abort landed after the result was produced but before delivery. For a
+    // NON-persisted (unkeyed) recall the completed result is discarded and
+    // will not be replayed, so release its reservation rather than leak quota
+    // (round 6 #2). A keyed recall persisted its result (a retry replays it),
+    // so its budget event legitimately stands (round 5 #1).
+    if (!request.idempotencyKey?.trim() && capturedReservation) {
+      host.budget.release(capturedReservation);
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
+  return response;
+}
+
+/** Register a single-flight and start its ONE shared pipeline in the
+ *  background (issue #1906 review). The pipeline runs under a concurrency
+ *  slot tied to the FLIGHT'S own abort controller (#3) — so a caller
+ *  disconnecting (even while the flight is still queued for a slot) never
+ *  cancels it while other callers still want the result. The flight
+ *  unregisters via `onIdle` when its LAST consumer finishes (round 6 #1) or
+ *  when every caller has aborted (round 3 #2) — NOT on raw pipeline settle,
+ *  so a joiner arriving while a consumer is still finishing still coalesces. */
+export function createAndStartFlight(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  normalizedRequest: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  flightKey: string,
+  principalKey: string,
+  keyed: boolean,
+): RecallFlight {
+  const controller = new AbortController();
+  let settleExec!: (result: RecallExecResult) => void;
+  let failExec!: (reason: unknown) => void;
+  const flightPromise = new Promise<RecallExecResult>((resolve, reject) => {
+    settleExec = resolve;
+    failExec = reject;
+  });
+  // Consumers attach their own handlers; keep Node quiet if none do yet.
+  flightPromise.catch(() => {});
+  // KEYED flights carry a persistence gate that fast-path followers await so
+  // they never report success before the leader's idempotency.put settled
+  // (round 7 #1).
+  let persisted: RecallFlight["persisted"];
+  if (keyed) {
+    let resolvePersist!: () => void;
+    let rejectPersist!: (reason: unknown) => void;
+    const persistPromise = new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+      resolvePersist = resolve;
+      rejectPersist = reject;
+    });
+    persistPromise.catch(() => {});
+    persisted = { promise: persistPromise, resolve: resolvePersist, reject: rejectPersist };
+  }
+  const flight: RecallFlight = {
+    promise: flightPromise,
+    controller,
+    live: 0,
+    committed: false,
+    onIdle: () => {
+      const unregister = () => {
+        if (host.recallInFlight.get(flightKey) === flight) {
+          host.recallInFlight.delete(flightKey);
+        }
+      };
+      // A KEYED leader's consumeFlight detaches (live -> 0) BEFORE
+      // handleIdempotentRead runs idempotency.put, so unregistering on detach
+      // would drop the flight DURING the persistence window — an identical
+      // arrival then finds no flight and starts a second pipeline + reserve.
+      // Keep the flight discoverable until `persisted` settles so arrivals
+      // during a slow put still coalesce onto the one pipeline (round 12 #2).
+      // Unkeyed flights have no put: unregister immediately.
+      if (persisted) {
+        persisted.promise.then(unregister, unregister);
+      } else {
+        unregister();
+      }
+    },
+    ...(persisted ? { persisted } : {}),
+  };
+  host.recallInFlight.set(flightKey, flight);
+  withRecallConcurrency(host, principalKey, controller.signal, async (queueWaitMs) => {
+    // A slot was granted and the abort re-check in withRecallConcurrency passed
+    // — the pipeline is now committing to execution. Past this point a keyed
+    // flight persists even if its callers disconnect (round 5 #1); before it,
+    // attachFlightAbort cancels a keyed flight whose only caller aborts while
+    // still queued (round 14 #3).
+    flight.committed = true;
+    return host.executeRecall({
+      ...normalizedRequest,
+      abortSignal: controller.signal,
+      queueWaitMs,
+    });
+  }).then(settleExec, failExec);
+  return flight;
+}
+
+/** Leader path (issue #1906 review): consult the idempotency guard FIRST so an
+ *  idempotent REPLAY returns the stored response WITHOUT starting a pipeline,
+ *  flight, or budget reserve (#1/#2). On a miss, coalesce onto a LIVE
+ *  race-registered flight if one exists, else start the one shared pipeline
+ *  and consume it as the leader. A failure after the reserve (e.g. idempotency
+ *  put) releases this caller's exact reservation (round 3 #3). */
+export async function leadRecallFlight(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  request: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  normalizedRequest: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  requestFingerprint: unknown,
+  flightKey: string,
+  principalKey: string,
+): Promise<EngramAccessRecallResponse> {
+  const keyed = !!request.idempotencyKey?.trim();
+  let capturedReservation: BudgetReservation | undefined;
+  // The flight THIS call created (leader) and thus owns persistence for — used
+  // to settle its `persisted` gate so keyed fast-path followers learn the
+  // put outcome (round 7 #1).
+  let ownedFlight: RecallFlight | undefined;
+  let response: EngramAccessRecallResponse;
+  try {
+    response = await host.handleIdempotentRead({
+      operation: "recall",
+      idempotencyKey: request.idempotencyKey,
+      requestFingerprint,
+      execute: async () => {
+        // A keyed request commits (race=false): the leader awaits the flight
+        // to completion so idempotency.put persists even if the leader itself
+        // disconnects (round 5 #1). A non-keyed request races its own signal
+        // and may leave early (nothing to persist).
+        const race = !keyed;
+        const existing = host.recallInFlight.get(flightKey);
+        if (existing && !existing.controller.signal.aborted) {
+          // A LIVE identical flight registered between our fast-path miss and
+          // the idempotency guard — join it and record our own event. But a
+          // caller that already disconnected must NOT join: a keyed join is
+          // non-racing (race=false), so it would record its own cross-namespace
+          // budget event and run idempotency.put before the late abort check.
+          // Reject at admission instead; the existing flight continues for its
+          // other live consumers (round 10 #1).
+          throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+          // `cancelOnAbort=true` (not the race=false default): a keyed
+          // existing-join follower is non-racing (it awaits the shared flight
+          // to completion), but its abort must still be COUNTED in the flight's
+          // live refcount while the flight is only QUEUED. Otherwise, at
+          // recallMaxConcurrentPerPrincipal=1, if the leader disconnects
+          // (live 2 -> 1) and this follower then disconnects, live would stay 1
+          // and the flight would execute + reserve + persist with no caller
+          // connected. Counting drops live to 0, and attachFlightAbort's
+          // committed guard (!persisted || !committed) cancels the queued flight
+          // while leaving a committed keyed flight to persist (round 15 #2).
+          const consumed = await consumeFlight(host, existing, request, true, race, true);
+          capturedReservation = consumed.reservation;
+          // A KEYED follower that coalesced onto the leader's flight must
+          // inherit the leader's persistence outcome before reporting success.
+          // The shared pipeline settling is NOT the leader's idempotency.put:
+          // the leader detaches (consumeFlight) BEFORE its put, so without this
+          // await a keyed follower could return success (and run its OWN
+          // idempotency.put), keeping its cross-namespace reservation, while the
+          // leader's put later FAILS — a phantom success that a same-key retry
+          // would then diverge from. Await the joined flight's `persisted` gate
+          // so a keyed join resolves only after the leader's put succeeds and
+          // REJECTS (releasing this caller's reservation via the outer catch,
+          // and skipping its own put) with the leader's exact error when the
+          // put fails — identical to the leader's put-failure behavior (round
+          // 13 #1). Race this persistence wait with the follower's OWN abort
+          // signal (round 14 #1/#4): a keyed follower whose HTTP/MCP client
+          // disconnects while the leader's put is still pending must receive
+          // its own AbortError PROMPTLY rather than block until the put settles
+          // (and, on put failure, get the store error instead of AbortError).
+          // The follower already detached from the flight inside consumeFlight
+          // (its non-racing await ran to the shared settle), so bailing here
+          // never decrements the leader's refcount or cancels its controller —
+          // the leader's persistence continues for the flight's other
+          // consumers. On abort the outer catch releases ONLY this follower's
+          // reservation. Unkeyed joins (race=true) keep existing behavior: they
+          // consumed the shared result and never depend on another caller's
+          // persistence, so they never block on `persisted`.
+          if (keyed) {
+            if (existing.persisted) {
+              await raceAbort(existing.persisted.promise, request.abortSignal);
+            } else {
+              // The joined flight was started by an UNKEYED leader, so it
+              // carries no `persisted` gate. The non-racing consume (race=false
+              // for a keyed caller) never observed this follower's abort, so a
+              // keyed follower that disconnected while the shared pipeline was
+              // still running would otherwise return success here and let
+              // handleIdempotentRead persist its key + keep its recorded
+              // cross-namespace budget event. Recheck the abort before
+              // returning so it rejects with AbortError instead: the outer
+              // catch releases this follower's reservation and execute()
+              // throwing skips its own idempotency.put — matching the
+              // keyed-follower-on-keyed-leader persistence path (round 16 #1).
+              throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+            }
+          }
+          return consumed.response;
+        }
+        // No LIVE flight to join. If the caller already disconnected before we
+        // committed any work, reject at admission — creating the flight starts
+        // the pipeline (queue + execute + persist) and reserves a cross-namespace
+        // budget event. For a keyed leader `race` is false, so without this the
+        // caller would burn a full recall + budget event before the final
+        // post-consume abort check rejects, even though it left before admission
+        // and no follower is here to keep the flight alive. The old width-1
+        // budget lock rejected before starting work; preserve that (#1906 r9).
+        throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+        const flight = createAndStartFlight(host, normalizedRequest, flightKey, principalKey, keyed);
+        ownedFlight = flight;
+        // The leader's own budget event is reserved inside the pipeline, so it
+        // must NOT record again here. `cancelOnAbort=true` even for a keyed
+        // leader (race=false): while the flight is only QUEUED for a slot and
+        // this is its sole caller, the leader's disconnect cancels the
+        // not-yet-committed pipeline (attachFlightAbort's committed guard keeps
+        // a post-commit keyed flight persisting, and any additional live caller
+        // keeps live > 0 so the shared flight survives) (round 14 #3).
+        const consumed = await consumeFlight(host, flight, request, false, race, true);
+        capturedReservation = consumed.reservation;
+        return consumed.response;
+      },
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    // A failure AFTER the caller reserved (idempotency put, or any post-
+    // execute step in handleIdempotentRead) releases the exact reservation.
+    // If execute() rejected before reserving — leader abort mid-pipeline, or
+    // a pipeline failure already rolled back inside executeRecall/consumeFlight
+    // — capturedReservation is undefined, so this is a no-op (round 3 #3).
+    if (capturedReservation) host.budget.release(capturedReservation);
+    // Tell keyed followers coalescing via the existing-join (they await this
+    // flight's `persisted` gate) that persistence failed so they behave
+    // identically to this leader (release + reject) — no phantom success
+    // (round 7 #1; keyed followers moved to the existing-join in round 12 #1).
+    ownedFlight?.persisted?.reject(err);
+    throw err;
+  }
+  // Leader persisted successfully — resolve the gate so keyed followers
+  // awaiting the put return success.
+  ownedFlight?.persisted?.resolve();
+  try {
+    throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Abort landed after consumption but before delivery. A NON-persisted
+    // (unkeyed) recall's completed result is discarded (no replay), so release
+    // its reservation rather than leak quota (round 6 #2); a keyed recall
+    // persisted its result, so its budget event legitimately stands (round 5 #1).
+    if (!keyed && capturedReservation) {
+      host.budget.release(capturedReservation);
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
+  return response;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Top-level recall coordination (issue #1906): dispatch a validated recall to
+ * either the non-coalesced per-request path (single-flight disabled) or the
+ * single-flight leader/follower coalescing path. `singleFlight` is resolved by
+ * the caller through the shared access-setup capability projection so the
+ * config flag is read only in capabilities.ts (#1523 scattered-gate ratchet).
+ */
+export function coordinateRecall(
+  host: RecallCoordinatorHost,
+  request: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  normalizedRequest: EngramAccessRecallRequest,
+  requestFingerprint: Omit<EngramAccessRecallRequest, "abortSignal">,
+  principalKey: string,
+  singleFlight: boolean,
+): Promise<EngramAccessRecallResponse> {
+  if (!singleFlight) {
+    // No coalescing: per-request execution under a concurrency slot.
+    return withRecallConcurrency(
+      host,
+      principalKey,
+      request.abortSignal,
+      (queueWaitMs) =>
+        runRecallDirect(host, request, normalizedRequest, requestFingerprint, queueWaitMs),
+    );
+  }
+
+  // The flight key represents the recall WORK — the query + options that shape
+  // the result — NOT the persistence key. `idempotencyKey` only selects an
+  // idempotency-store slot; it never changes the computed result. Excluding it
+  // lets identical recalls that arrive with DISTINCT per-request idempotency
+  // keys (a common transport-retry pattern) coalesce onto ONE pipeline + slot
+  // instead of each key spawning its own (round 11). Contract: EVERY keyed
+  // caller enters the idempotency guard first (round 12 #1) and persists the
+  // shared result under ITS OWN key, so a same-key retry always replays from
+  // the store; distinct keys on identical work still coalesce onto one pipeline.
+  const { idempotencyKey: _flightKeyOmitIdemKey, ...flightFingerprint } = requestFingerprint;
+  const flightKey = `${principalKey}\u0000${hashAccessIdempotencyPayload({
+    operation: "recall",
+    request: flightFingerprint,
+  })}`;
+  // UNKEYED follower fast-path (#1906 review #2): join an in-flight identical
+  // recall WITHOUT acquiring a concurrency slot. Because the leader registers
+  // its flight synchronously (below, before any await), every later identical
+  // arrival coalesces here — even when the concurrency cap is below the number
+  // of concurrent callers. Followers never wait for, or consume, a slot.
+  //
+  // KEYED callers must NOT take this fast-path: they enter the idempotency
+  // guard FIRST (leadRecallFlight -> handleIdempotentRead) so a stored response
+  // REPLAYS and a reused key with a different payload raises a CONFLICT, instead
+  // of silently joining the flight and skipping the store check (round 12 #1).
+  // On a store MISS a keyed caller still coalesces onto a live flight via
+  // leadRecallFlight's existing-join, then persists under its own key.
+  const keyed = !!request.idempotencyKey?.trim();
+  const existing = host.recallInFlight.get(flightKey);
+  // Skip a flight already cancelled (all its callers aborted) — it will
+  // reject with AbortError; lead a fresh flight instead (round 3 #2).
+  if (!keyed && existing && !existing.controller.signal.aborted) {
+    // A caller that already disconnected must NOT join a live flight: joining
+    // records its own cross-namespace budget event before the late abort check.
+    // Reject at admission; the existing flight continues for its other live
+    // consumers (round 10 #1).
+    throwIfAborted(request.abortSignal);
+    return followRecallFlight(host, existing, request);
+  }
+  // We are the leader: leadRecallFlight registers the flight synchronously in
+  // this same turn, then acquires a slot to run the one shared pipeline.
+  return leadRecallFlight(
+    host,
+    request,
+    normalizedRequest,
+    requestFingerprint,
+    flightKey,
+    principalKey,
+  );
+}