kimi-code/AGENTS.md
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feat: isolate the full-text search index from the session index and the main thread (#2701)
* feat(minidb): instrument open lifecycle with phase timings and status

Add MiniDb.lifecycleStatus() exposing the no-generation/generation-load/
wal-catch-up/full-rebuild/ready/degraded state machine plus per-phase
timings (generation candidate load, store/non-text/text image load,
postings integrity check, WAL scan/apply, full recovery, text rebuild
hosting), so snapshot load, WAL catch-up and full rebuild can be told
apart in diagnostics.

Also add a repeatable open-lifecycle bench (small data, large WAL delta,
large full-text generation, corrupt generation) and fixtures proving a
healthy generation open performs no full-corpus tokenization while a
corrupt or missing generation falls back. Log search-index and
query-store open diagnostics in kap-server and agent-core-v2 so a
listSessions call can be attributed to the database it touches.

No persistence format or product behavior change.

* feat(agent-core-v2): isolate the session index from the global search index

Harden the separation between the session read model and the full-text
search index so session operations never depend on search availability:

- Reject text index definitions in MiniDbQueryStore at definition level,
  keeping the session query-store a structural-only read model with no
  postings/tokenizer artifacts, and assert its generation carries no
  full-text files.
- Share one authoritative scan between the first list and the initial
  projection (single-flight) instead of scanning twice; reads may only
  join an in-flight scan, and every fallback read folds the mirror's
  pending queue so read-your-writes holds while preparing.
- Keep withReadModel() fallback semantics pinned by tests:
  uninitialized/preparing reads hit authoritative metadata immediately,
  ready reads use the read model, degraded keeps falling back with a
  diagnosable status reason.
- Guard session metadata writes so a mirror failure degrades only the
  read model and never fails the session lifecycle.
- Prove via tests that listSessions/--resume/--continue never open the
  global search DB (including when search-index is unopenable), and that
  only real full-text search requests report building/stale/degraded.

* perf(minidb): slice open-time work so it never blocks the main thread

Make the whole generation-open path cooperative:

- Replace the synchronous postings/store CRC verification with chunked
  async variants (readGenerationFileCheckedAsync, verifyFileIntegrityAsync)
  that keep the exact bytes/crc-mismatch error semantics.
- Give the WAL-delta apply a primitive-op + wall-clock budget
  (walApplySlicer), so a batch frame unrolling into thousands of ops can
  no longer run as one uninterruptible slice; torn-tail, corrupt-batch
  and read-only behaviors are unchanged.
- Slice the big attach loops: Store.bulkLoadRefsAsync +
  SkipList.bulkLoadAsync for the store image, async parsers and
  loadImageAsync for secondary/compound images, and
  TextIndex.attachImageAsync for the docs/dictionary map construction.
- Queue text builds on worker-slot pressure (WorkerSlots.acquireBounded,
  bounded by MiniDb.textBuildSlotWaitMs, abort-aware) instead of falling
  back to an unbounded inline build; a persisted drought hosts the
  bounded inline core as the explicit last resort with stats accounting.

Bench (bench/open-lifecycle, seed 42): event-loop delay max across the
four open scenarios drops from 45/734/331/492 ms to ~12-28 ms with wall
time flat or better.

* feat(kap-server): run the global search index in a dedicated worker

Move the whole search-index MiniDb lifecycle (open, generation load,
WAL replay, sync, rebuild, compaction) off the main thread into a
long-lived worker_threads host, so it never shares the event loop with
TUI input:

- Add a versioned request/response protocol and worker entry hosting a
  host-agnostic SearchIndexCore; the same core also backs an inline
  backend kept as the explicit rollback
  (KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_SEARCH_WORKER=false, flag default ON).
- The worker exclusively owns the search-index handle. The lock token
  is reported at acquire time (new MiniDb OpenOptions.onLockAcquired
  hook) and reaped on dirty exit; an orphan-lock detector (same-pid
  lock row whose token no live holder owns) recovers the window where
  the token report is lost, so a mid-open crash can never freeze the
  index into a silent permanent read-only.
- Crash handling: in-flight requests are rejected with typed errors,
  respawn uses capped exponential backoff, per-request watchdogs
  terminate wedged workers, and beginClose propagates into the worker
  so dispose stays bounded during a long sync. Page tokens pin a
  boot-salted generation, so tokens issued before a transparent worker
  restart fail closed with invalid_page_token.
- The main process keeps the sync coordinator (debounce/coalescing/
  single-flight), live transcript routing, query normalization and
  page-token codec; searches keep reading the published generation and
  report building/stale/degraded instead of waiting for sync/rebuild.
- Wire the worker into the CLI packaging: self-contained worker bundles
  for npm dist and the SEA asset manifest/installer/smoke check, plus a
  dev runtime (type-stripping + .ts resolve hook) scoped to worker
  execArgv.

* feat(kap-server): model search and session-index lifecycles explicitly

Consolidate the two-index separation into explicit, diagnosable
lifecycles:

- Surface the global search state machine (stopped / opening / building
  / ready / degraded / closing) end to end: SearchIndexCore.lifecycleState,
  SearchWorkerHost lifecycle snapshots cached from RPC responses (and
  invalidated across worker generations), a never-throwing status()
  carrying the lifecycle, and a synchronous lifecycleReport() that
  neither kicks the open nor spawns the worker. Corrupt search-index
  rebuilds are announced with a dedicated warn log so building, stale,
  degraded, corrupt and worker-unavailable stay distinguishable.
- Turn MiniDb read-only replica catch-up fully cooperative:
  catchUpWalAsync scans frames with the windowed async scanner and
  yields per primitive op on the shared walApplySlicer budget, while a
  per-instance catchUpChain serializes concurrent catch-ups so each
  caller keeps its atomic watermark advance. The stale synchronous
  implementations are removed.
- Pin the dependency direction and availability timing with tests:
  session list/create/resume survive a corrupt or unopenable search
  index (also end-to-end with a dead query-store), search generation
  reuse and stale-serving keep working across restarts, concurrent cold
  callers open the index / spawn the worker exactly once, resume-then-
  fetchSessions performs no duplicate authoritative scan, and a clean
  dispose releases the lock and settles at stopped.
- Document the experimental flag surface (persistence_minidb_readmodel,
  search_worker) in the root guide.

* feat(agent-core-v2): default the session read model on and roll out the separation

Rollout and validation for the index separation plan:

- Flip persistence_minidb_readmodel to default ON (rollback via
  KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_PERSISTENCE_MINIDB_READMODEL=false or the
  experimental config section); session list/--resume/--continue now
  always go through the isolated session read model with the
  authoritative fallback. Test harnesses pin the flag off where shared
  fixtures require hermetic homes, while the dedicated suites keep
  explicit on/off coverage.
- Add a probe proving the main thread stays responsive while the
  search worker rebuilds and swaps a generation (reindex), completing
  the TUI responsiveness matrix.
- Record the rollout state in the agent-core-v2 guide (session index
  section) and the root flag line.
- Add changesets for the CLI (worker isolation, session index
  independence) and minidb (cooperative open lifecycle).

Validation: full suites green across minidb (551), agent-core-v2
(4760), kap-server (1005), node-sdk (343), klient (91) and the CLI app
(2567); open-lifecycle bench event-loop delay max is down from
45/734/331/492 ms to ~16-22 ms across the four scenarios with wall
time flat or better.

* fix(agent-core-v2): evict deleted sessions from the mirror queue and drain the index on close

Two issues surfaced by the read-model default in the acp-server suite:

- ISessionIndex.remove only deleted from the query store, but a summary
  still queued in the mirror was folded back into reads (and re-written
  by the next flush), resurrecting a deleted session in listings. The
  mirror now exposes evict(id): drop the queued summary and wait out an
  in-flight flush before the store delete.
- RunningAcpServer.close and SDKRpcClientV2.close disposed the engine
  without awaiting the asynchronous mirror flush / query-store close,
  so a host removing homeDir right after close() raced in-flight shard
  closes (ENOTEMPTY). Both now follow the kap-server shutdown order:
  drain the mirror while the store is open, dispose, then await the
  drains.

* fix(minidb): pause active expiry during the sliced bulk load

The store's active-expire timer is armed at construction, so during a
sliced bulkLoadRefsAsync a tick can fire mid-load: it reaps a TTL key
from the map while the order skiplist is still the old empty one, and
the final bulkLoadAsync then rebuilds order from the stale orderEntries
snapshot — resurrecting the expired key in the ordered index (and
duplicating it if the key is later set again). The sync bulkLoadRefs had
no yield windows, so guard the async path with a bulkLoading flag that
defers expiry ticks until the load settles (finally-safe).

* chore: consolidate changesets into the TUI startup freeze fix
2026-08-07 07:38:16 +08:00

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