fix: ignore binary/data files in skills watcher to prevent FD exhaustion#11325
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fix: ignore binary/data files in skills watcher to prevent FD exhaustion#11325household-bard wants to merge 11 commits intoopenclaw:mainfrom
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A skills directory containing thousands of binary files (e.g. .wav training data, .onnx models) can cause chokidar to exhaust the process file-descriptor limit. This breaks all exec/spawn calls with EBADF and requires manual intervention to recover. Add a regex to DEFAULT_SKILLS_WATCH_IGNORED that skips common binary and data file extensions. The skills watcher only needs to react to skill definition changes (.md, .py, .ts, .json etc.), never to bulk training data or model files. Discovered the hard way: 11,071 .wav files in a wake-word training directory exhausted all FDs and caused 6+ hours of downtime.
- child.unref() on backgrounded processes (zombie prevention) - 30-second graceful shutdown timeout (prevents infinite hang) - configurable skills watcher ignore patterns (FD protection) - subagent concurrency limit (default 8, prevents runaway spawns) - memory manager interval timer unref (clean process exit) - process registry sweeper stop on shutdown (memory leak fix) All 5,396 tests passing. Tested on 24/7 household deployment.
- Timing-safe token comparison: pad to equal length before compare, eliminates token-length side channel in auth - SQLite corruption recovery: auto-detect and rebuild from scratch on SQLITE_CORRUPT/NOTADB/IOERR (memory search self-heals) - Config reload max-wait debounce: force reload after 3x debounce period, prevents indefinite delay from rapid editor saves - FD monitoring in health checks: reports open FD count/limit/percent on Linux and macOS (catches FD exhaustion before it kills exec) All tests passing. 256 lines added across 6 files.
The plugin hook system defined before_compaction and after_compaction hooks but they were never called — dead code. This wires them into the actual compaction flow in compact.ts: - before_compaction fires BEFORE session.compact() with messageCount + tokenCount - after_compaction fires AFTER with compactedCount - Both are non-fatal (errors logged as warnings, don't block compaction) - Hook context includes sessionKey + workspaceDir for plugin use This enables plugins to flush memory, save project state, create handoffs, or log session summaries before context is lost to compaction. 5 new tests for hook infrastructure. 6,546/6,546 full suite passing.
…e /compact New bundled hook that fires on 'command:compact' and injects a system message reminding the agent to: - Update daily logs with session progress - Update PROJECT-STATE.md files touched this session - Update PROJECTS.md last-touched dates - Create handoff if mid-complex-work This ensures the agent has a chance to persist context before compaction discards conversation history. 4 tests: inject on compact, skip non-compact, skip non-command, content validation.
Fixes critical issue found by 3-way code review (Opus + Sonnet consensus):
1. Wire triggerInternalHook('command:compact') in commands-compact.ts
- The pre-compaction-flush handler was dead code — command:compact was
never dispatched. Now fires before compaction, matching the pattern
used by /new and /reset in commands-core.ts.
- Hook messages are enqueued as system events for the agent to process
in the compacted session's first turn.
2. Add 10-second timeout on plugin hook execution (compact.ts)
- Prevents a hanging plugin from blocking compaction indefinitely.
- Uses Promise.race with timeout rejection.
3. Add 2000-message threshold for token estimation (compact.ts)
- Skips expensive token estimation for very large sessions.
- tokenCount will be undefined for sessions >2000 messages.
4. Add architecture comment explaining dual hook systems
- Internal hooks (command:compact) fire in commands-compact.ts
- Plugin hooks (before/after_compaction) fire in compact.ts
- Both are non-fatal with independent error handling.
5. Improve hook error logging with session context
Code review: docs/CODE-REVIEW-OPUS.md, docs/CODE-REVIEW-SONNET.md,
docs/CODE-REVIEW-SYNTHESIS.md
Changes by gpt-5.2-codex (Codex CLI), reviewed by Will: 1. Fix flush message wording — now post-compaction reminder, not misleading 'imminent' warning (handler.ts) 2. Remove unused 'vi' import, fix createHookRunner() to use proper PluginRegistry type instead of [] (compact-hooks.test.ts) 3. Update test assertions for new message wording (handler.test.ts) 4. Move tokensAfter computation before after_compaction hook call, pass it as tokenCount instead of undefined (compact.ts) 9/9 hook tests passing. Co-authored-by: Codex CLI <codex@openai.com>
Resolved 2 conflicts in skills watcher (refresh.ts, refresh.test.ts): - Merged upstream Python venv/cache ignore patterns with our binary extension patterns - Combined both test suites with vi.hoisted() for mock compatibility - Used dynamic imports in tests to work with chokidar mock 8 files auto-merged cleanly (verified by Codex investigation agent): - bash-process-registry.ts, bash-tools.exec.ts, compact.ts - subagent-registry.ts, zod-schema.ts, auth.ts - config-reload.ts, memory/manager.ts Our 7 custom commits preserved: - Skills watcher binary file ignore + configurable patterns - Compaction hooks (before/after) wiring - Pre-compaction flush bundled hook - Resource leak fixes (child unref, sweeper, concurrency guards) - Auth/config-reload safety improvements - Health command FD diagnostics - Config schema for watchIgnoredPatterns Investigation: Agent A (Codex, 80K tokens) reviewed all 10 merge files. Risk rating: 4/10 (moderate-low). Test suite: 7,114 passed, 0 failed (1,027 test files).
…ions Adds a thin HTTP proxy that forwards requests directly to the configured upstream LLM provider without running a full agent turn. This eliminates ~2s of overhead (session resolution, history loading, system prompt injection, tool registration) that the existing /v1/chat/completions endpoint incurs via agentCommand(). Benchmarks: - Proxy route: ~200-500ms (mostly Cerebras inference time) - Agent route: ~1,800-2,500ms (full agent lifecycle) - Speedup: 4-10x for latency-sensitive use cases (voice pipelines) The proxy reuses gateway auth and provider config from openclaw.json. Model routing uses 'provider/model' format (e.g., cerebras/zai-glm-4.7). Supports both streaming and non-streaming responses.
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This PR does a lot of different things, not just what you wrote. |
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Thanks @household-bard. I implemented the skills watcher FD exhaustion fix directly on Landed as: Changelog includes: "Skills: watch Closing this PR as superseded by the |
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Problem
A skills directory containing thousands of binary files (e.g.
.wavtraining data,.onnxmodels,.joblibclassifiers) causeschokidarto open every file, exhausting the process file-descriptor limit. Once FDs are exhausted, allexec/spawncalls fail withEBADF, and the agent cannot self-heal because the fix requires the veryexecthat is broken.Root Cause
DEFAULT_SKILLS_WATCH_IGNOREDinsrc/agents/skills/refresh.tsonly ignores.git,node_modules, anddistdirectories. Binary files are watched despite having no relevance to skill definitions.Fix
Add a regex to ignore common binary and data file extensions (
.wav,.mp3,.onnx,.pt,.bin,.zip, etc.). The skills watcher only needs to react to skill definition changes (.md,.py,.ts,.json), never to bulk training data or model weights.Discovered
The hard way: 11,071
.wavfiles in a wake-word training directory exhausted all FDs on macOS, causing 6+ hours of completeexecfailure. The circular nature of the bug (resource exhaustion prevents the commands needed to fix it) made manual intervention necessary.Testing
pnpm vitest run src/agents/skills/refresh.test.ts✅Greptile Overview
Greptile Summary
This PR updates the skills filesystem watcher (
src/agents/skills/refresh.ts) by expandingDEFAULT_SKILLS_WATCH_IGNOREDto include a case-insensitive regex that ignores a list of common binary/model/archive/data extensions. The intent is to preventchokidarfrom opening thousands of irrelevant files in large skill trees (e.g., training datasets or model weights), which can exhaust file descriptors and cause downstreamexec/spawnfailures.The change plugs into the existing watcher creation in
ensureSkillsWatcher(...), whereignored: DEFAULT_SKILLS_WATCH_IGNOREDis passed tochokidar.watch(...), so it directly impacts what files are watched without altering watcher scheduling/version bump logic.Confidence Score: 4/5
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