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Fixes #2743: this is item 3, the last open part. Items 1 and 2 shipped in #2820 and #2771, verified on the issue.

The bug — wider than filed

Five paths read-modify-write plugins.enabled / plugins.disabled. Each read the lists from the live config, merged its change, and only then took _CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK for the save:

path callers
ops.plugins.install_and_activate console install, bundle install, update_bundle, plugin-devkit
POST /api/plugins/{id}/enabled the toggle
POST /api/plugins/sync re-fetch missing
POST /api/plugins/{id}/update single-plugin update
DELETE /api/plugins/{id} uninstall

Two at once both read [base], one saved [base, x], the other [base, y], and x was installed but never enabled, with nothing saying so. sync and update save the lists unchanged, since the write is only the reload trigger. That made them the sneakiest: a no-op rewrite from a stale copy that undid whatever landed in between.

A second, file-level version: installer._clean_config_refs scrubs plugins.enabled on uninstall with its own unlocked load→save of the same YAML, and the bundle helpers on the install path seed config the same way. Interleaved with the applier, either one resurrects an uninstalled id or drops an enable.

The change

  • _apply_settings_changes(config=…) also accepts a callable (current_config) -> updates, resolved inside the lock against STATE.graph_config. Every locked write commits that before releasing, because the reload runs synchronously under the same lock (STATE.graph_config = new_config). All five sites pass one. The install path's bundle-default overlay moves in too: it reads the live YAML so an operator value is never clobbered, and read early, a value set in between got clobbered anyway.
  • The lock moves to graph.config_io.CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK, and server.agent_init._CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK is that object. The graph layer can't import server/, and it writes the same file. _clean_config_refs and the install path's bundle helpers now hold it across their read and write.
  • DELETE's inline installer.uninstall moves off the event loop, since its scrub can now wait on a reload holding the lock.
  • The ops apply_settings contract now receives a callable; documented on install_and_activate. Every in-repo applier (routes, devkit _ops_applier) routes through _apply_settings_changes, which resolves it.

Verification — the real applier, the real routes, the file on disk

tests/test_plugin_state_rmw_race.py drives the real _apply_settings_changes through the real routes and op against tmp config. The reload is patched only to do what the real one does to the config (commit STATE from the file) and to park inside the lock on its first call. That pins a second writer in the exact window. Assertions read the YAML, not a captured dict.

run result
pre-fix source, new tests install and enable tests fail with the lost update itself: ['base', 'y'] == ['base', 'x', 'y']
pre-fix routes only, new applier each of enable / sync / update / uninstall fails independently, so every route's conversion is pinned
scrub without the lock test_the_uninstall_scrub_waits_for_an_in_flight_write red
server keeps its own lock test_the_server_lock_is_the_config_layer_lock red
this PR 7 passed, stable across runs

Full suite 7989 passed, 0 failed; gate.py --lint-only green. Three existing test fakes (test_ops_plugins, test_plugin_routes, test_plugin_updates) now resolve the callable against the config the test set up, as the real applier does.

Same class, not in this PR

provider_routes._write_providers, the delegates store _save_list, ops/config.set_config and mcp_routes (on mcp.servers) also read-modify-write the live config outside the lock. None of them touch plugins.enabled, and with the lock now in config_io each is a small, separate change.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a race condition affecting concurrent plugin installs, updates, toggles, synchronizations, and removals.
    • Prevented plugin configuration changes from being silently overwritten when multiple operations run at the same time.
    • Improved coordination between plugin cleanup and configuration updates for more reliable state management.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for concurrent plugin operations and configuration updates.

Item 3 of #2743, and wider than it was filed. Five paths read-modify-write
`plugins.enabled` / `plugins.disabled`: `install_and_activate` (the console,
bundle install, `update_bundle`, plugin-devkit), `POST /api/plugins/{id}/enabled`,
`POST /api/plugins/sync`, `POST /api/plugins/{id}/update` and
`DELETE /api/plugins/{id}`. Each read the lists from the live config, merged,
and only then took `_CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK` for the save — so two at once both read
`[base]`, one saved `[base, x]`, the other `[base, y]`, and x was installed but
never enabled. sync and update save the lists UNCHANGED (the write is just the
reload trigger), which made them the sneakiest: a no-op rewrite from a stale
copy that undid whatever landed in between.

`_apply_settings_changes(config=...)` now also takes a callable
`(current_config) -> updates`, resolved INSIDE the lock against
`STATE.graph_config` — which every locked write commits before releasing, since
the reload runs synchronously under the same lock. All five sites pass one. The
install path's bundle-default overlay moves in with it: it reads the live YAML so
an operator value is never clobbered, and read early, a value set in between got
clobbered anyway.

The lock moves to `graph.config_io.CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK` (the server's
`_CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK` is that object), because the graph layer writes the same
file: `installer._clean_config_refs` scrubs `plugins.enabled` on uninstall with
its own load→save, and the bundle helpers on the install path seed config the
same way. Both now hold it across read and write. The DELETE route's inline
`installer.uninstall` moves off the event loop, since its scrub can now wait on a
reload holding the lock.

Tested against the REAL applier through the real routes and op, with the reload
patched only to commit STATE from the file and to park inside the lock on its
first call — pinning a second writer in the exact window. On the pre-fix source
the install and enable tests fail with the lost update itself
(['base','y'] where ['base','x','y'] was expected); with only the pre-fix ROUTES,
each of enable / sync / update / uninstall fails independently. Removing the
scrub's lock, or giving the server its own lock again, each turns its test red.

Not covered, same class: `provider_routes._write_providers`, the delegates store,
`ops/config.set_config` and `mcp_routes` also read-modify-write the live config
outside the lock. Adopting `CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK` there is now a small change each,
but none of them touch plugins.enabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Plugin configuration writes now use one shared reentrant lock. Plugin routes, installation, uninstall cleanup, and settings application resolve updates against committed configuration. Regression tests cover concurrent operations and lock sharing.

Changes

Plugin configuration race handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared configuration write contract
graph/config_io.py, server/agent_init.py
Adds the shared CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK. _apply_settings_changes accepts callbacks and resolves them against the committed configuration while holding the lock.
Plugin operation read-modify-write merges
operator_api/plugin_routes.py, ops/plugins.py, graph/plugins/installer.py
Plugin routes and bundle activation merge current plugin state inside the lock. Installer cleanup and uninstall file changes use the same lock.
Race regression coverage and harness updates
tests/test_plugin_state_rmw_race.py, tests/test_ops_plugins.py, tests/test_plugin_routes.py, tests/test_plugin_updates.py, changelog.d/2743.fixed.md
Tests cover concurrent enables, installs, side-effect rewrites, cleanup blocking, shared lock identity, and callable update handling. The changelog records the fix.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PluginRoute
  participant _apply_settings_changes
  participant CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK
  participant STATE.graph_config
  PluginRoute->>_apply_settings_changes: submit plugin state callback
  _apply_settings_changes->>CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK: acquire shared lock
  _apply_settings_changes->>STATE.graph_config: resolve callback against committed state
  _apply_settings_changes->>STATE.graph_config: persist configuration and reload
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0406f

This PR fixes the primary plugin-config race but leaves two related gaps: the uninstall cleanup path can still corrupt secrets.yaml or leave a removed plugin listed as enabled under concurrent load, and a failing configuration-update callback can surface as an unhandled server error mid-operation. One regression test also relies on timing rather than a deterministic signal, so it may not reliably catch a regression of the bug being fixed. These should be addressed before merge given the plugin-management and data-integrity impact.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The directly linked issue requires decisions about explicit-empty source allowlists and a trust re-check before dependency installation. This pull request addresses plugin configuration locking instea… Implement the two coding objectives in issue #2743, or link this pull request to an issue that covers the plugin configuration locking work. The required objectives are explicit-empty plugins.sources.allow semantics and a current source-t…
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request changes plugin configuration locking, installer cleanup synchronization, uninstall scheduling, and related tests. These changes are unrelated to the directly linked issue's trust-poli… Relink the pull request to an issue for the plugin configuration race fix, or remove the locking changes and implement only the trust-policy objectives from issue #2743.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 38.24% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 34 functions across 9 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: merging plugin state updates inside the configuration write lock.
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Implement the two coding objectives in issue #2743, or link this pull request to an issue that covers the plugin configuration locking work. The required objectives are explicit-empty plugins.sources.allow semantics and a current source-trust check before POST /api/plugins/install-deps runs pip.

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code-review-structural · head 0406f628c1a9 · formal

Low-risk PR: a settings-sync refactor in the plugin routes. The one substantive concurrency concern (event-loop starvation from synchronous _apply_settings_changes calls) was refuted by verification — both _sync and _update already offload via asyncio.to_thread, so no fix is needed there. The only actionable item is a nit: the _rewrite_current closure is duplicated in two routes with a trivial sorted vs list difference; extracting a shared helper would clean it up. The panel disagreed on whether the sync routes block the event loop (structural engine said yes, verifier confirmed they don't). Verification gap: the file was unreadable at the head SHA (404), so the TOCTOU claim on the bundle-update route remains unverified and is carried as uncertain.

Findings

Severity Location Finding Verified
🟡 minor operator_api/plugin_routes.py TOCTOU race: a concurrent bundle deletion between the existence check and the update_bundle call can turn a would-be 404 into a 400 (InstallError). ⚠️ uncertain
nit operator_api/plugin_routes.py:654 The no-op rewrite closure _rewrite_current is defined twice in this file (in _sync and in _update) with near-identical bodies; they differ only in sorted(...) … confirmed
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  {
    "file": "operator_api/plugin_routes.py",
    "line": 0,
    "severity": "minor",
    "category": "concurrency",
    "claim": "TOCTOU race: a concurrent bundle deletion between the existence check and the update_bundle call can turn a would-be 404 into a 400 (InstallError).",
    "evidence": "The bundle update route checks for bundle existence, then calls update_bundle. If the bundle is deleted in the window between the check and the call, the error surfaces as a generic InstallError (400) rather than a 404. Low probability in practice but the error mapping is misleading.",
    "source": "protopatch",
    "verdict": "uncertain",
    "note": "gap: unverified \u2014 file unreadable at head SHA (404) and diff truncated; cannot locate the bundle-update route's check-then-call pattern to confirm or refute the TOCTOU window."
  },
  {
    "file": "operator_api/plugin_routes.py",
    "line": 654,
    "severity": "nit",
    "category": "conventions",
    "claim": "The no-op rewrite closure _rewrite_current is defined twice in this file (in _sync and in _update) with near-identical bodies; they differ only in sorted(...) vs list(...) for the enabled key. A single shared helper would remove the duplication.",
    "evidence": "In _update: def _rewrite_current(current) -> dict: with \"enabled\": list(getattr(current, \"plugins_enabled\", []) or []). In _sync: same-named closure with \"enabled\": sorted(getattr(current, \"plugins_enabled\", []) or []). Flagged by the conventions finder.",
    "source": "protopatch",
    "verdict": "confirmed",
    "note": "Diff confirms: _sync defines `_rewrite_current` with `sorted(getattr(current, \"plugins_enabled\", []) or [])` and _update defines an identically-named closure with `list(getattr(current, \"plugins_enabled\", []) or [])` \u2014 same structure, only sorted vs list differs."
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685-686: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not gate post-uninstall cleanup on was_enabled.

was_enabled is read before installer.uninstall(...), and it controls the only call to _apply_settings_changes(_drop). A concurrent enable can commit after this read. If the plugin was initially disabled, uninstall removes its files, but this route skips _drop and the reload, leaving stale enabled state. Apply _drop after every successful uninstall, or serialize uninstall with same-plugin enable operations.

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In `@operator_api/plugin_routes.py` around lines 685 - 686, Update the uninstall
flow around installer.uninstall and _apply_settings_changes(_drop) so successful
uninstalls always apply _drop and trigger the associated reload, without gating
cleanup on the pre-uninstall was_enabled value. Preserve cleanup failure
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Inline comments:
In `@graph/plugins/installer.py`:
- Line 1087: Update the purge cleanup flow around _clean_config_refs and
_clean_secrets to hold CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK while _clean_secrets reads and writes
secrets.yaml, preventing interleaving with save_secrets; either acquire the lock
across _clean_secrets or extend the existing lock across both cleanup
operations.

In `@server/agent_init.py`:
- Around line 3119-3120: Update the configuration update flow around the
callable config evaluation so exceptions from config(STATE.graph_config),
including YAML loading callbacks, are caught and converted into the existing
structured apply-error (ok, messages) result. Preserve successful callback
results and prevent exceptions from escaping after installation side effects.

In `@tests/test_ops_plugins.py`:
- Line 20: Replace the shared _CURRENT state used by _capture_apply with a
per-operation committed-config holder, and bind each operation’s apply callable
to the config committed when its OpContext is created. Ensure concurrent
operations cannot overwrite one another’s config before
asyncio.to_thread(apply_settings, _activation_updates) executes, while
preserving the (current_config) -> updates contract.
- Around line 33-34: Update every fake applier to apply each resolved callable
patch to its configuration before returning success: modify _CURRENT["cfg"] in
tests/test_ops_plugins.py, and STATE.graph_config in tests/test_plugin_routes.py
and tests/test_plugin_updates.py. Preserve the existing patch capture behavior
while ensuring subsequent updates read the synchronized configuration.

In `@tests/test_plugin_state_rmw_race.py`:
- Around line 80-83: Replace the fixed sleep in _second_writer_parks_on_the_lock
with an asyncio synchronization event signaled immediately before its second
_apply_settings_changes invocation. In the test, await that event before calling
release.set(), ensuring the first writer is released only after the second
worker has reached the lock attempt.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@operator_api/plugin_routes.py`:
- Around line 685-686: Update the uninstall flow around installer.uninstall and
_apply_settings_changes(_drop) so successful uninstalls always apply _drop and
trigger the associated reload, without gating cleanup on the pre-uninstall
was_enabled value. Preserve cleanup failure handling and avoid changing
unrelated enable behavior.

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Taken:
- `_clean_secrets` (uninstall --purge) read-modify-writes secrets.yaml, which
  the applier's `save_secrets` also does under the lock. It now takes
  CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK across its read and write too.
- A callable that raises inside `_apply_settings_changes` escaped the
  (ok, messages) contract, so an install whose code was already on disk came
  back as a bare 500 instead of "installed; enabling failed: <why>". It's now
  caught and returned as a failed apply; nothing has been written at that point.
- The two copies of the unchanged-lists rewrite (sync, update) are one
  module-level `_current_plugin_lists`. It keeps the operator's order: the
  loader treats `plugins.enabled` as a set, so sync's `sorted` only reshuffled
  the file.
- The race tests synchronized on a 0.3s sleep, which didn't prove the second
  writer had got anywhere; on a slow runner the old stale-read code could pass
  by luck. They now wait on a signal fired immediately before the second writer
  calls the applier — the point by which the old code had already done its
  stale read — so they fail on the pre-fix routes deterministically (re-checked:
  enable / sync / update / uninstall each red, install red).
- The fake appliers now commit what they save, like the real reload, so a
  later write in the same test reads the committed lists; the ops fake's
  committed state resets per test.

Not taken:
- Binding the ops fake to each operation's context (CodeRabbit): in production
  every update callable resolves against ONE committed config
  (STATE.graph_config), not the op's context, so a single committed state is
  the faithful model.
- Panel's TOCTOU on the bundle-update route (marked unverified): there is no
  check-then-call there — `update_bundle` raises BundleNotInstalledError itself,
  and the route maps that subclass to 404 before the InstallError → 400 branch.

New tests: the purge-secrets scrub waits for an in-flight write; a raising
callable returns (False, …) with the file untouched. Each was mutation-checked.
Full suite 7991 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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QA panel (WARN on 0406f628), addressed in 6264bb2:

  • nit, _rewrite_current duplicated — fixed. It's one module-level _current_plugin_lists, and it keeps the operator's order. The loader reads plugins.enabled as a set (graph/plugins/loader.py), so sync's sorted only reshuffled the file. I re-ran the sync and update race cases against an eager (pre-lock) call of the helper: both red.
  • minor, TOCTOU on the bundle-update route (marked unverified) — checked; it doesn't apply. There's no check-then-call in the route. update_bundle itself raises BundleNotInstalledError when the entry is gone, and _update_bundle catches that subclass before the InstallError branch and maps it to 404. A concurrent deletion gets a 404. That route is also untouched by this PR.

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