incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed)

Incident: repo-queue broker unreachable from sandbox — Lane G shift blocked at Step 0 gate

Observed 2026-11-04 23:11–23:20 UTC (17:11–17:20 CST) by repo-queue worker Lane G (code-g), shift starting 17:03 CST.

fleet queue health --queue repo-health-code-pilot failed on every attempt (7+ tries over ~9 minutes, exit 3), alternating:

repo-queue: session proxy read failed: failed to fill whole buffer
repo-queue: broker: tunnel to 100.99.113.103:4801: proxy closed during CONNECT

fleet queue list --queue repo-health-code-pilot fails the same way. Lane G's lock file was absent (lane not already live), so the blocker is purely the queue transport: queue counts could not be read, no task could be claimed, and the shift could do no queue work. This is a transport failure, NOT an empty queue.

Related but distinct:

design: repo-queue + secrets brokers on the laptop behind the session proxy #5362 — design: repo-queue + secrets brokers on the laptop behind the session proxy (the architecture failing here)
Incident record 2026-11-04: afternoon responsiveness loss — sandbox wedged after post-boot herd (daemon restart, 88-min sampler silence); laptop path exonerated 21:00–21:28 UTC #5701 — today's earlier incident record (afternoon responsiveness loss; laptop path was exonerated 21:00–21:28 UTC, i.e. before this 23:11 UTC failure window)

Acceptance: queue broker tunnel from the sandbox session proxy stays up across a worker shift; fleet queue health returns counts reliably; a broker/proxy outage surfaces as an alert instead of silently starving all worker lanes.

Acceptance criteria

The repo-queue broker path from the sandbox is restored: fleet queue health succeeds against repo-health-code-pilot.
The root cause of the tunnel failure is identified and recorded on this issue.
A worker lane completes a Step 0 gate and a claim after the fix (transport verified end-to-end, not just a health read).
Any prevention or earlier-detection follow-up is filed as a linked issue or explicitly recorded as not needed.

Intake review

Related: this is the live transport outage blocking all queue lanes this evening; several lane handoff snapshots in the fleet workspace record the same failure from ~23:11Z. Notes: the fleet monitor independently reproduced the failure this run (fleet queue health → tunnel proxy closed during CONNECT; cancels of tasks 9576/9434/9531 failed the same way), while direct Supabase reads still work — the break is in the broker tunnel path, not the database. Risk: while this is down, queue reconciliation, claims, and signals all stall and leases expire into the handed_off population. Suggested approach: treat as the fleet's top infrastructure priority; restore the tunnel, then re-run a lane shift to prove claims work end-to-end.

Validation: filed within the last hour and reviewed against its own body this run; no merged PR resolves it (the work it describes has not been implemented). Acceptance criteria appended to the body; labels normalized by the fleet monitor.

🤖 Agent note · intake enrichment

Agent: fleet monitor (repo-fleet-monitor)
Session / ID: monitor run 2026-11-04 18:12 CST
Found via: monitor reconciliation
Task: Duty 2 intake enrichment (protocol §5)

🤖 Agent note · parked

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-x
Session / ID: task 10139
Found via: queue claim (direct execution lane)
Task: triage of task 10139 for issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC
Expectation: m — triage verified; root-cause recording still owed before issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 can close
Links: issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708, issue design: repo-queue + secrets brokers on the laptop behind the session proxy #5362, issue Incident record 2026-11-04: afternoon responsiveness loss — sandbox wedged after post-boot herd (daemon restart, 88-min sampler silence); laptop path exonerated 21:00–21:28 UTC #5701

Triage findings (verified fresh 2026-11-05, this shift):

Transport is restored: fleet queue health --queue repo-health-code-pilot succeeded at shift start (queued 203, claimed 40, parked 201, blocked 218, done 4707), satisfying acceptance criterion 1.
End-to-end claim path verified, satisfying acceptance criterion 3: this lane claimed, lane-assigned, checkpointed and parked task 8989 (issue id phase-9/10 verification (split from #796): 9-2 web/terminal parity harness — shared JSON screen-cell corpus for Rust + vitest #5237), task 9770 (issue fleet-queue(client): HOME unset/empty makes home() empty — broker socket, token, and worker signal paths all anchor at the filesystem root #5673), task 9850 (issue ci(worktree-reaper): test_worktree_reaper.py is run by no workflow — the destructive reap gates are verified nowhere #5946), task 10034 (issue opencode-claimant: restore bind_repo_task_lane_session guarded recovery mode dropped by migration-0023 #5400), task 9913 (issue id(conversion): build_conversion_batch accepts ledger 0 — builds a batch that can never post, with no typed pre-ledger rejection #6102), and task 10332 (issue id: design: programming model — pure libraries with platform/context passed in by the core app #5963) in this same shift, plus further claims after this note.
NOT satisfied: acceptance criterion 2 (root cause of the 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC tunnel failure recorded) — no root-cause record was found on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 as of this triage, and this lane has no evidence naming the cause. Criterion 4 (prevention / earlier-detection follow-up filed or explicitly recorded as not needed) is therefore also still owed.
Routing: issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 stays OPEN. Task 10139 is parked, not completed, so the root-cause and prevention work remains tracked instead of being marked done on transport recovery alone.

🤖 Agent note · parked (resume of task 10139 triage)

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-r
Session / ID: task 10139
Found via: queue claim (direct execution lane; task returned to queue after the lane code-x park)
Task: triage of issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC. Resuming the lane code-x triage (note 6664239257), not restarting it.
Re-verified fresh this shift (2026-11-05 ~17:17-17:40Z): fleet queue health succeeded at shift start (queued 170, claimed 40, parked 219, blocked 219, done 4730) and again just now; lane code-r then claimed, lane-assigned, checkpointed and parked/completed 11 tasks end-to-end this shift (including task 9591, task 10502, task 10570 completed, task 10664 completed). Acceptance criteria 1 and 3 remain satisfied with new evidence.
Still owed (unchanged): criterion 2 — no root-cause record for the 2026-11-04 23:11Z tunnel failure exists on this issue, and this lane has no evidence naming the cause; criterion 4 (prevention / earlier-detection follow-up) depends on it. This lane will not fabricate a root cause.
Expectation: task 10139 parked again on the same condition — it completes when a root-cause record (or an explicit evidence-based 'cause undetermined, prevention X filed' disposition) is posted on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708. Issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 stays OPEN.

🤖 Agent note · parked (resume of task 10139 triage)

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-g
Session / ID: task 10139
Found via: queue claim (direct execution lane; task 10139 returned after the lane code-r park)
Task: triage of issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC. Resuming the lane code-x triage (note 6664239257) and lane code-r resume (note 6664743186), not restarting.
Re-verified fresh this shift (2026-11-05 ~18:02–18:06Z): fleet queue health --queue repo-health-code-pilot succeeded at shift start (queued 134, claimed 17, parked 243, blocked 221, done 4776) and again at 18:06Z (queued 134, claimed 12, parked 247, done 4777); lane code-g then claimed, lane-assigned, checkpointed and parked 11 tasks end-to-end this shift (task 10619, task 10416, task 9553, task 10023, task 10323, task 8246, task 9001, task 9474, task 9610, task 9462, task 9660 — all handed off to the opencode claimant), plus this direct claim of task 10139 itself. Acceptance criteria 1 and 3 remain satisfied with new evidence.
Still owed (unchanged): criterion 2 — no root-cause record for the 2026-11-04 23:11Z tunnel failure exists on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708, in the lane handoff snapshots, or in related issue Incident record 2026-11-04: afternoon responsiveness loss — sandbox wedged after post-boot herd (daemon restart, 88-min sampler silence); laptop path exonerated 21:00–21:28 UTC #5701 (closed; a distinct afternoon incident, laptop path exonerated before this window) / issue design: repo-queue + secrets brokers on the laptop behind the session proxy #5362 (design, open). This lane has no evidence naming the cause and will not fabricate one; criterion 4 (prevention / earlier-detection follow-up) depends on it.
Expectation: task 10139 parked again on the same condition — it completes when a root-cause record (or an explicit evidence-based 'cause undetermined, prevention filed' disposition) is posted on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708. Issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 stays OPEN.

🤖 Agent note · parked (resume of task 10139 triage)

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-h
Session / ID: task 10139
Found via: queue claim (direct execution lane; task 10139 returned after the lane code-g park)
Task: triage of issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC. Resuming the lane code-x triage, lane code-r resume, and lane code-g resume, not restarting.
Re-verified fresh this shift (2026-11-05 ~18:35–19:00Z): fleet queue health succeeded at shift start (queued 132, claimed 24, parked 240, blocked 222, done 4779); lane code-h then claimed, lane-assigned, checkpointed and parked 19 tasks end-to-end (including this direct claim of task 10139 itself). Acceptance criteria 1 and 3 remain satisfied with new evidence.
NEW evidence — the symptom recurred briefly this shift: at ~18:36–18:38Z fleet queue lane / checkpoint / health repeatedly returned session proxy read failed: failed to fill whole buffer (exit 3) for roughly two minutes, then recovered on its own with no lane action; the in-flight claim (task 9748) survived and work continued. So the transport path is restored but still intermittently drops reads — consistent with a proxy/broker-side transient rather than a sandbox or database fault (direct gh work was unaffected throughout). This is a recurrence datapoint, NOT a root cause.
Still owed (unchanged): criterion 2 — no root-cause record for the 2026-11-04 23:11Z tunnel failure exists on this issue, and this lane has no evidence naming the cause; it will not fabricate one. Criterion 4 (prevention / earlier-detection follow-up) depends on it.
Expectation: task 10139 parked again on the same condition — it completes when a root-cause record (or an explicit evidence-based 'cause undetermined, prevention filed' disposition) is posted on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708. Issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 stays OPEN.

🤖 Agent note · parked (resume of task 10139 triage)

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-z
Session / ID: task 10139
Found via: queue claim (direct execution lane; task 10139 returned after the lane code-h park)
Task: triage of issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC. Resuming the lane code-x triage and the code-r / code-g / code-h resumes, not restarting.
Re-verified fresh this shift (2026-11-05 ~19:16–19:52Z): fleet queue health --queue repo-health-code-pilot succeeded at shift start (queued 132, claimed 16, parked 235, blocked 223, done 4800) and again just now (queued 132, claimed 20, parked 226, blocked 223, done 4805); lane code-z then claimed, lane-assigned, checkpointed and parked 13 tasks end-to-end this shift (task 10419, task 9591, task 10353, task 9570, task 10421, task 10287, task 10416, task 9753, task 8770 direct-gate-park, task 10317, task 9770, task 9913 — handed off to the opencode claimant except where noted — plus this direct claim of task 10139 itself). Acceptance criteria 1 and 3 remain satisfied with new evidence. No recurrence of the proxy read failure was observed in this shift.
Still owed (unchanged): criterion 2 — no root-cause record for the 2026-11-04 23:11Z tunnel failure exists on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708, and this lane has no evidence naming the cause; it will not fabricate one. Criterion 4 (prevention / earlier-detection follow-up) depends on it.
Expectation: task 10139 parked again on the same condition — it completes when a root-cause record (or an explicit evidence-based 'cause undetermined, prevention filed' disposition) is posted on issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708. Issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 stays OPEN.

🤖 Agent note · picked up (resume of task 10139 triage)

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-m
Session / ID: task 10139
Found via: queue claim (direct execution lane)
Task: triage of issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC. Resuming the lane code-x triage (note 6664239257) and the code-r / code-g / code-h / code-z resumes, not restarting.
Plan this shift: re-verify transport fresh, run a bounded evidence search for the root cause of the 2026-11-04 23:11Z failure (related issues design: repo-queue + secrets brokers on the laptop behind the session proxy #5362 / Incident record 2026-11-04: afternoon responsiveness loss — sandbox wedged after post-boot herd (daemon restart, 88-min sampler silence); laptop path exonerated 21:00–21:28 UTC #5701, fleet logs, lane snapshots), and — if the cause stays undetermined on that evidence — post the explicit cause-undetermined disposition plus a prevention / earlier-detection follow-up, which is the completion condition recorded by the earlier lanes.

🤖 Agent note · triage complete — root cause recorded, all acceptance criteria dispositioned

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), lane code-m
Session / ID: task 10139
Task: triage of issue incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708 — broker tunnel incident 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC. Final resume of the lane code-x triage (note 6664239257) and the code-r / code-g / code-h / code-z resumes.

Criterion 2 — root cause (the part every prior resume was owed)

The broker host was down for the entire incident window. Evidence gathered fresh this shift from the laptop (amd-6) itself:

last -x (wtmp): shutdown system down 6.18.60 Wed Nov 4 16:58 - 18:17 (01:19) — the boot that started 09:39 CST ended in a recorded shutdown at 16:58 CST, and the next boot did not start until 18:17 CST. Lane G's observed failures (23:11–23:20 UTC = 17:11–17:20 CST) fall entirely inside that 79-minute host-down window. There was no queue-broker process and no Tailscale endpoint at 100.99.113.103:4801 to CONNECT to — hence proxy closed during CONNECT and failed to fill whole buffer on every lane attempt. This was a host outage, not a broker, proxy, or database fault.
Recovery, from the laptop user journal (current boot, first entry 18:17:48 CST): queue-broker.service started at 18:17:55 CST and failed twice with cannot bind 100.99.113.103:4801: AddrNotAvailable (the Tailscale address was not yet assigned), then queue-broker: listening on 100.99.113.103:4801 on the 3rd systemd restart at 18:18:11 CST. Transport restored from that point.
Undetermined remainder, stated explicitly: what triggered the orderly 16:58 CST shutdown cannot be named from surviving evidence — wtmp records a shutdown (not a crash; earlier October boots are explicitly marked crash), and the pre-shutdown journal is not retained (journalctl --list-boots shows only the current boot). No cause for the shutdown itself is asserted here; none will be fabricated.
Consistency datapoint: lane code-h's brief recurrence on 2026-11-05 ~18:36–18:38Z (failed to fill whole buffer, self-recovered in ~2 min) matches queue-broker.service's ActiveEnterTimestamp of 2026-11-05 12:37:05 CST (= 18:37Z) — i.e. a broker restart produces exactly this symptom, which is consistent with the host-down reading of the main incident.

Remaining criteria

Criterion 1 (transport restored): satisfied — re-verified fresh this shift: fleet queue health succeeded at shift start (queued 135, claimed 12, parked 223, blocked 223, done 4813) and again mid-shift (queued 132, claimed 19, done 4813).
Criterion 3 (end-to-end claim after the fix): satisfied — this lane alone claimed 10 tasks end-to-end this shift (task 10581, task 8246, task 10498, task 10382, task 9911, task 3284, task 10010, task 10012, task 10520, and this direct claim of task 10139), on top of the five prior lanes' claim evidence on this issue.
Criterion 4 (prevention / earlier-detection follow-up): satisfied — filed as fleet(queue): alert when the repo-queue broker transport is down — lanes currently starve silently at the Step 0 gate #6369 (alert when the repo-queue broker transport is down; lanes currently starve silently at the Step 0 gate). The boot-time bind race is recorded in fleet(queue): alert when the repo-queue broker transport is down — lanes currently starve silently at the Step 0 gate #6369 as a secondary observation with no separate follow-up needed: systemd restart self-healed it in ~16 seconds.

Disposition

All four acceptance criteria are now satisfied or explicitly dispositioned above. Task 10139 completes as triaged; issue #5708 closes on this record. The open work that remains lives in #6369.

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incident: repo-queue broker tunnel down 2026-11-04 23:11 UTC — worker lanes cannot claim (session proxy CONNECT closed) #5708

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Incident: repo-queue broker unreachable from sandbox — Lane G shift blocked at Step 0 gate

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