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WalkthroughMessage-embedding reconciliation now claims and leases rows before embedding. It embeds each missing vector separately, then persists vectors and sync state in short transactions. Token-limit errors mark rows permanently failed. Other embedding errors remain retryable. ChangesVector synchronization
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BatchReconciler
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BatchReconciler->>ClaimAndLease: claim rows and commit leases
BatchReconciler->>EmbedClaimed: embed claimed snapshots
BatchReconciler->>PersistMessageEmbeddings: persist vectors and sync results
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Embedding reconciliation now releases the database before calling the embedding provider. However, a slow worker can still overwrite sync state written by a newer worker. Inputs that the provider rejects as too large are retried instead of failing once. Resolve the lease fencing before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves failure isolation, but overlapping background operations can restore deleted data or incorrectly exhaust retries. These risks are bounded to affected messages and workspaces; broader tenant access was not demonstrated. Retained concerns
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- Around line 435-446: Refactor the reconciliation flow around the embedding
loop and its database claim so the session and row locks are released via a
committed lease or processing state before calling
embedding_client.simple_batch_embed. Perform each external embedding request
without an active database session, then persist each result through short,
separate write transactions, preserving the existing freshly_embedded and
store_in_postgres behavior.
- Around line 447-452: Update the exception handling around the per-row
embedding flow in sync_vectors to catch expected ValueError validation failures
separately, while preserving retry behavior for each embedded message. Log
unexpected exceptions with logger.exception instead of logger.warning, and
retain the message and chunk identifiers in the relevant logs.
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Thanks for the review — both comments are fair. I've addressed the quick win and am deferring the heavy lift. Comment 2 (ValueError handling) — fixed in 62d6f5e. Comment 1 (release DB session during embedding) — valid, deferring as a follow-up. This is a pre-existing architectural issue: the original code also held the |
The message-embedding reconciler sent all pending texts in a single simple_batch_embed call. If any one text exceeded the provider's context window, the entire batch 400'd and every row was marked failed, dragging down perfectly-embeddable small messages as collateral. Embed each text individually so a single oversized text fails on its own and the rest of the batch stays embeddable.
simple_batch_embed raises ValueError for expected validation failures (oversized input, dimension mismatch). These are not retryable, but the previous catch-all Exception handler retried them up to MAX_SYNC_ATTEMPTS times before marking them failed. Catch ValueError separately and mark those rows failed immediately, while unexpected errors still log with logger.exception and remain eligible for retry.
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| workspaces = {emb.workspace_name for emb in embs_needing_embed} | ||
| with embedding_call_purpose( | ||
| EmbeddingCallPurpose.MESSAGE_CREATE.value, | ||
| workspace_name=workspaces.pop() if len(workspaces) == 1 else None, | ||
| parent_category="reconciliation", | ||
| ): | ||
| for emb in embs_needing_embed: | ||
| try: | ||
| new_emb = await embedding_client.simple_batch_embed([emb.content]) | ||
| freshly_embedded[emb.id] = new_emb[0] | ||
| if store_in_postgres: | ||
| emb.embedding = new_emb[0] | ||
| except ValueError as e: | ||
| # Expected validation failure (oversized input, dimension | ||
| # mismatch). Not retryable — mark failed immediately. | ||
| logger.warning( | ||
| "Message %s chunk %s rejected by embedding provider: %s", | ||
| emb.message_id, | ||
| emb.id, | ||
| e, | ||
| ) | ||
| permanently_failed.add(emb.id) | ||
| except Exception: | ||
| logger.exception( | ||
| "Unexpected error embedding message %s chunk %s; will retry", | ||
| emb.message_id, | ||
| emb.id, | ||
| ) | ||
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Keep provider-response errors retryable.
_validate_embedding_count() raises ValueError when the provider returns no or too few embeddings. _process_batch() retries this error, then propagates it. The new except ValueError branch marks the message permanently failed. This response error is not an input-size or dimension validation failure, so a transient provider response can permanently fail the message.
Use a dedicated response-error subclass and catch it as retryable.
Suggested fix
-from src.embedding_client import embedding_client
+from src.embedding_client import (
+ EmbeddingProviderResponseError,
+ embedding_client,
+) class EmbeddingTokenLimitError(ValueError):
"""Raised when input text genuinely exceeds the model's token limit.
@@
"""
+class EmbeddingProviderResponseError(ValueError):
+ """Raised when a provider response does not contain the expected data."""
+
@@
- raise ValueError(
+ raise EmbeddingProviderResponseError(
f"Embedding count mismatch for {self.transport}:{self.model}. "
+ f"Expected {expected}, got {received}."
)+ except EmbeddingProviderResponseError:
+ logger.exception(
+ "Provider response failed for message %s chunk %s; will retry",
+ emb.message_id,
+ emb.id,
+ )
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| workspaces = {emb.workspace_name for emb in embs_needing_embed} | |
| with embedding_call_purpose( | |
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| workspace_name=workspaces.pop() if len(workspaces) == 1 else None, | |
| parent_category="reconciliation", | |
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| for emb in embs_needing_embed: | |
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| emb.message_id, | |
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| workspace_name=workspaces.pop() if len(workspaces) == 1 else None, | |
| parent_category="reconciliation", | |
| ): | |
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Review comment at @src/reconciler/sync_vectors.py around lines 465 - 493:
Update the embedding response validation around _validate_embedding_count to
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- Around line 699-703: Return the claimed row’s last_sync_at lease from the
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Fence every persistence write with the claim lease.
The 10-minute lease can expire while _embed_claimed() or upsert_many() is still running. A stale queue claim can also become claimable after the 5-minute stale-session timeout. A second worker can then claim the same pending rows.
The current ID-only writes can run after the second worker succeeds. A late retry bump can set a synced row back to pending or failed. A late permanent-failure update can mark a synced row as failed.
A sync_state == "pending" predicate is not sufficient. It still permits the old worker to write while the newer worker is processing the row and it does not identify the claim that owns the row.
Return the lease value from the claim UPDATE ... RETURNING last_sync_at, store it in _ClaimedEmbedding, and require both the row ID and that lease value in every success, permanent-failure, and retry-bump read/write. Keep the pending predicate as an additional guard.
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await db.execute(
update(models.MessageEmbedding)
- .where(models.MessageEmbedding.id == c.id)
+ .where(
+ models.MessageEmbedding.id == c.id,
+ models.MessageEmbedding.sync_state == "pending",
+ models.MessageEmbedding.last_sync_at == c.lease_at,
+ )
.values(**values)
)Apply the same claim-lease predicate to the permanent-failure update and to _bump_message_embedding_sync_attempts. Thread the lease value through that helper instead of re-reading by ID alone.
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Review comment at @src/reconciler/sync_vectors.py around lines 699 - 703:
Return the claimed row’s last_sync_at lease from the claim UPDATE and store it
in _ClaimedEmbedding. Update the success and permanent-failure writes and
_bump_message_embedding_sync_attempts to fence every read/write by row ID,
pending sync_state, and the stored lease; pass the lease through the retry
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The message-embedding reconciler held the DB session (and its FOR UPDATE
SKIP LOCKED row locks from the claim query) across one embedding network
call per pending row, plus the external-store upserts. A large batch could
pin pooled connections and row locks for the full embedding duration.
Restructure the message-embedding path into the same three-phase pattern
the immediate-embed fast path already uses and never holds a session across
a network call:
1. claim + lease + snapshot in one short transaction (releases locks)
2. embed with no session open
3. persist in short transactions (failure accounting and success marking
each in their own txn; external upserts run with no session open)
Retry accounting stays reconciler-owned (retry bump vs permanent-fail),
unlike the best-effort immediate path. _bump_message_embedding_sync_attempts
now takes row ids and re-reads under FOR UPDATE, so it works against a fresh
session after the claim txn has closed.
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524-527: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winEmbed the batch first, then fall back to per-text calls only when the batch fails.
Every batch now makes one sequential
simple_batch_embedcall per pending chunk. One batch covers up toRECONCILIATION_BATCH_SIZEmessages and all of their chunks, so a batch can make hundreds of serial HTTP calls. In the normal case, where no text is oversized, this multiplies provider round-trips and latency. It also uses up more of the 240-secondRECONCILIATION_TIME_BUDGET_SECONDSbudget.Longer embed phases also make it more likely that the 10-minute
last_sync_atlease expires before persistence finishes.To keep the isolation benefit without paying the per-row cost, call the batch once. If that call raises, repeat the calls one text at a time.
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Map provider context-limit errors to EmbeddingTokenLimitError.
simple_batch_embed() performs local token validation, then _process_batch() calls the provider. _process_batch() retries every exception and re-raises it. It does not map provider context-limit failures to EmbeddingTokenLimitError.
A provider rejection can therefore reach the reconciler's ValueError or generic Exception branch instead of the permanent-failure branch. The row remains retryable, and each attempt first consumes up to three provider retries. Map provider context-limit failures at the embedding client boundary and add a client-level regression test.
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Update `_process_batch()` at the embedding client boundary to translate provider
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Agreed this is a real gap, but it lives at the embedding-client boundary, not in this PR. The reconciler is already correct: transient errors stay retryable, locally-detected oversized inputs are marked permanently failed. The missing piece is that a provider-side context-limit rejection (e.g. OpenAI BadRequestError / Gemini equivalent) is not translated to EmbeddingTokenLimitError inside _process_batch, so it surfaces as a generic Exception and burns retries. That is a shared client concern — the document path also depends on it — and expanding this PR into embedding_client.py would broaden its scope. Tracking as a follow-up rather than folding it in here.
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@cadamec, thanks for the guidance. The reconciler handles the current error contract correctly. Provider context-limit normalization belongs in the shared embedding client, which also serves the document path.
Deferring that change outside #999 is reasonable. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for the client change and regression tests?
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Learning: In plastic-labs/honcho, provider-specific context-limit errors should be normalized to EmbeddingTokenLimitError at the shared client boundary in src/embedding_client.py, not in src/reconciler/sync_vectors.py. The shared embedding client serves both message and document embedding paths. The message reconciler treats EmbeddingTokenLimitError as permanent and keeps other ValueError exceptions retryable.
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Yes, please open the follow-up issue for the client-side normalization and regression tests. Thanks.
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## Summary
Normalize provider-side context-limit rejections to `EmbeddingTokenLimitError` at the shared embedding-client boundary in `src/embedding_client.py`. Add client-level regression tests.
Requested by @cadamec as a follow-up outside the scope of PR #999.
## Problem
The embedding client detects oversized inputs during local token validation. However, the local tokenizer can undercount tokens relative to the provider. A provider can therefore reject an input that passed local validation.
`_process_batch()` retries provider exceptions and re-raises them without translating provider context-limit rejections. Such rejections can reach the message reconciler as a generic exception instead of `EmbeddingTokenLimitError`. The reconciler then consumes retries for an input that cannot succeed unchanged.
The shared client serves both message and document embedding paths. Normalize these errors in the client rather than adding provider-specific handling to the reconciler.
## Required changes
- Identify context-limit rejection signals for the supported embedding providers, including OpenAI `BadRequestError` and the Gemini equivalent where applicable.
- Translate confirmed provider context-limit rejections from `_process_batch()` to `EmbeddingTokenLimitError`. Preserve the original exception as the cause.
- Keep unrelated bad requests, transient provider failures, and response validation errors distinct from token-limit failures.
- Add client-level regression tests that exercise provider rejection through the public embedding-client flow, rather than mocking `EmbeddingTokenLimitError` directly at the reconciler boundary.
- Define and test the retry behavior for provider context-limit rejections. Avoid unnecessary provider retries for confirmed permanent input failures.
## Affected areas
- `src/embedding_client.py`: provider error handling in `_process_batch()` and propagation through `simple_batch_embed()`.
- Embedding-client tests: provider rejection normalization and negative cases.
- Consumers: message reconciliation in `src/reconciler/sync_vectors.py` and document embedding paths. This issue does not require provider-specific logic in those consumers.
## Acceptance criteria
- A provider context-limit rejection that passes local validation surfaces as `EmbeddingTokenLimitError` from `simple_batch_embed()`.
- Regression tests cover supported provider context-limit error shapes.
- Negative tests show that unrelated provider errors and response validation errors do not become `EmbeddingTokenLimitError`.
- Tests document the retry behavior and verify preservation of the original exception as the cause.
- The message reconciler can use its existing permanent-failure branch without provider-specific changes.
## References
- PR: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/pull/999
- Review thread: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/pull/999#discussion_r4138956194
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The issue covers client-side normalization to EmbeddingTokenLimitError, retry behavior, and regression tests. It links back to #999 and this review thread. The change remains outside this PR.
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Fixes #1270
Description
The message-embedding reconciler (
_sync_message_embeddingsinsrc/reconciler/sync_vectors.py) sent all pending texts in a singlesimple_batch_embedcall. If any one text exceeded the embedding provider's context window, the entire batch returned a 400 and every row in the batch was markedfailed— including small, perfectly-embeddable messages that were only collateral damage.Root cause
Two compounding issues:
Batch poisoning.
simple_batch_embed(contents)sends the whole list in one provider call. A single oversized text 400s the whole batch. The reconciler'sexcept Exceptionthen marks all rows in the batch as failed via_bump_message_embedding_sync_attempts, and afterMAX_SYNC_ATTEMPTSthey're permanentlyfailed(manual intervention required).Tokenizer undercount. The chunking tokenizer (tiktoken
o200k_base) can undercount a provider's real token count. In our deployment (nomic-embed-text via Ollama), tiktoken undercounts by ~4–5×, so texts that passed the chunk cap still exceeded the provider's context window and got rejected.Fix
Embed each text individually instead of as one batch. A single oversized text now fails on its own (and is retried/backed off independently), while the rest of the batch stays embeddable.
Impact observed
In our deployment this had left 54 message embeddings permanently failed (clustered into exactly 3 poisoned batches) and 2 stuck in a retry loop. After this fix plus re-queueing, all recovered rows embedded cleanly:
synced 70 message embeddings; failed 0, thensynced 5; failed 0. No furtherinput length exceeds context lengtherrors.Test plan
failed 0Note for maintainers
This fixes the batch-poisoning failure mode generally. The tokenizer-undercount issue is deployment-specific (depends on the embedding model), so the per-text isolation is the durable fix — operators should also size
EMBEDDING_MAX_INPUT_TOKENSconservatively for their provider.Summary by CodeRabbit