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Measurement-only branch. Identical SDK code to #3167, with WORKFLOW_SERVER_URL_OVERRIDE pointed at a backend preview that indexes every event a create request persists.

Why: the backend's event index recorded only the event returned in the create response, so a lazy step start (step_created + step_started in one transaction) and a resilient run start each went under-counted. Because the guard rejects iff recordedAtOrBelow(W) > stateEventCount, an under-count silently disarms it — production shows 1,762,379 evaluations with 0 stale verdicts.

Purpose of this PR is the event-log-race-repro comparison against #3167's run (540/600 step-storm, 133/600 hook-storm corrupted). Not for merge.

pranaygp and others added 12 commits July 27, 2026 16:35
…by event-log position

Two production runs on `@workflow/core@5.0.0-beta.36` burned all three
divergence-recovery replays at the same event and terminated with
CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG:

  wrun_41KYJENABV0GSF5YTE9EETV5DD  (step vs wait)
  wrun_41KYJEE01S0GPC9RWT5MEKVCX8  (step vs hook)

  Replay divergence: step event step_created for step_X belongs to "A",
  but the current step consumer is "B"

`useStep` proxies draw deterministic ULIDs in invocation order, so the
ULID -> stepName allocation is a function of the order in which promise
resolutions are delivered to workflow code. The delivery-barrier registry
pinned that order to event-log position for hook payloads and wait
completions, but step results were delivered straight off the serial
`promiseQueue` — and their latency varies between replays of the SAME
invocation, because the first replay pays full hydration while later
replays memo-hit primitive results in the shared `ReplayPayloadCache`.
A step completion adjacent in the log to a `wait_completed` was therefore
delivered wait-first on a cold replay and step-first on a warm one;
whichever order the invocation that wrote the follow-up `step_created`
events happened to see became law, and every replay computing the other
order diverged permanently.

Step results and step failures now register a 'step' delivery barrier at
their event-log index and resolve from a detached continuation after every
relevant earlier-in-log delivery, mirroring the hook payload path:
hydration stays inside the serial queue slot (which also releases
`pendingDeliveries`), while the barrier wait and the resolve run off the
queue so a queue slot never blocks on a resolution the queue itself drives.
Waits and hook payloads likewise defer behind earlier step results.

Two details are what actually make the ordering hold, and both were found
by testing rather than by reading the code:

The deferral set is captured while CONSUMING the event, not at the start of
the hydration slot. Captured at slot start it is not merely less
deterministic, it is usually empty: an earlier delivery whose own slot runs
first on the serial queue has typically already resolved and deregistered
its barrier before the later slot begins, so the later delivery does not
defer at all. Every event in one drain window is consumed before any slot
runs, so consumption time sees all of them.

A delivery that had to wait then yields a macrotask before resolving. An
earlier delivery being "delivered" only means its `resolve()` ran; the
branch it woke may need arbitrarily many further microtask hops before it
reaches its next `useStep` call (a `for await` over a hook resumes the
generator, settles the promise from `next()`, and only then runs the loop
body). Ordering the `resolve()` calls alone therefore buys a fixed hop or
two of margin and leaves a hop-count race that holds only for the shortest
consumers; yielding a macrotask lets the earlier branch drain completely,
whatever its shape.

One asymmetry is load-bearing: a step result skips any earlier delivery
that will not resolve on its own, i.e. one blocked directly or
transitively on a buffered hook payload no consumer has claimed. Such a
payload is delivered only when the workflow next reads the hook, and
reaching that read commonly requires the step result itself, so gating the
step on it stalls the run until the barrier's idle safety net fires — which
then releases every delivery queued behind that payload at once and loses
the very race the ordering exists to protect. Waits and hooks keep gating
on unclaimed payloads, where waiting for the claim IS the guarantee.

Tests come in two files. `step-delivery-ordering.test.ts` is byte-identical
to the file in the repro-only companion PR #3137 apart from
two `it.fails` markers there (which let a repro-only branch have green CI);
`sed 's/it\.fails(/it(/g' | cmp` verifies it. Each of its five cases
replays one committed log twice through a shared `ReplayPayloadCache`, and
the two warm-replay cases fail on main with the production error text.

`step-delivery-hop-count.test.ts` exists because those five cases cannot
tell "delivered in log order" apart from "resolves a hop or two later than
before". It replays logs a live run legitimately produced — the live
invocation received the two events in separate deliveries, so the first
branch finished long before the second event existed — while the replay
receives both in one drain window, and pads the consumer with a varying
number of extra awaits so hop count is the only variable. It covers step
results against both wait completions and hook payloads, plus step
FAILURES against wait completions, since a rejection decides whether a
`catch` continuation runs and so which ULID the `useStep` there draws. All
18 cases fail on main; of the 12 that predate the macrotask, 9 still fail
with the resolve-ordering-only version of this fix; all 18 pass here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranay Prakash <pranay.gp@gmail.com>
Follow-up on the step-delivery barrier work, addressing three cases the
registry did not yet cover. Each has a regression test in the new
`delivery-barrier-coverage.test.ts` that reproduces the production
`ReplayDivergenceError` when its fix is reverted.

- Step results now defer behind earlier STEP results. The old exclusion
  assumed the serial `promiseQueue` fixes step-vs-step order, which stopped
  holding once a step began resolving from a detached continuation instead
  of its queue slot: two steps consumed in different drain windows can
  disagree on their deferral set, and the earlier one — parked on the
  macrotask yield — gets overtaken.

- `sleep.ts` and `hook.ts` (waiting-consumer path) now capture their
  deferral at event-consumption time, as `step.ts` already does. Reading
  the registry after their queue work misses an earlier step or hook that
  delivered and retired its barrier in the meantime, skipping both the gate
  and the macrotask yield. The buffered hook payload path deliberately
  keeps evaluating at claim time; a consumption-time snapshot there stalls
  the e2e `hookWithSleepWorkflow`.

- Abort deliveries participate in the registry. `_setAborted` fires the
  signal's listeners, which may invoke a step and draw a ULID, so an abort
  is as branch-deciding as any other delivery.

Also memoizes `resolvesOnItsOwn`. The walk is exponential in the number of
live hook/wait barriers, and the registry is not bounded — a fan-out of
`Promise.race([hook, sleep])` branches accumulates one barrier per branch
per kind (49 measured for 24 branches). At 40 barriers a single scan took
92s before, and is instant after.
…process

A replay-context event creation previously described its snapshot with a
single watermark, which only proves no event landed above it. It cannot
detect a *missing* event below it, so a replay working from a log with a
hole still committed events derived from that hole — and because
correlation IDs are positional ordinals of one seeded sequence, a
one-event difference renames every downstream entity and corrupts the log.

Creations now also send the snapshot's event count and its cursor, and a
rejection restarts the replay inside the same invocation instead of
re-posting the rejected payload (whose IDs the corrected log invalidates)
or paying a queue round trip. A world may attach the missing events to
its 412, in which case the first restart needs no event-log request.

Also guards the suspension `attr_set` write, and re-sorts a merged event
log by event ID when an append arrives out of order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Also makes the v4 event tests derive their mock origin from the override
like the rest of the file already does, so a non-empty override does not
fail unit tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The matching world-vercel guard shipped and is live in production, so the e2e
lanes exercise both halves against the default endpoint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolves the overlap with #3110, which introduced the same event-log merge
consolidation this branch had added as `mergeEvents`: `appendUniqueEvents`
now carries the optional id set from main plus the out-of-order re-sort and
warning, and `mergeEvents` is gone. Main's `withPreconditionRetry` edit drops
out with the function itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🧪 E2E Test Results

Some tests failed

❌ Failed E2E Tests

▲ Vercel Production (1 failed)

fastify (1 failed):

  • fibonacciWorkflow - recursive workflow composition via start() | wrun_41KYNF87GB0GW74T2RP8P8FS72 | 🔍 observability

📦 Local Production (1 failed)

nextjs-webpack-stable (1 failed):

  • webhookWorkflow | wrun_41KYNET49A0GPD9YK3B4S3GG0X

📋 Other (1 failed)

e2e-vercel-prod-tanstack-start (1 failed):

  • fibonacciWorkflow - recursive workflow composition via start() | wrun_41KYNF87GB0GW74T2RP8P8FS72

E2E Test Summary

Summary
Passed Failed Skipped Total
❌ ▲ Vercel Production 1454 1 239 1694
✅ 💻 Local Development 1467 0 227 1694
❌ 📦 Local Production 1620 1 227 1848
✅ 🐘 Local Postgres 1621 0 227 1848
✅ 🪟 Windows 154 0 0 154
❌ 📋 Other 1019 1 212 1232
✅ vercel-multi-region 27 0 0 27
Total 7362 3 1132 8497
Details by Category

❌ ▲ Vercel Production

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro 126 0 28
✅ example 126 0 28
✅ express 126 0 28
❌ fastify 125 1 28
✅ hono 126 0 28
✅ nextjs-turbopack 151 0 3
✅ nextjs-webpack 151 0 3
✅ nitro 126 0 28
✅ nuxt 126 0 28
✅ sveltekit 145 0 9
✅ vite 126 0 28

✅ 💻 Local Development

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro-stable 128 0 26
✅ express-stable 128 0 26
✅ fastify-stable 128 0 26
✅ hono-stable 128 0 26
✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary 135 0 19
✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable 154 0 0
✅ nextjs-webpack-canary 135 0 19
✅ nitro-stable 128 0 26
✅ nuxt-stable 128 0 26
✅ sveltekit-stable 147 0 7
✅ vite-stable 128 0 26

❌ 📦 Local Production

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro-stable 128 0 26
✅ express-stable 128 0 26
✅ fastify-stable 128 0 26
✅ hono-stable 128 0 26
✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary 135 0 19
✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable 154 0 0
✅ nextjs-webpack-canary 135 0 19
❌ nextjs-webpack-stable 153 1 0
✅ nitro-stable 128 0 26
✅ nuxt-stable 128 0 26
✅ sveltekit-stable 147 0 7
✅ vite-stable 128 0 26

✅ 🐘 Local Postgres

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro-stable 128 0 26
✅ express-stable 128 0 26
✅ fastify-stable 128 0 26
✅ hono-stable 128 0 26
✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary 135 0 19
✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable 154 0 0
✅ nextjs-webpack-canary 135 0 19
✅ nextjs-webpack-stable 154 0 0
✅ nitro-stable 128 0 26
✅ nuxt-stable 128 0 26
✅ sveltekit-stable 147 0 7
✅ vite-stable 128 0 26

✅ 🪟 Windows

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ nextjs-turbopack 154 0 0

❌ 📋 Other

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ e2e-local-dev-nest-stable 128 0 26
✅ e2e-local-dev-tanstack-start- 128 0 26
✅ e2e-local-postgres-nest-stable 128 0 26
✅ e2e-local-postgres-tanstack-start- 128 0 26
✅ e2e-local-prod-nest-stable 128 0 26
✅ e2e-local-prod-tanstack-start- 128 0 26
✅ e2e-vercel-prod-nest 126 0 28
❌ e2e-vercel-prod-tanstack-start 125 1 28

✅ vercel-multi-region

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ nextjs-turbopack 27 0 0

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📊 Workflow Benchmarks

commit 11388db · Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:10:08 GMT · run logs

Backend: vercel · app: nextjs-turbopack

Metric Scenario Best (ms) P75 (ms) P90 (ms) P99 (ms) Samples
TTFS step 1229 (+382%) 🔻 1294 🔴 (+23%) 🔻 1332 🔴 (+20%) 🔻 1408 🔴 (-2.2%) 30
TTFS stream 1213 (+351%) 🔻 1275 🔴 (+21%) 🔻 1299 🔴 (+11%) 1372 🔴 (-32%) 💚 30
TTFS hook + stream 853 (+92%) 🔻 1573 🔴 (+25%) 🔻 1626 🔴 (+27%) 🔻 2255 🔴 (+59%) 🔻 30
STSO 1020 steps (1-20) 172 (+6.8%) 252 🔴 (-15%) 308 🔴 (±0%) 361 🔴 (-17%) 💚 19
STSO 1020 steps (101-120) 185 (+3.9%) 263 🔴 (-5.4%) 385 🔴 (-35%) 💚 551 🔴 (-35%) 💚 19
STSO 1020 steps (1001-1020) 468 (-4.1%) 528 🔴 (-9.4%) 559 🔴 (-37%) 💚 586 🔴 (-34%) 💚 19
WO 1020 steps 385153 (-4.2%) 385153 (-4.2%) 385153 (-4.2%) 385153 (-4.2%) 1
SL stream latency 86 (-6.5%) 145 🔴 (-13%) 210 🔴 (-21%) 💚 513 🔴 (-44%) 💚 30
SO stream overhead (text) 108 (-10%) 157 (-38%) 💚 225 (-30%) 💚 616 (-55%) 💚 30
SO stream overhead (structured) 98 (-30%) 💚 154 (-58%) 💚 192 (-57%) 💚 228 (-99%) 💚 30
ℹ️ Metric definitions & methodology

Best/P75/P90/P99 deltas compare against the most recent benchmark run on main at the time of this run. 🔻 flags a delta worse than +15%, 💚 one better than −15%.

Metrics — TTFS: time to first step body (in-deployment start() → first step body, deployment clocks) · STSO: step-to-step overhead (gap between consecutive step bodies) · WO: workflow overhead (whole-run time outside step bodies, in-deployment anchored) · SL: stream latency (in-deployment write → read propagation, readAt - writtenAt) · SO: stream overhead (end-to-end write+consume time beyond the modelled generation window)

Scenarios — step: one trivial no-op step, no stream; no hooks, so the run stays in turbo mode (in-process fast path) · stream: one streaming step; no hooks, so the run stays in turbo mode (in-process fast path) · hook + stream: registers a hook before one step, which exits turbo mode (dispatch path) · 1020 steps: 1020 trivial sequential steps; STSO is measured between consecutive steps in the given step ranges, and WO is the whole-run overhead outside step bodies · stream latency: parallel reader/writer steps on a dedicated stream; SL is the in-deployment write->read propagation (readAt - writtenAt) · stream overhead (text): writer streams 300 variable-length text token deltas paced at 100/s for 3s (a haiku-size LLM's token throughput) while a parallel reader drains the whole stream; SO is the end-to-end write+consume time beyond the 3s generation window (overhead/backpressure) · stream overhead (structured): same workload as stream overhead (text), but each delta is an AI-SDK-style structured object ({ type: 'text-delta', id, text }) instead of a raw string, so the SO gap vs the text scenario is the added serialization cost

🔴 marks a percentile over its target (within target is left unmarked). Targets (p75/p90/p99, ms) — TTFS 200/300/600 · SL 50/60/125 · SO 250/500/1000 · STSO (1-20) 20/30/60 · STSO (101-120) 30/45/90 · STSO (1001-1020) 40/60/120

All metrics are measured from deployment-side timestamps only. Runs are triggered by an in-deployment route that stamps the anchor (clientStart) right before start(), so the CI runner’s request and its path through api.vercel.com sit outside every measured window. TTFS = in-deployment start() → first step body (turbo uses the in-process fast path, non-turbo the dispatch path), and includes the VQS dispatch hop plus any /flow cold start. STSO/WO are measured between step bodies on the deployment. SL is measured inside the workflow (parallel reader/writer steps), so it no longer includes the api.vercel.com read path.

Cold starts are kept in the numbers on purpose — they are part of real bursty-workload latency. The workbench deployment cold-starts the /flow invocation for a large fraction of runs, inflating P75+; the Best column shows the fastest (warm-start) sample for comparison.

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Event Log Race Repro

733 of 1400 latest repro runs hit event-log regressions.

Run History

Metric 2026-07-28 23:24 UTC #1
logs / deploy
Result 733/1400 regressions
Total 1400
completed 667
CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG 731
USER_ERROR 0
RUNTIME_ERROR 0
stuck 2
other 0
infra 0
Config 1400 runs / step-storm 600, hook-storm 600, hook-sleep 200 / c40 / 6x8
Timing watchdog 2500ms / step 2200±250ms / stagger 400ms / poke 750ms / timeout 240000ms

Latest Scenario Breakdown

Scenario Total completed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG USER_ERROR RUNTIME_ERROR stuck other infra
step-storm 600 46 554 0 0 0 0 0
hook-storm 600 421 177 0 0 2 0 0
hook-sleep 200 200 0 0 0 0 0 0

Latest Non-Completed Runs

Scenario Attempt Outcome Status Error code Run
step-storm 27 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWSJ0GG21Q30SAJQ4GHF
step-storm 2 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWC00GYYZD561XT0GHW8
step-storm 20 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWJC0GQZ82DAAPV1CBVM
step-storm 14 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWGA0GTGQMSF9MB2WWTV
step-storm 28 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWRC0GSGFMV4H3DVS84M
step-storm 17 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWJ70GWSAKSD9XV2Y81A
step-storm 34 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWSG0GJ3X53SX2VDM2QR
step-storm 35 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWTC0GXD4SR6T1HY8DEE
step-storm 36 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWT70GX2XEKS1ZA7BDE3
step-storm 21 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWN00GWTD7KX3TMY8C5S
step-storm 29 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWYS0GPG4F7SYMVQ2RMS
step-storm 26 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWRA0GYX08X0NST4JP8H
step-storm 39 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWTG0GHBRTPV7N8VDGJ4
step-storm 31 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWRR0GKF7KV06HBTNJQ4
step-storm 9 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWDT0GN79ZW99HB0KT7Z
step-storm 15 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWHZ0GK20RCJY8B0YQH0
step-storm 8 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWCQ0GTH9DNY7GJRXM0Z
step-storm 38 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWTK0GPRWHVN1K4E2EH3
step-storm 22 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWMW0GZ53V7D1NNCA3ZN
step-storm 25 CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG failed CORRUPTED_EVENT_LOG wrun_41KYNERWR20GJJJ724C8SB02Z5

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