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glm-5.3-flash e2c255d40c docs(tasks): decompose review-002 into 24 tasks (23 implementation + 1 bracketed follow-up)
Decomposition of docs/reviews/002-post-remediation-review.md per its
5-unit remediation plan:

- Unit 1 (security-critical): gw15-publish-body-cap,
  prj16-schema-via-call (CF-004 filed alkcall-side), fwd13-dot-segments,
  fwd16-missing-capability, oai11-ref-memoization
- Unit 2 (timeout/terminality): ws13-idle-progress,
  fwd15-stream-timeout, cli01-retry-after-budget, con17-mcp-pagination,
  con18-wss-sweep-exit
- Unit 3 (projection/docs): projection-truthfulness, mcp-batch-cap,
  gw16-status-drift
- Unit 4 (spec-import): yaml-normalization, oai13-path-item-wildcards,
  import-loudness-cluster, js01-placeholder-check,
  fwd17-19-contract-decisions
- Unit 5 (WS polish + tests): con18b-ws-polish,
  client-policy-wire-tests, cov-deployment-knobs, cov13-dead-code,
  srv11-srv12-router-ordering
- review-002-bracketed-followup: tentatively planned post-bulk pass
  (stale-check, OQA-18 enforcement decision, CON-08/09 close() lever,
  cross-crate re-checks) — deliberately not serialized against the
  bulk

Also: review-002 numbering repair (CON-14 was double-booked; MCP
pagination now CON-14, from_wss monitor renumbered CON-18, missing
CON-14 section added).

taskgraph: 66 valid, no cycles; 24 pending (all review-002);
gen-1/gen-2 parallel waves identified; workflow-cost hotspots are
prj16 (12.8) and ws13 (11.1), both carrying the reviewed slicing
guidance in their Notes.
2026-08-30 10:50:34 +00:00

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id, name, status, depends_on, scope, risk, impact, level, tags
id name status depends_on scope risk impact level tags
review-002-ws13-idle-progress Idle deadline off demux progress + slow-legitimate-stream decision (WS-13) pending
moderate high component implementation
websocket
review-002

Description

Review 002 WS-13 [major]. The WS-01 remediation's idle timer (byte_adapter.rs:229-244) wraps only the next-message await, so it fails in both directions:

  1. The attack it exists for defeats it. WS-01's dribble (declare a 16 MiB chunk, deliver one byte per WS message per minute) keeps arriving messages → the deadline resets on every dribble → the demux still parks forever with the partial chunk. The doc (:117) claims "a peer that drips bytes cannot park the single demux loop longer than this without traffic" — under the actual attack the peer supplies traffic forever.
  2. Legitimate slowness is killed. A >60 s-silent-but-alive session (long handler compute, quiet subscription) is disconnected with 1001 mid-flight — no ping/pong keepalive exists, and chunk progress does not reset the timer.

The existing test (idle_read_timeout_resets_on_traffic) enshrines reset-on-message as correct — it codifies the gap.

Acceptance Criteria

  • Decide + implement the progress semantics: the deadline resets on demux progress (bytes actually forwarded into read_tx), not message arrival — a peer that dribbles a chunk forever hits the deadline; a peer delivering complete chunks (even slowly per-message but productively) keeps the connection
  • Decide + document the legitimate-silence stance (choose one and record it in the module doc + http-server/websocket.md): (a) add WS ping/pong keepalive so app-silence ≠ transport-silence, or (b) document that 60 s of no progress is an intentional eviction line even for silent subscriptions
  • Acceptance test 1: chunk header [ch][len=N] dribbled in small messages with per-message gaps < timeout → connection closed (progress deadline fires)
  • Acceptance test 2: scaled-down silent-but-alive session with a pending response is NOT disconnected when the knob's spirit says it should survive (e.g. messages flowing that make progress)
  • The WS-01 knob surface (with_ws_idle_timeout) is unchanged; the semantics change is doc'd against it
  • cargo test, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --check pass (tungstenite-path unit tests + one axum integration mirror)

References

  • docs/reviews/002-post-remediation-review.md (Part B', WS-13; Part G', COV-11b — the knob is currently untested on the axum path too)
  • src/websocket/byte_adapter.rs:117 (doc claim), :229-253 (the timer), :782-1206 (tests)
  • tasks/websocket/review-001-ws-session-limits.md (the WS-01 knob work)
  • docs/architecture/websocket.md

Notes

Highest-risk task in the batch (touching the shared pump's read loop — the same loop the cap logic lives in). Slice suggestion: (1) progress tracking + tests on the tungstenite path, (2) doc/keepalive decision, (3) axum integration mirror. Coordinate with review-002-con18b-ws-polish (same file) — sequence, don't parallelize. If (a)-keepalive is chosen, note it interacts with FWD-15's server-side keep-alives on the HTTP SSE path — different layers, but document both in the same doc pass.