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Five new publish_timing phases, so the publish line attributes the time it already reports.

Phase Wraps Why it was invisible
coverage_reads _safe_coverage two remote round trips after GenerationService.run returns
context_acquire get_reflexio() outside run entirely — config decrypt, storage pools, LLM clients
dup_check storage.get_request() a remote read inside commit_scope, in no phase
post_publish ensure_local_extraction post-commit, unphased
scope_commit the COMMIT itself, both backends splits commit_scope's unattributed remainder

Why

Measured on production, 78 publishes over 2.5 hours:

bucket mean share
unattributed — outside every named phase 50,369 ms 68%
commit_scope overhead — inside the scope, outside its named children 11,656 ms 16%
metering 4,667 ms 6%
admission 3,343 ms 5%
embeddings 113 ms <1%
total 74,136 ms

Two thirds of a publish was reported and attributed to nothing. publisher_api.add_user_interaction's own comment names the reason it cannot see further:

GenerationService.run is too early — the post-commit coverage reads in lib/_interactions.py::_safe_coverage are two more remote round trips after it returns — and get_reflexio below can itself stall or raise on a cold construction, which run never sees at all.

Both are now phases. dup_check and scope_commit attack the other bucket: commit_scope reported 15.6 s of which 11.7 s was outside every phase it contains, and this says how much of that is the commit versus a read versus waiting for a connection.

Testing

tests/server/services/test_publish_unattributed_phases.py — 3 tests driving the real Reflexio.publish_interaction, not a hand-assembled call.

  • coverage_reads and dup_check are bounded on both sides. A lower bound alone passes against a wrap placed around the whole request under a name claiming to be one part of it, so each test also proves the excluded region was genuinely slow.
  • One test asserts every new phase appears on an ordinary publish — a phase wrapped around a branch that never runs contributes nothing while looking instrumented.

Mutation-verified: renaming dup_check, post_publish and scope_commit to an existing key killed 2 of the 3 tests. Restored from a byte snapshot verified with shasum -c.

Full OSS suite: 5110 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed, 0 errors. ruff clean.

A near-miss worth recording

The first version of the coverage_reads test passed against unmodified production code: it opened the phase itself around _safe_coverage and then asserted the phase existed — it was measuring its own wrapper. A test that supplies the thing it checks for cannot fail. The committed version drives the library path and went properly red before the fix.

What this does not do

It attributes; it does not accelerate. No publish gets faster from this change. What changes is that the next line says where the 68% goes, and scope_commit finally distinguishes "the commit is slow" from "we queued for a connection".

Related: ReflexioAI/reflexio-enterprise#1371 makes a saturated pool visible, which is the other half of the same investigation.

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  • Improvements
    • Publishing performance reports now break down time spent acquiring context, checking for duplicate requests, preparing extraction, reading coverage data, and committing transactions.
    • This provides a more detailed view of publishing timings. Request validation and publishing behavior remain unchanged.

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The publish path now records timing for context acquisition, duplicate checks, extraction setup, coverage reads, and SQLite scope commits. Tests check phase attribution during real publish operations. Updated comments and test descriptions distinguish admitted publishes from queued cancellations in a measured production window.

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Publish timing instrumentation

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Time publish request and extraction phases
reflexio/server/api_endpoints/publisher_api.py, reflexio/server/services/generation_service.py, reflexio/lib/_interactions.py
The publish path records context acquisition, duplicate lookups, extraction setup, and coverage reads in named timing phases.
Time commits and verify phase attribution
reflexio/server/services/storage/sqlite_storage/_base.py, tests/server/services/test_publish_unattributed_phases.py, reflexio/server/routes/interactions.py, tests/server/services/test_generation_service_publish_timing.py
SQLite scope commits are timed. Real-publish tests check phase attribution for coverage reads and duplicate checks, distinguish ingestion timing, and verify timing snapshot entries. Updated comments and test descriptions report that 48 of 59 publishes were admitted and committed, while 11 ended in the admission queue.

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Comment on lines +312 to +313
with publish_timing.phase("dup_check"):
existing = storage.get_request(request_id)

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P2 Badge Time the preflight duplicate lookup too

For HTTP publishes, routes/interactions.py always supplies a request_id and admission_participant retains its default of None, so the earlier condition at lines 212–215 performs another storage.get_request(request_id) before reaching this phase. On remote storage, that first round trip remains unattributed while dup_check_ms records only the second lookup, leaving a material gap and understating duplicate-check time; wrap the preflight lookup in the same accumulating phase as well.

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tests/server/services/test_publish_unattributed_phases.py (2)

46-46: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Stub local extraction in these timing tests.

Each real publish enters post_publish and starts a daemon scheduler through ensure_local_extraction. The fixture removes the temporary directory without stopping that scheduler. The lifecycle code retires it only after a later publish detects the collected context, so the scheduler can remain alive during the next test.

This is a bounded test-isolation issue, not persistent scheduler accumulation. The stub preserves post_publish timing because the phase surrounds the call.

Suggested fix
     publish_timing.reset_for_tests()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "reflexio.server.services.durable_learning.local.ensure_local_extraction",
+        lambda _: None,
+    )
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In `@tests/server/services/test_publish_unattributed_phases.py` at line 46, Stub
reflexio.server.services.durable_learning.local.ensure_local_extraction in the
timing-test fixture so real publishes cannot leave a scheduler running after
temporary-directory cleanup; keep the existing post_publish timing path and
publish_timing.reset_for_tests behavior unchanged.

149-171: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that scope_commit_ms contains the SQLite commit time.

The current assertion checks only that the phase key exists. publish_timing.phase() creates that key even when it encloses no meaningful work. The test can therefore pass if the phase wraps a trivial operation while self.conn.commit() runs outside it.

Add a delayed commit and assert that scope_commit_ms includes the delay.

Suggested fix
-from unittest.mock import patch
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
@@
 def test_the_new_phases_all_appear_on_an_ordinary_publish() -> None:
@@
+    commit_s = 0.30
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
         reflexio = _reflexio(temp_dir)
+        storage = reflexio._get_storage()
+        assert storage is not None
+        real_conn = storage.conn
+        delayed_conn = MagicMock(wraps=real_conn)
+
+        def slow_commit() -> None:
+            time.sleep(commit_s)
+            real_conn.commit()
+
+        delayed_conn.commit.side_effect = slow_commit
         with publish_timing.collect():
-            response = reflexio.publish_interaction(
-                _publish_request(), defer_learning=True
-            )
+            with patch.object(storage, "conn", delayed_conn):
+                response = reflexio.publish_interaction(
+                    _publish_request(), defer_learning=True
+                )
             snap = publish_timing.snapshot()
@@
     for key in (
         "coverage_reads_ms",
         "dup_check_ms",
         "post_publish_ms",
         "scope_commit_ms",
     ):
         assert key in snap, f"{key} missing from an ordinary publish: {sorted(snap)}"
+    assert snap["scope_commit_ms"] >= int(commit_s * 1000 * 0.75), (
+        f"scope_commit_ms={snap['scope_commit_ms']} does not contain the "
+        f"{int(commit_s * 1000)}ms SQLite commit"
+    )
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In `@tests/server/services/test_publish_unattributed_phases.py` around lines 149 -
171, Update test_the_new_phases_all_appear_on_an_ordinary_publish to delay the
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In `@tests/server/services/test_publish_unattributed_phases.py`:
- Line 46: Stub
reflexio.server.services.durable_learning.local.ensure_local_extraction in the
timing-test fixture so real publishes cannot leave a scheduler running after
temporary-directory cleanup; keep the existing post_publish timing path and
publish_timing.reset_for_tests behavior unchanged.
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test_the_new_phases_all_appear_on_an_ordinary_publish to delay the SQLite commit
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- Around line 155-159: Update the route comments and related test description to
distinguish client abandonment from queued cancellation: state that 11 of 59
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Comment thread reflexio/server/routes/interactions.py Outdated
Review on #536: the comments read 59/59 as if it measured the exit they are
attached to. It does not. 59/59 is the CLIENT giving up; only 11 of those
never left the admission queue, which is what the route's emit reports. The
other 48 were already admitted, committed, and reported by the worker.

So the route exit is the minority case (~19%), not "the dominant production
outcome" -- and calling the 460 rate its frequency points a reader at the
wrong problem, which is the same mistake the paragraph was written to stop.

All three sites now state the three counts separately: routes/interactions.py's
BaseException comment, the timing test module header, and the
cancelled-while-queued test's docstring.
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Addressed in 0d64704b.

The finding was correct, and the conflation was mine: 59/59 measures clients giving up, not the exit the comment is attached to. Separating the three counts:

count what it is who reports it
59 of 59 ended elb=460 target=- — the client's ~8s timeout fired nobody; the client is gone
48 of 59 already admitted, committed anyway (81%) the worker, from its own thread
11 of 59 died in the admission queue (19%) this route exit

So the route's emit covers the minority case, and the old text called it "the dominant production outcome" — which points a reader at the 460 rate when the thing this branch actually handles is about a fifth of it.

Rewritten at all three sites: the BaseException comment in routes/interactions.py, the module header of test_generation_service_publish_timing.py, and the docstring of test_a_publish_cancelled_while_queued_still_reports.

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