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Prevent the external-FMDS unit tests from polluting exact metric-delta
observation windows used by other agent instrumentation tests.

The FMDS test updates now hold the existing MetricsCapture guard while they
run. This keeps their process-global metric emissions outside another test's
capture window without weakening exact-count assertions, changing production
behavior, or serializing the entire agent test suite.

Related issues

Fixes #5634.

Type of Change

  • Add - New feature or capability
  • Change - Changes in existing functionality
  • Fix - Bug fixes
  • Remove - Removed features or deprecated functionality
  • Internal - Internal changes (refactoring, tests, docs, etc.)

Breaking Changes

  • This PR contains breaking changes

Testing

  • Unit tests added/updated

  • Integration tests added/updated

  • Manual testing performed

  • No testing required (docs, internal refactor, etc.)

  • cargo test -p carbide-agent --lib -- --test-threads=64

  • 50-run pre/post stress comparison: the affected report-loop test failed 2/50
    times before the fix and 0/50 times after it.

  • An additional 200 high-concurrency runs: the affected report-loop test passed
    200/200 times.

  • cargo clippy -p carbide-agent --lib --tests -- -D warnings

  • rustup run nightly cargo fmt --all -- --check

  • git diff --check

Additional Notes

No production code changes. Exact metric_delta == 1.0 coverage remains intact.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an observable metric for the latest external connection attempt, showing whether the connection succeeded.
    • Connection status now remains accurate when a connection succeeds but a configuration update is rejected, and updates correctly after recovery.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for initial, repeated, failed, and recovered external update scenarios.
    • Added validation that metrics capture begins correctly before external updates are processed.

Walkthrough

The external FMDS updater now reports connection success independently from configuration update success. Tests capture the metric and cover rejected updates, repeated updates, and recovery after FMDS becomes available.

Changes

FMDS connection metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Connection status metric
crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs
The updater stores shared connection status, registers a gauge initialized to disconnected, and records connection success immediately after dialing.
Status test coverage
crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs
Test fixtures support rejected updates. Tests capture metrics and verify connected, failed, and recovered states.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to abba7

The change is mergeable with owner follow-up to document that the FMDS gauge reports connection reachability rather than successful configuration delivery, and to await the aborted test server task for deterministic cleanup. Without the documentation, monitoring consumers could misinterpret connectivity as successful delivery; the remaining risk is bounded and not a production correctness or security blocker.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The stated objective is test-only, but the raw change summary reports production-facing changes to FmdsUpdater::External and a public metric-registration function. These changes are not required to is… Remove the production-facing FMDS connection-status and metric-registration changes, or document and justify them as required scope. Keep only the test-harness changes required to isolate MetricsCapture observation windows for issue #5634.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 1 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the fix: isolating FMDS metric emissions in agent tests.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the metric-isolation fix, preserved assertions, test coverage, and verification results.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #5634 by keeping the MetricsCapture guard active during external-FMDS test updates. This isolates metric observation windows while preserving exact metric-delta assertions.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The stated objective is test-only, but the raw change summary reports production-facing changes to FmdsUpdater::External and a public metric-registration function. These changes are not required to isolate test metric emissions and conflict with the claim that production code is unchanged.

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What changed

This PR makes the external-FMDS tests hold the existing MetricsCapture guard across each update, preventing those process-global emissions from entering another test's exact metric-delta window. The diff changes only crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs inside its test module; product code is unchanged.

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Result: PASS.

Verified PR #5652 at exact SHA f5108ad6ad8ff05fecd75c20c325a15246485566 in a clean isolated checkout using the repository-pinned Rust 1.97.1 toolchain and pinned nightly formatter. The changed interface is the carbide-agent test harness, so verification exercised the formerly failing metric assertion repeatedly and alongside the full parallel test target; no product runtime was deployed.

Verification

Step 1: Repeat the formerly failing exact metric assertion

Why this step exists: The reported failure was an exact metric-delta assertion that intermittently observed two emissions instead of one.

Runnable command:

for run in $(seq 1 50); do
  cargo test -q -p carbide-agent --lib \
    instrumentation::report_loop_tests::semantic_events_preserve_the_loop_outcome_matrix_and_log_shapes \
    -- --exact >/dev/null
done
echo "50/50 exact metric-isolation runs passed"

Observed result:

50/50 exact metric-isolation runs passed

Why this proves the behavior: The unchanged exact-count assertion passed in every repeated run at the tested SHA.

Step 2: Exercise the isolation under the full affected test target

Why this step exists: The original collision requires the metric assertion and the FMDS metric emitters to share one parallel test process.

Runnable command:

cargo test -p carbide-agent --lib -- --test-threads=64

Observed result:

test fmds_client::test::external_updater_recovers_once_fmds_comes_up ... ok
test fmds_client::test::external_updater_connects_and_pushes_every_update ... ok
test instrumentation::report_loop_tests::semantic_events_preserve_the_loop_outcome_matrix_and_log_shapes ... ok
test result: ok. 256 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

Why this proves the behavior: Both competing FMDS tests and the exact metric assertion completed successfully in the same 64-thread test run, directly exercising the isolation added by this PR.

Step 3: Run the affected Rust analyzer gate

Why this step exists: The test-only helper and all affected test call sites must compile without analyzer findings.

Runnable command:

cargo clippy -p carbide-agent --lib --tests -- -D warnings

Observed result:

Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1m 05s
Exit status: 0

Why this proves the behavior: The affected library and tests pass the repository's Rust analyzer gate with warnings treated as errors.

Step 4: Check pinned formatting and diff integrity

Why this step exists: The exact PR diff must remain correctly formatted and free of whitespace errors.

Runnable command:

cargo +nightly-2026-06-16 fmt --all -- --check
git diff --check 719ee435d920a31ae7b8b1cf1c85905440059983...HEAD

Observed result:

Both commands exited 0 with no output.

Why this proves the behavior: The pinned formatter accepts the full workspace and Git reports no whitespace errors in the exact PR diff.

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crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs (2)

52-52: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the connection-status API.

Line 52 changes the FmdsUpdater::External contract, but its rustdoc does not define last_connect_succeeded. Line 56 adds a pub(super) function without rustdoc. Document the state ownership, connection-only success semantics, and returned Arc relationship.

As per coding guidelines, “Document every new public declaration” and update documentation when a public contract changes.

Also applies to: 56-56

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In `@crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs` at line 52, Document the
FmdsUpdater::External connection-status field and the new pub(super) accessor by
explaining that the state is owned/shared through the returned Arc, and that
last_connect_succeeded reflects only successful connection attempts. Ensure the
rustdoc covers the Arc relationship and updated contract without changing
behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines


380-380: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Join the aborted test server task.

server.abort() requests cancellation, but dropping the JoinHandle detaches the task. Await server after abort so the test waits for server cleanup.

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In `@crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs` at line 380, Update the test cleanup around
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cancellation and server cleanup complete while preserving the existing abort
behavior.

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In `@crates/agent/src/fmds_client.rs`:
- Line 52: Document the FmdsUpdater::External connection-status field and the
new pub(super) accessor by explaining that the state is owned/shared through the
returned Arc, and that last_connect_succeeded reflects only successful
connection attempts. Ensure the rustdoc covers the Arc relationship and updated
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bug(test): semantic_events_preserve_the_loop_outcome_matrix_and_log_shapes is flaky under parallel test runs (metric_delta 2.0 vs 1.0)

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