fix(code-index): make startup embedder validation non-blocking

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Summary

Related to #1878.

Startup embedder validation currently blocks construction of the indexing orchestrator and search service. A slow or failing validation request can leave the manager partially initialized, causing subsequent Start Indexing actions to fail with "CodeIndexManager not initialized".

This change retains startup validation but runs it without awaiting its result during service creation.

Changes

• Introduce an injected EmbedderReadinessManager to own asynchronous validation and status publication.
• Pass the service factory and embedder directly to the readiness manager.
• Apply validation failures only when the request generation is current and indexing is still in Standby.
• Ignore older validation responses after a newer check starts, and invalidate pending results on stop/recovery (including disposal through stop).
• Keep the existing low-level EmbedderValidationManager unchanged.
• Add focused tests for non-blocking service creation, current failures, rejected validation requests, stale results, and explicit invalidation.

Scope

This addresses the initialization-blocking consequence discussed in #1878. It does not establish the root cause of the initial slow/failed Ollama validation request, so the issue is intentionally not auto-closed.

Existing request timeouts and batch retries are unchanged. Temporary diagnostic logging and machine-specific launch configuration are not included.

Validation

• 121 tests passed across the readiness manager, code-index manager, status manager, service factory, and embedder validation manager suites.
• TypeScript check passed.
• Targeted ESLint and formatting checks passed; suppression counts unchanged.
• Commit/push hooks completed repository lint and type checks successfully (some package results cached).
• Diff whitespace check passed.

Tests ran under Node 24.7.0; package scripts warn that the repository expects Node 22.23.1. End-to-end manual verification of this final implementation is still pending.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Code indexing services can finish starting and search services can be created while embedder validation is still in progress.
  • Validation failures are reported when the system is in standby. Outdated validation results no longer override newer state or later status changes.

Walkthrough

Code-index managers now delegate embedder validation to a readiness manager. Validation runs without blocking service recreation, and stale results do not update system state. Workspace setup passes a readiness manager that shares the manager’s state manager.

Changes

Embedder readiness lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Readiness validation and stale-result handling src/services/code-index/embedder-readiness-manager.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/embedder-readiness-manager.spec.ts	EmbedderReadinessManager handles invalid validation results and rejected validations. It sets the system state to Error only when the validation is current and the state is Standby. Tests cover state changes, newer validations, and invalidation.
Non-blocking validation and lifecycle invalidation src/services/code-index/manager.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/manager.spec.ts, src/eslint-suppressions.json	CodeIndexManager starts validation without waiting for its result. It invalidates readiness when indexing stops or error recovery starts. A test checks that service recreation completes while validation is pending. The manager.spec.ts suppression count decreases.
Workspace construction and shared state src/services/code-index/code-index-workspace-scope.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-workspace-scope.spec.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-manager-registry.spec.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-status-manager.spec.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/CodebaseSearchTool.workspace.spec.ts	Workspace setup passes a readiness manager to each code-index manager. Tests check constructor arguments, distinct managers across workspace scopes, and shared state-manager use.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CodeIndexManager
  participant EmbedderReadinessManager
  participant Embedder
  participant CodeIndexStateManager
  CodeIndexManager->>EmbedderReadinessManager: Start validation
  CodeIndexManager->>CodeIndexManager: Complete service recreation without waiting
  Embedder-->>EmbedderReadinessManager: Return validation result
  EmbedderReadinessManager->>CodeIndexStateManager: Set Error if result is current and state is Standby
  CodeIndexManager->>EmbedderReadinessManager: Invalidate readiness on stop or recovery

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 50cbd

After embedding requests fail, incremental indexing can appear complete while updated code is missing from search results. Surface embedder failures before treating the index as complete.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50cbd

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: src

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Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 10 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/core/tools/tests/CodebaseSearchTool.workspace.spec.ts: Adds the EmbedderReadinessManager import used in the external-manager constructor expectation.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/core/tools/tests/CodebaseSearchTool.workspace.spec.ts: The external task manager construction expectation now includes an EmbedderReadinessManager instance as an additional argument.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/services/code-index/tests/code-index-manager-registry.spec.ts: The test file imports EmbedderReadinessManager for constructor-call expectations.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/services/code-index/tests/code-index-manager-registry.spec.ts: The workspace-selection tests now expect CodeIndexManager to receive an EmbedderReadinessManager after the state manager, in addition to the previously checked path, URI, and context.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Regression Evidence	⚠️ Warning	The manager lifecycle integration lacks focused coverage. CodeIndexManager.stopIndexing() and recoverFromError() now call embedderReadinessManager.invalidate(), and dispose() relies on `stopIn…	Add focused CodeIndexManager tests with a mocked or spied EmbedderReadinessManager. Assert invalidate() is called by stopIndexing(), by recoverFromError(), and through dispose() (or explicitly test the disposal path). Keep the e…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	⚠️ Warning	The changed non-blocking path can leave obsolete validation work running after a restart or disposal. _recreateServices() starts void this.embedderReadinessManager.validate(...) at `manager.ts:422…	Add real cancellation and disposal handling for readiness validation. Track an AbortController or equivalent cancellation handle for the active validation, abort it in invalidate() and in a readiness-manager dispose() method, and call…

✅ Passed checks (6 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Security Boundaries	✅ Passed	No changed path meets the security-boundary failure conditions. CodeIndexManager._recreateServices() now starts the existing embedder connectivity probe asynchronously, but `EmbedderReadinessManager…
Persistence Integrity	✅ Passed	No changed persistence path exists. The new non-awaited path in CodeIndexManager._recreateServices() calls EmbedderReadinessManager.validate(), which only awaits embedder validation and updates th…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: startup embedder validation no longer blocks service creation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and relevant. It explains the issue, implementation, scope, testing, environment, and pending manual verification. It references issue #1878. It does not reproduce the temp…

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Explanation

The manager lifecycle integration lacks focused coverage. CodeIndexManager.stopIndexing() and recoverFromError() now call embedderReadinessManager.invalidate(), and dispose() relies on stopIndexing() to invalidate pending validation. The readiness-manager tests cover invalidate() in isolation, but the manager tests for stopIndexing, recoverFromError, and disposal do not assert that the injected readiness manager is invalidated. A regression that removes these calls could pass all current tests and allow a stale validation result to set Error after stop or recovery.

Resolution

Add focused CodeIndexManager tests with a mocked or spied EmbedderReadinessManager. Assert invalidate() is called by stopIndexing(), by recoverFromError(), and through dispose() (or explicitly test the disposal path). Keep the existing readiness-manager unit tests for the generation behavior.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The changed non-blocking path can leave obsolete validation work running after a restart or disposal. _recreateServices() starts void this.embedderReadinessManager.validate(...) at manager.ts:422. EmbedderReadinessManager.invalidate() only increments generation; it does not cancel the promise or the underlying embedder request. Therefore, when a pending startup validation is followed by a settings restart, the next _recreateServices() starts a second validation while the first request remains active. When dispose() calls stopIndexing(), the pending request also continues after disposal. The IEmbedder.validateConfiguration() contract has no cancellation signal, and the Ollama implementation creates an AbortController and timeout that only end when its request finishes. The generation check discards stale results but does not stop the task or request.

Resolution

Add real cancellation and disposal handling for readiness validation. Track an AbortController or equivalent cancellation handle for the active validation, abort it in invalidate() and in a readiness-manager dispose() method, and call that disposal from CodeIndexManager.dispose(). Propagate the cancellation signal through CodeIndexServiceFactory.validateEmbedder() and each embedder validation implementation, including cleanup of provider timers in finally blocks. Ensure _recreateServices() cancels the previous validation before starting a replacement so restart and recovery cannot run obsolete and current validation requests concurrently.

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Regarding the Security Boundaries pre-merge finding: we intentionally will not wait for the startup probe before allowing real indexing requests.

The probe is a diagnostic availability/model check, not an authorization or trust decision. For the investigated Ollama path it sends a test embedding request to the already configured endpoint. Requiring that probe to finish adds little assurance about subsequent requests, but blocks actual usage: minimal test requests took approximately 25–27 seconds locally, very close to the probe's 30-second timeout, while working embedding requests have their own 60-second timeout and batch retry policy.

Service construction and indexing therefore remain non-blocking with respect to this probe. Real operations still report their own failures and retain their existing timeouts/retries. No new endpoint or authorization bypass is introduced by this change. If the finding identifies a specific security control enforced exclusively by validation, please point to that control so we can evaluate it separately.

The current status guard deliberately gives an active indexing operation precedence over the diagnostic probe; entering Indexing is not proof of a successful embedding response. This is an advisory probe, not a readiness gate. We are keeping that policy rather than restoring a blocking preflight.

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🟠 Major · Propagate embedder failures from incremental scans. · manager.ts:422

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Propagate embedder failures from incremental scans.

When an existing index triggers runIncrementalScan, a createEmbeddings failure is reported as a batch error, but CodeIndexScanExecutor.runIncrementalScan ignores all batch errors and returns true. The orchestrator can then mark the incomplete index as Indexed.

Keep embedder validation non-blocking, but preserve the failure source and propagate only embedder failures at the scan-executor boundary. This prevents the new validation race from producing an Indexed state while preserving the existing tolerance for unrelated per-batch errors.

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