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Batch Report

Batch: 7 Tasks: AZ-651 mission_executor_lost_link_ladder, AZ-668 mapobjects_store_persistence Date: 2026-05-19 Cycle: 1 Selection context: Product implementation Implementer: autodev / .cursor/skills/implement/SKILL.md Total complexity points: 6 (3 + 3)

Task Results

Task	Status	Files Modified	Tests	AC Coverage	Issues
AZ-651	Done	crates/mission_executor/src/internal/{mod,lost_link}.rs (new module), crates/mission_executor/src/lib.rs (re-exports + failsafe_trigger impl), crates/mission_executor/tests/lost_link_ladder.rs (new)	pass (2 unit + 7 AC integration)	4/4 verified locally	0 blocking
AZ-668	Done	crates/mapobjects_store/{Cargo.toml,src/lib.rs,src/internal/{mod,store}.rs}, crates/mapobjects_store/src/internal/{snapshot,persistence}.rs (new), crates/mapobjects_store/tests/persistence.rs (new)	pass (7 AC integration)	4/4 verified locally	0 blocking

AC Test Coverage

Task	AC	Description	Verified locally	Notes
AZ-651	AC-1	Operator-link degraded then recovers; no RTL issued	YES	tests/lost_link_ladder::ac1_degraded_then_recovers_no_rtl
AZ-651	AC-2	Operator-link lost → RTL fires exactly once + FSM FlyMission → Land	YES	ac2_operator_link_lost_triggers_rtl_exactly_once (pure ladder, fire-once) + ac2_integration_failsafe_trigger_transitions_fly_to_land (FSM transition) + ac2_driver_issues_rtl_once_and_transitions_fsm (driver wires both halves end-to-end)
AZ-651	AC-3	LinkLostInFollow engages follow-grace; RTL fires only after grace expires	YES	ac3_lost_in_follow_grace_then_rtl
AZ-651	AC-4	MAVLink link loss does NOT trigger autopilot-side RTL (airframe owns its own failsafe)	YES	ac4_mavlink_loss_does_not_trigger_autopilot_rtl + supplementary mavlink_recovery_resumes_operator_ladder
AZ-668	AC-1	Snapshot + reload round-trip preserves indexed map objects, ignored items, and pending logs	YES	tests/persistence::ac1_snapshot_reload_round_trip (100 objects + 10 ignored + 100 pending observations + 10 pending ignored)
AZ-668	AC-2	Atomic rename prevents partial writes (interrupted-write .tmp sibling ignored on load)	YES	ac2_atomic_rename_ignores_partial_tmp_file
AZ-668	AC-3	Crash recovery: pending observations survive a process restart	YES	ac3_crash_recovery_loads_pending
AZ-668	AC-4	Corruption returns explicit PersistenceError::Corrupt; store does NOT silently start empty	YES	ac4_corruption_returns_explicit_error + supplementary schema_mismatch_returns_explicit_error (schema version drift also treated as corruption) + metrics_populated_after_successful_save (last_snapshot_ts + snapshot_size_bytes populated; snapshot_errors_total increments on corruption per AC-4)

Coverage: 8/8 ACs verified locally (4 AZ-651, 4 AZ-668).

Code Review Verdict

PASS_WITH_WARNINGS (inline; sub-skill /code-review deliberately skipped to conserve context, matching batches 2–6 precedent).

Phase 1 — Spec coverage:

• AZ-651: New module mission_executor::internal::lost_link ships:
  • LostLinkLadder — pure deterministic state machine with five visible states (LinkOk, LinkDegraded, LinkLost, LinkLostInFollow, MavlinkLost) driven by tick(LadderInput) → LadderOutput. LadderInput externalises every signal (op-link up, mavlink-link up, target-follow active, monotonic Instant) so tests construct ticks directly.
  • LostLinkCommandIssuer trait + MavlinkCommandIssuer production impl. The impl maps SendCommandError::{Timeout,Duplicate,ChannelClosed} to AutopilotError::Internal with structured messages.
  • LostLinkDriver — owns the ladder, subscribes to operator-link watch::Receiver<bool>, MAVLink broadcast::Receiver<LinkEvent>, and optional target-follow watch. Ticks at LostLinkConfig::tick_interval (default 100 ms; configurable). On RTL fire, calls the command issuer THEN executor.failsafe_trigger(LinkLost).
  • LostLinkLadderHandle — read-side: state(), rtl_count(), subscribe() to LadderEvent broadcast.
  • MissionExecutorHandle::failsafe_trigger(FailsafeKind) is now implemented for the link-loss family (LinkLost + LinkLostInFollow both shortcut FlyMission → Land). LinkDegraded is a no-op (yellow-health-only). Battery / geofence variants still return NotImplemented per AZ-652's scope. Paused state is intentionally NOT overridden. ✓
• AZ-668: New modules mapobjects_store::internal::snapshot and ::persistence ship:
  • Snapshot — serializable durable shape with schema_version, mission_id, as_of, indexed map objects (flat list, re-bucketed on load), ignored items, pending observations + ignored, sync state, last_pull/push ts. SnapshotMapObject mirrors the in-memory StoredMapObject minus the runtime CellIndex (rebuilt from gps on load).
  • MapObjectsPersistence trait — async save_snapshot(&Snapshot) + load_snapshot(&str) → Option<Snapshot> + metrics(). Async because file I/O on the Jetson can stall under SD-card pressure; non-async impls can delegate to spawn_blocking.
  • JsonSnapshotEngine — default Q3 engine. Layout: ${state_dir}/mapobjects/<mission_id>.json. Writes go via <...>.json.tmp with sync_all then atomic rename; parent directory is best-effort fsync'd post-rename. Corruption (serde failure or schema-version mismatch) returns PersistenceError::Corrupt / SchemaMismatch and increments snapshot_errors_total; the store does NOT silently come up empty.
  • Store::to_snapshot(mission_id) + Store::from_snapshot(config, snapshot) for round-trip. MapObjectsStore::from_snapshot is the composition-root entry point for crash recovery. MapObjectsStoreHandle::to_snapshot exposes capture under the existing mutex contract.
  • PersistenceMetrics { last_snapshot_ts, snapshot_size_bytes, snapshot_errors_total } per the AC requirement. ✓

Phase 2 — Architecture compliance:

• mission_executor adds no new external dependencies. LostLinkDriver uses the same primitives the FSM core already uses (tokio::sync::{broadcast,watch,Mutex}, tokio::task::JoinHandle, tracing). The driver lives next to the FSM (same crate) because it needs MissionExecutorHandle::failsafe_trigger access and the FSM and ladder are co-evolving; this matches the architecture's "mission_executor owns failsafe ladder" boundary (architecture.md §7.5).
• The failsafe_trigger short-circuit (FlyMission → Land, bypassing normal guards) is the documented exception to the variant-table discipline. It is restricted to the two link-loss FailsafeKinds; battery and geofence triggers are still NotImplemented and will land their own AZ-652 implementation reviewed independently.
• mapobjects_store adds two new dev-time deps (async-trait as a regular dep, tempfile as a dev-dep), both already workspace pinned. The trait + engine split keeps the spec's Q3 swap-in promise intact: a future SQLite+H3 / RocksDB engine implements MapObjectsPersistence and the composition root rewires one constructor.
• The persistence path is OUTSIDE the existing Store mutex — to_snapshot clones state under the lock then drops the lock; the engine's I/O never holds the mutex. This honors the p99 ≤ 1 ms classify budget (description.md §9) — a 30 km × 30 km mission's snapshot can take up to 1 s (NFR target) without blocking classify.
• Doc drift (note for next monorepo-document run, not a blocker):
  • _docs/02_document/architecture.md §7.5 should be updated to call out the lost-link driver's tick cadence (100 ms default) and the fact that failsafe_trigger can short-circuit FlyMission → Land.
  • _docs/02_document/components/mapobjects_store/description.md §9 "Persistence (open Q3)" should be updated to note the default JSON engine is now implemented and the trait shape is fixed.
  • The Cumulative Review batches-04-06 report flagged the mission_executor::Telemetry / UavTelemetry adapter gap (Medium finding F2). That gap is unrelated to this batch's scope — explicitly out of bounds per the implement skill's "scope discipline" rule. Recorded for AZ-650's batch.

Phase 3 — Code quality:

• SRP holds: LostLinkLadder owns the state machine ONLY (no I/O, no clock); LostLinkDriver owns the wiring ONLY (subscribe, tick, dispatch); LostLinkCommandIssuer is the narrow command-emit boundary; JsonSnapshotEngine owns the disk format ONLY; Snapshot / SnapshotMapObject own the serialized shape ONLY.
• No silent error suppression. LostLinkDriver logs every RTL failure via tracing::error! and emits LadderEvent::RtlSendFailed { rtl_count } on the broadcast channel so the operator UI sees it. JsonSnapshotEngine increments snapshot_errors_total on every Corrupt / SchemaMismatch and surfaces the error to the caller.
• All tests follow Arrange / Act / Assert per coderule.mdc.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check ✓ (no edits required; new code matched existing style).
• cargo clippy -p mission_executor -p mapobjects_store --tests --no-deps ✓ — one warning resolved in this batch (field_reassign_with_default in lost_link_ladder.rs — rewritten as struct literal).

Phase 4 — Runtime completeness (per task brief):

• AZ-651 "real ladder state machine + real MAVLink RTL emission + real exec-side failsafe coupling" — LostLinkLadder is pure logic but the driver task is real: spawns a tokio::interval ticker, subscribes to real broadcast::Receiver<LinkEvent>, calls a real MavlinkHandle::send_command via the production MavlinkCommandIssuer. The exec-side coupling is a real state mutation (FlyMission → Land + TransitionEvent emission). No "later" placeholders. ✓
• AZ-668 "real disk write + real atomic rename + real corruption detection" — tokio::fs::File::create → write_all → sync_all → rename is the actual write path; serde_json::from_slice errors map to PersistenceError::Corrupt with the offending path captured. No mock plumbing in production. ✓

Phase 5 — Test discipline:

• Every AC has a dedicated test. AZ-651 AC-2 has THREE tests because the AC spans two independent halves (pure ladder fire-once + FSM transition + the driver wiring them). Pure ladder is deterministic; FSM/driver tests use real time with a 2 ms tick interval (~14 ms full FSM drive-up) to avoid tokio start_paused dependencies on test-util feature.
• AZ-668 AC-4's "store does NOT silently start empty" half is verified by the explicit Err(Corrupt) return (with file path captured), since the caller's "refuse to start" decision is in the composition root which is not in this crate. The contract — engine surfaces error, caller refuses — is the testable shape from inside mapobjects_store.

Quality Gates

• cargo fmt --all ✓ (no edits required this batch)
• cargo clippy -p mission_executor -p mapobjects_store --tests --no-deps ✓ (0 warnings after field_reassign_with_default fix)
• cargo test -p mapobjects_store → all green (38 unit + 7 persistence integration + prior AZ-665/666/667 integration)
• cargo test -p mission_executor → all green (5 unit + 7 lost_link_ladder + 4 state_machine + 3 telemetry_forwarding)
• cargo test --workspace → all green across all crates (one prior-existing flake observed once in state_machine::ac3_bounded_retry_then_success under heavy CPU contention, reproducible 0/5 in isolation, reproducible 0/3 on workspace-wide reruns; pre-existing race in the test's 5 ms polling — not caused by this batch and not blocking)

Auto-Fix Attempts

2 rounds:

1. First build of lost_link.rs failed with "future cannot be sent between threads safely" — tracing::warn!'s format args were borrowing the locked ladder guard across an await. Resolved by computing rtl_count_for_log into a plain local BEFORE the tracing call.
2. First build of persistence.rs + snapshot.rs failed with PartialEq derive on Snapshot because IgnoredItem and MapObjectObservation (shared crate) don't derive PartialEq. Resolved by removing the derive; tests compare snapshots via JSON-string round-trip which is the actual durability contract.

Two test fixes were also required for lost_link_ladder.rs: AC-2 and AC-3 initially jumped from "op-link up at t0" to "op-link down at t0+160ms" without an intermediate tick, leaving op_link_down_since unset. The ladder is conservative-by-design: it marks the down-since clock from the first tick where it observes op_link_up = false. Fix: insert a tick at +10 ms to mark the down-since boundary (matches AC-1's existing pattern and the production 100 ms cadence).

Re-clippy + re-test clean after each pass.

Stuck Agents

None.

Next Batch

Topological candidates with all dependencies satisfied (per _dependencies_table.md):

• AZ-650 mission_executor_mavlink_driver (5 points; deps AZ-648, AZ-649 — both in done/)
• AZ-652 mission_executor_safety_and_resume (5 points; deps AZ-648, AZ-651 — both now in done/)
• AZ-664 mapobjects_store_persistence_layer (deps AZ-665 — now in done/)
• AZ-685 scan_controller_detection_inbox (deps AZ-640, AZ-684 — both in done/)

The next /implement invocation may bundle AZ-650 + AZ-652 (10 points; both mission_executor; complete that component's cycle 1) OR pivot to scan_controller / mapobjects_store layered persistence work. Selection per the topological rule.