feat(agent): isolate concurrent snapshot runs with per-run resources

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Summary

Gives every aicr snapshot / aicr validate invocation a run ID, suffixes it onto every run-owned Kubernetes object, and makes cleanup delete only what the run actually created. Implements ADR-020.

Motivation / Context

Client.CollectSnapshot documents concurrent calls as safe and independent. That was false: every run built the same fixed object names with destructive create paths — ensureJob deleted any same-named Job before recreating, and the five ensure* RBAC functions did create-or-update. Two overlapping runs clobbered each other's Job, revoked each other's RBAC mid-flight, and could return each other's snapshot bytes.

pkg/validator already solved this for validation Jobs; the snapshot agent predates that work and never adopted it. This PR extends the existing mechanism rather than inventing a second one.

Fixes: #2120
Related: #2334 (ADR-020)

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update
• Refactoring (no functional changes)
• Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

• CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
• API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
• Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
• Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
• Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
• Validator (pkg/validator)
• Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
• Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)

Implementation Notes

Three lifecycle classes, and every object belongs to exactly one:

Class	Objects	Rule
Run-owned	Job, ServiceAccount, Role, RoleBinding, ClusterRole, ClusterRoleBinding, staging ConfigMap	run-ID-suffixed; created and deleted by this run
Ensured	Namespace	created if absent, never deleted, never suffixed
Delivered	explicit cm:// output ConfigMap	the user's artifact — never deleted

Because run-owned names can no longer collide, the create-or-update and delete-and-recreate logic was removed rather than guarded — those Update calls were the mechanism by which a --discover-network run rewrote a non-discovery run's permissions.

Notable details:

• Cleanup is created-set driven and UID-pinned. It is registered as a defer before Deploy, so it also fires on the failure path; deleting by name there would let a losing run destroy the winner's RBAC.
• Pod selection is authorized by the controlling ownerReference, not by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid — pod labels are writable by anything that can update pods in the namespace, so a label match is not proof of ownership.
• The agent staging ConfigMap is aicr-agent-snapshot-<runID>, deliberately not aicr-snapshot-<runID>: pkg/validator names its own data ConfigMap that way, and aicr validate hands one run ID to both subsystems in one namespace.
• pkg/runid and pkg/k8s/labels were extracted from pkg/validator so both subsystems share one ID format and one label key (aicr.run/run-id) rather than forking.

Testing

go build ./...                                     # clean
go test -race ./pkg/k8s/... ./pkg/snapshotter/... ./pkg/cli/... \
                ./pkg/client/... ./pkg/runid/... ./pkg/validator/... \
                ./pkg/config/... ./pkg/serializer/...   # all pass
golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./pkg/... ./cmd/...  # 0 issues
./tools/check-docs-filenames && ./tools/check-docs-mdx    # OK

Coverage: pkg/k8s/agent 79.6% → 87.1% (+7.5%), pkg/snapshotter 62.2% → 62.7% (+0.5%). pkg/runid and pkg/k8s/labels are new. No new exported function at 0%.

TestConcurrentRuns (pkg/k8s/agent/concurrency_test.go) is the evidence for issue AC #5: two overlapping runs, one under --discover-network, asserting distinct objects, isolated ClusterRole rules, per-run pod/log/result resolution, and cleanup ownership. Its two security-relevant assertions were RED/GREEN-verified by temporarily breaking production code, and the cleanup-ownership assertion uses a discriminator that a name-derived cleanup fails — a naive "the other run survived" check passes either way, because run-scoped naming alone guarantees it.

Not run: make qualify and the cluster-backed suites (KWOK, chainsaw, e2e) — they need a cluster.

Risk Assessment

• Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
• Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
• High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Rollout notes — needs a release-note callout:

1. job-name-keyed selectors match zero pods after upgrade. A podSelector matching nothing is not an error in Kubernetes, so the documented aicr-agent egress NetworkPolicy in docs/integrator/automation.md silently stops fencing the agent. The in-tree policy is fixed here; out-of-tree copies are not. Use app.kubernetes.io/name=aicr plus the new stable app.kubernetes.io/component=snapshot-agent.
2. --job-name / --service-account-name are now prefixes, not exact names; the resulting object is <prefix>-<run-id>. kubectl logs job/aicr no longer resolves.
3. AgentConfig.JobName / ServiceAccountName are optional on the SDK path (they were documented as required). Additive field RunID; make api-diff stays green, so this semantic change will not be flagged automatically.
4. Pre-upgrade unlabeled aicr-node-reader ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding survive; tools/cleanup gained a one-time name-based removal.

Checklist

• Tests pass locally (make test with -race) — ran -race across all affected packages directly rather than make test; see Testing
• Linter passes (make lint) — golangci-lint + docs gates; see Testing
• I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
• I added/updated tests for new functionality
• I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
• Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
• Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

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The change scopes Kubernetes Jobs, RBAC resources, staging ConfigMaps, labels, and pod selection by run ID. Cleanup records created resources and uses UID preconditions. Pod discovery validates Job ownership. CLI and library workflows share run IDs across agent and validator Jobs. Documentation, diagnostics, tests, and cleanup tooling now use run-scoped names and labels.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 51877

This change alters Kubernetes object naming and cleanup for concurrent snapshot and validation runs, but current issues can cause deployment failures, leak RBAC resources, or delete resources belonging to another active run; contradictory configuration guidance and unreliable test failure handling add merge-readiness concerns. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Suggested reviewers: almaslennikov

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: isolating concurrent snapshot runs with per-run Kubernetes resources.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the concurrency-isolation problem, implementation, affected components, testing, risks, and rollout impact.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy all coding objectives in [#2120], including scoped resources, owner-based pod selection, isolated permissions, safe cleanup, and concurrency tests.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation, tests, documentation, and legacy cleanup directly support the concurrent snapshot isolation requirements in [#2120].

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/user/agent-deployment.md`:
- Around line 329-345: Update the RBAC permission-check commands near the
ServiceAccount lookup to require a RUN_ID and select the ServiceAccount using
the aicr.run/run-id label alongside the existing snapshot-agent labels. Keep the
resulting SA value in the --as subjects for all kubectl auth can-i checks,
ensuring each command targets the specified run rather than an arbitrary
ServiceAccount.
- Around line 329-330: Add a blank line between the preceding prose and each
opening fenced code block in the deployment documentation sections around “Check
RBAC permissions” and the other reported locations, resolving markdownlint MD031
without changing the examples.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/concurrency_test.go`:
- Around line 290-296: Update the subtest comment above “run A Cleanup leaves
its own unrecorded staging ConfigMap intact” to remove the task-9-report.md
reference and describe directly that the case distinguishes name-derived cleanup
because run A’s staging ConfigMap collides with its own formula while
OwnsOutputConfigMap is false, so getSnapshotFromConfigMap does not record it in
run A’s created set.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/deployer_test.go`:
- Around line 46-52: The pre-existing deployer tests still use empty RunID
values and assert unscoped resource names. Update TestDeployer_EnsureRBAC,
TestDeployer_EnsureJob, TestDeployer_EnsureJob_Unprivileged, and
TestDeployer_Deploy to set Config.RunID to testRunID, then change their expected
names to testName plus the run ID suffix, matching the updated cleanup tests.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/permissions.go`:
- Around line 62-64: Update CheckPermissions to include the resourceCM delete
permission only when d.config.OwnsOutputConfigMap is true, matching Cleanup and
getSnapshotFromConfigMap behavior; preserve the existing unconditional jobs
permission. Replace repeated delete literals with a shared verbDelete constant
alongside verbCreate and verbList, and use it for both delete entries.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/types.go`:
- Around line 64-67: Validate Config.RunID at the Deploy boundary before
creating resources, requiring a non-empty DNS-label-safe value no longer than 63
characters. Remove the empty-RunID fallback in pkg/k8s/agent/names.go (lines
51-74), and update pkg/k8s/agent/names_test.go (lines 36-42) to assert rejection
of empty, oversized, and invalid-character RunIDs; update pkg/k8s/agent/types.go
(lines 64-67) as the RunID contract reference.

Apply the same fix in `@pkg/snapshotter/agent.go` around lines 527 - 533: The
snapshotter entry point performs incomplete RunID validation and needs the same
shared contract.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/wait_test.go`:
- Around line 366-392: Add a test case to TestOwnedByJob using an owner
reference with Controller set to nil and a matching job UID, and assert
ownedByJob returns false without panicking. Construct this case directly rather
than using podWithOwner, so the nil-controller guard in ownedByJob is exercised.

In `@tests/e2e/run.sh`:
- Around line 1624-1627: Update the snapshot-agent cleanup to record the
specific Job identity created by this test and delete only that Job by name,
rather than using the shared label selector. Preserve ignore-not-found behavior
while ensuring concurrent runs’ Jobs are not removed.

In `@tools/cleanup`:
- Around line 354-363: Extend the cleanup selector block to delete clusterrole
and clusterrolebinding resources matching app.kubernetes.io/name=aicr and
app.kubernetes.io/component=snapshot-agent, preserving the existing
--ignore-not-found behavior and legacy aicr-node-reader deletions.

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In `@tests/e2e/run.sh`:
- Around line 664-669: Ensure the isolation test housekeeping runs on every exit
path, not only after successful assertions. Extract the cleanup commands for the
decoy and retained run resources into a local cleanup function near the test
flow, register it with a RETURN trap (or invoke it before every failure return),
and remove the existing trailing-only cleanup block while preserving idempotent
deletion behavior.
- Around line 536-544: Update the retained Job lookup in the run-id validation
block to include the app.kubernetes.io/component=snapshot-agent label alongside
app.kubernetes.io/name=aicr, matching the selector used by the cleanup logic and
ensuring .items[0] comes from the snapshot-agent Job.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/e2e/run.sh` around lines 1826 - 1830: The cleanup
selector has the same overly broad `aicr` Job match and should use the component
label too.

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Rebased onto main and addressed the review. Force-pushed (draft, rebase required by the conflict): c03a41ee → 8c20b88c. Inline comments anchored to the old SHA are outdated — apologies for the churn; the branch was behind and the conflict had to be replayed.

Conflict resolution: docs/integrator/go-library.md — main bumped the SDK example image to v0.19.0, this branch rewrote the same block to drop JobName/ServiceAccountName. Kept both.

Your two comments

tools/cleanup — you were right that CodeRabbit's finding was wrong: lines 336-337 already sweep cluster RBAC on app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=aicr, and run-scoped ClusterRoles carry that label, so nothing current was being missed.

On the legacy lines, I did remove them as you asked — then five independent review lenses flagged the removal, and I brought it back to you rather than silently overriding either side. The gap your reasoning didn't cover: "the tool cleans up after itself" holds for post-upgrade runs, but pre-upgrade leftovers carry no labels at all (main's ensureServiceAccount/ensureRole/ensureRoleBinding set none; its Job carried only app.kubernetes.io/name), so every selector misses them and the name-grep fallback '/aicr-validator-|/aicr$' doesn't match aicr-node-reader. Because run-owned names are now aicr-node-reader-<run-id>, no later run reclaims the bare name either — it goes from "live object a future run reuses" to permanent orphan, and a --discover-network leftover carries mutating grants (nodes: patch, pods/exec: create, CRD and namespace create/delete). Restored, with the reasoning in a comment. The exact-name delete cannot touch a live run.

Separately: an earlier commit had replaced the four name-based namespaced deletes with a label selector. Same blind spot — legacy objects don't carry those labels. Both forms are now present; they can't collide, since a run-scoped name is never the bare aicr.

docs/user/agent-deployment.md — took the lighter fix you asked for: a note naming the concurrent-run hazard plus selection by aicr.run/run-id, rather than restructuring the section.

Adversarial review before push

Six lenses over the whole branch, every finding individually refute-verified. 24 raised, 6 refuted, 18 real and fixed. The three that mattered:

• findOrWatchPodName — the primary production pod-discovery path — had no ownership test coverage. Mutation testing confirmed it: neuter both pickLivePod ownership arguments and delete the per-event guard, and the package stays green. That is the code enforcing "a run only ever talks to its own pod." Now covered by a watch-path imposter test; 4 of its 5 subtests fail against the neutered code.
• A lost Create response orphaned the object permanently. recordCreated ran only after a successful Create, so an apiserver-commits-but-client-times-out leaves a run-scoped object that cleanup never learns about and no later run reclaims. Intent is now recorded before the Create, with the UID precondition omitted when unknown.
• DeployAndCollect wrote the generated run ID back into the caller's *AgentConfig, turning a reused config pointer into a "pinned duplicate RunID" — the one state ADR-020 declares unsupported. Now kept in a local.

Also fixed: TestCleanupPassesUIDPrecondition covered 1 of 7 delete kinds despite claiming all; pkg/k8s/agent/doc.go claimed label coverage the staging ConfigMap doesn't have (corrected the docs rather than stamping the sweep key onto a never-delete artifact); NameBase's godoc said it "has no effect once either name is set" when the fallback is per-name; four shipped config examples still pinned jobName/serviceAccountName as exact names; the aicr validate flag rows named the wrong object entirely; a two-lock TOCTOU in Cleanup; and two test comments that overclaimed what they discriminate.

Verification

go build ./..., go vet ./pkg/..., -race across eight package trees, gofmt, both docs gates, and bash -n on the changed shell — all green on the pushed tree.

golangci-lint could not run locally and needs a CI run before merge. The installed 2.12.2 is built with go1.26 while the module now targets go 1.27 after the rebase; it fails identically on untouched control packages (pkg/header, pkg/errors), and the pinned v2.13.1 could not be fetched from this network. go vet and gofmt were substituted, which is not equivalent. Flagging rather than counting it as passed.

Cluster-backed suites (KWOK/chainsaw/e2e/make qualify) were also not run here. The snapshot isolation path was exercised end-to-end against a local kind cluster, including the counterfactual: on main the same scenario destroys the other run's Job, ServiceAccount and ClusterRole.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/user/agent-deployment.md`:
- Around line 384-396: Define or retrieve RUN_ID within the staging ConfigMap
inspection section before either kubectl command uses it, rather than relying on
the earlier “Job Fails to Start” section. Ensure the lookup obtains the run ID
associated with the deployment being inspected and preserves the existing
aicr-agent-snapshot-$RUN_ID resource-name commands.

In `@docs/user/cli-config.md`:
- Around line 173-174: Update the validate configuration comment near jobName
and serviceAccountName to state the default serviceAccountName as aicr-validate,
matching the other documented references.

In `@docs/user/cli-reference.md`:
- Line 92: Update the --no-cleanup warning in the CLI reference to explicitly
name both retained cluster-scoped objects: the run-scoped
aicr-node-reader-<run-id> ClusterRoleBinding and its corresponding
ClusterRole, while preserving the existing access and --discover-network
details.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/deployer_test.go`:
- Around line 566-581: Update TestDeployUsesRunScopedNamesAndLabels to construct
the Kubernetes fake client with fake.NewClientset instead of
fake.NewSimpleClientset, preserving the existing client setup and test behavior.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/names_test.go`:
- Around line 37-39: Update the name-limit test cases near the existing boundary
cases to import and use defaults.MaxK8sNameLength, deriving the prefix budget
from that constant instead of hard-coded 63- and 30-character values. Apply the
same replacement to the additional affected cases while preserving their
boundary and truncation behavior.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/names.go`:
- Around line 112-126: Validate the resolved names from jobName() and saName()
during preflight before CheckPermissions or any Kubernetes writes, using
Kubernetes metadata.name rules and returning ErrCodeInvalidRequest for invalid
values such as agent_-run1. Apply the saName() validation to the ServiceAccount,
Role, and RoleBinding names, while preserving valid-name behavior.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/permissions_test.go`:
- Around line 194-208: Update the SelfSubjectAccessReview reactor in the
permissions test to use t.Errorf for failed type assertions, then return a
descriptive error from the reactor so the errgroup receives the failure. Add the
fmt import if needed, while preserving the existing allowed-status behavior for
valid actions.

In `@pkg/k8s/agent/wait_test.go`:
- Around line 538-545: Fix the unparam warning for watchDeployer by removing its
namespace parameter and using a package-level watchTestNamespace constant when
constructing the Deployer; replace the local ns declaration and update all
watchDeployer call sites accordingly.

In `@tests/e2e/run.sh`:
- Around line 704-711: Update the leftover job validation around leftover_jobs
and the snapshot/isolation/self-cleanup check to poll until only the retained
Job remains, allowing asynchronous deletion to settle. Use a bounded deadline
with a short retry interval, then preserve the existing diagnostic listing and
failure path if the count is still not 1 when the deadline expires.

In `@tools/cleanup`:
- Around line 364-367: Add a warning comment immediately above the label-based
cleanup commands documenting that the sweep removes resources for all snapshot
runs and can terminate an active run; clarify that this legacy tool is for
manual teardown and normal run-scoped cleanup is handled by the deployment flow.

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github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/cli/snapshot.go	66.42% (+9.28%)	134 (+22)	89 (+25)	45 (-3)	👍
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/cli/validate.go	58.36% (+1.12%)	281 (+5)	164 (+6)	117 (-1)	👍
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/client/v1/aicr.go	84.58% (ø)	778	658	120
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/client/v1/translate.go	82.93% (ø)	82	68	14
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/client/v1/types.go	85.00% (ø)	20	17	3
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/config/resolve.go	96.11% (ø)	257	247	10
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/defaults/k8s.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/consts.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/deployer.go	88.06% (+4.06%)	134 (+59)	118 (+55)	16 (+4)	👍
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/doc.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/job.go	94.83% (+3.28%)	116 (-26)	110 (-20)	6 (-6)	👍
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/names.go	100.00% (+100.00%)	55 (+55)	55 (+55)	0	🌟
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/permissions.go	99.38% (+0.92%)	162 (+97)	161 (+97)	1	👍
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/provision.go	96.08% (+96.08%)	51 (+51)	49 (+49)	2 (+2)	🌟
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/rbac.go	88.00% (+12.73%)	125 (+32)	110 (+40)	15 (-8)	🎉
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/types.go	97.96% (-2.04%)	49 (+48)	48 (+47)	1 (+1)	👎
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/agent/wait.go	86.09% (+13.36%)	115 (+27)	99 (+35)	16 (-8)	🎉
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/doc.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/k8s/labels/labels.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/runid/runid.go	75.00% (+75.00%)	8 (+8)	6 (+6)	2 (+2)	🌟
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/snapshotter/agent.go	52.55% (+1.32%)	333 (+9)	175 (+9)	158	👍
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/snapshotter/provision.go	84.38% (+84.38%)	32 (+32)	27 (+27)	5 (+5)	🌟
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/validator/labels/labels.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/validator/v1/job_plan.go	90.45% (+0.65%)	199 (-7)	180 (-5)	19 (-2)	👍

Please note that the "Total", "Covered", and "Missed" counts above refer to code statements instead of lines of code. The value in brackets refers to the test coverage of that file in the old version of the code.

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568-618: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Convert the repeated watch cases to a table-driven test.

TestFindOrWatchPodNameAuthorizesByJobOwnership adds multiple cases as separate t.Run blocks. Use a table with per-case setup and expected results. This follows the repository test convention and reduces duplicated orchestration.

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In `@pkg/k8s/agent/wait_test.go` around lines 568 - 618, The separate watch-case
subtests in TestFindOrWatchPodNameAuthorizesByJobOwnership should be
consolidated into one table-driven test. Define per-case setup and expected pod
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[mchmarny]

Request changes: 3 MAJOR against acfcf27

[mchmarny]

MAJOR: A failed duplicate invocation can delete the first run's staging result. RunID is caller-settable, so if run A has written aicr-agent-snapshot-<runID> and run B reuses it, run B can fail on the first AlreadyExists before recording any object; deferred Cleanup still enters this sweep, observes run A's ConfigMap, and UID-pinned deletes it. The observed UID identifies the object but does not establish that run B created it.

Minimum correction: require ownership evidence tied to this invocation before sweeping an unrecorded staging ConfigMap, and add a duplicate-RunID failure test proving the pre-existing ConfigMap survives.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed in c3fd84f. You were right that the UID proved the wrong thing — a Get followed by a UID-pinned delete only shows the object didn't change between the two calls, not that this run created it. I'd described that sweep as ownership-gated, own-name-only and UID-pinned, and all three held while the guarantee still failed.

Ownership is now established at create time: createdObject.confirmed is set only by recordCreated, i.e. only when the apiserver returned the object.

For this specific sweep, the evidence is a confirmed Job entry. Only the run's own in-pod agent writes the staging ConfigMap, so a run with no apiserver-confirmed Job cannot have produced one, and anything at that name belongs to someone else. In your scenario run B dies on its first AlreadyExists and never creates a Job, so the sweep does not fire and run A's ConfigMap survives.

An unconfirmed (intent-only) Job entry deliberately does not qualify — it can't be told apart from a duplicate-RunID collision whose AlreadyExists never came back, and the window it gives up is empty in practice, since Deploy aborts the moment that Create fails.

Test: TestCleanupDuplicateRunIDKeepsFirstRunsStagingConfigMap, RED-verified against the previous code.

[mchmarny]

MAJOR: A zero-UID intent deletes by bare name, so cleanup can remove a replacement it never owned. If Create commits but its response is lost, then that object is deleted and recreated under the same caller-supplied RunID/name before deferred cleanup runs, this branch supplies no UID precondition and deletes the new object. That violates this PR's UID-pinned cleanup guarantee.

Minimum correction: recover and verify the created object's UID, or fail closed and surface the ambiguous orphan; add a replacement-race test proving a different UID survives.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed in the same commit, c3fd84f — same root cause, so they're fixed together rather than patched separately.

Bare-name deletes are gone. An unconfirmed entry is now resolved with a Get, verified against the object's own objectLabels() keys, and deleted pinned to that UID. On mismatch it is kept and reported via slog.Warn with the object's identity, so the operator learns about the orphan rather than us silently leaking it — the lost-response case recordIntent exists for is still cleaned up when the object really is ours.

Test: a four-case table on the intent path including the replacement race, plus a Get-error case. RED-verified.

[mchmarny]

MAJOR: This flag's new prefix semantics omit the existing-ServiceAccount migration break. Previously, callers could point at a pre-created ServiceAccount carrying IRSA or Workload Identity annotations; now the Job uses a fresh <prefix>-<run-id> account with none of those annotations, so existing agent deployments can lose cloud credentials after upgrade. The implementation logs an adoption-drift warning, but users need this before rollout.

Minimum correction: document the incompatibility and either provide a supported way to carry required annotations onto each run-scoped ServiceAccount or explicitly state that these identity integrations are no longer supported.

[ayuskauskas]

Addressed in 4172f07, ddb7894 and 0f4c017, and ADR-020 amended (d5c8004 on the ADR branch) to record the mode — it previously stated no external-ServiceAccount mode existed.

Worth stating why the obvious fix does not work: copying the annotations onto a run-scoped ServiceAccount would not have helped. Both providers pin trust to the ServiceAccount name — IRSA's trust policy conditions on system:serviceaccount:<ns>:<name>, and GKE Workload Identity's IAM binding names the KSA as PROJECT.svc.id.goog[<ns>/<name>] and accepts no wildcard at all. A per-run name is refused regardless of what annotations it carries, so annotation passthrough would look correct and still fail.

What shipped instead:

• --service-account-name is exact-if-exists. A ServiceAccount of exactly that name in the namespace is used verbatim; otherwise the value stays a prefix and the run creates <prefix>-<run-id> as before.
• In the exact case aicr manages no permissions for that run — no ServiceAccount, Role, RoleBinding, ClusterRole or ClusterRoleBinding is created, bound or deleted. It does not touch an identity it does not own.
• --add-roles-to-service-account <name> is a separate provision-and-exit invocation that grants the agent's RBAC to that ServiceAccount, generically rather than run-scoped. What it creates is permanent; run cleanup never touches it and teardown is the operator's. With --discover-network it also provisions the mutating discovery rules.
• Provisioned objects are named aicr-agent-<sa>-rbac / aicr-agent-<ns>-<sa>-rbac, which cannot collide with a run-scoped name by construction — those always end in 16 lowercase-hex characters, and r is not a hex digit.

This is your option (a) from the ADR review — external ServiceAccounts bring pre-provisioned RBAC and AICR never binds them.

The trade-off is documented rather than buried: exact-SA mode waives per-run permission isolation. Concurrent runs sharing that ServiceAccount share its grants, and a --discover-network-provisioned one carries mutating cluster permissions permanently instead of for a single run. That is in docs/user/agent-deployment.md alongside the migration break, so an operator meets it before choosing the mode.

One limitation I am flagging rather than hiding: CheckPermissions still requires the RBAC create verbs even in exact-SA mode, because narrowing them would mean resolving the ServiceAccount before the pre-flight — which is deliberately Deploy's first cluster call. So this preserves cloud identities but does not yet reduce the permissions the running operator needs. Happy to move that if you would rather have the least-privilege property.

[njhensley]

📋 Multi-persona review (+ adversarial meta-review)

Method: 5 independent persona reviewers (Correctness/Concurrency · Security/RBAC · Domain/Architecture · Operability/Migration · Test-coverage), every finding then adjudicated by an adversarial senior meta-reviewer against the resolved code at 989ab7a7.

Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick

Not a first review — @mchmarny already requested changes (against acfcf27) with 3 MAJORs. This pass independently verifies those dispositions and adds net-new findings.

Overall assessment

An exceptionally well-executed, well-documented implementation of ADR-020. The concurrency core (created-set intent tracking, UID-pinned cleanup, ownerReference-authorized pod selection) is sound; the pkg/runid + pkg/k8s/labels extraction genuinely converges validator and agent; the migration is disclosed and fixed in-tree; and the test suite is non-vacuous — it works around the fake clientset's precondition-blindness with a real delete-reactor spy rather than asserting through it.

All three of @mchmarny's MAJORs are independently confirmed CLOSED at head. Nothing surviving is blocking.

🔴 Blocker 0 │ 🟠 Major 0 │ 🟡 Minor 4 │ 🔵 Nitpick 4   → Approve with comments

Prior-feedback status (@mchmarny @ acfcf27)

#	Prior MAJOR	Disposition	Evidence
M1	Failed duplicate-RunID run UID-deletes run A's staging ConfigMap	✔️ Addressed	needsStagingConfigMapSweep confirmed-Job gate + discardIntent (commit c3fd84f)
M2	Zero-UID intent deletes a replacement by bare name	✔️ Addressed	resolveIntentUID re-verifies live labels and non-empty UID, fails closed (c3fd84f)
M3	Existing-SA IRSA/Workload-Identity annotation loss on upgrade	✔️ Addressed	exact-if-exists SA mode + ProvisionServiceAccountRoles + docs (4172f07/ddb789/0f4c01) — one residual seam remains, see 🟡 C3

Confirmed non-issues (examined, refuted)

• "pre-flight demands cluster-RBAC create even in exact-SA mode" → refuted, no action. permissions.go:80-88 documents it: pre-flight is deliberately Deploy's first cluster call, so resolving the SA first would weaken the fail-before-mutate guarantee. "No regression" is accurate.
• Staging-ConfigMap name collision with the validator → sound. Agent aicr-agent-snapshot-<runID> vs validator aicr-snapshot-<runID> are disjoint by construction even when aicr validate hands one run ID to both.
• created-set vs ownerReference GC → correct call; cluster-scoped ClusterRole/CRB cannot have a namespaced Job owner, so GC alone can't cover them. (Adding owner-refs on the namespaced RBAC as a SIGKILL backstop is a reasonable optional enhancement, not a defect.)
• ignoreNotFoundOrConflict swallowing Conflict → correct: Conflict = UID mismatch = not ours = nothing deleted.
• NetworkPolicy fix → verified the new name=aicr + component=snapshot-agent selector matches the agent pod template; no stale job-name agent selectors remain in-tree.
• getSnapshotFromConfigMap reads by name with no UID check → improved posture (name moved from guessable fixed to aicr-agent-snapshot-<16-hex>), not a regression.

Summary tier table

Tier	Count	IDs
🔴 Blocker	0	—
🟠 Major	0	—
🟡 Minor	4	C2 (unguarded ClusterRole Update), C3 (silent SA fallback), C4 (pre-flight delete gap), C1 (doc drift)
🔵 Nitpick	4	C6, C7, C8, C9

Recommendation: Approve with comments. No blocker survived adversarial verification; the three prior MAJORs are genuinely closed. C2 and C3 are the two I'd most want addressed in a follow-up, but none should hold the merge.

_{Reviewed with a multi-persona + adversarial-meta-review workflow. Findings are advisory; inline comments below carry the mechanism and suggested fix.}

[njhensley]

🟡 Minor — Package godoc still teaches the pre-hardening bare-name cleanup that resolveIntentUID replaced

The # Cleanup godoc says a lost-Create entry is deleted "by its (run-unique) name with no UID precondition." That is the pre-c3fd84f behavior. The shipped resolveIntentUID (deployer.go:297-322) Gets the live object, requires the full createdByThisRun label set AND a non-empty UID, and fails closed otherwise — it never bare-name-deletes. The package's authoritative design narrative now teaches the exact unsafe algorithm mchmarny's M2 rejected.

Blast radius: Doc-only, but a future maintainer 'restoring consistency' to the doc could reintroduce the vulnerability.

Fix: Rewrite the lost-Create paragraph (doc.go:105-109) to describe label+UID re-verification and fail-closed skip.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed in 44191df7. Verified against resolveIntentUID and createdByThisRun before rewriting rather than paraphrasing the finding, and the paragraph now states the actual algorithm: Get the live object, require the full createdByThisRun label set and a non-empty UID, delete pinned to the observed UID, fail-closed skip with a warning on either a label mismatch or a missing UID, NotFound treated as nothing to reclaim.

Your framing of the risk is why this was worth more than a doc touch-up: the package narrative is the thing a future maintainer trusts when the code and the doc disagree, so leaving the rejected algorithm described as current was a live path back to it.

[njhensley]

🟡 Minor — provisionClusterRole updates the shared ClusterRole's rules before the binding subject guard, with no rollback on the guarded failure

ProvisionServiceAccountRoles runs provisionClusterRole (unconditional Update of rules on AlreadyExists, no owner guard) BEFORE provisionClusterRoleBinding's conflictingSubject guard. provisionedClusterRoleName joins namespace and SA with '-' and is self-admittedly non-injective. A colliding second provisioning WITH --discover-network rewrites the shared ClusterRole to the mutating ruleset (nodes:patch, pods/exec:create, CRD/namespace/DaemonSet create/delete), THEN the binding guard aborts the call — but the widened rules are not rolled back, so the first pair's still-live ClusterRoleBinding now grants its ServiceAccount those extra cluster permissions. (Symmetric availability hit: a non-discovery collision narrows a discovery pair's rules.)

Blast radius: Privilege broadening (or narrowing) of an operator ServiceAccount via a crafted, narrow (namespace,SA) name collision; persists across the failed call. Reachability is narrow, hence Minor not Major.

Fix: Stamp the (namespace,SA) identity as an annotation/label on the ClusterRole and refuse Update on mismatch, or move the binding subject-check ahead of the ClusterRole rules Update.

[ayuskauskas]

Thanks for this one — the analysis is right about the code it was written against, but that code no longer exists. ad519567 (21:35Z, ~13 min before this review) converted --add-roles-to-service-account from a provisioner into a pure manifest generator, so you were almost certainly reading the previous revision.

provision.go now makes no cluster calls at all — no clientset, no Update, no Get. provisionClusterRole and conflictingSubject are both gone. It renders four YAML files into snapshot-rbac-<runID>/ and exits; applying them is the operator's own kubectl apply. That removes the mechanism this finding depends on: there is no unconditional rules Update, so there is no window between it and a later guard, and nothing to roll back.

One piece of your finding does survive the rewrite, and it is worth naming rather than closing over: provisionedClusterRoleName still joins namespace and ServiceAccount with -, so it is still non-injective. The consequence is now much narrower — two colliding (namespace, ServiceAccount) pairs render the same ClusterRole name, and an operator who applies both sets would have the second overwrite the first's rules. That is a visible kubectl apply, not a silent in-process Update, and the rendered ClusterRoleBinding header warns about the collision and tells the operator how to check before applying — which is the mitigation the generator model makes available and the provisioner did not.

Happy to make the join injective (<ns>.<sa>; dots are legal in ClusterRole names) if you think the header warning is too thin a guard. Flagging it to the repo owner as an open call rather than deciding it unilaterally on your behalf.

[njhensley]

🟡 Minor — Forbidden on the ServiceAccount existence probe silently downgrades to prefix mode, dropping an explicitly-named annotated identity

resolveServiceAccount logs apierrors.IsForbidden on the SA Get at Debug and proceeds in prefix mode. CheckPermissions requires serviceaccounts:create but NOT get, so a create-without-get identity passes pre-flight. An operator who explicitly sets --service-account-name=<existing IRSA/Workload-Identity SA> but lacks get then silently runs under a fresh - SA with none of the cloud-credential annotations — the exact M3 credential-loss class re-entered through the unreadable-SA seam, with no operator-visible signal.

Blast radius: A run the operator believes uses their annotated cloud identity silently does not; fails toward less privilege (caps severity), hard to diagnose. 3-persona consensus (security, correctness, domain).

Fix: Emit slog.Warn (not Debug) naming the SA and the prefix-mode fallback, or fail closed when ServiceAccountName was explicitly set and the Get is Forbidden.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed in cd75e31d, and the fix went further than the suggested one — the repo owner chose to close the class rather than the instance.

Your finding named the real coupling: the downgrade was only reachable because CheckPermissions required serviceaccounts: create but not get, so a create-without-get identity sailed through a green pre-flight and into the silent fallback. Warning at slog.Warn instead of Debug would have made it visible, but the run would still have proceeded under the wrong identity.

Instead, CheckPermissions is now the authoritative gate for the whole run, and serviceaccounts: get is a required check. With get guaranteed before anything else happens, the Forbidden branch is no longer a fallback at all — it returns ErrCodeUnauthorized and stops the run, saying it cannot tell whether the flag names an existing ServiceAccount or a prefix, that it refuses to guess because guessing "prefix" would run the agent under a generated ServiceAccount carrying none of that account's cloud credentials, and which grant to add.

So the M3 class is closed at both ends now: the identity that could reach the seam is rejected at the gate, and the seam itself fails closed instead of downgrading.

[njhensley]

🟡 Minor — Pre-flight checks create but not delete on the five RBAC kinds the always-run deferred Cleanup deletes

requiredChecks verifies create on serviceaccounts/roles/rolebindings/clusterroles/clusterrolebindings plus jobs:delete (and conditional configmaps:delete), but never the delete verb for the five RBAC kinds. The deferred Cleanup (registered before Deploy, always runs) issues UID-pinned deletes for all of them. An identity with RBAC-create-but-not-delete passes the green pre-flight, deploys, then fails every RBAC delete at cleanup — leaking a full run-scoped RBAC set (including cluster-scoped ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding) per run.

Blast radius: Likely a pre-existing gap, but ADR-020's always-run deferred cleanup turns one shared stale object into deterministic per-run accumulation, so this PR amplifies it. Silent orphan growth on constrained identities.

Fix: Add the five delete checks (gate them the same way create is gated, i.e. skip in exact-SA mode). Note the pre-existing origin in the comment.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed in cd75e31d. You were right on both counts — including that it is pre-existing, and that this PR is what turns it from a shared stale object into deterministic per-run accumulation.

Prefix mode now checks create and delete across all five RBAC kinds (verbs := []string{verbCreate, verbDelete} over the five, so the two can never drift apart the way they had). Gated as you suggested: exact-ServiceAccount mode returns none of them, because in that mode aicr creates and deletes no RBAC and demanding those verbs would lock out precisely the operators that mode exists for.

Since the gate was being reworked anyway, it also now verifies the agent ServiceAccount's own rules via SubjectAccessReview in exact mode, derived from the same namespacedRules/clusterRules the run-scoped Role and ClusterRole are built from — so "you generated the manifests with --add-roles-to-service-account but never applied them" is caught at the gate instead of inside a pod minutes later. When the caller cannot create a SubjectAccessReview, those checks are marked Unverified and warned about rather than silently skipped, since a silent skip would be the same defect class as the Forbidden downgrade in your other finding.

One related gap I left open deliberately, so it is not mistaken for an oversight: namespaces create/get/patch stay ungated, because the verb actually required depends on whether the namespace already exists — which the caller may not have permission to read — and demanding namespaces: create would break the documented pre-existing-namespace path.

[njhensley]

🔵 Nitpick — Zero-jobUID window selects the agent pod by forgeable labels only (log-stream only)

When d.jobUID()=='' (Job not yet recorded — WaitForPodReady's watch can start before Deploy records the Job), ownedByJob is skipped and the youngest label-matching pod is chosen. Pod labels including aicr.run/run-id are writable by anything that can update pods in the namespace, so during that brief window log streaming could attach to a hostile pod with forged labels.

Blast radius: Log-stream only — snapshot bytes come from the ConfigMap, not pod logs; window-bounded (UID recorded immediately after Job Create); requires an attacker who already holds pod-create in the namespace.

Fix: Optional: refuse to stream logs until jobUID is non-zero. Acceptable as-is given the live re-check design.

[ayuskauskas]

Agreed with your own read — keeping this as-is, and recording why so the next reader does not have to re-derive it.

The window is real but it is bounded by construction: Deploy records the Job UID immediately after Create returns, and ownedByJob fails closed on a zero UID everywhere except this log-stream path. So the exposure is not "labels are trusted," it is "labels are trusted for the few hundred milliseconds before the UID lands, and only for choosing which pod to tail."

What that can cost is log bytes. The snapshot itself is read from the staging ConfigMap, whose deletion is UID-pinned and whose contents never come from pod stdout — so a hostile pod winning this race changes what gets streamed to the operator's terminal, not what ends up in the snapshot. And reaching it at all requires an attacker who already holds pod-create in the namespace, which is a strictly larger privilege than what the race yields.

Refusing to stream until jobUID is non-zero would close it, but it trades a real, everyday cost for a narrow one: log streaming is the only feedback an operator gets while a slow agent starts, and suppressing the first moments of it makes a genuinely hung run look identical to a healthy one. The live re-check keeps that feedback and still re-verifies ownership once the UID exists.

Leaving this thread open for the repo owner to overrule if they weigh the log-attach differently.

[njhensley]

🔵 Nitpick — pkg/snapshotter.AgentConfig semantic break (required→exact-if-exists) is invisible to make api-diff

api-diff only compares pkg/client/v1 and its alias targets. pkg/snapshotter is a public import path, but AgentConfig.ServiceAccountName/.JobName changing from required exact names to exact-if-exists/optional-prefix is a behavioral change to an exported field that no automated gate flags. Already disclosed in PR body callout #3.

Blast radius: Narrow — direct external Go callers of pkg/snapshotter (not the CLI, which is fully migrated).

Fix: No action beyond the planned release note; optionally note the change also affects direct pkg/snapshotter SDK callers, not just the CLI.

[njhensley]

🔵 Nitpick — createdByThisRun empty-RunID fail-closed guard is untested

The d.config.RunID=='' early-return (a security-relevant fail-closed guard: an empty RunID must never match a label-less object) is at 66.7% branch coverage — no test drives it directly.

Blast radius: ~nil — Deploy rejects an empty RunID upstream — but it is a security-relevant guard asserting a property.

Fix: Add one table row: RunID:"" + a label-less object → expect false.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed, but it took two passes and the first one was wrong in a way worth recording.

e75283f2 added the row exactly as suggested — RunID: "" with a label-less object. It drives the branch and lifts coverage to 100%, but it is not mutation-sensitive: a label-less object fails the labels.Name comparison regardless, so deleting the guard entirely left the row green. It proved coverage, not the property.

1c6fa492 seeds every aicr label except the run ID instead. objLabels[labels.RunID] is then "", so against an empty Config.RunID the run-ID comparison succeeds on "" == "" and the other three match too — meaning the guard is the only thing refusing the match, which is exactly the property you named ("an empty RunID must never match a label-less object"). Confirmed by removing the guard and watching only that row fail.

[njhensley]

🔵 Nitpick — resolveIntentUID empty-live-UID refuse sub-condition is not exercised

resolveIntentUID shows 100% statement coverage, but every seeded object carries a UID, so the || live.GetUID()=='' refuse path is reached only via the label-mismatch clause, never the labels-match-but-no-UID clause.

Blast radius: Purely defensive — only a malformed apiserver/fake hits it.

Fix: Add one row seeding ourLabels + UID:"" → expect no delete + warn.

[ayuskauskas]

Fixed in e75283f2. One row added to the existing table in TestCleanupResolvesUnconfirmedEntryBeforeDeleting: seed carries the correct ourLabels but UID: "" → no delete, warn path taken. That reaches the || live.GetUID() == "" clause through the labels-match-but-no-UID route, which as you noted every previously-seeded object skipped by always carrying a UID.

Mutation-checked: dropping || live.GetUID() == "" makes the row fail, so it pins the clause rather than just covering the statement.

[ayuskauskas]

CI note — the red tests / Test gate is not this change.

tools/api-diff-closure fails with load packages: context deadline exceeded against its hardcoded 2-minute goListTimeout. That is the known flake already tracked in #2332 and #2341, and this branch does not touch that tool.

I measured it rather than assuming. Cold-cache, same machine, same command:

	cold-cache runtime
origin/main	44.96s
this branch	40.86s

The branch is marginally faster, within noise — the added packages did not move it. The test type-checks every package in the module under a fixed budget, so a loaded or cold runner exceeds it regardless of branch. It failed twice here, including after a re-run of just the failed jobs.

Not fixing it here: it is tracked separately, and bumping a timeout in a tool this PR does not otherwise touch would be scope creep on an already-large change. Flagging so the red gate is not read as a defect in this PR.

[ayuskauskas]

Force-pushed: ad519567 → 17372758

Rebased onto origin/main (the branch was 15 commits behind and the repo enforces up-to-date branches, so this was gate-required rather than optional). The rebase is itself a force-push, so inline comment anchors from before ad519567 may show as outdated — the code they point at is unchanged unless listed below. Verified the replay was clean: git diff origin/main...HEAD is byte-identical before and after the rebase (506,319 bytes both times), no conflicts.

What changed since ad519567

cd75e31d — CheckPermissions is now the authoritative gate for the whole run. This supersedes the piecemeal fixes suggested in two separate findings, at the repo owner's direction, because both were symptoms of the same gap: the pre-flight verified a subset of what the run actually does.

• Mode-aware verb set. Prefix mode requires create and delete across all five RBAC kinds (they are generated from one []string{verbCreate, verbDelete} loop, so they cannot drift apart again). Exact-ServiceAccount mode requires none of them, since aicr creates and deletes no RBAC there.
• serviceaccounts: get is now required. That makes the Forbidden downgrade in resolveServiceAccount unreachable rather than merely logged — and where it is still reachable it returns ErrCodeUnauthorized and stops, instead of silently running under a generated ServiceAccount carrying none of the named account's cloud credentials.
• The agent ServiceAccount's own rules are verified via SubjectAccessReview in exact mode, derived from the same namespacedRules/clusterRules the run-scoped Role and ClusterRole are built from. "You generated the manifests but never applied them" now fails at the gate, not inside a pod minutes later.
• When the caller cannot create a SubjectAccessReview, those checks are marked Unverified and warned about rather than skipped — a silent skip would be the same defect class being fixed.
• Also fixed en route: reviews were sending an empty API group for roles/clusterroles.

44191df7 — package godoc's # Cleanup section rewritten. It still described the pre-c3fd84f9 bare-name delete, i.e. the algorithm rejected in review. It now documents what the code does: Get the live object, require the full createdByThisRun label set and a non-empty UID, delete pinned to the observed UID, fail closed otherwise.

e75283f2, 1c6fa492 — two coverage gaps closed on fail-closed guards. The resolveIntentUID row seeds correct labels with UID: "", reaching the missing-UID clause that every previous seed skipped. The empty-RunID row needed a second pass: seeded with a label-less object it passed whether or not the guard existed, so it now seeds every aicr label except the run ID — making all four comparisons succeed against an empty RunID, so the guard is the only thing refusing the match. Confirmed by deleting the guard and watching the row fail.

Still open

• provisionedClusterRoleName remains non-injective (<ns>-<sa>). The live privilege-broadening path is gone with the manifest-generator conversion, but two colliding pairs still render the same ClusterRole name; the rendered header warns about it. Making the join injective is a small change if reviewers prefer it — flagged for a decision rather than taken unilaterally.
• namespaces create/get/patch stay ungated: the verb actually required depends on whether the namespace already exists, which the caller may not be able to read, and demanding namespaces: create would break the documented pre-existing-namespace path.
• ADR-020 (docs: add ADR-020 snapshot agent run isolation #2334) needs two corrections to match this branch — decision 9 still describes --add-roles-to-service-account as provisioning to the cluster rather than rendering manifests, and it still cites the superseded configmaps: delete pre-flight tweak.

Verification on the rebased tree: go build ./..., and go test -race green across all 11 touched packages.