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Multica Eve b06af2ae17 feat(runtime): unbind agents on runtime delete instead of destroying them (#6220)
* feat(runtime): unbind agents on runtime delete instead of destroying them

Deleting a runtime archived its agents and then hard-deleted the rows, so the
agents and every conversation with them disappeared — while the confirmation
dialog said "archive", which a user reasonably reads as recoverable. Retiring a
laptop is an ordinary action; losing the agents configured on it is not an
ordinary consequence.

An agent is now a persistent business object and a runtime is replaceable
execution capacity: deleting a runtime unbinds its agents. `runtime_id IS NULL`
means unbound — orthogonal to archived — and the agent keeps its instructions,
skills, chats, labels, channel installations, autopilots and task history.
service.AgentReadiness already refused an agent with no runtime, so the
scheduling safety gate needed no change.

Two columns become nullable, not one. Without `agent_task_queue.runtime_id`,
deleting the runtime still cascades the task history away (and task_message /
task_usage / task_token with it), so the agents would survive with no record of
anything they did — the same class of loss. A NOT VALID CHECK keeps NULL confined
to history: an active task must always have a runtime, so claim / dispatch /
delivery-CAS paths can never observe one without. It is written against
completed_at rather than a status list so a future non-terminal status fails
closed instead of slipping through.

Two prerequisites this depends on:

- 'deferred' (migration 128) was missing from CancelAgentTasksByRuntimeOrAgent.
  It went unnoticed because the delete used to cascade those rows away; with the
  new CHECK it would abort the delete and make the runtime undeletable.
- The channel-installation / label / chat-pin / invocation-target / draft-restore
  cleanups were scoped to "archived agents on this runtime". Archived user agents
  now survive, so that scope is narrowed to kind='system' — otherwise the fix
  would produce a subtler loss: agent alive, configuration wiped.

Also removes the squad guard that refused (409) when an active squad's leader was
an archived agent on the runtime, plus the archived-squad delete that existed
only to get past squad.leader_id's RESTRICT FK. The leader is no longer deleted,
so nothing needs to be given up to retire a machine. Autopilots are no longer
paused either: their assignee survives, and a rebind restores them without the
owner having to remember to re-enable.

Reason codes: an unbound agent reports agent_runtime_required, not
runtime_offline. The copy for runtime_offline tells users to reconnect a machine;
an unbound agent has no machine to reconnect, and the fix is to bind a runtime.
Chat's bare 409 string gains the same code so the composer can offer that action.

API: agents gain runtime_bound. runtime_id stays a string (empty when unbound) so
installed clients keep parsing and no gated two-release rollout is needed. The
confirmed-delete endpoint is /unbind-agents-and-delete; /archive-agents-and-delete
still routes to it, and the compared expected_active_agent_ids set is unchanged —
widening it would 409 every older client forever.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix: make runtime unbinding recoverable

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* fix: address runtime unbind review nits

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* fix: resolve runtime unbind review blockers

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* fix(migrations): renumber runtime unbind after main merge

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* test(daemon): avoid late-request lease flake

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* test(autopilots): bind validation fixture runtime

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Co-authored-by: Eve <eve@multica-ai.local>
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
2026-08-03 12:39:27 +08:00
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