docs(016-load-concurrency-testing): polish — findings, task completion

Documents implementation-time findings in the requirements checklist: all
three suspected races were confirmed real then fixed, the ticket-status
mechanism needed no fix, a real pre-existing test-infrastructure issue
(throwaway DB ticket-code collisions at high accumulated volume) was found
and resolved by resetting the throwaway database and replaying its full
migration history, two full-suite-only integration failures were confirmed
as pre-existing cross-file contamination (not a regression), and the
load-test tooling surfaced a real Anthropic API cost consideration for
ticket creation itself. All 23 tasks marked complete.

Full quality gate green: typecheck, lint, architecture check, full unit
suite (119/119), full integration suite against a freshly reset throwaway
database (122/124 — the 2 failures are the project's own already-accepted
MinIO baseline), and all 6 concurrency test files (11/11).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

specs/016-load-concurrency-testing/checklists/requirements.md

@@ -39,3 +39,42 @@
   explicit `OPEN BUSINESS DECISION` (FR-009) rather than invented — this is intentional, not a
   gap requiring [NEEDS CLARIFICATION].
 - All items pass; no revision iterations were needed.
+
+## Implementation-time findings
+
+- **All three suspected real races were confirmed real, then fixed.** Before the fix, firing 20
+  genuinely concurrent assignment attempts at the same ticket reliably threw an unhandled
+  Postgres unique-constraint error once the new `assignments_one_current_per_ticket` partial
+  index was in place (proving the race existed even before the retry logic was added) — after
+  the fix (bounded retry with jitter in `AssignmentRepository.createAssignment`), it holds
+  consistently across 10 repeated runs. Escalation idempotency was proven the same way: the
+  database-level unique-violation is visibly caught and absorbed in the logs during the test,
+  confirming the fix actually engages under a genuine race rather than sitting untested.
+- **The ticket-status optimistic-concurrency mechanism (User Story 4) needed no fix** — proven
+  correct on the first run, exactly as research.md's Assumptions predicted.
+- **A real, pre-existing test-infrastructure issue was found and resolved along the way**: the
+  throwaway integration-test Postgres database had accumulated a very large number of tickets
+  over this project's long development history, and the ticket-code generator's own
+  documented "rare race between two concurrent creates" (a read-then-increment sequence number
+  scoped by code prefix) became a frequent occurrence at that accumulated volume — manifesting
+  as dozens of unrelated integration-test failures when the full suite ran, unrelated to any
+  change in this feature. Confirmed by direct reproduction (a debug run showing the literal
+  `Unique constraint failed on the fields: (code)` error) and by re-running the exact same
+  suite cleanly (122/124 passing, matching the project's known accepted baseline) after
+  dropping and recreating the throwaway database and replaying its full migration history
+  (`prisma migrate deploy`, 12 migrations including this feature's own). This is a test-
+  infrastructure hygiene finding, not a defect in this feature's own code.
+- **Two additional integration-test failures seen only in the full-suite run (never in
+  isolation)** were confirmed to be pre-existing cross-file contamination inherent to this
+  suite's shared-database, non-fully-isolated hierarchy/agent scoping (already acknowledged in
+  comments elsewhere in the suite, e.g. sla-escalation-flow.test.ts's own note about a
+  wildcard SLA policy leaking across concurrently-running files) — re-running the two affected
+  files together in isolation passed cleanly (13/13), ruling out this feature's own changes as
+  the cause.
+- The autocannon-based load-test tooling (User Story 5) surfaced a real, non-obvious cost
+  consideration: ticket creation asynchronously triggers a real, billed Anthropic API call for
+  that ticket's first AI diagnosis turn (005-ai-support) — this applies to both the
+  ticket-creation and AI-support-flow load scripts, not only the latter as initially assumed.
+  All three scripts were run once at a small, explicitly bounded scale (confirmed with the
+  project owner beforehand) rather than an open-ended duration, specifically to keep this real
+  cost small and predictable.

specs/016-load-concurrency-testing/tasks.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ All file paths are relative to `supporthub-api/` (repo root).
 
 ## Phase 1: Setup
 
-- [ ] T001 [P] Add `autocannon` as a devDependency (`package.json`) and add
+- [x] T001 [P] Add `autocannon` as a devDependency (`package.json`) and add
       `tests/load/reports/` to `.gitignore` (run artifacts, not fixtures)
 
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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ All file paths are relative to `supporthub-api/` (repo root).
 schema change, see research.md §4) and US5 (no schema dependency) do not need this phase and can
 proceed in parallel with it.
 
-- [ ] T002 In `prisma/schema.prisma`, add `version Int @default(0)` to `SLARun`; generate one
+- [x] T002 In `prisma/schema.prisma`, add `version Int @default(0)` to `SLARun`; generate one
       migration (`npx prisma migrate dev --name concurrency_guards`) that also includes, as raw
       SQL, `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX assignments_one_current_per_ticket ON assignments (ticket_id)
       WHERE is_current = true;` and `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX escalation_events_ticket_rule_unique ON
@@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ assignment.
 **Independent Test**: Run `tests/concurrency/assignment-race.test.ts` alone against the
 throwaway Postgres — it creates its own ticket and needs nothing from US2-US5.
 
-- [ ] T003 [US1] Write `tests/concurrency/assignment-race.test.ts`: create one ticket, fire
+- [x] T003 [US1] Write `tests/concurrency/assignment-race.test.ts`: create one ticket, fire
       >=20 genuinely concurrent assignment attempts at it (via the real assignment
       engine/service entry point, not the repository directly), then query `assignments`
       directly and assert exactly one row has `is_current = true` for that ticket (depends on
       T002)
-- [ ] T004 [US1] Fix `AssignmentRepository.createAssignment` in
+- [x] T004 [US1] Fix `AssignmentRepository.createAssignment` in
       `src/modules/orchestration/assignments/repository/assignment.repository.ts` to catch the
       `assignments_one_current_per_ticket` unique-violation (Prisma `P2002`) and retry the whole
       supersede-then-create transaction, bounded to 3 attempts, per research.md §1 (depends on
       T002)
-- [ ] T005 [US1] Re-run `assignment-race.test.ts` at least 10 times in a row (or extend the test
+- [x] T005 [US1] Re-run `assignment-race.test.ts` at least 10 times in a row (or extend the test
       with its own internal repeat loop) confirming zero failures — SC-001 (depends on T003, T004)
 
 **Checkpoint**: Quickstart Scenario 1 passes against real infrastructure, consistently.
@@ -76,20 +76,20 @@ it in one internally-consistent state.
 **Independent Test**: Run `tests/concurrency/sla-race.test.ts` alone against the throwaway
 Postgres — it creates its own ticket + SLA run and needs nothing from US1/US3/US4/US5.
 
-- [ ] T006 [US2] Replace `SlaRunRepository.update` with `updateWithVersion(id, expectedVersion,
+- [x] T006 [US2] Replace `SlaRunRepository.update` with `updateWithVersion(id, expectedVersion,
       data)` in `src/modules/orchestration/sla/repository/sla-run.repository.ts`, mirroring
       `TicketsRepository.updateStatus`'s atomic `updateMany({where:{id, version:
       expectedVersion}, data:{...data, version:{increment:1}}})` pattern exactly (depends on T002)
-- [ ] T007 [US2] Update `pause`, `resume`, `complete`, and `runBreachDetectionSweep` in
+- [x] T007 [US2] Update `pause`, `resume`, `complete`, and `runBreachDetectionSweep` in
       `src/modules/orchestration/sla/service/sla.service.ts` to call `updateWithVersion` with
       each run's last-read version, and to re-read + recompute + retry (bounded to 3 attempts)
       on a version-conflict `null` result, per research.md §2 (depends on T006)
-- [ ] T008 [US2] Write `tests/concurrency/sla-race.test.ts`: create a ticket with an active SLA
+- [x] T008 [US2] Write `tests/concurrency/sla-race.test.ts`: create a ticket with an active SLA
       run, fire concurrent `pause`/`resume` calls and a `runBreachDetectionSweep()` pass against
       it, then query the run directly and assert its final state is internally consistent (never
       `paused` with `pausedAt: null`, never a legitimately `breached` run silently reverted to
       `running`) (depends on T007)
-- [ ] T009 [US2] Re-run `sla-race.test.ts` at least 10 times confirming zero
+- [x] T009 [US2] Re-run `sla-race.test.ts` at least 10 times confirming zero
       contradictory-state outcomes — SC-002 (depends on T008)
 
 **Checkpoint**: Quickstart Scenario 2 passes against real infrastructure, consistently.
@@ -106,22 +106,22 @@ throwaway Postgres — it creates its own ticket + escalation rule and needs not
 US1/US2/US4/US5 (though it exercises the same `Assignment` table US1 protects, as a
 cross-check).
 
-- [ ] T010 [US3] Fix `EscalationEventRepository.create` in
+- [x] T010 [US3] Fix `EscalationEventRepository.create` in
       `src/modules/orchestration/escalation/repository/escalation-event.repository.ts` to catch
       the `escalation_events_ticket_rule_unique` unique-violation (Prisma `P2002`) and return
       the pre-existing row for that `(ticketId, ruleId)` pair via a `findFirst` fallback instead
       of throwing, per research.md §3 (depends on T002)
-- [ ] T011 [US3] Confirm `EscalationService.fire` in
+- [x] T011 [US3] Confirm `EscalationService.fire` in
       `src/modules/orchestration/escalation/service/escalation.service.ts` behaves correctly
       when `create` returns a pre-existing event (it must not also re-run
       `assignToSpecificNode` for a duplicate trigger) — adjust `fire` if needed so a
       duplicate-conflict short-circuits before reassignment (depends on T010)
-- [ ] T012 [US3] Write `tests/concurrency/escalation-idempotency.test.ts`: create a ticket
+- [x] T012 [US3] Write `tests/concurrency/escalation-idempotency.test.ts`: create a ticket
       eligible for a specific escalation rule, call the real trigger path (e.g.
       `escalationService.handleBreach`) twice concurrently for the identical trigger, then query
       `escalation_events` and `assignments` directly and assert exactly one of each resulted
       (depends on T011)
-- [ ] T013 [US3] Re-run `escalation-idempotency.test.ts` at least 10 times confirming zero
+- [x] T013 [US3] Re-run `escalation-idempotency.test.ts` at least 10 times confirming zero
       duplicate outcomes — SC-003 (depends on T012)
 
 **Checkpoint**: Quickstart Scenario 3 passes against real infrastructure, consistently.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ concurrency.
 throwaway Postgres — no dependency on T002 or any other user story (research.md §4: no
 implementation change expected).
 
-- [ ] T014 [US4] Write `tests/concurrency/ticket-status-race.test.ts`: create a ticket at a
+- [x] T014 [US4] Write `tests/concurrency/ticket-status-race.test.ts`: create a ticket at a
       known status/version, fire >=20 genuinely concurrent `ticketsRepository.updateStatus`
       calls all starting from that same version, and assert exactly one returns the updated
       ticket while every other call returns `null` — SC-004
@@ -155,18 +155,18 @@ named critical endpoint groups.
 **Independent Test**: Run each `tests/load/*.load.ts` script alone against a real running dev
 server — no dependency on T002 or any other user story.
 
-- [ ] T015 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/autocannon.config.ts`: a shared runner helper wrapping
+- [x] T015 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/autocannon.config.ts`: a shared runner helper wrapping
       `autocannon`'s programmatic API, producing the report shape from data-model.md
       (`requestsPerSec`, `latencyP50Ms`/`P90Ms`/`P99Ms`, `non2xxCount`, `rateLimitedCount`),
       printing a console summary and writing JSON to `tests/load/reports/` (depends on T001)
-- [ ] T016 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/ticket-creation.load.ts` using the T015 helper against
+- [x] T016 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/ticket-creation.load.ts` using the T015 helper against
       `POST /v1/support/requests` (depends on T015)
-- [ ] T017 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/ai-support-flow.load.ts` using the T015 helper against
+- [x] T017 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/ai-support-flow.load.ts` using the T015 helper against
       the AI support flow's own endpoints (depends on T015)
-- [ ] T018 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/admin-reporting.load.ts` using the T015 helper, signing
+- [x] T018 [P] [US5] Create `tests/load/admin-reporting.load.ts` using the T015 helper, signing
       in as the seeded admin first, against the 015-reporting-dashboards endpoints (depends on
       T015)
-- [ ] T019 [US5] Run all three scripts against a real running dev server, confirm each produces
+- [x] T019 [US5] Run all three scripts against a real running dev server, confirm each produces
       a report, and run each twice to confirm consistent-shape output for comparison — SC-005
       (depends on T016, T017, T018)
 
@@ -176,14 +176,14 @@ server — no dependency on T002 or any other user story.
 
 ## Phase 8: Polish & Cross-Cutting Concerns
 
-- [ ] T020 Update `specs/016-load-concurrency-testing/checklists/requirements.md` Notes with any
+- [x] T020 Update `specs/016-load-concurrency-testing/checklists/requirements.md` Notes with any
       implementation-time findings
-- [ ] T021 `npx tsc --noEmit` / `npm run lint` / `npx tsx scripts/check-architecture.ts` clean
+- [x] T021 `npx tsc --noEmit` / `npm run lint` / `npx tsx scripts/check-architecture.ts` clean
-- [ ] T022 Full existing unit + integration + concurrency suite re-run (throwaway DB), confirming
+- [x] T022 Full existing unit + integration + concurrency suite re-run (throwaway DB), confirming
       no regression in 007-orchestration-assignment's, 008-sla-escalation's,
       012-admin-list-views's, and 015-reporting-dashboards's own existing coverage of
       `Assignment`/`SLARun`/`EscalationEvent`
-- [ ] T023 Mark all of this file's checkboxes complete once verified
+- [x] T023 Mark all of this file's checkboxes complete once verified
 
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