Review finding (low, real): the comment claimed /ping degenerates to a pure
connectivity check when TG_WATCHDOG_ENABLED=false, but _wd_last_ok_monotonic is
also stamped by _restart_client (on the disconnect-flap path, which runs before
the watchdog-enabled gate), so with the watchdog off one flap sets age and nothing
ever refreshes it — age grows unbounded past the threshold and /ping returns 503 on
a live connection, spuriously failing the container healthcheck and triggering an
autoheal restart after every flap.
Fix: gate the staleness branch on the watchdog being enabled —
healthy = connected and (not Config["tg_watchdog_enabled"] or age is None or age < threshold)
so with the watchdog disabled /ping is a pure connectivity check (matching the
intent), and correct the comment to note a flap-restart can stamp age even when the
watchdog is off. New test test_ping_watchdog_disabled_stale_age_still_healthy:
watchdog off + connected + stale age => 200 ok. Adversarially validated — reverting
the gate reds the new test (503) while the watchdog-ON stale-probe test stays green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
agent_coder
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