Treat Per-Task Model Switching as a Concurrency Protocol
Changing the model for a running AI task is not a settings update. It is a distributed operation: read current task -> prepare credentials/config -> request restart -> receive result -> persist active model If two switches overlap, completion order can differ from request order. The system needs a rule for which intent wins. The concrete case At commit c58bcd4 , MonkeyCode records model-switch attempts with from/to model IDs, request ID, load-session flag, success, message, session ID, and timestamps in TaskModelSwitch . The reviewed task use case creates a switch record, asks taskflow to restart with the target model configuration, and completes the switch record and task model based on the response. The accompanying tests cover success and failure paths. From this source review, I could not establish an explicit compare-and-swap generation or a per-task serialization contract around overlapping requests. That does not prove an exploitable race: serialization may exist elsewhere in the deployment or taskflow boundary. It means concurrency semantics deserve an explicit test and contract. Why last completion is unstable Assume request A selects model A, then request B selects model B: time -> A: request ---- restart ---------------- complete B: request -- restart -- complete If each successful completion writes its model, B applies first and late A overwrites it. Reverse network timing and the result changes. The companion simulator makes that order dependence visible: export function naiveCompletionOrder ( completions ) { let model = " initial " ; for ( const completion of completions ) { if ( completion . success ) model = completion . model ; } return model ; } [A, B] ends on B. [B, A] ends on A. The caller's latest intent is not part of the rule. Add a monotonic generation Assign a generation while accepting each request: A -> generation 41 B -> generation 42 Completion may update active state only when its generation equals the task's current requested generatio