fix(bench): await Fly app readiness before remote build

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Summary

• persist ownership immediately after creating the disposable Fly app, then wait for it through the exact Machines inventory authority used by flyctl deploy
• bound readiness with a 60-second deadline, five-second probes, and capped exponential backoff; emit typed readiness_timeout without retrying the build
• fail closed on malformed inventory or unexpected adopted children and preserve child-first teardown
• add deterministic delayed-convergence, permanent-timeout, malformed-response, adoption/cleanup, and evidence-leakage coverage
• document the readiness boundary

Root cause evidence

Two authorized tiny issue 958 attempts from merged SHA a9014b43 failed at build_failed about 21 seconds after immediate app creation, before any image, volume, or Machine existed. Fly deploy verifies the app through Machines inventory first. This repair closes that propagation race without changing benchmark scope, hardware, or build retry policy.

Validation

• make -C benchmarks fly-adapter-static — 27 passed
• make -C benchmarks smoke-python — smoke passed; 81 passed
• uv run ruff format --check on changed Python files — passed
• uv run ruff check on changed Python files — passed
• python3 scripts/ci/test-fly-filesystem-safety-contract.py — 2 passed
• git diff --check — passed

Issue

Relates to issue 958. It remains open; a merged executor rerun with qualified tiny evidence and independent teardown remains the close gate.

No Fly resources were created by this change.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved app readiness detection during qualification runs.
  • Added bounded polling to handle delayed startup and transient failures.
  • Added clearer handling for readiness timeouts, malformed machine inventories, and unexpected machines.
  • Ensured timed-out readiness checks trigger cleanup.

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Walkthrough

The qualification flow now polls app machine inventory with bounded backoff before remote builds. It handles transient failures, malformed inventories, unexpected machines, and readiness timeouts. Tests verify convergence, cleanup, ledger handling, evidence, and token exclusion.

Changes

App readiness qualification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Readiness contract benchmarks/harness/graphforge_bench/fly_tiny_qualification.py, benchmarks/harness/graphforge_bench/fly_adapter.py	Adds readiness timing constants and accepts readiness_timeout as an adapter failure type.
Readiness polling and build gating benchmarks/harness/graphforge_bench/fly_tiny_qualification.py	Adds bounded machine-inventory polling before remote builds. The flow retries transient failures, validates inventory, adopts unexpected machines for cleanup, and reports provisioning or timeout failures.
Readiness test coverage benchmarks/tests/test_fly_tiny_qualification.py	Adds scripted readiness responses and tests delayed convergence, timeout cleanup, malformed inventories, and unexpected machines.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f2bc9

The change adds a bounded readiness wait before remote builds, but the current implementation can occasionally exceed the 60-second deadline and begin a build after that boundary. This is a localized, low-impact correctness issue that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before relying on the timeout contract.

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Inline comments:
In `@benchmarks/harness/graphforge_bench/fly_tiny_qualification.py`:
- Line 368: Update the readiness probe flow around
APP_READINESS_PROBE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS to reject any sub-second remaining deadline
before dispatch instead of rounding it to zero and falling back to a one-second
timeout; also recheck the deadline before returning for an empty inventory. Add
a regression test covering a successful response that completes after the
deadline, ensuring it cannot trigger the remote build.

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