The scheduler AI dock read the poll envelope as the job, so every answer hung on thinking

Plugin/unraid/api/ai.php

@@ -80,11 +80,15 @@
 // CSRF prepend never reaches here and a request that dies inside the include never reaches the
 // action log below, and those two look identical from outside — which is what made a POST that
 // the browser demonstrably sent leave no trace anywhere on the server.
-@file_put_contents('/var/log/varaverk/ai.log',
-    date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' ENTER ' . ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ?? '?')
-    . ' ' . ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?? '?')
-    . ' ct=' . substr($_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] ?? '-', 0, 40)
-    . ' len=' . ($_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] ?? '-') . "\n", FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
+// Polls are excluded here for the same reason they are excluded from the action log below: one
+// line per second per open tab buries every line worth reading.
+if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?? '', 'action=poll') === false) {
+    @file_put_contents('/var/log/varaverk/ai.log',
+        date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' ENTER ' . ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ?? '?')
+        . ' ' . ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?? '?')
+        . ' ct=' . substr($_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] ?? '-', 0, 40)
+        . ' len=' . ($_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] ?? '-') . "\n", FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
+}
 
 header('Content-Type: application/json');
 header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache');

Plugin/unraid/pages/scheduler.php

@@ -2429,11 +2429,15 @@ function vvAiDockSend() {
   }).catch(e => vvAiDockDone('Request failed: ' + e, true));
 }
 
-function vvAiDockPoll(token) {
+function vvAiDockPoll(token, started) {
+  started = started || Date.now();
   clearTimeout(vvAiPoll);
+  if (Date.now() - started > 300000) return vvAiDockDone('Timed out waiting for a response.', true);
   vvAiPoll = setTimeout(() => {
     fetch('/plugins/varaverk/api/ai.php?action=poll&token=' + encodeURIComponent(token))
-      .then(r => r.json()).then(j => {
+      .then(r => r.json()).then(d => {
+        if (!d.ok) return vvAiDockDone(d.error || 'Poll failed', true);
+        const j = d.job || {};
         if (j.status === 'done') {
           vvAiHist.push({ role: 'assistant', content: j.answer || '' });
           vvAiDockDone(j.answer || '(empty answer)', false, j.sources || []);
@@ -2443,7 +2447,7 @@ function vvAiDockPoll(token) {
           return;
         }
         if (j.status === 'error') return vvAiDockDone(j.error || 'Unknown error', true);
-        vvAiDockPoll(token);
+        vvAiDockPoll(token, started);
       }).catch(e => vvAiDockDone('Poll failed: ' + e, true));
   }, 1000);
 }