fix(routing): escape hatch out of mix mode — clear-all overrides + pins warning (#663)

panel/src/components/settings/__tests__/ai-routing-card.test.tsx

@@ -597,18 +597,100 @@ describe("AIRoutingCard", () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it("saving the mix with no picks shows an error and never calls applyMode", async () => {
+  it("saving the mix with no picks confirms, then clears every override via an empty per_agent map", async () => {
+    const confirmSpy = vi.spyOn(window, "confirm").mockReturnValue(true);
     render(withQueryClient(<AIRoutingCard />));
     await screen.findByText("Per-agent override (mix mode)");
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Save mix" }));
 
     await waitFor(() =>
-      expect(toast.error).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect(applyMode).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ mode: "mix", per_agent: {} }),
-        "Pick a model for at least one agent",
-      ),
     );
+    confirmSpy.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  it("declining the empty-save confirm never calls applyMode", async () => {
+    const confirmSpy = vi.spyOn(window, "confirm").mockReturnValue(false);
+    render(withQueryClient(<AIRoutingCard />));
+    await screen.findByText("Per-agent override (mix mode)");
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Save mix" }));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(confirmSpy).toHaveBeenCalled());
     expect(applyMode).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    confirmSpy.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  describe("Clear all overrides", () => {
+    const PINNED_SNAPSHOT = {
+      mode: "mix",
+      assignments: [
+        {
+          scope: "agent_slug",
+          scope_value: "be-dev-1",
+          model_name: "glm-5.2:cloud",
+        },
+        {
+          scope: "agent_slug",
+          scope_value: "auditor",
+          model_name: "glm-5.2:cloud",
+        },
+      ],
+    } as Awaited<ReturnType<typeof getMode>>;
+
+    it("is disabled when nothing is picked and nothing is pinned", async () => {
+      render(withQueryClient(<AIRoutingCard />));
+      await screen.findByText("Per-agent override (mix mode)");
+
+      expect(
+        screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Clear all" }),
+      ).toBeDisabled();
+    });
+
+    it("clears persisted pins via an empty per_agent map on confirm", async () => {
+      getMode.mockResolvedValueOnce(PINNED_SNAPSHOT);
+      const confirmSpy = vi.spyOn(window, "confirm").mockReturnValue(true);
+      render(withQueryClient(<AIRoutingCard />));
+      await screen.findByText("Per-agent override (mix mode)");
+      await waitFor(() =>
+        expect(
+          screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Clear all" }),
+        ).toBeEnabled(),
+      );
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Clear all" }));
+
+      await waitFor(() =>
+        expect(applyMode).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ mode: "mix", per_agent: {} }),
+      );
+      confirmSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    it("declining the confirm never calls applyMode", async () => {
+      getMode.mockResolvedValueOnce(PINNED_SNAPSHOT);
+      const confirmSpy = vi.spyOn(window, "confirm").mockReturnValue(false);
+      render(withQueryClient(<AIRoutingCard />));
+      await screen.findByText("Per-agent override (mix mode)");
+      await waitFor(() =>
+        expect(
+          screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Clear all" }),
+        ).toBeEnabled(),
+      );
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Clear all" }));
+
+      await waitFor(() => expect(confirmSpy).toHaveBeenCalled());
+      expect(applyMode).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      confirmSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    it("pinned overrides surface the outrank warning in the Routing-mode section", async () => {
+      getMode.mockResolvedValueOnce(PINNED_SNAPSHOT);
+      render(withQueryClient(<AIRoutingCard />));
+
+      await screen.findByText(/2 per-agent overrides outrank the global mode/);
+    });
   });
 
   // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

panel/src/components/settings/ai-routing-card.tsx

@@ -275,6 +275,10 @@ export function AIRoutingCard() {
     setMixMap(initialMix);
   }, [initialMix]);
 
+  // Server-persisted pins (not local edits) — these outrank every mode
+  // button, so the Routing-mode section warns when any exist.
+  const pinnedCount = Object.keys(initialMix).length;
+
   const catalogForMix = catalog;
   const catalogOllamaOnly = catalog.filter(
     (c: { provider_type: ModelProvider }) =>
@@ -426,6 +430,26 @@ export function AIRoutingCard() {
     }
   };
 
+  const clearAllOverrides = async () => {
+    if (
+      !confirm(
+        "Clear every per-agent override? All agents go back to " +
+          "inherit-global (the active routing mode).",
+      )
+    )
+      return;
+    setMixMap({});
+    if (pinnedCount === 0) return; // nothing persisted server-side
+    try {
+      await applyMode.mutateAsync({ mode: "mix", per_agent: {} });
+      toast.success(
+        "Per-agent overrides cleared — all agents follow the global mode",
+      );
+    } catch (e) {
+      toast.error("Clear failed: " + errMsg(e));
+    }
+  };
+
   const saveMix = async () => {
     // Filter out empty picks (nothing selected = inherit global).
     const per_agent: Record<string, string> = {};
@@ -433,7 +457,24 @@ export function AIRoutingCard() {
       if (model) per_agent[slug] = model;
     }
     if (Object.keys(per_agent).length === 0) {
-      toast.error("Pick a model for at least one agent");
+      // Empty save = the explicit clear-all. Without it a fully-pinned
+      // fleet has no way back to the global mode (pins survive every mode
+      // switch by design).
+      if (
+        !confirm(
+          "No models are picked — saving clears every per-agent override " +
+            "so all agents follow the global routing mode. Continue?",
+        )
+      )
+        return;
+      try {
+        await applyMode.mutateAsync({ mode: "mix", per_agent: {} });
+        toast.success(
+          "Per-agent overrides cleared — all agents follow the global mode",
+        );
+      } catch (e) {
+        toast.error("Clear failed: " + errMsg(e));
+      }
       return;
     }
     const needsGrok = Object.values(per_agent).some((m) =>
@@ -962,6 +1003,15 @@ export function AIRoutingCard() {
               labelHint="Unlike every button to the left this never wipes existing routing — it's a one-time additive seed you can re-run anytime. Edit or remove individual rows in the Complexity overrides section below."
             />
           </div>
+          {pinnedCount > 0 ? (
+            <p className="text-xs text-amber-600 flex items-center gap-1">
+              <AlertTriangle className="h-3 w-3 shrink-0" />
+              {pinnedCount} per-agent override{pinnedCount === 1 ? "" : "s"}{" "}
+              outrank the global mode — switching modes won&apos;t change those
+              agents. Clear rows in the mix table below (an empty save clears
+              them all).
+            </p>
+          ) : null}
           {currentMode === "mix" && !hasOllamaKey ? (
             <p className="text-xs text-amber-600 flex items-center gap-1">
               <AlertTriangle className="h-3 w-3" />
@@ -1133,13 +1183,27 @@ export function AIRoutingCard() {
                 Per-agent override (mix mode)
               </Label>
             </HelpTip>
+            <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
+              <Button
+                size="sm"
+                variant="outline"
+                onClick={clearAllOverrides}
+                disabled={
+                  applyMode.isPending ||
+                  (pinnedCount === 0 && Object.values(mixMap).every((m) => !m))
+                }
+              >
+                Clear all
+              </Button>
               <Button size="sm" onClick={saveMix} disabled={applyMode.isPending}>
                 {applyMode.isPending ? "Saving…" : "Save mix"}
               </Button>
             </div>
+          </div>
           <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
             Leave a row blank to inherit from the global mode. Saving overwrites
-            all per-agent overrides with what&apos;s picked here.
+            all per-agent overrides with what&apos;s picked here; Clear all
+            resets every agent back to inherit-global in one click.
           </p>
           {agentsError ? (
             <p className="flex items-center gap-1 rounded-md border p-4 text-xs text-amber-600">

roboco/api/schemas/provider.py

@@ -194,7 +194,9 @@ class ApplyModeRequest(BaseModel):
     - mode="mix": clear existing per-agent pins; upsert the `per_agent`
       map verbatim. Role + GLOBAL rows are left untouched so the user can
       layer with an existing partial setup. Self-hosted model names in
-      `per_agent` are routed to the LOCAL provider automatically.
+      `per_agent` are routed to the LOCAL provider automatically. An empty
+      map is the explicit clear-all (every pin deleted, nothing re-added);
+      omitting the field is still a 400.
     - mode="self_hosted": clear every assignment; enable LOCAL provider;
       set GLOBAL default to `default_model` (a self-hosted model name).
     - mode="cost_tiered": seed the day-1 cost-tiered compound ROLE(":"complexity)

roboco/db/base.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Database base configuration and session management.
 """
 
 import asyncio
+import weakref
 from collections.abc import AsyncGenerator
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -43,14 +44,63 @@ class Base(DeclarativeBase):
 
 
 class _DbHolder:
-    """Holder for database engine and session factory singletons."""
+    """Holder for database engine and session factory singletons.
+
+    ``loop`` weakly tracks the event loop the cached engine belongs to.
+    Pooled asyncpg connections are bound to the loop that created them, so
+    handing the cached engine to a DIFFERENT running loop (a second uvicorn
+    thread, a test's ``asyncio.run``, the eval bench's disposable stack)
+    eventually checks out a loop-foreign pooled connection and dies with
+    ``RuntimeError: ... Future attached to a different loop``. ``get_engine``
+    therefore discards and rebuilds the cache on a cross-loop access — the
+    automatic form of the manual ``_DbHolder`` resets the e2e harness used
+    to do between tests, now enforced at the single chokepoint every caller
+    routes through. In production exactly one loop exists, so the check
+    never fires and behavior is unchanged.
+    """
 
     engine: AsyncEngine | None = None
     session_factory: async_sessionmaker[AsyncSession] | None = None
+    loop: "weakref.ref[asyncio.AbstractEventLoop] | None" = None
+
+
+def _running_loop() -> asyncio.AbstractEventLoop | None:
+    try:
+        return asyncio.get_running_loop()
+    except RuntimeError:
+        return None
+
+
+def _rebind_holder_to_current_loop() -> None:
+    """Discard the cached engine/factory when accessed from a foreign loop.
+
+    Rules: no cached engine or no running loop — nothing to do; cached with
+    no loop stamp — claim it for the current loop (covers engines injected
+    directly by tests and sync-created engines); stamp matches the current
+    loop — keep; stamp names another loop, alive or dead — drop both caches
+    so this loop builds its own. The old engine is dropped un-disposed by
+    design: its pool cannot be awaited away from a foreign/dead loop, and
+    any in-flight session still holds its own reference to it.
+    """
+    if _DbHolder.engine is None:
+        return
+    current = _running_loop()
+    if current is None:
+        return
+    if _DbHolder.loop is None:
+        _DbHolder.loop = weakref.ref(current)
+        return
+    if _DbHolder.loop() is current:
+        return
+    logger.debug("Discarding DB engine bound to a different event loop")
+    _DbHolder.engine = None
+    _DbHolder.session_factory = None
+    _DbHolder.loop = None
 
 
 def get_engine() -> AsyncEngine:
-    """Get or create the async engine."""
+    """Get or create the async engine (rebound per event loop — see holder)."""
+    _rebind_holder_to_current_loop()
     if _DbHolder.engine is None:
         _DbHolder.engine = create_async_engine(
             settings.database_url,
@@ -61,11 +111,14 @@ def get_engine() -> AsyncEngine:
             pool_recycle=settings.database_pool_recycle,
             pool_pre_ping=True,
         )
+        current = _running_loop()
+        _DbHolder.loop = weakref.ref(current) if current is not None else None
     return _DbHolder.engine
 
 
 def get_session_factory() -> async_sessionmaker[AsyncSession]:
-    """Get or create the async session factory."""
+    """Get or create the async session factory (rebound with the engine)."""
+    _rebind_holder_to_current_loop()
     if _DbHolder.session_factory is None:
         _DbHolder.session_factory = async_sessionmaker(
             bind=get_engine(),

roboco/services/llm.py

@@ -600,7 +600,9 @@ class ModelRoutingService(BaseService):
           - "mix":         apply per-agent map verbatim. Any agent not in the
             map falls through to the GLOBAL default — which is whatever it
             was (preserves prior state). Self-hosted model names (not in the
-            catalog) are automatically routed to the LOCAL provider.
+            catalog) are automatically routed to the LOCAL provider. An empty
+            map (not None) is the explicit clear-all — every pin deleted,
+            nothing re-added (see `_apply_mix`).
           - "cost_tiered": UNLIKE every mode above, this does NOT wipe
             anything — it seeds/re-upserts the day-1 `_COST_TIERED_SEED`
             compound ROLE(":"complexity) rows on top of whatever routing is
@@ -790,8 +792,17 @@ class ModelRoutingService(BaseService):
         self.log.info("Mode applied: self_hosted", default_model=default_model)
 
     async def _apply_mix(self, per_agent: dict[str, str] | None) -> None:
-        """Apply a per-agent override map; leave role + global rows untouched."""
+        """Apply a per-agent override map; leave role + global rows untouched.
-        if not per_agent:
+
+        An EMPTY map is the explicit clear-all: every AGENT_SLUG pin is
+        deleted and nothing is re-added, so all agents fall back to the
+        role/global layer. Without this there was no way out of mix mode at
+        all — mode switches deliberately spare pins, and a fully-pinned fleet
+        (the live 2026-07-23 incident: 25/25 agents pinned) made every mode
+        button an effective no-op forever. ``None`` (map not provided) is
+        still refused — only a deliberate empty map clears.
+        """
+        if per_agent is None:
             raise ValueError("mix mode requires a per_agent map")
         # Clear existing agent-slug overrides so the new map is authoritative.
         await self.session.execute(

tests/integration/test_board_review_gate_timeline_real_db.py

@@ -110,11 +110,15 @@ async def board_gate_setup(
     # the SAME test database, so the gate's real writes land where we read them.
     saved_engine = db_base._DbHolder.engine
     saved_factory = db_base._DbHolder.session_factory
+    saved_loop = db_base._DbHolder.loop
     handoff_engine = create_async_engine(_test_database_url, future=True)
     db_base._DbHolder.engine = handoff_engine
     db_base._DbHolder.session_factory = async_sessionmaker(
         bind=handoff_engine, class_=AsyncSession, expire_on_commit=False
     )
+    # Clear the loop stamp so the per-loop rebind guard claims the injected
+    # engine for this test's loop instead of discarding it as foreign.
+    db_base._DbHolder.loop = None
 
     # The dispatcher receives tasks from the HTTP API, which serializes
     # assigned_to as the agent UUID; _resolve_agent_slug maps it back to a slug.
@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ async def board_gate_setup(
         await handoff_engine.dispose()
         db_base._DbHolder.engine = saved_engine
         db_base._DbHolder.session_factory = saved_factory
+        db_base._DbHolder.loop = saved_loop
 
 
 def _make_orch() -> AgentOrchestrator:

tests/integration/test_db_base.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ and drop/close.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import asyncio
 import time
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, cast
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
@@ -41,10 +42,12 @@ def _reset_holder() -> Generator[None]:
     """Snapshot/restore the singleton so tests don't poison the live engine."""
     saved_engine = _DbHolder.engine
     saved_factory = _DbHolder.session_factory
+    saved_loop = _DbHolder.loop
     _InitState.completed_url = None
     yield
     _DbHolder.engine = saved_engine
     _DbHolder.session_factory = saved_factory
+    _DbHolder.loop = saved_loop
     _InitState.completed_url = None
 
 
@@ -65,6 +68,44 @@ def test_get_engine_creates_and_caches() -> None:
     assert ce.call_count == 1
 
 
+def test_get_engine_rebinds_on_a_different_event_loop() -> None:
+    """The cached engine is per-loop: an access from a second loop discards
+    the first loop's engine (whose pooled connections are loop-bound) and
+    builds a fresh one, instead of dying later with 'Future attached to a
+    different loop' — the e2e/eval-bench multi-loop failure mode."""
+    _DbHolder.engine = None
+    _DbHolder.session_factory = None
+    _DbHolder.loop = None
+    engines = [MagicMock(), MagicMock()]
+    with patch("roboco.db.base.create_async_engine", side_effect=engines) as ce:
+
+        async def _grab() -> object:
+            return get_engine()
+
+        loop_a_engine = asyncio.run(_grab())
+        loop_b_engine = asyncio.run(_grab())
+    assert loop_a_engine is engines[0]
+    # Loop B must NOT reuse loop A's engine.
+    assert loop_b_engine is engines[1]
+    assert ce.call_count == len(engines)
+
+
+def test_get_engine_same_loop_keeps_the_cache() -> None:
+    _DbHolder.engine = None
+    _DbHolder.session_factory = None
+    _DbHolder.loop = None
+    fake_engine = MagicMock()
+    with patch("roboco.db.base.create_async_engine", return_value=fake_engine) as ce:
+
+        async def _grab_twice() -> tuple[object, object]:
+            return get_engine(), get_engine()
+
+        e1, e2 = asyncio.run(_grab_twice())
+    assert e1 is fake_engine
+    assert e2 is fake_engine
+    assert ce.call_count == 1
+
+
 def test_get_session_factory_creates_and_caches() -> None:
     _DbHolder.engine = None
     _DbHolder.session_factory = None

tests/integration/test_llm_routing.py

@@ -426,6 +426,26 @@ async def test_apply_mode_mix_requires_per_agent(llm_setup: dict) -> None:
         await svc.apply_mode(mode="mix")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_apply_mode_mix_empty_map_clears_all_pins(llm_setup: dict) -> None:
+    """An EMPTY per_agent map is the explicit clear-all — the only way out of
+    a fully-pinned fleet, since mode switches deliberately spare pins (the
+    2026-07-23 live incident: 25/25 pins made every mode button a no-op)."""
+    svc = llm_setup["svc"]
+    model = _first_model_for_type(ModelProvider.ANTHROPIC)
+    await svc.apply_mode(mode="mix", per_agent={"be-dev-1": model, "be-qa": model})
+    assert any(
+        r.scope == AssignmentScope.AGENT_SLUG for r in await svc.list_assignments()
+    )
+
+    await svc.apply_mode(mode="mix", per_agent={})
+
+    rows = await svc.list_assignments()
+    assert not any(r.scope == AssignmentScope.AGENT_SLUG for r in rows)
+    # Nothing left at all -> the mode label escapes "mix".
+    assert await svc.derive_mode() == "anthropic"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_apply_mode_mix_writes_overrides(llm_setup: dict) -> None:
     svc = llm_setup["svc"]