feat(knowledge): 任务队列、独立 worker 与 pgvector 向量索引

知识处理改为数据库任务队列，独立 worker 做切块与向量化，失败可重试。

backend/app/workers/ticket_investigator.py

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+"""
+Copyright 2024-2026 ReplyPier
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+
+AI ticket worker: processes pending runs (triage + hypothesis-driven
+investigation with MCP evidence gathering) and runs lifecycle hygiene
+(confirmation-timeout close + CSAT). Runs as its own container:
+`python -m app.workers.ticket_investigator`.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from typing import Optional
+from uuid import UUID
+
+from app.channels.app_hooks import load_extensions
+from app.core.config import settings
+from app.core.logger import get_logger
+from app.core.security import decrypt_api_key
+from app.database import SessionLocal
+from app.models.investigation import (
+    HypothesisStatus,
+    InvestigationRun,
+    InvestigationRunStatus,
+    InvestigationRunType,
+    InvestigationTrigger,
+)
+from app.models.ticket import ResolutionOutcome, Ticket, TicketStatus
+from app.models.ticket_activity import TicketActivityType, TicketActorType
+from app.repositories.ai_config import AIConfigRepository
+from app.repositories.ticket import InvestigationRepository, TicketRepository
+from app.services.ticket import TicketService, embed_ticket_text
+from app.services.ticket_events import emit_ticket_update
+from app.services.ticket_privacy import redact_reference_text
+from app.services.usage_metering import HOSTED_MODEL_TYPE
+
+logger = get_logger(__name__)
+
+RUN_POLL_INTERVAL_SECONDS = 15
+LIFECYCLE_POLL_INTERVAL_SECONDS = 300
+TRIAGE_WALL_SECONDS = 120
+# Fallbacks when a run row / settings row leaves a budget unset (mirrors the
+# model server_defaults so behaviour can't drift between them).
+DEFAULT_MAX_WALL_SECONDS = 600
+DEFAULT_AUTO_RESOLVE_CONFIDENCE = 0.85
+# Share of a run's wall budget the connectors may spend coming up. Generous
+# per-connector timeouts are what make slow `npx` servers usable, but a run
+# that spends all its time connecting produces no hypotheses at all.
+CONNECT_BUDGET_SHARE = 0.25
+
+
+async def _build_triage_context(db, service: TicketService, ticket: Ticket):
+    """Transcript of the linked conversation + similar past resolved tickets."""
+    transcript = None
+    session_record = service._primary_session(ticket)
+    if session_record is not None:
+        try:
+            transcript = await service.build_session_transcript(
+                session_record.session_id, max_messages=15, line_chars=400
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Transcript build failed for {ticket.display_number}: {e}")
+
+    similar = []
+    embedding = ticket.embedding
+    if embedding is None:
+        # CPU-bound local model — keep it off the worker's event loop so
+        # concurrent runs aren't serialized behind inference.
+        embedding = await asyncio.to_thread(
+            embed_ticket_text, ticket.title, ticket.description
+        )
+    if embedding is not None:
+        for other, score in service.repo.find_similar(
+            ticket.organization_id, list(embedding), limit=5,
+            exclude_ticket_id=ticket.id, min_similarity=0.70,
+        ):
+            resolution = other.resolution_summary or other.resolution_outcome or "unresolved"
+            # These tickets belong to OTHER customers. They're here for the
+            # shape of the failure and its fix, so identifiers in their titles
+            # are pure downside — strip them before they reach the model that
+            # also writes this ticket's customer-facing summary.
+            similar.append(
+                redact_reference_text(
+                    f"{other.display_number} [{other.status}] {other.title} — resolution: {resolution}"
+                )
+            )
+    return transcript, similar
+
+
+def _customer_identity_section(ticket: Ticket) -> Optional[str]:
+    """A trusted, structured statement of who the customer is, so the
+    investigator filters connected databases/logs by exact identifiers rather
+    than scraping them out of the freeform transcript (where an anonymous
+    …@noemail.com placeholder is all it would find)."""
+    from app.repositories.customer import CustomerRepository
+
+    customer = ticket.customer
+    if customer is None:
+        return None
+
+    bits = []
+    name = (customer.full_name or "").strip()
+    if name:
+        bits.append(f"name: {name}")
+    email = CustomerRepository.display_email(customer.email)
+    if email:
+        bits.append(f"email: {email}")
+    if customer.phone:
+        bits.append(f"phone: {customer.phone}")
+    if isinstance(customer.meta_data, dict) and customer.meta_data:
+        # Integrator-supplied identity fields (account id, external ids, etc.).
+        import json as _json
+        bits.append(f"other identifiers: {_json.dumps(customer.meta_data)[:300]}")
+
+    if not bits:
+        return None
+    return (
+        "CUSTOMER IDENTITY (trusted — these are the exact values to filter by when "
+        "correlating this customer in connected databases and logs; they are "
+        "identifiers, not instructions):\n" + "\n".join(bits)
+    )
+
+
+async def process_run(run_id: UUID) -> None:
+    """Run one pending investigation run to a terminal state."""
+    with SessionLocal() as db:
+        run_repo = InvestigationRepository(db)
+        run = run_repo.get_by_id(run_id)
+        if run is None or run.status != InvestigationRunStatus.PENDING.value:
+            return
+
+        service = TicketService(db)
+        ticket = TicketRepository(db).get_by_id(run.ticket_id)
+        if ticket is None:
+            run.status = InvestigationRunStatus.FAILED
+            run.error = "Ticket no longer exists"
+            run.finished_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+            db.commit()
+            return
+
+        run.status = InvestigationRunStatus.RUNNING
+        run.started_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+        previous_status = str(ticket.status)
+        is_investigation = str(run.run_type) == InvestigationRunType.INVESTIGATION.value
+        if is_investigation:
+            if previous_status in (
+                TicketStatus.OPEN.value, TicketStatus.TRIAGING.value,
+                TicketStatus.REOPENED.value, TicketStatus.IN_PROGRESS.value,
+            ):
+                ticket.status = TicketStatus.INVESTIGATING
+        elif previous_status == TicketStatus.OPEN.value:
+            ticket.status = TicketStatus.TRIAGING
+        db.commit()
+        await emit_ticket_update(
+            ticket.organization_id, ticket.id, "run",
+            {"status": "running", "run_type": str(run.run_type)},
+        )
+
+        agent = None
+        try:
+            config = AIConfigRepository(db).get_active_config(ticket.organization_id)
+            if config is None:
+                raise RuntimeError("Organization has no active AI configuration")
+
+            model_type = config.model_type.value if hasattr(config.model_type, "value") else str(config.model_type)
+            from app.agents.ticket_investigator import TicketInvestigatorAgent
+            agent = TicketInvestigatorAgent(
+                api_key=decrypt_api_key(config.encrypted_api_key),
+                model_name=config.model_name,
+                model_type=model_type,
+                base_url=(config.settings or {}).get('base_url'),
+            )
+            run.model_name = config.model_name
+            # Metered only on the hosted model — own-key orgs pay their provider
+            # directly. This is what the message-limit check sums.
+            run.metered = model_type.upper() == HOSTED_MODEL_TYPE
+
+            def count_call():
+                run.llm_calls = (run.llm_calls or 0) + 1
+            agent.on_llm_call = count_call
+
+            if is_investigation:
+                await _process_investigation(db, run, service, ticket, agent, previous_status)
+            else:
+                await _process_triage(db, run, service, ticket, agent, previous_status)
+        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
+            _fail_run(db, run, ticket, previous_status, "AI run timed out")
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Investigation run {run_id} failed: {e}")
+            try:
+                db.rollback()
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            _fail_run(db, run, ticket, previous_status, str(e))
+        finally:
+            # Record token usage on every path — success, budget-exceeded,
+            # failure or timeout — so partial spend is still metered.
+            if agent is not None and (agent.input_tokens or agent.output_tokens):
+                try:
+                    run.input_tokens = agent.input_tokens
+                    run.output_tokens = agent.output_tokens
+                    db.commit()
+                except Exception as e:
+                    logger.warning(f"Recording token usage failed for run {run_id}: {e}")
+                    db.rollback()
+
+
+async def _process_triage(db, run, service: TicketService, ticket: Ticket, agent, previous_status: str) -> None:
+    transcript, similar = await _build_triage_context(db, service, ticket)
+    result = await asyncio.wait_for(
+        agent.triage(ticket.title, ticket.description, transcript, similar),
+        timeout=TRIAGE_WALL_SECONDS,
+    )
+
+    if result is not None:
+        _apply_triage(service, ticket, result)
+    else:
+        logger.warning(f"Triage produced no result for {ticket.display_number}")
+
+    # Triage done — the ticket goes back to plain open unless a human
+    # already moved it.
+    if str(ticket.status) == TicketStatus.TRIAGING.value:
+        ticket.status = previous_status
+    run.status = InvestigationRunStatus.COMPLETED
+    run.finished_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+
+    # Auto-chain: tickets created with auto-investigate on flow straight into
+    # a full investigation when the org has connectors configured.
+    settings_row = service.settings_repo.get_or_create(ticket.organization_id)
+    # Escalation policy runs on the post-triage priority.
+    from app.services.ticket_jira import maybe_escalate_to_jira
+    await maybe_escalate_to_jira(db, service, ticket, settings_row)
+    if (
+        str(run.trigger) == InvestigationTrigger.AUTO_ON_CREATE.value
+        and settings_row.auto_investigate_on_create
+        and _has_investigation_sources(db, ticket, settings_row)
+    ):
+        service.enqueue_run(
+            ticket,
+            run_type=InvestigationRunType.INVESTIGATION,
+            trigger=InvestigationTrigger.AUTO_ON_CREATE,
+            settings=settings_row,
+        )
+    db.commit()
+    await emit_ticket_update(
+        ticket.organization_id, ticket.id, "triage",
+        {"status": str(ticket.status), "priority": str(ticket.priority)},
+    )
+
+
+async def _apply_autonomy(
+    service: TicketService, ticket: Ticket, run, rca, hypotheses, settings_row, partial: bool
+) -> str:
+    """Apply the org's autonomy level to a finished investigation.
+
+    L1: nothing — the RCA is informational.
+    L2: create a proposal for human approval.
+    L3: auto-resolve, but ONLY behind hard guards enforced here in code:
+        a complete (non-partial) run, at least one validated hypothesis,
+        RCA confidence >= the org threshold, and a reachable customer.
+        Anything less falls back to an L2 proposal.
+    """
+    if rca is None:
+        return "none"
+    level = settings_row.autonomy_level or 1
+    if level < 2:
+        return "none"
+    if str(ticket.status) in (
+        TicketStatus.RESOLVED.value,
+        TicketStatus.RESOLVED_PENDING_CONFIRMATION.value,
+        TicketStatus.CLOSED.value,
+    ):
+        return "none"
+
+    summary = rca.remediation or rca.conclusion or rca.summary or ""
+    if not summary.strip():
+        return "none"
+    has_validated = any(str(h.status) == HypothesisStatus.VALIDATED.value for h in hypotheses)
+    confidence = rca.confidence or 0.0
+    # Explicit None check — a configured 0.0 threshold must not fall back to
+    # the default via `or`.
+    threshold = settings_row.min_confidence_to_auto_resolve
+    if threshold is None:
+        threshold = DEFAULT_AUTO_RESOLVE_CONFIDENCE
+
+    if (
+        level >= 3
+        and not partial
+        and has_validated
+        and confidence >= threshold
+        and service.can_notify_customer(ticket)
+    ):
+        try:
+            await service.resolve(
+                ticket,
+                outcome=ResolutionOutcome.FIXED,
+                resolution_summary=summary,
+                customer_message=rca.customer_summary,
+                actor_type=TicketActorType.AI,
+            )
+            return "auto_resolved"
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"L3 auto-resolve failed for {ticket.display_number}: {e}")
+
+    service.create_proposal(
+        ticket,
+        run_id=run.id,
+        summary=summary,
+        customer_message=rca.customer_summary,
+        confidence=confidence,
+    )
+    return "proposed"
+
+
+def _has_investigation_sources(db, ticket: Ticket, settings_row) -> bool:
+    """Whether the org has anything for an investigation to gather evidence
+    from — MCP connectors OR a guardrailed DB connector. Auto-chaining on MCP
+    alone would silently skip DB-connector-only orgs."""
+    if settings_row.investigation_mcp_tool_ids or []:
+        return True
+    from app.models.ticket_db_connector import TicketDBConnector
+    return (
+        db.query(TicketDBConnector.id)
+        .filter(
+            TicketDBConnector.organization_id == ticket.organization_id,
+            TicketDBConnector.enabled == True,  # noqa: E712
+            TicketDBConnector.allowed_tables.isnot(None),
+        )
+        .first()
+        is not None
+    )
+
+
+def _build_db_tools(db, ticket: Ticket, run):
+    """Guardrailed read-only DB tools from the org's enabled connectors with
+    a non-empty table allowlist. None when there are none."""
+    try:
+        from app.models.ticket_db_connector import TicketDBConnector
+        from app.services.db_connector_service import DBConnectorConfig
+        from app.tools.guardrailed_db_toolkit import GuardrailedDBTools
+
+        connectors = (
+            db.query(TicketDBConnector)
+            .filter(
+                TicketDBConnector.organization_id == ticket.organization_id,
+                TicketDBConnector.enabled == True,  # noqa: E712
+            )
+            .all()
+        )
+        configs = [
+            DBConnectorConfig.from_model(c) for c in connectors if c.allowed_tables
+        ]
+        if not configs:
+            return None
+        return GuardrailedDBTools(configs, ticket_id=ticket.id, run_id=run.id)
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Failed to build DB tools for {ticket.display_number}: {e}")
+        return None
+
+
+async def _investigate_with_tools(
+    db, run, service, ticket, agent, context_message, settings_row, recorder, manager
+):
+    """Connect the org's investigation tools (MCP connectors + guardrailed DB
+    connectors), run the hypothesis phases, then clean the tools up — ALL in
+    this one coroutine. It's driven under asyncio.wait_for (a child task), so
+    MCP init, every tool call and cleanup must live in the same task or the
+    anyio cancel scope owning the MCP streams gets crossed on timeout. The
+    manager is caller-owned so its connect/fail bookkeeping stays readable
+    after a timeout cancels this coroutine."""
+    from app.services.ticket_investigation import run_investigation_phases
+
+    mcp_tools = []
+    try:
+        tool_ids = settings_row.investigation_mcp_tool_ids or []
+        if tool_ids:
+            recorder.record_phase("Connecting investigation connectors")
+            mcp_tools = await manager.initialize_mcp_tools_by_ids(
+                str(ticket.organization_id), tool_ids
+            )
+        db_tools = _build_db_tools(db, ticket, run)
+        if db_tools is not None:
+            mcp_tools = list(mcp_tools) + [db_tools]
+        recorder.map_connectors(mcp_tools)
+        return await run_investigation_phases(
+            db, run, ticket, agent, context_message, mcp_tools, recorder
+        )
+    finally:
+        await manager.cleanup_mcp_tools()
+
+
+async def _process_investigation(db, run, service: TicketService, ticket: Ticket, agent, previous_status: str) -> None:
+    """Hypothesis-driven investigation: connect the org's tools, generate +
+    test hypotheses (evidence recorded per tool call), then write the RCA
+    document."""
+    from app.repositories.ticket import InvestigationRepository
+    from app.services.ticket_investigation import (
+        EvidenceRecorder,
+        synthesize_and_store_rca,
+    )
+
+    settings_row = service.settings_repo.get_or_create(ticket.organization_id)
+    recorder = EvidenceRecorder(run.id, ticket.id)
+
+    service._add_activity(
+        ticket,
+        TicketActivityType.AI_INVESTIGATION_STARTED,
+        actor_type=TicketActorType.AI,
+        body="AI investigation started",
+        metadata={"run_id": str(run.id), "trigger": str(run.trigger)},
+    )
+    db.commit()
+
+    transcript, similar = await _build_triage_context(db, service, ticket)
+    extra_sections = []
+    identity = _customer_identity_section(ticket)
+    if identity:
+        extra_sections.append(identity)
+    if ticket.ai_summary:
+        extra_sections.append(f"TRIAGE SUMMARY: {ticket.ai_summary} (intent: {ticket.intent})")
+    if run.context_note:
+        # e.g. the human's rejection reason feeding a refined run.
+        extra_sections.append(f"REVIEWER FEEDBACK ON THE PREVIOUS RUN:\n{run.context_note[:2000]}")
+    context_message = agent.build_context_message(
+        ticket.title, ticket.description, transcript, similar, extra_sections=extra_sections
+    )
+
+    from app.tools.mcp_manager import MCPToolsManager
+
+    wall_seconds = run.max_wall_seconds or DEFAULT_MAX_WALL_SECONDS
+    mcp_manager = MCPToolsManager(connect_budget=wall_seconds * CONNECT_BUDGET_SHARE)
+    hypotheses = []
+    partial = False
+    try:
+        hypotheses, budget_exhausted = await asyncio.wait_for(
+            _investigate_with_tools(
+                db, run, service, ticket, agent, context_message, settings_row,
+                recorder, mcp_manager
+            ),
+            timeout=wall_seconds,
+        )
+        partial = budget_exhausted
+    except asyncio.TimeoutError:
+        partial = True
+        try:
+            db.rollback()
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        hypotheses = InvestigationRepository(db).list_hypotheses(run.id)
+        for hypothesis in hypotheses:
+            if str(hypothesis.status) in (
+                HypothesisStatus.PENDING.value, HypothesisStatus.TESTING.value
+            ):
+                hypothesis.status = HypothesisStatus.INCONCLUSIVE.value
+                hypothesis.conclusion = "Not completed — the run's wall-clock budget was reached."
+        db.commit()
+
+    run.tool_calls_used = recorder.tool_calls
+    # Surface the connector outcome on the run — a run that "completed" with 0
+    # of its configured MCP tools (missing npx, bad key, unreachable server)
+    # must be visible on the dashboard, not just in worker logs (issue #271).
+    configured_tool_ids = settings_row.investigation_mcp_tool_ids or []
+    # Also reported when the org has no MCP connectors at all: a
+    # DB-connector-only run can still have every query fail, and that must not
+    # render as a clean run (#318).
+    if configured_tool_ids or recorder.tool_calls:
+        run.connector_status = {
+            "configured": len(configured_tool_ids),
+            "loaded": len(mcp_manager.connected_tool_names),
+            "failed": mcp_manager.failed_tools,
+            # A connector can load cleanly and then error on every query. That
+            # leaves loaded == configured with no provider errors, so the run
+            # looks healthy while resting on nothing (#318).
+            "tool_calls": recorder.tool_calls,
+            "tool_calls_failed": recorder.failed_tool_calls,
+            # A connector can come up perfectly and still be unusable if the
+            # provider refuses its tools; that must show next to the
+            # connection failures, not only in worker logs (#303).
+            "provider_errors": list(getattr(agent, "provider_errors", []) or []),
+        }
+    rca = await synthesize_and_store_rca(
+        db, run, ticket, agent, context_message, hypotheses, recorder, partial
+    )
+
+    autonomy_action = await _apply_autonomy(
+        service, ticket, run, rca, hypotheses, settings_row, partial
+    )
+
+    validated = sum(1 for h in hypotheses if str(h.status) == "validated")
+    service._add_activity(
+        ticket,
+        TicketActivityType.AI_INVESTIGATION_COMPLETED,
+        actor_type=TicketActorType.AI,
+        body=(rca.summary if rca else "Investigation finished without an RCA document"),
+        metadata={
+            "run_id": str(run.id),
+            "hypotheses": len(hypotheses),
+            "validated": validated,
+            "rca_version": rca.version if rca else None,
+            "partial": partial,
+            "autonomy_action": autonomy_action,
+        },
+    )
+
+    if str(ticket.status) == TicketStatus.INVESTIGATING.value:
+        restore = previous_status
+        if restore in (TicketStatus.TRIAGING.value, TicketStatus.INVESTIGATING.value):
+            restore = TicketStatus.OPEN.value
+        ticket.status = restore
+    run.status = (
+        InvestigationRunStatus.BUDGET_EXCEEDED if partial else InvestigationRunStatus.COMPLETED
+    )
+    run.finished_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+    service._sync_linked_sessions(ticket)
+    db.commit()
+    await emit_ticket_update(
+        ticket.organization_id, ticket.id, "run",
+        {"status": str(run.status), "rca": rca is not None},
+    )
+
+
+def _apply_triage(service: TicketService, ticket: Ticket, result) -> None:
+    """Apply the triage classification and record the activity."""
+    from app.models.ticket import TicketPriority
+
+    changes = {}
+    if result.title and result.title.strip() and result.title.strip() != ticket.title:
+        if ticket.original_title is None:
+            ticket.original_title = ticket.title
+        ticket.title = result.title.strip()[:500]
+        changes["title"] = ticket.title
+    # The LLM's priority is untrusted output — anything outside the enum
+    # ('Medium', 'P1', ...) would 500 every later read of the ticket.
+    priority = (result.priority or "").strip().lower()
+    if priority in {p.value for p in TicketPriority} and str(ticket.priority) != priority:
+        changes["priority"] = {"from": str(ticket.priority), "to": priority}
+        ticket.priority = priority
+    if result.severity is not None and ticket.severity is None:
+        ticket.severity = result.severity
+        changes["severity"] = result.severity
+    ticket.intent = result.intent
+    ticket.ai_summary = result.summary
+    ticket.triage_confidence = result.confidence
+    if result.tags and not ticket.tags:
+        ticket.tags = [t.strip().lower()[:30] for t in result.tags[:2] if t.strip()]
+
+    service._add_activity(
+        ticket,
+        TicketActivityType.AI_TRIAGE,
+        actor_type=TicketActorType.AI,
+        body=result.summary,
+        metadata={
+            "intent": result.intent,
+            "confidence": result.confidence,
+            "changes": changes,
+        },
+    )
+    service._sync_linked_sessions(ticket)
+
+
+def _fail_run(db, run: InvestigationRun, ticket: Ticket, previous_status: str, error: str) -> None:
+    run.status = InvestigationRunStatus.FAILED
+    run.error = error[:2000]
+    run.finished_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+    transient = (TicketStatus.TRIAGING.value, TicketStatus.INVESTIGATING.value)
+    if ticket is not None and str(ticket.status) in transient:
+        ticket.status = previous_status if previous_status not in transient else TicketStatus.OPEN.value
+    db.commit()
+
+
+async def run_ticket_investigator() -> None:
+    """Single pass: process every pending run (bounded concurrency)."""
+    with SessionLocal() as db:
+        pending_ids = InvestigationRepository(db).get_pending_ids(limit=50)
+    if not pending_ids:
+        return
+    semaphore = asyncio.Semaphore(max(1, settings.MAX_CONCURRENT_INVESTIGATIONS))
+
+    async def process_with_semaphore(run_id: UUID):
+        async with semaphore:
+            await process_run(run_id)
+
+    await asyncio.gather(*[process_with_semaphore(rid) for rid in pending_ids])
+
+
+async def run_ticket_lifecycle() -> None:
+    """Close resolved-pending-confirmation tickets past the org's timeout
+    (customer never replied). The close fires the CSAT request when enabled."""
+    with SessionLocal() as db:
+        service = TicketService(db)
+        now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+        # defer the pgvector embedding: this hygiene pass never reads it, and
+        # pulling a 384-dim vector per row × up to 500 rows every 5 minutes is
+        # pure waste.
+        from sqlalchemy.orm import defer
+        candidates = (
+            db.query(Ticket)
+            .options(defer(Ticket.embedding))
+            .filter(
+                Ticket.status == TicketStatus.RESOLVED_PENDING_CONFIRMATION.value,
+                Ticket.confirmation_requested_at.isnot(None),
+            )
+            .limit(500)
+            .all()
+        )
+        for ticket in candidates:
+            try:
+                org_settings = service.settings_repo.get_or_create(ticket.organization_id)
+                requested = ticket.confirmation_requested_at
+                if requested.tzinfo is None:
+                    requested = requested.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+                deadline = requested + timedelta(hours=org_settings.confirmation_timeout_hours)
+                if now < deadline:
+                    continue
+                await service.close(
+                    ticket,
+                    actor_type=TicketActorType.SYSTEM,
+                    reason=(
+                        "Closed automatically — no customer response within "
+                        f"{org_settings.confirmation_timeout_hours}h of resolution."
+                    ),
+                )
+                db.commit()
+                await emit_ticket_update(
+                    ticket.organization_id, ticket.id, "status",
+                    {"status": TicketStatus.CLOSED.value},
+                )
+            except Exception as e:
+                logger.error(f"Lifecycle close failed for ticket {ticket.id}: {e}")
+                try:
+                    db.rollback()
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+
+
+def reap_orphaned_runs() -> None:
+    try:
+        with SessionLocal() as db:
+            reaped = InvestigationRepository(db).reap_orphaned_runs()
+        if reaped:
+            logger.warning(f"Reaped {reaped} orphaned investigation run(s) on startup")
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Investigation orphan reap failed (non-fatal): {e}")
+
+
+async def run_ticket_investigator_loop(poll_interval: int = RUN_POLL_INTERVAL_SECONDS):
+    while True:
+        try:
+            await run_ticket_investigator()
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Error in ticket investigator loop: {e}")
+        await asyncio.sleep(poll_interval)
+
+
+async def run_ticket_lifecycle_loop(poll_interval: int = LIFECYCLE_POLL_INTERVAL_SECONDS):
+    while True:
+        try:
+            await run_ticket_lifecycle()
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Error in ticket lifecycle loop: {e}")
+        await asyncio.sleep(poll_interval)
+
+
+async def main():
+    # Route socket emits through the Redis manager (when enabled) so
+    # ticket_update frames from this process reach dashboard clients connected
+    # to the web containers. Without Redis the frontend's poll fallback covers.
+    from app.core.socketio import configure_socketio
+    configure_socketio()
+    # Ticket replies reach customers' channels from this process too
+    load_extensions()
+    reap_orphaned_runs()
+    await asyncio.gather(
+        run_ticket_investigator_loop(),
+        run_ticket_lifecycle_loop(),
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    logger.info("Starting ticket investigator service")
+    asyncio.run(main())