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ShellJob stored its parser as a pickled node: bytes in the repository, the graph and every archive, executed on read. A CallableData now records what the callable is: the source, the module and qualified name, and either an entry point or, when no name can recover it, a fingerprint. The callable itself rides on the process checkpoint.

PickledData and EntryPointData are then removed, and dill with them. No migration: load_node_class falls back to Data for a missing entry point, so a node aiida-shell wrote still loads and still returns its attributes and files. It loses load(), the method that ran the pickle.

cloudpickle replaces dill, because only it can serialize a callable for a machine lacking the module that defines it, which aiida-pythonjob needs to run a function remotely. That is callables.dumps(value, self_contained=True), uncalled in core so far.

The checkpoint serializer also learns to carry a callable that no name can recover. That was a latent defect rather than one anyone could reach, since inputs are serialized into nodes before they become the raw inputs, and the persisted parser hook is the first thing to depend on it.

An importable parser stays re-runnable from a stored node; a closure does not. Changelog has the detail, #7615 the reasoning.

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The change replaces EntryPointData and PickledData with CallableData, adds callable identity and serialization utilities, and passes parser callables through ShellJob checkpoints and parser execution. Documentation, dependencies, exports, and tests are updated.

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Callable parser persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Callable identity and data node
src/aiida/common/callables.py, src/aiida/orm/nodes/data/*, src/aiida/orm/__init__.py, tests/common/*, tests/orm/data/*
CallableData records callable metadata, source, importability, and fingerprints. New utilities support callable detection and cloudpickle serialization. Removed data plugins and exports are covered by compatibility tests.
Checkpoint callable transport
src/aiida/orm/utils/serialize.py, src/aiida/engine/processes/calcjobs/calcjob.py, tests/orm/utils/test_serialize.py
Non-importable callables use the !aiida_callable YAML payload. CalcJob merges parser keyword arguments while preserving parser-provided values.
ShellJob parser execution
src/aiida/calculations/shell.py, src/aiida/parsers/plugins/shell/parser.py, tests/calculations/test_shell.py, tests/parsers/test_shell.py
ShellJob records parsers in CallableData, validates stored parameters, persists the live parser hook, and passes it to ShellParser after checkpoint restoration.
Behavior documentation and dependency alignment
CHANGELOG.md, docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst, environment.yml, pyproject.toml, open_source_licenses.txt
Documentation describes CallableData and checkpoint behavior. The project replaces dill with cloudpickle and updates plugin registration and license entries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: agoscinski

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1ed84

Some supported callable and process-class configurations can produce checkpoints that fail to restore or provenance that identifies the wrong code. These issues should be addressed before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: executable pickles are no longer stored in the graph. The "v3" prefix adds minor noise but does not reduce clarity.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the changes to parser storage, callable checkpointing, dependency replacement, and removal of the legacy data plugins.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 83.65% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 263 functions across 27 files. (5 skipped: …
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GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
A pickled callable stored as a node puts its bytes in the repository,
the graph and every archive, permanently, and reading it means running
the code inside it. `CallableData` records what a callable is instead:
its source text, where that source came from, and either the module and
name that can import it or a fingerprint of its serialized form.

Those two forms of identity are kept apart on purpose. Closures built by
the same factory share a name, a source text and a source location, so
only what they capture separates them. Conversely, fingerprinting an
importable callable would tie the node hash to the installed pickler
version, where its name already identifies it exactly. A callable that
is neither importable nor serializable is refused, since without a
fingerprint the record could not tell it from any other closure.

`aiida.common.callables` holds the primitives, low enough that the
checkpoint serializer can use them without importing the ORM. It
serializes with `cloudpickle`, which covers closures, lambdas,
`functools.partial` and callable objects, and can also serialize a
callable for a machine that cannot import the module defining it. `dill`
cannot do that last one at any setting: `byref` and `recurse` make no
difference to how it writes an importable function.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
PyYAML writes a callable as a reference to its `__module__` and
`__name__`, so a lambda, a closure, or anything defined in `__main__`
went into the checkpoint under a name that resolves to nothing, and the
process could not be continued afterwards. `__qualname__` is dropped
along the way, so `make_parser.<locals>.parse` was written as `parse`
and would have loaded a module level function of that name had one
existed. A `functools.partial` could not be represented at all.

Such callables now go under `!aiida_callable` as bytes, while anything
that can be imported keeps the name reference it had. Both the raw and
the parsed inputs are serialized into every checkpoint, so this reached
any process that was handed a callable.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node, which the
parser unpickled in order to call it. It is now recorded in a
`CallableData`, and the callable itself is persisted with the process,
so a worker still has it after rebuilding the process from its
checkpoint to parse a job that finished meanwhile.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is already gone from the raw inputs by the time the process
exists. The record therefore carries it across: a `CallableData` keeps a
reference to the callable it recorded, which `on_create` takes off it. A
`Parser` is constructed from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a
`get_parse_kwargs` hook for process state that a parser needs.

Validation no longer loads the parser to read its signature, since the
record carries the parameter names.

A parser that cannot be imported is no longer re-runnable from a stored
node. The archive shows what parsed the job and its source, and carries
no code that runs when the node is read.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
A callable that can be imported here is serialized as a reference to its
module, which is what a checkpoint wants: it is smaller, and it keeps
the callable in step with the code that is installed. A payload that
leaves this machine wants the opposite, since the module it refers to
may not be installed at the other end. That is a calculation job
uploading a Python function to run on a remote computer.

`dumps(value, self_contained=True)` registers the module that defines
the callable to be serialized by value. It changes nothing for a lambda
or a closure, which have no name to be referred to and are carried whole
either way.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
The `parser` input accepted an `EntryPointData` or a `CallableData`, so
every consumer had to branch on which one it was handed, and the two
answered the same questions differently: only one could give the
signature without loading the callable, and only one recorded a source.

An entry point is a third way of identifying a callable, alongside a
module and name, and a fingerprint. So `CallableData` records it and the
port takes that type alone. The entry point is checked to resolve to the
callable it is recorded with, and `load` prefers it, since a plugin is
free to move a callable and keep its entry point pointing at it.

The attribute is `callable_entry_point`, because `entry_point` on a node
already means the entry point of the node class itself.

`EntryPointData` stays registered, since `aiida-shell` released it under
the same entry point name and the nodes it wrote have to keep loading,
but nothing produces one any more.
@GeigerJ2
GeigerJ2 force-pushed the v3/7615/callable-record branch from 388b061 to 57e3382 Compare September 8, 2026 15:09
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
A pickled callable stored as a node puts its bytes in the repository,
the graph and every archive, permanently, and reading it means running
the code inside it. `CallableData` records what a callable is instead:
its source text, where that source came from, and either the module and
name that can import it or a fingerprint of its serialized form.

Those two forms of identity are kept apart on purpose. Closures built by
the same factory share a name, a source text and a source location, so
only what they capture separates them. Conversely, fingerprinting an
importable callable would tie the node hash to the installed pickler
version, where its name already identifies it exactly. A callable that
is neither importable nor serializable is refused, since without a
fingerprint the record could not tell it from any other closure.

`aiida.common.callables` holds the primitives, low enough that the
checkpoint serializer can use them without importing the ORM. It
serializes with `cloudpickle`, which covers closures, lambdas,
`functools.partial` and callable objects, and can also serialize a
callable for a machine that cannot import the module defining it. `dill`
cannot do that last one at any setting: `byref` and `recurse` make no
difference to how it writes an importable function.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
PyYAML writes a callable as a reference to its `__module__` and
`__name__`, so a lambda, a closure, or anything defined in `__main__`
went into the checkpoint under a name that resolves to nothing, and the
process could not be continued afterwards. `__qualname__` is dropped
along the way, so `make_parser.<locals>.parse` was written as `parse`
and would have loaded a module level function of that name had one
existed. A `functools.partial` could not be represented at all.

Such callables now go under `!aiida_callable` as bytes, while anything
that can be imported keeps the name reference it had. Both the raw and
the parsed inputs are serialized into every checkpoint, so this reached
any process that was handed a callable.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node, which the
parser unpickled in order to call it. It is now recorded in a
`CallableData`, and the callable itself is persisted with the process,
so a worker still has it after rebuilding the process from its
checkpoint to parse a job that finished meanwhile.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is already gone from the raw inputs by the time the process
exists. The record therefore carries it across: a `CallableData` keeps a
reference to the callable it recorded, which `on_create` takes off it. A
`Parser` is constructed from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a
`get_parse_kwargs` hook for process state that a parser needs.

Validation no longer loads the parser to read its signature, since the
record carries the parameter names.

A parser that cannot be imported is no longer re-runnable from a stored
node. The archive shows what parsed the job and its source, and carries
no code that runs when the node is read.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
A callable that can be imported here is serialized as a reference to its
module, which is what a checkpoint wants: it is smaller, and it keeps
the callable in step with the code that is installed. A payload that
leaves this machine wants the opposite, since the module it refers to
may not be installed at the other end. That is a calculation job
uploading a Python function to run on a remote computer.

`dumps(value, self_contained=True)` registers the module that defines
the callable to be serialized by value. It changes nothing for a lambda
or a closure, which have no name to be referred to and are carried whole
either way.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
The `parser` input accepted an `EntryPointData` or a `CallableData`, so
every consumer had to branch on which one it was handed, and the two
answered the same questions differently: only one could give the
signature without loading the callable, and only one recorded a source.

An entry point is a third way of identifying a callable, alongside a
module and name, and a fingerprint. So `CallableData` records it and the
port takes that type alone. The entry point is checked to resolve to the
callable it is recorded with, and `load` prefers it, since a plugin is
free to move a callable and keep its entry point pointing at it.

The attribute is `callable_entry_point`, because `entry_point` on a node
already means the entry point of the node class itself.

`EntryPointData` stays registered, since `aiida-shell` released it under
the same entry point name and the nodes it wrote have to keep loading,
but nothing produces one any more.
@GeigerJ2
GeigerJ2 force-pushed the v3/7615/callable-record branch from 57e3382 to f65d9bc Compare September 8, 2026 15:34
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
PyYAML writes a callable as a reference to its `__module__` and
`__name__`, so a lambda, a closure, or anything defined in `__main__`
went into the checkpoint under a name that resolves to nothing, and the
process could not be continued afterwards. `__qualname__` is dropped
along the way, so `make_parser.<locals>.parse` was written as `parse`
and would have loaded a module level function of that name had one
existed. A `functools.partial` could not be represented at all.

Such callables now go under `!aiida_callable` as bytes, while anything
that can be imported keeps the name reference it had. Both the raw and
the parsed inputs are serialized into every checkpoint, so this reached
any process that was handed a callable.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node, which the
parser unpickled in order to call it. It is now recorded in a
`CallableData`, and the callable itself is persisted with the process,
so a worker still has it after rebuilding the process from its
checkpoint to parse a job that finished meanwhile.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is already gone from the raw inputs by the time the process
exists. The record therefore carries it across: a `CallableData` keeps a
reference to the callable it recorded, which `on_create` takes off it. A
`Parser` is constructed from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a
`get_parse_kwargs` hook for process state that a parser needs.

Validation no longer loads the parser to read its signature, since the
record carries the parameter names.

A parser that cannot be imported is no longer re-runnable from a stored
node. The archive shows what parsed the job and its source, and carries
no code that runs when the node is read.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
A callable that can be imported here is serialized as a reference to its
module, which is what a checkpoint wants: it is smaller, and it keeps
the callable in step with the code that is installed. A payload that
leaves this machine wants the opposite, since the module it refers to
may not be installed at the other end. That is a calculation job
uploading a Python function to run on a remote computer.

`dumps(value, self_contained=True)` registers the module that defines
the callable to be serialized by value. It changes nothing for a lambda
or a closure, which have no name to be referred to and are carried whole
either way.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
The `parser` input accepted an `EntryPointData` or a `CallableData`, so
every consumer had to branch on which one it was handed, and the two
answered the same questions differently: only one could give the
signature without loading the callable, and only one recorded a source.

An entry point is a third way of identifying a callable, alongside a
module and name, and a fingerprint. So `CallableData` records it and the
port takes that type alone. The entry point is checked to resolve to the
callable it is recorded with, and `load` prefers it, since a plugin is
free to move a callable and keep its entry point pointing at it.

The attribute is `callable_entry_point`, because `entry_point` on a node
already means the entry point of the node class itself.

`EntryPointData` stays registered, since `aiida-shell` released it under
the same entry point name and the nodes it wrote have to keep loading,
but nothing produces one any more.
@GeigerJ2
GeigerJ2 force-pushed the v3/7615/callable-record branch from f65d9bc to 71d3638 Compare September 8, 2026 15:52
@GeigerJ2 GeigerJ2 changed the title ♻️ v3: Replace pickled callable nodes with a record ♻️ v3: Stop storing executable pickles in the graph Sep 8, 2026
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
A pickled callable stored as a node puts its bytes in the repository,
the graph and every archive, permanently, and reading it means running
the code inside it. `CallableData` records what a callable is instead:
its source text, where that source came from, and either the module and
name that can import it or a fingerprint of its serialized form.

Those two forms of identity are kept apart on purpose. Closures built by
the same factory share a name, a source text and a source location, so
only what they capture separates them. Conversely, fingerprinting an
importable callable would tie the node hash to the installed pickler
version, where its name already identifies it exactly. A callable that
is neither importable nor serializable is refused, since without a
fingerprint the record could not tell it from any other closure.

`aiida.common.callables` holds the primitives, low enough that the
checkpoint serializer can use them without importing the ORM. It
serializes with `cloudpickle`, which covers closures, lambdas,
`functools.partial` and callable objects, and can also serialize a
callable for a machine that cannot import the module defining it. `dill`
cannot do that last one at any setting: `byref` and `recurse` make no
difference to how it writes an importable function.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
PyYAML writes a callable as a reference to its `__module__` and
`__name__`, so a lambda, a closure, or anything defined in `__main__`
went into the checkpoint under a name that resolves to nothing, and the
process could not be continued afterwards. `__qualname__` is dropped
along the way, so `make_parser.<locals>.parse` was written as `parse`
and would have loaded a module level function of that name had one
existed. A `functools.partial` could not be represented at all.

Such callables now go under `!aiida_callable` as bytes, while anything
that can be imported keeps the name reference it had. Both the raw and
the parsed inputs are serialized into every checkpoint, so this reached
any process that was handed a callable.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node, which the
parser unpickled in order to call it. It is now recorded in a
`CallableData`, and the callable itself is persisted with the process,
so a worker still has it after rebuilding the process from its
checkpoint to parse a job that finished meanwhile.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is already gone from the raw inputs by the time the process
exists. The record therefore carries it across: a `CallableData` keeps a
reference to the callable it recorded, which `on_create` takes off it. A
`Parser` is constructed from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a
`get_parse_kwargs` hook for process state that a parser needs.

Validation no longer loads the parser to read its signature, since the
record carries the parameter names.

A parser that cannot be imported is no longer re-runnable from a stored
node. The archive shows what parsed the job and its source, and carries
no code that runs when the node is read.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
A callable that can be imported here is serialized as a reference to its
module, which is what a checkpoint wants: it is smaller, and it keeps
the callable in step with the code that is installed. A payload that
leaves this machine wants the opposite, since the module it refers to
may not be installed at the other end. That is a calculation job
uploading a Python function to run on a remote computer.

`dumps(value, self_contained=True)` registers the module that defines
the callable to be serialized by value. It changes nothing for a lambda
or a closure, which have no name to be referred to and are carried whole
either way.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
The `parser` input accepted an `EntryPointData` or a `CallableData`, so
every consumer had to branch on which one it was handed, and the two
answered the same questions differently: only one could give the
signature without loading the callable, and only one recorded a source.

An entry point is a third way of identifying a callable, alongside a
module and name, and a fingerprint. So `CallableData` records it and the
port takes that type alone. The entry point is checked to resolve to the
callable it is recorded with, and `load` prefers it, since a plugin is
free to move a callable and keep its entry point pointing at it.

The attribute is `callable_entry_point`, because `entry_point` on a node
already means the entry point of the node class itself.

`EntryPointData` stays registered, since `aiida-shell` released it under
the same entry point name and the nodes it wrote have to keep loading,
but nothing produces one any more.
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
Nothing produces either of them any more. A callable handed to
`ShellJob`, as an object or as an entry point string, is recorded in a
`CallableData`, which stores a description of it rather than the
callable itself.

Removing them needs no migration. `load_node_class` falls back to the
base `Data` class for any `aiida.data` entry point it cannot find, so a
node that `aiida-shell` wrote keeps its type string, still loads, and
still hands back its attributes and its repository contents. What such
a node loses is `PickledData.load()`, the method that ran the code in
the pickle, which is the reason the class is going in the first place.

`dill` was there only for `PickledData` and goes with it. Callables are
serialized with `cloudpickle`.
@GeigerJ2
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GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
A pickled callable stored as a node puts its bytes in the repository,
the graph and every archive, permanently, and reading it means running
the code inside it. `CallableData` records what a callable is instead:
its source text, where that source came from, and either the module and
name that can import it or a fingerprint of its serialized form.

Those two forms of identity are kept apart on purpose. Closures built by
the same factory share a name, a source text and a source location, so
only what they capture separates them. Conversely, fingerprinting an
importable callable would tie the node hash to the installed pickler
version, where its name already identifies it exactly. A callable that
is neither importable nor serializable is refused, since without a
fingerprint the record could not tell it from any other closure.

`aiida.common.callables` holds the primitives, low enough that the
checkpoint serializer can use them without importing the ORM. It
serializes with `cloudpickle`, which covers closures, lambdas,
`functools.partial` and callable objects, and can also serialize a
callable for a machine that cannot import the module defining it. `dill`
cannot do that last one at any setting: `byref` and `recurse` make no
difference to how it writes an importable function.
@GeigerJ2
GeigerJ2 force-pushed the v3/7615/callable-record branch from d24e52d to d476ea4 Compare September 10, 2026 07:31
GeigerJ2 added a commit to GeigerJ2/aiida-core that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
A pickled callable stored as a node puts its bytes in the repository,
the graph and every archive, permanently, and reading it means running
the code inside it. `CallableData` records what a callable is instead:
its source text, where that source came from, and one of three ways to
identify it. An entry point, if a plugin registers it, since that
survives the callable being moved. Otherwise the module and qualified
name that import it. Otherwise a fingerprint of its serialized form.

The last two are kept apart on purpose. Closures built by the same
factory share a name, a source text and a source location, so only what
they capture separates them. Conversely, fingerprinting an importable
callable would tie the node hash to the installed pickler version, where
its name already identifies it exactly. A callable that is neither
importable nor serializable is refused, since without a fingerprint the
record could not tell it from any other closure.

`aiida.common.callables` holds the primitives, low enough that the
checkpoint serializer can use them without importing the ORM. It
serializes with `cloudpickle`, which covers closures, lambdas,
`functools.partial` and callable objects, and which can write a module
into the payload rather than name it. Which modules have to travel that
way is a property of the reader, not of the callable, so `dumps` takes
the set and `required_modules` derives it against what that reader can
import. Carrying the defining module alone would not do: a function
calling into a second local module still names that one, and a closure
has no defining module to carry while still naming what it calls.

`resolves_in` answers the question `is_importable` answers, for another
interpreter's paths rather than this one's, and treats a name that would
find a different file as unresolvable, since such a reference runs other
code without saying so.

`dill` cannot serialize by value at any setting: `byref` and `recurse`
make no difference to how it writes an importable function.
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A daemon worker imports from the `sys.path` of the process that started
the daemon, replicated to it as `PYTHONPATH` and frozen there. So a name
persisted for a worker to resolve later is recoverable only if that path
finds it, and the interpreter doing the persisting can extend its own
path long afterwards. What one can import is not what the other can.

The env info file the daemon already writes at startup gains those
paths, alongside the package versions and the interpreter it records.
`get_daemon_import_paths` reads them back, cached on the file's
modification time, so a restart invalidates the entry instead of serving
a path the daemon no longer has. Assembling the path of that file walks
the whole configuration, which is too slow to repeat per lookup, so it
is cached per profile as well.

The field is optional, leaving a file written before this readable.
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PyYAML writes a callable as a reference to its `__module__` and
`__name__`, so a lambda, a closure, or anything defined in `__main__`
went into a checkpoint under a name that resolves to nothing.
`__qualname__` is dropped along the way, so `make_parser.<locals>.parse`
was written as `parse` and would have loaded a module level function of
that name had one existed. A `functools.partial` could not be
represented at all.

A name can also resolve here and not in the worker that reads the
checkpoint back, since that worker imports from the path the daemon
froze at startup. A directory added to a submitting shell afterwards is
importable only in that shell. A name that would find a different file
there is worse than one that finds nothing, because it runs other code
without saying so.

Both are the same question: whether the reader recovers this object from
its name. Where it cannot, the callable is written under
`!aiida_callable` as bytes, together with the modules it reaches that
the reader lacks. Modules the reader has stay references, so a payload
never carries an installed dependency nor pins the version of one.

Nothing reached the first case. `Process.__init__` serializes inputs
into nodes before they become the raw inputs, and `ProcessBuilder` does
the same on assignment, so no callable ever entered a checkpoint. It was
a latent defect rather than a failure anyone could hit, and the next
commit, which persists a callable as a member of the process, is the
first thing to depend on it.
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The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node, which the
parser unpickled in order to call it. It is now recorded in a
`CallableData`, and the callable itself is persisted with the process,
so a worker still has it after rebuilding the process from its
checkpoint to parse a job that finished meanwhile.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is already gone from the raw inputs by the time the process
exists. The record therefore carries it across: a `CallableData` keeps a
reference to the callable it recorded, which `on_create` takes off it. A
`Parser` is constructed from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a
`_get_parse_kwargs` hook for process state that a parser needs.

An entry point string is recorded the same way, so the port takes one
node type and no consumer has to branch on which it was handed.
Validation reads the parameters the record stored, rather than loading
the parser to inspect its signature, and rejects one whose arguments
cannot be supplied positionally, which is how the hook is called.

A parser that cannot be imported is no longer re-runnable from a stored
node. The archive shows what parsed the job and its source, and carries
no code that runs when the node is read.
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`@pytest.mark.usefixtures` has no effect when applied to a fixture, so
the marker on `setup_codes` never ran `aiida_profile_clean` and the
fixture kept starting from whatever the previous test had left in the
profile. Requesting the fixture as an argument is what the rest of the
suite does.

The symptom is `UNIQUE constraint failed: db_dbcomputer.label` at setup
of the tests that use it, once an earlier test has already created a
computer with that label.
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Nothing produces either of them any more. A callable handed to
`ShellJob`, as an object or as an entry point string, is recorded in a
`CallableData`, which stores a description of it rather than the
callable itself.

Removing them needs no migration. `load_node_class` falls back to the
base `Data` class for any `aiida.data` entry point it cannot find, so a
node that `aiida-shell` wrote keeps its type string, still loads, and
still hands back its attributes and its repository contents. What such a
node loses is `PickledData.load()`, the method that ran the code in the
pickle, which is the reason the class is going in the first place.

`dill` was there only for `PickledData` and goes with it. Callables are
serialized with `cloudpickle`.
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PyYAML writes a callable as a reference to its `__module__` and
`__name__`, so a lambda, a closure, or anything defined in `__main__`
went into a checkpoint under a name that resolves to nothing.
`__qualname__` is dropped along the way, so `make_parser.<locals>.parse`
was written as `parse` and would have loaded a module level function of
that name had one existed. A `functools.partial` could not be
represented at all.

A name can also resolve here and not in the worker that reads the
checkpoint back, since that worker imports from the path the daemon
froze at startup. A directory added to a submitting shell afterwards is
importable only in that shell. A name that would find a different file
there is worse than one that finds nothing, because it runs other code
without saying so.

Both are the same question: whether the reader recovers this object from
its name. Where it cannot, the object is written under `!aiida_callable`
as bytes, together with the modules it reaches that the reader lacks.
Modules the reader has stay references, so a payload never carries an
installed dependency nor pins the version of one.

The class of the process is the same question asked once more, and it is
asked of the identifier rather than of the class, because a process
built from a function is identified by that function and not by its own
dynamically built class. A class the worker cannot import travels in the
checkpoint beside its name, which lets a workchain defined in a notebook
run on the daemon at all. One that cannot be serialized, such as a class
defined inside a function that closes over a node, keeps the name it had
and fails exactly where it always did.

The question is answered in one place, next to the checkpoint it is
about, since the serializer and the class identity both ask it.
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The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node, which the
parser unpickled in order to call it. It is now recorded in a
`CallableData`, and the callable itself is persisted with the process,
so a worker still has it after rebuilding the process from its
checkpoint to parse a job that finished meanwhile.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is already gone from the raw inputs by the time the process
exists. The record therefore carries it across: a `CallableData` keeps a
reference to the callable it recorded, which `on_create` takes off it. A
`Parser` is constructed from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a
`_get_parse_kwargs` hook for process state that a parser needs.

An entry point string is recorded the same way, so the port takes one
node type and no consumer has to branch on which it was handed.
Validation reads the parameters the record stored, rather than loading
the parser to inspect its signature, and rejects one whose arguments
cannot be supplied positionally, which is how the hook is called.

A parser that cannot be imported is no longer re-runnable from a stored
node. The archive shows what parsed the job and its source, and carries
no code that runs when the node is read.
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`build_process_type` records the module a class was defined in whenever
no entry point registers it, and for a notebook cell or a script that
module is `__main__`. That names the entry point of whichever
interpreter is asking, so the string identifies a different module
everywhere else, permanently, in every database that holds the node.

Encoding identity into that string does not help. Subclass queries take
the part before the last two dots, so every `__main__` class already
collapses to the same prefix whatever is appended, and appending
anything at all breaks the entry point form the string otherwise has.

So the string is left alone and the class is recorded beside it: a
fingerprint, which separates two classes that share a name, and the
source, which is the only thing that says what actually ran once the
checkpoint carrying the class is gone. `ProcessNode.class_source` reads
it back.

`process_class` now says that the class was defined where no name
reaches it, rather than raising an import error about `__main__`, a
module that does exist and does not hold what is being looked for.
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`@pytest.mark.usefixtures` has no effect when applied to a fixture, so
the marker on `setup_codes` never ran `aiida_profile_clean` and the
fixture kept starting from whatever the previous test had left in the
profile. Requesting the fixture as an argument is what the rest of the
suite does.

The symptom is `UNIQUE constraint failed: db_dbcomputer.label` at setup
of the tests that use it, once an earlier test has already created a
computer with that label.
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docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst-706-707 (1)

706-707: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the explanation for function-local parsers.

A function-local parser does not always live in __main__. If it is defined in an imported module, its module is importable, but its qualified name contains <locals> and cannot recover the parser. Limit the __main__ explanation to scripts and notebooks.

Suggested wording
-    Those all live in ``__main__``, which names a different module in the interpreter that would have to import it, so the name identifies nothing there.
+    A function-local parser cannot be recovered by its module and qualified name because its qualified name contains ``<locals>``. A parser defined in a script or notebook also lives in ``__main__``, which may not identify the original parser in the reading interpreter.
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minimal, and validate.

In `@docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst` around lines 706 - 707, Update the
function-local parser explanation to distinguish scripts and notebooks, where
the parser lives in __main__, from parsers defined inside functions in imported
modules. State that imported-module parsers have an importable module but a
qualified name containing <locals>, so the parser cannot be recovered.
src/aiida/orm/nodes/process/process.py-312-316 (1)

312-316: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report source availability accurately and assign the exception message.

A fingerprint does not guarantee that class_source exists. _setup_class_record keeps the fingerprint when source_of() returns None. In that case, this message incorrectly states that the source is stored.

Build the source guidance conditionally. Assign the complete message to msg before raising.

As per coding guidelines: “Assign exception messages to a variable before raising: msg = f'...'; raise TypeError(msg)”.

Proposed fix
-            raise ValueError(
+            source_detail = (
+                'Its source is kept on the node: see the `class_source` property.'
+                if self.class_source is not None
+                else 'Its source could not be recorded.'
+            )
+            msg = (
                 f'the process class of Node<{self.pk}> was defined in `{self.process_type.rsplit(".", 1)[0]}`, which '
-                f'identifies nothing outside the interpreter that ran it, so it cannot be loaded. Its source is kept '
-                f'on the node: see the `class_source` property.'
+                f'identifies nothing outside the interpreter that ran it, so it cannot be loaded. {source_detail}'
             )
+            raise ValueError(msg)
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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/aiida/orm/nodes/process/process.py` around lines 312 - 316, Update the
process-class loading error path in the relevant Node method to assign the
complete message to a msg variable before raising, and make the source guidance
conditional on class_source actually being available. Do not claim the source is
kept on the node when only a fingerprint exists; preserve the existing error
context and raise using msg.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/aiida/common/callables.py-202-202 (1)

202-202: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Deduplicate carry before registration.

If carry contains the same module twice, registered contains it twice. The first cleanup removes the registry entry. The second cleanup raises ValueError, which replaces a successful serialization result. Cloudpickle raises this error when a module is not registered. (github.com)

Deduplicate modules by name before registration and cleanup.

Proposed fix
-    registered = [module for module in carry if module.__name__ not in cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value()]
+    registered = {
+        module.__name__: module
+        for module in carry
+        if module.__name__ not in cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value()
+    }.values()
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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/aiida/common/callables.py` at line 202, Deduplicate the carry modules by
__name__ before building registered, so each module is registered and cleaned up
at most once. Update the surrounding registration/cleanup flow in the relevant
callable serialization logic while preserving the existing behavior for unique
modules.
tests/engine/test_callables_through_the_daemon.py-244-244 (1)

244-244: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Narrow class_source before passing it to textwrap.dedent.

tests/ is excluded from the pre-commit mypy hook, so this is not an enforced typing violation. However, _setup_class_record stores source only when source_of() returns text, and ProcessNode.class_source returns None when the source object is absent. textwrap.dedent then raises TypeError before the intended assertions.

Proposed fix
-    source = textwrap.dedent(node.class_source)
+    class_source = node.class_source
+    assert class_source is not None
+    source = textwrap.dedent(class_source)
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In `@tests/engine/test_callables_through_the_daemon.py` at line 244, Update the
setup around class_source before calling textwrap.dedent so the optional value
is narrowed to text when present, while preserving the intended assertions for
missing source objects. Use the ProcessNode.class_source value and the existing
source-record setup path rather than introducing unrelated changes.
src/aiida/engine/processes/persistence.py-665-665 (1)

665-665: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assign the exception message before raising.

AGENTS.md requires exception messages to be assigned to a variable before raising. This ValueError raises a literal directly.

Suggested wording
             except KeyError:
-                raise ValueError('Class name not found in saved state')
+                msg = 'Class name not found in saved state'
+                raise ValueError(msg)
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In `@src/aiida/engine/processes/persistence.py` at line 665, In the saved-state
validation path, update the ValueError raise in the class-name lookup handling
to first assign the exception message to a local variable, then raise ValueError
using that variable.
src/aiida/engine/daemon/client.py-769-769 (1)

769-769: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record the daemon worker import paths after restart_daemon.

Circus restarts the existing watcher with its stored env, so the workers retain the PYTHONPATH captured when the daemon started. restart_daemon() then calls _write_version_file(), which records the client process's current sys.path. If those paths changed, carried_modules can omit module payloads based on paths that the restarted workers do not use, and checkpoint restoration can fail. Record the paths in the daemon process or retain the original daemon-start snapshot.

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In `@src/aiida/engine/daemon/client.py` at line 769, Update restart_daemon and the
surrounding version-file path handling to record the daemon worker’s original
import paths rather than the client process’s current sys.path. Reuse the
daemon-start snapshot or obtain the paths from the daemon process, and ensure
_write_version_file and carried_modules use that worker path set after restarts.
src/aiida/parsers/parser.py-67-77 (1)

67-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document both public process_class accessors.

The repository requires Sphinx-style fields for public API. The getter lacks a :return: field, and the setter lacks a docstring with :param value:. Add the required documentation for both accessors.

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In `@src/aiida/parsers/parser.py` around lines 67 - 77, Update the public
process_class getter and setter documentation: add a Sphinx :return: field to
the getter describing the returned process class, and add a setter docstring
containing a :param value: field describing the assigned class. Keep the
existing behavior unchanged.
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src/aiida/orm/nodes/data/callable.py (1)

205-206: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add Sphinx return fields to the public API docstrings.

The repository requires Sphinx-style fields for public API documentation. Add a :returns: field to the listed CallableData properties and to get_source. This is a documentation refactor, not a major code refactor.

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In `@src/aiida/orm/nodes/data/callable.py` around lines 205 - 206, Update the
public API docstrings for the CallableData properties, including live_callable,
and get_source to include Sphinx-style :returns: fields describing their return
values; keep the implementation unchanged.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/aiida/calculations/shell.py`:
- Line 222: Update ShellJob.validate_parser to validate the complete
CallableData parameter metadata, including each parameter’s name and kind,
rather than relying on positional_parameters alone. Reject keyword-only or extra
parameters before submission, and accept only the supported signatures: dirpath,
or dirpath followed by parser.

In `@src/aiida/engine/processes/persistence.py`:
- Line 538: Update modules_the_reader_lacks() to return a distinct refusal
result instead of {} when reader paths are rejected. Make carried_modules() and
_save_class_identity() detect that result before serialization, retaining the
class name only when the existing reader-resolution check succeeds; otherwise
fail checkpoint creation rather than writing an unloadable payload.

In `@src/aiida/engine/processes/process.py`:
- Around line 797-798: Update _setup_class_record() to resolve recorded process
names against the module and verify exact class identity, rather than skipping
all non-__main__ modules; record the fingerprint and source whenever the
recorded class cannot be resolved exactly, including local or dynamically
generated classes. Preserve the special handling in
FunctionProcess.process_class, which must continue representing the wrapped
function rather than the generated process class.

---

Other comments:
In `@docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst`:
- Around line 706-707: Update the function-local parser explanation to
distinguish scripts and notebooks, where the parser lives in __main__, from
parsers defined inside functions in imported modules. State that imported-module
parsers have an importable module but a qualified name containing <locals>, so
the parser cannot be recovered.

In `@src/aiida/common/callables.py`:
- Line 202: Deduplicate the carry modules by __name__ before building
registered, so each module is registered and cleaned up at most once. Update the
surrounding registration/cleanup flow in the relevant callable serialization
logic while preserving the existing behavior for unique modules.

In `@src/aiida/engine/daemon/client.py`:
- Line 769: Update restart_daemon and the surrounding version-file path handling
to record the daemon worker’s original import paths rather than the client
process’s current sys.path. Reuse the daemon-start snapshot or obtain the paths
from the daemon process, and ensure _write_version_file and carried_modules use
that worker path set after restarts.

In `@src/aiida/engine/processes/persistence.py`:
- Line 665: In the saved-state validation path, update the ValueError raise in
the class-name lookup handling to first assign the exception message to a local
variable, then raise ValueError using that variable.

In `@src/aiida/orm/nodes/process/process.py`:
- Around line 312-316: Update the process-class loading error path in the
relevant Node method to assign the complete message to a msg variable before
raising, and make the source guidance conditional on class_source actually being
available. Do not claim the source is kept on the node when only a fingerprint
exists; preserve the existing error context and raise using msg.

In `@src/aiida/parsers/parser.py`:
- Around line 67-77: Update the public process_class getter and setter
documentation: add a Sphinx :return: field to the getter describing the returned
process class, and add a setter docstring containing a :param value: field
describing the assigned class. Keep the existing behavior unchanged.

In `@tests/engine/test_callables_through_the_daemon.py`:
- Line 244: Update the setup around class_source before calling textwrap.dedent
so the optional value is narrowed to text when present, while preserving the
intended assertions for missing source objects. Use the ProcessNode.class_source
value and the existing source-record setup path rather than introducing
unrelated changes.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/aiida/orm/nodes/data/callable.py`:
- Around line 205-206: Update the public API docstrings for the CallableData
properties, including live_callable, and get_source to include Sphinx-style
:returns: fields describing their return values; keep the implementation
unchanged.

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src/aiida/common/callables.py-202-214 (1)

202-214: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Deduplicate carry before registration.

If carry contains the same module twice, registered contains that module twice because the list is built before registration. Cleanup then unregisters the same module twice. Cloudpickle raises ValueError for the second unregister, so dumps fails after serialization completed. (github.com)

Deduplicate modules by name before registration. Apply this together with the existing registry lock fix.

Proposed fix
-    registered = [module for module in carry if module.__name__ not in cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value()]
+    registry = cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value()
+    registered = list(
+        {
+            module.__name__: module
+            for module in carry
+            if module.__name__ not in registry
+        }.values()
+    )
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In `@src/aiida/common/callables.py` around lines 202 - 214, Deduplicate modules in
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and later unregistered at most once. Update the surrounding serialization
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src/aiida/common/callables.py-150-150 (1)

150-150: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match the complete class name in the source fallback.

When inspect.getsource(value) fails for class Foo, source_of scans the method's source lines. class FooBar matches class Foo with startswith, so inspect.getblock can return FooBar's source. CallableData and the process code can then persist incorrect source metadata. This does not change the callable or process class used at runtime, so the impact is minor functional-correctness metadata corruption.

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     import inspect
     import linecache
+    import re
...
-            if line.lstrip().startswith(statement):
+            if re.match(rf'{re.escape(statement)}\b', line.lstrip()):
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tests/engine/test_persistence.py-341-341 (1)

341-341: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Force this test through the serialization-failure branch.

With reader_paths=(), modules_the_reader_lacks() can return None after its missing-module sanity check. _save_class_identity() then keeps the class name and returns before calling callables.dumps(). The current assertions do not reliably exercise the TypeError fallback.

Mock modules_the_reader_lacks() to return an empty mapping so callables.dumps() runs and the test verifies that fallback.

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 def test_class_identity_keeps_the_name_when_the_class_cannot_be_serialized(monkeypatch):
     ...
-    metadata = class_identity(ClosesOverANode, monkeypatch, ())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(persistence, 'modules_the_reader_lacks', lambda _: {})
+    metadata = class_identity(ClosesOverANode, monkeypatch, ())
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In `@src/aiida/calculations/shell.py`:
- Around line 166-170: Update the public Parser.process_class documentation to
add a Sphinx-style :return: field describing that it returns the CalcJob class,
while preserving the existing parameter and exception documentation.

In `@src/aiida/engine/daemon/client.py`:
- Line 769: Update restart_daemon() so the worker metadata preserves the
sys_path captured when the watcher started, rather than overwriting it with the
caller’s current sys.path; source it from the stored watcher or worker
environment while keeping checkpoint serialization compatible with restarted
workers.

In `@src/aiida/engine/processes/persistence.py`:
- Line 692: In the saved-state error path, update the raise in the surrounding
persistence function to first assign “Class name not found in saved state” to a
local variable named msg, then raise ValueError(msg).

In `@tests/parsers/test_shell.py`:
- Line 186: In the test case around the parser failure, assign the exception
text to a local msg variable before the raise statement, then raise RuntimeError
using msg while preserving the existing message and behavior.

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In `@src/aiida/common/callables.py`:
- Around line 202-214: Deduplicate modules in carry by module name before
building registered, so each module is registered and later unregistered at most
once. Update the surrounding serialization cleanup in the relevant callable to
preserve safe registry handling, including the existing registry lock fix, while
keeping cloudpickle.dumps behavior unchanged.
- Line 150: Update the class-declaration matching in source_of to require the
complete class name rather than using a prefix match, so Foo cannot match FooBar
before inspect.getblock extracts the fallback source.

In `@tests/engine/test_persistence.py`:
- Line 341: Update the test setup around class_identity and _save_class_identity
to mock modules_the_reader_lacks() as returning an empty mapping, ensuring
callables.dumps() executes and the TypeError serialization fallback is
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"""Convert the ``value`` to a ``CallableData`` instance if possible.

:param value: The object to serialize to a ``EntryPointData`` or ``PickledData`` instance.
:param value: The callable to record, or the entry point string of a registered one.
:raises TypeError: If the object is not a string or callable.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Document the process_class return value.

Parser is exported from aiida.parsers, so its public process_class property must use the required Sphinx-style fields. Add a :return: field describing the returned CalcJob class.

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docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst-709-709 (1)

709-709: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the archive replay requirement.

A module does not travel with CallableData for later archive replay. The callable payload exists only in the running checkpoint and is deleted when the process seals. Tell users to install the module in the interpreter that re-runs the parser.

Proposed fix
-    sure that module travels with the data.
+    sure that module is installed and importable in the interpreter that re-runs the parser.
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In `@docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst` at line 709, Update the archive
replay documentation around the CallableData guidance to state that the module
is not preserved with the data and that the callable payload is removed when the
process seals; instruct users to install the module in the interpreter that
reruns the parser.
src/aiida/common/callables.py-202-202 (1)

202-202: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Deduplicate modules before registering them.

carry accepts a general Collection, so it can contain the same module more than once. The list comprehension adds every duplicate to registered. The first cleanup unregisters the module, and the second cleanup raises ValueError, which makes a successful serialization fail.

Deduplicate by module.__name__ before registration.

Proposed fix
-    registered = [module for module in carry if module.__name__ not in cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value()]
+    existing = set(cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value())
+    registered = list(
+        {
+            module.__name__: module
+            for module in carry
+            if module.__name__ not in existing
+        }.values()
+    )
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In `@src/aiida/common/callables.py` at line 202, Update the registered-module
construction to deduplicate carry entries by module.__name__ before
registration, while retaining only modules not already present in
cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value(). Ensure each module name appears at
most once so cleanup cannot attempt duplicate unregistration.
src/aiida/common/callables.py-150-150 (1)

150-150: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match the complete class name before storing its source.

startswith(statement) also matches a preceding class such as ParserExtended when value.__name__ is Parser. On the fileless-module fallback path, source_of(Parser) then stores the source of the wrong class.

Require a class-name boundary before accepting the line.

Proposed fix
         for index, line in enumerate(lines):
-            if line.lstrip().startswith(statement):
+            stripped = line.lstrip()
+            suffix = stripped.removeprefix(statement).lstrip()
+            if stripped.startswith(statement) and suffix.startswith(('(', ':', '[')):
                 with contextlib.suppress(OSError, TypeError):
                     return ''.join(inspect.getblock(lines[index:]))
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match, not merely a prefix match: use the existing statement boundary so names
like ParserExtended are rejected when searching for Parser. Preserve storing the
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lookup logic.
src/aiida/calculations/shell.py-209-213 (1)

209-213: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Complete the public validator docstring.

Add Sphinx fields for both parameters and the return value.

Proposed documentation update
     """Validate the ``parser`` input.

     The record carries the parameter names, written when the callable was recorded, so nothing has to be
     reconstructed or executed to validate the signature.
+
+    :param value: The ``CallableData`` parser record to validate.
+    :param _: The unused port validation context.
+    :return: An error message if the signature is invalid, otherwise ``None``.
     """

As per coding guidelines: “Docstrings: Sphinx-style (:param:, :return:, :raises:) required for public API.”

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312-315: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Assign the exception message before raising.

The repository-wide Python convention requires exception messages to be assigned to a variable first. Store the formatted text in msg, then call raise ValueError(msg).

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In `@src/aiida/engine/daemon/client.py`:
- Around line 253-255: Update get_daemon_import_paths around get_daemon_client
and _daemon_env_info_path to verify the environment metadata belongs to the
current running daemon before accepting its import paths. Reject stale metadata
from stopped or replaced daemons by returning None, while preserving the
existing return behavior for metadata associated with the active daemon.

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Other comments:
In `@docs/source/howto/run_shell_commands.rst`:
- Line 709: Update the archive replay documentation around the CallableData
guidance to state that the module is not preserved with the data and that the
callable payload is removed when the process seals; instruct users to install
the module in the interpreter that reruns the parser.

In `@src/aiida/calculations/shell.py`:
- Around line 209-213: Complete the public validator docstring for the parser
validation method by adding Sphinx-style fields describing both parameters and
the return value, while preserving the existing explanation of recorded
parameter names.

In `@src/aiida/common/callables.py`:
- Line 202: Update the registered-module construction to deduplicate carry
entries by module.__name__ before registration, while retaining only modules not
already present in cloudpickle.list_registry_pickle_by_value(). Ensure each
module name appears at most once so cleanup cannot attempt duplicate
unregistration.
- Line 150: Update the class-source lookup condition in the fileless-module
fallback to require a complete class-name match, not merely a prefix match: use
the existing statement boundary so names like ParserExtended are rejected when
searching for Parser. Preserve storing the source only for the exact class
declaration in the relevant callable/source lookup logic.

---

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In `@src/aiida/orm/nodes/process/process.py`:
- Around line 312-315: In the process-class loading logic, assign the formatted
exception text to a local variable named msg before raising. Update the existing
ValueError statement to raise ValueError(msg) while preserving the current
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try:
name = get_daemon_client(profile_name).profile.name
stamp = pathlib.Path(_daemon_env_info_path(name)).stat().st_mtime

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject import paths from a stopped daemon.

get_daemon_import_paths trusts any retained environment-info file. If cleanup fails or the daemon terminates unexpectedly, these paths describe an old worker. carried_modules can then retain a name that the next worker cannot import, which makes the checkpoint unloadable.

Verify that the metadata belongs to the current running daemon before returning it. Return None for stale metadata.

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`PickledData` pickles a callable into a node, so its bytes sit in the
graph and in every archive permanently, and reading the node unpickles
them. `CallableData` records a description instead: the source, where
that source came from, and one identifier, which is an entry point, or a
module and qualified name, or a fingerprint for a lambda or closure that
no name reaches.

The fingerprint is only for that third case. It hashes the serialized
form, so using it for an importable callable would put the pickler
version into the node hash that caching compares, where the name already
identifies the callable exactly. Body identity comes from the source
text instead, which the node keeps in its repository and the hash
covers. A pickler or interpreter upgrade does move a fingerprint, and
misses the cache for every closure recorded before it, which is the
conservative answer: a payload written under the old one may not load
under the new.

`aiida.common.callables` holds the primitives. It imports no ORM, so the
checkpoint serializer can use it. It uses `cloudpickle`, which writes a
lambda, a closure or anything from `__main__` into the payload as bytes
instead of as a name to import, and whose `register_pickle_by_value`
does the same for a named module. `dill` does neither.

`aiida.common.distributions` resolves the distribution a module comes
from, its version, and its commit for a VCS install, by reading the
`direct_url.json` PEP 610 has installers write. That covers editable
installs, which `packages_distributions` misses. It reads the file
through `Distribution.origin`, which `importlib_metadata` grew in 6.11,
so the requirement moves from `~=6.0` to `>=6.11,<10`. conda-forge
skipped 6.11, packaging 6.10.0 and then 7.0.0, so under the old ceiling
no release it offers carries the property. Those three and the
source location are recorded but kept out of the node hash, so that
caching keeps matching: a version bumps on any release and a source line
moves when a line is added above the definition, and a miss on either
would rerun a calculation whose callable had not changed.
A workchain written in a notebook cell can now be submitted to the
daemon. Its class lives in `__main__`, which names a different module in
every interpreter, so the worker used to except with `ImportError:
object 'MyWorkChain' from identifier '__main__:MyWorkChain' could not be
loaded`. The checkpoint now carries the class as bytes.

A calcjob needs one thing beyond that. Its `Parser` is built from the
node alone and reads the output spec, the exit codes and the retrieved
link label off `self.node.process_class`, which resolves the recorded
name and so raises for a notebook class. The running process now
supplies its own class, with the node as the fallback every other parser
uses. Parsing a stored node later still raises: there is no process left
to ask, and the checkpoint that carried the class is deleted when the
node seals.

A lambda, a closure and a `functools.partial` were written as names that
reach nothing, because PyYAML writes a callable as `__module__` and
`__name__` and drops `__qualname__`. `aiida-core` put no callable in a
checkpoint, so that stayed latent until one is persisted with the
process.

A name can also resolve here and not in the worker, which imports from
the `sys.path` the daemon froze at startup. The daemon now writes those
paths into its env info file, read back cached on the file's mtime. A
name that would find a *different* file there counts as unresolvable
too, since following it runs other code silently.

The check runs on the recorded name, which is what the checkpoint
stores. A workchain or a calcjob is a class defined somewhere, so that
name is its own and following it lands on the class.

A `@calcfunction` or a `@workfunction` has no such class. plumpy
generates one per function and gives it the function's module and name,
so following the name lands on the function, and plumpy rebuilds the
class from it. The name works; the class it names is a different object.
Checking the class rather than the name would therefore answer no for
every process function, and each would carry a pickled class it has no
use for.

Four tests run such a process through a real worker: a workchain from a
module outside the daemon's `sys.path`, a workchain and a process
function in `__main__`, and a calcjob in `__main__` whose outputs are
parsed. A fifth submits an installed plugin and asserts it carries no
payload. The module outside the path is written after the fixture has
started the daemon, since a worker inherits the `sys.path` of whatever
started it.
`build_process_type` records a class defined in a notebook or a script
as `__main__:TheClass`, which names a different module in every
interpreter. The checkpoint carrying that class is deleted when the node
seals, so the node was left with a name that reaches nothing. A
fingerprint of the class and its source go on the node, and
`ProcessNode.class_source` reads the source back.

`process_type` itself is unchanged. Querying for a subclass matches the
string up to its last two dots, so every `__main__` class collapses to
one prefix however the rest is spelled, and anything appended breaks the
`group:name` entry point form.

What the node gains is the ability to answer afterwards. The source says
what ran once the checkpoint is gone, and the fingerprint separates two
classes that share a name, which two notebooks readily produce. The
end-to-end calcjob test reads both off the node once it has sealed,
which is when the checkpoint is deleted.
The `parser` input stored the callable as a pickled node that the parser
unpickled to call. It is a `CallableData` now, and the callable is
persisted with the process, so a worker rebuilt from a checkpoint still
has it when it parses a job that finished meanwhile. An entry point
string produces the same node type, so the port declares one and nothing
downstream branches on the form it was given.

`ProcessBuilder` runs the port serializer on assignment, so the raw
callable is gone from the raw inputs before the process exists. The
record carries it across and `on_create` takes it off. A `Parser` is
built from the node alone, so `CalcJob` gains a `_get_parse_kwargs` hook
for process state a parser needs.

`PickledData` and `EntryPointData` have no producer left and are
removed, with `dill`, which served only them. No migration is needed:
`load_node_class` falls back to `Data` for an unknown `aiida.data` entry
point, so a node either of them wrote still loads with its attributes
and repository contents. It loses `load()`, which ran the code in the
pickle.

The test submits a shell job whose parser hook calls into a module the
daemon cannot import, and reads the output it returns. It joins the
end-to-end daemon tests the earlier commits added.
A checkpoint is rewritten at every step of a process, and carrying a
class made it bigger: a minimal workchain goes from 1.2 kB to 9 kB, and
a parser hook that closes over an array carries the array. Every one of
those writes rewrote a row of `db_dbnode`.

Measured on PostgreSQL, a node attribute is more than twice as fast
below 30 kB, because rewriting a row costs less than creating and
deleting a loose object. The two are within noise of each other from
60 kB to 500 kB, and the repository wins by 2.4x at 1 MB and 7.5x at
10 MB. So the payload goes to whichever is cheaper for its length, with
the boundary in that plateau, where the choice does not matter.

Every worker has to be able to read the payload, and the repository is
the one place besides the database that a worker is already guaranteed
to reach: node files live there, so `repository_uri` has to name storage
every worker shares before anything else works. It goes in as a managed
object, whose lifetime the repository leaves to its writer, because what
collects unreferenced objects reads `repository_metadata` and a
checkpoint is named by an attribute. The engine therefore deletes the
object itself when the checkpoint is rewritten or the process ends. The
repository addresses an object by its content, so an unchanged payload
keeps its key and is skipped.

`ProcessNode.checkpoint` holds a key for a process whose checkpoint went
to the repository, which is what `CHECKPOINT_OBJECT_PREFIX` marks.
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