Reliability Shared (all languages) active any

Outbound dependencies have explicit time budgets

bp-rel-001

Intent

Bound remote calls, waits, and queue or pool acquisition so one slow dependency cannot pin work indefinitely.

Applicability

Applies to outbound I/O, blocking waits, connection pools, queues, and similar external waits. Return unknown when a shared wrapper owns timeout policy outside the visible scope.

What to inspect

Changed client construction, request calls, wait loops, pool acquisition, and timeout or deadline configuration.

Pass criteria

The changed path has an explicit timeout, deadline, or caller-driven cancellation budget.

Fail criteria

The changed path relies on unbounded defaults or waits forever on remote or contended work.

Do not flag

Pure in-memory work. Paths already clearly bounded by visible caller cancellation.

Confidence guidance

HIGH when an unbounded wait is directly visible. MEDIUM when policy may be hidden in a wrapper. LOW when the owning client is out of scope.

Remediation

Add an explicit timeout, deadline, or cancellation-aware wait.

Pass example

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 5*time.Second)
defer cancel()
resp, err := client.Do(req.WithContext(ctx))

Fail example

resp, err := client.Do(req)