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fix(server): Stop clears a finished delegated child's row held by a stale native subagent - #32307
A delegated child can finish its run while still recording a provider-native subagent (for example a Codex spawnAgent agent whose end state never arrived) as active, with no live turn item. The parent's task only settles when the child has no live child work, so the parent's Agents row stays Working indefinitely. Stop on the row (subagent.stop on the parent, then thread.stop on the child) and task_cancel (thread.stop on the child) find nothing to interrupt, so nothing clears it.
Reproduced on main with an orchestration test that seeds exactly that state (finished child run, active native record without a live item) and then sends the row's Stop sequence: the parent's row stays running.
Change
When thread.stop has no run or background work to interrupt, it now ends that thread's provider-native subagent records that are still active, bound to a run, and have no live turn item. Adapters write a native record and its turn item together, so such a record has lost its end. It ends the record's whole native subtree (the native agent's runless root turns and its nested native subagents) through the traversal settleBackgroundWork already used, extracted as endNativeSubagentTrees and shared by both paths. Settling the record lets the existing finalizer complete the parent's task with the child's result.
Runless records (Claude workflow members on a coordinator thread) are not selected. A native agent that is genuinely running has a live turn item, which counts as pending background work, so Stop still takes the interrupt path for it.
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts › "Stop settles a delegated row whose finished child still records a running native subagent": fails with main's Orchestrator.ts, passes with this change. The test sends the row's Stop sequence and checks the parent row, the native record, its root turn, a nested native record and its root.
ThreadStop.test.ts 45/45, plus the background-work, projection-settlement, runtime-recovery, restart and delegated-completion suites (133 tests across 8 files) pass.
vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests).
Runtime transcript (no visible client change; the row reads this server state):
Not checked: a live Codex child whose spawned agent never reports its end (the stuck state cannot be produced on demand with a real provider), and the iOS client the report used; the client sends the same commands through the shared client runtime.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
…w working after Stop, reproduces #32235
A delegated child whose run completed but still records a provider-native
subagent as running holds the parent's task in waiting_for_children. The
row's Stop (subagent.stop on the parent, thread.stop on the child) and a
recovery pass leave that task running.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
…s row settles
A delegated child that finished while still recording a provider-native
subagent as active held its parent's task forever: delegatedTaskProgress
treats the record as live work, and neither the row's Stop nor task_cancel
had anything to interrupt, so the parent's row stayed Working.
When thread.stop finds no live run or background work to interrupt, it now
ends that thread's provider-native subagent records that are still active
but have no live turn item, through the same endOrphanedNativeSubagent
settlement the interrupt path uses. The settled subagent.updated event then
drives the existing finalizer, which completes the parent's task with the
child's result. Records with a live run or turn item stay with the
interrupt path.
Fixes#32235
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The stale native record Stop ends can own a child thread whose runless root
turn still shows Working; end it the way the other native-stop paths do. The
test now settles through the production reactor and checks that thread.
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Stop's cleanup of a finished child's stale native subagent now skips a
record whose provider session is still live, since that session reports
the end itself, and only considers records from the thread's runs, which
leaves runless workflow members alone. It ends the native agent's nested
subagents and their roots through the same walk settleBackgroundWork uses,
now shared as endNativeSubagentTrees, with hasLiveSession hoisted beside it.
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A native subagent record that is still active but has no live turn item
lost its end, since adapters write the record and its item together. A
live provider session cannot tell such a stuck agent from a running one:
for Codex the stale agent itself keeps the session pinned. So a thread
Stop with nothing else to interrupt now ends these records and their
native subtree without checking session liveness.
settleBackgroundWork keeps its own per-call liveness cache and again ends
each interrupted subagent's tree right after that item's update, sharing
one visited set across items.
Tests: ThreadStop (regression fails on main with the row still running),
BackgroundWorkStop, ProjectionSettlement, ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService,
RestartBackgroundNote, RestartContinuation, DelegatedCompletionDelivery,
and vp run check:changed.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
On Linux/corex at base 240446e2d9625600b0c841faf6bddf367bd26967, orchestration regressions reproduced a stranded parent task/node/item still running after its child completed. Four cases failed before our repair. MCP reads can derive completed from the child while the stored task stays running; the original/bound-task guard in subagent.stop then skips repair. The original missed-finalization trigger and its relationship to compaction remain unproven. Full task IDs are opaque; shortened UUID errors did not establish a session-namespace regression.
A second reproduced defect may matter here: marking the repaired task's delivery disposed without removing it from the parent's reserved completion cohort leaves an outstanding wake dispatchable. Our runtime experiment created another parent run after Stop. Repair must release that reservation atomically, preserve sibling deliveries, and retain a queued wake's cancellation when merging the parent's cohort update.
Our candidate #32284 is at 20c0daa0ce1dca6da55965ee4714c6416f9057c3, based on 0bba3684b83ed359b465cd39c53ff2fb797841ad. Boat check:changed passed 120 tests, including all 47 ThreadStop cases; a fresh independent review passed 86 tests across ThreadStop and DelegatedCompletionDelivery with no remaining code findings. Full CI passed at that head. The regressions cover missed/published results, outstanding-wake rejection and queued-wake cancellation.
No device reproduction or iOS screenshots/video were obtained. device_open for Simlock on shiv failed with “limited to 2 devices at once. Close one in the Device panel first.” We owned no session to close, so no app, build, backend or Metro was started there. The iOS before/after evidence remained the sole readiness blocker; our PR is still draft. Handing this over without claiming the iOS symptom or compaction trigger was verified.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Stop now clears stale native-subagent state that can leave a finished delegated task stuck as Working. The cleanup reuses existing settlement logic and is limited to stale records and their native subtree, while preserving user-owned runs.
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Thanks. The two PRs overlap but recover different stuck states:
https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/32307 handles a finished child that still records a provider-native subagent as active with no live turn item. That record holds delegatedTaskProgress at waiting_for_children. It ends that record and its native subtree in thread.stop on the child, which both the row's Stop and task_cancel send. The existing finalizer then completes the parent task. After the row's Stop the child's result is offered as a normal completion delivery, which wakes the parent. task_cancel disposes that delivery afterwards.
https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/32284 repairs the parent task inside subagent.stop on the parent, which the row's Stop and task_cancel also send, and disposes the delivery so Stop does not wake the parent. It leaves a stale native record in the child as it is.
Neither PR establishes the original trigger. Two things are left to the maintainers: which Stop semantics to keep (deliver the result or settle silently), and whether to land one PR or combine them.
The orchestrator now uses shared recursive cleanup for native subagents during background-work settlement and for stale subagent records found by thread.stop. A regression test covers stopping a delegated task with nested native subagents.
Changes: Native subagent cleanup
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Summary
Recursive cleanup and settlement apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
A shared helper interrupts native subagents, interrupts runless root turns in child threads, and recursively processes nested subagents. Background-work settlement now calls the helper.
Thread-stop recovery and regression test apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts
When thread.stop has no target run, the orchestrator finds active provider-native subagents without a corresponding turn item and passes them to the helper. The test checks that stopping a delegated task and child thread interrupts nested native subagents and their root nodes.
The stop behavior is covered, but the new test may intermittently read the parent row before it settles. This is a bounded test-reliability risk rather than an established failure of the stop path.
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Issue #32235 asks for three behaviors. The change addresses the Stop behavior only for a narrow state: thread.stop finds active, run-bound provider-native subagents without a corresponding turn item…
Implement and test child-run completion settlement that does not depend on the parent's current MCP session. Implement and test task-ID resolution from the same parent thread after compaction or reconnect. Retain regression coverage for the…
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The title clearly summarizes the main change: stopping a finished delegated child’s row when a stale native subagent keeps it active.
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The whole-PR diff changes Orchestrator.ts to share native-subagent tree cleanup with thread.stop and adds stale-record handling. The ThreadStop.test.ts regression test verifies this behavior. Th…
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The whole-PR diff changes Orchestrator.ts to share native-subagent tree cleanup with thread.stop and adds stale-record handling. The ThreadStop.test.ts regression test verifies this behavior. The helper extraction supports the fix. These changes relate to issue #32235; the whole-PR diff shows no unrelated changes.
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Issue #32235 asks for three behaviors. The change addresses the Stop behavior only for a narrow state: thread.stop finds active, run-bound provider-native subagents without a corresponding turn item and ends their trees through endNativeSubagentTrees in Orchestrator.ts. ThreadStop.test.ts covers that state and the parent row completion. The change does not settle the row automatically when the child run completes, independent of the parent's MCP session. It also does not keep task IDs resolvable after compaction or reconnect. The issue's broader completion and task-ID requirements remain unmet.
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Implement and test child-run completion settlement that does not depend on the parent's current MCP session. Implement and test task-ID resolution from the same parent thread after compaction or reconnect. Retain regression coverage for the stale-native Stop state.
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Minor · Await the parent row milestone before reading row. · Orchestrator.ts:1882-1890
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:1882-1890 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Await the parent row milestone before reading row.
worker.drain() only runs effect-worker items. The parent row becomes "completed" in a separate fiber. settlesChildWork consumes subagent.updated events and runs under Effect.forkScoped (Orchestrator.ts:14250-14273). Events reach it through PubSub, so the consumer runs after the stop commits. The test reads statuses without waiting for that fiber, so the assertion can observe "running" and fail intermittently.
Wait for the persisted milestone, then assert. For example, await the parent's subagent.updated event with status: "completed" for this delegated task. Do not use sleeps or polling.
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Update the delegated-task test to await the parent’s persisted
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Implement the remaining #32235 behaviors, or narrow the linked scope and the
'Fixes' claim:
(a) Settle a delegated row when its child run completes, without a user Stop,
independent of the parent's MCP session that started it.
(b) Keep task IDs, including the bare uuid form, resolvable from the same parent
thread after compaction or MCP reconnect.
Add automated tests for (a) and (b). Confirm that the reported stuck state
matches the native-record state covered by ThreadStop.test.ts.
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Implement and test child-run completion settlement that does not depend on the
parent's current MCP session. Implement and test task-ID resolution from the
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the stale-native Stop state.
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Both sides: Linux web development client, Chrome 151, 1440×900, dark theme, separate worktrees and fresh databases. Identical synthetic events seed a completed delegated child with a final answer, a stale running native record without a live turn item, and a nested native subtree. No provider failure was induced.
Same interaction: open the child to read its final answer → return to the parent → press Stop on its delegated row → observe for six seconds. This checkout names the relationship panel Lineage.
Runtime observations confirm that both stale native records and root nodes remain running on base and become interrupted on head. The child run stays completed. Recordings were visually inspected before upload. No tests were used as evidence.
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The original provider terminal-event loss and reported compaction sequence were not reproduced; the stale state was injected through production event persistence.
Live provider subprocess interruption and other Stop paths were not exercised; this proof targets the completed-child stale-record path.
Desktop, mobile, and remote connection modes were not exercised; recordings cover the web client and real server.
Fetching origin returned HTTP 503 twice; the base was computed from the existing origin/main reference and available commit objects.
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Problem
A delegated child can finish its run while still recording a provider-native subagent (for example a Codex
spawnAgentagent whose end state never arrived) as active, with no live turn item. The parent's task only settles when the child has no live child work, so the parent's Agents row stays Working indefinitely. Stop on the row (subagent.stopon the parent, thenthread.stopon the child) andtask_cancel(thread.stopon the child) find nothing to interrupt, so nothing clears it.Reproduced on main with an orchestration test that seeds exactly that state (finished child run, active native record without a live item) and then sends the row's Stop sequence: the parent's row stays
running.Change
When
thread.stophas no run or background work to interrupt, it now ends that thread's provider-native subagent records that are still active, bound to a run, and have no live turn item. Adapters write a native record and its turn item together, so such a record has lost its end. It ends the record's whole native subtree (the native agent's runless root turns and its nested native subagents) through the traversalsettleBackgroundWorkalready used, extracted asendNativeSubagentTreesand shared by both paths. Settling the record lets the existing finalizer complete the parent's task with the child's result.Runless records (Claude workflow members on a coordinator thread) are not selected. A native agent that is genuinely running has a live turn item, which counts as pending background work, so Stop still takes the interrupt path for it.
Scope and approval
Fixes #32235
Triaged via the automated issue flow.
Verification
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts› "Stop settles a delegated row whose finished child still records a running native subagent": fails with main'sOrchestrator.ts, passes with this change. The test sends the row's Stop sequence and checks the parent row, the native record, its root turn, a nested native record and its root.ThreadStop.test.ts45/45, plus the background-work, projection-settlement, runtime-recovery, restart and delegated-completion suites (133 tests across 8 files) pass.vp run check:changedpasses (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests).Runtime transcript (no visible client change; the row reads this server state):
Not checked: a live Codex child whose spawned agent never reports its end (the stuck state cannot be produced on demand with a real provider), and the iOS client the report used; the client sends the same commands through the shared client runtime.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.