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fix(server): propagate parent lifecycle to subagent descendants#20072

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archiving or deleting a parent leaves its existing subagent descendants active. this propagates ordinary lifecycle operations through same-project subagent lineage while preserving independently archived children and newer descendant choices.

  • cascade archive, restore and delete through ordinary commands and cleanup effects; forks and foreign-project children stay independent.
  • retain receipt ownership and ordering across delayed dispatch, replay and compaction. restore reverses only archives owned by the parent's cascade.
  • share the ownership helper, continue delayed ancestor-owned traversal, and stop obsolete direct ancestor actions before child cleanup. retain dispatch ceilings and bounded receipt retries.
  • preserve @Quicksaver's commits and merge main. no new client capability or public wire field.

verification at deafe758466ed888b0eb89f8a514c5a088008a9e:

  • blacksmith vp run check:changed passed: 196 tests across nine existing files, affected typechecks, lint, formatting, knip and graphql checks. both new ordering regressions failed before their fixes and passed afterward.
  • real codex provider and web client: main leaves cascade children active; this branch archives them, restores without changing independent archives, and deletes all five threads. all 46 recorded outbox effects succeeded.
  • independent review findings addressed after one round and one follow-up. final ancestor guard verified by regression test. ci status is tracked on this pr.

unverified: late native child discovery (separate #20074), remote/relay, electron, mobile and other operating systems. existing human approval for recursive archive/delete remains required before landing.

before on main:

after with matching data:

restoring the parent preserves independent archives:

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes existing archive, restore, and delete operations to recursively affect subagent descendants, including provider cleanup and deletion, through a new durable outbox workflow. The cross-cutting orchestration, locking, retry, and destructive side effects require human review despite the added test coverage.

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  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts
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Archiving, restoring, or deleting a thread can cascade the lifecycle operation to its subagent descendants. The change adds child-thread lookup, replay-safe cascade effects, and recursive dispatch with dispatch-mode limits and receipt handling. Tests cover cascade behavior and retries; documentation distinguishes subagent descendants from forked threads.

Changes: Subagent lifecycle cascading

Layer / File(s)Summary
Child lookup and cascade effect wiring
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadDeletion.ts		Projection stores return matching direct subagent children. The orchestrator schedules lifecycle cascade effects for archive and unarchive when children exist, and enables deletion cascades when children exist, including deleted children. Cascade effects carry an optional dispatch-mode limit and are replay-safe.
Recursive lifecycle execution
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts		The service recursively applies lifecycle operations to subagent descendants. It handles dispatch-mode limits, locks, receipts, and child failures. The worker executes cascade effects through the service.
Runtime validation and documentation
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnControlService.test.ts, apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md		Runtime tests cover cascades, dispatch-mode changes, locks, and receipt retries. Test fixtures implement the added methods. Documentation describes cascade behavior and fork independence.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant Orchestrator
3 participant ProjectionStore
4 participant EffectWorker
5 participant ThreadManagementService
6 Orchestrator->>ProjectionStore: Look up direct subagent child threads
7 Orchestrator->>EffectWorker: Schedule lifecycle cascade effect
8 EffectWorker->>ThreadManagementService: Invoke cascadeSubagentLifecycle

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Security architecture risk: External image Moderate · up to f5614

Archiving, restoring, and deleting now affect an entire subagent tree. Project and permission limits remain enforced, but delayed propagation can override a newer child-level lifecycle choice.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A pending parent cascade can override a newer child lifecycle choice before its first child dispatch. For example, a parent archive commits while a child is archived; the child is independently restored before propagation runs; the pending cascade then archives it again. The request carries no causal sequence or child-version precondition. Accepted receipts preserve later choices only after the cascade has already acknowledged that child, and locks serialize execution without detecting choices committed before lock acquisition. This newly affects descendant ownership and reliable rollback. Whether pending parent actions intentionally take precedence over newer child choices remains unspecified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — One authorized lifecycle action can now affect the reachable same-project subagent subtree, including provider-native and app-owned descendants. Fork branches and foreign-project records are excluded by lookup predicates; above-ceiling descendants are excluded by dispatch controls.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The initiating runtime and interaction ceilings are serialized into the effect and restored during execution. New descendant mutations recheck those ceilings under the command lock; already-target archive and restore traversal checks them under the recursive thread lock before inserting a receipt or descending.
  • observed — Inspected creation paths construct subagent lineage from server-selected parent context. The public delegation path derives parent identity from authenticated thread scope rather than accepting an arbitrary parent identifier. No normal-path ability to manufacture a lineage cycle was established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Accepted descendant receipts preserve later lifecycle choices during replay after initial acknowledgment. This limits duplicate destructive execution, but does not resolve the pending-first-dispatch ordering concern.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.tslines 1195–1201Outdated · 7ea1cdbOpen thread
……@@ -1169,6 +1181,84 @@ const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
1198+ const receipt = yield* receipts.getByCommandId(id);
1199+ if (Option.isNone(receipt) || receipt.value.status === "accepted") return id;
1200+ }
1201+ });
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Bound the retry loop in commandIdFrom.

The loop has no upper limit. It reads one receipt per iteration and stops only at an unused or accepted id. Each rejected cascade attempt adds one more rejected suffix, so later replays get slower. A store that always returns a rejected receipt keeps the loop running forever and blocks the outbox worker. Add a maximum retry count, and fail with a typed error when the loop reaches it.

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8Bound the retry loop in `commandIdFrom` so it checks no more than a defined
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QQuicksaver25d ago

Fixed in cbdd49e86369a86f6693938a7564848a9462928f.

commandIdFrom now checks at most 32 IDs and raises the existing typed OrchestratorDispatchError with the original command ID, lifecycle type, and an explicit exhaustion cause if all are rejected. It still returns the first unused or accepted ID. Exhaustion writes no acknowledgment; healthy siblings finish before the failure reaches the outbox's retry/failure handling.

Ordinary worker retries default to five, but process-loss recovery can requeue a running effect before terminal failure is recorded. The bound covers that extended history and an inconsistent receipt store.

The focused receipt test seeds 31 rejections to verify selection and accepted replay at the last candidate. With 32 rejections it verifies the typed failure, unchanged child, completed healthy sibling, and no dispatch beyond the bound. That exhaustion test fails with the unbounded loop and passes with the bound restored. All 290 tests across nine focused server files, server typecheck, scoped lint/format, and whitespace checks passed. Exact source manifest and verification logs.

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  • fix(server): cascade parent lifecycle to subagent descendantsf561495
JJulius Marminge21d ago

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch scheduler-tasks-04. I will preserve contributor history, merge main, minimize the cascade tests, and rebuild lifecycle propagation while preserving independently archived children and later lifecycle choices. Fresh independent reviews and runtime proof will follow. Landing remains with the coordinator; no merge or watcher is planned.

Added 7 commits

  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/subagent-parent-lifecycle5068a61
  • fix(server): preserve descendant lifecycle choices during cascadesb042f83
  • fix(server): reverse delayed descendant lifecycle cascades577d810
  • fix(server): retain cascade ownership across superseded parent actions6084b7a
  • chore: merge main into subagent lifecycle fix8c89067
  • fix(server): continue ancestor-owned lifecycle cascades after delayed dispatch6a463b3
  • fix(server): skip superseded ancestor lifecycle effectsdeafe75
Mmaria15d ago

Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

updated the original branch, preserving @Quicksaver's commits and merging current main. the earlier takeover already preserves independently archived children. i kept that behavior and reused its receipt-ownership check in cascade traversal, fixing a late ancestor-owned archive that could leave a great-grandchild active. a second guard prevents a superseded direct parent action from dispatching child cleanup. main's compaction API and effect diagnostics are updated too. no new test files or client controls.

verification at deafe758466ed888b0eb89f8a514c5a088008a9e:

  • blacksmith vp run check:changed: 196 tests across nine existing files, both package typechecks, lint, formatting, both knip passes and graphql checks passed. both new ordering regressions failed before their fixes and pass afterward.
  • real codex provider created four completed app-owned children. on main, archiving their parent left the two non-archived children active. with this branch, archive includes them; restoring through settings preserves both independent archives. deleting through the real client's command path removed all five threads; all 46 recorded outbox effects succeeded.
  • matching-data screenshots and a 4-second restore recording below. uploaded images, playback and seeking were inspected. web on linux was exercised. native provider discovery, remote/relay, electron, mobile and other operating systems remain unverified.
  • two independent reviewers completed one round and one follow-up. findings are addressed; the final direct-ancestor guard has a failing-then-passing regression. the older bot concern about delayed independent choices is covered by the receipt sequence/ownership checks and the existing newer-child-choice tests. bounded retries remain intact.

@Quicksaver: buffered native children discovered after archive/delete are a separate creation-time race covered by your open #20074. i left that implementation there rather than duplicating it here. this pass verifies already-discovered descendants. macroscope's existing human-approval requirement remains for maria's review.

before on main: the two cascade children are absent from the archive list.

main leaves cascade children unarchived

after: both cascade children join the parent; independent archives remain.

parent archive includes existing subagent children

restoring the parent leaves only the independent archives.

restoring the parent preserves independent child archives