fix(server): handle busy ACP follow-up prompts#22697

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Problem

A follow-up prompt sent to an ACP session can fail with the raw “Agent is already processing. Use steer() or followUp()” error. Fixes #22660.

Change

Queue and retry only the exact recorded ACP busy rejection, preserving the original payload. Backoff increases from one second and caps at 30 seconds; the prompt stays queued until delivery or cancellation. The existing provider retry item shows the queued state. Stop prevents redispatch even when a retry is in flight; old agent output does not prematurely settle the notice. Other errors keep their existing behavior. No unsupported steering extension is sent.

Scope and approval

Fixes #22660

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow.

105 tests pass across the scoped registry/shared ACP adapter and connection suites. Targeted lint and server/provider scoped typechecks pass. Two independent review rounds found three bugs in round 1; all were fixed and round 2 found no confirmed code defect. Final proof audit returned SUFFICIENT; an independent R5 rebuild at the fixture commit had zero normalized semantic differences. Final head adds only Knip entry declarations for the committed scripts; server-scoped unused-code verification passes.

Verification

Evidence

Evidence index · Fixture matrix

Six before/after pairs run through the real isolated T3 server, authenticated public RPC, persisted projections, and a synthetic ACP v1 stdio provider (not actual oh-my-pi). Linux x86_64, Node v24.21.0. Before: 6a6c84f990. After runtime: eb303fe4b6. Head 27a924b004 adds the committed fixture/driver and guard tests; production source is identical to the after runtime SHA. The index includes source/script hashes and exact reproduction commands. No client render code changed; pixel captures do not apply.

Row	Before	After	Evidence and assertions
R1 Recovery	2; completed → failed	4 including fresh turn; completed → completed → completed	R1 paired transcript. Queue attempt 1, maxAttempts null, 1000 ms; identical full retry payload; exactly one successful confirmation acceptance; settled notice; reusable thread.
R2 Long busy	2; completed → failed	14; both turns completed	R2 paired transcript. 12 busy rejections; 241.060591302 s actual wall time; attempts 1–12; delays 1,2,4,8,16,30,30,30,30,30,30,30 s; all confirmation payloads equal; exactly one acceptance.
R3 Stop in backoff	2; completed → failed; subsequent Stop command accepted	3 including fresh turn; completed → interrupted → completed	R3 paired transcript. No outstanding prompt at Stop; cancel emitted; notice interrupted with no turn failure; count held at 2 for 60.002 s, then fresh independent turn.
R4 Stop in dispatch	2; completed → failed; subsequent Stop command accepted	4 including fresh turn; completed → interrupted → completed	R4 paired transcript. Third prompt held; cancel precedes its exact busy response; no resurrection; count held at 3 for 60.005 s, then fresh independent turn.
R5 Old root thought	2; follow-up failed; late thought emitted and not attached to failed run	3; both turns completed	R5 paired transcript. After queued notice persists, retry is held before acceptance. Old root thought produces a running reasoning node while retry notice stays running. Gate snapshot shows no premature terminal/recovery. Final getTurnItem returns exact thought text; reply completes and notice settles.
R6 Unrelated error	2; completed → failed	2; completed → failed	R6 paired transcript. Another internal error retained; no retry item or retransmission through the 2.2 s observation window.

Observed differences: busy errors queue instead of failing, the same payload reaches eventual acceptance, retry notices stay active through prior output and settle on completion/Stop, and stopped threads accept fresh prompts. Prior background reasoning now remains attached to the queued follow-up, where the failed baseline did not attach it. Unrelated errors still fail without retry.

Limits: real oh-my-pi lifecycle and Windows desktop remain unverified. Client rendering, other ACP providers, remote/relay/tunnel topology, and restart durability were not exercised. The queue is in memory. The retry notice can remain visible while an accepted prompt answers because ACP v1 has no acceptance signal. Stop forwards the existing native cancellation, including to previous background work.

All capture-owned processes stopped and the temporary before checkout was removed; cleanup record is in the evidence index.

Model and harness: gpt-6.1-sol through Codex in T3 Code; independent review also used claude-opus-5-5 through Claude Agent. Evidence uploaded with ghdrop.

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Added 2 commits6d ago

test(server): add issue 22660 takeover regression testsbd4431f
fix(server): queue ACP prompts rejected while agent is busy1aeb2e8

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	4.9 KiB	5.0 KiB	+30 B (+0.6%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+30 B (+2.5%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.8 KiB	20.9 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 8d3b061 · PR result: 7e0eb5e · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Added 3 commits6d ago

fix(server): retain busy ACP prompts until delivery or cancellationeb303fe
test(server): verify ACP busy recovery through live RPC27a924b
chore(server): register ACP live verifier entry pointsccb6942

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apps/server/scripts/verify-acp-busy-live.mjslines 36–36Outdated · ccb6942Open thread

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	33	+	});
	34	+	const root = NodePath.resolve(values.root);
	35	+	const evidence =
	36	+	values.output ?? NodeFS.mkdtempSync(NodePath.join(NodeOS.tmpdir(), "t3-acp-busy-"));

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🟡 Medium scripts/verify-acp-busy-live.mjs:36

With a relative --output such as evidence, the fixture writes its wire log relative to the session workspace instead of the driver's evidence directory, so verification fails because that directory is missing. commandArgs inherits the relative path, and the ACP runtime launches the fixture with the workspace as its cwd; resolve values.output before deriving paths from it.

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1	values.output ? NodePath.resolve(values.output) : NodeFS.mkdtempSync(NodePath.join(NodeOS.tmpdir(), "t3-acp-busy-"));

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3	With a relative `--output` such as `evidence`, the fixture writes its wire log relative to the session workspace instead of the driver's evidence directory, so verification fails because that directory is missing. `commandArgs` inherits the relative path, and the ACP runtime launches the fixture with the workspace as its `cwd`; resolve `values.output` before deriving paths from it.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The PR changes existing ACP follow-up execution by adding indefinite busy-response retries, queue state, cancellation coordination, and user-visible retry notices. It also adds a file-level Effect diagnostic suppression to the live verifier, and that static-analysis override requires human review under the configured criteria.

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📝 Walkthrough

The ACP session runtime retries prompts after exact busy errors. The adapter reports retry state and preserves busy-queue retries through root-session output. Replay tests and a live verifier cover retry, cancellation, recovery, and output timing.

Changes: ACP Busy-Prompt Retry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime retry and cancellation `packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts`	The runtime retries matching busy errors with delays capped at 30 seconds. It reports retry details through `onBusy` and stops queued retries when the prompt is cancelled.
Adapter retry-state reporting `packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts`	The adapter reports busy-queue retries with retry metadata and does not complete them through the root-session output path.
Retry and cancellation tests `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts`	Replay-session tests cover retry timing, cancellation, old output, prompt payloads, and errors that do not match the busy condition.
Live busy-lifecycle verification `apps/server/scripts/fixtures/acp-busy/agent.mjs`, `apps/server/scripts/verify-acp-busy-live.mjs`, `knip.jsonc`	The fixture provides configurable busy-prompt behavior. The verifier exercises retry, cancellation, recovery, output timing, and final run outcomes. Knip lists both scripts as server workspace entry points.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant Adapter
3	participant AcpSessionRuntime
4	participant ACPAgent
5	Adapter->>AcpSessionRuntime: Submit prompt
6	AcpSessionRuntime->>ACPAgent: session/prompt
7	ACPAgent-->>AcpSessionRuntime: Exact busy error
8	AcpSessionRuntime->>Adapter: Report retry attempt and delay
9	AcpSessionRuntime->>ACPAgent: Retry session/prompt after delay

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7e0eb

A narrow Stop/cancellation race can still dispatch a queued follow-up after cancellation; the change is otherwise low risk.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title is concise, conventional, and directly describes the primary change: handling busy ACP follow-up prompts.
Description check	Passed	The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the affected behavior, implementation, approval basis, test results, evidence, and kno…
Linked Issues check	Passed	Issue [`#22660`] requires the ACP follow-up to continue when the agent returns the busy rejection. `AcpSessionRuntime.ts` matches the recorded `-32603` code and exact error text, then retries the same `…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The changed production files are the ACP session runtime and ACP registry adapter that implement issue [`#22660`]. The added replay tests, synthetic ACP fixture, live verifier, and Knip entries support …

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Issue [#22660] requires the ACP follow-up to continue when the agent returns the busy rejection. AcpSessionRuntime.ts matches the recorded -32603 code and exact error text, then retries the same session/prompt payload with delays of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 30 seconds. The runtime tracks queued and cancellation states. adapter.ts reports the queued retry and does not settle that notice on earlier root output. The tests cover payload equality, long busy periods, Stop during backoff and dispatch, old output, and unrelated errors. The implementation uses retrying session/prompt; it does not send an unsupported steering extension.

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The changed production files are the ACP session runtime and ACP registry adapter that implement issue [#22660]. The added replay tests, synthetic ACP fixture, live verifier, and Knip entries support automated verification of the same retry and cancellation behavior. No unrelated production feature or unrelated change is established by the reviewed diff.

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8	- Around line 2614-2624: Check queueState.cancelRequested lazily immediately
9	before each session/prompt RPC in the retry loop around runLoggedRequest,
10	including retries after the initial attempt. If a retry is already cancelled,
11	return a cancelled PromptResponse without invoking acp.agent.prompt; otherwise
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packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.tslines 2614–2624Outdated · ccb6942Open thread

…	…	@@ -2580,12 +2602,59 @@ export const make = Effect.fn("AcpSessionRuntime.make")(function* (
	2621	+	"session/prompt",
	2622	+	requestPayload,
	2623	+	acp.agent.prompt(requestPayload),
	2624	+	).pipe(Effect.result);

CcoderabbitaiBoton lines 2614–26246d ago

🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check cancelRequested immediately before each session/prompt write.

cancelRequested is checked only after a busy rejection. A Stop can still arrive in one narrow window, and the retry then sends the prompt after the Stop.

The failing sequence:

The backoff sleep ends.
The fiber sees phase !== "cancelling" and sets phase = "dispatching".
The fiber yields inside runLoggedRequest, which runs logRequest before it calls acp.agent.prompt.
cancel runs during that yield. It sees "dispatching", so it skips the queued path.
The adapter passes interruptPromptOnCancel: false, so cancel sends session/cancel and does not interrupt the fiber.
The retried session/prompt can reach the agent after session/cancel.

If the agent became idle in the meantime, it accepts and runs the user's message after Stop. The PR objective says a stopped prompt must never be dispatched again.

The window is small. Each backoff cycle opens it again, and the loop has no attempt limit.

cancel sets cancelRequested synchronously before it writes session/cancel. A lazy check right before the RPC call therefore covers every interleaving:

If the check runs after cancel set the flag, the prompt is never sent.
If the check runs first, the prompt is queued ahead of the cancel, and the agent cancels it.

🐛 Proposed fix

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1	queueState.phase = "dispatching";
2	const result = yield* runLoggedRequest(
3	"session/prompt",
4	requestPayload,
5	- acp.agent.prompt(requestPayload),
6	+ Effect.suspend(() =>
7	+ attempt > 0 && queueState.cancelRequested
8	+ ? Effect.succeed({
9	+ stopReason: "cancelled",
10	+ } satisfies EffectAcpSchema.PromptResponse)
11	+ : acp.agent.prompt(requestPayload),
12	+ ),
13	).pipe(Effect.result);

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1	for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) {
2	if (queueState.phase === "cancelling") {
3	yield* Deferred.await(queueCancelled);
4	return { stopReason: "cancelled" } satisfies EffectAcpSchema.PromptResponse;
5	}
6	queueState.phase = "dispatching";
7	const result = yield* runLoggedRequest(
8	"session/prompt",
9	requestPayload,
10	Effect.suspend(() =>
11	attempt > 0 && queueState.cancelRequested
12	? Effect.succeed({
13	stopReason: "cancelled",
14	} satisfies EffectAcpSchema.PromptResponse)
15	: acp.agent.prompt(requestPayload),
16	),
17	).pipe(Effect.result);

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6	Review comment at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts around
7	lines 2614 - 2624:
8	Check queueState.cancelRequested lazily immediately before each session/prompt
9	RPC in the retry loop around runLoggedRequest, including retries after the
10	initial attempt. If a retry is already cancelled, return a cancelled
11	PromptResponse without invoking acp.agent.prompt; otherwise preserve the
12	existing prompt dispatch and result handling.
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Added 1 commit5d ago

Merge branch 'main' into fix/issue-226607e0eb5e