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fix(server): release the previous session when sending to another instance#23203
Problem
Sending to a second Claude instance with separate native history left the first instance's session and process alive after the handoff. Reproduced on Linux using the real web client and Claude 2.1.303: B answered while A remained bound and no detach effect was queued.
Change
Use the existing switch plan's release list for immediate sends. Before detaching, probe the old runtime for background work, including Claude's native subagents even when the projected roster is empty. Refuse the send while work remains; after completion, retrying releases A and starts B. Shared sessions retain per-thread checks.
Scope and approval
Fixes #20343 GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20343 Triaged bug via the automated issue flow: #20343. This addresses immediate-send session cleanup and preserves running background work. Broader lifecycle guards remain tracked in #16000.
Verification
- Regression failed before implementation: expected only B's session after handoff, received A and B. The final regression also observes actual runtime scope closure; dropping only the detach effect makes that assertion fail.
- After merging main at ed9b7ca9c5, the provider-switch integration and switch-service suites passed 41/41 on b94200d73c. Independent reviews also passed the focused suites; both returned MERGE and proof audit returned SUFFICIENT.
- Runtime captures are from ccbaab5a84; merging main changed no fix files. The PR diff remains the two reviewed files.
- Scoped server typecheck passed; targeted formatting and lint passed with one preexisting unused-variable warning.
- Real web/server/Claude verification: a send to B is refused while A's native background task runs, preserving A and the unsent message. A completes its marker; retry produces B's answer, a successful detach effect, and A's process exit.
| Evidence | Before | After |
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| Server lifecycle; Linux, real Vite client 1280×800, Node 24.21.0, Claude 2.1.303 | b5a226e49c runtime | ccbaab5a84 runtime |
Proof index, regression proof, current controls.
Visible-render matrix is empty: server-only proof uses regression tests and runtime transcripts. The baseline delayed marker was interrupted by a dev watcher restart; no delayed-write claim relies on it. Desktop and mobile were not separately exercised; no client or wire contract changed. Other providers' native runtimes were not exercised.
Models: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-sol, through the T3 Code Claude Code and Codex harnesses.
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- test(server): reproduce #20343 stale session after cross-instance send54a5abc
- fix(server): sending to another instance releases the previous sessionc70ee2f
- fix(server): hand-off checks the released Claude process for native subagentsccbaab5
- test(server): hand-off test observes the released session's runtime closeecd96ca
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-20343b94200d
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Approvability
Verdict: Approved at 4f08ecd
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Provider switches now release previous sessions selected by the existing transition policy. Background-work probes block switching when agents or commands are still running, limiting the risk of interrupting ongoing work.
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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 | 5.0 KiB | 5.0 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 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 | 0 B (0.0%) | 2.0 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn WebSocket decoded | 21.6 KiB | 21.6 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 24.4 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn messages | 2 | 2 | 0 (0.0%) | 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 | 21.9 KiB | 21.9 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 24.4 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn messages | 2 | 2 | 0 (0.0%) | 8 | ✅ |
Baseline: f6503f0 · PR result: 4f08ecd · 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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Provider-switch dispatch checks sessions scheduled for release for pending background work. It rejects the switch if work remains or a probe fails. When the switch proceeds, it detaches the sessions selected by the switch plan.
Changes: Provider switch session release
Layer / File(s) Summary Guard and apply provider-session detachment
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts,apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderSwitch.integration.test.tsdispatchMessagechecks planned release sessions for background work before proceeding. Detach events and effects cover the sessions selected by the switch plan. Integration tests check session closure, rejection while work remains, and switching after work clears.Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High
Sequence Diagram(s)
mermaid1 sequenceDiagram 2 participant dispatchMessage 3 participant SessionPendingWorkProbe 4 participant ProviderSessionDetach 5 dispatchMessage->>SessionPendingWorkProbe: Check planned release sessions 6 SessionPendingWorkProbe-->>dispatchMessage: Return pending-work status 7 dispatchMessage->>ProviderSessionDetach: Emit detach events and effects when clear Possibly related issues
- pingdotgg/t3code#16000 — The change adds a background-work check to the immediate-send instance-switch path.
- pingdotgg/t3code#17099 — The change releases or blocks the old session during an immediate instance switch; the wake-routing defect itself is not addressed.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: releasing the previous session when sending to another provider instance. Description check Passed The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It provides reproduction details, linked issue context, focused test results, runtime evidence, li… Linked Issues check Passed Direct issue #20343has coding requirements. The immediate send path now usesreleaseProviderSessionIdsfrom the provider switch plan. It probes sessions for pending background work before commit, i…Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #20343.Orchestrator.tsfixes immediate-send release-list handling and adds the required background-work refusal guard.ProviderSwitch.integration.test.tsadds adapte…Full details: Description check
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#20343has coding requirements. The immediate send path now usesreleaseProviderSessionIdsfrom the provider switch plan. It probes sessions for pending background work before commit, including session-wide native work and per-thread work for shared sessions. A positive or failed probe rejects the switch without state changes. A successful retry emits detach events and effects, which releases the old session and process.ProviderSwitch.integration.test.tscovers the separate-history Claude switch, refusal while background work runs, unchanged state on refusal, and successful retry. The issue's suggested idle-activity guard and queued-run work are outside this fix and remain associated with#16000.
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#20343.Orchestrator.tsfixes immediate-send release-list handling and adds the required background-work refusal guard.ProviderSwitch.integration.test.tsadds adapter instrumentation and regression coverage for session closure, refusal, and retry. The test change that removes an explicit detach verifies the same release-list behavior. No unrelated provider, client, wire-contract, idle-timeout, or queued-run changes appear in the supplied two-file scope.
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Confirmed the queued-run background-work gap is preexisting: startNextQueuedRun and its failure wrapper are unchanged from the merge base. This PR fixes immediate sends ignoring the release list and guards the newly enabled detachment. Queue failure/retry behavior stays with the lifecycle follow-up in #16000.
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| … | … | @@ -6003,24 +6003,71 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio | |
| 6034 | + | // run inside it. Refuse the switch while one still reports work. Ask the | |
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The t3code/no-low-value-comments rule fails vp check on the five-line comment at Lines 6033-6037. The rule keeps the constraint and drops the background. The constraint here is that Claude's native subagents are visible only to the session-wide probe, and that shared sessions are probed per thread.
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1 - // Detaching ends the provider process, and background agents and shells 2 - // run inside it. Refuse the switch while one still reports work. Ask the 3 - // adapter even with an empty projected roster: Claude's native subagents 4 - // never reach pendingBackgroundTasks, and only its session-wide probe sees 5 - // them. A session shared across threads is checked per thread instead. 6 + // Claude's native subagents never reach pendingBackgroundTasks; only the 7 + // session-wide probe sees them, so probe even with an empty roster. 8 + // A session shared across threads is probed per thread instead.
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suggestion1 // Claude's native subagents never reach pendingBackgroundTasks; only the 2 // session-wide probe sees them, so probe even with an empty roster. 3 // A session shared across threads is probed per thread instead.
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I'm working on a PR to improve the multi-account Claude UX (signing in and reconnecting each Claude instance from the app, see #28740), and I ran into this bug while working on it. Switching a thread to a second Claude account is exactly this case (#20343). I reproduced it and validated this fix.
Repro on main (47f2c8d29e): new case in ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts: a thread on claudeAgent, an immediate send to claude-second-account (no shared continuation key), then drain the worker. It fails: providerSessions is ["claudeAgent", "claude-second-account"], so the old Claude process stays attached.
This PR (17c8b58fa6) merged onto current main:
- the repro, both new cases, and the
ProviderSwitchService+ProviderSessionManagersuites pass (101/101); - the #27206 test (direct send Codex→Claude→Codex) also passes on top of this PR, so this PR covers that case too, with the background-work guard that #27206 lacks.
The only blocker I hit: Lint fails on t3code(no-low-value-comments) for the 5-line comment above the background-work probe loop. Trimming it to 4 lines or fewer should turn CI green.
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2622-2641: External image Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick winAdd multi-session coverage to the provider handoff test.
Create two live source-provider sessions before the switch, then assert that both planned session IDs receive detach effects or appear in
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