fix(server): agents can continue the same reviewer conversation#23253

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Problem

When asked to continue a three-round review in the same child's conversation, agents started a fresh child for every round and lost the reviewer's memory. The injected instructions and delegate_task description required fresh delegation even though t3_thread_send already supports same-child follow-ups.

Change

Limit the fresh-child rule to independent review rounds and explicitly direct conversation follow-ups to t3_thread_send with the existing childThreadId. Update the existing orchestration guidance and add a regression test covering the injected instructions and both tool descriptions.

Scope and approval

Fixes #19821 GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/19821 Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. Scope is agent-facing guidance for existing delegation behavior.

Verification

The regression test fails against main's original guidance with four assertions and passes after the fix. Red log, green log.
vp test run apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.test.ts apps/server/src/provider/CodexDeveloperInstructions.test.ts: 18 passed, including Codex's instruction byte caps; repeated successfully after merging mirrored main and clarifying the docs. Final test log.
Targeted lint and formatting checks passed. Two independent reviewers returned MERGE in both full review rounds. The final round verified the four-file diff against mirrored main.
Real isolated web dev server: Codex GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 each used one child for three rounds, recalled a marker omitted from the round-2 prompt, and completed three distinct tasks. Codex transcript, Claude transcript.

Evidence	Before	After
Runtime guidance and recall	Both parents created fresh children	Codex same-child recall; Claude same-child recall

No render paths changed; the audited visual fixture matrix is empty. The before live service build was not mapped to a source commit; the failing regression pins the original guidance to main. The fixed runtime probes ran at e7417481e5; the final head preserves the same agent-facing guidance and clarifies active versus completed child behavior in the docs. The Codex probe recovered from a development watcher restart. Desktop, mobile, and other providers were not run separately.

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Models: GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness; Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude harness in T3 Code.

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Added 4 commits3d ago

Merge commit 'a50cd989aee06ed0762e26027eadf35933eb52ac' into fix/issue-19821091f756
test(server): orchestration guidance distinguishes review rounds from follow-ups23673c9
feat(server): webhook filters fan out over arrays with a [] path wildcarda50cd98
fix(server): agents can follow up with the same delegated childe741748

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apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/webhookFilter.tslines 39–41Outdated · 091f756Resolved by Julius Marminge

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained fix to orchestration guidance that distinguishes independent review rounds from same-child conversation follow-ups, with a focused regression test covering the instruction surfaces. It does not alter schemas, deployment behavior, security-sensitive code, static-analysis settings, or product defaults.

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✅ 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	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	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	+7 B (+0.6%)	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: 6318bfc · PR result: 54651ff · 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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📝 Walkthrough

Orchestration instructions and documentation now distinguish independent delegated review rounds from follow-ups in the same child conversation. A new test checks that the instructions and tool descriptions make this distinction.

Changes: Delegated review guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Independent rounds and same-child follow-ups `packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts`, `apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts`, `docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md`, `apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.test.ts`	Guidance specifies a new `delegate_task` call and task ID for each independent review round, with a distinct retry-stable `clientRequestId`. It directs same-child follow-ups to `t3_thread_send` with `childThreadId`. The documentation describes `auto` and `queue` behavior, and a test checks the distinction in the instructions and tool descriptions.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#22749: The guidance uses the existing childThreadId for same-child follow-ups, which relates to the issue’s concern about fresh delegated review rounds contributing to cost.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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The guidance change is mergeable after normal checks. The previously raised webhook behavior is unchanged by this PR.

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docs(orchestration): clarify active child follow-ups58b3d6d
Revert "Merge commit 'a50cd989aee06ed0762e26027eadf35933eb52ac' into fix/issue-19821"bd0d2e2
Merge mirrored main into fix/issue-19821f7c480f
fix: preserve mirrored main documentation54651ff

JJulius Marminge3d ago

Addressed in 54651ff: the docs now distinguish completed-child fresh tasks, active auto steering, and a separate queued turn.

Removed the webhook changes imported by the GitCafe-main merge. Against the mirrored main 6318bfc, the net diff is exactly the four guidance/docs/test files; webhookFilter.ts and the other webhook files are unchanged. Those webhook findings therefore no longer apply to this PR.

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