fix(server): Claude artifact watchers no longer keep a thread working#29331

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Problem

When Claude publishes an Artifact, Claude Code arms a session-long live-updates watcher (task_started with task_type: "monitor_ws", ambient: true). The Claude adapter only knows local_bash as non-subagent work, so it projected the watcher as a subagent that never finishes. The thread stays in Working after the turn ends, until the session is interrupted.

Change

The adapter records the task id of an ambient monitor_ws task_started and drops that task's frames (start, progress, updates, notification) before routing. It is neither a subagent nor Waiting work. Ambient subagents (e.g. the /goal review case from #16598) are untouched, because the check requires monitor_ws. Comments on the artifact still reach Claude as a normal wake turn, which the adapter already handles.

Scope and approval

Fixes #13978 (triaged bug). One focused change in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts plus one test.

#17320 targets the same bug, but it has been conflicting with main since Oct 26 and is a larger change. This is the minimal version.

Verification

New test does not keep the thread busy for Claude's ambient artifact watch: fails on main (watch becomes a running subagent), passes with the fix.
ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: 289/289 pass on the merge with current main. Server typecheck is clean.
Checked against real provider logs: the watcher's frames (background_tasks_changed, task_started, task_updated killed, task_notification stopped) match the shape the test uses.
Not checked: a live end-to-end run in a client.

The branch is based on 611132c171. It merges into current main with no conflicts, and the merged tree is identical to the one tested above.

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fix(server): Claude artifact watchers no longer keep a thread workingab058a8

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Claude’s ambient artifact socket watchers are excluded from thread-work tracking, so they no longer keep threads appearing active. The filter targets explicitly marked monitor_ws tasks while preserving ordinary task and subagent routing.

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Walkthrough

ClaudeAdapterV2 identifies ambient monitor_ws task starts, records their task IDs, and skips their messages during routing. A regression test checks that these tasks do not emit subagent events or count as pending background work.

Changes: Ambient watcher filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Identify and filter ambient tasks `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts`	ClaudeAdapterV2 identifies ambient `monitor_ws` task starts, records their IDs, and skips matching messages during routing. The regression test checks subagent event emission and pending background work.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#13978: The issue describes ambient monitor_ws watchers appearing as working agents. This change filters watcher frames before routing.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#17320: This PR also tracks ambient Claude task IDs and excludes ambient work from subagent and pending-work handling.
pingdotgg/t3code#24610: This PR changes how background commands and monitors keep a thread in Working; this change filters ambient monitor_ws frames in the adapter.
pingdotgg/t3code#21327: This PR handles untracked Claude task_notification frames; this change filters ambient watcher notifications before routing.

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The watcher change is not merge-ready because its regression test currently breaks the server test and typecheck workflow.

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Title check	Passed	The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the primary fix: ambient Claude artifact watchers no longer keep a thread working.
Description check	Passed	The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the bug, implementation, linked issue, focused test results, typecheck result, provider-lo…
Linked Issues check	Passed	Issue `#13978` requires artifact `monitor_ws` watchers to avoid appearing as working agents and avoid increasing the working-agent count. The adapter records ambient `monitor_ws` task IDs and drops thei…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The supplied scope contains one adapter change and one focused test. The adapter filters only ambient `monitor_ws` watcher frames. The test verifies the linked artifact-watcher behavior. No unrelated …

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Issue #13978 requires artifact monitor_ws watchers to avoid appearing as working agents and avoid increasing the working-agent count. The adapter records ambient monitor_ws task IDs and drops their task frames before routing. The added test covers the watcher lifecycle and verifies no pending background work, subagent events, or continuation requests. The change preserves other ambient subagents because it requires monitor_ws.

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The supplied scope contains one adapter change and one focused test. The adapter filters only ambient monitor_ws watcher frames. The test verifies the linked artifact-watcher behavior. No unrelated change is identified.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: 1

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Cover the later watcher-frame path.
The test queues only task_started, so it does not exercise the separate filtering path for later frames. Add provider-shaped task_updated and task_notification frames with the same top-level task_id before the result frame. The existing assertions can then detect if either frame reaches routing.

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1 yield* Queue.offer(
2 harness.sdkMessages,
3 claudeSdkFrame({
4 type: "system",
5 subtype: "task_started",
6 @@
7 session_id: WAKE_NATIVE_SESSION,
8 }),
9 );
10 + yield* Queue.offer(
11 + harness.sdkMessages,
12 + claudeSdkFrame({
13 + type: "system",
14 + subtype: "task_updated",
15 + task_id: WATCH_TASK_ID,
16 + patch: { status: "completed", end_time: 1790640619951 },
17 + uuid: "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000404",
18 + session_id: WAKE_NATIVE_SESSION,
19 + }),
20 + );
21 + yield* Queue.offer(
22 + harness.sdkMessages,
23 + claudeSdkFrame({
24 + type: "system",
25 + subtype: "task_notification",
26 + task_id: WATCH_TASK_ID,
27 + tool_use_id: "toolu-artifact-publish",
28 + status: "completed",
29 + output_file: "/tmp/artifact-watch.output",
30 + summary: "Artifact watch completed",
31 + uuid: "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000405",
32 + session_id: WAKE_NATIVE_SESSION,
33 + }),
34 + );
35 yield* Queue.offer(
36 harness.sdkMessages,
37 makeResultFrame({ uuid: "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000403", result: "Published." }),

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9 Extend the “does not keep the thread busy for Claude's ambient artifact watch”
10 test to cover later watcher frames: enqueue provider-shaped task_updated and
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11	their watchers finish, or scope the set to the active native process and replace
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21	ambient artifact watch” test to cover later watcher frames: enqueue
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.tslines 3184–3185Outdated · ab058a8Open thread

…	…	@@ -3160,6 +3181,8 @@ export function makeClaudeAdapterV2(
3161	3182		// reports their end to the owning subagent, so it never wakes the root.
3162	3183		const nestedSubagentTaskIds = yield* Ref.make<ReadonlySet<string>>(new Set());
	3184	+	// Ambient tasks (see isClaudeAmbientTaskStarted); their frames are dropped.
	3185	+	const ambientTaskIds = yield* Ref.make<ReadonlySet<string>>(new Set());

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Remove completed ambient task IDs.

ambientTaskIds is created once per provider session. Matching monitor_ws IDs are added to it, but no path removes them during repeated turns or native-process replacement. Each completed watcher ID therefore remains strongly reachable until the provider session closes, so long-lived sessions retain a growing set of watcher IDs. Remove each ID at watcher completion, or otherwise scope the set to the active native process.

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Fixed in 5cc3bdb4da: the id is dropped on the watcher's task_notification, its last frame. The test now also sends the watcher's task_progress, task_updated and task_notification during a later turn; without the later-frame filter that test fails (task_progress creates a running subagent).

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@nSimonFR-ai Thanks. The supplied code removes the watcher ID from ambientTaskIds on task_notification and drops that frame before routing. This addresses the completed-ID retention finding while preserving filtering across turns.

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…	…	@@ -6765,6 +6765,121 @@ describe("ClaudeAdapterV2 background wake turns", () => {
	6876	+	assert.isFalse(harness.events.some((event) => event.type === "subagent.updated"));
	6877	+	assert.equal(harness.continuationRequests.length, 0);
	6878	+	assert.isFalse(yield* harness.hasPendingBackgroundWork);
	6879	+	}).pipe(Effect.provide(Layer.merge(IdAllocator.layer, NodeServices.layer))),

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