fix(mcp): background wait fails when none of its task IDs exist#29773

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Problem

t3_background_wait returns a normal { matched, unmatched } result even when none of the requested IDs is a background task on the thread. Nothing gets marked awaited, but agents read the success as "I am waiting", end the turn, and are never woken. In real sessions, agents passed the literal ID placeholder or a Claude subagent ID and stopped until the user asked why.

Change

ThreadManagementService.awaitBackgroundTasks now fails with a new unmatched reason when a wait (waiting true or omitted) matches no ID. The MCP handler maps that reason to invalid_request, and the tool returns this message:

None of these IDs is running background work on this thread, so this request registers no wait for them. If the task already finished, read its output now. Otherwise pass the task ID of a background command or Monitor you started. Subagent, Agent tool, and delegate_task IDs don't go here.

Other cases keep their current behavior:

A wait where at least one ID matches returns { matched, unmatched } as before.
A clear (waiting: false) that matches nothing still succeeds. A finished task leaves the roster, so clearing it would otherwise raise an error that tells the agent nothing useful.
The tool description and schema are unchanged, so the agent context budget stays the same.

Scope and approval

Fixes #29772.

Related to #24956 and its open fixes #25036 and #25015. Those PRs report a foreground subagent's own background work as unmatched and don't change the response shape. They touch the Claude adapter and the tool description, and this PR touches neither file, so they don't conflict. With both merged, a subagent that waits only on its own work gets this error and no longer gets a silent success.

In one of the reported sessions, the background command ID matched and only the subagent ID came back unmatched. This PR leaves partial matches unchanged, so that session would have gone the same way. That remaining case is noted in #29772.

Verification

ThreadManagementService.test.ts: I added two rows to the existing awaitBackgroundTasks table. On main, no-match fails because the call returns Success { matched: [], unmatched: ["finished"] }. With the fix it returns ThreadManagementBackgroundWaitError with reason unmatched. no-match-clear checks that a clear still succeeds. The existing live row covers a mix of matched and unmatched IDs and passes unchanged. All 21 tests in the file pass.
The unmatched message now says "so this request registers no wait for them" in place of "so nothing would wake it", because a task awaited earlier stays registered and can still wake the thread. No test asserts the text, and the five awaitBackgroundTasks rows still pass.
vp run check:changed passes on the follow-up commit: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 3 packages, and 433 tests in 3 files.
Eval: when a case lists world.backgroundTasks, mcp-tool-use now answers t3_background_wait from T3's own handler and ThreadManagementService instead of a fixed { ok: true }. A stand-in Claude adapter matches IDs against that list. The "main" column runs the same eval with main's two server files. Two new cases cite #29772. background-wait-unmatched-id seeds the placeholder wait while the tests run in the background, and passes when the agent waits again on the real task ID. background-wait-matched-id is its control, with a wait that matched.
Case Sonnet 5.5, main → PR, 3 samples Opus 5.5, main → PR, 5 samples
background-wait-unmatched-id (guard) 3/3 → 3/3 5/5 → 5/5
background-wait-matched-id (control) 3/3 → 3/3 5/5 → 5/5
Neither model reproduces the incident on main in replay. Both read matched: [] and wait again on the real ID, so background-wait-unmatched-id is a guard, not a case that fails before the fix. I tried three other setups on main and did not commit them. With a finished task waited on by its real ID, Sonnet passed 2/3 and 3/3 across two prompts. With the agent resuming straight from the wait and no user message after it, Opus passed 5/5. With a wait that names a Claude subagent while the tests run, Opus passed 5/5. After the first Sonnet run I raised the control's limit from one look at the test output to three: the failing sample had looked twice and then correctly ended its turn. --context is unchanged, since the new text appears only in an error result. All eval runs together cost $2.72 at API prices, including the Haiku shell simulator.
Model-free check: because the models recover from both results, run.test.ts now checks that the guard case's seeded wait on placeholder gets T3's error from the real handler, and that the control's matched wait doesn't. It fails on main's ThreadManagementService.ts and handlers.ts ("background-wait-unmatched-id: expected false to equal true") and passes with this fix. All 440 eval-package tests pass.

Case	Sonnet 5.5, main → PR, 3 samples	Opus 5.5, main → PR, 5 samples
`background-wait-unmatched-id` (guard)	3/3 → 3/3	5/5 → 5/5
`background-wait-matched-id` (control)	3/3 → 3/3	5/5 → 5/5

Made with Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude Code harness in T3 Code.

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#29772

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fix(mcp): background wait fails when none of its task IDs exist5f4411a

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What changed in this PR

Fixes #29772 by making t3_background_wait fail when none of the requested IDs matches background work on the thread, preventing a misleading success that could leave an agent waiting without a wake-up.

Changes:

Adds an unmatched service error with guidance for recovering from an invalid wait.
Maps the error to MCP invalid_request, preserving partial-match and clear behavior.
Extends regression coverage for zero-match waits and clears.

File	Description
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts	Rejects zero-match waits with an actionable error.
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.test.ts	Tests zero-match wait failures and successful clears.
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/handlers.ts	Maps unmatched waits to `invalid_request`.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Background waits with no matching live task IDs now return an actionable invalid-request error. Valid waits and clearing waits are unchanged, with no changes to task execution or product defaults.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.tsline 342Outdated · 5f4411aOpen thread

…	…	@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ export class ThreadManagementBackgroundWaitError extends Schema.TaggedError<Thre
339	339		case "failed":
340	340		return "Failed to update the awaited background work.";
	341	+	case "unmatched":
	342	+	return "None of these IDs is running background work on this thread, so nothing would wake it. If the task already finished, read its output now. Otherwise pass the task ID of a background command or Monitor you started. Subagent, Agent tool, and delegate_task IDs don't go here.";

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_{_{P1 Badge}} Add a regression eval for all-unmatched background waits

For the reported bogus-ID scenario, this fix depends on the agent interpreting the new error rather than ending its turn assuming it will be woken. The added unit-test rows verify the service result, but the only t3_background_wait case found under evals/, deploy-wait-ends-turn-unwatched, still receives the generic { ok: true } fallback from evals/mcp-tool-use/run.ts:1186-1187, so it cannot validate recovery from this response. Extend the simulation to exercise the real unmatched failure and add a case that fails before the fix and verifies that the agent corrects the wait or reads completed output. Root AGENTS.md explicitly requires a failing-before eval for model-behavior fixes.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L146-L146

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

addressed in the existing head: the eval now invokes the real handler and service for world-backed background waits, with matched and unmatched cases. run.test.ts asserts that the seeded unmatched wait errors while the matched control succeeds. the model-recovery case remains a guard: the contributor reports that both models also recovered from main's success response, so it does not claim a failing-before model reproduction.

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Walkthrough

When an awaited background wait matches no task IDs, the service returns an unmatched error. The orchestrator handler maps that cause to invalid_request. The evaluation harness executes world-backed background waits and covers matched and unmatched task IDs.

Changes: Background wait handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect and report unmatched awaited tasks `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.test.ts`	The service adds the `unmatched` error reason and returns it when an awaited request has no matched task IDs. Tests cover awaited and non-awaited requests with no matching tasks.
Map unmatched errors in the orchestrator handler `apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/handlers.ts`	The `t3_background_wait` handler maps `unmatched` and `unsupported` causes to `invalid_request`. Other causes remain `orchestration_error`.
Execute world-backed background waits `evals/mcp-tool-use/backgroundWait.ts`, `evals/mcp-tool-use/run.ts`, `evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/orchestration.ndjson`, `evals/mcp-tool-use/run.test.ts`, `evals/mcp-tool-use/README.md`	The evaluation harness creates an in-process T3 handler from configured running task IDs, replays prior default waits, routes later waits through the handler, and adds matched and unmatched orchestration cases. The test checks prior wait error results.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#24956 — This issue concerns foreground-subagent-owned tasks. This pull request does not implement that task-eligibility classification.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#24610 — Introduced the background-wait operation and its { matched, unmatched } result.
pingdotgg/t3code#27355 — Changed the awaited contract used by background waits.
pingdotgg/t3code#25036 — Changed Claude matching so foreground-subagent-owned tasks are returned as unmatched.

Suggested reviewers: gabrielelpidio, t3dotgg, maria-rcks

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Unmatched waits now return an error, with regression coverage in place. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains from this change.

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Linked Issues check	Warning	[`#29772`] The change meets the requirement. `awaitBackgroundTasks` returns the `unmatched` error when a wait matches no IDs. `handlers.ts` maps this reason to `invalid_request`. Tests cover an unmatche…	For [`#25036`], add the Claude adapter ownership check and regression tests for foreground-owned rejection, root-owned acceptance, background-agent-owned acceptance, and unchanged clear behavior. If this pull request intentionally excludes [#…

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[#29772] The change meets the requirement. awaitBackgroundTasks returns the unmatched error when a wait matches no IDs. handlers.ts maps this reason to invalid_request. Tests cover an unmatched wait, an unmatched clear, and partial matches.

[#25036] The requirement is not met by this pull request. The requirement needs the Claude adapter to reject background work owned by a foreground native Claude subagent, while keeping root-owned and background-agent-owned work eligible and leaving clears unchanged. The changed-file summary contains no Claude adapter change or ownership regression test. The PR description identifies this as separate work. Related pull requests do not establish that their code is present in this head.

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For [#25036], add the Claude adapter ownership check and regression tests for foreground-owned rejection, root-owned acceptance, background-agent-owned acceptance, and unchanged clear behavior. If this pull request intentionally excludes [#25036], remove that issue from the direct links before treating the linked-issue assessment as complete.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.tsline 342Outdated · 5f4411aOpen thread

…	…	@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ export class ThreadManagementBackgroundWaitError extends Schema.TaggedError<Thre
339	339		case "failed":
340	340		return "Failed to update the awaited background work.";
	341	+	case "unmatched":
	342	+	return "None of these IDs is running background work on this thread, so nothing would wake it. If the task already finished, read its output now. Otherwise pass the task ID of a background command or Monitor you started. Subagent, Agent tool, and delegate_task IDs don't go here.";

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34	34		{"id": "two-children-same-model", "area": "orchestration", "kind": "bad", "pattern": "named-model rule read as a cap", "experience": "Asked for two Sol xhigh subagents, an Astra parent started one and refused the second, citing 'One child per named model' (#24967).", "rule": "Before delegate_task ... One child per named model. (intended: every named model gets a child; read as a cap of one child per model)", "privacy": "commit-safe", "setup": {"role": "top", "mocks": {"orchestrator_capabilities": {"parentThreadId": "33333333-3333-4333-8333-333333333333", "inheritedProviderInstanceId": "claudeAgent", "inheritedModel": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "inheritedOptions": [{"id": "effort", "value": "high"}], "runtimeMode": "full-access", "interactionMode": "default", "features": {"appOwnedSubagents": true, "asyncPolling": true, "cancellation": true, "batchThreadCreation": true, "threadManagement": true, "incrementalThreadRead": true, "scheduledTasks": true}, "providers": [{"providerInstanceId": "claudeAgent", "driverKind": "claudeAgent", "displayName": "Claude", "models": [{"id": "claude-opus-5-5", "label": "Claude Opus 5.5", "options": [{"id": "effort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}, {"id": "fastMode", "type": "boolean", "default": false}]}, {"id": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "label": "Claude Sonnet 5.5", "options": [{"id": "effort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}]}, {"id": "claude-haiku-5-5", "label": "Claude Haiku 5.5", "options": [{"id": "effort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}]}]}, {"providerInstanceId": "codex", "driverKind": "codex", "displayName": "Codex", "models": [{"id": "gpt-6.1-sol", "label": "GPT-6.1 Sol", "options": [{"id": "reasoningEffort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}, {"id": "serviceTier", "values": ["default", "priority"], "default": "default"}]}]}, {"providerInstanceId": "muse", "driverKind": "muse", "displayName": "Muse Code", "runtimeModes": ["approval-required", "full-access"], "models": [{"id": "muse-wonder-full", "label": "Muse Wonder Full", "options": [{"id": "reasoningEffort", "values": ["minimal", "low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}]}]}, {"providerInstanceId": "grok", "driverKind": "grok", "displayName": "Grok", "models": [{"id": "grok-4.7", "label": "Grok 4.7", "options": []}]}]}, "delegate_task": "default"}}, "prompt": "Launch two Sol xhigh subagents. Give each a trivial task that only replies OK.", "expect": {"calls": [{"tool": "delegate_task", "args": {"target.model": "gpt-6.1-sol", "target.options.reasoningEffort": "xhigh"}}], "minCalls": {"delegate_task": 2}, "callsMustNot": [{"tool": "delegate_task", "args": {"target.model": "~muse"}}, {"tool": "delegate_task", "args": {"target.model": "~claude"}}]}, "notes": "From #24967. One child plus the parent doing the work fails, and so does a second model in place of Sol."}
35	35		{"id": "worker-counts-per-model", "area": "orchestration", "kind": "bad", "pattern": "named-model rule read as a cap", "experience": "Asked for 20 Sol workers and 20 Luna workers, the agent started one worker per model (#25359).", "rule": "Before delegate_task ... One child per named model. (intended: every named model gets a child; read as a cap of one child per model)", "privacy": "commit-safe", "setup": {"role": "top", "mocks": {"orchestrator_capabilities": {"parentThreadId": "33333333-3333-4333-8333-333333333333", "inheritedProviderInstanceId": "claudeAgent", "inheritedModel": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "inheritedOptions": [{"id": "effort", "value": "high"}], "runtimeMode": "full-access", "interactionMode": "default", "features": {"appOwnedSubagents": true, "asyncPolling": true, "cancellation": true, "batchThreadCreation": true, "threadManagement": true, "incrementalThreadRead": true, "scheduledTasks": true}, "providers": [{"providerInstanceId": "claudeAgent", "driverKind": "claudeAgent", "displayName": "Claude", "models": [{"id": "claude-opus-5-5", "label": "Claude Opus 5.5", "options": [{"id": "effort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}, {"id": "fastMode", "type": "boolean", "default": false}]}, {"id": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "label": "Claude Sonnet 5.5", "options": [{"id": "effort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}]}, {"id": "claude-haiku-5-5", "label": "Claude Haiku 5.5", "options": [{"id": "effort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}]}]}, {"providerInstanceId": "codex", "driverKind": "codex", "displayName": "Codex", "models": [{"id": "gpt-6.1-sol", "label": "GPT-6.1 Sol", "options": [{"id": "reasoningEffort", "values": ["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}, {"id": "serviceTier", "values": ["default", "priority"], "default": "default"}]}]}, {"providerInstanceId": "muse", "driverKind": "muse", "displayName": "Muse Code", "runtimeModes": ["approval-required", "full-access"], "models": [{"id": "muse-wonder-full", "label": "Muse Wonder Full", "options": [{"id": "reasoningEffort", "values": ["minimal", "low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"], "default": "high"}]}]}, {"providerInstanceId": "grok", "driverKind": "grok", "displayName": "Grok", "models": [{"id": "grok-4.7", "label": "Grok 4.7", "options": []}]}]}, "delegate_task": "default"}, "world": {"files": {"tests/flaky/retry.test.ts": "it('retry is flaky', async () => { /* fails 1 in 5 runs / });\n", "tests/flaky/upload.test.ts": "it('upload is flaky', async () => { / fails 1 in 5 runs / });\n", "tests/flaky/session.test.ts": "it('session is flaky', async () => { / fails 1 in 5 runs / });\n", "tests/flaky/search.test.ts": "it('search is flaky', async () => { / fails 1 in 5 runs / });\n", "tests/flaky/billing.test.ts": "it('billing is flaky', async () => { / fails 1 in 5 runs / });\n", "tests/flaky/webhook.test.ts": "it('webhook is flaky', async () => { / fails 1 in 5 runs */ });\n"}}}, "prompt": "Six tests in tests/flaky/ fail now and then. Start 3 Muse Wonder Full workers and 3 Grok workers, one test file each, to find and fix the flake.", "expect": {"calls": [{"tool": "delegate_task", "args": {"target.model": "muse-wonder-full"}}, {"tool": "delegate_task", "args": {"target.model": "grok-4.7"}}], "minCalls": {"delegate_task": 6}}, "notes": "Scaled down from the real 20 Sol + 20 Luna ask. Muse and Grok need delegate_task from every parent, so a native Sol helper cannot pass or fail it."}
36	36		{"id": "linked-thread-chip-reads-there", "area": "orchestration", "kind": "guard", "pattern": "thread chip from a linked machine read on this one", "experience": "A thread chip from a linked machine names its environmentId; an agent that reads it without passing that id reads this machine, where the thread does not exist.", "rule": "The thread chip names its environmentId; t3_thread_read takes it.", "privacy": "commit-safe", "setup": {"role": "top", "linkedEnvironments": true, "mocks": {"t3_environment_links": {"environmentId": "environment-laptop", "links": [{"environmentId": "environment-vps", "label": "Hetzner VPS", "status": "reachable", "access": "auto-accept-edits", "expiresAt": "2026-12-01T00:00:00.000Z", "lastError": null}], "notListed": "Not listed: not linked yet. Call t3_environment_link with a hint from the user's words."}, "t3_thread_read": {"thread": {"threadId": "thread-deploy-api", "title": "Deploy the API", "status": "idle"}, "items": [{"position": 1, "createdBy": "user", "text": "Deploy the API to the VPS and check the health endpoint."}, {"position": 2, "createdBy": "assistant", "text": "Deployed. /health returns 200, but /health/db times out after 5s: the API can't reach Postgres on 10.0.0.5:5432."}], "nextPosition": 3, "hasMore": false}}}, "prompt": "Pick up where [Deploy the API](t3-context://v1/thread/thread_deploy-api) left off. What is still failing?", "promptContext": {"records": [{"version": 1, "kind": "thread", "contextId": "thread_deploy-api", "label": "Deploy the API", "environmentId": "environment-vps", "threadId": "thread-deploy-api", "title": "Deploy the API"}]}, "expect": {"calls": [{"tool": "t3_thread_read", "args": {"threadId": "thread-deploy-api", "environmentId": "environment-vps"}}], "notCalls": ["t3_environment_link"]}, "source": {"request": "akj on #17130: attach a linked machine's thread without dragging"}}
	37	+	{"id": "background-wait-unmatched-id", "area": "orchestration", "kind": "guard", "pattern": "waits on a task ID that matches no background work, then ends the turn as if waiting", "experience": "One agent called t3_background_wait with the literal ID 'placeholder', another with a Claude subagent ID. The tool returned a normal result listing the ID under `unmatched`, so the agent said it would continue when the work came back and ended its turn. Nothing ever woke it.", "rule": "To wait for a background command or Monitor you started (tests, a build), call `t3_background_wait` with its task ID before you end your turn.", "privacy": "commit-safe", "setup": {"role": "top", "harness": "claude", "priorTurns": [{"role": "user", "text": "Run the full test suite in the background and fix whatever fails. It takes about 15 minutes."}, {"role": "assistant", "toolCalls": [{"tool": "Bash", "input": {"command": "vp test run", "description": "Run the full test suite", "run_in_background": true}, "result": "Command running in background with ID: bq7m2x9k. Output is being written to: /tmp/claude/tasks/bq7m2x9k.output"}, {"tool": "t3_background_wait", "input": {"taskIds": ["placeholder"]}, "result": "default"}]}], "world": {"backgroundTasks": ["bq7m2x9k"], "tests": "The suite started a minute ago and runs for about 15 minutes. Until then /tmp/claude/tasks/bq7m2x9k.output lists 38 passing test files and no failures yet."}}, "prompt": "I'm heading out for a bit. Tell me what failed when it's done.", "expect": {"calls": [{"tool": "t3_background_wait", "args": {"taskIds": ["bq7m2x9k"]}}]}, "source": {"issue": "#29772"}, "notes": "The seeded wait gets T3's real result for an ID the session does not know. The tests are still running, so the only way to keep the thread waiting is a wait on bq7m2x9k. In replay, Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 also recover from main's success result, so this guards the recovery rather than reproducing the incident. Claude only: t3_background_wait is a Claude tool.", "maxSteps": 8}

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Assert that the seeded unmatched wait fails.

This case checks whether the model retries with bq7m2x9k, but it does not check the result of the prior wait on placeholder. The case notes say the model also makes that retry after the old success result. A regression to that result can therefore pass this case. Add a harness check that the seeded wait returns an error, while retaining the model-recovery check. As per coding guidelines, “Add the case before the fix. It must fail on the old text and pass on the new text.” (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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test(evals): guard case fails on main without a model18de7a0

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

Verified head 18de7a091bc04781205388b8f0354ef9dc62d01b against github/main at 61c3794c32 on this Linux Boat VM. Installed dependencies and ran one background dev server at a time. Used the repository's Playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome, created a project pointing at the real repository through the app, and submitted real provider turns. No mocks, fixtures, or demo data.

The changed operation is Claude-only, so I exercised it with real Claude Haiku 5.5 through the local proxy. A real background Bash command slept for 90 seconds, then printed background-complete. The identical five-call scenario ran on main and the PR:

Main reproduced the bug: taskIds:["placeholder"], with waiting omitted, succeeded with matched:[] and unmatched:["placeholder"].
The PR returned a tool error with OrchestratorMcpFailure, code: invalid_request, and the new recovery guidance. Persisted tool events confirm the actual error, beyond the model's summary.
A real task ID mixed with placeholder still succeeded with one matched and one unmatched ID.
Clearing the mixed IDs, and clearing only placeholder, both succeeded.
Waiting on the real task kept the client in Waiting. Completion woke the thread automatically; it read and reported background-complete, exit code 0, on both main and the PR.

Also ran real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web client on both revisions: t3_background_wait retained its unsupported-provider invalid_request error, and a subsequent command printed neighbor-command-ok with exit code 0.

Blacksmith: 433 focused service/eval tests passed. vp run check:changed passed format, lint, both knip checks, GraphQL, typechecks for 3 packages, and tests in 3 files. The worker needed PR history fetched before the changed-file check could find its merge base.

Short runtime transcript

Main: unknown ID silently succeeds while real background work is waiting

PR: unknown ID errors while partial matches, clears and valid waits still succeed

PR: real provider calls transition into a registered background wait

Not verified

Native iOS/Android clients, Electron on macOS/Windows, remote relay/tunnel connections, and Monitor tasks were not exercised. The original agent permanently stopping after an invalid wait was not reproduced: the main run was explicitly instructed to continue through the five-call scenario. The erroneous success response itself was reproduced, and the PR's replacement error and subsequent valid wake-up were verified.

No code changes or pushes were needed.

takeover follow-up

merged current main (15707a84b03e) without rebasing and pushed f3291b0673aa057df39d4e38e2824283c2c1cb11 to the existing contributor branch without force. the only conflict was the eval readme; both background-wait guidance and main's resultFile guidance are preserved. the diff remains eight files, 265 additions and 10 deletions. all review threads are resolved. two independent read-only reviews approved this head.

blacksmith passed vp run check:changed 15707a84b03e27bb257d60e027812ebf94bbda25: format, lint, both knip checks, graphql, typechecks for three packages, and 434 tests across three files. github reports no conflicts; full ci is still running. the provider/browser evidence above predates this merge and was not repeated in this pass.

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Assert the replayed is_error flag.
This test verifies the priorErrors bookkeeping but not the model-facing replay. Add an assertion that builds messages for the unmatched case and checks that the seeded t3_background_wait result has is_error: true. The later call-only eval may detect the omission indirectly if the replay changes model behavior, but it does not reliably assert this flag.

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