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fix(server): Stop clears a finished delegated child's row held by a stale native subagent#32307

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opened4d agobyJJulius Marminge
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Problem

A delegated child can finish its run while still recording a provider-native subagent (for example a Codex spawnAgent agent whose end state never arrived) as active, with no live turn item. The parent's task only settles when the child has no live child work, so the parent's Agents row stays Working indefinitely. Stop on the row (subagent.stop on the parent, then thread.stop on the child) and task_cancel (thread.stop on the child) find nothing to interrupt, so nothing clears it.

Reproduced on main with an orchestration test that seeds exactly that state (finished child run, active native record without a live item) and then sends the row's Stop sequence: the parent's row stays running.

Change

When thread.stop has no run or background work to interrupt, it now ends that thread's provider-native subagent records that are still active, bound to a run, and have no live turn item. Adapters write a native record and its turn item together, so such a record has lost its end. It ends the record's whole native subtree (the native agent's runless root turns and its nested native subagents) through the traversal settleBackgroundWork already used, extracted as endNativeSubagentTrees and shared by both paths. Settling the record lets the existing finalizer complete the parent's task with the child's result.

Runless records (Claude workflow members on a coordinator thread) are not selected. A native agent that is genuinely running has a live turn item, which counts as pending background work, so Stop still takes the interrupt path for it.

Scope and approval

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#32235

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts › "Stop settles a delegated row whose finished child still records a running native subagent": fails with main's Orchestrator.ts, passes with this change. The test sends the row's Stop sequence and checks the parent row, the native record, its root turn, a nested native record and its root.
  • ThreadStop.test.ts 45/45, plus the background-work, projection-settlement, runtime-recovery, restart and delegated-completion suites (133 tests across 8 files) pass.
  • vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests).

Runtime transcript (no visible client change; the row reads this server state):

text
1## this branch (5c05c9c314)
2 Test Files 1 passed (1)
3 Tests 1 passed | 44 skipped (45)
4
5## same test against main's Orchestrator.ts (4cb6945dc6)
6AssertionError: expected { row: 'running', …(4) } to deeply equal { row: 'completed', …(4) }
7- "native": "interrupted",
8- "nativeRoot": "interrupted",
9- "nested": "interrupted",
10- "nestedRoot": "interrupted",
11- "row": "completed",
12+ "native": "running",
13+ "nativeRoot": "running",
14+ "nested": "running",
15+ "nestedRoot": "running",
16+ "row": "running",

Not checked: a live Codex child whose spawned agent never reports its end (the stuck state cannot be produced on demand with a real provider), and the iOS client the report used; the client sends the same commands through the shared client runtime.

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  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-322351f57c9c
  • fix(server): Stop spares live native subagents and ends nested ones40dfa08
  • fix(server): Stop also ends a stale native subagent's own thread4adccc6
  • fix(server): Stop ends stale native subagents even with a live session5c05c9c
  • fix(server): Stop ends a finished child's stale native subagent so its row settles60aac5a
  • test(server): a finished child's running native subagent keeps its row working after Stop, reproduces #322359535964
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-32235cc39f1c
Sshivam4d ago

[GPT-6.1 Sol][Codex] on behalf of shivam.

On Linux/corex at base 240446e2d9625600b0c841faf6bddf367bd26967, orchestration regressions reproduced a stranded parent task/node/item still running after its child completed. Four cases failed before our repair. MCP reads can derive completed from the child while the stored task stays running; the original/bound-task guard in subagent.stop then skips repair. The original missed-finalization trigger and its relationship to compaction remain unproven. Full task IDs are opaque; shortened UUID errors did not establish a session-namespace regression.

A second reproduced defect may matter here: marking the repaired task's delivery disposed without removing it from the parent's reserved completion cohort leaves an outstanding wake dispatchable. Our runtime experiment created another parent run after Stop. Repair must release that reservation atomically, preserve sibling deliveries, and retain a queued wake's cancellation when merging the parent's cohort update.

Our candidate https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/pull/32284 is at 20c0daa0ce1dca6da55965ee4714c6416f9057c3, based on 0bba3684b83ed359b465cd39c53ff2fb797841ad. Boat check:changed passed 120 tests, including all 47 ThreadStop cases; a fresh independent review passed 86 tests across ThreadStop and DelegatedCompletionDelivery with no remaining code findings. Full CI passed at that head. The regressions cover missed/published results, outstanding-wake rejection and queued-wake cancellation.

No device reproduction or iOS screenshots/video were obtained. device_open for Simlock on shiv failed with “limited to 2 devices at once. Close one in the Device panel first.” We owned no session to close, so no app, build, backend or Metro was started there. The iOS before/after evidence remained the sole readiness blocker; our PR is still draft. Handing this over without claiming the iOS symptom or compaction trigger was verified.

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Verdict: Approved at 240f367

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Stop now clears stale native-subagent state that can leave a finished delegated task stuck as Working. The cleanup reuses existing settlement logic and is limited to stale records and their native subtree, while preserving user-owned runs.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ProviderMetricMain baselineThis PRImpactPR ceiling
CodexTotal thread wire5.0 KiB5.0 KiB0 B (0.0%)6.8 KiB✅
CodexThread snapshot wire3.8 KiB3.8 KiB0 B (0.0%)4.9 KiB✅
CodexLive turn WebSocket wire1.2 KiB1.2 KiB0 B (0.0%)2.0 KiB✅
CodexLive turn WebSocket decoded21.5 KiB21.5 KiB0 B (0.0%)24.4 KiB✅
CodexLive turn messages110 (0.0%)8✅
ClaudeTotal thread wire5.0 KiB5.0 KiB0 B (0.0%)6.8 KiB✅
ClaudeThread snapshot wire3.8 KiB3.8 KiB0 B (0.0%)4.9 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket wire1.2 KiB1.2 KiB0 B (0.0%)2.0 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket decoded21.9 KiB21.9 KiB0 B (0.0%)24.4 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn messages110 (0.0%)8✅

Baseline: d756fed · PR result: 240f367 · 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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JJulius Marminge4d ago

Thanks. The two PRs overlap but recover different stuck states:

  • #32307 handles a finished child that still records a provider-native subagent as active with no live turn item. That record holds delegatedTaskProgress at waiting_for_children. It ends that record and its native subtree in thread.stop on the child, which both the row's Stop and task_cancel send. The existing finalizer then completes the parent task. After the row's Stop the child's result is offered as a normal completion delivery, which wakes the parent. task_cancel disposes that delivery afterwards.
  • #32284 repairs the parent task inside subagent.stop on the parent, which the row's Stop and task_cancel also send, and disposes the delivery so Stop does not wake the parent. It leaves a stale native record in the child as it is.

Neither PR establishes the original trigger. Two things are left to the maintainers: which Stop semantics to keep (deliver the result or settle silently), and whether to land one PR or combine them.

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Walkthrough

The orchestrator now uses shared recursive cleanup for native subagents during background-work settlement and for stale subagent records found by thread.stop. A regression test covers stopping a delegated task with nested native subagents.

Changes: Native subagent cleanup

Layer / File(s)Summary
Recursive cleanup and settlement
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts		A shared helper interrupts native subagents, interrupts runless root turns in child threads, and recursively processes nested subagents. Background-work settlement now calls the helper.
Thread-stop recovery and regression test
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts		When thread.stop has no target run, the orchestrator finds active provider-native subagents without a corresponding turn item and passes them to the helper. The test checks that stopping a delegated task and child thread interrupts nested native subagents and their root nodes.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#22279 reports provider-native subagent rows that remain running after work ends and cannot be cleared with Stop. This change adds cleanup for stale native subagent records when thread.stop has no target run.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to 240f3

The stop behavior is covered, but the new test may intermittently read the parent row before it settles. This is a bounded test-reliability risk rather than an established failure of the stop path.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check nameStatusExplanationResolution
Linked Issues checkWarningIssue #32235 asks for three behaviors. The change addresses the Stop behavior only for a narrow state: thread.stop finds active, run-bound provider-native subagents without a corresponding turn item…Implement and test child-run completion settlement that does not depend on the parent's current MCP session. Implement and test task-ID resolution from the same parent thread after compaction or reconnect. Retain regression coverage for the…
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Check nameStatusExplanation
Title checkPassedThe title clearly summarizes the main change: stopping a finished delegated child’s row when a stale native subagent keeps it active.
Description checkPassedThe description covers the problem, change, linked issue, and focused verification, including the checks not performed. It is mostly complete and follows the template.
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe whole-PR diff changes Orchestrator.ts to share native-subagent tree cleanup with thread.stop and adds stale-record handling. The ThreadStop.test.ts regression test verifies this behavior. Th…
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Explanation

The whole-PR diff changes Orchestrator.ts to share native-subagent tree cleanup with thread.stop and adds stale-record handling. The ThreadStop.test.ts regression test verifies this behavior. The helper extraction supports the fix. These changes relate to issue #32235; the whole-PR diff shows no unrelated changes.

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Explanation

Issue #32235 asks for three behaviors. The change addresses the Stop behavior only for a narrow state: thread.stop finds active, run-bound provider-native subagents without a corresponding turn item and ends their trees through endNativeSubagentTrees in Orchestrator.ts. ThreadStop.test.ts covers that state and the parent row completion. The change does not settle the row automatically when the child run completes, independent of the parent's MCP session. It also does not keep task IDs resolvable after compaction or reconnect. The issue's broader completion and task-ID requirements remain unmet.

Resolution

Implement and test child-run completion settlement that does not depend on the parent's current MCP session. Implement and test task-ID resolution from the same parent thread after compaction or reconnect. Retain regression coverage for the stale-native Stop state.

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External image Minor · Await the parent row milestone before reading row. · Orchestrator.ts:1882-1890

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Await the parent row milestone before reading row.

worker.drain() only runs effect-worker items. The parent row becomes "completed" in a separate fiber. settlesChildWork consumes subagent.updated events and runs under Effect.forkScoped (Orchestrator.ts:14250-14273). Events reach it through PubSub, so the consumer runs after the stop commits. The test reads statuses without waiting for that fiber, so the assertion can observe "running" and fail intermittently.

Wait for the persisted milestone, then assert. For example, await the parent's subagent.updated event with status: "completed" for this delegated task. Do not use sleeps or polling.

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17Implement the remaining #32235 behaviors, or narrow the linked scope and the
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20independent of the parent's MCP session that started it.
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JJulius Marminge10h ago

Evidence

Both sides: Linux web development client, Chrome 151, 1440×900, dark theme, separate worktrees and fresh databases. Identical synthetic events seed a completed delegated child with a final answer, a stale running native record without a live turn item, and a nested native subtree. No provider failure was induced.

Same interaction: open the child to read its final answer → return to the parent → press Stop on its delegated row → observe for six seconds. This checkout names the relationship panel Lineage.

BeforeAfter
d756fed7aa240f3678ec
Before recordingAfter recording
Stop is accepted, but the task remains Running and the parent remains Working/Waiting.Stop completes the task, displays its result, clears Working/Waiting, and moves the child into Previous agents.

Seed script · Interaction driver · Reproduction instructions · Runtime observations

Runtime observations confirm that both stale native records and root nodes remain running on base and become interrupted on head. The child run stays completed. Recordings were visually inspected before upload. No tests were used as evidence.

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  • The original provider terminal-event loss and reported compaction sequence were not reproduced; the stale state was injected through production event persistence.
  • Live provider subprocess interruption and other Stop paths were not exercised; this proof targets the completed-child stale-record path.
  • Desktop, mobile, and remote connection modes were not exercised; recordings cover the web client and real server.
  • Fetching origin returned HTTP 503 twice; the base was computed from the existing origin/main reference and available commit objects.