fix(pi): show native background subagent lifecycles#33590

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Async Pi subagents, including workflow, chain and parallel members, were invisible while their launch receipts contained empty results. Foreground workflows also appeared only at completion.

Project native pi-subagents lifecycle frames through one adapter-owned module. Structured receipts, status widgets and identified notices update stable native-agent rows on the original launching turn, including members first seen after that turn settles. Paused generations can accept real terminal outcomes without being revived by stale frames. Only native Pi subagent work holds the event subscription; arbitrary extension jobs are unchanged.

This is a standard change because it adds session lifecycle state. It uses the existing timeline/mobile rows, with no child threads, navigation, lineage UI or per-snapshot tool display.

Verification

Final pnpm exec vp run check:changed pingdotgg/main: format, lint, knip, GraphQL, nine-package typecheck and 131 tests passed.
All 129 Pi adapter tests and the focused workflow orchestration replay passed. The 11 new adapter cases and replay fail against upstream base with missing projections.
Both final stale-member admission and paused-to-stopped cases were observed failing on the preceding implementation and passing here.
Independent targeted probes closed five proof gaps: chain receipt, management guard, child snapshot before receipt, 128-entry early-notice eviction, and omitted foreground member settlement. Seven probes passed; each counterfactual failed at its intended observation.
The second proof audit found no remaining code-level proof gap within scope.
A free local RPC executable replayed the recorded frames through the real Pi adapter, server, projections, WebSocket and web client. The same launching turn showed running, individual completion and final completion. No paid native model turn ran. The checked-in workflow fixture is an explicitly documented sequential composite of the issue's real RPC recording and handshake template.
Rebased onto current upstream main; git range-diff confirmed unchanged patches.

Running	Incremental completion	Completed
Running native Pi agent	One completed, one running	Both native agents completed

Limits

Unknown or omitted final child outcomes retain the last observed row state and can keep the server waiting. No terminal success is inferred.
Widget keys sanitized or truncated upstream may not join raw notification keys. Matching remains exact.
Tracking is capped at 128 native runs and 128 early notices. Settled metadata is evicted first; exceeding the unresolved-run bound interrupts the oldest locally and rejects later revival.
Key-only incremental notices cannot identify an owner safely under capped inventories, so identified widgets supply incremental state. Old notices without run IDs require terminal widget evidence.
Management actions are not new launches; resume-as-new-run remains a follow-up.
General idle-session lifetime (#24187), parent interruption of detached children, rollback and fork behavior are outside this change.
Native mobile pixels, Electron shell behavior and live-model execution were not verified.

Local cubic initially found retained-run and foreground interruption gaps; later batches fixed them. Its GitHub repository context was unavailable on the GitCafe origin, and it was not rerun on the final head. Optional result previews and unrelated documentation/transport nits were declined.

Council review

Reviewer	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6
GPT 6.1 Sol	6	7	8	9	8	9
Claude Opus 5.5	6	7	8	8	8	9
Grok 4.7	8	8	8	9	9	9

Round 6 has no open blocker or should. The dispatcher explicitly authorized rounds 5 and 6 after the initial four-round handoff.

Created with GPT 6.1 Sol (lead, fixes and proof audit), Claude Opus 5.5 (build and trim), and Grok 4.7 (independent evidence), with all three reviewing, in T3 Code through the Codex harness and delegated providers.

Closes #17363 Closes #17564

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fix(pi): reconcile native subagent lifecycle state30f3401
fix(pi): preserve terminal subagent pending state and trim owners383c019
refactor(pi): drop redundant subagent child-notice and snapshot replay paths577732a
chore: credit the models that built this PR613e7e8
fix(pi): preserve native subagent lifecycle ownership63fe01c
fix(pi): show background pi-subagents runs and workflow children790ce40
fix(pi): retain required incremental and stale lifecycle handling8aebe00
fix(pi): reconcile paused and terminal subagent runsb4e49c1
fix(pi): release native pending work when its root pausesce03de2

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Verdict: Approved at 399624d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This change makes native Pi background subagents visible throughout their lifecycles and keeps their updates attached to the launching turn. Pending-work probes also protect running children from premature session release or context replacement, with no product-default changes.

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JJulius Marminge20h ago

Thanks, Wout, for the work on this. Closing as a duplicate of your earlier #23786, which also covers single, workflow, chain and parallel Pi subagent lifecycles and includes regression and runtime evidence. Please continue the work there.

JJulius Marminge20h ago

Reopened after rechecking liveness: this current, tested PR is the better keeper for the Pi subagent lifecycle fix. Thanks, Wout!

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/main' into pr-33590ada6c58

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Walkthrough

The Pi adapter now tracks foreground and detached subagents from tool results and session frames. It emits subagent and background-work updates. New adapter tests and an orchestration fixture cover lifecycle states and event ordering.

Changes: Pi asynchronous subagents

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Subagent lifecycle tracking `packages/provider-pi/src/server/subagents.ts`, `packages/provider-pi/src/server/rpc.ts`	Adds lifecycle state and member records. The tracker processes foreground tool results, detached launches, status snapshots, and completion notices. It retains settled states, bounds tracked background runs and notices, and interrupts unsettled members when tracking closes.
Adapter event integration `packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts`	The adapter shares turn emission ownership with tracked subagents. It passes tool results and session frames to the lifecycle tracker, emits member and background-work updates, and settles foreground members when turns finish.
Lifecycle behavior tests `packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts`	Adds tests for detached and foreground runs, workflow and parallel children, notices and snapshots, pending-work transitions, retention, and process exit.
Orchestration workflow fixture `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/index.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/pi_subagents_async_workflow/*`	Adds and registers a fixture for two sequential asynchronous subagent runs. Its assertions check projected members and lifecycle event ordering.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant Pi as Pi session
3	participant Adapter as Pi adapter
4	participant Lifecycle as Subagent lifecycle
5	participant Projection as Subagent projection
6	Pi->>Adapter: Send tool result or session frame
7	Adapter->>Lifecycle: Observe tool or session frame
8	Lifecycle-->>Adapter: Return member and pending-work updates
9	Adapter->>Projection: Emit subagent and background-work updates

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#32079: Tracks Pi async snapshots and detached runs associated with their launching turn.
pingdotgg/t3code#23786: Tracks detached native Pi subagents and late completion on launching runs.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, aliceisjustplaying

Pre-merge checks: ^Passed 4

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Title check	Passed	The title clearly identifies the Pi change: showing native background subagent lifecycles.
Description check	Passed	The description explains the problem, change, scope, and detailed verification. It links the issues it closes, but does not include an explicit maintainer approval comment; the rest of the description…
Linked Issues check	Passed	The current-head summary supports `#17363`: `packages/provider-pi/src/server/subagents.ts` tracks detached runs from launch receipts and reconciles notices and snapshots into running and terminal rows. …
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The summarized changes in the Pi adapter, lifecycle module, RPC text helper, adapter tests, and orchestration replay support the linked lifecycle objectives and their verification. The PR description …

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The current-head summary supports #17363: packages/provider-pi/src/server/subagents.ts tracks detached runs from launch receipts and reconciles notices and snapshots into running and terminal rows. It supports #17564: the lifecycle projects workflow, chain, and parallel members. Adapter tests and the orchestration replay cover launching-turn ownership, incremental completion, stale frames, paused runs, and settlement.

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The summarized changes in the Pi adapter, lifecycle module, RPC text helper, adapter tests, and orchestration replay support the linked lifecycle objectives and their verification. The PR description says arbitrary extension jobs remain unchanged and adds no child threads or navigation. No unrelated change is identified in the available evidence.

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	1287	+	});
	1288	+	}
	1289	+	pendingSubagentOwners = next;
	1290	+	});

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Include native subagents in the pending-work probes.

After the launching turn settles, idle release can close the Pi session while a detached subagent is still running. The thread probe can also allow context replacement while that subagent is running. Include subagents in the thread probe only when includeSubagents is set.

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✅ Addressed in commit 399624d

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fix(pi): keep sessions alive while background subagents run399624d

Mmaria1h ago

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Takeover fixup:

Merged current main (merge commit, no rebase). The conflicts in provider-pi rpc.ts/adapter.ts kept both sides: this PR's piContentText and main's resolvePiModelSlug/findReportedPiModel.
Applied the CodeRabbit finding on adapter.ts. hasPendingBackgroundWork now counts pending native subagents, so idle release no longer closes the Pi session while a detached subagent runs (Codex already does this). hasPendingBackgroundWorkForThread counts them only with includeSubagents, so per-event run probes are unchanged. I added assertions to the existing "replays identified early completion" test. They fail without the fix.
check:changed and the Pi replay fixture suite pass.

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