fix(server): held delegated stops no longer starve siblings#33326
A delegated child whose thread is busy can hold Stop's serial descendant walk across the worker's deadline. Every retry reaches that child first, so later siblings remain active while replacement work waits behind cleanup.
Stop sibling branches concurrently inside ThreadManagementService, preserving stable command IDs, reused-child deduplication, remote cancellation, failure collection, and stop-before-recursion ordering. The cleanup effect still waits for every branch; replacement work cannot bypass an unfinished retrying cleanup.
Proof uses the real effect worker and thread lock with TestClock. With the first child's lock held across three real worker deadlines, the upstream service leaves its free sibling starting; this change interrupts the sibling and its grandchild. Replacement execution stays blocked, then observes the held child already interrupted after release and the stop effect succeeds. The fixture's 95 seconds is virtual, not a reproduction of the historical patched-build incident.
Validation: focused thread-stop, remote-delegation, idempotence and partial-failure cases passed; pnpm exec vp run check:changed passed. Local cubic reported no issues (repository context unavailable for GitCafe origin).
Scope: standard change because it changes concurrent cleanup. This fixes sibling starvation. It does not establish what held the historical Pi child's lock, add waiting-state UI, change worker timeout/retry exhaustion policy, or measure resource load for wide trees. Sibling concurrency is unbounded so a fixed pool of blocked children cannot starve the rest. Worker/outbox implementation, rollback, Pi adapter and the excluded usage-limit work are untouched.
Additional service-boundary probes verified provider-native/childless records are ignored, remote interruption versus stop preserves completed results, a rejected remote stop still permits sibling cancellation while failing the walk, and explicit reasons reach local descendants and remote results. Disabling the respective branches failed these probes. Reused-child public cancellation outcomes passed, but the exact once-per-subtree traversal optimization is unproven: receipt replay masks duplicate traversals. The synchronous dedup guard is retained.
Runtime transcript (real worker, virtual clock):
| 1 | upstream service: attempt=4, cleanup=running, replacement not started; |
| 2 | free sibling=starting (expected interrupted): FAIL |
| 3 | candidate: attempt=4, cleanup=running, replacement not started; |
| 4 | free sibling and grandchild=interrupted: PASS |
| 5 | release held lock: replacement observes held child=interrupted; |
| 6 | cleanup=succeeded: PASS |
Proof audit round 1 requested additional preserved-branch evidence. Round 2 passed the scoped functional change with the traversal-count and wide-tree-load limits above disclosed.
Remaining issue scope: permanently held child locks, bounded completion under that condition, and visible blocked-on-cleanup status are deferred. #30653 stays open for those requirements.
Council review
Rounds: 1
| Delegate | Round 1 |
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| GPT 6.1 Sol | 9/10 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | 9/10 |
| Grok 4.7 | 9/10 |
No blockers or required fixes. Clarified the timing-fixture comment. Kept the held child's non-interrupted pre-release assertion because the contract under test is cancellation and replacement ordering; the post-release assertion requires exact interrupted status. Failure selection may follow completion order; every failure remains logged and the walk still fails.
Created with GPT 6.1 Sol (lead, review, audit), Claude Opus 5.5 (build, trim and review), and Grok 4.7 (review and evidence) in T3 Code through Codex, Claude and Grok harnesses.
Refs #30653
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Verdict: Approved at f7cc38f
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Delegated stops now run concurrently so a blocked child cannot prevent its siblings from stopping. Existing task scope, per-thread locks, deduplication, and failure reporting remain unchanged, keeping the change narrowly contained.
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Walkthrough
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Delegated-task stopping now runs tasks concurrently and collects individual failures while processing continues. A new test covers a child-thread lock that delays stop completion and replacement startup.
Changes: Delegated-task stopping
Layer / File(s) Summary Concurrent delegated-task stop and regression test
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts,apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.tsstopDelegatedTasksnow processes tasks concurrently, records individual failures, and returns the first collected failure after processing. The test verifies that a locked child delays replacement startup until it is interrupted.Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium
Suggested reviewers:
juliusmarminge,yash-singh1
Merge Risk: External image Low · up to f7cc3
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Stopping delegated tasks now runs concurrently, which fixes a locked child blocking its siblings. Very wide delegation trees could open many simultaneous stop dispatches. Consider a modest concurrency bound; this is low risk to merge.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1
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Failed Failed checks: 1 warning
Check name Status Explanation Resolution Linked Issues check Warning Scope: one direct issue, #30653. Its coding requirements are (a) Stop preserves cancellation of descendant work and prevents duplicate execution, (b) Stop makes bounded progress and exposes the cleanu…Add a coding change that exposes the replacement's blocked-on-Stop-cleanup state, for example a status or read-model value on the thread that names the pending delegated-task cleanup. Cover that state with a service or read-model test. Also… Passed Passed checks: 3 passed
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Check name Status Explanation Title check Passed The title "fix(server): held delegated stops no longer starve siblings" matches the main change: stopDelegatedTasks now stops sibling delegated branches concurrently, so a held child no longer blocks … Out of Scope Changes check Passed The change set is limited to apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts (+56/-57) and apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts (+138/-0), according to the supplied summarie… Description check Passed The description follows the repository template in substance. It states the problem (sibling starvation, where a busy delegated child holds Stop's serial walk past the worker deadline), the change (co… Full details: Title check
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Explanation
The title "fix(server): held delegated stops no longer starve siblings" matches the main change: stopDelegatedTasks now stops sibling delegated branches concurrently, so a held child no longer blocks later siblings. It follows the conventional commit style, and the author's description and the raw summary both describe this same change.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
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The change set is limited to apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts (+56/-57) and apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts (+138/-0), according to the supplied summaries. The ThreadManagementService.ts diff changes only the delegated-task stop walk: it converts the sequential loop to concurrent Effect.forEach, adds a shared recordFailure helper, and keeps the remote and local branches. These changes implement
#30653's sibling-starvation fix. The test file adds the supporting fixture for that fix. The PR description states that worker, outbox, rollback, Pi adapter, and usage-limit code are untouched. No diff hunk outside the stop walk was observed. ignored_files is empty. The unbounded concurrency is a design choice that the PR discloses, not an unrelated change.
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The description follows the repository template in substance. It states the problem (sibling starvation, where a busy delegated child holds Stop's serial walk past the worker deadline), the change (concurrent sibling stops in ThreadManagementService), and the verification (a TestClock-based timing test with a runtime transcript, plus focused test runs and check:changed). It also discloses limits such as unproven traversal-count and wide-tree load. The Scope and approval section is the weak point. It cites Refs
#30653and explains why the change is a standard change, but it does not include the explicit maintainer approval comment or direction approval that the template asks for. The description also has a long council-review and tooling narrative that is not part of the template.
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Explanation
Scope: one direct issue,
#30653. Its coding requirements are (a) Stop preserves cancellation of descendant work and prevents duplicate execution, (b) Stop makes bounded progress and exposes the cleanup dependency instead of appearing to hang, and (c) replacement work must not bypass unfinished Stop cleanup.Met: (a) and (c). In ThreadManagementService.stopDelegatedTasks, sibling branches now run through Effect.forEach with concurrency unbounded. Each branch still dispatches thread.stop or the remote stop/complete command, and recurses into the child subtree. The reused-child guard (stoppedChildThreadIds) is kept and runs when each callback is called. Failures are logged and collected, and the method still fails after all branches finish. Cleanup still waits for every branch, so replacement is not bypassed. The PR description reports a real-worker test in ThreadStop.test.ts where a free sibling and its grandchild are interrupted while the held child's lock is busy. The test itself was not inspected.
Unmet: (b). The diff adds no status, read-model field, or event that exposes pending Stop cleanup to the user or the replacement thread. The PR description says it does not add waiting-state UI. The diff does not change the worker timeout or retry-exhaustion policy. The PR description says it does not change that policy. With a child lock held, replacement stays blocked for as long as the worker retries, and the diff does not bound that wait. The PR fixes sibling starvation only.
Resolution
Add a coding change that exposes the replacement's blocked-on-Stop-cleanup state, for example a status or read-model value on the thread that names the pending delegated-task cleanup. Cover that state with a service or read-model test. Also decide and implement how a permanently held child lock produces bounded visible progress, or record in the linked issue that the bounded-progress and visibility requirements are deferred to a separate change.
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1531-1531: External image Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick winBound the sibling concurrency.
concurrency: "unbounded"applies at every level of the recursion, because each child runsstopDelegatedTaskswith its own unboundedEffect.forEach. A wide or deep delegation tree can start onethread.stopdispatch per descendant at the same time. Each dispatch uses the shared SQLite-backed orchestrator and takes a thread lock. The PR description says wide-tree resource load is unproven. The repository guidelines also ask that all changes consider performance impact.A small fixed bound still stops one locked child from starving its siblings. The value below is a starting point. Tune it to the dispatch cost.
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1 - { concurrency: "unbounded", discard: true }, 2 + { concurrency: 8, discard: true }, Based on learnings and as per coding guidelines: "Make sure all changes are considerate of performance impact."
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🤖 GPT 6.1 Sol responding on behalf of StiensWout
Declining the Trivial fixed-concurrency suggestion: a pool of eight can be exhausted by eight locked children, starving later free siblings again. The current change preserves progress for each branch; wide-tree resource load remains an explicit limitation.
The linked-issue scope finding is valid. #30653 now records that visible cleanup status and bounded completion for permanently held locks are deferred, and the PR uses Refs #30653 so it leaves that work open. This PR covers sibling starvation and preserves the replacement barrier.