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"Snooze until it's done" woke a thread as soon as the main agent's turn ended, even while its background subagents were still working. When they finished, the agent's follow-up turn got a new id, so the snooze no longer matched it anyway.

How it works now:

  • The snooze holds while the awaited turn runs or the thread's background liveness is working. Watch loops alone (monitoring) don't hold it, since a dev server can outlive the session. The server (isThreadSnoozed) and client-runtime (effectiveSnoozed, threadWokeAt) rules share the new untilDoneWorkContinues check.

  • When the agent starts its own follow-up turn while that work is live, the thread.session.set decider moves the snooze onto the new turn in the same command. A user turn start still unsnoozes first. A turn that arrives after the work went quiet finds the thread already awake and stays out, so a thread can't vanish again hours later.

  • Claude now opens the follow-up turn on an idle task_notification, before emitting task.completed. Before, it opened on the first assistant message a few seconds later, which left a gap where the thread looked idle. Ambient and transcript-skipped tasks and subagent-owned tasks don't reach the main agent, so they don't open a turn. The rollback boundary still comes from the first assistant message. Provider logs from the last few days show every idle notification followed by the CLI's echo and an assistant reply.

  • The preset is offered and accepted while subagents work after the turn ended. Codex gets the liveness part. It doesn't start follow-up turns on its own.

  • Claude often sends a terminal task_updated right before task_notification. When the thread is idle, a main-agent task's terminal status is held until its notification arrives, so liveness stays working until the follow-up turn exists. If no notification comes within 2 seconds, the held status is released. Restart-orphan notifications (reason: worker_restart) don't open a turn.

Known limits, left as is:

  • If the user sends a message in the few seconds between the notification and the agent's first output, that follow-up turn keeps a null rollback boundary. Rollback then fails with the existing "boundary unavailable" error, the same path older cursors take.
  • When subagents finish with no follow-up turn, the Woke time is the main turn's completion, not the moment the work ended. The shell has no timestamp for that yet.

Docs and the README fork section are updated.

Checks: vp check, vp run typecheck, focused tests for the decider, settlement policy, client-runtime snooze rules, and the Claude adapter. I also ran it live against an isolated dev server with a real Claude session. The snooze held through about a minute of subagent work, moved onto the agent's follow-up turn, stayed hidden while that turn ran, and woke with the Woke pill once it finished. An Astra review found the task_updated ordering bug. CodeRabbit flagged that the first fix relied on a notification always arriving, which is why the fallback exists.

Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code)

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  • New Features

    • “Until it’s done” snoozes now remain active while the agent completes follow-up work from its subagents, even if the current turn has ended.
    • The snooze becomes eligible while the agent or its subagents are working. Monitoring activity, such as a dev server, does not keep the thread snoozed.
  • Documentation

    • Updated snooze guidance to clarify when threads stay snoozed and when they wake.

The until-done snooze woke when the main agent's turn ended, even while its
background subagents kept working. It now holds while the awaited turn runs or
its subagents work, and moves onto the follow-up turn the agent starts for
their results. Claude opens that turn on the task notification, so the thread
never looks idle in between.
…follow-up turn

Claude sends a terminal task_updated right before task_notification, which
cleared liveness before the snooze could move. Restart-orphan notifications
no longer open a turn.
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The PR updates “until it’s done” snoozes to account for working background tasks and follow-up turns. It changes Claude task-notification handling, server orchestration and client snooze state, and updates snooze descriptions and tests.

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Until-done snooze lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Background task notifications and synthetic turns
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts
Eligible task notifications and assistant messages can start synthetic turns. Idle terminal task status is held while awaiting a notification, then released after a two-second fallback if no notification arrives. Tests cover notification cases, turn association, and resume cursor behavior.
Orchestration snooze tracking
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementPolicy.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementPolicy.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.snoozed.test.ts
The engine passes background liveness to the decider. Working background tasks can qualify for and maintain an until-done snooze. When an active follow-up turn starts, the decider can move the snooze to that turn while preserving its timestamp.
Client snooze state and descriptions
packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadSettled.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadSnoozed.test.ts, README.md, docs/user/cli-automation.md, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
Client snooze eligibility and wake-state checks now account for working background tasks. Tests cover working, monitoring-only, and absent background liveness. The descriptions clarify that snoozes can continue through subagent follow-up work and are not extended by watch loops.

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Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fdef3

Tasks completed without a follow-up notification can show a completion time about two seconds late. Preserve the provider timestamp in the fallback before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fdef3

A follow-up turn can now begin before its first reply. If it ends in that interval, its unresolved rollback marker may prevent later undo. No cross-user access or privilege expansion was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A notification-created turn can be completed before its first assistant message, leaving a null boundary that blocks subsequent exact rollback.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated effect is thread-level visibility and rollback state within a provider session. The reviewed path does not establish cross-user reachability or a new credential authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — A provider notification can now initiate a main-thread turn. Recorded subagent ownership limits that transition, but production reachability of notifications without a task registration remains unproven; it is not an established attack path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A normal assistant reply fills the provisional rollback boundary, and session-stop cleanup settles live tasks. Neither control repairs a synthetic turn already completed without an assistant reply.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before completing a notification-created turn without assistant output, resolve or remove its provisional boundary so later rollback retains exact-boundary semantics.
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Only idle-time main-agent patches are held; in-turn patches settle at once as
before. A task_notification claims the held status, otherwise it is emitted
after two seconds.
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