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fix(server): driver-only delegation re-checks a stale provider before refusing it - #16475

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Problem

#16219 made delegation re-probe a provider before refusing it, but only when the target names a providerInstanceId or inherits the parent's instance. A target that names only a driver (target: { driverKind: "claudeAgent" }) still resolves against the cached snapshot. On a headless or remote server, background refresh only runs while a client is in the foreground, so a single startup probe timeout (Claude and Codex record it as status: "error") keeps delegate_task and create_threads refusing that driver for hours, even though the CLI works.

Change

resolveTargetRechecking in OrchestratorMcpService now builds a list of instances to re-probe. For a driver-only target, that list is every enabled, installed instance of the driver. When resolution fails with provider_unavailable, it refreshes those instances once with providerRegistry.refreshInstance and resolves again against the refreshed registry. The healthy path is unchanged: no refresh happens unless resolution already failed. Both spawn tools that check provider health (delegate_task, create_threads) share this path. t3_thread_launch doesn't check cached provider health, so this bug doesn't affect it. No contract or client changes.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so it doesn't have a separate issue. It closes the remaining gap in #16219's behavior for the one target shape that fix skips.

Verification

  • Added re-probes a driver-only target's instances once before refusing it to apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts. The cached Claude snapshot holds the real timeout error. The first delegate_task with { driverKind: "claudeAgent" } re-probes that instance once, the probe still reports an error, and the call is refused without dispatching. After the probe starts returning ready, the next call re-probes and dispatches to that instance.
  • vp test run src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts: 12 passed. With only the source change reverted, the new test fails (1 failed, 11 passed).
  • vp lint and vp fmt on both files are clean. apps/server typecheck shows no errors in the changed files. The 10 errors it reports are already on main in src/process/externalLauncher.test.ts and appear identically without this change.
  • Not checked: a live headless server with a real probe timeout.

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Verdict: Approved at baf4a9c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped server bug fix that retries stale provider health for driver-only delegation and adds regression coverage for refusal and recovery paths. Existing contracts and defaults remain unchanged, with no sensitive, deployment, or static-analysis configuration impact.

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resolveTargetRechecking now refreshes eligible provider instances and retries resolution after a provider_unavailable result. Tests cover timeout without dispatch and successful delegation after a healthy probe.

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Provider rechecking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Refresh and retry driver-only targets
apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts
The resolver refreshes matching enabled and installed instances for driver-only targets, then retries with the refreshed provider snapshot. Tests verify that a timeout returns provider_unavailable without dispatch and that a later healthy probe allows one dispatch.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 01271

Driver-only delegation can recover after a healthy re-probe, but batch thread creation may still fail after creating earlier threads. The change is mergeable with owner awareness of that existing concern.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 01271

Existing access and provider eligibility checks remain in place. Recovery now probes every eligible provider of the requested type, which can increase shared server work. Cancellation and concurrent reconfiguration across multiple providers are only partially verified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Driver-only recovery refreshes every enabled, installed instance of the requested driver before retrying. In create_threads, successful recovery does not replace the batch's original stale snapshot, so later matching requests can repeat that work, potentially across twenty requests. An active caller-owned agent session can therefore cause additional provider processes and contend with shared per-instance refresh locks. Healthy initial resolution avoids this path, and unsuccessful resolution stops the sequential batch; actual resource exhaustion was not demonstrated.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The newly reachable work spans matching enabled, installed instances in the server's shared provider registry, including instances ultimately rejected for dispatch. The caller controls target selection, not the inspected health probe's executable arguments. No cross-service privilege expansion was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — create_threads requires an active parent run owned by the calling provider session. Target resolution retains its eligibility checks. The inspected adapter registry obtains instances from the live instance registry and guards session startup during shared credential changes; these are existing controls, not new protections introduced by this PR.
  • observed — The inspected Claude capability probe disables hooks, exposes no allowed tools, suppresses configured MCP servers, supplies no conversation prompt, applies deadlines, and signals abort in a finalizer. Its capabilities cache is per instance. These controls limit the newly reachable probe's authority, but do not establish operating-system process cleanup for every driver.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Managed refresh serializes probe and settings-driven snapshot updates per instance and rejects stale enrichment generations. Registry refresh recovery propagates interruption and preserves cached state on other failures. Instance reconciliation closes removed or replaced scopes. These controls support recovery, but do not prove transaction-wide consistency between multiple refreshes and subsequent dispatch.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Reuse refreshed provider state within a creation batch, and consider sharing overlapping recovery probes per instance. This would reduce repeated shared-server work without weakening dispatch eligibility checks.
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- Around line 1058-1059: Update the createThreads batch loop to load the current
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Comment on lines +1058 to +1059
Effect.flatMap((snapshots) =>
resolveTarget({ ...input, providers: snapshots.at(-1) ?? input.providers }),

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Load the current provider snapshot for each batch item.

createThreads captures providers before the sequential loop. After one target recovers, a later target can still probe that stale snapshot. A timeout can fail the tool without returning a partial result, while earlier threads remain created. Retrying the same batch from the same caller with the same clientRequestId replays completed commands without duplicating threads. Load providers inside the loop to avoid the redundant probe.

Suggested fix
-        const providers = yield* loadProviders;
         const key = yield* requestKey(input.clientRequestId);
         const created = yield* Effect.forEach(
           input.threads,
           (request, index) =>
             Effect.gen(function* () {
+              const providers = yield* loadProviders;
               const target = yield* resolveTargetRechecking({
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts around lines
1058 - 1059:
Update the createThreads batch loop to load the current provider snapshot inside
each item’s iteration, then pass it to resolveTarget instead of reusing
providers captured before the loop.

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… refusing it

pingdotgg#16219 re-probes a provider before refusing a delegation, but only when
the target names an instance or inherits the parent's. A target that
names just a driver (`{ driverKind }`) still read the cached snapshot,
so one startup probe timeout kept refusing it until a client came to
the foreground. Re-probe each enabled, installed instance of that
driver once, then resolve again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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atimmer force-pushed the fix/delegation-refreshes-stale-provider-health branch from 77ce571 to 01271e6 Compare October 8, 2026 11:34

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