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Problem

When a thread's provider session is released while a turn is running, the run's open tool calls stay running until the server restarts. This happens when an agent switches its own thread to another provider instance with t3_thread_configure, and with the detach that t3_worktree_handoff performs on purpose. The thread then shows "Waiting on background task" for work that no longer exists, and Stop doesn't clear it.

Seen on Nightly 0.0.46 (build 2652): two T3 Thread Configure calls stayed running for about 15 hours after their runs had failed with "The provider event stream closed unexpectedly". The shutdown reconcile cleared them when the app restarted.

Change

Releasing the session fails the run's event stream before the provider reports the turn's end. The fallback in RunExecutionService that then fails the run already closes the run's open subagents, but not its open tool calls.

The run now tracks its open command_execution and dynamic_tool items and their tool nodes. Items are kept as the ingestor persists them, without unserved image bytes. When the provider stream is lost before the turn ends, those items end as interrupted, not failed: they were cut short, and a call such as t3_thread_configure may already have done its work. This follows the Claude adapter's rule that only a turn ending on its own leaves its tools failed. The run itself still fails. This happens only in that fallback and in the matching one for a turn that fails to start; background work that outlives a turn that ended normally, and later runs that take over such work, are unchanged.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious bug: one failure path, with no behaviour, contract or client changes.

It's related to #16000, whose triage traces the same detach and "provider event stream closed unexpectedly" path, and to #15300 and #15313 about self-configuration. It's independent of how those are resolved: the worktree-handoff detach is intended and still ends the calling turn this way.

Verification

  • Live, in a dev build with a real Claude session that calls t3_thread_configure to switch itself to Codex. On main the call stays running and the thread shows "Waiting on background task mcp__t3-code__t3_thread_configure". With this change it shows "Stopped setting thread model", nothing is left waiting, and the projection has no open tool calls. The run fails in both, as before ([Bug]: Self model configuration can stop its own run without continuing #15300).

    Before (main) After
    Before: the tool call stays running and the thread waits on it After: the tool call shows as stopped and nothing is left waiting
  • New ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts case: a provider with Claude's capabilities holds a turn with a running dynamic_tool call while provider.switch moves the thread to Codex, through the real orchestrator, effect worker and session manager. On main the item stays running ("expected 'running' to equal 'interrupted'"). With this change it ends as interrupted, and derivePendingBackgroundWork is empty. The test adapter gains one option, heldRunningToolCall.

  • New RunExecutionService.test.ts case: after the stream is lost, open tool calls and their tool nodes end as interrupted, a node whose item never arrived is interrupted too, a call that already completed is left alone, and the stored item has no unserved image bytes. A tool call reported before the turn fails to start is interrupted the same way.

  • Related suites: vp test run on the 7 related files (RunExecutionService, ProviderSwitch, BackgroundWorkStop, SelectionRestart, ProviderSwitchService, ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService and ProviderSessionManager): 222 passed. Server typecheck, lint and formatting are clean.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5. Harness: Claude Code in T3 Code.

…unning

Switching a thread to another provider while a turn is running releases the
old provider session, which fails the run's event stream before the provider
can report the turn's end. The fallback that then fails the run closed open
subagents but not the run's open tool calls, so a call such as the agent's own
t3_thread_configure stayed "running" and the thread kept showing "Waiting on
background tasks" until the server restarted.

The run now tracks its open command and dynamic tool calls (and their nodes)
and ends them as interrupted when its provider stream is lost.
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Verdict: Approved at 22aa4a4

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server bug fix that closes orphaned tool calls only when a provider stream is lost, while preserving normal turn and background-work behavior. It introduces no schema, product-default, infrastructure, security, billing, or static-analysis changes and includes targeted regression coverage.

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RunExecutionService tracks open root-run tool-call nodes and command or dynamic-tool items. If provider ingestion or turn startup fails, finalization emits interrupted updates for tracked calls. Unit and integration tests cover these failure paths and provider switching.

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Provider-stream loss handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track open root-run tool calls
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
The service tracks open tool-call nodes and unsettled command or dynamic-tool items. It strips unserved image bytes from tracked item snapshots.
Finalize abandoned tool calls
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
Finalization emits interrupted updates for tracked calls. Both the ingestion-failure and turn-start-failure paths pass open tool-call state to finalization.
Verify interrupted-call handling
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts
Tests check interruption after stream loss, turn-start failure, and provider switching. They also check run failure, pull-request refresh, image-byte removal, and no pending background work after a provider switch.

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Change: Bug fix

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Open tool calls are now interrupted after stream loss and turn-start failure, with tests covering both paths and provider switching. No material merge risk remains in the supplied evidence.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 44fcd

The recovery change is narrowly scoped, and existing ownership checks protect newer work. Marking a call interrupted does not guarantee cancellation or reversal of its effects; behavior at interruption boundaries remains partly unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The new tracker selects root-thread, root-run tool-call nodes and root-run command or dynamic-tool items. Settled entries are removed, and inherited background-item delivery remains a separate route preserving original ownership.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Both changed failure paths require the original attempt to remain current and the run to remain running. A superseding attempt or terminal run therefore rejects the entire interruption batch rather than accepting stale cleanup.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Stopping ingestion before reading snapshots reduces startup-failure races, and the current-attempt guard prevents duplicate failure batches after settlement. However, persistence occurs before lifecycle tracking, so these excerpts alone do not establish snapshot completeness across every interruption point or prove actual tool cancellation.



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- Around line 353-382: Update interruptOpenRunToolCalls to track node IDs
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Adapters report a tool call's node and its item as separate events, so a
stream lost between them left an open node with no item. Interrupt every open
tool node of the run, not only those paired with an open item.
…on-lost-provider-stream

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🟠 Major · Interrupt open tool calls when startTurn fails. · RunExecutionService.ts:1557

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts:1557
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Interrupt open tool calls when startTurn fails.

If startTurn emits a running tool item and then fails, this branch interrupts the event fiber and finalizes the run without abandonedToolCalls. The item remains running in the projection. Read openToolCalls after interrupting the fiber and pass the snapshot to writeFinalRunEvents, as the ingestion-failure branch does.

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In the `startTurn` failure branch, interrupt the event fiber, then read
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A turn that fails to start is failed the same way as one whose provider
stream is lost: no provider reports its end. Tool calls it reported before
failing stayed running. Pass them to the final run write here too.
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Re the outside-diff finding on the startTurn failure branch: valid, thanks. Fixed in 44fcde8: that branch now passes the open tool calls to the final run write too, with a test for a tool call reported before the turn fails to start.

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