fix(server): settle background agents the provider stopped reporting - #9391
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Native multi-agent children (Codex collab subagents) only reach persisted state as task rows mapped from provider notifications, and nothing on the server ever settled those rows itself. When Codex lost track of a child (context compaction, a lost thread tree, a provider restart), when T3 Code restarted, or when Stop ran for a child missing from the in-memory live-turn map, no terminal row was written. The client fold and the background liveness registry kept counting the ghost, so the composer showed "1 agent working" with a Stop button stuck on "Stopping...". Persisted task rows are now the authority and the server settles them at the three moments it knows background work cannot continue: the provider session exits, the user presses Stop, and startup reconciliation finds a thread whose session this process does not own. Settlement folds the thread's full task history with the same rules as the client, writes one deterministic task.updated interrupted row per still-live agent task, and feeds the same transition to the liveness registry so both authorities agree. Stop drains queued provider events first so a running row from before the interrupt cannot land after the settlement row, and the registry remembers host-settled tasks so a late status-free start row cannot re-arm them. Implemented by Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code, with independent root-cause analysis and adversarial review by GPT-5.6 Sol via Codex.
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial cross-cutting runtime change: persisted task-history folding and terminal writes now occur in provider Stop, session-exit, and startup paths, alongside liveness tombstones and new database reads. The behavior affects orchestration teardown and startup across existing threads, and an auth-directory file is also touched, so the risk is not limited to a mechanical bug fix. You can add or adjust custom eligibility rules. Learn more. |
Two gaps in background-agent settlement. The fold copied only the newest row's payload onto the synthesized terminal row, so when later lifecycle rows carried just a task id and a status the settled row lost agentKind and its workflow grouping — and once the start row aged out of the client's activity window, that row was the only one left and the agent disappeared from the panel. Startup also skipped threads whose session was already stopped, so a process that died between marking a session stopped and settling its children left those rows running on every later boot. Linkage is now merged across every row for a task, newest non-empty value winning, and covers the full set ingestion stamps minus per-row state. Startup settles any thread it does not own regardless of session status, reading every candidate thread's task history in one batched, chunked query instead of a query per thread. Implemented by Claude Opus 5 via Claude Code.
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Background-task settlement gave up too easily. A failed activity append for one task aborted the whole loop, so every later live task on that thread was left neither persisted nor recorded in the liveness registry, and the startup batch ran all threads under one recovery, so the first failing thread skipped every thread after it. Each append now recovers on its own: log a warning with the thread and task, skip that task's tombstone so the registry never claims a settlement no row backs, and carry on with the rest of the fleet. The batched startup path wraps each thread's writes in its own recovery while keeping the single batched read. Interrupt causes still propagate. Implemented by Claude Opus 5 via Claude Code.
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…erting The settlement tests reached the repository shape through `as unknown as`, which hid the fact that the doubles returned narrow rows. They now build complete activity rows and check the shape with `satisfies`, so a contract change fails the typecheck instead of the test run. Also tightens the composer doc sentence about background agents.
…ment guard The final case in the startup reconciliation suite used bare `it`, so the Effect it returned was never executed and none of its assertions ran. It now uses `it.effect`; the assertions were already correct. `applyStatus` carried a guard that only skipped writing "terminal" over "terminal", a provable no-op, under a comment claiming terminal is sticky. It is not: a later running row reopens the entry, matching the client fold. `listTaskLifecycleByThreadIds` orders by `thread_id` first, so its doc no longer claims threads come back interleaved. Adds repository coverage for the three behaviors that read path relies on: the lifecycle-kind filter, unsequenced rows sorting ahead of sequenced ones, and thread ids spanning more than one query chunk.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds persisted background-task settlement for provider session exit, Stop, and startup reconciliation. It adds task-lifecycle queries, task-history folding, host-settlement tombstones, runtime wiring, and regression coverage. ChangesBackground task settlement
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Provider as Provider session
participant Ingestion as ProviderRuntimeIngestion
participant Reactor as ProviderCommandReactor
participant Repository as ProjectionThreadActivityRepository
participant Settlement as ThreadTaskSettlement
participant Liveness as ThreadBackgroundLivenessService
Provider->>Ingestion: Emit task lifecycle events
Ingestion->>Repository: Persist activity rows
Reactor->>Ingestion: Drain queued events on Stop
Reactor->>Settlement: Settle thread tasks
Settlement->>Repository: Read task lifecycle history
Settlement->>Repository: Append interrupted task.updated rows
Settlement->>Liveness: Record host-settled liveness
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Stopping a thread can leave background-task indicators active despite settlement. The timestamp ordering should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts`:
- Line 1554: Update the ingestion drain flow using a per-thread pre-Stop event
watermark, or otherwise defer settlement until all events at or before that
watermark complete, so Effect.timeoutOption(INTERRUPT_INGESTION_DRAIN_TIMEOUT)
cannot allow queued task.updated(running) events to persist after
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The liveness registry's host-settled tombstone only blocked status-free rows, so an explicit task.updated(running) stamped before a Stop but delivered after it re-armed the thread. The sidebar pill and composer banner then showed work in flight while the persisted fold counted zero, and a second Stop could not clear it because settlement found nothing live to settle. The registry now stores the settlement timestamp instead of a bare key and drops any row the provider stamped at or before it, which is the same created_at rule the persisted activity fold already applies.
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Rewrites the comments this branch adds so they say what the code does without em dashes, label colons, or figures of speech. Two of them were also wrong: the layer comment claimed the provideMerge order was safe to invert (it is not, the later entry provides to the earlier), and the projection test comment described a straddling thread the chunker never produces.
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts`:
- Around line 1701-1705: Capture a fresh timestamp after the ingestion drain
completes, then pass it as createdAt to settleThreadTasks for the interrupted
Stop settlement so it sorts after late running events. Update the test fixture
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Stamp the Stop settlement after the ingestion drain. A provider task.updated(running) event without sessionSequence is stored without a sequence, so the lifecycle query orders it by createdAt. If the drain accepts that event after the Stop request, the settlement row uses the older request timestamp and sorts before it. The fold then applies running last and keeps the task live. Capture a fresh timestamp after the drain and pass it to settleThreadTasks. Update the test so evt-drain-child-late-running has a timestamp later than the Stop request; it currently uses the same now value.
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts` around lines
1701 - 1705, Capture a fresh timestamp after the ingestion drain completes, then
pass it as createdAt to settleThreadTasks for the interrupted Stop settlement so
it sorts after late running events. Update the test fixture
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When the server restarts while an agent is running a command, the
command's process dies with the server and never reports a result. Its
row stayed "in progress" forever, and because both clients hide
in-progress tool rows once a turn has ended, the command disappeared
from the thread. The fold header still counted it ("1 terminal
command"), but expanding the fold showed nothing.
## What changed
- **Server:** startup reconciliation already finds threads whose turn
was running when the server stopped. For each one, it now records a
`tool.completed` activity with status `stopped` for every tool call in
that turn that has no completion. This happens whether the thread is
then continued or settled with an error. Threads whose provider session
is still live are left alone.
- The stopped row copies the call's last payload, so the command, title
and tool data are unchanged.
- Its timestamp is the call's last update, the latest time the call is
known to have been running. It sorts with the work it ended, not at the
moment the server came back.
- A new repository query, `listUnfinishedToolCalls`, reads only the
start and update rows of that turn's unfinished calls.
- **Web and mobile:** a tool call whose completion is `stopped` is now
shown rather than hidden as running, with a stopped heading: "Command
stopped", "Edit stopped", and so on, matching "Command failed". The rule
lives in `workEntryIsStoppedToolCall` in client-runtime and the
`stopped` flag of the shared tool-row presentation. Background tasks
that report cancelled or interrupted progress are unchanged and stay
hidden.
- **Ledger:** adds a `restart-stopped-tool-calls` entry.
No provider reports a `stopped` tool status today. The live database I
checked has none, so the client change affects only the rows this fix
records.
Both shots show the same thread with the "Worked for" fold opened. The
agent started a 60-second command, and the server restarted while the
command was running:
| Before | After |
| --- | --- |
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Before, the command is missing even though the fold's header counts one
terminal command. After, it shows as "Command stopped". The final reply
is the agent's own report after it was continued.
## Validation
- **Real restart:** on an isolated dev server, a Claude thread ran `node
-e "setTimeout(…, 60000)"` in the foreground, and I restarted the server
while the command was running. On startup the server recorded one
`tool.completed` row with status `stopped` for that call, on the
interrupted turn and at the call's last update time, and then continued
the thread. The web app shows "Command stopped - node -e …" inside the
turn's fold, with no page errors. The screenshots above are from that
thread; the before shot uses the same data with the client rule turned
off, which is what current clients render.
- **Server tests:**
- `serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile.test.ts`: an orphaned running thread
gets exactly one stopped completion, for its open call, using the call's
latest payload and time. A call whose last update already failed is
skipped, and a thread with a live session is untouched. The test fails
with the reconcile step disabled.
- `ProjectionThreadActivities.test.ts`: runs the query against SQLite.
It returns only rows for that turn's calls that have no
`tool.completed`, and skips rows without a call ID.
- **Client tests:**
- `session-logic.test.ts` (web) and `threadActivity.test.ts` (mobile): a
stopped tool completion stays visible, and the mobile row reads "Command
stopped". Both fail with the shared rule disabled. The existing test
that keeps cancelled background tasks hidden still passes.
- `toolRowPresentation.test.ts` covers the "Command stopped" heading.
**Not verified**
- **Mobile on a device:** covered only by the feed tests. When the
command is the turn's only work, the collapsed group on mobile shows the
command without saying it stopped. Expanding the group shows "Command
stopped".
- **Other providers:** only Claude was restarted for real. The server
step doesn't depend on the provider, because it reads the recorded
activities.
Related upstream work: pingdotgg#9391
settles background agent tasks the same way when a session ends. It does
not cover tool calls.
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What changed
The server now settles persisted background agent tasks itself instead of relying on the provider to report every child's final status.
ThreadTaskSettlementmodule folds a thread's full task history with the same rules as the client, then writes one deterministictask.updatedinterrupted row per still-live agent task. It feeds the same transition to the in-memory liveness registry, so the sidebar pill, the composer banner, and the Agents panel agree.readysession whose turn ended while children kept running). It skips archived and deleted threads.runningrow from before the interrupt cannot land after the settlement row and re-arm the count. The drain times out after five seconds, so a busy event stream cannot stall Stop.created_atrule the persisted fold applies. A strictly newer non-terminal status still re-arms.Why
The server persists Codex native multi-agent children only as task rows mapped from provider notifications. The server never wrote a terminal row when Codex lost track of a child (context compaction, a lost thread tree, a provider restart), when T3 Code restarted, or when Stop ran for a child missing from the in-memory live-turn map. The client fold and the liveness registry kept counting that child as live: the UI showed "1 agent working", Codex's own
list_agentsomitted the agent,interrupt_agentreturnednot_found, and the Stop button stuck on "Stopping...". This bug reproduces on this machine's own history: a child whose last persisted row isrunningunder a session that is nowstopped.UI changes
No layout changes. The "N agents working" banner and the Agents panel now clear even when the provider never reports those agents again.
Verification
vp test runon the ThreadTaskSettlement, ProjectionThreadActivities, ProviderRuntimeIngestion, ProviderCommandReactor, serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile, ThreadBackgroundLiveness, and client-runtime subagentRuntime suites: 7 files, 228 tests passedvp test runon the OrchestrationEngine and AgentSessionImporter suites: 2 files, 41 tests passedvp fmtandvp lintclean on changed filesreadysession, host-settled tombstones, and the real macOS event sequence replayed through the client foldThreadBackgroundLiveness.tsfails it withexpected 'working' to be nullChecklist
Implemented by Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code, with independent root-cause analysis and two rounds of adversarial review by GPT-5.6 Sol via Codex.
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Medium Risk
Touches Stop/session teardown and startup reconciliation on orchestration activity writes and liveness; ordering and tombstone logic are subtle but heavily tested and failures are logged without blocking callers.
Overview
Fixes stuck “N agents working” UI when Codex (or similar) loses track of collab children while persisted task rows still say running.
Adds
ThreadTaskSettlement, which reads full task lifecycle history (newlistTaskLifecycleByThreadId(s)on the activity projection), folds it with client-aligned rules viaselectLiveAgentTasks, and appends deterministictask.updated/ interrupted rows while mirroringsettledByHostintoThreadBackgroundLivenesstombstones so late provider rows cannot re-arm the count.Settlement runs on provider session exit (ingestion), thread interrupt / Stop (command reactor drains
ProviderRuntimeIngestionwith a 5s cap first so queuedrunningrows land before settlement), and startup reconciliation for threads this process does not own (includingready/stoppedsessions with lingering children; archived/deleted skipped). Layer wiring inverts ingestion vs command reactor so Stop can call drain. Extensive tests cover ordering, tombstones, batch startup, and client fold behavior; composer docs note the banner clearing.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 8292e39. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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Settle background agents the provider stopped reporting as interrupted
ThreadTaskSettlementmodule that folds persisted task-lifecycle rows to find still-live agent tasks and synthesizes interrupted terminal activities for themProviderCommandReactorthread.turn.interrupt handler now drains provider runtime ingestion (up to 5s) before settling remaining tasksProviderRuntimeIngestionsession.exited handler settles live tasks as interrupted before clearing thread livenessserverRuntimeStartup.reconcileProviderSessionssettles background tasks for non-archived/non-deleted threads whose provider session is gone, before orphaned-session reconciliationThreadBackgroundLivenessServicerecords tombstones for host-settled tasks so delayed status-free lifecycle rows do not reactivate them; explicit non-terminal status still reactivateslistTaskLifecycleActivityRowsandlistTaskLifecycleActivityRowsByThreadIdstoProjectionThreadActivityRepository, batching multi-thread reads in groups of 500ProviderCommandReactorLiveis provided beforeProviderRuntimeIngestionLive, letting shutdown drain ingestion before settlementsettleThreadTasks/settleThreadsTasksin ThreadTaskSettlement.ts for correct task identity folding and the 500-id batch bound in ProjectionThreadActivities.tsMacroscope summarized 4693b28.
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