fix(server): steering no longer cancels a pending question or approval#26842

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Problem

Fixes #26841. With Steer as the default follow-up (#24718), a message sent while the agent waits on the user steers the running turn. That cancels the pending AskUserQuestion or approval, so the user never gets to answer it. Claude steers with priority: "now", and the SDK aborts the pending permission callback ("User cancelled tool execution."). The message can come from the composer, a promoted queued message, or another agent's t3_thread_send in auto mode.

Change

CommandPolicy.resolveMessageDispatchIntent turns any steer_active into queue_after_active while the thread has a pending runtime request. It already does this behind /compact and /logout. Every message.dispatch passes through it, so the composer, the auto delivery intent and sendToThread are all covered in one place.
queued-message.promote-to-steer checks the same predicate. The promoted message moves to the front of the queue instead of steering, so it runs right after the answer.
restart is unchanged.
The composer guide says that a steer queues while a question or approval waits.

Scope and approval

A focused fix for one bug, reported in #26841, which is not triaged yet. The question is cancelled without the user ever seeing it, which is clearly a bug and not a product choice. The fix only adds this one condition to the queueing rule that steers already follow.

Verification

Failing first. On main @ 8ff9ae1f87, with only the two source changes reverted:
- the new CommandPolicy.test.ts cases fail for a pending user_input and a pending command request;
- the new SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts case fails. That case sends a steer and promotes a queued message while a user_input request is pending, then checks that nothing steered, the request stays pending, and the queue order is promoted, queued, steered.
With the fix: vp test run src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts: 35 passed.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip and typecheck (36 packages) pass. The full test run had 4 failures in 6 files, all outside the server and unrelated to this change:
- two desktop files: Electron is not installed in this checkout;
- scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts, the cross-architecture Windows probe: also fails on clean main here;
- GuestPage.browser.test.tsx: also fails on clean main here;
- two web browser tests that pass when rerun in isolation.
Not checked: a live Claude turn on this exact commit. The same guard has run since 2026-10-28 in a downstream fork's preview build. Live checks of the guard on that build are still owed.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Steering queues behind pending questions or approvals instead of cancelling them; promoted messages move to the front without interrupting the active run. The change preserves pending user decisions and leaves ordinary steering unchanged.

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Walkthrough

Steering messages now queue while a runtime request is pending. Promoting a queued message also leaves it queued and does not stop the active run. Tests cover dispatch policy and queue order, and the composer documentation describes the behavior.

Changes: Pending request steering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dispatch policy for pending requests `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.test.ts`	The dispatch policy changes steering to queueing when a runtime request is pending. Tests cover pending `user_input` and `command` requests, restart delivery, and steering after resolution.
Queued-message promotion and behavior coverage `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts`, `docs/user/composer.md`	When a request is pending, promotion puts the queued message first without stopping the active run. The integration test checks that messages remain queued and the request remains pending. The documentation describes the queueing behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid

1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant MessageSender
3	participant CommandPolicy
4	participant Orchestrator
5	participant RuntimeRequest
6	MessageSender->>CommandPolicy: Submit steer intent
7	CommandPolicy->>RuntimeRequest: Check for pending request
8	CommandPolicy->>Orchestrator: Resolve intent to queue
9	Orchestrator->>RuntimeRequest: Leave pending during queued promotion

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#19351 — The PR changes queued-message promotion to avoid interrupting a run when a runtime request is pending; the issue also concerns promotion to Steer.
pingdotgg/t3code#34158 — The PR changes dispatch of mode: "auto" when a runtime request is pending; the issue reports an auto-send dispatch problem.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#22023 — Both changes govern runtime requests when a run stops; restart in this PR cancels the pending request.
pingdotgg/t3code#25749 — Both changes modify queued follow-up promotion and steering in orchestration.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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Messages remain queued while a question or approval is pending. Delivery after an answer lacks a focused test, but no current failure is established; the change is mergeable with that coverage follow-up.

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Title check	Passed	The title is concise, conventional, and accurately describes the main change: steering no longer cancels pending questions or approvals.
Description check	Passed	The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, affected paths, implementation, scope rationale, focused verification results, unrelated test failures, and the remaining live-…
Linked Issues check	Passed	The changes satisfy issue `#26841`. `waitsOnPendingRequest` detects pending runtime requests. `resolveMessageDispatchIntent` converts `steer_active` to `queue_after_active`, which covers direct dispatch…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The changes stay within issue `#26841`. The source changes update dispatch policy and queued-message promotion. The tests verify the pending-request behavior and restart control. The documentation descr…

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The changes satisfy issue #26841. waitsOnPendingRequest detects pending runtime requests. resolveMessageDispatchIntent converts steer_active to queue_after_active, which covers direct dispatch and automatic delivery. Queued-message promotion applies the same guard and preserves queue order. Restart remains interruptive. Tests cover pending user_input and command requests, direct and automatic dispatch, promotion, request preservation, and restart behavior. The composer documentation matches the new behavior.

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The changes stay within issue #26841. The source changes update dispatch policy and queued-message promotion. The tests verify the pending-request behavior and restart control. The documentation describes the affected composer behavior. No unrelated product behavior or unrelated files appear in the reviewed changes.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.tsline 9014Outdated · 40104beOpen thread

…	…	@@ -9010,6 +9011,28 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
9010	9011		now,
9011	9012		});
9012	9013		}
	9014	+	if (waitsOnPendingRequest(projection)) {

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2	printf '%s\n' '--- relevant definitions and references ---'
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4	printf '%s\n' '--- containing promotion operation ---'
5	sed -n '8780,9075p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
6	printf '%s\n' '--- dispatchMessage-related operation ---'
7	sed -n '5120,5315p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
8	printf '%s\n' '--- stop helper and pending-request helper definitions ---'
9	rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'waitsOnPendingRequest' -e 'stopRunForQueuedCommand' apps/server/src packages \|\| test "$?" -eq 1

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3	sed -n '1,145p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.ts
4	printf '%s\n' '--- dispatchMessage start and goal-stop application ---'
5	sed -n '4940,5015p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
6	sed -n '5230,5355p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
7	sed -n '5700,5795p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
8	printf '%s\n' '--- interrupt and queued-stop helpers ---'
9	sed -n '10600,10735p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
10	sed -n '11120,11305p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
11	printf '%s\n' '--- pending request projection model references ---'
12	rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'runtimeRequests' -e 'status: "pending"' -e 'request.status === "pending"' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.ts \|\| test "$?" -eq 1

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4	printf '%s\n' '--- live-run and queued-message command definitions ---'
5	rg -n -F --glob '.ts' -e 'function isLiveRun' -e 'const isLiveRun' -e 'queued-message.promote-to-steer' -e 'message.dispatch' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*/.test.ts \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
6	printf '%s\n' '--- promotion and pending-request tests ---'
7	rg -n -i --glob '.{ts,tsx}' -e 'promote.?to.?steer' -e 'pending.request' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/test apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*/test* \|\| test "$?" -eq 1

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4	rg -n -F -- 'const settleInterruptedRun' 'function settleInterruptedRun' 'settleInterruptedRun(' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
5	sed -n '9960,10145p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
6	printf '%s\n' '--- focused pending-steering tests ---'
7	sed -n '180,225p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.test.ts
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Do not interrupt a run with a pending runtime request.

A queued /goal promotion can reach this branch while a runtime request is pending. The /goal branch runs before waitsOnPendingRequest(projection). For /goal set or /goal resume, it can pass the live target to stopRunForQueuedCommand, which dispatches an interrupt. Interrupt settlement cancels pending requests owned by that run.

This is not separate from dispatchMessage. Its /goal handling can also set goalStopRunId after resolveMessageDispatchIntent changes pending steering to queue_after_active. Apply the pending-request guard to both stop decisions while preserving queue position.

Suggested fix

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1	const stops =
2	+ !waitsOnPendingRequest(projection) &&
3	target !== undefined &&
4	isLiveRun(target) &&
5	goalCommandStopsActiveRun(goalCommand, goal?.status ?? null) &&

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1	if (
2	+ !waitsOnPendingRequest(projection) &&
3	isLiveRun(target) &&
4	goalCommandStopsActiveRun(goalCommand, goal?.status ?? null) &&

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Llhagenmayerreviewed10d ago

Validated the reported cross-thread cancellation fix on 40104be17baa53bc8b8047897264b3e7ec14eafb, including a real Claude run. This repeatedly interrupts the human decision loop in the affected install; it is not just cosmetic.

Real provider test: PASS on the unchanged PR head. macOS arm64, Node 26.12.1, locked Claude Agent SDK 0.3.276, Claude Haiku 4.5 (native model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001). I started an isolated source server with a fresh T3 home and a synthetic project. The receiving Claude thread called native AskUserQuestion; a second real Claude thread called t3_thread_send with mode: "auto" while that question was pending.

UTC transcript, 2026-11-04:

text

1	13:34:02.725 receiver question pending
2	13:34:11.301 sender completed; genuine agent message queued; original question still pending
3	13:34:11.313 submitted synthetic answer Blue through runtime-request.respond
4	13:34:15.335 original turn echoed ANSWER:Blue; queued turn acknowledged the update

The same request resolved, the answer reached the original turn, and the update ran in a second turn afterwards. The receiver finished with exactly two completed runs. The checked manifest recorded an empty git status --porcelain before server launch. This tests the real MCP sender, provider callback, answer delivery and subsequent queue execution; the human answer was supplied by the verifier through the normal client RPC.

The existing /goal review finding is also independently reproduced. Extending the existing pending-question integration case with /goal ship it fails on this PR head in both paths:

dispatching it with steering intent still emits run_interrupt_request;
promoting the queued goal does the same, because the goal branch precedes the pending-request guard.

Below is a ready-to-apply supplement against this exact head. It guards both goal stop decisions, extends the existing test table, preserves the queue order, and explicitly preserves the advertised restart behavior. The dispatch guard must allow resolvedMode.type === "restart_active": an unconditional pending-request guard also blocks an intentional goal restart. I added a control case for that distinction.

Validation:

Unchanged PR: the two existing test files pass, 35 tests.
Added goal cases without the supplement: 2 fail, ordinary case passes, both failures detect an interruption request while the question is pending.
Final supplement: vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts — 38 passed.
Formatting and lint of the two supplemented files, server vp run typecheck, and git diff --check pass.

Complete supplement, including regression and explicit-restart control

diff

1	diff --git a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
2	index 88ec8910..2b94856e 100644
3	--- a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
4	+++ b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
5	@@ -5241,6 +5241,7 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
6	(message) => message.id === target.userMessageId,
7	);
8	if (
9	+ (resolvedMode.type === "restart_active" \|\| !waitsOnPendingRequest(projection)) &&
10	isLiveRun(target) &&
11	goalCommandStopsActiveRun(goalCommand, goal?.status ?? null) &&
12	(targetMessage === undefined \|\| !isNativeMaintenanceCommand(targetMessage)) &&
13	@@ -8995,6 +8996,7 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
14	payload: { ...queuedRun, queuePosition: 1 },
15	});
16	const stops =
17	+ !waitsOnPendingRequest(projection) &&
18	target !== undefined &&
19	isLiveRun(target) &&
20	goalCommandStopsActiveRun(goalCommand, goal?.status ?? null) &&
21	diff --git a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts
22	index af45cd02..f3909e6d 100644
23	--- a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts
24	+++ b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts
25	@@ -1108,13 +1108,13 @@ it.effect("keeps a queued message queued when promoted into a run that Stop reac
26	),
27	);
28
29	-it.effect(
30	- "queues a steer and puts a promoted message first while the turn waits on the person",
31	- () =>
32	+it.effect.each(["ordinary", "goal-steer", "goal-promotion", "goal-restart"] as const)(
33	+ "queues a steer and puts a promoted message first while the turn waits on the person: %s",
34	+ (route) =>
35	Effect.scoped(
36	Effect.gen(function* () {
37	const { started, steered, layer, startFirstTurn } = yield* nextTurnSelectionHarness(
38	- "steering-pending-request",
39	+ `steering-pending-request-${route}`,
40	);
41	yield* Effect.gen(function* () {
42	const orchestrator = yield* Orchestrator.OrchestratorV2;
43	@@ -1122,18 +1122,27 @@ it.effect(
44	const sink = yield* EventSink.EventSinkV2;
45	const threadId = yield* startFirstTurn;
46	const first = started[0]!;
47	+ const messageText = (id: string) =>
48	+ ((route === "goal-steer" \|\| route === "goal-restart") && id === "steered") \|\|
49	+ (route === "goal-promotion" && id === "promoted")
50	+ ? "/goal ship it"
51	+ : id;
52	const send = (id: string, delivery: "queue" \| "steer") =>
53	orchestrator.dispatch({
54	type: "message.dispatch",
55	commandId: CommandId.make(id),
56	threadId,
57	messageId: MessageId.make(`message:${id}`),
58	- text: id,
59	+ text: messageText(id),
60	attachments: [],
61	modelSelection: runSelection,
62	...(delivery === "queue"
63	? { dispatchMode: { type: "queue_after_active" } }
64	- : { dispatchMode: { type: "start_immediately" }, deliveryIntent: "steer" }),
65	+ : {
66	+ dispatchMode: { type: "start_immediately" },
67	+ deliveryIntent:
68	+ route === "goal-restart" && id === "steered" ? "restart" : "steer",
69	+ }),
70	createdBy: "user",
71	creationSource: "web",
72	});
73	@@ -1178,6 +1187,23 @@ it.effect(
74	yield* worker.drain();
75
76	const projection = yield* orchestrator.getThreadProjection(threadId);
77	+ if (route === "goal-restart") {
78	+ assert.isTrue(
79	+ projection.turnItems.some((item) => item.type === "run_interrupt_request"),
80	+ );
81	+ assert.deepEqual(
82	+ started.map((turn) => turn.message.text),
83	+ ["first", "/goal ship it"],
84	+ );
85	+ assert.deepEqual(
86	+ projection.runtimeRequests.map((request) => request.status),
87	+ ["cancelled"],
88	+ );
89	+ return;
90	+ }
91	+ assert.isFalse(
92	+ projection.turnItems.some((item) => item.type === "run_interrupt_request"),
93	+ );
94	assert.deepEqual(steered, []);
95	assert.equal(started.length, 1);
96	assert.deepEqual(
97	@@ -1188,7 +1214,7 @@ it.effect(
98	(run) =>
99	projection.messages.find((message) => message.id === run.userMessageId)?.text,
100	),
101	- ["promoted", "queued", "steered"],
102	+ ["promoted", "queued", "steered"].map(messageText),
103	);
104	assert.deepEqual(
105	projection.runtimeRequests.map((request) => request.status),

Scope: the real provider run above covers the original PR, not the goal supplement. The goal paths and explicit restart are checked with the deterministic orchestration integration harness; no live goal, mobile UI, remote transport or crash-recovery test was performed. No modified build was installed, and the user's running server and database were not changed. This is an additional validation and patch contribution to the existing PR; I have not pushed to the author's branch.

Prepared by Codex (GPT-6). Claude Haiku 4.5 was used only as the real test receiver and sender.

Llhagenmayer10d ago

The supplement is now submitted directly to this PR's author branch: https://github.com/Lazurio/t3code/pull/173 (commit ee0548d3fdbaf9fee088da5b0129cdeebcc5b072, two files). It can be merged into upstream/steer-waits-on-pending-request without opening a competing upstream fix.

vp run check:changed origin/pr-26842 passes, including 39 tests. I also ran a real Claude cross-thread /goal send against the supplemented source: the original question stayed pending, the goal was queued, and no interruption was requested. The isolated test server was stopped before answering, so native goal execution was not started. Intentional restart remains covered by the integration control.

Prepared by Codex (GPT-6); Claude Haiku 4.5 used only for the live test threads.

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Test delivery after the question is answered.
The non-restart cases stop while the request is pending. The fixture has no user_input_request item, so dispatchRuntimeRequestRespond cannot accept a normal answer.
Add a valid question and answer, then complete the original turn and assert that the promoted message starts first. This covers delivery as well as pending queue order.

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Ssnnbotchway2d ago

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Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of @snnbotchway.

I hit this bug from a different direction. I opened #35688 before I found this PR, and I am closing it as a duplicate. Here is what it adds.

Another trigger: t3_thread_send. I was answering a 3-question AskUserQuestion in a Claude thread. I had picked answers and was typing a custom one. Then another thread sent a message to mine with t3_thread_send (default mode: "auto"). The question panel went back to 1/3, and my answers were gone.

Why typed answers are lost, not only the question. The web client keeps draft answers by request id. When the steer withdraws the request (cancelWithdrawnRequest in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts), onThreadRequestsResolved in apps/web/src/questionAttachments.ts prunes that request's drafts. It moves custom text into the thread's composer draft, and the selected options are dropped. Claude then asks again under a new request id, so the panel starts empty. I read this in the code on main (4cc6beb). I did not step through it in a debugger.

A test case that fails on main. I added this to CommandPolicy.test.ts. It returned steer_active on main:

1	it.each(["user_input", "command"] as const)(
2	"queues only automatic delivery while a %s request waits on the user",
3	(kind) => {
4	const projection = {
5	...dispatchProjection(baseCapabilities),
6	runtimeRequests: [{ kind, status: "pending" }],
7	} as unknown as OrchestrationV2ThreadProjection;
8	assert.deepEqual(
9	CommandPolicy.resolveMessageDispatchIntent(projection, { type: "start_immediately" }, "auto"),
10	{ type: "queue_after_active" },
11	);
12	},
13	);

(dispatchProjection needs runtimeRequests: [] added to its default.)

This PR covers my case too, and more of the paths that cause it. It now conflicts with main. A rebase would help get it reviewed.

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