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fix(server): Claude session crons no longer die with the idle session - #23636
A Claude thread that schedules a session cron (CronCreate, ScheduleWakeup, /loop) loses the job if it fires more than 30 minutes after the thread goes idle. The crons live only inside the Claude CLI process, and ProviderSessionManager.releaseIfStillIdle closes that process after the 30-minute idle timeout, because ClaudeAdapterV2's hasPendingBackgroundWork never counts pending crons. The job never runs, and CronList is empty after the next resume.
Repro on main 8d3b061121 (web dev server, Claude Sonnet 5.5): at 11:43 UTC ask Claude to CronCreate a one-shot job for 12:20 that appends date -u to a file. CronList shows 4e805017 … (one-shot) [session-only], next run 12:20. Leave the thread idle. The provider session went to stopped at 12:13:33 and the CLI exited. The file was never written. A control cron set inside the idle window (11:54) fired and rendered in its thread, so firing works whenever the process is still alive.
Change
ClaudeAdapterV2 registers an SDK Stop hook. The SDK reports a session's pending crons only through StopHookInput.session_crons. The hook stores that snapshot's length per native thread and returns { continue: true }, so Claude's behaviour and any user Stop hooks from settings are unaffected.
While any count is above zero, the session runtime's hasPendingBackgroundWork returns true. ProviderSessionManager then defers the idle release the same way it does for background tasks, under its existing maxIdlePinMs cap. Each Stop overwrites the snapshot, so a fired one-shot or a deleted cron drops out at the next Stop.
The count is cleared only when the CLI process ends or is replaced: in resetBackgroundTaskStateForNativeThreadProcess, and at the top of finalizeActiveTurnAfterQueryExit (interrupt, close, transport error). A result-driven failed turn, such as a usage limit or a 529, keeps the CLI and its crons alive, so it leaves the count alone.
No other change: per-thread Working/settled state still uses hasPendingBackgroundWorkForThread, which is unchanged. No new setting, contract field or persisted state.
Limits that remain:
The existing 4-hour maxIdlePinMs cap still applies, so a one-shot set more than about 4 hours ahead with no activity in between is still released.
A recurring cron that fires resets that budget, so a /loop keeps its CLI alive while it keeps firing.
Replacing the process (a model or permission-policy change on the next turn) still drops the crons, because they die with the CLI.
If the turn a one-shot cron fires ends in a failed result, no Stop snapshot follows, so the spent cron keeps the session pinned until the next Stop or the 4-hour cap.
Focused tests in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, each red before its fix:
Test
Before
After
keeps a session with a pending session cron alive until no cron remains
fails on main: a pending session cron must keep the idle session alive: expected false to be true
passes
forgets session crons when the next turn is interrupted before Stop
fails without the clear on process exit: expected true to be false
passes
keeps session crons pinned when the next turn fails without closing the CLI
fails if a failed result clears the count: a failed turn must not forget crons the live CLI still holds: expected false to be true
passes
ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: 210/210 passed.
ProviderSessionManager.test.ts: 41/41 passed.
tsc --noEmit for apps/server: clean.
vp lint and vp fmt --check on the changed files: no new findings.
Runtime check in the real app. This is a server-only fix, so the evidence is the server transcript and the thread itself:
Before (main 8d3b061121)
After (fix core 9fdecd3927)
Cron scheduled
11:43, one-shot for 12:20 (4e805017)
12:30, one-shot for 13:08 (1b974688)
30-minute idle check
provider session stopped at 12:13:33.956 (releaseIfStillIdle), CLI exited
orchestration-v2.driver-session.idle-release-deferred at 13:00:47, CLI still running
Fire time
nothing written by 12:21:47
file written Thu Oct 22 13:08:03 UTC 2026, fired turn shown in the thread
After: the fired turn at 1:08 PM in the scheduling thread.
Not checked:
Desktop and mobile clients. The change is in the server's Claude adapter only, so no client code is touched.
Other providers. Session crons are a Claude CLI feature.
The runtime check ran on 9fdecd3927. The two later commits change only when the count is cleared after an interrupt or a failed turn, which the unit tests cover.
Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in T3 Code via the Claude Code harness.
Maintainer review and independent audit (head 7c9fae3066)
Reviews: Claude Sonnet 5.5: VERDICT: MERGE. Claude Opus 5.5: VERDICT: MERGE. Both found that a stale cron count cannot pin a session past maxIdlePinMs: the cap check in ProviderSessionManager.ts (~1133-1167) does not depend on the adapter, and a stale count emits no provider events, so the worst case is about 30 min idle + 4 h. Low-severity follow-ups, not blockers:
A query replacement (model, mode or MCP change between turns) still closes the CLI and drops crons silently. Same on main: liveProcessRunsBackgroundWork ignores crons.
The Stop hook writes the count without checking that its query still owns the thread. A late Stop from a closing CLI could re-set the count, which the cap then bounds.
A failed wake turn, or a CronDelete in a turn that then fails, leaves a positive count until the cap.
Audit:VERDICT: SUFFICIENT. Real servers, before = main 8d3b061121 (the PR's merge-base), after = 7c9fae3066. Claude Sonnet 5.5, isolated synthetic --base-dir. The idle timeout is hard-coded at 30 min, so both builds ran in parallel at the real timeout.
Row
Before
After
R1 one-shot cron ~37 min out
idle check 14:11:00 released the session, cron never fired (transcript)
At the head, ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts passed (210/210, including the 3 session-cron tests), and the server vp run typecheck found no errors.
R1 reproduces the PR's original before/after at the head; the earlier capture was on 9fdecd3.
R3 only discriminates on the after side, because main always releases.
R4 does not isolate the interrupt count-clear (49a57cd). T3's interrupt ends the CLI process on both builds, so the session is released either way. Only the unit test covers the clear.
Unverified: R2 recurring cron (not captured, and the unit fixture is recurring: false only). R5 failed-turn pin (2d33979; a real 429/529 can't be triggered on demand; unit test only). R7 maxIdlePinMs cap (4 h, hard-coded; existing code, unchanged here, no direct test).
Each row was captured once (n=1). One accidental extra main sample, where the interrupt arrived after the turn ended, agrees with R1-before.
Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, Review B, capture) and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Review A, audits 1 and 2) in T3 Code via the Claude Code harness.
…ep the session alive
An idle Claude session whose Stop hook reports a pending session cron
(CronCreate, ScheduleWakeup, /loop) must report pending background work,
so ProviderSessionManager does not release it before the cron fires.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude Code keeps CronCreate, ScheduleWakeup and /loop jobs in the CLI
process, so idle release killed the session before a job could fire.
Register a no-op Stop hook that records the latest session_crons
snapshot and report pending background work while it is non-empty.
The existing idle pin cap still bounds how long a session is held.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…upted
An interrupted or failed turn never reaches the SDK Stop hook, so the
session cron count it last reported stayed set and pinned the idle session
after its process (and crons) were gone. Clear the count together with the
background-task roster.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A result-driven failed turn (usage limit, overload, error subtype) leaves the
Claude CLI running with its session crons, and the SDK fires StopFailure, not
Stop. Clearing the cron count on every non-completed finalization let the idle
release drop the session and lose the job. Clear it only when the process ends
or is replaced: on query exit and in the process reset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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The Claude adapter tracks session cron counts reported by Stop hooks. The provider session manager checks scheduled work when deciding whether to release an idle session. Query options preserve caller-provided hooks alongside the device-specific hook.
Query options preserve caller hooks while adding the SubagentStart hook. The Stop hook records cron counts by native thread. Process reset and query exit clear those counts. Tests cover hook composition, cron reports, interruption, and failed turns.
Keep sessions alive while scheduled work exists packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts
The session runtime exposes scheduled-work status. Idle release checks scheduled work and pending background work. Tests verify that scheduled work keeps a session live until it clears.
sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeCLI
participant StopHook
participant ClaudeAdapter
participant ProviderSessionManager
ClaudeCLI->>StopHook: Report session_crons
StopHook->>ClaudeAdapter: Record cron count by native thread
ClaudeAdapter->>ProviderSessionManager: Provide scheduled-work status
ProviderSessionManager->>ProviderSessionManager: Check work before idle release
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The change mostly keeps Claude session crons alive while the session is idle. Three gaps remain. A cron created in a turn that fails before its first Stop snapshot can still be lost. A linked-environment refresh can close a CLI that holds pending crons. Caller-supplied SubagentStart hooks are dropped when device instructions are enabled. Resolve or explicitly accept these before merge.
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[#13439] The issue expects a job scheduled with CronCreate or /schedule to run at its set time. The issue names process replacement as a cause of the loss. At head 7c9fae3066, and in the current…
Preserve pending session crons across CLI replacement, or recreate them in the replacement process, so that a pending job still runs at its set time. Add an automated test that schedules a cron, replaces the process (for example, a model ch…
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The title names the main change: Claude session crons no longer lose their jobs when the idle session is released. It uses a conventional commit prefix and plain language, and it matches the changeset…
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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each contains specific content. The Problem section gives reproduction steps and environment. The Ch…
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The reviewed changes support the session-cron liveness mechanism for #13439. They include the Claude Stop hook in makeClaudeQueryOptions, with caller hooks merged and the SubagentStart device ho…
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The title names the main change: Claude session crons no longer lose their jobs when the idle session is released. It uses a conventional commit prefix and plain language, and it matches the changeset, which keeps idle sessions alive while session crons are pending.
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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each contains specific content. The Problem section gives reproduction steps and environment. The Change section explains the Stop hook, the pending-work decision, and the clear points. The Scope section links issue #13439 and explains the bug. The Verification section lists focused tests, before/after results, and items not checked. The model and harness are named at the end. Minor gap: the Scope section cites an automated triage flow rather than a maintainer request, but it still links the bug issue, which meets the template.
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The reviewed changes support the session-cron liveness mechanism for #13439. They include the Claude Stop hook in makeClaudeQueryOptions, with caller hooks merged and the SubagentStart device hook preserved. They also include the hasHooks protocol-log flag, the hasScheduledWork probe in the adapter and ProviderSessionManager.ts, the optional hasScheduledWork property in packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderAdapter.ts, and focused tests. The hasScheduledWork property is an internal session-runtime interface, not a public orchestration contract field. The PR description says no contract field is added, and the wording is loose. No unrelated change was found in the reviewed summary. The incremental diff since the previous reviewed head does not touch ClaudeAdapterV2.ts.
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[#13439] The issue expects a job scheduled with CronCreate or /schedule to run at its set time. The issue names process replacement as a cause of the loss. At head 7c9fae3066, and in the current head d2a15a8d, the code covers the idle-release path. ClaudeAdapterV2 records the Stop hook session_crons count per native thread, and hasScheduledWork keeps the session pinned while the count is above zero. Tests cover retention, interrupt clearing, and failed-turn retention. The incremental diff from the previous reviewed head does not change ClaudeAdapterV2.ts. Process replacement still clears the count in resetBackgroundTaskStateForNativeThreadProcess. The PR description states that replacing the CLI process (for example, a model or permission-policy change on the next turn) still drops crons. A job scheduled before such a replacement therefore does not run at its set time, and CronList is empty afterward. This is the loss the issue describes. No test shows a job running after replacement. The previous FAIL conclusion still holds for this path. The idle-release path is fixed, as the before/after audit shows. The 4-hour cap and recurring crons are also unverified, but they are not the basis of this verdict.
Resolution
Preserve pending session crons across CLI replacement, or recreate them in the replacement process, so that a pending job still runs at its set time. Add an automated test that schedules a cron, replaces the process (for example, a model change between turns), and verifies that the job runs at its set time. If the product decision is to accept the loss on replacement, record that decision on #13439 and narrow the linked requirement. Then assess this PR again against the narrowed requirement.
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Related: #28104 merged as 4ac97be. It adds durable one-time T3 scheduled tasks that agents can use instead of a Claude CronCreate one-shot. It does not change Claude session crons, so this PR is still needed for those.
…switch
Session crons are not shown to clients, so counting them in
hasPendingBackgroundWork made the Orchestrator's detach guard refuse a
provider switch with no Stop control to clear it. Crons now report
through a separate hasScheduledWork probe that only idle release reads.
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Preserve or recreate the session cron when the Claude CLI process is replaced,
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On both commits, created a real Claude thread, scheduled a session-only one-shot cron about 40 minutes ahead to append the UTC date to cron-fired.txt, confirmed it with CronList, then left the thread idle with the host and server running. No further turns were sent.
Environment: Chromium web client, 1280×800, light theme, separate fresh unseeded databases. Recordings are sampled and time-compressed; captures exclude private UI metadata.
The generated head reply incorrectly described the execution as manual. The runtime transcript records the background notification followed by command execution, with no intervening user message.
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Cron cancellation, the four-hour idle-pin cap, and provider switching were not exercised; this proof covers the requested one-shot cron surviving the normal idle timeout.
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- Line 1934: Update the hook assignment guarded by deviceInstructions to append
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Append the device hook without replacing caller hooks.
If deviceInstructions is true and input.hooks.SubagentStart is supplied, this assignment discards all caller SubagentStart matchers. Append the device matcher to the supplied array instead.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts at line 1934:
Update the hook assignment guarded by deviceInstructions to append the device matcher to input.hooks.SubagentStart rather than replace caller-provided matchers. Preserve existing matchers and add the device matcher last.
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Major · Preserve scheduled work during automatic… · ProviderSessionManager.ts:2072-2077
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:2072-2077 Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Preserve scheduled work during automatic linked-environment refresh.
If linkedEnvironmentsEnabled changes while Claude has a pending cron, manager.open calls this automatic release path. Claude reports the cron only through hasScheduledWork, so this guard returns false. Crons also have no persisted task roster. releaseEntry therefore closes the CLI and loses the cron before its scheduled time.
Check hasScheduledWork here as well. Keep the existing behavior for an explicit detach. Extend the linked-environment refresh coverage with a scheduled-work probe.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts around lines 2072 - 2077:
Update the automatic linked-environment refresh guard in the `manager.open` flow to also detect scheduled work via `hasScheduledWork`, so pending crons prevent `releaseEntry` from closing the CLI. Preserve the existing behavior for explicit detach, and extend the linked-environment refresh coverage with a scheduled-work probe.
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- Around line 12179-12180: Update the cron tool-result handling to record
session cron changes before a turn settles, so crons created before StopFailure
are retained even when no Stop snapshot arrives. Keep the Stop snapshot
authoritative when it does arrive, and extend the existing failure test to cover
a first turn that creates a cron and then ends through StopFailure without a
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in the `manager.open` flow to also detect scheduled work via `hasScheduledWork`,
so pending crons prevent `releaseEntry` from closing the CLI. Preserve the
existing behavior for explicit detach, and extend the linked-environment refresh
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Keep session crons alive or recreate them when `ClaudeAdapterV2` replaces the
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Track session crons created in a turn that fails before its Stop snapshot.
A CronCreate call that succeeds in a turn ending through StopFailure sets no count. StopFailure carries no session_crons, and Stop does not fire on that path. The thread stays at no recorded crons, so hasScheduledWork is false and idle release can end the CLI. The scheduled job is then lost, even though the CLI was still running it.
The failure test does not cover this case. It records a count from a successful turn before the failed turn.
Record cron changes from the CLI's cron tool results before the turn settles, and keep the existing Stop snapshot as the source of truth when one arrives. Add a case to the existing failure test where the first turn creates a cron and then fails through StopFailure, with no earlier successful turn.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts around lines 12179 - 12180:
Update the cron tool-result handling to record session cron changes before a turn settles, so crons created before StopFailure are retained even when no Stop snapshot arrives. Keep the Stop snapshot authoritative when it does arrive, and extend the existing failure test to cover a first turn that creates a cron and then ends through StopFailure without a prior successful turn.
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The four-hour pin cap ends background work that went silent, but a session
cron is silent until it fires, so an overnight one-shot job still died with
the session. Scheduled work now keeps the session pinned for as long as the
adapter reports it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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…le cron count
Scheduled work pins an idle session with no cap, but a turn that fails ends
through StopFailure, which reports no crons. The count from the turn before
then outlived a CronDelete and kept an empty Claude process alive forever.
Each turn now drops the previous count when it starts, so only its own Stop
hook can pin the session.
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🟠 HighAdapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:12397
Starting a turn clears the previous Stop-hook cron snapshot, so if that turn fails before a new Stop while the CLI remains alive, hasScheduledWork reports false and idle release can close the CLI with a pending cron. Preserve the snapshot until a new Stop replaces it or the process exits.
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In file @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts around line 12397:
Starting a turn clears the previous Stop-hook cron snapshot, so if that turn fails before a new Stop while the CLI remains alive, `hasScheduledWork` reports false and idle release can close the CLI with a pending cron. Preserve the snapshot until a new Stop replaces it or the process exits.
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the reviewers still had findings after 3 rounds (the work is on main...fix/issue-13439):
[major] apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:12181: Worse than main: a Stop snapshot can become stale within the same turn. A configured Stop hook can resume Claude; if Claude subsequently deletes the cron and encounters an API failure, no further Stop snapshot arrives. Clearing only at startTurn leaves hasScheduledWork true indefinitely, bypassing the idle pin cap and retaining an empty process. The protocol reproduction returned true on head and false with origin/main's adapter. Claude documents Stop-hook continuations and StopFailure behavior. Clear the count on actual failed completion or StopFailure.
Fails with: A Claude user configures a blocking Stop hook through supported --settings. Claude creates a cron, reaches Stop with session_crons containing it, continues because of that hook, deletes the cron, then receives a terminal 429. Leave the thread idle: head retains the empty process without a cap; main releases it.
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Problem
A Claude thread that schedules a session cron (
CronCreate,ScheduleWakeup,/loop) loses the job if it fires more than 30 minutes after the thread goes idle. The crons live only inside the Claude CLI process, andProviderSessionManager.releaseIfStillIdlecloses that process after the 30-minute idle timeout, becauseClaudeAdapterV2'shasPendingBackgroundWorknever counts pending crons. The job never runs, andCronListis empty after the next resume.Repro on main
8d3b061121(web dev server, Claude Sonnet 5.5): at 11:43 UTC ask Claude toCronCreatea one-shot job for 12:20 that appendsdate -uto a file.CronListshows4e805017 … (one-shot) [session-only], next run 12:20. Leave the thread idle. The provider session went tostoppedat 12:13:33 and the CLI exited. The file was never written. A control cron set inside the idle window (11:54) fired and rendered in its thread, so firing works whenever the process is still alive.Change
ClaudeAdapterV2registers an SDKStophook. The SDK reports a session's pending crons only throughStopHookInput.session_crons. The hook stores that snapshot's length per native thread and returns{ continue: true }, so Claude's behaviour and any userStophooks from settings are unaffected.hasPendingBackgroundWorkreturns true.ProviderSessionManagerthen defers the idle release the same way it does for background tasks, under its existingmaxIdlePinMscap. EachStopoverwrites the snapshot, so a fired one-shot or a deleted cron drops out at the nextStop.resetBackgroundTaskStateForNativeThreadProcess, and at the top offinalizeActiveTurnAfterQueryExit(interrupt, close, transport error). A result-drivenfailedturn, such as a usage limit or a 529, keeps the CLI and its crons alive, so it leaves the count alone.hasPendingBackgroundWorkForThread, which is unchanged. No new setting, contract field or persisted state.Limits that remain:
maxIdlePinMscap still applies, so a one-shot set more than about 4 hours ahead with no activity in between is still released./loopkeeps its CLI alive while it keeps firing.Stopsnapshot follows, so the spent cron keeps the session pinned until the nextStopor the 4-hour cap.Scope and approval
Fixes #13439
GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/13439
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. A maintainer confirmed the cause on the issue: the idle reaper, with session crons not modelled as liveness.
Verification
Focused tests in
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, each red before its fix:keeps a session with a pending session cron alive until no cron remainsa pending session cron must keep the idle session alive: expected false to be trueforgets session crons when the next turn is interrupted before Stopexpected true to be falsekeeps session crons pinned when the next turn fails without closing the CLIa failed turn must not forget crons the live CLI still holds: expected false to be trueClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: 210/210 passed.ProviderSessionManager.test.ts: 41/41 passed.tsc --noEmitforapps/server: clean.vp lintandvp fmt --checkon the changed files: no new findings.Runtime check in the real app. This is a server-only fix, so the evidence is the server transcript and the thread itself:
8d3b061121)9fdecd3927)4e805017)1b974688)stoppedat 12:13:33.956 (releaseIfStillIdle), CLI exitedorchestration-v2.driver-session.idle-release-deferredat 13:00:47, CLI still runningThu Oct 22 13:08:03 UTC 2026, fired turn shown in the threadAfter: the fired turn at 1:08 PM in the scheduling thread.
Not checked:
9fdecd3927. The two later commits change only when the count is cleared after an interrupt or a failed turn, which the unit tests cover.Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in T3 Code via the Claude Code harness.
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Maintainer review and independent audit (head 7c9fae3066)
Reviews: Claude Sonnet 5.5:
VERDICT: MERGE. Claude Opus 5.5:VERDICT: MERGE. Both found that a stale cron count cannot pin a session pastmaxIdlePinMs: the cap check inProviderSessionManager.ts(~1133-1167) does not depend on the adapter, and a stale count emits no provider events, so the worst case is about 30 min idle + 4 h. Low-severity follow-ups, not blockers:liveProcessRunsBackgroundWorkignores crons.The SDK
Stophook returning{ continue: true }runs alongside user and plugin Stop hooks and does not override them. Neither reviewer found a semantic conflict with https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/23561 or https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/22792. Auth, permissions, modes and MCP are not touched.Audit:
VERDICT: SUFFICIENT. Real servers, before = main 8d3b061121 (the PR's merge-base), after = 7c9fae3066. Claude Sonnet 5.5, isolated synthetic--base-dir. The idle timeout is hard-coded at 30 min, so both builds ran in parallel at the real timeout.idle-release-deferred, cron fired 14:18:01, file append14:18:07Z(transcript)Logs: server-before.log, server-after.log, idle spans before / after, session states, everything (redacted).
Drivers (sha256 list):
5954f78be47373e24e24ceefcf4d388965c0c25835a58e022743c8eec9c094655aefe4dfad63f261171f0780bb2e2c1f4dbe3b7985f773a94ebe0b0e628ceb7b9243a937b7fe7ab3896c948f6996faeb9e252e2c9bc54b30b0afc6d9cfa48e89a5949d598647783f4c969bfc310a637af7501406ba4b08a39422136e8996576a5112ea9bd40f62c2eebf6f521786a2cf8ba36fbbbdfc3a8cd5ab055a19684fcf446b173e04035a42252cc1ea630cb2dae48fb611f942a29b3a9d1a08ad9ac904Verification log
ClaudeAdapterV2.test.tspassed (210/210, including the 3 session-cron tests), and the servervp run typecheckfound no errors.recurring: falseonly). R5 failed-turn pin (2d33979; a real 429/529 can't be triggered on demand; unit test only). R7maxIdlePinMscap (4 h, hard-coded; existing code, unchanged here, no direct test).