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fix(server): reject waits on foreground subagent background work - #25036
A foreground native Claude agent can start a background command, mark it with t3_background_wait, and return expecting to resume. Claude kills that command when the foreground agent returns, but T3 had already accepted its ID as awaited, so the work stalled silently. Reproduced on main with Claude Code 2.1.303 in the real web app.
Change
When marking a wait, the adapter now uses its existing background-owner tracking to report work owned by a foreground subagent as unmatched. Root-owned work and work owned by a background native agent stay eligible. Clearing a wait is unchanged. Agent instructions are not changed, so the agent context budget stays at main's size.
Triaged via the automated issue flow; GitCafe issue #24956. Limited to false wait acceptance for foreground-owned work.
Verification
Red first: does not mark tasks owned by a foreground subagent as awaited fails on main because foreground-owned-shell appears in matched; on 470adaef17 with main's adapter swapped in, it fails again with expected [ 'root-shell', …(2) ] to deeply equal [ 'root-shell', …(1) ]. Original red test output.
The regression also checks the emitted awaited flags and keeps root and background-owner positive controls.
On the merged head: vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 3 packages, 259 tests across ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts and AgentContextBudget.test.ts).
Real app runtime proof, Linux x64 / Claude 2.1.303 / claude-opus-5-5: before, a foreground-owned command was matched and then killed just before its owner completed. After, its wait came back unmatched, the subagent kept waiting inside its own turn, and the command's completion notification arrived before the subagent returned. Reproduction prompts and environment.
The after run used an extra instruction sentence that this head removes. The adapter logic is the same as in the run, and in the transcript the subagent explains its own behaviour from the unmatched result. This is a server-only change with no rendered paths, so there is no visual fixture matrix. macOS was not rerun; the adapter path is shared across host platforms.
Models: GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5. Harnesses: Codex and Claude Agent SDK in T3 Code.
…nd work
t3_background_wait accepted background commands and Monitors owned by a
foreground native subagent. Claude Code kills that work when the subagent
returns, so the thread was held for a wake that never came. The adapter now
only marks root work and work owned by a backgrounded subagent, and the
injected instructions tell the agent to finish foreground work in-turn or move
long work to a background subagent or delegate_task.
Fixes#24956
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This narrows background-wait registration to tasks capable of waking the root, while preserving root-task waits and wait removal. Its effects are limited to session wait bookkeeping, with rejected IDs returned as unmatched.
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awaitBackgroundTasks now excludes foreground-subagent-owned tasks from matches when marking tasks as awaited. Root-owned and background-subagent-owned tasks still match. The regression test checks all three ownership cases.
When marking tasks as awaited, the adapter matches roster tasks with no parent or with a backgrounded parent. Otherwise, roster membership determines a match. The test checks root-owned, background-subagent-owned, and foreground-subagent-owned tasks.
The change correctly rejects waits on work owned by a foreground subagent. Two narrow edge cases remain. Shells owned by nested background subagents may be wrongly reported as unmatched, and a resumed subagent could in rare cases keep stale background status. Neither is likely to cause serious harm, but both are worth addressing before or shortly after merge.
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The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change, Scope, Verification) and fills each one with specific content. Problem gives the reproduction context and expected behavior. Change explains the adapter fix and states that agent instructions are unchanged. Scope links issue #24956 and explains that the change is limited to foreground-owned work. Verification lists a red-first regression test, check:changed results, and a real-app runtime comparison, and it names the models and harnesses used. The author also states that macOS was not rerun, which is a stated gap. Minor issues: the description does not state the test count for the new regression alone, and the Scope section mentions an automated triage flow without explaining it further. These gaps are non-critical.
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Issue #24956 requires that t3_background_wait not accept background work owned by a foreground native subagent. At head 38b69d2, awaitBackgroundTasks in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts (around line 13357) builds matched as follows. When awaited is true, a task is matched only if it has no parentTaskId or its parent is in backgroundedSubagentTaskIds. Foreground-subagent-owned work therefore returns as unmatched and is not marked awaited. Root-owned work and background-subagent-owned work remain eligible. When awaited is false, the filter keeps the prior roster check, so clearing a wait is unchanged. The regression test in ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts covers the root, foreground-owner, and background-owner cases. The issue's other concerns (parent_not_active for resumed background subagents, completion display, and instruction wording) are separate and are not stated objectives of this PR. The PR does not address them, and that is not a failure of this objective.
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The whole pull request changes ClaudeAdapterV2.ts and ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts. The adapter hunk adds the foreground-owner filter for awaited waits, which implements issue #24956. The test file adds the regression test for that filter, with root and background-owner positive controls. The PR does not change agent instructions, the parent_not_active path, or completion display. No change was found that lacks a connection to the linked issue.
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- Around line 10594-10595: Update the awaited-task ownership condition using
task.parentTaskId and backgroundedSubagents so a missing parentTaskId is
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Preserve waits for nested background subagents.
If a subagent starts with spawn_depth: 2 and is_backgrounded: true, Lines 9838-9846 classify it as nested. Lines 10619-10626 then exclude it from backgroundedSubagentTaskIds. A shell with that subagent's parent_task_id now fails this check, although its owner is backgrounded.
Track background ownership separately from root-wake eligibility. Include nested background owners in the ownership check without changing their completion routing.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts at line 13365:
Update the check using backgroundedSubagents and task.parentTaskId to recognize ownership by nested background subagents as well as root background subagents. Track that ownership separately from root-wake eligibility, and leave the existing completion-routing behavior unchanged.
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Clear background ownership when an idle subagent completes.
The active completion path removes the owner from backgroundedSubagentTaskIds (10762-10767). The idle task_notification path does not. An owner that completes while the root is idle therefore stays in the set. Later foreground starts for that task ID do not remove it. If a resumed subagent keeps its task ID and launches a background shell, awaitBackgroundTasks can accept that shell. This requires a same-ID foreground resume, which the repository does not show.
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In the idle task_notification path, clear the completed task’s ID from backgroundedSubagentTaskIds before applying the background task roster update. Preserve all other IDs in the set, and leave the active completion path unchanged.
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Problem
A foreground native Claude agent can start a background command, mark it with
t3_background_wait, and return expecting to resume. Claude kills that command when the foreground agent returns, but T3 had already accepted its ID as awaited, so the work stalled silently. Reproduced on main with Claude Code 2.1.303 in the real web app.Change
When marking a wait, the adapter now uses its existing background-owner tracking to report work owned by a foreground subagent as
unmatched. Root-owned work and work owned by a background native agent stay eligible. Clearing a wait is unchanged. Agent instructions are not changed, so the agent context budget stays at main's size.Scope and approval
Fixes #24956
Triaged via the automated issue flow; GitCafe issue #24956. Limited to false wait acceptance for foreground-owned work.
Verification
does not mark tasks owned by a foreground subagent as awaitedfails on main becauseforeground-owned-shellappears inmatched; on 470adaef17 with main's adapter swapped in, it fails again withexpected [ 'root-shell', …(2) ] to deeply equal [ 'root-shell', …(1) ]. Original red test output.vp run check:changedpasses (format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 3 packages, 259 tests acrossClaudeAdapterV2.test.tsandAgentContextBudget.test.ts).claude-opus-5-5: before, a foreground-owned command was matched and then killed just before its owner completed. After, its wait came back unmatched, the subagent kept waiting inside its own turn, and the command's completion notification arrived before the subagent returned. Reproduction prompts and environment.The after run used an extra instruction sentence that this head removes. The adapter logic is the same as in the run, and in the transcript the subagent explains its own behaviour from the
unmatchedresult. This is a server-only change with no rendered paths, so there is no visual fixture matrix. macOS was not rerun; the adapter path is shared across host platforms.Models: GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5. Harnesses: Codex and Claude Agent SDK in T3 Code.