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fix(provider-acp): retire Copilot tasks when their runtime ends - #32476
This fixes ghost agents in T3. If Copilot crashes or its process is replaced, T3 marks that process's abandoned background agents as interrupted instead of showing them as running forever.
Problem
When a Copilot ACP runtime exits or is replaced, retained background subagents can remain marked running. Reusing the same native session then carries old tasks into another runtime, and stale raw child events can route its output to an old task.
Change
Retire Copilot's carried and active native subagents at termination and before replacing their runtime, including rollback. Each task receives one interrupted update. Old callbacks are invalidated before a restart, and Copilot's raw attribution maps now belong to each runtime so replacement output cannot enter a retired task's thread.
Callback generation invalidation applies to ACP runtime restarts. Task retirement and routing isolation are specific to Copilot. Other ACP flavors retain their existing task carryover behavior; detached shell commands are untouched.
Scope and approval
This uses CONTRIBUTING.md's exception for a small, focused fix of an obvious bug: a discarded runtime must not leave its process-owned native subagents running in T3. No maintainer approval is claimed. Runtime-specific routing is needed to prevent replacement output from reaching a retired task.
Related open PR #29361 handles Devin background shells at the same lifecycle hooks, so these changes may conflict. PR #27380 handles Copilot Autopilot reply summaries and touches the same event router. Neither implements this Copilot subagent lifetime fix.
Verification
Merged upstream main at 41443e5706 into this branch with merge commit 58b389a67230. The merge required no conflict resolutions. vp run check:changed passed on that commit: 105 tests in 2 files, typecheck of 14 affected packages, format, lint, knip and GraphQL. Claude Opus 5.5 High independently reviewed the integration and found no issues. No new app or live-provider testing was performed for this merge.
Extended the existing runtime replacement regression with termination, active-prompt termination, and rollback cases. The active-prompt case carries a subagent from the previous turn, terminates the runtime before the prompt returns, and checks immediate retirement with exactly one interrupted update. It also checks that root command tools are not interrupted by subagent retirement. A disabled-ownership row keeps tasks alive for flavors whose work can survive the transport. Removing the ownership guard makes that row fail by assertion. The termination and rollback cases failed before the earlier review fixes: termination still reported pending work through the adapter probe enabled by the fixture, and rollback omitted the interrupted task update. Both now pass. The cases check one interrupted update across retirement and the next turn, and inject an old callback while the replacement turn is active. Temporarily removing generation invalidation caused stale text to enter the replacement turn, so the callback assertion detects the regression.
The fixture enables the pending-work probe to distinguish immediate retirement from cleanup at the next turn. It uses a mock ACP subprocess for session setup, stubbed prompts and injected Copilot events. It also checks that raw child attribution cannot cross runtimes. Manual app testing and live Copilot process-termination testing were not performed.
vp run check:changed passed on e03a0e0adeae with upstream main a9e709f15f82 included. It ran 105 tests in 2 files and affected package typechecks, plus format, lint, knip and GraphQL checks.
CodeRabbit subsequently identified active-turn tasks missing from termination cleanup. An earlier shape of that regression failed before the fix because pending background work remained true. It passes with active subagents retired in the termination callback.
Independent Opus review identified missing immediate-termination and rollback cleanup, plus an ineffective callback assertion. All three were addressed. The follow-up review by Claude Opus 5.5 High found no blocking issues. It noted that the fixture enables a liveness probe that production Copilot currently does not expose; that limitation is stated above. The independent follow-up review at e03a0e0adeae found no blocking issues. Its test-name and description wording corrections are included.
Implemented by GPT-6.1 Terra High and GPT-6.1 Sol High through Codex in T3 Code. Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 High through Claude Code in T3 Code.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Copilot task attribution is now isolated per runtime, and outstanding task statuses are retired when that runtime ends or is replaced. The change is bounded lifecycle bookkeeping, with other providers retaining their existing retirement behavior.
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The adapter now scopes Copilot session attribution to the runtime that produced each notification. It retires runtime-owned subagents during termination and replacement. Tests cover termination, rollback, stale runtime events, replacement output, and a pending approval that remains after runtime termination.
The Copilot flavor declares that subagents are runtime-owned. The adapter retires those subagents during runtime termination and replacement. Tests cover termination, rollback, stale runtime events, replacement output, and pending approval timeout behavior.
This change retires Copilot subagent tasks when their ACP runtime exits or is replaced, so they no longer show as running. It also scopes attribution to each runtime so stale output does not reach retired tasks. The reviewed code and the added regression tests cover the termination, rollback and pending-approval cases. No blocking issue remains, though live Copilot termination was not tested.
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The title names the change: Copilot tasks (native subagents) are retired when their ACP runtime ends. This matches the summary's termination and replacement retirement logic and the objectives. It is specific and follows the conventional commit style of the repository template. It does not mention the routing isolation and callback invalidation parts, which is acceptable because it need not cover every detail.
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Review comments at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 2322: Update the runtime termination path around retireRuntimeSubagents
so it also retires rehydrated subagents still active in the terminating prompt,
while preserving detached root commands. Add a test that terminates the runtime
during a prompt with a rehydrated subagent and verifies the subagent is no
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- Line 8192: In restartRuntimeAfterTeardownIfRequired, cancel pending runtime
requests immediately after advancing the callback generation and before
restarting the ACP runtime, so stale approval and user-input entries are
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Advancing the callback generation before restarting skips the generation-gated
cleanup of pending runtime requests. An approval left open by a finished turn
then stayed pending and paused the replacement runtime's inactivity deadline.
Cancel pending requests after the advance, as the other restart paths do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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This fixes ghost agents in T3. If Copilot crashes or its process is replaced, T3 marks that process's abandoned background agents as interrupted instead of showing them as running forever.
Problem
When a Copilot ACP runtime exits or is replaced, retained background subagents can remain marked running. Reusing the same native session then carries old tasks into another runtime, and stale raw child events can route its output to an old task.
Change
Retire Copilot's carried and active native subagents at termination and before replacing their runtime, including rollback. Each task receives one interrupted update. Old callbacks are invalidated before a restart, and Copilot's raw attribution maps now belong to each runtime so replacement output cannot enter a retired task's thread.
Callback generation invalidation applies to ACP runtime restarts. Task retirement and routing isolation are specific to Copilot. Other ACP flavors retain their existing task carryover behavior; detached shell commands are untouched.
Scope and approval
This uses CONTRIBUTING.md's exception for a small, focused fix of an obvious bug: a discarded runtime must not leave its process-owned native subagents running in T3. No maintainer approval is claimed. Runtime-specific routing is needed to prevent replacement output from reaching a retired task.
Related open PR #29361 handles Devin background shells at the same lifecycle hooks, so these changes may conflict. PR #27380 handles Copilot Autopilot reply summaries and touches the same event router. Neither implements this Copilot subagent lifetime fix.
Verification
mainat41443e5706into this branch with merge commit58b389a67230. The merge required no conflict resolutions.vp run check:changedpassed on that commit: 105 tests in 2 files, typecheck of 14 affected packages, format, lint, knip and GraphQL. Claude Opus 5.5 High independently reviewed the integration and found no issues. No new app or live-provider testing was performed for this merge.Extended the existing runtime replacement regression with termination, active-prompt termination, and rollback cases. The active-prompt case carries a subagent from the previous turn, terminates the runtime before the prompt returns, and checks immediate retirement with exactly one interrupted update. It also checks that root command tools are not interrupted by subagent retirement. A disabled-ownership row keeps tasks alive for flavors whose work can survive the transport. Removing the ownership guard makes that row fail by assertion. The termination and rollback cases failed before the earlier review fixes: termination still reported pending work through the adapter probe enabled by the fixture, and rollback omitted the interrupted task update. Both now pass. The cases check one interrupted update across retirement and the next turn, and inject an old callback while the replacement turn is active. Temporarily removing generation invalidation caused stale text to enter the replacement turn, so the callback assertion detects the regression.
The fixture enables the pending-work probe to distinguish immediate retirement from cleanup at the next turn. It uses a mock ACP subprocess for session setup, stubbed prompts and injected Copilot events. It also checks that raw child attribution cannot cross runtimes. Manual app testing and live Copilot process-termination testing were not performed.
vp run check:changedpassed one03a0e0adeaewith upstream maina9e709f15f82included. It ran 105 tests in 2 files and affected package typechecks, plus format, lint, knip and GraphQL checks.CodeRabbit subsequently identified active-turn tasks missing from termination cleanup. An earlier shape of that regression failed before the fix because pending background work remained true. It passes with active subagents retired in the termination callback.
Independent Opus review identified missing immediate-termination and rollback cleanup, plus an ineffective callback assertion. All three were addressed. The follow-up review by Claude Opus 5.5 High found no blocking issues. It noted that the fixture enables a liveness probe that production Copilot currently does not expose; that limitation is stated above. The independent follow-up review at
e03a0e0adeaefound no blocking issues. Its test-name and description wording corrections are included.Implemented by GPT-6.1 Terra High and GPT-6.1 Sol High through Codex in T3 Code. Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 High through Claude Code in T3 Code.