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fix(orchestration): reconcile held delegated tasks after child completion - #15170

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Problem

Delegated children can finish several later turns while an older held follow-up remains queued. Their parent task and Lineage keep reporting Running, a dynamic MCP handoff item from a failed turn keeps the child waiting on background work, and task_cancel refuses because there is no interruptible provider run.

The reported installed app was 0.0.45-preview.20261001.2556 (source 46de192f). A consistent read-only SQLite snapshot verified the same pattern in four Claude children: failed ordinal 1, unstarted held queued ordinal 2, later completed ordinals 13/9/12/4, idle provider, and an abandoned handoff item owned by ordinal 1. pendingRequestCount=0 describes provider runtime requests, not the queued-message count. These four held requests are real and must survive recovery.

Change

Reconcile unpublished delegated tasks from all outstanding child runs. Queued work projects as Pending/Queued; executing work remains Running; results publish only when the task settles. Startup and live run updates keep the task, graph node, and timeline item consistent. Provider recovery preserves app-owned children when their parent's provider session ends, and previously published results remain terminal.

Exclude dynamic tools owned by failed, interrupted, or cancelled runs from background waiting, while preserving their history. The shared helper covers web, desktop, and mobile; matching SQL projections cover server awareness and settlement. Native children, background commands, and real provider rosters retain their existing treatment.

Report queued and held-queued counts separately through thread inspection. Explicit task cancellation can cancel a queued-only task's selected queue cohort atomically, without promoting another member between cancellations or cancelling unrelated later work. The added wire fields are optional.

Scope and approval

This is a focused correction to the existing delegated-task lifecycle: durable status, pending-background derivation, and task controls must agree about the same outstanding work. The regression fixture establishes the observed failure and expected behavior without a new workflow or product setting. Related follow-up result-delivery work in #15004 addresses a different case; this fix preserves the existing published-result boundary.

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  • Focused regressions: 175 tests passed across 14 files. Coverage includes held ordinal 2 plus later terminal ordinals, startup/provider recovery, multiple follow-ups, no active provider run, active sibling children, published results, atomic queue cancellation, and preservation of nonmember queued work. The original Codex transcript replay also passed its selected running/queued-follow-up case.
  • Checks: scoped server, shared, and contracts TypeScript checks passed. Formatting and diff checks passed. Targeted lint exited 0 with one existing unused layerUnavailable warning. Independent GPT-6.1 Sol/high review found no remaining actionable findings after two recovery defects were corrected.
  • Source reproduction: all four read-only snapshot controls retain their queue and latest result, classify the pending run as queued, and remove the abandoned handoff from derived background waiting.
  • Client reproduction: the built-in Browser panel reached the isolated dev server through the supported tailnet sharing path. A sanitized projection fixture retained all four held requests; actual startup reconciliation changed the four task statuses to Pending. Lineage shows four Queued children. The combat child shows Queued 1, its completed result, and no stale background wait banner. This projection fixture is visual evidence; event-sourced tests above prove backend behavior.
  • Limits: the installed app and live database were unchanged. No game message was replayed or discarded. Native mobile/device behavior was not exercised. CI is separate from these local checks.

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threadId: current.childThreadId,
runId: firstQueuedRun.id,
additionalRunIds: queuedRuns.slice(1).map((run) => run.id),

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🟠 High mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts:1551

Cancelling one delegated task also cancels unrelated queued work in the same child thread. queuedRuns includes every queued run, so additionalRunIds sends runs created by later sendToThread messages to queued-run.cancel without checking that they belong to this task's continuation cohort. Restrict the list to the task-owned cohort before constructing additionalRunIds.

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Cancelling one delegated task also cancels unrelated queued work in the same child thread. `queuedRuns` includes every queued run, so `additionalRunIds` sends runs created by later `sendToThread` messages to `queued-run.cancel` without checking that they belong to this task's continuation cohort. Restrict the list to the task-owned cohort before constructing `additionalRunIds`.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR substantially changes delegated-task reconciliation, queue cancellation, provider recovery, and background-work settlement across core production orchestration paths. An unresolved high-severity finding indicates that cancellation may affect unrelated queued work, so the behavior and fix scope require human review.

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The changes update delegated task status and cancellation for queued child runs. They also adjust startup recovery and pending-work projections for app-owned tasks and abandoned foreground tools, and add MCP thread detail counts for queued runs.

Changes

Delegated task progress and run lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queued-run contract and delegated progress
packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SubagentProjection.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts
Queued-run cancellation can include additional run IDs. Delegated task status now tracks child progress before result availability. Run-created and run-updated events trigger progress handling; terminal updates continue through result delivery and queue promotion. Tests cover held continuations, multi-run cancellation, and startup recovery.
Recovery and pending-work projections
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, packages/shared/src/orchestrationV2PendingBackgroundWork.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*test.ts, packages/shared/src/orchestrationV2PendingBackgroundWork.test.ts
Recovery skips app-owned subagent tasks. Recovery selection includes child threads with run history, including queued children. Pending-work projections exclude dynamic tools owned by failed, interrupted, or cancelled runs. Tests cover these cases across recovery and projection paths.

MCP queued-task status and cancellation

Layer / File(s) Summary
MCP task status and cancellation
packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.queued-tasks.test.ts
Thread details include queued-run and held-queued-run counts. Task reads report queued status when queued child work exists without a pending run. Cancellation can target queued-only tasks and multiple queued runs; tool descriptions and tests cover the updated behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RunEvents
  participant Orchestrator
  participant SubagentProjection
  participant ParentTask
  RunEvents->>Orchestrator: deliver run.created or run.updated
  Orchestrator->>SubagentProjection: read delegatedTaskProgress
  SubagentProjection-->>Orchestrator: return child progress and result availability
  Orchestrator->>ParentTask: synchronize status before result is available
  Orchestrator->>ParentTask: transfer terminal result when available
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Queued delegated-task status, cancellation, and recovery changes show no identified merge-blocking defects. Startup recovery may take slightly longer when many child tasks are active.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f1fa1

Queued-work cancellation remains constrained to the caller’s delegated tasks, and published results remain terminal. The main residual uncertainty is consistent recovery when cancellation succeeds only partially.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The new destructive operation can cancel every queued run selected from a validated delegated child thread. Before reaching that operation, the service requires orchestration capability and an app-owned task belonging to the invocation’s parent thread. Terminal tasks bypass cancellation of later backing-thread work.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Thread inspection retains its capability check and project-scoped lookup. A foreign-project lookup is permitted through explicit user-attached thread context, not an agent-only attachment. The new queue counts are computed from the already-authorized target projection.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Queue cancellation, active-run interruption, and completion-delivery disposal remain separate operations. Queue cancellation can therefore commit before a later interruption fails. Disposal failures are logged while returning cancel_requested; that best-effort disposal behavior already existed in the base version and is not itself a newly introduced finding.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts (1)

506-506: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial

Recovery now scans every unpublished child at each startup.

The subagent-results recovery set now includes children that are still running or queued. At startup, each of these children runs finalizeAppOwnedSubagent under the parent lock. This matches the intent of the change. The cost of recovery now grows with the number of active children, not only children that have finished. Concurrency is bounded at 8, so this is acceptable.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts at line
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Update the unpublished-child recovery selection near the projection.runs check
so it includes running and queued children, not only completed children; ensure
startup recovery processes each selected child through finalizeAppOwnedSubagent
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- Line 506: Update the unpublished-child recovery selection near the
projection.runs check so it includes running and queued children, not only
completed children; ensure startup recovery processes each selected child
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  • apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.queued-tasks.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts
  • apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionRecovery.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionSettlement.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SubagentProjection.ts
  • packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts
  • packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts
  • packages/shared/src/orchestrationV2PendingBackgroundWork.test.ts
  • packages/shared/src/orchestrationV2PendingBackgroundWork.ts

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