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fix(server): Claude background-task wakes start when the queue is held - #17885
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After a server restart, recovery holds unstarted queued runs. A Claude background-task wake that arrives while the previous run is finalizing queues, inherits that hold, and never starts. The CLI runs the turn anyway, so every T3 MCP call in it fails with parent_not_active. A provider wake no longer inherits queueHeld, and the queue can start an unheld run that sits behind held ones. Only provider wakes are queued unheld beside held runs, so ordinary queues behave as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Ordinary held messages remain queued, eligible provider wakes can proceed before Stop reaches the active run, and Codex continuations retain their queue hold. No merge-blocking issue was established. Architecture SummaryArchitecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change affects 1 system. Changed systems: Architecture concerns Review details
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- Around line 4996-4997: Update the provider-wake exemption around queueHeld in
Orchestrator so it applies only to restart-recovery holds; keep Stop holds
effective for provider wakes. Ensure nextQueuedRun cannot select and start a
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Manual review round 1: crev (claude-opus-5-5 + gpt-6.1-sol) (tier 7/10, deep review)
2 verified findings: 0 critical, 0 major, 2 minor. 1 posted inline, best first; 1 below.
Reviewed 3 files (+80 -10), dacd2cb6..e059b62b against origin/main.
| Severity | Location | Finding | Raised by | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| minor | apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:4980 |
A provider wake dispatched after Stop now starts past the queue Stop held | 2 finders, one model | L3 |
Lower-severity findings (1)
[minor] Keep Codex background-command prompts subject to queue holds · apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:4980
[minor] Keep Codex background-command prompts subject to queue holds · race
Codex background-command continuations receive the provider-wake exemption even though starting them sends a new prompt. A continuation dispatched after Stop holds the queue can therefore start automatically when the interrupted run ends, contradicting holdStoppedThread's contract: "Nothing automatic starts the thread again."
When it breaks: Turn 1 leaves a background command running. During turn 2, the user queues Q and presses Stop. After Stop commits Q's hold but before its asynchronous interrupt reaches the adapter, turn 1's command completes and its continuation dispatches. The continuation queues unheld, then starts after turn 2 terminates while Q remains held. An already-offered continuation dispatched during that interval has the same result.
Evidence (level 3: traced the failing path): CodexAdapterV2.ts:4790-4832 offers the continuation without delivery or dispatchIfCurrent. ProviderContinuationService.ts:155-176 consequently dispatches it as agent/provider with queue_after_active, without checking Stop. Orchestrator.ts:8757-8764 holds existing queued runs, while 9351-9364 schedules the provider interrupt separately; 4980-5001 exempts the later continuation from that hold. ProjectionStore.ts:4685-4693 allows an unheld queued run beside held runs, and Orchestrator.ts:610-614,1276-1304,11063-11071 selects and starts it after terminalization. CodexAdapterV2.ts:6618-6631 calls startNativeTurn, which issues turn/start at 6209 rather than attaching buffered output. There is a guard that narrows the claimed timing: ProviderTurnControlService.ts:201-205 passes requestRuntimeRestart=true, and CodexAdapterV2.ts:6734-6768 marks earlier settled turns interrupting too. Thus command completion during the established interrupt is suppressed, but completion before that asynchronous effect, or an already-offered request, remains reachable. The base inherited queueHeld for this continuation and refused queue draining beside any held run. No runtime reproduction was run because this checkout lacks node_modules.
Suggested fix: Set delivery: "message_text" on CodexAdapterV2's background-command continuation offer. ProviderContinuationService will then use creationSource: "server", so this real prompt inherits queueHeld. Add a focused test covering continuation dispatch after Stop commits its hold and before interrupt completion.
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Verify this finding against the current code before changing anything. Orchestrator.ts:4980-5001 exempts agent/provider continuations from queue holds, but CodexAdapterV2.ts:4811-4832 produces that marker for a continuation that starts a new native turn. Mark that offer delivery: "message_text" so it inherits holds through ProviderContinuationService. Test the race where Stop holds Q, a Codex continuation dispatches while the active run remains blocking, and the interrupted run terminates. Assert the continuation remains held and no new provider turn starts; preserve automatic attachment of buffered Claude wakes.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:4980Shared provider wake exemption is consistent with buffered continuation semantics [minor]: packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderContinuationRequests.ts:34-43 defines adapter_buffered as ingestion of existing provider output, distinct from message_text prompting. ProviderContinuationService.ts:168-173 assigns the provider marker to that shared path; its Claude-specific explanatory comment already exists in the base. packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts:1656-1692 offers a wake after native agent_start; :2453-2484 suppresses prompt creation for the marker, and :2543-2591 adopts buffered events or settles a stale continuation without prompting. packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts:652-656 identifies the same promptless continuation; :1680-1688 offers it. packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:1332-1337 identifies attach-only wakes, and :7104-7155 drains their buffer and returns; packages/provider-grok/src/server/adapter.ts:327-338 enables this ACP path. Orchestrator.ts:4878-4882 requires a blocking run before queueing, :4996-5001 still holds ordinary queued messages, and :614 selects only unheld runs. The base lacked the exemption, but no newly introduced wrong prompt or release of held user messages was found. Execution was unavailable because node_modules is absent.
Tier 7/10 from claude-opus-5-5: Changes the queue-hold/start rules in the run scheduler (background job state machine); a mistake could start runs that should stay held or stall queues silently.
Complexity high: Async run-queue state machine with SQL and in-memory start checks that must stay consistent; ordering of held and unheld runs across restart recovery.
A provider wake that queued after Stop, while the stopped run was still ending, skipped Stop's hold and started when that run ended. Only skip the inherited hold when Stop hasn't reached the active run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Manual review round 2: crev (claude-opus-5-5 + gpt-6.1-sol) (tier 7/10, deep review)
2 verified findings: 0 critical, 1 major, 1 minor. 1 posted inline, best first; 1 below.
Reviewed the commits since round 1 (e059b62b..637b5696) and rechecked open findings.
| Severity | Location | Finding | Raised by | Evidence |
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| major | apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:4987-4991 |
Restrict the queue-hold bypass to Claude buffered wakes | 1 finder, one model | L3 |
Lower-severity findings (1)
[minor] Wait for queue promotion before asserting Stop starts nothing · apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts:1072-1078
[minor] Wait for queue promotion before asserting Stop starts nothing · test-gap
These assertions can run before the detached terminal-run handler checks the queue, allowing an erroneous promotion to escape detection. The earlier queueHeld assertion remains useful, but the final assertions do not reliably prove that nothing starts. AGENTS.md requires tests to "await the specific persisted event or Deferred that marks the milestone."
When it breaks: A regression allows a held queued run to start, but its promotion occurs after drain's final empty outbox claim and the projection read.
Evidence (level 2: pointed at the code): EffectWorker.ts:190-199 dispatches settlement after interrupting the provider; Orchestrator.ts:8863-8877 settles the running run. Queue promotion occurs separately in handleTerminalRun at Orchestrator.ts:11050-11079, consumed by a forkDetach stream at :11102-11116. EffectWorker.ts:778-785 only loops until runOnce finds no claimable effect; it does not join that listener. Orchestrator.ts:11303-11306 reads the projection without waiting for the handler. BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts:1084 disables the worker daemon, so a start effect enqueued after the final claim has no subsequent executor. Promotion before that claim could be detected; the claim's assertion that it can never be detected is too strong. The entire test is newly added relative to the merge base. Runtime reproduction was unavailable because this checkout has no node_modules.
Suggested fix: After the interrupt drain, yield orchestrator.resumeQueuedRuns to exercise the queue decision synchronously, then drain the worker again before checking statuses and started.length. Alternatively, expose and await completion of the terminal handler before the second drain. Avoid sleeps or polling.
Raised by bugs-opus; verified by gpt-6.1-sol. Finding r2-3.
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Verify this finding against the current code before changing anything. In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts:1072-1078, worker.drain does not await the detached terminal-run queue-promotion handler. Make the queue decision complete deterministically, for example by yielding orchestrator.resumeQueuedRuns, then drain again before the existing assertions. Preserve the queueHeld assertions and verify that a queue-promotion regression fails the test without sleeps or polling.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:4987-4991Plain interrupts also stop Claude's native wake process [minor]: ThreadManagementService.ts:834-840 dispatches run.interrupt without holdQueue. However, EffectWorker.ts:165-175 sends every provider-turn.interrupt through ProviderTurnControlService, whose interrupt implementation always passes requestRuntimeRestart: true at ProviderTurnControlService.ts:197-205. ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:7817-7842 closes an idle query and clears wake state; when a turn remains active, lines 7856-7864 interrupt and close its query before awaiting its exit. Lines 3797-3816 clear buffered wakes and requestedContinuations for the idle close path. Thus the claimed surviving native wake is also stopped, independently of queue holding. The queued-row hold itself already existed at base dacd2cb, Orchestrator.ts:4988-4992, which unconditionally inherited any existing hold. No runtime reproduction was run because node_modules is absent.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts: grows from 932 to 1091 lines; consider splitting it
Tier 7/10 from claude-opus-5-5: Changes the queue-hold and start rules in the orchestrator's run state machine. A mistake could let held runs start after Stop or a restart, or leave queues stuck, and nobody would notice right away.
Complexity high: Async run-queue state machine whose ordering depends on Stop and recovery holds. The logic has to match across the orchestrator and both the SQL and memory projection stores.
A provider wake skips a restart hold because it adopts a turn the provider already started. Codex's background-command continuation is different: it starts a new turn from its text. It was offered with the default adapter_buffered delivery, so it was marked provider-created and skipped the hold. Offer it as message_text, which matches what it does. Also make the Stop test run the queue decision before its final check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Manual review round 3: crev (claude-opus-5-5 + gpt-6.1-sol) (tier 7/10, deep review)
No verified findings.
Reviewed the commits since round 2 (637b5696..865e04d8) and rechecked open findings.
Tier 7/10 from claude-opus-5-5: Changes the rules for holding and starting queued runs in the orchestrator's background queue. A mistake could start runs the user held or Stop meant to block, or leave runs stuck, and either could go unnoticed.
Complexity high: The change is about async ordering in a queue state machine: when a hold is inherited, how it interacts with Stop, and how the queue drains past held runs. It has to stay consistent across the orchestrator, the SQL and memory stores, and how the adapters deliver wakes.
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Problem
When a Claude thread's queue is held, which a server restart does to any unstarted queued run, the turn Claude starts by itself after a background task ends gets no T3 run. Every T3 MCP call in that turn fails:
I hit this with
t3_thread_send,watch_pull_requestandunwatch_pull_request. An agent finishes its work in the wake turn, then can't report back to its parent or watch the PR it just opened. On one thread it lasted over 10 hours, and the parent heard nothing until someone asked.The cause:
assertLiveCallerneeds an active run, and a queued run doesn't count.queue_after_activemessage fromProviderContinuationService.queueHeld(Orchestrator.ts,message.dispatch), and nothing starts while a held run exists (startNextQueuedRunandcanStartQueuedRun). A message sent to an idle thread starts right away, so the thread looks healthy (Snooze fails with "has a queued run" when a held queue never drains after restart #15862).From the projection table on one affected thread (0.0.46 nightly):
queueHeldqueueHeldqueueHeld, created 22:24:00.349creationSource: provider. Never started.T3 calls in that wake turn failed at 22:24:43. A second thread showed the same pattern.
Change
A Claude background-task wake shouldn't wait in a held queue. The CLI is already running that turn, and the run only attaches its output, so holding it stops nothing. It just hides the turn and breaks T3 tools inside it.
message.dispatchwithcreatedBy: "agent"andcreationSource: "provider"doesn't inheritqueueHeld. Only the provider wake inProviderContinuationServicedispatches with that pair. The exception is a wake that arrives after Stop reached the active run (stopReachedRun). It still inherits Stop's hold, so Stop keeps starting nothing.delivery: "message_text". It was the one adapter whose "provider" wake starts a new turn from its text instead of adopting a turn the provider already started (Claude, Muse, ACP, OpenCode and pi all adopt). So it no longer skips the hold, and it now shows T3 Code rather than the agent as the message's author, which is accurate since T3 Code writes that text.nextQueuedRunskips held runs.startNextQueuedRunno longer returns early when a held run exists.canStartQueuedRun(SQL and memory) looks for an unheld queued run instead of requiring that no held run exists.Before this change an unheld run never sat beside a held one, so ordinary queues behave as before. Held user messages still wait for the user to resume them. Stop holds every queued run, including wakes, and so does the provider-failure hold. A wake that queues while a stopped run is still ending waits too.
A held queue only ever catches messages that arrive while a run is active. A message that reaches an idle thread already starts past held runs on main. So outside Stop, a wake skipping the hold behaves the same whether it lands mid-run or at idle.
Scope and approval
There's no triaged issue for this yet. The fix is limited to the queue-hold rule for provider wakes, plus the start check that lets such a wake run past held messages. It doesn't change contracts, clients or settings. The one-line Codex change keeps Codex wakes held as they are on main.
Related context, not closed by this PR: #15862 (held queue never drains after restart), #16808 and #17857 (other
parent_not_activeand wake-turn failures). #17028 fixed a neighboring case where held wakes kept delegated tasks running.Left alone: a wake held by Stop or by the provider-failure hold still leaves
ClaudeAdapterV2'srequestedContinuationslatch set, so later wakes on that session don't offer a continuation. Clearing the latch when a continuation run is cancelled would close that, and it belongs in its own PR.Verification
New test in
runtimeLayer.test.ts, "starts a provider wake queued beside a held queue", on the SQL projection store. It queues a message, runs startup recovery to hold it, sends a message and a provider wake, completes the active run, and callsresumeQueuedRuns. The wake must start and the held message must stay queued.expected true to not equal true(the wake inherited the hold)expected 'queued' to equal 'starting'New test in
BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts, "Stop holds a provider wake that queues before the stopped turn ends". A fake adapter keeps the stopped turn running after Stop, and a provider wake queues in that window. The wake must stay held and nothing may start after the stopped run ends. It passes on main and on this PR. It fails on this PR's first commit, which lacked the Stop check (expected undefined to be true).Related suites plus
Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts(its background-command test now asserts themessage_textdelivery), 18 files, 391 passed and 1 skipped:Also ran
tsc --noEmit -p apps/server(no errors), andvp lintandvp fmt --checkon the changed files. Lint shows one warning on an existing unused variable inOrchestrator.tsthat this PR doesn't touch.Not checked: I haven't run a restart plus a live Claude background task against this build. The evidence above comes from main's projection data, and the test drives the same queue path at the orchestrator level.
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