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fix(cli-claude): keep agents waiting on their own background work active - #609
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Claude Code 2.1.302 reports an Agent `completed` each time it stops, including when it stops to wait on backgrounded work it still owns (SDK `task_started` rows with `parent_task_id`). The provider activity ledger treated that interim stop as final, so the Agent's work after it woke was dropped from runtime activity and the session showed "online" while the agent was still working. The ledger now records each task's parent. An Agent that stops while a child is still active, or while a child Agent is itself waiting on its own children, is held as awaiting children; only its own typed SDK `task_progress` reactivates it until its next terminal. Hook `SubagentStop` progress cannot reactivate it, so an Agent that never wakes cannot hold activity open. Refs happier-dev#534 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe Claude provider activity ledger now records parent task IDs, validates terminal evidence, and tracks agents that await active or nested child tasks. Typed system progress can reactivate awaiting agents. ChangesClaude agent child lifecycle
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TypedSystemRows
participant ClaudeProviderActivityLedger
participant ChildTasks
TypedSystemRows->>ClaudeProviderActivityLedger: apply parent and child task activities
ChildTasks->>ClaudeProviderActivityLedger: retain active or awaiting child state
ClaudeProviderActivityLedger->>ClaudeProviderActivityLedger: mark completed parent awaiting children
TypedSystemRows->>ClaudeProviderActivityLedger: apply system-task-progress
ClaudeProviderActivityLedger->>ClaudeProviderActivityLedger: reactivate parent or finalize terminal state
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 [Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; the previous waiting-Agent finding is fixed. SummaryKeeps waiting Claude Agents able to resume after their background work finishes.
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flowchart TD
A[Agent owns active child work] --> B[Agent reports completed]
B --> C[Agent waits without counting as active]
C --> D[Completed TaskOutput keeps the wait]
D --> E[Typed task_progress makes Agent active]
C --> F[Confirmed TaskStop or failure ends the wait]
F --> G[Later typed progress cannot wake Agent]
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- Around line 411-417: Preserve the exact terminal status from the
TaskStop/TaskOutput result in the terminal activity before applying the
completed-only check, then update the terminal-before-confirmation branch in
createClaudeProviderActivityLedger so it sets awaitingChildren only when
terminalStatus is completed and hasActiveChild is true. Add coverage for failed
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A failed, stopped, or killed Agent never wakes, so marking it as awaiting children let a late typed `task_progress` revive it and hold runtime activity open. Only a `completed` terminal can be an interim stop. Also cover that hook `SubagentStop` progress leaves an awaiting Agent inactive, including after its children settle when it never wakes. Refs happier-dev#534 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Reconcile a late child link with the completed… · createClaudeProviderActivityLedger.ts:366-374
apps/cli/src/backends/claude/providerActivity/createClaudeProviderActivityLedger.ts:366-374
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReconcile a late child link with the completed parent.
When the hook starts a child, the child record is active but has no
parentTaskId. If the parent then reportscompleted,hasActiveChildfinds no linked child. The later typedtask_startedadds the parent link only to the child. The parent remains non-awaiting, so its typedtask_progressis ignored after the child completes and the active count can reach zero while the parent is working.Store the terminal status and, when a typed start adds a parent link, mark only a
completedparent asawaitingChildren. Do not apply this to failed or stopped parents.Suggested fix
| Readonly<{ phase: 'terminal-before-confirmation'; identity: ClaudeProviderTaskIdentity; backgroundConfirmed: boolean; + terminalStatus?: 'completed' | 'failed' | 'stopped'; /** * Claude reports an Agent `completed` each time it stops, including when it stops to * wait on background children it still owns; it wakes when they settle. Only the @@ const parent = withParent(current.parentTaskId ?? parentTaskId); if (current.observed || !confirmsActivity) { - if (parent.parentTaskId !== current.parentTaskId) tasks.set(key, { ...current, ...parent }); + if (parent.parentTaskId !== current.parentTaskId) { + tasks.set(key, { ...current, ...parent }); + if (parent.parentTaskId) { + const parentKey = keyOf({ + sessionId: identity.sessionId, + taskId: parent.parentTaskId, + }); + const parentTask = tasks.get(parentKey); + if ( + parentTask?.phase === 'terminal-before-confirmation' + && parentTask.terminalStatus === 'completed' + ) { + tasks.set(parentKey, { ...parentTask, awaitingChildren: true }); + } + } + } return false; } @@ phase: 'terminal-before-confirmation', identity, backgroundConfirmed: true, + ...(activity.terminalStatus ? { terminalStatus: activity.terminalStatus } : {}), ...(awaitsChildren ? { awaitingChildren: true as const } : {}), ...withParent(current.parentTaskId), @@ phase: 'terminal-before-confirmation', identity: { sessionId: activity.sessionId, taskId: activity.taskId }, backgroundConfirmed: false, + ...(activity.terminalStatus ? { terminalStatus: activity.terminalStatus } : {}), });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 366-374: Update the terminal task records and typed-start handling
in the ledger so a late parent link can reconcile with the parent’s terminal
status. Retain the terminal status, and when a typed start adds a parent link,
mark that parent as awaiting children only if its status is completed; leave
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@coderabbitai Thanks — declining the outside-diff "late child link" finding: the ordering it needs does not occur. In Claude Code 2.1.302 stream-json captures, the typed |
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Tip For best results, initiate chat on the files or code changes. @danljungstrom Thanks for clarifying the event ordering. Based on your capture evidence, the child has its I withdraw the “late child link” finding. Terminal-status retention and cross-record parent reconciliation are not justified by this scenario. ✏️ Learnings added
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Thanks @danljungstrom. I reviewed this together with the v0.3 port in #622 and pushed The waiting-child approach belongs in the existing activity ledger and preserves the confirmed-process-stop rules from #535. One lifecycle gap needed a follow-up: after an interim completed result, a later failure or stop was ignored and delayed typed progress could reactivate the Agent. The ledger now treats that later stop/failure as final while preserving duplicate completed results. Regressions cover typed failure/killed results, TaskStop and StopFailure. Validation: all 42 ledger tests and the CLI typecheck pass. The broader run passed 156 tests but hit two timeouts; the standalone compact case passed in isolation. The remaining legacy query test times out before provider startup on both this refinement and the original PR head, so I am not counting that path as validated. Current-head CI and the corresponding v0.3 refinement remain in progress; the live provider recipe has not been replayed for this follow-up. @coderabbitai review Posted on behalf of @leeroybrun. |
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Port the complete intent of #609 and #622 through the query-owned activity ledger. Keep the SDK query observing interim completion, and settle later failure or stop evidence without allowing delayed progress to revive the Agent. Co-authored-by: Dan Ljungström <danljungstrom@users.noreply.github.com>
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Keep completed TaskOutput observations resumable while making confirmed TaskStop final. Preserve the existing known-only admission rule for tool-result observations.
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The TaskOutput finding is fixed in All 215 relevant tests and the CLI typecheck pass. The equivalent 0.3 TaskStop correction is committed locally as @coderabbitai review Posted on behalf of @leeroybrun. |
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…e (v0.3) Claude Code 2.1.302 reports an Agent `completed` each time it stops, including an interim stop while it waits on its own background shell or nested Agent. The 0.3 ledger settled the Agent and the session stopped reading and disposed the turn query, so the Agent was killed and the session showed idle while work continued. - providerActivity: read parent_task_id from typed task_started and keep the parent link across hook/typed records; a completed Agent with a live child is kept as awaitingChildren (failed/killed never wait); only its own typed task_progress wakes it (SubagentStop cannot); provider stop releases it; new hasUnsettledProviderTasks(ownerScope). - session: keep the turn query open while unsettled tasks remain. - docs: claude-feature-matrix notes the interim-stop behaviour. Port of #609. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merged as The maintainer explicitly deferred the live Claude probe: canonical QA auth preparation failed before launch with a workspace-admission error. This is a merge into development, not a release claim. Posted on behalf of @leeroybrun. |
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Problem
Claude Code 2.1.302 reports an Agent
completed(task_updated+task_notification) every time it stops,including when it stops to wait on background work it owns (a subagent's backgrounded Bash arrives as
task_startedwithparent_task_id). The provider activity ledger treated that interim stop as final,so once the Agent woke and continued, runtime activity dropped to 0 and the session showed "online"
while an agent was still working.
Fix (single owner:
createClaudeProviderActivityLedger)task_startedrows carryparentTaskId; every ledger record keeps it, including when the hooklaunch registers the task first.
children), it is held as
awaitingChildrenand does not count as active.task_progressreactivates it, until its next terminal. HookSubagentStopprogress cannot, so an Agent that never wakes cannot hold activity open (no regressionof the "2 background agents" stuck count fixed in fix(claude): abandon provider tasks orphaned by observer loss #535).
Validation
vitest run src/backends/claude: all ledger/remote suites green; unrelated model-metadata timeoutsunder host load pass in isolation.
yarn workspace @happier-dev/cli typecheck: pass.stopped, woke, ran a 150s foreground command. Server projection stayed
active(1–2) throughout andwent
idleright after the Agent's final report. Previously it dropped to 0 during the post-wake work.Not covered
Refs #534
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