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fix(server): parents handle steering while waiting for child work - #35622
A steer can reach a parent's inbox while the parent is blocked waiting for child work, leaving it unable to answer until the child finishes. This happens in T3's blocking thread/delegate waits and, in #22331, OpenCode's native foreground-subagent call. Long-running goals make the delay especially visible.
Change
Local and forwarded t3_thread_wait calls and delegate_task(mode: "wait") yield to new steering in the caller's thread. They return child state with optional interruptedByMessageId, so the caller can handle the message while the child continues. Forwarded interactive waits pin the target run with a bounded initial probe and return its last observed state on steering, without another peer request. Internal background followers continue until remote work settles. Delegated completion wakes and the four-minute delegate timeout are preserved.
For OpenCode, successfully admitted steering releases foreground subagent observation through the native session.background endpoint. The parent can then consume the steer without cancelling its children. This also runs when a foreground call is observed after steer acceptance, with event-triggered HTTP outside the event lock. Only accepted, still-pending steers trigger release. The background request has a ten-second timeout; failures are logged without misreporting an already accepted steer as rejected.
Scope
Fixes#22331's missing reply while foreground children run, including active native goals. The same blocked-parent failure is covered for T3-owned waits. No UI or delivery-policy change is included.
Related #24712 handles pending input in the watched thread; this handles new input to the caller. It remains independent of that PR's pending default-behavior decision. #35060 addresses foreground-subagent presentation separately. This retains the completion-wake and goal-settlement behavior from #27387, #34898 and #35032.
Verification
Regression tests failed on pre-fix main: caller steering left a thread wait timing out, and ordinary/goal OpenCode cases never requested native backgrounding. They pass with the fix.
Merged main through beaa647dc16d. At 32106ead93df, vp run check:changed beaa647dc16d053e10c62780a3dc190c078a5216 --concurrency 2 passes all 294 tests in eight files, formatting, lint, both Knip passes, GraphQL generation and 37 affected package typechecks.
Review regressions cover a silent peer during an interrupted wait, pinned remote run IDs, background followers surviving caller input, and cancelled replay subscriptions preserving their event for reconnect. The call-before-steer and steer-before-call orders are covered for ordinary turns and active goals, with a background-request failure case. The new late-call tests failed before the fix. Nonterminal delegate waits retain their question/approval reread. Conflict resolution preserves the owned-server recovery coverage from fix(opencode): preserve owned turns during server recovery #25596 and uses its response hook in the stop fixture.
Built and installed macOS arm64 0.1.9-responsive-waits.1. Three real packaged-runtime cases passed: OpenCode foreground ordinary turn, OpenCode foreground native goal, and Codex goal blocked in t3_thread_wait. Each parent acknowledged the message while its child was still running; goals completed only after fixture release.
Repeated delivery in the installed live environment using real agent-authored auto sends. The native child released the Codex coordinator's blocking delegate wait and then its thread wait. The coordinator steered the OpenCode parent, which replied MESSAGE_HANDLED while its native goal stayed active and child stayed running. Releasing the fixture produced CHILD_DONE, a completed goal, PARENT_DONE, and the delegated completion wake.
wait-yields-to-steering tool-use eval passes 2/2 samples with GPT-6.1 Sol at low effort with the case strengthened to require reading the child thread’s current status. This eval uses mocked tool results and a simulated machine; the live tests above use real providers. The measured MCP tool list is 48,120 bytes, six below main, with other context budgets unchanged.
The installed build and live-provider proof use commit 71b4ad6c44; the PR rebases that behavior, shortens two descriptions, and includes the review fixes above. Those later fixes have automated coverage; the installed app was not rebuilt for them. macOS/OpenCode 2.2.7 were exercised; Windows/OpenCode 2.1.0 from the original report, other providers, full desktop UI interaction and two real linked machines were not tested live. Forwarded waits have service-level regression coverage.
Code and verification: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex. Original description draft: Claude Fable 5.2 Medium through Claude Code; final scope and evidence updated by GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex.
Caller steering can now interrupt delegate-task, thread, and peer-forwarded waits without stopping the target. Results can identify the interrupting message. The OpenCode adapter backgrounds qualifying sessions when accepted steering overlaps an active foreground subagent.
waitForThread races target settlement against steering events from the caller thread. A matching event returns its message ID while the target remains running.
Delegate-task wait yields to steering packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts
Delegate-task wait observes parent steering, returns the interrupting message ID, and dispatches the wake-policy command on early return.
The MCP endpoint supplies caller context and returns the interrupting message ID. Tool guidance and the orchestration guard case describe the steering response. The tool-list byte count is updated.
Peer-forwarded wait yields to steering apps/server/src/peer/PeerForwarding.ts, apps/server/src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts
PeerForwarding races its chunked remote wait against local caller steering. If steering arrives first, it returns the interrupting message ID without stopping remote work.
OpenCode backgrounds active foreground work packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/OpenCode2AdapterV2.testkit.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/OpenCode2AdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/OpenCodeAdapterV2.testkit.ts
After steering, the adapter requests session.background when an active foreground subagent remains and the turn is active and uninterrupted. Replay support and tests cover request tracking, event cancellation, and child execution.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant ThreadManagementService
participant OpenCodeAdapter
participant ForegroundSubagent
Caller->>ThreadManagementService: Send steering message
ThreadManagementService-->>Caller: Return interruptedByMessageId
Caller->>OpenCodeAdapter: Submit accepted steer
OpenCodeAdapter->>ForegroundSubagent: Background session when qualifying child is active
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#24593 — Both changes affect t3_thread_wait early-return behavior. This change adds steering interruption but does not address pending questions or approvals.
Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#35641 — The PR description reports the same steering wake behavior, result field, and OpenCode session-background path.
pingdotgg/t3code#27379 — Both changes dispatch delegated_task.wake-policy with completionWake: "always" when a wait ends before task settlement.
pingdotgg/t3code#24782 — This change’s wait guidance uses the next result marker introduced by that PR.
Suggested labels:bugfix
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, t3dotgg
Merge Risk: Low · up to 32106
Steering that arrives in a very small window while a delegated wait is being set up may be acknowledged late. The other steering paths behave as intended in the investigated code. This is mergeable with the gap noted.
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The title names the main change: parents handle steering messages while they wait for child work. The changeset adds steering as a wake event for local and forwarded thread waits, returns interruptedB…
Description check
The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each section gives concrete content. The Problem section describes the blocked-parent ste…
Linked Issues check
[#22331] Objective: a steer sent to a running parent turn that is blocked on foreground subagents must receive a reply while the children run. The change implements this. In packages/provider-opencode…
Out of Scope Changes check
Changes fall into three groups. (1) OpenCode steering and backgrounding in packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts, with OpenCode2AdapterV2.test.ts and OpenCode2AdapterV2.testkit.ts. These…
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The title names the main change: parents handle steering messages while they wait for child work. The changeset adds steering as a wake event for local and forwarded thread waits, returns interruptedByMessageId, and releases OpenCode foreground subagent observation on accepted steers. The title follows conventional commit form and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history.
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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each section gives concrete content. The Problem section describes the blocked-parent steering failure and the linked issue. The Change section explains the wait yield behavior and the OpenCode session.background release. The Scope section links #22331 and states exclusions. The Verification section lists regression tests, the check:changed run with results, packaged-runtime and live-provider cases, and the eval result. It also states what was not tested, and it names the model and harness used. Minor gaps: the template asks to explain why the Scope items need no issue, and the description is long for a PR that the template asks to keep focused. These gaps do not change the overall assessment.
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[#22331] Objective: a steer sent to a running parent turn that is blocked on foreground subagents must receive a reply while the children run. The change implements this. In packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts, the adapter records an accepted steer when it is still pending, then calls releaseForeground. That helper sends session.background only when the turn is active and not interrupted, an accepted steer exists, and a foreground subagent call is still active. The same check runs when a foreground call is observed after steer acceptance. Background failures are logged and do not reject the steer. OpenCode2AdapterV2.test.ts covers steering with and without an active goal, and checks that session.background is requested and that the parent can finish while the child runs. [#22331] Minimum presentation: the issue asks that the thread not show an indistinguishable Thinking row. This PR does not change UI, which the PR description states explicitly. The issue's Related section assigns presentation to #17767, and the PR points to #35060. This is a residual gap in presentation only. The steering reply requirement is met. Live packaged-runtime results come from the PR description and were not re-run. Windows/OpenCode 2.1.0 was not tested live. Incremental changes since the previous review (tool description wording, budget byte count, eval case, replay testkit abort handling) do not change this conclusion.
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Changes fall into three groups. (1) OpenCode steering and backgrounding in packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts, with OpenCode2AdapterV2.test.ts and OpenCode2AdapterV2.testkit.ts. These implement #22331 directly. (2) T3-owned waits: ThreadManagementService.ts, PeerForwarding.ts, OrchestratorMcpService.ts, tools.ts, and packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts add interruptedByMessageId and steer-based wake for t3_thread_wait and delegate_task(mode: "wait"). This applies the same blocked-parent steering failure to T3 waits. It is broader than the OpenCode report but is not unrelated, and the PR states it explicitly. Completion-wake and four-minute timeout behavior are preserved per the PR. (3) Supporting changes: tests, the wait-yields-to-steering eval case, agentContextBudget.json byte count, and shortened tool descriptions. These support the behavior above. No unrelated change was demonstrated. The PR contains no UI or delivery-policy change.
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Make the eval check the child’s current status.
The mocked t3_thread_read returns the coordinator thread, not the cache-check thread. The case neither requires the child’s thread ID in the read call nor permits a second read. If the child finishes after t3_thread_wait returns, a model can still pass by calling the coordinator “running” and reporting the child’s earlier status. Supply a child-thread status response and require a read of that thread before grading the answer. As per coding guidelines, “A case reproduces a real bad experience, or guards a real good one.”
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Refresh nonterminal task results before returning them.
If a user resolves a child question or approval after waitForTask reads it, this line returns the obsolete pending request. The agent can then try to answer a request that has closed. Preserve the new direct return for steering and terminal results, but reread other nonterminal results as the previous path did. The supplied change detail identifies that previous reread.
Proposed change
- if (Option.isSome(waited)) return waited.value;+ if (+ Option.isSome(waited) &&+ (waited.value.interruptedByMessageId !== undefined ||+ isTerminalTaskStatus(waited.value.status))+ ) return waited.value;
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@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/OpenCode2AdapterV2.testkit.ts:
- Around line 184-186: Update OpenCodeReplayController.events to check the abort
signal after the beforeEmit gate resolves and before advancing the transcript or
yielding the event. If cancelled during the wait, stop without consuming the
event so a replacement subscription can replay it.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts:
- Around line 426-437: Replace the `as unknown as OrchestrationV2StoredEvent`
cast in the steering-event fixture with a value that satisfies the stored-event
schema, including the required `commandId` and turn-item `runId`. Preserve the
fixture’s steering-event behavior and ensure it remains valid if the forwarded
wait mapper later adds run filtering.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerForwarding.ts:
- Line 271: Update the peer forwarding flow around the remote wait so it pins
the target run before the blocking call begins, including when input.runId is
absent. Reuse the run selected by that first wait for the follow-up refresh, so
a queued newer run cannot change which run the response reports.
- Around line 265-271: Update the steering refresh in the `t3_thread_wait` flow
so the second `forward` request has a bounded HTTP-level wait, not only
`timeoutMs: 1` for the peer operation. If that refresh fails or times out,
retain and return the already accepted steering result, including
`interruptedByMessageId`, to the parent.
Review comments at @packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts:
- Around line 4807-4808: Update the background request in steerTurn to apply
REQUEST_REPLY_TIMEOUT before Effect.catch, so a stalled request becomes a
handled failure and backgrounding remains best effort.
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Review comments at @packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts:
- Line 4806: Update startCall so that when a foreground subagent starts and
turn.steers is non-empty, it backgrounds the OpenCode session using the same
timeout and failure handling as steerTurn, without allowing a failed background
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Explain the untraced helper beside its definition.
releaseForeground runs on the forked event path at line 2719, once per event. Effect.fnUntraced is the documented choice for that path. The repository guideline requires the reason to appear beside the function. No comment does so.
Do not change this to Effect.fn. A named span on each forked event invocation adds per-event tracing, which the guideline advises against. The steer path already runs inside the named steerTurn span.
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+ // Untraced: this runs per event from a forked turn handler. The steer path is covered by steerTurn's span.
const releaseForeground = Effect.fnUntraced(function* (state: ThreadState, turn: ActiveTurn) {
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Add a brief explanatory comment beside the releaseForeground definition stating that it uses Effect.fnUntraced because it runs per event on the forked handler path, while the steer path is covered by the steerTurn span; keep Effect.fnUntraced unchanged.
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Review comments at @packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts:
- Line 2624: Add a brief explanatory comment beside the releaseForeground
definition stating that it uses Effect.fnUntraced because it runs per event on
the forked handler path, while the steer path is covered by the steerTurn span;
keep Effect.fnUntraced unchanged.
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Problem
A steer can reach a parent's inbox while the parent is blocked waiting for child work, leaving it unable to answer until the child finishes. This happens in T3's blocking thread/delegate waits and, in #22331, OpenCode's native foreground-subagent call. Long-running goals make the delay especially visible.
Change
Local and forwarded
t3_thread_waitcalls anddelegate_task(mode: "wait")yield to new steering in the caller's thread. They return child state with optionalinterruptedByMessageId, so the caller can handle the message while the child continues. Forwarded interactive waits pin the target run with a bounded initial probe and return its last observed state on steering, without another peer request. Internal background followers continue until remote work settles. Delegated completion wakes and the four-minute delegate timeout are preserved.For OpenCode, successfully admitted steering releases foreground subagent observation through the native
session.backgroundendpoint. The parent can then consume the steer without cancelling its children. This also runs when a foreground call is observed after steer acceptance, with event-triggered HTTP outside the event lock. Only accepted, still-pending steers trigger release. The background request has a ten-second timeout; failures are logged without misreporting an already accepted steer as rejected.Scope
Fixes #22331's missing reply while foreground children run, including active native goals. The same blocked-parent failure is covered for T3-owned waits. No UI or delivery-policy change is included.
Related #24712 handles pending input in the watched thread; this handles new input to the caller. It remains independent of that PR's pending default-behavior decision. #35060 addresses foreground-subagent presentation separately. This retains the completion-wake and goal-settlement behavior from #27387, #34898 and #35032.
Verification
beaa647dc16d. At32106ead93df,vp run check:changed beaa647dc16d053e10c62780a3dc190c078a5216 --concurrency 2passes all 294 tests in eight files, formatting, lint, both Knip passes, GraphQL generation and 37 affected package typechecks.0.1.9-responsive-waits.1. Three real packaged-runtime cases passed: OpenCode foreground ordinary turn, OpenCode foreground native goal, and Codex goal blocked int3_thread_wait. Each parent acknowledged the message while its child was still running; goals completed only after fixture release.autosends. The native child released the Codex coordinator's blocking delegate wait and then its thread wait. The coordinator steered the OpenCode parent, which repliedMESSAGE_HANDLEDwhile its native goal stayed active and child stayed running. Releasing the fixture producedCHILD_DONE, a completed goal,PARENT_DONE, and the delegated completion wake.wait-yields-to-steeringtool-use eval passes 2/2 samples with GPT-6.1 Sol at low effort with the case strengthened to require reading the child thread’s current status. This eval uses mocked tool results and a simulated machine; the live tests above use real providers. The measured MCP tool list is 48,120 bytes, six below main, with other context budgets unchanged.The installed build and live-provider proof use commit
71b4ad6c44; the PR rebases that behavior, shortens two descriptions, and includes the review fixes above. Those later fixes have automated coverage; the installed app was not rebuilt for them. macOS/OpenCode 2.2.7 were exercised; Windows/OpenCode 2.1.0 from the original report, other providers, full desktop UI interaction and two real linked machines were not tested live. Forwarded waits have service-level regression coverage.Code and verification: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex. Original description draft: Claude Fable 5.2 Medium through Claude Code; final scope and evidence updated by GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex.