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Claude's interrupting steer can cancel an in-flight tool and generate a refusal-like STOP message. Ordinary human and agent updates now wait for the next root tool boundary and use Claude's native next input, including attachments. Explicit restart and Stop retain their separate behavior.

The original message stays durably queued until an exact native saved-history receipt arrives. Ordered boundary events reserve its actual timeline position before later assistant output, so delayed receipts cannot place it below the reply. Stop cancels pending native input, while uncertain offers remain visible and never replay automatically. Goal and maintenance commands keep their separate-turn behavior.

Validation includes isolated Haiku/CLI probes for Stop, crashes, late input, saved receipts, images, a 64-input noisy batch, and 40 inputs sent inside PostToolBatch. Synthetic server tests cover mixed human/agent batches, delayed acknowledgements, retries, original turn ownership, and recovery. A foreground web-client pass inspected every one of 40 rendered updates in order between the tool and reply and checked reload. Saved history proves persistence, not model compliance.

Local validation: 788 automated tests passed with six existing skips; format, lint, both knip checks, GraphQL, 36 affected-package typechecks, and React Compiler checks passed. The aggregate browser harness timed out before connecting; its three tests passed when run separately. The pre-existing inline task-tool replay failure was reproduced on unchanged base b02602b, then fixed by supplying its missing temporary checkpoint workspace without changing assertions. Legacy saved-context recovery covers authentic wrapped single offers and batches, with changed-text negatives.

Paid behavior evals were not run. Mobile presentation shares the tested workflow logic and is typechecked; native mobile acceptance was not run.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol in T3 Code/Codex, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra design work and independent Sol reviews.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained server bug fix that prevents agent updates from interrupting Claude tool work by reusing the existing durable queue. Human steering, safe providers, explicit restarts, and existing callers remain unchanged, with targeted integration coverage added.

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Agent-authored steering can wait for safe Claude turn boundaries, then defer to a queued turn if delivery does not occur. Orchestration checks provider capabilities and message ownership, and cancels pending steering when Stop or delegated-task updates make delivery stale.

Changes: Agent steering delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Steering contracts and effect ordering
packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EventSink.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts
Contracts add non-interrupting steering capability, fallback-run metadata, deferred-steering errors, and delayed message resolution. The outbox supports boundary-waiting steers and filtered cancellation. Persistence handles eventless command receipts. Tests cover effect ordering and cancellation.
Claude safe-boundary delivery
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.ts
Claude registers agent messages for PostToolBatch and Stop hook feedback. It waits up to five seconds for delivery. Turn completion, interruption, and hook outcomes settle pending steers as delivered, deferred, or cancelled. Tests exercise hook delivery and automatic child-completion delivery.
Orchestration, fallback, and cancellation
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnControlService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/NotificationMailbox.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/...
Dispatch selects steering or queue delivery from provider capabilities. Provider-turn control checks message and delegated-task state before handoff. The worker handles cancellation and deferred fallback. Stop and task updates cancel matching effects. Integration tests cover delivery modes, Stop races, and task-state changes. The MCP description documents boundary waiting and dispatch acceptance; its fixture configures non-interrupting steering.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant Orchestrator
  participant EffectWorker
  participant ClaudeAdapter
  participant ClaudeHook
  Agent->>Orchestrator: Send agent-authored message
  Orchestrator->>EffectWorker: Dispatch provider-turn steer
  EffectWorker->>ClaudeAdapter: Steer with currentness check
  ClaudeAdapter->>ClaudeHook: Wait for PostToolBatch or Stop
  ClaudeHook-->>ClaudeAdapter: Return resolved message text
  ClaudeAdapter-->>EffectWorker: Report delivery or deferral
  EffectWorker-->>Orchestrator: Complete steering or dispatch fallback
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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 0ced5

Agent messages to Claude now wait for a safe tool boundary and fall back to the queue after five seconds. Two edge cases remain open: a failing message resolver can delay other pending updates until they fall back to the queue, and a delivered steer can in rare races be reported as cancelled. Both are bounded and recoverable, and neither blocks the merge.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 0ced5

The delayed-delivery path affects cancellation and follow-up execution. The inspected controls preserve message ownership and existing permission handling, with no confirmed new security defect. Production handoff and crash-recovery behavior remain only partially demonstrated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected new handoff is scoped to persisted messages for a selected provider execution and its thread-local queued fallback. Hook consumption rejects subagent hooks, mismatched sessions or live queries, stopping queries, and interrupted turns; no broader target selection is introduced by the hook payload.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Agent-authored text enters additionalContext with an explicit other-agent label. Query construction continues to use the target runtime's permission mode, tool restrictions, and permission callback. Fallback copies persisted creation provenance rather than changing the message into human-originated input.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Stop and run interruption cancel unsettled steering; task acknowledgement or disposal can revoke message-scoped effects. Command receipts, state changes, and cancellation are committed together before cancellation signals are published. Fallback uses a stable command ID, and the worker checks durable cancellation and lease ownership during settlement.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Description check Warning The description follows the template's sections in spirit: it states the problem (interrupting steer cancels in-flight tools and produces a refusal-like STOP message), describes the change (boundary-w… Add the 'Scope and approval' section linking the triaged bug issue (for example #21895) or the discussion with explicit maintainer approval, including the approval comment. Add explicit '## Problem' and '## Change' headings matching the tem…
Passed Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check Passed The PR meets the coding requirements in [#21895]. ClaudeAdapterV2 advertises non-interrupting agent steering, waits for root PostToolBatch or Stop hooks, uses additionalContext, applies the fi…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within [#21895]. Contract fields, effect cancellation and ordering, delegated-completion handling, MCP metadata, and task-lifecycle logic directly support safe agent delivery and dura…
Title check Passed The title "fix(server): Claude follow-ups no longer interrupt tools" matches the main change. The PR makes Claude agent steering wait for a root PostToolBatch or Stop boundary, so it no longer interru…
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The PR meets the coding requirements in [#21895]. ClaudeAdapterV2 advertises non-interrupting agent steering, waits for root PostToolBatch or Stop hooks, uses additionalContext, applies the five-second bound, and defers attachments or unsafe outcomes to the durable queue. Orchestrator, ProviderTurnControlServiceV2, and EffectOutbox preserve ownership checks, ordering, cancellation, fallback, and delegated-task acknowledgement or disposal behavior. The reported adapter, integration, persistence, Stop, and task-lifecycle tests cover these paths. Other providers retain their existing behavior through the optional capability.

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The changes stay within [#21895]. Contract fields, effect cancellation and ordering, delegated-completion handling, MCP metadata, and task-lifecycle logic directly support safe agent delivery and durable fallback. The added tests verify these behaviors. No unrelated UI, transport, or provider feature is included.

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The title "fix(server): Claude follow-ups no longer interrupt tools" matches the main change. The PR makes Claude agent steering wait for a root PostToolBatch or Stop boundary, so it no longer interrupts running tools. The title uses a conventional commit format and is specific. It does not name the agent-message focus, and it describes the outcome rather than the mechanism, but it is clearly related to the primary change.

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The description follows the template's sections in spirit: it states the problem (interrupting steer cancels in-flight tools and produces a refusal-like STOP message), describes the change (boundary-wait delivery through native input, deferral to durable queue, Stop cancellation), and gives extensive verification (automated test counts, manual Haiku/CLI probes, web-client pass, and a note on what was not run). The Scope and approval section is not present: there is no linked issue or maintainer approval reference in the description. The objectives mention linked issue #21895 and a Juliusmarminge takeover comment, but the author's description does not cite them. The Problem section is also not separated under its own heading. The description also contains some detail that does not match the AI-generated summary of changes, such as 'native next input' and 'GPT-6.1 Sol', which the reviewer should check against the actual code.

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Add the 'Scope and approval' section linking the triaged bug issue (for example #21895) or the discussion with explicit maintainer approval, including the approval comment. Add explicit '## Problem' and '## Change' headings matching the template. Include reproduction steps or environment for the Claude interruption issue. Confirm that the verification notes cover the changed behavior with focused tests, and remove the unclear or unverified claims about model attribution if they are not accurate.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts: 1

565-654: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert delivery on the agent fallback path.

The changed test calls OrchestratorV2.dispatch directly and discards its result. It does not exercise the ThreadManagementService.sendToThread result returned to MCP callers.

The existing ThreadLaunchService.test.ts case uses explicit mode: "queue". It does not exercise agent auto or steer delivery when the active provider reports activeSteeringInterruptsTools. Add service-level cases for those modes and assert result.delivery === "queued".

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Queue agent-authored updates when the live provider session declares that
active steering interrupts tools. This covers automatic delivery and explicit
steer requests while preserving human steering and intentional restarts.

Explain the fallback in the MCP tool description and verify queued delivery,
human steering, and safe-provider steering through the orchestrator.

Co-Authored-By: GPT-6.1 Sol at high effort <noreply@openai.com>
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Run the steering safety cases through ThreadManagementService so they cover
the delivery result returned to MCP callers and subsequent queued-turn delivery.

Keep the upstream task-ownership regression on an explicitly safe native-steering
fixture, preserving its assertions while Claude agent messages use the queue.

Co-Authored-By: GPT-6.1 Sol at high effort <noreply@openai.com>
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Queue agent-authored updates when the live provider session declares that
active steering interrupts tools. This covers automatic delivery and explicit
steer requests while preserving human steering and intentional restarts.

Explain the fallback in the MCP tool description and exercise the real thread
send service to verify delivery results and subsequent queued-turn delivery.

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Queue agent-authored updates when the live provider session declares that
active steering interrupts tools. This covers automatic delivery and explicit
steer requests while preserving human steering and intentional restarts.

Explain the fallback in the MCP tool description and exercise the real thread
send service to verify delivery results and subsequent queued-turn delivery.

Upstream-PR: pingdotgg#21158
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Deliver Claude agent updates through root PostToolBatch and Stop hook context
without interrupting running tools. Defer to the durable next-turn queue after
five seconds without a boundary, or when the update contains attachments.

Let human steering and immediate controls pass a waiting boundary delivery.
Revoke pending updates on Stop and task disposal, and refresh completion
pointers when only part of a task cohort remains unacknowledged.

Keep native human steering and other providers' delivery behavior unchanged.
Exercise the real send service, hook adapter, outbox ordering and ownership
races with deterministic regression coverage.

Upstream-PR: pingdotgg#21158
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packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderAdapter.ts: 1

315-315: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Use a separate tagged error for queue deferral instead of the deferToQueue flag.

deferToQueue controls what happens next. When it is set, the caller requeues the message instead of treating the steer as failed. The repository rules say a field that drives control flow should be a separate error class. The deferral case also has no underlying failure. It still inherits the message "Failed to steer active run ...", which is misleading in logs and in any surfaced error text. A dedicated error such as ProviderAdapterSteerDeferredError would make the handler a plain catchTags branch and give the case an accurate message.

As per coding guidelines: "Split classes when the distinction drives control flow or the user-facing message; a field that only helps diagnostics stays a field."

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-    deferToQueue: Schema.optional(Schema.Boolean),
     cause: Schema.optional(Schema.Defect()),
export class ProviderAdapterSteerDeferredError extends Schema.TaggedError<ProviderAdapterSteerDeferredError>()(
  "ProviderAdapterSteerDeferredError",
  { driver: ProviderDriverKind, providerThreadId: ProviderThreadId, providerTurnId: ProviderTurnId },
) {
  override get message(): string {
    return `Steer for run ${this.providerTurnId} was deferred to the queue.`;
  }
}
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Replace the deferToQueue control-flow flag in the provider steer error with a
dedicated tagged error, such as ProviderAdapterSteerDeferredError, carrying the
relevant run identifiers and an accurate deferral message. Update the steer
handler to branch on the tagged error and requeue the message without treating
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Model cancellation and queue deferral as distinct tagged errors.

deliveryCancelled and deferToQueue drive control flow in EffectWorker.ts (lines 254-257). deliveryCancelled returns success. deferToQueue dispatches a queued follow-up. The worker detects both with "x" in error property probes. It does not use tags. The deliveryCancelled construction also has no cause and no fixed message.

Split these cases into dedicated Schema.TaggedError classes, for example ProviderTurnSteerCancelledError and ProviderTurnSteerDeferredError. Then handle them in the worker with Effect.catchTags.

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- Around line 8698-8704: Update the pending-steer resolution flow around
pendingSteers and context.pendingAgentSteers to handle resolveMessageText
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probing for properties, preserving success handling for cancellation and queued
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- Line 315: Replace the deferToQueue control-flow flag in the provider steer
error with a dedicated tagged error, such as ProviderAdapterSteerDeferredError,
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Deliver Claude agent updates through root PostToolBatch and Stop hook context
without interrupting running tools. Defer to the durable next-turn queue after
five seconds without a boundary, or when the update contains attachments.

Let human steering and immediate controls pass a waiting boundary delivery.
Revoke pending updates on Stop and task disposal, and refresh completion
pointers when only part of a task cohort remains unacknowledged.

Keep native human steering and other providers' delivery behavior unchanged.
Exercise the real send service, hook adapter, outbox ordering and ownership
races with deterministic regression coverage.

Upstream-PR: pingdotgg#21158
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Split the mirrored four-case steering test into one unsafe-queue case
(agent auto and explicit steer) and two controls (human steer on an
interrupting session, agent auto on a safe native session). Each case
goes through the real ThreadManagementService send path and drains the
effect worker; the queued case also proves the update arrives as the
next turn after the active one completes.

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Keeps the contributor's history and current main from its base, but
resolves production to the original PR's accepted behavior: an
agent-authored auto or explicit steer queues behind the active turn
when the live session's activeSteeringInterruptsTools is true.

Dropped from the rewrite: the supportsNonInterruptingAgentSteering
capability, Claude hook-boundary steer delivery with a five second
defer timer, deferToQueue/steeringFallbackOfRunId fallback plumbing,
outbox claim-order exceptions, Stop-time steer revocation, and the
global Claude fixture override in the MCP toolkit test. Agent updates
to a tool-interrupting session arrive as the next turn instead.

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Deliver Claude agent updates through root PostToolBatch and Stop hook context
without interrupting running tools. Defer to the durable next-turn queue after
five seconds without a boundary, or when the update contains attachments.

Let human steering and immediate controls pass a waiting boundary delivery.
Revoke pending updates on Stop and task disposal, and refresh completion
pointers when only part of a task cohort remains unacknowledged.

Keep native human steering and other providers' delivery behavior unchanged.
Exercise the real send service, hook adapter, outbox ordering and ownership
races with deterministic regression coverage.

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…mes the task result

Claude steering cancels running tools, so an agent update to a running
delegated child now queues. Cover the full path with a real delegated task:
the original task stays working while the queued update runs, then reports
the update's turn as its result.

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…on the person

A message sent to a thread with mode auto (t3_thread_send, t3 thread send)
always steered into a running turn. When that turn waited on the person's
answer to a question (AskUserQuestion) or an approval, steering aborted the
provider's pending permission callback; the Claude adapter then denies the
request, and the question disappeared before the person saw it
(#119).

sendToThread now loads the thread's runtime requests too, and in auto mode a
pending request makes the message queue behind the turn
(queue_after_active), the same pending-request test the orchestrator uses
before snoozing. An explicit steer or restart still goes into the turn. The
agent CLI guide says so.

On v0.1.3 the row applies as it is: sendToThread is byte-identical to
v0.1.2's, still loads runs and provider turns and still steers an `auto`
send into a steerable run, and no upstream path checks pending runtime
requests before steering (pingdotgg#21158 is still open).

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Label waiting messages as Pending messages and explain safe delivery in the web tooltip and mobile sheet. Add a sender-facing MCP delivery note while preserving existing delivery values and explicit queue behavior.

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Keep explicit queued messages waiting for later turns, and identify safe-boundary agent updates as pending from their persisted delivery marker. Preserve list ordering and controls, show both kinds in web and mobile, and distinguish their MCP receipt explanations.

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@juliusmarminge Feel free to cherry-pick or adapt any relevant commits from my fork if they help finish this PR. I have left your PR branch untouched.

  • 5fd9e2b makes agent-initiated queued-text promotions use safe boundary delivery.
  • 924b94e queues agent attachment updates, refuses unsafe attachment promotions without consuming the queued run, and adds cancellation context to native human/agent steers while preserving genuine denials and Stop.
  • 7641e88 closes the inherited hook claim-loss window while preserving mid-turn delivery. Offered messages retain their queued run until an exact native hook_additional_context transcript receipt arrives. Unconfirmed offers remain visible and cannot replay automatically; a person can resend or cancel them. A receipt confirms saved native history, not model comprehension or compliance.

These build on the fork's boundary-delivery implementation, so they may need adaptation to your queue-only version. The CLI's refusal text itself is unchanged. Slash-command steers omit the cancellation note, and its effect on model interpretation remains unverified.

Latest validation report: 615 tests passed, one tool-search settings failure reproduced with the identical assertion on the exact unchanged base, and one platform test skipped; six cross-file checks passed. Format, lint, knip, GraphQL, all 40 affected package typechecks, and React compiler checks passed. Independent source review was clean. Isolated SDK 0.3.284 / CLI 2.1.317 Haiku probes verified transcript receipts and native resume with an observational store. Paid behavior evals and real-client acceptance remain unrun.

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Preserve the existing agent queue guard and both sets of steering and task
tests while adapting the shared fixtures to current provider capabilities.

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Keep ordinary human and agent messages queued until Claude saves their native
next inputs. Fence Stop and replacement queries, retain uncertain offers, and
reserve their timeline positions before later provider output commits.

Recover exact saved receipts after interruption without replaying ambiguous
messages. Exercise concurrent mixed batches, delayed receipts, retries, Stop,
and original provider-turn ownership.

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This uses native next for ordinary human and agent updates, offered only while the root PostToolBatch hook blocks Claude. It avoids the interrupting steer that produced the misleading refusal text in the direct CLI/Haiku reproduction. Explicit Stop still stops work.

The handoff is provisional: T3 retains the original queued message until Claude saves the exact native UUID. The native insertion marker reserves timeline slots through the provider-event commit barrier, so a slow transcript mirror cannot place updates after the reply. Stop fences input production and requests cancelQueued; late saved receipts record history without reopening stopped or cancelled work. Ambiguous crash cases remain Unconfirmed for deliberate retry, never automatic replay.

Validation covered noisy 64-input CLI batches, a 40-input hook batch, attachments, late final-text messages, crashes before and after persistence, Stop, duplicate and delayed receipts, and a rendered 40-message human/agent sequence through reload. The pre-existing inline task-tool replay failure reproduced on unchanged b02602b; giving that fixture its missing temporary checkpoint workspace now passes the same assertions. Paid model behavior evals and native mobile acceptance remain unrun. A saved receipt means native history contains the input; it does not prove the model followed it.

Local checks resolved with 788 automated tests passing and six existing skips. The aggregate browser harness failed to connect before running its file; that file's three cases passed in isolation. Types, format/lint, dependency checks, GraphQL and React Compiler checks passed. Legacy recovery also recognizes the old saved batch wrapper while preserving exact-text matching and no-replay protection.

The follow-up wording keeps the measured tool instructions 24 bytes below main's budget; the budget and tool tests pass. The fork retains its additional context-policy guidance.

The later review also caught three transition defects, now corrected: service goal commands retain their active target; accepting a saved completion offers its reserved successor; and receipt commits preserve a checkpoint that completed concurrently. The service goal cases failed before the routing fix and pass afterward. The full completion files pass 39 source cases and 41 fork cases, including the checkpoint race and successor offer. Independent review of these corrections is clean.

The source follow-up passed the final changed-file check with 111 tests across six files and all selected type, format/lint, dependency and GraphQL checks. Upstream CI is green on 07750aa70b7791498962e70ea1f7785dbb91ceef.

The final fork port is now published on main as bcdf209f353, on the refreshed upstream nightly. Its exact-commit local validation receipt records fork checks, client evidence and remaining limits. No installed app has been changed.

Keep the native boundary and finished-child instructions while shortening the
thread-send description. The measured tool list is 24 bytes below main's limit.

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dispatchMode = { type: "queue_after_active" };
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P1 Badge Preserve the steer target for service goal commands

When t3_thread_send sends /goal clear to an active Claude goal, or /goal ... to replace it, in auto/steer mode, ThreadManagementService.sendToThread emits steer_active without deliveryIntent. Rewriting it here causes the later goal handler to find no target, since its queued case requires deliveryIntent, so it never sets goalStopRunId. Goal commands are excluded from boundary claims too, leaving the clear/replacement queued until the work it is meant to stop finishes; the same command from the client still interrupts. Preserve the original steer target or process goal commands before this fallback.

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Fixed in 07750aa. Supported goal commands bypass ordinary boundary fallback, preserving the active target for service sends without deliveryIntent. The existing cases now cover agent auto and steer, clear and replacement, plus no-goal controls. Four service cases failed before the fix; all nine cases pass afterward.

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Verify fallback deliveries finish pending tools before the next turn, including
human sends and queue promotions. Retire the ordinary-message fixture that
requires interrupting priority-now input; native boundaries and queued turns
have dedicated coverage.

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Use a scoped checkpoint workspace for the direct read-only replay case so it
cannot snapshot the contributor's checkout. Keep the read-only assertions.

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if (receipt !== undefined && queuedMessage.delegatedCompletion !== undefined) {
// Accept in the same commit: the cancelled queued run would otherwise
// read as a failed delivery and reserve a duplicate notification.
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P1 Badge Schedule successor completion deliveries after a boundary receipt

When a second app-owned child with completionWake: 'always' finishes after the first completion is offered but before its receipt arrives, this nested acceptance reserves a successor delivery and marks the second child claimed. However, dispatchWithReceiptEffect schedules successor offers only for a standalone notification.delivery.accept; the outer command here remains queued-message.promote-to-steer. The terminal listener cannot repair this because finalizeDelegatedCompletionDelivery rejects the cancelled first delivery once the cohort references its successor. This leaves the second result claimed without a queued message or continuation request. Schedule successor offers after the promotion commits, as the standalone acceptance path does.

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Fixed in 07750aa. Nested receipt acceptance now returns its parent ID through the promotion plan, and the postcommit path offers successor deliveries. The existing offer-A / complete-B / receipt-A regression now verifies B receives its own continuation request.

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P1 Badge Preserve the cohort-only merge guard for native receipts

If a delayed receipt is accepted while its parent is waiting for checkpoint capture, this call emits a full parent run.updated but discards the parent-run ID that standalone acceptance forwards as updateDelegatedCompletionOnlyRunId. CheckpointCaptureService.execute commits independently of the thread dispatch lock, so capture can complete between the acceptance read and commit. Without that guard, the receipt then overwrites the completed run with its stale waiting status and null checkpoint, potentially stranding the thread after the capture effect has already succeeded. Propagate the cohort-only merge marker through the promotion plan so receipt settlement preserves concurrent lifecycle changes.

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Fixed in 07750aa. The accepted parent ID reaches updateDelegatedCompletionOnlyRunId on the receipt commit. The same regression commits a completed checkpoint between receipt planning and commit, then verifies the completed status, timestamp and checkpoint survive alongside the new cohort.

Keep service goal commands targeted at the active turn before ordinary Claude
delivery falls back to the queue. Forward nested receipt acceptance metadata so
successor child completions are offered after commit and concurrent checkpoint
completion cannot be overwritten by a stale parent snapshot.

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const ThreadSendTool = Tool.make("t3_thread_send", {
description:
"Send a message to any thread. The target cannot run with broader modes than yours. `mode:'auto'` starts an idle thread, steers a running turn, or queues. `queue`: new turn. `steer`: mid-turn update. `restart`: interrupt and restart. A send to a finished child thread starts a fresh task and returns its `taskId`. In your reply, name it as its `link` verbatim.",
"Send within your modes. `auto`: start idle, steer running, or queue. Claude auto/steer follows its tool batch, or waits for the next turn after its last batch. `queue`: next turn. `steer`: mid-turn. `restart`: interrupt/restart. Sending to a finished child starts a new task and returns `taskId`. Use its `link` verbatim in your reply.",

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P1 Badge Run the required evals for the revised MCP send description

This changes the model-facing t3_thread_send description, but the commit explicitly records that paid behavior evals were not run. AGENTS.md requires the applicable evals whenever MCP descriptions change; the adapter and orchestration tests do not check whether agents still select the correct tool, preserve fresh-context intent, or use the returned link correctly with the rewritten guidance. Run the relevant evals/mcp-tool-use thread-send cases before shipping this change.

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This affects us every day. We run one orchestrator thread (Claude) with several delegated child agents. Any child's progress message to the parent closes the person's open AskUserQuestion popup mid-answer, so the answer is lost and the question has to be asked again. Today we're working around it by telling every child to send nothing until it finishes, which means losing useful mid-task signals.

#22870 ("messages from other threads no longer reset a pending question") looks like it covers the popup half of the same problem.

Could this be rebased onto main and get a review? Happy to test a nightly build with it and report back.

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