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fix(server): reap recorded Linux Claude survivors before recovery - #22834
On main at 1688f96568, killing the backend during two foreground Claude sleep 120 turns leaves the CLIs alive after restart, while recovery marks their runs cancelled and starts continuation. The existing systemd slice cleanup handles hosts with a user manager; a Linux server without one still leaks the original agents.
Validation: 226 scoped tests passed; server typecheck and formatting passed. Scoped lint passed with one pre-existing unused-variable warning. The three initial regression tests failed against main before implementation. Independent Codex GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 code reviews both returned MERGE with no confirmed findings. Codex independently ran 229 focused tests across five files. Both proof audits returned SUFFICIENT for the documented Linux scope.
Not implemented or verified: macOS and Windows process groups. Unverified: desktop-bundled Linux server. Systemd-enabled runtime transcript confirms both Claude CLIs and all recorded scope members are gone after restart, with systemd cleanup logged before recovery. In that comparison Codex had an active sleep before SIGKILL; its CLI and tool processes exited before restart. The first baseline did not capture Codex foreground tool startup.
Runtime covers 3/7 matrix rows; 6/7 have accepted runtime/scoped evidence, with R7 an explicit exclusion. Pass-1 proof audit returned SUFFICIENT and independently passed 213 tests in 2 files. The code reviewer independently passed 229 tests in 5 files; the initial implementation passed 226 scoped tests. These are separate runs. Both round-1 code reviewers returned MERGE with no confirmed findings. Pass-2 proof audit returned SUFFICIENT and independently rebuilt the ownership fixture: 1 passed, 9 skipped by name filter. Packaging did not rerun tests or recapture app sessions.
Existing committed fixtures fulfill scoped rows; no additional seeding data is needed. App setup follows the UI procedure in the index. The evidence packaging added no implementation changes or committed logs/assets/plans.
Verification
Adds a Linux Claude process ledger, an execution gate that records the child before the CLI runs, and startup reconciliation before recovery. Cleanup checks the boot ID and process start identity, preserves live owners and unmatched PIDs, and signals only recorded survivors. Systemd cleanup now runs at startup too.
After: runtime transcript at bc74467048. Recorded Claude PIDs 53331 and 53871 were gone after restart; original runs were cancelled and continuation runs started. Bash/sleep descendants were present at the post-restart sample; this change stops the recorded CLIs, not arbitrary grandchildren. Node retains an identity-read-to-signal race without pidfds. Pre-upgrade survivors without ledger records are not cleaned up.
Model and harness: GPT-6.1-Sol through Codex in T3 Code.
Before: 1688f96568, full SHA 1688f965682d331da16a8c39f049592361f69c8d (pinned merge-base). After: bc74467048, full SHA bc7446704898fbdd19e25542f0924e0472e9f655.
Existing primary captures: Linux x86_64 source dev server, real provider CLIs, real browser on localhost:6475, backend localhost:14515. Explicit isolated homes with T3CODE_HOME unset; no-systemd branch also unsets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Full command/UI procedure and exact homes are in the index. No UI rendering changed; screenshots, DPR, theme and viewport comparisons do not apply under the server-only override.
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R1 no-systemd Claude
Baseline: backend 20934; Claude 22811/23324 survive restart.
After: backend 51528; Claude 53331/53871 absent after restart.
Pre-recovery ordering is proved by scoped production-layer subprocess test plus server wiring, not by runtime sample timing.
macOS, Windows, desktop-bundled Linux and every-provider launch compatibility unverified.
What else changed: Linux Claude CLI launch gate/identity ledger and startup cleanup order. Visible cancellation and continuation behavior remains unchanged in the crash captures. Bash/sleep descendants remain at the no-systemd post-restart sample; their later exit was not observed. Arbitrary-grandchild cleanup and pre-upgrade unrecorded survivors are excluded; the identity-read-to-signal race remains without pidfds. Codex has no adapter change. No UI changes.
Raw dev logs contain pairing credentials and were not uploaded. Only existing selected/redacted public transcripts are linked. No new servers/browsers were launched and no new server cleanup was needed.
Evidence packaged by GPT-6.1-Sol through Codex in T3 Code; runtime captures were supplied by the primary agent.
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fix(server): reap recorded Claude survivors before crash recovery
fix(server): reap recorded Linux Claude survivors before recovery
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Context.Reference supplies {} when this service is missing, so consumers can acquire ProviderProcesses without a layer and silently skip Linux launch registration. This hides a production service dependency from the layer types. Could you use a required Context.Service tag with the interface inline, and provide an explicit no-op implementation for non-Linux hosts in layer?
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change records Linux Claude processes and cleans up survivors before recovery, but adds a diagnostic suppression that requires human review. An unresolved concern also remains about tool descendants continuing to execute after PID-only cleanup.
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Walkthrough
The server now tracks provider-process ownership on Linux and attempts to recover matching processes from dead server instances. Agent-scope startup uses live-owner status when handling leftover scopes. Non-Windows Claude SDK launches register provider processes before execution and unregister them on exit.
Changes: Provider process lifecycle
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Ownership records and restart recovery apps/server/src/process/providerProcesses.ts, apps/server/src/process/providerProcesses.test.ts
The Linux-only service records provider ownership and detects live owners. For dead owners, it attempts to terminate recorded provider processes whose process identities match. Tests exercise cleanup and owner/process identity cases.
Agent-scope startup and stale-scope handling apps/server/src/process/agentScope.ts, apps/server/src/process/agentScope.test.ts
Agent-scope startup waits for the provider-process layer. It skips stopping leftover scopes when another live owner exists. Tests check leftover cleanup, scope assignments, and the live-owner case.
Managed Claude process launches apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAgentSdkQueryRunner.test.ts
Non-Windows Claude launches register the child PID before releasing the launch gate. Setup failures kill the child, and process exit triggers unregistering. The test checks registration ordering and cleanup.
sequenceDiagram
participant ServerStartup
participant ProviderProcesses
participant AgentScope
participant ClaudeAdapterV2
participant ClaudeProcess
ServerStartup->>ProviderProcesses: Initialize ownership records and recover matching processes
ProviderProcesses-->>AgentScope: Provide live-owner status
AgentScope->>AgentScope: Skip leftover cleanup when another live owner exists
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ProviderProcesses: Register child PID
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ClaudeProcess: Release launch gate
ClaudeProcess-->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Exit
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ProviderProcesses: Unregister process
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Recorded Claude CLI survivors are now reaped at startup before recovery, and the existing watcher already kills the process group when the server dies. Restart cleanup itself kills only the CLI leader, so tool subprocesses could remain in rare cases where the watcher did not run. Merge risk is low; consider signaling the matched leader's process group in the reaper as a follow-up.
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The title "fix(server): reap recorded Linux Claude survivors before recovery" matches the main change. The diff adds a Linux Claude process ledger and launch gate, and startup reconciliation that reap…
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The description follows the template sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. It explains the leaked Claude agents after a backend crash, the ledger and startup cleanup approach, and the sc…
Linked Issues check
Issue #15357 is closed. It supplies historical context only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply to this pull request.
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The previous FAIL cited unrelated Claude behavior changes in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts. The whole-pull-request diff against the merge base 5f85768 no longer contains them. The only change in ClaudeAdapter…
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The title "fix(server): reap recorded Linux Claude survivors before recovery" matches the main change. The diff adds a Linux Claude process ledger and launch gate, and startup reconciliation that reaps recorded survivors before run recovery. It is a conventional commit title in plain language and stays concise.
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The description follows the template sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. It explains the leaked Claude agents after a backend crash, the ledger and startup cleanup approach, and the scoped tests. It gives before/after runtime evidence and states the limits: macOS, Windows, and desktop-bundled Linux are unverified, and pre-upgrade survivors are not cleaned up. Its main weakness is density. The Scope section links issue #15357 but does not clearly say whether it is a triaged bug fix, and the Verification section relies on many external links and matrix details that a reviewer must follow to check the claims. The description is still mostly complete.
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The previous FAIL cited unrelated Claude behavior changes in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts. The whole-pull-request diff against the merge base 5f85768 no longer contains them. The only change in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts is the process launch path: a fourth-pipe launch gate, a fifth-pipe lifetime signal, a register callback for the spawned PID, and wiring of ProviderProcesses into layerQueryRunner. These changes support the process-ledger and startup-reaping objective for the crash scenario in #15357. The remaining files (providerProcesses.ts, agentScope.ts, and their tests) were assessed from the change summary only. Their summary describes process ownership, startup cleanup, and matching tests, which fit the same scope.
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Line 52 and Line 109 call Effect.die(new Error(...)).
Line 122 throws new Error(...).
The synchronous calls on lines 41, 53, 70 and 81 run without Effect.try. A missing /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id or an EACCES on stateDir therefore crashes layer acquisition with an untyped error.
Startup fails in each case, and logs or callers get no structured stage or path. Define Schema.TaggedError classes with bounded attributes. Examples: ProviderOwnerIdentityError, and ProviderSurvivorReapError with pid and recordPath. Construct each error at the failing step. Wrap the filesystem calls with Effect.try.
As per coding guidelines: "Failures are Schema.TaggedError classes with structured attributes: the operation or stage, the resource path or entity id..." and "Construct the error where the failure happens".
Also applies to: 109-109, 121-123
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/process/providerProcesses.ts around lines 41
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Replace plain Error defects and throws in the provider startup flow with
Schema.TaggedError classes carrying bounded structured context, including the
failing stage and resource path or PID; define errors such as
ProviderOwnerIdentityError and ProviderSurvivorReapError as appropriate.
Construct each typed error at the failure site, including owner identity and
survivor reaping failures. Wrap synchronous filesystem operations around boot ID
loading, state-directory creation, and related calls in Effect.try so failures
become typed errors with operation/path context rather than untyped
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- Around line 102-106: Update the survivor cleanup in the process-restart flow
to kill the recorded process group when ownership is verified: use the live
identity for survivor.pid and group signaling only when survivor.pgid equals
survivor.pid and the live pgid also matches; otherwise retain the single-PID
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/process/providerProcesses.ts:
- Around line 41-53: Replace plain Error defects and throws in the provider
startup flow with Schema.TaggedError classes carrying bounded structured
context, including the failing stage and resource path or PID; define errors
such as ProviderOwnerIdentityError and ProviderSurvivorReapError as appropriate.
Construct each typed error at the failure site, including owner identity and
survivor reaping failures. Wrap synchronous filesystem operations around boot ID
loading, state-directory creation, and related calls in Effect.try so failures
become typed errors with operation/path context rather than untyped
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Kill the recorded survivor's process group, not only the leader PID.
spawnClaudeProcessGroup spawns the CLI with detached: true, so the CLI leads its own process group. Its tool subprocesses (Bash commands, MCP servers) join that group. During normal operation, the exit handler kills the whole group with signalProcessGroup. Restart cleanup has no equivalent. Line 103 sends SIGKILL to survivor.pid only. The CLI's descendants then move to init and keep running in the worktree. That is the duplicate-work state this PR is meant to prevent on hosts without systemd. The record stores pgid, but no code reads it.
Signaling the group is safe here. Line 98 has just confirmed that the leader is alive and that its startTime matches the record. While the leader exists, the kernel cannot give that PGID to a new group. Use the group only when the recorded pgid equals survivor.pid and the live identity still reports the same pgid. Otherwise, use the current single-PID signal. This still never infers ownership from group membership alone: the matched leader proves the group's identity.
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--- "a/apps/server/src/process/providerProcesses.ts"+++ "b/apps/server/src/process/providerProcesses.ts"@@ -99,11 +99,17 @@
// Never infer ownership from argv, executable names, or group membership.
// As in the ACP controller, starttime blocks reuse between observations.
// Node has no pidfd_send_signal, so the final read-to-signal race remains.
try {
- controller.signalProcess(survivor.pid, "SIGKILL");+ const live = identity(survivor.pid);+ if (live !== undefined && survivor.pgid === survivor.pid && live.pgid === survivor.pid) {+ // The matched leader pins the PGID, so the group cannot be a reused one.+ process.kill(-survivor.pid, "SIGKILL");+ } else {+ controller.signalProcess(survivor.pid, "SIGKILL");+ }
} catch (cause) {
if (matches(survivor)) return yield* Effect.die(cause);
}
for (let attempt = 0; matches(survivor); attempt++) {
if (attempt === 100) {
return yield* Effect.die(new Error("Recorded provider survived restart cleanup"));
A test with a fixture that starts a grandchild in its own group would cover this case.
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Update the survivor cleanup in the process-restart flow to kill the recorded
process group when ownership is verified: use the live identity for survivor.pid
and group signaling only when survivor.pgid equals survivor.pid and the live
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Thanks for the thorough work and evidence. #23389 (5ffe045931) already stops the Claude process group when its server dies, including Linux without systemd. Could you cut this down to the remaining startup-ordering and shared-owner safety work? Main’s watcher can still be waiting up to five seconds to force-kill the old group while recovery proceeds, and its systemd slice cleanup does not check for another live server using the same home. Please preserve the existing watcher rather than replacing its crash cleanup.
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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.
On each commit, start an isolated server, add a synthetic project, and start two Claude threads requesting foreground sleep 120. Observe tool results and process identities. Both threads on both commits received 'Error: Blocked: standalone sleep 120.' No foreground sleeps started, so backend SIGKILL and restart were not attempted. All started servers were stopped and both worktrees removed.
Reaping logs and keeps the record for the next start instead of dying,
matching how a failed slice stop is handled. The reaping test moves to
providerProcesses.test.ts and also asserts that a live owner is seen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run two real Claude Haiku foreground waiters in a fresh isolated Linux server home. Confirm tool execution and CLI identities, SIGKILL only the backend, immediately restart, and compare original process identities with persisted recovery cancellation. Release waiters and inspect markers separately.
The ordinary crash comparison reproduced on all three base runs and passed on all three head runs. The live-owner production-layer comparison reproduced twice per side. The supplemental command uses the real production layer, ledger, systemd manager, and agents belonging to a running real server; it bypasses no ownership lock and mocks no services.
Launch-gate recording: after registration, a deliberate 250 ms hold shows dash blocked reading fd 0, which points to the same pipe as fd 4; releasing the gate permits real Claude execution. This delayed run is separate from the three ordinary comparisons.
Two complete servers could not run concurrently against one home: the existing ownership lock rejects the second before the new guards execute. The guards were instead exercised through actual production-layer acquisition while the first real server and its Claude agents remained alive.
PID reuse, malformed or foreign-host records, registration failures, and unkillable processes were not injected in these runtime captures.
Arbitrary unrecorded descendant cleanup is not established. Script markers were sampled separately and are not treated as proof of the ledger's CLI guarantee.
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Problem
Addresses #15357.
Change
On main at 1688f96568, killing the backend during two foreground Claude
sleep 120turns leaves the CLIs alive after restart, while recovery marks their runs cancelled and starts continuation. The existing systemd slice cleanup handles hosts with a user manager; a Linux server without one still leaks the original agents.Scope and approval
Fixes #15357
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow.
Validation: 226 scoped tests passed; server typecheck and formatting passed. Scoped lint passed with one pre-existing unused-variable warning. The three initial regression tests failed against main before implementation. Independent Codex GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 code reviews both returned MERGE with no confirmed findings. Codex independently ran 229 focused tests across five files. Both proof audits returned SUFFICIENT for the documented Linux scope.
Not implemented or verified: macOS and Windows process groups. Unverified: desktop-bundled Linux server. Systemd-enabled runtime transcript confirms both Claude CLIs and all recorded scope members are gone after restart, with systemd cleanup logged before recovery. In that comparison Codex had an active sleep before SIGKILL; its CLI and tool processes exited before restart. The first baseline did not capture Codex foreground tool startup.
Runtime covers 3/7 matrix rows; 6/7 have accepted runtime/scoped evidence, with R7 an explicit exclusion. Pass-1 proof audit returned SUFFICIENT and independently passed 213 tests in 2 files. The code reviewer independently passed 229 tests in 5 files; the initial implementation passed 226 scoped tests. These are separate runs. Both round-1 code reviewers returned MERGE with no confirmed findings. Pass-2 proof audit returned SUFFICIENT and independently rebuilt the ownership fixture: 1 passed, 9 skipped by name filter. Packaging did not rerun tests or recapture app sessions.
Existing committed fixtures fulfill scoped rows; no additional seeding data is needed. App setup follows the UI procedure in the index. The evidence packaging added no implementation changes or committed logs/assets/plans.
Verification
Adds a Linux Claude process ledger, an execution gate that records the child before the CLI runs, and startup reconciliation before recovery. Cleanup checks the boot ID and process start identity, preserves live owners and unmatched PIDs, and signals only recorded survivors. Systemd cleanup now runs at startup too.
Evidence: baseline reproduction, PID transcript.
After: runtime transcript at bc74467048. Recorded Claude PIDs 53331 and 53871 were gone after restart; original runs were cancelled and continuation runs started. Bash/sleep descendants were present at the post-restart sample; this change stops the recorded CLIs, not arbitrary grandchildren. Node retains an identity-read-to-signal race without pidfds. Pre-upgrade survivors without ledger records are not cleaned up.
Model and harness: GPT-6.1-Sol through Codex in T3 Code.
Evidence
Standalone evidence index · Accepted seven-row matrix / pass-1 proof audit
Before: 1688f96568, full SHA
1688f965682d331da16a8c39f049592361f69c8d(pinned merge-base). After: bc74467048, full SHAbc7446704898fbdd19e25542f0924e0472e9f655.Existing primary captures: Linux x86_64 source dev server, real provider CLIs, real browser on
localhost:6475, backendlocalhost:14515. Explicit isolated homes withT3CODE_HOMEunset; no-systemd branch also unsetsXDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Full command/UI procedure and exact homes are in the index. No UI rendering changed; screenshots, DPR, theme and viewport comparisons do not apply under the server-only override.What else changed: Linux Claude CLI launch gate/identity ledger and startup cleanup order. Visible cancellation and continuation behavior remains unchanged in the crash captures. Bash/sleep descendants remain at the no-systemd post-restart sample; their later exit was not observed. Arbitrary-grandchild cleanup and pre-upgrade unrecorded survivors are excluded; the identity-read-to-signal race remains without pidfds. Codex has no adapter change. No UI changes.
Raw dev logs contain pairing credentials and were not uploaded. Only existing selected/redacted public transcripts are linked. No new servers/browsers were launched and no new server cleanup was needed.
Evidence packaged by GPT-6.1-Sol through Codex in T3 Code; runtime captures were supplied by the primary agent.