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fix(server): changing the permission mode no longer ends the running turn - #23082
Changing a thread's permission mode while the agent is working ends the turn that's running. For every provider that can't switch modes in place (Claude, Grok, Muse, Cursor, Pi, OpenCode 1.x, ACP agents), thread.runtime-mode.set detached the live provider session at once with "Runtime mode changed." That killed the process mid-turn, along with any background subagents and shells, and left approvals that were pending at the time stuck as running.
This is reachable from normal use: pick a new mode in the composer and then steer or queue a message while the agent is running, or have an agent call t3_thread_configure.
Change
A mode change now waits for the next turn instead of tearing the session down when the command lands.
The orchestrator no longer detaches sessions on thread.runtime-mode.set. That eager detach was the only thing applying a new mode for these providers, because turn start compared models but not modes.
ProviderSessionManager records the runtime mode each live session opened with. When a turn opens a session whose mode differs, and the provider can't switch in place, it restarts that session and resumes, the same release-then-resume the detach used to cause, but only between turns. Shared sessions that cannot switch modes in place reject the new turn before release, preserving other attached threads.
Restarting would still end background agents and commands, so it first checks hasPendingBackgroundWork. If work is still running, the turn is refused with a message to wait or press Stop. This matches the guard Claude model changes already get (fix(server): Claude model changes no longer kill running background agents #14726).
Buffered provider continuations reuse the live process so completed background output can drain before a new user turn applies the mode.
Providers that switch modes in place (Codex, OpenCode 2.x, Antigravity) are unchanged: their sessions were never detached.
Scope and approval
Addresses the runtime-mode path of #16000, which Julius triaged as the same process kill as #12694 on paths #14726 didn't cover. This PR covers only the runtime-mode trigger; the provider-instance and worktree-handoff triggers in that issue are left as they are.
It also removes the cause of #22957: a mode change no longer fails the run whose approvals are pending.
Verification
Blacksmith vp run check:changed github/main passed at fa5c9e75f1: format, lint, knip, GraphQL validation, affected typechecks, and 118 tests across 6 files.
Extended existing integration coverage for shared sessions and buffered provider continuations. Both regressions failed before their fixes and passed afterward. Active-turn, background-work, selection-restart, and Stop coverage passed.
Two independent reviewers approved the same head.
Playwright with system Chrome: switched Supervised to Auto during a Replay (dev) turn; generation remained active. This recording demonstrates the client interaction with replay. A live Claude background-work session was not exercised.
Original implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. Takeover fixes and verification: gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.
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A runtime mode change detached every session that cannot switch modes in place, which killed the running turn and its background work. The session now restarts at the next turn instead, and waits while background work is still running.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Permission-mode changes now preserve running turns and defer necessary session restarts. An unresolved concern remains that Claude background continuations can retain Full access after Supervised is selected; the delayed restriction needs disclosure or an action-blocking safeguard.
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Runtime-mode changes no longer trigger immediate provider-session detachment. The session manager records each session’s runtime mode and handles unsupported mode changes when a later turn opens a session.
Changes: Runtime mode session lifecycle
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Summary
Orchestration of runtime-mode updates apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
Runtime-mode updates no longer load provider context or use a separate session-detachment path. Provider and model selection detaches use the shared reason.
The manager records each session’s runtime mode. For unsupported mode changes, it can preserve the existing mode, reject opening for shared sessions or pending background work, or release the old session and continue opening.
Turn-start wiring and integration coverage apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SelectionRestart.integration.test.ts
Turn start and checkpoint rollback can preserve the session runtime mode. Integration tests cover changes during active turns, including continuations, background work, and shared sessions.
sequenceDiagram
participant TurnStart as ProviderTurnStartService
participant Sessions as ProviderSessionManagerV2
participant Session as Existing provider session
TurnStart->>Sessions: Open with requested runtime mode and preservation setting
Sessions->>Session: Compare recorded and requested runtime modes
Session-->>Sessions: Return pending-work status when checked
Sessions->>Session: Release with manual_shutdown when restart can proceed
pingdotgg/t3code#31322: Both changes handle runtime-mode differences across provider turns. This PR records the mode used to open a live session; #31322 records each run’s mode and restarts sessions for queued runs.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a4079
Changing the permission mode no longer ends the running turn. Shared sessions and sessions with background work are protected from being restarted. The rollback-during-active-turn concern predates this change and is worth a follow-up, but it does not block this PR.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:
- Around line 2160-2166: The restart path around releaseEntry must not release a
session shared by multiple provider threads when
supportsRuntimeModeSwitchInSession is false. Add a guard using
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Merged main with a merge commit, no rebase. One conflict in ProviderSessionManager.ts: main now calls releaseForLinkedEnvironments before reading the session entry. The merge keeps that call first, then runs this PR's runtime-mode restart guard on the re-read entry. No other code changed. vp run check:changed passed, and SelectionRestart.integration.test.ts plus ProviderSessionManager.test.ts pass (68 tests). The live verification below was done on fa5c9e75f1 before this merge.
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Rollback now opens the session with preserveRuntimeMode, so after a permission-mode change it reuses the live session and does not release it. The next user turn applies the new mode.
A failed hasPendingBackgroundWork probe now blocks the mode-change restart, the same way Orchestrator.ts and releaseForLinkedEnvironments handle it.
Not changed: CodeRabbit's note that a Claude background wake still runs under the old mode. Deferring the restart to the next user turn is what keeps the running turn alive, so wakes before that turn use the live process's mode. Closing that gap needs an in-session mode switch for Claude, which is out of scope here.
Verified in a real dev environment
Verified unchanged head fa5c9e75f1f18f50abca5d742bcadcb41c19dcfe on Linux with Playwright, system Chrome, the real dev web client/server, and real provider turns through the local proxy. Created the project and threads through the app, pointing at a real git repository. No mocks or replay provider.
Reproduced on github/main (575579d68a): while Claude Haiku 5.5 ran a 90-second command, changed Full access to Supervised and clicked Steer message. The session detached with Runtime mode changed. and the original run failed with an unexpectedly closed provider stream.
Repeated on this head: the original command stayed running, accepted the steer, and completed with MODE_TURN_COMPLETED. The next turn requested file-write approval under Supervised; approving it created the requested file.
Started a real Claude background command, changed modes, and sent another message. The new turn was refused with the background-work guard; the command survived, finished with exit code 0, and its provider continuation reached the client. Retrying afterward returned RETRY_AFTER_BACKGROUND_OK.
Codex gpt-6.1-sol completed its real command after the same mode change and steer. Stop interrupted a later approval-pending turn, and a following turn returned STOP_RECOVERY_OK. A transient answer-delivery warning appeared during that stop; recovery succeeded.
Blacksmith: vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SelectionRestart.integration.test.ts passed all 12 tests. The head has 33 successful CI checks. No source changes were needed.
Native mobile and Electron clients, macOS/Windows, remote/relay/tunnel connections, and other provider adapters were not exercised. Shared-provider-session rejection was covered by the existing integration tests, not a live shared provider. Pi discovered the proxy model but its real turn returned upstream empty-response errors after three retries, so no Pi behavior is claimed. The separate provider-instance and worktree-handoff paths are outside this PR.
The active-turn/approval regression is fixed in our local 0.1.7-derived backport of this PR. Tested upstream head fa5c9e75f1f18f50abca5d742bcadcb41c19dcfe; local source 7decd9830e465ba3033ab2d979f4caa59b700dbb, based on T3 v0.1.7 (322f6544…) plus our existing local patches. This is not a clean stock build or a production-activation claim.
Before/after proof:
On the pre-backport 0.1.7-derived build, changing mode while an approval was pending removed the running provider session and failed the regression.
On the candidate, actual Pi 1.5.0 RPC, with an offline synthetic extension, kept the original session/turn/approval alive through the change. Nothing was auto-approved. Explicitly answering the original approval completed the turn; subsequent turns resumed native history and used the requested modes (Supervised → Full access → Supervised). All three turns completed.
Tests used fresh synthetic state, loopback-only networking and hidden build source; no production credentials, model inference or live user conversation was used.
Focused restart/session/start/Stop/policy/Pi tests, scoped server typecheck and backend build pass. The pending cold-Pi rollback fix remains intact and its native regression passes. Aggregate check:changed is not fully green: auxiliary-workspace dependency/knip/typecheck failures remain; scoped server checks pass.
One explicit local deviation: the new background-work probe fails closed on an error, rather than treating an unreadable probe as no background work (catchCause returns true, not false). That adjustment has its own red/green test and is separate from the active-approval fix demonstrated above.
The combined artifact is prepared and tested; our production service has not been restarted or activated with it. Verification is native Pi protocol coverage with synthetic input, not authenticated model/tool end-to-end coverage or a claim that all stale historical approvals are repaired.
Posted with GPT-6.1 Sol through Pi in T3 Code, at the user's request.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:
- Line 2443: Update the Effect.catchCause fallback in the
hasPendingBackgroundWork probe to return true on failure, so a failed probe
prevents releaseEntry from ending the provider process; preserve the existing
behavior when the probe succeeds.
- Line 178: Update the rollback path controlled by preserveRuntimeMode so a mode
change does not release or restart a live session while a Claude turn is active.
Preserve the provider’s existing active-turn and background-work safeguards, and
establish that rollback can be rejected without interrupting the session.
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- Around line 795-797: Update the provider continuation handling associated with
preserveRuntimeMode so a Claude background wake cannot silently act under a
stale permission mode: prevent further actions until a new user turn applies the
changed policy, or clearly disclose the limitation to the user while the old
mode remains active.
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Supported by static analysis
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#!/bin/bash# Find all callers of the session manager's open and check whether they pass preserveRuntimeMode.
rg -nP --type=ts -C4 '\b(sessions|providerSessions)\s*\.open\(' apps/server/src -g '!**/*.test.ts'
rg -nP --type=ts 'ProviderSessionBackgroundWorkBlocksModeChangeError' apps packages
#!/bin/bash
nl -ba apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts | sed -n '11820,11890p'
nl -ba apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts | sed -n '1035,1170p'
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
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Keep rollback from restarting a live session to apply a mode change.
If a Claude turn is active after a mode change, rollback can release the session and fail the turn before Claude can reject the rollback. Keep the live session while preserving the provider’s active-turn and background-work safeguards.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts at
line 178:
Update the rollback path controlled by preserveRuntimeMode so a mode change does
not release or restart a live session while a Claude turn is active. Preserve
the provider’s existing active-turn and background-work safeguards, and
establish that rollback can be rejected without interrupting the session.
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Disclose the old permission mode during Claude wake continuations.
After a change from Full access to Supervised, a Claude background wake can still use the live query’s Full access policy and run tools without approval. The continuation receives the new policy, but Claude retains the old one.
Surface this limitation to the user until a new user turn can apply the change, or prevent the wake from taking further actions under the old mode.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts
around lines 795 - 797:
Update the provider continuation handling associated with preserveRuntimeMode so
a Claude background wake cannot silently act under a stale permission mode:
prevent further actions until a new user turn applies the changed policy, or
clearly disclose the limitation to the user while the old mode remains active.
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Major · Block file restoration while the turn is active. · CheckpointRollbackService.ts:287
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.ts:287 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Block file restoration while the turn is active.
After a mode change, the session can remain active. If runsToRollback is empty, rollback skips session.rollbackThread and can restore files while the agent modifies them. This path also existed without a mode change.
Reject or defer file restoration while the run is active. Add a regression test for the empty runsToRollback case.
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Update the rollback flow around runsToRollback so file restoration is rejected
or deferred whenever the run is active, including when runsToRollback is empty
and session.rollbackThread is skipped. Add a regression test for the empty-runs
case that verifies files are not restored while the run remains active.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:
- Line 2443: Add a mode-change regression test for when hasPendingBackgroundWork
defects during its probe. Assert that the mode change is rejected and the
session remains open, preserving the existing fail-closed behavior.
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- Line 287: Update the rollback flow around runsToRollback so file restoration
is rejected or deferred whenever the run is active, including when
runsToRollback is empty and session.rollbackThread is skipped. Add a regression
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The mode-change test only uses successful probes. Add a case where hasPendingBackgroundWork defects, and assert that the mode change is rejected and the session stays open. This protects the fail-closed behavior from regressions.
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Add a mode-change regression test for when hasPendingBackgroundWork defects
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remains open, preserving the existing fail-closed behavior.
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Problem
Changing a thread's permission mode while the agent is working ends the turn that's running. For every provider that can't switch modes in place (Claude, Grok, Muse, Cursor, Pi, OpenCode 1.x, ACP agents),
thread.runtime-mode.setdetached the live provider session at once with "Runtime mode changed." That killed the process mid-turn, along with any background subagents and shells, and left approvals that were pending at the time stuck as running.This is reachable from normal use: pick a new mode in the composer and then steer or queue a message while the agent is running, or have an agent call
t3_thread_configure.Change
A mode change now waits for the next turn instead of tearing the session down when the command lands.
thread.runtime-mode.set. That eager detach was the only thing applying a new mode for these providers, because turn start compared models but not modes.ProviderSessionManagerrecords the runtime mode each live session opened with. When a turn opens a session whose mode differs, and the provider can't switch in place, it restarts that session and resumes, the same release-then-resume the detach used to cause, but only between turns. Shared sessions that cannot switch modes in place reject the new turn before release, preserving other attached threads.hasPendingBackgroundWork. If work is still running, the turn is refused with a message to wait or press Stop. This matches the guard Claude model changes already get (fix(server): Claude model changes no longer kill running background agents #14726).Buffered provider continuations reuse the live process so completed background output can drain before a new user turn applies the mode.
Providers that switch modes in place (Codex, OpenCode 2.x, Antigravity) are unchanged: their sessions were never detached.
Scope and approval
Addresses the runtime-mode path of #16000, which Julius triaged as the same process kill as #12694 on paths #14726 didn't cover. This PR covers only the runtime-mode trigger; the provider-instance and worktree-handoff triggers in that issue are left as they are.
It also removes the cause of #22957: a mode change no longer fails the run whose approvals are pending.
Verification
vp run check:changed github/mainpassed atfa5c9e75f1: format, lint, knip, GraphQL validation, affected typechecks, and 118 tests across 6 files.Original implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. Takeover fixes and verification: gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.