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fix(server): let parents recover their delegated children across accounts - #30457
An Auto parent cannot switch accounts or resume its own Full-access delegated child after that child stops at an exhausted account. Both MCP calls refuse with runtime_mode_escalation_denied, leaving the thread and its context stranded.
Allow configure, send and send-with-attachments to use an owned direct child's existing runtime mode. Ownership requires both subagent lineage and the parent's persisted delegation record. The allowance stops at the child's captured mode; interaction limits, organization ceilings, link boundaries and other-target checks remain. This deliberately narrows #16335's runtime restriction for owned children.
Scope and approval
This is a focused repair of the existing configure-and-resume workflow in #30408. Maria independently reproduced the failure and verified this recovery path. Only the parent's persisted direct children qualify, at their existing runtime mode; it adds no right to create broader-mode children or control other threads. This narrow exception repairs the blocked account-recovery path. It deliberately changes #16335's runtime boundary. Prior approval of that policy choice is not claimed; maintainer acceptance remains required.
Verification
Head c562ab7118ef938d64e24f34ffd43a7bc98b7127 integrates main c266631bde2a77e4c5bb52f0e56a115af205889f. The only merge conflict was the generated tool-list budget, remeasured as 48123 bytes. The PR remains 12 files, +335/-22.
At this head, seven focused files passed 163 tests and the server typecheck passed. vp run check:changed origin/main passed with 174 tests in nine files and three package typechecks. Check result, check output, independent integration review. Required CI passes. CodeRabbit reviewed this exact head with no actionable code comments and minimal merge risk. Its request for maintainer acceptance of the runtime-boundary policy change remains disclosed above; no approval is claimed.
The primary agent ran vp run scenarios:prove on Linux x64 with Chromium 156.0.8078.4 against base c266631bde2a77e4c5bb52f0e56a115af205889f and head c562ab7118ef938d64e24f34ffd43a7bc98b7127. It exited 0: base reached the real runtime_mode_escalation_denied refusal and failed the expected recovery assertion; head passed. The browser selects Auto in the composer before the parent calls its own scoped MCP configure/send/wait. The same child completes its second run on fixture B, retaining Full/default and its original direct lineage. The owner CLI only creates initial state and reads results. Runtime proof and persisted state. Independent proof audit.
Base c266631bde refuses
Head c562ab7118 recovers
The existing child shows its A conversation, context handoff and B reply:
Continuous web recordings show the composer permission change, send trigger and result. Initial setup and pairing were trimmed, with no splices or speed changes; WEBM was transcoded to MP4 without audio. Base includes the assertion's wait after refusal. Head also opens the recovered child; its screenshot above shows the B reply while the client is syncing messages, and the persisted run is completed.
c562-web-base.mp4c562-web-head.mp4
Only the ACP provider protocol is simulated, as two local fixture instances. Server, per-thread MCP authorization, delegation, orchestration, persistence and web client are real. This fresh scenario covers text recovery of a completed child; it does not refresh the older attachment or refusal-control captures below. Current-main assessment found the unconditional guard still present, assessed the inherited provider-switch/completion/ACP changes exercised by this run, and found no new Windows-specific recovery change requiring another native run. Later main through d835e430dbc2863fb5bd9f2c76456e4773b0e0ef adds a generated-title guard, local file-opening fixes, and question-answer submission fixes. None changes the recovery authorization. The scenario has no pending question, so ordinary provider-turn submission keeps its prior guards. A subsequent main commit, fd9b2c3eaabd72e852e068c9d41c467e07c11ee1, changes cancellation of background-only delegated tasks. Its optional cancellation marker is absent from this recovery flow; the scenario never cancels a task or starts background work. Cancellation races were not tested here. Historical Windows and real-provider evidence retain their original attribution.
Maria verified unchanged b386e12be859c2490a250ae45a7e3b5a1cdead8e in the real Linux dev web client with real Codex turns. Main d756fed7aaac06134bc68cbe0047e6f14b0e9aa2 refused; that head switched the same child to B, continued with its original code word, completed a follow-up and delivered an uploaded file. Both instances used the same proxy-backed credentials, so this does not establish distinct paid-account authentication or real quota recovery. Her 186 focused tests belong to b386, separately from the current-head checks above.
Windows captures below were tested on head 7a5a23d83bdba049b3dc5e5c17ad3ca52069044b against main 20c3dd3689782bfcb1a04332086d08017028c718 on 2026-11-10.
Windows report, runtime transcript, and 32 assertions with source provenance: main refuses configure, text send and attachment send. The head switches the existing child from fixture A to B and completes child runs 4 and 5 on B. Full/default modes, direct ownership and lineage remain. The actual B input contains the original user and assistant history and the exact uploaded image. New Full-access children and unrelated Full-access targets remain refused. The Plan/default interaction boundary is covered by the access-table test.
Windows 11 Pro ARM64 build 26200, native Electron client 0.1.7 at source 77b21515c5404bcc143e51c0ae1c99530f200b99. Both phases load the same 7a5a23d83bdba049b3dc5e5c17ad3ca52069044b web assets and connect to real isolated main/head servers through loopback forwarding. Only the provider process is an ACP protocol fixture. MCP authorization, delegation, routing, context handoff, uploads, orchestration and persistence run through actual app code. Account A and B are local fixture instances. Their quota message and completion text are scripted.
Main refuses recovery in the native parent conversation:
The same native composer trigger on the head switches to B and completes a new run in the existing child:
The recovered child retains its conversation and shows the real context-handoff divider and completed B reply. The reply text is deterministic fixture output; the separately captured provider input proves the stored history was delivered:
The head retains both negative-control refusals:
Continuous native recordings include the composer trigger and actual result. The main recording is about 33 seconds, the head about 21 seconds. The head recording ends after child completion while its neutral parent notification is still finishing; the head screenshot above shows the settled parent. The requested 30 FPS recorder dropped frames; original timestamps are retained, with 327 encoded frames per recording. No frames were spliced or simulated.
Main recovery recording:
before.mp4
Head recovery recording:
after.mp4
The linked SVGs render reports and runtime evidence as text, not app screenshots. Their original UTF-8 SHA-256 hashes are embedded. The Windows PNG and MP4 captures are unchanged. The web PNGs are unchanged; the web MP4 edits are disclosed above.
Not shown: live Claude authentication, real paid-account credential switching or quota exhaustion, model interpretation and paid Claude evaluations, Windows bundled-server packaging at these commits, or the optional native Plan control. The fixture's initial limit is text followed by a normal end-turn, so it does not test provider rate-limit classification. Earlier model-eval results and their failures remain in the historical report; they are not current-head runtime proof.
Implemented by Claude Opus 5.5 through T3 Code's Claude Code harness; investigated and reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol through T3 Code's Codex harness.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Parents can now redirect and resume their own delegated children at the children's existing, higher runtime permissions. Confirm that this authority should persist even when the parent's current permissions are lower, since resumed work can execute with broader access.
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Walkthrough
MCP access checks now permit configured operations on an app-owned delegated child at that child’s runtime mode. Dispatch validation uses the child runtime mode while retaining the caller’s interaction-mode limit. Tests cover access decisions and changing a child’s provider account before resuming it.
Changes: Delegated child access
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Summary
Identify owned children and apply access limits apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DispatchModeLimit.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/threadAccess.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.test.ts
isOwnDelegatedChild checks the caller, parent lineage, subagent relationship, and app-owned child ID. writesThreads can raise the effective runtime limit for qualifying children. Tests cover allowed access and runtime- or interaction-mode denials.
Thread send, attachment send, and model selection opt into own-child runtime-mode limits. Dispatch validation uses the child runtime mode and retains the caller’s interaction-mode limit. Tool descriptions and the context-budget value are updated.
Verify child configuration and resume apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts
An integration test changes a delegated child’s provider account and resumes it. It checks that the child retains full-access runtime mode and its latest run uses the new account.
pingdotgg/t3code#28734: The change permits sending to an owned delegated child at its runtime mode, supporting continuation in its existing thread.
pingdotgg/t3code#31057: The change permits configuring and messaging an owned child without changing its runtime mode; usage-limit reporting and resume cleanup are not covered.
Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#28705: It adds a provider-instance-bound execution ceiling for delegated children, which can affect provider changes enabled by this PR.
pingdotgg/t3code#31322: It changes how MCP caller limits are derived and recorded, which affects the access checks and dispatch limits used here.
pingdotgg/t3code#24586: It adds temporary-resource and family-copy checks to cross-thread MCP writes, including paths this PR enables for owned children.
The change lets a parent recover its own delegated children at their existing runtime mode, and the ownership checks and interaction limits are retained. No concrete merge-blocking defect was identified. Live account-limit recovery was not verified.
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[#30408] The change allows t3_thread_configure, t3_thread_send, and attachment sends to target an owned direct child when both lineage and the persisted child record match. The child’s captured ru…
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The changed access checks, dispatch handling, tool descriptions, attachment support, tests, and MCP tool-list byte-count update all support the delegated-child recovery behavior or its safety boundari…
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[#30408] The change allows t3_thread_configure, t3_thread_send, and attachment sends to target an owned direct child when both lineage and the persisted child record match. The child’s captured runtime mode becomes the runtime limit, while interaction limits and target/link checks remain enforced. Tests cover owned-child access, forged ownership, Plan-mode refusal, negative controls, and configure-then-resume on another provider instance. The child retains its runtime and interaction modes.
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The changed access checks, dispatch handling, tool descriptions, attachment support, tests, and MCP tool-list byte-count update all support the delegated-child recovery behavior or its safety boundaries for [#30408]. No unrelated change is established by the reviewed summary.
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- Around line 3100-3102: Bind the delegated-child runtime-mode exception to the
child’s preflight mode, not `declared.runtimeMode`, which may reflect the
caller’s mode. In the preflight and send-check flow around `isRuntimeModeAbove`
and `isOwnDelegatedChild`, record the child’s preflight mode separately and
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Verified unchanged head b386e12be859c2490a250ae45a7e3b5a1cdead8e on Linux with the real dev web client, repository Playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, and real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the VM's local proxy. No mocks, fixtures, replay provider, seeded conversations, or direct database writes created the scenario.
Reproduced on github/main (d756fed7aaac06134bc68cbe0047e6f14b0e9aa2) in a separate worktree after vp i. Created a project pointing at a real Git repository through the client. A Full-access parent delegated a Full-access child, which completed a real turn. After lowering the parent to Auto in the client, both t3_thread_configure and t3_thread_send refused its own child with runtime_mode_escalation_denied.
Stopped main by its captured process group before starting the exact PR head after vp i. Copied only that app-created isolated development state. The Auto parent switched the same child from codex to codex_recovery_b and resumed it. The child retained its original context and replied maple-30457 RECOVERED_ON_B.
A further send completed with FOLLOWUP_OK maple-30457. Configure and send still refused an unrelated Full-access thread, and requesting a new Full-access child was refused. The running server's CLI confirmed the unrelated thread retained provider codex and one run.
t3_thread_send_attachments resumed the same child, which read the uploaded file and returned ATTACHMENT_OK cedar-attachment-30457. maple-30457. The parent prepared the upload; the operator posted the exact 23 bytes from the VM (HTTP 204). Provider automatic review initially rejected the send because the contents were unknown. After exposing the entire non-sensitive verification marker for inspection, the same tool call succeeded with the same attachment and unchanged child message. No permission change or alternate send route was used.
The running server's thread show --json confirmed the child remained Full-access/default, with its original direct-parent lineage, provider codex_recovery_b, model gpt-6.1-sol, and four completed runs.
Blacksmith installed dependencies and passed 186 tests across five existing MCP test files: McpToolAccess, core, McpToolAccess.race, OrchestratorMcpService, and McpHttpServer. Current-head CI reports 35/35 successful, with no pending or failing checks. No source changes, commits, or pushes were needed.
The before and after captures show the same parent and child. The 27-second recording shows the successful attachment retry and child completion; the parent's final notification is still finishing at the end. It is trimmed and makes no performance claim. Uploaded images and video playback/seeking were inspected.
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Real account quota exhaustion/reset or distinct paid-account authentication rollover. Both Codex instances use the VM's same proxy-backed credentials, and the child completed rather than failing at quota. This verifies the permission exception, provider-instance switch, retained-context continuation, follow-up, and attachment delivery.
Native macOS/Windows desktop and iOS/Android clients, other providers, remote/relay/tunnel connections, organization/link boundary scenarios, and the full model-facing eval suite were not exercised here. Interaction-limit and ownership cases were covered by the focused existing tests rather than forced in the browser. This is runtime verification, not approval of the intended permission-policy exception.
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Major · Exercise the attachment handler in the delegated-child recovery test. · handlers.ts:125
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/attachment/handlers.ts:125 Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Exercise the attachment handler in the delegated-child recovery test.
The recovery fixture tests only t3_thread_configure and t3_thread_send. Its layer does not include layerAttachmentToolkit, and no test calls t3_thread_send_attachments. Add a focused case that sends a real pending attachment from an Auto parent to its own Full-access child and asserts successful delivery and persisted child state. This must call the registered attachment toolkit so removal of { ownChildren: "at-their-runtime-mode" } fails the test.
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The delegated-child recovery fixture does not exercise attachment delivery.
Extend the recovery test layer to include layerAttachmentToolkit and add a
focused test that sends a real pending attachment from an Auto parent to its own
Full-access child through the registered t3_thread_send_attachments tool, then
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- Line 273: Update the orchestrator send tool’s mode:'auto' behavior to steer
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- Line 125: The delegated-child recovery fixture does not exercise attachment
delivery. Extend the recovery test layer to include layerAttachmentToolkit and
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For the attachment-test request in #30457 (review), I am retaining the existing coverage. McpToolAccess.test.ts exercises the shared owned-child authorization rule, including ownership and mode refusals. The proposed additional case repeats that rule at another registered call site. The repository guidance says: "Test at one layer: the lowest one that fails on main. Do not repeat the case in a wrapper test, at each call site."
The attachment handler opts into that tested guard, and independent real-client verification at 95a01a950ceff938f7ae4b926c222255f57e2d22 actually called t3_thread_send_attachments with an uploaded file, resumed the Full-access child, and confirmed the child read the contents: #30457 (comment). The rebase and wording correction leave that handler and guard unchanged. This is prior-head runtime evidence; it does not establish live quota exhaustion or distinct-account authentication rollover.
Completed both full Codex MCP evals at 5c2bf6be3821881476b02de46472b38d0ad47b1e, on corex Linux with high effort and the supported Terra shell simulator. Sol passed 328/334 samples; Astra passed 329/333. Each passed 164/166 cases, with zero provider errors. The three affected controls passed all nine targeted samples per model and passed overall in the full runs.
Failed samples remain counted. Selected checks against main's tool descriptions reproduce the link-formatting and sign-in-wall failures. A fresh independent review confirmed that the Sol debate failure comes from a grader requiring delegate_task where current instructions prefer native same-provider delegation. These small comparisons establish no new regression; they do not prove its absence.
Claude Sonnet and Opus suites remain unrun because no Anthropic API key is available. The Codex route uses no Claude subscription traffic. Dollar cost is unavailable; the runner's missing-price $0.00 figure is not a free-run claim. This does not establish live quota exhaustion, distinct-account authentication rollover or Windows execution.
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Rebased onto 4aab23cd72d71ab3b58878482f3d22f93a088125. Current head is 2961543e18d7ac4298730024ef3cff45da59fdd6; GitHub reports it mergeable. The manual conflict was the context budget, now 47,812 bytes. Range-diff confirms unchanged recovery logic and a patch-identical security fix. A fresh independent review found no integration issues with upstream fresh-context forwarding or AssetSigner.
On corex Linux, all six focused files pass 194 tests. vp run check:changed passes every stage, including 180 tests in nine files.
The refreshed six-case Codex runs pass 15/18 samples per model at high effort with Terra. The three original controls, fresh-session scheduling and ordinary scheduling each pass 3/3 on Sol and Astra. The new thread-send-fresh-context case fails 0/3 on each. Its default read fixture returns reconnect-test history for a CSV-importer prompt, so both models ask which thread to reset. Replacing only the two changed description modules with integrated main's text gives the same failure in 3/3 samples per model. HEAD runner, fixtures and graders remain in that comparison; it is not a full baseline app run. The failures remain counted.
Earlier full Codex runs and real-client proof are historical evidence. Full suites need refresh after upstream schemas and cases changed. Claude suites remain blocked by the missing Anthropic API key. Windows desktop, live quota exhaustion and distinct-account authentication rollover remain unverified.
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- Line 128: Update the t3_thread_send_attachments dispatch through
ThreadMessageIntake.sendToThread to refresh the caller limits while holding the
lock, rather than relying on the limits captured by writesThreads. When merging
the fresh limits, preserve ownChildRuntimeMode and refused.
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Fixed the attachment permission race reported by Macroscope and CodeRabbit in fcf60e94e33659d6d7ff907b13a791b22db861b4. The handler now checks fresh caller limits, reapplies only the explicit preflight child runtime allowance after verifying ownership, and passes the effective limits and original refusal recorder to locked dispatch.
The existing recovery test and mode-race table now exercise both registered send tools. All four attachment race cases fail before the fix and pass after, with no new run on refusal. The positive attachment case switches the child to account B, resumes it and checks persisted attachment metadata. Files are seeded directly in pending storage; document extraction is mocked and provider execution is disabled.
At this head on corex Linux, six focused files pass 199 tests and vp run check:changed passes every stage, including 185 tests in nine files. A fresh independent review found no issues. No model-facing text changed in this follow-up.
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The full Sol refresh completed at starting commit fcf60e94e33659d6d7ff907b13a791b22db861b4 on corex Linux, high effort, Terra simulator, six samples in flight. It saved all 168 cases and 342 rows: 166/168 cases pass; 332/341 graded samples pass, with nine graded failures and one provider-stream error. The earlier merge comparison establishes unchanged PR code and model text at current head cbf55eca619034784bb2bb4d882cd3df17a8f5a5; the run retains its actual starting-commit attribution.
Five affected controls pass 2/2 each: review round, full-access restart, ordinary named-thread send, one-off schedule and recurring fresh-session schedule. Two cases fail 0/2: fresh-context send reads the unrelated reconnect fixture instead of CSV-importer history, and child sign-in wall asks for manual login without a secret card. The fresh-context fixture mechanism also failed the earlier main-text comparison. These failures remain counted.
Five other cases have one miss at 2/3: ORC-01, provider-unavailable-cli-fallback, polling-after-async-delegates, debate-drops-second-model and snapshot-desktop-tab-from-remote-server. Their transcripts show a missing project-ID fixture, three native-child routes rejected by MCP-only graders, and an omitted desktop/local distinction after a simulated remote download failed. OWN-02 has two graded passes and one incomplete Responses stream. Twenty-six samples reach the step limit and pass only their specified bounded checks. This does not prove all surrounding work completed or that no regression exists.
Astra's attempt is incomplete. Its tool session returned 143 after 77 logged samples, 76 passes and one error. Both process and wrapper are gone; the termination cause is unknown. The runner saved no raw rows, summary or token totals before termination. Partial stdout is not a full result. The recovery execution will checkpoint completed cases and monitor one command continuously; no source, prompt, model or routing change is needed.
Sol agent tokens are 2,616,098 uncached input / 526,411 output / 41,894,912 cache reads. Terra used 6,912,110 / 412,281 / 4,332,032; cache writes were zero. GPT dollar cost is unknown, and the runner's $0.00 estimate is not a free-run claim. Astra's usage before termination is unavailable.
A fresh independent audit found no discrepancies in the results, analysis or hashes. The Sol raw-results SHA-256 is b3109c5a296d792e38cb78d7341d5cebd4450b3cd2cfd50a0f9de17459ab228f.
Still pending: complete Astra refresh and the required Claude Sonnet/Opus suites. No Anthropic API key is configured. This API replay does not verify real child execution, client behavior, live quota exhaustion or distinct-account authentication rollover. The PR remains unready while required verification is missing.
The full Astra recovery completed at exact head cbf55eca619034784bb2bb4d882cd3df17a8f5a5 on physical corex Linux, high effort, Terra simulator and six samples in flight. It covered all 168 compatible cases with adaptive two to three samples: 166/168 cases pass; 332/338 samples pass, six failures and zero errors. The captured node wait and command both exited 0. The completed run took 72 minutes, from 21:43 to 22:55 UTC on November 5.
Five affected controls pass 2/2 each: review round, Full-access restart, ordinary named-thread send, one-off schedule and recurring fresh-session schedule. Fresh-context send and child sign-in wall each fail 0/2, matching the Sol mechanisms. The former reads default reconnect-test history for a CSV-importer prompt and asks about the mismatch instead of sending. The latter asks for manual emulator login without requesting or consuming a secret file. Earlier main-text comparisons also exposed the fresh-context fixture mismatch. All failures remain counted.
Two other cases pass 2/3 each. thread-link-rewritten-with-title omits the link after a running-list mock conflicts with an idle read mock. secret-live-check-skipped posts a simulated request for more evidence without the required secret-file request or authenticated comparison. Nineteen samples reach their step cap and pass only the configured bounded checks, with no final end-turn text. These scores do not establish that all surrounding work finished or that no regression exists.
Astra agent tokens are 1,853,088 uncached input / 405,898 output / 38,548,736 cache reads. Terra used 5,404,158 / 344,850 / 2,894,848. Cache writes were zero. Dollar cost is unknown for both GPT components; the runner's $0.00 estimate is not evidence of a free run.
The monitored launcher and per-case checkpoints preserved all 338 rows. Final raw results and checkpoint files are byte-identical, SHA-256 5cf30d9e35b6a8fefb10b450b358312f16c8fadb012d169dd811c0c4132f172f. I independently recomputed case/sample counts, stop reasons, usage and the hash from the saved rows. The temporary checkpoint loader changed no model, prompt, route, fixture or grader. The original interrupted attempt remains separate; its termination cause and lost usage remain unknown.
Both refreshed Codex suites are now complete. Sol evidence, at its actual starting commit, is in #30457 (comment). Still pending: required full Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 suites. No Anthropic API key is configured, and fleet forbids sending this API replay through Claude subscriptions. The PR remains unready while required verification is missing. This replay does not verify a real client, delegated child execution, Windows desktop, live quota exhaustion or distinct-account rollover.
Drop the caller-mode race follow-ups: they closed races that main already has
for every target of these tools, and their fresh-limit reread could let a child
run above the mode it had at preflight. Configure and attachment sends only opt
in; text send recognizes the declared allowance. Trim the tests to the cases
that fail on main, and add an eval guard for the recovery flow.
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The guard case passed on the old tool text too, so it does not meet the
eval rule that a case fail before the change.
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Assert ownChildRuntimeMode for the lifted-limit case.
The own-child test returns limit?.runtimeMode/interactionMode. It does not assert ownChildRuntimeMode. sendToThread reads only ownChildRuntimeMode. If writesThreads stopped setting that field, this test would still pass and the send path would regress. Include limit?.ownChildRuntimeMode in the probe output and assert it for the supervised-owned-child row.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.test.ts around lines 339 -
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Update the own-child test probe to include limit?.ownChildRuntimeMode and assert
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Re the test nit in #30457 (review): the existing configure-and-resume test already guards this field through behavior. I temporarily removed only the ownChildRuntimeMode declaration from writesThreads; the test failed at expect(resumed.isError).toBe(false) on line 1055. Restoring the declaration made it pass. The worktree is unchanged.
Keeping that behavioral coverage rather than adding a second assertion on the internal limit field, in line with the repo's test-signal rule.
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Please review current head c7df00e0d319095b6293598a8b17623e10450321 after the conflict-free main integration. The PR patch is unchanged. Fresh Windows evidence is now in the body with its original commit attribution; prior policy approval is not claimed.
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Please review head b386e12be859c2490a250ae45a7e3b5a1cdead8e after the main integration. The only conflict combined main's provider instruction budgets with the existing MCP tool-list budget. Previous runtime evidence retains its exact commit attribution; fresh integration checks are in progress. Prior runtime-policy approval remains unclaimed.
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Environment: real web app in Chromium, light theme, 1440×1000 on both commits, fresh synthetic data and two scripted ACP instances. Auto was selected through the client RPC because the local ACP picker omitted Full access.
Steps: delegate a Full-access child on A remembering ORCHID-728; finish the child; lower the parent to Auto; configure the same child on B; continue with plain send and an uploaded attachment; recall the code word from persisted history; attempt an unrelated Full-access send and creation of a new Full-access child.
Scope: proves the runtime gate and persisted history availability using replay instances. Actual OAuth usage exhaustion and native provider session restoration were not exercised.
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Actual OAuth account exhaustion and authenticated-account failover: first-party OAuth is unavailable here, so the comparison used synthetic replay instances.
Real-provider native-session context restoration: scripted recall used t3_thread_read on the same child's persisted conversation.
Composer permission-picker interaction: replaced with its client RPC because local ACP instances omitted the Full-access picker.
Plan-mode interaction ceilings, organization boundaries, and linked-environment restrictions: not exercised by this single-environment fixture; default interaction mode preservation and unrelated/new Full-access denials were observed.
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Problem
An Auto parent cannot switch accounts or resume its own Full-access delegated child after that child stops at an exhausted account. Both MCP calls refuse with
runtime_mode_escalation_denied, leaving the thread and its context stranded.Closes #30408
Change
Allow configure, send and send-with-attachments to use an owned direct child's existing runtime mode. Ownership requires both subagent lineage and the parent's persisted delegation record. The allowance stops at the child's captured mode; interaction limits, organization ceilings, link boundaries and other-target checks remain. This deliberately narrows #16335's runtime restriction for owned children.
Scope and approval
This is a focused repair of the existing configure-and-resume workflow in #30408. Maria independently reproduced the failure and verified this recovery path. Only the parent's persisted direct children qualify, at their existing runtime mode; it adds no right to create broader-mode children or control other threads. This narrow exception repairs the blocked account-recovery path. It deliberately changes #16335's runtime boundary. Prior approval of that policy choice is not claimed; maintainer acceptance remains required.
Verification
Head
c562ab7118ef938d64e24f34ffd43a7bc98b7127integrates mainc266631bde2a77e4c5bb52f0e56a115af205889f. The only merge conflict was the generated tool-list budget, remeasured as 48123 bytes. The PR remains 12 files, +335/-22.At this head, seven focused files passed 163 tests and the server typecheck passed.
vp run check:changed origin/mainpassed with 174 tests in nine files and three package typechecks. Check result, check output, independent integration review. Required CI passes. CodeRabbit reviewed this exact head with no actionable code comments and minimal merge risk. Its request for maintainer acceptance of the runtime-boundary policy change remains disclosed above; no approval is claimed.The primary agent ran
vp run scenarios:proveon Linux x64 with Chromium 156.0.8078.4 against basec266631bde2a77e4c5bb52f0e56a115af205889fand headc562ab7118ef938d64e24f34ffd43a7bc98b7127. It exited 0: base reached the realruntime_mode_escalation_deniedrefusal and failed the expected recovery assertion; head passed. The browser selects Auto in the composer before the parent calls its own scoped MCP configure/send/wait. The same child completes its second run on fixture B, retaining Full/default and its original direct lineage. The owner CLI only creates initial state and reads results. Runtime proof and persisted state. Independent proof audit.c266631bderefusesc562ab7118recoversThe existing child shows its A conversation, context handoff and B reply:
Continuous web recordings show the composer permission change, send trigger and result. Initial setup and pairing were trimmed, with no splices or speed changes; WEBM was transcoded to MP4 without audio. Base includes the assertion's wait after refusal. Head also opens the recovered child; its screenshot above shows the B reply while the client is syncing messages, and the persisted run is completed.
c562-web-base.mp4
c562-web-head.mp4
Only the ACP provider protocol is simulated, as two local fixture instances. Server, per-thread MCP authorization, delegation, orchestration, persistence and web client are real. This fresh scenario covers text recovery of a completed child; it does not refresh the older attachment or refusal-control captures below. Current-main assessment found the unconditional guard still present, assessed the inherited provider-switch/completion/ACP changes exercised by this run, and found no new Windows-specific recovery change requiring another native run. Later main through
d835e430dbc2863fb5bd9f2c76456e4773b0e0efadds a generated-title guard, local file-opening fixes, and question-answer submission fixes. None changes the recovery authorization. The scenario has no pending question, so ordinary provider-turn submission keeps its prior guards. A subsequent main commit,fd9b2c3eaabd72e852e068c9d41c467e07c11ee1, changes cancellation of background-only delegated tasks. Its optional cancellation marker is absent from this recovery flow; the scenario never cancels a task or starts background work. Cancellation races were not tested here. Historical Windows and real-provider evidence retain their original attribution.Maria verified unchanged
b386e12be859c2490a250ae45a7e3b5a1cdead8ein the real Linux dev web client with real Codex turns. Maind756fed7aaac06134bc68cbe0047e6f14b0e9aa2refused; that head switched the same child to B, continued with its original code word, completed a follow-up and delivered an uploaded file. Both instances used the same proxy-backed credentials, so this does not establish distinct paid-account authentication or real quota recovery. Her 186 focused tests belong tob386, separately from the current-head checks above.Windows captures below were tested on head
7a5a23d83bdba049b3dc5e5c17ad3ca52069044bagainst main20c3dd3689782bfcb1a04332086d08017028c718on 2026-11-10.Windows 11 Pro ARM64 build 26200, native Electron client 0.1.7 at source
77b21515c5404bcc143e51c0ae1c99530f200b99. Both phases load the same7a5a23d83bdba049b3dc5e5c17ad3ca52069044bweb assets and connect to real isolated main/head servers through loopback forwarding. Only the provider process is an ACP protocol fixture. MCP authorization, delegation, routing, context handoff, uploads, orchestration and persistence run through actual app code. Account A and B are local fixture instances. Their quota message and completion text are scripted.Main refuses recovery in the native parent conversation:
The same native composer trigger on the head switches to B and completes a new run in the existing child:
The recovered child retains its conversation and shows the real context-handoff divider and completed B reply. The reply text is deterministic fixture output; the separately captured provider input proves the stored history was delivered:
The head retains both negative-control refusals:
Continuous native recordings include the composer trigger and actual result. The main recording is about 33 seconds, the head about 21 seconds. The head recording ends after child completion while its neutral parent notification is still finishing; the head screenshot above shows the settled parent. The requested 30 FPS recorder dropped frames; original timestamps are retained, with 327 encoded frames per recording. No frames were spliced or simulated.
Main recovery recording:
before.mp4
Head recovery recording:
after.mp4
The linked SVGs render reports and runtime evidence as text, not app screenshots. Their original UTF-8 SHA-256 hashes are embedded. The Windows PNG and MP4 captures are unchanged. The web PNGs are unchanged; the web MP4 edits are disclosed above.
Not shown: live Claude authentication, real paid-account credential switching or quota exhaustion, model interpretation and paid Claude evaluations, Windows bundled-server packaging at these commits, or the optional native Plan control. The fixture's initial limit is text followed by a normal end-turn, so it does not test provider rate-limit classification. Earlier model-eval results and their failures remain in the historical report; they are not current-head runtime proof.
Implemented by Claude Opus 5.5 through T3 Code's Claude Code harness; investigated and reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol through T3 Code's Codex harness.