[juliusmarminge]

Problem

A follow-up run started on a finished delegated child with t3 thread send <child> - from a shell never notifies the parent: the child runs and finishes, and the parent gets no delegated task and no run until something else wakes it. A follow-up that the parent sends itself with t3_thread_send, or one a user types into the child, does wake it.

Reproduced on main (b8c2cfa) with a fresh dev server: a parent delegates a child with delegate_task, the child finishes, then t3 thread send <child> - runs from a shell. With Claude and with Codex as provider, the child's second run completed and 60 s later the parent still had one run and one delegated task.

Change

t3 thread send signs in as an MCP client with no thread scope, so its send is createdBy: "agent" with no senderThreadId. The follow-up gate in recordSubagentFollowup only tracked a send to a finished child as a follow-up when it was a notification, a user send, a usage-limit continuation, or came from the parent's own thread. The gate now also accepts a send with no sender thread, like a user send. This covers every MCP client without a thread scope, not only the CLI. A send that names a sender thread other than the parent stays excluded.

Scope and approval

Fixes #33432

Verification

• New test subagent follow-ups > tracks an unscoped MCP send to a finished child as a follow-up in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts: fails on main (the child's follow-up run is not tracked as a delegated task on its parent: expected undefined to not equal undefined), passes with the fix. The whole file (42 tests) and OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts pass.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck and the 5 affected test files pass.
• Runtime, same driver on each side's own dev server with a fresh database (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0), Claude and Codex parents and children:
  • Before (main b8c2cfa): child run 2 completes, parent stays at run 1 with one delegated task.
  • After (this branch): child run 2 completes at 16:21:43.6, the parent gets a second delegated task (delivered) and run 2 starts at 16:21:44 (Codex: 16:23:22.7 → 16:23:23.3).
  • issue-33432-runtime-transcript.md, driver: issue-33432-driver.sh
• Server-only change with no render path, so no screenshots.
• Not checked: remote (linked-environment) delegation, which takes a different path and is untouched here, and a send from a linked environment to a local delegated child, which also arrives without a sender thread.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 4e42d75

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Unscoped client sends to finished delegated children now use the existing parent completion-notification flow. Existing delegation guards remain intact, and reported regression tests and runtime verification support the narrowly scoped behavior restoration.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 5be6bc9 · PR result: 4e42d75 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The follow-up guard now accepts an absent senderThreadId while retaining the parent-thread match when a sender is present. The test leaves the sender unset for the completed outcome and sets it to the parent thread for other outcomes.

Changes: Subagent follow-up delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and verify unscoped follow-ups apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts	The guard accepts a missing senderThreadId and still requires a supplied sender to match the parent thread. The test covers the sender-less completed outcome and retains the parent sender for other outcomes.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: yash-singh1, shivamhwp

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 4e42d

Unscoped sends to a finished delegated child, such as from t3 thread send, now create a tracked follow-up so the parent is notified. The change is small and server-only, and sends from other threads are still excluded. One unverified concern, about follow-ups after Stop, concerns existing behavior rather than a new regression, so no merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the fix: notifying the parent when a shell t3 thread send targets a finished delegated child.
Description check		The description covers the problem, change, linked issue, and focused verification. It also identifies paths that were not checked. The conditional request for the model and harness is not addressed, …
Linked Issues check		Issue #33432 requires an unscoped t3 thread send to a finished delegated child to create a follow-up task for the parent, while excluding sends from another thread. recordSubagentFollowup now retu…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff changes the follow-up gate in Orchestrator.ts and adjusts its test in DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts. Both changes directly implement or verify issue #33432. No unrelated ch…

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Explanation

The description covers the problem, change, linked issue, and focused verification. It also identifies paths that were not checked. The conditional request for the model and harness is not addressed, but the description is otherwise complete.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #33432 requires an unscoped t3 thread send to a finished delegated child to create a follow-up task for the parent, while excluding sends from another thread. recordSubagentFollowup now returns early for a mismatched sender only when senderThreadId is present. A send with no sender thread passes the gate. The test change omits senderThreadId for the completed follow-up case and preserves the parent-thread ID for other outcomes. This covers the requested case and keeps the other-thread exclusion.

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Explanation

The whole-PR diff changes the follow-up gate in Orchestrator.ts and adjusts its test in DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts. Both changes directly implement or verify issue #33432. No unrelated changes appear in the diff.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 1

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

2470-2553: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover delivery after the unscoped follow-up completes

Complete the follow-up in this test and assert that the parent receives its notice and starts a new run. The current assertions can pass if tracking works but completion delivery fails. Use the continuation worker fixture to exercise the parent run.

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Review comment at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts around
lines 2470 - 2553:
Extend the “tracks an unscoped MCP send to a finished child as a follow-up” test
beyond tracking: complete the follow-up run, then assert that completion
delivery notifies the parent and starts a new parent run. Use the existing
continuation worker fixture to exercise the parent-run path, preserving the
current tracking assertions.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Line 8335: Set senderThreadId when creating the scoped self-send for a
worktree continuation, using the same thread identifier assigned to threadId.
Locate the continuation message construction in WorktreeMcpService so the sender
is recognized as the current thread and does not pass the senderThreadId guard
in Orchestrator.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts:
- Around line 2470-2553: Extend the “tracks an unscoped MCP send to a finished
child as a follow-up” test beyond tracking: complete the follow-up run, then
assert that completion delivery notifies the parent and starts a new parent run.
Use the existing continuation worker fixture to exercise the parent-run path,
preserving the current tracking assertions.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts: 1

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Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Give a new follow-up an open delivery cohort.

After Stop closes the parent’s cohort, a later unscoped send can bind its new task to that same parent run. When the child finishes, planDelegatedCompletionDelivery disposes the result because the cohort is stopped. The parent receives no notice. Preserve Stop’s effect on old tasks while allowing the new follow-up to receive delivery. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Evidence

Same steps on both commits: start a parent agent, delegate one short local task with delegate_task, wait for child completion and parent idle, send the finished child a follow-up through t3 thread send CHILD - using stdin, wait for its second run, then observe the parent for at least 30 seconds without messaging it.

Environment for both recordings: Linux, real development server and CLI, separate worktrees, fresh isolated databases with T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0, identical synthetic seed and driver, live agents, 1920×1080 dark terminal.

Before	After
5be6bc99c2	4e42d75e7f
Interaction recording	Interaction recording
Child completed run 2. Parent stayed at 1 run and 1 delegated task.	Child completed run 2. Parent gained run 2 and a second delegated task, then replied PARENT FOLLOWUP RECEIVED only.
Runtime transcript · Final inspection	Runtime transcript · Final inspection

Scripts: reproduction driver, fresh-state setup, recording, final inspection.

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Not shown:

• Direct unscoped MCP-client sends and failed or cancelled follow-up outcomes were not separately exercised; this proof covers the requested local CLI send with successful child runs.