Comms failures explain themselves; timed-out asks convert to delegations - #600
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… convert to delegations The bare 'Delegated turn did not finish' chip threw away the turn.completed stopReason that would have explained every failure in the #583 user report — it now reads '… — auth_required' (etc.), on the channel chip, the delegation receipt, and ask_bot's reply when a failed turn produced no text. ask_bot's fixed 4-minute ceiling silently lost the reply of any peer doing legitimately slow work. A timed-out ask now converts into a delegation claim ticket: the existing watch mirrors the terminal state into the channel and the asker's thread when the turn settles, and check/wait_delegation read the receipt (status 'running' meanwhile). The asker's tool reply says what happened and what to do next turn; a 'still working — ask converted to a delegation' chip lands for the human. Ceiling configurable via OMB_ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS (min 5s, default 4 minutes unchanged). Closes the visibility gap behind #583's user report (parts 1-2: #584, #585). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe ask-bot path now returns structured outcomes. A synchronous timeout creates a delegation claim and activity record. The eventual peer reply is delivered to the asker’s thread. Tests cover timeout formatting, end-to-end delivery, and failure activity matching. ChangesAsk-bot timeout delegation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change converts slow asks into asynchronous delegations, but the current implementation can mislabel partial failed output, turn an invalid timeout setting into an immediate delegation, associate a later reply with the wrong task, or lose a returned task after a process restart. These bounded correctness and recovery risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AskBotTool
participant InternalAskBot
participant AskBotAndWait
participant DelegationWatch
participant AskerThread
AskBotTool->>InternalAskBot: request peer reply
InternalAskBot->>AskBotAndWait: wait for peer turn
AskBotAndWait-->>InternalAskBot: timeout outcome
InternalAskBot->>DelegationWatch: create task and watch
InternalAskBot->>AskerThread: mirror conversion activity
InternalAskBot-->>AskBotTool: task ID and wait instructions
DelegationWatch->>AskerThread: deliver late peer reply
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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Line 4305: Update the failed-outcome handling around the outcome.status check
so every failed result includes the failure marker and truncated stop reason,
including replies with non-empty partial text. Preserve the existing empty-text
behavior while ensuring the normal-reply path for partial output no longer omits
stopReason.
- Line 1183: Update the ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS configuration used by askBotAndWait
to accept only finite integer values between 5,000 and 2,147,483,647
milliseconds; otherwise use the existing four-minute default, preventing
Infinity or oversized values from reaching setTimeout.
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| const TURN_STALL_MS = Math.max(60_000, Number(process.env.OMB_TURN_STALL_MS) || 20 * 60_000); | ||
| /** How long ask_bot waits synchronously before the ask is converted into a | ||
| * delegation claim ticket (the peer's turn keeps running either way). */ | ||
| const ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS = Math.max(5_000, Number(process.env.OMB_ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS) || 4 * 60_000); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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For the Node.js version declared by this repository, what delay does setTimeout use when the delay is Infinity or greater than 2147483647 milliseconds?
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For the Node.js versions current as of August 2026, when the delay provided to setTimeout is greater than 2147483647 milliseconds, Node.js automatically sets the delay to 1 millisecond [1][2][3]. This behavior is explicitly documented in the Node.js API documentation for timers [1][2]. If a delay value exceeds 2147483647 (the maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer), or if it is less than 1 or NaN, Node.js overrides the specified value and schedules the execution with a 1-millisecond delay [1][2]. This prevents the integer overflow behavior that can occur in some other environments [4][5].
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- 1: https://nodejs.org/api/timers.html
- 2: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/api/timers.md
- 3: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v22.x/api/timers.html
- 4: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setTimeout
- 5: GitHub pull request 3512 in nodejs/node (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Reject non-finite and oversized timer values.
If OMB_ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS is Infinity or greater than 2147483647, Math.max preserves it. askBotAndWait then passes it to Node 24's setTimeout, which schedules the callback after 1 ms. An ask_bot request can therefore become a delegation immediately. Accept only finite, bounded integers or use the four-minute default.
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In `@server/index.ts` at line 1183, Update the ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS configuration
used by askBotAndWait to accept only finite integer values between 5,000 and
2,147,483,647 milliseconds; otherwise use the existing four-minute default,
preventing Infinity or oversized values from reaching setTimeout.
| }); | ||
| return json(res, 200, { timeout: true, taskId, toBotName: currentTarget.name, waitedMs: ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS }); | ||
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Report the failure reason when partial text exists.
This branch handles only empty failed replies. If a provider emits partial text and then completes with ok: false, Lines 4312-4315 mirror it as a normal reply and omit stopReason. Include the failure marker and truncated reason for every failed outcome so the caller does not treat incomplete output as a completed answer.
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In `@server/index.ts` at line 4305, Update the failed-outcome handling around the
outcome.status check so every failed result includes the failure marker and
truncated stop reason, including replies with non-empty partial text. Preserve
the existing empty-text behavior while ensuring the normal-reply path for
partial output no longer omits stopReason.
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Follow-up to #583's user report (the screenshot with repeated red "Delegated turn did not finish" chips and "(timed out waiting for the bot to reply)"): two changes that make bot-to-bot failures explain themselves and stop losing slow replies.
1. Failure chips now carry the provider's reason
turn.completedhas always carried astopReason(auth_required,rpc_error,interrupted, …) — and the delegation terminal chip threw it away, leaving the bare "Delegated turn did not finish" that sent that user (and their chief-of-staff bot) into a fabricated crash-loop theory. Now:ask_botturn with no partial text returns "(the bot's turn failed — )" to the asker and mirrors "Turn failed — " into the channel, instead of mislabeling silence as a reply.2. A timed-out ask converts to a delegation instead of dropping the reply
ask_bothad a hard 4-minute ceiling; a peer doing legitimately slow work (rendering, long tool runs) blew through it and the eventual reply went nowhere — the other half of "they don't respond to each other". Now, when the wait ends but the peer's turn is still running:check_delegation/wait_delegationwork on it immediately (status "running" while the turn continues).OMB_ASK_BOT_TIMEOUT_MS(min 5s, default unchanged at 4 minutes).How verified — real conversations through the fake fleet
/did not finish — .+/— proving the reason actually reaches the chip.tsc+ stricttypecheckclean; lint parity with main on every touched file.Closes the remaining visibility gap from #583 (parts 1–2: #584, #585).
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