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fix(server): a session released mid-turn no longer leaves tool calls running - #17306

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Problem

When T3 releases a thread's provider session while a turn is running, the run's open tool calls stay running until the server restarts. This happens when an agent switches its own thread to another provider instance with t3_thread_configure, and when t3_worktree_handoff moves the thread to a new worktree (#15993). The thread then shows "Waiting on background task" for work that no longer exists, and Stop doesn't always clear it.

Seen on Nightly 0.0.46 (build 2652): two T3 Thread Configure calls stayed running for about 15 hours after their runs had failed with "The provider event stream closed unexpectedly". The shutdown reconcile cleared them when the app restarted.

Change

Releasing the session fails the run's event stream before the provider reports the turn's end. The fallback in RunExecutionService that then fails the run already closes the run's open subagents, but not its open tool calls.

The run now tracks its open command_execution and dynamic_tool items and their tool nodes, as the ingestor persists them. In that fallback they end as interrupted only when the session manager failed or ended the run's event stream. It does that only while releasing the session, which also closes the provider, as on a provider switch, a workspace change, a runtime error, or a provider that stopped on its own (the no-terminal end from #19131). They end as interrupted, not failed, because they were cut short and a call such as t3_thread_configure may already have done its work.

Failures in T3's own handling of an event (normalization, persistence, ownership reads) and a turn that fails to start leave tool calls as they are, since the provider may still be running them. The run itself still fails in every case, as before.

Scope and approval

This is a focused fix for one failure path, with no contract or client changes.

Verification

  • Live, in a dev build with a real Claude session that calls t3_thread_configure to switch itself to Codex. On main the call stays running and the thread shows "Waiting on background task mcp__t3-code__t3_thread_configure". With this change it shows "Stopped setting thread model", nothing is left waiting, and the projection has no open tool calls. The run fails in both, as before ([Bug]: Self model configuration can stop its own run without continuing #15300).

    Before (main) After
    Before: the tool call stays running and the thread waits on it After: the tool call shows as stopped and nothing is left waiting
  • New ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts case, run for a provider switch (provider.switch to Codex) and for a worktree handoff (the thread.metadata.update that t3_worktree_handoff sends). A provider with Claude's capabilities holds a turn with a running dynamic_tool call, through the real orchestrator, effect worker and session manager. On main both fail with "expected 'running' to equal 'interrupted'". With this change the item ends interrupted and derivePendingBackgroundWork is empty. The test adapter gains one option, heldRunningToolCall.

  • New RunExecutionService.test.ts cases:

    • When the stream is lost, open tool calls and their nodes end interrupted, including a node whose item never arrived. A completed call is left alone, and the stored item has no unserved image bytes.
    • The same happens when the session ends the stream without a terminal, cleanly or with a defect.
    • A normalize or publish failure in the ingestor leaves open tool calls running. This case fails if the release check is forced on.
  • Related suites: vp test run on 7 related files (RunExecutionService, ProviderSwitch, BackgroundWorkStop, ProviderSessionManager, ProviderSessionTransitionPolicy, ProviderSwitchService, RunFinalizationService): 227 passed, on this branch and applied to current main. Server typecheck, lint and formatting are clean.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5. Harness: Claude Code in T3 Code.

…unning

Switching a thread to another provider while a turn is running releases the
old provider session, which fails the run's event stream before the provider
can report the turn's end. The fallback that then fails the run closed open
subagents but not the run's open tool calls, so a call such as the agent's own
t3_thread_configure stayed "running" and the thread kept showing "Waiting on
background tasks" until the server restarted.

The run now tracks its open command and dynamic tool calls (and their nodes)
and ends them as interrupted when its provider stream is lost.
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Verdict: Approved at 22aa4a4

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server bug fix that closes orphaned tool calls only when a provider stream is lost, while preserving normal turn and background-work behavior. It introduces no schema, product-default, infrastructure, security, billing, or static-analysis changes and includes targeted regression coverage.

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RunExecutionService tracks open root-run tool-call nodes and command or dynamic-tool items. If provider ingestion or turn startup fails, finalization emits interrupted updates for tracked calls. Unit and integration tests cover these failure paths and provider switching.

Changes: Provider-stream loss handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track open root-run tool calls
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
The service tracks open tool-call nodes and unsettled command or dynamic-tool items. It strips unserved image bytes from tracked item snapshots.
Finalize abandoned tool calls
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
Finalization emits interrupted updates for tracked calls. Both the ingestion-failure and turn-start-failure paths pass open tool-call state to finalization.
Verify interrupted-call handling
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts
Tests check interruption after stream loss, turn-start failure, and provider switching. They also check run failure, pull-request refresh, image-byte removal, and no pending background work after a provider switch.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dbf20

Open tool calls are now marked interrupted when a provider stream is lost or a turn fails to start, including after a provider switch. The earlier concern about the turn-start failure path has been addressed and tested, and no merge-blocking risk remains.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to dbf20

This is a bounded change to tool-call lifecycle records, not a new execution capability. Existing ownership checks contain the writes. The remaining uncertainty is whether every covered failure also stops the underlying work; an interrupted record alone does not establish that.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The new cleanup selects tool nodes and items only when both thread identity and run identity match the root execution. It does not add selection of arbitrary threads, child-thread tools or previously inherited work.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Interrupted projections describe tool lifecycle outcomes; they do not themselves stop execution or revoke authority. ProviderSessionManager owns session teardown and closes the session scope on runtime failure. The turn-start failure handler instead interrupts ingestion and finalizes records without explicitly releasing the provider session.
  • inferred — Execution cleanup cannot be inferred uniformly from start failure. The inspected Claude and Codex entrypoints wrap start errors without universally tearing down the session. Those cleanup paths predate this PR; the unresolved PR-specific consequence is whether terminalizing a still-live item's record could prevent later recovery delivery.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The existing transactional current-attempt guard rejects stale or repeated fallback finalization after the run has settled or changed attempts. The PR adds its interruption events to that guarded batch rather than introducing an independent cleanup writer.
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- Around line 353-382: Update interruptOpenRunToolCalls to track node IDs
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Adapters report a tool call's node and its item as separate events, so a
stream lost between them left an open node with no item. Interrupt every open
tool node of the run, not only those paired with an open item.
…on-lost-provider-stream

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🟠 Major · Interrupt open tool calls when startTurn fails. · RunExecutionService.ts:1557

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts:1557
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Interrupt open tool calls when startTurn fails.

If startTurn emits a running tool item and then fails, this branch interrupts the event fiber and finalizes the run without abandonedToolCalls. The item remains running in the projection. Read openToolCalls after interrupting the fiber and pass the snapshot to writeFinalRunEvents, as the ingestion-failure branch does.

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In the `startTurn` failure branch, interrupt the event fiber, then read
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A turn that fails to start is failed the same way as one whose provider
stream is lost: no provider reports its end. Tool calls it reported before
failing stayed running. Pass them to the final run write here too.
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Re the outside-diff finding on the startTurn failure branch: valid, thanks. Fixed in 44fcde8: that branch now passes the open tool calls to the final run write too, with a test for a tool call reported before the turn fails to start.

…on-lost-provider-stream

# Conflicts:
#	apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.test.ts
#	apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
… calls

pingdotgg#19131 sends a stream that ends cleanly without a root terminal through the
same failure finalization, so its open tool calls end as interrupted too.
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Thanks for this. I'm closing it as part of PR triage. The approach here looks wrong or too risky to merge as is.

From the review: This marks tool calls interrupted after ingestion errors without stopping the provider, so tools may still be running. Limit interruption to confirmed provider loss rather than normalization or persistence failures.

If you think this was a mistake, message me on Twitter at @maria_rcks and I'll take another look.

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@kristianbonnici kristianbonnici changed the title fix(server): a provider switch mid-turn no longer leaves tool calls running fix(server): a session released mid-turn no longer leaves tool calls running Oct 17, 2026
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@maria-rcks Thanks for the review. I've narrowed it as you suggested:

The description is updated. GitHub doesn't show commits pushed while a PR is closed, so until it's reopened the updated diff is here.

Could you reopen it and take another look?

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