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Problem

On Linux with cgroup v2, every Grok session gets a cgroup lease, and teardown is cgroup.kill on that lease. AcpSessionRuntime still forks observePosixOwnershipLedgerContinuously for the whole session. About 40 times a second it walks the agent's process tree in /proc with synchronous reads on the server's event loop, and it keeps going while the session sits idle.

Nothing reads the result. The ledger it builds is used only by terminatePosixProcessTree, which runs only when there is no lease. With a lease, graceful teardown sends TERM to the root captured once at spawn, then kills the cgroup. Forced teardown kills the cgroup. Grok is the only provider that sets ownDescendantProcessGroups, so only Grok sessions pay this. Issue #23393 has the full report and measurements from an authenticated Grok session.

Change

Start the continuous observer only when there is no cgroup lease. The initial synchronous capture still runs, so signalLinuxCgroupRootTerm sends TERM to the same pid:starttime root as before.

Sessions without a lease (cgroup v1, no delegated cgroup, or lease creation failing) keep the observer exactly as today.

Scope and approval

Fixes #23393. Maintainer scope approval on #23393 is still pending: the issue is open and has not been triaged. I'm offering this PR for that review, not asking to skip it. The runtime change is one guard in one file. It is server-only, and no client shows anything different.

This is the fix #19255 made. That PR was closed because its evidence used a stand-in process tree and a temporary-directory lease, and the overhead report belonged in an issue. The close also asked for scope agreement with a maintainer before reconsideration, and that has not happened yet. #23393 now holds the report, and this PR adds a measurement with a real grok agent stdio process in a real cgroup v2 lease, below.

Verification

New test in AcpAdapterV2.test.ts: it opens a session on the mock ACP agent with a counting process-tree controller and a lease whose cgroup.procs lives in a temp directory. It asserts the agent's children are listed once, for the root capture, through ensureThread, and that closing the session still kills the agent. On the base commit the observer lists children 22 times in that window.

Test run on the base commit with the new test.

Test run on this branch.

Real Grok check. The session-level numbers come from #23393, which measured an authenticated Grok session. This PR adds a spawn-level measurement only: a short script built the runtime through makeGrokAcpRuntime, so it took the normal Grok spawn path with a real cgroup v2 lease. It sent initialize and left the agent idle for 20 s, with strace on the script's main thread for 10 s of that. The ownership observer starts at spawn, before any session exists. One idle grok agent stdio (Grok CLI 1.0.70, 37 threads), same machine, base and branch runs back to back:

• Base: 14,625 /proc opens and 790 getdents64 calls in 10 s. That is 395 passes, one per 25 ms, each reading stat, listing task/ and reading task/<tid>/children for every agent thread.
• This branch: 0 and 0.
• Main-thread CPU over 20 s idle, in a separate run without strace: 0.40 s on base (2% of a core), 0.01 s on this branch.

• vp test run on AcpAdapterV2.test.ts and AcpSessionRuntime.processTree.test.ts: 77 passed.
• vp run check:changed main: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests pass.

Not checked:

• An authenticated Grok session. The Grok CLI here was not signed in, so the check stopped after initialize. A real session adds session/new and the MCP bridge process, which makes the tree, and the base cost, larger. [Perf] Linux: Grok sessions walk /proc every 25 ms on the server event loop, although the cgroup lease already handles teardown #23393 measured that case at 5.6% of a core of kernel time for one idle session and 12.9% for three.
• Hosts without cgroup v2 delegation. They create no lease and keep the observer, and this change does not touch that path.
• macOS. Grok does not enable descendant ownership there.

Prior PRs

• perf(server): Grok sessions on Linux stop polling /proc while a cgroup owns teardown #19255 by ayagmar wrote this fix and its test. This PR carries them onto current main with one variable rename, a skip on hosts without a unified cgroup and a test session scope that also closes on failure, and adds the real-Grok measurement above.
• [Perf] Linux: Grok sessions walk /proc every 25 ms on the server event loop, although the cgroup lease already handles teardown #23393 by noaiq-agent documented the overhead with an authenticated Grok session and proposed this guard.

Fix and test from #19255 by ayagmar, rebased and verified, with PR description and images, by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code Nightly.

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Verdict: Approved at 2a1512c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small server-side performance fix that stops redundant process-tree polling only when cgroup teardown already provides containment, while preserving the existing fallback and teardown behavior. A focused test covers both the polling reduction and agent cleanup.

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The ACP runtime now skips continuous POSIX ownership-ledger observation when a Linux cgroup lease exists. A Linux-only test checks that child enumeration occurs once and that session closure terminates the agent and removes the lease.

Changes: ACP cgroup lease polling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lease guard and teardown test packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.test.ts	When a Linux cgroup lease exists, the runtime skips continuous ownership-ledger observation. The test checks that child enumeration occurs once and that session closure terminates the agent and removes the lease.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main performance change: idle Linux Grok sessions stop polling /proc every 25 milliseconds.
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Linked Issues check		Issue #23393 is the active directly linked issue. AcpSessionRuntime retains the initial POSIX root capture and starts continuous observation only when linuxCgroupLease is undefined. The new Linux-…
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Issue #23393 is the active directly linked issue. AcpSessionRuntime retains the initial POSIX root capture and starts continuous observation only when linuxCgroupLease is undefined. The new Linux-only AcpAdapterV2.test.ts test checks one child-list read during an idle interval and verifies lease teardown after session close. Sessions without a lease retain the observer. Issue #19255 is closed and supplies historical context only.

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Assert lease removal during session teardown.

The linked issue explicitly requires coverage for lease teardown, not only agent termination. The current test checks only isLive(agentPid!), so it can pass without detecting a retained lease. Assert the fixture’s existing leaseExists signal after closing the session.

Suggested fix

       assert.isFalse(isLive(agentPid!), "closing the session must still tear the agent down");
+      assert.isFalse(leaseExists, "closing the session must remove the cgroup lease");

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	const agentPid = leasePids()[0];
	assert.isDefined(agentPid);
	yield* Scope.close(sessionScope, Exit.void);
	assert.isFalse(isLive(agentPid!), "closing the session must still tear the agent down");
	const agentPid = leasePids()[0];
	assert.isDefined(agentPid);
	yield* Scope.close(sessionScope, Exit.void);
	assert.isFalse(isLive(agentPid!), "closing the session must still tear the agent down");
	assert.isFalse(leaseExists, "closing the session must remove the cgroup lease");

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

thanks @only21mil. the lease guard correctly preserves the initial root identity and the no-lease fallback. i kept your commits and implementation, merged current main (cc93cc564b05), shortened the comment, and added the requested lease-removal assertion. no client changes or new test files.

verification on 6d538821d7c13d252d8b33d04000ca8da5efe25e:

• regression reproduced with main's observer behavior: expected 1 child-list read, got 9. restoring the guard passes.
• blacksmith: both focused suites passed, 83 tests. vp run check:changed cc93cc564b052a9dcf73323783e7b60506cda5e0 passed format, lint, both knip passes, graphql generation check, typechecks for seven affected packages, and adjacent tests.
• real grok 1.0.70 through makeGrokAcpRuntime and ACP initialize, with real cgroup v2 leases on this linux vm:

source	idle interval	child-list reads during interval	close
main cc93cc564b05	2,000 ms	79	no live root
this head	2,000 ms	0	no live root
this head, no lease	2,000 ms	78	no live root

these count controller calls, not CPU or syscall totals. the same script, cli, machine, and initialization workload were used. a separate graceful termination run on this head also had 0 idle reads, no live root, and confirmed the real lease directory was removed.

unverified: authenticated grok sessions and prompts through the client, macos/windows runtime execution, and actual cgroup-v1 hosts. this vm has no grok login; the real-provider check stops after initialize. the integration regression uses the mock ACP agent. scope approval remains Maria's review decision.

both independent code reviewers found no issues on this head.

all 28 reported ci checks are green. github reports this head MERGEABLE / CLEAN; gitcafe's cached conflict verdict was still pending when checked. the existing bot finding about lease removal is addressed by the added assertion.

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Verified in a real dev environment

Checked exact head 6d538821d7c13d252d8b33d04000ca8da5efe25e on this Linux Boat VM. Installed dependencies on github/main (f6d3700ac3) in a separate worktree and on the PR head. Ran one background dev server at a time and stopped main by its captured PID before starting the PR.

Drove the actual web client using repository Playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome, with real Codex gpt-6.1-sol through the local proxy. Added projects through the app. Main completed a git-worktree check. On the PR, created a project pointing at /home/user/t3code and a thread, selected the model, and submitted a prompt that ran git rev-parse HEAD and git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree. The client displayed the exact PR SHA and true. A follow-up retained the SHA and returned follow-up-ok; the response survived reload. The follow-up recovered after five provider retries and completed in 58 seconds.

The recording shows the follow-up and provider recovery at 4x speed. It is continuity evidence, not a performance comparison.

Blacksmith checks this turn: AcpAdapterV2.test.ts passed 66 tests, including the lease-polling regression and cleanup assertion; AcpSessionRuntime.processTree.test.ts passed 17 tests. These existing suites use mock fixtures. GitCafe reports 28 successful checks, zero pending or failing. No source changes or pushes.

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Not verified

The changed behavior remains unverifiable on this VM. Only Grok enables ownDescendantProcessGroups on Linux. Codex uses a different runtime, so its successful turns do not exercise this guard. The VM has no Grok binary, Grok login, or XAI_API_KEY; provider settings confirm Grok is not configured. I could not reproduce the original polling issue on main or prove the fix through an authenticated Grok session. No polling or CPU reduction is claimed.

Still needed: authenticated Grok turns through the client on main and this head, idle /proc observation, real cgroup graceful/forced teardown with descendant cleanup, and the no-lease fallback. Native desktop/mobile, macOS/Windows, and cgroup-v1 hosts were not exercised. Passing tests and Codex continuity do not establish those results.