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Promoting a delegated queued follow-up to Steer cancels its queue run, so the task can read as stopped even while its work continues in the running turn. Resolve the task through its moved user message and any restart continuations, then settle it with the joined turn’s actual result. Tasks sharing a joined turn reuse one result transfer; if the turn has no owning task, its first promoted task publishes that transfer.

Rebuilt from @murayy’s work in #19352, preserving the contributor commits and merging current main. The remaining paginated-read bug is also fixed: reading an assistant-only result page acknowledges both tasks even when the promoted user message is outside that page. No wire or client changes.

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  • PR-specific tests: 4 cases / 406 added lines in three files → 5 integrated cases / 454 added lines in one existing file. All 60 upstream cases remain; 65/65 tests pass across the three targeted suites.
  • All four initial replacement regressions fail on pinned main 1451e7c. They exercise success/failure, unrelated later restart work, two restart cuts including a continuation cut before starting, shared-transfer/idempotent recovery, and assistant-only pagination acknowledgement.
  • The incoming merge had 53 passing / 11 failing targeted tests. Correcting the finalizer’s updated task argument left 63 passing / one failing pagination test. The completed rebuild adds one monitor-owner variant and passes all 65.
  • Server and provider-core typechecks, changed-file lint/format and whitespace checks pass. Two independent full-diff review rounds on Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol; round two has no confirmed code findings. Round one found and fixed stale stored card state after promotion and a missing result publisher for taskless monitor turns.
  • Root integration probe ran the actual queue-to-Steer command through the real MCP toolkit, SQLite event/projection stores, effect worker and a deterministic provider adapter. It awaited provider receipt and persisted milestones, without polling or sleeps. The cancelled queue run’s task stayed running, completed with the joined provider result, reused one transfer, and both tasks were acknowledged by a one-item assistant-result page. A second actual-command probe joins a monitor turn without an owning task and verifies one result transfer and acknowledgement. Both probes assert the stored task, node and turn item move from running to completed. The temporary probe is not committed.

Headless integration proof and output.

After promotion: queue run cancelled; task/node/item running; workState working
After provider completion: task completed; shared result transfers 1
Assistant-only page: 1 item; acknowledged tasks 2 (delegated) / 1 (monitor)

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Headless Linux server/service integration only, using a deterministic provider adapter rather than live provider inference. Restart settlement is verified against persisted recovery state; a real process crash/relaunch was not exercised. A crash between promotion commit and the live status-sync handler can leave the stored card pending until final settlement, as with existing start-status synchronization. The pre-existing completion-before-steer-delivery fallback can still create a new follow-up if the provider turn ends before delivery; this race was not redesigned. While a promoted task is working, latestTerminalStatus may still describe its cancelled queue run. Native macOS, Windows, Electron, iOS and Android clients and the visual Steer control were not exercised. No client-specific changes are required by this shared server fix.

Implemented and tested with Codex GPT-6.1-Sol and GPT-6-Astra in the T3 Code Codex harness; reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol.

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Verdict: Approved at 954bc76

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped server bug fix that corrects delegated-task settlement after a queued follow-up is promoted to Steer, with a focused regression test covering the affected lifecycle. Existing non-Steer task handling and stored contracts remain unchanged.

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The orchestrator and MCP service now select the run associated with a delegated task’s result, including when a queued follow-up is promoted to Steer. The task remains pending while that turn or its restart continuation runs, then settles with the assistant result.

Changes: Delegated follow-up result handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Select the delegated task result run
packages/provider-core/src/server/subagentProjection.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SubagentProjection.test.ts
delegatedTaskResultRun selects the latest run for a delegated task. If that run is cancelled, it follows the task message to a replacement run and follows restart continuations. Tests cover queued, steered, and continuation runs.
Finalize promoted follow-up results
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts
Finalization and pending checks use the selected result run and scope restart-continuation checks to that run’s task. Steered runs use the task result to detect prior settlement and do not create a separate subagent_result transfer. MCP task reads use the same helper. Tests cover pending and completed promoted tasks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: bil0000

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fb4b2

A thread read can leave a promoted follow-up’s terminal result unacknowledged when its user message is not available to the lookup. This is a localized MCP read-path issue; the acknowledgement behavior should be corrected before relying on it.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fb4b2

The inspected changes do not demonstrate broader permissions or data access. Some uncertainty remains around acknowledging shared results when only part of a conversation is read.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected result-attribution expansion is bounded to tasks sharing an existing delegated child thread and their parent completion records. No new cross-service authority, credential access, or unrelated-thread result path was identified in these flows; broader security coverage remains unknown.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — task_status still requires a thread invocation scope and capability. Task lookup requires an app-owned task belonging to the caller's parent thread, then follows its persisted childThreadId. Terminal acknowledgement targets that same parent thread and task identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Thread reads do not reliably acknowledge every promoted task sharing a consumed result: task enumeration uses the returned run's delegatedTaskId, page-local messages may omit the promoted user message, and the final transfer check receives assistant-only records. The base already had the ownership-based enumeration limitation, so worsened exposure is not established. Direct task_status reads preserve user-message identity and can acknowledge the promoted task separately.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If consuming a shared result should acknowledge all associated tasks, define that ownership rule explicitly and carry authoritative resolved-run identity through task enumeration and acknowledgement instead of re-deriving it from paginated messages.
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Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#19351] requires a queued follow-up promoted to Steer to remain in progress and settle with the steered turn's result. delegatedTaskResultRun follows the moved message to the steered run and …
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within delegated-task result resolution for [#19351]. Orchestrator handles settlement, shared-run delivery, and task-scoped restart checks. OrchestratorMcpService reports the shar…
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary server-side fix for follow-ups promoted to Steer.
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Issue [#19351] requires a queued follow-up promoted to Steer to remain in progress and settle with the steered turn's result. delegatedTaskResultRun follows the moved message to the steered run and follows restart continuations. Finalization, pending checks, and MCP task_status use that result run. The added tests cover pending status, final settlement, restart continuation, unchanged cancellation, and the shared result transfer.

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The changes stay within delegated-task result resolution for [#19351]. Orchestrator handles settlement, shared-run delivery, and task-scoped restart checks. OrchestratorMcpService reports the shared result transfer. The tests verify these behaviors. No unrelated client, contract, or promote-command changes are shown.

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…un's task

A promoted follow-up shares its steered run with that run's own task. It no
longer publishes a second result transfer for the run, which made the run's
own task skip settlement. Restart holds use the steered run's task runs, and
task_status reads the steered run while the finalizer has not settled yet.

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- Around line 10168-10178: Update the result selection in the delegated-task
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…tion

A restart can cut the turn a follow-up was steered into and resume it in a
continuation run. The promoted task now resolves to that continuation, so it
stays open while the turn resumes and settles with the continuation's result.

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🟡 Minor · The transfer lookup does not follow the promoted task’s… · OrchestratorMcpService.ts:1360-1375

apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts:1360-1375
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The transfer lookup does not follow the promoted task’s result run.

When a promoted follow-up completes, readTask uses delegatedTaskResultRun(childControls, task.id) and can return the Steer run’s completed status and summary. However, taskResultTransfer only includes runs tagged with the promoted task and the cancelled delegatedTaskRun. It does not include the Steer run. Because steered finalization intentionally creates no second transfer, resultContextTransferId is returned as null even though the shared Steer transfer exists.

Update taskResultTransfer to include delegatedTaskResultRun(child, task.id) in resultRunIds.

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   const originalRun = delegatedTaskRun(child, task);
+  const resultRun = delegatedTaskResultRun(child, task.id);
   const resultRunIds = new Set(
     child.runs
       .filter(
@@
       )
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   );
   if (originalRun !== undefined) resultRunIds.add(originalRun.id);
+  if (resultRun !== undefined) resultRunIds.add(resultRun.id);
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@coderabbitai The outside-diff finding on taskResultTransfer (OrchestratorMcpService.ts) is valid: a promoted task writes no transfer of its own, so resultContextTransferId read null. Fixed in fb4b22f: taskResultTransfer adds delegatedTaskResultRun(child, task.id) to the result runs. The thread-read acknowledgement path passes the page's already-loaded target messages, so it needs no extra query. New task_status test fails without the change (expected null to equal 'context-transfer:mcp-steer-result'). The branch is also merged with current main.

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@murayy Thanks for the fix and clarification. I checked the current code:

  • taskResultTransfer includes the run returned by delegatedTaskResultRun(child, task.id), so it can find the steered run’s shared result transfer.
  • The thread-read acknowledgement path passes the already-loaded target messages. This change adds no message query.
  • The new task_status test asserts completed and context-transfer:mcp-steer-result.

This addresses the outside-diff finding. I inspected the test but did not run it.


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Timestamp: 2026-10-14T13:01:30.806Z
Learning: In apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts (TypeScript, Effect), a delegated follow-up promoted to Steer writes no result context transfer of its own. taskResultTransfer must include the run returned by delegatedTaskResultRun(child, task.id) when matching the shared subagent_result transfer. The thread-read acknowledgement path supplies the page's already-loaded target messages to this helper; it does not need an additional message query for this resolution.

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Learning: In packages/provider-core/src/server/subagentProjection.ts (TypeScript), delegatedTaskResultRun resolves a promoted queued follow-up through its reassigned user message, then follows the steered run's restartContinuationOfRunId chain. The finalizer, delegatedTaskResultPending, and MCP task_status share this resolver. In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, settledContinuationOf should still exclude the source run whose continuation declined or failed; selecting an existing continuation in the shared resolver prevents premature settlement without changing that exclusion. If no continuation run exists because continuation was declined, settlement from the cancelled steered run is intentional.

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Taking over this one as maintainer for batch composer-chat-16. I’ll reconcile it with current main, reduce the tests, and rebuild the smallest server fix. I’ll verify promoted follow-ups, shared result transfers and restart settlement, then push back here while preserving your commits. No merge.

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Continued in #23300, preserving these commits and adding the ownerless restart regression and fix. The cross-fork source repository is unavailable through the forge, so the revised branch is on origin. Focused tests: 32/32 passed; deterministic runtime scenarios: 4/4 passed. Client evidence limitations are recorded in the replacement PR.

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