feat: escalate live agent halts to ancestors - #411
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds configurable halt escalation for managed agents. The engine persists halt episodes, classifies awaiting-input, idle, and wedged states, and sends deduplicated notifications to live ancestors. Agent hierarchy repair, picker parsing, spawn options, and regression tests are included. ChangesHalt escalation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change adds durable, exactly-once ancestor notifications for live agent halts and preserves routing across restarts and orphan reparenting. The supplied checks pass, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains; only localized maintainability and test-fixture follow-ups remain. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentEngine
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AgentEngine->>ScreenParser: classify screen evidence
ScreenParser-->>AgentEngine: return halt or progress state
AgentEngine->>AgentRegistry: resolve nearest live ancestor
AgentRegistry-->>AgentEngine: return notification target
AgentEngine->>Inbox: dispatchOnce escalation message
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| // Phase 2: Reparent orphans to the nearest ancestor that survived this | ||
| // reconciliation pass. Keeping that link gives lifecycle notices a live | ||
| // delivery path while still detaching the child from the crashed subtree. | ||
| if (crashedIds.size > 0) { |
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🟡 Medium src/agent-registry.ts:831
Reparenting a surviving child updates only that row's spawn_depth, leaving surviving descendants at their pre-crash depths. A grandchild can therefore retain spawn_depth: 2 after its depth-0 ancestor is removed and be rejected by the spawn_depth >= MAX_SPAWN_DEPTH spawn guard even though its effective depth is 1. Recompute spawn_depth throughout the surviving subtree when reparenting.
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In file @src/agent-registry.ts around line 831:
Reparenting a surviving child updates only that row's `spawn_depth`, leaving surviving descendants at their pre-crash depths. A grandchild can therefore retain `spawn_depth: 2` after its depth-0 ancestor is removed and be rejected by the `spawn_depth >= MAX_SPAWN_DEPTH` spawn guard even though its effective depth is 1. Recompute `spawn_depth` throughout the surviving subtree when reparenting.
| parsed.control_state !== "stale_surface" && | ||
| parsed.control_state !== "permission_prompt" && | ||
| parsed.control_state !== "interactive_overlay" && | ||
| !this.isMatureHaltEpisode(ancestor, nowMs); |
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🟡 Medium src/agent-engine.ts:3251
nearestLiveHaltAncestor sends a child's halt alert to an ancestor whose current screen is already idle/ready or wedged, so the alert can be delivered to a halted agent that will not act on it. The live check only excludes isMatureHaltEpisode(ancestor), which is false when the ancestor has not yet been classified or matured (for example, when the child is processed first after startup); use the parsed current screen evidence to exclude idle/no-progress ancestors as well.
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`nearestLiveHaltAncestor` sends a child's halt alert to an ancestor whose current screen is already idle/ready or wedged, so the alert can be delivered to a halted agent that will not act on it. The `live` check only excludes `isMatureHaltEpisode(ancestor)`, which is false when the ancestor has not yet been classified or matured (for example, when the child is processed first after startup); use the parsed current screen evidence to exclude idle/no-progress ancestors as well.
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| if (haltType === "wedged") { | ||
| episode = this.stateMgr.updateRecord(agent.agent_id, { |
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When a booting agent shows a stable working/thinking screen without satisfying the CLI readiness pattern, this updateRecord executes on every sweep and refreshes updated_at. maybeMarkBootReady uses that same timestamp to enforce BOOT_READY_TIMEOUT_MS, and the normal heartbeat explicitly excludes booting agents so the age remains meaningful; consequently, the new wedge bookkeeping continually resets the timeout and such an agent can remain stuck in booting indefinitely instead of transitioning to error.
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| parsed.control_state !== "permission_prompt" && | ||
| parsed.control_state !== "interactive_overlay" && | ||
| !this.isMatureHaltEpisode(ancestor, nowMs); |
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When the immediate parent is sitting at a normal ready/idle prompt but has no already-mature halt episode—for example after a restart or before its own idle episode is established—this predicate treats it as a live escalation sink. Traversal therefore stops there instead of reaching a working ancestor, contrary to the routing contract in docs/plans/2026-08-13-halt-escalation.md:77, and the child halt alert is left with the inactive intermediary rather than the nearest actionable ancestor.
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| this.registry.set(agent.agent_id, episode); | ||
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| if (agent.halt_episode_type !== haltType) { |
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A second awaiting_input prompt is not escalated if it appears before the next sweep: the same-type branch preserves halt_notification_sent_at and never compares the new parsed.current_action, so the prompt is permanently treated as the already-notified episode. Reset the episode when the observable action changes so the new prompt gets its own notification.
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A second `awaiting_input` prompt is not escalated if it appears before the next sweep: the same-type branch preserves `halt_notification_sent_at` and never compares the new `parsed.current_action`, so the prompt is permanently treated as the already-notified episode. Reset the episode when the observable action changes so the new prompt gets its own notification.
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| parsed.control_state === "dead" || | ||
| parsed.control_state === "stale_surface" || | ||
| this.hasOutputDoneEvidence(agent.cli, screenText) || | ||
| this.hasRecordedOutputDoneEvidence(agent) || |
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When an agent with task_done_detected_at receives follow-up work through interact(action: "send"), that delivery path does not clear the previous completion metadata. If the new turn later reaches a permission prompt or wedges, this unconditional check suppresses and clears its halt episode despite the current live screen proving that the agent is active and blocked, so no ancestor is ever notified. Treat recorded completion as authoritative only when the live screen does not contradict it, or clear it whenever new work is submitted.
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| parsed.status === "idle" && | ||
| parsed.control_state === "ready" && | ||
| parsed.agent_type !== "unknown" && | ||
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🟡 Medium src/agent-engine.ts:3358
Newly spawned agents never enter idle_without_done escalation when their first sweep observes idle/ready without DONE evidence, because this branch requires agent.halt_last_active_at even though that field starts as null and is only set by markAgentWorking for later retasks. Initialize the activity boundary when the boot task is submitted, or when a managed agent first becomes idle, so the dwell timer and escalation can start.
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Newly spawned agents never enter `idle_without_done` escalation when their first sweep observes `idle`/`ready` without DONE evidence, because this branch requires `agent.halt_last_active_at` even though that field starts as `null` and is only set by `markAgentWorking` for later retasks. Initialize the activity boundary when the boot task is submitted, or when a managed agent first becomes idle, so the dwell timer and escalation can start.
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🟡 Medium src/agent-engine.ts:3372
maybeEscalateLiveHalt skips escalation for a newly created episode even when it is already mature, so a zero-dwell halt or an already-elapsed background-terminal wait is not dispatched until a later sweep and is missed if it clears first. The creation path should fall through to the maturity and delivery checks while preserving the backdated start time and prefilled wedged observation count.
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`maybeEscalateLiveHalt` skips escalation for a newly created episode even when it is already mature, so a zero-dwell halt or an already-elapsed background-terminal wait is not dispatched until a later sweep and is missed if it clears first. The creation path should fall through to the maturity and delivery checks while preserving the backdated start time and prefilled wedged observation count.
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In `@src/agent-engine.ts`:
- Around line 3401-3409: Replace the duplicated inline maturity conditions in
the halt escalation flow with the existing isMatureHaltEpisode helper, while
retaining startedAtMs for the later durationSeconds calculation. Preserve
returning the episode whenever the helper reports the halt is not mature,
including dwell and wedged-sweep thresholds.
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Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-07-14T17:32:22.637Z
Learning: In cmuxlayer's `src/agent-engine.ts`, `runCloseForensicsBestEffort` treats both `tab_close` and `workspace_teardown` close-forensics event origins as terminal operator intent for a matching managed surface, persisting that intent before absence reconciliation can treat it as a recoverable crash (as of commit cd1ac43). Previously only `tab_close` was treated this way. Genuine PTY-death recovery (respawn with attempt limits) is a separate code path and remains unaffected by this origin allowlist.
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-03-16T22:37:27.796Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-registry.ts), orphan reparenting is NOT part of V1. When a parent agent crashes, children intentionally keep their parent_agent_id pointing to the dead parent (orphan survival). Reparenting children to root (setting parent_agent_id to null) is a V2 design feature that will be introduced in a dedicated future PR with its own tests. Do not flag missing reparenting logic in agent-registry.ts until the V2 reparenting PR lands.
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T17:19:12.114Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/server.ts / spawn lifecycle), readiness timeouts during agent launch are non-terminal for lifecycle state. A `BootPromptTimeoutError` should NOT transition the agent to `error` — the agent stays in `booting` with no `error` set. A timeout can mean the CLI chrome changed or the PTY is still healthy but not yet matched; transitioning to error ("poisoning the registry") would block `send_to_agent` and inbox wake. Only actual boot-prompt delivery failures (non-timeout) are terminal, because partial delivery can leave the receiver in an unreliable state.
📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T18:18:12.145Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T18:18:12.145Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/screen-parser.ts `isEchoedPromptContextLine`), the explicit `TASK_DONE` alternation alongside the generic `[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*_DONE` branch is intentionally redundant — kept for readability around the canonical signal name. Do not flag it as dead code.
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Timestamp: 2026-06-05T18:18:12.145Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/screen-parser.ts), `parseDoneSignal` uses `return null` (not `continue`) when a TASK_DONE token is found in an unsafe done-signal context (echoed prompt/composer region or active working/thinking tail). This is intentional per the B3 contract: done evidence must be current trailing-output evidence only. Scanning farther back into older scrollback after suppressing an unsafe context token would re-open the stale-output false positive that B3 is designed to close.
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📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T18:28:49.481Z
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File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T18:28:49.481Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/screen-parser.ts), `isUnsafeDoneSignalContext` uses an immediate 3-line lookback (not a wider 8-line window) to determine if a done-signal token is in an unsafe echoed-prompt/composer or active working/thinking context. The narrow 3-line window ensures same-box echoed done tokens and adjacent spinner markers are still suppressed, while a genuine trailing TASK_DONE appearing after real work output (separated by output lines) is correctly accepted. This was deliberately narrowed from 8 lines in PR `#140` to close a false-suppression edge case.
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📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T18:17:59.164Z
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File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T18:17:59.164Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/screen-parser.ts), `isEchoedPromptContextLine` includes an explicit `TASK_DONE` alternation alongside the generic `[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*_DONE` branch. The duplication is intentional for readability — `TASK_DONE` is the canonical signal name and is kept explicit even though it is already matched by the generic branch. Do not flag this as dead code.
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📚 Learning: 2026-03-15T10:46:40.958Z
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File: tests/sidebar-sync.test.ts:18-77
Timestamp: 2026-03-15T10:46:40.958Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project, each test file (e.g., tests/sidebar-sync.test.ts, tests/quality-tracking.test.ts, tests/agent-hierarchy.test.ts) is intentionally self-contained. All mock setup helpers (makeMockClient, makeSurface, makeRecord) are defined locally within each test file rather than in shared fixtures. This is a deliberate design choice so that when a test fails, all context is in one file. Shared fixtures are avoided to prevent coupling between test suites. Minor drift in mock fields across files (e.g., listStatus present in one file but not another) is acceptable — it only matters when a test explicitly calls that method. Do not flag duplicated test helpers or suggest extracting them into shared fixture modules.
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📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T18:17:59.164Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T18:17:59.164Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/screen-parser.ts), `parseDoneSignal` intentionally uses `return null` (not `continue`) when `isUnsafeDoneSignalContext` fires for an unsafe done-signal occurrence. Per the B3 contract, done evidence must come from trailing output; if the current tail contains an echoed-prompt/composer done token or active working/thinking context, scanning farther back into older scrollback would re-open the stale-output false positives B3 is closing. `return null` is the correct early-termination boundary.
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tests/screen-parser.test.tstests/agent-engine.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T17:26:08.862Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T17:26:08.862Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project, `wait_for(done)` must NOT trust registry state alone. It must require terminal output evidence — either a persisted `task_done_detected_at` timestamp or a current parser-confirmed completion (`parseScreen` reporting `status === "done"`) — because registry state can be stale, manually mutated, or poisoned by prior launch/readiness failures (e.g. `BootPromptTimeoutError`). Completion signals must be accepted only from the current screen tail / chrome-adjacent area so echoed prompt instructions like `R2_WORKER_DONE` do not mark active work as done.
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tests/screen-parser.test.tsdocs/plans/2026-08-13-halt-escalation.mdtests/server-agent-tools.test.tstests/agent-engine.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-07-04T23:37:37.595Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 220
File: tests/agent-engine.test.ts:2977-2977
Timestamp: 2026-07-04T23:37:37.595Z
Learning: In tests/agent-engine.test.ts for the cmuxlayer project, the general guideline of using 1-second timeouts for `waitFor` in agent-engine tests does not apply to positive/ready-resolution test cases that depend on consecutive-match accumulation across multiple poll/sweep ticks (e.g., "codex-pending-ready", "gemini-identity-screen-ready"). In `AgentEngine.waitFor`, the elapsed time is checked against timeoutMs before the next evidence poll, so a 1s budget can cause a false timeout for these multi-poll cases. These specific tests intentionally use longer timeouts (e.g., 1500ms/2500ms) and this is verified/expected behavior, not a violation to flag.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-18T01:46:21.272Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 338
File: tests/self-registration.test.ts:775-935
Timestamp: 2026-07-18T01:46:21.272Z
Learning: In the self-registration feature, `tests/self-registration.test.ts` intentionally contains fully mocked `AgentEngine` composition/boot-capture cases. These feature-level acceptance tests cover the contract between `src/self-registration.ts` and `src/agent-engine.ts`; do not require moving them to `tests/agent-engine.test.ts` solely to mirror source layout.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-13T18:37:02.633Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 311
File: src/server.ts:93-93
Timestamp: 2026-07-13T18:37:02.633Z
Learning: In `src/server.ts`, `assertDeliveryTargetIsSafe` deliberately calls `isPickerOrMenuScreen(snapshot.text, cli)` without threading a resolved `cli` hint through the shared `deliverInputChunks` delivery-safety boundary. This is intentional: the delivery safety gate must fail closed across every recognized picker/menu shape regardless of CLI, because registry/launcher CLI metadata can be absent or stale (especially on recycled surfaces), and scoping the gate by CLI could let a live menu from a different CLI slip through and consume text. The optional `cli` parameter remains useful for targeted parser callers that need CLI-scoped detection (e.g., Codex-specific update-menu detection), but the delivery-safety path itself stays CLI-agnostic by design.
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tests/screen-parser.test.tssrc/screen-parser.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-03-15T10:42:35.917Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 1
File: tests/quality-tracking.test.ts:171-200
Timestamp: 2026-03-15T10:42:35.917Z
Learning: In tests/quality-tracking.test.ts for the cmuxlayer project, ensure that at or above 80% context quality degradation, behavior depends on depth: depth-0 agents receive a /compact command; depth > 0 agents are killed and logged (kill + log). Respawn of non-root agents is out of scope for v1. Treat the design doc quality tracking section as the authoritative source for this behavior, and align test expectations accordingly.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-11T13:51:37.614Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 285
File: src/control-health.ts:183-208
Timestamp: 2026-07-11T13:51:37.614Z
Learning: In the `cmuxlayer` repository, `src/monitor-registry.ts` internals (e.g., `readMonitorRegistry`, `queryMonitorRegistryForGates`) are considered out of scope for modification in PR `#285`; its public API only accepts registry file paths, not pre-parsed snapshots. A true single-snapshot read-validate-count fix for `collectSelfHealHealth` in `src/control-health.ts` (avoiding a TOCTOU risk from reopening the file twice) requires adding a new public snapshot parser/query API to `monitor-registry.ts`. This is tracked in issue `#286` (EtanHey/cmuxlayer) with concrete acceptance criteria; until then, the mitigation is size-bounded reads and fail-safe (unavailable) handling of malformed/invalid registries, relying on the registry writer's atomic-rename contract.
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docs/plans/2026-08-13-halt-escalation.mdsrc/agent-registry.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-03-16T22:37:27.796Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-03-16T22:37:27.796Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-registry.ts), orphan reparenting is NOT part of V1. When a parent agent crashes, children intentionally keep their parent_agent_id pointing to the dead parent (orphan survival). Reparenting children to root (setting parent_agent_id to null) is a V2 design feature that will be introduced in a dedicated future PR with its own tests. Do not flag missing reparenting logic in agent-registry.ts until the V2 reparenting PR lands.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-14T17:32:22.637Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-07-14T17:32:22.637Z
Learning: In cmuxlayer's `src/agent-engine.ts`, `runCloseForensicsBestEffort` treats both `tab_close` and `workspace_teardown` close-forensics event origins as terminal operator intent for a matching managed surface, persisting that intent before absence reconciliation can treat it as a recoverable crash (as of commit cd1ac43). Previously only `tab_close` was treated this way. Genuine PTY-death recovery (respawn with attempt limits) is a separate code path and remains unaffected by this origin allowlist.
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docs/plans/2026-08-13-halt-escalation.mdtests/agent-hierarchy.test.tssrc/agent-registry.tssrc/agent-types.tstests/server-agent-tools.test.tstests/agent-engine.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T17:19:12.114Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T17:19:12.114Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/server.ts / spawn lifecycle), readiness timeouts during agent launch are non-terminal for lifecycle state. A `BootPromptTimeoutError` should NOT transition the agent to `error` — the agent stays in `booting` with no `error` set. A timeout can mean the CLI chrome changed or the PTY is still healthy but not yet matched; transitioning to error ("poisoning the registry") would block `send_to_agent` and inbox wake. Only actual boot-prompt delivery failures (non-timeout) are terminal, because partial delivery can leave the receiver in an unreliable state.
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docs/plans/2026-08-13-halt-escalation.mdtests/agent-hierarchy.test.tssrc/agent-registry.tstests/server-agent-tools.test.tstests/agent-engine.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-08-02T16:01:45.986Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-02T16:01:45.986Z
Learning: PR `#345` preserves created resource identities in `src/server.ts` spawn-related tool failure responses. The follow-up structural prevention work is tracked in GitHub issue `#348`.
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tests/agent-hierarchy.test.tssrc/server.tssrc/agent-registry.tstests/server-agent-tools.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
Learnt from: CR
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: site/CLAUDE.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
Learning: Applies to site/**/*agent*.test.{ts,tsx} : Agents must have comprehensive unit tests covering success and failure paths
Applied to files:
tests/agent-hierarchy.test.tstests/server-agent-tools.test.tstests/agent-engine.test.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-08-09T13:21:30.476Z
Learnt from: CR
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: CLAUDE.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-09T13:21:30.476Z
Learning: Applies to <AGENTS.md> : If spawning fails after cmuxlayer creates a worktree, remove both that worktree and its newly created branch; never roll back a reused worktree.
Applied to files:
tests/agent-hierarchy.test.tssrc/agent-registry.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: site/CLAUDE.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
Learning: Applies to site/**/*agent*.{ts,tsx} : Use logging for agent actions and state transitions
Applied to files:
src/state-manager.tssrc/agent-types.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-08-02T15:25:29.749Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 345
File: src/server.ts:8413-8414
Timestamp: 2026-08-02T15:25:29.749Z
Learning: In `src/server.ts`, `boot_prompt_timeout_ms` is an intentional cross-phase override for `spawn_agent` and `new_worktree_split`. When supplied, it controls initial shell readiness, agent launch readiness, post-update relaunch readiness, and boot-prompt readiness. When omitted, the phases retain independent defaults: 10 seconds for shell readiness, 15 seconds for agent launch readiness, and 60 seconds for boot-prompt readiness.
Applied to files:
src/server.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-03-15T10:42:41.158Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 1
File: tests/quality-tracking.test.ts:171-200
Timestamp: 2026-03-15T10:42:41.158Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-engine.ts), quality degradation at ≥80% context behaves differently by depth: depth-0 agents receive a /compact command; depth>0 agents are killed and the event is logged (kill+log). Respawn of non-root agents is intentionally out of scope for v1. The design doc quality tracking section is the authoritative source for this behavior.
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src/agent-registry.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
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File: site/CLAUDE.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
Learning: Applies to site/**/*agent*.{ts,tsx} : Use type definitions for agent inputs, outputs, and configuration
Applied to files:
src/agent-types.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
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Learning: Applies to site/**/*agent*.{ts,tsx} : Agent implementations must be written in TypeScript
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src/agent-types.tstests/agent-engine.test.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
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File: site/CLAUDE.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
Learning: Applies to site/**/*agent*.{ts,tsx} : Use the Agent interface/base class for creating new agents
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src/agent-types.tstests/agent-engine.test.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T20:31:10.910Z
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Learning: Applies to site/**/*agent*.{ts,tsx} : Document agent purpose and usage in agent implementation files
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src/agent-types.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-07-14T17:22:29.038Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-07-14T17:22:29.038Z
Learning: In cmuxlayer's `src/server.ts` `close_surface` tool handler, the UUID-less legacy-record fallback match (`record.surface_id === args.surface` for records without `surface_uuid`) must only be applied when `observedSurfaceUuid === undefined` (i.e., the live topology genuinely cannot resolve a UUID for the closed ref). This mirrors the invariant in `resolveAgentIoRoute` (`src/agent-engine.ts`), which only permits UUID-less ref-based terminal I/O when a complete fresh topology proves zero UUID coverage. Without this guard, a recycled mutable ref could be mistakenly attributed to a stale legacy record even when a live UUID is observed for that ref (belonging to a different, current owner).
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tests/server-agent-tools.test.tstests/agent-engine.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-03-15T10:42:08.557Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 1
File: src/agent-engine.ts:174-178
Timestamp: 2026-03-15T10:42:08.557Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (`src/agent-engine.ts`), the `CmuxClient` methods `send()` and `sendKey()` are backed by a cmux socket that processes commands in order. Awaiting them sequentially guarantees the prior command is fully delivered before the next is sent — no additional delay or confirmation is needed between consecutive `send()`/`sendKey()` calls.
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tests/agent-engine.test.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-04-01T16:08:15.301Z
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Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-04-01T16:08:15.301Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-engine.ts), `buildLaunchCommand` intentionally does NOT use Zod for input validation. The function is internal (called only from `spawnAgent`), and upstream Zod schema validation already occurs in server.ts around lines 884-886. Adding Zod at this layer is considered redundant. The regex + explicit `.`/`..` path-traversal rejection is the sufficient sanitization boundary.
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tests/agent-engine.test.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T18:11:43.915Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T18:11:43.915Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project, for wait_for(done), a match driven by trailing terminal completion output (screen evidence) should report source:"evidence". Registry/sweep matches remain source:"sweep" so callers can distinguish observed output completion from lifecycle-state polling.
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tests/agent-engine.test.tssrc/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-03-16T22:37:27.455Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-03-16T22:37:27.455Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-engine.ts / src/agent-types.ts), the inconsistency between `buildLaunchCommand` (throws on `/` in repo names for shell arg safety) and `generateAgentId` (sanitizes `/` to `-` for key safety) is intentional and tracked for follow-up. Do not flag this mismatch as a bug. Both approaches are valid for their respective contexts.
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src/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-06-05T17:16:47.571Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-05T17:16:47.571Z
Learning: In cmuxlayer layout policy (src/layout-policy.ts or equivalent), terminal surface titles with repoGolem launcher labels are an intentional role fallback when the lifecycle registry or role overrides do not classify a surface. Browser surfaces must NOT be classified via launcher-label title matching. For B1 (role=orchestrator), the correct placement is to tab into the leftmost non-worker lead pane, even when stale IC records or non-role tabs are present there. The layout invariant is: leads as tabs in the left column, workers as tabs in the right column.
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src/agent-engine.ts
📚 Learning: 2026-06-07T11:56:57.249Z
Learnt from: EtanHey
Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-06-07T11:56:57.249Z
Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/cmux-socket-client.ts, createCmuxClient), socket-path re-resolution and transport retry are deliberately limited to transport connection failures only (`connection_error` / `connection_closed`). Protocol errors, `method_not_found`, auth/protocol mismatch, and ordinary request failures must NOT trigger silent retry against another socket candidate during an active operation, as doing so could hide real daemon/API incompatibilities. Boot-time selection is broader: every candidate is probed with a full connect + `system.ping` verification; only after all candidates fail does the code fall back to CLI. This design keeps recovery focused on stale/dead socket paths without masking non-transport bugs.
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tests/agent-hierarchy.test.ts (1)
559-564: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPropagate
spawn_depththrough the surviving subtree.After two dead ancestors are reparented, a surviving grandchild can retain its stale depth instead of inheriting
parent.spawn_depth + 1. Extend this test with deeper descendants and assert everyparent_agent_idandspawn_depth. Add a cyclic or self-referential fixture to protect the existing loop guard.⛔ Skipped due to learnings
Learnt from: EtanHey Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0 File: :0-0 Timestamp: 2026-03-16T22:37:27.796Z Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-registry.ts), orphan reparenting is NOT part of V1. When a parent agent crashes, children intentionally keep their parent_agent_id pointing to the dead parent (orphan survival). Reparenting children to root (setting parent_agent_id to null) is a V2 design feature that will be introduced in a dedicated future PR with its own tests. Do not flag missing reparenting logic in agent-registry.ts until the V2 reparenting PR lands.Learnt from: CR Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0 File: CLAUDE.md:0-0 Timestamp: 2026-08-09T13:21:30.476Z Learning: Applies to <AGENTS.md> : If spawning fails after cmuxlayer creates a worktree, remove both that worktree and its newly created branch; never roll back a reused worktree.Learnt from: EtanHey Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 0 File: :0-0 Timestamp: 2026-06-05T17:19:12.114Z Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/server.ts / spawn lifecycle), readiness timeouts during agent launch are non-terminal for lifecycle state. A `BootPromptTimeoutError` should NOT transition the agent to `error` — the agent stays in `booting` with no `error` set. A timeout can mean the CLI chrome changed or the PTY is still healthy but not yet matched; transitioning to error ("poisoning the registry") would block `send_to_agent` and inbox wake. Only actual boot-prompt delivery failures (non-timeout) are terminal, because partial delivery can leave the receiver in an unreliable state.Learnt from: EtanHey Repo: EtanHey/cmuxlayer PR: 1 File: tests/quality-tracking.test.ts:171-200 Timestamp: 2026-03-15T10:42:41.158Z Learning: In the cmuxlayer project (src/agent-engine.ts), quality degradation at ≥80% context behaves differently by depth: depth-0 agents receive a /compact command; depth>0 agents are killed and the event is logged (kill+log). Respawn of non-root agents is intentionally out of scope for v1. The design doc quality tracking section is the authoritative source for this behavior.Source: Learnings
| const startedAtMs = Date.parse(episode.halt_episode_started_at ?? ""); | ||
| if ( | ||
| !Number.isFinite(startedAtMs) || | ||
| nowMs - startedAtMs < this.haltDwellMs(haltType) || | ||
| (haltType === "wedged" && | ||
| (episode.halt_episode_observations ?? 0) < this.haltWedgedSweeps) | ||
| ) { | ||
| return episode; | ||
| } |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Reuse isMatureHaltEpisode for the dwell gate.
This inline gate repeats the exact rule in isMatureHaltEpisode (Line 3220): finite start time, elapsed dwell, and the wedged sweep minimum. At this point episode.halt_episode_type equals haltType, so the helper is equivalent.
nearestLiveHaltAncestor uses the helper to decide whether an ancestor is itself halted. Two copies of one threshold rule can drift, and then an ancestor could be judged live by one rule while the child escalates under another.
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- const startedAtMs = Date.parse(episode.halt_episode_started_at ?? "");
- if (
- !Number.isFinite(startedAtMs) ||
- nowMs - startedAtMs < this.haltDwellMs(haltType) ||
- (haltType === "wedged" &&
- (episode.halt_episode_observations ?? 0) < this.haltWedgedSweeps)
- ) {
- return episode;
- }
+ if (!this.isMatureHaltEpisode(episode, nowMs)) {
+ return episode;
+ }
+ const startedAtMs = Date.parse(episode.halt_episode_started_at ?? "");startedAtMs remains needed below for durationSeconds.
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| const startedAtMs = Date.parse(episode.halt_episode_started_at ?? ""); | |
| if ( | |
| !Number.isFinite(startedAtMs) || | |
| nowMs - startedAtMs < this.haltDwellMs(haltType) || | |
| (haltType === "wedged" && | |
| (episode.halt_episode_observations ?? 0) < this.haltWedgedSweeps) | |
| ) { | |
| return episode; | |
| } | |
| if (!this.isMatureHaltEpisode(episode, nowMs)) { | |
| return episode; | |
| } | |
| const startedAtMs = Date.parse(episode.halt_episode_started_at ?? ""); |
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In `@src/agent-engine.ts` around lines 3401 - 3409, Replace the duplicated inline
maturity conditions in the halt escalation flow with the existing
isMatureHaltEpisode helper, while retaining startedAtMs for the later
durationSeconds calculation. Preserve returning the episode whenever the helper
reports the halt is not mature, including dwell and wedged-sweep thresholds.
| const parent = makeServerAgentRecord({ | ||
| agent_id: "retask-parent", | ||
| surface_id: spawned.surface_id, | ||
| workspace_id: spawned.workspace_id, | ||
| state: "working", | ||
| role: "orchestrator", | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value
Give the parent fixture its own surface ref.
The parent record reuses spawned.surface_id, so the parent and the re-tasked child share one surface. Ancestor routing and ancestor-liveness checks both key off the surface, so this fixture cannot distinguish "notified the parent" from "notified the same surface". A distinct surface_id keeps the assertion at line 10126 meaningful if routing changes later.
♻️ Proposed fixture change
const parent = makeServerAgentRecord({
agent_id: "retask-parent",
- surface_id: spawned.surface_id,
+ surface_id: "surface:retask-parent",
workspace_id: spawned.workspace_id,
state: "working",
role: "orchestrator",
});The readAgentScreen mock at line 10102 already returns a live parent screen for every surface, so no other change is needed.
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| const parent = makeServerAgentRecord({ | |
| agent_id: "retask-parent", | |
| surface_id: spawned.surface_id, | |
| workspace_id: spawned.workspace_id, | |
| state: "working", | |
| role: "orchestrator", | |
| }); | |
| const parent = makeServerAgentRecord({ | |
| agent_id: "retask-parent", | |
| surface_id: "surface:retask-parent", | |
| workspace_id: spawned.workspace_id, | |
| state: "working", | |
| role: "orchestrator", | |
| }); |
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In `@tests/server-agent-tools.test.ts` around lines 10070 - 10076, Update the
parent fixture created by makeServerAgentRecord to use a distinct surface_id
instead of spawned.surface_id, while preserving the existing workspace and state
values. Keep the readAgentScreen mock and surrounding routing assertions
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| ): Promise<AgentRecord> { | ||
| const nowMs = this.haltNow(); | ||
| const nowIso = new Date(nowMs).toISOString(); | ||
| if (agent.halt_escalation === false) return agent; |
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When an ancestor is spawned with halt_escalation: false, this early return prevents it from recording idle or wedged episodes, not merely from sending its own notifications. nearestLiveHaltAncestor relies on those persisted episodes to reject idle/wedged sinks, so a halted opted-out parent is permanently selected for a child's alert instead of routing to the nearest actionable grandparent. Keep classification active while applying the opt-out only to dispatch from that agent.
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| const reparented = this.stateMgr.updateRecord(id, { | ||
| parent_agent_id: null, | ||
| parent_agent_id: nextParentId, | ||
| spawn_depth: Math.max(0, nextSpawnDepth), |
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When a root disappears while both its child and grandchild survive, this pass reparents the direct child to depth 0 but never updates the grandchild because its own parent did not crash. The resulting chain has depths 0 and 2, so the grandchild is incorrectly treated as already at MAX_SPAWN_DEPTH and cannot spawn a valid depth-2 child. Recompute spawn_depth for the surviving descendant subtree whenever an ancestor is reparented.
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| episode = this.stateMgr.updateRecord(agent.agent_id, { | ||
| halt_episode_observations: (agent.halt_episode_observations ?? 0) + 1, | ||
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Once a wedged agent has already been notified, every subsequent unchanged sweep still increments halt_episode_observations before the delivered check. Because updateRecord also bumps version/updated_at and appends an event, a wedge that remains parked causes indefinite state-file and event-log writes; the changing updated_at also prevents recordSweepStability from switching the daemon from its 5-second active interval to the idle interval. Return before updating, or cap observations after the required count, once the episode has been delivered.
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Summary
awaiting_input,idle_without_done, andwedgedepisodes during the existing coherent agent-engine sweepdispatchOnceparent-inbox path, with actionable context and nearest-live-ancestor routinghalt_escalation: falseVerification
bun test: 112 files passed; 2,643 tests passed; 1 skippedbun run build: passedbun run pre-pr: typecheck passed; 63 pre-PR harness tests passedgit diff --check: passedLive probes
awaiting_inputnotificationidle_without_donenotificationtail -F: one actionablewedgednotificationNote
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Touches core lifecycle sweeps, parent routing, and inbox delivery with many edge cases (screen vs registry truth, DONE staleness, orchestrator exclusions); broad test coverage mitigates regressions.
Overview
Adds halt escalation during the existing agent-engine sweep: persisted episode state on
AgentRecordclassifies live screens asawaiting_input,idle_without_done, orwedged, waits configurable dwell/sweep thresholds, then sends onedispatchOnceinbox message per episode to the nearest live ancestor (skipping halted parents), with unblock hints and resume fallback—without auto-acting on the child.Schema & API: New halt fields and
halt_escalation(default on) on spawn; env/AgentEngineOptionstune dwell and wedge sweeps. Registry: Orphans after parent crash reparent to the nearest surviving ancestor instead ofnull. Parser: Codex model picker footer recognized as interactive overlay. Re-tasking:markAgentWorkingstampshalt_last_active_atso idle-without-done can fire after a new assignment despite stale DONE metadata.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit a024043. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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Escalate live agent halts to ancestor agents after configurable dwell periods
maybeEscalateLiveHalttosrc/agent-engine.tsto classify live-halt episodes (awaiting_input,idle_without_done,wedged) and dispatch a single notification to the nearest live ancestor after a configurable dwell threshold.src/agent-registry.tsinstead of being detached, preserving a delivery path for lifecycle notices.src/server.tsaccepts a newhalt_escalationboolean flag (defaulttrue) to opt individual agents out of halt notifications.halt_episode_type,halt_last_active_at,halt_last_progress_signature, etc.) are persisted toAgentRecordand initialized on spawn and state load.idle_without_done).Macroscope summarized a024043.
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