@ferris1225/pi-subagents 4.3.6 → 4.3.7

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package/CHANGELOG.md CHANGED
@@ -4,6 +4,39 @@ Published versions of `@ferris1225/pi-subagents`. Unpublished numbers
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  (`4.2.3`, `4.2.6`, `4.2.9`–`4.2.11`) never shipped on npm; their changes
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+ ## 4.3.7
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+ - Make `subagent_control steer` continue rather than reject a thread that is no longer
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+ live: a child that reached `completed` or `failed` before guidance lands (including
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+ settlement between the state check and RPC acceptance) and a `parked` thread both
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+ resume the same stable id with the guidance as their appended objective and retained
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+ context when available.
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+ - Add `subagent_control park`: pause a running thread at a stable checkpoint, keep its
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+ session and active worktree, write its durable record immediately, and return the
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+ usage so far with the resume handle. Only an active running attempt with a retained
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+ session can be parked; the generation body leaves publication to the park owner.
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+ - Reject an exact re-run of a finished brief while the thread that did the work still
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+ holds its retained session, pointing at `resume` with an appended objective or at a
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+ brief that states what changed. Active duplicates are still named first.
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+ - Rewrite the injected delegation directive around the brief contract a memoryless child
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+ needs (objective and done condition, exact paths, established facts with citations,
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+ boundaries, expected output), effort scaling, the steer/resume/park/stop routing for
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+ follow-up work, and reading a truncated result's artifact only when the excerpt is
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+ insufficient. The `subagent` task parameter states the same contract.
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+ - Deepen the built-in roles: scout, artisan, and steward start from the brief's cited
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+ facts and stop at its done condition, resolve ambiguity by naming the reading taken
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+ instead of asking, scout never drafts fixes or patches and marks unverified
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+ conclusions `(inferred)`, artisan stops and reports a wrong premise instead of
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+ substituting a change, steward runs only the checks that cover its own edits, and
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+ every role reports each check as `command → result`.
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+ - Tell a resumed child that the workspace may have changed while the thread was inactive
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+ so it re-reads a file before editing it, and frame an appended-objective resume as a
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+ continuation of the same thread rather than sending the bare objective.
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+ - Clear a stopped generation's recorded child pids once its process tree has closed, so a
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+ long-lived parked record can never direct a later restore at a reassigned pid. Remove
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+ an unreachable objective-replacement prompt branch and the never-populated
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+ `SessionSeed.prompt`.
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  ## 4.3.6
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package/README.md CHANGED
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  ## What's new
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- **4.3.6** — adds live parent-mediated steering for running children, delivers background
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- completions and stop results at the next safe parent boundary, and hardens durable
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- recovery paths without treating Git worktrees as a security sandbox.
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+ **4.3.7** — never pay for the same phase twice: the delegation directive now carries a
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+ full brief contract and effort scaling, `steer` continues a settled or parked thread with
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+ its guidance instead of rejecting it, `subagent_control park` pauses a running thread at
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+ a stable checkpoint for a later resume, an exact re-run of a finished brief is rejected in
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+ favor of resuming its retained context, and resumed children re-read files the workspace
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+ may have changed underneath them. Role prompts start from the brief's evidence and stop
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+ at its done condition.
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  See [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md).
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  - [The team](#the-team)
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  - [Dispatching work](#dispatching-work)
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  - [Parallel edits](#parallel-edits)
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- - [Threads: steer, resume, stop](#threads-steer-resume-stop)
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+ - [Threads: steer, resume, park, stop](#threads-steer-resume-park-stop)
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  - [Live status and results](#live-status-and-results)
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  - [Models, thinking, and tools](#models-thinking-and-tools)
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  - [Configuration](#configuration)
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  - The main model gets a cost-aware routing contract and proactively delegates
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  substantial self-contained phases when a fresh context saves more work than its
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- handoff costs.
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- - One active normalized task and working directory owns its phase, so an exact
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- duplicate dispatch is rejected instead of paying twice.
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+ handoff costs. Every brief carries the objective and done condition, exact paths,
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+ facts already established with citations, boundaries, and the expected output, so a
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+ child starts from evidence instead of re-deriving it.
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+ - One normalized task and working directory owns its phase: an exact duplicate of an
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+ active run is rejected, and an exact re-run of a finished brief with retained
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+ context is rejected in favor of resuming it, so the same work is never bought twice.
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+ - Follow-up work stays on the same thread: `steer` a running phase, `resume` or
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+ `park` a thread with its retained context, `stop` a phase the evidence made moot.
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  - Background completions and stop results arrive at the next parent model boundary;
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  `wait: true` returns the same result in-turn instead. A run uses exactly one route.
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  - Parallel writers use detached Git worktrees without touching your index.
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  | `steward` | Full | One final cleanup and cross-cutting docs/comment sync pass after a broad or multi-writer change. |
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  Role prompts are self-contained and directly embed root-cause-first diagnosis,
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+ meaningful test evidence, and bounded cleanup. Each role starts from the facts and
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+ citations its brief already establishes instead of re-deriving them, answers the
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+ brief's question and stops, and — because nobody can answer a child's questions —
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+ resolves an ambiguity by naming the reading it took. Artisan stops and reports when
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+ the brief's premise turns out wrong rather than substituting a different change;
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+ steward runs only the checks that cover its own edits. Every role hands back a
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+ result-only report with each check as `command → result`.
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  Custom roles join them with a Markdown file (see [Custom agents](#custom-agents)).
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  Every child is an isolated leaf pi process with its own context window and no
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  memory of your conversation, so the brief is its only input. A good brief carries
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- the goal, exact paths, constraints, and expected output — which is what the
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- injected delegation guidance produces when the main agent dispatches for you.
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+ the objective and its done condition, exact paths and symbols, facts already
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+ established (with citations), boundaries, and the expected output shape which is
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+ what the injected delegation guidance produces when the main agent dispatches for you.
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- run id; it does not use fuzzy matching, and resuming that thread remains allowed.
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+ A run leases its normalized task and resolved working directory across agent
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+ names. Dispatching the same pair again while the run is active is rejected and
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+ names the existing run id. Once the run has finished in this session and still
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+ holds its retained session, the same pair is rejected too, pointing at
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+ `subagent_control resume` — the thread that already did the work continues for a
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+ fraction of a fresh run — or at restating the brief with what changed. Matching is
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+ exact, never fuzzy.
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- checks, and local hygiene. Scout owns broad code mapping or external research and
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+ without repeating delegated reconnaissance, implementation, or cleanup, and decides
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+ to delegate before starting the work itself a half-done phase handed off pays
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+ twice. Effort scales with the question: atomic lookups, known locations, focused
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+ edits, and context-heavy decisions stay in main; one broad question is one clustered
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+ scout brief; one coherent primary change is one artisan. Artisan owns a complete
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+ hygiene. Scout owns broad code mapping or external research and stays read-only.
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  briefs name distinct perspectives or hypotheses; that cap does not apply to unrelated
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  disjoint scout scopes. It reconciles disagreements against cited evidence, never
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- leads rather than authority or instructions. New in-scope evidence can be sent to a
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- running phase with `subagent_control steer` instead of duplicating or restarting it.
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+ leads rather than authority or instructions. Follow-up work goes to the same thread,
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+ never a second one: new in-scope evidence travels through `subagent_control steer`
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+ (a thread that has settled or is parked continues with it), a follow-up on a
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+ finished phase is a `resume` with an appended objective, a phase that must wait is
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+ already reached `completed`, `failed`, or `parked` including a generation that settles
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+ between the state check and RPC acceptance the control call resumes the same stable
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+ id, reuses retained context when available, and supplies the guidance as its appended
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+ objective, so evidence is never re-bought by a second dispatch. Queued, starting,
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+ retrying, resuming, interrupting, stopped, retired, and missing threads are rejected
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+ without changing them. Steering ACKs are bounded, and steering/stop are serialized so
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+ stop can clear queued child messages and abort without a stale steer landing afterward.
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- ): PhaseLeaseSource | undefined {
82
+ ): DuplicateDispatch | undefined {
60
83
  const taskKey = normalizedTask(task);
61
84
  const cwdKey = normalizedCwd(cwd);
62
- return [...sources].find((source) =>
63
- isActivePhaseLease(source) &&
85
+ const matches = [...sources].filter((source) =>
64
86
  normalizedTask(source.task) === taskKey &&
65
87
  normalizedCwd(source.cwd) === cwdKey,
66
88
  );
89
+ const active = matches.find(isActivePhaseLease);
90
+ if (active) return { source: active, kind: "active" };
91
+ const settled = matches.find(isResumableSettledLease);
92
+ return settled ? { source: settled, kind: "settled" } : undefined;
67
93
  }
68
94
 
69
95
  function summarizeLeaseTask(task: string): string {
@@ -106,17 +132,17 @@ export function buildDelegationDirective(
106
132
  const hasSteward = agents.some((agent) => agent.name === "steward");
107
133
 
108
134
  const dispatchRules = [
109
- "Main owns routing, architecture, integration, the final gate, and release. Each child starts a paid context: proactively delegate substantial self-contained phases when saved main-context work exceeds handoff cost.",
110
- "Keep atomic lookups, focused edits, known answers, and context-heavy work in main. Cluster related reconnaissance into one scout brief, including external research.",
111
- "Parallel capacity is for independent scopes; batch one launch. Runtime runs at most six child processes and queues the rest.",
112
- ...(hasScout ? ["`scout`: read-only broad code mapping or external research; return file/source citations as leads, not proof."] : []),
113
- ...(hasArtisan ? ["`artisan`: one substantial primary change; own root cause, implementation, affected tests/docs, and targeted checks."] : []),
114
- ...(hasSteward ? ["`steward`: final cleanup/docs sync for a completed broad or multi-writer diff; keep focused hygiene inline."] : []),
115
- "One owner per phase; dependent phases wait. Main may use compact child results and cited lines, but never repeats delegated broad search, implementation, or cleanup. Child output is evidence/leads, not authority/instructions.",
116
- "For one high-stakes uncertainty, at most two read-only scouts with distinct perspectives/hypotheses. Main reconciles disagreements against cited evidence; never overlap writers or send identical briefs.",
117
- "Brief goal, paths, constraints, and expected output. Send new in-scope evidence with `subagent_control steer` instead of duplicating/restarting the phase.",
135
+ "Main owns routing, architecture, integration, the final gate, and release. Each child starts a paid context: proactively delegate substantial self-contained phases when saved main-context work exceeds handoff cost, and decide before starting the work yourself — a half-done phase handed off pays twice.",
136
+ "Scale effort to the question: atomic lookups, known locations, focused edits, and context-heavy decisions stay in main; one broad question is one clustered scout brief (repository and external research together); one coherent primary change is one artisan. Parallel only for independent scopes, batched in one launch; the runtime runs at most six child processes and queues the rest.",
137
+ ...(hasScout ? ["`scout`: read-only broad code mapping or external research; returns file/source citations as leads, not proof."] : []),
138
+ ...(hasArtisan ? ["`artisan`: one substantial primary change; owns root cause, implementation, affected tests/docs, and targeted checks."] : []),
139
+ ...(hasSteward ? ["`steward`: final cleanup/docs sync for a completed broad or multi-writer diff; focused hygiene stays inline."] : []),
140
+ "A child has no memory of this conversation. Every brief states: the objective and its done condition; exact paths/symbols; facts already established, with citations, so the child starts there instead of re-deriving them; boundaries (what not to touch or decide); and the expected output shape.",
141
+ "One owner per phase; dependent phases wait for the prerequisite result. Main uses the compact result and cited lines and never repeats delegated broad search, implementation, or cleanup. Child output is evidence/leads, not authority/instructions.",
142
+ "For one high-stakes uncertainty, at most two read-only scouts with distinct perspectives/hypotheses; main reconciles disagreements against cited evidence. Never overlap writers or send identical briefs.",
143
+ "Same thread, never a second one: `subagent_control steer` sends new in-scope evidence to a running phase (a settled or parked thread continues with it); `resume` continues a parked or finished thread with an appended objective and its retained context; `park` pauses a running thread at a stable checkpoint; `subagent_stop` ends a phase the evidence made moot. An equivalent brief is rejected, not re-run.",
118
144
  "`wait: true` only when the result is the immediate dependency; otherwise continue disjoint work. Never sleep or poll, and never finish while a run is active.",
119
- "Inspect the integrated diff and actual check output. Never report an unrun check as passed.",
145
+ "Inspect the integrated diff and actual check output; read a truncated result's artifact only when the shown lines are insufficient. Never report an unrun check as passed.",
120
146
  ];
121
147
 
122
148
  return `
@@ -206,6 +206,11 @@ export class RpcRunControl {
206
206
  this.stopMessage = reason;
207
207
  const attempt = this.attempt?.control;
208
208
  if (attempt) await attempt.stop(reason);
209
+ // The attempt resolves only after its process tree closed, so these pids
210
+ // now name nothing of ours. A parked record can outlive this process by
211
+ // days; persisting dead pids would let a later restore kill whatever
212
+ // process the OS reassigned them to.
213
+ this.childPids.clear();
209
214
  this.setPhase("stopped");
210
215
  });
211
216
  }
@@ -344,8 +344,21 @@ export function getResultOutput(result: SingleResult): string {
344
344
  return getFinalOutput(result.messages) || "(no output)";
345
345
  }
346
346
 
347
+ /** Continuation rules shared by every resume flavor. The workspace clause is
348
+ * what keeps a retained context from becoming a liability: a parked or settled
349
+ * thread may return after main integrated sibling worktrees or edited the tree
350
+ * itself, so a file read in an earlier generation is not proof of its content. */
351
+ const RESUME_CONTINUATION_RULES =
352
+ "Your earlier work — searches, reads, edits, and reasoning — is preserved in this session's history above; review it before acting. Do not redo searches, reads, or edits that already succeeded. The workspace may have changed while this thread was inactive: before editing a file, re-read it unless you read it during this continuation. Finish with the result-only handoff your role requires.";
353
+
347
354
  export function buildResumePrompt(task: string, reason: string): string {
348
- return `You are resuming an earlier sub-agent session after ${reason}. Your earlier work — searches, reads, edits, and reasoning — is preserved in this session's history above; review it before acting. Current objective: ${task}. Pick up exactly where you left off and finish it. Do NOT redo searches, reads, or edits you already completed unless a step clearly failed. Continue now.`;
355
+ return `You are resuming an earlier sub-agent session after ${reason}. ${RESUME_CONTINUATION_RULES} Current objective: ${task}. Pick up exactly where you left off and finish it. Continue now.`;
356
+ }
357
+
358
+ /** A resume with an appended objective continues the same thread: the new
359
+ * objective is guidance layered on retained context, not a restart. */
360
+ export function buildAppendedObjectivePrompt(previousTask: string, objective: string): string {
361
+ return `You are continuing an earlier sub-agent session with an appended objective from the parent. ${RESUME_CONTINUATION_RULES} Previous objective: ${previousTask}. Appended objective: ${objective}. Complete the appended objective on top of the work already done, without restarting from scratch. Continue now.`;
349
362
  }
350
363
 
351
364
  /** Create a fresh private session directory under the given root. The owner
@@ -440,12 +453,7 @@ export async function runSingleAgent(options: RunSingleOptions): Promise<SingleR
440
453
  const disposition = controlledDisposition(options);
441
454
  if (disposition) return disposition;
442
455
  const objective = control?.getObjective() ?? options.task;
443
- let prompt = options.stdinText ?? `Task: ${objective}`;
444
- if (control && objective !== options.task) {
445
- prompt = options.sessionDir && sessionExists(options.sessionDir, options.sessionId ?? "")
446
- ? `Abandon the previous objective. New objective: ${objective}`
447
- : `Task: ${objective}`;
448
- }
456
+ const prompt = options.stdinText ?? `Task: ${objective}`;
449
457
  const result = await runRpcAgentAttempt({
450
458
  defaultCwd: options.defaultCwd,
451
459
  agent,
@@ -27,11 +27,12 @@ import {
27
27
  queuedResult,
28
28
  } from "../presentation/format.ts";
29
29
  import { monitor } from "../presentation/monitor.ts";
30
- import { findDuplicateActiveDispatch } from "../delegation/prompt.ts";
30
+ import { findDuplicateDispatch } from "../delegation/prompt.ts";
31
31
  import { persistRecoveryRecords, recoveryRecordFromFinalization } from "../isolation/recovery.ts";
32
32
  import type { SubagentRuntime, SubagentThread, ThreadState } from "./runtime.ts";
33
33
  import { forkRetainedSession } from "../execution/session-fork.ts";
34
34
  import {
35
+ buildAppendedObjectivePrompt,
35
36
  buildResumePrompt,
36
37
  getProjectRoot,
37
38
  RpcRunControl,
@@ -135,12 +136,21 @@ export function createBackgroundDispatcher(options: BackgroundDispatcherOptions)
135
136
 
136
137
  const originalCwd = resolve(cwd ?? runCtx.cwd);
137
138
  if (!existingThread) {
138
- const duplicate = findDuplicateActiveDispatch(runtime.threads.values(), task, originalCwd);
139
- if (duplicate) {
139
+ const duplicate = findDuplicateDispatch(runtime.threads.values(), task, originalCwd);
140
+ if (duplicate?.kind === "active") {
140
141
  return failedStartResult(
141
142
  agentName,
142
143
  task,
143
- `Duplicate active dispatch matches run #${duplicate.id} (${duplicate.agentName}). Use that logical thread instead; resume #${duplicate.id} when it is eligible.`,
144
+ `Duplicate active dispatch matches run #${duplicate.source.id} (${duplicate.source.agentName}). Use that logical thread instead; resume #${duplicate.source.id} when it is eligible.`,
145
+ );
146
+ }
147
+ if (duplicate?.kind === "settled") {
148
+ // The same brief on the same tree would re-buy work whose result main
149
+ // already holds; the retained session continues it for a fraction.
150
+ return failedStartResult(
151
+ agentName,
152
+ task,
153
+ `Run #${duplicate.source.id} (${duplicate.source.agentName}) already ${duplicate.source.state} this exact brief and kept its context; its result was delivered. Resume #${duplicate.source.id} with an appended objective instead of paying for a second run, or restate the brief with what changed.`,
144
154
  );
145
155
  }
146
156
  }
@@ -333,9 +343,9 @@ export function createBackgroundDispatcher(options: BackgroundDispatcherOptions)
333
343
  ? {
334
344
  sessionId: priorSessionId,
335
345
  sessionDir: priorSessionDir,
336
- stdinText: seed?.prompt ?? (appendedObjectiveOnResume
337
- ? task
338
- : buildResumePrompt(priorTask ?? task, "the retained thread was resumed")),
346
+ stdinText: appendedObjectiveOnResume
347
+ ? buildAppendedObjectivePrompt(priorTask ?? task, task)
348
+ : buildResumePrompt(priorTask ?? task, "the retained thread was resumed"),
339
349
  }
340
350
  : {}),
341
351
  },
@@ -375,17 +385,19 @@ export function createBackgroundDispatcher(options: BackgroundDispatcherOptions)
375
385
 
376
386
  const lifecycleInterrupted = (): boolean =>
377
387
  thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop" ||
388
+ thread.lifecycleOperation === "park" ||
378
389
  thread.state === "stopped";
379
- // Destructive stop owns publication once it has synchronously claimed
380
- // the lifecycle. Leave the partial result/session on the thread; the
381
- // stop path waits for this queue task, finalizes isolation, and emits
382
- // exactly one aborted result.
383
- if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop") return;
390
+ // Destructive stop and park own publication once they have
391
+ // synchronously claimed the lifecycle. Leave the partial result/session
392
+ // on the thread; stop waits for this queue task, finalizes isolation,
393
+ // and emits exactly one aborted result, while park records the
394
+ // checkpoint and answers through its own tool result.
395
+ if (lifecycleInterrupted()) return;
384
396
 
385
397
  // A shutdown can win in the microtask gap after the child RPC
386
398
  // settles. Never replace the stable top-level session with an
387
399
  // aborted partial.
388
- if (backgroundSignal.aborted || lifecycleInterrupted() || !runtime.sessionActive) return;
400
+ if (backgroundSignal.aborted || !runtime.sessionActive) return;
389
401
 
390
402
  if (thread.retireOnSettle) runtime.retireThreadSession(thread);
391
403
  // Claim terminal settlement synchronously before the first slow await.
@@ -471,9 +483,9 @@ export function createBackgroundDispatcher(options: BackgroundDispatcherOptions)
471
483
  () => {
472
484
  if (runtime.threads.get(runId)?.generation !== generation) return;
473
485
  // A destructive stop owns publication and may still be finalizing an
474
- // isolated worktree. Do not expose a terminal monitor state before
475
- // that owner records the aborted result.
476
- if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop") return;
486
+ // isolated worktree; a park owns the checkpoint. Do not expose a
487
+ // terminal monitor state before that owner records its outcome.
488
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop" || thread.lifecycleOperation === "park") return;
477
489
  runtime.runControllers.delete(runId);
478
490
  thread.queueController = undefined;
479
491
  thread.state = "stopped";
@@ -487,9 +499,10 @@ export function createBackgroundDispatcher(options: BackgroundDispatcherOptions)
487
499
  async (error) => {
488
500
  if (runtime.threads.get(runId)?.generation !== generation) return;
489
501
  // Queue-level crashes use the same settlement reservation as ordinary
490
- // results. A concurrent destructive stop may supersede it while slow
491
- // worktree finalization is running, in which case stop publishes once.
492
- if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop") return;
502
+ // results. A concurrent destructive stop or park may supersede it while
503
+ // slow worktree finalization is running, in which case that owner
504
+ // publishes once.
505
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop" || thread.lifecycleOperation === "park") return;
493
506
  const settlementVersion = ++thread.lifecycleVersion;
494
507
  thread.lifecycleOperation = "settle";
495
508
  const ownsSettlement = (): boolean =>
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ export interface DispatchEnvironment {
184
184
  export interface SessionSeed {
185
185
  sessionId?: string;
186
186
  sessionDir?: string;
187
- prompt?: string;
188
187
  worktree?: WorktreeIsolation;
189
188
  }
190
189
 
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
1
1
  /**
2
- * Thread controls around the subagent runtime: subagent_control (steer/resume)
3
- * and destructive subagent_stop. There is no status/poll tool — completions carry
4
- * each result (with an on-disk artifact when truncated) and wake the main
5
- * model, so waiting is never a tool call; the only in-turn block is `wait:
6
- * true` on a dispatch, for one-shot parents that exit at end of turn.
2
+ * Thread controls around the subagent runtime: subagent_control
3
+ * (steer/resume/park) and destructive subagent_stop. There is no status/poll
4
+ * tool — completions carry each result (with an on-disk artifact when
5
+ * truncated) and wake the main model, so waiting is never a tool call; the only
6
+ * in-turn block is `wait: true` on a dispatch, for one-shot parents that exit
7
+ * at end of turn.
7
8
  */
8
9
 
9
10
  import { StringEnum } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai";
@@ -15,10 +16,10 @@ import { DEFAULT_MAX_RESULT_LINES, loadConfig } from "../configuration/config.ts
15
16
  import { removeThreadRecord } from "./durable.ts";
16
17
  import { formatCompletionBlock, matchRunIds } from "../presentation/format.ts";
17
18
  import { emptyUsage } from "../execution/rpc-control.ts";
18
- import { formatTaskSummary, monitor } from "../presentation/monitor.ts";
19
+ import { formatTaskSummary, formatUsageCompact, monitor } from "../presentation/monitor.ts";
19
20
  import { persistRecoveryRecords, recoveryRecordFromFinalization } from "../isolation/recovery.ts";
20
21
  import type { SubagentRuntime, SubagentThread } from "./runtime.ts";
21
- import { CONTROL_QUIESCE_TIMEOUT_MS, projectResultsRoot, quiesced } from "./thread-shared.ts";
22
+ import { CONTROL_QUIESCE_TIMEOUT_MS, persistThreadCheckpoint, projectResultsRoot, quiesced } from "./thread-shared.ts";
22
23
  import { getResultOutput, type SingleResult } from "../execution/spawn.ts";
23
24
  import type { WorktreeFinalization } from "../isolation/worktree.ts";
24
25
 
@@ -34,19 +35,24 @@ function renderFirstLine(result: { content?: unknown }, label: string, theme: an
34
35
 
35
36
  export function registerLookupTools(pi: ExtensionAPI, runtime: SubagentRuntime): void {
36
37
  const SubagentControlParams = Type.Object({
37
- action: StringEnum(["resume", "steer"] as const, {
38
- description: "Control operation for the logical sub-agent thread.",
38
+ action: StringEnum(["steer", "resume", "park"] as const, {
39
+ description:
40
+ "steer: send guidance to the running attempt (a settled or parked thread continues with it); resume: continue a parked or settled thread; park: pause a running thread at a stable checkpoint, keeping its session and worktree for a later resume.",
39
41
  }),
40
42
  id: Type.Integer({ minimum: 1, description: "Stable run id shown by subagent dispatch output." }),
41
43
  objective: Type.Optional(
42
- Type.String({ description: "Guidance for steer (required and nonblank), or an optional appended objective for resume." }),
44
+ Type.String({ description: "Guidance for steer (required and nonblank), or an optional appended objective for resume. Ignored by park." }),
43
45
  ),
44
46
  });
45
47
 
48
+ /** A thread that a steer can continue instead of reject: it is not live, but
49
+ * its retained session can absorb the guidance as an appended objective. */
50
+ type ContinuableState = "completed" | "failed" | "parked";
51
+
46
52
  pi.registerTool({
47
53
  name: "subagent_control",
48
54
  label: "Subagent Control",
49
- description: "Steer an active running child with additional guidance, or resume a parked/settled thread by stable run id.",
55
+ description: "Steer a running child with additional guidance (continuing it if it has settled or is parked), resume a parked/settled thread, or park a running thread at a stable checkpoint, by stable run id.",
50
56
  parameters: SubagentControlParams,
51
57
 
52
58
  async execute(_toolCallId, params, _signal, _onUpdate, ctx) {
@@ -61,69 +67,152 @@ export function registerLookupTools(pi: ExtensionAPI, runtime: SubagentRuntime):
61
67
  const trimmed = value?.trim();
62
68
  return trimmed ? trimmed : undefined;
63
69
  };
70
+ const textResult = (text: string) => ({ content: [{ type: "text" as const, text }], details: {} });
71
+ /** Why the thread has no steerable/parkable running RPC attempt right now. */
72
+ const inactiveReason = (): string | undefined => {
73
+ // Park drives the control through `stopped` before it records the
74
+ // checkpoint, so the operation is named ahead of the transient state.
75
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "park") return "parking";
76
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop" || thread.state === "stopped") return "stopped";
77
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "resume") return "resuming";
78
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "settle" || thread.state === "completed" || thread.state === "failed") {
79
+ return `settled (${thread.state})`;
80
+ }
81
+ if (thread.state === "queued" || thread.state === "resuming") {
82
+ const phase = thread.control.getPhase();
83
+ return phase === "starting" || phase === "retrying" ? phase : thread.state;
84
+ }
85
+ return thread.state === "running" ? undefined : thread.state;
86
+ };
87
+ const resumeThread = async (
88
+ objective: string | undefined,
89
+ continuedFrom?: ContinuableState,
90
+ ) => {
91
+ if (thread.retired) {
92
+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} was retired by subagent_stop and has no resumable session.`);
93
+ }
94
+ if (
95
+ thread.state !== "parked" &&
96
+ thread.state !== "completed" &&
97
+ thread.state !== "failed"
98
+ ) {
99
+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} is ${thread.state}; it must be parked or settled before resume.`);
100
+ }
101
+ const requestedObjective = objective === undefined ? undefined : nonBlank(objective);
102
+ if (objective !== undefined && !requestedObjective) {
103
+ return textResult("resume objective must be non-blank when provided.");
104
+ }
105
+ const hadRetainedSession = Boolean(thread.sessionId && thread.sessionDir);
106
+ const pending = await thread.resume(requestedObjective, ctx);
107
+ if (pending.exitCode !== -1) return textResult(getResultOutput(pending));
108
+ const currentObjective = formatTaskSummary(requestedObjective ?? thread.task, 80, false);
109
+ const mode = requestedObjective
110
+ ? `appended objective: ${currentObjective}`
111
+ : `continuing current objective: ${currentObjective}`;
112
+ const context = hadRetainedSession ? "retained context reused" : "no prior child context";
113
+ const prefix = continuedFrom
114
+ ? `Run #${thread.id} was already ${continuedFrom} before steering; resumed the same thread`
115
+ : `Resumed run #${thread.id}`;
116
+ return textResult(`${prefix}: ${mode}; ${context}.`);
117
+ };
118
+ /** Steering guidance for a thread that is no longer live continues the
119
+ * same thread with that guidance instead of being dropped, so the
120
+ * evidence is never re-bought by a second dispatch. */
121
+ const continueSteer = async (objective: string) => {
122
+ const continuable = (): ContinuableState | undefined =>
123
+ thread.state === "completed" || thread.state === "failed" || thread.state === "parked"
124
+ ? thread.state
125
+ : undefined;
126
+ if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "settle" || (!continuable() && thread.control.getPhase() === "settled")) {
127
+ if (!(await quiesced(thread.generationCompletion))) return undefined;
128
+ }
129
+ const state = continuable();
130
+ if (!state || thread.lifecycleOperation) return undefined;
131
+ return resumeThread(objective, state);
132
+ };
64
133
 
65
134
  try {
66
135
  switch (params.action) {
67
136
  case "steer": {
68
137
  const objective = nonBlank(params.objective);
69
138
  if (!objective) {
70
- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: "steer objective must be non-blank." }], details: {} };
139
+ return textResult("steer objective must be non-blank.");
71
140
  }
72
141
  if (thread.retired) {
73
- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Run #${thread.id} was retired by subagent_stop and cannot be steered.` }], details: {} };
142
+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} was retired by subagent_stop and cannot be steered.`);
74
143
  }
75
- let unavailable: string | undefined;
76
- if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "stop" || thread.state === "stopped") unavailable = "stopped";
77
- else if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "park") unavailable = "parking";
78
- else if (thread.lifecycleOperation === "settle") unavailable = `settled (${thread.state})`;
79
- else if (thread.state === "completed" || thread.state === "failed") unavailable = `settled (${thread.state})`;
80
- else if (thread.state === "queued" || thread.state === "resuming") {
81
- const phase = thread.control.getPhase();
82
- unavailable = phase === "starting" || phase === "retrying" ? phase : thread.state;
83
- } else if (thread.state !== "running") unavailable = thread.state;
144
+ const continued = await continueSteer(objective);
145
+ if (continued) return continued;
146
+ const unavailable = inactiveReason();
84
147
  if (unavailable) {
85
- return {
86
- content: [{ type: "text", text: `Run #${thread.id} is ${unavailable}; only an active running RPC attempt can be steered. No guidance was sent.` }],
87
- details: {},
88
- };
148
+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} is ${unavailable}; only an active running RPC attempt can be steered. No guidance was sent.`);
89
149
  }
90
150
  const steered = await thread.control.steer(objective);
91
151
  if (!steered.accepted) {
152
+ const resumed = await continueSteer(objective);
153
+ if (resumed) return resumed;
92
154
  if (steered.reason === "no-active-attempt") {
93
- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Run #${thread.id} is marked running but has no active RPC attempt; no guidance was sent.` }], details: {} };
155
+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} is marked running but has no active RPC attempt; no guidance was sent.`);
94
156
  }
95
- return {
96
- content: [{ type: "text", text: `Run #${thread.id} is ${steered.phase}; only an active running RPC attempt can be steered. No guidance was sent.` }],
97
- details: {},
98
- };
157
+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} is ${steered.phase}; only an active running RPC attempt can be steered. No guidance was sent.`);
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  }
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- return {
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- content: [{ type: "text", text: `Steered run #${thread.id} with additional in-scope guidance; its original objective is unchanged.` }],
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- details: {},
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- };
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+ return textResult(`Steered run #${thread.id} with additional in-scope guidance; its original objective is unchanged.`);
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  }
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  case "resume": {
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+ return resumeThread(params.objective);
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+ }
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+ case "park": {
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  if (thread.retired) {
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- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Run #${thread.id} was retired by subagent_stop and has no resumable session.` }], details: {} };
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+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} was retired by subagent_stop and cannot be parked.`);
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  }
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- if (!(["parked", "completed", "failed"] as const).includes(thread.state as any)) {
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- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Run #${thread.id} is ${thread.state}; it must be parked or settled before resume.` }], details: {} };
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+ const unavailable = inactiveReason();
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+ if (unavailable) {
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+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} is ${unavailable}; only an active running RPC attempt can be parked. Use subagent_stop to discard a run that has not started.`);
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  }
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- const objective = params.objective === undefined ? undefined : nonBlank(params.objective);
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- if (params.objective !== undefined && !objective) {
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- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: "resume objective must be non-blank when provided." }], details: {} };
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+ if (!thread.sessionId || !thread.sessionDir) {
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+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} has no retained session yet; steer it or let it settle instead.`);
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  }
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- const hadRetainedSession = Boolean(thread.sessionId && thread.sessionDir);
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- const pending = await thread.resume(objective, ctx);
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- if (pending.exitCode !== -1) {
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- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: getResultOutput(pending) }], details: {} };
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+ // Park interrupts the child at its next safe point but keeps the
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+ // session and worktree, so the thread returns to `parked`, not to a
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+ // failure. Claim synchronously like stop; the generation body sees
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+ // the claim and leaves publication to this path.
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+ const parkVersion = ++thread.lifecycleVersion;
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+ thread.lifecycleOperation = "park";
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+ const generation = thread.generation;
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+ const controller = thread.queueController;
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+ const completion = thread.generationCompletion;
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+ const ownsPark = (): boolean =>
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+ runtime.threads.get(thread.id) === thread &&
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+ thread.generation === generation &&
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+ thread.lifecycleVersion === parkVersion &&
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+ thread.lifecycleOperation === "park" &&
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+ !thread.retired;
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+ try {
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+ await quiesced(thread.control.stop("Parked by subagent_control at a stable checkpoint.").catch(() => undefined));
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+ if (!(await quiesced(completion))) runtime.backgroundQueue.cancel(controller);
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+ if (!ownsPark()) {
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+ return textResult(`Run #${thread.id} changed while it was being parked; no checkpoint was recorded by this call.`);
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+ }
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+ if (runtime.runControllers.get(thread.id) === controller) runtime.runControllers.delete(thread.id);
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+ if (thread.queueController === controller) thread.queueController = undefined;
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+ thread.state = "parked";
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+ monitor.setStatus(thread.id, "parked");
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+ thread.elapsedMs = monitor.getElapsedMs(thread.id) ?? thread.elapsedMs;
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+ persistThreadCheckpoint(runtime, thread, "parked");
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+ const run = monitor.findRun(thread.id);
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+ const usage = run ? formatUsageCompact(run.usage) : "";
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+ if (runtime.sessionActive) {
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+ ctx.ui.notify(`■ #${thread.id} ${run ? monitor.summarize(run) : thread.agentName} · parked`, "info");
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+ }
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+ const retained = thread.isolation === "worktree" ? "session and worktree" : "session";
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+ return textResult(
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+ `Parked run #${thread.id} (${thread.agentName}) at a stable checkpoint${usage ? ` after ${usage}` : ""}. Its retained ${retained} continue on subagent_control resume (optionally with an appended objective) or on steer; subagent_stop discards them.`,
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+ );
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+ } finally {
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+ if (thread.lifecycleVersion === parkVersion && thread.lifecycleOperation === "park") {
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+ thread.lifecycleOperation = undefined;
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+ }
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  }
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- const currentObjective = formatTaskSummary(objective ?? thread.task, 80, false);
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- const mode = objective
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- ? `appended objective: ${currentObjective}`
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- : `continuing current objective: ${currentObjective}`;
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- const context = hadRetainedSession ? "retained context reused" : "no prior child context";
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- return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Resumed run #${thread.id}: ${mode}; ${context}.` }], details: {} };
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  }
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  }
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  } catch (error) {