@lmctl-ai/lmctl 0.1.212 → 0.1.214

package/CHANGELOG.md

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 All notable public-preview changes for `@lmctl-ai/lmctl` are recorded here.
 
+## Unreleased
+
+- **A live `lmctl chat` dispatch no longer orphans the receiver's own background
+  work — and its duration is now subtree-bound, not turn-bound.** Previously the
+  provider transport closed the agent's stdin the instant its turn produced
+  visible text; headless `claude -p` treats that as "turn over" and exits, so any
+  dispatches the agent had fired during that turn (its own `lmctl chat` calls to
+  team members) were killed mid-flight along with their completion
+  notifications. The transport now defers that close while the session still has
+  live dispatched work of its own, and for a short quiescence window afterwards
+  so the completion notification is actually delivered.
+- **Consequence for every caller of the synchronous path: a `chat` to an agent
+  that delegates further now returns when that agent's delegated work finishes,
+  not when its own reply is written.** *Do not wrap a live `lmctl chat` call in a
+  fixed `timeout N` — of any duration.* There is no safe fixed `N` when the true
+  duration depends on a delegation subtree, and the `SIGTERM` a timeout sends
+  does not stay contained to the sender: it propagates into the receiver's live
+  turn and can cascade further down the chain. Run the dispatch without a
+  deadline and track completion through your own runtime's background-task
+  notification instead. Receivers that dispatch nothing are unaffected (the
+  no-outstanding-work path is a single check, as before).
+
 ## 0.1.100 — 2026-07-11
 
 - **`lmctl wait` is now state-based, fixing a missed-wake for tracked jobs.** A backgrounded job