@yemi33/minions 0.1.1869 → 0.1.1870

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.1.1870 (2026-05-11)
+
+### Fixes
+- don't kill live agents on premature [process-exit] sentinel
+
 ## 0.1.1869 (2026-05-11)
 
 ### Other

package/engine/timeout.js

@@ -381,8 +381,20 @@ function checkTimeouts(config) {
       const processExitCode = parseProcessExitCode(liveLogTail);
 
       if (processExitCode !== null) {
-        completeFromOutput(item, liveLogPath, processExitCode, liveLogTail, hasProcess);
-        continue; // Skip orphan/hung detection — we handled it
+        // Guard: only complete (and kill) if the tracked process is actually dead.
+        // The sentinel can land in live-output.log while the child is still alive
+        // (race with the engine's stdout-forwarder appendFileSync writes, or a
+        // premature 'close' event on Windows). Without this guard, completeFromOutput
+        // taskkill /F /T's a still-working agent — surfaces as "phantom completion"
+        // mid-multi-turn session. Confirmed 2026-05-11: agents on both Copilot and
+        // Claude died at turn boundaries with claude/copilot.exe still actively
+        // making API calls, with the sentinel + claude events interleaved in the log.
+        if (processAlive) {
+          log('warn', `${item.id}: [process-exit] code=${processExitCode} sentinel found in live-output.log but tracked process (pid=${trackedProcessPid(procInfo) || '?'}) is still alive — treating sentinel as stale/premature, skipping completion`);
+        } else {
+          completeFromOutput(item, liveLogPath, processExitCode, liveLogTail, hasProcess);
+          continue; // Skip orphan/hung detection — we handled it
+        }
       }
       // Note: we DO NOT trigger on `"type":"result"` alone. There is a ~1s race between
       // claude CLI emitting the result event and spawn-agent.js writing [process-exit] —

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@yemi33/minions",
-  "version": "0.1.1869",
+  "version": "0.1.1870",
   "description": "Multi-agent AI dev team that runs from ~/.minions/ — five autonomous agents share a single engine, dashboard, and knowledge base",
   "bin": {
     "minions": "bin/minions.js"