fix(agents): route incoming session messages through the prompt-lifecycle delivery router (#1638) - #1639
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughIncoming orchestrator messages now use shared delivery routing. The implementation handles idle, active-run, and busy-without-a-run states. It also discards held messages when the session changes and guards history restoration against session-check errors. ChangesOrchestrator Message Delivery
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participant SessionTransport
participant deliverOrchestratorMessage
participant HeldMessageQueue
participant sendToParent
participant ParentRun
SessionTransport->>deliverOrchestratorMessage: deliver incoming session message
alt Parent busy without an active run
deliverOrchestratorMessage->>HeldMessageQueue: enqueue message
HeldMessageQueue->>sendToParent: flush at delivery boundary
else Parent idle or has an active run
deliverOrchestratorMessage->>sendToParent: route message
end
sendToParent->>ParentRun: deliver as follow-up when a run is active
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Review comments at @extensions/gentle-agents.ts:
- Around line 740-751: Ensure held orchestrator messages are released when
`/tree` summarization completes or is cancelled, rather than waiting for an
unrelated `flushAll` boundary. Update the `/tree` lifecycle handling alongside
`flushOrchestratorMessages` to flush the queue at those boundaries;
alternatively, add a bounded re-check while held messages remain so delivery
retries without unbounded polling.
Review comments at @odd/tasks/prompt-lifecycle-remaining-paths.md:
- Line 17: The state-map row for incoming orchestrator session messages is
stale: update it to show that routing is now handled by T1, or move it to a
before-fix note; update the reference to the listener call near
gentle-agents.ts:503 if the row remains.
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| const flushOrchestratorMessages = () => { | ||
| if (heldOrchestratorMessages.length === 0) return; | ||
| const route = deliveryRoute(false); | ||
| if (!route) return; | ||
| const held = heldOrchestratorMessages; | ||
| heldOrchestratorMessages = []; | ||
| for (const { message, recipientSessionId } of held) { | ||
| if (activeSessionId() !== recipientSessionId) continue; | ||
| try { sendToParent(message, route, "followUp"); } | ||
| catch { /* Best-effort delivery: at most once, even if forwarding fails. */ } | ||
| } | ||
| }; |
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rg -n 'session_tree|flushAll|agent_settled|summar' extensions/gentle-agents.ts lib/agents-session-transport.ts
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Release held orchestrator messages after /tree summarization.
When /tree branch summarization holds the parent without an active run, deliverOrchestratorMessage adds the acknowledged message to heldOrchestratorMessages. flushOrchestratorMessages runs only through flushAll, and /tree has no release event. The message can therefore remain queued after summarization completes until an unrelated boundary occurs. A later issue link does not release the message.
Add a bounded re-check while held messages exist, or handle the /tree completion and cancellation boundaries so the queue flushes without waiting for unrelated user activity.
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Review comment at @extensions/gentle-agents.ts around lines 740 - 751:
Ensure held orchestrator messages are released when `/tree` summarization
completes or is cancelled, rather than waiting for an unrelated `flushAll`
boundary. Update the `/tree` lifecycle handling alongside
`flushOrchestratorMessages` to flush the queue at those boundaries;
alternatively, add a bounded re-check while held messages remain so delivery
retries without unbounded polling.
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Valid if this PR merged alone: a session message held while /tree summarizes waits for the next boundary. Held child content behaves the same way on main, a limitation #1631's task notes already record.
This is fixed in #1640, which is stacked on this PR. It is kept out of here so this PR stays scoped to routing.
session_treeschedules the same next-tick boundary flush as compaction.- While anything is held for a parent that is busy without a run, a held-only re-check runs every
HOLD_RECHECK_MS(1 s). It covers held session messages, owed wakes and pending child content. It is never armed when nothing is held, and it is cancelled by a delivering flush or a session change.
Commit a93e4e8f has real-host tests for a completed and a cancelled /tree summarization. Both time out on this branch and pass with the change.
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@BGamboa13 Thanks for clarifying the scope. The finding remains valid on this branch, but #1640 covers the release boundaries and the held-only re-check. No duplicate fix is needed in #1639.
I’ll leave this finding open because #1639 alone still has the limitation.
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Repo: Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell PR: 1639
File: extensions/gentle-agents.ts:740-751
Timestamp: 2026-10-01T20:45:54.718Z
Learning: In Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell, parent delivery in extensions/gentle-agents.ts shares lifecycle boundaries across held orchestrator session messages, pending child content, and owed wakes. A session_tree boundary can release content after completed summarization, but cancelled summarization also needs a release path. Any held-content re-check should run only while content or a wake remains held, and should stop after a delivering flush or a session change.
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…ycle delivery router The orchestrator_send_message receiver handed every message to the host with sendMessage(followUp, triggerTurn). On an idle receiver that turn skipped before_agent_start (Gentleman-Programming#1528 on another path), and during a compaction with no run it started a direct run in the middle of compaction. Session messages now take the Gentleman-Programming#1631 router: a running receiver keeps the follow-up route, an idle one stores the message and gets one coalesced wake through the prompt lifecycle, and one busy without a run holds it until the next boundary. A real-host test runs Pi's AgentSession with the faux provider and asserts that every provider request went through before_agent_start. That test also found that restoreSessionHistory read ctx.sessionManager outside its try, so a shutdown during the disk read raised an unhandled "ctx is stale" rejection. A stale context now returns as the stale restore the check already exists for. Refs Gentleman-Programming#1638
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Refs #1638 (part 1 of 2; #1640 closes it). The issue is still
status:needs-review, and I'm happy to reshape this to the design you approve.Problem
#1631 routes child output through the idle/run/hold router. The
orchestrator_send_messagereceiver, however, still callssendMessage(followUp, triggerTurn)onmain:before_agent_start. This is bug(prompt): background subagent completion turn fails on claude-bridge (prompt-capture miss; appended harness likely missing) #1528 on another path.Approach
tests/agents-prompt-lifecycle-runtime.test.ts, uses the real PiAgentSession, the faux provider and the real extension factory. Every provider request must carry a marker added inbefore_agent_start.restoreSessionHistorywhen a shutdown lands during the disk read. A stale context now returns as the stale restore the check already exists for (7 lines).Verification
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main@4fcddc2fas a single commit.main'sextensions/gentle-agents.ts, 7 new tests fail, and all of them pass here:maintoo, by design.gentle-agents178/178.HOME:check:runtime-modules,verify-package-filesandtest:packed-packagepass.pnpm testshows no failures beyond the fouron a TTY …launcher tests, which fail identically on a cleanmainin the same environment.Out of scope
/treeholds and the pre-run wake race are handled in fix(agents): release held content after /tree and keep idle wakes from racing a starting prompt (#1638) #1640.Summary by CodeRabbit