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fix(agents): request orderly shutdown on settlement before escalating termination (#1740) - #1775
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: requesting orderly shutdown after agent settlement before termination escalation. Linked Issues check Issue [ #1740] requires orderly shutdown after settlement, bounded escalation, and distinct cleanup state.lib/agents-runner.tsnow endschild.stdin, setslastSteptocleaning up, waits for `cl…Out of Scope Changes check The changes stay within [ #1740]. The runner implementation, fake child behavior, and tests support settlement cleanup and escalation. The task document records the same implementation work. No unrelat…Full details: Linked Issues check
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#1740] requires orderly shutdown after settlement, bounded escalation, and distinct cleanup state.lib/agents-runner.tsnow endschild.stdin, setslastSteptocleaning up, waits forcleanupTimeoutMswith a 5,000 ms default, and then sendsSIGTERMfollowed bySIGKILL. The tests cover clean exit without signals and escalation after the cleanup window.
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- Line 862: Move the cleanupDeadlineAt assignment in the group cleanup flow to
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| live.terminal = { status, error }; | ||
| live.mutationStarts.clear(); | ||
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| live.cleanupDeadlineAt = this.deps.now() + GROUP_CONFIRM_DEADLINE_MS; |
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Start the confirmation deadline when SIGKILL is sent.
With the default 5,000 ms cleanup timeout, this 1,000 ms deadline expires before the SIGKILL callback calls confirmGroupExit. If the child has not emitted exit yet, confirmation can immediately mark a successful settlement as failed and quarantine its capacity. Start cleanupDeadlineAt immediately before SIGKILL so the existing confirmation window remains available.
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Move the cleanupDeadlineAt assignment in the group cleanup flow to immediately
before SIGKILL is sent, so confirmGroupExit retains its full confirmation window
after the kill; avoid starting the deadline earlier.
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| const killTimer = timers.find((t) => !t.cancelled && t.ms === 250); | ||
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Advance the harness clock in this test.
Direct timer callbacks do not update clock. If cleanupDeadlineAt moves back to settlement time, the test can still pass because confirmGroupExit sees only the small now() increments. Use advance so the test observes the elapsed cleanup and termination periods.
💚 Proposed fix
- const { store, runner, children, timers } = harness({
+ const { store, runner, children, timers, advance } = harness({
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- const cleanupTimer = timers.find((t) => !t.cancelled && t.ms === 5_000);
- assert.ok(cleanupTimer, "cleanup timeout timer must be scheduled");
- cleanupTimer.fn();
+ assert.ok(timers.some((t) => !t.cancelled && t.ms === 5_000), "cleanup timeout timer must be scheduled");
+ advance(5_000);
await tick();
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- const killTimer = timers.find((t) => !t.cancelled && t.ms === 250);
- assert.ok(killTimer, "SIGKILL timer must be scheduled");
- killTimer.fn();
+ assert.ok(timers.some((t) => !t.cancelled && t.ms === 250), "SIGKILL timer must be scheduled");
+ advance(250);
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Review comment at @tests/agents-runner.test.ts around lines 1058 - 1068:
Update the test’s harness setup to expose its advance function, and use advance
for the 5,000 ms cleanup period and 250 ms termination grace instead of invoking
timer callbacks directly. Keep assertions that verify each timer is scheduled,
so the test advances the clock while preserving timer-scheduling checks.
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I traced the premise of this change against the real RPC child rather than only the fake, and it holds: the runner spawns pi --mode rpc (lib/agents-runner.ts:318), and Pi's RPC mode registers process.stdin.on("end", onInputEnd) where onInputEnd calls shutdown() (@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent@1.2.0, dist/modes/rpc/rpc-mode.js:639-642). That shutdown() awaits runtimeHost.dispose() before exiting (:579-595), so ending stdin really is an orderly-shutdown request and not a no-op — the fix addresses the reported race instead of swapping one kill for another.
The escalation chain is also sound, and for a non-obvious reason worth recording: if dispose() hangs, a SIGTERM arriving later hits the if (shuttingDown) process.exit(exitCode) guard (:580-583), so the 5 s + 250 ms backstop cannot be swallowed by the in-progress shutdown. cleanupDeadlineAt being set immediately before SIGKILL (lib/agents-runner.ts:983) keeps the full confirmation window intact, and exited → completeExit → cleanupLive cancels the pending grace timer, so a child that exits on EOF leaves no timer behind.
Verification run on the PR head (70bff6d4b): tests/agents-runner.test.ts 102/103 pass, and the single failure (retains permission broker fd3 and assigns messaging IPC to fd4, which compares a full env object) fails identically on the merge base c5313157b — Windows spawn injects TEMP/TMP — so it is pre-existing and unrelated. node scripts/check-types.mjs reports 0 diagnostics.
Two non-blocking notes.
1. The fake cannot separate "exited on EOF" from "exited because we killed it"
tests/agents-fake-child.ts:41-46 (new) emits exit in a queueMicrotask from stdin.end, gated by options.exitOnKill — the same flag that governs kill (:52-56). As a result the assertions in tests/agents-runner.test.ts:926-927 and :989-991 ("the child is stopped via orderly shutdown", "no kill signals sent during orderly settlement") cannot distinguish the two behaviors: one flag switches both exits off together, and the fake always exits on the next microtask, so "no SIGTERM" is true by construction rather than because the child honored EOF.
The missing case is the one #1740 is actually about: a child whose dispose() completes after a bounded, non-zero delay. Today the fake either exits immediately or never, so the middle of the new 5 s window is untested. An independent option (e.g. exitOnStdinEnd) plus a test that ends stdin, advances ~2 s of fake time, asserts killed is still empty and the task is still RUNNING with lastStep: "cleaning up", then exits and asserts COMPLETED with no signals, would lock the behavior this PR introduces.
2. odd/tasks/fix-1740-subagent-settlement-orderly-shutdown.md describes code that was not written
Step 2 asks for stdin.on("finish") and an exitOnEnd flag in tests/agents-fake-child.ts; the implementation overrides stdin.end() instead and exitOnEnd does not exist. Step 3 also ticks "run full test suite and typecheck" — on Windows at least one unrelated test fails on the merge base as well (see above), so that checkbox is not reproducible as stated. Worth correcting so the task file matches the diff.
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Closes #1740
Problem
The installed gentle-pi 4.0.0 runner handled
agent_settledby callingrequestStop, sendingSIGTERMimmediately and schedulingSIGKILLafter 250 ms, without awaiting asynchronous cleanup completion.In Pi RPC mode, closing
stdintriggers orderly shutdown: Pi awaitsruntimeHost.dispose()and runs all asynchronoussession_shutdownextension hooks. Extensions such as Engram have a 3-second timeout to persist session closure andended_atin the daemon. Immediate signal termination nuke-killed the child process beforesession_shutdowncould complete (related incident: Gentleman-Programming/engram#1632).Solution
TASK_EVENT.AGENT_SETTLEDoccurs, request orderly shutdown by closingchild.stdin.end(), allowing Pi to await runtime disposal and allsession_shutdownhooks.cleanupTimeoutMstoRunnerLimits(defaulting to 5,000 ms, giving ample headroom for Engram's 3-second timeout and runtime cleanup).SIGTERMand thenSIGKILLafterTERMINATION_GRACE_MS. Clean exits during the window cancel the escalation timers and complete with zero kill signals sent.lastStep: "cleaning up"so in-flight session shutdown remains clearly distinguishable from settled task completion.Verification
agent_settled,AgentRunnercloseschild.stdinwithout sendingSIGTERMimmediately, distinguishes in-flight cleanup vialastStep: "cleaning up", and completes cleanly with 0 kill signals sent when the child exits.cleanupTimeoutMs,AgentRunnerescalates toSIGTERMand thenSIGKILL.tests/agents-runner.test.tspass.pnpm typecheck: 0 regressions.Summary by CodeRabbit