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fix: relaunch a daemon worker as soon as its launching MCP sees it die - #1727
Part 2 of #1702. A worker that dies without notice (SIGKILL, OOM, a crash) is now reported by the MCP that launched it, so the daemon replaces it at once instead of waiting the 30-second reconnect window. A worker that only loses its socket still gets the window.
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Details
The launching MCP keeps the published worker's child handle instead of dropping it at ReuseWorker, and checks it in both of its loops. Once the process has exited, it sends a new WorkerExited command with the launch activation ID.
The daemon accepts the report only from an authenticated MCP on the worker's own route, and only after the worker's control connection has closed. While the connection is open it answers 409, which the MCP retries for up to 1 s, because the socket can close a moment after the process. An accepted report reuses part 1's exit marker, so the worker is expired at once and a replacement is nominated.
The daemon advertises worker_exit_report_v1. The MCP only watches when the daemon has it, since an older daemon closes the control connection on an unknown command.
Docs updated in reference.mdx, architecture.mdx and operations.mdx (new event worker_exit_reported).
Real Claude Code 2.1.316 through the daemon on release/0.11, mock provider, ATOF sink, worker gets SIGKILL:
before
after
Worker control lost to worker_failed
30.0 s
12 ms
Replacement worker added after that
0.2 s
0.2 s
Turns during the gap, default mode
0 ATOF lines
3, same as before the kill
A turn during the gap, --require-worker
35.1 s
0.4 s
Tests: socket tests for a reported crash skipping the grace, a refusal while the worker is still connected, a report from another route, and unknown or oversized activation IDs. MCP tests for seeing the child exit, reporting from supervise_route while it waits on the broker, the 409 retry, stopping when the worker is already gone, no report to a daemon without the capability, and the published child handed back after launch cleanup. just test-rust: 6720 passed.
cargo deny fails on release/0.11 itself with RUSTSEC-2026-0486 (xattr via tar). This PR doesn't touch dependencies.
Limits: a worker whose launching MCP has already exited, or a daemon without worker_exit_report_v1, still gets the 30 s window.
Not run: Windows, remote TLS workers.
Where should the reviewer start?
worker_exited in crates/cli/src/daemon/broker/server/socket.rs, then take_exited_worker and report_worker_exited in crates/cli/src/daemon/mcp/mod.rs.
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When a launched worker exits unexpectedly and its control connection closes, the launching MCP client can report the exit to the daemon. Accepted reports skip the reconnect grace period so a replacement can start sooner.
Reports are accepted only for a known worker on the same route; workers with an active control connection are not treated as exited.
Documentation
Updated worker lifecycle guidance to explain exit reporting, acceptance conditions, recovery timing, and the related lifecycle event.
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Walkthrough
The control protocol adds worker-exit reports. When the daemon advertises support, the MCP tracks eligible published workers and reports a child process exit. The broker validates each report and schedules immediate expiry for a matching disconnected worker, bypassing the reconnect grace period.
Changes
Worker exit reporting
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Report contract and request transport crates/cli/src/daemon/common/control.rs, crates/cli/src/daemon/common/socket.rs
The protocol adds a worker-exit capability, payload, and command. The client separates request enqueueing from reply handling while preserving existing response handling.
MCP worker tracking and reporting crates/cli/src/daemon/mcp/mod.rs, crates/cli/tests/coverage/daemon/mcp_tests.rs, docs/daemon/*
The MCP retains eligible published child handles, polls for exits, and reports activation IDs. It retries only while the worker control connection remains connected. Tests cover tracking, reporting, retries, capability handling, and request ordering. The lifecycle documentation describes the reporting path and event.
Broker validation and immediate expiry crates/cli/src/daemon/broker/server/socket.rs, crates/cli/tests/coverage/daemon/socket_tests.rs
The broker validates the authenticated MCP session, route, activation ID, and worker connection state. It schedules immediate expiry for a matching disconnected worker. Tests cover accepted and rejected reports.
sequenceDiagram
participant MCP as MCP session
participant Worker as Worker process
participant Broker as Broker
participant Peer as Disconnected worker peer
MCP->>Worker: Poll watched child status
Worker-->>MCP: Process exited
MCP->>Broker: Report WorkerExited with activation ID
Broker->>Broker: Validate route and disconnected control connection
Broker->>Peer: Mark exiting and schedule immediate expiry
LoadingMerge Risk: Low · up to c0ce3
The change makes the daemon replace a crashed worker immediately when the launching MCP reports its exit. In the rare case where the MCP control link drops or the daemon does not answer at that moment, replacement falls back to the existing 30-second wait. It is mergeable, with the follow-up noted.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to c0ce3
The change speeds crash recovery while retaining authentication and ownership checks. No concrete security regression was established, but uncommon replacement races and broader impact remain only partially verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — In the inspected path, an authenticated same-route MCP that knows a matching activation can shorten a disconnected worker’s recovery window. This creates lifecycle authority over that worker, but the inspected handler does not authorize direct reports against a different fingerprint or a currently connected worker.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new command uses existing session-secret, payload-hash, sequence and request-ID checks. Released sessions are rejected, duplicate authenticated requests return without repeating the transition, and worker lookup requires both activation and authenticated fingerprint.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The MCP queues the report before awaiting its reply and retains the reply receiver in a bounded task. This preserves the spent sequence number’s frame ordering even when the shorter report-response window expires.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — As defense in depth, revalidate activation and fingerprint after acquiring the worker transaction so identity fencing remains explicit if a custom or future worker reuses an ID. This is not a verified replacement exploit: standard launches generate fresh UUIDs and admission rejects IDs already present.
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Directly linked issue [#1702] has two coding requirement groups.
(1) Signal (SIGTERM) exit replacement within one second, and the 30 s window for socket-only loss. At the base revision, `crates/cli/s…
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All listed changes map to [#1702] part 2 (SIGKILL or OOM exit reporting). socket.rs adds the WorkerExited handler. common/control.rs adds the worker_exit_report_v1 capability and `WorkerExited…
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The title uses the allowed type "fix" with a lowercase imperative summary. It is 70 characters, under the 72-character limit, and has no trailing period. It matches the main change: the launching MCP reports a dead worker so the daemon relaunches it without waiting for the reconnect window.
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Directly linked issue [#1702] has two coding requirement groups.
(1) Signal (SIGTERM) exit replacement within one second, and the 30 s window for socket-only loss. At the base revision, crates/cli/src/daemon/worker/runtime.rs already defines EXIT_ANNOUNCEMENT_TIMEOUT and calls request_exit("signal") on shutdown, so the worker-side announcement exists before this PR. This PR does not change runtime.rs. The daemon-side handling (exiting_workers in the broker socket server) was confirmed in the prior review at the reviewed head. In this pass, the base read of crates/cli/src/daemon/broker/server/socket.rs failed, so the daemon-side SIGTERM path was not re-read. That failure does not prove absence. This PR does not claim the signal path, and the PR description calls itself part 2.
(2) SIGKILL or OOM replacement without the 30 s window. This PR covers it. The MCP keeps the published child handle (mcp/mod.rs), checks it in both loops, and sends WorkerExited with the launch activation ID. The daemon accepts the report only from an authenticated MCP on the worker's route and only after the control connection closes. A connected worker gets 409, which the MCP retries for up to 1 s. An accepted report reuses the exit marker and expires the worker at once. Socket tests cover the reported-crash skip, the refusal while connected, a report from another route, and unknown or oversized activation IDs. MCP tests cover child-exit detection, reporting during supervise_route, the 409 retry, the capability gate, and launch cleanup. The socket-loss window is kept for workers with no report, and the PR documents its limits.
The SIGTERM daemon-side path was not re-verified in this pass. The prior PASS is preserved on the basis of the earlier reviewed-head evidence.
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All listed changes map to [#1702] part 2 (SIGKILL or OOM exit reporting). socket.rs adds the WorkerExited handler. common/control.rs adds the worker_exit_report_v1 capability and WorkerExitedPayload. common/socket.rs adds Command::WorkerExited, PendingReply, enqueue, and reply, which support the new request path. mcp/mod.rs adds child monitoring, the 409 retry, and the capability gate. The mcp_tests.rs and socket_tests.rs changes test this behavior. mcp_with_credential in the socket tests is a test helper that supports the new cases. The three docs files describe the new lifecycle and the worker_exit_reported event. No binding API, plugin API, dependency manifest, or unrelated product area appears in the summary. The cargo deny failure is a stated pre-existing condition on release/0.11, not a change in this PR.
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Review comments at @crates/cli/src/daemon/mcp/mod.rs:
- Around line 981-983: Update take_exited_worker and the report_worker_exited
flow to retain the activation ID when reporting fails transiently, so a later
successful re-registration can retry the pending report. Clear the pending
report only after the broker accepts it or confirms the worker is gone.
- Around line 1014-1017: Update the retry flow for the WorkerExited request
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bounds each in-flight request by the remaining time, and caps the 100 ms retry
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Review comments at @crates/cli/tests/coverage/daemon/socket_tests.rs:
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Keep the exit report pending after a transient control failure.
take_exited_worker removes the only watched handle before report_worker_exited sends its request. If that request fails because the MCP control connection drops, the error branch stops reporting. A subsequent successful re-registration has no activation ID to retry, so the dead worker remains in its 30-second grace period. Retain a pending report until the broker accepts it or establishes that the worker is gone. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/cli/src/daemon/mcp/mod.rs around lines 981 - 983:
Update take_exited_worker and the report_worker_exited flow to retain the activation ID when reporting fails transiently, so a later successful re-registration can retry the pending report. Clear the pending report only after the broker accepts it or confirms the worker is gone.
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Leaving this one. The report is lost only if the MCP's control link drops or the broker doesn't answer within the 1 s window, right as the worker dies. Then the worker falls back to the 30 s grace it had before this PR. Keeping the report across a re-registration would add a retry queue for that race.
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@Somay-kousis Understood. If no report is accepted, the worker falls back to the 30-second reconnect grace. A timeout does not necessarily mean the report was lost: the spawned request can still complete afterward.
cat -n crates/cli/tests/daemon_worker_idle_tests.rs | sed -n '510,670p'
cat -n crates/cli/tests/coverage/daemon/server_tests.rs | sed -n '1720,1855p'
cat -n crates/cli/tests/coverage/daemon/socket_tests.rs | sed -n '2000,2061p'
rg -n -i -e 'crash|sigkill|kill|exit|relaunch|replacement' crates/cli/tests/daemon_worker_idle_tests.rs crates/cli/tests/daemon_hook_tests.rs crates/cli/tests/coverage/daemon/mcp_tests.rs
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Cover the crash-to-replacement path.
The MCP tests cover exit detection and reporting separately. This test injects the report and stops at nomination. Add an integration test that kills the worker, checks for replacement within one second, and checks that the next request uses it.
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The worker-exit test stops at nomination and does not cover recovery. Extend the test around the worker_exited request to kill the worker, verify a replacement is available within one second, and confirm the next request is handled by that replacement.
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Leaving this one too. The real SIGKILL run in the PR body goes from kill to replacement to the next request through Claude Code. The socket test covers report to nomination, and the MCP tests cover detection and reporting.
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@Somay-kousis Understood. The reported SIGKILL run covers the end-to-end path, and the automated tests cover detection, reporting, and nomination separately. I won’t press for another test.
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Test the next request after a report timeout.
frames.try_recv() confirms only that the broker received a frame. It does not check whether a delayed report can overtake the next authenticated request. Add a timeout-before-enqueue case. Then assert that the next control request succeeds in sequence. (raw.githubusercontent.com) As per path instructions, “Tests should cover the behavior promised by the changed API surface, including error paths and cross-request isolation where relevant.”
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Overview
Part 2 of #1702. A worker that dies without notice (SIGKILL, OOM, a crash) is now reported by the MCP that launched it, so the daemon replaces it at once instead of waiting the 30-second reconnect window. A worker that only loses its socket still gets the window.
Details
ReuseWorker, and checks it in both of its loops. Once the process has exited, it sends a newWorkerExitedcommand with the launch activation ID.worker_exit_report_v1. The MCP only watches when the daemon has it, since an older daemon closes the control connection on an unknown command.reference.mdx,architecture.mdxandoperations.mdx(new eventworker_exit_reported).Real Claude Code 2.1.316 through the daemon on
release/0.11, mock provider, ATOF sink, worker gets SIGKILL:worker_failed--require-workerTests: socket tests for a reported crash skipping the grace, a refusal while the worker is still connected, a report from another route, and unknown or oversized activation IDs. MCP tests for seeing the child exit, reporting from
supervise_routewhile it waits on the broker, the 409 retry, stopping when the worker is already gone, no report to a daemon without the capability, and the published child handed back after launch cleanup.just test-rust: 6720 passed.cargo denyfails onrelease/0.11itself with RUSTSEC-2026-0486 (xattrviatar). This PR doesn't touch dependencies.Limits: a worker whose launching MCP has already exited, or a daemon without
worker_exit_report_v1, still gets the 30 s window.Not run: Windows, remote TLS workers.
Where should the reviewer start?
worker_exitedincrates/cli/src/daemon/broker/server/socket.rs, thentake_exited_workerandreport_worker_exitedincrates/cli/src/daemon/mcp/mod.rs.Related Issues: (use one of the action keywords Closes / Fixes / Resolves / Relates to)
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