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fix(mcp): launch parallel children before waiting - #23256
Submitting two delegate_task calls with mode:"wait" together can delay the second launch until the first wait returns because the provider's MCP client serializes the calls. The guidance did not explain this or require launch confirmation before reporting a child as running.
Change
Tell agents to launch all parallel children with mode:"async", retain the returned task IDs, and confirm launch responses before describing children as running. Apply the guidance to orchestration instructions, the tool description, and the mode parameter description.
vp test run apps/server/src/provider/CodexDeveloperInstructions.test.ts: 16 tests passed on the final head, including the instruction byte limit and delivery order.
Scoped lint, formatting, and git diff --check: passed.
Two independent diff reviews: MERGE, no confirmed findings.
Runtime probe: Codex gpt-6.1-sol; two batched 10-second waits with children running sleep 15. B's tool call started 74 ms after A's wait returned. With async launches, both responses confirmed running task IDs within 795 ms. These baseline probes used the installed host.
Fixed current-main dev build: actual provider context and MCP tools/list expose all three updated guidance surfaces; two async child launches completed before status checks.
No visual paths changed; the visual fixture matrix is empty. No new unit test was added: the serialization occurs in the provider's MCP client before the second request reaches T3, and a source-string assertion would only repeat the guidance. Runtime verification used Codex; Claude direct parallel tool use was not independently rerun.
Models: GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5. Harness: T3 Code through Codex and Claude Code.
…aiting
Batched delegate_task mode='wait' calls can be serialized by the provider's
MCP client before T3 receives them, so "parallel" waited children ran one
after another. Guidance now says to launch every child with mode='async'
first, keep each taskId, and not report a child as running until its launch
response confirms it.
Fixes#23191
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The delegation descriptions clarify worktree isolation and wait behavior. A new evaluation case checks asynchronous launches for parallel child tasks. The configured MCP tool-list byte count decreases from 48131 to 48122.
Changes: Parallel delegated-task guidance
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Clarify and evaluate async-first launches packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/orchestration.ndjson, apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json
The descriptions clarify worktree isolation and state that parallel children must use async; a question or approval ends a wait. The new evaluation case checks separate async calls without wait mode or top-level thread creation. The configured MCP tool-list byte count decreases by 9.
pingdotgg/t3code#11168: The issue concerns long mode: "wait" calls that fail without a taskId; this PR directs agents to launch children asynchronously before waiting.
pingdotgg/t3code#30006: The issue concerns active polling during long waits; this PR directs agents to launch parallel children asynchronously before waiting.
Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#24712: This PR changes t3_thread_wait behavior and its contract for blocking questions and pending approvals, which relates to the updated wait description.
Suggested reviewers:shivamhwp, t3dotgg
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review fbd5b
This change only updates agent guidance and an eval case, with no scheduling or schema changes. The guidance can still leave a second parallel child unlaunched when the agent follows the first async result's "end your turn" instruction. The new eval case would not catch that. Tighten the wording and the case before relying on them.
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Issue #23175 requires four guidance points: use mode:"async" for every parallel child, retain each returned taskId, report a child as running only after the response includes its taskId and runn…
Update the orchestration instructions and the delegate_task description to require retaining every returned taskId, confirming each launch response has the matching running status before reporting the child as running, and starting bloc…
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The changes remain connected to issue #23175. The orchestration eval checks async launch mode for parallel delegates. The context-budget adjustment supports delivery of the updated tool guidance. The …
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The changes remain connected to issue #23175. The orchestration eval checks async launch mode for parallel delegates. The context-budget adjustment supports delivery of the updated tool guidance. The isolation wording cleanup and mode wording change affect the same delegate_task contract surface. No scheduling or wire-schema change is present.
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Issue #23175 requires four guidance points: use mode:"async" for every parallel child, retain each returned taskId, report a child as running only after the response includes its taskId and running status, and start blocking waits only after all launches return. The diff adds only the parallel-async sentence to the mode description. The orchestration instructions and delegate_task description do not add the required task ID, launch-status, or wait-order guidance. The orchestration instruction source still contains no such rule.
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Update the orchestration instructions and the delegate_task description to require retaining every returned taskId, confirming each launch response has the matching running status before reporting the child as running, and starting blocking waits only after all async launch responses return.
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Main rewrote the orchestration instructions and delegate_task schema
tersely. Restate the async-first parallel launch guidance in that style,
measure the context budget, and add an eval case for batched waits.
Fixes#23191
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- Line 12: Update the parallel-delegation instructions so the agent completes
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- Subagents: use your native tool when the child uses your provider, a model it offers, and no settings beyond yours (Claude \`Agent\`, \`run_in_background:false\`; Codex \`spawn_agent\`, then wait). Use \`delegate_task\` for another provider's model, user-asked settings, a separate checkout (\`isolation:"worktree"\`), or \`delegate_task\` by name. A native type on another provider's model counts too. Background agent: \`delegate_task\`, never a background \`Agent\`. Workflow only when asked.
- Call \`orchestrator_capabilities\` once per thread, before the first \`delegate_task\`. Again only after an error or a user-named provider change. Settings go in \`target.options\`. Provider or model unavailable: say so. Never switch unasked, or fall back to native tools, Workflow, or CLIs. Never make a child's checkout in the shell or in \`task\`.
- Every new delegate review or re-check is a new \`delegate_task\` (brief, findings, objections), never a \`t3_thread_send\`. Fix small review findings yourself; start no delegate for them. When told to proceed without a delegate, or to run fewer, \`task_cancel\` the extras. Start no replacement.
- Parallel delegates: start every one with \`mode:"async"\` before any wait and keep each \`taskId\`; batched \`wait\` calls can run one at a time. A child is running only once its launch result says so.
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Defer next until all children are launched.
A running async launch normally returns a next value that says to end the turn. Line 13 tells the agent to follow it. If launches are sequential, the agent can end its turn after the first response, before it launches the remaining children. State that the agent must finish all launch attempts before following next. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the parallel-delegation instructions so the agent completes every child launch attempt before following any `next` value returned by a launch. Preserve the existing async launch, taskId retention, and wait guidance.
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The case can pass when the agent waits after the first async launch and launches the second delegate afterward. In use, that sequence can run the reviews sequentially.
Add an ordering check that permits waits after both launches and permits runs without a wait. The existing order check only considers the first call to each tool.
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Update the ordering assertion for parallel-delegates-launch-async to verify that both delegate launches occur before any wait, rather than checking only the first call to each tool. Allow runs with no wait and waits only after both launches.
The case can pass if the agent says both delegates are running before receiving their launch results. It also never simulates a non-running launch. Add a focused scenario and assertion that reject an unsupported running claim.
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Add a focused orchestration scenario alongside `parallel-delegates-launch-async` that returns a launch result indicating a delegate is not running, and assert the agent does not claim that delegate is running. Keep the existing parallel-launch test focused on launch mode and completion behavior.
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- Line 38: Update the orchestration evaluation checks so each expected file is
matched to a different delegate_task call; allow overlapping file matches within
a call, but require distinct calls to satisfy the two-file case. Adjust the
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Review comments at @evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/orchestration.ndjson:
- Line 38: Update the ordering assertion for parallel-delegates-launch-async to
verify that both delegate launches occur before any wait, rather than checking
only the first call to each tool. Allow runs with no wait and waits only after
both launches.
- Line 38: Add a focused orchestration scenario alongside
`parallel-delegates-launch-async` that returns a launch result indicating a
delegate is not running, and assert the agent does not claim that delegate is
running. Keep the existing parallel-launch test focused on launch mode and
completion behavior.
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Update the orchestration guidance and the `delegate_task` guidance to state that
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cat -n apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts | sed -n '80,155p'
cat -n evals/mcp-tool-use/run.ts | sed -n '1120,1175p;1295,1335p'
rg -n -F -e 'gradeDevice' -e 'gradeSecret' evals/mcp-tool-use/device-grading.ts evals/mcp-tool-use/secret-grading.ts
cat -n evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts | sed -n '105,132p'
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Require two distinct delegate calls.
One async delegate_task that mentions both filenames can pass the case, even though only one review starts. Add a check that assigns each expected file to a different call. The existing distinctCalls check also rejects valid briefs that mention both files, so it needs a matching mode that permits overlapping matches.
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Review comment at @evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/orchestration.ndjson at line 38:
Update the orchestration evaluation checks so each expected file is matched to a different delegate_task call; allow overlapping file matches within a call, but require distinct calls to satisfy the two-file case. Adjust the existing distinctCalls matching behavior without weakening the async-launch requirement.
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Move the parallel-launch rule into the delegate_task mode description and
drop the duplicate 'separate checkout or PR per child' clause from the
isolation description, so the system prompts stay at main's size and the
tool list shrinks.
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- Line 183: Update the guidance string to explicitly require launching every
parallel child before waiting for any child’s result; keep the existing async
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Require all launches before waiting.
Both calls can use async while the agent waits for the first child before launching the second. That preserves the reported serialization failure. State that the agent must launch every parallel child before waiting for any result.
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Update the guidance string to explicitly require launching every parallel child before waiting for any child’s result; keep the existing async and wait guidance intact.
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Check the requested model and provider.
Both expected calls match only the task text. Two async calls to a different model or provider can therefore pass, even though the user requested GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex. Match target.model and target.providerInstanceId for both calls.
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Update the orchestration instructions and the `delegate_task` description to
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The case named #23191, the GitCafe number. On GitHub that is an
unrelated PR; the report is #23175.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An async delegate_task result tells the parent to end its turn. A
parent starting two children could obey that after the first launch,
leaving the second never started while it reported both running. The
orchestration instructions now say to launch every parallel child
before following next, and to call a child running only once its
taskId returns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ordering rule in the orchestration instructions grew both
instruction budgets by 92 bytes. Move it into delegate_task's mode
description, where the parallel rule already lives: start every
parallel child, then follow next, and wait only for one child. The
tool list stays at main's size and the instructions match main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:
Permanent blocker: The supplied reproduction requires an authenticated Codex or Claude Code provider session; first-party ChatGPT and Claude access is listed as unavailable on this VM. The brief prohibits attempting a workaround for unavailable provider access.
Whether both children launch asynchronously before blocking observation remains unverified. Replay scripts the model's actions and cannot establish that the changed description causes different tool choices.
Whether the parent reports a child as running only after receiving its task ID and running status remains unverified.
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Problem
Submitting two
delegate_taskcalls withmode:"wait"together can delay the second launch until the first wait returns because the provider's MCP client serializes the calls. The guidance did not explain this or require launch confirmation before reporting a child as running.Change
Tell agents to launch all parallel children with
mode:"async", retain the returned task IDs, and confirm launch responses before describing children as running. Apply the guidance to orchestration instructions, the tool description, and the mode parameter description.Scope and approval
Fixes #23175
GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23191
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. Guidance only; no scheduling or wire-schema changes.
Verification
vp test run apps/server/src/provider/CodexDeveloperInstructions.test.ts: 16 tests passed on the final head, including the instruction byte limit and delivery order.git diff --check: passed.gpt-6.1-sol; two batched 10-second waits with children runningsleep 15. B's tool call started 74 ms after A's wait returned. With async launches, both responses confirmed running task IDs within 795 ms. These baseline probes used the installed host.tools/listexpose all three updated guidance surfaces; two async child launches completed before status checks.Runtime evidence index, sanitized fixed-build transcript, and proof matrix.
No visual paths changed; the visual fixture matrix is empty. No new unit test was added: the serialization occurs in the provider's MCP client before the second request reaches T3, and a source-string assertion would only repeat the guidance. Runtime verification used Codex; Claude direct parallel tool use was not independently rerun.
Models: GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5. Harness: T3 Code through Codex and Claude Code.