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fix(server): Stop reaches background work only the provider sees - #36596
A provider or model switch is refused while the old session "is still running background agents or commands", and the message says to press Stop. When that work is visible only to the adapter's probe and not to pendingBackgroundTasks, the idle thread shows no Stop control. Even a dispatched thread.stop found no target and never reached the provider, so the refusal kept coming back. In my case the thread was on Codex gpt-6.1-sol, idle with an empty background list, and switching to Claude was refused until the app restarted.
Change
Server:run.interrupt and thread.stop now also ask the latest run's live provider session (sessionHasBackgroundWork, the same probe the refusal uses). When it reports work on a settled run, Stop interrupts it through the existing runtime-restart path. For Codex, that path is limited to the thread's own settled turns, so other threads on the shared app-server are not affected.
Web: when the thread error is this refusal, the error banner offers Stop. It is shown only to users with operate scope.
isBackgroundWorkRefusal lives in packages/shared. The switch test now asserts the server's refusal text matches it, so the two can't drift apart.
Scope
Fixes#36450. This is the "Stop reaching retained probe-only work" gap that #36397 lists as out of scope. It does not cover sessions kept alive by an earlier queued hand-off (#35258's area). Mobile has no change because its Stop control needs an interruptible run; that can be a follow-up if wanted.
Verification
New test row:ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts › "lets Stop release an idle session whose projection has no background work". It fails on main because the send is still refused after Stop, and passes with this change. All 8 background-work rows pass.
vp run check:changed origin/main: format, lint, knip, typecheck of 35 packages, and 13 nearby test files (184 tests) all pass.
Screenshots: the banner from main vs this branch, rendered with the real refusal text.
Before (main):
After:
Not checked: a live run of the dead end in the real app. I couldn't reproduce probe-only work with the replay agent, and the server traces from the original incident had already rotated out.
Who did the work
Investigation by GPT-6.1 Sol, in Codex
Fix revised and verified by Claude Opus 5.5 (high effort), in Claude Code
A switch refused over background work tells the user to press Stop, but
when that work is visible only to the adapter probe (Claude native
subagents, held wakes, Codex settled-turn work) the thread shows no Stop
control and thread.stop never reached the provider. Stop now probes the
latest run's live session and interrupts it, and the thread error banner
offers Stop on that refusal.
Fixespingdotgg#36450
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Stop now reaches provider-only background work, with a Stop button shown when that work prevents switching. The change reuses the existing thread-scoped interrupt flow and remains explicitly user-triggered.
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Walkthrough
The server now checks provider sessions for live background work when selecting a run to interrupt. Web and mobile notices can show a Stop action for background-work refusal errors when the user can operate the thread.
Changes: Stop idle background work
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Summary
Detect and stop live background work apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts
Run interruption and thread-stop dispatch check whether a provider session has live background work. Integration tests cover stopping work reported by the provider after a run settles and after a handoff refusal.
A shared predicate identifies background-work refusal messages. When thread operations are available and the error matches, web and mobile notices can show Stop and invoke the supplied callback.
Stop now also reaches background work that only the provider session reports after a run settles, including a run still in the waiting state. The web banner and the mobile notice offer Stop only to users who can operate the thread. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed changes.
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Title check
The title names the main change: Stop now reaches background work that only the provider session reports. The changeset adds a provider-session probe to run.interrupt and thread.stop, and a Stop actio…
Description check
The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the refusal message, the missing Stop control, and the reproduction context. T…
Linked Issues check
Directly linked issue #36450 requires an accessible Stop action when the 'press Stop' background-work refusal appears on an idle thread. Server: Orchestrator.ts adds runHasLiveBackgroundWork, which pr…
Out of Scope Changes check
All changed areas map to the Stop-control objective of #36450. Server: Orchestrator.ts adds the probe check and providerSessions reads that it needs. Shared: packages/shared adds isBackgroundWorkRefus…
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The title names the main change: Stop now reaches background work that only the provider session reports. The changeset adds a provider-session probe to run.interrupt and thread.stop, and a Stop action in the error banner for this refusal, which matches the title. The title uses the conventional commit form and is specific.
Full details: Description check
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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the refusal message, the missing Stop control, and the reproduction context. The Change section lists server, web, and shared-helper changes and why. The Scope section links #36450, says the fix is a bug fix, and names what is excluded. The Verification section names a specific new test row, the commands run, and screenshots. It also states what was not checked. The model and harness are listed at the end, as the template asks. The only gap is that the Scope section does not say whether a maintainer requested the PR, which the template treats as optional.
Full details: Linked Issues check
Explanation
Directly linked issue #36450 requires an accessible Stop action when the 'press Stop' background-work refusal appears on an idle thread. Server: Orchestrator.ts adds runHasLiveBackgroundWork, which probes the run's live provider session with sessionHasBackgroundWork. thread.stop and run.interrupt use this probe, so Stop reaches work that pendingBackgroundTasks does not show. Web: ThreadErrorBanner shows a Stop action when isBackgroundWorkRefusal(error) is true and onStop is provided. ChatView passes onStop only for users with operate scope. Test: ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts adds the row 'lets Stop release an idle session whose projection has no background work'. The PR reports that this row fails on main and passes with the change. The head commit history confirms the mobile Stop commits (5c72160, 40ff89c). Not verified: the claim that the Codex restart path is limited to the thread's own settled turns. That logic is in existing runtime-restart code and was not inspected. This affects correctness, not requirement coverage. No live reproduction in the real app was performed, as the PR states.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
All changed areas map to the Stop-control objective of #36450. Server: Orchestrator.ts adds the probe check and providerSessions reads that it needs. Shared: packages/shared adds isBackgroundWorkRefusal, used by the web banner and the test. Web: ChatView, ChatBannerLane, and ThreadErrorBanner add the Stop action. Tests: ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts and BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts cover this path. Mobile: ComposerErrorNotice.tsx and ThreadDetailScreen.tsx add a Stop action for the same refusal. This implements the same objective, so it is not unrelated. The PR description states that mobile has no change, which contradicts the head commits 'fix(mobile): offer Stop on the background-work refusal' and 'fix(mobile): keep Stop on the refusal notice until the stop is accepted'. The PR description should be corrected before merge. The PR excludes the queued hand-off case (#35258), and the reviewed changes contain no work for that case. The Codex scope note is a correctness question not verified here.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Line 12913: Update the probe guard in dispatchThreadStop so a waiting run with
a completed provider turn can be probed even when isActiveRun(run) returns true,
while preserving existing behavior for other active runs. Extend the existing
regression case to cover a waiting run with a completed provider turn and an
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Allow provider-only background work on a waiting run.
If the latest run is waiting, its provider turn can already be completed while checkpoint drain continues. With an empty background projection, dispatchThreadStop selects this run through the new probe. However, isActiveRun(run) returns true for waiting, so this branch skips the probe. Both provider-turn lookups then reject the completed turn. Stop falls back without scheduling an interrupt, leaving the background work running.
Allow the probe for this ended-turn state. Extend an existing regression case to cover waiting with a completed provider turn and no projected background work.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts at line 12913:
Update the probe guard in dispatchThreadStop so a waiting run with a completed provider turn can be probed even when isActiveRun(run) returns true, while preserving existing behavior for other active runs. Extend the existing regression case to cover a waiting run with a completed provider turn and an empty background projection.
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A run stays waiting after its provider turn ends until checkpoint capture
finishes. Stop picked it through the probe but run.interrupt skipped the
probe for waiting runs, so no interrupt reached the provider.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The refusal tells users to press Stop, but mobile's Stop needs an active
run or projected background tasks, and work only the provider sees has
neither. The composer error now offers Stop to operators, dispatching
thread.stop without a run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx:
- Line 1752: Update the Stop action flow around clearThreadComposerError and
interruptThreadTurn so the composer error is cleared only after an accepted Stop
succeeds. Preserve the error when interruptThreadTurn fails, returns without
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The notice was cleared before the stop was sent, so a failed or skipped
stop left no way to retry it.
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Problem
A provider or model switch is refused while the old session "is still running background agents or commands", and the message says to press Stop. When that work is visible only to the adapter's probe and not to
pendingBackgroundTasks, the idle thread shows no Stop control. Even a dispatchedthread.stopfound no target and never reached the provider, so the refusal kept coming back. In my case the thread was on Codex gpt-6.1-sol, idle with an empty background list, and switching to Claude was refused until the app restarted.Change
run.interruptandthread.stopnow also ask the latest run's live provider session (sessionHasBackgroundWork, the same probe the refusal uses). When it reports work on a settled run, Stop interrupts it through the existing runtime-restart path. For Codex, that path is limited to the thread's own settled turns, so other threads on the shared app-server are not affected.isBackgroundWorkRefusallives inpackages/shared. The switch test now asserts the server's refusal text matches it, so the two can't drift apart.Scope
Fixes #36450. This is the "Stop reaching retained probe-only work" gap that #36397 lists as out of scope. It does not cover sessions kept alive by an earlier queued hand-off (#35258's area). Mobile has no change because its Stop control needs an interruptible run; that can be a follow-up if wanted.
Verification
New test row:
ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts› "lets Stop release an idle session whose projection has no background work". It fails onmainbecause the send is still refused after Stop, and passes with this change. All 8 background-work rows pass.vp run check:changed origin/main: format, lint, knip, typecheck of 35 packages, and 13 nearby test files (184 tests) all pass.Screenshots: the banner from
mainvs this branch, rendered with the real refusal text.Before (
main):After:
Not checked: a live run of the dead end in the real app. I couldn't reproduce probe-only work with the replay agent, and the server traces from the original incident had already rotated out.
Who did the work
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