Fix interrupted child redelegation by PierrunoYT · Pull Request #1905 · Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code

PierrunoYT · 2026-10-04T15:54:01Z

Summary

explicitly reactivate interrupted tasks after the user accepts the resume prompt
serialize delegated-child resume with the parent transition lock and reject stale children the parent no longer awaits
keep generic interrupted → active writes invalid so stale snapshots cannot revive cancelled tasks
model and test interrupted child resume followed by nested delegation

Fixes #1900

Validation

pnpm test
pnpm check-types
pnpm lifecycle:model-check
focused lifecycle, persistence, and provider tests (116 passing)
repository lint and formatting checks

Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a1077e-5823-744c-ad1a-1653a3ccdac5

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New Features
- Interrupted tasks can now be resumed, including delegated child tasks whose parent is still waiting for them.
- After resuming, a child task can continue its work and delegate to another task.
Bug Fixes
- Resuming is rejected when a task is no longer interrupted or its parent is no longer waiting for that child, preventing stale task history from being resumed incorrectly.

Walkthrough

The change adds an explicit operation to resume interrupted tasks, validates parent-child delegation before resuming a child, and persists the status change from the authoritative history record. Tests cover stale records and nested delegation. The lifecycle model now includes resumed delegation.

Changes

Interrupted task resumption

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lifecycle reducer and persisted resume `src/core/task-persistence/taskLifecycle.ts`, `src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts`, `src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/*`	The reducer changes an interrupted task to active and rejects tasks with another status. The store applies the reducer to the persisted record, refreshes its cache, and tests concurrent-store cases.
Task and provider resume flow `src/core/task/Task.ts`, `src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts`, `src/__tests__/ClineProvider.delegation.spec.ts`, `src/core/task/__tests__/Task.persistence.spec.ts`	Task calls the provider when resuming an interrupted task. For child tasks, the provider checks that the parent remains delegated and awaits that child. Tests cover matching and stale child relationships.
Lifecycle model coverage `scripts/check-task-lifecycle.ts`, `docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md`	The model adds resume transitions, increases its search depth to 13, and checks that a resumed child can delegate to a grandchild.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Task
  participant ClineProvider
  participant TaskHistoryStore
  participant taskLifecycle
  Task->>User: Ask to resume interrupted task
  User->>Task: Accept resume
  Task->>ClineProvider: Resume task with taskId and parentTaskId
  ClineProvider->>ClineProvider: Check parent delegation and awaited child
  ClineProvider->>TaskHistoryStore: Resume task by taskId
  TaskHistoryStore->>taskLifecycle: Apply reducer to persisted record
  taskLifecycle-->>TaskHistoryStore: Return active record
  TaskHistoryStore-->>ClineProvider: Return updated history item
  ClineProvider-->>Task: Complete resume operation
  Task->>Task: Start task loop

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 68195

An interrupted task can encounter a duplicate-resume error if the returned task is run again. Register the in-flight resume before merging, or accept this bounded risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 68195

Resumption retains stale-write protection and validates the expected parent on the normal child-resume path. No newly introduced execution bypass was established, but ownership consistency and post-write failure handling remain partially verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

observed — The persistence operation targets one cached task with a matching interrupted disk record. Resumed execution continues through the existing task loop using the task's workspace and API configuration; the new operation concerns lifecycle authority rather than adding a separate execution engine.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — On the normal delegated-resume path, the provider refreshes the parent record and rejects a parent that is not delegated to the exact child. The child's disk record is separately validated for schema, identity and interrupted status. Its authoritative parent backlink is not independently compared with the supplied parent ID.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Parent-scoped resume uses the delegation transition queue, whose failure-forward behavior prevents a rejected transition from permanently blocking subsequent work. Disk-authoritative status validation preserves cancellation protection against stale generic activation writes.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Derive delegated ownership from the authoritative child record and validate its backlink during explicit resume, rather than relying solely on an optional caller-supplied parent ID. This would strengthen the contract against inconsistent lineage without asserting a demonstrated production exploit.
proposed — Make accepted resume responses explicit before lifecycle activation, allowing affirmative acceptance and intentional user feedback while rejecting denial. This would clarify the new persistence-authority contract; the existing execution-response behavior is not attributed to this PR.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Security Boundaries	❌ Error	The changed resume path can bypass the resume approval. In `Task.resumeTaskFromHistory`, the code calls `provider.resumeInterruptedTask()` after `ask()` without checking `response`; it only checks `ab…	Before calling `provider.resumeInterruptedTask()`, require an explicitly accepted resume response. Do not resume for `noButtonClicked` or any unexpected response. Add a test that sends a rejected response and verifies that the history recor…
Persistence Integrity	❌ Error	The delegated-child resume check and child write are not atomic across hosts. In `ClineProvider.resumeInterruptedTask`, the provider reads and checks the parent at lines 781–786, then separately write…	Protect the parent validation and child resume with coordination that is shared across hosts, or use a durable transaction/journal that makes the parent guard and child status update one logical operation. Before resuming, ensure that an in…
Regression Evidence	⚠️ Warning	The new `TaskHistoryStore.resumeInterruptedTask()` fail-closed paths lack focused coverage. Its implementation throws when the task is absent from cache, and when the authoritative disk record fails s…	Add focused `TaskHistoryStore.resumeInterruptedTask()` tests for a missing cache entry and invalid or mismatched disk records. Verify the method rejects, evicts the cache and mtime where applicable, and does not rewrite invalid disk data.

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue [`#1900`] requires an interrupted child to resume and create a new task. `taskLifecycle.ts` adds an explicit interrupted-to-active resume path while generic transitions continue to reject that tra…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All reported changes support issue [`#1900`]. The provider guards, disk-authoritative persistence, lifecycle modeling, tests, and lifecycle documentation implement or validate safe resumption and child …
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	✅ Passed	No changed path introduces a resource leak or duplicate task execution. The new resume flow allocates no listener, watcher, timer, or provider. Delegated resumes use the existing transition lock, whos…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: fixing interrupted child redelegation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the change, links issue `#1900`, and lists validation commands and test results. It does not include the pre-submission checklist, but the core information is present.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The new TaskHistoryStore.resumeInterruptedTask() fail-closed paths lack focused coverage. Its implementation throws when the task is absent from cache, and when the authoritative disk record fails schema validation or has a mismatched ID; the latter paths also evict cached state and mtime. The added cross-host tests cover a stale cache with an interrupted record and rejection of a completed record, but not these new failure paths. Existing malformed-record tests cover clearPendingActionIfMatching(), not the changed resume method.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

The changed resume path can bypass the resume approval. In Task.resumeTaskFromHistory, the code calls provider.resumeInterruptedTask() after ask() without checking response; it only checks abort and abandoned first (src/core/task/Task.ts:2983-2992). handleWebviewAskResponse() accepts noButtonClicked, and webviewMessageHandler forwards the webview response without validating it (src/core/task/Task.ts:2285, src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts:719-725). A noButtonClicked response for the pending resume prompt therefore resolves the ask without aborting the task, then the changed code marks the interrupted task active despite the rejection.

Resolution

Before calling provider.resumeInterruptedTask(), require an explicitly accepted resume response. Do not resume for noButtonClicked or any unexpected response. Add a test that sends a rejected response and verifies that the history record remains interrupted.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

The delegated-child resume check and child write are not atomic across hosts. In ClineProvider.resumeInterruptedTask, the provider reads and checks the parent at lines 781–786, then separately writes the child at line 790. The transition lock is an in-memory static Map (ClineProvider.ts:220), so another host does not share it. A second host can abandon the interrupted child after the parent check: abandonDelegatedChild clears the child’s parent links and the parent’s awaited-child link while leaving the child interrupted (taskLifecycle.ts:123–143). The first host can then persist the child as active based on its stale parent check. Later, the resumed Task can save its stored parentTaskId and rootTaskId back to history (Task.ts:1695–1717), reattaching the abandoned child to a parent that no longer awaits it. This is a concrete cross-host persistence consistency failure. The per-file safeWriteJson write is atomic, but it does not make the parent validation and child update atomic together. The repository’s store tests cover separate stores sharing storage (TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts), and atomicUpdatePair explicitly states that cross-process atomicity is not guaranteed (TaskHistoryStore.ts:1007–1011).

Resolution

Protect the parent validation and child resume with coordination that is shared across hosts, or use a durable transaction/journal that makes the parent guard and child status update one logical operation. Before resuming, ensure that an intervening abandonment cannot be followed by a write or task save that marks the detached child active or restores its old parent links. Add a cross-host concurrency test that pauses resume after the parent check, abandons the child from a second store/provider, and verifies that resume cannot reactivate or reattach it.

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❌ Patch coverage is 85.36585% with 6 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts	61.53%	2 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
src/core/task-persistence/taskLifecycle.ts	66.66%	0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

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- Around line 2987-2993: Update Task.create() to mark the instance as started
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docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md
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src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts
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