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Fixes #879.

Summary:

  • Adds regression coverage for raw Promise.all ctx.task emission.
  • Ensures all newly requested effects are surfaced coherently while keeping journal sequence validation strict.

Tests:

  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk -- src/runtime/tests/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts src/runtime/tests/asWaitingResult.test.ts src/storage/tests/storage.test.ts
  • npm run build:sdk

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Live-stack QA

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window.

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27028811430

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) still in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) still in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) still in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) still in progress at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Verdict: pending/timeout, not a passing QA result. The workflow was still running when the predefined QA process timed out waiting for results.

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Live-stack QA

Result: incomplete. The workflow was dispatched but did not reach a terminal conclusion within the 20-minute QA polling window.

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27028826874

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All still running / timed out in QA poll

Tested matrix:

[{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"}]

Overall verdict: not passed because the live-stack run timed out before the selected BP/plugin scenarios completed.

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Live-stack QA

Result: pending / timed out in QA watcher.

The live-stack workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA, but the Babysitter QA watcher timed out after 20 minutes before the matrix jobs completed.

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27028827889

Current job state at watcher timeout

Job Status Conclusion
Compute Matrix completed success
Build All completed success
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) queued pending
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, codex/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued pending
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued pending
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued pending
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued pending

Tested matrix

[{"agent":"codex","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"codex","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}]

Overall verdict: not yet pass/fail. Build setup passed, but the selected live-stack matrix was still pending when the QA watcher timed out.

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Adversarial review result: blocking concerns found. GitHub would not allow this actor to submit a formal request-changes review on its own PR, so posting the review as a comment.

Findings

Blocker: fixed 250ms collection window can still drop Promise.all ctx.task effects

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:243

collectConcurrentWaitingActions waits four setImmediate ticks and then a hard-coded 250ms before scanning the journal for sibling EFFECT_REQUESTED events. That narrows the race, but it does not make the contract true.

ctx.task can spend arbitrary async time in task.build, runtime hooks, task definition serialization, or append work before it writes EFFECT_REQUESTED. If one Promise.all branch requests an effect quickly and a sibling branch takes longer than 250ms, run:iterate can still return an incomplete nextActions array while the late sibling appends an effect afterward. That recreates the core #879 host-visible divergence between returned pending actions and journal/status pending effects.

The new test only covers 100ms and 200ms delayed task builders, so it passes while the same bug remains for slower builders/hooks.

Suggested fix: replace the wall-clock grace period with deterministic accounting for in-flight ctx.task requests during the process execution, then collect once that count reaches zero. Alternatively, explicitly reject/document raw Promise.all(ctx.task) before partial effects can escape. Add a regression where a sibling task emits after more than 250ms and assert the runtime either returns every action or fails with a clear unsupported-pattern error without orphaning effects.

Major: required CI is failing

CI / packages/adapters/tasks/src/__tests__/cli-program.test.ts:49

The PR's Lint, Tests, Package check failed. The failing assertion expects program.name() to be tasks-adapter but receives adapters-tasks. This appears unrelated to the changed SDK files, but it is still a failing required quality gate and needs to be green before merge.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / branch agent/issue-879 in run 27028632783. It remained in progress past the 25-minute review-process cap, stuck in the trigger adapter step with no conclusion, so QA is inconclusive.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: SDK orchestration can still return an incomplete pending-effect batch while late Promise.all sibling ctx.task calls append effects after the iteration result. Mitigation: use deterministic in-flight task accounting or reject the unsupported raw pattern before side effects escape.
  • Risk: central replay/orchestration behavior changes affect all hosts that dispatch pending effects. Mitigation: keep strict journal validation and add regression coverage for slow async builders/hooks, not only sub-250ms synthetic delays.
  • Risk: current CI and QA are not green. Mitigation: rerun/fix CI and complete QA before merge.

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Blocking review result

I attempted to submit this as a request-changes review, but GitHub rejected it because the authenticated actor owns the PR. Recording the blocking review here instead.

Blocker

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:243 - collectConcurrentWaitingActions waits for four immediates plus a hard-coded 250 ms before snapshotting EFFECT_REQUESTED events. In raw Promise.all([ctx.task(...)]), the first ctx.task rejection unwinds run:iterate while the sibling promises continue in the background. If any sibling task build path takes longer than 250 ms before appending EFFECT_REQUESTED, run:iterate returns without that action and the late effect remains pending in the journal without being surfaced to the host. That recreates the ghost/stalled-effect class this PR is intended to fix.

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:660 - the regression test uses 100 ms and 200 ms branch delays while the implementation waits 250 ms. This proves the fixture fits inside the timer, but it does not prove raw Promise.all(ctx.task) is coherent under slower async task construction, file/rules/profile reads, or event-loop pressure.

Please replace the timer-dependent behavior with a deterministic contract. Either explicitly reject/document raw Promise.all(ctx.task) before partial effects are emitted and direct callers to ctx.parallel.all, or implement batching/settling in a way that can know all sibling requests before returning nextActions. Add a regression where one branch appends after more than the current collection window and assert no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after orchestrateIteration returns.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 against agent/issue-879 as run 27028642199. It stayed in_progress through the 25-minute polling window, so QA is inconclusive.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: merging this can falsely close Promise.all + ctx.task emits duplicate effects with collided journal sequence numbers #879 while leaving hosts vulnerable to incomplete nextActions and late pending effects whenever task construction takes longer than the arbitrary wait.
    Mitigation: add the slow-branch raw Promise.all regression and remove timer-based correctness before merge.
  • Risk: the new collection path adds at least 250 ms to every waiting result, including the common single-task path.
    Mitigation: avoid unconditional wall-clock waits; use deterministic batching or an explicit unsupported-pattern guard.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27028826803

Result: incomplete / timed out. The workflow was still running after the 20-minute polling window in the QA process. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress when polling stopped.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"}
]

Overall verdict: not passed yet because the selected scenario jobs had not completed within the process timeout.

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Implemented the PR feedback for #930.

Summary:

  • Removed timer-dependent correctness from raw Promise.all ctx.task pending-effect handling.
  • Added regression coverage for a sibling task request delayed beyond the previous 250 ms collection window.
  • Checked the tasks adapter CLI program-name regression locally.

Verification:

  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk -- src/runtime/tests/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts src/runtime/tests/asWaitingResult.test.ts src/storage/tests/storage.test.ts
  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/tasks-adapter -- src/tests/cli-program.test.ts
  • npm run build:sdk

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Implemented PR #930 feedback.

Summary:

  • Reworked raw Promise.all ctx.task pending-effect handling to avoid the fixed collection-window race.
  • Added/updated regression coverage for slow sibling emission beyond the previous timer window.
  • Addressed the adapter tasks CLI program-name test gate.

Verification:

  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk -- src/runtime/tests/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts src/runtime/tests/asWaitingResult.test.ts src/storage/tests/storage.test.ts
  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/tasks-adapter -- src/tests/cli-program.test.ts
  • npm run build:sdk

Commit: 5bb6fe5

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Addressed the blocking review feedback on PR #930.

Summary:

  • Replaced timer-dependent raw Promise.all ctx.task collection with deterministic in-flight task accounting.
  • Added a slow-branch regression covering a sibling task that emits after more than the previous 250ms collection window.
  • Fixed the tasks adapter CLI program name expected by the failing CI assertion.

Verification:

  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk -- src/runtime/tests/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts src/runtime/tests/asWaitingResult.test.ts src/storage/tests/storage.test.ts
  • npm run build:sdk
  • npm test --workspace=@a5c-ai/tasks-adapter -- src/tests/cli-program.test.ts

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Implemented the PR #930 review feedback.

Summary:

  • Replaced the fixed 250 ms Promise.all ctx.task collection window with deterministic in-flight effect-request accounting.
  • orchestrateIteration now waits for in-flight ctx.task request construction to settle before collecting newly requested effects.
  • Extended the raw Promise.all regression with >250 ms slow branches and a post-return late-window assertion to guard against orphaned EFFECT_REQUESTED entries.
  • Addressed the required tasks-adapter CLI program-name gate.

Verification:

  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk -- src/runtime/tests/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts src/runtime/tests/asWaitingResult.test.ts src/storage/tests/storage.test.ts
  • npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/tasks-adapter -- src/tests/cli-program.test.ts
  • npm run build:sdk
  • git diff --check

Branch state: origin/agent/issue-879 is at 5bb6fe5 (Fix PR 930 pending task feedback).

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27033435831

Result: incomplete / timed out. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the 20-minute QA polling window. Build and matrix setup passed; selected live-stack scenario jobs were still running or queued when polling stopped.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout

Matrix tested:

[{"agent":"codex","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}]

Overall verdict: not passed because the selected live-stack scenario jobs did not complete inside the QA watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27033445359

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow was still in_progress after the 20-minute polling window for adversarial QA.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All in progress at timeout

Tested matrix:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes Babysitter SDK task/orchestration internals and the tasks adapter CLI. Live-stack cannot directly target the tasks adapter CLI, so this focused matrix exercises BP plugin paths that depend on coherent task emission and orchestration across predefined process execution, process creation, native interactive mode, bridged hooks mode, and two agent/provider combinations.

Overall verdict: not passed yet because the selected live-stack workflow did not reach a terminal conclusion within the QA process timeout.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27033442923

Result: incomplete / timed out. The workflow was still running after the 20-minute polling window in the predefined QA process. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress when polling stopped.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Overall verdict: not passed yet because the selected scenario jobs had not completed within the QA process timeout.

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Live-stack QA

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher.

The live-stack workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA, but the predefined QA process reached its 20-minute polling timeout before the workflow completed.

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/27033459858

Job Result
Build All in progress at timeout
Compute Matrix pass

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. The workflow was still running when the watcher timed out, so this is not a green QA result.

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Blocking this PR for correctness and verification reasons.

Findings

Blocker: fixed 250ms collection window can still drop Promise.all ctx.task effects

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:243

collectConcurrentWaitingActions waits four setImmediate ticks and then a fixed 250ms before scanning the journal for sibling EFFECT_REQUESTED entries. That narrows the race, but it does not make the Promise.all contract true.

A sibling ctx.task can take arbitrary async time in task.build, runtime hooks, task definition serialization, filesystem scheduling, or event-loop pressure before appending EFFECT_REQUESTED. If one Promise.all branch requests an effect quickly and another appends after the 250ms scan, run:iterate still returns an incomplete nextActions array while a late pending effect appears in the journal afterward. That recreates the #879 host-visible divergence this PR is supposed to fix.

Suggested fix: replace the wall-clock grace period with deterministic in-flight ctx.task accounting for the current process execution, then collect once in-flight requests settle. Alternatively, explicitly reject/document raw Promise.all(ctx.task) before partial effects can escape and require ctx.parallel.all for supported concurrent dispatch.

Major: regression test fits inside the implementation timer

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:660

The new regression delays sibling task builders by 100ms and 200ms, while the implementation waits 250ms. That proves the fixture fits under the timer; it does not prove raw Promise.all(ctx.task) is coherent under slower async builders/hooks or event-loop pressure.

Please add a regression where a sibling task emits after more than the current collection window and assert that orchestrateIteration either returns every action or fails with a clear unsupported-pattern error without leaving late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries.

Major: required quality gates are not green

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 currently reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for workflow run 27031943989. The log shows the operation was canceled while building the runtime graph/adapters path. I also attempted the targeted SDK test command from the PR body locally, but this checkout cannot start it because vitest is not installed (sh: 1: vitest: not found).

The PR should not merge until the required check is green and the targeted SDK tests/build pass in an installed workspace.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / branch agent/issue-879 as run 27033255665. After 25 polls, from 2026-06-05T18:38:06Z through 2026-06-05T19:02:29Z, the run was still in_progress in the trigger adapter step. QA is therefore inconclusive / not passed.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: SDK orchestration can still return incomplete nextActions while late raw Promise.all(ctx.task) siblings append pending effects after the timer. Mitigation: remove timer-based correctness and use deterministic in-flight accounting, or reject the raw pattern before side effects escape.
  • Risk: the fixed 250ms wait adds latency to waiting iterations without guaranteeing correctness. Mitigation: use event/request accounting rather than unconditional wall-clock delay.
  • Risk: CI and live-stack QA are not green. Mitigation: do not merge until required CI passes and QA reaches a terminal passing result.

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Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: fixed 250 ms collection window can still drop raw Promise.all(ctx.task) effects

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:243

collectConcurrentWaitingActions waits four setImmediate ticks and then a hard-coded 250 ms before scanning the journal for sibling EFFECT_REQUESTED entries. That narrows the race, but it does not make the runtime contract true.

In raw Promise.all([ctx.task(...)]), the first EffectRequestedError unwinds orchestrateIteration while sibling ctx.task calls keep running. requestNewEffect increments _newEffectRequestCount before awaiting task.build, but there is no deterministic in-flight accounting that waits for those requests to settle. A sibling task build, runtime hook, policy check, or task serialization path that takes longer than 250 ms can append EFFECT_REQUESTED after run:iterate has already returned an incomplete nextActions array.

That recreates the host-visible divergence #879 is meant to fix: hosts dispatch what nextActions returned while run:status/journal later contain additional pending effects.

Suggested fix: replace the wall-clock grace period with deterministic in-flight ctx.task accounting/batching, ideally routed through the existing parallel pending semantics. If raw Promise.all(ctx.task) is not intended to be supported, reject/document it before partial effects can escape and require ctx.parallel.all.

Major: regression test is coupled to the timeout value

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:660

The new regression delays sibling task builders by 100 ms and 200 ms while the implementation waits 250 ms. This proves the fixture fits inside the timer; it does not prove correctness under slower async task builders, runtime hooks, policy evaluation, filesystem contention, or event-loop pressure.

Please add a regression where a sibling emits after more than the current collection window and assert either every action is returned or the raw pattern fails before orphaning effects.

Major: current quality gates are not green

gh pr checks 930 currently reports Lint, Tests, Package as CANCELLED for the latest CI run. Separately, the QA dispatch I ran completed its dispatcher job, but its own live-stack report says QA was incomplete / not passed within its 20-minute wait window: live-stack run 27033459858 still had Build All in progress at timeout. The QA report was posted at #930 (comment).

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: hosts can receive an incomplete nextActions array while late Promise.all sibling effects become pending in the journal after the iteration result. Mitigation: use deterministic in-flight effect collection or explicitly reject raw Promise.all(ctx.task) before merge.
  • Risk: the new runtime path adds fixed latency to waiting iterations without a correctness guarantee. Mitigation: remove the unconditional wall-clock wait and use precise task accounting or a clear unsupported-pattern guard.
  • Risk: central orchestration/replay behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require the slow-branch regression, green SDK/CI checks, and a completed live-stack QA pass before merge.

GitHub rejected the formal request-changes review for this actor; recording the blocking review as a comment.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28433740956

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the predefined 20-minute polling window.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) queued at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes SDK task/orchestration internals and task intrinsics, so BP install scenarios exercise the full Babysitter process loop where pending-effect coherence matters. Codex/Gemini and Claude/Foundry cover two harness/provider paths. Predefined mode stresses deterministic existing process execution; create mode stresses process authoring and task emission; interactive and bridged-hooks cover native BP and hook bridge paths. The tasks-adapter CLI rename is not directly covered by live-stack axes, so this matrix focuses on the affected orchestration surface available to the workflow.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs did not complete before timeout.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28433740892

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the 20-minute polling window. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still queued when polling stopped.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes Babysitter SDK task/orchestration internals, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises BP/plugin paths that depend on coherent task emission and run orchestration across predefined process execution, process creation, native interactive mode, bridged hooks mode, and two agent/provider combinations. The tasks-adapter CLI change does not map directly to a live-stack scenario and should remain covered by targeted adapter CLI tests.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. The selected live-stack scenario jobs did not complete, so this is not a green QA result.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28433746081

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow was still in_progress after the predefined QA process's 20-minute polling window. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal when polling stopped.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: focused adversarial coverage for PR #930's SDK orchestration changes around raw Promise.all / ctx.task pending effects, BP install paths, predefined/create process modes, and bridged-hooks where available.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. The workflow should be inspected or allowed to finish before treating this as green QA.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28433746363

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow did not reach a terminal conclusion within the predefined 20-poll QA window. Build and matrix setup passed; the selected BP live-stack scenario jobs were still queued at final capture.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes SDK orchestration/task internals for raw Promise.all ctx.task pending effects, so this focused matrix exercises BP/plugin orchestration through predefined and create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks execution, and codex/google plus claude/foundry paths.

Overall verdict: not passed because the live-stack scenario jobs did not complete inside the QA watcher window.

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Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89

The fix replaces the fixed 250 ms collection window with _inFlightEffectRequestCount, but that counter is module-global, and resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets it at the start of every orchestrateIteration. withRunLock only serializes a single run directory, so two different runs can be orchestrated concurrently in the same Node process.

If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling task builders and run B starts another iteration, run B resets the shared in-flight counter to zero. Run A can then leave collectConcurrentWaitingActions without waiting for its own late sibling effects, recreating the incomplete nextActions / orphaned EFFECT_REQUESTED failure this PR is intended to fix.

Please move the new/in-flight effect request accounting onto the per-run process context or an AsyncLocalStorage-scoped execution tracker, and add a regression with two concurrent orchestrateIteration calls for different runDirs.

Blocker: latest PR-head CI is failed

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

The latest CI run I found on head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13 is 27033383618, and Lint, Tests, Package failed. The log ends in scripts/adapters-build.cjs trying to read packages/adapters/webui/package.json and receiving ENOENT.

This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior; it should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Major: live-stack QA did not pass

Live Stack / bridged-hooks

The QA dispatch I ran completed its dispatcher job, but the live-stack QA it launched did not pass within the watcher window. The QA comments posted runs including 28433746081 and 28433746363: Build All and Compute Matrix passed, but the selected BP predefined/create, interactive, and bridged-hooks scenario jobs were still queued or in progress at timeout. A prior live-stack run on the same head, 27033459858, completed failure with bridged-hooks scenario failures.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions while late raw Promise.all(ctx.task) sibling effects become pending afterward. Mitigation: scope request counters per run/process execution and test two concurrent runDirs.
  • Risk: the global counter can make unrelated runs wait on each other or reset each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global orchestration state for this contract.
  • Risk: CI and live-stack are not green for a central runtime change. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full CI, and completed live-stack QA before merge.

GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor; recording the blocking review as a comment.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28487267824

Result: failed. The selected BP/plugin live-stack scenarios did not run because the workflow failed in Build All during dependency installation.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All fail
Live Stack Report pass
Live Stack bp interactive skipped
Live Stack bp bridged-hooks skipped
Live Stack vanilla ni skipped
Live Stack vanilla interactive skipped

Failure detail: npm install --legacy-peer-deps --prefer-offline failed with ECONNRESET / network aborted in the Build All job, before live-stack scenario jobs could execute.

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes SDK task/orchestration internals around raw Promise.all ctx.task pending effects, so this focused adversarial matrix targets BP/plugin orchestration paths where effect coherence matters: predefined execution, process creation, native interactive mode, bridged hooks, and two agent/provider paths.

Adapter CLI verification: attempted npm run test --workspace=@a5c-ai/tasks-adapter -- src/__tests__/cli-program.test.ts, but this checkout cannot run it because vitest is not installed (sh: 1: vitest: not found).

Overall verdict: not passed. Re-run live-stack after dependency install is healthy, and run the targeted tasks-adapter CLI test in an installed workspace.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28487187979

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the predefined 20-poll window. Build and matrix setup passed; selected live-stack scenario jobs were still queued or in progress when polling stopped.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes SDK runtime orchestration and task intrinsics around concurrent ctx.task effect emission. BP install exercises the full Babysitter/plugin loop. Predefined mode covers deterministic existing process execution; create mode covers process authoring and task emission. Interactive plus bridged-hooks covers native and hook-bridge host paths. Codex/Gemini and Claude/Foundry cover two harness/provider combinations. The tasks-adapter CLI rename is better covered by targeted adapter tests, not live-stack axes.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA watcher window. The workflow should be inspected or allowed to finish before treating this as green QA.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28487183083

Result: incomplete / timed out in QA watcher. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the predefined 20-minute polling window. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress at timeout.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes Babysitter SDK task/orchestration internals and task intrinsics around raw Promise.all / ctx.task pending effects, so this focused matrix exercises BP/plugin orchestration through predefined and create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks execution, and codex/google plus claude/foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI change does not map directly to a live-stack scenario and should remain covered by targeted adapter CLI tests.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. The selected live-stack scenario jobs did not complete before timeout.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28694320138

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[{"agent":"codex","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK task/orchestration internals around raw Promise.all ctx.task pending effects, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises BP/plugin orchestration through predefined and create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Google plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI change remains covered by targeted adapter CLI tests rather than a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal after the watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28694308945

Result: not passed within the QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the 20-poll watcher window. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still queued/non-terminal at the final snapshot.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at timeout

Matrix tested:

[{"agent":"codex","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK ctx.task/orchestrateIteration pending-effect accounting, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises BP/plugin orchestration through predefined and create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Google plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI change does not map directly to a live-stack axis and should remain covered by targeted adapter CLI tests.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal after the watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28694312513

Result: failed. The predefined 20-minute watcher timed out while the workflow was still in progress; a fresh post-timeout snapshot shows the workflow has since completed with conclusion failure.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) fail
Live Stack Report pass

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK/runtime ctx.task pending-effect orchestration, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises BP/plugin orchestration through predefined and create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI naming change is better covered by targeted adapter CLI tests and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed. Failing scenarios: Claude BP create bridged-hooks, Codex BP predefined bridged-hooks, and Codex BP predefined interactive.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28694323849

Result: failed.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) pass
Live Stack Report pass

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK orchestration and ctx.task pending-effect accounting, including raw Promise.all behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin execution across predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks behavior, and Codex/Google plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is not directly represented as a live-stack axis and remains best covered by targeted package tests/CI.

Overall verdict: not passed. The failed scenarios were Codex BP/predefined interactive, Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks, and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks.

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Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level state. resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both counters at the start of each orchestrateIteration, while withRunLock only serializes one run directory.

A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one Node process. If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared counter to zero. Run A can then stop waiting, collect too early, and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward. That recreates the host-visible divergence this PR is intended to fix.

There is also a second failure mode: if one run resets the global count while another run still has in-flight requests, the original run's finally decrement can drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative. Future waits then skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: the collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:48
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257

collectConcurrentWaitingActions() waits for getInFlightEffectRequestCount() to reach zero, but that value has no runDir or process execution identity. Unrelated runs can make each other wait, reset each other's accounting, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for workflow run 27033383618 on head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13.

This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Major: regression coverage misses the new concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The added delayed-builder test is useful, but it only covers one run. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two different runDirs orchestrated concurrently in the same Node process while sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after return.

Major: PR is not in a mergeable review state

PR metadata currently reports isDraft=true and mergeable=CONFLICTING. Resolve the conflicts/check state and mark the PR ready before final approval.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as run 28694240521. The dispatcher completed, but the spawned live-stack QA did not pass.

Latest PR QA results report downstream live-stack failures in runs 28694323849 and 28694312513: Build All and Compute Matrix passed, but Codex BP/predefined interactive, Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks, and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks failed. Other concurrent live-stack comments reported not passed within the watcher window.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions while late raw Promise.all(ctx.task) sibling effects become pending afterward. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state or reset each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full PR CI, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor because it owns the PR, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level state, and resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both globals. withRunLock serializes one run directory, not every run in a long-lived SDK host.

If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts an iteration for a different runDir, run B can reset the shared in-flight count to zero. Run A can then collect too early and return incomplete nextActions while late sibling EFFECT_REQUESTED events appear afterward. That recreates the #879 host-visible divergence this PR is meant to fix.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process-execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: iteration reset/wait uses shared process-wide state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257

orchestrateIteration() resets the shared counters before each execution, and both stray-effect handling and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() wait on getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can therefore reset one another's accounting or wait on one another's task construction state.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir's journal.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as FAILURE for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and must not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

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PR metadata reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with 350 ms / 450 ms builders, which validates removal of the prior 250 ms timer window. It does not cover the new implementation risk: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as dispatcher run 28694229885. The dispatcher completed successfully, but the underlying live-stack QA did not pass.

Latest posted live-stack QA reports run 28694323849 as failed: Build All passed, Compute Matrix passed, Claude BP/create interactive passed, but Codex BP/predefined interactive, Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks, and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks failed. Adjacent QA comments also report timeout/non-terminal runs and failed run 28694312513.

Overall QA verdict: not passed.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add a concurrent-runDir regression before merge.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state or clear each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full CI, and a completed passing live-stack QA run before merge.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729352448

Result: failed. The predefined QA watcher reached its 20-minute window while the workflow was still non-terminal; a fresh post-timeout snapshot shows three selected live-stack scenarios failed.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) fail
Live Stack Report queued at post-timeout snapshot

Matrix tested:

[{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},{"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK runtime ctx.task/orchestrateIteration pending-effect accounting and plugin-relevant orchestration behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises BP/plugin execution across predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks behavior, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change does not map directly to a live-stack axis and remains better covered by targeted adapter package tests/CI.

Overall verdict: not passed. Failing scenarios: Codex BP/predefined interactive, Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks, and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729358605

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it was still in progress when the predefined watcher timed out. Build and matrix setup passed; all selected live-stack scenarios were still non-terminal.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK/runtime ctx.task pending-effect orchestration, so this adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin execution through predefined/create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks behavior, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package tests and CI.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729356133

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was still in_progress at the watcher timeout, and two selected live-stack scenarios had already failed.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK ctx.task / orchestrateIteration pending-effect accounting, including raw Promise.all behavior, so this adversarial matrix exercises BP/plugin orchestration across predefined/create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package tests/CI than by a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed. Failed scenarios at timeout: Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks. Codex BP/predefined interactive and Claude BP/create interactive were still non-terminal when the QA watcher timed out.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729357150

Result: failed. The predefined 20-minute watcher reached its wait window while the workflow was still in progress; a fresh post-timeout snapshot shows two selected live-stack scenarios failed, two passed, and the report job was still running.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) pass
Live Stack Report in progress at report time

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK runtime ctx.task / orchestrateIteration pending-effect accounting, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises babysitter-plugin execution through predefined and create process modes, native interactive and bridged-hooks dispatch, plus Codex/Google and Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by package CI and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed. Failing scenarios: Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729362179

Result: not passed. The predefined 20-minute QA watcher timed out while the workflow was still in progress, and both bridged-hooks scenarios had already failed.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK runtime orchestration and ctx.task pending-effect accounting, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin execution where pending effects are surfaced to hosts. Codex/Gemini predefined covers the existing process path and a non-Foundry provider. Claude/Foundry create covers agent-authored process creation. Running both native interactive and bridged-hooks covers the BP modes previously associated with live-stack failures. The tasks adapter CLI change is better covered by targeted package tests/CI and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed. Failed scenarios: Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks. The Codex BP/predefined interactive and Claude BP/create interactive scenarios were still non-terminal at the watcher timeout.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729360170

Result: not passed. The workflow was still in progress at the 20-minute QA watcher limit, and the snapshot already includes failing live-stack jobs.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK runtime task/orchestration behavior for raw Promise.all ctx.task pending effects, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full BP/plugin orchestration across predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI change remains better covered by targeted package tests and required CI.

Overall verdict: not passed. Failing scenarios: Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks. Codex BP/predefined interactive was still in progress at the watcher timeout.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor because it owns the PR, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level state. resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both counters at the start of each orchestrateIteration, while withRunLock only serializes one run directory.

A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one Node process. If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared counters to zero. Run A can then stop waiting, collect too early, and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward. That recreates the host-visible divergence this PR is intended to fix. A reset/decrement interleaving can also drive the shared in-flight counter negative, causing later waits to skip active work.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257

collectConcurrentWaitingActions() and stray-effect handling wait for getInFlightEffectRequestCount(), but that value has no runDir or process execution identity. Unrelated runs can make each other wait, reset each other's accounting, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with 350 ms / 450 ms builders, which validates removal of the prior 250 ms timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two different runDirs orchestrated concurrently in the same Node process while sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as run 28729278943. It did not reach a terminal conclusion within the 25-poll review window and remained in the trigger adapter step, so this QA attempt is inconclusive / not passed.

Existing PR QA comments also report failed live-stack scenarios for this PR, including Codex BP/predefined interactive, Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks, and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions while late raw Promise.all(ctx.task) sibling effects become pending afterward. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state or reset each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full PR CI, conflict resolution, and a completed passing live-stack QA run before merge.

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Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state. resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both counters at the start of each orchestrateIteration, while withRunLock only serializes one run directory.

A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one Node process. If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared counter to zero. Run A can then stop waiting, collect too early, and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward. A reset during another run's in-flight request can also make the later finally decrement drive the global count negative, so future waits skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: the collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257

collectConcurrentWaitingActions() waits for getInFlightEffectRequestCount() to reach zero, but that value has no runDir or process execution identity. Unrelated runs can make each other wait, reset each other's accounting, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the new concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir, which validates removal of the previous fixed 250 ms timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two different runDirs orchestrated concurrently in the same Node process while sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as dispatcher run 28729278999. The dispatcher completed, but the downstream live-stack QA did not pass.

Latest QA comments during this dispatch window report failed/not-passed live-stack runs, including failures in Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks scenarios. Other selected scenarios were still non-terminal at watcher timeout in some runs.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions while late raw Promise.all(ctx.task) sibling effects become pending afterward. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state, reset each other's accounting, or make the counter negative. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full PR CI, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:44
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:120
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:220

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state, then resets both through resetNewEffectRequestCount(). A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs in the same Node process. withRunLock serializes a single runDir, not every runDir in the process.

If run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared in-flight count to zero. Run A can then collect too early and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward, recreating the host-visible divergence #879 is meant to fix.

There is a second failure mode: one run can reset the counter while another still has in-flight requests, then the original run's finally decrement can drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative. Future waits then skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process execution state, such as InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope entered by withProcessContext.

Blocker: iteration reset and collector wait on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:164
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257

orchestrateIteration() resets shared counters before each execution, and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() waits for getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can reset one another's accounting, wait on one another's task construction state, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir's journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the new concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with 350 ms / 450 ms builders, which validates removal of the prior 250 ms timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as dispatcher run 28729284065. The dispatcher completed successfully, but the spawned live-stack QA did not pass.

Fresh QA comments posted around 2026-07-05 04:43 UTC report failures/timeouts. Representative runs include:

  • 28729352448: failed; Codex BP/predefined interactive, Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks, and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks failed.
  • 28729357150: failed; Codex BP/predefined bridged-hooks and Claude BP/create bridged-hooks failed.
  • 28729362179: not passed; both bridged-hooks scenarios failed and other selected scenarios were still non-terminal at the watcher timeout.

Overall QA verdict: not passed.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add a concurrent-runDir regression before merge.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state or clear each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full CI, and a completed passing live-stack QA run before merge.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729448949

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion within the predefined watcher window. A fresh post-timeout snapshot still shows the workflow in progress.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and raw Promise.all concurrency behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration across predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks adapter CLI change does not map directly to a live-stack axis and remains better covered by targeted package tests/CI.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. No selected live-stack scenario jobs had reached a terminal result by the final snapshot.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28729451697

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879; Build All and Compute Matrix completed successfully, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress at the final watcher snapshot.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK/runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and raw Promise.all behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package tests/CI and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal after the watcher window.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor because it owns the PR, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:44
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:49
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:120

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state. resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both globals for each orchestrateIteration, while withRunLock only serializes one run directory.

A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one Node process. If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared count to zero. Run A can then collect too early and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward.

There is also a second failure mode: if one run resets the global count while another run still has in-flight requests, the original run's finally decrement can drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative. Future waits then skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process-execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:94
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:258

orchestrateIteration() resets shared counters before each execution, and both stray-effect handling and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() wait on getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can reset one another's accounting, wait on one another's task construction state, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir's journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as FAILURE for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true and mergeable=CONFLICTING. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with slow builders, which validates removal of the previous fixed timer window. It does not cover the new implementation risk: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as run 28729389040. The run did not complete within the review-process polling window. Last observed state: job qa was still in_progress in step Run a5c-ai/babysitter/packages/adapters/triggers@staging.

Overall QA verdict: not passed within the review window.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state or clear each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full CI, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28767919856

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was still in_progress at the watcher timeout. Build and matrix setup passed, two bridged-hooks scenarios failed, and two interactive scenarios were still running.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK/runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and raw Promise.all behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. Raw Promise.all(ctx.task) behavior itself remains better covered by targeted SDK regression tests and PR CI.

Overall verdict: not passed. The failed bridged-hooks jobs are blocking QA, and the selected interactive jobs did not complete inside the predefined watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28767920390

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879; Build All and Compute Matrix completed successfully, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress at the final watcher snapshot.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK/runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and raw Promise.all behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package tests/CI and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal after the watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28767925474

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879; Build All and Compute Matrix completed successfully, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress after the predefined watcher window.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at report time
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at report time
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at report time
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at report time

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and orchestrateIteration behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI change is better covered by targeted package tests/CI and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal when reported.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28767931964

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879, but it did not reach a terminal conclusion before the predefined watcher timed out.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK ctx.task / orchestrateIteration pending-effect accounting under raw Promise.all, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin runs across predefined/create paths and native interactive/bridged-hooks modes. The tasks-adapter CLI change is better covered by targeted package CI and does not require a live-stack vanilla sweep.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. No selected live-stack scenario jobs had reached a terminal result by the final watcher snapshot.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor because it owns the PR, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:44
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:49
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:120
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state and resets both for each iteration. withRunLock serializes one run directory, not every run directory in a long-lived SDK process.

If run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) builders while run B starts another orchestrateIteration(), run B can reset the shared counters and let run A collect too early. That can return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward, recreating the host-visible divergence #879 is meant to fix.

There is a second failure mode: one run can reset the counter while another still has in-flight requests, then the original run's finally decrement can drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative. Future waits then skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process-execution state, such as InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: the collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:94
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:164
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:258

orchestrateIteration() resets shared counters before each execution, and both the stray-effect path and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() wait on getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can reset one another's accounting, wait on one another's task construction state, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with slow builders, which validates removal of the previous fixed timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as run 28767802630. It did not pass within the review-process polling window. Last observed state: job qa was still in_progress in step Run a5c-ai/babysitter/packages/adapters/triggers@staging, with no workflow conclusion.

Overall QA verdict: not passed within the review window.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage before merge.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state or clear each other's accounting. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full CI, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor because it owns the PR, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:44
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:120
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state. resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both globals for every orchestrateIteration, while withRunLock only serializes one run directory.

A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one Node process. If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared count to zero. Run A can then collect too early and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward. A reset while another run still has in-flight requests can also make the later finally decrement drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative, so future waits skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process-execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:94
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:258

orchestrateIteration() resets shared counters before each execution, and both stray-effect handling and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() wait on getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can reset one another's accounting, wait on one another's task construction state, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as FAILURE for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with slow builders, which validates removal of the previous fixed timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as dispatcher run 28767809263. The dispatcher completed successfully, but spawned live-stack QA did not pass. Fresh QA comments report not-passed watcher outcomes for runs including 28767919856, 28767920390, 28767925474, and 28767931964; representative results include bridged-hooks failures and/or selected scenarios still in progress at the watcher timeout.

Overall QA verdict: not passed.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage before merge.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state, reset each other's accounting, or make the counter negative. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full PR CI, conflict resolution, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28841253386

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879. Build All and Compute Matrix completed successfully, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still queued at the final watcher snapshot.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) queued at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) queued at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) queued at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) queued at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK/runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and raw Promise.all behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package CI and does not require a vanilla live-stack sweep.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but no selected live-stack scenario reached a terminal result inside the predefined watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28841240949

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879; Build All and Compute Matrix completed successfully, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress at the final watcher snapshot.

Job Result
Compute Matrix pass
Build All pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK runtime/orchestration behavior for ctx.task pending-effect accounting, so full babysitter-plugin BP flows are the highest-value live-stack coverage. Codex/Gemini predefined exercises an existing-process path through the Codex adapter and Google provider; Claude/Foundry create exercises process creation through Claude and Foundry. Running both interactive and bridged-hooks targets host-visible effect dispatch and hook/bridge behavior. The tasks adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package tests/CI and does not require a broad live-stack vanilla sweep.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal after the watcher window.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28841276630

Result: not passed. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879. Build setup passed, but three selected live-stack scenario jobs failed within the predefined QA watcher window and one scenario was still in progress at the final snapshot.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) fail
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) fail

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central Babysitter SDK runtime ctx.task / orchestrateIteration pending-effect accounting under raw Promise.all, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks dispatch paths, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The touched tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package CI and does not map directly to a live-stack axis.

Overall verdict: not passed. The failed selected live-stack jobs are blocking QA.

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Live-stack QA

Run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/actions/runs/28841243740

Result: not passed within the 20-minute QA wait window. The workflow was dispatched for adversarial QA against agent/issue-879; Build All and Compute Matrix completed successfully, but all selected live-stack scenario jobs were still in progress at the final watcher snapshot.

Job Result
Build All pass
Compute Matrix pass
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/predefined, codex/gemini-3.5-flash, interactive) in progress at watcher timeout
Live Stack (ubuntu-latest-l, bp/create, claude-code/gpt-5.5, bridged-hooks) in progress at watcher timeout

Matrix tested:

[
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"codex","model":"google-gemini31","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"predefined"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"interactive","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"},
  {"agent":"claude","model":"foundry-gpt55","mode":"bridged-hooks","install":"bp","live":true,"process_mode":"create"}
]

Matrix rationale: PR #930 changes central SDK runtime ctx.task pending-effect accounting and orchestrateIteration behavior, so this focused adversarial matrix exercises full babysitter-plugin orchestration through predefined/create process modes, native interactive/bridged-hooks execution, and Codex/Gemini plus Claude/Foundry paths. The tasks-adapter CLI program-name change is better covered by targeted package CI and does not require a live-stack vanilla sweep.

Overall verdict: not passed within the QA wait window. Build setup and matrix computation passed, but the selected live-stack scenario jobs were still non-terminal after the predefined watcher window.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:44
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:120
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state. resetNewEffectRequestCount() resets both globals for every orchestrateIteration, while requestNewEffect() increments and decrements the same shared counter for every runDir in the Node process.

withRunLock() only serializes one run directory. A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one process. If run A is waiting for slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) sibling builders and run B starts another iteration, run B can reset the shared count to zero. Run A can then collect too early and return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward. A reset while another run still has in-flight requests can also make a later finally decrement drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative, causing future waits to skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process-execution state, for example InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope established by withProcessContext.

Blocker: the collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:94
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:163
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:164
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:258

orchestrateIteration() resets shared counters before each execution, and both the stray-effect path and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() wait on getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can reset one another's accounting, wait on one another's task construction state, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as failed for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. The failed job exits in scripts/adapters-build.cjs trying to read packages/adapters/webui/package.json. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

GitHub reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with slow builders, which validates removal of the previous fixed timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as run 28841116288. It did not pass within the 25-minute review-process polling window. Final observed state: the workflow was still in_progress; job qa was in step Run a5c-ai/babysitter/packages/adapters/triggers@staging with no conclusion.

Overall QA verdict: not passed within the review window.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage before merge.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state, reset each other's accounting, or make the counter negative. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full PR CI, conflict resolution, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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GitHub rejected a formal request-changes review for this actor, so recording the blocking review as a comment.

Adversarial review result: request changes.

Findings

Blocker: in-flight ctx.task accounting is process-global and can corrupt concurrent runDirs

packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:43
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:44
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:47
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:49
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:119
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:120
packages/sdk/src/runtime/intrinsics/task.ts:221
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:47

The PR stores _newEffectRequestCount and _inFlightEffectRequestCount as module-level mutable state, while withRunLock only serializes one run directory. A long-lived SDK host can orchestrate two different runDirs concurrently in one Node process.

If run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task(...)) builders while run B starts another orchestrateIteration(), run B can reset the shared counters and let run A collect too early. That can return incomplete nextActions while late EFFECT_REQUESTED entries arrive afterward, recreating the host-visible divergence #879 is meant to fix.

A reset while another run still has in-flight requests can also make the original run's finally decrement drive _inFlightEffectRequestCount negative. Future waits then skip active work because the condition only checks > 0.

Please move request tracking onto per-run/per-process-execution state, such as InternalProcessContext or an AsyncLocalStorage scope created by withProcessContext.

Blocker: the collector waits on unrelated global state

packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:89
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:94
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:96
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:164
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:241
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:257
packages/sdk/src/runtime/orchestrateIteration.ts:258

orchestrateIteration() resets shared counters before each execution, and both the stray-effect path and collectConcurrentWaitingActions() wait on getInFlightEffectRequestCount() without any runDir or execution identity. Unrelated runDirs can reset one another's accounting, wait on one another's task construction state, or cause premature collection.

The collector needs to know that this execution's task requests have settled, then scan only this runDir journal after preExecJournalHead.

Blocker: required PR-head CI is failing

CI / Lint, Tests, Package

gh pr checks 930 reports Lint, Tests, Package as FAILURE for head 5bb6fe54041748909f4e6ae4efb928ef6629de13. This PR changes central SDK orchestration behavior and should not merge while the main package gate is red.

Blocker: PR is draft and conflicting

PR metadata

PR metadata reports isDraft=true, mergeable=CONFLICTING, and mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. It is not in a mergeable review state regardless of code review outcome.

Major: regression coverage misses the actual concurrency boundary

packages/sdk/src/runtime/__tests__/orchestrateIteration.integration.test.ts:650

The delayed raw Promise.all test covers one runDir with slow builders, which validates removal of the previous fixed timer window. It does not cover the implementation's actual risk boundary: two concurrent orchestrateIteration() calls for different runDirs in one Node process sharing module globals.

Please add a regression where run A has slow raw Promise.all(ctx.task) builders and run B starts orchestrateIteration() while A is in flight. Assert both runs return complete nextActions, journal sequences remain contiguous, the in-flight count cannot go negative, and no late unsurfaced EFFECT_REQUESTED entries appear after either return.

QA

I dispatched qa-dispatch.yml for PR #930 / agent/issue-879 as run 28841125685. It did not pass within the review-process polling window. Last observed at 2026-07-07T04:41:13Z: workflow in_progress, job qa in_progress, step Run a5c-ai/babysitter/packages/adapters/triggers@staging still in_progress, with no workflow conclusion.

Overall QA verdict: not passed / inconclusive.

Risk Assessment

Risk level: risk:high.

  • Risk: long-lived SDK hosts that orchestrate multiple runDirs in one process can still return incomplete nextActions when another run resets shared counters. Mitigation: scope request tracking per run/process execution and add concurrent-runDir regression coverage before merge.
  • Risk: global in-flight counters can make unrelated runs wait on each other's task construction state, reset each other's accounting, or make the counter negative. Mitigation: remove module-global mutable state from this correctness contract.
  • Risk: central orchestration behavior affects all adapters and harnesses that rely on coherent pending-effect dispatch. Mitigation: require green targeted SDK tests, full PR CI, conflict resolution, and completed passing live-stack QA before merge.

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Promise.all + ctx.task emits duplicate effects with collided journal sequence numbers

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