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Summary

Persist a terminal assistant result whenever an accepted prompt or compaction marker fails during admission, setup, execution, or cancellation. Bind terminal ownership to the exact submitted trace or active turn parent, and recover the narrow runner-exit race with one bounded retry.

There is no related GitHub issue; this was reported through a PawWork problem report from a production user session.

Why

prompt_async can save a user message and detach the session run before provider/model setup completes. A failure therefore left only the user message in history, while the transient bus error was the sole failure signal. Concurrent prompts and cancellation also exposed ownership races: one shared Runner result could leave queued users without their own terminal state, or a latest-message lookup could finalize the wrong turn.

The durable contract is now:

  • every accepted prompt attempt owns terminal state through its exact messageID;
  • the active Runner owns cancellation through the exact parent selected by runLoop;
  • compaction owns terminal state through its exact marker and summary;
  • same-parent terminal writes are serialized and idempotent;
  • completed successful history is not rewritten by later cancellation;
  • an unhandled traced prompt that joined an exiting run receives at most one retry.

Related Issue

None. Reported through production problem report pwr_mswmjcr7_kbnsmo.

Human Review Status

Pending

Review Focus

  • Terminal ownership across active Runner A plus queued prompts B/C, including lifecycle-close waits.
  • Idempotence of same-parent terminal writes and preservation of completed history.
  • Compaction marker/summary cancellation at pre-marker, pre-processor, and active-processor boundaries.
  • The one-retry postcondition for a traced prompt that joins a finishing run.

Risk Notes

The change touches core session execution semantics. It keeps Runner generic, adds no dependency or migration, and serializes only rare terminal-error writes. The retry remains bounded to one attempt and applies only to non-interrupted traced prompts that the joined run did not cover.

Visible UI/manual visual checks were skipped because no UI or copy changed. Platform checks were skipped because no platform, packaging, path, or permission surface changed. Docs/release/dependency checks were skipped because none of those surfaces changed.

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SessionPrompt effect suite with EXA_API_KEY removed from the test environment: 83 passed, 0 failed, 363 assertions
SessionCompaction suite: 51 passed, 0 failed, 124 assertions
SessionRunState suite: 24 passed, 0 failed, 100 assertions
OpenCode typecheck (`bun run typecheck`): passed
Diff whitespace check (`git diff --check`): passed
Final adversarial review (concurrency, terminal semantics, simplification): PASS, no P0-P3 findings

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Not applicable; no visible UI changed.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved session reliability when prompt or compaction setup fails, preserving terminal errors and details.
    • Fixed missed prompts submitted while a previous run is finishing; they are now processed in a follow-up run.
    • Improved interruption handling to prevent unintended retries and correctly finalize interrupted work.
    • Prevented tool-call results from being associated with the wrong prompt.
  • Improvements
    • Enhanced compaction tracking, cancellation handling, and run coordination for more consistent responses.
    • Added support for custom message IDs during compaction.
    • Expanded coverage for failures, interruptions, cancellation, and prompt queueing.

@github-actions github-actions Bot added the harness Model harness, prompts, tool descriptions, and session mechanics label Aug 17, 2026
@Astro-Han Astro-Han added bug Something isn't working P1 High priority labels Aug 17, 2026
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SessionPrompt.loop now tracks cancellation attempts, compaction markers, terminal errors, and missed-message retries. SessionCompaction.create returns the created user message and rolls back failed marker creation. Tests cover cancellation races, setup failures, marker ownership, and queued prompts.

Changes

Prompt lifecycle handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compaction marker contract
packages/opencode/src/session/compaction.ts, packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/prompt-effect.test.ts
SessionCompaction.create accepts an optional message ID, returns the created user message, rolls back failed marker creation, and finalizes interrupted compactions. Prompt execution records marker IDs and tests marker ownership and rollback.
Cancellation observation and attempt state
packages/opencode/src/session/run-state.ts, packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/run-state.test.ts
RunState exposes scoped cancellation observers. Prompt attempts record interruption metadata, active processing, turn parents, and compaction markers. Tests verify cancellation metadata before a runner exists.
Terminal error persistence
packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/prompt-effect.test.ts
Prompt and compaction failures persist terminal assistant errors and abort diagnostics through serialized writes. Cancellation preserves message parents and avoids duplicate assistant carriers.
Missed-message retry flow
packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/prompt-effect.test.ts
The loop validates assistant parent ownership, rejects busy preludes, retries once when a finishing run misses a submitted message, and handles queued and joined prompts. Tests cover the related queue races.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 25be1

The new retry behavior can retain terminal-state attribution from the run it joined, so a cancellation during the retry could associate the failure with the previous turn or compaction marker. This is a bounded correctness risk; the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up to reset that state.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant SessionPrompt
  participant RunState
  participant SessionCompaction
  participant MessageStorage

  Caller->>SessionPrompt: submit prompt
  SessionPrompt->>RunState: observe cancellation
  SessionPrompt->>SessionCompaction: create compaction marker
  SessionCompaction-->>SessionPrompt: return marker message
  SessionPrompt->>MessageStorage: execute and persist assistant result
  alt Cancellation or terminal failure
    RunState-->>SessionPrompt: deliver interruption metadata
    SessionPrompt->>MessageStorage: persist abort or error carrier
  else Finishing run misses submitted message
    SessionPrompt->>SessionPrompt: retry once
  end
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- Around line 2841-2847: Update the polling flow around the deadline and
gate.resolve so it explicitly asserts that messages contains the submitted
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existing timeout and sleep behavior, but fail the test on timeout instead of
resolving gate and allowing the run to continue without confirming persistence.
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packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts (2)

2742-2762: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reset the attempt's turn and marker state before the retry, not only activeProcessor.

The retry path clears workStarted and currentAttempt.activeProcessor, but leaves currentAttempt.activeParentID and currentAttempt.compactionMarkerID from the joined run. Those fields are read by onInterrupt and by persistAttemptAbort. A cancel that arrives during the retry can then be attributed to the previous run's parent or marker.

The traced branch in onInterrupt currently runs before the activeParentID branch, so the practical impact is limited to the stale compactionMarkerID check. Clearing both keeps the attempt state consistent with "each attempt owns its terminal state".

♻️ Proposed change
         workStarted = false
         currentAttempt.activeProcessor = undefined
+        currentAttempt.activeParentID = undefined
+        currentAttempt.compactionMarkerID = undefined
         const retry = yield* runOnce().pipe(Effect.exit)
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In `@packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts` around lines 2742 - 2762, Before
invoking the retry via runOnce, reset currentAttempt.activeParentID and
currentAttempt.compactionMarkerID along with workStarted and activeProcessor.
Keep the retry behavior unchanged while ensuring onInterrupt and
persistAttemptAbort observe only state owned by the new attempt.

1827-1910: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider narrowing the terminal write lock to a single session.

terminalWriteLock is created once per layer, so every terminal-carrier write across all sessions is serialized. Each critical section reads the full message list of a session. Concurrent sessions that fail at the same time queue behind each other. A per-session lock keeps the same idempotence guarantee without cross-session coupling.

This only affects error and cancellation paths, so it is optional.

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In `@packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts` around lines 1827 - 1910, The
persistTerminalErrorCarrier critical section currently uses the layer-wide
terminalWriteLock, serializing terminal-carrier writes across unrelated
sessions. Replace it with a lock scoped by input.sessionID, while preserving the
existing locking, message lookup, update, and idempotence behavior within each
session.
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In `@packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts`:
- Around line 2742-2762: Before invoking the retry via runOnce, reset
currentAttempt.activeParentID and currentAttempt.compactionMarkerID along with
workStarted and activeProcessor. Keep the retry behavior unchanged while
ensuring onInterrupt and persistAttemptAbort observe only state owned by the new
attempt.
- Around line 1827-1910: The persistTerminalErrorCarrier critical section
currently uses the layer-wide terminalWriteLock, serializing terminal-carrier
writes across unrelated sessions. Replace it with a lock scoped by
input.sessionID, while preserving the existing locking, message lookup, update,
and idempotence behavior within each session.

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Prepare the PawWork 2026.8.2 stable release from the current dev baseline after #1546 and #1558.

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- bump the desktop package version from 2026.8.1 to 2026.8.2
- update only the matching Bun lockfile workspace entry

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