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Define bounded retention for ACP client processes #5620
PR #5224 retains one official ACP child process per Maka conversation after its first prompt, including while the conversation waits for the next turn. This is the PR 2 continuity rule in #5103: closing the Desktop UI does not retire the task. Task retirement and Plugin/Host teardown release owned process trees, but PR 2 has no idle timeout or process-count cap. A long-running Host can therefore accumulate child processes.
PR 2 records this operational limit rather than evicting a usable task into history_only. PR 3 in #5103 owns restoration of the same external Session after process loss; it does not itself commit to a process-retention policy.
Decision and follow-up
After PR 3 establishes the real Agent's restore behavior, decide how to bound ACP client process retention. Compare an idle timeout, an LRU/process cap, an admission cap, or a combination. Account for process and helper resources, multiple Maka conversations, active prompts and model changes, cancellation, and tasks whose history remains readable after their process is retired. Define the user-visible readiness and continuation behavior before implementing eviction.
Acceptance criteria
Document the chosen limit, its rationale, and the effect of reaching it.
No active prompt, configuration change, or process cleanup races with retirement.
Retiring a process terminates its owned tree and releases in-memory ownership.
A retired conversation either restores the same external Session or clearly reports that continuation is unavailable; it never silently creates a replacement Session.
Add controlled-process tests for the selected policy and its boundary cases.
Refs #5103 and #5224. This issue is separate from PR 3's restoration deliverable.
Activity
Sun-GLiang commentedon Sep 23, 2026
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