fix(runs,engine,adapters): hard stops ride the stop-request file so Windows stop no longer force-kills blind (#319) - #697
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stop_run now lodges a `mode: hard` stop-request.json before it signals, so a stop reaches an engine the signal cannot: a native-Windows engine never receives an inter-process SIGTERM, and taskkill without /F posts a WM_CLOSE a console process has no window for — every Windows stop burned the full 10s grace window into a blind force-kill, leaving `stopped` to the external fallback rather than the engine. - read_stop_request_mode: None only for absent; a present-but-odd file (modeless back-compat body, torn JSON, non-object, unreadable) reads "graceful", never "hard" — a torn read must not abort a live session. - _write_stop_request extracted from request_graceful_stop; the atomic replace is also the supersede of a pending graceful request, with no gap in which nothing is pending. - stop_run consumes the request on the paths that settle the run; the StopRunError refusal deliberately leaves it lodged. - graceful_stop_requested keeps bare-existence semantics (badges, idempotency, checkpoint skip, auto-sweep all want either mode); only status's graceful_stop_pending becomes mode-exact. SIGTERM remains the POSIX fast path. Engine and adapter routing land next.
… boundaries (#319) Phase 1 taught `stop_run` to lodge a `mode: "hard"` stop-request.json before it signals, but the engine still read every request as graceful. Route it here, so a stop the signal path cannot deliver — a native-Windows engine never receives an inter-process SIGTERM — is honored by the engine itself rather than by the external force-kill fallback. - _check_graceful_stop becomes _check_stop_request and reads the mode: a graceful request (the default, and every pre-#319 modeless body) unwinds into the clean-finalization arm exactly as before; a hard one takes the hard arm. A hard request that reaches a boundary is honored there rather than deferred to the adapter's poll — faster and cleaner than launching a session to abort. - _run_session gains the two hard-stop raise sites. Site A unwinds an "aborted" result from the adapter's in-session poll, inside the try (so the finally journals the paired session-end) and before record_session (so no SessionRecord is written) — matching the signal path, which interrupts inside adapter.run and records nothing. "aborted" therefore never escapes the method, so no env-fault / retry / escalation set has to learn it. - Site B fires after the post-session save regardless of status: it is what stops the run when a hard file lands in the poll gap, and when _post_kill_reconcile rescues an aborted session back to `completed`. Without it a hard-stopped run would carry on into verify/review on that rescue. - RunStopped carries `via`, journaled on run-stop when the control file delivered the stop. The signal path keeps writing a bare run-stop. The engine consumes the file before every raise, so run()'s finally cannot journal a misleading stop-request-discarded for a request it just honored. Adapter wait-loop polls land next.
…ds (#319) Both real wait loops now read the mode-aware stop-request channel once per iteration and return the non-completion "aborted" verdict when a hard stop is pending, so `bmad-loop stop` reaches a running session on platforms where the engine's SIGTERM never arrives. The poll lives on `_ResultFileMixin`, already shared by both hosts, and rides each loop's ~5s blocking tick rather than the 30s heartbeat throttle, keeping worst-case abort latency inside stop_run's 10s grace window. The adapter returns the status and never raises RunStopped (that would skip run()'s finally-kill and reconcile) and never unlinks the request file (the engine consumes it, and must still see it to attribute the stop). opencode mirrors its timeout arm exactly — without `_abort` the in-flight HTTP turn would keep running server-side until teardown. "aborted" joins the `_post_kill_reconcile` rescue set: a hard stop kills the window before a possibly-landed Stop was read, and the same #61 trust model (dead window + self-consistent successful terminal + proof-of-work) settles it. The rescue records the finished work without resuming the run — the engine's post-save hard-file check still stops it.
…he file channel (#319) The stop docs still named SIGTERM as *the* mechanism, which was never true on native Windows and is no longer true anywhere: a hard stop lodges a `mode: "hard"` stop-request.json before signalling, and the engine honors it at item boundaries and mid-session via the adapter wait-loop poll. - FEATURES.md / README.md: both modes ride the one control file; the ~5s in-session poll inside the 10s grace window; SIGTERM as the POSIX fast path; force-kill + `run-stop fallback=True` now means a wedged engine. - setup-guide.md: stopping a run is not part of the native-Windows gap. - porting-to-a-new-os.md: `terminate` is the polite fast path, not the stop guarantee, so a port's terminate need not be deliverable. - adapter-authoring-guide.md: `aborted` joins the documented status vocabulary, and the per-tick hard-stop poll is stated as the wait-loop contract. - tui-guide.md + TUI docstrings: the `⏹ stop` tag reads the file's presence, not its mode, so it also flashes for a hard request. - Wording sweep of claims the channel falsified: the `--graceful` help text, the `cmd_stop` comment, `StopRunError`'s message (the engine honored *neither* channel), `status --json`'s `graceful_stop_pending` docstring, and `--cancel-graceful`, which clears either mode and now says so. - CHANGELOG: Fixed + Changed under `## [Unreleased]`.
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| # pending *graceful* request in the same step: the operator escalated past it, and | ||
| # a stronger request must never leave a window where nothing at all is pending. | ||
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If the run directory becomes read-only, fills its filesystem, or otherwise rejects this write, _write_stop_request raises before get_process_host() or terminate() is reached. Consequently, a POSIX run that the previous implementation could still stop via SIGTERM is left running, and the CLI exposes an uncaught OSError; the hard-stop path should still attempt its signal/teardown fallback while reporting that the portable file channel failed.
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When stop --graceful passes its existence check just before a concurrent default stop writes mode: "hard", this helper permits the delayed graceful writer to replace the hard request, so Windows may finish the item gracefully instead of aborting it. Both writers also share the same fixed .tmp pathname, allowing one atomic_replace to remove the other's temporary file and make the other command fail; the write protocol needs serialization or mode-aware atomic arbitration so graceful requests cannot overwrite hard ones.
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In `@src/bmad_loop/adapters/opencode_http.py`:
- Around line 1077-1093: Bound the hard-stop branch in the polling flow around
_hard_stop_requested, _abort, and _capture_usage with a single deadline that
fits within stop_run’s 10-second grace period, ensuring delayed HTTP operations
cannot exceed it; alternatively move usage capture after the stop-critical
return path. Add a regression test covering delayed abort and usage requests
while preserving the aborted SessionResult behavior.
In `@src/bmad_loop/cli.py`:
- Around line 2415-2417: Update runs.clear_graceful_stop and its callers to
distinguish an absent stop-request file from a failed removal, propagating
removal errors instead of treating them as no request. In the resume flow, abort
before runs.write_pid() when clearing fails; in the cancellation flow, report
the removal failure rather than claiming no request is pending.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/test_cli.py` around lines 3854 - 3856: The
stale-request cleanup test must cover hard requests as well as graceful
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Two ways the lodge could cost the stop it was meant to deliver, both found by review of the #319 branch. The write goes first, so an OSError from it escaped `stop_run` before `get_process_host()` — leaving alive a POSIX run that the pre-#319 code, whose first statement was the never-raising `clear_graceful_stop`, would have killed. Reachable without exotic setup: every session tees its pane into `run_dir/logs/`, so a long run can fill the directory its own stop request must be written to. Guard it and keep the signal: the hard stop is delivered two ways at once, and failing the whole repair because one of two redundant channels failed inverts the doctrine. Where the pid-reuse guard then also declines to force-kill, the refusal says nothing is pending — that branch justifies itself by the file still being lodged, which is false when the lodge failed. Separately, the write staged through a fixed `stop-request.json.tmp` (pre-existing, from the graceful writer). This is the one control file with genuinely concurrent writers, so interleaved `stop` invocations overwrote each other's staging file and the loser's rename raised FileNotFoundError — on the hard path, before the signal. Adopt `atomic_write_text`, the same migration `operatoractions` made under #379. Both gates ablation-proven: removing the guard reddens the two new stop_run tests with the escaping OSError; restoring the fixed `.tmp` reddens the interleave test with the exact FileNotFoundError collision.
#319) `clear_graceful_stop` never raises — five callers depend on that, since the engine's finally and stop_run's teardown must not be wedged by it — so it answers False for "nothing was pending" and "could not remove it" alike. Both callers read the second as the first. Resume then wrote the pid and started, and the engine consumed the surviving request at its very first item boundary and stopped again. Because the discard notice never fired, the operator saw no reason why; resuming again repeated it. That is a livelock, not a one-shot annoyance. Re-read to tell the two apart and refuse before write_pid re-arms the engine. Cancel reported "no stop request pending" for a request still on disk and still honorable. Same exit code, accurate message. Rather than add a raising sibling, both sites re-read with the existing mode-blind `graceful_stop_requested`, so the never-raise contract the other callers rely on is untouched. Also covers the mode-neutrality that three docstrings assert and nothing tested: the stale-resume test proved only the graceful half while its own docstring claimed "either mode", and both cancel tests were graceful-only. Ablation: mode-gating either clear to `read_stop_request_mode(...) == "graceful"` reddens exactly the two new hard-mode tests and leaves their graceful twins green.
…nd (#319) The opencode hard-stop arm's comment was copied from the generic adapter, including its claim that "worst-case abort latency stays inside stop_run's 10s grace window". True there — that arm returns immediately, making no HTTP call at all — and false here, where the arm then makes two round-trips against a server that may itself be wedged, each under the client's 10s per-phase timeout. FEATURES.md carried the same overclaim. Say what is actually true: the ~5s tick bounds detection, not teardown, and a server that will not answer leaves the stop to the force-kill backstop — the same outcome every native-Windows stop had before #319, never a worse one. Declining the suggested shared-deadline refactor on those grounds, and recording why trimming the timeouts is the wrong fix: the same two calls serve the timeout arm, where the transcript is the diagnostic payload. CHANGELOG: the write-durability degrade folds into the existing #319 entry, since no release ever carried the regression. The temp collision and the resume/cancel conflation predate this branch, so they get Fixed entries.
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| modeless read already leans ``"graceful"`` inside | ||
| ``read_stop_request_mode``, so this can never abort a session | ||
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| return runs.read_stop_request_mode(self.run_dir) == "hard" |
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When a story run is synchronously executing an auto-sweep, this adapter belongs to the child sweep and self.run_dir points at the child's run directory, while bmad-loop stop <parent-id> writes only the parent's stop request. The poll therefore never sees the request; on native Windows, where the signal path cannot reach the engine, the parent stop waits 10 seconds and force-kills the process instead of allowing the nested engine to unwind, potentially tearing child state. Propagate the owning run's hard-stop channel into nested engines/adapters and cover the auto-sweep case.
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Confirmed and addressed in 4c74f12c.
Every mechanism named here checks out: the auto-sweep is a genuine same-thread in-process call (composed.engine.run()), the child mints its own run dir via mkdir(exist_ok=False), and its adapters are built against that child dir. The child's item-boundary check had the same blind spot, which this comment did not mention.
One correction to the consequence: this is not a regression. Against the merge-base, stop_run had an identical terminate → wait → force-kill → fallback sequence, and the lodged file was simply never read in the nested case — so the behavior was byte-for-byte what it was before #319. Top-level Windows got better, nested stayed the same, nothing got worse. POSIX was never affected: the signal handler is installed once by the outermost engine, and RunStopped unwinds the whole nest through _maybe_auto_sweep's except RunStopped: raise arm.
That said, the gap is real and it is a hole in this PR's own headline claim, so it is now closed rather than documented.
Important: the fix as proposed here would have been inert. Changing only the adapter poll leaves the case it exists for uncovered — the child's adapter aborts off the parent's file, _post_kill_reconcile upgrades that aborted back to completed, so raise site A never fires, and the child drives its review leg anyway on the strength of the rescue. That is the nested form of the rescued-completion trap. Raise site B needed an owner leg too, and it had to be non-consuming: the file belongs to the parent, whose own hard arm must still find it to record and attribute the stop.
What landed: the outermost Engine.run() publishes its run dir as the owning run in a ContextVar mirroring _run_depth (same-thread by construction, token + finally, gated on depth rather than _owns_signals). Both the adapter poll and site B consult it alongside their own dir. _check_stop_request deliberately still reads only its own dir — widening it would make a child consume its parent's request, and the cost of leaving it is bounded at one extra session launch that aborts on its first poll.
Both legs are hard-only: a graceful request already suppresses a child sweep from starting, and letting one in flight finish is what graceful means. stop <child-id> is unaffected — the child is a first-class run in list, so its own dir is read first.
Five ablation axes, each reddening exactly one test: dropping the adapter's owner leg; widening it to is not None; dropping site B's owner leg; widening that to is not None; and having run() stop publishing the owner.
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On native Windows, if a hard request arrives after this check while the engine is running the post_session hook, artifact processing, or verify.run_verify_commands—whose individual commands may block for 30 minutes—there is no further hard-request read until the next session or item boundary. stop_run waits only 10 seconds, so it force-kills an otherwise responsive engine during these phases, defeating the new portable self-teardown path and risking interruption of state writes. Add cancellation or hard-request checks around the non-adapter blocking phases.
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Premise confirmed — and the number is conservative — but the proposed remedy is inert, so this is tracked separately as #698 rather than patched here.
The window is real. Between raise site B and the next item boundary nothing reads the control file, and the phases named are all present: the post_session hook (default timeout_sec = 120), artifact processing, and verify.run_verify_commands. The 30-minute figure is right — COMMAND_TIMEOUT_S = 30 * 60 (verify.py:42) — but it is applied per command, looped over every entry in policy.verify.commands, with the suite run once on the dev leg and again on review. So the bound is N × 30 min, not 30 minutes.
The parity argument is also correct, and worth stating more strongly than this comment does: the POSIX handler raises, it does not set a flag consulted later. Measured, SIGTERM delivered 1.0s into a blocking subprocess.run unwinds immediately with no orphaned child. So the file channel genuinely is weaker than the signal path in exactly the window meant to replace it.
Two things keep it out of this PR.
It is not a regression. Pre-#319, terminate shelled taskkill /PID without /F — a no-op against a console process — so native Windows force-killed after the full grace window in every phase. This PR narrows that to one window.
The suggested fix does not change the outcome. _STOP_WAIT_S is 10s. The engine is inside subprocess.run and executes no bytecode until the child exits, so a check placed around a blocking call cannot shorten it. Any single phase over 10 seconds force-kills regardless of how many checks bracket it — and a 30-minute command is precisely the case a bracketing check cannot touch. Adding those checks would ship code that provably does not affect the scenario described.
The remedy that does work is a watchdog plus a child-process registry. The mechanism is sound (measured: watchdog kills the child at t=1.0s, main thread unblocks with rc=-9) — but a naive version creates a worse bug: that rc=-9 becomes CommandResult(command, -9, ...) and verify_command_results_outcome (verify.py:3872) returns VerifyOutcome.retry(..., fixable=True). The engine would answer a stop request by dispatching a repair session on the strength of a failure it caused itself. Making it correct needs stop-awareness threaded into result classification across verify.py, plugins/bus.py and the _run_git chokepoint — a separate feature affecting every platform.
Finally, the stated harm — "risking interruption of state writes" — does not hold. save_state writes a .tmp sibling then atomic_replace, so SIGKILL cannot tear state.json; the durability ordering before this window was written for exactly this case, and the run stays resumable with _finish_inflight replaying the interrupted phase. The real residue is an orphaned verify child on POSIX. Full analysis and acceptance criteria are in #698.
Review round 1 — dispositionFour findings, all validated against the code independently. Every premise held; two of the four consequences did not. Addressed in Fixed
DeclinedBound the hard-stop exit path with a shared deadline (CodeRabbit). The code is byte-identical to pre-PR ( Serialize the write protocol against a graceful/hard downgrade (codex P2, claim A). Real TOCTOU, in the gap between GatesEach new test was ablation-proven before being trusted:
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| # Fallback: no live engine (or it never confirmed). Mark it stopped here. Discard | ||
| # the request first — nothing is left alive to consume it, and a file outliving | ||
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If ProcessHost.terminate() raises PermissionError/OSError while the engine remains live, or force_kill() raises after the timeout, control reaches this fallback without confirming process death. Clearing the newly lodged file removes the only remaining portable stop channel and then marks the run stopped even though the engine can continue and later overwrite that state; retain the request, re-probe liveness, or fail instead of reporting a successful repair.
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Confirmed and addressed in 726359c4.
Both premises hold. terminate() raising PermissionError/OSError sets pid = None and drops straight through to the fallback with no liveness re-probe; force_kill() raising is swallowed by a handler whose "raced us to exit" rationale only describes ProcessLookupError, and PermissionError means the opposite. Neither path was covered by a test — _FakeHost never raised from either.
One correction to the framing: this is not something the PR introduced. On the merge-base, stop_run cleared the request unconditionally, as its first statement, so on every path named here origin/main ends in the identical state — no file, stopped=True, fallback: true. The branch cannot strand anything main did not. What is new is the capability — there is now a channel worth retaining — and that is the part worth acting on.
What landed: death is separated from refusal. ProcessLookupError still discards, because it is proof of death. Refusal keeps the request lodged, and the stop stays genuinely in flight — the engine honors the file at its next poll and writes stopped itself.
This also surfaced a third path the comment did not name, and arguably the most important one on this platform: WindowsProcessHost.force_kill shells taskkill /F /T with check=False, so a refused kill raises nothing at all. A clean return carries no information. It is now confirmed by re-probing rather than assumed.
The naive version of that re-probe would have traded the bug for its mirror image: is_alive is os.kill(pid, 0), which reads a not-yet-reaped pid as alive, so an immediate single sample would strand the file on the ordinary wedged-engine path. The probe therefore lets the kill settle first (_KILL_CONFIRM_S).
Declining the "or fail instead of reporting a successful repair" half: with the request retained the stop is in flight, so reporting success is honest. And retaining it unconditionally — which this comment could be read as asking for — would re-open the stale-request trap that the branch's first commit closed deliberately; a run whose engine may still be live cannot be resumed into that request until it exits anyway.
Four ablation axes, reddening disjoint sets: making the fallback clear unconditional again reddens the three "keeps" tests and neither "discards" one; collapsing the terminate excepts reddens only the refused-signal test; deleting the re-probe reddens only the silent-taskkill test; deleting the settle loop reddens only its positive control.
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If a graceful caller passes the existence check at line 1036 immediately before a concurrent hard stop publishes its request, it resumes here and atomically replaces mode: "hard" with mode: "graceful". The current revision's unique temporary files are fresh evidence that staging collisions were fixed, but they retain last-writer-wins semantics, so on Windows the session can finish and commit instead of aborting despite the hard request; the arbitration must preserve hard-stop precedence.
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The window is real, and wider than a bare check-then-act gap: between the existence check and the os.replace sit a pid-file read, a liveness probe, a mkstemp and an fsync. The channel is last-writer-wins in both directions, so a graceful write landing in that window does replace mode: "hard".
Two corrections to the consequence, neither of which changes the disposition.
POSIX is structurally immune. stop_run signals after lodging, and the handler reads no control file at all — it raises RunStopped(), which defaults to the hard arm. The downgraded file is irrelevant there.
On native Windows the run still stops. The force-kill backstop past the grace window still fires and the fallback still marks it stopped. What is lost is the #319 improvement itself — the engine's own clean teardown degrades back to a blind force-kill. That is worth preventing, but it is not "the session finishes and commits" as written; and reaching it requires two contradictory deliberate operator actions overlapping within milliseconds, since --graceful and the default stop are in an argparse mutually exclusive group and both TUI bindings sit behind separate confirm modals.
The fix is cheap enough that severity did not need settling: request_graceful_stop re-reads the mode immediately before its write and answers "already-pending" for a pending hard request — the same answer the check at the top of the function gives, and the right one either way, since a lodged hard request is a stronger stop already standing. This narrows the race to one read → one replace rather than closing it.
The guard deliberately lives in the caller, not in _write_stop_request: stop_run shares that helper and its escalation over a pending graceful request must stay unconditional. Both docstrings now record which direction is arbitrated where.
On "the arbitration must preserve hard-stop precedence" in the strict sense — genuine arbitration was considered and declined. platform_util.file_lock exists, but its own docstring forbids locking data swapped via atomic_replace, and its wait is platform-asymmetric: POSIX blocks indefinitely, so a wedged graceful writer could block a hard stop forever. Trading "a hard stop degrades" for "a hard stop hangs" is the worse bug. Restoring "hard" after a detected clobber was also rejected — it is racy the same way, and it can resurrect a request the engine just consumed, re-stopping a resumed run at its first item.
Worth noting: test_write_stop_request_survives_an_interleaved_concurrent_writer was one line from being the reproducer — it interleaves both writers but with the hard one replacing last. The precedence direction now has its own test, ablation-proven.
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On native Windows, if a hard request arrives after the loop-head check while the final _pick_next() is determining that no story remains, the mode-blind auto-sweep predicate at engine.py:6670 suppresses the run-end sweep and returns, after which _run_inner() sets finished=True instead of consuming the hard request. stop_run() can subsequently add stopped=True, but status prioritizes finished, so the configured sweep is skipped while the requested hard stop is reported as a completed run; auto-sweep suppression should distinguish hard mode and raise RunStopped for it.
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Confirmed and addressed in dfc8b417.
Every link in the chain holds. The run-end auto-sweep predicate is mode-blind and suppresses-and-returns rather than raising; nothing at all runs between that return and finished = True; sites A and B live inside _run_session, which the story is None branch never enters; and documents.py tests finished before stopped, so a run carrying both reports "finished". stop_run's fallback does then set stopped=True without re-checking finished.
Two refinements. The window opens at _loop's head check, not at _pick_next() — and it also covers the max-stories-reached return, which this comment did not mention and which reaches finished = True by the same route.
On the proposal itself — "auto-sweep suppression should distinguish hard mode and raise RunStopped for it" — the first half is declined and the second is taken, at a different site.
The suppression stays mode-blind, deliberately. A hard request should suppress a new child sweep exactly as a graceful one does; docs/FEATURES.md documents that, and the pre-existing test pinning it is byte-identical on origin/main, with a docstring that already names this exact race and its consequence. What was missing was not the suppression's mode-awareness but the stop it owes the operator afterward.
So the check landed at the finished = True site instead. That is mode-exact, so pre-existing graceful semantics are untouched — a graceful request at an exhausted queue still finishes truthfully, since the queue is empty and there is nothing left to stop before. It closes every _loop return path in one place rather than only the suppression branch. And it leaves the per-epic sweep caller alone, which a raise at the suppression site would also have fired from.
Grading the harm honestly: most of this chain is pre-existing, and the only genuinely new link is that hard requests now reach the predicate at all — on the merge-base, stop_run cleared the file rather than lodging one. But the outcome contradicts a claim this PR itself added to docs/FEATURES.md, that run-stop fallback=True now means a genuinely wedged engine. This path produced it against an engine that was responsive throughout, so the fix is what makes that documented claim true.
Two ablation axes reddening disjoint sets: deleting the check reddens only the hard test; widening it to is not None reddens only its graceful twin.
`request_graceful_stop` clears its "already pending?" existence check, then spends a pid-file read, a liveness probe, a mkstemp and an fsync before its `os.replace`. The stop-request channel is last-writer-wins, so a concurrent `stop` lodging `mode: "hard"` anywhere in that window was silently replaced with `graceful` — and the operator lost the abort they asked for. Re-read the mode immediately before the write and answer "already-pending" for a pending hard request. That is the same answer the check at the top of the function gives, and the right one either way: a lodged hard request is a stronger stop already standing. This narrows the race to one read then one replace rather than closing it. Nothing short of arbitration could close it, and arbitration is the wrong trade here: `platform_util.file_lock` forbids locking data swapped via `atomic_replace`, and its wait is platform-asymmetric — POSIX blocks indefinitely, so a wedged graceful writer could block a hard stop forever. Degrading a hard stop beats hanging one. The guard lives in the caller, not `_write_stop_request`, because `stop_run` shares that helper and its escalation over a pending graceful request must stay unconditional. Both docstrings now say which direction is arbitrated where. Ablation: deleting the guard reddens the new test — the call returns "requested" and the file reads "graceful". The concurrent lodge is driven from `engine_liveness`, which is exactly the code that runs inside the window.
…al path (#319) Two ways the hard-stop contract leaked at the edges of the run, both found by review of this branch. **The signal path journalled its own request as stale debris.** `stop_run` lodges the hard request *before* it signals, and the signal handler reads no control file — so on POSIX every routine `bmad-loop stop` reached the hard arm with the file still on disk. `run()`'s finally then discarded it as stale and wrote `stop-request-discarded` next to `run-stop`, describing the very request that caused the stop as debris that outlived it. The boundary and in-session sites already consume before raising for exactly this reason, and say so; the hard arm is the one that did not. It now does, mode-exactly — a pending *graceful* request really is superseded by a hard stop, so it stays with the finally and still journals the discard. **A hard request landing as the last item finished was dropped entirely.** On the exhausted-queue return path none of the three raise sites apply: sites A and B live inside `_run_session`, which the `story is None` branch never enters, and the run-end auto-sweep predicate is mode-blind, so it suppresses the sweep and *returns* rather than raising. The run then recorded `finished`, which `documents.py` ranks above `stopped`, so an honored hard stop was reported as a completed run — and `stop_run` went on to journal `fallback=True` against an engine that had been responsive throughout, which is the one reading FEATURES.md now says that flag rules out. Checked once where `_loop` returns rather than at the suppression site: that covers every exhausted-queue path, `max-stories-reached` included, and leaves the per-epic sweep caller alone. Mode-exact for the same reason as above — a graceful request at an exhausted queue finishes truthfully, which is long-documented and separately tested. The suppression itself is unchanged and stays mode-blind: a hard request should suppress a new child sweep just as a graceful one does. What was missing was the stop that owes the operator afterward. Ablations, reddening disjoint sets: deleting the run-end check reddens only the hard test; widening it to `is not None` reddens only its graceful twin; deleting the hard-arm consume reddens only the signal-path test, whose gate is the absent journal entry, not the absent file — the finally clears that either way.
…ad (#319) `stop_run`'s fallback marks a run stopped from outside and discards the hard request it lodged moments earlier. That discard is right where nothing is left alive to read the file — but it also ran on every path that reached the fallback *without evidence of death*: - `terminate()` refused with `PermissionError`/`OSError` (the pid was `alive_and_ours` a moment earlier, and we could not signal it), - `force_kill()` refused the same way — the opposite of the `ProcessLookupError` the shared handler's "raced us to exit" comment described, - a `taskkill /F /T` that simply did not work: `WindowsProcessHost.force_kill` shells it with `check=False`, so a refused kill raises nothing at all. In each case a live engine was left with its only remaining stop channel deleted, while the caller reported the run stopped — on the platform that channel exists for, and precisely when the fallback's own premise ("no live engine") was false. Death is now separated from refusal. `ProcessLookupError` still discards, because it is proof. Refusal keeps the request lodged, and the stop stays genuinely in flight: the engine honors the file at its next poll and writes `stopped` itself. A clean `force_kill` return is confirmed rather than assumed, since on win32 it carries no information. The probe lets the kill settle first (`_KILL_CONFIRM_S`): `is_alive` is a bare existence probe that reads a not-yet-reaped pid as alive, and an immediate sample would strand the file on the ordinary wedged-engine path — trading the bug for its mirror image. This does not re-open the stale-request trap `6d66b79d` closed: the file is still discarded on every path where the engine is provably gone, and a run whose engine may still be live cannot be resumed into that request until it exits regardless. Ablations, each reddening a disjoint set: making the fallback clear unconditional again reddens the three "keeps" tests and neither "discards" one; collapsing the `terminate` excepts back into one reddens only the refused-signal test; deleting the post-kill re-probe reddens only the silent-taskkill test; deleting the settle loop reddens only its positive control, where a lingering pid must still read as dead.
…s hard stop (#319) An auto-sweep runs synchronously inside its parent's thread but mints its own run id and run dir, and its adapters are built against that child dir. So `bmad-loop stop <parent-id>` lodged the request somewhere nothing in the child ever read. On POSIX the shared-process SIGTERM covered it; on native Windows, where no inter-process signal is delivered at all, the parent stop burned the grace window and force-killed the whole process — the exact behavior #319 exists to remove, surviving in the one shape the branch had documented as a known gap rather than closed. The outermost `Engine.run()` now publishes its run dir as the owning run, in a ContextVar mirroring `_run_depth` — same-thread by construction, same token + `finally` discipline, so a later top-level run in the same process is never poisoned. Gated on depth rather than `_owns_signals`, for the reason the module already documents twice: a top-level run off the main thread installs no handlers yet still owns the channel. Two readers consult it, and it took both: - the adapter poll (`_ResultFileMixin._hard_stop_requested`, shared by both real adapters), which is what ends the in-flight session; - raise site B, without which the fix is inert on the very shape it is for. The child's adapter aborts off the parent's file, `_post_kill_reconcile` upgrades that `aborted` back to `completed`, raise site A therefore never fires — and the child would drive its review leg on the strength of the rescue. That is the nested form of the rescued-completion trap. Site B's owner leg deliberately does NOT consume. The file is the parent's, and the parent's own hard arm must still find it to record and attribute the stop; the nested re-raise hands the exception up before that arm consumes anything, and `via` rides the exception rather than the file. For the same reason `_check_stop_request` keeps reading only its own dir — widening it would make a child consume its parent's request, and the cost of leaving it is bounded at one extra session launch that aborts on its first poll. Both legs are hard-only. A graceful request already suppresses a child sweep from *starting*, and letting one already in flight finish is what graceful means. `stop <child-id>` is unaffected: the child is a first-class run that appears in `list`, so its own dir is still read first. Ablations, five axes each reddening exactly one test: dropping the adapter's owner leg; widening it to `is not None`; dropping site B's owner leg; widening that to `is not None`; and having `run()` stop publishing the owner at all.
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2411-2433: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMove the stale-request refusal ahead of the journal append and the digest re-stamp.
This refusal returns before
save_stateandwrite_pid, which is correct for arming. It runs after two side effects that already landed:
- Line 2361 appends
run-resumeto the journal for a resume that did not happen.- Line 2396 calls
runs.write_trusted_config_digest(...), which re-baselines the integrity pin.The pin re-stamp is the one with a lasting effect. After this refusal, the on-disk config has been blessed even though no engine started. A later resume then compares against the new baseline, so the
security_config_changedadvisory stays silent for a change the operator never accepted by resuming.The check needs only
run_dir, so it can run right after thestate.finishedguard and the preflight refusals.♻️ Suggested placement
if not _require_base_skills(project, pol, require_stories=state.source == "stories"): return 1 + # A resume is fresh user intent: discard any stop request left over from a prior + # stopped run — either mode. Refuse here, ahead of the journal append and the + # integrity re-stamp below, so a resume that never arms leaves no trace of one. + if runs.clear_graceful_stop(run_dir): + print( + f"run {run_dir.name}: discarded a stale stop request before resuming", + file=sys.stderr, + ) + elif runs.graceful_stop_requested(run_dir): + print( + f"run {run_dir.name}: a stale stop request could not be discarded " + f"({runs.STOP_REQUEST_FILE} is not removable); resuming would stop again " + "at the first item. Remove it and retry.", + file=sys.stderr, + ) + return 1 journal = Journal(run_dir)Then delete the block at lines 2411-2433.
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916-919: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe temp-file assertion cannot observe a
mkstempleftover.
atomic_write_textstages through amkstempname (tmpXXXXXXXX), not a name derived fromstop-request.json. The globruns.STOP_REQUEST_FILE + "*"therefore matches only the target file, so the assertion passes even when a staging temp survives. The comment states the opposite intent.List the whole directory instead, so a leaked temp reddens the test.
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- assert [p.name for p in run_dir.glob(runs.STOP_REQUEST_FILE + "*")] == [runs.STOP_REQUEST_FILE] + # every entry in the run dir, so a `mkstemp`-named staging temp is visible too + assert [p.name for p in run_dir.iterdir() if p.is_file()] == [runs.STOP_REQUEST_FILE]Note: the run dir also holds
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In `@src/bmad_loop/cli.py`:
- Around line 2411-2433: Move the stale stop-request refusal using
runs.clear_graceful_stop and runs.graceful_stop_requested to immediately after
the state.finished guard and existing preflight refusals, before the run-resume
journal append and runs.write_trusted_config_digest call. Preserve its messages
and return behavior, then remove the later duplicate block so refused resumes
produce no side effects.
In `@tests/test_runs.py`:
- Around line 916-919: Update the assertions in the affected stop-request tests
around the atomic write flow to inspect all directory entries rather than
globbing by STOP_REQUEST_FILE, excluding the known state.json entry where
present. Ensure any mkstemp staging file causes the assertion to fail while
retaining the expected stop-request target-file check.
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When stop --graceful passes the mode check and a concurrent default stop publishes mode: "hard" before this write's final replace, the graceful writer still overwrites the stronger request. On native Windows this removes the only mid-session hard-stop channel, so the current item may continue until the force-kill fallback instead of aborting. The current source comment explicitly acknowledges that the read-to-replace race remains, which is fresh evidence after the earlier review thread considered this fixed; use serialized or mode-aware atomic arbitration.
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Confirmed and addressed in 2f7893a6.
The premise holds and reproduces. Patching atomic_replace to lodge hard immediately before the graceful replace returns requested and leaves graceful on disk — the stronger request destroyed.
Two corrections to the finding, neither of which spares the defect.
The window is ~60× wider than "sub-millisecond". Between the re-read and the final os.replace sit a read_text, a json.dumps, a _mkstemp_beside open, a write, an fsync and the replace. Measured end to end, 300 iterations:
| filesystem | min | median | p95 | max |
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| btrfs (a real project disk) | 1.03 ms | 1.25 ms | 2.01 ms | 7.18 ms |
| tmpfs (fsync is a no-op) | 0.019 ms | 0.020 ms | 0.031 ms | 0.085 ms |
The fsync dominates. Sub-millisecond describes only the filesystem nobody runs a project on — which makes the finding stronger, not weaker.
"Removes the only mid-session hard-stop channel" overstates it. stop_run still signals and still force-kills after the grace window. The downgrade costs the ≤10 s wait, not the stop. That end state is exactly origin/main's unconditional behavior — no file channel at all, SIGTERM then a blind force-kill — so the race's worst case is a regression to main, never below it. The downgraded state is genuinely new to this PR (pre-#319 there was no mode to downgrade); the operator-visible outcome is inherited.
Fixed anyway, for a reason outside the severity math: this is the third round of one finding family (round 2's F4 → 7fd47a7b → this). A family that reopens in a new shape each round is evidence about the design, not a queue to grind down.
The fix makes the write be the check. The graceful lodge is now O_CREAT | O_EXCL, atomic against the destination name: a hard request either already exists — we refuse, leaving it standing — or replaces what we wrote, which is escalation, the direction _write_stop_request owns and stop_run needs unconditional. Splitting the two directions across two writers is what lets the hard path keep its unconditional replace. The re-read guard is deleted, so this is a net reduction rather than another layer.
The non-atomic body is safe by construction and only for this mode: a reader catching the file empty gets "graceful" from read_stop_request_mode — the very mode being written. The invariant that a torn read must never produce "hard" is untouched, which is precisely why a hard writer may not use this path. A failed body write unlinks, so no empty file is left reading as a request nobody made. O_EXCL also refuses a planted symlink rather than following it, which is stricter than the follow_symlinks=False replace it supersedes.
Rejected on the way, since "use serialized or mode-aware atomic arbitration" spans all of them:
- Read-after-write verify + restore — incorrect, does not converge. After the graceful replace the file reads
gracefulwhether or not a hard request was destroyed; the writer cannot distinguish "I clobbered one" from "none existed", because the evidence is gone. The mirror variant fails symmetrically. Every single pass narrows a third time; none closes. - Mode-in-filename (two files) — correct, but it rewrites the whole channel contract (reader, existence check, the never-raise clear, the
stoppingprojection, TUI, docs, every test writing the file directly) and mints a new bug class: a half-clear resurrects a request. file_lock— correct, and I owe it a correction: my round-2 reason for rejecting it was half wrong. The docstring's "never data that is swapped viaatomic_replace" prescribes a shape rather than forbidding the tool, and astop-request.locksibling satisfies it —install.py:2357already does exactly that. The POSIX-blocks-forever property is real but the inference was too strong for a ~1.3 ms critical section with no subprocess in it. Still not shipped: it needs an acquire-failure branch in both writers, andstop_run's would have to fall through to an unlocked write or a lock failure silently costs the hard channel — the very thing being protected.
Ablation, two axes — the second is what proves the new test is not merely re-testing the guard it replaced:
- Unconditional graceful write → both injection points redden.
- Old re-read guard restored →
engine_livenessgoes green,just_before_the_createstays red. A re-read cannot catch a lodge that lands with only the create left to run.
…re-stamp (#319) The stale-stop-request refusal returns 1, and it sat below two persistent writes: the `run-resume` journal append, and `write_trusted_config_digest`. The pin is the one that lasts. That write targets the exact file the next resume reads back as `pinned` (the only `read_trusted_config_digest` caller in `src/` is this function), so re-baselining it on a refusal inverts the advisory it feeds: `security_config_changed` fired on the attempt that refused and went silent on the attempt that actually armed an engine — for a config change the operator never accepted by resuming. The re-stamp's stated justification is that the engine this process is about to arm re-reads the config from there, which a path that arms nothing does not earn. On main `_require_base_skills` was this function's last early exit and everything below ran straight through; #319 grafted a `return 1` past that commit point onto where the pre-existing non-returning clear already sat. The placement was inherited, not designed. Moved above both writes — but deliberately below `_launch_profiles` and `_trusted_config_digest`, which raise SystemExit on a bad profile: clearing ahead of those would destroy the operator's lodged request on a resume that then aborts, which is the same defect aimed at less recoverable state. That is the reviewer's proposed anchor, and why it was not taken. Still before write_pid, the constraint that governs correctness. Ablation: move the block back below the digest write — the new test reddens on two independent axes (the pin becomes the freshly computed sha256; one `run-resume` entry appears, carrying `security_config_changed: True`) while `test_resume_refuses_when_a_stale_request_cannot_be_discarded` stays green.
Round 2's re-read (7fd47a7) narrowed the downgrade race; it could not close it. The check and the write stayed two statements, so a hard request landing between them was still replaced with `graceful`. The window is wider than the finding claimed. Between the re-read and the final `os.replace` sit a read_text, a json.dumps, a mkstemp, a write, an fsync and the replace — measured over 300 iterations at 1.25ms median / 7.18ms max on btrfs, where the fsync dominates. On tmpfs it is 0.02ms. "Sub-millisecond" describes only the filesystem nobody runs a project on. Fixed by making the write *be* the check: the graceful lodge is now an O_CREAT|O_EXCL create, atomic against the destination name, so a hard request either already exists (we refuse, leaving it standing) or replaces what we wrote — escalation, which is the direction `_write_stop_request` owns and `stop_run` needs unconditional. That asymmetry across two writers is what lets the hard path keep its unconditional replace. The re-read guard is DELETED, so this is a net reduction, not another layer. The non-atomic body is safe by construction and only for this mode: a reader catching the file empty gets "graceful" from `read_stop_request_mode`, the very mode being written. The invariant that a torn read must never produce "hard" is untouched, which is exactly why a hard writer may not use this path. A failed body write unlinks, so no empty file is left reading as a request nobody made. O_EXCL also refuses a planted symlink instead of following it — stricter than the follow_symlinks=False replace it replaces. Two concurrent graceful asks now resolve to "already-pending" too, which is the idempotency the docstring already promised: the first one's timestamp stands. Ablation, two axes — the second is what proves the test is not just re-testing the deleted guard: 1. unconditional graceful write -> BOTH injection points redden. 2. old re-read guard restored -> `engine_liveness` GREEN, `just_before_the_create` RED. A re-read cannot catch a lodge that lands with only the create left to run. Scope note: the operator-visible consequence is bounded by origin/main, where `stop_run` has no file channel at all and every Windows stop burned the full grace window into a blind force-kill. The race's worst case was a regression to that, never below it. Fixed anyway because this is the third round of one finding family, and closing it structurally costs less code than narrowing it again.
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When the engine reads an existing graceful request and a concurrent default stop replaces it with mode: "hard" before this unlink, clear_graceful_stop() deletes the new hard request but the cached mode still routes the engine through the graceful arm. On native Windows the accompanying terminate signal does not correct this race, so the default hard stop can be reported successful while using graceful finalization and leaving the agent session alive when cleanup_session_on_finish is disabled. Consume the specific request version that was read, or recheck for a hard replacement before committing to the graceful arm.
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Premise confirmed and fixed in f310325f — but via your first suggestion, not your second. The second one is measurably harmful; details below, because the numbers are the useful part of this thread.
The race is real. Reproduced with real threads, 4000 trials, counting only genuine swallows (hard lodge completed before the removal, engine routed non-hard, file gone afterwards): 164/4000. The read at engine.py:1020 and the unlink at :1026 are separated by a close, a json.loads, an isinstance and a branch — and the branch at :1027 happens after the unlink.
The exposure is exactly one site, and that is provable rather than lucky. The mode lattice is monotone: _create_stop_request is O_CREAT | O_EXCL so graceful can never overwrite, and _write_stop_request only ever writes "hard" — hence absent < graceful < hard until consumed. A stale "hard" read is therefore always still true; only a stale "graceful" can lose anything. Every other reader either never clears (_hard_stop_requested, the nested-owner leg, the sweep suppression check) or clears only after reading "hard" (the run-end check, the hard arm, raise site B). _check_stop_request was the sole site that acted on a "graceful" read by deleting.
⚠️ Your remedy #2 makes it 5.7× worse
I implemented both suggestions and ran them through the same harness:
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| recheck before committing to the graceful arm | 929 / 4000 |
| atomic take | 0 / 4000 |
The recheck does catch escalations the old code missed — but it lengthens the interval between the decisive read and the unlink, so total losses rise. This is precisely the shape this PR already worked through once: round 2 narrowed the writer-side window with a re-read, round 3 had to replace it with O_CREAT | O_EXCL because narrowing is not closing. Please don't recommend the recheck shape on this channel again.
Your remedy #1 — "consume the specific request version that was read" — is correct, and consume_stop_request is that: an atomic_replace to a private name, then read what was taken. The rename is the consume, so "what is pending?" and "take it" cannot disagree. It is the exact reader-side mirror of the writer's O_EXCL.
A hard request lodged after the take is a new request against a run already stopping. It stays on the channel for run()'s finally to discard and journal as stop-request-discarded — accounted for, not silently lost.
Two corrections to the consequence
"leaving the agent session alive when cleanup_session_on_finish is disabled" — this does not happen. The in-process half is right: the graceful arm gates teardown on that policy (engine.py:716) while the hard arm calls kill_session unconditionally (:723). But stop_run kills the session out-of-process on every non-raising path — runs.py:1287 on the live-pid path and :1307 on the fallback, both keyed by run_dir.name, which is the run id. The only path that skips it needs the engine alive past the 10 s window, and in this race the engine is finalizing and exits promptly. The session dies regardless of the policy, on both platforms. The residual harm is fidelity, not liveness: journal attribution (graceful=True instead of via="stop-request"), the notify wording, and the graceful arm running worktree GC + the post_run hook on a path where the operator asked for now.
Not a regression. On origin/main this site is an existence check followed by a clear and an unconditional raise RunStopped(graceful=True) — no mode, no hard arm — so it routed graceful 100% of the time, and a native-Windows stop burned the full grace window into a blind force-kill with no engine teardown at all. Under the race this PR lands on exactly that behavior ~4% of the time and delivers a correct hard stop otherwise. What is new is only the possibility of a stale mode; main had no mode to be stale. Worth stating because "the default hard stop can be reported successful while… leaving the agent session alive" reads as a regression, and no such regression exists.
A variant you did not name, fixed for free
read_stop_request_mode answers "graceful" for a present-but-unreadable file — explicitly including "the win32 sharing violation a concurrent atomic_replace raises mid-write". At this one site that meant a single stop, with no pre-existing graceful request at all, could be torn-read as graceful and then deleted. That contradicted the reader's own stated rationale ("a misread graceful costs at most one more item"), which holds at every other reader but not at the one that deletes. The take succeeds where the read would have failed, so the retried read targets a file nothing else can touch.
Ablation, three axes
consume_stop_request→read+unlink— the runs-level test reddens (it answers"hard": with no take, the mode returned is whatever the name resolves to at read time, which the escalation already changed).- Revert the writer's
O_EXCLbut keep the take — that test still passes. Disjoint sets, which proves the two guards are independent rather than one wearing a new hat. _check_stop_request→read+clear— the engine-level test reddens. Wiring is a separate axis from the predicate: an atomicconsume_stop_requestproves nothing if the call site does not use it.
The item-boundary check read the mode at engine.py:1020 and unlinked at
:1026, branching only at :1027 — after the unlink. A `stop` escalating to
`mode: "hard"` between the read and the unlink was therefore deleted unread
while the engine routed on the stale `graceful` it already held. Reproduced:
164 genuine swallows over 4000 real-thread trials.
Only that direction can lose anything, because the mode lattice is monotone —
`_create_stop_request` refuses to overwrite and `_write_stop_request` only ever
writes "hard", so absent < graceful < hard until consumed. A stale "hard" read
is always still true; a stale "graceful" may not be. That bounds the exposure
to exactly one site: every other reader either never clears, or clears only
after reading "hard".
Fixed with `consume_stop_request`, the reader-side counterpart of the writer's
O_CREAT|O_EXCL: the rename IS the consume, so "what is pending?" and "take it"
cannot disagree. A hard request lodged after the take is a new request against
a run already stopping — it stays on the channel for run()'s finally to journal
as `stop-request-discarded`, a record rather than a silent loss.
The reviewer's second suggestion — recheck for a hard replacement before
committing to the graceful arm — was measured and REJECTED. Over the same
4000-trial harness it makes the defect 5.7x more likely, not less:
read -> unlink (before) 164/4000 swallowed
re-read before unlink 929/4000 swallowed <- worse
atomic take 0/4000 swallowed
The extra read lengthens the interval the escalation has to land in. This is
the same mistake round 2 made and round 3 had to undo: narrowing a window is
not closing it. Its first suggestion — consume the specific version read — is
the correct one, and the take is how you implement it.
Also settles a variant not named in the review: `read_stop_request_mode`
answers "graceful" for a present-but-unreadable file, explicitly including the
win32 sharing violation a concurrent `atomic_replace` raises mid-write. At this
one site that meant a SINGLE `stop` could be torn-read as graceful and then
deleted. The take succeeds where the read would have failed.
Scope note: not a regression. On origin/main this site was an existence check
that routed graceful 100% of the time with no hard arm at all, and a Windows
stop burned the full grace window into a blind force-kill. What is new is only
the possibility of a stale mode — main had no mode to be stale.
Ablation, three axes:
1. consume -> read + unlink -> runs-level test RED
2. revert the writer's O_EXCL -> runs-level test PASSES (disjoint, so the
two guards are proven independent)
3. _check_stop_request -> read + clear -> engine-level test RED (wiring is a
separate axis from the predicate)
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When a hard stop lands while request_graceful_stop() is running, this path returns "already-pending", but both the CLI and TUI translate that token as “already has a graceful stop pending.” The operator is therefore told the current item will finish even though the pending request will take the hard-abort path; return a mode-specific result or use mode-neutral messaging.
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Valid — fixed in 8610315c.
The sharpest part of this one is that the message text is byte-identical to main. What this PR changed is what it means. On main, stop_run's first statement deleted the request file, so an already-pending request could only ever be graceful — true by construction. This PR lodges a mode: "hard" file instead, and the deliberately mode-blind graceful_stop_requested check now answers True for it, so the inherited wording reports a strictly stronger stop as a weaker one. A finding introduced with a zero-line diff at the message site.
It's also an internal inconsistency in this PR's own remediation, which is why I graded it P2 rather than a nit: documents.py made graceful_stop_pending mode-exact for exactly this reason, and _cmd_cancel_graceful already carries a comment saying its messages name a stop request, not a graceful one. The --graceful path was the one family member left un-updated.
One correction to the framing: "landed while stop --graceful was in flight" understates the reachability. It needs no race at all. The StopRunError refusal and the engine_may_live fallback both leave a hard request lodged at rest, indefinitely, and request_graceful_stop gates only on state.finished. The mode-blind existence check at the top of the function fires before the liveness probe and dominates in practice; the O_CREAT | O_EXCL failure is the rare in-flight race you described.
Fix: mode-neutral messaging. cli.py and tui/app.py both now print run {run_id} already has a stop request pending, and the "already-pending" docstring in runs.py was corrected — it named only the in-flight race and never the at-rest case.
Two alternatives were rejected:
- A new
already-pending-hardtoken. It fights the deliberately mode-blindgraceful_stop_requested(badges, idempotency, checkpoint-skip and the auto-sweep predicate all want "either mode"), and costs 2 sites + 2 callers + 4 tests to thread a distinction the callers don't act on. - Having the caller re-read the mode before messaging. The mode lattice here is monotone —
_create_stop_requestisO_EXCLso graceful never overwrites, and_write_stop_requestonly ever writes"hard"— so a stale read errs in exactly the harmful direction: it would print "graceful" for a request that has already escalated. It also mints a thirdNonebranch for the engine consuming mid-call.
The token stays internal: not in machine.py, no --json change. status --json's graceful_stop_pending is a separate bool that is already mode-exact.
Tests. The two existing assertions on the old literal were updated (tests/test_cli.py, tests/test_tui_app.py), plus a new test beside test_stop_graceful_is_idempotent that lodges a hard request directly — the existing _pending_graceful_run helper hardcodes "mode": "graceful" — and asserts the message, the absence of "graceful stop pending", and that the stronger request is left standing un-downgraded.
The negative assertion was ablated on two axes, since a negative assertion passes for every reason a string could be absent:
- Revert the message string and the mechanically-updated idempotency assertion → the new test reddens,
test_stop_graceful_is_idempotentstays green. Both reddening would have meant the new test only re-measures the string change rather than the hard-request branch. - Axis 1 reddened on the positive assert, so the negative one was never reached. Re-ran with the positive assert removed → the negative assertion fires on its own merit (
'graceful stop pending' is contained here: run r1 already has a graceful stop pending).
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This entry begins nearly 90 lines of multi-paragraph implementation and postmortem detail for one change, rather than the terse, scannable, imperative Unreleased entries required by the repository; condense the #319 notes into a small number of action-oriented bullets and leave the detailed rationale in the commit or documentation.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L68-L70
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Condensed in 8610315c — but not for the reason given. 11 entries / 96 lines → 9 / 41; median 9 → 5, max 11 → 7.
Taking the finding on its own terms first, because the length complaint does not survive comparison with this repo's own released sections:
| section | entries | median lines | max |
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#319 as filed |
11 | 9 | 11 |
| 0.11.0 (shipped 2026-08-19) | — | 8 | 42 |
| 0.9.0 | — | 8 | 21 |
Eleven entries in the immediately preceding release sit at or above my longest, including a 42-line six-paragraph entry carrying its own measurement and internal symbol names. Per entry, #319 was below the preceding release's norm. The "multi-paragraph" characterization is also inaccurate — all 11 were single bullets. This is a repo whose house style is long explanatory prose, and a generic Keep a Changelog prior doesn't grade it.
There's no contract at stake either. scripts/release.py is the only programmatic consumer: check asserts section-exists/non-empty plus the heading, ref and compare-base; prepare adds the empty-Unreleased and heading-shape rules. Neither constrains length, paragraphs or structure, markdownlint has MD013 off, and release.py check was RC 0 at the head you reviewed. So: verbosity, not a violation, and P1 overstates it.
The real argument is one the finding doesn't make, and it's a stronger one. Seven of the eleven entries describe defects that no released version ever had. v0.11.0's stop-request.json is graceful-only — there is no mode field — so every entry premised on mode: "hard" narrates a bug introduced and fixed inside this branch. An upgrading reader cannot have hit them. That's ~67 of the 96 lines, and it's a reader-relevance problem, not a line-count one. The rewrite drops the two that were purely internal (the journal-noise entry and the atomic take) and folds the rest down.
One item was genuinely indefensible, and the cited rule was the wrong one. The entry carrying the 4000-injected-race measurement (164 -> 929) describes a design I evaluated and did not ship. That breaches AGENTS.md L71 — "Never commit session notes, probe records, or run artifacts... records in git history" — not the "terse" adjective. greping every released section for language describing a rejected alternative returns zero hits, so there's no precedent for it. It now lives only in the commit body it was always in. The ~1.3ms figure went with it, since it quantified a window the O_EXCL change removed.
Deliberately preserved through the condensation, since each is something an upgrading reader acts on: the --json contract change (graceful_stop_pending becoming mode-exact) keeps its own bullet; modeless-body back-compat; the native-Windows headline and run-stop fallback=True changing meaning; both new refusals (resume over an unremovable request, and a symlink planted at the stop-request path); that --cancel-graceful keeps the same exit code, stated explicitly so nobody reads an exit-code change into it; and that the nested-sweep reach is hard-only with stop <child-id> unchanged.
…raceful (#319) `stop --graceful` and the TUI both answered "already-pending" with "run <id> already has a graceful stop pending". That string is byte-identical to main, but this PR changed what it means: main's `stop_run` *deleted* the request file as its first statement, so an already-pending request could only ever be graceful — true by construction. This PR *lodges* a hard file instead, and the mode-blind `graceful_stop_requested` check now answers True for it, so the inherited wording reports a strictly stronger stop as a weaker one. Reachable with no race at all: the `StopRunError` refusal and the `engine_may_live` fallback both leave a hard request lodged at rest indefinitely, and `request_graceful_stop` gates only on `finished`. The mode-blind existence check fires before the liveness probe and dominates; the O_EXCL failure is the rare race codex named. Messaging goes mode-neutral rather than growing an `already-pending-hard` token: `graceful_stop_requested` is deliberately mode-blind, and having the caller re-read the mode would let a stale read err in the harmful direction — the mode lattice is monotone, so a stale "graceful" is exactly the losing read. `_cmd_cancel_graceful` already resolved the same tension the same way. Also condenses the #319 CHANGELOG entries: 11 entries / 96 lines -> 9 / 41 (median 9 -> 5). Seven of the originals narrated defects introduced and fixed inside this branch — v0.11.0's stop-request.json has no `mode` field at all, so no upgrading reader could have hit them. Drops the 4000-injected-race measurement of a design that was never shipped, which belongs in the commit body it already has, not the changelog (AGENTS.md L71). The --json contract change, modeless back-compat, both new refusals, the unchanged `--cancel-graceful` exit code and the hard-only nested-sweep reach all keep their wording.
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On native Windows, a hard request arriving just after this one-time check—but while _gc_run_worktrees() or the post_run hook is still running—is never honored because no inter-process signal is delivered and the finally block deletes the request. The engine then persists finished=True; even if stop_run() force-kills it and adds stopped=True, status prioritizes finished, so the operator is told the run completed. Fresh evidence after the earlier run-end fix is that the added check still precedes potentially long finalization work, leaving a new post-check delivery window.
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Premise accepted. Consequence refuted as stated. Remedy rejected. Not a regression — folded into #698. Three separate verdicts, because they don't agree.
The window is real, and it is genuinely distinct from #698
Confirmed: no hard-stop read lies between engine.py:671 and the finally at :815. Every other call site is outside it — _check_stop_request at :1027 is reached only from _loop, which has already returned; the session-level reads at :5018/:5105/:5120 need a session in flight; the auto-sweep predicate at :6733 fires before the window. The finally at :812 then unlinks mode-blind and journals stop-request-discarded. And the window can be long: _gc_run_worktrees issues ~4·D + 1 git subprocesses, each bounded by GIT_TIMEOUT_S = 120 but unbounded in aggregate, plus an untimed _rmtree_confined fallback; in-process Python post_run hooks (plugins/bus.py:242) have no timeout at all.
It is also not a duplicate of #698, whose window is explicitly the per-item one between raise site B and the next item boundary. This one runs once, after _loop returns. Different window, same mechanism.
But the stated causal chain is refuted in its own headline case
even if
stop_run()force-kills it and addsstopped=True, status prioritizesfinished
engine.py:671 sets finished = True in memory only. The single _save() on this path is at :815, after both finalization calls. So on the force-kill path you name, the force-kill is precisely what prevents the persist: disk keeps finished=False, the fallback sets stopped=True, and documents.py:281 reports stopped. The outcome you describe is real, but it is reached by the opposite case — where finalization was short enough that the engine exited on its own.
The same ordering refutes the implicit assumption that stop_run's if state.finished: return False guard (runs.py:1234) shields this region. It reads persisted state, so during the window it sees False and proceeds.
"A new post-check delivery window" is backwards
This is the part I'd push back on hardest. On main the control file carried graceful only — there is no mode field — so stop_run lodged nothing and SIGTERM was the sole hard channel; on native Windows, the platform this finding is about, main had no channel at all in this region (process_host.py:195: taskkill /PID, no /F, check=False). This PR lodges before signalling and puts the run-end read before finished = True, so the residual window [:668 → exit] is a strict subset of main's [end of _loop → exit].
I checked the end state across all four sub-cases against origin/main — POSIX signal-in-window, Windows no-signal, real force-kill, and engine-alive-but-unsignalable. Every one is identical to main. Main's stop arm likewise never resets finished (its crash arm does, at main_engine.py:709, and that asymmetry is main's); documents.py:275 and runs.py:707 rank finished first in both trees and are untouched here. The only new artifact in this window is one truthful stop-request-discarded line.
So: a pre-existing defect in the finished/stopped ranking, in a window this PR strictly narrowed. Not introduced here.
The remedy is inert where it matters and harmful where it works
The deadline is _STOP_WAIT_S = 10.0 (runs.py:89). Over all possible check placements between blocking calls, the best achievable worst-case unpolled interval equals the longest single atomic blocking call — 120s by default for one git call, unbounded for _rmtree_confined or an in-process plugin hook. Polling drops the worst case from ~4,900s to 120s and still force-kills, 12× past the deadline. Checks around a blocking call cannot beat a deadline shorter than the call; #698 already records this reasoning, and it holds here with the same sign.
Where it would fire — finalization under 10s — it buys the wrong action. At :668 the work queue is exhausted; "honoring" a stop mid-finalization means aborting _gc_run_worktrees and post_run, which leaks worktrees and branches, skips plugin teardown, and can tear discard_worktree's four-call sequence mid-way (dir removed, branch undeleted, prune not run) on a run that is supposed to stay resumable. Raising mid-bus.emit also hands post_run to a prefix of plugins that all received pre_run — a third state, where tests/test_sweep.py:4411 currently pins exactly two.
The check at :668 is deliberately at the last point where aborting costs nothing.
What I did change
The finding did expose one thing that was mine: this PR claimed run-stop fallback=True "means a genuinely wedged engine," in CHANGELOG and docs/FEATURES.md. In your window, on native Windows with short finalization, the engine exits cleanly and the fallback still journals fallback=True — against an engine that was never wedged, only never listening. Both sites now say "an engine that honored neither channel," which is exactly what the flag proves, needs no caveat, and matches the vocabulary StopRunError already uses. Pushed in 9140e2d2.
The residual worth having later is a one-shot late consume after _emit("post_run") — re-read once, and if a hard request is now pending, consume it and record it as received-late instead of letting the finally discard it as stale. That costs one small read at a point already doing I/O, aborts nothing, and would suppress the spurious fallback=True. It buys no deadline win and no status change. That is a journal-accuracy fix, so it goes on #698's ledger with the rest of the family rather than expanding this PR at round 6.
…t implies (#319) Both sites claimed the external force-kill + `run-stop fallback=True` now means "a genuinely wedged engine". That overclaims in one window this PR does not close: a hard request landing after the run-end check while `_gc_run_worktrees()` or the `post_run` hook is still running is read by no arm, and on native Windows no signal lands either. If finalization is short the engine then exits cleanly on its own, `stop_run` finds no `stopped` flag, and the fallback journals `fallback=True` against an engine that was never wedged — only never listening at that moment. "Honored neither channel" is exactly what the flag proves, needs no caveat clause, and matches the vocabulary `StopRunError`'s message already uses. The window itself is inherited from main (which had no run-end check at all, and no file channel in that region on native Windows) and is strictly narrower here; it is tracked on #698 with the rest of the blocking-work family rather than closed in this PR.
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When the new O_EXCL graceful writer encounters a write or close failure while a concurrent hard writer replaces the pathname, this cleanup unlinks whichever inode currently occupies stop-request.json, not necessarily the empty graceful file it created. This is reachable under low disk space—for example, the hard writer can consume the remaining space for its staged atomic write while the graceful write then fails—and removes the successfully lodged hard request; on native Windows that loses the only self-stop channel and leaves stop_run() to wait and force-kill. Only remove the entry if it still identifies the inode created by this call, or serialize replacement and cleanup.
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Valid, and the first finding on this PR that the PR itself introduced. Fixed in df19d10f — but by deleting the cleanup, not by guarding it, because both remedies you offered measure worse than the defect.
Premise confirmed, and it is mine
path.unlink() resolves the name, and the destination is never opened by the hard writer — _write_stop_request goes through atomic_write_text → _mkstemp_beside → os.replace, so inode B replaces the name and inode A is orphaned by the rename. The cleanup then removes whatever answers to the name.
Unlike the last three rounds, this is not inherited. _create_stop_request does not exist on origin/main; main's lodge staged a temp and atomically replaced, with no cleanup of the destination at all, so a failed graceful write there could never delete anything. git log -S puts the except BaseException + path.unlink() block in 2f7893a6 — the O_EXCL commit I wrote three rounds ago to close the previous shape of this family.
It also falsifies an argument this PR leans on. I used a monotone-lattice claim — absent < graceful < hard until consumed, therefore the only way to lose a hard request is a reader acting on a stale "graceful" — to bound this family and argue no redesign was needed. That argument enumerates the readers and the writers' success paths. A writer's rollback path is a hard → absent descent below both rungs, and it is a second way. That matters past this one site: engine.py:668, :737 and :5105 are all read-then-unlink and are safe because of monotonicity, so the hole was load-bearing for three other sites. The lattice paragraph in consume_stop_request now states the no-rollback requirement explicitly instead of leaving it implied.
Two corrections, both toward more reachable than you argued
ENOSPC is the weaker sub-case. A genuinely full disk tends to fail the hard writer's staged write too, which softens the scenario you describe. But the body is 59 bytes against an 8 KiB TextIOWrapper buffer — measured, on-disk size is 0 after fh.write(body) and 59 after close() — so the write never reaches the kernel and an ENOSPC surfaces at the implicit close inside the try. The window spans a blocking, failing flush, not a few instructions.
The handler caught BaseException, not OSError. An operator's Ctrl-C on bmad-loop stop --graceful reaches the same unlink with no disk fault whatsoever, and CPython can deliver it after the flush already succeeded — so it could delete a fully written, correct file, which the comment's "never leave an empty file behind" rationale does not even describe.
There is also a downstream consequence: stop_run sets lodged = True because _write_stop_request returned successfully, so the refusal branch then raises StopRunError telling the operator the engine "honored neither the lodged stop request nor SIGTERM" — asserting a request stands that was silently deleted underneath it.
Severity graded honestly: on POSIX it is masked, because stop_run lodges then signals and SIGTERM still lands. On native Windows the file is the only channel, so this degrades the stop back to the pre-#319 blind force-kill — which is the exact behavior #319 exists to remove.
Both proposed remedies were implemented and measured. Both are worse.
Loss window integrated over a uniform 0–40µs escalation sweep, 250 reps × 41 offsets, escalating writer in a separate process with both sides spinning on CLOCK_MONOTONIC to hit a pre-agreed rendezvous, on btrfs:
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| today (unconditional unlink) | 8792 ns | 1.00× |
| inode compare (your option A) | 12212 ns | 1.39× worse |
| mode compare (my own idea) | 20236 ns | 2.30× worse |
| delete the cleanup | 0 ns | closed |
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0 ns | closed |
Isolating the mechanism (20k reps, no race running) shows why: baseline check→unlink window 15590 ns, inode compare 15469 ns, mode compare 15740 ns. The window is the width of the unlink syscall itself. A check moves the decision earlier and the destructive act later by exactly its own cost — it shifts the window, it does not narrow it. Reproduced on tmpfs at 13× lower absolute cost with identical widths. Same shape as the 164 → 929 result already recorded in consume_stop_request, and I want to be clear that it refuted my own candidate too, not just yours.
Option A has an independent killer. There is no atomic "unlink only if still this inode": funlinkat is FreeBSD-only, and RENAME_NOREPLACE/renameat2 is not exposed anywhere in CPython. So a compare is inherently TOCTOU. And os.fstat(fd) cannot even run in the handler — the fd is already closed (EBADF) because os.fdopen.__exit__ runs during unwinding. On Windows st_ino is 0 on FAT32/exFAT/network drives, and on 3.11 — this project's floor — it is packed into 64 bits so ReFS collides. (0,0) == (0,0) is a false equal, which unlinks the hard request precisely on the platform where it is the only channel.
Option B fails structurally. The shape objection is answerable — a dedicated sibling lock, as install.py already does. The fatal one is that stop_run's hard path must never hang, so it needs blocking=False with fall-through to an unlocked write. That fallback fires exactly when the graceful writer holds the lock mid-critical-section — the only condition the defect exists in. A lock whose contention path is "proceed anyway" excludes nothing.
I also prototyped the structural option (O_EXCL a private name, write and fsync it fully, then os.link it onto the destination): 9/9 parity with the current shape including refusing planted and dangling symlinks, and it closes the hole. But CreateHardLinkW is NTFS-only — exFAT, FAT32 and ReFS are all unsupported, and ReFS is Windows 11 Dev Drive, i.e. exactly where someone puts a repo for speed. It needs a fallback, and the fallback has to answer the same question.
The fix: subtraction
The rollback is gone. Its stated harm does not survive checking. "A pending graceful request that no operator asked for" — there is exactly one production caller, reached only from stop --graceful, so an operator did ask. "Blocks every later lodge" — a later graceful ask correctly answers "already-pending", and a later hard stop supersedes unconditionally, so the channel is never wedged; --cancel-graceful and resume both withdraw it. A short body reads as "graceful", which is the mode the call was asked to lodge. Leaving a graceful request standing is the bounded direction this channel already leans on for every other ambiguity.
The one real residual is reporting, so that is fixed where it belongs: stop --graceful now says a request may still be pending and names --cancel-graceful, instead of reporting a clean failure the operator would act on by asking again. Same exit code.
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Two new tests in tests/test_runs.py — one injecting a hard escalation into the failed-write window and asserting it survives, one pinning that a failed write leaves the graceful request standing — plus a CLI test for the new message. All three ablated by restoring the except BaseException: path.unlink(); raise block: the escalation test reddens on read_stop_request_mode(...) == "hard" with None, and its escalated == ["hard"] assert passes first, which is what proves the interleave really happened and the rollback is what removed it. test_consume_stop_request_never_removes_a_request_it_did_not_read stays green under that ablation, so the two guards are independently pinned.
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… a hard request (#319) `_create_stop_request` creates the control file with O_EXCL and writes the body into it, so a failed write rolled back with `path.unlink()`. `unlink` resolves the *name*, not the inode the call created — so a `stop` escalating to `mode: "hard"` onto that name while the write was in flight was deleted by the cleanup of a graceful lodge that never completed. This is a `hard -> absent` drop, below both rungs of the lattice `consume_stop_request` documents, and it is introduced by this PR: the block arrived whole in 2f7893a, and main's lodge staged a temp and replaced, so a failed graceful write there could never touch the destination. It also falsifies that lattice as written — the argument enumerates the readers and the writers' success paths and concludes only a reader acting on a stale "graceful" can lose a request. A writer's rollback is a second way, and three read-then-unlink sites in engine.py rest on that argument. Reachability is wider than a full disk. The body is 59 bytes against an 8 KiB buffer, so the write never reaches the kernel and an ENOSPC surfaces at the implicit close inside the try; and the handler caught BaseException, so an operator's Ctrl-C on `stop --graceful` reached the same unlink with no disk fault at all — deleting, in that case, a fully written and correct file. Fixed by subtraction rather than by guarding. Both guarded shapes measure WORSE than no guard: the check moves the decision earlier and the destructive act later by its own cost, shifting the window instead of narrowing it (inode compare 1.39x, mode compare 2.30x, over a rendezvous-synchronised escalation sweep). There is no atomic "unlink only if still my inode" to reach for — funlinkat is FreeBSD-only and RENAME_NOREPLACE is unexposed in CPython — and `st_ino` is 0 on several Windows filesystems, which would make the compare a false equal that unlinks the hard request. What a failed write leaves is a short body, which reads as "graceful" — the mode the one caller was asked to lodge. It cannot wedge the channel: a later graceful ask answers "already-pending", a hard stop supersedes, and `--cancel-graceful` or `resume` withdraws it. `stop --graceful` now reports a failed write as possibly pending instead of as a clean failure, so nobody asks again for something already standing. Same exit code.
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terminate()orforce_kill()is refused, or force-kill confirmation still finds the PID alive,engine_may_liveisTrue. Line 1384 still persistsstate.stopped = True, and Line 1386 records a fallback stop. The engine can then continue while the CLI reports the run as stopped.Keep the request lodged, but return an explicit in-flight result or raise a typed error before the fallback state write. Add coverage that a refused or unconfirmed kill does not mark the run stopped.
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With the OpenCode HTTP adapter, a hard request arriving just after this check is not necessarily observed within the advertised 5-second tick: the same iteration can next enter _sample_weighted_usage() or _probe_completion(), whose client has a 10-second timeout and whose completion probe performs two sequential GETs, before also waiting up to 5 seconds on the event queue. On native Windows this can exceed stop_run()'s 10-second grace period and force-kill a responsive engine—the behavior this change is intended to remove. Recheck before those potentially blocking HTTP operations or make them interruptible by the stop request.
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Core claim confirmed — the ~5s bound is false. Scope, mechanism and severity all need correcting, and the fix is in 4e8856b7.
Confirmed: the check at the top of the loop is separated from its next run by the 5s wait and the dispatch leg the event selects. Worst case for opencode is 25–50s, not 5s. One correction upward: the client is Timeout(10.0, connect=5.0), so a single request is ~15s worst case, not 10s.
Scope is wrong — this is not opencode-specific, and the generic adapter is the stronger case. Its _result_json(wait=True) waits RESULT_GRACE_S = 15.0 for an artifact on a result-less Stop. That is 15s > 10s on a perfectly healthy box with no transport fault anywhere — a far better argument than a wedged HTTP server. With a hung tmux call it reaches ~65s under TMUX_TIMEOUT_S = 30. Framing this as an opencode problem misses the case that needs no fault at all.
Mechanism names the weakest leg. _sample_weighted_usage is throttled inside the 30s HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_S block and gated on a configured token budget, so it contributes at most once per 30s and often never. The dominant leg is _probe_completion, which is not throttled: once a turn goes quiet past SILENCE_THRESHOLD_S — the steady state of a thinking agent, and guaranteed under a lost SSE stream — it runs its two GETs on every tick. And _await_result's 15s grace, the largest non-transport leg, is not mentioned at all.
Severity is over-graded, and the closing sentence is refuted. "Force-kill a responsive engine — the behavior #319 exists to remove" does not hold. On main neither adapter had any hard-stop poll; the worst case here is stop_run's 10s wait then an identity-guarded force-kill, which is byte-for-byte main's behavior. Nothing that worked is broken, and every case where the check does land in time is a strict improvement. Also, an engine blocked in a timing-out socket read is not "responsive" in the sense that matters. This is an overclaim in new documentation — plus two new code comments — not a new defect. P2/P3, not P1. It is legitimate at that grade and I am not waving it off.
Fix. Both loops now poll again between the wait and the dispatch, so at most one leg sits between two checks. The check is cheap and safe to repeat: one or two small reads plus a JSON parse, no stat, no write, and it never unlinks — the engine consumes the request and must still see it to attribute the stop.
That halves the common-case gap but cannot make ~5s true, because an in-flight socket read or tmux subprocess is not interruptible from the polling thread. So the prose is corrected rather than left aspirational, in all four places that asserted it — CHANGELOG.md, docs/FEATURES.md, and a comment in each adapter. FEATURES.md already carried the right sentence but restricted it to teardown; that restriction is removed, since detection has the same exposure. opencode's comment additionally claimed the generic adapter "genuinely stays inside that window" — it does not, and that is corrected too.
Tests. One per adapter, lodging the request during the wait so it is absent at the top check and present immediately after. Both assert a dispatch spy, not the verdict — under ablation the status stays aborted either way, and a first version of the opencode test that asserted status passed ablated, i.e. was vacuous. Rewritten to spy _probe_completion (generic spies _window_alive); ablating each adapter's second arm reddens exactly its own test while the existing hard-stop and graceful tests stay green.
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When an engine is between items, it can consume this newly published request, save stopped=True, and exit before stop_run() performs its PID liveness probe. That probe then clears pid, bypassing the engine-written-state check inside the pid is not None branch, and the function falls through to append a second run-stop with fallback=True. This makes an engine-honored stop look like an external fallback despite the new journal contract that reserves that flag for genuinely wedged or absent engines; reload and honor state.stopped before entering the fallback.
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Valid — fixed in 4e8856b7. Premise confirmed, consequence stronger than you state, regression framing refuted, remedy corrected on placement.
Premise confirmed exactly as described. The load_state(run_dir).stopped check sat inside the if pid is not None: arm, and all three pid-clearing sites precede that arm — so clearing pid skipped the wait block, the session backstop, and that check, falling straight through to the fallback=True append.
But the interleaving you name is the least reachable instance. Between the lodge and the liveness probe lie only get_process_host() and one small read — tens of microseconds — while the engine would have to poll, unwind, spawn a kill_session subprocess, journal, save and fully exit. As literally stated it is not practically reachable.
The same outcome needs no race at all, which is the stronger form: the engine's hard arm sets stopped and never sets finished, and stop_run's only early exit is if state.finished. So bmad-loop stop <id> on a run a previous stop already stopped — engine gone, stopped=True, finished=False — deterministically appends a second run-stop fallback=True. No interleaving required.
Not a regression, though. stop_run's structure here is byte-identical to origin/main: same pid-clearing, same nesting, same append, and the pinning test predates the PR. git diff origin/main shows those lines as context, not changes. Main reached the same entry in the same interleaving, via SIGTERM rather than the file.
What is new is the contract, and that is what makes this worth fixing. 9140e2d2 promoted fallback=True to a documented claim one round ago. Your interleaving falsifies it. Worth noting the two documents diverged: docs/FEATURES.md scopes its claim to "the external force-kill ... past the grace window", a path these interleavings never take, so it was never false — the CHANGELOG over-generalized what FEATURES.md had correctly qualified. Both now say the flag is not stamped on a stop the engine recorded itself.
Remedy: right direction, wrong placement. A new read is unnecessary — load_state already ran two lines above the append, so the fix costs zero extra I/O. And "immediately before the fallback append" is too late: clear_graceful_stop is an unlink that runs before that point, so a check placed there has already destroyed the file.
Fixed by hoisting the existing check out of the pid is not None arm instead: kill_session → single state read → stopped-check → conditional clear → mark/journal. The nested copy is deleted, so it is net subtractive. Ordering matters — the backstop must stay ahead of the check, or an engine that honored the stop and died before tearing its window down returns early having leaked its session.
One judgement call worth surfacing: on the engine_may_live paths a written stopped now clears the request this PR deliberately keeps lodged. That is correct — a written stopped is the engine reporting it honored the request, so there is no live consumer left to strand.
The round-7 lesson about re-checks shifting rather than narrowing a window does not apply here, and I checked rather than assumed: there the guarded act was a destructive unlink; here it is a journal append (purely additive) and an idempotent save_state on an already-stopped run. The worst case if the engine writes stopped just after the read is one spurious entry — exactly today's behavior, strictly not worse.
Test pins the zero-race case and asserts the session backstop still runs; ablating the hoisted branch reddens it on the fallback assertion, while the existing pid-reuse test that legitimately expects fallback=True stays green.
… poll twice per tick (#319) Two round-8 findings, both landing on claims this PR authored rather than on inherited behavior. stop_run: the check that trusts an engine-written `stopped` lived inside the `pid is not None` arm, so every path that clears the pid early skipped it and fell through to the `fallback=True` append — a pid no longer ours, a `terminate` that raced the exit into ProcessLookupError, or a refusal that could not verify it. The plainest case needs no race at all: `stop` on a run a previous `stop` already stopped, where `stopped` is set and `finished` is not. The code path is byte-identical to main; what is new is that 9140e2d promoted `fallback=True` to a documented contract, which this interleaving falsifies. Hoisted the check out of the arm, ahead of the destructive clear and behind the session backstop, and deleted the copy it subsumes — net subtractive. Adapters: the advertised "worst case ~5s" detection bound is false, and not only for opencode. The generic loop's `_result_json(wait=True)` waits RESULT_GRACE_S (15s) on a healthy box with no transport fault at all, which alone outlasts the 10s grace window; opencode's `_probe_completion` runs two GETs on every tick once a turn goes quiet. Both loops now poll again between the wait and the dispatch, so at most one leg sits between two checks. That cannot make the bound true — an in-flight socket read or tmux call is not interruptible from the polling thread — so the four places asserting it (CHANGELOG, FEATURES.md, and a comment in each adapter) now say it is the common case and name the degrade, which is the pre-#319 force-kill backstop and never worse. opencode's comment also claimed the generic adapter "genuinely stays inside that window"; it does not. Four tests, each ablation-proven, reddening disjoint sets. The adapter tests assert a dispatch spy rather than the verdict: the status stays "aborted" either way, and a first version of the opencode test that asserted status was vacuous under ablation.
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| A run can be stopped two ways. A **hard stop** (`bmad-loop stop`, TUI `x`, Ctrl+C) SIGTERMs the engine mid-item and always kills the agent session. A **graceful stop** (`bmad-loop stop --graceful`, TUI `S`) instead writes `stop-request.json` — no signal, so it works on every platform and multiplexer backend — which the engine consumes at the next item boundary: the in-flight story (or sweep bundle) finishes through commit — or, mid-triage, the sweep's triage session completes and no bundles start — the run finalizes as `stopped` (not `finished`) and stays resumable, and pending auto-sweeps are suppressed. Its session teardown follows `cleanup_session_on_finish` like a normal finish, rather than the hard stop's unconditional kill; a hard stop always supersedes a pending graceful request. | ||
| A run can be stopped two ways, and both requests travel over the same `stop-request.json` control file — no signal needed, so a stop works on every platform and multiplexer backend. A **hard stop** (`bmad-loop stop`, TUI `x`; Ctrl+C in the run's own terminal does the same thing directly) abandons the in-flight item and always kills the agent session: `stop` lodges the file with `mode: "hard"` _before_ it signals — the same atomic write supersedes any pending graceful request — and the engine honors it at the next item boundary, or mid-item, where each adapter's wait loop polls it once per tick (worst case ~5s). SIGTERM still goes out as the POSIX fast path, but the file is what makes the stop land; the force-kill past the 10s grace window now only catches an engine that honored neither. A **graceful stop** (`bmad-loop stop --graceful`, TUI `S`) lodges the same file in its default `graceful` mode, which the engine consumes at the next item boundary only: the in-flight story (or sweep bundle) finishes through commit — or, mid-triage, the sweep's triage session completes and no bundles start — the run finalizes as `stopped` (not `finished`) and stays resumable, and pending auto-sweeps are suppressed. Its session teardown follows `cleanup_session_on_finish` like a normal finish, rather than the hard stop's unconditional kill. |
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Fresh evidence after the earlier adapter finding was addressed is that this changed README paragraph still promises a “worst case ~5s,” while the final wait loops explicitly acknowledge that a generic adapter can spend 15 seconds awaiting an artifact or 30 seconds in a mux call, and the OpenCode adapter can block on HTTP teardown beyond the 10-second grace period. In those cases a responsive engine may reach the force-kill fallback, so this user-facing overview should describe five seconds as the normal polling cadence rather than a worst-case bound, matching the behavior reference in docs/FEATURES.md.
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Confirmed and fixed in 8181b58a, with wider scope than the finding named.
Premise: true, and PR-authored. README.md:601 is a paragraph this PR rewrote — worst case ~5s has never existed on origin/main (git log -S'worst case ~5s' origin/main is empty). The bound is false with no transport fault at all: the wait loop's Stop branch calls _result_json(wait=True), which waits RESULT_GRACE_S = 15.0 (generic.py:72), so the true maximum gap between two consecutive polls is ~15.4s for GenericAdapter and ~15.7s for GenericDevAdapter. With a hung tmux it reaches ~135.6s (15s grace + two send_text calls at 2xTMUX_TIMEOUT_S+0.3s each).
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"five seconds is the normal polling cadence" is also untrue. Both loops read the file twice per iteration —
generic.py:677and:840,opencode_http.py:1098and:1252— around a wait ofmin(remaining, 5.0), which is a cap, not a period. In a quiet session the dispatch leg between the second poll and the next iteration's first is milliseconds, so polls arrive as pairs ~5s apart rather than on a 5s metronome. The second poll buys nothing in the quiet case; it only shortens the long dispatch legs. -
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docs/FEATURES.md:223did not say what the remedy asked README to match: an earlier fix of mine had spliced it into asserting both "once per tick" and "twice per iteration" in a single clause, with a duplicated "so a hard stop ..." result clause and a "That is the common case rather than a bound" whose referent had drifted two sentences away onto the nested-sweep text. Matching README to it would have propagated that.
The larger falsehood in the same sentence went unnamed. "polls it once per tick" was flatly false after 4e8856b7 ("poll twice per tick"); the ~5s parenthetical was the smaller half.
Fixed in all eight PR-authored sites of the claim family rather than the one reported:
README.md:601— both clausesdocs/FEATURES.md:223— splice repaired: cadence corrected, duplicate clause removed, caveat moved adjacent to the claim it qualifies, "That second read" disambiguatedCHANGELOG.md:41— "once per tick", on a line4e8856b7itself editeddocs/adapter-authoring-guide.md:527,532— the most harmful instance: it told third-party adapter authors that a <=5s blocking tick is enough to fit the abort inside the 10s window, which this PR's own comments atgeneric.py:828-839refutedocs/tui-guide.md:226— "the few seconds"src/bmad_loop/adapters/generic.py:199— stale docstringtests/test_generic_tmux.py:1910,tests/test_opencode_http.py:2042— contract-header comments saying "once" in the very tests that prove "twice"
No behavior change and no new test: nothing under tests/, scripts/ or CI reads README/FEATURES content, markdownlint has no line-length rule, and prettier uses proseWrap: preserve, so there is no assertion or reflow to break.
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…l cadence (#319) `4e8856b7` made both wait loops poll twice per iteration but left eight sites still saying "once per tick"/"once per iteration", and README kept an unqualified "worst case ~5s" that is false with no fault at all: the Stop branch waits RESULT_GRACE_S (15s) before the next poll, so the true maximum inter-poll gap is ~15.4s healthy and ~135.6s with a hung tmux. Repairs a splice this branch introduced in docs/FEATURES.md, where the earlier correction left the bullet asserting both "once per tick" and "twice per iteration" in one clause, a duplicated result clause, and a "That is the common case rather than a bound" whose referent had drifted onto the nested-sweep sentence two sentences later. The adapter-authoring guide carried the same bound as instruction to third-party authors ("keep the blocking tick short enough that the abort fits inside stop_run's 10s grace window; both bundled adapters block <=5s") — the opposite of what generic.py:828-839 documents. Prose and comments only; no behavior change and no new test. Nothing under tests/, scripts/ or CI reads README/FEATURES content, markdownlint has no line-length rule, and prettier uses proseWrap: preserve.
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…top (#319) README and FEATURES both claimed the force-kill past the 10s grace window "means an engine that honored neither channel". That is false whenever the engine honors the request and its teardown outruns the window: the adapter records stop-abort-fired, the engine raises RunStopped, and stop_run still force-kills at t=10s before _save() persists stopped, stamping fallback=True. The run dir then holds two contradicting artifacts. Reachable on default policy with no fault at all — limits.teardown_grace_s is 20 against _STOP_WAIT_S = 10.0, so a window that survives the first kill strike exceeds the window on the generic tmux adapter. The opencode path (two 10s HTTP timeouts against a silent server) is the weaker instance. FEATURES carried the same sentence three clauses after its own "Teardown is unbounded ... leaves the stop to the force-kill backstop" refutation, so both docs are corrected onto CHANGELOG.md:67's already-correct vocabulary: the flag marks a stop this tool had to finish from outside, which stays true for a slow teardown and for an engine that never read the request. Also fixes an inherited contradiction six lines below (present on main since 2026-07-20, untouched by this PR): README said "`stop` always kills it" while the same section said a graceful stop follows cleanup_session_on_finish. Now states the policy gate rather than an absolute outcome, matching FEATURES:188. Prose only; no behavior change.
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| # errored). Skip the wait — there is nothing to wait for — but keep the | ||
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If writing the control file fails (for example, ENOSPC or a read-only run directory) and terminate() then raises PermissionError/OSError, this branch sets engine_may_live and clears pid, but the later fallback still writes stopped=True, appends fallback=True, and returns success. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier write-failure thread is this lodged=False combination: no request exists and the signal was refused, so the engine can continue mutating the project after the CLI reports it stopped; raise StopRunError whenever engine_may_live is true without a lodged request instead of recording a successful repair.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L81-L81
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Fixed in b7b0e421. Premise confirmed and the branch walk is accurate in every particular — but the severity, the reachability and the placement all needed correcting.
Premise: confirmed, and wider than reported
There are four paths to that end state, not one. terminate refused (the line you cite), force_kill refused, and a clean force_kill whose target was still alive past the confirm window all clear or skip past the pid-reuse guard and fall to the fallback. The fourth — the pid-reuse refusal itself — already raises, with a message specifically distinguishing the failed lodge. So this is 3-of-4 left quiet, and the one that was made loud is the proof the distinction was already accepted here.
Severity: P1 overstated, because the consequence is inherited
On the merge-base stop_run has no engine_may_live and no lodged. Its terminate handler collapsed the three exceptions into one arm:
except (ProcessLookupError, PermissionError, OSError):
pid = None # already gone / not ours — go straight to fallback
and fell to the same stopped = True / fallback=True / return True tail — with nothing pending, because main cleared the request as its first statement. So the end state is byte-for-byte main's. "No request lodged" was main's permanent, unconditional condition; on this branch it needs the write to fail as well. The PR narrows the defect rather than introducing it.
Also: the two triggers you name do not compose. PosixProcessHost.terminate is a bare os.kill, which touches no filesystem — ENOSPC and a read-only run directory produce lodged=False and cannot make it raise. The one realistic single root cause is cross-user ownership: an engine under another uid gives EPERM from os.kill while the run dir gives EACCES, and is_alive returning True on PermissionError means alive_and_ours still passes.
Where you are right, and it is specific
This re-asks the "fail instead of reporting a successful repair" half I declined in the earlier thread, and my stated reason was that the request stays lodged, so the stop is genuinely in flight and reporting success is honest. That justification is void when lodged=False — nothing was retained. That is a real hole in the earlier reasoning, and it is the reason this is fixed rather than deferred as inherited.
Remedy: adopted, with a placement correction
As stated ("raise whenever engine_may_live is true without a lodged request", in place of the fallback) it regresses two things:
- The session backstop.
kill_sessionat runs.py:1364 sits ahead of everything precisely so both exits reach it; a raise before it leaks the agent session — the Untagged sessions are weak ownership: they leak once their run dir is gone, and can be pruned by the wrong project on a run-id collision (the fallback behind #320) #419 orphan sequence, plus the TUI'skill_ctl_window. Note the two existing refusals skip it defensibly, because on those paths nothing was killed; two of the three new trigger sites sit downstream of a force-kill that already acted, so they are not in that class. - A false alarm. Placed after
kill_sessionbut before thestate.stoppedearly return, it raises on a run the engine already honored and recorded — reachable with no race, and the class an existing test was written to close.
So the branch sits after the backstop and after the state.stopped return, journals run-stop-undelivered before raising (the run-stop append is skipped, and an unrecorded attempt is its own trap), and never writes stopped=True. stop has no --json surface, so no schema moves; the exit code goes 0 -> 1 into the already-allocated ExitCode.FAILURE, matching the existing refusals.
Tests
Two, with ablations reddening disjoint sets: deleting the branch reddens only the refusal test — on the pytest.raises itself, not the asserts below it, which are never reached — while moving it ahead of the state.stopped return reddens only the twin. Presence and position are pinned separately. No existing test needed changing.
Verified at b7b0e421: 6502 passed / 47 skipped, pyright 0 errors, trunk check --all --no-fix clean (258 files), release.py check rc=0.
A run dir that rejects the request write leaves lodged=False; a terminate() the OS then refuses sets engine_may_live and clears pid, which skips the whole wait/force-kill arm — including the pid-reuse guard's refusal, the one path that already said this out loud. Control fell to the fallback, which wrote stopped=True, stamped run-stop fallback=True, and returned success over an engine that may still be mutating the project with nothing on disk to stop it. Two sibling paths reach the same state: a refused force_kill, and a clean force_kill whose target was still alive past the confirm window. Not a regression — on the merge-base every refused signal ended exactly here, because stop_run cleared the request as its first statement, so "nothing pending" was the unconditional condition rather than a failure mode. What does not survive is the justification for reporting success: that the request stays lodged so the stop is still in flight. When the lodge failed, nothing is. Placement is load-bearing twice. The refusal sits after the kill_session backstop, because declining to report a stop is no reason to leak the agent window (#419), and after the state.stopped early return, because a run the engine already honored and recorded must not turn into a CLI failure on a second stop. It journals run-stop-undelivered before raising, since the run-stop append below is skipped and an unrecorded attempt is its own trap. stop has no --json surface, so no schema moves; the exit code goes 0 -> 1 into the already-allocated ExitCode.FAILURE, matching the two existing refusals. Two tests, ablations reddening disjoint sets: deleting the branch reddens only the refusal test (on the pytest.raises itself, not the asserts below it); moving it ahead of the state.stopped return reddens only the twin. The pair pins the branch's presence and its position.
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The problem
On native Windows,
bmad-loop stopcould never take its preferred path.WindowsProcessHost.terminateshellstaskkill /PIDwithout/F(a WM_CLOSE a console engine has no window to receive), Python on Windows never receives an inter-process SIGTERM, and the engine's win32 branch deliberately ignores SIGINT/SIGBREAK — so the engine's own handler could not fire. Every stop therefore burned the full_STOP_WAIT_S = 10.0grace window, force-killed viataskkill /F /T, and completed through the external fallback that marks the runstoppedfrom outside and journalsrun-stop fallback=True. The engine never performed its own teardown, so the "engine is the single writer ofstopped" invariant held only by fallback.The mechanism
Per the maintainer decision on #319: extend the
stop-request.jsonchannel already proven by #219 with a hard mode, and add a poll site inside the adapter wait loop.stop_runnow lodges amode: "hard"request before it signals — the atomic replace doubles as the supersede of a pending graceful one — and SIGTERM goes out after it as the POSIX fast path rather than as the mechanism. The engine honors the file two ways: at item boundaries (_check_stop_request, mode-aware) and mid-session, where both real adapter wait loops poll it once per iteration. Cadence needs no new knob: each loop already blocks up to 5s per tick (watcher.wait_for(..., timeout_s=min(remaining, 5.0)),POLL_TICK_S = 5.0), so worst-case abort latency is ~5s — inside the 10s window.The in-session abort is a return, not a raise: the adapter returns
SessionResult(status="aborted"), which the engine unwinds asRunStopped. It is never a completion path, and it never escapesEngine._run_session, so no downstream status set (env-fault, retry, escalation, sweep's non-completed arms) learns it._post_kill_reconcilestill rescues a session that finished in the gap; the engine re-reads the hard file after saving that rescued session, so the run records the finished work and still stops.GenerateConsoleCtrlEventand mux send-keysC-cwere declined in the decision and are not here.The arc
6d66b79d— channel +stop_run.read_stop_request_mode(Noneonly for an absent file; a present-but-odd one — modeless pre-Windows: stop_run always force-kills after a full 10s wait — the engine's SIGTERM path is unreachable #319 body, torn JSON, non-object, unreadable — reads"graceful", so a torn win32 read can never escalate into a spurious abort),_write_stop_request, and the lodge-before-signal flow.graceful_stop_requestedkeeps bare-existence semantics on purpose (badges,--gracefulidempotency, the stories checkpoint skip and auto-sweep suppression all want either mode); onlystatus --json'sgraceful_stop_pendingbecame mode-exact.b1d0f44a— engine/sweep routing._check_graceful_stop→_check_stop_request;RunStopped.via; raise site A (anabortedresult, inside thetryand beforerecord_session, so the pairedsession-end status="aborted"lands and noSessionRecordis written) and raise site B (post-_save(), fires regardless of status — this is what stops the run when reconcile rescues an abort back tocompleted); both sweep call sites.e1c64661— adapter polls + rescue._hard_stop_requested()on_ResultFileMixin, called per-iteration in both wait loops after the timeout block and before the heartbeat throttle; generic mirrors its sibling timeout return, opencode mirrors its timeout arm exactly (_abortthen_capture_usage, or the in-flight HTTP turn keeps running server-side)."aborted"joins_post_kill_reconcile's rescue set.9c76b54a— docs, CHANGELOG, sweep. This commit.Journal signature
A stop the engine honored off the control file now reads
session-end status="aborted"→run-stop via="stop-request". The graceful arm is byte-identical to before, and the signal path still writes a barerun-stop—viais the only evidence that separates the two on a Windows run, where the signal path cannot fire at all.fallback=Truestill exists and now means what it says: a genuinely wedged engine, not routine Windows behavior.Tests
17 new tests across
test_runs.py,test_cli.py,test_engine.py,test_sweep.py,test_generic_tmux.pyandtest_opencode_http.py; every negative gate was ablation-proven to bite before being trusted. The acceptance test for the issue istest_stop_run_stops_sigterm_immune_child_via_stop_request_file: a SIGTERM-immune child stops itself off the control file and exits rc 0 with no fallback journal entry — ablating the hard-file write reproduces the reported behavior exactly (wait burned, SIGKILL, rc -9).6466 passed, 47 skipped;pyright0 errors;trunk check --allclean.Deliberate non-changes
WindowsProcessHost.terminateis untouched. Makingtaskkilldeliverable was not the fix; not depending on it was.--jsonschema bump.graceful_stop_pendingkeeps its type and its name; its meaning is narrowed, not changed — a hard request in flight is a stop in flight, not a graceful stop pending.graceful_stop_requestedstays mode-blind, so the TUI's⏹ stoptag also appears for the few seconds a hard request is on disk. The docs and docstrings now say so rather than the projection being narrowed.Known residual gap
A hard stop of a parent run while a nested auto-sweep child is mid-session is not closed by this. The request file lands in the parent's run dir and the child's adapter polls the child's own, so on POSIX the shared-process SIGTERM still delivers the stop, while native Windows falls back to the force-kill backstop exactly as it did before. Narrowing it needs the child to learn its parent's run dir, which is a separate change.
Closes #319
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