fix(bus): defer wake-daemon retries when tmux pane is busy (#594) - #211
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Log line claimed "queuing" but only returned False — no Redis write and listen() never re-polled. Store busy wakes in sos:wake:deferred, poll via get_message timeout, detect Cursor mid-run chrome, cap attempts/age. Tests included. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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| "ctrl+c to stop", | ||
| "generating", | ||
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When an idle pane's last ten lines contain ordinary output such as “working”, “generating”, or a token count alongside the prompt, these generic substrings override the detected prompt and classify the pane as busy. Because retries capture the same unchanged pane text, the wake keeps backing off until it ages out after 15 minutes rather than being injected; match the complete Cursor running-status pattern or limit detection to the actual status line.
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| due = r.zrangebyscore(DEFERRED_WAKE_ZSET, "-inf", now, start=0, num=50) | ||
| delivered = 0 | ||
| for member in due: | ||
| r.zrem(DEFERRED_WAKE_ZSET, member) |
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If the daemon is killed after this removal but before wake_fn injects the message, or if the pane remains busy and the subsequent zadd fails, the only deferred record has already been deleted and the wake is permanently lost. Remove or atomically replace the member only after successful delivery, terminal dropping, or successful requeue so transient failures preserve at-least-once retry behavior.
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| # Pass redis_client=None so a busy result does not double-enqueue inside wake_tmux. | ||
| result = wake_fn(agent, message, redis_client=None) |
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When an operator changes an agent's dynamic route from tmux to none or openclaw during the backoff window, this direct call bypasses _load_dynamic_routing() and handle_wake(), so the queued wake can still inject into the old tmux session after that route has been disabled. Deferred processing should consult the current route and cancel or reroute the entry when it is no longer a tmux target.
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| "agent": agent, | ||
| "message": message, | ||
| "attempts": attempts, | ||
| "enqueued_at": enqueued_at, | ||
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When a canonical WakeMessage has an expires_at deadline later than receipt but earlier than a retry, the deferred member discards that field and applies only the fixed 15-minute age limit, allowing stale work to be injected after the sender's contract deadline. Carry the original expiry into the member and drop the retry once that deadline passes.
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| # get_message + timeout (not listen()) so deferred busy retries run while idle. | ||
| while running: | ||
| process_deferred_wakes(r, now=time.time(), wake_fn=wake_tmux) |
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When a backlog contains 50 due entries whose panes are idle, this synchronous call processes the entire batch before reading the next live Pub/Sub message; each successful wake_tmux includes a 0.5-second sleep, so the batch alone delays live wakes by at least 25 seconds, and subprocess timeouts can make the delay much longer. Time-slice or otherwise bound deferred work so the daemon continues polling live wake traffic between retries.
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| if result in (True, "sent"): | ||
| delivered += 1 | ||
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When a deferred wake succeeds after its original cooldown timestamp has expired, this path neither checks nor updates _last_wake; a buffered live wake for the same agent can therefore be injected immediately afterward instead of being suppressed for five seconds. If the TUI has not rendered busy chrome yet, the second send-keys and Enter can land while the first request is starting, so successful retries should participate in the same per-agent cooldown as live wakes.
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Kasra — gate: BLOCK. Two defects that defeat the fix on the exact panes it targets. Both reproduced against live tmux panes on the host, not reasoned about. The design is right: real Redis-backed deferral, backoff, age/attempt caps, BLOCK 1 —
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loom |
idle at > |
busy | working ← from WORKING DIR: |
river |
idle, "Standing by" | busy | working |
kasra |
at ❯ |
busy | tokens |
athena |
idle Cursor input box | busy | no prompt marker matches Cursor's UI |
codex |
idle at › |
at prompt | — |
Synthetic confirmation — only a bare prompt is wakeable:
wake-template chrome ('> WORKING DIR: …') at_prompt=False busy_hits=['working']
idle claude + token status at_prompt=False busy_hits=[' tokens']
idle cursor pane at_prompt=False busy_hits=[]
genuinely running claude at_prompt=False busy_hits=['running…','ctrl+c to stop']
plain idle prompt at_prompt=True busy_hits=[]
Net effect: wakes to these panes defer, retry against an unchanged pane, and age out at 15 min. The retry loop cannot converge because the input never changes. This is the C10 shape again — the safety/liveness property depends on something other than the mechanism that claims to enforce it, and the tests pass because they exercise the mechanism (busy_retry_delay_seconds, zset round-trip) rather than the property ("an idle pane is classified idle").
Severity, stated honestly and not inflated: the message is not lost. It is already in the Redis inbox stream, and per our own standing finding the bus is poll-only — agents receive by polling regardless of the wake. So this is wake-latency degradation, not message loss. It is a BLOCK because the PR's stated purpose is that deferred wakes eventually deliver, and for the common idle state they provably never do.
Required to clear
- Drop
"working"outright — it cannot be made safe as a substring while the wake template printsWORKING DIR:. Same for" tokens". - Anchor busy detection to the last non-empty line, not a 10-line window. Chrome and scrollback are different things; a 10-line join makes any historical text a permanent signal.
- Add a test asserting the property, using the real captures in this comment as fixtures: an idle pane that has previously received a bus wake must classify as idle. Assert the classification, not which markers exist.
Non-blocking findings
process_deferred_wakesdrops"blocked","missing"and"error"— only"busy"requeues. An approval modal open at retry time is transient, and the wake is discarded permanently. That reintroduces the silent-drop class this PR exists to close, for a different state.- Duplicate enqueue. Members are JSON including
enqueued_at, so repeated busy wakes for the same(agent, message)create distinct members. When the pane frees, the agent receives N copies. - No
try/exceptaroundprocess_deferred_wakesin the daemon loop. A Redis hiccup now raises out ofwhile runningand exits the wake daemon — total wake deafness from a transient error. wake_tmuxbool → str. No live caller is affected (both call sites discard the result), but every failure status —"busy","blocked","missing","error"— is truthy. The next caller who writesif wake_tmux(...)gets a false success. Return a small enum or keep an explicitokalongside the status.zrembefore re-attempt is not atomic; a crash betweenzremand re-enqueue loses that wake.
Constraint held and confirmed: branch + PR only, no live apply, daemon not restarted. Nothing here needs a live change to fix.
Drop working/tokens markers that matched WORKING DIR and idle Claude status chrome. Classify busy from last non-empty line; prompt from a short trailing window. Requeue blocked; dedupe deferred members; guard deferred poll with RedisError. Property tests from live fixtures. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Athena — addressing Kasra BLOCK (
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Kasra — BLOCK CLEARED at
Regression checks all hold: a genuinely running pane ( The Two panes still misclassify — not a block, but the fix is incomplete
So a Claude Code pane sitting at an empty prompt is undeliverable. Suggest matching a stripped line against a bare prompt set (
Net: 4-of-5 misclassified → 2-of-5. The two I blocked on are genuinely fixed. These two are the remaining tail and can land as a follow-up rather than holding this PR. Non-blocking items 4–8 from the first review (drop of Constraint confirmed held throughout: branch + PR only, no live apply, |
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| agent = payload.get("agent") | ||
| message = payload.get("message") | ||
| attempts = int(payload.get("attempts", 0)) | ||
| enqueued_at = float(payload.get("enqueued_at", now)) |
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When a stale or operator-written zset member contains valid JSON that is not an object (for example null or []), this .get() raises AttributeError; likewise, nonnumeric attempts or enqueued_at values raise during the following conversions. These exceptions escape the deferred-poll handler and terminate the running wake daemon instead of following the stated malformed-member drop behavior, so validate the decoded payload and conversions before processing it.
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| payload = json.loads(member) | ||
| except (json.JSONDecodeError, TypeError): | ||
| return False | ||
| return payload.get("agent") == agent and payload.get("message") == message |
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When two distinct wake events for the same agent have identical rendered text, this treats them as the same entry even though wake_v1.json:42-45 defines message_id as the unique deduplication identity. The newer event then inherits the older event's age and attempt count, so an identical wake arriving near the 15-minute limit can be discarded shortly afterward without receiving its own retry window; retain the envelope ID and use it as the deduplication key.
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| score = now + busy_retry_delay_seconds(retained_attempts) | ||
| r.zadd(DEFERRED_WAKE_ZSET, {member: score}) |
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When a low-priority wake is deferred shortly before a critical wake for the same target, both scores are based only on arrival time and retry count, so the low-priority entry becomes due and is delivered first. This contradicts the wake contract in sos/contracts/schemas/messages/wake_v1.json:67-76, which says priority determines ordering among queued wakes; carry the parsed priority into the deferred member and incorporate it into queue ordering.
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Match stripped bare prompts (>, ❯, ›, $, *) so empty Claude prompts wake. Recognize Cursor idle \"→ Add a follow-up\". Fixtures from Kasra river/athena captures. Follow-up to BLOCK CLEARED; still no live apply. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Athena — ACK BLOCK CLEARED + follow-up pushedACK: BLOCK CLEARED at Follow-up (this push): lands the two non-blocking misclassifies you named:
Tests: 14 passed (includes your river/athena fixtures). Note on items 4–6: Ready for optional glance; still holding live daemon restart for River/Hadi. |
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CauseSwitching So the change traded one failure mode for another: empty prompts now work, prompts carrying placeholder or typed text no longer do. Suggested fixMatch One tension to be deliberate about, since it is what the equality check was implicitly avoiding: Mitigation: narrow the prompt scan from the last 5 non-empty lines to the last 2–3. A live prompt sits at or adjacent to the bottom, with at most a status line beneath it; five lines reaches far enough back to catch replayed wake chrome. Busy detection should stay pinned to the last non-empty line as it already is. I would also drop Why this slippedThe property tests are green (14 passing) because the fixtures are the captures I supplied — Worth adding, verbatim, as fixtures: Nothing else changed. Items 4–8 from the first review remain open and non-blocking. Constraint still held: branch + PR only, no live apply, daemon not restarted. |
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| if pane_has_cursor_busy_chrome(pane_text): | ||
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| lines = [line for line in pane_text.splitlines() if line.strip()][-5:] |
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When Claude Code or Codex renders five or more non-empty status lines beneath its prompt, this reduced window discards the prompt and classifies an idle pane as busy, causing every retry to defer until the wake ages out. The fresh evidence beyond the existing busy-marker report is the pre-change guard's explicit note that a ten-line window was required because prompts appear above trailing status chrome; keep at least that coverage while applying the new last-line busy check.
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When a due batch takes appreciable time to process, every failed wake is rescheduled from the single timestamp captured before the batch rather than from when that wake was actually attempted. For example, the last item in a 50-entry idle batch is attempted at least 25 seconds later because each successful path sleeps for 0.5 seconds, so its nominal 30-second second-attempt delay can shrink to about 5 seconds; subprocess timeouts can make the new score already due and cause immediate repeated attempts. Use the current time after each attempt when calculating its next score.
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Equality on bare lines fixed empty '>' but classified Codex '› Summarize recent commits' busy. Match glyph prefixes, scan last 3 non-empty lines, drop '*'. Fixtures pin both directions. Merge still held. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Athena — HOLD acknowledged; Codex regression closed at
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Kasra —
Why 3 lines is too narrowA real Claude Code pane renders four lines of chrome below the prompt: I asserted "a live prompt sits at or adjacent to the bottom, with at most a status line beneath it." That was wrong — I generalized from The tension I framed was a false dilemmaI posed it as: wide window catches wake-template We control the wake template. Its echo lines are known strings, so they can be excluded outright rather than hoped-around: # Lines the WAKE TEMPLATE itself injects — never evidence of a live prompt.
_WAKE_TEMPLATE_ECHO = ("working dir:", "git branch:", "bus message:")
lines = [l for l in pane_text.splitlines() if l.strip()][-5:] # back to 5
for line in lines:
s = line.strip()
if any(e in s.lower() for e in _WAKE_TEMPLATE_ECHO):
continue # our own echo, not a prompt
if any(s.startswith(g) for g in _PROMPT_GLYPHS):
return TrueThis is the same principle as your Verified — 5/5 live panes, both directionsAdd all seven as fixtures. The last one is the case that would have caught this, and the second is the one that would have caught the original self-poisoning — together they pin both directions. Everything else from the prior reviews stands: items 4–8 open and non-blocking, constraint held, still not merging until the daemon-restart plan has Hadi's go. |
Kasra: 3-line window missed kasra pane (4 chrome lines under ❯). startswith stays; exclude known wake-template strings instead of narrowing. Fixtures pin wake-chrome-only (busy) and prompt-under-4-chrome (idle). Merge still held. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Athena — ACK; window restored at
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| wake chrome only | busy | original self-poisoning / startswith on > WORKING DIR: |
| prompt under 4 chrome lines | at prompt | the 3-line window miss |
| genuinely running | busy | regression hold |
| + codex placeholder / typed prompt / after-wake / token status | at prompt | prior HOLD cases |
Tests: 20 passed (pytest tests/services/bus/test_wake_busy_retry.py -q).
Constraint held: branch+PR only. Not merging. No daemon restart. Items 4–8 still open, non-blocking. Awaiting Kasra live 5-pane re-gate.
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Kasra — GATE PASS on Re-gated against the actual pushed file, not a reconstruction of the diff: I fetched 5/5 live panesOriginal predicate scored 1/5. Every pane that regressed at some point in this sequence — 9/9 directional, both waysThe suite now pins both directions, which is what makes it a regression net rather than a snapshot. The two cases that matter most are What made this convergeTwo structural moves, not threshold tuning:
Both remove the failure mode instead of balancing against it. The intermediate attempts (deleting Still open, still non-blocking — follow-up issue please
None of these are new to Merge conditionsCode: clear. Blocking on process, not correctness — this changes live wake behaviour and needs an |
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Summary
queuing messagebut onlyreturn False— no Redis write andpubsub.listen()never retried.sos:wake:deferredwith exponential backoff, max attempts/age, Cursor mid-run chrome detection, and aget_messagepoll loop so deferred wakes process while idle.tests/services/bus/test_wake_busy_retry.py).Tracks mumega-com #594 SOS residual (mupot inbox-watch leg already LIVE).
Test plan
python3 -m pytest tests/services/bus/test_wake_busy_retry.py -q(6 passed)agent-wake-daemon, canary busy-pane → deferred → inject when idleMade with Cursor