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Related GitHub Issue

Closes: #1714

Description

Problem

An authoritative lifecycle check can reject a create_subtask action. The rejected action can remain in persistent storage. A restart can replay it and repeat the rejected delegation.

Scope

This PR settles only the exact rejected action. It does not redesign generic file locking, deletion, or task-directory persistence.

Solution

  • Add the typed LifecycleTransitionError for authoritative lifecycle rejection.
  • Add a pure settlement reducer that clears only the matching pending create_subtask action ID.
  • Add a disk-authoritative compare-and-clear operation in TaskHistoryStore.
  • Settle the action before the provider restores the parent after delegation rejection.
  • Fail closed when settlement fails. The provider does not restore a parent that can replay the rejected action.
  • Add narrow pre-replay settlement for an interrupted task after restart.

Concurrency semantics

The compare-and-clear operation reads the disk record before it makes a settlement decision. It preserves a replacement action with a different ID. It also preserves completed records, other action kinds, and mismatched action IDs.

A deleted disk record causes settlement to fail closed. Settlement does not recreate the record.

Interaction with PR #1678

Merged PR #1678 preserves subtask links when repeated Stop requests reach an already interrupted child. This PR preserves that repeated-cancel behavior.

PR #1678 and this PR fix separate stale lifecycle boundaries. PR #1678 handles repeated child cancellation. This PR handles a rejected parent delegation action that can remain pending and replay.

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  1. Read the pure transition and settlement rules in taskLifecycle.ts.
  2. Read the disk-authoritative compare-and-clear operation in TaskHistoryStore.ts.
  3. Read rejection handling in ClineProvider.ts.
  4. Read restart settlement in Task.ts.
  5. Read the focused tests for each boundary.
  6. Read the bounded model changes and architecture notes.

Test Procedure

The completed local run produced these results:

  • Focused Vitest: 10 suites and 181 tests passed.
  • Type checks: 11 packages passed.
  • Lifecycle model: all seven bounded checkers passed.
  • Full tests: 13 workspace tasks passed.
  • Full tests: 488 files passed and 4 files skipped.
  • Full tests: 9009 tests passed and 39 tests skipped.

The evidence covers these cases:

  • Reducer tests cover matching IDs, replacement IDs, other action kinds, completed records, and typed rejection.
  • Store tests use the real filesystem. They cover stale caches, replacement actions, completed records, other action kinds, and deleted records.
  • Provider tests cover rejection, settlement, unrelated failures, restoration, and fail-closed settlement failure.
  • Task restart tests cover settlement before replay and replacement-action preservation.
  • Bounded lifecycle model witnesses cover rejected settlement, successful settlement, replacement preservation, and completion behavior.

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  • This PR updates the task lifecycle architecture notes.

Additional Notes

Generic cross-host locking remains separate work. Crash consistency and deletion coordination also remain separate work. PR #1471 is one related cross-window persistence effort.

This PR does not claim broad locking, deletion serialization, path safety, or generic JSON recovery.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented rejected child-task delegations from replaying the same pending action when an interrupted task resumes. Matching actions are settled while replacement actions and task status are preserved.
    • Improved handling of settlement failures so rejected actions are not restored or replayed.
    • Task resumption now uses its saved status when no status is otherwise provided.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded task lifecycle guidance to cover rejected delegations, action matching, and concurrent updates.

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The change adds exact settlement for rejected create_subtask actions during delegation and history resume. It compares actions against persisted task records, preserves replacement actions, and prevents replay when settlement fails or a rejected action remains. The lifecycle model and architecture documentation describe the settlement and completion-matching rules.

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Rejected delegation settlement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lifecycle settlement contract
src/core/task-persistence/taskLifecycle.ts, src/core/task-persistence/index.ts, src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/taskLifecycle.spec.ts
Invalid lifecycle transitions now throw LifecycleTransitionError. The settlement reducer clears only a matching create_subtask action and preserves completed records and other pending actions.
File-authoritative settlement
src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts, src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts
clearPendingActionIfMatching compares against the persisted record during the write merge. safeWriteJson can skip parent-directory creation. Tests cover lock-path errors when the directory is absent.
Delegation rollback settlement
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, src/__tests__/ClineProvider.delegation.spec.ts
When delegation fails with a lifecycle transition error, the provider attempts to settle the matching action. Rollback restores the authoritative parent unless settlement fails, and tests cover persistence errors and replacement actions.
Interrupted-task resume handling
src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/Task.persistence.spec.ts
History resume settles an interrupted task's pending create_subtask action before replay. A settlement error or a remaining replacement action stops resume. The constructor also uses the stored status when no initial status is provided.
Lifecycle model and documentation
scripts/check-task-lifecycle.ts, docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md
The model checker adds stage and rejected-settlement transitions, settlement and completion invariants, and semantic witnesses. The architecture documentation records the settlement and concurrency rules.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Task
  participant ClineProvider
  participant taskLifecycle
  participant TaskHistoryStore
  Task->>ClineProvider: delegate pending create_subtask
  ClineProvider->>taskLifecycle: delegateTaskToChild
  taskLifecycle-->>ClineProvider: LifecycleTransitionError
  ClineProvider->>TaskHistoryStore: clearPendingActionIfMatching
  TaskHistoryStore->>taskLifecycle: settleRejectedCreateSubtaskAction
  taskLifecycle-->>TaskHistoryStore: cleared or preserved action
  TaskHistoryStore-->>ClineProvider: authoritative parent record
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bbde1

Interrupted tasks no longer replay a rejected subtask action, and a failed settlement leaves the parent unrestored rather than looping. The remaining items are a missing regression test for unrelated write errors during settlement and two unresolved consistency questions in the lifecycle gap report. None blocks merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Regression Evidence ⚠️ Warning The new TaskHistoryStore.clearPendingActionIfMatching has an uncovered negative branch for an invalid persisted history record. Its merge callback treats a non-object record without id as missing,… Add a focused real-filesystem test in TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts that seeds a cached task, replaces its history_item.json with malformed or invalid JSON, calls clearPendingActionIfMatching, and asserts rejection, stale-c…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup ⚠️ Warning The restart settlement path can leak a task, listeners, and a timer. Task.settleInterruptedCreateSubtaskBeforeReplay() now throws when settlement fails or when the authoritative record still contain… When a scheduled history resume rejects, perform identity-aware cleanup. Remove the failed task from the task registry, abort and dispose it, remove its provider event listeners, and clear its idle telemetry interval. Apply the cleanup even…
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For [#1714], the PR settles a rejected create_subtask action only when the action ID matches. TaskHistoryStore.clearPendingActionIfMatching evaluates the persisted record under the file lock and p…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The lifecycle error, compare-and-clear settlement, lock behavior, model-checker witnesses, focused tests, and lifecycle documentation directly support [#1714]. The safeWriteJson option supports the …
Security Boundaries ✅ Passed No changed path meets the security failure conditions. src/core/task-persistence/taskLifecycle.ts and TaskHistoryStore.ts compare the exact create_subtask action ID and do not execute its messag…
Persistence Integrity ✅ Passed No explicit persistence-integrity failure was introduced. clearPendingActionIfMatching awaits the disk-authoritative safeWriteJson merge and its onWrite callback. The provider awaits settlement …
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preventing interrupted tasks from replaying rejected subtask actions.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and aligned with the repository template. It links issue #1714, explains the problem and implementation, documents concurrency behavior, lists test results, completes the c…
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Explanation

The new TaskHistoryStore.clearPendingActionIfMatching has an uncovered negative branch for an invalid persisted history record. Its merge callback treats a non-object record without id as missing, evicts the cache, and throws instead of recreating the task (src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts:1092-1123). The added real-filesystem tests cover deleted files/directories, cache misses, replacements, completed records, different action kinds, and unset actions, but none writes malformed or otherwise invalid history_item.json and verifies this fail-closed behavior. The existing safeWriteJson corruption test does not cover the new store-level cache and artifact behavior.

Resolution

Add a focused real-filesystem test in TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts that seeds a cached task, replaces its history_item.json with malformed or invalid JSON, calls clearPendingActionIfMatching, and asserts rejection, stale-cache eviction, and no task-record recreation.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The restart settlement path can leak a task, listeners, and a timer. Task.settleInterruptedCreateSubtaskBeforeReplay() now throws when settlement fails or when the authoritative record still contains a replacement create_subtask. createTaskWithHistoryItemUnlocked() installs that task in the registry and scheduleTask() runs Task.run(), which starts the idle telemetry interval before resumeTaskFromHistory() rejects. The scheduler catch only logs the error. It does not remove or dispose the task. Therefore, an interrupted task with a failed settlement or replacement action can remain in the registry with provider event listeners and its interval active after restart.

Resolution

When a scheduled history resume rejects, perform identity-aware cleanup. Remove the failed task from the task registry, abort and dispose it, remove its provider event listeners, and clear its idle telemetry interval. Apply the cleanup even when settlement fails or preserves a replacement action, and avoid restoring or replaying the task until cleanup completes.

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Correct the portfolio count.

The portfolio table lists 41 unique IDs, from 001 through 041, but this sentence states 40 IDs. Change 40 to 41. The register’s 001..040 ownership rule does not reconcile the table’s inclusion of 041.

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LIFE-GAP-019 requires one validator for every filesystem task ID, with traversal and separator coverage across all entry points. Its remediation block includes store paths, imports, deletion, and checkpoints. “Traversal guard” omits this shared validator and path-entry scope. Distinguish LIFE-GAP-018’s validated-read fix from LIFE-GAP-019’s shared safe-ID boundary at both locations.

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Learning: In Zoo-Code task-history persistence code, treat each task's `history_item.json` as the source of truth; do not reintroduce `tasks/_index.json` or `TaskHistoryStore.flushIndex()`. `TaskHistoryStore.reconcile()` should discover state by scanning task directories, and cross-instance updates should use the `safeWriteJson` merge callback while holding the store's advisory lock.

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86-86: LGTM!

src/utils/fileLock.ts (1)

6-73: LGTM!

src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts (1)

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4042-4055: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The LifecycleTransitionError guard is preserved.

delegateTaskToChild and both upsertCore validation branches throw or rethrow LifecycleTransitionError. The delegateParentAndOpenChild catch block does not wrap the error before checking instanceof LifecycleTransitionError. Generic errors such as pending-action mismatches are separate from the interrupted → delegated transition rejection.

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1-149: LGTM!

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Drop the broad deletion-serialization work: the shared task guard
(taskIoGuard, taskPathSafety, fileLock), safeWriteJson refactors,
storage path policy, and writer coordination across messages, tools,
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Learning: In Zoo-Code task-history persistence code, treat each task's `history_item.json` as the source of truth; do not reintroduce `tasks/_index.json` or `TaskHistoryStore.flushIndex()`. `TaskHistoryStore.reconcile()` should discover state by scanning task directories, and cross-instance updates should use the `safeWriteJson` merge callback while holding the store's advisory lock.

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const filePath = await this.getTaskFilePath(taskId)
let authoritative: HistoryItem = cached
await safeWriteJson(filePath, cached, {
merge: (existing) => {
if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
this.cache.delete(taskId)
this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Settlement recreates the task directory after another host deletes it.

safeWriteJson runs fs.mkdir(path.dirname(filePath), { recursive: true }) before it takes the lock and runs merge (see src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:45-204). ClineProvider.deleteTaskWithId removes the whole task directory with fs.rm(dirPath, { recursive: true }).

Trigger: another host deletes the task, then this host calls clearPendingActionIfMatching.

Result:

  • safeWriteJson recreates tasks/<taskId>/ as an empty directory.
  • merge then throws.
  • The empty directory stays on disk as an orphan. reconcile() skips it because stat on history_item.json fails, so nothing ever removes it.

This contradicts the docstring's "Deletion by another host is authoritative" guarantee. The regression test at TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts Line 191 misses this case because storeB.delete unlinks only history_item.json and leaves the directory in place.

Fix:

  • After a missing-record rejection, remove the directory only if it is empty. fs.rmdir fails with ENOTEMPTY if a peer wrote files, so peer data stays safe.
  • Add a test that removes the whole task directory before settlement. Assert that the directory does not exist afterward.
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 			const filePath = await this.getTaskFilePath(taskId)
 			let authoritative: HistoryItem = cached
-			await safeWriteJson(filePath, cached, {
-				merge: (existing) => {
-					if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
-						// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
-						// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
-						this.cache.delete(taskId)
-						this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
-						throw new Error(
-							`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
-						)
-					}
-					const disk = existing as HistoryItem
-					authoritative = settleRejectedCreateSubtaskAction(disk, expectedActionId)
-					return authoritative
-				},
-			})
+			let missingOnDisk = false
+			try {
+				await safeWriteJson(filePath, cached, {
+					merge: (existing) => {
+						if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
+							// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
+							// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
+							missingOnDisk = true
+							this.cache.delete(taskId)
+							this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
+							throw new Error(
+								`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found on disk`,
+							)
+						}
+						const disk = existing as HistoryItem
+						authoritative = settleRejectedCreateSubtaskAction(disk, expectedActionId)
+						return authoritative
+					},
+				})
+			} catch (error) {
+				if (missingOnDisk) {
+					// safeWriteJson recreated the directory before merge ran. rmdir only
+					// removes an empty directory, so a concurrent peer write is preserved.
+					await fs.rmdir(path.dirname(filePath)).catch(() => {})
+				}
+				throw error
+			}
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In `@src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts` around lines 1086 - 1098, In
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Comment on lines +1088 to +1124
let missingDiskRecord = false
try {
await safeWriteJson(filePath, cached, {
createParentDirectory: false,
merge: (existing) => {
if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
missingDiskRecord = true
this.cache.delete(taskId)
this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
)
}
const disk = existing as HistoryItem
authoritative = settleRejectedCreateSubtaskAction(disk, expectedActionId)
return authoritative
},
})
} catch (error) {
const missingLockPath =
error &&
typeof error === "object" &&
"code" in error &&
error.code === "ENOENT" &&
"path" in error &&
error.path === `${filePath}.lock`
if (missingDiskRecord || missingLockPath) {
this.cache.delete(taskId)
this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
)
}
throw error
}

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Add a test that an unrelated settlement error keeps the cache entry.

The merge callback and the catch block both remove the cache entry and throw the same not found in cache message. Tests therefore cannot tell the two paths apart. The surviving mutants at Line 1088 and Lines 1093-1100 confirm this.

No test covers the throw error branch at Line 1123. Suppose a regression turns every error into the missing-task branch, for example by starting missingDiskRecord as true. Then a lock-contention error (ELOCKED) or an EACCES error would remove a live task from the cache and report it as deleted. The caller in ClineProvider.delegateParentAndOpenChildUnlocked would then skip restoring the parent.

Changes:

  • Add a test that makes safeWriteJson reject with an error that is not ENOENT on the lock path, for example ELOCKED. Assert that the original error propagates and that store.get(taskId) still returns the record.
  • Optional: remove the cache deletions inside merge. The catch block already does them when missingDiskRecord is set.
♻️ Remove the duplicate cache eviction
 					merge: (existing) => {
 						if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
 							// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
 							// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
 							missingDiskRecord = true
-							this.cache.delete(taskId)
-							this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
 							throw new Error(
-								`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
+								`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found on disk`,
 							)
 						}
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let missingDiskRecord = false
try {
await safeWriteJson(filePath, cached, {
createParentDirectory: false,
merge: (existing) => {
if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
missingDiskRecord = true
this.cache.delete(taskId)
this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
)
}
const disk = existing as HistoryItem
authoritative = settleRejectedCreateSubtaskAction(disk, expectedActionId)
return authoritative
},
})
} catch (error) {
const missingLockPath =
error &&
typeof error === "object" &&
"code" in error &&
error.code === "ENOENT" &&
"path" in error &&
error.path === `${filePath}.lock`
if (missingDiskRecord || missingLockPath) {
this.cache.delete(taskId)
this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
)
}
throw error
}
let missingDiskRecord = false
try {
await safeWriteJson(filePath, cached, {
createParentDirectory: false,
merge: (existing) => {
if (!existing || typeof existing !== "object" || !("id" in existing)) {
// Writing the cached record back would recreate a task
// another host deleted, so drop the stale entry first.
missingDiskRecord = true
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found on disk`,
)
}
const disk = existing as HistoryItem
authoritative = settleRejectedCreateSubtaskAction(disk, expectedActionId)
return authoritative
},
})
} catch (error) {
const missingLockPath =
error &&
typeof error === "object" &&
"code" in error &&
error.code === "ENOENT" &&
"path" in error &&
error.path === `${filePath}.lock`
if (missingDiskRecord || missingLockPath) {
this.cache.delete(taskId)
this.taskFileMtimes.delete(taskId)
throw new Error(
`[TaskHistoryStore] clearPendingActionIfMatching: task ${taskId} not found in cache`,
)
}
throw error
}
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[warning] 1100-1100: Mutation test advisory
src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts:1100: Survived StringLiteral mutant (replacement: ``). See the job summary for the complete list and resolution guidance.


[warning] 1098-1098: Mutation test advisory
src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts:1098: Survived CallExpression mutant (replacement: ;). See the job summary for the complete list and resolution guidance.


[warning] 1097-1097: Mutation test advisory
src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts:1097: Survived CallExpression mutant (replacement: ;). See the job summary for the complete list and resolution guidance.


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src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts:1096: Survived BooleanLiteral mutant (replacement: false). See the job summary for the complete list and resolution guidance.


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src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts:1093: Survived ConditionalExpression mutant (replacement: false). See the job summary for the complete list and resolution guidance.


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In `@src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts` around lines 1088 - 1124, Add
a test for clearPendingActionIfMatching where safeWriteJson rejects with a
non-ENOENT lock error such as ELOCKED; assert the original error propagates and
store.get(taskId) still returns the cached record.

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