Subagents were showing "running" long after they had finished. Measured
against 2.1.237 by running a session that launched one Task agent and
reading its stdout: a subagent's lines carry no `stream_event` at all --
they are whole `user`/`assistant` lines with a null `stop_reason` -- and no
`result` line is sent for one. So `ends_a_turn`, which watches for a raw
`message_delta` saying `end_turn`, could never fire for a subagent, and
nothing finished one until its session's process exited.
What the CLI does send is a task lifecycle, as top-level `system` lines:
`task_started` (with the tool_use id), `task_progress`, `task_updated`
(status, naming the task only) and `task_notification` (tool id, status, and
the agent's own summary). `translate_task` keeps the task -> tool mapping,
records the summary as the subagent's closing text -- the run showed its
child lines stop at its last tool_result, so without this a finished
subagent reads as stopping mid-tool -- and ends it. A `completed` update is
deliberately not the end, since its notification carries the summary; any
other terminal status is, because the failure to avoid is a subagent nothing
ever finishes. `ends_a_turn` stays as a second detector and must never be
the only one again. Verified by replaying the captured stream through the
server as a fake CLI: running, prompt, Bash call, output, report, exited.
`finish_all` now reads the directory rather than the live map, which is what
clears the ones already stuck: a subagent left running by an earlier run of
the server is exactly the one this process never touched, so it read
"running" again every time its session was started.
Auto-resume gets the same treatment on its own single point of failure. The
only thing that scheduled a resume was the CLI's error sentence at the end
of a failed turn; the CLI also sends `rate_limit_event` lines saying where
the account stands, and this server ignored them entirely. Both are read
now. Anything that is not an `allowed...` status counts as refused and is
logged if unfamiliar -- being wrong that way costs one question to the usage
meter, which is still what decides whether anything is sent, and being wrong
the other way is the feature silently not existing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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