fix(agent): make the cap pause binding on sub-agent dispatch, and stop hiding backstop deaths - #5810
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…p hiding backstop deaths A turn that reached its model-call cap requested a graceful pause and then dispatched another sub-agent in the same second. `SteeringCommand::Pause` is advisory — honoured at the harness loop boundary — and nothing consulted it before dispatching, so the new child ran as a tool call wrapped by the run's remaining wall-clock budget, overran it, and the harness failed the whole run. Every result the turn had accumulated was discarded instead of checkpointed. Add a turn-scoped dispatch guard installed next to the sub-agent usage collector. It records two facts the turn already produces but never wrote down, and consults them at `run_subagent`, the chokepoint every synchronous and parallel delegation passes through: - a graceful pause has been requested (recorded by `CapPauser` through a shared handle before it sends the advisory command, so the write happens-before any later dispatch rather than racing it), and - the remaining wall-clock is shorter than the longest sub-agent this turn has actually completed. Both refusals are evidence-based and derived from runtime state, never from a configured constant or a task shape: with no pause, no ceiling, or no completed sub-agent to learn from the guard allows the dispatch, so an opening fan-out is never blocked and behaviour outside a turn scope is unchanged. Only the top-level turn's cap binds — a sub-agent hitting its own cap is a routine outcome and must not halt the parent's fan-out. Also split the wall-clock telemetry. `sentry_suppression_reason` suppressed the harness `Timeout` under the same arm as the outer channel backstop, so a turn that died with eighteen sub-agents' work in flight reached Sentry as nothing at all. The outer backstop fires with no terminal event and stays suppressed; the harness `Timeout` fires while bounding real in-flight work and now reports, tagged with which ceiling fired. User-facing copy is unchanged. Closes tinyhumansai#5804
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In `@src/openhuman/agent/harness/subagent_runner/ops/runner.rs`:
- Around line 554-571: Ensure deterministic fast-path completions from
try_deterministic_memory_retrieval also record started.elapsed() before
returning. Centralize the elapsed-recording logic or add it to that early-return
path so every completed dispatch, including successful and failed runs,
contributes a sample without double-recording.
In `@src/openhuman/agent/harness/turn_dispatch_guard_tests.rs`:
- Around line 265-281: Reorder the first async block in the with_dispatch_guard
test so check() runs before record_subagent_elapsed(Duration::from_secs(60)).
Preserve the Allow assertion for the initial check, then record the simulated
completion so the second future observes it and returns RefuseBudget.
In `@src/openhuman/web_chat/ops.rs`:
- Around line 857-860: Update the error branch of spawn_parallel_turn to mirror
the serial start_chat timeout handling: apply the same suppression check, call
report_error_or_expected, and include timeout_bound_tag in the reported context
so parallel harness timeouts reach Sentry while expected errors remain
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…and report parallel-turn errors Review follow-ups on tinyhumansai#5804. - The deterministic memory fast path returns a completed outcome before the recorder, so a turn whose delegations are all fast-path retrievals never accumulated a sample and left the budget gate disarmed for its whole life. Record there too. Including short samples cannot weaken the gate: the statistic is a running maximum, so a small sample leaves it where it was. The comment claiming otherwise was wrong about its own statistic. - `concurrent_same_task_dispatches_share_one_guard` recorded its 60s sample before its own `check()`, so the first worker judged itself against a duration it had just written and the `Allow` assertion could never hold. A worker checks on the way in and records on the way out; the test now mirrors that. - `spawn_parallel_turn`'s error branch reported nothing to Sentry — not only the timeouts this change un-suppresses but every error type, for as long as the parallel path has existed. Fixing only the serial `start_chat` site would have left `QueueMode::Parallel` exactly as blind as before, so it now shares the same suppression policy and carries `timeout_bound` plus a `queue_mode` tag.
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Summary
CapPauserrecords the pause on a turn-scoped guard before sendingSteeringCommand::Pause;run_subagentconsults it and refuses rather than starting a child that cannot finish.agent/harness/turn_dispatch_guard.rs; user-facingchat_errorcopy is unchanged.Problem
A long turn hit the model-call cap, requested a graceful pause, and dispatched another sub-agent in the same second:
18 sub-agents dispatched, 17 completed. The 18th was given 26 s in a run whose children averaged ~68 s. When it overran, the harness failed the run and ~15 minutes of accumulated work was discarded rather than checkpointed. The mechanism designed to degrade gracefully caused the hard failure.
CapPauser(agent/tinyagents/observability.rs) reacts to the cap with an advisorySteeringCommand::Pause, honoured at the harness loop boundary. Nothing consulted it before dispatching a new sub-agent, so a dispatch could race it and win.Two corrections to the issue as filed
Worth stating because both would send a reviewer to the wrong place.
web_chat/ops.rs:86-110did not kill the turn. That is the channel backstop (DEFAULT_WEB_TURN_TIMEOUT_SECS, 900 s) and it never fired.26375 msand "exceeded its remaining wall-clock budget" are the harness run budget —run_policy_for'smax_wall_clock_ms, 600 s (agent/tinyagents/mod.rs:206), which wraps each sub-agent tool call in the run's remainder.web_chat/ops.rsis implicated for a different reason: it suppressed the resulting error. That is item 3, and it is real.hit_capwas not the reusable signal.agent_graph.rs:102/ops/graph.rs:135hit_capreports whether a child hit its own cap, and only exists once that child's run returns. It cannot gate a dispatch — different run, wrong direction in time. The parent's pause had to be recorded explicitly.Solution
A turn-scoped guard installed alongside the sub-agent usage collector (
session/turn/core.rs), consulted atrun_subagent— the chokepoint every serial and parallel delegation passes through.Gate 1 — pause becomes a fact, not a request.
CapPauserholds a clone of the guard'sArcand callsrecord_pause_requestedbefore sending the advisory command. The crate drains its event queue synchronously, notifying listeners in insertion order on the emitting task (vendor/tinyagents/src/harness/events/mod.rs:163-195), so the write happens-before any tool call the loop dispatches afterwards. That ordering is the fix: the pause stops being something a dispatch can race.Only the top-level turn's cap binds (
subagent_scope.is_none()). A sub-agent reaching its own model-call cap is a routine outcome — it summarises and returnshit_cap— and the parent may legitimately keep delegating. Recording a child's cap would halt the whole turn's fan-out on a signal that says nothing about the parent's budget.Gate 2 — budget. Refuse when
remaining < max(observed sub-agent durations this turn). Recorded on both the success and failure paths and before the?: a delegation that ran three minutes and then errored spent exactly as much budget as one that succeeded. Measured from the outerstarted, so config load and the tier/hook gates are inside the figure — the question is what a dispatch costs end to end.Why max, not mean or a percentile. The errors are not symmetric. A false refusal costs one delegation and still returns everything gathered so far; a false allow costs the entire turn. Under that asymmetry the conservative estimator is correct, and it is also the only one that needs no tunable.
Placement. The gate is the first thing
run_subagentdoes, for the same reason the depth gate is synchronous and pre-dispatch: a delegation already known not to land should cost nothing — no config load, no hook, no provider round-trip.Item 3 — telemetry.
sentry_suppression_reasongated onis_turn_timeout_error, which anchors on the outer marker and the harness renderings. The two are structurally different events that only look alike once stringified:TURN_TIMEOUT_MARKER)TimeoutNew
timeout_boundSentry tag separatesrun_remainingfromper_model_call— a run that spent its budget on work and one call wedged against its ceiling are different triage paths, and one tag would rebuild the conflation in the dashboard.is_turn_timeout_erroris untouched, so user-facing copy is identical: either way the turn ran out of time and the gracefulturn_timeoutmessage is right. Only the telemetry decision splits.Which task classes this covers
The directive was that this improve all fan-out, not the PR-review workload that exposed it. Concretely:
the_budget_rule_is_scale_freepins the identical decision three orders of magnitude apart, at fan-outs of 3 and 300.spawn_subagent→run_subagent): covered, runs inline on the turn's task.spawn_parallel_agentsdrives workers throughtinyagents::graph::parallel::map_reduce, which bounds concurrency withfutures'buffer_unordered(vendor/tinyagents/src/graph/parallel/mod.rs:86), nottokio::spawn.buffer_unorderedpolls every worker on the caller's task, so each inherits the task-local and passes the same gate. Both it and its shared-workspace serial fallback callrun_subagent(orchestration/spawn_parallel_graph.rs:1386). Two tests pin this. (For the record:spawn_parallel_agentsis registered and implemented —tools/toolpacks/registry.rs:229,tools/ops.rs:1372,agent/tinyagents/topology.rs:69. In the observed run it was simply not granted to that orchestrator by tool policy. Nothing in this PR assumes parallel spawning is unavailable.)spawn_async_subagent). They run on tasks that do not inherit the task-local — the same carve-outturn_subagent_usagealready makes, because their spend completes after the parent'schat_doneand is accounted globally. They degrade to "allow", exactly as today.map_reduceworker cancelled byFailFastis dropped mid-await, so its duration is not recorded. That under-records, the gate fails open, and the result is today's behaviour — never worse.Every uncertain case allows. No pause, no configured ceiling, or no completed sub-agent to learn from ⇒
Allow. An opening fan-out is never blocked, and outside a turn scope (CLI, direct invocation) the guard is absent and behaviour is bit-for-bit unchanged.Submission Checklist
run_subagentcall site; edge cases: exact boundary, first-dispatch-with-no-sample, ceiling disabled, detached task, concurrent same-task dispatch.cargo test/cargo buildon this machine (a Rusttarget/is 25-34 GB and a full disk presents as a compile error in your own crate). What I did run instead: the pure policy and the Sentry predicates were extracted verbatim into standalonerustc --testsnippets outside the repo and executed — 12 tests, all green, plus four revert-checks (below). Bothrun_subagentrefusal arms are covered by call-site tests specifically so the changed-lines ratio does not rest on the new module alone. CI is the authority.docs/TEST-COVERAGE-MATRIX.md)## Related)docs/RELEASE-MANUAL-SMOKE.md)Closes #NNNin the## RelatedsectionRevert-checks — executed, not reasoned
Each new assertion was proven to fail with its own fix reverted. A revert that changes nothing proves nothing, so each failure below names the specific assertion, not just a red suite:
decideleft: Allow, right: RefusePaused { completed_model_calls: 15, cap: 15 }decideleft: Allow, right: RefuseBudget { remaining_ms: 26375, observed_max_ms: 68000, observed_samples: 17 }<→<=(over-refusal at the boundary)allows_on_the_exact_boundaryleft: Some("turn wall-clock backstop…"), right: NoneHonestly scoped: those four ran standalone. The 7
#[tokio::test]scope tests and the 3 call-site wiring tests need the crate and run in CI only. The call-site tests are built so their revert is still meaningful — noParentExecutionContextis installed, so an ungatedrun_subagentreturnsNoParentContext(pinned by the pre-existingrunner_errors_outside_parent_context); removing the gate turns each refusal into that error.dispatch_is_not_refused_while_the_guard_has_no_evidenceis the over-refusal guard in the other direction.Impact
tool_resulttext telling it to summarise — the same shape asHookDenied.Arcallocation and one boxedtask_localscope per turn, on a path that is about to call a model. The guard itself is lock-free atomics. The gate runs before config load, so a refusal is now cheaper than the dispatch it replaces.timeout_boundis there to triage it.spawn_parallel_agentsbeing registered under bothtoolandgraphkinds (Staging: spawn_parallel_agents registered under both 'tool' and 'graph' kinds — ambiguous dispatch #5601, open PR fix(agent): rename spawn_parallel graph topology to resolve dual kind collision (#5601) #5617 by an external contributor). This PR touches none oftools/toolpacks/registry.rs,tools/ops.rs,agent/tinyagents/topology.rsororchestration/spawn_parallel_graph.rs— verified, no conflict.Related
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pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check— N/A: no frontend files changed (13 files, allsrc/openhuman/**/*.rs).pnpm typecheck— N/A: no TypeScript changed.rustc --teston the extracted policy + Sentry predicates — 12 pass, 4 reverts fail as tabulated above. The in-crate tests run in CI.rustfmt --edition 2021 --checkrun per-file on all 13 changed/new files, clean.cargo check/clippyNOT run locally — forbidden by fleet disk rules; CI is the gate. Oneclippy::needless_updatewas found and fixed by inspection.app/src-tauri/untouched.Validation Blocked
command:cargo test -p openhuman/cargo check -p openhuman --lib --testserror:not executed — fleet rule forbids Rust test/build compiles on this machine (eachtarget/is 25-34 GB; a full disk surfaces as a spurious compile error in your own crate).impact:compile errors and in-crate test failures would first appear in CI. Mitigated by per-filerustfmt(which parses), standalone execution of the extractable logic, and call-site tests that reuse the existingmake_def_named_toolsfixture.Behavior Changes
chat_errorcopy for a timed-out turn is unchanged.Parity Contract
check()returnsAllowandrun_subagentbehaves exactly as before — the guard can only refuse on positive evidence. Detached background sub-agents are unchanged.is_turn_timeout_errorand theturn_timeoutuser-facing classification are untouched.no_guard_outside_a_turn_scope,the_guard_does_not_leak_into_a_detached_task,allows_the_first_dispatch_however_little_budget_remains,allows_when_the_wall_clock_ceiling_is_disabled,a_parallel_batch_with_no_samples_is_never_refused,dispatch_is_not_refused_while_the_guard_has_no_evidence,both_timeout_shapes_still_render_the_same_user_facing_copy, and the pre-existingrunner_errors_outside_parent_context.Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling
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