fix(swarm): stop original member before handoff - #957
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WalkthroughThe coordinator now claims handoffs separately from task status. Task runs share cancellation and completion barriers across launches. Handoff stops and joins the source before dispatching the successor, with tests for ordering and shutdown races. ChangesHandoff lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Handoff processing can still leave work stopped without a runnable successor, or mark work as handed off without confirming that its local execution has stopped. These bounded correctness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Swarm
participant Coordinator
participant taskRun
participant TeamQueue
participant Successor
Swarm->>Coordinator: BeginHandoff(taskID)
Swarm->>taskRun: Stop source run
Swarm->>TeamQueue: Remove queued source task
Swarm->>taskRun: Wait for completion
Swarm->>Coordinator: FinishHandoff(taskID)
Swarm->>Successor: Dispatch replacement
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Options, not by writingsw.maxTeamSizeafter construction.newSwarmForbuilds theSwarmwithMaxTeamSize: 2, and both tests then overwrite the unexported field. The override only takes effect because noTeamexists yet;s.teamcopiess.maxTeamSizeintoTeam.maxSizeon first use. InTestHandoffDoesNotWaitForUnrelatedQueuedLaunchnothing asserts queue depth, so if the override ever stopped applying, the second member would launch immediately and the test would still pass while proving nothing about queue drain.
internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go#L542-L543: construct the swarm withMaxTeamSize: 1instead of assigningsw.maxTeamSize, and assertsw.team("team").QueueDepth() == 1before starting the handoff.internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go#L617-L618: construct the swarm withMaxTeamSize: 1instead of assigningsw.maxTeamSize.Add a helper such as
newSwarmForWithSize(t, l, 1)so both tests share one construction path.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go`:
- Around line 446-448: Extend the lifecycle test around Coordinator.Handoff to
force Mailbox.Send to fail after Coordinator.BeginHandoff, assert that Handoff
returns the send error, and then verify the source task reaches StatusDone. Use
the existing coordinator, mailbox, and task setup patterns without changing
successful handoff behavior.
In `@internal/swarm/lifecycle.go`:
- Around line 314-321: In the handoff flow around FinishHandoff, register the
successor with coord.Register before marking the source task handed off. If
registration fails, call coord.AbortHandoff and restore or fail the source task
to reflect that its member has already stopped; only proceed to FinishHandoff,
rememberCwd, and startTaskRun after successful registration.
- Around line 306-313: Update Handoff so a nil result from s.taskRun(taskID)
fails closed: call s.coord.AbortHandoff(taskID), return an error, and do not
call FinishHandoff or mark the task handed off. Add a regression test covering
an injected coordinator where Register creates no local task run, verifying the
abort and error behavior.
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In `@internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go`:
- Around line 542-543: Update internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go:542-543 and
internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go:617-618 to construct both tests with
MaxTeamSize: 1 through a shared helper such as newSwarmForWithSize, instead of
mutating sw.maxTeamSize afterward. In the test at 542-543, assert
sw.team("team").QueueDepth() == 1 before starting the handoff; the sibling site
requires only the construction change.
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| if _, err := sw.Handoff(pol, "team", origID, "subagent", "continue safely"); err != nil { | ||
| t.Fatalf("Handoff: %v", err) | ||
| } |
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Add a lifecycle regression test for aborted handoffs.
When Mailbox.Send fails after Coordinator.BeginHandoff, Coordinator.finish rejects source completion while the handoff claim remains set. Make Mailbox.Send fail, assert that Handoff returns the error, then assert that the source task reaches StatusDone. The existing coordinator test does not cover this lifecycle path.
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In `@internal/swarm/lifecycle_test.go` around lines 446 - 448, Extend the
lifecycle test around Coordinator.Handoff to force Mailbox.Send to fail after
Coordinator.BeginHandoff, assert that Handoff returns the send error, and then
verify the source task reaches StatusDone. Use the existing coordinator,
mailbox, and task setup patterns without changing successful handoff behavior.
Source: Coding guidelines
| run := s.taskRun(taskID) | ||
| if run != nil { | ||
| run.stop() | ||
| if s.team(team).removeQueuedTask(taskID) { | ||
| run.finish() | ||
| } | ||
| <-run.done | ||
| } |
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Fail closed when Handoff has no local execution boundary.
Coordinator.Register can add a task without creating s.taskRuns[taskID]. Handoff then skips stop and <-run.done, but still calls FinishHandoff and marks the task handed-off. If another owner can execute the task, the successor may run concurrently. Call s.coord.AbortHandoff(taskID) and return an error when run == nil. Add a regression test for this injected-coordinator path.
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In `@internal/swarm/lifecycle.go` around lines 306 - 313, Update Handoff so a nil
result from s.taskRun(taskID) fails closed: call s.coord.AbortHandoff(taskID),
return an error, and do not call FinishHandoff or mark the task handed off. Add
a regression test covering an injected coordinator where Register creates no
local task run, verifying the abort and error behavior.
Source: Coding guidelines
| if err := s.coord.FinishHandoff(taskID); err != nil { | ||
| return "", err | ||
| } | ||
| if _, err := s.coord.Register(newID, newID, team, handoffTask); err != nil { | ||
| return "", err | ||
| } | ||
| cwd := s.cwdFor(taskID) | ||
| s.rememberCwd(newID, cwd) | ||
| // Retire the original task (it has been re-delegated). | ||
| _ = s.coord.SetStatus(taskID, StatusHandedOff) | ||
| s.startTaskRun(newID) |
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Register the successor before calling FinishHandoff. If Register returns ErrTaskExists, the source task is already StatusHandedOff after its member stops, so no successor runs and orphan adoption skips the task. This collision is possible when multiple Swarm instances share one Coordinator, because each Swarm has its own idSeq. Call AbortHandoff when registration fails, then restore or fail the source task because its member has already stopped.
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In `@internal/swarm/lifecycle.go` around lines 314 - 321, In the handoff flow
around FinishHandoff, register the successor with coord.Register before marking
the source task handed off. If registration fails, call coord.AbortHandoff and
restore or fail the source task to reflect that its member has already stopped;
only proceed to FinishHandoff, rememberCwd, and startTaskRun after successful
registration.
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The bug is real and the shape of the fix is right. Giving each task its own cancellation and completion boundary is the correct answer to "the original member stayed alive", and it is a better answer than trying to add a cancel method to MemberHandle. -race -count=5 clean here, go vet clean for linux, darwin and windows.
One blocker.
The completion barrier is an unbounded wait on a model-invoked tool, and it takes shutdown with it.
run.stop()
if s.team(team).removeQueuedTask(taskID) { run.finish() }
<-run.done<-run.done has no timeout and no escape. It closes only when the source member's watcher reaches run.finish(), which happens after m.handle.Wait() returns. So the whole thing rests on the member observing its context, which the code says out loud: "Launch's context is its cancellation contract".
That contract is cooperative here, not enforced. FuncLauncher is the only implementation and it runs l.Run(ctx, spec) in a goroutine in-process, wired in production to the specialist executor. A member sitting in a tool call that does not thread the context — a long shell command, a fetch that ignores it — does not return promptly on cancel, and nothing else can end the wait.
Driven with a launcher whose member ignores its context:
>>> Handoff has not returned after 3s; it is blocked on <-run.done
>>> Close has not returned after 3s either; it waits on lifecycleWork
after releasing the member, Handoff completed
Both recover once the member exits, so this is a hang rather than a leak. But Handoff is reachable from a swarm tool the model calls, so a stuck member wedges that turn indefinitely, and because Handoff holds a lifecycle admission ticket across the wait while Close waits on lifecycleWork, shutdown cannot break the cycle either. The operator's way out of a stuck member was Close, and that is exactly what stops working.
Bounding it does not weaken the guarantee you are adding. The point is that the successor must not start while the source can still act; a wait that gives up and reports "the source has not stopped" preserves that, because it declines to start the successor at all. At minimum select on s.baseCtx.Done() alongside run.done, so Close can unwedge itself rather than joining the queue behind the thing it is trying to cancel. A deadline on top of that, surfaced as a handoff error, would also tell the caller something true instead of hanging.
Two smaller observations, neither blocking.
startTaskRun overwrites s.taskRuns[taskID] unconditionally, and the comment says orphan adoption replaces "the completed boundary". If a boundary is ever replaced while unfinished, anything already waiting on the old done waits on a channel nobody will close any more. The adoption path does look like it only runs for tasks whose member is gone, so I could not construct it; worth an assertion or a finish() on the outgoing run so the invariant is enforced rather than relied upon.
The not-committed branch of launchAdmitted changed from always calling t.releaseSlot() to choosing between releaseSlot and afterExitAdmitted on closed. That looks right, since the non-closed case now has a queue that may want the slot, but it is the sort of accounting change that only shows up under saturation. TestHandoffDoesNotWaitForUnrelatedQueuedLaunch covers the neighbouring race; a case that fills a team, forces an uncommitted launch while open, and asserts the slot is reusable afterwards would pin this one directly.
Fix the unbounded wait and I will approve.
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I found a merge-readiness issue that needs to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P1] Rebase onto current
mainand re-run the handoff concurrency checks
internal/swarm/lifecycle.go:260
This branch forked atad34dc8d, but livemainis now6fe0d1ed, four commits later. The target-only history includes changes underinternal/swarm, while this PR rewrites the same subsystem’s cancellation, queue-draining, lifecycle-admission, and shutdown interactions. As a result, the reviewed behavior is not necessarily the behavior that will merge: conflict resolution can silently restore an older lifecycle path, bypass the new task-run boundary, or alter the ordering between handoff, source completion, and queue dispatch.Please rebase (or reconstruct) this branch on the current target and treat the resolved swarm diff as concurrency-sensitive code, not a mechanical conflict resolution. In particular, preserve the PR’s root-cause fix end-to-end: a handoff must claim the source task, cancel its task-specific run, wait until the source has actually stopped, then make the replacement runnable; queued/dequeued and shutdown paths must continue to observe the same task-run boundary. Re-run the focused race-enabled swarm tests after resolving, including the stop-before-successor, cancellation-insensitive-source, queued-source-removal, queue-drain, launch-race, and Close tests, then request review of the rebased diff.
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Root cause
Handoffonly marked the source taskhanded-offand dispatched a successor. Every member was launched with the swarm-wide base context, andMemberHandlehas no separate cancellation method, so the original member remained alive and could execute side effects alongside its replacement.Verification
ad34dc8d:TestHandoffStopsOriginalBeforeSuccessorStartsfailed withsuccessor started before the original member stoppedgo test -race ./internal/swarm -count=20make fmt-checkgo vet ./...go test -p 1 ./...with a fresh isolatedHOMEand file credential storagego run ./cmd/zero-release smokemake lint-static(0 issues.)make vulncheck(No vulnerabilities found.)git diff --checkReview
Ran the repository PR-review workflow against
ad34dc8d...22e733ad. It found one queue-drain ordering edge during review; that edge was fixed and covered byTestHandoffDoesNotWaitForUnrelatedQueuedLaunch. No evidence-backed blockers remain.Fixes #830
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