MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT (raised by ClaudeDo's launchers) is a wall-clock cap unrelated
to Claude Code's idle-silence abort (default 300s for HTTP-transport MCP
servers), which no launcher raises. A wait near the 900s recommendation was
silently killed at ~300s in any session, launcher or not.
WaitForTaskChange now reports MCP progress every 30s while polling, which
resets that idle timer. Verified against a real claude -p call (no launcher
env overrides) surviving a 341s wait via 60s pings -- the same silence that
previously aborted at 300s. Tool description and the list-handler prompt no
longer claim ClaudeDo's launchers guarantee a long wait survives.
batch_get_tasks with includeDescription=true had no size guard: 8 tasks'
full Description/Result serialized to a single 51k-char line, blowing past
the tool-result token budget and forcing a file/PowerShell workaround to
read it back. Roadblock text was also only reachable via a second get_task
call per task, since roadblockCount (in the lean ref) has no text sibling.
- descriptionMaxChars (default 1500, was unlimited) truncates Description
and Result independently, flagged via *Truncated/*FullLength so a caller
never silently works off a cut string.
- fields narrows taskFull to just the named properties, including the new
roadblockText (the tail of Result after TaskRunner's roadblock marker) —
reachable without pulling in the rest of Result/Description.
- taskFull is now BatchTaskDetailDto, a batch-only shape decoupled from
TaskDto so get_task's own contract is untouched.
- The whole response is capped (MaxResponseChars); over that, the call
throws naming which parameter (descriptionMaxChars/fields/taskIds) to
adjust instead of shipping an oversized payload.
10 tasks with 5000-char descriptions (default settings) serialize to
~13.8k chars, comfortably under the 25k-char cap.
Omitted fields on set_task_config/set_list_config used to be indistinguishable
from an explicit clear, so any single-field update silently wiped every other
override (including SessionSkills, which wasn't even a tool parameter). Now
only the fields you pass are changed; clearing an override requires naming it
in the new clearFields array (a sentinel string doesn't work uniformly since
maxTurns is an int). set_list_config's "all four null deletes the config" case
is preserved but only reachable via clearFields. Return values now reflect the
full resulting config.
get_merge_conflicts and resolve_conflict_hunk let an MCP caller resolve a
leaveConflictsInTree merge hunk-by-hunk (ours/theirs/base/literal text)
instead of grep-parsing diff3 markers itself. Reuses the existing
TaskMergeService/ConflictMarkerParser machinery (adds MergeSegment.StartLine
and a non-staging TaskMergeService.WriteConflictFileAsync) rather than a
second parser. A partially resolved file is written without git add so
continue_merge keeps refusing while any hunk still has markers.
get_task_diff gained an optional paths param (git pathspec, both stat and
full-diff modes) so a large multi-file task can be narrowed to the files
actually in question instead of shipping the whole diff.
preview_merge_set now also reports Subsets: pairs where one task's changed
files are a proper subset of another's in the same set, the strongest
available post-hoc signal that a task may be redundant with another.
Before merging (or staging a conflict resolution's git add -A), compare the
branch's newly-added paths against what's currently untracked in the target
working directory. A collision aborts with a new untracked_collision status
naming the path and size, surfaced through merge_task/review_task,
preview_merge/preview_merge_set (which merge-tree alone can't see), and the
UI merge paths via FlashFooterError/ShowErrorAsync instead of a silent
catch{}. git's own preflight already refuses this while the path stays
untracked at merge time; this closes the gap once a path becomes trackable
in between (e.g. an unrelated conflict resolution's git add -A) or across
the continue_merge TOCTOU window.
preview_merge could only see file-overlap cleanliness via git merge-tree, never
whether the result compiles -- the two costliest findings of the 2026-08-06 batch
run were both merge-tree-clean but build-broken. When a list has a verify command
configured, a clean preview is now additionally materialized (via a commit-tree +
detached scratch worktree, outside the real repo, always cleaned up) and
built/tested there, without ever touching the real working tree.
preview_merge always attempts a verify run when a command is configured;
preview_merge_set only does when its new runVerify parameter is set (default off),
so a set preview never starts N builds unasked. The post-merge verify gate is
unchanged.
Path.GetDirectoryName returned workingDir itself instead of its parent
whenever list.WorkingDir ended in a directory separator, placing
.claudedo-worktrees inside the target repo's own working tree. Add
WorktreeRootResolver to normalize the trailing separator before deriving
the sibling root and to guard that the resulting worktree path never
lands inside workingDir, used by both WorktreeManager and
PlanningSessionManager. Add a startup sweep (LegacyWorktreeFolderRecovery)
that warns when a list's working dir already contains a leftover
.claudedo-worktrees folder from before the fix.
The prime_schedules.prompt_override column existed end-to-end but was
never populated or read. DailyPrepPrompt.BuildPrompt now takes an
optional override and appends it as an extra paragraph after the fixed
prompt (additive, never a replacement, so a user can't disable the
required get_daily_prep_candidates/set_my_day flow). PrimeRunner passes
schedule.PromptOverride through. The Prime tab in Settings now has a
multiline field per schedule wired to a new PromptOverride property on
PrimeScheduleRowViewModel (blank persists as null).
git add -A ran against the shared target checkout, sweeping in
whatever untracked or unrelated modified files a concurrent session
left there and committing them into an unrelated merge. Stage exactly
the paths that were reported conflicted and resolved instead.
QueueServiceSlotFailureTests's throwing-slot test broke its poll loop the
instant the DB read observed Status==Failed, but TaskStateService.FailAsync
commits the status flip before calling the broadcaster's TaskUpdated, so the
assertion could race ahead of the broadcast landing in hub.Proxy.Calls
(~1-in-5 failures in isolation). Wait for both signals before breaking.
RunInSlotAsync only logged an unexpected exception, leaving a task stuck
Running in the DB forever with the UI never notified (the raw-SQL queue
claim that put it there never broadcasts). Cancellation is handled
separately and left alone, since the cancel path already wrote the
terminal status.
Every tool description now leads with what the tool does AND when to reach for
it, since MCP clients rank tools by that text. Per-parameter prose moved onto
the parameters as [Description], exhaustive result-shape enumerations and
design/history rationale dropped, and the repeated boilerplate clauses
(lean-task-ref, batch cap, refused-while-Running) pulled into McpToolDocs,
which also documents the style for future tools.
Tool-level description text: 20494 -> 13605 chars (-34%); combined with the new
parameter descriptions 18517 (-10%).
Closes gaps that caused wrong calls rather than just verbose ones:
- list_task_attachments returns metadata only, no file content
- run_task_now shares continue_task's single override slot and throws when busy
- list_runs is ordered oldest-first and feeds get_run
- workingDir on create_list/update_list is an existing local git repo path,
unvalidated until the first task run
- get_task_worktree's behind=0 also means the main ref was unreachable
Removes get_task_status_values: a whole tool entry for static reference text.
GetTask's description is now the canonical place for status meanings.
Both merge-helper ConPTY sessions loaded PromptKind.MergeHelper, so the
post-handoff session received the phase 0-2 dedupe/enhance instructions and was
told to ignore them by its brief alone.
Split into MergeHelperTriage (phases 0-2 + handoff) and MergeHelperExecute
(phases 3-5), so each session carries only its own phases. Consolidated the
generic ask-the-user rule to one place per prompt, scoped Phase 5's summary to
what the execute session actually knows, and moved the dedupe/enhance bilanz to
the triage handoff. Regression guards assert neither prompt carries the other's
phase headings and that the shared-checkout git rule stays in execute.
The ConPTY host flattens LaunchSpec.Args into one Windows command line and quotes
each token, so a list working dir stored as "C:\repo\" produced the token
"C:\repo\" -- whose trailing backslash escapes its own closing quote. Everything
after it collapsed into --add-dir's variadic list, including
--append-system-prompt-file and the positional kickoff, so "Let Claude handle it"
opened a session with no prompt at all and the CLI warned that brief.md is not a
directory. Only user-supplied working dirs can carry a trailing separator; the
session dirs the worker builds never do.
Register(taskId, cts) already refuses (and logs) a double-registration, but
both call sites discarded the bool and dispatched anyway under an
unregistered CTS. If the loser then unregistered the winner's CTS during
its own cleanup, TryCancel could silently no-op against a live process.
- OverrideSlotService.StartInSlot now fails RunNow/ContinueTask loudly
(throws) when it loses the registration race instead of registering
over — or silently proceeding despite losing to — the queue picker.
- QueueService's picker loop retries registration briefly (the loser's own
claim-attempt-then-unregister resolves fast) before dispatching; if
registration never resolves it marks the already-claimed row Failed
instead of running it unregistered.
- RunCancellationRegistry.Unregister already had compare-and-remove
semantics (TryRemove(KeyValuePair)), so a loser's cleanup could not have
removed the winner's CTS once registration correctly failed.
Added regression tests exercising the real registry through both dispatch
paths: RunNow losing the registration race throws without disturbing the
winner, the picker's retry succeeds and TryCancel reaches the live run when
the loser unregisters in time, and the picker fails the task instead of
running unregistered when it never does.
TaskStateService.CancelAsync allowed cancelling a WaitingForReview task
even while PlanningMergeOrchestrator was mid-drain on it: ApproveReview
awaits the whole multi-subtask merge synchronously, so a concurrent
CancelReview (UI or MCP) could flip the parent to Cancelled while the
orchestrator kept merging children onto the target branch, then
FinalizeParentDoneAsync would find the parent no longer WaitingForReview
and give up - leaving the merged diffs stranded with no rollback.
CancelAsync now rejects with a clear reason when HasActiveMerge(taskId)
is true. TaskStateService can't take PlanningMergeOrchestrator as a
direct constructor dependency (circular back to ITaskStateService), so
it takes a lazily-resolved Func<IActiveMergeState> instead, mirroring
the existing Func<ITaskStateService> cycle-break already used for
PlanningChainCoordinator.
UI polish: DetailsIslandViewModel.IsMergeDraining gates
CancelReviewCommand's CanExecute (same shape as
WorktreesOverviewModalViewModel.IsMerging), and the command's catch now
raises ErrorReported instead of swallowing the rejection silently.
NormalizeTitleWords transliterates umlauts before tokenizing ('für' ->
'fuer'), but TitleStopWords listed 'fur' -- a token the pipeline can
never produce -- so 'für' was never filtered as filler and could push
unrelated titles past the near-duplicate threshold.
TaskRunner.RunAsync created the worktree (PrepareRunDirectoryAsync)
before claiming Running via StartRunningAsync. RunNow dispatches by
task id with no atomic claim of their own, so a Queued task racing
the queue picker's atomic SQL claim could hit WorktreeManager's
branch-collision self-heal, which force-removes and recreates the
winner's live worktree mid-run.
Move the claim before any resource creation and bail out immediately
when it's rejected. OverrideSlotService.RunNow also fast-rejects a
task already Running in the DB (defense in depth). RunCancellationRegistry
now refuses (and logs) a double registration instead of silently
overwriting the first CTS, so a losing dispatch's cleanup can no
longer unregister the winner's cancellation token.
A task-based ConPTY session leaves the row Idle in the DB (sessions never
touch status), so nothing stopped the queue picker from claiming it too:
CanSendToQueue ignored HasInteractiveSession, and both TasksIslandViewModel.
SendToQueueAsync and MissionControlViewModel.EnqueueTaskAsync (drag-to-queue)
wrote Status=Queued straight via EF, bypassing TaskStateService entirely and
its manual/draft-child guards. That let an autonomous claude process spawn in
the same worktree a user was hand-editing in the ConPTY pane.
Add !HasInteractiveSession to CanSendToQueue, and route both UI enqueue paths
through IWorkerClient.SetTaskStatusAsync (worker hub -> TaskStateService.
EnqueueAsync) instead of raw EF writes. The interactive-session gate itself
stays in the UI: the worker has no notion of a UI-hosted ConPTY pane.
Generates the claude session id up front (--session-id <guid>) for a fresh interactive task
session and persists it to TaskEntity.InteractiveSessionId before launch, so an abort at any
point still leaves a resumable id. BuildForTaskAsync now resumes this task's own last
interactive session in preference to the latest autonomous run's session, but never across a
freshly (re)created worktree.
Deleting a child from the details pane hard-deleted straight from the UI
process via TaskRepository, bypassing TaskStateService.TryAdvanceParentAsync
entirely. Deleting the last child of a WaitingForChildren parent that way
left it wedged forever. WorkerHub.DeleteTask now mirrors the MCP delete_task
tool (running-task guard, FK-friendly error, advance-parent call), and the
UI goes through it.
TryAdvanceParentAsync also short-circuited when zero children remained,
treating "no children left" as "nothing to evaluate" instead of "all done" -
removed the early return so an empty child list (vacuously) counts as all
terminal.
RecoverStaleRunningAsync bulk-flipped Running rows to Failed via raw
ExecuteUpdate, skipping the chain/parent side effects every other terminal
transition triggers. After a worker crash mid-run of a planning/improvement
child, the chain successor's BlockedByTaskId was never cleared and a
WaitingForChildren parent could wedge forever with no event left to
re-check it. Now each recovered task runs the same OnChildTerminalAsync
side effects (chain advance + parent advance) as FailAsync, best-effort.
mika kuns