R1: wait-open-jobs takes --dispatch-token (the token the wrapper read for
this attempt) and keeps it, with the session it asked about, for its whole
life; every write (signal, admission, the hold's renewal) is a guarded
engine merge that re-reads the record under the registry lock and refuses
once the record is not that attempt's pending one in that session. A record
redispatched, moved or closed by someone else makes the waiter answer
`superseded`: the bash wrapper exits 5 without a close, the record is its
new owner's. hold-admission is given the waiter's pinned identity instead
of reading a token from disk, so a hold that starts late holds nothing.
R2: a pending record that never carried a waiter's signal (create --onboard
registers and injects directly and waits ack_timeout_sec for `started`) is
live for that budget from created_at, not for the 30 s signal window; the
window applies only once a dispatcher has signalled.
Tests: u1 rows for the two pending lifetimes, u3b asserts the guard, u3f/u3g/u3h
(cross-session redispatch, in-place attempt change, token changed before the
waiter started) with the real waiter subprocess, u4e/u4f (late hold, running
hold released by a redispatch), s1 pins the token argument and the no-close
branch; real herdr C10 (onboarding valid before and after 30 s blocks the
session), C11 (expired onboarding is stale), C12 (redispatched waiter leaves
its record alone, exit 5).
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F1: `clear` is now an admission persisted on the released record - a merge
through the engine whose new `guard` re-reads the session's open jobs under
the registry lock, so two waiters cannot both be admitted. It is scoped to
the attempt by the dispatch token (a redispatch voids it) and reported as
`admitted` to every other waiter, which holds the session as a running job
does, whatever its FIFO place: a lower id in the same second or a
redispatched older loop job now waits.
F2: a pending record's liveness window is the dispatcher's signal cadence
times three misses (10 s x 3 = 30 s), no longer ack_timeout_sec, which the
agent's budget takes down to 1 s. After `clear` a detached hold renews the
admitted record's signal until the record leaves pending, its attempt
changes, the wrapper is gone, or the wall clock ends.
Tests: u1 boundaries, u1d/u2e/u2f/u2g/u3d/u3e for the admission, u4c/u4d for
the hold, s1 pins --hold; real herdr: C3/C7/C8 adjusted, C9 is C8's
live-owner counterpart with short ack windows.
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Reproduction first (herdr 0.9.3, a real claude, one-off server, job
51ccd800): after a job that left a background subagent running
(`← 1 agent` on screen for 5 min), herdr reported `working` only while
the job ran and `idle` ~10 s after `completed`; a second submit with a
20 s idle wait was injected, not cancelled. The 2026-10-04 observation
(0.9.1, 10+ min of `working`) does not reproduce on 0.9.3, so the herdr
idle wait stays and the registry wait runs before it (plan §4.3 (나)).
- lib_py/delegation/wrapper.py: `open-jobs` (diagnostic) and
`wait-open-jobs`. An open job of the session is live when the #18
contract says so: `running` with an event in events.log within
idle_timeout_sec; `pending` with a dispatch signal (dispatch_wait_at,
else created_at) within ack_timeout_sec. A dead record is reported
(`stale open job <id> ignored (...)`) and never waited for. The waiter
signals every 10 s by merging dispatch_wait_at into its own pending
record through the registry's transition boundary (status untouched, no
event), so later waiters see it alive; a waiter whose wrapper is gone
stops and its signal goes stale (Creator's challenge, job bf8863e1).
Release is FIFO by (created_at, job_id): `clear` when no live running
job remains and this job is the earliest live pending one; `busy <ids>`
at the bound min(MAM_DISPATCH_WAIT_S, remaining wall clock).
- the wrapper: _registry_wait after the preflight in both dispatch paths;
`busy` closes the job as cancelled/session_busy (phase registry_wait),
exit 5 - the existing contract.
- tests/test_issue50_dispatch.py: the open-job table (status x age x
signal x spelling), FIFO and the tie, the signal as a registry merge,
the bound, a dead wrapper, finalize-end's new phase, both call sites.
- tests/test_issue50_dispatch_herdr.py: a real herdr 0.9.3 server per
test (short mkdtemp HOME, fake claude the server reports idle, the real
publish path over the suite's broker): C1 wait-then-run, C2 the bound,
C3 a dead running record, C4 the loop runner's first job behind an
onboarding, C5 a session without a row, C7 two waiters in FIFO order
with no cancellation, C8 a killed waiter skipped once stale; and three
concurrent `create --onboard` / `worktree_prepare.sh --onboard` in one
server (one server process survives the shims' concurrent bootstrap,
so no bootstrap lock is needed).
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The handshake only said the agent saw the prompt (#23). create_session.sh
now waits, after `started`, for the onboarding job to reach a terminal
status and makes that its own result, so the orchestrator learns it from
create's exit (MULTI_AGENT_RULES §6) instead of guessing from herdr's
agent_status:
- lib_py/delegation/wrapper.py: `wait-terminal` (completed|error|cancelled,
`timeout` after --timeout, `missing` when the record is gone; stops with
its caller via --watch-pid) and `onboard-exit` (completed 0, error or
cancelled 44, timeout or missing 45). bash branches on the printed answer.
- lib.sh: delegate_wait_terminal / delegate_onboard_exit, thin calls.
- create_session.sh: `onboarding completed: job <id> (<n>s)` on stdout, or
`last_visible_status: onboarding-<status>` on the row, the reason on stderr
and `exit 44` / `exit 45` after `trap - EXIT` - the session is kept, as for
a missing handshake. The "no started" path (error, exit 0 before) now ends
with 44. MAM_ONBOARD_WAIT_S (default 600, floor 1) bounds the wait.
- worktree_prepare.sh: 44/45 pass through with "session and worktree kept".
- create SKILL.md exit table (44, 45) and the knob; the #42 inventory follows.
- tests/conftest.py: --onboard is the default, so ~60 sandbox create tests
reach the new wait. The mock herdr now acts as the agent for create's
onboarding prompt - it runs the publish commands the prompt names through
the real publish_event.py - and MAM_ONBOARD_WAIT_S=3 caps a test that turns
that off (MAM_MOCK_ONBOARD_HANDSHAKE=0 -> 44, `started` -> 45). The
delegate-job wrapper's prompt has another shape and is never answered.
- tests/test_issue50_onboard.py: the decision tables, create in the sandbox
(0 / 44 / 45, session kept, row note, trap window), the knob's integer
rule, worktree_prepare's pass-through.
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subscriber-up and stall-watch answered only by exit code, so a call that
could not run (module error rc 1, missing interpreter 127) read as "no":
with a subscriber that had ended 0, the error path mapped 0 to completed
and the submit ended with 0; a failed stall-watch silently skipped the
watcher.
Both now take --print: the answer is printed as yes/no and the exit code
is 0 for either. The wrapper asks with --print through _decided_yes, so a
nonzero exit, no answer or anything else is _decision_failed (ERROR line,
exit 1). Without --print the rc contract is unchanged (yes 0, no 1).
Tests: subscriber-up (direct and loop/discuss call sites) and stall-watch,
each failing by traceback, rc 127 or no answer with a subscriber that
ended 0, end the submit with 1 and the ERROR line - at 8241bd5 eight of the
nine ended with 0 (the loop/no-answer one ended with 1 through the loop's
own result and failed only on the ERROR line); yes and no keep their
branches in both paths; --print unit table; the static guard forbids an
rc-read yes/no decision.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGpJXhSZasJLU38ksDghe
"Stdlib only" is true of the module, not of how the wrapper runs it:
`python -m lib_py.delegation.wrapper` imports lib_py/delegation/__init__.py
first, which loads the service and paho-mqtt. The docstring now says so; the
wrapper's $PY already needs paho. The run path is unchanged.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGpJXhSZasJLU38ksDghe
codex, PR #51 round 1. wrapper._sleep computed the span and the remainder
with time.time(). The broker re-observation (up to 3 s) and the disk-heartbeat
grace (1 s) use it, so a wall clock stepped back during the wait stretched it
by the step: on a mocked clock stepped back 10 s, an already completed job was
seen after 11 s / 13 s instead of 1 s / 3 s. The old bash ran `sleep 1` /
`sleep "$left"`, which do not follow the wall clock.
_sleep now measures on time.monotonic(). The deadline (START_TIME + TIMEOUT),
the evidence window and event timestamps stay on the wall clock (_now), as in
the bash.
test_u_a_wait_is_not_stretched_by_a_wall_clock_step_back (1 s, 3 s) swaps the
module's time for a clock stepped back 10 s during the first sleep; on the
previous code it measures 11.0 / 13.0 and fails. The comparison test and the
finalize-related behaviour tests (issue33, issue18, issue14) on macOS /
Python 3.9: 321 passed.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
kill(pid, 0) succeeds for a zombie. A caller that captures the wrapper's
output and calls communicate() after TERM leaves the wrapper unreaped while
the finalizer holds its pipes, so the owner check passed until the deadline
and the job was still closed (codex, round 2; reproduced with the real
registry). _alive now asks `ps -o stat=` (POSIX, no /proc) once kill(0)
succeeds and treats state Z as gone, as tests/conftest.py::_pid_alive does;
no ps answer keeps kill(0)'s verdict. The owner is looked at every 0.5 s.
Tests: TERM + communicate() with no wait() for both graces (stand-ins) and
for the timeout grace with the real registry, old vs new; a zombie is not
alive. All four fail on c5cebe6.
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finalize-end ran the disk grace and the broker re-observation as a child
of the wrapper; TERM to the wrapper left it running, and at the deadline it
still closed the job and published the error (codex R1, reproduced with the
real registry). The bash loops it replaced ended with the wrapper.
The wrapper now passes its own pid (--watch-pid "$$", as for the stall
watcher). finalize-end checks it every 0.2 s through both waits and before
the close and the event, and leaves without either once it is gone.
A comparison test sends TERM to the old and the new wrapper inside each
grace: both exit at once, leave no process behind and make no call.
Also: no blank line at the end of the old-decisions fixture, and the #42
inventory follows main() one line down.
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The wrapper keeps spawn / wait / kill, key injection and the herdr
diagnostic probe; what it decided in bash is now lib_py/delegation/wrapper.py,
reached through one `_decide` helper:
- finalize_unfinished: the clock choice, the disk grace and broker
re-observation, the close request / label, the close and the event
(finalize-begin / finalize-end; bash runs only the busy probe between them)
- start_stall_watch: whether to watch (MAM_STALL_WATCH, remote, human)
- _map_sub_rc, _rc_for (+ MAM_DELEGATE_FAIL_CLOSED), the subscriber
early-exit check and cmd_wait's rc normalisation
- mam_int / mam_int_knob run lib_py/ints.py, which is also the runner's
_positive_int: one implementation of the Issue #26 rule
No behaviour change: tests/test_issue17_item4_decisions.py runs the old
bash functions (copied verbatim from 7209750) and the new wrapper on the
same inputs and compares output, FINAL_JOB_STATUS and the registry /
publish calls. Three static tests that pinned the old bash literals now
pin the Python entry points instead.
Refs #17
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