---
name: multi-agent-mux-stop
description: "Stop an agent herdr session (claude, antigravity/agy) and update .mam/agent-sessions.yaml. Default stops gracefully and marks status=stopped with conversation preserved for resume. Does NOT delete on-disk conversation artifacts (jsonl/db) — those are preserved unless --purge-conversation is passed. Use when ending a work session, switching to a different one, or cleaning up before a fresh start."
version: 4.8.8
author: godopu
license: MIT
platforms: [linux, macos]
environments: [terminal, herdr]
metadata:
  hermes:
    tags: [agent, herdr, claude, antigravity, agy, multi-agent, stop, terminate, cleanup]
    related_skills: [multi-agent-mux-create, multi-agent-mux-resume, multi-agent-mux-monitor]
    prereq_skills: [multi-agent-mux-create, multi-agent-mux-resume]
---

# Multi-Agent Stop — Stop an Agent herdr Session

> **Companion skills**: `multi-agent-mux-create` (start), `multi-agent-mux-resume` (re-attach), `multi-agent-mux-monitor` (live status).
> **Herdr Isolation**: `stop` 명령은 YAML의 `herdr_session` 필드를 자동으로 파싱하여 해당 격리 서버의 세션을 안전하게 종료(kill)하므로, `HERDR_SESSION_NAME` 환경변수를 수동으로 지정할 필요가 없습니다. (`--herdr-workspace`는 CLI 대칭성을 위해 파서에서 허용되지만 소켓 라우팅에는 영향을 주지 않습니다.)
> **Single source of truth**: `./.mam/agent-sessions.yaml`.

## What this skill does

Stop an agent's herdr session gracefully, resolve and store the conversation ID, and **mark the YAML entry (status=stopped)**. Preserves:

- The herdr session's recorded `pane.pid / cmd / cwd / mcp_attachments` for audit
- The agent's on-disk conversation (claude `*.jsonl`, agy `conversations/*.db`) — so the user can `multi-agent-mux-resume` later
- The `start_command` so a future `multi-agent-mux-create --session <name>` reproduces the same herdr spec

The stop command is always **graceful by default**:
1. Sends exit keys to the agent TUI (`/exit` for Claude, `/exit` for Agy) and waits 3 seconds.
2. If still alive, issues `herdr kill-session` (SIGTERM) and waits 5 seconds.
3. If still alive, kills the pane PID via SIGKILL (`kill -9`) as a last resort.
4. Auto-captures the conversation ID into the row (`claude_session_id_own`/`agy_conversation_id_own`) before killing, ensuring the next resume uses a race-free tier-1 lookup.

## Pre-flight

`stop_session.sh` checks this itself: the YAML exists and the session is registered (otherwise exit 1), and a session already `stopped` is a no-op (exit 0).

## Workflow

```bash
# 1. Stop gracefully (default — captures ID, shuts down safely, status=stopped)
bash .agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-stop/scripts/stop_session.sh \
  --session "$SESSION_NAME" --agent "$AGENT"

# 2. Stop gracefully + record a custom stop reason
bash .agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-stop/scripts/stop_session.sh \
  --session "$SESSION_NAME" --agent "$AGENT" --reason api_error

# 3. Stop gracefully + clean up on-disk conversation (DANGEROUS)
#    — this prevents any future resume (status=terminated, resumable=false).
bash .agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-stop/scripts/stop_session.sh \
  --session "$SESSION_NAME" --agent "$AGENT" --purge-conversation --yes
```

`--purge-conversation` cannot be undone. Pass `--yes` only after the user has confirmed it.

| Exit | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0 | Stopped; or already `stopped` (no-op, except with `--purge-conversation`, which still purges) |
| 1 | From the checks before the stop, nothing was changed: YAML not found, or the session is not registered. **The registry update after the stop also exits 1** (the row disappeared from the YAML during the run) |
| 2 | Bad arguments (including the retired `--mode` / `--capture-id` / `--graceful`), or `--agent` omitted and not resolvable |
| 3 | `--purge-conversation` without `--yes` |
| 4 | Purge aborted: the herdr session survived the kill chain |
| other | The registry update after the stop (YAML / DB write) failed and its code is passed through |

Exits 2 and 3, and exit 1 from the pre-stop checks, come before anything is stopped, so nothing was changed. On exit 1 from the registry update, or an `other` exit, the session may already be down while its row still says `running`: check with `multi-agent-mux-status`, then run the stop again (it is idempotent).

**Idempotency**: if the row is already `status: stopped`, the script prints `already stopped (...)` and exits 0 — re-running is a safe no-op.

**`--agent` is the standard.** Pass it on every invocation. If omitted, the script
resolves the agent from the registry record — the row's `agent` field, then the
session-name suffix, then `pane.cmd` — and exits 2 if none of the three resolve.
The fallback exists for recovery, not as the normal calling convention: a session
whose name carries no agent suffix (e.g. `agy-creator-01`) is only resolvable
while its registry row survives.

### State machine

```
running ──(stop default / --reason)────────► stopped      (resumable:true, conv preserved)
running ──(stop --purge-conversation --yes)► terminated   (resumable:false, conv deleted)
stopped ──(stop default … again)───────────► stopped      (idempotent no-op)
```

Fields written in STOP mode: `status: stopped`, `stopped_at`, `stopped_at_epoch`, `stop_reason`, `termination_mode: graceful`, `claude_session_id_own`/`agy_conversation_id_own` and `resumable: true`.

If `--purge-conversation` is used: `status: terminated`, `terminated_at`, `terminated_at_epoch`, `termination_mode: purge` and `resumable: false`.

The script:
1. Verifies the session is in agent-sessions.yaml
2. If `delegate_job_id` is set, automatically publishes a `progress --detail "terminating"` event to the multi-agent-mux-delegate-job registry
3. Captures the `last_visible_status` from `herdr capture-pane` (so we have a final TUI snapshot for audit)
4. Attempts graceful exit keys → SIGTERM kill-session → SIGKILL fallback
5. For `purge-conversation`: deletes `~/.claude/projects/.../jsonl` (claude) or, for agy, `~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/conversations/<uuid>.db` with its `-wal`/`-shm`/`-journal` sidecars, `brain/<uuid>/`, `annotations/<uuid>.pbtxt` and `presence/<uuid>.lock` (the lock only once no live process references the conversation — Issue #10)
6. Updates the YAML entry and SQLite database atomically
7. If `delegate_job_id` is set, publishes a `completed` event to the multi-agent-mux-delegate-job registry

## Removing an issue worktree: `worktree_remove.sh` (Issue #21 item 4)

```bash
bash .agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-stop/scripts/worktree_remove.sh --path <WT> [--stop] [--dry-run]
```

Every check runs first and changes nothing; a refusal exits 3:

1. a linked worktree of the control root, not locked (`git worktree unlock` first - git refuses even `--force` on a locked one);
2. running sessions under it only with `--stop` (stopped normally, conversations kept);
3. no open job of those sessions - never cancelled automatically, they may belong to a running loop (the delegate job of a session `--stop` stops is cancelled by stop itself);
4. a clean tree, submodules included (`status --porcelain --untracked-files=all --ignore-submodules=none` - a `status.showUntrackedFiles=no` setting cannot hide a file from a check that decides a forced removal);
5. inside submodules: no modification, no commit reachable from `HEAD` or any local ref that is on no remote (a submodule sits on a detached HEAD; a commit kept only by a tag or a note is protected too) and no stash (`refs/stash` is reachable from no branch and leaves the status clean) - checked in every repository under the worktree's `modules/`, including deinitialised submodules (their repository stays there) and nested ones; a repository that cannot be checked refuses.

Then it stops the sessions, re-checks the jobs, runs checks 4 and 5 **again** (a session that is being stopped can still write, commit or stash - any change refuses with exit 3, sessions already stopped) and removes the worktree (the branch is kept): plain, or - when the worktree holds submodule state, which git refuses to remove otherwise - a **single `--force` justified by checks 4 and 5**. Do not run `git worktree remove --force` by hand on such a worktree: it deletes the worktree's own submodule repositories, unpushed commits included.

Exit codes: 0 removed, 1 stop/git failure, 2 not a worktree of the control root, 3 refused (nothing changed). Sessions created in a removed worktree cannot be resumed until a worktree exists at that path again.

## Pitfalls

- **Don't delete on-disk artifacts by default** — the agent's `*.jsonl` / `conversations/*.db` is the data that `multi-agent-mux-resume` needs. `--purge-conversation` is for when the user is genuinely done with the conversation and wants zero recovery chance.
- **YAML is append-only until you write a stop** — if a previous run left the entry as `running` but herdr is actually dead (crash, host reboot), the YAML is stale. Running `multi-agent-mux-stop` will detect "herdr already dead, just update YAML" and proceed.
- **Don't delete the `claude_session_id_own: null` placeholder** — when the user creates a fresh session with `multi-agent-mux-create` and never sent a message, the entry has `claude_session_id_own: null`. Stopping must preserve that field.
- **Monitor skill may still be tracking** — if `multi-agent-mux-monitor` is running a heartbeat loop, stopping a session while it watches will trigger its `herdr ls != yaml` reconciliation. That's expected — let the monitor run, it will mark the entry as `terminated` on its own.

## Verification

```bash
# 1. herdr gone (real native command — `herdr has-session` is a lib.sh
#    tmux-compat pseudo-command and needs `source .agents/skills/lib.sh` first)
herdr agent get "$SESSION_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "STILL ALIVE" || echo "OK: herdr gone"

# 2. YAML has stopped entry
python3 -c "
import yaml
d = yaml.safe_load(open('$AGENT_SESSIONS_YAML'))
s = [x for x in d['herdr_sessions'] if x['name']=='$SESSION_NAME'][0]
assert s['status'] == 'stopped', f'expected stopped, got {s[\"status\"]}'
assert s.get('stopped_at'), 'missing stopped_at'
print(f'OK: stopped at {s[\"stopped_at\"]}')
print(f'  preserved: pane.pid={s[\"pane\"][\"pid\"]}, cmd={s[\"pane\"][\"cmd\"]}, cwd={s[\"pane\"][\"cwd\"]}')
"

# 3. (if --purge-conversation) disk artifacts gone
[ -f "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/projects}/<projkey>/<uuid>.jsonl" ] && echo "WARN: jsonl still exists" || echo "OK: jsonl purged"
```

## When NOT to use this skill

- **Just detaching** → there's no `herdr detach` CLI command; press the herdr detach keybinding inside the pane, or just close the terminal. The herdr session keeps running.
- **Stopping the agent inside but keeping herdr** → send `Ctrl-C` or `/exit` (claude) / `Ctrl-D` (agy) via `herdr agent send <target> <text>` (real native command; `herdr send-keys` is a lib.sh tmux-compat pseudo-command that needs `source .agents/skills/lib.sh` first). The herdr session stays but the agent process is gone.
- **Replacing an existing session with a new one** → `multi-agent-mux-stop` first, then `multi-agent-mux-create`.