The merge_jobs cleanup encoded the server's pid in the CRDT and checked
`kill(pid, 0)` to decide whether a "running" entry was stale. Two problems:
1. The cleanup runs *inside* the server, so checking whether the
server's own pid is alive is tautological — kill(self_pid, 0)
always succeeds.
2. `rebuild_and_restart` does an `execve()` re-exec, which keeps the
same pid. After re-exec, merge_jobs from the previous server
instance still encode "the current pid" — so the cleanup never
fires, and stories like 799/800 sit forever with status="running"
while no actual merge runs.
Switch to a per-process server-start-time captured lazily in a
`OnceLock<f64>` (reset by execve, so the new instance sees a fresh
boot-time). A merge_job's recorded start-time < current boot-time means
it came from a previous instance: stale, delete it.
Legacy pid-encoded entries decode to None and are also treated as stale.
MergeJob.pid → MergeJob.server_start_time. Tests updated.
claude CLI 2.1.97 strictly enforces that --include-partial-messages
requires --print/-p to be set. The resume path skipped -p when the
prompt was empty (which is the common case on respawns when there's
no fresh failure context to inject), so the spawned claude process
saw `--resume <sid> ... --include-partial-messages` without -p and
exited with code 1: "include-partial-messages requires --print and
--output-format=stream-json".
Net effect: every coder respawn with prior_sessions > 0 and empty
prompt was failing immediately, looking exactly like a rate-limit
(empty agent log, zero tool calls). 819 hit retry-limit (4/3) and
got marked blocked because of this — not because of any actual code
or rate-limit issue.
Fix: always pass `-p <prompt>` on resume, even with empty prompt.
server/src/agents/pool/lifecycle.rs and server/src/chat/transport/matrix/notifications.rs were untracked leftovers from an abandoned WIP stash that 'git add -A' picked up. Neither is declared as a mod anywhere — they're dangling code that doesn't get compiled but pollutes the tree.
The 13-file refactor pass (commits db00a5d4 through eca15b4e) introduced
~89 clippy errors and 38 cargo fmt issues — every agent in every worktree
hit them on script/test, burning their turn budget on cleanup before doing
real story work. This is the silent kill behind 644, 652, 655, 664, 667
all hitting watchdog limits this round.
Changes:
- cargo fmt --all across 37 files (formatting normalisation only)
- #![allow(unused_imports, dead_code)] on 24 split modules where the
python-script splitter imported liberally to be safe; tighter cleanup
per-import will happen as agents touch each module
- Removed truly-dead re-exports (cleanup_merge_workspace, slog_warn from
http/mcp/mod.rs, CliArgs/print_help from main.rs)
- Prefixed _auth_msg in crdt_sync/server.rs (handshake helper return is
bound but not consumed)
- Converted dangling /// doc block in crdt_sync/mod.rs to //! so it
attaches to the module
- Removed empty lines after doc comments in 4 spots (clippy lint)
All 2636 tests pass; clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
The biggest miss is #[tokio::main] — without it, async fn main() doesn't compile,
and the binary in every worktree fails 'cargo check'. Agents in those worktrees
burn their turn budgets trying to fix the build before they can do real work, then
get killed by the watchdog. That's why all three in-flight stories failed.
Other restored attributes:
- #[cfg(unix)] on 4 tests in merge/squash and scaffold (skip on non-Unix)
- #[allow(dead_code)] on AuthListenerResult test enum
- #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] on run_pty_session
Same root cause as the earlier #[test] attribute losses: my line ranges started
at the fn line, missing the leading attribute on the previous line.
The 1630-line start.rs is split into a sub-module directory:
- validation.rs: validate_agent_stage + read_front_matter_agent helpers (69 lines)
- spawn.rs: run_agent_spawn — the background async work that was inlined as
a tokio::spawn closure body inside start_agent (359 lines)
- mod.rs: AgentPool::start_agent orchestrator + tests (1062 lines)
Stage validation and front-matter agent reading are pre-lock pure helpers that
naturally extract. The spawn closure body becomes a free async fn that takes
the previously-cloned values as parameters; rebound to the original _clone /
_owned names at the top of the body so the actual work code is a verbatim copy.
No behaviour change. All 23 start tests pass; full suite green.
The 1353-line advance.rs is split into:
- mod.rs: impl AgentPool with run_pipeline_advance + start_mergemaster_or_block + tests (1244 lines)
- helpers.rs: spawn_pipeline_advance, resolve_qa_mode_from_store, write_review_hold_to_store, should_block_story (128 lines)
Tests stay co-located with run_pipeline_advance which they exercise.
No behaviour change. All 10 advance tests pass; full suite green.
The auto-resolver kept both sides of the conflict — feature's
_project_root signature with master's filesystem code referencing
project_root — producing a compile error. Remove the filesystem
fallback on master so there's no conflict. CRDT is the only source
of truth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
cargo fmt without --all fails with "Failed to find targets" in
workspace repos. This was blocking every story's gates. Also ran
cargo fmt --all to fix all existing formatting issues.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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