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Summary

  • centralize process-group setup, tree cancellation, and the existing bounded WaitDelay for context-bound commands
  • apply the lifecycle hardening to every audited command in verify, agent evaluation, perf benchmarks, hooks, and dictation
  • let os/exec own perf benchmark output copying so WaitDelay can bound inherited-pipe cleanup
  • add a regression that leaves a grandchild holding stdout and verifies cancellation returns promptly

The regression timed out after 8 seconds on unmodified main; it returns within the bounded interval with this change.

Fixes #966

Verification

  • go test -race ./internal/execution ./internal/agenteval ./internal/dictation ./internal/hooks ./internal/perfbench ./internal/verify -count=1
  • make fmt-check
  • go build ./...
  • go vet ./...
  • go test ./...
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release build
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke
  • make lint-static
  • make vulncheck
  • git diff HEAD --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added browser tool details and safer, presentation-friendly titles to tool call updates.
    • Preserved model and reasoning settings when resuming specialist tasks.
    • Improved browser command and URL validation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved command execution reliability and cleanup across agent runs, verification, hooks, transcription, and performance benchmarks.
    • Ensured process trees terminate when commands are canceled, time out, or finish unexpectedly.
    • Improved handling of command exit statuses and prevented context or output-cleanup failures from being reported as successful runs.
  • Tests

    • Expanded cross-platform coverage for process termination, cancellation, timeouts, browser metadata, and resume behavior.

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Walkthrough

RunCommand centralizes context-aware command execution, process-tree termination, wait delays, and error joining. Runtime command paths now use it. ACP browser metadata and specialist model propagation were also added.

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Process timeout hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared command execution and process trees
internal/execution/command_context.go, internal/execution/command_tree_*, internal/execution/exit_error.go, internal/execution/runner.go
RunCommand manages cancellation, wait delays, process-tree cleanup, and joined errors. Unix uses process groups. Windows requires successful job assignment.
Runtime command adoption
internal/agenteval/*, internal/dictation/runner.go, internal/hooks/dispatch.go, internal/perfbench/*, internal/verify/verify.go
Command paths use execution.RunCommand. Output capture uses explicit buffers. Benchmark runners reject non-reconcilable command errors before processing run_end.
Process cleanup regression coverage
internal/execution/*_test.go, internal/hooks/*_test.go, internal/verify/*_test.go, internal/perfbench/*_test.go
Tests verify bounded cancellation, descendant cleanup, platform-specific process handling, output cleanup errors, and context failures.

ACP browser metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Browser metadata and safe titles
internal/acp/types.go, internal/acp/translate.go, internal/acp/permission.go, internal/tools/local_browser.go
ACP updates carry versioned browser descriptors. Browser titles omit sensitive URL data and reject unsafe presentation characters.
Browser metadata tests
internal/acp/*_test.go
Tests cover serialization, title safety, secret exclusion, Unicode controls, and similarly named MCP tools.

Specialist model propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resume argument propagation and validation
internal/specialist/exec.go, internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go
Resumed specialists preserve pinned model settings or inherit parent model and reasoning-effort settings. Tests cover resume and fresh dispatch paths.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 109c3

The reviewed command lifecycle changes have no remaining actionable merge-blocking risk.

Suggested reviewers: jatmn, anandh8x

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request includes unrelated changes for ACP browser metadata, specialist resume model inheritance, and local browser argument normalization. These changes do not support the process cleanup ob… Remove the unrelated ACP, specialist, and local browser changes, or link the pull request to issues that explicitly require them. Keep the process-tree cleanup implementation and related tests in this pull request.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 26.79% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 112 functions across 40 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: bounded cleanup for context-bound processes.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #966 by centralizing context-bound command execution, process-tree termination, bounded WaitDelay cleanup, exit-error handling, and regression coverage across the affected pa…
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The pull request includes unrelated changes for ACP browser metadata, specialist resume model inheritance, and local browser argument normalization. These changes do not support the process cleanup objectives in issue #966.

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In `@internal/execution/command_context.go`:
- Around line 14-20: Update HardenCommandContext and the command.Cancel path to
retain and use the process-group or job identity established by
ConfigureProcessGroup at launch, instead of recomputing it via KillProcessTree
after the root process exits. Ensure cancellation still terminates descendants
and WaitDelay does not return while their output pipes remain open, and add
regression coverage for root-exits-before-cancellation on Darwin and Windows.

In `@internal/hooks/dispatch_test.go`:
- Around line 45-60: Update
TestExecCommandRunnerTimeoutKillsGrandchildHoldingOutput to run
execCommandRunner asynchronously and select between its result and a four-second
watchdog timer. Fail immediately with a clear timeout message if the timer
fires; otherwise continue the existing result assertions and elapsed-time
validation.
- Around line 29-62: Update
TestExecCommandRunnerTimeoutKillsGrandchildHoldingOutput to assert that the
ZERO_HOOK_TREE_HELPER=grandchild process has terminated after execCommandRunner
returns, rather than only checking elapsed time and the result error. Track or
identify the spawned grandchild and add a liveness check after cancellation
while preserving the existing timeout and failure assertions.

In `@internal/perfbench/taskbench.go`:
- Line 333: Handle errors.Is(runErr, exec.ErrWaitDelay) before trusting run_end
in the task runner at internal/perfbench/taskbench.go:349 and turn runner at
internal/perfbench/turn_bench.go:673; ensure this error cannot be bypassed when
run_end is zero, and add a regression test using an inherited output pipe that
remains open.

In `@internal/verify/verify.go`:
- Line 303: Add a regression test covering the defaultRunner path selected by
Run, using a grandchild process that keeps stdout or stderr open; assert that
execution returns after the configured timeout, while preserving the existing
execCommandRunner hook test coverage.
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In `@internal/execution/command_context.go`:
- Around line 27-34: Update RunCommand and the Windows process-tree
implementation so the Windows job is associated with the command at process
creation time, or start the command suspended, attach it via tree.attach before
resuming, and preserve cleanup on startup failure. Add a Windows regression test
that creates a descendant before normal attachment and verifies tree.cancel or
tree.close removes that child.

In `@internal/execution/command_tree_unix.go`:
- Line 41: Update the Unix commandTree close method so deferred close releases
no process-group state and does not call cancel; retain process-group
termination exclusively in the context-cancellation path.

In `@internal/hooks/dispatch_test.go`:
- Line 50: Update the timeout setup in the test around execCommandRunner so
helper startup has a larger deadline, allowing pidFile creation under load,
while retaining the existing four-second watchdog for descendant cleanup.
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Reviewed exact head 23fbbe1d00eb01961e4ebc605ca895f3a5c61445 against merge base 27b319ca88a3180bed5183f0c599e9307f3ece12.

Third-party integration gate: clear. This PR adds no dependency, SDK, service, provider, plugin, vendored code, remote artifact, or runtime protocol; it uses the repository's existing Go and x/sys/windows OS primitives.

Verdict: CHANGES_REQUESTED

[Medium] Do not kill successful commands' detached children only on Windows

Location: internal/execution/command_tree_windows.go:26-28,71 (triggered by the unconditional deferred tree.close() in internal/execution/command_context.go:23)

The Windows tree sets JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE, then RunCommand closes its only job handle on every return, including a successful root exit with no context cancellation. Microsoft documents that closing the last handle with this flag terminates every process associated with the job: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns-winnt-jobobject_basic_limit_information#members

Therefore a migrated command—most notably an arbitrary user-configured hook—that intentionally starts a detached background child, redirects/closes its captured output handles, and exits zero will have that child terminated when RunCommand returns on Windows. The same successful command keeps the child alive on Unix because commandTree.close is deliberately a no-op there. The base cmd.Run behavior also did not kill successful descendants. Issue #966 requires tree termination on deadline/cancellation; it does not authorize this Windows-only successful-exit semantic change.

Please keep the Job Object handle for cancellation identity without making ordinary close destructive: terminate the job explicitly from cancel, and let a successful close release the handle without killing associated processes. Add a Windows regression where the root exits successfully after spawning a detached/output-redirected child, assert RunCommand returns without terminating that child, then clean it up in the test. Keep the existing cancellation case proving that a timed-out tree is terminated. If the intended product policy is instead “all descendants die when the root exits successfully,” apply and document that policy consistently on Unix too.

Verification

  • Independent base/head regression through the real hook runner: base remained blocked past 1.5s; head returned in about 150ms and terminated the pipe-holding grandchild.
  • Focused race suite across execution, agenteval, dictation, hooks, perfbench, and verify: pass.
  • Focused go vet and make fmt-check: pass.
  • Linux and Windows test binaries for all six affected packages: compile.
  • git diff --check: clean.
  • Exact-head GitHub CI, including Linux/macOS/Windows smoke and security/code-health: green.
  • Earlier CodeRabbit lifecycle findings were inspected and are addressed by the current head.

The cancellation fix is effective; the requested change is to preserve normal successful-exit behavior consistently across platforms.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

  • [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge

    The branch merge base is 27b319c, while the captured main head is 1b5db17 (two commits ahead). GitHub currently reports the PR as mergeable and the intervening TUI/MCP changes do not overlap this diff, but the repository contribution rules require a fresh base before review.

Findings

  • [P1] Do not make Job Object assignment a prerequisite for every Windows command
    internal/execution/command_tree_windows.go:37

    prepareCommandTree adds CREATE_SUSPENDED, so the child cannot execute until attach resumes it. But attach returns any OpenProcess or AssignProcessToJobObject failure, and RunCommand responds by killing and waiting for that still-suspended child. Windows can reject Job Object assignment for processes already in a non-compatible Job Object hierarchy or one with UI restrictions. In that environment, every migrated command fails before it runs—hooks, verification, evals, benchmarks, and dictation—not merely its cancellation cleanup.

    Please address the underlying lifecycle split: Job Object containment is valuable when it can be established at launch, but command execution must not depend on that optional capability. Preserve launch-time containment and complete-tree cancellation when setup succeeds; when setup cannot be used, ensure the command is resumed and use a retained, identity-safe fallback for best-effort cancellation. internal/config/process_windows.go already models this distinction. Add a Windows regression that forces the setup-failure branch and verifies both that the command runs and that the fallback does not target a reused PID.

  • [P1] Terminate the retained tree when WaitDelay expires
    internal/execution/command_context.go:50

    WaitDelay only bounds os/exec's wait for copied-output pipes: when the root exits but a background descendant keeps stdout or stderr open, command.Wait() closes its pipe and returns exec.ErrWaitDelay. The supplied context is still live, so RunCommand selects waitComplete and returns without calling tree.cancel. Its retained process-group/Job Object identity is therefore discarded while the descendant continues running; cancellation after RunCommand returns cannot reach it. The task and turn perfbench regressions construct this inherited-pipe shape but assert only that run_end cannot turn the error into a pass, so they miss the process leak.

    Please make tree cleanup cover every abnormal completion path, not only ctx.Done(): before returning a wait-delay cleanup error, terminate the retained tree and preserve the error to the caller. Add a regression with a live context, a root that exits successfully, and a recorded descendant holding captured output; it should assert bounded return, ErrWaitDelay classification, and that the descendant is gone. Keep the separate successful-detached-child behavior intact when the child has closed or redirected the captured descriptors.

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In `@internal/execution/command_tree_windows.go`:
- Around line 91-93: The cancellation path around tree.cancel must not return
success when job assignment failed and the root process has already exited while
Wait remains blocked; terminate the process tree while the root is still live,
or fail setup before resuming if containment cannot be established. Preserve
successful cleanup semantics and add a Windows regression test covering forced
assignment failure with a surviving descendant.
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Findings

  • [P1] Clean up fallback descendants after the root exits — internal/execution/command_tree_windows.go:91

    The new Windows lifecycle deliberately treats Job Object setup as optional: attach resumes a command even when AssignProcessToJobObject fails, leaving contained false. That supports constrained hosts, but the fallback still needs to satisfy the approved issue's complete-tree cleanup contract.

    In this fallback, a root can start a child that inherits captured stdout or stderr and then exit. os/exec waits for that inherited pipe to close and returns exec.ErrWaitDelay; only after this does RunCommand call tree.cancel. The fallback finds the retained root handle is no longer STILL_ACTIVE and returns without taskkill, so it has no remaining tree identity and the child continues running. The caller gets a bounded-return error while the child may still own hook, verification, agent, file, or other external work.

    Please address the root cause rather than only changing the returned error: optional Job containment currently loses its ability to identify and terminate the tree once the root exits. Preserve successful detached-child semantics and PID-reuse safety, but establish a safe cleanup capability before descendants can escape—or fail before resuming a command for which that guarantee cannot be made. Add a Windows regression that forces assignment failure, has the root exit after creating a pipe-holding descendant, verifies bounded ErrWaitDelay return, and asserts the descendant exits.

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I found three issues that should be addressed before this is ready. They are related: the PR centralizes command execution, but lifecycle ownership is still split between exec.Cmd, commandTree, a context-watcher goroutine, result-parsing callers, and the tests. That makes it difficult to tell which component still owns the process tree, which errors are transport/lifecycle failures versus normal command results, and who performs cleanup if the behavior under test fails.

Overall guidance

Please address the lifecycle contract as a whole rather than patching only the observed branches:

  1. A platform containment identity should be acquired before the child can escape containment, remain valid through the last possible cancel/cleanup operation, and be released exactly once afterward.
  2. Root exit, output-pipe draining, context cancellation, descendant termination, and containment release need an explicit ordering. No goroutine should be able to signal the tree after its identity has been released, and concurrent cleanup paths should be idempotent.
  3. Callers need to distinguish a normal child exit (*exec.ExitError, whose semantic result may be represented by run_end) from context cancellation, ErrWaitDelay, startup/attachment failures, and tree-cleanup failures. A parsed success event must not erase a lifecycle failure.
  4. Subprocess tests need a cleanup owner independent of the production behavior they are testing, so a regression cannot strand helpers or hang the suite.

The existing Unix provider-command runner in internal/config/process_posix.go is useful precedent for the ownership invariant: it retains a live process-group anchor until termination is complete and only then closes the anchor. Reusing or generalizing that approach is one option, but the required outcome is safe identity lifetime and ordered cleanup—not a particular implementation or a broader process-management rewrite. Preserve the intended behavior already established by this PR and neighboring code: kill leftover descendants after cancellation, ErrWaitDelay, or a nonzero root exit; allow a successfully exited command's redirected child to continue; keep Windows fail-before-resume containment; and do not expand this PR into containing descendants that deliberately call setsid/setpgid.

Findings

[P2] Keep Unix process-group identity owned until cleanup finishes

internal/execution/command_context.go:50

On Unix, commandTree stores only the root's numeric PID and cancel later calls syscall.Kill(-tree.pid, SIGKILL). The non-cancellation path currently does the following:

  1. command.Wait() returns after reaping the root.
  2. The context watcher is joined.
  3. Any non-nil wait result—including an ordinary nonzero leaf exit—calls tree.cancel().
  4. commandTree.close() is a no-op, so there is no separate identity-bearing resource governing when the numeric group ID remains valid.

If descendants are still in the group, their membership keeps the group alive and the signal reaches the intended tree. The unsafe case is a failing leaf with no surviving group member: once the leader is reaped, that group no longer exists, and the numeric PID/PGID can be reused before the negative-PID signal. Under PID pressure, cleanup can therefore target an unrelated process group instead of returning ESRCH. The watcher has a companion edge because ctx.Done() and waitComplete may become ready together; it can select cancellation and signal across the same final-reap boundary.

This identity concern is already recognized in internal/config/process_posix.go:17-19, which explains that a provider shell's PID cannot safely identify the group after Wait and retains a live anchor for that reason. The issue is not that the new helper kills descendants after a nonzero exit—that behavior is explicitly required by internal/config/command.go and its regression test. The issue is that the new helper attempts that cleanup without retaining an identity through the signal.

Please make the tree object own a valid containment identity until every possible cancellation/cleanup path has finished, and serialize or otherwise make the wait/cancel/close transition idempotent. A live anchor like the existing config implementation, another identity-bearing OS primitive, or an equivalent ordering design can satisfy this; simply checking whether the numeric PID appears alive before signaling would preserve the check-to-use race.

Coverage should prove the lifecycle invariants rather than depend on winning real PID reuse: exercise an ordinary nonzero leaf, a nonzero root with a surviving descendant, cancellation racing root completion, and repeated/concurrent cleanup. The assertions should establish that the intended tree is signaled at most once before identity release, that leftover descendants are still terminated, and that the successful-detached-child behavior remains unchanged.

[P2] Reject canceled benchmark runs before trusting run_end

internal/perfbench/taskbench.go:341

Both NewExecRunner here and NewTurnExecRunner at internal/perfbench/turn_bench.go:674 special-case only exec.ErrWaitDelay. Every other RunCommand error is allowed to fall through to streamJSONExitCode, and a parsed run_end with exit code zero wins.

A concrete failure sequence is:

  1. The root writes {"type":"run_end","exitCode":0}.
  2. It leaves a descendant holding the captured stdout/stderr handles.
  3. The benchmark context expires while Wait is still draining those handles.
  4. RunCommand kills the tree and returns an error containing context.DeadlineExceeded.
  5. The task runner returns TaskOutcome{Passed: true, Err: nil}; the turn runner accepts the canceled latency sample and may continue into its oracle.

I reproduced that sequence on the exact PR head: the task outcome was passed while ctx.Err() was context.DeadlineExceeded. This path becomes observable because the PR correctly makes inherited-pipe cleanup bounded; before the migration, that execution remained stuck instead of reaching result accounting.

The root cause is a negative-list classification: callers reject one known cleanup sentinel and otherwise assume a terminal event can explain every process error. A terminal event can explain an ordinary process exit status, but it cannot make cancellation, a deadline, attachment/start failure, or tree-cleanup failure into a valid benchmark sample.

Please centralize a positive classification used by both benchmark runners. Context cancellation/deadline, ErrWaitDelay, and any non-exit lifecycle/cleanup error must produce a harness error before pass/oracle accounting. Only an ordinary child exit error should be eligible for reconciliation with run_end; if errors remain joined, ensure the presence of an *exec.ExitError does not hide an additional cleanup failure. A structured RunCommand result or a focused classifier are both reasonable ways to make that distinction explicit.

Add task and turn regressions for run_end:0 plus deadline/cancel, alongside the existing ErrWaitDelay case. Keep tests for the intended exceptions so the fix does not drift: a normal nonzero run_end remains a task failure rather than a harness error, and the turn runner's documented exit-4/oracle behavior remains intact.

[P3] Give subprocess regression fixtures independent cleanup ownership

internal/execution/command_context_test.go:17

The new execution, hook, and verify regressions launch helpers that sleep for 30 seconds, but their cleanup depends on the production process-tree behavior succeeding:

  • The execution tests do not register cleanup after creating the PID-file fixture. Any timeout, read/parse failure, or assertion before awaitProcessExit can leave the child alive.
  • The hook test's four-second watchdog calls t.Fatal before reading the PID file, which is exactly the path taken if execCommandRunner regresses and stops returning.
  • The verify fixture does not record the grandchild PID at all, so an early failure has no independent handle with which to clean it.

That makes failure diagnosis self-defeating: the tests intended to catch leaked descendants can themselves leak descendants, and the execution tests can remain blocked until the helper's sleep expires when the bounded-return behavior breaks. The leak is bounded today, which is why this is P3, but it still pollutes developer/CI hosts and can make later tests flaky.

Register best-effort, idempotent cleanup before invoking the behavior under test. The cleanup should retain or discover every launched helper's identity, terminate any helper still alive, and wait for exit; it should tolerate the process already having been cleaned by production code. Add a PID/control handoff to the verify fixture, and ensure the watchdog paths trigger cleanup rather than aborting before ownership is established. Do not implement the fallback by calling the same production tree-cleanup path under test, because then the regression and its safety net fail together.

Suggested completion checklist

  • Unix containment identity remains owned until the last signal is complete; cancel/wait/close races are idempotent and do not raw-signal a released identifier.
  • Leftover descendants are still killed for cancellation, ErrWaitDelay, and nonzero root exits, while the existing successful-detached-child case still passes.
  • Taskbench and turnbench reject deadline/cancellation and cleanup failures even when stdout contains run_end:0.
  • Ordinary exit-code semantics and the turn exit-4/oracle exception are unchanged.
  • Every new long-lived subprocess fixture has cleanup registered before a watchdog or assertion can abort, and that cleanup is independent of RunCommand correctness.
  • Focused execution, hooks, verify, and perfbench tests pass under -race on the supported platform matrix.

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Addressed the latest lifecycle review in 803e076.

  • Unix commandTree now retains a live process-group anchor until all cancel/cleanup work is complete. Cancellation and release are serialized and idempotent, so the group is signaled at most once before its identity is released. Successful redirected descendants remain untouched; cancellation, ErrWaitDelay, and nonzero exits still clean up leftovers.
  • Added execution.AsPureExitError and applied it across every semantic RunCommand consumer. Only ordinary exit errors can be reconciled with exit codes or run_end; cancellation, deadline, startup, attachment, output-drain, and cleanup errors cannot be hidden by a joined *exec.ExitError.
  • Hardened execution, hook, and verify subprocess regressions with independent cleanup ownership, bounded watchdogs, Windows retained process handles, and Unix per-fixture cooperative stop capabilities. Added coverage for nonzero roots with surviving descendants, cancellation/root-exit races, repeated/concurrent cleanup, and successful detached children.
  • Renamed the hook platform helper files to proper *_test.go names so test-only code no longer enters production builds.

Verification completed:

  • go test ./...
  • go vet ./...
  • affected packages repeatedly on Windows
  • affected packages under Linux/WSL with -race
  • Darwin/Linux cross-compilation
  • release build and smoke
  • static lint: 0 issues
  • govulncheck: no vulnerabilities
  • changed files are gofmt-clean and git diff HEAD --check passes

make fmt-check continues to report the pre-existing intentionally unformatted internal/perfbench/testdata fixtures; this commit does not modify those fixtures.

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I found one production lifecycle gap and one PR-owned check failure that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Overall guidance

The repeated review rounds are not evidence that this PR needs an ever-broader process-management redesign. They come from validating the same approved contract at progressively higher integration layers: first the platform containment primitive, then wait/cancel/error ordering, and now the actual production route that consumes it. The low-level RunCommand work is substantially hardened, but lifecycle ownership is not yet an invariant of captured command execution—some callers use the helper while another production path still calls Cmd.Run directly. That makes a helper-level regression green without proving that the application path named by #966 is protected.

The most direct way to close this out is:

  1. Define one invariant for context-bound captured execution: after sandbox preparation, exactly one component owns start, context cancellation, bounded output draining, abnormal tree cleanup, wait, and release of containment state.
  2. Make every production route covered by #966 reach that owner. For hooks, verify the configured execution.Runner route used by TUI, exec, and spec execution—not only the nil-runner fallback.
  3. Test the composition boundary as well as the helper. A low-level RunCommand test establishes the primitive; a dispatcher test with a non-nil execution runner establishes that production wiring cannot bypass it.
  4. Use explicit process/readiness handoffs in lifecycle tests. A wall-clock delay should be only an independent watchdog, not the mechanism that establishes that the intended state was reached.

This guidance is intentionally bounded. It does not ask this PR to contain descendants that deliberately escape with setsid/setpgid, revisit the resolved Unix identity or Windows Job Object design, kill successfully detached children that have closed/redirected captured handles, or replace the sandbox/execution architecture. Either routing the configured hook path through the existing lifecycle owner or moving equivalent ownership to the shared captured-execution seam can satisfy the remaining contract; the important result is that there is no production Cmd.Run bypass.

Merge readiness

  • [P2] Drive cancellation only after the benchmark helper reaches the tested state
    internal/perfbench/taskbench_test.go:370

    Both new RunEndCannotHideContextFailure tests create a one-second cancellation/deadline before invoking the runner. The assertion assumes the helper has already emitted run_end and written its ready file when that context fails, but no synchronization establishes that premise. On the current head, Windows Smoke took long enough to launch the helper that cancellation won first; taskbench_test.go:392 then failed because the ready file did not exist. The test therefore failed before reaching the run_end-versus-context reconciliation it is intended to verify. turn_bench_test.go:673-682 has the same ordering and latent failure.

    The root cause is that process startup timing is being used both to arrange the state under test and to detect a hang. Those are separate responsibilities. Please run the subject asynchronously, wait for an explicit handoff proving that run_end has been emitted and the helper is holding the process open, and only then trigger a controllable canceled/deadline context. Keep a separate, longer watchdog so a broken helper still fails boundedly. A controllable test context or equivalent synchronization seam can cover both context.Canceled and context.DeadlineExceeded without depending on Windows startup completing within one second. The test should continue to prove that context/lifecycle failure wins over run_end:0; this is not a request to weaken or skip the Windows case.

Findings

  • [P1] Put the configured hook route under the bounded lifecycle owner
    internal/hooks/dispatch.go:308

    The changed line hardens execCommandRunner, but that is only the fallback selected when DispatcherOptions.Execution is nil. The real application routes pass a runner:

    • the TUI constructs executionRunner, installs the sandbox preparer, and passes it through newHookDispatcherWithExtra;
    • zero exec does the same; and
    • spec execution passes execution.NewRunner(run.sandboxEngine).

    newHookDispatcherWithExtra forwards that runner as DispatcherOptions.Execution, so NewDispatcher selects executionCommandRunner, not the function changed here. executionCommandRunner calls Runner.ExecuteCaptured, and that method still ends at prepared.Command.Run() without RunCommand, WaitDelay, or retained-tree cleanup. sandbox.Engine.PrepareExecution returns an ordinary exec.CommandContext and does not add the missing lifecycle itself.

    The resulting failure is the exact behavior #966 asks this PR to fix: a configured hook can start a descendant that inherits captured stdout/stderr, let its root exit, and leave Wait blocked on those handles after the hook deadline. On the current head, exercising Runner.ExecuteCaptured with that shape remained blocked after the context deadline with the descendant alive; it returned only after the descendant was terminated independently. The new hook process regression does not catch this because it calls execCommandRunner directly, while the existing typed-runner test uses cat and never creates an inherited-pipe descendant.

    The root cause is not another missing timeout value; it is split lifecycle ownership. Sandbox preparation and captured-result interpretation live in Runner.ExecuteCaptured, while complete-tree execution was added only to selected callers. Increasing the hook timeout or adding another fallback-only test would leave the production bypass intact.

    Please ensure that the configured hook path executes the prepared command through the same bounded lifecycle contract. A minimal fix may explicitly route this path through the existing owner; a more central fix may make captured execution own the lifecycle after preparation. Whichever seam is chosen, preserve the sandbox-prepared command and cleanup/report callbacks, the capture-size limits, stdin handling, audit records, exit classification, and successful detached-child behavior. Add an end-to-end dispatcher regression with a non-nil execution runner/preparer whose root leaves a pipe-holding descendant, then assert all of the externally relevant outcomes: the deadline is reported, dispatch returns within the cleanup bound, the descendant is gone, and audit/output behavior remains intact.

Suggested completion checklist

  • TUI, zero exec, and spec hook construction can no longer reach a plain Cmd.Run lifecycle bypass.
  • A dispatcher regression with DispatcherOptions.Execution non-nil proves bounded return and descendant cleanup; the existing fallback regression remains green.
  • The task and turn benchmark regressions establish readiness before injecting cancellation/deadline and use an independent watchdog.
  • Windows Smoke passes on the exact updated head; Linux/macOS lifecycle tests and the focused race suite remain green.
  • Existing resolved semantics remain unchanged: ordinary exit-code reconciliation, sandbox reporting, successful redirected/detached children, and the explicit non-goal of containing deliberate setsid/setpgid escape.

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* feat(acp): surface safe browser tool metadata

* fix(acp): align browser permission titles

* fix(acp): namespace browser metadata

* fix(acp): reject unsafe browser title text
…itlawb#1009)

* fix(specialist): keep the pinned model when a specialist is resumed

Metadata.Model exists so a bounded, delegated task can run on a cheaper model
than its parent, and BuildArgs appends it to the child argv through
appendModelArgs. BuildResumeArgs never did.

So a specialist pinned to a cheap model ran on that model exactly once. The
moment the orchestrator resumed it, the child fell back to whatever the
parent's configured model resolved to. Nothing surfaced it: the resumed child
starts normally and does the work, so the only symptom is the bill.
Cost-motivated delegation quietly stopped saving anything.

Resuming does not restore the recorded model on its own. sessions.PrepareExec
records the model a run used but never feeds it back into provider
construction, so the flag has to be passed again rather than relied upon.

BuildResumeArgsInput now carries ParentModel and ParentReasoningEffort, the
same fallbacks the fresh path takes, and runResume passes what TaskRunOptions
already held. The reasoning-effort rule travels with the model unchanged: the
parent's effort is inherited only when the manifest pins no model of its own,
because a manifest that chose a different model has not agreed to the parent's
effort for it.

Regressions drive both builders and compare them, so the two paths cannot
drift again: a pinned model survives resume, an unpinned one still inherits the
parent's, both halves of the effort rule hold, and the flag keeps its position
relative to --auto in both.

Refs Gitlawb#554

* test(specialist): cover the resume call site, not just its builder

The builder tests all call BuildResumeArgs directly, so dropping the
ParentModel field from the runResume call site still compiled and still passed
every one of them. The defect this fixes lived at the call site, so it needs a
test that goes through Run.

Driven through the real dispatch with the RunChild seam capturing argv.

* test(specialist): guard the fresh call site as well

runFresh and runResume each construct their builder input by hand and carry a
byte-identical ParentModel line. Deleting either compiles and, until now,
deleting the fresh one was silent.

The resume half is what this branch repairs. This covers the other half so the
pair cannot drift again in the direction nobody was looking.
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PierrunoYT addressed the two outstanding findings from the latest review in d6e8f02. Published head: 109c345.

  • Runner.ExecuteCaptured now passes the sandbox-prepared command through RunCommand, so configured TUI/exec/spec hooks use the retained-tree lifecycle, not plain Cmd.Run. Preparation, reporting/cleanup callbacks, capture buffers, stdin, outcome classification, and audit handling remain in place. Adapters returning plain exec.Command remain supported; an already-canceled context is rejected before launch.
  • Added a dispatcher regression with a non-nil execution runner/preparer. Explicit PID/readiness handoffs establish that the root has exited while its descendant retains output; only then is deadline expiry injected. It asserts bounded return, descendant termination, a timed-out blocking verdict, preserved stdin/stdout/stderr, adapter callbacks, and started/completed audit records. The fixture has independent stop/release cleanup registered before launch.
  • Both task/turn RunEndCannotHideContextFailure tests now run asynchronously, wait for the helper's explicit run_end readiness handoff, and then inject Canceled or DeadlineExceeded. Separate 15-second startup and four-second completion watchdogs replace the startup-dependent one-second cancellation timers. A stop-file safety net releases the helper independently of production cleanup.
  • Earlier resolved Unix identity, Windows fail-before-resume containment, ordinary exit-code reconciliation, and successful redirected-child semantics are retained. No containment expansion for deliberate setsid/setpgid escape.

Regression evidence:

  • Before the captured-runner fix, go test ./internal/hooks -run '^TestDispatchConfiguredRunnerTimeoutKillsGrandchildHoldingOutput$' -count=1 -timeout=40s failed after four seconds: configured hook remained blocked by inherited output after deadline. The independent fixture cleanup released the blocked command. With the fix the same regression passes.
  • Before the pre-start context check, TestRunCommandCanceledBeforePlainCommandStart failed with canceled command must not start: err=context canceled process=...; with the check it passes without creating a process.

Validation on the published source tree (Go 1.26.6):

  • make fmt-check, go vet ./..., go test ./...: pass.
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release build: built linux/amd64; go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke: zero smoke check passed (0.8.0).
  • go test -race ./internal/execution ./internal/hooks ./internal/verify ./internal/perfbench ./internal/agenteval ./internal/dictation: all six pass, including the retained-tree lifecycle and existing exit/oracle tests.
  • GOOS=windows and GOOS=darwin, GOARCH=amd64, go test -c for each of those six packages: all 12 binaries compile. Native Windows/macOS non-race tests additionally passed in CI below; native Windows/macOS race execution was not performed.
  • make lint-static: 0 issues.; make vulncheck: No vulnerabilities found.; git diff HEAD --check: clean.
  • Initial full/race attempts hit the orb's inherited Git-signing configuration in temporary-repository fixtures: error: No signing key is available for this commit. Re-running with process-local GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1 GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=commit.gpgsign GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=false passed; no repository code/config was changed to mask this environment issue.

The branch includes current upstream main aadb4a2. Publication preserves the previous remote head as an ancestor: the ancestry merge's tree was checked byte-for-byte against the validated tree, and the push was a normal fast-forward (no force-push). No merge of this PR was performed.

Exact-head CI passed: native Linux, macOS, and Windows Smoke (each runs go test ./..., build, and smoke), Performance Smoke, and Security & code health all succeeded. In particular, Windows Smoke now passes on the published head. Existing advisory dead-code annotations remain in the successful CI job; local make lint-static reported zero issues.

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The merge-base changed after approval.

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fix(process): child timeouts can hang when grandchildren retain pipes

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