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Grok: requeue a batch lost when the leader restarts behind the stdio bridge - #163
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…bridge Grok's leader restarts itself to apply an auto-update. hcom's stdio bridge reconnects to the new leader without a word, so the batch hcom queued in the gap never reached Grok and no response or queue event ever mentioned it. It stayed in flight forever: nothing later was queued, roster polls stopped too (one was lost the same way), and unread climbed until someone typed into the agent's terminal. A new leader PID in the socket's lock file, or a roster or session/load request unanswered for 30 s, now counts as a lost connection. The existing reconnect path detaches the in-flight batch, follows it through the new connection's queue, and queues it again if it is gone. stop_leader reads the lock through the same helper. Tests: leader PID parsing from the lock beside the socket; a changed PID (and only a changed, readable one) is a lost connection; a roster or load request unanswered for REQUEST_TIMEOUT is a lost connection; and an end-to-end run against a fake bridge whose leader restarts as the batch goes out, which must reconnect once and deliver the batch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2006-2134: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that the batch is sent again after reconnect.
The fake bridge does not count
session/promptrequests.runs == 2proves only that hcom reconnected. The cursor assertion can also pass if recovery acknowledges the detached batch without sending it again. Record and assert two prompt requests.Suggested fix
*'"method":"session/prompt"'*) + prompts=$(( $(cat "$dir/prompts" 2>/dev/null || echo 0) + 1 )) + echo "$prompts" > "$dir/prompts" if [ "$run" = 1 ]; then echo 2002 > "$lock" lost=1 @@ let runs = std::fs::read_to_string(dir.path().join("runs")).unwrap(); assert_eq!(runs.trim(), "2", "hcom should reconnect exactly once"); + let prompts = std::fs::read_to_string(dir.path().join("prompts")).unwrap(); + assert_eq!( + prompts.trim(), + "2", + "hcom should send the batch again after reconnect" + );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 2006-2134: Update the FAKE_BRIDGE script in
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After a reconnect, a batch that Grok's new connection still lists in its queue was dropped anyway once DETACHED_WAIT passed with no other evidence, and hcom queued the same mail a second time behind the first copy. The new leader-restart and unanswered-request triggers make that reconnect common: a batch can reach the restarted leader before hcom notices the restart. A queue snapshot that lists the detached batch now stops that timeout; the batch then follows the queue until it runs or leaves it. A later drop re-arms the timeout, since the next connection must show it again. Tests: the fake bridge can keep the lock's PID (only the unanswered request shows the loss, end to end) or list the batch behind a user turn and run it after DETACHED_WAIT (no second session/prompt). REQUEST_TIMEOUT and DETACHED_WAIT are short under cfg(test), like REQUEUE_DELAY. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stdio bridge announces a leader restart with x.ai/leader_reconnected, so drop the lock-file PID polling and request timeouts and reuse the existing reconnect path on that notification.
Reconnecting brings no queue snapshot, so a batch still waiting behind a long turn looked gone after DETACHED_WAIT and was queued twice. Grok runs a queued prompt as soon as its session is idle, so wait for a roster since the drop that shows the session neither working nor waiting on an approval (needs_input) before the transcript decides. This replaces queued_after_detach, which relied on a snapshot that never comes.
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Brings aannoo#164 (Codex approval latch clears on a negative scrape timer), aannoo#165 (Claude leftover <hcom> wake submitted with Enter), aannoo#163/aannoo#169 (Grok mail recovery and steer ack) and aannoo#171 (tmux panes closed on their owning server). Fork deltas in conflicted files: - src/pty/screen.rs: re-applied 362b479 Claude suggestion heuristic (is_claude_placeholder_or_suggestion) inside upstream's new ClaudeInputBox return; fork and upstream tests both kept. - src/pidtrack.rs: fork-only test_recovered_orphan_keeps_catalog_agent_name gets upstream's new tmux field. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Hcom-Agent: hcom_dev
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Problem
In the observed failure, Grok's leader process restarted to apply an auto-update while the stdio bridge remained alive. hcom talks to the leader through
grok agent --leader --leader-socket <sock> stdio. A batch submitted across that transition was left unanswered, without a response or queue event. The fake-bridge regression below models this silent-restart failure; it does not establish universal vendor behavior for every request sent during a restart.When the lost request is a
session/promptcarrying hcom's message batch, the batch stays "in flight" forever. No response or queue event ever mentions it. Nothing later is queued, roster polls stop too (a roster request can be lost the same way), and the agent's unread count keeps climbing until someone types into its terminal.How it was observed
hcom 0.7.30 on macOS (arm64), a Grok Build agent (Grok 4.6) in a multi-agent session. The leader auto-updated and restarted while the agent was idle. Messages sent afterwards were never delivered. hcom showed a batch in flight and rising unread, and the agent resumed only after someone typed into its terminal.
Root cause
delivery/grok.rstreats only a broken bridge (client exit, read error, invalid JSON, or a failed write) as a lost connection. Because the bridge survives a leader restart, the reconnect path, which already detaches the in-flight batch, checks the new connection's queue and requeues it if gone, never ran.Fix
Two new signals count as a lost connection and feed the existing reconnect path:
LEADER_CHECK(2 s), hcom reads the leader PID from the lock file beside the socket (x.sock->x.lock, the filestop_leaderalready reads). A readable PID that differs from the one seen at connect time means the leader restarted. A missing or unreadable lock proves nothing and is ignored._x.ai/sessions/list) orsession/loadrequest unanswered forREQUEST_TIMEOUT(30 s) is treated as a stale connection and triggers reconnect. This is a bounded recovery heuristic; elapsed time alone does not establish where the request stalled.Outstanding requests now carry their send time.
stop_leaderuses the sameleader_pid()helper.REQUEUE_DELAYis 1 s undercfg(test)so the end-to-end test runs quickly. There are no other behavior changes.Tests
leader_pid_comes_from_the_lock_beside_the_socketa_new_leader_pid_means_the_connection_was_lost: only a changed, readable PID counts.a_roster_or_load_left_unanswered_was_lostbatch_lost_in_a_silent_leader_restart_is_queued_again: end to end against a fake stdio bridge (a shell script). On the first connection, the leader "restarts" as hcom's prompt goes out: the lock gets a new PID and nothing written to that bridge is answered again, while the bridge itself stays up. The loop must reconnect exactly once, find the batch missing from the new queue, requeue it, and advance the agent's cursor past the message. Unix only,#[serial].Results
Local run on this branch (on
main669a067), macOS arm64, rustc 1.99.0 (the repo pins 1.97.1),cargo test --bin hcomwith the test names as filters.cargo fmt --checkis clean. Clippy and the full suite were not run on this branch.batch_lost_in_a_silent_leader_restart_is_queued_againfails with "the batch was never acked" when its 30 s watcher gives up. The three helper tests still pass, as expected.Notes
main, including b51f69a (which changed how the ACP connect-failure diagnostic is written in this file). It applies cleanly.🤖 Generated with Claude Code