feat(subagent): let ancestors interrupt descendants
interrupt_agent(agent_id) passes the calling agent as the ancestor authority for ctx.subagents.interrupt(); the service verifies live registry identity and recorded lineage, so a direct child or deeper descendant stops with the same generic parameter while send_message keeps its exact-direct-parent authority. Discovery: list_agents gains an optional scope. descendants walks the new SubagentService.listDescendants() — one lineage trace flattened in stable pre-order across ordinary and one-shot intermediates, each entry carrying its verified parentId and depth — and every status now comes from the live Agent registry (running/idle/complete). Refs #1535
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| `start(name, request)` | Validate an ordinary caller request, resolve its detached `one-shot` descriptor, then await the provider until a real one-shot child is published. Fulfillment returns a holder-owned `SubagentRun`; rejection means the provider has already cleaned every unpublished startup resource, while post-publication turn or infrastructure faults settle through the run. Continuable children never enter through this operation. |
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| `startContinuable(spec)` | Establish one durable continuable child and deliver its initial prompt. Resolves with `{ childId, messageId }` when the child's inbox accepts that prompt, without waiting for the turn to start or for the message to reach the Session log; any earlier failure rejects with no ids and rolls the child back entirely. Requires `ctx.agents`, session persistence, and a provider with the `prepareContinuable` capability. |
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| `followup(parent, childId, content, { source, signal })` | Deliver one later message from the exact live direct parent as the child's next FIFO turn, matching `Agent.followup()` terminology, and return the accepted `MessageId`. A resident child's inbox accepts it directly (waking a waiting Activation); an absent one cold-resumes from its persisted Session. Requires `ctx.agents`; cold resume also requires session persistence. |
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| `interrupt(targetSessionId, authority)` | Interrupt one live continuable child's current turn under a human durable parent address (`{ kind: 'user', parentSessionId }`) or an exact live ancestor Agent (`{ kind: 'ancestor', agent }`). Admission is synchronous and the effect asynchronous: it issues `Agent.cancel(cause, { keepInbox: true })` and returns without waiting for the target to observe the signal. Unclaimed pending inbox work, the Activation, and published descendants are preserved; work already claimed into the interrupted turn is not requeued. Once the interrupted driver is idle, a waking send resumes the parked FIFO queue. An absent target — unknown, one-shot, or already-settled id — and a manager-less composition are accepted no-ops. For a live target, a mismatched parent address or caller outside its live ancestry rejects with `UNAUTHORIZED`; stale ancestor objects and self-targeting ancestor requests reject before target lookup. |
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| `interrupt(targetSessionId, authority)` | Interrupt one live continuable child's current turn under a human durable parent address (`{ kind: 'user', parentSessionId }`) or an exact live ancestor Agent (`{ kind: 'ancestor', agent }`). Admission is synchronous and the effect asynchronous: it issues `Agent.cancel(cause, { keepInbox: true })` and returns without waiting for the target to observe the signal. Unclaimed pending inbox work, the Activation, and published descendants are preserved; work already claimed into the interrupted turn is not requeued. An absent target is an accepted no-op; a wrong parent address or a stale, self-targeting, or non-ancestor caller rejects with `UNAUTHORIZED`. |
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| `reportFrom(child, content, { delivery, signal })` | Deliver one selected message from the exact live continuable child to its exact live direct parent and return the accepted stable `MessageId`. Quiet delivery injects context; waking delivery submits one later parent turn. |
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| `registerContinuableSetup(contribution)` | Compose an optional deployment capability into each continuable child's unpublished scope, with immediate revocation from resident children. |
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| `drainContinuableDescendants(parents)` | Close admission below exact live host-owned parent Agents, stop only their visible continuable descendants, await materializations admitted below those roots through publication or rollback, then release the selected forests child-first. The cutoff lasts until each exact parent leaves the registry; unrelated parent forests and manager-wide admission remain live. |
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| `listChildren(parentSessionId, signal?)` | List direct session-backed subagents with their `one-shot`/`continuable` mode, `running`/`inactive` activity, origin-classified one-level `hasChildren` hint, and per-child diagnostics, ordered by `createdAt` then id, without loading or resuming them. Reads the live session store and optional session persistence directly (live-only enumeration when persistence is absent) and requires the mounted `sessionProjections` registry; it does not require `ctx.agents`, the continuation manager, or any query service. |
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| `listDescendants(rootSessionId, signal?)` | Flatten the root's complete session tree in stable pre-order from the same live-preferred corpus, adding each subagent entry's durable `parentId` and root-relative `depth`. Ordinary sessions and one-shot children remain traversal nodes so continuable descendants below them are discovered. Identity, diagnostics, dependencies, and cancellation follow `listChildren()`. |
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`SubagentStartRequest.label` is an optional short durable display label for a session-backed one-shot child. Model-facing delegation supplies its existing `description`; lower-level callers need not invent presentation metadata. Continuable starts always carry their own required label. `signal` is required and is the canonical cancellation channel for a one-shot `start`. An abort before publication makes `start()` reject after rollback; an abort after publication cancels the returned run's remaining turn work without hiding its id. The request may also select a model, require structured output, cap delegation depth, restrict child tools, or set a child persona. For a continuable start or follow-up, the caller signal owns lookup, materialization, and admission only until inbox acceptance; afterward the manager owns the Activation independently, so later caller cancellation neither cancels the accepted turn nor disposes the child.
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## Collection model
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The model-facing tool collects synchronously by default: it awaits the child result and disposes the run before returning. One-shot background delegation registers a plain Task in the tool, whose generic status, collection, and cancellation tools own later interaction, and persists its model-supplied `description` as the optional display label. Continuable background delegation calls `ctx.subagents.startContinuable()` and returns only the durable child id; the child owns its own turns from inbox acceptance, so there is no Task or result promise — a caller sends later work with the `send_message` follow-up tool, while `interrupt()` stops only the current turn without disposing the child. The durable child Session remains the source of the child's detailed output. The continuation manager exists only while `ctx.agents` is available, and session persistence is resolved per continuation operation. Independently, `listChildren()` enumerates the live-preferred merge of the live session store and optional session persistence — live-only when persistence is absent, since a cold child cannot be resumed then either — and serves each child's durable mode/label from the registered `subagent` projection unit: the registry's watermark snapshot for a live child; for a cold one, a durable projection-cache row when it serves an own-suffix identity — its `seq` gate proves the value postdates the fork seed, where a child's own descriptor is immutable once appended — else one bounded-concurrency persistence inspection folded through the registry, whose result must still name the enumerated lifecycle (a re-published id degrades to a `corrupt` diagnostic). A throwing cache read renders no verdict — the cache is derived data — and silently falls through to that authoritative re-fold. The projection fold is the single classification authority; listing parses no descriptor itself. A served identity produces a child row; a settled candidate whose fold served no identity is a `corrupt` diagnostic, a failed inspection is a transient `unavailable` retried on the next listing, and a running candidate without an identity yet is omitted (the creation window before its descriptor is appended). It never consults the continuation manager, Agent registrations, Activations, or providers. Each child row derives its read-time `hasChildren` hint from merged headers carrying durable `origin: 'subagent'`; it does not read descendant event logs, and the descriptor-backed child catalog remains authoritative when expanded. Service consumers such as a UI can retain both modes and choose a fallback for an unlabeled one-shot child; the model-facing `list_agents` tool projects only `continuable` entries and maps service activity to its existing `running`/`complete` vocabulary. The listing forwards the caller's signal to every persistence read, checks cancellation around each of those awaits, and reports every observed abort as `SubagentError` code `CANCELLED`; an unmounted projection registry fails loud with `SUBAGENT_CONTROL_PROJECTIONS_UNAVAILABLE`, and a missing session store with `SUBAGENT_CONTROL_SESSION_STORE_UNAVAILABLE`. See the [background subagent tasks Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-background-subagent-tasks.md), the [continuable background subagents Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-21-continuable-background-subagents.md), the [durable catalog Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-22-durable-subagent-catalog-and-list-agents.md), the [merged-service Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-26-merge-subagent-control-service.md), the [capability-seam Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md), and `src/types.ts` for the complete contracts.
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The model-facing tool collects synchronously by default: it awaits the child result and disposes the run before returning. One-shot background delegation registers a plain Task in the tool, whose generic status, collection, and cancellation tools own later interaction, and persists its model-supplied `description` as the optional display label. Continuable background delegation calls `ctx.subagents.startContinuable()` and returns only the durable child id; the child owns its own turns from inbox acceptance, so there is no Task and no result promise — a caller sends later work with the `send_message` follow-up tool, and `interrupt()` stops only the current turn without disposing the child, and the durable child Session remains the source of the child's detailed output. The continuation manager exists only while `ctx.agents` is available, and session persistence is resolved per continuation operation. Independently, `listChildren()` enumerates the live-preferred merge of the live session store and optional session persistence — live-only when persistence is absent, since a cold child cannot be resumed then either — and serves each child's durable mode/label from the registered `subagent` projection unit: the registry's watermark snapshot for a live child; for a cold one, a durable projection-cache row when it serves an own-suffix identity — its `seq` gate proves the value postdates the fork seed, where a child's own descriptor is immutable once appended — else one bounded-concurrency persistence inspection folded through the registry, whose result must still name the enumerated lifecycle (a re-published id degrades to a `corrupt` diagnostic). A throwing cache read renders no verdict — the cache is derived data — and silently falls through to that authoritative re-fold. The projection fold is the single classification authority; listing parses no descriptor itself. A served identity produces a child row; a settled candidate whose fold served no identity is a `corrupt` diagnostic, a failed inspection is a transient `unavailable` retried on the next listing, and a running candidate without an identity yet is omitted (the creation window before its descriptor is appended). It never consults the continuation manager, Agent registrations, Activations, or providers. Each child row derives its read-time `hasChildren` hint from merged headers carrying durable `origin: 'subagent'`; it does not read descendant event logs, and the descriptor-backed child catalog remains authoritative when expanded. Service consumers such as a UI can retain both modes and choose a fallback for an unlabeled one-shot child; the model-facing `list_agents` tool projects only `continuable` entries and refines status through the live Agent registry (`running`/`idle`/`complete`) and walks `listDescendants()` for its `descendants` scope. The listing forwards the caller's signal to every persistence read, checks cancellation around each of those awaits, and reports every observed abort as `SubagentError` code `CANCELLED`; an unmounted projection registry fails loud with `SUBAGENT_CONTROL_PROJECTIONS_UNAVAILABLE`, and a missing session store with `SUBAGENT_CONTROL_SESSION_STORE_UNAVAILABLE`. See the [background subagent tasks Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-background-subagent-tasks.md), the [continuable background subagents Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-21-continuable-background-subagents.md), the [durable catalog Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-22-durable-subagent-catalog-and-list-agents.md), the [merged-service Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-26-merge-subagent-control-service.md), the [capability-seam Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md), and `src/types.ts` for the complete contracts.
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Continuable Activations await a best-effort final session flush without treating listener participation as durability confirmation. One-shot runs retain best-effort session checkpointing, so a completed one-shot child is discoverable after disposal only when its session actually reached persistence; the service does not invent a catalog entry from Task history when that checkpoint is absent.
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