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Closes #1221 — the root engine slice of PRD #1208 (pause/resume/redirect subagents).

What this adds

  • A new overlay session/pause.ts service that writes a durable {paused, resumable} marker into the existing session-metadata JSON column (no schema migration), interrupts the in-flight turn via the existing cancel machinery, and clears the marker on resume — carrying an optional steer message.
  • A paused-outcome branch at the Effect.fail trap in tool/task.ts (L331-351): a paused foreground subagent returns a resumable sentinel to its blocked parent instead of failing it — the parent can distinguish "child paused" from "child errored."
  • Single-session Pause/Resume endpoints in the experimental HTTP group + handler + route-coverage.
  • Upstream types (SessionStatus, BackgroundJob.Status, SessionTable) are not forked — the upstream-base boundary held; the Paused fact lives entirely in the metadata marker.

Verification (gates re-run by the director, not self-reported)

Gate Command Result
Repo fast suite pnpm --filter amicode test 3579 pass, 0 fail
Overlay AC tests bun test (materialized packages/opencode) 73 pass, 0 fail
Manifest drift gate scripts/drift_gate.mjs PASS (820 files in sync)

All 7 acceptance criteria map to passing tests (see #1221).

Ship note

This is an engine (overlay) change — it requires pnpm --filter amicode run build:binary to actually ship. The manifest hashes for the 8 modified + 2 new overlay files are patched in this branch (drift gate PASS).

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Reviewer must not be the implementer. Merge is human-gated — do not merge non-green. Merging unblocks #1222 (UI) and #1223 (pause-all / restart / lineage / filter).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the ability to pause and resume sessions through the experimental HTTP API.
    • Paused sessions retain a resumable state across restarts.
    • Resume requests can include an optional steering message.
    • Background tasks now report paused child sessions as resumable instead of failed.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of interrupted tool calls during session resume, preserving partial output without exposing interruption errors.

…+ foreground sentinel

Add the engine primitive underpinning pause/resume/redirect (PRD #1208, slice
#1221): a durable Paused session state that settles through a PARALLEL
background-job outcome path rather than the cancelled path.

- SessionPause service (overlay): writes a durable Paused/resumable marker into
  the existing session metadata JSON column (no schema migration), interrupts
  the running turn via the existing SessionRunState.cancel machinery, and clears
  the marker on resume (returning the optional steer message). Resume is
  re-dispatch, not fiber resurrection.
- Task tool: a paused-outcome branch that returns a resumable sentinel to a
  blocked foreground parent instead of Effect.fail — the load-bearing distinction
  between 'child paused' (resume) and 'child cancelled/errored' (fail the parent).
- Server: single-session Pause/Resume endpoints on the experimental group.
- Tests: pause coordinator + durable marker + simulated-restart read-back
  (new pause.test.ts); the foreground-parent sentinel + errored-child distinction
  (task.test.ts); a steer message on a clean post-interrupt transcript
  (message-v2.test.ts).

Upstream types (SessionStatus, BackgroundJob.Status, SessionTable) are untouched;
the Paused fact lives entirely in the overlay via the metadata marker.

Part of #1208. Refs #1221.
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The change adds a durable SessionPause service. It exposes experimental HTTP endpoints for pausing and resuming sessions, preserves paused child results for parent tasks, and adds tests for persistence, resume steering, stop behavior, and transcript reconciliation.

Session pause and resume

Layer / File(s) Summary
Durable pause service
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts
Stores pause markers in session metadata, cancels active turns, reads pause state, and clears markers on resume.
Experimental HTTP API
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/server/routes/instance/httpapi/...
Adds pause and resume paths, schemas, handlers, and SessionPause application wiring.
Paused task result handling
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/tool/registry.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/tool/task.ts
Returns a paused, resumable sentinel for paused child sessions while preserving failure behavior for other cancellations and errors.
Validation and manifest
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/test/..., packages/app-bundle/manifest.json
Adds coverage for API calls, durable markers, restart behavior, task results, stop behavior, transcript reconciliation, and manifest updates.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ExperimentalApi
  participant SessionPause
  participant Session
  participant SessionRunState
  Client->>ExperimentalApi: POST pause or resume
  ExperimentalApi->>SessionPause: pause(sessionID) or resume(sessionID, steer?)
  SessionPause->>Session: write or remove pause marker
  SessionPause->>SessionRunState: cancel active turn
  SessionPause-->>ExperimentalApi: pause or resume result
  ExperimentalApi-->>Client: HTTP response
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to eb7ff

The primary pause/resume workflow is incomplete: resume does not continue work, idle sessions can become falsely resumable, and paused background tasks may remain silent cancellations. These should be fixed before merge.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #1221 requires a distinct paused session and background-job outcome, plus resume re-dispatch. The changes in session/pause.ts write metadata and call runState.cancel; they do not add a `pa… Add paused through the session status, runner, and background-job unions and settle pause through that outcome instead of cancelled. Preserve hard stop as cancelled or its existing abort result. Make resume clear the marker and dispat…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding a session pause/resume engine primitive with durable markers and foreground sentinel behavior.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the linked issue, change summary, detailed verification results, scope boundaries, and shipping notes. It omits the explicit Type of Change checkbox and Manual Testing Notes s…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are connected to Issue #1221. They add single-session pause and resume services, HTTP routes, task sentinel handling, transcript reconciliation coverage, and related tests and manifest upd…
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Explanation

Issue #1221 requires a distinct paused session and background-job outcome, plus resume re-dispatch. The changes in session/pause.ts write metadata and call runState.cancel; they do not add a paused run-state or background-job outcome. tool/task.ts still receives status === "cancelled" and infers pause from the marker, so it does not use the required parallel paused path. resume only clears the marker and returns the steer value. The HTTP handler does not start a continuing turn. The pause method writes the marker before checking for a running turn, so an idle pause can leave a paused marker instead of being a no-op. The added tests cover marker persistence, route behavior, reconciliation, and the foreground sentinel, but they do not establish the missing status, background outcome, resume dispatch, or idle no-op behavior.

Resolution

Add paused through the session status, runner, and background-job unions and settle pause through that outcome instead of cancelled. Preserve hard stop as cancelled or its existing abort result. Make resume clear the marker and dispatch a new turn from the interrupted transcript, with the optional steer message. Check the running state before writing the marker so an idle pause leaves no marker. Add tests for the distinct background paused outcome, resume execution with and without steer, and idle no-op behavior.

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In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts`:
- Around line 80-90: Update the pause flow around runState.cancel so the
PAUSE_KEY marker is written only when an active turn will be interrupted; idle
pause requests must remain no-ops. In
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts lines 80-90,
gate the metadata update using the active-turn condition while preserving
cancellation behavior. In
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/test/session/pause.test.ts lines
130-133, assert that repeated idle pause requests leave no marker.
- Around line 93-98: Update SessionPause.resume’s caller/HTTP handling so
clearing the pause marker also dispatches a continuing turn through the existing
task-continuation or message-initiated path; preserve optional steer
propagation, and cover both plain resume and resume-with-steer behavior in
tests.

In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/tool/task.ts`:
- Around line 332-338: Extend the task outcome handling around the
cancelled-result branch and notify flow to emit a distinct paused outcome for
background children when their durable pause marker is resumable. Ensure notify
handles this outcome and renders the job state as "paused", while preserving the
existing foreground resumable-sentinel behavior and cancelled/errored failure
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  • packages/app-bundle/manifest.json
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Comment on lines +80 to +90
yield* sessions.setMetadata({
sessionID,
metadata: {
...(session.metadata ?? {}),
[PAUSE_KEY]: { paused: true, resumable: true, at: Date.now() } satisfies Marker,
},
})
// Interrupt the running turn through the existing cancel machinery. This
// reconciles dangling tool calls to the interrupted marker. A session
// with no running turn cancels to idle — a benign no-op.
yield* runState.cancel(sessionID)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep idle pause requests as no-ops. The implementation always writes a marker, and the test codifies that behavior.

  • packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts#L80-L90: write the marker only when an active turn will be interrupted.
  • packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/test/session/pause.test.ts#L130-L133: assert that repeated idle pause requests leave no marker.
📍 Affects 2 files
  • packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts#L80-L90 (this comment)
  • packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/test/session/pause.test.ts#L130-L133
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In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts` around
lines 80 - 90, Update the pause flow around runState.cancel so the PAUSE_KEY
marker is written only when an active turn will be interrupted; idle pause
requests must remain no-ops. In
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts lines 80-90,
gate the metadata update using the active-turn condition while preserving
cancellation behavior. In
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/test/session/pause.test.ts lines
130-133, assert that repeated idle pause requests leave no marker.

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Comment on lines +93 to +98
const resume: Interface["resume"] = Effect.fn("SessionPause.resume")(function* (sessionID, steer) {
const session = yield* sessions.get(sessionID)
const rest = { ...(session.metadata ?? {}) }
delete rest[PAUSE_KEY]
yield* sessions.setMetadata({ sessionID, metadata: rest })
return { ...(steer !== undefined ? { steer } : {}) }

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Dispatch a continuing turn after resume. SessionPause.resume only clears the marker and returns the optional steer. The HTTP handler returns that steer without dispatching a new turn. No caller consumes the result and starts continuation.

A direct resume request therefore clears the paused state but does not continue the interrupted transcript. Add the caller-owned dispatch using the existing task continuation path or a fresh message-initiated turn. Test plain resume and resume with steer.

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In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/session/pause.ts` around
lines 93 - 98, Update SessionPause.resume’s caller/HTTP handling so clearing the
pause marker also dispatches a continuing turn through the existing
task-continuation or message-initiated path; preserve optional steer
propagation, and cover both plain resume and resume-with-steer behavior in
tests.

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Comment on lines +332 to +338
if (result?.status === "cancelled") {
// Parallel outcome path: a paused child settled through the cancel
// machinery, but the durable marker says it is resumable. Return a
// resumable sentinel instead of failing the blocked parent — this
// is the load-bearing distinction between "child paused" (resume it)
// and "child cancelled/errored" (fail the parent).
const marker = yield* pause.marker(nextSession.id)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a paused outcome for background tasks.

This branch runs only for a foreground task. A background task returns before this branch, and notify ignores cancelled results.

Pausing a background child therefore leaves a cancelled job and sends no paused notification. Add a distinct paused background-job outcome. Handle that outcome in notify and render it with state: "paused".

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/opencode/src/tool/task.ts` around lines
332 - 338, Extend the task outcome handling around the cancelled-result branch
and notify flow to emit a distinct paused outcome for background children when
their durable pause marker is resumable. Ensure notify handles this outcome and
renders the job state as "paused", while preserving the existing foreground
resumable-sentinel behavior and cancelled/errored failure paths.

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