"""Child progress relay, console formatting and child system-prompt construction for delegate_task.""" from __future__ import annotations import logging import enum import os import threading from contextlib import contextmanager from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional from tools.delegate_tool_registry import _active_subagents, _active_subagents_lock logger = logging.getLogger("tools.delegate_tool") # log-record parity with the origin module # Terminal child statuses that mean "the subagent did NOT deliver a usable result". Shared by the CLI spinner echo, # the gateway failure notice, and the parent-facing failure summary so every surface agrees. SUBAGENT_FAILURE_STATUSES = frozenset({"failed", "error", "timeout"}) @contextmanager def _quiet(log_message: Optional[str], *log_args: Any, exc_info: bool = False): """Best-effort block: any Exception is swallowed (never reaches the run) and, when ``log_message`` is given, logged at debug — the exception fills a trailing unsatisfied ``%s``.""" try: yield except Exception as exc: if log_message is None: return if log_message.count("%") > len(log_args): log_args = log_args + (exc,) logger.debug(log_message, *log_args, exc_info=exc_info) def _safe_progress(cb: Any, event_type: Any, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None: """Invoke a child progress callback; relay failures never reach the run.""" if cb: with _quiet("Progress callback %s failed: %s", event_type): cb(event_type, *args, **kwargs) def _clean_error_text(error: Any, max_chars: int = 200) -> str: """Reduce an error payload (traceback / JSON wall) to one clean line: the exception message (last line of a traceback) or the first non-empty line, hard-capped in length.""" lines = [ln.strip() for ln in str(error or "").strip().splitlines() if ln.strip()] if not lines: return "" line = lines[-1] if lines[0].startswith("Traceback") else lines[0] return line[: max_chars - 3] + "..." if len(line) > max_chars else line def describe_subagent_failure(failure_reason: Any, error: Any, max_chars: int = 200) -> str: """Plain-language reason for a failed child: the classified ``failure_reason`` gloss when there is one, else the child's own error text reduced to one clean line.""" # One gloss table for every surface (agent/turn_failure_copy.py); the child is the subject. from agent.turn_failure_copy import failure_cause_gloss gloss = failure_cause_gloss(failure_reason, subject="it", possessive="its") return gloss or _clean_error_text(error, max_chars) def _format_duration(seconds: Any) -> str: if not isinstance(seconds, (int, float)) or seconds <= 0: return "" return f"{round(seconds / 60)} min" if seconds >= 120 else f"{round(seconds)}s" def format_subagent_failure_line( goal: Optional[str], status: Optional[str], error: Any = None, duration_seconds: Any = None, failure_reason: Any = None, ) -> str: """One clean, human-readable line describing a failed subagent, rendered directly to the user (CLI spinner echo, gateway platform notice). Says what happened and what to do next; never the raw exception when the child loop classified the failure, e.g. ``⚠️ Subagent failed — "research competitor pricing" after 12s: the model it was given was not found at the AI model service. Details: /agents, or ask me to retry with a smaller task.``""" goal_label = (goal or "").strip().replace("\n", " ") if len(goal_label) > 60: goal_label = goal_label[:57] + "..." goal_part = f' — "{goal_label}"' if goal_label else "" elapsed = _format_duration(duration_seconds) if status == "timeout": # The child's own timeout text repeats the duration and names mechanisms (API/tool calls); the # user needs the outcome and the knob. after = f" after {elapsed}" if elapsed else "" return ( f"⚠️ Subagent timed out{goal_part}{after} without finishing. I will carry on without it; ask me to " "retry it, or raise delegation.child_timeout_seconds in config.yaml if these tasks legitimately " "take longer." ) line = f"⚠️ Subagent failed{goal_part}" if elapsed: line += f" after {elapsed}" reason = describe_subagent_failure(failure_reason, error) if reason: line += f": {reason.rstrip('.')}" return line + ". Details: /agents, or ask me to retry with a smaller task." class DelegateEvent(str, enum.Enum): """Formal delegation progress event types. The relay normalises incoming legacy strings (``tool.started``, ``_thinking``, …) to these via ``_LEGACY_EVENT_MAP``; external consumers (gateway SSE, ACP adapter, CLI) still receive the legacy strings during the deprecation window. TASK_SPAWNED / TASK_COMPLETED / TASK_FAILED are reserved for future orchestrator lifecycle events, not emitted yet.""" TASK_SPAWNED = "delegate.task_spawned" TASK_PROGRESS = "delegate.task_progress" TASK_COMPLETED = "delegate.task_completed" TASK_FAILED = "delegate.task_failed" TASK_THINKING = "delegate.task_thinking" TASK_TOOL_STARTED = "delegate.tool_started" TASK_TOOL_COMPLETED = "delegate.tool_completed" # Legacy child-agent event strings → DelegateEvent. _LEGACY_EVENT_MAP: Dict[str, DelegateEvent] = { "_thinking": DelegateEvent.TASK_THINKING, "reasoning.available": DelegateEvent.TASK_THINKING, "tool.started": DelegateEvent.TASK_TOOL_STARTED, "tool.completed": DelegateEvent.TASK_TOOL_COMPLETED, "subagent_progress": DelegateEvent.TASK_PROGRESS, } # Event → _ChildProgressRelay method name. Lifecycle strings are emitted by the orchestrator itself (not # DelegateEvent). Any other DelegateEvent (TASK_TOOL_STARTED and the reserved TASK_* values) takes the tool-started # path; None means "recognised but ignored". _LIFECYCLE_EVENTS = frozenset({"subagent.start", "subagent.complete", "subagent.text"}) _EVENT_HANDLERS: Dict[Any, Optional[str]] = { "subagent.start": "_on_start", "subagent.complete": "_on_complete", "subagent.text": "_on_text", DelegateEvent.TASK_THINKING: "_on_thinking", DelegateEvent.TASK_PROGRESS: "_on_progress", DelegateEvent.TASK_TOOL_COMPLETED: None, } def _normalize_event(event_type: Any) -> Any: """Lifecycle string / DelegateEvent / legacy string / ``delegate.*`` string → dispatch key; None for unknown events.""" if isinstance(event_type, DelegateEvent) or (isinstance(event_type, str) and event_type in _LIFECYCLE_EVENTS): return event_type try: return _LEGACY_EVENT_MAP.get(event_type) or DelegateEvent(event_type) except (ValueError, TypeError): return None _CONTEXT_FILES_INTRO = ( "\nThe workspace's project context files are reproduced below. Their conventions and invariants are binding for " "your work in this workspace.\n\n" ) _COMPLETION_INSTRUCTIONS = ( "\nComplete this task using the tools available to you. When finished, provide a clear, concise summary of:\n" "- What you did\n- What you found or accomplished\n- Any files you created or modified\n- Any issues encountered\n\n" "Important workspace rule: Never assume a repository lives at /workspace/... or any other container-style path " "unless the task/context explicitly gives that path. If no exact local path is provided, discover it first before " "issuing git/workdir-specific commands.\n\n" "Keep your final summary tight: lead with outcomes, prefer bullet points over paragraphs, and don't replay your " "whole process. Your response is returned to the parent agent as a summary, and overlong summaries crowd out the " "parent's context window." ) _ORCHESTRATOR_BLOCK = ( "\n## Subagent Spawning (Orchestrator Role)\n" "You have access to the `delegate_task` tool and CAN spawn your own subagents to parallelize independent work.\n\n" "WHEN to delegate:\n" "- The goal decomposes into 2+ independent subtasks that can run in parallel (e.g. research A and B simultaneously).\n" "- A subtask is reasoning-heavy and would flood your context with intermediate data.\n\n" "WHEN NOT to delegate:\n" "- Single-step mechanical work — do it directly.\n" "- Trivial tasks you can execute in one or two tool calls.\n" "- Re-delegating your entire assigned goal to one worker (that's just pass-through with no value added).\n\n" "Coordinate your workers' results and synthesize them before reporting back to your parent. You are responsible " "for the final summary, not your workers.\n\n" ) _LEAF_CHILDREN_NOTE = ( "Your own children MUST be leaves (cannot delegate further) because they will reach the maximum nesting depth. " "The system manages this automatically; no parameter override is available." ) _NESTED_CHILDREN_NOTE = ( "Your own children can themselves delegate because depth remains. The system determines this automatically " "from the nesting depth; children at the maximum depth cannot delegate further. No parameter override is available." ) def _build_child_system_prompt( goal: str, context: Optional[str] = None, *, workspace_path: Optional[str] = None, role: str = "leaf", max_spawn_depth: int = 2, child_depth: int = 1, ) -> str: """Focused system prompt for a child agent. role='orchestrator' appends a delegation-capability block (modeled on OpenClaw's buildSubagentSystemPrompt); its depth note is literal truth grounded in the passed config so the LLM can't confabulate nesting.""" # The goal is the child's first user turn (see ``_ChildRun.await_child``). # Keeping it out of the system prompt avoids sending OAuth Anthropic the # same task in both roles, while preserving the normal user-turn contract. parts = ["You are a focused subagent working on a specific delegated task."] if context and context.strip(): parts.append(f"\nCONTEXT:\n{context}") if workspace_path and str(workspace_path).strip(): parts.append( "\nWORKSPACE PATH:\n" f"{workspace_path}\n" "Use this exact path for local repository/workdir operations unless the task explicitly says otherwise." ) # Project context files (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules ...) via the SAME discovery/priority/cap logic # as the main agent's prompt: children are built with skip_context_files=True, so without this a subagent # works in a repo blind to its conventions. SOUL.md is skipped (identity belongs to the parent). # workspace_path comes only from explicit sources (_resolve_workspace_hint, never bare getcwd), so the # install-tree-fallback leak doesn't apply. Best-effort. _ctx_files = "" with _quiet("subagent: workspace context-files load failed", exc_info=True): # See #64590. from agent.prompt_builder import build_context_files_prompt _ctx_files = build_context_files_prompt(cwd=str(workspace_path), skip_soul=True) if _ctx_files.strip(): parts.append(_CONTEXT_FILES_INTRO + _ctx_files.strip()) parts.append(_COMPLETION_INSTRUCTIONS) if role == "orchestrator": child_note = _LEAF_CHILDREN_NOTE if child_depth + 1 >= max_spawn_depth else _NESTED_CHILDREN_NOTE parts.append( _ORCHESTRATOR_BLOCK + f"NOTE: You are at depth {child_depth}. The delegation tree is capped at max_spawn_depth={max_spawn_depth}. " + child_note ) return "\n".join(parts) def _resolve_workspace_hint(parent_agent) -> Optional[str]: """Best-effort local workspace hint for child prompts: only a concrete absolute directory is ever injected (never a fake container path).""" from agent.runtime_cwd import scope_terminal_cwd candidates = [ scope_terminal_cwd(), getattr(getattr(parent_agent, "_subdirectory_hints", None), "working_dir", None), getattr(parent_agent, "terminal_cwd", None), getattr(parent_agent, "cwd", None), ] for candidate in filter(None, candidates): with _quiet(None): text = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(str(candidate))) if os.path.isabs(text) and os.path.isdir(text): return text return None _BATCH_ORDINALS: Dict[str, Dict[str, int]] = {} _BATCH_ORDINALS_LOCK = threading.Lock() def format_batch_tag(delegation_id: Optional[str], parent_agent: Any = None) -> str: """Short human tag for a delegation batch: the parent's first fan-out is ``set 1``, its next distinct delegation id ``set 2``. Several batches (a parent's fan-out plus a child's nested fan-out, or two concurrent tools) print interleaved ``[n/N]`` lines to one console; without a tag ``✓ [3/3]`` and ``✓ [3/9]`` are indistinguishable, and a raw hex slice is unreadable. Ordinals are scoped per parent conversation (``parent_agent.session_id``): one process hosts many conversations and every child's own fan-out, so a process-wide counter showed a user's second wave as ``set 20``. Empty string when no id is known so callers can concatenate unconditionally.""" if not isinstance(delegation_id, str) or not delegation_id: return "" scope = str(getattr(parent_agent, "session_id", None) or "") with _BATCH_ORDINALS_LOCK: ordinals = _BATCH_ORDINALS.setdefault(scope, {}) n = ordinals.setdefault(delegation_id, len(ordinals) + 1) return f"set {n}" def _batch_prefix(delegation_id: Optional[str], task_index: int, task_count: int, parent_agent: Any = None) -> str: """``[set 2 · 3/9] `` for batch children, ``[set 2] `` for a lone child, ``[3/9] `` / ``""`` when the batch id is unknown.""" tag = format_batch_tag(delegation_id, parent_agent) if task_count > 1: inner = f"{tag} · {task_index + 1}/{task_count}" if tag else f"{task_index + 1}/{task_count}" return f"[{inner}] " return f"[{tag}] " if tag else "" def _emit_parent_console(parent_agent, line: str) -> None: """Emit a progress line through ``parent_agent._safe_print`` when available so headless stdio hosts (ACP, gateway API) can redirect it to stderr; a bare ``print()`` would land on stdout and corrupt JSON-RPC framing.""" printer = getattr(parent_agent, "_safe_print", None) if callable(printer): with _quiet(None): printer(line) return print(line) def _print_completion_line(parent_agent: Any, spinner_ref: Any, line: str, console_line: Optional[str] = None) -> None: """Above-spinner line when a spinner exists (console fallback if it raises), else console (``console_line`` when given, else the line indented two spaces).""" if spinner_ref: with _quiet(None): spinner_ref.print_above(line) return _emit_parent_console(parent_agent, f" {line}" if console_line is None else console_line) def _short(text: str, n: int) -> str: return (text[:n] + "...") if len(text) > n else text class _ChildProgressRelay: """Callable relaying one child's events to the parent display. CLI: prints tree-view lines above the parent's delegation spinner. Gateway: batches tool names (``_BATCH_SIZE``) and relays to the parent's progress callback, threading the identity kwargs (subagent_id, parent_id, depth, model, toolsets) into every event so the TUI can rebuild the live spawn tree and route per-branch controls back by ``subagent_id``.""" _BATCH_SIZE = 5 def __init__( self, task_index: int, goal: str, spinner: Any, parent_cb: Any, task_count: int, subagent_id, parent_id, depth, model, toolsets, session_ref, ) -> None: self.task_index, self.task_count, self.goal_label = task_index, task_count, (goal or "").strip() # session_ref is a SHARED dict filled in later by the caller — keep the identity. self.spinner, self.parent_cb, self.session_ref = spinner, parent_cb, session_ref if session_ref is not None else {} self.subagent_id, self.parent_id, self.depth, self.model, self.toolsets = ( subagent_id, parent_id, depth, model, toolsets ) self.batch: List[str] = [] self.parent_scope: Any = None # owning parent agent; set by _build_child_progress_callback self.tool_count = 0 # per-subagent running counter def _prefix(self) -> str: # The batch tag is resolved lazily from session_ref: the relay is built # before delegate_task stamps ``_delegation_id`` on the child. The parent # scope rides in the same ref so ordinals match the parent's own lines. return _batch_prefix( self.session_ref.get("delegation_id"), self.task_index, self.task_count, parent_agent=self.session_ref.get("_parent_scope"), ) def _identity_kwargs(self) -> Dict[str, Any]: kw: Dict[str, Any] = {"task_index": self.task_index, "task_count": self.task_count, "goal": self.goal_label} kw.update({k: getattr(self, k) for k in ("subagent_id", "parent_id", "depth", "model") if getattr(self, k) is not None}) if self.toolsets is not None: kw["toolsets"] = list(self.toolsets) # child_session_id / delegation_id are filled into the shared ref once # the child exists, so every relayed event lets UIs open its session. for src, dst in (("session_id", "child_session_id"), ("delegation_id", "delegation_id")): if self.session_ref.get(src): kw[dst] = str(self.session_ref[src]) kw["tool_count"] = self.tool_count return kw def _relay(self, event_type: str, tool_name: str = None, preview: str = None, args=None, **kwargs): if self.parent_cb: # kwargs override identity (e.g. status, duration_seconds). with _quiet("Parent callback failed: %s"): self.parent_cb(event_type, tool_name, preview, args, **{**self._identity_kwargs(), **kwargs}) def _tree_line(self, text: str) -> None: """Print one tree-view line above the CLI spinner (no-op without a spinner).""" if self.spinner: with _quiet("Spinner print_above failed: %s"): self.spinner.print_above(f" {self._prefix()}├─ {text}") def _flush(self) -> None: """Flush remaining batched tool names to the gateway.""" if self.parent_cb and self.batch: self._relay("subagent.progress", preview=f"🔀 {self._prefix()}{', '.join(self.batch)}") self.batch.clear() # ── Lifecycle events emitted by the orchestrator itself ── def _on_start(self, tool_name, preview, args, kwargs): if self.goal_label: self._tree_line(f"🔀 {_short(self.goal_label, 55)}") self._relay("subagent.start", preview=preview or self.goal_label or "", **kwargs) def _on_complete(self, tool_name, preview, args, kwargs): # Failed child: echo one clean reason line into the CLI tree so the human # sees WHY, not just a vanished branch (gateway renders off the relayed event). # The echo is an automatic diagnostic presentation: it goes through the warning # boundary under the parent's turn snapshot. The relayed event (the gateway's # producer, which classifies it) and the child result are never gated here. if kwargs.get("status") in SUBAGENT_FAILURE_STATUSES: from gateway.warning_notifications import render_notification parent = self.parent_scope render_notification( lambda: self._tree_line(format_subagent_failure_line( self.goal_label, kwargs.get("status"), error=kwargs.get("summary") or preview, duration_seconds=kwargs.get("duration_seconds"), failure_reason=kwargs.get("failure_reason"), )), platform=getattr(parent, "_notification_platform", getattr(parent, "platform", "cli")), user_config=getattr(parent, "_notification_config", None), ) self._relay("subagent.complete", preview=preview, **kwargs) def _on_text(self, tool_name, preview, args, kwargs): # Streamed child reply text, relayed verbatim for gateway watch windows; # inert on CLI/TUI (their progress handlers ignore non-tool events). self._relay("subagent.text", preview=preview) # ── DelegateEvent handlers ── def _on_thinking(self, tool_name, preview, args, kwargs): text = preview or tool_name or "" self._tree_line(f'💭 "{_short(text, 55)}"') self._relay("subagent.thinking", preview=text) def _on_progress(self, tool_name, preview, args, kwargs): # Pre-batched summary from a nested orchestrator's grandchild arrives in the tool_name slot: render distinctly # (no tool-emoji lookup) and relay upward without re-batching. summary_text = tool_name or preview or "" if summary_text: self._tree_line(f"🔀 {summary_text}") if self.parent_cb: with _quiet("Parent callback relay failed: %s"): self.parent_cb("subagent_progress", f"{self._prefix()}{summary_text}") def _on_tool_started(self, tool_name, preview, args, kwargs): self.tool_count += 1 if self.subagent_id is not None: with _active_subagents_lock: rec = _active_subagents.get(self.subagent_id) if rec is not None: rec["tool_count"] = self.tool_count rec["last_tool"] = tool_name or "" if self.spinner: from agent.display import get_tool_emoji line = f"{get_tool_emoji(tool_name or '')} {tool_name}" short = _short(preview, 35) if preview else "" self._tree_line(f'{line} "{short}"' if short else line) if self.parent_cb: self._relay("subagent.tool", tool_name, preview, args) self.batch.append(tool_name or "") if len(self.batch) >= self._BATCH_SIZE: self._flush() def __call__(self, event_type, tool_name: str = None, preview: str = None, args=None, **kwargs): key = _normalize_event(event_type) method = None if key is None else _EVENT_HANDLERS.get(key, "_on_tool_started") if method is not None: getattr(self, method)(tool_name, preview, args, kwargs) def _build_child_progress_callback( task_index: int, goal: str, parent_agent, task_count: int = 1, *, subagent_id: Optional[str] = None, parent_id: Optional[str] = None, depth: Optional[int] = None, model: Optional[str] = None, toolsets: Optional[List[str]] = None, session_ref: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None, ) -> Optional[callable]: """Relay for one child's events (see ``_ChildProgressRelay``), or None when the parent has neither a spinner nor a progress callback — the child then runs with no progress callback at all (zero behavior change).""" spinner = getattr(parent_agent, "_delegate_spinner", None) parent_cb = getattr(parent_agent, "tool_progress_callback", None) if not spinner and not parent_cb: return None if session_ref is not None: # Not an identity kwarg (underscore-prefixed, never relayed); only scopes the batch ordinal. session_ref["_parent_scope"] = parent_agent relay = _ChildProgressRelay( task_index, goal, spinner, parent_cb, task_count, subagent_id, parent_id, depth, model, toolsets, session_ref, ) relay.parent_scope = parent_agent return relay