feat(server): delegated, created and forked threads come with a link

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Before	After

Problem

When an agent delegates work, creates threads, or forks, it tells you about the new thread with a raw ID like thread:delegated-task:command%3Amcp%3A2c7f…. That's dead text, so you have to go find the thread in the sidebar. #16782 fixed this for t3_thread_list, t3_thread_read and t3_thread_launch by returning a ready [title](t3-thread://…) link for agents to paste. delegate_task, task_status, create_threads and t3_thread_fork were left out, and in orchestration they are where most new threads come from. Discussion #16910 asked for exactly this.

Change

Those four tools now return the same link, built with formatThreadLink like #16782:

• delegate_task and task_status get childThreadLink, next to childThreadId. Both results come from one builder, so waits, timeouts and replayed requests get it too.
• Each create_threads entry gets link.
• t3_thread_fork gets link. It reads the fork's title after dispatch, which is safe because the event sink applies the new thread's projection before dispatch returns. t3_thread_merge_back keeps its old result, since it targets a thread the agent already knows.
• The tool descriptions tell agents to paste the link, and the orchestrator MCP doc lists the new fields.

This is server only. Web and mobile already render t3-thread:// links from #16782.

Not covered: t3_thread_search matches, t3_thread_transfers and scheduled task boundThreadId still return bare IDs. Search is the closest call, but its results are per-message snippets from a contract the web client also uses, so I left it for its own change.

Scope and approval

Follow-up to #16782, for the request in #16910. I'm a maintainer.

Verification

• Ran a dev server and asked a GPT-6-Astra thread to delegate a one-word task to a subagent, then say where it ran. With main's server code it printed the raw ID (left). With this branch it pasted a link (right), and clicking it opened the subagent's thread.

• Same setup with create_threads and t3_thread_fork: both replies linked the new thread by title, and the fork link opened the mcp:…:fork thread.

  

• vp test run on core.test.ts (new test: the fork link points at the fork, not its source) and packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.test.ts: pass. In OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts the new delegate_task and create_threads link assertions pass. That test still fails later on Windows, with the same timeout on unmodified main, and the Codex replay test fails on a Windows path bug. Both are unrelated, so CI on Linux is the real check for that file.

• Server and contracts typecheck, plus lint and format on the changed files: clean.

Done with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running in T3 Code. GPT-6-Astra reviewed it.

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Verdict: Approved at c3bd044

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized additive MCP enhancement that supplies clickable links for existing thread operations without changing their underlying behavior. The output contract and tests are updated together, and no affected production decoder or persisted-result consumer was found.

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MCP results for delegated tasks, created threads, and forked threads now include links. The changes add result fields, format links using thread and environment details, update tool descriptions and documentation, and add coverage for returned links.

Changes

MCP thread links

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Delegated-task and created-thread links packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.test.ts, docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md	Delegated-task results include childThreadLink, and created-thread results include link. Tool descriptions, documentation, and tests cover these links.
Fork result link apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/tools.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts	The fork handler returns a link to the target thread. It uses the shell title when available, then the requested title or source title. Tests cover the shell-title and requested-title fallback cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c3bd0

The added thread links point to the corresponding threads, and a fork still returns its link if reading the fork title fails. No actionable merge-blocking risk was established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c3bd0

The links preserve existing thread identities and access checks. No new privilege or cross-environment access path was identified in the inspected code. Risk remains low, with fork cancellation recovery and compatibility with external clients not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected change affects presentation and navigation to threads already selected or created by the existing tools. Links carry environment/thread identifiers, not credentials or additional execution authority. The unchanged web consumer resolves scoped references and navigates to an in-app thread route.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Existing caller controls remain on the changed paths: read-only clients cannot perform writes, thread callers must retain an active owned run, and targeted thread writes remain subject to caller mode limits and dispatch-time rechecks. Link construction does not change these wrappers or target selection.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Fork title enrichment occurs after commit, and typed read failures fall back without failing the result. The new read extends the interval before acknowledgement, but interruption recovery is not established. A repeated invocation generates a fresh command and target ID; that non-idempotent retry behavior and committed-but-unacknowledged ambiguity already existed at the PR base.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding links to delegated, created, and forked threads.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope and approval, verification steps, known unrelated test failures, screenshots, and the agent and harness u…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Approvability	✅ Passed	Pass. The diff adds ready-to-paste links to existing MCP results and updates related descriptions, documentation, and tests. The changes to packages/contracts are additive response fields (`childThrea…

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/handlers.ts:
- Line 135: Move fork dispatch and result construction out of the handler into a
domain service method that returns the committed fork result without depending
on a successful getThreadShell read. Use the known fork title or a safe fallback
in the service, and keep the handler around targetThreadId limited to decoding,
one service call, and typed error mapping.

Review comments at @docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md:
- Line 356: Add the documented childThreadLink field to the DelegateTaskResult
declaration so the result type matches the delegate_task and task_status
response contract.

Review comments at @packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts:
- Line 266: Update the created-thread result schema around `link: Schema.String`
so decoding remains compatible when older clients or stored results omit `link`;
accept the missing field while preserving string decoding when it is present.

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not the right solution. will fix properly and revert the bad parts #16782 brought in