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Problem

A completed Claude foreground reply stays marked Thinking while its background children work.

Change

Let an opted-in flavor with negotiated ACP v2 and a continuation dispatcher settle accepted foreground work on native idle, and reuse existing continuations for autonomous output and background approvals/questions.

Scope and approval

This is the maintainer-directed replacement for #19770, recorded in the takeover comparison and handoff. The five dependent layers fix the same native Claude background-work lifecycle defect. This is not presented as an approval exemption: human approval remains required for the ownership and default changes before merging.

Verification

Consume native acceptance echoes without duplicating the user prompt. Stop closes the native session; activity and requests remain usable while close is pending or refused. Only confirmed close quarantines callbacks and cancels detached requests under the existing callback permit. Negotiated v1 and other flavors retain their existing lifecycle. Claude opts in in the final layer.

Verification: 132 shared ACP/registry tests pass, including foreground completion, permissions/questions arriving during a refused close, and actual cancelled wire responses after confirmed Stop. The refused-close regression failed before the fix. Affected typechecks and scoped lint/format checks pass.

This layer replaces part of #19770, originally by @StiensWout. Substantial implementation commits retain Wout Stiens’s co-author credit.

Current cumulative head: 49928218bd. Authenticated adapter proof: baseline foreground completion 20.956s; replacement 5.290s while the child continued until 19.285s. Autonomous continuation cleared pending work at 21.058s. Active foreground Stop reported interrupted before session-close confirmation, which returned after 27ms.

Detailed current-head verification and limits.

Authenticated verification uses official claude-agent-acp 0.93.0 on headless Linux with disposable state. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Electron desktop and relay/tunnel connections were not verified. Background permissions/questions, nested resume, transport errors, refused close and detached-request cancellation use deterministic stdio replays. A live forced-close timeout was not exercised.

The existing Stop replay also covers cancellation before prompt acceptance (-32800 before close ACK) and after acceptance (cancelled idle before ACK), retaining the refused-close completion and request checks. No cases added.

Final independent full-diff round 8 Opus and Sol reviews both have no confirmed findings on this cumulative head. Current-head CI remains blocked after one failed-job rerun per updated workflow: unchanged browser tests fail on layers 3–5: highlighting, attachment preview recovery, and keyboard focus, respectively (each run has 8047 web tests passing and one failing). All other code checks pass; the aggregate Check fails because Test Web fails. This stack changes no web source or web tests. The CI failure remains a merge blocker. CodeRabbit automated reviews are paused on layers 3–5; layers 4–5 report that their included review quota is exhausted. Independent Opus/Sol reviews cover the exact cumulative head. Human review remains required for the default and ownership changes and remaining review gates. No merge is authorized.

Tests: GPT-6 Astra, Codex harness. Implementation: GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex harness. Independent reviews: Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Code harness, and GPT-6 Sol, Codex harness.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This production adapter adds a substantial opt-in ACP v2 lifecycle for native work-state tracking, independent turn settlement, continuation handling, and session-close quarantine. The flag is default-off, but the enabled path introduces broad coordination and session-management behavior beyond a bounded additive option.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+7 B (+0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+7 B (+0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 3117be9 · PR result: 89c8832 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

The adapter adds opt-in tracking of negotiated ACP v2 agent work state. Native state updates drive turn settlement and continuation handling. User-input, permission, and elicitation requests can wait for turn attachment. Runtime termination and restart interrupts receive additional handling in this mode.

Changes: Native work-state tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Enable work-state tracking packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts	The flavor option and negotiated protocol version control tracking. Session setup initializes tracked state, and turns record whether work was accepted.
Settle turns from native state packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts	Native state updates drive turn settlement. Notifications received without an active turn are buffered and can trigger continuation work. Pending-background-work reporting includes active agent work and requests.
Hold agent requests for a turn packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts	User-input, permission, and elicitation requests can wait for turn attachment. Outstanding requests defer idle settlement, and cancellation releases attachment waiters.
Handle termination and restart interrupts packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts	Runtime termination fails the active turn in tracked mode. A restart interrupt closes the session before clearing tracked work, cancelling pending requests, and interrupting the active turn.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ACP_Runtime
  participant AcpAdapter
  participant ActiveAcpTurn
  ACP_Runtime->>AcpAdapter: Send native state update or output
  AcpAdapter->>ActiveAcpTurn: Record accepted work or settle on idle
  AcpAdapter->>AcpAdapter: Buffer notifications without an active turn and offer continuation

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Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8b256

Stop can occasionally report a turn as cancelled rather than interrupted. The impact is bounded, but the close-ordering fix should be considered before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the primary change: independently settling native foreground ACP work.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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