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Child agent timeout enforcement for terminal commands

Cluster 52185 · agent. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix attempted, not merged.

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0open issues
0open PRs
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a bug where delegated child agents can exceed their configured timeout when running blocking terminal commands, and efforts to enforce hard timeouts and force-kill mechanisms to prevent this.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs0

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2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2

  • #52260 fix(delegate): cap child terminal runtime to timeout budget · done elsewhere → #52185
  • #52472 fix(agent): enforce child_timeout_seconds via force-kill on terminal subprocess (#52185) · done elsewhere → #52185
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#52185Delegated child can exceed child_timeout_seconds during blocking terminal command
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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