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Cron no-agent workdir jobs serialization issue

Cluster 73804 · cron. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #99534 on 31 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members concern a problem where cron jobs without an agent that use a working directory are run on a single-thread sequential pool, causing unnecessary serialization and potential starvation of other workdir jobs. A fix to run such jobs on a parallel pool instead is proposed or in progress.

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  • #99534 fix(cron): isolate per-execution working directories (salvage #96573)

    merged to main

    files: cron/scheduler.py, tests/cron/test_cron_failure_summarizer_inactivity.py, tests/cron/test_cron_workdir.py, tests/cron/test_execution_ledger.py, tests/cron/test_oneshot_dispatch_failure_run_claim.py, tests/cron/test_parallel_pool.py, tests/cron/test_scheduler.py, tests/cron/test_scheduler_cron_session_isolation.py, tests/cron/test_script_claim_heartbeat.py, tests/cron/test_terminal_cwd_lock.py, tests/tools/test_terminal_task_cwd.py, tools/environments/base.py, tools/environments/local.py, tools/terminal_tool.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md, website/i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/reference/environment-variables.md, website/i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/user-guide/features/cron.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · partial fix 1

  • #73817 fix(cron): run no-agent workdir jobs on parallel pool (#73804) · partial fix → b13fc51, #73804, #73836, #73817, #1, #15803, #14532, #6, #9, #374151, #4338
  • #73836 fix(cron): parallelize no-agent workdir scripts · done elsewhere → #99534
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#73804Cron: no-agent script jobs with a workdir are needlessly serialized on the single-thread sequential pool (silent starvation of other workdir jobs)
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cron
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#99534
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2 PRs closed without merging
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31 Aug 2026

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