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Delegate task failure status reporting fixes

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2 open items. Fix merged in #99067 on 31 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Multiple fixes addressing incorrect status and exit reason reporting when delegated subagent or child tasks encounter non-retryable errors. The work corrects cases where failures were misreported as completed, truncated, or otherwise inaccurate.

Open issues1

  • Issue#82599delegate_task reports status=completed for subagents that failed with a non-retryable client error (401)

Open PRs1

  • PR#103168fix(delegate): fail child error summaries (#82599)

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  • #99067 fix: subagent provider failures report exit_reason=error, not a false TRUNCATED banner (#97654, #97655, salvage #98129)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_delegate.py, tests/tools/test_process_registry.py, tools/delegate_tool.py, tools/process_registry.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1 · other 1

  • #91940 fix(delegate): report failed status for non-retryable subagent client errors (#82599) · other
  • #94503 fix(delegate): report non-retryable child failures accurately · superseded by another PR → #99067
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