HANDOFF.md

Purpose

Immediate baton-pass for the next fresh implementation session.

Current objective

Investigate and improve subagent / ACP delegation reliability with evidence-first debugging. The subagent persistence/announcement fix and the raw agent.wait semantics fix are now both live-verified on branch fix/subagent-wait-error-outcome; the next work should shift to follow-up cleanup (commit/push/PR when desired, ACP-specific runtime failures, and any unrelated /subagents log UX work only in a separate focused pass).

Use these state files first

WIP.subagent-reliability.md — canonical state for this pass
memory/tasks.json — task tracking for reliability items
memory/2026-03-04-subagent-delegation.md — earlier delegation context
memory/2026-03-13.md if present, otherwise append today’s evidence there
external/openclaw-upstream/ — for any core-runtime fix work

task-20260304-2215-subagent-reliability — in progress
task-20260304-211216-acp-claude-codex — open

Known truths

TUI noise suppression was already patched locally and upstreamed earlier.
User still wants actual subagent reliability improved, not just UI noise hidden.
Prior ACP failures included Claude/Codex runtime exits.
Fresh-session implementation discipline is now the expected approach for non-trivial work.
One explicit failure mode is already understood: requesting glm-5 can route into an unavailable GLM-5 provider/entitlement path in this setup.
A deeper bug was also identified: a subagent run could finish with terminal assistant errors yet still be recorded as successful with no frozen result.
An upstream patch for that error/outcome handling now exists in external/openclaw-upstream on branch fix/subagent-wait-error-outcome with targeted tests passing.

Highest-priority next actions

Treat the reliability fixes as live-verified on this branch:
- subagent persistence/announcement proof:
  - run id b50cb91f-6219-44f7-9d2f-a1264ac7ceaf
  - child transcript ~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions/f114b831-000b-4070-a539-85c68d2b7057.jsonl
  - runs.json stores outcome.status: "error", endedReason: "subagent-error", and a non-null frozenResultText
- raw agent.wait live-fix proof:
  - gateway launch: OPENCLAW_SKIP_CHANNELS=1 CLAWDBOT_SKIP_CHANNELS=1 pnpm exec tsx src/index.ts gateway run --port 18903 --bind loopback --auth none --allow-unconfigured
  - run id: gwc-live-agent-wait-gpt53-source-fixed2-1773429512008
  - final agent response: finalStatus:"error"
  - agent.wait: {"runId":"gwc-live-agent-wait-gpt53-source-fixed2-1773429512008","status":"error","endedAt":1773429514106,"error":"LLM request rejected: Your input exceeds the context window of this model. Please adjust your input and try again."}
Commit/push/PR the focused upstream reliability branch when ready.
Re-check whether ACP-specific Claude/Codex runtime failures are still reproducible now that the generic subagent outcome/agent.wait bugs are separated and fixed.
Leave the dirty /subagents log UX diff out of this branch unless you intentionally spin a separate focused pass; it regression-passed src/auto-reply/reply/commands.test.ts but still lacks dedicated feature coverage.

Success criteria

Real-run verification of the new error/outcome fix. ✅ done for subagent persistence/announcement handling.
Clear separation between resolved reporting bug(s) and any still-open ACP/runtime failures.
Explicit decision on whether raw agent.wait behavior is acceptable or requires a follow-up fix.
State files updated with paths, commands, and outcomes.

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