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feat(hooks): under Paseo, a turn cannot end while the session's own background task runs — v0.45.0 (BRO-2815) - #134
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…ackground task runs — v0.45.0 (BRO-2815) hooks/bg-task-stop-guard.py, a Stop hook registered in hooks/hooks.json. With PASEO_AGENT_ID set, it exits 2 with a foreground-wait re-prompt when the Stop input's background_tasks (measured on Claude Code 2.1.295) lists a shell, subagent, workflow, monitor, MCP task or cloud session of the session's own still in flight. No promise matcher: the task list is the fact. Caps mirror arc-continuation: never while stop_hook_active, once per prompt_id, 5 per session (never reset), own state under $BROOMVA_AUTONOMOUS_HOME. Allows every stop outside Paseo; BSTACK_BG_TASK_GUARD=0 opts out; fails open. tests/bg-task-stop-guard.test.sh: 33 cases on real 2.1.295 Stop inputs through the registered command, 11/11 mutants killed. hook-python-isolation drives the blocking path, so its -I removal is killed dynamically (32/32). Full tests/ sweep green (67 suites). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds and registers a Python Stop hook that can block a Paseo session while counted background tasks remain active. It adds per-prompt and per-session limits, bypass and fail-open conditions, test fixtures, integration tests, and release notes. ChangesPaseo background-task Stop guard
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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ClaudeCode->>StopGuard: Send Stop event payload
StopGuard->>StateFile: Read session state
StopGuard->>StateFile: Save updated state when blocking
StopGuard->>LogFile: Append block event
StopGuard-->>ClaudeCode: Return exit status and reason
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to An unreadable or malformed guard state file can cause an unintended Stop block. Fix the read-error path before merging, or accept this bounded risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Around line 138-139: Update the state-loading handler so only a missing state
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Fail open when existing state cannot be read.
If an existing state file contains invalid JSON or cannot be read, this handler sets state to {}. The hook can then block the Stop and overwrite the prior block count. Treat only a missing file as new state; allow the Stop on other read or parse errors. The current test covers a write failure, but not this read path.
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Review comment at @hooks/bg-task-stop-guard.py around lines 138 - 139:
Update the state-loading handler so only a missing state file initializes state
as new; for other read or JSON parse errors, allow the Stop instead of resetting
state and continuing with blocking logic. Preserve the existing behavior for
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…s own per-task record (BRO-2815) Stratum B round 1 (7, AXES 2,2,1,0,2) reproduced two MAJORs, both fixed and mutation-proved: - stop_hook_active is set after ANY Stop hook's block, so an arc-continuation block disarmed the guard. Loop safety is now the guard's own record: each task id is blocked on at most once per session (+ the never-reset lifetime cap of 5). - the per-prompt cap let a shell a subagent left behind slip through on the continuation stop, and a standing monitor spent the lifetime budget across wakes. Per-task dedupe blocks the new leftover once and accepts a kept monitor without spending the budget. Also: CAP logged once per prompt (no log growth on a coordinator); the re-prompt says a subagent is done at its notification, and prefers "say so" over TaskStop for tasks meant to keep running; CHANGELOG's live-run claim corrected and backed by a clean second run (blocked, foreground wait, VERDICT-8 in the same turn). 36 cases, 13/13 mutants killed; isolation 56/56, isolation-mutation 32/32. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…me 20, minors (BRO-2815) Stratum B round 2: 9/10 APPROVE (AXES 2,2,2,1,2). Its remaining dim-4 point: a never-reset lifetime cap of 5 disarms a long-lived coordinator after five real strands. Now: PROMPT_MAX=2 blocks per prompt_id bounds a model that launches a new task every continuation (per-task dedupe already prevents repeats), and LIFE_MAX=20 stays as the never-reset backstop. Minors: an empty prompt_id no longer logs CAP on every stop; a non-list blocked_tasks is ignored; CHANGELOG TaskStop wording matches the reason text; no-id dedupe key tested. 40 cases, 15/15 mutants killed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…empty prompt id (BRO-2815) P20 round 3 minor; docstring only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
hooks/bg-task-stop-guard.pyis a Stop hook, registered inhooks/hooks.jsonand on by default. It acts only under Paseo (PASEO_AGENT_IDset).When the Stop input's
background_taskslists one of the session's own tasks still in flight, the hook blocks with exit 2. The task can be a shell (including a Monitor watch), a subagent, a workflow, a monitor, an MCP task or a cloud session. The block carries one re-prompt that names each task:p9 watchfor CI.This replaces bstack#129's approach. That guard matched promise phrasing in the closing sentence, and P20 stalled on the matcher's false positives. This hook keys on the task list, which is a fact the harness hands over. It does not try to read the prose.
Linear: BRO-2815 (https://linear.app/broomva/issue/BRO-2815)
How it knows a task is pending (measured, not guessed)
Claude Code 2.1.295 sends
background_taskson Stop. The schema says it is "in-flight background work (running/pending + backgrounded) registered in this session … Empty array when nothing is in flight". I captured the real payloads with a dump hook on throwaway sessions; they are intests/fixtures/bg-task-stop-guard/:background_tasksat the turn endrun_in_backgroundBash[{"type":"shell","status":"running","command":"sleep 90; echo done",…}][{"type":"subagent",…},{"type":"shell",…}]; a Monitor watch isshell[]The binary's label map (
Pcr) has two groups:shell,subagent,workflow,monitor,MCP task,cloud session.teammate,dream,auto-mode scan,memory import(harness-internal), unknown labels, and terminal statuses.Caps: it can never loop, and they are the guard's own
These mirror arc-continuation's consecutive and lifetime caps:
prompt_id. This bounds a model that launches a new task on every continuation.The guard deliberately does not key on
stop_hook_active. Any Stop hook's block sets that flag, and in P20 round 1 an arc-continuation block disarmed the guard.State lives at
$BROOMVA_AUTONOMOUS_HOME/bg-task-guard/<sid>.json. Every BLOCK, plus the first CAP for each prompt, appends a line tobg-task-guard.jsonl.It fails open on any parse or I/O error, and on a Claude Code that sends no
background_tasks.BSTACK_BG_TASK_GUARD=0opts a Paseo session out. "Paseo" meansPASEO_AGENT_IDis set, so aclaude -pstarted inside a Paseo session is guarded too.Evidence
subagent-pendingandshell-pendingexit 2, and the re-prompt names the task. All 4 other counted labels andpendingstatus block toonone-pendingexits 0 silently. So do a missingbackground_tasks, the 5 internal or unknown labels, and the 4 terminal statusesPASEO_AGENT_IDunset, and again with it emptystop_hook_active, CAP log spam, per-prompt cap, lifetime cap, opt-out, fail-closed, unregistered-Iis load-bearinghook-python-isolationnow drives the blocking path, and removing-Iis killed dynamically ("planted modules were imported: json"). The mutation suite is 32/32claude -psession underPASEO_AGENT_IDlaunched a background subagent and ended on "Reviewer launched; I will wait for its notification." The hook blocked it. The session then waited in foreground until-loops and finished the same turn with "its output wasVERDICT-8" (run 2; run 1 exposed the leftover-shell case that is now covered)tests/*.test.shsuites pass locallyGovernance note
A hooks.json registration that ships through the bstack release; no
~/.claude/settings.jsonedit. Precedent: #94, #95, #125, #127, #132.P20
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BSTACK_BG_TASK_GUARD=0; sessions outside Paseo are unaffected.