Surface delivery mode + pending queue in agent list --status - #1551
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The broker already tracks last-activity, InboundDeliveryMode, and the pending-injection queue per worker, but they were split across three routes with no single view. `agent-relay node agent list --status` fetches delivery mode + pending contents per agent concurrently and adds a derived "stuck" signal (manual_flush + non-empty queue) so an operator can spot an unresponsive agent in one call instead of checking each agent by hand, as the 2026-07-29 incident required. Read-only addition; does not change delivery behavior. Session-Id: 161fa1ce-ab79-45f6-b854-3d7f254868c7
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe CLI adds ChangesAgent delivery status listing
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The read-only status view adds useful delivery and queue diagnostics, but a failed pending-data lookup can currently make a manual-flush agent appear not stuck. This is a bounded, mergeable risk requiring explicit follow-up to display the state as unknown instead. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentListCommand
participant withDeliveryStatus
participant AgentHarness
AgentListCommand->>withDeliveryStatus: request status for listed agents
withDeliveryStatus->>AgentHarness: fetch delivery mode and pending messages
AgentHarness-->>withDeliveryStatus: return per-agent delivery data
withDeliveryStatus-->>AgentListCommand: return enriched agents
AgentListCommand-->>AgentListCommand: render JSON or status table
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561-577: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that requests start concurrently.
This test verifies the result and one failure path. A serial implementation would also pass.
Hold the mock responses behind deferred promises. Assert that mode and pending requests for both agents start before releasing a response.
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In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.ts`:
- Around line 431-435: Update the agent-row formatting around isStuck so a
manual_flush agent with an unavailable pending queue does not render STUCK as
“no”; display an unknown placeholder until the required pending data is
available, while preserving normal yes/no output for known states. Add a
pretty-output test covering the getPending failure path.
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In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.test.ts`:
- Around line 561-577: Strengthen the withDeliveryStatus test by replacing
immediate mock results with deferred promises, tracking each
getInboundDeliveryMode and getPending invocation, and asserting all requests for
both agents have started before resolving any deferred response. Preserve the
existing result and per-agent failure assertions after releasing the responses.
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| const rows = agents.map((agent) => ({ | ||
| name: sanitizeTerminalCell(agent.name), | ||
| mode: sanitizeTerminalCell(agent.delivery_mode ?? 'unknown'), | ||
| pending: agent.pending ? String(agent.pending.length) : '-', | ||
| stuck: isStuck(agent) ? 'yes' : 'no', |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve an unknown stuck state after a pending-queue failure.
isStuck treats pending: undefined as an empty queue. A manual_flush agent whose getPending() call fails therefore displays PENDING - and STUCK no. The command cannot establish that the agent is not stuck.
Render STUCK as unknown or - until the fields needed to determine the state are available. Add a failure-path pretty-output test.
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In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.ts` around lines 431 - 435, Update
the agent-row formatting around isStuck so a manual_flush agent with an
unavailable pending queue does not render STUCK as “no”; display an unknown
placeholder until the required pending data is available, while preserving
normal yes/no output for known states. Add a pretty-output test covering the
getPending failure path.
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<violation number="1" location="packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.ts:411">
P2: withDeliveryStatus fans out two HTTP requests (getInboundDeliveryMode + getPending) per agent with no concurrency limit. For a fleet-wide `list --status` on a broker with many spawned agents, this issues 2N simultaneous /api/spawned/<name>/... requests and loads every agent's full pending queue into memory at once, which can overwhelm the local broker and spike CLI memory when queues are large. Consider bounding concurrency (e.g. a small worker pool or p-limit-style helper) with a cap rather than Promise.all over every agent.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.ts:424">
P2: isStuck collapses the 'pending unknown' case into `no`: when the per-agent getPending fetch fails, `pending` is `undefined`, `(undefined?.length ?? 0) > 0` is false, and a manual_flush worker is reported as stuck=no. The code elsewhere deliberately distinguishes unknown from empty (MODE shows 'unknown' and PENDING depth shows '-'), so the derived stuck flag silently drops that distinction. During an incident where a manual_flush worker's pending fetch fails while its mode fetch succeeds, an operator sees a false 'no' and may miss a genuinely stuck agent. Consider rendering 'unknown' when delivery_mode is manual_flush but pending is undefined, or fail-closed to stuck=yes.</violation>
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| client: Pick<HarnessDriverClient, 'getInboundDeliveryMode' | 'getPending'>, | ||
| agents: ListAgent[] | ||
| ): Promise<AgentDeliveryStatus[]> { | ||
| return Promise.all( |
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P2: withDeliveryStatus fans out two HTTP requests (getInboundDeliveryMode + getPending) per agent with no concurrency limit. For a fleet-wide list --status on a broker with many spawned agents, this issues 2N simultaneous /api/spawned//... requests and loads every agent's full pending queue into memory at once, which can overwhelm the local broker and spike CLI memory when queues are large. Consider bounding concurrency (e.g. a small worker pool or p-limit-style helper) with a cap rather than Promise.all over every agent.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.ts, line 411:
<comment>withDeliveryStatus fans out two HTTP requests (getInboundDeliveryMode + getPending) per agent with no concurrency limit. For a fleet-wide `list --status` on a broker with many spawned agents, this issues 2N simultaneous /api/spawned/<name>/... requests and loads every agent's full pending queue into memory at once, which can overwhelm the local broker and spike CLI memory when queues are large. Consider bounding concurrency (e.g. a small worker pool or p-limit-style helper) with a cap rather than Promise.all over every agent.</comment>
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@@ -354,27 +375,74 @@ export function formatPrettyAgentList(agents: ListAgent[], now: Date): string {
+ client: Pick<HarnessDriverClient, 'getInboundDeliveryMode' | 'getPending'>,
+ agents: ListAgent[]
+): Promise<AgentDeliveryStatus[]> {
+ return Promise.all(
+ agents.map(async (agent) => {
+ const [delivery_mode, pending] = await Promise.all([
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| ].join('\n'); | ||
| /** A worker holding messages it cannot currently act on: parked in `manual_flush` with a non-empty queue. */ | ||
| function isStuck(agent: AgentDeliveryStatus): boolean { | ||
| return agent.delivery_mode === 'manual_flush' && (agent.pending?.length ?? 0) > 0; |
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P2: isStuck collapses the 'pending unknown' case into no: when the per-agent getPending fetch fails, pending is undefined, (undefined?.length ?? 0) > 0 is false, and a manual_flush worker is reported as stuck=no. The code elsewhere deliberately distinguishes unknown from empty (MODE shows 'unknown' and PENDING depth shows '-'), so the derived stuck flag silently drops that distinction. During an incident where a manual_flush worker's pending fetch fails while its mode fetch succeeds, an operator sees a false 'no' and may miss a genuinely stuck agent. Consider rendering 'unknown' when delivery_mode is manual_flush but pending is undefined, or fail-closed to stuck=yes.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.ts, line 424:
<comment>isStuck collapses the 'pending unknown' case into `no`: when the per-agent getPending fetch fails, `pending` is `undefined`, `(undefined?.length ?? 0) > 0` is false, and a manual_flush worker is reported as stuck=no. The code elsewhere deliberately distinguishes unknown from empty (MODE shows 'unknown' and PENDING depth shows '-'), so the derived stuck flag silently drops that distinction. During an incident where a manual_flush worker's pending fetch fails while its mode fetch succeeds, an operator sees a false 'no' and may miss a genuinely stuck agent. Consider rendering 'unknown' when delivery_mode is manual_flush but pending is undefined, or fail-closed to stuck=yes.</comment>
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@@ -354,27 +375,74 @@ export function formatPrettyAgentList(agents: ListAgent[], now: Date): string {
- ].join('\n');
+/** A worker holding messages it cannot currently act on: parked in `manual_flush` with a non-empty queue. */
+function isStuck(agent: AgentDeliveryStatus): boolean {
+ return agent.delivery_mode === 'manual_flush' && (agent.pending?.length ?? 0) > 0;
+}
+
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Summary
Closes the surfacing half of #1387: fleet-wide, per-agent responsiveness signals so an incident like 2026-07-29 (resident agents alive-but-unresponsive, 0 pending deliveries reported, checking 8 agents required manual per-agent digging) can be diagnosed in one call.
The broker already tracks everything needed, just split across three routes with no combined view:
GET /api/spawned/{name}/delivery-mode→{"mode":"auto_inject"|"manual_flush"}—crates/broker/src/listen_api.rs:2215-2240(route registered:483-485)GET /api/spawned/{name}/pending→{"pending":[{from,body,target,priority,mode,queued_at_ms,event_id?,thread_id?,workspace_id?,workspace_alias?}]}—crates/broker/src/listen_api.rs:2339-2407(route:488)GET /api/spawned(bulk list) already returnslast_activity_at/last_activity_ms/pending_messagesper agent —WorkerHandle.last_activity_at(crates/broker/src/worker.rs:192), serialized byWorkerRegistry::list()(worker.rs:385-415)This PR adds
agent-relay node agent list --status, which callslistAgents()once and thengetInboundDeliveryMode(name)+getPending(name)per agent concurrently (Promise.all), merging the result into each agent record plus a derivedstucksignal (manual_flushwith a non-empty pending queue). No new broker routes, no delivery-behavior changes — purely a read-only CLI surfacing addition, per the issue's own "smallest change" framing.--status(JSON, default): addsdelivery_modeandpending(full contents) to each agent object.--status --pretty: renders a NAME / MODE / PENDING / STUCK / LAST ACTIVE table.Test plan
packages/cli/src/cli/commands/local-agent.test.ts:list --statusenriches JSON output withdelivery_mode/pending, sourced via the existingHarnessDriverClient.getInboundDeliveryMode/getPendingmethods.manual_flush+ non-empty pending rendersstuck=yes;auto_inject+ empty pending rendersstuck=no.withDeliveryStatusunit test: concurrent fetch, tolerates a per-agent fetch failure (delivery_mode/pendingfall back toundefinedrather than throwing/aborting the whole list).formatPrettyAgentList/plainlistbehavior is unchanged (verified by diff — the refactor factors out a sharedrenderTablehelper but the plain-list code path and its existing tests are untouched).feat/relay-1387-delivery-observability:test (ubuntu-latest, 22.14.0),test (macos-latest, 22.14.0),lint,SDK TypeScript Check, and the rest of the required checks all pass (gh run list --branch feat/relay-1387-delivery-observability). Localnpm install/vitest could not complete on the dev sandbox due to sustained host memory pressure from other concurrent agents (confirmed viavm_stat/vm.swapusage, unrelated to this change); CI on GitHub's runners is the actual verification and it's green.Linked to #1387.