Link teammate subagent transcripts spawned by the Agent tool - #316
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe converter now links teammate transcripts from both ChangesTeammate linking and cache compatibility
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change restores and improves teammate transcript linking, but its cache invalidation can permanently delete archived project history when the original logs are no longer available, leaving nothing to rebuild. This data-loss path should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge; the fallback documentation also remains out of sync with the name-first matching behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SpawnRecords
participant Converter
participant SidecarMetadata
participant LinkedTranscript
SpawnRecords->>Converter: collect unresolved Task and Agent spawns
Converter->>SidecarMetadata: read teammate name
SidecarMetadata-->>Converter: return sidecar name
Converter->>Converter: match name, then normalized prompt
Converter->>LinkedTranscript: assign agentId to spawn and transcript entries
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In `@dev-docs/teammates.md`:
- Around line 352-353: Update the matching procedure near the prompt-only rule
to document that candidates are first matched when their normalized sidecar and
spawn name values are equal; only unmatched candidates should then use
normalized prompt matching, with an exact prompt match winning.
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Document the name-first matching pass.
Lines 352-353 describe prompt-only matching as the decision rule. The implementation first matches equal sidecar and spawn name values, then uses prompt-only fallback for unmatched candidates. Add this ordering and fallback condition to this procedure.
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In `@dev-docs/teammates.md` around lines 352 - 353, Update the matching procedure
near the prompt-only rule to document that candidates are first matched when
their normalized sidecar and spawn name values are equal; only unmatched
candidates should then use normalized prompt matching, with an exact prompt
match winning.
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`_collect_unresolved_task_results` gathered spawn prompts only from tool_uses named `Task`. Teammates are spawned by `Agent`, so for a modern teammate session the prompt-hash fallback collected nothing and silently returned early — the subagent JSONLs were never opened and their whole conversation was missing from the rendered output. Every other site already handles the pair (`dag.py`, four sites in `renderer.py`, `tool_factory.py`); this one was written when the spawn tool was still called Task and never followed the rename. The fallback is not a nicety for these sessions — it is the only link that can work. For `taskKind: in_process_teammate`, Claude Code writes `agent-<id>.meta.json` with no `toolUseId`, so the sidecar path is dead; and the `Agent` tool_result carries `agent_id: "<name>@session- <hash>"`, a teammate id unrelated to the transcript's own agentId, so the structured path is dead too. On a real 25 MB session all six subagents went from unlinked to linked, 10027 -> 10842 entries. Also add the 1.5.0 -> 1.6.0 cache breaking-change rule: a cache written before this fix has the unlinked entry list baked in, and re-rendering with the fix in place still serves it. Verified by writing a cache under the old code and reading it back under the new one (0 agents), against a fresh cache (6 agents). `test_major_version_increase_is_compatible` used 1.5.0 as an arbitrary old version, which that rule turns into a real boundary; moved to 1.5.1 so it exercises the default path it is named for. The new test is parametrised over both spawn tool names and was mutation-checked: reverting the gate fails the Agent arm and passes the Task arm. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A prompt is not a discriminator for teammates. A team-lead fanning the
same instructions out to N teammates gives every one of them a
byte-identical body, and `_link_subagents_by_prompt_hash` then paired
them by filename sort order against message order, which is arbitrary.
Measured over one real archive (198 teammate sidecars, 12 sessions):
7 sessions contained at least one group of teammates sharing a
normalized prompt, 15 groups in all, the largest with 11 members. The
mis-pairings were pure permutations within a group, the signature of
sort-order assignment:
spawn of 'exp-haiku-B' anchored to teammate 'exp-fable-B'
spawn of 'exp-sonnet-B' anchored to teammate 'exp-haiku-B'
spawn of 'exp-fable-B' anchored to teammate 'exp-sonnet-B'
That is a model-comparison session where every arm gets the same
prompt, so the transcript shown under one model is another model's.
Wrong attribution is worse than none: an absent transcript invites a
re-run, a confident wrong one invites a wrong conclusion.
This was latent before the parent commit, which is what makes it
reachable — teammate spawns went from never linked to linked, and
teammates are exactly the population whose prompts collide.
Both sides carry the discriminator: the spawn's `input.name`
(`TaskInput.name`) and the sidecar's own `name`. Matching now runs
name-aware first and falls back to the previous prompt-only pass for
whatever it leaves over, so a spawn with no name (plain `Task`
sub-agents, older transcripts) or a sidecar with no `name` degrades to
the old result rather than to no link.
On the archive, trunk-attributable mis-anchorings go from 23 (~12% of
the spawns the fallback linked) to 0. Reviewer and author derived the
denominator differently -- 197 vs 202 -- so only the numerator, 23, is
quoted precisely; both measurements agreed on it. The new test is mutation-checked: disabling the name pass
fails it, and its fixture orders filenames so that sort-order pairing
gets the answer backwards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The invalidation entry added with the linking fix was "1.5.0": "1.6.0",
written when the project was at 1.5.0 and the fix was expected to ship
in 1.6.0. 1.6.0 has since been released without it, so that entry now
targets the wrong generation: a cache stamped 1.6.0 by the released
version carries the same unlinked entry list, and `1.6.0 <= 1.5.0` is
false, so it would never be rebuilt.
Retargeted to "1.6.0": "1.6.1", which subsumes the old entry — any
cache at or below 1.6.0 is rebuilt once the running library is 1.6.1 or
newer, so it holds whether the next release is a patch or a minor.
Nothing about the source files changes when this fix lands, so mtime
and fingerprint checks cannot notice; the version stamp is the only
signal that a rebuild is due.
Like every entry in that dict, it is inert until the version is bumped
past its threshold — at 1.6.0 the table is unchanged from today's
behaviour. Verified across all three library versions:
lib 1.6.0: 1.5.0->ok 1.6.0->ok 1.6.1->ok
lib 1.6.1: 1.5.0->rebuild 1.6.0->rebuild 1.6.1->ok
lib 1.7.0: 1.5.0->rebuild 1.6.0->rebuild 1.6.1->ok
`test_major_version_increase_is_compatible` moves 1.5.1 -> 1.6.1 for
the same reason it moved last time: its cache version has to sit above
every declared boundary or it stops testing the default path.
No schema change and no migration: `_schema_version` tracks the
numbered migration files, and this only alters when a rebuild is
triggered.
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The bug
Teammate subagent transcripts were never rendered. Their
.jsonlfiles under<session>/subagents/were not even opened, so a session that fanned work out toteammates showed the spawn calls and nothing else — none of the conversation, none
of the results.
_collect_unresolved_task_resultsgathered spawn prompts only from tool_uses namedTask. Teammates are spawned byAgent, so the prompt-hash fallback collectednothing and returned early. Every other site already handles the pair (
dag.py,four sites in
renderer.py,tool_factory.py); this one was written when the spawntool was still called
Taskand never followed the rename.For teammates that fallback is not a nicety — it is the only link that can work:
taskKind: in_process_teammatesidecars (agent-<id>.meta.json) carry notoolUseId, so the sidecar path cannot resolve them.Agenttool_result carriesagent_id: "<name>@session-<hash>", a teammate idunrelated to the transcript's own
agentId, so the structured path cannot either.On a large real session all six teammates went from unlinked to linked
(10 027 → 10 842 entries).
The second commit
Making those links reachable exposed a latent defect in the same fallback.
A prompt is not a discriminator for teammates: a team-lead fanning the same
instructions out to N teammates gives every one of them a byte-identical body, and
matching then paired them by filename sort order against message order, which is
arbitrary. Over one real archive of 198 teammate sidecars across 12 sessions, 7
sessions contained at least one colliding group (15 groups, largest 11 members), and
23 spawns — about 12% of those linked — were anchored to the wrong teammate, as
pure permutations within a group.
The bad case is a model-comparison session where every arm gets the same prompt: the
transcript displayed under one arm is another arm's. Wrong attribution is worse than
none — an absent transcript invites a re-run, a confident wrong one invites a wrong
conclusion.
Both sides carry the discriminator: the spawn's
input.name(TaskInput.name) andthe sidecar's own
name. Matching now runs name-aware first, then falls back to theprevious prompt-only pass for whatever is left, so a spawn with no name (plain
Tasksub-agents, older transcripts) or a sidecar with no
namedegrades to the old resultrather than to no link. Mis-anchorings go to 0.
Cache invalidation
A cache written before this fix has the unlinked entry list baked in, and
re-rendering with the fix in place still serves it — verified by writing a cache
under the old code and reading it back under the new one. Hence the
"1.5.0": "1.6.0"breaking_changesentry.Tests
Two new tests, both mutation-checked (reverting the change under test fails it):
test_prompt_hash_fallback_covers_both_spawn_tool_names— parametrised overTaskandAgent.test_colliding_prompts_are_disambiguated_by_teammate_name— its fixture ordersfilenames so that sort-order pairing produces the wrong answer.
just cigreen: 3068 unit, 68 TUI, 90 browser, 78 integration; ruff, pyright and tyclean.
Not included
<agent-message from="…">peer messages (#309) are a different carrier — anattachmentof typequeued_commandwhoseoriginobject we currently ignore —and are handled separately.
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