An exception escaping a non-interactive cycle re-raised before the status
handling, so a dying child stayed 'running' and its parent waited out the
timeout on a completion report the child could no longer send. Set the
terminal status and wake the parent on the way out too.
One tool was doing three jobs (wait on the user, wait on other agents, and
- wrongly - wait for a long-running command), so the driver had to guess which
one an agent meant and used parent_id as the proxy: the root waits for a human,
everyone else waits for agents. That proxy is wrong, since the user can message
any agent from the TUI's agent tree.
Tool identity now carries the intent, and the coordinator records it as a
wait_kind that survives snapshot/restore:
respond_to_user -> wait_kind="user", never auto-resumed (root or not)
wait_for_agents -> wait_kind="agents", auto-resumed on a 300s timer
recovery exhaust -> wait_kind="stalled"
respond_to_user fuses the message and the yield into one call, so there is no
way to answer and then forget to stop - the two-step that gpt-4o-mini skipped
2/2 in live testing. Plain text still renders as before.
Auto-resume is also bounded now: an agent that re-parks after every timeout
burned a model turn every 300s for the rest of the scan (and, since parked
children notify their parent, spammed the parent's inbox on the same cycle).
After _MAX_IDLE_AUTO_RESUMES it stays parked until a real message arrives.
The user can message any agent from the TUI, not only the root, so the
justification is that the parent is an agent with no other way to learn
the child parked - not that the child has no human resumer.
Parking is self-service only for the root, which the user is watching.
A parked child owes its parent a report it can no longer send, so the
parent would wait out its full timeout for nothing.
An exhausted agent parked in 'waiting' got a fresh nudge budget on every
600s auto-resume, so a wedged agent could nudge-park-nudge indefinitely.
Track the count on the coordinator, snapshot it, and reset it only on
real input or an explicit lifecycle tool.
Interactive turns ended by plain text left the agent parked in 'waiting'
forever. Require an explicit lifecycle tool in both modes and nudge a
text-only turn back into a tool call, bounded by a recovery limit.
* fix: resolve pre-commit check failures
- Change RuntimeError to TypeError for type validation in report/writer.py
- Update pyupgrade to v3.21.2 for Python 3.14 compatibility
* feat(cli): add --max-budget-usd flag
Raises BudgetExceededError in ReportUsageHooks after each LLM call when
accumulated cost reaches the limit, with clean "stopped" status and
child-agent cancellation in non-interactive mode.
* test: add budget enforcement unit tests
7 tests covering no-budget, under-budget, at-limit, over-limit, error
message content, None report state, and exception hierarchy.
Also adds pytest/pytest-asyncio to dev deps and a mypy override for tests.
* fix(budget): validate positive budget and check the live cost ledger
Two hardening fixes for --max-budget-usd enforcement:
- Reject non-positive budgets. ReportUsageHooks now raises ValueError for
max_budget_usd <= 0, and the CLI validates the flag via a custom argparse
type so '--max-budget-usd 0' fails fast with a friendly message instead of
silently killing the scan on the first model response.
- Read the live cost. The budget check now reads ReportState.get_total_llm_cost()
(the live ledger) instead of the persisted run-record snapshot, so it stays
accurate even when a usage save fails after a model call.
* fix(budget): stop the entire scan deterministically when the limit is hit
Previously a BudgetExceededError was handled per-agent: it was swallowed in
interactive mode (the loop kept waiting), a child's error escaped its detached
task as an unretrieved-exception warning, the parent was never released from
wait_for_message, and the stop was logged at ERROR with a traceback as if the
agent had failed.
Replace that with a single scan-wide signal on the coordinator:
- AgentCoordinator.trigger_budget_stop() sets a flag and wakes every parked
agent; wait_for_message returns as soon as the flag is set.
- The run loops check coordinator.budget_stopped and raise to exit cleanly,
marking themselves 'stopped'. The root's exception reaches run_strix_scan's
handler, which cancels descendants and tears the scan down once; child
exceptions are swallowed in their detached task.
- The budget stop is logged at INFO, not as a failure.
This is deterministic regardless of tree depth or which agent first sees the
limit, fixing the interactive/TUI hang where a deep agent's stop never reached
a parked root. Also re-raises BudgetExceededError explicitly in the stream
handler so it can't be mistaken for the LiteLLM 'after shutdown' race.
* fix(budget): treat a budget stop as a clean stop in the TUI
Add an explicit BudgetExceededError handler in the TUI scan thread so that, if
the error ever reaches it, the budget stop is logged as a graceful stop rather
than surfaced as a red scan error by the broad 'except Exception'. The runner
normally absorbs the error and returns cleanly, so this is defensive depth for
a money-spending feature.
* docs(cli): document --max-budget-usd behavior and limitations
Clarify that the budget is cumulative across all agents, checked after each
model response, that the scan stops cleanly (not as a failure), that the value
must be > 0, and that spend can slightly overshoot due to in-flight calls and
best-effort cost estimation.
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