Independent review found the delegation WAIT was a plain timer: the batch
results arrived with 1,199 s left on a 1,200 s wait and nothing re-judged,
so integration sat unfinished until the timer ran out. The wait now records
how many batches it was set for (GoalState.waiting_on_delegations) and
is_waiting() lifts it the moment fewer are live, so the next idle tick
resumes with the result in hand. A plain timed wait (no delegations) is
unchanged. The TUI/Desktop goal path now passes the live delegation count
to the judge like the CLI and gateway do.
Live with the real auxiliary judge: WAIT 900 s with 4 live batches; one
returns -> is_waiting() False immediately.
Test: parked with 4 live, lifted at 3, plain timed wait unaffected.
JUDGE_SYSTEM_PROMPT allowed WAIT only for "a background process listed
below" or a stated backoff. A fan-out orchestrator's in-flight work is
delegated subagents, which are not registry processes, so when the agent
said "waiting on 4 worker batches, nothing to dispatch" the judge answered
CONTINUE ("no background process is listed to gate on"). In the
1,393-agent run 4 of 5 nudges fired 6-153 s after exactly such a turn and
each bought a status recap: 19 API calls at ~450K context, ~$4.9, and no
work a batch-complete notification would not have produced.
The judge now receives an "Active delegations: N batch(es) still running"
line (count of live async_delegation records whose parent_session_id is
this session, via the existing _session_records selector) and a WAIT
branch for it: wait_for_seconds 600-1800 when the response says it is
waiting on them with nothing dispatchable. Both goal-loop callers (CLI,
gateway) pass the count.
Live A/B with the real auxiliary judge on the run's response shape
("4 worker batches still running ... nothing else is dispatchable until
these return"): main 3/3 CONTINUE, branch 3/3 WAIT 1200 s.
Tests (2): the prompt carries the delegations line only when N > 0 and
a wait verdict parses through; count_active_delegations is scoped to the
spawning session and ignores completed records.
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