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Teknium c89f3b8800 fix(delegation): one completion per call by default; queued units no longer stalled; tell the model results land between turns
Three orchestrator failures traced through the Sep 7 gpt-6-astra campaign sessions:

1. delegation.independent_completions (new, default false). #104299 made every
   ungrouped task its own completion message, so a 15-task call woke the
   orchestrator up to 15 times; one chain received 132 notices and answered
   130 of them with "already incorporated". A multi-task call now returns as
   ONE consolidated message unless the flag is on; `group` is inert until then.

2. Queued units were killed before they started. Units of one call share a
   pool slot but the executor was still sized by slots, so with 15 units live
   a new unit queued behind a full pool; the stale monitor's clock ran from
   dispatch, interrupted it at 450 s, and the child exited `interrupted 0.02s`
   when its thread finally came up (13 such lanes in one session). The
   executor now grows to the number of live units and the stall clock arms
   when the runner actually starts.

3. The tool text said "do not wait or poll — just continue" without saying
   that completions are delivered only BETWEEN turns. A model that never ends
   its turn (one 203-minute turn, 717 API calls) never received 40 finished
   results. Tool description, dispatch note and completion header now say to
   finish independent work, give a one-line status, and end the turn.
2026-09-07 06:46:54 -07:00
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