fix(claude-relay-plugin): fix the pipeline deadlock and finish the workspace-key removal - #89
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In `@plugins/claude-relay-plugin/hooks/subagent-bootstrap.sh`:
- Around line 10-20: Define registration failure handling in
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/hooks/subagent-bootstrap.sh lines 10-20: state that
register_agent must succeed before any later relay calls, and on “Workspace key
not configured” return the failure through the Agent result or another explicit
channel without retrying. Update
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/agents/relay-worker/agent.md lines 9-10 with the
same exact rule and remove generic retry behavior for registration step 1; later
relay calls remain invalid until registration succeeds.
In `@plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md`:
- Line 32: Update the opening fenced examples to include the text language
identifier in plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md:32,
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-team/SKILL.md:31, and
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-pipeline/SKILL.md:31 and :45, changing
each fence to use text.
In `@plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-pipeline/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 44-54: Update the later-stage worker prompt in the stage-spawning
instructions to require every worker to finish with a DONE message containing a
handoff artifact, matching the stage 1 requirement. For the final stage,
additionally require the handoff to include final evidence that the overall task
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In `@plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 48-51: Update the coordinator workflows to inspect each Agent
result for registration, assignment, or foreground execution failures before
relying on relay messages: in
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md lines 48-51 and
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-team/SKILL.md lines 48-51, handle
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plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-pipeline/SKILL.md lines 45-46, handle
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| 8. Wait for an ACK from every worker with `check_inbox(as: "relay-lead")`. A missing ACK means that worker is not working — re-DM it. | ||
| 9. Keep a live worker table in your notes: name, unit, ACK, blocked, DONE. | ||
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Handle out-of-band worker failures before waiting for relay messages.
Worker registration and no-assignment failures return through the Agent result. They do not produce relay ACK or DONE messages. Each coordinator must inspect that result before retrying or polling.
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md#L48-L51: handle registration failure before re-DM and DONE collection.plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-team/SKILL.md#L48-L51: handle registration failure before re-DM and DONE collection.plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-pipeline/SKILL.md#L45-L46: handle foreground Agent failure before waiting for DONE or starting the next stage.
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In `@plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md` around lines 48 -
51, Update the coordinator workflows to inspect each Agent result for
registration, assignment, or foreground execution failures before relying on
relay messages: in plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-fanout/SKILL.md
lines 48-51 and plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-team/SKILL.md lines
48-51, handle failures before re-DMing or collecting DONE messages; in
plugins/claude-relay-plugin/skills/relay-pipeline/SKILL.md lines 45-46, handle
foreground Agent failure before waiting for DONE or starting the next stage.
Preserve the existing worker-table, ACK, and completion flows for successful
Agent results.
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Seven findings, all confirmed: - **Foreground pipeline deadlock (P1).** "Do NOT release yourself — stay idle" is right for backgrounded team/fanout workers but wrong for pipeline, whose stages run in the foreground: a worker that stays idle never returns, so the blocking Agent call never completes and the lead can neither read the DONE nor spawn the next stage. Pipeline workers now end their turn after DONE. The distinction between ending a turn and releasing a relay identity (`remove_agent`) is now stated explicitly in all three skills, since conflating them caused this. - **Concurrent runs share the project pin (P1).** The pin is last-writer-wins, so two leads in one checkout can cross workers into each other's workspace. Documented the one-team-per-checkout constraint and pointed at the ACK gate that already detects it — a worker in the wrong workspace finds no assignment and cannot ACK. - **Registration failure had no usable channel.** The old text said to report it "to your lead", but `send_dm` needs the registration that just failed. The worker now stops without retrying and makes the error its final response, which is what the lead gets back from the Agent call. Same for an empty inbox, the symptom of the pin race above. - **Plugin version was not bumped.** Marketplace clients use it to detect updates, so existing installs would have stayed on the prompts that leak workspace keys. Bumped to 0.2.0 in `plugin.json`, `package.json`, and the marketplace entry. - **`get_observer_url` may not be present yet** — it ships in AgentWorkforce/relay#1422. The instruction now falls back to `agent-relay observer` so a lead is never stuck on a missing tool. - **Later pipeline stages had no handoff requirement**, unlike stage 1; the final stage now also owes evidence. - **MD040**: gave the spawn examples a `text` language. Also drops the now-stale "if any of steps 1-2 fail, retry once" from the worker definition — step 2 became a standing prohibition, not a fallible action. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jmke9G9s7ftrN49opNmdx1
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maincurrently ships the first half of this change with a deadlock bug in it. This PR is the fix.The bug now on main (P1)
relay-pipelinespawns stages with the Agent tool in foreground mode and instructs each stage worker:That instruction is correct for
relay-teamandrelay-fanout, whose workers are backgrounded. In a foreground pipeline it deadlocks the run: the worker never returns, so the blocking Agent call never completes, so the lead can neither read stage 1's DONE nor spawn stage 2. Every pipeline hangs after the first stage.Root cause was conflating two different things under "release yourself" — ending a turn vs. releasing a relay identity with
remove_agent. All three skills now separate them explicitly: no worker ever callsremove_agenton itself in any pattern, and only the turn-ending behaviour differs by spawn mode. The pipeline rules section names the trap so it does not get reintroduced.The rest of the review round
send_dmneeds the registration that just failed. The worker now stops without retrying and makes the error its final response — what the lead receives back from the Agent call. Same for an empty inbox, which is the symptom of the pin race below.0.1.0→0.2.0inplugin.json,package.json, and the marketplace entry.get_observer_urlmay be absent. It ships in feat(cli): addagent-relay observerto mint read-only follow-along links relay#1422 (now merged there, but not in every installed CLI). The instruction falls back toagent-relay observerso a lead is never stuck on a missing tool.textlanguage.Test Plan
8540f7f). Git recognised the first commit as already applied and skipped it; only the review-fix commit remainsmainstill lacks every one of these fixes — so the PR still does something, and the deadlock is currently shippedstay idleleft in pipeline, final-stage evidence, the concurrency note in all 3 skills, the observer fallback in all 3, the out-of-band failure path in the hook, 4 labelled fencesbash -non the hook, plus rendered it withRELAY_AGENT_NAME=worker-1and read the output0.2.0in all three declarations/relay-pipelinewith a live workspace — not run; no credentials here. Worth confirming a two-stage pipeline advances past stage 1, since that is the bug being fixedScreenshots
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