feat(server): run delegated tasks in separate worktrees

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Problem

Delegated tasks share the parent checkout, so parallel edits can overlap.

Change

Add optional isolation: "worktree" to delegate_task. Start from the parent local commit and reuse the shared setup and retry flow across providers and models. Shared checkout stays the default; uncommitted edits are not copied.

Scope and approval

Proposed as focused configuration of existing delegation and worktree launch capabilities. It reuses the existing setup hook and restart policy, with no provider-specific lifecycle or default change. Maintainer review is still required.

Verification

Focused tests cover custom providers/models, repeated requests, setup and Git failures, restart handling, and cancellation before/after child startup. All 98 latest focused tests, server/contract typechecks, and targeted lint pass. One existing MCP integration test also times out on unchanged main.

Model: GPT-6.1 Sol · Harness: Codex

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds an opt-in worktree-isolated delegated-task workflow spanning MCP contracts, orchestration, Git resolution, setup, cancellation, retries, and recovery. Its new checkout lifecycle and changes to shared launch behavior are broader than a small isolated option and warrant human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Delegated tasks can request worktree isolation based on the parent’s current local commit. The orchestration flow defers child startup when a workspace strategy is supplied, then prepares the child run. The changes also update delegation guidance, preparation recovery coverage, and test service mocks.

Changes: Delegated Worktree Flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Isolation contract and request handling packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.test.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts	The delegated-task input accepts optional shared or worktree isolation, and the orchestration command accepts an optional workspace strategy. For eligible worktree requests, the MCP service resolves the parent’s HEAD and includes the resulting strategy in dispatch. The tool and provider instructions describe async completion and when to delegate for model support.
Child workspace preparation apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.ts	A child with a workspace strategy starts in deferred mode with cleared branch and worktree paths. ThreadLaunchService.prepareRun schedules preparation for eligible runs. Preparation observes run interruption or cancellation events and applies conditional worktree cleanup.
Worktree and recovery validation apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.test.ts	Tests cover delegated worktree launches for Codex and Claude Agent, setup outcomes, commit-resolution failure, repeated requests, cancellation, and distinct restart recovery behavior for preparing and queued runs.
MCP test service wiring apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.activity.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/TaskCancelNativeSubagent.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts	MCP service and toolkit tests provide ThreadLaunchService and GitVcsDriver mocks through shared test layers.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OrchestratorMcpService
  participant GitVcsDriver
  participant Orchestrator
  participant ThreadLaunchService
  OrchestratorMcpService->>GitVcsDriver: Resolve parent HEAD
  GitVcsDriver-->>OrchestratorMcpService: Return commit SHA
  OrchestratorMcpService->>Orchestrator: Dispatch delegated request with workspace strategy
  Orchestrator-->>OrchestratorMcpService: Return child run.created event
  OrchestratorMcpService->>ThreadLaunchService: prepareRun with command, child thread, and run IDs

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f9013

A transient event-stream failure can cause an isolated delegated task to fail during setup. The failure is bounded, so this is mergeable with owner awareness of the recovery limitation.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f9013

Separate checkouts preserve the existing permission limits and shared-checkout default. Starting and stopping child tasks now involves additional workspace and setup steps. No introduced security bypass was established, but failure and recovery coverage remains incomplete.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The new public request selects isolation rather than an arbitrary checkout path or revision. The server resolves HEAD from the caller’s parent checkout and prepares the delegated child within the parent project’s workspace lifecycle.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An agent with an orchestration-capable credential and an active parent run can now trigger worktree creation and configured project setup through delegation. This is new reachability through that operation, but the inspected path did not establish an authorization bypass or additional privilege beyond existing worktree-launch capabilities.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Delegation requires orchestration capability, thread scope and an active parent run owned by the calling provider session. Provider enablement and parent run/node validation remain enforced, and worktree selection does not replace runtime or interaction-mode ceilings.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Preparation observes persisted interruption and cancellation events. Cancellation closes the tracked setup terminal and removes a newly created worktree before release. Release is uninterruptible and records ownership transfer, preventing subsequent preparation cleanup from removing a workspace already released to the provider.
• observed — The new cancellation watcher propagates stream failures into preparation failure handling. Existing transition guards accept release and failure only while the run is preparing, so that failure path cannot overwrite an already starting, interrupted or cancelled run.
• inferred — Physical worktree removal and clearing its persisted thread binding are separate operations, and metadata-clear errors are ignored. Successful removal followed by persistence failure can therefore leave a stale binding. This behavior exists in the PR base and is not retained as an introduced security concern.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider reconciling removed worktrees with persisted workspace bindings, or recording a recoverable cleanup state, so metadata persistence failures do not leave later retries relying on stale ownership information.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts:
- Line 2013: Replace the interpolated error message in the
GitCommandError-to-OrchestratorMcpFailure mapping with a fixed message that does
not expose Git operation details, checkout paths, or failure reasons.
- Around line 2073-2077: Update startup recovery in OrchestratorMcpService so
durable runs with status “preparing” and a workspacePreparation record use the
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• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.activity.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/TaskCancelNativeSubagent.integration.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.ts
• packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts
• packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.test.ts
• packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts
• packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts

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[Bil0000]

Addressed the setup-cancellation concern in f9013fa. The shared launch service now watches persisted run cancellation and interrupts its setup owner. This closes a running setup terminal; it removes a worktree before child startup and preserves the checkout after startup. Release and the ownership update complete together so late cancellation cannot delete a checkout already handed to the child. Regression tests cover blocking and async setup for Codex and Claude/custom models; all 98 focused tests pass, with server typecheck and targeted lint passing.

The restart finding was withdrawn in #19102 (comment). Restart cancellation stays consistent with ordinary threads. Maintainer approval remains pending; no approval or exemption is claimed.