fix(server): keep delegated review rounds on the task API

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Delegated review follow-ups could be sent to a child thread outside the completed task's lifecycle, making cancellation misleading. The MCP descriptions and injected instructions now require a new delegate_task per review round, with the full review context and a distinct retry-stable request ID.

Clarify that cancelling a terminal task leaves later child-thread runs alone. Preserve ordinary thread messaging and the existing cancellation behavior; extend the existing integration test to check that cancellation disposes delivery and preserves the result.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes the default orchestration guidance used by MCP-enabled provider sessions, including how delegated review rounds are created and tracked. The implementation and tests are narrowly scoped, but the product-default behavior change warrants human review.

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Walkthrough

The PR updates delegated-review guidance and terminal-task cancellation descriptions across tool descriptions, orchestration instructions, and documentation. Tests now check the guidance and verify that a completed task’s result remains available when delivery is disposed.

Changes

Delegated review lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Delegated review round guidance apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts, apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.test.ts, docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md	Guidance directs each review round to a new delegate_task call with prior context, a distinct taskId, and a clientRequestId stable across retries. It distinguishes childThreadId from a route for starting another round. Tests check this guidance.
Terminal-task cancellation behavior apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts, docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md	Descriptions distinguish active-task cancellation from terminal-task cancellation. For terminal tasks, they specify returning the existing status and disposing delivery without interrupting later child-thread runs. The integration test checks that the result remains available and delivery is disposed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 52d4d

If delivery disposal fails after an active cancellation, completion delivery may remain in place even though cancellation is reported as requested. This is a bounded failure case, so the merge risk is low.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: delegated review rounds must use the task API.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the change, and the reported checks. It does not include the required scope and approval information, such as a linked issue or maintainer approval, or explain wh…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 6…
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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

⚠️ The thread fixture changed, so impact percentages are not directly comparable to the main baseline.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	4.9 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.7 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.4 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	4.9 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.7 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.8 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅

Baseline: 408ff8a · PR result: 52d4d3f · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 106.1 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 106.4 KiB

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts:
- Line 87: Update the active-task descriptions in the orchestrator tool
description and its documentation to say delivery disposal is attempted, not
guaranteed, after interruption. Leave the terminal-task wording unchanged
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• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts
• apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.test.ts
• apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.ts
• docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md

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Qualify active-task delivery disposal as best-effort.

If active-task disposal fails after run.interrupt succeeds, cancelTask logs the failure and still returns cancel_requested. Qualify the active-task descriptions. Keep the terminal-task wording unchanged: that branch propagates disposal failures.

Suggested description updates

--- a/apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts
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-    "Request interruption of an active T3-owned delegated task and dispose its automatic parent delivery. For a terminal task, return its existing status and dispose delivery without interrupting later child-thread runs, even when task_status reports hasPendingChildRuns=true. Published task results remain available. Use t3_thread_interrupt for a later active run.",
+    "Request interruption of an active T3-owned delegated task and attempt to dispose its automatic parent delivery. For a terminal task, return its existing status and dispose delivery without interrupting later child-thread runs, even when task_status reports hasPendingChildRuns=true. Published task results remain available. Use t3_thread_interrupt for a later active run.",
--- a/docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md
+++ b/docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md
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-Interrupts the currently active task run through the normal V2 `run.interrupt` command and disposes automatic parent delivery.
+Interrupts the currently active task run through the normal V2 `run.interrupt` command and attempts to dispose automatic parent delivery.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts at line
87:
Update the active-task descriptions in the orchestrator tool description and its
documentation to say delivery disposal is attempted, not guaranteed, after
interruption. Leave the terminal-task wording unchanged because that branch
propagates disposal failures.

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