Q52: goal closures stop linked work, and running sessions hear goal changes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/main/services/goal-change-poller.ts

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+import type { DatabaseSync } from "node:sqlite";
+
+interface GoalState {
+  title: string;
+  description: string;
+  status: string;
+}
+
+/** Returns a notice whenever the run's goal is rewritten or closed after the run started, once per change. */
+export function createGoalChangePoller(db: DatabaseSync, goalId: string | null): () => string | null {
+  if (!goalId) return () => null;
+  const read = () => db.prepare("select title, description, status from goals where id = ?").get(goalId) as GoalState | undefined;
+  let seen = read();
+  return () => {
+    const now = read();
+    if (!seen || !now || (now.title === seen.title && now.description === seen.description && now.status === seen.status)) return null;
+    const before = seen;
+    seen = now;
+    console.info(`[task-run] goal ${goalId} changed mid-run (${now.status}); notifying the session`);
+    if (now.status !== before.status && now.status !== "active") {
+      return `The goal for this work ("${now.title}") is now ${now.status}. Stop starting new work on it: wrap up, report what you finished, and set this task's status.`;
+    }
+    return `The goal for this work changed while you were working. It now reads: "${now.title}" — ${now.description} Re-check your plan against it.`;
+  };
+}
+
+/** Joins mid-run notices from several sources into one follow-up, or null when none has news. */
+export function combineMidRunPolls(...polls: Array<() => string | null>): () => string | null {
+  return () => {
+    const notices = polls.map((poll) => poll()).filter((notice): notice is string => notice !== null);
+    return notices.length > 0 ? notices.join("\n\n") : null;
+  };
+}