The two real goal tasks from July 9 each got exactly one session: the run
completed, the agent never moved the task off backlog, and the heartbeat's
"has a completed run" exclusion locked them out forever. The agents could
not have closed them anyway — update_task_status requires a task_id the
prompt never carried.
The progress contract, made explicit end to end:
- The task prompt now carries "Task id: ..." and tells the agent exactly how
to end a session: done via update_task_status when the work is complete,
in_progress with a note on what remains when it is not.
- The heartbeat re-enqueues any open task with no run in flight — a
completed run that left its task open earns a follow-up session, with the
prompt stating how many prior sessions were spent so the agent continues
instead of redoing work. The retry budget (3 non-transient runs) still
bounds every task; a task that spends it parks with one log line naming it.
- Scripted agents in the integration suites now close their tasks the way
the contract expects real ones to.
ZacharyZhang-NY
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