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Problem and result

Closes #595.

Starting a session's own Goal could immediately fail context validation while the ordinary prompt kept working. The Goal strip still reported an active Run with zero turns, Tasks showed failed or quarantined work, and session supervision raised stale Loop attention. Explicitly stopping or removing the session also left its Goal alive, making session-based cancellation unusable after removal.

This change adopts the active binding before the first context observation, repairs pinned context reads, derives bounded Loop activity from durable execution evidence, and routes explicit session stop/removal through canonical Run cancellation. Terminal Run state and quarantine now govern the Goal projection. Historical attempts remain inspectable.

Evidenced root causes

  1. Initial binding was ahead of the checkpoint. The managed binder had activated a binding, but the checkpoint still had BindingEpoch=0. recordContextUsage combined that old checkpoint epoch with the new binding's session and handle. The first context observation therefore failed before prompt preparation could advance the checkpoint. A real SQLite/managed-runtime regression reproduced the exact zero epoch; the old executor fake had hidden it by mutating the checkpoint during binding.
  2. Known-context reads used incompatible cursors. The first isolated Codex walk exposed a second failure: UsageAtSequence supplied both AfterSequence and BeforeSequence, which the session event store rejects. The corrected forward, one-result query still requires the exact pinned sequence; missing or non-usage events remain unknown.
  3. Freshness only recognized completed coordinators. Initial ongoing work can have no completed coordinator timestamp. Active task leases and admitted wait deadlines now contribute bounded freshness. Status reads never renew that evidence, and expired work remains stale. Quarantine, approvals, and intervention remain explicit attention even alongside fresh agent progress.
  4. Ordinary Goal sessions had no stop/removal cancellation hook. The existing coordinator-stop path did not cover a user session's own Goal. The session lifecycle now invokes canonical cancellation for session-origin Goals, using the existing durable cleanup outbox. The cancellation adapter avoids re-entering an already stopped session while retaining missing/inactive-session handling and propagation of real stop failures.

Implementation and compatibility

  • Added transactional checkpoint binding adoption with task, control epoch, binding epoch, phase, session, handle, and workspace validation. Re-adopting the same binding preserves context freshness floors; changing a binding is prohibited while a prompt is pending.
  • Retained the existing stop settlement receipt until Goal cancellation succeeds, with retry and boot recovery under the original stop cause. The cancellation handler is installed before boot settlement.
  • Kept compaction rotation under the original checkpoint fence until the replacement binding is adopted.
  • Extended internal Loop work/projection queries and regenerated their sqlc consumers through make codegen.
  • Made canceled/terminal Run truth override stale active checkpoints; live quarantine projects as blocked with node_quarantined.
  • Preserved the current base's canonical quarantine task parking and historical attempt semantics, with existing requeue/parking coverage.
  • Updated the operator guide, official Compozy Loop reference, affected QA scenario slices, and the owning docs/_memory/change-impact.md record and QA report.

No public DTO shape, tool ID, configuration key, hook, extension SDK, or database schema changes. Immutable profile/workspace scoping remains in place. Catalog Loop origin lineage remains informational. Window-only dismissal, stream disconnect, and daemon shutdown do not acquire Goal cancellation semantics. A historical orphan can still be canceled through compozy loop cancel --run-id ... without its missing session.

Verification

  • Canonical Goal executor/context tests and real-store ownership, projection, supervision, quarantine/parking, and requeue suites passed.
  • Existing public daemon subprocess E2E passed controls, approval recovery, disconnect/restart, and new stop/removal followed by repeated Run cancellation.
  • Isolated real Codex / gpt-6-astra / high self-activation during ordinary prompts: current context and Loop supervision; approved Goals completed in two turns and one turn respectively. The second delivery reused the first billing utility and passed twelve actual CLI tests.
  • Real explicit stop: the session became stopped and its Run/Tasks canceled before manual cancellation; supervision emptied. Real removal: the session returned 404 while canceled Run/Task history remained readable; repeated Run cancellation succeeded.
  • Browser: expanded Goal strip showed Done, settled, known context, and approved verdict. Window-only dismissal preserved a live paused Goal. Final isolated daemon restart retained canceled, done, and paused Run states, and the browser reloaded retained history.
  • Site typecheck/build passed through root Turborepo: bunx turbo run typecheck build --filter=@compozy/site.
  • React Doctor changed-source scan found no changed React source files. Its current-head PR check and all Greptile/CodeRabbit findings, including nitpicks and outside-diff comments, remain delivery requirements.
  • Isolated lab teardown completed with clean: true.

At the author’s request, complete delivery gates run in CI. Before local gates were stopped, code generation, lint, and the full daemon race suite passed; the global database race suite was interrupted and is not claimed as passed. Current-head CI results will be updated after completion.

Remaining validation boundary

A real structured clarification correctly surfaced waiting-for-input. Execution approval review blocked the synthetic operator answer, so that answer-and-continue step is not claimed as validated. No alternate answer path was used; the agent did not guess and paused its Goal after the question expired. The fixture-backed public E2E approval-recovery flow did pass. The focused lab does not claim a full multi-agent Network sweep, live-provider Linux dogfooding, or Electron execution.

Detailed sanitized evidence and cross-surface impact: docs/qa/reports/2026-09-10-issue-595-goal-lifecycle.md.

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  • internal/daemon/boot_session_repair.go
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Walkthrough

The PR adds ownership-checked Goal checkpoint binding, context usage validation, quarantine-aware snapshots, lease-aware supervision signals, and Goal cancellation during session stop or deletion. It adds unit and integration coverage for these lifecycle paths.

Changes

Goal lifecycle consistency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checkpoint binding and context usage
internal/loop/goal/*, internal/store/globaldb/*goal*
The executor persists session bindings through BindCheckpoint. The store validates ownership epochs and resets context state when bindings change. Tests cover exact ownership and context usage preservation.
Quarantine projection and snapshot status
internal/daemon/loop_api_goal_snapshot_mapping.go, internal/loop/goal/types_projection.go, internal/store/globaldb/*goal_runtime*
Goal projections expose node quarantine state. Snapshot mapping reports terminal, paused, and quarantined run states.
Session work leases and attention signals
internal/daemon/session_work_sources.go, internal/session/work_signals.go, internal/session/work_signal_registry.go, internal/store/globaldb/*loop*
Session work exposes status, ownership, leases, and attention. Signal freshness and attention reasons now reflect leases, waits, approvals, interventions, and quarantine.
Session stop and Goal cancellation
internal/session/manager_*, internal/daemon/loop_goal_session_stop.go, internal/daemon/loop_runtime_adapters.go, internal/daemon/*test.go
Session stop and deletion cancel owned Goals. Cancellation is scoped by profile, workspace, and session, and repeated or already-stopped operations are handled. Tests cover isolation and integration behavior.

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionManager
  participant DaemonLoopAPI
  participant LoopWorkReader
  participant GoalRun
  SessionManager->>DaemonLoopAPI: stop session Goals
  DaemonLoopAPI->>LoopWorkReader: list scoped session work
  LoopWorkReader-->>DaemonLoopAPI: return Goal ownership and status
  DaemonLoopAPI->>GoalRun: cancel owned runs
  GoalRun-->>SessionManager: return cancellation result
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 95678

Failure and rollback paths can detach active Goal work from its checkpoint or cancel a Goal while retaining its session. These lifecycle inconsistencies should be fixed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately summarizes the main changes: Goal context reconciliation and session lifecycle fixes. It is concise and specific enough for the changeset.
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This PR reconciles Goal binding, context, projection, supervision, and session lifecycle behavior.

  • Adopts managed Goal bindings transactionally before the first context observation.
  • Repairs exact pinned context-event reads.
  • Derives bounded Loop freshness from durable leases and wait deadlines while preserving explicit attention.
  • Cancels session-origin Goals during explicit stop and removal, retaining retryable stop settlement.
  • Makes terminal Run and quarantine state authoritative in Goal projections.
  • Adds focused store, daemon, lifecycle, public E2E, documentation, and QA coverage.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; no outstanding correctness, security, or repository-rule issue remains in the reviewed changes.

The current implementation preserves durable binding ownership across adoption failures, retains stop recovery receipts until canonical Goal cancellation succeeds, scopes cancellation to owned session-origin Goals, and keeps explicit attention authoritative alongside bounded freshness. The previous cancellation finding was manually resolved, and the current code and regression coverage address its failure path.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
internal/loop/goal/executor.go Adopts the durable managed binding into the checkpoint before context observation and preserves binding ownership when adoption fails.
internal/store/globaldb/global_db_goal_checkpoint_binding.go Adds transactional, owner-fenced checkpoint binding adoption with active-binding validation.
internal/session/manager_stop_finalization.go Retains pending stop settlement until session-origin Goal cancellation succeeds.
internal/session/stop_recovered_finalization.go Replays Goal cancellation before removing recovered stop receipts.
internal/session/manager_delete_staging.go Cancels session-origin Goals before staging history deletion and keeps execution stopped on rollback.
internal/daemon/loop_goal_session_stop.go Finds scoped session-owned Goals and routes their shutdown through canonical Run cancellation.
internal/daemon/session_work_sources.go Derives bounded supervision freshness from durable execution leases and waits while retaining explicit attention.
internal/daemon/loop_api_goal_snapshot_mapping.go Makes terminal Run state and live quarantine authoritative over stale checkpoint projection.
internal/daemon/loop_goal_context_runtime.go Uses a valid one-result forward event query for exact pinned context usage reads.
internal/store/globaldb/queries/loop_lifecycle.sql Extends scoped Loop work reads with status, leases, attention, active bindings, and Goal ownership.
docs/_memory/change-impact.md Records the required cross-surface impact audit for the Goal lifecycle behavior change.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant Operator
    participant SessionManager
    participant GoalLifecycle
    participant LoopService
    participant Store

    Operator->>SessionManager: Stop or remove session
    SessionManager->>Store: Persist stopped state and recovery receipt
    SessionManager->>GoalLifecycle: StopSessionGoals(session identity)
    GoalLifecycle->>Store: List scoped session-owned Goal work
    loop Each owned live Goal
        GoalLifecycle->>LoopService: CancelRun
        LoopService->>Store: Persist terminal Run/task state and cleanup outbox
    end
    alt Cancellation succeeds
        SessionManager->>Store: Remove stop-settlement receipt
    else Cancellation fails
        SessionManager-->>Operator: Return retryable recovery error
        Note over SessionManager,Store: Receipt remains for retry or boot recovery
    end
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In `@internal/daemon/loop_goal_command_e2e_integration_test.go`:
- Around line 219-220: Update the removal-cancellation test around the loop-run
path and its two-iteration request loop so it reads or polls the run immediately
after DELETE and asserts LoopRunStatusCanceled before issuing either public
cancellation request. Split the boolean cases into separate t.Run subtests named
with the required “Should...” pattern, with each subtest asserting the expected
behavior outcome.

In `@internal/loop/goal/executor.go`:
- Around line 197-199: Update the checkpoint adoption error path in the executor
around bindCheckpoint so a newly run-owned binding is rolled back when adoption
fails: close the exact managed binding and enqueue session cleanup before
returning the original error. Preserve existing behavior for bindings not
created by this run and ensure cleanup targets the binding created by
BindActionSession.

In `@internal/session/manager_delete_staging.go`:
- Around line 317-318: Move the stopSessionGoals call out of the delete-staging
flow in the session deletion logic. Perform Goal cancellation only after catalog
deletion has committed, preserving rollback safety when directory, attachment,
or catalog staging fails; otherwise add an explicit compensating operation that
restores the canceled Goal state.

In `@internal/session/manager_stop_finalization.go`:
- Line 98: Update finishStoppedPersistence and the stop-session finalization
flow so Goal cancellation is persisted as a pending durable action before
clearing the pending-stop marker, recovery receipt, or active session. Ensure
recovery retries stopSessionGoals until Goal lookup and CancelRun succeed,
including when the session is already StateStopped, and only clears the pending
action after successful cancellation.

In `@internal/store/globaldb/global_db_goal_checkpoint_integration_test.go`:
- Around line 53-54: Update the table-driven mutation checks around
db.BindCheckpoint to include the expected ownership error class or Goal reason
code for every invalid binding case. Replace the err == nil-only assertion with
the established ErrorIs, ErrorAs, or reason-code helper, ensuring each of the
eight cases verifies the specific ownership failure.

In `@internal/store/globaldb/queries/goal_core.sql`:
- Around line 26-27: Update fakeExecutorStore.BindCheckpoint to reset all
binding-scoped recovery, context, compaction, and turn state when SessionID,
BindingHandle, or BindingEpoch changes, including the fields used by compaction
and turn readers for reseed, escalation, and continuation decisions. Preserve
the existing state for exact same-binding replay, and ensure binding_epoch is
updated consistently with the new binding identity.

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