buildkite / buildkite/agent

Cancelled jobs occasionally report an exit status of 255 and nil Signal

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Description

I’m tracking down what appears to be a race condition in the job cancellation handling. Jobs are documented to exit with a code of [`128 + SIGNAL`](https://buildkite.com/docs/agent/v3#exit-codes) but I can reproducibly observe cancelled jobs exiting with 255 and no signal. I have also encountered an exit code of `-1`.

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by tracing the Go agent's job-cancellation handling and how it derives exit status and signal, then reproduce cancellation while inspecting those values. Done means cancelled jobs consistently report the documented 128 + SIGNAL status rather than 255, nil Signal, or -1.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
ci-cd
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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