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Expose queued and active processing state for project sessions

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area:agents area:sessions
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Descripción

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Project-session coordination APIs do not expose whether a child session is actively processing or still has queued user messages. A parent can receive a completion handoff and see static branch/diff metadata from get_session, yet remain unable to prove the child is drained before merging its pull request.

This creates a cross-session merge race: if the parent previously sent a follow-up that is still queued, the child can wake after the parent merges, process that message, and push a trailing commit to the already-merged branch.

Proposed solution

Expose explicit processing and queue state in get_session and list_sessions_and_chats, for example:

  • is_processing: boolean
  • queued_messages_count: number
  • the current/last processed message identifier or a monotonic drain generation

Provide a native way for a coordinator to establish a merge barrier: wait until the child reports no active turn and no queued messages, then send a final stop/ready request and verify its acknowledgment belongs to the latest queue generation.

This would make project-session orchestration safe without relying only on conversational conventions or guessing from updated_at.

Example prompts or workflows
  1. A parent asks a child to implement a PR, sends two review fixes, then checks is_processing == false and queued_messages_count == 0 before merging.
  2. A parent sends “Make no further changes; reply READY_FOR_MERGE,” then verifies the reply drained the latest queue generation before running gh pr merge.
  3. An orchestration dashboard shows which child sessions are idle, actively processing, or waiting on queued input.
  4. A parent avoids archiving a child that still has pending messages even though its latest task handoff is complete.
Additional context

Observed workflow: a child reported a validated PR head; the parent independently reviewed and merged it. A previously queued follow-up then woke the child, which produced and pushed a test-only commit after merge. The child detected the race and stopped, but the parent had no API field that could have prevented it.

Related queue/session-state reports do not expose a coordinator merge barrier:

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Línea de trabajo

Comienza siguiendo las rutas de API get_session y list_sessions_and_chats, y después lee los informes relacionados sobre la cola y el estado de la sesión enlazados en el issue. Define la semántica de estado y generación que necesita un coordinator para verificar que un child no tenga trabajo activo ni en cola antes de hacer el merge, y documenta qué reconocimiento hace que la barrera se complete.

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Evaluación

Área
api, backend-api-design, cli
Tipo de issue
Nueva funcionalidad
Dificultad
5/5
Tiempo estimado
Más de una semana
Estado de actividad
Tranquilo
Claridad
Bastante claro
Aptitud para principiantes
35/100

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