Brennan Benson 2af897d7ea fix(codex): the provider supervisor outlives its provider group when stopped (#23466)
* fix(codex): the provider supervisor outlives its provider group when stopped

A signalled supervisor forwards the signal to the provider group, escalates to
SIGKILL after the grace, and exits only once the group is gone, so recovery's
proof that the recorded pid is dead also proves the provider is. It refuses to
spawn when its parent is already not the owner named in its spec, and watches
that owner rather than whichever parent it first saw. The grace is a spec
field. Recovery's SIGTERM stage now outlasts the supervisor's own stop, since a
SIGKILL that lands first cannot be handled and leaves the group running.

* fix(codex): a closed owner pipe no longer ends the supervisor before its provider group

When Orca dies, the supervisor's stdout pipe has no reader. Provider output in the
window before the parent-death watch fired raised an unhandled EPIPE that exited the
supervisor with the provider group still running.

* fix(codex): bound the supervisor grace so recovery's SIGTERM stage always covers it

Recovery sized its SIGTERM stage from the default grace, so a launch with a
longer grace would be SIGKILLed mid-stop and orphan its group with no test
noticing. The spec now refuses any grace above one exported maximum, and
recovery derives its SIGTERM stage from that maximum.

* fix(codex): every supervisor stop asks the provider with SIGTERM first

Owner death, stdin end after the grace, and a signal to the supervisor now all
take one path: SIGTERM the provider group, SIGKILL it after the grace, and exit
only once it is gone. The signal handlers are registered before the provider
is spawned, so a stop that lands in the spawn window still reaps it. The
longest stop grows to two graces plus the reap wait, and both recovery's
SIGTERM stage and the connection's graceful close now wait that long before
forcing, since forcing the supervisor sooner can orphan its group.

* fix(codex): give the provider 1 s after stdin end and 3 s after SIGTERM to flush before SIGKILL

The supervisor's stop was stdin end, 1.25 s, SIGTERM, 1.25 s, SIGKILL. Codex
now gets 3 s after SIGTERM to flush its state. The two graces are separate
constants, the longest stop they derive becomes 5.5 s, and a test keeps it
inside quit's 8 s child-eviction bound.

* test(codex): count eviction's pre-stop drain in the quit budget test

Eviction drains the sink for up to 1 s before it stops the child, inside the same 8 s bound.
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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
Run Codex, ClaudeCode, OpenCode or Pi side-by-side — each in its own worktree, tracked in one place.

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Mobile Companion

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Parallel Worktrees

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Parallel worktree orchestration

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Agents drive Orca too — script every workflow with orca worktree create, snapshot, click, and fill.

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Also in the box:

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  • And many, many more — we ship daily, so this list is perpetually behind. The changelog is the real feature list.

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