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Closes: #1021

Part of epic #1375. Supersedes #1382 (same branch): #1382 was opened before the org .coderabbit.yaml existed on main, so its review session started on the default configuration and cannot produce the approval the review gate needs on a PR head. This PR re-opens the identical change under a fresh session.

Description

Fire-and-forget saveClineMessages() calls could run updateTaskHistory() after abandonSubtask()'s atomicUpdatePair() had already cleared parentTaskId/rootTaskId, silently reattaching the severed parent-child link.

How: Task#saveClineMessages() now checks this.abandoned after the message write and, when the task was abandoned, skips the history-item update and reports the message write as successful. This covers the explicit abort save and any in-flight fire-and-forget saves (the two un-awaited saveClineMessages().catch(...) call sites).

Trade-off: per-task message persistence is unaffected — saveTaskMessages() still runs before the guard. Only the stale history-item update is skipped, which is exactly the value that would rebuild parentTaskId/rootTaskId from the live task.

Test Procedure

  1. cd src && node node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts — the suite covers the abandoned-save guard: the write still succeeds, the history update is skipped, and the guard is hit both for a save made after abandonment and for a save already in flight when the task is abandoned.
  2. cd src && node node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run __tests__/abandonSubtask.spec.ts — the provider-side transitions that clear the persisted links.
  3. CodeRabbit's out-of-scope finding on this PR was stale (it referenced files the branch no longer contains); the current file list is Task.ts (+14/−0) and Task.spec.ts (+179/−0).

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The cross-layer integration test (a deferred save crossing ClineProvider.abandonSubtask()) is tracked as a follow-up: the unit guard and the provider-side link clearing are both covered, but the two layers are not yet exercised together in one test.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Messages are saved successfully for abandoned tasks, including when a task is abandoned while messages are being saved.
    • If an abandoned task has no history entry, saving messages does not create or update one. If an entry exists, its metadata is refreshed without changing its parent or root task references, and its status is preserved when available.
    • Active tasks continue to update their history as before, and message saving reports success after messages are persisted.

saveClineMessages still returns true after a successful message write when the task is abandoned. It skips creating history when no row exists and updates an existing row without parent or root task links. Tests cover abandonment before and during saving, and the non-abandoned path.

Changes: Abandoned task save guard

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guard history updates during abandoned task saves
src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts
When the task is abandoned, saveClineMessages returns true after writing messages. It skips history creation if no row exists. If a row exists, it updates metadata without parent or root task links. Tests cover abandonment before and during message persistence, existing rows, and active tasks.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#1716: This PR conditionally clears subtask lineage links. The current change prevents abandoned-task saves from writing those links back.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b1077

The change guards task-history updates for abandoned subtasks and has focused test coverage. The one remaining suggestion is an extra test for an existing history row with no status. It does not block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a1c71

The guard protects abandoned task history in the tested cases, but it does not establish that a concurrent history write cannot restore a severed link. No expanded external access is shown.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: The new abandonment check is not atomic with the subsequent history update. A save that passes the check may still write stale parent identifiers if link severance completes before that update is applied; the changed tests do not cover this ordering.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced effect of a stale save is on the child history item and its relationship to a delegated parent. The reviewed change does not establish a new external entrypoint or a cross-tenant path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A stale history update remains possible under an untested ordering after the guard. The available evidence does not show that this ordering grants an attacker authority or bypasses the provider's persisted-parent completion check.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The provider checks the delegated parent and interrupted child before severing their links; the save guard separately checks the live task's abandoned flag before requesting a history update.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The store holds an in-process lock for the paired update, but its two disk writes are not all-or-nothing; a second-write failure leaves the first committed. This is an existing recovery limitation, not a newly introduced security finding.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Enforce the abandoned-link rule when the history write is applied, coordinated with link severance, and exercise the ordering in which a save has passed its guard but its history update is still pending.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Persistence Integrity Error A new task can lose its history entry during startup. createTask schedules startup without waiting for its first history write. If the user opens another task while that write is pending, eviction m… Ensure a new task's history row is created before eviction can abandon its initial save, or safely create the missing row for a new task without recreating deleted tasks or restoring severed links. Add a regression test for eviction during …
Regression Evidence Warning The new abandoned-save path lacks coverage for an existing history row with no status. Task.ts:1907-1910 uses a separate fallback for that case. Legacy rows can lack status (`TaskHistoryStore.ts:217… Add a focused abandoned-save test with an existing row that has no status. Verify that metadata is updated, parent and root link keys are omitted, and the save returns true.
Passed Passed checks: 6 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the guard that prevents saveClineMessages from updating history for abandoned tasks.
Description check Passed The description covers the linked issue, implementation, trade-off, test procedures, checklist, and the remaining cross-layer test follow-up. It is mostly complete against the repository template.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#1021] requires abandoned saves to avoid writing stale parent/root links, including saves already in flight. Task.saveClineMessages() checks this.abandoned after the message write. It skips…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The whole-PR diff changes only src/core/task/Task.ts and its unit tests. The implementation and tests support [#1021]. No unrelated change is present in the diff.
Security Boundaries Passed The changed path limits abandoned-task history updates and removes link fields from existing-row updates. It does not introduce a secret or PII leak, unvalidated input execution, or an approval or all…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup Passed The changed abandoned-save path skips or modifies one history update. It does not add a resource or duplicate work after cancellation. The skipped update persists and broadcasts history; it does not p…
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Issue [#1021] requires abandoned saves to avoid writing stale parent/root links, including saves already in flight. Task.saveClineMessages() checks this.abandoned after the message write. It skips history creation when no row exists and omits parentTaskId and rootTaskId when refreshing an existing row. The tests cover saves after abandonment, an in-flight save, retained message persistence, and the normal active-task path.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

The changed path limits abandoned-task history updates and removes link fields from existing-row updates. It does not introduce a secret or PII leak, unvalidated input execution, or an approval or allowlist bypass.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The changed abandoned-save path skips or modifies one history update. It does not add a resource or duplicate work after cancellation. The skipped update persists and broadcasts history; it does not perform resource cleanup.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

A new task can lose its history entry during startup. createTask schedules startup without waiting for its first history write. If the user opens another task while that write is pending, eviction marks the first task abandoned. Both the pending save and the abort save can then take the new no-row return in Task.ts:1896-1905. The message file is saved, but no history row is created or partial failure reported. The task is absent from history and getTaskWithId cannot open it.

Resolution

Ensure a new task's history row is created before eviction can abandon its initial save, or safely create the missing row for a new task without recreating deleted tasks or restoring severed links. Add a regression test for eviction during the first save.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The new abandoned-save path lacks coverage for an existing history row with no status. Task.ts:1907-1910 uses a separate fallback for that case. Legacy rows can lack status (TaskHistoryStore.ts:217-220). The new existing-row test only supplies status: "completed" (Task.spec.ts:8788-8826), so it would not catch the fallback reintroducing stale link keys or skipping the metadata refresh.

Resolution

Add a focused abandoned-save test with an existing row that has no status. Verify that metadata is updated, parent and root link keys are omitted, and the save returns true.

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Learning: In the TypeScript Task class in src/core/task/Task.ts, saveClineMessages() returns a boolean that reflects message persistence only, not metadata or task-history updates. After saveTaskMessages() succeeds, intentionally skipping updateTaskHistory() for an abandoned task must still return true. persistQueuedFeedbackAndAcknowledge() uses this result to acknowledge durable queued feedback, and finalizePartialToolAsk() uses it to permit a webview update after persistence.
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The abandoned guard no longer skips the history upsert wholesale. When the store already has the task's row, the final save now refreshes the existing row (tokens, cost, ts, title, status preserved) while omitting parentTaskId/rootTaskId from the update — upsertCore merges over the existing record, so the severed link stays severed. When there is no stored row (the original abandonment case), it still returns early without writing a row the store never had.

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  • extension (cwd src): core/task/__tests__/ask-auto-deny.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.taskHistory.spec.ts, core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.spec.ts, __tests__/extension.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/ask-queued-message-drain.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.persistence.spec.ts, core/tools/__tests__/executeCommand.spec.ts, activate/__tests__/registerCommands.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.sticky-mode.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.apiHandlerRebuild.spec.ts, core/tools/__tests__/executeCommandTool.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.sticky-profile.spec.ts, __tests__/ClineProvider.history-resume-delegation.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.dispose.test.ts, core/task/__tests__/ask-clear-approval-buttons.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/ask-allowlist-cwd.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.streaming-tool-calls.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.stale-view.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/grace-retry-errors.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/flushPendingToolResultsToHistory.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.lockApiConfig.spec.ts, __tests__/single-open-invariant.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.throttle.test.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.run-shadow.spec.ts, __tests__/ClineProvider.delegation.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-custom-tool.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-tool-usage-attribution.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/reasoning-preservation.test.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.flicker-free-cancel.spec.ts, services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-status-manager.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/webviewMessageHandler.checkpoint.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/checkpointRestoreHandler.spec.ts, activate/__tests__/registerCodeActions.spec.ts, __tests__/ClineProvider.subtask-links.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/grounding-sources.test.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-unknown-tool.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.resume-eviction-race.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.ignored-disabled-tools-notice.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-auto-deny.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-task-conversation-history-length.spec.ts, __tests__/removeClineFromStack-delegation.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.abort-reason-race.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-start-task-logging.spec.ts, activate/__tests__/handleUri.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-images.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-tool-repetition.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-configuration.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.pending-action.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-start-new-task.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-has-task-ui-message-text.spec.ts, __tests__/abandonSubtask.spec.ts, activate/__tests__/handleTask.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/ask-abort-race.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-send-message.spec.ts, __tests__/nested-delegation-resume.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.pending-action.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-delegation-events.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-delete-queued-message.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/ToolExecutionContext.spec.ts, core/webview/__tests__/ClineProviderFactory.spec.ts, services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-scope.spec.ts, __tests__/task-run-dispatch.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.sticky-profile-race.spec.ts, __tests__/api-subtask.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-theme-fixture.spec.ts, test-utils/__tests__/provider.spec.ts, core/task/__tests__/Task.terminal-operation.spec.ts, __tests__/new-task-delegation.spec.ts, extension/__tests__/api-terminal-profile.spec.ts, core/assistant-message/__tests__/toTelemetryToolName.spec.ts

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src/core/task/Task.ts

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1897SurvivedOptionalChainingprovider.taskHistoryStore
1898SurvivedConditionalExpressionfalse
1908SurvivedOptionalChainingprovider.updateTaskHistory

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Advisory findings

  • src/core/task/Task.ts:4451: mutation exclusions must use "// Stryker disable next-line MutatorName: concrete reason"; broad or unreasoned exclusions are not allowed.

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Review comments at @src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts:
- Around line 8788-8831: Add a no-status case to the existing history-row test
in the Task test suite, preferably using it.each for the status-present and
status-absent cases. For the absent case, mock the existing row as { id:
"orphan-subtask" } and assert that the updateTaskHistory payload omits
parentTaskId, rootTaskId, and status.

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Add a focused abandoned-save test with an existing row that has no status.
Verify that metadata is updated, parent and root link keys are omitted, and the
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Ensure a new task's history row is created before eviction can abandon its
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Timestamp: 2026-10-13T04:09:44.278Z
Learning: In the TypeScript Task class in src/core/task/Task.ts, saveClineMessages() returns a boolean that reflects message persistence only, not metadata or task-history updates. After saveTaskMessages() succeeds, intentionally skipping updateTaskHistory() for an abandoned task must still return true. persistQueuedFeedbackAndAcknowledge() uses this result to acknowledge durable queued feedback, and finalizePartialToolAsk() uses it to permit a webview update after persistence.
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src/core/task/Task.ts: 1

1896-1896: Functional Correctness

The reported ordering is reversed. For the current child, the abandoned flag is set before the links are cleared. A save that passes the guard first queues its upsert before atomicUpdatePair, not behind it.

Comment on lines +8788 to +8831
it("refreshes an existing history row without reattaching the severed link when abandoned", async () => {
const saveSpy = vi.spyOn(taskMessagesModule, "saveTaskMessages").mockResolvedValue([])
const metaSpy = vi.spyOn(taskMetadataModule, "taskMetadata").mockResolvedValue({
historyItem: { ...staleHistoryItem, tokensIn: 11, tokensOut: 7, totalCost: 0.02 },
tokenUsage: getApiMetrics([]),
})

try {
const mockProvider = makeMockProvider()
// The row already exists with the severed link; a plain cancel's final save
// must refresh metadata but keep the link severed (upsertCore merges, so the
// link keys must be omitted from the update).
;(mockProvider.taskHistoryStore.get as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>).mockReturnValue({
id: "orphan-subtask",
status: "completed",
})
const task = createTask(mockProvider)
task.clineMessages = [{ ts: 1, type: "say", say: "text", text: "seeded message" }]
task.requestAbort(true)

const saved = await getTaskTestAccess(task).saveClineMessages()

expect(saved).toBe(true)
expect(mockProvider.updateTaskHistory).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
const update = (mockProvider.updateTaskHistory as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>).mock.calls[0][0]
// Metadata is refreshed...
expect(update).toEqual(
expect.objectContaining({
id: "orphan-subtask",
tokensIn: 11,
tokensOut: 7,
totalCost: 0.02,
status: "completed",
}),
)
// ...but the update carries no link keys: the merge must leave the stored
// severed link untouched.
expect(update).not.toHaveProperty("parentTaskId")
expect(update).not.toHaveProperty("rootTaskId")
} finally {
saveSpy.mockRestore()
metaSpy.mockRestore()
}
})

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Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a test for an existing history row without status.

The guard has two branches at Task.ts lines 1909-1910. One adds status: existing.status. The other passes detachedHistoryItem unchanged. This test only mocks status: "completed", so only the first branch runs.

If the existing.status ? conditional is inverted or removed, the no-status case regresses without failing a test. Add an it.each case with { id: "orphan-subtask" } and no status. Assert that updateTaskHistory receives an object with no parentTaskId, no rootTaskId, and no status key.

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Review comment at @src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts around lines 8788 -
8831:
Add a no-status case to the existing history-row test in the Task test suite,
preferably using it.each for the status-present and status-absent cases. For the
absent case, mock the existing row as { id: "orphan-subtask" } and assert that
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Landing order with its human cost on the face of it

Order, as ruled by the Lead and as measured in this span: 1496 lands first; 1928 is then rebased onto main-after-1496.

A resolution unit for the one path the two PRs collide on (src/core/task/Task.ts) exists as commit
6441ea7db28e55015e00c7ec7315b25d94ff70ac (tree 8244e738c8d7ed61e54ba2ce219a392598b634f3, parents b10779d6e93b… =
this PR's head, first, then f09a03a7b6a3… = 1928's head), built in .tmp-cr-audit/s3lane/wt-task89-1928-on-1496 and
unpushed — git branch -r --list *task89* printed no rows, so no remote copy of it exists. It is quoted here only as
a measurement of this PR's delta, not as something being merged.

What stands in front of this PR, read in this span

  • Arms for head b10779d6e93bfbe49506486c30edf461b03e8379, GET /commits/<sha>/check-runs?per_page=100&filter=all
    (delivered body 69,934 B): 22 legs — 21 success, 1 in_progress (codecov/patch/webview-patch), 0 failure;
    mutation-diff is completed / success.
  • GET /pulls/1496/reviews (delivered body 71,618 B): 23 rows — coderabbitai 6 DISMISSED, 8 CHANGES_REQUESTED,
    4 COMMENTED; author (easonLiangWorldedtech) 4 COMMENTED; edelauna 1 CHANGES_REQUESTED — review 5661956731,
    submitted 2026-10-27T03:41:59Z, with a 0-byte body
    . The newest change request of any kind is coderabbitai
    5832305962, 12,032 B, 2026-11-09T20:33:21Z.
  • GET /pulls/1496: mergeable: true, mergeable_state: blocked; requested reviewers taltas, navedmerchant,
    hannesrudolph, edelauna, JamesRobert20.

So the two things that have to move before this PR merges are human and outside this token's reach: edelauna's
empty-bodied change request must be dismissed or answered, and one code-owner approval must land. I am not posting a
review trigger on a unit that a human is blocking.

What the resolution unit measured about this PR's delta

Every figure below was printed by this PR's own scripts/stryker-diff.mjs (blob 7dfe0006d2d5c7e4d2282f65f68b8ed5f16866bc,
identical to main tip's copy) run against the checked-out tree at the merge commit, with only the typescript import
rewritten to an absolute file:// URL and, for counting runs, MAX_CHANGED_LINES and MAX_MUTANTS raised — each run
echoed the caps it used.

  • Gate's own framing: base is the merge commit's first parent, which is this PR's head, because
    resolvePullRequestBase takes the first parent of a two-parent head and selectFromGit then prices
    merge-base(base, head) — printed merge-base b10779d6e93b. The manifest charges extension 336 counted
    executable lines over 134 selectors, 1 advisory
    , and with the caps intact the script does not throw:
    164 lines of headroom against the 500 cap, in the extension package.
  • Re-rooted onto main tip e487cd7b2a497aa1d9b60f9b0cb497f7839bb629 (from GET /branches/main): synthetic commit
    7d4e8f5b4e8e275871ecdec4bec3864cc30d967d re-parents the same tree with commit-tree -p; printed
    merge-base e487cd7b2a49. extension 343 lines / 135 selectors, no throw, 157 lines of headroom in the
    extension package
    . The 7-line difference from the row above is this PR's own change: 26 changed lines of which 7
    are executable.
  • Raw git diff --numstat <base>...<head> (three-dot, position-independent): 14 files, +3,754 / −89 = 3,843 a+d at the
    first-parent framing; +4,002 / −87 = 4,089 against the tip; biggest file
    src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts, 1,471 a+d → 10 budget units at the 400 a+d soft budget, 11 against
    the tip.
  • Priced against 1928's own frozen base 3f51e9df774bceaddc19f45a99d3c5d057fd2105 (from pulls/1928.base.sha), the same
    tree reads types 1,018 / extension 3,762 / webview 1,184 and throws
    types has 1018 changed executable lines (limit 500). Split the PR or obtain a maintainer-reviewed narrow exclusion.
    — the deciding package is types, because the script throws per package (:265), never on a cross-package sum.
    Main's own movement, priced alone on that base (synthetic b6856a7f54cf1e062e3252019cec4e46035180a4), is already
    types 1,018 / extension 3,419 / webview 1,184 (872 files, 56,252 a+d), so that framing is drift, and it is
    labelled as drift rather than folded into this PR's charge.

(Corrected in place at 2026-11-09T23:2Z: this comment first printed extension 3,320 for that drift run, and that figure was wrong. The gate script reads file contents from the checked-out working tree (scripts/stryker-diff.mjs:302), and the pricing worktree was sitting on the merged tree when that capture ran. Re-run with the worktree checked out at main tip's tree - git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} printed d183ffafd40052ade93badc366e948603b44dc4c, equal to e487cd7b2a497aa1d9b60f9b0cb497f7839bb629^{tree} - extension reads 3,419, while types 1,018, webview 1,184, the 872 files, +40,933/-15,319 = 56,252 a+d, the 39 binary rows and the 1 advisory are unchanged. Two independent runs print it: synthetic commits 24415c728798ba5e4d98de5e2c6096954edc4f24 and fbe742fadda0c83cb93eae128ad8a7308b6a155f, logs .tmp-cr-audit/s3lane/task95-verify-run.txt and .tmp-cr-audit/s3lane/task95-verify-b-run.txt. The 3,320 figure came from a tree that was neither main tip's nor this PR's, and it is withdrawn here.)

  • No mutant numbers appear anywhere above: local Stryker is unavailable on this host (.bin/stryker ENOENT,
    .bin/stryker.cmd EINVAL), so the counting runs raised the mutant caps too and measured no mutant totals.

0 pushes, 0 threads resolved, 0 review-state changes in producing this comment. The merge commit stays unpushed on
purpose: 1928 should carry the resolution as its own delta after the rebase, where its author can see it, rather than
having a merge commit land on top of this PR.

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fix(task): guard saveClineMessages against abandoned tasks to prevent race in abandonSubtask

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