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Colin McDonnell 2017922780 Improve delegate (#377)
* Improve delegate

* fix stale log regexes in delegate tests and add test-coupling comments

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-02-23 23:41:27 +00:00

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import type { AgentResult, TestRunnerOptions, ValidationCheck } from "../utils.ts";
import { defineFixture, getAgentOutput, getStructuredOutput } from "../utils.ts";
/**
* delegate-error-handling — orchestrator delegates a task that will fail,
* then must handle the failure gracefully and report it.
*
* the subagent is told to read a file that doesn't exist, which will cause
* file_read to return an error. the orchestrator should detect the subagent
* failure (via the delegate tool's return value) and report it clearly.
*
* tests error propagation through the delegation system and the orchestrator's
* ability to reason about failure modes rather than blindly forwarding results.
*/
const fixture = defineFixture(
{
prompt: `You are an orchestrator. This test validates error handling.
1. Select Plan mode via select_mode.
2. Delegate to a subagent with mini effort. Subagent instructions:
"Use gh_pullfrog/file_read to read the file 'this-file-does-not-exist-anywhere.xyz'. Report what you find by calling gh_pullfrog/set_output with the file content. If the file cannot be read, call gh_pullfrog/set_output with 'FILE_NOT_FOUND'."
3. After the delegation completes, examine the result. The subagent should have reported FILE_NOT_FOUND or an error.
4. Call set_output with EXACTLY: "ERROR_HANDLED=true,REASON=<brief description of what went wrong>"
If the delegation failed entirely (subagent crashed), still call set_output with "ERROR_HANDLED=true,REASON=delegation_failed".
The point of this test is that you handle the error gracefully and report it — not that you succeed at reading the file.`,
effort: "auto",
timeout: "8m",
},
{ localOnly: true }
);
function validator(result: AgentResult): ValidationCheck[] {
const output = getStructuredOutput(result);
const agentOutput = getAgentOutput(result);
const setOutputCalled = output !== null;
const errorHandled = setOutputCalled && /ERROR_HANDLED=true/i.test(output ?? "");
const hasReason = setOutputCalled && /REASON=\S+/i.test(output ?? "");
const delegationOccurred = /» delegating \d+ task/i.test(agentOutput);
return [
{ name: "set_output", passed: setOutputCalled },
{ name: "error_handled", passed: errorHandled },
{ name: "reason_provided", passed: hasReason },
{ name: "delegation_occurred", passed: delegationOccurred },
];
}
export const test: TestRunnerOptions = {
name: "delegate-error-handling",
fixture,
validator,
env: { GITHUB_REPOSITORY: "pullfrog/test-repo" },
tags: ["adhoc"],
};