fix(server): subagents no longer inherit parent pull-request links

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Problem

New V2 subagent threads copy the parent's explicitly linked pull requests. A delegated child therefore appears to own the parent's PRs despite having its own thread identity and work history. Macroscope reported the legacy-link inheritance in the orchestrator V2 review; the current multi-PR list is also copied.

Reproduced on upstream ca7df394ed: link PR 123 to a parent, start a run, and dispatch delegated_task.request. The persisted child has PR 123 in both its legacy link and its pullRequests list.

Change

Initialize child threads with a null legacy link and an empty pull-request list in makeSubagentChildThread. Clearing only the legacy field still leaves the parent's multi-PR list on the child. The shared constructor serves native subagents and T3 delegated tasks across provider adapters.

The regression dispatches real commands through orchestration and SQLite persistence, verifies that the child starts without explicit PR links while retaining its workspace and lineage, then links PR 456 to the child and verifies the parent's PR 123 remains intact.

Scope and approval

A focused fix for an obvious thread-metadata ownership bug under CONTRIBUTING.md's small-bug exception: two production lines in the existing shared constructor, with no new capability, setting, product default, wire schema, dependency, or diagnostic suppression.

Searched open, merged, and closed PRs for subagent/child PR links, inheritance, settlement, and SubagentProjection. Inspected the changed-file lists of open subagent PRs #14108, #14760 and #13056; none changes this constructor or fixes PR-link inheritance. #7317 concerns Git upstream PR discovery. #14907 addresses archived preparation release and is independent of this fix.

Verification

• Red: vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism -t 'keeps delegated child pull-request links' fails on upstream because the child carries PR 123. A second probe clearing only the legacy field still fails because the child's pullRequests list contains PR 123.
• Green: the focused control-read and subagent-projection suites pass (8 tests), one worker, no file parallelism. The new test uses the real orchestrator, event persistence and projections; provider execution is disabled. No async sleeps or polling are required.
• Server typecheck, targeted lint, formatting, and git diff --check pass.
• Fallow 3.31.0: fallow audit --base a7b3ce8c08 --threads 1 --format json --quiet --explain passes with no introduced findings.

No browsers, provider CLI sessions, or live user data were used. Repo-wide checks are left to CI. Existing child threads are not retroactively rewritten.

Model: GPT-6.1-Sol. Harness: Codex in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 1887f45

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained server bug fix that clears inherited pull-request metadata only when creating new subagent threads, while preserving workspace and lineage state. Targeted orchestration tests verify persistence and parent/child link independence, with no schema, deployment, security, billing, or static-analysis changes.

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Walkthrough

Child threads now start without a linked pull request or pull request entries. An orchestration test checks that the child can receive a separate pull request without changing the parent’s pull request state.

Changes

Child pull request state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initialize and check child pull request state apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SubagentProjection.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts	Child thread creation sets linkedPullRequest to null and pullRequests to an empty array. The test checks that the child retains the parent’s branch, worktree path, and lineage, and that linking a pull request to the child does not change the parent’s pull request links.

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1887f

New subagent threads stop inheriting the parent's pull request links. A regression test covers this behavior, and no merge-blocking risk is apparent.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a88d4

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/server

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts: Added a test that creates a parent thread with a linked pull request, delegates a child task, and checks the child’s initial pull-request state, inherited branch and worktree, and parent lineage. It then links a different pull request to the child and asserts that the child’s link changes while the parent’s link and pull-request list remain unchanged.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SubagentProjection.ts: makeSubagentChildThread now sets linkedPullRequest to null and pullRequests to an empty array in the child thread.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preventing subagents from inheriting parent pull-request links.
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Review (COMMENT — cannot self-approve)

This review was written with Grok Bot. GitHub rejects self-approvals, so this is submitted as COMMENT rather than APPROVE even though I found no blocking issues.

Re-checked after the rebase. Head is 78bc7fa (test(server): recheck parent PR links after linking the child), on top of eba94a4.

Against CONTRIBUTING / PR template

Check	Result
One underlying problem	Yes — delegated children must not inherit the parent’s explicit PR links
Scope stays on the fix	Yes — linkedPullRequest: null and pullRequests: [] in makeSubagentChildThread, plus the regression test
Verification evidence	Real orchestrator + SQLite projections. After this push, CI was restarted: Mobile Native Changes, fingerprint, labels, and CodeRabbit pass; Build, Lint, Typecheck, Test, Test Web, Test Server 1–6, Rust, Release Smoke, and Macroscope Effect Service Conventions were still pending

Correctness

• makeSubagentChildThread copies branch, worktree, project, and lineage, and clears linkedPullRequest and pullRequests so the child does not take the parent’s explicit link or share the array.
• branchPullRequest stays inherited. That is the PR discovered for the shared branch, which the child is meant to keep.
• The test links the child to PR 456, then re-reads the parent and asserts both linkedPullRequest and pullRequests are unchanged.

Findings

No blocking issues. The diff is the same fix as the previous head; this pass is for the new commits after the rebase.

Maintainer note: a third-party APPROVE is still needed before merge; this COMMENT is not a merge approval.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 1887f45