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A fresh ChatClient replaying a thread's saved event history could show a stale approval card that never clears. ChatClient.observeInterruptState hydrated any RUN_FINISHED with an interrupt outcome without checking run lineage, so an old pause from run A stayed pending even after run B, A's own continuation (parentRunId points B to A), had already finished and proven the pause was answered.

Where it happened: packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts, in observeInterruptState (the interrupt-outcome branch that unconditionally called interruptManager.hydrate(...)), and in the terminal-clearing branch right below it, neither of which consulted parentRunId.

The rule

An interrupt from run X is resolved once a run whose parentRunId is X has finished with a non-interrupt terminal. The client already receives parentRunId on RUN_STARTED (it is part of the AG-UI event, per packages/ai/src/utilities/spec-event-keys.ts), it just was not using it for this.

The fix

  • updateRunLifecycle now records parentRunId from every RUN_STARTED into a runParents map (child run id to parent run id).
  • observeInterruptState now marks a run's whole lineage as answered (markLineageAnswered, bounded to 64 hops against a malformed or cyclic chain) whenever a run finishes with a non-interrupt terminal, walking runParents upward.
  • The terminal-clearing branch clears the currently tracked interrupt when its run is in that answered set (isLineageDescendantTerminal), even when the finishing run's own id does not correlate directly with the tracked run.
  • The interrupt-outcome branch now refuses to re-hydrate a pause whose run is already in the answered set, so a stale RUN_FINISHED (interrupt) that a replay re-emits after its lineage is already known to be resolved does not resurrect the approval card. This is what keeps it idempotent across a repeated or reconnecting replay, and across the replay re-emitting the same stale event a second time within one pass (step 4 in the issue's repro).
  • An intermediate tool_calls RUN_FINISHED is excluded from "answered" marking: it is a mid-turn provider handoff inside the same still-loading turn, not a pause being answered, and the client and provider often correlate it to the same request run id as a later real interrupt in that turn. Two existing tests in chat-client.test.ts caught this when I first wired the marking in unconditionally, so it is deliberate, not incidental.

Tests

New file: packages/ai-client/tests/chat-client-interrupt-lineage-replay.test.ts. It drives raw RUN_STARTED/RUN_FINISHED chunks through a real ChatClient over a mock subscribe() connection (no backend), the same shape the issue's repro describes.

  • clears a resolved interrupt once its continuation run finishes, surviving a re-emitted stale pause: drives the exact six-event sequence from the issue and asserts the pending-interrupt count after each event, ending at 0.
  • keeps a genuinely live interrupt pending when no continuation run exists: the control case from the issue, stays pending.
  • does not clear a pending interrupt when an unrelated run on the same thread finishes: an unrelated run with no parentRunId link must not clear a real pending interrupt.
  • stays cleared across a second full replay of the same history (idempotent, out-of-order safe): replays the whole sequence twice with fresh chunk instances, asserting it never comes back once already resolved.

RED, on the unfixed commit (git stash of the fix, tests present):

❯ |@tanstack/ai-client| tests/chat-client-interrupt-lineage-replay.test.ts (4 tests | 2 failed)
  × clears a resolved interrupt once its continuation run finishes, surviving a re-emitted stale pause
    AssertionError: expected 1 to be +0
  × stays cleared across a second full replay of the same history (idempotent, out-of-order safe)
    AssertionError: expected 1 to be +0
 Test Files  1 failed (1)
      Tests  2 failed | 2 passed (4)

GREEN, with the fix:

❯ |@tanstack/ai-client| tests/chat-client-interrupt-lineage-replay.test.ts (4 tests) 
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  4 passed (4)

Full package suite after the fix, vitest run in packages/ai-client:

Test Files  52 passed (52)
     Tests  783 passed (783)

tsc (test:types) in packages/ai-client: clean, no output, exit 0.

oxlint src --type-aware (test:oxlint): 167 warnings before and after this change, same count, all pre-existing no-explicit-any warnings in files this PR does not touch. No new findings.

publint --strict (test:build): All good!

I could not run pnpm run test:pr end to end in this environment: nx run-many triggers a dependency status check that reruns pnpm install on every invocation, and testing/e2e's postinstall (playwright install chromium) repeatedly hit a stale __dirlock in the local Playwright cache and aborted the whole run before any target executed. I built the affected package chain directly with vite build in dependency order (ai-event-client, ai-utils, ai, ai-client) and ran each of test:lib, test:types, test:oxlint, and test:build directly per package instead, per the day-to-day commands table in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Fixes #1368

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…by run lineage

A fresh ChatClient replaying a thread's saved event history could show a
stale approval card that never cleared. observeInterruptState hydrated any
RUN_FINISHED event with an interrupt outcome without checking run lineage,
so an old pause from run A stayed pending even after run B, A's own
continuation (parentRunId points B to A), had already finished and proven
the pause was answered.

Track parentRunId from RUN_STARTED and mark a run's whole lineage answered
once it finishes with a non-interrupt terminal. Use that both to clear a
currently tracked interrupt whose descendant just finished, and to refuse
re-hydrating a stale interrupt that a repeated or reconnecting replay
re-delivers for a run already known to be answered. Excludes an intermediate
tool_calls RUN_FINISHED, which is a mid-turn provider handoff inside the
same still-loading turn, not a pause being answered.

Fixes TanStack#1368
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ChatClient now tracks parentRunId lineage during replay. It suppresses stale interrupts after descendant runs finish, preserves unrelated and live interrupts, and validates repeated replay behavior with new tests.

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Interrupt lineage replay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Record run lineage
packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts
The client stores parentRunId links and limits lineage traversal to 64 levels.
Apply lineage to interrupt state
packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts
Terminal runs mark their lineage as answered. Stale interrupt events are not hydrated, and descendant completion clears tracked interrupt state.
Validate replay behavior
packages/ai-client/tests/chat-client-interrupt-lineage-replay.test.ts, .changeset/interrupt-lineage-replay.md
Tests cover answered, live, unrelated, and repeated replays. The changeset declares a patch release.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 86dc1

A resolved interrupt can still reappear as a pending approval when replay delivers a child completion before its parent relationship. The lineage fix is not merge-ready until that late-link case is handled.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #1368. It uses parentRunId lineage, clears interrupts after a continuation finishes with a non-interrupt terminal, suppresses stale rehydration, preserves live and u…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to the ai-client lineage fix, its changeset, and focused replay tests. No unrelated code or scope changes are present.
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In @.changeset/interrupt-lineage-replay.md:
- Line 5: Update the changeset wording to state that an interrupt is cleared or
not rehydrated once a lineage descendant reaches a non-interrupt terminal
outcome: RUN_ERROR or RUN_FINISHED without an interrupt. Do not describe
intermediate tool_calls events as satisfying the answered condition.

In `@packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts`:
- Line 1163: Update the parent-link handling around runParents.set so that when
chunkRunId is already recorded in supersededInterruptRunIds, the answered
lineage is propagated to parentRunId after setting the link. Preserve normal
linking behavior and add a regression sequence covering child completion before
RUN_STARTED followed by a stale parent interrupt.

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Fix a resolved interrupt coming back as pending when a fresh `ChatClient` replays a thread's saved event history. `ChatClient.observeInterruptState` hydrated any `RUN_FINISHED` event with an interrupt outcome without checking run lineage, so a stale pause from an already-answered run (proven answered by a later run whose `parentRunId` points back to it) could resurface as a live approval card that never cleared. The client now tracks `parentRunId` from `RUN_STARTED` events and clears (or refuses to re-hydrate) an interrupt once a lineage descendant of its run has finished, idempotently across a repeated or reconnecting replay.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

State the non-interrupt terminal condition.

The implementation marks lineage answered only for RUN_ERROR or a non-interrupt RUN_FINISHED. It excludes intermediate tool_calls events. Replace “once a lineage descendant ... has finished” with the actual non-interrupt terminal condition.

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In @.changeset/interrupt-lineage-replay.md at line 5, Update the changeset
wording to state that an interrupt is cleared or not rehydrated once a lineage
descendant reaches a non-interrupt terminal outcome: RUN_ERROR or RUN_FINISHED
without an interrupt. Do not describe intermediate tool_calls events as
satisfying the answered condition.

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? chunk.parentRunId
: undefined
if (parentRunId) {
this.runParents.set(chunkRunId, parentRunId)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate an already-answered child when its parent link arrives late.

If replay delivers RUN_FINISHED for run-B before RUN_STARTED(run-B, parentRunId: run-A), markLineageAnswered records only run-B. Line 1163 later records the link but does not mark run-A. A stale interrupt for run-A can then rehydrate as pending.

After setting the link, propagate when chunkRunId is already in supersededInterruptRunIds. Add a regression sequence with child success before its RUN_STARTED, followed by the stale parent interrupt. The PR objective explicitly requires out-of-order replay safety.

Proposed fix
       if (parentRunId) {
         this.runParents.set(chunkRunId, parentRunId)
+        if (this.supersededInterruptRunIds.has(chunkRunId)) {
+          this.markLineageAnswered(parentRunId)
+        }
       }
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this.runParents.set(chunkRunId, parentRunId)
this.runParents.set(chunkRunId, parentRunId)
if (this.supersededInterruptRunIds.has(chunkRunId)) {
this.markLineageAnswered(parentRunId)
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In `@packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts` at line 1163, Update the parent-link
handling around runParents.set so that when chunkRunId is already recorded in
supersededInterruptRunIds, the answered lineage is propagated to parentRunId
after setting the link. Preserve normal linking behavior and add a regression
sequence covering child completion before RUN_STARTED followed by a stale parent
interrupt.

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