deer-flow/contracts/subagent_status_contract.json
Xinmin Zeng 8d2e55a05f
fix(subagent): structured subagent_status field over text parsing (#3146) (#3154)
* fix(subagent): structured subagent_status field over text parsing

Closes #3146.

## Why

The frontend used to derive subtask card state by string-matching the
leading text of the `task` tool's result. That contract surface was
fragile — `#3107` BUG-007 and the `#3131` review both surfaced cases
where new backend wording (`Task cancelled by user.`,
`Task polling timed out after N minutes`, `ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware`
exception wrappers) silently broke the card lifecycle. The frontend
fallback kept growing more prefixes; any future rewording would break
it again.

## Design

1. **Backend → frontend contract**: `ToolMessage.additional_kwargs`
   carries `subagent_status` (one of `completed | failed | cancelled |
   timed_out | polling_timed_out`) and an optional `subagent_error`
   blob. The frontend prefers it over parsing `content`.

2. **Centralised stamping, not 8 sprinkled stamps**: rather than have
   each of `task_tool.py`'s 5 normal-return + 3 pre-execution `Error:`
   paths remember to set `additional_kwargs`, `ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware`
   stamps the field after every task-tool call. Adding a new return
   path in `task_tool.py` cannot now skip the stamp.

3. **Cross-language contract fixture**: the prefix→status mapping is
   the one piece both sides must agree on. The shared fixture at
   `contracts/subagent_status_contract.json` lists every backend return
   string, the expected status, and what the error substring should
   contain. Backend test (`backend/tests/test_subagent_status_contract.py`)
   and frontend test (`frontend/tests/unit/core/tasks/subtask-result.test.ts`)
   both load that fixture and assert the same cases. A wording drift on
   either side fails the matching language's test.

4. **Round-trip serialisation pinned**: the round-trip test asserts
   `ToolMessage.model_dump_json()` → `model_validate_json()` preserves
   `additional_kwargs.subagent_status`. Catches the case where a future
   LangChain or Pydantic upgrade silently strips unknown kwargs.

5. **Frontend status collapse documented**: the backend has five status
   values, the frontend card has three (`completed | failed |
   in_progress`). `cancelled` / `timed_out` / `polling_timed_out` all
   collapse to `failed` with the original status preserved in `error`.
   `parseSubtaskResult` returns `in_progress` for unknown values so a
   backend that ships a new enum variant before the frontend upgrades
   degrades to the legacy prefix fallback instead of getting pinned.

## Changes

Backend:
- `deerflow.subagents.status_contract` — new module exporting
  `SUBAGENT_STATUS_KEY`, `SUBAGENT_ERROR_KEY`,
  `SUBAGENT_STATUS_VALUES`, `extract_subagent_status(content)`, and
  `make_subagent_additional_kwargs(status, error)`.
- `ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware`: new `_stamp_task_subagent_status`
  helper centralises the stamp; `wrap_tool_call` / `awrap_tool_call`
  stamp on the success path; `_build_error_message` stamps on the
  wrapper path (carrying `ExcClass: detail` into `subagent_error`).
  Non-task tools are untouched.
- New tests: `test_subagent_status_contract.py` (19 cases from the
  shared fixture + status-enum / blank-error / unknown-status
  rejection) and `test_tool_error_handling_subagent_stamp.py`
  (middleware integration: terminal-content stamps, non-terminal
  doesn't, non-task tools untouched, async path mirrors sync,
  existing additional_kwargs survive, JSON round-trip preserved).

Frontend:
- `parseSubtaskResult(text, additionalKwargs?)` — prefers the
  structured stamp; falls back to the legacy prefix matcher for
  historical threads / unknown future status values.
- `STRUCTURED_STATUS_TO_SUBTASK` documents the five→three collapse.
- `message-list.tsx` passes `message.additional_kwargs` through.
- `subtask-result.test.ts` adds a structured-status block + a
  fixture-driven contract block; legacy prefix tests stay green for
  the fallback path.

Contract:
- `contracts/subagent_status_contract.json` — single source of truth
  both languages load. Whitespace variants, varied N for polling
  timeouts, the 3 pre-execution `Error:` returns task_tool produces,
  and the middleware wrapper shape are all in there.

## Test plan
- `make lint` clean (backend + frontend).
- `pytest tests/test_subagent_status_contract.py
   tests/test_tool_error_handling_subagent_stamp.py` → 37 passed.
- `pnpm test --run` → 103 passed (was 76, +27 new).

## Migration / fallback retirement

The text-prefix fallback stays in place until backend telemetry shows
the frontend never hits it for newly produced messages. At that point
a follow-up PR can drop the prefix branches and keep only the
structured-status branch.

Refs: bytedance/deer-flow#3138 (split summary), #3107 (origin), #3131
(prior prefix-only fix), #3146 (this issue).

* fix(subtask): back-fill result/error from text when structured status present

Three follow-ups on the PR #3154 review:

1. `readStructuredStatus` no longer short-circuits the prefix parse.
   The backend currently stamps only the `subagent_status` enum value;
   the human-facing `result` body and wrapped-error message still live
   in `ToolMessage.content`. Dropping the text parse meant successful
   tasks rendered empty completed pills and wrapped failures lost their
   diagnostic. Now both shapes get composed: structured status wins,
   `result`/`error` come from text when both sides agree, and a lying
   success body under a `failed` stamp is dropped instead of leaking.

2. Replace the ESM-incompatible `__dirname` fixture lookup in
   subtask-result.test.ts with `fileURLToPath(new URL(..., import.meta.url))`.
   The frontend package is `"type": "module"`, so the previous path
   would have thrown at runtime if anything ever changed under the
   contract directory.

3. Drop the `$schema` reference from contracts/subagent_status_contract.json
   pointing at a file that doesn't exist in the tree.

Three new tests cover the structured + text composition: completed
back-fills the success body, failed back-fills the wrapper text, and
unrecognised content under a `failed` stamp stays empty rather than
echoing noise.
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{
"version": 1,
"description": "Cross-language contract test fixture for the subagent status field. The backend stamps ToolMessage.additional_kwargs.subagent_status using these prefixes; the frontend reads the structured field and falls back to the same prefixes. Both sides' tests load this file and must agree.",
"valid_status_values": ["completed", "failed", "cancelled", "timed_out", "polling_timed_out"],
"cases": [
{
"name": "succeeded",
"origin": "task_tool.py succeeded path",
"content": "Task Succeeded. Result: investigated and produced a 3-page report",
"expected_status": "completed",
"expected_error_contains": null
},
{
"name": "failed",
"origin": "task_tool.py failed path",
"content": "Task failed. Error: underlying tool raised RuntimeError",
"expected_status": "failed",
"expected_error_contains": "RuntimeError"
},
{
"name": "cancelled",
"origin": "task_tool.py cancelled path",
"content": "Task cancelled by user.",
"expected_status": "cancelled",
"expected_error_contains": null
},
{
"name": "timed_out",
"origin": "task_tool.py timed_out path",
"content": "Task timed out. Error: 900 seconds",
"expected_status": "timed_out",
"expected_error_contains": "900"
},
{
"name": "polling_timed_out",
"origin": "task_tool.py polling timeout safety-net path",
"content": "Task polling timed out after 15 minutes. This may indicate the background task is stuck. Status: RUNNING",
"expected_status": "polling_timed_out",
"expected_error_contains": "15"
},
{
"name": "polling_timed_out_other_n",
"origin": "varied N coverage",
"content": "Task polling timed out after 1 minutes. Status: RUNNING",
"expected_status": "polling_timed_out",
"expected_error_contains": null
},
{
"name": "pre_unknown_subagent",
"origin": "task_tool.py pre-execution Error path (unknown subagent type)",
"content": "Error: Unknown subagent type 'foo'. Available: bash, general-purpose",
"expected_status": "failed",
"expected_error_contains": "Unknown subagent"
},
{
"name": "pre_bash_disabled",
"origin": "task_tool.py pre-execution Error path (host bash disabled)",
"content": "Error: Host bash subagent is disabled by configuration",
"expected_status": "failed",
"expected_error_contains": "disabled"
},
{
"name": "pre_task_disappeared",
"origin": "task_tool.py pre-execution Error path (background task disappeared)",
"content": "Error: Task 1234 disappeared from background tasks",
"expected_status": "failed",
"expected_error_contains": "disappeared"
},
{
"name": "wrapper_error",
"origin": "ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware wrap on tool exception",
"content": "Error: Tool 'task' failed with TypeError: 'AsyncCallbackManager' object is not iterable. Continue with available context, or choose an alternative tool.",
"expected_status": "failed",
"expected_error_contains": "TypeError"
},
{
"name": "streaming_chunk_unknown",
"origin": "non-terminal chunk reaching parser",
"content": "Investigating ...",
"expected_status": null,
"expected_error_contains": null
},
{
"name": "succeeded_with_surrounding_whitespace",
"origin": "streaming sometimes prepends/appends newlines",
"content": " Task Succeeded. Result: ok ",
"expected_status": "completed",
"expected_error_contains": "ok"
},
{
"name": "cancelled_with_surrounding_whitespace",
"origin": "streaming whitespace coverage",
"content": " Task cancelled by user.\n",
"expected_status": "cancelled",
"expected_error_contains": null
}
]
}