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Headless runs no longer report themselves busy while blocked on a prompt

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Headless Mode

Headless runs waiting on a permission prompt no longer falsely report themselves as busy.

What

In print mode, the loop that drains queued work used to transition the session to running even when it was sitting in requires_action with a permission or dialog request outstanding. It now skips that transition and instead clears turn-scoped metadata once per drain, so stale post-turn summary and recap data goes away without the session falsely reporting as busy.

Details
  • The blocked condition is state requires_action plus at least one pending permission or user-dialog request.
  • The same drain now also hands the dequeued batch to the queue as the in-flight batch, which previously happened only on the interactive path.
Evidence

requires_action

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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