hgraf-debug-task-stuck

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name: hgraf-debug-task-stuck description: Diagnostic playbook when a task appears stuck. Post-overlay-era: PENDING → NOT_NEEDED at invocation end is expected.

hgraf-debug-task-stuck

When to use

• A task in the Gantt sits at PENDING or RUNNING long past when you expected it to resolve.
• The intervention timeline shows no drift firing despite the obvious stall.
• The agent's ⚠ stuck stripe is lit in the Graph view header.

Under the overlay model (goldfive#141-144), a task that sits at PENDING throughout a finished run and then flips to NOT_NEEDED at the end is working as intended. Only worry if the agent is actively running and the task still doesn't move.

Entry points

This skill is a short index. For depth, go to the runbooks:

Situation	Runbook
Task stuck at PENDING while agent runs	runbooks/task-stuck-in-pending.md
Task stuck at RUNNING	runbooks/task-stuck-in-running.md
Drift should've fired but didn't	runbooks/drift-not-firing.md
LLM or tool call hung	runbooks/high-latency-callbacks.md
Context window near limit	runbooks/context-window-exceeded.md

30-second triage

1. Is the run still active? If not, a PENDING task flipping to NOT_NEEDED at invocation end is fine.
2. Open spans? SQL:

   SELECT id, kind, name, start_time FROM spans
   WHERE agent_id='<AID>' AND end_time IS NULL
   ORDER BY start_time DESC;
   

   A long-open LLM_CALL → slow LLM / hung provider. A long-open TOOL_CALL → tool hung. Only an open INVOCATION → agent-code loop.
3. What's goldfive.llm.duration_ms on the newest LLM call? Values > 60 000 flag a wedged model.
4. What do the drift and intervention RPCs say?

   grpcurl -plaintext -d '{"session_id":"<SID>"}' \
     localhost:7531 harmonograf.v1.Harmonograf/ListInterventions | jq .
   

5. Duplicate plugin? grep 'duplicate HarmonografTelemetryPlugin' agent.log. Silent duplicates don't break span emission but DO break the on_cancellation sweep, leaving RUNNING spans after CANCEL.

What to send upstream

If you file a bug:

• The session id.
• Output of ListInterventions.
• Newest few rows from task_plans for the session.
• Goldfive log excerpt containing DriftDetected lines.
• py-spy dump of the agent process if it's still running.

Cross-links

• dev-guide/debugging.md for SQL snippets.
• user-guide/tasks-and-plans.md for the overlay-era state machine.