A config_mutation/destructive run() queued for approval never touched
agent_sessions.status — only ask_operator did that, setting
awaiting_input. So a task blocked on an execution approval was
indistinguishable from one still genuinely working: the frontend's
"Needs input" bucket only checks status===awaiting_input (never lit
up for these), and the idle-sweep safety net only excludes
awaiting_input from its stale-task query, so after ~30 minutes idle
it would nudge the agent and then auto-close the task with
outcome=partial while the approval was still sitting there undecided.
classifyAndGate now flips the session into awaiting_input the moment
an execution is queued (internal/mcp/server.go), and DecideApproval
flips it back to executing once the approval is approved, denied, or
revoked (internal/httpapi/approvals.go) — mirroring askOperator /
answerQuestion's existing pattern for session_questions. Both emit
task.status so the board updates live.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>