Bound parallel commands and stop cleanly on cancellation
Selective tasks saturate a laptop and leave child processes alive when the parent command is interrupted.
- Focused work estimate
- 3h 30m + prerequisites
- Priority in the scenario
- Medium
- Engineering practice
- Process management · Concurrency
Estimated field mix
- Developer tooling100%
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Project context
A fictional internal tools team maintains eighteen packages. Engineers currently run everything because the affected-package script occasionally misses downstream consumers.
Setup prerequisites
- Create a local six-package fixture with a dependency cycle, shared compiler configuration, and two example changes.
Preceding work
Complete these dependencies, or supply their agreed outputs before taking this ticket.
- BMONO-101 · Document task inputs beyond package dependencies
- BMONO-102 · Parse workspace manifests without executing package scripts
- BMONO-103 · Handle cycles in the downstream impact graph
- BMONO-104 · Resolve renamed and deleted files against both revisions
- BMONO-105 · Explain why each selected command is necessary
- BMONO-106 · Make cache keys include generator versions and relevant environment
- BMONO-107 · Detect stale plan execution after the worktree changes
Acceptance criteria
- Enforce configured parallelism between one and the fixture package count.
- Stop scheduling new work after cancellation.
- Report completed, failed, and cancelled tasks separately.
Implementation constraints
- Execute only trusted fixture commands in this exercise.
Verification to include
- Observe the concurrency ceiling with delayed fixtures.
- Cancel mid-run and verify owned child processes terminate.
Deliverables
- Bounded command scheduler.
Rollout and recovery
Default to conservative parallelism; provide serial mode for recovery.
Value of the work
For the engineer: Practice graph analysis, reproducible commands, and safe developer-tool failure modes.
For the team: Produce an inspectable CI selection plan that avoids unnecessary work without silently skipping consumers.
Evidence boundaries
Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.
Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.