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OQ-17: Abort Cascade Semantics for Nested Calls

  • Origin: call-protocol.md, operation-registry.md
  • Status: resolved
  • Door type: One-way (protocol schema), two-way (mechanism)
  • Priority: high
  • Resolution: call.aborted cascades to all non-terminal descendants in the call tree. The CallAdapter walks the tree (indexed by parent_request_id in PendingRequestMap) and sends call.aborted for each descendant. Default policy is abort-dependents (abort everything downstream); continue-running is an opt-in for long-running work that should survive a parent's abort. Handlers clean up via Rust's async drop semantics (future dropped → Drop guards release resources). The cascade is protocol-level (server discovers descendants and propagates); the mechanism (parent-indexed map, cancellation tokens, or a separate graph) is a two-way door. See ADR-016.
  • Cross-references: ADR-012, ADR-015, ADR-016, call-protocol.md, operation-registry.md