fix(frontend): treat any task tool error as a terminal subtask failure

The subtask card status machine matched only three English prefixes (`Task
Succeeded. Result:`, `Task failed.`, `Task timed out`). Anything else fell
through to `in_progress`, so a `task` tool error wrapped by
`ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware` (`Error: Tool 'task' failed ...`) left the card
spinning forever even after the run had ended.

Extract the prefix logic into `parseSubtaskResult` and recognise any leading
`Error:` token as a terminal failure. The extracted function is unit-tested
against the legacy prefixes plus the `AsyncCallbackManager` regression
captured in the upstream issue.

Refs: bytedance/deer-flow#3107 (BUG-007)

frontend/src/components/workspace/messages/message-list.tsx

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import {
 import { useRehypeSplitWordsIntoSpans } from "@/core/rehype";
 import type { Subtask } from "@/core/tasks";
 import { useUpdateSubtask } from "@/core/tasks/context";
+import { parseSubtaskResult } from "@/core/tasks/subtask-result";
 import type { AgentThreadState } from "@/core/threads";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 
@@ -359,33 +360,10 @@ export function MessageList({
               } else if (message.type === "tool") {
                 const taskId = message.tool_call_id;
                 if (taskId) {
-                  const result = extractTextFromMessage(message);
+                  const parsed = parseSubtaskResult(
-                  if (result.startsWith("Task Succeeded. Result:")) {
+                    extractTextFromMessage(message),
-                    updateSubtask({
+                  );
-                      id: taskId,
+                  updateSubtask({ id: taskId, ...parsed });
-                      status: "completed",
-                      result: result
-                        .split("Task Succeeded. Result:")[1]
-                        ?.trim(),
-                    });
-                  } else if (result.startsWith("Task failed.")) {
-                    updateSubtask({
-                      id: taskId,
-                      status: "failed",
-                      error: result.split("Task failed.")[1]?.trim(),
-                    });
-                  } else if (result.startsWith("Task timed out")) {
-                    updateSubtask({
-                      id: taskId,
-                      status: "failed",
-                      error: result,
-                    });
-                  } else {
-                    updateSubtask({
-                      id: taskId,
-                      status: "in_progress",
-                    });
-                  }
                 }
               }
             }

frontend/src/core/tasks/subtask-result.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import type { Subtask } from "./types";
+
+export type SubtaskStatus = Subtask["status"];
+
+export interface SubtaskResultUpdate {
+  status: SubtaskStatus;
+  result?: string;
+  error?: string;
+}
+
+const SUCCESS_PREFIX = "Task Succeeded. Result:";
+const FAILURE_PREFIX = "Task failed.";
+const TIMEOUT_PREFIX = "Task timed out";
+
+/**
+ * Map a `task` tool result string to a {@link SubtaskStatus}.
+ *
+ * Bytedance/deer-flow issue #3107 BUG-007: parent-visible task tool errors do
+ * not always start with one of the three legacy prefixes (e.g. when
+ * `ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware` wraps an exception as
+ * `Error: Tool 'task' failed ...`). Treat any leading `Error:` token as a
+ * terminal failure so subtask cards stop being stuck on "in_progress".
+ */
+export function parseSubtaskResult(text: string): SubtaskResultUpdate {
+  const trimmed = text.trim();
+
+  if (trimmed.startsWith(SUCCESS_PREFIX)) {
+    return {
+      status: "completed",
+      result: trimmed.slice(SUCCESS_PREFIX.length).trim(),
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (trimmed.startsWith(FAILURE_PREFIX)) {
+    return {
+      status: "failed",
+      error: trimmed.slice(FAILURE_PREFIX.length).trim(),
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (trimmed.startsWith(TIMEOUT_PREFIX)) {
+    return { status: "failed", error: trimmed };
+  }
+
+  // ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware-style wrapper, or any other terminal error
+  // signal the backend forwards to the lead agent.
+  if (/^Error\b/i.test(trimmed)) {
+    return { status: "failed", error: trimmed };
+  }
+
+  return { status: "in_progress" };
+}

frontend/tests/unit/core/tasks/subtask-result.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { parseSubtaskResult } from "@/core/tasks/subtask-result";
+
+describe("parseSubtaskResult", () => {
+  it("recognises the standard success prefix", () => {
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult(
+      "Task Succeeded. Result: investigated and produced a 3-page report",
+    );
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("completed");
+    expect(parsed.result).toBe("investigated and produced a 3-page report");
+  });
+
+  it("recognises the standard failure prefix", () => {
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult(
+      "Task failed. underlying tool raised RuntimeError",
+    );
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("failed");
+    expect(parsed.error).toBe("underlying tool raised RuntimeError");
+  });
+
+  it("recognises the standard timeout prefix", () => {
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult("Task timed out after 900s");
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("failed");
+    expect(parsed.error).toBe("Task timed out after 900s");
+  });
+
+  it("treats middleware-wrapped tool errors as terminal failures", () => {
+    // bytedance/deer-flow issue #3107 BUG-007: the parent-visible ToolMessage
+    // produced by ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware never matches the three legacy
+    // prefixes, so subtask cards stay stuck on "in_progress".
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult(
+      "Error: Tool 'task' failed with TypeError: 'AsyncCallbackManager' object is not iterable. Continue with available context, or choose an alternative tool.",
+    );
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("failed");
+    expect(parsed.error).toContain("AsyncCallbackManager");
+  });
+
+  it("treats any other Error: prefix as a terminal failure", () => {
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult("Error: subagent worker pool exhausted");
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("failed");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps unrecognised non-error output as in_progress", () => {
+    // Streaming partial chunks should not flip the card to terminal early.
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult("Investigating ...");
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("in_progress");
+    expect(parsed.error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(parsed.result).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("trims surrounding whitespace before matching prefixes", () => {
+    const parsed = parseSubtaskResult("   Task Succeeded. Result: ok   ");
+    expect(parsed.status).toBe("completed");
+    expect(parsed.result).toBe("ok");
+  });
+});