When a turn hit max_iterations, finalize_turn ran three unguarded cleanup
steps after the model's summary — _save_trajectory (file I/O), _cleanup_task_resources
(remote VM/browser teardown), and _persist_session (SQLite write). Any raise
there propagated out of run_conversation, discarding the partial final_response
the caller was waiting for; subprocess wrappers saw an empty stdout with no
traceback (#8049).
Each step is now guarded independently so one failure can't skip the others.
Failures log at ERROR with a traceback and are surfaced on the result dict via
cleanup_errors; the partial response is always returned.
Closes#8049.
Lift the post-loop finalization tail out of run_conversation into
agent/turn_finalizer.py:finalize_turn. Behavior-neutral; run_conversation
4204 -> 3846 LOC, conversation_loop.py 4578 -> 4220.
The region (everything after the main tool-calling while loop): budget-exhaustion
summary, trajectory save, session persist, turn diagnostics, response transforms,
result-dict assembly, steer drain, and the memory/skill review trigger. Lifted
verbatim into a synchronous single-return free function; the 12 post-loop locals
it reads are passed as keyword args and the assembled result dict is returned to
run_conversation (which returns it to the caller). All agent.* side effects fire
exactly as before.
Imports: os + _summarize_user_message_for_log at module top; logger lazy from
agent.conversation_loop (preserves the gateway... err 'agent.conversation_loop'
logger name, no import cycle).
Validation: 1609/1609 tests/run_agent/ pass; live PTY agent turn PASS.
