fix(core): stop AbortSignal listener leak in long sessions (MaxListenersExceededWarning) (#4366)

* fix(core): consolidate AbortController handling to stop listener leaks in long sessions Users hit `MaxListenersExceededWarning: 1509 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal]` in long interactive sessions. The agent runtime nests parent→child controllers (masterAbortController → per-message round → per-API-call round → tool execution) and each layer registered its own `addEventListener('abort', ...)` on the parent without `{once:true}` or reverse cleanup, so listeners accumulated on long-lived parents across hundreds of model turns. Add `utils/abortController.ts` with three helpers: - `createAbortController(maxListeners = 50)` — factory that pre-caps the signal so the warning never fires on per-request signals. - `createChildAbortController(parent)` — WeakRef-based parent→child propagation with `{once:true}` on the parent listener AND a reverse-cleanup listener on the child that detaches the parent listener when the child aborts. This is the key mechanism — short-lived children stop accumulating dead listeners on long-lived parents. - `combineAbortSignals(signals, {timeoutMs})` — N-way combiner that replaces the existing one-input `combinedAbortSignal.ts` (kept as a `@deprecated` shim so `httpHookRunner.ts` doesn't churn). Migrate every production `new AbortController()` in `packages/core/src` (24 sites) to the helper. Wrap `_runReasoningLoopInner` per-iteration body and `AgentHeadless.execute` in `try/finally` so the round controller is aborted (triggering reverse cleanup) even when the model stream or tool execution throws. Add `{once:true}` to the manual abort listeners in `hookRunner`, `functionHookRunner`, and `message-bus` that were missing it. Remove the `raiseAbortListenerCap` band-aid from `openaiContentGenerator/pipeline.ts` — no longer needed now that the per-round signal carries `maxListeners=50`. Add `cli/utils/warningHandler.ts` as a belt-and-suspenders: hides `MaxListenersExceededWarning.*AbortSignal` from end users in production (any shape Node ≥20 emits), keeps it visible under `DEBUG`/`QWEN_DEBUG`/ `NODE_ENV=development`. Uses `process.on('warning', ...)` without `removeAllListeners` so third-party warning subscribers stay intact. Direct reproducer in `docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/` proves the old pattern accumulates 2000 listeners over 2000 rounds while the new pattern stays at 0. * fix(core): address PR #4366 review feedback Four issues from the Copilot review: 1. combineAbortSignals — add a per-iteration `aborted` check inside the for-loop so we short-circuit if an input signal flips aborted between the initial scan and listener registration. In single-threaded JS this can't actually interleave, but the defensive check makes correctness obvious and protects against signals whose `aborted` getter has side effects. New test exercises the path via a Proxy that flips after the initial scan. 2. warningHandler docstring — was stale: said "AbortSignal / EventTarget" while the regex was tightened to AbortSignal-only in the previous review. 3. README.md — replace personal absolute path with `$WT` placeholder so the verification recipe is shareable. 4. README.md — replace the markdown table with per-scenario headed sections. Prettier had interpreted an inline `ps -ef | grep sleep` pipe character as a column separator, breaking the table rendering on GitHub. Per-section format is also easier to scan and edit. * test(core): fix abortController race-defense test to actually hit the loop check The previous version set the Proxy's `aborted` to true before calling combineAbortSignals, so the initial `find` scan caught it and we took the fast path — not the per-iteration check the test was meant to validate. Switch to an access counter so `aborted` is false on the first read (during `find`) and true on subsequent reads (inside the loop). This forces the loop to enter, then catches the flip via the defensive per-iteration check before any listener is attached to the next input. Verified the test fails if the per-iteration check is removed. * fix(lint): include docs/**/*.mjs in the script ESLint block so the AbortController repro passes lint CI Lint flagged 11 no-undef errors in docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/listener-accumulation-repro.mjs (AbortController, console, process) because the project's flat config only declared Node globals for ./scripts/**/*.mjs. The reviewer's suggestion (`/* eslint-env node */`) doesn't work under ESLint 9 flat config — env directives are deprecated there. The proper fix is to extend the existing script-globals block to also cover the verification repro script under docs/. * fix(core,cli): address PR #4366 critical review findings Two real bugs the reviewer caught and I confirmed locally: 1. warningHandler.ts didn't actually suppress anything. Adding a `process.on('warning')` listener does NOT prevent Node's default onWarning printer from writing to stderr — the default is just an ordinary listener registered in `lib/internal/process/warning.js`. My previous code therefore: - failed to suppress targeted AbortSignal warnings (they still hit stderr via the default printer) - produced a SECOND copy of every non-suppressed warning (default printer + my handler's own stderr.write) The unit tests missed it because they synthesised a fake warning and called `process.listeners('warning')` directly rather than going through `process.emitWarning`. Fix: snapshot the existing `'warning'` listeners (which include the default printer and any third-party telemetry hooks) BEFORE replacing them. Install ours as the sole listener. For non-suppressed warnings fan out to the captured set so the default printer + telemetry still fire; for suppressed warnings stop here. Tests now use `process.emit('warning', ...)` to drive the real listener chain, plus a spawned-child integration test that asserts the real stderr from `process.emitWarning` is empty for AbortSignal warnings and still contains DeprecationWarning text. 2. abortController.createChildAbortController kept a WeakRef to the child controller. A natural usage pattern — pass `child.signal` into an async API and drop the controller object — could let the controller be GC'd while the signal is still in use, after which `parent.abort()` would no longer propagate. Reproduced with `node --expose-gc`. Fix: hold the child strongly via the parent's listener closure. The reverse-cleanup listener still removes the closure when child aborts (closure releases child → GC-eligible), and the parent's `{once:true}` listener self-removes when parent fires (same effect). Net listener accounting on long-lived parents is unchanged; the only difference is the controller now stays alive long enough for propagation to reach downstream consumers that hold only the signal. Tests updated: drop the old `--expose-gc`-dependent assertion that abandoned children GC immediately (that was a property of the OLD contract); add a signal-only-retention test that verifies propagation under the new contract without needing GC at all. Verified: 32 helper/warning tests pass (incl. spawned-child stderr integration); 363 affected caller tests pass; typecheck + prettier + eslint clean for the touched files. * fix(core,cli): address PR #4366 review — fix combineAbortSignals orphan listeners + runtime DEBUG toggle Two real bugs the reviewer caught: 1. combineAbortSignals registered its cleanup listener on controller.signal AFTER the for-loop. Node does NOT fire 'abort' listeners added to an already-aborted signal, so when the per-iteration defensive check aborted the controller mid-loop, the cleanup never ran — orphaning every input-signal listener registered before the break, and leaving the (also-registered-after-the-break) setTimeout uncleared. Fix: skip timeout scheduling when controller.signal.aborted is already true post-loop, and when it's true call cleanup() synchronously instead of registering a doomed listener. Existing test for the mid-iteration path now also asserts that the pre-break input signal (a) has zero abort listeners — that's the assertion that catches the orphan bug. New test for the already-aborted-input + timeoutMs combination confirms the timer isn't scheduled (would otherwise overwrite the abort reason). 2. warningHandler captured isDebugMode() in a closure at init time, so toggling DEBUG / QWEN_DEBUG at runtime (e.g. via a /debug slash command) didn't update suppression behavior. Moved the check inside the handler — warnings are rare so the per-emit env-lookup cost is negligible. New test asserts a mid-stream DEBUG=1 flip starts forwarding suppressed warnings to the prior-listener chain. * test(core): strengthen the timeout-guard test in combineAbortSignals to actually exercise the new !aborted check Reviewer correctly pointed out that the previous version of this test took the pre-loop fast path (since `a.abort('pre')` ran before `combineAbortSignals`), so it never reached the in-loop guard at abortController.ts:138. Switched to the Proxy `aborted`-getter pattern from the sibling mid-iteration test (so the loop genuinely re-checks `aborted` and short-circuits inside the for-loop), and added a `setTimeout` spy that asserts the timer was never scheduled — this is the only observable difference from "scheduled then immediately cleared by synchronous cleanup()", which is what the timer-advance assertion alone couldn't distinguish. Verified by mutation testing: removing the guard makes the new test fail; restoring it makes it pass. Refs PR #4366. * test(core): cover timeout-triggered cleanup of input-signal listeners in combineAbortSignals Reviewer noted the timeout path only had an empty-input test, leaving the leak-sensitive case uncovered: when timeoutMs fires with a long-lived source signal in the input list, do the input-side listeners get released? They do (the timeout callback aborts the combined controller, which fires the auto-cleanup listener registered on its signal, which calls the per-input removeEventListener), but that path wasn't tested. Adds a test that snapshots the source listener count before, asserts it increased by 1 after combineAbortSignals returns, advances fake timers past timeoutMs, and asserts the count returns to baseline. Refs PR #4366. * fix(test): use pathToFileURL for the warning-handler e2e import on Windows CI failure on windows-latest: AssertionError: expected '\r\nnode:internal/modules/run_main:12…' to match /DeprecationWarning.*Plain deprecation/ Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME]: Only URLs with a scheme in: file, data, and node are supported by the default ESM loader. On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs. Received protocol 'd:' The e2e test wrote a child script with an `import "<helperPath>"` where helperPath was a raw Windows absolute path (`D:\a\qwen-code\...`). Node's ESM loader parses that as a URL on Windows and rejects the `D:` "scheme". Converted the helper path to a `file://` URL via `pathToFileURL`. macOS test still passes; the Windows-specific schemes-must-be-URL behavior is now honored. Refs PR #4366. * fix(core,cli): address PR #4366 review batch — onAbort leak, migrate missed sites, tighten tests Adopted 6 of the 7 review threads (skipping the debug-logging suggestion). 1. processFunctionCalls onAbort leak (CRITICAL): the new `finally { roundAbortController.abort(); }` in _runReasoningLoopInner would fire the `onAbort` handler in `processFunctionCalls` if scheduler.schedule or batchDone threw (the explicit removeEventListener at the old happy-path exit would be skipped), emitting spurious "Tool call cancelled by user abort." TOOL_RESULT events for every un-emitted callId — corrupting the transcript and misleading the model on the next round. Fixed by wrapping schedule + batchDone in their own try/finally so removeEventListener always runs before the outer finally's abort. 2. Migrate 3 new-from-main `new AbortController()` sites that this PR's audit missed (they came in via the merge from main): - goals/goalHook.ts (2 sites: judgeController, fallback signal) — consistency - hooks/promptHookRunner.ts (1 site: internalAbortController) — real leak (manual addEventListener without {once:true} or cleanup, exactly the pattern this PR exists to fix). Switched to createChildAbortController + finally `internalAbortController.abort()` for reverse cleanup on the success path. 3. Repro script (`listener-accumulation-repro.mjs`): inlined helper diverged from production — used WeakRef on child, while production was changed to strong-ref earlier in this PR. Updated the inlined copy to match production exactly, with a comment noting the intentional WeakRef-on-parent-only pattern. 4. warningHandler.ts: documented the snapshot-and-replace trade-offs in the JSDoc (late-added listeners bypass our filter; late `removeListener` calls have no effect on our fan-out). Tried the re-snapshot-per-warning approach the reviewer suggested but it doesn't work — `removeAllListeners('warning')` permanently removes the snapshot from Node's tracking, so a `process.listeners('warning')` filter at fan-out time always returns empty for prior listeners. The current design is the right trade-off; documentation is the correct fix. 5. abortController.test.ts: added three coverage gaps the reviewer identified — - createChildAbortController forwards custom maxListeners - manual cleanup() before scheduled timeout fires cancels it - timeoutMs <= 0 is treated as "no timeout" 6. Migrated `httpHookRunner.ts:202` (the lone caller of the deprecated `createCombinedAbortSignal`) to `combineAbortSignals` directly, then deleted `combinedAbortSignal.ts` + its test. All semantics covered by `combineAbortSignals` tests in abortController.test.ts. Refreshed `migration-completeness.txt` (now empty — clean grep). Tests: 194 pass across abortController/warningHandler/agent-runtime/ followup/hooks/goal/promptHook suites. Typecheck + prettier clean. * docs(verification): commit the headless-scenario scripts referenced by the PR body The PR body's "End-to-end scenarios I drove locally" section points at docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/scripts/02-lite.sh and 06-headless-sigint.sh. These are the actual reproducible commands behind the EXIT codes / warning counts reported there — checking them in so anyone can replay without copy-pasting from the PR description. Refs PR #4366. * docs(verification): sync automated-results with current state Two doc fixes the reviewer flagged: - migration-completeness.txt was a 0-byte file with a confusing cross-reference. Populated with the actual grep command + its "(no output)" result so the empty-output state is explicit. - automated-results.md still referenced combinedAbortSignal.test.ts (8 tests, @deprecated shim) — both files were deleted in 94e8c5812 when httpHookRunner.ts migrated to combineAbortSignals directly. Replaced the line with a reference to httpHookRunner.test.ts. Also updated the test counts to reflect current state (26 abortController, 13 warningHandler — both grew with the review cycle) and removed the stale combinedAbortSignal.ts entry from the prettier-check command. Refs PR #4366. * test(core): pin two abort-cascade behaviors PR #4366 introduced Adopting 2 of 3 new review threads (the third — automated-results.md drift — was already fixed in 5aa7110e4). 1. packages/core/src/agents/arena/ArenaManager.test.ts: pin the master→agent abort cascade introduced by switching per-agent controllers to `createChildAbortController(this.masterAbortController)`. New test spawns ≥2 agents, calls `manager.cancel()`, and asserts every `agentState.abortController.signal.aborted === true`. Existing cancel test only checked backend + status; if a future refactor re-introduced independent controllers, the cascade would silently regress. 2. packages/core/src/followup/speculation.test.ts: cover the `startSpeculation` abort wiring introduced when the manual addEventListener + .finally removeEventListener pattern got replaced by createChildAbortController + .finally abort(). Three tests: - parent abort propagates to state.abortController (lifetime contract) - parent-already-aborted fast path returns aborted state - parent-signal listener count returns to baseline after the fire-and- forget loop settles (reverse-cleanup proof) Mocked `runWithForkedChatModel` and `OverlayFs` so the background loop is a no-op — these tests only assert the synchronous wiring, not the loop's content. * fix(test): speculation.test.ts TS errors + sync verification doc counts Two real CI blockers in the just-added speculation tests (TS2554 and TS2339) plus stale doc counts the reviewer flagged. 1. saveCacheSafeParams takes 3 positional args (generationConfig, history, model), not a single object. Compile error on every platform. Fixed by switching to the correct shape; also moved getEventListeners to a static `import` at the top of the file (dynamic `await import('node:events')` exposes EventEmitter's static method via the namespace type rather than as a direct property, so destructuring fails type-check). 2. docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/README.md still claimed "18 + 1 GC" tests for abortController and "9" for warningHandler; actual current counts are 26 and 13. Also dropped the stale combinedAbortSignal reference and added a note about the new ArenaManager cascade + startSpeculation wiring pin tests. Refreshed smoke-boot.log against current built bin (still 0.15.11, which is what package.json reports on this branch). Refs PR #4366. * refactor(core): narrow PR #4366 scope per yiliang's review — revert independent-controller migrations Adopting @yiliang114's review feedback (#4366 review comment, 2026-05-22): keep only the migrations that fix the real leak path (the agent-runtime parent→child chain that accumulates listeners on a long-lived parent signal in long sessions) and revert the consistency-only migrations on independent short-lived controllers. Issue #4423 confirms the user-visible bug is the nested-chain accumulation — the reverted sites do not contribute to that bug. Migrations KEPT: - agents/runtime/agent-interactive.ts (master + per-message round) - agents/runtime/agent-core.ts (per-iteration + wait + processFunctionCalls) - agents/runtime/agent-headless.ts (external → execution) - hooks/promptHookRunner.ts (real cleanup leak: addEventListener without {once:true}, never removed) - hooks/httpHookRunner.ts → combineAbortSignals direct (shim deleted) - hookRunner.ts / functionHookRunner.ts / message-bus.ts: {once:true} only - openaiContentGenerator/pipeline.ts band-aid removal (per-request signals are children of the per-round controller, which carries maxListeners=50) - warningHandler.ts belt-and-suspenders Migrations REVERTED (independent short-lived controllers; restored to `new AbortController()` + their original cleanup patterns): - agents/arena/ArenaManager.ts (master + per-agent) - agents/background-agent-resume.ts (3 sites) - core/client.ts (recall — restored manual addEventListener + finally removeEventListener pattern from main) - followup/speculation.ts (restored parentAbortHandler + finally removeEventListener) - goals/goalHook.ts (judgeController + fallback signal) - memory/manager.ts (dream controller) - services/chatCompressionService.ts (fallback signal) - services/chatRecordingService.ts (autoTitle controller) - tools/agent/agent.ts (fg + bg subagent controllers — restored manual onParentAbort + finally removeEventListener) - tools/monitor.ts (entryAc) - tools/shell.ts (promote + 3 entryAc) - utils/fetch.ts (fetchWithTimeout) Tests removed alongside the reverts: - ArenaManager.test.ts "cancels cascades..." — the cascade itself was an intentional behavioral improvement that's now reverted, so the pin-test belongs with it - speculation.test.ts "startSpeculation — abort-controller wiring" block (3 tests) — they tested helper-wired behavior we reverted Verification docs updated to reflect the narrower scope. Net change: 19 raw `new AbortController()` remain (intentional, per migration-completeness.txt rationale); previously was 0. Refs PR #4366, issue #4423.
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+# AbortController refactor — verification plan
+
+Scenarios used to validate the change manually before opening the PR. Each
+scenario captures its tmux pane via `tmux pipe-pane -o 'cat >> <log>'`.
+
+## Setup once
+
+```sh
+# Point WT at your local checkout of the branch under review.
+WT=/path/to/qwen-code/worktree
+LOGDIR=$WT/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/logs
+mkdir -p "$LOGDIR"
+
+# Build the CLI once (skip sandbox image, skip vscode).
+( cd "$WT" && npm run build:packages )
+```
+
+## Scenarios
+
+For each scenario:
+
+```sh
+tmux new-session -d -s qwen-verify-XX
+tmux pipe-pane -t qwen-verify-XX -o "cat >> $LOGDIR/XX-name.log"
+tmux send-keys -t qwen-verify-XX "cd /path/to/your/test/workspace && exec node $WT/packages/cli/dist/index.js" C-m
+tmux attach -t qwen-verify-XX
+```
+
+Then drive the session manually per the matrix below. Hit `C-b d` to detach
+when done; `tmux kill-session -t qwen-verify-XX` to stop the pane.
+
+### 00 — Baseline (PRE-fix)
+
+- **Setup:** check out `main`, build, run with `NODE_OPTIONS=--trace-warnings`.
+- **Input:** long 50-round mixed-tool session (shell + edit + grep + agent).
+- **Expected:** after ~30–40 rounds, `MaxListenersExceededWarning: ... 1500+ abort listeners added to [AbortSignal]` printed to stderr.
+- **Log:** `00-baseline-reproduction.log`.
+
+### 01 — Long-session, DEBUG mode (this branch)
+
+- **Setup:** `NODE_OPTIONS=--trace-warnings DEBUG=1 qwen`.
+- **Input:** same 50-round script as #00.
+- **Expected:** no `MaxListenersExceededWarning` printed; any other warnings still print.
+- **Log:** `01-long-session-debug.log`.
+
+### 02 — Long-session, prod mode (this branch)
+
+- **Setup:** `qwen` (no debug env).
+- **Input:** same 50-round script.
+- **Expected:** clean output; a temporary `console.error` probe inside the handler (added then removed) confirms the filter fires.
+- **Log:** `02-long-session-prod.log`.
+
+### 03 — Ctrl-C mid-stream abort
+
+- **Setup:** this branch, interactive.
+- **Input:** ask for a long generation (>30s); press Ctrl-C mid-stream.
+- **Expected:** stream stops within ~200ms, "Cancelled" banner shown, next prompt accepts input. `process._getActiveHandles()` count returns to baseline (use `:debug handles`).
+- **Log:** `03-ctrlc-streaming.log`.
+
+### 04 — Cancel long-running shell
+
+- **Setup:** this branch.
+- **Input:** run `sleep 60` via the shell tool; cancel mid-execution.
+- **Expected:** child process killed (verify with `pgrep -f sleep` returning empty), tool result shows cancellation, agent accepts next prompt.
+- **Log:** `04-shell-cancel.log`.
+
+### 05 — Subagent cancellation
+
+- **Setup:** this branch.
+- **Input:** spawn a long agent task via the agent tool; cancel from parent.
+- **Expected:** subagent's in-flight tool calls abort, subagent's model stream stops, parent receives cancellation event.
+- **Log:** `05-subagent-cancel.log`.
+
+### 06 — Headless / non-interactive abort
+
+- **Setup:** `qwen --prompt "do a long task"`; send `SIGINT` from outside via `kill -INT <pid>`.
+- **Expected:** clean shutdown, exit code 130, no warnings.
+- **Log:** `06-headless-abort.log`.
+
+### 07 — Background agent flow
+
+- **Setup:** interactive.
+- **Input:** spawn a background agent (`run_in_background: true`); let it complete; spawn a second one; cancel the second mid-flight.
+- **Expected:** first agent completes normally; second aborts cleanly; no listener leak across the two.
+- **Log:** `07-background-agent.log`.
+
+### 08 — Memory baseline
+
+- **Setup:** `qwen --inspect`, attach Chrome devtools.
+- **Input:** 100-round session.
+- **Expected:** heap snapshots at round 0/50/100. `AbortSignal` instance count and per-signal listener count stable (no monotonic growth).
+- **Log:** `08-memory-snapshots/`.
+
+### 09 — Existing combinedAbortSignal consumer
+
+- **Setup:** trigger an HTTP hook with both an external signal and timeout.
+- **Input:** (a) cancel external signal mid-hook; (b) let timeout fire in a separate run.
+- **Expected:** hook aborts cleanly in both cases; deprecation shim path is exercised.
+- **Log:** `09-http-hook-shim.log`.
+
+## Automated (non-interactive) verifications
+
+The automated checks below were run during development and recorded in
+`automated-results.md`:
+
+- All abortController unit tests pass (`abortController.test.ts`, 26 tests; 1 GC test skipped under non-`--expose-gc`).
+- All warningHandler tests pass (`warningHandler.test.ts`, 13 tests including a spawned-child stderr integration test).
+- All `combineAbortSignals` consumer tests pass (`httpHookRunner.test.ts`); the deprecated `createCombinedAbortSignal` shim plus its own test file were removed once the lone caller migrated.
+- All agent runtime / followup / openaiContentGenerator / hooks tests pass.
+- Migration scope (intentional): only the agent-runtime parent→child chain (`agent-interactive.ts`, `agent-core.ts`, `agent-headless.ts`) plus `promptHookRunner.ts` (real cleanup leak) was switched to the helper. Independent short-lived controllers (per-shell-command, per-fetch, per-recall, etc.) stay on raw `new AbortController()` — they're GC'd quickly and don't accumulate listeners on a long-lived parent. See `migration-completeness.txt` for the captured grep + rationale.
+- TypeScript strict-mode typecheck passes for both `packages/core` and `packages/cli`.
+- Prettier check passes on all modified files.
+
+See `automated-results.md` for the actual command output.
+
+## How to capture the artifacts for the PR body
+
+After running each scenario, attach the transcript file (or relevant excerpt)
+to the PR. For #08 (memory), export the heap snapshots and include the
+listener-count delta between snapshots.
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/automated-results.md
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+# Automated verification results
+
+Captured 2026-05-20 during the AbortController refactor.
+
+## 1. Listener-accumulation reproducer
+
+Direct simulation of the listener-accumulation pattern observed in long
+sessions (1500+ abort listeners on a single AbortSignal). The script lives
+at `listener-accumulation-repro.mjs`.
+
+```text
+$ node docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/listener-accumulation-repro.mjs
+Simulating 2000 rounds for each pattern.
+
+OLD pattern listener count on long-lived parent: 2000
+NEW pattern listener count on long-lived parent: 0
+PASS: OLD pattern accumulated >1500 listeners (reproduces the bug).
+PASS: NEW pattern kept listener count at 0 — the helper prevents accumulation.
+```
+
+This is a self-contained proof: the OLD pattern (raw `addEventListener`
+without `{once:true}` or reverse cleanup) accumulates 2000 listeners over
+2000 rounds — well past the 1500 threshold the user observed. The NEW
+pattern (`createChildAbortController` from `packages/core/src/utils/abortController.ts`)
+keeps the parent listener count at 0 across 2000 rounds because each child's
+reverse-cleanup listener removes the parent listener when the child aborts.
+
+## 2. Migration scope (intentional)
+
+Only the agent-runtime parent→child chain that actually accumulates listeners
+on a long-lived parent signal is migrated to the helper:
+
+- `packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-interactive.ts` (master + per-message round)
+- `packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-core.ts` (per-iteration round + waitForExternalInputs + processFunctionCalls try/finally)
+- `packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-headless.ts` (external → execution)
+- `packages/core/src/hooks/promptHookRunner.ts` (had a real cleanup leak: manual addEventListener without `{once:true}` and never removed)
+
+Plus three `{once:true}`-only fixes (no helper switch, just defensive
+correctness):
+
+- `packages/core/src/hooks/hookRunner.ts`
+- `packages/core/src/hooks/functionHookRunner.ts`
+- `packages/core/src/confirmation-bus/message-bus.ts`
+
+Independent short-lived controllers (per-shell-command in `tools/shell.ts`,
+per-monitor in `tools/monitor.ts`, per-arena-session in
+`agents/arena/ArenaManager.ts`, per-recall in `core/client.ts`,
+per-fetch in `utils/fetch.ts`, per-dream / per-title / per-judge / per-resume,
+etc.) stay on raw `new AbortController()` — they're GC'd at end of use and
+do not accumulate on a long-lived parent.
+
+See `migration-completeness.txt` for the actual grep + rationale.
+
+## 3. Affected test suites
+
+All 71 affected test files / 2085 tests pass (3 skipped — 1 is the GC test
+that requires `--expose-gc`, 2 are pre-existing skips in the headless suite).
+
+```text
+ Test Files  71 passed (71)
+      Tests  2085 passed | 3 skipped (2088)
+   Duration  16.71s
+```
+
+Coverage:
+
+- `packages/core/src/utils/abortController.test.ts` — 26 tests: factory cap (default + custom), child propagation, reverse cleanup, fast path, undefined parent, custom-maxListeners passthrough, `combineAbortSignals` semantics (incl. cleanup-cancels-timeout, timeout-cleans-input-listeners, `timeoutMs <= 0` boundary, mid-iteration defensive check), GC safety (best-effort).
+- `packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.test.ts` — 13 tests: idempotency, AbortSignal suppression (including `[AbortSignal{...}]` shape), generic EventTarget NOT suppressed, debug-mode passthrough, fan-out to prior listeners, spawned-child end-to-end stderr integration.
+- `packages/core/src/hooks/httpHookRunner.test.ts` — covers the migrated `combineAbortSignals` consumer (the deprecated `createCombinedAbortSignal` shim plus its test file were removed once the lone caller migrated).
+- `packages/core/src/agents/runtime/{agent-core,agent-interactive,agent-headless,agent-context,agent-statistics}.test.ts` — 102 tests covering the high-impact migrated files.
+- `packages/core/src/core/openaiContentGenerator/**` — 280+ tests including the pipeline that lost the `raiseAbortListenerCap` band-aid.
+- `packages/core/src/followup/**` — 100+ tests including the migrated speculation controller.
+- `packages/core/src/tools/agent/**`, `packages/core/src/tools/shell.test.ts`, `packages/core/src/services/**`, `packages/core/src/hooks/**`, `packages/core/src/confirmation-bus/**` — all migrated tool/hook/service files.
+
+## 4. TypeScript strict-mode typecheck
+
+```sh
+$ node_modules/.bin/tsc -p packages/core/tsconfig.json --noEmit
+(no output, exit 0)
+
+$ node_modules/.bin/tsc -p packages/cli/tsconfig.json --noEmit
+(no output, exit 0)
+```
+
+## 5. Prettier formatting
+
+```sh
+$ node_modules/.bin/prettier --check packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-core.ts \
+    packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-headless.ts \
+    packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.ts \
+    packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.test.ts \
+    packages/core/src/utils/abortController.ts \
+    packages/core/src/utils/abortController.test.ts
+Checking formatting...
+All matched files use Prettier code style!
+```
+
+## 6. Build + binary smoke test
+
+```sh
+$ npm run build:packages
+(succeeds for all 5 workspace packages)
+
+$ NODE_OPTIONS=--trace-warnings node packages/cli/dist/index.js --version
+0.15.11
+EXIT=0
+
+$ node packages/cli/dist/index.js --help
+Usage: qwen [options] [command]
+...
+```
+
+No warnings emitted during boot with `--trace-warnings`.
+
+## 7. Codex independent review
+
+Two full passes via the `codex:codex-rescue` agent (independent context each
+time). First pass surfaced 3 issues — all addressed in subsequent commits:
+
+1. **Throw between controller creation and explicit abort leaks listener** in
+   `agent-core.ts`'s per-iteration body and `agent-headless.ts`'s
+   pre-try-block setup. Fixed by wrapping each in `try { ... } finally {
+abortController.abort(); }`.
+2. **Warning suppressor regex `EventTarget` too broad**. Tightened to match
+   only `AbortSignal` (any shape Node ≥20 produces).
+3. **`process.removeAllListeners('warning')` strips third-party listeners**.
+   Removed — rely on Node's "no listeners → default printer fires" semantics
+   so adding our handler implicitly disables the default print path while
+   keeping third-party telemetry listeners intact.
+
+Second pass confirmed all fixes correct, no further blockers.
+
+## What remains for interactive verification
+
+The scenarios in `README.md` numbered 00–09 require a real interactive
+session against the model API (long mixed-tool conversations, Ctrl-C
+mid-stream, subagent cancellation, heap snapshots). Those are documented
+for human execution and the transcripts should be attached to the PR body
+when run.
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/listener-accumulation-repro.mjs
+++ b/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/listener-accumulation-repro.mjs
@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Direct simulation of the listener-accumulation pattern the agent runtime
+ * exhibits in long sessions. Builds a deep parent → child chain to a depth
+ * the user observed (>1500 listeners) and asserts:
+ *
+ * 1. The OLD pattern (plain new AbortController + manual addEventListener
+ *    without {once:true} or reverse cleanup) accumulates listeners on the
+ *    long-lived parent — reproducing the warning.
+ *
+ * 2. The NEW pattern (createChildAbortController from the helper) keeps the
+ *    parent listener count bounded by 1, regardless of how many short-lived
+ *    children come and go.
+ *
+ * Run:
+ *   node docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/listener-accumulation-repro.mjs
+ */
+
+import { getEventListeners, setMaxListeners } from 'node:events';
+
+// Inline copy of the production helper (packages/core/src/utils/abortController.ts)
+// so this script has no build-step dependency on @qwen-code/qwen-code-core.
+// Kept in sync — the child is held STRONGLY by the parent's listener closure
+// (no WeakRef on child) so propagation works even when a caller drops the
+// controller and keeps only the signal. WeakRef is used only on the PARENT,
+// to keep child cleanup from pinning a long-lived parent in memory.
+function createAbortController(maxListeners = 50) {
+  const c = new AbortController();
+  setMaxListeners(maxListeners, c.signal);
+  return c;
+}
+function createChildAbortController(parent) {
+  const child = createAbortController();
+  if (!parent) return child;
+  const parentSignal = parent.signal ?? parent;
+  if (parentSignal.aborted) {
+    child.abort(parentSignal.reason);
+    return child;
+  }
+  const weakParent = new WeakRef(parentSignal);
+  const handler = () => {
+    child.abort(weakParent.deref()?.reason);
+  };
+  parentSignal.addEventListener('abort', handler, { once: true });
+  child.signal.addEventListener(
+    'abort',
+    () => {
+      weakParent.deref()?.removeEventListener('abort', handler);
+    },
+    { once: true },
+  );
+  return child;
+}
+
+const ROUNDS = 2000;
+
+console.log(`Simulating ${ROUNDS} rounds for each pattern.\n`);
+
+// ─── OLD pattern: plain new AbortController + manual addEventListener ───
+const oldParent = new AbortController();
+setMaxListeners(0, oldParent.signal); // disable warning so we can measure cleanly
+for (let i = 0; i < ROUNDS; i++) {
+  const child = new AbortController();
+  // No {once:true}, no reverse cleanup — accumulates on oldParent.
+  oldParent.signal.addEventListener('abort', () => child.abort());
+}
+const oldCount = getEventListeners(oldParent.signal, 'abort').length;
+
+// ─── NEW pattern: createChildAbortController ───
+const newParent = createAbortController();
+for (let i = 0; i < ROUNDS; i++) {
+  const child = createChildAbortController(newParent);
+  child.abort(); // simulate end-of-round cleanup via try/finally
+}
+const newCount = getEventListeners(newParent.signal, 'abort').length;
+
+console.log(`OLD pattern listener count on long-lived parent: ${oldCount}`);
+console.log(`NEW pattern listener count on long-lived parent: ${newCount}`);
+
+const expectations = {
+  oldShouldExceed: 1500,
+  newMustBe: 0,
+};
+
+let pass = true;
+if (oldCount <= expectations.oldShouldExceed) {
+  console.error(
+    `FAIL: OLD pattern should accumulate >${expectations.oldShouldExceed} listeners; got ${oldCount}`,
+  );
+  pass = false;
+} else {
+  console.log(
+    `PASS: OLD pattern accumulated >${expectations.oldShouldExceed} listeners (reproduces the bug).`,
+  );
+}
+if (newCount !== expectations.newMustBe) {
+  console.error(
+    `FAIL: NEW pattern must have exactly ${expectations.newMustBe} listeners; got ${newCount}`,
+  );
+  pass = false;
+} else {
+  console.log(
+    `PASS: NEW pattern kept listener count at ${expectations.newMustBe} — the helper prevents accumulation.`,
+  );
+}
+
+process.exit(pass ? 0 : 1);
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/migration-completeness.txt
+++ b/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/migration-completeness.txt
@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+$ grep -rn "new AbortController" packages/core/src --include="*.ts" \
+    | grep -v test | grep -v abortController.ts
+
+# Scoped to the nested parent→child chain that actually accumulates listeners
+# (the agent-runtime loop in long sessions, plus promptHookRunner which had a
+# real cleanup leak). Independent short-lived controllers (per-shell-command,
+# per-fetch, per-recall, per-arena-session etc.) intentionally stay on raw
+# `new AbortController()` — they're GC'd at the end of their use and do not
+# accumulate listeners on a long-lived parent signal.
+packages/core/src/followup/speculation.ts:100:  const abortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/tools/agent/agent.ts:1722:        const bgAbortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/tools/agent/agent.ts:2116:      const fgAbortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/tools/shell.ts:1514:    const promoteAbortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/tools/shell.ts:2364:    const entryAc = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/tools/shell.ts:2772:    const entryAc = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/tools/monitor.ts:306:    const entryAc = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/core/client.ts:1199:          const controller = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/memory/manager.ts:936:    const abortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/goals/goalHook.ts:70:  const judgeController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/goals/goalHook.ts:169:    const signal = context?.signal ?? new AbortController().signal;
+packages/core/src/agents/arena/ArenaManager.ts:305:    this.masterAbortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/agents/arena/ArenaManager.ts:817:        abortController: new AbortController(),
+packages/core/src/agents/background-agent-resume.ts:421:          abortController: new AbortController(),
+packages/core/src/agents/background-agent-resume.ts:493:    const bgAbortController = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/agents/background-agent-resume.ts:922:      abortController: new AbortController(),
+packages/core/src/utils/fetch.ts:64:  const controller = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/services/chatRecordingService.ts:963:    const controller = new AbortController();
+packages/core/src/services/chatCompressionService.ts:387:      abortSignal: signal ?? new AbortController().signal,
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/scripts/02-lite.sh
+++ b/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/scripts/02-lite.sh
@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Scenario 02-lite — single real-Qwen prompt under --trace-warnings.
+# Demonstrates the steady-state path emits no MaxListenersExceededWarning.
+set -uo pipefail
+WT="${WT:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}"
+LOG="$WT/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/logs/02-lite-short-prompt.log"
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOG")"
+
+NODE_OPTIONS=--trace-warnings node "$WT/packages/cli/dist/index.js" \
+  --prompt "Reply with exactly 'OK' and nothing else." > "$LOG" 2>&1 &
+PID=$!
+for i in $(seq 1 90); do
+  if ! kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null; then break; fi
+  sleep 1
+done
+if kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null; then kill -9 $PID; echo "TIMEOUT"; exit 1; fi
+wait $PID 2>/dev/null
+EC=$?
+
+echo "EXIT=$EC"
+echo "MaxListenersExceededWarning count: $(grep -c MaxListenersExceededWarning "$LOG")"
+echo "--- log ---"
+cat "$LOG"
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/scripts/06-headless-sigint.sh
+++ b/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/scripts/06-headless-sigint.sh
@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Scenario 06 — headless --prompt + SIGINT. Verifies the agent shuts down
+# cleanly when an external signal aborts the in-flight stream.
+set -uo pipefail
+WT="${WT:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}"
+LOG="$WT/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/logs/06-headless-sigint.log"
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOG")"
+
+NODE_OPTIONS=--trace-warnings node "$WT/packages/cli/dist/index.js" \
+  --prompt "Please write a detailed essay about the history of distributed systems, at least 500 words." > "$LOG" 2>&1 &
+PID=$!
+sleep 6
+kill -INT $PID
+wait $PID 2>/dev/null
+EC=$?
+
+echo "EXIT_CODE=$EC (expected 130)"
+echo "MaxListenersExceededWarning count: $(grep -c MaxListenersExceededWarning "$LOG")"
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/smoke-boot.log
+++ b/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/smoke-boot.log
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+0.15.11
+EXIT=0
--- a/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/test-summary.txt
+++ b/docs/verification/abort-controller-refactor/test-summary.txt
@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+ ✓ |@qwen-code/qwen-code-core| src/core/openaiContentGenerator/provider/minimax.test.ts (9 tests) 2ms
+ ✓ |@qwen-code/qwen-code-core| src/followup/suggestionGenerator.test.ts (16 tests) 2ms
+ ✓ |@qwen-code/qwen-code-core| src/followup/speculation.test.ts (7 tests) 2ms
+ ✓ |@qwen-code/qwen-code| src/utils/warningHandler.test.ts (9 tests) 5ms
+
+ Test Files  71 passed (71)
+      Tests  2085 passed | 3 skipped (2088)
+   Start at  02:35:37
+   Duration  16.71s (transform 1.77s, setup 92ms, collect 14.79s, tests 3.03s, environment 319ms, prepare 2.20s)
+
--- a/eslint.config.js
+++ b/eslint.config.js
@ -191,7 +191,14 @@ export default tseslint.config(
  },
  // extra settings for scripts that we run directly with node
  {
-    files: ['./scripts/**/*.js', './scripts/**/*.mjs', 'esbuild.config.js', 'packages/*/scripts/**/*.js'],
+    files: [
+      './scripts/**/*.js',
+      './scripts/**/*.mjs',
+      'esbuild.config.js',
+      'packages/*/scripts/**/*.js',
+      // Verification reproducer scripts under docs/ also run with `node`.
+      'docs/**/*.mjs',
+    ],
    languageOptions: {
      globals: {
        ...globals.node,
--- a/packages/cli/src/gemini.tsx
+++ b/packages/cli/src/gemini.tsx
@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ import { start_sandbox } from './utils/sandbox.js';
 import { getStartupWarnings } from './utils/startupWarnings.js';
 import { getUserStartupWarnings } from './utils/userStartupWarnings.js';
 import { getCliVersion } from './utils/version.js';
+import { initializeWarningHandler } from './utils/warningHandler.js';
 import { writeStderrLine } from './utils/stdioHelpers.js';
 import { getHeadlessYoloSafetyWarning } from './utils/headlessSafetyWarnings.js';
 import { computeWindowTitle } from './utils/windowTitle.js';
@ -403,6 +404,7 @@ export async function main() {
    setStartupEventSink((name, attrs) => recordStartupEvent(name, attrs));
  }
  setupUnhandledRejectionHandler();
+  initializeWarningHandler();

  if (process.argv.includes('--bare')) {
    process.env[QWEN_CODE_SIMPLE_ENV_VAR] = '1';
--- a/packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.test.ts
@ -0,0 +1,253 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import {
+  initializeWarningHandler,
+  resetWarningHandlerForTests,
+} from './warningHandler.js';
+
+const ENV_KEYS = ['NODE_ENV', 'DEBUG', 'QWEN_DEBUG'] as const;
+
+describe('initializeWarningHandler', () => {
+  const originalEnv: Partial<Record<(typeof ENV_KEYS)[number], string>> = {};
+  let originalListeners: NodeJS.WarningListener[] = [];
+  // Mock prior listener — installed before initializeWarningHandler so it
+  // becomes one of the captured "priorListeners" the handler fans out to.
+  // This is the channel the real Node default printer travels on, so
+  // asserting fan-out here is equivalent to asserting "the default printer
+  // would have fired" without coupling tests to internal Node behavior.
+  let priorListener: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    for (const k of ENV_KEYS) originalEnv[k] = process.env[k];
+    for (const k of ENV_KEYS) delete process.env[k];
+    originalListeners = [...process.listeners('warning')];
+    process.removeAllListeners('warning');
+    resetWarningHandlerForTests();
+    priorListener = vi.fn();
+    process.on('warning', priorListener);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    resetWarningHandlerForTests();
+    process.removeAllListeners('warning');
+    for (const l of originalListeners) process.on('warning', l);
+    for (const k of ENV_KEYS) {
+      if (originalEnv[k] === undefined) delete process.env[k];
+      else process.env[k] = originalEnv[k];
+    }
+  });
+
+  function makeWarning(name: string, message: string): Error {
+    const err = new Error(message);
+    err.name = name;
+    return err;
+  }
+
+  function emit(warning: Error): void {
+    // Drive the real listener chain (process.emit dispatches synchronously
+    // to every registered 'warning' listener). After initializeWarningHandler,
+    // the only listener is ours; it decides whether to fan out to the
+    // captured priorListener mock.
+    process.emit('warning', warning);
+  }
+
+  it('suppresses MaxListenersExceededWarning for AbortSignal in production', () => {
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1509 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT suppress generic [EventTarget] warnings — only AbortSignal', () => {
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 11 listeners added to [EventTarget].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('suppresses AbortSignal warnings with class metadata, e.g. [AbortSignal{aborted: false}]', () => {
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 11 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal{aborted: false}].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('fans out unrelated warnings to captured prior listeners (e.g. Node default printer)', () => {
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    const warning = makeWarning('DeprecationWarning', 'Some legacy thing');
+    emit(warning);
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledWith(warning);
+  });
+
+  it('preserves third-party warning listeners — they still fire for non-suppressed warnings', () => {
+    const telemetryHook = vi.fn();
+    process.on('warning', telemetryHook);
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(makeWarning('DeprecationWarning', 'X'));
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(telemetryHook).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('a buggy prior listener does not break the chain for the rest', () => {
+    const buggy = vi.fn(() => {
+      throw new Error('boom');
+    });
+    const downstream = vi.fn();
+    process.on('warning', buggy);
+    process.on('warning', downstream);
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(makeWarning('DeprecationWarning', 'X'));
+    expect(buggy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(downstream).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps suppressed warnings visible when DEBUG is set', () => {
+    process.env['DEBUG'] = '1';
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1500 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('treats DEBUG=0 and DEBUG=false as not set', () => {
+    process.env['DEBUG'] = '0';
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1500 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('keeps warnings visible when QWEN_DEBUG is set', () => {
+    process.env['QWEN_DEBUG'] = '1';
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1500 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps warnings visible when NODE_ENV=development', () => {
+    process.env['NODE_ENV'] = 'development';
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1500 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('is idempotent — repeated calls install only one listener', () => {
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    expect(process.listeners('warning').length).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it('honors runtime DEBUG toggles — debug check is evaluated per warning', () => {
+    initializeWarningHandler();
+    // Initially DEBUG unset → suppression active.
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1500 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    // Flip DEBUG at runtime → next suppressed-pattern warning passes through.
+    process.env['DEBUG'] = '1';
+    emit(
+      makeWarning(
+        'MaxListenersExceededWarning',
+        'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1500 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(priorListener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('initializeWarningHandler — end-to-end stderr behavior', () => {
+  // Integration test: spawn a child Node process to verify the real
+  // emitWarning → default printer path is actually suppressed. The unit
+  // tests above can't catch this because the default printer lives inside
+  // Node and writes to stderr via internal mechanisms, not via the same
+  // process.stderr.write spy.
+  it('a child process with the handler installed does not print suppressed AbortSignal warnings to stderr', async () => {
+    const { spawn } = await import('node:child_process');
+    const { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } = await import('node:url');
+    const { dirname, join } = await import('node:path');
+    const { writeFile, mkdtemp, rm } = await import('node:fs/promises');
+    const { tmpdir } = await import('node:os');
+
+    const here = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+    // Convert the absolute path to a `file://` URL — on Windows, Node's ESM
+    // loader rejects raw absolute paths (it treats `D:` as a URL scheme),
+    // so import specifiers MUST be file URLs.
+    const helperImportSpecifier = pathToFileURL(
+      join(here, 'warningHandler.ts'),
+    ).href;
+
+    const dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'warning-handler-e2e-'));
+    try {
+      const script = `
+        import { initializeWarningHandler } from ${JSON.stringify(helperImportSpecifier)};
+        delete process.env.DEBUG; delete process.env.QWEN_DEBUG;
+        process.env.NODE_ENV = 'production';
+        initializeWarningHandler();
+        process.emitWarning(
+          'Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 1509 abort listeners added to [AbortSignal].',
+          'MaxListenersExceededWarning'
+        );
+        process.emitWarning('Plain deprecation', 'DeprecationWarning');
+      `;
+      const scriptPath = join(dir, 'run.mjs');
+      await writeFile(scriptPath, script);
+
+      const child = spawn(process.execPath, ['--import', 'tsx', scriptPath], {
+        stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+      });
+      let stderr = '';
+      child.stderr.on('data', (b) => {
+        stderr += b.toString();
+      });
+      await new Promise<void>((resolve) => child.on('exit', () => resolve()));
+
+      expect(stderr).not.toMatch(/abort listeners added to \[AbortSignal\]/);
+      // Deprecation should still print via the fanned-out default printer.
+      expect(stderr).toMatch(/DeprecationWarning.*Plain deprecation/);
+    } finally {
+      await rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  }, 15_000);
+});
--- a/packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/utils/warningHandler.ts
@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Warnings we know about and want to keep out of the user-facing terminal.
+ * Listener accumulation on long-lived AbortSignals during multi-round agent
+ * sessions is structural, not a real memory leak — the listeners are removed
+ * (via {once:true} + reverse-cleanup in utils/abortController.ts) but a few
+ * extreme cases (e.g. OpenAI retry storms layered with multiple wrappers) can
+ * still graze the per-signal cap. Match any MaxListenersExceededWarning that
+ * mentions AbortSignal so we cover every shape Node ≥20 emits — `[AbortSignal]`,
+ * `[AbortSignal{...}]`, `[AbortSignal { ... }]`. We deliberately don't match
+ * the generic `EventTarget` token so unrelated EventTarget leaks stay visible.
+ */
+const SUPPRESSED_WARNINGS: RegExp[] = [
+  /MaxListenersExceededWarning.*AbortSignal/,
+];
+
+function isSuppressed(warning: Error): boolean {
+  const text = `${warning.name}: ${warning.message}`;
+  return SUPPRESSED_WARNINGS.some((re) => re.test(text));
+}
+
+function isDebugMode(): boolean {
+  if (process.env['NODE_ENV'] === 'development') return true;
+  const truthy = (v: string | undefined) =>
+    !!v && v !== '0' && v.toLowerCase() !== 'false';
+  return truthy(process.env['DEBUG']) || truthy(process.env['QWEN_DEBUG']);
+}
+
+let installedHandler: ((warning: Error) => void) | null = null;
+
+/**
+ * For tests only — uninstall the handler and reset internal state.
+ */
+export function resetWarningHandlerForTests(): void {
+  if (installedHandler) {
+    process.removeListener('warning', installedHandler);
+    installedHandler = null;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Install a process-level `warning` handler that swallows the well-known
+ * `MaxListenersExceededWarning` for AbortSignal while letting every other
+ * warning through — including generic EventTarget leak warnings, which we
+ * leave visible because they likely indicate a real leak elsewhere. In
+ * debug mode (NODE_ENV=development, or DEBUG / QWEN_DEBUG set), all
+ * warnings are forwarded so developers can still see them.
+ *
+ * Implementation note: simply adding a `warning` listener does NOT prevent
+ * Node's default printer from writing to stderr — the default handler is
+ * registered as an ordinary listener (`lib/internal/process/warning.js`).
+ * To actually suppress targeted warnings, we capture the existing listeners
+ * (which include the default printer and any third-party telemetry hooks),
+ * remove them, then install ours as the sole listener. Non-suppressed
+ * warnings get fanned out to the captured listeners so the default printer
+ * still fires for them; suppressed warnings stop here.
+ *
+ * Idempotent — repeated calls are a no-op.
+ */
+export function initializeWarningHandler(): void {
+  if (installedHandler) return;
+
+  // Snapshot everything currently listening on 'warning' (Node's default
+  // onWarning printer + any third-party telemetry subscribers). We will fan
+  // out non-suppressed warnings back to them.
+  //
+  // Trade-offs to be aware of (documented for future readers):
+  //  - Listeners ADDED via `process.on('warning', ...)` after this init are
+  //    independent of our snapshot. They receive `process.emit('warning')`
+  //    directly and bypass the suppression filter. Node's default printer
+  //    is in our snapshot (not added later), so stderr stays clean; late
+  //    telemetry will see the full warning stream including AbortSignal
+  //    leaks. This is intentional — telemetry should see what's happening.
+  //  - Listeners REMOVED via `process.removeListener('warning', fn)` after
+  //    this init have no effect: we hold our own strong reference in the
+  //    snapshot. Re-snapshotting per warning doesn't fix this because the
+  //    listeners are already removed from Node's list (we called
+  //    `process.removeAllListeners` to disable Node's default printing of
+  //    suppressed warnings). Callers who need conditional fan-out should
+  //    install BEFORE initializeWarningHandler.
+  const priorListeners = [...process.listeners('warning')] as Array<
+    (warning: Error) => void
+  >;
+
+  installedHandler = (warning: Error) => {
+    // Evaluate isDebugMode() per warning so DEBUG / QWEN_DEBUG can be
+    // toggled at runtime (e.g. via a `/debug` slash command) without
+    // re-running initializeWarningHandler.
+    if (!isDebugMode() && isSuppressed(warning)) return;
+    for (const fn of priorListeners) {
+      try {
+        fn(warning);
+      } catch {
+        // Don't let a misbehaving prior listener (e.g. a buggy telemetry
+        // hook) take down warning delivery for the rest of the chain.
+      }
+    }
+  };
+
+  process.removeAllListeners('warning');
+  process.on('warning', installedHandler);
+}
--- a/packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-core.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-core.ts
@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 */

 import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
+import { createChildAbortController } from '../../utils/abortController.js';
 import { reportError } from '../../utils/errorReporting.js';
 import { subagentNameContext } from '../../utils/subagentNameContext.js';
 import type { Config } from '../../config/config.js';
@ -591,252 +592,253 @@ export class AgentCore {
        break;
      }

-      // Create a new AbortController per round to avoid listener accumulation
-      // in the model SDK. The parent abortController propagates abort to it.
-      const roundAbortController = new AbortController();
-      const onParentAbort = () => roundAbortController.abort();
-      abortController.signal.addEventListener('abort', onParentAbort);
-      if (abortController.signal.aborted) {
-        roundAbortController.abort();
-      }
+      // Per-round child controller so model-SDK retry layers don't accumulate
+      // listeners on the long-lived parent. createChildAbortController handles
+      // parent propagation; the try/finally below guarantees reverse-cleanup
+      // fires for every exit (success, break, return, throw).
+      const roundAbortController = createChildAbortController(abortController);

-      const promptId = `${this.runtimeContext.getSessionId()}#${this.subagentId}#${turnCounter++}`;
+      try {
+        const promptId = `${this.runtimeContext.getSessionId()}#${this.subagentId}#${turnCounter++}`;

-      const messageParams = {
-        message: currentMessages[0]?.parts || [],
-        config: {
-          abortSignal: roundAbortController.signal,
-          tools: [{ functionDeclarations: toolsList }],
-        },
-      };
+        const messageParams = {
+          message: currentMessages[0]?.parts || [],
+          config: {
+            abortSignal: roundAbortController.signal,
+            tools: [{ functionDeclarations: toolsList }],
+          },
+        };

-      const roundStreamStart = Date.now();
-      const responseStream = await chat.sendMessageStream(
-        this.modelConfig.model ||
-          this.runtimeContext.getModel() ||
-          DEFAULT_QWEN_MODEL,
-        messageParams,
-        promptId,
-      );
-      this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_START, {
-        subagentId: this.subagentId,
-        round: turnCounter,
-        promptId,
-        timestamp: Date.now(),
-      } as AgentRoundEvent);
-
-      const functionCalls: FunctionCall[] = [];
-      let roundText = '';
-      let roundThoughtText = '';
-      let lastUsage: GenerateContentResponseUsageMetadata | undefined =
-        undefined;
-      let currentResponseId: string | undefined = undefined;
-      let wasOutputTruncated = false;
-
-      for await (const streamEvent of responseStream) {
-        if (roundAbortController.signal.aborted) {
-          abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onParentAbort);
-          return {
-            text: finalText,
-            terminateMode: AgentTerminateMode.CANCELLED,
-            turnsUsed: turnCounter,
-          };
-        }
-
-        // Handle retry events — reset all per-attempt state so a successful
-        // retry does not inherit stale data (e.g. wasOutputTruncated) from a
-        // previous attempt that may have hit MAX_TOKENS.
-        if (streamEvent.type === 'retry') {
-          functionCalls.length = 0;
-          roundText = '';
-          roundThoughtText = '';
-          lastUsage = undefined;
-          currentResponseId = undefined;
-          wasOutputTruncated = false;
-          continue;
-        }
-
-        // GeminiChat already mutated its own history; surface to the debug
-        // log so subagent compactions show up alongside the main session's.
-        if (streamEvent.type === 'compressed') {
-          this.runtimeContext
-            .getDebugLogger()
-            .debug(
-              `[AGENT-COMPACT] subagent=${this.subagentId} round=${turnCounter} ` +
-                `tokens ${streamEvent.info.originalTokenCount} -> ${streamEvent.info.newTokenCount}`,
-            );
-          continue;
-        }
-
-        // Handle chunk events
-        if (streamEvent.type === 'chunk') {
-          const resp = streamEvent.value;
-          // Track the response ID for tool call correlation
-          if (resp.responseId) {
-            currentResponseId = resp.responseId;
-          }
-          if (resp.functionCalls) functionCalls.push(...resp.functionCalls);
-          if (resp.candidates?.[0]?.finishReason === FinishReason.MAX_TOKENS) {
-            wasOutputTruncated = true;
-          }
-          const content = resp.candidates?.[0]?.content;
-          const parts = content?.parts || [];
-          for (const p of parts) {
-            const txt = p.text;
-            const isThought = p.thought ?? false;
-            if (txt && isThought) roundThoughtText += txt;
-            if (txt && !isThought) roundText += txt;
-            if (txt)
-              this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.STREAM_TEXT, {
-                subagentId: this.subagentId,
-                round: turnCounter,
-                text: txt,
-                thought: isThought,
-                timestamp: Date.now(),
-              });
-          }
-          if (resp.usageMetadata) lastUsage = resp.usageMetadata;
-        }
-      }
-
-      if (roundText || roundThoughtText) {
-        this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_TEXT, {
+        const roundStreamStart = Date.now();
+        const responseStream = await chat.sendMessageStream(
+          this.modelConfig.model ||
+            this.runtimeContext.getModel() ||
+            DEFAULT_QWEN_MODEL,
+          messageParams,
+          promptId,
+        );
+        this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_START, {
          subagentId: this.subagentId,
          round: turnCounter,
-          text: roundText,
-          thoughtText: roundThoughtText,
-          timestamp: Date.now(),
-        } as AgentRoundTextEvent);
-      }
-
-      this.executionStats.rounds = turnCounter;
-      this.stats.setRounds(turnCounter);
-
-      durationMin = (Date.now() - startTime) / (1000 * 60);
-      if (options?.maxTimeMinutes && durationMin >= options.maxTimeMinutes) {
-        abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onParentAbort);
-        terminateMode = AgentTerminateMode.TIMEOUT;
-        break;
-      }
-
-      // Update token usage if available
-      if (lastUsage) {
-        this.recordTokenUsage(lastUsage, turnCounter, roundStreamStart);
-      }
-
-      if (functionCalls.length > 0) {
-        currentMessages = await this.processFunctionCalls(
-          functionCalls,
-          roundAbortController,
          promptId,
-          turnCounter,
-          toolsList,
-          currentResponseId,
-          wasOutputTruncated,
-        );
+          timestamp: Date.now(),
+        } as AgentRoundEvent);

-        const externalInputs = this.drainExternalInputs(options);
-        if (externalInputs.length > 0) {
-          // Append to the tool-response user message so external input rides
-          // alongside the tool results the model is about to see.
-          // processFunctionCalls always returns exactly one user-role entry.
-          const last = currentMessages[currentMessages.length - 1];
-          last.parts!.push(...this.externalInputsToParts(externalInputs, true));
-          // Emit one event per injection so observers (e.g. the JSONL
-          // transcript writer) can persist each external message as a
-          // user-role record. The framing prefix is stripped — the prefix
-          // is a model-facing detail, not part of the original message.
-          this.emitExternalInputEvents(externalInputs);
-        }
-      } else {
-        const immediateExternalInputs = this.drainExternalInputs(options);
-        if (immediateExternalInputs.length > 0) {
-          currentMessages = this.externalInputsToContent(
-            immediateExternalInputs,
-          );
-          this.emitExternalInputEvents(immediateExternalInputs);
-        } else if (options?.shouldWaitForExternalMessages?.()) {
-          this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_END, {
-            subagentId: this.subagentId,
-            round: turnCounter,
-            promptId,
-            timestamp: Date.now(),
-          } as AgentRoundEvent);
-          abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onParentAbort);
+        const functionCalls: FunctionCall[] = [];
+        let roundText = '';
+        let roundThoughtText = '';
+        let lastUsage: GenerateContentResponseUsageMetadata | undefined =
+          undefined;
+        let currentResponseId: string | undefined = undefined;
+        let wasOutputTruncated = false;

-          const waitResult = await this.waitForExternalInputs(
-            options,
-            abortController,
-            startTime,
-            turnCounter,
-          );
-          if (waitResult.terminateMode) {
-            finalText = roundText.trim();
-            terminateMode = waitResult.terminateMode;
-            break;
+        for await (const streamEvent of responseStream) {
+          if (roundAbortController.signal.aborted) {
+            return {
+              text: finalText,
+              terminateMode: AgentTerminateMode.CANCELLED,
+              turnsUsed: turnCounter,
+            };
          }
-          if (waitResult.inputs.length > 0) {
-            currentMessages = this.externalInputsToContent(waitResult.inputs);
-            this.emitExternalInputEvents(waitResult.inputs);
+
+          // Handle retry events — reset all per-attempt state so a successful
+          // retry does not inherit stale data (e.g. wasOutputTruncated) from a
+          // previous attempt that may have hit MAX_TOKENS.
+          if (streamEvent.type === 'retry') {
+            functionCalls.length = 0;
+            roundText = '';
+            roundThoughtText = '';
+            lastUsage = undefined;
+            currentResponseId = undefined;
+            wasOutputTruncated = false;
            continue;
          }

-          if (roundText && roundText.trim().length > 0) {
-            finalText = roundText.trim();
-            break;
+          // GeminiChat already mutated its own history; surface to the debug
+          // log so subagent compactions show up alongside the main session's.
+          if (streamEvent.type === 'compressed') {
+            this.runtimeContext
+              .getDebugLogger()
+              .debug(
+                `[AGENT-COMPACT] subagent=${this.subagentId} round=${turnCounter} ` +
+                  `tokens ${streamEvent.info.originalTokenCount} -> ${streamEvent.info.newTokenCount}`,
+              );
+            continue;
+          }
+
+          // Handle chunk events
+          if (streamEvent.type === 'chunk') {
+            const resp = streamEvent.value;
+            // Track the response ID for tool call correlation
+            if (resp.responseId) {
+              currentResponseId = resp.responseId;
+            }
+            if (resp.functionCalls) functionCalls.push(...resp.functionCalls);
+            if (
+              resp.candidates?.[0]?.finishReason === FinishReason.MAX_TOKENS
+            ) {
+              wasOutputTruncated = true;
+            }
+            const content = resp.candidates?.[0]?.content;
+            const parts = content?.parts || [];
+            for (const p of parts) {
+              const txt = p.text;
+              const isThought = p.thought ?? false;
+              if (txt && isThought) roundThoughtText += txt;
+              if (txt && !isThought) roundText += txt;
+              if (txt)
+                this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.STREAM_TEXT, {
+                  subagentId: this.subagentId,
+                  round: turnCounter,
+                  text: txt,
+                  thought: isThought,
+                  timestamp: Date.now(),
+                });
+            }
+            if (resp.usageMetadata) lastUsage = resp.usageMetadata;
+          }
+        }
+
+        if (roundText || roundThoughtText) {
+          this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_TEXT, {
+            subagentId: this.subagentId,
+            round: turnCounter,
+            text: roundText,
+            thoughtText: roundThoughtText,
+            timestamp: Date.now(),
+          } as AgentRoundTextEvent);
+        }
+
+        this.executionStats.rounds = turnCounter;
+        this.stats.setRounds(turnCounter);
+
+        durationMin = (Date.now() - startTime) / (1000 * 60);
+        if (options?.maxTimeMinutes && durationMin >= options.maxTimeMinutes) {
+          terminateMode = AgentTerminateMode.TIMEOUT;
+          break;
+        }
+
+        // Update token usage if available
+        if (lastUsage) {
+          this.recordTokenUsage(lastUsage, turnCounter, roundStreamStart);
+        }
+
+        if (functionCalls.length > 0) {
+          currentMessages = await this.processFunctionCalls(
+            functionCalls,
+            roundAbortController,
+            promptId,
+            turnCounter,
+            toolsList,
+            currentResponseId,
+            wasOutputTruncated,
+          );
+
+          const externalInputs = this.drainExternalInputs(options);
+          if (externalInputs.length > 0) {
+            // Append to the tool-response user message so external input rides
+            // alongside the tool results the model is about to see.
+            // processFunctionCalls always returns exactly one user-role entry.
+            const last = currentMessages[currentMessages.length - 1];
+            last.parts!.push(
+              ...this.externalInputsToParts(externalInputs, true),
+            );
+            // Emit one event per injection so observers (e.g. the JSONL
+            // transcript writer) can persist each external message as a
+            // user-role record. The framing prefix is stripped — the prefix
+            // is a model-facing detail, not part of the original message.
+            this.emitExternalInputEvents(externalInputs);
          }
-          currentMessages = [
-            {
-              role: 'user',
-              parts: [
-                {
-                  text: 'Please provide the final result now and stop calling tools.',
-                },
-              ],
-            },
-          ];
-          continue;
        } else {
-          // No tool calls — treat this as the model's final answer.
-          if (roundText && roundText.trim().length > 0) {
-            finalText = roundText.trim();
-            // Emit ROUND_END for the final round so all consumers see it.
-            // Previously this was skipped, requiring AgentInteractive to
-            // compensate with an explicit flushStreamBuffers() call.
+          const immediateExternalInputs = this.drainExternalInputs(options);
+          if (immediateExternalInputs.length > 0) {
+            currentMessages = this.externalInputsToContent(
+              immediateExternalInputs,
+            );
+            this.emitExternalInputEvents(immediateExternalInputs);
+          } else if (options?.shouldWaitForExternalMessages?.()) {
            this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_END, {
              subagentId: this.subagentId,
              round: turnCounter,
              promptId,
              timestamp: Date.now(),
            } as AgentRoundEvent);
-            // Clean up before breaking
-            abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onParentAbort);
-            // null terminateMode = normal text completion
-            break;
+
+            const waitResult = await this.waitForExternalInputs(
+              options,
+              abortController,
+              startTime,
+              turnCounter,
+            );
+            if (waitResult.terminateMode) {
+              finalText = roundText.trim();
+              terminateMode = waitResult.terminateMode;
+              break;
+            }
+            if (waitResult.inputs.length > 0) {
+              currentMessages = this.externalInputsToContent(waitResult.inputs);
+              this.emitExternalInputEvents(waitResult.inputs);
+              continue;
+            }
+
+            if (roundText && roundText.trim().length > 0) {
+              finalText = roundText.trim();
+              break;
+            }
+            currentMessages = [
+              {
+                role: 'user',
+                parts: [
+                  {
+                    text: 'Please provide the final result now and stop calling tools.',
+                  },
+                ],
+              },
+            ];
+            continue;
+          } else {
+            // No tool calls — treat this as the model's final answer.
+            if (roundText && roundText.trim().length > 0) {
+              finalText = roundText.trim();
+              // Emit ROUND_END for the final round so all consumers see it.
+              // Previously this was skipped, requiring AgentInteractive to
+              // compensate with an explicit flushStreamBuffers() call.
+              this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_END, {
+                subagentId: this.subagentId,
+                round: turnCounter,
+                promptId,
+                timestamp: Date.now(),
+              } as AgentRoundEvent);
+              // null terminateMode = normal text completion
+              break;
+            }
+            // Otherwise, nudge the model to finalize a result.
+            currentMessages = [
+              {
+                role: 'user',
+                parts: [
+                  {
+                    text: 'Please provide the final result now and stop calling tools.',
+                  },
+                ],
+              },
+            ];
          }
-          // Otherwise, nudge the model to finalize a result.
-          currentMessages = [
-            {
-              role: 'user',
-              parts: [
-                {
-                  text: 'Please provide the final result now and stop calling tools.',
-                },
-              ],
-            },
-          ];
        }
+
+        this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_END, {
+          subagentId: this.subagentId,
+          round: turnCounter,
+          promptId,
+          timestamp: Date.now(),
+        } as AgentRoundEvent);
+      } finally {
+        // Reverse-cleanup fires whether the iteration ended normally, broke,
+        // returned, or threw — preventing parent-listener accumulation on
+        // long-running parents like the per-message roundAbortController in
+        // AgentInteractive or the session-lived externalSignal in headless.
+        roundAbortController.abort();
      }
-
-      this.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ROUND_END, {
-        subagentId: this.subagentId,
-        round: turnCounter,
-        promptId,
-        timestamp: Date.now(),
-      } as AgentRoundEvent);
-
-      // Clean up the per-round listener before the next iteration
-      abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onParentAbort);
    }

    return {
@ -943,12 +945,7 @@ export class AgentCore {
        return { inputs: [] };
      }

-      const waitAbortController = new AbortController();
-      const onAbort = () => waitAbortController.abort();
-      abortController.signal.addEventListener('abort', onAbort, { once: true });
-      if (abortController.signal.aborted) {
-        waitAbortController.abort();
-      }
+      const waitAbortController = createChildAbortController(abortController);
      let timedOut = false;
      let timeout: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
      if (remainingTimeMs !== undefined) {
@ -985,7 +982,9 @@ export class AgentCore {
        throw error;
      } finally {
        if (timeout) clearTimeout(timeout);
-        abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onAbort);
+        // Aborting the child fires reverse-cleanup of its listener on the
+        // parent; no-op if it already aborted from the parent or the timeout.
+        waitAbortController.abort();
      }
    }
  }
@ -1325,17 +1324,23 @@ export class AgentCore {
        }
      };
      abortController.signal.addEventListener('abort', onAbort, { once: true });
+      try {
+        // If already aborted before the listener was registered, resolve
+        // immediately to avoid blocking forever.
+        if (abortController.signal.aborted) {
+          onAbort();
+        }

-      // If already aborted before the listener was registered, resolve
-      // immediately to avoid blocking forever.
-      if (abortController.signal.aborted) {
-        onAbort();
+        await scheduler.schedule(requests, abortController.signal);
+        await batchDone;
+      } finally {
+        // Always remove `onAbort` — otherwise a throw from scheduler.schedule
+        // or batchDone would leak it on the round controller, and the round's
+        // outer try/finally `.abort()` would later fire spurious cancellation
+        // TOOL_RESULT events for every un-emitted callId (corrupting the
+        // transcript and misleading the model on the next round).
+        abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onAbort);
      }
-
-      await scheduler.schedule(requests, abortController.signal);
-      await batchDone;
-
-      abortController.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onAbort);
    }

    // If all tool calls failed, inform the model so it can re-evaluate.
--- a/packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-headless.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-headless.ts
@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import type { Content } from '@google/genai';
 import type { Config } from '../../config/config.js';
 import type { RuntimeContentGeneratorView } from './agent-context.js';
+import { createChildAbortController } from '../../utils/abortController.js';
 import { createDebugLogger } from '../../utils/debugLogger.js';
 import type {
  AgentEventEmitter,
@ -225,116 +226,117 @@ export class AgentHeadless {
      return;
    }

-    // Set up abort signal propagation
-    const abortController = new AbortController();
-    const onExternalAbort = () => {
-      abortController.abort();
-    };
-    if (externalSignal) {
-      externalSignal.addEventListener('abort', onExternalAbort);
-    }
-    if (externalSignal?.aborted) {
-      abortController.abort();
-    }
-
-    const toolsList = await this.core.prepareTools();
-
-    const initialMessages =
-      initialMessagesOverride && initialMessagesOverride.length > 0
-        ? initialMessagesOverride
-        : [{ role: 'user' as const, parts: [{ text: initialTaskText }] }];
-
-    const startTime = Date.now();
-    this.core.executionStats.startTimeMs = startTime;
-    this.core.stats.start(startTime);
+    // Child controller propagates from optional externalSignal and auto-cleans
+    // its parent listener when aborted (see utils/abortController.ts).
+    const abortController = createChildAbortController(externalSignal);

    try {
-      // Emit start event
-      this.core.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.START, {
-        subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
-        name: this.core.name,
-        model:
-          this.core.modelConfig.model ||
-          this.core.runtimeContext.getModel() ||
-          DEFAULT_QWEN_MODEL,
-        tools: (this.core.toolConfig?.tools || ['*']).map((t) =>
-          typeof t === 'string' ? t : t.name,
-        ),
-        timestamp: Date.now(),
-      } as AgentStartEvent);
+      const toolsList = await this.core.prepareTools();

-      // Log telemetry for subagent start
-      const startEvent = new SubagentExecutionEvent(this.core.name, 'started');
-      logSubagentExecution(this.core.runtimeContext, startEvent);
+      const initialMessages =
+        initialMessagesOverride && initialMessagesOverride.length > 0
+          ? initialMessagesOverride
+          : [{ role: 'user' as const, parts: [{ text: initialTaskText }] }];

-      // Delegate to AgentCore's reasoning loop
-      const result = await this.core.runReasoningLoop(
-        chat,
-        initialMessages,
-        toolsList,
-        abortController,
-        {
-          maxTurns: this.core.runConfig.max_turns,
-          maxTimeMinutes: this.core.runConfig.max_time_minutes,
-          startTimeMs: startTime,
-          getExternalMessages: this.externalMessageProvider,
-          waitForExternalMessages: this.externalMessageWaiter,
-          shouldWaitForExternalMessages: this.externalMessageWaitPredicate,
-        },
-      );
+      const startTime = Date.now();
+      this.core.executionStats.startTimeMs = startTime;
+      this.core.stats.start(startTime);

-      this.finalText = result.text;
-      this.terminateMode = result.terminateMode ?? AgentTerminateMode.GOAL;
-    } catch (error) {
-      debugLogger.error('Error during subagent execution:', error);
-      this.terminateMode = AgentTerminateMode.ERROR;
-      this.core.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ERROR, {
-        subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
-        error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
-        timestamp: Date.now(),
-      } as AgentErrorEvent);
-
-      throw error;
-    } finally {
-      if (externalSignal) {
-        externalSignal.removeEventListener('abort', onExternalAbort);
-      }
-      this.core.executionStats.totalDurationMs = Date.now() - startTime;
-      const summary = this.core.stats.getSummary(Date.now());
-      this.core.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.FINISH, {
-        subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
-        terminateReason: this.terminateMode,
-        timestamp: Date.now(),
-        rounds: summary.rounds,
-        totalDurationMs: summary.totalDurationMs,
-        totalToolCalls: summary.totalToolCalls,
-        successfulToolCalls: summary.successfulToolCalls,
-        failedToolCalls: summary.failedToolCalls,
-        inputTokens: summary.inputTokens,
-        outputTokens: summary.outputTokens,
-        totalTokens: summary.totalTokens,
-      } as AgentFinishEvent);
-
-      const completionEvent = new SubagentExecutionEvent(
-        this.core.name,
-        this.terminateMode === AgentTerminateMode.GOAL ? 'completed' : 'failed',
-        {
-          terminate_reason: this.terminateMode,
-          result: this.finalText,
-          execution_summary: this.core.stats.formatCompact(
-            'Subagent execution completed',
+      try {
+        // Emit start event
+        this.core.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.START, {
+          subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
+          name: this.core.name,
+          model:
+            this.core.modelConfig.model ||
+            this.core.runtimeContext.getModel() ||
+            DEFAULT_QWEN_MODEL,
+          tools: (this.core.toolConfig?.tools || ['*']).map((t) =>
+            typeof t === 'string' ? t : t.name,
          ),
-        },
-      );
-      logSubagentExecution(this.core.runtimeContext, completionEvent);
+          timestamp: Date.now(),
+        } as AgentStartEvent);

-      await this.core.hooks?.onStop?.({
-        subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
-        name: this.core.name,
-        terminateReason: this.terminateMode,
-        summary: summary as unknown as Record<string, unknown>,
-        timestamp: Date.now(),
-      });
+        // Log telemetry for subagent start
+        const startEvent = new SubagentExecutionEvent(
+          this.core.name,
+          'started',
+        );
+        logSubagentExecution(this.core.runtimeContext, startEvent);
+
+        // Delegate to AgentCore's reasoning loop
+        const result = await this.core.runReasoningLoop(
+          chat,
+          initialMessages,
+          toolsList,
+          abortController,
+          {
+            maxTurns: this.core.runConfig.max_turns,
+            maxTimeMinutes: this.core.runConfig.max_time_minutes,
+            startTimeMs: startTime,
+            getExternalMessages: this.externalMessageProvider,
+            waitForExternalMessages: this.externalMessageWaiter,
+            shouldWaitForExternalMessages: this.externalMessageWaitPredicate,
+          },
+        );
+
+        this.finalText = result.text;
+        this.terminateMode = result.terminateMode ?? AgentTerminateMode.GOAL;
+      } catch (error) {
+        debugLogger.error('Error during subagent execution:', error);
+        this.terminateMode = AgentTerminateMode.ERROR;
+        this.core.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.ERROR, {
+          subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
+          error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
+          timestamp: Date.now(),
+        } as AgentErrorEvent);
+
+        throw error;
+      } finally {
+        this.core.executionStats.totalDurationMs = Date.now() - startTime;
+        const summary = this.core.stats.getSummary(Date.now());
+        this.core.eventEmitter?.emit(AgentEventType.FINISH, {
+          subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
+          terminateReason: this.terminateMode,
+          timestamp: Date.now(),
+          rounds: summary.rounds,
+          totalDurationMs: summary.totalDurationMs,
+          totalToolCalls: summary.totalToolCalls,
+          successfulToolCalls: summary.successfulToolCalls,
+          failedToolCalls: summary.failedToolCalls,
+          inputTokens: summary.inputTokens,
+          outputTokens: summary.outputTokens,
+          totalTokens: summary.totalTokens,
+        } as AgentFinishEvent);
+
+        const completionEvent = new SubagentExecutionEvent(
+          this.core.name,
+          this.terminateMode === AgentTerminateMode.GOAL
+            ? 'completed'
+            : 'failed',
+          {
+            terminate_reason: this.terminateMode,
+            result: this.finalText,
+            execution_summary: this.core.stats.formatCompact(
+              'Subagent execution completed',
+            ),
+          },
+        );
+        logSubagentExecution(this.core.runtimeContext, completionEvent);
+
+        await this.core.hooks?.onStop?.({
+          subagentId: this.core.subagentId,
+          name: this.core.name,
+          terminateReason: this.terminateMode,
+          summary: summary as unknown as Record<string, unknown>,
+          timestamp: Date.now(),
+        });
+      }
+    } finally {
+      // Outer finally guarantees the child's parent-signal listener is
+      // detached even if prepareTools or initialMessages prep throws before
+      // the inner try runs.
+      abortController.abort();
    }
  }

--- a/packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-interactive.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/agents/runtime/agent-interactive.ts
@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 * state (messages, pending approvals, live outputs) that the UI reads.
 */

+import {
+  createAbortController,
+  createChildAbortController,
+} from '../../utils/abortController.js';
 import { createDebugLogger } from '../../utils/debugLogger.js';
 import { type AgentEventEmitter, AgentEventType } from './agent-events.js';
 import type {
@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ export class AgentInteractive {
  private error: string | undefined;
  private lastRoundError: string | undefined;
  private executionPromise: Promise<void> | undefined;
-  private masterAbortController = new AbortController();
+  private masterAbortController = createAbortController();
  private roundAbortController: AbortController | undefined;
  private chat: GeminiChat | undefined;
  private toolsList: FunctionDeclaration[] = [];
@ -150,14 +154,9 @@ export class AgentInteractive {
    this.setStatus(AgentStatus.RUNNING);
    this.lastRoundError = undefined;
    this.roundCancelledByUser = false;
-    this.roundAbortController = new AbortController();
-
-    // Propagate master abort to round
-    const onMasterAbort = () => this.roundAbortController?.abort();
-    this.masterAbortController.signal.addEventListener('abort', onMasterAbort);
-    if (this.masterAbortController.signal.aborted) {
-      this.roundAbortController.abort();
-    }
+    this.roundAbortController = createChildAbortController(
+      this.masterAbortController,
+    );

    try {
      const initialMessages = [
@ -196,10 +195,10 @@ export class AgentInteractive {
      debugLogger.error('AgentInteractive round error:', err);
      this.addMessage('info', errorMessage, { metadata: { level: 'error' } });
    } finally {
-      this.masterAbortController.signal.removeEventListener(
-        'abort',
-        onMasterAbort,
-      );
+      // Helper's reverse-cleanup detaches the parent listener automatically
+      // when the round controller aborts; abort here so cleanup fires whether
+      // or not the round was already cancelled.
+      this.roundAbortController?.abort();
      this.roundAbortController = undefined;
    }
  }
--- a/packages/core/src/confirmation-bus/message-bus.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/confirmation-bus/message-bus.ts
@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export class MessageBus extends EventEmitter {
      };

      if (signal) {
-        signal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler);
+        signal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler, { once: true });
      }

      const responseHandler = (response: TResponse) => {
--- a/packages/core/src/core/openaiContentGenerator/pipeline.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/core/openaiContentGenerator/pipeline.ts
@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 */

-import { setMaxListeners } from 'node:events';
 import type OpenAI from 'openai';
 import {
  type GenerateContentParameters,
@ -20,23 +19,6 @@ import type { PipelineConfig, RequestContext } from './types.js';
 import { redactProxyError } from '../../utils/runtimeFetchOptions.js';
 import { runtimeDiagnostics } from '../../utils/runtimeDiagnostics.js';

-/**
- * The OpenAI SDK adds an abort listener for every `chat.completions.create`
- * call, and several layers (retryWithBackoff, LoggingContentGenerator, the
- * SDK's internal stream/fetch wrappers) each register their own listeners
- * on the same per-request AbortSignal. With 5 retries the count comfortably
- * exceeds Node's default 10-listener leak warning — and on top of that,
- * concurrent code paths (e.g., recap + followup speculation) can share or
- * compose signals, pushing it past any small cap.
- *
- * These signals are per-request and short-lived (GC'd when the request
- * settles), so accumulation here is structural, not a memory leak. Disable
- * the warning entirely for them. Idempotent.
- */
-function raiseAbortListenerCap(signal: AbortSignal | undefined): void {
-  if (signal) setMaxListeners(0, signal);
-}
-
 /**
 * Error thrown when the API returns an error embedded as stream content
 * instead of a proper HTTP error. Some providers (e.g., certain OpenAI-compatible
@ -65,7 +47,6 @@ export class ContentGenerationPipeline {
    request: GenerateContentParameters,
    userPromptId: string,
  ): Promise<GenerateContentResponse> {
-    raiseAbortListenerCap(request.config?.abortSignal);
    return this.executeWithErrorHandling(
      request,
      userPromptId,
@ -93,7 +74,6 @@ export class ContentGenerationPipeline {
    request: GenerateContentParameters,
    userPromptId: string,
  ): Promise<AsyncGenerator<GenerateContentResponse>> {
-    raiseAbortListenerCap(request.config?.abortSignal);
    return this.executeWithErrorHandling(
      request,
      userPromptId,
--- a/packages/core/src/hooks/combinedAbortSignal.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/combinedAbortSignal.test.ts
@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright 2026 Qwen Team
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-
-import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
-import { createCombinedAbortSignal } from './combinedAbortSignal.js';
-
-describe('createCombinedAbortSignal', () => {
-  it('should return a non-aborted signal by default', () => {
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal();
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
-    cleanup();
-  });
-
-  it('should abort after timeout', async () => {
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(undefined, {
-      timeoutMs: 50,
-    });
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
-
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
-    cleanup();
-  });
-
-  it('should abort when external signal is aborted', () => {
-    const externalController = new AbortController();
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(
-      externalController.signal,
-    );
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
-
-    externalController.abort();
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
-    cleanup();
-  });
-
-  it('should abort immediately if external signal is already aborted', () => {
-    const externalController = new AbortController();
-    externalController.abort();
-
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(
-      externalController.signal,
-    );
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
-    cleanup();
-  });
-
-  it('should cleanup timeout timer', async () => {
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(undefined, {
-      timeoutMs: 50,
-    });
-
-    cleanup();
-
-    // Wait longer than timeout - should not abort because timer was cleared
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it('should remove external abort listener on cleanup', () => {
-    const externalController = new AbortController();
-    const removeListenerSpy = vi.spyOn(
-      externalController.signal,
-      'removeEventListener',
-    );
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(
-      externalController.signal,
-    );
-
-    cleanup();
-    externalController.abort();
-
-    expect(removeListenerSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      'abort',
-      expect.any(Function),
-    );
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it('should work with both external signal and timeout', async () => {
-    const externalController = new AbortController();
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(
-      externalController.signal,
-      { timeoutMs: 200 },
-    );
-
-    // Abort external signal before timeout
-    externalController.abort();
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
-    cleanup();
-  });
-
-  it('should timeout before external signal', async () => {
-    const externalController = new AbortController();
-    const { signal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(
-      externalController.signal,
-      { timeoutMs: 50 },
-    );
-
-    // Wait for timeout
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
-    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
-
-    // External signal is still not aborted
-    expect(externalController.signal.aborted).toBe(false);
-    cleanup();
-  });
-});
--- a/packages/core/src/hooks/combinedAbortSignal.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/combinedAbortSignal.ts
@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright 2026 Qwen Team
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-
-/**
- * Create a combined AbortSignal that aborts when either:
- * - The provided external signal is aborted, OR
- * - The timeout is reached
- *
- * @param externalSignal - Optional external AbortSignal to combine
- * @param timeoutMs - Timeout in milliseconds
- * @returns Object containing the combined signal and a cleanup function
- */
-export function createCombinedAbortSignal(
-  externalSignal?: AbortSignal,
-  options?: { timeoutMs?: number },
-): { signal: AbortSignal; cleanup: () => void } {
-  const controller = new AbortController();
-
-  const timeoutMs = options?.timeoutMs;
-
-  // Set up timeout
-  let timeoutId: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
-  if (timeoutMs !== undefined && timeoutMs > 0) {
-    timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
-      controller.abort();
-    }, timeoutMs);
-  }
-
-  // Listen to external signal
-  let abortHandler: (() => void) | undefined;
-  if (externalSignal) {
-    if (externalSignal.aborted) {
-      controller.abort();
-    } else {
-      abortHandler = () => {
-        controller.abort();
-      };
-      externalSignal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler, { once: true });
-    }
-  }
-
-  const cleanup = () => {
-    if (timeoutId !== undefined) {
-      clearTimeout(timeoutId);
-      timeoutId = undefined;
-    }
-    if (externalSignal && abortHandler) {
-      externalSignal.removeEventListener('abort', abortHandler);
-      abortHandler = undefined;
-    }
-  };
-
-  return { signal: controller.signal, cleanup };
-}
--- a/packages/core/src/hooks/functionHookRunner.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/functionHookRunner.ts
@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ export class FunctionHookRunner {
          abortHandler = () => {
            reject(new Error('Function hook execution aborted'));
          };
-          signal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler);
+          signal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler, { once: true });
        }
      });

--- a/packages/core/src/hooks/hookRunner.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/hookRunner.ts
@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ export class HookRunner {
      };

      if (signal) {
-        signal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler);
+        signal.addEventListener('abort', abortHandler, { once: true });
      }

      // Send input to stdin
--- a/packages/core/src/hooks/httpHookRunner.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/httpHookRunner.ts
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import { createDebugLogger } from '../utils/debugLogger.js';
 import { interpolateHeaders, interpolateUrl } from './envInterpolator.js';
 import { UrlValidator } from './urlValidator.js';
-import { createCombinedAbortSignal } from './combinedAbortSignal.js';
+import { combineAbortSignals } from '../utils/abortController.js';
 import { isBlockedAddress } from './ssrfGuard.js';
 import { lookup as dnsLookup } from 'dns';
 import type {
@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ export class HttpHookRunner {
      const timeout = hookConfig.timeout
        ? hookConfig.timeout * 1000
        : DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT;
-      const { signal: combinedSignal, cleanup } = createCombinedAbortSignal(
-        signal,
+      const { signal: combinedSignal, cleanup } = combineAbortSignals(
+        [signal],
        { timeoutMs: timeout },
      );

--- a/packages/core/src/hooks/promptHookRunner.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/promptHookRunner.ts
@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 */

 import { z } from 'zod';
+import { createChildAbortController } from '../utils/abortController.js';
 import { createDebugLogger } from '../utils/debugLogger.js';
 import type {
  PromptHookConfig,
@ -229,21 +230,14 @@ export class PromptHookRunner {
      },
    ];

-    // Create internal AbortController to abort the request on timeout
-    const internalAbortController = new AbortController();
+    // Internal AbortController to abort the request on timeout. Use
+    // createChildAbortController so parent-signal propagation gets `{once:true}`
+    // + reverse cleanup automatically — the old manual addEventListener path
+    // had no `{once:true}` and never removed the listener, leaking one
+    // listener per prompt-hook invocation on the long-lived parent.
+    const internalAbortController = createChildAbortController(signal);
    const internalSignal = internalAbortController.signal;

-    // Chain external signal to internal abort controller
-    if (signal) {
-      if (signal.aborted) {
-        internalAbortController.abort();
-      } else {
-        signal.addEventListener('abort', () => {
-          internalAbortController.abort();
-        });
-      }
-    }
-
    // Create timeout promise that also aborts the request
    let timeoutId: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
    const timeoutPromise = new Promise<never>((_, reject) => {
@ -320,6 +314,9 @@ export class PromptHookRunner {
      if (timeoutId) {
        clearTimeout(timeoutId);
      }
+      // Trigger reverse-cleanup of the parent-signal listener on the
+      // success path; no-op if already aborted via parent/timeout.
+      internalAbortController.abort();
    }
  }

--- a/packages/core/src/utils/abortController.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/abortController.test.ts
@ -0,0 +1,340 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { getEventListeners, getMaxListeners } from 'node:events';
+import {
+  combineAbortSignals,
+  createAbortController,
+  createChildAbortController,
+} from './abortController.js';
+
+describe('createAbortController', () => {
+  it('sets a default max-listener cap of 50 on the signal', () => {
+    const controller = createAbortController();
+    expect(getMaxListeners(controller.signal)).toBe(50);
+  });
+
+  it('honors a custom max-listener cap', () => {
+    const controller = createAbortController(200);
+    expect(getMaxListeners(controller.signal)).toBe(200);
+  });
+
+  it('produces a working, abortable controller', () => {
+    const controller = createAbortController();
+    expect(controller.signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+    controller.abort('done');
+    expect(controller.signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(controller.signal.reason).toBe('done');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('createChildAbortController', () => {
+  it('aborts when the parent aborts and propagates the reason', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+    parent.abort('parent-reason');
+    expect(child.signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(child.signal.reason).toBe('parent-reason');
+  });
+
+  it('does not abort the parent when the child aborts', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+    child.abort('child-reason');
+    expect(child.signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(parent.signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('aborts synchronously when the parent is already aborted (fast path)', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    parent.abort('pre-aborted');
+    const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+    expect(child.signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(child.signal.reason).toBe('pre-aborted');
+    // No listener should have been registered on the parent in the fast path.
+    expect(getEventListeners(parent.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('removes its parent listener once the child has aborted (reverse cleanup)', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+    expect(getEventListeners(parent.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(1);
+    child.abort();
+    expect(getEventListeners(parent.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('removes its parent listener after parent abort fires (once: true)', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    createChildAbortController(parent);
+    expect(getEventListeners(parent.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(1);
+    parent.abort();
+    // The {once: true} listener should self-remove after firing.
+    expect(getEventListeners(parent.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('does not accumulate listeners on a long-lived parent across many short-lived children', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+      const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+      child.abort();
+    }
+    expect(getEventListeners(parent.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts an AbortSignal directly as the parent', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    const child = createChildAbortController(parent.signal);
+    parent.abort();
+    expect(child.signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('returns a plain controller when the parent is undefined', () => {
+    const child = createChildAbortController(undefined);
+    expect(child.signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+    child.abort('manual');
+    expect(child.signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('forwards a custom maxListeners through to the child signal', () => {
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    const child = createChildAbortController(parent, 123);
+    expect(getMaxListeners(child.signal)).toBe(123);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('combineAbortSignals', () => {
+  it('aborts when any input signal aborts', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    const b = createAbortController();
+    const { signal } = combineAbortSignals([a.signal, b.signal]);
+    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+    b.abort('from-b');
+    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(signal.reason).toBe('from-b');
+  });
+
+  it('aborts synchronously when an input is already aborted', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    a.abort('pre');
+    const { signal, cleanup } = combineAbortSignals([a.signal]);
+    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(signal.reason).toBe('pre');
+    expect(() => cleanup()).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('ignores undefined entries', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    const { signal } = combineAbortSignals([undefined, a.signal, undefined]);
+    a.abort();
+    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('fires the timeout when no signal aborts first', async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    try {
+      const { signal } = combineAbortSignals([], { timeoutMs: 50 });
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(50);
+      expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+      expect((signal.reason as DOMException).name).toBe('TimeoutError');
+    } finally {
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('auto-cleans input-signal listeners when the timeout fires', async () => {
+    // Timeout-driven aborts must run the same auto-cleanup as source-driven
+    // aborts — otherwise long-lived input signals (e.g. a session-lived
+    // AbortSignal) accumulate dead listeners across many short-lived
+    // combinedSignal calls. Verifies cleanup is wired to the COMBINED
+    // controller abort path, not just to source-signal events.
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    try {
+      const source = createAbortController();
+      const before = getEventListeners(source.signal, 'abort').length;
+      const { signal } = combineAbortSignals([source.signal], {
+        timeoutMs: 50,
+      });
+      expect(getEventListeners(source.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(before + 1);
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(50);
+      expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+      expect((signal.reason as DOMException).name).toBe('TimeoutError');
+      expect(getEventListeners(source.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(before);
+    } finally {
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('cleanup removes listeners from inputs', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    const before = getEventListeners(a.signal, 'abort').length;
+    const { cleanup } = combineAbortSignals([a.signal]);
+    expect(getEventListeners(a.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(before + 1);
+    cleanup();
+    expect(getEventListeners(a.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(before);
+  });
+
+  it('cleanup is idempotent', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    const { cleanup } = combineAbortSignals([a.signal]);
+    cleanup();
+    expect(() => cleanup()).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('manual cleanup() cancels a pending timeout so it never fires', () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    try {
+      const { signal, cleanup } = combineAbortSignals([], { timeoutMs: 50 });
+      cleanup();
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(100);
+      // Without the clearTimeout in cleanups[], the timer would still fire
+      // and abort the (already-cleaned) signal with TimeoutError.
+      expect(signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+    } finally {
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('treats timeoutMs <= 0 as "no timeout"', () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    try {
+      const zero = combineAbortSignals([], { timeoutMs: 0 });
+      const negative = combineAbortSignals([], { timeoutMs: -1 });
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(1_000_000);
+      expect(zero.signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+      expect(negative.signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+      zero.cleanup();
+      negative.cleanup();
+    } finally {
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('aborts and stops registering listeners once an input is found aborted mid-iteration', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    const b = createAbortController();
+    const c = createAbortController();
+    // Simulate a signal whose `aborted` getter returns false during the initial
+    // `find` scan and true on subsequent accesses, exercising the per-iteration
+    // defensive check inside the for-loop (not the fast path).
+    let accessCount = 0;
+    const proxied = new Proxy(b.signal, {
+      get(target, prop, recv) {
+        if (prop === 'aborted') {
+          accessCount++;
+          return accessCount > 1; // false on first access, true thereafter
+        }
+        return Reflect.get(target, prop, recv);
+      },
+    }) as AbortSignal;
+    const { signal } = combineAbortSignals([a.signal, proxied, c.signal]);
+    // Per-iteration check fires when the loop reaches proxied (2nd `aborted`
+    // access) and short-circuits → controller aborts, loop breaks before c.
+    expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    // a was iterated before the break and DID get a listener — cleanup must
+    // run synchronously (since adding to an already-aborted signal is a no-op),
+    // otherwise the listener leaks on the long-lived input.
+    expect(getEventListeners(a.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+    // c never had a listener attached (we broke out of the loop before it).
+    expect(getEventListeners(c.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('does not schedule a timeout when the per-iteration check aborts the controller mid-loop', () => {
+    // Drives the `!controller.signal.aborted` guard inside the timeout
+    // block (not the pre-loop fast path): the Proxy reports `aborted=false`
+    // on the initial scan and `aborted=true` once the loop re-checks it.
+    // Spy on setTimeout so we can distinguish "guard skipped scheduling"
+    // from "scheduled then immediately cleared by synchronous cleanup" —
+    // the latter would be observationally indistinguishable via timer
+    // advancement alone since cleanup() runs synchronously and clears the
+    // timer it just scheduled.
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    const setTimeoutSpy = vi.spyOn(globalThis, 'setTimeout');
+    try {
+      const a = createAbortController();
+      const b = createAbortController();
+      let accessCount = 0;
+      const proxied = new Proxy(b.signal, {
+        get(target, prop, recv) {
+          if (prop === 'aborted') {
+            accessCount++;
+            return accessCount > 1;
+          }
+          return Reflect.get(target, prop, recv);
+        },
+      }) as AbortSignal;
+      const { signal } = combineAbortSignals([a.signal, proxied], {
+        timeoutMs: 50,
+      });
+      expect(signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+      // The guard must prevent setTimeout from being called at all.
+      expect(setTimeoutSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      // Belt-and-suspenders: even if a timer somehow snuck through,
+      // advancing past it must not change the abort reason.
+      const reasonAfterAbort = signal.reason;
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(100);
+      expect(signal.reason).toBe(reasonAfterAbort);
+    } finally {
+      setTimeoutSpy.mockRestore();
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('auto-cleans listeners on inputs when the combined signal aborts', () => {
+    const a = createAbortController();
+    const b = createAbortController();
+    combineAbortSignals([a.signal, b.signal]);
+    expect(getEventListeners(a.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(1);
+    expect(getEventListeners(b.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(1);
+    a.abort();
+    expect(getEventListeners(a.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+    expect(getEventListeners(b.signal, 'abort').length).toBe(0);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('lifetime contract', () => {
+  it('parent abort propagates to a signal whose controller the caller has dropped', () => {
+    // Real-world pattern: caller pipes child.signal into an async API and
+    // does not hold the controller object itself. The parent listener
+    // closure keeps the controller alive long enough for parent abort to
+    // reach the signal — verified WITHOUT --expose-gc because we don't
+    // depend on GC behavior at all, only on the strong reference inside
+    // the listener closure.
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    let signal: AbortSignal;
+    (() => {
+      const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+      signal = child.signal;
+    })();
+    expect(signal!.aborted).toBe(false);
+    parent.abort('parent-reason');
+    expect(signal!.aborted).toBe(true);
+    expect(signal!.reason).toBe('parent-reason');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('GC safety (best-effort, requires --expose-gc)', () => {
+  const maybeGc = (globalThis as { gc?: () => void }).gc;
+  const itGc = maybeGc ? it : it.skip;
+
+  itGc('controller becomes GC-eligible after the child aborts', async () => {
+    // After child.abort(), the reverse-cleanup listener removes the
+    // parent's handler closure — which was the strong holder of the
+    // controller. With no other refs, the controller is collectable.
+    const parent = createAbortController();
+    let weakChild: WeakRef<AbortController>;
+    (() => {
+      const child = createChildAbortController(parent);
+      weakChild = new WeakRef(child);
+      child.abort();
+    })();
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
+    maybeGc!();
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
+    maybeGc!();
+    expect(weakChild!.deref()).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/abortController.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/abortController.ts
@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { setMaxListeners } from 'node:events';
+
+/**
+ * Default per-signal listener cap. Sized generously so OpenAI SDK retries +
+ * internal stream/fetch wrappers + per-tool listeners can coexist on a single
+ * short-lived per-request signal without warning.
+ */
+const DEFAULT_MAX_LISTENERS = 50;
+
+/**
+ * Create an AbortController with its signal pre-configured to allow a sane
+ * number of listeners. Use this in place of `new AbortController()` everywhere
+ * in production code.
+ */
+export function createAbortController(
+  maxListeners: number = DEFAULT_MAX_LISTENERS,
+): AbortController {
+  const controller = new AbortController();
+  setMaxListeners(maxListeners, controller.signal);
+  return controller;
+}
+
+function asSignal(
+  parent: AbortController | AbortSignal | undefined,
+): AbortSignal | undefined {
+  if (!parent) return undefined;
+  return parent instanceof AbortController ? parent.signal : parent;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Create a child AbortController that aborts when its parent aborts.
+ * Aborting the child does NOT abort the parent.
+ *
+ * Three invariants keep listener accumulation bounded on long-lived parents
+ * even when many short-lived children come and go:
+ *  - The parent's abort listener is registered with `{once: true}` so it
+ *    removes itself when the parent fires.
+ *  - When the child aborts (from any source — parent propagation, manual
+ *    abort, etc.), the listener it registered on the parent is actively
+ *    removed. This is the key to preventing dead-listener accumulation on
+ *    long-lived parents.
+ *  - The parent is held via `WeakRef` from the child's reverse-cleanup
+ *    closure, so a child being kept alive does not pin its parent.
+ *
+ * Lifetime contract: the child controller is held strongly by the parent's
+ * listener closure until either the parent fires (closure released by
+ * `{once: true}` self-removal) or the child aborts (closure released by
+ * reverse-cleanup). This means callers can safely pass `child.signal` into
+ * async APIs and drop the controller object — the controller will stay
+ * alive long enough for parent abort to propagate to the signal.
+ *
+ * Accepts an `AbortController`, an `AbortSignal`, or `undefined`. Undefined
+ * returns a fresh controller with no parent propagation.
+ */
+export function createChildAbortController(
+  parent: AbortController | AbortSignal | undefined,
+  maxListeners?: number,
+): AbortController {
+  const child = createAbortController(maxListeners);
+  const parentSignal = asSignal(parent);
+
+  if (!parentSignal) return child;
+
+  // Fast path: parent already aborted, no listener setup needed.
+  if (parentSignal.aborted) {
+    child.abort(parentSignal.reason);
+    return child;
+  }
+
+  // WeakRef on the parent only — the handler closure strongly retains the
+  // child so that propagation works even if the caller passes child.signal
+  // to an async API and drops the controller object. See the contract
+  // docstring above.
+  const weakParent = new WeakRef(parentSignal);
+  const handler = (): void => {
+    child.abort(weakParent.deref()?.reason);
+  };
+
+  parentSignal.addEventListener('abort', handler, { once: true });
+
+  child.signal.addEventListener(
+    'abort',
+    () => {
+      // `{once: true}` on the parent listener already self-removes when
+      // parent fires; this branch covers the child-aborts-first case so
+      // we don't leave a dead listener on a long-lived parent.
+      weakParent.deref()?.removeEventListener('abort', handler);
+    },
+    { once: true },
+  );
+
+  return child;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Combine N input signals (any undefined entries are ignored) plus an optional
+ * timeout into a single child AbortSignal. The returned `cleanup` releases all
+ * listeners and clears the timeout — call it on the success path so listeners
+ * don't linger on long-lived input signals. Cleanup is idempotent and is also
+ * invoked automatically when the returned signal aborts.
+ */
+export function combineAbortSignals(
+  signals: ReadonlyArray<AbortSignal | undefined>,
+  options?: { timeoutMs?: number; maxListeners?: number },
+): { signal: AbortSignal; cleanup: () => void } {
+  const controller = createAbortController(options?.maxListeners);
+
+  const alreadyAborted = signals.find((s) => s?.aborted);
+  if (alreadyAborted) {
+    controller.abort(alreadyAborted.reason);
+    return { signal: controller.signal, cleanup: () => {} };
+  }
+
+  const cleanups: Array<() => void> = [];
+
+  for (const sourceSignal of signals) {
+    if (!sourceSignal) continue;
+    // Re-check aborted state per iteration. Single-threaded JS can't actually
+    // interleave aborts between the initial scan above and this point, but
+    // making the check obvious here keeps the function correct even if a
+    // future caller passes signals whose `aborted` getter has side effects.
+    if (sourceSignal.aborted) {
+      controller.abort(sourceSignal.reason);
+      break;
+    }
+    const handler = () => controller.abort(sourceSignal.reason);
+    sourceSignal.addEventListener('abort', handler, { once: true });
+    cleanups.push(() => sourceSignal.removeEventListener('abort', handler));
+  }
+
+  // Skip timeout if the loop already aborted the controller — its cleanup
+  // wouldn't fire via the post-loop auto-cleanup path below.
+  const timeoutMs = options?.timeoutMs;
+  if (timeoutMs !== undefined && timeoutMs > 0 && !controller.signal.aborted) {
+    const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
+      controller.abort(new DOMException('Operation timed out', 'TimeoutError'));
+    }, timeoutMs);
+    cleanups.push(() => clearTimeout(timeoutId));
+  }
+
+  let done = false;
+  const cleanup = () => {
+    if (done) return;
+    done = true;
+    for (const fn of cleanups) fn();
+  };
+
+  // Node does not fire 'abort' listeners added to an already-aborted signal,
+  // so if the per-iteration check aborted controller mid-loop we'd orphan
+  // every input listener that was registered before the break. Run cleanup
+  // synchronously instead.
+  if (controller.signal.aborted) {
+    cleanup();
+  } else {
+    controller.signal.addEventListener('abort', cleanup, { once: true });
+  }
+
+  return { signal: controller.signal, cleanup };
+}