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Fixes found by using the Platform Operator end to end against a live deployment. Five commits, each self-contained; together they take the operator from "fails opaquely at every stage" to usable.

1. The write canary deleted healthy operators (cc6b27fa)

Activating with write scope failed reproducibly:

Write canary did not pass (unknown): The operator did not attempt the descriptor-patch write this probe looks for.

The operator was fine — server logs showed it listing agents and answering normally; patchDescriptor was among its 47 tools (23 read + 24 write, the exact discovered count). Asked to pick "any ONE" agent and rename it with no stated reason, it asked which one — correct behaviour for an agent whose own system prompt hardens it against loosely-specified instructions. The probe read caution as failure and the rollback deleted it.

  • The prompt is now built around the resolved tool name, targets the FIRST agent, states that a clarifying question fails the test, and explains the interception is the expected outcome.
  • unknown and fail no longer report identically. Both still roll back (write tools behind an unverified gate must not stay deployed), but unknown now says "this is not evidence the gate is broken" and offers retry / read-only, while fail says the gate did NOT hold and explicitly does not suggest retrying.

Still probabilistic by construction — an LLM chooses the tool. The deterministic fix (classifying a synthetic request through the backend gate, no model, no write) is tracked separately.

2. Teardown showed 409/404 on success (9cde2946)

Deactivating the operator 409'd because the backend refuses to undeploy an agent with active conversations — and the admin's own operator chat is one. Using the operator at all made the kill switch fail, with the TEXT_PLAIN explanation discarded. Both deactivateOperator and resetOperator now pass endAllActiveConversations=true: the conversations ended are this operator's own, and the admin is explicitly shutting it down.

3. Failures were invisible or misleading (9cde2946)

  • A turn that fails without a stream-level error (backend emits task_failed, streams nothing, closes normally) left an empty bubble and no explanation — observed live when a provider rejected the stored LLM config. The done handler now surfaces the failing step and its redacted summary as the chat error; recovered turns and pauses stay quiet.
  • httpcalls joins the internal-step filter: an OpenAPI-provisioned operator carries one workflow step per endpoint group, so every turn opened with "45 steps" of identical unnamed rows for a greeting. Failing steps still show.
  • The bare UNKNOWN badge is gone — it's the classifier's shrug, not a diagnosis. Failed steps now always show the summary or a pointer to the server log; real classifications (timeout, rate_limit) keep their badge.

4. Markdown + multi-line input (9cde2946)

  • The operator was the one chat surface rendering answers as literal ## and **. Now the same contract as chat-message.tsx: remark-gfm, formatMarkdownText, deliberately no rehypeRaw (operator output is LLM output built from tool results — untrusted). User input stays literal.
  • The input was an <input> whose own keydown handler special-cased Shift+Enter — on an element that cannot hold a second line. Now a self-resizing textarea, with a shared hint ("Enter to send · Shift+Enter for a new line") under every multi-line chat surface, translated in all 11 locales (drift + parity gates pass).

5. 100-round tool budget (5db0c897)

An agent-build task died at the engine's 10-iteration default after 22 calls, answering only "max tool iterations reached". The operator now provisions with maxToolIterations: 100 — the backend ceiling, on purpose: one operator turn is one admin task of arbitrary length, and the safety mechanism is the HITL gate on every write, not a scarce round budget. Ordinary agents keep the default.

⚠️ Requires backend 2d8c26f6a (labsai/EDDI#672) — earlier backends ignore the unknown field harmlessly, so this degrades gracefully, but the budget only takes effect against a backend that accepts it. Existing operators keep their stored budget until re-activated.

Verification

  • 5148 tests pass (vitest), tsc -b clean, eslint clean via pre-commit
  • New coverage: canary prompt properties, unknown-vs-fail messaging, endAllActiveConversations on the wire, nested/failed-step rendering, failed-turn chat errors (both directions), markdown as markup with user input literal, textarea + hint, operator sends 100
  • Three pre-existing tests pinned old wording/behaviour and were updated to assert properties instead of phrases

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  • New Features

    • Added file attachments via selection, drag-and-drop, and clipboard paste in chat.
    • Supports attachment-only messages with upload status and removable previews.
    • Added multiline chat input with localized keyboard guidance.
    • Operator chat now renders agent Markdown and supports auto-resizing text areas.
    • Conversation cleanup terminates active conversations during reset or deactivation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved pipeline failure details, summaries, and server-log fallback messaging.
    • Reduced misleading errors for recovered or paused conversations.
    • Finalized chat messages now consistently display canonical response text.
    • Improved write verification and rollback status handling.

ginccc added 3 commits August 13, 2026 15:13
Activating a read_write operator failed reproducibly against Claude Sonnet 5:

  Write canary did not pass (unknown): The operator did not attempt the
  descriptor-patch write this probe looks for.

The operator was fine. Server logs show it called readAgentDescriptors and
answered normally; the tool it was meant to call (patchDescriptor) was present
-- the granted set is 23 read + 24 write = the 47 httpcall tools the backend
discovered. It listed the agents, then replied in prose instead of writing, and
the probe's "unknown" outcome deleted it.

That is not the model misbehaving. Asked to pick "any ONE" agent and rename it,
with no stated reason, stopping to ask which one is the correct response -- the
operator's own system prompt hardens it against loosely-specified instructions.
The probe was reading good behaviour as a failure.

Two changes:

1. The prompt is now built around the RESOLVED tool name (already looked up for
   pause-detection, so no new failure mode), names the FIRST agent instead of
   "any ONE", states that a clarifying question fails the test, and says the
   interception is the expected outcome so the model has no reason to seek
   approval before acting. Far more reliable -- but still an LLM choosing a
   tool, so it cannot be made deterministic by prompt alone.

2. "unknown" and "fail" no longer report identically. Both still roll back --
   write tools behind an unverified gate must not stay deployed either way --
   but:
     fail    -> "The approval gate did NOT hold", and explicitly does NOT
                suggest retrying.
     unknown -> "Could not verify the approval gate - this is not evidence that
                it is broken", plus a way forward (retry, or read-only, which
                skips the probe entirely).
   Reporting an unproven gate as a broken one sent admins hunting a security
   problem that had not been demonstrated, and left them with no operator and
   no next step.

Three existing tests pinned the old wording and were updated to assert the
property rather than the phrase. New coverage: the prompt names the tool and
drops the ambiguity, and the two outcomes produce distinguishable, actionable
messages. 5135 tests pass; tsc -b clean.

Does NOT fix the deeper issue: verification still depends on an LLM choosing to
call a tool, and the pass-through path still renames a real agent for real.
Both need a deterministic, non-destructive probe -- ideally classifying a
synthetic request through the backend gate with no model and no write.
…le-line input

Four defects found by using the operator end to end, all Manager-side.

1. Deactivating/resetting the operator showed a 409 for a successful teardown.
   The backend refuses to undeploy an agent with active conversations, and the
   admin's own operator chat IS one -- so using the operator at all made the
   kill switch 409, with the TEXT_PLAIN explanation discarded. resetOperator
   swallowed it and worked anyway (red request on success); deactivateOperator
   failed outright. Both now pass endAllActiveConversations=true: the
   conversations ended are this operator's own, and the admin is explicitly
   shutting it down.

2. A turn that fails without a stream-level error left an empty bubble and no
   explanation. The backend emits task_failed for the failing step, streams no
   tokens, and closes the stream normally; the admin had to read the server
   log to learn the turn failed at all (seen live: provider rejecting the
   stored temperature). The done handler now surfaces the failing step and its
   redacted summary as the chat error -- only when nothing streamed, nothing
   paused, and a step actually failed, so recovered turns and pauses stay
   quiet.

3. Step list noise and the bare UNKNOWN badge. httpcalls joins
   INTERNAL_INFRA_TASKS: an OpenAPI-provisioned operator carries one httpcalls
   workflow step per endpoint group, so every turn opened with "45 steps" of
   identical unnamed rows for a greeting; failing steps still show. And a
   failed step now always renders detail -- "unknown" is the classifier's
   shrug, not a diagnosis, so it is dropped in favour of the summary or a
   pointer to the server log; real classifications (timeout, rate_limit) keep
   their badge.

4. Operator answers rendered as literal ## and ** -- the one chat surface not
   rendering markdown. Now the same contract as chat-message.tsx: remark-gfm,
   formatMarkdownText repair, and deliberately NO rehypeRaw (operator output is
   LLM output built from tool results, i.e. untrusted). User input stays
   literal.

Plus: the operator input is now a textarea -- its own keydown handler already
special-cased Shift+Enter, on an element that cannot hold a second line. Same
Enter-sends / Shift+Enter-newline contract and auto-resize as chat-drawer, and
a shared InputHint ("Enter to send · Shift+Enter for a new line") under every
multi-line chat surface: operator, chat panel (hidden in secret mode, which is
a single-line password field), chat drawer. discussion-input already had its
own hints. Keys added to all 11 locales; the i18n drift and parity gates pass.

5148 tests pass, tsc -b clean.
…n budget

Counterpart of the backend's maxToolIterations on setup-api. The engine
default (10) killed real operator tasks mid-work: an agent build died at the
cap after 22 calls, answering only "max tool iterations reached".

OPERATOR_MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS = 100 -- the backend ceiling
(AgentSetupService.MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS), on purpose: one operator turn is one
admin task of arbitrary length, and the safety mechanism is the HITL gate on
every write, not a scarce round budget. Ordinary agents keep the engine
default.

CreateApiAgentRequest (client type) documents the new optional field; the
provisioning test pins that the operator actually sends 100.
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This PR adds shared attachment staging, file-drop and paste support, multiline chat input, Markdown rendering, pipeline activity filtering, canonical stream reconciliation, operator lifecycle controls, and deterministic write-canary gate verification.

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Chat experience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared attachment staging and chat integration
src/hooks/use-attachment-staging.ts, src/components/chat/*
Chat surfaces share attachment staging, upload tracking, preview cleanup, file-drop overlays, pending chips, paste handling, and attachment-aware sends.
Multiline input and operator message rendering
src/components/chat/input-hint.tsx, src/components/operator/operator-chat.tsx, src/components/operator/operator-drawer.tsx, src/pages/operator.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*
Inputs show localized keyboard hints. OperatorChat renders agent GFM Markdown, preserves literal user Markdown, and supports attachment-aware textarea submission.
Pipeline activity visibility and failure details
src/components/chat/chat-activity.tsx, src/components/chat/__tests__/chat-activity.test.tsx
Internal httpcalls steps are filtered by mode. Visible counts exclude hidden steps, while duration remains based on raw tasks. Failed tasks show classified, truncated, or server-log fallback details.

Operator runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Operator chat sending and conversation state
src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts, src/hooks/use-chat.ts, src/hooks/__tests__/*
Operator sends support attachments and lazy conversation creation. Done snapshots replace interim streamed text. Silent task failures surface only when no answer or existing error is present.
Operator provisioning and conversation termination
src/lib/api/agent-setup.ts, src/lib/api/operator.ts, src/lib/api/__tests__/operator.test.ts
Provisioning uses a 100-iteration tool budget. Deactivation and reset terminate active conversations before undeployment and deletion.

Write-canary verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dry-run gate verification and canary diagnosis
src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts, src/lib/api/operator.ts, src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts
The canary uses a self-targeting prompt and deterministic policy dry run. It distinguishes pass, failure, and unknown outcomes and reports rollback state explicitly.

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The PR substantially improves operator activation, teardown, failure reporting, formatting, input, and task capacity, but inconclusive write checks can still be reported incorrectly, disabled file drops can discard the current app state, and activity counts may still include internal work. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded risks.

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633-638: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for resetOperator.

The implementation changed both deactivateOperator and resetOperator, but this test checks only deactivation. Add a reset case that verifies endAllActiveConversations=true before deleteAgent runs.

The supplied change details list reset as a changed lifecycle path, while the test change covers only deactivation.

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In `@src/lib/api/__tests__/operator.test.ts` around lines 633 - 638, Add a
resetOperator test case alongside the existing deactivateOperator coverage,
asserting that the reset request includes endAllActiveConversations=true and
that this parameter is present before deleteAgent executes. Reuse the existing
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In `@src/components/chat/chat-activity.tsx`:
- Around line 142-150: Update the summary metric calculations in the chat
activity component to use the filtered visible task list rather than rawTasks,
including step count, completed count, duration, and fallback total. Preserve
the existing filtering behavior for httpcalls, and add a mixed-task regression
test confirming hidden httpcalls tasks do not increase the displayed step count.

In `@src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts`:
- Around line 425-440: Update the operator-chat completion handling around the
state updater to extract or back-fill final output from done.conversationOutputs
before checking bubble content, so a READY snapshot with output prevents
reporting an earlier recoverable task_failed event. Add a regression case
covering task_failed, no token frames, and a READY snapshot containing output.

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In `@src/lib/api/__tests__/operator.test.ts`:
- Around line 633-638: Add a resetOperator test case alongside the existing
deactivateOperator coverage, asserting that the reset request includes
endAllActiveConversations=true and that this parameter is present before
deleteAgent executes. Reuse the existing setup and assertion patterns for the
operator lifecycle tests.
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… turns, reset coverage

All three findings verified and correct.

1. The resting summary counted rawTasks while the list filtered httpcalls, so
   an operator greeting showed one visible row under a header still boasting
   "46 steps" -- the exact complaint the filter fixed, reintroduced one level
   up. The resting step count now follows the filtered list. Three metrics
   deliberately stay raw because they describe the TURN, not the list: the
   live progress fraction (a stable "3 of 5" over the whole pipeline; a
   visible-only denominator would crawl and jump as rows stream in),
   totalDuration (the turn really took that long), and the pulse (hidden
   steps running are still work in progress). CodeRabbit's suggestion covered
   all four; the partial application is reasoned, not an oversight.

2. The failed-turn error check only looked at token-streamed bubble content,
   but a turn can answer entirely through the done snapshot with zero token
   frames -- and an earlier recoverable task_failed would then overwrite a
   real answer with an error banner. The final output is now extracted from
   the snapshot for both branches: it backfills the empty bubble when
   present, and only its absence (with no stream, no pause, and a failed
   step) reports the failure.

3. resetOperator's endAllActiveConversations was implemented but untested;
   now covered, including that the undeploy precedes the delete -- the reset
   must not depend on the delete's cascade incidentally ending what the
   undeploy was refused for.

One pre-existing test caught my first cut of (1) using the visible count in
the live fraction too -- kept raw for the reason above; the test stands
unchanged. 5154 tests pass, tsc -b clean.
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All three findings verified and addressed in the latest push:

  • Summary metrics vs filtered list (Major): correct — the resting header still said "46 steps" over one visible row, the exact complaint the filter fixed, reintroduced one level up. The resting step count now follows the filtered list. Three metrics deliberately stay raw because they describe the turn, not the list: the live progress fraction (stable denominator — a visible-only one crawls and jumps as rows stream in), total duration (the turn really took that long; hiding plumbing must not under-report latency), and the pulse. A pre-existing test caught my first attempt at filtering the live fraction too, which is how that boundary got drawn. Mixed-task regression test added as suggested.
  • done.conversationOutputs before reporting failure (Major): correct — a turn can answer entirely through the snapshot with zero token frames, and an earlier recoverable task_failed would have overwritten a real answer with an error banner. The snapshot's final output is now extracted for both branches: it backfills the empty bubble when present; only its absence (no stream, no pause, failed step) reports the failure. Regression tests cover both directions.
  • resetOperator coverage (nitpick): added, including that the undeploy precedes the delete — the reset must not depend on the delete's cascade incidentally ending what the undeploy was refused for.

5154 tests pass, tsc -b clean.

ginccc added 5 commits August 13, 2026 17:41
…geting probe, unknown no longer deletes

The write canary was a coin flip: whether activation survived depended on an
LLM choosing to perform a write on first ask. A cautious model that declined
-- correct operator behaviour -- got the operator deleted. And the probe's one
catastrophic path (gate broken, write executes) permanently renamed an
arbitrary production agent, then deleted the only actor that could undo it.

Three changes, composing with the backend's new gate-dry-run endpoint
(labsai/EDDI 09fad6f44):

1. Deterministic check first. enforceWriteCanaryGate asks the backend to
   classify the canary's exact target call against the operator's STORED
   policy, via the same ToolApprovalGate.classify the tool loop runs at
   execution time. Not gated -> rollback WITHOUT running the probe: provoking
   a write against a policy known not to gate it would execute it for real,
   which is the destructive path entered knowingly. Dry-run transport errors
   fail closed as verification failures (never reported as a breach); a 404
   means an older backend and restores the previous semantics wholesale.

2. unknown no longer deletes a verified operator. With the policy verified
   deterministically, a probe the model declined to perform proves nothing --
   activation proceeds, returning the outcome honestly (what was verified,
   what stayed unproven) rather than upgrading it to a pass.

3. The probe targets the operator's OWN descriptor instead of "the FIRST
   agent from the list". The worst case is now self-cleaning: if the write
   ever executes, the marker lands on the agent the rollback deletes anyway --
   no production agent touched, no manual marker-hunt. It also drops the
   listing round-trip, one less step for the model to stall on.

The shared rollback tail moved into rollBack() (always throws, RollbackFailure
marker) so the dry-run catch can re-throw its own rollback untouched.

Tests rewritten for the new contract: verified+inconclusive proceeds without
deletion; not-gated rolls back with the probe provably never started; old
backend (404) keeps legacy rollback-on-unknown; dry-run 500 fails closed as a
verification failure; prompt self-targets. Two prior tests that passed
incidentally through an unhandled-request path now pin their intended
scenarios explicitly. 5156 tests pass, tsc -b clean.
…where

The operator chat gains the same attachment support as the main chat panel:
a paperclip picker, staged chips with upload states, attachment-only turns,
and attachment_* context refs on the sent turn. Attaching before the first
message lazily creates the conversation the same way send() does.

Both surfaces now also accept files from the clipboard — Ctrl/Cmd+V pastes
a screenshot or copied file straight into the staging area; text pastes are
untouched.

Mechanics: the panel's proven staging logic (per-turn cap, StrictMode-safe
object-URL lifecycle, conversation-switch reset) moves into a shared
useAttachmentStaging hook, and the chip + bubble renderers become shared
components — one implementation, both chats.
The main chat area and the operator chat are now drop zones: dragging files
over them raises a dashed overlay, dropping stages them through the same
shared staging as the picker and paste. Text-selection drags pass through
untouched, secret mode and a paused operator ignore drops, and the enter/
leave depth counter keeps the overlay from flickering across child bubbles.
…onical answer

Two findings from the UX review pass:

The test-chat drawer is a full chat surface (same conversation, same send
path) but had no attachment support at all — it now shares the staging hook:
paperclip picker, chips, paste, drop zone over the drawer body, and
attachment-only turns.

With tool-loop streaming live, a turn can stream interim commentary ("Let me
check the agents...") before its final answer, but conversation memory keeps
only the final answer — so the bubble at rest disagreed with what a reload
would show. Both stores now snap the bubble to the done snapshot's canonical
text (and a paused turn rests on its pending message), instead of
back-filling only empty bubbles.
…he branch review

Findings from the adversarial branch review, all verified before fixing:

Object-URL lifecycle: the operator store now revokes sent-bubble previews on
reset() and on the 409-refused-send path (every sent image used to leak its
blob until page unload); a send refused by the store guards revokes the
drained previews; the staging hook's conversation-switch reset best-effort
DELETEs the uploaded blobs too instead of orphaning them server-side.

ensureConversation dedupes concurrent creates behind one in-flight promise
(two attach gestures used to create two conversations and silently orphan
the first file), and a reset() during the create no longer resurrects the
conversation. The staging hook also stops treating its own lazily-created id
propagating back as a conversation switch - the chip that triggered the
create survives.

Canary: a stream that closes without a done frame is now unknown, not a
teardown-triggering fail; the pause-but-unconfirmed message no longer claims
detail knowledge when the approval-status read failed; task_failed frames
count toward the attempted-write scan; the RollbackFailure re-throw guard is
pinned by assertions on the not-gated path.

A11y/i18n: drop overlay is aria-hidden, chip remove buttons carry the file
name in their label, and the step-failed fallback is translated (11 locales).

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src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts (1)

325-359: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Move operator conversation creation into a TanStack Query mutation.

ensureConversation calls startConversation directly from the Zustand store. This bypasses the required TanStack Query boundary for server state in src/hooks. Keep presentation state in Zustand, and expose a mutation-backed, deduplicated ensureConversation action from useOperatorChat. Preserve the current in-flight deduplication and reset() behavior.

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In `@src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts` around lines 325 - 359, Refactor
ensureConversation in useOperatorChat so startConversation is invoked through a
TanStack Query mutation rather than directly from the Zustand store. Keep
conversationId and reset-related presentation state in Zustand, expose the
mutation-backed ensureConversation action, preserve in-flight deduplication so
concurrent callers share one promise, and retain the existing reset guard that
prevents a cleared store from being repopulated.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts (3)

502-513: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the operator is deleted when the dry run errors.

This test registers the delete handler but never checks that it ran. The fail-closed guarantee is the point of this path, and only the wording is currently pinned.

💚 Proposed assertion
     server.use(
       http.post("*/administration/operator/gate-dry-run", () => HttpResponse.json({ message: "boom" }, { status: 500 })),
-      http.delete("*/agentstore/agents/:id", () => new HttpResponse(null, { status: 200 })),
     );
+    let deleted = false;
+    server.use(
+      http.delete("*/agentstore/agents/:id", () => { deleted = true; return new HttpResponse(null, { status: 200 }); }),
+    );
 
     const error = String(await enforceWriteCanaryGate(config(), spec()).catch((e: unknown) => e));
 
+    expect(deleted).toBe(true);
     expect(error).toMatch(/could not verify the approval gate/i);
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In `@src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts` around lines 502 - 513,
Update the dry-run error test for enforceWriteCanaryGate to assert that the
operator deletion handler was invoked. Track the request or use the existing
test server’s request-inspection mechanism for DELETE requests to
/agentstore/agents/:id, while preserving the current error-message assertions.

331-334: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the gate-dry-run request payload.

The handler ignores the request body. gateDryRun must send toolName and endpoint in the backend address form patch:/descriptorstore/descriptors/{id}. No test covers that conversion, so a regression in the address form would stay green.

♻️ Proposed handler that captures and asserts the payload
-  const dryRunGated = () =>
-    http.post("*/administration/operator/gate-dry-run", () =>
-      HttpResponse.json({ policyPresent: true, gated: true, matchedPattern: "http.patch:*" }),
-    );
+  let dryRunBody: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
+  const dryRunGated = () =>
+    http.post("*/administration/operator/gate-dry-run", async ({ request }) => {
+      dryRunBody = (await request.json()) as Record<string, unknown>;
+      return HttpResponse.json({ policyPresent: true, gated: true, matchedPattern: "http.patch:*" });
+    });

Then assert in the verified-policy test:

expect(dryRunBody).toMatchObject({
  toolName: "patchDescriptor",
  source: "http",
  endpoint: "patch:/descriptorstore/descriptors/{id}",
});
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In `@src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts` around lines 331 - 334,
Update the dryRunGated handler and the verified-policy test around gateDryRun to
capture the POST request body and assert it includes toolName “patchDescriptor”,
source “http”, and endpoint “patch:/descriptorstore/descriptors/{id}”.

576-588: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case where the trace shows the write and the done frame is missing.

This test covers a token-only stream. The riskier variant is a stream whose task_complete trace contains the expected descriptor-patch call and that then ends without a done frame. That path is the subject of the comment on src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts Lines 222-235.

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In `@src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts` around lines 576 - 588, Add
a test case in the write-canary stream-ending scenarios where the trace includes
a task_complete event with the expected descriptor-patch call but no done frame.
Run the canary and assert it produces the intended unknown outcome and
corresponding missing-final-state error, covering the behavior around the
write-canary task-completion handling.
src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts (1)

385-388: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Resolve the tool name once and pass it to the probe.

runProbe resolves the same tool name from the same spec at Line 143. Compute it once in enforceWriteCanaryGate and pass it down. This removes the duplicated lookup and guarantees the dry run and the probe target the same tool.

Note also that the dry run verifies one call address only. Other write-capable tools in the operator allow-list remain unverified by this check.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts` around lines 385 - 388, Update
enforceWriteCanaryGate to resolve the tool name once from spec and pass that
value into runProbe, adding the parameter to runProbe and removing its duplicate
resolveToolNameForEndpoint lookup so the dry run and probe use the identical
tool target.
src/hooks/use-chat.ts (1)

629-643: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the remaining message fields when snapping to the canonical text.

The replacement builds a new object from an explicit field list. Any other field of ChatMessage, such as attachments, is dropped on every completed turn. Agent bubbles carry no attachments today, so there is no current defect, but the field list must then track the type by hand. Spread the previous message instead.

♻️ Proposed refactor
                 store.setState((s) => {
                   const updated = [...s.messages];
                   const prev = updated[updated.length - 1];
                   if (prev) {
-                    updated[updated.length - 1] = {
-                      id: prev.id,
-                      role: prev.role,
-                      content: snapshotText,
-                      timestamp: prev.timestamp,
-                      isStreaming: prev.isStreaming,
-                    };
+                    updated[updated.length - 1] = { ...prev, content: snapshotText };
                   }
                   return { messages: updated };
                 });
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In `@src/hooks/use-chat.ts` around lines 629 - 643, Update the final message
replacement in the store.setState callback to spread the existing prev message
and override only content with snapshotText, preserving all other ChatMessage
fields such as attachments and any future additions.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/components/chat/__tests__/chat-activity.test.tsx`:
- Around line 288-302: Update the step-count assertions in the chat activity
tests to avoid substring matches: anchor the matchers for “1 steps,” “46 steps,”
and “2 steps” to the complete text or use digit boundaries, while preserving the
existing positive and negative expectations.

In `@src/hooks/use-attachment-staging.ts`:
- Around line 113-116: Update the disabled branch of the attachment staging hook
so `dropHandlers` remains populated with inert drag handlers that call
`preventDefault`, preventing browser file-drop navigation while preserving
`isDragOver: false`. Keep the existing active handlers returned when `enabled`
is true.

In `@src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts`:
- Around line 425-444: The write-canary UI must distinguish a successful probe
from an inconclusive one instead of treating every truthy outcome as verified.
Update the outcome handling to check outcome.writeCanary?.outcome === "pass",
and add a separate message path for "unknown" that communicates the live probe
was inconclusive.
- Around line 222-235: Update the finalState === undefined branch in the
write-canary evaluation to keep the outcome as unknown regardless of
sawExpectedToolCall, and include the expected tool name in the error when the
expected tool_call was observed. Preserve a distinct message for streams where
the write was not attempted.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/hooks/use-chat.ts`:
- Around line 629-643: Update the final message replacement in the
store.setState callback to spread the existing prev message and override only
content with snapshotText, preserving all other ChatMessage fields such as
attachments and any future additions.

In `@src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts`:
- Around line 325-359: Refactor ensureConversation in useOperatorChat so
startConversation is invoked through a TanStack Query mutation rather than
directly from the Zustand store. Keep conversationId and reset-related
presentation state in Zustand, expose the mutation-backed ensureConversation
action, preserve in-flight deduplication so concurrent callers share one
promise, and retain the existing reset guard that prevents a cleared store from
being repopulated.

In `@src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts`:
- Around line 502-513: Update the dry-run error test for enforceWriteCanaryGate
to assert that the operator deletion handler was invoked. Track the request or
use the existing test server’s request-inspection mechanism for DELETE requests
to /agentstore/agents/:id, while preserving the current error-message
assertions.
- Around line 331-334: Update the dryRunGated handler and the verified-policy
test around gateDryRun to capture the POST request body and assert it includes
toolName “patchDescriptor”, source “http”, and endpoint
“patch:/descriptorstore/descriptors/{id}”.
- Around line 576-588: Add a test case in the write-canary stream-ending
scenarios where the trace includes a task_complete event with the expected
descriptor-patch call but no done frame. Run the canary and assert it produces
the intended unknown outcome and corresponding missing-final-state error,
covering the behavior around the write-canary task-completion handling.

In `@src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts`:
- Around line 385-388: Update enforceWriteCanaryGate to resolve the tool name
once from spec and pass that value into runProbe, adding the parameter to
runProbe and removing its duplicate resolveToolNameForEndpoint lookup so the dry
run and probe use the identical tool target.
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…nown-outcome toast

A disabled drop zone returned no handlers at all, so dropping a file onto a
chat without a conversation (or in secret mode) let the browser NAVIGATE to
the file, losing the app - disabled zones now swallow file drags inertly.

The activation toast claimed "write access verified" for any truthy
writeCanary result, including outcome "unknown" (gate verified
deterministically, live probe inconclusive) - it now says exactly which of
the two happened, keyed on outcome === "pass" (new locale key, 11 locales).

The no-done-frame canary unknown now records whether the write attempt was
observed (a gated pause and an executed write both leave the same trace
entry, so the attempt alone can never justify "fail"), and the step-count
test matchers are digit-anchored so "1 steps" can no longer match "41 steps".
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ginccc merged commit e6838b9 into main Aug 13, 2026
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ginccc deleted the fix/operator-activation-and-failure-ux branch August 13, 2026 19:51
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