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fix(operator): streamed pauses get their identity back; commentary survives the ask - #163

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Follow-up to #162, from the next live round: approving still stalled — "the Approve button only works after a weird timeout" — and the streamed message explaining what the approval was about vanished when the card appeared.

Root cause of the stall

The SSE done payload is hand-built JSON that never carried hitlPausedAt, so a streamed pause reached the store identityless (decidedPausedAt: null). The settle-poll''s conservative null-fallback then read every re-pause as "the pause we decided" and spun to the full 90s timeout while the next batch sat undecided (isResolvingPause kept the batch Approve disabled the whole time — the "weird timeout enabler"). #162''s E2E validation missed it because it hydrated over REST, which does carry the timestamp.

Fixes

  1. Identity recovery: resolveApproval''s pre-resume baseline read now adopts the REST snapshot''s hitlPausedAt (locally — writing it to the store would flip the banner''s query key mid-decide). The poll comparison becomes REST-serializer-vs-REST-serializer, sound by construction, old backends included. The backend half — done events carrying hitlPausedAt — is labsai/EDDI (new PR into the umbrella).
  2. Commentary survives: interim streamed text is kept when the turn pauses, with the pending ask appended as its own bubble (the decision anchor). Snapping the bubble to the pending text destroyed the one message that explained what the approval was about.
  3. Two poll ceilings: an observably-IN_PROGRESS turn earns 300s (chained model calls + tools legitimately run minutes; the backend''s streaming backstop alone is 120s per call); 90s stays the cap for a decision never acted on.

Verification

3 new tests + 1 rewritten (the old one pinned the snap-to-pending behaviour this removes) — each mutation-verified by reverting its fix and watching it fail. Full suite 5368 green; tsc -b + eslint --max-warnings 0 clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Preserved streamed commentary when an approval request appears, displaying the request as a separate message.
    • Improved pause and approval tracking when streamed events lack pause details.
    • Prevented later pauses from being confused with the original approval request.
    • Extended approval status monitoring while resumed work is actively executing, while retaining the decision timeout for unanswered requests.

…rvives the ask

Live report on the previous commit: approving still stalled ("the Approve
button only works after a weird timeout"), and the message explaining what
the approval was about vanished when the card appeared. Three fixes:

1. A STREAMED pause left decidedPausedAt null - the SSE done payload is a
   hand-built JSON that never carried hitlPausedAt - and the settle-poll's
   conservative null-fallback then read every re-pause as "the pause we
   decided", spinning to the full 90s timeout while the next batch sat
   undecided with a dead Approve button. resolveApproval now recovers the
   pause identity from its pre-resume baseline read (the same REST
   serializer the poll compares against, so identity is sound by
   construction, old backends included). The backend half - done events
   carrying hitlPausedAt - lands separately in EDDI.

2. Interim streamed commentary is KEPT when the turn pauses, with the
   pending ask appended as its own bubble (which becomes the decision
   anchor). Snapping the bubble to the pending text destroyed the one
   message that explained what the approval was about, the moment the
   approval card appeared.

3. Two poll ceilings instead of one: a turn observably IN_PROGRESS earns
   300s (chained model calls + tools legitimately run minutes; the
   backend's streaming backstop alone is 120s per call), while 90s stays
   the cap for a decision that was never acted on.

Tests: 3 new + 1 rewritten (the old one pinned the snap-to-pending
behaviour this removes), each mutation-verified. Full suite: 5368 green.
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The hook now recovers pause identity from REST snapshots, distinguishes decision and execution polling timeouts, and preserves streamed commentary alongside separate approval-request bubbles.

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Pause handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pause identity and resolution polling
src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts, src/hooks/__tests__/use-operator-chat.test.tsx
Approval resolution uses the paused conversation identity from a detailed snapshot. Polling keeps the 90-second decision timeout and allows up to five minutes for resumed IN_PROGRESS turns.
Paused transcript reconstruction
src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts, src/hooks/__tests__/use-operator-chat.test.tsx
Paused streamed commentary remains in its own agent bubble. The pending approval request is appended separately and owns pausedPlaceholderId.

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An approval or rejection can still be submitted for a conversation after the operator has discarded it or switched conversations, causing the wrong conversation to be changed. The abort check should be added before resuming the decision.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant useOperatorChat
  participant DetailedSnapshotREST
  participant ConversationPollingREST
  useOperatorChat->>DetailedSnapshotREST: Capture paused conversation identity
  useOperatorChat->>ConversationPollingREST: Poll resumed conversation state
  ConversationPollingREST-->>useOperatorChat: Return pause identity and execution state
  useOperatorChat->>useOperatorChat: Apply decision or execution timeout
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In `@src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts`:
- Around line 1370-1391: Check controller.signal.aborted immediately after the
baseline read/try-catch and before calling resumeConversation in the decision
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Comment thread src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts
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CodeRabbit catch on the previous commit: the pre-resume baseline read is a
suspension point that did not exist when resumeConversation was the first
await. A reset() or selectConversation() landing inside it aborts the
resolve controller - and the decision was still submitted, approving (or
rejecting) a conversation the user had already discarded. Real backend
side effect, not a stale render.

Guard the abort signal after the baseline read, before the resume - the
same contract as the existing post-poll guard: the aborting action owns
the state.

Test: reset() during the baseline read leaves resumeCalls empty.
Mutation-verified: removing the guard fails it.

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Pull request overview

Fixes streamed approval pauses so identities are recovered, commentary remains visible, and active execution receives a longer polling window.

Changes:

  • Recovers missing pause timestamps before resuming approvals.
  • Preserves streamed commentary and appends approval requests separately.
  • Extends polling to 300 seconds for IN_PROGRESS turns and adds regression tests.

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File Description
src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts Updates pause reconciliation, message handling, and polling limits.
src/hooks/__tests__/use-operator-chat.test.tsx Adds coverage for identity recovery, commentary, cancellation, and extended polling.

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Comment thread src/hooks/use-operator-chat.ts
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1. A history pick still READING when the pre-resume baseline completes:
   selectConversation aborts the resolve controller only after its read
   succeeds (a failed pick must not cost the conversation on screen), so
   with a slow pick the abort guard passed and the decision landed on the
   conversation the admin was switching away from. resolveApproval now
   also yields when hydrateAbortController is set or the store's
   conversation changed - hydrate() declines outright while
   isResolvingPause is true, so a non-null controller there can only be
   an explicit pick. isResolvingPause is cleared on that path because the
   pick's own reset() never runs if its read fails.

2. The pause-identity recovery treated the baseline read as entirely
   optional: a transient failure while decidedPausedAt was null re-opened
   the poll-to-timeout stall the recovery exists to close. One
   lightweight retry now recovers the identity; a persistent outage is
   left to the resume/poll, whose error handling already reports it with
   the pause intact.

Tests: 2 new, both mutation-verified (the slow-pick race needed a
genuinely hanging selection read - a fast pick is already covered by the
plain abort guard, and a first version of the test passed without the
fix). Full suite: 5370 green.
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