Keep a room's approval answerable after its turn ends - #274
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A room resolves the bot behind an approval card through `group.busyBotId`, which is deliberately in-memory only — `saveGroups` strips it and load sets it to null. The card itself is durable, so any approval that outlives its turn (a finished turn, or a restart) leaves a card with no speaker behind it, and every way out of that card fails: - `POST /api/threads/:id/respond` 404s before reaching `answerRequest`, so Allow / Always allow / Deny do nothing. - A pending approval takes over the composer, so the room cannot be typed in either — it is stuck for good. `answerRequest` already knows how to close an approval it cannot deliver (marks the card `unavailable` + dismissed, and says so in the transcript), but the room path never got there. It also looked the card up only through `askMessageByRequest`, which is memory-only, so after a restart it appended the notice without ever dismissing the card. Resolve the peer-approval intercept before the owner lookup (a peer card belongs to the bus, not to a speaker), fall back to the member named by the card when `busyBotId` is gone, and answer even when no owner resolves so the card is closed instead of stranding the room. 404 is kept for a thread with nothing pending. `answerRequest` now finds the card by the request it carries when the in-flight map has been lost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe approval response flow now recovers persisted request cards when in-memory state is missing. Thread responses can identify the recorded sender or dismiss unavailable requests. Integration tests cover stranded rooms and rooms without pending approvals. ChangesApproval recovery
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change restores access to rooms with stranded approvals, but answered or dismissed approval cards can still be treated as pending on repeated requests, causing incorrect 200 responses and duplicate unavailable notices. Merge should wait for pending-state filtering. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant ThreadApprovalRoute
participant PersistedApprovalCard
participant answerRequest
Client->>ThreadApprovalRoute: submit approval response
ThreadApprovalRoute->>PersistedApprovalCard: resolve request card
PersistedApprovalCard-->>ThreadApprovalRoute: request and sender metadata
ThreadApprovalRoute->>answerRequest: settle request
answerRequest-->>Client: unavailable response and dismissal
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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 3113-3132: Filter durable approval lookups to cards that are still
pending by requiring unanswered and not dismissed state. Apply this to the
pending lookup near server/index.ts lines 3113-3132 and the fallback lookup near
lines 417-424; update server/index.test.ts lines 585-590 to submit the settled
request again and assert a 404. Preserve answerRequest behavior for genuinely
pending approvals.
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| const requestId = String(body.requestId); | ||
| // peer-approval intercept (see /api/bots/:id/respond above). A peer card | ||
| // belongs to the bus rather than to a speaker, so resolve it before we go | ||
| // looking for one — a room between turns has no speaker to find. | ||
| if (resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, requestId, behavior)) { | ||
| return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome: behavior === "allow" ? "allowed-once" : "rejected" }); | ||
| } | ||
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner.modelSelection.instanceId, String(body.requestId), behavior, body.message); | ||
| const group = store.groupByThread(threadId); | ||
| // busyBotId is in-memory only, so an approval that outlives its turn — or | ||
| // the process — leaves a durable card with no speaker behind it. Fall back | ||
| // to the member that raised it, and answer even when that member is gone: | ||
| // answerRequest closes an unreachable card, and a pending approval owns | ||
| // the composer, so a dead end here locks the room for good. | ||
| const pending = store.messagesFor(threadId).find((message) => message.card?.requestId === requestId); | ||
| const owner = group | ||
| ? (group.busyBotId ? store.bot(group.busyBotId) : undefined) ?? | ||
| (pending?.from ? store.bot(pending.from.botId) : undefined) | ||
| : store.botByThread(threadId); | ||
| if (!owner && !pending) return json(res, 404, { error: "nothing is waiting on an answer in this conversation" }); | ||
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner?.modelSelection.instanceId ?? "", requestId, behavior, body.message); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Filter persisted cards to pending cards before responding.
A second request for stranded-request after Lines 425-427 settle it still finds the historical card at Line 3126. The route returns 200, and answerRequest can append another unavailable activity entry. This violates the required 404 behavior when no approval is pending.
server/index.ts#L3113-L3132: Require!card.answered && card.dismissed !== truewhen findingpending.server/index.ts#L417-L424: Apply the same pending-state predicate to the durable fallback lookup.server/index.test.ts#L585-L590: Submitstranded-requestagain after settlement and expect404.
Proposed fix
- : thread.find((m) => m.card?.requestId === requestId);
+ : thread.find(
+ (m) =>
+ m.card?.requestId === requestId &&
+ !m.card.answered &&
+ m.card.dismissed !== true,
+ );
...
- const pending = store.messagesFor(threadId).find((message) => message.card?.requestId === requestId);
+ const pending = store.messagesFor(threadId).find(
+ (message) =>
+ message.card?.requestId === requestId &&
+ !message.card.answered &&
+ message.card.dismissed !== true,
+ );📝 Committable suggestion
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| const requestId = String(body.requestId); | |
| // peer-approval intercept (see /api/bots/:id/respond above). A peer card | |
| // belongs to the bus rather than to a speaker, so resolve it before we go | |
| // looking for one — a room between turns has no speaker to find. | |
| if (resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, requestId, behavior)) { | |
| return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome: behavior === "allow" ? "allowed-once" : "rejected" }); | |
| } | |
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner.modelSelection.instanceId, String(body.requestId), behavior, body.message); | |
| const group = store.groupByThread(threadId); | |
| // busyBotId is in-memory only, so an approval that outlives its turn — or | |
| // the process — leaves a durable card with no speaker behind it. Fall back | |
| // to the member that raised it, and answer even when that member is gone: | |
| // answerRequest closes an unreachable card, and a pending approval owns | |
| // the composer, so a dead end here locks the room for good. | |
| const pending = store.messagesFor(threadId).find((message) => message.card?.requestId === requestId); | |
| const owner = group | |
| ? (group.busyBotId ? store.bot(group.busyBotId) : undefined) ?? | |
| (pending?.from ? store.bot(pending.from.botId) : undefined) | |
| : store.botByThread(threadId); | |
| if (!owner && !pending) return json(res, 404, { error: "nothing is waiting on an answer in this conversation" }); | |
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner?.modelSelection.instanceId ?? "", requestId, behavior, body.message); | |
| const requestId = String(body.requestId); | |
| // peer-approval intercept (see /api/bots/:id/respond above). A peer card | |
| // belongs to the bus rather than to a speaker, so resolve it before we go | |
| // looking for one — a room between turns has no speaker to find. | |
| if (resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, requestId, behavior)) { | |
| return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome: behavior === "allow" ? "allowed-once" : "rejected" }); | |
| } | |
| const group = store.groupByThread(threadId); | |
| // busyBotId is in-memory only, so an approval that outlives its turn — or | |
| // the process — leaves a durable card with no speaker behind it. Fall back | |
| // to the member that raised it, and answer even when that member is gone: | |
| // answerRequest closes an unreachable card, and a pending approval owns | |
| // the composer, so a dead end here locks the room for good. | |
| const pending = store.messagesFor(threadId).find( | |
| (message) => | |
| message.card?.requestId === requestId && | |
| !message.card.answered && | |
| message.card.dismissed !== true, | |
| ); | |
| const owner = group | |
| ? (group.busyBotId ? store.bot(group.busyBotId) : undefined) ?? | |
| (pending?.from ? store.bot(pending.from.botId) : undefined) | |
| : store.botByThread(threadId); | |
| if (!owner && !pending) return json(res, 404, { error: "nothing is waiting on an answer in this conversation" }); | |
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner?.modelSelection.instanceId ?? "", requestId, behavior, body.message); |
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| const requestId = String(body.requestId); | |
| // peer-approval intercept (see /api/bots/:id/respond above). A peer card | |
| // belongs to the bus rather than to a speaker, so resolve it before we go | |
| // looking for one — a room between turns has no speaker to find. | |
| if (resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, requestId, behavior)) { | |
| return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome: behavior === "allow" ? "allowed-once" : "rejected" }); | |
| } | |
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner.modelSelection.instanceId, String(body.requestId), behavior, body.message); | |
| const group = store.groupByThread(threadId); | |
| // busyBotId is in-memory only, so an approval that outlives its turn — or | |
| // the process — leaves a durable card with no speaker behind it. Fall back | |
| // to the member that raised it, and answer even when that member is gone: | |
| // answerRequest closes an unreachable card, and a pending approval owns | |
| // the composer, so a dead end here locks the room for good. | |
| const pending = store.messagesFor(threadId).find((message) => message.card?.requestId === requestId); | |
| const owner = group | |
| ? (group.busyBotId ? store.bot(group.busyBotId) : undefined) ?? | |
| (pending?.from ? store.bot(pending.from.botId) : undefined) | |
| : store.botByThread(threadId); | |
| if (!owner && !pending) return json(res, 404, { error: "nothing is waiting on an answer in this conversation" }); | |
| const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner?.modelSelection.instanceId ?? "", requestId, behavior, body.message); | |
| const messageId = askMessageByRequest.get(`${threadId}:${requestId}`); | |
| const thread = store.messagesFor(threadId); | |
| const existing = messageId | |
| ? thread.find((m) => m.id === messageId) | |
| : thread.find( | |
| (m) => | |
| m.card?.requestId === requestId && | |
| !m.card.answered && | |
| m.card.dismissed !== true, | |
| ); |
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 3113 - 3132, Filter durable approval lookups to
cards that are still pending by requiring unanswered and not dismissed state.
Apply this to the pending lookup near server/index.ts lines 3113-3132 and the
fallback lookup near lines 417-424; update server/index.test.ts lines 585-590 to
submit the settled request again and assert a 404. Preserve answerRequest
behavior for genuinely pending approvals.
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A room member's turn was stopped by a flat wall-clock timer, even while it was actively streaming and even while an approval card sat open — taking longer than the ceiling to answer a question manufactured the stranded-approval state #274 had to repair. Room turns now run their configured budget as work time: the clock holds from request.opened to request.resolved and resumes where it left off. Streaming and tool runs still burn the budget; a turn that goes silent is still caught by the stall watchdog. Fixes #289.
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What happens
A room approval card that outlives its turn locks the room permanently. Every button on the card fails, and because a pending approval takes over the composer, there is no way to type past it either. Restarting the app does not help — the card is durable, so it comes back.
I hit this in a room with a real pending
Bashapproval: after quitting and reopening the app, Allow / Always allow / Deny / Cancel turn all did nothing, and the room could not be used again.Why
A room resolves the bot behind an approval through
group.busyBotId. That field is deliberately in-memory only —saveGroupsstrips it on write and load sets it tonull:The card, though, is persisted. So any approval that outlives its turn — a finished turn, or a restart — leaves a durable card whose speaker is gone, and
/api/threads/:id/respond404s on the!ownergate.A 1:1 does not have this problem: it resolves through
store.botByThread(), a structural lookup that always succeeds. That asymmetry is the bug.Two things compound it:
!ownergate sits above the peer-approval intercept, so peer cards — which belong to the bus and need no speaker at all — are unreachable in a room too.answerRequestalready knows how to close an approval it cannot deliver (marks the cardunavailable+ dismissed and says so in the transcript), but it finds the card only throughaskMessageByRequest, which is memory-only. After a restart it appends the notice without dismissing the card, so the composer stays blocked even once the route is reachable.The change
busyBotIdis gone, fall back to the member named by the card'sfrom.answerRequestso the card is closed out rather than stranding the room. A thread with nothing pending still gets the 404.answerRequestfalls back to finding the card by the request it carries when the in-flight map has been lost.Server-only; no UI changes, no new dependencies.
Testing
New API test seeds a room whose transcript holds a pending approval with no
busyBotId— the restart case — and asserts the answer lands, the card is dismissed, and a room with nothing pending still 404s. It fails onmainwithexpected 404 to be 200.pnpm typecheckcleanpnpm test: 1073 passed.server/drivers/codex-catalog.test.tsfails identically onmainon this machine (it reads the locally installedcodexmodel catalog) — unrelated to this change.oxlint server/index.tsreports the same rule counts before and after.Follow-up (not in this PR)
POST /api/groups/:id/interrupthas the same root cause in its own way — withbusyBotIdnull,instanceisundefined, soinstance?.adapter.interruptTurn(...)is a no-op while the route still returns200 {ok:true}. That is why "Cancel turn" fails silently where the others at least surface an error. Kept out to keep this PR to one concern; happy to send it separately.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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