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What happens

Press Cancel turn on an approval card and the card stays. The composer stays blocked behind it, and the button that was supposed to be the way out has quietly made things worse.

Why

Cancel turn lives on the approval card itself, and Composer.tsx is explicit about what a pending approval does:

{/* An approval takes over the composer: you answer it before you
    can type again, so a waiting bot is impossible to miss. */}

The interrupt routes stop the turn but never touch the card the turn had raised. pendingApprovals decides what is open from the card alone:

.filter((m) => m.kind === "options" && m.card?.requestId && m.card.tool && !m.card.answered && !m.card.dismissed)

Nothing there knows whether a turn is running, so the card survives the interrupt. The process that asked the question is dead, so it can never be answered — and since the interrupt also clears busyBotId, the room ends up in exactly the stranded state where the card's own buttons have no speaker to resolve against. Pressing the escape hatch is what springs the trap.

The only place that closes an approval today is answerRequest's unavailable branch. Interrupts had no equivalent.

The change

A small closeOpenApprovals(threadId) that marks every still-open approval on a thread answered: "unavailable" + dismissed, the same way answerRequest marks one it cannot deliver, and drops its askMessageByRequest entry. Called from both interrupt routes — including the room thread a bot is busy on when it is stopped from its own 1:1 chat, which the route already reaches for the interrupt itself.

Server-only; no UI changes, no new dependencies.

Testing

New API test seeds a room holding an unanswered approval, calls POST /api/groups/:id/interrupt, and asserts the card is closed. It fails on main with expected undefined to be true.

  • pnpm typecheck clean
  • pnpm test: 1073 passed. server/drivers/codex-catalog.test.ts fails identically on main on this machine (it reads the locally installed codex model catalog) — unrelated.
  • pnpm test:packaged-server passes; oxlint server/index.ts reports the same rule counts before and after.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Interrupting a room or direct bot conversation now automatically closes unresolved approval requests.
    • Open approvals are marked as unavailable and dismissed when an active turn is interrupted.

"Cancel turn" is a button on the approval card itself, and a pending
approval takes over the composer — you answer it before you can type
again. But interrupting a turn only stopped the process; it never touched
the card the process had raised.

`pendingApprovals` filters on the card alone (`!answered && !dismissed`)
and knows nothing about whether a turn is running, so the card stays open
after the interrupt. The asker is gone, so it can never be answered — and
because the interrupt also clears `busyBotId`, the room lands in exactly
the stranded state where nothing on the card resolves. Pressing the escape
hatch is what springs the trap.

Close every open approval on a thread we interrupt, marking it the same
way `answerRequest` marks one it cannot deliver. Applies to both interrupt
routes, including the room thread a bot is busy on when stopped from its
own chat.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The change adds thread-level approval cleanup for room and bot interruptions. It marks unresolved approvals as dismissed and unavailable, removes their request mappings, and adds an API test for room cancellation.

Changes

Approval interruption cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Interrupt cleanup implementation and wiring
server/index.ts
closeOpenApprovals closes unresolved approvals and removes pending request mappings. Group and bot interruption endpoints invoke it.
Cancellation fixture and endpoint validation
server/index.test.ts
The test fixture contains an unanswered Bash approval card. The cancellation test verifies dismissed: true and answered: "unavailable".

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d8896

If stopping a turn fails in a direct conversation, its approval card can remain open and continue blocking the composer, leaving the conversation unable to proceed. The cleanup should run even when interruption reports an error before this change is merge-ready.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InterruptEndpoint
  participant closeOpenApprovals
  participant ApprovalCard
  participant RequestMappings
  InterruptEndpoint->>closeOpenApprovals: interrupt active turn
  closeOpenApprovals->>ApprovalCard: mark unresolved approval dismissed and unavailable
  closeOpenApprovals->>RequestMappings: remove pending request mapping
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Suggested reviewers: milind-soni, aivsomkar, claude

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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 3148-3149: Update the direct-thread interrupt flow around
instance.adapter.interruptTurn so closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId) always
executes even when interruptTurn rejects, matching the room-branch
error-handling behavior or using a finally block.
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Comment thread server/index.ts
Comment on lines 3148 to +3149
await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(bot.threadId);
closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Ensure direct-thread cleanup runs after an interrupt failure.

Line 3148 does not catch a rejected interruptTurn call. The route exits before Line 3149 runs. Open approvals on the bot thread then remain unanswered.

Handle the rejection as the room branch does, or run closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId) in a finally block.

Proposed fix
-      await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(bot.threadId);
+      await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(bot.threadId).catch(() => {});
       closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId);
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await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(bot.threadId);
closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId);
await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(bot.threadId).catch(() => {});
closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId);
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 3148 - 3149, Update the direct-thread interrupt
flow around instance.adapter.interruptTurn so closeOpenApprovals(bot.threadId)
always executes even when interruptTurn rejects, matching the room-branch
error-handling behavior or using a finally block.

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Good catch, thanks. Really appreciate it!

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Superseded by #292, which includes the corrected implementation and has been merged into main.

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