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fix(rooms): hold the turn ceiling while a human decides - #410

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Fixes #289 — the sharper half, in the direction that issue's fallback suggests and that #284 already committed to: keep the configurable room ceiling, but stop counting time the turn spends parked on a person.

What changes

The room timer is no longer a bare setTimeout over wall time. RoomTurnDeadline (in server/room-turn-timeout.ts, replacing scheduleRoomTurnTimeout) runs the configured budget as work time:

  • request.opened on the room thread holds the clock; however long the human takes to answer an approval or question, none of it counts.
  • request.resolved resumes the budget where it left off.
  • Streaming, tool runs, and provider latency still burn the budget exactly as before, so a busy-but-slow member still hits the same configured ceiling.
  • A turn that goes silent entirely remains the stall watchdog's job (OMB_TURN_STALL_MS, waiting-on-human exempt) — unchanged.

The wiring lives in the existing bus subscription inside runGroupMemberTurn; nothing else about room turn settlement (busy state, chained mentions, stall grace release) moves. Requests are counted with a clamping depth rather than a boolean, because stale request.resolved events can arrive for cards a given turn never opened.

Why this shape

#284 chose to keep a hard, configurable ceiling for rooms rather than delete it in favor of the watchdog. Given that, this PR takes #289's minimum ask: exempting the wait-on-human window stops the cap from manufacturing stranded approval cards — the exact state #274/#292 had to build recovery paths for. The timeout note itself is unchanged and stays truthful: it now fires after N minutes of actual work.

Tests

  • server/room-turn-timeout.test.ts: deadline precision, cancel-on-settle, hold/resume across one and several sequential approvals (only the last resolve re-arms), stale resolves ignored without firing early, stop() during a held clock, plus the existing stall-registry and message-formatting coverage.
  • pnpm typecheck clean; full pnpm test green (162 files, 1,693 passed, 12 skipped).
  • Note: pnpm lint fails on current main independent of this branch (pre-existing anti-slop findings in driver files untouched here); the files in this PR lint clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Turn timeouts now pause while awaiting human approval or responses and resume afterward.
    • Prevented stale, duplicate, or canceled timeout actions from completing turns incorrectly.
    • Timed-out turns now record the timeout and finish with a clear timed-out result.
    • Overdue turns now time out immediately when active work resumes, improving consistency for delayed interactions.

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 milind-soni#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 milind-soni#289.
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Room turn timeout handling now uses RoomTurnDeadline. The deadline measures active work, pauses during approval or question requests, resumes after resolution, and completes timed-out turns with a timed_out outcome.

Changes

Room Turn Deadline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pausable deadline implementation
server/room-turn-timeout.ts
Adds RoomTurnDeadline with active-time tracking, human-request holds, idempotent expiry, and cancellation.
Room turn integration
server/index.ts
Starts and stops the deadline around room turns. Approval and question events pause or resume it. Timeout handling interrupts the provider, records activity, and completes the turn as timed_out.
Deadline lifecycle validation
server/room-turn-timeout.test.ts
Tests pause and resume behavior, nested holds, stale resolutions, cancellation, and cleanup after timeout.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 12701

The room turn ceiling now pauses while awaiting human decisions and resumes afterward; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RoomTurn
  participant RoomTurnDeadline
  participant HumanRequestEvents
  participant Provider
  RoomTurn->>RoomTurnDeadline: start()
  HumanRequestEvents->>RoomTurnDeadline: pause for approval or question
  RoomTurnDeadline-->>Provider: hold active-work timer
  HumanRequestEvents->>RoomTurnDeadline: resume after resolution
  RoomTurnDeadline->>RoomTurn: report timeout
  RoomTurn->>Provider: interrupt turn
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: pausing the room turn ceiling while waiting for human decisions.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation preserves the configurable ceiling, pauses it during human requests, and retains active-work and stall-watchdog behavior required by issue #289.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code and tests are limited to room turn deadline behavior, human-request holds, settlement safety, and related regression coverage.
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In `@server/room-turn-timeout.ts`:
- Around line 64-68: Update RoomTurnTimeout.hold() to expire immediately after
subtracting elapsed time when remainingMs is zero or negative, before clearing
or pausing the timer; preserve normal holding behavior for positive budgets. Add
a regression test covering request.opened being processed after the active-work
budget has already elapsed and verifying immediate expiry.
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Comment thread server/room-turn-timeout.ts
A delayed event loop could deliver request.opened after the deadline
had already passed but before the timer callback ran; hold() then
recorded a negative remaining budget and expiry waited on the human's
answer, letting their wait extend a ceiling that had already run out.
The clock now expires immediately when a hold lands past the deadline,
with a regression test for that ordering.
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Addressed the review finding in 1270104: hold() now expires immediately when the card event lands after the deadline already passed, so a human's wait can never extend an exhausted budget. Added a regression test that advances the clock past the deadline without running timer callbacks, opens the card, and asserts exactly one expiry.

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Room turns are capped at a flat 5 minutes, even while streaming and even while parked on an approval

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