feat(gateway): surface tool output previews and structured rendering

[serrrfirat]

Summary

• Tool output previews: Engine v2 tool calls now show output preview in expandable tool cards (was empty before). Added output_preview field to ActionExecuted events, emitting ToolResult from both the SSE and channel paths.
• Duration fix: Sub-millisecond tools show "< 1ms" instead of "0.0s" by parsing server-side duration_ms from the parameters field.
• Structured JSON rendering: Tool output that is JSON renders as HTML tables (for arrays) or key-value pairs (for objects) instead of raw text.
• Mission created card: New AppEvent::MissionCreated with dedicated frontend card (name, status badge, cadence, project) following the PlanUpdate pattern.

Closes #2537
Closes #2545

Test plan

• cargo check — compiles clean
• cargo test -p ironclaw_common — 23 tests pass (includes new MissionCreated variant in event_type_matches_serde_type_field)
• Manual: run gateway with engine v2, execute tool calls, verify output previews appear in expandable cards
• Manual: verify sub-millisecond tools show "< 1ms" instead of "0.0s"
• Manual: call mission_create, verify styled card appears instead of raw JSON
• Manual: call mission_list, verify table rendering in tool output

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request introduces a new "Approval Panel" in the web UI to manage self-improvement mission proposals and behavior changes. It adds structured event types for mission creation and change resolution, implements a daily reset for mission thread budgets, and enhances tool output display with truncated previews and structured table/key-value rendering. Additionally, it ensures learning missions are initialized for users upon request and improves attachment persistence tracking. Feedback focuses on improving security by avoiding innerHTML for dynamic data, ensuring consistent use of the apiFetch wrapper, and refining the display of object data in tooltips.

[gemini-code-assist]

The sendChangeResolution function uses the native fetch API directly instead of the apiFetch wrapper used elsewhere in the codebase (e.g., line 2157). apiFetch likely handles base URL configuration, authentication headers, and global error reporting consistently. Bypassing it can lead to maintenance issues and inconsistent behavior if the API configuration changes.

  apiFetch('/api/chat/change/resolve', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({ request_id: requestId, resolution: resolution })
  }).then(function(r) {

[gemini-code-assist]

Using innerHTML with dynamic data from the server poses a potential Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) risk. While mission_id is expected to be a UUID, it is safer to use textContent for dynamic values to ensure they are treated as plain text and not parsed as HTML.

    var idRow = document.createElement('div');
    idRow.className = 'mission-card-detail';
    var label = document.createElement('span');
    label.className = 'mission-detail-label';
    label.textContent = 'ID';
    var value = document.createElement('span');
    value.className = 'mission-detail-value';
    value.textContent = data.mission_id.substring(0, 8);
    idRow.appendChild(label);
    idRow.appendChild(value);
    details.appendChild(idRow);

[gemini-code-assist]

Using innerHTML with data.cadence is unsafe as it could contain malicious HTML if the server response is compromised or manipulated. Prefer using textContent for the dynamic value.

    var cadenceRow = document.createElement('div');
    cadenceRow.className = 'mission-card-detail';
    var label = document.createElement('span');
    label.className = 'mission-detail-label';
    label.textContent = I18n.t('missions.cadence');
    var value = document.createElement('span');
    value.className = 'mission-detail-value';
    value.textContent = data.cadence;
    cadenceRow.appendChild(label);
    cadenceRow.appendChild(value);
    details.appendChild(cadenceRow);

[gemini-code-assist]

When setting the title attribute for a table cell, using String(val) on an object will result in the unhelpful string "[object Object]". Since this code already handles JSON objects for the cell content, it should also stringify them for the tooltip to provide a useful preview of the full data.

Suggested change

	td.title = String(arr[r][keys[c]]);
	td.title = (typeof val === 'object' && val !== null) ? JSON.stringify(val) : String(val);

[serrrfirat]

Review feedback addressed

All 4 comments from @gemini-code-assist resolved:

#	Finding	Fix
1-2	XSS: innerHTML with data.mission_id / data.cadence / data.project_id in renderMissionCreatedCard	Replaced with DOM textContent (commit 08ba436)
3	sendChangeResolution uses raw fetch instead of apiFetch	Switched to apiFetch for consistent auth/OIDC handling (commit 4ab30d6)
4	Table cell title shows [object Object] for object values	Use JSON.stringify for object tooltips (commit 4ab30d6)

Also added 7 unit tests for truncate_output_preview covering null, empty, long strings, emoji UTF-8 boundaries, and CJK characters.

[henrypark133]

Review: current head does not compile

The gateway/event UX additions are substantial, but the current head is blocked by a test that does not compile against the checked-in router test harness.

Critical: the new router attachment test references stale test APIs and breaks cargo clippy --all --all-features

File: src/bridge/router.rs:5862
The added handle_with_engine_persists_attachment_files_and_indexes_them test uses symbols and fields that do not exist in this branch: CWD_TEST_LOCK, CurrentDirGuard, EngineState.project_root, and IncomingAttachment.local_path (see the same block through src/bridge/router.rs:5887). CI is failing on this exact test code, so the PR cannot merge in its current form.
Suggested fix: Rewrite the test against the current router test helpers and current IncomingAttachment / EngineState shapes, or drop the stale assertions from this PR.

[serrrfirat]

Addressed review feedback:

• Removed the stale handle_with_engine_persists_attachment_files_and_indexes_them router test in src/bridge/router.rs that referenced APIs/types no longer present on this branch (CWD_TEST_LOCK, CurrentDirGuard, EngineState.project_root, IncomingAttachment.local_path).
• Re-verified the compile blocker is resolved with CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/ironclaw-target cargo test --lib --no-run.
• Re-ran cargo clippy --all --benches --tests --examples --all-features and bash scripts/pre-commit-safety.sh.

Note: cargo test --lib still reports unrelated failures in untouched areas outside this fix.

[ilblackdragon]

Code Review

Overview

The PR description advertises four changes (tool-output previews, sub-ms duration, JSON table/KV rendering, mission-created card). The actual diff is ~1,237 LOC across 15 files and bundles several undeclared changes: a new right-sidebar approval panel (badge, panel, mobile overlay, keyboard shortcuts, ~300 lines of CSS), change-proposal accept/reject flow, a feedback field on SkillActivated, a daily-thread counter reset fix, and a behavioral change to let Completed event-driven missions re-fire.

Scope / Structure

• Half-wired feature. The UI listens for change_proposed/change_resolved (app.js:1615-1625) and posts to /api/chat/change/resolve, but I don't see that endpoint or any AppEvent::ChangeProposed emitter in this diff. If the backend side is planned for a follow-up, drop the UI half until the backend is ready — otherwise the buttons 404 and the SSE listener is dead.

Correctness

crates/ironclaw_engine/src/runtime/mission.rs — daily-thread reset (fire_one)

• Good catch on the latent bug — the comment flagged a "reset daily by the cron ticker" that never existed.
• Silent let _ = ...save_mission is defensible given the comment, but there's no test. Add an integration-tier test covering the path mission.threads_today == max && last_fire_at.date < today → fires, per CLAUDE.md's "Test Through the Caller" rule.
• The UTC-day boundary means a mission capped at 5/day in a user's local evening will only reset around their mid-afternoon (depending on TZ). That may be acceptable, but calling it out explicitly in the comment would help.

mission.rs — allow Completed event-driven missions to fire

Logic is duplicated between fire_one (is_event_driven check) and tick_due (extra match arm). Extract into impl Mission { fn can_fire_when_terminal(&self) -> bool } to keep the invariant in one place. Without that, the next cadence variant added will need two edits and likely diverge.

crates/ironclaw_engine/src/types/event.rs — truncate_output_preview

• Implementation and UTF-8 tests are solid.
• max_len is measured in bytes (s.len()), not chars. The function is fine, but the call sites hardcode 500 four times. Extract a const OUTPUT_PREVIEW_MAX_BYTES: usize = 500; in one place.
• other.to_string() serializes non-string JSON via Display (compact serde_json). Worth a one-line comment that callers get compact JSON, not pretty-printed.

src/bridge/effect_adapter.rs — MissionCreated broadcast

• sse.broadcast_for_user(...) is called without .await; verify it's a sync enqueue. If it returns a future, it's silently dropped.
• status_str = "created" | "created_with_warnings" stringly-typed. Consider an enum serialized via serde.

src/bridge/router.rs — handle_expected learning-mission ensure

The ensure_learning_missions(user_project_id, &message.user_id) call is the right fix for non-owner users getting "no self-improvement missions configured." Two things:

• Failure is logged at debug! and then execution falls through to a mission-fire attempt that will also fail. Consider short-circuiting with an explicit user-facing error rather than a confusing "mission not found."
• This is a behavior change deserving a test at the router-handler tier; the diff adds none.

JavaScript / UI

• renderToolOutputContent calls JSON.parse on every tool output even when unlikely to be JSON. Cheap, but worth short-circuiting on outputs whose first non-space char isn't { or [.
• Table textContent.length > 120 truncation uses .substring(0, 117) + '...' — JS strings are UTF-16 code units. Emoji/surrogate-pair cells will occasionally get split on a surrogate boundary producing a lone surrogate. Use Array.from(str).slice(0, 117).join('') or equivalent.
• Selector hardening (#approval-panel-body .approval-card[...]) — the change from bare .approval-card to a scoped selector is correct, but any e2e test that selected .approval-card without the prefix will now miss. Please grep tests/e2e/ and update.
• keydown handler with y/n/a shortcuts fires any time an approval panel is open even if focus is on a non-input element elsewhere; be aware it'll swallow those keys for anyone reading chat content with a keyboard.
• 30s fallback setTimeout in showMissionProgress covers a "subscribe-after-spawn race" — the code comment is honest about this being a patch over a real bug. Add a follow-up issue to fix the race properly; fallback timers that mask races tend to outlive the race they were masking.
• i18n parity: approvalPanel.* keys are in en/ko/zh-CN but the project also ships ja and ru. Confirm those locales exist as JS files and add keys, or you'll break their pages.

Test coverage

• truncate_output_preview: good unit coverage.
• event_type_matches_serde_type_field: updated for new variants — good.
• Missing:
  • No test for the mission day-reset path (budget exhausted yesterday → fires today).
  • No test for Completed event-driven missions firing again on new events.
  • No test for ensure_learning_missions in handle_expected.
  • No browser/e2e coverage of the approval panel or structured-JSON rendering.
  • Per CLAUDE.md: "unit test on the helper alone is not sufficient regression coverage" when a gate controls a side effect — the budget gate decides whether a mission fires (a side effect), so fire_one needs integration coverage.

Security

• /api/chat/change/resolve POST — confirm it exists and validates request_id ownership (same user, same thread). Not visible in this diff.
• renderJsonTable/renderJsonKeyValue use textContent throughout (good — no XSS vector from user-controlled tool output).

Minor

• AppEvent::SkillActivated { feedback: Vec<String> }: added everywhere as empty. If nothing actually populates it in this PR, it's dead shape. Either wire up a producer or hold off on shipping the field.

Recommendation

Primary asks:

1. Either wire change_proposed/change_resolved end-to-end in this PR, or remove the UI listeners.
2. Add integration test coverage for the two mission-manager behavior changes.
3. Extract the 500 literal and the can_fire_when_terminal predicate.
4. Confirm /api/chat/change/resolve endpoint exists and authorizes by user.
5. Fix UTF-16 surrogate-pair truncation in renderJsonTable.
6. i18n parity for ja/ru.

[ilblackdragon]

Merged origin/staging and folded in the review fixes. Single commit on top of the existing merge — full summary in the commit message.

What changed vs the previous push

Frontend (staging split app.js/style.css into per-surface modules in #2683, so the PR's additions had to be redistributed):

• Structured tool-output rendering (renderToolOutputContent, renderJsonTable, renderJsonKeyValue) moved into js/core/tool-activity.js. Adds a JSON.parse short-circuit when the trimmed text doesn't start with { or [, and uses Array.from + slice for cell-text truncation so emoji/CJK never get split mid-character.
• mission_created SSE listener lives in js/core/sse.js; renderMissionCreatedCard lives in js/core/onboarding.js. Supporting CSS in styles/surfaces/missions.css and styles/surfaces/activity.css.

Dropped from the PR (backing out the half-wired pieces I flagged in review):

• AppEvent::ChangeProposed / ChangeResolved and the change_proposed / change_resolved UI listeners. Nothing emits these server-side in this PR, so keeping the wire types around is a contract with no producer. Better as a follow-up once the backend lands.
• The right-sidebar approval-panel redesign (badge, panel, mobile overlay, keyboard shortcuts, mission-progress card). It collides with staging's modular chat layout and isn't needed for the advertised scope. Staging still renders approvals inline from .approval-card in chat.css.

Rust fixes:

• MissionCreated.status is now a proper MissionCreatedStatus enum (Created / CreatedWithWarnings) per the typed-internals rule, instead of String.
• Extracted OUTPUT_PREVIEW_MAX_BYTES = 500 const in ironclaw_engine::types::event; all four call sites (orchestrator ×2, scripting, structured) reference the const.
• Docstring for truncate_output_preview spells out that max_len is bytes and that non-string JSON is serialized via compact Display.
• handle_expected tracks whether ensure_learning_missions failed so the fallback message distinguishes "no missions configured" from "self-improvement temporarily unavailable" — without leaking internal error text per the error-boundary rule.
• broadcast_for_user confirmed sync (not awaited — by design).

Tests:

• Staging already has completed_event_driven_mission_can_fire, failed_event_driven_mission_cannot_fire, threads_today_resets_on_new_day, and is_event_driven_classification covering the PR's mission-manager behavior changes — no new tests required.
• Local cargo test -p ironclaw_common --lib (67 passed) and cargo test -p ironclaw_engine --lib mission (97 passed) green.
• cargo check --all-features and cargo clippy --all --benches --tests --examples --all-features clean.
• Four extensions::manager::tests::install_from_local_source_* failures on the full cargo test --lib are pre-existing and unrelated — they need the portfolio artifact to be built (you called this out earlier).

Ready for another look.

[ilblackdragon]

CI note: GitHub blocked the full pull_request workflows (code_style, clippy, tests, replay-gate, regression-test-check, claude-review) on my push 314dacb5. Only the four meta pull_request_target jobs (scope labels, classify, release-plz summary, staging promotion) fired — these show as green but don't exercise the actual build. This is standard behavior when a contributor other than the PR author pushes to the head branch: the workflows need an "Approve and run" click from @serrrfirat or a maintainer.

Local verification that I did run to confirm the push is clean:

• cargo check --all-features — passes
• cargo clippy --all --benches --tests --examples --all-features — zero warnings
• cargo fmt — applied
• cargo test -p ironclaw_common --lib — 67/67 pass
• cargo test -p ironclaw_engine --lib mission — 97/97 pass

The pre-existing extensions::manager::install_from_local_source_* failures on the full cargo test --lib need the portfolio artifact built (they're unrelated to this PR, and the author already called that out earlier in this thread).

Once a maintainer approves the workflows, the real code_style / clippy / replay-gate / regression-test-check runs should confirm the green state.

[serrrfirat]

Closing as superseded by #2555, #2452, and #2182.\n\nThe core fixes for tool output visibility/timing, engine v2 tool-call persistence, and live/history tool-card correlation have landed elsewhere. The remaining pieces in this PR are stale relative to current staging and are better handled as focused follow-up PRs if still needed.