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Problem

When the selected model could not be constructed at startup — most notably a managed account whose token expired and needs reauthenticationrunWebServer aborted (or, for cloud providers, degraded to a nil agent). Either way the settings UI served by this same process became unreachable, so the desktop shell had no path to recover: the user could not reauthenticate or switch models.

Solution

Model availability no longer gates the control plane:

  • Startup never aborts on agent construction failure (internal/command/web.go): keep the selected provider/model and log; the settings UI, /api/health, and provider-auth recovery endpoints stay reachable.
  • Lazy retry before each send (Engine.ensureAgentAvailable): a degraded engine retries agent construction before the next message, serialized with the normal model/mode rebuild paths so a successful recovery cannot overwrite a concurrent user selection.
  • Fail-closed, never silent fallback: if the selected model still cannot be built, the send fails with an actionable error — the engine never executes on a different model.
  • submitMessage now returns (sessionID, error): chat, set-goal, automation runs, and SubmitMessage map failures to HTTP 503, and the running claim is released so the session is not wedged behind a false "already processing" conflict.

Testing

  • internal/command/web_unavailable_model_test.go — end-to-end regression: with a managed account flagged requires_reauth, the server starts, /api/health and the provider-auth status endpoint respond, chat returns 503 with the reauthentication error twice in a row (proving the running claim is released), and shutdown is clean.
  • internal/web/engine_availability_test.goensureAgentAvailable fails on the first attempt, succeeds after the provider recovers, and skips rebuilding once an agent exists.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Web startup remains available when an agent cannot be created immediately.
    • Agent creation retries automatically when the provider becomes available.
    • Chat and automation requests now report service-unavailable errors instead of continuing after setup failures.
    • Goal kickoff requests stop cleanly and return an appropriate error when message submission fails.
    • Managed-account reauthentication flows remain accessible, while chat requests clearly indicate when authentication must be restored.

…able

When the selected model could not be constructed at startup (e.g. a
managed account whose token expired), the web server aborted before the
settings UI, /api/health, and provider-auth recovery endpoints were
reachable — leaving the desktop shell with no way to recover.

- runWebServer no longer aborts on agent construction failure: it keeps
  the selected provider/model and logs, so the control plane stays up
  for reauthentication and model changes.
- Engine.ensureAgentAvailable lazily retries agent construction before
  the next send. It is fail-closed: it never falls back to a different
  model silently, and rebuilds are serialized with the normal
  model/mode switch paths.
- submitMessage returns an error instead of assuming success; chat,
  set-goal, automation runs, and SubmitMessage now surface HTTP 503
  with an actionable message and release the running claim on failure,
  so a degraded engine cannot wedge the session behind "processing".
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Pull request: #193 · fix(web): keep control plane available when selected model is unavailable

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📒 Files selected for processing (4)
  • internal/command/web.go
  • internal/command/web_unavailable_model_test.go
  • internal/web/chat.go
  • internal/web/engine_availability_test.go
🚧 Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes (2)
  • internal/command/web.go
  • internal/command/web_unavailable_model_test.go

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Walkthrough

The web server now starts without an available agent, retains the selected model, and retries agent creation on demand. Submission failures propagate through chat, goal, automation, and WeChat paths with appropriate responses and cleanup.

Changes

Web agent recovery and submission handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lazy agent availability
internal/command/web.go, internal/web/engine.go, internal/web/engine_availability_test.go
Startup retains unavailable provider and model selections. Engine.ensureAgentAvailable retries agent creation and stores recovered agents.
Submission error propagation
internal/web/chat.go, internal/web/approval.go, internal/web/automation_run.go, internal/command/web.go
Submission paths now return errors separately from busy responses. Chat and goal kickoff return HTTP 503. Automation removes the engine after submission failure. WeChat sends error or busy notifications.
Managed-account reauthentication regression
internal/command/web_unavailable_model_test.go, internal/web/engine_availability_test.go
Tests verify control-plane availability, authentication status, repeated chat failures, agent recovery retries, cleanup, and graceful shutdown.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 90003

The change keeps the control plane available when a selected model is unavailable and returns actionable service errors without silent fallback. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WebServer
  participant submitMessage
  participant Engine
  participant Provider
  WebServer->>submitMessage: Submit chat or kickoff message
  submitMessage->>Engine: ensureAgentAvailable
  Engine->>Provider: Create selected model agent
  Provider-->>Engine: Agent or authentication error
  Engine-->>submitMessage: Availability result
  submitMessage-->>WebServer: Session ID and error
  WebServer-->>WebServer: Return HTTP 503 on error
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Possibly related PRs

  • cnjack/jcode#137: Both modify web chat, engine, and automation paths for agent and recorder initialization.
  • cnjack/jcode#186: Both handle managed-provider authentication failures during web agent creation.
  • cnjack/jcode#103: Both modify the model-construction path in internal/command/web.go.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/command/web_unavailable_model_test.go`:
- Around line 83-84: Replace the direct http.Get/http.Post calls in the test
with a shared http.Client configured with a finite timeout, and use it for both
the status and chat requests. Keep the existing request URLs and response
handling unchanged.

In `@internal/web/chat.go`:
- Line 395: Update the recorder initialization flow around both
session.NewRecorder calls to check and wrap each returned error before using
recorder.UUID(). On either failure, release the running claim, return a
descriptive fmt.Errorf-wrapped error, and ensure the run does not start or
dereference a nil recorder.
- Around line 161-162: Update SubmitMessage and its caller in
internal/command/web.go so failures from the direct s.submitMessage path are
propagated as an error instead of being reduced to a discarded false result.
Preserve successful submissions, and handle the returned error at the channel
boundary with the existing response or acknowledgement mechanism.
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  • internal/command/web.go
  • internal/command/web_unavailable_model_test.go
  • internal/web/approval.go
  • internal/web/automation_run.go
  • internal/web/chat.go
  • internal/web/engine.go
  • internal/web/engine_availability_test.go

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No findings were confirmed before review stopped. This is not a clean result.

Summary

Clean. The PR keeps the web/Desktop control plane available when the selected model's agent cannot be constructed at startup (e.g., a managed account needing reauthentication). ensureAgentAvailable uses a correct double-check locking pattern (emu fast-path, then rebuildMu, then emu re-check) whose rebuildMu->emu ordering is consistent with all existing model/mode/role rebuild paths. submitMessage now returns an error and retries agent construction before any history/recorder mutation; all four callers (handleChat, SubmitMessage, handleSetGoal, runAutomation) release the running claim and propagate the error correctly. This also closes a pre-existing nil-agent hazard: previously a cloud provider whose model was unavailable at boot started with agent=nil and would pass nil into runner.Run. The single runner.Run call site is now guarded by ensureAgentAvailable. Verified: go build ./... ok, go vet ok, internal/web and internal/command test suites pass including the two new regression tests.

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  • read full diff at .git/jcode-review.diff
  • read internal/web/engine.go ensureAgentAvailable + applyModelSwitch + agentRevision writes
  • read internal/web/chat.go submitMessage and all submitMessage callers
  • read internal/web/approval.go handleSetGoal and internal/web/automation_run.go runAutomation
  • read internal/command/web.go buildWebTask createAgent + newChatModel
  • grepped rebuildMu usages (14 paths) confirming rebuildMu->emu lock order is consistent
  • grepped eng.agent / e.agent reads confirming nil can never revert once set
  • grepped runner.Run confirming single call site guarded by ensureAgentAvailable
  • read internal/providerauth/store.go confirming requires_reauth checked before token refresh
  • go build ./... exit 0
  • go vet ./internal/web/... ./internal/command/... exit 0
  • go test ./internal/web/ and ./internal/command/ (incl. new tests) pass

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Summary

The PR keeps the web control plane alive when the selected model cannot be built (startup no longer aborts; agent creation is retried lazily per send) and surfaces degraded-channel submission errors instead of swallowing them. Verified no regressions: build, vet, the two new regression tests, and the full internal/web + internal/command + internal/channel suites pass; lock ordering (rebuildMu→emu), running-flag release on every new error path, plan-mode preservation through lazy recovery, and the recorder build-before-close reordering all check out. No verified defects at ≥80% confidence.

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  • Installed Go 1.25.8 to ~/.local/go; ran go generate ./internal/model/... and created stub internal/web/dist/index.html (no pnpm in env, per project memory)
  • go build ./... — PASS (all packages compile with the new (string, error) submitMessage signature and SubmitMessage contract)
  • go test ./internal/web/ -run 'TestEnsureAgentAvailable|TestSubmitMessage' -v — PASS (lazy recovery retry + running-flag release verified)
  • go test ./internal/command/ -run 'TestRunWebServerManagedReauthKeepsControlPlaneAvailable' -v — PASS (control plane stays up; both degraded chat attempts return 503 with 'requires reauthentication', proving the running claim is released)
  • go test ./internal/web/ -count=1 — PASS (full package, includes mode/computer/mcp lifecycle concurrency tests exercising rebuildMu paths)
  • go test ./internal/command/ ./internal/channel/ -count=1 — PASS; go vet on both — clean
  • Lock ordering rebuildMu→emu traced across engine.go, automation_run.go, models.go, agents.go, activation.go, skills.go, setup.go, approval.go — no reverse ordering, no deadlock
  • running-flag release present on all five new submitMessage error paths; runGen untouched; all CAS callers (handleChat, handleSetGoal, SubmitMessage, runAutomation) verified consistent
  • Plan-mode preservation verified: per-task createAgent closure reads currentPlanMode, initialized from the engine's modeStr and updated only under rebuildMu by rebuildForMode (web.go:899/957/972, models.go:400-467, activation.go:311)
  • session.NewRecorder (session.go:652) always returns a non-nil recorder and never errors, so the new recorder-error 503 paths are defensive only — no behavior change
  • Cloud connector (internal/cloud/connector.go:778-797) converts non-2xx /api/chat into an error result rather than crashing; web/src/lib/api.ts surfaces the JSON error body to the composer
  • Workspace grep: only caller of Server.SubmitMessage is the wechat handler in internal/command/web.go

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