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What changes

Pressing another key (or Escape) while dictating used to discard the take. Now:

  • Cancelled takes are still saved and transcribed. A take with at least 0.25 s of audio is sealed and processed as usual. It is not pasted and does not update "Copy last message". History marks it Not pasted (delivery receipt cancelled).
  • Undo window on the HUD. The pill shows Undo with a 4-second draining countdown ring. Clicking Undo or pressing the dictation key again pastes the take as if it had ended normally. Cancelling again, or starting a new take, closes the window early and keeps the take in history only. Cancelling a finished take that is still processing or still queued behind another delivery opens the same window.
  • Transcription can be redone. New POST /v1/generations/{id}/retry puts a failed or cancelled recording with sealed audio back on the processing queue. History has a Transcribe again button for those records. The server also retries a failed transcription once on its own before marking the recording failed.

Takes shorter than 0.25 s (which the server rejects) and takes cancelled while still starting are discarded as before.

Implementation notes

  • Each PendingDictation has a TakeDeliveryGate. The take commits to pasting only when its delivery is about to start, after earlier deliveries finish. Stopping or failing a take resolves its gate and clears the undo UI, so the delivery chain never hangs.
  • A cancelled run no longer rewrites a record that a retry has queued again. A retry clears the previous run's output. enqueueProcessing removes only its own controller.
  • A take's input list context is saved privately as continuation-input.json when it is sealed. A retry formats lists exactly as the original run did. It is not exposed as an artifact.
  • One Escape can reach both the key listener and a focused view. A cancel that arrives within 0.3 s of opening the undo window is ignored, so the window isn't closed by the same keypress that opened it.
  • OpenAPI contract updated. TypeScript and Swift bindings regenerated.

Verification

  • swift build, bun run check, bun run lint, bun run fmt:check pass. CI is green.
  • Computer use in V07 Dev against an isolated bun run dev server with real whisper/Qwen helpers. Cancelling a microphone test kept the take out of the app's result area. History showed it as Completed · Not pasted with its transcript.
  • Not yet verified on screen: the pill's countdown and Undo click, and the Escape flow. Computer use could not target the floating pill, and the dev app lacked Accessibility/Input Monitoring for the global Escape listener. A quick manual check of the pill would be appreciated.
  • Unrelated upstream issue found while testing: after a source change, the bun run dev hot reload fails with "Another V07 server is already using this data directory" because the old process still holds the lock.

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Keep cancelled dictations in history with a 4-second undo window and retry endpoint

  • Cancelling a recording of at least 0.25s now uploads and processes it, but withholds the paste. The HUD shows a 4-second countdown with Undo to paste and Keep actions; after the window, the take is kept in history without pasting. Pressing the dictation key during the window performs the undo instead of starting a new take.
  • Adds a POST /v1/generations/{id}/retry endpoint (202/409/503) and a Transcribe again button in history for failed or cancelled non-imported records with saved inference audio. The server resets the record to queued, reuses saved continuation data, and makes one additional transcription attempt on non-aborted errors.
  • Adds a kept DictationDeliveryStatus shown as Saved to history, plus a countdown-ring undo view in the HUD.
  • Behavioral Change: cancelled takes under 0.25s are now discarded outright instead of entering the delivery pipeline; a stale processing run can no longer remove a newer retry's controller entry in enqueueProcessing in generation-service.ts.

Macroscope summarized e23595f.

RetriggerView in GreptileConfidence Score: 4/5

Changes are needed before merging: permanent transcription errors still delay later recordings by consuming an unnecessary second attempt. The separate list-context save concern is non-blocking.

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  1. P1 Permanent errors delay later recordings ▶
  2. P2 Retry can lose list context ▶
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### Issue 1
Server/src/generation-service.ts:1128-1130
When transcription rejects an unchanged request, this code attempts it again unless the recording was aborted. Processing is serial, so the unnecessary attempt holds up later recordings: an invalid-request error caused two failed attempts and increased the following recording’s queue wait from 250 ms to 497 ms. Skip permanent errors before merging so they cannot consume another turn in the queue.

### Issue 2
Server/src/generation-service.ts:705-709
If saving `continuation-input.json` fails, finishing the recording still succeeds, but a later “Transcribe again” has no saved list context. With the same audio, a retry started a numbered list at 1 instead of continuing at 2. This non-blocking concern means the user may have to correct the retried text.

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Summary

Cancelled recordings now stay in history without being pasted.

  • Cancelled takes stay in history with a short chance to paste.
  • History can transcribe eligible recordings again from saved audio.
  • The server retries a transcription once before marking it failed.

Previous comments 1–6 are addressed. Two previously reported concerns remain: permanent transcription errors are retried unnecessarily, delaying later recordings, and a failed list-context save can change the formatting of a later retry. The permanent-error retry issue must be fixed before merging; the list-context save concern is non-blocking.

The macOS HUD countdown, Undo click, and global Escape behavior remain unverified on screen.

Reviews (2) · Last reviewed commit: "chore: resolve conflicts with main" · Reviewed by Greptile

Cancelling a take that has usable audio no longer discards it. The
server still transcribes it into history, and the HUD shows a short
countdown with Undo to paste it after all; pressing the dictation key
also undoes. Recordings the server has sealed can be transcribed again
from history, and a failed transcription is attempted once more
automatically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds an API for retrying eligible failed or cancelled generations and adds a four-second undo window for qualifying cancelled dictation takes. A take can be delivered or kept in history without pasting. The client exposes retry actions in generation history.

Changes: Generation Retry and Cancellation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry endpoint and processing
Server/api/openapi.yaml, Server/src/http-server.ts, Server/src/generation-service.ts
Defines POST /v1/generations/{id}/retry and implements server-side validation, continuation persistence and reuse, queueing, and transcription retry handling.
Client retry and history
Sources/InlayAPIWire/Types+Operations.swift, Sources/InlayAPIWire/Types.swift, Sources/Inlay/ServerClient.swift, Sources/Inlay/InlayController.swift, Sources/Inlay/Views/HistoryPage.swift, docs/client-server-contract.md
Adds the generated API operation and client request. History can retry eligible failed or cancelled generations, and the contract documents the endpoint and retry conditions.
Cancelled take decision and delivery
Sources/Inlay/AppState.swift, Sources/Inlay/InlayController.swift
Adds a delivery gate and cancellation flow for qualifying takes. The gate allows a take to be delivered or retained in history without pasting.
Undo window and HUD
Sources/Inlay/InlayApp.swift, Sources/Inlay/Views/MenuHUDViews.swift
Keeps the panel and HUD expanded while the undo window is open. Adds undo and keep controls, a countdown, and status labels.

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 743b9

A failed transcription can delay later recordings, and a retry can lose list-continuation context after a storage failure. These behaviors should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e0af2

Cancelled recordings are now intentionally kept, but an interrupted client can leave a saved recording without the “Not pasted” outcome that explains what happened to it. The retry API also makes retained audio available for another processing run. Existing access controls limit who can use that API.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An interruption can leave a deliberately cancelled, retained take completed on the server without a cancelled delivery receipt. History then cannot show its “Not pasted” label, weakening the visibility of the new privacy-sensitive retention decision.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new retention path extends storage and processing of voice data to qualifying cancelled takes. Anyone already holding the server’s access authority and a generation UUID can invoke eligible retries; whether deployments share that authority between users is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Client interruption after sealing can cancel the receipt-producing task while the server finishes the recording. Because history labels a take “Not pasted” only when a cancelled receipt exists, the retained take can appear without that outcome. This is a lifecycle visibility risk, not evidence that the gate pastes an unapproved take.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The delivery gate blocks paste pending undo or discard, and insertion checks cancellation and destination state before dispatch. Retry additionally requires saved audio, an eligible terminal state, and an available speech service. These controls constrain the new paths but do not supply a missing delivery receipt after task teardown.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A cancellation after paste dispatch can also precede receipt submission, but the base client already cancelled its transcription task and checked cancellation between delivery and receipt. That timing risk is not independently attributed to this PR.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make the keep-without-paste decision recoverable across client interruption, so sealed cancelled takes can receive an accurate durable outcome even when the client task exits before sending its receipt.
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- Around line 734-739: Update the retry reset in the method containing
`record.status = "queued"` to clear per-run output before saving and enqueueing:
remove prior language, speech, text-processing, hint, rejection, list-control,
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Comment on lines +734 to +739
record.status = "queued";
delete record.error;
record.progress = 0;
record.updatedAt = now();
await this.save(record);
this.enqueueProcessing(record.id, undefined);

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P1 Old cancellation can erase retry

If a cancelled recording is retried while its original processing run is still unwinding, the old run’s abort handler can mark the newly queued record cancelled. The retry job then skips that terminal record, so “Transcribe again” does not transcribe it. The old run must be prevented from changing the new attempt before merging.

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**Old cancellation can erase retry**

If a cancelled recording is retried while its original processing run is still unwinding, the old run’s abort handler can mark the newly queued record `cancelled`. The retry job then skips that terminal record, so “Transcribe again” does not transcribe it. The old run must be prevented from changing the new attempt before merging.

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Fixed in 747757e: an aborted run's catch path now leaves the record alone. cancelRecord already saved the cancellation, and a retry may have queued it again. enqueueProcessing also removes only its own controller.

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record.progress = 0;
record.updatedAt = now();
await this.save(record);
this.enqueueProcessing(record.id, undefined);

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P1 Retry loses list continuation

When a recording was finished with a valid list continuation, retry queues it without that context. Processing therefore loses the prior list used for formatting and insertion, so the same audio can produce a different list result. Preserve the original continuation before merging.

Knowledge Base Used: Audio capture and text delivery

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**Retry loses list continuation**

When a recording was finished with a valid list continuation, retry queues it without that context. Processing therefore loses the prior list used for formatting and insertion, so the same audio can produce a different list result. Preserve the original continuation before merging.

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Fixed in e0af2fa: the input list context is saved privately as continuation-input.json when the recording is sealed, and retry reuses it.

Comment on lines +1114 to +1124
guard await pending.gate.consume() else {
// Cancelled and not undone: the transcript stays in history only.
try? await connection.delivery(id, receipt: DeliveryReceipt(status: "cancelled",
message: "Cancelled before pasting. Kept in history."))
try Task.checkCancellation()
if sessionID == current {
lastDeliveryStatus = .kept
activity = .success
statusMessage = "Saved to history"
dismissHUDAfter(seconds: 1.2)
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P2 Saved status can be replaced

A kept cancelled take reports “Saved to history” without waiting for an earlier take’s delivery. If that delivery is still running, it can replace the shared result status afterward. This does not change either take’s delivery, but it can leave the displayed result describing the wrong take.

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A kept cancelled take reports “Saved to history” without waiting for an earlier take’s delivery. If that delivery is still running, it can replace the shared result status afterward. This does not change either take’s delivery, but it can leave the displayed result describing the wrong take.

**Knowledge Base Used:** [Audio capture and text delivery](https://app.greptile.com/davis7dotsh/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/davis7dotsh/v07/-/docs/audio-capture-and-text-delivery.md)

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Fixed: the history-only result is reported after earlier deliveries finish. Since e0af2fa the decision itself is made at that point.

// Usually known at release, so a later take can continue a list in another field.
let knownDestination: InsertionDestination? = test ? .clipboard : capturedDestination
pending.target = knownDestination.map { Self.resolve($0, isTest: test, releasedAt: releasedAt) }
pendingDictations.append(pending)
if cancelled { openUndoWindow(for: pending) }

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P2 Undo remains after failure

If upload or transcription fails during the four-second window, the failed take cannot be pasted, but its Undo control remains visible until the timer expires. This briefly offers a misleading action rather than causing a further delivery failure.

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If upload or transcription fails during the four-second window, the failed take cannot be pasted, but its Undo control remains visible until the timer expires. This briefly offers a misleading action rather than causing a further delivery failure.

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Fixed in 747757e: the undo window closes when its take fails or is stopped.

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An aborted processing run no longer rewrites a record that a retry has
queued again, and a retry clears the previous run's output. The undo
window closes when its take fails or pending work is stopped, and a
kept take reports its result only after earlier deliveries finish.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A pending take now commits to pasting only when its delivery starts, so
cancelling it while it waits behind another take still offers Undo. One
Escape press no longer closes the Undo window it opened. Retrying a
recording reuses the list context it was sealed with.

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🟡 Minor · Do not cancel a take after its delivery gate is consumed. · V07Controller.swift:750-763

Sources/V07/V07Controller.swift:750-763
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Do not cancel a take after its delivery gate is consumed.

When pending.gate.consume() returns true, delivery has started. A later cancel can remove the pending take and cancel its task because hold() returns false.

If the field paste has already been sent, cancellation interrupts confirmation. The paste can still occur, but the controller exits before it records the delivery receipt. The take can therefore appear cancelled while text was inserted.

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             let pending = pendingDictations[index]
             // Already headed to history only; cancelling the server run would lose it.
             if pending.gate.state == .discard { return }
-            if pending.gate.hold() { openUndoWindow(for: pending); return }
-            pendingDictations.remove(at: index)
-            pending.cancel()
-            Task { try? await pending.client.cancel(pending.id) }
+            guard pending.gate.hold() else { return }
+            openUndoWindow(for: pending)
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Review comment at @Sources/V07/V07Controller.swift around lines 750 - 763:
In the pending-dictation cancellation path, update the handling around
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@@ -1024,6 +1132,22 @@ final class V07Controller: ObservableObject {
await precedingDelivery?.value
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P2 History receipt waits for recording

If a new recording is in progress when a kept cancelled take finishes processing, the take waits for recording capture to end before sending its “Not pasted” receipt. This delays the history update and keeps later takes waiting behind it, even though this take will not be pasted.

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If a new recording is in progress when a kept cancelled take finishes processing, the take waits for recording capture to end before sending its “Not pasted” receipt. This delays the history update and keeps later takes waiting behind it, even though this take will not be pasted.

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Fixed in 0bddc44: a kept take sends its receipt right after earlier deliveries finish. Only takes that will paste wait for capture release.

if isUndoPending {
// One Escape can reach both the key listener and a focused view;
// only a later, separate cancel closes the window it just opened.
if ProcessInfo.processInfo.systemUptime - undoOpenedAt > 0.3 { closeUndoWindow() }

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P2 Keep cancelled click ignored

Clicking “Keep cancelled” within 0.3 seconds of the Undo window opening reaches the new duplicate-cancel guard. The click leaves the window open, so the user must click again or wait for the window to close.

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Fixed in 0bddc44: Keep cancelled calls a dedicated keepCancelledTake() that always closes the window. Only cancel paths that can share one physical Escape use the 0.3 s guard.

A take kept in history no longer waits for a new recording to finish
before reporting, and the HUD's Keep cancelled button always closes the
undo window instead of sharing the Escape duplicate guard.

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@bmdavis419 could you review this when you get a chance? It keeps a cancelled dictation in history instead of discarding it. It shows a 4-second Undo on the HUD so you can still paste it, and it adds a Transcribe again retry for failed or cancelled recordings.

CI is green and the bot review comments are addressed. I checked the history-only path in V07 Dev against a local dev server. I couldn't drive the floating pill's Undo button or the Escape flow through computer use, so a quick manual check of those would be really helpful. Details are in the description.

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finishDictation's short-take guard called cancelDictation, which re-read
the clock and could treat a take released just under the minimum as long
enough to keep, opening an undo window for audio the server rejects.

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Transcribe again now sits last in the action row so the other buttons do
not shift when it appears or disappears, and it stays disabled while its
retry request is in flight.

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A cancelled take kept in history set lastDeliveryStatus to kept but left
lastDelivery on the previous take's message, so the footer could say
"Inserted at your cursor" while the HUD said "Saved to history".

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Pushed a port and a few fixes to this branch. Your commits are unchanged.

  • Merge main and port to Inlay: no textual conflicts. MenuHUDViews.swift still used V07Controller/V07Palette, now InlayController/InlayPalette.
  • Short takes are discarded directly: a take released just under 0.25 s no longer re-reads the clock in cancelDictation(), so it can't slip into the keep path.
  • History: "Transcribe again" is now the last action, so other buttons don't move when it appears or disappears. It is disabled while its retry request is in flight, so a double click can't send a second request.
  • Footer: a kept take now sets lastDelivery to "Saved to history", so the window footer matches the HUD.
  • Docs: added the retry route to docs/client-server-contract.md.

swift build, bun run check/lint/fmt:check and generate:api --check pass. The cancel/undo behaviour itself is unchanged and still with the maintainer for review.

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if (previous)
await atomicPrivateWrite(
join(this.directory(id), CONTINUATION_INPUT),
JSON.stringify(previous),
).catch(() => {});

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P2 Retry can lose list context

If saving continuation-input.json fails, finishing the recording still succeeds, but a later “Transcribe again” has no saved list context. With the same audio, a retry started a numbered list at 1 instead of continuing at 2. This non-blocking concern means the user may have to correct the retried text.

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Authored continuation-save and retry check

  • The Bun script runs both save conditions against GenerationService with stubbed inference, reproducing the context-dependent output change.

Retry output with continuation input saved

  • The baseline command completed successfully and retry produced “2. bananas” with the saved list context.

Retry output after continuation-input save failure

  • A dangling symlink blocked the sidecar write; finish still queued the recording, and retry produced “1. bananas” without its list context.

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Comment:
**Retry can lose list context**

If saving `continuation-input.json` fails, finishing the recording still succeeds, but a later “Transcribe again” has no saved list context. With the same audio, a retry started a numbered list at 1 instead of continuing at 2. This non-blocking concern means the user may have to correct the retried text.

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const speech = await transcribe().catch((error: unknown) => {
if (signal.aborted) throw error;
return transcribe();

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P1 Permanent errors delay later recordings

When transcription rejects an unchanged request, this code attempts it again unless the recording was aborted. Processing is serial, so the unnecessary attempt holds up later recordings: an invalid-request error caused two failed attempts and increased the following recording’s queue wait from 250 ms to 497 ms. Skip permanent errors before merging so they cannot consume another turn in the queue.

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Mocked transcription API test

  • The authored test sends two recordings through the API and times transcription calls, providing the command used for both comparisons.

API responses before the retry change

  • The captured baseline run reports HTTP responses, one deterministic-error attempt, and a 250 ms follower wait, establishing the comparison.

API responses with the retry change

  • The captured current-code run reports the same HTTP outcomes, two deterministic-error attempts, and a 497 ms wait, supporting the queue-delay finding.

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Path: Server/src/generation-service.ts
Line: 1130-1132

Comment:
**Permanent errors delay later recordings**

When transcription rejects an unchanged request, this code attempts it again unless the recording was aborted. Processing is serial, so the unnecessary attempt holds up later recordings: an invalid-request error caused two failed attempts and increased the following recording’s queue wait from 250 ms to 497 ms. Skip permanent errors before merging so they cannot consume another turn in the queue.

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Server-side check of the retry route on the ported branch: isolated dev server, real Whisper (Metal) and Qwen (MLX), 11 s of speech sent over the HTTP API.

  • Upload, finish, then cancel immediately: the record is cancelled with its inference audio kept.
  • POST /retry on it returns 202 with status queued, then completed with the full transcript.
  • Retrying a completed record returns 409 not_retryable.
  • Retrying a cancelled record that was never sealed also returns 409 ("no saved audio").

I couldn't exercise the HUD undo window, Escape or the History button here, because that needs Inlay Dev on screen.

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