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Deliver the complete A2A lifecycle from the original feat/F117-1354-message-delivery-lifecycle branch into develop_base, as requested by the operator. This supersedes #216 as the fork acceptance PR; no new implementation branch or production change is introduced.

Head: 028a63af71bc3ae6f9ebf9fcf8bd542c0e02d40b (the exact head of zts212653#1398). Base: develop_base at published upstream main 3e70e1d6805be24672e8f841861f180d20b184c2. The former integration candidate 00a513906e2a30248e603b9fe079c9643e2cfcd1 has identical code, dependencies, tests and workflows; its only differences are 11 documentation/evidence paths. Existing acceptance artifacts remain preserved in the feature checkout.

Queue owns pending delivery and releases an input when the client accepts it. Optional model-read evidence updates only that input. Response identity, terminal outcomes, caller wake, recovery and UI/MCP consumers use the same lifecycle.

Validation:

  • Reuse feat: complete unified message delivery lifecycle zts212653/clowder-ai#1398 exact-head CI: 16 SUCCESS and one planned serial-bootstrap SKIPPED. Both PR bases are the same commit. Per operator direction, duplicate fork CI is not required; workflows targeting main do not run for develop_base. This is reused evidence, not a claim of a separate fork CI run.
  • Complete Web: 8737 tests passed across 1087 files; additional checks 47 passed / 9 skipped. Types and production build passed. Earlier full public API run: 27407 passed / 0 failed / 112 skipped; subsequent deltas received independent review and exact-head CI.
  • Isolated full-page evidence covers Queue, precise Stop/UI convergence, Steer, independent targets, failure/wake uniqueness, refresh identity, approvals and session-before-Socket recovery. Append evidence covers delivery, precise read receipts, Stop, refresh and mobile interaction using controlled SDK frames.
  • Real Claude SDK completed normal response and Append acceptance on the original response, Queue removal and appended output. Exact real-provider Stop remains unverified after a provider quota error. The operator explicitly removed this supplementary check from delivery prerequisites; it does not block operator acceptance. Original failures and durable artifacts are preserved.

Operator experience and fork soak remain open. Runtime checkout/configuration/data/processes have not been changed. Merge and runtime update must precede restarting develop_base to experience this version; restart is performed by the operator. No automatic merge or restart. Guard maintenance #215 and F192/#185 are separate and are not prerequisites.

mindfn and others added 30 commits September 21, 2026 18:53
Every connector input used to reach the user through a two-phase shape: append
a Message, then separately enqueue its Queue row. Nothing made the pair atomic,
so a crash or a rejection between the halves left a message nobody was asked to
look at, or a queued row with no message behind it.

This registers the target contract before any producer moves onto it: one atomic
Message+Queue admission per input, the closed set of producers that must migrate,
and the replay cutover for rows written under the old shape. Registering the set
up front is what makes Phase I closeable -- the alternative is discovering
producer #7 by grep after declaring victory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Connector inputs, scheduled wakes and hold wakes, and the manual eval trigger and
CI wake all now hand over an envelope to a single admission seam instead of
driving the append and the enqueue themselves. The separate trigger seam stops
being a second way in.

Two truthfulness fixes belong with this move. Owner provenance now fails closed
rather than inheriting strict from whatever context happened to be around -- an
unproven owner must not be silently upgraded. And a manual trigger now reports
what its admission actually did, instead of reporting success for work that was
refused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Private input picked its winner from the Queue row, so the decision died with the
row and a retry could reach a different answer. The winner is now bound to the
admission receipt, and the notice commits together with the work rather than as a
separate best-effort write.

Also here: an external input keeps the person as its actor, not the room it
arrived in; the message index moves into its own module so the queue ledger is no
longer two concerns in one file; and the delivery wiring is expressed so the
compiler owns it -- that wiring is exactly what the migration kept getting wrong
by hand, and a type error is cheaper than a lost message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d set

Conflict-check, limb transcripts, github-wait and the re-eval carrier each move to
a single admission, one producer at a time, with the producer registry updated as
each is taken. Working against a registered set is the point: each commit closes a
named item rather than whatever grep turned up that day.

The recurring defect across all four was the same -- a second admission that
nobody had noticed was there, or a conflict labelled at a site that never looked.
Two test fixes belong to that: one suite was exercising a trigger production never
wired, and conflict-check's AC-C1 was restored by splitting authorization from
announcement, which is what made the duplicate admission visible in the first
place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sent

The wait outbox decided whether to publish after it had already started sending,
so a suppression could not actually suppress. The decision now happens at a claim
taken before any send.

The claim is deliberately kept out of the delivery enum. Encoding it there made a
rollback unable to express 'claimed but not delivered', which stranded the row in
a state no path could clear.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e trigger chain

The managed wake is the last registered producer. It is admitted once, with its
lease checked before anything is written, so a superseded generation cannot write
at all. Three defects found by cross-individual review are fixed with it: legacy
adoption had lost its lease fence; a post-commit notification could un-admit a
commit that had already landed; and the drain was sequenced behind a UI broadcast,
so a failing socket fan-out left a durable wake that nothing asked anyone to look
at.

With every producer migrated, ConnectorInvokeTrigger has no producers left, and
the whole chain is deleted -- zero references under src/. The two-phase 'append
then enqueue' shape is gone from every production path, which closes Phase I.

Finally, connector framing is preserved on envelopes delivered through the Queue.
Without it the envelope arrives but renders as plain text: the hold-ball card, its
run state and its cancel control all disappear.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…l-closed guard

Category: accepted review finding "Reject coerced lifecycle response statuses", plus two
sibling sites the review did not reach. All three are new in this PR.

`[...].includes(String(candidate.x))` reads as a fail-closed literal check and is not one.
`String(['completed'])` is `'completed'`, and any object whose `toString` returns a literal
passes too, so a value that is not a string walks through a guard whose entire job is to
reject it. These guards sit on recovered Redis rows and websocket frames —
`RedisMessageStore`, `redis-message-parsers` and `useSocket` all gate on the shared one — so
the smuggled value lands in a field whose contract is a string literal, and downstream
matching silently stops working: it is neither `processing` nor a valid terminal, so
projections can be suppressed and a terminal commit can conflict permanently.

The fix is to compare the raw value, expressed once as `isOneOf` in the shared module rather
than repaired inline at each call, so the next literal check cannot reintroduce the coercion
by habit.

Three sites, found by auditing the pattern across the tree instead of patching only the one
that was reported:

- `message-lifecycle.ts` response `status` — the reported instance.
- `message-lifecycle.ts` delivery-failure `reason` — same function, one branch away.
- `QueueLedgerValidation.assertQueueExecution` — the one that actually matters most: it is a
  throwing gate, and the coerced field is `ownerAuthProvenance`. An array was accepted as
  proven owner authorization. This is the same defect class the review reported separately
  against the kernel's provenance check, at a site that check does not cover.

Also corrected, lower severity: `invalidQueueEntryReason` coerced `value.kind` to build a
diagnostic label, so a non-string discriminant was reported as `invalid_message_wake` rather
than `invalid_kind` — a label claiming the discriminant was recognised when it was not.

Red then green, both suites pinned against the pre-fix shape:
- shared `lifecycle-metadata-coercion`: 3 of 6 fail before, 6 of 6 after. Registered in
  `vitest.config.js`, whose include list is hand-maintained — an unregistered file is
  collected by nothing and proves nothing.
- api `queue-ledger-provenance-coercion`: 2 of 4 fail before, 4 of 4 after.

Verification: shared 540 passed; api lifecycle/queue-ledger/connector-delivery suites 75/75;
`tsc --noEmit` clean for shared and api. Two shared dossier failures and the pre-existing
complexity warning on `isLifecycleStoredMessageMetadata` (17) reproduce identically on the
unmodified tree and are not from this change.

Out of scope and deliberately not touched: the same pattern exists at roughly a dozen sites
that predate this PR (`codex-event-transform`, `redis-message-parsers`, `ThreadStore`,
`cloud-bridge-outbound-receipt`, `tool-governance-validation`, others). Fixing them belongs
in its own change, not smuggled into a delivery-lifecycle PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…umer guess

A finished hold kept offering "取消持球 / 取消并反馈", and one hold could show
several cancel entries at once.

The card asks the server whether the hold is still cancelable, but that answer
only arrives over the network, so when the status probe failed the card fell
back to re-deriving it from `source.meta.phase` — and that copy was wrong. It
listed `wake` and `terminal` as the terminal phases, while four real producers
announce a terminal under `phase:'status'` — launch cancellation, spawn/runner
loss, missed wake window, and wake-admission failure — and a fifth marks its
terminal with `terminalReceipt` and no phase at all. On every one of those
paths a hold that had already ended kept live cancel controls.

Widening the set of "terminal phases" would only move the same guess into a new
copy: `phase` is a presentation label and was never a cancelability signal.
Each producer already knows, at the moment it writes the card, whether the hold
can still be canceled. It states that now, and the consumer stops deriving it.
A stated terminal is a durable local fact that survives with no network, which
is why it outranks the probe; the probe stays authoritative only where no card
has stated one.

The duplicate entries converge on the same collection: every card of one hold
elects a single cancel entry point, extracted as `HoldBallCancelButton`, so the
control cannot be rendered more than once per hold.

Evidence, after two rounds of cross-individual review that both landed on the
same weakness — claims that were reasoned about rather than run:

- The producer contract test was inert. Written as `test/*.test.ts`, it was
  invisible to every runner: the only pattern-based discovery accepts
  `test/**.test.js`. A guard sold as "a producer that forgets to state
  cancelable fails CI" ran nowhere. It is plain JS now and is in the shard plan.
- Stamping `cancelable` broke three exact-shape assertions on `source.meta`.
  Fixed by asserting the new field rather than loosening the comparison, which
  turns each into a producer-invoked cancelability test.
- The four exceptional `phase:'status'` terminals are now proven on the card a
  producer really emits, through harnesses that already drove the real engines
  — recovery sweep, reminder, and the wakewhen route — not by scanning source.
- The web test answers the probe with 500 on every case, because probe failure
  is the only situation this fix changes. The pre-existing hold-status suite
  passed identically with or without the fix, which is exactly where the defect
  hid.

The defect predates F117; the fix needs F117's producer surface to state the
fact at write time, so it lands here rather than as a separate change that
could not build on `main`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
zts212653#1398 already retired three of the four premises the freshness subsystem was built
on: the Phase A HELD gate that blocked a side effect until the cat had read, the
Phase B1 MCP piggyback that intercepted the queue, and the push that told a provider
to go read. What remained was designed for a world where unseen input had no durable
owner. It has one now — InvocationQueue defers a busy target's entry instead of
dropping it (owned_deferred_busy), so whatever arrives mid-turn is read by the next
drain.

This removes what that left standing. Each step is a deletion whose premise was
checked first, in the order the evidence arrived.

ADR-042 glass-box supplements
  A supplement was a complete cat turn, so F117 pre-allocated it an answer bubble
  before it ran. Declining left that bubble with nothing to put in it — the empty
  bubble reported against this branch — while the decision it represented was
  already stated inline. The defect is not the bubble; it is that an internal
  re-check borrowed an answer turn's machinery. Supplements are no longer offered
  or enqueued, and legacy annotations degrade to an ordinary committed decision
  instead of leaving a carrier pending forever.

Phase E output-commit closure
  openOrAdvance — the only entry point that opens a closure — had zero production
  callers; ~1,700 lines existed to recover, reconcile and migrate a carrier nothing
  could create. Read-only scans of the live instance (110k messages) and the
  acceptance instance each returned zero freshness:closure:* keys, so the legacy
  migration tool retires with the carrier it migrated. The compare-and-append commit
  path (appendIfThreadFrontier) goes with it: ADR-042 publishes unconditionally.

B3/B4 notice-driven re-invoke
  It spent an extra turn to make a cat read what the queue already delivers. The
  terminal hook still wrote metadata.freshnessReinvoke after its reader was removed.

Phase D output-commit scan
  It ran once per answer turn and rewrote extra.freshness.kind to 'fresh' or
  'freshness_unknown'. Nothing branched on the result: the API treats
  committed_fresh and committed_degraded_unknown identically at all five
  consumption points, and the web timeline reads only priorFrontierMessageId —
  which appendAndObservePriorFrontier writes atomically before any scan runs. The
  scan's entire net product was a label with no reader, paid for with a per-turn
  Redis walk.

Kept, with the reason it survives
  - The frontier annotation: extra.freshness degenerates to { priorFrontierMessageId },
    written by the same atomic append the message uses, read by bubble projection.
    Parsers ignore every retired verdict shape and keep only the frontier.
  - Provider-native freshness. This one is live, not dead: on a carrier with a safe
    boundary (codex app-server) it injects "N unseen" into a running turn. Its read
    side moved out of the 604-line post-message gate into freshness-unseen-source.ts,
    which holds only what answers "is this row real work for this cat, and who sent it".
  - The eval:freshness domain, decoupled from the deleted planes. Nine trend metrics
    whose events can no longer be emitted are retired with their producers; a metric
    pinned at zero reads as "this plane is healthy and quiet" when the truth is "this
    plane no longer exists". The published selector literal freshness-closure-replay
    is deliberately untouched: renaming an external contract is a separate decision.

Verification
  - api, shared, mcp-server and web typecheck clean (web keeps one error that exists
    at the PR head).
  - 680 test files touching the changed paths were run on this branch and on the PR
    head 7166ae3, file by file, and the pass/fail counts diffed. Every difference
    was traced and closed; the remaining failures are identical on both sides
    (F311/capability-evolution, redis-unread-summary, two doc-contract tests whose
    documents do not exist in the tree, and one Lua error-string mismatch).
  - Web unit suite: 7255 pass, 5 fail, all five identical at the PR head.

  - Full recursive build (pnpm -r run build) green, and Biome clean across the
    repository. Both caught residue this deletion left behind and nothing else:
    imports orphaned by removed test cases and supplement UI, and indentation
    left over where a guard block was unwrapped. Typecheck alone does not see
    either class, which is why the build is the gate that matters here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Why: queued input was published into History before its response receiver and target retirement existed, while Codex app-server deltas were discarded and several UI surfaces derived independent liveness states. Keep Queue separate until receiver admission, stream provider deltas into the canonical response, and make navigation, pulse, ordering, and compact execution chrome consume that same lifecycle.

[砚砚/gpt-5.6-sol🐾]
Why: Fork dogfood exposed that presentation order was maintained independently by many store writers, so hydration, streaming, projection, and background updates could disagree. Move ordering to one canonical read-side comparator, keep storage cursors explicit, and preserve the user scroll anchor when that view changes.

The receiver could be written before its queued source was published, while publication recomputed a later wall-clock time and made the source appear after the response. Carry the durable Queue claim time through admission, retaining the monotonic enqueue floor. Keep response startedAt and storage cursors factual; bound only its presentation time after the latest admitted input, including inputs appended to an active run. A terminal response normally freezes at completedAt, but the causal floor wins if a later input clock overtakes it.

Why (viewport follow-up): Re-sorting on every streamed chunk repeatedly moved concurrent processing cards and interrupted reading. Keep the canonical comparator unchanged; stream content in place, then commit changed card positions from a fresh snapshot in serial one-second rounds. Derive dirty rows by immutable message identity rather than writer flags, let display and scroll restoration share one viewport order, and anchor the visible paragraph or an explicitly expanded card before layout changes. Preserve immediate admission, storage pagination, and the existing lifecycle ordering tests.

Upgrade the Claude Agent SDK carrier from 0.3.267 to 0.3.280. The SDK integration is introduced by this branch, so its version belongs in this PR. Peer requirements and the existing zod 3 resolution are unchanged; the API type-check is clean. The claude-agent-service baseline has the same 29 live-config lookup failures on both SDK versions. Co-creator dogfood later confirmed opus 5.5 replies through the installed 0.3.280 SDK.

[砚砚/gpt-6-sol🐾]

[布偶猫·宪宪/claude-opus-5-5🐾]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Why: reconcile the existing public A2A candidate with main while retaining durable Queue, exact source/target fences and one canonical response result. Consume the verified local integration source cut without making fork integration history a public ancestor. UI and contract commits follow in this same unpublished candidate; gates bind the completed cut, not this intermediate tree.
Why: complete the original RFC result ownership on active/background/history surfaces, remove read-stage and recovery notices, and fold timeout/CLI diagnostics into the original response. Preserve real user actions and callback/late-socket identity fences; validate the completed public cut in this same checkout.
Why: publish the single Queue/response responsibility model and its affected consumers with the completed candidate. This implements the existing RFC, including exact failed-response wake and cancellation, rather than inventing a read stage or a new notification protocol. Operator experience, fork soak and maintainer review remain pending.
Why: the exact public candidate production build exposed seven unused bindings left after retiring read/pause/session notice presentation. Remove the unused contract parameters and imports, migrate their existing callers and fixtures, and keep ESLint enabled. Focused lint and 55 consumer tests pass; the original failed production build remains in checkpoint-6.
Why: Partial preserved readonly modifiers from the capability constant, so deleting guidance made the full Web type gate fail. Construct the absent-guidance input directly while retaining the same fail-closed assertion. Full Web types, the two fixture tests and the real response component browser check now pass; the prior production build remains unchanged.
Why: frontier adjacency and matching failure text cannot prove retry ownership. History and story playback now retain every canonical response; execution retries remain responsible for their own response identity. Actual history and replay regressions preserve unrelated private failures.
Why: startup or abandoned-turn settlement could clear a failed child before its authorized caller return was committed. Persist the original admission provenance on its response and reuse the normal atomic failed-response and Queue-wake transaction during recovery. Keep uncertain obligations pending, preserve authority and sibling identities, and make commit replay idempotent. Cover real Queue admission, startup failure and lost acknowledgements in memory and owned Redis.
Why: recovery treated an already committed failed response as a draft, trimming its content and synthesizing optional fields until exact terminal replay conflicted forever. Pass the complete durable terminal patch directly through the shared failed-response and caller-wake transaction. Processing responses keep their draft handling; committed bodies, rich/tool fields and metadata retain their original values and presence. Cover normal commit acknowledgement loss, empty fields and real Redis restart.
Why: exact-head GitHub Lint rejected the public snapshot because active F117 was omitted and completed F220 remained in ROADMAP. Correct those two inventory rows against the existing feature records without publishing fork coordination or changing execution code. The independent 0c2a0e8 code review remains applicable by identical code and dependency blobs.

[砚砚/gpt-6.1-sol🐾]
Why: Queue, message bodies, references and member reads must project MessageFrom rather than infer operator identity from an absent catId. Preserve sender envelopes in socket events and reply previews, share display resolution, and keep navigation from declaring custody changes from prose.
Why: a timer callback can arrive while the sampled silence is still below the configured deadline. Re-arm the remaining interval so exact Stop never fires early, while preserving the existing CPU extension cap and once-only result.
Why: grouping still inferred a human sender from absent catId while body visibility consumed MessageFrom. Use the same identity entry point and retain source metadata in the queue preview regression.
Why: late approval reads and secondary chat-cache gaps could erase published cards or hide admitted executions. Fence request order, reconcile on reconnect and terminal events, and preserve canonical sender identity in live cards.
Why: client acceptance completes delivery and retires Queue work. Optional SDK input UUID evidence updates only the original source and target, persists through reload and remains independent of Stop, results and callbacks. Unsupported clients show a static delivered indicator without claiming model reading.

Validation: Web 16/16, compiled Queue and SDK 59/59, owned Unix Redis replay and styled browser interactions pass. Full CI and operator acceptance remain separate gates.

[砚砚/gpt-6.1-sol🐾]
…vidence

Why: notification producers now admit through the durable Queue, and action carrier recovery joins exact source, response, child and parent evidence. Tests must exercise those contracts rather than bare MessageStore delivery or retired custody projections. Install Redis executables for owned isolated Linux tests without relaxing the existing network boundary.

Validation: wait lifecycle and outbox 18/18, action lease races 7/7, schedule and task consumers 74/74. Prior CI failures retained; the full public gate remains to run on this candidate.

[砚砚/gpt-6.1-sol🐾]
Why: SDK failure correlation UUIDs and synthetic API errors do not prove model consumption. Preserve consumed failed-turn lists and real main-query reply evidence while leaving Queue, Stop and completion independent. Keep absent optional delivery fields absent and construct the browser fixture immutably so current type and production gates can pass.
Why: public recovery wrappers omitted Queue and could pass lookup failures before reaching their intended dependency. Use real Queue and exact History child/parent evidence, retain scope, cancellation, expiry and parallel cases, and assert every injected fault is reached.
Why: Live admission preserves its immediate single-attempt handle. The ordinary active-writer wait loop bypassed the Live retry budget and could acquire another client after refusal. Keep ordinary member recovery while returning the existing typed Live failure without replay.
mindfn added 10 commits October 8, 2026 20:48
Why: cloud handoff must bind the current persisted source owner, thread and canonical sender before issuing a return grant or sending to Host. Completed responses enqueue cloud work through the real Queue; missing, deleted or mismatched sources must never reuse a prior human body or acquire return authority.
Why: keep atomic task and private wait receipt hydration together without growing the Redis store or changing its single-read authority. Fresh API build and owned Redis registration/CAS/rejection checks pass; storage and module budgets remain unchanged.
Why: the live replay already derives Queue/History and provider signals. Keeping Supplement and MCP notice certificates misrepresents the measured mechanism. Preserve retained event evidence and readiness checks; verify the generated verdict excludes retired metric identities.
Why: retired inline routing, catId guesses, Queue custody and notice writers prevented old fixtures reaching their intended branches. Keep owner, visibility, cancellation, cross-generation, fault and replay assertions on actual Queue/History/child identities; connector refusals must reach delivery, atomic failure publishes no replacement and lost acknowledgments replay once. Deny inherited runtime Redis and require explicit isolation for optional tests. Original 37-file failures are retained; current 438 checks pass with unchanged input hashes, plus focused recovery and owned Redis controls.
Why: the complete public gate reproduced cancellation before the fake gh installed its signal handler. Drive the real scheduler timeout only after readiness and hold the real child until an explicit release, preserving gate ownership and process-close assertions without depending on startup speed.

Validation: original full public gate 27406 pass, one startup race, 112 skipped; retained original red and diagnostic timing probes. Corrected cleanup tests 2/2 and preflighted cleanup/request/batch/admission consumers 14/14. Full public rerun remains required.

Author: 砚砚/gpt-6.1-sol
Why: owner Queue updates and cancellation share the HTTP session identity, but sockets were hardcoded to default-user. Resolve the existing session cookie on connection without trusting client auth metadata or promoting anonymous and remote unpaired clients.
Why: approval events and reconnects can arrive while a pre-change GET is active. Request version fencing alone still shares that stale physical read. Use the API client's bounded trailing generation for pending and settled refreshes, and verify the real coordinator preserves fresh results after overlap and failures.
Why: the decision sessions consumer must ask for a fresh approval owner read after a write. Preserve its unified-read assertion while verifying the coordinator option that prevents an older active GET from satisfying that refresh.
Why: API restart invalidates its session map, while Socket authority is fixed at handshake. Automatic transport reconnection could enter default-user before HTTP recovery and leave owner approval and Stop projections disconnected. Gate every physical connection on a shared fresh cookie read, preserving bounded retry and retired-surface fences.
Why: AppShell must mock the added session refresh contract, and the real Socket integration must observe disconnect before waking the existing visibility recovery path instead of assuming manager retries.
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