feat(agent): queue and merge messages during active turns (#1412)

* feat(agent): queue and merge messages during active turns

Replace the hard rejection ("Turn in progress") when messages arrive
during an active turn with a bounded queue (max 10) that auto-drains
after the turn completes.

Queued messages are merged with newlines into a single turn so the LLM
receives full context from rapid consecutive inputs instead of producing
fragmented responses from partial context.

Key changes:
- Thread.pending_messages (VecDeque) with queue_message/drain_pending_messages
- Drain loop in agent_loop.rs merges all queued messages per iteration
- interrupt() and /clear both clear the pending queue
- MAX_PENDING_MESSAGES constant with cap enforced inside queue_message()
- Drain loop continues on soft errors, stops on NeedApproval/Interrupted
- Drain loop logs respond() failures instead of silently swallowing them

Fixes #259 — debounces rapid inbound messages during processing
Fixes #826 — drain loop is bounded by MAX_PENDING_MESSAGES cap

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: address PR review — drain loop busy-loop guard and stale state re-check

- Add Ok(SubmissionResult::Ok) to drain loop break conditions to prevent
  a tight busy-loop if process_user_input returns a queued-ack (e.g. from
  a corrupted/hydrated session stuck in Processing state)
- Re-check thread.state under the mutable lock in the Processing arm to
  guard against the turn completing between the snapshot read and the
  queue operation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: clear attachments on drain-loop queued message processing

Queued messages are text-only (queued as strings during Processing
state). The drain loop was reusing the original IncomingMessage
reference which carried the first message's attachments, causing
augment_with_attachments to incorrectly re-apply them to unrelated
queued text. Clone the message with cleared attachments for drain-loop
turns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: address PR review round 2 — stale state fallthrough and thread-not-found guard

- Processing arm: when re-checked state is no longer Processing, fall
  through to normal processing instead of dropping user input
- Processing arm: return error when thread not found instead of false
  "queued" ack
- Document intermediate drain-loop responses as best-effort for one-shot
  channels (HttpChannel)
- Add regression tests for both edge cases

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: address PR review feedback for message queue drain loop

[skip-regression-check] — test modifications present but hook has
SIGPIPE/pipefail false negative when awk exits early on match

- Replace wildcard match in drain loop with explicit `while let
  Ok(Response)` guard — stops on Error variant too, preventing
  confusing interleaved output after soft errors (review issue #1)
- Reject queueing messages with attachments during Processing state
  instead of silently dropping them (review issue #2)
- Document response routing limitation: all drain-loop responses
  route via original message identity (review issue #3)
- Document why SubmissionResult::Ok is correct for queued ack and
  how it interacts with drain loop break condition (review issue #4)
- Rewrite two dead regression tests to assert actual behavior:
  thread-gone returns error, state-changed does not queue (review #5)
- Document MAX_PENDING_MESSAGES=10 as acceptable for personal
  assistant use case (review issue #6)
- Fix misleading one-shot channel comment — HttpChannel consumes
  sender on first call, subsequent calls are dropped (review issue #8)
- Simplify drain loop intermediate response since while-let guard
  guarantees Response variant

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: add missing extension_manager field in webhook EngineContext

The fire_webhook method's EngineContext initializer was missing the
extension_manager field added in staging, causing CI compilation failure.

[skip-regression-check]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: gate TestRig::session_manager() behind libsql feature flag

The field is #[cfg(feature = "libsql")] so the accessor must match.
All callers are already inside #[cfg(feature = "libsql")] blocks.

[skip-regression-check]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: re-queue drained messages on drain loop failure

If process_user_input fails after drain_pending_messages() removed
all queued content, that user input was permanently lost. Now the
merged content is re-queued at the front of pending_messages on any
non-Response result so it will be processed on the next successful
turn.

Adds Thread::requeue_drained() helper and unit test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix: remove unreachable!() from drain loop, add lock-drop comments

- Extract content binding in `while let` pattern instead of using a
  separate match with unreachable!() — satisfies the no-panic-in-
  production convention (zmanian review item #1)
- Add comment clarifying session lock is dropped at Processing arm
  boundary before fall-through (zmanian review item #5)
- Document bounded cap overshoot on requeue_drained (review item #2)

[skip-regression-check]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* fix(security): validate queued messages and touch updated_at on queue ops

- Run safety validation, policy checks, and secret scanning on
  messages before queueing during Processing state. Previously,
  content with leaked secrets could be stored in pending_messages
  and serialized without hitting the inbound scanner.
- Touch updated_at in queue_message(), drain_pending_messages(),
  and requeue_drained() so thread timestamps reflect queue activity.

[skip-regression-check] — safety validation requires full Agent;
updated_at is a data-level fix on existing tested methods

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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Illia Polosukhin
2026-03-21 21:53:14 -07:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6
parent 89394ebd29
commit ccdea40e9d
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@@ -1153,8 +1153,92 @@ impl Agent {
// Process based on submission type
let result = match submission {
Submission::UserInput { content } => {
self.process_user_input(message, session, thread_id, &content)
.await
let mut result = self
.process_user_input(message, session.clone(), thread_id, &content)
.await;
// Drain any messages queued during processing.
// Messages are merged (newline-separated) so the LLM receives
// full context from rapid consecutive inputs instead of
// processing each as a separate turn with partial context (#259).
//
// Only `Response` continues the drain — the user got a normal
// reply and there may be more queued messages to process.
//
// Everything else stops the loop:
// - `NeedApproval`: thread is blocked on user approval
// - `Interrupted`: turn was cancelled
// - `Ok`: control-command acknowledgment (including the "queued"
// ack returned when a message arrives during Processing)
// - `Error`: soft error — draining more messages after an error
// would produce confusing interleaved output
// - `Err(_)`: hard error
while let Ok(SubmissionResult::Response { content: outgoing }) = &result {
let merged = {
let mut sess = session.lock().await;
sess.threads
.get_mut(&thread_id)
.and_then(|t| t.drain_pending_messages())
};
let Some(next_content) = merged else {
break;
};
tracing::debug!(
thread_id = %thread_id,
merged_len = next_content.len(),
"Drain loop: processing merged queued messages"
);
// Send the completed turn's response before starting the next.
//
// Known limitations:
// - One-shot channels (HttpChannel) consume the response
// sender on the first respond() call keyed by msg.id.
// Subsequent calls (including the outer handler's final
// respond) are silently dropped. For one-shot channels
// only this intermediate response is delivered.
// - All drain-loop responses are routed via the original
// `message`, so channels that key routing on message
// identity will attribute every response to the first
// message. This is acceptable for the current
// single-user-per-thread model.
if let Err(e) = self
.channels
.respond(message, OutgoingResponse::text(outgoing.clone()))
.await
{
tracing::warn!(
thread_id = %thread_id,
"Failed to send intermediate drain-loop response: {e}"
);
}
// Process merged queued messages as a single turn.
// Use a message clone with cleared attachments so
// augment_with_attachments doesn't re-apply the original
// message's attachments to unrelated queued text.
let mut queued_msg = message.clone();
queued_msg.attachments.clear();
result = self
.process_user_input(&queued_msg, session.clone(), thread_id, &next_content)
.await;
// If processing failed, re-queue the drained content so it
// isn't lost. It will be picked up on the next successful turn.
if !matches!(&result, Ok(SubmissionResult::Response { .. })) {
let mut sess = session.lock().await;
if let Some(thread) = sess.threads.get_mut(&thread_id) {
thread.requeue_drained(next_content);
tracing::debug!(
thread_id = %thread_id,
"Re-queued drained content after non-Response result"
);
}
}
}
result
}
Submission::SystemCommand { command, args } => {
tracing::debug!(