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* test(native-chat): a Stop over a card sent now into the running turn keeps it paused
Red on main: Codex's turn end withdraws the steered hand-off and the queue
sends the card again as a new host turn, with no pause recorded.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop's queue pause holds a card whose hand-off is still unanswered
A card sent now into the running turn was still pending when Stop judged the
pause, so nothing was recorded; the interrupt then withdrew the hand-off, the
card went back to waiting unpaused, and the queue sent it again as a new turn.
The pause now counts a hand-off that may still return to waiting, judged with
the appended row applied, so a withdrawal lands under the pause and an
acceptance retires it in that same write. Codex and Claude both hit it.
* test(native-chat): the Claude re-send case fails on its diff, inside the test's budget
* test(native-chat): a pause held by an unanswered hand-off ends on every path that ends it
The provider's answer, the provider dying, the chat closing, a restart, a
withdrawal still owed at open, and a /clear (refused until the hand-off ends,
then carrying every waiting card paused 'cleared'); each ends with the queue
sending again.
* fix(native-chat): narrow the pause's settled hand-off, and assert the queued receipt's card
* refactor(native-chat): derive the queue's pause from Stop and Resume journal rows
Stop now appends one journal row where it takes effect, before the interrupt,
whatever the queue holds; Resume appends its own. The pause is a pure function
of the fold: the latest Stop with no later Resume and no later accepted turn a
person asked for. A /clear's carried cards name their source, which is the
replacement's 'cleared' pause. Host-origin turns never lift either.
One predicate decides which cards a pause holds; by default every waiting card
without a hold of its own, including one queued after the Stop. The drain's
consume re-judges it inside its own transaction.
The rows are tombstones of an id no item takes, carrying the mark: a released
host reads an unknown row kind as corruption and truncates the journal there.
Deletes the stored pause (recordPause, the retire hook on every appended row,
the settle-before-record step, mayReturnToWaiting and its row overlay) and the
tests that only proved it retires. The queued_message_pauses table stays in the
schema, unread and unwritten, for downgrade safety.
* fix(native-chat): a card queued after a Stop sends normally, never ahead of held ones
A Stop's pause now holds only the cards queued before its row, plus a steer it
withdrew, which returns to its own place. Each card records the journal
position it was queued at, and the one hold rule compares that with the Stop
row. A card queued after the Stop is a new instruction: it sends as usual, but
the drain still stops at the first held card, so it never overtakes them.
/clear's pause holds the cards it carried. Holding every card again is a
one-line switch in that rule.
* fix(native-chat): the queue's own send re-checks the no-overtake rule in its transaction
The drain's pick and its consume now read one function, nextSendableQueuedCard,
so a Stop row that lands between them holds a newer card behind an older held
one exactly as the pick would. Notes why Stop and Resume ride a tombstone row.
* fix(native-chat): stop creating the unused queue pause table
The queue's pause is derived from journal rows, so nothing reads or writes
queued_message_pauses. It was still created on every open "for downgrade
safety", but an older build creates it itself when it opens the database, so
the table only sat empty in every new database. The tests now pin that no
pause table exists.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop's pause never hides the restart pause
A Stop holds only the cards queued before it. The pause derivation still
returned the Stop alone whenever it was in force, so the restart pause was
never considered: a card queued after the Stop, written by a host process
that has since exited, sent by itself after Orca restarted, with no pause
header and no Resume. A /clear pause that held nothing could hide it the
same way.
Every pause in force is now derived. A card is held if any of them holds
it, and it names the first that does. The drain's pick, the consume
transaction's re-check and the published header all read that one rule;
the header names the pause holding the first card Resume would send.
* test(native-chat): pin the Stop's no-resend, lift and held-card rules
- The Claude and Codex Stop-withdraws-a-steer tests checked "not sent
again" at one instant, before a queue ignoring the pause re-sends. They
now wait for the stopped turn to end and re-check after a quiet window.
- The deleted-card test read a card queued after the Stop, which sends
whether or not a person's turn lifts it; it now reads the Stop's pause
before and after that turn.
- Unit cases pin that a Stop holds a card with no recorded position and one
queued before a rewind.
* refactor(native-chat): a Stop writes one Stop event with its reason, turn and caller
The Stop row that paused the queue becomes the general Stop event
{ reason, turnId?, at, caller? }, whose reason is the host's existing stop
cause. It still rides a tombstone of a host-only id (a released host deletes
the journal from the first unknown row kind), and Resume keeps its own marker
on its own id. Only a person's Stop (reason user-stop) pauses the queue.
* test(native-chat): a rewind keeps a lifted /clear pause lifted and restates the same Stop event
* test(native-chat): pin that Stop and Resume rows never reach apps or count as history
* test(native-chat): only a person's Stop event pauses the queue
* test(native-chat): pin that a Stop's event precedes the interrupt and the at-start stop
Through the real host: the event names the turn and who asked and is in the
journal when the interrupt reaches the agent; at an agent still starting it is
there before the start is ended and holds a card queued before it; an idle Stop
writes one only when it withdrew a send; and the queue's claim re-judges a
pause that landed after its pick.
* test(native-chat): a card held at a starting agent is checked before the Stop's timing
Also says precisely what the claim's in-transaction pause check defends
against: the Stop and the drain share one serialized lane.
* test(native-chat): a released build keeps and folds a journal holding Stop events
Replays this build's rows from the released build's own journal database: every
row is kept, the history after the Stop still folds, and an older client is sent
only removed ids no item uses.
* style(native-chat): format the Stop event changes
* test(native-chat): type the released build's exports through one checked helper
* fix(native-chat): the Stop/Resume row guard narrows to those tombstones only
* test(native-chat): run the Stop-event downgrade test in CI, and cover a writable downgrade
The Stop-event downgrade test ran in no CI lane: unit shards exclude the
cross-version folder, and the cross-version lane runs a fixed file list that
did not name it. It is now on that list.
Its only case replayed the rows into a release's own fresh database, because
that release cannot open the current host database. A second case opens the
journal this build wrote with a main build that shares the database: it opens
writable, keeps every row, appends, and this build then reopens it with the
person's Stop still pausing the queue.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop that stops nothing new writes no Stop event
A Stop reaching a running agent wrote a Stop event on every press. Two
presses before the first interrupt landed wrote two events, so a card
queued between them counted as before the latest Stop and was held,
though a card queued after a Stop should send normally. A Stop naming a
turn that had already ended, as a phone sends late, also wrote an event
for a turn it never stopped.
It now writes one only when it withdrew a queued send, or stops something
no event records yet: not a turn the journal no longer runs, and not the
live turn a Stop still in force already names, unless a card was handed
over into it since, which this Stop's interrupt sends back and must hold.
The interrupt and the "already finished" note are unchanged. A Stop at a
starting agent still always writes.
* test(native-chat): pin that a later host, eviction or close Stop never lifts a person's Stop
* chore(native-chat): put each Stop-row doc on its own declaration, and say only user-stop is journaled
* fix(native-chat): any later Stop event ends a person's Stop pause
A person's Stop paused the queue until their next accepted turn or Resume,
and a later Stop of another reason (the host stopping the agent, an
eviction, a close) was ignored. Now the pause is the latest Stop event's:
a later Stop of any reason ends a person's pause, and only a person's Stop
pauses. The fold keeps the latest Stop event whatever its reason.
An eviction of a resting chat writes no Stop event (a Stop that stops
nothing writes nothing), so it cannot release held cards; a test pins that
no event means no lift.
* fix(native-chat): a second Stop press is a repeat even when the first came before the turn showed
A Stop pressed before the agent's turn shows in the journal (before
Claude's echo, or before Codex opens the turn) records no turn. A second
press once the turn showed compared that missing turn with the live one,
wrote a second Stop event, and held a card queued between the presses.
A repeat is now judged by what was sent since the Stop in force: with
nothing sent after it (a refused send aside), a Stop that named no turn,
or named the live one, is repeated and writes nothing. Anything sent since
and not refused, including a send whose fate is unknown, makes the new
press write, since its interrupt may send that card back to waiting.
Tests: the two-press case across the turn showing; a steer between the
presses settled unknown; and a Stop naming a turn that ended while the next
card is sent but shows no turn yet, which writes and holds that card. The
fold test that claimed an eviction path is renamed.
* fix(native-chat): the queue's pause ignores a Stop or Resume row holding a value no build writes
A Stop or Resume row's value is read from disk with no shape check, and
the pause fold stored whatever it found. A stored `stopEvent: null` would
then throw on every pause check for that chat: the queue's pick, its
send, and every queue update to clients. No build writes such a row, so
this is hardening.
The fold now reads a Stop only when it is an object with a string reason
and a finite time, and a Resume only when it is `true`. Anything else is
ignored: it pauses nothing and ends nothing. The row is still not treated
as malformed, which could cut the history short.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop still reads as yours after Orca restarts before the turn ends
Every stop that ends work now writes the Stop's event before it ends the child: a
person's close of the chat, an eviction (worktree teardown, orchestration stop, tab
cleanup) and the idle sweep's stop of a start that never landed. A stop that ends
nothing writes nothing, and quit writes none: its resume marker records why.
The turn-end write reads the latest Stop event where every turn row is built, so the
adapter's settle, the host's fallback and the relaunch's settle all agree: a turn a
person's Stop or close named, ending with no verdict of its own after that Stop, ends
as their cancellation. A relaunch's probe-bounded end is no earlier than a Stop that
found the turn running. When the provider refuses the interrupt and the turn runs on,
a refusal row answers the Stop, so a later crash still reads Failed; pressing Stop
again after a refusal is a new Stop.
* refactor(native-chat): a stop no longer carries its cause; the turn's end reads the Stop event
The cause of a stop was threaded in memory from each entry through the host's stop
step, the adapter router and each adapter's close onto the `ended` it settled with,
and Claude kept a per-turn copy of a Stop it sent. All of that is gone: adapters
settle a turn they cut as interrupted with no verdict, the host's fallback does the
same, and the one rule where a turn row is built (`turnEndAfterStop`) reads the
journal's latest Stop event to say whether it was a person's.
- `closeSession` / `disposeSession` take no cause; `ended` has no `stopCause`.
- Claude reads an error result after a person's Stop as their cancellation from the
journal's Stop event (through the event sink), not from a per-turn slot, and a
refused interrupt is the host's refusal row, not `withdrawTurnStop`.
- An owed wind-down keeps no cause: its retry's fallback reads the Stop event.
- The mutation context's Stop passes no cause: its step already wrote the event, and
the delivery loop's child-end reason is read back from it.
- A Stop pressed before its turn showed applies to the turn that opens under it,
unless a send a person made since was accepted.
* test(native-chat): a turn a later send opened is no Stop's that named no turn
* test(native-chat): the restart test's death proof carries its detail
* refactor(native-chat): a refused Stop leaves no record; a Stop only ever ends the turn it names
The stop-refused mark is gone: its tombstone kind, its fold, the clock-keyed match that tied it to
a Stop, and the exception that let a second press after a refusal write a new Stop. A Stop that
stops nothing writes nothing. A Codex refusal names a turn that is no longer its active one, and
the Stop names that turn, so the turn running instead never reads as the person's by its id alone.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop pressed before any turn showed stops only the turn opened next
A Stop that named no turn read as the person's cancellation for every later turn that opened
after it, until a send a person made was accepted. The queue's drain, orchestration mail and a
restart continuation send as the host, so a turn they opened long after, cut by a crash, read
"Interrupted" as if the person had stopped it. The Stop now applies only to the first turn
opened after it.
* fix(native-chat): an older Claude's error end after a Stop pressed before its echo reads Interrupted
Claude CLIs before 2.1.91 end an interrupted turn with an error result that names no reason. The
translator judged whether a person's Stop explained it by its own copy of the Stop rule, which
ignored a Stop that named no turn, so a Stop pressed before Claude echoed the send read "Failed".
The translator now writes such an end as interrupted with no verdict and no error row whenever a
person's Stop may name the turn, and the journal's one rule decides as it writes the end.
* fix(native-chat): a person's Stop and /clear each name why they end the agent
The host's mutation path ended the agent with one "recorded" ending for every caller, which read
back the reason of whatever Stop event the journal held last, however old. /clear writes no Stop
event, so its end took an unrelated earlier reason. Each caller now names its own: the chat's Stop
`user-stop`, whose event its own step wrote, and /clear `user-close`, the user replacing this chat.
* fix(native-chat): a host stop judges whether it ends work after the provider's rows land
A close, eviction or host stop decided whether it ended a running turn from the journal as it
stood, while the provider's own rows (the turn its echo opened) could still be in the session's
event sink. A close landing in that gap wrote no Stop event, so the turn it cut read as news. It
now reads after the sink drains, as a person's Stop does, through the same check; a drain that
fails or takes over a second reads working.
* fix(native-chat): a Claude Stop naming a turn that just ended still marks the follow-up it cuts
A phone names the turn it last saw. When that turn had ended and a follow-up was still unechoed,
Claude's Stop interrupted the follow-up and ended the child, but the Stop's event named the ended
turn, so the follow-up's turn the child's end cut read "Failed" under "Cancellation requested.".
A Stop that ends the provider's session ends whatever is in flight, so its event now names the
live turn or none, and a Stop that names none binds the turn opened next. Codex keeps naming only
the turn the Stop names.
The Claude Stop turn-end tests move to their own file, since the session-ending Stop suite is at
its line budget.
* fix(native-chat): the idle sweep reads working by the same rule as a stop's event
The sweep judged a chat resting while a send whose reply was lost was still unanswered, but the
stop's event writer counts that send as work. So the sweep evicted it and wrote an evict event,
which ends a person's Stop pause and let the cards behind it drain on their own. The sweep's owed
work now reads the main agent working the way every session list and the event writer do.
* test(native-chat): an aborted eviction's injected drain failure lands on the eviction's own drain
A host stop now drains the session's sink once to judge whether it ends work, so the tests that
fail the eviction's drain-published step skip that first drain.
* fix(native-chat): the idle sweep's rest writes no Stop event; it evicts a send that never echoes
The previous commit made the sweep count an unanswered send as owed work, which pins a chat whose
admitted send Codex never echoes forever, and the sweep exists to retire exactly that. That rule
returns. The sweep stops only an agent it judged resting, so its eviction now writes no Stop
event, whatever send it retires: a person's Stop pause holds through it.
* fix(native-chat): stopping a start that carries no send writes no Stop event
A host stop, eviction or close of a starting child wrote a Stop event whatever the start carried.
A start with a send already reads working, so the clause only mattered for a start with none,
which ends no turn and no send: its event only lifted a person's Stop pause and bumped the idle
clock, which is why the idle sweep had been changed to close the conversation in the same pass.
The clause goes and the sweep is #24072's again. The child's end still reads host-stop, as before.
* test(native-chat): a Stop's pause across a restart is tested with a restart that writes no event
The rig's restart closes the chat with an eviction, which now writes a Stop event when work runs
and so ends a person's Stop pause. "A Stop never hides a restart's pause" then passed with no Stop
pause left to hide anything. Those tests, and the pause-lift test whose dropped assertion returns,
restart as a process that dies with no close, which like a quit writes no Stop event, and assert
that both the Stop's and the restart's pauses are in force first.
* fix(native-chat): a host stop of a turn a person's Stop is still ending keeps that Stop's reason
An eviction or host stop that landed while a person's Stop or close was already ending the same
turn wrote a newer Stop event, and the turn's end reads only the latest, so the person's Stop of
that turn read as news. A host reason now writes nothing while a person's Stop still decides what
runs: the live turn it names or bound, or, with none, the turn a send opens next. The person's
own close still writes. The E2 tests now open and end the stopped send's own turn, as Codex does,
so the mail turn after it is not the turnless Stop's.
* fix(native-chat): an older Claude's error on a later turn keeps its error text after a Stop
The translator left an error result that names no reason to the journal's Stop rule whenever a
person's Stop named the turn or none, but the rule binds a Stop naming no turn only to the turn
opened next. So a real error on a later turn read "Failed" with its error text dropped. The
translator now asks the journal's rule itself (`personStopDecidesTurn`, the one core
`turnEndAfterStop` and a host stop's in-force check share), so the two cannot disagree.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop of a start that never landed binds no later turn, whatever sent it
A person's Stop pressed while the agent starts names no turn, and the send it stopped is
cancelled before it opens one. The Stop then bound the next turn anything opened (orchestration
mail, a restart continuation, the queue's drain, all of which send as the host), so a host
eviction of that turn wrote nothing and its crash or close read as the person's cancellation. A
Stop that named no turn now binds only a turn no send journaled after it opened: any send since,
of any origin and not refused, opens its own. The E2 test's mail send is accepted as Codex
accepts it, instead of opening the stopped send's own turn first.
* test(native-chat): a rewind's restated turnless Stop binds no turn opened after the rewind
A Codex rewind restates a person's Stop still in force after the turns it keeps, at a new
sequence, so by sequence alone it would bind the next turn opened after the rewind. A send
journaled after the restated row voids that binding (the previous commit), which this pins.
* fix(native-chat): a relaunch settles a person's stopped turn with no "stopped while in progress" row
After a restart, a turn a person's Stop ended reads "Interrupted after N" with the muted mark, but
the relaunch still added the error row saying the provider stopped mid-response, which a live Stop
never writes. The settle now skips that row when every turn it interrupts is the person's Stop's
by the journal's one rule; a crash nobody stopped keeps it.
* test(native-chat): the unexpected-exit settle's journal fake answers whether a person's Stop decides a turn
* fix(native-chat): a host stop whose sink drain fails reads the journal as it stands
A host stop drains the session's sink before judging whether it ends work, and a failed or slow
drain read as working. So an eviction of an agent at rest wrote a Stop event that ended nothing,
which lifts a person's Stop pause, and a close wrote a person's event naming no turn. The drain is
now best effort: the stop goes ahead either way and only its record is at stake, so a failed or
slow drain leaves the journal's read as it stands. A person's Stop keeps its own rule.
* fix(native-chat): a Stop that named no turn applies only to a turn a send it stopped opened
A person's Stop pressed before any turn showed names no turn. It bound the first turn opened
after it, then (5ead1f6bcc) any turn opened by no later send, so a turn the host started for
a card the Stop held, or for orchestration mail, read as the person's cancellation, and a host
eviction of it wrote no Stop event when its send had been abandoned by the close first.
The rule is now the concept itself: a Stop naming no turn applies to a turn opened by a send it
stopped, one already handed to the agent at the Stop's position. Nothing new is stored. The turn's
row names the send that opened it (Codex: the submission's key; Claude: the echo, which the journal
aliases to the submission), and a handed-over send's item sits at its handover, so the target set
is derived from the journal. A card the Stop held is handed over after it, so it is no target; a
Stop of a start whose send never opens a turn binds nothing; a rewind keeps no submissions, so a
restated Stop binds no turn opened after it. With no turn running, a host stop defers to the
person's Stop only while every unanswered send is one it stopped. Claude's translator, which asks
before its echo row lands, passes the send its echo acknowledged.
* fix(native-chat): a host stop whose sink drain runs long reads the agent working; a failed one reads the journal
A drain past its bound may still hold the turn's row, while the echo's acceptance has already
landed, so the journal as it stands read nothing running: a person's close of that turn wrote no
Stop event and the turn read as news. The two drain outcomes now differ: one that failed has
nothing more to deliver, so the journal's read holds (as before); one still running reads working.
* test(native-chat): a host stop with no turn running defers only while every unanswered send is the Stop's
The branch had no test. An eviction with only the stopped send unanswered writes nothing; one
with a send made after the Stop still unanswered writes its event.
* fix(native-chat): a slow sink drain reads working only while an accepted send's turn row is due
The previous commit read every drain past its bound as working, so a host eviction or stop of an
agent at rest during a sink backlog wrote a Stop event that ended nothing and lifted a person's
Stop pause. A slow drain now reads working only when the latest send the agent accepted has opened
no turn the journal holds, the race it was for; otherwise the journal's read holds.
* test(native-chat): the host-stop control keeps the stopped send unanswered beside the later one
With both unanswered, the host writes only because not every unanswered send is the Stop's; a rule
that deferred when any one was would pass the old control.
* fix(native-chat): a steer is no send owed a turn when a slow drain judges a host stop
A slow drain reads working when the latest accepted send has opened no turn yet. A Codex steer or
a Claude fold is accepted into the running turn and never opens one, so a chat at rest whose last
send was a steer still read working, and an eviction lifted a person's Stop pause. Sends delivered
into a running turn, whose item carries that turn's scope, are skipped.
* test(native-chat): type the Stop test envelope's fields narrowly
* test(native-chat): the retry of a close whose exit was unproven writes no second Stop event
The idle sweep finishes a stop left owed with that stop's own cause. It is the same stop, so its
event stands alone and the child's end keeps the cause, for a person's close and an eviction.
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