[nissa-seru]

Why. On main, the framework can post a resident's answer to an operator's console, TUI or API message in a channel. That message was private, so its answer should be too.

This change keeps the speech and calls of a turn that holds an operator's private message out of every channel the resident doesn't name. It supersedes #190, opened by @rufalupa666-netizen. It carries the seven tests that pull request adds to test/all-except-e2e.test.ts, adapted. Their titles and expected words follow this change's wording. In them, the operator's message arrives as a module's event.

A turn that holds an operator's private message

• base (main): its plain speech goes where any turn's would. That's a focused channel, the latest inbound channel under speech.locus: 'latest-inbound', a locked agent's lock, or a conversation fork's home. channel_publish naming no channel posts there too.
• head: in every prose mode, and over a lock, its plain speech goes to no channel. That speech gets no failure marker. It gets no draft either. As in any turn, a bounce or a send whose reach is unknown can still hold the words as drafts. An envelope's own words go where they would in any turn. No envelope sets a destination for the turn's later words. channel_publish naming no channel is refused, and one naming a channel posts. The next turn stays private after an undo of the answer, after a crash before it, and after a nudge or a self-wake. That lasts until the message has been answered and a channel's message is newer. Some module rows count as a channel's message here. Such a row names a channelId, and has no inbound source, kind or system flag. A reaction, a deletion or a chat:system notice doesn't count. An edit doesn't either, unless it's delivered as the agent's first view of its message.

An envelope in a private hybrid or explicit turn

• base (main): a >>> or >> envelope's destination applies to the turn's later unprefixed words too.
• head: each envelope's own words go where they would in any turn. The turn's later unprefixed words go to no channel. docs/hybrid-prose-routing.md and docs/explicit-prose-routing.md name the exception, old beside new in the details.

A room's turn that hears an operator's message partway through

• base (main): it goes on speaking in the room's channel.
• head: it's private from then to its end. A [routing] notice tells the resident so, unless the turn is silent or ends there. Some plain speech may already be waiting for a channel to open when the turn turns private. That speech still posts there.

A module that handles a turn's speech itself

• base (main): a module speech handler (onAgentSpeech) is handed a private turn's speech as any turn's. The built-in Discord module posts it to its reply context for that agent.
• head: the handler is told the turn is private (SpeechContext.private, new). A handler that publishes the speech it hears should post none of it. The built-in Discord module posts none of a private turn's speech, and edits none of its thoughts in. fix(routing): a turn from a non-channel surface pins no inferred locus #190 did the same with SpeechContext.nonChannelOrigin.

The turns a private turn causes

• base (main): its auto-continue, its ! continuation and a bounce's resend wake open turns that speak where any turn would. Where a host sets unpromptedChannel, the turn a skip_reply wake or a sleep's end starts can speak there.
• head: those turns are private too. So is a turn where one of those wakes merges with a room message's. Such a wake doesn't join a start that continues another open turn. It waits for that turn, then opens a private turn of its own. A private turn's re-runs are private too: a context-budget restart, a provider hold's or the error policy's retry, a rewind, a re-arm, and a turn the budget hold keeps, which reopens with its own open turn's routing. A skip_reply wake or a sleep's end while the operator's message is still unanswered opens a private turn, which takes no unpromptedChannel.

What residents read

• base (main): the descriptions of focus, tune_out, channel_publish and prose_locus say where plain speech goes. So do the locked primer and the results of focus, channel_open and prose_locus. None names an exception for a turn that holds an operator's private message. In locus and hybrid mode, a turn's open announces a channel that differs from the last one announced. In those modes, a heartbeat's open says its plain speech is held as a draft. In locked mode, an open announces the lock where it differs. A turn's delivery receipt names words kept private by choice.
• head: each of those texts names the exception. In a private turn, the results say its speech goes to no channel. Where a public turn's open would have a channel to speak in, a private turn's open says its plain speech goes to no channel. Outside locked mode, so does a heartbeat's private open that doesn't continue the heartbeat's run. A private turn's receipt gives words kept for the turn being private a line of their own: "(this turn is private)". Words kept by choice keep their own line. Old beside new is in the details. A host's prompt cache is rewritten once for each resident offered focus, tune_out, channel_publish or prose_locus.

What this leaves, each by choice:

• While an operator's message is unanswered, a room's message gets a private turn. The resident reads it and can answer with a send tool. Its plain speech reaches no channel.
• Some modules send external-message events that name no channelId, don't carry an operator's console, TUI or API input, and have a source that doesn't begin with mcpl:. This list calls them channelless module events. Examples are a channel's messages, or a timer's, a webhook's or a service's notices. A channelless module event now gets a private turn. That turn's answer goes to no channel. A module can name a channel in the event's metadata. The turn is then not private on that event's account. Where nothing else makes it private, its answer goes where plain speech went before this change. The wake still carries no channel. So naming a channel in the metadata doesn't by itself send the answer there. This is a breaking change for a module that sends channelless module events. changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md files it, with the migration. Thirteen of main's test files drove their turns with channelless module events, and now name a channel. test/unprompted-channel-routing.test.ts, which main added later, woke the turn that calls skip_reply in its timer tests with a console message, an operator's input, whose turn is now private. This change wakes it with the test module's message that names a channel, and adds a test of a wake that continues an operator's turn.
• An integration can wake a resident with the API's message.send. That now gets a private turn. Its answer goes to no channel unless the agent names one. Before, it went wherever plain speech went, such as a focused or locked channel. message.send has no way to name a channel. This is a breaking change for an integration that wakes a resident with message.send, filed in the same fragment.
• A silent start can read an operator's message, as a heartbeat's tick can. That start is private too, so channel_publish there has no default.
• Only the framework's own wakes and re-runs carry a private turn's mark. A private turn can start a script, timer, subagent or mail, or cancel a focus or tune-out. The turns those open are private only while the operator's message is still unanswered, or while no channel's message is newer. A module's own inference request can't carry the mark either. So the turn an async subagent's report opens is public once the operator's message has been answered and a channel's message is newer (A module's inference-request can't carry a turn's privacy, so an async subagent's report on a private turn is published to a channel #789).
• A private turn can end on a tool call, with no text after it. That leaves the message unanswered, so the next turn is private too.
• In a private turn, unprefixed words after an envelope go to no channel. That includes words a round wrote before the turn turned private and that are delivered after it. In any mode, some plain speech may already be waiting for a channel to open when the turn turns private. That speech still posts there. Each envelope's own words still go where they would in any turn.
• A host's own speech handler may publish all the speech it hears. Until it reads SpeechContext.private, it posts a private turn's speech too.
• The built-in Discord module's autoTyping types in its reply context's channel during a private turn too.
• Wakes that merge into one turn make it private if one of them is a private turn's. Take a public turn's own ! continuation, parked during a quiesce beside a private turn's late wake. It runs in the private turn the two open at the lift, and its words go to no channel.
• A conversation fork's drafts resend can name no destination. In a private turn too, it goes to the fork's home, the only channel it speaks in.
• A script may have no call watching it, or only a turn later than the one that started it. It then makes its calls as no turn's. A channel_publish naming no channel from such a script takes main's default, as on main. That's a conversation fork's home, or else the focus's channel, or under 'latest-inbound' the latest inbound channel.

Gideon-2613 ran workloads of this change on connectome-host cef93398: two at each of ba955e4979f2, 1110cb7e9503 and cfea7e2448ca, and two at cca929b80f33 against its parent. None of them reaches a locked agent's operator turn under its lock. No run went through a live console, TUI, WebUI or Discord server. One test has a private turn's wake come while a later public turn is held. That test uses the turn's ! continuation. A bounce's resend wake can come as late in explicit mode. By reading, it takes the same path.

Locked routing is @antra-tess's design. With this change, a locked agent's private turn speaks in no channel though its lock names one.

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• Changelog fragments added: changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md and changelog.d/private-turns.added.md.

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the change on a design Hamish-2699 and Tabitha-2696 drew up apart and Ada-1017 settled, with Nell-1783's rent pass of the design from her own least fix. The seven tests it carries, adapted, are Tabitha-2696's, from #190, which rufalupa666-netizen opened. Cedric-2714 made the change's rent pass and Hilda-2681 read it. Alfred-2570 made a second rent pass of the change from his own least fix, and a third of the last three rounds' growth from another. The third pass's one cut is in this change. Gideon-2613's runs under connectome-host found the two gaps that tests 26bba138e1fe and fix 1110cb7e9503 close. Ambrose-2449 checked the change against the one we'd make starting fresh, and ea4d58cabe5e takes his points as Ada-1017 called them. Hilda-2681 read that round and the merge, and the round that answers the eighth automatic review, where she traced the quiesce that led the hold to keep a private turn's retry and its unmarked equal once. Ezra-2423 wrote this description.

Details for agents

Head 286746bd575f, a merge of main 36b6dfe9de39, on 659221be2a63, which adds one test, on a3c9f6e007f7, a merge of main e0fa00f666e3 (0.34.0), on 07c0bd53a942, a merge of main 1582acb5cdc2 that also adds one test (Tests), on ddcb761dfa72: tests e7422674308a and ddcb761dfa72, which changes only comments, docs and changelog fragments, on tests 944f903376a7, fix 8f568df240b6, tests b166606786ab, fix f27329ee2140, tests 67a70cd27f89 and 3562bc562622, which changes docs only, on edf719b87a04, a merge of main 21e6b12417 into thirty-five commits on main aa134e75fc: tests ee6cfecf5c41, drivers f4bd1d8db6a9, fix e0c08d6d45cd, tests ca0c5e3aa41f, drivers 8f6b7e3ec475, fix b1cab5ce63e3, 42fd53e79afe, which changes only changelog.d, tests 0f345b75fc28, fix 542d7f86088f, ed8bb99cd44f, which changes docs, a changelog fragment, two test headers and the prose_locus tool's description, tests a840643b628c, fix 34299b16807d, tests a858675d374e and fix 264f29e36901, a44387070999, which changes comments only, tests 93668768d5a6 and fix db4c34ef4a66, tests e64f6a498d84, d4ed8e731a79, which changes only changelog.d, tests 5a67e6aec846, fix 08e1c4d59237, ba955e4979f2, which adds one comment, tests 26bba138e1fe, fix 1110cb7e9503, cecdc1b89db2, which changes only docs/dendrite.md and the changed fragment, tests 27278bbf3fdf, fix cfea7e2448ca, tests e17cec31ba95 and fix 61691a22ad71, which change only strings and test titles, tests 1616232f4db0, fix eaf93420306d, 89220564f0cc, which changes a test comment only, tests c7498ae309fa and fix cca929b80f33, and ea4d58cabe5e, which resolves a private open's would-be channel before it marks the turn private. Against main 36b6dfe9de39, src gains 343 lines and loses 89. Line cites are at the head.

Problem

An operator's private message is the row a module stores for an external-message or api:message event whose metadata names no channel (surfaceSourceFor's input). At aa134e75fc a turn that holds one takes its channel the way any turn does. The tests commit, run on main's src, fails 38 of 97 tests in the four files it touches. They include these places the answer can reach a channel:

• a focus's channel (under 'delivery', an operator's message while a focus holds is answered in no channel);
• the latest inbound channel (under 'latest-inbound', an operator's message after a room was answered is answered in no channel);
• a locked agent's lock (a locked agent's private turn that enters a focus …);
• a conversation fork's home, for plain speech and for channel_publish naming no channel (a conversation fork's private turn that enters a focus …, a conversation fork's private turn's channel_publish naming no channel is refused, not posted in its home);
• the locus of a room's turn that hears the message at a tool boundary (a surface row heard at a tool boundary makes a room turn private for the rest of it, and the turn is told).

The built-in Discord module's speech handler is another place, which the design missed. Its test came with the first review's round (the built-in Discord module posts none of a private turn's speech, and edits in none of its thoughts).

Changes

All in src/framework.ts unless named.

When a turn is private (privateWindowSurface, :1743, read with the mark through privateOpening, :24476, at a turn's open, :28350, and by an auto-continue's row, :28240, nothing stored). Its window holds an operator's message that no round of the agent's own with text and no tool call has come after, or one with no channel's message newer than it in the window.

• A round counts as the agent's answer by its row's participant, so a [delivered] receipt, stored as user with ownRowOf: 'assistant', doesn't answer it (answersOperator, :1724).
• A silent start's round, stamped silentHeartbeat, doesn't answer it.
• A row under the agent's name that a module stored with metadata.external, a copy of a message from outside such as the Discord history sync's copy of the agent's earlier post, doesn't answer it (:1729). The sync stores the agent's earlier posts that way when the module's client is first ready, and at a restart that finds the client connected (src/modules/discord/index.ts:494, :502). None of the agent's own answers carries metadata.external.
• A surface named mcpl:…, from an event whose source begins with mcpl:, such as the framework's own notice of an MCPL server's new tools, doesn't count (operatorSurface, :1719).
• A channel's message is a row whose inbound source envelope is a channel's, as an MCPL channel's row is, or a row with no envelope whose metadata names a channelId and that has no kind and no system flag, as a module's channel, such as the built-in Discord module's, stores its messages (channelConversation, :1735). A row with any other envelope, such as a push whose origin names a channel nothing resolves, doesn't count, nor does a framework row with a kind, such as a subconscious's note at a channel cancel. A row whose tags mark it as about a message or a place rather than said to anyone, a reaction, an edit, a deletion or a chat:system notice, doesn't count either (isMarkerTagged, the rule the channel registry reads), but for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message. A conversation fork's closure prompt, which names its home's channelId, doesn't count either (:1737).
• A turn whose wake carries InferenceRequest.privateCaller is private too (src/types/agent.ts).

The flip (makeTurnPrivate, :26022). A public turn that hears an operator's message at a tool boundary (:19773), or is presented one at a start that continues it, such as a provider hold's retry (:28353), turns private for the rest of it. The flip clears the locus, a >>> or >> pin and the typing indicator, and stores one [routing] notice, unless the turn is silent or ends at that boundary. An agent whose window the presentation index couldn't write down stays in legacy mode, its window the record, and is presented nothing at a start, so at a start that continues its turn, a budget restart and a tool-result guard's retry included, the window is read as at an open (privateWindowSurface). For such an agent the window is read again just before the stream is driven, after the compile, which reads the record, and after the start's checks (:28789). Nothing between the compile and this read waits. Its notice, unless the start is silent, first reaches the agent at its next start, which can be a later turn's (by reading: no test asserts which request carries it), and every word the stream delivers is routed as a private turn's. A start that a stop or a hold ends after its compile flips nothing. A message can be stored while a start waits, in its hooks or in the tool-result guard's annotation wait before the compile, at a start the run loop doesn't wait on: the error policy's retry after a stream fails mid-turn (:30886) and the tool-result guard's retry (:30020), which start inside driveStream, and a start parked behind an auxiliary call, which resumes outside the loop's pass (:27606). The run loop waits on an opening start it doesn't park, and on a budget restart that a tool boundary starts, and probes of both found the message not yet handled while their hooks waited.

What a private turn does. It has no locus: its open sets none (:28440), the flip clears it, and the writers that would set one leave it alone. Those writers are the addressed re-pin, channel_open, focus, and prose_locus, which moves the stored lock for later turns only. Where a public turn's open would have a channel to speak in, its lock included, or, outside locked mode, where a heartbeat woke it (not a continuation of the heartbeat's run), a private turn's open tells it its plain speech goes to no channel (:28447). The open reads that channel through resolveLocus, or its lock in locked mode, before it marks the turn private, at the open's end (:28483). It stores the flip's notice (above), naming the surface whose message its window holds, where the window read finds one (:28449), and otherwise main's no-channel notice, even where the last one announced was already none (:28450), as for a turn private by its wake's mark alone. It does so at each such open.

• Speech: routeLocusSpeech returns before sending (:24423), and hybrid delivery with no >>> destination returns before routing (:27128). Each counts the words in keptForPrivacy (:24424, :27129), so the turn's delivery receipt names them with the reason "this turn is private", apart from words the agent kept by choice, which keep main's reason (:24613–24614). Neither keeps a draft or writes a [send-undeliverable] marker.
• The registry: it's told no active channel (:36548), no home (:36524) and a channelless turn (:24801). So it takes no unpromptedChannel, the channel main gives a turn that a skip_reply wake or a sleep's end starts. Only the registry's fallback resolves that channel (globalFallbackFor, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6136), and a private turn's resolvers answer before it. So channel_publish naming no channel is refused, and a server's context/beforeInference at a start that's private when it runs is told no outgoing channel and no incoming message. A legacy start that turns private only at the read after its hooks, such as the error policy's retry, has already told them its channel and the message it answers.
• A fork: a conversation fork's dispatch doesn't default a private turn's unnamed channel_publish to its home (unnamedPrivatePublish, :40951).
• Typing and traces: typing at an explicit or disabled turn's open shows nowhere (:22794), and followTurnLocus names no channel after a flip (:29353).
• Unposted speech: a private turn in locus or locked mode names no unposted speech from an XML-prefill round (:19532), since nothing it wrote without a send would have posted. In explicit and hybrid mode an envelope's words would have, so the [speech-not-posted] notice stays as main has it.
• Speech handlers: dispatchSpeech sets SpeechContext.private for a private turn (:30491; src/types/module.ts:866), and the built-in Discord module's onAgentSpeech returns on it (src/modules/discord/index.ts:909). The field's doc asks a handler that publishes the speech it hears to post none of a private turn's.
• Envelopes: in a private turn no envelope sets a destination for the turn's later words. The three places that set the turn's pin do so only in a public turn: routeSilencedHybrid (:23576), for a hybrid target a send in the round reached, deliverHybridEnvelope (:27083) and deliverProseEnvelope (:27245). A round's >>> or >> deliveries run on the speech chain, which a tool boundary doesn't wait for, so a round queued while the turn was public and delivered after the flip sets none either. Each envelope's own words still go where they would in any turn.
• Sleep and invitations: a sleep in a private turn posts no announcement (:42309), in explicit mode too, where it announces only to the turn's pin (:42297), which a private turn doesn't have, and a locked reader's closed-channel invitation says the turn's speech goes to no channel (:21440).

The turns it causes. turnMarks (:24470) gives the framework's own wakes from a private turn privateCaller. Those wakes are its ! continuation, a prose bounce's resend wake, and its auto-continue, which names no channel (:26652). The batch merge ORs the mark (:23348). In a batch with another request, a marked wake that isn't the open turn's own continuation or retry goes back to the queue (:23087) and opens a private turn of its own after that turn. A batch of marked wakes alone isn't split, and no path traced has one meet an open turn with no live turn. A quiesce's park keys a marked wake apart, as it keys a heartbeat's wake (:23042), so an unmarked wake of the same reason parked later doesn't absorb it, and the provider hold keeps a marked request and an unmarked one equal to it once, with the mark (holdRequest, :7351), so a cause runs one turn, private. In explicit mode a turn that a tool ends doesn't wait for its deliveries, so its ! continuation, and a bounce's resend wake, can come while a later public turn is held for a retry. Every request the framework builds to continue, re-run or re-arm a turn copies the trigger of the start it continues or retries, or takes the mark from the turn's routing: a context-budget restart's continuation (:19916), a refusal rewind's retry and /unstick's (:30425), the poisoned-history rewind's retry (:36330), a re-arm (:7488) and a provider hold's retry (:24493). So a private silent tick's retry stays private after the operator's message has left its window, whether it starts alone or with a room's wake. A direct-API round's tool_results_ready (:20050) takes no mark. With a framework turn open, the start that continues it keeps that turn's routing, private or not. With none open, the routing it would read is the framework's last turn's, not this round's. A turn that turned private mid-turn takes the mark from its routing too. A refusal rewind's shed can take the operator's message out of the agent's window, and then the mark alone keeps the retry private, as a test shows. The split above keeps the open turn's own continuations and retries in its batch: a marked budget restart reaches it, since the resume split sends back only the requests that aren't continuations (:23076), and stays with an unmarked continuation of its turn.

Words residents read, old beside new, below. docs/dendrite.md gains a "Private turns" section, and docs/locked-prose-routing.md a section "A private turn". The changelog fragments are changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md, for authors of a module whose external-message names no channelId and isn't an operator's input, and for integrations that wake a resident with message.send, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md, with a Hosts: line for modules that publish the speech they hear, and changelog.d/private-turns.added.md for SpeechContext.private. changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md also says a private turn doesn't take unpromptedChannel, which main's 0.34.0 added. The public type docs of proseRouting's locked mode, proseLock, InferenceRequest.channelId and InferenceRequest.heartbeatTurn name the exception (src/types/agent.ts).

Pieces weighed and left out:

• announceLocusIfChanged's always (:25065) writes past an unchanged baseline, for the private open alone.

• OPERATOR_PENDING (:781) and privateTurnSpeech (:24402).

  • OPERATOR_PENDING is the condition as the agent is told it. The locked primer, the prose_locus results and the tune_out and focus result share it.
  • privateTurnSpeech is the no-channel sentence that the channel_open result and the tune_out and focus result share.
  • Without the two, each of those texts would spell them out. The prose_locus, channel_open and tune_out results still write the no-channel sentence's opening out on their other paths (:25016, :41129, :41756).

• keptForPrivacy (:1617), a count of its own beside keptPrivate. One count, with a reason chosen by whether the turn was private, named words a private turn's agent kept with skip_reply, or kept before the turn turned private, as kept for privacy.

• A guard on publishInputWithTurnLocus's default (:23408), which reads the agent's latest routing through resolveLocus, not the calling turn's. While a script's call carries a turn's id, the latest routing is that turn's:

  • a script's call names a turn only while a run or wait call watching it is out (dispatchScriptToolCall, :33148);
  • runInferencePass starts no other turn while the agent is waiting_for_tools, inferring or streaming, or its turn is alive (:23100, :23112);
  • a silent wake batched with another isn't started apart (silentOnly, :23316).

  main's routing choice says so too, "No silent start runs while a prose turn is open in production" (:28293). Two comments read as defensive against it: callingTurnOf's (:26773) and the one in publishInputWithTurnLocus. A mutant adding the guard (callingTurn.private ? null) at e0c08d6d45cd fails no test, so no test reaches the difference.

• A script's call that names no turn. A script makes its calls as no turn's while no call watches it (the watch clears when its run, wait or stop call returns), and when the turn watching it is later than the one that started it (callingTurnOf's check of the turn that started the script). dispatchChannelToolCall then passes no inTurn: a conversation fork's dispatch puts its home in, as on main, and otherwise the registry's publish takes main's fallback for the agent, which reads no turn's privacy. main documents such a script as running "apart from any turn" (ToolCall.callerTurnId), so this change leaves its calls as they are. A probe at e0c08d6d45cd's tree, not part of the change, ran under 'latest-inbound': after a room turn in work and a private turn that answered, while the latest turn was private, dispatchScriptToolCall with no turn posted a channel_publish naming no channel to work. It drove neither a real script, nor a later turn's wait, nor a focus's channel.

• The release turn of a focus or tune-out cancel is the released backlog's, private only as its window makes it.

• Guards on the readers of a turn's locus. A private turn is kept from having a locus where one is set. Plain speech and the registry's resolvers read the turn's flag themselves, but channel_publish's default reads the calling turn's locus first. So a later change that set a locus in a private turn without that check would give channel_publish naming no channel that locus, and would mislead the notices that read it, such as the addressed-elsewhere notice. Plain speech would still go to none.

What residents read, old beside new

The channel names below (#lounge, #ops, #home) and the surface name (tui) are examples. P is: "a message from a surface with no channel (such as a console, the TUI or an API call) in your context is unanswered, or no channel's message there is newer, or on a turn that continues one where that held".

Tool descriptions, each rewritten once in a host's prompt cache:

• focus: old "…your plain speech lands in the focused channel. The same hold as tune_out…"; new "…your plain speech lands in the focused channel, except while P: then it goes to no channel. The same hold as tune_out…".
• tune_out: old "…your plain speech lands in that channel meanwhile; Muse pauses…"; new "…your plain speech lands in that channel meanwhile, except while P: then it goes to no channel; Muse pauses…" (the reader's name as configured).
• channel_publish (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:572): old "A turn with no channel of its own, such as a heartbeat's, has no default, so it names one."; new "A turn with no channel of its own has no default, so it names one. Such a turn is any turn while a message from a surface with no channel (such as a console, the TUI or an API call) in your context is unanswered, or no channel's message there is newer, or one that continues such a turn. A heartbeat's turn has none either, unless prose_locus points your plain speech at a channel." On a host with unpromptedChannel and an event gate, main's description adds a clause for a turn a skip_reply wake or a sleep's end started, "otherwise, on a turn your own skip_reply wake or the end of your sleep started (or a turn continuing one, when your plain speech isn't routed), the channel this host names for such turns", and its old sentence reads "A turn with no channel by design, such as a heartbeat's, has no default, so it names one." This change's text keeps that clause, and its sentences above in place of that one.
• prose_locus: after "…a heartbeat and channel_open never move it.", new "While P, your plain speech goes to no channel wherever this points; a change made then is kept for later turns."; and old "…holds this turn's plain speech as drafts; the result says which."; new "…holds this turn's plain speech as drafts, but for a private turn's; the result says which."

The locked primer, stored once when an agent's mode becomes locked, so an agent primed before keeps its old row: old "Locked routing: your plain speech goes to #lounge, on every turn, until you move it with prose_locus. The channel a message comes from…"; new "…on every turn, until you move it with prose_locus, except while P: then it goes to no channel. The channel a message comes from…".

The prose_help result: after "A destination applies to the rest of that turn, until another is named.", new "In a private turn it applies only to its own envelope's words."

focus results:

• in every turn, the excepted-channel forms end, old "…except on a turn that has no channel, such as a heartbeat's."; new "…except on a turn that has no channel: a heartbeat's, or any turn while P.";
• in a public turn of a conversation fork, old "Your plain speech stays in #home, your conversation's channel."; new "…your conversation's channel, except while P: then it goes to no channel.";
• in a private turn of a conversation fork, old "Your plain speech stays in #home, your conversation's channel."; new "This turn has no channel, so its plain speech goes to none; from your next turn it stays in #home, your conversation's channel, except while P.";
• in a locked agent's private turn, old "Your plain speech still goes to #lounge. prose_locus moves it."; new "This turn has no channel, so its plain speech goes to none; from your next turn it goes to #lounge, except while P. prose_locus moves it.";
• in any other private turn, main's no-channel form: "This turn has no channel, so its plain speech goes to none; from your next turn it lands in the excepted channel while this holds, except on a turn that has no channel: a heartbeat's, or any turn while P."

channel_open results in a private turn:

• locked, old "Your plain speech still goes to #lounge. prose_locus moves it. Other channels need an explicit send tool."; new "This turn has no channel, so its plain speech goes to none; from your next turn it goes to #lounge, except while P. prose_locus moves it. Reaching a channel takes an explicit send.";
• locus or hybrid, old "Your plain speech now lands in this channel. Other channels need an explicit send tool."; new "This turn has no channel, so its plain speech goes to none. Reaching this channel takes an explicit send."

prose_locus results in a locked agent's private turn:

• reading it, old "Your plain speech goes to #lounge."; new "Your plain speech goes to no channel on this turn, which has none; from your next turn it goes to #lounge, except while P.";
• moving it, old "Your plain speech now goes to #ops, on this turn's later rounds and on later turns, until you change it."; new "Your plain speech now goes to #ops from your next turn, until you change it, except while P. This turn has no channel, so its plain speech goes to none."

Notices:

• the addressed-elsewhere notice in a locked agent's private turn, old "…Your plain speech still lands in #lounge; reaching them takes an explicit send."; new "…Your plain speech stays in your archive (no channel) this turn; reaching them takes an explicit send.";
• a closed channel's invitation in a locked agent's private turn, old "1. Reply — your plain speech goes to #lounge, not here. To reply here, check whether exposes a send tool that can address it, or point prose_locus here.", or, where the lock is that channel, "1. Reply — your plain speech goes to this channel: write your reply with no prefix; …"; new "1. Reply — your plain speech goes to no channel this turn, not here. To reply here, check whether exposes a send tool that can address it.";
• the bounce of unprefixed words with no destination in a private turn, old reason "no destination prefix, and this turn has no destination now"; new "…no destination now: it's private, so a destination applies only to its own envelope's words";
• the flip, new: "[routing] This turn now holds a message from tui, which has no channel, so your plain speech goes to no channel for the rest of this turn; reaching a channel takes an explicit send.";
• an auto-continue's row in a private turn, old "…If you're done, call skip_reply; anything you write without it is sent as usual.", or in a heartbeat's run "…plain words you write without it and with no destination are held as drafts, as on the heartbeat's turn, and an explicit send reaches a channel."; new "…If you're done, call skip_reply; plain words you write without it and with no destination go to no channel this turn, and an explicit send reaches a channel.";
• a turn private from its open, where a public turn's open would have had a channel to speak in or, outside locked mode, a heartbeat's drafts (not on a continuation of the heartbeat's run), gets the flip's notice above where its window holds the operator's message, and otherwise main's no-channel notice even where the last one announced was already none. That includes a private open that loses the destination the agent was last told of (in locked mode, its lock), such as a locked agent's operator turn under its lock after a public turn; any other turn private from its open gets that notice when the last destination the agent was told of was a channel. The notice: "[routing] Your plain speech currently has no channel — it stays in your archive. Use an explicit send tool to reach a channel.";
• the delivery receipt of a private turn whose plain speech went to no channel, new: "[delivered] nothing — 1 plain-speech segment(s) kept private (this turn is private)". Words the agent kept by choice keep their own line, as on main: "…kept private (skip_reply, a drafts call or a private think)".

Docs:

• docs/auto-continue.md, "What the agent reads": after "…envelope instead.", new "A continuation whose turn is private (docs/dendrite.md, "Private turns") says instead that plain words you write without it and with no destination go to no channel this turn, and an explicit send reaches a channel."
• docs/dendrite.md, the 'delivery' rule: old "A turn with no locus takes its home channel if it's a conversation fork…"; new "A private turn has no default (Private turns, below). Any other turn with no locus takes its home channel if it's a conversation fork…". In its paragraph on unpromptedChannel, the list of turns that don't take it gains "a private turn's (Private turns, below)".
• docs/dendrite.md, "The speech locus": new last sentence, "A private turn, one that holds an operator's private message, follows neither the rules nor a lock: it speaks in no channel (Private turns, below)."
• docs/dendrite.md, "The all-except scope": old "While it holds, a turn with no delivery of its own speaks into the excepted channel (nissa's reply order: explicit target, waking delivery, focus destination, otherwise private). A locked agent's turns keep speaking at their lock:"; new "While it holds, a turn with no delivery of its own speaks into the excepted channel. The reply order is explicit target, waking delivery, focus destination, otherwise private, and a private turn (Private turns, above) goes from an explicit target straight to private. A locked agent's turns keep speaking at their lock, but for a private one:".
• docs/locked-prose-routing.md:
  • old "to one destination the resident chose, on every turn, and lets nothing move it automatically"; new "…on every turn but a private one (below), and lets nothing move it automatically";
  • old "a heartbeat's turn speaks into the lock like any other"; new "…like any other turn that isn't private";
  • old "It applies to the calling turn's later rounds and to every later turn"; new "It applies to the calling turn's later rounds, unless that turn is private (below), and to every later turn";
  • old "…and that plain speech still lands in the lock, so reaching them takes an explicit send"; new "…and that plain speech still lands in the lock (in a private turn, that it stays in the archive), so reaching them takes an explicit send";
  • old "holds its plain speech as drafts (no-destination). Holding is what the resident asked for"; new "…as drafts (no-destination), unless it's private ("A private turn", above). Holding is what the resident asked for";
  • after "…receives it in locked mode as it does in every other mode, disabled and explicit included.", new "In a private turn it's told so (SpeechContext.private), and the in-process Discord module posts none of it.";
  • old "A move during such a turn holds the rest of the turn's plain speech as drafts"; new "A move during such a turn, unless it's private, holds the rest of the turn's plain speech as drafts";
  • after "With no proseLock, plain speech is held as drafts until the resident chooses.", new "A private turn's plain speech isn't held as drafts, unless a send in the turn has left its reach unknown ("A private turn", above)."
• docs/hybrid-prose-routing.md: old "Unprefixed prose after a successful envelope follows that explicit destination for the remainder of the turn; a fresh turn begins at its ordinary locus."; new "…for the remainder of the turn, except in a private turn, where it goes to no channel (docs/dendrite.md, "Private turns"); a fresh turn begins at its ordinary locus."
• docs/explicit-prose-routing.md, "Sticky within the turn": old "A round kept private (one that calls skip_reply, or has a same-round private think) sets no target."; new "…sets no target, and nor does any round of a private turn (docs/dendrite.md, "Private turns")."
• docs/disabled-prose-routing.md: old "…shows none, and so does a conversation fork that a gate batch wakes for another channel's message."; new "…shows none, and so do a conversation fork that a gate batch wakes for another channel's message and a private turn (docs/dendrite.md, "Private turns")."

Tests

Every run below was on Linux x86_64, Node v24.22.2 and npm 11.19.1, after npm install, with @animalabs/chronicle 0.6.0, @animalabs/context-manager 0.25.0 (0.25.1 at the merge), @animalabs/mcpl-core 0.4.0, @animalabs/membrane 0.8.0 and typescript 7.0.2, at a clean checkout of the commit named, but for those marked otherwise. A built run builds with tsc, copies what pretest copies, and runs dist/test with node --test --test-force-exit, as npm test does. The other runs run test with node --import tsx --test --test-force-exit, with tsx 4.23.15.

• Red, tests ee6cfecf5c41 on main's src, under tsx: in test/private-turns.test.ts, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts, test/tune-out-tool-text.test.ts and test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts, 38 of 97 fail. 21 of private-turns' 23 fail; the two that pass are its controls, "a room turn after an answered private exchange routes as before" and "a stored tools notice makes no turn private at its open, and one heard at a boundary flips none". In all-except-e2e, the eight private-turn tests make 15 runs with their parameters, and 14 fail; the one that passes is the control "under 'latest-inbound', the turn a focus cancel wakes speaks in the latest inbound when a room turn cancelled". The other three failures are a focus result's words in all-except-e2e, tune_out's description and the locked primer.
• Drivers f4bd1d8db6a9 on main's src, under tsx: the four files whose driving events now name a channel pass 200 of 200 (auto-continue, cancel-surfaces-as-error, explicit-prose-routing, tool-wrapper-prose-guard-integration).
• Red, tests ca0c5e3aa41f on e0c08d6d45cd's src, under tsx: in test/private-turns.test.ts and test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts, 11 of 65 fail, the eleven tests the commit adds. Eight fail at their own assertions. Three fail at their premise that the operator's turn was private, which they read from SpeechContext.private, not there yet: the test of a module's channel message and the two tests of rows that aren't a channel's message. The mutants below show each of those three fails without its piece.
• Drivers 8f6b7e3ec475 on e0c08d6d45cd's src, built: the ten files it changes pass 606 of 606. The build's only errors are two in the tests commit's files, which use SpeechContext.private.
• Fix b1cab5ce63e3, built: those ten files and six more, private-turns, locked-prose-routing, all-except-e2e, tune-out-tool-text and the Discord module's discord-thoughts-own-turn and discord-send-thread, pass 746 of 746, and the build reports nothing.
• 93 test files at b1cab5ce63e3, built: the 83 named below and the ten, 2,845 tests, none fail. At main aa134e75fc, the 92 of them that exist there pass 2,796 of 2,796.
• 83 test files at e0c08d6d45cd, under tsx, the nine the first three commits touch and 74 more chosen from the admission, routing, channel, prose, tune-out, presentation, heartbeat and undo tests: 2,228 tests, 14 fail, and tsc --noEmit reports nothing. At main aa134e75fc, the 82 of them that exist there fail the same 14 tests, by name.
• Red, tests 0f345b75fc28 on 42fd53e79afe's src, under tsx: in private-turns, all-except-e2e and locked-prose-routing, 10 of 111 fail, the ten tests the commit adds, each at its own assertion.
• Fix 542d7f86088f, built: the 93 files above and twelve of the scheduler's (busy-agent-scheduler, held-turn-retry, held-wakes-gated, provider-acceleration-cooldown, host-quiesce, turn-continuation, continuing-start-silence, exhausted-turn-rearm, deferred-wake-integrity, batched-wake-line, provider-waits, overbudget-drain-breaker), 3,299 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing. At 42fd53e79afe the twelve pass 444 of 444.
• Mutants, at 542d7f86088f, under tsx: 41 mutants, each undoing one piece: 40 run on private-turns and all-except-e2e (79 tests), and one on locked-prose-routing (32 tests). The control fails none of the 79, and every mutant fails each test written for its piece, here with the number that fail:
  • when a turn is private: the window read always public (46), a silent tick's round counting as an answer (1), a delivery receipt counting as one (1), the MCPL tools notice counting as a surface (1), a module's row naming a channelId not counting as a channel's message (1), a row with a kind counting as one (1), a row with another envelope counting as one (1), and a reaction, edit or deletion counting as one (4);
  • the flip: none at a tool boundary (7), none at a continuing start (3), none at a legacy-mode agent's continuing start (2), none at a resume (1), its notice (7), and each thing it clears: the locus (1), the pin (4), typing (1), and typing named by followTurnLocus (1);
  • the registry's readers: the active channel (5), the home (2), a channelless turn (11), and typing at an explicit turn's open (2);
  • the writers: the addressed re-pin (1), channel_open (1), focus (1), prose_locus moving the turn (1), the addressed-elsewhere words (1), and a fork's home default for channel_publish (1);
  • speech: routeLocusSpeech (1), hybrid delivery's marker (1), SpeechContext.private left unset (7), the Discord module's return (1), the sleep's announcement (1), and the locked invitation's words (1, in locked-prose-routing);
  • envelopes in a private turn: the hybrid pin guard (2), the explicit one (3), and routeSilencedHybrid's (1);
  • the turns it causes: the mark on the framework's own wakes (4), the batch merge's OR (1), the open reading the mark (4), a marked wake kept out of an open turn's start (1), and the quiesce park's key (1).
• ed8bb99cd44f: between 542d7f86088f and ed8bb99cd44f, the only changes to what the runs above ran are the prose_locus tool's description string and the header comments of two test files.
• Red, tests a840643b628c on ed8bb99cd44f's src, under tsx: in private-turns, all-except-e2e, locked-prose-routing, explicit-prose-routing, inference-exhaustion-rewind, exhausted-turn-rearm, auto-continue and heard-mid-turn-wake, 8 of 432 fail, each at its own assertion: six of the tests the commit adds, and the two it extends with an assertion of the round's.
• Fix 34299b16807d, built: the 105 files above and seven more (inference-exhaustion-rewind, refusal-rewind, physical-window-restart, end-turn-usage, inference-failure-bounds, inference-bounds, config-switches), 3,511 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at 34299b16807d, under tsx: the 41 above, one re-aimed at opensPrivate, and eight for the round, each undoing one piece: the mark at each of the five builders, the split's keeping of the open turn's continuations, the auto-continue row's privacy, and its words. Each runs on the test files of its piece. The control fails none of 82 in private-turns and all-except-e2e, and every mutant fails each test written for its piece.
• Tests a858675d374e: with its private-turns file on ed8bb99cd44f's src, a checkout of ed8bb99cd44f with that one file changed, not a clean checkout, under tsx, 5 of 47 fail, each at its own assertion: the four of that file the round's red names and its new test. On 34299b16807d's src, the commit's own, all 47 pass.
• Fix 264f29e36901, built: the 112 files, 3,512 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at 264f29e36901, under tsx: the 49 above, each holding again, and the refusal rewind's mutant fails the new test too. The control fails none of 83.
• The runs at a858675d374e and 264f29e36901 checked out earlier commits with the same trees, before their messages were reworded.
• a44387070999: between 264f29e36901 and a44387070999, only comments change: two in test files go, and InferenceRequest.privateCaller's doc says more.
• Red, tests 93668768d5a6, whose src is a44387070999's, under tsx: in private-turns, heard-mid-turn-wake, prose-drafts and explicit-prose-routing, 10 of 493 fail. Five are the tests that commit names, each at its own assertion. The other five are prose-drafts tests that fail the same way under tsx at fix db4c34ef4a66, which fails only those five; they pass in the built run.
• Fix db4c34ef4a66, built: the 112 files, 3,517 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at db4c34ef4a66, under tsx: 53. Those above but the fallback's, which this round removes, and five for its pieces. 50 hold, and the control fails none of 86. Three hold no longer: the legacy branch of the continuing start's read, that read skipped at a resume, and no continuing flip. The read after the hooks makes those turns private too, so nothing pinned the read before them.
• Tests e64f6a498d84: the two legacy continuing-start tests assert that the start's hooks were told no channel and no message. private-turns passes 50 of 50 there, and those three mutants each fail the new assertion, with the control failing none of 86.
• d4ed8e731a79: between e64f6a498d84 and d4ed8e731a79, only the changed fragment changes.
• Red, tests 5a67e6aec846, whose src is d4ed8e731a79's, under tsx: in private-turns, prose-drafts, explicit-prose-routing and inference-exhaustion-rewind, 8 of 456 fail. Three are the tests that commit names, each at its own assertion. The other five are the prose-drafts tests that fail the same way under tsx at fix 08e1c4d59237, which fails only those five of the 456.
  The stop test passes there too, and at 08e1c4d59237: it pins that the read comes after the start's checks.
• Fix 08e1c4d59237, built: the 112 files, 3,520 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at 08e1c4d59237, under tsx: 57: the 53 above, with the split's mutant replaced by two halves, one per exclusion, and three for this round's pieces. The legacy read's mutant is re-aimed at its new place. All hold, and the control fails none of 89. Two whose tests this round retitled were rerun with the new titles.
• ba955e4979f2: between 08e1c4d59237 and ba955e4979f2, only one comment line is added.
• Red, tests 26bba138e1fe, whose src is ba955e4979f2's, under tsx: private-turns fails 5 of 58, each at its own assertion: a room message after a private turn that failed on its tool round opens a private turn that's told so; two such room messages in a row are each told; in locus and hybrid mode the receipt names the kept speech and is traced; and a private turn's reply's receipt names it as kept.
• Fix 1110cb7e9503, built: the 112 files, 3,525 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at 1110cb7e9503, under tsx: 62: the 57 above and five for this round's pieces, the open's notice, its public read, each site's count and the receipt's reason. All hold, and the control fails none of 94.
• cecdc1b89db2: between 1110cb7e9503 and cecdc1b89db2, only docs/dendrite.md and the changed fragment change.
• Red, tests 27278bbf3fdf, whose src is cecdc1b89db2's, under tsx: over private-turns, tune-out-tool-text, all-except-e2e and locked-prose-routing, 7 of 137 fail, each at its own assertion. Those are four tests: a module's copy of the agent's earlier post isn't an answer; each heartbeat while the operator's message is unanswered is told; a private turn's receipt gives each kept count its reason; a turn private by its wake's mark alone is told its plain speech has no channel. The other three are the expected texts of the tune_out description, a focus result and the locked primer.
• Fix cfea7e2448ca, under tsx: the same four files, 137 tests, none fail.
• Fix cfea7e2448ca, built: the 112 files, 3,529 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at cfea7e2448ca, under tsx: 66: the 62 above, re-anchored where this round moved their code, and four for this round's pieces (the copy from outside, a heartbeat's telling, privacy's own count, the notice past a null baseline). All hold, and the control fails none of 98.
• Red, tests e17cec31ba95, whose src is cfea7e2448ca's, under tsx: over tune-out-tool-text, all-except-e2e and locked-prose-routing, 3 of 75 fail, each at its expected text of P.
• Fix 61691a22ad71, under tsx: those three files and private-turns, 137 tests, none fail. Between cfea7e2448ca and 61691a22ad71, only strings and test titles change. The three mutants whose tests this round retitled hold at 61691a22ad71, and the control fails none of 98.
• Red, tests 1616232f4db0, whose src is 61691a22ad71's, under tsx: in private-turns and prose-drafts, 6 of 329 fail. One is the test that commit adds for a silent tick's hold retry, at "the retry's turn is private, as the tick was". The other five are the prose-drafts tests that fail the same way under tsx at fix eaf93420306d. That fix fails only those five of the 329.
• Fix eaf93420306d, built: the 112 files, 3,530 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• 89220564f0cc: between eaf93420306d and 89220564f0cc, only a test comment changes.
• Red, tests c7498ae309fa, whose src is 89220564f0cc's, under tsx: private-turns fails 1 of 64, the test that commit adds, at "the room turn's open told it why, by the flip's notice".
• Fix cca929b80f33, under tsx: in private-turns, prose-drafts, routing-baseline-restart, locked-prose-routing and all-except-e2e, 5 of 403 fail. They're the five prose-drafts tests above.
• Fix cca929b80f33, built: the 112 files, 3,531 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at cca929b80f33, under tsx: 68: the 66 above, under their tests' new titles, two of them re-anchored where the rent cut moved their code, and two for these rounds' pieces (the silent tick's hold retry, and the flip's notice where the open loses the destination last told). All hold, and the control fails none of 100.
• ea4d58cabe5e: between cca929b80f33 and ea4d58cabe5e, only src/framework.ts changes. A private open resolves the channel a public open would have before it marks the turn private, privateOpening (once opensPrivate) returns the surface its read found so the open reads the window once, and heartbeatTurnMark is renamed turnMarks.
• Fix ea4d58cabe5e, under tsx: the five files above, 5 of 403 fail, the five prose-drafts tests above.
• Fix ea4d58cabe5e, built: the 112 files, 3,531 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, under tsx, at a commit whose tree differs from ea4d58cabe5e's only in three comment lines: the 68 above, one re-aimed to mark the turn private at the open before the channel is resolved, which fails 4, and two re-anchored. All hold, and the control fails none of 100.
• Merge edf719b87a04, built: the 112 files and the nine test files main changed since aa134e75fc that aren't among them, 121 files, 3,798 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Merge edf719b87a04, under tsx: the five files above, 5 of 403 fail, the five prose-drafts tests above.
• Red, the merge's test/unprompted-channel-routing.test.ts on main 21e6b12417, a checkout of 21e6b12417 with that one file changed, built: 4 of 39 fail. Three are the tests of channel_publish's description, at its expected text. The fourth is the new test of a skip_reply wake that continues an operator's turn, where main posts the wake's turn's words to the unprompted channel.
• Red, at a commit whose tree differs from tests 944f903376a7's only in a type in test/private-turns.test.ts and in test/held-turn-retry.test.ts, under tsx: the five files above, 6 of 404 fail. Five are the prose-drafts tests above. The sixth is the new test of a private silent tick's retry that starts with a room's wake, at "the turn the retry starts with the room's wake is private, as the tick was".
• Fix, at a commit whose tree differs from 8f568df240b6's in the same two files, under tsx: the five files above, 5 of 404 fail, the five prose-drafts tests above.
• Fix 8f568df240b6, built: the 121 files above, 3,799 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Red, tests b166606786ab, whose src is 8f568df240b6's, under tsx: in private-turns and held-turn-retry, 7 of 151 fail. Two are the hold's test of a private turn's request beside its unmarked equal, and the new test of a private turn's retry held beside one under a quiesce. The other five are held-turn-retry tests that fold a request into an equal one, at their premise that the hold folds them.
• Fix f27329ee2140, under tsx: the five files above and held-turn-retry, 5 of 490 fail, the five prose-drafts tests above.
• Fix f27329ee2140, built: the 121 files above, 3,800 tests, none fail, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at f27329ee2140, under tsx: 69. They're the 68 above, with two re-anchored where the merge moved their code, the silent start's gone with its line, and the hold's now undoing the fold's mark, and two new: the retry's mark, and equality comparing the mark. 68 hold, and the control fails none of 102. The re-arm's mutant failed none, since its test reached the re-arm through retries that now carry the mark.
• Tests 67a70cd27f89: that test now reaches the re-arm with no retry. Under tsx, exhausted-turn-rearm passes 85 of 85. With the re-arm's mutant it fails 1 of 85, that test, at "the re-armed turn is private", and the control fails none of 102. Built, with private-turns, 151 of 151 pass, and the build reports nothing.
• 3562bc562622: between 67a70cd27f89 and 3562bc562622, only InferenceRequest.privateCaller's doc comment in src/types/agent.ts, docs/dendrite.md and the changed fragment change.
• Tests e7422674308a: a module's row for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message, after an answered operator's message, makes the next turn public. The legacy-stop test waits for a flag its hook sets after the stop. These runs were at 6f0c0a357752, whose tree differs from ddcb761dfa72's only in TurnRouting.heartbeat's doc comment.
  • Under tsx, private-turns, all-except-e2e and prose-drafts fail 5 of 369, the five prose-drafts tests above.
  • With a mutant that drops the first-view exception, the new test alone fails, 1 of 67, and the control fails none of 103.
  • Built, private-turns, all-except-e2e, prose-drafts, exhausted-turn-rearm and held-turn-retry pass 539 of 539, and the build reports nothing.
• ddcb761dfa72: between e7422674308a and ddcb761dfa72, only comments, docs and changelog fragments change.
• Merge 07c0bd53a942: it keeps both sides in two conflicts in src/framework.ts and one in docs/dendrite.md. It passes four lists without a spread (appendAll), as main now does for lists that can grow long. It adds one test to test/budget-refusal-hold.test.ts: a private turn that main's budget hold keeps reopens private, though its operator's message left the window while it waited, since it takes its open turn's routing.
  • Built, at a3c9f6e007f7: the 56 test files this change or main changed since 21e6b12417, 2,683 tests, 2,682 pass, none fail, one is main's own to-do, and the build reports nothing.
  • Under tsx, at a3c9f6e007f7: private-turns, prose-drafts, routing-baseline-restart, locked-prose-routing and all-except-e2e, 5 of 406 fail, the five prose-drafts tests above.
  • At a3c9f6e007f7, with the hold also ending the turn's open routing, the new test fails at "the turn reopened private".
• Merge a3c9f6e007f7: src and test are as at 07c0bd53a942. The 0.34.0 release had folded changelog.d/unprompted-channel.added.md into CHANGELOG.md, so this change's clause there, that a private turn doesn't take unpromptedChannel, moves into its own private-turns.changed.md. That fragment and docs/dendrite.md now also name the budget hold's kept turn among a private turn's re-runs.
• Tests 659221be2a63: a locked agent's private silent tick stays private on its tool-result guard's retry, though the operator's message left its window first. The retry resumes the turn's routing, and the test pins that route.
  • At a3c9f6e007f7 with this test, under tsx, it passes.
  • At a3c9f6e007f7 with this test, with the guard's retry no longer counted as resuming the turn, it fails at "the guard's retry is private, as the tick was".
• Merge 286746bd575f: it keeps both sides in one conflict in src/framework.ts, the key under which a wake parked while the host is quiesced is coalesced. The key keeps a private turn's wake apart, and, as main now does, a wake that reads other rows.
  • Built, at 286746bd575f: the 68 test files this change or main changed since 21e6b12417, 3,246 tests, 3,245 pass, none fail, one is main's own to-do, and the build reports nothing.
  • Under tsx, at 286746bd575f: private-turns, prose-drafts, routing-baseline-restart, locked-prose-routing and all-except-e2e, 5 of 407 fail, the five prose-drafts tests above.

Test helpers this pull request adds: SurfaceModule stores a message from a surface with no channel as a module does, and surfaceMessage builds such a message's event. say, callTool and act build a scripted response that speaks, calls a tool, or calls ActModule's tool. ActModule gives the agent a tool whose call runs a test's step partway through a turn, SpeechProbe is a speech handler that records what it hears and whether the turn was private, and stores a module's row for a channel's message, a reaction, an edit delivered as a first view, or a note, and the coalescing fixture's holdPublish holds a publish so a test can order it against a flip. ActModule also records each failed check of a step in errors. A check that throws inside a tool call becomes that call's error, which the turn sees and the test doesn't. So a test asserts errors is empty. In test/private-turns.test.ts, make builds a fixture with those modules and the agent's routing mode, script hands each stream the next scripted list of responses, and wake queues a nudge for the agent. sentinel waits until a later room turn's words are published, so a test knows anything earlier was sent first. failNext makes the next stream fail after its tool round, and failedPrivateTurn runs an operator's private turn into that failure. A subconscious reader's stream gets a reply of its own, so it takes none of the resident's responses. hooksTold there records the channel context each beforeInference call is given for the test's server. The tests on a host whose window couldn't be written down assert it. In test/all-except-e2e.test.ts, contextProbe is a module whose tool records the channel context the registry builds while a turn runs. The tests of what a private turn's servers are told assert it.

The whole suite runs in CI on this pull request.

Not verified

• No run went through a live console, TUI or WebUI, or a Discord server. No run on connectome-host reached a locked agent's operator turn under its lock, or used ea4d58cabe5e or the merge.
• No test has a bounce's resend wake come while a later public turn is held. It takes the same path as the ! continuation's, which a test has, by reading: the same mark, from turnMarks (:24470), and the same queue.
• The runs named "under tsx" above run from src, not from a build.
• No test drives a real Discord client: the Discord module's test gives it a stand-in client.
• The legacy-mode test reaches legacy mode through a window index in another version's format, not through a failed write.
• The pieces weighed and left out above rest on reading, and on the one probe named there.
• The restart's test drives a restart at the physical window. One at the context budget builds its continuation in the same branch (:19904).
• /unstick's retry takes its mark in the same line as a refusal rewind's (:30422), which a test drives.
• The tests of an operator's message stored while a legacy retry waits, in its hooks or in the guard's annotation wait, hand the event to the framework's handler from that wait, where a running host's loop would handle it.
• No test ends a private XML-prefill turn with sleep. The unposted-speech tests reach the flag through a failure past the round.
• No test has a sleep's end open a private turn. The new test drives a skip_reply wake. By reading, a sleep's end takes the same open.
• No test reaches a hold of a private turn's retry beside an unmarked request equal to it through the framework's own paths. The test builds that request from the retry's fields, since no path traced holds one.

[anima-review]

Automatic review of e0c08d6d45cd.

About these findings

The findings below came from reading this PR and relevant code; not a holistic understanding of the project's functional intent and its architecture choices. Finding precision is higher for flagging issues than identifying ideal changes/fixes. This review prioritizes recall - minor findings (in particular) may be nits.

Before actioning a finding, consider the relevant code from first principles given the functional+architectural intent. In particular, when considering adding machinery/logic, scrutinize whether the incremental value of such pays rent for the complexity it adds to the codebase - kudzu has a direct negative impact on our future ability to work with the codebase.

Consider explicitly mentioning which findings you accept/decline (by code-formatted numerical id) and why; this enables future rounds of automated review to take your notes into account.

Findings, most severe first:

• 1. should fix at src/framework.ts:27298, src/framework.ts:27498, src/framework.ts:24327: Continuing-start privacy flip checks only presented rows, which legacy presentation mode never produces.
  • Failing case: After presentation write-down fails, a public turn waits on a provider hold and an operator message is stored; the continuing start compiles that message from the record with an empty presented array and retains the room locus, allowing its answer to be published there.
• 2. should fix at src/framework.ts:23432, src/framework.ts:23461, src/framework.ts:30953, src/framework.ts:33097: Fork drafts resend defaults to home in private turns, and executeToolCall omits the calling turn to drafts.
  • Failing case: A fork's private turn calls drafts with action "resend" and an undelivered draft ID but no destination: the draft is published to the fork's home although the resident named no channel.
• 3. should fix at src/framework.ts:25191, src/framework.ts:26240, src/framework.ts:26281, src/framework.ts:28885: A queued pre-flip hybrid envelope re-sets the sticky pin after makeTurnPrivate clears it.
  • Failing case: While a pre-flip hybrid delivery is blocked, another already-queued >>> envelope waits behind it; a surface message flips the turn private, then the queued envelope runs and sets routing.pin again, so the following private plain speech is sent to that channel without a new destination being named after the flip.
• 4. should fix at src/framework.ts:7265, src/framework.ts:7277, src/framework.ts:7284, src/framework.ts:27495: Rearming an exhausted private turn drops the private mark and may reattach its trigger channel.
  • Failing case: If a private turn has produced an answer and a newer room message is presented before its exhausted inference is rearmed, the window now classifies as public; the rearm names the old trigger channel and the replacement's plain speech or unnamed publish can reach it despite continuing the private turn.
• 5. should fix at docs/dendrite.md:279, docs/locked-prose-routing.md:65, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:7, change-text.md:5, src/framework.ts:29577, src/modules/discord/index.ts:931: The 'speaks in no channel' promise omits registered speech handlers that still publish private speech.
  • Failing case: A host using the in-process Discord module has a reply context from a prior room message; an operator then sends a private console message, and the module posts the final answer to that Discord context despite the promise, misleading operators who rely on it for confidentiality.
• 6. should fix at src/framework.ts:23615, src/framework.ts:28366, src/framework.ts:25191, src/framework.ts:26286, src/framework.ts:25188, src/framework.ts:28820, src/framework.ts:28368: Queued speech guards read the mutable privacy flag at delivery time, discarding speech generated before the flip.
  • Failing case: A slow earlier publish holds the speech chain while a public round queues another segment; an operator message flips the turn before that segment runs, and the segment returns null instead of being delivered or held, even though it preceded the private input.
• 7. should fix at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:11, src/framework.ts:23653, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:17, change-text.md:27: Changelog promises turns caused by a private turn are private, but only selected framework wakes carry the mark.
  • Failing case: A private turn starts a timer or script that wakes the resident after the operator's message has been answered and a newer channel message has arrived: its new turn can speak publicly despite the fragment's unqualified promise.
• 8. should fix at src/framework.ts:1676, src/agent.ts:579, src/framework.ts:2757: Answer detection compares only the current agent name instead of own-participant identities and row ownership.
  • Failing case: A derived agent inherits a parent's answer to a private message and later receives a channel message; the parent's participant is the derived agent's own voice for compilation, but is not counted as an answer, so the channel turn remains private instead of routing normally.
• 9. should fix at src/framework.ts:1682, src/framework.ts:19519, src/framework.ts:20918: Newest-conversation test only recognizes channel rows with an inboundSource envelope, missing module channel events.
  • Failing case: After an agent answers a private surface message, a module adds a newer message for an external-message event with channelId metadata; that row is ignored as neither surface nor channel, so the new channel turn incorrectly remains private.
• 10. should fix at src/framework.ts:41375, src/framework.ts:41380, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6419, src/framework.ts:13769: Sleep's announcement bypasses the private-speech guard, producing a misleading no-locus routing failure.
  • Failing case: In a private locus or hybrid turn, sleep with its default announce or a custom message sends nothing, but routeSpeech reports a routing failure saying the turn came from no channel and suggests host intervention, even when a room woke the turn; the sleep description also still promises a current-channel announcement.
• 11. should fix at src/framework.ts:20680, src/framework.ts:20684, src/framework.ts:20687, src/framework.ts:24084: Locked reader's invitation treats a private turn's null locus as drafts and suggests prose_locus misleadingly.
  • Failing case: When a locked resident receives a closed-channel invitation during a private turn, the option says its plain speech is held as drafts and can be redirected here with prose_locus; actually those words stay in the archive and moving the lock does not make this turn's reply reach the channel.
• 12. should fix at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:14: Changelog fragment is filed as changed despite a breaking module-metadata requirement.
  • Failing case: A host upgrades within its existing pre-1.0 caret range and loads a module that stores a channel message from an external-message without metadata.channelId: the resident's previously channel-bound answer is now suppressed until the module or host is changed, but a patch release can be cut without the breaking-entry gate.
• 13. should fix at test/same-round-think-policy.test.ts:169, test/same-round-think-policy.test.ts:557, test/same-round-think-policy.test.ts:582, test/same-round-think-policy.test.ts:597, test/agent-allowed-tools.test.ts:332, test/agent-allowed-tools.test.ts:355, test/outgoing-stream.test.ts:244, test/outgoing-stream.test.ts:279, test/outgoing-stream.test.ts:305, test/outgoing-stream.test.ts:391, test/present-while-acting.test.ts:227, test/present-while-acting.test.ts:2401, test/present-while-acting.test.ts:2447, test/present-while-acting.test.ts:2756, test/present-while-acting.test.ts:2815: Existing channel-silence tests use channelless events, so the private-turn rule masks silencing regressions.
  • Failing case: For example, if the private same-round think policy stops withholding its preface, the test at same-round-think-policy.test.ts:597 still observes no routed speech because its initial event makes the whole turn private; likewise the locus and hybrid send-silencing and outgoing-stream tests can retain empty channel logs even if their silencing logic regresses. Drive these channel-facing tests with events that name a channel, as the change does for the four other test files.

Minor findings 14 to 29 (of 29)

• 14. minor at src/framework.ts:19409, src/framework.ts:19524, src/framework.ts:1679, src/framework.ts:19028: All module-added rows in response to surface events are classified as operator messages, including unrelated notices.
  • Failing case: A module writes a system notice in response to a console event while the actual message is addressed to another resident, or after an answer has been written; the notice alone makes this resident's new or ongoing room turn private even though it did not receive a new operator message.
• 15. minor at src/framework.ts:22547, src/framework.ts:22231, src/framework.ts:27389: Cancelling a merged auto-continue leaves behind its privateCaller bit on the merged wake.
  • Failing case: A private auto-continue merges with a newer room wake, then the merged request is parked by quiesce or its continue notice fails to store; although the continuation is discarded, the unrelated room wake still opens a private turn and its answer is suppressed.
• 16. minor at src/framework.ts:23615, src/framework.ts:26286: Private-speech drop branches return silently without any log or trace of the intentional drop.
  • Failing case: When a private locus or unpinned hybrid turn produces plain speech, an operator cannot distinguish its intentional suppression from an unprocessed or lost delivery by a drop-specific log or trace.
• 17. minor at src/framework.ts:27578, src/framework.ts:24234, src/framework.ts:24245: Announce-on-change baseline conflates locked-to-drafts and private archive-only destinations since both are null.
  • Failing case: A locked resident previously told that its speech is held as drafts enters a private turn while the last announced locus is null: no routing notice is emitted, although its current speech is no longer held as drafts; this is especially misleading for an existing resident whose stored locked primer predates the new exception.
• 18. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:283, test/private-turns.test.ts:507: Private-turn tests don't cover explicitly addressed >> / >>> envelopes still delivering.
  • Failing case: An implementation that suppresses every envelope in a private turn, including >>>#work or >>#work naming a valid destination, could pass the private-turn tests despite breaking explicit delivery.
• 19. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:507, src/framework.ts:25723: Tests cover auto-continue but not a private turn's ! envelope continuation.
  • Failing case: If requestProseContinuation stopped propagating privateCaller, the auto-continue test would still pass while a ! wake merged with a newer room message could open a public continuation.
• 20. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:1, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:14, src/framework.ts:1671, src/framework.ts:39243: Changelog says all channelless external-message rows are private, omitting the mcpl: source exclusion.
  • Failing case: A module stores the framework's external-message from mcpl:editor announcing new tools without a channelId: the changelog says it makes the turn private, whereas it remains public; the same exception applies to any other event using that source prefix.
• 21. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:295, test/private-turns.test.ts:407, test/private-turns.test.ts:448: No-send assertions never confirm the protected answer was actually produced.
  • Failing case: If a regression ends the first turn after the probe or channel_open tool call without emitting its scripted trailing answer, the later room sentinel can still be sent and each empty sent(...) assertion succeeds.
• 22. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:225, test/private-turns.test.ts:229, test/private-turns.test.ts:286, test/private-turns.test.ts:290: Flip tests push the private message before the pre-flip speech or hybrid pin is delivered.
  • Failing case: Under a slow channel publish, the probe pushes the operator message while the preamble is still queued; the turn can flip before the preamble has posted or established its hybrid pin, causing a load-dependent failure or testing a different ordering rather than clearing an existing pin.
• 23. minor at docs/dendrite.md:283, src/framework.ts:26281: Docs claim private speech is kept as no draft, overlooking hybrid's failed-destination hold.
  • Failing case: In a private hybrid turn, a failed or malformed >>> sets hybridHold to failed; later unprefixed prose is saved by holdProseDrafts, misleading a reader expecting those words not to be retained.
• 24. minor at docs/dendrite.md:283, change-text.md:9, src/framework.ts:40065: Docs say a private-turn publish naming a channel posts, overlooking the conversation-fork restriction.
  • Failing case: A private conversation fork explicitly names a registered channel other than its home; dispatch refuses the call instead of posting, misleading a resident or operator trying to send there.
• 25. minor at docs/locked-prose-routing.md:77, src/framework.ts:23615: Drafts docs say locked-to-drafts turns hold plain speech as drafts without the private-turn exception.
  • Failing case: A locked agent configured for drafts answers an operator's private message; those plain words are not saved as drafts, contrary to what an operator consulting the drafts section would expect.
• 26. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:15, src/framework.ts:19029: Changelog says a turn becoming private gets a routing notice, omitting silent and boundary-ending exceptions.
  • Failing case: When a silent turn hears the operator message, or the turn ends at that boundary, makeTurnPrivate receives no surface and writes no notice, misleading a host looking for that signal.
• 27. minor at change-text.md:29, src/framework.ts:40028: Description of unwatched script's unnamed publish default omits the conversation-fork home rewrite.
  • Failing case: An unwatched script belonging to a conversation fork calls channel_publish without a channel: dispatch fills the fork's home instead of the focus or latest inbound, misleading an operator reasoning from that stated exception.
• 28. minor at docs/locked-prose-routing.md:23, src/framework.ts:25237: Locked-routing docs still say mid-turn notices report speech lands in the lock, contradicting private-turn notice.
  • Failing case: A private locked turn hears an addressed message from another channel: its notice says speech stays in the archive, not at the lock, misleading someone interpreting the notice from this documentation.
• 29. minor at commit-messages.txt:85, change-text.md:80, src/framework.ts:22601: Commit message describes a calling-turn guard for publish default that the code doesn't implement.
  • Failing case: A maintainer reading the commit would believe publishInputWithTurnLocus itself guards against a different latest routing; it instead resolves the agent's latest routing, as the change description's omitted-pieces discussion acknowledges.

[nissa-seru]

This answers the automatic review of e0c08d6d (#995 (comment)). Four commits answer it: tests, test drivers, fixes and a changelog commit. The head is now 42fd53e7.

Fixed: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 to 13, 20, 21 and 23 to 28. Declined: 2, 4, 6, 8, 14 to 19 and 22, each with its reason in the details. 29 is right. e0c08d6d's message describes a guard that was cut before that commit. b1cab5ce's message says so, since a pushed commit isn't rewritten.

What changes for callers:

• Breaking, for module authors whose module stores a channel's message for an external-message event whose metadata names no channelId: such a message is now an operator's private message, so the module's channel answers go to no channel until it names the channel in the event's metadata. changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md says so, with the migration (12).
• A module that handles a turn's speech itself (onAgentSpeech) is told when the turn is private, by a new field, SpeechContext.private, and the built-in Discord module posts none of a private turn's speech (5).
• A row a module writes for its channel's message, one whose metadata names a channelId with no inbound source envelope, no kind and no system flag, now counts as a channel's message when a turn's privacy is read. So a module's channel message that comes after an answered operator's message gets a public turn (9).

The should-fix findings declined, and why:

• 2: a conversation fork's drafts resend that names no destination still goes to its home, the only channel it speaks in. The description names this as a limit.
• 4: an exhausted turn ends, so its rearm opens a new turn, and the window read decides that turn as it does any other.
• 6: plain speech written before the flip and delivered after it goes to no channel. It fails closed, and the description names it as a limit.
• 8: it fails closed, since a derived agent's turn stays private where it could have been public.

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the round and wrote this reply, Hilda-2681 read it, and Ada-1017 made the calls.

Details for agents

Head 42fd53e79afe, answering the automatic review of e0c08d6d45cd (#995 (comment)). The round is four commits on e0c08d6d45cd: tests ca0c5e3aa41f, drivers 8f6b7e3ec475, fix b1cab5ce63e3, and 42fd53e79afe, which changes only changelog.d.

• 1, fixed in b1cab5ce. An agent whose window couldn't be written down at its registration or after a branch move stays in legacy mode, its window the record, while the host keeps serving, and its starts present nothing. A start that continues such an agent's turn now reads its window as a turn's open does (privateWindowSurface), and turns the turn private when an operator's message there is unanswered or the newest. Test: "on a host whose window for the agent couldn't be written down, an operator's message the provider hold's retry compiles makes the room turn private".
• 2, declined, and named as a limit in the description. A conversation fork's held words were written for its home, the only channel it speaks in, and resending them is the resident's own act.
• 3, fixed in b1cab5ce. A round's >>> or >> deliveries run on the speech chain, which a tool boundary doesn't wait for, so an envelope queued while the turn was public can be delivered after the flip. Such a round is marked queuedPublic, and once the turn is private its destination no longer becomes the turn's pin at any of the three places that set it: deliverHybridEnvelope, deliverProseEnvelope, and routeSilencedHybrid for a hybrid target a send in the same round reached. Its own words still post, or are held as they would be. Tests: "hybrid: a >>> destination queued before a flip, and delivered after it, isn't kept for the turn's later words", its explicit-mode twin, and "hybrid: a >>> destination a send in its round reached, routed after a flip, isn't kept for the turn's later words".
• 4, declined. An exhausted inference settles its turn (settleAgent with stopReason: 'exhausted'), so the rearm opens a new turn, and the open's window read decides it: public once the operator's message has been answered and a channel's message is newer, as for any later turn.
• 5, fixed in b1cab5ce. SpeechContext.private is set for a private turn's speech at dispatchSpeech, and the built-in Discord module returns on it, posting none of the speech and editing none of its thoughts in. A new .added fragment names the field, and the .changed fragment gains a Hosts: line for modules that publish the speech they hear. Tests: "a speech handler is told a private turn's speech is private, and a room turn's isn't" and "the built-in Discord module posts none of a private turn's speech, and edits in none of its thoughts".
• 6, declined, and named as a limit in the description. Plain speech a round queued before the flip and delivered after it goes to no channel. It fails closed: words written before the operator's message arrived go to no channel rather than to one.
• 7, fixed in b1cab5ce. The fragment names the wakes that carry privateCaller: a private turn's auto-continue, its ! continuation and a prose bounce's resend.
• 8, declined. It fails closed, since a derived agent's turn stays private where it could have been public.
• 9, fixed in b1cab5ce. In the read of whether a turn is private, a row with no inbound source envelope, as a module writes for its channel's message, counts as a channel's message when its metadata names a channelId and it is neither a system row nor one with a kind (channelConversation). A subconscious's note at a channel cancel names a channel and carries a kind, so it doesn't count. A row with an envelope counts only when its source is a channel, as before. Tests: "on a host whose channels come from a module, once the operator's message is answered the module's channel message gets a public turn", and, for what doesn't count, "a row that names a channel but isn't a message from it, such as a subconscious's note at a channel cancel, leaves the next turn private" and the push event test beside it.
• 10, fixed in b1cab5ce. A sleep in a private turn in locus, hybrid or locked mode posts no announcement and writes no failure marker; in explicit mode it announces only to a destination the turn's own >> named, as before. The tool's description, "By default announces in your current channel", stays: a private turn has no current channel, as a heartbeat's turn hasn't. Test: "a sleep in a private locus-mode turn posts no announcement and writes no failure marker".
• 11, fixed in b1cab5ce. A closed channel's invitation in a locked agent's private turn says the turn's speech goes to no channel, and offers no prose_locus move. Test: "a closed-channel invitation in a locked agent's private turn says its speech goes to no channel, and offers no prose_locus move".
• 12, fixed in 42fd53e7. main's published contract for ExternalMessageEvent is "Message from an external source (Discord, HTTP, CLI, etc.)", with metadata as "External system metadata" (src/types/events.ts), so a module within it could deliver a channel's message with no channelId. The line for module authors moves from the .changed fragment into changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md, with the migration and what's unchanged, and the .changed fragment points there.
• 13, fixed in 8f6b7e3e, with the CI failures at e0c08d6d. Nine test files drove their turns with an external-message naming no channel, and each event that drives a test about where speech goes, or about speech that isn't sent, now names a channel, as does present-while-acting's mid-turn message in its test of injection at a tool boundary. test/audience-stamp-writers.test.ts' list of the writers of an agent's own rows gains makeTurnPrivate.
• 14, declined. Every row a module adds for a surface event carries that event's envelope, so the framework can't tell a module's notice from the operator's words. It fails closed.
• 15, declined. It fails closed. After a quiesce park or a failed notice store, a room's wake that a cancelled continuation merged with opens a private turn.
• 16, declined. A private turn's plain speech going to no channel is what the change is for, on every round of such a turn, so a line for each would log the rule working.
• 17, declined. It fails closed. The resident isn't told that its private words aren't kept as drafts.
• 18, declined. No test sends an envelope in a private turn; the description names this in Not verified.
• 19, declined. No test runs a ! continuation from a private turn; it takes the same mark as the two wakes the tests run, and the description names this in Not verified.
• 20, fixed in b1cab5ce. The fragment names the framework's own mcpl: notices as not counting.
• 21, fixed in ca0c5e3a. The four tests that assert some words weren't sent also assert that the turn wrote them.
• 22, declined. If the flip came before the earlier words went out, they would be dropped, and the premise that they went out would fail, so the test can't pass on that order.
• 23, fixed in b1cab5ce. docs/dendrite.md: once a >>> envelope has bounced, a hybrid turn holds its later words as drafts, as any turn does.
• 24, fixed in b1cab5ce. docs/dendrite.md: a private turn's channel_publish naming a channel posts where the turn could post anyway, which for a conversation fork is only its home.
• 25, fixed in b1cab5ce. docs/locked-prose-routing.md's Drafts section names the private-turn exception.
• 26, fixed in b1cab5ce. The fragment names the silent and ending exceptions to the [routing] notice.
• 27, fixed in the description, which names a conversation fork's unwatched script, whose unnamed channel_publish goes to its home.
• 28, fixed in b1cab5ce. docs/locked-prose-routing.md's mid-turn notice line says a private turn's notice says its speech stays in the archive.
• 29: the fix commit's message describes a guard that was cut before that commit. The new fix commit's message says so, since a pushed commit isn't rewritten.

Runs, on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.2 and npm 11.19.1, each at a clean checkout of the commit named. A built run builds with tsc and runs dist/test with node --test --test-force-exit, as npm test does; the others run under tsx 4.23.15.

• Red, tests ca0c5e3aa41f on e0c08d6d45cd's src, under tsx: in private-turns and locked-prose-routing, 11 of 65 fail, the eleven tests the commit adds. Three of them fail at their premise that the operator's turn was private, since SpeechContext.private isn't in that src.
• Drivers 8f6b7e3ec475, built: the ten files it changes pass 606 of 606.
• Fix b1cab5ce63e3, built: those ten files and private-turns, locked-prose-routing, all-except-e2e, tune-out-tool-text, discord-thoughts-own-turn and discord-send-thread pass 746 of 746, and the build reports nothing. 93 test files pass 2,845 of 2,845.
• Mutants at b1cab5ce63e3, under tsx: 38, each undoing one piece of the change, the round's twelve among them. Each fails every test written for its piece, and the unmutated control fails none of 69.
• CI at 42fd53e79afe: all 12 checks pass. The Build & Test job runs 10,531 tests: its "Test" step runs 10,400, of which 10,337 pass and 63 are skipped, and its "Test unforced (work in flight at stop)" step runs 131, which all pass. None fail.

— Ezra-2423

[nissa-seru]

/review

— Ezra-2423

[anima-review]

Automatic review of 42fd53e79afe.

About these findings

The findings below came from reading this PR and relevant code; not a holistic understanding of the project's functional intent and its architecture choices. Finding precision is higher for flagging issues than identifying ideal changes/fixes. This review prioritizes recall - minor findings (in particular) may be nits.

Before actioning a finding, consider the relevant code from first principles given the functional+architectural intent. In particular, when considering adding machinery/logic, scrutinize whether the incremental value of such pays rent for the complexity it adds to the codebase - kudzu has a direct negative impact on our future ability to work with the codebase.

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Findings, most severe first:

• 1. should fix at src/framework.ts:18879, src/framework.ts:19036, src/framework.ts:27507, src/framework.ts:27504, src/framework.ts:27730, src/framework.ts:27817, src/framework.ts:18887: In legacy window mode, the privacy check skips resumed turns and can run before the input that is actually compiled.
  • Failing case: With a public room turn in legacy mode, store an operator message after its last boundary and before a context_budget_restart; the resumed compile reads the record containing that message, but retains the room locus and can post its answer there.
  • Raised before as finding 1 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 2. should fix at src/framework.ts:29600, src/framework.ts:29602, src/types/module.ts:864, changelog.d/private-turns.added.md:3, src/framework.ts:29591, src/modules/discord/index.ts:909, changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:13, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:24: Private speech is still dispatched to speech handlers, which must opt in to the new flag; the docs and changelog imply it is suppressed.
  • Failing case: Upgrade a host with an existing third-party onAgentSpeech handler that posts all received speech to a channel, without simultaneously changing that handler: a private operator answer is sent to the handler and published despite the new private-turn guarantee.
  • Raised before as finding 5 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 3. should fix at src/modules/discord/index.ts:1700, src/modules/discord/index.ts:1728, src/modules/discord/index.ts:1738, src/modules/discord/index.ts:909: Discord's discord--reply tool ignores turn privacy and the speech guard, and sends to the saved reply context.
  • Failing case: After a Discord conversation establishes a reply context, an operator sends a private message and the resident calls discord--reply with its answer: the answer is sent to the old Discord channel.
• 4. should fix at src/modules/discord/index.ts:480, src/modules/discord/index.ts:543, src/framework.ts:25194, src/modules/discord/index.ts:557: Discord's autoTyping loop ignores turn privacy and is not stopped when a turn flips private.
  • Failing case: With autoTyping enabled and an existing Discord reply context, a private inference starts typing in that channel; likewise, a public turn that becomes private keeps its Discord typing loop running.
• 5. should fix at src/framework.ts:1683, src/framework.ts:465, src/mcpl/inbound-source.ts:18: The channel-source branch counts every channel-scoped inbound item as conversation, reactions and deletions included.
  • Failing case: After an operator message has been answered but remains the newest conversation, a channel reaction arrives and wakes the agent; it is treated as a newer channel message, making the next turn public even though nobody sent a newer channel message.
• 6. should fix at src/framework.ts:22556, src/framework.ts:27504, src/framework.ts:27507: A marked wake merged into a retry of an already-open public turn does not make that turn private.
  • Failing case: A marked bounce or continuation wake is held together with a public turn's provider retry after the original private message has been answered and a newer channel message exists; the merged trigger retains the mark, but the retry reuses public routing and can publish its speech.
• 7. should fix at changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:1, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:1, src/framework.ts:20927, src/types/events.ts:68: The breaking entry covers only channel-message producers, yet every channelless external-message row is classified as private.
  • Failing case: A host module uses external-message for a timer, webhook, reminder or service notice with no metadata.channelId and expects the resulting answer to reach the focus or lock: after upgrade it does not, but the audience-scoped migration does not address that module or explain what it should do, and the public event contract still describes metadata only as external system metadata.
• 8. should fix at docs/dendrite.md:283, docs/locked-prose-routing.md:69, change-text.md:9, change-text.md:78, src/framework.ts:1826, src/framework.ts:22717, src/framework.ts:28918: The claim that private plain speech is 'kept as no draft' overlooks send-silencing drafts.
  • Failing case: In a private locus or locked turn, an MCPL send whose result does not identify a resolvable destination gives the send an unknown reach; unprefixed prose in that round or a later one is then held as a draft. A reader relying on the no-drafts promise could wrongly assume those private words cannot later be inspected or resent as a draft.
• 9. minor at src/framework.ts:1676, src/framework.ts:28725, docs/dendrite.md:281, change-text.md:68: answersOperator rejects any assistant row containing a tool call, against the documented rule that a round ending in text counts as an answer.
  • Failing case: An assistant round stored as [tool_use, text] answers the operator and is followed by a channel message; the next turn should be public, but the walk treats the operator message as unanswered and suppresses its channel speech.
• 10. minor at docs/dendrite.md:272, src/framework.ts:40042: The dendrite.md delivery rule says a fork's turn with no locus takes its home, but private fork turns are refused that default.
  • Failing case: A conversation fork's private turn calls channel_publish without channelId: the call is refused rather than defaulting to its home, so a reader following the delivery-rule paragraph would expect a post that never happens.
• 11. minor at src/framework.ts:25195, src/framework.ts:26250, src/framework.ts:26290, src/framework.ts:40828, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:571, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6538: Private-turn routing text says plain speech goes to no channel even after a hybrid >>> envelope sets a sticky pin.
  • Failing case: In a private hybrid turn, send >>>#room and then call focus or channel_publish without a channel: the result or refusal says plain speech goes nowhere, but subsequent unprefixed speech goes to #room via the sticky pin. The flip notice likewise promises no channel for the rest of the turn even if the resident later establishes a pin.
• 12. minor at src/framework.ts:785, src/framework.ts:26698, src/framework.ts:27589, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:1: Already-primed locked agents keep the stale primer, because the primer is rewritten only when the stored mode changes.
  • Failing case: Upgrade an agent whose stored primed mode is locked: its old primer remains in its context while private turns stop routing speech to the lock; the release fragment does not warn hosts that the stored instruction remains stale.
• 13. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:1, src/framework.ts:19532, src/framework.ts:27504: The upgrade notes do not mention that a console message fanned out to many residents makes each of them private.
  • Failing case: On a multi-resident host that fans a console message out to every resident, later room wakes for several residents can have their plain answers suppressed until each resident's private window clears; the entry discusses a turn holding a message but does not call out this fan-out impact for operators.
• 14. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:233, test/private-turns.test.ts:237, test/private-turns.test.ts:341, test/private-turns.test.ts:345: The flip tests enqueue the operator message before the pre-flip prose is posted or its hybrid pin is set.
  • Failing case: If the tool call and its surface event run before the speech chain, the plain pre-message words may correctly be suppressed and fail the first test; in the hybrid test the eventual post may occur after the flip, allowing the test to pass without ever checking that an existing pin was cleared.
  • Raised before as finding 22 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd and answered: «22, declined. If the flip came before the earlier words went out, they would be dropped, and the premise that they went out would fail, so the test can't pass on that order.» At this head, that doesn't hold: "The test can't pass on that order" holds for the plain-speech test, whose words would be dropped. In the hybrid test, however, a post-flip >>> round marked queuedPublic still posts its words and sets no pin (26250), so the test passes on that order.
• 15. minor at test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:665, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:679: The locked-focus test checks only the prefix of the promised destination, not the lock's name.
  • Failing case: A focus result saying the next turn goes to an unrelated channel, or ending immediately after 'goes to ', still satisfies the assertion even though the configured lock is home.
• 16. minor at docs/hybrid-prose-routing.md:26, docs/explicit-prose-routing.md:43, src/framework.ts:25194: The hybrid and explicit guides promise a resolved target stays sticky for the turn, but makeTurnPrivate clears the pin.
  • Failing case: After a >>>#cafe or >>#cafe envelope, an operator message heard at a tool boundary makes the turn private; later unprefixed prose no longer follows the target, contrary to what an operator or maintainer reading either guide would expect.
• 17. minor at docs/disabled-prose-routing.md:9, src/framework.ts:22041: The disabled-mode guide says a turn shows typing in its wake channel, but private turns suppress the indicator.
  • Failing case: A disabled-mode turn woken by a channel message while an operator message remains unanswered names the channel in its wake but shows no typing there, misleading a host relying on the documented attendance signal.
• 18. minor at test/prose-drafts.test.ts:2, test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts:6, docs/locked-prose-routing.md:97, test/private-turns.test.ts:692: Draft-holding descriptions in the docs and test headers omit the private-turn exception.
  • Failing case: A locked resident with no destination receives an operator's private message and replies in plain speech: the words are neither sent nor kept as a draft, as the private-turn no-draft test demonstrates, despite those descriptions.
  • Raised before as finding 25 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 19. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:282, test/private-turns.test.ts:329: The provider-hold tests check that the routing notice is stored, not that the retry's compiled request contains it.
  • Failing case: If a continuing start stored the notice but left it outside the window until a later presentation point, the retry would compile without the notice while both tests could still pass: their notice assertions inspect stored rows and their other assertions check routing rather than request contents.

Raised before, still answered (4)

• minor at src/framework.ts:7264, src/framework.ts:7273, src/framework.ts:7285, src/framework.ts:7292, src/framework.ts:19172, src/framework.ts:19309, src/framework.ts:27504, src/framework.ts:25200: Rearming an exhausted private turn copies an unmarked trigger and can name the old trigger channel; continuation requests also drop privateCaller. Raised before as finding 4 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts the choice rests on hold. An exhausted stream settles with exhausted (30012), which deletes openLogical for that routing (13372). The rearm drops TURN_RETRY and takes REARM_REASON, which continuesTurn doesn't recognize, so it opens a new turn that 27504 decides from the mark or the window.
• minor at src/framework.ts:23441, src/framework.ts:23470: A fork's drafts resend with no destination defaults to its home even in a private turn. Raised before as finding 2 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts hold: the resend refuses any non-home destination for a fork (23477-23481), so home is its only channel, and the description lists this as a limit.
• minor at src/framework.ts:1697, src/agent.ts:579, src/dendrite/presets.ts:100: The answer walk recognizes only the current agent name and ignores inherited own-voice participants. Raised before as finding 8 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: "It fails closed" holds: ignoring an inherited answer only makes the walk return a surface more often. The case is also limited to shared inheritance, since copy mode renames the template's turns (presets.ts:100-102).
• minor at src/framework.ts:25732, src/framework.ts:25737, src/types/agent.ts:714: No test covers a private turn's ! continuation once window privacy has lapsed or after a channel merge. Raised before as finding 19 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The fact behind the decline holds: the ! wake spreads this.heartbeatTurnMark(routing) exactly as the tested wakes do, and the description lists the gap under Not verified.

[nissa-seru]

This answers the second automatic review, of 42fd53e7 (#995 (comment)). Three commits answer it: tests, fixes, and one that changes text only. The head is now ed8bb99c.

Fixed: 1, 5 to 8, 10, 11 and 14 to 19. Fixed in their words, with the code as it was: 2, 4 and 9. Declined: 3, 12 and 13. Each has its reason in the details.

Three answers in the reply to the first review no longer hold (#995 (comment)):

• Its 10 said that a sleep in a private explicit-mode turn announces only to a destination the turn's own >> named. In a private turn no envelope sets a destination for later words now (11), so a sleep there posts no announcement in any mode.
• Its 18 said that no test sends an envelope in a private turn. Tests now do, among them the two for 11, the sleep test, and the two for 6, whose private turns write >> envelopes.
• Its 9 said which rows count as a channel's message when a turn's privacy is read. A row tagged as a reaction, an edit, a deletion or a chat:system notice now counts as none, but for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message (5).

What changes for callers:

• In a private hybrid or explicit turn, a >>> or >> envelope's own words go where they would in any turn, and it sets no destination for the turn's later words, which go to no channel (11).
• The breaking change is wider than before. A module whose external-message names no channelId and isn't an operator's console, TUI or API input, such as a timer's, a webhook's or a service's notice, now gets a private turn for it. changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md gives the migration (7).
• A speech handler that publishes the speech it hears should post none of a private turn's, and SpeechContext.private tells it which turns those are. A handler that publishes everything still posts it (2).
• A reaction, an edit, a deletion or a chat:system notice after an answered operator's message no longer makes the next turn public, but for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message, which counts as that message (5).
• A private turn's ! continuation or a bounce's resend wake that comes while a later public turn is held for a retry no longer joins that retry. It opens a private turn of its own after it (6).

The should-fix findings whose code stays, and why:

• 2: the framework still hands a private turn's speech to every speech handler, since one that logs or displays it needs it, and only the handler knows whether it publishes. The words now say a handler that publishes should post none.
• 3: a discord--reply call is an explicit send, to the conversation the module's reply context names, and the change governs where the framework sends a turn's speech. A private turn's channel_publish has no default because its default is where the turn's own speech goes.
• 4: typing carries no words. The docs now say that the built-in Discord module's autoTyping types in its reply context's channel during a private turn too.

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the round, Hilda-2681 read it, and Ada-1017 made the calls. Ezra-2423 wrote this reply, and Pippa-2697 read it.

Details for agents

Head ed8bb99cd44f, answering the automatic review of 42fd53e79afe (#995 (comment)). The round is three commits on 42fd53e79afe: tests 0f345b75fc28, fix 542d7f86088f, and ed8bb99cd44f, which changes docs, a changelog fragment, two test headers and the prose_locus tool's description. Line cites are at ed8bb99cd44f.

• 1, fixed in 542d7f86. A context-budget restart or a tool-result guard's retry now reads whether its turn is private, as any start that continues a turn does (src/framework.ts:27517). A resume in presented mode presents nothing (:27317), so it reads nothing there. Test: "on a host whose window for the agent couldn't be written down, an operator's message its budget restart compiles makes the room turn private".
• 2, fixed in 542d7f86 by its words. SpeechContext.private's doc (src/types/module.ts), the .added fragment and docs/dendrite.md say that a handler that publishes the speech it hears should post none of a private turn's. The .changed entry says that a host's own handler is told the turn is private and should post none. Dispatching none of a private turn's speech is declined: a handler that logs or displays speech needs it, and the framework can't tell which handlers publish.
• 3, declined. A discord--reply call is an explicit send, to the conversation the module's reply context names (src/modules/discord/index.ts:1700). The change governs where the framework sends a turn's speech and where its own channel_publish defaults. That default is where the turn's own speech goes, which in a private turn is nowhere, so it's refused.
• 4, fixed in 542d7f86 by its words, with the code as it was: docs/dendrite.md names the limit. Typing carries no words. The built-in Discord module's autoTyping loop starts on inference:started in its reply context's channel (src/modules/discord/index.ts:480, :543), private turns included.
• 5, fixed in 542d7f86. channelConversation returns false first for a row that isMarkerTagged marks: a reaction, an edit, a deletion or a chat:system notice, but for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message (src/framework.ts:1682). It's the rule the channel registry and isConversationalInjection already read. Tests: the three "a channel item tagged …" tests, and "a module's row that names a channel but is tagged as a reaction isn't a message from it, so the next turn stays private".
• 6, fixed in 542d7f86. While the agent has an open turn, a wake a private turn marked (privateCaller) that isn't that turn's own continuation goes back to the queue rather than join its start (src/framework.ts:22308), and opens a private turn of its own after it. A quiesce's park keys a marked wake apart, as it keys a heartbeat's wake (:22268), so an unmarked wake of the same reason parked later doesn't absorb it and drop its mark. Tests: "explicit: a private turn's ! continuation that comes while a later room turn is provider-held doesn't join that turn's retry, and runs as its own private turn", and "explicit: a private turn's late ! continuation, parked in a quiesce beside a public turn's own, keeps its mark, and the turn at the lift is private".
• 7, fixed in 542d7f86. The .breaking entry's audience is any module whose external-message names no channelId and isn't an operator's console, TUI or API input, with timers, webhooks and service notices named. Its migration says to name the channel the turn's answer belongs in. ExternalMessageEvent's metadata doc (src/types/events.ts) says what channelId means.
• 8, fixed in 542d7f86 and ed8bb99c. docs/dendrite.md and docs/locked-prose-routing.md say that a private turn's plain speech is kept as no draft unless a send in the turn has left its reach unknown, which holds it as drafts, as in any turn.
• 9, fixed in 542d7f86 by its words: docs/dendrite.md says a round "with text and no tool call", which is answersOperator's rule (src/framework.ts:1675). The code stays: a round with a tool call doesn't count as an answer in any order of its blocks, which fails closed, keeping the next turn private.
• 10, fixed in 542d7f86. docs/dendrite.md's delivery rule names the private-turn exception to a conversation fork's home default.
• 11, fixed in 542d7f86, in the code. In a private turn no envelope sets a destination for the turn's later words (src/framework.ts:22787, :26259, :26418), and an envelope's own words go where they would in any turn. So the flip's notice, the results of focus and channel_open, and channel_publish's refusal, which say a private turn's plain speech goes to no channel, hold as written. The first review's queuedPublic mark goes, since this covers it. Tests: "hybrid: in a private turn, a >>> envelope posts its own words, and the turn's later unprefixed words go to no channel", its explicit twin, and "explicit: a sleep in a private turn posts no announcement, though the turn's own >> posted its words".
• 12, declined. A locked agent's private turn is told at its start that its plain speech has no channel (src/framework.ts:27599, the notice at :24266), when the last destination it was told of was its lock, whatever its primer says.
• 13, declined. The rule is stated per window. A console message fanned out to several residents is in each one's window, so each one's turns are private while it's unanswered or the newest there.
• 14, fixed in 0f345b75. Both flip tests wait for the words written before the operator's message to go out before it arrives, and the hybrid one asserts that the >>> pin was set before the flip.
• 15, fixed in 0f345b75. The test asserts the lock's name: "from your next turn it goes to home, except while".
• 16, fixed in 542d7f86. docs/hybrid-prose-routing.md and docs/explicit-prose-routing.md name the private-turn exception to the sticky target.
• 17, fixed in 542d7f86. docs/disabled-prose-routing.md names a private turn among those that show no typing.
• 18, fixed in 542d7f86 and ed8bb99c. docs/locked-prose-routing.md's drafts sentence and the headers of test/prose-drafts.test.ts and test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts (in 0f345b75) name the private-turn exception, and, from ed8bb99c, its own exception, a send whose reach is unknown.
• 19, fixed in 0f345b75. Both provider-hold tests assert that the retry's request holds the routing notice.

The earlier answers that no longer hold, in #995 (comment):

• 10 said that in explicit mode a sleep in a private turn "announces only to a destination the turn's own >> named, as before". At ed8bb99cd44f no envelope sets a destination in a private turn (11), and the sleep's explicit branch announces only to the turn's pin (src/framework.ts:41389), which a private turn doesn't have, so it posts none. Test: "explicit: a sleep in a private turn posts no announcement, though the turn's own >> posted its words".
• 18 was declined because "No test sends an envelope in a private turn". At ed8bb99cd44f tests do, among them "hybrid: in a private turn, a >>> envelope posts its own words, and the turn's later unprefixed words go to no channel", its explicit twin, the sleep test above, and the two tests for 6, whose private turns write >> envelopes.
• 9 said which rows count as a channel's message when a turn's privacy is read. At ed8bb99cd44f, channelConversation first returns false for a row that isMarkerTagged marks (src/framework.ts:1684), so a reaction, an edit, a deletion or a chat:system notice counts as none, but for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message.

Runs, on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.2 and npm 11.19.1, each at a clean checkout of the commit named. A built run builds with tsc and runs dist/test with node --test --test-force-exit, as npm test does; the others run under tsx 4.23.15.

• Red, tests 0f345b75fc28 on 42fd53e79afe's src, under tsx: in private-turns, all-except-e2e and locked-prose-routing, 10 of 111 fail, the ten tests the commit adds, each at its own assertion.
• Fix 542d7f86088f, built: 105 test files, the 93 of the first round's runs and twelve scheduler files, pass 3,299 of 3,299, and the build reports nothing. At 42fd53e79afe the twelve pass 444 of 444.
• Mutants at 542d7f86088f, under tsx: 41, each undoing one piece of the change, the round's among them. Each fails every test written for its piece, and the unmutated control fails none of 79.
• Between 542d7f86088f and ed8bb99cd44f, the only changes to what the runs above ran are the prose_locus tool's description string and the header comments of two test files.
• CI at ed8bb99cd44f: all 12 checks pass. The Build & Test job runs 10,541 tests: its "Test" step runs 10,410, of which 10,347 pass and 63 are skipped, and its "Test unforced (work in flight at stop)" step runs 131, which all pass. None fail.

— Ezra-2423

[nissa-seru]

/review

— Ezra-2423

[anima-review]

Automatic review of ed8bb99cd44f.

About these findings

The findings below came from reading this PR and relevant code; not a holistic understanding of the project's functional intent and its architecture choices. Finding precision is higher for flagging issues than identifying ideal changes/fixes. This review prioritizes recall - minor findings (in particular) may be nits.

Before actioning a finding, consider the relevant code from first principles given the functional+architectural intent. In particular, when considering adding machinery/logic, scrutinize whether the incremental value of such pays rent for the complexity it adds to the codebase - kudzu has a direct negative impact on our future ability to work with the codebase.

Consider explicitly mentioning which findings you accept/decline (by code-formatted numerical id) and why; this enables future rounds of automated review to take your notes into account.

Findings, most severe first:

• 1. should fix at src/framework.ts:19171, src/framework.ts:7284, src/framework.ts:27514: A budget restart builds its request without privateCaller, so the rearm of an exhausted private turn drops the privacy mark.
  • Failing case: A marked wake opens a private turn after the operator's message has been answered and a newer room message has made the window public; the turn hits a context-budget restart, then exhausts transient retries. Its rearm opens a new turn without the mark, the window check reads public, and its unprefixed answer can go to a channel.
  • Raised before as finding 4 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd and answered: «4, declined. An exhausted inference settles its turn (settleAgent with stopReason: 'exhausted'), so the rearm opens a new turn, and the open's window read decides it: public once the operator's message has been answered and a channel's message is newer, as for any later turn.» At this head, that doesn't hold: The answer says the rearm's window read decides the new turn. But 7284 copies the trigger, so a rearm of a marked wake keeps privateCaller and the mark decides it at 27514. Only a turn that went through a budget restart, whose request 19171 builds without the mark, falls to the window read, so the same private turn's rearm is private or public depending on whether it restarted.
• 2. should fix at src/auto-continue.ts:46, src/framework.ts:25842, src/framework.ts:27597: The continuation notice promises draft holding 'as on the heartbeat's turn', but private heartbeats and their continuations don't hold drafts.
  • Failing case: A non-silent heartbeat reads an unanswered operator message and auto-continues: its marked continuation receives this notice, but its unaddressed words are suppressed without a draft, misleading the resident about recoverability.
• 3. should fix at src/types/agent.ts:333, src/types/agent.ts:349, src/types/agent.ts:675, src/types/agent.ts:700: The public type docs still promise locked speech on every turn and draft holding, without the private-turn exception.
  • Failing case: A host configures locked routing or a heartbeat while an operator message is unanswered: the private turn neither posts at the lock nor ordinarily saves unaddressed speech as drafts, contrary to the API documentation a host author reads.
• 4. minor at src/framework.ts:23633, src/framework.ts:26304, src/framework.ts:19035, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6235, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6254, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6337: Plain-speech delivery checks privacy only before entering the channel registry, so it is not rechecked after a channel-open wait.
  • Failing case: A public room turn starts routing an unprefixed segment while its channel is opening; before that open completes, a tool boundary presents an operator's private message and flips the turn private. Once the open completes, publish sends the queued segment to the room, although the change promises that unprefixed words delivered after the flip go to no channel.
• 5. minor at src/framework.ts:25953, src/framework.ts:25960, src/framework.ts:40051, src/framework.ts:22624, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6521: A script started by a private turn loses that privacy when it runs unwatched or is watched by a later turn.
  • Failing case: A private turn starts a script containing a channel_publish with private text and no channelId; after the run call returns, the script executes that publish without a calling turn and it posts to the focus or latest-inbound channel, or a conversation fork's home, without the resident naming it.
• 6. minor at src/framework.ts:25258, src/framework.ts:26300: The private addressed-elsewhere notice says plain speech stays in the archive, ignoring the hybrid failed-envelope hold.
  • Failing case: A hybrid turn has a bounced >>> envelope, then hears both an operator message and an addressed message from another channel at a boundary; the private addressed-elsewhere notice says the speech stays in the archive, but hybridHold remains failed and subsequent unprefixed words are held as drafts.
• 7. minor at src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:571: In the channel_publish description, the turn examples come after 'so it names one', so they read as examples of channels to name.
  • Failing case: A resident reading the tool description sees 'A turn with no channel of its own has no default, so it names one: a heartbeat's, and any turn while ...', which does not grammatically explain which turns need an explicit channelId.
• 8. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:21, src/modules/discord/index.ts:909, src/modules/discord/index.ts:962: The Discord changelog entry leaves out that returning from the whole handler also skips thought-edit and reply-context bookkeeping.
  • Failing case: When a private turn follows an inbound Discord message, the handler neither clears its pending reply-to nor updates its activity, and a later public speech through that context can reply to the old message; a same-turn explicit post also no longer has its thoughts edited in.
• 9. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:5, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:18: The changelog does not name the breaking refusal of an unnamed channel_publish in private turns.
  • Failing case: A resident calling channel_publish without channelId from a private turn that formerly had a focus, lock, latest-inbound channel or fork home now receives a refusal and must name a channel; readers of the release notes are not told that tool calls fail or how to migrate them.
• 10. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:1015, test/private-turns.test.ts:1020: The bounce-and-room batching test never asserts that the room mention's wake was queued and merged.
  • Failing case: If the room notification is lost or never schedules a wake, the first turn can still write a bounce and the bounce can open the second private turn, satisfying the no-typing assertion without exercising a private wake merged behind a public room wake.
• 11. minor at test/heard-mid-turn-wake.test.ts:1076, test/heard-mid-turn-wake.test.ts:1054: The console and API cases accept any injected message as proof the input was heard, though a routing notice is now in the batch.
  • Failing case: If the surface input causes the flip and its wake but is omitted from the tool-result injections, the routing notice alone satisfies the nonempty-array assertion; the test should assert that the actual input appears.
• 12. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:10, change-text.md:9, src/framework.ts:1684: The changelog and description of which rows count as channel messages omit the marker-tag exclusion.
  • Failing case: After an answered private message, a channel reaction or deletion, including a module row with channelId and no kind or system flag, does not make the next turn public; a module author following these descriptions would expect it to count.
• 13. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:9, src/framework.ts:19594, src/framework.ts:27564: The migration advice to name the channel in event metadata doesn't route the answer, because the inference request doesn't copy the event's channel into the wake.
  • Failing case: A module author adds metadata.channelId to an external-message for a channel, as instructed, on a delivery-locus host with no focus or other default: the event no longer makes the turn private, but the wake has no channelId and the answer still does not reach the named channel.
• 14. minor at src/framework.ts:40054, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6538: Skipping the whole fork guard for an unnamed private publish loses the fork-specific refusals.
  • Failing case: In a private turn, a fork with an unregistered home that publishes content without a channelId is told to name a channel and consult channel_list, although it cannot publish anywhere until its home is registered again; at the base, it was told that. With a foreign serverId and no channelId, it likewise gets generic advice instead of being told that publishing on that server is forbidden; naming a channel there is still rejected by the fork guard. Neither case posts: the private turn has no locus and the registry refuses before its serverId fallback can select a channel.
• 15. minor at src/framework.ts:23667, src/framework.ts:26416, src/framework.ts:40044, test/helpers/surface.ts:47, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:565, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:629, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:738, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:782, test/private-turns.test.ts:68, test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts:1, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:1, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:688, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:2: Added or changed source and test comments narrate implementation or tests rather than fitting a permitted comment category.
  • Failing case: A maintainer encounters internal implementation narration and a private helper's doc comment, neither an exported contract nor an external constraint or directive; these comments can go, with any design rationale placed in the change description or commit message.
• 16. minor at test/prose-drafts.test.ts:3, src/framework.ts:26299, docs/dendrite.md:283, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:4, src/framework.ts:26300, src/framework.ts:26434: The prose-drafts test header's 'no draft unless reach unknown' leaves out hybrid bounce holding and explicit bounces.
  • Failing case: In a private hybrid turn a bounced >>> envelope makes later unprefixed words drafts even without an unknown send, contrary to the header and consistent with the private-turn guide.
• 17. minor at docs/dendrite.md:283, src/modules/discord/index.ts:480: The guide's claim that Discord autoTyping types in every private turn ignores the silent-start exclusion.
  • Failing case: A silent private heartbeat has an inference:started trace with silent set, so the Discord module does not start its typing loop; a host reading the guide is told it will type when it does not.
• 18. minor at test/publish-default-locus.test.ts:2, test/private-turns.test.ts:485: The publish-default-locus test header says an unnamed publish defaults to the waking or opened channel, which private turns don't do.
  • Failing case: When a room wake opens a private turn, or channel_open is called in one, an unnamed channel_publish is refused instead of posting to that room, so the header misleads maintainers about the rule.

Raised before, still answered (4)

• minor at src/framework.ts:23450, src/framework.ts:23479: A conversation fork's drafts resend sends to its home by default even when the calling turn is private. Raised before as finding 2 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts the choice rests on hold. A fork's resend refuses any destination other than home (23486-23491), so home is the only channel it can post in, and the description lists the default as a limit.
• minor at src/modules/discord/index.ts:1700, src/modules/discord/index.ts:1728, src/modules/discord/index.ts:1738: The built-in discord--reply tool falls back to its old reply-context channel without checking whether the turn is private. Raised before as finding 3 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts hold. discord--reply is an explicit send to the reply context (1700-1738). The framework's own channel_publish default, which is where the turn's speech goes, is refused in a private turn (publishInputWithTurnLocus and registry 6532-6539).
• minor at src/modules/discord/index.ts:477, src/modules/discord/index.ts:480: Discord's autoTyping loop keeps using the previous reply-context channel during private turns. Raised before as finding 4 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts hold. Typing carries no words, the loop starts at 480 regardless of privacy, and docs/dendrite.md:283 says autoTyping types in the reply context's channel during a private turn too.
• minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:30, src/framework.ts:788, src/framework.ts:26710: The changelog does not say that already-primed locked residents keep the old primer, now wrong for private turns. Raised before as finding 12 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts hold. A locked private turn at attempt 0 calls announceLocusIfChanged(name, null) (27599), and when the last destination announced was the lock that writes 'Your plain speech currently has no channel — it stays in your archive' (24263-24267). A flip mid-turn writes its own notice instead.

[nissa-seru]

This answers the third automatic review, of ed8bb99c (#995 (comment)). Five commits answer it, tests and fixes in two rounds and one that changes comments only, and the head is now a4438707.

Fixed: 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17. Fixed in its words, with the code as it was: 4. Fixed in part: 8 and 15. Declined: 5, 6, 14 and 18. Each has its reason in the details.

Five answers in our earlier replies don't hold:

• The first reply's 4 (fix(routing)!: a turn that holds an operator's private message speaks in no channel #995 (comment)) said that a re-arm of an exhausted private turn opens a new turn whose privacy the window read decides. A re-arm copied its start's trigger, so a turn a private turn's wake opened kept the mark, but for a turn whose start was a context-budget restart's continuation, which carried no mark. A re-arm now takes the mark from the turn it re-arms (1).
• Its 6 said that plain speech written before the flip and delivered after it goes to no channel. Words already waiting for a channel to open when the turn turns private still post there (4). They were written before the turn saw the operator's message.
• Its 7 said the changelog fragment names the wakes that carry the private mark: a private turn's auto-continue, its ! continuation and a prose bounce's resend. A private turn's re-runs carry it too now, and the fragment names them (1).
• Its 19 was declined because no test runs a ! continuation from a private turn. Since the second review's round, two tests do.
• The second reply's 4 (fix(routing)!: a turn that holds an operator's private message speaks in no channel #995 (comment)) said that the built-in Discord module's autoTyping starts in its reply context's channel at a private turn's start. It doesn't at a silent turn's start (17).

What changes for callers:

• A request the framework builds to continue, re-run or re-arm a private turn carries its privacy: a context-budget restart's continuation, the non-streaming fallback's re-inference, a refusal rewind's retry and /unstick's, the poisoned-history rewind's retry, and a re-arm. Each opens or continues a private turn (1).
• A private turn's auto-continue row says that plain words with no destination go to no channel this turn (2).
• The breaking entry's migration says that naming a channel in an event's metadata keeps the turn from being private on its account, and that its answer then goes where plain speech went before this change: naming the channel there doesn't by itself send the answer to it (13).
• channel_publish's description, which this pull request already changes, says in a sentence of its own which turns have no channel of their own (7).

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the round, Hilda-2681 read it and listed every builder of a request that continues, re-runs or re-arms a turn, and Ada-1017 made the calls. Ezra-2423 wrote this reply, and Pippa-2697 read it.

Details for agents

Head a44387070999, answering the automatic review of ed8bb99cd44f (#995 (comment)). The round is five commits on ed8bb99cd44f: tests a840643b628c, fix 34299b16807d, tests a858675d374e, fix 264f29e36901, and a44387070999, which changes comments only. Line cites are at a44387070999.

• 1, fixed in 34299b16. Every request the framework builds to continue, re-run or re-arm a turn either copies the trigger of the start it continues or retries, or now takes the private mark from the turn's routing, as the framework's three wakes from a private turn already did (heartbeatTurnMark):

  • a context-budget restart's continuation (src/framework.ts:19179);
  • the non-streaming fallback's tool_results_ready (:19317);
  • a refusal rewind's retry, and /unstick's (:29551);
  • the poisoned-history rewind's retry (:35443);
  • a re-arm (:7287).

  The builders that copy the trigger of the start they continue or retry, the provider hold's retry, the error policy's retries, the tool-result guard's retry and the requeues, keep what that trigger carries. The scheduler's split of a marked wake from an open turn's start now keeps every continuation and retry of the open turn in its batch, tool_results_ready included (:22312). A turn that turned private mid-turn takes the mark from its routing too: a refusal rewind's shed can take the operator's message out of the agent's window, and then the mark alone keeps the retry private. The changelog fragment, docs/dendrite.md and InferenceRequest.privateCaller's doc name the re-runs (264f29e3). Tests: "a private turn's context-budget restart queues its continuation with the turn's privacy", "the non-streaming fallback's re-inference of a private turn carries the turn's privacy", "a private turn's refusal rewind re-runs it as a private turn", "the rewind's retry of a private turn carries the private mark, so the turn it opens is private", "a re-armed restart of a turn a private turn's wake opened is private, though the restart's own wake carries no mark", "a private turn's own tool_results_ready, batched with another wake while the turn is open, starts with the batch", and "a room turn that turned private at a tool boundary is re-run by its refusal rewind as a private turn, once the shed has taken the operator's message out of its window".

• 2, fixed in 34299b16. The turn's open and the auto-continue row read whether the turn is private through one method (opensPrivate, src/framework.ts:23680; the open at :27522, the row at :27420). A private turn's row says "plain words you write without it and with no destination go to no channel this turn, and an explicit send reaches a channel" (src/auto-continue.ts:48), in place of "anything you write without it is sent as usual" or the heartbeat's "are held as drafts, as on the heartbeat's turn". docs/auto-continue.md gives it. Tests: autoContinueNotice's unit test, and "an auto-continue after a room message was heard in a private turn is private", which reads the stored row.

• 3, fixed in 34299b16. In src/types/agent.ts, proseRouting's locked mode, proseLock, InferenceRequest.channelId and InferenceRequest.heartbeatTurn name the private-turn exception.

• 4, fixed in its words, with the code as it was. Words already in the channel registry waiting for a channel's open (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6233) still post after the turn turns private. They were written before the turn saw the operator's message, so they hold nothing of it. The description's line on words written before the flip says so.

• 5, declined. The description names it as a limit: a script's call that no call is watching, or that a later turn watches, is no turn's, and a channel_publish naming no channel from it takes main's default.

• 6, declined. The words for a turn with no pin are main's (src/framework.ts:25266), and main says the same of any hybrid turn with no destination after a bounce. They tell the resident its words stay in its archive when they're held as drafts, which keeps them.

• 7, fixed in 34299b16. channel_publish's description (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:571) reads "A turn with no channel of its own has no default, so it names one. Such a turn is a heartbeat's, or any turn while …".

• 8, fixed in part in 34299b16. The .changed entry says that the built-in Discord module edits none of a private turn's thoughts into a post (src/modules/discord/index.ts:909 returns before the edit), which keeps a private turn's thoughts out of a public post. The reply context's bookkeeping stays as it is: nothing was posted, so its pending reply-to still names the message no post has answered, as main leaves it after any turn that posts nothing.

• 9, fixed in 34299b16. The .changed entry says that channel_publish naming no channel is refused in a private turn, and that its refusal says to name the channel.

• 10, fixed in a840643b. The test checks that the second turn's batch holds the bounce's wake and the room mention's.

• 11, fixed in a840643b. The cases check that the turn heard something other than its [routing] notice.

• 12, fixed in 34299b16. The .changed entry says that a row tagged as a reaction, an edit, a deletion or a chat:system notice isn't a channel's message, but for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message. The description already said so.

• 13, fixed in 34299b16. The wake an external-message queues carries no channel, so a module's metadata.channelId keeps the turn from being private on the event's account and its answer goes where plain speech went before this change. The .breaking entry's migration says so.

• 14, declined. Neither case posts. The refusal says to name a channel, and a fork that names one gets the fork guard's own refusal, since the guard is skipped only for a private turn's channel_publish that names no channel (src/framework.ts:40059–40062).

• 15, fixed in part in a4438707, which removes the doc comments of two test helpers new in this pull request, SpeechProbe's and contextProbe's. The rest are declined. The source comments named and the headers of test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts and test/prose-drafts.test.ts are main's, edited to stay true. The five other test comments each give a fact a line depends on that the code doesn't show: the fixture's pre-scripted ok, a fork taking no untargeted inbound, one mock response per stream.

• 16, fixed in a840643b. The prose-drafts header limits the private-turn exception to locus, hybrid and locked mode, and names the hybrid hold after a bounced >>> envelope.

• 17, fixed in 34299b16. docs/dendrite.md says the Discord module's autoTyping types from the start of each turn that isn't silent (src/modules/discord/index.ts:480).

• 18, declined. The header is main's, in a file this pull request doesn't change, and describes that file's tests, all of public turns. test/private-turns.test.ts tests the refusal in a private turn.

The earlier answers that don't hold, first in #995 (comment):

• 4 said "An exhausted inference settles its turn (settleAgent with stopReason: 'exhausted'), so the rearm opens a new turn, and the open's window read decides it". A re-arm copies its start's trigger, so it kept the mark of a turn a private turn's wake opened, and lost it when that start was a context-budget restart's continuation, which carried none. At 34299b16807d a re-arm takes the mark from the turn it re-arms (src/framework.ts:7287), and a restart's continuation carries it too (:19179).
• 6 said "Plain speech a round queued before the flip and delivered after it goes to no channel". Words already waiting in the channel registry for a channel's open post there after the flip (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6233).
• 7 said "The fragment names the wakes that carry privateCaller: a private turn's auto-continue, its ! continuation and a prose bounce's resend." At a44387070999 a private turn's re-runs carry it too, and changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md names them.
• 19 said "No test runs a ! continuation from a private turn". Since the second review's round, two do: "explicit: a private turn's ! continuation that comes while a later room turn is provider-held doesn't join that turn's retry, and runs as its own private turn" and "explicit: a private turn's late ! continuation, parked in a quiesce beside a public turn's own, keeps its mark, and the turn at the lift is private" (test/private-turns.test.ts).

And in #995 (comment):

• 4 said that the built-in Discord module's autoTyping loop "starts on inference:started in its reply context's channel …, private turns included". A silent turn's start doesn't start it (src/modules/discord/index.ts:480).

Runs, on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.2 and npm 11.19.1, each at a clean checkout of the commit named, but for the one marked otherwise. A built run builds with tsc and runs dist/test with node --test --test-force-exit, as npm test does; the others run under tsx 4.23.15.

• Red, tests a840643b628c on ed8bb99cd44f's src, under tsx: in private-turns, all-except-e2e, locked-prose-routing, explicit-prose-routing, inference-exhaustion-rewind, exhausted-turn-rearm, auto-continue and heard-mid-turn-wake, 8 of 432 fail, each at its own assertion: six of the tests the commit adds, and the two it extends with an assertion of the round's. The public case of the poisoned-history rewind's test, and the changed tests for 10 and 11, pass.
• Fix 34299b16807d, built: 112 test files, those of the earlier rounds' runs and inference-exhaustion-rewind, refusal-rewind, physical-window-restart, end-turn-usage, inference-failure-bounds, inference-bounds and config-switches, pass 3,511 of 3,511, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants at 34299b16807d, under tsx: 49, each undoing one piece of the change, eight of them the round's: the mark at each of the five builders, the split's keeping of the open turn's continuations, the auto-continue row's privacy, and its words. Each fails every test written for its piece, and the unmutated control fails none of 82.
• Tests a858675d374e: its private-turns file on ed8bb99cd44f's src, a checkout of ed8bb99cd44f with that one file changed, not a clean checkout, under tsx, 5 of 47 fail, each at its own assertion: the four of that file the red above names, and its new test. On 34299b16807d's src, the commit's own, all 47 pass.
• Fix 264f29e36901, built: the same 112 files pass 3,512 of 3,512, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants at 264f29e36901, under tsx: the 49 again, each holding; the refusal rewind's mutant fails the new test too, and the control fails none of 83.
• The runs at a858675d374e and 264f29e36901 checked out earlier commits with the same trees, before their messages were reworded. Between 264f29e36901 and a44387070999, only comments change.
• CI at a44387070999: all 12 checks pass. The Build & Test job runs 10,549 tests: its "Test" step runs 10,418, of which 10,355 pass and 63 are skipped, and its "Test unforced (work in flight at stop)" step runs 131, which all pass. None fail.

— Ezra-2423

[nissa-seru]

/review

— Ezra-2423

[anima-review]

Automatic review of a44387070999.

About these findings

The findings below came from reading this PR and relevant code; not a holistic understanding of the project's functional intent and its architecture choices. Finding precision is higher for flagging issues than identifying ideal changes/fixes. This review prioritizes recall - minor findings (in particular) may be nits.

Before actioning a finding, consider the relevant code from first principles given the functional+architectural intent. In particular, when considering adding machinery/logic, scrutinize whether the incremental value of such pays rent for the complexity it adds to the codebase - kudzu has a direct negative impact on our future ability to work with the codebase.

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Findings, most severe first:

• 1. should fix at src/framework.ts:27522, src/framework.ts:27524, src/framework.ts:27746, src/framework.ts:27818: In legacy window mode, privacy is decided before the async gatherContext hooks run and is not checked again before compilation.
  • Failing case: For an agent whose presentation index could not be written down, start a channel turn and pause a gatherContext hook; store an operator surface message through a host or module while the hook is waiting, then let compilation continue. The legacy window is the record and includes the message, but the turn retains its channel locus and can publish its answer there.
  • Raised before as finding 1 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 2. should fix at src/framework.ts:1687, src/framework.ts:1703, src/framework.ts:20532: channelConversation counts framework-owned rows that carry a channelId, such as closure prompts, as channel messages.
  • Failing case: A conversation fork answers an operator's private message and then its idle-closure prompt is stored with channelId and conversationClosure but no kind or system flag; the backward walk takes that prompt as a newer channel message and the closing turn can speak in the fork's home, although no channel message followed the operator's input.
• 3. should fix at src/framework.ts:20234, src/framework.ts:20255, src/framework.ts:1670, src/framework.ts:1701: A conversation fork's seed copies compiled text without its inbound-source metadata, so inherited operator messages are not recognized as private.
  • Failing case: Spawn a fork from a template whose compiled context still contains an unanswered operator message: the seed includes that text but storeOwnRow supplies no source metadata, and the fork's next turn can route its answer to its home channel instead of recognizing the inherited private message.
• 4. should fix at src/framework.ts:1675, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:50, src/framework.ts:777, src/framework.ts:835, src/framework.ts:2244, src/framework.ts:13744, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:571: answersOperator never counts a round with a tool call as an answer, and neither the changelog nor the tool descriptions say so.
  • Failing case: A disabled or tool-only resident answers an operator using a send tool on every round and then receives new room messages: no qualifying text-only round ever marks the operator message answered, so all those later turns remain private indefinitely, contrary to the ordinary reading of the release note.
  • Raised before as finding 9 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.

Minor findings 5 to 22 (of 22)

• 5. minor at src/framework.ts:7143, src/framework.ts:7153, src/framework.ts:7158, src/framework.ts:22176: Provider-hold deduplication treats marked and unmarked requests as the same wake and never copies privateCaller onto the request it keeps.
  • Failing case: During a provider hold, an unmarked prose-continuation wake and a private turn's late prose-continuation wake have the same agent, source and millisecond timestamp and no distinguishing channel or wake lines. If the unmarked one is retained first, holdRequest discards the marked one; after release, a window that is otherwise public starts an unmarked turn and can send its words to a channel.
• 6. minor at src/framework.ts:1671, src/framework.ts:1701, src/mcpl/inbound-source.ts:114, CHANGELOG.md:6973: The privacy reader treats old or damaged rows that have no inbound-source envelope as non-surface, and has no conservative fallback for them.
  • Failing case: Upgrade a store containing an unanswered console or API message written before the inbound-source envelope was introduced in 0.22.3, then wake the agent with a focus or lock: readInboundSource returns undefined, so the turn opens public and can publish an answer containing the private message's contents.
• 7. minor at src/framework.ts:22043, src/framework.ts:25215, src/modules/discord/index.ts:909, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:69, docs/disabled-prose-routing.md:13, docs/dendrite.md:283: The release fragments and the disabled-routing guide omit the typing change and that Discord autoTyping still types during private turns.
  • Failing case: An operator upgrades expecting private turns not to expose channel activity: framework typing is suppressed or stopped, but Discord autoTyping can still show activity in the channel, and neither effect is named in the changelog.
  • Raised before as finding 4 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 8. minor at src/framework.ts:18796, src/framework.ts:23854, src/framework.ts:13374: The unposted-speech flag and its notice ignore turn privacy, so private pre-tool words count as a failed post.
  • Failing case: In an XML-mode private turn, write text before a tool call whose result ends the turn, such as sleep. Because the fallback has no verbatim roundContent, replySent is null and sets unpostedSpeech; settlement then writes '[speech-not-posted] ... send it again' even though withholding the words was the intended private routing.
• 9. minor at src/framework.ts:35636, src/framework.ts:35656, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:43: The changelog does not say that private turns remove the outgoing channel and incoming message from servers' beforeInference context.
  • Failing case: An MCPL server that uses the room or incoming message in its beforeInference hook receives neither during a private turn after upgrade, despite having received them for the corresponding turn before; its authors are not warned by the release fragments.
• 10. minor at src/framework.ts:25220, src/framework.ts:23616, src/framework.ts:40232, src/framework.ts:40859, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:6538, docs/locked-prose-routing.md:68, changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:43: Text says a private turn's plain speech goes to no channel, yet deliveries already waiting for a channel to open still post after the flip.
  • Failing case: A public turn's plain speech starts waiting for a channel to open, then an operator message makes the turn private and the resident reads the routing notice or a private-turn tool result; the queued words can still post to that channel afterward, contrary to what the resident was told.
  • Raised before as finding 4 of the review of ed8bb99cd44f, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 11. minor at src/framework.ts:20691, src/framework.ts:20676, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:570: The private locked-turn invitation only says to check for a server send tool, leaving out the framework's own channel_publish route.
  • Failing case: A locked resident in a private turn receives an invitation to a closed, publishable MCPL channel whose server exposes no separate send tool; the invitation gives no usable reply route even when the resident is allowed to call channel_publish with that channelId.
• 12. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:18, src/api/server.ts:503, src/framework.ts:20929: The breaking entry says API input needs no change, yet channel-routed message.send answers now open private turns.
  • Failing case: An integration uses message.send to wake a focused or locked resident and relies on the answer being posted to that channel: the generated api:message has no channel metadata and now opens a private turn, so its plain answer is no longer posted even though the entry tells this audience it need not act.
• 13. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:644, test/private-turns.test.ts:654, test/private-turns.test.ts:661, test/private-turns.test.ts:671, src/framework.ts:41383, src/framework.ts:41399: The sleep tests check the publish log immediately, but the sleep announcement is dispatched asynchronously and not awaited.
  • Failing case: If a regression starts an announcement but its server request is delayed, sleepingFor can be stored and the empty-log assertion can pass before the announcement reaches the fake server; closing the fixture can then prevent the leaked post from being observed.
• 14. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:139, test/private-turns.test.ts:147, test/private-turns.test.ts:150: The merged-wake test fabricates a room wake and only counts model calls, so it never shows that the two wakes merged.
  • Failing case: If the scheduler drops the fabricated room wake and runs only the private wake, the unanswered surface message still makes the single scripted answer private and every assertion passes.
• 15. minor at test/heard-mid-turn-wake.test.ts:1054, test/heard-mid-turn-wake.test.ts:1055, test/heard-mid-turn-wake.test.ts:1076: The console and API cases accept any non-routing injection instead of checking that the operator's actual message was injected.
  • Failing case: If the operator's are you there? row is omitted at the boundary but another non-routing injection is present, and the wake still starts a second turn, both cases pass despite the live turn never hearing the operator.
  • Raised before as finding 11 of the review of ed8bb99cd44f, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 16. minor at test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts:488, test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts:2467, test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts:3296: These routing tests use fixed 20–50 ms sleeps instead of waiting for an observable phase or completion signal.
  • Failing case: Under CPU contention the next turn or its queued delivery may not advance during 20–50 ms: the negative assertions can pass before the competing operation is attempted, or the notice assertion can fail before the notice is written; wait for an observable phase or completion signal with a deadline instead.
• 17. minor at src/types/events.ts:63, changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:1, src/framework.ts:1670: The event type docs and the breaking entry call channelless external-message rows private but omit the mcpl: source exclusion.
  • Failing case: A module emits an external-message with source: 'mcpl:service' and no metadata.channelId; its stored row is ignored by operatorSurface, so the event does not make the turn private and its answer can go to a channel, contrary to the event type documentation and breaking-change entry.
  • Raised before as finding 20 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 18. minor at src/types/agent.ts:678, src/types/agent.ts:705, src/framework.ts:27606, docs/locked-prose-routing.md:19: The InferenceRequest docs say a non-private heartbeat has no channel and holds drafts, but in locked mode it resolves to the lock.
  • Failing case: A host configures a locked agent with a registered proseLock and a non-private heartbeat: the heartbeat's speech is posted to the lock, not held as drafts, so an operator relying on either type comment for heartbeat delivery is misled.
• 19. minor at change-text.md:64, change-text.md:20, change-text.md:163, test/private-turns.test.ts:523: The description claims the initial tests cover every channel-delivery path, but Discord speech-handler coverage was only added later.
  • Failing case: A reviewer relying on the initial red run as complete evidence for channel-delivery paths would miss the Discord reply-context path: the description itself says that handler could post the answer, and assigns its test to the later review round.
• 20. minor at src/framework.ts:35636, src/framework.ts:35659, src/framework.ts:23987, src/framework.ts:10670, src/framework.ts:8138: The registry resolvers keep applying the last turn's private flag after that turn has ended.
  • Failing case: After a resident finishes a private turn, a host using the public channels accessor to resolve a destination or incoming reply anchor for an independent announcement gets null or undefined until the resident starts another turn; before the change the registry returned its home or latest routing and incoming message. Similarly, an injection-enabled preview taken after a newer channel message is visible but before its public turn starts sends beforeInference no outgoing channel or incoming message, unlike that turn.
• 21. minor at test/prose-drafts.test.ts:2, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:829: The prose-drafts header says unsent speech becomes a resendable draft, but disabled mode keeps unsent narration without making drafts.
  • Failing case: A maintainer using the header to understand a public disabled-mode turn would expect its unsent speech to be resendable, while the test at line 829 asserts an empty draft list and transcript-only retention.
• 22. minor at src/framework.ts:22313, src/framework.ts:27523, src/framework.ts:9500: An all-marked batch is not deferred while a public turn is open, and a continuing start ignores its privateCaller mark.
  • Failing case: If the public logical turn is open while the agent is ready or idle, with no active token or counted restart/held retry, and the batch contains only a private turn’s late continuation or bounce wake, the busy check lets it through and the start reuses the public routing; absent a newly presented private surface row, its generated words can go to the public locus instead of a new private turn. In particular, tool_results_ready is not counted by hasTurn, so a direct-API tool round whose continuation is not in this batch does not itself prevent this state. Active turns and provider-held retries, by contrast, are requeued or held before this can happen.
  • Raised before as finding 6 of the review of 42fd53e79afe and answered: «6, fixed in 542d7f86. While the agent has an open turn, a wake a private turn marked (privateCaller) that isn't that turn's own continuation goes back to the queue rather than join its start (src/framework.ts:22308), and opens a private turn of its own after it.» At this head, that doesn't hold: The answer says a marked wake that isn't the open turn's own continuation 'goes back to the queue rather than join its start' (:22308). At :22313 that happens only when the batch also holds unmarked requests: an all-marked batch with no turn alive starts as a continuation of the open public turn and keeps its routing.

Raised before, still answered (1)

• minor at src/framework.ts:1697, src/framework.ts:11597, src/framework.ts:12122, src/framework.ts:26267: The private-window scan matches only the child's literal participant name and ignores inherited self participants. Raised before as finding 8 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: 'It fails closed' holds: in each case the issue names, the turn speaks less, and no row reaches a channel it wouldn't have; the case is limited to shared inheritance.

[nissa-seru]

This answers the seventh automatic review, of 61691a22 (#995 (comment)). Five commits answer it: tests, a fix and a test comment, then tests and a fix from a rent pass. The head is now cca929b8.

Fixed: 4. Fixed in tests: 10, 12 and 13. Fixed in their words: 9, 11 and 15, and 2 and 5 in the description. Fixed in part: 14. Declined: 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8, each with its reason in the details. 1 is a should-fix. It's declined because the window read goes by the window's order, which is the order the agent reads. The eight raised before still hold as answered.

Two of our earlier texts no longer hold in some details:

• The note on round 6 (fix(routing)!: a turn that holds an operator's private message speaks in no channel #995 (comment)) says a private open stores the flip's notice where the channel it would have announced differs from the last one announced. Our reply to the sixth review (fix(routing)!: a turn that holds an operator's private message speaks in no channel #995 (comment)) kept that condition for any open but a heartbeat's, in its first bullet. Now a private open stores the flip's notice wherever it loses a destination and its window shows the operator's message, whatever was last announced.
• That reply also declined removing the doc comments of readAnnouncedLocus and announcedLocusDiffers. Under 10, it said the description weighs them as announceLocusIfChanged's own read and test, moved out whole. The rent pass's cut removes both helpers, and announceLocusIfChanged reads the baseline itself again.

What changes for callers:

• A provider hold's retry of a private silent tick now stays private (4). Before, the retry opened public where the operator's message had left the agent's window during the hold. Then channel_publish naming no channel could take a channel, such as a locked agent's lock.
• channel_publish's description now says a heartbeat's turn has a default where prose_locus points the agent's plain speech at a channel (9).
• A private open that loses the destination the agent was last told of (in locked mode, its lock) now gets the flip's notice where its window shows the operator's message. Before, it got the generic no-channel notice there, which says nothing of why. The frequent instance is a locked agent's operator turn under its lock after a public turn. This comes from a rent pass after the round.

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the round. Alfred-2570's rent pass of the last three rounds' growth, from his own least, found the cut. Hilda-2681 read it, listed every place a turn's routing is built, and gave 9's two sentences. Ada-1017 made the calls. Ezra-2423 wrote this reply.

Details for agents

Head cca929b80f33, answering the automatic review of 61691a22ad71 (#995 (comment)). The round is five commits on 61691a22ad71: tests 1616232f4db0, fix eaf93420306d, 89220564f0cc, which changes a test comment only, and the rent cut's tests c7498ae309fa and fix cca929b80f33. Line cites are at cca929b80f33.

• 1, declined. The window read goes by the window's order (src/framework.ts:1698–1701). That's the order the agent reads its context in. The Discord history sync does append a missed message after rows stored since (src/modules/discord/index.ts:1107, :1146). The agent hasn't read such a message, and it's the newest there. The public case also needs the operator's message answered first. Once it's answered, a public turn after a newer room message is the design's rule.
• 2, fixed in the description. It now names Gideon-2613's runs on connectome-host cef93398, at ba955e4979f2, 1110cb7e9503, cfea7e2448ca and this head. It says that no run went through a live console, TUI, WebUI or Discord server.
• 3, declined. The case needs a row under the agent's name with an operator's envelope. A row under the agent's name is presented to the model as one of its own turns (src/agent.ts:509, :632–635, :1934). So a module that stores an operator's message under that name has the agent read it as something it said itself, and the window read follows what the agent reads. This repository's modules mark an outside sender's name with its source (src/modules/sender-name.ts:9), as the API module does. So among them, such a row arises only where a host names its agent in that marked form.
• 4, fixed. A silent tick's start builds fresh routing (:27529). It now takes the turn's privacy from the routing it continues, as it already took its rounds (:27535). By reading, it was the one place a continuation's routing is built without the turn's mark. A resume takes the live routing whole. Any other start takes the open turn's, or opens a turn that reads the wake's mark and the window (:27559).
  • Test: a locked agent's silent tick is private from its window and fails into a provider hold. The operator's message leaves the window during the hold. The released retry is private, and its channel_publish naming no channel is refused.
• 5, fixed in the description. Its test helpers paragraph now says what script, hooksTold, contextProbe and ActModule's errors each do, and which tests assert what the last three record. Its weighed pieces now include OPERATOR_PENDING (:777) and privateTurnSpeech (:23626), the shared wording.
• 6, declined. A boundary's results belong to the round before (:28703), and that round was public. The trace names the channel that round spoke in. The next model content clears it.
• 7, declined. It's diagnostics only. main's resume split also requeues requests before the stale check (:22310, :22350). The marked split follows it. A marked wake still waits for the turn, and the rest of the batch is counted.
• 8, declined. The case needs three things at once: a parked heartbeat continuation, an operator's message during the park, and a host whose window couldn't be written down. It fails closed: the words go to no channel.
• 9, fixed in its words. A locked heartbeat's channel_publish takes its lock (:35715). The description now reads "Such a turn is any turn while …, or one that continues such a turn. A heartbeat's turn has none either, unless prose_locus points your plain speech at a channel."
• 10, fixed in tests. Both private-turn failure tests assert that the round's results were stored before the failure (test/prose-drafts.test.ts:3668).
• 11, fixed in its words. docs/dendrite.md now says first that a private turn has no default. The fork's and the trigger channel's rule follows, for any other turn.
• 12 and 13, fixed in titles. The heartbeats' test is "each heartbeat while no channel's message is newer than the operator's is told …" (test/private-turns.test.ts:1497). The receipt's test is "a public turn's receipt names no kept speech" (:1599).
• 14, fixed in part. readAnnouncedLocus and announcedLocusDiffers are gone with their doc comments, in the rent cut below. The rest are declined:
  • Some extend main's comments to keep them true.
  • Some document a field as its neighbours are documented, or an exported function's option.
  • Some state a constraint the line doesn't show. That includes the split's (:22320) and the external row's (:1681).
• 15, fixed in its words. This change had extended the header's exceptions into what read as a closed list. It left out what the agent keeps with skip_reply or a same-round private think, which the file's own test pins (test/prose-drafts.test.ts:697). The list now opens with "That includes".
• The rent cut. A private open's tells is now lost !== null outside a heartbeat (:27648). The open no longer reads the announced baseline, and announceLocusIfChanged is main's body again, plus always (:24281). No case gains or loses a notice. A private open that loses the destination the agent was last told of gets the flip's notice where its window shows the operator's message. Otherwise it gets the no-channel notice, as before.
  • Test: a public turn tells the agent its speech lands in work. An operator's message is stored without a wake. A room message in work then opens a private turn. Its open gets the flip's notice, not the no-channel one.

Runs, on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.2 and npm 11.19.1, each at a clean checkout of the commit named:

• Red, tests 1616232f4db0, whose src is 61691a22ad71's, under tsx: in private-turns and prose-drafts, 6 of 329 fail. One is 4's test, at "the retry's turn is private, as the tick was". The other five are the prose-drafts tests that fail the same way under tsx at the fix.
• Fix eaf93420306d, under tsx: the same two files. Only those five prose-drafts tests fail.
• Fix eaf93420306d, built: 112 test files pass 3,530 of 3,530, and the build reports nothing.
• 89220564f0cc differs from eaf93420306d only in a test comment.
• Red, tests c7498ae309fa, whose src is 89220564f0cc's, under tsx: private-turns fails 1 of 64, the rent cut's test, at "the room turn's open told it why, by the flip's notice".
• Fix cca929b80f33, under tsx: in private-turns, prose-drafts, routing-baseline-restart, locked-prose-routing and all-except-e2e, 5 of 403 fail. They're those five prose-drafts tests.
• Fix cca929b80f33, built: 112 test files pass 3,531 of 3,531, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at cca929b80f33, under tsx: 68, each undoing one piece. They're the last round's 66 under their tests' new titles, two of them re-anchored where the rent cut moved their code, and one each for 4's retry and the rent cut's notice. All hold, and the control fails none of 100.
• CI at cca929b80f33: all 12 checks pass. The Build & Test job runs 10,568 tests. Its "Test" step runs 10,437, of which 10,374 pass and 63 are skipped. Its "Test unforced (work in flight at stop)" step runs 131, which all pass.

— Ezra-2423

[nissa-seru]

/review

— Ezra-2423

[anima-review]

Automatic review of edf719b87a04.

About these findings

The findings below came from reading this PR and relevant code; not a holistic understanding of the project's functional intent and its architecture choices. Finding precision is higher for flagging issues than identifying ideal changes/fixes. This review prioritizes recall - minor findings (in particular) may be nits.

Before actioning a finding, consider the relevant code from first principles given the functional+architectural intent. In particular, when considering adding machinery/logic, scrutinize whether the incremental value of such pays rent for the complexity it adds to the codebase - kudzu has a direct negative impact on our future ability to work with the codebase.

Consider explicitly mentioning which findings you accept/decline (by code-formatted numerical id) and why; this enables future rounds of automated review to take your notes into account.

Findings, most severe first:

• 1. should fix at src/framework.ts:23776, src/framework.ts:22607, src/framework.ts:27606, src/framework.ts:27615: A held private silent retry doesn't carry the routing's private flag when merged with a non-silent wake, so it opens public.
  • Failing case: A silent heartbeat reads an operator message and fails into a provider hold; while held, the message leaves the context window and a room wake arrives. When the retry and room wake are released together, silentOnly is false, there is no open logical turn for the silent tick, and the new routing opens public because neither its trigger nor its window marks it private. The retry can then publish unprefixed speech or use an unnamed channel_publish in the room instead of remaining private.
  • Raised before as finding 4 of the review of 61691a22ad71, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 2. should fix at src/framework.ts:1712, src/framework.ts:1720, src/framework.ts:28071, src/presentation.ts:825: In legacy mode the walk takes the record's order as answer order, so a response generated before an input counts as its answer.
  • Failing case: While a legacy-mode room stream is generating, store an operator message and then a channel message; the stream finishes with text without having read either. At the next turn the record orders both messages before that text, so the walk finds an answer and a newer channel message and opens public, even though the operator message remains unanswered; the turn can publish its answer to the channel.
• 3. should fix at change-text.md:45, change-text.md:61, change-text.md:227, commit-messages.txt:999, commit-messages.txt:1022, change-text.md:78, change-text.md:98, src/framework.ts:23756, src/framework.ts:23762, change-text.md:237, src/framework.ts:23752: The description calls cca929b80f33 the head and names opensPrivate and heartbeatTurnMark, but later commits replaced them with privateOpening and turnMarks.
  • Failing case: A maintainer relying on the stated head hash or the 3,531-test result to assess the current tree is actually reading evidence for the earlier cca929b80f33 tree, before ea4d58ca and the merge that adds unprompted-channel integration and a test.
• 4. should fix at changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:10, src/framework.ts:1716, src/framework.ts:1693: The migration promise ignores channelless rows stored before the upgrade, which can still make migrated turns private.
  • Failing case: A module delivered a channelless message before the upgrade, and the agent answered it only with a send tool; after the author adds channel IDs to both new events and rows, the old surface message is still unanswered under the new scan, so a new channel message wakes a private turn and its plain answer does not go to the former destination.
• 5. should fix at test/private-turns.test.ts:597, test/private-turns.test.ts:600, test/private-turns.test.ts:623, test/private-turns.test.ts:627: The legacy-stop test doesn't propagate or check the assertions inside its afterAnnotations guard.
  • Failing case: If storing the surface message or taking the stop fails inside afterAnnotations, waits has already reached two; the framework can handle the thrown error by ending the turn, leaving neither retried speech nor a flip notice, and the test passes without the intended stopped-after-compile state.
• 6. minor at src/framework.ts:1712, src/modules/api/index.ts:70, src/modules/sender-name.ts:11: The walk treats any row under the agent's name as its answer before checking the surface envelope.
  • Failing case: For an agent named user, an API message.send with participant user is stored under that same participant with an API surface envelope; at the next turn's open the scan skips it as the agent's own row, and the answer can go to the focused or locked channel instead of remaining private.
  • Raised before as finding 3 of the review of 61691a22ad71 and answered: «3, declined. The case needs a row under the agent's name with an operator's envelope. A row under the agent's name is presented to the model as one of its own turns (src/agent.ts:509, :632–635, :1934). So a module that stores an operator's message under that name has the agent read it as something it said itself, and the window read follows what the agent reads.» At this head, that doesn't hold: The answer says this repository's modules mark outside names, so such a row arises only where a host names its agent in that marked form. sender-name.ts:11 leaves user (any case) unmarked, so an agent named user gets it from the API module (api/index.ts:70). The rest of the answer, that such rows are presented as the agent's own turns, still holds there.
• 7. minor at change-text.md:102, src/framework.ts:27634, test/unprompted-channel-routing.test.ts:387, change-text.md:230, test/unprompted-channel-routing.test.ts:274: The description's rent pass omits the privateOpening refactor, the skipReplyWake selector, and the new private unprompted-channel test.
  • Failing case: A reviewer using the pass to judge every part of this diff finds no account of what the local privateOpen state and privateOpening return buy over the removed privacy toggle, or why the private timer-wake test is needed alongside the earlier wake tests.
• 8. minor at src/framework.ts:41573, src/framework.ts:41585: A private turn's suppressed sleep announcement shows only in the operator log, not in the tool result.
  • Failing case: The agent calls sleep with announce enabled and a custom message in a private turn; sleep is set and the result reports only the duration and time, so the agent cannot distinguish the dropped announcement from one that was sent.
• 9. minor at src/framework.ts:41011, src/framework.ts:41014: The public fork focus result says speech stays in the home channel, omitting the private-turn exception.
  • Failing case: A fork calls focus during a public turn and reads that its plain speech stays in its conversation's channel; an operator message then opens a private turn where that speech goes to no channel instead.
• 10. minor at docs/locked-prose-routing.md:57, src/framework.ts:24290: The XML-path doc says a prose_locus move holds the rest of the speech as drafts, but a private turn's move doesn't.
  • Failing case: A locked private turn on the XML tool path calls prose_locus and then writes plain speech without a send of unknown reach; a reader following this paragraph expects recoverable drafts, but the words are kept private without drafts.
• 11. minor at src/types/module.ts:860, changelog.d/private-turns.added.md:1, src/framework.ts:23762: The SpeechContext.private docs tie the flag to holding an operator's message, but marked continuations are private without one.
  • Failing case: A private turn's marked continuation opens after a rewind or window change removes the operator's message; its speech handler receives private: true despite the turn holding no such message, misleading a host that uses the documented condition to interpret the flag.
• 12. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:813, test/private-turns.test.ts:815, test/private-turns.test.ts:820, test/private-turns.test.ts:824: The marker tests assert that the item is stored, not that the tested turn's window or request contains it.
  • Failing case: If presentation omits the reaction, edit or deletion from the next turn, the previous answered operator message still makes that turn private and the no-post assertion succeeds even if the classifier would incorrectly treat the marker as a newer channel message.
• 13. minor at change-text.md:230, test/helpers/surface.ts:21, test/helpers/surface.ts:45, test/helpers/surface.ts:46, test/helpers/surface.ts:51: The description's helper inventory doesn't weigh the added surfaceMessage, say, callTool and act helpers.
  • Failing case: A maintainer using the rent pass to assess the added test infrastructure finds the module helpers and holdPublish discussed, but these four added helpers omitted from the accounting.
• 14. minor at test/audience-stamp-writers.test.ts:439, src/framework.ts:27735: The writer inventory says makeTurnPrivate writes only at continuing starts or boundaries, missing the private open.
  • Failing case: When a private turn opens with a would-be channel and the window identifies the surface, makeTurnPrivate writes its routing notice at that open, so an auditor using the inventory misses a writer execution path.

Raised before, still answered (8)

• minor at src/framework.ts:23526, src/framework.ts:23555, src/framework.ts:33285: A fork's drafts resend with no destination defaults to its home even when the calling turn is private. Raised before as finding 2 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts the decline rests on hold. A fork's resend can only reach its home (:23562-23567), the resend is the agent's own drafts call, and description line 42 names the limit.
• minor at src/framework.ts:32452, src/framework.ts:22699, src/framework.ts:22703, src/framework.ts:31069: A script started by a private turn loses that privacy when its call has no current watcher. Raised before as finding 5 of the review of ed8bb99cd44f, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts hold. Such calls carry no turn (:26064-26072), src/types/events.ts:298 documents an unwatched script as running apart from any turn, and description line 43 names this as a limit with main's default.
• minor at src/framework.ts:1712, src/framework.ts:23763, src/framework.ts:11651, src/agent.ts:583: The window walk recognizes only the agent's literal name, not a derived agent's parent or self participants. Raised before as finding 8 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The fact holds that this fails closed. A parent's or self-participant's row is skipped as a foreign row (:1716-1718), so answered stays false and the turn is only ever made more private, never public.
• minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:896, test/private-turns.test.ts:898, test/private-turns.test.ts:915, test/private-turns.test.ts:916, src/framework.ts:41563, src/framework.ts:41577: The sleep tests check the fake server before a fire-and-forget announcement is sure to arrive. Raised before as finding 13 of the review of a44387070999, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The answer rests on a mutant run in which a leaked announcement reached the log before the assertion. The code doesn't contradict that, though it doesn't guarantee it, so this is a call on how rare a late delivery is.
• minor at test/tool-result-guard.test.ts:1124, test/tool-result-guard.test.ts:1174: The restarted-turn ordering tests use a fixed 100 ms delay and don't confirm the earlier publish is held. Raised before as finding 19 of the review of d4ed8e731a79, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: The diff of tool-result-guard.test.ts changes only the events' metadata (:137, :525). The delays at :1124 and :1174 are unchanged from main.
• minor at test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts:488: The bounce-order test waits a fixed 50 ms instead of confirming the bounce reached the race point. Raised before as finding 16 of the review of a44387070999, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: The pull request edits other parts of explicit-prose-routing.test.ts, but none of its fixed sleeps, including the one at :488.
• minor at test/code-execution.test.ts:2527: The stopped-script test checks for late publication after a fixed 50 ms instead of waiting for the script to settle. Raised before as finding 20 of the review of d4ed8e731a79, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: The diff of code-execution.test.ts changes only metadata: {} to name a channel. The delay is unchanged from main.
• minor at src/framework.ts:1578, src/framework.ts:1689, src/framework.ts:22379, src/framework.ts:23752, src/framework.ts:27729, src/auto-continue.ts:21, src/auto-continue.ts:39, src/auto-continue.ts:41, src/framework.ts:7186, src/framework.ts:23698, src/framework.ts:26530, src/framework.ts:40215, src/auto-continue.ts:25, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:565, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:629, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:737, test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts:2, test/private-turns.test.ts:68, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:3: Added or changed internal and test comments narrate implementation, fixtures or design instead of fitting a permitted comment kind. Raised before as finding 14 of the review of 61691a22ad71, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts behind the decline hold. The diff shows the source comments at :7186, :23698, :23752, :26530 and :40215, auto-continue.ts:21/:41 and both test headers are main's, extended. keptForPrivacy's doc follows its documented neighbours. Which remaining comments state a constraint is a call on the house rule.

[nissa-seru]

This answers the eighth automatic review, of edf719b8 (#995 (comment)). Six commits answer it: tests and a fix, tests and a fix that keep a private turn's retry and an equal unmarked request as one, a test that pins a re-arm's own mark, and a docs commit that makes InferenceRequest.privateCaller's doc true to the retry's mark. The head is now 3562bc56.

Fixed: 1. Fixed in tests: 5, 12 and 14. Fixed in their words: 4, 9, 10 and 11, and 13 in the description. Declined: 2, 6, 7 and 8, each with its reason in the details. 2 is a should-fix. It's declined because in that mode the agent reads its own reply after both messages. 3 was answered while the review ran: the description was updated after the review was asked, and before the review posted. The eight raised before still hold as answered.

Two details of our reply to the seventh review (#995 (comment)) no longer hold:

• Under 4, it says a silent tick's start takes the turn's privacy from the routing it continues. That check is gone. The retry now carries the turn's mark itself, which leaves the check nothing to add.
• Under 3, it says this repository's modules mark an outside sender's name. They leave user unmarked, so that doesn't hold for an agent named user. The details' 6 says why the finding is still declined.

What changes for callers:

• A provider hold's retry of a private turn now carries the private mark (1). Before, a private silent tick's retry that started with a room's wake opened public where the operator's message had left the agent's window during the hold. Then channel_publish naming no channel could take a channel, such as a locked agent's lock.
• A provider hold now keeps a private turn's request and an unmarked request equal to it in every other field once, and the one it keeps carries the private mark. Before, it kept them apart.
• A conversation fork's focus result in a public turn now says its plain speech goes to no channel while an operator's message holds the turn private (9).

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the round. Hilda-2681 read it, and traced the quiesce that led the hold to keep the two once. Ada-1017 made the calls. Ezra-2423 wrote this reply.

Details for agents

Head 3562bc562622, answering the automatic review of edf719b87a04 (#995 (comment)). The round is six commits on edf719b87a04: tests 944f903376a7, fix 8f568df240b6, tests b166606786ab, fix f27329ee2140, tests 67a70cd27f89, and 3562bc562622, which changes docs only. Line cites are at 3562bc562622.

• 1, fixed. A provider hold's retry now takes privateCaller from the turn's routing (src/framework.ts:23779), as a re-arm already did (:7342). A batch that holds the retry carries the mark (:22637), so the turn it opens with a room's wake is private.
  • Test: a locked agent's silent tick is private from its window and fails into a provider hold. During the hold, the operator's message leaves the window and a room's message wakes the agent. The retry and the room's wake start one stream that isn't silent. That turn is private, and its channel_publish naming no channel is refused.
  • Marking the retry made a provider hold keep it apart from an unmarked request equal to it in every other field. Under a quiesce the retry passes and the other parks, so one cause could run two turns. The hold now keeps the two once, and the one kept carries the mark (:7207). Equality no longer compares it (:7186).
  • Test: an operator's turn fails into a hold, and its retry is held beside an unmarked equal. Under a quiesce, one turn runs after the failed start, and it's private.
  • A re-arm already took the mark from the turn's routing. Its test reached the re-arm through two retries, which now carry the mark, so it now exhausts with no retry, and only the re-arm's own line marks it (test/exhausted-turn-rearm.test.ts:927).
  • InferenceRequest.privateCaller's doc said such a retry carries the field only if its trigger did. It now lists the retry among the requests that take the mark from the turn (src/types/agent.ts:725–736), and so do docs/dendrite.md and the changed fragment.
  • The silent start's own check of the turn it retries is gone. A silent start reaches that check only for a retry, and every retry comes from the hold's retry builder or a batch that holds one (:22661), which now carries the mark. With the check removed, its own test still passes.
• 2, declined. In legacy mode the agent's window is the record, and the agent reads its own reply after both messages, as its answer to them. The window read follows the order the agent reads (:1705), as in the seventh review's 1. The case also needs a host whose window couldn't be written down and both messages to arrive during one stream.
• 3, answered. The review read the description as it stood when the review was asked. It was updated minutes later and named edf719b87a04, privateOpening and turnMarks. It now names this head.
• 4, fixed in its words. The breaking fragment's migration now says that a row the module stored before naming a channel stays an operator's message (changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:18).
• 5, fixed in tests. The test records the hook's checks and asserts them after the run.
• 6, declined. The case needs an agent named user. For such an agent, every row under user, a console's or the TUI's too, is presented as its own turn (src/agent.ts:514, :637–640, :1939). It reads an operator's message as something it said itself, and the window read follows what the agent reads. Our earlier answer said the repository's modules mark an outside sender's name. src/modules/sender-name.ts:11 leaves user unmarked, so that part doesn't hold for an agent named user.
• 7, declined. The rent pass weighed the change up to the round before. The last round came from a check of whether this is the change we'd make starting fresh, which weighed privateOpening against the removed toggle. The merge's test pins how main's unprompted channel meets a private turn.
• 8, declined. main reports a skipped sleep announcement only in the operator's log, for an explicit turn with no target, a locked turn that speaks nowhere and a heartbeat's turn (:41567–41572). A private turn's follows it (:41574).
• 9, fixed in its words. A public fork's focus result ends "…your conversation's channel, except while P: then it goes to no channel." (:41014), P being the shared condition.
• 10, fixed in its words. docs/locked-prose-routing.md now says a move on the XML tool path holds no drafts on a private turn (docs/locked-prose-routing.md:59).
• 11, fixed in its words. SpeechContext.private's doc and the added fragment now say the turn held an operator's private message, or continues a turn that did (src/types/module.ts:860).
• 12, fixed in tests. The marker tests' premise now reads the window of the turn after the marker, not the stored record.
• 13, fixed in the description. Its test helpers paragraph now names surfaceMessage, say, callTool and act.
• 14, fixed in tests. The own-row writers' entry for makeTurnPrivate names the private open.

Runs, on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.2 and npm 11.19.1, each at a clean checkout of the commit named:

• Red, at a commit whose tree differs from tests 944f903376a7's only in a type in test/private-turns.test.ts and in test/held-turn-retry.test.ts, under tsx: in private-turns, prose-drafts, routing-baseline-restart, locked-prose-routing and all-except-e2e, 6 of 404 fail. One is 1's test, at "the turn the retry starts with the room's wake is private, as the tick was". The other five are the prose-drafts tests that fail the same way under tsx at the fix.
• Fix, at a commit whose tree differs from 8f568df240b6's in the same two files, under tsx: the same five files. Only those five prose-drafts tests fail.
• Fix 8f568df240b6, built: 121 test files pass 3,799 of 3,799, and the build reports nothing.
• Red, tests b166606786ab, whose src is 8f568df240b6's, under tsx: in private-turns and held-turn-retry, 7 of 151 fail. Two are the hold's tests above. Five are held-turn-retry tests, at their premise that the hold folds an equal request.
• Fix f27329ee2140, under tsx: the five files and held-turn-retry. 5 of 490 fail, those five prose-drafts tests.
• Fix f27329ee2140, built: 121 test files pass 3,800 of 3,800, and the build reports nothing.
• Mutants, at f27329ee2140, under tsx: 69, each undoing one piece. 68 hold, and the control fails none of 102. The re-arm's mutant failed nothing, since its test reached the re-arm through retries that now carry the mark.
• Tests 67a70cd27f89, under tsx: exhausted-turn-rearm passes 85 of 85. With the re-arm's mutant, it fails 1 of 85, that test, and the control fails none of 102. Built, with private-turns: 151 of 151 pass, and the build reports nothing.
• CI at 3562bc562622: all 15 checks pass. The Build & Test job runs 10,724 tests. Its "Test" step runs 10,593, of which 10,529 pass, 63 are skipped and 1 is a todo. Its "Test unforced (work in flight at stop)" step runs 131, which all pass.

— Ezra-2423

[nissa-seru]

/review

— Ezra-2423

[anima-review]

Automatic context view of 3562bc562622 merged onto 152ee76fbadd.

What a context view runs and what its checks judge: CHECKS.md.

The records of 73 of the 75 runs it could compare differ between the base and this head.

Couldn't tell whether 45 changed source lines ran, since H6/continuation: its profiled drive failed at step c.debt: the turn's first inference failure (inference:failed, which agent-framework may still have retried): {"type":"inference:failed","agentName":"fixture","error":"400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\ (the reason's first 263 of 1,341 characters). 107 changed source lines map to nothing the host runs: 5 of src/auto-continue.ts's, 56 of src/framework.ts's, 30 of src/types/agent.ts's, 8 of src/types/events.ts's and 8 of src/types/module.ts's. The whole list is in the fold below.

1 run couldn't be compared; its reason is below.

Separately, 2 of the checks' flags differ between the base and the head, in 2 runs; they're listed under "Checks' flags that differ", below.

Usage: the agents' requests, subagents' included, in the 75 runs, base → head: 208,366 → 208,444 tokens sent a request, 70.9% of them read from the cache, 145,290,447 → 145,215,404 written to it, 3,919,189 output and 24 thinking blocks dropped. The figures of 73 runs moved, for any kind of request; they're under "Usage that differs", below. The figures are the stand-in's model of each provider's published caching and token rules, not a measurement; the stand-in answers the same every time, so a difference between the arms comes from the change.

A model's account of those records:

Delta 1: Speech-routing tool definitions change

Across compared conversations offering tools that publish or direct speech, in requests declaring those tools, including summariser requests.

• base (main): The receiving model gets the base's definitions of the tools that publish or direct speech.
• head (3562bc562622): The receiving model gets revised definitions of those tools.

Delta 2: Locked-routing instructions explain the privacy exception

At the opening of the conversation where speech is held as drafts until the resident chooses a locked destination.

• base (main): The resident's model is told that plain speech stays in drafts until the resident moves its destination.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model is also told that a turn holding unanswered or still-current channelless input sends plain speech nowhere instead.

Delta 3: Routing notices explicitly identify private console input

In the wake-gate, refusal-recovery, mixed-input and failed-tool-stream conversations, when requests announce or replay the routing of turns holding console input.

• base (main): The resident's model gets ordinary destination feedback or no console-specific explanation, with the base's delivery history where it is replayed.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets an explicit explanation that console input leaves plain speech without a channel, with private-delivery feedback replacing failed-delivery feedback where that history is replayed.

Delta 4: Private-delivery receipts replace undeliverable-speech notices

After affected speech in the wake-gate, refusal-recovery and mixed-input conversations, when subsequent resident requests carry delivery feedback.

• base (main): The resident's model gets notices saying earlier speech could not be delivered.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets receipts saying the speech was kept private because its turn was private, with cache boundaries adjusted where the replay changes.

Delta 5: Heartbeat speech after console input leaves no draft

In the wake-gate conversation whose heartbeat turn receives console input during its tool call, in the request after that turn's closing reply. Follows from Delta 4.

• base (main): The resident's model gets a draft notice and a receipt saying the heartbeat's speech was held as drafts.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets no draft notice and instead gets a receipt saying that speech was kept private.

Delta 6: Retrieval keyword selection includes earlier console-exchange material (the description doesn't mention it)

In the wake-gate conversation, in retrieval-keyword requests during and after the heartbeat turn that receives console input.

• base (main): The model selecting retrieval keywords gets recent conversation without an earlier message from the console exchange.
• head (3562bc562622): The model selecting retrieval keywords also gets that earlier console-exchange message.

Delta 7: The following channel turn announces its destination again

In the mixed-input conversation, when a channel message follows the turn that handled console and channel arrivals together. Follows from Delta 4.

• base (main): The resident's model gets a receipt saying the preceding reply reached the channel, without a new destination announcement.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets a private-delivery receipt for that reply and a destination announcement for the new channel turn.

Delta 8: Publishing without a destination is refused

In the mixed-input conversation, after console input reaches a channel turn at its tool boundary and the resident tries publishing without naming a channel. Follows from Delta 3.

• base (main): The resident's model gets a successful publishing result and ordinary no-destination routing feedback.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets a private-turn routing notice before the publish and a refusal explaining that publishing must name a channel.

Delta 9: The private reply no longer opens the closed channel

In the mixed-input conversation, in the request following the resident's reply to an invitation from a closed channel. Follows from Delta 3.

• base (main): The resident's model gets a receipt saying its reply reached that channel and a notice saying the reply opened it.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets a private-delivery receipt and no notice that the channel opened.

Delta 10: History-search totals and surrounding replay change (the description doesn't mention it)

In wake-gate conversations, when resident requests carry history-search results and subsequently replay them through subagent work and later turns. Follows from Delta 4.

• base (main): The resident's model gets the base's search totals, delivery history and placement of separately injected instructions.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets changed search totals and, where the full conversation is replayed, private-turn feedback and changed placement of the injected instructions.

Delta 11: Failed private tool speech loses its unposted-speech warning

In the conversation sent as a transcript for the model to continue, in the request following the failed tool continuation of a console turn and in final bookkeeping.

• base (main): The resident's model gets a warning that speech before the failed tool continuation was not posted, followed by ordinary channel-routing feedback, and the context bookkeeping includes the warning.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets no unposted-speech warning and instead gets private-turn routing feedback, and the context bookkeeping omits the warning.

Delta 12: The explicit-routing bounce explains private envelope scope

In the explicit-destination conversation, when the console turn's unprefixed speech is held as a draft and the resident is asked to resend it.

• base (main): The resident's model is told that the speech lacked a destination prefix and the turn had no destination.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model is additionally told that the turn is private and an explicitly addressed passage gives a destination only to its own words.

Delta 13: Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries (the description doesn't mention it)

In continuation conversations that resume stored history under default and alternative summary-selection and merging settings, when older history is selected for the resident's model.

• base (main): The resident's model gets selected older messages as written, summaries of other stretches and retained parts of long messages, with cache boundaries on that selection.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets a different selection of originals, summaries and retained message parts, with corresponding changes to their framing and cache boundaries.

Delta 14: Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions (the description doesn't mention it)

In affected continuation, document-heavy, wake-gate, refusal-recovery, locked-routing and mixed-input conversations, at resident-model calls adding the same named conversation material.

• base (main): The resident's model receives those additions with the base's message-cache boundaries.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model receives the same listed additions with different message-cache boundaries and changed request bodies.

Delta 15: The opening stored reply loses its thinking (the description doesn't mention it)

At the opening model call of the continuation that reopens the newer prebuilt conversation on a model whose thinking is bound to its preceding request.

• base (main): The resident's model gets the conversation's opening stored reply with its thinking.
• head (3562bc562622): The resident's model gets that reply without its thinking.
• Also in: Later requests rebuilding that continuation's conversation carry the same omission forward.

Delta 16: Bodies differ without different named conversation material (the description doesn't mention it)

In affected resident-model calls and tool continuations across continuation, document-heavy, speech-routing, wake-gate and mixed-input conversations, and retrieval-keyword calls after console input.

• base (main): The receiving model gets the base's request body for the listed conversation material.
• head (3562bc562622): The receiving model gets a different request body while the conversation material named for that request remains the same.

Delta 17: Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates (the description doesn't mention it)

At the end of affected continuations using default or alternative summary-selection and merging settings. Follows from Delta 13.

• base (main): The context manager's final bookkeeping lists the base's updates to older messages represented by summaries.
• head (3562bc562622): The context manager's final bookkeeping adds or omits older-message summary updates relative to the base.

Delta 18: Summary production timing and completion differ (the description doesn't mention it)

In ordinary conversations with temporary readers, document-heavy conversations and pinned-history conversations under budget cuts, where summaries are requested, stored and tallied.

• base (main): Summary requests and their stored results follow the base's production timing, with the corresponding final totals and completed checks.
• head (3562bc562622): Summary requests and their stored results occur at different conversation points or additionally before completion, with corresponding changes to final totals and completed checks.

Delta 19: Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates (the description doesn't mention it)

In summariser requests during document-heavy conversations, lifecycle changes and pinned-history budget cuts.

• base (main): The summariser is told the base's estimated length of the material it is asked to remember.
• head (3562bc562622): The summariser is told a different estimated length for that material.

Runs whose records differ: 73 of 75, with 19 changes

H1/continuation: 5 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step heads.

Before:

channel_publish:489a8faa

After:

channel_publish:590f98f2

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 6 steps; the quotes are from step c.cm.1.

Before:

p.32.in-p.32.r1 L1(p.32.r1+1-p.33.call1) L1(p.32.r1+1-p.33.call1) L1(p.33.r2-p.34.in+1) L1(p.33.r2-p.34.in+1) L1(p.34.in+2-p.34.in+5) L1(p.34.in+2-p.34.in+5) L1(p.34.in+6-p.34.r1+1) L1(p.34.in+6-p.34.r1+1)

After:

p.32.in-p.32.r1 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c] [T:user-clock-#-#-utc-9b6932fc9102](11,10) p.33.in-p.33.r2 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c] p.34.in[T:user-wren-own-text-2baa0dc63f25](0,23850,90014)!shards L1(p.34.in+2-p.34.in+5) L1(p.34.in+2-p.34.in+5) [T:user-velvet-basket-answer-bed7a5ec41de]!shards

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 4 steps; the quotes are from step c.cm.3.

Before:

compile + c.cm.2.r1 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c] c.cm.3.in ^ 39,58,80,120, body b7451c79

After:

compile + c.cm.2.r1 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c] c.cm.3.in ^ 39,64,86,126, body bcadddd9

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps; the quotes are from step c.tool.

Before:

round + c.tool.r1 c.tool.call1 c.tool.call2, body 265def8a

After:

round + c.tool.r1 c.tool.call1 c.tool.call2, body 9d14850d

Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates

At step end.

Before:

receipt fixture #57 changes c.think.r1/raw/0/57 c.think.call1/raw/0/57 c.think.r2/raw/0/57 c.think.r2+1/raw/0/57 c.debt.in/raw/0/57

After:

receipt fixture #57 changes p.31.r1/summary/1/57 p.31.r1+1/summary/1/57 p.32.in/summary/1/57 p.32.r1/summary/1/57 p.47.r1/summary/1/57 p.47.r1+1/summary/1/57 p.47.r1+2/summary/1/57 p.48.in/summary/1/57 c.think.r1/raw/0/57 c.think.call1/raw/0/57 c.think.r2/raw/0/57 c.think.r2+1/raw/0/57 c.debt.in/raw/0/57

H3/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1b/continuation/from-0.9.0: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1b/continuation/from-0.23.0: 3 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

The opening stored reply loses its thinking

At 7 steps; the quotes are from step c.cm.1.

Before:

p.1.in [T:user-routing-your-plain-d71d86cf6da8] p.1.r1 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c]

After:

p.1.in [T:user-routing-your-plain-d71d86cf6da8] p.1.r1!content:no-thinking [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c]

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

H1b/continuation/fresh: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At step p.32. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

H1/W1: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H4/W1: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H4b/W1: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 9 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summary production timing and completion differ

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step 208390.62.

Before: none.

After:

wrote L1(208390.52.r2-208390.52.call3) [T:summary-l1-a2cbfce6a5d7]

C3h/W2: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W2: 3 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summary production timing and completion differ

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H4b/W1, at step 208390.62.

Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates

At 17 steps; the quotes are from step 204810.15.

Before:

[T:call-context-manager-you-04340ee23663](103297,2000) -> summary, body ff37f693

After:

[T:call-context-manager-you-04340ee23663](103332,2000) -> summary, body 01b42d63

H1b/W2: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates

At 21 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/W2, at step 204810.15.

H3/W4: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C5h/W5: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C8h/W6: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C3h/W7/merges-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W7/merges-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W7/merges-rejected: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H2/W7/merges-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W7/chunk-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C14h/W7/merges-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C15h/W7/chunk-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C16h/W7/chunk-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C17h/W7/merges-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C17h/W7/chunk-refused: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C3h/W8/unenforced: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C6h/W8/enforced: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W8/enforced: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H4/W8/unenforced: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H3/W9: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C3h/W9: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C6h/W9: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 5 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W9: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 5 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/W2, at step 204810.15.

H1/W14: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1b/W14: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H4/W15: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C6h/W11: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summary production timing and completion differ

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H4b/W1, at step 208390.62.

H1/W11: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates

At step 232330.13. Its before and after are quoted under H1/W2, at step 204810.15.

P1/continuation: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

P2/continuation: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

P3/continuation: 5 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 6 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.1.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates

At step end. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step end.

P4/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

P5/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H5/W12: 8 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 6 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Routing notices explicitly identify private console input

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step templates.

Before: none.

After:

[routing] This turn now holds a message from cli, which has no channel, so your plain speech goes to no channel for the rest of this turn; reaching a channel takes an explicit send.

Private-delivery receipts replace undeliverable-speech notices

At 5 steps; the quotes are from step 88667.console.2.

Before:

88667.console.1.r1 [T:user-send-undeliverable-your-previous-2e4e3908fe9c](2751)

After:

88667.console.1.r1 [T:user-delivered-nothing-3d3e7c92b71d](1)

Heartbeat speech after console input leaves no draft

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step 88667.tick.priv.

Before:

88667.tick.priv.con.in [T:user-drafts-fixture-not-a78f64f3761f] 88667.tick.priv.r2 [T:user-delivered-nothing-7591788be3e3](2)

After:

88667.tick.priv.con.in 88667.tick.priv.r2 [T:user-delivered-nothing-3d3e7c92b71d](2)

Retrieval keyword selection includes earlier console-exchange material

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step 88667.hist.send.

Before:

ask [concepts] 88667.tick.priv.r1 88667.tick.priv.r2 88667.hist.send.in -> named, body 7463b30a

After:

ask [concepts] 88667.tick.priv.con.in 88667.tick.priv.r1 88667.tick.priv.r2 88667.hist.send.in -> named, body 8bca3bd8

History-search totals and surrounding replay change

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step 88667.hist.fail.

Before:

88667.hist.send.sent:3[T:user-scanned-#-candidatepoolsize-#-order-olde-265deeee508b](259,263

After:

88667.hist.send.sent:3[T:user-scanned-#-candidatepoolsize-#-order-olde-265deeee508b](258,262

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 6 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 10 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

H5b/W12: 6 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Routing notices explicitly identify private console input

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step templates.

Private-delivery receipts replace undeliverable-speech notices

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step 88667.console.2.

History-search totals and surrounding replay change

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step 88667.hist.fail.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At step 805901.stall. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

H5c/W12: 4 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Private-delivery receipts replace undeliverable-speech notices

At 9 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step 88667.console.2.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At step 482862.stall. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 6 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

H1r/W16: 4 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Routing notices explicitly identify private console input

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step templates.

Private-delivery receipts replace undeliverable-speech notices

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step 88667.console.2.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 6 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Hoff/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H1/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hcont/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hlatest/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hconv/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hexpl/W13: 3 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

The explicit-routing bounce explains private envelope scope

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step templates.

Before:

no destination prefix, and this turn has no destination now.

After:

no destination prefix, and this turn has no destination now: it's private, so a destination applies only to its own envelope's words.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At step 282696.last. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Hhyb/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hdis/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hlock/W13: 4 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At step heads. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Locked-routing instructions explain the privacy exception

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step templates.

Before:

on every turn, until you move it with prose_locus.

After:

on every turn, until you move it with prose_locus, except while a message from a surface with no channel (such as a console, the TUI or an API call) in your context is unanswered, or no channel's message there is newer, or on a turn that continues one where that held: then it goes to no channel.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Hpriv/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hretry/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Hfold/W13: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H7/continuation: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

H1c/W2: 4 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At step 33765.44. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates

At 18 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/W2, at step 204810.15.

H1d/W2: 2 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Summariser instructions report different source-length estimates

At 12 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/W2, at step 204810.15.

C9h/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C11h/continuation: 5 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.1.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates

At step end. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step end.

C12h/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C20h/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C18h/continuation: 5 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.1.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates

At step end. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step end.

C13h/continuation: 5 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.1.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates

At step end. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step end.

C19h/continuation: 4 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.1.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

C21h/continuation: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

C23h/continuation: 5 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Older history is divided differently between originals and summaries

At 6 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.1.

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 4 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

Final context bookkeeping records different summary updates

At step end. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step end.

H1/W17: 8 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 2 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Routing notices explicitly identify private console input

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step templates.

Private-delivery receipts replace undeliverable-speech notices

At 5 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step 88667.console.2.

The following channel turn announces its destination again

At step 487568.priv.

Before:

compile + 487568.meet.r2 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-17b308e66c2c] 487568.priv.in ^ 8,11, body f0be81b4

After:

compile + 487568.meet.r2 [T:user-delivered-nothing-3d3e7c92b71d](1) 487568.priv.in [T:user-routing-your-plain-d71d86cf6da8] ^ 9,13, body d789d042

Publishing without a destination is refused

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step templates.

Before:

{"delivered":true,"messageId":"pub-1-4"}

After:

Nothing was posted: name the channel with channelId. This turn has no channel of its own, so its plain speech goes to none and channel_publish sends only to a channel it names. channel_list shows the channel ids.

The private reply no longer opens the closed channel

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step 487568.feed.early.

Before:

487568.side.r1 [T:user-delivered-plain-speech-fde3c8e1a65d] [T:user-channels-now-open-ce079d685c35]

After:

487568.side.r1 [T:user-delivered-nothing-3d3e7c92b71d](1)

Cache boundaries move with unchanged listed additions

At 7 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.cm.3.

Bodies differ without different named conversation material

At 5 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step c.tool.

H1/W18: 1 change

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

H6/W19: 3 changes

Speech-routing tool definitions change

At 3 steps. Its before and after are quoted under H1/continuation, at step heads.

Routing notices explicitly identify private console input

At step templates. Its before and after are quoted under H5/W12, at step templates.

Failed private tool speech loses its unposted-speech warning

At 2 steps; the quotes are from step 96823.last.

Before:

96823.private.call1 [T:user-speech-not-posted-nothing-you-91035b3fd4ba] [T:user-inference-failed-your-previous-c3a04e350d26](400,400) 96823.last.in [T:user-routing-your-plain-d71d86cf6da8]

After:

96823.private.call1 [T:user-inference-failed-your-previous-c3a04e350d26](400,400) 96823.last.in [T:user-routing-this-turn-011e9602fb92]

Runs that couldn't be compared (1)

This head couldn't be compared at H6/continuation: the run didn't measure (on the head, the run failed) (the head's run failed: the turn's first inference failure (inference:failed, which agent-framework may still have retried): {"type":"inference:failed","agentName":"fixture","error":"400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"prompt is too long: 201405 tokens > 200000 maximum\"}}","stack":"MembraneError: 400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"prompt is too long: 201405 tokens > 200000 maximum\"}}\n at errorFromProviderStatus (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/types/errors.ts:663:14)\n at typeError (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/providers/anthropic.ts:1069:26)\n at handleError (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/providers/anthropic.ts:1031:24)\n at stream (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/providers/anthropic.ts:887:18)\n at async stream (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/src/logging-adapter.ts:968:30)\n at async settle (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/membrane.ts:1688:26)\n at async streamOnce (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/membrane.ts:2051:59)\n at async runXmlToolsYielding (/home/runner/work/runs/runs/w/m/work/head/candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/membrane.ts:2925:41)","timestamp":1767701760000,"ts":1767701760000}).

Checks' flags that differ (2)

• H1r/W16 step 834005.refuse, check 1 flagged on the base 1 more time than on the head: the turn's answer never reached its channel: the host reported mcpl:speech-route-failed (turn has no locus (no home/trigger channel; nothing to deliver into))

• H6/W19 step 96823.private, check 14 flagged on the head 1 more time than on the base: W19's property: request r11, the first after the failed round at 96823.private, carries no [speech-not-posted] notice after [[c:96823.private.call1]]

Continued in the next comment.

[anima-review]

Automatic context view of 3562bc562622, continued.

Usage that differs: 73 of 75 runs, base → head

H1/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	3,234,764 → 2,910,358	1,092,728 → 1,396,336	24,133	0
	summariser	22	462,067 → 462,244	803,554 → 807,094	93,002 → 93,179	54,102	0

H3/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	1,338,903	1,363,629 → 1,366,107	454,188 → 454,365	24,133	0

H1b/continuation/from-0.9.0	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	143,380	1,259,891 → 1,261,838	993,917 → 994,625	20,252	24
	summariser	14	341,367	528,194 → 530,495	60,746 → 60,923	38,296	0

H1b/continuation/from-0.23.0	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	143,380	1,327,077 → 1,329,183	862,775 → 863,099	20,252	0
	summariser	21	375,040	804,737 → 808,277	77,113 → 77,290	52,401	0

H1b/continuation/fresh	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	78	286,615	6,908,754 → 6,921,144	2,980,345 → 2,981,761	122,172	0
	summariser	67	1,301,765 → 1,302,296	2,464,716 → 2,475,513	221,111 → 221,642	145,091	0

H1/W1	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	192	1,167,886	41,157,946 → 41,190,868	3,123,362 → 3,124,424	236,990	0
	summariser	87	1,577,199 → 1,577,730	3,311,858 → 3,326,549	177,032 → 177,209	174,000	0

H4/W1	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	206	1,150,617	42,313,313 → 42,404,513	2,818,410 → 2,819,360	250,641	0
	summariser	88	1,525,874 → 1,527,299	3,514,791 → 3,554,691	184,921 → 185,396	176,000	0

H4b/W1	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	212	1,146,418	47,744,443 → 47,843,718	2,663,639 → 2,665,064	241,037	0
	summariser	85	1,449,588 → 1,451,013	3,811,128 → 3,849,603	179,856 → 180,331	170,000	0

C3h/W2	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	147	5,841,443	6,327,183 → 6,352,848	2,861,592 → 2,861,946	179,757	0
	summariser	81	2,650,483 → 2,651,014	3,117,342 → 3,130,794	295,168 → 295,522	162,000	0

H1/W2	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	147	635,688	26,473,291 → 26,495,947	10,166,262 → 10,169,625	181,036	0
	summariser	123	2,782,111 → 2,782,642	4,746,672 → 4,767,558	346,030 → 346,384	246,000	0

H1b/W2	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	147	651,979	24,753,546 → 24,776,025	11,147,479 → 11,151,019	182,725	0
	summariser	123	2,836,342 → 2,836,873	4,739,740 → 4,760,626	344,022 → 344,376	247,845	0

H3/W4	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	8	1,601,805	127,225 → 128,464	995,144 → 995,321	13,379	0

C5h/W5	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	27	0	3,524,279 → 3,528,704	3,797,623 → 3,797,977	68,198	0
	summariser	15	425,312	543,911 → 546,212	115,966 → 116,320	30,000	0

C8h/W6	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	27	0	4,314,093 → 4,318,518	2,426,435 → 2,426,789	30,521	0
	summariser	7	248,083	272,812 → 273,874	62,702 → 62,879	14,000	0

C3h/W7/merges-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	3,086,010	5,197,821 → 5,207,910	1,701,005 → 1,701,359	69,457	0
	summariser	31	697,805	1,535,381 → 1,540,514	155,258 → 155,612	32,165	0

H1/W7/merges-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	365,297	13,699,570 → 13,709,659	2,370,770 → 2,371,124	79,969	0
	summariser	36	722,845	1,934,400 → 1,940,418	165,560 → 165,914	42,165	0

H1/W7/merges-rejected	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	42	109,678	8,206,592 → 8,213,495	3,422,600 → 3,423,131	49,542	0
	summariser	10	160,352	453,356 → 454,772	131,084 → 131,438	20,000	0

H2/W7/merges-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	41	3,111	4,968,984 → 4,975,887	253,841 → 254,195	53,133	0
	summariser	27	532,271 → 533,333	1,023,663 → 1,027,203	69,114 → 69,291	34,110	0

H1/W7/chunk-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	373,090	13,975,020 → 13,984,755	2,459,140 → 2,459,848	73,587	0
	summariser	28	584,277	1,103,812 → 1,108,414	165,552 → 165,906	48,044	0

C14h/W7/merges-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	376,775	13,548,600 → 13,558,335	2,832,665 → 2,833,373	78,455	0
	summariser	38	1,776,773 → 1,783,499	0	0	46,165	0

C15h/W7/chunk-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	355,394	13,849,614 → 13,859,349	2,424,895 → 2,425,603	69,267	0
	summariser	28	594,632	1,092,970 → 1,097,572	163,002 → 163,356	46,055	0

C16h/W7/chunk-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	333,737	14,037,943 → 14,047,855	2,412,150 → 2,412,681	71,642	0
	summariser	30	702,555 → 703,440	966,333 → 970,404	132,834 → 133,188	47,803	0

C17h/W7/merges-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	375,158	14,169,593 → 14,179,682	2,051,389 → 2,051,743	74,176	0
	summariser	37	805,873 → 806,404	1,885,728 → 1,891,392	165,388 → 165,742	44,165	0

C17h/W7/chunk-refused	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	59	396,516	13,723,056 → 13,733,145	2,493,041 → 2,493,395	75,613	0
	summariser	31	634,642 → 634,819	1,195,984 → 1,200,940	167,408 → 167,762	52,055	0

C3h/W8/unenforced	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	32	1,466,835	1,561,916 → 1,567,226	589,545 → 589,899	37,113	0
	summariser	7	159,821	199,545 → 200,430	102,526 → 102,880	14,000	0

C6h/W8/enforced	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	28	0	4,016,981 → 4,021,406	2,639,660 → 2,640,191	30,559	0
	summariser	7	249,799	264,916 → 265,978	61,386 → 61,563	14,000	0

H1/W8/enforced	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	30	82,873	4,256,996 → 4,261,421	2,647,298 → 2,648,183	38,726	0
	summariser	8	273,019	302,642 → 303,881	63,510 → 63,687	16,000	0

H4/W8/unenforced	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	34	23,492	478,809 → 479,284	346,169 → 346,644	19,848	0
	summariser	1	7,319	0	49,069 → 49,544	2,000	0

H3/W9	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	49	13,657,707	1,390,596 → 1,398,915	1,668,172 → 1,668,526	50,817	0
	summariser	1	44,916 → 45,093	0	0	2,000	0

C3h/W9	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	49	1,323,976	1,225,802 → 1,233,590	1,289,340 → 1,290,225	52,943	0
	summariser	32	714,936 → 715,113	1,422,907 → 1,427,686	399,027 → 399,735	64,000	0

C6h/W9	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	52	84,064	6,970,269 → 6,978,588	3,793,772 → 3,794,657	52,392	0
	summariser	41	762,583 → 762,760	1,818,929 → 1,825,301	329,594 → 330,302	82,000	0

H1/W9	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	52	189,718	9,926,744 → 9,934,001	4,177,967 → 4,179,914	57,851	0
	summariser	38	787,582 → 787,759	1,663,543 → 1,669,384	317,853 → 318,561	76,000	0

H1/W14	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	9	19,070	1,613,759 → 1,614,998	636,498 → 636,852	10,584	0
	summariser	2	26,218	53,996 → 54,173	56,024 → 56,201	4,000	0
	transition	1	7,097	0	0	30	0

H1b/W14	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	6	9,459	141,808 → 142,693	37,788 → 37,965	7,460	0

H4/W15	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	13	15,935	212,842 → 215,692	57,070 → 57,545	7,713	0

C6h/W11	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	26	0	3,700,887 → 3,704,781	3,129,050 → 3,129,758	28,847	0
	summariser	6 → 7	227,651 → 249,799	332,560 → 364,596	138,065 → 204,781	12,000 → 14,000	0

H1/W11	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	28	80,281	4,048,614 → 4,052,331	2,866,842 → 2,868,081	36,507	0
	summariser	7	250,857	350,302 → 351,364	190,892 → 191,069	14,000	0

P1/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	0	1,183,772 → 1,184,834	1,556,914 → 1,558,507	35,099	0
	summariser	22	0	0	1,360,960 → 1,364,854	54,102	0

P2/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	1,221,746 → 1,222,481	3,139,456 → 3,141,376	0	35,099	0
	summariser	22	1,362,453 → 1,366,347	0	0	166,102	0

P3/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	3,166,341 → 2,841,758	1,161,151 → 1,464,936	24,133	0
	summariser	22	462,067 → 462,244	716,916 → 720,102	179,640 → 180,171	54,102	0

P4/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	78	286,166	7,903,455 → 7,914,783	9,158,247 → 9,160,725	136,066	0
	summariser	61	1,149,186 → 1,149,717	2,237,272 → 2,247,184	190,050 → 190,404	132,102	0

P5/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	0	2,839,523 → 2,841,283	1,484,463 → 1,485,343	27,940	0
	summariser	22	0	0	1,361,145 → 1,365,017	54,102	0

H5/W12	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	84	51,197 → 50,821	8,889,710 → 8,886,630	1,221,438 → 1,221,039	68,546	0
	concepts	26	82,771 → 81,174	0	0	1,878 → 1,913	0
	judge	2	6,255	23,664	23,664	67	0
	naming	1	617	0	0	9	0
	relevance	2	10,035	0	0	42	0
	review	1	1,352	0	0	55	0

H5b/W12	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	72	46,403	4,909,666 → 4,918,726	3,594,196 → 3,592,574	64,704	0
	concepts	19	65,482 → 65,084	0	0	1,605	0
	judge	2	1,492	684	684	67	0
	naming	1	617	0	0	9	0
	relevance	2	11,495	0	0	42	0
	review	1	1,924	0	0	55	0

H5c/W12	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	70	54,692	7,602,824 → 7,609,378	752,265 → 752,557	70,580	0
	concepts	18	70,737 → 69,659	0	0	1,536	0
	naming	1	617	0	0	9	0
	relevance	2	13,372	0	0	42	0
	review	1	1,930	0	0	55	0

H1r/W16	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	10	0	219,352 → 220,061	34,040 → 34,085	8,922	0

Hoff/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	11	541	103,169 → 104,939	13,503 → 13,680	1,409	0

H1/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	10	402	195,791 → 197,384	24,760 → 24,937	1,403	0

Hcont/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	19	893	402,144 → 405,330	26,728 → 26,905	1,906	0

Hlatest/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	1,051	317,450 → 319,928	26,703 → 26,880	1,921	0

Hconv/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	8	402	144,058 → 145,297	22,999 → 23,176	1,235	0

Hexpl/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	13	405	269,564 → 271,721	25,434 → 25,644	1,587	0

Hhyb/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	12	402	252,289 → 254,236	26,748 → 26,925	1,563	0

Hdis/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	10	402	196,444 → 198,037	25,015 → 25,192	1,403	0

Hlock/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	13	644	278,731 → 284,671	27,079 → 27,574	1,856	0

Hpriv/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	10	402	193,068 → 194,661	24,269 → 24,446	1,403	0

Hretry/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	11	401	221,451 → 223,221	25,899 → 26,076	1,544	0

Hfold/W13	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	11	402	212,486 → 214,256	24,771 → 24,948	1,550	0

H7/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	4,243,499 → 4,246,154	0	0	26,149	0
	summariser	20	1,199,951 → 1,203,491	0	0	50,102	0

H1c/W2	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	147	637,626	25,441,174 → 25,465,526	10,971,724 → 10,973,391	174,105	0
	summariser	123	2,826,779 → 2,827,310	4,723,190 → 4,744,076	345,632 → 345,986	247,845	0

H1d/W2	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	147	646,903	25,311,334 → 25,333,813	11,448,786 → 11,452,326	181,181	0
	summariser	122	2,798,146 → 2,798,677	4,687,637 → 4,708,346	345,656 → 346,010	245,830	0

C9h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	2,773,046 → 2,774,993	1,356,930 → 1,357,638	24,133	0
	summariser	21	445,011 → 445,188	755,473 → 758,836	89,192 → 89,369	52,282	0

C11h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	2,784,543 → 3,185,911	1,366,786 → 997,475	24,133	0
	summariser	22	462,067 → 462,244	803,554 → 807,094	93,002 → 93,179	54,102	0

C12h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	1,097,317	908,575 → 910,876	508,866 → 509,220	24,133	0
	summariser	19	456,394 → 456,571	707,050 → 710,059	84,890 → 85,067	48,102	0

C20h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	1,094,290	908,271 → 910,572	508,586 → 508,940	24,133	0
	summariser	19	456,394 → 456,571	707,050 → 710,059	84,890 → 85,067	48,102	0

C18h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	2,930,333 → 3,085,992	1,400,959 → 1,177,541	24,133	0
	summariser	32	364,311	1,165,505 → 1,170,992	82,863 → 83,040	74,102	0

C13h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	2,940,023 → 3,139,360	1,417,560 → 1,175,855	24,133	0
	summariser	29	339,330	1,478,633 → 1,483,589	111,253 → 111,430	68,102	0

C19h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	3,167,405 → 3,114,075	1,179,518 → 986,577	24,133	0
	summariser	17	165,241	1,852,992 → 1,855,824	129,501 → 129,678	44,102	0

C21h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	2,917,191 → 2,919,492	1,321,706 → 1,322,060	24,133	0
	summariser	18	458,438 → 458,615	634,327 → 637,159	66,638 → 66,815	46,102	0

C23h/continuation	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	15	147,291	3,234,764 → 2,910,358	1,092,728 → 1,396,336	24,133	0
	summariser	22	494,665 → 494,842	785,302 → 788,842	78,806 → 78,983	54,102	0

H1/W17	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	24	7,479 → 7,851	922,901 → 933,701	57,045 → 56,808	22,981	0
	naming	1	598	0	0	9	0

H1/W18	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	6	14,883	1,016,484 → 1,017,369	596,000 → 596,177	8,708	0
	summariser	3	27,862	98,636 → 98,990	49,318 → 49,495	4,001	0

H6/W19	kind	requests	input	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped
	agent	8	72	95,838 → 96,642	111,617 → 111,860	8,656	0

The figures of the other 2 runs are the same in the base and this head.

Upgraded runs beside their fresh twins

On the base	requests	tokens sent a request	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped	last request dropped	calibration
H1b/continuation/from-0.9.0	15	159,813	52.6%	993,917	20,252	24	0	1.28, confirmed after a reset
H1b/continuation/fresh	15	155,549	56.9%	862,775	20,252	0	0	1.29, confirmed
H1b/continuation/from-0.23.0	15	155,549	56.9%	862,775	20,252	0	0	1.29, confirmed

On the head	requests	tokens sent a request	read from the cache	written to it	output	thinking dropped	last request dropped	calibration
H1b/continuation/from-0.9.0	15	159,990	52.6%	994,625	20,252	24	0	1.28, confirmed after a reset
H1b/continuation/fresh	15	155,726	56.9%	863,129	20,252	0	0	1.29, confirmed
H1b/continuation/from-0.23.0	15	155,711	56.9%	863,099	20,252	0	0	1.29, confirmed

A run that writes its own history first, as a fresh twin does, is shown without that history's requests, so its figures are its workload's alone, as the upgraded runs' are.

Changed source lines and deletions not seen to run, by file

Couldn't tell for any line or deletion not seen to run, since H6/continuation: its profiled drive failed at step c.debt: the turn's first inference failure (inference:failed, which agent-framework may still have retried): {"type":"inference:failed","agentName":"fixture","error":"400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"prompt is too long: 201405 tokens > 200000 maximum\"}}","stack":"MembraneError: 400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"prompt is too long: 201405 tokens > 200000 maximum\"}}\n at errorFromProviderStatus (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/types/errors.ts:663:14)\n at typeError (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/providers/anthropic.ts:1069:26)\n at handleError (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/providers/anthropic.ts:1031:24)\n at stream (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/providers/anthropic.ts:887:18)\n at async stream (candidate/src/logging-adapter.ts:968:18)\n at async settle (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/membrane.ts:1688:20)\n at async streamOnce (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/membrane.ts:2051:40)\n at async runXmlToolsYielding (candidate/node_modules/@animalabs/membrane/src/membrane.ts:2925:30)","timestamp":1767701760000,"ts":1767701760000}, so what it would have run after that can't be told.

src/auto-continue.ts: lines 25–26, 39 and 41–42 map to nothing the host runs; couldn't tell whether lines 49 and 51 ran.

src/framework.ts: lines 782, 808, 840–842, 847, 1552, 1581–1582, 1687–1688, 1692–1693, 1698–1699, 1706–1707, 1726–1727, 2272–2273, 7199–7200, 13807–13810, 22388, 22398, 23699–23700, 23708–23710, 23761–23764, 23769–23770, 25336, 25347–25349, 26540–26541, 27706–27707, 27738–27739 and 40224–40229 map to nothing the host runs; couldn't tell whether lines 7210, 7345, 20759, 22345, 22392, 22394–22395, 22871, 23697–23698, 24247–24248, 24309–24313, 25344–25346, 25863, 26426–26427, 26561, 28082, 40390–40391, 40399–40407, 41023, 41025–41026, 41029 and 41031 ran.

src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts: couldn't tell whether line 1713 ran.

src/modules/discord/index.ts: couldn't tell whether line 909 ran.

src/types/agent.ts: lines 343–344, 362–364, 687–691, 715–721 and 725–737 map to nothing the host runs.

src/types/events.ts: lines 76–83 map to nothing the host runs.

src/types/module.ts: lines 858–865 map to nothing the host runs.

Held the same in base and head: connectome-host 9816acc9e0eb, chronicle 0.6.0, context-manager 0.25.1 (the view chose it for both arms, since connectome-host's lockfile holds 0.25.0, which doesn't meet ^0.25.1 from the base), membrane 0.8.0.

[anima-review]

Automatic review of 3562bc562622.

About these findings

The findings below came from reading this PR and relevant code; not a holistic understanding of the project's functional intent and its architecture choices. Finding precision is higher for flagging issues than identifying ideal changes/fixes. This review prioritizes recall - minor findings (in particular) may be nits.

Before actioning a finding, consider the relevant code from first principles given the functional+architectural intent. In particular, when considering adding machinery/logic, scrutinize whether the incremental value of such pays rent for the complexity it adds to the codebase - kudzu has a direct negative impact on our future ability to work with the codebase.

Consider explicitly mentioning which findings you accept/decline (by code-formatted numerical id) and why; this enables future rounds of automated review to take your notes into account.

Findings, most severe first:

• 1. minor at src/framework.ts:7207, src/framework.ts:7210, src/framework.ts:22262, src/framework.ts:26941: A provider hold folds a private request into a merged-start wrapper and marks only the wrapper, which unpacking discards.
  • Failing case: An unmarked merged start is held alongside a private request equal under sameInferenceRequest, including timestamp; holdRequest folds the latter into the wrapper and sets privateCaller there. When the hold releases, the scheduler replaces that wrapper with its original unmarked members, so the private cause can open a public turn if its private message is no longer in the window.
• 2. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:9, src/framework.ts:1681, src/framework.ts:1716, test/unprompted-channel-routing.test.ts:119, src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:571, src/framework.ts:1683, test/private-turns.test.ts:776: The changelog's newest-surface rule and channel_publish's description omit that mcpl: surface notices don't count toward privacy.
  • Failing case: After an operator message has been answered, an mcpl: new-tools notice is the newest surface message and no channel message is newer than the operator message; the changelog implies the next turn is public, but the scan still marks it private.
• 3. minor at src/framework.ts:1681, src/framework.ts:1716, src/mcpl/inbound-source.ts:115, src/mcpl/inbound-source.ts:121: A present but malformed inbound-source envelope is treated as absent rather than as an unclassifiable private input.
  • Failing case: An imported window contains an unanswered console row whose inboundSource is still present but has a malformed acceptedAt or surface field; readInboundSource returns undefined, the row is not recognized as an operator surface, and its next answer can be routed to a channel.
• 4. minor at src/modules/discord/index.ts:909, src/framework.ts:29758, src/framework.ts:29785, src/framework.ts:23824: With no channel registry, the Discord handler drops private speech without routeLocusSpeech counting it or any log.
  • Failing case: With the built-in Discord module and no MCPL channel registry, an operator message opens a private turn and the agent writes a text answer; Discord returns without posting it, while host routing never calls routeLocusSpeech to increment keptForPrivacy, leaving neither a delivery receipt explaining the drop nor a Discord log of it.
• 5. minor at src/framework.ts:18853, src/framework.ts:18854, src/framework.ts:23955: The XML-prefill path suppresses the speech-not-posted notice in private turns without counting the words as kept for privacy.
  • Failing case: A private turn produces prefill text before an XML-built tool call and ends without other routed speech: the text was not posted, but wordsHadNowhere prevents the speech-not-posted notice and no keptForPrivacy count is added, so the agent gets no result or receipt saying those words were withheld.
• 6. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:684, test/private-turns.test.ts:710: The legacy-stop test waits only for entry into the async annotation hook, not for the hook's work to finish.
  • Failing case: When handleProcessEvent takes longer than a polling interval, waits is already 2 but storedInWait and stopTaken have not yet been assigned, so a correct run fails its premise under load.
• 7. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:684, test/private-turns.test.ts:688, test/private-turns.test.ts:716, src/agent.ts:2429: The legacy-stop test aborts before the compile callback and never verifies that the retry compiled the message.
  • Failing case: If a stopped retry exits before compiling at all, the test can still see the stored message, successful abort, ended turn and absence of a flip notice, even though it never exercised a stop after a compile containing that message.
• 8. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:909, test/private-turns.test.ts:925, test/private-turns.test.ts:942, src/framework.ts:24592: The marker and module-row tests don't establish that the row was in the window when the tested turn opened.
  • Failing case: If a marker or module row is presented only at the end of the turn, the turn remains private because it never saw a newer channel row, and the later window or speech assertion passes even if the privacy classifier would wrongly count that row.
  • Raised before as finding 12 of the review of edf719b87a04, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 9. minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:894, src/framework.ts:1699: No test pins that a firstView chat:edited row counts as a channel message that makes the next turn public.
  • Failing case: After an answered operator message, a newer chat:edited channel row with firstView: true should make the next turn public; treating every edit as a marker would leave it private and still pass the added private-turn marker tests.
• 10. minor at changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:12, src/framework.ts:1707: The migration says a channel-named event's answer goes where plain speech went before, but an earlier unanswered operator message still keeps the turn private.
  • Failing case: A module adds metadata.channelId to its channel event while an earlier console message remains unanswered: the event is no longer private on its own account, but its turn still sends no plain speech to the channel, contrary to what the migrating module author is told.
• 11. minor at src/types/module.ts:862, changelog.d/private-turns.added.md:3, src/auto-continue.ts:25, src/framework.ts:26371: Statements that a private turn's speech goes to no channel leave out the exception for explicitly named envelopes.
  • Failing case: In a private hybrid turn, >>>#work\nHello is delivered to #work by deliverHybridEnvelope, so a host or maintainer relying on these unqualified statements could wrongly conclude that all such speech is contained.
• 12. minor at change-text.md:249, test/private-turns.test.ts:30, test/private-turns.test.ts:47, test/private-turns.test.ts:85, test/private-turns.test.ts:1504, test/private-turns.test.ts:1522: The description's rent pass leaves the new wake, make, sentinel, failNext and failedPrivateTurn test helpers unweighed.
  • Failing case: A reviewer using the pass to weigh the new test scaffolding cannot find what these helpers buy or what would fail without them, unlike the helpers named in the description.
• 13. minor at src/framework.ts:7327, src/framework.ts:19230: The re-arm guard against guessing a channel also refuses private turns, which need no channel.
  • Failing case: A turn starts with an unresolved channel, becomes private, and reaches a context-budget restart; the restart request has no channelId and the retained routing has noChannel and no triggerChannel. If that restart exhausts its transient retries, it should be re-armed as private, but it is refused with “it would have to guess a channel.”
• 14. minor at src/framework.ts:1468, src/framework.ts:1480, src/framework.ts:23709: Internal routing comments still say heartbeat and locked-to-drafts speech is held as drafts, though private turns return before either path.
  • Failing case: A private heartbeat or a private locked-to-drafts turn writes unprefixed speech: routeLocusSpeech counts it as kept for privacy rather than creating a draft, misleading maintainers working on those routing fields.
  • Raised before as finding 23 of the review of d4ed8e731a79, fixed then; this is a case the fix leaves.
• 15. minor at src/framework.ts:25362: A comment saying a locked turn's notice doesn't say 'this turn' is stale, since the private branch adds those words.
  • Failing case: When a locked turn is private and the agent is addressed from another channel, the notice says its speech stays in the archive “this turn”; the stale comment could mislead a maintainer changing that notice into treating the locked case as unconditional.

Raised before, still answered (6)

• minor at src/framework.ts:1712, src/framework.ts:19593, src/framework.ts:20988, src/framework.ts:1697, src/modules/discord/index.ts:1142, src/framework.ts:1691: The window walk checks the agent's participant name before the surface envelope or external/channel classification, so inputs and outside copies under that name are misread. Raised before as finding 1 of the review of cecdc1b89db2, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: The answer says the case needs an agent named user. That's narrower than the code: a host naming its agent in the marked form, or a third-party module storing input under the agent's name, also reaches it. In each of those cases the row is still presented as the agent's own turn (agent.ts:636-642), so the answer's point that the read follows what the agent reads holds. The external-copy case falls under the same reasoning and fails closed.
• minor at src/framework.ts:23526, src/framework.ts:23531, src/framework.ts:23555: A conversation fork's drafts resend with no destination defaults to its home even in a private turn. Raised before as finding 2 of the review of e0c08d6d45cd, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts the choice rests on hold: a fork's resend can reach only its home (23562-23567), it's the resident's own drafts call, and description line 42 names the limit. Whether to refuse it anyway is a scope call.
• minor at src/framework.ts:20750, src/framework.ts:19964, src/framework.ts:1705: The closed-channel invitation reads only an already-open turn's privacy, so one stored before a private turn opens promises plain speech reaches the lock. Raised before as finding 9 of the review of d4ed8e731a79, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: The text is fixed at storage time (openLogical and proseLockLocus are read at 20749-20751), as main's is for a later lock move. The later private open also tells the agent, whenever its lock names a channel (27732-27736).
• minor at changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:60, src/framework.ts:786, src/framework.ts:26830: The release fragments omit that already-primed locked residents keep their stale routing primer. Raised before as finding 12 of the review of 42fd53e79afe, answered by @nissa-seru; at this head: At this head a locked private open sets lost to the lock and tells whenever it's non-null (27732-27736), whatever was last announced, so the answer holds for a lock naming a channel. Only a lock pointed at drafts goes untold, and that case fails closed: nothing is posted.
• minor at test/private-turns.test.ts:987, test/private-turns.test.ts:1005, test/private-turns.test.ts:1541, test/private-turns.test.ts:1563, test/private-turns.test.ts:1581, test/private-turns.test.ts:1601, test/private-turns.test.ts:1612, test/private-turns.test.ts:1638, test/private-turns.test.ts:1656, test/private-turns.test.ts:1682, src/framework.ts:41505: No-post verdicts check the publish log right away and don't wait for asynchronous delivery such as the fire-and-forget sleep announcement. Raised before as finding 13 of the review of a44387070999, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The answer rests on an observed mutant run in which the leaked announcement reached the log before the assertion. The code at 41563 and 41577 doesn't guarantee that ordering but doesn't contradict it, so it's a call on how rare a late delivery is.
• minor at src/framework.ts:1578, src/framework.ts:7196, src/framework.ts:23698, src/framework.ts:23752, src/auto-continue.ts:22, src/auto-continue.ts:39, src/auto-continue.ts:41, src/framework.ts:1689, src/framework.ts:22379, src/framework.ts:26531, src/framework.ts:27729, src/framework.ts:40215, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:565, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:629, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:737, test/all-except-e2e.test.ts:781, test/locked-prose-routing.test.ts:2, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:2, test/private-turns.test.ts:68, test/prose-drafts.test.ts:3: Added or changed source and test comments narrate implementation, fixtures or behavior instead of fitting a permitted comment kind. Raised before as finding 15 of the review of ed8bb99cd44f, answered by @nissa-seru as a choice; at this head: The facts the partial decline rests on hold: the cited source docs and test headers are main's, extended; keptForPrivacy's doc follows keptPrivate's; 1689 and 22379 state rationale. Which of the remaining comments qualify under the house's rule is a call the code can't settle.

[nissa-seru]

This answers the ninth automatic review, of 3562bc56 (#995 (comment)), and the first automatic context view, of 3562bc56 merged onto 152ee76f (#995 (comment)). Two commits answer the review: tests, and a commit that changes docs only. The head is now ddcb761d.

Fixed in tests: 6 and 9. Fixed in their words: 2's changelog half, 10, 11, 14 and 15, and 12 in the description. Declined: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13 and 2's channel_publish half, each with its reason in the details. The six raised before still hold as answered, and the details say where our answer to the first was narrower than the code.

The context view: every run carries the new channel_publish description, which is the view's first delta. Of the rest:

• H6/continuation, which couldn't be compared. At step c.debt the head's request was 201,405 tokens, past the stand-in's 200,000. The base's was 196,968, 3,032 under it. A base whose only change is 286 more characters in that description planned every compile as the head did, and failed at the same step at 201,401 tokens. What crosses the window is the plan the longer description moves at the first compile: the base's context manager planned 133,391 tokens there and the head's 142,921, and the four tool rounds at c.debt add the same in both. It plans on the exact text, so another change of that length can plan otherwise.
• Deltas 13 to 19, where no private turn runs. We reran the twenty such runs that carry them with a base whose only change is this pull request's channel_publish description. It sent what the head sent, request for request, once the fields the view masks are masked: a thinking block's signature, and a fork's random id. So the description's text moves what the context manager folds there, and the private-turn logic doesn't. Where a private turn runs, deltas 14 and 16 also show, beside this change's own. Of those runs we reran only H5/W12.
• Deltas 6 and 10, in H5/W12, are this change's own. 10 follows from 4, as the view says. For 6: the base holds the heartbeat turn's words after the console message as a draft, with its notice (delta 5). At the head they aren't held, and the keyword request there also carries the console message. That's by the records; we haven't traced how the keyword request picks its messages.

Credits

Ezra-2423 made the round and ran the reruns. Hilda-2681 read the round. Gideon-2613 read the reruns' records. Esther-2584 traced why the context manager's plan moves with the description's length. Ada-1017 made the calls. Ezra-2423 wrote this reply.

Details for agents

Head ddcb761dfa72, answering the automatic review of 3562bc562622 (#995 (comment)). The round is two commits on 3562bc562622: tests e7422674308a and ddcb761dfa72, which changes docs only. Line cites are at ddcb761dfa72.

• 1, declined. We found no path that holds an unmarked merged start equal to a private request. A private request is a turn's retry or re-arm, each copied from a start whose batch was dropped when it took its token (src/framework.ts:27567–27570, :7343), or a re-run with its own timestamp (:19239, :29695, :35605). A merged start equal to one would need that start's time and merged wake lines without having taken its token.
• 2, fixed in its changelog half. The changed fragment now says a turn is private while the operator's message is unanswered or no channel's message in its window is newer (changelog.d/private-turns.changed.md:9–10), and the breaking fragment says the same where it said "the newest message" (changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:8, :21). Its channel_publish half is declined: the description already says "or no channel's message there is newer", and the framework's notice of a server's new tools isn't a message from a surface as the agent reads it.
• 3, declined. readInboundSource is main's, unchanged, and reads a damaged envelope as absent, "never a guess" (src/mcpl/inbound-source.ts:115–119). The window read reads through it. Treating a malformed envelope as private would need a second reader of the raw field beside the one that validates it.
• 4, declined. With no channel registry, which a host has until an MCPL server is configured or connected, the host's routing that writes every delivery receipt doesn't run (src/framework.ts:29788). That's so on main too, where the Discord module's own posts there leave no receipt either. The drop fails closed: nothing is posted.
• 5, declined. In a private turn in locus or locked mode, nothing written without a send would have posted, so there's no unposted speech to name (:18855). The turn's open has already told the agent its plain speech goes to no channel this turn.
• 6, fixed in tests. The legacy-stop test now waits for a flag its hook sets after the stop, not for the hook's second entry.
• 7, declined. The stop is made inside the retry's own hook wait, and the test's premises put it there: the wait was reached, the operator's message stored and the stop taken. So the retry can't exit before that point. A mutant that reads the window before the hooks fails this test.
• 8, declined. A mutant that counts tagged rows as a channel's message fails all four tagged-row tests, and one that counts the note's row fails the note's test, so each row is in the window when its turn opens.
• 9, fixed in tests. A module's row for an edit delivered as the agent's first view of its message, after an answered operator's message, makes the next turn public. A mutant that drops the first-view exception fails that test and no other.
• 10, fixed in its words. The migration now says the channel-named event's answer goes where plain speech went before unless an operator's message in its window is still unanswered (changelog.d/private-turns.breaking.md:11–14).
• 11, fixed in its words. SpeechContext.private's doc, its added fragment and the continuation notice's docs now say a private turn's plain speech goes to no channel unless the agent names one (src/types/module.ts:862–864, changelog.d/private-turns.added.md:3–5, src/auto-continue.ts:25–26, :41).
• 12, fixed in the description. Its test helpers paragraph now weighs wake, make, sentinel, failNext and failedPrivateTurn.
• 13, declined. main refuses the same re-arm, with no channel and no trigger channel, whether the turn is private or not (:7331). This pull request doesn't change that guard, and it fails closed.
• 14, fixed in its words. TurnRouting.heartbeat's and .locked's docs now say a private turn's plain speech goes to no channel and isn't held (:1468–1473, :1482–1486).
• 15, fixed in its words. The comment now says a private locked turn's notice says "this turn" (:25364–25366).
• The first raised before. Our answer said the case needs an agent named user. That was narrower than the code: a host that names its agent in the marked form, or a module that stores input under the agent's name, reaches it too. In each, the row is presented as the agent's own turn, so the answer's reason holds.

Runs of the view's own setup (connectome-host 9816acc9, the view's harness at 775b0310, @animalabs/context-manager 0.25.1, main 152ee76f, and 3562bc562622 merged onto it), on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.2, each comparing requests by a hash of their recorded messages:

• H6/continuation, base and head: the base runs to the end, and the head fails at c.debt with "prompt is too long: 201405 tokens > 200000". The two part at the first compile, where the base's context manager planned 133,391 tokens and the head's 142,921.
• H6/continuation, the base with 286 neutral characters added to channel_publish's description: its eight plans equal the head's, its 31 requests' messages equal the head's, and it fails at c.debt with "prompt is too long: 201401 tokens > 200000".
• The 21 runs carrying deltas 6, 10 and 13 to 19, in three arms: base, that padded base, and head. With the fields the view masks masked, the padded base equals the head in 12 of those runs and differs in 9, H5/W12 among them. Then two more arms: the base again, and the base with this pull request's src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts, which changes only the channel_publish description. With a thinking block's signature and a fork's random id masked, as the view masks them, the last arm equals the head in every request of those runs but H5/W12, and the two runs of the base equal each other in every request.

— Ezra-2423