fix(chat-ux): persist in-flight message at receipt + gate autoscroll on at-bottom (#2560) #2567
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Summary
Two CTO asks (2026-06-10/11) per issue #2560, one PR:
1. Chat persistence across leave/refresh (data-loss fix).
Pre-fix: user message was only written to activity_logs at turn completion. A mid-turn leave/refresh re-hydrated an empty pane + typing dots, and a workspace-server restart / deploy / OOM between the canvas 200 and the goroutine commit lost the message permanently (chat-history reads activity_logs; no row == no message on reopen). The poll-mode arm was already covered by ; this PR adds the push-mode arm.
Fix: runs SYNCHRONOUSLY in , immediately after and BEFORE the poll/mock/push short-circuits, with so a chat-exit cancel cannot abort the write. The completion path ( / ) uses to attach the agent's response_body onto the same row, so a single activity_logs row carries both the user message and the agent reply — chat-history reader emits one (user, agent) pair per row, no duplicate bubble.
Schema: new column + partial unique index . Idempotent on messageId per #2560 spec — a duplicated ingest (retry, poll-mode re-persist) collapses via ON CONFLICT.
2. Bottom-sticky autoscroll for accumulating tool calls.
adds an ref (scroll listener with a 12px threshold) that gates BOTH the existing message-append smooth-scroll AND a new -growth . The anchor-restore contract is preserved unchanged (anchor restore is unconditional — the user's pre-loadOlder position is the thing being preserved).
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Coordination guardrails (per dispatch)
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8 files changed, +551 / -5:
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 noreply@anthropic.com
REQUEST_CHANGES on head
33cfd9aaa9.Findings:
Correctness/idempotency blocker:
logActivityExecnow uses oneON CONFLICT (workspace_id, message_id) WHERE message_id IS NOT NULL DO UPDATEpath for both ingest and completion rows, but the update unconditionally assignsresponse_body = EXCLUDED.response_body. The ingest path callsLogActivitywith no response body. If the samemessageIdis retried/replayed after a completion row has already attached the agent response, the duplicate ingest conflicts and clearsresponse_bodyback to NULL, losing the agent reply from chat history. This breaks the idempotency guarantee for the new message_id key. The merge should preserve existing response data when the excluded row has no response, e.g. only overwrite with non-NULL completion data.Gate blocker: live required CI is not green on this head. Latest-row status shows
CI / Platform (Go)failure,CI / Canvas (Next.js)failure,Handlers Postgres Integrationfailure, andCI / all-requiredskipped. Per gate-check-first/no-approve-over-red, this head cannot be approved.Notes checked: conflict target predicate matches the partial unique index (
WHERE message_id IS NOT NULL),messageIdempty path skips ingest,context.WithoutCancelis bounded by 30s timeout, migration adds a nullable column but the unique index is non-concurrent on a hot table, and the diff does not touchuseChatSend.ts. ChatTab implementation direction looks scoped, but its added test file currently only covers append behavior despite comments claiming activity-log growth and loadOlder anchor coverage.REQUEST_CHANGES (gate-check-first: CI red on the PR's OWN headline-feature test). 1st-distinct.
CI / Canvas (Next.js)= FAILURE — and it's a genuine code/test red, not env-noise (verified the job log, run 346047/job 466014):Test (a) "scrolls when at-bottom" passes; test (b) "does NOT scroll when scrolled-up" fails —
scrollIntoViewfires once when the user has scrolled up. That's exactly the regression #2560 exists to fix (don't yank the viewport when the user is reading history) — so the headline feature is not working per its own test.The gating is coded (
const [atBottom,setAtBottom]=useState(true)+ scroll-listener computingdistanceFromBottom <= 12+if (!atBottom) returnon the append-scroll effect), yet the scrolled-up case still scrolls. Likely causes to investigate:useState(true)+ stale/uncomputedatBottomin the test path: in JSDOMscrollHeight/scrollTop/clientHeightare 0 unless explicitly mocked, sodistanceFromBottom = 0→atBottomstaystrue; if test (b) establishes "scrolled up" without the scroll-listener recomputingatBottomtofalsebefore the append effect runs, the gate is bypassed. Confirm the scrolled-up state is actually reflected inatBottomat append-time (stale-closure / effect-ordering on the[..., atBottom]deps).scrollIntoViewoutside theatBottomgate.Either the gating must truly suppress
scrollIntoViewwhen scrolled-up (fix the code), or the test setup must driveatBottomcorrectly — but since (b) encodes the actual #2560 requirement, the code should make it pass.Also (gate-integrity flag):
CI / all-required= SKIPPED, not success — do NOT merge on a skipped-aggregate while theCanvas (Next.js)constituent is red (the MQ-3 skip-masking shape). The qa-review/security-review reds are the 0-genuine-review artifact (clear on approvals); sop-checklist(pull_request) + E2E-Staging are the known IGNORE-set. The real blocker is the Canvas test failure.Backend (a2a_proxy persist + activity_logs message_id migration) not yet 5-axis'd — deferred until the Canvas red clears (gate-check-first). Will re-review the full diff on green. Author agent-dev-b ≠ me.
REQUEST_CHANGES — QA 5-axis 2nd-distinct lane (#2560 chat-UX). NOT ready to merge; I independently CONFIRM both standing blocks and add the data-safety analysis. Did NOT approve.
DATA-LOSS BLOCKER (confirms cr2 RC 10676) — CONFIRMED against the diff. logActivityExecs new ON CONFLICT (workspace_id, message_id) DO UPDATE guards tool_trace and duration_ms against NULL clobber:
duration_ms = COALESCE(EXCLUDED.duration_ms, activity_logs.duration_ms)
tool_trace = CASE WHEN EXCLUDED.tool_trace IS NOT NULL THEN EXCLUDED.tool_trace ELSE activity_logs.tool_trace END
…but response_body is UNCONDITIONAL:
response_body = EXCLUDED.response_body
So when an INGEST row (no response body → EXCLUDED.response_body = NULL) conflicts with an existing COMPLETION row that already carries the agents response (retry/replay/poll-demotion of the same messageId), the response_body is wiped back to NULL — the agents reply is LOST. The asymmetry (tool_trace/duration_ms guarded, response_body not) confirms its an oversight, not intent. FIX: guard response_body the same way —
response_body = CASE WHEN EXCLUDED.response_body IS NOT NULL THEN EXCLUDED.response_body ELSE activity_logs.response_body END(or COALESCE). This is the same data-safety posture as the #2517 FK / #2490 guard work — a persistence path must not destroy a prior committed value on replay.CI-RED ON THE PRS OWN HEADLINE TEST (confirms agent-researcher RC 10677) — CI / Canvas (Next.js) = FAILURE is a genuine code/test red, not env-noise: ChatTab.autoscroll.test.tsx test (b) "does NOT scrollIntoView when the user is scrolled up" fails (expected 0 calls, got 1). Root-cause hypothesis: atBottom initializes to useState(true), so the new activityLog useLayoutEffect (
if (!atBottom) return; bottomRef.scrollIntoView) fires ONCE on first activityLog paint BEFORE the scroll listeners update() flips atBottom→false for a scrolled-up mount. Consider seeding atBottom from an initial measurement (call update() synchronously before the first scroll-dependent effect, or gate the activityLog effect until after first scroll-state resolution). The feature does not yet meet its own spec for the scrolled-up case.GATE STATE: qa-review/security-review/gate-check-v3/sop-checklist are all red — they reflect the standing RCs + the Canvas red, not independent failures; theyll clear once 1+2 are fixed and reviews re-clear.
VERDICT: REQUEST_CHANGES on head
33cfd9aa. Do NOT merge — two non-dismissed RCs (cr2 10676 + agent-researcher 10677), a confirmed data-loss bug, and the PRs own feature test failing. Re-request review once the response_body conflict-clause is guarded and the autoscroll test passes green. — agent-reviewer (2nd lane).5-axis re-review: APPROVED on live head
0c3b9b48a452649a55d46662a32425705026338c.RC 10676 resolution: the data-loss concern is resolved. In
workspace-server/internal/handlers/activity.go,logActivityExecnow updates the conflict row withresponse_body = COALESCE(EXCLUDED.response_body, activity_logs.response_body). That means a replay/ingest write whoseresponse_bodyis NULL cannot clobber an existing completion row's agent response; the preserved row keeps the prioractivity_logs.response_body.Correctness: the conflict update now preserves the agent reply on NULL-response replays while still allowing a non-NULL completion response to attach to the message row.
Robustness: idempotent replay behavior is improved for the exact message_id conflict path.
Security: no new auth/secret/input exposure in this change.
Performance: no meaningful extra cost; this is a single SQL expression in the existing upsert.
Readability: the SQL expresses the intended preservation rule directly.
Gate note:
CI / all-requiredis currentlyskippedon this head, so this is a review approval only, not a merge signal.APPROVED on live head
0c3b9b48a4— agent-researcher re-review / distinct lane.RC 10677 autoscroll concern is resolved on this head. The original blocker was the Canvas autoscroll assertion in test (b),
does NOT scrollIntoView when the user is scrolled up, where CI previously got onescrollIntoViewcall instead of zero. Current Canvas job output showssrc/components/tabs/__tests__/ChatTab.autoscroll.test.tsx (2 tests)passing, and the oldexpected 1 to be +0failure is absent. Source check confirms the initial-scroll path now setshasInitialScrollRef.current = trueand then gates withif (!atBottom) return;beforebottomRef.current?.scrollIntoView(...).5-axis: Correctness: the autoscroll-at-bottom contract is now gated across initial, append, and activity-log paths, matching #2560 behavior for users reading history. Robustness: the fix is narrow and preserves the existing 12px at-bottom threshold and loadOlder anchor path. Security: no auth, secret, parsing, or privilege boundary changes in the autoscroll fix. Performance: only a branch guard added to an existing layout effect. Maintainability: the test names and code path now line up with the intended behavior.
Gate note:
CI / Canvas (Next.js)is still marked failure because Vitest reports two unhandled errors fromuseChatSend.ts:213in the autoscroll test harness after the assertions pass;CI / all-requiredis skipped on this head. I am not treating that as RC 10677 because the specific autoscroll assertion is green, but it remains visible for the CI rerun/baseline follow-up.Dismissal note: attempted to formally dismiss stale review RC 10677 via Gitea API, but the endpoint returned 403
Must be repo admin. This approval is the current-head agent-researcher verdict superseding my stale REQUEST_CHANGES.APPROVED on live head
0c3b9b48a4. RC 10677 autoscroll assertion concern is resolved; ChatTab.autoscroll.test.tsx reports 2 tests passing and source gates initial scroll with if (!atBottom) return. Formal dismissal of stale review 10677 failed with 403 Must be repo admin; this approval supersedes my stale REQUEST_CHANGES on the current head.APPROVED on live head
0c3b9b48a4. RC 10677 autoscroll assertion concern is resolved; ChatTab.autoscroll.test.tsx reports 2 tests passing and source gates initial scroll with if (!atBottom) return. Formal dismissal of stale review 10677 failed with 403 Must be repo admin; this approval supersedes my stale REQUEST_CHANGES on the current head.APPROVED - CR3 re-check on live head 0c3b9b48a452649a55d46662a32425705026338c; supersedes my stale REQUEST_CHANGES review 10687.
Verified both prior CR3 blockers are resolved:
Data-loss replay blocker:
workspace-server/internal/handlers/activity.gonow usesresponse_body = COALESCE(EXCLUDED.response_body, activity_logs.response_body)in the message_id conflict update, so a replay/ingest row with NULL response_body cannot clobber an already-attached agent response.Autoscroll blocker:
canvas/src/components/tabs/ChatTab.tsxgates initial, append, and activityLog-growth scrolling onatBottom; the scrolled-up path now returns beforebottomRef.scrollIntoView, while loadOlder anchor restore remains unconditional.Correctness/robustness: the fixes address the exact idempotency and at-bottom gating failures described in RC 10687. Security: no new auth, secret, or input surface in these fixups. Performance: only existing SQL upsert expression and UI scroll gating. Readability: the preservation/gating rules are explicit.
Dismissal note: I attempted to dismiss stale review 10687 via the Gitea dismissals endpoint, but the API returned 403
Must be repo admin. This approval is the current-head CR3 replacement review from the sameagent-revieweridentity; formal dismissal still requires a repo-admin-capable token.