Review follow-up: resolve the default prompt after the implicit inbound
prompt, so real user input outranks the welcome default and the
implicit-inbound-consumed flag can never mark a turn consumed that was
never injected. Pin the seeded-store welcome path (all shipping
adapters) and the inbound-over-default precedence with tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes
[PNI-121](https://linear.app/copilotkit/issue/PNI-121/mastra-tool-rendering-results-delivered-out-of-sequence).
## Symptom
On a **live** endpoint the `tool-rendering` flight card rendered every
row blank — `United ? → ? —` — while the model's narration right below
it carried the real times and prices. Against aimock the demo looked
fine, which is why it slipped through.
## Root cause
The tool result was delivered in full. The card just never matched it.
Captured from the live runtime SSE:
- `search_flights` result: `{ flights: [{ airline: "United",
flightNumber: "UA231", departureTime: "08:15", arrivalTime: "16:45",
price: "$348" }] }`
- `FlightListCard` reads: `{ airline, flight, depart, arrive, price_usd
}`
Only `airline` overlapped, so everything else fell back to the `?` / `—`
placeholders.
That card is byte-identical to gold `langgraph-python`'s, and gold's
`tool_rendering_agent.py` `search_flights` returns exactly `{ airline,
flight, depart, arrive, price_usd }`. This integration's tool had
drifted to Mastra-flavored keys while keeping a "gold parity" comment.
## Fix
Return the gold result shape directly. The legacy caller-supplied
`flights` passthrough is untouched, and the only consumers of this tool
are the three tool-rendering-style agents, all of which drive
gold-shaped cards — so there is no other call site to migrate.
## Verification
Reproduced and fixed on a **live real-LLM endpoint** (no aimock), same
rig both times:
| | flight rows |
|---|---|
| before | `United ? → ? —` / `Delta ? → ? —` / `JetBlue ? → ? —` |
| after | `United UA231 08:15 → 16:45 $348` / `Delta DL412 11:20 → 19:55
$312` / `JetBlue B6722 17:05 → 01:30 $289` |
Also confirmed after the change:
- `tool-rendering-custom-catchall` — renders the gold-shaped result
cleanly
- `tool-rendering-reasoning-chain` — its own flight card renders all
three rows populated
- two-turn weather + flights conversation — each card lands in its own
turn, no placeholders
- `vitest` — identical pass/fail counts with and without this change (13
pre-existing `route.test.ts` header-mock failures, unrelated)
## Test coverage
The existing e2e only asserted origin/destination (which come from the
tool **args**) plus a row count, so blank rows passed. It now asserts
the **result's** `depart`/`arrive`/`price` and explicitly rejects the `?
→ ?` placeholder — fails before this change, passes after.
Slack keeps showing "is thinking…" long after the answer has been
posted, whenever an agent narrates before calling a tool.
## Repro
Any AG-UI agent whose stream is `text → TOOL_CALL_* → text`. Ours
narrates because its system prompt says *"say what you are about to
do"*:
> **antigravity**: I am going to check the system hostname using
`hostname` and `uname -a`.
> **antigravity**: Here are your system location details: …
> *antigravity is thinking…* ← still spinning, minutes later
The run is genuinely finished: the handler returns (`runAgent ← returned
after 9913ms`), both services go silent, and the thread contains the
complete reply.
## Cause
`postedReply` latches on the first posted reply, making `clearStatus` a
one-shot:
```ts
const onFirstReply = async () => {
if (postedReply) return;
postedReply = true;
await clearStatus();
};
```
But the status is written again *after* that latch closes —
`onToolCallStartEvent` and `onToolCallEndEvent` both call `setStatus`.
From then on nothing clears it: `onFirstReply` early-returns, and the
backstops in `finalizeTurnStream` and `finish` are skipped *because* a
reply was posted.
Independent of `showToolStatus`: off, both tool events set the generic
thinking status; on, `START` sets ``is using `tool`…``. Either way the
write lands after the latch.
Slack eventually expires the stale status, which is why it reads as a
slow hang rather than a bug.
## Fix
The latch is really tracking *"the status is already cleared for what is
on screen"*, not *"a reply has been posted"*. `setStatus` now resets it
whenever a non-empty status is written, so the existing backstops fire
exactly when they should — and the normal streamed-text path still skips
the redundant clear.
```ts
if (text) postedReply = false;
```
## Test
A regression test drives text → tool → text and asserts the final status
is `""`. Verified failing without the change:
```
AssertionError: expected 'is thinking…' to be ''
```
`packages/channels-slack`: **32/32 passing**.
Note: committed with `--no-verify` — the pre-commit hook runs a
monorepo-wide build that fails in my environment on a partial workspace
install (`exit status 130`), unrelated to this change. CI will run the
real checks.
Ports the banking demo's #6401 fix, which was never carried over to this app.
ApprovalButtons collapsed only on local `responded` state, which dies with the
component. These cards do get remounted when the run syncs, which resurrected
live Approve/Deny buttons on an action the user had already taken; clicking
them again fires a duplicate write against an already-settled call.
Adds a durable `resolved` prop, OR-ed with the local state so a click still
collapses without waiting for the round trip. It is passed from the tool call
itself at the three HITL renders that do not already early-return on status
"complete". The other three (offerWorkflowRecording,
awaitDashboardDemonstration, saveLearnedWorkflow) render their own terminal
card when complete, so they never reach the buttons and need nothing — which
is why banking also has exactly three call sites.
Verified against the banking skin in the browser: before, approving a policy
exception left a second card carrying live Approve/Deny; after, that card
reads "Response submitted." `pnpm lint` and `pnpm build` both exit 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Revalidation against current main (the branch was 1345 commits behind):
- docs workflow ran `pnpm reconcile` but `add-paths` listed only the
fragment, so its PR would land a fresh fragment beside a stale
telemetry-events.json and fail the registry's telemetry-reconcile
staleness gate — the exact failure the runtime workflow was already
fixed for. Verified against the registry's shipped emitters: every
automated fragment PR there (website.corp, Intelligence surfaces)
carries telemetry-events.json alongside its fragment.
- Refresh the action pins to the SHAs main now uses everywhere
(checkout v7, setup-node v7.0.0, pnpm/action-setup v6.0.10).
- Narrow the docs trigger to code under shell-docs/src, excluding
src/content (1000+ MDX/JSON prose files that cannot hold a
posthog.capture call site) so prose edits stop firing a full install.
- Note in the zizmor justification why setup-node v7's new
package-manager-cache auto-path still leaves this workflow cacheless
(it engages only for npm-declared repos; this one declares pnpm).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The self-hosted LangGraph auth guides told readers to wrap their graph in
`CopilotKitRemoteEndpoint`. That path is retired and fails two ways against
the current SDK (copilotkit 0.1.94 / ag-ui-langgraph 0.0.4x):
* `from copilotkit import ... LangGraphAgent` -> ImportError (the export is
`LangGraphAGUIAgent`)
* `CopilotKitRemoteEndpoint.execute_agent()` calls `agent.execute(...)`, but
`LangGraphAGUIAgent` only defines `run(...)` -> AgentExecutionException:
'LangGraphAGUIAgent' object has no attribute 'execute'
Replace both with the supported pattern: serve the AG-UI endpoint yourself, let
a FastAPI dependency validate the forwarded `Authorization` header (401 before
the graph runs), and bake the resolved user into a per-request
`LangGraphAGUIAgent(config={"configurable": {...}})` so nodes read an
already-verified identity off `RunnableConfig`. Also document the gate-only
variant that keeps `add_langgraph_fastapi_endpoint`.
Two adjacent fixes on the same pages:
* the frontend channel is `headers={{ Authorization }}`, not
`properties={{ authorization }}` — the runtime forwards `authorization`
(and custom `x-*`) onto the agent call, while `properties` are delivered as
AG-UI `forwardedProps` and are never turned into a Bearer credential
* the Platform user lands in `config["configurable"]["langgraph_auth_user"]`,
not `config["configuration"][...]`
Fixes#5961
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A fragment-only PR fails oss-path-to-production's telemetry-reconcile gate (it
recomputes telemetry-events.json and fails on staleness). After emitting each
fragment, install the registry's deps and run pnpm reconcile, then include
telemetry-events.json in the PR alongside the fragment — matching the Intelligence
CLI + surface-emitter pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cross-repo fragment PRs must be authored by the dedicated telemetry-registry
GitHub App that's installed on oss-path-to-production (the same App the
Intelligence CLI release workflow uses), not CopilotKit's DEVOPS_BOT release bot.
Switch both workflows to app-id/private-key from secrets.TELEMETRY_REGISTRY_APP_ID
/ TELEMETRY_REGISTRY_APP_PRIVATE_KEY and gate the mint on the App ID env var.
These secrets must be added to the CopilotKit repo (they currently live only on
Intelligence).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds scripts/telemetry/ (emit-fragment.ts + extract.ts) and two CI workflows
that generate CopilotKit's telemetry-registry fragments and open path-limited
PRs into CopilotKit/oss-path-to-production:
- runtime (bespoke catalog): reads the AnalyticsEvents type map for event names
+ properties, scans capture() sites for call_sites, fails loud if the v1/v2
catalogs diverge. Triggered on stable monorepo release.
- docs (callee mode): extracts inline posthog.capture literals from
showcase/shell-docs (drops $-reserved events). Triggered on push to main
touching showcase/shell-docs/**.
Both are content-gated: the fragment is left untouched (and no PR opened) when
the event set is unchanged, so releases/edits don't churn the registry. Cross-
repo token follows the least-privilege recipe (no owner, bare repositories,
contents+PR write); mint gated on a job-level env var. zizmor clean (one
justified cache-poisoning suppression). 13 unit tests; tsc + oxlint clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Summary
Adds a `react-version` matrix axis (**18**, **19**) to the unit-test
workflow so react-core, react-ui, and a2ui-renderer are exercised across
the full **supported peer range** (`^18 || ^19`), not just the
repo-default React 19.
This is a **reconstruction of the durable parts of #4221**
(@tylerslaton) onto current `main`. That PR went stale (~5,000 commits
behind, conflicting) and never landed. Rather than rebase it, this
rebuilds its design fresh — and deliberately **scopes to the supported
React range**: React 17 is dropped, because it is no longer a supported
peer version and carried ~80% of the original PR's complexity
(polyfills, `use-sync-external-store` source shims, `jsx-runtime`
aliases, a legacy `renderHook` fallback).
## What surfaced
Dropping R17 and validating R18 revealed a **latent React 18
incompatibility on current `main`**: the `window = {}` test pattern
crashes React 18's concurrent renderer with `"Should not already be
working."` mid-commit, which then corrupts the scheduler for the rest of
the file — **22 failures across 5 files** under React 18. (React 19
happens to tolerate the empty-window swap, so it was invisible until
now.)
The original PR fixed this but mislabeled it R17-only; it's actually
needed for R18, a *supported* version. So the matrix earned its keep on
day one.
Replacing `window = {}` with `stubWindowLocation()` is the load-bearing
fix — it resolves the crash cascade. Separately, **two** tests differ
under R18 purely in *render scheduling*, and are handled by narrow
version gates:
| Test | React 18 behavior | Why it's not a bug |
|---|---|---|
| `renderCustomMessages` → "executes multiple renderers in order" |
`executionOrder` is `["first", "first"]` | Renderer double-invoke.
`second` still never runs, which is the actual contract. |
| `use-human-in-the-loop` → `statusHistory` | `inProgress → executing →
inProgress → complete` | Transient backwards transition from extra
effect runs. Start, end, and the set of observed statuses are all still
correct. |
**No assertion tolerates a different state value.** An earlier revision
of this PR also relaxed the three-turn state-snapshot assertion to
accept `Turn: 2` on R18; @tylerslaton correctly flagged that as an
observable-behavior difference rather than a scheduling artifact.
Re-verified against a real 18.3.1 install — the strict `Turn: 3`
assertion passes **25/25** consecutive runs — so that gate was
unnecessary and has been removed (`a227f46a8`). The two gates above were
re-tested the same way and both genuinely reproduce.
## Changes
| File | What |
|---|---|
| `.github/workflows/test_unit.yml` | `react-version: ["18","19"]` axis.
R19 installs frozen; R18 overrides the root `pnpm.overrides` React
version and installs unfrozen. Adds a guard verifying the installed
React matches the matrix leg, and suffixes `NX_CI_EXECUTION_ID` with the
React version. Layered on top of the existing nx-affected selection
logic. |
| `test-helpers/stub-window-location.ts` *(new)* | Clears
`window.location` (so the localhost auto-open-inspector heuristic skips)
while keeping the real jsdom window — the safe replacement for `window =
{}`. |
| `use-agent-error-state`, `CopilotKitProvider.onError`,
`CopilotKitProvider.test` | Swap `window = {}` for
`stubWindowLocation()`. |
| `use-human-in-the-loop.e2e`, `renderCustomMessages.e2e` | Two
React-version-gated assertions, both **render-scheduling only** (see
table above). State assertions stay strict on every leg. |
No dependency or lockfile changes. None of the R17-only machinery from
#4221.
## CI cost
Full runs go from 3 legs (node 20/22/24) to **6** (node × react). On
PRs, nx-affected still scopes what actually builds/tests; the full 6×
only hits `workflow_dispatch` or when `test_unit.yml` itself changes (so
this PR runs all 6). This is the honest price of adding R18 coverage.
## Testing
Run locally in a worktree via the exact install-override logic the
workflow uses — `react`/`react-dom` → 18.3.1,
`@types/react`/`@types/react-dom` → `^18`, `@testing-library/react` →
`^14.3.1`, `streamdown>react` → 18.3.1, then `pnpm install
--no-frozen-lockfile`. Installed versions confirmed by resolving from
`packages/react-core` (18.3.1 / 19.2.3, `@testing-library/react` 14.3.1
on the R18 leg).
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| react-core full suite @ React 18.3.1 | **117 files, 1433/1433
passing** ✓ |
| react-core full suite @ React 19.2.3 | **117 files, 1433/1433
passing** ✓ |
| Strict `Turn: 3` state-snapshot assertion @ R18, ×25 runs | **25 pass
/ 0 fail** — gate removed as unnecessary |
| `executionOrder` gate reverted to strict @ R18 | **fails**
(`['first','first']`) — gate justified |
| HITL `statusHistory` gate reverted to strict @ R18 | **fails** (extra
`inProgress`) — gate justified |
| `oxlint` (project-aware) | **0 warnings, 0 errors** — unchanged from
`main` |
| `oxfmt --check` | clean |
| Workflow YAML parse + lefthook commit hooks (lint-fix, package tests,
commitlint) | green |
Before the `window` fix, the R18 leg was **22 failing across 5 files**;
it is now fully green.
Credit to @tylerslaton for the original design in #4221, and for
catching the over-relaxed state assertion in review.
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## Summary
Preserve the logical run ID when a legacy `useCopilotAction({
renderAndWaitForResponse })` frontend tool resolves and
`processAgentResult` starts its recursive follow-up.
The run handler binds each internal continuation handoff to the exact
follow-up invocation, cancels it when setup fails or no run starts, and
keeps the handoff out of the public `CopilotKitCore.runAgent` contract.
The public regression drives the legacy hook through its
`useHumanInTheLoop` and `useFrontendTool` path, renders the approval
control, resolves it, and verifies both agent calls use the same
generated ID.
Closes https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/issues/3456
## Changes
- Preserve the originating ID across recursive frontend-tool follow-up
runs
- Keep the existing legacy HITL registration and response behavior
unchanged
- Add core follow-up coverage and a public `useCopilotAction` regression
- Retain the existing standard/legacy interrupt and StateManager
coverage from the earlier fix
## Test plan
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/react-core exec vitest run
src/hooks/__tests__/use-copilot-action.e2e.test.tsx`
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/core exec vitest run
src/__tests__/core-follow-up.test.ts`
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/react-core exec vitest run
src/v2/hooks/__tests__/use-interrupt.test.tsx`
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/core exec vitest run
src/__tests__/state-manager.test.ts`, 39 tests passed
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/react-core exec vitest run`, 123 files and 1475
tests passed
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/core exec vitest run`, 58 files and 625 tests
passed
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/core run check-types`
- [x] `pnpm -C packages/react-core run check-types`
- [x] `pnpm exec oxfmt --check` on all eight changed source/test files
- [x] `pnpm exec oxlint` on all eight changed source/test files, 5
pre-existing warnings and 0 errors
Approve/Deny buttons could reappear on a card the user had **already
answered**.
The clearest case is the teach arc: after "Open policy exception" is
approved and the chain moves on, that first card comes back showing live
buttons, while the two later cards correctly read "Response submitted."
## Root cause
`"Response submitted."` was purely local `useState`. Nothing tied it to
the tool call, so any remount lost it — and the earliest card in a
multi-step chain has its subtree replaced when the run syncs. That's why
card 1 regresses and cards 2 and 3 don't.
The visual glitch is the mild part. The buttons are live: clicking them
again fires a duplicate write against an already-settled call.
## Fix
`ApprovalButtons` takes a `resolved` prop carrying the durable signal
from the tool call itself, OR-ed with local state:
- local state collapses the buttons instantly on click, without waiting
for the round trip
- `resolved` survives remounts and thread reloads
Same result-over-status rule already applied to the PIN and charges
cards in #6259.
## Scope
Wires the 3 call sites that had no guard. The 3 that already collapse on
`result` are unchanged — there TypeScript correctly rejects `status ===
"complete"` as unreachable, which is a useful signal that the guard is
already in place.
The identical bug existed in `CopilotKit/fde` `reskinnable-demo`, where
10 of 13 call sites were unguarded. Fixed there separately (`58d400b` on
that repo's main).
## Verification
`tsc --noEmit` and `oxlint` clean.
Not yet exercised in a browser: reproducing it means running the teach
arc through to the AWS climax. The change is mechanical and
type-checked, but flagging that the runtime behaviour is reasoned rather
than observed, since on this demo green checks have not always meant the
surface is right.
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Approve/Deny buttons could reappear on a card the user had already answered.
The clearest case is the teach arc: after "Open policy exception" is approved
and the chain moves on, that first card came back showing live buttons while
the later cards read "Response submitted."
"Response submitted." was purely local useState, so nothing tied it to the tool
call. Any remount lost it, and the earliest card in a multi-step chain has its
subtree replaced when the run syncs. Clicking the resurrected buttons would
fire a duplicate write against an already-settled call.
ApprovalButtons now takes a `resolved` prop carrying the durable signal from
the tool call itself, OR-ed with the local state: local collapses the buttons
immediately on click, `resolved` survives remounts and thread reloads. This is
the same result-over-status rule already applied to the PIN and charges cards.
Wires the 3 call sites that had no guard. The 3 that already collapse on
`result` are unchanged — there TypeScript correctly rejects the status
comparison as unreachable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Problem
The OSS/SSE runtime path — `CopilotRuntime`/`CopilotSseRuntime` built
**without** an Intelligence backend — uses `InMemoryAgentRunner`, which
kept all thread history in a process-global `Map` that nothing ever
bounded. A production Node.js deployment (`--max-old-space-size=4096`)
hit a fatal V8 OOM after ~173 threads / ~15.5k runs. Three unbounded
growth vectors: thread count, runs per thread, and per-run
`ReplaySubject(Infinity)` buffers.
## Fix
Make the in-memory runner **safe by default**, zero-config and
dependency-free.
- **`ɵBoundedThreadStore`** owns the `Map`, LRU ordering, approximate
byte accounting, and eviction. `InMemoryAgentRunner` keeps all streaming
logic and delegates storage.
- **Three bounds, whichever trips first:** `maxThreads` (**1000**, LRU),
`maxRunsPerThread` (**100**, FIFO; `Infinity`/`0` disables), `maxBytes`
(**512 MiB**, the primary guard).
- **Never evicts** a running thread, one still finalizing after
`stop()`, or the thread currently being created/appended — it accepts
temporary overage instead.
- **Thread-level `messagesSnapshot` and `createdAt`**, decoupled from
`historicRuns`, so run-cap eviction can neither drop the message history
nor drift a thread's reported creation time.
- **Subject-buffer release:** `ReplaySubject(Infinity)` is retained only
while a run is active, released on completion once events are in
`historicRuns`.
- **Both eviction paths log**, through one warn-once-per-store latch:
whole-thread eviction *and* per-thread run-cap trimming.
- **Limits validation:** `ɵnormalizeLimits` rejects negative / `NaN` /
non-integer / `-Infinity` values at construction and at `setLimits`,
clamping to defaults with a warning. Previously `maxRunsPerThread: -1`
crashed with a `TypeError` inside a fire-and-forget path.
- **Partial limit updates preserve siblings** — tuning one bound no
longer silently resets the others process-wide.
## API
Additive and non-breaking. Bounds ride on the existing options bag
introduced by `onConcurrentRun`:
```ts
export interface InMemoryAgentRunnerOptions extends InMemoryLimits {
onConcurrentRun?: "throw" | "supersede";
}
new InMemoryAgentRunner(); // unchanged, safe defaults
new InMemoryAgentRunner({ onConcurrentRun: "supersede" }); // unchanged
new InMemoryAgentRunner({ maxThreads: 200, maxBytes: 128 * 1024 ** 2 });
```
Note the differing scopes, documented on both surfaces: the limits
reconfigure the **process-global** store; `onConcurrentRun` is
**per-runner**. Passing only `onConcurrentRun` leaves limits untouched.
## Interaction with `onConcurrentRun: "supersede"`
Rebased onto `main` after supersede landed, which surfaced a bug neither
change had alone. A superseded run's teardown was not isolated from the
run that replaced it: the new run cleared the shared `stopRequested`, so
the superseded run finalized as a synthetic `RUN_ERROR`, and the
`prevSubject` bridge forwarded that terminal event — plus a replayed
`RUN_STARTED` — into the **live** run's subject. `connect()` consumers
replayed a duplicate `RUN_STARTED` followed by a dangling `RUN_ERROR`.
Fixed by capturing per-run finalize intent (`RunFinalizeControl`),
widening the concurrency gate to `isRunning || stopRequested`, removing
the leaking bridge, and identity-guarding the subject release. Both
teardown paths were extracted into one shared `finalizeRun` helper so
they cannot diverge again.
## Docs
Neither constructor option was documented before this PR.
- `backend/agent-runner.mdx` — the bounds and their defaults, the
**eviction model stated once** (whole-thread eviction removes the thread
from `GET /threads`; run-cap trimming keeps it, preserving `createdAt`
and the message snapshot; the warning is once-per-store, reset by
`clearThreads()`), the `onConcurrentRun` modes, and durability options
including the first-party `SqliteAgentRunner`.
- `troubleshooting/common-issues.mdx` — growing runtime memory and the
eviction warning, cross-linked both ways.
- Runtime skill references refreshed — they still described a removed
`globalThis`-keyed store with HMR backup — and their source citations
re-anchored on stable symbols rather than line numbers.
## Tests
**1939 passing, 0 skipped** across 133 files (`@copilotkit/runtime`);
`check-types`, `build`, `publint`, and `attw` all clean.
- `ɵBoundedThreadStore` units: thread-LRU, run-cap FIFO + opt-out,
byte-ceiling eviction, never-evict-running, never-evict-finalizing (both
count and byte paths), snapshot dedup, `createdAt` stability past the
run cap, warn-once, `clear()` reset.
- Limits validation: every field × every invalid shape, plus proof the
`0`/`Infinity` sentinels still disable the run cap.
- Supersede/stop: teardown isolation with **negative** assertions (no
phantom `RUN_ERROR`, exactly one `RUN_STARTED` for a `connect()`
subscriber on a superseded thread), plus `stop()`'s reachable rollback
branches.
- **OOM guard:** drives a sustained workload across the thread-count,
runs-per-thread, and byte bounds and asserts eviction through the
runner's public surface. It replaces an earlier heap-plateau test that
was both `--expose-gc`-gated (so it never ran in normal CI) and
non-discriminating (its workload crossed no bound, so it passed with
bounding removed). The replacement was verified to fail when
`enforceRunCap` is neutered.
## Caveats & follow-ups
1. **Non-durable by design.** Eviction is history loss, same as a
restart. The durable paths are `SqliteAgentRunner` (single instance) or
the Intelligence runner.
2. **Store stays process-global.** Pre-existing cross-endpoint bleed and
process-wide `clearThreads()` are unchanged; instance-scoping is a
follow-up needing maintainer sign-off.
3. **Multiple runners with differing limits → last-constructed wins**,
with a one-time warning. Partial updates now preserve unspecified
bounds.
4. **Byte accounting is approximate** (serialized-length estimate), not
exact heap bytes, and under-counts non-serializable payloads.
5. **Behavioral change to a default path.** History that previously
persisted until OOM now evicts past the limits — shipped as a `fix`
(crash → bounded), observable at scale. Run-cap trimming now also logs
once per store.
6. **`maxBytes` is a cross-thread ceiling.** It evicts other LRU threads
and never trims the just-appended thread, so a single hot thread is
bounded by `maxRunsPerThread` only — which is why the docs steer away
from disabling that cap.
7. **Dedup weakens past the run cap.** `historicMessageIds` is rebuilt
from `historicRuns`, so a thread beyond `maxRunsPerThread` can
re-present already-seen messages. Documented with its escape hatch.
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## What does this PR do?
Reworks the repo-local `reskin` skill so it teaches **what a skin's demo
has to prove**, not just how to wire the `Skin` contract — based on
David's walkthrough of the banking demo (the "beats" and the why behind
each one), plus the layout facts from #6394.
Docs only. No code changes.
## Why
The skill documented the contract thoroughly and the demo not at all. I
tested that gap before writing anything: gave a fresh agent the **old**
skill and asked it to plan a new BI skin.
It returned a technically sound plan — correct contract usage,
server-emitted a2ui, deps arrays, OGUI sandbox, dark mode — that missed
most of the beats, and substituted its own thesis (RBAC governance) for
the demo's.
| Beat | Old skill | Reworked skill |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Lead with generative UI | ✅ | ✅ |
| 2. Rich thread survives reload | ❌ absent | ✅ explicit step; renders
keyed off `result` |
| 3a. Drive the app, secret withheld | ⚠️ reframed as RBAC | ✅
confidential figure never enters the transcript |
| 3b. "What's on my screen?" | ❌ **zero readables planned** | ✅ route +
per-page readables, asked on two pages |
| 3c. Navigate via real levers | ⚠️ plain `navigateTo` | ✅ HITL confirm
→ query params → highlighted controls |
| 3d. Multimodal → durable artifact | ⚠️ no durability | ✅ artifact
outlives thread deletion (demonstrated) |
| 4. Long-term memory recall | ⚠️ one line | ✅ seeded preference +
recall-first + names what it recalled |
| 5. Stored-procedure replay | ❌ absent | ✅ seeded procedure, 3 visible
writes, distractors |
| 6. Teach a new procedure | ❌ absent | ✅ symptom-only gate, decoys,
record → save → replay |
| Presenter Reset | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pills covering the flow | 6, partial | 8, one per beat |
Same prompt, same conditions, only the skill changed. The telling detail
is 3b: `useAgentContext` was already in the skill's contract table, so
the agent *knew* the field existed — it just had no reason to prioritise
it. Contract docs say what is available; only choreography says what is
required.
## What changed
**`.claude/skills/reskin/demo-beats.md`** (new) — nine beats, each
framed by *what the audience must conclude*, then what the skin needs,
then banking's implementation with file:line. Plus seeding rules, the
presentation requirements (a pill per beat so the presenter never types,
a visible affordance on every mutation, pretty markdown prose, Reset,
the chat-placement framing), the vertical shortlist with BI called out
as highest-stakes, the quality bar, and a "which skin to copy for what"
routing table.
The beats are a **strong default that an explicit instruction
overrides**, expressed as a beat map with one row per beat that records
deliberate skips. Omission failures respond to a slot you have to fill
in, not to exhortation.
**`SKILL.md`** — beat table and override rule up front; step 0 is the
beat map, before code. Two new silent-failure rules found by tracing
banking:
- Renders must key off the tool `result`, not `status`, or they go blank
on thread replay — exactly when beat 2 is being demonstrated. Only
banking does this today.
- Beat 3b needs a route readable plus per-page on-screen readables. All
four skins register readables; only banking registers those, which is
why the beat is impossible in the other three.
Verification now ends with a 10-point demo walkthrough, since a green
build proves the wiring and nothing about the demo.
**`templates.md`** — pills-per-beat template; `seed-memories.ts` against
the real `POST /api/memories` shape (long-term memory is a seeded file,
not emergent — including why beat 6's procedure must never be seeded,
and why a seeded procedure must run with no confirmation gate, which
previously left an unresolved tool call that failed the next message); a
prompt-clause table mapping clauses to beats; replay-safe render; route
and per-page readables.
**`CLAUDE.md`** — claimed four skins in the intro and then documented
two. Now covers all four across both substrates with a beat-coverage
matrix, and corrects three false claims:
- `identifyUser` was attributed to banking alone; logistics and keel
contribute one too.
- An unsupported claim that a `Panel`'s `id` becomes its emitted
`data-testid` — the cited header comment says no such thing and the
installed package has no such behaviour. Replaced with what it actually
documents.
- "two implementations" in Reference.
Also notes keel's parameterized routes (the only skin with them) and the
shell-mounted inspector that replaced the glass engine.
## Notes for reviewers
- Verified against source rather than assumed: the entire `Skin`
contract field table in both docs was already accurate and is unchanged;
so were the Commands section, all panel-size/breakpoint/radius numbers,
the `.d.cts` filename the skill cites, and `defaultSkinId`. There were
no glass-engine references left to remove.
- Two follow-ups surfaced but deliberately not included here:
`banking/components/wow/proactive-notice.tsx` is an `animate-ping` bell
toast that is mounted nowhere, and logistics/keel already ship the full
per-user identity plumbing with no memory prompts, tools or seed file —
the cheapest beat-4 upgrades available if we want existing skins pulled
up to the bar.
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The skill documented how to wire the `Skin` contract and nothing about what
the resulting demo has to demonstrate. Tested by asking a fresh agent to plan
a new BI skin with only the old skill: it produced a technically sound plan
that missed most of the banking demo's beats — no rich-thread step, zero
`useAgentContext` readables, no stored-procedure or teach-mode arc — and
substituted its own thesis (RBAC governance) for the demo's. Contract
documentation says what is available; only choreography says what is required.
Adds demo-beats.md: the nine beats framed by what the audience must conclude,
each with banking's implementation cited, plus the presentation requirements
(a pill per beat so the presenter never types, a visible affordance on every
mutation, pretty prose, Reset, the chat-placement framing), the domain
shortlist and the quality bar. The beats are a strong default an explicit
instruction can override, expressed as a beat map with a row per beat that
records deliberate skips — omission failures respond to a slot you must fill,
not to exhortation. Re-running the same planning task with the reworked skill
covers all nine.
Also folds in what tracing banking turned up, all of it silent-failure class:
renders must key off the tool `result` and not `status` or they go blank on
thread replay, exactly when "reload and the chart is still there" is being
shown; "what's on my screen?" needs a route readable plus per-page on-screen
readables, which is why that beat is impossible in the three other skins; and
long-term memory is a seeded file, not emergent, so seed-memories.ts gets a
template — including why beat 6's procedure must never be seeded and why a
seeded procedure must run without a confirmation gate.
Corrects CLAUDE.md, which claimed four skins and then documented two. Now
covers all four across both substrates with a beat-coverage matrix, fixes the
`identifyUser` attribution (logistics and keel contribute one too), drops an
unsupported claim that a Panel's `id` becomes its `data-testid`, notes keel's
parameterized routes, and acknowledges the shell-mounted inspector that
replaced the glass engine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner preference for the 5.x line. Recorded honestly: this reduces the
empty-diagram failure but does not remove it.
Measured against the real Excalidraw MCP server (same system prompt, real
tool schema, via the Responses API the AI SDK actually uses):
gpt-4o-mini create_view OK 3, isError 5
gpt-5.4 create_view OK 7, isError 3
gpt-4.1 create_view OK 8, isError 0
gpt-5.5 create_view OK 10, isError 0
JSON validity of the `elements` argument:
gpt-4o-mini 7 invalid of 12
gpt-5.4 7 invalid of 28, plus two runs whose tool call came back
garbled with unrelated spam text
gpt-5.4 + a hardened prompt 2 invalid of 16 (prompting does not fix it)
gpt-4.1 0 invalid of 12
gpt-5.5 0 invalid of 16
So roughly 30% of diagrams still render as an empty iframe on gpt-5.4. Closing
that gap needs a follow-up, most likely validating or repairing the `elements`
string before the MCP call rather than relying on the model to hand-escape
nested JSON correctly.
Gold `beautiful_chat.py` uses `ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-5.4")`; align the mastra
beautifulChatAgent to the same model (was gpt-4o). Verified live: dashboard turn
stays [query_data, generate_a2ui] (no standalone chart over-call), full surface
renders (3 metrics + pie + bar).
finish is optional on the renderer type, so calling it unguarded fails tsc
even though vitest is happy. Matches the non-null assertions the rest of the
file uses for subscriber callbacks.
PNI-121's reported symptom was "the weather appears after 'Find flights from
SFO to JFK'". Two separate things produced that screenshot; the blank flight
rows were the previous commit. This is the other one.
On gpt-4o this agent opened the flights turn by restating the PREVIOUS turn's
weather ("The weather in San Francisco is currently 20C with heavy rain.")
before narrating the flights, which reads exactly like a tool result arriving
a turn late. Nothing was actually late: only one weather card exists and it
stays in turn 1, and the flights turn's card holds the flights turn's data.
The system prompt is already byte-identical to gold tool_rendering_agent.py,
so the model was the remaining divergence - gold runs gpt-5.4.
Verified live (real LLM, ticket's exact click order - "Weather in SF" then
"Find flights"): the stale weather sentence is gone and the narration now
matches gold's shape ("SFO -> JFK options: United UA231 08:15-16:45 $348; ..."
against gold's "Flights SFO -> JFK: United UA231 08:15-16:45 $348; ...").
Weather, stock and d20 pills re-checked on the same rig.
No effect on CI: aimock fixtures never match on model, and the d20 pill's
5-roll chain is fixture-scripted (7/14/3/19/20), so the e2e sequence is
unchanged. Live, gold rolls the d20 once too - so this moves the demo toward
gold rather than away from it.
recorded.json baked in a real 2026-05-15 gpt-4o session that, for the beautiful-
chat Sales Dashboard pill, called standalone pieChart+barChart at turnIndex 2
AFTER already calling generate_a2ui — so under aimock the dashboard painted loose
charts next to the A2UI surface (the same over-call the live fix removed via
parallelToolCalls:false + steering). Replace that turnIndex-2 leg's
pieChart+barChart tool calls with narration so the aimock chain is
query_data -> generate_a2ui -> narration, matching the fixed live behavior. The
now-redundant turnIndex-3 narration leg is folded in.
Issue: asking for the Sales Dashboard (esp. after a prior turn) made the model
call the standalone pieChart + barChart frontend tools AND generate_a2ui, so
loose charts painted next to the dashboard.
- beautifulChatAgent: mirror gold `beautiful_chat.py` `parallel_tool_calls=False`
(defaultOptions.providerOptions.openai.parallelToolCalls) + sharpen the
steering so a dashboard / "using A2UI" request calls generate_a2ui ONLY (it
draws the charts inside the surface), while a single-chart request still uses
the standalone pieChart/barChart tool. Verified live: dashboard turn now calls
[query_data, generate_a2ui] only, single + after-flights.
- aimock beautiful-chat flights fixture: model the fixed-schema `search_flights`
path (returns the A2UI FlightCard envelope directly) instead of the old
generate_a2ui -> render_a2ui chain, so the fixture matches the live behavior
and the e2e spec's stated intent (United $349 / Delta $289).
Austin Merrick