Harden peer delegation lifecycle

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What changed

• propagate the real source task thread through ask_bot and delegate_bot, including detached routine runs
• keep queue chips, approval cards, failure messages, and comms visibility on that source thread
• key persistent peer approvals by immutable bot ID instead of mutable names
• contain fire-and-forget delegation failures and surface them as activity errors
• revalidate bots and source tasks after delayed approvals
• clean stale peer-approval cards across every task thread
• return semantic queue refusals to the agent as tool guidance
• fix the delegation polling helper and the inaccurate depth-guard test comment

Why

PR #129 added the approval gate and asynchronous delegation, but late review feedback identified lifecycle, identity, and detached-thread edge cases. Without these fixes, a routine delegation could be queued on the wrong task and run later from unrelated work, and a renamed or duplicate-named bot could inherit a stored approval.

Follow-up to #129.

Validation

• pnpm typecheck
• pnpm test — 391 passed, 8 skipped
• updater node tests — 11 passed
• pnpm build
• compiled-server build to an isolated output directory
• pnpm check:electron
• git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Delegated actions and peer-agent requests now remain associated with their originating conversation thread.
  • Activity updates, approvals, failures, and discard notifications appear in the correct source thread.
  • Approval permissions remain tied to the intended bot, even after renames or duplicate names.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of delegation failures without interrupting other queued actions.
  • Stale approval cards are now removed from inactive task threads.
  • Added validation to prevent requests from accessing unauthorized threads.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• server/delegations.test.ts
• server/delegations.ts
• server/index.ts
• server/peer-approval-key.ts
• server/peer-approval.ts
• server/store.test.ts
• server/store.ts

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change preserves source-thread context across peer requests and delegations. It also uses target bot IDs for approval keys, refreshes records after approval, reports delegation failures in the source thread, and removes stale approval cards from task threads.

Changes

Peer delegation flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Thread context at integration boundaries server/index.ts, server/drivers/agents-proxy.ts, server/drivers/agents-proxy.test.ts	Agent integrations pass OMB_THREAD_ID. ask_bot and delegate_bot forward the source thread. Internal endpoints validate thread ownership and preserve explanatory delegation errors with HTTP 200 responses.
Thread-aware delegation processing server/delegations.ts, server/comms-visibility.ts, server/delegations.test.ts, server/comms.test.ts	Delegation queueing, approval, mirroring, execution, and failure reporting use the explicit source thread. Processing refreshes sender and target records after approval and continues processing after individual failures.
Identity-based approval and stale-card cleanup server/peer-approval.ts, server/peer-approval.test.ts, server/comms.test.ts	Approval keys use target bot IDs. Approval cards retain their source thread. Cleanup scans bot threads and task threads for stale cards.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e7371

Delegation failures from detached routines can still appear on the wrong task thread, making errors difficult to find or attribute, and existing peer approvals may stop applying after the identity-key change until they are migrated or recreated. The PR is not merge-ready until the thread attribution issue is fixed or explicitly accepted, with the approval compatibility change called out to owners.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant agentsProxy
  participant InternalEndpoint
  participant DelegationQueue
  participant TargetRunner
  Agent->>agentsProxy: Invoke ask_bot or delegate_bot
  agentsProxy->>InternalEndpoint: Send request with fromThreadId
  InternalEndpoint->>DelegationQueue: Queue source-thread delegation
  DelegationQueue->>TargetRunner: Execute refreshed target request
  TargetRunner->>InternalEndpoint: Return result or failure
  InternalEndpoint->>Agent: Return activity result

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Possibly related PRs

• milind-soni/OpenMausBot#128: Extends the peer communication and delegation implementations updated here.
• milind-soni/OpenMausBot#129: Relates to source-thread propagation and delegation state handling.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 64.71% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary changes to peer delegation lifecycle handling.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the changes, reasons, validation results, and follow-up context; the optional UI section is not needed.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@server/delegations.ts`:
- Around line 185-189: Update runTarget and its caller in the delegation flow to
accept and propagate sourceThreadId, then have the runner use that thread ID
when appending and broadcasting failure activity for a rejected asynchronous
target start instead of source.threadId. Add a regression test covering
rejection when the target is started from an inactive routine task.

In `@server/peer-approval.ts`:
- Around line 69-70: Update Store’s alwaysAllow loading logic to migrate legacy
peer approval keys using an unambiguous name-to-ID mapping, so ask_bot:`@Helper`
and delegate_bot:`@Helper` entries become keys generated by peerAllowKey with the
resolved peer ID. Preserve unrelated entries and avoid migrating when the
name-to-ID resolution is ambiguous; alternatively, explicitly document the
required grant recreation if migration cannot be implemented.

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• server/comms-visibility.ts
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• server/delegations.test.ts
• server/delegations.ts
• server/drivers/agents-proxy.test.ts
• server/drivers/agents-proxy.ts
• server/index.ts
• server/peer-approval.test.ts
• server/peer-approval.ts

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