Mirror delegated turn terminal state into the bot⇄bot channel

[stephenlzc]

Follow-up to the note in #129:

The delegated turn's reply isn't mirrored back into the A ⇄ B channel — mirrorReply is only called on the ask_bot path — so the channel is complete for asks but request-only for delegations. Worth a follow-up: prior art (A2A, MCP Tasks, buzz) is unanimous that every terminal state of an async handoff should be visible where the human is looking.

This PR makes the channel the full record of a delegation. Every terminal state lands there:

• Reply on success — a delegationWatch map (target threadId → channel) is registered when the drain starts the peer turn; the main fold's turn.completed (where the reply text is already in scope) mirrors it via the existing mirrorReply.
• Failed / stopped turn — mirrored as an ok:false activity chip (Delegated turn did not finish), covering errors and user interrupts.
• Turn never started — startTurn rejects (busy target, deleted bot, unavailable provider); the existing source-thread chip is unchanged, and the same failure is now mirrored into the channel too, so a request never sits there looking unanswered.

Changes

• server/delegations.ts — passes the channel through to runTarget (pure plumbing, no behavior change)
• server/comms-visibility.ts — new mirrorActivity helper for non-reply terminal notes; mirrorReply untouched
• server/index.ts — delegationWatch + terminal-state mirroring in the fold and in the drain's start-failure catch
• server/comms.test.ts — the existing delegate e2e's "intentionally NOT mirrored" assertion is flipped (channel now carries B's reply, attributed to B); two new e2e tests pin the failure paths: a peer whose agent crashes at initialize (exit-early), and a peer on a missing provider instance (startTurn rejects)

Test plan

• pnpm typecheck clean
• pnpm test: 58 files, 468 passed / 8 skipped — including the flipped delegate e2e and both new terminal-state tests
• The depth-cap and approval-gate semantics from Peer comms approval gate + async delegate_bot (fixes on top of #128) #129 are untouched: the watch is keyed by the target's 1:1 thread, consumed on its first turn.completed, and deleted bots/channels are re-read from the store before mirroring

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Delegated bot activity is now mirrored in shared communication channels.
  • Completed replies display success status and sender details.
  • Failed starts, interruptions, and unsuccessful delegated turns now show clear status information.
  • Shared channels are marked unread when new delegated activity is posted.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved visibility into delegated tasks that fail to initialize, start, or return a response.
  • Prevented duplicate failure notifications during delegated task errors.

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Delegated bot turns now carry their shared communication channel through execution. The server mirrors replies, empty completions, startup failures, dispatch failures, and provider reload interruptions into that channel. Tests cover these terminal outcomes.

Changes

Delegated activity mirroring

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Terminal activity recording server/comms-visibility.ts, dist-server/comms-visibility.js	Added mirrorActivity to append and broadcast terminal activity, mark the channel unread, and broadcast the updated group.
Delegation channel propagation server/delegations.ts, dist-server/delegations.js	Updated delegation callbacks to accept an optional GroupRecord channel and pass it to the target runner.
Delegation lifecycle reporting server/index.ts, dist-server/index.js	Associated delegated target threads with channels and mirrored replies, empty completions, startup failures, dispatch failures, and provider reload interruptions.
Lifecycle validation server/comms.test.ts, server/testing/fake-acp-cli.ts	Added fake ACP modes and end-to-end tests for successful replies, empty replies, provider reloads, helper crashes, and missing helpers.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to be09c

The change mirrors successful and failed delegated-turn outcomes into the bot channel so requests are not left appearing unanswered; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SourceBot
  participant DelegationQueue
  participant TargetBot
  participant SharedChannel
  SourceBot->>DelegationQueue: enqueue delegated turn
  DelegationQueue->>SharedChannel: register target thread
  DelegationQueue->>TargetBot: start delegated turn
  TargetBot-->>DelegationQueue: return reply or terminal failure
  DelegationQueue->>SharedChannel: mirror reply or terminal activity

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Possibly related PRs

• milind-soni/OpenMausBot#128: Introduced the delegation and shared communication code extended by this change.
• milind-soni/OpenMausBot#129: Modified the same delegation and communication-mirroring paths.
• milind-soni/OpenMausBot#131: Updated delegation lifecycle and shared-channel outcome reporting.

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