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Before: when a bot misbehaved, the chat couldn't tell you why. The answers were in two log files on disk (~/.openmausbot/events/ and native/) that you had to read by hand.

What changes in the app: a new bug icon in the chat header opens an Inspector panel on the right. Events shows what the engine did, turn by turn — tools it ran, approvals, tokens, errors — live as it happens; Raw shows the exact messages exchanged with the engine. Click any row for the full JSON. Nothing new is recorded; it just shows what was already there. This is the tool for diagnosing everything else in the plan.


Summary

Harness upgrade 1.2 (docs/plans/agent-harness-upgrades-v2.md, moved up from v1's #15 because every later item is diagnosed through it — it's what I read by hand to find the model-switch bug in #180).

When a bot misbehaves the chat view can't say why. The answer is in two logs the harness already writes per thread — the normalized RuntimeEvent stream (~/.openmausbot/events/) and the provider's verbatim, secret-redacted protocol tee (~/.openmausbot/native/). This surfaces them in the app. Nothing new is captured.

Changes

  • server/thread-events.ts + GET /api/threads/:id/events?limit= — reads both logs, caps each on its own (the native tee is several times chattier than the runtime stream, so a shared cap starved the Events lens), merges by time, tags kind: "runtime" | "native". 404 for threads no bot/room owns; refuses path-shaped ids; a torn line is skipped, not fatal.
  • InspectorPanel in the chat's right slot — bug icon in the header, exclusive with Computer/Settings via the same reducer pattern (inspectorOpen / toggleInspector).
    • Events lens: turns (boundaries shaded), tool items, requests, token usage, errors (red), cost on turn.completed; runs of content.delta on one stream fold into a single row (content.delta ×3). Follows live over its own SSE subscription (the store folds runtime events into chat state and doesn't re-emit them) and re-reads disk when a turn settles so the native tee catches up.
    • Raw lens: the native tee with in/out direction, driver source, and a one-line label (JSON-RPC method, claude stream-json type·role, antigravity event·status).
    • Any row expands to pretty-printed JSON. Follows the tail unless you've scrolled up.
  • src/lib/inspector.ts keeps summarizing/folding pure and tested.

Not in scope (cheap later): filter/search, cross-thread view, export. Driver generation is omitted — item 12 is deferred and the field doesn't exist yet.

Test plan

  • server/thread-events.test.ts (5): empty, merge+tag ordering, per-log cap + totals, corrupt line, path-escape rejection
  • src/lib/inspector.test.ts (4): tones/labels, clipping, native labels incl. antigravity, delta folding
  • pnpm typecheck clean; pnpm vitest run green (66 files, 536 passed)
  • Manual on a real ~600-event thread: both lenses render, rows expand, live events append during a turn, unknown thread → 404

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  • New Features

    • Added an Inspector panel for viewing runtime events and raw protocol messages for a bot thread.
    • Added live updates, historical event loading, refresh controls, expandable details, timestamps, severity indicators, and automatic scrolling.
    • Added an Inspector toolbar button with mutually exclusive panel behavior.
    • Added runtime and native event totals, chronological merging, and concise event summaries.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing, malformed, invalid, and multibyte event records while preserving event history.

When a bot misbehaves the chat view can't say why; the answer is in two
logs the harness already writes per thread — the normalized RuntimeEvent
stream (events/) and the provider's verbatim protocol tee (native/) —
and until now the only way to read them was by hand.

- server/thread-events.ts + GET /api/threads/:id/events?limit=: reads
  both logs, caps each on its own (the native tee is several times
  chattier), merges by time, tags kind. 404 for unknown threads; refuses
  path-shaped ids; a torn line is skipped, not fatal.
- InspectorPanel in the chat's right slot (bug icon in the header, same
  exclusive-panel pattern as Computer/Settings). Events lens: turns,
  tools, requests, token usage, errors, with runs of content.delta
  folded into one row; follows live over its own SSE subscription and
  re-reads the disk when a turn settles. Raw lens: the native tee with
  in/out direction and per-driver labels. Any row expands to full JSON.
- src/lib/inspector.ts keeps the summarizing/folding pure and tested.

Item 1.2 of docs/plans/agent-harness-upgrades-v2.md. Nothing new is
captured; this only reads back what was already on disk.

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This change adds persisted thread-event retrieval and a frontend inspector. The inspector displays runtime events and native protocol messages, supports live SSE updates, summarizes records into rows, and manages mutually exclusive panel state.

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Thread Event Inspector

Layer / File(s) Summary
Thread event retrieval
server/thread-events.ts, server/index.ts, server/thread-events.test.ts, server/index.test.ts
The server validates thread IDs, reads and merges runtime and native NDJSON logs, reports totals, and serves them through GET /api/threads/:threadId/events. Tests cover limits, malformed lines, ordering, totals, cache updates, multibyte records, and path traversal.
Inspector data model and summaries
src/lib/inspector.ts, src/lib/inspector.test.ts
The client summarizes runtime and native records, folds adjacent content deltas, formats timestamps, and tests the resulting rows.
Inspector state and entry points
src/state/store.tsx, src/components/ChatView.tsx, src/App.tsx
Application state tracks inspector visibility. The chat toolbar toggles the inspector, and the app renders it for the selected bot. Other panels close when the inspector opens.
Live inspector panel
src/components/InspectorPanel.tsx
The panel loads history, subscribes to matching runtime SSE events, refreshes after turns or errors, supports scrolling and row expansion, and displays payload details.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9b49c

The new inspector can fail to render when a log contains a valid-but-malformed record, preventing users from diagnosing that thread. Validate or safely discard invalid records before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant ChatView
  participant InspectorPanel
  participant ThreadEventsAPI
  participant EventLogs
  participant RuntimeSSE
  Operator->>ChatView: Toggle Inspector
  ChatView->>InspectorPanel: Render selected bot inspector
  InspectorPanel->>ThreadEventsAPI: Request persisted thread events
  ThreadEventsAPI->>EventLogs: Read runtime and native NDJSON
  EventLogs-->>ThreadEventsAPI: Return merged entries and totals
  ThreadEventsAPI-->>InspectorPanel: Return history
  InspectorPanel->>RuntimeSSE: Subscribe to matching thread events
  RuntimeSSE-->>InspectorPanel: Deliver live runtime events
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src/components/InspectorPanel.tsx (2)

82-82: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

toRows runs on every render of the panel.

Line 82 filters and folds up to 800 entries on each render, including every keystroke-free re-render caused by an expand toggle or an SSE append. The work is not memoized. This compounds with the quadratic delta fold in src/lib/inspector.ts at Lines 124-137.

♻️ Proposed change
-  const rows = page ? toRows(page.entries.filter((e) => (lens === "raw" ? e.kind === "native" : e.kind === "runtime"))) : [];
+  const rows = useMemo(
+    () => (page ? toRows(page.entries.filter((e) => (lens === "raw" ? e.kind === "native" : e.kind === "runtime"))) : []),
+    [page, lens],
+  );

Add useMemo to the React import at Line 12.

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In `@src/components/InspectorPanel.tsx` at line 82, Memoize the rows computation
in InspectorPanel using React’s useMemo, including page.entries and lens as
dependencies, so filtering and toRows only rerun when the relevant data changes
while preserving the existing raw/runtime filtering behavior.

112-117: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Give the new icon-only controls accessible names and state. Add aria-label and title to the Inspector close button, and add aria-label="Inspector" plus aria-pressed={state.inspectorOpen} to the Inspector toggle in src/components/ChatView.tsx so assistive technology can identify the controls and whether the panel is open.

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In `@src/components/InspectorPanel.tsx` around lines 112 - 117, Update
InspectorPanel.tsx lines 112-117 to add aria-label="Close the Inspector" and a
matching title to the X close button. Update ChatView.tsx lines 853-862 to add
aria-label="Inspector" and aria-pressed={state.inspectorOpen} to the Bug toggle
button.

Apply the same fix in `@src/components/ChatView.tsx` around lines 853 - 862:
Covers the Inspector toggle's accessible name and pressed state.
src/lib/inspector.ts (1)

5-20: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive these wire types from the server module instead of redeclaring them.

InspectorEntry and InspectorPage are declared here and again in server/thread-events.ts at Lines 17-25. The two declarations describe the same HTTP payload, so they can drift. If the server adds a field to total, this client type will not follow, and the panel will read a field that TypeScript believes does not exist.

This file already imports RuntimeEvent from server/contracts.ts, so a type-only import across the boundary is established here. Narrow the server type rather than restating it.

♻️ Proposed shape
 import type { RuntimeEvent } from "../../server/contracts.ts";
+import type { InspectorPage as WireInspectorPage } from "../../server/thread-events.ts";
 
 export type InspectorEntry =
   | { kind: "runtime"; at: string; data: RuntimeEvent }
   | { kind: "native"; at: string; data: NativeRecord };
 
-export interface InspectorPage {
-  entries: InspectorEntry[];
-  total: { runtime: number; native: number };
-}
+export interface InspectorPage extends Omit<WireInspectorPage, "entries"> {
+  entries: InspectorEntry[];
+}

Based on the learning that type-only imports from server/ are an established client/server boundary in files under src/.

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In `@src/lib/inspector.ts` around lines 5 - 20, Replace the local InspectorEntry
and InspectorPage declarations in the inspector module with type-only imports
from server/thread-events.ts, narrowing to the server module’s exported wire
types while retaining the existing RuntimeEvent dependency from
server/contracts.ts. Remove only the duplicated client-side declarations so
future server payload changes propagate automatically.

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server/index.ts (1)

2864-2864: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The limit value is normalized at neither boundary. The route absorbs any malformed value through Number(...) || undefined, and the helper's clamp does not defend against a non-finite number, so slice(-NaN) would return every line. Validate at the HTTP edge and harden the helper.

  • server/index.ts#L2864-L2864: parse limit explicitly and answer 400 for a non-integer or non-positive value, matching pageSize used by /api/threads/:id/messages.
  • server/thread-events.ts#L70-L70: guard the clamp with Number.isFinite and Math.trunc so a non-finite limit from any caller cannot bypass MAX_LIMIT.
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In `@server/index.ts` at line 2864, In server/index.ts at lines 2864-2864,
explicitly parse limit and return HTTP 400 for non-integer or non-positive
values, matching pageSize validation in /api/threads/:id/messages. In
server/thread-events.ts at lines 70-70, harden the helper’s limit clamp with
Number.isFinite and Math.trunc so non-finite inputs cannot bypass MAX_LIMIT.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/thread-events.ts`:
- Around line 36-54: Update readLines and its use in readThreadEvents to read
and parse only a bounded tail sufficient for the requested limit, rather than
scanning the entire NDJSON file on each request. Preserve tolerance for a
truncated first or last line through the existing per-line parse handling, and
retain exact total counts only if they can be obtained without restoring the
full-file hot path, such as via mtime-based caching.

In `@src/components/InspectorPanel.tsx`:
- Line 55: Update the EventSource URL in the InspectorPanel component to request
/api/events with the screens=off query parameter, preserving the existing
event-processing behavior and preventing unused screen payloads from being
received.
- Around line 103-104: Update the truncation-label comparison in InspectorPanel
using the current lens’s entry count rather than shown folded rows versus raw
server lines; for the Events lens, compare against the raw entry count before
toRows folding, while preserving the existing row count for the non-truncated “N
entries” wording.
- Around line 85-88: Update the tail-following useEffect in InspectorPanel to
depend on the entry count that increases for every appended event, rather than
rows.length, so folded content.delta updates still trigger scrolling; preserve
the existing scroll-to-bottom behavior and lens dependency.
- Around line 31-48: Update the InspectorPanel load/useEffect flow to cancel
in-flight fetch requests when threadId changes or the effect is cleaned up, and
ignore expected abort errors. Ensure only the active thread’s response can
update page or error state, including the settle reload path, while preserving
the existing reset behavior.

In `@src/lib/inspector.ts`:
- Around line 124-137: Update the delta-folding logic in toRows so it maintains
a bounded summary prefix instead of rejoining all prior deltas on every append.
Add the shared clip-size constant near clip and use a WeakMap keyed by
InspectorRow to retain the clipped text for each folded row, appending only the
new delta while preserving the existing summary format and clipping behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@server/index.ts`:
- Line 2864: In server/index.ts at lines 2864-2864, explicitly parse limit and
return HTTP 400 for non-integer or non-positive values, matching pageSize
validation in /api/threads/:id/messages. In server/thread-events.ts at lines
70-70, harden the helper’s limit clamp with Number.isFinite and Math.trunc so
non-finite inputs cannot bypass MAX_LIMIT.

In `@src/components/InspectorPanel.tsx`:
- Line 82: Memoize the rows computation in InspectorPanel using React’s useMemo,
including page.entries and lens as dependencies, so filtering and toRows only
rerun when the relevant data changes while preserving the existing raw/runtime
filtering behavior.
- Around line 112-117: Update InspectorPanel.tsx lines 112-117 to add
aria-label="Close the Inspector" and a matching title to the X close button.
Update ChatView.tsx lines 853-862 to add aria-label="Inspector" and
aria-pressed={state.inspectorOpen} to the Bug toggle button.

Apply the same fix in `@src/components/ChatView.tsx` around lines 853 - 862:
Covers the Inspector toggle's accessible name and pressed state.

In `@src/lib/inspector.ts`:
- Around line 5-20: Replace the local InspectorEntry and InspectorPage
declarations in the inspector module with type-only imports from
server/thread-events.ts, narrowing to the server module’s exported wire types
while retaining the existing RuntimeEvent dependency from server/contracts.ts.
Remove only the duplicated client-side declarations so future server payload
changes propagate automatically.
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export interface InspectorPage extends Omit<WireInspectorPage, "entries"> {
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate wire records before narrowing their payload types.

WireInspectorPage declares data as unknown, but Lines 18-20 treat every parsed log line as a RuntimeEvent or NativeRecord. A JSON-valid runtime null record reaches summarizeRuntime and throws on e.type. A native null record throws on entry.data.dir.

Validate records at the decode boundary. Render or discard invalid records safely. Add coverage for non-object records and incomplete known event types such as content.delta.

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In `@src/lib/inspector.ts` around lines 18 - 20, Validate each decoded record at
the wire-to-domain boundary before treating it as a RuntimeEvent or
NativeRecord; reject non-object values such as null and incomplete known events
like content.delta. Update the InspectorPage parsing/rendering flow and
summarizeRuntime/native-record handling to render only validated records or
discard invalid ones without throwing, and add coverage for these cases.

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