feat: compact replay context and track task usage

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Summary

Adds a bounded, deterministic context-packing path for transcript-replay providers and makes each completed bot turn auditable.

• Replaces the fixed slice(-40) replay history with a 12k-character context budget.
• Preserves the original user goal and the most recent exchange verbatim; compacts older user constraints and assistant outcomes into a structured record without calling another model.
• Adds a transcriptReplay adapter capability so accounting is shown only when a provider actually receives replayed history (or a native session has been rewound).
• Persists per-turn model calls, tool calls, computer-action count, provider-reported tokens/cost, duration, and context metrics.
• Adds a compact header indicator with a detailed hover breakdown.

Benchmark

pnpm bench:context uses a stable offline long-running-support fixture:

Metric	Before	After	Change
Messages sent	32	3	29 compacted
Prompt characters	155,801	7,837	95.0% reduction
Estimated input tokens	38,951	1,960	95.0% reduction

The benchmark measures deterministic prompt payload only. It verifies structural preservation of the original goal and latest exchange, but does not claim provider latency or model task-success improvements.

Validation

• pnpm typecheck
• pnpm test — 65 passed, 39 skipped
• pnpm bench:context
• pnpm build
• Manual Vite + harness browser check: page loaded, meaningful content and key controls rendered, no Vite overlay or browser errors.

Limitations

• Provider-reported token/cost values depend on what each existing driver emits; estimated context tokens are explicitly labelled as estimates.
• Semantic caching, model routing/escalation, and computer/browser observation optimizations remain separate follow-up slices.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added an expandable task-usage summary showing duration, model and tool activity, token usage, context metrics, and provider cost.
  • Added automatic transcript compaction for long conversations while preserving goals, recent exchanges, and key decisions.
  • Added run status tracking for active and completed tasks, including success, errors, and stop reasons.
  • Added a deterministic context-packing benchmark command.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved completed task-usage data across application restarts while clearing incomplete runs.

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• package.json
• server/context.test.ts
• server/context.ts
• server/contracts.ts
• server/index.ts
• server/store.test.ts
• server/store.ts
• src/components/ChatView.tsx
• src/state/store.tsx

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The server now compacts oversized replay transcripts and records task usage. Store records persist settled run metrics. The client displays active or completed usage details. Tests and a benchmark cover transcript packing and usage persistence.

Changes

Context packing and run usage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transcript packing and validation server/context.ts, server/context.test.ts, scripts/bench-context.ts, package.json	packTranscript adds deterministic budget-based compaction, token estimates, context statistics, and tests. The new benchmark reports packing metrics.
Replay capability and packed dispatch server/contracts.ts, server/drivers/grok.ts, server/index.ts	Provider capabilities identify transcript replay support. Replay and rewound turns use packed transcripts and record context statistics.
Run lifecycle and persistence server/store.ts, server/index.ts, server/store.test.ts	The store tracks active and settled runs. Server events update tool, computer-action, and token counts, then finalize successful or failed runs. Restart tests verify settled usage persistence.
Usage state and chat display src/state/store.tsx, src/components/ChatView.tsx	Client state carries task usage. The chat header displays active or completed run metrics, context estimates, duration, and provider cost.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 26d9b

Context compaction can drop the original user goal in a budget edge case, causing replayed tasks to lose important constraints; usage accounting can also overcount failed turns and leave stale active-run data after restart. The PR should not merge until these bounded correctness and observability issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Server as server/index.ts
  participant Packer as packTranscript
  participant Store
  participant Adapter as ProviderAdapter
  participant Chat as ChatView
  Server->>Packer: pack active-thread transcript
  Packer-->>Server: packed transcript and ContextStats
  Server->>Store: beginRun with context statistics
  Server->>Adapter: dispatch transcript
  Adapter-->>Server: tool and token usage events
  Server->>Store: update and finish run
  Store-->>Chat: activeRun or lastRun state
  Chat-->>Chat: render usage summary

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Possibly related PRs

• milind-soni/OpenMausBot#56: Adds a provider driver that uses the transcript replay capability introduced here.

Suggested reviewers: milind-soni

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% 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 summarizes the two primary changes: compact replay context and task usage tracking.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the changes, motivation, verification results, benchmark, limitations, and UI impact in sufficient detail.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/context.ts`:
- Around line 52-61: Update the compaction flow around summary and the
recent-transcript selection to preserve the original goal as a separate entry
with its exact raw text, reserving budget for it before selecting recent turns.
Ensure the goal is always included even when no middle entries are omitted, and
use summary only for omitted middle entries without normalizing or truncating
the goal. Add coverage for exact goal equality and for a large goal when no
middle entries are omitted.

In `@server/store.ts`:
- Around line 444-455: Update beginRun to initialize activeRun.modelCalls to
zero; increment the count only after adapter.sendTurn accepts a turn or via the
provider turn-start lifecycle event, so setup failures do not record a provider
call.
- Around line 200-205: Update the restart cleanup loop in the store constructor
to track whether deleting any bot’s activeRun changed persisted state, then call
saveBots once after the loop when cleanup occurred. Preserve the existing busy
reset and activeRun removal behavior, and avoid saving when no bot required
normalization.

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• package.json
• scripts/bench-context.ts
• server/context.test.ts
• server/context.ts
• server/contracts.ts
• server/drivers/grok.ts
• server/index.ts
• server/store.test.ts
• server/store.ts
• src/components/ChatView.tsx
• src/state/store.tsx

[milind-soni]

The usage UI and bounded replay direction are good, but the compactor does not yet guarantee the exact original goal it claims to preserve, especially for a large goal or when no middle entries are omitted. Run accounting also records a model call before the adapter accepts the turn, and restart cleanup can remove activeRun only in memory without persisting the normalization. Please reserve budget for the raw first goal, count calls only after acceptance or turn start, persist cleanup once when needed, and add focused regression tests.

[carbongotfound]

Addressed the actionable review feedback in d232be4. Context packing now keeps the original first user instruction verbatim (including oversized goals), records a model call only after sendTurn accepts the request, and persists stale active-run cleanup after restart. Added regressions for oversized goals and durable restart cleanup. Verified with: corepack pnpm exec vitest run server/context.test.ts server/store.test.ts server/index.test.ts (30 passed) and corepack pnpm typecheck. The merge also retains current upstream screen-polling behavior; the existing generated upstream dist-server/index.js whitespace warning was left unchanged.