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Summary

Adds durable, user-addressable task checkpoints on top of OpenMausBot's existing transcript branches and provider-native resume cursors.

  • captures a checkpoint automatically when a bot turn starts
  • persists active branch, model selection, last message pointer, status, and reason in the existing local bots.json
  • marks a running checkpoint interrupted after a harness restart instead of pretending the task is still live
  • marks checkpoints completed, interrupted, or failed from existing turn lifecycle paths
  • adds list and resume endpoints, restoring the saved branch and reusing the existing provider cursor where available
  • protects resume against a changed model, missing provider, completed checkpoint, missing branch, or a currently busy bot

Architecture

This reuses the existing transcript tree and resumeCursors; checkpoints are lifecycle pointers, not a second task engine or a copy of conversation data. They are local-first, capped at 20 per bot, and safe across legacy bot records that do not yet contain checkpoints.

Overlap avoided

PR #51 owns routines and command palette. This PR does not introduce scheduling, templates, or routine UI. It confines itself to bot turn persistence and explicit resume HTTP endpoints.

Validation

  • pnpm typecheck
  • pnpm test — 65 passed, 39 skipped
  • pnpm build
  • focused store/harness tests covering persistence, restart recovery, lifecycle updates, checkpoint listing, and invalid resume requests

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added durable checkpoints for bot tasks, preserving conversation progress and model selection.
    • Added checkpoint listing and resume capabilities.
    • Resumed tasks can accept an optional instruction.
    • Checkpoint status updates now reflect completion, interruption, failure, or restart recovery.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Resuming a nonexistent checkpoint now returns a clear not-found response.

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The PR adds durable task checkpoints to bot records and turn execution. Checkpoints track lifecycle state, conversation position, model selection, and message references. Startup recovery interrupts running checkpoints. HTTP APIs list and resume checkpoints with validation.

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Checkpoint tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checkpoint storage and recovery
server/store.ts, server/store.test.ts
Bot records persist checkpoint snapshots. The store supports creation, listing, lookup, running-state lookup, updates, retention of 20 checkpoints, and restart recovery. Tests cover persistence and snapshot preservation.
Turn checkpoint lifecycle
server/index.ts
Turns create or resume checkpoints and publish updates. Completion, interruption, and dispatch failures record checkpoint status, reason, active leaf, and latest message.
Checkpoint listing and resume APIs
server/index.ts, server/index.test.ts
The server adds checkpoint listing and resume endpoints. Resume requests validate bot, checkpoint, model, provider, state, and conversation branch conditions. HTTP tests cover empty listings and invalid checkpoint responses.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 16961

This PR adds durable checkpoints and resume, but the current implementation can leave an interrupted checkpoint pointing to an earlier transcript position and can reuse a provider cursor from a different branch. Resume may therefore continue incompletely or against incompatible history, so the PR needs owner follow-up before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant CheckpointAPI
  participant Store
  participant BotTurn
  Client->>CheckpointAPI: POST checkpoint resume
  CheckpointAPI->>Store: validate and mark checkpoint running
  CheckpointAPI->>BotTurn: start checkpoint-linked turn
  BotTurn->>Store: persist lifecycle update
  Store-->>Client: checkpoint state
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
server/store.test.ts (1)

91-103: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the checkpoint persistence invariants.

Line 95 does not assert lastMessageId. The model snapshot test never changes bot.modelSelection, so it does not prove that createCheckpoint copied the model selection.

Proposed test update
-    expect(recovered).toMatchObject({ status: "interrupted", reason: "harness restarted", activeLeafId: message.id });
+    expect(recovered).toMatchObject({
+      status: "interrupted",
+      reason: "harness restarted",
+      activeLeafId: message.id,
+      lastMessageId: message.id,
+    });

     const checkpoint = store.createCheckpoint(bot.id)!;
+    store.patchBot(bot.id, {
+      modelSelection: { ...selection(), model: "other-model" },
+    });
     store.updateCheckpoint(bot.id, checkpoint.id, { status: "failed", reason: "provider failed" });
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In `@server/store.test.ts` around lines 91 - 103, Strengthen the checkpoint
persistence tests around Store.createCheckpoint and Store.updateCheckpoint:
assert the recovered checkpoint’s lastMessageId, and change bot.modelSelection
after checkpoint creation before verifying the stored checkpoint still contains
the original modelSelection snapshot. Preserve the existing status, reason, and
activeLeafId assertions.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 1019-1023: Update the user-interruption checkpoint handling around
runningCheckpoint and updateCheckpoint to capture the current transcript
pointers, such as activeLeafId and lastMessageId, before marking the checkpoint
interrupted. Preserve the existing status, reason, and checkpoint broadcast
behavior.
- Around line 1047-1054: After successfully restoring the checkpoint branch via
setActiveLeaf in the checkpoint resume flow, mark the bot as rewound before
calling startTurn so the current provider cursor is discarded and the restored
path is replayed. Preserve the existing failure response when branch restoration
fails and leave instruction handling unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@server/store.test.ts`:
- Around line 91-103: Strengthen the checkpoint persistence tests around
Store.createCheckpoint and Store.updateCheckpoint: assert the recovered
checkpoint’s lastMessageId, and change bot.modelSelection after checkpoint
creation before verifying the stored checkpoint still contains the original
modelSelection snapshot. Preserve the existing status, reason, and activeLeafId
assertions.
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Checkpoint persistence is useful, but resume can currently restore an older transcript branch while reusing the provider cursor from the newer branch, which reintroduces abandoned context. Mark the bot rewound after setActiveLeaf so the cursor is discarded and the restored path is replayed. Also capture the current activeLeafId and lastMessageId when interruption happens, and strengthen tests for the model-selection snapshot and transcript pointers.

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Addressed the checkpoint review while resolving against current upstream. Interruption now records the current active leaf and last message; resume marks the bot rewound after restoring the checkpoint leaf so the provider cursor is discarded and only the restored path is replayed. The existing checkpoint API/store tests pass (28 passed) and pnpm typecheck passes.

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