Tasks: give a bot more than one context - #80
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A bot was one endless thread. Every job contaminated the next, there was no point where a task began or ended, and the only way to get a clean slate — or to keep sensitive work out of the rest of the conversation — was to clone the bot. A task is that clean slate: its own thread, its own transcript, and its own provider session. That last part is what makes it real; sharing resume cursors between tasks would silently resume the previous conversation and undo the isolation the feature exists to provide. - Each bot keeps a list of tasks, newest first; bot.threadId points at the active one, so everything that runs a turn is unchanged. - New task, switch, rename (double-click), delete — from a picker beside the model picker. A bot with one task shows only "+ Task", so nothing new appears until you want it. - A task takes its name from the first thing you ask it. - Bots saved before tasks existed adopt their endless thread as task one, named from its first message, keeping its session. - Deleting a bot now takes every task's transcript with it, not just the open one; a bot always keeps at least one task. Turns stay one-at-a-time per bot — the composer already queues a message while a bot works, which is the other half of not wanting to interrupt a long job. Running two tasks of one bot in parallel is a separate change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds multiple task contexts per bot. The server stores separate task threads and provider cursors, exposes task management endpoints, and migrates legacy bots. The client adds task state, API actions, and a task picker in the chat header. ChangesTask Context Management
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to This PR adds isolated task conversations, but the current implementation can switch tasks during an active turn, expose provider session identifiers, display or resume the wrong conversation after switching or rewinding, and carry drafts into another task. These issues can cause cross-task data contamination or incorrect task behavior, so the PR should not merge until they are fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant TaskPicker
participant ClientStore
participant Server
participant TaskStore
User->>TaskPicker: create or select task
TaskPicker->>ClientStore: dispatch task action
ClientStore->>Server: send task request
Server->>TaskStore: update task and active thread
TaskStore-->>Server: return updated bot state
Server-->>ClientStore: return task-aware response
ClientStore-->>TaskPicker: display active task
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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 1197-1203: Prevent switching an active task during a running turn:
in server/index.ts lines 1197-1203, check the bot’s busy state and return HTTP
409 before calling store.switchTask; in src/components/TaskPicker.tsx lines
93-97, disable the task-switch controls when bot.busy is true. Use the existing
bot lookup and switching UI symbols without changing other behavior.
- Around line 421-422: Move the titleTaskFromFirstMessage call in the
message-handling flow to after appendMessage successfully stores the user
message, while retaining the existing non-empty text check and bot.id argument.
- Line 926: Remove provider cursor data from all client-facing bot payloads by
introducing a shared bot serializer that strips legacy bot.resumeCursors and
task-level resumeCursors. Replace direct bot spreads/raw records in every bot
response and SSE broadcast, including the mappings near tasks, line 479, line
1039, and lines 1178-1183, with this serializer while preserving all other bot
fields.
- Around line 549-551: Update the rewind cleanup persistence flow near the
resumeCursor handling to clear the active task’s resumeCursors entry for
bot.modelSelection.instanceId alongside the existing bot.resumeCursors cleanup.
Ensure both the TaskRecord and legacy mirror are cleared in the same persistence
operation, while preserving cursor reuse when no rewind occurs.
In `@src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Line 649: Update the Composer instance in ChatView so it is keyed by
bot.threadId rather than only bot.id, ensuring text and queued state reset when
switching tasks while preserving state within the same task.
In `@src/state/store.tsx`:
- Around line 844-866: Update the botPatched reducer to use the patch’s messages
when the property is present, while preserving the existing bot messages only
when messages is absent. Ensure newTask, switchTask, and deleteTask dispatches
apply the server-returned active task transcript.
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| // a task takes its name from the first thing you asked it to do | ||
| if (text.trim()) store.titleTaskFromFirstMessage(bot.id, text); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Name the task after the first user message is stored.
Lines 421-422 update the title before provider validation and before appendMessage. If the provider is unavailable, the task receives a title for a message that does not exist in its transcript. A later first message cannot rename it because the task is no longer untitled.
Move titleTaskFromFirstMessage after the user message exists.
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 421 - 422, Move the titleTaskFromFirstMessage
call in the message-handling flow to after appendMessage successfully stores the
user message, while retaining the existing non-empty text check and bot.id
argument.
| // the active task's own session — another task's cursor would | ||
| // resume the wrong conversation and defeat the context bubble | ||
| resumeCursor: rewound ? undefined : store.activeTask(bot.id)?.resumeCursors[bot.modelSelection.instanceId], |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Clear the active task cursor after a rewind.
Lines 549-551 read TaskRecord.resumeCursors, but the rewind cleanup only clears bot.resumeCursors at Line 571. The task retains its old provider cursor. After the rewind flag is cleared, a later turn can resume the abandoned branch.
Clear the active task cursor map in the same persistence operation that clears the legacy mirror.
Proposed fix
// dispatched: the rewind is spent, and the old cursors are dead
- if (rewound) store.patchBot(bot.id, { rewound: false, resumeCursors: {} });
+ if (rewound) {
+ const task = store.activeTask(bot.id);
+ if (task) task.resumeCursors = {};
+ store.patchBot(bot.id, { rewound: false, resumeCursors: {} });
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 549 - 551, Update the rewind cleanup
persistence flow near the resumeCursor handling to clear the active task’s
resumeCursors entry for bot.modelSelection.instanceId alongside the existing
bot.resumeCursors cleanup. Ensure both the TaskRecord and legacy mirror are
cleared in the same persistence operation, while preserving cursor reuse when no
rewind occurs.
| ...b, | ||
| messages: store.messagesFor(b.threadId), | ||
| activeLeafId: store.activeLeaf(b.threadId), | ||
| tasks: (b.tasks ?? []).map(({ resumeCursors, ...t }) => t), |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Remove all provider cursors from client bot payloads.
These mappings remove task-level resumeCursors, but ...b and ...bot still expose the legacy bot.resumeCursors map. Other bot responses and SSE broadcasts also send raw bot records, for example at Lines 479 and 1039. Provider session identifiers can therefore reach the client after a task has run.
Create one client-safe bot serializer that removes both cursor maps. Use it for every bot response and bot broadcast.
Also applies to: 1178-1183
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In `@server/index.ts` at line 926, Remove provider cursor data from all
client-facing bot payloads by introducing a shared bot serializer that strips
legacy bot.resumeCursors and task-level resumeCursors. Replace direct bot
spreads/raw records in every bot response and SSE broadcast, including the
mappings near tasks, line 479, line 1039, and lines 1178-1183, with this
serializer while preserving all other bot fields.
| m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/tasks\/([\w-]+)$/); | ||
| if (m && method === "POST") { | ||
| const switched = store.switchTask(m[1], m[2]); | ||
| if (!switched) return json(res, 404, { error: "no such task" }); | ||
| const fresh = botWithThread(switched); | ||
| broadcast({ kind: "bot", bot: fresh }); | ||
| return json(res, 200, { bot: fresh }); |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Prevent task switching while a turn is active. The API permits a switch during a running turn, and the picker exposes that operation. switchTask mutates bot.threadId; the active turn can then use the wrong thread or persist its provider cursor into the newly active task.
server/index.ts#L1197-L1203: return409when the bot is busy before callingstore.switchTask.src/components/TaskPicker.tsx#L93-L97: disable task-switch buttons whilebot.busyis true.
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 1197 - 1203, Prevent switching an active task
during a running turn: in server/index.ts lines 1197-1203, check the bot’s busy
state and return HTTP 409 before calling store.switchTask; in
src/components/TaskPicker.tsx lines 93-97, disable the task-switch controls when
bot.busy is true. Use the existing bot lookup and switching UI symbols without
changing other behavior.
| Stop | ||
| </button> | ||
| )} | ||
| <TaskPicker bot={bot} /> |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Reset Composer on task switches.
Composer stores text and queued locally, while ChatView keys it by bot.id. Switching bot.threadId preserves the draft and can send a queued message in the new task. Key Composer by bot.threadId, or reset task-local state when it changes.
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In `@src/components/ChatView.tsx` at line 649, Update the Composer instance in
ChatView so it is keyed by bot.threadId rather than only bot.id, ensuring text
and queued state reset when switching tasks while preserving state within the
same task.
| // tasks: the server answers with the bot AND the live transcript, | ||
| // because switching changes which conversation is on screen | ||
| case "newTask": | ||
| api(`/api/bots/${action.botId}/tasks`, { method: "POST", body: "{}" }) | ||
| .then((r: any) => r?.bot && dispatch({ type: "botPatched", bot: r.bot })) | ||
| .catch(showError); | ||
| break; | ||
| case "switchTask": | ||
| api(`/api/bots/${action.botId}/tasks/${action.threadId}`, { method: "POST" }) | ||
| .then((r: any) => r?.bot && dispatch({ type: "botPatched", bot: r.bot })) | ||
| .catch(showError); | ||
| break; | ||
| case "renameTask": | ||
| api(`/api/bots/${action.botId}/tasks/${action.threadId}`, { | ||
| method: "PATCH", | ||
| body: JSON.stringify({ title: action.title }), | ||
| }).catch(showError); | ||
| break; | ||
| case "deleteTask": | ||
| api(`/api/bots/${action.botId}/tasks/${action.threadId}`, { method: "DELETE" }) | ||
| .then((r: any) => r?.bot && dispatch({ type: "botPatched", bot: r.bot })) | ||
| .catch(showError); | ||
| break; |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Apply the task transcript returned by the server.
Lines 848, 853, and 864 dispatch botPatched with a bot that includes the active task messages. The botPatched reducer at Lines 341-353 always replaces them with b.messages. Creating or switching a task therefore changes threadId while the UI keeps the previous task transcript. Later events append to that incorrect message list.
Preserve existing messages only when the patch does not include messages.
Proposed fix
- return updateBot(next, action.bot.id, (b) => ({ ...b, ...action.bot, messages: b.messages }));
+ return updateBot(next, action.bot.id, (b) => ({
+ ...b,
+ ...action.bot,
+ messages: action.bot.messages ?? b.messages,
+ }));🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/state/store.tsx` around lines 844 - 866, Update the botPatched reducer to
use the patch’s messages when the property is present, while preserving the
existing bot messages only when messages is absent. Ensure newTask, switchTask,
and deleteTask dispatches apply the server-returned active task transcript.
1 participant
A bot was one endless thread. Every job contaminated the next, there was no point where a task began or ended, and the only way to get a clean slate — or keep sensitive work out of the rest of the conversation — was to clone the bot.
This is the gap a reviewer put their finger on when comparing this shape of app to thread-first tools: "every agent uses a single long-running thread… if I'm working with sensitive data, this forces me to create copies of the same agent so I can force context bubbles."
What a task is
Its own thread, its own transcript, and — the part that makes it real — its own provider session. Sharing resume cursors between tasks would silently resume the previous conversation and undo the isolation the feature exists to provide. There's a test for exactly that.
Shape
bot.threadIdpoints at the active one, so every code path that runs a turn is unchanged.+ Taskbutton, so nothing new appears until you want it.Deliberately not in scope
Turns stay one-at-a-time per bot. The composer already queues a message while a bot is working, which covers "I don't want to interrupt a long job"; running two tasks of the same bot in parallel is a bigger change (per-task busy state, concurrent CLI processes, interrupt semantics) and deserves its own PR.
Verification
pnpm typecheckclean, production build clean, 159 tests pass (6 new). The newserver/tasks.test.tspins isolation both ways, auto-titling, delete-with-transcript, never-delete-the-last, and the migration of a pre-tasks bot.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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