feat(patterns): Agent Chat — streaming conversation with citation chips and HITL action cards (patterns round 4h) - #170
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…ps and HITL action cards (patterns round 4h) Opportunity 1 of the component roadmap — the largest and most strategic gap — shaped as a workflow pattern, not a widget: - types: AgentChatMessage (roles, streaming/complete/error status), AgentCitation reusing the timeline's evidence shape, and AgentActionProposal for human-in-the-loop review. AgentChatTransport is one narrow contract: sendMessage streams typed AgentStreamEvents (delta / citation / proposal) through an onEvent channel and settles when generation ends, with resolveAction as an optional capability. - controller: folds stream events into one growing agent message; stop() aborts a generation and keeps the partial reply (a stop is not a failure); transport failures mark the reply errored and emit sendFailed; HITL decisions route through resolveAction with a guard that throws when the capability is absent; a superseded send cannot clear a newer send's streaming flag. - box-agent-chat: thread with role bubbles, avatars, and a streaming caret (motion-reduced aware), citation chips emitting citation-selected with the timeline's unsafe-href downgrade, and HITL action cards that render Approve/Reject only when the transport can resolve them — Modify is surfaced as proposal-modify-requested intent for the host's own editor. Enter sends, Shift+Enter newlines. The composer lives outside the patched thread region, so a streaming reply never disturbs what the reader is typing, and the thread follows the stream only when they are already at the bottom. Package subpath export, flat entry, root re-export, catalog + changelog entries, 18 tests (stream folding, citations/proposals, stop-keeps-partial, error path, capability guard and refusal, superseded-send race, composer survival mid-stream, unsafe-href downgrade, hostile-content escaping, shared-session fallback). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JuNendvxv88rRhxQkoxTuH
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Reviews should be triggered manually for repositories with fewer than 10 stars. Select Trigger review above or comment ⚙️ Run configurationConfiguration used: Organization UI Review profile: CHILL Plan: Pro Plus Run ID: 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds an Agent Chat pattern with typed streaming events, a session controller, human-in-the-loop actions, citation rendering, cancellation, error handling, and the ChangesAgent Chat workflow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The chat can display stale citation or approval details after metadata changes, while some transport implementations may fail to resolve actions, changing the displayed agent name may discard the conversation, and submitting without a connected session may erase typed text. These are concrete user-visible correctness issues that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ChatElement
participant ChatController
participant ChatTransport
ChatElement->>ChatController: send composer text
ChatController->>ChatTransport: stream request
ChatTransport-->>ChatController: delta, citation, or proposal events
ChatController-->>ChatElement: update message state
ChatElement-->>ChatElement: render thread and controls
ChatElement->>ChatController: stop or resolve action
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775-777: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftPatch the thread per message instead of replacing it on every delta.
AgentChatControlleremitsmessagesChangedfor eachdeltaevent, and this line rebuilds the whole thread each time. Two consequences follow.
- DOM churn is proportional to the message count for every streamed token.
- The thread has
aria-live="polite"andaria-relevant="additions"(line 666). Removing and re-adding every message makes each delta look like a full set of additions, so assistive technology can re-announce the entire conversation during streaming.Reconcile by
data-message-id: update the body text of the streaming message in place, and only insert or remove list items when the message set changes. Do you want me to draft that reconciliation?🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/patterns/agent-chat/agent-chat.ts`:
- Around line 459-464: Update attributeChangedCallback so only token changes
call scheduleStart; handle agent-name changes by triggering the component’s
existing re-render path without tearing down the session or owned controller.
- Around line 476-485: Update send so the composer value is cleared only after
controller.send successfully accepts the turn; preserve the current early return
for blank text and leave the input unchanged when no controller exists or send
returns null. Keep the successful-send behavior validated by the existing
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In `@src/patterns/agent-chat/controller.ts`:
- Around line 174-192: Update the resolveAction invocation in the
proposal-resolution flow to call it as a method on this.config.transport,
preserving the existing capability guard and arguments so implementations that
depend on their receiver retain the correct this context.
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In `@src/patterns/agent-chat/agent-chat.ts`:
- Around line 775-777: Update the thread rendering in AgentChatController so
messagesChanged deltas reconcile existing list items by data-message-id instead
of replacing threadEl.innerHTML. Update the streaming message body in place,
insert only newly added messages, remove messages no longer present, and
preserve the empty-state item when there are no messages.
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… safety, in-place thread reconciliation - Capability methods are now invoked on the transport instead of through a detached reference, so class-based transports keep their `this`. The same defect existed in the already-merged work-queue controller for all four of its capabilities (claim/reassign/complete/escalate) and is fixed there too. - The composer clears only after the controller accepts the turn, so a refused send (no session, or disconnected) no longer discards typing. - A change to the `agent-name` display label no longer restarts the session and discards the conversation; it updates the live config so later replies carry the new name, then re-renders. - The thread now reconciles by message id instead of rebuilding on every delta. A streaming token writes one text node, so `role="log"` sees no additions and assistive tech stops re-announcing the whole conversation per token; DOM churn drops from O(messages) to O(1) per delta. A message's non-body structure is signature-keyed, so citations, proposals, and status changes rebuild just that one message. New regression tests: node identity across deltas (with the caret surviving the text patch), conversation survival across an agent-name change, and typed text surviving a refused send. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JuNendvxv88rRhxQkoxTuH
Both controller suites used object literals with vi.fn(), which cannot catch a detached capability call. These add a class-based transport whose methods read `this` — agent-chat's resolveAction, and all four work-queue capabilities — so a future detachment fails loudly. Verified by temporarily reintroducing the detached call: the new agent-chat test fails, and passes again once the call goes through the transport. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JuNendvxv88rRhxQkoxTuH
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In `@src/patterns/agent-chat/agent-chat.ts`:
- Around line 667-678: Update messageSignature in AgentChat to include every
non-body field rendered by messageInnerHtml, including actor initials, citation
labels, and proposal titles, summaries, and parameters, while preserving the
existing identifier and state fields. Ensure changes to these metadata fields
produce a new signature so the rendered content is refreshed for stable message
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…dered field The signature keyed only ids, hrefs, decisions, and notes, but the card also renders actor initials, citation labels, and proposal titles, summaries, and params. A transport whose resolveAction returns an updated proposal without a decision — the field is optional — left the signature unchanged, so the fast path patched only the body and the card kept stale approval content. The signature now covers every non-body field the message renders. Regression test resolves a proposal whose returned params and title changed but whose decision did not, and asserts the card shows the new values; verified it fails against the previous narrow signature. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JuNendvxv88rRhxQkoxTuH
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Opportunity 1 of
plans/component-opportunities.md— the roadmap's "largest missing surface and the most strategic" — shaped as a workflow pattern rather than a widget.Contract
AgentChatTransportis one narrow contract:sendMessagestreams typedAgentStreamEvents (delta/citation/proposal) through anonEventchannel and settles when generation ends, so Box AI, Agentforce, or any backend is interchangeable.resolveActionis an optional capability.Controller
AgentChatControllerfolds stream events into one growing agent message. The behaviors that matter:stop()keeps the partial reply — an abort is not a failure, so the reader keeps what already streamed.errorand emitsendFailed, leaving prior turns intact.resolveAction, with a capability guard that throws (a programming error, not a runtime state) and a refusal to re-decide a resolved proposal.Shell
box-agent-chatrenders the thread with role bubbles, avatars, and a streaming caret (respectsprefers-reduced-motion), plus the two card types the roadmap called out as mattering more than the bubbles:box-timeline, including its unsafe-href downgrade (ajavascript:href renders as a button, not a link), emittingcitation-selectedfor deep-linking into a preview.proposal-modify-requestedintent for the host's own editor. This is the CLM "human-governed AI recommendations" requirement, delivered where the conversation happens.Two details worth calling out: the composer lives outside the patched thread region, so a streaming reply never disturbs what the reader is typing (there's a test that types mid-stream and asserts the same input node survives with its value), and the thread follows the stream only when the reader is already at the bottom.
Tests
18 new tests (1391 total, all green): stream folding, citation/proposal collection, stop-keeps-partial, error path, capability guard and refusal, the superseded-send race, composer survival mid-stream, unsafe-href downgrade, hostile-content escaping across bodies/citations/proposals, and the shared-session clear-and-fall-back path.
Wiring
Package subpath export
./patterns/agent-chat, flat entryagent-chat(entry-count pin updated), root re-export, catalog + changelog entries. Docs-site/workshop integration and attachment composition withbox-content-pickerare tracked follow-ups.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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