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Adds the Agent block — a Deepnote block type that runs an LLM agent which writes and executes code in the notebook on your behalf.

What you get

Creating one

  • Deepnote: Add Agent Block, plus a 🤖 button first among the block buttons in the notebook toolbar.
  • A notebook may hold at most one agent block. A second request reports that and leaves the notebook untouched.
  • Unlike the other add*Block commands, this one mints the block id at creation. createBlockFromPocket hands an id-less block a fresh random id on every call, so without this each run would stamp its generated cells with a different owner — the stale-run guard would never match and scratch cells would pile up until the first save-and-reload.

Running one

  • Execution goes through executeAgentBlock from @deepnote/runtime-core.
  • Code and markdown the agent produces are inserted below it as ephemeral cells, tagged with agent_source_block_id.
  • The previous run's ephemeral cells are cleared before a re-run, so stale generated code never executes.
  • OpenAI key via Deepnote: Set OpenAI API Key / Clear OpenAI API Key, held in IEncryptedStorage.

Agent cell status bar

  • Agent Block indicator.
  • Model picker — auto (default), gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra, gpt-5.6-luna.
  • Clear ephemeral blocks — appears only when that block currently owns generated cells, and asks for confirmation before deleting.

Ephemeral cells

  • Carry an Ephemeral label whose tooltip names the source agent block.
  • Filtered out of serializeNotebook, so they never reach the .deepnote file (deepnoteSerializer.ts:234). The file-change watcher keeps them in the live editor when it reads back our own save.

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  • The clear button lives on the agent block, not on the ephemeral cell. The block owns what it generated, so it owns the button that removes it. Ownership is matched on getBlockId(agentCell) — the same derivation removeEphemeralCellsForAgentBlocks already used.
  • One agent block per notebook, enforced at the creation command only. A .deepnote file that already contains two still opens fine.
  • Block id minted up front for agent blocks only; the other add*Block commands are unchanged.
  • Ephemeral cells never persist to the main file. An orphan left behind in the editor disappears on reload.

Testing

  • Unit tests alongside each source file; full suite green.
  • End-to-end coverage in test/e2e/suite/agentBlock.e2e.test.ts — drives a real agent run against a stand-in OpenAI server (test/e2e/helpers/mockOpenAiServer.ts), then asserts the run, the re-run that drops stale cells, and the clear button. CI pre-downloads the mock server since it is npx-only.

Known gaps

  • An ephemeral cell with no agent_source_block_id (hand-authored file) has no clear button anywhere — nothing claims it. It is stripped from the file on save regardless.
  • Duplicating an agent cell would copy its block id, so both copies would claim the same generated cells. Pre-existing shape; not verified against VS Code's paste behaviour.
  • main's new execute_notebook telemetry infers "Run All" from cells.length === codeCellCount. This branch inserts and strips ephemeral code cells around agent runs, so that count may shift during an agent Run All. Worst case is a miscounted analytics event.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Deepnote agent blocks with model selection and secure OpenAI API key management.
    • Agent runs can stream responses and create executable code or markdown cells.
    • Added status indicators and controls for managing generated cells.
    • Added automatic cleanup of orphaned generated cells.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved cancellation, timeout, error handling, output preservation, and queued execution.
    • Generated cells are excluded from persistence and synchronization.
    • Improved untrusted workspace behavior, controller selection, and execution-state tracking.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive unit and end-to-end coverage for agent workflows.

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Adds Deepnote agent blocks with encrypted OpenAI key storage, model selection, streamed execution, generated ephemeral cells, and status-bar controls. Agent cells execute separately from kernel cells. Ephemeral cells are excluded from persistence and file synchronization. The change adds execution-state notifications, telemetry updates, unit tests, and end-to-end mock OpenAI coverage.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2cdd3

The PR adds notebook-resident Agent execution that generates and runs code, but cancellation races may let canceled runs start or continue work, while an older session may later save stale notebook state; default environment-file loading also requires explicit trust-gating confirmation. These bounded correctness and security risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant NotebookController
  participant AgentCellExecutionHandler
  participant OpenAIService
  participant Notebook
  User->>NotebookController: Run agent cell
  NotebookController->>AgentCellExecutionHandler: Execute agent block
  AgentCellExecutionHandler->>OpenAIService: Stream agent response
  OpenAIService-->>AgentCellExecutionHandler: Return tool and text events
  AgentCellExecutionHandler->>Notebook: Insert and execute ephemeral cells
  AgentCellExecutionHandler-->>NotebookController: Report completion or failure
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Updates Docs ❓ Inconclusive The feature is implemented, but no Agent-related Markdown changed in the PR; this checkout cannot verify the deepnote/deepnote docs or private roadmap. Verify or update Agent block documentation in deepnote/deepnote and update the roadmap in the private deepnote-internal repository.
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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts`:
- Around line 110-113: The code directly reads OPENAI_API_KEY from process.env
in agentCellExecutionHandler.ts (openAiToken = process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY) which
is unsafe for production; replace this direct env access with a secure secret
retrieval call (e.g., a new getOpenAiApiKey() that fetches from your secret
manager/credentials vault or from an injected secure config) and update callers
to inject the key instead of relying on process.env; ensure the secret is never
logged or included in error messages and keep the existing null-check/throw
behavior but reference the secure getter (getOpenAiApiKey) or injected parameter
in place of process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY.
- Around line 274-278: The success check in the return object of
agentCellExecutionHandler is too permissive—replace the current expression
`cell.executionSummary?.success !== false` with an explicit true check like
`cell.executionSummary?.success === true` (so only an explicit success is
reported; undefined/in-progress will not be treated as success); update the
return here (where `success`, `outputs:
cell.outputs.map(translateCellDisplayOutput)`, and `executionCount:
cell.executionSummary?.executionOrder ?? null` are constructed) to use that
strict equality.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellStatusBarProvider.ts`:
- Around line 69-71: The dispose() method currently uses an expression-bodied
arrow in this.disposables.forEach((d) => d.dispose()) which triggers the Biome
callback-return lint; change the callback to a block body or replace the forEach
with a for...of loop so the disposables are disposed without returning a
value—e.g., update dispose() to iterate over the disposables array and call
dispose() inside a statement block (reference: dispose method and disposables
property).
- Around line 142-149: getMaxIterations currently only enforces a lower bound;
add an upper-bound check so the returned value is an integer between
MIN_ITERATIONS and MAX_ITERATIONS (e.g., require value <= MAX_ITERATIONS). In
setMaxIterations replace permissive parseInt usage with strict integer
validation (use a full-match regex like /^\d+$/) and then parse with Number() so
inputs like "5.5" or "10abc" are rejected; after parsing ensure the numeric
value is an integer and within MIN_ITERATIONS..MAX_ITERATIONS before accepting
or falling back to DEFAULT_MAX_ITERATIONS. Update both occurrences in
setMaxIterations that currently call parseInt to use this strict validation and
range check, and reference the getMaxIterations and setMaxIterations functions
when making the change.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/converters/agentBlockConverter.unit.test.ts`:
- Around line 1-5: Reorder the imports so third-party modules are grouped
together and local imports come after: move the dedent import to be alongside
the other external imports (DeepnoteBlock, chai's assert, and vscode's
NotebookCellData/NotebookCellKind) and place the local AgentBlockConverter
import ('./agentBlockConverter') after that group; ensure the symbols
DeepnoteBlock, assert, NotebookCellData, NotebookCellKind, and dedent remain
imported and only the order changes to comply with the "third-party then local"
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…ss helper

- Introduced `createMockChildProcess` in `deepnoteTestHelpers.ts` for consistent mock process creation in tests.
- Updated `DeepnoteLspClientManager` and `DeepnoteServerStarter` to include the mock process in server info.
- Removed unnecessary `runtimeCoreServerInfo` from `ProjectContext` and adjusted related logic to use the new `serverInfo` structure.
- Ensured all relevant tests are updated to reflect these changes, improving test reliability and maintainability.
- Added a warning log when no project context is found, preventing server stop attempts.
- Updated the `stopServerForEnvironment` method to require a non-null project context, ensuring safer operation handling.
- Updated the DeepnoteServerStarter class to consistently use fileKey for managing pending operations and project contexts, improving clarity and reducing potential errors.
- Adjusted logging messages to reflect the change, ensuring accurate information is logged during server operations.
- Eliminated the port allocation serialization logic from the DeepnoteServerStarter class, as it is now handled by the @deepnote/runtime-core's startServer method.
- Updated related logging messages to reflect the changes in server startup processes.
- Adjusted unit tests to focus on SQL environment variable gathering and lifecycle orchestration, removing tests related to port reservation.
…g improvements

- Introduced a new `serverOutputByFile` map to track stdout and stderr outputs for each server instance, limiting the output length to improve performance and manageability.
- Updated error handling in the server startup process to capture and report both stdout and stderr in case of failures, providing better diagnostics.
- Adjusted the `dispose` method to ensure all internal states, including the new output tracking, are cleared appropriately.
- Enhanced unit tests to validate the new output tracking functionality and ensure proper handling of cancellation errors.
- Modified the error reporting logic to ensure that stderr output is captured only when available, enhancing clarity in error messages.
- This change aims to streamline the error handling process during server startup, providing more accurate feedback in case of failures.
- Introduced `getOpenAiApiKey` function to retrieve the OpenAI API key from configuration, improving error handling when the key is not set.
- Updated `executeAgentCell` and `executeEphemeralCell` functions to utilize the new API key retrieval method and handle cancellation tokens.
- Enhanced `AgentCellStatusBarProvider` to validate max iterations using Zod schema, ensuring robust input handling and defaulting to safe values.
- Added unit tests for new functionality and edge cases in both execution handling and status bar provider.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts`:
- Around line 142-147: The onLog callback in agentCellExecutionHandler.ts
contains commented-out accumulation code and a TODO; either remove the dead code
or implement it: add an accumulated string variable in the enclosing scope, make
onLog async (or forward logs to an async helper), append incoming message to
accumulated, then call
execution.replaceOutputItems(NotebookCellOutputItem.text(accumulated), output)
to update the cell output; if you choose to drop it, delete the commented lines
and the TODO and keep only logger.info('Agent log', message). Reference: onLog
callback, accumulated variable, execution.replaceOutputItems,
NotebookCellOutputItem.text, and output.
- Around line 41-64: serializeNotebookContext instantiates a new
DeepnoteDataConverter on every call which is wasteful if called frequently;
modify serializeNotebookContext to use a shared or injected converter instance
instead of creating one per invocation (e.g., accept a DeepnoteDataConverter
parameter or read from a module-scoped singleton), and update callers to pass or
rely on the shared converter so convertCellToBlock usage inside
serializeNotebookContext reuses the same converter.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.unit.test.ts`:
- Around line 310-324: The test creates a CancellationTokenSource named
tokenSource and cancels it but never disposes it; update the test for 'returns
success false immediately when token is pre-cancelled' to ensure
tokenSource.dispose() is called after use (e.g., in a finally block or via
afterEach cleanup) so the CancellationTokenSource is properly disposed; locate
the tokenSource variable in this test and add the dispose call around
executeEphemeralCell(tokenSource.token) to clean up resources.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellStatusBarProvider.ts`:
- Line 27: MaxIterationsSchema currently only enforces a minimum via
MIN_ITERATIONS so values >100 slip through; update MaxIterationsSchema to also
enforce an upper bound (e.g., .max(100)) or reference a new constant like
MAX_ITERATIONS = 100 if you prefer a named limit, ensuring you use
z.coerce.number().int().min(MIN_ITERATIONS).max(MAX_ITERATIONS) (or .max(100))
to validate both ends; modify the schema definition where MaxIterationsSchema is
declared and add the MAX_ITERATIONS constant if not already present.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/ephemeralCellDecorationProvider.ts`:
- Around line 69-71: The dispose method on EphemeralCellDecorationProvider
currently iterates disposables with this.disposables.forEach((d) =>
d.dispose());—replace the forEach with a for...of loop to align with the pattern
used in AgentCellStatusBarProvider and to ensure proper synchronous disposal and
error handling: iterate over this.disposables using for (const d of
this.disposables) and call d.dispose() inside the loop (referencing the dispose
method and the disposables array to locate the change).
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In `@package.json`:
- Around line 1641-1646: The package.json setting "deepnote.agent.openAiApiKey"
stores the API key in plain settings; remove that configuration entry and
instead read/write the key via VS Code SecretStorage (use
context.secrets.get/set) like the existing apiAccess.ts usage; update the code
that previously read configuration for deepnote.agent.openAiApiKey to check
context.secrets.get("openAiApiKey") and, if missing, prompt the user with an
input dialog (and offer a command to set/clear the secret), and reuse the helper
functions or patterns from apiAccess.ts to centralize secret handling and
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- Added commands to set and clear the OpenAI API key, enhancing user interaction.
- Introduced a new `deepnoteSecretStore` module for managing secrets, including functions to get, set, and clear the OpenAI API key.
- Updated `agentCellExecutionHandler` to utilize the new secret management functions, improving error handling when the API key is not set.
- Enhanced unit tests to cover the new secret management functionality and ensure robust error handling.

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src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellStatusBarProvider.ts (1)

207-224: 🛠️ Refactor suggestion | 🟠 Major

Reuse MaxIterationsSchema for consistent validation.

parseInt is lenient: "5.5" becomes 5, "10abc" becomes 10. The existing Zod schema handles this properly and is already used in getMaxIterations.

,

♻️ Suggested fix
             validateInput: (value) => {
-                const num = parseInt(value, 10);
-                if (isNaN(num) || !Number.isInteger(num)) {
-                    return l10n.t('Please enter a whole number');
-                }
-                if (num < MIN_ITERATIONS || num > MAX_ITERATIONS) {
+                const result = MaxIterationsSchema.safeParse(value);
+                if (!result.success) {
                     return l10n.t('Value must be between {0} and {1}', MIN_ITERATIONS, MAX_ITERATIONS);
                 }

                 return undefined;
             }
-        const newValue = parseInt(input, 10);
+        const newValue = MaxIterationsSchema.parse(input);
         if (newValue === currentValue) {
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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellStatusBarProvider.ts` around lines 207 - 224,
The validateInput logic should reuse the existing MaxIterationsSchema instead of
using parseInt; replace the parseInt/isNaN checks in validateInput with
MaxIterationsSchema.safeParse(input) (or parse and catch) and return l10n.t(...)
on failure, ensuring the schema enforces integer-only and range constraints
consistent with MIN_ITERATIONS and MAX_ITERATIONS; after the prompt returns, set
newValue from the validated schema result (the parsed numeric value) rather than
calling parseInt again; refer to validateInput, MaxIterationsSchema,
getMaxIterations, MIN_ITERATIONS, MAX_ITERATIONS, and newValue when making these
changes.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts`:
- Around line 240-245: The code currently assumes workspace.applyEdit(edit)
succeeded and returns insertIndex blindly; change it to check the boolean result
of await workspace.applyEdit(edit) and verify the notebook now contains the
inserted cell (e.g. notebook.cellCount > insertIndex or try
notebook.cellAt(insertIndex) exists). If applyEdit returns false or the
verification fails, throw an Error (or return a sentinel/failure value as per
project convention) instead of returning insertIndex so callers won't operate on
an invalid index; use the same local symbols edit, insertIndex, notebook,
WorkspaceEdit, NotebookEdit.insertCells and workspace.applyEdit to locate and
implement the checks.
- Around line 136-138: The handler onAgentEvent currently logs the full
serialized AgentStreamEvent (logger.info('Agent event', JSON.stringify(event)))
which can leak user/tool content and bloat logs; change this to log only minimal
metadata such as event.type, any safe IDs or timestamps, and the transition
detected using lastAgentEventType (e.g., logger.info('Agent event', { type:
event.type, prevType: lastAgentEventType, timestamp: ... })) and remove
JSON.stringify(event) so no full payload is written to logs.
- Around line 264-283: The code rejects completionDeferred when
token.isCancellationRequested but still proceeds to run
commands.executeCommand('notebook.cell.execute'), allowing work after
cancellation; update the handler (around token, completionDeferred,
CancellationError and before commands.executeCommand) to short-circuit: if token
&& token.isCancellationRequested (or if completionDeferred has already been
rejected/settled) then clear the timeout, dispose any disposables, and
return/throw so commands.executeCommand is not invoked; ensure the same
early-exit path is taken when token.onCancellationRequested fires so cancelled
executions never call notebook.cell.execute.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.unit.test.ts`:
- Around line 366-384: The test for executeEphemeralCell should also assert that
no execution request was sent when the token is pre-cancelled: after calling
executeEphemeralCell with the pre-cancelled CancellationTokenSource, add an
assertion that notebook.cell.execute was never invoked (i.e., verify/expect the
mocked notebook cell execution method did not get called), and keep the existing
assertion on the returned result; refer to executeEphemeralCell,
mockedVSCodeNamespaces.commands.executeCommand and the notebook.cell.execute
mock when adding this check.

In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/ephemeralCellDecorationProvider.ts`:
- Around line 117-123: The current loop in ephemeralCellDecorationProvider
builds a Range per line (lineRanges) and calls
editor.setDecorations(this.ephemeralDecorationType, lineRanges), which is
wasteful; replace it by creating a single full-cell Range spanning from the
start of the first line to the end of the last line (use
editor.document.lineAt(0).range.start and
editor.document.lineAt(editor.document.lineCount - 1).range.end) and pass an
array with that single Range to
editor.setDecorations(this.ephemeralDecorationType, [fullRange]) so you avoid
allocating per-line Range objects while preserving the same decoration coverage.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellStatusBarProvider.ts`:
- Around line 207-224: The validateInput logic should reuse the existing
MaxIterationsSchema instead of using parseInt; replace the parseInt/isNaN checks
in validateInput with MaxIterationsSchema.safeParse(input) (or parse and catch)
and return l10n.t(...) on failure, ensuring the schema enforces integer-only and
range constraints consistent with MIN_ITERATIONS and MAX_ITERATIONS; after the
prompt returns, set newValue from the validated schema result (the parsed
numeric value) rather than calling parseInt again; refer to validateInput,
MaxIterationsSchema, getMaxIterations, MIN_ITERATIONS, MAX_ITERATIONS, and
newValue when making these changes.
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The E2E caught what the unit tests could not: pressing Stop mid-run left
the agent working and then reported the run as successful. The extension
log shows it plainly -- the interrupt lands at 09:53:58, and six seconds
later the run finishes down the success path with an empty result:

  09:53:55.712  Agent cell: starting executeAgentBlock
  09:53:58.255  [error] No kernel associated with the notebook (handleInterrupt)
  09:54:04.289  Agent cell: executeAgentBlock completed, finalOutput length=0

The cancellation did fire; it just could not end the run. Throwing from a
tool callback never could, because runtime-core wraps those callbacks:

  } catch (error) {
      ...
      return `Execution error: ${executionError.message}`;
  }

The throw becomes a string the model reads as a retryable tool failure, so
a stop made the agent do more work, and the loop only wound down once it
ran out of turns -- landing on executeAgentCell's success branch, which
called endExecution(true) for a run the user had stopped.

0.5.0 adds the AbortSignal the previous comment was waiting on. It calls
signal.throwIfAborted() inside runtime-core, outside that catch, and
forwards the signal to agent.stream as abortSignal, so the in-flight
request is aborted rather than left to finish. Bridging the cancellation
token to it is the whole fix; isStopped already recognised AbortError.

Verified against the built extension, not mocks: the agent now reports
"Agent cell execution stopped" 4ms after the interrupt, and the full agent
E2E suite passes locally, 7/7.

Note runtime-core 0.5.0 pins @deepnote/blocks 4.7.0, so the lock now
carries a nested copy alongside the root ^4.6.0.

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Interrupt has never worked on a Deepnote notebook. Pressing Stop appended
"Failed to interrupt the Kernel. No kernel associated with the notebook."
to the running cell and left the kernel running -- misleading, because a
kernel was attached and executing. What was missing is the controller
registration entry.

VSCodeNotebookController.onDidChangeSelectedNotebooks returns early for
anything that is not jupyter-notebook or interactive:

    // We're only interested in our Notebooks.
    if (!isJupyterNotebook(event.notebook) && event.notebook.notebookType !== InteractiveWindowView) {
        return;
    }

and package.json contributes exactly one notebook type: deepnote. So the
guard is true for every notebook this extension owns, the re-emit below it
never runs, ControllerRegistration.selectedControllers is never written,
and getSelected returns undefined -- which is what wrapKernelMethod throws
on. Upstream the comment is accurate; in this fork the same line excludes
the fork's own notebooks.

Execution hid it: VS Code calls executeHandler on the NotebookController
object directly and never consults selectedControllers, so cells ran fine.

Rather than widen the guard -- which would also switch on kernel-selection
telemetry, warnWhenUsingOutdatedPython, associatedDocuments,
updateCellLanguages and onDidSelectController (it disposes kernels on a
genuine switch) for Deepnote notebooks for the first time -- the
registration now listens to VS Code's own event on the controller. A
controller only receives it for its own view type, so the map stays scoped
to notebooks we created a controller for, and nothing else changes.

Restart goes through the same getSelected check and is fixed by the same
change, though no test exercises it.

Verified:

- the new unit test fails against the pre-fix code in both the Web and
  Desktop variants ("expected undefined to equal { ...(3) }") and passes
  with it; full unit suite 2678 passing.
- the agent-block Stop E2E passes against the built extension, and the
  extension log now shows the interrupt reaching the kernel rather than
  the throw:

    09:51:27.878  Interrupting kernel: deepnote-fae9e95d-...
    09:51:28.065  Interrupt requested & sent for agent-block-stop.deepnote

  with no occurrence of "No kernel associated with the notebook", which
  was present on every previous run.

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Populating selectedControllers exposed a consumer that reads it by id.
The map has a set and a get and no delete, which was harmless while it
was permanently empty and is not now: a disposed controller stays in it,
and for Deepnote the id is derived from the notebook URI --

    const controllerId = `deepnote-notebook-${notebookKey}`;

-- so a controller and the one replacing it share one. Both interpreter-
mismatch paths dispose and rebuild with the notebook still open, and
ensureControllerSelectedForNotebook then matched the dead controller by
id, returned early, and never ran notebook.selectKernel. The notebook is
left bound to a disposed controller and silently stops executing.

Compare identity instead -- a rebuilt controller is a different object --
and drop the entry when VS Code deselects, so the map means what its name
says. A WeakMap cannot be swept for a disposed controller, so the
identity check is the load-bearing half.

Both new tests were seen to fail without their fix: the auto-selector one
with selectKernel "called 0 time(s)", the registration one with the entry
surviving the deselect.

Two things the interrupt investigation turned up alongside it:

- the throw behind "Failed to interrupt the Kernel." named the wrong
  missing thing. A kernel is attached and executing; what is absent is
  the controller registration entry. It was also the only hardcoded
  English string on a path where every sibling goes through DataScience.
- handleInterrupt's `?.cancel()` made a hit and a miss indistinguishable,
  which cost real time when a stop did not reach the agent. Only the hit
  is logged: a miss is the ordinary case, since every interrupt of a
  non-agent cell is one, and warning on it would fire almost every time.

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wrapKernelMethod resolved the notebook's selected controller purely to
read two values off it, and threw "No kernel associated with the
notebook" when the lookup came back empty. The kernel it was handed
carries both:

    controller.connection   -> kernel.kernelConnectionMetadata
    controller.controller   -> kernel.controller   (already IKernelController,
                                                    which is all NotebookResource asks for)

So the lookup goes, and the failure class goes with it -- there is no
longer a state in which this method cannot find what it needs. That
retires the message reworded in the previous commit; its localize entry
goes too rather than sit unused.

It also fixes an edge case the lookup carried. KernelConnector passes the
metadata to kernelProvider.getOrCreate, which compares metadata.id and
disposes the existing kernel when it differs:

    if (existingKernelInfo && existingKernelInfo.options.metadata.id === options.metadata.id) {
        return existingKernelInfo.kernel;
    }
    ...
    this.disposeOldKernel(notebook, 'createNewKernel');

Feeding it the selected controller's connection meant that interrupting
after the selection had moved on replaced the running kernel instead of
interrupting it. The kernel's own metadata always matches, by definition.

KernelConnector's cache keys on notebookResource.notebook, not on the
controller, so nothing else shifts.

IControllerRegistration was injected for this one call and is now gone
from the listener.

Verified against the built extension, not mocks: the agent-block Stop E2E
passes clicking the real toolbar button, and the log shows the interrupt
reaching the kernel through the new arguments --

    15:53:44.408  Stopping the agent cell running in agent-block-stop.deepnote
    15:53:44.410  Interrupting kernel: deepnote-25a092e3-...
    15:53:44.586  Interrupt requested & sent for agent-block-stop.deepnote

with no "No kernel associated with the notebook" anywhere in the run.
Full unit suite 2682 passing.

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Handle the information-message promise.

Replace void window.showInformationMessage(...) with await window.showInformationMessage(...). This async handler can then complete after the notification request is handled.

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…gent block is deleted

Deleting an agent block previously left its generated ephemeral cells behind:
fully rendered, executable, and orphaned, since a replacement agent block
mints a fresh id that can never match them again. OrphanedEphemeralCellCleaner
watches for agent-block deletions and sweeps their scratch cells; a
drag-reorder (delete+insert of the same cell in one event) is excluded so a
moved block isn't treated as deleted.

Extracted the shared "delete ephemeral cells owned by a set of agent block
ids" logic out of agentCellExecutionHandler's pre-run sweep into
ephemeralCellCleanup.ts, so both the cleaner and the pre-run sweep in
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…event

The blank-line separator between agent stream events only kicked in once
lastAgentEventType had already been set, so the seeded "Planning next
steps..." line ran straight into the first real event with no break.

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addAgentBlock inserted below the current selection instead of always
appending, unlike Deepnote Cloud. Inserting relative to the selection drops
the agent block between the user's other cells, and its generated cells then
interleave through the rest of the notebook instead of trailing the run.

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Guard against pre-cancelled agent cells.

When token.isCancellationRequested is already true, the cancellation listener runs later. The method can call executeAgentBlockFn before the listener aborts stopController.signal. Abort immediately and call Cancellation.throwIfCanceled(token) before setup. Add a test that asserts executeAgentBlockFn is not called.

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Use assert.deepStrictEqual() for metadata comparisons.

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readNotebookWebviewText returns '' for a missing, top-level, or unreadable
frame, so a window where every poll silently fails to read the webview found
no forbidden marker either and passed without having checked anything. The
two batch-stop regression guards need this guarantee most: a real regression
(the batch not stopping) could hide behind an unreadable webview.

assertMarkersStayAbsent now takes a required marker that must render on at
least one poll across the window, or it throws. Kept the full-window spend
intact rather than switching to awaitWebviewMarkers's early-return, since the
forbidden text this guards against renders a beat after the state being
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…d delete edit

A prior commit made it return an empty set on failure instead, which is
indistinguishable from "nothing needed deleting" and broke
removeEphemeralCellsForAgentBlocks's "still drops the previous run from the
batch when the edit is rejected" test: an empty set excludes nothing, so the
stale cell stayed in the returned batch.

Throwing now matches the idiom insertEphemeralCell already uses in the same
file. Each caller decides its own reaction rather than guessing from a return
value:
- removeEphemeralCellsForAgentBlocks catches locally so a rejected edit can't
  abort unrelated cells in the batch, but still excludes the intended-for-
  deletion cells from what it returns — executeAgentCell never rejects (it
  turns its own errors into stderr on the cell), so nothing else would stop a
  stale cell left in the batch from being scheduled and re-run in the kernel.
- OrphanedEphemeralCellCleaner catches and logs, since it's a fire-and-forget
  event listener with nothing above it to catch an unhandled rejection.

Added a regression test for the listener's new catch path (verified it fails
without the try/catch, confirming it exercises the intended branch).

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VS Code floors a cell's output area at the height it had when its execution was
created, and only schedules the release (200ms later) on an output change that
lands while that execution is not yet running. It creates the execution before
dispatching to the controller, so every write the run itself makes — including
clearOutput — comes too late: a re-run held the previous transcript's height as
blank space for its whole duration, however little it had printed.

Clear through notebook.cell.clearOutputs before taking the execution, which
splices the outputs while it is still unconfirmed, and wait past the release
before the first transcript line goes in. The execution API cannot stand in for
this: its output methods throw before start(), and start() flips the state to
Executing, which suppresses the release either way.

The command resolves its target from the focused cell of the active notebook
editor and takes no arguments, hence the focus and restore around it; a notebook
that is not the active editor is skipped rather than reached for.

Covered end to end by measuring the agent cell mid-run against the height its
previous run left behind.

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Use structural assertions for recorded state.

Use assert.deepStrictEqual() for clears and the restored selections. Do not check each object property separately.

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297 - 302, Update the assertions in the test around clears and restored
selections to use assert.deepStrictEqual() against the expected structures,
replacing the individual executionTaken, outputWritten, and focused property
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Comment thread src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts
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Updated the behavior of `removeEphemeralCellsForAgentBlocks` to propagate rejected delete edits, ensuring that leftover scratch cells do not remain in the batch for re-execution. Adjusted related unit tests to reflect this change, confirming that a rejected edit now correctly prevents stale cells from being scheduled in the kernel.
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Added a check for cancellation requests in the `executeAgentCell` function, throwing a `CancellationError` if the request is detected. This ensures that the execution process can be properly aborted when needed, improving the responsiveness of the agent cell execution flow.

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238-251: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Protect execution setup with cleanup.

If execution.start() or the Executing state update throws, stopSubscription remains undisposed because both calls run before the try block. Move setup inside cleanup-protected code or dispose stopSubscription before rethrowing.

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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts` around lines 238 - 251,
Move execution.start and the Executing state update into cleanup-protected
handling in the agent cell execution flow, ensuring stopSubscription is disposed
if either setup operation throws before normal completion. Preserve the existing
endExecution cleanup and state transitions for successful execution.
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src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts (1)

492-508: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major

Cancel the dispatched notebook cell, not only the wait.

Cancellation and timeout reject completionDeferred, but Promise.all does not stop commands.executeCommand('notebook.cell.execute', ...). The generated cell can continue running after this function returns an error. A later agent step can then start while the previous cell is still running.

Use the controller's cell-execution cancellation or interrupt path, and wait for the cell to reach Idle before returning.

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

rg -n -C 12 \
  'executeEphemeralCell|notebook\.cell\.execute|interruptHandler|onCancellationRequested|createNotebookCellExecution' \
  src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts \
  src/notebooks/controllers \
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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts` around lines 492 - 508,
Update the execution flow around executeEphemeralCell and the
notebook.cell.execute dispatch so cancellation and timeout also invoke the
controller’s cell-execution cancellation or interrupt path. Before returning the
cancellation or timeout error, await completion of the cell’s transition to
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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts`:
- Around line 238-251: Move execution.start and the Executing state update into
cleanup-protected handling in the agent cell execution flow, ensuring
stopSubscription is disposed if either setup operation throws before normal
completion. Preserve the existing endExecution cleanup and state transitions for
successful execution.

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Duplicate comments:
In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.ts`:
- Around line 492-508: Update the execution flow around executeEphemeralCell and
the notebook.cell.execute dispatch so cancellation and timeout also invoke the
controller’s cell-execution cancellation or interrupt path. Before returning the
cancellation or timeout error, await completion of the cell’s transition to
Idle, while preserving normal completion behavior and existing disposal.

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execution.start() and the Executing state change ran before the try block,
so a throw from either propagated out of executeAgentCell with the execution
never ended — the cell spins in the UI and notebookCellExecutions never sees
Idle, so SnapshotService and the execute_cell analytics never close the run.
The stop listener was left attached too, though the caller's token-source
dispose already bounded that.

Moving both into the existing try routes the failure through endExecution,
which disposes the listener, ends the execution and fires Idle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011Kgq63XyXuKc6QM4WK4gi2

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675-692: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the Idle transition.

This test checks execution.end(false) and subscription.dispose(). It does not check notebookCellExecutions.changeCellState(cell, NotebookCellExecutionState.Idle). A regression could leave the UI, SnapshotService, or analytics in Executing while this test still passes. Add a spy or event assertion for the Idle transition.

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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.unit.test.ts` around lines
675 - 692, The test for the failed start path should also assert that
executeAgentCell transitions the cell to NotebookCellExecutionState.Idle via
notebookCellExecutions.changeCellState, alongside the existing end and
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In `@src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellExecutionHandler.unit.test.ts`:
- Around line 675-692: The test for the failed start path should also assert
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@dinohamzic I've addressed everything now .. the stuck UI was the most tricky one, and the solution is not the nicest thing .. but it's the only way how to deal with it (explicit 400ms wait), because it's also hardcoded within VSCode internal code .. that literally waits before it reruns another layout operation

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@dinohamzic As for the other providers, I agree, that we should then do a followup, and have a dynamic model picker .. and I also know, we will want to connect to the Deepnote Cloud as an AI model provider

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Tested, thanks for the fixes and improvements. 🙏

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