fix(timeline): surface reasoning streams as thinking rows - #10945
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Turns from models that narrate through their reasoning channel (Gemini via Antigravity/OpenCode, Claude thinking blocks, Codex reasoning) rendered as bare tool lists: ingestion dropped every non-assistant content delta, so only the final answer ever showed. Buffer reasoning_text/reasoning_summary_text per turn and flush them as thinking activities interleaved with the tool calls they explain (before tool rows, approval pauses, bubble completion, and turn end). Split at 8k chars per activity; whitespace-only buffers are skipped. Web and mobile render thinking as standalone expandable rows outside collapsed tool groups.
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| const splitThinkingText = (text: string): Array<string> => { | ||
| const chunks: Array<string> = []; | ||
| for (let index = 0; index < text.length; index += MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY) { | ||
| chunks.push(text.slice(index, index + MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY)); | ||
| } | ||
| return chunks; | ||
| }; |
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🟡 Medium Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts:1195
splitThinkingText splits an astral character across two independently rendered activities when its UTF-16 surrogate pair crosses MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY, so the character is displayed as replacement glyphs instead of being preserved. Split the text by Unicode code points rather than UTF-16 code units.
| const splitThinkingText = (text: string): Array<string> => { | |
| const chunks: Array<string> = []; | |
| for (let index = 0; index < text.length; index += MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY) { | |
| chunks.push(text.slice(index, index + MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY)); | |
| } | |
| return chunks; | |
| }; | |
| const splitThinkingText = (text: string): Array<string> => { | |
| const codePoints = Array.from(text); | |
| const chunks: Array<string> = []; | |
| for (let index = 0; index < codePoints.length; index += MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY) { | |
| chunks.push(codePoints.slice(index, index + MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY).join("")); | |
| } | |
| return chunks; | |
| }; |
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In file @apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts around lines 1195-1201:
`splitThinkingText` splits an astral character across two independently rendered activities when its UTF-16 surrogate pair crosses `MAX_THINKING_CHARS_PER_ACTIVITY`, so the character is displayed as replacement glyphs instead of being preserved. Split the text by Unicode code points rather than UTF-16 code units.
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Addressed in b34067a: splitThinkingText now chunks on code points via Array.from, so an astral character's surrogate pair can never straddle two activities. The buffer cap/spill split on code-point boundaries too. Covered by the new 'keeps astral characters whole when splitting thinking buffers' test, where the astral char sits exactly on the old UTF-16 8,000th-unit boundary.
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| ): Effect.Effect<BufferedThinking> => | ||
| Cache.getOption(bufferedThinkingTextByTurnKey, thinkingBufferKey(threadId, turnId)).pipe( | ||
| Effect.flatMap((existing) => | ||
| Cache.invalidate(bufferedThinkingTextByTurnKey, thinkingBufferKey(threadId, turnId)).pipe( |
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🟡 Medium Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts:1187
flushBufferedThinkingForTurn discards the buffered reasoning before dispatching its thinking activities, so a dispatch failure—including after an earlier split chunk succeeds—loses the remaining text and prevents retrying it. Keep the buffer until all activity dispatches complete successfully, then invalidate it.
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In file @apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts around line 1187:
`flushBufferedThinkingForTurn` discards the buffered reasoning before dispatching its `thinking` activities, so a dispatch failure—including after an earlier split chunk succeeds—loses the remaining text and prevents retrying it. Keep the buffer until all activity dispatches complete successfully, then invalidate it.
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Addressed in b34067a: flushBufferedThinkingForTurn now reads the buffer without consuming it and invalidates only after every chunk dispatch committed. A flush that fails halfway keeps the whole text, so the next flush point retries it in full; chunk activity ids are deterministic, so re-appending an already-committed chunk replaces it in the projection instead of duplicating it.
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| Effect.flatMap((existing) => { | ||
| const previous = Option.getOrElse(existing, () => ({ text: "", firstCreatedAt: "" })); | ||
| return Cache.set(bufferedThinkingTextByTurnKey, thinkingBufferKey(threadId, turnId), { | ||
| text: `${previous.text}${delta}`, |
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🟠 High Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts:1174
appendBufferedThinkingText retains the entire reasoning stream in one cache entry, so a large or continuous stream before the next flush can exhaust process memory and repeatedly copy an ever-growing string. splitThinkingText only runs after this unbounded accumulation; enforce a size limit and spill or flush chunks while appending.
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`appendBufferedThinkingText` retains the entire reasoning stream in one cache entry, so a large or continuous stream before the next flush can exhaust process memory and repeatedly copy an ever-growing string. `splitThinkingText` only runs after this unbounded accumulation; enforce a size limit and spill or flush chunks while appending.
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Addressed in b34067a: the buffer is now capped at MAX_BUFFERED_THINKING_CHUNKS (3) per-activity budgets. Crossing the cap during append spills the oldest full chunks as thinking activities right away (persisting while buffering) and retains only the newest tail, so a long reasoning stream can no longer grow a single cache value without bound or repeatedly copy an ever-growing string. Spilled chunks carry the buffer's firstCreatedAt so one reasoning stretch keeps its ordering. New test: 'spills oversized reasoning buffers into activities while buffering without losing text' (25k chars).
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| const exitedActiveTurnId = thread.session?.activeTurnId ?? undefined; | ||
| yield* flushBufferedThinkingForTurn({ |
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🟡 Medium Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts:2062
On session.exited, reasoning for superseded turns is dropped from the timeline: only thread.session.activeTurnId is flushed, while clearTurnStateForSession leaves bufferedThinkingTextByTurnKey entries untouched until TTL expiry. This occurs when steering starts a replacement turn without completing the old one. Flush all buffered turns for the thread on session exit, then invalidate any remaining buffers.
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On `session.exited`, reasoning for superseded turns is dropped from the timeline: only `thread.session.activeTurnId` is flushed, while `clearTurnStateForSession` leaves `bufferedThinkingTextByTurnKey` entries untouched until TTL expiry. This occurs when steering starts a replacement turn without completing the old one. Flush all buffered turns for the thread on session exit, then invalidate any remaining buffers.
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Addressed in b34067a: session.exited now flushes every buffered thinking key the thread still holds (via flushBufferedThinkingForThread), including the no-turn key and steering-superseded turns, then clearTurnStateForSession runs as before. Activity ids embed the turn segment so a multi-turn exit cannot collide chunk ids. New test: 'flushes buffered thinking for every stranded turn when the session exits' (no-turn + superseded + active turn buffers, plus a duplicate-exit no-op check).
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| nextEntry.entry.agentSpawn !== undefined || | ||
| nextEntry.entry.sourceActivityKind === "context-compaction" || | ||
| nextEntry.entry.tone === "error" || | ||
| isThinkingWorkEntry(nextEntry.entry) || |
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🟡 Medium chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:1072
While a turn is running, thinking entries that follow active tool work are hidden inside the collapsed work-live group instead of rendering as visible reasoning rows. The earlier active-work scan includes sourceActivityKind: "thinking" in activeToolEntries, and activeWorkEntryIds then suppresses those entries before this grouping loop reaches the new boundary. Exclude thinking entries from that scan so the boundary also applies to running turns.
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While a turn is running, thinking entries that follow active tool work are hidden inside the collapsed `work-live` group instead of rendering as visible reasoning rows. The earlier active-work scan includes `sourceActivityKind: "thinking"` in `activeToolEntries`, and `activeWorkEntryIds` then suppresses those entries before this grouping loop reaches the new boundary. Exclude thinking entries from that scan so the boundary also applies to running turns.
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Addressed in b34067a: the active-work backward scan now breaks on isThinkingWorkEntry(entry.entry) exactly like the grouping boundary, so thinking entries are excluded from activeToolEntries/activeWorkEntryIds and render as standalone rows while the turn runs. New web regression test: 'keeps thinking visible outside the live work group while the turn runs'.
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes production ingestion and default timeline rendering across server, web, and mobile, adding buffered persisted reasoning rows and new grouping behavior rather than making a contained fix. The implementation also has unresolved blocking concerns around memory growth, event loss, turn cleanup, Unicode splitting, and active-row visibility. Not approved because:
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughProvider reasoning streams are buffered and persisted as ChangesThinking activity pipeline
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Thinking rows can be duplicated when a multi-chunk flush partially fails and retries at a later event. The activity IDs should be made stable across retries before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProviderRuntime
participant RuntimeIngestion
participant ActivityStore
participant WebTimeline
participant MobileFeed
ProviderRuntime->>RuntimeIngestion: send reasoning deltas
RuntimeIngestion->>RuntimeIngestion: buffer and split thinking text
RuntimeIngestion->>ActivityStore: append thinking activities
ActivityStore->>WebTimeline: provide thinking work entry
ActivityStore->>MobileFeed: provide thinking activity
WebTimeline->>WebTimeline: keep thinking row outside tool group
MobileFeed->>MobileFeed: keep thinking row outside tool group
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920-925: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep thinking entries out of the active tool group.
The active-turn collector does not stop on a thinking entry. If an active tool is adjacent to a thinking entry, this collector adds the thinking entry to
activeToolEntries.activeWorkEntryIdsthen suppresses the standalone row before the new grouping logic runs.Add
isThinkingWorkEntry(entry.entry)to this boundary condition. Add an active-turn regression case with a thinking entry next to an in-progress tool.Proposed fix
entry.entry.agentSpawn !== undefined || entry.entry.sourceActivityKind === "context-compaction" || + isThinkingWorkEntry(entry.entry) || entry.entry.tone === "error"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts`:
- Around line 1173-1176: Update the buffering logic around thinkingBufferKey and
Cache.set so reasoning deltas cannot grow a single in-memory value without bound
before flushing. Persist completed chunks during accumulation, or enforce and
document a total character limit with explicit truncation; preserve the existing
firstCreatedAt behavior.
- Around line 1594-1597: Update the appendBufferedThinkingText call in the
reasoning-delta handling path to use event.turnId when present and
thread.session?.activeTurnId when it is absent, rather than assigning unscoped
deltas to the no-turn key. Add coverage for an unscoped reasoning delta followed
by a turn-scoped tool or completion event.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts`:
- Around line 920-925: Add isThinkingWorkEntry(entry.entry) to the boundary
condition in the active-turn collector so thinking entries are excluded from
activeToolEntries and remain standalone. Add a regression case covering a
thinking entry adjacent to an in-progress tool in the active-turn grouping
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… loss Reviewers flagged that buffered reasoning could grow a single cache value without bound before flushing, was consumed before a flush finished, split astral characters across activities, stranded superseded turns on session exit, and hid thinking rows inside the live work group on web while a turn runs. - Cap the per-turn buffer at three activity chunks; crossing it spills the oldest full chunks as thinking activities while appending (persisting while buffering) instead of accumulating text forever. - Split and flush on code-point boundaries so surrogate pairs stay whole. - Consume the buffer only after every chunk dispatch commits; a failed flush keeps the text for the next flush point (deterministic chunk ids make re-appends idempotent in the projection). - Flush every buffered turn for the thread on session.exited, not just the active turn, so steering-superseded reasoning reaches the timeline. - Scope reasoning deltas without a turn id to the active turn. - Exclude thinking entries from the web active-work collector so they render standalone during a running turn. Tests: spill-without-loss, astral chunking, unscoped-scoping, exit flush-all (including a no-turn buffer and a duplicate exit) on the server; a running- turn regression case on the web timeline. Built with Muse Spark (deepseek-v4-flash) via the OpenCode harness.
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts`:
- Around line 1282-1284: Update the flush activity ID generation in
flushBufferedThinkingForTurn to use turn-stable buffered inputs, such as
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| id: EventId.make( | ||
| `${input.event.eventId}:thinking:${input.chunkIdTag}:${input.turnId ?? NO_TURN_BUFFER_SUFFIX}:${input.chunkIndex}`, | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Derive flush chunk activity ids from the buffer, not from the flushing event.
The comment at Line 1298 states that a failed flush retries safely because chunk activity ids are deterministic. The id at Line 1283 embeds input.event.eventId. Each flush point supplies a different event, so a retry at the next flush point produces different ids for the same text.
Result: if a flush fails after some chunks commit, the retained buffer is re-flushed under new ids and the already-committed chunks appear a second time in the timeline.
Derive the flush id from turn-stable inputs, for example threadId, turnId, and buffered.firstCreatedAt, so a retry replaces the earlier rows.
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const dispatchThinkingChunk = (input: {
event: ProviderRuntimeEvent;
threadId: ThreadId;
turnId?: TurnId;
/** Activity timestamp: the chunked reasoning's first delta. */
activityCreatedAt: string;
/** Command timestamp: the event that triggered this flush or spill. */
createdAt: string;
commandTag: string;
chunkIdTag: string;
+ /** Stable per-stream id prefix so a retried flush replaces its rows. */
+ chunkIdScope: string;
chunkIndex: number;
chunk: string;
}) =>
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activity: {
id: EventId.make(
- `${input.event.eventId}:thinking:${input.chunkIdTag}:${input.turnId ?? NO_TURN_BUFFER_SUFFIX}:${input.chunkIndex}`,
+ `${input.chunkIdScope}:thinking:${input.chunkIdTag}:${input.turnId ?? NO_TURN_BUFFER_SUFFIX}:${input.chunkIndex}`,
),Then pass chunkIdScope: ${input.threadId}:${buffered.firstCreatedAt}`` from flushBufferedThinkingForTurn, and keep `chunkIdScope: event.eventId` for the spill path (spills commit once per event).
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts` around
lines 1282 - 1284, Update the flush activity ID generation in
flushBufferedThinkingForTurn to use turn-stable buffered inputs, such as
threadId, turnId, and buffered.firstCreatedAt, via a chunkIdScope derived from
the buffer rather than input.event.eventId. Preserve the spill path’s
event.eventId scope, and ensure retries reuse IDs for already-committed chunks.
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Turns from models that narrate through their reasoning channel render as bare tool lists with only a final answer. Ingestion dropped every non-
assistant_textcontent delta, so Gemini (via Antigravity/OpenCode), Claude thinking blocks, and Codex reasoning never reached the timeline. This is a general ingestion gap, not provider-specific — any thinking model reads the same way.Buffer
reasoning_text/reasoning_summary_textper turn and flush them asthinkingactivities interleaved with the tool calls they explain: before tool rows, approval pauses, bubble completion, and turn end. Long buffers split at 8k chars per activity instead of dropping; whitespace-only buffers are skipped. Activities carry the first delta's timestamp so they sort before the rows that flushed them. Web and mobile render thinking as standalone expandable "Thinking" rows outside collapsed tool groups. No contract schema change (open-string activity kind, toneinfo).Tests: 4 new ingestion tests (ordering before tool rows, turn-end flush, split without loss, whitespace skip); web derivation + timeline-grouping tests; mobile feed-grouping test; full contracts suite green.
tsc --noEmitandvp lintclean on all touched packages.Evidence: the reported before-state is a bare tool list with a single final answer. I could not capture an after screenshot in this sandbox (no localhost browser route to the dev server); the row rendering reuses the existing update-row components covered by the grouping tests. Happy to attach one from a live pass.
Built with Muse Spark (muse-spark-1.3-contributor) via the OpenCode harness.
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