Dedicated Stop button and mid-turn steering via Send by acoliver · Pull Request #233 · acoliver/personal-agent

acoliver · 2026-09-03T20:59:36Z

Fixes #222

The chat had one control during a turn. render_send_stop_button flipped a single element between Stop and Send, and both the Send click and handle_enter returned early while a stream was active. Redirecting the agent meant killing the turn and throwing away what it had already produced.

What changed

Stop and Send are now separate elements. Stop renders only while a turn runs and does exactly what it did before; Send renders always, so mid-turn both are on screen. What a submit means is decided in one place, ComposerSubmit, which the button click and handle_enter both go through: idle text starts a turn, mid-turn text steers the running one, blank text does neither. Routing them separately is how the two drift apart, which is why handle_enter no longer holds its own copy of the rule.

A steer goes to ChatService::steer, which accepts it only when that conversation has a stream in StreamLifecycle::Running and rejects it otherwise, the way Codex's turn/steer reports NoActiveTurn. The queue is per conversation and capped at five. An unbounded queue lets a user stack instructions that all flush at one boundary, which is the unpredictable-flush complaint filed against Claude Code (anthropics/claude-code#49373).

Accepted steers appear in the transcript as queued entries, rendered as outlined bubbles rather than user bubbles, because they have not been said to the model yet. They are chrome, not content: TranscriptRow::QueuedSteering contributes no leaf, no selection key and no copy leaves, so a queued entry cannot shift document order or skew what Cmd+A selects.

run_stream_task now runs turns in a loop. When a turn finishes cleanly and steering is waiting, it runs another turn seeded with the conversation so far plus the steering text. No new user send, and nothing cancelled. Intermediate turns persist their assistant output before the steering message that follows, so a reloaded conversation reads in the order it happened; the last turn is persisted by finalization so nothing is written twice, and StreamCompleted fires once per send rather than once per turn.

The delivery boundary, and why it is end of turn

The issue asks for delivery between tool calls. That injection point is real but it lives inside serdes-ai's AgentStream spawned loop, at the line where tool_req is appended before continue. AgentStream exposes only events and cancel(), with no input channel, so reaching it means changing the pinned dependency across all seven serdes-ai-* entries. The issue's other suggestion, driving AgentRun::step() locally, was rejected on inspection: step() calls model.request() rather than request_stream(), so adopting it would trade token streaming for steering.

This delivers the value the issue states, that the turn keeps the work it has already produced, and every decision recorded on 2026-08-31: no implicit aborts, text-only turns deliver at end of turn, mid-thinking sends wait for a real boundary. A steer typed during a long tool sequence waits for that sequence rather than landing between two of its calls. Tightening that is the upstream change, held for a separate decision.

Queued entries always reach a terminal state

Review surfaced that a queued entry had only one exit. Four paths could accept a steer and then drop it, leaving a bubble on screen forever: stream teardown, user cancel, the chained-turn cap, and a persistence failure that still reported delivery. ChatEvent::SteeringDiscarded is the second terminal state, emitted by every drain path and routed to the view.

The persistence case is fail-fast now. A failed add_message no longer pushes the text into the chained history nor reports it delivered; the chain stops instead of continuing over history the database does not have.

Accepting a steer reads the stream registry and writes the queue registry in two separate lock acquisitions, so a turn can end in the gap. Re-reading the stream state once the entry is queued is what makes that observable, and the entry is withdrawn if the turn is gone. active_streams and steering_queues are never held at the same time anywhere, and nothing is emitted while either is held.

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Whether Stop preserves partial output (#218) and the Responses websocket transport (#217) are untouched.

Verification

cargo fmt --all -- --check, the full CI clippy invocation including cognitive_complexity / too_many_lines / too_many_arguments / type_complexity / struct_excessive_bools, cargo test --lib --tests (1970 passed, 0 failed), cargo xtask guard, lizard -C 50 -L 100 -w src/, the 1000-line file gate, and cargo check --release --bin personal_agent_gpui all pass locally on the head commit. No lint suppressions were added and no existing test was weakened. Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock and the serdes-ai dependency are untouched.

The plan and acceptance criteria are in project-plans/issue222/plan.md.

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New Features
- Send additional guidance while a response is streaming without restarting or cancelling the active turn.
- Steering messages are queued, processed in order, and carried into follow-up turns.
- The chat view displays queued, delivered, discarded, and rejected steering statuses.
- Send and Enter support steering during active responses, while Stop continues to cancel.
Bug Fixes
- Blank, inactive, and full-queue steering submissions are rejected.
- Rejected text is restored to the composer when appropriate.
- Queued messages are correctly discarded when a turn ends or is cancelled.

Issue #222 needs somewhere for a message typed mid-turn to wait. Add ChatService::steer, which accepts text only when the target conversation has a stream in StreamLifecycle::Running and rejects it otherwise, the way Codex's turn/steer reports NoActiveTurn. The queue is per conversation and capped at five: an unbounded queue lets a user stack instructions that all flush at one boundary, which is the unpredictable -flush complaint filed against Claude Code. Steering is additive only. queue_steering never touches the cancellation token, so the sole path to cancel stays StopStreaming, per the decision recorded on the issue. Cancelling or clearing a conversation's stream discards that conversation's queue and no other. active_streams and steering_queues are never held at the same time anywhere, so the two cannot deadlock regardless of call order. clear_streaming_state closes its active_streams guard before locking steering_queues, and finalize_stream_task/finalize_interrupted_stream now take the StreamFinalizeContext they were already being fed field by field, which drops an existing too_many_arguments allow rather than adding one. concurrent_streams::cancel_emits_event_only_for_target drained the shared 16-slot event bus with try_recv, which treats a Lagged receiver as end of stream. The new SteeringQueued traffic pushed the ring over capacity and the test began failing, so it now uses the deadline-bounded lag-skipping drain already established in stream_failure.rs. Delivery of queued messages lands in the next commit; nothing drains the queue into a turn yet.

A user send drove exactly one AgentStream and then finalized, so a message queued mid-turn had nowhere to land. run_stream_task now runs turns in a loop: when a turn finishes cleanly and the conversation has steering waiting, it runs another turn seeded with the conversation so far plus the steering text. No new user send, and nothing cancelled. The boundary is end of turn, not between two tool calls. The injection point the issue describes lives inside AgentStream's spawned loop in serdes-ai, whose public surface is events and cancel() with no input channel, so reaching it means changing the pinned dependency. Driving AgentRun::step() instead was rejected because step() calls model.request() rather than request_stream(), which would trade token streaming for steering. This delivers the issue's stated value — the turn keeps the work it has already produced — and leaves the tighter boundary to the upstream change. A turn that failed, never completed, or whose send was stopped drains nothing and chains nothing, so steering still cannot abort anything. Intermediate turns persist their own assistant output before the steering message that follows, which puts a reloaded conversation in the order it happened; the last turn is persisted by finalize_by_outcome so nothing is written twice, and StreamCompleted fires once per send rather than once per turn. MAX_STEERING_TURNS caps the chain at ten. The queue cap alone cannot terminate it because the user refills the queue during every follow-up turn. ChatService's inline tests moved to chat/tests.rs, unchanged, to keep the trait file readable as it grew.

Nothing carried steering between the view and the service: SteerStreaming had no dispatch arm, and the two steering ChatEvents hit a placeholder no-op left for this phase. handle_steer_streaming sits beside handle_stop_streaming and calls chat_service.steer. On success it sends nothing, because the service already emits SteeringQueued and a second view command here would show the same message twice. On refusal it sends SteeringRejected carrying the service's own reason, then a ShowError, the way handle_send_message surfaces its failures. It never calls cancel. It also does not re-check for empty text. queue_steering already trims and rejects blank input, so a second guard would duplicate the rule and swallow the case instead of surfacing it. SteeringRejected carries no steer_id. steer returns ServiceResult<Uuid>, so a refusal yields an error and no id, and a refused steer was never queued under one; the plan is corrected to match. Reusing the cancel tests' RecordingChatService from a sibling module needed it raised to pub(super), plus a rejecting() constructor for the refusal case. new() is unchanged, so the existing cancel tests assert exactly what they did.

The chat offered one control during a turn. render_send_stop_button flipped a single element between Stop and Send, so redirecting the agent meant killing the turn and throwing away what it had produced. Stop and Send are now separate elements. Stop renders only while a turn runs and does exactly what it did before; Send renders always, so mid-turn both are on screen. What a submit means is decided in one place, ComposerSubmit, which the button click and handle_enter both go through: idle text starts a turn, mid-turn text steers the running one, blank text does neither. Routing them separately is how the two drift apart, which is why handle_enter no longer returns early on StreamingState::Streaming and no longer holds a copy of the rule. A steer names the conversation Stop would cancel, because it joins that turn. It clears the composer and deliberately leaves the streaming state alone: the turn keeps running, and nothing here reaches cancel. An accepted steer becomes a queued entry in the transcript, rendered after the live stream block as an outlined bubble rather than a user bubble, because it has not been said to the model yet. It is chrome, not content: TranscriptRow::QueuedSteering contributes no leaf, no selection key and no copy leaves, so a queued entry cannot shift document order or skew what Cmd+A selects. Every match over TranscriptRow names it explicitly; none of them fall into a wildcard. SteeringDelivered withdraws the entry with that id, SteeringRejected withdraws nothing at all — a refused steer was never queued, so there is no entry under it and removing one would take away a steer still waiting. Entries drop with the transcript they annotate, on conversation switch and on ConversationCleared. render.rs and mod.rs were both within a few dozen lines of the 1000 CI rejects, so the composer row moved to render_composer and the submit path to composer_submit rather than trimming anything to fit. handle_command needed the same room: the ToolApprovalResolved body moved into a handler beside its sibling, unchanged.

A queued steering entry had one way out: SteeringDelivered. Every other ending dropped it in silence, so the bubble the user typed stayed on screen for the rest of the session. Type a steer, hit Stop, and it is still there. Two paths did that. cancel_active_stream drained the queue and logged a debug line. clear_streaming_state removed the map entry and dropped it, which is where a steer accepted between the delivery loop's final drain and the release of the stream slot went; that steer passes is_streaming_for because the entry still reads Running, and it emits SteeringQueued, so the view is already rendering something nothing will ever resolve. SteeringDiscarded is the second terminal state, carrying the steer_id the queued entry was announced under. Both paths emit one per entry, after their locks are released, and clear_streaming_state now takes the queue it used to drop so it can say what was in it. The turn cap emits them too: it drains messages it then refuses to deliver, which is the same hole. ViewCommand::SteeringDiscarded routes through the presenter the way SteeringDelivered does and withdraws the entry with that id. active_streams and steering_queues are still never held at once. deliver_steering used to log a failed add_message and carry on: it pushed the text into the LLM history and reported the steer delivered. That seeds a follow-up turn with a conversation the database does not have, breaking the rule that chained history equals what a reload rebuilds, and tells the view the message was durably recorded. It now stops the chain, discards that entry and everything queued behind it, and finalizes. Because the turn's assistant output was already written by then, the chain reports back whether finalization still owes that write, and finalize_stream_task's completion half is split out so the stop path can take it without persisting the output twice. The queue-discard test waited 20ms on cancel's side effects; it now waits for the StreamCancelled that cancel emits after the discard. events_during slept 20ms hoping its collector had subscribed; the collector now signals a Notify once it holds the subscription.

Accepting a steer reads the stream registry and writes the queue registry in two separate lock acquisitions, because active_streams and steering_queues are never held at the same time. A turn can end in the gap between them. The entry then lands on a queue that turn's teardown has already drained, and nothing will ever come back for it, so the view renders an instruction that never reaches a terminal state. Re-reading the stream state once the entry is queued is what makes that case observable. Whichever of the two ran first, the second one sees it. confirm_or_withdraw_steering does that read, and when the turn is gone it takes the entry back off the queue and emits SteeringDiscarded, which it owes because queue_steering has already announced the entry as queued. It withdraws by id rather than draining, since the rest of the queue may belong to a turn that is about to deliver it, and it reports only what it actually removed, so an entry a concurrent teardown drained first is announced by that teardown and not a second time here. The refusal returned before the insert and the one returned after it now come from a single constructor, so a caller cannot tell which of the two orderings refused and they cannot drift apart. remove_steering computes the removed entry, releases the queue guard, and returns the entry afterwards, so the lock covers the removal alone.

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Mid-turn steering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Steering contracts and presenter wiring `src/events/types.rs`, `src/presentation/...`, `src/services/chat.rs`	Adds steering request, lifecycle, view-command, and service contracts. The presenter forwards steering requests and returns rejected text with validation errors.
Per-conversation steering queue `src/services/chat_impl.rs`, `src/services/chat_impl/steering.rs`, `src/services/chat_impl/tests/steering*`	Adds bounded FIFO queues, active-turn validation, race withdrawal, cancellation cleanup, lifecycle events, and queue-focused tests.
Chained turn delivery `src/services/chat_impl/streaming.rs`, `src/services/chat_impl/streaming/steering_delivery.rs`, `src/services/chat_impl/tests/steering_delivery*`	Delivers queued messages at turn boundaries, persists intermediate history, preserves tool transcripts, limits chained turns, and finalizes once.
Chat-view controls and rendering `src/ui_gpui/views/chat_view/*`	Keeps Stop available during streaming, uses Send for steering, restores rejected text, renders queued entries, scopes entries to the active conversation, and excludes them from selection and copied text.

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Queued steering entries may still be shown after creating a new conversation, which could confuse users about which conversation will receive the message. Resolve the conversation-scoping behavior before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatView
  participant ChatPresenter
  participant ChatServiceImpl
  participant SteeringQueue
  participant ConversationService
  ChatView->>ChatPresenter: Submit SteerStreaming
  ChatPresenter->>ChatServiceImpl: steer(conversation_id, text)
  ChatServiceImpl->>SteeringQueue: Queue validated message
  SteeringQueue-->>ChatServiceImpl: steer_id
  ChatServiceImpl-->>ChatPresenter: SteeringQueued
  ChatServiceImpl->>SteeringQueue: Drain at turn boundary
  SteeringQueue->>ConversationService: Persist steering message
  ChatServiceImpl-->>ChatPresenter: SteeringDelivered or SteeringDiscarded

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A rabbit taps Send while the long turn flows
A queue holds five notes in orderly rows
Stop stays separate, clear and bright
Delivered notes hop into sight
Discarded notes rest when turns are through

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Clear queued steering when Cmd+N resets the conversation.

If a user queues steering and then presses Cmd+N, this path clears the transcript and active conversation but leaves queued_steering populated. transcript_rows renders those entries from their count, so old queued instructions appear in the new blank conversation until a later selection snapshot arrives. Clear self.state.queued_steering in this reset path.
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                 self.emit(UserEvent::NewConversation);
                 self.state.messages.clear();
+                self.state.queued_steering.clear();
                 self.state.input_text.clear();
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In `@src/ui_gpui/views/chat_view/render.rs` around lines 159 - 174, Update the
Cmd+N conversation reset path to clear self.state.queued_steering alongside the
other conversation state, ensuring transcript_rows does not render queued
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In `@src/services/chat_impl/steering.rs`:
- Around line 169-173: Update queue_steering so the active-stream check,
steering insertion, and SteeringQueued publication share one per-conversation
synchronization boundary; ensure teardown cannot drain and emit
SteeringDiscarded until SteeringQueued has been published, preserving exactly
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In `@src/ui_gpui/views/chat_view/composer_submit.rs`:
- Around line 70-101: Update steer_streaming and the SteeringRejected handling
so submitted steering text is preserved when ChatService::steer rejects with
ServiceError::Validation. Retain the text until acceptance or restore it only if
the composer has not been changed since submission, ensuring newer user input is
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src/presentation/chat_presenter_steering_tests.rs
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src/presentation/view_command.rs
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queue_steering inserts the entry, releases the queue lock and only then emits SteeringQueued, so a teardown can drain that entry in the gap and announce its discard before the view has been told the entry exists. The view processed a withdrawal for something it had not rendered, rendered it a moment later, and then confirm_or_withdraw_steering found nothing left to remove and stayed quiet, leaving the instruction waiting on screen for the rest of the session. The re-check now announces the discard whether or not it took the entry off the queue. What that buys is at least one terminal event after every SteeringQueued rather than at most one, and a repeat costs nothing because the view removes by id and the second one finds no entry to take. A refused steer used to destroy what the user typed. The composer clears on submit rather than waiting for an answer, which is what keeps typing ahead responsive, but SteeringRejected carried no text, so a full queue or a turn that ended mid-send took the message away with nothing able to put it back. That was a regression: before steering existed, a mid-turn Send was a no-op and the text stayed put. The rejection now carries the submitted text and the view restores it, but only into a composer that is still empty, because a newer draft outranks the one the service turned down. The two cancel tests asserted that the events they collected contained the StreamCancelled their collector stops on, which is the collector's own exit condition and cannot fail. One of them now asserts what the queue reads after the cancel actually depend on, that the discard was emitted before the announcement. Both also subscribed a receiver that started draining only once cancel had returned, and the bus is a shared 16-slot ring, so their own events could be overwritten by whatever else was running in parallel. They now spawn the collector before the action and wait for it to report that it holds a subscription, the way the delivery and withdrawal tests already do.

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The global event bus is one 16-slot broadcast ring shared by every test in the binary, and each of these tests brings its own tokio runtime running in parallel. On a loaded machine a collector that goes even briefly unpolled can be lagged past all of its own events, end marker included. The collector loops tolerate Lagged and keep draining, so they then wait out a marker that was already overwritten and the assertions see nothing at all, which is exactly how the flake presented. The fix serializes the bus traffic among these tests with a static tokio mutex that each takes before subscribing and holds through its assertions. With at most one steering test emitting at a time, one test's events total well under the ring's capacity, so a collector that does not poll until after the body still finds every one of its events in the ring in order. The Notify ready-handshakes, the collector loops and every assertion are untouched; the lock only removes the cross-test interference that made the behavioral evidence unreproducible.

SteeringRejected restores the submitted text into the composer, but the only condition it checked was that the composer was still empty. The refusal takes a round trip, and nothing stops the user from switching conversations while it travels, so words typed into conversation A could land in conversation B's composer, a draft the user never wrote there. The sibling queued and delivered handlers already ignore any conversation they do not recognize, and the rejection now does the same: the text goes back only while the conversation it belongs to is still the one on screen, alongside the existing rule that a newer draft outranks it. The restore is skipped, not deferred; the ShowError that accompanies the refusal is what the user sees either way.

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Dedicated Stop button and mid-turn steering via Send - #233

Dedicated Stop button and mid-turn steering via Send#233
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The delivery boundary, and why it is end of turn

Queued entries always reach a terminal state

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