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What

Each message you send gets actions on hover, and the Agent tab's conversations can finally be renamed and deleted.

  • Retry (last message): drops the reply to it — a half-finished one after a Stop, say — and sends the same text again.
  • Send again (older messages): sends the text as a new message at the end.
  • Edit: rewrites the message in place. It replaces that message and everything after it, then sends the new text.
  • Delete: removes the message and the agent's answer to it, tool calls included. The rest of the conversation is left as it was.
  • Agent tab: rename and delete per row. The session routes already existed; there was just no UI for them. Deleting a channel conversation doesn't block the chat — the next message starts a new one — and the confirm says so.

Why it touches pi's session file

Trimming only the portal's transcript would leave the model answering to a message that is gone from the screen. So edit and delete also change pi's own record.

pi's file is a tree of entries linked by parentId; the conversation is the path from the last entry to the root. Removing a turn means dropping its entries and re-parenting the next one. That lives in server/src/pi/session-edit.ts as a function over the file's text, so it's testable without a live session. SessionManager.removeMessage stops the client first (a live pi would write its in-memory version back over the edit), writes to a temp file and renames it.

Portal messages are matched to pi's user entries by text, in order, because the two lists differ: a slash command isn't a chat message to the portal but can expand into one for pi, and a message that failed before reaching pi has no entry. A sent message that finds no match is skipped; only the one being acted on has to be found.

It refuses instead of guessing — nothing is written — when:

  • the message sits under a later compaction summary (a single delete would leave the summary describing it; edit still works, since it drops the summary too),
  • the file has branches it can't reason about,
  • the message can't be found in pi's history,
  • a run is in progress (409), or the session is a container session.

Open pages learn what went via a portal_removed event (ephemeral, negative seq) instead of reloading.

What it doesn't do

Edit and delete change what the agent remembers, not what it did. Files it changed, commands it ran and messages already delivered to a channel stay. Edit and Retry resend only the visible text, so the context chips on channel messages (speaker, etc.) are not carried over.

Testing

  • 14 new unit tests over synthetic sessions: middle/last/first turn, duplicates, a message pi never received, audio prefix, model change between turns, labels, compaction on either side, side branches.
  • Checked against a real session file copy: turn delete and tail edit both reload cleanly with pi's own SessionManager and give the expected conversation.
  • Ran the server against a scratch data dir: DELETE removed the events and rewrote the file, an open page received portal_removed, unknown seq/session return 404, empty edit 400. The edit route removed everything and recorded the new prompt; the prompt itself then failed on the missing API key in that scratch setup.
  • Not click-tested in a browser. The UI builds and type-checks; hover visibility, the inline editor and the confirm dialogs haven't been exercised by hand.

Docs: docs/guide/sessions.md (new "Sent messages" section) and docs/channels/index.md.

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  • New Features

    • Added conversation renaming and deletion from the Agent tab and sessions page.
    • Added message actions: retry, resend, edit, and delete.
    • Editing replaces the selected message and following content; deletion removes the message and associated agent response.
    • Added confirmations, inline error feedback, and touch-device support.
    • Added safeguards and clear feedback when message changes cannot be applied.
  • Documentation

    • Documented conversation and sent-message management, including limitations during active runs, compaction, and branched conversations.

Piggidragon and others added 2 commits September 19, 2026 21:06
Each message you send now has three actions on hover.

Resend sends the same text again. Edit replaces the message and everything
after it. Delete removes the message and the agent's answer to it.

Edit and delete change pi's own session file as well as the portal's
transcript. Trimming only the transcript would leave the model answering to a
message that is gone from the screen. The file is a tree of entries linked by
parent id, so removing a turn means dropping its entries and re-parenting the
next one; that lives in pi/session-edit.ts as a function over the file's text,
tested against synthetic sessions and checked against a real one loaded with
pi's own SessionManager. It refuses instead of guessing when a message sits
under a compaction summary or the file has branches it cannot reason about.

The server refuses both while a run is in progress. A portal_removed event
tells open pages which stretch of transcript to drop.

The Agent tab lists conversations that could already be renamed and deleted
through the session routes, but had no way to do it. Rows now have both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sending the same text again after a Stop left the aborted, half-written
answer in the agent's memory with a second copy of the question after it.

On the last message the action now edits without changing the text: it and
what came of it are removed from pi's record and the message is sent again.
Older messages keep sending their text as a new message, since replacing one
of those would drop everything after it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds message retry, resend, edit, and delete controls. The server updates pi session files and stored events with rollback support. The web client synchronizes removed event ranges. The Agent tab gains session rename and delete controls, with updated documentation.

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Conversation editing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session file editing
server/src/pi/session-edit.ts, server/test/session-edit.test.mjs
Adds tree-path traversal, exact message matching, turn and tail removal, branch cleanup, validation, and tests for these cases.
Server session integration
server/src/db.ts, server/src/session-manager.ts, server/src/index.ts
Adds event-range queries, restoration helpers, message removal and replacement methods, rollback handling, authenticated routes, error mapping, and live-only portal_removed events.
Web message controls
web/src/transcript.ts, web/src/api.ts, web/src/App.tsx, web/src/components/Chat.tsx
Carries prompt sequence numbers into the transcript, adds message actions and validation, calls the new APIs, and filters removed event ranges from live updates.
Session list and documentation
web/src/components/AgentPage.tsx, docs/channels/index.md, docs/guide/sessions.md
Adds session rename and delete controls with error handling and documents session and sent-message actions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Chat
  participant API
  participant SessionManager
  participant SessionFile
  participant EventStore
  User->>Chat: Edit or delete sent message
  Chat->>API: Submit message action
  API->>SessionManager: Remove or replace message
  SessionManager->>SessionFile: Rewrite conversation path
  SessionManager->>EventStore: Delete or restore event range
  SessionManager-->>API: Return success or error
  API-->>Chat: Update transcript and session state
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Conversation edits can leave agent memory and transcript history inconsistent, so these persistence risks should be fixed before merge.

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In `@server/src/pi/session-edit.ts`:
- Line 94: The fallback in the session-edit matching logic must reject ambiguous
substring matches instead of selecting the first later user message containing
want. Restrict matching to documented message transformations, require exactly
one valid match, and return SessionEditError("unmatched", ...) when no unique
match exists; preserve the existing direct-match behavior and event-deletion
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In `@server/src/session-manager.ts`:
- Around line 442-443: The editMessage replacement flow must roll back the
original conversation when prompt fails, including ensureClient, client.prompt,
and persistence failures. Preserve the removed tail’s session-file and SQLite
event state, defer publishing portal_removed until the replacement is accepted,
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failure; update editMessage and prompt while preserving successful replacements.
- Around line 430-437: Make the session edit flow around renameSync,
deleteEventsBetween, and record recoverable across failures by persisting an
edit intent before changing the session file, then completing or rolling back
the intent after the event-store update. Add startup recovery to detect
incomplete intents and restore consistency between the session file and portal
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- Match a sent message to pi's entry only exactly or as a voice turn. The
  substring fallback could take a message pi never received for a later one
  containing its words, and remove the wrong turn.
- Edit no longer loses the conversation when the replacement is refused: the
  file and the transcript are restored and the replacement's event retracted.
  portal_removed is published only once the replacement is accepted, and only
  for the range that went. If the transcript update itself fails after the
  file was rewritten, the file is put back.
- Enter on an unchanged edit does nothing instead of removing the tail and
  sending the same text again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Comment thread server/src/session-manager.ts
An edit rewrites the file pi reads and deletes events. A prompt arriving
while stop() was still cleaning up could start a client on the old file, or
have its own portal_prompt deleted with the tail.

A per-session lease is now held from before the busy check to after the
replacement is sent or the old conversation is restored. Prompts and client
starts from anywhere else wait for it instead of failing; a second edit is
refused as busy. The replacement prompt goes through the lease.

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