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Then holds the mail beside the dock.
“Undo,” I tap; the post stays near,
“Send now,” and off it goes from here.
Trash gets a twin, restore brings back,
Previews guide my carrot stack.
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- Around line 734-740: Update the ToolResultEvent handler to avoid labeling
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🟡 Minor · Wait for undo.ack before treating an undo response as successful. · chat.ts:213-236
desktop/src/stores/chat.ts:213-236
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winWait for
undo.ackbefore treating an undo response as successful.
respondUndodismisses the Undo control and returnstruewhenlive.sendonly confirms that the WebSocket is open. It does not wait forundo.ack. If the server does not process the frame, the HTTP fallback is skipped, no retry occurs, and the action can remain pending until the undo window expires.Change this path to wait for a positive
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🟡 Minor · Preserve the full message body in channel approval requests. · preview.py:120-155
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the full message body in channel approval requests.
The preview truncates the body before approval. Messaging channels then truncate it again, so a user can approve a message without seeing its tail. Preserve the full body in the approval UI. If a channel has a size limit, split or paginate the content instead of silently truncating it.
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1-1: LGTM!desktop/src/lib/types.ts: 1
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80-94: Laterespondis rejected correctly, but a race exists onsend_now.
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1139-1144: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityNo change is required for cancellation during the undo wait.
Stopping the reply intentionally cancels the wait and prevents the tool from running.
run_turncatches the cancellation, persists the stopped reply, and re-raises it.history_to_openairemoves unanswered tool calls before the next model request, so the persisted intermediate message does not cause a functional break.docs/adr/0026-undo-windows-and-reversible-defaults.md: 1
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Require an equivalent object match before substituting a trash tool.
When delete_note and a generic trash tool share a plugin, have < want accepts trash as a twin. If trash has no required fields, fit_arguments also accepts the call and can discard the note-specific arguments. The agent then runs a different action than the requested note deletion. Require an exact object match, or use an explicit mapping for generic tools whose target and scope can be verified. As per coding guidelines, “Safety is deterministic. A model may raise a risk, never lower it.”
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Update the compatibility check around have and want so a generic trash tool
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Part of #142 (task dry-run and file snapshots are left for later)
What changes
Previews. Approval cards for emails, messages, posts, deletions and purchases now show who it goes to, the subject and the full text, laid out the way a person reads them. The raw JSON is one click away under "Details". The preview is built in code from the call's tool name and arguments (
sentient/agent/preview.py), never by a model. It is onapproval_request.preview, on the newundo_windowevent, and on a task's approval question (pending_question.preview, shown inRunQuestion). Messaging apps show it as plain lines instead of JSON.Undo window. In a chat someone is watching (the desktop, Telegram, Discord or WhatsApp), an email, message or post waits
tools.approvals.undo_seconds(default 10, 0 turns it off) after every other check said yes: Never rules, Read only, approvals and grants, then the second look (#341). The loop emitsundo_windowand runs the call only when the window ends.{"error": "NOT SENT ...", "undone": true}.The desktop shows a card in the chat (preview, countdown, Undo, Send now) plus a toast with Undo. Messaging apps get a message with Undo / Send now buttons, which only the chat it was sent to can answer. Contract: WS
undo.respond→undo.ack, and RESTPOST /api/undo. Which calls wait is decided in code from the tool name (a send verb). Purchases and running code never wait.Trash instead of delete. With
tools.approvals.prefer_trashon (the default), a call to a delete-for-good tool is swapped for the same app's trash tool when one exists (delete_note→trash_note, same object words, required arguments present). The swap happens before the call is saved or checked, so the approval card, the second look and the transcript all see the trash call. The result gets a note saying it went to the trash. The swap is skipped when the user's own words ask for a permanent delete ("permanently", "for good", ...).Restore from Activity. A chat call that moved something to the trash shows Restore on the Activity timeline when its app has a restore tool. This uses
POST /api/timeline/restorethroughAgent.run_tool, so Never rules and Read only still apply. A new built-ingmail_restoretool brings back whatgmail_trashremoved. A send the user undid shows as "Stopped: You allowed it, then pressed Undo, so nothing was sent."Background tasks: decision (ADR 0025). There is no undo window for task runs, briefs, script jobs, subagents or other work nobody is watching, because a window nobody sees only delays the send. For tasks, the approval itself is the user's look at the exact call, and it now shows the preview. Restore on Activity covers chat calls only, because Activity lists task runs per run, not per call.
Docs:
docs/API.md(section 1 events, section 2/api/undo, section 4pending_question.preview, section 10 "Previews, undo windows and the trash", section 21undo+ restore), ADR 0025, CHANGELOG.tests/conftest.pysetsundo_seconds = 0by default, as it already does forsecond_look_model. The tests that cover the window turn it on.Tests
tests/test_undo_and_previews.pycovers:undo_seconds: 0;tests/channels/test_undo_buttons.py(Telegram):npm run typecheck,npm run buildandnpm test(48) pass.Real test (engine from this branch, fresh
SENTIENT_HOME, random token, port 8787,claude-code/sonnetprimary andclaude-code/haikufast, approvals mode "ask")Two local stdio MCP servers stood in for real apps:
mailer(send_emailonly appends a JSON line to a log file) andnotes(a fake notes app withlist_notes,delete_note(permanent),trash_noteandrestore_note).Over WS
/ws:undo_windowopened at 10:09:36 and ended at 10:09:45. The engine log showsundo window ... ended: sent. The mailer log line has"at": "10:09:46", after the window and not before.mcp_notes_delete_notefor note 3. The engine log showsmoving to the trash with mcp_notes_trash_note instead of mcp_notes_delete_note. The approval card preview was "Move to the trash, Item 3". The notes state then had{"trash": {"3": ...}}and the log["trash_note:3"], sodelete_notenever ran.GET /api/timelinelisted the item withundo: {"action": "restore", "label": "Restore"}.POST /api/timeline/restorereturned{"ok": true, "result": {"content": "Restored."}}, and the notes log gainedrestore_note:3. The undone send is listed as "You allowed it, then pressed Undo, so nothing was sent."In the built app, driven over the DevTools protocol with the same home:
Screenshots (checked by eye):
Sonnet sometimes asked "send it?" in words before calling the tool. The driver then answered "Yes, send it now." This is model behaviour, not part of this change.
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