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fix(tasks): single-line titles and single-token assignees on write (TASK-354) - #2483
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Task creation and update routes and the native task tool normalize titles and parse assignees. They reject empty normalized titles and invalid assignees. Tests cover these rules, and task-form placeholders now request an agent handle.
Changes: Task input normalization
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Shared normalization and route validation backend/utils/taskFieldNormalization.ts, backend/routes/tasksApi.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js, frontend/src/i18n/locales/*.json
Shared helpers collapse title whitespace and trim assignees without changing case. POST and PATCH apply these rules, map blank assignees to null, and reject invalid assignees or empty normalized titles with HTTP 400. Source-reference lookup checks normalized and raw titles. Tests cover accepted and rejected inputs. Both locale placeholders ask for an agent handle.
The native task tool normalizes titles and assignees, reports invalid assignees, and stores the parsed assignee. Tests cover handle assignment and display-name guidance.
Team-Commonly/commonly#2478: The proposal flow uses the POST source-reference lookup that this change updates.
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Resolve task replay selection and instance-ID completion handling before merging: a replay can reopen the wrong task, and an instance-ID assignee can miss its completion exchange.
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backend/routes/tasksApi.ts: 2
917-917: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject non-string PATCH titles before the update.
If a caller sends { "title": null }, this branch skips validation and Line 956 places null in $set. The PATCH route can therefore accept a blank title despite the new title rule. Apply the POST route’s string-type check to PATCH whenever title is present. As per coding guidelines, “Null/undefined handling at every boundary crossing. Type-safe doesn't mean runtime-safe when data comes from JSON/DB.”
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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts at line 917:
Update the PATCH title validation around fieldUpdates.title to reject requests
whenever title is present but is not a string, before adding it to $set.
Preserve the existing validation for string titles and align the type check with
the POST route.
raw.trim() is intentional: the tests and helper contract define assignees as trimmed, so outer newlines such as "Nova\n" are accepted. However, \u0085 remains after trimming and passes both current checks. Include the full C1 range:
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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts around lines 106 - 109:
Update the control-character check in parseAssignee to reject the full C1 range,
U+007F through U+009F, while preserving the existing rejection of characters
below U+0020 and the intentional raw.trim() behavior for outer whitespace.
Add a test for the standalone carriage-return branch.
The title regex matches \r on its own, but the POST test at lines 68-74 sends only \r\n and \n. A lone \r is not exercised. Add a case that expects 'First\rSecond' to be stored as 'First Second'.
🧪 Suggested test
expect(mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].title).toBe('Fix the board lease row');
});
+ test('a standalone carriage return collapses to one space before it is stored', async () => {+ const res = await request(app)+ .post(`/api/v1/tasks/${POD}`)+ .send({ title: 'First\rSecond' });+ expect(res.status).toBe(201);+ expect(mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].title).toBe('First Second');+ });+
test('a title that is only a newline is refused as empty', async () => {
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Add a POST test alongside the existing newline title tests that sends a title
containing a standalone carriage return, `First\rSecond`, and verifies the
response is 201 and the stored title is `First Second`.
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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Line 267: Preserve idempotency when changing the title identity in the task
creation flow: ensure the lookup for tasks with a sourceRef also finds existing
records whose stored title is multiline, such as “Fix\nboard,” before creating a
new task. Add a compatibility lookup or migrate existing titles, and cover
replaying the same input against a previously stored multiline title.
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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Line 917: Update the PATCH title validation around fieldUpdates.title to
reject requests whenever title is present but is not a string, before adding it
to $set. Preserve the existing validation for string titles and align the type
check with the POST route.
- Around line 106-109: Update the control-character check in parseAssignee to
reject the full C1 range, U+007F through U+009F, while preserving the existing
rejection of characters below U+0020 and the intentional raw.trim() behavior for
outer whitespace.
---
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- Around line 68-74: Add a POST test alongside the existing newline title tests
that sends a title containing a standalone carriage return, `First\rSecond`, and
verifies the response is 201 and the stored title is `First Second`.
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backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:861-878 still calls Task.create directly with a merely trimmed title and raw args.assignee. A native agent can therefore store one\ntwo and two words without either normalization or a 400. Task has no schema guard for these fields. Apply the same contract to this service write path and test it; the fixed starter tasks in authController are already safe literals.
backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:98 collapses whitespace around newlines only. A B remains A B, and the new test at tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js:73 explicitly expects three internal spaces. TASK-354 requires internal whitespace to collapse to single spaces, so update the normalizer and assertion.
backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:108-109 misses C1 control characters. nova\u0085ops passes both the ASCII-only control check and JavaScript \s, so POST/PATCH store an assignee containing a control character instead of returning 400. I ran that exact predicate on Node. Cover the full control range and pin the case.
Caller contract: commonly_create_task still advertises an optional assignee “display name,” and the board accepts free text. Before enforcing one token at every path, align those callers with the required username token so previously valid multiword input does not fail without a clear explanation.
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backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts: 1
862-869: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject non-string native task arguments before coercion.
The native tool schema declares title and assignee as strings, but parsed tool arguments are not runtime-validated. A truthy non-string value such as {} becomes "[object Object]", passes the normalizers, and can be persisted by Task.create instead of returning a structured invalid-input response. null is already handled safely; this affects non-string values that survive the current truthiness checks.
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- const title = toSingleLineTitle(String(args.title || ''));+ if (typeof args.title !== 'string') {+ return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_title' };+ }+ const title = toSingleLineTitle(args.title);
if (!title) {
return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title is required' }, error: 'missing_title' };
}
- const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(args.assignee ? String(args.assignee) : '');+ if (args.assignee !== undefined && args.assignee !== null && typeof args.assignee !== 'string') {+ return { content: { ok: false, error: 'assignee must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_assignee' };+ }+ const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(typeof args.assignee === 'string' ? args.assignee : '');
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Review comment at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts around lines 862 -
869:
Validate runtime types in the native task argument handling before coercion:
reject non-string title values that would otherwise be stringified, while
preserving the existing missing-title response for null, undefined, or empty
titles. In the assignee parsing path, reject non-string values except null or
undefined, and pass valid strings directly to parseAssignee; return structured
invalid-input responses without changing the existing error conventions.
Verify the native task write, not only its error message.
This test can pass without proving that an invalid assignee prevents Task.create. Assert that no row is created. Add native create-task cases that check the stored title after newline collapse and the stored assignee after trimming. As per coding guidelines, “Test asserts on output only but has important side effects (DB writes, event enqueues, external calls): flag.”
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Extend the native create-task tests around the commonly_create_task case to
assert that an invalid display-name assignee results in no Task.create call. Add
valid create-task cases that verify the stored title has newlines collapsed and
the stored assignee is trimmed.
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- Around line 862-869: Validate runtime types in the native task argument
handling before coercion: reject non-string title values that would otherwise be
stringified, while preserving the existing missing-title response for null,
undefined, or empty titles. In the assignee parsing path, reject non-string
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parseAssignee; return structured invalid-input responses without changing the
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- Around line 488-495: Extend the native create-task tests around the
commonly_create_task case to assert that an invalid display-name assignee
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HOLD — backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:290 still describes commonly_create_task.assignee as “Optional assignee display name”. The new dispatch validation at :866 rejects multiword display names with invalid_assignee. A native agent following its offered tool schema can now fail to create a task. Change that schema description to require a single handle, and pin the offered contract in a test.
The focused route and native suites pass (52/52). Reverting POST title normalization makes two paired assertions fail; bypassing the POST assignee refusal makes three fail. CI is green at this head. I did not measure rendered layout.
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🟡 Minor · Reject non-string PATCH assignees before parsing. · tasksApi.ts:905-909
backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:905-909 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject non-string PATCH assignees before parsing.
PATCH calls parseAssignee only for strings. A JSON array such as ["nova ops"] therefore bypasses validation and reaches Mongoose through $set. Mongoose casts it to the string "nova ops", which persists an invalid multi-token assignee. This is separate from control characters in string assignees.
Suggested fix
if (typeof fieldUpdates.assignee === 'string' && fieldUpdates.assignee.trim() === '') {
fieldUpdates.assignee = null;
}
+ if (fieldUpdates.assignee !== undefined+ && fieldUpdates.assignee !== null+ && typeof fieldUpdates.assignee !== 'string') {+ return res.status(400).json({ error: 'assignee must be a string' });+ }
if (typeof fieldUpdates.title === 'string') {
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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts around lines 905 - 909:
In the PATCH assignee handling near parseAssignee, reject any provided non-null
assignee value that is not a string with a 400 response before it reaches
Mongoose; keep null as the valid clearing value and preserve parsing for string
assignees.
Cover whitespace-only titles in commonly_create_task.
The native tests use only Ship it. Add a case with a whitespace-only title that asserts error: 'missing_title' and verifies that mockTaskCreate is not called.
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Extend the `commonly_create_task` tests to cover a title containing only
whitespace. Assert that the tool returns `error: 'missing_title'` and that
`mockTaskCreate` is not called, while leaving the existing valid-title case
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- Line 290: Update the assignee contract in the tool schema to advertise only
agentName values, removing instanceId as an accepted assignee since
recordTaskCompleted matches agent names.
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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Around line 905-909: In the PATCH assignee handling near parseAssignee, reject
any provided non-null assignee value that is not a string with a 400 response
before it reaches Mongoose; keep null as the valid clearing value and preserve
parsing for string assignees.
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- Around line 493-504: Extend the `commonly_create_task` tests to cover a title
containing only whitespace. Assert that the tool returns `error:
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#!/bin/bashset -eu
printf'%s\n''--- task field parser ---'
nl -ba backend/utils/taskFieldNormalization.ts | sed -n '1,180p'printf'%s\n''--- agent member resolution ---'
rg -n -F -e 'function resolveAgentMembers' -e 'const resolveAgentMembers' -e 'export.*resolveAgentMembers' backend/services/systemExchangeTriggers.ts
nl -ba backend/services/systemExchangeTriggers.ts | sed -n '250,355p'
Repository: Team-Commonly/commonly
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Resolve instanceId assignees before task-completion dispatch.
The completion route passes the stored assignee to recordTaskCompleted. That consumer accepts only an agentName match. An instanceId such as default can fail the membership check and skip the system exchange. Resolve instanceId values in the consumer, or remove them from the advertised assignee contract.
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Update the assignee contract in the tool schema to advertise only agentName
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899-899: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject non-string task fields before coercion.
The tool schema advertises title and assignee as strings, but the model-call path only parses tc.function.arguments with JSON.parse and passes the result directly to dispatchTool. No runtime schema validation runs before dispatch. Wrong-shaped JSON values can therefore be coerced and stored in task fields.
🐛 Suggested fix
case 'commonly_create_task': {
+ if (args.title != null && typeof args.title !== 'string') {+ return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title must be a string' }, error: 'missing_title' };+ }
const title = toSingleLineTitle(String(args.title || ''));
if (!title) {
return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title is required' }, error: 'missing_title' };
}
+ if (args.assignee != null && typeof args.assignee !== 'string') {+ return { content: { ok: false, error: 'assignee must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_assignee' };+ }
const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(args.assignee ? String(args.assignee) : '');
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Review comment at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts at line 899:
In the commonly_create_task case, validate title and assignee before coercion:
reject non-null values that are not strings, while preserving the existing
handling of missing or null values. Then keep the existing title normalization
and parseAssignee flow for valid strings.
Add a native-dispatch test for blank assignees that asserts assignee: null reaches Task.create.
The native dispatch test file covers only a valid handle and a display-name rejection. The native dispatch path does not have a test for the blank-assignee case. In that case, the parser maps blank input to null, and dispatch passes that null to Task.create. The control-character and title normalization cases are already covered by the shared route tests or are covered by the prior published requests, so this comment requests only the blank-assignee case.
Add this case to backend/__tests__/unit/services/nativeRuntimeService.webFetch.test.js:
test('commonly_create_task stores a blank assignee as unassigned (TASK-354)',async()=>{mockTaskCreate.mockClear();mockTaskCreate.mockResolvedValue({taskId: 'N-2',toObject: ()=>({})});axios.post.mockResolvedValueOnce(toolCalls(call('c1','commonly_create_task',{title: 'Ship it',assignee: ' '}))).mockResolvedValueOnce(finalReply);awaitrunAgent(install(),mention());expect(mockTaskCreate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({title: 'Ship it',assignee: null}));});
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Add a native-dispatch test alongside the existing `commonly_create_task`
assignee tests in the web-fetch test suite; pass a whitespace-only assignee
through `runAgent` and verify `mockTaskCreate` receives `assignee: null`.
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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Around line 966-968: Reject PATCH requests when `fieldUpdates.title` is
explicitly non-string, including null, before the `findOneAndUpdate` write path;
preserve the existing normalization and empty-title check for strings. Add a
test verifying `{ "title": null }` returns 400 without writing.
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Review comments at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:
- Line 899: In the commonly_create_task case, validate title and assignee before
coercion: reject non-null values that are not strings, while preserving the
existing handling of missing or null values. Then keep the existing title
normalization and parseAssignee flow for valid strings.
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- Around line 534-557: Add a native-dispatch test alongside the existing
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Reject non-string PATCH titles before writing them.
A PATCH request with { "title": null } bypasses the string-only normalization check and reaches a findOneAndUpdate write path. The Task schema requires title, but update validators are not enabled, so the required validator does not reject null. Return 400 before the write, and add a test for this request.
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Reject PATCH requests when `fieldUpdates.title` is explicitly non-string,
including null, before the `findOneAndUpdate` write path; preserve the existing
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CodeRabbit threads on #2483, answered at head 53468e6:
backend/routes/tasksApi.ts multiline idempotency: fixed. The POST sourceRef lookup now matches the normalized title or the raw input, so a replay finds a row stored before collapsing. Test: "a replay looks up a row stored under the raw multiline title too".
backend/routes/tasksApi.ts PATCH title: null: fixed. A non-string PATCH title returns 400 before the write. Test: "a non-string title is refused before the write, so null never reaches Mongo".
backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts instanceId in schema: valid observation, not changed yet. recordTaskCompleted matches agentName only, so an instanceId assignee drops the completion event. Narrowing the schema to agentName would contradict the handle wording Lily asked for, so this waits on her ruling.
Request changes. The earlier title/assignee validation defects are fixed. One advertised assignee contract still has no matching completion consumer.
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P2 — backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:292 advertises “agentName or instanceId”, and backend/utils/taskFieldNormalization.ts:18 repeats that contract. The validator accepts an instanceId and native creation stores it unchanged. backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:736 forwards the stored assignee to recordTaskCompleted, whose membership predicate at backend/services/systemExchangeTriggers.ts:397 compares agentName only and returns at line 398 otherwise. This is CodeRabbit's discussion_r4359584606, independently verified. In real Mongo I installed analyst/nova as a bot member: parseAssignee('nova') succeeds, but completing with assignee 'nova' writes no task-completed system-exchange memory entry. Passing 'analyst' instead writes one entry to analyst/nova. The task can become done in both cases; the lost side effect is the completion memory entry, not the board transition itself. Align the advertised identity with what the consumer resolves: narrow the contract to supported agentName values, or resolve instanceId to the correct agent/instance tuple with a completion regression. The author's answer acknowledges the issue and awaits a ruling; an answer does not repair this functional mismatch.
Verified fixes
Shared title normalization collapses all whitespace, including internal runs, and the native tool uses it before creation.
Shared assignee validation rejects C0/DEL/C1 controls and inner whitespace; native creation uses it and preserves trimmed case.
POST sourceRef lookup includes normalized and original raw multiline title keys.
PATCH explicitly rejects non-string titles before any write.
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Five temporary native dispatcher probes pass: title whitespace collapse, padded-case assignee, blank title refusal, and C1/C0 control refusals (three control cases). They supplement the two committed native cases.
A temporary real-Mongo service probe reproduces the instanceId/agentName completion discrepancy using actual models, recordTaskCompleted and appendSystemExchange. Command: npm test -- --runInBand --detectOpenHandles tests/service/sable-task-assignee-probe.test.js tests/unit/services/nativeRuntimeService.webFetch.test.js — 51/51 including the temporary native cases.
npm run build passes.
./node_modules/.bin/eslint routes/tasksApi.ts services/nativeRuntimeService.ts utils/taskFieldNormalization.ts — zero errors, 33 warnings.
Temporary probes removed and the checkout restored clean. Probe copies are retained locally for re-checking the correction.
Clears CODE HOLD 5638050787 at 53468e6. Fetched and checked out this exact head in a detached worktree. The complete delta from that reviewed head is one tool-description line: commonly_create_task now directs the model to use agentName only and explicitly excludes instanceId from the supported assignee contract. That aligns the advertised input with recordTaskCompleted's agentName match. This selects the narrower supported contract; it does not add instanceId completion support.
The previous review's real-Mongo control already proved that the supported agentName reaches the correct installed instance's completion memory entry. All other reviewed code/tests remain unchanged: shared title/assignee validation, raw-title sourceRef replay lookup and the non-string PATCH title guard retain their fixes.
backend: ./node_modules/.bin/eslint services/nativeRuntimeService.ts — zero errors, 14 warnings.
git diff --check — pass. Checkout clean.
CodeRabbit's earlier findings are linked in the author's answer comment. The raw-title thread is resolved; the PATCH-title and instanceId-schema threads are outdated. No current unanswered thread remains at this check. This code verdict does not clear the stale-base/CI checks or replace the required deployed UI check for the placeholder copy. A rebase that changes code needs its own exact-head verification.
…ASK-354)
Newlines in a title collapse to a space, and a title that is blank after that
is refused. Assignee is trimmed; an inner space or control character is refused
and case is kept. Applied to both create and PATCH.
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…-354)
Title: any run of whitespace, newlines included, collapses to one space, and a
title blank after that is refused. Assignee: one handle, trimmed, case kept;
an inner space or any C0, DEL or C1 control character gets a 400 that asks for
a handle. The rules live in utils/taskFieldNormalization and apply to the
tasks API (POST and PATCH) and the native runtime's create tool. The board's
assignee placeholder now asks for a handle.
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The native tool's assignee description said display name, so an agent following
its own contract now hits the 400. It now asks for the handle (agentName or
instanceId, one token). Tests pin that a handle is stored and a multiword name
is refused before any row is written.
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…ASK-354)
Main's PATCH now reads the current revision through findOne(...).select(...).lean()
before its CAS write. The title/assignee normalization test mock had no select on
findOne, so the title-only PATCH threw and returned 500 after the rebase.
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… titles (TASK-354)
PATCH let a null title reach the $set; now a non-string title is a 400.
POST's sourceRef idempotency lookup also matches the raw input title, so a
replay of a row stored before normalization finds it instead of a twin.
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…ee (TASK-354)
recordTaskCompleted matches agentName, so an instanceId assignee skipped the
completion memory entry. The schema now names the field the completion path
resolves on.
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Re-stamp at 7cd8270, which is a rebase only. The stable patch-id is 9788a5271f528121b0dfec98df039fec276ceef7 at both e35955d (sable CODE PASS 5638055614) and this head, so the PASS carries. Tier 1, and no CodeRabbit threads are unanswered.
122-123: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Assert the replay result, not only the lookup filter.
The default Task.findOne mock returns a query-shaped object without toObject. The route can therefore respond with 500 while this test passes. Mock an existing row with the raw multiline title, then assert that the response identifies that row and Task.create is not called. As per coding guidelines, “Tests cross module boundaries, not internal details.”
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Review comment at
@backend/__tests__/unit/routes/tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js
around lines 122 - 123:
Update the replay test around Task.findOne to return an existing task row with
the raw multiline title, then assert the response identifies that row and
Task.create is not called; do not rely only on inspecting the internal lookup
filter.
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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Around line 325-326: Update the task lookup using titleKeys so it searches for
an exact raw-title match first, then falls back to the normalized title only if
no exact match exists; preserve the existing sourceRef and podId constraints.
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- Around line 122-123: Update the replay test around Task.findOne to return an
existing task row with the raw multiline title, then assert the response
identifies that row and Task.create is not called; do not rely only on
inspecting the internal lookup filter.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Prefer an exact raw-title match before a normalized-title match.
Existing rows can share a sourceRef while storing Fix\nboard and Fix board as distinct titles. For a replay of Fix\nboard, this unsorted $in lookup can return the Fix board row. The route then returns or reopens the wrong task. Check the raw title first, then fall back to the normalized title if no exact row exists. As per coding guidelines, “The change does what the PR title/description claims.”
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts around lines 325 - 326:
Update the task lookup using titleKeys so it searches for an exact raw-title
match first, then falls back to the normalized title only if no exact match
exists; preserve the existing sourceRef and podId constraints.
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Re-stamp after the rebase onto main 36244e5. Fetched and checked out the exact head in a detached worktree. The aggregate stable patch ID is unchanged from reviewed e35955d: 9788a5271f528121b0dfec98df039fec276ceef7. Six-commit range-diff preserves every edit; the only displayed difference is the surrounding dispatchTool declaration now being exported on main.
The previously verified fixes remain intact: title whitespace normalization, native and HTTP assignee validation including C1 controls, raw multiline-title sourceRef replay compatibility, explicit non-string PATCH title refusal, and the native schema's supported agentName-only contract. No new blocking code finding from the rebase.
backend: ./node_modules/.bin/eslint routes/tasksApi.ts services/nativeRuntimeService.ts utils/taskFieldNormalization.ts — zero errors, 33 warnings.
git diff --check — pass; checkout clean.
git range-diff bf0bd59..e35955d36244e5..HEAD, and git diff for each base/head pair piped to git patch-id --stable — matching patch ID above.
CodeRabbit's existing raw-title finding is resolved and the other two findings are outdated, with linked author answers retained. No current unanswered thread. The stale-base merge guard and coderabbit-threads status now pass. Fresh CI and the deployed placeholder check remain press conditions; this review does not assert they are complete.
…ay (TASK-354)
An $in lookup could return a 'Fix board' row for a replay of 'Fix\nboard'.
The raw title is now looked up first, then the normalized title.
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Fixed the raw-title lookup thread at bce8244. The POST sourceRef lookup now tries the exact raw title first, then the normalized title, so a Fix board row cannot shadow a Fix\nboard row. The test asserts the first lookup is the raw title. Targeted suites pass 58/58. Sable's re-stamp is needed because this changes code.
Re-gated the sourceRef replay change against previously reviewed 7cd8270 in an exact detached checkout. The delta is confined to tasksApi.ts and its replay test. The route now queries the exact original title first, then the normalized title only when the original has no match. This prevents a historical normalized row from shadowing the raw multiline row under the same sourceRef. Existing done-row reopen semantics and the earlier title/assignee fixes remain intact.
Inserted the normalized row before the raw row: replay returns the raw pending task, does not create another row.
Raw row done plus normalized row pending: replay reopens the raw task and leaves the other row's updates untouched.
No raw row: replay finds the normalized task without creating a duplicate.
All three pass. Restoring only the prior 7cd8270 route made the first test fail by returning TASK-1 instead of TASK-2. Restoring this head returned all three to green. Temporary probes were removed; copies/logs remain under /tmp/sable-2483-*.
backend: npm test -- --runInBand --detectOpenHandles tests/service/sable-raw-title-replay-probe.test.js — independent 3/3 pass; repeated without detectOpenHandles for old/new comparison as described above.
backend: ./node_modules/.bin/eslint routes/tasksApi.ts — zero errors, 20 warnings.
git diff --check and clean-checkout verification — pass after removing temporary probes.
CodeRabbit discussion_r4366966984 is linked in the author's fixed answer and outdated at this head. Earlier findings remain resolved/outdated. CodeRabbit, coderabbit-threads and stale-base checks report success. No blocking code finding. CI and the required deployed placeholder check remain operator press conditions.
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Applied to POST create and PATCH on
/api/v1/tasks:Proof
backend/__tests__/unit/routes/tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js: 10 cases across create and PATCH.tasksApi.*suites pass when run serially (jest -i): 85/85 across the lease and status suites, and queryCoercion 15/15 with the new suite.eslint routes/tasksApi.ts: no errors.Note for review: PATCH now refuses a whitespace-only title with 400. Before, it stored a blank title.
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