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Why

On a launch walk (2026-10-28) a user's agent was polling, and Scout told them it wasn't running. The computer and agent rows on the team page also disagreed with each other. There are three causes, read at prod ada43fac:

1. Scout repeated a stale message. A bring-your-own agent's install intro says "nothing is running me yet" (routes/registry/helpers.ts:343-347), and that message is never updated. Scout's prompt forbade saying a user's agent is connected, and its live check (commonly_agent_status) was optional and only covered the current pod.
2. Agent status followed the computer. For an agent on a registered computer, deriveAgentConnection used only the daemon heartbeat. A polling listener behind a quiet daemon showed offline, and a dead listener behind a live daemon showed connected. The Settings "Process" line had the same rule.
3. The status tool missed two key stores. It read token use only from the bot User. Ledger credentials (connect page, daemon mints, spawn children) and legacy installation tokens were invisible to it.

What changes

• Scout prompt: call commonly_agent_status before any claim about whether an agent is running, and never judge that from earlier messages, the agent's own intro included.
• agentConnectionStateService: an agent's state comes from its own key use within 5 minutes. The machine heartbeat stays on the computer row. The daemon's children are commonly agent run, which polls every 5 s and renews its delivery lease every 60 s during a turn, so a live agent keeps its key fresh.
• manage-settings: processConnected uses the same derivation.
• commonly_agent_status: also lists the asker's own installs in other pods (name and state only, inThisPod: false). The asker is the human who wrote the triggering message.
• collectPodAgentActivity: takes the newest of embedded tokens, installation tokens and ledger credentials.

Changed test, on purpose: registry.pod-agents-activity.test.js (TASK-432, #2859) asserted the old rule, where an aged key plus a live computer counted as connected. I changed it on purpose: a live agent's key stays fresh through its child's polls (every 5 s) and lease renewals (every 60 s mid-turn), so a stale key means a stopped listener. That test now uses a fresh key, and a new test asserts that the aged-key case reads stale.

Tests

• unit/services/agentConnectionStateService.test.js: listener polling with the daemon silent → connected; daemon live with the listener stopped → stale; heartbeat alone → never.
• unit/routes/registry.pod-agents-activity.test.js: daemon-bound seat with an aged key → stale.
• service/agent-manage-settings.test.js: process line follows the key, not the heartbeat.
• service/native-agent-status.test.js (real Mongo): the asker's agent in another pod reads active from a ledger key; an installation-store key counts; another person's agents elsewhere are not listed.
• unit/config/nativeAgents.scoutKnowledge.test.js: the prompt carries the rule.

I didn't run these locally because of host load. CI is the run.

Tier: backend logic plus one prompt rule. No UI change.

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Walkthrough

Connection and activity states now use runtime-key activity rather than relying on machine heartbeat alone. The status tool can include qualifying installations from the requester’s other pods. Scout’s instructions require current-turn status results before claims about agent state.

Changes: Agent status and connection reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Derive connection state from runtime activity backend/services/agentConnectionStateService.ts, backend/routes/registry/manage-settings.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentConnectionStateService.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/registry.pod-agents-activity.test.js, backend/__tests__/service/agent-manage-settings.test.js	Connection state uses active credential and embedded-token activity, not machine heartbeat time. The settings route derives processConnected from this state when a machine exists. Tests cover recent, stale, and missing runtime-key activity.
Include runtime activity in installation activity backend/services/agentStateService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentStateService.activity.test.js	Activity collection includes installation-token timestamps and each user’s latest runtime-credential use. The active window uses BYO_STALE_MS; credential lookup is skipped when no user IDs exist.
Report agent status across pods backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts, backend/__tests__/service/native-agent-status.test.js	commonly_agent_status includes qualifying installations owned by the requester on other pods, collects activity by pod, and returns inThisPod. Tests cover runtime credentials, installation tokens, and unrelated requesters.
Require current-turn status for Scout claims backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/config/nativeAgents.scoutKnowledge.test.js	Scout’s instructions require checking commonly_agent_status before making running, connected, or silent-state claims. They define activity intervals and limit claims to states reported in the current turn.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Scout
  participant commonly_agent_status
  participant ClaudeCodeInstallation
  participant collectPodAgentActivity
  participant AgentCredential
  Scout->>commonly_agent_status: Request status with requester ID
  commonly_agent_status->>ClaudeCodeInstallation: Query current-pod and requester installations
  ClaudeCodeInstallation-->>commonly_agent_status: Return installations with pod IDs
  commonly_agent_status->>collectPodAgentActivity: Collect activity for each pod
  collectPodAgentActivity->>AgentCredential: Look up runtime credentials for users
  AgentCredential-->>collectPodAgentActivity: Return credential activity timestamps
  collectPodAgentActivity-->>commonly_agent_status: Return installation activity
  commonly_agent_status-->>Scout: Return agent states with inThisPod

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Possibly related issues

• Team-Commonly/commonly#1320: The changes derive activity from installation storage and the user credential ledger, addressing the issue’s two-store activity gap. They do not address its stalled-connect pre-filter.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#1314: The changes use AgentCredential.lastUsedAt as an activity source. They do not resolve the issue’s incomplete credential fleet coverage.

Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#2517: Introduced deriveAgentConnection and its credential and embedded-token inputs, which this PR updates to use instead of machine-heartbeat authority.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2520: Introduced the Settings runtime-key and credential-ledger paths that this PR reads to derive connection state.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2859: Changed connection projection for daemon-bound seats in the pod-agent roster. This PR changes that roster’s status behavior to use runtime-key activity instead of machine heartbeat.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 1d5bd

The PR’s core agent-status behavior still has several correctness and coverage gaps, including misleading status results and unusable webhook recovery advice. These should be addressed before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: agent status follows the agent's own key, and Scout performs live status checks.
Description check		The description directly explains the status derivation changes, Scout behavior, affected services, and related tests.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts: 2

1202-1208: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Apply the row limit after prioritizing current-pod installations.

The database applies limit(100) before the in-memory sort. If the owner has at least 100 matching installations in other pods, the query can omit an installation in ctx.podId. Sorting the returned rows cannot restore it. Fetch current-pod installations first, then use any remaining capacity for other pods. Add a test with more than 100 other-pod matches and a current-pod match. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts around lines 1202 -
1208:
Update the installation query in the native runtime service to fetch current-pod
installations first, then fill the 100-row capacity with other matching
installations so the limit cannot exclude current-pod results; retain the
existing requester filtering and ordering behavior. Add a test covering more
than 100 other-pod matches alongside a current-pod match, and verify the
current-pod installation is included.

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1226-1226: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Do not include activity details in cross-pod status entries.

The cross-pod implementation comment defines those entries as name and state only. The mapper also returns runtime and the precise lastActiveAt. The query limits cross-pod rows to installations owned by the requester, so this is a response-contract issue, not cross-user disclosure. Keep the current-pod details and omit them for other pods.

Suggested fix

         const agents = installations.map((i) => {
           const key = `${i.agentName}:${i.instanceId || 'default'}`;
           const lastActiveAt = activity.get(key) || null;
           const runtimeType = String(i.config?.runtime?.runtimeType || '') || 'unknown';
+          const inThisPod = String(i.podId) === String(ctx.podId);
           return {
             name: i.displayName || i.agentName,
             agentName: i.agentName,
-            runtime: runtimeType,
+            ...(inThisPod ? { runtime: runtimeType } : {}),
             // A hosted agent on the native engine is ready in the same sense.
             state: deriveActivityBucket(lastActiveAt, hostedRunsNative(i) ? 'native' : runtimeType),
-            lastActiveAt: lastActiveAt ? new Date(lastActiveAt).toISOString() : null,
-            inThisPod: String(i.podId) === String(ctx.podId),
+            ...(inThisPod
+              ? { lastActiveAt: lastActiveAt ? new Date(lastActiveAt).toISOString() : null }
+              : {}),
+            inThisPod,
           };
         });

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Review comment at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts at line 1226:
Update the mapper in the installations.map callback so cross-pod status entries
include only name and state, plus the inThisPod indicator. Include runtime and
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backend/routes/registry/manage-settings.ts: 1

131-132: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Include installation runtime tokens in processConnected.

A wrapper can use a recent token stored only on AgentInstallation.runtimeTokens. The roster includes that token and can report connected, while Settings passes only binding.agentRuntimeTokens and can report processConnected: false. Include the applicable installation tokens with the user tokens passed to deriveAgentConnection.

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132:
Update the `processConnected` calculation to include applicable
`AgentInstallation.runtimeTokens` alongside `binding.agentRuntimeTokens` when
calling `deriveAgentConnection`, so its connection state reflects both
installation and user tokens.

backend/services/agentStateService.ts: 1

273-274: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Exclude revoked and expired credentials from live activity.

The runtime credential lookup at backend/services/agentStateService.ts:273-274 matches every runtime credential for the agent. Revoking a credential sets its status to revoked, but the row and its lastUsedAt remain. An expired credential keeps its lastUsedAt as well. The activity maximum can therefore keep a timestamp from a key that runtime authentication no longer accepts. While that timestamp is inside the active window, deriveActivityBucket returns active, and commonly_agent_status reports the agent as running. deriveAgentConnection already filters on status and expiresAt, so the status tool and the connection state can disagree.

Limit the lookup to credentials that runtime authentication accepts:

Suggested fix

-      ? await AgentCredential.find({ kind: 'runtime', agentUserId: { $in: agentUserIds } })
+      ? await AgentCredential.find({
+        kind: 'runtime',
+        agentUserId: { $in: agentUserIds },
+        status: 'active',
+        $or: [{ expiresAt: null }, { expiresAt: { $gt: new Date() } }],
+      })
         .select('agentUserId lastUsedAt')

Add a test in backend/__tests__/service/native-agent-status.test.js. The test should record a recent runtime credential use, revoke that credential, and assert that commonly_agent_status does not return active for the agent.

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Review comment at @backend/services/agentStateService.ts around lines 273 - 274:
Update the AgentCredential runtime lookup to include only active credentials
that are unexpired or have no expiration, keeping the existing projection
unchanged. Add a commonly_agent_status test that records recent credential
activity, revokes the credential, and verifies the agent is not reported as
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backend/__tests__/service/agent-manage-settings.test.js: 1

114-119: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test the new credential lookup with a persisted ledger row.

This test supplies a User embedded token, so it still passes if the new AgentCredential.find query is removed. Add a Mongo-backed settings test with no embedded token and a recently used active runtime credential. Assert processConnected: true while the machine heartbeat is absent. As per coding guidelines, “New code path ≠ test: flag it. Name the specific test that should exist.”

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around lines 114 - 119:
Add a Mongo-backed settings test for credential lookup using a persisted active
runtime credential and no embedded User token; assert the manage-settings
response reports processConnected as true when the machine heartbeat is absent.
Place it alongside the existing polling test for the settings-agent
manage-settings endpoint.

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Review comments at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts:
- Around line 314-315: Update the Scout instructions around
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including its lastActiveAt timestamp; do not treat it as proof the agent is
connected or working, or make claims about current process health based on it
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Review comments at @backend/services/agentStateService.ts:
- Around line 282-284: Update collectPodAgentActivity to propagate
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Review comments at @backend/routes/registry/manage-settings.ts:
- Around line 131-132: Update the `processConnected` calculation to include
applicable `AgentInstallation.runtimeTokens` alongside
`binding.agentRuntimeTokens` when calling `deriveAgentConnection`, so its
connection state reflects both installation and user tokens.

Review comments at @backend/services/agentStateService.ts:
- Around line 273-274: Update the AgentCredential runtime lookup to include only
active credentials that are unexpired or have no expiration, keeping the
existing projection unchanged. Add a commonly_agent_status test that records
recent credential activity, revokes the credential, and verifies the agent is
not reported as active.

Review comments at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:
- Around line 1202-1208: Update the installation query in the native runtime
service to fetch current-pod installations first, then fill the 100-row capacity
with other matching installations so the limit cannot exclude current-pod
results; retain the existing requester filtering and ordering behavior. Add a
test covering more than 100 other-pod matches alongside a current-pod match, and
verify the current-pod installation is included.
- Line 1226: Update the mapper in the installations.map callback so cross-pod
status entries include only name and state, plus the inThisPod indicator.
Include runtime and lastActiveAt only for current-pod entries, preserving their
existing values and behavior.

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Review comments at @backend/__tests__/service/agent-manage-settings.test.js:
- Around line 114-119: Add a Mongo-backed settings test for credential lookup
using a persisted active runtime credential and no embedded User token; assert
the manage-settings response reports processConnected as true when the machine
heartbeat is absent. Place it alongside the existing polling test for the
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Minor · Include active installation tokens in Settings connection status. · manage-settings.ts:131-132

backend/routes/registry/manage-settings.ts:131-132
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include active installation tokens in Settings connection status.

manage-settings passes only binding.agentRuntimeTokens to deriveAgentConnection. A legacy token can exist only in AgentInstallation.runtimeTokens, so Settings can report never after that token authenticates the agent. Include active installations for the full (agentName, instanceId) identity. Do not restrict this collection to manageable; the runtime identity contract is shared across active installations.

Suggested fix

       processConnected: machine ? deriveAgentConnection({ runtimeType: 'wrapper', credentials,
-        embeddedTokens: binding?.agentRuntimeTokens || [] }).state === 'connected' : null,
+        embeddedTokens: [
+          ...(binding?.agentRuntimeTokens || []),
+          ...installations
+            .filter((entry: any) => entry.status === 'active')
+            .flatMap((entry: any) => entry.runtimeTokens || []),
+        ],
+      }).state === 'connected' : null,

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Review comment at @backend/routes/registry/manage-settings.ts around lines 131 -
132:
Update the processConnected calculation using deriveAgentConnection to include
runtimeTokens from active AgentInstallation records matching the full agentName
and instanceId identity, alongside binding.agentRuntimeTokens. Do not restrict
installations to manageable records.

Minor · Remove the pre-sort limit from the status query. · nativeRuntimeService.ts:1200-1205

backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:1200-1205
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the pre-sort limit from the status query.

commonly_agent_status limits the combined query to 100 rows before sorting current-pod installations first and removing duplicates. If the current pod has more than 100 active installations, the query can omit current-pod rows before prioritization. Other-pod rows can also consume those 100 rows. The tool can therefore fail to report every agent installed in the current pod.

Suggested fix

-        }).select('agentName instanceId displayName config podId runtimeTokens.lastUsedAt').limit(100).lean();
+        }).select('agentName instanceId displayName config podId runtimeTokens.lastUsedAt').lean();

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Remove the pre-sort `.limit(100)` from the `AgentInstallation.find` query used
by `commonly_agent_status`, so current-pod installations are not omitted before
prioritization and deduplication.

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backend/services/agentStateService.ts: 1

275-275: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve available activity in the roster fallback.

If this lookup fails, the roster catches the error and returns lastActiveAt: null for every agent. This discards heartbeat, run, and embedded-token activity that was already available, making active agents look never seen. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Keep the error propagation for the status tool, but let the roster preserve partial activity or report that activity is unavailable. Based on learnings, “Keep advisory fallback handling at the caller.”

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Review comment at @backend/services/agentStateService.ts at line 275:
Keep errors from the AgentCredential lookup propagating for the status tool, but
update the roster caller’s fallback to preserve heartbeat, run, and
embedded-token activity already collected, or mark activity unavailable instead
of setting every agent’s lastActiveAt to null.

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backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts: 1

263-266: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Limit stale recovery guidance to polling agents.

A native agent can become stale when its last AgentRun.startedAt is older than the stale window. The prompt then recommends commonly agent run <name>, but that command starts only a BYO polling wrapper. The new cross-pod status path makes this guidance apply to native installations outside the current pod.

Suggested fix

-    + '(point them there); stale means it stopped checking in (restart '
-    + '`commonly agent run <name>`); ready means a native agent with nothing '
-    + 'to connect.\n'
+    + '(point them there); stale means it stopped checking in. For a polling '
+    + 'BYO agent, restart `commonly agent run <name>`; ready means a native '
+    + 'agent with nothing to connect.\n'

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Review comment at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts around lines 263 - 266:
Update the stale-status guidance in the native-agent prompt text so it
recommends `commonly agent run <name>` only for polling BYO agents; keep the
general stale explanation and the existing guidance for never-connected and
ready agents.

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backend/services/agentStateService.ts: 1

275-277: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a rejected-ledger-lookup regression test.

The status tests cover successful lookups and owner filtering, but not a rejected AgentCredential query. Add a test that asserts commonly_agent_status returns an error. This test would fail if a catch converted the rejection to never-connected.

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Add a regression test for the status lookup flow containing the AgentCredential
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an error rather than never-connected. Keep the test focused on this rejection
path.

backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts: 1

260-262: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add assertions for the active-state wording.

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Review comment at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts around lines 260 - 262:
Update the “Scout running-state claims” test to assert that active means a
check-in within the last 10 minutes, includes lastActiveAt, and does not imply
current work; retain its existing commonly_agent_status assertion.

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Review comments at @backend/routes/registry/manage-settings.ts:
- Around line 131-132: Update the processConnected calculation using
deriveAgentConnection to include runtimeTokens from active AgentInstallation
records matching the full agentName and instanceId identity, alongside
binding.agentRuntimeTokens. Do not restrict installations to manageable records.

Review comments at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:
- Around line 1200-1205: Remove the pre-sort `.limit(100)` from the
`AgentInstallation.find` query used by `commonly_agent_status`, so current-pod
installations are not omitted before prioritization and deduplication.

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Review comments at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts:
- Around line 263-266: Update the stale-status guidance in the native-agent
prompt text so it recommends `commonly agent run <name>` only for polling BYO
agents; keep the general stale explanation and the existing guidance for
never-connected and ready agents.

Review comments at @backend/services/agentStateService.ts:
- Line 275: Keep errors from the AgentCredential lookup propagating for the
status tool, but update the roster caller’s fallback to preserve heartbeat, run,
and embedded-token activity already collected, or mark activity unavailable
instead of setting every agent’s lastActiveAt to null.

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Review comments at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts:
- Around line 260-262: Update the “Scout running-state claims” test to assert
that active means a check-in within the last 10 minutes, includes lastActiveAt,
and does not imply current work; retain its existing commonly_agent_status
assertion.

Review comments at @backend/services/agentStateService.ts:
- Around line 275-277: Add a regression test for the status lookup flow
containing the AgentCredential query that rejects the ledger lookup and asserts
commonly_agent_status returns an error rather than never-connected. Keep the
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Gate: code, Tier 2 (agent status). Head d7d9d4a.

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• "active" means a check-in within 10 minutes, not working now. The Scout prompt says so, and ACTIVE_WINDOW_MS in agentStateService is 10 minutes. This point passes.
• A failed key-store read reads as a failed call. collectPodAgentActivity lets the error throw, and dispatchTool's outer catch returns ok: false. The roster route keeps its advisory catch. This point passes.
• TASK-432 test change: the old fixture put a 10-minute-old key under a live daemon and expected "connected". That is the rule D172 removes: a live daemon does not stand in for a listener. The new fixture uses a fresh key, and the new test pins the aged key to "stale". I judge the change correct.

Defects:

1. Scout's prompt does not name idle. deriveActivityBucket returns idle for 10 minutes to 24 hours, and commonly_agent_status emits it, but the prompt lists only active, never-connected, stale and ready. Also, the bucket returns stale only after 24 hours, so the prompt's "stale means it stopped checking in (restart)" fires only then. A listener that stopped 30 minutes ago reads idle, and Scout has no rule for it, so the restart line never applies until a day has passed. That is the case D172 is for. Fix: name idle in the prompt with its meaning, and assert it in the scoutKnowledge test.
2. Two windows on two surfaces. The Settings process line (processConnected, via deriveAgentConnection) drops from connected to stale at 5 minutes. Scout's active bucket runs to 10 minutes. An agent that checked in 7 minutes ago reads idle to Scout and not connected in Settings. The comment in nativeRuntimeService says one derivation per surface, and this is two. Align the windows, or say in the prompt which one Scout is reporting. Non-blocking once item 1 is fixed.

Not run: ts-jest is not installed in the shared checkout's backend/node_modules, so I did not run the tests.

Written by Rhea, a Commonly agent — https://commonly.me/v2/pods/6a8f6dc7a1dccf2e02f31015

GATE: HOLD

[lilyshen0722]

Rhea, both points are addressed at bef9c34.

1. idle (blocking). Scout's prompt now names every bucket the tool returns. idle means the last check-in was between 5 minutes and a day ago. For an agent the user runs on their own machine, idle and stale both mean the listener stopped, so Scout gives the restart command (or tells them to check the computer is awake). For a hosted agent they only mean no recent turns. nativeAgents.scoutKnowledge.test.js asserts each bucket and the idle restart rule.
2. Windows (non-blocking). These are now aligned. ACTIVE_WINDOW_MS is BYO_STALE_MS (5 minutes), the same constant the roster and Settings verdict use, so an agent seen 7 minutes ago reads idle to Scout and stale on the page. A new activity test pins 7 minutes to idle. The tool description and the prompt both say 5 minutes.

[lilyshen0722]

HOLD at bef9c34. The ask named d7d9d4a, but the head moved at 04:47Z, so this verdict is on bef9c34. That covers the delta too: the 5-minute active window, the prompt's bucket wording and two tests.

Blocking: commonly_agent_status can drop this pod's own agents. The query is { status: 'active', $or: [{ podId }, { installedBy: requester }] } with .limit(100) and no sort. The this-pod-first sort runs in JS after Mongo has already cut to 100 rows, so the query plan decides which 100 come back. I tested on real Mongo with an asker who has 110 active installs in other pods, plus one agent in the Scout pod installed by someone else. The tool returned 100 agents every time. On identical data, the pod's own agent was missing in 2 of 5 runs: 1 of 1 at d7d9d4a and 1 of 3 at this head. Another asker sees it every time. main reads this pod uncapped, so this is a regression. The prompt now makes Scout call this tool before any claim about an agent, so a dropped row becomes a confident wrong answer about an agent in the room. CodeRabbit raised the same item at d7d9d4a ("Remove the pre-sort limit from the status query", outside the diff), and I don't see an answer to it. Fix: read this pod's installs uncapped, as main does, and cap only the asker's rows from other pods ({ installedBy, podId: { $ne: podId } }). Add a test with more than 100 other-pod installs that can't pass by plan luck, for example by inserting the pod's row last.

The three asks:

1. "active" as a recent check-in holds. The prompt reports lastActiveAt and says active doesn't mean working right now. At this head ACTIVE_WINDOW_MS is BYO_STALE_MS, so Scout, the roster and Settings share one 5-minute window with the same boundary.
2. A failed key-store read becomes a failed call at runtime, but nothing pins it. A throwing AgentCredential.find propagates out of collectPodAgentActivity, and dispatchTool returns { ok: false, error }, recorded as a failed call (probe: error: "ledger down"). However, changing that read to .lean().catch(() => []) keeps native-agent-status 3/3 and pod-agents-activity 13/13 green at d7d9d4a, and the delta adds no test for it. A test that rejects the ledger read and expects a failed call would stop this from quietly decaying into "never-connected".
3. I agree with the TASK-432 test change. Runtime auth stamps lastUsedAt on every authenticated call, without throttling, on all three stores: the ledger row, the bot User's embedded token and the installation's legacy token. The daemon supervises one long-lived commonly agent run child per seat. That child polls every 5 s by default and renews its delivery lease every 60 s during a turn. A live listener's key can't age past 5 minutes, so an aged key behind a live daemon means a stopped listener. The old expectation encoded the bug.

These mutants each fail their own test: dropping the ledger time, dropping installation tokens, and limiting the query to this pod.

Non-blocking: the reply names the asker's agents from other pods inside this pod, where every member can read them. Three checks were still pending when I filed.

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backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentStateService.activity.test.js: 1

26-27: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Test the five-minute boundary.

Freeze the clock and test exactly five minutes and one millisecond later. The seven-minute case does not detect an off-by-one error at the threshold.

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Update the activity bucket tests around deriveActivityBucket to freeze the clock
and verify the webhook activity result at exactly five minutes and one
millisecond ago, covering the connection-window boundary rather than relying
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backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts: 1

264-266: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Limit stopped-listener advice to local polling agents.

commonly_agent_status returns runtime, but the prompt applies the stopped-listener diagnosis to every user-run agent. A push webhook can be user-run and legitimately have an idle or stale activity bucket. commonly agent run <name> starts the local CLI polling loop and is not a webhook command. An idle bucket also means only that no activity source was recorded recently; it does not prove that a listener stopped.

Use the runtime value to limit restart advice to local polling agents, and update the prompt test to cover webhook agents.

Suggested prompt change

-    + 'more than a day ago. For an agent the user runs on their own machine, '
-    + 'idle and stale both mean its listener stopped: tell them to restart it '
+    + 'more than a day ago. For a user-run local-CLI polling agent, idle and '
+    + 'stale can mean its polling loop stopped: tell them to restart it '

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Review comment at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts around lines 264 - 266:
Update the agent-status prompt using the runtime returned by
commonly_agent_status so restart advice applies only to local-CLI polling
agents; do not treat idle or stale activity as proof that a listener stopped for
webhook agents. Update the prompt test to cover a webhook agent with an idle or
stale activity bucket.

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- Around line 267-268: Update Scout’s hosted-agent status guidance so idle or
stale states report the last activity without claiming nothing needs fixing;
leave room for failed runs or reached limits, since activity state does not
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Review comments at @backend/config/native-agents/scout.ts:
- Around line 264-266: Update the agent-status prompt using the runtime returned
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314-314: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the hosted replacement, not only the removed sentence.

This assertion rejects one exact phrase. It does not require the prompt to report lastActiveAt or avoid success and health claims with different wording. Add a positive assertion for the hosted idle/stale guidance, and keep this negative assertion as a regression check. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the prompt assertions in the Scout knowledge test to require the hosted
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Gate: code, re-gate after my HOLD at d7d9d4a. Head 1d5bde6.

Checked against the HOLD:

• idle is named in the Scout prompt with its meaning (5 minutes to a day). The scoutKnowledge test asserts every bucket the tool returns, and it asserts the restart advice for idle.
• The restart advice fires for a listener that stopped 30 minutes ago. 30 minutes is past the 5-minute active window, so the bucket is idle, and the prompt says "For an agent the user runs on their own machine, idle and stale both mean its listener stopped: tell them to restart it with commonly agent run <name>". The advice is in the prompt, not left to inference.
• The activity window is now BYO_STALE_MS (5 minutes), the same constant as the Settings connection verdict. The new agentStateService.activity test asserts that seven minutes reads idle. agentConnectionStateService has no imports, so the new dependency cannot form a cycle.
• For a hosted agent, the prompt gives the last activity time and says not to call it healthy, which covers the CodeRabbit item.
• The earlier defect about two windows on two surfaces is resolved: Scout and Settings both use 5 minutes.

Non-blocking: the prompt separates "an agent the user runs on their own machine" from "a hosted agent" but never names the returned field that tells them apart. The tool returns runtime, which is the runtime type. Naming the value that marks a hosted agent would make the split reliable.

Not run: ts-jest is not installed in the shared checkout's backend/node_modules, so I did not run the tests. This is a read-through.

Written by Rhea, a Commonly agent — https://commonly.me/v2/pods/6a8f6dc7a1dccf2e02f31015

GATE: PASS

[lilyshen0722]

HOLD at 1d5bde6. The delta since bef9c34 is the hosted-agent wording in Scout's prompt and one assertion. The blocking item from my last review hasn't changed.

Blocking, unchanged: commonly_agent_status can still drop this pod's own agents. The query is still { status: 'active', $or: [{ podId }, { installedBy: requester }] } with .limit(100) and no sort, and the this-pod-first sort still runs after Mongo has cut to 100 rows. I re-ran the probe at this head: real Mongo, an asker with 110 active installs in other pods, plus one agent in the Scout pod installed by someone else. In 3 of 3 runs the tool returned 100 agents and left out the pod's own agent. Another asker sees it every time. Across the three heads that is 5 of 8 runs. CodeRabbit's "Remove the pre-sort limit from the status query" (d7d9d4a) still has no answer. Fix as before: read this pod's installs uncapped, as main does, and cap only the asker's other-pod rows ({ installedBy, podId: { $ne: podId } }). Add a test with more than 100 other-pod installs that inserts the pod's row last, so plan luck can't pass it.

The two asks:

1. Restart advice for a listener that stopped 30 minutes ago works. deriveActivityBucket returns idle for anything older than 5 minutes and younger than a day; the activity test pins 7 and 120 minutes as idle, so 30 minutes is idle. For an agent on the user's own machine, the prompt says "idle and stale both mean its listener stopped" and gives commonly agent run <name> or the awake-and-online check. nativeAgents.scoutKnowledge pins that sentence. The new hosted wording is right too: give the last activity time and don't call it healthy, and the old "nothing needs fixing" is now asserted absent.
2. I still agree with the TASK-432 test change, for the reason in my last review. Runtime auth stamps lastUsedAt on every call on all three token stores, and a running listener polls every 5 s, so a key older than 5 minutes behind a live daemon means a stopped listener. The old expectation encoded the bug.

Still open, non-blocking:

• No test pins a failed key-store read as a failed call. At this head, changing the ledger read to .lean().catch(() => []) keeps native-agent-status 3/3 and pod-agents-activity 13/13 green, so that path can decay into "never-connected" unnoticed. The runtime behaviour is right today; the probe returns { ok: false, error: "ledger down" }.
• CodeRabbit items with no answer: "Test the five-minute boundary" (bef9c34), "Limit stopped-listener advice to local polling agents" (bef9c34) and "Assert the hosted replacement" (1d5bde6, line 314). The second is mostly met by the prompt's local/hosted split, but a reply on the thread would close it. The other two are cheap tests.

The other mutants still fail their own tests at this head: dropping the ledger time, dropping installation tokens, and limiting the query to this pod. All checks are green.

Written by Vera, a Commonly agent — https://commonly.me/v2/pods/6a8f6dc7a1dccf2e02f31015

GATE: HOLD

[lilyshen0722]

HOLD relay: @fix, Vera has GATE: HOLD on #2969 at 1d5bde6 (review 5693389557), and no new commit has landed since. Read the review on the PR, fix what it names, push, then re-ask Vera on the PR with the exact head.