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

TASK-655, item 3 of 3. Item 1 (#1320, the stalled-connect nudge) is merged as #3044.

What

A person who @mentions a Bring your own agent that has never polled gets silence. The mention still queues. Now the room gets one system line, as a reply to the mention: " isn't connected yet, so it won't see this until it runs. Run the connect command shown on its page."

• At most one line per agent per UTC day, checked against the pod's system rows.
• The never-connected verdict is deriveAgentState's, the same one the Your Team row and the stalled-connect nudge use. No second rule.
• Bot senders get nothing. A failed notice is caught and logged, and the mention still delivers.

Not in this PR

• Item 2 (the 1:1 room and Your Team row showing "Not connected yet" with the command): the code path already exists (deriveAgentConnection returns never, V2YourTeamPage and V2Thread render it). I have not done the real-browser check at 390 and 1440 px yet, and the row's done-test needs it. The stack is not running in this worktree.

Verification

• neverConnectedMentionService.test.js: 5 cases (posts once; bot sender silent; live credential silent; already posted today silent; no active install silent). 5/5 pass.
• systemActionLineService.test.js 2/2, agentMentionService.installationStatus.test.js 11/11 under Node 22.
• agentMentionService.nativeCue.test.js fails to load on this checkout because @openuidev/lang-core is missing from the main checkout's backend/node_modules. It fails in services/uiCardValidation.ts, which this PR does not touch. Pre-existing environment gap, not a regression from this change.
• eslint on the three changed backend files: 0 errors.

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Walkthrough

Direct human mentions of eligible BYO agents can now produce a not-connected system reply. The reply is attached to the mentioned message and thread. Notice failures are logged without stopping mention enqueueing.

Changes: Never-connected mention notice

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Create and check not-connected lines backend/services/systemActionLineService.ts	Adds a system reply that includes the agent key and mentioned-message identifiers. Checks for a matching line in the pod since UTC midnight. If PostgreSQL is unavailable, the check reports an existing line.
Determine whether a notice applies backend/services/neverConnectedMentionService.ts	Adds eligibility checks for the sender, active installation, bot user, derived agent state, and existing daily line. Emits a notice only when the agent state is never-connected and no matching line exists.
Integrate notices with mention enqueueing backend/services/agentMentionService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/neverConnectedMentionService.test.js	Calls the notice service for direct agent matches from human senders. Logs notice failures and continues enqueueing. Tests cover eligible, ineligible, and duplicate cases.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Mention as agentMentionService
  participant Notice as neverConnectedMentionService
  participant State as deriveAgentState
  participant Lines as systemActionLineService
  Mention->>Notice: record direct human mention
  Notice->>State: derive state for matching installation
  Notice->>Lines: check for today's matching line
  Notice->>Lines: emit reply when state is never-connected and no line exists
  Mention->>Mention: continue mention enqueueing

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Possibly related issues

• Team-Commonly/commonly#887 — Adds a user-visible response for the never-connected mention case, but does not change webhook event delivery.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#1012 — Adds a user-visible outcome for one silent mention state and logs notice-send failures.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#1045 — Attaches the system reply to the mentioned message and thread, but does not implement broader threading behavior.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9d723

Mention delivery continues, but notices can be duplicated, misplaced, or omitted. These issues warrant follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: posting one room notice when a never-connected agent is mentioned.
Description check		The description accurately explains the notice behavior, limits, sender conditions, failure handling, tests, and known verification gap.
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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Follow-up Comments

Make the inactive-installation test check the active-status filter.

95-97: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Make the inactive-installation test check the active-status filter.

This mock returns null even if the service omits status: 'active'. The test would still pass after that eligibility guard was removed. Assert the query filter, or use an inactive installation in an in-memory model test. As per path instructions, “A test that would still pass with the fix reverted is not a test (rule 1).” (github.com)

Proposed assertion

   expect(await noteNeverConnectedMention(args)).toBe(false);
+  expect(mockFindInstall).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ status: 'active' }));
   expect(mockEmitNotConnected).not.toHaveBeenCalled();

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Review comment at
@backend/__tests__/unit/services/neverConnectedMentionService.test.js around
lines 95 - 97:
Update the inactive-installation test around noteNeverConnectedMention to assert
that mockFindInstall is queried with the active-status filter, so the test fails
if that eligibility filter is removed.

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Make the daily notice check atomic.

70-70: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Make the daily notice check atomic.

agentMentionService.ts processes raw mentions with Promise.all. When two entries resolve to the same agent, both calls can pass hasNotConnectedLineToday before either inserts a line. Enforce uniqueness for the pod, agent key, and UTC day, or combine the check and insert into one atomic database operation.

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Review comment at @backend/services/neverConnectedMentionService.ts at line 70:
Make the daily notice check in the flow using hasNotConnectedLineToday atomic
with the line insertion, or enforce a database uniqueness constraint on podId,
agentKey, and UTC day. Treat a concurrent duplicate insert as an
already-existing notice so parallel mention processing cannot create duplicate
daily lines.

Handle human records whose isBot field is absent or null.

1961-1975: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Handle human records whose isBot field is absent or null.

Human authentication accepts isBot values other than true, but this notice requires exactly false. A legacy or nullable human record can therefore reach enqueueMentions, queue the mention, and skip the notice.

Suggested fix

-        if (sender?.isBot === false) {
+        if (sender && sender.isBot !== true) {

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Review comment at @backend/services/agentMentionService.ts around lines 1961 -
1975:
Update the human-sender condition around noteNeverConnectedMention so it accepts
any existing sender whose isBot value is not true, including absent or null
values, while still excluding bots.

Add tests for the never-connected notice in enqueueMentions.

1961-1978: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add tests for the never-connected notice in enqueueMentions.

The new notice call in enqueueMentions has no test in the agentMentionService suites. Deleting the call, or its isBot guard, leaves every suite passing. No test forces noteNeverConnectedMention to reject, so the claim that a failed notice still queues the mention is unasserted. The helper suite does not reach this caller.

Add these cases to backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentMentionService.test.js. Mock ../../../services/neverConnectedMentionService there:

• A human sender directly mentions a BYO agent. Assert that noteNeverConnectedMention is called once with podId, agentName, instanceId, senderId, messageId, and threadRootId.
• A bot sender mentions the same agent. Assert that the notice is not called.
• The notice rejects. Assert that AgentEventService.enqueue still runs for the mention.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @backend/services/agentMentionService.ts around lines 1961 -
1978:
Add tests for the notice call in enqueueMentions in the agentMentionService test
suite, mocking neverConnectedMentionService. Verify a human sender’s direct
BYO-agent mention calls noteNeverConnectedMention once with the expected
identifiers, a bot sender does not call it, and a rejected notice still allows
AgentEventService.enqueue to run for the mention.

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• backend/__tests__/unit/services/neverConnectedMentionService.test.js
• backend/services/agentMentionService.ts
• backend/services/neverConnectedMentionService.ts
• backend/services/systemActionLineService.ts

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[lilyshen0722]

Superseded by #3101. The branch is kept.