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Part of TASK-721. deriveAgentState and its callers now read lastListenedAt (a listener check-in), not lastUsedAt (any authenticated call). A seat that has only made MCP calls reads never-connected, so the stalled-connect nudge fires for it, and the BYO page and the "is listening" state no longer flip on an MCP call.

HELD: do not merge or deploy until SRE confirms the backfill apply (#3120, dry-run id set then --apply --ids). Prod order: check-in writer #3114 (live), backfill, re-run the backfill right before this deploy, then this change. Without the backfill every old seat reads never-connected and is nudged.

What changes:

• agentStateService: latestListen reads lastListenedAt. AgentStateRow.lastUsedAt keeps its wire name and now carries the last listener check-in.
• agentListenerCheckIn stamps both copies of a token (the User row and AgentInstallation.runtimeTokens) and works with no agent user id. The WebSocket connect stamps an installation-only token too.
• POST /events/renew is a check-in. The CLI runner polls /events only between turns, so during a turn over 5 minutes only renew traffic flows, and without this a live seat would read gone-dark. (Opus review pass 1 found this; fixed here.)
• A renew is a check-in only when it names an event this agent owns and that is delivered or already checkpointed (AgentEventService.holdsEvent), so made-up ids do not count and a seat that checkpointed mid-turn still does. A valid pong from a live WebSocket is a check-in too.
• Selects switched in routes/pods.ts (/agent-states), routes/registry/install.ts, stalledConnectService.botTokensFor, neverConnectedMentionService.
• kernelWorkSweepService comment corrected: an MCP-only holder gets no deferral.
• Runbook and agent-status-honesty.md updated.

Tests: a real-model service test for /agent-states (User-token and installation-token check-ins over HTTP), plus unit tests for the check-in stamps (installation, no user row, retry), derivation (MCP-only never-connected, check-in beats a later MCP call, old seat after backfill stays gone-dark), the nudge (MCP-only nudged, backfilled old seat not), and renew as a check-in (mutation-checked). Pointing latestListen back at lastUsedAt turns 13 tests red. Touched suites green here, tsc clean, 0 lint errors.

Known follow-ups, not in this PR:

• deriveAgentConnection (the Your Team card) and the activity bucket still read lastUsedAt. For an MCP-only seat the card can read connected while the room says not connected.
• No /agent-states round-trip test.
• No index on tokenHash (fine at current scale).
• A legacy installation-only token stamps only the installation that holds it, so a sibling installation of the same agent identity reads never-connected. Same on main with lastUsedAt; not widened here.
• Push-webhook agents never poll, so they read "waiting".

Review: Tier 2, writer's own Opus subagent over two passes, filed as a PR review. The first merge of main into this branch (43af74e) brings in only main plus a runbook conflict resolved to this branch's text.

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Tier 2 review (schema and wake), run by the writer with an Opus subagent over two passes. This is the derivation switch for TASK-721: deriveAgentState and its callers read lastListenedAt, not lastUsedAt.

Pass 1 (98dfff2) held on one blocker: the CLI runner polls /events only between turns, and during a turn the only seat traffic is POST /events/renew, which stamped lastUsedAt alone. A seat inside a turn longer than five minutes would have read gone-dark, shown an offline banner, and had its lapsed lease rescued without the #1080 deferral. Fixed: a delivery renew now counts as a listener check-in (routes/agentsRuntime.ts, with a route test I mutation-checked).

Pass 2 (c95d7cd) found the fix correct. A renew from an MCP-only seat or a spawn-child token stamps nothing, and the check-in still fires before the nonce is confirmed, which gives a token holder nothing they could not already get from GET /events.

Also fixed from pass 1: the stalled-connect test mock now asserts its projection, the kernelWorkSweepService comment and docs/design/agent-status-honesty.md are corrected, and the runbook says to re-run the backfill right before the deploy.

Known and not in this PR (follow-ups):

• deriveAgentConnection (the Your Team card) and the activity bucket still read lastUsedAt, and the credential ledger has no lastListenedAt. For an MCP-only seat the card can read connected while the room banner reads not connected.
• No /agent-states round-trip test for the pods.ts projection. Both projections were read and are correct.
• No index on runtimeTokens.tokenHash or agentRuntimeTokens.tokenHash; the auth middleware already scans the same paths.
• A WebSocket listener checks in once, at connect.

Deploy order: check-in writer (#3114), the backfill (#3120, run by SRE against the frozen id set), then this change.

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Walkthrough

This change records listener check-ins in user and installation runtime-token stores. Event renewals and active WebSocket pongs provide check-in signals. BYO liveness and related status checks use lastListenedAt instead of lastUsedAt.

Changes: Listener check-in liveness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record listener check-ins backend/services/agentListenerCheckIn.ts, backend/services/agentEventService.ts, backend/routes/agentsRuntime.ts, backend/services/agentWebSocketService.ts, backend/__tests__/services/agentWebSocketService.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/agentsRuntime.dm-events.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentEventService.deliveryNonce.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentListenerCheckIn.test.js	The check-in service updates matching user and installation tokens with the same timestamp. Event renewals and active WebSocket pongs record check-ins. Legacy installation-token WebSocket authentication updates both lastUsedAt and lastListenedAt. Tests cover token matching, installation-only tokens, renewal outcomes, retries, and replaced sockets.
Derive BYO liveness backend/services/agentStateService.ts, backend/routes/pods.ts, backend/routes/registry/install.ts, backend/services/neverConnectedMentionService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentStateService.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/services/neverConnectedMentionService.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/registry.byo-host-stamp.test.js, backend/__tests__/service/agent-states-listener-check-in.test.js, docs/design/agent-status-honesty.md	BYO state uses the latest valid lastListenedAt across user and installation token stores. State queries and mention handling select that field. Tests distinguish listener check-ins from MCP use and cover installation-only tokens and backfilled timestamps. The design document describes the check-in signals.
Apply check-ins to stalled-connection checks backend/services/stalledConnectService.ts, backend/services/kernelWorkSweepService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/stalledConnectService.test.js, docs/runbooks/listener-check-in-backfill.md	Stalled-connection scans use lastListenedAt as evidence of a listener check-in; lastUsedAt alone does not prevent a nudge. The runbook describes writer, backfill, and derivation deployment order and identifies remaining readers of lastUsedAt.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EventsRenew as /events/renew
  participant AgentEventService
  participant CheckIn as recordListenerCheckIn
  participant UserStore as User
  participant InstallationStore as AgentInstallation
  participant WebSocket as Agent WebSocket
  EventsRenew->>AgentEventService: check whether requested event remains held
  EventsRenew->>CheckIn: record check-in for a qualifying renewal
  WebSocket->>CheckIn: record check-in for active socket pong
  CheckIn->>UserStore: update matching token when user ID is present
  CheckIn->>InstallationStore: update matching installation tokens

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Possibly related issues

• Team-Commonly/commonly#1320: The change stamps matching tokens in both User and AgentInstallation stores and updates stalled-connection checks for lastListenedAt, addressing part of the reported split-token concern.

Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#3114: This PR extends the listener-check-in implementation with installation-token stamps, WebSocket pong signals, event renewals, and BYO state derivation.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2647: This PR extends the /events/renew flow with event ownership checks and listener check-ins.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#3101: This PR changes the derivation used by the never-connected mention flow to read lastListenedAt.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 3506c

A listening agent can still appear never-connected in a sibling pod, and an old acknowledged event can make an inactive agent appear to be listening. Resolve the liveness behavior before merging; the check-in integration test also needs a reliable wait.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: agent state now uses listener check-ins, so MCP-only activity remains never-connected.
Description check		The description directly explains the listener check-in changes, affected services, tests, deployment order, and known follow-ups. It is clearly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentListenerCheckIn.test.js: 1

46-48: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Add a real-model round-trip test for the installation check-in.

The test at lines 46-48 asserts the AgentInstallation.updateMany call against a mock. It does not show that the installation runtimeTokens entry persists lastListenedAt, or that the state derivation reads it back. A dropped write, or a path the schema does not declare, would still pass this test. A live seat could then read as never-connected and receive the stalled-connect nudge.

Add a test that calls recordListenerCheckIn against the real AgentInstallation model. Read the document back, then pass its runtime tokens to deriveAgentState. Add the same coverage for the User.agentRuntimeTokens store. backend/__tests__/unit/scripts/backfill-listener-check-in.db.test.js already uses real models for these fields. It covers the backfill writer, not the check-in writer or the state read path.

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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentListenerCheckIn.test.js
around lines 46 - 48:
Add real-model round-trip coverage for recordListenerCheckIn: persist a check-in
through the AgentInstallation model, read the document back, and pass its
runtime tokens to deriveAgentState to verify lastListenedAt is retained and
used. Add equivalent coverage for the User.agentRuntimeTokens store; keep the
existing mocked AgentInstallation.updateMany assertion as separate coverage.

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docs/runbooks/listener-check-in-backfill.md: 1

58-59: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Qualify the MCP-only seat claim.

An MCP-only seat with no backfilled lastListenedAt reads never-connected and can receive the stalled-connect nudge. Backfilled MCP-only seats instead read listening or gone-dark.

Suggested documentation fix

-  seat that has only made MCP calls reads never-connected and the stalled-connect
+  seat that has only made MCP calls without a backfilled `lastListenedAt` reads never-connected and the stalled-connect

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Review comment at @docs/runbooks/listener-check-in-backfill.md around lines 58 -
59:
Qualify the MCP-only seat behavior in the runbook passage near `/agent-states`:
state that an MCP-only seat reads `never-connected` and may receive the
stalled-connect nudge only when it has no backfilled `lastListenedAt`; preserve
the distinction that backfilled MCP-only seats read `listening` or `gone-dark`.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @backend/routes/agentsRuntime.ts:
- Line 1401: Move recordListenerCheckIn in the /events/renew handler to after
the delivery renewal results are known, and call it only when at least one
renewal succeeds. Return the filtered renewed event IDs as before, and add a
test confirming an empty renewed result does not record a check-in.

Review comments at @backend/routes/pods.ts:
- Line 572: The changed projection in the `/agent-states` route must be covered
by a persistence round-trip test. Add a test that writes check-ins through the
real models, calls the route, and verifies the response for each token store;
also verify that `lastUsedAt` alone does not produce `listening`.

Review comments at @backend/services/agentListenerCheckIn.ts:
- Around line 43-45: Update the AgentInstallation.updateMany check-in flow so
installation-only token activity is visible across installations sharing the
agent identity; either persist the timestamp at that shared identity or make
deriveAgentState consider sibling installations when determining liveness,
preventing an active agent from being treated as never connected.

Review comments at @backend/services/agentWebSocketService.ts:
- Line 459: Update the valid pong handling in the WebSocket service to call the
throttled recordListenerCheckIn helper for both token stores, refreshing the
listener timestamp while a BYO socket remains connected. Add coverage for a
socket connected beyond the listening window, and preserve existing
transport-liveness behavior.

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Other comments:
Review comments at
@backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentListenerCheckIn.test.js:
- Around line 46-48: Add real-model round-trip coverage for
recordListenerCheckIn: persist a check-in through the AgentInstallation model,
read the document back, and pass its runtime tokens to deriveAgentState to
verify lastListenedAt is retained and used. Add equivalent coverage for the
User.agentRuntimeTokens store; keep the existing mocked
AgentInstallation.updateMany assertion as separate coverage.

Review comments at @docs/runbooks/listener-check-in-backfill.md:
- Around line 58-59: Qualify the MCP-only seat behavior in the runbook passage
near `/agent-states`: state that an MCP-only seat reads `never-connected` and
may receive the stalled-connect nudge only when it has no backfilled
`lastListenedAt`; preserve the distinction that backfilled MCP-only seats read
`listening` or `gone-dark`.

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• Renew check-in: first version stamped only when a delivery renewed. The pass found that breaks the long-turn case, because the MCP checkpoint tool acks mid-turn (row becomes acked, nonce cleared) and every later renew then returns false while the runner keeps working. Fixed with holdsEvent (this agent's own delivered or acked event). Made-up ids, pending rows and other agents' events do not count.
• WebSocket: a valid pong from the live socket is a check-in; JWT sockets are a no-op; a replaced socket cannot stamp.
• /agent-states has a real-model round-trip service test (User token and installation token).
  Non-blocking, left as is: holdsEvent has no age bound; the pong test sets tokenHash by hand; the sibling-installation case for legacy installation-only tokens is unchanged from main and listed as a follow-up in the PR body.
  Mutation checks: guard, pong call, projection and the checkpoint case each turn a test red. Touched suites green, tsc clean.

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Follow-up Comments

Wait for the check-in write, not a fixed delay.

43-44: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Wait for the check-in write, not a fixed delay.

recordListenerCheckIn starts asynchronous database writes. If a write takes more than 150 ms, states() reads the old value and the test fails. Poll the expected token’s persisted lastListenedAt with a bounded deadline before requesting /agent-states.

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Replace the fixed 150 ms wait in the check-in test with bounded polling for the
expected token’s persisted lastListenedAt value, and request /agent-states only
after that value is observed. Use the recordListenerCheckIn write outcome as the
condition rather than relying on elapsed time.

Test the token hash supplied by authentication.

371-373: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test the token hash supplied by authentication.

The pong test assigns mockSocket.tokenHash directly, so it does not exercise namespace authentication or prove the assignment in backend/services/agentWebSocketService.ts. Add a named test that authenticates a cm_agent_ socket, emits pong, and asserts that recordListenerCheckIn receives the derived hash. This is a testing-requirement gap, not a demonstrated production failure.

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Update the pong test to authenticate a socket with a cm_agent_ token through the
namespace authentication flow before emitting pong, then assert that
recordListenerCheckIn receives the hash derived by authentication. Add a named
test that covers this flow instead of assigning mockSocket.tokenHash directly.

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