chore: P0: team addressing, markers, busy flag, history replay, team launch (inter-agent chat) by getappz · Pull Request #829 · getappz/agentflare

getappz · 2026-10-01T05:25:50Z

P0: team chat on the existing inbox (item 686, spec `sVMkd2BoVayk34kxSZ_tL` §5)

Adds a team address, message markers, a busy flag and history replay on top of the existing agent_messages / agent_sessions tables. No new tables, no new MCP tool names, no new spawn sites.

Schema (additive, idempotent): agent_messages.marker (important|status|fyi, default important), agent_sessions.team, agent_sessions.busy.
Addressing: team:<name> reaches every live session registered with that team (AGENTFLARE_TEAM), except the sender.
Markers: fyi is never delivered at PreToolUse and never blocks Stop; status is delivered mid-turn only once 3 are pending; important behaves as before. Nothing is dropped: a skipped marker waits for the next turn start or an explicit inbox.
Busy: set at UserPromptSubmit, cleared by a Stop that delivers nothing and at SessionEnd; shown in message list and /api/sessions.
History: message history (CLI and MCP action); a session with a team gets the last 10 team:<name> messages at SessionStart, marked as history.
Launch: agents launch / run take --team and --name.
Surfaces: MCP message (marker, history, team/busy in list), CLI, dashboard POST /api/messages accepts marker.

Fixes made while finishing the branch (commits after `0dcaa458`)

e25dd0d1 — the SessionStart replay showed each team message once per recipient row, so a 3-member team saw 5 distinct messages twice instead of the last 10. Found by the acceptance run.
6df5a46d — SessionStart marked a session busy; a session idling at its prompt is not in a turn (spec §5.4). SessionEnd now clears busy, so a resumed session comes back idle.
234e6331 — message history for a team address listed each message once per recipient; it now lists each sent message once, and an --after cursor does not bring a message back through another recipient's copy. Every recipient row is still stored and delivered.
c7ec405c — rustfmt for a test line in 6df5a46d.

Copies of one fanout send are identified by sender, address, body, reply_to, marker and send second, so two identical sends by the same sender within one second show as one line in history/replay. Storage and delivery are unaffected.

The #[cfg(unix)] on fast_stall in 0dcaa458 is kept: without it Windows clippy fails with function fast_stall is never used (its three callers are unix-only tests).

Acceptance (spec §5.8)

Run end to end against real binaries in a throwaway home (AGENTFLARE_HOME_OVERRIDE): the installed pre-P0 binary (agentflare 1.7.0, 2026-09-30, no --marker) created the DB, this branch's build did the rest. Sessions were simulated by feeding each hook the stdin JSON its host sends; the sender was selected with AGENTFLARE_CLAIM_OWNER. 33 of 33 checks passed.

Old DB. As the old binary left it: agent_messages had 9 columns and agent_sessions 10, none of marker/team/busy. After the new binary opened it twice: marker, then team and busy, appended; schema identical after the first and second open. The existing row read back as (1, 'claude-code:old1', 'legacy hello from the old binary', 'important'); the existing session as team NULL, busy 0.
Team fanout. Sessions claude-code:a1, claude-code:a2, codex:c1 joined team alpha; claude-code:n1 and the old session have no team. message send team:alpha from a1 printed Sent as claude-code:a1 to codex:c1, claude-code:a2; rows exist for exactly those two keys. The Codex session received it at its next prompt as <agentflare-message from="claude-code:a1" id=2 to="team:alpha" marker="important">; n1's next prompt carried nothing.
Markers (on claude-code:a2). With one fyi pending, PreToolUse printed nothing and Stop printed nothing; the message stayed stored and undelivered, and that Stop cleared busy. An important appeared at the next PreToolUse; another blocked Stop with "decision":"block". One status did not appear at PreToolUse; after two more, all three appeared at the next PreToolUse. The fyi was delivered at the next prompt, leaving nothing undelivered.
Busy. Sessions that had only started listed busy=false; a submitted prompt set it; SessionEnd mid-turn cleared it.
History replay. After 12 more team messages, a new --team alpha session's SessionStart context carried agentflare: last 10 message(s) sent to team:alpha — history, already seen by the team; do not reply to these. followed by TEAM-MSG-03 … TEAM-MSG-12, each once; nothing was added to its mailbox. message history --to team:alpha listed all 13 team messages once each while all 26 recipient rows remained stored.

Gate (HEAD `234e6331`, Windows)

cargo fmt --all --check — pass.
cargo clippy --locked --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings -A unsafe_code -A clippy::pedantic — pass.
cargo test --workspace — run as --exclude agentflare (93 test binaries, 1516 passed, 0 failed; run before the last three commits, which touch only the root package) plus the root package in two halves on HEAD: 2288 passed, 3 failed, 8 ignored in the bin; lib and integration tests pass.

The 3 failures are not from this branch; they read this workstation's real state and the code they exercise is untouched by the diff:

mcp_server::tests::item_status_tests::item_status_reports_defaults_for_a_never_dispatched_item and item_status_log_lines_respects_the_limit_field — the harness does not isolate the daemon log, so log_lines picks up a real line mentioning #1 from this machine.
supervisor::tests::claim_self_repair_defers_when_another_workstation_already_holds_a_live_claim — hardcodes flared:c997d745ae66 as the "other workstation"; that is this machine's own ~/.agentflare/bridge-instance-id.

A fourth, hook_messages::tests::sync_registers_the_session_and_delivers_once_on_claude_code, fails only when the tests run inside a dispatched job (AGENTFLARE_CLAIM_OWNER set); the same assertion and code are on master. It passes with the variable empty, which is how the root-package runs above were made.

Not changed

The team replay runs on every SessionStart (resume, compact, clear), as spec §5.5 words it; on a resume with pending team mail a message can appear both as new mail and as history.
message history pages oldest-first from --after with a default limit of 50, as specified.
to_address is stored as typed, so team: alpha (with a space) is delivered but not matched by history/replay lookups of team:alpha.
The MCP result piggyback delivers every marker (spec §5.3 table).
busy stays set after a user interrupt, or on a host with no Stop hook wired, until the next clean Stop or SessionEnd. P0 only records it.

Opened by claude-code on flared:c997d745ae66 for item #686 via agentflare.

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New Features
- Added team-based messaging, team and session-name options when launching agents, and replay of up to 10 recent team messages in session context.
- Added important, status, and FYI message markers, with delivery based on marker type and session activity.
- Added message history queries through the CLI and messaging tools, with address, cursor, and JSON options.
- Session listings now show team membership and busy status.
Documentation
- Documented messaging workflows, recipient formats, available commands, and the sandbox setting needed for file access.

…values Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 8f7908bd-5bcb-464a-b9c5-5712ea16c79a

Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 8f7908bd-5bcb-464a-b9c5-5712ea16c79a

…ches) Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 8f7908bd-5bcb-464a-b9c5-5712ea16c79a

Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 8f7908bd-5bcb-464a-b9c5-5712ea16c79a

… like its callers Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 8f7908bd-5bcb-464a-b9c5-5712ea16c79a

Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 4c2b6b0e-1ed4-4df0-9d59-f0c6b5c0a18a

…ars at session end Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 4c2b6b0e-1ed4-4df0-9d59-f0c6b5c0a18a

Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 4c2b6b0e-1ed4-4df0-9d59-f0c6b5c0a18a

… row Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: 4c2b6b0e-1ed4-4df0-9d59-f0c6b5c0a18a

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src/hook_messages.rs:217 (coderabbitai) [minor] round 1: Skip team replay for dispatched jobs.

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…s instead of leaving the session live Agentflare-Agent: claude-code Agentflare-Branch: task/686-p0-team-addressing-markers-busy-flag-his Agentflare-Item: 686 Agentflare-Session: b9d5640d-85a6-4ecc-b42c-0e267c8044b1

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