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fix(gui-app): allow editing chat history while messages are queued - #1279

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Editing or deleting a user message was blocked whenever the message queue held any item — including a queue auto-paused by an errored turn (QUEUE_PAUSED_AFTER_ERROR). Because the affordances were hidden rather than disabled, a user whose /compact turn errored saw every history message lose its edit/delete buttons, with nothing linking that loss to the parked message in the queue below. Observed live on staging.

The rationale for the gate was that queued sends target the current chain head, so a rewind would strand them. That does not hold: a queued item (chatQueuedItemSchema) carries only content, sender, and run settings. Its only chain-relative fields (targetTurnId / steerRequest) exist for steer items aimed at a live turn, and history mutation already independently requires no active turn.

Queued items therefore survive a history edit untouched and send against the new head — after an edit the replacement turn runs and the queue drains behind it as after any turn; after a delete a paused queue stays paused until the user resumes. Users who want them gone still have the queue's own per-item delete.

  • drop the queue.items.length > 0 check from canModifyChatMessages (the pendingUserMessages / pendingActions checks stay — those are in-flight sends, not parked ones)
  • name any parked items in the revert-on-edit dialog so carrying them across the rewind is not a surprise (queuedCount, plumbed through useChatMessageActions)

The host drops its matching QUEUE_NOT_EMPTY rejection in a companion internal change; ACTIVE_TURN_RUNNING and the detached-interview guard stay on both sides.

Related issue

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Checklist

  • Pre-commit static checks pass (hygiene, affected build, compile, lint, format)
  • Separate CI test checks pass
  • Tests added/updated where it makes sense — the old "denies while a queued item is pending" case flipped to allow, plus a paused-queue variant; two dialog tests cover the note rendering at queuedCount=2 and its absence at 0
  • Commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO

Validation

  • bun run compile (gui-app) passed
  • bunx vitest run on both touched suites: 50 tests passed

Editing or deleting a user message was blocked whenever the message
queue held any item, including a queue auto-paused by an errored turn
(QUEUE_PAUSED_AFTER_ERROR). Because the affordances were hidden rather
than disabled, a user whose /compact turn errored saw every history
message lose its edit/delete buttons with nothing linking the loss to
the parked message in the queue below.

The rationale for the gate was that queued sends target the current
chain head, so a rewind would strand them. That does not hold: a queued
item carries only content, sender, and run settings. Its only
chain-relative fields (targetTurnId / steerRequest) exist for steer
items aimed at a live turn, and history mutation already independently
requires no active turn.

Queued items therefore survive a history edit untouched and send
against the new head: after an edit, the replacement turn runs and the
queue drains behind it as after any turn; after a delete, a paused
queue stays paused until the user resumes. Users who want them gone
still have the queue's own per-item delete.

The revert-on-edit dialog now names any parked items so carrying them
across the rewind is not a surprise.

The host drops its matching QUEUE_NOT_EMPTY rejection in a companion
change; ACTIVE_TURN_RUNNING and the detached-interview guard stay.

Signed-off-by: Tanveer Gill <tanveer@traycer.ai>
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  • New Features

    • Editing or deleting chat history is now allowed when messages are queued but no response is actively processing.
    • Revert-on-edit dialogs explain how queued messages will be handled, including the correct singular or plural count.
    • The queued-message note is hidden when no messages are waiting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Queued messages are preserved and sent after the edited message instead of unnecessarily blocking edits.

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Queued messages no longer block chat history edits when no active or pending mutation exists. The queue count now flows into the revert dialog, which explains how queued messages behave after an edit.

Changes

Queue-aware chat editing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Allow edits with queued messages
clients/gui-app/src/components/epic-canvas/renderers/chat-tile-session-state.ts, clients/gui-app/src/components/epic-canvas/renderers/__tests__/chat-tile-session-state.test.ts
canModifyChatMessages permits edits with queued items when no active turn or pending mutation blocks the action. Tests cover parked and paused queues.
Propagate queued message count
clients/gui-app/src/components/epic-canvas/renderers/use-chat-message-actions.ts, clients/gui-app/src/components/epic-canvas/renderers/chat-tile.tsx
The current queue length is passed through the action input and returned by revertOnEdit.
Explain queued messages in the dialog
clients/gui-app/src/components/chat/segments/revert-on-edit-dialog.tsx, clients/gui-app/src/components/chat/segments/__tests__/revert-on-edit-dialog.test.tsx
The dialog displays singular or plural queued-message text and hides the text when the queue is empty.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ce6bd

The PR enables history editing while parked messages are queued and explains those messages in the revert dialog. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because the dialog tests still use assertions that do not follow the repository-required role-query pattern, leaving a bounded test-robustness concern.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatTile
  participant SessionState
  participant ChatMessageActions
  participant RevertOnEditDialog
  ChatTile->>SessionState: Check canModifyChatMessages
  SessionState-->>ChatTile: Allow edit when queued items are not active
  ChatTile->>ChatMessageActions: Pass queuedCount
  ChatMessageActions-->>ChatTile: Return revertOnEdit with queuedCount
  ChatTile->>RevertOnEditDialog: Render queued-message count
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A rabbit edits the chat with care,
While queued messages wait in a line there.
One or many, the dialog says,
They send after the edited phrase.
Hop, hop—the queue stays fair!

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- Around line 51-67: Add a test in the RevertOnEditDialog suite covering
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tanveergill and others added 2 commits August 18, 2026 14:12
The note's pluralization has a dedicated queuedCount === 1 branch
("message stays" / "sends") that the suite never exercised - it covered
zero and two only, so a singular grammar regression could land green.

Signed-off-by: Tanveer Gill <tanveer@traycer.ai>
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- Around line 79-81: Update the queued-message text in the revert-on-edit dialog
to account for paused queues: use queue status to distinguish whether messages
will send after the edited message, or use neutral wording that says they remain
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The note claimed parked messages "send after the edited message", which
is wrong in the state that motivated this change. A queue paused by an
errored turn holds its items individually paused, and the host's
auto-resume is gated on no item being paused, so those messages wait for
the user to resume rather than following the replacement turn.

Say "will send after the edited message when the queue next runs"
instead: true whether the queue is idle (it runs right after the
replacement turn) or paused (it runs when the user resumes). Reported by
CodeRabbit on #1279.

Signed-off-by: Tanveer Gill <tanveer@traycer.ai>

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- Line 64: Update the queued-message assertions in the revert-on-edit dialog
tests to scope queries through screen.getByRole("dialog") and match that
dialog’s textContent for singular, plural, and empty-queue cases.
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Match the dialog's own textContent through getByRole("dialog") instead
of searching the whole document, per the renderer's testing guidance to
use role queries. The empty-queue case becomes a negative assertion on
that same node, so it cannot pass merely because the text moved.

Signed-off-by: Tanveer Gill <tanveer@traycer.ai>
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