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Problem

Continuing an idle Pi conversation can play a completion sound while its sandbox restarts.
Routine setup should not ask for attention.

Changes

Pi restart setup stays silent. Completion notifications require an active turn; completed replies and input requests still follow notification settings.
After a cloud restart, the turn stays pending across reconnects until a server event matches the resent message ID. Local message copies and streaming status cannot activate it. Delayed restart completions stay silent.
A successful abort cancels a pending turn and clears its running state, so cleanup does not depend on the message arriving.

This guards Pi notifications separately from the idle-resume signal change in #100208.
Server-side completion callbacks remain separate work: Refs #100265.

How did you test this code?

Controller tests and desktop type checks pass. Restart coverage includes reconnects before server confirmation; cancellation coverage includes late activity and cleanup.
The live Codex steering test now holds a question open until the second prompt is accepted. Host question-response tests and E2E type checks pass locally. Desktop CI passes, including live steering and compaction.
Desktop audio was not checked manually. No visual changes.

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Docs update

The troubleshooting guide covers restart notifications and stopping a pending message.

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The reconnect finding is fixed. The branch already included the fix for late activity after cancellation. Local CodeRabbit review was skipped because the CLI is unavailable.


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved completion notifications for resumed, retried, idle, and background cloud sessions.
    • Notifications now appear only after new active work completes, preventing alerts for inactive, historical, duplicate, or previously completed activity.
    • Resumed and retried cloud sessions notify correctly after the newly submitted or resent message finishes.
    • Sessions remain available while pending work completes or fails, improving reliability during resumed activity.
  • Documentation
    • Added troubleshooting guidance explaining silent notifications and how notification settings apply.

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Walkthrough

The controller now tracks pending and active turn state before sending completion notifications. Resumed and retried cloud runs do not notify until a later live completion. Tests cover live, background, resumed, and retried cloud runs. Troubleshooting documentation describes the resulting notification behavior.

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Completion notification handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Turn state and notification eligibility
products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.ts
Submissions enter streaming state before session preparation. Resumed cloud sends use pending turn state. Completion notifications require an active turn. Pending turns retain inactive sessions.
Notification coverage and troubleshooting guidance
products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.test.ts, products/desktop/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
Tests cover active and inactive turn completions, background cloud events, resumed runs, and retries. Documentation describes notification behavior after session resumption.

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An aborted cloud turn can be reopened by a delayed event, leaving its session retained and producing an incorrect completion notification. Preserve cancellation before merging.

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### Issue 1
products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.ts:1631
**Restart completion can still notify**

If a terminal restart status arrives after `markTurnPending`, the controller treats its live completion event as part of the newly active turn and sends the notification this change intends to suppress. Activate the turn only from activity tied to the resent message, or correlate completion events with the new run or message generation.

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In `@products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.ts`:
- Around line 1183-1190: Update PiSessionController.abort() to transition a
successfully aborted pending turn to cancelled, not only active turns, and clear
isStreaming at the same time. Preserve the existing task-specific state handling
and ensure applyTurnEvent() no longer leaves an aborted pending session retained
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🟠 Major · Preserve cancellation when the delayed matching user_message arrives. · products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.ts:1215-1220

1215-1220: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve cancellation when the delayed matching user_message arrives.

After abort() succeeds, the turn is active with stopReason: "cancelled". A delayed matching user_message reaches applyTurnEvent(), which replaces that state without stopReason. The inactive session can then remain retained without a completion event. A later completion without a stop reason can notify with end_turn instead of cancelled.

Keep the cancelled active turn unchanged for non-completion events. Add coverage for this exact ordering.

Proposed fix
 const activeTurn = current?.phase === "active" ? current : undefined;
+if (
+  activeTurn?.stopReason === "cancelled" &&
+  event.type !== "turn_completed"
+) {
+  return;
+}
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lines 1215 - 1220, Update applyTurnEvent() so a delayed matching user_message
does not replace an already-cancelled active turn; preserve its stopReason:
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Found 1 should fix, 1 consider.

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Valid issues on this PR's files that sit on lines GitHub won't let us comment on inline.

Reconnect accepts an optimistic message as server confirmation

Priority: should_fix | File: products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.ts:1176-1200 | Category: bug

Issue description

A resumed prompt stores an optimistic user_message with the pending messageId. A retry can reload the session before the server sends the matching event. reconcileTurnState() deletes the pending state and replays the optimistic event as real activity. This activates the turn without server confirmation. A delayed restart completion can then notify.

Why we think it's a valid issue
  • Checked: reconcileTurnState, loadSession, applyTurnEvent, markTurnPending, shouldRetainInactiveSession, and every caller that reaches loadSession (connect, ensureConnected → reconnect → ensureConnectedInternal → connectSession), plus the UI trigger in packages/ui/src/features/pi-sessions/PiSessionView.tsx.
  • Found: reconcileTurnState starts with this.turnStates.delete(taskId) and no branch restores a pending state (products/desktop/packages/core/src/pi-runtime/piSessionController.ts:1177). Every reconcile therefore drops the new pending guard.
  • Found: loadSession keeps optimistic events whose message id is absent from server history and appends them last in reconciledEvents (piSessionController.ts:876-889). The replay of that user_message matches hasTurnActivity and sets phase: "active" (piSessionController.ts:1205-1220). A live turn_completed then sees a truthy activeTurn and calls notifier.notify (piSessionController.ts:1238, 1250-1261). The isStreaming fallback at piSessionController.ts:1181 forces active as well, so a steer with no optimistic message reaches the same result.
  • Found: the trigger is not the retry path the reviewer names. In sendCloudUserMessage the order is turnStates.delete → await ensureConnected → markTurnPending (piSessionController.ts:1650-1662), and reconnect awaits loadSession through the readiness promise (piSessionController.ts:284, 324, 900), so that reload cannot clobber the pending state. The reachable trigger is a reconnect after pending is set: the PR now retains the session while turnState?.phase === "pending" (piSessionController.ts:1722), and usePiSessionConnection calls controller.ensureConnected(taskId, taskRunId) on every mount and on each taskRunId change (PiSessionView.tsx:107-110). A user who leaves the task view and returns during a slow sandbox restart starts a fresh loadSession, which deletes the pending state and reactivates the turn from the local optimistic message.
  • Impact: the delayed restart completion notifies again, which is the exact sound this PR removes. The guard holds only while no reconnect happens inside the pending window. The window lasts until the server echoes the resent message, and a cold sandbox restart makes that window long.
  • Priority: lowered to should_fix. The hole is real and reachable, but it needs a reconnect inside a bounded window, and the result is one spurious notification, not lost or corrupt data. It is also residual pre-existing behavior, not a regression this PR adds.
  • Note on the proposed fix: the first sentence of the suggestion is the correct direction — preserve the pending state across reconciliation. Blocking an optimistic: source id at the pending match does not help, because appendOptimisticUserMessage writes straight to the store (piSessionController.ts:1577-1594) and never passes through applyTurnEvent on the live path.
Suggested fix

Preserve the pending state during reconciliation. Do not let an event with an optimistic: source ID satisfy the pending match. Activate only from a server event with the matching message ID. Add a retry test where the snapshot does not contain the server message.

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Activity that arrives after a successful abort rebuilt the turn state without
the stop reason. A following completion that carries no reason of its own then
normalized to "end_turn", so the user who pressed stop got a completion toast,
sound, and speech backstop.

The activity branch now carries a "cancelled" reason forward. A "failed" reason
still clears, because a recovering turn continues.

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Desktop notification state-machine fix by an owning-team author with extensive new test coverage; verified against the source that all three externally-raised concerns (CodeRabbit's abort/cancellation handling, PostHog bot's optimistic-message reconciliation, and Greptile's restart-completion notify) are addressed in the current code, and the bot's own follow-up confirms both prior findings are resolved. Not billing/auth/CI/data-model/dependency territory, so no independent assurance is required beyond my own review.

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