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Summary

  • preserve every text-only LLMOutput unchanged in history
  • append a separate TextOnlyReply metadata event for tracing and diagnostics
  • recover through a sync-or-async callback instead of replacing the provider turn
  • default to model-visible correction and retry; offer text-as-result as an explicit opt-in
  • reject provider error/truncation finishes before the callback can accept partial text
  • remove the old text-only behavior modes rather than carrying alpha compatibility code

Extension point

TextOnlyResponseAction is the callback result, not an argument to @strategy:

@strategy(CodeActStrategy(on_text_only=return_text_as_result))
async def summarize(self, text: str) -> str: ...

The handler receives TextOnlyResponseContext with the untouched response, normalized text, current call, and declared return type. It returns one of:

Action Meaning
return_result(value) Validate through the normal CodeAct result path.
retry(*events) Append feedback and ask the model again.
tool_calls(*calls) Run synthetic tool calls while retaining the assistant turn.

Built-ins:

  • retry_text_only_response (default): append an Error asking for return_result(value) or execute_python(code), then retry.
  • return_text_as_result (opt-in): validate non-empty prose as the method result.

Applications can supply their own sync or async policy. On main, synthetic execution targets execute_python; TUI-only tools are outside this PR.

Code walkthrough

  1. src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py defines the public callback contract: TextOnlyResponseContext is the input and the frozen TextOnlyResponseAction is the handler's decision token.
  2. CodeActStrategy.__init__ accepts on_text_only; the default handler returns a retry action carrying a model-visible Error, while return_text_as_result is the opt-in result policy.
  3. The generation loop leaves the runtime-created LLMOutput in place, invokes the handler only for a complete text-only response, and records a separate TextOnlyReply metadata event for diagnostics.
  4. The loop then applies the returned action through existing CodeAct paths: normal return validation, appended retry events, or synthetic tool execution. Provider errors and truncated responses never enter this recovery hook.
  5. src/nooa/config/strategy_config.py rejects the removed behavior flags with an actionable migration error instead of preserving dead alpha compatibility.
  6. The public exports, strategy docs, and CodeAct Skills show both built-in policies and the custom callback form.

Why

Recovery is append-only. NOOA retains the turn that actually happened while keeping recovery policy as an application extension point.

Documentation and validation

  • public API docstrings and strategy docs cover the callback contract and built-ins
  • agent-authoring and advanced CodeAct Skills cover the common and custom cases
  • CI, CodeRabbit, and DCO are green
  • stack-top full suite: 7,152 passed, 7 skipped, 298 deselected, 3 xfailed
  • focused regressions cover non-string results, provider error finishes, safe diagnostics, and empty output
  • Ruff and targeted Pyright are clean

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CodeAct now preserves text-only provider outputs and dispatches configurable recovery handlers. Removed text-only configuration fields are rejected with migration guidance. Provider finish reasons now expose truncated responses for immediate failure.

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CodeAct text-only recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Typed recovery API and dispatch
src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py
Adds typed response context and actions, configurable handlers, direct validation, preserved outputs, retry handling, truncated-response failures, and synthetic tool-call support.
Recovery contracts and public integration
src/nooa/config/strategy_config.py, src/nooa/events.py, src/nooa/__init__.py, src/nooa/strategies/__init__.py, docs/concepts/strategies.md, skills/nooa-*/SKILL.md, packages/nooa-bench/...
Rejects removed configuration fields, updates event metadata, exports recovery helpers, and updates documentation and strategy fixtures.
Provider-visible context filtering
src/nooa/runtime/context_builder.py, tests/runtime/test_context_builder.py
Keeps empty LLMOutput events in event history and excludes them from provider-visible context.
Provider finish-reason propagation
src/nooa/unifiedllm/unifiedllm.py, tests/unifiedllm/test_finish_reason_propagation.py
Preserves provider length and error statuses for parsed tool calls across synchronous and asynchronous clients.
Recovery and persistence validation
tests/strategies/*, tests/runtime/test_token_calibration.py, tests/config/test_strategy_configs.py
Verifies retained outputs, validation errors, callbacks, correction feedback, replay, SQLite resume, empty results, configuration migration errors, truncated responses, and the text-only backstop.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to df476

Text-only recovery now preserves model output and uses callback-based actions, but unresolved reasoning replay and EOF diff-generation edge cases could still produce incorrect behavior. These should be addressed before merge.

Suggested reviewers: sklinglernv

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Provider
  participant UnifiedLLM
  participant CodeActStrategy
  participant EventStore
  participant Model
  Provider->>UnifiedLLM: text-only or tool-call response
  UnifiedLLM->>CodeActStrategy: response and provider finish reason
  CodeActStrategy->>EventStore: persist LLMOutput and TextOnlyReply
  CodeActStrategy->>CodeActStrategy: invoke on_text_only
  CodeActStrategy->>Model: append retry feedback or process action
  Model->>CodeActStrategy: corrected tool call or result
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src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py (1)

1111-1116: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Route A ignores text_only_correction="custom"; the custom callback never runs.

_resolve_text_only_correction() reports the effective correction mode, and Route B checks it before calling _append_custom_text_only_correction (see line 1188). Route A does not perform this check. On validation failure, Route A always calls self._add_text_only_correction(runtime, call), so text_only_correction_fn is never invoked here.

The routing condition at line 1051 selects Route A based on text_only_stop_behavior == "return_result", which is the field's own default. So any caller who sets text_only_correction="custom" without also changing text_only_stop_behavior to "synthetic_comment" gets append-only preservation (since _append_only_text_only is already True), but the correction message is always the generic one — text_only_correction_fn is silently skipped. This contradicts the documented contract in CodeActConfig.text_only_correction ("custom — call text_only_correction_fn(text)") and the PR objective of a configurable custom-correction mode.

The only new test for custom correction (test_custom_text_only_correction_appends_custom_message) sets text_only_stop_behavior="synthetic_comment" explicitly, so it does not catch this gap.

🐛 Proposed fix
                     session.record_text_only()
-                    self._add_text_only_correction(runtime, call)
+                    if self._resolve_text_only_correction() == "custom":
+                        self._append_custom_text_only_correction(runtime, call, _text)
+                    else:
+                        self._add_text_only_correction(runtime, call)
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In `@src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py` around lines 1111 - 1116, Update the Route A
validation-failure path near _add_text_only_correction to inspect the effective
mode from _resolve_text_only_correction() and invoke
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In `@src/nooa/context_blocks/formatter.py`:
- Around line 298-307: Propagate event.reasoning_provenance in the ToolCallEvent
rendering branch alongside reasoning_items, so RenderedMessage preserves the
tool-call provenance. Add a regression test covering a cross-family tool-call
transition and verifying the existing provenance is retained without replaying
opaque reasoning state.

In `@src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py`:
- Around line 1068-1074: Update the append-only recovery logic around
_append_only_text_only so Bedrock CompletionClient sessions do not retain
consecutive assistant messages. Detect the Bedrock provider and either disable
append-only recovery for it or coalesce the retained LLMOutput with the
synthetic ToolCallEvent before appending the user correction, while preserving
the existing stateless replay behavior for providers that support consecutive
assistant messages.

---

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In `@src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py`:
- Around line 1111-1116: Update the Route A validation-failure path near
_add_text_only_correction to inspect the effective mode from
_resolve_text_only_correction() and invoke _append_custom_text_only_correction
when it is "custom"; otherwise preserve the existing generic correction
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- D-01 approved: add the concrete cross-model plain-text demotion design
  (stateless render-time transform, labeled block on the same assistant turn,
  preserved ordering, idempotent, char/token budget with drop reasons)
- D-02 overridden: reasoning is exported by default to journal, OTLP, trace
  download, bug reports, and normal Event Explorer previews (tracing retains
  everything sent to the model); export_reasoning=false is opt-in suppression;
  opaque blobs stay out of traceback/repr only; event-store persistence across
  shutdown/resume confirmed
- D-03 decided: supersede PR #301; carry its model_family prefix fix and
  provenance plumbing into PR 1/PR 2; #261 and #268 remain foundations
- D-05 decided: toolbar label ^in / vout / reused-cached% (n/m) with cache
  segment hidden when the endpoint capability reports no cache support and
  ASCII fallback
- D-06 decided: include AnyLLM strictly last — no adapter work until the
  reasoning and telemetry tracks are demonstrably working; prototype branch
  remains reference-only
- D-04 remains open pending Janson's cross-harness compatibility survey
  (request dispatched on the mesh)
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@furgalep furgalep changed the title feat(codeact): append-only text-only recovery + reasoning provenance gate (#264) fix(codeact): preserve text-only model turns Sep 8, 2026
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457-462: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Mark complete-file Match replacements as whole-file diffs.

When read(path) returns a Match for the complete file and replace() replaces it, old_text and written_text are complete file contents. This call leaves whole_file=False. An unterminated file then emits a diff without \ No newline at end of file, although the diff represents the complete file state.

Preserve a whole-file flag from the Match replacement path and pass it to _edit_diff(). Add coverage for read() of an unterminated complete file followed by replacement.

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In `@packages/nooa-cli/src/nooa_cli/coding/activity.py` around lines 457 - 462,
Update the Match replacement flow around _edit_diff so complete-file
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298-307: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Carry reasoning provenance through the rendering boundary

ToolCallEvent.reasoning_items becomes RenderedMessage.reasoning_items without its source model family. Because Agent.set_llm() can switch clients, the next render can pass that opaque state through OpenAIProviderFormatter or the Responses "type" gate to a different model. The provider may reject the request because encrypted reasoning state requires the same model family. Store the source family on the event and rendered message, then emit reasoning_items only when it matches the active client family.

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through RenderedMessage and only emit those items when they match the active
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In `@src/nooa/strategies/codeact.py`:
- Around line 1045-1047: Update CodeActConfig and the Route A/Route B text-only
recovery logic to add text_only_correction with the legacy delete-and-replace
default, and dispatch the configured comment, return, or custom modes in both
routes instead of always using return_result or _add_text_only_correction.
Define and enforce the custom callable contract, while preserving Route B’s
prohibition on persisting provider-visible tool calls.

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In `@packages/nooa-cli/src/nooa_cli/coding/activity.py`:
- Around line 457-462: Update the Match replacement flow around _edit_diff so
complete-file replacements preserve a whole-file flag and pass it to
_edit_diff(), ensuring unterminated files produce the correct no-newline marker;
retain the existing behavior for partial replacements and add coverage for
reading an unterminated complete file followed by replacement.

In `@src/nooa/context_blocks/formatter.py`:
- Around line 298-307: The rendering pipeline must preserve the source model
family for ToolCallEvent.reasoning_items through RenderedMessage and only emit
those items when they match the active client’s family. Update the relevant
event/message structures and formatter logic, including OpenAIProviderFormatter
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  • Removed text-only config keys now fail explicitly with migration guidance to CodeActStrategy(on_text_only=...) (61b2748).
  • Empty stop responses remain persisted for tracing/resume but no longer become empty assistant messages in the next provider request; state-bearing or reasoning-bearing events remain replayable (61b2748).
  • Whole-file Match provenance now reaches diff generation, including correct no-final-newline markers (c49a5be).
  • The earlier Bedrock consecutive-assistant and custom-dispatch findings were superseded by the callback rewrite: retry appends user feedback after the original assistant turn, and the single sync/async handler is invoked before action dispatch.
  • The old reasoning_provenance thread targeted a superseded version of this PR. Provider-state isolation is intentionally owned by child PR feat(llm): retain compatibility-scoped OpenAI reasoning state #310, where opaque state uses a private issuer-scoped envelope and fails closed on incompatible routes.

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"""Raw file content (no line numbers)."""
return self._text

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this seems unrelated?

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Besides the shell tool changes that seem unrelated, LGTM

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Full review: preserve text-only model turns

Verdict: the redesign is a clear improvement — append-only recovery with a real extension point — but there is one blocker to fix before merge, plus one open provider-compatibility question. Everything else held up under execution-based review.

What holds up (verified by running it, not just reading)

  • Append-only recovery is real on all three action paths. The original LLMOutput is preserved for return_result (validation failure appends a correction rather than deleting the turn), retry, and tool_calls (via preserve_llm_output=True in _process_tool_calls). The only remaining event_manager.remove() is the empty-response branch, which is correctly scoped: stop-with-empty-content goes through the handler branch instead (the _has_text or finish_reason == "stop" condition), gets preserved in the event log, and is filtered from provider context.
  • The empty-turn fix is complete. context_builder.py now drops empty LLMOutput from provider context (event kept for persistence/diagnostics) — this resolves the earlier review finding about empty assistant messages reaching APIs.
  • The config break is loud, not silent. text_only_stop_behavior/text_only_correction/text_only_correction_fn now fail CodeActConfig validation with a pointed message directing users to CodeActStrategy(on_text_only=...), rather than being silently ignored. The removed-options rejection fires on the model_validator(mode="before") path.
  • TextOnlyReply schema migration is safe. Old stored events with route/recovered fields deserialize cleanly (extra fields dropped); the handler/action fields record what actually ran.
  • Callback contract behaves: sync-or-async dispatch works; a handler raising propagates (correct — recovery must not swallow application errors); a non-TextOnlyResponseAction return raises a clear TypeError.
  • bench_agent and the skills/docs are all migrated off the removed API coherently.

Verification I ran: 192 tests (text-only suite + codeact + config), 1,325 (runtime + context_blocks) — all green. Ruff check + format clean on the four core files. DCO present on all 4 commits; CI green on the head (secret-scan, build, lint, 3.13-compat).

Blocker — fix before merge

codeact.py:1061 crashes for non-string return_result values. The return_result path calls get_harness_metrics().stop_to_return_result(action.value) before validation, but HarnessMetrics.stop_to_return_result is annotated content: str | None and its truncation helper calls len(s) (harness_metrics.py:42,235). A custom handler returning TextOnlyResponseAction.return_result(42) for a -> int method — a completely valid use of the documented contract — aborts an otherwise-valid generation with TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len(). I reproduced this live against the PR head. Sized non-string values also pollute stop_to_return_result_previews (typed list[str]) without truncation.

The built-in handlers never hit this (return_text_as_result passes the string content; the default retries), which is why the suite is green — it only fires for custom handlers, exactly the extension point this PR advertises. Fix: stringify/guard at the call site (stop_to_return_result(str(action.value) if action.value is not None else None), or make the metric accept Any), and add the non-string regression test.

Open question from the earlier review — still live, now scoped

Bedrock consecutive-assistant messages on the tool_calls path. The retry and return_result paths are fine (their appended feedback is Error, i.e. user-role). But tool_calls preserves the LLMOutput (assistant) and then adds a synthetic ToolCallEvent (also assistant) with no coalescing in any formatter. Anthropic merges consecutive same-role turns; Bedrock requires strict alternation and can 400. This is now the only recovery path with that shape — either coalesce the preserved turn + synthetic call for role-strict providers, or verify Bedrock tolerates it.

Smaller notes

  • The empty-response remove() is a defensible carve-out from append-only (a truly empty turn carries nothing to preserve and the debug DebugTrace records what happened) — worth one sentence in the docs where append-only is claimed, so nobody reads it as unconditional.
  • The synthetic tool_calls action re-uses _process_tool_calls with preserve_llm_output=True — the interaction between the synthetic ToolCallEvent's id (synthetic_{uuid4}) and any reasoning state on the preserved turn deserves a regression test if reasoning replay lands on this lineage.
  • Test gaps worth adding with the blocker fix: non-string return_result values, async handler raising, repeated return_result validation failure counting toward the max_consecutive_text_only backstop.

Recommendation: fix the metrics blocker (small, with a regression test), settle the Bedrock role-alternation question for the tool_calls action, and this is mergeable — the design is the right shape and the review history shows it responded well to findings.

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Bottom-up review follow-up is pushed in f7b4660.

  • TextOnlyResponseAction.return_result(42) now reaches normal -> int validation; the string-preview metric receives only strings and the regression injects real HarnessMetrics.
  • Non-empty finish_reason="length" output is retained for diagnostics but cannot be accepted as a completed result by return_text_as_result or another callback.
  • The stale whitespace test description now matches the default retry path.
  • The Bedrock question was verified rather than papered over: an 8-token live request through the exact NVIDIA openai/aws/anthropic/bedrock-claude-sonnet-4-5-v1 route accepted the existing consecutive-assistant history, and LiteLLM 1.97.0 coalesces the same history on native Anthropic/Bedrock Invoke and Converse transports. No model-visible recovery event was added.

Validation: 235 focused tests pass; Ruff, production Pyright, and diff check pass. @coderabbitai review

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@coderabbitai review\n\nFollow-up fixes make provider truncation/error authoritative over parsed tool calls for both Completion and Responses clients. A truncated batch is now captured for diagnosis but never executed.

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@coderabbitai review\n\nThe same truncation precedence now covers CompletionClient XML tool-call fallback paths, with sync and async regressions.

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Comment on lines +74 to +75
`TextOnlyResponseAction` is the callback's return value; it is not passed to
`@strategy`. The wiring is:

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This is an internal note based on an agent conversation, not general documentation. Make sure this is just documentation.

default it appends an `Error` asking the model to use `execute_python` or
`return_result`, then retries. For a method where prose is a valid final value,
use `CodeActStrategy(on_text_only=return_text_as_result)`. `on_text_only`
receives a sync or async callback; the callback receives

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Remove "The action is
the callback result—it is not passed to @strategy."

When a model emits only prose, NOOA preserves that exact assistant turn and
then invokes the strategy's `on_text_only` callback.

Do not pass `TextOnlyResponseAction` to `@strategy`. The objects have distinct

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"The action is
the callback result—it is not passed to @strategy."

remove.

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furgalep merged commit 4d29e03 into main Sep 9, 2026
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furgalep deleted the fix/codeact-append-only-264 branch September 9, 2026 06:57
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