fix(relay): keep concurrent threads from hiding iOS push alerts

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What Changed

When iOS Live Activities are disabled or have no registered update token, another active thread can hide a completion or failure alert. Select the push alert from the thread state being published, so concurrent work and the five-row display limit cannot hide that alert.

The same selection applies to input and approval alerts. Deleting a thread no longer sends an incidental push about another thread. Direct push alerts require both the environment and device notification settings to be enabled. Keep the existing age limits, queue checks, and Live Activity delivery rules.

Why

The relay used the first row of the Live Activity aggregate for ordinary push alerts. The aggregate gives active work priority over completed work and shows at most five threads. A running row can therefore produce no push even when the published thread just finished.

This changes relay delivery selection. It requires a relay deployment; a desktop or mobile app update alone does not apply the fix. There is no visual layout, animation, or client navigation change. Android delivery and wire contracts are unchanged.

Validation

• All 98 focused tests in ApnsDeliveries.test.ts and AgentActivityPublisher.test.ts pass. Coverage includes concurrent completion and failure alerts, age boundaries, independent environment and device channel settings, muted alerts, deletion, replay, and Live Activity suppression.
• Relay type check, changed-file lint, formatting, and git diff --check pass.
• The original four concurrent-thread regression cases failed before the fix. Regression tests also cover the existing expiry boundaries and the environment notification switch.
• A controlled test against the hosted relay reproduced the problem on an iPhone: the completion publish queued no delivery, while the input publish queued a push that arrived. The corrected relay has not been deployed for a real iPhone test. Automated delivery tests use mocked persistence, queues, and Apple HTTP responses.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused.
• I explained what changed and why.
• Before/after screenshots: not applicable; no visual UI change.
• Video: not applicable; no animation or client interaction change.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Push notifications now reflect the latest live activity status when available.
  • Expired activity updates are no longer sent.
  • Improved handling prevents unnecessary notifications for deleted, replayed, muted, or event-muted activity.
  • Completed and failed activity alerts are queued appropriately while other work is in progress.
  • Alert delivery now respects activity phases and expiration limits.
  • Notification behavior now stays aligned with each device’s live activity and notification settings.

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Verdict: Approved at 2184ddd

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped relay bug fix that selects alerts from the thread being published instead of an aggregate row that may be hidden by concurrent work or display limits. Existing delivery rules and callers remain preserved, with focused regression coverage and no product-default or static-analysis changes.

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Walkthrough

APNS delivery now accepts optional agent activity state. It uses that state to build notifications, skips expired states, and receives state from AgentActivityPublisher when both notification channels are enabled. Tests cover age limits, silent states, and completion alerts.

Changes

Agent activity delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Notification state handling infra/relay/src/agentActivity/ApnsDeliveries.ts	APNS delivery accepts notificationState, derives activity status from its phase, skips expired state, and falls back to aggregate activity data when state is absent.
Publisher state propagation infra/relay/src/agentActivity/AgentActivityPublisher.ts	The publisher passes the current state to APNS delivery only when Live Activities and notifications are enabled.
Delivery behavior validation infra/relay/src/agentActivity/ApnsDeliveries.test.ts	Tests cover age limits, silent published states, state-aware calls, shared layers, and queued completed or failed thread alerts.

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Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentActivityPublisher
  participant ApnsDeliveries
  participant PushNotificationQueue
  AgentActivityPublisher->>ApnsDeliveries: sendForTarget(notificationState)
  ApnsDeliveries->>ApnsDeliveries: build or skip notification
  ApnsDeliveries->>PushNotificationQueue: queue push_notification job

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APNS alerts now use the published thread state and respect environment notification preferences, preventing stale or missing alerts across Live Activity configurations. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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