fix(claude): report busy heartbeats only while a turn owns them

[robertnisipeanu]

Fixes #7589

Problem

A Claude thread stays on Working forever after /compact, with a live timer and no way to tell whether compaction is still running. The thread never settles: the projected session ends at status="running" with active_turn_id=null, and only a turn can move a session out of a busy state.

The status and api_retry system messages are busy-only heartbeats — every value they carry maps to running or waiting (SDKStatus is 'compacting' | 'requesting' | null, and the status: null the CLI emits when compaction finishes maps to running). ClaudeAdapter reported them unconditionally, so a heartbeat landing after its turn completed left the thread in a state nothing clears. Compaction is the common way in: it routinely outlives the turn that requested it.

Fix

The adapter reports status and api_retry only while a turn is active. session_state_changed stays unconditional: it is the authoritative turn-over signal and reports idle as well as busy, so it clears itself. In-turn behaviour is unchanged, including the waiting state reported while compaction runs inside a turn.

Testing

vp test run src/provider — 520 passed, 6 skipped across 45 files. The new test replays the /compact sequence from the incident: an in-turn status: "compacting", the turn's result, then the post-compaction status: null and an api_retry. It fails without the guard and asserts only the in-turn waiting:status:compacting heartbeat is reported.

Model: Claude Fable 5. Harness: Claude Code.

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Changes Claude session state projection for late SDK heartbeats; scoped to provider adapter logic with targeted tests, but affects when threads show as busy vs ready.

Overview
Fixes threads stuck on Working after /compact when compaction or transport retries finish after the turn has already completed.

ClaudeAdapter now ignores SDK status and api_retry system messages unless context.turnState is set. Those messages only drive running/waiting session updates that a turn is supposed to clear; emitting them with no active turn left the UI busy forever. session_state_changed is unchanged and still drives idle/busy authoritatively.

In-turn behavior is the same (e.g. compacting → waiting). Tests run heartbeat assertions inside an active turn and add a regression case that replays post-turn status clear + api_retry after a compact result.

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Fix status and api_retry heartbeats to emit only during active turns

• Guards the status and api_retry cases in makeClaudeAdapter to early-return when context.turnState is undefined, so no session.state.changed event fires after a turn completes
• Retains existing in-turn behavior: compacting maps to waiting, other statuses to running, and retries emit running with reason api_retry:<attempt>/<max_retries>
• Adds tests in ClaudeAdapter.test.ts verifying post-turn status and api_retry messages are dropped and turn.completed still fires
• Behavioral Change: status and api_retry SDK messages arriving without an active turn are now silently dropped instead of emitting stale state updates; check makeClaudeAdapter switch cases in ClaudeAdapter.ts

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented transient status and retry updates from incorrectly changing session state when no active turn is in progress.
  • Session completion status remains authoritative when background heartbeats arrive without an associated turn.
  • Improved usage tracking across consecutive Claude turns.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for heartbeat handling during active and inactive turns.
  • Improved coverage for consecutive-turn usage reporting and system message handling.

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Walkthrough

ClaudeAdapter now emits status and api_retry session state changes only when an active turn owns them. Tests cover session-idle drain barriers, turn-owned heartbeats, and dropped post-turn heartbeats.

Changes

Claude adapter behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gate heartbeat state events apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts	The status and api_retry handlers ignore heartbeats without an active turn. Tests use session_state:idle drain notifications, start turns before owned heartbeats, and verify that post-turn heartbeats are dropped.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts`:
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[shivamhwp]

Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp).

Update the existing test barriers alongside the heartbeat guard. The consecutive-turn usage test waits for post-result api_retry:1/2, and observeUsageLimitEvents waits for api_retry:1/1 even without a live turn. Those acknowledgements are now suppressed, so the tests wait indefinitely. Use an unconditional, observable event after the queued messages, such as session_state_changed, for their drain receipt.

The new compact regression should also await a receipt after the late heartbeats instead of two Effect.yieldNow calls. It needs to prove that those messages were processed before asserting they produced no busy state.

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Note: GPT-6 on behalf of Robert (@robertnisipeanu).

@shivamhwp Addressed all three points in ae46585:

• The consecutive-turn usage test now waits for session_state:idle from an unconditional session_state_changed event after the result.
• observeUsageLimitEvents uses the same unconditional event for its drain receipt, including when no turn is active.
• The compact regression finishes the fake query and waits through session.exited before asserting, ensuring both late heartbeats have been processed.

All 128 Claude adapter tests pass, along with targeted lint, formatting, and the server typecheck. Removing both heartbeat guards makes the compact regression fail on both late heartbeats as expected. The branch is rebased onto main.