Users can now watch everything the agent does while a CE stage works, steer
it mid-stage, and read the whole conversation as a proper chat surface.
Live output:
- New host capability: CreateInteractiveAiSessionOptions.onProgress — the
engine adapter streams thinking/text deltas + tool start/end markers from
the pi agent hooks (any plugin can use this).
- Orchestrator buffers per-session live activity (merged deltas, discrete
tool lines, capped), emits throttled progress events over SSE, and
GET /sessions/:id attaches it as liveActivity for the polling fallback.
- Routes detach turn execution: start/answer/resume return immediately
(status active) and clients converge via push/poll — the turn is watchable
instead of hidden inside a blocking POST.
- Turn timeout is now INACTIVITY-based: an actively-working long turn is
never killed; a quiet one interrupts with its working trace preserved.
- On settle the trace persists into history as a condensed record.
Steering:
- Stage protocol: responses may be a direct answer, {value, comment}
(answer + guidance), or {feedback} (guidance without answering); the
system prompt instructs agents to treat steering as first-class input.
- CeFlow: guidance textarea alongside selectable questions — attach to the
clicked answer, or "Send guidance" on its own.
Q&A UI:
- Transcript no longer hides control records: past questions/answers render
as chat bubbles (option ids → labels), steering turns marked, working
traces as collapsible "Agent work" blocks, completion marker.
- Live working pane (pulse + streaming thinking/tool lines) while a turn runs.
Tests: 130 plugin tests green (14 new: live buffer/flush ordering, inactivity
watchdog survives active work, detached convergence, steering payload shapes,
transcript rendering, live pane). Engine seam tests green; plugin/core/
engine/dashboard tsc clean. Core full suite OOMs locally (known orchestrator-
shell issue) — covered by CI shards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The store/orchestrator were already multi-session (independent rows + live
handles per session); this surfaces it end to end:
- Sessions panel in the dashboard view: lists every session with stage,
status badge ("needs your input" for awaiting_input), and last activity;
stays visible while a flow is open so switching is one click. Closing a
flow returns to the overview without stopping the session.
- useCeSession.open(): adopt an existing session (pins its projectId for
answer/resume/poll); useCeSessions list hook with push-event refresh and
poll fallback while any session is mid-turn.
- DELETE /sessions/:id + orchestrator.discard(): dispose the live handle
before deleting the row (pipeline-link rows kept for task provenance);
Discard affordance on settled sessions.
- Tests: cross-session independence through one orchestrator, store delete,
route list/delete, hook open/list/remove/push/poll, view panel
open/switch/discard. 116 tests green; plugin + dashboard tsc clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add settingsSchema (default session provider/model, enabled stages, sync
reconcile-on-hooks toggle, reconcile cadence hint) aligned across manifest.json
and the runtime manifest, with typed getters. Wire the consumed getters:
orchestrator passes defaultProvider/defaultModelId into sessions and rejects
disabled stages; hooks gate their reconcile drain on reconcileOnHooks. Add the
plugin README and docs/plugins/compound-engineering.md documenting the hub,
interactive sessions, work bridge, and the sync ownership model.
reconcileIntervalMinutes is exposed as an operator cadence hint but not yet
consumed (no host scheduler; reconcile is on-demand by design).
