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>
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