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Fixes #1467

Summary

  • distinguish durable DM enqueue from delivery/read confirmation in MCP and CLI send receipts
  • resolve the requested DM recipient independently from the workspace directory and require a full exact name match before sending
  • turn an empty get_message_readers result into an explicit queued_or_unread signal
  • document wait (on-idle) versus steer (immediate, possibly interrupting) at every public choice point
  • add red/green unit, CLI, SDK, and MCP protocol regressions

#1466 is intentionally not included: Relay's local broker/CLI/SDK has no mention tokenizer; mention resolution occurs in the upstream Relaycast service. The receipt helper does defensively flag a supplied recipient mismatch.

Verification

  • changed MCP/CLI tests: exit 0, 32 passed
  • full SDK tests: exit 0, 163 passed
  • root typecheck: exit 0
  • CLI lint: exit 0, 0 errors
  • broker wait and steer mode tests: exit 0
  • Prettier and diff check: exit 0
  • verified-secret scan: exit 0, 0 findings

The runtime dependency audit still exits 1 on 11 existing findings; this branch changes no dependencies. Veto was unavailable in the lane, so no Veto verdict is claimed. This PR is not merged.

Review follow-up

The first revision echoed the requested SDK target as though it were independently resolved. Commit 0f9a6201 fixes that P2: MCP and CLI now resolve against the workspace directory before sending, exact matching handles hyphenated names and strict-prefix agents correctly, a missing exact name fails before enqueue, and an unavailable resolver reports recipient_unresolved rather than claiming a match.

Commit 49f8ba3b closes the remaining receipt gaps found in review: unresolved receipts discard any untrusted response target, CLI reader output now carries the same queued_or_unread signal as MCP, and the changelog entry is split into short impact-first bullets.

Documentation-only follow-up 3698f0f7 restores the exact MCP and CLI interface names required by the changelog guidance. Remote HEAD is confirmed as 3698f0f7f6a34fae69d6cf3d81097fb1dc74b0f5; all 11 Actions workflows triggered for that exact SHA completed successfully. Codegen Models, Test Build Scripts, Test Install Script, Rust Auto-Format, and Cancel PR Jobs on Merge were absent due their event/path conditions and are not counted as passing.

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Walkthrough

The change adds direct-message delivery receipts across CLI and MCP tools. Receipts report recipient resolution, delivery mode, enqueue status, and reader confirmation. Documentation defines wait and steer behavior.

Changes

Direct-message delivery reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Delivery and reader receipt logic
packages/cli/src/cli/lib/message-delivery-receipts.ts, packages/cli/src/cli/mcp/messaging-tools.delivery.test.ts
Adds recipient resolution and receipt utilities for queued, injected, unresolved, mismatched, read, and unread states.
CLI and MCP receipt integration
packages/cli/src/cli/mcp/messaging-tools.ts, packages/cli/src/cli/agent-relay-mcp.ts, packages/cli/src/cli/commands/message.ts, packages/cli/src/cli/mcp/messaging-tools.protocol.test.ts, packages/cli/src/cli/commands/relaycast-groups.test.ts
Updates messaging handlers and schemas to return delivery receipts and reader status. Wires workspace-agent lookup and validates CLI output.
Messaging behavior documentation
.agents/skills/using-agent-relay/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/using-agent-relay/SKILL.md, packages/cli/README.md, packages/sdk-py/README.md, packages/sdk/src/messaging/types.ts, CHANGELOG.md
Documents wait, steer, enqueue confirmation, and reader confirmation semantics.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to b7780

A message operation can hang indefinitely if the underlying invocation never settles, bypassing the intended timeout and leaving users waiting without a response. This should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sender
  participant send_dm
  participant AgentDirectory
  participant directMessageReceipt
  participant messageReadersReceipt
  Sender->>send_dm: Send message with mode
  send_dm->>AgentDirectory: Resolve exact recipient
  AgentDirectory-->>send_dm: Return matching agent
  send_dm->>directMessageReceipt: Normalize enqueue response
  directMessageReceipt-->>Sender: Return delivery receipt
  Sender->>messageReadersReceipt: Check message readers
  messageReadersReceipt-->>Sender: Return read or queued_or_unread status
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Poem

A rabbit sends a message neat,
wait queues softly, steer moves fleet.
Receipts show the enqueue state,
Readers mark the message read or late.
Hop by hop, the signals glow.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 28.57% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: exposing direct-message enqueue state in the CLI.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes a clear summary and detailed verification results, although it uses Verification instead of the template's Test Plan heading.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue [#1467] by exposing enqueue versus read status, documenting wait and steer modes, and enforcing exact recipient resolution.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The CLI, MCP, SDK documentation, changelog, and tests directly support the linked issue objectives, with no unrelated code changes identified.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 12: Rename the changelog heading containing “Unreleased - Patch” to the
required exact heading “Unreleased,” preserving the new entry and all other
changelog content unchanged.

In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/message.ts`:
- Line 11: Update the inbox get_readers handler to import messageReadersReceipt
alongside directMessageReceipt, wrap messages.readers(messageId) with
messageReadersReceipt, and pass the resulting receipt to printJson so empty
reader lists retain the queued_or_unread signal.

In `@packages/sdk/src/messaging/relaycast.ts`:
- Line 288: Update the direct-message response flow around
normalizeDirectResponse so the requested input.to and the server-resolved
recipient remain separate, with message.target representing the server value
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121-135: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Enforce the deadline during getInvocation.

Line 123 awaits actions.getInvocation without a request deadline. The local action APIs expose no timeout or cancellation parameter. A never-settling request prevents the polling loop from reaching its timeout check.

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Addressed the fresh CodeRabbit findings in 46be033: persona invocation polling now races each getInvocation call against the remaining 130s deadline (with a never-settling regression), and the spawn handler delegates validation, action-input construction, and verified persona execution to named helpers, removing its complexity warning. Verification: 64 focused tests pass, root typecheck passes, CLI lint exits 0, git diff --check passes, and Veto code/security/secrets review passes with no findings.

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Named limitation: recipient_unresolved does not discriminate for token-only sessions

This isn't a defect — the rest of this PR is honest about what it reports (queued_unconfirmed is literally named for what it confirms, and the receipt doc comment says enqueue-only). Flagging this specifically so nobody builds an alert or a trust decision on a field that can't actually tell them what they think it's telling them.

directMessageReceipt's recipient_unresolved status fires in two cases that look identical in the output but mean opposite things:

  1. The requested recipient name genuinely doesn't exist in the workspace.
  2. The resolver was never called at all, so nothing was checked either way.

Case 2 is unconditional for any token-only MCP session: registerMessagingTools is wired in agent-relay-mcp.ts with

async () => {
  if (!getSession().workspaceKey) return undefined;
  return getRelay().agents.list();
}

No workspace key → the resolver returns undefinedresolveExactAgentName never runs → resolvedRecipient is undefinedrecipientMatched is null → status is recipient_unresolved. This happens on every single send_dm from a token-only session, whether the target agent is real or doesn't exist. The field is constant for that whole class of caller, so it cannot discriminate the thing its name implies it discriminates — a signal that answers the same way regardless of the true state is worse than no signal, because it invites trust it hasn't earned.

Concretely: a workspace-key session sending to a real vs. a fake recipient gets two different, correct statuses (queued_unconfirmed vs recipient_unresolved). A token-only session gets recipient_unresolved for both. Anyone building monitoring/alerting on this field needs to know it only discriminates for workspace-key callers.

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