mecha_core/outbox.rs
1//! The outbox: staged outbound actions awaiting the user's review.
2//!
3//! An outbox-routed tool call is never executed by the agent loop — it is
4//! written here as a draft, and nothing leaves the machine until the user
5//! reads exactly what would be sent and releases it (`mecha outbox send`).
6//! That is "draft-only, never send" made structural: the gate lives in core,
7//! so an email or calendar tool — including a third-party MCP server's —
8//! needs no knowledge of it to be covered by it.
9//!
10//! The item keeps the drafted arguments (`args_before`) separate from the
11//! arguments the release will execute (`args`), because the difference is a
12//! measurement: a user edit before sending is a writing correction, and
13//! `mecha reflect` mines `diff(args_before, args)` into the learning store.
14//!
15//! **Staging is sink-agnostic; reviewing is not.** The outbox generalised to a
16//! new kind of outbound action — publishing a bundle to the public surface —
17//! without a line changing here, which was the design goal. Its *review*
18//! affordances did not: `show` printing arguments, `edit` opening them in
19//! `$EDITOR`, and the writing miner reading the diff all assume the staged
20//! thing is a message someone wrote. That is why an item carries an
21//! [`OutboxKind`], set at staging from `[outbox] publish_tools`, and why the
22//! miner keys on it — see [`OutboxKind::Publish`].
23//!
24//! Storage follows the learning store's rules: one pretty-printed JSON file
25//! per item so `$EDITOR` and `git diff` work on it, temp-sibling-and-rename
26//! for every rewrite so a reader never sees a half-written file, and an
27//! advisory flock for writers — taken *before reading the state acted on*,
28//! and never held across an editor invocation. Staging takes no lock at all:
29//! a fresh item is a fresh file with a unique id, and the agent loop must
30//! never block on a human's review session.
31
32use anyhow::{bail, Context, Result};
33use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
34use serde_json::Value;
35use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
36
37use crate::agent::Taint;
38use crate::session::Session;
39
40/// What kind of outbound action a staged item is, which decides how it is
41/// *reviewed* rather than how it is staged.
42#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
43#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
44pub enum OutboxKind {
45 /// Prose somebody wrote and somebody else will read: an email, a calendar
46 /// invitation, a message. The reviewable object *is* the arguments, and an
47 /// edit before release is a writing correction worth learning from.
48 #[default]
49 Message,
50 /// A publication to the public surface: a rendered bundle, an alias move,
51 /// a request-type push. Three things follow, and each is a bug if undone:
52 ///
53 /// - The reviewable object is the **rendered page**, not the arguments —
54 /// which are a path and a visibility flag.
55 /// - `edit` is refused. Editing the content means editing the source and
56 /// re-rendering, which stages a new item; rewriting the path is not
57 /// editing the draft.
58 /// - The writing miner **excludes it**. Feeding `diff(args_before, args)`
59 /// of a changed directory path to a reflector that mines voice rules
60 /// would carry noise into every future run's cached prefix. Same mistake
61 /// as learning from `"Blocked by a hook:"`, in a new costume.
62 Publish,
63}
64
65impl OutboxKind {
66 pub fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
67 match self {
68 OutboxKind::Message => "message",
69 OutboxKind::Publish => "publish",
70 }
71 }
72}
73
74/// One staged outbound action.
75#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
76pub struct OutboxItem {
77 pub id: String,
78 /// `pending` | `sent` | `rejected`.
79 pub status: String,
80 /// The tool a release will execute, by registry name (`web__fetch`).
81 pub tool: String,
82 /// How this is reviewed. Defaulted rather than required, so items staged
83 /// before the field existed load as the kind they in fact were.
84 #[serde(default)]
85 pub kind: OutboxKind,
86 /// The arguments as the agent drafted them. Never modified — this is the
87 /// baseline the learning capture diffs against.
88 pub args_before: Value,
89 /// The arguments a release will execute. Starts equal to `args_before`;
90 /// `mecha outbox edit` rewrites it.
91 pub args: Value,
92 /// One line for `mecha outbox list`.
93 pub summary: String,
94 /// The session that drafted this, when the front-end knew it.
95 #[serde(default)]
96 pub session_id: Option<String>,
97 /// The path jail the call was drafted under.
98 ///
99 /// A staged call is a *deferred* tool call, and a tool call only means
100 /// anything relative to the workspace it was made in: `bundle` here is a
101 /// directory under the drafting run's jail. Release happens in another
102 /// process, minutes or hours later, from whatever directory the reviewer
103 /// happens to be standing in — so without this the release resolves the
104 /// argument against the wrong root. An absolute path fails loudly; a
105 /// relative one is worse, because a same-named directory beside the
106 /// reviewer would quietly publish the wrong bytes.
107 ///
108 /// Recording it also keeps the release inside the jail the *agent* was
109 /// held to, rather than the reviewer's, which is the stricter of the two
110 /// and the one the interlock reasoned about.
111 ///
112 /// Defaulted, like `kind`: items staged before the field existed load as
113 /// `None` and release exactly as they did before.
114 #[serde(default)]
115 pub workspace: Option<PathBuf>,
116 /// The conversation's taint at the moment of staging. An armed snapshot
117 /// means third-party text was in context when this draft was written —
118 /// review it as possibly an attacker's words, not the assistant's.
119 #[serde(default)]
120 pub taint: Taint,
121 pub created_at: String,
122 #[serde(default)]
123 pub resolved_at: Option<String>,
124 /// Why it was rejected, when it was.
125 #[serde(default)]
126 pub reason: Option<String>,
127 /// The last release attempt's failure, if any. A failed send stays
128 /// `pending` — the draft is still good; the delivery was not.
129 #[serde(default)]
130 pub error: Option<String>,
131}
132
133impl OutboxItem {
134 pub fn edited(&self) -> bool {
135 self.args != self.args_before
136 }
137
138 /// Whether `mecha reflect` may mine this item as a **writing** correction.
139 ///
140 /// A `writing`-domain reflection can become a consolidated rule, and a rule
141 /// rides in every future run's system prompt inside the cached prefix. That
142 /// is the longest half-life anything in this project has, so what feeds it
143 /// is filtered structurally rather than by a prompt asking the reflector to
144 /// use its judgement:
145 ///
146 /// - **Sent, and edited.** An unedited release is not a correction — it is
147 /// *positive* evidence, which is [`WritingOutcome::SentUnchanged`] and no
148 /// longer unread. A rejected one never went out.
149 /// - **A message.** A publish's `diff(args_before, args)` is a changed
150 /// filesystem path or visibility flag. Mining it would teach voice rules
151 /// from bookkeeping — the same mistake as learning from
152 /// `"Blocked by a hook:"`, which is machine policy read as a human
153 /// correction.
154 pub fn mineable_as_writing(&self) -> bool {
155 self.writing_outcome() == Some(WritingOutcome::SentEdited)
156 }
157
158 /// What this item says about the drafting, if it says anything.
159 ///
160 /// **The signed half of the outbox's evidence, and the cheapest signal in
161 /// the goal system** (`docs/GOAL-SYSTEM-DESIGN.md` §5.2). Every evaluative
162 /// signal mecha had was a cost or a correction: `Trigger` is four ways of
163 /// saying a person stepped in, and every `Metric` is phrased so that lower
164 /// is better. So a draft could be recorded as *wrong* and never as *right*,
165 /// and the `writing` domain learned only from what displeased.
166 ///
167 /// This needed no new recording. `args_before` has always been kept beside
168 /// `args`, so "the owner read a letter written in their name and sent it as
169 /// drafted" was already on disk and simply had no reader.
170 ///
171 /// **It is the owner's judgement, not the agent's**, which is what makes it
172 /// immune to the failure that rules out scoring your own work: nothing the
173 /// model does can produce a `SentUnchanged` except drafting something a
174 /// person then chose to send unaltered.
175 ///
176 /// `None` for anything that says nothing about drafting — a pending item
177 /// (undecided), a rejected one (never went out, and its reason is the
178 /// record), or a publish (whose diff is a path and a visibility flag, not
179 /// prose).
180 pub fn writing_outcome(&self) -> Option<WritingOutcome> {
181 if self.kind != OutboxKind::Message || self.status != "sent" {
182 return None;
183 }
184 Some(match self.edited() {
185 true => WritingOutcome::SentEdited,
186 false => WritingOutcome::SentUnchanged,
187 })
188 }
189}
190
191/// What a released draft says about how it was written.
192#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
193pub enum WritingOutcome {
194 /// The owner sent it as drafted. Positive evidence.
195 SentUnchanged,
196 /// The owner rewrote it before sending. The correction `reflect` mines.
197 SentEdited,
198}
199
200/// How the drafting has been going, counted over released items.
201///
202/// Deliberately counts and never judges — the threshold for "well enough"
203/// belongs to whoever acts on it, the same division `runlog` keeps.
204#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
205pub struct WritingTally {
206 pub unchanged: usize,
207 pub edited: usize,
208}
209
210impl WritingTally {
211 pub fn of<'a>(items: impl IntoIterator<Item = &'a OutboxItem>) -> WritingTally {
212 let mut tally = WritingTally::default();
213 for item in items {
214 match item.writing_outcome() {
215 Some(WritingOutcome::SentUnchanged) => tally.unchanged += 1,
216 Some(WritingOutcome::SentEdited) => tally.edited += 1,
217 None => {}
218 }
219 }
220 tally
221 }
222
223 pub fn sent(&self) -> usize {
224 self.unchanged + self.edited
225 }
226
227 /// The share of sent drafts that went out as written.
228 ///
229 /// `None` over an empty denominator, never zero. "Nothing was edited" and
230 /// "nothing has been sent" are opposite findings, and rendering the second
231 /// as 0% would report an outbox nobody has used as one whose every draft
232 /// was rewritten — the null-run bug, in the one measure here that is
233 /// supposed to say something went *well*.
234 pub fn unchanged_rate(&self) -> Option<f64> {
235 (self.sent() > 0).then(|| self.unchanged as f64 / self.sent() as f64)
236 }
237}
238
239/// What the agent loop consults per call: the store plus the routed names.
240///
241/// `session_id` is interior-mutable because the front-end learns it after the
242/// agent (and its default [`RunContext`](crate::agent::RunContext)) is built:
243/// the session is created at run start, the route at setup. Best-effort —
244/// `None` on front-ends that record no session (batch, eval).
245pub struct OutboxRoute {
246 pub store: OutboxStore,
247 routed: std::collections::BTreeSet<String>,
248 publishes: std::collections::BTreeSet<String>,
249 session_id: std::sync::Mutex<Option<String>>,
250}
251
252impl OutboxRoute {
253 pub fn new(
254 store: OutboxStore,
255 routed: impl IntoIterator<Item = String>,
256 publishes: impl IntoIterator<Item = String>,
257 ) -> Self {
258 OutboxRoute {
259 store,
260 routed: routed.into_iter().collect(),
261 publishes: publishes.into_iter().collect(),
262 session_id: std::sync::Mutex::new(None),
263 }
264 }
265
266 pub fn routes(&self, tool: &str) -> bool {
267 self.routed.contains(tool)
268 }
269
270 pub fn routed(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &str> {
271 self.routed.iter().map(String::as_str)
272 }
273
274 /// A tool's kind, which is config's to declare and never the tool's: the
275 /// loop must not learn what a publish is, and a third-party MCP server
276 /// cannot be trusted to say. Anything unnamed is a message, which is the
277 /// conservative default — it keeps the arguments reviewable and the item
278 /// mineable, and the cost of getting it wrong is a voice rule learned from
279 /// a path rather than a page nobody could review.
280 pub fn kind_of(&self, tool: &str) -> OutboxKind {
281 if self.publishes.contains(tool) {
282 OutboxKind::Publish
283 } else {
284 OutboxKind::Message
285 }
286 }
287
288 /// Names declared as publishes. Used at startup to warn about one that is
289 /// not routed at all — it would execute unstaged, which is the
290 /// silently-degrading-sandbox shape the routed-name warning already
291 /// catches.
292 pub fn publishes(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &str> {
293 self.publishes.iter().map(String::as_str)
294 }
295
296 pub fn set_session_id(&self, id: &str) {
297 if let Ok(mut slot) = self.session_id.lock() {
298 *slot = Some(id.to_string());
299 }
300 }
301
302 pub fn session_id(&self) -> Option<String> {
303 self.session_id.lock().ok().and_then(|s| s.clone())
304 }
305}
306
307pub struct OutboxStore {
308 root: PathBuf,
309}
310
311/// Holds the store's writer lock for as long as it lives.
312pub struct OutboxLock {
313 _file: std::fs::File,
314}
315
316impl OutboxStore {
317 pub fn default_root() -> Result<PathBuf> {
318 if let Ok(dir) = std::env::var("MECHA_OUTBOX_DIR") {
319 return Ok(PathBuf::from(dir));
320 }
321 Ok(crate::work::mecha_home()?.join("outbox"))
322 }
323
324 pub fn open(root: impl Into<PathBuf>) -> Result<Self> {
325 let root = root.into();
326 crate::create_private_dir(&root).with_context(|| format!("creating {}", root.display()))?;
327 Ok(OutboxStore { root })
328 }
329
330 /// Open at the default location only if it already exists — for read
331 /// paths that must not create state as a side effect.
332 pub fn open_existing_default() -> Option<Self> {
333 let root = Self::default_root().ok()?;
334 root.is_dir().then_some(OutboxStore { root })
335 }
336
337 pub fn root(&self) -> &Path {
338 &self.root
339 }
340
341 /// Stage a drafted call. No lock: the id is fresh, so there is no state
342 /// to race on, and the agent loop must never wait on a review session.
343 pub fn stage(
344 &self,
345 tool: &str,
346 kind: OutboxKind,
347 args: Value,
348 taint: Taint,
349 session_id: Option<String>,
350 workspace: Option<PathBuf>,
351 ) -> Result<OutboxItem> {
352 let item = OutboxItem {
353 id: Session::new_id(),
354 status: "pending".into(),
355 tool: tool.to_string(),
356 kind,
357 summary: summarize(tool, &args),
358 args_before: args.clone(),
359 args,
360 session_id,
361 workspace,
362 taint,
363 created_at: chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339(),
364 resolved_at: None,
365 reason: None,
366 error: None,
367 };
368 self.write_item(&item)?;
369 Ok(item)
370 }
371
372 /// Every item, oldest first. A file that fails to parse is skipped with
373 /// a `tracing::warn!` rather than failing the whole read — right for a
374 /// listing, which should show what it can. See [`Self::items_strict`]
375 /// for the caller that cannot accept a silent skip.
376 pub fn items(&self) -> Result<Vec<OutboxItem>> {
377 self.items_impl(false)
378 }
379
380 /// Every item, oldest first — but a single unparseable file fails the
381 /// whole read instead of being skipped.
382 ///
383 /// `items()`'s skip-and-warn is right for a listing and wrong for a
384 /// caller about to write a permanent record from what it read. **Not**
385 /// because of a half-written file mid-save — this module's own header
386 /// names the reason that cannot happen: temp-sibling-and-rename means a
387 /// reader never sees a partial write, and `items_impl` only looks at the
388 /// `.json` extension the rename lands on, so the `.json.tmp` sibling is
389 /// invisible to the walk regardless. The realistic cause is a
390 /// *persistent* one: a stray file, or an item written by a schema this
391 /// binary cannot read (the hand-rolled `Deserialize` on [`OutboxKind`]
392 /// and `Proposed` exists for exactly that skew). Either way, `items()`
393 /// would pass it through as a silently short result — indistinguishable
394 /// from an outbox that simply has fewer drafts. `mecha distill`'s
395 /// episode tagging is exactly the caller that cannot accept that: its
396 /// own `tracing::warn!` is invisible there anyway (the nightly runs
397 /// with no `MECHA_LOG`), and because the cause is persistent rather
398 /// than transient, a caller that reacts to this by only asking the
399 /// operator to retry will keep failing the same way every night; see
400 /// that caller's own handling for how it names the distinction.
401 pub fn items_strict(&self) -> Result<Vec<OutboxItem>> {
402 self.items_impl(true)
403 }
404
405 fn items_impl(&self, strict: bool) -> Result<Vec<OutboxItem>> {
406 let mut out = Vec::new();
407 for entry in std::fs::read_dir(&self.root)? {
408 let path = entry?.path();
409 if path.extension().and_then(|e| e.to_str()) != Some("json") {
410 continue;
411 }
412 match serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(&path)?) {
413 Ok(item) => out.push(item),
414 Err(e) if strict => {
415 bail!("outbox item {} failed to parse: {e}", path.display())
416 }
417 Err(e) => {
418 tracing::warn!("skipping unreadable outbox item {}: {e}", path.display())
419 }
420 }
421 }
422 out.sort_by(|a: &OutboxItem, b: &OutboxItem| a.id.cmp(&b.id));
423 Ok(out)
424 }
425
426 /// Find one item by id or unique prefix. Ambiguity is an error rather
427 /// than a guess, same as session and proposal lookup.
428 pub fn item(&self, id: &str) -> Result<OutboxItem> {
429 let all = self.items()?;
430 let matches: Vec<&OutboxItem> = all.iter().filter(|i| i.id.starts_with(id)).collect();
431 match matches.len() {
432 0 => anyhow::bail!("no outbox item matching `{id}`"),
433 1 => Ok(matches[0].clone()),
434 n => anyhow::bail!(
435 "`{id}` matches {n} outbox items: {}",
436 matches
437 .iter()
438 .map(|i| i.id.as_str())
439 .collect::<Vec<_>>()
440 .join(", ")
441 ),
442 }
443 }
444
445 /// One item by its exact store-minted id — a single file read, never a
446 /// directory scan. For the hot paths (a button press on an event loop)
447 /// that already hold the full id and must not pay `items()`'s
448 /// read-and-parse of every draft ever staged. Prefix lookup stays
449 /// [`OutboxStore::item`]'s business.
450 ///
451 /// The id is validated by shape *before* it is joined onto the store
452 /// root: ids arrive here from button payloads, and a value shaped like a
453 /// path (`../…`) must be refused, not resolved. A hostile shape is an
454 /// error; a missing item is `Ok(None)`; a torn file is an error, so a
455 /// caller that maps errors to "unreadable" keeps failing closed.
456 pub fn item_exact(&self, id: &str) -> Result<Option<OutboxItem>> {
457 anyhow::ensure!(is_item_id(id), "`{id}` is not shaped like an outbox id");
458 let path = self.root.join(format!("{id}.json"));
459 let text = match std::fs::read_to_string(&path) {
460 Ok(text) => text,
461 Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return Ok(None),
462 Err(e) => return Err(e).with_context(|| format!("reading {}", path.display())),
463 };
464 Ok(Some(
465 serde_json::from_str(&text).with_context(|| format!("parsing {}", path.display()))?,
466 ))
467 }
468
469 /// Replace a pending item's release arguments. `args_before` is untouched
470 /// — it is the baseline the learning capture diffs against.
471 pub fn update_args(&self, id: &str, args: Value) -> Result<OutboxItem> {
472 let mut item = self.item(id)?;
473 anyhow::ensure!(
474 item.status == "pending",
475 "outbox item {} is {}, not pending",
476 item.id,
477 item.status
478 );
479 item.args = args;
480 item.summary = summarize(&item.tool, &item.args);
481 self.write_item(&item)?;
482 Ok(item)
483 }
484
485 /// Resolve a pending item as `sent` or `rejected`, in place — the file is
486 /// its own audit record, so nothing moves to an archive.
487 pub fn resolve(&self, id: &str, status: &str, reason: Option<String>) -> Result<OutboxItem> {
488 let mut item = self.item(id)?;
489 anyhow::ensure!(
490 item.status == "pending",
491 "outbox item {} is {}, not pending",
492 item.id,
493 item.status
494 );
495 item.status = status.to_string();
496 item.resolved_at = Some(chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339());
497 item.reason = reason;
498 item.error = None;
499 self.write_item(&item)?;
500 Ok(item)
501 }
502
503 /// Record a failed release attempt. The item stays `pending`: the draft
504 /// is still good, and the next `send` retries.
505 pub fn record_error(&self, id: &str, error: &str) -> Result<()> {
506 let mut item = self.item(id)?;
507 item.error = Some(error.to_string());
508 self.write_item(&item)
509 }
510
511 fn write_item(&self, item: &OutboxItem) -> Result<()> {
512 let path = self.root.join(format!("{}.json", item.id));
513 let tmp = path.with_extension("json.tmp");
514 std::fs::write(&tmp, serde_json::to_string_pretty(item)?)?;
515 std::fs::rename(&tmp, &path)?;
516 Ok(())
517 }
518
519 /// Writer lock for read-modify-write paths (edit, send, reject). Taken
520 /// before reading the item acted on; never held across `$EDITOR`.
521 pub fn lock(&self) -> Result<OutboxLock> {
522 use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
523 let file = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
524 .create(true)
525 .truncate(false)
526 .write(true)
527 .open(self.root.join(".lock"))?;
528 // SAFETY: flock on an fd we own, held open by the returned guard.
529 if unsafe { libc::flock(file.as_raw_fd(), libc::LOCK_EX) } != 0 {
530 return Err(std::io::Error::last_os_error()).context("locking the outbox");
531 }
532 Ok(OutboxLock { _file: file })
533 }
534}
535
536/// The shape of a store-minted id (`Session::new_id`: a timestamp, a hyphen,
537/// a uuid fragment). Checked before an id from the outside is joined onto the
538/// store root — nothing with a separator or a dot can name a file elsewhere.
539fn is_item_id(id: &str) -> bool {
540 !id.is_empty()
541 && id.len() <= 80
542 && id
543 .chars()
544 .all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '-' || c == '_')
545}
546
547/// A per-line diff of two argument renderings, `- `/`+ ` prefixed. Line-set
548/// based: enough to show *what* changed in a draft without a diff crate, and
549/// the full before/after always survives on the item itself. Used by both
550/// `mecha outbox show` and the reflect pass that mines edits.
551pub fn diff_args(before: &Value, after: &Value) -> String {
552 let pretty = |v: &Value| serde_json::to_string_pretty(v).unwrap_or_else(|_| v.to_string());
553 let b = pretty(before);
554 let a = pretty(after);
555 let b_lines: Vec<&str> = b.lines().collect();
556 let a_lines: Vec<&str> = a.lines().collect();
557 let mut out = String::new();
558 for line in &b_lines {
559 if !a_lines.contains(line) {
560 out.push_str(&format!(" - {line}\n"));
561 }
562 }
563 for line in &a_lines {
564 if !b_lines.contains(line) {
565 out.push_str(&format!(" + {line}\n"));
566 }
567 }
568 if out.is_empty() {
569 out.push_str(" (no textual change)\n");
570 }
571 out
572}
573
574/// One line for the list view: who and what when the arguments say, the
575/// compact JSON when they do not.
576///
577/// Keyed on well-known argument *names*, never on the tool — the store stays
578/// tool-agnostic, but a queue of mail drafts whose rows all lead with
579/// `{"body_markdown":…` made every review surface start with the least
580/// informative bytes of each item. Anything without the conventional fields
581/// falls back to what it always was.
582fn summarize(tool: &str, args: &Value) -> String {
583 let text = headline(args).unwrap_or_else(|| serde_json::to_string(args).unwrap_or_default());
584 format!("{tool} {}", clip(text, 80))
585}
586
587/// "to a@x — \"subject\"", when the arguments carry the conventional names.
588fn headline(args: &Value) -> Option<String> {
589 let map = args.as_object()?;
590 let field = |key: &str| {
591 map.get(key)
592 .and_then(|v| match v {
593 Value::String(s) => Some(s.clone()),
594 // `to` is a list on some surfaces and a string on others.
595 Value::Array(a) => Some(
596 a.iter()
597 .filter_map(|x| x.as_str())
598 .collect::<Vec<_>>()
599 .join(", "),
600 ),
601 _ => None,
602 })
603 .filter(|s| !s.trim().is_empty())
604 };
605 let to = field("to");
606 let subject = field("subject").or_else(|| field("title"));
607 match (to, subject) {
608 (Some(to), Some(subject)) => Some(format!("to {to} — \"{subject}\"")),
609 (Some(to), None) => Some(format!("to {to}")),
610 (None, Some(subject)) => Some(format!("\"{subject}\"")),
611 (None, None) => None,
612 }
613}
614
615/// Truncate on a char boundary; the text can be any UTF-8.
616fn clip(mut text: String, max: usize) -> String {
617 if text.len() > max {
618 let cut = (0..=max)
619 .rev()
620 .find(|&i| text.is_char_boundary(i))
621 .unwrap_or(0);
622 text.truncate(cut);
623 text.push('…');
624 }
625 text
626}
627
628/// A staged message, shaped the way a person reads one.
629///
630/// [`OutboxKind::Publish`]'s lesson generalises: **a message's reviewable
631/// object is the message**, not the JSON carrying it. A review surface that
632/// prints `{"body_markdown": "Dear Dirk,\n\nThank you…"}` asks the reviewer to
633/// decode escape sequences to find out what would be said in their name — and
634/// "approve without reading" is the exact failure the outbox exists to
635/// prevent, so a draft that is hard to read is a security cost rather than a
636/// cosmetic one. It is also what an editor should open: editing prose inside a
637/// JSON string literal is where a real newline becomes `\n`, a stray quote
638/// becomes a parse error, and the whole edit is refused for a reason that has
639/// nothing to do with what the person meant to say.
640///
641/// Keyed on well-known argument *names*, like [`headline`] and for the same
642/// reason: the store stays tool-agnostic, so a tool nobody anticipated is
643/// still reviewable — its fields land in `other` rather than vanishing.
644///
645/// **Nothing is dropped.** Every key of the arguments appears in exactly one
646/// of `headers`, `body` or `other`, and there is a test on that, because a
647/// field the reviewer cannot see is a field they approved without reading.
648/// That is the whole difference between reshaping a draft and summarising it.
649#[derive(Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
650pub struct DraftView {
651 /// Addressing and the other short scalars, in reading order.
652 pub headers: Vec<(String, String)>,
653 /// The prose, with its real newlines.
654 pub body: Option<String>,
655 /// Which argument the prose came from, so an edit writes it back to the
656 /// same key rather than guessing a second time.
657 pub body_field: Option<String>,
658 /// Everything else, unshaped — shown after the body, never hidden.
659 pub other: Vec<(String, String)>,
660}
661
662/// Header-ish arguments, in the order a person reads them rather than the
663/// order a map hands them back.
664/// Deliberately short. `thread_id` and `message_id` address the *provider*,
665/// not a person, and a reviewer answering "would I send this?" needs them the
666/// way a letter writer needs the postcode format — which is to say later, and
667/// not above the prose. They fall through to `other`, which every surface
668/// shows below the body.
669/// `start_time`/`end_time` sit here rather than falling through to `other`
670/// for one reason: `other` is in map order, which is alphabetical, so an
671/// event read *end before start* — nonsense on a page and worse in an ear,
672/// where a listener cannot glance back to sort it out.
673const HEADER_FIELDS: [&str; 12] = [
674 "to",
675 "cc",
676 "bcc",
677 "channel",
678 "subject",
679 "title",
680 "when",
681 "start",
682 "start_time",
683 "end",
684 "end_time",
685 "account",
686];
687
688/// Arguments that carry the prose, most specific first. Exactly one wins; the
689/// runners-up are ordinary arguments and are shown as such.
690const BODY_FIELDS: [&str; 8] = [
691 "body_markdown",
692 "body_text",
693 "body_html",
694 "body",
695 "text",
696 "markdown",
697 "message",
698 "content",
699];
700
701impl DraftView {
702 pub fn of(args: &Value) -> DraftView {
703 let mut view = DraftView::default();
704 let Some(map) = args.as_object() else {
705 // Not an object: there is nothing to shape, and showing it raw is
706 // still showing all of it.
707 view.other.push(("arguments".into(), args.to_string()));
708 return view;
709 };
710 for key in HEADER_FIELDS {
711 if let Some(value) = map.get(key) {
712 view.headers.push((key.to_string(), render(value)));
713 }
714 }
715 for key in BODY_FIELDS {
716 if let Some(text) = map.get(key).and_then(Value::as_str) {
717 view.body = Some(text.to_string());
718 view.body_field = Some(key.to_string());
719 break;
720 }
721 }
722 for (key, value) in map {
723 if HEADER_FIELDS.contains(&key.as_str())
724 || view.body_field.as_deref() == Some(key.as_str())
725 {
726 continue;
727 }
728 view.other.push((key.clone(), render(value)));
729 }
730 view
731 }
732}
733
734/// A draft as it would be **read out loud** — every argument, nothing
735/// summarised.
736///
737/// The reviewable object of a message is the message, and that rule does not
738/// change when the reviewer is listening instead of looking. What changes is
739/// that a listener cannot skim: they hear it once, in order, at speaking
740/// speed, so the only safe spoken offer is one that utters the whole thing.
741/// A paraphrase read aloud is not a smaller review, it is a different
742/// document — and the field it leaves out (one more address on the `to` line)
743/// is exactly the field an injection would add.
744///
745/// So this is [`DraftView`]'s three buckets spoken in reading order, and it
746/// inherits that type's guarantee: **every argument key appears**, with a
747/// test on it. The only thing it decides is wording.
748#[derive(Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
749pub struct SpokenDraft {
750 /// The draft, in speakable lines. Concatenate with pauses between.
751 pub lines: Vec<String>,
752}
753
754impl SpokenDraft {
755 /// How much speech this is. Characters rather than words because that is
756 /// what a TTS leg is actually handed, and the two are proportional at any
757 /// rate worth caring about.
758 pub fn chars(&self) -> usize {
759 self.lines.iter().map(|l| l.chars().count() + 1).sum()
760 }
761
762 pub fn text(&self) -> String {
763 self.lines.join(" ")
764 }
765}
766
767/// An argument name as a person hears it: `body_markdown` → `Body markdown`.
768///
769/// Deliberately mechanical rather than a lookup table of nice phrasings. A
770/// table would cover the tools thought of today and quietly mis-speak the
771/// rest, and the store is tool-agnostic on purpose — an unanticipated field
772/// must arrive sounding slightly stiff, never sounding like something else.
773fn spoken_label(key: &str) -> String {
774 let words = key.replace('_', " ");
775 let mut chars = words.chars();
776 match chars.next() {
777 Some(first) => first.to_uppercase().collect::<String>() + chars.as_str(),
778 None => words,
779 }
780}
781
782/// A value as it should be *heard*.
783///
784/// One case, and it is the case a calendar draft is made of:
785/// `2026-08-28T14:30:00-04:00` read aloud is a run of digits nobody can check
786/// a meeting against, and being checkable is the entire purpose of reading a
787/// draft back. So a timestamp is spoken as a date and a time.
788///
789/// **Rendered in the offset the string itself carries, never in local time.**
790/// A reviewer must hear the moment the draft actually names; translating it
791/// into some other zone would be the wrong-bytes review arriving through the
792/// one door built to prevent it. Anything that does not parse is spoken
793/// unchanged — a value this does not understand must reach the listener as
794/// itself, not as a guess.
795fn spoken_value(value: &str) -> String {
796 if let Ok(dt) = chrono::DateTime::parse_from_rfc3339(value) {
797 let on = dt.format("%A %B %-d");
798 return if dt.format("%M").to_string() == "00" {
799 format!("{on} at {}", dt.format("%-I %p"))
800 } else {
801 format!("{on} at {}", dt.format("%-I:%M %p"))
802 };
803 }
804 // A local datetime with no offset — which is what a calendar tool sends
805 // when the zone rides in a separate `timezone` argument, spoken beside
806 // it. Formatted, never *converted*: there is no offset here to convert
807 // from, and inventing one would be the harness telling the listener a
808 // different hour than the draft says.
809 for form in ["%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M"] {
810 if let Ok(dt) = chrono::NaiveDateTime::parse_from_str(value, form) {
811 let on = dt.format("%A %B %-d");
812 return if dt.format("%M").to_string() == "00" {
813 format!("{on} at {}", dt.format("%-I %p"))
814 } else {
815 format!("{on} at {}", dt.format("%-I:%M %p"))
816 };
817 }
818 }
819 if let Ok(date) = chrono::NaiveDate::parse_from_str(value, "%Y-%m-%d") {
820 return date.format("%A %B %-d").to_string();
821 }
822 value.to_string()
823}
824
825impl DraftView {
826 /// This draft, spoken.
827 pub fn spoken(&self) -> SpokenDraft {
828 let mut lines = Vec::new();
829 for (key, value) in &self.headers {
830 lines.push(format!("{}: {}.", spoken_label(key), spoken_value(value)));
831 }
832 if let Some(body) = &self.body {
833 // The prose is uttered as prose, with no label in front of it:
834 // "Body markdown: Dear Dirk" is a field name a listener has to
835 // parse past. Which argument carried it is `body_field`'s to
836 // report, and no surface has ever needed to hear it.
837 lines.push(body.trim().to_string());
838 }
839 for (key, value) in &self.other {
840 lines.push(format!("{}: {}.", spoken_label(key), spoken_value(value)));
841 }
842 SpokenDraft { lines }
843 }
844}
845
846/// One argument as a person should see it: a string as itself, a list of
847/// addresses joined, anything else as its JSON. An empty value says so rather
848/// than rendering as nothing — a blank `to` is a fact about the draft, and a
849/// label with nothing after it reads as a display bug instead.
850fn render(value: &Value) -> String {
851 let text = match value {
852 Value::String(s) => s.clone(),
853 Value::Array(a) if a.iter().all(Value::is_string) => a
854 .iter()
855 .filter_map(Value::as_str)
856 .collect::<Vec<_>>()
857 .join(", "),
858 other => other.to_string(),
859 };
860 if text.trim().is_empty() {
861 "(empty)".to_string()
862 } else {
863 text
864 }
865}
866
867/// The arguments that address the **provider** rather than a person.
868///
869/// The leftovers of the classification [`DraftView`] already makes: not
870/// addressing, not the prose, and a string. What remains — `thread_id`,
871/// `message_id`, a Slack `ts` — names the *object* the call acts on, which is
872/// exactly what two calls about the same object have in common. That makes it
873/// the join key from a staged draft back to the read that produced it
874/// ([`crate::outbox_source`]), and it lives here so the one decision about
875/// which argument is which is still made once.
876///
877/// `account` and the other headers are excluded on purpose, and it is the
878/// exclusion that makes the join worth anything: `{"account": "dartmouth"}`
879/// is shared by every mail call in the session and would match all of them,
880/// which is a filter that filters nothing. Provider ids are high-entropy
881/// because they have to be.
882pub fn provider_ids(args: &Value) -> Vec<(String, String)> {
883 let Some(map) = args.as_object() else {
884 return Vec::new();
885 };
886 let body = DraftView::of(args).body_field;
887 map.iter()
888 .filter(|(key, _)| !HEADER_FIELDS.contains(&key.as_str()))
889 .filter(|(key, _)| body.as_deref() != Some(key.as_str()))
890 .filter_map(|(key, value)| {
891 let text = value.as_str()?;
892 (!text.trim().is_empty()).then(|| (key.clone(), text.to_string()))
893 })
894 .collect()
895}
896
897/// Write an edited body back into the arguments it came from.
898///
899/// The inverse of [`DraftView::body_field`], and it lives here so the one
900/// decision about which key holds the prose is made once. Returns the changed
901/// arguments, or `None` when there was no body to replace — a caller must
902/// then fall back to editing the arguments themselves rather than silently
903/// changing nothing.
904pub fn with_body(args: &Value, body: &str) -> Option<Value> {
905 let field = DraftView::of(args).body_field?;
906 let mut args = args.clone();
907 args.as_object_mut()?
908 .insert(field, Value::String(body.to_string()));
909 Some(args)
910}
911
912#[cfg(test)]
913mod tests {
914 use super::*;
915 use serde_json::json;
916
917 fn scratch(name: &str) -> PathBuf {
918 let dir =
919 std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("mecha-outbox-test-{name}-{}", std::process::id()));
920 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
921 dir
922 }
923
924 #[test]
925 fn a_summary_leads_with_who_and_what_when_the_arguments_say() {
926 // The conventional fields, in every combination they arrive in.
927 assert_eq!(
928 summarize(
929 "mail__send",
930 &json!({"to": "a@x.org", "subject": "Tuesday?", "body_markdown": "long…"})
931 ),
932 "mail__send to a@x.org — \"Tuesday?\""
933 );
934 assert_eq!(
935 summarize(
936 "mail__send",
937 &json!({"to": ["a@x.org", "b@x.org"], "body": "hi"})
938 ),
939 "mail__send to a@x.org, b@x.org"
940 );
941 assert_eq!(
942 summarize(
943 "cal__event_create",
944 &json!({"title": "Standup", "start": "…"})
945 ),
946 "cal__event_create \"Standup\""
947 );
948
949 // Without them, the compact JSON it always was — and still bounded.
950 let plain = summarize("factory__bundle_publish", &json!({"bundle": "/tmp/x"}));
951 assert!(plain.contains("bundle"), "{plain}");
952 let long = summarize("t", &json!({"to": "x".repeat(200)}));
953 assert!(long.len() < 120, "{}", long.len());
954 assert!(long.ends_with('…'), "{long}");
955
956 // An empty `to` is absence, not an addressee.
957 assert_eq!(
958 summarize("t", &json!({"to": "", "body": "x"})),
959 r#"t {"body":"x","to":""}"#
960 );
961 }
962
963 #[test]
964 fn an_item_round_trips_and_lists_in_id_order() {
965 let root = scratch("roundtrip");
966 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
967
968 let a = store
969 .stage(
970 "web__fetch",
971 OutboxKind::Message,
972 json!({"url": "https://a"}),
973 Taint::default(),
974 None,
975 None,
976 )
977 .unwrap();
978 let b = store
979 .stage(
980 "email__send",
981 OutboxKind::Message,
982 json!({"to": "x@y"}),
983 Taint {
984 private: true,
985 untrusted: true,
986 },
987 Some("sess-1".into()),
988 None,
989 )
990 .unwrap();
991
992 let items = store.items().unwrap();
993 assert_eq!(items.len(), 2);
994 // Ids sort by creation time, so listing order is staging order.
995 assert_eq!(items[0].id, a.id.min(b.id.clone()));
996
997 let loaded = store.item(&b.id).unwrap();
998 assert_eq!(loaded.tool, "email__send");
999 assert!(loaded.taint.trifecta_armed());
1000 assert_eq!(loaded.session_id.as_deref(), Some("sess-1"));
1001 assert_eq!(loaded.args, loaded.args_before);
1002 assert!(!loaded.edited());
1003
1004 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1005 }
1006
1007 #[test]
1008 fn items_skips_a_malformed_file_but_items_strict_bails_on_it() {
1009 let root = scratch("malformed");
1010 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1011 store
1012 .stage(
1013 "t",
1014 OutboxKind::Message,
1015 json!({}),
1016 Taint::default(),
1017 None,
1018 None,
1019 )
1020 .unwrap();
1021 // A stray file, or one written by a schema this binary cannot read —
1022 // never a half-written save, which temp-sibling-and-rename rules out.
1023 std::fs::write(root.join("zzz-corrupt.json"), "{not json").unwrap();
1024
1025 let items = store.items().unwrap();
1026 assert_eq!(items.len(), 1, "the listing shows what it can");
1027
1028 let err = store.items_strict().unwrap_err();
1029 assert!(
1030 format!("{err:#}").contains("zzz-corrupt.json"),
1031 "the error names the file that failed: {err:#}"
1032 );
1033
1034 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1035 }
1036
1037 #[test]
1038 fn a_prefix_that_matches_two_items_is_an_error_not_a_guess() {
1039 let root = scratch("prefix");
1040 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1041 store
1042 .stage(
1043 "t",
1044 OutboxKind::Message,
1045 json!({}),
1046 Taint::default(),
1047 None,
1048 None,
1049 )
1050 .unwrap();
1051 store
1052 .stage(
1053 "t",
1054 OutboxKind::Message,
1055 json!({}),
1056 Taint::default(),
1057 None,
1058 None,
1059 )
1060 .unwrap();
1061
1062 // Both ids share the timestamp prefix of the second they were made in.
1063 let err = store.item("2").unwrap_err();
1064 assert!(err.to_string().contains("matches 2"), "{err}");
1065
1066 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1067 }
1068
1069 #[test]
1070 fn editing_replaces_args_and_never_touches_the_baseline() {
1071 let root = scratch("edit");
1072 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1073 let item = store
1074 .stage(
1075 "web__fetch",
1076 OutboxKind::Message,
1077 json!({"url": "https://a"}),
1078 Taint::default(),
1079 None,
1080 None,
1081 )
1082 .unwrap();
1083
1084 let edited = store
1085 .update_args(&item.id, json!({"url": "https://b"}))
1086 .unwrap();
1087 assert!(edited.edited());
1088 assert_eq!(edited.args_before, json!({"url": "https://a"}));
1089 assert_eq!(edited.args, json!({"url": "https://b"}));
1090
1091 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1092 }
1093
1094 /// The rule that protects every future run's system prompt. A publish's
1095 /// edit diff is a changed filesystem path, and a `writing` reflection
1096 /// becomes a rule in the cached prefix — the same class of mistake as
1097 /// mining `"Blocked by a hook:"` as if a human had said it. Fails on the
1098 /// old behaviour, which mined any sent-and-edited item.
1099 #[test]
1100 fn the_writing_miner_takes_edited_messages_and_never_publishes() {
1101 let root = scratch("mineable");
1102 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1103
1104 let cases = [
1105 (OutboxKind::Message, "sent", true, true),
1106 // A publish, edited and sent — the one the old filter accepted.
1107 (OutboxKind::Publish, "sent", true, false),
1108 // Unedited is not a correction; rejected never went out.
1109 (OutboxKind::Message, "sent", false, false),
1110 (OutboxKind::Message, "rejected", true, false),
1111 (OutboxKind::Message, "pending", true, false),
1112 ];
1113 for (kind, status, edited, expected) in cases {
1114 let mut item = store
1115 .stage(
1116 "x__send",
1117 kind,
1118 json!({"path": "/tmp/a"}),
1119 Taint::default(),
1120 None,
1121 None,
1122 )
1123 .unwrap();
1124 item.status = status.into();
1125 if edited {
1126 item.args = json!({"path": "/tmp/b"});
1127 }
1128 assert_eq!(
1129 item.mineable_as_writing(),
1130 expected,
1131 "{kind:?} / {status} / edited={edited}"
1132 );
1133 }
1134
1135 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1136 }
1137
1138 /// The signal that had no reader: the owner read a letter written in their
1139 /// name and sent it as drafted. Positive evidence, and deliberately *not*
1140 /// a correction — mining it as one would teach voice rules from approval.
1141 #[test]
1142 fn a_draft_sent_as_written_is_positive_evidence_and_never_a_correction() {
1143 let root = scratch("writing-outcome");
1144 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1145 let stage = |kind| {
1146 store
1147 .stage(
1148 "x__send",
1149 kind,
1150 json!({"body": "Dear Dirk,"}),
1151 Taint::default(),
1152 None,
1153 None,
1154 )
1155 .unwrap()
1156 };
1157
1158 let mut unchanged = stage(OutboxKind::Message);
1159 unchanged.status = "sent".into();
1160 assert_eq!(
1161 unchanged.writing_outcome(),
1162 Some(WritingOutcome::SentUnchanged)
1163 );
1164 assert!(
1165 !unchanged.mineable_as_writing(),
1166 "approval is not a correction"
1167 );
1168
1169 let mut edited = stage(OutboxKind::Message);
1170 edited.status = "sent".into();
1171 edited.args = json!({"body": "Dear Dr Baumgartner,"});
1172 assert_eq!(edited.writing_outcome(), Some(WritingOutcome::SentEdited));
1173 assert!(edited.mineable_as_writing());
1174
1175 // Says nothing about drafting: undecided, never went out, or not prose.
1176 let pending = stage(OutboxKind::Message);
1177 assert_eq!(pending.writing_outcome(), None);
1178
1179 let mut rejected = stage(OutboxKind::Message);
1180 rejected.status = "rejected".into();
1181 assert_eq!(rejected.writing_outcome(), None);
1182
1183 let mut published = stage(OutboxKind::Publish);
1184 published.status = "sent".into();
1185 assert_eq!(published.writing_outcome(), None);
1186
1187 let tally = WritingTally::of([&unchanged, &edited, &pending, &rejected, &published]);
1188 assert_eq!(
1189 tally,
1190 WritingTally {
1191 unchanged: 1,
1192 edited: 1
1193 }
1194 );
1195 assert_eq!(tally.unchanged_rate(), Some(0.5));
1196
1197 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1198 }
1199
1200 /// "Nothing was edited" and "nothing has been sent" are opposite findings.
1201 /// Reporting the second as 0% would describe an outbox nobody has used as
1202 /// one whose every draft was rewritten — the null-run bug, arriving in the
1203 /// one measure here whose job is to say something went well.
1204 #[test]
1205 fn a_rate_over_nothing_sent_is_absent_rather_than_zero() {
1206 assert_eq!(WritingTally::default().unchanged_rate(), None);
1207 assert_eq!(WritingTally::default().sent(), 0);
1208 assert_eq!(
1209 WritingTally {
1210 unchanged: 0,
1211 edited: 3
1212 }
1213 .unchanged_rate(),
1214 Some(0.0),
1215 "every draft rewritten is a real zero, and is not the same finding"
1216 );
1217 }
1218
1219 /// The kind is config's to declare, and anything unnamed stays a message —
1220 /// which keeps the arguments reviewable rather than silently hiding them.
1221 #[test]
1222 fn a_routes_kind_comes_from_config_and_defaults_to_message() {
1223 let root = scratch("kindof");
1224 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1225 let route = OutboxRoute::new(
1226 store,
1227 [
1228 "mail__send".to_string(),
1229 "factory__bundle_publish".to_string(),
1230 ],
1231 ["factory__bundle_publish".to_string()],
1232 );
1233 assert_eq!(
1234 route.kind_of("factory__bundle_publish"),
1235 OutboxKind::Publish
1236 );
1237 assert_eq!(route.kind_of("mail__send"), OutboxKind::Message);
1238 assert_eq!(route.kind_of("never__heard_of_it"), OutboxKind::Message);
1239
1240 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1241 }
1242
1243 /// Items written before the field existed must load as what they in fact
1244 /// were, or an upgrade would reclassify every staged email as unknown.
1245 #[test]
1246 fn an_item_recorded_before_kinds_existed_loads_as_a_message() {
1247 let item: OutboxItem = serde_json::from_value(json!({
1248 "id": "20260101-000000-abc",
1249 "status": "sent",
1250 "tool": "mail__send",
1251 "args_before": {"body": "a"},
1252 "args": {"body": "b"},
1253 "summary": "mail__send",
1254 "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
1255 }))
1256 .unwrap();
1257 assert_eq!(item.kind, OutboxKind::Message);
1258 assert!(item.mineable_as_writing());
1259 // And the same for the jail it was drafted under: an older item names
1260 // none, and a release falls back to the reviewer's workspace, which is
1261 // exactly what it did before the field existed.
1262 assert_eq!(item.workspace, None);
1263 }
1264
1265 /// A staged call is a deferred tool call, and the release happens in
1266 /// another process from another directory. Without the drafting jail on
1267 /// the item, `{"bundle": "site"}` resolves against wherever the reviewer
1268 /// stands — an absolute path fails loudly, and a relative one silently
1269 /// publishes whatever `./site` happens to be there.
1270 #[test]
1271 fn a_staged_call_records_the_jail_it_was_drafted_under() {
1272 let root = scratch("workspace");
1273 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1274 let jail = PathBuf::from("/home/someone/.mecha/work/morning");
1275
1276 let item = store
1277 .stage(
1278 "factory__bundle_publish",
1279 OutboxKind::Publish,
1280 json!({"bundle": "site", "id": "brief"}),
1281 Taint::default(),
1282 None,
1283 Some(jail.clone()),
1284 )
1285 .unwrap();
1286 assert_eq!(item.workspace.as_ref(), Some(&jail));
1287
1288 // And it survives the round-trip through the file, which is the only
1289 // form the reviewing process ever sees.
1290 let loaded = store.item(&item.id).unwrap();
1291 assert_eq!(loaded.workspace.as_ref(), Some(&jail));
1292
1293 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1294 }
1295
1296 #[test]
1297 fn resolution_rewrites_in_place_and_only_pending_resolves() {
1298 let root = scratch("resolve");
1299 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1300 let item = store
1301 .stage(
1302 "t",
1303 OutboxKind::Message,
1304 json!({}),
1305 Taint::default(),
1306 None,
1307 None,
1308 )
1309 .unwrap();
1310
1311 let sent = store.resolve(&item.id, "sent", None).unwrap();
1312 assert_eq!(sent.status, "sent");
1313 assert!(sent.resolved_at.is_some());
1314 assert_eq!(
1315 store.items().unwrap().len(),
1316 1,
1317 "resolved in place, not archived"
1318 );
1319
1320 let err = store.resolve(&item.id, "rejected", None).unwrap_err();
1321 assert!(err.to_string().contains("not pending"), "{err}");
1322 let err = store.update_args(&item.id, json!({"x": 1})).unwrap_err();
1323 assert!(err.to_string().contains("not pending"), "{err}");
1324
1325 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1326 }
1327
1328 #[test]
1329 fn a_failed_release_records_the_error_and_stays_pending() {
1330 let root = scratch("error");
1331 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1332 let item = store
1333 .stage(
1334 "t",
1335 OutboxKind::Message,
1336 json!({}),
1337 Taint::default(),
1338 None,
1339 None,
1340 )
1341 .unwrap();
1342
1343 store.record_error(&item.id, "server unreachable").unwrap();
1344 let loaded = store.item(&item.id).unwrap();
1345 assert_eq!(loaded.status, "pending");
1346 assert_eq!(loaded.error.as_deref(), Some("server unreachable"));
1347
1348 // A later successful resolution clears the stale error.
1349 let sent = store.resolve(&item.id, "sent", None).unwrap();
1350 assert_eq!(sent.error, None);
1351
1352 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1353 }
1354
1355 /// The targeted read behind the hot paths: one file, found or honestly
1356 /// missing, and a value shaped like a path is refused before it can name
1357 /// a file outside the store — even one that exists and would parse.
1358 #[test]
1359 fn an_exact_lookup_reads_one_file_and_refuses_a_hostile_id() {
1360 let root = scratch("exact");
1361 let store = OutboxStore::open(&root).unwrap();
1362 let staged = store
1363 .stage(
1364 "mail__send",
1365 OutboxKind::Message,
1366 json!({"to": "a@x.org"}),
1367 Taint::default(),
1368 None,
1369 None,
1370 )
1371 .unwrap();
1372
1373 let found = store.item_exact(&staged.id).unwrap().expect("found");
1374 assert_eq!(found.id, staged.id);
1375 assert_eq!(found.tool, "mail__send");
1376
1377 // Missing is None, not an error: the caller decides what absence means.
1378 assert!(store
1379 .item_exact("20990101T000000-deadbeef")
1380 .unwrap()
1381 .is_none());
1382
1383 // A perfectly valid item file sitting *beside* the store, reachable
1384 // only by traversal — the refusal below is not vacuous.
1385 let outside = root.parent().unwrap().join("mecha-outbox-evil.json");
1386 std::fs::write(&outside, serde_json::to_string_pretty(&staged).unwrap()).unwrap();
1387 for hostile in [
1388 "../mecha-outbox-evil",
1389 "a/b",
1390 "a.b",
1391 ".",
1392 "",
1393 &"x".repeat(200),
1394 ] {
1395 assert!(
1396 store.item_exact(hostile).is_err(),
1397 "{hostile:?} must be refused, not resolved"
1398 );
1399 }
1400 let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&outside);
1401
1402 let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
1403 }
1404
1405 /// The invariant that separates reshaping a draft from summarising one:
1406 /// every argument reaches the reviewer somewhere. A field that falls
1407 /// between the three buckets is a field released unread.
1408 #[test]
1409 fn a_draft_view_drops_no_argument() {
1410 let args = json!({
1411 "to": ["a@x.org", "b@x.org"],
1412 "subject": "Tuesday?",
1413 "body_markdown": "Dear A,\n\nHello.\n\nLuke",
1414 "account": "dartmouth",
1415 "importance": "high",
1416 "attachments": [{"name": "f.pdf"}],
1417 });
1418 let view = DraftView::of(&args);
1419 let mut seen: Vec<String> = view
1420 .headers
1421 .iter()
1422 .map(|(k, _)| k.clone())
1423 .chain(view.body_field.clone())
1424 .chain(view.other.iter().map(|(k, _)| k.clone()))
1425 .collect();
1426 seen.sort();
1427 let mut keys: Vec<String> = args.as_object().unwrap().keys().cloned().collect();
1428 keys.sort();
1429 assert_eq!(seen, keys);
1430 assert_eq!(view.body.as_deref(), Some("Dear A,\n\nHello.\n\nLuke"));
1431 // Reading order, not map order.
1432 assert_eq!(
1433 view.headers
1434 .iter()
1435 .map(|(k, _)| k.as_str())
1436 .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
1437 ["to", "subject", "account"]
1438 );
1439 assert_eq!(view.headers[0].1, "a@x.org, b@x.org");
1440 }
1441
1442 /// The spoken form carries the same guarantee, and it is the one that
1443 /// matters most: a listener cannot skim back over the line where the
1444 /// extra recipient was. Every argument's value must be *audible* — the
1445 /// check is on values rather than keys, because the body is spoken with
1446 /// no label and a key-only check would pass on a draft that read out its
1447 /// field names and none of its content.
1448 #[test]
1449 fn a_spoken_draft_utters_every_argument() {
1450 let args = json!({
1451 "to": ["a@x.org", "b@x.org"],
1452 "subject": "Tuesday?",
1453 "body_markdown": "Dear A,\n\nHello.\n\nLuke",
1454 "account": "dartmouth",
1455 "importance": "high",
1456 });
1457 let spoken = DraftView::of(&args).spoken().text();
1458 for audible in [
1459 "a@x.org",
1460 "b@x.org",
1461 "Tuesday?",
1462 "Dear A,",
1463 "Luke",
1464 "dartmouth",
1465 "high",
1466 ] {
1467 assert!(
1468 spoken.contains(audible),
1469 "{audible} was never said: {spoken}"
1470 );
1471 }
1472 // Labels are spoken as words, and the body carries none — "Body
1473 // markdown:" is a field name a listener has to parse past.
1474 assert!(spoken.contains("Subject: Tuesday?."), "{spoken}");
1475 assert!(!spoken.contains("Body markdown"), "{spoken}");
1476 assert!(spoken.contains("Importance: high."), "{spoken}");
1477 }
1478
1479 /// A calendar draft is mostly timestamps, and a timestamp read out as
1480 /// digits is a draft nobody can check. Rendered in the offset the string
1481 /// carries — hearing a different moment than the draft names is the
1482 /// wrong-bytes review arriving through the ear.
1483 #[test]
1484 fn a_timestamp_is_spoken_as_a_time_in_its_own_offset() {
1485 let spoken = DraftView::of(&json!({
1486 "title": "Walk with Sage",
1487 "start_time": "2026-08-28T14:00:00-04:00",
1488 "end_time": "2026-08-28T14:30:00-04:00",
1489 }))
1490 .spoken()
1491 .text();
1492 assert!(spoken.contains("Friday August 28 at 2 PM"), "{spoken}");
1493 assert!(spoken.contains("Friday August 28 at 2:30 PM"), "{spoken}");
1494 assert!(!spoken.contains("T14:00"), "{spoken}");
1495 // A calendar tool that puts the zone in its own argument sends a
1496 // *naive* datetime, which is the form this missed on the first pass:
1497 // it fell through to the fallback and read out "2026-08-28T16:00:00".
1498 let naive = DraftView::of(&json!({
1499 "start_time": "2026-08-28T16:00:00",
1500 "timezone": "America/New_York",
1501 }))
1502 .spoken()
1503 .text();
1504 assert!(naive.contains("Friday August 28 at 4 PM"), "{naive}");
1505 // Start before end, whatever order the map hands them back in.
1506 let start = spoken.find("Start time").expect("start");
1507 let end = spoken.find("End time").expect("end");
1508 assert!(start < end, "an event read end-first is nonsense: {spoken}");
1509 }
1510
1511 /// A value the renderer does not understand reaches the listener as
1512 /// itself. Guessing at it would be the one thing a spoken review cannot
1513 /// afford.
1514 #[test]
1515 fn an_unparseable_value_is_spoken_unchanged() {
1516 let spoken = DraftView::of(&json!({"when": "sometime next week"}))
1517 .spoken()
1518 .text();
1519 assert_eq!(spoken, "When: sometime next week.");
1520 }
1521
1522 /// A tool nobody anticipated is still speakable, stiffly and completely.
1523 /// The alternative — a lookup table of nice phrasings — covers the tools
1524 /// thought of today and mis-speaks the rest.
1525 #[test]
1526 fn an_unanticipated_argument_is_spoken_stiffly_not_silently() {
1527 let spoken = DraftView::of(&json!({"emoji": "wave", "ts": 17}))
1528 .spoken()
1529 .text();
1530 assert_eq!(spoken, "Emoji: wave. Ts: 17.");
1531 }
1532
1533 /// A tool nobody anticipated is still reviewable: no headers, no body, and
1534 /// every argument shown.
1535 #[test]
1536 fn an_unrecognised_draft_shows_everything_as_other() {
1537 let view = DraftView::of(&json!({"emoji": "wave", "ts": 17}));
1538 assert!(view.headers.is_empty() && view.body.is_none());
1539 assert_eq!(
1540 view.other,
1541 vec![
1542 ("emoji".to_string(), "wave".to_string()),
1543 ("ts".to_string(), "17".to_string())
1544 ]
1545 );
1546 }
1547
1548 /// A blank value is shown as blank-on-purpose. The alternative is a label
1549 /// with nothing after it, which reads as a broken display rather than as
1550 /// an empty recipient list.
1551 #[test]
1552 fn an_empty_argument_says_so() {
1553 let view = DraftView::of(&json!({"to": "", "body": "hi"}));
1554 assert_eq!(
1555 view.headers,
1556 vec![("to".to_string(), "(empty)".to_string())]
1557 );
1558 }
1559
1560 /// An edit writes back to the key the body came from, and to nothing else.
1561 #[test]
1562 fn an_edited_body_returns_to_its_own_field() {
1563 let args = json!({"thread_id": "t1", "body_markdown": "old", "account": "personal"});
1564 let edited = with_body(&args, "new").unwrap();
1565 assert_eq!(edited["body_markdown"], "new");
1566 assert_eq!(edited["thread_id"], "t1");
1567 assert_eq!(edited["account"], "personal");
1568 // No prose, no body edit — the caller must fall back rather than
1569 // silently save nothing.
1570 assert!(with_body(&json!({"event_id": "e1", "response": "accept"}), "x").is_none());
1571 }
1572}