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Closes #377

Part of #311.

Type

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Documentation only
  • Code refactoring
  • Maintenance/tooling
  • Breaking change

Summary

  • Preserve explicit agent: pi identity through pre-START STATUS, negotiated START, and consent reconciliation.
  • Reject foreign runtime consent without impersonating Claude while retaining typed agentless compatibility fallback.
  • Validate and replay provider-issued Pi consent invocations exactly once, with generated runtime parity.

Changes

File Change
extensions/gentle-ai.ts Probe Pi before START, thread the accepted agent, and retain it during reconciliation.
lib/native-review-cli.ts Add typed START agent plumbing and exact Pi consent invocation validation.
lib/review-integration-v2.ts Decode Pi-bound consent/v3 while preserving historical compatibility.
runtime/*.mjs Regenerate the two runtime mirrors from TypeScript sources.
tests/native-review-consent.test.ts Cover Pi START, foreign consent rejection, and exact granted/declined replay.
tests/review-integration-v2-forward.test.ts Cover Pi consent decoder bindings.
tests/review-relay-transport-agent.test.ts Prove fresh provider instances re-probe Pi.
tests/review-controller-*.test.ts Keep existing START request expectations aligned with explicit Pi identity.

Test plan

  • Focused identity/consent tests: 50 passed, 0 failed.
  • START transport reconciliation tests: 7 passed, 0 failed.
  • pnpm run check:transaction-runner: five generated modules match.
  • git diff --check: clean.
  • Full candidate suite under clone-local RDD off: 1286 passed, 14 failed, 1 skipped.
  • Clean-base comparison reproduces all failures: the original 11 baseline failures plus three runtime tests caused by the shared clone-local RDD-off environment; candidate-only failures: 0.
  • Shellcheck: N/A — no shell scripts changed.
  • Independent read-only verifier confirmed the exact changed paths and focused behavior.

Review focus

  • Typed unsupported transport may fall back to the agentless route but must never substitute claude-code.
  • Pi consent choices must contain provider-issued --agent pi; the adapter validates and replays returned tokens rather than synthesizing them.
  • Ambiguous START failure reconciliation must retain Pi after successful negotiation and remain agentless after typed fallback.
  • Consent/v2 and historical agentless v3 compatibility remain bounded to their existing route.

Contributor checklist

  • Linked an approved issue.
  • Added exactly one PR type.
  • Kept tests and generated mirrors with the behavior change.
  • Documented baseline failures without claiming they pass.
  • Used a Conventional Commit message.
  • Added no AI attribution or Co-Authored-By trailers.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Pi support for native review workflows.
    • Preserved the selected review agent across start, status, reconciliation, and consent actions.
    • Added agent-bound consent validation, including required Pi invocation options.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Rejected mismatched, missing, duplicate, or malformed consent bindings.
    • Improved fallback and recovery after supported transport refusals or ambiguous start failures.
    • Added clearer handling for unsupported review transports.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for consent validation, replay, routing, and transport scenarios.

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Native review negotiation preserves the selected agent through transport probing, START requests, consent decoding, reconciliation, and replay. Runtime JavaScript mirrors the TypeScript changes.

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Pi agent identity negotiation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Consent contracts and decoding
lib/review-integration-v2.ts, runtime/review-integration-v2.mjs, lib/native-review-cli.ts, runtime/native-review-cli.mjs
Shared helpers parse consent invocations. Pi-bound consent v3 requires exactly one --agent pi binding. START and consent-answer requests carry the selected transport.
Negotiated START and reconciliation
extensions/gentle-ai.ts, lib/native-review-cli.ts, runtime/native-review-cli.mjs
START probes Pi first and falls back only for typed transport refusals. The selected agent flows through status lookup, consent decoding, pending sessions, and reconciliation.
Routing, replay, and parity validation
tests/native-review-consent.test.ts, tests/native-review-parity.test.ts, tests/native-review-parity-runtime.test.ts, tests/review-integration-v2-forward.test.ts, tests/review-controller-*.test.ts, tests/review-relay-transport-agent.test.ts, tests/review-host-relay-restart-*.test.ts, tests/fixtures/review-host-relay-restart-worker.mjs
Tests cover exact consent bindings, agentless fallback, foreign-agent rejection, exact-once replay, START reconciliation, refusal scoping, canonical paths, and runtime parity.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a64f6

After START falls back to an agentless transport, a consent response can still carry an explicit Pi identity and be replayed, causing the command to run with a different runtime identity than the negotiated session. Merge should wait until these mismatched consent choices are rejected before launch and covered by a regression test.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Pi
  participant GentleAI
  participant NativeReviewCli
  participant Provider
  Pi->>GentleAI: request ordinary review START
  GentleAI->>NativeReviewCli: probe STATUS with agent pi
  NativeReviewCli->>Provider: request Pi-bound status
  Provider-->>NativeReviewCli: return status or typed refusal
  NativeReviewCli->>Provider: execute START with selected agent
  Provider-->>NativeReviewCli: return consent v3
  NativeReviewCli-->>GentleAI: return validated consent or reconciliation result
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In `@extensions/gentle-ai.ts`:
- Around line 6142-6151: Update the START failure reconciliation flow to pass
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immutable_review_transport_unsupported that verifies agentless STATUS and START
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@Alan-TheGentleman Could you review #378 when you have a chance?

This is the bounded Pi START identity slice from #311, tracked by #377. Pi was starting RDD without --agent pi, so consent/v3 could arrive bound to claude-code and the client had to stop before lineage creation.

Review focus: Pi identity propagation through STATUS, START, consent validation/replay, typed agentless fallback, and failure reconciliation. CI and CodeRabbit pass with no candidate-only failures. RDD was clone-locally disabled, so this PR claims no RDD receipt.

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Content is on target for #377: threading the explicit agent: pi identity through pre-START STATUS, the consent decline path, and failure reconciliation is the missing piece.

Only blocker: the branch conflicts with main after the atomic review relay landed (#386), which reworked the same controller paths. Rebase over current main and re-verify #386 did not already cover part of the identity threading; keep only the deltas that are still needed, then this is good.

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In `@lib/review-integration-v2.ts`:
- Around line 1896-1913: Update decodeReviewConsentV3 to validate Pi agent
bindings using tokenized invocation parsing, reusing
splitNativeConsentInvocation and exactConsentOption from the native CLI flow or
an equivalent token-boundary-aware matcher. Accept both separate-value and
equals-form --agent pi bindings, while rejecting quoted text or other values
that merely contain the substring.

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1914: The generated runtime mirror contains the same substring-based validation
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4502-4503: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the negotiated transport for v3 consent.

If Pi STATUS returns a typed transport refusal, negotiatedStartStatus selects agentless transport with startAgent === undefined. Line 4604 still requires --agent pi, so a valid agentless v3 Pi consent is rejected and reconciled instead of being presented.

Store the selected agent in PendingReviewConsent. Decode the v3 envelope with startAgent, require its envelope agent to remain "pi", and use the stored agent during Line 4502 reconciliation. Add granted and declined fallback tests for an agentless v3 Pi invocation.

Also applies to: 4603-4605

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In `@extensions/gentle-ai.ts` around lines 4502 - 4503, Update
PendingReviewConsent to store the selected transport agent from
negotiatedStartStatus, including when startAgent is undefined. Decode the v3
consent envelope with startAgent while still requiring its envelope agent to be
"pi", and use the stored agent in the reconciliation logic around the v3 consent
handling. Add granted and declined fallback tests covering an agentless v3 Pi
invocation.
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- Around line 4502-4503: Update PendingReviewConsent to store the selected
transport agent from negotiatedStartStatus, including when startAgent is
undefined. Decode the v3 consent envelope with startAgent while still requiring
its envelope agent to be "pi", and use the stored agent in the reconciliation
logic around the v3 consent handling. Add granted and declined fallback tests
covering an agentless v3 Pi invocation.

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In `@lib/native-review-cli.ts`:
- Around line 2102-2104: Update the v3 consent binding validation so agentless
starts (startAgent undefined) reject any --agent option, while preserving v2
agentless replay behavior. Apply the equivalent validation in
lib/native-review-cli.ts:2102-2104, runtime/native-review-cli.mjs:2103-2105, and
extensions/gentle-ai.ts:4606-4609 before provider launch or pending consent
creation. In tests/native-review-parity.test.ts:757-812, replace the
inconsistent fallback fixture or assert that rejection occurs before provider
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if (request.consent.schema === "gentle-ai.review-integration.consent/v3" && request.startAgent === "pi" && exactConsentOption(arguments_, "--agent") !== "pi") {
throw new NativeReviewConsentBindingError("consent-invocation-agent-changed", "Native Pi consent invocation agent binding changed");
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject Pi-bound v3 choices after agentless START negotiation.

When Pi STATUS returns a typed transport refusal, the controller selects agentless START. A v3 consent choice that still contains --agent pi then passes the decoder and consentInvocationArguments, because both checks enforce the binding only when startAgent === "pi". The consent answer can therefore replay a Pi-bound command after the fallback selected an agentless transport.

Reject every --agent form in v3 choices when startAgent is undefined. Keep the existing v2 agentless replay behavior. Add a regression test that verifies this rejection occurs before provider launch.

  • lib/native-review-cli.ts#L2102-L2104: enforce the agentless v3 invocation binding before replay.
  • runtime/native-review-cli.mjs#L2103-L2105: keep the generated runtime validation identical.
  • extensions/gentle-ai.ts#L4606-L4609: reject the inconsistent consent before it becomes a pending user-visible consent.
  • tests/native-review-parity.test.ts#L757-L812: replace the inconsistent fallback fixture or assert pre-launch rejection for it.
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In `@lib/native-review-cli.ts` around lines 2102 - 2104, Update the v3 consent
binding validation so agentless starts (startAgent undefined) reject any --agent
option, while preserving v2 agentless replay behavior. Apply the equivalent
validation in lib/native-review-cli.ts:2102-2104,
runtime/native-review-cli.mjs:2103-2105, and extensions/gentle-ai.ts:4606-4609
before provider launch or pending consent creation. In
tests/native-review-parity.test.ts:757-812, replace the inconsistent fallback
fixture or assert that rejection occurs before provider launch.

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@Alan-TheGentleman Rebased onto current main and reconciled the branch with #386's atomic relay architecture, keeping only the remaining #377 identity deltas.

The resulting behavior is now covered causally:

  • Pi identity is preserved through negotiated STATUS/START, consent replay, ambiguous reconciliation, and restart parity.
  • Foreign v3 consent is rejected before Pi can expose or answer it.
  • Normal Pi transport requires exactly one tokenized --agent pi in every provider choice.
  • The typed agentless compatibility route still requires an envelope declaring agent: pi, but rejects any explicit --agent option before pending-consent creation or provider launch.
  • Legacy consent/v2 replay remains unchanged.

Verification on 627ec8e0:

Could you please re-review when you have a moment?

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Closing this branch as superseded by #496. Current main already contains the core Pi transport identity fix from #386, while #496 carries only the remaining choice-invocation binding defect and removes the obsolete agentless fallback and controller plumbing from this direction. The replacement is three files, has a current-main RED, passed full and packed verification, and completed candidate-specific RDD. Continuing review and delivery in #496.

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