feat(server): let an operator answer a blocker with all four verdicts, not two (#2028)

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Summary

#2005 landed the engine half: a parked workflow-node blocker re-executes its node on retry, re-runs carrying the operator's words on amend, proceeds without spending a turn on skip, and starts no run on cancel. All four were verified live.

An operator could reach two of them. The host's blocker vocabulary is four-valued, but the only door into it was verdict: Verdict, and arm_console_blocker_resolution collapsed it — Approve => Retry, Deny => Cancel, always with answer: String::new(), so amend was structurally impossible. The complete four-way primitive already existed but was reachable only from chat, behind a filter matching a blocker to a desk thread — and a workflow-node blocker parks unlinked with no thread, so that filter could never match it. The two verdicts that need the operator's words or judgement were exactly the two with no door.

On the unmodified tree, both of these answered 200 and both banked retry:

{"verdict":"approve","blocker_verdict":"skip"}                       → banked retry
{"verdict":"approve","blocker_verdict":"amend","blocker_answer":"…"} → banked retry, answer ""

The fields did not exist and serde dropped them silently.

Closes #2028

API Or Behavior Changes

• ResolveApproval gains blocker_verdict: Option<String> and blocker_answer: Option<String>, both defaulted. verdict stays mandatory and two-valued; the new field narrows an approve/deny already being sent, following the amended_payload precedent in the same struct rather than inventing a second convention. String rather than the enum so an unknown token is a named 400, not a serde error.
• Validation sits beside grant_scope and refuses before the runtime is touched: verdict/blocker_verdict disagreement, a blank or whitespace-only amend, an answer without a verdict, an answer with retry/skip/cancel, blocker_verdict with amended_payload or with scope:"tool", and blocker_verdict on an approval that is not a parked blocker (kind-checked, since the kind survives redaction).
• apply_blocker_reply_spawned added beside apply_blocker_reply, which now maps intent→verdict and joins it — the DM path is byte-unchanged. Every group member is banked, armed and settled inline so verdicts are durable on return; one handle runs the follow-ups in settle order, which is what lets detach be honoured.
• arm_console_blocker_resolution is untouched and is not dead code — it remains the correct fallback for a request that sends no blocker_verdict, and its peek_blocker_resolution early-return is what makes arm-then-settle compose.
• settled_ids on ResolveReceiptDto and ChatResponse: the Approvals page resolves non-detached, so the receipt alone would never reach it.
• WorkflowBlockedNode.blockers (additive, skipped when zero). blocked_notice now branches three ways, and only the all-gated shape still promises an automatic continue.
• Console: four controls on a blocker card — Retry, Answer…, Skip, Cancel run. Skip and cancel are opposite outcomes, so they are separated by different words, different weight and a consequence line each. Blockers are excluded from bulk approve/decline, and split out of ApprovalRow's batch.
• Copy: both blocked_diagnosis branches now name all four verdicts, worded from one shared fragment (BLOCKER_VERDICT_CHOICES) coupled by test to the wire tokens — fix(workflows): re-execute a workflow node when its blocker is answered (#2005) #2027 had to narrow this copy precisely because two of the four were unreachable, and an earlier fix moved one branch and left the other.

An inherited hole, stated rather than papered over. A blocker parked by escalate_to_human carries step: None, so it banks a correct verdict and still re-dispatches no card — the same no-op the existing approve/deny already produced. Confirmed through the new route: 200, settledIds returned, verdict banked with no step, card stays paused. Not refused, because approve/deny already reaches that path and no-ops silently, so 400-ing only skip/amend would leave approve looking supported while failing; and because banking correctly means the upstream fix inherits a right answer rather than a discarded one. A test pins today's behaviour; its last assertion is what changes when the stepless resume lands. Tracked in #2008, owned separately.

Tests

Latest revision (b73e8ceb1, rebased onto c16802b73) — all unpiped, exit codes captured:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check — 0
• cargo clippy --locked --no-deps --features openhuman --all-targets -- -D warnings — 0
• cargo test --locked --features openhuman --lib — 0, 6883 passed, 0 failed, 3 ignored
• npm run typecheck / typecheck:unit / typecheck:e2e — 0 each
• npx vitest run — 0, 4458 passed across 482 files

New tests for this revision, each red-proved against the pre-fix code:

• a_late_second_verdict_banks_nothing_over_the_answer_that_won — deterministic, no threads. Resolve and resume one verdict fully, then arrive with a group list captured beforehand. Against the old ordering the durable journal reads ["retry", "cancel"] where only ["retry"] ever settled; red 3/3 runs.
• concurrent_resolves_cannot_desync_the_armed_verdict_from_the_settled_one — keeps its DM-note assertion and gains assertions on the durable record and leftover arming, over 15 rounds with a fresh runtime each, on a multi-thread runtime.
• a_resume_waits_for_the_board_write_lock and a_resume_leaves_a_card_an_operator_moved_while_it_waited — the board-lock pair, on the shape review_card_serializes_against_the_task_writes_lock already uses. The second asserts its own premise, so it cannot pass by finishing first. Both red without the lock.
• a_dm_answer_to_a_task_backed_blocker_completes — the DM path end to end. Without the guard rescope it deadlocks; it carries an explicit timeout so a regression fails in seconds rather than hanging a runner (red proof: Elapsed(()) at 30s).

Verified on a running host (own data dir, own port, staging inference): a parked task-backed blocker whose card an operator moved to To-do stayed at To-do when answered Retry (outcome: settled), while an untouched paused card was re-dispatched out of paused. The console's own sign-in gate does not complete on a bare local host, so the final step was driven through the same HTTP endpoints the console calls rather than through its UI.

Grouped/mixed-batch specs re-run after the change (17 passed): the deferred duplicate-toast finding is unchanged — settledIds is still computed before the resolve and the grouped-click path never takes the new early-bail branch, so it stays deferred.

Earlier revision

All unpiped, exit codes captured:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo clippy --locked --no-deps --features openhuman --all-targets -- -D warnings · same on default features
• cargo check --features openhuman --all-targets · cargo check --all-targets
• cargo test --features openhuman --lib — 467 passed (operator, blockers, blocked_node, caps, runtime) and 518 passed (runner, workflow spawn/resume, activation, orchestrator, verdict, ops::workflows)
• cargo test --lib -- server::operator on default features — 162 passed, including the refusal test
• npm run typecheck / :unit / :e2e / build; npx vitest run — 4382 passed (was 4369)
• npx playwright test approval-blocker-verdicts — 7 passed; blocker-verdicts-live — 1 passed

N/A: cargo build --all-targets as its own step — covered by the --all-targets clippy runs.

Red proofs, verbatim:

a_skip_from_the_approvals_page_banks_a_skip
  left: String("retry")   right: "skip"   the operator asked to skip the node, not to run it again
an_amend_from_the_approvals_page_carries_the_answer_verbatim
  left: String("retry")   right: "amend"

retry must be reachable; footer had ["Decline","Approve"]
an empty amend must not be sendable: expected false to be true
expected [ 'g1', 'b1', 'g2', 'b2' ] to deeply equal [ 'g1', 'g2' ]

With the console branch removed, 5 of 7 e2e failed — element(s) not found on /^Retry/, then four click timeouts on controls that do not exist.

Live click-through — all four exercised on a real Approvals page, four real parked blockers, host booted with a workflow runner wired:

Verdict	Journal	Host log
retry	{"verdict":"retry","step":{…}} + BlockedNodeApproved	continuation run, steps=3 visited=3 — once
amend	{"verdict":"amend","answer":"use gpt-4o-mini instead","step":{…}} — verbatim	second continuation
skip	{"verdict":"skip","step":{…}}	skipped on the operator's answer to its blocker, pending_approvals=0 — no turn spent, one report
cancel	{"verdict":"cancel","step":{…}}, no BlockedNodeApproved	no continuation — 3 continuation lines for 4 clicks

Not verified live: the literal ## Answer from the operator header inside the node's prompt — the mock brain does not log prompts and patching a shared fixture was not worth it. #2027 asserts that injection directly; here the answer was confirmed verbatim in the resolution and riding the continuation.

Visual snapshots need no regeneration: visual.spec.ts parks no approvals, so that shot is of an empty queue, and the new branch fires only on a blocker.* kind. No macOS-generated -linux baseline was committed.

One thing for a reviewer's opinion: skip is destructive and one click away with no confirm (deliberate — a confirm on every blocker decision degrades the common retry path). The group settle's mid-loop error behaviour flagged as inherited-not-designed in the first round is fixed below — a failure part way through no longer strands an earlier member's already-durable settle with nothing to resume it.

Also noted: cargo check --no-default-features is broken on upstream/main (cannot find module or crate reqwest), reproduced on a clean checkout of a8c896dad. Pre-existing and unrelated; the refusal test runs on the default feature set instead.

Second review round (five findings addressed, three deferred)

A second reviewer (chatgpt-codex-connector) found eight further issues after the first round landed. Five are fixed here; three are deferred (reasoning posted on each thread) because they're separate defects on the notification/receipt path, not the verdict-wording surface this pass covers.

Fixed:

1. Consequence wording promised a workflow node's behaviour on every card. ApprovalSummary gains blocker_step_kind ("task"/"node"), and blockerVerdictConsequence words retry/amend/skip/cancel per step kind instead of one shared line. A task-backed card's skip currently redispatches it (resume_task_card treats skip and retry alike — there is no card-level skip yet) and its cancel returns it to To-do, not "stops a run"; the node's original wording is unchanged; an unknown step kind gets generic wording neither path contradicts.
2. Concurrent resolves could desync the armed verdict from the settled one. A new blocker_resolutions lock (threaded through RuntimeHandover/adopt_locks like the existing serializing mutexes) serializes a group's whole bank-arm-settle sequence, so a losing concurrent request's settle_approval observes NotParked before it can overwrite the winner's side-channel arming.
3. A later group member's failure could strand an earlier member's follow-up. Each member's follow-up is now spawned the instant its own settle lands, inside the loop, rather than batched into one handle after every member has settled — so a later member's record/settle/retire failing and returning via ? no longer drops an already-spawned earlier follow-up.
4. An already-settled blocker refused instead of answering idempotently. already_resolved_blocker_receipt reads the journal's unbounded approval_origin record (survives resolution, unlike the live parked queue) to tell "never a blocker" apart from "was a blocker, now resolved," and resolve_blocker falls back to it, answering the same idempotent AlreadyResolved an ordinary approval's double-submit gets.
5. The reported outcome could be the oldest sibling's, not the addressed blocker's. apply_blocker_reply_spawned now takes the addressed id explicitly and reports that member's own receipt, rather than the group's first (oldest) member.

Deferred (replied on each thread, not fixed here): app-shell.tsx — the inline-card settled receipt collapses the four-way verdict to approve/deny; ApprovalsView.tsx's ambiguous-network-failure branch still words its confirmation off the lowered two-value verdict; a grouped, non-detached click can still race a sibling's own SSE event into a generic toast before onDecideStart marks it. All three are real gaps on the notification/receipt path, separate from this pass's verdict-wording scope.

Tests, all unpiped, exit codes captured:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo clippy --locked --no-deps --features openhuman --all-targets -- -D warnings · same on default features
• cargo check --features openhuman --all-targets · cargo check --all-targets
• cargo test --locked --features openhuman --lib — 6823 passed, 0 failed
• cargo test --locked --lib -- server::operator on default features — 162 passed
• npm run typecheck / :unit / :e2e; npm run build; npx vitest run — 4408 passed
• npx playwright test approval-blocker-verdicts against a real built console + real running host — 9/9 passed (two new cases: step-kind-differentiated consequence text, and Skip sending blocker_verdict:"skip" on every step kind)

Red proofs (new tests, verbatim failures against the pre-fix code):

a blocker's consequence is worded by which step it stopped
  › gives retry, skip and cancel a different sentence for a card than for a node
    expected 'Moves past this step. It produces nothing, and the rest of the run continues without it.'
    not to equal itself (task and node wording were identical)

the_addressed_members_own_outcome_is_reported_not_the_oldest_siblings
  assertion `receipt.outcome() == "settled"` failed: left `"expired"`, right `"settled"`

a_settled_blockers_late_request_is_already_resolved_not_refused
  already_resolved_blocker_receipt(&id) returned None (read by the caller as "never a blocker", refused)

concurrent_resolves_cannot_desync_the_armed_verdict_from_the_settled_one
  found the LOSING request's resume note under the WINNING request's durable verdict

Verified live, not only in tests. Built the openhuman-featured binary, booted the real host against a scratch data dir with two directly-seeded blockers (one BlockerStep::Task, one BlockerStep::Node — parking itself is the same park_blocker primitive the real classifier path uses; only the triggering failure was seeded rather than produced by a live agent), and drove the real Approvals page in a real browser:

• The task-backed card read "Skip — Puts the card back in progress and runs it again — there is no separate skip for a card yet." and "Cancel run — Moves the card back to To-do without running it. It can be picked up again later." The node-backed card, seeded alongside it, read the original "Skip — Moves past this step. It produces nothing, and the rest of the run continues without it." and "Cancel run — Stops the run here. Nothing after this step will run." — same build, same page, two different sentences, matching the raw step JSON shown on each card ({"step":"task",...} vs {"step":"node",...}).
• Clicking Skip on the task-backed card produced the toast "writer's blocker on live-task-card was answered — picking it back up" and the card's REST representation left its paused stage — confirming Skip really does redispatch a task-backed card rather than "producing nothing," which is exactly what the new copy says and the old (node-only) wording would have contradicted.

Documentation

Copy changes are the user-facing documentation here — both diagnosis branches and the run notice now describe what the surface actually offers. BLOCKER_VERDICT_CHOICES is the single place that wording lives.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added four decision options for parked blockers: Retry, Answer/Amend, Skip, and Cancel.
  • Blocker decisions can include a required non-blank answer when amending.
  • Workflow notices explain blocker-specific choices and consequences by step type.
  • Responses identify related approvals settled by the same decision.
  • Blockers remain accessible from mixed approval batches through the Approvals view.
  • Added host capability checks for blocker verdict support.

• Bug Fixes

  • Bulk approval actions no longer include parked blockers.
  • Only the selected blocker action shows progress while processing.
  • Concurrent or repeated decisions no longer overwrite one another.
  • Related blocker decisions display clearer confirmation messages.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The API, runtime, workflow diagnostics, and frontend now support retry, amend, skip, and cancel decisions for parked blockers. The frontend negotiates host capabilities, validates answers, excludes blockers from bulk decisions, and reports grouped settlement.

Changes

Parked blocker verdicts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
API validation and grouped runtime settlement docs/spec/runtime/api.md, src/server/operator.rs, src/company/runtime.rs, frontend/src/api/*	The resolve contract accepts four blocker verdicts and optional answers. The server validates compatible fields, claims blocker resolutions atomically, settles groups, and returns settled approval IDs.
Blocked-node classification and notices src/ports/*, src/workflows/*, src/runtime/*, src/harness/*	Blocked-node records count blocker approvals and identify stopped-step kinds. Workflow notices distinguish gated approvals, blocker questions, and mixed nodes.
Frontend controls and decision propagation frontend/src/components/*, frontend/src/lib/*, frontend/src/views/*	Approval surfaces render four blocker actions, forward blocker data, negotiate host capabilities, suppress blocker bulk actions, and claim sibling approvals settled by one decision.
Validation coverage frontend/test/*, src/server/operator.rs, src/company/runtime.rs, src/workflows/*	Tests cover controls, payloads, capability negotiation, amend validation, grouped settlement, concurrency, live verdict behavior, mixed batches, and notice wording.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 23a6d

Legacy blocker resolution can leave stale runtime state after a failed or non-settling outcome, and transient capability failures can disable skip and amend until reload. These issues should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant ApprovalsView
  participant OpenCompanyClient
  participant OperatorAPI
  participant CompanyRuntime
  Operator->>ApprovalsView: Select blocker verdict
  ApprovalsView->>OpenCompanyClient: Check blocker-verdict capability
  OpenCompanyClient->>OperatorAPI: POST /spec
  OperatorAPI-->>OpenCompanyClient: Return capabilities
  OpenCompanyClient->>OperatorAPI: POST blocker_verdict and blocker_answer
  OperatorAPI->>CompanyRuntime: Validate, claim, and settle blocker group
  CompanyRuntime-->>OperatorAPI: Return settled ids
  OperatorAPI-->>ApprovalsView: Return resolve response
  ApprovalsView-->>Operator: Update cards and decision message

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Possibly related PRs

• tinyhumansai/opencompany#1895: Extends the approval decision UI and runtime with four-way blocker verdicts and grouped settlement.

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2 changed behaviours across 1 relationship. No surrounding behaviour was found (60 graph nodes walked). 69 further behaviours left out to keep the diagram readable.

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Start follow-ups before another group member can fail

When a grouped blocker has multiple members and journaling, settlement, or expiry retirement fails for any later member, this function returns via ? before reaching this spawn. Earlier members have already been durably settled and armed, but their receipts are only stored locally, so no follow-up consumes their blocker resolutions or resumes their stopped work; retrying those IDs yields AlreadyResolved and still does not resume them. Spawn each settled member's follow-up immediately, or ensure accumulated receipts are driven on the error path.

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Addressed in 70cd391 — each member's follow-up is now spawned the moment its own settle lands, inside the loop, rather than batched into one handle after every member has settled. A later member's record/settle/retire can still fail and return via ?, but every earlier member's follow-up is already running on its own task by then instead of sitting in a Vec the early return would drop.

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Return the addressed blocker's outcome rather than the oldest

For a root-cause group, blocker_group_members is oldest-first, so receipts[0] need not correspond to the approval ID in the request. If an older sibling has expired while the clicked blocker remains live, the loop expires that sibling and successfully applies the requested verdict to the clicked blocker, but this receipt makes the API report outcome: "expired"; both console paths then tell the operator that the clicked decision did not happen. The returned outcome should describe the addressed blocker, or accurately aggregate the group outcomes.

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Addressed in 70cd391 — apply_blocker_reply_spawned now takes the addressed id explicitly and reports that member's own receipt as the head, falling back to the first member only if the addressed id is somehow not in the group. Tested with an older sibling seeded past its deadline alongside a fresh addressed member: the returned receipt is settled, not the sibling's expired.

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Claim grouped siblings before awaiting the resolve

On the Approvals page this resolve is non-detached, so the server emits every sibling's approval_resolved event while running the follow-ups and only then returns settledIds. Consequently these onDecideStart calls always occur too late to suppress the siblings' SSE notifications: one grouped click can produce a generic “Approval granted/denied” toast for every sibling before the intended blocker-specific confirmation. Mark locally known same-group IDs before awaiting the request, or otherwise suppress the events server-side.

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Understood, deliberately deferred. onDecideStart marking same-group siblings only happens after the resolve response returns, so a non-detached grouped click can still race the siblings' own SSE events into a generic toast — a real gap, but it's a suppression-timing fix on the notification path, separate from this pass's verdict-wording scope.

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Preserve idempotency for already-settled blockers

When another tab or operator has just settled this blocker—including when resolving a grouped sibling fans out to it—parked_blocker_group no longer finds the ID, so this guard returns 400 before settle_approval can produce its normal AlreadyResolved receipt. Ordinary approvals deliberately return 200 in this race, and the frontend uses that outcome to explain that the decision was stale; blocker users instead see “Couldn't record your decision” even though the blocker was successfully settled. Preserve the already-resolved outcome while still rejecting IDs that were never blockers.

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Addressed in 70cd391 — added already_resolved_blocker_receipt, which reads the journal's unbounded approval_origin record (survives resolution, unlike the live parked queue) to tell "never a blocker" apart from "was a blocker, now resolved". resolve_blocker falls back to it when parked_blocker_group returns None, answering the idempotent AlreadyResolved an ordinary approval's double-submit gets instead of a 400.

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Preserve four-way verdicts in settled blocker receipts

When a blocker is decided while an inline card is mounted, this branch shows the specific Retry/Answer/Skip/Cancel toast, but setDecidedApprovals immediately above stores only the lowered approve/deny verdict. ApprovalRow then replaces the card with SettledApprovalReceipt, which renders retry, amend, and skip identically as “Approved — recorded”; decisions arriving through SSE have the same loss. Carry the BlockerVerdict through the witnessed-decision state/event so the permanent receipt records what the operator actually chose.

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Understood, deliberately deferred — out of scope for this pass. This is a real gap (setDecidedApprovals stores only the lowered approve/deny verdict, so SettledApprovalReceipt can't distinguish retry/amend/skip), but it's a separate defect from the wording surface this round addressed, and fixing it means threading BlockerVerdict through the witnessed-decision state/event, not a wording change.

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In `@frontend/src/components/approval-card.tsx`:
- Around line 325-337: Update the approval card’s blocker-action state around
BlockerDecide and the retry/cancel/skip/send controls to track the pending
BlockerVerdict rather than only a boolean. Set the pending verdict when an
action is submitted, render Loader2 only on the matching control, and clear the
pending verdict whenever deciding becomes false, including success and rejection
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In `@frontend/src/views/chat/ApprovalRow.tsx`:
- Around line 360-380: The compact ApprovalRow action selection must handle
mixed batches containing both pending gated approvals and a blocker without
group_key. Update the conditional around BlockerDecide, pendingGated, and
detailsHref so this state renders an explicit Approvals link, while preserving
direct blocker decisions for soleBlocker and the existing question-only
behavior.

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attempt join_follow_up for every receipt instead of returning immediately on the
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• docs/spec/runtime/api.md
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• frontend/src/lib/approval-wording.ts
• frontend/src/lib/language.ts
• frontend/src/views/ApprovalsView.tsx
• frontend/src/views/ChatView.tsx
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• frontend/src/views/WorkflowsView.tsx
• frontend/src/views/chat/ApprovalRow.tsx
• frontend/src/views/chat/MessageTimeline.tsx
• frontend/src/views/workflows/RunResultPanel.tsx
• frontend/test/e2e/approval-blocker-verdicts.spec.ts
• frontend/test/e2e/blocker-verdicts-live.spec.ts
• frontend/test/unit/approval-blocker-verdicts.test.ts
• frontend/test/unit/approvals-blocker-queue.test.ts
• src/company/activation.rs
• src/company/runtime.rs
• src/harness/built_in/orchestrator.rs
• src/ports/blockers.rs
• src/ports/workflow_runner.rs
• src/ports/workflow_verdict.rs
• src/runtime/workflow_spawn.rs
• src/server/operator.rs
• src/server/ops/workflows.rs
• src/workflows/blocked_node_test.rs
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Use blocker-specific wording throughout blocker-only diagnoses.

When parked.blockers == waiting, the common prefix at Lines 3421-3422 still interpolates parked.tools. Blocker extraction adds escalate_to_human to that list, so the message says that a tool needed approval even though the card is a question. For multiple cards, this branch also emits “The cards are a question”. Build the blocker-only sentence separately and use plural wording.

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In `@src/workflows/caps/mod.rs` around lines 3405 - 3406, Update the blocker-only
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Serialize blocker decisions before banking their verdict

When two operators resolve members of the same blocker group concurrently with different verdicts, both requests can snapshot the group before either settles it, and each then overwrites the shared resolution before settle_approval determines which request won. Since arm_blocker_resolution is a plain map insertion and the winning follow-up consumes whatever value was written last, a Retry can execute as Cancel or Skip even though the approval event and response record the first operator's verdict. Claim or serialize the group before writing these resolutions so losing requests cannot replace the winner's side-channel data.

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Addressed in 70cd391 — added a blocker_resolutions lock (threaded through RuntimeHandover/adopt_locks like the existing serializing mutexes) held across a group's whole bank-arm-settle sequence, so a losing concurrent request's settle_approval observes NotParked before it can overwrite the winner's arming. Proved with a test that actually interleaves two tokio-spawned resolves on the same id with different verdicts and asserts the DM resume note matches the settled event's verdict, not whichever request wrote last.

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Describe task-backed blocker verdicts by their real behavior

For blockers whose payload contains BlockerStep::Task—the normal paused board-card path—these new universal consequences describe different behavior from the runtime: Skip calls resume_task_card and redispatches the card rather than producing nothing and continuing past a workflow step, while Cancel moves the card back to To-do rather than stopping a run. An operator can therefore click Skip expecting the work to be omitted and instead restart it; use step-aware or generic wording rather than workflow-node-specific promises on every blocker.* card.

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Addressed in ad7c4a4 (backend field in 7fe6d4e) — ApprovalSummary now carries blocker_step_kind ("task"/"node"), and blockerVerdictConsequence words retry/amend/skip/cancel per step kind: task-specific text for a paused card (skip currently redispatches it — resume_task_card treats skip and retry alike), the original node text unchanged, and a generic fallback when the step is unknown. Verified against the actual card behavior with a live-seeded task blocker: clicking Skip produced the toast "blocker on was answered — picking it back up" and the card left its paused stage, confirming the new copy matches reality.

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When this non-detached blocker request is handed to the host but its response is lost through a proxy/network failure, the mayHaveLanded branch still chooses confirmation text solely from the lowered two-value verdict. A Skip lowers to approve, so the operator is told the teammate may still be working even though the requested outcome moves past the step without running it; Cancel similarly becomes a generic decline. Carry the four-way blocker verdict into that ambiguous-result branch just as the successful branch does.

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Understood, deliberately deferred. The mayHaveLanded (ambiguous-failure) branch still words its confirmation off the lowered two-value verdict rather than the four-way blocker verdict the successful branch already carries — a real gap, but separate from this pass's scope (verdict-consequence wording on the decide surface, not the post-request ambiguous-outcome surface).

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Claim the blocker before overwriting its resolution

When two requests snapshot the same group before either settles it, the loser can acquire blocker_resolutions after the winner, reach these writes with an empty pending snapshot, overwrite the winner's durable and in-memory resolution, and only then receive AlreadyResolved from settle_approval. If the winner's spawned follow-up has not yet consumed the map entry, it consequently executes the losing Retry/Skip/Cancel/Amend; otherwise the losing resolution remains durably armed. Fresh evidence in this revision is that the new mutex is acquired inside this function but no pending/claim check is performed after acquiring it, so it does not provide the claimed “settle before losing write” ordering.

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Fixed in b73e8ceb1. Arming a blocker answer is now the claim: GrantSet::claim_blocker_resolution inserts only into an empty slot and reports whether this caller filled it, so a losing request returns having written neither the durable record nor the armed answer. A single owner (claim_and_settle_blocker) claims first, re-checks the id is a still-parked blocker (releasing the claim and writing nothing if not), then banks and settles, and compensates the arming when the settle answers AlreadyResolved/Expired so nothing is left banked for a resume that will never consume it. blocker_resolutions remains, but only for group atomicity — per-id correctness no longer depends on it, and both its field doc and the function doc now say that rather than the ordering the old code never enforced.

You were right that the previous revision's mutex proved nothing. Covered by a deterministic test that needs no threads (resolve and resume one verdict fully, then arrive with a group list captured beforehand) plus the racing test extended to assert the durable journal and leftover arming over 15 rounds on a multi-thread runtime. Against the old ordering the journal reads ["retry", "cancel"] where only ["retry"] ever settled — red on every run.

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Serialize task-blocker resumes with board writes

When a task-backed blocker is answered through this new approval route while another operator edits or moves the same card, this call does not hold task_writes (unlike the DM blocker path), while resume_task_card and cancel_task_card perform a list/check/upsert sequence. Both operations can observe the card as paused and then overwrite each other, so Retry/Skip can yank a manually moved card back into In Progress and dispatch it, or Cancel can move it back to To-do after the operator moved it elsewhere. Serialize the task-backed follow-up's read-to-write transition with the existing board-write lock or make the update conditional.

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Fixed in b73e8ceb1, though not at this call site. Taking task_writes here would not work: the follow-up is spawned, so it escapes the guard — the lock would be held by a request that has already handed the board edit to another task, and on the DM path (which does await its follow-up) that pairing is an outright deadlock, since the spawned resume would then block on a lock its waiter holds.

So the lock went where the read-modify-write actually is: resume_task_card and cancel_task_card each take task_writes around their own list -> check -> upsert. Every caller inherits it from one place instead of each remembering to wrap the call, and the re-read after acquiring is what makes the still-paused check meaningful — a card an operator moved while the resume waited is left where they put it. The DM path's guard was correspondingly narrowed to the read-and-classify it actually guards and released before the settle; accept_chat_turn, between the two, journals the message and touches no board.

Lock order is now recorded on the blocker_resolutions field: task_writes is never acquired while it is held, and the follow-up always runs outside it.

Covered by three tests: the board lock held from the test blocks a resume and releases it (the shape review_card_serializes_against_the_task_writes_lock already uses); a card moved out of paused while the resume waits is left alone, asserting its own premise so it cannot pass by finishing first; and a DM answer of a task-backed blocker end to end, which hangs without the rescope and so carries an explicit timeout. Also verified on a running host: a parked task blocker whose card was moved to To-do stayed at To-do when answered Retry, while an untouched paused card was re-dispatched.

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Rebased onto c16802b73 and pushed b73e8ceb1. This revision reworks the blocker resolve path: arming a blocker answer is now the atomic claim, one owner writes a resolution, and the board read-modify-write took the board-write lock. Your earlier three findings stay addressed; the stale review is pinned to an older commit.

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@oxoxDev I found two blocking issues in the rebased blocker-resolution path.

1. P1 — Release the claim when the durable write or settle fails.
   CompanyRuntime::claim_and_settle_blocker claims GrantSet::blocker_resolutions before RuntimeJournal::record_blocker_resolution and CycleRunner::settle_approval. Line 6097 and Line 6100 propagate errors with ?, but neither error path removes the claim.

   If either operation fails, the approval can remain parked while GrantSet retains its resolution. The next request then fails claim_blocker_resolution and returns AlreadyResolved. The operator cannot resolve the still-pending blocker until the process restarts.

   Remove the claimed resolution on each pre-settlement error path. Add a failure-injection test that retries the same blocker after a failed journal append and after a failed settlement.

2. P1 — Do not allow the legacy two-value path to bypass the blocker claim protocol.
   blocker_verdict remains optional. If the request omits it, run_resolve uses CompanyRuntime::resolve_approval_spawned. Line 2184 then calls arm_console_blocker_resolution, which still uses the non-atomic peek_blocker_resolution → journal write → arm_blocker_resolution sequence.

   This path does not acquire blocker_resolutions and does not use claim_blocker_resolution. A legacy approve or deny request can race a four-way blocker request and overwrite the winning in-memory answer before the follow-up consumes it. It also resolves only one member instead of the blocker group.

   Route every blocker resolve through resolve_blocker, including the backward-compatible approve → retry and deny → cancel mapping. Alternatively, reject a two-value resolve for a parked blocker.

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Release the blocker claim when banking fails

If record_blocker_resolution returns an error, this ? exits while the claim inserted by claim_blocker_resolution remains in GrantSet and the approval remains parked. A retry then loses the claim and returns AlreadyResolved without ever settling or resuming the blocker, so a transient journal failure leaves the question unanswerable for the lifetime of the process; clean up the claim on this error path before returning.

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Confirmed and fixed in df1a9a1. claim_and_settle_blocker now releases the claim (grants.take_blocker_resolution) when record_blocker_resolution errors, before propagating the error, so a retry after a transient journal failure can actually settle instead of losing the race against its own stranded claim and reporting AlreadyResolved forever. Added a_transient_journal_failure_releases_the_blocker_claim_for_retry, which fails pre-fix with the retry returning AlreadyResolved and passes post-fix with it Settled.

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Keep step-specific verdicts within one step kind

When one connection failure has produced both a task blocker and a workflow-node blocker, both carry the same connection:<name> group key, and blocker_group_members groups solely by that key. This loop consequently fans the clicked card's verdict across both kinds: for example, Skip shown on a node as “produces nothing” also reaches the task sibling, where Skip redispatches and runs the card again. The new step-aware copy only describes the addressed card, so split such groups by step kind or present the differing consequences before applying one verdict to all members.

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Confirmed and fixed in a48d845. This is a distinct defect from the P1 on runtime.rs:6098 (that one is about claim cleanup on a journal write failure in claim_and_settle_blocker; this one is about group membership mixing step kinds) -- not the same finding reported twice, just two nearby lines in the same diff hunk.

blocker_group_members now takes the addressed member's step_kind alongside group_key, and blocker_group_of / pending_blocker_groups both fold on (group_key, step_kind) so a connection failure that stopped both a task and a workflow node is never treated as one group. Added a_shared_cause_never_fans_a_verdict_across_step_kinds, which fails pre-fix (the task blocker's fan-out group includes the node-step sibling, and skipping the task also skips the node) and passes post-fix.

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Report only blocker IDs actually answered by this request

This fills settledIds from the pre-resolution group rather than from each member's receipt. If an older sibling has expired, the loop retires it with the system's default denial while successfully applying the requested verdict only to the clicked member, yet the frontend uses this list to say the click “answered” that sibling too. Although the addressed receipt now reports the clicked member's outcome correctly, derive this list from members that returned ResolveReceipt::Settled so the grouped confirmation does not attribute expirations or concurrent decisions to the operator.

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Confirmed real, deferring as P2 per the badge -- no code in this pass.

You're right that settled_ids is filled from the pre-resolution group snapshot rather than from the members that actually returned ResolveReceipt::Settled, so an older sibling that expires mid-loop would be reported to the console as "answered" by this click when it was actually retired by the system's default denial. It's a console-attribution accuracy issue, not a correctness issue in what actually gets resolved (the addressed receipt itself, resolve_blocker's return value, is already correct per the P1 fix a few lines up).

Note the P1 fix in a48d845 (step-kind-only fan-out groups) narrows this in practice -- a group can no longer mix task and node siblings, so the blast radius of a stale settled_ids entry is smaller than before. Leaving this open as a follow-up: derive settled_ids from the receipts apply_blocker_reply_spawned actually produces (Settled only) rather than from the input group.

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Serialize the legacy blocker path with four-way resolves

This mutex protects only apply_blocker_reply_spawned; the still-supported two-value fallback calls arm_console_blocker_resolution outside it, using peek_blocker_resolution followed by an awaited journal write and an unconditional arm_blocker_resolution insertion. If a legacy Approve/Deny races a new four-way request, it can peek before the new request claims the slot and overwrite that request's resolution after the claim, so the approval event records one verdict while the follow-up executes another. Fresh evidence in this revision is that the new serialization never covers the fallback that the commit explicitly retains; both arming paths need the same claim/lock protocol.

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Addressed in 2b82673.

Both arming paths now share the claim protocol. arm_console_blocker_resolution no longer does peek then awaited journal write then unconditional arm_blocker_resolution; it arms through claim_blocker_resolution, so testing the slot and filling it are one atomic step, and it releases the claim when the bank fails rather than orphaning it. resolve_approval_spawned also takes blocker_resolutions, so a legacy Approve/Deny and a four-way answer to the same blocker serialise instead of interleaving their claim and settle.

The regression test drives the interleaving deterministically rather than hoping two tasks race: a journal double runs the competing four-way claim inside the console path's own awaited write — exactly the window peek-then-insert left open — and asserts the armed resolution belongs to whichever caller won claim_blocker_resolution, rather than pinning a particular winner.

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assertion `left == right` failed: the caller that won claim_blocker_resolution must own
the armed slot (rival won the claim: true); the console fallback overwrote a resolution
it did not claim, so the approval event and the resume disagree about what the operator
decided
  left: Retry
 right: Skip

test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 ignored

Green after. cargo test --lib --features openhuman blocker is 120 passed / 0 failed, so the added lock introduces no deadlock on the existing paths.

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Release or drive the claim when settlement fails

After the blocker-resolution journal entry succeeds, settle_approval can still fail—for example, when its record_resolved append fails—and this ? exits with the resolution claim armed but no follow-up spawned. In the current process the gate has already removed the approval, while after restart the durable blocker resolution is rehydrated beside the still-durable park; either way subsequent attempts lose claim_blocker_resolution and return AlreadyResolved, so the blocker can never resume. The current revision cleans up a failed record_blocker_resolution, but needs equivalent recovery for errors from settlement and expiry retirement.

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Addressed in a193edd — the current head, one commit after the a48d8457b this comment is anchored to.

That commit is titled "release the blocker claim on settle/retire errors too" and covers both of the errors named here. In claim_and_settle_blocker, settle_approval and retire_if_expired are no longer bare ?:

let receipt = match CycleRunner::new(self)
    .settle_approval(id, verdict.event_verdict(), actor.clone(), GrantScope::Once)
    .await
{
    Ok(receipt) => receipt,
    Err(err) => {
        self.grants.take_blocker_resolution(id);
        return Err(err);
    }
};
if let Err(err) = self.retire_if_expired(id, &receipt).await {
    self.grants.take_blocker_resolution(id);
    return Err(err);
}

At a48d8457b both were .await? with no release, which is the gap described. It is covered by a_journal_failure_inside_settle_also_releases_the_blocker_claim, which arms a journal store that fails on settle_approval's own record_resolved append and asserts peek_blocker_resolution is None afterwards.

No remaining gap for expiry retirement either — retire_if_expired's failure takes the same release on the way out.

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Keep the step kind in blocker confirmations

This helper calls blockerVerdictConsequence without the approval's blocker_step_kind, and both success call sites pass only the verdict, detail, and IDs. Consequently a task-backed Skip is confirmed as “Moves on without doing it now” even though resume_task_card puts the card back in progress and executes it again. Fresh evidence after the earlier wording fix is this remaining untyped confirmation path; pass the step kind through the helper so the toast and channel note retain the step-aware behavior shown on the button.

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Real, and confirmed at the current head: blockerDecidedLine calls blockerVerdictConsequence(verdict) with no second argument, and both success call sites pass only the verdict, detail and ids — so a task-backed skip is confirmed with the step-agnostic sentence even though resume_task_card re-runs the card.

Deferring it as minor for this round. It is confirmation wording after the fact, not the action taken: the verdict on the wire, the verdict the host performs and the verdict the button promised all still agree. The button itself already renders the step-aware sentence via blockerVerdictConsequence(verdict, a.blocker_step_kind); the defect is that the toast and channel note fall back to generic wording the operator has already read a more specific version of.

This round was scoped to the P1s that break the feature. Threading blocker_step_kind through the helper and its two call sites is a contained follow-up, and I have not taken it here.

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Pass stateKey to stale-send cleanup.

A threaded send is registered under the composite stateKey, such as engineering#41. The stale-response branches still call onSendStale(chatId, gen). AppShell.onSendStale cleans PendingSyncPosts by that argument, so it misses the composite entry. A company switch during a threaded send leaves held reply frames stranded.

Pass stateKey in both stale-response branches.

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In `@frontend/src/views/ChatView.tsx` around lines 1682 - 1685, Update both
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In `@frontend/src/components/app-shell.tsx`:
- Around line 2951-2953: Update the approval flow around resolveApproval so
grouped sibling IDs are registered in ownApprovalDecisionsRef before the request
can emit SSE events, or defer sibling announcements until settledIds is
returned. Preserve the existing initiating-ID registration and ensure all
settled sibling IDs are treated as own decisions to prevent duplicate toasts.

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- Around line 730-744: Update record_blocker_resolution so errors from
settle_approval and retire_if_expired release the previously claimed blocker
resolution via take_blocker_resolution before propagating the error, allowing
later replies to retry instead of receiving AlreadyResolved.

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In `@frontend/src/views/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 1682-1685: Update both stale-response branches in ChatView’s send
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the key used by onSendStart for threaded sends; keep the existing generation
argument and stale-response behavior unchanged.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Register grouped sibling ids before their SSE events can arrive.

Lines 2951-2953 run after resolveApproval resolves. A sibling approval_resolved event can arrive first on the SSE connection. isOwnDecision then treats it as external and shows a duplicate toast. The initiating id is registered before the request to prevent this same race.

Claim known group siblings before the request, or defer sibling-event announcements until the response supplies settledIds.

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In `@frontend/src/components/app-shell.tsx` around lines 2951 - 2953, Update the
approval flow around resolveApproval so grouped sibling IDs are registered in
ownApprovalDecisionsRef before the request can emit SSE events, or defer sibling
announcements until settledIds is returned. Preserve the existing initiating-ID
registration and ensure all settled sibling IDs are treated as own decisions to
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Confirmed real, deferring as Minor per the badge -- no code in this pass.

You're right: ownApprovalDecisionsRef only gets the addressed approval.id added before the request, and sibling ids from answer.settledIds are added only after the await resolves, so a sibling's SSE echo that arrives first in that window reads as external and produces a duplicate toast (#1211's fix covers the steady-state case, not this specific ordering). It's a UX-only race (a stray toast), not a decision- or data-correctness issue -- the underlying resolve already lands correctly either way.

Noting as a follow-up: claim known group siblings (parked_blocker_group's client-visible equivalent) into ownApprovalDecisionsRef before the request goes out, rather than only after settledIds comes back.

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@oxoxDev, agreed. The issue is a UX-only race and does not affect blocker settlement or decision correctness.

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Negotiate four-way blocker support before sending it

When this console connects to a host predating blocker_verdict, that host ignores these unknown fields and resolves solely from the lowered two-way verdict; consequently a workflow-node Skip becomes Retry, and an Amend reruns without the supplied answer, while the console reports the requested four-way result. This client explicitly supports older hosts, so advertise/check a host capability before offering or sending these controls rather than silently executing a different action.

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Addressed in 23a6db5, with the host half in e2cf554.

Host side. /spec now advertises blocker-verdict in capabilities (src/app/types.rs), gated on the openhuman feature — the same gate the build's own refusal already uses, since operator::blocker_verdict rejects the field outright when that feature is off. Advertising it unconditionally would have promised a resume the build has no code for.

Client side. The client reads /spec once per instance and checks before sending. The check is narrowed to the two verdicts that actually diverge rather than all four: retry lowers to approve and cancel lowers to deny, and an unaware host retries and cancels exactly as asked, so refusing those would drop working controls for nothing. skip and amend are the two you named — skip lowers to an approve and re-runs the step it was asked to leave out, amend lowers to one and re-runs without the operator's words — and both are now refused against a host that does not advertise the capability, so the request never leaves. An unreachable /spec and an absent capabilities array both read as incapable, never as "supports nothing in particular".

Proof. New regression test frontend/test/unit/blocker-verdict-host-capability.test.ts. Before the change, two of its five cases failed — "refuses skip and amend on a host that does not advertise it" and "treats a host predating the capabilities field as unable" — both because the resolve resolved instead of rejecting, i.e. it reached the wire. Host side, spec_advertises_the_four_way_blocker_answer failed with [rest, graphql, sse, approvals].

One half deliberately not taken here. The four-way controls are still offered in the UI, so an operator on an old host sees Skip/Answer, clicks, and gets a refusal naming Retry and Cancel as the working options. Gating the offer itself means threading host capability into BlockerDecide, which has six render sites across two parent chains and consumes no React context today — wider than this round is scoped for. The correctness half — never performing a different action from the one reported — is closed.

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Use a step-aware label for blocker cancellation

For task-backed blockers—and for stepless agent questions—this primary action still reads “Cancel run,” although the backend does not cancel a run: a task cancellation only returns that card to To-do, and a stepless question merely records the response. After the consequence text was made step-specific, the button and its aria-label still make a broader promise; make the label step-aware or use a neutral “Cancel” label.

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Real, and confirmed at the current head: blockerVerdictLabel returns "Cancel run" unconditionally, so a task-backed blocker and a stepless agent question both get that label and the matching aria-label, while the backend returns the card to To-do or merely records the response.

Deferring it as minor for this round, for the same reason as the confirmation wording on approval-wording.ts: it is a button label, not the action performed. The consequence line rendered beneath the button is already step-aware and does say what actually happens — the task-backed cancel reads "to-do" rather than claiming a run is stopped — so the operator is not left with only the broader promise. Making the label itself step-aware, or neutralising it to "Cancel", is a contained follow-up.

Scoped out deliberately rather than overlooked; this round took only the P1s.

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Reconcile the durable blocker answer after a failed settle

When record_blocker_resolution succeeds but settle_approval fails, this branch removes only the in-memory claim; the durable BlockerResolved record remains. On restart the builder rehydrates that claim, but startup schedules only approval continuations, so every new four-way or DM answer loses claim_blocker_resolution and returns AlreadyResolved without settling or resuming the still-durable park. Fresh evidence in this revision is the new test commentary at lines 9905-9909 explicitly acknowledging that a successful retry is impossible while testing only claim removal. Compensate the durable record or arrange for rehydrated blocker resolutions to be driven rather than merely releasing the live claim.

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Addressed in 7ecf023. You were right, and the test commentary you cited was the tell — I had proved the live claim was released and stopped there, which left the durable half exactly as you describe.

Confirmed before fixing. The red test asserts the intermediate state first, and both of those asserts passed on 23a6db599: after the reboot the answer is rehydrated onto the grant set and the approval is still parked, because record_resolved never landed for replay to see. Nothing drove the pair, so claim_blocker_resolution refused every later answer and the blocker was unresolvable by anyone, across any number of restarts.

claim_and_settle_blocker's own doc already claimed the opposite — "a crash between the two still replays as still armed and re-resumes" — and no code made it true. So I implemented the promise rather than deleting the record.

• The settle tail splits out as settle_claimed_blocker. A boot arrives with the claim already held, and re-claiming would lose to its own rehydrated entry and report AlreadyResolved — the very bug.
• arm_replayed_blocker_recovery fires when replay leaves a banked answer over a still-parked approval, and schedule_replayed_blocker_resolutions drives it once the runtime is addressable, mirroring how a replayed continuation is armed in the builder and scheduled from the registry.
• An answer whose approval did settle is skipped: its resume belongs to the continuation queue, and driving it here would settle the same approval twice.
• A drive that fails leaves the durable record alone, so the next boot retries. The state is self-healing rather than terminal.

Settled under the operator channel, the same default a DM answer with no named actor takes — the durable record carries the verdict and the words, not who supplied them.

Red before the fix:

a banked-but-unsettled blocker answer must be driven on the next boot; it is still
parked with its resolution rehydrated, so claim_blocker_resolution will refuse every
later answer and this blocker can never be resolved by anyone

test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 ignored

Green after. cargo test --lib --features openhuman blocker is 123 passed / 0 failed.

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frontend/src/api/client.ts (1)

280-285: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Clear capabilityProbe when /spec rejects.

OpenCompanyClient.hostCapabilities() caches the rejection fallback as undefined. The shell reuses the same client for later skip and amend attempts, so each call remains refused with “update the host” after one transient /spec failure. Reset this.capabilityProbe in the rejection handler before returning undefined. Keep successful legacy responses that omit capabilities cached.

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In `@frontend/src/api/client.ts` around lines 280 - 285, Update
OpenCompanyClient.hostCapabilities so its /spec rejection handler clears
this.capabilityProbe before returning undefined, allowing later calls to retry
after transient failures; preserve caching of successful responses, including
legacy specs without capabilities.

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In `@src/company/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 2186-2187: Update the approval-resolution flow after the blocker
claim, including settle_approval and retire_if_expired outcomes, to release the
claim via take_blocker_resolution on both errors and every non-Settled receipt;
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In `@frontend/src/api/client.ts`:
- Around line 280-285: Update OpenCompanyClient.hostCapabilities so its /spec
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Throw an error the decision views will display

When /spec lacks blocker-verdict or its probe fails, Skip and Answer reach this branch, but the new refusal is a plain Error. Both ApprovalsView.decide and AppShell.decideApproval preserve messages only from ApiError and replace every other error with "something went wrong", so the actionable explanation telling the operator to use Retry/Cancel or update the host is never shown. Return the error type those handlers recognize, or make the handlers retain ordinary Error.message.

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Clear the ownership marker on a preflight refusal

When this capability check rejects Skip or Answer before issuing the POST, both decision surfaces have already inserted the approval ID into ownApprovalDecisionsRef, and their error paths never remove it; that set is cleared only when a matching SSE resolution arrives. If another tab or operator later resolves the still-pending blocker, isOwnDecision therefore misclassifies that external resolution as this tab's own and suppresses its notification. Negotiate before marking the decision as sent, or explicitly clear the marker for this definitely-not-sent rejection.

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