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Closes #337.

The extension API gains what a package needs for chats that nobody attends on the portal's pages. Office's document chat (prometheion/pithagoras-extensions#11) is the first user, and it can now drop its workarounds.

What's new

1. ChildChatOptions.unattended, and the same for chats.start. Such a chat:

   • is offered no ask_question and no routine tools;
   • gets every extension dialog answered at once with its no-answer value;
   • has the guard refuse a held call instead of asking.

   It is stored on the session (schema 16), so it holds after a restart. A child of an unattended chat is unattended too, and a child of an unlisted chat is unlisted, whoever makes it.

2. chats.start({ folder, title, listed?, unattended? }) makes a task chat with no parent and the primary role, in an agent's home or a project folder (nothing else).

   • listed: false needs unattended: true, since a hidden chat could never show that it waits on someone.
   • prompt, abort, remove and lastAnswer take any chat the package made, and refuse other packages' chats.
   • Deleting the project or agent stops and deletes such hidden chats too.

3. chats.list() order is stated: pinned first, then the most recently active.

4. chats.lastAnswer(id) returns { status: "running" | "done" | "stopped" | "error", answer, marked?, error? }, read from stored events. It holds across a restart of the half. A marked answer marks the parent, as chats.prompt does.

5. ChildChatOptions.tools: "parent" | "defaults": with "defaults", a child takes none of its parent's tool switches. Unattended children default to it.

6. portal.http.person(req) returns { id, name, role } for the request's person.

   • Today the only login is the owner's.
   • A half in a process of its own gets it through a header the portal sets, after dropping any copy the request came with.

7. The default agent named.

   • home: true on folders.list() is now documented as the first agent's home.
   • A new newChats: true marks the home of the agent the New button starts chats with, which the person can change.

8. chats.owner(id) returns the chat's agent or project, in the shape of a folders.list() entry (path, name, kind, …). It uses the same rule the sandbox uses to pick the agent a chat runs as.

Two shapes differ from the issue:

• http.person(req) is a function instead of req.person. An upgrade request is not an Express request, and Express's type would need a global augmentation.
• chats.owner returns a folder entry instead of { kind, folder, name }, so a half can pass owner.path straight to chats.start.

Docs: packages/extension-api/server.d.ts, docs/guide/extension-ui.md, sessions.md, and upgrading.md with a schema 16 section. No package version is bumped.

Tests

• New and extended: child-chats, child-chats-api, guard-asks, isolated-halves, extension-folders, agents-names, and schema-fingerprint (upgrade from schemas 15 and 14).
• Each new test fails on the old code. The exceptions are tests that pin behaviour that already held, such as the chats.list order and the home mark.
• npm test -w core/server: 1611 tests, 1597 pass, 0 fail, 14 skipped.
• Proved in a real local portal, with a test extension that has an isolated server half and a scripted model:
  • an unattended started chat is offered no ask_question, and its dialog is answered false after 0 ms;
  • lastAnswer gives the answer of a run that ended while the extension was switched off;
  • unattended survives a portal restart;
  • tools: "defaults" works;
  • http.person works, and a forged header is dropped.
• Review: one round (correctness, security, spec) for items 1–6, and one for items 7–8.
  • The high finding: a child of an unattended chat could still ask, so a subagent of it would have waited forever. It is fixed with a test.

Not in this PR

• chats.prompt right after chats.abort can resolve against the stopped run's end #338: chats.prompt right after chats.abort can resolve against the stopped run's end. Found while building this.
• tests/extension-api-package.test.mts fails with npm 12, whose npm pack --json -w prints an object instead of an array. It fails on main too; this PR does not touch it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Extensions can start standalone chats in agent or project folders, including unlisted and unattended chats.
  • Chat tools can use folder defaults or inherit switches from a parent. Unattended chats don’t ask questions and refuse actions that require approval.
  • Extensions can look up chat owners, retrieve the latest answer, and access the authenticated person in requests.
  • Folder listings identify the home used for new chats.
• Bug Fixes
  • Agent and project deletion now also removes associated unlisted chats.
• Documentation
  • Updated extension, session, and upgrade guides with the new chat options and behavior.

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Walkthrough

The extension API adds package-started task chats, unattended and tool-selection options, chat ownership and last-run results, and authenticated request-person access. The server stores the new session state, updates chat lifecycle behavior, and exposes the APIs through in-process and isolated server halves.

Changes: Package chat lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Folder labels and chat ownership core/server/src/agent-folders.ts, core/server/src/agents.ts, core/server/src/api/agents.ts, core/server/src/server.ts, core/server/src/extension-host.ts, core/server/test/extension-folders.test.mjs, core/server/test/child-chats.test.mjs, docs/guide/extension-ui.md, packages/extension-api/server.d.ts	Folder entries distinguish the default agent home from the home used for new chats. The API can resolve a chat’s agent or project folder.
Session persistence and listing core/server/src/db.ts, core/server/src/schema-version.ts, core/server/src/server.ts, core/server/test/child-chats-api.test.mjs, core/server/test/schema-fingerprint.test.mjs, docs/guide/extension-ui.md, docs/guide/upgrading.md, packages/extension-api/server.d.ts	Session storage adds unattended and tool-source fields. Listing excludes unlisted task chats by default, and project or agent deletion includes those chats. The schema version advances to 16.
Child and package chat creation core/server/src/child-chats.ts, core/server/src/session-manager.ts, core/server/test/child-chats.test.mjs, core/server/test/guard-asks.test.mjs, docs/guide/extension-ui.md, docs/guide/sessions.md, packages/extension-api/server.d.ts	Child chats can inherit unattended status and use parent or folder-default tools. Packages can start task chats in agent or project folders, with validation for folders, titles, and listing options.
Chat ownership and last-run results core/server/src/db.ts, core/server/src/extension-host.ts, core/server/src/half-runtime.ts, core/server/src/isolated-half.ts, core/server/src/session-manager.ts, core/server/test/child-chats.test.mjs, core/server/test/isolated-halves.test.mjs, docs/guide/extension-ui.md, packages/extension-api/server.d.ts	Package-owned chats support prompt, abort, removal, and last-answer lookup. Last-answer results include run status, answer text, errors, and marks.

Request person identity

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authenticated identity handoff core/server/src/auth.ts, core/server/src/people.ts, core/server/src/half-wire.ts, core/server/src/half-runtime.ts, core/server/src/isolated-half.ts, core/server/src/extension-host.ts, core/server/test/isolated-halves.test.mjs, docs/guide/extension-ui.md, packages/extension-api/server.d.ts	The portal resolves the authenticated owner identity and forwards it to server-half requests. The http.person(req) API exposes the identity, and incoming identity headers are replaced or filtered during forwarding.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Package
  participant ExtensionHost
  participant SessionManager
  participant SessionDatabase
  Package->>ExtensionHost: chats.start(options)
  ExtensionHost->>SessionManager: startChat(options, creator)
  SessionManager->>SessionDatabase: Create session
  Package->>ExtensionHost: chats.lastAnswer(chatId)
  ExtensionHost->>SessionManager: lastAnswer(chatId)
  SessionManager->>SessionDatabase: Read run events

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant Portal
  participant IsolatedHalf
  participant ExtensionRoute
  Browser->>Portal: Send request with login cookie
  Portal->>Portal: Authenticate cookie and resolve owner person
  Portal->>IsolatedHalf: Forward request with encoded person header
  IsolatedHalf->>ExtensionRoute: Expose person through http.person(req)

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Possibly related PRs

• thecodacus/pithagoras#323: Adds the child-chat model and server-half API that this change extends.
• thecodacus/pithagoras#328: Uses child-run results and ownership that this change extends with ChatAnswer, lastAnswer, and package-started chats.
• thecodacus/pithagoras#307: Adds the Office extension that uses the package chat and request-person APIs.

Suggested reviewers: thecodacus

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7fee5

Extensions may fail to recognize an authenticated owner using a quoted login cookie. This is a narrow, fixable identity mismatch; the change remains mergeable with owner awareness.

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Title check		The title clearly and specifically summarizes the main Extension API changes, including unattended and package-started chats, last-answer and owner lookups, and request-person support.
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #337. ChildChatOptions supports persisted unattended chats and tools: "parent" | "defaults"; unattended chats suppress questions and dialogs and refu…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within the extension API work in #337. The home and newChats folder markers support selecting and identifying the folders used by package-started chats. chats.owner supports the…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #337. ChildChatOptions supports persisted unattended chats and tools: "parent" | "defaults"; unattended chats suppress questions and dialogs and refuse held guard calls. Child chats inherit unattended and unlisted state. newPackageChat creates removable top-level chats for valid agent or project folders. The API adds chats.start, chats.lastAnswer, and http.person, with ownership checks and restart-oriented stored-event handling. The declarations and guides document the new API. The added tests cover unattended behavior, package chats, ordering, last answers, tool selection, request identity, and schema 16 upgrades.

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The changes stay within the extension API work in #337. The home and newChats folder markers support selecting and identifying the folders used by package-started chats. chats.owner supports the same folder ownership model used by chats.start. Schema migration, runtime wiring, typings, documentation, and tests directly support the requested behavior. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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Use the same cookie parsing as HTTP authentication.

For a valid quoted login cookie, requireAuth accepts the request, but isAuthedUpgrade retains the quotes and returns false. http.person(req) then returns undefined, so an extension can reject an authenticated owner. Use the same cookie parser for both paths. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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