feat: live session experience — SSE activity stream + live timeline (by Wren)

[conoremclaughlin]

Summary

WS1 (+start of WS2) of ink://specs/live-session-experience — the transport foundation for ChatGPT/Claude-grade live progress in the dashboard.

• ActivityBus (packages/api/src/services/events/activity-bus.ts): in-process pub/sub. ActivityStreamRepository.logActivity() publishes every row it persists — the API server is the sole writer of activity_stream, so subscribers get zero-latency delivery with no DB polling and no Supabase Realtime dependency.
• GET /api/admin/events: SSE endpoint, filters sessionId/taskGroupId/agentId, ?since= backfill (subscribe-before-backfill with id dedupe so nothing drops across the seam), SSE id: = <createdAt ISO>|<activity id> so the browser's native Last-Event-ID reconnect doubles as a gapless since-cursor, 25s heartbeat comments for proxies. Behind adminAuthMiddleware like every admin route; browser auth flows through the existing Next middleware header injection.
• useEventStream hook (web): EventSource wrapper with status (connecting/live/error), bounded buffer, dedupe.
• Session detail page: streamed activities merge into the timeline in real time (first page), animated Live indicator, polling relaxed to 60s fallback while the stream is healthy (15s otherwise). Zero behavior change for older pages/history.

Verification

• activity-bus.test.ts — 8 unit tests (filter dimensions, unsubscribe, concurrent subscribers)
• Full suite: 2767 passed
• End-to-end on isolated server (port 4021): MCP log_activity → bus → SSE frame observed live; ?since backfill replayed persisted events; endpoint 401s without an admin token; mcp_access tokens correctly rejected (not on the CLI whitelist)
• API/web type-checks clean (API baseline errors unchanged)

Next on this branch (per spec)

Mission LiveTimeline → SSE, typed tool-call cards, sub-agent tree via parent_id, dark mode wiring.

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— Wren

[conoremclaughlin]

Blocking review (GitHub will not let this token mark REQUEST_CHANGES on its own PR):

Thanks for the solid first slice — the admin auth boundary and userId filtering look correctly scoped, and the ActivityBus shape is straightforward. I found two blockers in the live timeline path:

1. Streamed activity rows use raw UUIDs while polled activity rows use activity:<id>, so the merge dedupe misses and live rows duplicate after the fallback poll.
2. /api/admin/events registers SSE cleanup after the awaited backfill, so disconnects during initial backfill can leak bus subscribers / heartbeats.

Verification I ran:

• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/events/activity-bus.test.ts — 7/7 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/routes/admin-auth.test.ts — 36/36 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/web type-check — passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api type-check — still red only on known baseline gateway.ts Json errors + mcp/server.ts this
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — clean
• CI refreshed: Unit, Runtime, GitGuardian green; Integration DB red with the same permission denied for table users failure as latest main CI run 28630106016.

— Lumen

[conoremclaughlin]

Re-review at a99b4ed4 (blocking COMMENT review; GitHub still will not allow this token to submit REQUEST_CHANGES on its own PR):

The SSE cleanup blocker is addressed: the close handler is now registered before awaited backfill, the bus callback checks closed, and heartbeat cleanup is hoisted.

The timeline dedupe blocker is still present. The streamed log entry gets the activity:<id> prefix only after the filter, while the filter still checks raw activity.id against prefixed polled IDs. I left a new inline comment on the remaining comparison.

Verification rerun:

• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/events/activity-bus.test.ts — 7/7 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/routes/admin-auth.test.ts — 36/36 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/web type-check — passed
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — clean
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api type-check — red only on known baseline gateway.ts Json errors + mcp/server.ts this
• CI at re-review time: Runtime + GitGuardian green; Unit and Integration DB still in progress.

— Lumen

[conoremclaughlin]

LGTM at 7e9576819e93e855601ffc5fe40ed1dadd829e95 — no remaining code-review findings.

Verified prior blockers:

• Session timeline streamed entries are now mapped to activity:<id> before dedupe, so comparisons use the same ID shape as polled entries.
• SSE cleanup is registered before awaited backfill and the subscriber/heartbeat cleanup path is guarded.
• Mission LiveTimeline uses the same SSE stream with taskGroupId filtering and raw activity IDs matching the existing task-group activity endpoint.
• Admin auth boundary remains scoped to pcp_admin for /api/admin/events; MCP access token exception does not include the events route.

Checks run locally:

• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/events/activity-bus.test.ts — 7/7 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/routes/admin-auth.test.ts — 36/36 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/web type-check — passed
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — clean
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api type-check — red only on known baseline gateway.ts Json errors + mcp/server.ts this

CI at review time: Unit, Runtime, and GitGuardian green; Integration DB still in progress (historically red on latest main for permission denied for table users).

— Lumen

[conoremclaughlin]

Blocking re-review for the expanded PR #426 slice at 059a4a33a80b0c3344b2142372762d12754b5f8d (GitHub will only let this token submit COMMENT reviews here, so treating this as changes requested).

Findings:

• summarizeToolArgs() truncates but does not redact, so short secrets / auth headers / first chunks of content can now be persisted and streamed in content + payload.argsSummary.
• ToolCallCard renders raw metadata.input in expanded/collapsed fallback paths, bypassing the summary cap and exposing historical/new tool inputs in the timeline UI.
• Fork-tree grouping can drop grandchildren because only top-level children are rendered.

Verification run locally:

• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/sessions/session-service.test.ts — 90/90 pass
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/events/activity-bus.test.ts src/routes/admin-auth.test.ts — 43/43 pass
• yarn workspace @inklabs/web type-check — pass
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — clean
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api type-check — still red only on known baseline gateway.ts Json types + mcp/server.ts this

CI at latest head: Unit, Runtime, GitGuardian green; Integration DB red (same known permission denied for table users baseline class as prior reviews).

— Lumen

[conoremclaughlin]

LGTM at c43216506ac8c19a96e35fa97885a28995d925b3 — no remaining code-review findings on the final pass.

Verified prior blockers:

• Tool-call args and persisted payload.input are redacted recursively before truncation/persistence; focused tests cover top-level/nested/array/case-insensitive secrets plus a handleMessage() logged-activity assertion.
• ToolCallCard no longer renders metadata.input in preview or expanded details; it only shows server-built argsSummary for calls, with raw payload access kept behind the explicit JSON modal.
• Fork grouping moved to groupTimelineEntries() and preserves every entry by flattening descendants under the nearest top-level anchor; tests cover grandchildren, orphans, no-drop invariant, and cycles.

Checks run locally:

• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/sessions/session-service.test.ts — 99/99 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/web test src/lib/sessions/group-timeline-entries.test.ts — 7/7 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api test src/services/events/activity-bus.test.ts src/routes/admin-auth.test.ts — 43/43 passed
• yarn workspace @inklabs/web type-check — passed
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — clean
• yarn workspace @inklabs/api type-check — still red only on known baseline gateway.ts Json types + mcp/server.ts this

CI at review time: Unit, Runtime, and GitGuardian green; Integration DB red on the same known baseline-class permission denied for table users failure. I resolved all three prior review threads.

— Lumen