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Problem

In a remote (SSH) session, a message sent while a turn is running is silently rejected, for every provider:

  • RemoteSession.submit() returns false whenever the session is busy, and all queue callbacks were noop.
  • The host's send command throws This session is already running.

Local sessions queue these follow-ups; remote sessions could not.

Change

The host now owns a per-session queue, so follow-ups are sent in order as each turn ends, even while the desktop is disconnected.

Host (host/engine.ts)

  • New commands: enqueue, dequeue, editQueued, resumeQueue.
  • Turn start is extracted into startTurn() and shared by normal sends, queued dispatch and resume.
  • When a turn settles, the next queued message is dispatched (dispatchQueued). This also runs after an enqueue that arrives just after the turn ended, and after a branch switch.
  • Stopping a turn, or an interruption (host restart, persistence failure), pauses the queue. Resume first sends CONTINUE_PROMPT to continue the interrupted work, then the queue, matching local sessions.
  • Advertises a new sessions.queue capability. Desktops connected to older hosts keep the previous behavior.

Desktop

  • RemoteSession routes busy submits to enqueue and wires queue edit, remove and resume.
  • remoteSessionState no longer copies the host's queue into local session state. Otherwise the app's local auto-dispatch would have sent queued messages a second time.
  • The Steer button is hidden when no steer handler is provided, because host providers cannot steer a running turn.
  • docs/remote-access.md describes the queue.

Known limitations

  • Steer: not supported for remote sessions.
  • Editing the next message: local sessions hold auto-dispatch while you edit the queue head; the host does not. If the message is sent mid-edit, saving reports This queued message is no longer waiting.
  • Model and effort changes: changes made mid-turn are applied when the session is idle, so with a queue they take effect after the queue drains.

Testing

  • Host engine tests: ordered dispatch, late enqueue, edit and remove, stop then resume, and pause after a host restart.
  • Desktop tests: RemoteSession enqueue while busy, remove, resume; remoteSessionState strips the host queue.
  • Checks: tsc --noEmit passes; npm run test:host has 104 passing tests; the web suite passes with NODE_OPTIONS=--no-experimental-webstorage. On Node 25, the built-in experimental localStorage breaks many existing suites, the same as on main.
  • Manual: tested end to end against a Linux host over an SSH tunnel with Claude Code. Codex is covered by the automated tests only.

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  • New Features
    • Queue follow-up messages during a remote session’s active turn. Messages are sent in order once the current turn finishes, and can be edited or removed while waiting.
    • Queued messages remain available while the desktop is disconnected. If a turn is stopped or interrupted, the queue pauses; resuming completes the interrupted work before sending queued messages.
  • Compatibility
    • Queuing follow-up messages requires an updated host; older hosts reject messages sent during an active turn.

king20300 and others added 2 commits October 5, 2026 17:09
Remote (SSH) sessions rejected any message sent while a turn was running,
for every provider. The host now keeps a per-session queue: follow-ups sent
mid-turn are stored on the host and dispatched in order as each turn ends,
so they still go out while the desktop is disconnected.

- host: add enqueue, dequeue, editQueued and resumeQueue commands; share
  turn start between sends, queued dispatch and resume (startTurn)
- host: pause the queue when a turn is stopped or interrupted; Resume
  continues the interrupted work first, as local sessions do
- host: advertise the sessions.queue capability; older hosts keep the
  previous behavior
- desktop: route busy submits to the host queue and wire queue edit,
  remove and resume; hide Steer where the provider cannot steer
- desktop: do not copy the host's queue into local session state, which
  would have sent queued messages a second time

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The host now supports queued follow-up messages, including editing, removal, and resuming paused queues. Remote sessions can submit and manage queued messages when the host advertises queue support. Tests and remote-access documentation describe the queue behavior.

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Follow-up queue

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue commands and validation
src/features/connections/model/protocol.ts, host/engine.ts, host/engine.test.ts
The command protocol and host parser support enqueue, dequeue, editQueued, and resumeQueue, with validation for prompts and queued-message IDs.
Host queue lifecycle and dispatch
host/engine.ts, host/engine.test.ts, docs/remote-access.md
The host stores and edits queued messages, dispatches them when eligible, and pauses or resumes queue processing around interrupted turns. Tests and documentation cover these behaviors.
Remote queue controls and submission handling
host/server.ts, src/features/connections/model/connections.ts, src/features/connections/model/remoteSessionState.ts, src/features/connections/model/remoteSessionState.test.ts, src/features/connections/ui/RemoteSession.tsx, src/features/connections/ui/RemoteSession.test.ts, src/features/sessions/model/session.ts, src/features/sessions/ui/Composer.tsx, src/features/sessions/ui/SessionPane.tsx
Remote sessions detect queue support and send queue commands. The session view excludes host queue fields from merged session state, and the composer omits steering when no steering callback is available. Rejected submissions can restore the submitted draft when it has not changed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RemoteSession
  participant HostEngine
  participant Provider
  RemoteSession->>HostEngine: enqueue follow-up
  HostEngine->>HostEngine: store queued message
  Provider->>HostEngine: finish current turn
  HostEngine->>Provider: start next queued message
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ce350

A failed turn can start the next queued message before you inspect the failure. Switching sessions during an attachment upload can also lose an unsent draft. Resolve these behaviors before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39fee

Queued follow-ups retain existing authentication and execution controls, and stopping or interrupting a turn pauses remaining work. They can execute later under the session’s current settings, including while disconnected. The intended behavior after settings changes or device revocation is not fully established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A valid host device credential can enqueue work for known host session IDs, with execution inheriting the target session’s working directory, provider, model, and runtime mode. Device-wide session authority predates this PR; the new exposure is durable delayed execution rather than a demonstrated increase in privilege.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Queue ingress remains behind device-token authentication, a second revocation check after reading the request body, and environment identity validation. Attachment inputs have count and metadata constraints and resolve to host-managed files whose stored sizes must match; queue commands do not supply arbitrary provider working directories or attachment paths.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The old provider process is stopped before the next queued turn starts, containing cleanup races. Cancellation and interruption pause the queue, but an ordinary provider error settles the turn as idle and can allow the next queued message to run; this is not a fail-stop-on-every-error design.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make delayed-work authority semantics explicit: whether queued work follows later branch/runtime changes and whether device revocation affects already accepted work. If enqueue-time authorization must remain binding, retain the relevant provenance and require revalidation or confirmation when it changes.
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🟡 Minor · Remove the stale queued follow-ups limitation. · remote-access.md:105

docs/remote-access.md:105
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale queued follow-ups limitation.

Line 105 still says "Queued follow-ups and editing the last message still need host commands." Line 40 now says the host queues follow-ups. These two statements contradict each other. Keep only the limitation that still applies.

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-... Queued follow-ups and editing the last message still need host commands. ...
+... Editing the last message still needs a host command. ...
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Review comment at @docs/remote-access.md at line 105:
Update the remote-access capability description to remove queued follow-ups from
the host-command limitation, since the host now queues them. Keep the limitation
that editing the last message still requires a host command.

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Review comments at @host/engine.ts:
- Around line 777-779: Update startTurn to accept the submitted draft ID and
remove only the matching draft block, preserving other drafts and their
attachments. Pass the submitted draft’s ID from resumeQueue and dispatchQueued
when they call startTurn.

Review comments at @src/features/connections/ui/RemoteSession.tsx:
- Line 845: In the upload cleanup within RemoteSession, only clear
preparingRef.current when the captured version matches bindingVersion.current;
this prevents a stale upload’s finally block from unlocking a newer submission.
- Line 847: Update the enqueue flow used by Composer so it does not report
success until the message and attachments are retained for retry or upload and
host dispatch succeed. Ensure failures, including run returning early while
sendingRef.current is set, preserve the draft or a retryable command with its
attachments.

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- Line 105: Update the remote-access capability description to remove queued
follow-ups from the host-command limitation, since the host now queues them.
Keep the limitation that editing the last message still requires a host command.

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king20300 and others added 2 commits October 6, 2026 08:38
- Return a follow-up to the composer when it never reaches the host
  queue (upload failure, host rejection, or a busy dispatcher). An
  unconfirmed send still stays pending for Retry.
- Only clear the preparing flag from the binding that set it.
- Leave a saved draft in place when the host starts a queued turn.
- Drop the stale "queued follow-ups need host commands" limitation.

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Outside-diff note on docs/remote-access.md:105: fixed in 39feea8. It now says only that editing the last message still needs a host command.

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🟠 Major · Pause the queue when a provider turn fails. · engine.ts:1048

host/engine.ts:1048
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Pause the queue when a provider turn fails.

If provider.send throws, run records the error but settles the turn as "idle". This condition leaves the queue active, and dispatchQueued starts the next message immediately. That follow-up can run before the user inspects the failed turn. Pass the provider-failure state into settled and pause the remaining queue.

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Update run’s settlement path to pass the provider-failure state into settled,
and ensure that state pauses the remaining queue so dispatchQueued does not
start the next message immediately after provider.send throws.

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- Around line 850-855: In RemoteSession’s enqueue result handler, guard the
onRejected callback with the captured version matching bindingVersion.current.
Keep the existing receipt, alive, and pending-command checks so stale queue
rejections cannot restore draft text after the host-session binding changes.

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Comment thread src/features/connections/ui/RemoteSession.tsx
An enqueue whose attachment upload outlives a change of the tab's host
session must not return its text to the composer, which now belongs to
another conversation.

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