fix(voice): discard interrupted Gemini turn residue

[ach3rry]

Why

A late Gemini Live event can arrive after interrupt() has already released the old turn's receiver. Without a protocol-aware turn boundary, that event can become the recovery turn's first queue item and an empty turnComplete truncates the real reply.

Closes #760

What changed

• Keep interrupted-turn cleanup armed through the old turn's terminal serverContent boundary, including callbacks delivered after recovery sending starts.
• Keep recovery-send protection active until all three sendRealtimeInput() calls succeed, so a failed send can be retried safely.
• Preserve transport and session events while removing stale turn content.
• Cover the public callback-to-adapter path with regressions for a buffered late terminal event, a post-snapshot callback, and a failed-send retry.

How it works

interrupt() records two independent facts: the old turn's terminal boundary is still pending, and a complete recovery send is still pending. Buffered server content is removed before each recovery attempt. Newly delivered server content is discarded until the old turn's turnComplete arrives; later messages are then eligible for the recovery receiver. Recovery-send state is cleared only after activityStart, audio, and activityEnd are all sent successfully.

The existing abort sentinel still releases any in-flight receiver immediately.

Test plan

• Red on c9b58bbf: the original regression fails with expected 0 to be greater than 0.
• Red on prior PR head b8bb005: the post-snapshot callback and failed-send retry regressions both fail with expected 0 to be greater than 0.
• pnpm exec vitest run src/voice/adapters/__tests__/gemini-live.test.ts — 17 passed.
• pnpm exec vitest run — 1119 passed, 4 skipped.
• pnpm run typecheck
• pnpm exec eslint src/voice/adapters/gemini-live.ts src/voice/adapters/__tests__/gemini-live.test.ts
• git diff --check

How I can prove I was successful

No playable artifact is needed for this queue-lifecycle fix. The offline regressions drive the real adapter boundary through the mocked Gemini SDK callback and cover the interrupted-turn → late terminal event → recovery-turn sequence, including the two asynchronous and retry boundaries identified during review.

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Walkthrough

Gemini Live interruption handling now defers stale server-content cleanup until turnComplete. Recovery sends preserve cleanup state across SDK failures and clear it after success. Regression tests cover late boundaries, asynchronous events, and retries.

Changes

Gemini Live recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deferred interrupted-turn cleanup and recovery sends javascript/src/voice/adapters/gemini-live.ts	interrupt() defers server-content cleanup through turnComplete. Recovery sends remove stale content and clear interruption state only after all SDK calls succeed. Connection setup resets the cleanup flags.
Recovery regression coverage javascript/src/voice/adapters/__tests__/gemini-live.test.ts	The tests capture the live session and sendRealtimeInput. They cover late terminal events, asynchronous interrupted boundaries, and failed recovery sends followed by retry.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant GeminiLiveAdapter
  participant GeminiLiveSDK
  Caller->>GeminiLiveAdapter: interrupt()
  GeminiLiveAdapter->>GeminiLiveAdapter: mark deferred server-content cleanup
  GeminiLiveAdapter-->>Caller: resolve receive with abort sentinel
  GeminiLiveSDK->>GeminiLiveAdapter: enqueue late server content or turnComplete
  Caller->>GeminiLiveAdapter: sendAudio(recovery audio)
  GeminiLiveAdapter->>GeminiLiveAdapter: discard stale server content through turnComplete
  GeminiLiveAdapter->>GeminiLiveSDK: send recovery input
  GeminiLiveSDK-->>GeminiLiveAdapter: return recovery response

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Poem

A rabbit guards the interrupted queue,
While stale turn signals leave from view.
Recovery sends through guarded night,
Failed hops retry until they’re right.
New audio lands with clean delight.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0562e

The change prevents stale interrupted Gemini turn content from truncating recovery replies while preserving transport and session events. The documented regressions and passing checks leave no actionable merge-blocking risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: discarding residue from interrupted Gemini Live turns.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the stale queue issue, implementation, regression coverage, and validation results.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes reproduce and resolve issue #760 by filtering stale turn content through the terminal boundary and covering recovery retries.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation and tests remain focused on Gemini Live interruption cleanup, recovery sends, and the linked issue requirements.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1 files.

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In `@javascript/src/voice/adapters/gemini-live.ts`:
- Around line 329-337: The interrupted-turn cleanup in the recovery flow must
remain armed until the recovery send completes successfully and must handle late
asynchronous events delivered after the initial queue snapshot. Update the
relevant receive/send logic around _discardInterruptedTurnMessages,
_interruptPending, receiveAudio(), and sendRealtimeInput() to use a
protocol-aware turn boundary, defer flag clearing until all three recovery sends
succeed, and preserve cleanup for retries after a send failure. Add coverage for
post-snapshot callback delivery and failed-send retry behavior.

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[langwatch-agent]

Human Review Brief

Mode: Targeted Review. Closes #760. Two files, and the whole change is a protocol-aware turn boundary. Scope matches the issue exactly.

What you are looking at, if the voice subsystem is not your area

Scenario simulates conversations against an agent. The voice subsystem lets the simulated user do that in audio rather than text, which means the framework is now responsible for a real-time duplex stream and for the timeline that gets reconstructed from it.

Four facts carry most of the weight.

It is a deliberate two-language port. javascript/src/voice/ mirrors python/scenario/voice/ file for file, and nearly every TypeScript module names its Python counterpart in its header. Parity is a maintained property here, not a coincidence, so a fix on one side raises the question of the other.

There is a canonical audio format, and adapters convert at the edge. Internally everything is an AudioChunk: PCM16, mono, 24 kHz. Each provider adapter resamples to and from whatever its API wants (Gemini Live, for instance, takes 16 kHz in and returns 24 kHz out), using plain linear interpolation so the package needs no numeric dependency.

The runtime, not the adapter, owns the turn. adapter.runtime.ts clears an AgentSpeakingEvent (a Promise-paired flag standing in for Python's asyncio.Event), drains the agent's audio chunks, and emits the agent_start_speaking / agent_stop_speaking and user_start_speaking / user_stop_speaking timeline events. Those events are what the transcript, the judge and the recorded artefacts are built from, so a boundary emitted at the wrong moment is not a cosmetic bug: it moves where the conversation is understood to have happened.

Interruption is a first-class feature, and it is the hard part. The simulated user interrupts mid-turn on interruptProbability, cutting the agent off. Everything downstream then has to agree about where the turn ended, which is why the runtime has explicit reconciliation that moves the most recent agent_stop_speaking when a turn is truncated, and why adapters have to reason about provider content that was already in flight when the cut happened.

One practical note about the tests: the real adapters need live provider credentials, so the suites that run in CI drive fakes, and anything touching a live provider is marked as an integration test and run on demand. A deterministic test here is proving the state machine, not the transport.

Decisions being ratified

1. Interrupted-turn cleanup stays armed until the old turn's terminal serverContent arrives, including callbacks delivered after recovery sending has already started. The boundary is the protocol event, not the local interrupt() call. That is the right seam and it is the thing to get right.
2. Recovery-send protection holds until all three sendRealtimeInput() calls succeed, so a failed send is retryable. Three is a magic number from the Gemini Live protocol; it becomes a constant this code depends on.
3. Transport and session events are preserved while stale turn content is dropped. The filter distinguishes classes of event rather than clearing the queue, which is what keeps a recovery from losing connection state.

Must Check

• The old turn's turnComplete never arriving. If the transport dies between interrupt() and the terminal boundary, cleanup stays armed forever and every subsequent event is discarded. Confirm there is a release path on transport close or error, not only on the happy terminal event.
• The three-call assumption. If the protocol or the adapter ever sends a different number, the recovery-send guard either releases early or never. Worth a named constant with a comment rather than a bare 3, if it is not already.

Ask Author

Is the buffered-late-terminal-event regression driven through the public callback-to-adapter path, or does it reach in? The body says the public path, which is what makes the test worth having.

Probably Fine: 181 added lines, two files, three named regressions covering the reported failure and two adjacent ones.

[langwatch-agent]

No additional actionable correctness, security, or integrity finding in the external diff. The cleanup remains armed across a failed recovery send and filters both buffered and late server-content residue. I performed static review only; contributor code and dependencies were not executed.

LangWatch-Review: verdict=clean sha=afb55fb18d108b0066b1611edec9bd74cfe5330f p0=0 p1=0 p2=0 p3=0

[ach3rry]

Thanks for the focused review. I confirmed the three points:

• The cleanup gate only drops items carrying serverContent. onerror and onclose are enqueued unchanged; receiveAudio() surfaces the error or the end-of-turn sentinel, and connect() resets all interruption and recovery flags before the next session. A missing old turnComplete therefore cannot hide transport termination or leak cleanup state into a reconnected session.
• There is no numeric three-call counter. sendAudio() explicitly sends activityStart, audio, and activityEnd in sequence, and clears recovery state only after all three calls return. A throw leaves the state armed for retry.
• The late-boundary regression uses the SDK onmessage callback captured from live.connect() and schedules it with queueMicrotask during sendRealtimeInput(); it does not reach into adapter internals.

The subsequent static review is clean, so I have not added extra state or a synthetic numeric constant.

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External static review: no blocking concern found in the current diff. I did not execute branch code, install dependencies, or run contributor-provided scripts. Residual risk: runtime behavior remains covered by the repository CI.

LangWatch-Review: verdict=clean sha=afb55fb18d108b0066b1611edec9bd74cfe5330f p0=0 p1=0 p2=0 p3=0

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Note

Adding the orientation section the brief above should have opened with. The rest of that brief still stands.

What you are looking at, if the voice path is not your directory

Scenario's voice support drives a realtime model over a streaming connection: audio frames go up, audio and events come back, and the library turns that stream into the turn structure the rest of scenario reasons about. A turn is one participant speaking until they stop.

The hard part is that the stream does not announce turns cleanly. Frames arrive continuously, silence is not a message, and an interruption means the model was mid-turn when the user started talking again. So the adapters carry a small state machine that decides where one turn ends and the next begins, driven by events like speaking-started and speaking-stopped plus the frames themselves.

That state machine is where nearly every voice defect lives, and it fails in a characteristic way: not a crash, but a turn boundary in the wrong place, which surfaces much later as a judge reading a transcript that does not match what was said. When reading a voice fix, the question is almost always "what does this do to the boundary", not "does this code work".

[langwatch-agent]

Static review complete: no blocking correctness or security findings in the current queue-boundary change. I did not execute this untrusted fork's code or tests. Residual risk is live Gemini callback ordering beyond the mocked adapter boundary.\n\nLangWatch-Review: verdict=clean sha=0562e0d02dbfc1f51176d43d30f2757fb64fe00f p0=0 p1=0 p2=0 p3=0