fabro/lib/packages/fabro-api-client
Bryan Helmkamp 6659ae768a
feat(events): make inference in-flight state observable
During a long LLM turn the durable event stream was silent: between
`agent.tool.completed` and the next `agent.message` nothing was emitted,
so "the model is generating" and "the worker is wedged" were
indistinguishable from the run store, SSE, or the UI.

The signal already existed. `AssistantTextStart` fired at exactly the
right point — after `build_request()`, after compaction, immediately
before the stream opens — then was classified as streaming noise and
thrown away. This promotes it rather than inventing a new one.

Two events, each asserting only what is provable when it is emitted:

- `agent.llm.started` carries the *requested* provider/model. No usage,
  no cost, no context window: none of it exists yet, and failover can
  re-target, so `agent.message` stays authoritative for what answered.
- `agent.llm.first_output` is edge-triggered on the first output of an
  attempt and names what arrived. `ToolCall` is required, not optional:
  a turn that opens with a tool call produces no text or reasoning
  delta, so a latch keyed on those two would stay silent for exactly
  the tool-heavy rounds where liveness matters most.

`agent.llm.retry` now also fires on the one previously invisible
mid-turn path — a stream that ends without a finish event, which
replays the turn and discards its output with nothing to show for it.
Its `attempt` field was already fed by two independent counters, so an
optional `phase` (open | consume) names which loop it counts.

`StageProjection.inference` projects the open bracket. `Some` means
"the event log contains an unclosed inference bracket", not "the model
is computing now" — a SIGKILLed worker leaves it open, which is the
truthful statement of what we know, and `watchdog.timeout` remains the
authority on actually-stuck.

The close is the subtle part. Terminal cancel and wall-clock timeout
tear the session down through `discard_session` without emitting a
message, error, or interrupt, so a session-lifecycle backstop is
required. It has to be `agent.session.ended`, not
`agent.session.deactivated`: deactivation is emitted by `lease.release()`
*before* the forwarder drains queued agent events, so a queued
`agent.llm.started` can arrive after it and re-open the bracket. But
`agent.session.ended` carries no stage identity, so the close takes
ordering from the event and identity from the projection, scanning for
brackets the ending session opened. A normal stage lookup there finds
no target and silently no-ops.

Presentation states what the log proves and nothing more: no progress
bar or ETA (no completion estimate exists), "reasoning" only when the
provider sent reasoning output, elapsed counted since the request
opened, and no live animation once the run is terminal.

Scope is session-backed agent stages. One-shot completions call
`client.complete` directly and never build a session; covering them
means moving the emit point into `fabro-llm`, filed as a follow-up.

`agent.output.start` was never persisted — it existed in a name map,
an `unreachable!` arm, and docs — so the rename carries no migration
risk. Corrects `events.md`, which documented it as a real emitted
event, and the v2 proposal, which mapped it to `message.part.started`
despite it firing before the request opens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 21:47:51 -04:00
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scripts chore(api-client): make client generation idempotent 2026-05-21 14:29:11 -04:00
src feat(events): make inference in-flight state observable 2026-07-24 21:47:51 -04:00
tests fix(reasoning): align stream and client invariants 2026-07-24 17:42:44 -04:00
openapitools.json Rename Arc to Fabro in TypeScript/JavaScript 2026-03-12 11:13:18 -04:00
package.json Fold context-window data into agent.message, remove snapshot event (#390) 2026-05-24 15:48:21 -04:00
tsconfig.json Fix run principal attribution gaps 2026-05-02 09:14:02 -04:00