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paseo/packages/server
71f575e16a Keep malformed Claude question answers retryable (#6936)
* fix: reject a question permission that would deliver no answer

Answering an `AskUserQuestion` permission in any shape but
`updatedInput.answers` keyed by one of its questions resolves as `allow` and
delivers nothing. The waiting agent is told "The user did not answer the
questions." — an affirmative falsehood rather than silence, so neither side can
see that anything failed. The responder sees success; the agent believes the
human declined and acts on that.

The field it is most natural to reach for cannot work. `selectedActionId` is
`z.string().optional()` with no membership check, and is read only for `plan`
kinds; a question advertises `actions: undefined`, so there is no action id to
name in the first place.

It is also unrecoverable. `respondToPermission` deletes the request from
`pendingPermissions` on entry, so the malformed answer consumes it and the retry
fails with "No pending permission request". The guard runs before that delete,
and `AgentManager` drops its own copy only once the call resolves, so both maps
survive the throw and the request stays answerable.

The answer contract is per provider, so the guard is in the Claude provider
rather than in `AgentManager`. Claude keeps an answer only when its key is a
question's full text or its header and its value is a non-empty string; Codex's
`mapCodexQuestionResponseByHeader` reads headers only and deliberately selects
each question's first option when nothing maps, which a shared guard would have
rejected; OpenCode reads headers only as well.

`resolveClaudeAskUserQuestionAnswers` is extracted from
`normalizeClaudeAskUserQuestionUpdatedInput` with no change in behaviour, and
both it and the guard now use it. So "would this deliver anything" is answered
by the code that does the delivering, rather than by a second copy of its rule —
which matters more than it looks, because that rule has two details easy to
restate wrongly: `readNonEmptyString` tests `value.trim()` for emptiness but
returns the *original* string, so a question named `" Which colour? "` is keyed
by that padding; and an empty `updatedInput.questions` array is a list that wins
over the request's own questions and maps nothing, not an absent one.

Verified on a live daemon over the MCP `respond_to_permission` path against a
seat whose question text is literally `" Which colour? "`: `selectedActionId`,
the trimmed key, an empty echoed question list and a numeric answer are each
rejected with the request still pending, and
`{"answers":{" Which colour? ":"Ochre"}}` then reaches the agent.

One known limit: the WebSocket path (`session.ts handleAgentPermissionResponse`)
catches the throw and emits an `activity_log` error rather than failing the
call, because a permission response is modelled as a notification. So
`paseo permit allow` still prints `allowed` and exits 0 for a rejected shape.
The destructive half is closed on every path — the request survives and the
agent is never told a falsehood — but closing the reporting half needs a
protocol change.

* test(claude): cover the question-answer-required retry path

A non-deliverable answer to an AskUserQuestion permission is rejected, but
the pending request survives it: a corrected retry against the same request
id is accepted, and the waiting agent receives the answer.

Mutation testing on a fork found that the existing suite does not pin this
ordering — moving the deliverability check to run after the request is
deleted from pendingPermissions still leaves every existing test green. This
test reds against that change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Thomas Van <minhthong@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Voice Assistant

A voice-controlled terminal assistant that runs as a single local service.

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Copy environment variables
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and add your API keys (OpenAI, Deepgram)

# Run development servers
npm run dev

# Open browser to http://localhost:5173

Architecture

  • Express Server (port 3000) - Serves API and built UI in production
  • Vite Dev Server (port 5173) - Hot-reload React UI in development
  • WebSocket (/ws) - Real-time bidirectional communication
  • Agent - STT → LLM → TTS pipeline with terminal control
  • Daemon - tmux-based terminal management (in-process)

Development

# Run both servers (recommended)
npm run dev

# Or run separately:
npm run dev:server  # Express on port 3000
npm run dev:ui      # Vite on port 5173

# Type checking
npm run typecheck

# Build for production
npm run build

# Start production server
npm start

Project Status

✅ Completed (Phases 1-2):

  • Package setup and configuration
  • Express server with WebSocket
  • React UI with Vite
  • WebSocket client with ping/pong testing

⏳ In Progress (Phase 3):

  • Terminal control (tmux integration)

📋 Planned (Phases 4-9):

  • LLM integration (OpenAI GPT-4)
  • Agent orchestrator
  • Speech-to-Text (Deepgram)
  • Text-to-Speech (OpenAI)
  • Audio streaming
  • UI polish

See IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md for complete details.

Environment Variables

OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-key-here      # GPT-4 and TTS
DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=your-deepgram-key-here  # Streaming STT
STT_MODEL=whisper-1        # Optional: override to gpt-4o-transcribe, etc.
STT_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD=-3.0  # Optional: reject low-confidence clips
STT_DEBUG_AUDIO_DIR=.stt-debug # Optional: persist raw dictation audio for debugging
PASEO_HOME=~/.paseo        # Runtime state directory (agents/, etc.)
PASEO_LISTEN=127.0.0.1:6767  # Listen address (host:port or /path/to/socket)

PASEO_HOME defaults to ~/.paseo and isolates runtime artifacts like agents/. PASEO_LISTEN controls the daemon listen address. For blue/green testing you can run a parallel server without touching production state:

PASEO_HOME=~/.paseo-blue PASEO_LISTEN=127.0.0.1:7777 npm run dev

Tech Stack

  • Server: Express, TypeScript, ws (WebSocket)
  • Client: React 18, Vite, TypeScript
  • Terminal: tmux (via child_process)
  • AI: OpenAI (LLM + TTS), Deepgram (STT)

Testing

Currently manual testing via:

  1. Start servers: npm run dev
  2. Open http://localhost:5173
  3. Test WebSocket connection (green status indicator)
  4. Click "Send Ping" button to test communication

More testing guidance as features are implemented.

License

MIT