feat(gateway): quiet hours hold routine asks and release them when quiet ends by mvschwarz · Pull Request #1606 · mvschwarz/openrig

mvschwarz · 2026-10-20T12:05:02Z

Builds on #1584 (the quiet-hours store, rig gateway human quiet, and the resolver), now on main. This adds what quiet
hours do to delivery.

What a user gets

With quiet hours set (rig gateway human quiet set …, from #1584), agents' routine asks to the person wait instead
of posting. Urgent ones still reach the person at once. When quiet ends, each ask that is still current arrives on its own.

During quiet:
- Every routine ask that would post is held, in every delivery class, including class A, whose usual "always" gives way
  to the window the person chose.
- Nothing posts and nothing mentions, with one exception: if a post split into several Slack messages had already
  put its first message in Slack before quiet began, its remaining messages may arrive during quiet.
- An urgent ask (an escalation) is decided exactly as outside quiet:
  - it posts at once;
  - for someone who is away, it keeps away's 30-minute deferral;
  - for someone who is off, it posts without a mention.
- Below the posting threshold an ask is still only logged, as today. An update is never promoted to urgent.
When quiet ends (the window's end, quiet end for "I'm back", or quiet clear):
- Each held ask that is still current posts individually, through the ordinary Slack path, with its full brief, its actual
  recipient and its reply link.
- It doesn't wait for a digest, and it doesn't mention.
- An ask whose situation changed overnight gets a visible disposition on its row instead of a post: the row was closed,
  a newer notification replaced it, the recipient changed, or it's now below the posting threshold.
Extending or replacing tonight's window releases nothing early. Held asks carry over to the new window.
An ask put in the 4h or daily digest before quiet began is held when the digest comes round during quiet, and released
individually afterwards.
Outside quiet, nothing changes. Every decision is the same as today, and so is the digest.

How

The decision:
- decideDelivery takes the person's quiet window when it's on (quietHoldFor) and adds one outcome, hold.
- Both callers pass it: the Slack gateway's decision, and the operator escalation rung. Escalations are never held, so
  the rung's decision doesn't change.
The hold:
- A held ask gets one exact, parseable note on its row:
  delivery-decision: quiet-hold window=<id> occurrence=<o> revision=<r> notification_key=<k>.
- Its prefix isn't the digest's, so the 4h and daily flush can't select it, and the flush also skips any ask that carries
  one.
- The gateway marks the ask as decided, as it does for a digest, and arms the window's release job.
The release:
- One quiet-release job per quiet window, on the existing watchdog jobs table, with no timer of its own.
- Each time it's evaluated (every minute), it reads the person's current quiet state:
  - while quiet is on, it does nothing, which is why an extension, a replacement or an early evaluation can't release
    anything;
  - once quiet is off, it re-checks each held ask against the queue as it is now, and dispatches the current ones as
    themselves, marked as a release.
- The gateway posts a release without consulting the decision again, so C and D aren't sent back to the digest.
- The job stays until every held ask has its posted receipt or a disposition. A restart, or a post that failed, is
  picked up on the next evaluation, and a stable decision id makes a re-dispatch converge on one post.
The digest flush checks quiet when it runs. If quiet is on, an ask decided into the digest before quiet began is held
instead of posted.

Changes after QA

A release that was dispatched but hadn't posted yet (waiting in the gateway's buffer, then replayed after a restart)
is checked again when it posts. If the person's quiet is back on, it stays held for the window's job. If the row, the
recipient or the posting threshold changed, it gets the same disposition the job would give. Nothing posts into changed
circumstances.
The digest flush checks quiet for each ask's actual recipient, not for the first registered person, so a quiet second
person's pre-quiet ask is held under their own window, and a non-quiet person's ask flushes as before.

Changes after review

A read that fails never loses or mis-delivers an ask.
- If the human registry, the alert list or the person's quiet state can't be read at release time, or again at post
  time, nothing is written and nothing posts, and the window's release job tries again on its next pass. Before,
  this could give a live held ask a permanent "below the posting threshold" disposition, so it never posted.
- A quiet state that can't be read during quiet is no longer taken as "not quiet". The ask isn't decided yet, and
  the outbound sweep offers it again on its next pass. Only a database without the quiet-hours table reads as not
  quiet.
- For that next pass to happen, the outbound sweep now marks an ask in flight before dispatching it, rather than
  after. A decision deferred during dispatch can then release it, by its notification key, without a restart. If a
  dispatch throws, the sweep carries on with the rest. The ask is offered again next time if nothing was persisted,
  and stays with the durable buffer's replay if it was, or if the buffer can't be read, so it's never decided twice.

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A hold and its release job are written together or not at all.
- The hold note and the window's release job are written in one database transaction. Before, a failure between the
  two could leave an ask marked held with nothing that would ever release it.
- That mattered most for the digest flush, which skips any ask already marked held.
- The release job also re-reads its held asks just before it retires, so an ask held while it was finishing a pass
  keeps it running.
A post that may already be in Slack is reconciled before anything holds, trims or acks it.
- Before quiet hours (or anything else) can hold, trim or drop a replayed decision, the gateway asks the existing
  reconciler whether an earlier attempt landed with its response lost.
  - Found: it records receipts for what was posted, and posts nothing more.
  - Unreadable: the decision is kept for later.
  - Scan couldn't finish: the gate goes on as usual, so a post it would hold waits for the release instead of
    landing in quiet hours. The limit: if that attempt had in fact landed outside the history the scan read, the
    release posts it again after quiet. That is at most one duplicate, after quiet, the same at-least-once cost
    delivery already accepts for an unfinished scan; it isn't "never twice".
- A decision only ever carries its original content. When some members of a digest are already posted or held,
  the rest go out as a new decision with its own id and receipts, so no member is posted twice or marked posted when
  it wasn't.
A post already partly in Slack is finished, even during quiet. A post split into several Slack messages can land
its first message and fail on a later one. When it is retried, and its first message is found in Slack, only its own
remaining messages are posted, under their original ids, in the original thread and channel, to the original
recipient. This can happen during quiet hours, and regardless of a posting threshold raised since. Its receipt is
written only once every message has landed. A post that was attempted but isn't found in Slack (or whose history
scan couldn't finish) hasn't started, and is held during quiet like any other routine ask.
- The limit: an ask that was already attempted whose quiet-hours read fails is kept rather than offered again. It
  finishes on the next restart or reconnect; its key stays in flight meanwhile, so it isn't posted twice.
A digest decided before quiet began doesn't post into it. If a digest post was decided, didn't post (the
connector was down), and is then replayed during quiet hours that began in between, its routine asks are held for
the window, and anything that has since become urgent still posts.
Other posts that were decided earlier:
- the away deferral's 30-minute post is for an urgent ask, so it still posts during quiet, as quiet hours allow;
- a post that already has its receipt posts nothing;
- a release is checked again when it posts (above).
The release job is quiet while quiet is on. It no longer writes a history row and an event every minute of a
quiet window when nothing has changed.
If the human registry can't be loaded when an ask is decided, quiet hours aren't consulted, and the ask is
decided as it would be without them. That's deliberate: a gate that can't be read lets work flow rather than holding
it.

Not in this PR, and what that means

The waiting views and custody.
- The wake ladder still counts a quiet-hold note as pickup, and the stuck sweep doesn't yet know a held ask is healthy.
- That's the same as a digest-held ask on main today.
- So a long-held ask can still show up as a "stuck" finding, and isn't escalated while held.
- Nothing is lost: the release posts it. The next change gives the sweep, the ladder and the waiting view the hold as
  one fact.
Combining ordinary notices on release. Each released ask posts on its own.
Modes. A mode setting quiet hours comes later and uses this as it is.

Tests

New (quiet-hold-release.test.ts, 47, over real SQLite, the real queue, the real gateway wire with a recording fetch,
and the real watchdog jobs table):
- Outside quiet: all 96 cells (class × availability × escalation × level) decide exactly as today.
- During quiet:
  - every routine cell that would post is held, class A included, with no mention, and the posting dial still logs;
  - every escalation cell decides exactly as outside quiet (away's 30 minutes, off's no mention).
- The note: its exact format, and it isn't selectable as a digest decision.
- Through the gateway:
  - a routine ask during quiet posts nothing, carries the note and arms one release job;
  - an urgent ask posts at once;
  - nothing is released while quiet is on, including after an extension. After "I'm back", each held ask posts once, on
    its own, with no mention, and the next pass retires the job;
  - a row closed during quiet gets a row-not-active disposition;
  - after a restart a due release catches up;
  - an ask decided into the digest before quiet is held at flush time, then released individually;
  - outside quiet the flush posts as today;
  - the operator rung still dispatches during quiet.
After QA (6 more in the same file):
- a release dispatched but not yet posted, replayed after a restart, posts nothing when quiet is back on, the posting
  threshold was raised, or the recipient changed;
- in the full flow (the real release, the post failing before it lands, a newer quiet window, then the restart's
  replay), nothing posts and the ask stays held;
- with two people, the digest flush holds a quiet second person's pre-quiet ask under their own window, and doesn't
  capture a non-quiet person's ask.
All six fail on the PR's previous head and pass here.
Red first: on the previous head, the new file fails (the release module doesn't exist). Mutants, each reverted, each
caught:
- the engine never holding: 5 tests fail;
- the flush skipping its quiet check: 1;
- the release ignoring the quiet state: 1;
- the gateway re-deciding a release: 1.
Updated: the delivery engine's vocabulary pin now lists the five outcomes. Quiet hours adds hold at the same one
definition site.
Also run, one file at a time: the 53 existing daemon test files that import the gateway, the delivery engine, the digest and deferral
policies, the operator rung or the watchdog jobs table: all pass. That includes the skills-router coverage file, which needs
a built daemon. Also the quiet-hours store and route files, and the daemon typecheck.

Native: NOT RUN

Hermetic only: a recording fetch in place of Slack, temporary homes and SQLite. No real Slack, no installed daemon.

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New Features
- Added quiet-hours handling that temporarily holds routine notifications without sending them.
- Notifications are automatically released individually when quiet hours end, without mentions.
- Added duplicate-release prevention and recovery for interrupted releases.
- Added clear dispositions for notifications that are no longer current.
Bug Fixes
- Digest processing now rechecks quiet-hour status before dispatching alerts.
- Escalations continue to follow normal delivery behavior during quiet hours.
- Failed deliveries remain eligible for retry without being marked as seen.
- Improved recovery when delivery state is unavailable or dispatch fails.
Tests
- Added comprehensive coverage for quiet-hour holding, release, digest behavior, recovery, and escalation delivery.

…iet ends While a person's quiet window is on, a routine ask that would post is held (a new delivery outcome, `hold`, in every class including A), recorded on its row with one exact note the 4h/daily flush can't select. Urgent asks decide exactly as outside quiet. One release job per quiet window, on the watchdog jobs table, reads the current quiet state each time it runs: while quiet is on it does nothing; once it's off, each held ask that is still current is posted individually through the ordinary gateway path, as itself and without a mention, and anything whose situation changed gets a visible disposition. The digest flush holds pre-quiet digest members while quiet is on. Outside quiet every decision is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The daemon now holds routine notifications during active quiet hours, records quiet-window metadata, and releases eligible notifications through a watchdog policy after quiet hours end. Escalations continue through normal delivery handling.

Changes: Quiet-Hours Notification Flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Quiet-aware delivery decisions `packages/daemon/src/domain/gateway/delivery-rules-engine.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/domain/gateway/human-quiet-windows.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/domain/gateway/operator-delivery-engine.ts`, `packages/daemon/test/delivery-rules-engine.test.ts`	Delivery decisions accept active quiet-window metadata and return `hold` for non-escalations. Gateway paths provide the current quiet state.
Hold recording and digest interception `packages/daemon/src/domain/gateway/slack/slack-subsystem.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/domain/gateway/slack/outbound-driver.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/domain/gateway/dispatch-buffer.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/domain/policies/delivery-digest-flush.ts`	Slack records quiet-held notifications without posting. Digest flushing excludes existing holds and rechecks recipient quiet state. Outbound guards preserve durable pending decisions and retry failed dispatches.
Watchdog release and dispatch `packages/daemon/src/domain/policies/quiet-release.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/domain/watchdog-jobs-repository.ts`, `packages/daemon/src/startup.ts`	The quiet-release policy revalidates held notifications, dispatches eligible alerts individually, and records dispositions for other outcomes. Startup registers the policy.
Quiet-hours integration coverage `packages/daemon/test/quiet-hold-release.test.ts`	Integration tests cover replay, retries, deduplication, recipient-specific quiet state, digest handling, outbound recovery, and escalation behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SlackSubsystem
  participant quietHoldFor
  participant QuietReleasePolicy
  participant WatchdogJobsRepository
  participant GatewayDispatch
  SlackSubsystem->>quietHoldFor: Check recipient quiet-window state
  SlackSubsystem->>WatchdogJobsRepository: Store quiet-held notification
  QuietReleasePolicy->>WatchdogJobsRepository: Load held notifications
  QuietReleasePolicy->>GatewayDispatch: Dispatch eligible notification after quiet hours

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…ient in the digest flush A release dispatched but not yet posted (buffered, then replayed after a restart) posted without re-checking. The gateway now asks the same question as the release job at post time: if the recipient's quiet is back on, the ask stays held for the window's job; if the row, the recipient or the posting threshold changed, it gets the job's disposition. Nothing posts into changed circumstances. The digest flush checked the first registered person's quiet state for every ask. It now decides per ask from the actual recipient, holding only asks whose recipient is quiet, under that recipient's window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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When the human registry couldn't be loaded, the release check found no current alert and gave a live held ask a permanent disposition, on both the release job and the gateway's post-time check, so it never posted. A registry, alert list or quiet-state read that fails now decides nothing: nothing is written or posted, and the window's release job, still active because the ask has no receipt or disposition, retries on its next pass. A quiet-state read that failed was taken as "not quiet", so a routine ask could post during quiet. Only a missing quiet-hours table reads as not quiet now; any other failure leaves the ask undecided and the outbound sweep offers it again. The operator rung, which only escalates, ignores a failed quiet read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

When a decision was deferred (the quiet state couldn't be read), the gateway released the outbound sweep's in-flight guard synchronously inside dispatch, and the sweep then added the key after dispatch returned, so the ask was never offered again until a restart. The guard was also released by qitem id while it's keyed by notification key. The sweep now marks an ask in flight before dispatching (and unmarks it if dispatch refuses), and the deferred path releases it by its notification key, so the next sweep offers it and decides afresh. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…weep Since the outbound sweep marks an ask in flight before dispatching, a dispatch that threw left the mark set until a restart, and the throw ended the sweep. Each dispatch is now caught: if its decision is pending in the durable buffer, the mark stays (replay owns it; a second decision would post twice); otherwise it's cleared and the next sweep offers the ask again. Either way the throw is reported and the sweep continues. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

After a dispatch threw, the sweep cleared the ask's in-flight mark unless the buffer showed a pending decision for it, and meant an unreadable buffer to count as pending. But the buffer's read returns an empty list for an unreadable or corrupt file, so that case cleared the mark and the next sweep could decide the ask a second time. The sweep now reads the buffer strictly (empty only when the file doesn't exist, a throw when it can't be read or parsed), so "can't tell" keeps the mark. Every other reader of the buffer is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The strict buffer read began with existsSync, which reports "absent" for any stat error, so a stored decision behind a directory that can't be searched read as "nothing pending", and a thrown dispatch could then be decided twice. The strict read now reads the file directly and treats only ENOENT as no file; every other failure throws, so the ask stays in flight. The lenient read used everywhere else is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…user The tests faked an unreadable buffer with chmod 000, which root ignores: run as root, the parent-directory case failed and the unreadable-file case passed by the wrong branch. They now use faults that fail for every user and are never ENOENT: a directory where the buffer file should be (EISDIR), and a regular file where its directory should be (ENOTDIR), each restored afterwards. A missing file with its directory present is checked alongside a missing directory: both are still "nothing pending". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…into quiet A hold note and its window's release job were separate writes, so a failure between them could leave an ask marked held that nothing would release, and the digest flush skips held asks. They are now one SQLite transaction (the note's events are delivered after commit), and the release job re-reads its held asks just before retiring so a hold made during its pass keeps it running. A digest decided before quiet began and replayed during it (a failed post, then a restart) was posted without a quiet check. The replayed digest post now holds its routine members for the window and still posts any that are now escalations, trimming an aggregate to what it carries. The release job's "quiet is still on" pass is now a quiet skip: no history row or event every minute of a window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…te guard The guard keeps the set of in-transaction queue writers closed by call site. Quiet hours added one: the quiet-release policy writes a transition note (the quiet-hold note, or the post-time "release returned" note), never a state, inside the same transaction that arms the window's release job. Declare it, and move the guard's pinned site count from 12 to 13. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…r acks a decision A replayed decision could be held for quiet hours, trimmed, or acked under its original id before anything asked whether an earlier attempt had already landed with its response lost. The release then posted the ask a second time, and a trimmed post reused the original id with different content, so a later reconcile could stamp receipts for members it never posted. - Where a gate would hold, trim, defer or ack instead of delivering (a digest post, a quiet-hours release post, a re-decided log/hold/digest/defer), it first asks the reconciler about an earlier attempt: found goes to delivery unchanged (receipts, no repost), an unreadable scan retains the decision, absent carries on. Ordinary posts are unchanged and reconcile once. - A decision only ever carries its original payload. Digest members already posted or held are skipped; what's left of a changed digest goes out as a new decision with a derived id and its own receipts, enqueued before the original is acked, so a replay converges on the same id. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…e, not straight to delivery When a gate asked about an earlier attempt and the history scan couldn't finish without finding it, the decision went straight to delivery, whose at-least-once rule posts once. During quiet hours that posted routine content into quiet: an attempted digest replayed into quiet, or a release replayed after quiet came back on, skipping its post-time recheck. Only a found attempt now goes to delivery from a gate. An unfinished scan goes on through the gate like an absent one: where the gate posts, delivery reconciles and keeps its at-least-once rule; where it holds, that post waits for the release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…d finishes as itself A gate's "found" checked only the first message of a post split into parts. It then handed the decision to delivery, which posts every missing part, so a routine post whose first part landed before quiet finished its remaining parts during quiet. - The reconcile check now reports a multipart post whose first part is in Slack, but which isn't recorded complete, as partial, not found. - Outside quiet, a partial post finishes through delivery as before. Held for quiet, its routine members are held and the original decision stays in the buffer, never trimmed. - The window's release finishes that original decision under its own id: only the missing parts, in the primary's thread and channel, with the complete receipt once every part has landed. A restart in between holds it again during quiet and finishes it after. - A multipart release that partly posted and finds quiet back on is declined; the job's next dispatch of the same id finishes its own parts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…resolved A partly posted original held for quiet stays in the buffer for its release to finish. When the release disposed of the ask instead (closed, superseded, recipient changed, below the posting threshold), nothing removed the original, and a later replay outside quiet posted its remaining parts anyway. - At the start of delivery, a post whose parts were started but not finished is acked without posting once every ask it carries has a posted receipt or a quiet-release disposition. This is a store and database check, with no Slack read. - When a release is declined at post time, a retained original carrying only resolved asks is drained then, rather than at the next restart. - While any member of a digest is still owed, the post finishes whole: its text is fixed by the recorded cuts, and its first part already showed every member. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…afresh, and has one finisher Three gaps in finishing a post whose first part is already in Slack: - Quiet was inferred from the delivery outcome: "log" (below the posting dial) is decided before quiet is looked at, so a replay after the dial was raised during quiet finished the post into quiet. The ruled path now reads the recipient's actual quiet state: on, hold it as a continuation; off (or an escalation), finish it; unreadable, retain it. A held continuation records a continuation note in the same transaction as its hold, and the release finishes a post that already started instead of dropping it for the raised threshold. Closed, superseded and reassigned asks are still disposed of. - A retained original whose history read failed counted as no continuation, so the release posted the ask again from the start. It now posts nothing and is acked like a declined release; the window's job dispatches it again. - The original's replay and its release, or several members' releases, could both find a part missing and both post it. Delivering a decision is now exclusive per decision id within the process: a second caller joins the first and takes its result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…t be made When the quiet-hours read throws while deciding a delivery, the decision was acked so the outbound sweep could offer the ask again. That's right for a decision never attempted. For one already attempted, perhaps partly in Slack, it dropped the buffered post's missing parts and let the sweep offer the ask under a new id, posting it again from the start. An attempted decision is now retained with nothing posted; its replay decides again once quiet hours read. The check reads the delivery stores only, with no Slack call on a failure path. A never-attempted decision is acked as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…f; remove the quiet continuation A post whose first part is found in Slack, but which isn't complete, now finishes through delivery from every gate (digest, re-decided outcome, release), without reading quiet hours: only its own remaining parts, under their original part ids, in its original thread and channel. A post that was attempted but reads absent or maybe hasn't started, and goes through the quiet gate like any other. That removes the machinery that held and continued a started post during quiet: the retained original and its not-ok hold, the continuation note and the release's threshold exemption, the release finishing a retained original (and its unreadable branch), the drain rules, and the per-decision lock whose race went with them. Reconcile-before-gate, the derived kept decision, the owned skip, the atomic hold and job, the complete receipt after every part, and retaining an attempted decision whose quiet read fails all stay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The digest gate's quiet-read catch acked the digest whatever its history. For an attempted digest that reads absent or maybe, that dropped the original from the buffer, and the next flush minted the ask again from the row as it is now, so a repost could carry a newer payload than the one that may already be in Slack. An attempted digest is now retained with nothing posted, by the same store-only check the ruled path uses. A never-attempted digest is still acked, and its members keep their digest notes for the next flush. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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