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whatsapp: route each self-chat message through local-router - #1040
A WhatsApp self-chat has no threads, so every message went to one session (the pinned /target, or one session the bridge started). The owner had to choose a session by hand, or every topic piled into one context. This is the policy side of routing each message; the mechanism landed in local-channels#145 (local-webhook 0.39.0, local-whatsapp 0.7.0).
Change
agent-box-whatsapp route (called by the bridge per message, JSON in/out):
Candidates are only the sessions the router itself started (~/.local/state/agent-box/router/). A session the user started by hand is never chosen.
local-router decides. Backend: AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_BACKEND (auto default = first signed-in harness, Claude/Haiku first, probe cached for a day; or claude/codex/anthropic/openai/none) and AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL, both in the env store.
CONTINUE: agent-box-session whatsapp wake NAME, renew the session's inbox:<name> subscription (with its registered Codex thread for Codex), and emit the message on the bus through the owner-trusted inbox source, so it arrives as [OWNER message via inbox ...], not untrusted data.
NEW / NEW_LINKS: start a session with --origin webhook (takes a hook slot, can hibernate; one hibernate retry when the box is full). Its kickoff prompt is the message, plus the linked sessions' topics for NEW_LINKS.
serve passes that command to the bridge (LOCAL_WHATSAPP_ROUTE_CMD) unless AGENT_BOX_WHATSAPP_ROUTER=off. /target NAME still pins one session; /target auto routes again.
agent-box-session whatsapp wake NAME: activate without the "selected target" check, same capacity gate.
Hibernation ignores a session's inbox:<name> subscription: the router wakes the session before every delivery and the spool holds the message while it starts. Any other topic still keeps it resident.
Pins: local-webhook 0.39.0 (a54bb56, tag v0.39.0); WhatsApp runtime + local-router/router.py at a54bb56 by sha256.
Guide (default-agents.md) and the Connections card describe routing. No route notice in the chat unless LOCAL_WHATSAPP_DEBUG=1.
Unchanged: the explicit /target pin path, activate, the bridge's behaviour when routing is off, sessions started by hand.
Known limits: a session already running when the box updates keeps its older local-webhook plugin until it restarts, so owner messages to it render with the old untrusted framing until then (new routed sessions start on the synced plugin). A Codex session receives follow-ups only after its thread is registered; until then the message stays pending in the bridge and is retried.
Verification
tests/test-whatsapp-cli.py: 22 OK (12 new routing tests: continue → wake/subscribe/emit, new links kickoff, profile + free name, full box → hibernate → retry, failed start leaves state unchanged, Codex thread required, removed sessions forgotten, backend policy + cache, backend error drops the cache, bad request refused).
tests/test-whatsapp-session.py (wake), tests/test-session-capacity.py (inbox-only filter hibernates; other topics, standing-watch shape and malformed entries do not).
flake8 with the writePython3 ignore list.
Live, on this box: real router.py at a54bb56 + Haiku with stubbed session/bus commands routed "and in Greece?" to the VAT session (wake, setup inbox, subscribe, emit) and "write a haiku about my cat" to a new session whose kickoff prompt is the message.
A WhatsApp self-chat has no threads, so every message went to one session:
the pinned /target, or one session the bridge started. The owner had to pick
a session by hand or let every topic pile into one context.
local-channels a54bb56 (local-webhook 0.39.0, local-whatsapp 0.7.0) added the
mechanism: an owner-trusted bus source and a per-message route command in the
bridge. This is the policy side.
- agent-box-whatsapp route: one call per message. Candidates are only the
sessions the router started (state in ~/.local/state/agent-box/router), so a
session the user started by hand is never chosen. local-router decides with
AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_BACKEND (auto = first signed-in harness, Claude/Haiku first;
probe cached for a day) and AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL.
- CONTINUE: `agent-box-session whatsapp wake NAME`, renew the session's
inbox:<name> subscription (with its Codex thread for a Codex session), and
emit the message on the bus through the owner-trusted `inbox` source.
- NEW / NEW_LINKS: start a session with origin webhook (hook slot, can
hibernate; one hibernation retry when the box is full) whose kickoff prompt
is the message, plus the linked sessions' topics for NEW_LINKS.
- serve hands the bridge that command (LOCAL_WHATSAPP_ROUTE_CMD) unless
AGENT_BOX_WHATSAPP_ROUTER=off; /target NAME still pins one session.
- agent-box-session whatsapp wake: activate without the selection check.
- agent-box-webhook setup inbox: generic, keyPath session, trust owner.
- Hibernation ignores an inbox:<name> session subscription: the router wakes
the session before every delivery and the spool holds the message.
- Pins: local-webhook 0.39.0 (a54bb56); WhatsApp runtime and router.py at a54bb56.
- Guide and Connections card describe routing; no route notice in the chat
unless LOCAL_WHATSAPP_DEBUG=1.
Verification: tests/test-whatsapp-cli.py (22 OK, 12 new routing tests),
tests/test-whatsapp-session.py (wake), tests/test-session-capacity.py (inbox
hibernation), flake8 with the writePython3 ignore list. Live: real router.py +
Haiku with stubbed session/bus commands routed "and in Greece?" to the VAT
session (wake, subscribe, emit) and a new topic to a new session. assemble,
native expected and golden regenerated. The full native check run was stopped
by the low-memory reaper on this box; CI runs it.
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WhatsApp messages can now be routed per message to router-managed sessions or used to start new sessions. The changes add owner-trusted inbox delivery, session wake support, and updated routing instructions. Inbox-only session subscriptions no longer block hibernation.
Changes: WhatsApp routing and session lifecycle
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Summary
Pinned router runtime and bridge handoff modules/agent-box.nix, modules/src/whatsapp-cli.py, tests/golden/vm/payloads/agent-box-whatsapp/bin/agent-box-whatsapp, tests/test-whatsapp-cli.py
The runtime fetches and verifies the pinned router script. WhatsApp bridge startup passes a private wrapper for the route command unless routing is disabled.
The webhook configuration adds an owner-trusted inbox source. The session CLI adds wake NAME, and inbox-only subscriptions no longer block hibernation.
Routing decisions and session state modules/agent-box.nix, modules/src/whatsapp-cli.py, modules/src/default-agents.md, modules/src/settings-daemon.py, tests/test-whatsapp-cli.py, tests/golden/*/etc/agent-box-guides/*, tests/golden/web/payloads/agent-box-settings/bin/agent-box-settings, tests/native/expected/etc/agent-box-guides/*
The route command validates requests, selects a continuation or new topic, delivers follow-ups, and records bounded routing history. The guides and connected-device text describe routing, pinning, profile selection, and wake controls.
sequenceDiagram
participant Bridge as WhatsApp bridge
participant CLI as agent-box-whatsapp route
participant Router as local-router
participant SessionCLI as agent-box-session
participant Webhook as Webhook bus
Bridge->>CLI: Submit message JSON
CLI->>Router: Select an action using eligible sessions and history
Router-->>CLI: Return routing decision
CLI->>SessionCLI: Wake a session or start a new session
CLI->>Webhook: Emit an owner-trusted inbox message for a continued session
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Possibly related issues
defangdevs/agent-box#977 — This change updates WhatsApp target selection with manual pinning and per-message routing, but does not add the exact conversation resolver described by the issue.
Possibly related PRs
defangdevs/agent-box#913 — Both changes define which sessions WhatsApp routing and hibernation can target.
defangdevs/agent-box#963 — This change routes Codex follow-ups through registered threads, which connects to the thread-resume behavior in that PR.
Suggested reviewers:lionello
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review afb55
Automatic WhatsApp routing is enabled by default, but owner-saved routing settings are not applied to the bridge. Follow-ups to router-started Codex sessions can fail and stall later messages, and a bridge restart can deliver a message twice. These should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.
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The title "whatsapp: route each self-chat message through local-router" matches the main change. The changeset adds the route command that sends each WhatsApp self-chat message through local-router, wires it into the bridge through LOCAL_WHATSAPP_ROUTE_CMD, and adds the owner-trusted inbox source and hibernation handling that support it.
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The description explains the motivation (self-chat has no threads, so one session receives every message), lists the route command's CONTINUE, NEW, and NEW_LINKS behaviour, the backend and model environment variables, the /target pin and /target auto commands, the wake command, the inbox webhook source, and the hibernation change. It also gives verification steps and known limits. It is directly related to the changeset.
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… stdin
SonarCloud flagged a write path reachable from file content (S2083) and the
owner text as a command argument (S8705). write_private now refuses any path
outside ~/.local/state/agent-box/router; the emit payload goes on stdin; and
every session name from a model answer or the state file must match
[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_-]{0,149} (never starts with '-') before it reaches a
command line. Two new tests.
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S2083 follows file content into write_text, but the path is the router's own
fixed state file and is checked against its directory just above; only the
content is read from that file. Same NOSONAR convention as acp-cli.py.
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The Nix build sandbox has no /usr/bin/env, so the native whatsapp-cli check
could not run the stubbed agent-box-session/agent-box-webhook. Checked with
nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.{whatsapp-cli,whatsapp-session,session-capacity}.
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Review comments at @modules/agent-box.nix:
- Line 10958: Update the `unlink()` cleanup to include the router state
directory containing `ROUTE_STATE`, alongside the existing `STATE` cleanup.
Ensure Unlink removes the routing history so it cannot persist or be reloaded
after pairing again.
- Around line 11115-11117: Update Codex session registration so router-created
sessions are added to the thread registry before the `codex_thread(name)`
lookup; include them in the registration flow handled by `sync_codex_threads`
rather than relying only on selected sessions or `target.json`. Preserve the
existing error for sessions that remain genuinely unregistered.
- Line 11168: Update the collision check used by new_session_name so it includes
names from every registered session kind, not only live and known sessions;
ensure a name occupied by a shell session is skipped when selecting a topic
name.
- Around line 11014-11015: Update automatic backend selection so the
`AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL` override is applied to the selected backend on both
cache hits and uncached `auto_backend()` results. Preserve the existing backend
selection and caching behavior, and use the established model-override
mechanism.
- Line 10924: Update supervise_whatsapp to read AGENT_BOX_WHATSAPP_ROUTER,
AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_BACKEND, and AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL from the existing env-store
JSON and pass them to the WhatsApp serve process, alongside
LOCAL_WHATSAPP_DEBUG. Preserve the bridge defaults when these values are empty,
and apply the environment variables in both serve launch branches.
- Around line 11157-11158: Update the routing flow around route_request so it
looks up each message ID in stored route state and returns its saved decision on
replay before calling the router; persist new decisions with that state. In the
inbox emit path, derive and pass a stable delivery ID from the message ID that
meets the webhook’s format and length limits, adding hashlib to the embedded
module if needed.
Review comments at @modules/src/settings-daemon.py:
- Around line 6734-6735: Update the Message Yourself guide text in the
settings-daemon documentation so it states that ordinary messages must start
with the `@{user} ` prefix before explaining that the router selects a session
and new topics start new sessions.
Review comments at @modules/src/whatsapp-cli.py:
- Around line 449-450: Update the session tracking around the known/live cleanup
loop to expose and store each registry entry’s boxSessionId, then forget a known
session when its current identity differs from the stored identity, as well as
when it is removed or malformed. Preserve the existing name validation and
cleanup behavior.
- Line 326: Update the discovery flow around router.auto_backend() so backend
discovery and routing share the bridge deadline, or persist discovery progress
before that deadline expires. Ensure retries reuse completed probe results
rather than restarting the same probes; do not rely on increasing individual
subprocess timeouts.
- Line 404: After the `WEBHOOK_BIN` inbox setup call, re-read and validate the
resulting inbox configuration before treating setup as successful. If its
`keyPath` is incompatible with the emitted `session`, explicitly repair it or
fail; do not assume setup replaced preserved existing fields.
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- supervise_whatsapp passes AGENT_BOX_WHATSAPP_ROUTER, AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_BACKEND
and AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL from the env store to the bridge, as it already
did for LOCAL_WHATSAPP_DEBUG.
- sync_codex_threads also registers Codex sessions the router started.
- Routing is idempotent per message id: the decision is recorded before its
side effects, a replay repeats it (no second decision, no second session),
and the inbox emit carries a stable --delivery-id derived from the id.
- Backend discovery probes with 40 s / 60 s limits so it fits the bridge's
180 s deadline, records "no backend" for 10 minutes, and applies
AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL to the discovered backend too.
- A session is tracked by its registry id; a re-created session with a
router name is forgotten, not adopted.
- A name taken by a session kind the candidate list hides moves to the next
suffix.
- The inbox source is re-read after setup and must have keyPath session and
trust owner, or routing fails closed.
- Unlink also removes the router's history.
- The Connections card names the @user prefix.
Tests: test-whatsapp-cli.py 32 OK (8 new), test-whatsapp-supervisor.sh
(router switches from the env store); nix build of the whatsapp-cli,
whatsapp-session and session-capacity checks.
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A route call runs in its own process group and can outlive the bridge, so
removing the router directory before the bridge stopped let an in-flight call
write message history back. unlink() now removes it after the bridge is down,
under the route lock (waiting up to 200 s for a running call), and route()
re-checks the ready marker after it gets the lock, so a late call writes
nothing. Two new tests.
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…ed starts
- A replay goes only into the session with the recorded registry id; a
session re-created under the name is decided again.
- The decision is saved with each attempted name before its start, and a
replay adopts the session started under that name and restores it and its
message into the history (also after a name collision).
- A route checks, after taking the lock, that the lock file it holds is still
the one at the path: a call that opened it before an Unlink cannot write
into a later pairing's state.
Tests: replacement-session replay (CONTINUE and NEW), interrupted start with
and without a collision, a paused pre-unlink route after re-pairing.
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…to a pairing
- Each start carries a random nonce in its kickoff prompt; the registry keeps
that prompt and 'whatsapp candidates' reads it back as 'start'. A replay
without a recorded id adopts a session only when the nonce matches, so a
session made by hand under that name is decided again (fail closed).
- Pairing writes a token into the ready marker; serve passes it to the
bridge, whose route calls inherit it, and a route whose token differs from
the marker refuses. A call from before an Unlink and a new pairing cannot
write into the new state, however late it runs.
Tests: interrupted start then hand-made replacement, interruption before
add, a route from an earlier pairing that opens the new lock, token kept by
a second activate.
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…ge env
SonarCloud S6547 followed the ready marker's content into the bridge's
environment. pairing_token() now accepts only exactly 32 lowercase hex
characters (else empty), and the reviewed execve carries the repo's NOSONAR
note. Test: malformed markers yield no token.
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… prompt
The supervisor clears initialPrompt at the first spawn (mark_started), so a
nonce kept there was gone by the time an interrupted route replayed, and the
retry could start a second session. agent-box-session add --route-start HEX32
stores it as routeStart for the session's life; whatsapp candidates reads it
back as start; the router passes it on every start. Test: the mark survives
initialPrompt being cleared, and bad values are refused.
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…al session CLI
The router's replay and the registry's routeStart were tested on each side
of the contract. This joins them: route_request against the generated
agent-box-session payload and a real registry, interrupted right after add,
initialPrompt cleared as the first spawn does, then replayed. The replay
adopts the session (no second add, decision bound to its boxSessionId, the
message in its history). The whatsapp-session check now also copies
modules/src/whatsapp-cli.py into its sandbox.
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…bridge
AGENT_BOX_WHATSAPP_ROUTER, AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_BACKEND and AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL
are read from the user's env store by supervise_whatsapp and passed to
agent-box-whatsapp serve, like LOCAL_WHATSAPP_DEBUG; no backend sets them.
They go in INTERNAL with that reason. nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.backend-parity passes.
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A WhatsApp self-chat has no threads, so every message went to one session (the pinned
/target, or one session the bridge started). The owner had to choose a session by hand, or every topic piled into one context. This is the policy side of routing each message; the mechanism landed in local-channels#145 (local-webhook 0.39.0, local-whatsapp 0.7.0).Change
agent-box-whatsapp route(called by the bridge per message, JSON in/out):~/.local/state/agent-box/router/). A session the user started by hand is never chosen.local-routerdecides. Backend:AGENT_BOX_ROUTER_BACKEND(autodefault = first signed-in harness, Claude/Haiku first, probe cached for a day; orclaude/codex/anthropic/openai/none) andAGENT_BOX_ROUTER_MODEL, both in the env store.agent-box-session whatsapp wake NAME, renew the session'sinbox:<name>subscription (with its registered Codex thread for Codex), andemitthe message on the bus through the owner-trustedinboxsource, so it arrives as[OWNER message via inbox ...], not untrusted data.--origin webhook(takes a hook slot, can hibernate; onehibernateretry when the box is full). Its kickoff prompt is the message, plus the linked sessions' topics for NEW_LINKS.servepasses that command to the bridge (LOCAL_WHATSAPP_ROUTE_CMD) unlessAGENT_BOX_WHATSAPP_ROUTER=off./target NAMEstill pins one session;/target autoroutes again.agent-box-session whatsapp wake NAME:activatewithout the "selected target" check, same capacity gate.agent-box-webhook setup inbox:{"format":"generic","keyPath":"session","trust":"owner"}.inbox:<name>subscription: the router wakes the session before every delivery and the spool holds the message while it starts. Any other topic still keeps it resident.a54bb56, tagv0.39.0); WhatsApp runtime +local-router/router.pyata54bb56by sha256.default-agents.md) and the Connections card describe routing. No route notice in the chat unlessLOCAL_WHATSAPP_DEBUG=1.Unchanged: the explicit
/targetpin path,activate, the bridge's behaviour when routing is off, sessions started by hand.Known limits: a session already running when the box updates keeps its older local-webhook plugin until it restarts, so owner messages to it render with the old untrusted framing until then (new routed sessions start on the synced plugin). A Codex session receives follow-ups only after its thread is registered; until then the message stays pending in the bridge and is retried.
Verification
tests/test-whatsapp-cli.py: 22 OK (12 new routing tests: continue → wake/subscribe/emit, new links kickoff, profile + free name, full box → hibernate → retry, failed start leaves state unchanged, Codex thread required, removed sessions forgotten, backend policy + cache, backend error drops the cache, bad request refused).tests/test-whatsapp-session.py(wake),tests/test-session-capacity.py(inbox-only filter hibernates; other topics, standing-watch shape and malformed entries do not).router.pyata54bb56+ Haiku with stubbed session/bus commands routed "and in Greece?" to the VAT session (wake, setup inbox, subscribe, emit) and "write a haiku about my cat" to a new session whose kickoff prompt is the message.nix run .#assemble,python3 tests/test_agentbox.py --update,nix run .#update-goldenregenerated (no further change after rebase onto feat(secrets): custody, encryption, per-profile scope, exec_with_secrets (#922) #923).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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