instar 1.3.185 → 1.3.186

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "instar",
-  "version": "1.3.185",
+  "version": "1.3.186",
   "description": "Coherence infrastructure for self-evolving AI agents — on the Claude Code or Codex subscription you already have.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/index.js",

package/src/data/builtin-manifest.json

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
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   "schemaVersion": 1,
-  "generatedAt": "2026-06-01T04:43:49.548Z",
-  "instarVersion": "1.3.185",
+  "generatedAt": "2026-06-01T06:06:02.404Z",
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@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
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     },
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     },
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     },
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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     },
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@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@
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     },
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     },
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@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
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     },
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     },
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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     },
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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       "domain": "relationships",
       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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       "sourcePath": "src/server/routes.ts",
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@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@
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package/upgrades/1.3.186.md

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Upgrade Guide — vNEXT
+
+<!-- assembled-by: assemble-next-md -->
+<!-- bump: patch -->
+
+## What Changed
+
+**A moved conversation's reply no longer gets stuck behind a redundant safety
+check.** When a conversation is moved to another machine, that machine relays its
+replies through the machine that holds the Telegram connection. The reply was
+being tone-gated twice — once on the relaying machine and again on the machine
+that actually delivers it. The first gate was not just redundant: its quality
+check makes an AI call that, under rate-limit protection, is allowed to wait up
+to two minutes before proceeding — so on a busy system the relaying machine could
+stall a reply for that long before it even handed it off (a relayed reply was
+observed hanging over 50 seconds for exactly this reason).
+
+Now the relaying machine skips its own tone gate; the machine that actually
+delivers the reply still runs it. One gate, in the right place — the reply is
+just as safe, the redundant stall is gone. Machines that send directly (and
+single-machine setups) are unaffected.
+
+## What to Tell Your User
+
+Nothing to configure. If you run across more than one machine and move a
+conversation between them, replies relay faster and no longer stall behind a
+duplicated quality check — while still being checked once, on the machine that
+delivers them.
+
+## Summary of New Capabilities
+
+- `TelegramAdapter.willRelay()` — true when a send will relay through the lease
+  holder (tokenless standby). `/telegram/reply` uses it to skip its local tone
+  gate for a relayed reply (the holder gates it). Direct sends gate locally,
+  unchanged.
+
+## Evidence
+
+- Code-grounded diagnosis (2026-06-01): `/telegram/reply` runs
+  `checkOutboundMessage` → `MessagingToneGate.review` (a `claude -p` LLM call
+  carrying `rateLimitWaitMs: 120000`) BEFORE `sendToTopic`/relay. On a standby,
+  that gate runs, then the relay hands the same reply to the holder, which gates
+  it again. Under a rate-limited circuit the standby's gate can wait up to 120s
+  pre-relay — matching the observed >50s hang of a standby reply.
+- Tests: `tests/unit/telegram-tokenless-relay.test.ts` (+4) — `willRelay()` is
+  true for a tokenless standby ({secret:true} placeholder, or null token) with a
+  relay wired, false for a real string token, false for tokenless with no relay
+  wired. Regression: 57/57 across the TelegramAdapter, MessagingToneGate, and
+  relay-timeout suites. `tsc` clean.

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+# Side effects — standby skips its local tone gate on a relayed reply
+
+## What changes at runtime
+
+On a tokenless pool standby (a machine serving a moved session, relaying its
+replies through the lease holder), the `/telegram/reply` route now SKIPS its
+local tone gate. The holder's `/telegram/reply` still runs the holder's tone
+gate. Detection is a new `TelegramAdapter.willRelay()` (exact `sendToTopic`
+relay-vs-direct condition).
+
+## Who is affected
+
+- **Direct senders (the token-holding machine, single-machine agents):** ZERO
+  change. `willRelay()` is false (real string token), so they gate locally
+  exactly as before.
+- **Tokenless standbys (a moved session replying):** skip the local tone gate;
+  the reply is gated by the holder on receipt. This removes a redundant LLM call
+  per cross-machine reply and the up-to-120s pre-relay stall it caused under a
+  rate-limited circuit.
+
+## Blast radius
+
+- 2 files: `src/messaging/TelegramAdapter.ts` (new method) + `src/server/routes.ts`
+  (one skip condition in `/telegram/reply`). No config, no schema, no migration
+  (compiled source).
+- The skip is additive to the existing `isProxy` / `isSystemTemplate` skips.
+
+## Failure modes considered
+
+- **Ungated reply?** No — the reply is gated by the holder (the single Telegram
+  owner), which is the correct single place. The standby reply is the agent's
+  finalized output; gating it twice was redundant, not a second layer of real
+  protection.
+- **Misdetection?** `willRelay()` mirrors the exact `sendToTopic` branch
+  (`!hasUsableBotToken && outboundRelay`), so it's true iff the send would
+  actually relay. A defensive `typeof ctx.telegram.willRelay === 'function'`
+  guard in the route means an older adapter without the method just keeps gating
+  (safe default).
+- **Pairs with v1.3.182:** the relay call itself is already bounded + truthful;
+  this bounds the path BEFORE the relay. Together they remove both stall points
+  on the standby reply path.