docs(durable): examples for turn limits and continue, and admission inside a commit

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Mario Zechner 2026-10-28 14:03:36 +00:00
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| [30-reload-and-restart](test/examples/30-reload-and-restart.ts) | Reloading an extension mid-call, and stored choices surviving a restart |
| [31-transcript](test/examples/31-transcript.ts) | A client's transcript over the windowed view: live appends, a stall with a gap, loading it and earlier pages, and resuming with `from` |
| [32-tests-after-edits](test/examples/32-tests-after-edits.ts) | An `afterRun` hook that runs the tests after every run that edited files, a fix run when they fail, and input waiting for them |
| [33-turn-limit-and-continue](test/examples/33-turn-limit-and-continue.ts) | A per-conversation turn limit, `runFailure`, and continuing without a user message |
| [34-submit-in-commit](test/examples/34-submit-in-commit.ts) | Admitting a visitor's steer inside the host's own commit with `submit(tx, draft)` and `whenIdle: "reject"` |
| [00](test/examples/00-conversation.ts)–[12](test/examples/12-recovery.ts) | The layers underneath: sessions, documents, forks, watches, the Harness, agent configuration, reload, extension state, tasks, recovery |
Examples that call OpenAI need `OPENAI_API_KEY`; most use the faux provider otherwise.

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// A per-conversation turn limit stops a long run after a number of tool rounds; a continue resumes it without a user
// message, with a fresh budget. A host learns that a run stopped from `pi.live.runFailure`.
// Run from packages/durable:
// node --conditions=source --experimental-strip-types test/examples/33-turn-limit-and-continue.ts
import { BACKGROUND_CONTEXT } from "@earendil-works/chord/context";
import { Type } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai";
import { createModels } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/models";
import { fauxAssistantMessage, fauxProvider, fauxToolCall } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/providers/faux";
import {
ConversationBusy,
createRegistry,
defineExtension,
defineTool,
Harness,
LiveDoc,
MemoryStorage,
} from "../../src/index.ts";
const context = BACKGROUND_CONTEXT;
const step = defineTool({
name: "step",
description: "Do one step of the work",
parameters: Type.Object({ n: Type.Number() }),
execute: async (args) => ({ output: [{ type: "text", text: `step ${args.n} done` }] }),
});
const call = (n: number) => fauxAssistantMessage(fauxToolCall("step", { n }), { stopReason: "toolUse" });
const faux = fauxProvider();
const models = createModels();
models.setProvider(faux.provider);
// Four steps, then the answer. Two tool rounds per run are allowed.
faux.setResponses([call(1), call(2), call(3), call(4), fauxAssistantMessage("All four steps are done.")]);
const registry = createRegistry();
registry.install(defineExtension({ name: "steps", tools: [step] }));
const harness = await Harness.open(new MemoryStorage(), { models, registry }, context);
// Stored on the conversation, like its model: children and forks inherit it.
const root = await harness.root(context, { agent: { model: { provider: "faux", modelId: "faux-1" }, maxTurns: 2 } });
const first = await (await root.submit({ type: "input", content: "Do the four steps." }, context)).wait(context);
const failure = (await harness.snapshot(LiveDoc, root.id, context))?.runFailure;
console.log("first run:", first.status, first.reason, `(${failure?.detail})`);
// An idle conversation runs a continue on the context as it is, the round's results last, with a fresh budget.
const resumed = await root.submit({ type: "continue" }, context);
// It never queues: while that run works, another continue is refused.
try {
await root.submit({ type: "continue" }, context);
} catch (error) {
if (!(error instanceof ConversationBusy)) throw error;
console.log("second continue while busy: ConversationBusy");
}
const second = await resumed.wait(context);
console.log("first continue:", second.status, second.status === "done" ? "" : second.reason);
const third = await (await root.submit({ type: "continue" }, context)).wait(context);
const live = await harness.snapshot(LiveDoc, root.id, context);
console.log("second continue:", third.status, live?.runFailure === undefined ? "(runFailure cleared)" : "");
const page = await root.entries({ order: "ascending" }, 100, undefined, context);
for (const entry of page.items) {
const message = entry.model?.[0];
if (message?.role === "user") console.log(">", message.content);
if (message?.role === "toolResult")
console.log(" tool:", message.content[0]?.type === "text" ? message.content[0].text : "");
if (message?.role === "assistant" && message.stopReason === "stop") {
console.log("agent:", message.content.flatMap((part) => (part.type === "text" ? [part.text] : [])).join(""));
}
}
// A continue after an answer has nothing to answer: it ends without a model request.
const after = await (await root.submit({ type: "continue" }, context)).wait(context);
console.log("continue after the answer:", after.status, after.reason);
await harness.close(context);

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// A host lets people message an agent while it works: a message must join the current run as a steer and never start a
// run of its own. `submit(tx, draft)` admits it inside the host's own commit, together with the host's check and its own
// state; `whenIdle: "reject"` refuses it when no run is working.
// Run from packages/durable:
// node --conditions=source --experimental-strip-types test/examples/34-submit-in-commit.ts
import { BACKGROUND_CONTEXT } from "@earendil-works/chord/context";
import { Type } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai";
import { createModels } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/models";
import { fauxAssistantMessage, fauxProvider, fauxToolCall } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/providers/faux";
import {
ConversationIdle,
createRegistry,
defineDoc,
defineExtension,
defineTool,
Harness,
MemoryStorage,
} from "../../src/index.ts";
const context = BACKGROUND_CONTEXT;
// The host's own state: who may message this conversation, and what they sent.
const Visitors = defineDoc<{ muted: string[]; sent: { from: string; text: string }[] }>({
kind: "app.visitors",
version: 1,
scope: "conversation",
history: "latest",
fork: "initial",
initial: () => ({ muted: [], sent: [] }),
checkpointWhen: () => false,
});
// A tool that waits until released, so messages arrive while the run works.
let release!: () => void;
const working = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
release = resolve;
});
const build = defineTool({
name: "build",
description: "Build the project",
parameters: Type.Object({}),
execute: async () => {
await working;
return { output: [{ type: "text", text: "built" }] };
},
});
const faux = fauxProvider();
const models = createModels();
models.setProvider(faux.provider);
faux.setResponses([
fauxAssistantMessage(fauxToolCall("build", {}), { stopReason: "toolUse" }),
fauxAssistantMessage("Built, and I added the test Ana asked for."),
]);
const registry = createRegistry();
registry.install(defineExtension({ name: "build", tools: [build] }));
const harness = await Harness.open(new MemoryStorage(), { models, registry }, context);
const root = await harness.root(context, { agent: { model: { provider: "faux", modelId: "faux-1" } } });
await root.commit(async (tx) => {
(await tx.doc(Visitors, root.id)).muted.push("bob");
}, context);
/** A visitor's message: checked, admitted as a steer of the current run, and recorded, in one commit or not at all. */
async function message(from: string, text: string, requestId: string): Promise<string> {
try {
return await harness.commit(async (tx) => {
const visitors = await tx.doc(Visitors, root.id);
if (visitors.muted.includes(from)) return `${from} is muted`;
// Before the commit's own table writes; document writes may come before or after.
const id = await root.submit(tx, {
type: "input",
content: `${from}: ${text}`,
whenBusy: "steer",
whenIdle: "reject",
requestId,
});
visitors.sent.push({ from, text });
return `${from}'s message is submission ${id}`;
}, context);
} catch (error) {
if (error instanceof ConversationIdle) return `${from}: the agent isn't working now`;
throw error;
}
}
console.log(await message("ana", "Add a test for the build.", "ana-1")); // idle: refused, nothing written
const run = await root.submit({ type: "input", content: "Build the project." }, context);
console.log(await message("ana", "Add a test for the build.", "ana-2")); // busy: joins the run as a steer
console.log(await message("bob", "Delete everything.", "bob-1")); // the host's own check refuses it
release();
await run.wait(context);
await root.waitForIdle(context);
const page = await root.entries({ order: "ascending" }, 100, undefined, context);
for (const entry of page.items) {
const message = entry.model?.[0];
if (message?.role === "user") console.log(">", message.content);
if (message?.role === "assistant" && message.stopReason === "stop") {
console.log("agent:", message.content.flatMap((part) => (part.type === "text" ? [part.text] : [])).join(""));
}
}
console.log("recorded:", (await harness.snapshot(Visitors, root.id, context))?.sent);
await harness.close(context);