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fix(chat-platform): approval UX — readable outcomes, private click notices - #1034

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Improvements to what people see around approving a change from Slack/Discord.

Settled approvals say what happened

  • Before: raw tool-result posted — decision line, the tool's markdown report (## Dashboard Created, ids, timestamps, ### Validation…)
  • After: I created the dashboard "Test dashboard". Open in Maple, with Approved by jeremy. underneath
  • render/approval-outcome.ts reads the __maple_ui payload every mutating tool already emits → one sentence per tool + a link to the dashboard / alert rule / error issue / PR
  • Refusals show the report's first prose line; declines keep their one-line decision
  • The stored tool-result is unchanged, so the model still reads the full report

Click notices are private

  • New ChatOutboundTransport.whisper(action, blocks): Slack chat.postEphemeral, Discord ephemeral follow-up (flags: 64) on the interaction webhook
  • Discord click events carry replyHandle (application_id/interaction token) for that
  • The link, "proposal gone" and "unavailable" replies to a click all go only to the clicker; if the private reply fails they're posted in the channel instead

Clearer link notice

  • Before: Link your chat account to Maple before approving changes: <url>
  • After: Link your Discord account to Maple to approve this. A change you approve runs as your Maple user, with your permissions and your name on it, so Maple has to know which user you are. Link your account, then press Approve again.

Note: 3 ConnectorRelay.test.ts eviction tests fail on main too, unrelated.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Approval responses are sent privately to the person who clicked. If a private reply can’t be delivered, the response appears in the conversation instead.
    • Settled approvals show a clearer summary of the action, who decided, and an “Open in Maple” link when available.
  • Improvements
    • Approval messages show a readable fallback when detailed outcome information is unavailable or malformed.
    • Decision details and available links are included in screen-reader text, and tool-provided text is escaped for display.

…tead of posting the tool's report

A settled approval rendered the recorded tool-result verbatim: the decision line, the tool's
markdown report and its validation section. Read the structured payload the mutating tools
already emit and render one sentence per tool plus an 'Open in Maple' link, with who decided
underneath. The recorded result is unchanged, since the model reads it on its next turn.
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Maple review: 90/100

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90/100 0 1 0 0 of 3

This review ended early; what follows is what it established.

The change turns a settled approval into one sentence plus a link in the bot's own voice (new approval-outcome.ts decoder), adds an ephemeral "whisper" reply so a click is answered privately (Slack chat.postEphemeral, Discord interaction follow-up webhook), and threads a replyHandle through InboundAction. The direction is good and the escaping fix on the Slack top-level fallback is in place, but the same fallback still interpolates the tool name unescaped while every neighbouring interpolation is escaped — a mention-injection hole in exactly the string the change set out to make safe.

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Severity Category Where Finding
F1 Warning security packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/render.ts:367 Tool name reaches the Slack top-level fallback unescaped, so it can page a workspace
What to change

Tool name reaches the Slack top-level fallback unescaped, so it can page a workspace (packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/render.ts:367)

This branch builds the message's top-level text — which the comment on line 362-364 says is mrkdwn and must therefore be escaped, because it carries a <url|label> link — and escapes outcome.decision on the same line but interpolates block.toolName raw. toolName is model-authored in the same way the summary and the outcome text are: it comes off the tool call and is escaped everywhere else in this file (line 355 for the settled section, line 373 for the open *Approve \name`?*line). A call named<!channel>(or<!here>`) pings the whole channel from the fallback, which is exactly the sink the escaping in this commit was added to close. Escape it here too.

escapeMrkdwn(block.toolName) in the `outcome.text === ""` fallback, matching the escaping of `outcome.decision` beside it.
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Change Kind Observable Evidence
Discord interaction follow-up webhook (whisper → POST /webhooks/{application_id}/{interaction_token}) outbound HTTP call no packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/discord/outbound.ts:361-381 routes the call through the connector's existing send helper; span/attribute emission not verified in this pass
Slack ephemeral reply (whisper → chat.postEphemeral) outbound HTTP call no packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/outbound.ts adds a whisper transport plus the user field on SlackMessageRequest (render.ts:110-111); instrumentation not verified in this pass
apps/chat-bot relay: private answer to a click (whisper path in turn.ts) inbound action handling no apps/chat-bot/src/relay/turn.ts:146-168 adds the whisper branch; log/error annotations not verified in this pass

Score: 100, minus 25 per critical finding, 10 per warning and 2 per note still open. Updated on every push; resolve a thread or reply "won't fix" to dismiss a finding.

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The chat platform adds private replies to control clicks, including connector implementations and relay fallback behavior. Approval outcomes now separate decision text from result text and can include a Maple link, which Discord and Slack render in settled approval messages.

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Private click replies

Layer / File(s) Summary
Private reply contract
packages/chat-platform/src/ingress.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/outbound.ts
Inbound actions can carry an opaque reply handle. The outbound transport adds whisper, and ChatOutboundError includes the whisper operation.
Discord and Slack private replies
packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/discord/..., packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/...
Discord sends ephemeral follow-ups using the interaction reply handle. Slack sends ephemeral messages to the clicker in the action’s channel and thread. Tests verify the requests and Discord’s missing-handle behavior.
Relay approval notices
apps/chat-bot/src/relay/turn.ts, apps/chat-bot/src/relay/turn.test.ts, apps/chat-bot/src/relay/settle.test.ts, packages/backend/src/services/alerts/ChatAlertPoster.test.ts, packages/backend/src/services/integrations/ChatWorkspaceService.test.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/driver.test.ts
The relay sends approval notices privately and posts publicly if whisper fails. Tests cover the notice, fallback, and outbound transport stubs.

Approval outcome rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build structured approval outcomes
packages/chat-platform/src/render/blocks.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/render/approval-outcome.ts
Approval outcomes include separate decision and result text fields, plus an optional URL. The builder decodes tool results and creates descriptions and Maple links for recognized structured results.
Build outcomes during message rendering
packages/chat-platform/src/render/message.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/render/message.test.ts
Message rendering uses the shared outcome builder. Tests cover successful results, malformed payloads, refusals, and declined proposals.
Render outcomes in Discord and Slack
packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/discord/render.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/discord/render.test.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/render.ts, packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/render.test.ts
Discord and Slack render the result text, decision, and optional Maple link for settled proposals. Slack includes the decision and link in its top-level fallback text.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DiscordGateway
  participant ChatBotRelay
  participant ChatOutboundTransport
  participant DiscordAPI
  DiscordGateway->>ChatBotRelay: Emit click with replyHandle
  ChatBotRelay->>ChatOutboundTransport: whisper(action, blocks)
  ChatOutboundTransport->>DiscordAPI: Post ephemeral follow-up
  DiscordAPI-->>ChatOutboundTransport: Return whisper failure
  ChatBotRelay->>ChatOutboundTransport: Post notice publicly
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No actionable issue remains in the reviewed changes; the refusal notice follows the stated behavior, and the Slack fallback includes the decision and link.

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… approver must link

The notices a click can produce — link your account, the proposal is gone, the agent is
unreachable — are about the person who clicked, so they now go to them alone: Slack's
chat.postEphemeral, and an ephemeral follow-up on Discord's interaction webhook. A platform
that cannot falls back to posting in the open rather than leaving the click unanswered.

The link notice leads with a bold line and says why: an approved change runs as the
approver's Maple user.
@JeremyFunk JeremyFunk changed the title fix(chat-platform): say what an approved change did instead of posting the tool's report fix(chat-platform): approval UX — readable outcomes, private click notices Sep 24, 2026

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In `@packages/chat-platform/src/connectors/slack/render.ts`:
- Around line 362-364: Update the settled approval fallback in
renderSlackMessage so the top-level text includes the decision and optional
Maple link when outcome.text is nonempty, while preserving the tool-name
decision fallback when it is empty. Reuse the existing link value and ensure
both cases expose the relevant decision and link to screen readers.

In `@packages/chat-platform/src/render/approval-outcome.ts`:
- Around line 144-148: Update the "propose_fix" case in the approval outcome
renderer so its url always uses the Maple issue link from
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- Around line 46-51: Replace the try/catch JSON.parse block in the line-parsing
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…a proposed fix to its issue

Addresses review: the payload is decoded (no try/catch), and one missing the fields its
sentence reads falls to the generic line rather than failing the render. propose_fix links
to the issue, since the label says Maple. Slack's top-level text carries the decision and
link for screen readers.

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// well: a dashboard named `<!channel>` must not page a workspace.
fallback.push(
outcome.text === ""
? `${block.toolName}: ${escapeMrkdwn(outcome.decision)}${link}`

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F1 · Tool name reaches the Slack top-level fallback unescaped, so it can page a workspace · security · warn

This branch builds the message's top-level text — which the comment on line 362-364 says is mrkdwn and must therefore be escaped, because it carries a <url|label> link — and escapes outcome.decision on the same line but interpolates block.toolName raw. toolName is model-authored in the same way the summary and the outcome text are: it comes off the tool call and is escaped everywhere else in this file (line 355 for the settled section, line 373 for the open *Approve \name`?*line). A call named<!channel>(or<!here>`) pings the whole channel from the fallback, which is exactly the sink the escaping in this commit was added to close. Escape it here too.

escapeMrkdwn(block.toolName) in the `outcome.text === ""` fallback, matching the escaping of `outcome.decision` beside it.

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Fixed: the tool name is escaped too.

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JeremyFunk merged commit 1be7c30 into main Sep 24, 2026
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