rowboat/apps/x/packages/shared/src/background-task.ts
Ramnique Singh b01af12148 feat: background tasks
Adds Background Tasks — recurring background agents the user can set up to
either keep a digest current (daily email summary, top HN stories, weather
brief) or perform a recurring action (draft a reply, post to Slack, call an
API). Each task is a persistent set of instructions plus optional triggers
(schedule, time-of-day window, or matching incoming Gmail / calendar event).
The agent reads the verbs in the instructions on every run and picks the
right mode automatically.

User-facing surfaces:
- New "Background tasks" entry in the sidebar, with a table listing every
  task, its schedule, last run, and an active toggle.
- A detail page per task with a max-width reader showing the task's
  current output and a control sidebar for editing instructions, triggers,
  and reviewing run history.
- "New task" can open in a free-form box where the user describes what they
  want and Copilot sets it up end-to-end, or in a structured form for
  manual setup.
- "Edit with Copilot" hand-off from the detail view, pre-seeded with the
  task's context.

Under the hood:
- The event pipeline that previously powered live-notes is now a generic
  consumer registry. Live-notes and background tasks both subscribe;
  incoming events are routed to candidates from both concurrently.
- Schedule helpers and the agent-message trigger block are factored out of
  live-notes into shared modules. Both features use the same building
  blocks now.
- Copilot's proactive routing is reframed: anything recurring (cadence
  words, watch / monitor verbs, action verbs, event-conditional asks) now
  flows to background tasks. Live-notes load only on explicit mention.
- A small reliability fix for the run-creation fallback chain: an
  empty-string model/provider passed by an LLM tool call now correctly
  falls through to the default instead of being persisted as a real value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-12 17:43:25 +05:30

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import z from 'zod';
import { TriggersSchema, type Triggers, type TriggerWindow } from './live-note.js';
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Background tasks
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// A bg-task is a persistent agent set up to fire on a schedule and/or in
// response to incoming events. Each task owns a folder under
// `$WorkDir/bg-tasks/<slug>/`:
//
// bg-tasks/<slug>/
// ├── task.yaml # plain YAML: BackgroundTask shape
// ├── index.md # agent-owned body — the user-visible artifact
// └── runs/ # one <runId>.jsonl per run (written by agent runtime)
//
// The agent picks between OUTPUT mode (rewrite index.md with the latest state)
// and ACTION mode (perform a side-effect, append a journal entry) based on
// the verbs in `instructions` each run. No mode field on the task.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Re-export triggers so callers don't need a second import.
export { TriggersSchema, type Triggers, type TriggerWindow };
export type BackgroundTask = {
name: string;
instructions: string;
active: boolean;
triggers?: Triggers;
model?: string;
provider?: string;
createdAt: string;
// Runtime-managed — never hand-write. Mirrors live-note's flat-field
// pattern: `lastAttemptAt` is bumped at every run start (backoff anchor),
// `lastRunAt` / `lastRunSummary` only on successful completion, `lastRunError`
// only on failure (cleared on next success). This keeps the "last good run"
// visible even while a new run is in-flight or failing.
lastAttemptAt?: string;
lastRunId?: string;
lastRunAt?: string;
lastRunSummary?: string;
lastRunError?: string;
};
export type BackgroundTaskSummary = {
slug: string;
name: string;
instructions: string;
active: boolean;
triggers?: Triggers;
createdAt: string;
lastAttemptAt?: string;
lastRunId?: string;
lastRunAt?: string;
lastRunSummary?: string;
lastRunError?: string;
};
export const BackgroundTaskSchema = z.object({
name: z.string().min(1).describe('User-facing display name.'),
instructions: z.string().min(1).describe('A persistent instruction in the user\'s words — what should this task keep doing? E.g. "Summarize my unread emails every morning into a brief digest." The agent re-reads instructions on every run and decides whether to rewrite index.md (OUTPUT mode) or perform a side-effect and journal it (ACTION mode) based on the verbs.'),
active: z.boolean().default(true).describe('Set false to pause without deleting.'),
triggers: TriggersSchema.optional().describe('When the agent fires. Omit for manual-only.'),
model: z.string().optional().describe('ADVANCED — leave unset. Per-task model override.'),
provider: z.string().optional().describe('ADVANCED — leave unset. Per-task provider name override.'),
createdAt: z.string().describe('ISO timestamp set once at create-time.'),
lastAttemptAt: z.string().optional().describe('Runtime-managed — never write this yourself. Bumped at the start of every agent run; used by the scheduler for backoff so failures do not retry-storm.'),
lastRunId: z.string().optional().describe('Runtime-managed — never write this yourself. The id of the most recent run (success or failure); used by the bg-task:stop handler.'),
lastRunAt: z.string().optional().describe('Runtime-managed — never write this yourself. Bumped only when an agent run *succeeds*; used as the cycle anchor for cron / window triggers and as the freshness timestamp shown in the UI.'),
lastRunSummary: z.string().optional().describe('Runtime-managed — never write this yourself. Set on success; not overwritten on failure so the user keeps seeing the last good summary.'),
lastRunError: z.string().optional().describe('Runtime-managed — never write this yourself. Set on a failed run; cleared on the next successful run.'),
});
export const BackgroundTaskSummarySchema = z.object({
slug: z.string(),
name: z.string(),
instructions: z.string(),
active: z.boolean(),
triggers: TriggersSchema.optional(),
createdAt: z.string(),
lastAttemptAt: z.string().optional(),
lastRunId: z.string().optional(),
lastRunAt: z.string().optional(),
lastRunSummary: z.string().optional(),
lastRunError: z.string().optional(),
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Bus events
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
export const BackgroundTaskTrigger = z.enum(['manual', 'cron', 'window', 'event']);
export type BackgroundTaskTriggerType = z.infer<typeof BackgroundTaskTrigger>;
export const BackgroundTaskAgentStartEvent = z.object({
type: z.literal('background_task_agent_start'),
slug: z.string(),
trigger: BackgroundTaskTrigger,
runId: z.string(),
});
export const BackgroundTaskAgentCompleteEvent = z.object({
type: z.literal('background_task_agent_complete'),
slug: z.string(),
runId: z.string(),
error: z.string().optional(),
summary: z.string().optional(),
});
export const BackgroundTaskAgentEvent = z.union([BackgroundTaskAgentStartEvent, BackgroundTaskAgentCompleteEvent]);
export type BackgroundTaskAgentEventType = z.infer<typeof BackgroundTaskAgentEvent>;