Before: handle_message.rs acquired services.perm_rx only while processing
one chat message and dropped it on chat_fut completion. The moment the
bot wasn't actively responding, prompt_permission auto-denied any spawned
coder bash call as "no interactive session" — making unattended coder
work impossible.
Now: a permission_listener task is spawned at bot startup and holds
perm_rx for the bot's lifetime. Permission requests are forwarded to
the first configured Matrix room, replies resolved by the existing
on_room_message handler via pending_perm_replies. Per-message acquire is
gone from handle_message.rs (chat_fut just awaits cleanly).
- New module: chat/transport/matrix/bot/permission_listener.rs.
- Wired into run_bot before BotContext construction; bot_sent_event_ids
is hoisted out so the listener and the rest of the bot share it.
- handle_message.rs no longer touches perm_rx.
- diagnostics/permission.rs comment updated to reflect the new reality.
- Regression test asserts the listener forwards a PermissionForward to
the target room and records the pending reply key — exactly the path
that was broken when no chat_fut was in flight.
Discord/Slack/WhatsApp transports still acquire perm_rx per message
(commands.rs:368 / commands/llm.rs:83 / commands/llm.rs:82). They are
not the active transport in this deployment so their per-message acquire
remains dormant; the same listener pattern should be applied to them as
follow-up work in 884 phase 2.
Master had 8 uncommitted single-line whitespace changes (blank-line trimming
in test mod headers, etc.) left over from a previous mergemaster cargo-fmt
run that didn't get committed. Each subsequent merge attempt hit:
cherry-pick failed: 'Your local changes to the following files would be
overwritten by merge. Please commit your changes or stash them.'
So merges had been silently un-mergeable for the last several rounds —
mergemaster correctly reported the issue but had no way to fix master's
own state from inside the merge_workspace.
Files affected (all whitespace-only):
- chat/transport/matrix/bot/messages/{handle_message,on_room_message}.rs
- chat/transport/slack/commands/{llm,mod}.rs
- http/mcp/agent_tools/worktree.rs
- http/workflow/story_ops/{create,criterion,update}.rs
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean
cargo fmt --all --check: clean
2636 tests pass.
dave