Replaces the legacy flowpilot_engine.escalate_session orchestration with
a single canonical path through HandoffManager. Every escalation now
creates a SessionHandoff row, fans out via the SSE bus, persists
AppNotification rows for the bell icon, dispatches to external channels
(Slack/Teams) via notify(), and emails per-user — regardless of whether
the call entered through /escalate (legacy URL) or /handoff (new URL).
The senior-pickup magic-moment screen now works end-to-end from the
EscalateModal bell-icon path the user just tested.
Backend
- HandoffCreateRequest gains optional target_user_id (the equivalent of
the legacy escalated_to_id field). Self-targeting rejected.
- HandoffManager.create_handoff handles intent='escalate' end-to-end:
sets escalation_reason + escalated_to_id, builds the legacy enhanced
AI escalation_package (Sonnet, lazy-imported from flowpilot_engine,
graceful fallback on failure), and merges handoff metadata into it.
Eager-loads session.steps and session.user via selectinload — required
by both the enhanced-package builder and notify() to avoid
MissingGreenlet on async lazy access.
- HandoffManager.finalize_escalation generates SessionDocumentation,
pushes documentation to PSA, and runs notify() — pre-commit so the
AppNotification rows persist atomically with the handoff.
- HandoffManager.dispatch_escalation_notifications keeps only the
fire-and-forget IO (bus publish, per-user emails) — runs post-commit.
Pulls engineer name via a separate User query rather than relying on
session.user lazy access.
- /handoff endpoint passes target_user_id through and calls
finalize_escalation pre-commit.
- /escalate endpoint is now a thin shim: owner-only session lookup,
HandoffManager.create_handoff(intent='escalate'), finalize_escalation,
commit, dispatch_escalation_notifications, return SessionCloseResponse
built from documentation + psa_result. flowpilot_engine.escalate_session
is no longer called by any endpoint.
- pickup_session accepts both 'requesting_escalation' (legacy in-flight
sessions) and 'escalated' (new canonical) so the migration is seamless
for sessions already in the queue.
- Escalation queue list and sidebar count now match either status.
Frontend
- useFlowPilotSession optimistic update flips status to 'escalated'
instead of 'requesting_escalation' so the page state matches the
unified backend response.
Verified end-to-end live: a fresh /escalate call from the junior produces
status='escalated', a SessionHandoff row, a SessionDocumentation, PSA
push attempted (no_psa for this test session), AND a bell-icon
AppNotification for the team admin with link
/pilot/{session_id}?pickup=true. Backend test suite: 1103 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First half of the WebSocket/SSE push slice. Paused mid-flight to hand
the branch to Codex for outside-voice review before stacking more
commits on top. See .ai/HANDOFF.md for the full pause context + what
to look at.
What's here:
- backend/app/core/escalation_bus.py — module-level singleton in-memory
pub/sub keyed by account_id. asyncio.Queue per subscriber with
64-event maxsize and drop-on-full semantics. Designed to be swappable
for Redis pub/sub when Railway scales past single-replica.
- backend/app/api/endpoints/session_handoffs.py — GET
/api/v1/ai-sessions/escalations/stream SSE endpoint. Auth via
require_engineer_or_admin. 25s heartbeat. Account-scoped subscribe
bound to current_user.account_id.
- backend/app/services/handoff_manager.py — dispatch_escalation_notifications
now publishes a `handoff_created` event to the bus BEFORE the email
fan-out, in a try/except so a bus failure can't block email delivery.
- backend/tests/test_escalation_bus.py — 7 unit tests, all green
standalone (0.14s). Cross-tenant isolation, drop-on-full, no-subscribers.
- backend/tests/test_handoff_manager.py — +1 dispatcher integration test
(publishes to bus, payload shape).
- backend/tests/test_session_handoffs_api.py — +2 endpoint tests (viewer
blocked, ready event handshake).
[gstack-context]
Decisions:
- SSE over WebSocket (one-way, browser EventSource semantics, fewer
moving parts behind Railway proxy)
- In-memory bus over Redis for v1 pilot (3 MSPs, single replica)
- Drop-on-full subscriber queue rather than back-pressure publishers
- Bus publish ahead of email send, both wrapped in try/except so
neither can break handoff creation
- Frontend will be a fetch-based ReadableStream reader matching the
existing streamDocumentation pattern, not native EventSource
(custom-header auth)
Remaining (post-Codex):
- Frontend SSE subscription in EscalationQueue.tsx (slide-in,
reconnect, tab-title flash, prefers-reduced-motion)
- Magic-moment handoff-context screen
- Re-run the full backend test suite to verify the SSE +
dispatcher integration tests (bus units already green standalone)
Tried:
- Running the full test suite repeatedly without xdist; the per-test
DROP SCHEMA + recreate fixture made wall-clock prohibitive when
multiple stale runs collided on the same Postgres test schema.
Resolution: -n auto next time.
[/gstack-context]
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First half of the Escalation Mode notification dual-path. WebSocket/SSE
push is the second half (next commit) — email handles offline seniors,
push handles online ones for the magic-moment demo.
HandoffManager.dispatch_escalation_notifications:
- Pulls active engineer/admin/owner-role users in the same account_id
(excludes the escalator + viewers + soft-deleted)
- Sends via existing EmailService.send_notification_email, concurrent
via asyncio.gather; per-message failures don't block the rest
- Wrapped in try/except: any exception is logged + swallowed. Handoff
creation is authoritative; notification is advisory. This is the
graceful-degradation regression both eng + codex reviews flagged as
critical (handoff must succeed even if SMTP is down).
Endpoint wiring (POST /ai-sessions/{id}/handoff):
- Dispatch fires AFTER db.commit() — never email about a rolled-back
handoff. Trust-erosion bug if we got that wrong.
- Only fires for intent=escalate. Park is private to the escalator.
Tests (4 new):
- emails-engineer-recipients-in-account: viewer excluded, escalator
excluded, only the engineer/admin teammates get the message
- skipped-for-park-intent: park doesn't fan out
- graceful-degradation-when-email-raises: RuntimeError from the email
service does NOT bubble out of dispatch
- endpoint-dispatches-on-escalate: end-to-end wiring through POST
Per-channel delivery records (replacing the dead `notification_sent`
boolean per Codex correction) is a v1.x story — for now application
logs are the audit trail. See
docs/plans/2026-04-27-escalation-mode-wedge-design.md.
20 tests green across handoff_manager + session_handoffs_api +
flowpilot_analytics_escalations. No regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
POST /ai-sessions/{id}/handoffs/{hid}/claim previously required only an
authenticated user, so a viewer-role account user could claim escalations.
Codex review flagged this as wedge-relevant: the Escalation Mode race-
condition story (two seniors clicking Pick Up simultaneously) depends on
auth gating for audit integrity. Originally captured as a deferred TODO
during /plan-eng-review, then moved in-scope by /codex review.
Swap the dep to require_engineer_or_admin. One-line change. Two new tests:
- viewer_role gets 403 with "Engineer or admin access required"
- engineer/owner role still succeeds and claimed_at + claimed_by populate
Existing handoff create + queue tests unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four endpoints: create handoff (park/escalate), list handoff history,
claim session, and team queue. Two routers: session-scoped router with
prefix /ai-sessions/{session_id} and queue_router with prefix /ai-sessions.
queue_router registered before ai_sessions.router to avoid /{session_id}
path conflict on GET /ai-sessions/queue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
