When the CLI approval callback raises, when no callback is registered on the
thread while prompt_toolkit owns the terminal, or when the input() read is
interrupted, prompt_dangerous_approval returned "deny" and the command gate
rendered "BLOCKED: User denied this command" — attributing a refusal to a
user who was never asked (#22992). #112308 fixed the gateway half of the
class (withdrawn prompts -> outcome "cancelled" with a cause); this closes
the CLI residual on the same shape.
- tools/approval_prompt.py: those three paths return an Unanswered("cancelled")
sentinel carrying the cause; MCP elicitation consent maps it to "cancel".
- tools/approval.py: the CLI gate renders "BLOCKED: <noun> was not approved: the
approval prompt could not be delivered or was not answered (<cause>)" with
outcome "cancelled" — still fail-closed, "Silence is not consent".
- tools/file_tools_write_guards.py: the protected-instruction write gate
reports the undelivered prompt instead of "was denied by the user".
- Shared metrics: "cancelled" is a counted approval outcome (contract + v2
schema) instead of falling into "unknown".
- Docs: hook `choice="cancelled"` now covers the CLI causes.
Fixes#22992
When a gateway approval wait ends without anyone answering — the parent's
delegate_task finishing and tearing the child down, a /stop, or the turn's
notifier being unregistered at turn end — the tool result said
"BLOCKED: Command denied by user" (outcome="denied", user_summary "You denied
this command"). The user never saw or answered the prompt, so the parent agent
went on reasoning about a refusal that never happened (#112026, #22992).
The action stays fail-closed (the command does not run, the model still gets
the NOT-consented stop text), but the attribution is now truthful:
- tools/approval_gateway_wait.py: `_cancel_cause()` reads the existing
per-thread interrupt-cause channel (`get_interrupt_reason()`, a trusted fixed
category — no string matching) for the interrupted state and marks a
notifier-unregister wake (event set, result None) as "the turn ended before
the prompt was answered". Both the direct and the coalesced-follower wait
return `cancelled=<cause>`; the post_approval_response hook fires
choice="cancelled" instead of "deny"/"timeout".
- tools/approval.py: a cancelled decision renders
"BLOCKED: Command approval was withdrawn before the user answered (<cause>)."
with outcome="cancelled" and its own user_summary; an explicit /deny is
untouched.
- tools/delegate_tool_child_run.py: `_signal_child_stop` publishes a fixed
tool_reason ("parent delegation ended"; the late-child mirror forwards the
parent's own category) so a child's pending approval can tell teardown from a
user /stop — previously it rode the default "explicit stop requested".
- tools/file_tools_write_guards.py / tools/approval_prompt.py: the protected
instruction-file gate and MCP elicitation consume the same key instead of
reporting "denied by the user" / "decline".
Co-authored-by: zccyman <16263913+zccyman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
docs/ was not the documentation site; it was a grab bag of long-form
design notes, wire contracts and observability guides that landed with
feature PRs because their authors needed somewhere to put them. Root
AGENTS.md already says long-form dev docs live in
website/docs/developer-guide/; this moves the 14 living documents there
(or to the matching user-guide section) so they are published, searchable
and linked from the sidebar instead of being found by grep only.
Developer guide: micro-compaction, gateway-session-lifecycle (was
session-lifecycle), state-db-recovery, multiplexing-gateway,
chronos-managed-cron-contract, relay-connector-contract, observer-hooks
(was observability/README), gateway-monitoring (observability/monitoring),
relay-shared-metrics, middleware, streaming-tts, billing-lifecycle.
User guide: egress/network-isolation (was security/network-egress-
isolation), features/kanban-multi-gateway (was kanban/multi-gateway).
Each page got title/description frontmatter and a sidebar entry; repo-
relative links became site links or GitHub blob URLs; two MDX brace
hazards escaped. Every in-tree pointer (module docstrings, config
comments, the relay conformance test's Path, the monitoring-doc test,
gateway-internals, cron-internals, kanban docs, .dockerignore, AGENTS.md)
now names the new location. `docusaurus build` passes with no unresolved
links on the moved pages.
