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feat(mcp): agent session transcript tool, correct fan-out sessions, trimmed agent session tools - #1383

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The MCP tools for AI agent sessions could not answer "what did this session do, and why did it go wrong?". get_agent_session returned a verdict and counts but no step-by-step record. On fan-out sessions (an orchestrator spawning sub-agents) it was also wrong. One prod pr-review session read as "4 turns, none failed, 3 warnings", but two workers had been stopped on a 4m duration limit and one on the consecutive tool-failure limit.

What changed

New tool: get_agent_session_transcript

  • Shows the session step by step: prompts, model replies, tool calls with arguments and results, sub-agent runs, and why each failed run stopped. Every step carries its span id and timestamp for inspect_span.
  • failed_only without turn lists every failure across the session in time order, so a cascade shows as one sequence. In one session, a single sandbox failure took down all 6 workers.
  • Also takes turn and search. Pages are sized by rendered characters, so they stay inside the response budget and nextOffset never skips rows.
  • The turn index on page 1 gives each turn's outcome and stop reason. It also shows what tells sibling sub-agents apart: their full opening prompt minus the brief they share.

Session derivation (packages/agent-sessions), shared with the web session pages

  • Agent-root turns are assigned by parentage, so sub-agents spawned in the same millisecond each get a turn. Spans with no agent above them go to the outermost run open in their trace.
  • The final turn is the one that ended last, so a fan-out is judged by its orchestrator. The headline names failed sub-agent runs ("but 3 of 6 sub-agent runs failed").
  • New failure kind agentLimit and an "Agent limits" check, for runs the framework stopped on a duration, turn, tool-call, failure, token or cost budget. App wrapper spans no longer hide these failures.
  • In the transcript, model calls under app wrapper spans attach to their agent, so steps print in time order.
  • Failure text keeps the reason under a heading that ends in :. Injected <run-status> blocks are kept out of titles, labels and transcripts.

Trimmed, based on 30 days of prod tool-call arguments

  • list_agent_sessions goes from 25 to 13 params. The 10 min/max range filters, environments and exclude_trace_sessions were never sent. service is now an alias for services. The web page keeps all of these filters.
  • get_agent_session drops the failure groups, which duplicated the findings, and the turn table, now covered by the transcript index. Passed checks are one line. The suggested next calls point to the failure timeline and the transcript.
  • get_agent_tools_overview with tool set no longer reads or returns the every-tool breakdown. environment is dropped from both tool-analytics tools; it was unused.

For reviewers

  • Fan-out sessions in the web UI will show more turns, more failures and different headlines. That comes from the shared derivation changes, and it is intended.
  • One existing turn test asserted the old behaviour, where a second sub-agent in the same millisecond was swallowed. It now asserts a turn each.
  • Tested by replaying two real prod pr-review sessions through the new code, over five rounds. Regression tests: packages/agent-sessions/src/fan-out.test.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/agent-session-transcript.test.ts, plus additions to the agent-sessions and agent-tools tool tests.
  • Checks run: packages/agent-sessions 322 tests, apps/ai src/mcp 732 tests, and typecheck for agent-sessions, ai and web.

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  • New Features
    • Added agent session transcripts with searchable, paginated prompts, replies, tool activity, failures, and turn summaries.
    • Session details now link to transcript views, including failure-focused and per-turn views.
    • Session checks now report agent limits, and summaries can identify failed sub-agent runs.
  • Improvements
    • Session lists retain vendor, service, model, agent, tool, text, and error filters; environment and usage-range filters are no longer available.
    • Selecting a specific tool no longer displays an all-tools breakdown.
  • Documentation
    • Updated agent session guidance and MCP tool descriptions for transcript access.

…rimmed agent session tools

Agents could not read what an agent session did: get_agent_session gave a
verdict and counts with no step-by-step record, and on fan-out sessions the
verdict was wrong.

- New get_agent_session_transcript: prompts, replies, tool calls with args
  and results, sub-agent runs and why each failed run stopped. Narrow by
  turn, failed_only (a cross-turn failure timeline) or search; pages are
  sized to fit the response budget.
- Sub-agents spawned together get a turn each (assigned by parentage, not
  the time cursor); spans with no agent above them go to the outermost open
  run; the final turn is the one that ended last.
- New agent-limits check for runs the framework stopped on a budget; app
  wrapper spans no longer shadow those failures.
- Failure text keeps the reason under a heading ending in ":"; injected
  <run-status> blocks are kept out of titles, labels and transcripts.
- Trimmed by prod usage: list_agent_sessions drops 12 unused filters,
  get_agent_session drops duplicated failure groups and the turn table,
  get_agent_tools_overview skips the every-tool breakdown when a tool is
  selected, and the tool-analytics tools drop the unused environment param.
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  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session-transcript.ts
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The PR adds an MCP tool for retrieving agent-session transcripts. It changes session turn assignment and failure reporting, updates session summaries and navigation, and narrows session-list and selected-tool analytics filters.

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Agent session transcripts and reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session turn attribution and failure reporting
packages/agent-sessions/src/*, packages/agent-sessions/src/fan-out.test.ts
Agent-root runs are assigned to turns, and final-turn selection uses turn end times. Agent limits are classified and included in session checks. Transcript message extraction removes injected blocks, and failure text can retain multiline details after a colon.
Transcript output and retrieval
packages/domain/src/mcp-outputs/sessions.ts, packages/domain/src/mcp-outputs/catalog.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session-transcript.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/*
A new transcript schema and MCP tool return session rows, turn summaries, failure data, and pagination details. The tool supports time-window, turn, failure-only, search, and payload-size filters.
Session summary and transcript navigation
apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/resources/instructions.ts, apps/landing/src/content/docs/*, apps/web/src/components/*
Session output separates passed checks and reports turn counts. It links to transcript views. Instructions, catalogs, and documentation describe the new tool.

Session filters and tool analytics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session-list filter contract
packages/domain/src/mcp-outputs/sessions.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/list-agent-sessions.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/agent-sessions.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/mcp/mcp-tools-list.tsx
Session listing removes environment, trace-session exclusion, and numeric range filters. Supported filters remain in paging arguments and response metadata, and tool descriptions and tests reflect the updated inputs.
Selected-tool analytics output
apps/ai/src/mcp/lib/agent-tool-analytics.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tools-overview.ts, packages/domain/src/mcp-outputs/sessions.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/agent-tools.test.ts
Tool selection no longer includes an environment filter. Selected-tool overviews omit the tools breakdown, and the selected tool is used for the session link.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant get_agent_session_transcript
  participant Warehouse
  MCPClient->>get_agent_session_transcript: Submit session and transcript filters
  get_agent_session_transcript->>Warehouse: Load session spans
  Warehouse-->>get_agent_session_transcript: Return spans
  get_agent_session_transcript-->>MCPClient: Return filtered transcript rows and paging metadata
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5810c

The new transcript tool and the session reporting changes look sound. Very large sessions may build their transcripts slowly. The session tool's description still lists failure groups and turns, which it no longer returns. Both are small fixes, and the change can merge with this follow-up.

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apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/list-agent-sessions.ts (1)

66-67: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Fix the stale comment above aliases.

The comment is misplaced. It now sits directly above aliases: { service: "services" }, so it appears to describe the alias. The comment is also vague: it says "the page's min/max" filters. It does not say which parameters were removed.

Move the comment next to the parameters schema. Name the removed filters.

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-		// Agents sort rather than bound: the page's min/max and environment filters stay off the tool.
 		aliases: { service: "services" },

Then put this above the parameters: line (Line 45):

		// Agents sort rather than bound: the numeric range, trace-session, and environment filters stay off the tool.
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Move the comment from above `aliases` to above the `parameters` schema, and
clarify that agents omit the numeric range, trace-session, and environment
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Review comments at @apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session-transcript.ts:
- Around line 492-496: Update the captured-call predicate in the llmSpans filter
so null inputMessages and outputMessages count as not captured, matching
readCoverage’s null handling. Keep counting a call when either message payload
is non-null.
- Around line 259-272: Remove the per-row `turnOfRow` lookup, which scans
`transcript` repeatedly. In the loop that builds `allRows`, track the current
turn as rows are visited, updating it for `turn` and `empty-turn` rows and using
the first turn from `parallel-turns` when available; pass that turn to `toRow`.

Review comments at @apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session.ts:
- Around line 194-196: Update the `get_agent_session` tool description and its
web catalog description to state that they return turn counts, not individual
turns or failure groups, and direct users to `get_agent_session_transcript` for
turn-by-turn details.

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Review comments at @apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/list-agent-sessions.ts:
- Around line 66-67: Move the comment from above `aliases` to above the
`parameters` schema, and clarify that agents omit the numeric range,
trace-session, and environment filters. Leave the `aliases` mapping unchanged.

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  • apps/ai/src/mcp/lib/agent-tool-analytics.ts
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  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/agent-sessions.test.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/agent-tools.test.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session-transcript.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tools-overview.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/list-agent-sessions.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
  • apps/landing/src/content/docs/agent-sessions/overview.md
  • apps/landing/src/content/docs/reference/mcp.md
  • apps/web/src/components/ai-elements/tool-metadata.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/mcp/mcp-tools-list.tsx
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/failure-text.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/fan-out.test.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/index.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/session-checks.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/session-findings.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/session-summary.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/session-transcript.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/session-turns.test.ts
  • packages/agent-sessions/src/session-turns.ts
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…_session description

Rows find their turn in a single pass instead of a findLast per row; a null message payload no longer counts as captured; the get_agent_session descriptions no longer promise the failure groups and per-turn list it dropped; the removed-filters comment sits on the parameters it describes.
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🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge
The three follow-up fixes in 627d88b are provably equivalent to what they replace; the four files are read in full at head.
quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk medium · 2/2 new units observable

Adds get_agent_session_transcript, corrects fan-out turn derivation and trims the agent-session MCP tools. The three follow-up fixes are sound; safe to merge. The open registry.ts error issues (McpQueryError, GithubAppError, IntegrationsUpstreamError, VcsSourceRepositoryNotFoundError) are untouched by this diff and not fixed by it.

  • get_agent_session_transcript renders a session step by step, paged by rendered characters
  • failed_only without turn lists every failure in time order
  • get_agent_session drops the turn table and failure groups, adds passedChecks and failedTurnCount
  • list_agent_sessions drops 12 range/flag params and aliases service to services

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Issue Service Occurrences File
@maple/api/vcs/VcsSourceRepositoryNotFoundError maple-ai 68 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError maple-chat 42 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError maple-chat 36 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError maple-ai 18 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/api/vcs/GithubAppError maple-chat 14 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/http/errors/IntegrationsUpstreamError maple-chat 14 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/http/errors/IntegrationsUpstreamError maple-chat 11 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError maple-ai 9 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError maple-ai 9 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError maple-chat 8 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts

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Production traffic of the changed files (last 7 days)
File Calls/day Busiest operations
packages/agent-sessions/src/session-transcript.ts 3.5k AgentRuntime.model 3.5k/day, 0.7% err
Telemetry this change adds and removes (1)
  • ➕ span name McpTool.getAgentSessionTranscript · apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-session-transcript.ts:421
What was checked
  • turnsOfRows assigns each row's turn in one pass and is equivalent to the removed per-row findLast (get-agent-session-transcript.ts:259)
  • The dropped list filters are ignored, not rejected: the registry annotates unknown arguments rather than failing (registry.ts:592)
  • The new tool adds no query path: it reads spans through the existing loadAgentSessionSpans
Observability coverage: 2 of 2 changes observable
Change Kind Observable Evidence
get_agent_session_transcript MCP tool handler inbound MCP tool yes Effect.fn("McpTool.getAgentSessionTranscript") with annotateCurrentSpan orgId/session id (get-agent-session-transcript.ts:421-432)
Agent-session span load for the transcript warehouse read yes existing loadAgentSessionSpans → readAiSessionSpans → WarehouseQueryService.compiledQuery

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