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Adds optional channel-context backfill for Discord shared-channel sessions so the agent can see recent messages it missed between its own turns (typically when require_mention=true filters out most traffic). Previously the agent only saw the @mention message that triggered it, which led to disorienting replies in active multi-user channels where the conversation context was invisible. With backfill enabled, a configurable number of recent messages are fetched per-turn and prepended to the trigger message as a context block, kept separate from sender-prefix logic so attribution remains clean. This re-opens the work from #13063 (approved by @OutThisLife on 2026-04-20, closed when I closed the branch to address the simpolism:main head-branch issue plus an ordering bug I caught later in live use). Filing against the freshly-rewritten problem statement in #13054 so the design is grounded in the failure mode rather than the implementation shape. The implementation follows the **push-mode last-self-anchored** design from the two options laid out in #13054. See the issue for the trade-off discussion vs pull-mode (#13120 was an earlier closed PR using that shape). Treating this as a reference implementation — happy to rewrite as last-trigger anchoring or as a hybrid with #13120 if maintainers prefer. Changes: - gateway/platforms/discord.py: - new `_discord_history_backfill()` / `_discord_history_backfill_limit()` helpers (config.extra > env > default), mirroring the existing `_discord_require_mention()` shape - new `_fetch_channel_context()` that scans `channel.history()` backwards from the trigger to the bot's last message (or limit), formats as `[Recent channel messages] / [name] msg / ...`, respects DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS, skips system messages - per-channel `_last_self_message_id` cache to narrow the fetch window on hot paths (avoids full history scan when the bot has spoken recently) - **IMPORTANT**: passes `oldest_first=False` explicitly to `channel.history()`. discord.py 2.x silently flips the default to True when `after=` is supplied, which would select the EARLIEST N messages after our last response instead of the LATEST N before the trigger. In high-traffic windows this would return stale tool traces and drop the actual final answer the user is asking about. See regression test below. Caught in live use during a Codex tool-trace burst on May 13 2026. - gateway/config.py: discord_history_backfill + discord_history_backfill_limit settings + yaml→env bridge - gateway/platforms/base.py: channel_context field on MessageEvent - gateway/run.py: prepend channel_context after sender-prefix so the [sender name] tag applies to the trigger message alone, not to the backfill - hermes_cli/config.py: defaults for new discord.history_backfill and discord.history_backfill_limit keys - cli-config.yaml.example: documented defaults - tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py: 7 new tests covering cold-start backfill, self-message stop boundary, other-bot filtering, cache hot-path narrowing, stale-cache fallback, shared-channel + per-user backfill paths, and the ordering regression test (`test_fetch_channel_context_cache_uses_latest_window_when_after_set`) - tests/gateway/test_config.py: yaml→env bridge tests - tests/gateway/test_session.py: prefix-order edge cases - website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md: env vars + config keys + usage docs Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 — empirically validated in my own multi-bot Discord research server for the past three weeks. Fixes #13054 Supersedes #13063 (closed) |
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