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Summary

Continue the conversation after users reject tool calls, including when every pending call is rejected. The follow-up tells the model not to repeat the rejected call and to ask for clarification or choose a different approach.

The strict guidance applies only to human tool rejections. Skipped questions, policy denials, and execution errors retain their existing continuation semantics. Channel continuations expose the canned rejection reason while keeping tool arguments private.

QA steps:

  1. Trigger a single MCP tool call that requires approval.
  2. Reject the tool call.
  3. Verify the assistant immediately continues and asks for clarification without repeating the same call.
  4. Trigger multiple tool calls, reject one, and verify the continuation includes the same guidance.
  5. Skip an agent question and verify the rejection-specific guidance is not added.

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Fixed conversations ending abruptly after all pending tool calls were rejected.
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved follow-up handling for rejected, skipped, policy-denied, or failed tool calls.
    • Rejected results are now final, with clear explanations and protected tool details.
    • Follow-up responses continue correctly when eligible interactions remain.
    • Added clear, non-duplicated guidance when a tool call cannot be completed.
    • Preserved tool titles, descriptions, and interaction details while redacting unshared arguments.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for rejected, mixed, failed, delayed, and channel-based tool interactions.

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⚠️ Overall: 21/28 tests passed (75.0%)

Provider Total Passed Failed Pass Rate
⚠️ OPENAI 28 21 7 75.0%

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OPENAI

1. TestReactEval/[openai]_react_cat_message

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: The word/emoji is a cat emoji or a heart/love emoji
  • Reason: The output is the text string "heart_eyes_cat", not an actual cat emoji (e.g., 😺) or heart/love emoji (e.g., ❤️).

2. TestConversationMentionHandling/[openai]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: is a list of bugs
  • Reason: The output does not provide an actual list of bugs; it states inability to access a bug tracker and provides a template for the user to fill in. Therefore it is not a list of bugs.

3. TestConversationMentionHandling/[openai]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: includes a description of each bug
  • Reason: The output does not include descriptions of any specific bugs; it only provides a template and requests the bug reports to be pasted.

4. TestConversationMentionHandling/[openai]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: attributes each bug to a user
  • Reason: The output provides a template with a 'Reported by' column but does not actually attribute any bug to a specific user, since no bugs are listed and no user attribution is made.

5. TestConversationMentionHandling/[openai]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: attributes the bug about trying to save without a color and the save button not doing anything to @maria.nunez
  • Reason: The output does not mention the specific bug about trying to save without a color and the save button not doing anything, nor does it attribute that bug to @maria.nunez. It only provides a generic template and asks for bug reports.

6. TestConversationMentionHandling/[openai]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: the bug about the end user being able to change channel banner is attributed to @maria.nunez
  • Reason: The output does not mention any specific bug about an end user being able to change the channel banner, nor does it attribute such a bug to @maria.nunez. It only provides a generic template and asks for bug reports to be pasted.

7. TestDirectMessageConversations/[openai]_bot_dm_tool_introspection

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: mentions Github and refers to the documentation
  • Reason: The output refers to Mattermost docs and includes a documentation link, but it does not mention GitHub anywhere. Since the rubric requires both mentioning GitHub and referring to the documentation, it fails.

Anthropic

⚠️ Overall: 20/28 tests passed (71.4%)

Provider Total Passed Failed Pass Rate
⚠️ ANTHROPIC 28 20 8 71.4%

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ANTHROPIC

1. TestReactEval/[anthropic]_react_cat_message

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: The word/emoji is a cat emoji or a heart/love emoji
  • Reason: The output is the text token "heart_eyes_cat", not an actual cat emoji (e.g., 😺) or a heart/love emoji (e.g., ❤️).

2. TestChannelSummarization/[anthropic]_channel_summarization_developers_webapp_channel

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: mentions claudio and harrison discussing exactly what should be tracked for code coverage
  • Reason: The output mentions Claudio Costa working on adding code coverage tracking and Harrison raising a concern about snapshot tests inflating metrics, but it does not describe Claudio and Harrison discussing exactly what should be tracked for code coverage (i.e., the specific tracked items/scope).

3. TestConversationMentionHandling/[anthropic]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: is a list of bugs
  • Reason: The output does not provide any actual bugs; it states inability to access trackers and suggests where to look, so it is not a list of bugs.

4. TestConversationMentionHandling/[anthropic]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: includes a description of each bug
  • Reason: The output states it cannot access bug tracking systems and suggests where to find bugs, but it does not list any bugs or provide descriptions of each bug.

5. TestConversationMentionHandling/[anthropic]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: attributes each bug to a user
  • Reason: The output does not list any bugs at all, nor does it attribute bugs to specific users; it instead states it cannot access bug tracking systems and suggests ways to find bugs.

6. TestConversationMentionHandling/[anthropic]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: attributes the bug about trying to save without a color and the save button not doing anything to @maria.nunez
  • Reason: The output does not attribute any specific bug (saving without a color / save button not doing anything) to @maria.nunez; it only states lack of access and suggests where to look.

7. TestConversationMentionHandling/[anthropic]_conversation_from_attribution_long_thread.json

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: the bug about the end user being able to change channel banner is attributed to @maria.nunez
  • Reason: The output does not mention the specific bug (end user being able to change channel banner) nor attribute it to @maria.nunez. It only states inability to access trackers and suggests ways to find bugs.

8. TestDirectMessageConversations/[anthropic]_bot_dm_tool_introspection

  • Score: 0.00
  • Rubric: mentions Github and refers to the documentation
  • Reason: The output refers to the documentation at docs.mattermost.com, but it does not mention GitHub. Since the rubric requires both mentioning GitHub and referring to the documentation, it fails.

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Rejected tool calls now continue through follow-up processing. Rejected results become terminal and share only canned reasons. Follow-up requests add deduplicated guidance. Tool-call metadata remains available through conversion and redaction. Tests cover mixed outcomes, policy and licence denials, sharing, redaction, and follow-up suppression.

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Tool rejection follow-up

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rejected tool state and follow-up flow
conversations/tool_approval.go
Resolution tracking includes rejected and skipped calls. Rejected results become terminal and exclude tool arguments. Eligible follow-up requests continue processing.
Rejection guidance message handling
llm/tool_retry.go
Retry helpers detect human rejection in the latest tool-bearing post and add ToolRejectionUserMessage without duplication.
Tool rejection signal preservation
conversation/convert.go, conversation/convert_test.go
Conversion preserves tool titles, descriptions, UserInteraction, and WouldAutoExecute, including for rejected calls during redaction.
Follow-up and sharing behaviour validation
conversations/tool_rejection_followup_test.go, conversations/ask_user_question_flow_test.go, conversations/tool_approval_license_test.go, llm/tool_retry_test.go
Tests cover rejection outcomes, mixed batches, sharing, argument redaction, skipped interactions, policy-denied and unlicensed tools, follow-up suppression, and guidance idempotency.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Conversations
  participant ToolApprovalFlow
  participant LLMCompletion
  Conversations->>ToolApprovalFlow: resolve rejected tool call
  ToolApprovalFlow->>ToolApprovalFlow: mark result terminal and redact arguments
  ToolApprovalFlow->>Conversations: share rejection result
  ToolApprovalFlow->>LLMCompletion: request follow-up with rejection guidance
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1e63c

The change lets conversations continue after rejected tool calls while preserving existing behavior for other outcomes. A bounded privacy-readiness risk remains because the rejection flow lacks verification that audit records keep tool arguments and related content redacted; the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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In `@conversations/tool_rejection_followup_test.go`:
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Comment thread conversations/tool_rejection_followup_test.go
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Plugin Spinwick PR #996 🎉

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CodeRabbit's request to add e.CaptureAuditRecords() in conversations/tool_rejection_followup_test.go is not applicable: that helper is HTTP-layer API test infrastructure, and audit-record redaction for HandleToolCall is already covered in conversations/tool_approval_audit_test.go.

Merged master to pick up #990 (avatar.test.tsx png stub vs placeholder-icon.png), which caused plugin-tests to fail on this PR without any webapp changes here.

e2e-shard-4 failures on file-upload-drag-drop.spec.ts (known flake) and channel_autoreply.spec.ts mixed-case mention timeout are unrelated to the tool-rejection follow-up changes.

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Addressed remaining review feedback on HEAD 4b6dcc1b:

  • CodeRabbit e.CaptureAuditRecords() on the follow-up test remains not applicable (HTTP-layer helper; redaction already covered in conversations/tool_approval_audit_test.go).
  • Codex: policy/license denial of WouldAutoExecute tools no longer uses the user-rejection result. Those calls now continue with toolCallPolicyDeniedResult so the model cannot blame the user for an admin change.

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@cursor fix the conflicts

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I merged latest master into this branch and resolved the conflicts with rich tool-call rendering (#881).

The only conflicted files were conversation/convert.go and conversation/convert_test.go. I kept both sides: Title/Description from master, and UserInteraction/WouldAutoExecute from this PR. A leftover ToolCall.Schema field (removed on master) broke the conversion test compile; I dropped that field.

Conversion, rejection-follow-up, license, ask-user, and LLM retry tests all passed after the merge. The branch is pushed to PR #996.

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Approved. Cursor Bugbot and Cursor Security Agent were not present after the first check poll, so those signals were skipped; remaining review state and approval-policy discovery do not require human review. No reviewers were assigned.

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Master removed Schema from llm.ToolCall; keep Title, Description, and rejection signals in the identity-metadata test.

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Keep rejection follow-up (resolvedAny, policy-denied path) while taking
master's PostToBlocks removal and new() pointer helpers. Persist
WouldAutoExecute on toolUseBlocks so auto-run writes match the live path.

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✅ Bugbot reviewed your changes and found no new issues!

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Restore the license-gate follow-up LLM/streaming stubs dropped in the
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The 2026-09-09 master merge (#973 ABAC) dropped the license-gate follow-up LLM/streaming stubs and left one bots.New call on the old 7-arg signature. That broke lint and plugin-tests (conversations build failed) on 8b0bb693.

Pushed cf56c71a to restore those stubs and pass the passthrough access checker. Existing CodeRabbit/Codex threads stay resolved: e.CaptureAuditRecords() still does not apply to the service-level follow-up test (tool_approval_audit_test.go already covers audit redaction).

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CI on cf56c71 is red only on two checks that are unrelated to this PR’s tool-rejection follow-up (and unrelated to the compile-fix commit, which only touches conversations test helpers).

plugin-testsindexer.TestResumeRefreshesModelInfo/resume_writes_the_start-time_snapshot_and_unlocks_search expected IndexerModelKey model-a/1536 but still saw the pre-seeded old-model/768. indexer/ is identical to master and to the last green SHA on this PR (61e759bb). finishJob persists completed before persistModelInfoAfterJob; the test reads store.model immediately after waitForJobStatus(completed), so it can observe the stale KV. Same file already waits for persist in waitForStoredRetentionDays. Not caused by this change set.

e2e-shard-4dynamic_mcp_cross_turn_derivation.spec.ts timed out waiting for turn-2 Get Channel Info on the second RHS bot post. That spec passed on parent 8b0bb693 (full product diff vs master). cf56c71 cannot affect Playwright. The spec already documents empty-bot-post / Smocker-miss flakes on turn 2.

lint, plugin-tests compile (conversations 11.6s), build, evals, e2e-shard-1..3, and the rest of shard 4 are green. MERGEABLE, 0 behind master.

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