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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe package adds frontend-only AG-UI activity snapshots and deltas. It defines activity types and message parts, processes snapshots and RFC 6902 patches, excludes activity messages from model input, and adds client persistence, rendering, and end-to-end coverage. ChangesAG-UI Activity Support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Adapter
participant ChatEngine
participant StreamProcessor
participant ChatClient
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Adapter->>ChatEngine: ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT and ACTIVITY_DELTA
ChatEngine->>StreamProcessor: process activity chunks
StreamProcessor->>ChatClient: update activity UIMessage
ChatEngine->>ActivityStore: save activity records
ActivityStore->>ChatClient: reconstruct activity messages
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Activity rows can be restored with incorrect order or missing metadata, and some valid client states can reject or corrupt activity updates. These issues should be resolved before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts`:
- Line 1896: The existing guard allows an ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT to replace
assistant, user, or system messages when replace is omitted; update the
message-processing logic around existing and replace so non-activity
conversation messages are always preserved, while retaining replacement behavior
only for existing activity messages when explicitly allowed. Add a regression
test covering an activity snapshot following assistant text with the same ID.
- Line 1957: Validate result.newDocument before assigning it to
ActivityPart.content: accept only non-null, non-array objects, and retain the
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produced by a root replace operation. Update the ACTIVITY_DELTA handling around
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- Around line 1934-1957: Update handleActivityDeltaEvent to compare the incoming
activityType with the existing activity part’s type before calling applyPatch.
Return early and reject the delta when they differ, preserving the existing
patch flow only for matching activity types.
In `@packages/ai/src/types.ts`:
- Line 1680: Update the live snapshot handler to use incoming chunk.metadata
with existing metadata as fallback, and update the delta handler to merge
metadata via mergeMessageMetadata while preserving existing keys; keep
aguiSnapshotMessageToUIMessage behavior consistent and add coverage for both
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve activity metadata in both live handlers.
aguiSnapshotMessageToUIMessage copies activity metadata, but the live snapshot handler ignores chunk.metadata, and the delta handler updates only activity content. Use incoming metadata for snapshots, with existing metadata as fallback, and merge delta metadata through mergeMessageMetadata so existing keys remain intact. Add coverage for both paths.
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In `@packages/ai/src/types.ts` at line 1680, Update the live snapshot handler to
use incoming chunk.metadata with existing metadata as fallback, and update the
delta handler to merge metadata via mergeMessageMetadata while preserving
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…andling - Added frontend-only activity messages: ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT and ACTIVITY_DELTA. - Updated StreamProcessor to handle these new message types without affecting model input. - Integrated fast-json-patch for applying updates to activity content. - Enhanced type definitions and tests to ensure proper functionality and type safety for activity messages. - Updated pnpm-lock.yaml to include fast-json-patch dependency.
- Introduced support for 'activity' role in UIMessage, allowing frontend-only activity messages to be appended without affecting model input. - Updated type definitions to include ActivityPart and modified relevant interfaces. - Enhanced chat client logic to handle activity messages appropriately, ensuring they are retained in the transcript but not sent to the model. - Added tests to verify the correct handling and integration of activity messages in various scenarios.
- Introduced emission of AG-UI ActivityMessage on MESSAGES_SNAPSHOT events. - Updated StreamProcessor to retain omitted activity rows when a snapshot replaces the transcript. - Enhanced uiMessagesToWire function to include activity messages based on the new includeActivity option. - Added tests to ensure correct handling of activity messages during persistence and snapshot processes.
- Introduced an ActivityStore to enable saving and reconstructing AG-UI activity without affecting the MessageStore. - Updated client persistence documentation to reflect the new activity storage capabilities. - Enhanced tests to validate the integration and functionality of the ActivityStore within the existing persistence framework.
- Updated the Messages component to skip rendering for 'activity' role messages, enhancing performance and clarity. - Refactored message part rendering logic for better readability and maintainability. - Adjusted type definitions and imports for consistency across the codebase. - Improved handling of JSON patching in activity records to ensure accurate updates.
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Add a provider-free /activity-test route that exercises live ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT/DELTA, MESSAGES_SNAPSHOT hydrate, and the client send filter so activity never goes back as model input.
Guard ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT from replacing non-activity messages, reject mismatched ACTIVITY_DELTA types and invalid root patch results, and merge activity metadata on live snapshot/delta. Add reconstructChat E2E via ActivityStore and render activity rows in the Angular chat example (PLAN checklist + JSON fallback).
…eam processor tests Updated the stream processor tests to use string literals for ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT and ACTIVITY_DELTA instead of EventType constants for improved clarity and consistency. This change also applies to the test-utils file and the e2e activity test route, ensuring uniformity across the codebase.
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1022-1022: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject
TEXT_MESSAGE_ENDfor an activity message.The START and CONTENT handlers reject an activity-owned
messageId. The END handler still passes that id tomergeMessageMetadata.A colliding text-end event can therefore add unrelated metadata to the activity message. Add the same activity-role guard before this merge.
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const { messageId } = chunk + if ( + this.messages.some( + (message) => message.id === messageId && message.role === 'activity', + ) + ) { + return + } this.mergeMessageMetadata(messageId, chunk.metadata)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts`:
- Line 2197: Update append’s pending-interrupt guard to reject only non-activity
input, allowing the normalizedMessage.role === 'activity' branch to proceed
during an interrupt; add a regression test covering activity append with a
pending interrupt.
In `@packages/ai-persistence/src/reconstruct.ts`:
- Around line 140-143: Update interleaveActivityRecords so inserting an activity
with an index equal to an existing record preserves their original order instead
of placing the later record first. Add a reconstruction test covering two stored
activities with the same index and verify their saved order remains unchanged.
In `@packages/ai/src/activities/chat/activity-records.ts`:
- Around line 189-194: Update ActivityRecord conversion and persistence flows to
retain optional AG-UI metadata: add the metadata field to ActivityRecord, clone
it in uiMessagesToActivityRecords, activityRecordToUIMessage, and
peelInboundActivities, and preserve existing behavior when metadata is absent.
Add a reconstruction test verifying metadata survives saving and restoring
activity records.
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In `@packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts`:
- Line 1022: Add the same activity-owned messageId guard used by the START and
CONTENT handlers before mergeMessageMetadata in the TEXT_MESSAGE_END handler,
rejecting the event before metadata is merged while preserving normal
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Allow activity append while an interrupt is pending.
When pending interrupts exist, append() throws before its frontend-only activity branch. Scope the guard to non-activity input and add a regression test.
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- if (this.hasPendingInterrupts()) {
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pending-interrupt guard to reject only non-activity input, allowing the
normalizedMessage.role === 'activity' branch to proceed during an interrupt; add
a regression test covering activity append with a pending interrupt.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve order for activities with the same index.
When two stored records have the same index, interleaveActivityRecords inserts the later record before the earlier record. For example, saved [act-1(index: 1), act-2(index: 1)] reconstructs as act-2, act-1.
Make equal-index insertion stable and add a reconstruction test with two activities at the same index. The PR objective requires activity ordering to survive reconstruction.
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In `@packages/ai-persistence/src/reconstruct.ts` around lines 140 - 143, Update
interleaveActivityRecords so inserting an activity with an index equal to an
existing record preserves their original order instead of placing the later
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Persist AG-UI activity metadata in ActivityRecord.
applyActivitySnapshotToUIMessages and applyActivityDeltaToUIMessages merge metadata into the live UIMessage, but uiMessagesToActivityRecords drops it. ActivityStore.saveActivities therefore cannot persist it, and activityRecordToUIMessage cannot restore it during reconstruction. Add optional metadata to ActivityRecord, clone it in both conversion directions and peelInboundActivities, and add a reconstruction test.
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In `@packages/ai/src/activities/chat/activity-records.ts` around lines 189 - 194,
Update ActivityRecord conversion and persistence flows to retain optional AG-UI
metadata: add the metadata field to ActivityRecord, clone it in
uiMessagesToActivityRecords, activityRecordToUIMessage, and
peelInboundActivities, and preserve existing behavior when metadata is absent.
Add a reconstruction test verifying metadata survives saving and restoring
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AG-UI activity now stays on the frontend path.
chat()peels it out of model input. The client keeps it inmessagesand does not send it again. An optionalActivityStorecan save it on the server and put it back inreconstructChat.Closes #1286
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ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT/ACTIVITY_DELTAand store them asrole: 'activity'UIMessagerows.sendMessage.ActivityMessageonMESSAGES_SNAPSHOTwhenincludeActivityis true.ActivityStore.MessageStorestaysModelMessage[]only.✅ Checklist
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pnpm test:pr— 379/379 succeeded.pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e exec playwright test tests/activity.spec.ts— 4 passed.pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai exec vitest run tests/stream-processor.test.ts -t "ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOT"— 15 passed.Manual test
ACTIVITY_SNAPSHOTthenACTIVITY_DELTA.role: 'activity'row and the adaptermessageshave norole: 'activity'.reconstructChatwithmemoryPersistence()(it includesactivities). Make sure that order is[user, activity, assistant].defineAIPersistence({ stores: { messages } })only. Make sure that there is no activity row.How this PR makes testing easy
testing/e2e/tests/activity.spec.tscovers live snapshot/delta, the send filter,MESSAGES_SNAPSHOThydrate, andreconstructChat. Unit tests cover peel, live events, send filter, snapshot wire, and sidecar reconstruct.Linked issues
Closes #1286
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Custom persistence adapters stay activity-less until they add
stores.activities.saveThreadandsaveActivitiesare two writes, not one transaction. Revert the PR to undo.Public API change
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