Peter isolated the on-off focus-jump precisely: when a durable 🧠 posts BELOW
the streaming window, the window (now above the reasoning) is repositioned to
stay newest by DELETING it and reposting below. Telegram cannot move messages,
so the delete-then-repost order scroll-jumps the client.
Root cause: rotateAnswerLaneAfterToolProgress rewound the tool-progress window
with stream.clear(), which deletes the old message IMMEDIATELY when it has been
on screen past the dwell — before the replacement message is sent. Delete-first,
post-second.
Fix — invert the order, preserving arrival order:
- draft-stream: new rotateToNewMessageDeferringDelete() rewinds the stream so the
NEXT update creates a fresh message, and schedules the superseded message's
delete for AFTER it (detached, floored at 1.5s so the new message lands first).
Extracted the shared deferred-delete scheduler (scheduleDetachedDelete) used by
both clear() and the reposition. (draft-stream.ts)
- dispatch: rotateAnswerLaneAfterToolProgress now repositions via that method
instead of clear()+forceNewMessage, so no window reposition deletes before the
replacement lands. (bot-message-dispatch.ts:1259)
Tests: draft-stream unit tests prove the sequencing (new message sent before the
old is deleted; delete deferred; no-op with no live message). Added a dispatch
repro (durable 🧠 then answer text mid-turn -> reposition, no clear). Updated the
predating tool-progress-rotation tests to assert the deferred-delete reposition
and that any deliverer-cleanup clear() runs only AFTER the rewind. 228 green
across bot-message-dispatch, draft-stream, progress-summary; extensions/telegram
typechecks clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Peter Lindsey
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