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fix: repair stale chat agent bindings after workspace rebuild - #28152

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Problem

When a chat is bound to a workspace, chatd persists chats.agent_id pointing at a specific workspace agent, and it only rebinds on the next chat turn. A workspace stop/start creates a new agent with a new ID in the latest build, so the chat page resolves the stale agent ID to undefined and the right sidebar silently drops Terminal, Desktop, Browser, apps, and ports even though the workspace is running. The existing read-time enrichment only filled nil agent IDs and skipped stale non-nil ones, so refreshing did not help until the user sent another message.

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  • coderd/exp_chats.go: single-chat reads now repair agent IDs that no longer resolve in the workspace's latest build, using the same agentselect.FindChatAgent selection chatd uses. Bindings that still resolve are preserved, and repair stays best-effort and response-only (no write-on-read). List reads keep the previous nil-fill-only behavior because validating existing bindings would cost a per-workspace authorization lookup per listed chat.
  • site/src/pages/AgentsPage/AgentChatPage.tsx: the workspace watch update handler detects when a running workspace's latest build no longer contains the chat's bound agent and invalidates the chat query, rate-limited to one refetch per chat/build/binding key every 30 seconds so a failed repair retries on a later watch event instead of latching or refetching on every event. The watch stream replays the current workspace on every (re)connect, so this covers rebuilds that happen while the page is open or disconnected; page loads are covered by the server-side repair. The workspace-watcher bailout now also keys on latest_build.id so a rebuild propagates while the page is open.

Testing

  • go test ./coderd -run TestEnrichChatAgentIDs covering repair, keep-valid, selection-error, list-mode-skips-bound, and no-workspaces cases.
  • Storybook interaction story RecoversSidebarAfterWorkspaceRebuild exercising the watch-event to chat-refetch to sidebar-recovery flow (verified red without the invalidation, green with it).
  • pnpm test AgentChatPage.test.ts covering the binding-resolution predicate.

Mux created this PR on Mike's behalf.

After an attached workspace is rebuilt, the chat's persisted agent_id
references an agent from the previous build until the next turn rebinds
it. The chat UI resolves the agent by exact ID against the latest
build, so the right panel lost its Terminal, Desktop, Browser, and app
tabs even though the workspace was running.

Repair stale bindings in chat read responses using the same agent
selection chatd uses, and refetch the chat once per build when the
binding no longer resolves in a running workspace.
Reword comments that overclaimed chatd authorship and persisted-binding
repair, drop a test comment that restated its assertions, and flatten
workspace agents once in isChatAgentBindingUnresolved.
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Comment thread coderd/exp_chats.go Outdated
Comment thread site/src/pages/AgentsPage/AgentChatPage.tsx Outdated
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Scope binding repair to single-chat reads so chat-list reads keep the
nil-fill-only behavior and avoid a per-workspace authorization lookup
per listed chat. Move the frontend stale-binding detection from an
effect into the workspace watch update handler per FE8, and add a
Storybook interaction story covering rebuild recovery.
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Comment thread site/src/pages/AgentsPage/AgentChatPage.tsx Outdated
The query client disables retries, so a transient refetch failure
permanently latched the dedupe key and blocked sidebar recovery until
a reload or another rebuild. Clear the key when the refetch errors so
the next workspace watch event retries.
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Server-side repair is best-effort, so a transient failure returns
HTTP 200 with the stale binding and no query error, which permanently
latched the dedupe key. Replace the latch and the error-state check
with a 30s cooldown per chat/build/binding key so any failed repair
retries on a later watch event without refetching on every event.
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Comment on lines +1066 to +1067
agentBindingRefetchRef.current = { key: refetchKey, at: now };
void invalidateChatEntity(queryClient, agentId);

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P2 Badge Schedule the retry instead of waiting for another watch event

If the rebuild-triggered refetch fails or returns the stale binding after a transient enrichment error, this records the cooldown timestamp but schedules no retry. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier thread is that the server watcher sends its initial update and then waits silently for pubsub or disconnect events (coderd/workspaces.go:2242-2252), so a stable workspace may never invoke this handler again after the cooldown; with query retries disabled, the sidebar remains unavailable until reload or reconnection. Schedule a delayed retry while the binding remains unresolved, or retry based on the refetch result.

AGENTS.md reference: site/AGENTS.md:L16-L17

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