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feat(advisor): stream the answer over SSE instead of polling#797

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Summary

  • actual advisor now consumes the platform's SSE endpoint (POST /v1/advisor/query/stream) instead of starting a job and polling for it.
  • Phase progress (fetching, interpreting, summarizing) streams to stderr while the answer is prepared; the final answer prints to stdout and stays pipeable.
  • The old client-side five-minute poll cap is gone, so a long ADR-backed question runs to completion. A per-read idle timeout, kept alive by server heartbeats, is the only liveness bound.
  • A new --json flag emits the final answer as JSON on stdout for scripting.

Consuming the stream

A byte-level SSE decoder reassembles frames split across read chunks. The consumer dispatches phase / final / error / heartbeat, surfaces an error frame and any non-2xx response as a non-zero exit, and treats a graceful close without a final frame as completion.

Auth is unchanged: the same logged-in token and --api-url resolution, and the cross-org 403 → re-login (OrgMismatch) handling. --repo <id> forwards repo_unique_id to scope the answer to one connected repository (org-wide when omitted).

The now-unused start/poll client methods and their wire types are removed.

sequenceDiagram
    participant CLI as actual advisor
    participant API as api-service
    CLI->>API: POST /v1/advisor/query/stream (orgId, context, repo_unique_id)
    API-->>CLI: phase frames to stderr (fetching, interpreting, summarizing)
    API-->>CLI: final AdvisorOutput to stdout
    Note over CLI,API: heartbeats ignored, error frame exits non-zero
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Test plan

  • cargo test --workspace — unit tests cover SSE framing (phase ordering, final payload, error frame, heartbeat ignored, chunk reassembly) against a mocked stream, plus repo scoping, the cross-org 403 path, and JSON output.
  • cargo clippy -- -D warnings and cargo fmt --check are clean.
  • End-to-end against a live stream, once the server-side SSE endpoint is deployed to staging.

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benw5483 and others added 2 commits June 17, 2026 12:49
Switch `actual advisor` from the start+poll path (a POST to start a job, then a
GET loop with a client-side five-minute cap) to a single Server-Sent Events
stream (`POST /v1/advisor/query/stream`). The command now renders phase progress
(fetching, interpreting, summarizing) to stderr as the answer is prepared and
prints the final answer to stdout, so stdout stays pipeable. The poll cap is
gone, so a long ADR-backed question runs to completion; a per-read idle timeout,
kept alive by server heartbeats, is the only liveness bound.

- Add `AdvisorStreamRequest` (`{ orgId, context, repo_unique_id? }`) and a
  streaming HTTP client with no overall request timeout. The existing token and
  `--api-url` resolution and the cross-org 403 -> OrgMismatch re-login handling
  are unchanged; `--repo <id>` forwards `repo_unique_id` (org-wide when omitted).
- A byte-level SSE decoder reassembles frames split across read chunks. The
  consumer dispatches phase/final/error/heartbeat, surfaces an `error` frame and
  any non-2xx response as a non-zero exit, and treats a graceful close without a
  `final` frame as completion.
- Add a `--json` flag that prints the final answer as JSON on stdout; phase
  progress stays on stderr so stdout remains clean.
- Remove the now-unused start/poll client methods and their wire types.

Tests cover SSE framing (phase ordering, final payload, error, heartbeat
ignored, chunk reassembly) against a mocked stream, plus repo scoping, the
cross-org 403 path, and JSON output.

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…overage

The streaming rewrite left twelve lines short of the repo's per-file 100%
coverage gate. Close the gap with targeted unit tests plus one minimal
formatting change; the advisor command's runtime behavior is unchanged.

- client: add a stream test with no bearer token, exercising the `authed`
  no-token arm.
- client: collapse the streaming-client build-error `map_err` onto a single
  line (matching the sibling non-streaming client), so its unreachable error
  body is no longer counted as a standalone uncovered line.
- advisor: add a `render_phase` test for the silent (`done` / empty) and the
  unrecognized-phase arms.
- advisor: add a `run` test where the stream closes after a `final` frame with
  no terminating blank line, covering the end-of-stream flush recovery path.
- advisor: assert equality instead of matching in two frame tests, removing the
  untaken `panic!` arms the coverage gate counted as uncovered.

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