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🟠 Major · Correctness · confirmed by a second pass · _{score 8/10}

Evicting a topic loses its project mapping while leaving its session active

Opening the 65th topic silently shifts the oldest persisted mapping without removing its runtime or Telegram topic. For an evicted topic paired to another project, directoryOf immediately falls back to the chat's original project, while ensureSession still returns the old runtime session. Prompts then target one project while /file and /sessions target another. After restart, the same topic has neither its session nor its project mapping and its next prompt creates a new session in the wrong project. saveSession has the same eviction behavior for user-created topics. Reject additional topics or preserve consistent routing and lifecycle state when handling the cap.

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packages/daemon/src/channels-bridge.ts:123-124 (major, correctness): Evicting a topic loses its project mapping while leaving its session active
Opening the 65th topic silently shifts the oldest persisted mapping without removing its runtime or Telegram topic. For an evicted topic paired to another project, directoryOf immediately falls back to the chat's original project, while ensureSession still returns the old runtime session. Prompts then target one project while /file and /sessions target another. After restart, the same topic has neither its session nor its project mapping and its next prompt creates a new session in the wrong project. saveSession has the same eviction behavior for user-created topics. Reject additional topics or preserve consistent routing and lifecycle state when handling the cap.

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Fixed in 31c09720 (on beta-pr/4): past the cap the oldest topic is dropped together with its runtime (watch released, turn closed), so a later message there starts fresh in the chat's project for prompts and commands alike, and the same after a restart. Test: stopping releases every topic's session; past the cap the oldest topic is let go with its session.

🟠 Major · Reliability · confirmed by a second pass · _{score 8/10}

Table expansion can exceed Telegram's message limit and discard the answer

Messages are split before formatting, but table rendering pads every row to the widest cell and adds a separator. A small two-column Markdown table containing one 100-character first-column cell and 40 short rows fits comfortably below 3800 characters, yet expands beyond Telegram's 4096-character rendered-text limit. Telegram's message-too-long rejection does not match the fallback regex, so sendMessage rejects and the bridge only logs the failure. The answer, and any subsequent parts, never arrive. Enforce the limit after rendering or safely fall back to the original bounded text for this rejection.

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packages/daemon/src/channels-telegram.ts:80-83 (major, reliability): Table expansion can exceed Telegram's message limit and discard the answer
Messages are split before formatting, but table rendering pads every row to the widest cell and adds a separator. A small two-column Markdown table containing one 100-character first-column cell and 40 short rows fits comfortably below 3800 characters, yet expands beyond Telegram's 4096-character rendered-text limit. Telegram's message-too-long rejection does not match the fallback regex, so sendMessage rejects and the bridge only logs the failure. The answer, and any subsequent parts, never arrive. Enforce the limit after rendering or safely fall back to the original bounded text for this rejection.

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Fixed in 31c09720: a part whose rendered text passes Telegram's 4096 limit is sent as its plain text (which the split keeps under 3800), and a 'message is too long' rejection falls back the same way. Test: a part that formatting makes longer than Telegram allows goes as its plain text.

🟠 Major · Reliability · confirmed by a second pass · _{score 7/10}

Topic-only runtimes are not cleaned up when the bridge stops

forget now expects a bare chat ID, but stop still passes every runtime key directly to it. When pairing opens only session topics, those keys are composite values such as "7/100", so chatIdOf(id) === chat never matches and no runtime is removed. Consequently, active progress timers are not cancelled and session watches are not released by stop; timers can still attempt Telegram requests after remote control is disabled or the polling connection is replaced. The topic resume test checks watch calls but never verifies that stop unwatches or clears active turns.

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packages/daemon/src/channels-bridge.ts:535-536 (major, reliability): Topic-only runtimes are not cleaned up when the bridge stops
forget now expects a bare chat ID, but stop still passes every runtime key directly to it. When pairing opens only session topics, those keys are composite values such as "7/100", so chatIdOf(id) === chat never matches and no runtime is removed. Consequently, active progress timers are not cancelled and session watches are not released by stop; timers can still attempt Telegram requests after remote control is disabled or the polling connection is replaced. The topic resume test checks watch calls but never verifies that stop unwatches or clears active turns.

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Fixed in 31c09720: stop releases every place, topics included (forgetPlace per runtime key). Covered by the same test as the cap: stop unwatches both topic sessions.

🟡 Minor · Correctness · confirmed by a second pass · _{score 7/10}

Topic progress edits send the composite place ID as Telegram's chat ID

Topic messages use place IDs such as "7/100". Initial progress sends correctly separate the chat and thread, but both touch and finish pass the composite ID directly to editMessage. That API forwards it unchanged as chat_id, so Telegram rejects the edit. Every topic progress message therefore remains at its initial Working state, including after completion, cancellation or failure; the errors are silently swallowed. The edit mock accepts arbitrary strings and does not exercise live progress together with topics.

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packages/daemon/src/channels-bridge.ts:320 (minor, correctness): Topic progress edits send the composite place ID as Telegram's chat ID
Topic messages use place IDs such as "7/100". Initial progress sends correctly separate the chat and thread, but both touch and finish pass the composite ID directly to editMessage. That API forwards it unchanged as chat_id, so Telegram rejects the edit. Every topic progress message therefore remains at its initial Working state, including after completion, cancellation or failure; the errors are silently swallowed. The edit mock accepts arbitrary strings and does not exercise live progress together with topics.

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Already fixed in 2770e95 (part 3): both progress edits pass chatIdOf(id) and threadOf(id).

🟡 Minor · Correctness · confirmed by a second pass · _{score 6/10}

Links with inline-code labels lose their visible label

Code spans are replaced with placeholders before links are protected. For foo, the stored link HTML therefore contains the placeholder for foo. The final replace restores only the outer link placeholder; JavaScript does not recursively process replacement text, so the output contains a NUL-delimited index instead of the code label. This corrupts a common format for linked filenames and symbols. The plain-text fallback cannot reliably recover it because it runs only if Telegram returns one of the selected parsing errors.

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packages/daemon/src/channels-format.ts:19-20 (minor, correctness): Links with inline-code labels lose their visible label
Code spans are replaced with placeholders before links are protected. For [`foo`](https://example.com), the stored link HTML therefore contains the placeholder for foo. The final replace restores only the outer link placeholder; JavaScript does not recursively process replacement text, so the output contains a NUL-delimited index instead of the code label. This corrupts a common format for linked filenames and symbols. The plain-text fallback cannot reliably recover it because it runs only if Telegram returns one of the selected parsing errors.

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Fixed in 31c09720: kept placeholders are restored until none is left (bounded by nesting depth), so a linked code label keeps its text. Test: a link whose label is code keeps the label.