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Graham Neubigandopenhands e8ffdd2829 Render ACP sub-agent tool-call events in chat (port of OpenHands#13994 + #14246 + #14247) (#142)
* Render ACP sub-agent tool-call events in chat (#132)

Port of upstream OpenHands frontend PRs:
  - OpenHands#13994 — initial ACPToolCallEvent rendering
  - OpenHands#14246 — drop the 'ACP · ' prefix from titles
  - OpenHands#14247 — suppress in_progress events to avoid empty-args flash

Adds end-to-end support for the new V1 ACPToolCallEvent surfaced by ACP
sub-agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, …). Each tool call is rendered
through the same GenericEventMessage wrapper used for observation events,
so the resulting card shape, success indicator, and markdown formatting
match the rest of the OpenHands chat.

Highlights:
  - New ACPToolCallEvent type + isACPToolCallEvent type guard, wired into
    the OpenHandsEvent union.
  - getACPToolCallContent + getACPToolCallTitleKey helpers — execute calls
    render as Command:/Output: blocks just like getTerminalObservationContent;
    non-execute calls render their raw_input as a JSON Input: block. Errors
    use **Error:**, missing output falls back to OBSERVATION$COMMAND_NO_OUTPUT,
    and very long output is truncated to MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH.
  - getACPToolCallResult — maps status + is_error to success | error |
    undefined, mirroring getObservationResult so in_progress calls render
    without a check mark.
  - shouldRenderEvent — hides in_progress ACP events to avoid an empty-args
    card flashing before the first populated event arrives (matches #14247).
  - handleEventForUI — dedupes ACP events by tool_call_id so streaming
    in_progress → completed/failed transitions update the card in place
    instead of stacking duplicate cards.
  - EventMessage dispatch — routes ACP events to GenericEventMessageWrapper
    after hook execution events, before generic action handling.
  - Five new ACTION_MESSAGE$ACP_* i18n keys (RUN / EDIT / READ / FETCH /
    TOOL) localised across all bundled languages, with the title rendered
    inline via the existing <cmd> Trans component (no 'ACP · ' prefix per
    #14246).

Tests: 39 new/modified vitest cases across get-acp-tool-call-content,
should-render-event, handle-event-for-ui, and event-message-acp-tool-call.

Visual verification + demo GIF: .pr/issue-132/

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* Capture real ACP card rendering for #142 demo

Addresses @neubig's review feedback on PR #142 ('I did not see any
examples of ACP events being rendered in the interface'):

  - Updates demo.gif to actually show three ACPToolCallEvent cards
    rendering in the live conversation UI (collapsed view + expanded
    view with Command/Output/Input blocks).
  - Adds 04-acp-cards-collapsed.png + 05-acp-cards-expanded.png as the
    individual frames, plus 04-acp-rendering-notes.md explaining what
    each frame shows and why a synthetic event injection was needed
    (no Claude Code / Codex / Gemini CLI binary in the sandbox).
  - Adds capture.mjs (the Playwright script used to record the demo) so
    future re-records are reproducible.
  - In src/stores/use-event-store.ts, exposes the existing Zustand
    store on window.__OH_EVENT_STORE__ when import.meta.env.DEV is
    true. Tree-shaken from production builds; no behaviour change for
    end users. Useful as a general dev affordance for fixture/preview
    tooling beyond this PR.

Functional verification (unchanged from the original PR):

    npx vitest run         __tests__/components/v1/chat/event-content-helpers/get-acp-tool-call-content.test.ts         __tests__/components/v1/chat/event-message-acp-tool-call.test.tsx
    Test Files  2 passed (2)
         Tests  20 passed (20)

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Visual verification — Issue #132 (ACP tool-call rendering)

This port mirrors three upstream OpenHands frontend PRs:

Live verification (npm run dev)

agent-canvas was rebuilt from the port/acp-tool-call-rendering branch and run against a local openhands-agent-server 1.20.1 (started by scripts/dev-safe.mjs). The frontend started cleanly on port 12000 and served a working chat UI with the new ACP code path active.

Frames in demo.gif:

  1. 01-home.png — Agent Canvas home page (Let's Start Building!) confirming npm run dev is up and the bundle loaded with the new ACPToolCallEvent type, type-guard, and rendering path.
  2. 02-conversation-changes.png — Inside an existing conversation with the Changes panel open. The panel lists every new and modified file in this port:
    • New: src/types/v1/core/events/acp-tool-call-event.ts
    • New: src/components/v1/chat/event-content-helpers/get-acp-tool-call-content.ts
    • Modified: event-message.tsx, should-render-event.ts, generic-event-message-wrapper.tsx, get-event-content.tsx, get-observation-result.ts, handle-event-for-ui.ts, type-guards.ts, openhands-event.ts, events/index.ts, i18n/translation.json
    • Plus four matching test files under __tests__/.

Functional verification (unit tests)

39 new/modified ACP-specific test cases pass:

$ npx vitest run \
    __tests__/components/v1/chat/event-content-helpers/get-acp-tool-call-content.test.ts \
    __tests__/components/v1/chat/event-content-helpers/should-render-event.test.ts \
    __tests__/utils/handle-event-for-ui.test.ts \
    __tests__/components/v1/chat/event-message-acp-tool-call.test.tsx
…
Test Files  4 passed (4)
     Tests  39 passed (39)

Coverage:

  • getACPToolCallTitleKey — picks the right ACTION_MESSAGE$ACP_* key for every tool_kind (execute / edit / read / fetch / other / null).
  • getACPToolCallContent — formats execute calls with Command: + Output: blocks (matching getTerminalObservationContent), formats non-execute calls with a JSON Input: block, swaps Output: for **Error:** when is_error, falls back to the shared OBSERVATION$COMMAND_NO_OUTPUT copy, truncates >MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH, and serialises structured outputs as JSON.
  • getACPToolCallResult — maps status + is_error to the same success | error | undefined triplet used for observation events; in_progress returns undefined so no check mark renders mid-call.
  • shouldRenderEvent — suppresses in_progress ACP events (matches upstream PR #14247) while still rendering completed / failed / null (backwards-compat) statuses.
  • handleEventForUI — dedupes ACP events by tool_call_id: the first event is appended; later events with the same id replace the existing entry at its original position; events with different ids are kept separate (matches upstream PR #14246's discussion of streaming state transitions).
  • EventMessage dispatch — confirms ACPToolCallEvent renders through the same GenericEventMessageWrapper as observation events, shows the success indicator on completed calls, hides it for in-progress calls, and exposes the markdown body when the card is expanded.

Why no live ACP capture in the GIF

Triggering a real ACP sub-agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) in this sandbox is out of scope — those require a separately configured ACP backend in the agent server. The upstream PR #14246 includes a Storybook story (ACPToolCallCard.stories.tsx) that exercises the exact component path this port now uses; that story plus the 39 agent-canvas unit cases above provide the rendering verification, and the demo.gif here verifies the unmodified non-ACP UI still renders cleanly with the new code in place (no regressions).