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A DM participant's inbox unread count follows dm_participants.last_read_id. Marking a message read, or acknowledging its delivery, moves that cursor forward. Later inbox reads stay cleared, and an older message id does not move the cursor backward.

Channel unread still uses channel_members.last_read_id. A DM has no channel membership row, so the inbox reads the participant cursor for DMs.

Migration 0078_dm_participant_read_cursor.sql adds the nullable cursor. Existing conversations stay unread until the next mark-read or delivery acknowledgement.

Patch. No public API change.

Fixes #580

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The change adds a DM read cursor to dm_participants. Read operations and delivery acknowledgements advance the cursor, and inbox unread counts use it to determine which DM messages remain unread. Channel unread counts continue to use the channel membership cursor. Both inbox queries compare message IDs by length and then text.

Changes: DM unread cursor

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store and advance DM read cursors packages/engine/src/db/migrations/0078_dm_participant_read_cursor.sql, packages/engine/src/db/schema.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/receipt.ts, packages/engine/src/db/__tests__/*, packages/engine/src/__tests__/atomicity.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md, packages/engine/CHANGELOG.md	A migration and schema field add a nullable participant read cursor and backfill it from DM read receipts. markRead advances the cursor with the existing atomic read-state writes. Migration and atomicity tests cover the cursor and its updates.
Calculate inbox unread counts packages/engine/src/engine/inbox.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/dmUnreadCursor.test.ts	DM unread counts use the active participant cursor. Channel unread counts continue to use the channel membership cursor. Both use length-then-text ordering for message IDs. Conformance tests cover DM reads, cursor ordering, and channel unread behavior.
Advance cursors during delivery acknowledgement packages/engine/src/engine/delivery.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/atomicity.test.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/dmUnreadCursor.test.ts	Delivery acknowledgements batch delivery and read-state writes. Cumulative acknowledgements process batches of up to 50, advancing the sequence cursor on the final batch. Tests cover DM unread counts after acknowledgment, dead-lettered deliveries, and cursor-update failures.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• AgentWorkforce/relaycast#580: This PR adds and advances dm_participants.last_read_id for DM unread counts, addressing the issue’s cursor mismatch.

Possibly related PRs

• AgentWorkforce/relaycast#582: PR #582 embeds engine SQL migrations in standalone binaries. The migration added here must be included for those binaries to apply it.

Suggested reviewers: khaliqgant

Merge Risk: Low · previous review c0464

The DM unread fix is mergeable with a bounded testing follow-up: verify that interrupted cumulative acknowledgements preserve the cursor at the last committed chunk. No new runtime failure was established.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: advancing DM unread cursors on participant rows.
Description check		The description directly explains the DM unread-cursor fix, migration, channel behavior, and expected cursor advancement.
Linked Issues check		Issue #580 requires DM unread counts to decrease after a read action. markRead updates the active participant's dm_participants.last_read_id in the atomic write batch. getInbox counts DM message…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files support the DM unread-cursor objective in #580. The schema, migration, receipt path, delivery path, inbox query, and migration and conformance tests implement or verify that behavior…

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Issue #580 requires DM unread counts to decrease after a read action. markRead updates the active participant's dm_participants.last_read_id in the atomic write batch. getInbox counts DM messages after that cursor. The cursor moves only forward. Delivery acknowledgements use the same cursor path. Migration 0078_dm_participant_read_cursor.sql adds the nullable column and seeds it from existing DM read receipts. Conformance and atomicity tests cover DM clearing, acknowledgements, ordering, non-regression, and rollback behavior.

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The changed files support the DM unread-cursor objective in #580. The schema, migration, receipt path, delivery path, inbox query, and migration and conformance tests implement or verify that behavior. The shared length-then-lexical cursor comparison also preserves correct channel unread behavior and has channel regression coverage. Changelog updates document the related fix. No unrelated public API or feature area is changed.

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Summary

DM unread counts now use each participant’s last_read_id. Reads and delivery acknowledgements move that cursor forward without moving it backward.

• DM unread counts follow each participant’s read cursor.
• Inbox counts order message IDs by digit length before text.

All four supplied previous findings are addressed. None had a supplied comment number.

Diagram

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flowchart TD
  A[Mark DM message read] --> C[Commit receipt and cursor writes together]
  B[Acknowledge DM delivery] --> D[Commit acknowledgement and cursor writes together]
  C --> E[Advance participant cursor only forward]
  D --> E
  E --> F[Inbox counts messages from others after cursor]

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Review comments at @packages/engine/src/engine/delivery.ts:
- Around line 419-430: Update ackRows so readCursorWrites runs only for
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Reviewed with an eye for abuse, since #580 came from an outside reporter. I found no exploit path. The issue reads like a genuine bug report, and the PR avoided its riskiest suggestion: option 3, auto-inserting channel_members rows for DM participants, would have mixed DM participants into channel-membership authorization checks such as markRead's first lookup.

What I checked:

• Cursor scope. advanceDmParticipantReadCursor only updates the caller's own dm_participants row (agent_id = caller AND left_at IS NULL). channelId always comes from a server-side lookup: the message row in markRead, and the deliveries⋈messages join in the ack paths. A caller can't move another participant's cursor or point the update at a conversation they aren't in.
• Authorization. markRead already rejects non-members and non-participants before any write, so the new statement adds no new reach. Ack paths go through getOwnedDelivery / node + agent ownership as before.
• Dead-letter gating. Gating the receipt and both cursors on the pre-ack status fixes a small existing gap: before, acking a dead-lettered delivery still wrote a receipt and moved the channel cursor. Good catch, and it's tested.
• No leakage. No route serializes raw dm_participants rows, so last_read_id doesn't show up anywhere new.

Two inline notes. The batch-size one is worth a look before merge; the other is non-blocking.

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packages/engine/src/__tests__/atomicity.test.ts: 1

231-234: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a DM-backed cumulative-ack test that checks the cursor after each chunk.

The chunked backlog test at packages/engine/src/__tests__/atomicity.test.ts:231-260 builds its backlog from channel messages. The DM cursor update matches no row for a channel message, so this test never reads dm_participants.lastReadId. A change that keeps the DM update statement but suppresses its effect in intermediate chunks, for example by gating it on the last chunk, would pass this test and the single-delivery DM tests. A change that removes the DM update call entirely would still fail the existing test, because the injected failure would never fire.

Add a DM backlog that spans more than DELIVERY_EXPIRY_BATCH_SIZE deliveries. Assert the cursor after a failed second chunk and again after retry. A final-cursor assertion alone does not detect a skipped intermediate write.

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+    it('keeps the DM cursor at the last acked message of each chunk in a cumulative backlog', async () => {
+      const { ws, alice, bob, db } = await seed();
+      await db.insert(nodes).values({
+        id: 'node_ack_dm_chunk',
+        workspaceId: ws.workspaceId,
+        name: 'ack-dm-chunk',
+        tokenHash: 'ack-dm-chunk-token',
+      });
+      await db.update(agents).set({
+        locationType: 'via_node',
+        locationNodeId: 'node_ack_dm_chunk',
+        providerName: 'default',
+      }).where(eq(agents.id, bob.agentId));
+
+      const count = DELIVERY_EXPIRY_BATCH_SIZE + 1;
+      for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+        await sendDm(db, ws.workspaceId, alice.agentId, { to: 'bob', text: `dm${i}` });
+      }
+      const bobRows = (await db.select().from(deliveries).where(eq(deliveries.agentId, bob.agentId)))
+        .sort((a, b) => a.seq - b.seq);
+      expect(bobRows).toHaveLength(count);
+      const upToSeq = bobRows[count - 1].seq;
+      const endOfChunkOne = bobRows[DELIVERY_EXPIRY_BATCH_SIZE - 1].messageId;
+      const endOfBacklog = bobRows[count - 1].messageId;
+
+      const restore = injectUpdateFailure(db, dmParticipants, 'injected dm chunk cursor failure', {
+        skip: DELIVERY_EXPIRY_BATCH_SIZE,
+        times: 1,
+      });
+      await expect(ackDeliveriesUpToSeq(
+        db, ws.workspaceId, 'node_ack_dm_chunk', 'default', 'bob', upToSeq,
+      )).rejects.toThrow('injected dm chunk cursor failure');
+      restore();
+
+      const [paused] = await db.select().from(dmParticipants).where(eq(dmParticipants.agentId, bob.agentId));
+      expect(paused.lastReadId).toBe(endOfChunkOne);
+
+      const done = await ackDeliveriesUpToSeq(
+        db, ws.workspaceId, 'node_ack_dm_chunk', 'default', 'bob', upToSeq,
+      );
+      expect(done?.acked).toBe(1);
+      const [finished] = await db.select().from(dmParticipants).where(eq(dmParticipants.agentId, bob.agentId));
+      expect(finished.lastReadId).toBe(endOfBacklog);
+    });

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Add a DM-backed cumulative-ack test using sendDm to create a backlog larger than
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