fix: users never learned they were out of credits — 9 bugs across codex, claude code, cursor, hermes and the CLI - #336
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…alance read The low-balance warning was a rider on the primary session-start banner (appendBalance in primary-banner.ts), so it inherited every reason that banner had to stay quiet: resume sessions, a missing session_id, and the 1h org-stats cache that hid a balance which dropped mid-hour. Users on an org under $2 saw the top-up CTA only sometimes. Own the warning here instead, and read the balance fresh rather than off the cached stats, so the only thing deciding whether the user is warned is the balance.
…nner Two changes to the drain: - Wire in pickLowBalanceNotice as its own source and drop appendBalance from primary-banner, so the warning no longer depends on whether a welcome banner happened to render. Proven with the shipped 0.7.145 bundle against a stub serving a $1.37 balance: on source=resume it emits nothing at all; with this change it emits the warning. - Sort the rendered block by severity. 'Credits exhausted - top up' was rendering under the welcome banner and the referral nudge, which is where a user has stopped reading.
CLI callers print this straight to the terminal, so 'Query failed: 402:
{"balance_cents":0,...}' read as an internal fault rather than 'your
account is out of credits'. That is exactly how the report came in:
`hivemind goal list` showed the raw body and the user had to dig to
work out what it meant.
Only the balance-exhausted 402 is reshaped; every other status keeps the
raw status+body the debugging paths expect.
…er shown
Codex never called the notifications framework. Notifications were
enqueued (balance-exhausted, from deeplake-api's 402 handler) and never
drained, so a Codex user whose org ran out of credits got no signal at
all: captures and recalls failed silently and no top-up CTA ever
appeared. That is the report from #platform on 2026-08-12.
Codex accepts exactly one JSON object on a hook's stdout and
session-start.js already owns it, so the hook drains with a deliver
override and merges the rendered channels into that object rather than
letting an adapter write a second one. The drain runs in parallel with
the skills auto-pull so it adds no wall time to a blocking hook.
Verified in the real Codex TUI (0.147.0) against a stub returning the
server's 402 body:
- SessionStart (completed) says: warning about credits exhausted
with the org-scoped billing link
… order - codex-notifications-merge: the drain runs as agent 'codex', the CTA lands in systemMessage, and the hook still emits exactly ONE JSON object (a second write would fail codex's strict parse and silently drop everything - the failure mode being fixed). - notifications-low-balance: the warning is pinned to the balance and nothing else - no session_id gate, reads fresh past the org-stats cache, silent at <=0 (that is the 402 path) and on an unknown header. - notifications: warnings render above informational items. - deeplake-api-balance-exhausted: the out-of-credits 402 now throws the human-readable message; a 402 without balance_cents keeps the raw shape. The dedup case needed a fresh Response per call - a Response body reads once, so the reused instance handed later queries an empty body. - codex-session-start-hook: stub the drain and poll for output; the old single-tick wait leaked one test's stdout into the next test's capture once the hook grew an async step.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change centralizes balance detection, adds uncached low-balance notifications, and orders notification delivery. Codex now drains notifications during SessionStart and merges user-visible and model-safe channels into one JSON response. ChangesBalance-aware notification and delivery flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to The PR improves delivery of low-balance and exhausted-credit prompts across agent sessions. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the notification documentation still omits openclaw and does not accurately distinguish Codex from Claude Code rendering behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@src/notifications/AGENT_CHANNELS.md`:
- Around line 9-16: Update the Codex “v1 implication” and “v1 delivery summary”
sections to remove obsolete claims that Codex lacks a shared adapter, is not
shipped, or is not wired. Keep a single current description consistent with the
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Unlike Claude Code, where the drain is its own hook command, this hook also carries the memory/login context and Codex kills it at 10s. A slow drain (goals SQL retrying behind a stalled network) would have taken the whole output with it. Stop waiting at 4s; notifications that land after that go back on the queue for the next session rather than being marked shown and never rendered. Surfaced by tests/codex/codex-integration.test.ts flaking under a loaded full-suite run: it executes the real bundle as a subprocess and inherited the developer's HOME, so with real credentials present the hook made live API calls and blew its 15s timeout. Point that test's HOME at an empty temp dir so it stays hermetic. Also adds drain coverage for the deliver override, the low-balance notice, and the unlabelled-severity ordering fallback - src/notifications /index.ts branch coverage had dropped to 78% against an 80% gate.
…of racing them The integration suite executes the real bundles, which spawn a detached setup worker. With HOME pointed at a temp dir that worker provisioned tree-sitter deps into it, and afterAll's cleanup removed the directory while the install was still writing: ENOTEMPTY in CI even though all 5834 tests passed. Use the canonical opt-outs (HIVEMIND_GRAPH_ON_STOP=0, HIVEMIND_AUTOPULL_DISABLED=1) so the worker has nothing to write, rather than making the cleanup tolerate the race.
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- AGENT_CHANNELS.md still said Codex needed no shared adapter, was not wired, and that Claude Code was the only shipped agent. Those sections contradicted the status table I updated at the top; rewrite them to describe the shipped flow (deliver override, delivery/codex.ts, the drain deadline). - Assert the full rendered notification, not fragments: a substring match on 'credits exhausted' would still pass if the billing link - the whole point of the CTA - were dropped. - Assert presence before position in the ordering tests. indexOf alone passes when the item that should come FIRST is missing (-1 < n), which is the exact regression those tests exist to catch.
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9-16: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep the status sentence consistent with the table.
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Document Codex’s channel-specific rendering.
The current summary applies Claude Code behavior to Codex. renderCodexChannels excludes userVisibleOnly notifications from additionalContext, so Codex’s two fields are not always identical. Codex also renders them as warning: ... and hook context: ..., not as Claude Code’s SessionStart:startup says: ... and a model-only context path. Split the Claude Code and Codex descriptions or state the Codex exceptions here.
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In `@src/notifications/AGENT_CHANNELS.md` around lines 97 - 106, Update the
notification channel documentation to separate Claude Code behavior from Codex
behavior, stating that renderCodexChannels excludes userVisibleOnly
notifications from additionalContext, that Codex’s fields may differ, and that
its user-visible prefixes are “warning: ...” and “hook context: ...” rather than
Claude Code’s rendering and model-only context path.
…sends it
The X-Activeloop-Balance-Cents header is on the SQL endpoint
(/workspaces/{ws}/tables/query), NOT on /me/hivemind-stats. Verified against
api.deeplake.ai across ten orgs: hivemind-stats never carries it.
So org-stats.ts's balance read has silently been null in production the whole
time - the low-balance warning could never have fired from that path - and
this source inherited the same mistake. My tests passed only because the stub
served the header on the endpoint I had assumed.
Proven on the real API: the fixed read returns a real balance where the old
path returned unknown, and a real org at $0.01 now renders the warning in a
real Codex session.
`hivemind goal list: fetch failed` is undici's bare TypeError; the real cause sits in .cause and never reached the user. The usual cause is not a broken network but an agent sandbox with outbound access disabled - verified with the installed CLI against a real org: the same command prints 'fetch failed' under Codex's default workspace-write sandbox and returns normally under danger-full-access. Now reports the host, the underlying code (e.g. EAI_AGAIN), and the sandbox possibility.
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…real
Three problems seen in real sessions on a $0 org:
- The billing link used orgName, a display name, producing
deeplake.ai/mvincig11's%20Organization/workspace/default/billing - an
apostrophe and an escaped space in a path segment. A dead link at the moment
the user needs to top up defeats the notice. The API exposes no slug
(/organizations/{id} returns only id + display name), so key on the UUID.
- 'Credits exhausted' was queue-only: written when a 402 fires, drained at the
NEXT SessionStart. So the session that broke said nothing ('no billing
messages in codex, so I don't know I finished the money'), whichever agent
started next ate the single queued copy, and after an org switch the stale
copy named the wrong org and linked to its billing page. Decide it from the
live balance read instead, which is scoped to current credentials; the live
notice supersedes a queued one with the same id. The 402 queue path stays as
the fallback when the balance read itself fails.
- 'SessionStart hook (failed) error: hook timed out after 10s' - Codex
discards the ENTIRE hook output on timeout, losing the login context and the
billing CTA together. Bounding just the drain missed the auto-pull, the
org-token heal and module init. Add a hook-wide budget that emits a minimal
correct output rather than letting Codex drop everything.
Switching from a drained org to a funded one still showed the drained org's 'credits exhausted' banner, linking to ITS billing page - so a user with money was told they had none, and the CTA pointed at an org they had left. The live-supersedes rule added earlier cannot catch this: a healthy org produces no live notice to supersede the queued one with. So the queued notice now carries the org that produced it, and the drain drops any queued notice whose org no longer matches the credentials in force. Verified against the real setup that produced the report: on june16 with a notice queued under mvincig11's org, the banner is gone; a notice queued under june16 still renders.
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Cursor, Hermes and Pi users got no signal at all when their org ran out of
credits - capture and recall silently returned nothing. Cursor and Hermes are
now covered; Pi is not (see below).
Neither harness has a user-visible session-start channel, verified rather than
assumed:
- Cursor (cursor-agent 2026.08.11): a marker probe wired into
~/.cursor/hooks.json shows only top-level additional_context survives, and
only into the MODEL. systemMessage, nested hookSpecificOutput and stderr are
all dropped.
- Hermes: on_session_start's return is discarded upstream, and _parse_response
in agent/shell_hooks.py honours {"context": ...} for pre_llm_call alone.
Delivered from the already-registered pre_llm_call capture hook, so no
config change and no re-consent prompt; a sentinel keeps it to once per
session.
So on these agents the only route to the user runs through the model, which
forces a different rendering: billing notices go out as a statement of fact
('credits are exhausted; capture and recall are disabled'), never as the
imperative aimed at the user ('Top up at <url> to keep capturing') that
reviewers flag as a prompt-injection shape. Only our own statically-authored
billing copy is eligible - mined insights and backend pushes stay out.
Verified in real sessions of each harness. Pi is left alone: its installed
extension injects context only through a static ~/.pi/agent/AGENTS.md, so
there is no per-session channel to carry this.
The cursor and hermes adapters added in 9836401 were never exercised - production passes a deliver override for both - so delivery/index.ts fell to 37% lines against a 90% gate. These assert the SHAPE each harness actually parses, which is the part that silently breaks: claude-code and codex take the dual-channel object, cursor takes only top-level additional_context, hermes takes only {context}. Also pins that a model-only agent stays silent when the batch holds nothing it is allowed to relay, rather than emitting an empty context field.
The report
From #platform, 2026-08-12 (Davit relaying Pierre):
Pierre is on Codex. Emanuele also observed that even on Claude Code, an org under $2 shows the warning only sometimes.
Causes (each proven, not guessed)
1. Codex never drained the notifications framework.
src/hooks/codex/session-start.tshad no call todrainSessionStart, andsrc/notifications/delivery/index.tsregistered an adapter only forclaude-code. Thebalance-exhaustednotification enqueued atsrc/deeplake-api.ts:92therefore sat in~/.deeplake/notifications-queue.jsonforever. A Codex user got zero signal.2. The low-balance warning rode on an optional banner. It was appended to
pickPrimaryBanner's result, which returnsnullwhensource === "resume", when there is nosession_id, and it sourced the balance fromfetchOrgStats— cached for 1 hour, so a balance that dropped mid-hour stayed invisible. That is the "only sometimes".3. The 402 was printed raw.
Query failed: 402: {"balance_cents":0,...}reads as an internal fault, not "you are out of credits".4. When it did render, it rendered last — under the welcome banner and the referral nudge.
Changes
session-start.jsalready owns it, so the hook drains with adeliveroverride and merges the rendered channels into that object. Runs in parallel with the skills auto-pull, so it adds no wall time.sources/low-balance.ts) with an uncached balance read (sources/balance.ts). It no longer inherits the banner's suppression rules.status: bodyshape the debugging paths expect.Verified in reality, not only in tests
Real Codex TUI (0.147.0), isolated
HOME, stub serving the server's actual 402 body. The 402 fired during capture, enqueued the notification, and the next session rendered:Real Codex TUI, stub serving a $1.37 balance — warning now leads:
Before/after on Claude Code, same stub, same $1.37 balance, running the shipped
0.7.145bundle against this branch's build:sourcestartupresumecompact/clearsession_idTests
tests/codex/codex-notifications-merge.test.ts(new, 6),tests/claude-code/notifications-low-balance.test.ts(new, 8), plus severity ordering and updated 402 assertions. Full suite: 301 passed, 2 files failing —flush-memoryandgraph/command, both confirmed failing onmainbefore this branch.Session transcript (private repo): emanuele-vm:/home/emanuele/.agents/.history/versions/claude/2.1.220/home/.claude/projects/-home-emanuele-39-claude-code-plugin-deeplake-claude-code-plugins/e0c78cd3-6914-472d-9123-a46f85f6da4c.jsonl
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