[eric] release: 1.7.9 ships with a story, and two log assertions stop reading the root logger

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018foyDoK19jjbYdudfzQVkZ

backend/apps/help/changelog.py

@@ -21,6 +21,28 @@ P_RELEASES: List[ReleaseNote] = [
     # Only lines that are true of the built app belong here. This one file feeds the in-app card, the
     # GitHub body AND the Help agent's context, so a line written for a planned feature becomes the
     # agent confidently describing something that does not exist.
+    ReleaseNote(
+        version="1.7.9",
+        headline="Agents keep going when the connection does not, and the fn key finally works.",
+        highlights=[
+            "Press fn to dictate on any Mac. It asks for permission the first time you use it rather than at install, and it recovers without a relaunch if you grant it later.",
+            "Drop files straight onto a chat. Anything the app cannot take now says so instead of silently doing nothing.",
+            "The transcript follows a running agent until you scroll away, and re-pins itself the moment you scroll back.",
+            "Agents can move, tile, collapse and close their own cards, so a busy canvas tidies itself.",
+        ],
+        fixes=[
+            "A dropped connection no longer costs you the conversation. The agent reconnects and carries on from where it was.",
+            "Pressing Stop stops it. A background watchdog can no longer restart a chat you just ended.",
+            "Chats stopped disconnecting mid task. A slow web page was being mistaken for a jammed tool and shot, roughly ten times a week per install.",
+            "An agent that runs out of things to say gets asked once for its answer instead of leaving you looking at a Done label with nothing under it.",
+            "Signing in on a fresh install works. The hand off back from your browser was landing on the wrong port.",
+            "An expired provider login renews itself mid run instead of stopping the turn and asking you to reconnect.",
+            "A browser agent can no longer report a task complete when the page never changed.",
+            "Turning a schedule on or off tells you the truth. A failed save used to leave the switch showing the wrong state.",
+            "Card resizing ends when you let go, even over an embedded browser.",
+            "Dictation goes to the chat you were typing in, not a brand new one.",
+        ],
+    ),
     ReleaseNote(
         version="1.7.8",
         headline="A stuck chat unsticks itself, and agents can finally upload files.",

backend/tests/test_fault_injection.py

@@ -19,6 +19,38 @@ from backend.apps.agents.core.error_classify import (
 )
 
 TURN_RUNNER = "backend/apps/agents/manager/run/TurnRunner.py"
+
+class p_capture:
+    """Capture a specific logger directly.
+
+    `caplog` reads the ROOT logger, so it goes blind the moment any other test in the run sets
+    propagate=False on ours: these two assertions passed alone and failed in the full suite while
+    the line was plainly there in captured stderr. A logging assertion must not depend on what
+    3,000 other tests did to the logging tree.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        import logging
+        self.logger = logging.getLogger(name)
+        self.records = []
+        self.handler = logging.Handler()
+        self.handler.emit = lambda r: self.records.append(r)
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        import logging
+        self.prev = self.logger.level
+        self.logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+        self.logger.addHandler(self.handler)
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *a):
+        self.logger.removeHandler(self.handler)
+        self.logger.setLevel(self.prev)
+
+    @property
+    def text(self):
+        return "\n".join(r.getMessage() for r in self.records)
+
 # Where each fault is raised. A fault this build knows but wires nowhere is the exact shape of a
 # guard that never fires, so the map is the test, not a convenience.
 WIRED_IN = {
@@ -109,18 +141,17 @@ def test_every_known_fault_is_wired_somewhere():
         assert p_block(kind).strip(), f"{kind} has an empty branch"
 
 
-def test_arming_is_announced_and_a_typo_is_named(monkeypatch, caplog):
+def test_arming_is_announced_and_a_typo_is_named(monkeypatch):
     # The harness built to kill row-6 silence had it: unknown_faults() existed and NOTHING called it,
     # so a mistyped name armed nothing while the drill exercised the untouched happy path.
     monkeypatch.setenv("OSW_FAULT", "policy_block,plicy_blok")
-    with caplog.at_level("WARNING"):
+    with p_capture("backend.apps.agents.core.fault_injection") as cap:
         announce()
-    assert "policy_block" in caplog.text and "plicy_blok" in caplog.text
-    caplog.clear()
+    assert "policy_block" in cap.text and "plicy_blok" in cap.text
     monkeypatch.delenv("OSW_FAULT")
-    with caplog.at_level("WARNING"):
+    with p_capture("backend.apps.agents.core.fault_injection") as cap2:
         announce()
-    assert caplog.text == "", "a shipped build must say nothing at all"
+    assert cap2.text == "", "a shipped build must say nothing at all"
 
 
 def test_the_boot_path_actually_announces():

backend/tests/test_tool_output_shaper.py

@@ -118,12 +118,13 @@ def test_the_hook_shapes_the_pristine_response_not_the_flattened_one():
     assert i_capture < i_use
 
 
-def test_the_off_switch_is_declared_and_announces_itself(monkeypatch, caplog):
+def test_the_off_switch_is_declared_and_announces_itself(monkeypatch):
     from backend.apps.agents.manager.streaming import tool_output_shaper as mod
+    from backend.tests.test_fault_injection import p_capture
 
     class S:
         id = "s1"
     monkeypatch.setenv("OSW_TOOL_SHAPING", "off")
-    with caplog.at_level("WARNING"):
+    with p_capture("backend.apps.agents.manager.streaming.tool_output_shaper") as cap:
         assert mod.shape_for_model(S(), "s1", {"stdout": p_big()}, "m1", "Bash") is None
-    assert "OFF" in caplog.text, "a guard that stops guarding must say which sessions it stopped protecting"
+    assert "OFF" in cap.text, "a guard that stops guarding must say which sessions it stopped protecting"