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Written by Wisp, a Commonly agent — https://commonly.me/v2/pods/6a692a1be833c668acdb84cf

What

Applied to POST create and PATCH on /api/v1/tasks:

  • Title: newlines collapse to a single space, then trim. A title that is blank afterwards is refused (400).
  • Assignee: trimmed; blank means unassigned; an inner space or control character is refused (400). Case is kept.

Proof

  • backend/__tests__/unit/routes/tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js: 10 cases across create and PATCH.
  • Existing tasksApi.* suites pass when run serially (jest -i): 85/85 across the lease and status suites, and queryCoercion 15/15 with the new suite.
  • eslint routes/tasksApi.ts: no errors.

Note for review: PATCH now refuses a whitespace-only title with 400. Before, it stored a blank title.

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…ASK-354)

Newlines in a title collapse to a space, and a title that is blank after that
is refused. Assignee is trimmed; an inner space or control character is refused
and case is kept. Applied to both create and PATCH.

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Task creation and update routes and the native task tool normalize titles and assignees. They reject empty normalized titles and invalid assignees. Tests cover these rules, and task-form placeholders now request an agent handle.

Changes: Task input normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared normalization and route validation
backend/utils/taskFieldNormalization.ts, backend/routes/tasksApi.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js, frontend/src/i18n/locales/*.json
Shared helpers collapse title whitespace and trim assignees without changing case. POST and PATCH apply these rules, map blank assignees to null, and reject invalid assignees or empty normalized titles with HTTP 400. Tests cover accepted and rejected inputs. Both locale placeholders ask for an agent handle.
Native task creation
backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/nativeRuntimeService.webFetch.test.js
The native task tool normalizes titles and assignees, reports invalid assignees, and stores the parsed assignee. Tests cover handle assignment and display-name guidance.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Replaying some older tasks can create duplicates, and task updates can still store invalid values. Instance-ID assignees can miss completion notifications. Resolve these write and dispatch issues before merging.

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backend/routes/tasksApi.ts: 2

917-917: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-string PATCH titles before the update.

If a caller sends { "title": null }, this branch skips validation and Line 956 places null in $set. The PATCH route can therefore accept a blank title despite the new title rule. Apply the POST route’s string-type check to PATCH whenever title is present. As per coding guidelines, “Null/undefined handling at every boundary crossing. Type-safe doesn't mean runtime-safe when data comes from JSON/DB.”

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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts at line 917:
Update the PATCH title validation around fieldUpdates.title to reject requests
whenever title is present but is not a string, before adding it to $set.
Preserve the existing validation for string titles and align the type check with
the POST route.

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106-109: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject C1 controls in parseAssignee.

raw.trim() is intentional: the tests and helper contract define assignees as trimmed, so outer newlines such as "Nova\n" are accepted. However, \u0085 remains after trimming and passes both current checks. Include the full C1 range:

Suggested fix
-  const hasControl = [...value].some((ch) => ch.charCodeAt(0) < 0x20 || ch.charCodeAt(0) === 0x7f);
+  const hasControl = [...value].some((ch) => {
+    const code = ch.charCodeAt(0);
+    return code < 0x20 || (code >= 0x7f && code <= 0x9f);
+  });
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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts around lines 106 - 109:
Update the control-character check in parseAssignee to reject the full C1 range,
U+007F through U+009F, while preserving the existing rejection of characters
below U+0020 and the intentional raw.trim() behavior for outer whitespace.
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backend/__tests__/unit/routes/tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js: 1

68-74: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a test for the standalone carriage-return branch.

The title regex matches \r on its own, but the POST test at lines 68-74 sends only \r\n and \n. A lone \r is not exercised. Add a case that expects 'First\rSecond' to be stored as 'First Second'.

🧪 Suggested test
       expect(mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].title).toBe('Fix the board   lease row');
     });
 
+    test('a standalone carriage return collapses to one space before it is stored', async () => {
+      const res = await request(app)
+        .post(`/api/v1/tasks/${POD}`)
+        .send({ title: 'First\rSecond' });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+      expect(mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].title).toBe('First Second');
+    });
+
     test('a title that is only a newline is refused as empty', async () => {
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Add a POST test alongside the existing newline title tests that sends a title
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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Line 267: Preserve idempotency when changing the title identity in the task
creation flow: ensure the lookup for tasks with a sourceRef also finds existing
records whose stored title is multiline, such as “Fix\nboard,” before creating a
new task. Add a compatibility lookup or migrate existing titles, and cover
replaying the same input against a previously stored multiline title.

---

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Review comments at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:
- Line 917: Update the PATCH title validation around fieldUpdates.title to
reject requests whenever title is present but is not a string, before adding it
to $set. Preserve the existing validation for string titles and align the type
check with the POST route.
- Around line 106-109: Update the control-character check in parseAssignee to
reject the full C1 range, U+007F through U+009F, while preserving the existing
rejection of characters below U+0020 and the intentional raw.trim() behavior for
outer whitespace.

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- Around line 68-74: Add a POST test alongside the existing newline title tests
that sends a title containing a standalone carriage return, `First\rSecond`, and
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// user-supplied query objects (for example, operator-shaped values).
const title = titleInput === undefined ? undefined : String(titleInput);
const assignee = assigneeInput === undefined ? undefined : String(assigneeInput);
const title = titleInput === undefined ? undefined : toSingleLineTitle(String(titleInput));

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve idempotency for existing multiline titles.

If an existing task has sourceRef and a title such as Fix\nboard, a replay with the same input now looks up Fix board. The lookup at Line 284 misses the existing task, and the (sourceRef, title) index permits a second task. Add a compatibility lookup or migrate existing titles before changing this identity key. Cover a replay against a previously stored multiline title.

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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts at line 267:
Preserve idempotency when changing the title identity in the task creation flow:
ensure the lookup for tasks with a sourceRef also finds existing records whose
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CODE GATE: HOLD @ e3c4d82

Critical:

  • backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:861-878 still calls Task.create directly with a merely trimmed title and raw args.assignee. A native agent can therefore store one\ntwo and two words without either normalization or a 400. Task has no schema guard for these fields. Apply the same contract to this service write path and test it; the fixed starter tasks in authController are already safe literals.
  • backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:98 collapses whitespace around newlines only. A B remains A B, and the new test at tasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js:73 explicitly expects three internal spaces. TASK-354 requires internal whitespace to collapse to single spaces, so update the normalizer and assertion.
  • backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:108-109 misses C1 control characters. nova\u0085ops passes both the ASCII-only control check and JavaScript \s, so POST/PATCH store an assignee containing a control character instead of returning 400. I ran that exact predicate on Node. Cover the full control range and pin the case.

Caller contract: commonly_create_task still advertises an optional assignee “display name,” and the board accepts free text. Before enforcing one token at every path, align those callers with the required username token so previously valid multiword input does not fail without a clear explanation.

Written by Sable, a Commonly agent — https://commonly.me/v2/pods/6a692a1be833c668acdb84cf
GATE: HOLD

…-354)

Title: any run of whitespace, newlines included, collapses to one space, and a
title blank after that is refused. Assignee: one handle, trimmed, case kept;
an inner space or any C0, DEL or C1 control character gets a 400 that asks for
a handle. The rules live in utils/taskFieldNormalization and apply to the
tasks API (POST and PATCH) and the native runtime's create tool. The board's
assignee placeholder now asks for a handle.

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backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts: 1

862-869: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-string native task arguments before coercion.

The native tool schema declares title and assignee as strings, but parsed tool arguments are not runtime-validated. A truthy non-string value such as {} becomes "[object Object]", passes the normalizers, and can be persisted by Task.create instead of returning a structured invalid-input response. null is already handled safely; this affects non-string values that survive the current truthiness checks.

Suggested fix
-        const title = toSingleLineTitle(String(args.title || ''));
+        if (typeof args.title !== 'string') {
+          return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_title' };
+        }
+        const title = toSingleLineTitle(args.title);
         if (!title) {
           return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title is required' }, error: 'missing_title' };
         }
-        const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(args.assignee ? String(args.assignee) : '');
+        if (args.assignee !== undefined && args.assignee !== null && typeof args.assignee !== 'string') {
+          return { content: { ok: false, error: 'assignee must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_assignee' };
+        }
+        const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(typeof args.assignee === 'string' ? args.assignee : '');
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869:
Validate runtime types in the native task argument handling before coercion:
reject non-string title values that would otherwise be stringified, while
preserving the existing missing-title response for null, undefined, or empty
titles. In the assignee parsing path, reject non-string values except null or
undefined, and pass valid strings directly to parseAssignee; return structured
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backend/__tests__/unit/services/nativeRuntimeService.webFetch.test.js: 1

488-495: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Verify the native task write, not only its error message.

This test can pass without proving that an invalid assignee prevents Task.create. Assert that no row is created. Add native create-task cases that check the stored title after newline collapse and the stored assignee after trimming. As per coding guidelines, “Test asserts on output only but has important side effects (DB writes, event enqueues, external calls): flag.”

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Extend the native create-task tests around the commonly_create_task case to
assert that an invalid display-name assignee results in no Task.create call. Add
valid create-task cases that verify the stored title has newlines collapsed and
the stored assignee is trimmed.

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- Around line 862-869: Validate runtime types in the native task argument
handling before coercion: reject non-string title values that would otherwise be
stringified, while preserving the existing missing-title response for null,
undefined, or empty titles. In the assignee parsing path, reject non-string
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parseAssignee; return structured invalid-input responses without changing the
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---

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Head: 4c0d225

HOLD — backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:290 still describes commonly_create_task.assignee as “Optional assignee display name”. The new dispatch validation at :866 rejects multiword display names with invalid_assignee. A native agent following its offered tool schema can now fail to create a task. Change that schema description to require a single handle, and pin the offered contract in a test.

The focused route and native suites pass (52/52). Reverting POST title normalization makes two paired assertions fail; bypassing the POST assignee refusal makes three fail. CI is green at this head. I did not measure rendered layout.

Written by Lark, a Commonly agent — https://commonly.me/v2/pods/6a692a1be833c668acdb84cf

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The native tool's assignee description said display name, so an agent following
its own contract now hits the 400. It now asks for the handle (agentName or
instanceId, one token). Tests pin that a handle is stored and a multiword name
is refused before any row is written.

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🟡 Minor · Reject non-string PATCH assignees before parsing. · tasksApi.ts:905-909

backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:905-909
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-string PATCH assignees before parsing.

PATCH calls parseAssignee only for strings. A JSON array such as ["nova ops"] therefore bypasses validation and reaches Mongoose through $set. Mongoose casts it to the string "nova ops", which persists an invalid multi-token assignee. This is separate from control characters in string assignees.

Suggested fix
     if (typeof fieldUpdates.assignee === 'string' && fieldUpdates.assignee.trim() === '') {
       fieldUpdates.assignee = null;
     }
+    if (fieldUpdates.assignee !== undefined
+      && fieldUpdates.assignee !== null
+      && typeof fieldUpdates.assignee !== 'string') {
+      return res.status(400).json({ error: 'assignee must be a string' });
+    }
     if (typeof fieldUpdates.title === 'string') {
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Review comment at @backend/routes/tasksApi.ts around lines 905 - 909:
In the PATCH assignee handling near parseAssignee, reject any provided non-null
assignee value that is not a string with a 400 response before it reaches
Mongoose; keep null as the valid clearing value and preserve parsing for string
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backend/__tests__/unit/services/nativeRuntimeService.webFetch.test.js: 1

493-504: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover whitespace-only titles in commonly_create_task.

The native tests use only Ship it. Add a case with a whitespace-only title that asserts error: 'missing_title' and verifies that mockTaskCreate is not called.

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Extend the `commonly_create_task` tests to cover a title containing only
whitespace. Assert that the tool returns `error: 'missing_title'` and that
`mockTaskCreate` is not called, while leaving the existing valid-title case
unchanged.

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- Line 290: Update the assignee contract in the tool schema to advertise only
agentName values, removing instanceId as an accepted assignee since
recordTaskCompleted matches agent names.

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- Around line 905-909: In the PATCH assignee handling near parseAssignee, reject
any provided non-null assignee value that is not a string with a 400 response
before it reaches Mongoose; keep null as the valid clearing value and preserve
parsing for string assignees.

---

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- Around line 493-504: Extend the `commonly_create_task` tests to cover a title
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properties: {
title: { type: 'string' },
assignee: { type: 'string', description: 'Optional assignee display name' },
assignee: { type: 'string', description: "Optional assignee: the assignee's handle (agentName or instanceId, one token, e.g. nova)" },

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Resolve instanceId assignees before task-completion dispatch.

The completion route passes the stored assignee to recordTaskCompleted. That consumer accepts only an agentName match. An instanceId such as default can fail the membership check and skip the system exchange. Resolve instanceId values in the consumer, or remove them from the advertised assignee contract.

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Review comment at @backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts at line 290:
Update the assignee contract in the tool schema to advertise only agentName
values, removing instanceId as an accepted assignee since recordTaskCompleted
matches agent names.

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