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Omar Shahine 5c7980fa11 feat(imessage): support thumb approval reactions (#85952)
* feat(imessage): support thumb approval reactions

Mirrors openclaw#85477 (WhatsApp) for the iMessage channel. iMessage can now
deliver exec/plugin approval prompts via the existing imsg/BlueBubbles
transport and resolve approvals from 👍 (allow-once) / 👎 (deny) tapbacks.
Allow-always remains on the manual /approve <id> allow-always fallback.

What changed:
- New approval surfaces under extensions/imessage/src/:
  approval-auth.ts, approval-resolver.ts, approval-reactions.ts,
  approval-handler.runtime.ts, approval-native.ts (+ tests for each).
- channel.ts wires base.approvalCapability to the new iMessage capability.
- send.ts appends the 👍/👎 hint to outbound /approve prompts and registers
  the reaction binding (keyed by accountId + chat_guid/chat_identifier/
  chat_id/handle + messageId) after a successful send.
- monitor/monitor-provider.ts resolves approval reactions ahead of the
  normal inbound decision pipeline so resolution bypasses
  reactionNotifications gating and runs its own actor authorization.
- runtime.ts now exports getIMessageRuntime / getOptionalIMessageRuntime so
  approval-reactions can open a persistent keyed store for binding state
  across gateway restarts.

What did NOT change:
- Core approval surfaces in src/gateway/server-methods/* and src/infra/*
  remain channel-agnostic; the channels.imessage.allowFrom field already
  exists and is reused as the approver list for reactions.
- Other channels and the manual /approve sender-authorized path are
  untouched.

* fix(imessage): address codex review findings on thumb approvals

Addresses 15 findings from the multi-angle codex review:

Critical (correctness / blocking):
- Register CHANNEL_APPROVAL_NATIVE_RUNTIME_CONTEXT_CAPABILITY in the iMessage
  monitor so the gateway can actually deliver native approval prompts via
  approval-handler.runtime.ts (it was dead code without the context lease).
- DM tapback approvals never resolved because send keyed by handle while
  inbound preferred chat_guid. Register and look up under EVERY available
  conversation key (chat_guid / chat_identifier / chat_id / handle); inbound
  probes them all and accepts the first hit.
- Reaction binding now requires the bridge's GUID string (rejecting numeric
  ROWIDs) so the binding key matches inbound reacted_to_guid.
- Outbound regex now requires both a canonical `ID: <approvalId>` header AND
  a matching `/approve <id> <decision>` line, so non-approval messages that
  legitimately mention /approve syntax no longer get a phantom reaction
  binding (and can no longer resolve a colliding live approval).
- Drop is_from_me reaction events so cross-device echoes of the operator's
  own tap cannot self-approve when their handle is in allowFrom.

High (operability / cleanup):
- Non-ApprovalNotFound errors now log at warn via the runtime child logger
  (no longer hidden behind OPENCLAW_LOG_LEVEL=debug).
- In-memory binding is cleared on successful resolve so a toggle 👍👎 (or
  chat.db replay) does not refire and emit a misleading 'expired approval'
  log line. Removed tapbacks are also owned by the shortcut and not surfaced
  as noisy reaction system events.
- Move resolveIMessageReactionContext (and its helpers) to a slim
  monitor/reaction-context.ts so approval-reactions.ts no longer transitively
  pulls monitor/inbound-processing.ts (14+ heavy runtime modules) into the
  hot channel.ts entrypoint per extensions/CLAUDE.md.

Medium (consistency / future-proofing):
- Native runtime exec pending payload now passes agentId, ask, and
  sessionKey through buildExecApprovalPendingReplyPayload so the two
  delivery routes produce identical operator-visible prompts.
- Both delivery paths now use addIMessageApprovalReactionHintToText (single
  insertion point after ID:) so the hint cannot be double-emitted by the
  native runtime path bypassing the idempotency guard.
- Extract replaceApprovalIdPlaceholder into a shared approval-text.ts that
  escapes `$` in the replacement string so an approvalId containing
  `$&`/`$1`-`$9`/`$$` cannot interpolate into the outbound text.
- In-memory Map now stores TTL alongside each entry and prunes expired
  bindings on each register so the gateway no longer accumulates an
  unbounded reaction-target Map.
- bindPending refuses to bind when accountId is missing or the approval is
  already expired, with explicit error logs instead of silent no-ops.
- Reject chat_id=0 as a synthetic key value (chat.db ROWIDs start at 1).
- Drop dead getIMessageRuntime export — only the optional accessor is used.

Documentation:
- docs/channels/imessage.md gains an 'Approval reactions (👍 / 👎)' accordion
  documenting the reaction emoji map, allowFrom approver requirement, the
  /approve <id> allow-always manual fallback, and the deliberate change to
  /approve command authorization for users with non-empty allowFrom.
- CHANGELOG.md entry added under 2026.5.24.

Tests: 411 iMessage tests pass (was 406). Added explicit coverage for the
DM key-mismatch fix, the regex-tightening fix, the is_from_me guard, the
clear-on-success behavior, and the approval-id `$` escape.

* test(imessage): match WhatsApp approval-native test coverage

Backfills the nine cases from extensions/whatsapp/src/approval-native.test.ts
that weren't mirrored in iMessage:

- target-mode exec + plugin prompt rendering with the canonical hint
- target-mode availability when no iMessage target matches
- agentFilter / sessionFilter applied to native handling
- account-scoped target enabled/disabled per account
- shouldSuppressForwardingFallback session-origin exact-match cases
- shouldSuppressForwardingFallback off when native cannot bind (locks down
  the targets-only forwarding path the Lobster live deploy exercised)
- both-mode explicit + unscoped target suppression
- group-origin tapback approvals require explicit approvers

Tests: extensions/imessage/src/approval-native.test.ts 21 passed (was 11).
Total iMessage approval-specific cases now 49 (was 40).

* fix(imessage): preserve service-prefixed direct handles as approvers

ClawSweeper P1 review finding on #85952. normalizeIMessageApproverId was
calling looksLikeIMessageExplicitTargetId() to reject conversation-target
prefixes, but that helper also matches the imessage:/sms:/auto: service
prefixes — which are valid direct-handle forms. Any allowFrom entry like
'imessage:+15551230000' dropped to undefined, leaving approvers empty,
which:
  - silently denied reaction resolution ('reactions require explicit
    approvers'), and
  - let text /approve fall back to implicit same-chat authorization.

Fix: normalize first via normalizeIMessageHandle (strips the service
prefix), then reject only chat_id:/chat_guid:/chat_identifier:
conversation-target shapes that remain after normalization.

Tests:
  - approval-auth.test.ts: assert the resolved approver list contains the
    normalized handle, plus the corollary that a non-matching sender is
    explicitly rejected (no longer masked by the implicit-same-chat
    fallback). Add a separate case covering chat_id/chat_guid/
    chat_identifier rejection (with and without a service prefix).
  - approval-reactions.test.ts: reaction resolution end-to-end with a
    service-prefixed allowFrom entry — proves resolveIMessageApproval is
    called rather than silently denied.

Focused suite: 48 passed (was 47).

* test(imessage): satisfy strict buildPendingPayload signature in render tests

CI check:test-types caught that the render.exec/render.plugin
buildPendingPayload calls were passing accountId (not in the type
signature). The signature is { cfg, request, target, nowMs }. Replace
accountId with target on the four render-test sites so the strict
test-types pass matches the SDK contract:

  - it('renders thumbs-only reaction hints in exec approval prompts')
  - it('renders thumbs-only reaction hints in plugin approval prompts ...')
  - it('renders target-mode exec prompts with concrete thumbs-only ...')
  - it('renders target-mode plugin prompts with concrete thumbs-only ...')

Verified locally with pnpm check:test-types (tsgo:core:test +
tsgo:extensions:test). 49 approval-specific tests still pass.

* fix(imessage): probe every tapback GUID form for approval lookup

ClawSweeper P1 review finding on #85952. readApprovalReactionEvent was
only using reaction.targetGuid (the first/normalized form), but
resolveIMessageReactionContext produces reaction.targetGuids = [normalized,
raw] for both `abc-123` and `p:0/abc-123` forms. If the imsg bridge
returned 'p:0/<guid>' from send() and send.ts registered the binding under
that prefixed key, the inbound resolver probing only the unprefixed form
would miss and the tapback would silently fall through.

Fix:
- Surface every GUID candidate in IMessageApprovalReactionEvent
  (messageIdCandidates).
- maybeResolveIMessageApprovalReaction now probes each candidate in
  precedence order; first hit wins.
- On success / ApprovalNotFoundError, clear the binding under all
  candidate keys so toggle/replay does not refire.

Tests: extensions/imessage/src/approval-reactions.test.ts gains a
'resolves a reaction when the binding was registered under a p:0/…
prefixed GUID and the tapback surfaces both forms' regression case;
22/22 reaction tests pass. Full iMessage suite: 424/424.

* fix(imessage): native approval binding requires GUID, not numeric id

ClawSweeper third P1 review finding on #85952. approval-handler.runtime.ts
deliverPending was using result.messageId as the approval-reaction binding
key, but that field can be a numeric ROWID coerced to a string ('12345')
when the imsg bridge returns only message_id. Inbound tapbacks carry
reacted_to_guid which is always a GUID, so a numeric-id binding can never
match.

Fix mirrors the send.ts forwarding-path treatment:
- IMessageSendResult now exposes a separate guid?: string field, populated
  from the same resolveOutboundMessageGuid helper send.ts already uses for
  the forwarding-path binding. The generic messageId field is unchanged so
  reply-cache, echo-cache, and receipt-building paths still see the
  broadest id form.
- deliverPending now binds against result.guid; when it's undefined (numeric
  ROWID or 'ok'/'unknown' placeholders), the function returns null instead
  of binding against an id the inbound tapback can't possibly match.

Tests: approval-handler.runtime.test.ts gets a deliverPending GUID-only
binding describe block with three regression cases (numeric ROWID refused,
GUID accepted, ok/unknown placeholders refused). vi.mock isolates
sendMessageIMessage so the cases run synchronously without spawning imsg.
11 tests pass across handler.runtime + send specs.

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Co-authored-by: Omar Shahine <10343873+omarshahine@users.noreply.github.com>
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