---
phase: 13-auto-continue-evaluation
plan: 02
subsystem: auto-continue
tags: [telegram, notification, formatting, html, evaluation]

requires:
  - phase: 13-01
    provides: AutoContinueEvaluator with EvaluationResult, checkboxCounts, progressBar, extractPlanTitle
provides:
  - Rich decision notifications matching legacy TypeScript format (icon, reason, progress bar, tool breakdown, timing)
  - Lightweight exit notifications for limits/errors/sweep-complete
  - main.swift wiring of full evaluate() API with EvaluationResult
affects: [stop-hook, telegram-notifications]

tech-stack:
  added: []
  patterns:
    [
      Vancouver timezone formatting for Telegram timestamps,
      Silent message delivery for auto-continue notifications,
      Early-exit vs active-decision notification branching,
    ]

key-files:
  created: []
  modified:
    - plugins/claude-tts-companion/Sources/claude-tts-companion/AutoContinue.swift
    - plugins/claude-tts-companion/Sources/claude-tts-companion/main.swift

key-decisions:
  - "All auto-continue notifications sent as silent messages (disableNotification: true) to avoid push notification spam during autonomous sessions"
  - "Early-exit detection by pattern-matching reason strings (caps, iterations, runtime, failures) to choose lightweight vs rich format"

patterns-established:
  - "formatDecisionMessage produces icon + separator + reason + plan progress + session stats + timestamp"
  - "formatExitMessage produces lightweight STOP notification for limits/errors/sweep-complete"
  - "Message truncation: strip progress bar first, then hard truncate at 4080 with HTML entity/tag cleanup"

requirements-completed: [EVAL-05]

duration: 2min
completed: 2026-03-27
---

# Phase 13 Plan 02: Rich Decision Notifications Summary

**Rich Telegram decision notifications with icon, reason, progress bar, tool breakdown, and timing ported from legacy TypeScript formatDecisionMessage/sendExitNotification**

## Performance

- **Duration:** 2 min
- **Started:** 2026-03-27T00:14:06Z
- **Completed:** 2026-03-27T00:16:06Z
- **Tasks:** 2
- **Files modified:** 2

## Accomplishments

### Task 1: Add rich decision notification formatting to AutoContinue.swift

Added three methods to AutoContinueEvaluator (188 lines):

1. **formatDecisionMessage** -- Full rich notification matching legacy TypeScript format:
   - Line 1: icon + decision label (CONTINUE=rotating arrows, SWEEP=broom, REDIRECT=return arrow, DONE=checkmark)
   - Separator bar (24 heavy horizontal lines)
   - Reason (HTML-escaped, truncated to 200 chars)
   - SWEEP action note when applicable
   - Plan title + checkbox progress bar + plan filename
   - Session stats: iteration/max, runtime/max, turns + tool breakdown + errors
   - Git branch, project path (homedir replaced with ~), session ID (8 chars)
   - Vancouver timezone timestamp

2. **formatExitMessage** -- Lightweight notification for early exits:
   - STOP icon + separator
   - Exit reason
   - Session iteration/runtime if state available
   - Project path + session ID + timestamp

3. **formatVancouverTimestamp** -- America/Vancouver timezone, `yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm` format

Message truncation safety: strips progress bar first if over 4096 chars, then hard truncates at 4080 with broken HTML entity/tag cleanup.

### Task 2: Wire new evaluate() API and rich notifications into main.swift

Replaced the simple one-liner notification pattern with full rich notification flow:

- Active decisions (CONTINUE, SWEEP, REDIRECT, DONE with work) use `formatDecisionMessage`
- Early exits (iteration cap, runtime cap, MiniMax failure, no turns) use `formatExitMessage`
- All notifications sent via `sendSilentMessage` (no push notification)
- Fixed nil coalescing warning on `sessionId` (was non-optional String with `?? "unknown"`)

## Task Commits

1. **Task 1: Rich decision notification formatting** - `75efca2b` (feat)
2. **Task 2: Wire rich notifications into main.swift** - `e03697e3` (feat)

## Files Created/Modified

- `plugins/claude-tts-companion/Sources/claude-tts-companion/AutoContinue.swift` -- formatDecisionMessage, formatExitMessage, formatVancouverTimestamp methods added
- `plugins/claude-tts-companion/Sources/claude-tts-companion/main.swift` -- notification handler rewritten to use rich formatting with early-exit branching

## Decisions Made

- All auto-continue notifications sent as silent messages to avoid push spam during autonomous sessions (matching legacy TypeScript `disable_notification: true`)
- Early-exit detection uses reason string pattern matching rather than a separate enum, keeping the approach lightweight

## Deviations from Plan

### Auto-fixed Issues

**1. [Rule 1 - Bug] Fixed nil coalescing warning on sessionId**

- **Found during:** Task 2 (main.swift wiring)
- **Issue:** `sessionId ?? "unknown"` produced a warning because sessionId is already `String` (non-optional)
- **Fix:** Use `sessionId` directly instead of `sid` variable with nil coalescing
- **Files modified:** main.swift
- **Commit:** e03697e3

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**Total deviations:** 1 auto-fixed (1 bug)
**Impact on plan:** Minor cleanup, no scope change.

## Known Stubs

None -- all notification formatting fully implemented.

## Self-Check: PASSED
