feat: Kiln assistant — auto mode, background eval jobs, and sub-agents (runtime, tabs UI, steer/stop) - #1561

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feat: run evals as background jobs via /api/jobs/evals/run

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feat(assistant): auto mode, rebased onto the eval-job branch

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fix: address PR review comments on auto mode rescope

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fix: guard resyncOnLoad against mid-flight conversation switch

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feat(jobs): multi-job wait endpoint + log eval per-item errors

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Phase 3: studio_server proxy contract for context_usage

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web_ui: add context-usage gauge (Phase 4)

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feat(chat): show "summarizing…" compaction indicator during pre-inference (Phase 5)

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fix(web_ui): position gauge tooltip after it's visible (PR feedback)

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fix(web_ui): make context gauge tooltip keyboard-accessible (PR feedback)

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refactor: auto mode manual vs server congruence, ctx gauge color, compacting indicator
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refactor: better handling of auto tool congruence
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Merge pull request #1519 from Kiln-AI/leonard/kil-727-assistant-compaction
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Merge branch 'leonard/kil-686-feat-background-job-system' of github.com:Kiln-AI/Kiln into leonard/kil-686-eval-job
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Remove single-job wait endpoint in favor of bulk wait

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Drop generic create-job endpoint and make wait a POST

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Merge pull request #1527 from Kiln-AI/leonard/only-bulk-wait-job
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refactor: pass auto mode info to backend
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feat(auto): frame mid-burst user messages as side notes

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feat(auto): retry transient upstream errors with backoff

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feat(auto): render "retrying N/M…" in the transcript

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feat(jobs): publish worker properties, render eval summary in jobs table

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refactor(jobs): narrow eval props once, drop redundant optional chaining

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fix(jobs): render judge name, title the job id, cover prompt-resolution branches

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fix(auto): honor Stop during retry + cover the no-duplicate guard

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fix(jobs): guard the full _describe() serialization path

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test(jobs): always release gated worker in properties test

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Merge pull request #1530 from Kiln-AI/leonard/kil-686-job-properties
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fix(auto): address PR review feedback (trace id, None-safe content, test)

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Merge branch 'leonard/kil-686-eval-job' of github.com:Kiln-AI/Kiln into leonard/kil-692-auto-mode-resilience
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fix(jobs): surface original eval error instead of generic wrapper

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fix(jobs): harden eval error-detail extraction against buggy __str__

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test(jobs): cover RetryableError path and assert error-log extras

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Merge pull request #1531 from Kiln-AI/leonard/kil-686-eval-job-expose-errors
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feat(chat): retry transient upstream errors in BOTH auto and interactive

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fix(chat): polish retry indicator + fix compacting on follow-up turns

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feat(chat): slower retry backoff schedule (~5 min total)

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fix(chat): honor Stop during a retry backoff before re-POSTing

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feat(chat): replace auto-mode "waiting for you" with a hard Stop button

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Merge pull request #1532 from Kiln-AI/leonard/kil-692-chat-retry-both-modes
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Merge branch 'leonard/kil-686-eval-job' of github.com:Kiln-AI/Kiln into leonard/kil-692-auto-mode-resilience
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Merge pull request #1529 from Kiln-AI/leonard/kil-692-auto-mode-resilience
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feat(chat): confirm Stop with a dialog noting background jobs keep running

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style(chat): align Stop dialog cancel button label with codebase convention

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style(chat): simplify Stop dialog body to a single paragraph

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Merge pull request #1533 from Kiln-AI/leonard/kil-686-auto-mode-stop-button
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feat(chat): queue messages sent mid-turn with send-now / edit / cancel

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Merge branch 'leonard/kil-686-eval-job' of github.com:Kiln-AI/Kiln into leonard/kil-queued-chat-message
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fix(chat): inject queued messages immediately in auto mode; reword banner

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fix(chat): hold auto-mode queued message until the next round boundary

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fix(chat): fix duplicate render + lost message on refresh for injected messages

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fix(chat): strip <system-reminder> side-note framing from hydrated transcripts

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fix(chat): preserve queued text on rejected dispatch + guard send-now on approval

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style(chat): cleaner queued-message banner scroll (header row + edge scrollbar)

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fix(chat): dedupe injected-message echo on re-attach (stop refresh duplication)

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fix(chat): render in-flight round into a fresh turn on re-attach (stop response loss)

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fix(provenance): address PR review feedback
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Add Phase 4 (memory REST API); supersede Phase 2 (experiments MCP)
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Implement Phase 4: memory REST API (libs/server)
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Remove 'stale'-tag guidance from memory tool/API descriptions
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Flag the missing eval-job split parameter as a ship blocker
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Merge main into agent memory branch
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Address review feedback on the memory store and tools
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Merge branch 'main' into artifact provenance branch
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Address two remaining bot review nitpicks
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Merge pull request #1565 from Kiln-AI/claude/new-project-spec-0zdve1
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Merge leonard/assistant-subagents into the agent memory branch
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Merge pull request #1572 from Kiln-AI/claude/kiln-new-project-mtncvl
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Merge leonard/assistant-subagents into the skill bundle branch
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