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Jiang Bohan 511d7a9180 feat(comments): make recent thread-grouped with a thread cursor (MUL-2340)
Bohan pushed back on the row-based `recent=N` shape: comments form a tree,
not a list, and the newest N rows can come from N unrelated threads, giving
the agent N disjoint conversational tails. Replace the row-based query with
a thread-grouped one before #2787 merges so we never ship the wrong shape:

- `recent=N` now returns the N most recently active threads (root + every
  descendant per thread). A thread's recency is MAX(created_at) across its
  whole subtree, so a stale-but-recently-replied thread outranks an old
  quiet one — exactly the property row-recent loses.
- The cursor is now a *thread* cursor: `before` = a thread's
  last_activity_at, `before_id` = its root comment id. The pair walks
  threads strictly less recent than the page's oldest-active thread. The
  cursor surfaces via `X-Multica-Next-Before` / `X-Multica-Next-Before-Id`
  response headers (empty when there are no older threads); the CLI
  forwards the same pair to stderr after listing.
- Row-based `recent` is gone — there is no internal caller and the prompt
  update has not shipped yet, so there is no compat surface to preserve.
- Response body shape unchanged (flat JSON array, chronological). Default
  and `--since` paths untouched. Desktop UI keeps working.

Tests:
- recent=1 returns the freshest-active thread fully; recent=2 returns both
  with the older-active thread first (oldest-active → freshest tail).
- Stale-but-fresh: a thread whose root is older but has a fresh reply
  outranks a thread whose root is newer but quiet.
- Cursor headers emitted only on full pages; empty on the final page.
- Pagination walks threads root2 → root1 → empty, no skips/duplicates.
- Tie-break: three threads sharing last_activity_at paginate one-at-a-time
  using (last_activity_at, root_id) ordering — verifies the timestamp-only
  cursor failure mode is fixed for the thread case too.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
2026-05-18 16:10:51 +08:00
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