Send to AI: use Hydrogen's AI picker (no type) and the run-prompt job status for toasts

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John Lauer · 2mo ago ·closed by John Lauer

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When this dashboard's "Send to AI" opens a new thread, stop naming the AI and let Hydrogen's AI picker ask the user; then use the run-prompt job to show real status.

What Hydrogen does now (1.0.213 to 1.0.218, insiders)

POST /ai-threads/run-prompt {new:true, prompt, submit, name, tags:["app:adom/<this repo>"]} with NO type puts up the AI picker in the shell: Claude Code and Codex with their logos, keys 1/2, Enter, Esc, a 5 s countdown to the user's default, and a "remember for this app" checkbox keyed on the app: tag. Pass type only when the caller (an AI thread, a script) genuinely wants a specific AI.
The answer carries job and state. Poll GET /ai-threads/run-prompt/status?job=<job> about once a second until terminal:true; every answer has human, a ready toast line for the phase (waiting for the AI picker, Codex picked, Claude Code is working, Claude Code needs you, delivered to Codex).
Add background:true to get {job, state:"accepted"} back at once and run the rest detached, so the picker's 5 to 45 s never sits inside your request timeout.
cancelled:true (state cancelled) means the user pressed Escape: do not retry, do not fall back to naming an AI.
Hydrogen toasts the pick outcome in the shell itself ("Sending to Codex"), so you do not need to duplicate that one.

The kicad-bridge dashboard did this in 1.0.125 (kicad-bridge issue #77 has the shape): the dashboard's own send drops type, the shared newbie-panel module's request is proxied with type stripped and the app: tag added, and the reply is forwarded verbatim. The full contract is the hydrogen-ai-threads-api skill, sections "The AI picker" and "Know where your prompt went" (hydrogen-bootstrap 0.5.25).

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John Lauer · 2mo ago

Correction and confirmation: this shipped as Hydrogen 1.0.219 (insiders, live now), and the skill section "Know where your prompt went" is in adom/hydrogen-windows-bootstrap 0.3.23 (the Windows layer), not hydrogen-bootstrap. Verified on AdomLapper with background:true and no type: the status route reported picking (2 s), picked with type:claude and picked_by:default (7 s, the countdown fired untouched), working (12 s), done (22 s), each with its human line.

John Lauer · 2mo ago

Done in nb-bridge 0.16.7 (insiders; public stays on 0.16.6 until the next promote). Both send paths now leave the AI to Hydrogen's picker and read the job. (1) The shared newbie-panel module (2.22.0, untouched) posts its request to this dashboard, which rewrites ONLY the request body on the way through: type stripped, the app:adom/nb-bridge tag added next to the dock: tag, then forwards it and passes the reply back byte for byte, so cancelled, job and state reach the page exactly as Hydrogen sends them (the rewrite applies only to new:true requests; a request carrying sid passes untouched; proven with an echo stub). (2) The dashboard's own /api/say-send posts with no type and background:true, then polls GET /ai-threads/run-prompt/status?job= once a second to terminal:true and returns Hydrogen's human line, the picked AI with picked_by, the state, and a timeline; cancelled is final (ok:false, cancelled:true, why = the human line), never retried, never a fallback to a named AI. Verified live on AdomLapper (Hydrogen 1.0.219 insiders), countdown left untouched both times: module click: the POST blocked 4.9 s for the picker and came back with a job in state opening, polls read prefilled (type claude, picked_by default), then working; say-send timeline: picking 1 s (waiting for the AI picker), picked 5 s (Claude Code picked), prefilled 7 s, working 11 s, done 68 s (Claude Code finished the turn). Two things for other threads, said here so they are not lost: adom-ui-design's proxy-fidelity.py row 2 (body echoed intact) goes red on every dashboard that follows this ask, because the app: tag is added on purpose; and newbie-panel 2.22.0 has no handling for state cancelled or the human line, so a picker Escape shows the module's generic no-confirmation hedge after 120 s rather than Hydrogen's own words. Both sent to the ui-design thread. Closing.

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