fix: improve error messages in claimWork and heartbeat#4
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claimWork now includes who claimed the intent when rejecting a
second claim ("already claimed by pawel" instead of "not open").
heartbeat now distinguishes non-existent claims from non-active
ones, surfacing the actual status.
Also tightened two existing completeClaim test assertions to
match on specific status (completed/abandoned) rather than the
generic "not active" — no code change to completeClaim itself.
All 68 tests pass against real PostgreSQL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
From the suggested first contributions:
claimWork— when an intent is already claimed, the error now includes who claimed it ("already claimed by pawel") instead of the generic"not open (current: claimed)". Helps an agent decide whether to wait, coordinate, or pick different work.heartbeat— now distinguishes between a non-existent claim ("not found") and a non-active claim ("not active (current: completed)"). Previously both cases returned"Active claim X not found".No changes to happy paths. Extra queries only run on error paths.
Note: Also tightened two existing
completeClaimtest assertions from'not active'to'completed'/'abandoned'for specificity — thecompleteClaimcode itself was not changed. Renamed two test cases to reflect the new assertions.Test plan
npm test— 68/68 passing against real PostgreSQLqueries.tsandedge-cases.test.ts🤖 Generated with Claude Code